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Cité des Démons; Part 1

Summary: The Dupain-Chengs have had enough of Paris, they’re tired of their daughter being bullied by those she once called her friends. In an effort to escape the pain of Paris they move to the most crime ridden city in the world for a spice of something new.

Prologue | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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It had been a month since the Dupain-Chengs moved to Gotham and the bakery was already a booming success. MDC’s work was becoming more and more popular within the higher society and people were growing more and more curious about who the young designer was. Overall the Dupain-Cheng’s were doing well in the dark city. They actually enjoyed the city, not at all bothered by the crime because Paris could’ve been seen as worse depending on who you were.

Sabine had heard the rumors from the locals that the residents of La boulangerie de l’ange were actual angels sent from the heavens. Their pastries but anything else to shame and the sweet personalities aren’t ones the gothamites were used to. Marinette only boosted that rumor with her kind aura, sweet attitude and the looks of an angel. Everyone in Gotham knew who the Dupain-Chengs were, especially the villains.

Most would say that they would be robbing the French bakery constantly, that however wasn’t the case. There had been three attempts to rob the thriving bakery, each made by a different villain. 

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WHAT THE FUCK

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imagine hiring an assassin and they talk to you in a customer service voice

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What if the Archivist could tap into other Fears’ rage states…?

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to everyone else in school right now: 

please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guess and tim and moby and bill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenberg and z-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.

stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there. 

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So why the long face?

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Imagine Warlock as a young child. Very young. And he’s at that age where he’s asking questions about everything. From the most banal mundanities to the profound inquiries that only children seem capable of. Every answer is followed up with why?

Why? Why? Why? Why?

His mother will answer him sometimes, but her patience inevitably runs out. Sometimes she’s distracted or stressed and cuts Warlock off before he can finish his question. Sometimes she says I don’t know, but she says it like she’s brushing Warlock off. Sometimes she says that’s just how it is.

His father always tells Warlock to go ask his mother.

And eventually, his mother starts telling him to go ask Nanny.

Because Nanny always answers Warlock’s questions. It doesn’t matter what she’s doing or what he’s asking. Nanny will answer every how and where and what and why. Sometimes Warlock will talk to her for hours, asking whatever comes to his head.

Sometimes Nanny’s answers are silly.

“What makes the sky change colors?”

“The demonic armies that will rise to your call and take up arms against your enemies.”

Sometimes Nanny’s replies sound a little sad.

“Why is Daddy away all the time?”

“Some parents are more distant than others, dear heart.”

And sometimes Nanny says I don’t know, but she always sounds honest when she admits this. Truth be told, Warlock likes it when Nanny doesn’t know something, because then they can sit and puzzle it out together. Sometimes Nanny will smile funny, like she can’t control her face, and gives him a sweetie, saying, I never thought of it that way, dear. How clever you are.

One day, when his father is snappish and his mother is absent, Warlock worriedly asks if Nanny ever gets mad when he bothers her with so many questions. Nanny looks like he hit her, but before Warlock can apologize she’s down on her knees, hands on his shoulders squeezing tight.

“Never,” she hisses.

“You promise?”

“I would never reject a child for seeking knowledge. That would be…terribly cruel.”

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wtf?

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Jon wears a leather jacket to work. No one is immune.

Jon’s running late.

He doesn’t often run late. Ever since he got the promotion, he’s been working overtime- coming in early, staying late, sometimes not leaving at all. He had a mess on his hands, and its one he intends to fix.

So while it’s been some time since he’s seen Rosie at the front desk, it isn’t enough for her to do a double take. But that she does, her usually stoic face going red and her eyes widening in what looks like shock. That’s a bit dramatic.

“O-Oh!” She’s stuttering. Rosie never stutters. “G-Good morning, Jon. You look- you’re looking very nice today!” 

That can’t be true. He slept through his alarm, something he hasn’t done in ages. He didn’t have time to comb his hair and decided to leave it in the messy bun from yesterday- at least it’s out of his way. He skipped shaving altogether and couldn’t find his usual cardigan, instead resorting to an old, beat up leather jacket from college. It’s seen better days, and it reeks of guilty cigarettes snuck in his most desperate hours. The picture of professionalism he is not.

