#+ all the other free cool games from epic + all the games i have on steam....helppppp..........

[chaotictomtom]

feeling super blurry rn i just need to PICK A GAME TO PLAY...to lose myself in it........ bought a bunch thanks to the sales on steam but now i'm even more overwhelmed that i already was by the amount of cool games i want to play or try out for the first time

[wilwheaton]

hello mr wil wheaton when you were my age (like exactly i think) you were filming stand by me

I turned 13 during production, so if you're about to become a teenager, I hope you'll let me offer some thoughts that I wish an adult had shared with me, then?

I know this is a wall of text, and giving someone this much of your attention is a HUGE ask. Maybe bookmark this for another time, if you're not into hearing an old man talk.

I wrote this a few days before I turned 50. Thank you in advance for listening, and I wish you a life filled with joy, unconditional love, kindness, and adventure.

Hey everyone! An old man is talking!

In seven days, I will be 50 years-old. This is ... weird. I do not feel the way I expected I would feel when I was approaching 50, nor do any of my friends. The only time I feel like I'm middle-aged is when my body does some bullshit that takes me down for hours because I had the nerve to stand up quickly. And I really hate it when I have to use the flashlight on my phone to see a menu. I mean, at that point, I may as well be dropping my pants for free and singing the Old Gray Mare.

Anyway. This has been on my mind for a little bit, so I had something to say when someone used my tumblr ask me thingy earlier this week:

Q: I hope I'm as cool as you when I'm 49. I'd like to think I'm taking the right steps towards that version of myself. A: So I'm not sure I'm cool, but I do know that I don't suck, and that it's a choice I make every day. I desperately wish someone in my family had told me, or shown me by example, that getting older doesn't mean getting stupid and boring and stuffy and extremely uncool. I wish I'd known that, because I spent all of my life until I was in my 40s feeling like there was this day coming very soon when I would have to stop listening to punk, stop playing video games, put on a suit, and start yelling at kids for no good reason. I didn't know that you don't have to suddenly stop being who you are and become something or someone you hate, just because of a certain age. I know that's super obvious, but to young me, it was not. My dad was an asshole, my mom never showed up for me. Directors and people on set had been treating me like a thing for my entire life. I got yelled at for no reason from adults who knew better almost every day. Most of my elementary school teachers were authoritarian, evangelical assholes. All of these different adults, consistently, shut me down and made me feel like I didn't matter, the things I liked were stupid, and my opinions were invalid because of reasons I didn't understand because I was a dumb kid. So I presumed that when you got to be a certain age, that's what happened. I didn't want to be that, at all, and I was sincerely afraid of the day it would happen. But as I got older, I discovered that all that stuff I hated about adults doesn't automatically happen. Those adults I just mentioned all made a choice to be an asshole. I just didn't know it. I was in my early 20s when I did a movie with a cinematographer who was, I think, 45 at the time. He was the coolest, kindest, most artistic dude I'd ever known. He mentored me and we had epic fun making great art together. I remember telling him, "I'm not afraid of being in my 40s like I used to be. I didn't know you could still be cool." It's sad, that I grew up in such a toxic environment, and didn't know any of these things. So, 9 days before I turn 50, here are a couple things I have figured out: You know who sucks when they hit 49 and 50? People who sucked when they were 20 and never grew up. You know who is an asshole at 49 and 50? Yep. Someone who was an asshole as a kid and never experienced consequences for being an asshole. Hitting middle age has been awesome for me. Other than the aging of my body and its reluctance / refusal to do what I want it to do, I love everything about it. I wish I hadn't spent so much of my life being afraid that, when I hit 50, it was all over. Because honestly it's kind of just starting. The coolest stuff in my life to date has all happened in the last ten years, and I'm so grateful that it coincided with me figuring out a lot of shit so I could enjoy it.

The best part of getting older, by several thousand light years, is the part where we figure out how to stop putting up with other people's bullshit, and we contract our social circle until it's only populated with a VERY few people who deserve us. And I am incredibly grateful for these occasional opportunities to be a 49 year-old dad who can say all the things that would have been reassuring for 19 year-old me to hear (he wouldn't have understood, but 29 year-old me would have remembered, and he would have understood. I think.) I sincerely hope someone hears it and finds it helpful. Anyway, you're gonna be fine. Just remember that being cool, kind, honest, honorable, reliable, listening and showing up … they are all choices. If you want to be cool when you're 49, make the choice and set the example for someone to follow you. Treat kids the way you wanted to be treated when you were young. Listen to them when they offer you the privilege, because that means they trust you, and you have credibility with them. Be a mentor. Be supportive. Show up. Make a choice to be the person you need in the world, and never stop being that person. Start today, and when you're nearing 50 like I am, hopefully you'll remember who you needed right now, so you can be that person to someone else in the future. You're already asking the right questions and taking the first steps. I believe in you. You've got this.

Okay, if you've come this far, perhaps you'll follow me a little bit more, and read a thing I wrote about talking to students just a tiny bit older than you, which contains my core values.

Be honest. I’m a very old man, relative to y’all, and I’ve learned that the only currency that really matters in this world is the truth.

Be honorable. This dovetails with number one. You attract to yourself what you put into the world. Dishonorable people will take everything from you and leave you with nothing. Do your best to be a person they aren’t attracted to.

Work hard. I don’t mean, like, at your crappy minimum wage job you hate. I mean do the hard work that makes relationships work, that gets you ahead in your education, that gets you closer to your goals. Everything worth doing is hard. Everything worth doing requires hard work. Sooner or later, you’re going to run into something in your life that’s really hard, and you’ll want to give up, but it’s something you care so much about, you’ll do whatever you can to achieve it. It’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be less hard for someone who has practiced doing the hard things all along, than it is for someone who doesn’t know how to do the hard work because they’ve always chosen the easy path.

Always do your best. Even if you don’t get the result you wanted, doing your best — which will vary from day to day, moment to moment — is all you can ever do. We tell athletes to leave it all on the field. Whatever your version of that is, do it.

This is the most important one. This is the one I hope you’ll all hear and embrace. This is the one I hope you’ll share with your peers: Always be kind.”

When I read number 5, I looked up at them. I was so happy to see a classroom filled with teenagers who were all listening intently, even the ones I thought had tuned me out. “Here’s the thing about being Kind, versus being Nice,” I said. “I have interacted with lots of nice people who are incredibly unkind. Why is that? How do you choose to be nice but not kind?”

I pointed to my head. “This is where nice comes from,” I said. Then, I put my hand over my heart. “This is where kind comes from.” I put my hands out, like, “get it?”

There was this collective gasp of realization that I did not expect, at all. One kid said “Oh damn!” I saw a few kids look at each other like the trick had just been explained to them. They heard me. They really, really heard me. And it was amazing.

Okay, that's all. If you're still here, thank you for giving me so much of your time and attention. I hope you'll come back in a few years, and let me know how you're doing.

[cavegirlpoems]

Hey I found your blog through the animation post, and I've been having a lot of fun reading through your thoughts on ttrpgs. I played 3.5e in high school but I am admittedly very ignorant about the medium as a whole so it's really cool to see someone's much more knowledgeable takes. I've wanted to get into it more, but life seems to get it the way.

I will say I think there's one benefit of actual plays getting big that's worth taking about: the comparison to video games. Game breaking and exploiting design quirks is a major part of modern video games, see speedrunning or basically all of Minecraft, where the entire point is pushing the game past what it was meant for. Good (video) game design requires that to be accounted for, embraced or tactfully hidden, but regardless it's axiomatic that in a game involving free movement you *supposed* to dig through all the nooks and crannies, that's the point

Listening to some DND podcasts was what made me realize you're not actually supposed to play ttrpgs like that, that there's a fundamental principle of collaboration that exists within the medium that doesn't in video games. After all, you can have a successful tabletop session with the whole party trying to break the rules or find corners of the map that didn't get fill it. At a certain point they all have to buy in or the game doesn't work.

Or maybe I'm wrong, idk you're the expert. Anyway, I like your writing, keep it up

I think you're pretty spot on. A lot of toxic (or just sub-optimal) behaviours you see come from fundamentally forgetting that you're here to collaborate, or not buying into the basic premise of the game. Of course, the thing about ttrpgs are that there are a lot of different ways to have fun with them, and different players come to them for different reasons. Some people want an overarching story. Others like inhabiting a character in a more unstructured way. Others like exploring a setting. Others like the feeling of accomplishment from overcoming in-fiction challenges. Others want to be rewarded for using the game mechanics skillfully. Somebody who's here for a big epic story and somebody who's here to explore every space on a wilderness map are going to but heads every time "should we take a detour" comes up; this is why it's important to get that buy in for the game. And, I will say, I've played some games where mastering the game mechanics and playing tactically was the point! And had a lot of fun doing it, even. (I remain a big fan of D&D 4e). If everybody rocks up to a 4e table wanting to get into the minutiea of team synergies and character builds so they can beat really fucking hard encounters (and the GM enjoys running that sort of challenge game), you can have an absolute blast! But, the point is that even here everybody is collaborating for a particular experience, and a player who kept banging on about character arcs and refused to support their team-mates in combat because "it's what my character would do" is playing disruptively, and makes the game less fun for everybody else. It's a very varied medium, is the thing.

