'do the right thing, ya dingus'

(pfp and header by @staywithmegoatkatniss) Lover of characters, writer of fiction and daughter of Christ. Currently most into TOH, but am also an enjoyer of Amphibia, Gravity Falls, Glee, Wings Of Fire, Steven Universe and all things Broadway. I'm also a lover of music and very passionate about media analysis. Welcome to my ramblings!!

[mymanyfandomramblings]

Get To Know Me!

I just thought I'd do a quick pinned post so that any new followers can get to know me!

ABOUT ME:

I'm a twenty-one-year-old Australian girl (she/her)

I'm autistic

I love talking about characters. I love it!

I'm a Christian, however I don't really talk about my faith here so don't worry (not that I'm ashamed of it, however you don't need to worry that if you follow me you will be bombarded with religious stuff. This blog is for fandom stuff)

I write fanfiction, and would adore you if you checked it out: https://archiveofourown.org/users/justmelovinbooks

my pfp was drawn by @staywithmegoatkatniss

MY FANDOMS:

Gravity Falls

Steven Universe

Glee

Amphibia

The Owl House

Wings Of Fire

Lord Of The Rings

A lot of musicals--I love Broadway

Infinity Train

Assorted others

THIS BLOG: RULES, TAGS, ETC.

-I don't do DNIs, however I will not engage with not-safe-for-work content. Still, everyone is welcome here!

-I love receiving asks. Especially about my AUs. However, I can sometimes be very bad at getting around to answering them.

-Tags I will use here:

#ask answered: for if I've answered an ask. This one is pretty self-explanatory

#ocs: I try to tag any posts I've made about my dipcifica oc's with this.

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#my ramblings: mostly my essay posts, or the rambling I otherwise do. In case...everything about this was not clear, I ramble

#in which I write an essay: my analytical essay posts, because although they are under #my ramblings, so is random stream-of-consciousness thoughts and not everyone is trying to find that when filtering for my analytical essays.

#garnet's gleecaps: My episode-by-episode Glee recap

I think that's all! Thanks for stopping by this blog!

[the-silver-stone]

thinkign abt. the fact christianity is a thing in the zootopia universe

[the-silver-stone]

the mafia bears crossing themselves. gideon grey referencing speaking in tongues. i think something happened in zootopia 2000 years ago idk

[the-silver-stone]

when the incarnation happened do you think He came as a lion or a lamb

[apieters]

It would depend on who was in power 2000 years ago. What was Zootopia’s equivalent of the Roman Empire? Was it a herd of “Prey” animals who used their numbers and size to steamroll the world, or was it a coalition of “Predators” who used their violence to cow the masses?

“For consider your calling, brothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no human may boast before God.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭1‬:‭26‬-‭29‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/2692/1co.1.27.NASB2020

Christ came to shame the powers that be and take the unjust power structures caused by sin and undo them by defeating sin itself. To do so, He had to come as someone socially and politically weak. He could not fight the principalities and powers with their own weapons—He had to break the game.

Zootopia’s central theme is the way racism and unjust social dynamics can lead to misery and the rise of evil people to power. And so Zootopia’s Incarnation of the Word had to be the opposite of the power structures of the world at the time, in order to undo their version of the Fall.

If Zootopia’s Roman Empire was dominated by (probably large) Prey animals, the Word would have to be incarnate as a Lion, since such a person would be considered a credible threat to the power structure, leading to the sacrificial death. If it was Predator-dominated, the Word would take the form of a weak Lamb/Ram, since the powers trusted idolatrously in their violent strength.

There are hints that historically, the violence of Predators in the Zootopia universe was so fundamental to their existence that it could be considered central to Zootopia’s Fall, and that the dominance of Prey animals was due to numerical superiority that could only have evolved within democratic, not aristocratic, social systems. The villain’s scheme seems almost like the concept of “reverse racism,” unjust revenge taken against a historically dominant group. Therefore, Predator Roman Empire seems most likely and the Word therefore would likely have come as a Lamb.

Nevertheless, since C.S. Lewis gave the Word the form of the Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia, I still hold out hope that the Roman Empire was an empire of megafauna, the kinds of Prey that would be large and strong enough with large enough numbers to steamroll the known world, and that the Word was a Lion named Aslan.

[aikoiya]

Such a cool idea, but I still assert that He came first as a lamb, then rose a lion.

Beyond that, yes.

Also:

These were all such amazing ideas that I had to copy-paste them.

Sorry if rude.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

fictional characters never have enough siblings. almost everyone has siblings. give your fictional character 2+ siblings NOW

[peach-paradox]

having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.

