I Think It Is Important To Recognize The Ways In Which Your Favorite Thing Sucks. I Think It Keeps U

happy pride to t4t with different transition goals

Hey I’m the Stan is earth anon and I just had a brilliant idea! What if the symbiotic relationship isn’t sea creatures but an anchor and sail? They are both needed to keep a boat functional, and while I can see Stan as the sail, I also see him as the anchor cause he makes sure that ford doesn’t fly to close to the sun + I see a lot of fics about Stan being able to tell Bill sucks. Ford would be the sail, cause when Stan and Ford were apart (I know that being kicked out has a major part of this too) Stan was stuck, and couldn’t really function super well. Plus the whole “Stan is riding on Ford’s coattail” thing fits with the anchor, cause the anchor does hold the boat in place, but without it the boat would be unsafe. Also the “Stan isn’t going anywhere in life” also works because Stan on his (being the anchor) cannot travel anywhere! Anyways I was rewriting lyrics and came up with this :)

Ooh I love that. Ford is Stan's sun but Stan is Fords anchor. Too very different ways of viewing each other, as Ford gives Stan life and meaning, while Stan helps Ford be safe and keeps him grounded, but can be twisted to be seen as a bad thing. Stan thinks Ford can survive on his own, but really Ford just kept going and going and couldn't stop until he crashed. Ford thought Stan would be stable and fine, but he was isolated and alone.

Very nice.

Finding my mother’s sugar daddy’s tumblr with a handful of furry drawings on it was easily the worst thing I’ve done in my life

follow-up to this

fraud

heard someone say archive of our own should install a "dislike" button and I thought I should say this: no, there's absolutely no need for archive of our own to install a "dislike" button.

why? because archive of our own isn't tiktok or youtube or twitter/x where users can monetize their content. archive of our own is a nonprofit site run by fans for fans, which means every content — every fanfic — you see on archive of our own was made out of pure love and passion from the artists/authors.

ao3 authors write because writing about these characters is their happiness and passion. they write for themselves, but they were generous enough to share with you their creations.

they're not "content creators" the way tiktokers or youtubers or instagram models are. they don't "make content" for views and engagements that can be monetized.

so no, you don't get to "grade their works" unless they specifically and directly ask you to.

you don't get to "say what you dislike about their works" unless they specifically and directly ask you to.

you don't get to "dislike" works that are not made specifically to please you in the first place. you're just a guest in someone's house, a house in which they let you in because they were kind, you don't get to roam around their house and say what you dislike about their furniture. you don't get to roam around their house and say you "dislike their house".

of course, you can have your opinion about the house its host invites you in. but if it's a negative one and you find yourself not liking the house, the polite things for you to do is excuse yourself and leave without telling them you dislike their house.

and just because you personally dislike the house doesn't mean the house is "ugly" either. the house you dislike could be a favorite, most luxurious place to many others.

my point is, don't be entitled by wanting the rights to voice your disapproval of things that you get to enjoy for free. don't be entitled by wanting the rights to voice your disapproval of things that were made out of love and passion — things the artists made for themselves for fun.

it makes you look like an entitled jerk with main character syndrome. the universe does not revolve around you.

now repeat after me: don't like don't read. no one forces you to continue reading a fic you don't like. quietly leave instead of being rude to authors who write for free because writing is their source of comfort.

people are so used to contents that were made because it's a trend / contents like tiktok that were made with the main purpose of reaching high engagement and making profits that they forget sometimes things can be made out of love and be made just for fun. sometimes things are supposed to just be for people to enjoy, and if some people don't enjoy them, then they can simply leave without being unnecessary unkind.

sonic boom au where stone is just a guy with power-armour(trademark eggman industries) but team sonic thinks he's a robot because what sane guy would willingly follow eggman of all people(joke's on them for assuming stone is sane)

thinking/initial designing:

and him and the others in situations (weirdly no TM) (huh havent not done situations TM in a while):

i love sonic boom guys :) (<- totally normal statement of totally normal guy who didnt watch all 104 eps over one weekend(while making notes) because he had one (1) au idea and needed to know the lore of the show infamous for having basically non-existent lore)

edit: now with a silly comic tie in! :)