[johaerys-writes]

Hi! I’m pretty new to the world of Achilles and Patroclus (I read The Song Of Achilles last month) and I just saw your post about your love for them. When you said “there's just so much stuff out there about them (tsoa, hades game, the iliad, a bunch of other myths and adaptations, non fiction books, academic papers etc)” I was wondering if you could touch on the other myths and adaptations part maybe? I’m not exactly sure where to begin there but I would appreciate any guidance you could give!

Oh boy I don't know where to start either because there's a LOT. I don't want to overwhelm you so I'll just list a few key myths and adaptations off the top of my head:

Adaptations

So as far as adaptations go, I will include works where both Achilles and Patroclus show up and that are inspired by the Iliad.

Hades Game: I'm pretty sure you're already familiar with this, just mentioning it just in case!

Aristos the musical: it's a musical as the name suggests, and it revolves around Achilles and Patroclus' lives from Pelion all the way to Troy. It's really lovely and has made me emotional on numerous occasions and I love revisiting it every so often! It also has a Tumblr account: @aristosmusical

Troilus and Cressida: this is Shakespeare's take on the Trojan War and it's quite interesting, not really faithful to the Iliad but offers a sort of different perspective on the characters and the events that led to Hector's death.

Achilles (1995) by Barry JC Purves: it's a short stop motion film using clay puppets, it's on Youtube and it's only 11 mins and I think it's worth a watch! I find it very compelling visually and any adaptation where Achilles and Patroclus are lovers is a plus in my book 🫶

Holding Achilles: this is an Australian stage production by the Dead Puppet Society, I really enjoyed it and I found it an interesting blend of TSOA and Iliad Patrochilles, which also featured some cool new elements that I hadn't really seen before. It used to be free to watch for a while but now I think you have to pay to watch it, there's more info on their website.

The Silence of the Girls: a novel by Pat Barker, it's a take on the events of the Iliad mostly through Briseis' eyes, I personally didn't really like the book or the characterisations but hey both Achilles and Patroclus are in it so it might be worth a read.

There are some other novels I've heard of where Achilles and Patroclus appear (A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane) and also a TV show called Troy: Fall of a City but I haven't read/watched them so I can't really rec them

Myths

Most myths revolve around Achilles, there aren't that many with Patroclus I'm afraid, but here are some of my favourites:

Achilleid by Publius Papinius Statius: this is an epic poem about Achilles' stay on Skyros disguised as a girl and his involvement with Deidameia. It's interesting but I'd personally take the characterisations and events in it with a grain of salt because Romans were notorious for their unsympathetic portrayal of Greek Homeric heroes but it's still a cool thing that's out there and free to read online.

Iphigenia at Aulis: a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, it's basically the dramatised version of the myth of Iphigenia's sacrifice in Aulis which predates the Iliad, there are many obscure versions of this myth but Euripides' sort of updated version is my favourite, I will never shut up about this play!! Lots of a nuance and very interesting portrayals of Achilles, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and pretty much everyone in there, well worth a read.

Lost plays: there are several plays in which Achilles appears but that have been lost or survive only in fragments, but two of my favourites are Euripides' Telephus and Aeschylus' Myrmidons. Telephus takes place before the Trojan War, while the Greeks are on their way to Troy. I really like Achilles' characterisation in the fragments that remain and also the fact that he was already renowned for his knowledge of medicine and healing despite how young he was. The fragments that survive from Aeschylus' Myrmidons I think are fewer but the play was extremely popular at the time it was presented to the public and it sparked a lot of controversy re: Achilles and Patroclus' relationship and who tops/bottoms so I think that's kind of funny lol.

There are lots of other obscure little myths about Achilles that I've picked up by reading various books, papers and wiki posts on the matter and that are just too numerous to list here, but what I will mention and that I think concludes the myths section of this post pretty neatly is that the Iliad and the Odyssey are not the only works about the Trojan War that were written, merely the only works that survived. The rest of the books in the Epic Cycle have been preserved either in fragmentary form or in descriptions in other works, and I think the Epic Cycle wiki page is a good place to start if you want to get an idea of what each of those books contained.

I hope this helped! 💙

[thydungeongal]

What system would you recommend for an epic fantasy narrative?

Running a political epic fantasy game in 5e is slowly driving me insane please help

If you want a game that specifically involves political intrigue and character ideals and beliefs affecting gameplay I would recommend looking into the Burning Wheel. Fair warning: Burning Wheel is a lot to take in all at once. You will have a better time running it if you get players invested in actually learning the rules. You will have a bad time if players don't understand how to interface with the game mechanically and expect you the GM to handle all that stuff for them. It's also a relatively crunchy game, but it supports political intrigue and, in general, characters being internally motivated miles better than D&D.

For something simpler, Free from the Yoke is a game of political fantasy where players will run factions within a kingdom they will collaboratively create as well as individuals from those factions. It's a hack of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, which is a PbtA game that specifically chose to focus in on Apocalypse World's multiple levels of gameplay, so as a game it's meant for supporting a level of gameplay beyond just "some guys fighting things in a dungeon."

I also think RuneQuest could support that type of gameplay to an extent, but it's also heavily tied to a specific setting. (Although that specific setting owns.) There is currently a way to get a lot of RuneQuest for relatively little money through this bundle.

The issue is that RuneQuest is very much tied to Glorantha, which is a cool setting but not necessarily what you're looking for. For basically a setting neutral and modular version of the same system I would look into Mythras. The thing that makes Mythras click for this type of gameplay is that it's not just about characters growing in power (power scaling eventually plateaus in the game) but also that character ideals and beliefs and passions inform gameplay. Also, it has mechanics for tying characters into factions.

RuneQuest and Mythras are the most "trad" of these suggestions, with the other two games being different flavors of indie. But like. These are all good games on their own terms imo.

[sentfromwolves]

◈—⌈ SENTFROMWOLVES ⌋ writeblr introduction ²⁰²⁴

Hi everyone, and welcome to my writeblr 2024 introduction. My name is Eran (they/he & freshly thirty) and I've been on writeblr for awhile, so you might've seen me around. ( •̀ ω •́ ) This is my yearly post to introduce the projects I'll be working on this year, what I write, and who I am. I'll be keeping it short and sweet.

I'd love to meet more writers this year, so if you write any of the following, or just like these genres, or even just wanna shout about ocs together, come holler and I'll give you a follow!

◈ — sci-fi and fantasy of any kind! cozy fantasy, romantasy, epic fantasy, space opera? this is my bread and butter, and I love shouting about it from the rooftops with others! ◈ — found families, ot3s, complicated soulmates. I am almost always writing about soulmates who have either killed each other at least once in the past or are planning some sort of murder. Complicated relationships, especially found families that aren't all rainbows and butterflies, are right up my alley. ◈ — queer and trans protagonists, large queer casts! all of my wips feature trans/nonbinary leads, and I'm always looking for more queer writer friends to connect with! ◈ — hope at the end of the tunnel, but hell to get to. I write stories with hopeful endings, with the sun on the horizon, with the promise that something better might now at long last be on the way. I love seeing characters get put through hell, but I love it even more when they make it to the other side. (if you write tragedy though, please know I will still cry on your doorstep if you'll have me) ◈ — corruption arcs, redemption arcs, sometimes both! Deeply nuanced characters with messy attitudes, and even messier actions. I'm just as equally obsessed with cool worldbuilding as I am with character-driven things, and I will yell about ocs all day, and maybe draw them too >:3 ◈ — big, epic, and sweeping worldbuilding! I am a huge fan of delving into the worldbuilding aspect of my wips. I love building magic systems, cultures, geographies, and more. One of my 2024 projects is doing a worldbuilding experiment blog at some point. I am always down to clown over worldbuilding, whether to sound board or just holler together!

There's a lot more I could say here, but this post can only get so long! Σ(っ °Д °;)っ my dms are always open, and I will follow back most of the time! But just to get all of the basics outta the way:

◈—« here's a quick and dirty rundown of how I work! »—◈

➺ I interact and follow from @calamityeden, so if you see that username, it's just me.✌️I am most active on discord, and if we become friends, you're more than welcome to ask to add me there. ➺ I am open to being tagged in writeblr games! Just know that I am not online all the time, and might be slow to respond to them. 🐌 ➺ My ask box and DMs are open, just please be respectful. I love meeting new writers and talking about projects! I am happy to chat and make new friends. You're always welcome! 💌 ➺ This is a strictly 18+ writeblr. Please DNI with me if you are a minor and respect my boundaries.

🪄You can find my core tags here under my writing and my graphics, as well as writer reminders, game train and catharsis. (❁´◡`❁) And now onto the fun part! My 2024 main project line up!

I have my main four listed here that you'll probably hear me yelling about pretty consistently, but I've also got a lot of other projects rattling around in my brain. So if you're ever curious about a project that's not here, feel free to yell at me about it! >:3

Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy Standalone.