[mymanyfandomramblings]

most of the time I am cool with whatever people choose to do with humanised WoF characters. And then I will read a fanfic with blond qibli and I will realise there are, in fact, things I am not cool with

[mymanyfandomramblings]

Part Three of Rereading 'Winter Turning': The End of The 'Girl What Is Your Problem' Era and a (Literally) Black-and-White View Of History

Shout-out to Winter not whatsoever clocking that Glory and Deathbringer are together until Glory makes the 'you can't always be there to protect me' comment, and then Winter has to reevaluate everything he thought he understood about their relationship.

Also I think Winter reflecting back on things that he and his siblings did when they were the age of the dragonets in the wingery are so typical of the three of them. Hailstorm wrestled polar bears, Icicle sparred with dragons three times her age, and Winter was forced to stay out in a blizzard all night by himself. It feels so on-brand--Hailstorm and Icicle prove themselves in single combat, while Winter is literally just abandoned to suffer.

I enjoy the observation that Glory isn't quite as adept at flying through the rainforest as Moon is--I like these little bits where the fact that Glory hasn't always been the totally-capable RainWing queen sneaks through. In general, this section is really cool in terms of showing Glory both as a very capable queen, and as an imperfect, very young queen who's still figuring it all out

At least Glory is more quiet that Qibli who is so incredibly unstealthy in the rainforest.

Interesting note on Qibli and Winter's relationships--we have the 'it's just his face. And his personality.' line and later on the reminder that if Qibli ever hurts Winter with his barb, it won't be by accident. At this stage, although Qibli remains convinced of Winter's good heart, he's really not having it with Winter's behaviour. And I think that's a fun little thing to note--their relationship hasn't always been the friendly arguing that comes later on.

I appreciate Moon coming right to Winter's defence at the hatchery and stating he would never hurt a dragonet. Which is ironic, considering certain decisions made later in the series, but we'll get there when we get there.

The discussion of Darkstalker's backstory and Foeslayer 'stealing' animus magic is so interesting because it brings up so many of the same conundrums that discussions of real-life history and social justice do: what happens when two groups have different understandings of what happened in the past? how do you figure out what really happened around the bias that you were taught? is it fair for one group to still be angry at another group for something that no-one alive today did? what if the repercussions of the past still negatively impact on the people today--is it fair to hold resentment and anger then? It's so interesting.

Icicle's final scenes are so chilling--she's out here injuring herself just so that she won't sleep so that she doesn't have to tell Scarlet she failed.

Also, when Kinkajou says (in concern) 'you look terrible', Icicle responds with 'better than looking like you'. for the final time: girl what is your problem

I forgot that Kinkajou and Icicle straight up try to kill each other. Kinkajou hears a threat made towards Glory and is immediately like, oh no you don't.

The whole conversation between Winter and Moon when they're watching Icicle sleep is really nice. I am not a big Winterwatcher fan, but Tui builds a good case for them here. With that said, Moon continues to give Winter this glowing praise that I'm not totally sure lines up with what we've seen her see in his head. I feel like this feeling is backed up when Moon is genuinely surprised that Winter says he'd never hurt her. She's seen enough in his head to know beyond doubt that he's good and noble and well-meaning and all, but she hasn't figured out that he doesn't hate her, which makes her glowing endorsement of his character interesting--she believes that he can be a good person despite the way he feels about her (or how she thinks he feels about her), and all NightWings. I think there's a really interesting theme here--that's going to come out way more later with Darkstalker--about how Moon tends to see the best in the people she cares for.

I also love what a non-issue the 'I'll kill Glory myself' thing is. Like, Winter makes this promise and obviously that's a big promise to make, and then he's worried that Moon will hear Icicle pass that on to Scarlet and it seems like it's going to be a whole thing, and then Moon's just like 'as if you'd actually do it.' and that's the end of it.

[mymanyfandomramblings]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (absolutely no pressure and nothing bad happens if you don't do it)

thank you!!

My amazing friends (yourself included)!

The fact that I get a bit of a break from uni for a bit

The fact that I actually have a job that I love, and am good at, and that I actually miss when I'm not there.

I have the best family--sure we're silly and annoying at times, but I love them so much

lately, I've been pondering on how freaking beautiful so many of the Australian landscapes are. I love living in such a pretty country (even if the landscapes that I've been particularly dwelling on are like. a week's drive away.)

