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I was just thinking about this if you had rewritten Slugterra accession what would you do differently? Would you bring back Dr.Blakk as the main antagonist? Or would you bring in a new villain for the Shane gang to go up against? Let me know what you think.

soory yall ive been so busyyyy BUT

Blakk would have a lasting effect, but he would not be the main antagonist. at least not for a while. cause i think this show could have been so loooooooong....id introduce blakk in like season 7 lol. honestly, slugterra has a rich tapestry of small compelling villains, with some being more important than others depending on their alliances. i'd bring back the old classics (saturday, cc, twist, maurice, blite, you name it) and also add new players - ones that grew undr blakk's shadow, ones that were released/escaped from prison for some reason, ones that hid to wait out blakk's plans and now finally feel ready to make their debut, or even some legendary evil ppl that in age have come to terrorize one cavern and, compacent, their terror hasn't been on wider slugterra's radar. and hell, it could be people killing, or controlling, but it could also be small stuff again, like a kid abusing slugs, or other implicited abusive stuff going on (cause kid show, but cmonnnn, its slugterra, they are so good at being like "yes ur honor this dude was mind controlled for 20 years and we simply let the audience look into the explicit behaviors that we animated for him afterwards" they could so do that w harsher subjects)

i would do...everything different. keep the gang together. have everyone - especially eli - grapple with the concept of how to move forward and make slugterra better - stopping those slug markets and whatnot - while also contending with their trust issues (and possible depression, in elis case) after tad. out with the universal slug or whatever, bring in wtf dana's been doing with the shadow walker - maybe shes been exploring shadow clan territory in the south and calls the shane gang when she finds new shane secrets/treasure. maybe his could be a segmented like a show - some episodes are the gang trying to fight crime but also help people out, supporting programs that make the world better, and the other half is involving a tense plotline with the shadow clan about uncovering the stuff dana found (maybe a secret passage to the back end of the deep caverns, in a cavern that's thin enough to where the shadow walker could just barely manage to take a traveler to the other side). In both plots, old and new characters get introduced and recontextualized in the absence of Blakk, especially Twist, who would probably come back in the context of "hey, why not help out the gang covertly into finding will and rescuing him so i can kill him or something!", getting more evil from his time and trauma w blakk but then as eli's hero worship of the shanes and will decays further it prompts him to come back to the good side?

That was a rant but yeah - came up w that on the fly. But I actally wrote a little of a story involving after ItS - one called "I'm sorry, I dont know what the moon looks like tonight", whose later scenes take place after ItS, and TEAL "To End A Legacy" (which is my first slgterra fanfic) where i continued the slugterra plot....in a really dark way...and IM GONNA FINISH IT 2025 IS THE YEAR I FINISH THINGS I SWEAR-

find me on ao3 at Mister Rose, i havent done stuff in a little bit but ill come back i always do (post 2017)

the shadow clan keep to themselves mostly, but get involved when a)they hate someone and b) when they harm slugs. Tad fired on them in their first meeting, so a was checked off, and then started ghouling in mass droves, so...yeah, after amity cavern they were hella spying

Do you think that the shadow clan would you tries to watch tad?

Pre Deep Cavern banishing?

Totally.

Its been shown in Cannon the Shadow Clan do keep tabs on what's going on in the 99 Caverns. But because of their aversion to light/bright areas can't necessarily do much without risking harm to themselves in some way.

Though they do mainly stick to their territory, I'm not above thinking that a few members of the Clan lurk in the shadows and watch what potential threats do to keep tabs on them.

So yeah, I can totally believe the Shadow Clan watch Tad, but can't do much unless they absolutely have too.

YES YES YES EXACTLY

If junjie came back to see the Shane gang just after tads betrayal how would that play out? (You can also add stocker, gentlemen, Dana Mario, Vance and possibly Blight trying to do something about it.)

Anon, ima be real with you for a second.

The best possible way for me to describe this is with two specific memes

So here they are:

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

I REALLY BECAME A MET FAN MUSIC TEACHER AT THE RIGHT TIME IM THRIVING

Kodai Senga gets his own song! "Ghost Fork" by Yusuke feat. Alisa.

my husband doesn't love this the same way he loved "OMG" but i am all here for the multicultural pop experience. honestly, i don't think there could ever be too many songs.

i also think this is going to sound banging on the audio equipment at Citi Field.

Just read this story and it was adorable. Take a look guys.

OUCH

If you've ever procrastinated on finishing a Tron fanfiction, or just left it unfinished, take solace in the fact that you're being true to the franchise.

ITS COMING BACK TO MY PAGE FOLKS

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So, if yall pay attention (not that I expect anyone to)

I like to do a whimsy tag:

Not my circus but that's my monkey.

I want to explain it a bit because asks are still disabled and i don't have enough spoons to turn it back on.

The whole point of being a writer/part of fandom in general is COMMUNITY.

Like we're all part of a larger community and that means showing up for people even if its not your thing, even if its not your ship/fandom but someone you follow/are friends with made with care and love.

So yeah it's not my circus (fandom) but thats my monkey (mutual/friend/someone I'm choosing to follow for whatever reasons)

Share their art, share their fics, share their shit.

If we want to see the change in the community we got to start somewhere.

There are variations to this that I do use:

That is my circus and that's my monkey

Not my circus nor my monkey but the monkeys might like it

Not my circus and that's my monkey but thats not my act (not my fandom, my moot, not my ship)

Thats my circus but thats not my monkey

Circus and monkey adjacent is (monkey got a new hyperfixation it looks like)

Its whimsy.

Add your own to posts but please just start sharing others works. Because the only way we keep community alive is start participating in it again.

