#◇ arc: butterflies and hurricanes

[fruitviine]

Yes, probably, we aren’t quite sure yet. Sure, if your type is shady old dudes. Totally, but he might get offended. He’s waiting for you behind the building with an ice pick. Click now!!

HELL YEAH BROTHER LET ME AT HIM— wait, why an ice pick?

[fulfillingbineeds]

"Right, so hang on. So he's going to go back in time. He's going to fall in love with Alisha. Then she dies, and they're gonna be stuck doing it over and over and over again for all of eternity?"

"I think it's dead romantic."

"I Think It's Dead Romantic." Simon/Alisha Mixtape

Starcrossed Lovers - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Denial - Sugababes

Shadowplay - Joy Divison

Dance With Me - Estelle

Time is Running Out - Muse

Shiver - Natalie Imbruglia

Falling Away with You - Muse

Here With Me - Dido

Chasing Pavements - Adele

Thinking Of You - Katy Perry

These Things Take Time - The Smiths

There She Goes - The La's

Freak Like Me - Sugababes

Yellow - Coldplay

All I Need - Radiohead

Obsession - MARINA

Lovesong - The Cure

Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse

Born To Die - Lana Del Rey

Runtime: Approximately 72 Minutes

I decided to make a Simon/Alisha mixtape last night, and I managed to get it done fairly quickly. It is truly the first time I've ever done something like this. I'm not one to make playlists, especially ones that are organized in a purposeful order. Normally I just throw all the songs in randomly and listen on shuffle. (Yes, I'm sorry, I only listen to music via my Spotify liked songs on shuffle. I'm that type of gal.)

It was a fun experiment doing this. I had to search for a good chunk of the songs. My specific goal for this was to have songs the characters would actually listen to and describe how they feel/experience situations. And to have all the songs released before or during 2011. (When season 3/Simon & Alisha's story ended.)

I already knew the genres that Simon likes. (It's stated in canon on the show and canon media outside of the show.) Alisha was harder, as her music taste isn't stated in canon so I took a guess.

So this mixtape is a blend of Alt. Rock, Post-Punk, Pop and R&B.

The mixtape progresses from the start of Alisha and Superhoodies' first meeting all the way to Simon going back in time. Along with a prelude song (Starcrossed Lovers by Siouxsie and the Banshees) and a conclusion song (Born To Die by Lana Del Rey) (I couldn't help myself, especially after seeing this gif set edit.)

There are 3 songs from Muse's 2003 Absolution on here, and it's the main reason I did this mixtape. They're such Simon/Superhoodie songs. I'm convinced that they were used as inspiration in writing the superhoodie arc, lmao.

Why I added Sugababes' Freak Like Me is meant to represent Alisha coming to understand Simon's Simoness and embracing her own oddities. And the fact the lyrics and vocals on the song scream Alisha while the music and rhythm scream Simon. (It's actually a sample of Tubeway Army's Are 'Friends' Electric?- One of my go-to Simon songs, and it's on my Simon playlist.)

I feel like there might be a few filler songs that didn't necessarily need to be added, but I liked the vibe, so that's why.

And ask away about any other detail on why I added what songs if you want. (Shoot it in my asks, please, and thanks)

Also, sorry for how blurry the text is in the one photo. I wasn't able to fit all the songs in a larger font on it, so it looks a bit crappy. Amature graphic designer here :D

[digitalgate02]

DigiTimeLines: Document format [pt2]

[part 1] | [AO3 version] | @digimonadventuretimelines (blog; outdated)

Part 2 is not totally focused on the next villain arc, but a few arcs involving a few kids and foreshadowing for the next segment (yes, part 3 confirmed, but not sure if it will be the closure to this big plotline) -- also there's some canon divergence in it, but this is a multiverse story project, so different sources of canon can still exist in their own timelines.

[pixel Crest art by Lurils & me]

The Prelude To A New Enemy

No one knew how to explain what happened to Motomiya Daisuke. He was alive, of course, but in front of them all was… A small dog-like baby digimon with fur resembling Daisuke’s hair in color and style. In other words, he looked like a Pomeranian dog. Koushiro labeled that digimon form as “Pomeranimon” but Daisuke hated the idea of being called like that!!

Oddly, his voice sounded babyish and childish (like in Hurricane Touchdown movie) instead of the voice of an adult man. Taichi wanted more to know what happened after he got captured, but Daisuke being alive and safe now was enough for him. Ken is the one who deserved to know that info (but Taichi still wanted to know, so were the others in the room) -- but Daisuke says he’s too tired to talk. Miyako grabs her tiny and furry husband and starts demanding him to explain things NOW, and he just agrees to.

At first, Daisuke and Wingdramon managed to beat the enemies but couldn’t go home. They knew if they opened the gate, the enemies would go after Ken… So they stayed on the run and tried to survive. It was when a strange thing happened -- they met a strange Digimental in the jungle, being secured by the foe’s army. So this was the thing they were looking for, right? Something something Digimental of… Darkness? He didn’t remember very well of that part. But Ken was needed because of the Digivice of Darkness. They were trying to bring the Kaiser back and then use it to show how the humans were evil beings only interested in turning every digimon their slaves.

Daisuke and V-mon thought about taking that Digimental with them before they could use it, but Papillonmon appeared and threw those shadow butterflies against them. Then, that vile digimon forced Daisuke to use that Digimental on V-mon, armor evolving him into a black-armored Magnamon. Papillonmon then used his special attack to transform Daisuke into a digimon and labeled it Lupinmon. Since then, Daisuke and V-mon were fighting hard to regain control of their bodies but couldn’t for much longer.

It was when Magnamon ordered Natsu to go back and ask for the group’s help, but she ended up being chased by the evil enemies for five years and had no chance to get back to the human world until that day she met Daichi.

As Daisuke finishes his report, he yawns and falls asleep in Miyako’s hands. She’s about to shake him to keep him awake when Daichi intervenes saying to let him rest for a while. The adults are quite upset with their children, but they are at least relieved everyone was back and safe. Taichi tries to talk with them, but Taisuke just says he only wants to shield them, and he leaves stomping his feet on the floor. Hikari looks at Taichi, as if she knew something was wrong with them all, but she couldn’t blame those kids for trying something risky: They did the same around their ages too.

Ken mutters that they were chosen in the past, but then they made the choice to stand up and fight. Have Taichi forgotten that?

Kiyoko and Eiji follow Taisuke, trying to talk with the boy that maybe the adults were afraid of their old friend killing their children. Daichi and Hoshi come later, but Daichi seems… off. They ask what’s wrong and the kid says something is not right. Why would Papillonmon let Daisuke and Magnamon set free all of a sudden? Kiyoko gasps, ‘Are you saying dad is still in his hands!?’ but Daichi denies it, and adds that it was another thing.

What thing? The thing is… He didn’t see that Digimental his father mentioned there. So, obviously… Papillonmon retrieved it from Magnamon before leaving the Manticoremon soldiers try to get rid of them all. This made Eiji muse about that detail: Maybe Daisuke is still under Papillonmon’s spell, but not under his control. Hence why he’s still a digimon, but devolved this time. Hoshi asks if this means her dad is in danger again, and the group only assumed this could mean ‘yes’, yet they had nothing in hand to confirm their suspicions.

Would the adults believe them? Not without Daisuke and V-mon’s help.

Space-Time Traveling, Again

Once Daisuke and Chibimon had their energies recovered they were kidnapped by Kiyoko and Taisuke. The iconic 2-TOP duo were facing the children’s eyes and watching them mutter something to each other. Daisuke loses his patience, as if he was a teacher finding his classroom was merged into chaos while he was out. Mirai finds this whole situation enjoyable! A human turned into a digimon!? This must be studied! Mitsuki jokes about Mirai wanting to dissect the poor Daisuke-mon and Kiyoko snaps at them! NO ONE IS GOING TO LEND A HAND ON HIS FLOPPY FUR! (Daisuke, annoyed: Stop reminding me that I have fur!!)

Reika asks them all to behave and respect Daisuke, because he’s still an adult. Though he felt that form humiliating, only to have Elise scratch the back of his dog ear. Somehow this helped him to relax… Well, he’s stuck in that form until Koushiro can fix it. Chibimon complains, he wants to be pampered too! Elise uses her free hand to scratch Chibimon’s belly, who feels so pleased and relaxed… Until Natsu switches to Digimon form in order to get some belly rubs too. Elise complains, she can’t give love to all of them at the same time!! Her partner Zebra also complains because he wanted Elise’s attention too. She calls for the others’ help, and then Jin tells all of the digimon to stop bugging Elise.