[mymanyfandomramblings]

So. upon returning to my Wings Of Fire SpIn, I am also thinking once again of the WoF next-generation OC's that I created, and I have a little problem. So, when I read 'Moon Rising' for the first time, I somehow got it in my head that 'Firefly' was the Starspeaker dragonet, not the Glorybringer one. which caused confusion. Separately from this, I have a seperate OC, existing in a different AU, who is also named Firefly (and is also not a Glorybringer dragonet). All this is to say, OC!Firefly cannot remain Firefly. Which is where you guys come in. I have a few ideas, but I'm open to hearing more

Help me rename my Starspeaker dragonet:

Daydream/Daydreamer

Storyteller

Brightsky

Comet

Just keep her name Firefly

Something else, which I will put in the comments

button for me, mymanyfandomramblings, to press to see the results

Voting ended onJun 5

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I have a very rough idea in my head that I don't think I can clearly articulate beyond "And that concludes tonight's reports on German air forc—WHAT'S THIS? IT'S KING ARTHUR WITH A STEEL CHAIR"

[the-writers-wrench]

IDK what this is about, but I want to know more.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

This isn't exactly the same idea but it could be but there is more rattling around in here so:

The Blitz here manages to qualify as Britain's Darkest Hour, thus triggering the return of Arthur from the Realm Avalon.

He does not speak a lick of modern English. He speaks an unholy mishmash of Brittonic and Late Classical Latin.

(Honestly I can see the latter becoming a plot point if they manage to get their hands on a Roman Catholic priest to act as a translator. It wouldn't be a perfect arrangement, but probably better than anything else.)

Truthfully he probably gets mistaken for a madman.

Somehow manages to steal a Spitfire out from under the RAF's nose, proceeds to use it to bring down like half an enemy squadron on his own, then lands in a field in the middle of nowhere.

Police and RAF converge on his location on account of the whole "stealing a plane" thing. They eventually overwhelm him with sheer numbers, but he manages to knock out an impressive number of them in the process. I mean, come on. It's Arthur.

[leseigneurdufeu]

"a catholic priest" i mean yeah sure why not but JRRTOLKIEN himself was alive and a teacher at the time so go big or go home.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

You know what sure why not let's just make literal real-life JRRT himself a character in this Arthurian return story, he deserves it.

[chainsawsdreamer]

@seajr DUDE

[mymanyfandomramblings]

Part Two Of I Reread 'Winter Turning': Morality, Ethics and The Many Indignities Of The Rainforest,

Winter is SO overstimulated in the rainforest and he's real for that.

I also love him saying that black and white are the only dignified colours for a bird. As though penguins are dignified.

Winter's internal description of the Ice Kingdom are genuinely beautiful. He and Kinkajou do not understand each other's worlds at all, but they both love their own a lot.

I think Moon identifying the 'dark thoughts' in Obsidian's head opens up a really interesting conversation. It's the first moment we see Qibli and Winter have a disagreement of ethics, which will, of course, become a much bigger thing further down the line. Moon raises the ethical quandary about whether she should alert Glory to the fact that Obsidian is having 'dark thoughts' about hurting her, when the only evidence is what Moon can see in his mind, with no proof that he will act on them. Winter takes the stance that noone has any business reading anyone's mind, for any reason, while Qibli believes that there are good reasons for doing so. This is a handy establishment of their general broad ethical stances--Winter is extremely ethically consistent, and if he believes something is wrong or bad, it's always wrong and bad, with ifs, ands or buts about it; while Qibli tends to think that the ends and the motives justify the means, if said means happen to be a little more ethically grey, and it's clear that for him, whether or not certain things are 'wrong' depend on who's doing them, and why and how they're being done. It's also really interesting to compare their stances to their personalities--Qibli's ethics are a bit more grey and less 'admirable', but he's genuinely so kind, and nice.

Meanwhile, having discussed their differences, onto similarities--Qibli and Winter being terrified of Moon reading their minds and realising they are Bad People (spoiler: they aren't and she doesn't think that).

on that note, Moon saying that Winter is a better dragon than 'most anyone'. now. I have feelings about this here. Now, I know that this is meant to a) show Winter that Moon sees a different side of him than he does, b) show the readers that Winter is more than his extraordinarily prickly and racist exterior and c) give some little Winterwatcher crumbs, and d) it's Moon bolstering Winter's awfully fragile self-esteem, but as much as I love Winter, I think that this compliment is--as of yet--unearned. Seeing Winter's thoughts does lend him a lot more humanity and allows Moon to have a lot more sympathy for him, but I think describing him as a better dragon than 'most anyone' is perhaps a stretch, because honestly--Winter is still a deeply flawed character who is quite notably not nice to those around him, and Moon happens to now know a handful of dragons who I would describe as at least equally good as Winter. However, I am choosing to read this comment in the greater context of Moon's character (I.e. So unwilling to believe the worst of anyone she considers a friend), and her generally overly optimistic takes on dragonkind.