Fuck feel free to use and adapt mine idc, I just started doing it to start helping my friends works because as an artist it's disheartening to see so many quit because the lack of engagement.

You're on the engagement website start doing your part.

unironically? Avatar the last airbender. instead of slugs channeling powers, it would be humans, who can only do the core 4 of the elementals, and do not have the chi necessary for the energy elementals power (though the more powerful benders can utilize some of it). eli's family are non-benders, hence them mainly being heroes in the underground. Interesting creatures live above and below the ground. Yang could have been a fire bender, hence the origins of slug-fu. maybe both the shanes and the yangs have had the avatar in their family at some point, and their lasting legacy is why they became the protectors. shanes have to stop the 2 worlds from meeting, and from the people of slugterra learning how to bend, since the magic of slugterra elevates the bending power, and people would get hurt from bad actors, or people trying to learn and hurting themselves. And a plot could be that some air nomads escaped the genocide into slugterra discreetly, or that during the 100 years, the shanes have had to convince MANY refugees to not practice bending in from of the slugterran natives, or damn what if the fire nation found slugterra and attacked? oooo, and what if as part of avatar training, the avatar and trusted advisors alone know of the shane's mission, so aang meets shanes from 100 years ago but dont learn where the entrance is, and due to 100 years of war the shane family has dwindled to will and young eli, and eli as a non-bender helps out in the war against Ozai, and then in return a few years later aang helps eli when he's the only one left and keeps watch of the surface for him, and even goes down to slugterra for the s2 finale, or defeating YET ANOTHER emperor, or teaching junjie to fire bend sometimes, and maybe tad could be sent back up to help a sligtly older aang instead of fall into the deep caverns, im thinking too hard about this-

If you wanted to do a crossover with slugterra what show would you do? For me personally it’s storm hawks ( obviously) and the other one is Ninjago ( because of the elements and the ninjas)

What do you think?

Okay- yeah crossover between SH and Ninjago would be fun, I actually remember reading a Danny Phantom and Slugterra Cossover fic(it was short lived but cool concepts-)

there is a three way Crossover fic series between Slugterra, MaxSteel(2013) and Hot Wheels: Battle Force Five. on fanfic.net

dwouebihia;ojs Cossover fics/one shots are fun as hell

but if there was like, one thing, I would pick for my own crossover, it would be Martin Mystery

the vibe of that show just fits, and because Martin Mystery is canonically in the Totally Spies universe(and by proxy The Amazing Spiez) that means my girls, kids, and mystery solving team can find themselves down in Slugterra as well, trying to stop a supervillain along side the Shane Gang from trying to take over/exploit the 99 Caverns

What are your thoughts about the southern and northern caverns if the show had kept on going? And what would you think they would look like in your perspective?

aye, thanks for the question!

the north and southern caverns....if u mean like as new realms entirely, imma be so real for a second, im not too big on headcanoning other worlds (and oc's either) for slugterra. like i love the creativity, but theres so much in canon to draw from and expand that i feel very, very aimless and antithetical against the show for really giving the idea much thought. the west and the east cover all the caverns of the world for me, and theres already SO MUCH space for headcanon-ing different cultures and characters there, especially in the eastern caverns! not to mention the burning world, which can kinda be as close to real life as we want it to be.

the northern and southern caverns do exist tho - they are the northern and southern caverns of the 2 worlds we know of in the show in my head, and the wikis dont say much about them. They are more barren than the more central caverns due to the extreme temperatures and historically being less of a place to live, and more as a place for researchers (and capitalists?) to explore and study. Tis could also be a hub for the explorer types like Andre from a distant shore, and hunting big creature types (because im sure the less populous creatures we see in the show live in those outskirts, hence why we only see a cyclops in a city center once in the west). I also like the idea of slugterran history from long ago happening there, and it being a bit of a taboo to explore (except for the explorers themselves, who can point to this taboo danger to explain how cool they are and ask for funding) - in my fic We Can Be Saved (WHICH I WILL FINISH) i go into a northern cavern mentioned in one of the mobile games and it was really fun adding slugterra history to Bonny Cavern, webbing the history of boon docs with the shadow clan, the shanes, cave trolls, and humans desperate for a healer.

I havent thought as much about the southern caverns, but I imagine large sentient bugs being more popular there (like the spiders from slug-fu showdown, the cave of which i hc to be in the south), and it being so dangerous that only experienced hunters go there for game. I especially like the detail in slugterra that all the caverns implied to be more southern dont have alot of life and flora - and most notably, a water source. living beings like not traveling for water! and apparently Mr. Saturday is from there, and considering his accent, using a staff, and face paint, maybe there is a secluded cavern of humans down there who live pretty differently! we know the cave trolls and moles have some different clans, i can see a slugterra where most humans banded together, but one or 2 caverns stayed pretty tight-knit and away from broad society, mainly the ones on the frays near the end of the world/shadow clan territory (that dont provide mining/exploration oppurtunnity for the main culture, of course, like the king of sling's cavern). I also like the idea of there being less roads in the north and south, due to the cave trolls knowing less about the inhabitants there and not making deals to pave their caverns, so naturally the average slugterran citizen won't off-road to these places without very good reason.

and mostly, i think there'd be more shane and shadow clan secrets, especially in the northeast edge of the map. theres a reason the king of sling and the town there is sparse, but very much alive. i can totally see there being a shane hideout nearby.

also? none of any of this applies to the eastern north and south caverns. from what little we saw, the eastern shadow clan actually is okay with other species's, and the groups are more integrated, which means that the cultures on the fringes of their map may be anything from spiritually relevant caverns to just regular cities with roads and relations to the rest of their world. no matter what hc's i'd go with, i'd want to keep this contrast, as i think this really highlights what slugterra is good at - implicitely making the shanes and their world an incredibly sketcky topic if you think and compare it to other places for too long.