Status: First Draft Complete (117k)—Revising for beta round one.

There's a clock tattooed on Nemesis's wrist, and when it reaches midnight on his 21st birthday, it will kill him. It doesn't help that his mom is the one that cursed him, and the demon currently possessing his car ate her before Nemesis could convince her to break the damned thing. Thankfully, Judge came prepared with an alternative: help him break into a mythical living city and steal its heart, and in return, he'll shatter Nemesis's curse for free. Accompanied by a three-headed hellhound, a haunted holy sword, and an excommunicated exorcist, Judge and Nemesis set their sights on an impossible heist. But the closer Nemesis gets to the heart, the more he begins to realize that he isn't the only one under a curse. And if he doesn't find a way to break Judge's soon, his own life will be forfeit as well.

Genre: Space Opera

Status: 2024 zero drafting from scratch

Two hundred years ago, humanity expanded to the stars only to find a cosmos filled with graves. But then their children began displaying the strange ability to commune with the alien ruins scattered across the planets, waking ancient, extrasolar mecha from their sleep, and turned the struggling colonies of space explorers into the fledgling galactic nation of Sol Galatea.  Now, Wren Akane is on the run from the whole galaxy, wanted for the strange alien powers throbbing through his veins. His luck runs out when he accidentally awakens an ancient Relic in the desert of his planet, only to be embedded with the memories of its last pilot and the revelation that the war that littered the cosmos with graves is far from over. But no one believes Wren when he tells them that continuing to wake the Relics will bring the hostile alien empire that destroyed them back to Sol Galatea’s doorstep. Only Wren’s rival pilot, Marek Khalid, seems interested in a word Wren has to say. But Marek doesn’t want to save Sol Galatea. He has big plans for what to do when the aliens arrive, a rebellion to lead, and if Wren isn’t on his side, he’s in his way. With time running out, Wren must soon decide how far he’s willing to go to save the people that never tried to save him—or if Marek is right, and he should let the stars burn instead.

Genre: Adult Romantasy

Status: First Draft (1k/100k)

Once a year, Celestials from all across the Lumina Kingdom gather together for Eventide, the season of courtship, hoping to win the hand of the most eligible star at court. Sirius knows the game they play all too well: by day, he is the forgettable, miserable daughter of the Lumina Family, least of his seven siblings and wanted only for the royal blood running through his veins.  By night, however, Sirius is the Starweaver—the mysterious dressmaker taking the kingdom by storm. Everyone wants to know the identity of the one responsible for elaborate outfits that turn even the quietest Celestial in the room into the star of the show, outshining even Sirius’s luminous sibling, Diana. When the infamous King Beyond Midnight arrives with the intent to wed Diana, Sirius finds his secret in jeopardy when the condition for their hand in marriage is a simple challenge: reveal the Starweaver's true identity. There’s no outsmarting Octavian for long, and soon, Sirius will have to make a choice: give up on his passion and stay hidden forever, or risk everything to stay true to who he really is.

Genre: Second World Urban Fantasy

Status: Outlining

Something changes the day that Nakano Touya returns to the crumbling city of Soma Lux. It starts with voices in the radio static, blurry figures caught on camera, always out of focus. When a monster crawls out of Touya's television screen and eats him, the last thing he expects is to find a strange, shadowy otherworld lurking on the other side. But his biggest problem isn't the monsters of the otherworld that want to eat him, or the talking cat that saved him, now living in his apartment without a care in sight. Soma Lux is experiencing a strange new epidemic—one that Touya is completely unaffected by. But when his half-sister falls comatose, Touya knows he has to get to the bottom of it all to save her—and find out why he's the only one immune. Accompanied by his jaded ex-boyfriend, Touya’s nosy classmates, a part-time fortune teller, and a cantankerous old hag, Touya dives into the murky underbelly of Soma Lux, where the realities have begun to bleed together between his world and the next. 

That's all for now! >:3 Here's to an amazing 2024! (also my actual blog is a mess right now please do not mind it ksjndfskfn)

[kay-lalala]

What I hope to see in PJO TV Episode 6

I’m guessing the episode is gonna cover the chapters “We Take a Zebra to Vegas” and “We Shop for Water Beds". So I made a list of things that are in the book/story beats and could be included. Hoping for more book accuracy this time tbh.

The animal transport

-The zebra, the albino lion and the antelope. I saw an ostrich I think in the trailer so maybe that’s an addition but I don’t know why they would change the original animals

-The animals having the wrong food and the trio changing that, taking care of them, giving them water, cutting off the balloon etc

-Grover getting angry about that and maybe even trying to leave to start a fight with the drivers. Did they mention he’s a vegetarian yet?

-Grover talking to the animals (I’m still hoping for goat noises)

-Since the spiders were cut out of the waterpark scene maybe it will come up some other way? Since Percy uses it to help Annabeth snap out of the Lotus Casino trance. + the Athena/Arachne story

-”We’re a team, remember?” (even though I wished they would have shown that teamwork of the trio in the waterpark)

-Annabeth and Percy sharing an Oreo

-I guess they will not talk about Thalia and Grover because Percy already knows and they cut out the Iris message scene where Luke mentions it. So I wonder if they will talk about something else. Maybe more Annabeth backstory/her family. Maybe Annabeth and Percy uplifting Grover.

-Since they cut the Poseidon/Athena rivalry discussion I guess there will be no ‘I don’t know what my mom will do. I just know I’ll fight next to you.” “Why?” “Because you’re my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?” Maybe there will be a similar scene

-Percy dreaming about Thalia and Luke and Kronos and his mother in front of Hades’ throne

-The drivers taunting the animals and Grover getting mad about it

-Annabeth tricking them into fighting by knocking on the wall

-The zebra talking to Percy (and him figuring out that it’s because Poseidon created horses)

-Grover blessing the animals + the “Why can’t you place a blessing like that on us?” “It only works on wild animals.” “So it would only affect Percy.”

-Percy freeing the animals

The Lotus Casino

-Epic games and water slides and bungee jumping and stuff like that

-Percy throwing Ares’ backpack in the trash and it later returning to him

-The kids enjoying the room, getting new clothes etc

-Percy teasing Annabeth for watching National Geographic

-Grover playing the reverse hunter game

-Annabeth playing trivia games and a city builder sim

-People that look like they are from all kinds of different time periods

-Groovy Darrin

-Percy getting suspicious and asking everyone what year it is

-Percy realizing and being scared that he forgot his mom’s name for a second

-Percy helping Annabeth snap out of it (not with spiders probably, so with something else?)

-Sudden weather change when they leave, stormy, checking the date to realize there is only one day left

-Apparently they go there on purpose because Hermes is there? I’m just hoping that they will for once actually fall for a trap and not just avoid everything because Annabeth is *~too smart~*.

The Santa Monica Beach + The Waterbed Palace

-Annabeth has the idea to use the casino cards for a cab

-The cab driver calls Annabeth “Your Highness” after seeing the infinite money

-Percy tells the trio about his dream and they start to realize something’s wrong because they were talking about two items, but they settle for “It has to be Hades” for now

-”You have evil thoughts for a goat.” “Why, thank you.”

-Percy walking into the sea in Santa Monica and letting a shark take him further to the edge of a huge chasm (could look super cool)

-The nereid riding on a sea horse

-Percy having flashbacks to seeing faces in the sea when he was a kid because she said they were watching him

-The nereid telling Percy to not judge his father and that they are not allowed to show favoritism

-She giving him the three pearls and explaining how they work

-”You have gifts you have only begun to know. The oracles have foretold a great and terrible future for you, should you survive to manhood.”

-”What belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.”

-In the Mississippi she said “don’t trust the gifts” so maybe she will say it now? Referencing Luke’s shoes and hinting again at his betrayal.

-Annabeth “No gift comes without a price.”

-Someone on the street recognizing Percy from TV

-I guess they already showed Gabe so they won’t see him on the News again? Though I think the young woman sitting next to him would make him more despicable because he replaced Sally immediately

-A gang of kids surrounding the trio and Percy scaring them off with Riptide

-While running from them going into Crusty’s waterbed palace

-God I hope they don’t cut it

-Crusty looking kinda reptilian

-Grover and Annabeth getting trapped on the waterbeds getting streched to be 6 feet tall

-Percy remembering the story of Procrustes and tricking him into laying down on a bed and killing him

-The trio finding the address to DOA records

[homestuckreplay]

doing a silly dance because my gel got more viscous

(page 401-408)

Every day that Homestuck gets updated for the rest of Act 2 I will spin this wheel to predict what will happen that day, and keep track of how often the wheel gets it right. Because anything can happen in Homestuck, but also, certain things keep recurring in Homestuck. I also would 100% believe it if I learned it was written by spinning a wheel in this way, and that's not a criticism at all.

John puts the bunny back in the box, but he does not get his epic movie moment, because he puts it back in the box too hard and it falls out the other end. Unfortunately he's still a kid, and he's got a fair bit of growing and character development to do before he can be a cool action movie hero. I did rewatch the Con Air clip linked form p.20 because I thought it'd be cool if the shale imp strife had been made to parallel that scene in some way, but unfortunately I can't see a connection. Imp strife is still very cool though.

