#‘and if there actually is a school I assume it’s a cult of some sort’

[scary-senpai]

Like for real real this happened today

[lavandulawrites]

Devilish creatures

Yandere Gojo Satoru x female reader

Masterlist

Word count: 2576

Warnings: Implied stalking, Gojo being as unsettling as always

You were a complete normal woman if you ignored the way you could see them. Since you had been a little girl you had been able to see those hellish creatures. You told your parents, but they didn’t believe. No one did. It got to the point where your parents took you to see a psychiatrist, which told you that it was nothing more than childish fantasies. Fantasies for a young child was normal, but you knew very well that what you saw were real and not fantasies. The only person who did believe you were your mother’s mother. She had always been eccentric. She told you that she has been seeing those creatures since she was a child. That did make you feel relieved, but it didn’t help the whispers from those around you.

You moved to Tokyo as soon as you graduated high school. You started studying in a prestigious university. You didn’t speak to your family much, but that was probably for the best. Those creatures never disappeared. In fact it seemed that there were much more of them in Tokyo. Around the campus there were always a swarm of them. They didn’t harm you (most of them were in fact really small) but they made you feel a sense of dread. Almost like they were draining your energy. Maybe they were. One night when you were walking home from your shift the small but cozy café, you came across a huge monstrous creature. It had rows upon rows of teeth and two bulging eyes pointed in each direction. It’s tongue black and long. It didn’t notice you, so you ran as fast as you could. After that incident you were reluctant to walk home alone at night. You always took the early shifts, which resulted in having less time to study. You would chose your life over your grades at any day, so you didn’t feel too bad about it.

One cold January day you called your grandmother. It had been a long time since you last talked and you really missed her. You told her about the monster-incident and she advised you to go to some place called Jujutsu High. You really hoped it wasn’t a scam or worse a cult, but you really didn’t have a choice. When it came to the monsters, you would take any solution.

The school was in a traditional Japanese style with impressive gardens. It really was beautiful. You headed to the building where the kind lady on the phone told you to. Apparently someone there could help you with your little problem. Even though you had your suspicions, you had to give it a try. You didn’t know what you would do if you didn’t.

You stepped inside the building and took a seat in what may seem like a waiting area of some sort. After you sat in silence contemplating if it was a wise decision to come or not for what felt like hours (it had actually only been 15 minutes) a tall white haired man walked by. He stopped in his tracks and looked at you with a slight smile. His eyes were covered with a black cloth resembling a blindfold. You could feel his intense stare underneath his blindfold. “Are you waiting for someone?” he tilted his head.

You nodded, your voice failing you in the presence of the handsome man.

“Do you happen to be [Last Name] [Name]?” he bent slightly forward. You nodded “Yeah”.

“I am sorry to inform you, but the person you had an appointment with have some urgent matters to attend to” his smile gentle.

Your expression fell “Oh… I see. Thanks for telling me”. You was just about to get up and leave when he stopped you by clearing his throat.

“I can help you. I assume you have a problem you need help with since you are here?” his grinned. You looked at him with wide eyes “You can help me?”. You were so relived, finally these sights would stop.

His grin widened “Of course I can help you darling”. The pet name rolling of his tongue with ease causing you to blush slightly. You shifted uncomfortably in your seat.

“Follow me” he straightened his back. God he was tall. You followed after him unsure of what to expect. The corridors were dimly lit, giving of an eerie feeling. The tall man was walking with slow steps so you could keep up with his ridiculously long legs. He stopped in front of a room and ushered you inside. “You know, I am not really supposed to tell civilians this, but I will make an exception since you are so adorable” his grin similar to that of the Cheshire cat. It was slightly unsettling. You raised your brow slightly and took a seat in the chair he was gesturing to.

He slumped down on the chair opposite of you, stretching his legs out like a cat. “You are seeing things right? Seeing creatures that resemble those of hell” it wasn’t a question, but a statement. You nodded slowly.

He leaned forward and rested his arms on his knees and popped his head in his hands. You could tell he was scanning your expression. “Awww… You poor thing. I am sure that must frighten you so very much” he cooed at you like one would with a scared animal. “Luckily you have me to protect you”.

You twisted in your seat. There was something of about him, but you couldn’t put your finger one what exactly. “Yeah… They are quite frightening.” you smiled sheepishly.

He leaned back in his seat toying with his the black cloth covering his eyes. “Those so called creatures are called “curses”. You are one of the few people with the ability to see them.”

You blinked. Curses? You swallowed. Surely this was a joke right…? Sweat stared to collect at your temples.

The man chuckled at your reaction. “Where are you seeing the curses?”

“My university, around my neighbourhood and nowadays I’m seeing them in my flat” your hands slightly shaking. He hummed “I see. I will accompany you home to get rid of the curses. If you don’t mind of course”. His lips were twisted in a slightly smile, which you were unable to read. “I don’t mind at all” you shook your head. You would do anything to get rid of those so called curses. Absolutely anything.

He slapped his thighs and stood up with a swift motion. “Good. Very good indeed!” his smile still present. He stopped before the door and turned his head over his shoulder “I forgot to introduce myself. I am Gojo Satoru”.

The drive to your flat had been in silence. You had felt Gojo’s gaze at you the whole ride. “Please excuse my mess” you sheepishly smiled as you dumped some dishes into the sink. Gojo laughed telling you that he didn’t mind. He glanced around your apartment before he turned to you.

“It will only take a moment” he flashed you a smile. You stepped back unsure of what to expect. He had explained you briefly what cursed techniques and the like were while you made your way up the many stairs to your flat. You understood it somewhat. With a gesture of his fingered the small curses that were sweeping up underneath your sofa and bookshelf disintegrated. Your jaw fell slack in shock. You didn’t know what you expected, but this was certainly not it.

Gojo chuckled amused. “Impressed? This was mere child’s play” he smiled cockily, clearly happy with your reaction. “Are they gone gone now?”. “They are completely gone now” he nodded.

“Thank you so much!” you bowed. He had told you earlier that it wouldn’t cost you anything. A special discount for a special girl as he said. He had however suggested going out for a coffee with him. Which you agreed to, much to his delight.

“Your flat is safe from curses, though I can’t exactly say the same for you neighbourhood” his voice laced with concern. You felt like you were deflating. You had nowhere to stay besides your flat.

He brought his fingers to his chin and was silent for a moment. “What if…” his voice absentminded. “What if you stay at my place for the time being? I remember you said you were tight on money and hotels are quite expensive nowadays. I have a spare bedroom and it’s not too far away from here, but far enough for it to be safe”. You thought for a moment. Was it okay for you to sleep at his place? He was a total stranger after all and besides you didn’t want to bother him, but he had been nothing but kind. As if noticing your hesitation, he spoke up “I can promise you it won’t be a bother” he smiled warmly. You thought for a second. You really didn’t have any other options. “Okay. Thank you. I really appreciate it”.

His smile twisted into a grin. “The pleasure is all mine” his words smooth like honey.

His flat was huge and well decorated in a elegant way, not like quite what you had expected. Long windows going down to the floor overlooked the bustling streets of Tokyo.

He laughed softly at your awe. “Feel yourself at home”. He had replaced his blindfold with black rimmed glasses that he pulled down his nose to wink at you. His eyes were the most beautiful eyes you had ever seen. They were of an ice blue colour mixed with turquoise. He pushed his glasses back up and hummed at your reaction.

The hours flew by as you talked about all and nothing over takeaway sushi from a high end restaurant. He really was easy to talk to. His witty remarks making you laugh. He was quite flirty too, but not overbearingly so.

Soon it was well over midnight and your eyelids getting heavy. “Ooo someone’s sleepy” he laughed. You nodded “Yeah. I had to wake up early”. He stood up “I will make your room ready. One moment please”.

