Captain Corza Harkness

Call me Corza. They/them or she/her pronouns, please. Ace, polyam, feminist, sjw. Would you like to help me pay for food/phone/internet/etc?

[dirtycorzaharkness]

The writing is old, the fandom is old, BUT

I have been falling into the dragon age fandom once again, so it is finally time to port this over to ao3!

[dirtycorzaharkness]

Okay, so, I can’t find the video of this ANYWHERE, but I can’t be the only one who remembers this. In the animated series, there was this one episode that was like, a trippy 22 minute music video, where the characters were drawn in different styles. I only remember one lyric, “eye of the machine.” Did I dream this?!?

YES! Oh my god. If I remember right, that was the episode that Bandroid: Cartoon Motion introduced us to Eolus, and the confirmation that Drumbot was not the only android "stranded" on earth.

I really loved how they called back to other animation styles throughout the episode/music video. The homage to The Wall, and Yellow Submarine, not to mention some of the trippier Fantasia moments. It was so brilliant.

The only thing I'm sad about is that they cut down the song to just a two minute number when the soundrack came out. They even cut out the "eye of the machine" line, which could be why it's so hard to figure out if it was real. Not to mention they titled the song "On and Off" which, yes, there *is* the recurring chorus about turning the androids on and off and the consequences of that, but it really doesn't leave a lasting impression, you know?

Like, "On and Off" is not really evocative of "we did a full episode that was one extended music video that included androids sharing memories and homages to at least 7 prominant animated musical pieces *and* didn't have any actual dialogue, just extended verses and the chorus having different meanings depending on who was singing."

[westiec]

I'm still sad there isn't a bigger proponent of the fandom shipping Bailey with Eolus. I know the android is Animated Series Only, but the moments between Eolus and Bailey, when xie fought against the gov's programing to save the band, and their last goodbye!? I'm still not over it. 😭😭😭 [Girlfriends can be genderqueer androids, too.]

Girlfriends CAN be genderqueer androids too!!! 🙌

Look, I know some people don't like to cross the streams of different adaptations, but I am personally a huge proponent of the Frankencanon in basically every fandom I've ever been in. (*waves to all my bewildered Marvel and danmei buddies*) And why would we NOT want more android characters in the Bandroid canon??

Plus, Eolus is just... undeniably awesome. Xie can LOCALLY FREEZE TIME for heck's sake! (Which—side note—we the smut writers of this fandom have really been sleeping on THAT possibility... ahem...) Also xie may technically not be live-action canon, but who else was that comment about "the ones we hope to see again" when Bailey and Drumbot had their heart-to-heart in S4E13 supposed to be about?

I am but a humble multishipper, nonny, but you've got my vote!!

[dirtycorzaharkness]

Ok. So, I think it was @theleakypen who had the anon ask about Jesse/May?

I HAVE SCREENSHOTS. So.

Top image: Season 1, Jesse has a closeup on their keytar. Some key things to note! They have smaller hands and thiner fingers, and note the lack of jewelry.

Middle image: Season 4, May’s first keytar close up. She has big hands!!! As well as always having painted nails and various rings in the different seasons.

Bottom image: Season five, the second keytarist’s hands in “May You Please”. Notice how small they are against the keys, the lack of rings and nail polist. And look at how close they match Jesse’s hands in the first screenshot.

All I’m saying is, Jesse/May has so many hints. I am working on finding the clip from the animated series 2 where Jesse is having coffee with “someone” when the band comes to drag them away. They kiss goodbye, and I am *convinced* that was as-yet-unfeatured May, but animated. As the character didn’t have any lines, we don’t have a voice to confirm, but Jesse does confirm she’s a GIRL they were on a date with. Witch, that alone, along with the outfit which is so close to one of May’s signature looks? I’m just saying.

[memewhore]

[theleakypen]

[image description] the clasped hands meme template. Left arm is labeled "Bandroid fans;" right arm is labeled "Gritty fans;" the clasped hands are labeled "refusing to believe there's a human person inside the suit" [end image description]

[theleakypen]

Top three Bandroid moments go! :)

i refuse to order them within themselves but:

i am extremely basic so s1 finale w/ the government agents & drones converging on the stage and Binary Heart swelling, CHILLS DAMMIT

that scene early on in s2 before everything goes to shit where paul drumbot and bailey are on jon & paul's sofa (jon's getting drinks or smth? or talking to zhu ming? sorry it's been ages since I rewatched) and jesse just full on sprawls across all three of them, and it's this lovely moment of casual physical affection between all of them and drumbot is fully included in that visually (it's sitting in the middle of the sofa and most of jesse is across them) and, like, the fact that they've come this far in this short a time... idk. it's small but i really like it

s4 when that one mook comes up pretending to be a fan and starts getting all up in Drumbot's face and May just DECKS him; extremely hot, extremely good for me personally

[theleakypen]

The action scenes in bandroid really remind me of the original Star Trek where they're just running around in the Southern California desert lifting paper mache rocks. I appreciate that in a series

that is EXACTLY THE VIBE, anon, and I, for one, salute them.