Also, Qibli's response being 'but not better than me, right?'. oh qibli.

also I do love Qibli's 'oh my, forever? I was wondering why everything was so ruined all the time!' line, because it's funny, but now I'm reading this with a different perspective, because all I'm seeing here, is someone who is cracking jokes in an effort to stay relevant in a conversation that has turned to discussing things he has no idea about--this is him going 'hello, I'm still here! and I want to be included in this conversation, but I can't because I'm missing context, so instead I'm going to be funny so you'll look at me!'

shout-out to Qibli and Kinkajou watching Moon and Secretkeeper's loving reunion so wistfully--they wish they had that kind of relationship with their parents. And then we have Winter who goes 'aw how sweet HOWEVER my parents are perfect. by IceWing standards. Which are the correct standards.'

Deathbringer gets so offended when Qibli comments that if Winter was to make an attempt on Glory's life, it'd be in open combat, because Winter's no 'sneak-in-the-night assassin', and then Deathbringer is like 'hey there is Nothing Wrong with being an assassin! Assassination is a valid career path! You are, however, not allowed to assassinate my...queen.'

Glory is doing such a good job of dealing with four runaway students (including a rather entitled IceWing Prince), several somewhat incompetent RainWing guards, an overenthusiastic bodyguard and the looming threat of Icicle looming over her head. Pretty good for a seven-year-old who was always taught she'd never amount to anything.

I love her making Kinkajou and Moon apologise for running away from school (she also attempts to make Qibli and Winter apologise, but she's not their queen and they're not sorry--well Qibli does the classic 'I am genuinely sorry that you're upset, would 100% do it again' apology).

I love that Kinkajou's reaction to hearing that the teachers were super worried about disappearing students is 'didn't Turtle tell them where we were going?" and Glory's response is 'yes he did, and it was not comforting'.

Glory is trying so hard to make sure that these essentially-teenagers do not think that saving the world/solving problems is their job. She's been there, done that, does not recommend.

The scene where Glory describes what an IceWing looks like and then one of her RainWing guards is like 'I think there's one right there' at Winter, simply never gets old.

I love Winter thinking that 'if anyone tries to get in Icicle's way, they will end up dead'--I lowkey love how he assumes that she's the strongest and best out of anyone. It just reminds me of the way that the dragonets of destiny thoroughly believe that Tsunami is the fiercest and Starflight is the smartest dragon there is--I love the way that sibling/sibling-adjacent figures in this series always see each other as the best.

I love Deathbringer and Glory's ongoing lowkey flirting throughout the conversation. Glory is trying very hard to be professional and he is...not.

[nostalgicmermaaiid]

can we all be merfolk together pretty please 👉🏾👈🏾

Little Merfolk ~ meiker.io

Dive into the ocean 🪸🌊 to meet colorful mermaids and tritons, or patiently wait for the freshwater merfolk to peek above the lake’s water… 🪷

@igottalottabugsinmysoup @femmeetart @sonicanvas @imnotafreakipromise @lavende-milkshake @iambadatsocializing @anon-oliver @iipastelhxrmony @nat1spacenerd @meowwswiftie @swiss-mrs @4rielle @sealistic @nexusofsand @sweetest-starlight @treesap-blogs @auracreampie @makarovs-desert-eagle @queer--rat @scarletseacollectspronouns @j0n3rs @bl0xware @lordfaptaguys & you

[random-reblogs-n-shit]

Ooooh pretty :] i forgot it was mermay!!

no pressure tags <3 @autumnrain777 @mercenary-that-goes-ni @echo-loves-flowerboy + anyone who wants to join :))

[autumnrain777]

omg this was so fun thank you so much!!!

this was so fun and unique thank you so much!!! ive always loved mermaids this was so fun sjfklsjfklds i was so tempted to pull a hamlet and have my mermaid hold the skull and be a siren but i decided to make it look normal jsdklfjsdlkfjsd

no pressure tags! <3 @iris895 @sopjacm @leiftheleaf06 @valjeansemble @burnrubberduckyburn @averydedicateduck @zomb1edude @vibingandthrivingouthere @123alexis-is-lost @marinara-saucey @m0malle @eyeheartangibaker

[averydedicateduck]

Thanks for the tag <3

This was fun :)

No pressure tags

@roman-ec1ipse @mayhem-sinclaire @wise-writer-girl @aristakay @xdarling-starling @bouncingdogs @destroyerofflipflops

[wise-writer-girl]

Oh this is so whimsical and fun, thanks for the mention @averydedicateduck, i love that we can all just be mermaids together!