You tried to fight the sleepiness when something poking out underneath one of the coffee table book. You leaned forward to get a better look at the somewhat familiar flyer. You pulled it out carefully and brought it underneath the light of the lamp standing by the sofa. It was a flyer of your university. Weird… From your impression of Gojo you didn’t think he was studying. He did tell you that he worked as a teacher at Jujutsu High. An eerie feeling crept over you. It was probably just a coincidence, right? It had to be, there were no other explanations… You went over your conversations. He was really observant with you, but maybe he was one of the more observant types.

Then it struck you. You never did mention which university you were attending. You only gave him your address when he drove you both to your flat to ride it off the curses.

You quickly put the flyer back in place and straightened your back.

“Your room is ready” Gojo’s head was peaking out of the hallway. With shaky hands you turned around to face him. Your hands gripping the cushions of the sofa to ground your racing mind. You had to come up with an excuse and that quick. A notification followed by a curse broke the uncomfortable silence. You snapped your head towards Gojo. He was staring at his phone with furrowed brows.

“You should see yourself lucky that you are staying here” he walked over to you still starting his phone. “Multiple curses have gotten out of control attacking civilians. It’s not safe out now”. His icy eyes meeting yours. His glasses nowhere to be found. His expression changed to worry as he scanned your face. “What is it?” he tilted his head slightly.

You swallowed as you fidgeted with your fingers. You couldn’t go back to your flat now, it would be to dangerous and besides you couldn’t confirm that it was something up with Gojo. You had always had the habit of being untrusting with people. After all he had been nothing but kind and welcoming. “Nothing” you shook your head with a slight smile. “I am just tired”.

The bed was really fit for a king. It was the most comfortable sleep you had ever gotten. Your eyes creaked open as rays of sunlight bathed the room in a soft yellow glow. The smell of pancakes filling your nose.

Gojo was standing by the oven flipping pancakes while humming a tune that was playing on the speakers. I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos. He turned around with a smile. His eyes shining bright with an unreadable expression. “Good morning [Name]. Did you sleep well?” his voice melodic and his smile dashing. He really was beautiful, but you couldn’t help but be cautious.

“I did. Thank you for letting me spend the night here”. With a smile he told it was nothing and he was glad he could help you out. He served the pancakes with a hum and wiped his hands on a kitchen towel. His gaze tender.

He took a seat opposite of you and his expression changed. “I got a message from some of the other Jujutsu sorcerers” he lifted his fork and knife and cut into his pancake. “There were quite the casualties last night. They are still looking for those who went missing. They haven’t been able to locate all the bodies” his hand stilled and he looked at you, eyes unblinking.

“Do you understand the gravity of this situation? Do you understand why I suggested you to spend the night? One can never be too careful” his voice stern. You only nodded. You looked at your plate. Your appetite was lost. You were lucky for not being one of those poor people that were mauled by the curses. “I didn’t mean to scare you. I just want you to be aware of the dangers of this world” his voice sincere.” You nodded understandingly. He was a good man after all and you were in his debt.

As you eat your breakfast after encouragement from Satoru, he watched you with a smile. You were really naive to be stepping right into the lion’s den.

He had “met”you at a café. You were hanging out with your friends seemingly oblivious to how they ignored your presence in favour of planning some kind of party. He had felt sorry for you as you stirred your tea while trying to get the attention of your “friends”.

He had become quickly smitten by you. It truly was love at first sight. You were such a stunning woman after all. No one could compare to your beauty. He felt the intense need to protect you so he decided to watch over you as a gentleman should do.

He spent weeks watching you as you left for your job, as you studied in the library at your university and watching you through the eyes of the teddy bear you thought were a present from your friend. You were like a little lost lamb in a world full of flesh eating monsters. You needed to be protected and who could be better at that than Satoru?

Unbeknownst to you he was the most dangerous of all the devilish creatures.

[starsnores]

you said a while ago that ghb could be a retired televangelist, so i assume there's gonna be some conflict between him and gamzee dating karkat?

Maybe? idk televangelists was a fun idea for him but i can't really make up my mind . Generational wealth? maybe he just actually runs a cult. I don't think i'd want him to be virulently homophobic though, idk if that's the sort of conflict i'd want out of an au like this, but idk. i have some vague ideas about him sending gamzee to a military private school bc he's having Issues and that's the only way he can think to instill discipline into him.

[andwordsarefutiledevicess]

i swear i’ll return to my normally scheduled challengers content but i need to quickly rant on my big mauraders pet peeves yall…

- hyper-feminization/baby-girl-ification of sirius — very much girls straight women trying to make a gay couple fit hetero roles; weird obsession with top/bottom discourse (again, usually straight women)

- lily erasure (mostly by jegulus shippers) — i’m fine with straying from canon, but lily is quite literally the most important character in the entire series. the overarching message is about love being stronger than anything, even literal magic. you make her a “surrogate” or kill her off and you lose the actual moral of the series. if your queer ship can only exist with the erasure of a central female character, you’re a misogynist. sorry!

- barty crouch junior sympathizers — the normal reasoning behind sympathizing with children in the blood-purity movement, i.e. that they were basically raised in a cult (regulus black, draco malfoy, etc) doesn’t work here. like we’re supposed to think he’s redeemable because his dad….was busy at work? boo fucking hoo. the dude was raised relatively normally and turned out as a nazi.

- if you write a fic where characters are marginalized in ways which were not explicit in the canon (which i totally support), you should actually do the work of grappling with how this impacts them as characters and they’re stories. for example, if a character is Black, don’t just say they’re Black and then not think about how this would alter their experiences. muggles are raised in our society! yes, racism outside of blood purity logically exists! hogwarts is not some sort of haven! and if you want it to be, say that!

- thin and/or conventionally attractive peter — like what??? being the unattractive, mousy friend is core to his character; his appearance and size shouldn’t be equated to his evilness, but if you’re portraying “good peter” before his betrayal, that ALSO shouldn’t equate to him being suddenly attractive and thin; tldr: let pre-betrayal peter be chubby, not conventionally attractive, AND an included, legit friend and marauder (that’s literally why it’s a betrayal)

- forgetting that it’s the 70s — i almost never see anyone incorporate mentions of the events of the muggle world into marauders fics, beyond occasional song references (which are often not time-accurate) or a reference to bell-bottoms; this is why fics like atyd are so loved! it actually weaves in the period!!!

- making every single future member of the original order of the phoenix a friend of the marauders — imo this is just poor writing/storybuilding; just because someone is later mentioned as a member of the order doesn’t mean

- saying lucius, narcissa, molly, arthur, alice, or frank are the same age as the marauders — be sffr. again this is just lazy af to me, unless you say you’re doing it deliberately and for a reason. also, it is important that james and lily have harry so young and die so young — they know they are going to DIE. if everyone is made to have babies at 21 in a fic (ie by making everyone’s parents the same age) you lose a large part of the horror of james and lily’s situation.

VS.

things people often hate, which i don’t care about:

- making a ton of characters queer — feels a bit silly since they’re at a relatively small school, so statistically no, they’re not all gay and trans. but this doesn’t particularly matter to me unless you’re erasing women. just think about how this would impact the character and their experiences.

- making characters POC where were previously assumed to be white — 9/10 times love; only dislike when a fanfic author does this and doesn’t think about implications for character (see above)

[lilyinwaiting]

Have some anons :3 answer whichever ones you feel

Omg again thank you for all of these!!! >///< sorry these are from like October and I kept forgetting to answer them all. Keeping them under the cut if anyone wants more Soren tidbits

When I first made Soren he was actually not a musician as much as he was a performance artist! He did music, but only weird experimental stuff. He was more inspired by punk/DIY spaces and the fluxus movement, as I was doing a lot more research into performance art for school at the time. Originally there was no cult part of his backstory, and he ran away from an arts school after accidentally burning it down in a performance where he created art and burned it lol. I kind of miss this aspect of his character ngl, his relationship to music takes more of a backseat to his religious trauma now. Maybe I'll make another performance artist OC some day...

