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.

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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,

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and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)

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and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:

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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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  • Beetle [hy/hym]
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    10 hours ago

    Moar crushposting!!!

    My crush also has beautiful hair and cute face and they’re super creative which I loove catgirl-happy

    • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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      9 hours ago

      They have a really cool sense of style

      We haven't talked about it yet but I bet they like cool music and have some similar tastes

      Idk if they're already in a relationship or if they've been kinda flirty and I'm oblivious or they're just a really warm and friendly person to everyone normally? Kinda smitten though and feeling foolish, like I've known this person for like a week and I keep thinking of them at odd times

      Last time this happened, the last person and I went in a couple dates but stayed in a weird "mostly platonic but kinda a couple zone" for months before it fizzled out and they saw someone else and aaaaaa

      I feel like I'd rather find out if nothing's gonna come of this sooner rather than later

      • Beetle [hy/hym]
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        9 hours ago

        Yeah last crush I had wasn’t interested in me and was already in a relationship (I’m poly and my previous crush could’ve been poly too so that wasn’t a definite dealbreaker). Sucks to have to accept it won’t work out, but for me it takes a few weeks and then I’m completely over it. Now that I think about it though, this previous crush kind of led to me deleting my previous hb account because I was having a mental breakdown of like 2 days. But I still don’t really worry too much.

        If you’re going on dates and it’s vague for a long time then yeah it can really hurt.

        My new crush I’ve only talked with once but we’ll probably meet again. I kind of regret not asking for their number because we did have a really good conversation. We were first in a group setting but then everyone slowly left and we didn’t even notice we were the only ones left because we were so focused on our conversation. Sometimes that can be awkward when you notice it but they were completely fine with it and continued talking after I made a comment about it.