Daichi calls everyone’s attention to their main topic, and Daisuke raises an eyebrow: What is it? His son then asks him if he or Chibimon had seen the Digimental he mentioned again, when they regained consciousness -- Daisuke and Chibimon looked at each other for a moment: OH NO, they forgot about the Digimental!! Daichi and the other kids grimace when they hear that.

Daisuke laughs nervously, and dramatically cries about him being stupid. Taisuke says, in his most tsun way, that it wasn’t his fault if he was brainwashed. The rest look at the boy, who snaps at them for that: I WAS JUST STATING THE FACTS, Y’KNOW!? Daichi wonders if he should go back in time and secure the Digimental, but Natsu says that could be wrong!

Daisuke muses that they could go back a bit further in time, but he thinks it’s risky and he should leave it to Ken and the others. Eiji counter-arguments the enemies might be after his dad now. With no other options, Daisuke sighs. He knows if he allows those children to risk their lives, their parents might unleash their wrath on him. Ulforce suggests they send just Daichi and him there, but Daisuke says they don’t know what they’re looking for! Mike suggests he describe the Digimental and that they would draw it, like the police do with suspects. Chibimon shrugs, can Daisuke be able to describe something? Daisuke squints his eyes at his own partner, and decides to go with that suggestion.

As Daisuke described the Digimental, the kids’ best artist -- Reika -- tried to capture the image in the paper. When she finished, they all looked at it. Taisuke says it looks like “a World’s Cup trophy-thing, but in cold colors” and everyone glanced at him. He does “What? I think it’s what I see here! Evil Soccer Cup’s Trophy.” -- Hoshi growls, this wasn’t the right hour to think about soccer!! Daisuke, with a deadpan face, looks at the kids and just agrees with Taisuke.

They have a plan, and then Daichi now tells them to keep everyone, mr. Ichijouji Ken included, safe while he’s out. The kids agree. Daisuke says he wants to go, but Natsu says she and Ulforce can protect Daichi for him. With everyone’s agreement, Daichi, Ulforce and Natsu go to the Dimensional Space dungeon again.

Daisuke still thinks everything is his fault, so he asks Taisuke, Hoshi and Eiji to take him to Taichi and Ken. Chibimon cannot evolve if Daisuke can’t use his digivice, so they have to be protected by those kids.

Hard Task: Talking to Taichi & Ken

The Ichijouji siblings could manage to call Ken for a small talk with Daisuke, but can Taisuke contact his dad for this too? The answer is… There’s a lot happening between Taichi and his son, Taisuke definitely hates the fact his dad is a busy man and since this whole crisis started, Taichi didn’t get time to rest and be with him and his mother. So, Taisuke is definitely out of his reach right now. But Daisuke needs to talk with Taichi immediately -- Maybe the best scenario would’ve been with both at the same time.

Hoshi knows Taisuke has a beef with her uncle Taichi. Eiji knows Hoshi and Taisuke do not get along either. And he’s a shy person, a bookworm. He cannot raise his voice and stop any clash between his sister and his cousin-and-best-friend.

Daisuke frowns: This is too much for him. If he were still human he could act as the responsible adult he is, but as a… digimon? He’s small and cannot do much! So, he had to count on Eiji for this. The moment Hoshi and Taisuke started arguing about how to call Taichi, things began overwhelming Eiji. The digimon with them were trying to help to reach a conclusion, but those two human children are hard to deal with.

Daisuke tries to call them out, but yup. His small dog-like shape cannot stop those two. Kitty, Sting and Draki as well, they were almost arguing between themselves too. It is when Eiji snaps and shouts. His hair went all over his face, resembling Ken in his child days. He tells them to stop, that this wouldn’t help anyone and that mr. Motomiya wanted their help for something important! Everyone glances at the boy in shock. Daisuke blinks, and comments this reminded him of when Ken used to snap at the others when he got angry. Eiji starts apologizing for that, that he didn’t want to… But Daisuke smiles at him and says he didn’t do anything wrong. Everyone agrees, they were wasting their time with that nonsense.

Eiji comments that if they get to talk to their dad first, they can manage to get him to call uncle Taichi with his help. Chibimon wonders if this is possible. Daisuke muses that as well, it’s not like Taichi and Ken hate each other, but they’re always kinda… awkward together… The kids agree with this too. But if this could help fight the enemy, they will cooperate with each other.

Taichi and Ken managed to meet with their kids and Daisuke. Their digimon were also present, because this is about their enemy. Daisuke took a deep breath before he could reveal something he knew. Then, when he starts… Everyone’s eyes were widened:

The enemy was trying to bring the Kaiser back, yes, but they also wanted to use him to invoke a greater threat to the world: Imperialdramon. They wanted to use Imperialdramon’s power to cause havoc in the human world, and force the humans to banish every digimon from their world, and then closing the gates around the human world.

Ken stroked his chin: This means the problem was bigger than he thought. At least it wasn’t related to some-other-digimon-he-knew (aka Millenniummon) so he was a little relieved. Chibimon could sense Wormmon was in shock, and then he added that they learned that while he and Daisuke were trying to steal the Digimental of Darkness before they could snatch it.

But that didn’t work, of course. Taichi asks why they didn't tell him before, and Daisuke looks at the floor and stays quiet. Taisuke mutters something like ‘You’re always busy, ol’ man’ which is heard by the digimon and Daisuke (because, since he’s in a digimon form his senses are pretty superhuman now) and they look at the boy. Daisuke babbles immediately that he couldn’t do that before but now he did it. Chibimon adds that Daisuke and him were ashamed of getting captured and brainwashed.

Ken muses if he is still a target, after all… Daisuke has been rescued and is back to his senses now. Daisuke frowns, he’s concerned about this form though -- If he’s really free from Papillonmon’s control. Taichi understands what that meant, and tells the kids to leave Daisuke and Chibimon with the police. Hoshi says in a serious tone that she thinks this is too harsh on them. Daisuke smiles and says Taichi’s right, he and Chibimon might still be under the enemies control and he is asking for surveillance too. Eiji frowns, but he leaves Daisuke and Chibimon in Taichi and Agumon’s hands. Kiyoko is going to kill us -- Taisuke whispers to the Ichijouji siblings. Daisuke sighs, and then makes it clear to the kids are aware that he heard them -- It’s for their children’s safety. And then entrusts Daichi and Kiyoko to those three.

Taisuke blushes, somehow. He didn’t expect to get an important task like that. Taichi and Ken ask Daisuke if this was okay and then Daisuke nods -- Those were the children who rescued him after all, and they all should trust them like their families trusted them all to beat Apocalymon and Vamdemon ages ago. Taichi nods and smiles -- Yup, they’re our children after all.

Searching for the Digimental of Darkness

Daichi, Ulforce and Natsu were looking at the infinite number of doors in that space. Ulforce wonders if they can find the right door since all of them are the same! Daichi smirks and says he had been labeling all the doors they opened with a label printer he had borrowed from Mitsuki. Natsu and Ulforce are impressed, but did he label the first door too? He reveals he had brought it with him since the first time they did space-time travel. Ulforce says HOW, but then Natsu reminds him they had been there briefly before Daichi’s decision to use that gimmick to save Daisuke.

Still, there’s a ton of doors unlabeled yet. So how could they find the one leading them to the time Daisuke and V-mon found the Digimental? Natsu suggests asking ClavisAngemon and that mysterious hooded person.

And, since she was “basically ominous” just by that mention, the woman in the hood appears in front of them. She also summons ClavisAngemon in order to lend the trio a hand. The woman notices the label printer in Daichi’s hands and asks why he had that in hands. The boy says since all of those doors have the same design and no labels, they couldn’t know where they were going, so he decided to label them by himself. She laughs kindly and reveals they could’ve used the digivice for that, since the D-TimeRune can scan the doors and point out where they could go through them. The trio stares at her, and screams in a very angry tone: WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL US FIRST!? 

Daichi takes a deep breath to calm down. He just then breathes out, and shows the drawing to them -- They needed to find the door leading them to this Digimental, a door from their timeline. ClavisAngemon and the woman gasp, and her eyes are widened too. They ask why they are looking for that forbidden power, and Natsu informs them that the enemy in their timeline-bar-world had acquired and used it to put a DigiChosen against them. The woman was aware of that as well, since she can see through the doors about the past, present and the future. She is actually an overseer entity.