(for those not in the campaign, the poch are a pantheon of animal-based gods)

The Vulture is the obvious answer since death and rebirth are a big part of Soren's magic, but the Fish honestly feels most fitting, since its domain is healing! And I would hate to steal Rat Tail's bit lol

Hmmm.... Honestly, the Saint of Self-Advocacy or Agency? Not because he's particularly good at either of those, but more because that's where I see his character arc focusing. At the start of the campaign Soren didn't really know how to stand up for himself, he did whatever other people told him to do, he didn't think anything was expected of him and he was perfectly content to be passive in almost any situation. He wouldn't have even tried to escape the Exalted if Marcus hadn't convinced him to leave, and would have let himself be sacrificed. Now he's in a position where he feels he has to take action, or else people could die. He can't not pay attention or not care, because the decisions he's making now are going to have a ripple affect whether he likes it or not, especially as his party starts getting more involved with the politics of the world, and no doubt eventually caught up in the war between Domini and the Sunwood.

try to run away!!! lol She does NOT want to get drafted, she does NOT want to get killed. If she's still in the Exalted in this hypothetical maybe she can just hide in the mountains with the rest of her family's followers.

Okay I know I just said Soren would evade the draft.... buuuttt I think Soren as a medic in the Domini military could be interesting!

I've thought about this a bit, but I'm really not sure! I do think her dressing like a dapper gentleman/lady would be cute, and match the sort of faux-Edwardian aesthetic a lot of her outfits have. Assuming her relationship with her gender is the same I imagine by then she'll have accumulated a vast wardrobe of both femme and masc options. She would probably keep her hair long assuming it doesn't thin out in her elder years, but even then I think she would have fun playing with wigs. If she's retired from adventuring her outfits will get even more impractical. I imagine her as the eccentric owner of a specialty tailor/clothing boutique, assuming nothing happens in the campaign to put her on a different path.

[sunderwight]

loosely inspired by this excellent post.

human sex worker crowley s2 au where crowley has worked at mrs. sandwich's shop since before it was mrs. sandwich's shop (previously madam tracey's new age 'massage parlor'), having gotten into the biz back when he was in his 20's to help pay off some debts and never really gotten back out

it's not angsty, though. or at least not about the sex work part. crowley's been back to school and gotten a degree in engineering and he's picked up a handful of trades, worked other jobs here and there, he just generally doesn't like keeping to a strict schedule and enjoys the extra money on hand, so even when he's got another gig he usually keeps touch with the other workers and dips back in whenever the situation calls for it

the pandemic was harder than he let on though. between the drop in business and the rise in costs of living he lost his flat and has been living out of his car for a while (not that he's told anyone)

aziraphale has been his consistent client since he first started out and they were fresh-faced youths. crowley spotted a cute guy radiating gay vibes leaving a bookshop one evening and did a bit of (ordinary human) temptation, and the fussy young mr. fell tentatively ventured a couple steps out of his transparent closet and ended up buying the rogue dinner. paid for his time too, without even purchasing anything off crowley's own personal menu that night at all

(for clarity, aziraphale has known that crowley was a sex worker since they met but he has conflicted feelings about the purchasing of such 'wares' due to his strict religious upbringing and such, so it took a while before he bit the bullet. as it were)

anyway crowley is aziraphale's only paid-for companion and aziraphale is the only client who crowley has kept consistently for some 30 years (they've been off-and-on a few times, but never longer than a year), so they're definitely friends even though it can get awkward because actually they're in love because az is still in the closet to his distant-yet-scary family and church and crowley still sometimes gets organized crime contacts coming after him (it's a whole thing) plus he hasn't much of a mind to live in aziraphale's closet

matters come to a head when aziraphale's distant cousin gabriel flees the family and shows up at aziraphale's doorstep, naked and with amnesia and probably on drugs of some sort (so aziraphale assumes)

without having any idea of how to handle this situation, aziraphale calls crowley, because at least crowley knows how to tell if someone is at risk of dying from an overdose on weird amnesia shrooms and other useful things of that nature (and also because aziraphale doesn't know anyone else he'd call for an emergency of this magnitude and actually expect to get help from)

crowley recollects gabriel as aziraphale's asshole cousin who didn't help when the bookshop caught fire a few years ago, and even made a cruel joke to his buddies about how it was a shame that aziraphale hadn't gone up in flames along with his stupid books. so. crowley is not terribly sympathetic and thinks aziraphale should just drop him in a ditch somewhere

but aziraphale is determined to help, which means crowley gets roped in

crowley gets even more roped in when it then turns out that some of his old contacts are looking for gabriel too, for some reason (???) and are once again knocking on crowley's door (or at least turning up at his car) to insist that they know gabriel's probably hiding somewhere in the vicinity and if crowley finds him and turns him over, they'll finally let bygones be bygones and give him a big fat cash reward

an approximation of s2's plot ensues. I don't know how crowley and aziraphale get over-invested in the coffee/record shop lesbians without the miracle angle but it still happens somehow. they project a lot. amnesiac gabriel/jim is easy to hide only because they dress him like a nerd and muss up his hair so he doesn't look like any of his glossy cult headshot photos, and most of the people searching for him have never personally met him and aren't looking for an idiot in multilayered sweaters. muriel is from the cult but means no harm. turns out gabriel went on a really bad trip but his memory's starting to come back, he was trying drugs to impress crimelord beelzebub. who met him because of the above mentioned bookshop fire, and who still runs away with him at the end. aziraphale's manipulative family patriarch also turns up at the end to ruin everything. and aziraphale and crowley have a LOT of sex and feelings throughout.

does the divorce still happen? uncertain. on the one hand, aziraphale is still struggling with his baggage, but on the other hand, his family/cult is not quite so powerful or able to threaten him and crowley in this situation. love may win out.

[krimsonkatt]

Dodi, a boss that was is going to be in Chaos;Domain, though likely with a resprite. This character actually has a long and detailed story behind it. Basically, when I was in first grade, one indoor recess the teachers put on Disney's Aladdin. I really enjoyed the movie for what it was, that was until near the end of the movie where Jaffar took control of the Genie's lamp and ordered the genie to fling the tower that Aladdin was in to the North Pole.

That's when the teacher shut off the movie and said that's where the movie ended, to be continued in Aladdin 2. I ended up being super freaked out about this cliffhanger ending and thought Jaffar actually WON. I ended up skipping school on the day they showed Aladdin 2, but later they showed Aladdin 3 and everyone was fine so I assumed Jaffar lost in Aladdin 2, but I had no idea HOW he lost or what sort of damage was done to their world under the control of an all-powerful Jaffar. So, I made up MY OWN plot for Aladdin 2, as I was too scared to watch Aladdin 2 which I assumed to be this super dark scary movie and didn't even want to rewatch Aladdin 1, which I enjoyed, because I was afraid of being re-traumatized by the "cliffhanger." But I still watched Aladdin 3 all the time on this bootleg DVD that had every Disney and dream works movie (as of 2009) on it.

During this period of time (around 2009 to 2011) I came up with this bizarre fan fiction universe crossover between Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Ninjago, Webkinz, Animal Jam, and a bunch of other things that was like Kingdom Hearts if it was written by an autistic 8yo. And like Kingdom Hearts there were clones, artificial humans, ancient prophesies, relics of mass destruction, doomsday cults, multiple apocalypses and universe-shattering wars, not-deities, and tons of other stuff. Believe it or not, this series was the origin of the Chronicles of Chronicles series, albeit a very early form/incarnation of it.