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Finally found the original source for Tad's age So debates over peeps; pick up your briefcases, courts out of session. Our boy is canonica

HOLY SHIT WE FOUND IT GO SEE THE POST LADS THEY FOUND OMFG OMFG OMFG-

THE GREATEST ARCHEOLOGIST OF OUR TIME!!!!

AYEEEEEEEEE

Going back to redeem characters who else do you know would be redeemed? And why?

Honest?

I don't really know-

There are a lot of fun minor antagonists, all of which have their own charm.

But if I had to pick just one, it's would be Quintin

Quintin, as explained in Robo Slugs, wasn't originally a bad guy. He was just traumatized by being trapped in that Slug Pit as a kid.

He ended up with what if think was a justified phobia of Slug, thus leading him to make the Robo Slugs. But because of Slugterras' overall culture around Slug's, he was constantly laughed at and mocked for wanting to make the artificial Slugs. No one took him seriously.

Him going full Power Rangers Villain in Futuria Cavern was just, him providing his inventions where not a waste of time.

I mean, he did go about it the wrong way, don't get me wrong, Quintin was so in the wrong, but he wouldn't have been pushed to that point if the other scientist fucking listened to him, and actually took into account just how much research and innovation went into Robo Slugs(they are objectively cool)

And by the end of Robo Slugs, when Eli dumped that Slugs on Quintin, and the Slugs saved him from being crushed by the Mecha Mechas, Quintin, seemingly gets over his fear, at least enough that when he's recruited by Blakk, he doesn't mined working in close proximity to Ghouls, or firing them out of the Titan Tank.

I believe the reason Quintin sides with Blakk isn't just because Blakk bailed him out of jail time, but because Blakk, actually was interested in his work and what he was capable of, in comparison to the scientist from Futuria Cavern who brushed him off. Which is why he was so willing to make the Titan Tanks to begin with and probably even help refine the Gatling Blasters.

Should Quintin be redeemed, I want it to start off with him realizing, Blakk don't actually care about him, but what he brings to the table, his inventions.

Blakk piling on more and more and more work on Quintin, to the point Quintin asks for, like a few hours to just sleep and Blakk snapps threatening to haul Quintin back to Stalagmight 17 himself if he doesn't comply.

This leds to Quintin doing small acts of rebellion by delaying projects, putting in more obvious weak points in the Titan Tanks, to full on sabotage.

Eventually, probably around the aftermath of 'Light as Day' while Blakk is still in the Deep Caverns, Quintin takes as much shit as he can, and leaves Blakk Industries, settles in a new Cavern under a new identity, and lives a more regular life as a local inventor who helps out fixing stuff, and making things.

I see him being an informant as well, like leaking info anonymously about Blakk Industries on forums for the Shane Gang or anyone else who wants to take the fight to Blakk themselves.

i love slugterra discourse.

this is a shiny gem in a world that needs more colorful jewelry. i praise your mind and the joy you find that fuels your drive to post on tumblr :)

my only gripe is that he already has a kid he dissapeared so slugterra social services may not let him adopt, but thats technicalities, and you are right regardless

Pretending Slugterra has similar guardianship laws to the surface, in most places you have to be at least 16 to be released from parental control.

Eli is only 15 at the beginning of the series so a totally viable strategy for Blakk would've been to just adopt Eli.

Can't blow up the ghouling depots if you're grounded, checkmate

and that isolationist plot contrasted well with season 3!!!

i swear, im so fascinated by the shane gang's political power, yet also their political separation. i think its a shane thing! the ynags fought with other heroes of peach blossom spring cavern, their teacher stayed in their cavern and is implied to have stayed by jun's side for a while. its specifically the SHANES, with few allies and of those allies Will losing like half of them, with a dissapearing master and a distant shadow clan, where the shanes stand mystically ALONE. as if the very BRAND was a lone op hero shooting bad guys. like omfg, eli broke this cycle by even HAVING A SHANE GANG. AND TELLING THEM THINGS.

if slugterra continues, i want him breaking that legacy. gain allies in mario, and quentin, and the gentleman, and stocker, and dana, and omfg, everyone who wants to fight for good.

Going back to redeem characters who else do you know would be redeemed? And why?

Honest?

I don't really know-

There are a lot of fun minor antagonists, all of which have their own charm.

But if I had to pick just one, it's would be Quintin

Quintin, as explained in Robo Slugs, wasn't originally a bad guy. He was just traumatized by being trapped in that Slug Pit as a kid.

He ended up with what if think was a justified phobia of Slug, thus leading him to make the Robo Slugs. But because of Slugterras' overall culture around Slug's, he was constantly laughed at and mocked for wanting to make the artificial Slugs. No one took him seriously.

Him going full Power Rangers Villain in Futuria Cavern was just, him providing his inventions where not a waste of time.

I mean, he did go about it the wrong way, don't get me wrong, Quintin was so in the wrong, but he wouldn't have been pushed to that point if the other scientist fucking listened to him, and actually took into account just how much research and innovation went into Robo Slugs(they are objectively cool)

And by the end of Robo Slugs, when Eli dumped that Slugs on Quintin, and the Slugs saved him from being crushed by the Mecha Mechas, Quintin, seemingly gets over his fear, at least enough that when he's recruited by Blakk, he doesn't mined working in close proximity to Ghouls, or firing them out of the Titan Tank.

