Also Saddest Day On This Fucking Earth Is Knowing Dg-slash Is Deactivated.

Forgive me for hopping on this post, but I can actually shed a little bit more light onto this from a long term Silver fan perspective! Funny enough, I’ve never really read the Archie Comics proper (I’d read whatever the kids in the neighborhood had at the time, which were a lot of the more earlier titles) and have never read a lot of Stanley’s work outside of IDW Sonic, so I hope this can provide interesting context from a general Game-only fan. 

So around the late 2000′s especially and even early 2010′s, Silver’s character was kinda regarded very.... negatively. Which I mean, makes sense as Sonic 2006 was like, the debut game for him and not a lot of people tended to play Sonic Rivals or even know it really existed, but while his debut game very much debuts him kinda being dumber than bricks and like super whiny- a lot of how this interpretation actually came to be was because of the fandom in general directly! 

A lot of fandom content regarding Triple S (the group of Sonic, Shadow and Silver) or even Shadow and Silver as a duo, tended to portray the hedgehogs in like, popular stereotypes. Sonic was the Cool kinda cocky one, Shadow was the Badass and smart one... so that left Silver in a weird spot. A lot of sprite videos at the time took the route of making Silver more of the dumb one, while other content such as early comics and channel-specific content would make Silver more of the pathetic nerd.  The most memorably early example of the former portrayal is from this playlist of the Sonic, Shadow and Silver Show with a lot of reuploads from popular sprite video creators at the time (since a lot of these sprite video creators have either lost or deleted their channels) and later portrayal to me is prolly Shadow and Silver’s Pizza Hut Adventure.  But this type of content was actually super common around multiple creators! Silverknux’s Silver voice is like, always the immediate one I think of despite everything kinda because of these videos I watched growing up haha. 

Not to say that cooler or more accurate portrayals of him didn’t exist at all, they did and they were all very good too! But fandom is fandom, and to simplify a character down to their basic traits is a very common fanon phenomenon when making fan content. 

It actually wasn’t until more of the Late 2010′s where Silver’s more not great aspects of him from the game that everyone remembered were kinda portrayed in more of a less negative light? Like, people on the internet would still make fun of you from time to time if you ever tried to acknowledge that Silver was cool because he was in 06 and 06 sucked harhar and those criticisms of his character still exist and are valid, but among fans it was way nicer to play Silver’s more negative aspects of himself in more of a cuter light. Now instead of sprite vids of him being dumber than a box of rocks or videos of him just being kinda nerdy and pathetic, he was in comics with Amy trying to learn how money works in the modern day or in fanfics learning what a coffee maker does with Espio. Still a lot of the same base traits, but just generally portrayed as cuter if that makes sense. It just kinda spiraled from there.

I believe the Snapcube fandub (not a shocker there harhar) is more of a proper embodiment of how Silver’s character had changed out in time with fandom, rather than a contributor to the general change. Just became its face, I suppose?

It’s been fascinating to see this shift over time, especially as someone that loves Silver, but of course that’s just my perspective! And while I do have faults with Stanley’s writing and sometimes even art despite generally enjoying it a lot (although not entirely off base with Silver being almost a different character in a writing sense, even Stanley admits early GOTF Silver was almost a self-insert at the time compared to the later issues, which I can see bleeding into the official work a bit from time to time), it definitely is FAR away from the earliest or even first popular portrayal of Silver being characterized this way. Just the first more ‘official’ one.

Sorry for kinda hijacking your post with my rambling Greeny, but I hope that this helps! 

Do you know how the misconception of uwu Silver came to be? Was it Archie's fault?

It's a tendency of Stanley I guess. She portrays Silver as off-model and "adorkable" likely out of her own interpretation of the character and the fandom took it and ran with it. Why SEGA condone it is beyond me.

It's so characteristically different to how Uekawa portrays the character and how he's actually depicted in the games that they may as well be two completely different characters.

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this one goes out to all the saihoshi shippers who are also garfield fans <3

Danganronpa x ILLUSTRATOR in Sweets Paradise !

I always loved this collab, and wanted to include my favorites in the lineup! I hope you like them as much as I do!

Hoshi with a big sunhat on is really cute.... I hope these two get to formally interact in the new game!

ft. A sketch of the borrowed clothes concept- later dropped for the cute sunhat....

Saihoshi week 2021 Day 6: 10th Anniversary / Borrowed Clothes / AU - Link here!

My Super Late™ pic for Hoshi’s birthday! <3

The past never truly goes away, no matter how much we want it to.