The original big bad of this saga was a guy named "The Emperor" who was HEAVILY based off Palpatine from Star Wars and had two underlings, Dodi (pronounced "Do-die" like the city Dubai but with die instead of bai) the snake charmer and Flon (pronounced full-on like colon) the evil fairy. Dodi was pretty much 1-to-1 with Jaffar with just his name changed and little else, but Flon's backstory and origin is an even weirder example that I'll get to once we get to her sprite. The big bad of the later arcs was Lord Drakos, heavily based off the principal of Gaithersburg Elementary, who loved abusing and manipulating me for his own twisted amusement.

But anyway YEARS later, like around 2014 or so, I discovered that the teacher showing us Aladdin all those years ago completely lied, and there was a whole extra 15 minutes of Aladdin I didn't know existed where Jaffar was defeated in an epic battle and the world was saved. And how did I discover this? A freaking Watch Mojo video. Something about "top 10 most evil villains in Disney" and Jaffar was number 5. During Jaffar's section they showed footage from the last 15 minutes of Aladdin which absolutely blew my mind that there was a whole extra 15 minutes of runtime I completely missed.

After I spent a summer afternoon rewatching THE ENTIRETY OF Aladdin on some shady website, I did some research on Wikipedia and figured out that Aladdin 2 and 3 were actually just cheap cash-ins made in the early 2000s that also served as both the pilot and the series finale of the Aladdin TV show, which aired from 1999 to 2002. The first movie had a beginning, middle, and end and DIDN'T end on a cliffhanger like I was led to believe, and Aladdin 2 and 3 were unnecessary made for TV sequels given almost zero budget. (though I still have an affinity for Aladdin 3, even if the animation sucks ass) This is also where I learned that the overwhelming majority of "Disney sequels" that I grew up with on that bootleg DVD were low budget cash-grabs not even made by the main Disney studio. So yeah, my childhood was a lie and Jaffar never won in Aladdin 1. It's going to be a fun story to share with my future nieces and nephews, though.

In battle, Dodi primarily uses fire elemental arts along with his "hypnosis" and "wrap" arts. He's a lot easier of a boss than the first one, King Kookookaka, that's for sure. The Medusa to that game's Minotaur, to say the least. (SMT4 reference)

[i-think-i-fncked-up-my]

I feel like me and Idia shroud(&Ortho) would get along not because of us both being fandom trash but because we would both nerd out together about actual science shit(and because we're both chronically online hermits) like b!tch I WILL tell you exactly every theory I have because twst isnt just another world- no, its another universe, even dimesndion from our own because the existence of magic is completely incapable with the laws of our universse(technoclogy might be able to replicate the desired effect but magic is natural- not man-made) and image being FIRST-CONTACT with aliens!!!

cuz thats what we are- aliens- an extraterrestial being who came from another planet, no matter how both are humans and share the same biology and no matter how similar the humans of twst are they wouldnt be the same to that level because humans as we are would not be able to wield magic and assuming souls and magic are counted as a part of someones biology, our inherent lack of could possibly cause catastrophic differences- minor examples being treys green hair and yellow eyes

that being said I, personally, would have terrible anxiety because even if somehow there is absolutely no language barrier between us I would act as if there is once I find out that NRC isnt some cult but a school on another planet because what are the chances of another planet in an entirely different universe would devolope language the same way when not even people on the same planet devoloped it the same way? let alone the written language? Idia would f#cking love teachin that sh!t

....I think a good way to get money would be to sign up for (ethical)experiments, I mean in a world filled with magic thats known nothing but how can you differentiate the line between magic and cold, hard scinece? as well as being what is basically the diplomatic representitive of an entire WORLD that would be fire(as in I have no idea how to talk to people and it would be a trainwreck) and if you wanted to go more businessy you could start up some sort of attraction in ramshackle the displays the different cultures and histories of our world!

[courtney-deserved-better]

Emoji fanfic ask

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⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

ohoho, so many. ive posted excerpts from a few on ao3, such as the gwourtney tdwt rewrite that i scrapped & the trent comes back to tdwt instead of duncan au that i only wrote one chapter for. the rest are locked away in my files and seldom looked at.

there's a fic for a new season back on the island that takes place a year or so after tdrr with all new challenges that i gave up on after like two and a half chapters (nemma was the main couple for that one to give you a sense of how long ago i wrote it lol).

there's a tdas fic from alejandro noah courtney and gwen's povs (guess what the main ships are...) that i planned out extensively and then started writing for that i haven't worked on in years, probably because the actual writing of it didn't seem nearly as good as the planning did.

there's a really old gwent & nemma fic that i think was an au of the black friday musical? idk what i was thinking. it was bad. it was nonsensical and it was bad.

and then there was this whole high school au that mostly focused on the theatre department and was absolutely based on my high school that was a hyperspecific flavor of weird (us students described it as a combination of a summer camp and a cult so uh... i guess that isn't too far off from tdi).

there was also a post tdrr season i planned out that took place on a cruise ship and contestants competed in trios? i read the one and only chapter i wrote for that and apparently alejandro had a younger sister named marcela who is honestly kind of an icon lol i should bring her back for a different fic or something.

and pretty much assume that for every season of total drama, i had at least one rewrite planned that i eventually abandoned. honestly it's sort of a long term goal of mine to write my own version of every season of td. i've got tdwt with slippery slopes, tdrr with amicus curiae, and eventually tdi with the courtney time travel au. we'll see how long that takes lmao it's already been over a year and i'm like 40% done at the most.

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

probably any kind of soulmate au. i just don't like the idea of a romance that's so predestined that there isn't any real development between the characters. i like to read and write feelings growing organically, and when the characters instantly lock eyes and have this automatic deep connection it just feels very artificial to me. that's not to say that all soulmate aus are like that, and there's actually one or two (non td) that i enjoy and regularly reread.

but i think to write a soulmate au i would need a very strong plot revolving around soulmarks and whatnot and i would rather just have the plot without the soulmates. i feel like the concept of soulmates implies that there's only one person a character can have a meaningful relationship with and once they find that person the relationship will be perfect.

i like reading/writing about the struggles that come with making the choice to be with someone you love without any certainty that they'll be your perfect person forever. the fact that you don't have that certainty but choose to stay and foster a relationship and have that hope for a bright future together makes it a lot more meaningful to me. i also feel like soulmate aus tend to prioritize romance much higher than friendship and those are two kinds of relationships that i like to place on equal ground in my writing.

im not trying to say that all soulmate aus are bad, or that ppl shouldn't enjoy them. they can absolutely be some people's jam and if it makes you happy then go for it! there are definitely tropes i like that other people don't for valid reasons and that's all okay.

thanks for the ask!

[churchkey]

i know webgott isn't exactly the ship you primarily write for but GOD i love the way you write modern david webster in maximum volume (and i love his raport with nix it reminds me so much of my own queer friend group in ways i've yet to articulate properly) and i was wondering if you have any headcanons about their coupling and/or their interactions with their friend group (as a couple or individually)?

Haha oh my god, thank you! That's so nice of you to say! I based them loosely on my cousin and his boyfriend, who used to have epic Halloween parties before they got old and decided it was too much work, and if everyone loved it so much, they could damn well volunteer to host it themselves. Alas, no one did.

But David and Joe are still young and fun so let's talk about them. I feel like you should win a prize or something because this is officially the FIRST Webgott ask I've ever received. I do have a few headcanons about them, which did not make it into the fic because I mean, for christ's sake, the thing is already way too long. Anyway, if you'll just follow me...

Even though they knew and liked each other in high school, I don't think they got together until later. Like one time in college they bumped into each other on campus and it was like "I always had a crush on you" - "same" and then they were inseparable. They got married kinda young, around 24 or 25 (I imagined them right around 30 in the fic) and their families were like "... are you SURE you don't want to wait a little longer?" But they don't listen to anyone else, naturally, because what the hell do they know?

