#friendly visitors

[antarctic-empires]

godbless the work you do o7 —enderspawn

So, um, actually

[pretzel-the-frogtopus]

I gift to thee a Pretzel that I've doodl e in class during a guest lecture :3

PRETZEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love her, thank you so much Callum <3

[dracolunae]

Oh I LOVE the birthday kidmodo dragon 🧡

Thank you! :D He comes out for one day of the year :3

[1introvertedsage]

💚💚💚

[tikal-the-echidna]

No because why out of all their characters is it Sonic and Shadow that mirror each other the most? They’re the only ones who get matching skins in games? Promotion material is mainly them facing each other and posing in a complementary way to one another? Like SEGA what are you playing at??

Okay to be fair to that, shadow DID originate as a character meant to mirror/oppose sonic, with the entire marketing around SA2 being about duality and choosing whether to be good or evil with the opposition being embodied through sonic and shadow.

So the duality of Sonic and Shadow is kind of baked into their relationship and , through the nature of Shadow’s introduction, rather baked into Shadow’s character.

Conversely, Silver’s addition into this sort of trinary of hedgehogs by 06 is neat and very popular in fan stories and AUs but textually not super relevant, especially as 06 retcons this by itself and then silver never quite reaches such a highly positioned state again, being relegated to just “rival” similar to metal sonic, who also fills an important rival role but is held back by lack of appearances and inability to talk (most of the time.)

But Shadow has a lot of narrative and philosophical opposition to Sonic that most characters simply can’t achieve. Sonic worries about the now, Shadow is very attached to the past. Sonic is fluid where Shadow is more rigid. Sonic’s main motivation is for himself, Shadow is purpose built for the needs and wants of others, be that the military, Maria’s health problems, Black Doom’s need for a servant or even Geralt Robotnik’s desire for vengeance.

This has become less prominent post Shadow the Hedgehog as Sonic has become a lot more about the power of friendship (while he has always had friends, the sort of power of friendship messaging common in modern games wasn’t really much of a thing during the time of the adventure games) and Shadow has unfortunately fallen into a pit of being Sonic’s edgy rival that just shows up occasionally to broodily oppose Sonic for no reason, but still is a fundamental aspect of the popularity of their dynamic.

But since their characterisation has drifted away from this strong duality, their continued standing as being paired together becomes less of “these 2 characters embody opposite philosophies and world views” and more just “these 2 characters are paired up because they’re popular”. Thus creating quite a lot of shipping fodder!

Plus Sega is. Very aware of what the fandom is like and I must assume at least SOME people at SEGA know about how ship names work, so calling this game Sonic x Shadow is just really fucking funny

Tldr:

Shadow started out very deliberately as a foil to several elements of Sonic’s character for a more narrative and philosophical reason but since that narrative isn’t as relevant anymore, them being paired up just activates the fandom “2 characters together, gotta ship them” response! So putting “Sonic x Shadow” in a game title is really funny

Disclaimer: none of this is to belittle people who ship sonadow, I think it can work at times! Mainly an analysis of how Sonic and Shadow’s opposition devolved over time through characterisation drift and the way that affects the perception of fans

[philza-updates]

Phil talks about Pizza Points on stream. I was wondering what those are? Are they the little icon at the bottom by the text tab?

Yep, these are Pizza Points! They’re a custom name for twitch’s inbuilt channel point system! Not to be confused with Pizza Tokens though, those are not an inbuilt feature but rather a browser only extension! Pizza tokens are gotten by clicking books on screen and can be used to send tts messages, pizza points are used for a variety of rewards, but don’t enable tts.

- Mod Luna

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[darklingsdreaming]

@dancefiredance

No time had been set and yet an agreement had been made. However Just arrived at Ozymandias’ house was less important than the fact that he was there. He knocked three times, waited for a moment, and then knocked again. Wildly and loud on the door just in case he hadn’t been heard the first time. 

[dracolunae]

did you enable him to do this

𓂜 𓂋𓐍𓏛𓈖𓀀 𓇒 😇