Saihoshi week 2021 Day 1: Pregame / In Game / Postgame - Link here!

“You’re dripping.” Plastic cries as Saihara wastes no time in sitting down, a weak effort to try and lift a second leg under the table that falls flat. Clothes stick to his frame, sweat drops down onto the table, and it takes the detective a moment to actually respond to his classmate.  “Yeah. I know.” The towel is rubbed against his forehead after his words. A pause for Hoshi to push a bookmark (a gift from Saihara, one he cares for deeper than he should) into his read and set it aside, a barely hidden smirk as he reaches into the gym bag at his side and hands over a water bottle. “You exercise in dress pants regularly? They don’t breathe well, you know. Though, considering you exercise with Momota in the middle of the night, maybe I’m the weird one for thinking you’d wear normal clothes for this sort of thing.” Mossy eyes roll at him in exchange, and Hoshi lets out a small laugh.  A pause from cracking open the water bottle. Cheap plastic is much different than what the detective is used to, but matters little while recovering from a mile run. "Come now, even Harukawa doesn’t make fun of me this much.” Though his tone is much more happy than annoyed. The water is so refreshing after everything. Akin to a heaven, even. Hands reach for the open book on the table- staining the pages with sweat fast. “I mean it in light jest. Promise.” The air brushes against his ears, reprieve from the heat bearing down onto his skin. An eyelid raises at the sight before him, reaching for a sandwich to keep himself busy. "Don't drip onto the books. I have to return those to the library you know." “I promise not to soak them through.” A hand presses against his chest before Saihara’s face quickly turns to a grimace and wipes it off onto his pant leg. “Any suggestions for this?” “Your towel, preferably. Though from the looks of it, you’ve practically soaked the poor thing already.” “Well aren’t you cheeky today.” Taking the towel off his neck, a smirk forms onto his face. Hoshi’s happiness was a sight always to cherish, even if it was at his expense. That laugh warms his heart more than any run could- burned his muscles less too. “How do you stay so dry anyways?” Another towel is slid over the table for the detective, a finger points to toss the wet one aside. “I’ve got years of training under my belt. Even while out of my prime, a mile’s almost nothing.” Besides, he’s had nearly fifteen minutes to dry off from the sun while waiting for Saihara anyways. But he didn’t need to know that.  “That’s not too important though. Get some food in ya, it’s your turn to read, and I wanna hear your voice more.”

Saihoshi week 2021 Day 2: Training Together / Reading Together - Link here!

MANTISES ARE RELATED TO ROACHES??

yes! while they do have differing ecologies—mantises generally are elongate, diurnal predators and cockroaches generally are flattened, nocturnal detritivores—it’s not so surprising if you take a closer look:

they are one another’s closest relatives, being grouped together in the superorder Dictyoptera, which is revealed by their many shared anatomical features.

if you compare the wing structure on these two, you’ll find the veins are very similar. to get a mantis out of a roach, evolutionarily speaking, all you’ve got to do is elongate the pronotum (roach head shield, mantis ‘torso’), elongate the legs, and enlarge the eyes.

mantises and roaches also both produce “oothecae,” tough eggcases in which eggs are protected from the environment. mantis ooths are often made of sturdy, hard foam, while roach ooths are leathery and purse-like.

the raptorial legs of mantises aren’t too greatly modified from a roach forelimb, either. roaches already have spiny legs for digging and defense; with additional spines organized in rows, there’s a powerful grasping foreleg.

additionally, some of the most basal (least changed from the original ancestor) mantises retain a number of very roach-like features, such as flat bodies, a short pronotum, and long cerci (“butt antennae”). Chaeteessa doesn’t even have the long spike at the end of the tibia segment! although I’m not entirely sure if all of these roachy structures are necessary primitive and not secondarily derived, these two do give a good look at how mantises might’ve looked before they evolved the characteristic spindly green forms you recognize today.

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Metallyticus fallax

Metallyticus fallax from 115, Jalan Bukit Idaman 1, Taman Bukit Idaman, 68100 Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia on April 20, 2019 at 01:25 PM b

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Genus Chaeteessa

Chaeteessa from Limón, Costa Rica on January 27, 2023 at 12:29 PM by Martin Galli

An Average Morning....?

My piece for @danganronpa-bigbang2022 ! Thank you so much for letting me participate! I had so much fun coming up with the idea, and I’m glad to finally get it done! 

Please consider checking out the collab fic this piece is created with here, made by the super awesome JayD45!