hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like
Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"
^ this is all from the wiki btw
I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.
Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.
Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.
With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.
He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.
So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.
Why would I lie about that? Here it is.
Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,
and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)
and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:
What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.
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I remember when we used to beat the news megathread.
News would only win if there was some major event.
But now...? We're washed up. Trans is cooked. We're basically cis at this point.
We fell off, I remember the 2-3K megas. We haven't fallen to pre pride month levels, but oh how the mighty have fallen.
I do genuinely wonder what causes these shifts. What caused the initial spike, and what caused the decrease after that? Do people have more time to post over the summer? Have we really just fallen off? Has something happened to decrease interest in the mega. How does tracha affect megathread participation?
It's because Ash is gone 😭
Dork
This is probably a significant factor, she would always spark so much discussion.
I hope she's still doing alright.
Thank you
I'm not good but also, I must post.
We just need to create an army of like 10 Ash-like super-posters and we can break 10K comments!
If you know where there are more of me pls inform me, I need them.
I know I certainly haven’t had as much time to post since going back to school, and I think tracha siphons off some of the posting energy. Also I think a few users mentioned getting more depressed and dealing with SAD so that’s probably part of it. Also as thallo mentioned we’re missing ash which is probably a significant part of it since she was so good at sparking conversations (hope our beautiful poster is doing ok)
and how does depression factor into all of this 🧐
Very good question!
Hey, Vsauce, Michaela here! Are you depressed? It's a real issue, one that has likely led to the reduced participation on the trans weekly megathread, on a niche leftist internet website known as Hexbear.
Now seriously considering putting "Michaela" in the running for my name.