I also envisioned them as having gone on some long bike-camping trip up the coast on a tandem bike just before they decided to get married, and something very profound happened on this trip, maybe it just challenged them in ways they'd never been tested before, and they met and overcame those obstacles together and it sort of cemented their bond as a couple. Because if you can successfully ride a tandem with your partner, you can probably weather any storm.

They used to have threesomes with George back in the day but they don't anymore. David and George are good buddies (I've always felt strongly about this, based solely on how George was kind of nice to Webster in that episode when he comes back from the hospital and is just being such a clueless dick). They go see bands together and to see midnight showings of cult movies and stuff like that. Joe actually thinks that if David weren't with him, he and George would be a good couple.

David still has a little teeny tiny crush on Mr. Winters. He wished he knew he was gay when he actually had him as a teacher, but he totally understands why he wasn't out at work.

As mentioned in Ch. 1, they're both journalists. Joe is a sports writer for the major metro daily, David writes for a local news/arts/culture blog. This means they're always out somewhere covering a game or event or whatever, which works for them because the true secret to their success as a couple is their own selfish pursuits of what makes them happy as individuals. They're good at giving each other space to do whatever the fuck they want, knowing that at the end of the day, they don't want anything else as much as they want each other.

Everyone assumes they're about one big blow up away from divorce, but they're actually surprisingly stable. They truly enjoy each other's company and are just as content tending to their flower beds together as they are going to a party or out to the bars with their friends. They worship their cats. They have a Sunday ritual (h/t @anthrobrat) of reading the entire Sunday paper, section by section, David reading the gossip page out loud and being appalled at the list prices of houses in the Real Estate section and saving the Food section because they might actually try one of the recipes this week (they never do). At their core, they're basically just a couple of old queens sliding comfortably into middle age, though their friends would be shocked to see this side of them.

Idk... this is honestly the most I've ever thought about them so I hope it fits with what you were thinking, or at least makes sense with their little cameos in the story. Thanks for the ask, it's always fun to explore and imagine. And thank you so much for reading my stuff! I appreciate you and everyone else who takes the time to read my work so very much. Take care 😍❤️

[hummus-birb]

Been obsessively working on an idea for a Splatoon and partially DnD based magic system, thought I’d share it! If anything is disorganized, contradicts, or repeats itself, it’s because most of it has been written at midnight throughout the past week

v Everything under the cut! v

Random Important Stuff

Music is canonically magical

Zap fish and Power eggs give power (magical in nature?)

Ink based magic

Since splatoon is post-apocalyptic, ancient humans had cool technologies or smth

Ancient sea gods (variants/take inspo off of splatoon bosses? King salmonids might be magic imbued/ just actual gods?)

Splatoon “demons” have something to do with story mode voices? Or ancient human ghosts?

“Plant” magic includes coral now

Training grounds and schools to connect with magic are sprinkled throughout

Monk abilities are now squid roll and super jump because yes

Fairies are like sea butterflies???

Global warming caused extreme weather conditions (maybe take inspo off of that Pokémon concept by lockstin & noggin?)

Music mind control definitely exists (maybe Octavio/-like uses it? Or Tartar?)

Sanitized and fuzzy ink is a little wackus bonkus (made from dead bits and aliens and stuff, so it interacts with world differently due to magical/ technological properties)

Ancient clans confirmed w/ examples being Shiver, Frye, and Big Man

Weapons help concentrate ink magic

Other races can have magic, but it’s off a different type (since no ink)

^^^ Music, Memories (mem cakes do be like that), coral and other plants, control of minor sea creatures, abilities directly based off of species, etc.

Main pillars of magic are rooted in Song, Ink, Color, and Memories. Based on Deep cut and other characters, we can assume most if not all species have ink

Ink color is important, not necessarily magic in and of itself, but a manifestation of it (slightly edited this fact later on, don't worry about it)

No fey realm :( but they do have a magic realm of sorts. It’s a realm manifested of pure color, ink, and music, as well as human memories mixed in there. Maybe also nuclear, who knows. (For simplicity I’m calling it a fey realm though)

Rain is dangerous, Rain World style

Transient water/ink pools to other dimensions?

Nuclear based hell circles?

Maybe nuclear power is the “demonic” side of magic? And Cephalo-etcs are semi-resistant to it, and learned to control it like a form of dark magic?

Poisonous/venomous species assassins are fairly common, there’s whole cults/underground schools dedicated to the art of it

Jellyfish hive mind do be like that???

Frying permanently “fries in” a food based magic (like Crusty Sean might have a now-permanent run speed up)

Zapfish are along the same lines as king salmonids, just more respected due to them acting as a big friendly traveling energy source

8 is seen as a “magic number” of sorts to Octarians

Magic Specific Details

Like I said before, main pillars/sources are Music, Colors, Memories, and Ink!

Nuclear magic, while “natural,” is looked down upon, and generally considered evil. Fairly dangerous for both users and target

Use weapons as focuses most of the time! Especially ink based weapons, while being useful physically also allow for ink based manipulation. Song based weapons work as well, and while memories don’t have a focus, they can be compressed into memcakes

Sanitized, Fuzzy, and [side order] ink is all modified technologically, magically, or nuclearly, and is all highly dangerous and illegal. The main reason why creatures get permanently affected by it (mind control, becoming furries, etc.) in the first place

Jellyfish can use telepathic sort of magic, it’s main source being Memories

Zapfish are a siphon of electrical energy and magic, helping spur technology and link the gap for many different races as a pseudo-magic. Also some sort of more powerful being, sort of like a dragon

Respawn anchors are a mix of Ink and Memory technology, powered by the Zapfish

Salmonids have different magic customs, using more nuclear magic, as well as different types of song and technology

Super Jump, squid roll, etc. are all movement spells, many species can use them

Temporary drink and food-based magic is their form of alchemy/potions. Temporarily enhances abilities

Salmonid excel in food magic due to their whole thing with being eaten after death

Color chips include technologically engineered magic [side order please give me lore]

Color is a type of magic usually coinciding with emotions. “Fey” use it regularly, and their realm is a pure collection of it and song

Ghosts are manifested and affected by Memories, and they live in a sort of ghost realm similar to the void with human tech and stuff. Bits and bobs of memories and artifacts floating around

Song music is really strong, and does a lot of mind related stuff. (Ex: Jellyfish get their telepathic power from song) (and color)

Species abilities includes: Bioluminescence, venom/poison, electricity, regeneration, spitting insides out at you, seeing more colors (giving stronger color magic), cold/ice magic, etc.

Booyah magic is real, and primarily based on sound (Music)

Splatfest law is actually somewhat true, sometimes things are manifested by the memories of it, as well as predicting future events

Power eggs give energy similar to the strength of a singular mini Zapfish. Golden power eggs are super strong magic conductors, and control and siphon energy as well.

Super sea snails have a sort of magic randomizer imbued in them

Kraken magic is gotten from colors, ink, and extreme emotions

While some creatures don’t have ink magic, some still do, such as eels, sharks, mantas,

Main Mythological Creatures

Great Zapfish - gives energy, lawful good, invested in Song slightly more. My man powers the entire three cities, I’m proud of him. Popular god among most city-dwellers

Huge fry - Reincarnated god, shows up only in Salmonids. Chaotic Good, fights for justice but will destroy a city (oops)

Horrorboros - Reincarnated nuclear empowered god of salmonids, most popular among them as a result. God of life, death, and reincarnation. Huge Fry is kind of like a child or champion of sorts

Cohozuna - Nuclear empowered king of salmonids, similar to Grizz in that he’s not exactly a god, though he didn’t cause his own nuclear shenanigans. Treated like a god though, and has special cool abilities

Grizz* - He basically made himself a “god” with his fuzzy ooze.

