ever wondered what maria and shadow got up to on the ark? are you interested in reading about maria trying to prank her grandfather, a baby shadow going to maria for comfort after a bad dream, gerald having a tea party with his grandkids, and more? if so, please considering checking out my fic here as well as on ao3!
children of the ark is, as the graphic above says, a collection of one-shots & drabbles revolving around maria and shadow’s lives aboard the ark as kids with a weird place in the world. this is an on-going series with no set update schedule, but i have several ideas & i can’t wait to share them with y’all!
Hello! I'm MutterShy on ao3, and I just made my blog so I wanted to reach out and say again how much I love your Shadow and Maria fic, Children of the Ark! I hope you're having a lovely day, or night!
aww hi!! that's so sweet, i'm glad you like it so much 🥺💖 i hope you're having a good time too!!
Is it bad that I'm thinking maybe we shouldn't all go see Sonic 3? Like Paramount openly supports Israel still. Remember that's why we all wanted to boycott the Knuckles show? Did y'all forget about that? It's not like that would even mean not seeing the movie ever, it would just mean holding off on seeing it until alternative means become available.
Idk it's just kinda disconcerting how quickly the company seemed to win y'all back the moment shadow showed up on screen. I'm a big sonic fan too but there's kind of more important things going on right now, y'know?
no, you are right. if yall love these characters and stories so much, the games and comics and fandom-made stuff are all available for free, to buy, or for emulation.
dont give paramount your time and money for a poorly executed story made with zionist copaganda undertones. easy.
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The original tweet was from a teenager making a joke and doesn't thoroughly bring into focus the context the "Krav Maga" comment takes place in, so I'd like to give a bit more detail since the original post on Twitter is now deleted.
I don't want this situation to be misinterpreted as saying that any reference to Jewish heritage automatically translates to Zionism. You should not conflate the two. I see that this post is being reblogged often without mentioning the FBI agent component.
This conversation involving the mother is taking place over Shabbat dinner (the episode title) with her children, one who is a police officer and the other a FBI agent who constantly wears that outfit and reminds you she's part of the FBI.
(screenshots are from a pirate site)
So that reference to Krav Maga is when the mother is frustrated with her children's bickering and she says "so help me God do not make me use "Krav Maga in my own house."
It's harder to see it as her knowing Krav Maga as an innocuous way of conveying this as a badass, tough mother when this conversation is also taking place with a bunch of cops.
It's not the reference to Jewish traditions that's the problem, nor is it saying that Knuckles is "basically Jewish," but the fact that they intermingle that with the inclusion of a FBI agent and a cop, make reference to Krav Maga and follow it up with Knuckles seeing it as nice and relatable that this woman also trains warriors that's the issue.
It's not explicitly stated in what context she was an instructor, but it's not one people are likely to give a charitable reading to considering the narrative makes the sister's entire character her constantly and loudly referencing her FBI position.
While Jewish Knuckles or Knuckles teaming up with a kickass Jewish mom in a fight would be awesome in a vacuum, it's hard to feel like it's not very directed when there's this constant intermingling of Jewish faith and tradition with imperial powers with the police and FBI.
The Sonic movies were already copaganda in how they rely on the assumption that police as an institution exists to help people and not enforce white supremacist violence.
The cop in the first movie wanted to move to San Francisco to try at being a "real street cop."
There's also the casting choice to include Jim Carrey, who has held the belief that vaccines cause autism.
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The fight scene at the end of the episode has the mother ask Knuckles to protect the candles with an orbiting camera shot of the candles while she and Knuckles fight off the intruders as Hava Nagila is playing.
The juxtaposition of Jewish faith and culture with the police, FBI, and a Krav Maga instructor has the effect of using Jewish faith to soften, conflate, and humanize imperialist bodies as if the two are interchangeable. That's the big part being left out of the tweets.
Adam Pally, the actor who portrays the main character Wade also left a heart tweet in support of Bernie Sanders, who has a whole history that goes beyond the scope of this post but communicates Pally's views here too.
The image shown in the now deleted tweet this post is referencing is a tweet made by paramount in October of 2023. I think based on some of the reblogs that some people might have thought this was in the credits of the actual episode, but it's from this tweet.
I'm not Jewish, so I'll leave it to more experienced people to dissect this segment, but I wanted to give attention that it's not just that they called Knuckles Jewish, it's the fact he's having this conversation with a family of feds and the narrative intermingles the two.