John gains two levels for defeating his first enemy, in a classic video game system where progress through the early levels is really quick, but then gets slower and slower at higher levels. We can see the first 16 levels on John's echeladder [echelon = rank in a hierarchy + ladder = climbing device], and a scrollbar that indicates there are many more to come. All the levels have fun names, and all the names we see relate to youth or childhood in some way. I would love to see the names of higher levels and find out if they're all like this, or if the ladder represents growing up and becoming an adult, and reflects this in the level names.

With each level, John gets a flashier and more colorful virtual feather on his virtual hat - from the idiom 'feather in your cap' [achievement to be proud of]. He also gets some standard video game upgrades - more health, in-game inventory space, and in-game currency (which implies the exciting existence of a Sburb in-game shop). The health being represented by viscosity suggests that it's not a greater amount of health, it's just that the health he has is harder to knock out of the health vial - which is consistent with how the imp strife worked on p.397 and p.400, and is arguably a better representation of what it means to be a physically and mentally healthy person. Real people aren't seen as having 'more' health, just 'better' health, or as tougher and more robust.

And then John does a silly dance because he's happy to be good at a video game and it's very cute.

Then, we get some new strife specibus mechanics. It turns out the strife specibus automatically updates if the nature of a wielded weapon changes - in this case, hammerkind to handlekind - and any other weapons of the same type are modified to match. This seems like a system that could definitely be exploited to get more powerful weapons. John could fix a knife to his hammer to invent the all new hammerbladekind and do bludgeoning and slashing damage all at once.

It's fun to learn that enemies within Sburb are limited by their own strife specibi, and so couldn't just - for example - steal John's weapon when he drops it and use it against him. Based on p.392 where the shale imp just punches John out, I'd guess that they start off without a specibus and can only make unarmed attacks, but have a free strife card to allocate something they find to. More powerful enemies might have multiple free strife cards and/or come with their own specialized weapons.

Bunnykind being a valid strife specibus has some weird implications, though. If John had an angry pet bunny in the house, could he now set that on the imps and use it as a weapon? Or would it follow the same rules as Rose not being able to select John with the cursor, where a living thing can't be used as a weapon? Where's the line? Branchkind is a valid strife specibus (p.37) suggesting that a plant could possibly be used as a weapon which is also alive. If it's not careful, this system could accidentally answer some big questions on the nature of consciousness and the soul.

[barblaz-arts]

Hi, love your work and the new AU, looks super interesting and cool!

Idle aside but it low key inspired a different AU/What if concept (Well several variations like a fae court version ETC) and I thought I'd share it, sorry if not to your interest, I'll try to be quick!

Basically, rather than a Poe cup, there is a yearly 'hunt' where volunteering students are set loose in the woods with free reign to use their nature or any magic and tools they wish (Provided they don't kill) to 'hunt' other students both as "Monsters that hunt in the night" and as "Monster hunters" with them being graded on how many they defeat, how strategically they operate & how good of a fight they put up in that order.

Wednesday signs up to Nevermore 1 day before the tournament so she can win it and then drop out and generally talks a big game.

Only to get dropped real quick cos she completely dismissed Enid the wolf in sheeps clothing as a threat, meanwhile Enid went for her first cos she was the only one whose weaknesses Enid didn't know from her gossip gathering.

Wednesday is livid & watched ENid then take out a vampire with a poor sense of smell with her blood on tree, Ajax with a fluttering coat & mirror trick, a siren with ear plugs and a bit. Then team up with Yoko to take out Bianca before they have a fairly epic bout with Toko calling on all sorts of buck wild vampire magic (Crimson fang!) & Enid using silver tools & spells of Hunters (Silver Claws!). These are technically just regular magic and magic items but like, real painful & super dangerous for Outcasts to use.

They fight to a seeming tie before forfeiting cos Yoko could outlast her spell repertoire and magic reserves even after having fought her way through several other foes. Meaning Enid showed the most hunting skill, having taken out the most competitors, was one of the best combatants and one of the best strategists by withdrawing when it was not wise to keep fighting & gets gold.

Esther barely applauds cos she feels Enid could have stomped the competition if she had been able to transform, so her injuries gained to win and suffering & risks from training don't get her the approval she was begging for & the prize is like ashes in her mouth even as she dances with Yoko & Divina.

Meanwhile Wednesday is watching and grudgingly resolves to stay at Nevermore to basically make a point, get her own back & see how this perky pastel primidone defeated the most ruthless of the Addams clan.

And they were room mates.

you could make a fanfic outta this

[jq37]

Just spitballing here: considering that Porter has everything for the ritual but Fig has laid claim to Ankarna's domain, do you think the final battle might transition to the Bottomless Pit for an epic fight in Rock and Roll Hell?

Other idle thoughts: the "skin and fuck" joke was honestly tasteless and creepy but it is hilarious that Ivy continued being irrelevant. KP is two seconds from an aneurysm because she watched her nemesis jump into lava. And where the hell is Sandra Lynn?

Hmm. On the one hand, the Gym battle specifically is a clear choice to go full circle from the OG finale. On the other hand, that would be really cool! We shall see and ten extra credit points to you for Divination Class if you're right!

Fabian has a history of saying wild out of pocket stuff in character as Fabian (there's a scene in I think Sophomore Year where he has to properly claim the Hangman for some reason and instead of some kind of Boy And His Dog Power-Of-Friendship thing he's like that dog is my SLAVE and I was like *LOU WHAT???*--he obviously didn't mean it in any type of way other than in character badly trying to posture but it was WILD) which I guess makes sense considering he was raised by someone who casually flays peoples backs off to write contracts on them. Not surprised he went hard though since she had just shot his dog/bike on top of the Mazey comment that was clearly festering all year. But I appreciate that Mazey was like...yeah not sure how to react to that tbh. Love when people have moments of reacting like real people in the middle of the ridiculous cartoon situation that's happening. And yeah, Ivy talked a really big game for someone who couldn't even last a round.

Kipperlilly giving up her insane hiding spot because she saw Riz purposefully swan dive into lava is so funny. No matter his financial struggles, Riz never has to worry about having a roof over his head because he is living in Kipperlilly's mind rent free.

And I'm also a little concerned about Sandra-Lynn given Baxter showed up without a rider two eps ago and that was never resolved. I can offer one possible non-dire speculation. I think Baxter appeared after Fig rolled really well to not fall out of the sky (it might have been a Nat 20 but I'm not sure). It's possible Brennan, as a reward for that, just had Sandra Lynn sense trouble and do that so they'd have an extra mount in case something like that happened again. But that's just a guess. We'll see if it's addressed in the finale!

[ohdeerfully]

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[cutiedwaekki]

I saw your requests are open so if I may humbly ask for feede chan!chanlix including stuffing/tight clothes/button popping? If you don't feel up to writing that it's totally fine!! If you do, thank you in advance <3

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summary : who would have thought that with a special mod on the Sims 4, Felix would change his life and that of his boyfriend?

contain : magical weight gain , intense weight gain , stuffing , button popping , tight clothes

Hey anon ~

thank you for your request I was so inspired honestly I couldn't not write about it. I took the liberty of adapting the scenario a little, I hope it suits you, don't hesitate to ask me again in the future, it will be a great pleasure

Enjoy ♡

(o'・∀・)o

Felix and Chan were souls who could be called "opposites", but who attracted each other like magnets. Felix was an avid video game fan, spending most of his free time in front of his computer exploring virtual worlds and creating epic adventures. Chan, on the other hand, was a sports enthusiast who liked to spend his time outdoors, running, cycling and doing all kinds of physical activities.

They met by chance at a video game convention. Felix, eager to discover the latest releases, found himself chatting with Chan, who was volunteering to help organize the event. Despite their obvious differences, they discovered that they had much in common, including their passion for music, travel and a certain love of 80s sci-fi films.

Over the course of conversations and shared laughter, a complicity grew between them, and soon this turned into something deeper. They began to see each other outside the convention, exploring the city together, sharing meals and moments of intimacy. Despite their different hobbies, they found a perfect balance in their relationship, each bringing a unique perspective to the other.

But it was like that, it was them.

(o´・∀・)o

One day, while sitting comfortably on the sofa, Felix and Chan were debating the best strategy for beating a boss in the latest trendy video game. Suddenly, Felix received a notification on his phone, telling him of a new message in his mailbox.

Felix skimmed through the message, ignoring most of the usual spam. But one subject suddenly caught his eye: "Sensational new mod for The Sims 4: customize your characters' weight!"

A flash of excitement crossed Felix's mind. A mod to change your Sims' weight? That could be fun... But deep down inside, he knew there was something else fueling this excitement. A secret longing, an unacknowledged desire, that he kept buried deep inside.

I could finally have my muscular but plump boyfriend in the game, just the way I like it, he thought with a hint of mischief. And who knows, maybe it could make our relationship even more... interesting.

A mischievous smile stretched Felix's lips as he quickly tapped his phone to download the mod. This small, seemingly innocuous choice would soon change their lives in unexpected ways.

