The hill I die on, I guess

A "sideblog for when I want to talk meta etc!" that turned into a technoblade/mcyt etc sideblog lol. My main is kittenlzlz. Feel free to talk to me here, there, or anywhere. Fic rec tag Here.

[daylightcycle]

and the universe said I love you/

and the universe said you have played the game well

[thekatjumpedoverthemoon]

To everyone watching the Pitt or writing hucklerobby fics... It's Pittsburgh not Pittsburg

[flo-0w]

Technoperch nº38674

[glazsirok]

"Sometimes I look up at the sky in the hope that I won't see him again…"

[sycamorality]

a lonesome grieving mother is asking you to leave.

[sycamorality]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YOU GET ME

[thestarshowman]

One of Cosmo Sheldrake's songs should be playing here. if you can't hear yourself, then it may seem to you that you are just "Wriggle", but it seems to me that you are "come along", "The fly" and others. It's funny, but I was painting to some depressing songs. I also drew a worm and ladybugs on the leaves in the foreground. There's also a dream hidden there.

[jackalspine]

@schnuffel-danny hehehe

regarding this post: from schnuffle

[cuddelv1sh]

vampires cleo omg theyre so gorgeous im gona cry

[hereforthecubes]

this is hauntingly beautiful and i've thought about it every day since i first read this article

[hereforthecubes]

this is hauntingly beautiful and i've thought about it every day since i first read this article

[mixx-exists]

yknow, Ethoslab from the hit anime Naruto

please be ready to adjust volume, i didn't fix any of this audio it may be either very loud or quiet as hell

Inspired by @did-sm1-say-catfish , shout out to @tyxaar

Footage from: - Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden - Youtube Compilations: Worlff I, uchihqx, Endless Mp4, Anime UnReality, Isaax Audio from:  - Ethoslab, TangoTek, VintageBeef, Jamal_ - Youtube Compilations: temsikdoos, HermitonClips, shoulderingworlds, SamuraiCoraline, Molecoid

[antimony-medusa]

Space au in which Techno has finally saved up the money to buy his own ship and escape into the void where previous wars can't find him, but keeps seeing menacing shadows when he turns corners. Which are imaginary, of course. He's alone on this ship, chat, and that's how he likes it. No one has been messing with the hydroponics, chat. That wasn't the sound of wings behind him in the cockpit. He's taking stock of the food stores and— bad news, chat, there is definitely a stowaway on this ship.

What follows is an extended pros and cons list session about if he should hunt down and kill this stowaway or make friends with them— he's tryin' to move away from killin', but this guy is in his HOUSE— he's breaking out the whiteboard in the kitchen for this, at the end of which he turns around with no conclusion and sees a guy with wings sitting at the other end of the kitchen smiling at him.

Nice ship, the guy says.

Thanks, I bought it myself.

Oh, I thought it was fuckin' stolen.

No, stolen is the food and stuff that you've been takin'.

Sorry about that (the guy does not look sorry) i haven't managed to stop eatin' entirely yet, still workin' on that. Do you need a gunner?

Techno considers this, in terms of the space pirates that are supposed to be a thing, and how this guy was mostly unobtrusive except for the vibe that he was being haunted, and you know he did buy enough supplies for three years so probably he has some to spare.

Could use one, techno says.

and the guy grins at him and says great, and fucks off to go look at the ship's gun emplacements while Techno goes oh god what have I done there's a Person in my House.

But you know, the new guy turns out to be pretty quiet, and he seems to like Techno's jokes, and maybe it's nice to have someone to ask how his day is going when he goes to top up his coffee. Plus in the end it really did turn out to be a good idea to have someone on his side when the wars he's been outrunning find him again.

[dotterelly]

I am enjoying the idea that Phil also wanted to get away from the wars, but a completely different set of wars. And when the wars catch up with them they have a hilarious conversation where they both try to apologize for dragging the other one into their business, then they both are like wait you too? And then they are doing a running battle through the ship trying to work out who's wars have caught up with them but they keep killing enemies before they can question them properly to protect each other.