I believe the reason Quintin sides with Blakk isn't just because Blakk bailed him out of jail time, but because Blakk, actually was interested in his work and what he was capable of, in comparison to the scientist from Futuria Cavern who brushed him off. Which is why he was so willing to make the Titan Tanks to begin with and probably even help refine the Gatling Blasters.

Should Quintin be redeemed, I want it to start off with him realizing, Blakk don't actually care about him, but what he brings to the table, his inventions.

Blakk piling on more and more and more work on Quintin, to the point Quintin asks for, like a few hours to just sleep and Blakk snapps threatening to haul Quintin back to Stalagmight 17 himself if he doesn't comply.

This leds to Quintin doing small acts of rebellion by delaying projects, putting in more obvious weak points in the Titan Tanks, to full on sabotage.

Eventually, probably around the aftermath of 'Light as Day' while Blakk is still in the Deep Caverns, Quintin takes as much shit as he can, and leaves Blakk Industries, settles in a new Cavern under a new identity, and lives a more regular life as a local inventor who helps out fixing stuff, and making things.

I see him being an informant as well, like leaking info anonymously about Blakk Industries on forums for the Shane Gang or anyone else who wants to take the fight to Blakk themselves.

I loveeee it! I also think Quentin is a strong ally cause he...besides Blakk sometimes...is the only antagonist of the whole show that actually sought to mentally hurt his opponents?

like w Eli. Eli is at his cruelest, most cop-ish state in Quentin's first episode. Why? Because in their first ever interaction, Quentin's shoving in Eli's face how he's taking all his moves from his dad who failed and that Eli's no shane, and I think that hit a sore spot. College kids are brutal and can really burn others? And Quentin's a perfect example. He can reallllly get under peoples skin. His tech and recon would be great, but I wouldn't underestimate just how much of a dueling menace he can be too - him against cc, mocking his newfound allegiance to blakk. Against twist, calling twist a coward with no morals and only 1 good slug and a dead dad. Locke and load, calling them stupid over and over again. Cruel but semi-deserved and, above all else, kinda funny as hell. There's some banter that could really make these villains use their blakk employee mental health insturance and I love the possibilities.

Going back to redeem characters who else do you know would be redeemed? And why?

Honest?

I don't really know-

There are a lot of fun minor antagonists, all of which have their own charm.

But if I had to pick just one, it's would be Quintin

Quintin, as explained in Robo Slugs, wasn't originally a bad guy. He was just traumatized by being trapped in that Slug Pit as a kid.

He ended up with what if think was a justified phobia of Slug, thus leading him to make the Robo Slugs. But because of Slugterras' overall culture around Slug's, he was constantly laughed at and mocked for wanting to make the artificial Slugs. No one took him seriously.

Him going full Power Rangers Villain in Futuria Cavern was just, him providing his inventions where not a waste of time.

I mean, he did go about it the wrong way, don't get me wrong, Quintin was so in the wrong, but he wouldn't have been pushed to that point if the other scientist fucking listened to him, and actually took into account just how much research and innovation went into Robo Slugs(they are objectively cool)

And by the end of Robo Slugs, when Eli dumped that Slugs on Quintin, and the Slugs saved him from being crushed by the Mecha Mechas, Quintin, seemingly gets over his fear, at least enough that when he's recruited by Blakk, he doesn't mined working in close proximity to Ghouls, or firing them out of the Titan Tank.

I believe the reason Quintin sides with Blakk isn't just because Blakk bailed him out of jail time, but because Blakk, actually was interested in his work and what he was capable of, in comparison to the scientist from Futuria Cavern who brushed him off. Which is why he was so willing to make the Titan Tanks to begin with and probably even help refine the Gatling Blasters.

Should Quintin be redeemed, I want it to start off with him realizing, Blakk don't actually care about him, but what he brings to the table, his inventions.

Blakk piling on more and more and more work on Quintin, to the point Quintin asks for, like a few hours to just sleep and Blakk snapps threatening to haul Quintin back to Stalagmight 17 himself if he doesn't comply.

This leds to Quintin doing small acts of rebellion by delaying projects, putting in more obvious weak points in the Titan Tanks, to full on sabotage.

Eventually, probably around the aftermath of 'Light as Day' while Blakk is still in the Deep Caverns, Quintin takes as much shit as he can, and leaves Blakk Industries, settles in a new Cavern under a new identity, and lives a more regular life as a local inventor who helps out fixing stuff, and making things.

I see him being an informant as well, like leaking info anonymously about Blakk Industries on forums for the Shane Gang or anyone else who wants to take the fight to Blakk themselves.

this actually opens up quite a world of potential. C.C., in the trade, really makes it seem like he was chill being a good duelist but then saw the writing on the wall and wanted to be on the winning side of things (not unlike twist???). But maybe, after trying to be super chill w his coworkers but also seeing some of the inner workings he's like "wait....maybe I can be famous and have fun some other way, I don't think this world they're building would let me be that prominent a figure" he changes sides. I don't see him living w the gang, or even changing sides that long before s2's finale, but as a rich guy going w the flow, having a tiny little, lukewarm change of heart? He could absolutely end up on the good side, and once he's there in a shallow way could realize "oh these kids got a heart and soul, it's kinda nice actually", and start having a bit of a backbone!

Also I'm so real, I could see Mario and C.C. having a friendly duel rivalry? Mario, charismatic and a marksman to the bone. C.C., rich and also in the public eye, who may fare better with team shooting matches. For all we know, maybe they DID have a rivalry pre-Mario's pizza era. fuck it, will x Blakk is mainstream and CC x Mario enemies to lovers is the true rare pair -

Going back to Eli giving people a second chance( like twist and tad) I want C.C to also be redeemed. Why because 1. He is a really good slinger and 2. He would give the Shane gang info on old buildings that Blakk used for ghouling slugs.

