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I H A D T O O

I have a saddled shrimp let's gooo

Guess who has two thumbs just got a new favorite song that I’m going to listen to 24/7?

I SAW IT IN A DREAM ONE DAY

ASDFGHJKL IT’S LITERALLY MAGNUS AND ALEX IN SHIP OF THE DEAD

I think one of them don't even feel cold

I’m wheezing. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.

Gay as shit to be good at swordsmanship. Why are you shipping your sword with another man?

fellas, is it gay to have a homoerotic rivalry with your space ranger partner??

Crash Out Central rn because I had 3 finals in a row all day, and my favorite one (an analysis of Rottmnt as an adaptation to the TMNT franchise) REFUSED TO VIDEO to I had to make it an essay instead 🥲

The rage and desire for emotional devastation to these a-holes is not only wonderful, but exactly what I want to see as soon as I open my Tumblr. Keep up the good work, darlings.

i can’t wait for when chatGPT and ai image generation also crashes and each prompt cost $50 an attempt. oh you can’t get your stolen big tiddy anime ghibli art for free anymore? you want to buy real big boy art from real artists now? beg for it. beg for it like a dog.

Me when I’m a fully autonomous adult and I feel bad getting things for myself or being just slightly too bitchy or off-putting

I am a grown ass adult and I still get nausea when I feel like I'm in trouble. They're gonna send me to the principals office and take away my toys for a week. Can you just fucking kill me instead of making me stew in my fucking anxiety

Canon is a sandbox and in my fanfics I am a god. In your fics you are a god. You are controlled by no one except your imagination. The world you create will bend to your will, and that which is considered the truth can easily become false. You are bound by no laws of nature, justice, or time.

MLB has questionable writing, terrible role models, and arguably weird characterization (especially for Marinette), but at least they know we want homosexual scenes with stunning backgrounds.

Gay episode that’s all i gotta say

Wait, actually, WOULD Keith get acne? Since he’s half Galra and all. Be know Jack-all about Daibazzal, but you obviously have

A) scaled Galra

B) fuzzy Galra

C) hella thick skin Galra (looks kind alike whale or seal skin

While Krolia does kinda look like a cross between a fuzzy and thick-skin Galra (probably character design to make her more likeable), so would Keith even have the pores to get acne? Would it be WORSE? Sure he has human DNA but how in the world would that cross over into Galra DNA? Is this a hybrid situation where humans and Galra are similar ENOUGH to procreate and hence their offspring could have acne? They aren’t even the same species, though.

Like, you tell me Galra can have hybrid children with multiple different species of sentient life (with Lotor and his generals as an example alongside Keith), but we get no further expansion beyond:

A) Galra tech responds ENOUGH to their DNA to unlock and start things

B) Marmora blades can respond to their quintessence (or at least for Keith, but that may be because Krolia is a member still)

C) most species have dominant DNA, at least by phenotype

D) they can be clocked on sight by other Galra, but not by others in their species

E) simple DNA scans won’t flag the alien DNA (since Keith managed to make it into what’s basically a military school and probably the hospital a few times without being called out)

F) Galra DNA becomes more obvious after puberty, making them bigger, stronger, and taller (and in Keith’s case, giving him more of Krolia’s hair type than his dad’s, yellow eyes, odd pupils, etc.)

That’s it, and some of the points are more or less pure speculation. Where’s the line in cross-species children? Only humanoids? Obviously it’s not on purpose with how much shit Lotor takes even as Zarkon’s son, so it’s not preservation of their species. But, like, where does it end? Species on Earth can’t cross breed without making sterile offspring, and that’s even if they’re physically compatible enough to finish their tango. It still doesn’t explain why a 50% human and 50% Galra managed to have a kid that looks 100% human, and there’s NO WAY Keith is neurotypical with two entirely separate sets of hard-wired instincts in that brain of his, even if humans are mostly soft-wired.