The trio uses the digivice this time, finding the correct door and opening it. But to their surprise, the door leads them to the human world instead. There they find a girl named Nishikawa Yume, whose appearance was pretty… familiar. She’s partnered with a YukiAgumon called Blitz. Yume knew those three were suspicious, and believed they came from the future. She’s basically the same age as him (14yo). Daichi ignored that girl and focused on finding the Digimental of Darkness quickly, BUT it felt like an impossible quest: The place Daisuke said to be where he and V-mon found it… Has no Digimental when they got there. Finding it too suspicious, Natsu uses her pendant to move through time and reach the moment the Digimental appeared. EXCEPT Yume and Blitz managed to sneak into their magical bubble-shield and witness their secret. Ulforce gets annoyed by those two, but Daichi interrupts him and asks how they got there. Yume smiles and says she knows what they’re looking for, and offers to help them, in return for a favor. What is her deal? To use Daichi’s power in order to protect someone important to her. Natsu finds it fishy, but the boy accepts the offer and makes a deal with that girl. Yume then mentions the existence of a dark passage in that area, leading them to another parallel realm where the Digimental is locked to not be caught by no one. Ulforce asks how she knows that, and she says better they do not know.

Small Yet Helpful

Koushiro, Jou and Miyako were studying Daisuke’s Pomeranimon form. They had Gennai’s help as well, but it seemed that none of them could find an answer to why Daisuke is still a digimon. Daisuke was afraid of him still being under Papillonmon’s control, hence why he asked to be kept locked and under surveillance. What if he hurts someone!? He would never forgive himself if something like that happens. Miyako ran a few more tests on Daisuke, ones that could detect digimon’s coding and digital waves on him, but thankfully nothing was found. So, something else was preventing Daisuke from returning back to his original human form. But what?

Mirai drops by and asks the adults if she could help in something, but they are still not sure if they could let her do anything. They just ask her to keep protecting the digimon and humans while they work on it. Mirai fakes a smile and then leaves. But at night she just comes back and kidnaps Pomeranimon. 

When Daisuke asks her why she says she’s just upset that no one wants her giving them a hand because she’s seen as too young for that. Except she’s too smart compared to the children from her age, and this makes her frustrated because she does not know what to do then -- adults say she’s too young to help them, and children around her age say she’s too different from them to play with her. The exceptions were Taisuke and Elise (who are the same age as her), because they also feel different and weird. Daisuke frowns, and she says she wants to be a “normal” person. Daisuke replies saying it’s okay to be different, and that people should accept her for who she is. He knows Koushiro’s reasons to refuse Mirai’s help was due to the fear of him still being under the enemy’s power… So he reveals that to her. He also says maybe she could help him out, but that they kept that a secret from the others. Mirai asks what it is, and then he says “Be yourself, do what you do the best. Leave the adults to me.” With this, Mirai nods and says she will then use her expertise to find out how to bring him back to normal, but Daisuke asks her another favor -- to help Daichi as much as she can for him.

All of those requests given to the children… They sounded like either Daichi was in trouble, or Daisuke was about to die. But rest assured, it’s just Daisuke being a dramatic dad and wanting Daichi’s friends to help his son as much as they can.

Mirai and Daisuke’s convo are interrupted by a Phantomon. The small pup form for Daisuke wasn’t able to beat a Perfect level digimon, and yet…!! Mirai calls for Koh (the KoKabuterimon) help, who evolves into Kabuterimon and faces the enemy. Koh is not used to fighting, so all he does is prevent Phantomon from capturing Mirai and Daisuke. He grabs them and retreats, but Phantomon chases them. Daisuke knows he has to do something, but… Heh, he just jumps from Mirai’s arms and throws himself at Phantomon’s face. Mirai and Koh scream, and then… Mirai’s digivice shoots a light on Daisuke’s Pomeranimon form.

He evolves… Back to Lupinmon -- Except it’s Fairytail Mode Lupinmon. That new digimon form is stronger and he destroys Phantomon, but before destroying it, he snatches something from the digimon’s robes and is caught by Koh. Mirai wonders if she just formed a link with Daisuke and he’s also confused -- So, this digimon form can be linked to digivices!? Can he link himself to his old D-3 and then evolve V-mon again!? Maybe… Sure, why not try it!?

The Digimental of Darkness’ Hidden Dimension

How did Yume know about that? They were told that they were better not to know the answer, but they would go investigate that later. They managed to go there without her and Blitz, so they could have a talk about what they think of her at least. Daichi’s opinion is maybe she has a reason to not tell them where she got that info, Natsu and Ulforce’s are she’s fishy, better not trust her at all. 

Said Digimental was there, Ulforce and Natsu could feel it, though they couldn’t see it. But before that, what would they do? Grab the Digimental and leave? According to Daisuke’s report, the enemy had secured the Digimental and was hunting Ken down for his digivice. But what were Daisuke & V-mon thinking to do next? Just flee? Hide the Digimental? Take it to Koushiro or Gennai? Destroy it? They had no idea what they should DO with that thing!!

Of course Daichi was aware of how Digimentals work -- you say “Digimental Up!” and then it activated the Armor Evolution. But Daichi also knew Ulforce is a V-mon, and V-mon species had an affinity to Digimentals. He wouldn’t risk turning Ulforce or Natsu into a feral monster and let them run amok. They needed a strategy.

Searching the area for the Digimental they found its guardian -- Aegiochusmon: Dark. Prepared for battle, Daichi puts Ulforce and Natsu on hold and tries to explain to Aegiochusmon why they were there. Aegiochusmon understood them, but it’s when they learn that the changes in the past wouldn’t erase/destroy the future or present, and yes that Daichi was creating new alternative timelines for them all. But how did Aegiochusmon know that? Daichi was in denial now. Natsu stays silent, and Ulforce tries to attack with his V-Bracelets. Aegiochusmon then repels the plasma shots and threatens to send them to the null area if they don’t leave.

Daichi keeps refusing that information, Ulforce orders Aegiochusmon to give them the Digimental, but the other refuses to. Natsu grabs both Ulforce and Daichi, thanks Aegiochusmon and leaves immediately. The boys complain hard and criticize her behavior, but she ignores them. Daichi was feeling she was hiding something from them. Then, she suggests they find the Digimental of Miracles to counter-attack the Digimental of Darkness. Ulforce wonders why Miracles and not Light -- The Digimental of Light is the opposite of the Digimental of Darkness after all. The logic lied more in the sacred power and high defensive stats the Digimental of Miracles could give them.

With this… They returned to their present again.

Another Kind of Trouble (?)

Remember when I said there’s two main enemies before? The other issue making Taichi lose brain cells to put an end to the conflict was the anti-digimon people. Despite having the entire world’s populace partnered with digimon, some of those people hated them and had awful relationships with the digimon -- might become a bit heavy here, but -- such as abusing them, harming them and even trying to end their lives… Or using them for crimes.

Criminals are “easy” to deal with, at least. You arrest the human and send their partner to some sort of a victim protection program to keep the digimon safer from the toxic human tamer… And then “undo” their partnership -- not that they end the connection between human and digimon, but they send it back to the Digital World to be taken care of by a special group of caregivers formed by digimon and humans habiting the DW.

As for abuse, harm or murder attempt cases… Those are harder and it’s just like what happens to human beings, but they couldn’t let the digimon return to those people’s hands. So they’re completely sent to the same group of caregivers and under the victim protection program. Things might be harder than dealing with a human being though, and no one wants those digimon victims to be devolved into digiegg stage.

The rest of the Neo Chosen group is focused on saving the digimon from bad partners, while Daichi is out. They’re forced to protect the digimon before the human partner triggers a dark evolution and go amok, so many times those kids had no other choice but revert the wild feral dark evolution into an egg or baby form. With the help of the police, the adults would arrest the toxic tamer and never let their digimon see them again -- unless they redeem themselves and repent for their actions. Because yeah, those kids and their parents/relatives would hope for the best and happy ending.

But digimon taking control over their partners also exist. Criminal digimon abusing their human partners, forcing them to commit crimes, to evolve them so they could hurt and destroy stuff also exist and are on the top of the list for things the Neo Chosen and their families have to combat. In this case the human is protected from the digimon, and the digimon is forced back to digiegg state. 