[antimony-medusa]

On the one hand this is causing a lot of unanswered questions but on the other it means that they don’t have to talk to people, so they’ll call it a win.

[dotterelly]

They never did work out who's wars caught up with them that first time, but it did cement them as partners. Unfortunately after that information on their whereabouts was uploaded to dark net and they had to keep moving to stay ahead of all the wars while comparing notes. Eventually they get fed up on it and decide to shut the wars up. They have a whole set up with yarn from one of techno's sweaters connecting pins on a board to see if there's places their wars overlap and plan their revenge campaign.

[antimony-medusa]

Sitting around the pin board like okay so this so I think we should start with the problem of the bean empire, those guys hate me. Oh yeah, says the other, those guys are nasty, they've been trying to kill me for ages. Wait, you were ALSO involved in bean empire?

Rinse, repeat, and again. Turns out that when you make a habit of showing up to the party (the party is mass bloodshed) for a couple years you might have overlapped on the social calendar a little bit.

[dotterelly]

At least one occasion where the sins of one of them got blamed on the other and they never knew, just that suddenly roots group was now pissed at them for no reason.

[antimony-medusa]

Techno experiencing the issue that he always said that he was going to kill the person who got him blamed for that country being overthrown, he was minding his own business and there was a noodle store there that he now can no longer get to, but now the guy who did it is sitting in his space ship twiddling a pen as he looks at their enemy board and Techno's like okay so if I killed him at this point it would really mess up the whole plan we've got going and also the one piece watch party.

But the NOODLE SHOP Phil why did you destroy the NOODLE SHOP.

[dotterelly]

It was BECAUSE of the noodle shop, mate. Government arrested the owner for "harbouring enemies of the state". Don't worry, he's still making noodles. He got a good spot on the station down in galaxy sector 5.

[antimony-medusa]

New plan. Techno is new going to pledge his undying loyalty to Philza Minecraft. They shall never be separated.

[bigolbadblog]

i feel like something that's missing from some people's understanding of kink fiction and fantasy is, like... in fiction and fantasy, everything is in-scene.

when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.

so like. when fiction does kink in a way that would be unsafe or harmful irl... just keep in mind that you're not watching actual people neglecting check-ins or ignoring their set contract or genuinely harming each other. you're watching a scene without the behind-the-scenes bits, and that's okay.

[bigolbadblog]

this has gotten a couple replies along the lines of "yeah, you can just assume the characters worked all the important consent stuff out when you weren't looking!" which is true in some cases, but not the point i was trying to make, so please bear with me while i try to rephrase myself.

when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.

if someone went up to their partner and said "hey, wouldn't it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?", and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that's a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?

now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons... that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.

kink fiction doesn't have to be about characters consciously and conscientiously Doing Kink. kink fiction can be stories where the kinky things people fantasize about or roleplay (but wouldn't want to happen in real life) do happen in the universe of that story. because the story is a scene.

[sunderwight]

A fun prospect for Superhero-themed SV AU's that I don't often see is genre dissonance. Like, Luo Binghe as this edgy 90's style antihero who just straight up kills his enemies and sleeps around and is driven by selfish motives (revenge, ambition, etc) rather than altruistic morality, vs Shen Qingqiu as this kid-friendly supervillain who is "evil" mostly in terms of aesthetics and his ability to make inconvenient problems that are reasonably safe for child heroes to solve. Something like Punisher vs Team Rocket in terms of vibes.

Maybe the reason they meet is because some big publishing house akin to Marvel or DC just bought up the rights to whole bunch of older, discontinued comics titles, and decided to do a Justice League/Avengers style mash-up with a bunch of nostalgia properties and their most recognizable heroes and villains. Which means lots of crossovers condensing several titles into a handful of series.

Luo Binghe's origin always features him as a teenager, so he reboots as the youngest Avenger-equivalent team member in the new continuity. Even in this reboot, however, the writers still mostly go the gritty and dark route with his plots and stick to the same key developments -- his abandonment as an infant, his adoptive mother's tragic death, his tough life on the streets, abusive mentors and backstabbing "allies", and so on.

