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thank you @fairyheartfilias for the tag <333333

Rules: Pick 5 of your favourite edits and comment on the things you liked about them! 

1.weiss schnee gifset, i’m a sucker for pale stuff,,,,,, colors are a huge thing in my edits and while i enjoyed making pastel edits i think i give myself more freedom these days. marshmallow vibes o:)

2. yuri on ice edit honestly i LOVED making this one, gradients and stars are where my happy place is at(: my mum was a graphic designer so whenever she would look at my edits she would say i killed all the colors lol she’s not wrong, but i like it like that

3. fairy tail’s lucy edit this one is he l l a old, but cute.....honestly i love it so much. i’ve made it on my old computer with photoshop cs1 and even though my taste changed through the years this looks more like something i would make these days. 

4.tomioka giyuu edit this one has changed sooo much throughout its making, i started making it at the start of october but i’ve only had inspiration to finish it today. its something a lil different for me but i think it turned out fine.

5.free! edit i love the orange as an accent color here and how smooth the 5th gif is. making 8 matching pics can be a drag esp if im only using one episode, so gradients.. really my saving grace.

so this was a trip LOL i really miss editing, tomorrow actually marks exactly 6 years since i made this blog, so this brought back some memories just in time:))

im tagging @nozakis @e-iji @anime-to-the-t @delium sorry if you’ve already done this, and no pressure in doing it ofc! <3

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I was inspired to ask this after stumbling upon how detailed your fan metas are and all the thought put in them. I was curious if you ever thought about what role Ratar-O might have played in Season 2? Ratar-O ended up becoming one of my favorite villains due to him acting like a dark reflection to Lion-O.

This has been sitting on my drafts for ages because I accidentally lost a bunch of what I wrote (damn app) and ragequit. But in the interest of answering the ask before the year ends, here's what I got. Sorry it's so late, anon!

Always happy to ramble. I really like Ratar-O, too, especially as a foil for Lion-O. I have thought about Ratar-O’s role in future seasons a bit, but not at length, and nothing with strong support from canon material... That said,

ThunderMeta: On Ratar-O and the Rats

First, a quick summary of what facts I’ve gleaned from canon re Ratar-O and the rats, and a few assumptions I’m basing my headcanons on:

Ratar-O was the absolute ruler of the rats, but I'm unclear what his title is. I’m also unsure if he inherited his rule (as the heir to a ruling bloodline traced, at a minimum, back to Ratilla), or if he seized his rule on his own power. It’s probably splitting hairs, but I like knowing these things.

Perhaps worth observing: when Ratar-O states Ratilla is his ancestor, he could have meant it in a “the ancient rats are our ancestors” way, not necessarily a “Ratilla is my great-great-greatx50-grandfather” way. The latter has a stronger basis in canon because Ratar-O specifically states: “…My ancestor, Ratilla…” but, you know. Just putting that out there.

It’s unclear if Ratilla was already leading the rats or if he came to power after obtaining the Sword of Plun-Darr. I’m operating from the tentative assumption that if Ratilla was not “born a king,” then he established his dynasty with Mumm-Ra’s Sword. 

My tentative assumptions for Ratar-O are either: (a) Ratar-O is a direct descendant of Ratilla; and therefore Ratar-O inherited his rule, or (b) Ratar-O seized power and set himself up as the rats’ ruler by his own hand. I regret that I had to think so hard about that.

I’d like to see Ratar-O come back for a Round Two with Lion-O in either the second or later seasons, either as a lackey a la Slithe & co., or entirely independent of Mumm-Ra. I’d like to see Ratar-O moving against Lion-O on his own (they’re fun to watch together), but I think it’d be more likely for Ratar-O to approach the Ever-Living to ask for aid in revenging himself on Lion-O. I don’t recall that Ratar-O had a huge role in the classic series the way Slithe and Mumm-Ra’s other minions did, but I could see Ratar-O perhaps forming an alliance with Mumm-Ra rather than directly handing himself and his people over to Mumm-Ra’s absolute rule (as far as Rataro-O knows, anyway. lol)

Another thought I had is that Ratar-O might not return in the second season (although I do expect the rats to join the final battle against Mumm-Ra in the finale), but could appear as a villain in his own right in the third or later seasons, maybe in a kind of “I’ve been plotting my revenge on Lion-O all these years now feel my wrath!” way. That scenario could go all kinds of directions, and it’d make a nice early arc to keep the thundercats busy while Mumm-Ra is secretly recovering/freeing himself from the Ancient Spirits/&c.

Backing up a bit, I’m particularly interested in what Ratar-O’s people do in the wake of his defeat/the destruction of his mine: if the rats were abandoned by their ruler when he “fled back underground,” that may’ve created a power vacuum in the rats’ government, which would open the door to all the change and likely chaos that follows a deposed despot; or if Ratar-O only fled from Lion-O, but maintained his grip on his people, then there’s still the original question of the civil unrest resultant of tyranny, which could only be made worse by Ratar-O’s defeat at Lion-O’s hands, as well as general observations and talk about how Lion-O, an enemy king, treats the rats better than Ratar-O ever has (“Your people are just slaves on the other side of the whip!”)…

The rats clearly have a long, bitter history with the cats (along with just about every species on Third Earth lmao), so it’d be nice to see how Lion-O unites them under his flag (or his Code, I suppose), particularly since they have a very recent painful history in the cats’ enslavement and subsequent liberation. I wouldn't expect Lion-O to struggle overmuch to convince them to fight with him, but I would really, really like to see all the conflict that comes from the rats rubbing shoulders with their recently freed slaves, particularly through individuals' POVs. Such as, a cat (with their own story) recognizing a rat (with their own story) who beat him/her or killed a loved one or the like, and the many different ways similar scenarios play out across all these reunions. I'd expect to see healing if not forgiveness, eventually, but I wouldn't mind seeing any of the hundreds of other ways different dynamics end, either. And Lion-O getting caught up in at least one of these personal conflicts, and Lion-O talking to rats and cats personally and convincing then to move on, and just Lion-O being a fantastic leader to all these people with so much pain between them and hnnng I need it.

Now to conclude with a totally relevant gif.

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never understood why the cats condemned the sword of plundar for being made of metal that took millions of lives to make it but their sword is made from the same metal lol

Something to do with the forging process, I think. "Intent matters" or whatever. The metal itself was just metal made from chunks of dead people and planets &c., but the blades are something else. Or something more, rather.

I do find it interesting that the blades are defined by subjective extremes. Mumm-Ra's sword is stated to be so evil it calls to him, the evilest evilthang evar; whereas the Sword of Omens can't be used against a force of "good."

One of my headcanons for the blades is that they're actually skewed toward order and chaos. Mumm-Ra's blade is a force of chaos, and the Sword of Omens cannot be used against a force of order. So either blade could be used for good or evil in the right circumstances, which would explain how Claudus was able to use it against the lizards, who were definitely not the party in the wrong. (Unless that flashback happened before Slithe got involved, but...)

Swapping up the blades would make a good fanfic, too. I like the thought of Lion-O having to use both, and realizing what they truly are.

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For those of you on twitter

Apparently, there's a precedent for hounding bandai into results--so zealous begging may push the rest of the 2011 toyline being released. Or, you know, asking nicely? Whatever floats your boat.

https://toyhypeusa.com/2020/03/10/bandai-america-gives-us-an-update-on-the-thundercats-2011-figures-following-new-york-toyfair-2020/

Go for it, fandom!!

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Pumyra δ Cheetara

Double appreciation post!

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ThunderFact: Tygus is as tall as Tygra.