Some of those cases ended up with the rest of the kids unlocked Adult and Perfect evolution for their partners:

Elise: BlackGabumon → B.Garurumon and B.WereGarurumon

Mike: Floramon → Sunflowmon and Lilamon

Jin: Kamemon → Gawappamon and Shawujinmon

Reika: Armadimon → Ankylomon and Triceramon

Mitsuki: Tsukaimon → Pidmon and HolyAngemon

Mirai’s partner, Koh, would super evolve later, but at this point she was just busy working behind the curtains and working as some sort of navigator-esque character.

Another problem they have to face is people very Menoa-like trying to build mindless human-made digimon for military and war purposes. Taichi & co. hated this case so badly that the authorities and agents like Yamada Kyotaro (also known by “Imura Kyotaro”) would put a stop on any program or project involving this kind of research and manufacture.

But a part of their worries was definitely Papillonmon’s plans -- where did he go and what will he do now?

Clash Between Daichi and Soleil

The “Space trio” -- Soleil, Lune and Étoile -- kept working on their own way: In the shadows and doing the sneaky job. They met with Daichi in the meantime, when the boy was seeking for the Holy Beasts. Soleil uses a prophetic voice tone saying Daichi is too soft for the world-saving job and that he was selected as the savior of the worlds by Homeostasis. Natsu and Ulforce definitely argue with Soleil that Homeostasis don’t go and threaten people like him. Soleil is so sure Daichi, Ulforce and Natsu are disobeying the “divine” orders and unleashes his fury on them -- claiming himself to be the embodiment of Justice.

A fight happens between Flaremon and AeroV-dramon. Lune realizes Ulforce is an interesting digimon specimen and tells Lekismon to stop the fight by putting Flaremon and AeroV-dramon in sleep. Soleil growls at the interruption, but he calms down when Lune justifies just letting Daichi and co. roll with it, because things would’ve been more “interesting” -- no one besides Lune herself knew what that meant (it means she wanted to study Daichi’s methods and philosophy, that’s it.)

Étoile suspiciously drops a card on Natsu, asking to meet her later… Without Daichi and Ulforce. The card also meant it wasn’t a trap, just a human-to-digimon talk. Natsu accepts the terms, and waits for Étoile later, on a… Digimon bar. This bar had everything -- Alcohol and non-alcohol, also oil and other non-human drinks. Why would a human kid want to meet her there?!

Turns out that… Étoile is not human.

Natsu noticed it by the fact Étoile did not appear as Étoile, and yes as an enigmatic and elusive digimon named Arsenemon. He was like her and Arukenimon & Mummymon, or Bakemon species -- a digimon able to shapeshift into a human being. He had chosen that form in order to hide from Lupinmon and protect his archnemesis Herlockmon -- now devolved into a purple Pokomon/Viximon subspecies. Natsu realized something was familiar to her… Daisuke was Lupinmon, but he did not turn back to normal and just reverted into a small baby II level digimon after he was rescued. Could this mean…??

Arsenemon says that he’s aware that Daisuke did not do anything purposely and was a victim, but he was so done with Papillonmon and his lackeys for that. But he also suspected that someone was pretending to be Homeostasis and just manipulating Soleil and Lune under the curtains. Natsu nods in agreement -- Homeostasis does not talk like that at all, they’re not a god-like figure, it’s just a security system for the Digital World.

But who?

The Holy Beast, Yume and Daichi

Before continuing, Daichi and co returned and reported to Daisuke and the others about their discoveries -- Daisuke got a little sad they couldn’t prevent it from happening, but Eiji says that might be for a good cause… They talked to the adults about this too, and then Ken mused about Natsu’s idea to use the Digimental of Miracles to counter the Digimental of Darkness. Yet they had no idea what would happen next, like what Papillonmon would do, or if there’s a way to bring Daisuke back to normal. Then, he asked the kids to search for an old acquaintance of the group, one of the Holy Beasts he and the others had met before in their childhood. Daisuke suggested going with them, but Hikari quietly asked if it was safe to let Daisuke go with them in this state. Koushiro interrupted them saying there’s still something off with Daisuke and they couldn’t take their eyes off him. When the kids asked why, Daisuke changed his mind and said he must stay under surveillance. Mirai frowned, this didn’t sound correct…

Actually Daisuke, for being able to “evolve” into Lupinmon again because of Mirai… Had made Daisuke himself concerned of not being free from Papillonmon’s power, not from his mind control (this one was already undone by Daichi) -- so he feared running amok soon or later.

Now, after facing Soleil and Natsu had talked with Étoile… the trio plus Taisuke, Kiyoko, Eiji and Hoshi wander through the Digital World, as a group. They ran through a few issues, but nothing big. To meet the Holy Beasts, they have to contact one of the Digital World’s agents (aka Gennai’s kind, or Gennai himself) -- But this is where they… had no idea how to meet an agent.

Yume appears with her partner YukiAgumon (named Blitz) and she asks Daichi if he got what he wanted. The others minus Natsu and Ulforce glance at Daichi and “do you know this girl?” but Daichi completely ignores their question and replies to Yume with a nod and adds that he couldn’t get the Digimental but they came up with another plan to countermeasure it. Then, Yume asks what it is and Hoshi whispers to Daichi to not tell that girl anything… Except he ignores his friends again and tells Yume that they’re looking for the Holy Beasts.

Yume smiles and says she knows those digimon, making everyone exclaim in shock. Natsu raises an eyebrow because how could that human girl know the Holy Beasts? That’s fishy…!!

But Yume takes them to the area where the one she knows the most reigns and it’s…

Baihumon. 

Kiyoko blinks, “Shouldn’t we be meeting a blue dragon instead?” and the group confirms it. Yume says Baihumon is an old acquaintance of her father, and that they barely meet nowadays. Taisuke wonders if the Holy Beasts are all partnered with humans and then Eiji -- in his very smart aleck mode -- remembers them about the fact some books and digimon folklore mentions that four of the five Chosen Children digimon have ascended into the final form as the Holy Beasts. Ulforce, Natsu and the rest of the digimon confirm it. Taisuke then asks what happened to the fifth digimon from that group and then none of the digimon or Eiji knew. Yume then slips something like “they died in combat” and Daichi frowns, he goes straight to the point: “Are you related to the fifth Chosen and their digimon?”

Baihumon interrupts them, asking why Yume brought those people and digimon to him. She gently says they’re looking for the Digimental of Miracles, to counter the power of the Digimental of Darkness. Baihumon seems surprised by the mention of that wicked Digimental, and then asks the kids what happened to its guardian. Again, none of them know what happened to Aegiochusmon: Dark, but Taisuke jumps into the conclusion that that guardian had betrayed everyone! Eiji thinks the most realistic conclusion is either that or that the enemies beat the guardian.

Daichi wasn’t that interested in the theories revolving around what happened to Aegiochusmon, but he definitely got some interest on Yume’s behavior when Taisuke asked about what happened to the fifth kid and their partner digimon. But this is everything Yume wanted, actually -- to lure Daichi into her own selfish plan.

Baihumon then decides he will talk to the other Holy Beasts and pass their reports to them, he’s a courteous but not so friendly digimon though, but he kept contact with human beings because of Qinglongmon and his human partner. Seems like he was hiding something too, considering he didn’t say anything regarding his fifth old comrade… Hoshi notices that Daichi is too quiet to the point it’s suspicious, so once they’re back to the human world she asks him what’s going on. Daichi mentions he’s not very sure why, but both Baihumon and Yume were acting strangely when Taisuke asked that question, and Taisuke himself starts wondering if they should investigate that. Kiyoko and Eiji remind them that there’s a digi-crisis happening right now and they shouldn’t get distracted by this. Hoshi suspiciously agrees with Taisuke -- that they should go with it. The kids look at Natsu for a while, and she shrugs. It’s futile to discuss with them, but she also thinks it won’t hurt to research about some fellow Chosen Child while they wait for the Holy Beasts’ decision.

Meeting Baihumon’s Human Partner

With the power of Mirai and Mitsuki’s investigative skills, the group reach a man running a coffee shop in Tokyo called Nishijima Daigo. He was possibly in his late forties and was different from the kind of partner the group had thought of -- He was a completely charismatic, caring and lovely person… Also a walking mess.