(previously mentioned au details under the cut :) )

okay so.

lets go chronologically because that way i have smthn to come back to when i eventually have a weird side tangent about like idk the watsonian vs doylist explanation of his gloves.

they first got to know each other i would say around college, if eggman can study evil science to a phd level one would assume there would also be a henchman course.

or maybe a barista course, that sounds like a funny sonic boom bit ("being a barista? really?" "what can i say the school had range!"), in any case the details are irrelevant whats important is that they got to know each other and their dynamic evolved.

then disaster struck! stone disappears/dies in some kind of tragic cliche machine malfunctions way (maybe that's why eggman couldn't finish that phd... even those 2 credits were a little too much atm for him...)

fast forward: the show happens the way it does (and thats why stone had to be presumed dead - if there was any hope of him returning eggman's ass would not act like the lonely loser he is in the show.) and then mysteriously reappears (the same machine that took him away returned him from some kind of shadow dimension? alternate reality stone who burned his world to the ground after his eggman's death(we love a crashout king) found out other worlds exist and, much like morpho, emigrated? secret 3rd scenario i didnt think of yet? who knows! what's important is that he's back!) and joins eggman in being a menace of the week.

of course, he likes to contribute more physically, not just float above in the eggmobile, so eggman builds him an advanced power-armour to protect him (left-over guilt and protectiveness from what took him away in the first place? 😏 you decide) and also to give him these cool claws!!!! and taser gloves!!!!!!!!! because he would look so cool!!!! why not make his love interest favourite henchman (and definitely NO deeper feelings there WHATSOEVER thank you very much) as cool and badass as possible. makes eggman look good too, for making such a suit dont it!

anyway wearing what is only a few bolts short of a mech suit that distorts his voice paired with his cool [shadow dimension survivor/evil warlord/secret 3rd thing] moves makes team sonic think "oh wow, egg-head made an actually competent robot for once."

of course, wearing the aforementioned few-bolts-short-of-a-mech-suit does not, in-fact, stop Stone from being a very loud simp("YOU'RE MAGNIFICENT, DOCTOR!"). which makes team sonic come to some... conclusions.(except for sticks, who can smell the government agent on him and knows he's not a robot the entire time. nobody believes her of course.)(how can he be a government agent if he "died" at henchman college? good question! ......anyway.)

the conclusions eventually culminate in a kidnapping of an egg for an intervention. ("dude, we know you're lonely" "painfully lonely" "painfully lonely, but this is too weird, even for you. we didn't say anything about mom-bot, or steve, but c'mon man...") during which it dawns on eggman that they all think stone is a robot. not a flesh and blood guy.

so he for once has to be the voice of reason(he cant believe it either) and clear the room, even if team sonic is being difficult at first ("he's literally wearing a normal suit underneath my ingenious exoskeleton!" "oh we thought it was like... part of his deal." "like judge bot!" "or like that time orbot had an airhostess outfit on." "yeah exactly, your robots wearing clothes isn't exactly abnormal egg-face." "and we can't forget swifty the shrew." "no, we 100% can and will forget swifty the shrew.")

just as eggman's done clearing the air a murderous and helmetless (he just got back from whatever it is he does when hes not simping(maybe a knitting club! he seems the type) to not find eggman anywhere and orbot and cubot fucking floating around panicking saying he was kidnapped, his ass only had time for the electric gloves and the claw cuffs) and beats team sonic in like 10 seconds flat and eggman has to calm him down (wow twice in one evening being the voice of reason? what has the world come to?!) and explain the sitch to him too.

anyway bada bing bada boom, sticks was right(this does fuck all for her credibility like always), and after several bonding episodes where amy gets to know Stone better she plots to do another intervention for him for having such shit taste in men.

and that's about it yea :)

i have other scenarios and like pieces of funny little dialogues rattling around in my brain but yea thats the gist of it :)

if you managed to read this far i hope you have a nice rest of your day! :)

part 1

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

He did eventually sign it