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[bringbackmaes14]

You know people are upset about how their show ended when #supernatural is trending right alongside the release of the finale

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Y'know when Supernatural Actor Misha Collins publicly gave out his phone number and I saved it in my contacts to get updates about his fundraisers, this is the last thing I expected to receive

I was definitely surprised.

[bringbackmaes1914]

I'm doing normal things to Eddie and Volt in my current WIP

[bringbackmaes14]

Listen. I don't think enough people acknowledge how toxicly codependent Eddie and Volt are. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing—this is not a call out post about the characters—I personally love that about them. I've even written a whole fic about it.

But like, what do you mean if you fuck up your interactions with the two of them, Volt just takes over and whisks Eddie away into the Breaker Box, never to be seen again? And Eddie just lets him? He just submits to that? Because they're so down bad and wrapped up in each other and conjoined that he's not gonna argue?

You're telling me the only reason Eddie doesn't want the homeowner to tell Volt they're helping with maintenance is because he's embarrassed about being behind on it and needing help, and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Volt is incredibly possessive and jealous and overprotective, and if he found out that Live Wire was going around the Breaker Box and touching things (for all intents and purposes, touching Eddie) before Volt had had the chance to properly vet them, he might explode in an electrical blue rage?

And even when Volt drives people away, when they ask about Eddie and Volt tells them "he will be fine" and "don't bother him" and basically isolates him, Eddie still begs and pleads for Volt to not give up his life in the reset, to not leave him alone, to not make him exist without him again because he can't; he doesn't know how to.

It's actually insane how codependent these two are.

And um. I'm supposed to be writing Static and Lace part 4, but I got writer's block about that, and now I'm writing another codependency fic about possessive Volt finding out Live Wire was helping with maintenance and throwing them out of the Breaker Box in a fit of protective rage, thus setting off a premature hate ending, but the problem is this is after Live Wire helps with the maintenance. Eddie doesn't want them to go, but he can't get through to Volt. And neither can Live Wire. Only time will tell how things are remedied.

So good luck everyone 👍

[bringbackmaes14]

So like, did the scientists (or whoever Ava and her team were) never consider that going down into a human blood ocean on a desolate moon where there's definitely not anything living down there and blasting it with the radioactive-inator 5000 was maybe a bad idea and could potentially create worse monsters?

Just a thought.

[bringbackmaes14]

More Volt "Becoming A Person" headcanons based on this other post! Just some things I think Volt dealt with while learning how to interact with the world and other objects after the split.

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It was a fight to get Volt to wear shoes when he first formed. He liked the way they looked, and the way the ones he picked out for himself gave him a little extra height, and he even understood why it was necessary for him to wear them in the club (once Eddie had explained the health hazard it posed), but they stopped him from being grounded straight into the Breaker Box.

To this day, he still prefers to go barefoot as soon as they're shutdown for the evening and back in the apartment.

Volt did try to ask at one point why Eddie lets Doug and Ben-hwa and Artt in the club if they don't wear shoes, and Eddie just grimaced and replied, "Artt's got his pedestal at least. Funny to think the other two would listen to a word I'd say."

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It took Volt a while to realize that he is the only object that came from someone else. He just saw objects that worked together or in close quarters and assumed they must've come about the same way as he did—that Mateo must've come from Betty, or that Connie must've come from Telly, etc.

He only had to be corrected once, after he made a genuinely innocent comment to Holly about her and Jerry both being so cheery and full of different interesting stories and displays. Eddie hadn't ever seen Holly actually angry before that moment, but he assured her Volt didn't mean anything by it. He sat him down once she left and had to explain that they are the only two with their type of connection.

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Volt had to be taught not to be so touchy with people. Even while Volt was still very new and his actual relationship with Eddie as people was still very undefined, he was incredibly handsy. Not in an inappropriate way, just... always seeking touch. From Eddie.

