Is Knuckles Amy's Pillow?

lizerd

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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Gift for @kigut

alright thats it *removes periwinkle's spots*

if she didnt have leucism she'd just be solid blue

No matter what a post on tumblr tries to tell you, your moral and ethical stances will never be determined by what you reblog and what you scroll past. Don’t let manipulation tactics force you into doing anything you don’t want to do.

honestly i feel like even if you did ask mizu, i don't i think even SHE/HE/THEY would know how to answer. there has never been a singular point in her life where she's been able to decide for herself what she is. masculinity is a performance, femininity is her secret. she can't perform femininity well so when she IS a girl she's quite tomboy. masculinity seems to come to her by default as it's all she's ever been.

i feel like mizu would be the type to be rather unconcerned with her own gender or pronouns. kind of like apathetic nonbinary-ness, if this makes sense. but then again, this is me projecting as well since i too identify with this as an exhausted nonbinary person constantly getting gendered by other people when i really don't have one at all.

for me, i'm just me. and i'd imagine for mizu, mizu is just mizu. mizu's gender is mizu.

i think that kind of representation in the form of identity being an affliction is in itself very good and it is definitely something i think all of us, queer or otherwise, can relate to to at least some extent.

Alright here's another take on Mizu's gender:

The thing about Mizu is that characters in the show and people in real life project either "man" or "woman," "boy" or "girl" onto them, and Mizu more or less goes along with what they say, but I didn't notice a single moment where they outright communicated "I'm a woman" or "I'm a man." And I'm guilty too, I'm projecting "nonbinary" onto them!

But the thing is nobody has bothered to ask thus far, which is no doubt period accurate. But we're supposed to be more aware and open about gender than these fictional characters. I'm not saying there is a correct interpretation—because nothing has been confirmed, and regardless of what is or isn't confirmed it is to a degree* still up to the individual really—but it does irk me a bit to see so many people assuming and projecting, is all.

*By "to a degree" I mean there's what is or isn't confirmed, which will probably be that they're a woman; and then there's the undeniable validity of what individuals might see in them. Do you see them as a woman being forced to choose between a life of gendered mistreatment and a life of relative freedom, and choosing freedom? Very cool! But don't use what you see, however valid that is, to dictate what others see in Mizu. Same goes for all the other interpretations.

Bottom line is, if Mizu is confirmed to be a woman, which again would be most likely, that doesn't mean what trans people see in them isn't valid. If anything it becomes even more valid, because we will have been denied representation once again because of the politics of our time.

here have some scribbys

The other 'dimensions' didn't exist until Sonic shattered the prism and refracted "light" to create the illusion of other dimensions. The alternate versions of his friends were more like concepts than static, everpresent beings with a past of their own.

You can think of them as though they're the light refracted off of and distorted from the images of his friends.

Sonic, being the one to break the prism, was not exposed to this refraction in the same way as he was at the epicenter and therefor no light made any illusions based off of him. He did however become a paradoxical fallacy and existed in a sort of… Schrödinger's Box state?

Shadow, doing a no-clip chaos control at the very moment the prism broke, avoided this event all together.

At least, that's how I understand it? I feel like the other dimensions went away once the prism was put back together. There was a lot of imagery of refraction/prisms (layers of colour) spreading out upon shattering, so I'd imagine if each layer of colour represents a paradox dimension/alter, then putting it back together would squish everything down again.

That might also be why Green Hill Zone broke since its components were spread out rather than layered all at once like they're supposed to be?

Btw I was thinking about Sonic Prime

Does Sonic have alternate versions of himself like his friends do? If so where the hell was he? Did he get like replaced by original Sonic? What about Shadow? (he's always a no-show so this isn't too important)

Maybe i'm just stupid or I zoned out I have no clue. Don't tell me it's just some meta projection of his mind that's so lame and lazy

he's so.........ghfdijsokl;dknbhvufjcilsk

i used to draw chaos energy like this all the time. it was a nice return to form to try doing it again. i wonder how little me would feel about this if they saw it?

good grief ive been hyperfixated on this for too damn long