And if he were to be in the Shane gang how would that play out?

Oh my gosh-

I think everyone(minus Eli) would be, suspicious.

If C.C. decided, "Oh yeah, hey, you know what, Blakk is actually insane, I need an out like NOW" and the joined the Shane Gang, I think the distrust will play out differently depending on when he joins up with them.

If C.C. joins Pre The New Kid, Kord, Trixie and Pronto are going to be sus of him. Because you know what, C.C. literally did side with Blakk for the paycheck, and the power, so him suddenly switching sides is, you know, suspicious. Eli obviously, isn't all that suspicious of C.C. and genuinely thinks the older Slinger is trying to be a better person.

If he joins post The New Kid, no one, is having it, especially if the switch happens post Lightwell.

They got betrayed, so badly, that it's hard for the Gang to trust someone they don't already know, and are positive won't work for Blakk willingly.

Eli is hesitant it trust C.C. after everything without Twist, and after what happens to Burpy. But if he can see C.C. being sincere, and actually want to fix things, he'll entertain C.C. joining them on missions, but not living in the Hideout, till everyone is on the same page.

And when they do finally trust C.C. it's honestly nice having a former pro circuit Duelist on the team.

(Add another brother to the list for Eli, lmao)

C.C. is also apparently a Nepo baby, as in, he's rich, so, excuse to see his rich family, and him casually just, pay for things like the Gang isn't living reward payout to reward payout.

And yeah, before leaving Blakk Industries, the guy is getting his hands on anything and everything of use he can, from Blaster and Mecha mods, to every piece of data he can download to help expose and bring Blakk down.

I made an intro to slugterra thingy cause most youtube videos ive seen about slugterra are either ai slop or well-meaning cartoon channels that have done a sane and respectable amount of research but dont have every slugterra fact tatooed into their bloodstream like I do...so boom, a real life human with a voice talking about slugterra.

i have no proper camera but otherwise ive always really vibed w video essay stuff...doesnt mean im good at it, but if i do it more ill probs get better at it! not just about slugterra either, i have hot takes about aspec representation and i accidentally stumbled into the lord of the rings fandom recently, so...hopefully, whatever happens, the rest of my artistic output is only better than this vid and not worse :)

love thissssss agree 100%

hows each of the shanegang like depressed

I think some might different takes on this, but these are just mine

Eli, is one of those people who keep it to themselves. He doesn't like others seeing him sad, not because he thinks it makes him look weak, but because he doesn't want anyone to worry about him, and has this massive issue of setting aside his own problems and focusing on anything but his own problems. Like putting aside the search for his dad in favor of helping Junjie and the Eastern Caverns. (There is more context to that, but i swear every single time Will is brought up, Eli gets sad, then almost immediately perks up and redirects the conversation)

Speaking of Junjie, he's actually kinda the same way as Eli. In the early episodes of the Eastern Caverns arc, Junjie is having nightmares, and in ROTE, he admitted to as much as well to Eli in the garage, the difference is that the EC arc nightmares are worse, where as the ROTE one was probably a buried memory. He keeps shit to himself and trains to keep his mind off it.

When both Eli and Junjie eventually crash, they crash hard

Trixie also keeps it to herself, but she is more snippy and irritable. It's also kinda easy to tell when she's getting depressed because she's not filming or editing videos as often.

Pronto is eating his feelings. But not in the overly gross exaggerated way.

Kord buries himself in mechanic work. Troll's got to feel useful. He also gets in like a slump and is very clearly upset. I like to think Kord is like the most emotionally intelligent member of the Gang, so he is rather open about how he's feeling most of the time. But knows not to trauma dump, everyone in the Gangs got there own stuff to deal with.

. . ."He is a bad boy with a tainted heart"

My friend wants to know something and I to want to know as well, this is his question “how come nacho’s the only dark bane to go work for dr. Blakk wouldn’t it be better to have more dark bane in his group? Or did the writers have no time to make more dark bane characters?”

Let us know what you think 🤔

more dark bane come up to help Dr Blakk at the end of "Back to Blakk" - nacho was the only one up at first because a)they wanted to keep the secret of the bark bane in Slugterra for as long as they could, and nacho is the only one (probably) who can shapeshift to look more human, and b) Blakk needed a lot of ghouls to open a portal big enough for several dark bane to go thru at once. The fandom has been calling the 4 other bark bane that came up after back to Blakk plus nacho "the dark bane elite" for a while. Brimmstone stayed in the deep caverns so he could command the army into the portal during the s2 finale - they planned for a huge assault, not a slow trickling of dark bane, especially since they probably planned on causing a great upheaval and overpowering blakk in the confusion.

Are slugs from Slugterra consider, fairy animals in the perspective of fairies from Winx Club/World of Winx?

imma be so real - I love questions pls give me all ur inquiries, even the non slugterra ones cause I have a lot of niche interests and I do know a lot of different fandoms, I just have no idea what winx club is......

how would the slug speedstinger wear a neck strap if they have no neck lol

Speed stingers playing a saxophone @bugsinpants @geohere

I LOVE THESE POSTS

Also I HC that Vance and Mario have both wanted to deck Will Shane for nearly a decade since, as popular figures they've always wanted to get in touch and professionally collaborate (Will on the Bravado show and Vance in competitive racing) and Will being shady never responded so they both already hold a grudge over that.

like seriously, they're both the right ages! They could have made their OWN Shane gang, Will and Tom and Mario and Vance!!! Mario and Vance being a decade or 2 younger, but still super useful!

Can you please make a head cannon where Dana, Mario and Vince joined the Shane gang and how would they react after a distant shore pretty please 🥺 I’ll give you an ice cream for this 🍦

Me: *Inhales Ice Cream* Me: offering accepted- I needed a break from making that stupid map anyway-

Shane Gang Head Cannon's #4.2: I'm Getting a Sense of Deja Vu [EDITION]

You know, I've mentioned it before but user {multiversal-madness} dose have a bigger Shane Gang AU, here is a link to one of the posts [X] I recommend checking it out! especially since some of my HC's are influenced by their AU!

[Still working on my fic and big blog post- but brain rot calls-]

⚡[Part 1] ⚡ [Part 2] ⚡ [Part 3] ⚡ [Part 4] ⚡[Part 4.1] ⚡

{Dana}

She joins following the faking of her death in 'The Gentleman & The Thief'

Till Dana gets a new wardrobe, she's sharing cloth with Trixie, and she may or may not steal a shirt or two from Eli

[I steal my brothers shirts, their just comfy-]

Eli and Dana develop a sibling dynamic

both their dads where good friend's once upon a time, and with them dead/presumed missing, they bond over that and some other stuff

Dana help's Trixie with editing the Slugisodes

Kord is fascinated by the Short Distance Teleporter Dana had been using, but she keeps that thing out of everyone's reach

because Dana is stuck at the Hideout more often then naught, her only sources of entertainment are, the TV, SlugNet and Pronto

being (fake) dead sucks :(

This is going to be a controversial take, but Eli tells Dana about the Surface.

'The Gentleman & The Thief' takes place after 'A Distant Shore' which is the ep where the rest of the Gang learns the truth that the Surface is real, and I'm pretty steadfast in anyone who joins the gang after not being told, as seen in the Gentleman and Gerhard HC's,

but Dana is the daughter of Tom Por, and Will leaving for the Surface(and Will's dealing with the Shadow Clan) is what caused the rift to form between them. and Eli dose not want to lie to Dana, and dose not want what happened to their fathers to happen to him an Dana.

So Eli tells Dana, and tells her as much as he knows,

Dana is touched that Eli is trusting her with this information, that he trusts her this much despite everything

Trixie and Dana have girl time

goes as well as you would expect

brotherly affection for Eli be damned, Dana will punch, Will Shane

Pronto makes Dana a tomb stone

she's actually really sentimental about it (the tomb stone i mean)

Dana becomes like, the stealth expert of the Gang

{Mario}

Mario would join some time after he's offered the position on the team

like a week-month later

Like however long it takes for 'The New Kid parts 1 & 2' to be done and over

Eli gains yet another Big Brother

Mario will physically get into a fight with Twist when he's seen again

Trick shot practice with Mr. Bravado is a Populer Slugidose series on the Shane Gang SlugNet account

Trick shot practice with Mario is fun in general tbh

Pizza night every Sunday, with home made Pizza

All reasoning be damned, Mario will deck Will Shane

Kord and Mario bond over blaster mods, and slug gear

Trixie enjoys making compilations of the Gangs best shots, and Mario is surprisingly good at video making, so he's constantly helping out in editing the compilations, and even cross posting on his own SlugNet acc

Pronto and Kord get a start of their betting with Eli and Mario way before Junjie happens

during 'A Distant Shor' Mario, just like everyone else is annoyed at Gar, and is telling Eli to leave the mad man alone because nothing good comes from chasseing fairy tails

and just like the others Mario is pissed Eli is not trusting them, and acting so, weirder than normal

then the reveal happens and he is gobsmaked

"I-its real??? The Burning World is REAL?! OH SHADOWS- Th-this is-"

Mario just hug's Eli because, kid just went through so much shit, and destroyed his grate uncle's journal, the one thing that probably had all the answers to all the questions Eli had, just to keep the secret, and them safe-

Mario makes Eli's fave Pizza that night

{Vance}

"I'm a Racer not a Slinger"

*Is given a baster*

*Becomes cowboy*

"what the-"

he joins sometime after 'The Slug Run'

he got fired :( (From Racing)

turns out, giving up the super rare slug prize you where contractually obligated to hand over is a no-no

Sucks as Slug Slinging and requires so many aids to help him shoot good

Vance teaches the Gang a bunch of cool Mecha tricks

Vance makes it a point to teach everyone to ride each others Mecha Beasts, just in case they end up having to switch rides, or commandeer a dif Mecha

he used to do sponsored shows/races were he had to ride different models, and it's not all the same

When they get the Motorbike upgrades Vance is salivating at the mouth

Trixie takes more of an interest in Mecha tricks as compared to the guys

Kord and Vance bond over Mecha's gushing over every new model and mod ever made

Eli get's to help them with maintenance

[he's not allowed to do anything other than tighten bolts, last time they gave him something important to do, Fernando exploded]

Pronto and Vance get into an argument about Fernando

"YOU NEED A NEW MECHA MOLE!"

"FERNANDO HAS SERVED PRONTO LOYALY FOR YEARS!"

they learn to 'agree to disagree' and leave it at that.

Call Eli, Ash Ketchum, because he's got yet another Big Brother

Respect be damned, Vance will punch Will Shane

Much like the rest of the Gang during 'A Distant Shore' Vance is not a fan of Gar

Gar is like an obsessive fan, and Vance hates those kinds of fans

is very concerned about Eli and how weird he's acting in 'A Distant Shore'

At that point in time, Eli has made a name for himself as the Shane so Vance can't help but think Eli is letting the pressure get to him and is making some bad calls, similarly to the one's Vance made early in his career as a racer.

