Extra life sonic Burns the McDonald's

For @nervouspiratedragon <33

Thanks! @hikingsuper

This is awesome. Extra life's facial expression is priceless as he ruined Sonic's reputation and got him banned from McDonald's.

You're welcome!

Any excuse to draw the Lil gremlin!!

Yess the lil gremlin needs more love and food.

Extra life sonic Burns the McDonald's

For @nervouspiratedragon <33

Thanks! @hikingsuper

This is awesome. Extra life's facial expression is priceless as he ruined Sonic's reputation and got him banned from McDonald's.

Hello and welcome to Opinions from an Internet Nobody. Today's essay:

"Ger therapy" is the new "You need Jesus": One Weirdo's Navigation through Cultural Shame

This is a supposedly well-meaning sentiment that is often weaponized against people who are behaving outside of perceived cultural norms. It's a favorite of homophobes who see queerness/transness as a mental illness, but I've been seeing it used to demonize kink (which historically is often linked to queerness), and more generally any "weird" behavior that makes people uncomfortable.

For example, otherkin, systems (especially those with fictives), and people who take fictional characters as partners. Y'know, "weirdos" who "can't separate reality from fiction." And, sure, sometimes there can be a problem with that distinction, but I know as well as you that most internet strangers saying "get therapy" don't actually give a shit about the mental health of those they target. It's code for "your behavior makes me uncomfortable, stop it."

Same sentiment as "you need Jesus."

This has actually taken me a long time to figure out. I've been in therapy for my entire adult life, working through various traumas, severe depression, anxiety, all that. Those were the biggest problems as they negatively impacted, and often endangered, my life. It was only after my hospitalization in 2020, where I was finally put on much needed medication, that I could start to grow into myself.

I changed my name. I top surgery. I came out as polyamorous. I finally got my official autism diagnosis. Now I'm fuckin' married! But... there are still things I'm working through in therapy. Mainly, shame over my "weirder" behaviors. My current therapist has been a huge blessing in helping me accept the things I was too ashamed to admit.

Now, I feel comfortable enough to share.

I'm otherkin. Always have been. My connection to my humanity is tenuous, and I'm sure that's connected to my autism. When mad, I feel phantom horns sprouting from my forehead. I have a tail that swishes back and forth at the base of my spine. In my soul, I am monstrous, and years of therapy has not erased that.

I feel like I'm only half in the physical world most of the time. This doesn't hinder my real-world success (I graduated college Summa Cum Laude, have an IMDB page, and am on my third book), but informs the way I look at the world. There's a whole other universe in my head that hums along with me in my day-to-day. That's part of why I'm so skilled as a writer. To ask me to divorce from that is to tell me to stop existing. Sorry, it's how I've always operated.

Lastly, and this is the one I'm really anxious about, I have a fictional husband. Now, looking at my blog, you might say "yeah, no shit," but I don't just ship myself with him. I mean I practice pop-culture Witchcraft, and the Goblin King is my patron. I mean I have a Labyrinth-themed tarot deck that I talk to him with. I mean I held a ritual to spiritually marry him. Basically, I Snape-wived myself.

And guess what? My therapist isn't concerned. It's not hurting my ability to live my life. I have other interests, hobbies, and goals outside of him, which he actively encourages in all our tarot sessions! I wouldn't be doing this if he didn't support me. My IRL spouse is usually there for whatever magical shit I'm doing, and supports me! Some of my closest friends know, and the only complaint I've gotten is "this guy seems important to you, I wish you told me sooner." Hell, my MOTHER knows and supports me, which is huge, because our relationship was pretty damaged after I came out as trans.

If you have a problem with the way I live my life, when literally nobody else does, take a good long look at why. You don't give a fuck about my mental health. You just don't like that I'm weird.

Tl;dr: My mental health is better than it's ever been since embracing the weird, so leave me and my imaginary husband Marak Sixfinger alone.

Not only that but I feel the theory takes a bit away from Eggys accomplishments;

Eggman worked his fingers to the bone ,slaving over a hot desk to create a robotic counterpart to Sonic that can stand toe-to-toe with the real thing. He painstakingly replicated all of Sonic's natural abilities with technology (and then some). A true evil robotic counterpart to Sonic. A Metallic Mirror. Eggman's magnum Opus.

Having Metal just be a roboticized Sonic just kinda takes away from Metal being Eggman's magnum opus. It implies that Eggman doesn't have the skills to craft such a marvel of a machine from scratch

Idea for a Sonic Fairytale AU: What if Eggman was an evil Fairygodfather that "upgrades" people and animals by turning them into literal living puppets/dolls. The puppets would be mindless slaves that just obey him

Taking this for a fantasy story

Thanks!

Elise & the Duke

Elise's relationship with her father isn't discussed very much. I think it's actually one of the most interesting aspects about 06.

It's like how everyone CONVENIENTLY overlooked that telling a child not to cry over her mother's death and to keep a vessel demon (THAT HE PUT INSIDE OF HER BECAUSE HE DECIDED TO MESS WITH SOME WORLD-ENDING GOD) inside of you is by numbing yourself.

That is emotional abuse if everyone must know. How did everyone over look that tiny fact?

Yeah the fandom should’ve thrown rotten tomatoes at Elise’s dad, not Elise.

What a selfish and foolish man.

Agreed. There's a reason why I call him "The Dick Of Soleanna"

gremlins gotta eat.

a hedgehog on his well deserved vacation ☀️🌺

I’ve started drawing this piece like 2 months ago and simply lost motivation for it 🥲 finally finished it!!

It's fucking insane how big of a downgrade Metal Mario is.

"Yeah lets just keep Mario as the basic untextured model and pretend it's metal" fuck you

"Oh it's not actually a metal texture, it's a reflection of flowers" YEAH AND IT LOOKS 100000000x FUCKING BETTER. METAL SHOULD REFLECT SHIT IT'S POLISHED FUCKING METAL

after all these [weeks]

I finally have them!

The baby!

The bouncies!

The boy!

To be fair, Metal Sonic really seems to have a thing for bullying cute animals:

Though if he kicked Ozzie , Sonic would go feral on him! 💀⚰️