But Luo Binghe's life suddenly starts experiencing periods of dramatic change in his life when he's brought in for appearances in the lighter, friendlier world of the Junior Heroes continuity. After all, he's a natural choice for tying the two continuities together thanks to his youthfulness. Luo Binghe isn't consciously aware of the fact that he's moving between different titles and different writers. All he knows is that sometimes, when he hangs out with the bright and talented Ning Yingying, he's drawn into "conflicts" with Shen Qingqiu -- the kind of "villain" who will call for tea breaks, never actually hits anyone when he shoots his ray gun, leaves clues for all of his crimes, and can't seem to stop from imparting genuinely helpful advice in between his witty quips and taunts.

When Luo Binghe fights Shen Qingqiu, somehow he never actually gets hurt. Neither do any of his friends. The world in general seems brighter and lighter, as if there is some secret barrier protecting everyone from all the evils Binghe knows only too well exist in the rest of his life. Luo Binghe is increasingly convinced that Shen Qingqiu is the source of this mystical safety net. After all, for an allegedly powerful genius who is able to fool half the world about his wicked aims, he's never won a single fight against a kindhearted but somewhat ditzy teenager and her ragtag bunch of friends!

So what's he spending his actual energy on?

Luo Binghe is pretty sure it's keeping the real evils at bay. Making himself the biggest bad in town, and in doing that, making it so that the "biggest bad" is nothing worse than a slightly judgmental teacher in a pretty costume.

It's not long before Luo Binghe doesn't want to go back to the Justice League equivalent, to his world of misery and strife, even after his visits with Ning Yingying are supposed to be over. Especially as the global stakes of various heroic activities start getting higher, and it becomes clear that the boundary between Shen Qingqiu's safe world and the grimdark reality of Binghe's usual life are getting thinner...

[megsamforever]

#comic writer: we'll have a scene of the huan hua prison where shen qingqiu's locked up just for a quick cameo #luo binghe the actual character who has seen people brutally dismembered in that exact prison: I am exiting the plot to rescue shizun #luo binghe: don't try and find me #comic writer: ...wtf? (@sunderwight)

[opalfairy]

I love everything here, and now I need to ask: Is Shen Qingqiu a transmigrator, or–and hear me out here–is he this publishing company's very own Gwenpool? Except instead of looking at his comic book life as if it was a first-person shooter game, he sees it as a fun rpg. He is still scared of the grim consequences of living in the grittier titles of the franchise, so he decides to stay in the Junior Heroes titles. But since he is an adult, the only available roles are lovable villain or cameo mentor figure from a more serious story.

He would still be a die-hard Binghe fan, and would make sure to make a 'villainous appearance' every time his favorite vigilante is around with Ning Yingying's team.

Now, for how he got captured... the doylian explanation is the writer going 'hehe cameo' as it was explored in OP's tags... but the watsonian explanation could be that he knows too much. He knows everybody's secret identities, their motivations, what they think, and how they think. He has seen both the heroes' and villains' darkest moments, their doubts and weaknesses, and all the stuff that he would know from being an avid reader of their comics.

So maybe he slipped and mentioned something he was not supposed to know, and that put him in the radar of someone from the more serious titles...

[sunderwight]

I love the idea of SQQ as the 4th wall breaker type!

Actually I think Shen QIngqiu's onto something, as that kind of character would be really fun as a kid's antagonist. He's just constantly making asides to the reader about enrichment and education, calling timeouts and sometimes lamenting about things like how hard it is to get good takeaway to his underwater lair or etc. Like a combination Megamind and Doofenshmirtz.

I think it would make the most sense if he accidentally got on the radar of the Huan Hua Palace Master. HHPM fits into Luo Binghe's grittier rogue's gallery quite well, what with his connection to Binghe's angsty backstory and his genuinely nefarious tendencies. I'm thinking that maybe Comic SQQ maintains his genre-savvy knowledge simply because he actually buys and reads comics within the story universe. Due to a quirk of canon (in-jokes) all the original runs of every IP the publishing house recently acquired actually exist in-universe as comic books, it's just that most of the heroes and villains are written to automatically overlook them, unless some kid asks for an autograph as a punchline.

