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They/Them || Autistic || Intersex || Not-so local AroAce Redacted fan Redacted has permanently altered my brain chemistry HELP HELP HELP ME HELP HELP!!!

[abbyghoth]

I listened to the latest Anton audio. When he was talking about potentially joining the Shaw pack, the entire time I thought "Man, this guy is gonna have an aneurysm when he meets Asher" But then he randomly shifted to race his mate to the bedroom just for for funsies. ...So I think he'll fit right in, actually.

[bigbrownboots]

Yessss yeeessss! foils!!

Freelancer and Dreamer! A 'jack of all trades' who was suddenly thrown into the magical world and at first tried to avoid/ignore it at all costs, vs the niche specialist who was surrounded by magic their whole life and desperately wanted to be magical themselves, doing anything to get it...

Gavin and Corvus! the demon who hid behind the perceived social norm of ‘what he’s meant to be’, casually flirting and striking up conversations without ever exploring the depth of his own interests, vs the demon who struggles to understand common social cues and what he’s 'meant to do' in a situation, but has a profound special interest which he will openly talk about for as long as you'll let him (woo rollercoasters!!)

Lasko and Lincoln, the airhead and the weight of the world! Fast and rambling and outwardly anxious, who knows he wants to prove himself and became fully certified before going back to further develop his naturally strong points in magic, vs the slow, calm student who isn’t sure if he can be more than his specialty… Yet.

[graviticseer]

orange?? i love physical manifestations like this okay yes fuck him up. but ORANGE???

[grilledcheezy92]

I mean it could be pretty spooky

https://pin.it/2QzKIabOk

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[abbyghoth]

I don't see a problem with orange either. I've always seen D'Deridahn as being associated with red-ish orange. I couldn't think of a better color either. Most colors wouldn't fit at all, except for like red but that'd be so lame. Red eyes are cool 'n all but they are soooooo overused. I'm already so glad that redacted vampires don't have red eyes. I think orange is perfect

[alphadavidshaw]

nobody asked

[graviticseer]

orange?? i love physical manifestations like this okay yes fuck him up. but ORANGE???

[grilledcheezy92]

I mean it could be pretty spooky

https://pin.it/2QzKIabOk

https://pin.it/4ZIG6lSVs

[abbyghoth]

I don't see a problem with orange either. I've always seen D'Deridahn as being associated with red-ish orange. I couldn't think of a better color either. Most colors wouldn't fit at all, except for like red but that'd be so lame. Red eyes are cool 'n all but they are soooooo overused. I'm already so glad that redacted vampires don't have red eyes. I think orange is perfect

[mythallia]

After a brief 2 month hiatus I have returned to feeding the fandom on youtube!

@abbyghoth pls release vincent from your custody 🙏

[mushroomerchant]

I have an ongoing list called…

Erik’s Favorite Phrases:

- Effusive Praise

- Rapturous Heights of Unbridled/Indomitable Ecstasy

- Dalliance

- Hmmmm… That means “Hmmmm”

- If You Will and, Surprisingly, Even If You Won’t

- Much to Your Chagrin

- Maybe So

- The Love of my Life, the Apple of my Eye, the Cream in my Coffee

- My Heart Is About To Beat Out My Chest

- Don’t Get Mad, Get Even

- Do you know where my ____ is? Have I checked up my what?!?— Ow!

[abbyghoth]

"peanut gallery" !

[rottenrhee]

“angel and asher are best friends” this “angel and tank are best friends” that. i agree, BUT why has nobody ever said that angel and milo are best friends. this has been on my mind for years and I’ve only ever seen like 2 posts about it

[abbyghoth]

I often think about Milo during the inversion. He went from having a nice chat with a nervous air elemental to suddenly watching a portal open up above the stadium with hundreds of Shades spilling out of it (and he of all people know how dangerous a single one of those can be) Then he had to watch David and Asher willingly sprint into the slowly forming death trap and was too late to join them. The rest of the day he spent arguing with some douchebag about lifting the ward, while his loved ones were probably dying in there. And yet, the first thing on his mind was to call all the mates and give Angel David's jacket so they have something to hold onto.

[finnxxtt]

“I think Milo is actually 6 foot and the rest is just really tall-“

NO.

Milo is SHORT. stop trying to push your tall people agenda on my man bro.

Cus guess what? It’s okay to be short as a man. A big part of him is the fact that he was bullied because he is somewhat smaller than the rest. By saying he’s not YOURE TAKING AWAY THE WHOLE POINT.