There's also a later segment of Native racism. For those that aren't aware, Knuckles and the echidna tribe as a whole historically has been inspired very heavily by Indigenous people. Several members of the Sonic team even traveled to get reference material for research in producing the first Sonic adventure.
Voyage de la Sonic Team en Amérique du Sud pour le repérage de Sonic Adventure sur Dreamcast.
Ils étaient émerveillés par la beautés des ru
Pair that with other design choices and the narrative surrounding Knuckles and the genocide of his people and the constant theft of his land and resources, it leads to a lot of Sonic fans reading Knuckles as Native, usually Afro-Native coded.
In other words, Knuckles' racial coding goes beyond just an aesthetic and ties into his whole characterization.
Him being portrayed as an alien savage warrior already runs into issues, but not the focus of this post.
Knuckles also reinforces the extinct Native trope, which could be an entirely separate post, but there's another segment in episode 4 in which Wade meets up with the ghost of Knuckles father Pachacamac with a joke around Wade mispronouncing his name because it's too hard and them just settling on "Mac."
"Pachacamac" and "Tikal" aren't made up Sonic universe words, they're direct references to the cultures the Echidna were designed after.
And as many people with "foreign" names will tell you, it's really not great to have a segment where someone finds their name too hard and it being played as a joke that it's normal to just not try and get it right, instead just renaming them entirely.
In short:
ACAB
Don't support Paramount media
Don't conflate Jewishness with zionism
Native people aren't extinct nor is their language and culture a silly set of words too hard to say
I wasn't planning on posting anything related to this because I don't want to give Paramount any advertising, but I wanted to give proper context to these issues so that people more experienced than me can comment on them more in depth and to bring attention to the issue the initial tweets being circulated aren't fully contextualizing.
alright. finished the knuckles series. i cannot believe this show is real
general review: this is barely a sonic show - hell, i would hesitate to call this a show at all. however, i would be lying out of my ass if i said i wasn't enthralled with the sheer chaos and absurdity of this show almost the whole way through. this show is bad and i would not recommend it to anyone but holy shit i did kinda have some fun with it
a lot of the comedy is terrible and had me in physical pain. but a lot if it also had me laughing my ass off. i did not like any of the human characters even though they take up 85% of the show, but goddamn sometimes the line delivery and acting just caught me so off guard in a way that killed me. i wish this show was something different and actually about knuckles and the larger sonic cast, but i cannot say i hated this series. at the very least i think everyone should watch episode 4 completely out of context. dude trust me it'll be funny :)
unfortunately i took notes the whole way through. i'll include them under the cut for anyone who doesn't mind spoilers about this show that is, quite frankly, not very good
number of times i said “oh come on” (derogatory): ||||| ||
number of times i said “what the fuck????”: ||||| ||||| ||
EPISODE 1
DON’T YOU LOVE DORITOS?? YOUR FAVORITE SONIC CHARACTER DORITOS THE BRAND????
tails i love you. boy i sure hope you show up in this show more (he doesn't)
“MAYBE I WOULDN’T INSULT YOU IF YOU WEREN’T SUCH A FREAKING LOSER” and "we gonna ball or what" are some of my favorite lines from the show and also from a 10 year old girl scout
homoerotic bowling????
pachacamac ghost is certainly a choice. also they really did reduce pachacamac to "wise but clumsy elder character" and do not explore anything else about him. so that's that
Wade: there's another reason i love bowling... \ Me: (jokingly predicting the next line) i bet it's his dad \ Wade: my dad
DON'T YOU LOVE BRAND???? YOUR FAVORITE BRAND TJ MAXX???? WHERE YOU CAN ABANDON YOUR KIDS
i spent like half of that episode frantically searching for my packing tape so i missed the fight scene this episode lol
EPISODE 2
knuckles is. really violent. did not need to explain what ripping a guy's arms off would be like
wade’s very clear stunt double is my favorite character
maybe they should have used their licensed music budget to pay their animators more
CALL THAT COP A PIG!!!!!! CALL HIM A PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love watching wade get the shit kicked outta him.