(o'・∀・)o

Sitting in front of his computer, Felix smiled as he adjusted the character of his boyfriend, Chan, in the game. he had recreated it to perfection, from his soft dimples to his curly hair. he had even created their dog Berry who always seemed to be smiling and himself (he had also designed their apartment and added extra rooms because why not he had the right to dream of an apartment with a swimming pool and a room reserved for him and his games)

—"Let's see how it looks," he murmured.

He increased the weight of Chan's Sim slightly, watching with amusement the subtle changes in the virtual character's appearance.

By this time, Chan was in the kitchen, enjoying a cookie.

—"These cookies are so good, babe! How did a live without those pastries on my mouth ?" Chan said as he entered the living room with a plate full of cookies.

"I knew you couldn't even wait for it to cool down ," replied Felix, his eyes still glued to the screen with a bright smile. "But tell me, do you think your Sim still looks like you?"

Chan glanced quickly at the screen and laughed, "Maybe a little chubbier, but it's cute."

Felix continued to play, increasing the weight of Chan's Sim slightly again.Who would have thought that this would have a real impact?

(o´・∀・)o

A few days later, Chan looked at himself in the mirror, looking puzzled.

—"I've been feeling a bit bloated lately. Maybe I'm eating too many cookies," he said as he patted his round belly

—"Don't worry, it happens to everyone," replied Felix, a smirk on his face.

Chan aloso noticed that his jeans were slightly tighter around the waist. His well-defined abs seemed to be covered with a light layer of fat, but he didn't pay too much attention to it. If Felix said everything was fine so why worry?

(o'・∀・)o

Chan had always been very active, loving to run in the morning and work out at the gym. Lately, however, he'd noticed himself feeling more tired and craving snacks more often. He grabbed a candy bar from the cupboard.

—"I don't know why, but I'm so hungry these days," he said to Felix.

—"Maybe you're working too hard, remeber when Changbin hyung was bulking ? he ate almost an entire pizza in less than 10 minutes " suggested Felix, without mentioning the changes he'd made in the game.

Chan gave in to his cravings, allowing himself to eat snacks more frequently. Gradually, his eating habits changed, and he began to take larger portions at each meal. After all , Felix was right , he was working out so no worry about his new dier

(o'・∀・)o

One morning, as Chan was putting on his pants, he noticed that they had become tight.

—"It's weird, these pants have gotten a little tight. Maybe they shrunk in the wash," he said as he struggled to fasten them.

Felix watched him and noticed that Chan's well-defined muscles were beginning to soften, especially around his waist and hips. His pecs also seemed less firm.

—"Yes, that's probably it. Or maybe you've become even more irresistible!" joked Felix.

—"Very funny, Felix," Chan replied, laughing, but slightly concerned.

(o'・∀・)o

During an evening with friends, one of Chan's friend remarked.

—"Chan, you seem to have put on a bit of weight. Are you working out less these days?"

—"Oh, maybe a little. I've just been really busy," Chan replied, visibly embarrassed.

Felix, observing the scene from afar, began to wonder if his changes in the game really had any consequences. Chan, once so muscular and sculpted, now seemed a little rounder. His once toned arms were beginning to lose definition, and a slight roundness was appearing around his belly.

Chan continued to notice changes in his body. His once firm pectorals were becoming softer, and his flat belly was beginning to turn into a little buoy. One evening, after a long day's work, he looked at himself in the bathroom mirror.

—"I don't understand what's going on," he murmured, pinching his stomach. "I eat normally and I always exercise, but I'm gaining weight."

Felix watched him silently, feeling a mixture of guilt and fascination.

(o'・∀・)o

One evening, as they sat on the sofa, Chan confronted Felix.

—"Felix be honest with me , do you think I've put on weight?" asked Chan, looking concerned.

—"Uh... maybe a little. But you're still as handsome as ever," replied Felix, before cuddling his lover again .

—"I don't understand what's happening. I feel like I'm getting fatter for no reason," Chan said, frustrated.

—"Are you sure you're not eating more than usual?" asked Felix.

—"I'm eating normally, maybe i did have some binge eating sessions but i don't know. That's what's weird," replied Chan.

Félix returned to his computer, realizing that something strange was happening. He remembered every modification he'd made to Chan's Sim.

"What if... No, that's not possible. This mod can't have an impact in real life... or can it?" he thought aloud.

(o'・∀・)o

As the weeks went by, the changes became more marked. Chan, who once liked to wear tight T-shirts to show off his muscles, now preferred looser clothing. His once-muscular arms had become rounder, and his belly had transformed into a veritable paunch. Even his face had changed, with fuller cheeks and a softer double chin.

Chan began wearing baggy T-shirts and jogging suits to feel more comfortable. His thighs, once sculpted, were beginning to touch, and her back showed signs of extra fat. All this extra weight began to accumulate while his gait became more and more waddling

Félix watched these changes with fascination and a certain admiration.

—"Babe, why are you looking at me like that?" asked Chan one evening, as he helped himself to a third helping of pasta.

—"Chan, I think I've done something stupid..." began Felix.

—"What do you mean?" asked Chan, concerned.

—"That mod I used on your Sim... I think it has real-life effects," Felix explained, ashamed.

I didn't expect Chan to burst out laughing, bringing out his double chin and his dimples, which had become more pronounced. “Oh come on Baby, I know I got fat but it’s ridiculous”

(o'・∀・)o

Felix continued to play with the mod, further increasing the weight of Chan's Sim in the game. One evening, he added a sequence where Chan ate a lot of food. Strangely enough, in real life, Chan began to feel an insatiable hunger. He rummaged through the cupboards and fridge, looking for something to satisfy his hunger.

Chan found himself eating everything he could get his hands on: chips, cakes, leftover pizza, even canned fruit. Each bite seemed to fill him up a little more, but failed to satisfy his hunger. Chan's moans drew the attention of Felix, who came to see what was going on.

—"Channie, what are you doing?" asked Félix, incredulous.

—"I... I can't stop eating. I'm so hungry," Chan replied, his face flushed with embarrassment.

Felix looked at him with concern and fascination, wondering if his game could really have such repercussions.

(o'・∀・)o

As the days passed, Chan continued to put on weight. His shirts, once perfectly fitted, became tighter and tighter. One morning, as he tried to fasten his shirt, one of the buttons popped off with a loud pop.

—"Well, that's new," Chan laughed, but was visibly embarrassed.

Felix couldn't help but smile. "You've become too powerful for your clothes," he joked.

Chan, trying to put on a pair of pants, found the button on them popped off too.

—"I think I'll have to buy some new clothes," Chan sighed, looking down at his well-rounded belly and thick thighs. "I don't know how all this weight got there but I have a feeling it's not going to go away with just a little cardio"

(o'・∀・)o

One sunny afternoon, Felix had gone out for a walk, leaving Chan home alone. Being alone was rare for Chan, but he decided to make the most of it by preparing himself a feast.

He headed for the kitchen and began preparing all his favorite treats: sandwiches, cakes, fruit and even a little ice cream for dessert.

Chan feasted, savoring every bite as if he hadn't eaten in days. The food was so delicious that he couldn't stop, indulging his cravings without restraint. He'd always had a good appetite, but lately it seemed insatiable.

As he ate, Chan began to notice changes in his body. He put his hand on his belly, feeling the softness and roundness he'd acquired.

—"Wow, I didn't even realize I'd eaten so much," he murmured, a mixture of surprise and satisfaction in his voice.

He turned his attention to his butt, noting that they had become fuller and rounder. "My ass have become really generous," he observed, a smile forming on his face.Chan continued his examination, leaning over to observe his arms. He noticed that they seemed fleshier, less defined than before. "My arms have grown too," he observed before flexing them , surprised but curiously satisfied.

Then he brought his hand to his chin and gently caressed the beginnings of a double chin. "A double chin... I guess that's the icing on the cake," he murmured, mingling amusement and acceptance.

Chan shook his head with a chuckle.He felt both surprised and intrigued by these changes, but more than anything, he felt good about himself. His new curves gave him a charm and confidence he'd never felt before.Chan carefully removed his jacket and placed it on the back of a chair, before returning to his delights, knowing he still had room for a few more bites. After all, there was nothing wrong with indulging once in a while, especially when it brought him such happiness and satisfaction.

(o'・∀・)o

One day, Felix, caught up in his daily activities, left the game running without realizing it. Chan's Sim continued to eat and grow exponentially. When he returned to the computer, he was amazed to see how much Chan's character had changed. He had become enormous, with a prominent belly, massive thighs, thick arms, and a neat double chin

while he was enjoying this view, the sound of his boyfriend's heavy footsteps made him take his eyes off the screen and turn towards him. “he become huge” he thought

—"Felix, I don't understand what's happening to me. I feel like I can't control my hunger. I'm getting fatter and fatter, and I can't stop eating," said Chan, with tears in his eyes.

This is where the realization struck Felix

—"Chan, I think this is all my fault," confessed Felix. "This mod I installed... it has effects in real life. I don't know how it's possible, but every change I make to your Sim seems to reflect on you."