No pressure, as always: @sarah1barnes, @tictacweinerz, @lesbianmarvelkinnie, @slate-cactus, @scattersyd, @superherolover9, @marooned-in-reality, @apparently-i-am-an-adult

[slate-cactus]

Mermaid trend I love this

Sorry I always tag the same people in these I don't have many moots and I can't ever remember anyone's names consistently 😭 💀

@greenspacefish @pregnant-javert @gaypistachio @letsplaythermalnuclearwar

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

no pressure tags: @ohcosmo @cheetochild989 @brave-bumblebee248 @mymanyfandomramblings @the-orion-scribe @slightly-petty-witch @pjowasmy1stfandom @codexnuminous @boldofyoutoassumeicanspell @forestfullofberries anddddd anyone who wants to!!!

[mymanyfandomramblings]

thanks for the tag, and I am thrilled to see how pink-adjacent yours is

no pressure tags: @staywithmegoatkatniss @the-orion-scribe @thenweatefivesoups @car9723-t @cakeiscoolsblogthing

[mymanyfandomramblings]

I Reread And React To 'Winter Turning': Part One

That's right, this series is back, and it's Winter-themed this time! Now, without further ado:

I simply cannot get over Hailstorm saying 'Can you catch me? No you cannot!' Nobody says 'cannot' in that context. It flows horribly.

However, I love Hailstorm indulging in Winter's intense interest in scavengers. Hailstorm doesn't get it, but he does love his brother.

Hailstorm notes that Winter is 'much more fun to tease' than Icicle. This is true. Winter is fun to tease (see: pretty much every conversation he has with Qibli) and I have no doubt that if you attempt to gently rib Icicle, she will try and fight you and kill you.

Also, really interesting that Hailstorm finds everything about being a proper IceWing very natural--he doesn't have to work to be at the top of the First Circle, and his advice to Winter absolutely comes from a place of 'it just comes naturally to me, and I don't know what bit you're struggling with'.

Also, Hailstorm deliberately being as hurtful to Winter as possible so that Winter will storm off and avoid getting captured by the SkyWings. Devastating stuff from both sides.

It's interesting that the epilogue ends with a dragon heavily implied to be Pyrite (the description matches Pyrite, and she's shown taking off a necklace as she approaches Hailstorm) coming over to put the necklace on Hailstorm, but that's really interesting--was whoever was wearing the necklace not compelled via enchantment to keep it on? Or is 'loyalty to Scarlet' enough to overrule the 'you must keep it on at all costs' enchantment? Interesting stuff.

Also, shout-out to the prologue being a flashback, and then the first chapter opening with a flashback.

I think there's something great about Winter seeing the polar bear with her cubs and hesitating because he needs to hunt the bear, but she's a mother, and then he sees the scavenger sitting there with his spear, and the scavenger also needs to hunt the bear and it's also hesitating because the bear has cubs, and it's just a beautiful moment of silent inter-species bonding over shared humanity (you know what I mean).

AND THEN WINTER'S PARENTS TURN UP! BOO 👎

anyway, I love how much Winter adores scavengers and also steadfastly refuses to believe that they might think, act or feel in a way that is comparable to dragons.

Also, Winter's feelings of betrayal when Moon reveals that she has powers are so interesting because his first instinct is to go 'so she is just like the other NightWings! I thought she was different'. It's so interesting how all of the Jade Winglet react to Moon hiding her powers--Kinkajou's offended because it feels like a breach of friendship to keep that kind of secret, Qibli is just so scared of having his internal thoughts read, Turtle's chill because he understands why Moon would hide them (and also she can't read his thoughts, which totally helps), and Winter goes 'ugh, turns out that even though she's smart and beautiful and intriguing and kind, she IS still a NightWing and a lying traitor. I was hoping that she'd be the only NightWing who isn't ontologically evil, because I have an inconvenient crush on her.' Winter isn't willing--for now--to let Moon change his opinions on NightWings as a whole. Anything good she does is despite being a NightWing and anything she does wrong is because she's a NightWing.

Turtle eagerly volunteers to fly back to JMA and warn the other teachers. Get This Man Out Of The Rain. He Does NOt Want An Adventure.

Kinkajou is so disappointed and annoyed when he wants to go back. 'How are we supposed to be the second coming of the dragonets of destiny if there's only four of us?' that's so funny. I do wonder how much she'd thought about that possibility, and if she was assuming 1:1 equivalences (she ABSOLUTELY wants to be Glory in this situation).

Shout-out to Qibli for the 'nine thousand good points' he regularly makes that Winter hates.

On a side note, I do love Winter's utter annoyance about the fact that Qibli and Moon are very difficult for him to hate. IceWing bigotry is strong, but Qibli and Moon's combined charisma, intelligence and kindness is stronger.