When the truth comes out about the Burning World being real, he can't help but think about how much of a PR nightmare Eli's actions no matter how well indented, were.

He is 100% running damage control and debunking and all of Gar's claims on the SlugNet after the fact or so help him-

He dose ask about the transportation Top Side though

Eli tell's Vance about NASCAR

goes as well as you think it would

@temperance-sunlight, I agree! Locke and loade were used way too much, but I can also see the advantage of shallow villains - to actually spend time on them would mean to take time away from the other parts of the episode.

as for twist and Dana - YES. Mario and the gentleman and stocker and many others, when not on screen, still feel alive, and it's a good feeling. Those 2, tho? There kids who are directly involved in Shane buisness and would not stop after Blakk fell - I would same the same for Maurice, too. Those three hurt the most, since they should have come back a little. There's MANG arguments to them trying to avoid the Shane's, tho - Dana laying low and being self-sufficient, and probs still sore from what happened to Tom, Maurice being an underground villain who doesn't like the spotlight, and twist suddenly needing to make a living w no blakk backing and being known as a bad guy, probably making him live day by day again...but I wish t where names were brought up more. I mean, twist and sans were both brought up once post-movies. But they could have easily intertwined their dealings in the chill scenes.

I kinda wish they could've been in rote at least, or slug fu showdown.

I kinda wish Dana was more included. A lot of cool characters just show up for a tiny amount of time and dip forever which is a shame. It’d be cool to see a side plot where she slowly unravels the secrets will refused to tell her dad by snooping on Eli or something

Dana

Twist

Mario

Vance

And like a bunch of other ppl I can't name rn

Are all individuals that should have been seen more.

Honestly yeah, getting to see Dana more would have been awesome, especially if she happened to run into the Gang while they were Secret hunting leading to fun shenanigans

Side plot regarding any of the side characters would have been amazing i wish they pulled a Storm Hawks, and by that I mean have an episode just decided to the Villains/side characters and what they get up too while the Heros are off doing who knows what.

But with such a large cast of characters, it's inevitable some get lost or underutilized, unfortunately.

Especially those who were created to just fill a serten role like Vance or Mario.

Not everyone can be a C.C. fitting whatever role the narrative demands.

okay, I have a hot take that might get me on thin ice.

I like that many of our cool characters aren't reoccurring.

like, it's always felt a bit cheap in a lot of media, that despite a fictional world claiming that the world is so BIG and VAST, all the characters we run into are "important". It's like the skywalker effect in Star Wars - like, one family and one group of acquaintances don't run the show. It makes the work feel small. And don't get me wrong, there's great writing to be had w knowing all the network of important characters to a worlds lore! But in a show like Slugterra, which is decently long but isn't the length of one piece, everyone reoccurring feels hollow to me. I LIKE that Vance is probably important and doing things - or shows to not do anything idk - off screen. I like how we see other slingers only when it's convenient for them - they have lives outside the blakk battles. I like how there's not just 20 important people in Slugterra - there's ALOT of interesting people, and whenever we watch an episode, it's usually someone new showing up, expanding the lore w their prescence then going back to live the lives we headcanon over.

I'm showing a friend of mine the show, and she said something interesting around ep 8: "I never know what's gonna happen in this show." Like, TRUE! We know the gang will be involved, but otherwise, we're uncovering lore, and in that search and those fights, we could run into ANYONE. It's not my hero academia: oh it's the tournament arc, time to see this group of characters. It's not a sitcom - everyone is reoccurring and the wider world doesn't exist. It's a lore expansive universe.

of course we are going to see some acquaintances once or twice, then never again. It's like real life! Which just makes those we keep close that much more important and impactful. Like remember - friend or foe, there's only been 4 characters who CHOSE to not vanish from Eli's life once their buisness in that cavern or tournament was over. I like that. I like that feeling that there's a lot of cool people in the world, and you don't see most of them, but you see as many as you can - and some will even choose, amongst all the other races and battles and underground circuits, to stay by you.

I think we should have seen those characters more - but perhaps doing their own thing, or seeking the Shane out in particular, hence them being plot important. And I think, to not ruin the worldly effect, this would have to be done sparingly, over a long period of time. Slugterra doesn't have that, so...I'm okay, with the canon experience.

I kinda wish Dana was more included. A lot of cool characters just show up for a tiny amount of time and dip forever which is a shame. It’d be cool to see a side plot where she slowly unravels the secrets will refused to tell her dad by snooping on Eli or something

Dana

Twist

Mario

Vance

And like a bunch of other ppl I can't name rn

Are all individuals that should have been seen more.

Honestly yeah, getting to see Dana more would have been awesome, especially if she happened to run into the Gang while they were Secret hunting leading to fun shenanigans

Side plot regarding any of the side characters would have been amazing i wish they pulled a Storm Hawks, and by that I mean have an episode just decided to the Villains/side characters and what they get up too while the Heros are off doing who knows what.

But with such a large cast of characters, it's inevitable some get lost or underutilized, unfortunately.

Especially those who were created to just fill a serten role like Vance or Mario.

Not everyone can be a C.C. fitting whatever role the narrative demands.

My friends and I were just talking about the Shane family tree and we realized it gets a bit confusing.

Like Jimmon Shane from my perspective didn’t have kids ( maybe he did have kids and we never knew about them) yet will being his nephew takes over the Shane name after he retires. But shouldn’t have gone to his will’s father ( Eli’s grandfather) instead so that way it would have been easier to pass down through generation to generation.

Man just thinking about it makes me and my friends head spin 😵‍💫 Really wish the writers could have done something about this to make it more clear about the family tree.