So, would Keith even be able to have acne? He’s 18 in the beginning, and built like a string bean compared to his adult self (seriously, how long have these guys been out in space? With time dilation Shiro could have been with the Galra for even longer than a year, so how long has it been for people on Earth compared to the Paladins?), so it’s safe to say he was still getting growing pains, so would have had it more before puberty, when he looked far more like his dad than Krolia? Does he have the same sweat mechanisms humans do? He would have to inherit some sort of cool-down system from his parents or he would have roasted like a rotisserie chicken out in the middle of the desert.

Most unrealistic thing about Voltron is that none of them had acne. Like you cannot tell me anyone but Lance put effort into their skin care

This is mostly targeted at Keith and Pidge cause Lance does face masks and shit and Hunk just seems like one of those guys that never gets acne

Wow, haha, this made me unbelievably furious! :D

AO3 Was scraped for generative AI

Perhaps this is already common knowledge on this app, but I have yet to see anything about it in my feed. If you are unaware, an AI tech company called HuggingFace recently had a user by the name of nyuuzyou scrape our beloved AO3.

This scrape included over 63 MILLION fanfics written by the hard working, passionate, and incredible people of every fandom. The scrape was conducted with the intent of using the data to generate AI fanfiction and fiction. If you have a fanfic on AO3 that has an ID between 1-63 200 000, and is publicly accessible (not restricted to registered users), then your work was scraped and used in the process.

AO3 admins are currently searching for solutions and some kind of retributions. Until then, make sure to limit your works to registered users and show the real writers that you value their time and contribution to fandom.

More about it here

Petition to the universe to make the white guy next to me in my astronomy class a magical girl

We with 90% of my fav characters with questionable morality

I SURVIVED

My Brain: we have an ASL final tmrrw. Thoughts?

Me: and prayers. We’re going to need them.

Makes me kinda want to infiltrate Chinese tumblr to see if I can survive

Think about this often. Sometimes the fandom feels like:

The Fandom: ahh, yes, the Big Three Kids, Percy, Jason, and Nico

The Fandom: *squinting at Thalia and Hazel* and those ones too I guess

People will include the roman in the big three kids but won't include the girl

My Brain: we have an ASL final tmrrw. Thoughts?

Me: and prayers. We’re going to need them.

One of the great beauties in this world is scrolling through your tabs and find a fantastic fic you forgot about where the author updated once a week or more, say that English isn’t their first language, and they apologize for a literally traumatizing and grievous injury, but the fic is finally complete and you can finish the story

I’m cackling this is so accurate to them lmao

I’m tagging this as every iteration because it could fit every iteration, but I’m choosing to use the 2012 turtles as they are my favorite.

About Me! :))))

Name: Nick/Nikki (Nick preferably)

Age: 19

Pronouns: varies, but he/him as default

Languages I know: English (native), Mandarin (for 6 years), and ASL (one year)

Race: white (Irish on my dad’s and English on my mom’s)

MBTI: INFP

Sexuality: pansexual

Romantic: Demiromantic

Religion: atheist (but I dabble in magic to placebo affect myself)

More:

-psych major

-AFAB

-AuDHD and OCD (probably more but my parents don’t believe in therapy so this is all self-diagnosed)

-self-proclaimed professional yapper

-dancer (not much since I aged out of my studio tho)

Likes:

-my cat <3 (she’s so evil I love her)

-sweet little treats

-arts and crafts

-drawing (usually traditional but I’m trying out digital)

-my friends

-literally any music that can get my little dopamine-deficient brain vibing

-fanfiction

-fanart

-horror

Dislikes:

-assholes

-bigots

-bananas

-hair touching the back of my neck

-na$is

-people who don’t take science seriously

-people who use cringe unironically

-self-proclaimed AI “artists”

-AI in general honestly

-people who lack empathy

Fandoms:

Riordanverse

She-Ra

Sonic the Hedgehog

DC (specifically Batman-related)

TMNT

Magical girl media

Wakfu

Book of Life

Maya and the Three

Tales of Arcadia

Spiderverse

Harry Potter (fandom, not og content because fuck you JK and the black mold you came in with)

Guardians of Childhood

School for Good and Evil (not the movie)

How to Train Your Dragon

My Hero Academia

Miraculous’s Ladybug

My Little Pony

The Apothecary Diaries

Cookie Run Kingdom

Henry Danger

Animaniacs

Voltron

Wendell and Wild

Scooby Doo

Marvel

Aaaaand probably more but that’s all I got for now

Just gonna put this here for later lol

General PSA's for begginer alt crafting

- superglue heats up when in contact with fiber, your craft can start smoking or even catch on fire

- you can wash clothing painted with acrylic paint in the washing machine if you turn it inside out and use the lowest temperature

- don't put painted clothes in the dryer.

- you can wash clothes with metal bits in the washing machine but use the handwashing setting, dry the metal bits with a paper towel before hanging them to dry, and know that it WILL be loud

- synthetic dye is needed to dye synthetic fibers and requires a long time simmering in a boiling pot. This WILL stink up the house and you NEVER want to make food in that pot again

- faux leather is vinyl not leather. Get vinyl paint to paint on it

- don't use your teeth as tools, they don't regenerate. Reconstructing enamel costs a small fortune (ask me how I know.)

- when handsewing a lot through thick fabric get thin needles, it will require less force and be less taxing on your wrists. When machine sewing get a higher grade needle (~130 for jean)

- embroidery floss is overpriced and not as strong as it looks. For sewing on heavy stuff get denim thread, it will last forever

- don't feed a 60$ home sewing machine ten layers of denim before you learn how much a servicing fee costs, these things are dellicate

- spray paint is best applied from 30-40cm away, in swift movements. Putting too much or applying from too close will cause drips. You can sand them down and apply a new layer of paint AFTER they dry. Wipe the can nozzle after painting if it's messy, you don't want it to clog and become unusable

- water based markers on fabric will bleed, if not instantly then with time, alcohol markers will fade with time

- most fabric glues are machine washable up to a certain temperature. modgepodge is not waterproof, hitack is handwash only. Check the instructions

- the flatter the surface the easier hot glue will peel off. Faux leather stands no chance, fibers like yarn will hold it best, but is impossible to remove the glue from them in the future

- rivets are a thing that exists, only require a hammer to install and can be used as permanent fabric attachment

- studs, gromets and other metal junk at small fabric stores are laughably overspriced

- acetone (found in nail polish remover) will remove acrylic stains out of furniture, flooring and faux leather, if used in excess can damage the laquer. Can also be used to remove prints and glue off of plastic (do a small test before commiting, might melt the plastic it it's grade is low)

- residue from stickers (and k-tape) can be removed with oil

- acrylic stains cannot be removed out of clothing or carpet so protect your area before painting and don't wear clothes you care about

- if your thread keeps getting tangled or snagging while handsewing try waxing it

- you can lock in screw-in spikes with screw lock glue if you're scared of them falling off because they unscrew

- you can add washers to screw-in spikes if you're scared of them falling through flimsy fabric or too big of a hole

- if you're making anything out of soda cans have a metal file on hand, they are deceptively sharp and will hurt you and rip through fabric you're installing them in

- bleach can be found in mold killing spray (don't touch that shit with bare hands. chemical burn.)

- fabric paints are no different from slightly dilluted acrylic. You can make it yourself by adding a bit of fabric softener to acrylic or honestly even water

- if you are setting anything with an iron use parchment paper or a pressing cloth to pervent your stuff from sticking to your iron and ruining it

- if you want a safety pin somewhere permanently pinch it shut with pliers

- as much as you can, avoid putting glue on clothing, it makes it really hard to change your decisions later on and upcycle the project in the future

- kiss your friends

My phone is so full of random ass pictures holy shit

I’ve read a lot of fanfics in my time, but it’s been a while since I’ve done a full read through of Uncle Rick’s series, and the only book I don’t have is The Sun and Star (I think) so if I leave anything out let me know.

One of the most interesting things I noticed in Uncle Rick’s stories is the power levels of different demigods. Most demigods in old myths never stepped foot in the Underworld, much less hoped to survive it, beyond a few who had pretty massive amounts of godly help (Hermes with Orpheus, Herakles with Hera, etc.) to get through the journey.

