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Dance of Swans

A piece of mech prose

I know you. I’ve never met you, but I know you because we are the same. We are both imperfect angels made by man. Made to pilot these mechanised chassis made for nothing but perfect violence. I look at you through the glass eyes of my robotic second skin. We are the same, imperfect angels for perfect violence.

And as I reach forward, there is sensation! Sensation as I swing down upon your own metallic form a sword made to cleave apart empire’s, and you weave out of the way, your metal legs, made to bound across infinity.

Our bodies aren’t bodies. Gears and servos, turning in perfect harmony, to symphony of our cold fusion reactor hearts, roaring, screaming, singing, all at the same time as we boost forward. Skin made from the hearts of planets, and internal workings, churning, toiling. Sensors and cameras instead of eyes, letting us see far beyond what our forever marred by alteration flesh could ever let us. Instead of shot nerves and veins we have power lines, veins of electricity, liquid firing powering us now. Steel bones and titanium skin, electric blood and instead of gnashing teeth and claws, we have been given weapons of fire and blade. If these are not our bodies, what are these? Are these simply just our coffin?

Together we move yet opposed we act. The law of blood and steel is pushing us forward. We could not pay for our steel so we paid with our body and blood. Our arms actuate, like tendons and muscles pulling, aiming our guns at each other’s heads.

Our new bodies let us move meteoric like the messengers of the gods, searing blind those who are not worthy to gaze upon us as we leave death and civlity’s end in our wake. Homes and cathederals turned to rubble and ash from our waltz. Lives reduced to mere numbers as the result of our deadly dance, a ballroom gala of violence, with a chandelier of bullets, bodies and buildings. Our forms locked in an eternal clash but for a moment. Blades and guns clashing and locking together

In an immaculate dance of swans we are one but yet separate, imperfect creatures of a perfect blasphemous violence, that only our heretical bodies would allow, made from steel and lightning and man’s own god complex hubris, we are angels made by god to fight and be forgotten about when our task is done, and yet none of us has yet to become lucifer, lucent and reticent and all the ready to fight for their ideals, instead of fighting for their masters who call us dogs. Until the morning star rises, we shall be trapped under the eternal night skies, with a field of stars littered above, locked in our eternal dance of swans

RIP Susie/Noelle’s seven year streak as the most popular Deltarune ship on AO3, dethroned a little over three months after Spamton spoke to another man onscreen lmao

Wow everyone in these comments and reblogs are annoying as fuck. No wonder why people hate this site

i see that there’s a good chance this post is going to see a resurgence in notes now that a big group of Deltarune fans on Twitter are doing the “hey someone pointed out how popular the male side characters have gotten in proportion to the female main characters let’s call them a cunt tell them to stop bitching explain how they’re wrong to show that we’re not misogynist” thing again and this time pointing to specific Tumblr users to harass explain stuff to, so let’s do a quick recap

  1. the point of this post was not to accuse Spamtenna shippers of being misogynists
  2. the point of this post was not to tell people they’re obligated to ship Suselle
  3. the point of this post was to compare the growth of a side m/m pairing based mainly on “subtext” and one interaction over the period of a few months compared to the fandom’s most popular f/f pairing that is comprised of two main characters with a lot of interactions and focus from the main narrative that has been a “thing” for several years
  4. no, no one can make people ship anything, but i think it’s worth making these comparisons and thinking about them
  5. you can’t bring out the “it’s the NSFW fic making Spamtenna seem more popular” thing anymore, if you hit the “hide nsfw option” on AO3 now, as of December 2025, there’s still more Spamtenna than Suselle fic lol
  6. if someone says “isn’t it kind of crazy that it took three months for this new ship made of two male characters with one on-screen interaction (in which one thought the other was a rat) to completely eclipse the fandom’s most popular ship considering of two female characters with several years of buildup” and your response is “so you want us to write smut of MINORS? so you want to see NSFW of TEENAGE GIRLS?” you are: a scumbag
  7. there is now more fic of Spamton than Ralsei

I still come across like cultural clashes (idk how else to say it) . My boss asked me something about the Beatles and was floored when I said I never listened to them.

I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school's first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who'd awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes "oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts." and I'm like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don't like red. second of all look at me. there's literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.

we cant really be mad at baby boomers for not getting it.  they didn’t live in the same era we live in now.  they didnt have the adventures of jimmy neutron: boy genius to teach them right from wrong

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

Radioapple & Princess and the frog AU

Alastor first hang out with Lucifer near Tiana's workplace ☕️ Al finds him… Interesting(?) haha

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

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