Eddie kind of figured that it was because of the split, because their connection was so new, and since he was just the wires and Volt was all the electricity now, he was seeking out the grounding mechanism.

But then, when Volt started meeting other people, he had just become used to being touchy—lingering hands, big hugs from behind, things like that—and he didn't think to change his behavior with patrons. Eddie had to cut in when he tried to hug every patron as they entered the door of the Breaker Box.

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Volt, at the beginning of his existence, was fascinated by Luke, and it drove Eddie up the wall.

When Luke explained that he didn't cook things with electricity, but with literal microwaves, good ol' radiation and nuclear power, Volt's eyes lit up and he asked, "There are other types of power?"

Luke proceeded to tell him, "Uhhhh. Well sure. There's the nuclear power I use, and maybe you could talk to River about steam and water power. There's also combustion, you know, heat and all that. Maybe talk to Dante? Or, uh, Winnifred might know more."

Learning that there were other types of power sources in the world was incredibly exciting for Volt and once he started talking to them he would. not. shut. up. about. them. (Eddie definitely wasn't jealous; he was just annoyed).

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Volt was... intrigued by Eddie's cigarettes.

He didn't quite understand what the cigarettes were or why Eddie smoked them, but he remembered the smell of smoke and copper heavily permeating the air when he first formed. Every time Eddie smoked, it would bring him right back.

Eddie met his eyes at one point while Volt was watching him, and blew out a cloud of smoke. "It's a nasty habit," he said. "You're better off without them."

Volt walked forward to cage Eddie in against the bar. Eddie didn't move. "Without them, or without you?"

Volt came into this world fully formed but knowing next to nothing. The few things he did know were Protect Eddie. Care for Eddie. Keep Eddie. Love Eddie. He struggles to do these things himself.

Eddie sighed, like Volt's affection was a major inconvenience, but he was smiling. "At least let me teach you how to do it right."

And the smell of smoke only became more memorable when Eddie took a drag of his cigarette, pulled Volt down by the front of his shirt, and shotgunned the smoke straight into his mouth.

[bringbackmaes14]

Every new thing I hear about the Odyssey movie makes me seethe with rage.

(Screenshot from this article)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT USING AN ORCHESTRA BECAUSE "it's not like the orchestra existed back then"?????

THAT HASN'T STOPPED CHRISTOPHER NOLAN FROM PUTTING TELEMACHUS IN A TUNIC AND PANTS,

OR USING A SCANDINAVIAN LONGBOAT AS ODYSSEUS' SHIP,

OR USING FUCKING BLACK AND GOLD-PLATED SKELETAL ARMOR FOR AGAMEMNON????

AND HE SHOULDNT DO ANY OF THAT ANYWAY BUT NOW YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT STICKING TO THE ERA???? WITH THE MUSIC???

Also, I continue to BEG these creators to do a SMIDGE of research before they open their fucking mouths because the etymology/concept of "orchestra" actually dates back to Ancient Greece around the time that Homer was writing the Illiad and the Odyssey to the word ὀρχήστρα (orkhēstra). It literally refers to the semi circular space where theater and dance were performed. So no, maybe not musical groups specifically as we think of them today with string instruments, woodwinds, and percussion (that wasn't until about the 1600s CE), but just saying "it's not like the orchestra existed back then" when the idea literally dates back to the time period you're referencing and there also were musical productions of the time that just used different words is so fucking infuriating.

I'm just... So fucking mad. Everything Christopher Nolan and his team doing is so disrespectful to the original story. And that's the thing too. It's not like it's a book where it's like one or two people's ideas on a page and you can go "oh wow I don't agree with the way this person views the world or that idea at all" and then put the book down and move on with your life. It's taking probably hundreds if not over a thousand people to make this movie. And no one tried to stop any of this from happening??? How do you get to this point of ignorance with that many people on your team?

[bringbackmaes14]

Why have I not seen a single fanart of Grace admiring Simon in the harness amongst all the bloodymary stuff? Where did all the horny iron lung artists go?