“Um, okay,” is the only response he can think of giving, scurrying past her desk and down to the basement. He doesn’t have time to parse that interaction out, not when his assistants are probably already gathered round, gossiping about his absence. Sure enough Tim’s sitting on Sasha’s desk, smirking and whispering something as he walks through the door, keeping his head down with a grumbled “Good morning.”

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RECENT DNF MOMENTS THAT SOUND LIKE FANFIC BUT ARENT

- "i trust my dream"

- "i'm gonna blow up. come with me?"

- george wanting to buy an oversized dream merch hoodie and say it's dream's

- "dream is like the only person who has my number, and his calls go through silent mode... because he needs me"

- ALL THE MENTIONS OF THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE

- "you can just say he's a bottom"

- dnf among us stargazing date

- this

- dream starting a war over his boyfriends lesbian cottage core house getting griefed by a child and half enderman

- trying to find every way to get george to america

- their friends avidly shipping it (even as a joke)

- the glorious, glorious, name truthing recently

- "just say it, say you hate me"

- george being so rent free he made it into dreams serious anti cheating video

- the ENTIRE jealousy arc with dreams hatred for discord (and quackity)

- jealousy spilling over into the CSGO stream with punz (him wanting to give george everything)

- loving each other's holiday mcc skins- "he's so handsome 🥺"

- dream and sam (awsamdude) freaking fighting essentially for george (aka the iconic flex battle)

- "you're such an idiot 🥺🥰💕🥺"

- this

- "if we win mcc we are gonna kiss" *wins*

there are a million more, but i wanted to show "renaissance dnf" as i think their friendship/relationship has definatley shifted since the good old "isle of dream" moments :)

lmk what i missed and i'll edit it in!

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so my friend brought up the incredible possibility that the alternate universe in which Ellen Claremont is president and the alternate universe where exy exist could be the same universe

consider:

Alex and Henry at the Olympics 

(again lol but this time with less angst these fools)

Andrew and Neil are playing court at this point

two worlds collide

Alex and Neil, the dynamic duo of Chaotic Dumbasses Who Don’t Know When To Keep Their Mouths Shut

they complement each other’s public roasts of assholes they don’t like

Andrew and Henry, two blondes who are Just Trying To Get By 

each trying to control their mess of a boyfriend who has no self-preservation

Neither Henry nor Alex understands the rules of the sport

they try to fake it but Neil Knows Immediately 

Neither Andrew nor Neil knows what a politic is

Alex is dying inside

Henry tries to bond with Neil because Neil’s mom is British but then Neil is like “yeah her family is a bunch of mobsters” and Henry is like “fuck we have those too I thought that was a weird American thing like shitty tea”

Andrew is annoyed at Henry’s existence because it should not be legal for him to have to tilt his head that far back to talk to someone

Alex and Neil bond over their respective unhealthy obsessions that their boyfriends find annoying

Alex finds Andrew attractive for reasons he doesn’t understand 

its because he likes buff blond dudes who repress all their emotions

Henry has the primal urge to rest his elbow on Andrew’s head but he doesn’t want to die

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Weirdly Specific Dream SMP themed Playlist

I have the tendency to zone out and daydream while listening to music so that combined with the Molotov cocktail that is my music taste, I present some Specified Bops, babey!!!

TommyInnit Has Main Character Syndrome And I’m Treating Him As Such

Little Lion Man - Mumford And Sons

Perseus - Unknown Brains

Brittle Bones Nicky- The Rare Americans

Ugly Faces - Watsky

Shut Me Up - Mindless Self Indulgence

Bakugo!- Kamil

Wilbur Reassuring Tubbo That He’ll Be Fine Under Schlatt’s reign

Community Gardens - The Scary Jokes, Louie Zong

Tommy and Tubbo!

My Blood- Twenty Øne Piløts

Lionheart- Of Monsters And Men

Brother - Kodaline

Some Feel-Good Karlnap :D

Mama Mia - Austin Weber

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

GUY.exe - Superfruit

I like to imagine The Badlands going around like a carefree group of bandits

The Cult Of Dionysus - The Orion Express

Rebels - Call Me Karizma

Do It All The Time - IDKHBTFM

Aha! - Pentatonix

Bad and Skeppy,,,, just Bad and Skeppy,,, they hittin different

Immortals - Fall Out Boy

Work Song- Hozier

Twin Size Mattress- The Front Bottoms

Problems - Mother Mother

One Gold Star- Dodie

F-FundyWasTaken. Please. I love them .