YES YES IT IS!!!! i actually wrote a fic exploring this a bit called "Burned Away" on ao3 - and it will not be my last time exploring the older shanes. i love them!

My theory actually has to do with Master Shanai. The most likely explanation, disregarding the what-ifs about will's parents dying and whatnot, is that Master Shanai only chooses one student to train - hence, if there's shanes that are cousins/siblings who would take up the mantle in the same era, Master Shanai would choose the most combat-worthy, or who has the most heart, that type of deal. And then the unchosen spend more time on the surface, or specialize in something like tech or recon or just helping where they can (especially as they grow older and gotta care for kids). in Burned Away, I made will's dad the one chosen by shanai and jimmo mainly raised will instead, on the surface ,while his brother (wills dad) was the acting shane, and they would swap out every once and a while. I also made jimmo a nerd about slug biology and health but thats like a complete HC.

Point is, its most likely that theres more shanes, and we just know the ones who were chosen by master shanai. I wrote that fic for drama and all, but its much more likely that jimmo was the chosen pupil, but had a brother/cousin and they had a kid, and in the next generation, it was nephew will shane who would be chosen next. This actually makes more sense than just "the kid gets it" - it makes sure the most promising shane gets the title and if any of them turn evil shanai just wouldnt choose them. I think this is how the shanes have lasted so long. though, what has happened to make it so the family tree has dwindled and will had ONLY eli left for the next generation of shanes...that lies in HC territory.

Imagines the Slugs pop up in Gravity Falls?

I'm just imagining gravity falls having The Drop....yeah, that makes sense.

I think if they showed up without any talking slugterrans the slugs would just be seen as another creature/monster/anomally. Plus, if they stay in protoform, how would the town even know they can transform? they'de be kept secret well there, tho. They'de be a footnote in that towns history tbh. Out of all the places on the surface to know about the slugs, or even Slugterra, gravity falls is like best case scenario.

(btw I haven't watched it in like 7 years and barely remember it it's on my rewatch list - sorry if I'm forgetting stuff)

If the shane gang (plus tad, twist, and junjie) had childern in the future, what kinda dad's (and or mom) would they be like?

I have actually thought about this.

A lot.

Believe it or not.

Eli: He's a good dad. Eli has more or less decided that he's staying in Slugterra, he doesn't have to do what his dad did, in leaving the Caverns for periods of time to spend with his kid. but it dose raise some concerns. I see Eli being very protective. And he is really trying to be present in his kids life more often then his own dad was in his own. Then there's the Shane Secrets, I think Eli would be open with them as the kid gets older, he keeps the 'no slinging till 15 rule', there are a few things Eli will let the kid figure out themselves, but I don't think he'll say a thing about the 'Burning World' unless absolutely necessary, after all why tell when heading Top Side isn't really important? And I see that causing problems down the line. over all he is trying his best, and is a lot more present.

Trixie: best mom! she is a little strict but someone has to make sure the kid has some common cense. Trixie is going to document every moment of that kids life. she is going to be exited if her kid shares a love of film making, and would tech them everything she knows. See her encou raging the kid to try new things, and finding their own path outside of Trixie's own heroics.

Kord: top tier wish he was my dad. Kord is the dad. much like Trixie he's a little strict but, again, kid's gotta have some rules to live by. he will teach them everything he knows about engineering, especially how to make a Jetpack out of a Mecha Beast. 'you never know!'. Kord has also been shown to be real perceptive so I don't think the kid's are going to have an easy time hiding things from him.

Pronto: He is surprisingly okay at being a father. he's got the tails to tell at bedtime, the dad jokes locked in. and can and will stab someone if they mess with his kid. and, I guess, this dose mean the kid is like, the prince/princess/heir of Molemound? so their probably going to get spoiled lol. and I bet Pronto is going to make it a whole deal of them following in his foot steps as a tracker, maybe feign a little jealousy is the kid turns out to be a better tracker be Pronto is like, super proud. he will constantly bring up having navigated the Cavern of Time to the time it gets to be that one story the kid and their friend's dread hearing and sigh/roll their eyes when Pronto starts to monolog. all in all, Pronto loves his kid, they may get on his nerves but he wouldn't have it any other way.

Junjie: GIRL DAD GIRL DAD GIRL DA- *Cough - Cough* sorry, just had to get that out. Nervous wreck of a man. but he's doing his best damn it. I keep going back to it, but the Goon messed him up man. he is afraid, even after all this time he's going to mess this kid up, and hurt them. He dose not want what happened to him to happen to his kid, so Junjie is protecting them by having them learn and master Slug-Fu or so help him.

assuming they get redeemed

Twist: Congratulations Twist and his rat self is raising a expert survivalist and con artist. Once a street rat always a street rat. While the 'home situation' may be stable atm, Twist preps his kid for whatever he can think of. Twist 2.0 one might say. over all Twist care's, and dose not what his kid to go through what he did. oh and, depending on the context, a rivalry with Eli's kid is encouraged lol. the embodiment of;

"Sir, your child got into a fight at lunch"

"... Okay, but did they win?"

kids real good at acting as well :)

Tad: has had time to reflect, and after everything, he's trying to brake by cycle. He has his moments, Tad isn't always sure what he's doing, he is constantly asking the others(if able to) about what he should do. Tad dose try to hide most of the Blakk legacy from the kid, but it ends up crashing down on the kid sooner or later, and at that point... best to deal with each revelation as it happens.

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over all, they would make sure their kids where ready for whatever there world threw at them, but hope that they never had to deal with anything on the level of what they did.

History must not repeat itself. They all worked too hard for that to happen.