Dumb one moment, smart the next, I guess (lol)?

Capricorn. Female. INFP. Fan of Mark Grayson, Optimus Prime, Raven. Deep fixiation on Invincible, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Transformers (kinda into DC COMICS just not as much as I used to).

[thememedaddy]

[hugsandchaos]

“You know that one character who’s a little dumb, but has sudden moments of absolute genius? Yeah, that’s me. Just letting you know now.”

[fatimajpeg]

azarath smth mentos

[thememedaddy]

[cherrystar777-deactivated202604]

“The Demon born from Heaven”

“The Angel born from Hell”

[lunarduo47]

"And the God born from Earth"

[ithiliam]

Perfection unto Death

Here's my art piece for this year's Sonic Big Bang 2025! Had a lot of fun creating it.

This art is based on @paytowinsundays writing piece "Perfection unto Death", go check out their fic!

[calista-222]

Something something what was used to save is now used to kill...

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

I want to see more of Shadow being a sort of medical caretaker.

I mean, despite all his cool chaos powers and being the Ultimate Lifeform, wasn't that one of the biggest reasons he was created? To cure Maria? But even though he couldn't cure her illness, he still seemed to have training on how to help someone who's sick or hurt. Exhibit A:

This is the most we've ever seen of Shadow truly taking care of Maria in reference to her illness. Still, you can see how attentive he was here. Even though they were standing a few feet apart, as soon as she started losing consciousness, he picked up on it and ran to catch her.

When she apologized and insisted that she'd just "pushed it a little," he gently scolded her by reminding her that her condition was only being kept in remission due to the low gravity on the ARK. Clearly, he was very knowledgeable on her illness and what she could and couldn't do, and he was always ready to take care of her if her condition suddenly dropped, or on her bad days (according to dialogue bits from the actual SXSG game).

And since Maria's been gone through the entire main timeline of the franchise, it seems we get so caught up in all of Shadow's coolness and powerful abilities and whatnot that we forget he's still trained— at least to some extent— in the medical and caretaking area.

That's where I'm glad we have something of an Exhibit B: the end of Sonic Prime.

I loved EVERYTHING about this whole group of scenes, but ESPECIALLY getting to see Shadow being so gentle and caring towards Sonic of all people. But to stay focused on the point of this post— even though Sonic's situation was more, shall we say, unique than Maria's, his health was still rapidly declining and he needed help for basically everything. Sure, they had a goal in mind, and all Shadow needed to do was take him to the Green Hill gateway. But knowing how violent Shadow can be (especially in context of the whole rest of the show), seeing the very gentle and clearly experienced way he assisted Sonic was both heartwarming and a strong reminder of his original purpose.

For one, in the above gif, the way he immediately went to support him the way one is supposed to with someone who can't really walk on their own, with no pause, like he'd done it before. And how he waited for a moment until Sonic was ready, monitoring his face, before starting to move forward. Then—

—Sonic got to a point of being unable to walk or stand at all, or even move very much. Shadow hesitated only for a split second, but he stayed relatively calm, picked him up, and kept going. Even though he didn't say much throughout all this, he was keeping a watchful eye on Sonic through this whole sequence, even before he took over the mission of bringing him home. He knew what he was doing. It wasn't extensive, sure, but knowing his past, we know this was not his first time taking care of someone who couldn't take care of themselves.

He's saved people before from explosions and fights, but this is a whole different category of "saving" people, and like I said, it's one that I want to see more of with Shadow in particular. 🥹🖤❤️

[gaymaramada]

sonic prime s2 ep1 but it’s just sonic and shadow driving me insane

[dumblillies]

I feel like this face is universal for Mark.

Like—

Mark—

WHAT IS THAT FACE??? 😭😭😭

This is the comic panel it came from btw!

[kosmogrl]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[ilynpilled]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[pulim-v]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

i think that raven being overwhelmed empathically is very comparable to sensory overload, and when explained that way most people understand her need to be alone so often better than before

[fancyfade]

That's how I viewed Raven's first intro to earth (like ramped up to extreme)

Legends of the DC universe #18

have definitely had days where i felt like that :P

[fishyswimswim]

Throws this at u

[starrrz-loves-invincible]

I just finished season 1, and I’m honestly pretty confused about something.

At what point was Amber being a bad girlfriend? If anything, it was Mark who was a pretty shitty partner during their relationship.

‘’Oh, but she acted like she was more important than saving the world !!!’’ No??? She was not upset at Mark for being a superhero. She was upset at Mark for constantly showing up late (or just not showing up at all) whenever they made plans, and for being dishonest with her about the reason behind this.