You can headcannon literally ANY of the characters as 6 foot and above but Milo is just not it for you if that’s such a dealbreaker for you.

Let this man be short in peace bro. 🫩✌️

[abbyghoth]

I don't want to police anyone's HC's but man "Milo is actually tall" has to be one of my least favorite HC's I see way too often. I especially hate it when people insist that the HC is realistic because they completely misunderstood lines in his Audios "Well, he said himself that comparing him to the rest of the pack is like comparing a basketball player to a normal guy. So maybe he's just a tall guy but everyone else is MASSIVE!!" - Yes, he did say that.. about his wolf form. He spoke very specifically about how his wolf form is still bigger than a normal wolf but the rest of the pack, especially David, are just crazy big compared to him. "Okay, but when people like Asher make fun of him for being short, maybe they also mean his wolf form and he could still be tall as a human!" - When Asher makes fun of him for being short it's pretty damn clear that he's making fun of him being a short guy. Asher is a weird dude but I don't think he'd constantly make fun of Milo for being short, when they are actually about the same height, just because they have a height difference when they are wolves.

Another reason why the "Maybe Milo is just average height and everyone else is crazy tall" makes no sense to me, is because David is canonically the tallest of the bunch and by a pretty big margin too. Asher constantly refers to him as "Big Guy" every chance he gets. So if Milo isn't short, but Asher is way taller than him but David is even taller than Asher... how tall do they want these people to be??? Like what's more likely. That Milo is getting called short because he is short. David is called tall because he's tall and Asher's height never gets mentioned because he's pretty average. Or Milo is getting called short because he is actually tall but not as tall as everyone else and people often mention how tall David is because he is the tallest but Asher is also crazy tall but no one ever mentions that because he isn't as tall as David but he is taller than Milo who is also tall!! They'd rather have the headcanon that David's gonna need knee pads and crutches in his 40s because he's too tall for his legs to carry him than just accepting that a single man, out of the gigantic cast of characters, might be on the shorter end

[abbyghoth]

You best believe I'll get Tomodachi Life 2, create Dahlia island, throw every Redacted character in there and make them call me Echo.

[abbyghoth]

A very small part of me is a little glad that imperium hasn't returned yet. Because the chance of imp!Hush existing isn't very high but never zero.

[abbyghoth]

Okay listen guys. I think we need to cool it a little bit with the March Redactness, okay? It's obviously completely fine to advocate for Vincent and telling people that Sam already won and that you want to see a new winner. But I think some take this a tiny little bit too far and take it too seriously. It's one thing to root for your fave or argue that Vincent deserve to win, but it's another thing to suddenly develop seething hatred for a character for being liked.. Or worse, antagonizing people for earnestly voting their favorite character in the "choose your favorite character"-poll... Just to be clear. All of my favorites were eliminated in round 1 and 2. I like Sam and Vincent about equally and I voted for Vincent because I think he deserves it more. But if Sam ends up winning a second time because he was a fan favorite back then and still is a fan favorite to this day, it's not the end of the world for the poll to reflect that. That's kinda what it's for. Anyway, go root for Vincent but PLEASE do not give Erik yet another reason to never do this again, after he has already made it really really clear that there absolutely won't be a reward for the winner anymore, specifically to make this a silly fun game that wouldn't start a war.

[escapisttt-deactivated20260429]

the way this entire fandom has seemingly come to the conclusion that sweetheart is slender because “their job requires it” is fatphobic btw!! fat people can be extremely athletic and agile btw!! fat does not equal unhealthy btw!!

[abbyghoth]

That's such a weird take.. what..? 💀 Yes, fat people can be incredibly athletic, flexible and agile but even if that wasn't the case, that would not be an argument for Sweetheart being slender. They are a stealth. They can magically mute every sound they make and can pass through everything like a ghost. They can do their job perfectly fine at any size.

[abbyghoth]

I understand that most people who are begging for a Blake BA want it to be set in the past. Like when they had their first time after Blakes confession or after the Audio where he was allowed to stay with them for the night. But the thought of basically putting D'Deridahn in a cuck chair is really funny to me.

[selkieself]

"A heart's a heavy burden"

....but Hush!! Hush ily!!! He so reminds me of those little star people from howl's moving castle

[asirentail]

My official controversial take:

I never liked how much Cutie was hated. It stung tbh.

So, let me explain.

I have this... problem of sorts, or clinging onto people too heavily. Neurodivergent doesn't begin to describe me but until there's an official diagnosis, I will never know to what extent is wrong/not sound with me.