Goldy- Minor god/creature, controls glowfies. Kind of like pestilence or something? Very popular among salmonids, usually the leaders of the troops they are in

Minor gods based off of Deep Cut’s families (shark, eel, and manta)

Nessie - Canonically exists!

Space - Not a creature, but space is important to almost all creatures. Radio waves for the Splatfest come from there, Horrorboros is said to have come from there, Huge Fry is often depicted in outer space, etc. (Grizz is also related to space, but again, he’s a self-made god)

Kraken (creature) - Major god to many Octolings, the Kraken is somewhat of a magic common ancestor, and/or gifted it’s magic to cephalopods (color and ink)

Ink vampires - They exist. Not exactly dead, but a deficiency in ink or color can cause vampirism. Not to be confused with the vampire squid species

[eruanna1875]

Now I really want to know everything you assumed from the out-of-context songs.

Sorry this took so long to answer! I had to really sit down and think about this one, because of how ingrained the reality is now. (Fair warning - the non-reality was pretty ridiculous).

Generally, I assumed two things: A) that the tracks were in chronological order, and B) that the actual songs were all sung by characters in the episodes. So you see where I would easily go wrong.

Oh, and I also remember looking over all the titles beforehand, and getting my own expectations of what they would sound like, which only added to my confusion.

Now, on to the list! Which is a little long, so be ye forewarned!

Prelude - I believe I assumed that all preludes have snippets of the main themes of the album (when in fact it was just one song).

Into the Unknown - okay, I'm sure I wasn't expecting the other one, but it probably coloured my expectations in some way. I was a little concerned by "the loveliest lies of all". May have thought the singer was some stranger the boys met on their journey, possibly telling them stuff in a vague, riddling way, but possibly not entirely trustworthy.

You Have Beautiful Eyes - "the main boy is met with some old hag, possibly a witch, and he's trying to hurry and compliment her to get her off his back as quickly as possible, but he's being awkward and bad at it"

Pottsfield C.M. - "probably some pseudo-Christian cult, which is annoying and cliché if true"

Patient Is The Night - "some guy they meet in a cornfield who's singing about his girlfriend"

Adelaide Parade - "it's early in the show, and they're heading off to meet the bird, because the bird is Adelaide"

Money For School - "they want to go to some school, so this is a montage of them trying to earn money to attend (annoying plot, why do you want to go to school in the middle of a fantastic adventure)"

Miss Langtree's Lament - "annoying teacher who can't stop going on and on about some jerk (extremely tedious song)"

Potatoes and Molasses - "the younger boy being creative and disorderly to go against the no-fun rule of the school (the guy at the end is the headmaster)"

Off to Bed - "they've been punished for their funloving nature and now are being sent off to bed (except it's major key for some reason?)"

The Beast Is Out There - I think I did envision a tavern, to be honest, but I may have pictured the singer as younger and shorter (also, one of the ones I downloaded for the heck of it!)

The Highwayman - "some mysterious man they met on the road after they left the tavern reveals he was secretly a thief (though I expected an instrumental?)"

A Courting Song - "this is Endicott, who's being a pushy annoying nobleman in his mansion, trying to suck the main boy into an unwanted Pride and Prejudice type plot with a random girl"

Endicott Manor - "this is just continuing from the previous song in the same plot (evidence for the guy being Endicott)"

The Journey Begins - "how is this the beginning of a journey, this is not setting-forth music"

Half-Moon River - "were they setting out on a creepy river at night? is that the journey?"

McLaughlin Bros. Jug Band - "they're going undercover as a jug band for some reason in a new plot"

Over the Garden Wall - "wait, is this the theme song? why is it way in the middle?"

Send Me A Peach - "some sweet little Antebellum-style couple they run into in a town (the Southern emphasis is appreciated)"

Adelaide's Trap - "Adelaide the Bird is in a trap, and the boys have to sneak in and free her, but there's a fight with the villain who trapped her near the end"

Like Ships - "oh this is probably at the end of some plotline with the girl he likes and they're confessing their love (also Elijah Wood is singing, that's sweet)"

More Bones To Sort - "some kind of weird little underworld with a random goblin or skeleton merchant selling bones"

Old North Wind - "some guy singing about the wind (not a character) on a cold night, very frontier-cabin-at-night vibes"

Forward, Oneiroi - "okay, now there's opera, this is a confusing show"

The Fight Is Over - "apparent reversal, someone is trying to get them to give up (weird random country rock song)"

Tiny Star - "this annoying little comet who falls in love with the main boy while they're visiting some star kingdom (bewildering, very much spoiling the vibe)"

Old Black Train - "much too jaunty for that title, they're probably trying to avoid getting on this train and this guy is being helpful but also a little creepy"

The Old Mill - "they come across this place when they're wandering and it's very creepy, probably haunted or has some dark thing going on (most creepy track so far)"

Come Wayward Souls - I am trying so hard to remember what I thought about this one, I may have been trying to figure out if this was a good guy or a bad guy (like, is this a villain, or is it just a song in a hopeless situation?)

Potatus Et Molassus - look, I remember not having the slightest clue what was going on in this, but knowing that it held a lot of weight anyway, and getting chills even without context

One Is A Bird - "oh wait, maybe this is Adelaide the Bird, Shirley Jones gets to play one of the more central characters, cool"

Black Train/End Credits - "and THERE'S the vibe I expect from a black train song, thank you"

The Clouded Annals of History - "they went to a mysterious library and are looking for a book to give them clues about something"

Can't You See I'm Lonely - trying to remember what I thought about this guy (might've assumed he was the same guy who sang the peach song earlier, waiting for his girl to come back)

Shine On, Harvest Moon - "oh, I know this one! (much slower than I'm used to, though)"

Everything Is Nice And Fine - "a couple of suspiciously-perky twins in fun Munchkin land, which has this dark secret they're trying to cover up (but do I want to believe they're actually good?)"

Halloween Halftime - could not stand it, only just added it to my liked songs recently (it just seemed so random and boring!)

Two Old Cat - "they meet an old talking-cat couple living in a house and have tea with them"

The Jolly Woodsman - "oh he seems like a nice guy, some jolly old burly Paul Bunyan type, lamenting that youth is a fragile thing in his song (no connection of dots with the voice)"

Tome of the Unknown - "they made an accompanying-documentation-of-the-main-characters'-doings book, like Journal 3, and this was in the commercial for it"

~*~

SO YEAH

I tried to remember as much as I could, but it's been a long time since I first listened through. And again, a lot of the songs I have listed here as annoying are actually really fun now that I have the context! It's just really hilarious to look back on all my misconceptions.

[ksfoxwald]

Been trying for days to make a post about religion in Valdemar, but it's so bonkers and inconsistant and frankly half-assed that I'm not even sure where to start.

Exhibit A: Father Leren. The representation of homophobic religion as a strawman for Lackey to take down (and also maybe possessed by a demon or something, idk that part was kind of vague and came out of nowhere). But it's never stated what deity he is the priest of, and by extension what religion Vanyel grew up in. He doesn't seem to spend much time thinking about it as an adult, so it's probably fair to assume he's a lapsed follower of... whatever. Given Valdemar's plethora of "no one true way" policy, it could be that many citizens are less likely to adhere to a specific deity than they are to invoke whichever one is most convenient. This could be particularly true for the ruler and royal family; remaining politely agnostic in order to avoid favoritism. Which then begs the question of, say, if someone married into the royal family who had a religion, and what the political implications would be.