METAL PIPE FALLING SOUND EFFECT
knuckles is really in a box this entire episode huh
HE BLEW KNUCKLES UP???
for every joke that actually makes me laugh there’s at least like four duds that make me go “shut up”
wade’s reaction to hearing there’s a manhunt for him is like a pogchamp face. why does he look like that. why do they zoom in on his face so long
i miss tails :(
oh no knuckles doesn't like being betrayed boy i sure hope there’s no third act betrayal in the final episodes
EPISODE 3
Wade’s mom: are we done? \ Me: THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN ASKING THE WHOLE TIME
i. cannot stand wade’s sister good lord. easily the worst character in the show. i know she's supposed to be unlikable but it genuinely feels unwatchable when she's on screen
GIVE KNUCKLES WINE
the delivery of wade going “hmhm okaaay weeird…….” LMAO
my favorite sonic character is Jim Gun Agent
wow knuckles really is just. there. while the whipple family drama unfolds
“what did i do to deserve this” me watching this show
the fork stabbing is wildly unprompted and incredibly violent even for the absurdity of this show.
wade should not be worth $100k.
hey why did they keep the cardboard cutout bit in there. what the fuck
i really love the shot of knuckles and wade’s mom fighting a bunch of guys in a long shot. that shit kinda rules and must have been a nightmare to coordinate. one of the best parts of the show
EPISODE 4
NINJA TURTLE JUMPSCARE
the fridge door falling off is actually really funny. i liked that
that motorcycle should have killed wade. he should have died. i wish he died.
the fucking bounty hunter cage they put him in is really funny. i wish they left him in htere
they namedrop every brand EXCEPT rainforest cafe. what did my girl rainforest cafe ever do to you
how does pachacmac know what florida is .
i would have loved to be in the writer’s room when they pitched episode 4
the musical sequence genuinely rules. i love this shit. this is the best episode which is hilarious because knuckles isn't even here. i want to show this episode to everyone i know. they would stop talking to me forever
the iblis lore drop is wild and i love the iblis puppet to bits. why is this a part of knuckles' backstory though
who the fuck are these bike kids???
EPISODE 5
HOW DOES KNUCKLES KNOW WHO KEVIN JAMES IS…….
if i had a nickel for every time knuckles was almost offered an alcoholic drink in this show i would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
the concept of knuckles guiding wade on how to confront his estranged father through a hidden radio is absolutely wild. whose idea was this. how is this real
they really just let the echidna alien wander around the casino
there are. too many bad guys to keep track of in this show. who are these people. i do not care about any of them
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY HAD THE BIRD AND THE BEES TALK……..
WHERE IS KNUCKLES!!!!!!!!!
wade loves his goddamned licensed songs….
actually the fact that this show focuses on wade so much is hilarious. this show means that wade is a more developed and realized character than tom
oh noooo i cant believe my favorite sonic character Pistol Pete would betray me like this
the way wade was so willing to let his sister die. dude i would have done the same if my sister was wanda
oh no….. the third act betrayal…………….
EPISODE 6
ok nvm no third act betrayal
i cannot believe they’re shilling for tj maxx while talking about the child abandonment backstory
WHERE IS KNUCKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
knuckles loves challah bread :] he just like me fr
oh shit they actually had challah bread at that bar lol
THE RESIN BOWLING BALL WITH THE TEACUP…
"YES I LOVE YOU PIN"
i can't beleive they put knuckles in the red power sucking trap they put giratina in in the hit pokemon movie Giratina and the Sky Warrior
THEY KNOCK KNUCKLES OUT FOR THE FINAL FIGHT SO WADE CAN BEAT THE BIG BAD WITH THE POWER OF BOWLING LMFAOOOOOO
i cannot believe this show is real. i wish it was something different so badly but i can truly say, without a doubt, i have never seen anything like this and will never see anything like it again. if you told me in 2020 they would make a knuckles show that is 80% about a bowling tournament i would have laughed at you
okay so this tweet was back in october so it's technically old news but this thing is currently going around twitter, and i don't think it hurts to make a post, even if others may have already done so. paramount, the studio behind the sonic movies, supports israel. i don't know if the circumstances will change in the months between now and when sonic 3 and the knuckles tv series comes out, but if you're planning on watching either, you should figure out a way to do so without giving your money to the company.
also, the last time i posted about sonic being affiliated with a company that stood with israel, i got a lot of people saying things like "sOnIC woUldn'T WaNT tHIs!11!!!" and "dO It fOr HiM!!1!!" and one person even made some stupid shitty looking memes. anyone who does that on this post gets put on blast immediately. i shouldn't have to say this but centering this topic around the silly fictional hedgehog and not the tens of thousands of people being massacred is extremely tone deaf. read the room or get the fuck out.
was i expecting him to get a voice actor who was a fantastic person? not really lol they were obviously gonna cast a celebrity and celebrity worship is dead BUT the fact that they got the guy who got all buddy buddy with netanyahu to do it………
