Chapter 4 And 5 Have Been Posted!!! I Will Try To Update Again On Wednesday Or Thursday.

In ‘Lucas on the Line,’ Lucas Sinclair experienced countless bouts of racism and micro aggressions including but not limited to:

Had children run away from him and refuse to touch him because they thought his Black skin color would rub off on them. This happened IN THE THIRD GRADE! And he never told his parents about it!

Calmed his anxiety about being the only Black kid in his homeroom class by coming to the realization that since there was no other Black kids that meant he most likely wouldn’t be bombed

Had to install a camera in his locker because his property got defaced by a glitter bomb

Lost his first and only black friend/mentor who supported him thanks to an ACTUAL MAKESHIFT BOMB being installed in his locker that caused a janitor to go to the hospital for 1st/2nd degree burns (and the white boy who did it barely got punished)

Got teased that the only reason he got on the basketball team was because he was Black

Comes to the realization that he might’ve actually only gotten in the team because the coach has a history of recruiting Black boys for the team regardless of their skill level

Gets called an Oreo (for uneducated: white on the inside, black on the outside) by racist bullies. Erica (who apparently has also been called this) sticks up for him and is the only one who understands what the insult means which means Mike and Dustin don’t know/understand the lengths of how deep the racism Lucas experiences in Hawkins on a daily bases

And these aren’t even all of them! These are just examples I had from the top of my head!

And despite all this happening in the book, “fans” have STILL FOUND A WAY to turn this book about Lucas and his struggles as a Black boy in a mostly white suburban town and his deteriorating relationship with Max and make it about Byler!

The fact that Lucas, one of the only characters of color on this show, can’t have ANYTHING to himself without people using him to push their ships is so aggravating!

He and Erica constantly get shit talked and miss characterized by fans, get excluded/cut out of group shots, and barely get any fanart/fics about them and their struggles compared to the white characters (I could make a whole new post about the terrible way this fandom treats Erica but I won’t do that here). Hell don’t forget that the fandom constantly tries to dispute the racism Lucas received in S2 from Billy was either not really racism, just a moment that Duffer Bros. put in to “ruin” Billy’s character and ultimately can be tossed out and ignored.

The only time I ever see Lucas get any large amount of attention is either due to 1) Lumax (but let’s be honest: 90% of the lumax tag on here isn’t even about them and has now become Elumax 2.0 and most post are people praising ElMax and then being like “oh Lucas/lumax is cute too” in the tags and that’s it). 2) people creating “parallels” of Lumax to their ship of choice (mostly Byler and Mileven) as a way to say that their ship is gonna be canon or 3) to say that he’s bisexual.

And all that is fine and whatever, ship and headcanon things to your hearts content, but if you only care about Lucas if he’s helping push you ship narrative or because you think he’s gay (to the point where some people actually read snippets of the book that talked about Lucas coming to the realization that Black boys like him can be considered attractive and only acknowledge the “queer” reading of the text and completely ignored the big race element that was the main focus), I’m sorry but, that’s not cool. The fact that 95% of the Lucas Sinclair tag isn’t about Lucas himself but white characters like Steve, Eddie, Byler says everything about how the fandom treats him.

I’m just so tired.

Lucas Sinclair deserves the same respect that the white characters get!

I leave you one of my favorite sections of the entire book: Lucas learning to become unabashedly himself:

Rant over.

Edit: in my blind rage I realized I forgot to edit out the Twitter handle. That’s completely my fault. Please don’t hate that Twitter user. I’m just coming back to fix that.

Princess Madoka Amano I

Age/Role/Nicknames:

20 years old

Princess of the United Kingdom of America

Mads/Madi (by Masamune)

Miss Amano (by royal servants)

Personality:

Kind and motherly

Tends to have a hot temper when her brothers are around

Loyal to her friends

A great cook and persistent when it comes to other people

Is always helping Yuki down in his lab

Relationships:

Queen Victoria (dead): adoptive mom

King Richard: adoptive dad

Kyoya: adoptive older brother

Masamune: adoptive older brother

Queen Kona: aunt/ father’s mistress

Chris: brother-in-law

Chris’s family: in-laws

Queen Diana: aunt

Demoure: cousin

Gaia: girlfriend

Elliot: boyfriend

Sophie & Hikaru: best friends

The children: surrogate mom

Other WBBA Agents: friends

Beylin Temple: enemies

Abilities:

Trained martial artists

Great at wielding weapons

Healing (using music)

Fluent in Japanese, English, and Australian

Miscellaneous:

Was once enslaved before Victoria adopted her

Is in a polyamorous relationship with Elliot and Gaia

Always in a fight with her brothers

Pansexual and Polyamorous

Aguma is just a giant....l

"What's your actual height?": The true problematic for manga/anime's writers.

I always thought that Ryuusei was ridiculously tall compared to the other characters. Or that they were ridiculously small next to him.

Is Kenta a minimoy or something?

Let me remind you that Dynamis is a teen boy and one of the tallest Legendary bladers. And yet :

The top of his head doesn’t even reach Ryuusei’s shoulder…

I aslo thought that Aguma had a crazy unnatural height.

Keep in mind that Aguma and Dynamis are supposed to be around the same age…

I know that sometimes life is unfair and some people grow taller than others, but at this point?

Oof.

YET

That was for the anime only.

In the manga, Ryuusei’s height is far more acceptable.

Here Gingka is still very young, so it’s normal he’s like, half of Ryuusei’s height.

And when Gingka gets older :

hey are almost the same height. Which is absolutely natural considering that Gingka is now a teen.

Now let’s see about Aguma.

He too, has a more reasonable height in the manga.

YEAH, REASONABLE FOR A FREAKING TITAN!

WHAT IS THAT MONSTER?!

Even when he bows down, HE IS TWICE GINGKA’S HEIGHT!

Like, TWICE!!!

HAVE YOU SEEN HIS HANDS? BECAUSE I DID AND-

And to think that I always beleived the writers of the anime Beyblade had a problem with heights…

It’s been a while Tumblr

Omar (The Green Poncho) is the best character in the show. From the episode “Winter Break” ❄️

some of you guys are sleeping on hibiki yuta x utsumi sho and i CANNOT accept that

smol

look at him go

how long have you been in the bakugan community?

since it was released in America back in like 2007-2010. i never saw the full thing since it stopped being promoted after season two, like no trailers or nothing. but that was also when i started watching beyblade and yu-gi-oh, digimon, etc. so i wasn't really paying attention to bakugan anymore. but it was definitely the reason i love animes where the play some sort of game.

Chapter 9!!! Runo is angry at the wrong people! Masquerade is tired!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33380956/chapters/83354068

Bakugan fans, I delivered on my promise. I wrote the story where Alice and Masquerade are separate people after BBB and now they're living their lives as "adopted" siblings. This is just the first chapter of at least twenty.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33380956/chapters/82911868