Chan looked at him, shocked. "You mean... it's because of the game that I'm like this?"

Felix nodded. "Yes, and I'm really sorry. I didn't know this would happen." he approached Chan and hugged him tightly where he could still put his hands around him.

After a moment's silence, Chan sighed and smiled weakly. "Well, at least that explains a lot. And you know what? Even though I've gained a lot of weight, I feel loved and accepted by you, and that's the most important thing."

Felix smiles, relieved. "Chan, I love you no matter what you look like. You're still the wonderful person I knew, and I'm sorry I put you through this. I'm going to uninstall the mod and try to figure out how to reverse these effects."

—"No need, I think I started to like this body" confided Chan with a sweet smile, before placing two kisses on the forehead of his lover

(o'・∀・)o

Despite his apologies, Felix couldn't help but appreciate Chan's new appearance. Every day, he noticed new details: the way Chan's belly moved gently as he walked, how his thighs grew thicker and touched as he moved, and the gentle roundness of his arms and face.

One evening, as Chan helped himself to a third helping of pasta, Felix couldn't help but smile.

—"What?" asked Chan, between bites.

—"Nothing, I just think you're very cute like that," replied Félix, laughing.

Chan rolled his eyes but also smiled. "You know, despite everything, I'm feeling pretty good. Maybe it's just a new phase in my life."

(o'・∀・)o

However, before he could uninstall the mod, Felix inadvertently left the game running once more. This time, the effects became even more pronounced. Returning home after a long day's work, he found Chan devouring a huge meal.

Chan, who had put on even more weight, could barely move without feeling out of breath. His belly had become enormous,

How big could Chan get? why was he so attractive and sexy so full?

(o'・∀・)o

While Chan was enjoying a feast in the kitchen, Felix settled down on the sofa, accompanied by Berry, their dog. Berry, a cheerful furball, seemed to notice the changes in Chan's body and reacted in unexpected ways.

The little dog rushed over to Chan, jumping onto the sofa with joyful agitation. Without hesitation, Berry snuggled up against Chan's bouncing belly, finding soft, squishy comfort. Chan, surprised but touched by this gesture, briefly stopped eating to gently stroke Berry's head.

Felix, watching them with a tender smile, felt his heart swell with warmth. He couldn't help teasing Chan gently: "You see, even Berry is enjoying your plump new body. Maybe it's just the right weight to be a comfortable pillow!"

Chan, laughing softly, replied, "very funny. But seriously, honey, even without the mod, I like this weight on me. It makes me comfortable and... I feel good."

Félix smiled, touched by Chan's answer. He took her hand tenderly and whispered, "You're beautiful to me, no matter how much you weigh. I love you just as you are." They kissed tenderly, showing all the love they had for each other before being interrupted by a bark from Berry who seemed to tease the kissing couple.

Just as they were immersed in a sweet, comforting moment, the chair Chan was sitting on emitted an ominous creak. Felix and Chan gasped, their gazes meeting with a gleam of amusement in their eyes.

—"I think it's time to consider sturdier furniture," joked Felix, as Chan laughed, the sound filling the room warmly. This moment, though tinged with a hint of surprise, strengthened their connection and complicity, helping them to overcome together the unexpected challenges of their new reality.

felix for once was grateful not to have thrown this spam out of his mailbox

[rottenpumpkin13]

Been listening a lot to the concept music for Epic the musical, and Monster really slaps. I think of Zack facing down thousands of men to try to keep cloud alive when I listen to it. What was he thinking through all of that? All his life he was trying to make the right choice. Trying to save people and choose the path that kept people alive. Leading his life with an open heart and open arms in hopes he could have a brighter future. And time after time people he loves and cares for die anyway. Maybe if he just did things different. Maybe if he didn’t spare someone and chose to kill. Maybe if he stepped in. Maybe if he refused an order. Maybe, if he went insane sooner, the others could have lived longer. All those people he faced. All those people he killed for Cloud. They had families. They were following orders. They didn’t want to die. But if he had to/could kill a thousand more just to bring all the others back, then he would become the monster. So the others didn’t have to. So cloud didn’t have to. Maybe he was being too soft, and maybe everything leading up to that point was his fault. Maybe he was the monster by choosing not to act sooner. Etc. etc.

Anyway, azcsg, boxers, briefs or other?

I think a lot about how Zack died with a smile, looking at Cloud, because in a bittersweet way, it was his "mission accomplished." Cloud was safe and alive. Zack had only seen Cloud comatose and mostly unresponsive for a year at that point. The last thing he saw before he died was that 16-year-old kid from Nibelheim—now 21 and grown despite everything they went through—getting better, coherent, and speaking to him. Zack smiled, not mentioning the pain from his bullet wounds, not asking for help, but assuring Cloud that he was his living legacy. And he hugged Cloud right before he died, because all of that wasn't heartbreaking enough.

Zack wants to be a hero, and he goes through this whole cycle to achieve this by trying to stop Genesis, reason with Genesis and Angeal, and ultimately having to kill Angeal. All this while working for Shinra, which in the grand scheme, is counter to what he truly wants to accomplish since Shinra is the villain and the whole reason why the villain of the game is doing what he's doing. The moment he breaks free from Shinra, rescuing Cloud from the lab and escaping, is when he truly acts as a hero (not that he wasn't one before that, but one independent of Shinra, trying to get away from them even). And he's targeted and killed for it 🫠

Anyway,

Angeal: Jockstrap/ Boxer briefs

Genesis: Trunks

Sephiroth: Boxer briefs/trunks but Jockstraps if he's active

Cloud: Boxers

Zack: Boxer briefs but only if they have cool patterns like his boxers.

[theeccentricraven]

OC Questionnaire (warning, long post!)

Thank you @willtheweaver @kaylinalexanderbooks @buffythevampirelover @winglesswriter @drchenquill for the tags! I've wanted to do this for ages, but I was so busy. I figured out how to kill two birds with one rock by using these as character sheets for my Camp NaNoWriMo project. All of the characters mentioned below are from my WIP The Keeper of Maralla, which I describe as a nontraditional epic fantasy. Sorry the post is so long. I hoped to capture as many of the posts I had been tagged in as possible and limited to four characters. I hope I didn't give away too much.

1. Do you like the company of others?

Juva - If you mean in the company of animals, yes. If you mean what I think you mean….I’d rather be in the corner reading a book.

Maralla - I love to be around people. I bring them joy. I make them laugh. I see the good in everyone.

Jorem - I can put up with people so long as they don’t give me crap.

Mrs. Terila - A day cannot go by without my visiting a friend, giving counsel to someone who asks, or addressing the people under my charge.

2. What do you like to do in your down time?

Juva - Ride horses on my farm, read a good book, listen to the radio, go watch a movie with my dad, ride tractors, and watch a good TV show.

Maralla - Sing, dance, ride horses, explore forests, go shopping, and play outdoor games, pick flowers, and try on new clothes.

Jorem - Learn new spells

Mrs. Terila - I don’t have much spare time, but when I do, I’m having conversations with dear friends and practicing my magic.

3. Do you believe in ghosts or the supernatural?

Juva - Our people believe that the dead join with the Higher Beings in the Otherworld. Ghosts are the result of when necromancers trap their souls on earth. That’s why necromancy is evil.

Maralla - I’ve glanced Afterlife by visiting the Fay in the Otherworld. I have seen where the dead go. 

Jorem - I’m a necromancer. What do you think?

Mrs. Terila - As a mage, I know how the forces of evil fight to control souls. I know that happiness awaits the free souls.

1. What does the perfect day look like?

Juva- Pastry breakfast, visiting the most beautiful places in the colony, riding horses, watching a concert, and doing something fun with my dad.

Maralla- A festival with lots of songs and dancing, running in a race, and visiting a sacred site.

Jorem- Learning a wave of new spells, casting them to gain the control of more souls, and growing in power. Winning a fight would make the day better. 

Mrs. Terila- Sitting in a chair and reading a good book.

2. What time of day is your favorite?

Juva- Dawn. I love the sunshine, the birds singing, the cool air, and the fairy dust before it fades. 

Maralla- Late morning. Not too early, but bright.

Jorem- Night. When everyone else is asleep, it’s my “me” time.

Mrs. Terila- Dawn. I have to start at dawn for everything or else I’ll never get anything done during the day.

3. If you were granted one wish, what would it be?

Juva- To see my mother again.

Maralla-To see my parents again.

Jorem-Bring back my family, our home, and the life we used to have.

Mrs. Terila- Peace for our country.

1. What is your favorite game/sport?

Juva- Horseback riding

Maralla- Racing

Jorem- Competitions for who is the best sorcerer

Mrs. Terila- Hide and seek, believe it or not!

2. Do you prefer day or night?

Juva- Day. I get scared in the dark.

Maralla- Day, though I love to make beautiful songs either way. Oh, I rhymed. When you have spent as much time with the fairies as I have, you will rhyme a lot.

Jorem- Night. Best time for necromantic spells and there’s no one awake to bother me.