Meeting mr. Nishijima made Daichi even more curious about Yume’s true personality -- there was something off in her, yet something… familiar. The kids ask the man about the Digital World he had met in the past, and his reaction is… He completely changed his mood to someone more serious. He asks those young Chosen how did they know about him and his connection to Baihumon, and then Hoshi says his daughter told them. He almost burns his coffee brew by the mention of Yume. He sighs, so she’s doing that again huh… But how they knew about his child was a mystery. Daichi then explains to the man that they met before, a few years ago in 2024 during a mission (he’s not sure IF he can give the details of holding the power to space-time travel though… So not many people are aware of Daichi having said power… yet) and it makes Nishijima wonder which kind of mission would this kid have been involved in to cross with Yume’s path.

It doesn’t matter, Nishijima then tells them to not let her convince them from doing something risky. This makes Eiji raise an eyebrow -- What does Nishijima mean? It’s when the man writes down a few things on a paper napkin and hands it to Natsu (assuming she’s an adult human and responsible for them) with the vague phrase of “Do not let her know about this, but search it by yourselves.” 

They left after a brief break to eat a few pastries and non-alcohol drinks from the café, praising Nishijima’s cuisine and cooking skills -- which made the man go back to his good mood and bubbly personality.

Once they left, they had to think about where to go to search for… a person named Himekawa Maki. Eiji suggests them searching in the Digital World’s library -- the Tree of Knowledge. That sounded like a good plan!! But Taisuke just thinks they should ask for Mirai’s help. They look at the boy for a moment and Daichi says, with a deadpan face, “Both? Both. Both is good” -- The mention of that meme makes them realize Daichi is in better shape than he was years ago. So they go to the Tree of Knowledge with Mirai and Koh.

Himekawa Maki’s Secret Life

Nishijima didn’t clarify things enough. The kids and their mons were wondering what kind of role this Himekawa Maki person would have in Yume’s life, but then they would just find a picture of this person in the database and realize that… Himekawa Maki is Yume’s mother.

Or to be more accurate, was.They learned through those archives that she died in a digimon incident after she had given birth to Yume, months later.

The causes of her death weren’t totally depicted to the public archives, which lead the kids to think something more and more serious had happened and their parents had to hide from the public. If they ask their families, there is a high chance of leading them to more misleadings than someone being pretty honest about this. Something… Maybe Nishijima wanted to hide that from Yume and asked them all to keep it a secret? So Ulforce asks them what they should do now, and then Taisuke dramatically gestures to the Know-It-All Genius Junior Izumi Mirai. Oh, that was Taisuke’s backup plan!! There’s nothing that Mirai cannot discover!!

So Mirai starts inspecting the files, the database and even running into some archives protected by password. Seeing a key requirement made them believe that yeah, there’s something behind this all and they had to pass by a permission key wall. It’s when Mirai chuckles and starts bragging about her new ‘gimmick’ -- a virtual replica of the Digimental of Knowledge, containing the Digimental data stored into her D-TimeRune Digivice. Everyone was so impressed by that that they wondered how she managed to get a Digimental for that, and then she said she copied the data from mr. Hida’s digivice.

But why should they use a Digimental data to bypass the permission wall? And then, she reveals about Koh’s armor evolution -- Searchmon. Everyone isn’t sure what that meant, but then she proceeds to demonstrate that trick. She armor evolves Koh with that data to Searchmon, and then Koh uses his Jamming Hertz special move on the wall. Thanks to it, the wall malfunctioned and then it opened the files, as if the key was input. Taisuke asks how she did that, and then Eiji theorizes that Searchmon’s attack might have worked as some sort of key-gen and generated a permission key to access those archives. Hoshi asks why wouldn’t they just protect those archives with a strong password and then Taisuke smirks and gushes that Mirai would’ve found her own way to bypass that too. Kiyoko reminds them that her and Daichi’s mother is an excellent hacker too, so it wouldn’t be that hard. (Was Kiyoko jealous? Who knows~)

Once they get access to those files, they start reading them all and looking for anything that could lead to answers… Until Kiyoko finds out something. 

The group gathers to the screen she was reading and they learn that Himekawa and Nishijima were part of a prior group, one before ambassador Yagami’s group. And that those five kids faced the Dark Masters trio, but they were beaten. Himekawa’s anger led Megadramon (Bakumon’s perfect level form) to evolve further and then become Mugendramon -- who would later be corrupted and then become the forth Dark Master. The other four kids and their digimon had unlocked the form of the Holy Beasts for their partners and they had no other choice but destroy Mugendramon, reverting it into a corrupted Digiegg. Gennai and the others had to hide this secret from Himekawa for ages, that Bakumon’s egg had hatched later and then that Mugendramon turned into the same tyrant ruler of the Metal Empire area ambassador Yagami and the others had faced in 1999. This secret was kept from everyone else, so none of the Tokyo Twelve (Taichi and Daisuke groups, actually) were aware of it. But Himekawa ended up doing everything she could to bring Bakumon back from the Dark Area, leading to a brand new digimon crisis… And in the end, she was killed by her own partner once she managed to get Mugendramon’s data. This was months after she and Nishijima had a child on October 19 2013, named Yume. Nishijima begged everyone to hide this info from his daughter, so of course he and Baihumon wouldn’t say anything about it.

But… Does it mean Yume learned the truth? She was kinda bugged by Taisuke’s question and Daichi mentions he heard her saying “they died in combat” -- so maybe Yume's not aware of the truth, but maybe some sort of fakery story where her mother died as some heroine?

Yes. Yume’s story about her mother was totally covering the bad parts of it: She was trying to help the Chosen Children, but sacrificed herself in order to save everyone.

No one noticed until now, but Mirai had brought Daisuke inside her purse (because… She was convinced that he wasn’t a baddie anymore, and they were bonding quite well as mentor-mentee) and he did witness the entire story. He gets out from the purse and exclaims that they never had imagined that! The kids get surprised by this sneaky Pomeranimon and Mirai babbles that she couldn’t leave him inside a cage like a lab rat! Hoshi says she shouldn’t have done that, because they don’t know if mr. Motomiya is trustworthy in this form. Kiyoko growls “Huh? Are you saying MY dad is sketchy and cannot be trusted!?” but Daisuke interrupts the possible fight to remind them they don’t know if he’s totally free from Papillonmon’s power. But Eiji’s curious about why Mirai would bring him with her, it didn’t feel like she was just taking him for a walk (Daisuke: Hey! Stop treating me like I’m a pet!! 💦) and she confesses she just thought he could help them out too, also having access to the data there could help her to find a way to turn him back into a human being.

Could this be possible? Well, if you’re in a place with tons of information and it’s called “Tree of Knowledge”, it might have the answer to that main issue. At least it’s what Mirai thought.

But going back to the main subject, Daichi realizes that “Nishikawa” might not be her real name, and yes some portmanteau of her parents names, an ALIAS. They checked the database and there was no Nishikawa person affiliated to Nishijima, he never got married again. But why would she hide her true identity…?

Yume’s Real Plan

If anything, Yume had an ambitious plan which her father had already discovered: She wanted to go back in the past and prevent her mother from sacrificing her life to save the world. In the same napkin he handed to the kids had also a plea: Please do not let Yume discover the truth, and do not let her get in touch with Mastemon.

Kiyoko frowns, “Who’s Mastemon?” and then they start scrutinizing the Tree of Knowledge’s database in order to discover about this Mastemon. Then they learn about this jogress digimon, able to travel through space-time and create portals. Natsu blinks, and then she looks at her pendant. Daichi and Ulforce look at her, and she mentions that… she possibly had inherited those powers from Mastemon -- but she’s not Mastemon herself!

So this means when Yume caught them in the past it probably drove her into the idea of using that power to go back in time and save her mother, and this sounded too familiar for Daichi… To the point he’s ashamed. Well, now he knows that no matter what he does in the past, it only creates a new setting of events for a brand new divergent timeline. He explains it to the kids, now that he’s less obsessed with that power. Kiyoko frowns again, so this means no matter what Yume does, she might never bring her mother back in this timeline… Natsu nods with a sad expression on her face.

But how to convince Yume she shouldn’t do that, that it won’t change their reality and will only cause her more grief? They started to think, and think… Daisuke sighs and says the only option is to tell her that, and hope for the best. Hoshi politely asks what would they do if she does not listen to them, and then Daisuke says they should just break Natsu’s pendant then. Natsu babbles desperately that she cannot destroy it, what if they need it later!? Mirai suggests leaving the pendant with mr. Gennai then, he’s trustworthy!! But Taisuke thinks they could leave it with the Holy Beasts, they could be able to secure that power from anyone else. But Daichi’s opinion is that they should keep it with that hooded woman from the Dimensional Space, or with ClavisAngemon. There were so many options… Daisuke keeps insisting they shouldn’t play with things involving space-time powers, that this is too much responsibility and no one responsible enough should be trusted with it. Then Natsu just thinks this is a burden because she was hated by people for having it, and Daisuke says you’re not a burden and I admire you for being this strong to carry this responsibility. Daichi jokes that “yeah, I can't be trusted with a power like this” and Ulforce and Natsu just agree with him, seriously. 

Daichi blames himself for making Yume get interested in time-travel, possibly because this means something happened back in 2024 and gave her those ideas, so maybe he accidentally made a “time loop” -- and now he, Natsu and Ulforce are stuck in it. Kiyoko raises an eyebrow: If you said that anything you altered in the past created new events for new timelines, how can you be so sure it was you who met Yume in the past and gave her that idea?

Mirai also agrees that Daichi’s idea is in conflict with what was told by Aegiochusmon: Dark, so it would make no sense unless…

Oh no.

That Yume came from the past. Not from the future. 

But what happened to the Yume from their actual time? Did she vanish or something?? The actual Yume would’ve been a little older than Daichi, right? If she was born in 2013… Taisuke and Daisuke gasp and think that both cannot exist in the same place!! Mirai agrees, the digimon also nod sagely, while Hoshi gives up on that talk -- It’s too much for her brain. Eiji deduces that Yume actually caused some kind of time paradox. Hoshi now is not even paying attention to the whole geek-like conversation and just started playing some game on her phone. Kitty asks if the two Yumes gathered into one? The others question if that’s possible though…

Daichi interrupts them to say maybe they should just send Yume from the past back to 2024 and tell her to not mess with space-time. But then… Draki (BlackAgumon) asks how Yume came to the future in the first place…

… They look at Daichi, who takes a moment to notice that maybe she had followed him there.

Oh well… Ulforce says they have to talk with her soon or later, and then Captain just “Well, like now?” and then they all look behind and here she and Blitz are. Taisuke gasps, shouting “DID SHE HEAR US!?” and hides behind Kiyoko and Hoshi. Seems like Taisuke was afraid of that girl since she met them and he innocently asked that question. Daichi asks if she heard them all, and how long she was there, to only have her stare at them seriously.

So everyone lied about his mother, about everything. She wasn’t a heroine but some villain. Yume didn’t want to believe it, and she wouldn’t. She keeps demanding them to help her save Himekawa because her mother wouldn’t have done something cruel like that and that everyone was lying about her. Daisuke tries to calm her down, saying something like “she wasn’t a villain but more like someone who got a terrible traumatic experience in the past” Daichi realizes his father is talking about something he doesn’t know, something Daisuke himself was hiding from him. Yume refuses to hear them out, and she keeps thinking none of them care about saving a victim. She knew the Digital World’s entities were cruel, and it made Blitz kinda sad. Blitz is the only friend Yume had her whole life, but not much talkative. But then Blitz tries to reason with Yume, saying that’s not true, after all they became friends and then partners!! Was Yume forgetting their bonds now? To condemn the Digital World to be the one to take her mother’s life?!

It’s when Daisuke just jumps from Mirai’s purse and stands in front of Yume. He wants to just talk to her, but she keeps refusing them. It’s when he just reveals what Natsu was trying to hide from Daichi -- That he was also a victim of the digimon, BUT that didn’t make him hate them at all. Daichi’s eyes widen, and the kids just exclaim “What!?” -- Yume included. Natsu was silent, but she thinks Daisuke didn’t need to go this far to talk about his past.

Then, Daisuke tells them that a digimon named Vamdemon had invaded Odaiba when he was a kid, on August 3rd 1999. He was just seven years old and he and his family were captured by Vamdemon’s minions and taken to the Tokyo Big Sight. There, he was separated from his family and put in a room with all of the kids residing in Odaiba, or the visitors from that day. He heard some of those bad guys talking about finding the Eighth Chosen Child, and he remembered seeing Tailmon for the first time in his life, way before he learned Tailmon was Yagami Hikari’s digimon partner. But he also adds that that encounter didn’t make him hate the digimon because he saw Taichi and his friends with their partners too, and how they saved Odaiba made him wish to be as strong as them. He admits he didn’t trust the digimon before, but once he met V-mon three years later, he had the chance to learn more and change his mind.

Daichi then asks Mirai if Chibimon was inside the purse and she chuckles nervously. (Yes he was inside too, but sleeping like a rock)

Yume blinks, how can a digimon be so sure about her feelings… Daisuke says he’s human trapped in a curse for now, but being a digimon for a while is making him realize how hard it might be to those digimon, and he thinks now the digi-rebels might not be entirely evil and yes digimon afraid of the unknown. She gives him a timid smile, maybe Daisuke really had a way to change people’s hearts.

Blitz says Yume and her should go back to 2024 and abandon that idea of saving Yume’s mother. Yume understands, but she wants to stay in the future now… Natsu says she can’t and that this was creating a time paradox with the Yume from 2029, in which they can’t exist in the same place at all because she’s not from a parallel world. Kiyoko gets some interest on why can’t there exist two Yumes from the same timeline, and why Natsu is implying that if one of them came from a different world this would be okay. Eiji explains that it’s because this Yume came from the past, which means the future Yume cannot exist anymore if had time-travel to the future. Hoshi thinks this is too much for her head all over again and decides before they send Yume back, they should just have fun together, at least.

Now that they solved that part… Maybe they could focus on Papillonmon’s next moves, right?

[kanadabiscuits]

Okay.  Okay, so... Andor. Am I right?

I could sing the praises of every single facet of this series which has captured my imagination, engaged my emotions, and simply enriched the past few weeks with the pure pleasure of sumptuous, complex, and truly masterful storytelling.

BUT, in particular...

There is something so clever and effective about Cassian's arc being a bit like Din Djarin’s, in that he is not so much a major player so much as he is a catalyst for action and a connecting line through other people's stories and the much larger narrative. Cassian's movements throughout this show are the butterfly’s wings beating a hurricane into existence. 

He is only just now, in the final seconds of the show, actively entering into the Rebellion. Or so he thinks; in reality the decision was made for him in that alleyway in Morlana. Everything that has come before was, for him, utterly unconnected and simply part of day-to-day survival, no matter what the power players of the larger political narrative may think. To them, he has become a lynch pin at the centre of brewing insurgence, but in his own mind, Cassian is a man of no note, a scrounger in search of family, with no love for the Empire but no thoughts of rebellion beyond petty theft. 

This is a show made of butterfly wings sending ripples into the air which will change the course of events in massive ways. The events of every movie after this would have looked very different had Cassian not been on Morlana on that night when those two officers were in dereliction of duty at the brothel, or had Cassian not reached out to Bix’s buyer, or if Syril had obeyed his superior and let the matter on Morlana rest... 

Indeed, if Dedra Meero had been less astute or less convinced a pattern lay within the thefts of Empire equipment or if Syril had been a little less of an over-achiever, then the raid on Aldhani likely would have failed, the prisoners on Narkina 5 would not have broken out to tell the world of what was happening (and thus, ,I am assuming also slowing down production on parts for the Death Star), Cassian would not have stood before Luthen asking him to either kill him or take him in as a rebel... and if none of that had happened would the events of Rogue One have still succeeded? Or, but for these small choices made by bit players, would the Empire have won?

I am going to miss this show.

[tafadhali]

More Festivids recs!

There’s still, uh....*checks watch*....five hours until reveals, so now that I finally have a morning to myself I thought I would toss some more recs out there. I have 45 vids bookmarked and love so many of them, but here are a few favorites:

Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Doctor Sleep): Spooky and intense!

ENERGY (Everything Everywhere All at Once): Flawless editing, tons of pizzazz, and a wonderful highlight of my favorite scene (the Waymond fanny pack fight scene)!

Higher Love (Everything Everywhere All at Once): This one is about all the love and all the humanity and all the feelings in the movie and it just overwhelms me. It makes me have so many feelings about hot dog!verse!

Kinky (How to Build a Sex Room): I’ll admit, I had to peace out on the source due to secondhand embarrassment, but this is such a fun and joyful look at all the best parts of the show! Everyone is having so much FUN.

20 Years (Jumanji): A masterful combination of the original film and the new films, that uses the sometimes silly source to tell a very emotional story about lost time.