i don't think this needs any particularly deep meta. i just think good cgi is great and all, but if you have strong character dynamics and good actor chemistry, you can have the most off the wall plots and the most ridiculous props and effects and still have an effective show

[theleakypen]

i have a solution for drumbot age difference ethic problem!! you can just make whoever you ship drumbot with a vampire. problem solved.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 excellent, creative out-of-the-box solution

I like the way you think, anon

[shadaras]

okay, true, vampires are fantastic!

but I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that there are plenty of options for shipping Drumbot even staying within the bounds of established canon:

- Other androids (Eolus, for instance! Or other androids that fell to Earth the way Drumbot did.) - ALIENS (I know we haven’t seen any confirmed aliens yet [I mean, some technology, a few animals juuuuust weird enough to not really be from Earth, but no characters], but they’ve been heavily hinting at their existence and I swear that’d explain a lot about Zhu Ming) - Other time travellers whose sense of time and age are as skewed as Drumbot’s (I’m thinking about Professor Hayashi; there’s no way he could’ve helped them so much if he didn’t have personal experience with time travel) - whatever the fuck is up with The Spirit Of Music. I can never tell if we’re supposed to take that as a metaphor/vision or if The Spirit Of Music is an actual character. either way, Drumbot definitely has feelings about The Spirit Of Music and I support shipping unbodied entities of profound emotion and questionable grasps of physical forms with whoever we want. (I mean, I think the writers expect us to take TSOM as a visual representation of the power and connection music brings to the Bandroids and their friends, but that doesn’t mean we need to restrict TSOM to that role...)

[shadaras]

Bandroid otp?

I mean, ot6 friendship feels? the whole band as a unit? like, that's the heart of the show! how can there be anything more important than the way music brings them together and then they keep choosing to be there for each other despite all the unexpected challenges! none of them wanted to be dragged into a governmental conspiracy, or get yeeted back in time, or be on what's probably gonna be the front lines of first contact! but here they are, because none of them can walk away.

(I love that they all get arcs centered around "okay what if I did walk away?", though! it's really cool seeing what's important to them, and learning how they think about the band, and I don't care how predictable the "show up in the nick of time to save the day" [concert, game night, road trip, whatever] scenes are, they always hit me in the feels.)

...but uh really I guess I'd die on my drumming hill, because I am forever a rarepair shipper. I mean, Jesse/May is fantastic, and so is May/Bailey, and—

okay let's be real I mostly just ignore JonPaul and DrumPaul because they're the biggest ships in the fandom. and I mean, that's fine? there's chemistry! but you know me; I can be convinced of almost anything if you try, and I love hearing reasoning for ships I'd never considered before. :)

[dirtycorzaharkness]

did i log back into tumblr solely to get into the bandroid fandom and talk about Jesse and May [And Eolus and Bailey] on main?

yes. yes i did. 

[westiec]

Bandroid Season 1:

[Image ID] Four panel meme of a Gru from Despicable Me explaining a plan with charts. Panel 1: "form a band with your friends," Panel 2: "find a kickass drummer," Panel 3: "drummer is an undercover android hiding from the government," Panel 4 – same caption, but now he looks concerned [end ID]

[yuziyuanapologist]

happy birthday wen ning!

[ID: seven gifs of wen ning from various episodes of the untamed. each gif has been edited into a different colour of the rainbow. the coloured text in the caption reads “happy birthday wen ning!” End ID]

[hailmaryfullofgrace55675]

the h in ADHD stands for homoerotic

[tem-pissed-in-a-t-pot]

attention deficit homoerotic disorder

[1dietcokeinacan]

“3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks”

[opinatus-papaver]

FINALLY, SOME GOOD QUALITY EXPLANATION OF WHY “I DONT LOOK LIKE I HAVE ADHD” BECAUSE ITS NOT REALLY CANT SIT STILL FOCUS NONE DISORDER ITS SOMETHING A WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLEX

[dysfunctionalfocus]

Actually yeah. I just reblogged this silently without any acknowledgement of it, but this is hones to god one of the best explanations I’ve seen.

[fandomsandfeminism]

If you see fucking ANYTHING about how in the New Year you need to "lose the quarantine 15" or whatever bullshit guilt trip these bullshit diet companies are going to inundate us with- you look at that thing, you say, outloud "look at this toxic shit" and then you MOVE ON.

Your body has carried you through a PLAGUE. Through months and months of unrelenting physical and emotional and social stress. Your body kept you ALIVE.

You have nothing to be ashamed of. If your weight changed during this pandemic? Who gives a SHIT. Your body gave you what you NEEDED to keep going. So you keep going. Fuck those diet companies and whatever poison detox slurpee they wanna guilt you into buying.

[arktham]

My name is Peter Parker. My universe is 1933, and I’m a private eye. I like to drink egg cream, and I fight Nazis. A lot.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018, dir. Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey