certified3nakin

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

Aishi!Shadow doodle for @alialastor !!

Blood warning under cut

Would you guys be interested if I said I was writing a Sonadow fanfic

Slash silly

Wait it's lesbian visibility week? And NOBODY TOLD ME?? /silly

silly little ENAsona :)

If this chao becomes a Sonic chao and these two become friends I'll cry btw

Intro

hihihi this is my overview post!! I don't have much to put right now (consider this a placeholder). But

If you want to see my art sort by

#Kat's<3art

some of it's old though (shrug)

And once I start back up my fanfics sort by

#Kat's<3writing

HOLY PEAK (still not normal about the movie btw)

THE LIGHT SHINES EVEN THOUGH THE STAR IS GONE. AGHHH

hcjatt help me. The fixation is too strong

guys I'm gonna cry

I WATCHED SONIC 3 YESTERDAY IM STILL SHAKING

OH MY GOD THE SONIC MOVIES OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD O

I just binged all three for the first time. OH MY GOD THEY WERE SO GOOD

Also now I can read Secrets in our Quills hehehe

My offering. Pls mootie I lobe you /silly

anyone want a prsk movie code i have an extra. rb with a doodle of. uhhhh. a character i like and ill pick

what if shadow was apart of the frontiers story? what if shadow had to watch as sonic slowly endured a painful cyber corruption? and what if seeing someone so full of life and energy suddenly start wearing down reminds him of a certain person he was supposed to take care of who suffered from a condition that put her into remission?

basically i should stop talking because the only words that come out are hurtful

Shadow should've been in Frontiers Shadow should have been in Frontiers Shadow should have be

I would sell my kidney for a third Sonic storybook game btw. Give me a pirate adventure inspired by the Sonic dash pirate skins and/or prime SEGA LISTEN PLE- *I get shot*

IT'S ALREADY BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE THE TOMODACHI LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT???

TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL IM ACTUALLY GONNA CRASH OUT WHAT THE FUCK

re: the language of queerness in project sekai

i’m specifically using queer here to denote a type of subject-position/relationship to society, rather than any specific identities a character might hold. i don’t think a game like project sekai is particularly interested in ever putting straightforward labels on characters, even though a character like mizuki clearly reads as trans to many players.

which ofc is my entire point… the game communicates a lot of information about mizuki without a lot of direct references to identity, instead using the language of difference as a euphemism for transness/queerness.

an event like “beside unchanging warmth” ultimately points to a trans story without stating anything explicitly, and i think it’s interesting to read it while paying attention to what the word choices are actually doing here.

in flashbacks to elementary school mizuki, the word “weird” (変/hen) is doing so much heavy lifting. it’s a word that inherently calls up a certain kind of relation/power dynamic between what is considered normal vs abnormal. the language is walking this precarious line of saying-not-saying, where nobody actually defines what makes mizuki “weird”; the responsibility is placed on the reader to infer that mizuki wearing frilly/cute (feminine) clothes is seen as transgressive by her classmates.

it feels important that mizuki seems especially hurt by the word “weird” in this flashback, and i think the line delivery supports this as well. contextually, i can’t help but read it as a stand-in for more overtly derogatory language/transphobia, softened and sanitized by replacing anything specific with a comparatively broad adjective like “weird.”

(this raises a lot of interesting questions for me wrt what makes queerness legible in translation / in my experience, anglophone fans are often looking for specific markers of identity when said identities generally originate from a certain class of euroamerican queer culture and academia! which is not to say prsk should or should not be more explicit in depicting trans characters; it’s just another point of discussion)

all this leads me to other instances in which the game draws attention to weirdness/difference — and the reasons i believe both mizuki and rui’s storylines evoke queer coming-of-age plots.

this might be slightly controversial to say, but it’s hard not to draw the connection given their middle school friendship, and how much rui’s background emphasizes the same ideas of weirdness/difference. even their final kizuna rank, which is correctly translated in english to say “i guess we’re both different” (僕達も変わったものだね) returns to that word 変 that upset baby mizuki so much.

i’ve seen some people argue that rui’s backstory should just be read as an indicator of his neurodivergence and well. for what it’s worth, i’m gay and neurodivergent like every other goddamn person on this site and within the context of rui’s arc throughout the game, i think there’s still a very strong argument to be made that mizuki and rui bonded over their shared experience of being queer.

after all, why is mizuki having “weird” taste in clothes taken as unassailable evidence of her transness if rui’s “weird” thinking cannot also be read as queer (or queer and neurodivergent)?

