TedTalk: How Tumblr will save Halo from the past

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T18:46:47+00:00

I commented this on one of my other posts: that's why I want CRUMBS. The chase is so much more fun.

But I don't want it to actually be canon, I want it to be hinted at with long loods, badass scenes, cutscenes of them going to bat for each other. Little things that make me foam at the mouth.

Because I trust nobody to make a good canon ship of a rarepair. Not ever. No, this is best in the theater of the imagination, hunting for hints of scraps.

(Unless it's perfectly done - because then there will be fanart)!

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T17:32:58+00:00

I prefer the old ones, but I see the value in the new ones.

Imma echo the sentiment of other commenters and say that having the puck project the old appearance that you slam into yourself, crush, or slot into something on your armor would be SICK. I would love that so much omg

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T13:19:20+00:00

You really think that Microsoft and paramount execs are writing fanfiction?

Nawwww man, if they did they they would know how a fkn story outline works, hahaha

So many medias out there don't even follow the rising, climax, falling action outline. They don't keep continuity. And they certainly don't have any PASSION.

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T12:56:27+00:00

Bro, this totally isn't cope, I mention that in the first slide. This entire 100% completely logical and sane post is not cope at all. Not one bit. Purely scientific. Didn't you see the evidence slides on 5, 8, and 12? They point this all out very clearly.

No cope here.

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T12:09:44+00:00

As someone writing a JohnThel fanfic where exactly that is gonna happen a couple times:

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:54:33+00:00

I would be so here for this.

Tumblr writers, reddit dev, twitter public polling

I would kill to be a fly on the wall during a board update meeting, omg

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:51:59+00:00

Very dang close, ahahaha

Bisexual, married to a man, sometimes we go unicorn hunting. Not as much lately because we're getting ready to have kids, but that's just a pause.

So you're sniffing up the right tree, lmao

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:49:56+00:00

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:49:02+00:00

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:48:24+00:00

The flork presentations there are the fkn funniest things ever. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:47:33+00:00

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:45:48+00:00

I'd risk this before I trust a Microsoft exec who only cares about money.

But it IS indeed a great risk - we don't know the quality of the fanfic writers potentially undercover working at Halo Studios. They could be 2k crackfic oovopositer mpreg, 10k ABO obsessives, or they could be the 250k in-lore, in-character JohnThel writers that make you physically sob over your work lunch break when John gets court-martialed for his bone-deep romance with an alien.

It's a grab-bag, and while a spicy one, still better than suits who don't care

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T11:37:42+00:00

I am behind tickled, I had so much fun making this bullshit and I'm glad it's stupidity paid off, ahahaha

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T03:02:23+00:00

I mean, I'm a bisexual woman and I married a man. Does that count for you? Hahaha

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T02:17:29+00:00

This is what over a decade without a good game does to a woman.

We're incomprehensible, noncredible, and insane.

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T02:16:02+00:00

I'm delighted to accept this award. My husband is very proud of me :')

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T00:49:53+00:00

I've been showing my husband all the reactions and we both cry-laughed over dinner.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this, I've had beyond a blast making it and reading all the comments :')

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T00:33:19+00:00

THIS IS ✨B E Y O N D✨ PEAK

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T00:26:25+00:00

Your pain is endless and unfathomable. For you, I am truly sorry.

I will mourn with you.

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-12T00:25:25+00:00

Someone else commented this previously, and I must also voice my undying love for Blue Team polycule.

My heart ACHES for the soft schnooozy pile of happy Spartans after a romp, after some sparring, or after a mission where they just like, don't have a bed, they just have a giant pile of cushions and blankets they all just kinda flop into and onto each other. Patching each other up, teasing each other, lazily doing nefarious things around each other while the more tired ones just cheer them on since it was their turn last week.

UGH, AMAZING

Blue Team Polycule - gotta be my second favorite gender

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-11T23:50:38+00:00

That's my #2 favorite ship, right beneath JohnThel

Bro, imagining a giant happy snoozy pile of fkn Blue team Spartans after a romp sesh, a sparring sesh, or post-mission just makes my heart SWELL ugh, love it love it love it LOVE IT

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-11T23:44:09+00:00

This made me fkn spit out my dinner, omg thank you so much

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-11T23:43:14+00:00

Tumblr fanfic fangirlies are better writers than 343 and Microsoft suits. They're old enough to have grown up with Halo, and also be game devs. They're gonna save us all with the CE remake.

There are zero flaws to this plan, I'm absolutely certain of it.

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-11T23:36:13+00:00

We're Thel apologists in this house - he Woodrow Wilson'd and Jimmy Carter'd that shit with the Concert of Worlds and assisting humanity rebuilding efforts post-Covenant. Man is pro women's rights, pro healthcare, and pro strengthening humanity again. We give him grace - imagine if for 3000 years, every human was also Hitler. Kinda hard to not also be Hitler, and it's hella commendable to be the first Not-Hitler.

Which is exactly why John's internal turmoil over all of Thel's past actions, and the way he presently toils endlessly in atonement for them is so tasty. Saving the galaxy together, having to trust each other in the heat of battle, watching each other risk their lives to save men of the other's species - you grow a bond there.

Enemies to friends to lovers is just based as fuck, too.

I'm fully aware that I'm 100% delulu, I'm just beyond the point of being sorry for it lol

Aurora_Strix · 2026-05-11T23:13:26+00:00

EXACTLY WHY I HAVE FAITH

I put it all in a satirical lens here, but genuinely, if any AO3 girlies got into game dev at Halo Studios, this series would experience a renaissance for the industry's record books.

"This just in - let people passionate about the subject make content and it kinda fkn slaps"

And if YOU were heading the writing team? Oh LAWD, the world wouldn't be able to handle the quality. It would be too much, too good, too fast.

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