The Cartographer (Jumanji): I have way too many actual, sincere feelings about Jack Black playing a teenage girl and this vid hits every one of them. What a great song for Bethany!

Dangerous Woman (Love and Leashes): Okay, uhhhhhhh, I NEED to see this source. This is so sexy and I love the way it centers the female character’s story arc and the way she comes into her own! I also really enjoyed the other vid for this movie, “Smile.”

Gimme More (Nope): “They keep watching.”

Get This Podcast Started (Only Murders in the Building): I was just cracking up from start to finish!

Dance With Somebody (Rocky): There was such a bonanza of homoerotic ‘80s cheese this Festivids! I also loved the other two Rocky vids in the collection. (And loved that all three of them focused on Apollo Creed, my fave.)

Free. (Severance): Helly R., my beloved.

The Working Dead (Severance): Manages to capture an immense feeling of dread and tremendous horror movie vibes using just an hysterical song choice.

Tom Paine’s Bones and Wannabe (Talk of the Town): Two (two!!!!) amazing vids about one of my favorite OT3s!

Butterflies & Hurricanes (Taskmaster UK): I mean, it’s the bonkers constructed reality vid of the exchange. What else is there to say about this masterpiece.

Loser (Taskmaster UK): I could watch these people lose all day. Great lyric matching.

Sleeping in Your Garden (Thoroughbreds): Wonderfully edited and very creepy. This movie really wormed its way into my brain when I saw it and this vid captures everything I like best about it.

Finally, all of the terrific League of Their Own vids—all about different characters!—have convinced me I need to get around to watching that show.

[mattibee]

Here's a list of all the titles we have in the collection!

(not all of them are listed on ebay yet, but consider this a preview!) (FS) = Full Series (FS*) = Full Series (before losing English license) (OS) = One Shot (18+) = Adult Themes ($$$) = it's going to be a lil ridiculous sorry

A Capable Man (OS) (18+) After I Win (OS) (18+) Alice 19th (FS) Angel Diary (FS) Antique Bakery (FS) Apothecarius Argentum (Vol 1-3) Author's Pet (OS) (18+) Azumanga Daioh (ADV Omnibus) (SOLD) Beast Master (FS) Blackbird (all but vol 6) (somehow) Bleach (Collector's edition Vol 1) Blue Sky (OS) (18+) Bran Doll (OS) (18+) Butterflies, Flowers (Vol 1-5) (18+) Cactus's Secret (FS) Cafe Kichijouji (FS) Captive Hearts (FS) Castle of Dreams (OS Omnibus) Ciao Ciao Bambino (OS) (18+) Color (OS) (18+) Crescent Moon (FS) Cute Beast (OS) (18+) Dance in the Vampire Bund (Vol 1) Daring Student's Association (Vol 1) Days of Cool Idols (OS) Don't Be Cruel (Vol 1-2) (18+) Family Complex (OS) (SOLD) FreshMen (OS) (18+) From Far Away (FS) ($$$) Fujoshi Rumi (FS*) Gakuen Heaven (OS*) (18+) Gakuen Heaven: Nakajima (OS*) (18+) Gakuen Heaven: Endo ~ Calling You (OS*) (18+) Goong (Vol 1-5) Gravitation/Gravitation EX (FS) Happy Boys (OS) Happy Cafe (FS*) Heaven's Will (OS) Hell Girl (Vol 1-3) High School Debut (Vol 1-13) (SOLD) Highschool of the Dead (Vol 1) (18+) Higurashi: Abducted By Demons Arc (FS) His Arrogance (OS) (18+) Honey Mustard (FS) House of 5 Leaves (Vol 1) How to Seduce A Vampire (OS) (18+) Idol Pleasures (OS) (18+) Junjo Romantica (FS*) (18+) KareKano (Vol 1-3 Omnibus) Kimi Ni Todoke (Vol 1-8) Kitchen Princess (FS) (SOLD) Knockout Makers (FS) Kujibiki♥Unbalance (FS) Kyo Kara MAOH! (FS*) La Corda d'Oro (Vol 1-2) Land of the Blindfolded (Vol 1-9) Little Butterfly (Vol 1-2) (18+) Love a la Carte (OS) (18+) Love is like a Hurricane (Vol 1) (18+) Love For Dessert (OS) (18+) Love Master A (FS) Love Recipe (FS) (18+) The Magic Touch (FS) Me & My Brothers (FS) (SOLD) Merupuri (FS) Millenium Snow (Vol 1-2) Missile Happy (FS) Mister Mistress (FS) (18+) Mixed Vegetables (FS) (SOLD) Moyasimon (FS*) Mugen Spiral (FS) Mushishi (FS) ($$$) (SOLD) My Heavenly Hockey Club (FS) Natsume's Book of Friends (Vol 1-7) (SOLD) Nodame Cantabile (FS) (SOLD) Oh My God! (FS) (18+) Ouran High School Host Club (Vol 1-16) Pearl Pink (FS) Penguin Revolution (FS) Pet on Duty (OS) (18+) Physical Attraction (OS) (18+) Platinum Garden (FS*) Pretty Poison (OS) (18+) Princess Princess/Princess Princess + (FS) (SOLD) Pumpkin Scissors (FS*) Right Here Right Now (OS) (18+) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Vol 1-9) (1-8 are OOP I think?) Selfish Love (FS) (18+) Shards of Affection (OS) (18+) Short SUNZEN (FS) Short-Tempered Melancholic (OS) Silver Diamond (FS*) (SOLD) Skip Beat! (Vol 1-10) Soul Eater (Vol 1) Special A (Vol 1-5) St. Dragon Girl (FS) Stop Bullying Me (OS) (18+) Story of Saiunkoku (Vol 1-7) Sugar Princess (FS) Tail of the Moon (FS) Tale of the Waning Moon (Vol 1) (18+) Tea for Two (FS) (18+) ($$$) Tenshi Ja Nai (FS) The Betrayal Knows My Name (Vol 1) The Devil Within (FS) The Devil's Secret (OS) (18+) The Wallflower (Vol 1-9) Three in Love (FS*) Train Train (FS) Ugly Duckling's Love Revolution (FS) Ultimate Venus (FS) V.B. Rose (FS*) Vampire Knight (Vol 1-12) W Juliet (FS) Welcome to the N.H.K. (FS) (18+) (SOLD) World's Greatest First Love (Vol 1-6) (18+) Yakitate!! Japan (Vol 1-3) Yokaiden (FS) Yotsuba&! (Vol 1-8) Yubisaki Milk Tea (Vol 1) (18+)

HELP US GET RID OF HUGE 20 YEARS OLD MANGA COLLECTION 📚✨

My sister used to collect a whole bunch of manga in the mid 2000s to mid 2010s, but nowadays she's lost her attachments to them and wants to open up a lot of space (for more manga, incidentally 🤭) so I'm helping her sell off all of the bulk! 📚✨

I've set up a temporary eBay account where I'll be listing all of the series she would like to sell off which you can find here: https://www.ebay.com/usr/littlebookghost

Her collection mainly consisted of shoujo romance, light fantasy/supernatural, and boys love titles- with many out of print titles by Tokyopop and Del Ray Manga, and she had over 100 different series/oneshots in her collection! Due to the large amount of books to list I will be adding them gradually every weekend until I have all of them up!

We'd really like to have the whole collection gone by the end of the year, so please share with anyone you think would be interested in buying them off us, we'd be super grateful! 💖

[team-heavenly]

A Comprehensive List of Chapter Titles Provided by Sky Temple

455 options. Only 20* were chosen**. Here are the rest in their unaltered forms and the order at which they were listed.

Credit goes to the creator of SkyTemple, Marco Köpcke (aka theCapypara.) Rated T for cursing and suggestive material; read at your own discretion. I do not claim to promote any of this content, I am only passing on what I see verbatim. CW: Death mention, alcohol, genitalia, drugs, guns, references to violence.

*Actually, 19 were chosen and 1 was duplicated - to which I said “Nah.” If I calculated this correctly, the probability of that happening is 0.0000049% (that’s six decimal places before reaching scientific notation) which is. Absolutely insane. And all I did was press a button! I should have gotten a lotto ticket instead.