i will note that rui’s insecurities have never centered around an inability to communicate with his classmates (unlike nene, whose arc is VERY much about her becoming comfortable around new people and realizing that they want to be her friends). although other students are afraid of him, rui is a skilled communicator in public and doesn’t appear bothered by social interaction.

rather, rui’s insecurities center on this idea that he is dangerous to the people around him / he expects to be punished for expressions of vulnerability or intimacy.

fan communities nowadays sometimes forget the origins of “queer coding” as a concept in cultural criticism. going back to classically queer coded disney villains, romantic/sexual interest isn’t really a huge part of what makes these characters queer coded. rather, it’s about presentation — stereotypically effeminate mannerisms, ursula’s visual resemblance to drag queens in the little mermaid, vocal inflections that audiences (often subconsciously) associate with gay men in particular.

queer coding is shorthand that tells the audience these characters are sinister, untrustworthy, duplicitous. it’s rooted in a history of homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that paints queer and trans people as insidious, contagious (as in the AIDS epidemic), corrupting and luring innocent straight youth into degenerate queer life.

which brings me back to why i think a queer interpretation of rui’s backstory makes it so much richer and more meaningful. starting in the main story and then really coming to the forefront in wonder halloween, rui has internalized this belief that he is a danger to his peers. that his desire for closeness will always inevitably cross a line and he will end up rejected and alone.

this mirrors a really common, familiar experience of being a closeted gay teenager and the fear of how the people around you would react to your identity. in many cases, people are afraid of coming out because of how their friendships will inevitably be sexualized, or they’ll distance themselves in order to prevent anyone from misinterpreting their relationships and intentions.

personally speaking, i really identify with rui for these reasons, even if the story uses his inventions/directing as the stated reason for his fears. it’s really not until the formation of wxs (and meeting tsukasa specifically, as mizuki and the pandemonium trio have pointed out) that rui begins to feel safe enough to be honest and vulnerable about his desires both on and off the stage.

and it is important that it’s tsukasa in the end! tsukasa flips the script that rui is used to — rui has cut himself off to avoid rejection, but tsukasa is the one who seeks rui out, invites him into the troupe, works for him to stay. tsukasa recognizes something in rui and for the first time, someone isn’t reacting from a place of fear or simply not understanding the scope of rui’s vision, but instead he wants the very thing that rui thinks he needs to suppress. it’s also significant that tsukasa is another boy, and it’s significant that the idea of “weirdness” comes back in the form of “oddball 1-2”, which reframes difference as something that connects rui and tsukasa as a unit. he is no longer alone because he’s too weird, but now that same weirdness brings him closer to another person.

i also think it’s so fascinating how mizuki and rui bond over their shared difference or “loneliness,” and the game presents it as these 2 people who really have nothing in common besides their loneliness — i think mizuki says something along the lines of being happy that rui has found people that can relate to him outside of simply being lonely. it reminds me of my own experience being closeted in high school and somehow drifting into spaces with other kids who eventually came out as queer/trans, and how we were each on our own parallel journeys without ever really talking about it with one another, or how gay/lesbian communities in small towns are often very close out of necessity (unlike in big cities, where gay/lesbian communities don’t overlap as much because they don’t need to). it’s as if rui and mizuki have a shared understanding that even if the other’s particular experience is inaccessible to them, they have to be each other’s support system.

all this is to say. mizuki’s story only really makes sense to me as a trans story. similarly, rui’s story is so much richer when read in a queer context. nobody has to agree with me and i don’t really care about the game’s ultimate intent, but i just wanted to articulate how i personally find a lot of value in interpreting these characters in this way.

@renscreamz

posting this on my main so it's how my general audience finds out that there's going to be an official DC/Sonic the Hedgehog crossover and this is going to be in it

On Friendship.

game theory: amy is confusing strong admiration for sonic as a crush because of comphet.

and by comphet, i mean the overall idea that all women must be tied to men. amy believes that her future is set on being with sonic, because she was raised with that idea crammed into her head.

this is why her “crush” on sonic has simmered down in recent years, as independence has allowed her to break free from societal norms, fitting right along the series’ message. in this essay i will-

There's something about Amy....

every time someone mentions the parallels between Sonic and Maria I explode /pos

It's so interesting to me RAHHHHH

he smiled with his eyes...

just finished Shadow Generations and I'm gonna SOB!!! /pos

Going back to finish Sonic Generations is cgonna be s crazy tone shift

Anyway my boy!! They gave him more fucking trauma ! Starts crying

Ooogh Shadow... little guy I'm so sorry...

i need people who aren't autistic/who don't have adhd to stop commenting on prime sonic's personality right now

Me when the hedgehog is shadow or smth idk I never watched the show /ref