#fandom thought

[cotaku]

I thought about it but Megaman Battle Network series is probably the most grey about technological progress

You got Artificial Inteligence(Net Navis) in your pocket terminal which can help you with internet navigation through cyberspace and they carry their own security keys to other homepages and computers. You can modify the Net Navis and even get illegal software and chips that are courrpt by their nature.

Bad people with bad Net Navis can actually cause cyber crimes and even terrorist attacks.

MMBN1-6 took place over the span of 4-5 years and boy does it feel like cyber terrorism can just happen

[orangepanic]

In the middle of the night struck with the thought that one reason I'm rarely drawn to canon romances is because they always break up.

In the overwhelming majority of m/f main character relationships that get together during the action, the writers then break them up For Drama. The romantic tension is over once the couple has gotten together and the only thing left is to create new tension by ruining the relationship. Sometimes it is just a fight or a break. Sometimes it is for good. But I personally hate this part of any romance arc and therefore I, as someone who wants happy endings for blorbos and dislikes conflict, have internalized this cycle to the point that I have trouble being interested in the romance from the beginning because I know they're "just going to break up."

For queer romances, writers can't break them up because they'll be dragged for homophobia, so instead one of the characters usually dies. But same same. We needed Drama and the relationship had to end to create it.

Why would I get invested in something doomed by the narrative when I can mash together people who never spoke in a completely made up way that I can control?

[ramonahblog]

You know, of all the fandoms I’m in, the one I’ve found that is the most chill is the Night at the Museum fandom. By chill, I mean ship&let ship seems to be completely embraced.  Like in most of my other fandoms, I have to spend some time blocking certain tags to avoid shipwars and NATM fandom is just chilling.

It’s also shippy enough that I’m surprised I haven’t had to avoid shipwars. Like there seems to be none? 

I want to know why. 

Is it cause of NATM 2? Am I just fortunate in my NATM fandom experience? Are the people who do start shipwars just creating/going into their own corner and just very polite shipwarring people and staying in their own corner of the internet? 

[gayliveshere]

Find a show, find a book, find a character I like

Tell myself, “Be chill, don’t overthink tonight”

Just a story, just a plot, just some lines on a screen

But my brain starts digging like a crime scene

Childhood moments, every word that they said

Little fractures in the back of their head

Every scar starts linking up in a chain

Every choice just echoing pain

Now I’m three hours deep in a spiral again

Drawing maps of the ghosts in their head

Every villain just a kid who got hurt

Every hero just surviving the wreck

I said I’d be normal about this

Just watch and enjoy the show

But now I’m tracing every heartbreak

From years they’ll never outgrow

No saints and no real monsters

Just people trying to survive

Living in the wreckage

Of things that kept them alive

And yeah, I’m taking psychic damage

From stories that aren’t even mine

But I keep digging through the rubble

Looking for the reason why

Now the lines start blurring between right and wrong

Every motive tangled up in a song

Every anger just a shield they create

Every love just arriving too late

If you follow every step that they made

You can see where the fractures were laid

Every choice that they thought was their own

Just a ghost of a wound they’ve outgrown

And the more that I look the more I can see

All the pain in the way that they breathe

All the silence between what they say

And the damage that won’t go away

I said I’d be normal about this

Just watch and enjoy the show

But now I’m tracing every heartbreak

From years they’ll never outgrow

No saints and no real monsters

Just people trying to survive

Living in the wreckage

Of things that kept them alive

And yeah, I’m taking psychic damage

From stories that aren’t even mine

But I keep digging through the rubble

Looking for the reason why

Maybe we’re all like that too

Just walking around in the fallout

Trying to rewrite the past

But the echoes keep getting too loud

Maybe the villains and heroes

Are just different shades of the same

People surviving disasters

And learning to live with the pain

I tried to be normal about it

Just watch and enjoy the show

But now I see every fracture

In places they’ll never let go

No saints and no real monsters

Just hearts learning how to survive

Living in the wreckage

Of stories that keep them alive

And yeah, I’m taking psychic damage

But maybe that’s part of the art

Looking through fictional tragedies

And recognizing the heart.

[eastofthemoon]

Female Bonding

So Kallura thought.  

The day comes when Keith is reunited with his Galra mother, and at first he’s rather worried about how Allura and his mother will get along.

....Almost to discover they hit right off the bat as they compare fighting techniques and what it’s like to have a human lover.  

Thus, Keith isn’t certain what to think when his mother says “Oh, this one is a keeper!”

[technicallyoneofakind]

I call it... Undertetris

Am I the only one who thinks the Tetris theme music should be Undertaker’s (from Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler) theme song? 

It has a kind of a gothic, trickster like ring to it, don’t you think?

[technicallyoneofakind]

I see bricks... Bricks everywhere...

I wonder if there’s a comic that breaks the fourth wall so much, Linkara ends up sitting on a pile of bricks, rather than a wall. Sometimes my literal and hypothetical way of thinking brings up some really silly imagery. 

Also, when I hear someone mention “breaking the fourth wall” I imagine someone busting through a wall Linkara’s sitting on, Kool-aid man style, and Linkara simply ignoring it while reading a comic.