And yet multiple people not only survived the journey, but also did it multiple times, including but not limited to:

Percy (twice, once with pearls and once with Nico)

Grover (with pearls)

Annabeth (with pearls)

Nico (an undisclosed amount of time including with a ghostly half-sister in tow)

Hazel (with help as one of the undead)

Sally (as a kidnapping victim)

A good list of demigods who likely died and came back all on their own while Thanatos was chained

Thalia (while with Nico and Percy)

And while, yes, all of these examples are either because of massive problems on the godly side, or because they are/were accompanied by a Big Three kid (which is BS that Hestia, Hera, and Demeter aren’t included in “they have super crazy powerful kids” despite only Demeter having kids), it doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s happening more often.

“But Nick, like you said, those are major influences that’s helping these guys get out of the Underworld. It’s just relevant to the plot!”

Fair enough, but now here’s the next point: Tartarus.

Basically, Rick’s Greek world essentially functions as such:

While I don’t think Eris is confirmed to exist in Tartarus (again I haven’t read The Sun and Star), Nyx is, and since Nyx is darkness and Eris is light, it makes sense they exist on the same plane (either beneath Tartarus or coexisting with it) despite both being a concept for all planes except arguably Chaos, which is why I put it on the same level as well.

There are various creation myths, but the overarching plot is: There is Something, that Something creates Others, and this Others become known as Primordials, which make their own Others, such as Titans, Giants, Gods, etc. The creations make essentially layers on Earth, similar to the actual layers of the Earth.

Think of it like this:

And when new beings are made that take over for the last generation (like Helios and Apollo), then those layers get kinda funky.

So, back to Tartarus. Obviously you have 3 separate “Underworlds”, one for deities (like with Python in Trials of Apollo), one for monsters, and one for mortals. Each of these places is built to recycle beings, similar to the idea of Conservation of Energy and Conservation of Matter. Not only that, but upper level beings can’t (or at least shouldn’t) go below their respective underworld, but lower level beings can’t go up, which is why monsters can go up to the Underworld and Gaea but a human can’t go down into the Underworld or Tartarus without dying.

So this is why demigods surviving Tartarus is crazy work. Sure, there are demigods that can become monsters or gods and survive the trip, but just your average demigod? They’re dead on sight. Between the poison air, the aggressive terrain, no food, no water, monsters being reborn in every direction, etc., survival is slim to none.

Except now we have instances of people surviving the fall and the climb back up, with a questionable amount of sanity intact. Will, Nico (twice), Annabeth, and Percy (you can include Apollo if you like) all survived the fall and came back still kicking, and noticeably not monsters.

So what’s my point?

There’s a common repetition of myth for the Greeks, and that’s the death of the father by their son. Ouranos was killed by Kronos and his siblings. Kronos was killed by Zeus and his siblings. The point is that Rick’s version of the Greeks is approaching the death of Zeus, and the crowning of a new King (if we’re following by patriarchal standards). It’s definitely not going to happen anytime soon, but Big Three kids like Percy and Nico and just your average demigod like the Seven is proof of this. And do you want to know WHY demigods are only going to get more powerful from here?

Because the gods are slowly and indirectly creating their own demise, as had their predecessors. But unlike their predecessors, their downfall will come from not looking in the right direction, instead of thinking they have complete control. Zeus isn’t stupid, and he knows his shit. He’s well aware that he only survived being swallowed because Rhea gave Kronos a rock, because he wasn’t paying attention. Kronos was prideful and believed that he was loved enough that no one would dare defy him, because he wasn’t paying attention the one who saved them. Zeus knows that being ignorant of who is and isn’t against him would be his downfall, so he locks the fuck in. Kronos, while well known for his ability to control time, ruled over the Harvest as well, making him a more Gaea-bound deity. So Zeus chooses the sky. Instead of simply believing in people, he overlooks them, watching them, judging them. He is the God of Justice, after all, so the job title includes the role of “Judge, Jury, and Executioner”.

“But isn’t Olympus a democracy, Nick? Athens was a democracy too, so Zeus wouldn’t be the one in sole power!”

Nope! Well, yes, it is a democracy, but just not a democracy in the way it’s supposed to be. In Athens, they were technically a democracy, but only for those who were rich, powerful, and close to the inner circle of politicians. The building that housed the voting in Athens let people in on a first-come-first-serve basis, so only people who had the time to include themselves and the money to live so close to the place where votes are casted had the power, and on top of that, their politics were wild. One person got a vote, obviously, but it’s like goddamn Survival over there. They made groups and all discussed what went down and who to fucking vote off the island. I’m not joking, they actually did that.

So Zeus consolidated power into a small group of 12, playing it as a “democracy” when in reality those who do not follow him are punished or replaced. Hestia was kicked out for Dionysus, for example, and Apollo was made human, for another. So yeah, it’s a “democracy” in the same way someone gets cohersed into giving consent: it’s not actually real, just driven by fear.

On top of that, they literally have Hephestus TV! They watch their subjects for fun. You cannot tell me Zeus didn’t set up that particularly entertaining baby cam for no reason. He ate Leto! He’s not above being the magical version of the Chaos Council from Sonic Prime.

So in order to create a being capable of overthrowing Zeus, you have to do it slowly, subtly, and have his gaze averted. He has to be focusing on something else. That’s how Luke managed to nearly overthrow him, because he was so focused on 12-year-old Percy Jackson, Son of Poseidon, then someone so minuscule as Luke Castellan, Son of Hermes. He likes to think he’s got it all figured out, thinking that the one who chooses whether Olympus is going to survive or fall must be one of the Big Three’s children. He ignores bigger details and problems in favor of focusing on one small thing. Percy’s birthday was a prophecized stopwatch, and really nothing more.

How would the gods be able to manufacture such a danger to Zeus’s reign when he supervises everything? They don’t manufacture anything at all, at least not on purpose.

“Nick, what the fuck? You’re making no sense.”

HEAR ME OUT.

Our first example of this is our lovely Frank Zhang. Both a demigod and a Legacy, he has power like we haven’t seen unless provided by a shape-shifting god (such as Loki with Alex). Despite being a Son of Mars, who, alongside Ares, have children who’s main god-given skill is “fights good”, he has the ability to shapeshifting and keep up with powerhouses like Percy, Hazel, and Jason. Sure, you could argue that Clarisse can keep up with Percy well enough, but not to the extent of Frank. He has the blood of multiple gods stacked onto one another, helping him have the power to survive the quest to stop Gaea.

Another is Leo Valdez. Poor boy got the attention of a literal Primordal being at a young age, and also managed to kill said Primordal being with his own fire powers, and lived to tell the tale. In the past, that required an elaborate plot to lure the Primordal away from their domain and slice them to pieces, but Leo just did it with a dragon and two other demigods, and incinerated Gaea. Please tell me you understand how absolutely insane that is!

Piper McClean managed to break down Charmspeak into its basic concepts, and understood how it worked well enough to gaslight a Primordal, and before that she had the strongest charmspeak in the room alongside her siblings.

Jason Grace took down a Giant more or less on his own with little to no help from a god, and can take control of wind spirits that don’t even belong to his father’s domain. He’s Hera’s (or Juno, I guess) champion, and she could have chosen Thalia, but she didn’t. She chose Jason. Jason is a full-sibling to Thalia, only divided by pantheons. Having full-siblings is almost entirely unheard of, with only a handful of mortals able to seduce powerful gods not once, but twice, like with Bianca and Nico. That takes INSANE work.

Hazel has the power not only detect precious metals, but also curse them, and channel that power into raising a whole Giant, something that can only happen in Tartarus. She escaped the Underworld after having already died and lost her memories.

Percy is, I’m just going to say it, absolutely insane. He beat The God of WAR in a fight. At 12. He set off a volcano summoning water out of seashells and a stupid idea. He held up the Sky, something that was purposely held up by 4 pillars and later the Titan of Strength for a reason. He survived Tartarus and Polybotes and stole the domain of another goddess. It’s one thing to utilize the abilities bestowed on you by your parent and make them your own, but he stole another bitch’s domain! And used it against her! And probably would have killed her too if Annabeth hadn’t snapped him out of it! You CAN’T tell me that this man isn’t the beginning of the end for the gods.

And my MOST POWERFUL POINT HERE: goddamn Annabeth Chase. Yeah, you know all that batshit insane stuff Percy did? Annabeth was right there next to him. Holding the sky, Tartarus, the Athena Parthenos (which is known to be killing off Athena kids since forever) etc. What’s even more insane is that Athena doesn’t give her kids powers. Athena kids’ abilities are “smart”, and wtf does that mean??? It makes everything Annabeth does all the more impressive and terrifying. The rest of the Seven are powerhouses so strong they can take on Giants, and then you have Annabeth with her knife and spite, and she not only keeps up, but she’s a role model. The other demigods look to her for guidance!

But it gets crazier. You know how I said the gods are creating their own demise hidden in plain sight? Yeah, Annabeth is that “plain sight”. Percy, for all his power and abilities, is the distraction. People like Annabeth are who Zeus really has to look out for. Remember how I said that full-blooded siblings are rare and crazy to even fathom? The Chase Family makes it worse.

How the flying fuck did they manage to bag not one, not two, but three different deities attentions?! What are those Chases on to get so much godly attention?! Not to mention it’s cross pantheon! Frey, Loki, and Athena, we’re drawn in by something, and it’s not your normal godly infatuation.

In a small blurb of a story, Percy and Annabeth meet the Kanes, and while I haven’t read Kane Chronicles (I have the series just haven’t gotten to it yet), they say that cross-pantheon magic is quite literally the strongest way to K.O. your enemies. So the four of them swap items, with Percy getting possessed by a vulture goddess. Why am I bring this up? Because these very points are why the Chases are terrifying.

They’re an active site of cross-pantheon activity, which is why Magnus and Annabeth are so powerful all on their own. Magnus has been watched over for years because of his role in Ragnarok, and was specifically requested by Odin himself to be taken to Valhalla despite being a nature demigod. And not only does Magnus survive there as a nature demigod in an entire afterlife full of war demigods, he thrives. He’s never held a sword in his life, and his main powers are healing and trying to convince plants to grow, and yet he manages to delay Ragnarok for a long, long time.

People like Annabeth, Magnus, and Frank are obvious points in this evolution of power, and they fly under Zeus’s radar almost entirely.

So that’s my Rant. Something that’s been bubbling in my head for a long time really, but I never had a place for it until now. It’s likely that we have such powerful demigods now compared to the old myths because of godly blood mixing in with humans after so long, and then that godly blood, especially when enhanced by other pantheons, starts to draw deities in more and more. So that’s how Zeus gets his ass kicked.

The fact that I’ve been on Tumblr for a week and my FYP is filled with gay ships either

A) means I’m so gay that the algorithm can smell it

B) Tumblr is hella gay and I’m just assimilating into the rest of my kind

The headlines and anecdotes being shared about Tesla dealerships and cyber trucks getting wrecked and vandalized are all very enjoyable and revitalizing.

If you want to repost this one anywhere, feel free! Credit me where and when you can, but it's all good even if you can't.

IT’S NO USE

It’s no use!

Accurate depiction of me when Sage died at the end of Frontiers (and then came back)

Canon-accurate depiction of me rn:

My ear won’t stop giving me the human version of TV static…

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2770048

Reading Broken Timeline by CipherWrites (such a great author and I’m obsessed with their take on unhinged/feral Adrien and Marinette) and reading this scene could only make me think of this meme:

So I just HAD TO make it with Adrien:

Give this poor sentimonster his carbs PLEASE. Anyways I love Chat Noir (in the fanfic a bit less in the show because the MLB writing team is… they’re certainly a writing team… for MLB…) and he’s such a goofy and pathetic little meow meow (affectionate)