Which means SQQ's omnipotence is limited, because he only knows the original runs. But it still seems like way too much information for him to have at the same time. He lets the wrong thing slip during one of his asides to the reader, HHPM overhears, and then bang! Water prison!

Ning Yingying is also upset about this. Shen Qingqiu is her baddie of the week, and she never even sends him to regular jail! He's too delicate for that! Just because he acts out sometimes does not actually make him all that bad!

Meanwhile Shen Qingqiu is absolutely freaking out about this crossover. He does not want to be in the adult comics. He's read them! He knows what happens to bad guys in them! Also he doesn't want to act like the bad guys in them either, he doesn't want to actually commit child abuse, or get rebranded as some kind of pervert, or a cannibal, or serial assaulter, or whatever other edgelord thing the writers think will really push him over the edge and justify letting antihero Luo Binghe rip him apart!

Lol he would be exactly as petrified as he is in canon when Luo Binghe suddenly shows up at his water prison cell. Please Binghe whatever you've heard, SQQ didn't do it! He's a G-rated villain! G-rated!!!

[bibliomatsuri]

LBH: Teacher, I am here for you! SQQ (thinking): wait, I'm in an R-rated setting! I can swear for real! SQQ: oh SONOFA-

...does this mean current!SQQ is the cracky gwenpoolesque reboot version of the originally Not Funny sqq from the first run? so SQQ /actively/ has that to compare himself against and he just keeps going Oh Fuck No (except he can't say fuck out loud, or in a thought bubble, bc he's g-rated)

also does this mean NYY is also A Protagonist as in she also has the in-universe halo? like the Harmless Vibes are actually due to /her/ being around and the universe is contractually obligated to be g-rated around NYY

and LBH (who was def not originally from kids' media) makes the reasonable assumption that actually it's the Harmless Villain who is responsible for the Harmlessness of being in this version of reality. bc said villain is a massive nerd who exposits about essay-writing and neat science facts (especially animal facts) in between "evil plots"

such as "mua ha ha I'm going to replace all the vending machine food with VEGETABLES" or "nyeh heh heh I've made a giant city-destroying robot that can only be defeated with the power of MATH SKILLS" or even "ha ha HA you shall never defeat my JELLO CREATURES- wait, what, what do you mean they melt in the sun- oh, sugar-"

and yes, he's absolutely ridiculous. an entire ham. a diva, if you will. he's also showing levels of in-universe knowledge that would /absolutely/ make him very much a real threat, in any less kiddie-safe setting. dude pulls time travel (for history lessons) and shrinking tech (journey into the cell) and gravity manipulation (let's learn about the planets) and all he does with it is... *gestures at the Plot of the Week* poetry lessons!

and LBH is supposed to believe that he's actually harmless? no. no. clearly SQQ is deliberately and consciously choosing to be as egregiously non-threatening and deliberately Not Dangerous as possible, to the point that his plans never even mildly endanger civilians! annoy yes, inconvenience sure, but hurt? never. this concerningly competent so-called "villain" is one of the genuinely kindest, sweetest, most unscary people in all of LBH's experienced reality.

...and they live in comics-land, where 'how gay can this get' is decided entirely by the writers and the current S&P they're working within.

LBH: him NYY: hm? LBH: ...him. NYY: hmm? LBH: him <3 NYY: hm!!!

...and then, of course, Gritty 90s Antihero (New, More Fun Edition) Luo Binghe does what characters do and makes his own decision.

cue SQQ desperately trying to game the system with his genre awareness, while consistently fucking up everything directly related to LBH bc he's basing his knowledge off of /original/ Luo Binghe, who... is very much not who he's dealing with here. oops.

[seiraheron]

Another piece for Binding Blades and my collaboration with @randomsyhn! This time the first scene of the fic with Shen Yuan fightighting like a badass. He’s very badass, hear me out, this man is so cool in this fic.

So.

You know, go read it.

[ciearcab]

i think i’m like obligated to post these now that i’m here, so here’s a few phil drawings from the last couple years

[waddei]

playing in the water again after so long