Mrs. Terila- Day, when I’m most active and productive.

3. How would you react if someone close to you betrayed you?

Juva-I was betrayed by someone close to me. It feels like the end of the world to me. No one hurt me so much. No one stole so much from me. I was cursed, too. I thought I was worthless. I would have given up on life if it wasn’t for Maralla.

Maralla-I was betrayed by someone I thought could be trusted. The best I could do was press forward and continue to fight to survive. 

Jorem- If a friend betrayed me, I would make them miserable. I would not rest until they regretted it.

Mrs. Terila- I would remind myself that corruption can haunt any soul, run to a friend for protection and comfort, and summon the fairies to guide me. 

1. Did you have any formal education? If so, what was it like?

Juva- I am fourteen years old and still a student. I’m homeschooled like many of the colonial clan members. Mrs. Terila is my teacher.

Maralla- Back in my day, I would have been able to earn admittance into a prestigious academy. Circumstances caused my mother to need to homeschool me. 

Jorem- Before I lost my family, my home, and our whole town, I was an ace student in the academy. I earned the best grades in every subject. My parents were so proud.

Mrs. Terila- I was trained by the brightest scholars of the clans. When I was young and foolish, I didn’t like school. When I realized my full potential and what I could do in the world, I became a dedicated student.

2. What is your stance on friends and friendship?

Juva- I love friends, though it’s hard when I feel so nervous talking to people. I try to spend as much time as I can with the few friends I have because I feel the most comfortable with them and don’t want to lose them.

Maralla- Friends are the best, second to family. It’s even better when they know how to have fun.

Jorem- You never know if friends could go away someday, whether they ditch you or die on you. Just show that you’ve earned respect. That matters most.

Mrs. Terila- I can never have too many friends. They are everywhere. I politely request them to respect my busy schedule. 

3. How would you describe your relationship with your family?

Juva-I love my dad more than anyone in the world. I work beside him, eat with him, pray with him, and laugh at the TV with him. I miss my mom. She was so beautiful. She was the kindest person in the world. I don’t understand why she was taken away from us. She must be happy in Paradise.  

Maralla- I was small, but I still have fond memories of my father. I was close to my mother while she raised me with the help of the sons of Moras. I miss them.

Jorem- The images of my mother, my father, and my sister still linger in my mind, impossible to scrape out of my head. Of course I loved them. Of course we lived a wonderful life. They were good people in a world where we have almost none.

Mrs. Terila- I love my husband, sons, daughters, and grandchildren. I wish times were like how they used to be, before my work had to call me away.

1.Where do you wish you were at this very moment and why?

Juva- On the farm because I love the horses and love being with my dad.

Maralla- I wish I was back in Faeryland because it’s the best place to be.

Jorem- I wish I was with my mentor Zorik because I enjoy learning necromancy from him. 

Mrs. Terila- With my husband because I miss him.

2.What's something you wanted as a child that you have/have done now and how has this impacted your life's path?

Juva- Visiting the beautiful city of An Lurska. It’s a city of magic that demonstrates the power of the Fay. I’ve heard you're never the same after you visit. They’re right. Walking the streets with the magic around me made me feel like I walked on the air.

Maralla- I wanted the fairy’s kiss when I was young because it is known for being the greatest boon that the Fay may grant. I was given it when I was fourteen. I was given more than I dreamed of. I will never touch death. 

Jorem- I had wanted to learn magic since I was young. Ever since I learned necromancy from Zorik, I have felt a power and fulfillment like I never had before. I’m not going to let the past control me. I control my future.

Mrs. Terila- I wanted a husband and a family. My married life and motherhood were happy and fulfilling. Now that the forces of the demons have gotten in the way, I regret that I can’t enjoy that life again.

3. How do you take your tea?

Juva- With whipped cream

Maralla- With sugar

Jorem- I don’t drink it. I use the tea bags for spells.

Mrs. Terila- Iced

1.How good are you with people?

Juva- I’m so quiet around them, they get frustrated by how quiet I am. I can’t tell someone to do something because it feels wrong.

Maralla- I talk to them, ask them to do something and they follow with a smile, sing to them, and get them to join in games.

Jorem- So long as people aren’t stupid, I can tolerate them. 

Mrs. Terila- Anyone who knows me knows I’m patient and a good leader, but I don’t let troublemakers get away easily.

2. How would you function in a group project?

Juva- I would listen to the group leader and follow their instructions.

Maralla- I would bring flowers and cookies to everyone.

Jorem- I would tell people how it’s done and remind the stupid people of how easy it is.

Mrs. Terila- I would be the leader, give everyone their task, emphasize on expectations, and offer my helping hand to any who ask.

3. What's your most valuable possession?

Juva - My mother’s locket.

Maralla - Love

Jorem - My diary

Mrs. Terila - My husband’s ring.

1. Which color do you hate?

Juva- Black. It’s the sign of all that is unknown, evil, and frightening.

Maralla- I’m actually quite fond of all of the colors, though red reminds me too much of blood. 

Jorem- Brown. It’s boring.

Mrs. Terila- Gray. It doesn’t look good on me.

2. If all the sounds in the world ceased to exist, which sound would you miss the most?

Juva- Birdsong

Maralla- Laughter

Jorem- My voice.

Mrs. Terila- All singing

3. What is the first rule you learned as a child?

Juva- The Fay are above us and the Higher Powers are above them. We must respect the Higher Beings who created this world and the faeryland. We must show that we are purehearted and good in nature to earn a place in the Otherworld.

Maralla- Obey Mother and Father and never stop hugging.

Jorem- Life is all about being happy. When Mom and Dad tell you to not touch a mad dog, they just don’t want you to get bit.

Mrs. Terila- Follow the example of the Order of Elders.

1.What would you say to yourself from the past?

Juva- I would tell myself to keep closer to Koti in hopes of preventing her from turning to the dark side. I would also tell myself to never break the oaths of my clan. 

Maralla- I would tell myself to be braver.

Jorem- I would tell myself to study magic sooner and spend more time practicing.

Mrs. Terila- I would tell myself to not waste my time when young as well as to not work so hard I burn out.

2. If you could send a message to your future self, what would it be?

Juva- Don’t break your oath.

Maralla- Keep spreading happiness.

Jorem- Great as it is to be a sorcerer, don't forget about the other precious moments in life.

Mrs. Terila- Don’t give up on hope.

3. If you could redo your life, is there a moment, an event, that you would never change?

Juva- I would never change taking the oath to be Maralla's keeper.

Maralla- I would never change the friendships I made with my keepers. 

Jorem- I would never change becoming a necromancer.

Mrs. Terila- I would never change marrying the man I loved.

1.What's your deepest regret?

Juva- That I didn’t realize how upset Koti was. I feel like I failed her as a friend.

Maralla- I couldn’t save my mother or my father.

Jorem- I was the only one who survived when my family and neighbors died in the fire caused by a dragon.

Mrs. Terila- Failing to catch the sorcerers who followed the demoness Arsha. 

2.What's your secret wish that nobody knows about?

Juva- To marry my crush.

Maralla- For everyone to visit the Faeryland.

Jorem- Make poison that could kill dragons. And…okay, I denied it, but it’s true. I would like to have a girlfriend. 

Mrs. Terila- Go hide out as a hare again.

3. If you were an animal, what would you be?

Juva- A horse, running and jumping elegantly.

Maralla- An ox. I admire how strong they are.

Jorem- A wolf. The teeth and claws would be handy.

Mrs. Terila- A hare. In fact, I have experience….

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*flipping through cue cards

ponysona…no……..my little persona……..no…………

(elaboratig on cutie marks below BC i thought about them a lot !!! ahhh so long)

(not spoiler free !!!!!!!!!!!!)(corn get outta here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

i wanted to keep these as simple as possible , and not cram too much imagery in to them , so they wouldnt look out of place in the show &c ! fun little challenge i gave myself , just for context :D

akechi: a white pawn chess piece ! my friend actually came up with this ! and its kinda genius ! to paraphrase what she said: white chess pieces move first ; akechi is always the one to (attempt to be) one step ahead of the thieves , having everything lined up for himself to succeed . 

     her words: “akechi sets the first gambit, the tone, and gets to begin laying out the chess board how he sees fit, and joker is the reactionary. but heres the thing. strategists differ on how you should play as black, like if you should automatically be on defense from white's offensive move. but the most famous black player of all time is magnus carlsen, who is WILDLY an offensive player and absolutely goes for it every time, to the point where white has been INTIMIDATED by him and played poorer statistically against him because of it . like thats CRAZY!! hes one of the boldest chess players in existence and he prefers to go SECOND! it was pretty much unheard of before him.”

    plus , (my words now) theres the idea of not only him manipulating others (the pawn) , but he himself becoming a pawn in a plan much grander than him . the p5 wildcards and their games of strategy a nd all !

joker: joker card(+mask !) i was actually trying to come up with something “better” , but the joker card really , really fits him . not only literally being a wildcard in the metaverse/persona sense , but also IRL , how he’s adaptable to every situation ! canon pretty much explains it , LOL ! but again bringing in the theme of classic games of strategy , joker with his joker card !

