I have no idea what to call it but old 80's animated media with furry characters and everything is slightly yellowed and grainy and the colors in isolation would look disgusting but together are super soothing and the furry characters look completely different from the modern anthro-animal-character tropes.
You know, everyone always likes to fixate on the idea of Night(Passive) being taken over by Mare(Corruption) either for evil or as a protective entity, but I swear I have never seen a fic that explores the fact that the Corruption is literally born in the Apple Incident.
Because that's an entirely new dynamic.
Imagine.
Because regardless of if it happens at the canon age of 6 or even, say, twice that at 12 (hint hint), it still more or less changes everything.
What if it was literally just a newborn? A hatchling unknowable something that burst out of the shell that was the dark Guardian's own form like a bird from an egg. A lost, out of control, baby with a terrifying amount of power and the screams of a little kid echoing in its head. Because in that situation, the Apple Incident is really just.. two very young children with an absurd amount of power basically having a panic attack.
The Corruption is like a wild animal, and obviously the villagers in that situation will take one look at this Venom/Symbiote looking thing and call it a demon that needs to be eradicated. And that's on top of the fact that internally it's aware that the young and suddenly helpless Nightmare is just screaming because of everything that's happening and his inability to do anything, and it obviously won't have a concept of language at birth and can only rely on the fact that Nightmare is screaming in pain, grief, and utter confusion while a bunch of strangers are trying to hurt it while it's trying to figure out how it's own self works- and that's just a perfect recipe for disaster.
Why wouldn't it lash the fuck out?
And don't even get me started on the aftermath. Because in the situation where the Corruption is just a newborn baby with Passive/Babymare being stuck as little more than a voice in its head that it can't even understand yet, there's a lot that can go wrong. There's no parent or adult that can manage this thing. Really, it's a walking disaster constantly throwing a tantrum at every little thing because again, in this situation, Nightmare has been reduced to complete and utter helplessness as only a mere witness to its mindless actions. And he's just a little kid himself.
That's the real kicker. He's a child stuck watching a newborn baby toddle around in confusion with no one to help either of them.
What if they were both just scared and confused kids?
This is one of the many concepts that I'll be exploring in my story, Shadows Beyond Divinity!
Now that I’m currently reacquainting myself with the Ninjago fandom, here’s an opinion.
I really wish the fandom would just move on from the whole “the show should’ve kept the og designs/the show was better before the redesigns” argument. You see it under at least half the Ninjago posts today.
It’s been about eight years, we’ve had the redesigns longer than the og designs at this point.
^ That's the current running title for the TNT Duo multichapter fic I'm working on for that mermay TNT Duo takeover I've been rambling about.
I've been sick for the past week so I haven't been able to work on it, but I want to talk about it a bit now.
So, I've had this AU in my back pocket for years now. Ever since 2023 I think. It was a Spring night. Like eighty something in my room because I woke up from what I can only describe as a fever dream. And that dream is what inspired this AU.
I don't remember it very well now, but as is with most things I looked at this cracked out TV show pilot episode looking ass dream and said "so how do I make this TNT Duo".
I started calling it my Eldritch Mako AU since it takes some inspiration from the Mako Mermaids franchise. Which I should probably rewatch since I'm using Mako Island as a location in the fic, but I digress. I had this dream, right? And it was about this woman who had an accident out on the ocean. And she keeps seeing this weird red glowing light. And eventually some people come up to her to talk about it.
So I slapped Wilbur into the leading role and I ran with it. This idea about some eldritch siren in the water that Wilbur doesn't remember but knows is out there waiting for him. As for the two people who approach him to ask about the accident, I was debating for a long while on who I wanted it to be and eventually settled on Karl and Niki as the 'paranormal investigators/friends' who will be helping Wilbur on this little adventure.
It's taking a while to build up to the TNT Duo since Quackity is technically the fic antagonist, so he's not going to get dialogue for a while. But eventually these two idiots are going to make out in the water. I don't make the rules I just enforce them.
Anyways, I've gotten up to four chapters now, over 10k words of content. I'd have more if I hadn't come down sick as fuck (damn you Covid, I had a streak going). I probably need to take a slower time with this fic since it'll be more slow paced, but I also have so many other projects I want to post in May. And I've already basically lost a week to being sick and incapable of doing much of anything.
But yeah. I'm working on it. And working on other things too. Including a smaller multichapter fic that has a bit higher TNT Duo to Plot Ratio XD
So that's what I've been working on for this upcoming Mermay.
I got tagged in this ages ago by @randomwordsandstormydays but alas I am a loser who forgot all about until now!
The idea here is that you list 10 songs and then you tag ten people to do the same. I’m just going to pick random songs I listen to a lot, but you could do your most listened to songs or songs that mean something to you or whatever!
Also, my music taste is mostly absolute trash I apologise
1. Still Breathing - Green Day
2. Hurricane - Halsey
3. Oops I Did It Again - Britney Spears
4. How To Be A Heartbreaker - Marina and the Diamonds
5. Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant
6. Loud Like Love - Placebo
7. Freak Like Me - Halestorm
8. Strangers - Halsey
9. Make Me Wanna Die - The Pretty Reckless
10. For What It’s Worth - Placebo
And the ten people I tag to do it... I’m just going to tag my 10 newest followers since it’d be nice to get to know y’all more :) No need to do it if you don’t want to! Don’t feel pressured <3