[acronym49]

Chatting about nothing in a field of flowers

[saatiun]

Rules: Make a poll with seven of your all time favorite characters from seven different fandoms, and then tag seven people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAGGING ME @vinylbiohazard and @nobinary :)))

seven different fandoms might be a little difficult im afraid but i’ll give it a shot hehe

😼

neil josten (aftg)

sieun (weak hero)

suna rintarou (hq)

zuko (atla)

takao kazunari (knb)

hange zoe (aot)

commander cody (star wars)

Voting ended onMay 27

tagging @reckless-rider @istillhaventpickedausername @funnythingsidk @coherent-thoughts-needed @hisuncontrollableanger uhh shoot im blanking it’s 2 am and i can’t think but WHOEVER IS INTERESTED CAN JOIN :))) yay

[coherent-thoughts-needed]

tysm for the tag!!! SUNA SUNA oh ts is gnna be har dbro how do i choose okay:

pick pick pick

akutagawa ryunosuke (bsd)

violet (dark rise)

cardan (tfota)

keefe sencen (kotlc)

jinshi (tad)(knh)

zuko (atla)

kageyama (haikyuu!!)

Voting ended onMay 31

tagging: @purple-dinosaur27 @teagandoesstuff @taryn-everwood @tokkibean @gillyporter @nossumusstellae @irdkbutdontask @midnight-blues09 @neglectedshampoobottle + all my moots/anybody i missed!

[flarefloofer]

:p

maomao (apothecary diaries)

jay walker (ninjago)

glory (wings of fire)

sokka (avatar last airbender)

leo (percy jackson)

katniss (hunger games)

rayla (dragon prince)

Voting ended onMay 31

@toastedpotatoes @martinifruit @siorshreabhadh @abscshshhd + whoever else idkkk: OPEN TAGS

[toastedpotatoes]

the poll beckons you closer.

blue (animator vs animation)

basil (omori)

juice (17776)

chilchuck (dungeon meshi)

ralsei (deltarune)

lapis (steven universe)

white lily cookie (cookie run: kingdom)

Voting ended onMay 25

@peppermint-3 @robinparravel @highimpactemotions @eggxeggxegg @paperplateprose @cactusthedragon @aris-of-aniravale + anyone and everyone :)

[eggxeggxegg]

.

Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad)

Sebastian Morgenstern (The Mortal Instruments)

Silco (Arcane)

Sauron (Lord of the Rings)

Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)

Soldier Boy (The Boys)

Aro (Twilight)

Voting ended onMay 31

@softneomiro @allhailthefrog @flintlockfrenchkisser @why-does-this-happen-to-me @vonnegutchild @funky-fungi @inconsistent-rodent

[why-does-this-happen-to-me]

poll

Chloe (ijwtbs!!)

Brave fairy (Poke ALL Toads)

Miku (from Static by Flavor Foley specifically)

Grumbot (Hermitcraft)

Bocchi (Bocchi the Rock)

Blaze the cat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Tinkaton (Pokemon) (Technically not a specific character but I don't care)

Voting ended onMay 31

@gingik @theauthor27 @ralsei-fluffyboy-darkprince-stan @squamous-cel @gigiwins @uhuh100 @inverted-faith-misinterpreter

[ralsei-fluffyboy-darkprince-stan]

awesomes 🙂‍↕️

see above

ralsei (deltarune)

itadori yuji (jjk)

silver the hedgehog (sonic)

loader (risk of rain)

token (femtanyl)

eva stratt (project hail mary)

blue toad (mario)

Voting ended onJun 2

@a-weird-moth-swarm @evesnapdragon @biologynerd13 @atheoreticalinfinite @zerenta-mrraow @soporporpa @botanybulbasaur

[evesnapdragon]

oooouuuu love polls

So uh im not rly in fandoms but I do like enjoy media so again some of these may be obscure to the average tumblerian, sorry!

Also I'm trying not to do typical tumblr things (gravity falls, tadc) because then they'll get all the votes

:>

Snufkin (Moomin)

Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie/David Suchet, NOT Kenneth Branaugh)

Yakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Shellington (Octonauts)

The Conductor (Dinosaur Train) (Haven't watched that in a decade lol)

Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)

Rocky (Project Hail Mary)

Voting ended onJun 2

Sorry I couldn't not put rocky sorryyyy I knowwwww im basiccccc

Oh and thx for the tag!

@stankycheez @luckybug719 @s4pph1r3n1ghtsk13s @literallycantfindanameformyblog @therealbitchywitchy @h1v3wing @mellowtoken + open tagsssss :D

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buttonnnn

telepaths!

Saiki Kusuo (TDLOSK)

Moon (WOF)

Anya Forger (Spy x Family)

Voting ended onMay 27

@the-fandom-queenxox, @rotten-m3, @thenweatefivesoups

thanks for the mention @evesnapdragon!

[thenweatefivesoups]

*gasp* AHH THANKS FOR THE TAG! I've never been tagged in one of these before so this will be fun!!