Exhibit B: Tarma and the Star-Eyed. The Valdemar/Velgarth term "priest" seems to mean someone who has a direct personal relationship with a deity and is able to invoke their power at will as a sort of limited dogmatic mage. It's unclear what priests actually do. Officiate weddings, run temple schools, capture demons. They aren't too concerned with saving souls, because there doesn't seem to be much debate over what happens to souls after death; they either go on to some nebulously conceived afterlife or get reincarnated, regardless of which deity they followed in life.

Exhibit C: The Book of One. The general cosmology seems to be that all the deities coexist on some kind of Other Plane more or less simultaneously and more or less peacefully; it's implied a few times that deities get strength from believers, but the mechanics of that aren't clear and the implications are rarely examined. But then there's what appears to be Lackey trying to be clever with monotheism being a funny little pacifist cult rather than a driving force for imperial conquest. But while the religion is referenced fairly frequently, we only see minor side characters as adherents and it's not really explained how their "One" is related to all the other gods that have frequent and tangible proof of existence. Sure, the gods probably hang out less with farmers than their chosen Heroes and adventurers, but there's got to be historical records. To disbelieve the gods makes about as much sense as not believing in magic.

I'm not going into Vkandis here because 1) I haven't gotten there in my re-read and 2) there's probably enough there to make it's own post.

Mostly though I'm thinking how all the Heroes, even the gods-chosen, are vaguely agnostic, even after hanging out with deities, and that part in The Tough Guide To Fantasyland that's something like "It should be noted that no Tourist will ever convert to a religion, no matter how persuasive its followers are."

(and also thinking that a good 50% of the Tough Guide is Valdemar and Derkholm is a straight up riff on Urtho. Jones may have been rather scornful of Valdemar, but she not only read a lot of them but wrote not-quite-fanfiction of them)

[thesketchyheartist]

03/04

Akira (1988)

I thought this was a very mind-boggling film. Throughout the film, the mystery behind Akira still remains an elusive thought, but it had many obvious meanings behind.

Akira in the beginning seemed to be the name of a god, like an all-encompassing deity of creation, or the Universe as an entity. When Kei explains what Akira is to Kaneda, it sounds like Akira is Life, like qi, since Akira is supposed to be an energy everyone has, not just limited and given as a gift to the special. And it would make sense considering how Kiyoko can possess Kei so often, implying Kei may have some strong connection to Kiyoko. Overall, I assumed it meant that all life existing has Akira as a way to exist and to grow from their birth.

In the end, Akira is still a person, but we don't know who. I think there is more to the story, because if Akira used to be a person existing with the kids, then it would not make sense how the powers the kids had were awakened by him. Not to mention, Tetsuo's and the kids' death in the end implied they were still alive, but just not present.

From what I could grasp, this definitely focuses on science ethics. The government wanted to learn about Akira and dedicated its resources to learning about it. Yet, thirty years after WWIII, its country is still in ruins. Adolescents don't take schools seriously, and anti-government riots wreak havoc all over neo-Tokyo. The Parliament is all old men (not a woman, a young person, or a young woman in sight!) who are too busy arguing about getting their own issues solved to even solve one issue. They blame each other for the issues they want to solve, but no one actually seems to solve anything. Some already want to undermine the government, such as the Akira cults. In fact, the Colonel even said as he looked at some Akira cultist dance on a rooftop below, that people like them would be the ones to ruin things, which became partly true after Tetsuo started rampaging. In the end, when the colonel issued a marital law, the government leaders were slowly arrested and tried to run away with money to escape their responsibilities.

Given how it takes place in Japan post-WWIII (that's right it's the third one, which never went into what happened or why, just that Akira is again connected.). Another confusing thing: WWIII took place 31 years before the canon timeline, so it doesn't define the kids' origins. An obvious trademark of the kids' peculiarities are there wrinkled and weak bodies. The gray skin resembles that of a dying person, but their bodies are in the form of children. If Akira was the reason behind WWIII, these kids had to obviously be pretty old. If that was true, how did they awaken their powers? Tetsuo got it because the scientists already knew and awakened it in him.

Finally, why did they do what they did to Tetsuo? I'm guessing since he was injured and a nobody, it would be easy to abduct him, but still suspicious that they did it in front of his friends. Was he just prone to being awakened at any second?

The movie was not bad though. Sad to see that besides the modern technology, the "future" looks just as bad as the present. By the way, it takes place 30 years into the "future", or 2019, and a lot of elements still match what we see today in cities: dirty streets, biker gangs, and underground bars.

One final thing I noticed was the color red. I couldn't tell what it symbolized in the movie but it did pop up a lot. Tetsuo's red cape when his power was supposedly at its peak; Kaneda's red bike and red outfit; the color was very vivid, and I think it might not signify the livelihood of Kaneda's spirit or something because the pink from Tetsuo's bloody transformation was more grotesque.

The animation was pretty good, too. Like the end of the world scene during the explosion. The explosion at the beginning of the movie probably was some sort of foreshadowing to the end of the movie. Maybe Akira "died" and his mind left like Tetsuo's "death" at the end of the movie.

There were more movies after this?

-03/03/24

I only have one midterm and one exam. Yet my life is so chaotic. I somehow managed to sit for 2 hours calmly.

[kharmii]

MLA is a cult. It's a cult that ReDestro was indoctrinated into against his will only because he's a genetic descendant of Destro. If MLA has a 90% approval rating, it's only in Deika City where 90% of people are being brainwashed by 10% of people running it with a few quiet dissenters here and there. In the wider world, there are probably a few radicalized people hauling Meta Liberation War books around, but absent any serious beefs, they'd be the usual losers and discontents who become radicalized in a prosperous society.

In my imaginings, only Skeptic is a true believer of the main players. He is a case of 'suicidal empathy' you find in most frothing-at-the-mouth radicals who exist today. He needed something to fill the hole in his empty, meaningless life, so backing a destructive ideology that ended up killing a lot of residents of Deika City -some by friendly fire- filled that void. Curious was in it for the money and prestige. Trumpet was in it because (in the Kharmii imaginings) he belongs to a hereditary organized crime family that's been spooning off the MLA to run illicit ventures. -So basically in it for the money.

The MLA wasn’t just about “strongest quirks rule.” Yeah, Geten wanted a might-makes-right dystopia, but revolutions are messy coalitions. Grandma MLA Member #42,041 probably just wanted to use her quirk to garden without jail time. The story frames them as a monolith, but real movements aren’t.

If it was true they were oppressing people who wanted to garden without jail time, then they needed to flesh out the story more. What I got from it was people weren't allowed to use their quirks for police work unless they graduated from hero school and got all the proper permits. If there ended up being some sort of intrusive surveillance state that was able to keep people from using their God-given abilities in their own homes, then yeah, the people would be pissed.

Other beefs people could have they didn't mention:

1.) What if citizens weren't able to use their quirks to make money in the private sector unless they have a hero license? IE: Two guys whose quirks are able to do the work of heavy machinery. The guy with the hero license is allowed to work construction, but the other guy is sol.

2.) What if hero school wasn't a meritocracy? Shoto Todoroki got in on recommendation, and it was assumed he had a formidable super power. What if not-so formidable people were getting in on recommendation for, say, being political cronies or having some lame heteromorph quirk that met a quota? Other people with legitimately decent quirks would be passed over in their favor. -More people getting pissed for sure.

The MLA exposes cracks the story refuses to fix. Thousands of ordinary citizens joined a revolution over systemic abuse, and MHA just… shrugs. No addressing their grievances, no aftermath for imprisoning 100k people. Where’s the fallout? Do their kids grow up radicalized? How does Japan even hold that many prisoners? Crickets.

My guess is they are all under house arrest in Deika City. Many of them might be hard at work rebuilding that section of city Shigaraki obliterated. Whether or not the MLA rallies once more probably depends on if ReDestro is able to see the light of day. There's probably a good reason they needed a figurehead to rally around.