ryuji: EPIC awesome skull (literally his na,me...) , but i liked it with the idea of delinquency/pirates(YIPPY !) , as well as the lightning not only for power , but symbolizing speed~  hes just cool

ann: lipstick kiss mark ! this one actually came to me really quick , LOL ! it symbolizes her role as a model (makeup !) , but also has to do with how she reclaims her sexuality and looks for herself ! that , as well as her caring nature , especially to the little guys(like a mother’s kiss goodbye on your forehead..)

yusuke: ink brush + swirls !!! funny enough this one took me the longest to come up with . i wanted to avoid giving him a palette , since i wanted to focus on traditional japanese art forms above all else (since thats basically his whole tyhing !) and ended up going with an ink brush ! it’s not exclusively japanese by any means , but its recognizable , and we see him work with ink many times ! the little swirls are meant to be the golden ratio (beauty ?)LOL , but just kinda look like swirls.......maybe shapes found in his art ?

makoto: gavel and books ! also took me a weirdly lomg time to come up with , but i figured it out ! the gavel is obviously meant to represent justice/the justice system , but also wanted it to represent power as well (since makoto can often act like a secondary “boss” LOL , and her role as a leader at school !) . the books are for her intelligence (perhaps legal books) ? yippy !!!!

haru: a coffee cup with a plant growing out of it ! this is a bit on the nose , but i had fun figuring it out ! keeping her goal of opening a cafe (and coming up with new coffee blends throughout the game) in mind , as well as her love for plants and gardening ! the plant is meant to form a sort of heart (which can also look like steam coming fromt he cup).. , to also show her nurturing side !

futaba: computer and medjed eyes !!!!!! also a bit on the nose , LOL ! for this 1 , the computer is obviously tied to her skill as a hacker/her computer-focused life , but the eyes carry a bit more weight ! theyre literally the eyes of the deity medjed , who is known for those two eyes that look directly at you ! we dont see any medjed logo with graphics like this in game IIRC , but i added it for the double(triple?) meaning ! medjed in game carries the weight of being a part of the book of the dead , and connected to futaba’s palace themed around egyptian tombs , but i also felt the eyes could be tied to how she monitors everyone , and interacts with the world through her computer (almost as if shes looking out from it !) yippy !!!!!!!!! :D

sumire: magic wand/gymnastics ribbon ! as explained by my description , LOL , this mark is meant to look both like a magic wand (cinderella/fairy gdmother ...) as well as a gymnastics ribbon ! we see her with these in game , which made my job much easier ! the ribbon forms sort of an “s” for her name , and also looks kind of like a shooting star , to symbolize how she is always shooting for the top ! (and on a darker note , how shooting stars can often be meteors that fall apart)... kasumi’s mark is hers but reversed , and has an additional sparkle/star on it , for “3 stars”, 1st place ! the absence of this sparkle for sumire can represent how she lost her sister , and how she feels lesser (even if just as wonderful !)

okay yayyayy thats all bye bye !!!!!!!!!

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Epic Mickey Headcanons because I am so starved for content (warning: most of these are Gremlin related).

Prescott looked up to Mickey after he defeated the Blot in the first game. Since it is implied that the Thinner Route (or at the very least a Neutral Route) is canon, it would only make sense for Prescott, who can be quite violent himself, would look up to someone who saved Wasteland using destruction as his means to do so. Mickey was also the one to free him from the safe, so it was only natural Prescott would see Mickey as his hero. He built the whole diorama to show his appreciation to Mickey but then abandoned it soon after the Mad Doctor started to manipulate him.

There were so many ‘toons that lived in Wasteland before the Thinner Disaster happen that when it did hit, no one could be sure whether someone was just missing or straight up dead because the wave of Thinner left barely any trace of the ‘toon left, if it did at all. Most ‘toons started to assume that everyone who was missing was just dead and that if they were alive, they’d show up sooner or later and left it at that.

It was one thing to be forgotten by time, but being lost to time was a whole different story. Becoming lost media meant not only being forgotten, but your entire existence being wiped away. Many ‘toons who have lost pieces of media that have been completely destroyed in the real world cannot remember those pieces. If a piece of media that served as a 'toons whole existence were to be completely destroyed, they and all the memories surrounding them would vanish, leaving no trace behind. It's almost like they never existed in the first place.

Prescott may be mechanically smart, but he is very, very gullible. For crying out loud, the very reason he ended up trapped in the safe in the first place was because he was told there was a present waiting for him in there. Prescott may have a distaste for most ‘toons, but he trusts them all with his life, even after he’s been betrayed and abandoned by so many. If he thinks something is going to benefit him, he’ll trust just about anyone. Being isolated in a factory for years, maybe even decades, left him impressionable and gullible.

Adding on to the whole impressionable thing, Prescott will adapt anything he likes into his personality. One of those things happened to be pirates, which is why he put on a whole pirate accent during his battle with Mickey and Oswald. Much like he did with Mickey, Prescott looked up to pirates due to their violent nature, because pirates are known for being rebellious against authority, and got whatever they could ever dream of with a slash of their swords. Prescott thought that if he sounded like a pirate, he’d be just as cool as them. He spent some (and by some, I mean a lot) time planning out catchphrases and practicing his pirate accent before the battle.

Out of all the attractions, the rotating planes has to be Gus’s favorite. It reminds him a lot of his human counterpart who was a pilot during WW2. In a way, the planes are very nostalgic to Gus, reminding him of a simpler time before he and every other Gremlin were forgotten and ultimately sent to Wasteland. It would mean the world to Gus if Mickey decided to fix up the attraction rather than destroy it.

Julius the cat (if he is alive) is downright pissed at Oswald for taking his spot as King of Wasteland. It infuriates him that Oswald and every other ‘toon believes the rabbit was the first to be forgotten and thus making him king. What makes matters worse is that Julius spent a long, long time alone in Wasteland before any other ‘toon due to being one of the first cartoon characters forgotten by time. Seeing Oswald complain about Mickey taking his spot fills Julius with unbridled rage. It was most likely that Julius would’ve been involved with the Pete’s in the third game, working together to take back their spot as the first ‘toons that came to Wasteland. Even though Pete was Julius’s sworn enemy, he would do anything to take back what should’ve been his since the very beginning.

After the events of the first game, Mickey became an insomniac due to fear that he would be dragged back into Wasteland by the Blot. He doesn’t hate Wasteland, but the circumstances in which he first arrived there has left him more than traumatized enough to be afraid of falling asleep almost every night. Even when he does fall asleep due to complete fatigue, he has nightmares of the Blot returning to seek vengeance. Afraid for his life, Mickey started doing everything he could to prevent his nightmares from becoming reality, such as moving the mirror to another room and even keeping a weapon nearby that would do no actual damage to the Blot, but it was the thought that counts.

Most if not all the background ‘toons named themselves. Even before they were forgotten, they didn't have names. When they arrived in Wasteland, they had nothing to call themselves. The background characters tried giving themselves the most extravagant names so that they stood out amongst the crowd, hoping to be seen as more than a character that takes up background space.

The reason why we see no Fifinellas or Widgets in the game is because the Gremlin Village was hit the worst by the Thinner Disaster, killing each and every one of them. The Gremlins were expected to work (this was the early 1900s, what do you expect?) outside their village, so most if not all of them were away from the village. Out of any of the Gremlins, Gus was the most devastated by this discovery, believing he was entirely responsible for the death of every Fifinella and Widget.

To further that, Jamface and Prescott were one of the only members of his family Gus had left. One of the reasons why Prescott was ultimately sent to work in the Gag Factory is because Gus hoped it would be the safest place for him to be. Prescott was his youngest son (he doesn’t appear in the original Gremlins book, so it's assumed he is younger than Jamface, who did appear in the 1940s book), so Gus wanted him out of harms way and in a place surrounded by what he hoped would be friendly ‘toons, believing Oztown would be his safest bet. This is also why Gus acts more like a father figure in the games than he did in the books. He felt so guilty for the deaths of every Fifinella and Widget that he tried to act more fatherly towards not only his fellow Gremlins, but other ‘toons such as Mickey and Oswald. Seeing how Prescott grew to resent Gus because he felt abandoned in the exact place Gus felt Prescott would be the safest absolutely crushed him more than anything, reminding Gus of how he let down all the Fifinellas and Widgets on the day of the Thinner Disaster.

The reason why older ‘toons are in black and white while others like Oswald are in color is because those who are colorless were last used before colored cartoons. Even though he doesn’t know it, Oswald has color (albeit, the bare minimum) because he continued to be used by Universal after color was added to cartoons. Though, Oswald did not change in design very much, sticking to the original design he was given while Disney still owned the rights to him.

Prescott was not the one to come up with the idea of a self-destruct glove. Rather, the Mad Doctor did and convinced him to wear it as a ‘last resort.’ The Mad Doctor knew how trusting Prescott could be, so he hoped that he would go along with the Doctor’s plan. However, Prescott ends up not using it, leading the Mad Doctor having to incapacitated him before he could reveal any of the Mad Doctor's plans.