Choose

Li'l Petey 🖌 (Dog Man)

Clay 🩺 (Wings of Fire)

Oona 🧪 (Odd Squad)

Wanda 👑 (Fairly OddParents)

George 👔 (Captain Underpants)

Michellee 🌸 (Green Eggs and Ham)

Cinna 🥻 (The Hunger Games)

Voting ended onMay 30

Aaand tags:

@mythos321 @astragetsreal @mymanyfandomramblings @serendertothesquad @sombrathedragon +literally anyone who sees this and wants to do it! :D

[mymanyfandomramblings]

Choose!!

Fatespeaker (Wings of Fire)

Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls

Rachel Berry (Glee)

Gus Porter (The Owl House)

Milo Thatch (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

Lauren (Somewhere In Between)

Candace (Phineas and Ferb)

Voting ended onMay 30

Tags: @letsplaythermalnuclearwar @tsquaredthedragon @staywithmegoatkatniss @the-orion-scribe @chaotic-theatrical-weaver @car9723-t @cakeiscoolsblogthing

[mymanyfandomramblings]

Part Five Of I Reread Moon Rising: Many Attempted Murders, No Actual Murder, And The End!

Last one of these posts for Moon Rising!

Icicle knows that the bomb in the history cave was meant for her. How does she know that? Are assassination attempts regular for her? Does she just know that she's behaved in such a way that she is the most likely target for a murder attempt (I mean, considering the number of times I have questioned what her problem is, she wouldn't be wrong, but still).

Poor Umber--he really doesn't want to leave, but he has to go with Sora. The way his farewell with Qibli and Moon goes is so sad.

Also, what's really interesting is that Sora isn't sorry. Well, she's horribly sorry about the collateral damage (although she still justifies it interestingly enough), and she's sorry about making trouble for Clay and Umber, but she's not sorry about her attempts on Icicle's life. She's read up on IceWing physiognomy and she checked that so that she can be completely sure that she's right about Icicle being the one to kill Crane, and she considers it self-defence due to Icicle's evening conversations with Scarlet.

I love that Moon and Qibli assume 'okay, Sora is safely gone, but Icicle also promised to kill the dragonets of destiny and I think she's probably immediately pivoted to doing that', and I think it's a good thing that they were right. I can only assume Icicle checked, like, three places, decided 'hmm, Sora's too hard to find, better go kill a librarian.'

speaking of which, I'm still thinking about the fact that Fatespeaker wasn't there. She's so protective over Starflight, and she's generally joined to him at the hip, but one of the few times she's not there, he's attacked. She'd have felt so guilty.

also I can't help thinking that Qibli perhaps chose his words wrongly when warning Starflight. If he'd just called 'duck!' or something, who knows--that might have been an unambiguous enough instruction that Starflight could have reacted in time. The problem with 'look out' is that it kind of largely depends on the person's ability to, you know, look out.

I love Starflight saying 'Icicle, if you let me go now, you won't have done anything wrong', as though tackling and attempting to murder a school official is nothing wrong. I get why he says it, but it's a bit funny to me.

It's interesting that we get the 'This is why Winter hated NightWings' revelation, pointing towards the NightWings probably killing Hailstorm. The whole historic IceWing/NightWing conflict hasn't even factored in yet.

Also interesting--every time Icicle makes a claim or anything, Winter glances over at Moon to check. Winter doesn't know about the mind-reading thing yet--I guess either he figures her visions will let her know. Or, possibly--he's already watched her make deductions about what Bandit feels, call his bluff and behave in ways informed by his thoughts and emotional state--Winter may just think that Moon is just another Qibli, and is just really good at reading people.

'"Good pffft. Would you rather be good or strong" Icicle said. In response, Winter smashed his sister over the head with his tail'--solidly one of my favourite Winter moments. He chooses good! And also violence.

also Qibli is so concussed following the fight with Icicle--he's kind of stumbling around, punch-drunkenly talking about 'part two: the crushening, where I...you know...crush...things'. go to the infirmary and get an ice pack, Qibli!

Sunny is so sweet to Moon when they go to talk <3. I have not quite forgiven her for the 'Another Fatespeaker?' mental comment, but I'll let it slide for now.

I love when Moon is like 'well, I'm going to find Winter and talk to him. None of you have to come, because I would never ask you to fly into a rainstorm, especially not you, Qibli, because you have a concussion.' and Qibli and Kinkajou are like 'we're a team! of course we're coming!' and Turtle is like 'no, actually I will be not flying after Winter in a rainstorm' and Kinkajou says 'we're a team! yes you are coming, sir! also you love water'.

as a result, we are frequently reminded that Turtle is having a Bad Time. tbf, he's doing exercise in a rainstorm. I Too would be having a a bad time.

shout-out to Scarlet appearing in Peril's dream and just demanding 'WHO DIED?' and Peril's like 'wait what uhhhh no-one I don't Think?'

