THEE amy rose hedge.hog

real life amy rose | ❤️ & ➕ from @metaphlorist

[vvisteriae]

Something came over me

[irregularcloudi]

spinning rouge

[peachmangopie323]

Fruits basket x Sonic 1

Because yes

[fluffyhellspawn]

I am obsessed with this little guy

[fibul]

visually impaired and still rockin'!

tails built the visor for him. it acts as a multi-tool: a screen reader and a proximity sensor. you know, like how when you're in a car and it'll beep when you get too close to something? sonic uses it to navigate at super-speeds!

[simplicitysp]

[librarian-raichu]

SCOURGE

[sonicthehedgehog]

Nothing brings a friend group together like Murder.

🎨: @deegeemin

[ravenlynclemens]

onic the edgeog

[bottleboxdraws]

amy and metal go to trader joes

[fibul]

yeah, you're cooked, buddy

[sonichedgeblog]

A model of Amy’s head tired, from ‘Sonic The Fighters’.

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[sydney-y2k-deactivated20260811]

Prevsie I'm not gonna lie you might actually have a point with this. Give yourself some credit!

[devonia]

The premise of the post is flawed. Not only is it very difficult to prove such a statement, but what evidence there is suggests the OP is completely wrong.

Olderthannetfic and friends did some stat exploring and, yeah, no. If anything it looks like fics with graphic depictions of violence are taking up a higher proportion of fics than they used to.

Reblog by @olderthannetfic · 12 images

💬 35  🔁 72  ❤️ 167 · It really is the Gilmore Girls resurgence thing: people want to live in a walkable town with cute third spaces and a re

There is a real trend towards fascist garbage in culture generally, but there isn't really any evidence for the claim made by op.

[polysucks]

sorry to call you out but i think your tags are too important not to be seen as well

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

[headspace-hotel]

Saw this post and I had to go in the notes to see if anybody actually investigated.

what y'all are talking about in regards to pastoralism and coffee shop AUs is like. The broad concept of romanticizing things or of presenting an idealized version of them.

And like, yeah, fascists definitely romanticize some things, but when talking about fascism we gotta delve a little deeper than "this thing has a similar 'feeling' to this other thing, so therefore they must have similar underlying ideologies."

But more to the point, I don't know that there is a shift toward fluffy or escapist stories.

[headspace-hotel]

One comment on the linked post, though- the increase in Whump fics may be partially attributable to "whump" becoming a more common terminology for "characters get hurt" fic.

Back when I FIRST was active in fandom, people didn't really say "whump" and it was more common to say "hurt/comfort," which is a subgenre where the Character gets hurt and someone takes care of them or comforts them.

It seems like that designation has been mostly replaced by Whump, which denotes the "hurt" part without comment on whether comfort occurs or not.

[kittails]

sonadow in neon white costumes for a halloween event i hosted in a discord server <3

based on this art from the game

[ribbon-heartwise]

Spreading my propaganda.

[bobobosdal]

she's meant to be a governess cos she used to be a babysitter so i thought it'd fit

[lunarthesugarglider]

[threeheadedsewerrat]

Had something revealed to me while high

[threeheadedsewerrat]

girl. All of the forms btw