The Old Po-Matoran Blog

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This is half a wishlist, half a guide! I don’t mind you going outside this list to make boards of other characters or ships within fandoms, or for ships types to go against set preferences. If you have any questions/need me to specify on anything, shoot me an ask or dm (:

Fandoms

Sanders Sides (SaSi)

Indigo Park (IP)

Project Hail Mary (PHM)

Iron Lung (IL)

The Amazing Digital Circus (TADC)

I list others in “read more” of pinned if you wish for other fandoms, the above are the ones I’m mainly still active in atm and thus elaborate on below/would like most on

If you have an Art Fight acc and would like to make an OC related stimboard instead, check my guys at nico-the-overlord!

Characters

Patton Sanders (SaSi)

Virgil Sanders (SaSi)

Molly Macaw (IP)

Salem the Skunk (IP)

Ryland Grace (PHM)

Eva Stratt (PHM)

Rocky (PHM)

Simon (IL)

Ava (IL)

Ellie/the Eel (IL)

Gangle (TADC)

Zooble (TADC)

Ragatha (TADC)

Gummigoo (TADC)

Ships (red=prefer romantic, orange=prefer platonic, pink=prefer qpr, no color=no preference)

Karrot Kings/Pintroverts (c!Thomas Sanders and Nico Flores, SaSi)

Moxiety (Patton and Virgil Sanders, SaSi)

Loceit (Logan and Janus Sanders, SaSi)

Intrulogical (Logan and Remus Sanders, SaSi)

Intruloceit (Logan, Remus, and Janus Sanders, SaSi)

LAMP/The Core Four (Logan, Virgil, Patton, and Roman Sanders, SaSi)

NoxiousAir (Molly Macaw and Salem the Skunk, IP)

Rambley Racoon and Player character (IP)

Bloodymary (Ryland Grace and Simon, PHM x IL crossover)

Trolley Operators (Eva Stratt and Ava, PHM x IL crossover)

Astrofathers (Carl and Ryland Grace, PHM)

Grocky (Ryland Grace and Rocky, PHM)

Yáo Li-Jie, Olesya Ilyukhina, and Ryland Grace (PHM)

Abstragedy (Gangle and Zooble, TADC)

Funnybunnyfrog (Pomni, Jax, and Ribbit, TADC)

Zooble, Gangle, and Pomni (TADC)

Buttonblossom/Ragapom (Pomni and Ragatha, TADC)

BlueTooth (Caine and the Moon, TADC)

FunnyGummy (Pomni and Gummigoo, TADC)

Things I like in stims/aesthetics

Blue (light/baby blue specifically!)

Food (specifically in the process of cooking and baking)

Cookies

Wings/feathers

Angelcore

Werewolves

Art (drawing, painting, paper craft, ect.)

Spirals

Soft textures/related cozy things (clouds, blankets, warm lights, ect.)

Stimboards that depict a certain scene within a media piece

Pride themed

Bioformers - Onua

Altmode: Mining Excavator

day 116

I drew Scratch, I think she's cute. Here she is making Kit's cannons in her garage

reblogs are appreciated

Breast Cancer Charity Chevron Cars at a local Goodwill

I loved these things when I was a kid so I was a bit tempted to get one.

Just a list for no reason whatsoever. Interpret as you will.

According to lore, long before the Toa Mata lost their memory and Takua had his wiped a thousand times, Takua was most drawn to Toa Gali and was awestruck by her.

Despite being hidden as a Ta-Matoran, Takua wore an ill-fitting medium-blue Pakari. No other Matoran or Toa of Fire in the entire series have blue as a part of their color scheme.

Takua never really fit in in Ta-Matoran society and was never able to fully conform to Ta-Matoran mannerisms or values. He was considered bizarre in Ta-Metru, and became an outcast in Ta-Koro.

When cast out of Ta-Koro, Takua finally found community for himself among the other members of the island who were considered abnormal or pariahs.

During the time after the Toa Mata arrived on Mata Nui, the Toa that Takua bonded with the most, and even forged a psychic link with, was Gali.

After the Bohrok invasion, when the Matoran were rebuilt into larger, stronger forms, Takua chose to replace his yellow with blue for reasons never stated, making his color scheme now mostly variations of blue with only a red torso and arms.

Takua having multiple blues in his color scheme isn't just abnormal because it's not an established Fire color, but rather because almost every kind of Matoran with heavy amounts of blue in their color scheme is exclusively female (Water, Lightning, Psionics).

Takua spends the majority of the Mask of Light movie chasing an ideal person whom he is convinced must be someone else, and when faced with repeated signs of who he truly is, ignores and hides from them until it's almost too late and his loved ones are pushed away and hurt by his avoidance.

Unlike all other Toa transformations seen in the series, Takua is only ever able to take action to physically change into who he was meant to be once he finally accepts who he is and who he is meant to become.

Also unlike all other Toa in the series, Takanuva is the only Toa to change their name upon self-actualizing into a Toa. Matoran change their names slightly at times throughout their lives, but Takanuva's name change is the only one known to directly tied to a change in body, presentation, and social identity.

Upon confronting the main antagonist of the series, Makuta Teridax, the Makuta immediately demeans and belittles the newly transformed and renamed Takanuva by reducing him to his past identity as Takua.

The canonical explanation for the form a Matoran will take upon becoming a Toa is that they will take on the form of what they consider an ideal hero. For the Toa Metru, that was Toa Lhikan. Takanuva is stated to have taken on the form of a Toa Nuva, but every member of the team had somewhat unique builds; Takanuva's build is the exact same as Gali Nuva's.

Later in the series, we learned Takua was never even a Ta-Matoran to begin with, but actually an Av-Matoran, and was simply made to think he was something he never was while constantly failing to perform that role.

Takua was meant to be an audience surrogate character for MNOG, QftT, the Bohrok animations, and Mask of Light, and did a fantastic job at that.

Unrelated, but a disproportionately large chunk of that audience has since grown up and transitioned into women, many of whom idolize or once idolized Gali. Funny, that.

Happy Make A Terrible Comic Day 2024!!! I hope you enjoy participating in this annual tradition which we’ve all done for ages!!! You must participate so you might as well enjoy it!!!

If you make a comic (again, it’s mandatory) and you want to share it, post it on the tag #makeaterriblecomicday2024! Or don’t, I’m not a fucking cop.

Remember, the goal is to make something terrible! So if you can’t draw or have never made a comic, or if it’s just been ages since you made something just for fun — that’s perfect! You’re all set! If you fuck up and make something that’s NOT terrible… well, some might say there’s a joy to that too.

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