Also Scarlet feeling like firescales are wasted on Peril because Peril feels too guilty about using them. Which is funny, because that's the opposite of how literally everyone thinks about Peril.

Now, it seems like a bunch of people have been enjoying my reread reviwes, and I plan to continue them, but I'm wondering whether I should continue to do them in a series of posts like this one (like my thoughts on Moon Rising are spread across five posts), or if I should make one main post for each book and just add each part in the reblogs:

What do you like?

A separate new post for each 'part' of the review

One masterpost for each book with my updates in the reblogs

Voting ended onMay 29

(sorry for making you do a poll in my fun recap post)

[mymanyfandomramblings]

Part Four Of I Reread Moon Rising: Moonbli Detective Shenanigans (and other things)

I love love love Qibli and Moon trying to figure out how to talk to each other around the whole mind-reading thing. Qibli knows she can read minds and he is trying so hard to be okay with it, but he's also very freaked out by it for now.

Also shout-out to how all the teachers are reacting to the tragedy: Sunny is absolutely devastated, because this school was her idea and her baby and dragons are dead and it's all so wrong; Tsunami is angry because how else does Tsunami ever respond to things going badly; Clay is grieving--because he's an intensely relational being; Starflight is anxious and trying to figure out who did it--because anxiety and trying to intellectually figure everything out is what he does in tough situations, and Fatespeaker is worried about Starflight, because of course she is.

Meanwhile Webs is just relieved that he was late to history that day and wasn't in the cave. He's never beating the 'coward who cares more about saving his own scales than anything else' allegations.

Pike is such an interesting guy--what people most readily remember about the 'reading his mind' thing is the 'so pointless having dead enemies' bit, which is worth taking into account, but among his angry thoughts, he is once again feeling SO sad and worried for Tamarin. Pike cares SO MUCH for her. Anyoway, he's an odd dragon, to quote Moon.

Meanwhile Icicle is also so interesting once we're in her head: 'two dragons died? Who cares, I killed nine times that in every battle?' 'WHY is he still LECTURING US', 'this is a stupid school where all they've taught us is 'don't kill people or we'll lecture and moralise at you endlessly' for the third time, Girl What Is Your Problem?

and then there's Flame. I don't have much to say about him, except I think it's interesting how he's so angry and ragefilled internally that Moon almost gets trapped in his thoughts.

I love Qibli being like 'let's go talk to Onyx' and Moon's like 'it won't work', and Qibli's like 'we'll just do it the old fashioned way and use our eyes and ears' and Moon's internal reaction is 'that sounds inefficient'. 'Isolation' + 'mind-reading'=Moon cannot read body language, tone of voice, or subtext to save her life.

Moon notices that Onyx is way older than everyone else and wonders ‘why is she here?’. and that's the million-dollar question. Truly, Why Is She Here?

I love the way all the other SandWings kind of follow Qibli's lead because they know he's close to Thorn--I think that's so fun.

I enjoy Moon and Darkstalker's conflicting reactions to the skyfire. Like, Moon doesn't like being closed off from hearing other's thoughts--everyone is frighteningly unreadable and unpredictable, but she also doesn't agree with Darkstalker saying that they'd be 'deaf' without it--she's learning to like her powers, and she finds the world scary without them, but she also accepts that she could go without them because most dragons do. Unlike Darkstalker, Moon doesn't see her powers as something that she's entitled to, or being on the same playing field as everyone else as being stripped of her rightful gift.

[mymanyfandomramblings]

For the ask game, 12 or 18 with Clay! You choose :)

Thanks for the ask!! I'll answer both because I love to answer questions!

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

My headcanon for Clay is that if he wasn't a teacher, he'd 100% be a nurse--he was made for it. He's so caring, and he also is always the one who tries to fix up anyone who is injured. He's definitely the JMA first-aider (and in my human!AU's he's always a nurse).

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Now it's tempting to say Peril (because I freaking love their relationship), or Sunny (because the Clay/Sunny friendship is so sweet), but on this re-read I have been greatly enjoying his friendship with Tsunami. They have such a great dynamic--Clay think she can do anything and he trusts her so completely, and Tsunami is way more inclined to be nice about him than any of the others. I like the way they kind of lead the group together: Clay feeds the group, patches them up when they get hurt, is the warm, nice one and he stops the others from arguing; while Tsunami takes the lead, gets the others in line and makes decisions. They're great.

Thanks so much for sending an ask! I enjoyed answering it!