So Ao3 Is Down.

So Ao3 is down.

First a message to the ones that are attacking the website:

Bitch

Then for those that read my fanfics (A_N_O_Nyme) :

The new chapters of Fixing it before it broke and Relax Goldfishie are not ready yet. But in the horrifying scenario where they’re ready before ao3 is fixed I’ll consider cross posting it to wattpad. It should still take me a few days so hopefully it won’t come to this.

But seriously some people really needs to get a life. I DC if it’s politically motivated or religiously motivated or if they’re just homophobes. They’re asshats.

To the Ao3 crew working on fixing this issue and making that website what it is in our day to day life :

Thank you.

Wait it’s still just one note! Is that post trying to be the new eichiro oda?

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

What was up with Chris Thorndyke, anyway?

I think it’s safe to say that Chris Thorndyke is one of the most hated characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, which is… a bit odd, when you think about it. In a world of Ken Penders’s Daddy Issues Personified and Octopus Who Kills Children For Fun (the latter of which basically being a fandom sexyman), why is a twelve-year-old boy so polarizing?

It would be easy to chalk this up to the bad 4kidz dub, but I don’t quite think that’s it. A lot of the complaints I’ve heard can go to “he got the main character slot in Sonic’s show” or “I just don’t like the human characters,” which are valid, but pale in comparison to basically all I’ve seen being: “He’s just annoying,” “I can’t fucking stand him,” etc. That’s basically all I hear, and when asking why, it usually boils down to two things: 1) his extreme attachment to Sonic and 2) his status as a rich white american only child basically puts any and all of his problems at “first world problems” at best. Those also seem like valid reasons, right?

Thing is, while on the surface it seems like this kid has no issues, as a kid with a, how you say, rough childhood, something stuck with me when I watched the show for the first time. I remember sitting through episode after episode, wondering, When does Chris stop being sympathetic and start being annoying? Since, you know, that’s his reputation.

It didn’t happen.

And it slowly became apparent to me that a lot of the things that made Chris “annoying” and “obsessive”… were just obvious symptoms of a traumatized kid.

Join me for my thesis presentation: Chris’s “annoying” traits are not a writing flaw, but an intentional character flaw brought about by severe neglect, which is resolved through his character arc, and why the fandom reaction to him is so furious.

Note: Throughout this meta, we will only be looking over the Japanese version of Sonic X, as it’s the original script and 4kidz did not translate it accurately. So if you see some lines you don’t remember being said, those are from the English subtitles/direct translation.

Once again, it is possible (also likely, we’ll discuss that a bit) that the kidification and cuts to Sonic X did a number on Chris’s likability, but for most of the meta we’ll be discussing his Japanese characterization with only a few references to cut scenes or lines in the dub.

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Okay but imagine after that:

Azul: *trying not to lose it* Okay then, what is your name?

___ : Really Azul?! We known each other for months and you still don’t know my name? Unbelievable!

*Leaves*

Everyone: *Speechless*

Azul : You got to be KIDDING ME!

*? Yuu Au*

Azul makes a presentation titled "Things we know about Yuu" to show during a dorm leader meeting and it's one slide that just "Their name is Yuu [possibly]"