‘’Oh, but you can’t expect Mark to tell her about his superhero identity !!!’’ Okay, but you can’t expect Amber to not get upset whenever Mark ghosts her for the 10000000000th time either, especially after she gave him so many chances to correct that behavior or atleast explain it to her. She didn’t know that her boyfriend was being a superhero, she only thought that he was disinterested in her and their relationship.

She agreed to date Mark Grayson, not Invincible. If he knew that he couldn’t manage his superhero life and his romantic life at the same time, then he shouldn’t have asked her for another chance over and over again. There was a consistent pattern all throughout the season of him dismissing their relationship, Amber getting rightfully upset and breaking up with him, Mark trying to get back with her with gifts and false promises of being better, and her taking him back all while he never changes his behavior.

I honestly do not get the hate that the fandom has against Amber.

[skritzzy]

I feel like any aliens that were prey at some point in evolution would have an odd fear of humans. Mostly cause they look like predators, act a bit like predators, and ARE predators. One perfect example is when we're focused on something like a mosquito that's been bugging us for a long time and we are just done.

Alien: "What. What..?"

Human: *HUNTING down a mosquito it saw*

Alien: ".... yeah I am really uncomfortable...."

Human: *quiet footsteps, pupils dialated, intense focus,*

Alien: *WAR FLASHBACKS*

Human: "Found you." *absolutely desimates the mosquito, squashing it into a million pieces as it's guts and various body parts liquidize into blood of the bloodthirsty, now stained on the palm of the human. A living being now reduced to a useless corpse as the human wipes the remains on their pants*

Alien: "I feel like I've just gained trauma."

[graylinesspam]

okay fucking fun addition to this post. Hunting instincts in humans absolutely still exist and are usually triggered either by fascination or anger. The polar opposite of flight is pursue. An anecdote for this is that the other day my sister, who is an avid "take the bug outside in a cup" rescues kittens in her free time kinda person, looked out the window and saw a chicken in the middle of our driveway. which is a very unusual occurrence despite us living in the country.

All she had to do was say the words "there's a chicken" and her as well as my own body language immediately shifted. We were out the door and in the yard already sorta hunched over and walking on the balls of our feet, fucking flanking this chicken. No words were exchanged. We just slowly circled this chicken like a couple of rabid dogs. totally single-mindedly focused on capturing the prey.

The chicken could feel it, it immediately began counter maneuvers to avoid us and it was faster. But there were two of us and we knew the land better, we knew how to herd it into a corner, carefully watching it's body language and lurching to counter it's escape attempts. And it was fucking thrilling.

Of course, when we both closed in on it and finally got our hands on the poor thing we simply took it into the back patio away from the cats and the vultures that wanted to actually finish the job. No harm came to the bird. We located its owner and returned him to his flock but still. From an outside perspective, it was a bit unnerving. And for the chicken, it was no different than being hunted. He was just lucky enough that we were predators who appreciated the companionship of pets and were more concerned with returning him to his humans than eating him.

Now imagine any fucking alien species watching a pair of humans, who literally rehabilitate animals in their free time, who are not soldiers and seem to be totally domesticated, just absolutely flip a switch and turn into pack-hunting pursuit predators? On a single word.

(felt like the bulldog from Rio's bird chasing monologue hit a little too hard after this)

[silvergryphonart]

I would even argue that humans need to do this, so much so that we’ve invented a million and one ways to satisfy this instinct.

Photography.

Ball games.

I Spy.

Playing hunting games with the fellow predators we keep as pets.

Hide and seek.

Many hobbies that involve prolonged seeking behaviour or watching something to make sure it’s moving right.

I 100% feel myself slipping into “hunt mode” doing jigsaw puzzles, changed movement and all—same as when I’m out birding—and my mental health seems to get better afterwards.

[pyroteknich]

That laser focus you get when your pet has a limp. The "why are you limping/are you limping?" look. I get the feeling that between that, and watching us play video games, that predatory instinct would be very visible. Not only that, we teach other animals to hunt with us. And one is a prey animal. Dogs we teach to hunt with us. But we also teach horses to hunt. Specifically, cattle horses. If you have never seen a cattle horse work when it is cutting a cow from the herd, you should. That is peak predator behavior. Watch a pack of wolves separating a caribou from the herd, then watch a cutting horse work. Certain motions are exactly the same, but very eerie on a herd animal. We are such consummate predators that we have mastered the art of training a herd animal to behave like a part of a pack of predators. I say this as someone who has worked with cutting horses, has trained horses (not to cut, but to jump and do dressage), and lives in an area where cattle is a big industry. As predators, we are terrifying.

[somestorythoughts]

#a group of three or more juvenile humans will spontaneously reinvent 'tag' if there's space to run even if they don't share a language.

[wobubling]

child of trigon

[targetedknowledge]