And honestly? I'm a Cutie defender because I feel like they were the same way at first.

I personally would love to know what people think of me just to make sure they still want to be around me, instead of wondering if they hate me behind my back. Cutie having telepathy is no different. It makes it so much easier to overhear (quite literally overhear) what people think of them, especially unempowered ones.

Were their actions justified? Absolutely the fuck not. They crossed the line after being told repeatedly that Geordi wanted them to not listen in and respect his boundaries.

I have done the exact fucking thing and have lost too many people because of it. It still hurts to this day that I lost friends over my own stupid actions.

And now them being hesitant or possibly refusing to use their abilities? Yeah. That's what fucking happens when people mess up and learn from their mistakes. They're afraid that they're going to mess up again. I am afraid to mess up again, so in turn, I never fucking talk unless I'm spoken to.

No one will ever know the true extent of what happened to Cutie before they even met Geordi — only Erik will ever know that, if he even wants to make that a thing, and it should be understood and respected if he doesn't want to.

But to literally hate a realistically written, possibly neurodivergent character just because they messed up, even though they got help and is now better?

That's just fucked up, in my opinion.

People can change for the better, therapy can do wonders to make a person behave better. And that applies here.

Cutie did wrong, yes, they fucked up. They got help. They went to therapy. They're working on controlling their telepathy better, getting a better handle on things. And the relationship is still going strong. They refuse to use their magic unless Geordi asks them to.

That's what healing looks like, and to hate that is just... messed up.

Maybe I feel too strongly attached to Cutie but I've gone through the same things before. I dunno. Take this controversial opinion, I guess.

[abbyghoth]

I think both forgiving Cutie and disliking them is perfectly valid? I think they are a very well written character. Their actions are very realistic. It's good to highlight that the relationship between a magic and a non-magic person can be difficult due to the power imbalance that can come with it. It's also pretty clear that Cutie didn't even fully grasp how messed up reading someone's mind without permission is (They seemed to genuinely be surprised when Geordi was upset about that for the first time). But that does not mean that people now have to like them as a person. What they have done is deeply fucked up. A lot of people are saying "Most people would read minds if they could!" because they could make their own insecurities go away with the power of always knowing what others think of them. But that doesn't make that okay!! It doesn't matter how nice that power would be, how hard it would be not to abuse it and how many people would struggle with it. Being relatable does not make it any less fucked up. If you had that kind of power, it would still be your responsibility to not use it to cause harm and cross boundaries. It doesn't matter how many times you could go "Well, others would struggle with this too" Especially not if you are crossing the boundaries of your own partner right after they've told you that their don't want you to do it anymore. It's good to show Cutie realizing that they fucked up, own up to it and actually do something to change for the better. And it's good that they are struggling to control a power specifically linked to control and trust issues and insecurity, because it is something many people can see themselves in. Because yes, everyone fucks up and both neurodivergence and trauma can make people treat others badly out of self preservation and insecurity. Admitting that that wasn't okay and putting in the work to change for the better is great and they deserve to be liked and loved after improving (I'm personally not against Geordi getting back together with Cutie. It's his decision) HOWEVER, just because someone deserves a second chance, does NOT mean that they are owed one. If you fuck up you can apologize and change all you want, that does not mean that people have to forgive you, especially not the people you've hurt. So I think it's completely fine for people to dislike Cutie because they wouldn't have forgiven them and wish Geordi wouldn't have forgiven them either. You can always spin that argument around "It's messed up for people to hate cutie, because I see myself in cutie. I've also made mistakes and hurt people and seeing people hate them after they've improved stings" could also become "It's messed up how people have forgiven Cutie. Because I see myself in Geordi. I've also been deeply hurt by someone repeatedly violating my boundaries. Seeing people like them again after they said they have changed and telling me I should forgive them too, stings. Their consequences for hurting me were only temporary, even though the damage they did to me will last forever."

[abbyghoth]

Urgh... William! Your boys are fighting again! Go get your son...

[rainon88]

I admit to listening back on Milo’s audios and tallying each time he called the listener Sweetheart alongside other nicknames.

I might be in too deep.

(Note: there are 4 Audios excluded from this final Tally since I have to relisten. Also I am human so may have missed a couple but yeah.)

[abbyghoth]

Great list, thank you for your hard work! However, you did forget about one of my favorite loving nicknames Milo has given Sweetheart: "You fucking beast from hell!" /j