The MLA deserved better. They introduced real stakes—a society so broken it births a civilian army—but the story bailed. Instead of exploring systemic change, we got another “heroes win because villains jobbed” arc. The MLA wasn’t just wasted potential; they were a mirror held up to MHA’s biggest flaw: its refusal to let hero society actually fall.

This could have been true, but it needed to be fleshed out way more. I wish they would have taken their time on the story more because it could have been something deep and complex. How does one throw a cult in the mix and then are just like, "It's bad because......it's bad. Cults are bad. Trust me on this one, guys."

Of course, cults are bad, but if someone made a story where the cult people were the good guys with many many reasons to back up their assertion, that would be exploring unchartered grounds.

I like to make those asks and metas abot.nha bc as much is a dog shit manga (good ideas tossed in favour of abusers)

Have to ask

What you think of MPA?

The concept is cool but can work better in a fanfic, not on this canon. My humble opinion.

Let’s Talk About the MLA (and Why MHA Blew Its Chance with Them)

The Meta Liberation Army arc is peak MHA. But here’s the kicker: their entire existence proves hero society is a dumpster fire beyond repair. Think about it—every villain group before them was either:

F-tier randos: Background noise for heroes to punch.

The League: Society’s rejects lashing out.

Yakuza: Profit-driven thugs.

AFO: A relic cosplaying as a Bond villain.

Then the MLA shows up with 100,000 members—actual people with jobs, families, and grievances. Students, elders, normies, radicals—all united because quirk oppression got so bad they’d rather burn society down than endure it. These guys infiltrated entire districts in secret and built a political party. Imagine if they’d stayed hidden during Shigaraki’s rampage? Heroes collapse, society crumbles… and the MLA swoops in with a legal takeover. They could’ve won without firing a shot.

But nah, the story just uses them to buff Shigaraki’s crew before tossing them in the trash.

Here’s the real tragedy: The MLA exposes cracks the story refuses to fix. Thousands of ordinary citizens joined a revolution over systemic abuse, and MHA just… shrugs. No addressing their grievances, no aftermath for imprisoning 100k people. Where’s the fallout? Do their kids grow up radicalized? How does Japan even hold that many prisoners? Crickets.

Also, let’s clear up a misconception: The MLA wasn’t just about “strongest quirks rule.” Yeah, Geten wanted a might-makes-right dystopia, but revolutions are messy coalitions. Grandma MLA Member #42,041 probably just wanted to use her quirk to garden without jail time. The story frames them as a monolith, but real movements aren’t.

Their ending? A joke. They get steamrolled, thrown in jail, and forgotten. Meanwhile, Re-Destro’s clone does the heroes a massive favor by blowing up the corrupt Hero Commission—something the heroes themselves would never do. Classic MHA: heroes coast on villains doing their dirty work.

And don’t get me started on the Final War arc. Japan’s a warzone, prisons are overflowing, and the heroes somehow have enough guards to watch thousands of MLA/PLF prisoners? Sure, Jan. Villains break out everyone… except the MLA? Plot armor at its finest.

The MLA deserved better. They introduced real stakes—a society so broken it births a civilian army—but the story bailed. Instead of exploring systemic change, we got another “heroes win because villains jobbed” arc. The MLA wasn’t just wasted potential; they were a mirror held up to MHA’s biggest flaw: its refusal to let hero society actually fall.

TL;DR: The MLA was too real, too raw, and too competent for a story that’d rather recycle “heroes vs. villains” than ask hard questions. But hey, at least we got Re-Destro’s clone doing terrorism-for-the-greater-good. Priorities, right? They got wasted on a story that’d rather have Deku punch harder than ask, “Why do 100k people hate us?” Hero society’s a joke—and the MLA was the punchline.

[crimsun-n-clover]

im into a new girl. i mean, not really a new one. i mentioned her in an earlier post

figured out that i’m not really attached to the other girl i talked about. she’s great, but she’s wayyy too much like me. it’s good to have things in common, but when it’s to the point that we both have hallucinated the same shit it’s a little off putting. not that she did or said anything wrong, she’s super sweet and i like being around her, i just don’t think we’d make a good couple.

anyway. new girl. gotta come up with a fitting name eventually because her actual name is almost obnoxious and i love it. we met on my fandom instagram account through a mutual friend putting us in a groupchat together.

she’s an amazing artist and we obviously share interests. and she’s hot. like. fucking stunning. so i was just gonna keep that locked away in my little brain like a normal fucking person until one day she randomly unfollowed me and followed me again. which was weird, because we’ve been mutuals for months, but it put the thought of her stalking me into my head and there’s no prying that shit out. like. what were you looking at huh? nothing to see here. just a bunch of text posts and if you’re willing to dig through the highlights there’s some more personal stuff. and then immediately after that i’m on her close friends?? and she tagged me in the next post she made??? weird.

but that was the catalyst to me going huh. i guess i’ll allow myself a bit of swoonage. i told mickey and she lost her everloving shit man. she goes full conspiracy mode because “stevie, that’s what I DO when i like someone she’s into you :)))” kid. sweetheart. i hope you know that you’re the statistical outlier in every situation and i won’t assume that anyone else does that.

so a couple days ago new girl posts about how she wishes she had a girlfriend for valentine’s day. that she’s so hot and interesting and it’s absolutely unbelievable that no one is taking an interest in her and let me just say, i gotta agree. of course, she’s wrong, IM taking an interest, but i’m not gonna be weird about it. i take some screenshots and scratch out her username and send them to mickey. she. goes. fucking. FERAL. “STEVIE ITS MEANT TO BE LOOK AT THE ROCKY HORROR POSTER IN THE BACKGROUND” kid i’m gonna rock your shit if you keep feeding into this and make me all mushy and useless again.

of course, she went to revisit the screenshots and yelled at me for scratching out the username. because i know she’s a meddling bastard who will insert herself. she spends a solid two hours vetting everyone i’m following and can’t find her because the girl is on my other account. absolutely rabid dedication. fuckin adore this kid man. my stalking skills are superior and i’ve already scoped out her pinterest and it made my chest hurt because damn. she’s so. sigh.

this story is kinda nonlinear at this point. shit kept going down for me because the girl live-streamed a few days in a row and i’d join a reasonable amount of time after she started (like. 30 seconds) and just dwell in the chat while like three other people maximum were there. she would end the lives sometimes if no one would join and talk to her on cam but she always went on right when my parents would get home so i couldn’t join. she’s so charming. let me just. list some shit

we already got some stuff in here so. does art, same fandoms, likes rocky horror, feminine, all that shit. she also does roller derby, archery, carpentry (she has this dollhouse in her room that she built herself it’s SO FUCKING RAD), boxing, sailing, cheerleading, all sorts. she likes literature and fashion and apparently grew up in a cult? she kept dropping absolutely insane lore. “oh yeah i got a knife pulled on me at school for being gay haha” and the way she talks she’s so charismatic i hope i die. she’s so enthusiastic about her interests like “i was looking at a boat today that can get up to ELEVEN KNOTS” cool im obsessed with you

she’s so my type i’m gonna rip my skin off and give it to her. she’s feminine, she’s bubbly, she’s fucking weird, kind of a bitch, has strong (correct) opinions, that’s like everything im drawn to romantically. personality big enough to keep me balanced out, knows what she wants so i can enjoy my acts of service love language, LITERALLY MY TYPE.

im so fucking mad. she lives in toronto and i have absolutely no chance regardless. im just a little terrified of her, especially dming her. when i can see her face in the lives it’s wayyy easier but i’m so intimidated by her typing style yk? fucking whatever man i’m being dramatic.

it’s three in the morning so it’s technically february 8th. one year since the initial breakup.