Happy Together - Gerard Way

Two Time- Jack Strauber

Touch Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon

Good Old Fashion Lover Boy - Queen

Devils Backbone - The Civil Wars

Yellow- Coldplay

Fundy/Eret being accused of being the traitor

Burn The Witch - Shawn James

Eret being dethroned :(

Paper Crown - Alec Benjamin

Gogy, one the other hand, being crowned

King Of The Clouds- Panic! at The Disco

So Dream is God apparently

Christmas Kids - Roar

CHOKE- IDKHBTFM

Ruler Of Everything- Tally Hall

I liked to imagine this with Fundy, Niki and Tubbo While They Were Under Schlatts Rule

One Little Soldier- Regina Spektor

I just thought it would be funny cause like ‘Pogtopia’ and ‘Maburg’ and ‘L’Man-

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants

Tommy confronting Wilbur

Death Of A Hero - Alec Benjamin

Rät - Penelope Scott

Stop pairing Techno with dark, intense music. He can have some fun with anarchy

Bang! - AJR

Turn The Lights Off- Tally Hall

Fuck It!- Days’n’Daze

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Wilbur in that room, all alone with the button and his thoughts.

The Room Where You Sleep - Dead Man’s Bones

Ben Bernake - Lemon Demon

Honey, I’m Home- GHOST

Devil Like Me - Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Bad Bad Things - AJJ

Niki and Fundy Have A Pog Platonic Relationship

Can’t Stand The Rain - The Rescues

Remeber Quackity And Schlatt Were Married haha. I do.

The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie -Colter Wall

Sober- FILDAR

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing- Set It Off

That in between of The Festival and The November War. L’manburg is tattered, torn and burnt but still standing.

Post Party Depression- Days’n’Daze

The Edge - Panicland

100 Bad Days - AJR

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Cough It Out - The Front Bottoms

Aftermath Of The November War

Pompeii - Bastille

Dirty Paws - Of Monsters And Men

Our Bedroom After The War - Stars

Youth - Daughter

It’s Time- Imagine Dragons

I’m a slut for feedback, so lemme know what y’all think

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listening to Heart Forecast by Eve MV on repeat to capture that specific Dose of Yearning

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▷ Written by Reddit user Aczom.

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Achilles x Patroclus Explained: for anyone who needs it plainly mapped out for them one more time.

The Iliad:

-Most obviously there is a Special Relationship between Achilles x Patroclus

-Achilles and Patroclus share a Bed & Tent, Patroclus also does all the  “domestic” work for the 2 of them on top of being a soldier

-”But he had Briseis who he was going to marry”, despite only bragged about her because she was a war prize taken by Agamemnon thus taking his honor, he was “locker room talking for the boys” when in reality he had no sexual contact/dimension/relationship with her yet. He also knew the prophecy he wasn’t coming back from Troy so this is one of two reasons we can say that they have no plans together, (see bullet point one for second reason) and then later he wishes Artemis had killed her way back when they were raiding cities. It is also inferable that Patroclus had planted this seed of thought in her mind to put her at ease with Achilles as well as protect his honor because Patroclus is always there for Achilles (Achilles does take Briseis into his bed in Book 24 but again totally as a spoil of war… she is a conquest not a lover)

-Greeks know Achilles will only listen to Patroclus, Especially Nestor who goes to Patroclus to persuade Achilles to re-enter the fight

-When Achilles receives Patroclus’s body his first thought is to end himself with a sword because he does not want to live in a world without Patroclus

-Achilles’s rage at the death of Patroclus and wishing he had let all the Greeks die and they conquered Troy together

-Refusal to eat & sleep while weeping for days on end in bed with Patroclus’s body

-Andromache’s speech about Hector, forsaking all her other loved ones for her husband, aka her one true love and then Achilles giving the almost exact same speech right after about Patroclus his “beloved”

-Achilles kills Hector (Gods even fear his rage and that such emotion could cause war to end before prophesied) aka Achilles could change fate because he so “grieved” for Patroclus - totally homies right?!

-Achilles drags Hectors body from his chariot damaging and defiling the corpse for days; Angering the gods, to which he doesn’t care

-Thetis then comes to Achilles, to which he wants none of her comfort, during their conversation she also has to suggest AND specify for him to now have sex with a woman and maybe find a wife before his life is over (why does she have to specify “woman” & who/what was keeping him from getting a wife)

-Achilles tosses and turns sleeplessly (body of Patroclus is still kept in his bed) and he longs for Patroclus’s “μένος” (menos) which in ancient greek translates to “Might - Manhood - Vigor - Semen” plainly speaking “Spunk” (both kinds!)

-Achilles reaches to embrace the ghost of Patroclus when he appears before him - desiring to physically touch 

-Achilles plays the role of the woman and/or wife of the deceased when they burn Patroclus’s body on the funeral pyre and then collects the ashes himself and puts them in the golden urn. Achilles then charges the men to do the same to him when he dies putting his ashes in the same golden urn and burying them together so that they will physically be together for all eternity - which does happen

-LITERALLY ACHILLES x PATROCLUS

Most Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Artists & Intellectuals:

ACTUAL Greek Artwork from 500 BCE (currently resides on display in Germany)

-There is no reference to this moment in any record or story. In this depiction Achilles wraps Patroclus’s arm while he sits between his open legs, and Patroclus lets his dick hang out, while Achilles’s is visible as well, super intimate for “bros”

-Later greeks assumed or imagined their relationship as Pederastic (An older “erastes” lover & an “eromenos” younger beloved) because that was the norm of that period but no one could definitely decide who was the top and who was the bottom 

**SIDE NOTE They do not have an age gap to support the Pederastic Theory AND after the pederastic relationship ended the men involved married women which we know neither Achilles nor Patroclus had nor plans to do

-Plato totally thought Achilles was a Bottom in his “Symposium” 

-Aeschylus (the literal inventor of Greek Tragedy) portrayed Achilles & Patroclus as lovers in his lost play “The Myrmidons” which was based on The Iliad. Surviving lines from the play are of Achilles speaking of “Patroclus’s Reverent Company, his thighs, and being ungrateful for many kisses”

-345 BCE = Athenian politician, Aeschines states in a speech during his trial that Homer didn’t have to say what they were because 1. the Greeks were more sexually fluid then 2. there wasn’t a word for “Homosexual” 3. Homer was a storyteller and ANY educated man knew what they were, like its THAT obvious

-Alexander the Great and his lover Haphaestion (this is a whole other can of worms still being fought) liked to think of themselves, and referred to each other as “Achilles & Patroclus”

-Shakespeare features the two in his play “Troilus and Cressida” in which Patroclus is called “Achilles’s Brach” aka “Achilles’s Bitch”

-Renaissance Artists & those onward armed with their skill, knowledge, and obsession with all things ancient painted numerous depictions of the two, usually scenes of Achilles receiving Patroclus’s body, and for “buddies” they sure love painting them showing A LOT of skin

-By roughly the 1960′s & 70′s historians and scholars started talking about them openly again with the

“ARE WE READY TO STOP PLAYIN’ AND OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS ‘YOU KNOW’”

  All joking aside we still have a select number of Historians, Scholars, and Hollywood still holding out:

-What about Briseis!? (see above) they both also do sleep with a woman each but sadly here they are seen more as conquest and war prizes than actual lovers - again there is a fluidity

-Achilles was a HERO! Best of the Greeks -He’s always shown as A MAN’S MAN! YET in a separate myth (see Achilleid) his mother Thetis was able to hide him among a group of girly girls on Skyros to which he was perfectly disguised and has a one night stand with the princess again showing their regard for sexual fluidity. ALSO Do not disrespect that he was a manly hero and a femboy! This also explains how his son comes to be - again this is a completely separate myth and origin

-Could they be cousins!? (NO)

-**Closing Eyes** Homo-erotic? WHERE? “Item Not Found”

-”Well all we can say, there is no source, Homer never explicitly stated that Achilles and Patroclus were a couple or had a sexual relationship that we can find in the source material so… I am choosing to ignore all context and blatant evidence, as well have no heterosexual explanation for them either…  you’re just reading into it too much”:

EVERYONE who has a brain and has read The Iliad:

As for myself having read the Iliad, studied this Art, History, and Culture, as well as having a BFA; when you know, YOU KNOW. Feel free to share, use this as inspiration to read “The Iliad” if you haven’t already, think critically, and study up on your own!

IN CONCLUSION = THEY GAY & THE OTP !!

(Highly Suggest “The Song of Achilles” as well)