**The titles that were chosen will be noted as such in (bold). Any commentary will be added in (blue italics).

oh god oh fuck

i am no longer baby

i am baby

This is the part where he kills you

Funny Title

WRYYYYYYYYY

The Horror Won't End

The Kind-Hearted Hero Leomon Dies

The One With The Large Hole (Chapter 2)

You Will Cry or Else

Adventures In E For Everyone

Fatal Trouble

Reflex Retreat

Battle of Impact

Vendetta of Payback

Hurricane Causes Devastation

Is Terrible And Here's Why (I think this is meant to be read as “Chapter X is terrible and here’s why.”)

Dungeon At 3 AM Challenge Gone Wrong

Doom seeds are bugged, they fill belly!

The Dashing Wanderer

Prologue

Epilogue

I wanna say goodbye

Error: Chapter not randomized

No

Yes

Maybe?

Chapter 3

Spoiler: You die

Filler Arc

I don't even know

Minecraft

Diglett plays hooky

Saxaphone Sun

I Do Not Vibe With This Universe

Join Our Discord

Secret of Wigglytuff's Guild

Those Who Come To This Planet and Those Who Live on This Planet

Team Skull Dies lol (Oh my god I called this one)

Oh no! Anyway

The Good Chapter

First Chapter

Final Chapter

Will it ever end?

Filled with Despair

Fuck the Oscars

Wash Your Hands

358/2 Days Later

Birth by Chain of Coded

New Funky Mode

(Yeah, what the hell was with that first chapter title? Seriously...)

It's really fucking bad

Going to the human world (Chapter 14)

Digimon attack!

The invasion of the Ultrabeast

PMD Christmas Special (Oh my god is this a reference to the infamous Star Wars Christmas special?)

The Beach Episode

The Hot Springs Episode

Computer Warrior Porygon

The Patrat Day

Phantom Menace

Vulpix

<Insert meme here>

Stealing from Kecleon is fun!

Wigglytuff dies at the end

Why even bother?

Sunflora is sus

Gates is the best PMD

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Several people are typing...

You're the bad guy?

Your partner is a leaper

Loudred has how many children???

So Chatot is God now

Team Skull are the Chosen Ones

The Relic Fragment Was Just a Normal Rock After All (Chapter 17)

The Perfect Apple is a lie

There are no bananas, its a myth

Piracy is no Party

The death of Bidoof

The D&D episode

Error: reset DS and try again

Joker's Trick

When the programer gets drunk

Darkrai Used Sucker Punch

No Solicitors

Kidnapping for Fun and Profit

Time to Look Between Their Legs

Technically, this is HM07

Cutscene Incompetence

Co-Workers You Hate

You Might Need a Little Prep

Have You Tried Defog?

Railroading

The Part Where He Backstabs You

Ropes Can Be Cut By Sharp Objects

Communication Would Have Been Nice (Togetic, this message is for you-)

That is The Sun, Yes

Hot Spring Episode (Again?)

Chatot Should Learn Protect

But What If You Shot Him

Basic Preparation is Required

Fear and Loathing in Treasure Town

Drowzee the Meanie

Bidoof Ruined Everything (Chapter 13)

Grovyle the Groovy

Flying on a Disc

Bidoof's Butterfly Effect

Chatot Is A Piece of Crap

I'm Fainting Inside

Bedtime

Say No To Chimecho

Go the F**k to Sloop

So How's Your Randomized Run Going?

Let's Trust This Man (Let’s not.)

Breaking The Laws Of Physics

Your Best Nightmare

VNGHHJKDFGHKMFCLKDHUDKLGDGIZWEFGDKZWEJDVHBDMJWD

(Dimensional screaming)

Oops, Wrong Chapter

Oh God, the Horror

Explorers of Time to Take a Piss (Eh... not a fan of this one.)

Gee Willikers, Crobatman!

Spoilers: Dusknoir is the Antagonist!

My Uncle Works for Spike Chunsoft

The Sentence: Guild-ty For Life Imprisonment!

If you die in the game, you die for real

Walucarioware: MegaMicro Dungeons

Butt Stallion The Shiny Ponyta!

I'm so Hungry I Could Eat an Octillery

You Have Died of Dysentery.

Furry Isekai

Threat found - action needed. Affected Items: skytemple.exe

Hey, you, you're finally awake.

Nothing Bad Ever Happens To the Pokepals

This game is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends!

ballistic markings are like the fingerprints of a gun

I'm Really Feeling It

ancient sword of the meth king (Uhhh...)

Can't Have Shit In Detroit

Hold B to speed up dialogue! (Chapter 3)

Oh no not again

no (Again, but this time it’s lowercase!)

their screams, they wont leave my head

are time gears edible?

i dont like Chasm Cave very much

i saw a Mud Crab the other day

this is what the left wants

The screams Mason, what do they mean?

also try: PMD Abridged

so hows your day going?

Plot-twist: You do things

Don't put your cat in the microwave

Max Elixirs, Now administered orally

Guys, the main character dies at the end

The chapter before you die

Don't forget about the power of friendship!

Bidoof is a meanie he literally ate my rock

Time Broke Again

Hey at least it's not Chapter 6 (Chapter 1)

Fuck You *Un-Primal's Your Dialga*

Spoilers: You're A Human

Darkness Within Darkness

The Same Flashback 17 Times

Why Do I Have the Dimensional Scream Anyway?

The Guild Takes Manhattan

Grovyle takes Shock Therapy (NOOOOO-)

Aurora Borealis

Steamed Hams

Team Stinky Skull

HOLY CRAP LAPRAS FLIES

Totally Not The Last Adventure

regretting your starter choice, arent you?

Grovyle Fucking Dies

Grovyle Fucking Lives

Bidoof destroys time and space (Man this guy really has a thing against Bidoof, huh?)

It's in Footprint Runes, Let Me Read It

go commission fledermaus

thats a joke dont put that in

Through the Looking Glass, and What Your Partner Found There

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food (Chapter 9)

Hot Team Charm Singles in your area! (Chapter 20)

Now it gets REALLY anime

Celebi's down bad for Dusknoir

Capitalist Guild

Wigglytuff Says Trans Rights

NOW THIS IS POD RACING!!

The One Where Chatot Is An A@@hole

Not again, Grovyle's gonna kill me

Nah...

The Quick and the Raging starring Grovyle and Dusknoir

Hello There! (Read this one in Ewan McGregor’s voice)

Yet Another PMD Episode Starring Eevee?...

John Cena and the Quest for the REDACTED

Chatot Saw You Get Kidnapped He Was Right There

Treasure Town Drift

On my way to kidnap Grovyle (-Dusknoir, probably)

According to Twitter, getting a Sassy nature is not morally correct

Don't step on any Grudge Traps

Omae wa mou shindeiru. (Translates to “You are dead.”)

ZA WARUDO!

Recruit Drifloon You Won't Regret It!

How many Reviver Seeds do you have right now? (None. The answer is none.)

The Guild Strikes Back

Time to abandon ship

Oops, All Oren Berries!

Wait, how am i breathing underwater?

Spell “stun seed' backwards (WHY YOU-)

Welcome to IKEA

Purple Kecleon isn't shiny

why are we still here? Just to suffer?

Don't start with Kecleon worst mistake of my life

wait this isnt google

Chapter Name

Whatever Chapter 3 was called

Dusknoir, More Like SUSknoir (😏)

AAAAA (Chapter 6)

We're going to jail

You have been warned

the agony never ends

fuck it

Grovyle commits war-crimes

Grovyle pays for his war-crimes

Chatot commits tax fraud

Wait, isn't this a game for children?

grovyle says fuck

The Reason This Game is Rated M

The other chapter was better

I want 2 number 9s

I Walk to Burger King

D E E P E S T L O R E

Meet me in the Denny's parking lot at 3:00

THERE IS A POINT WHERE WE NEEDED TO STOP AND WE HAVE CLEARLY PASSED IT

Monster house in 3... 2... 1...

I bet $5 you can’t speedrun this chapter

Dialga's Emo Phase

Dialga had a fucking heart attack and fucking died.

Spell ICUP

the beach episode (Another repeat...)

X-Eye seeds are one heck of a drug

Let Bidoof Say Fuck

You're up late, again

What about your school homework?

Slugma

Forget about Freeman

Decimeter's Tower (Chapter 18)

Kris! Get the banana!

Hey Niko, Let’s Go Bowling!

Sandslash For Hire

19USD fortnite card, who wants it?

outdated meme

Dead chat xD

War…War Never Changes.

Bagon (Chapter 19)

Threads may be temporary, but comedy is eternal

"I Can’t Believe It's Not Vanilla!"

I remember when we had Chestnuts

Chocolate, with/without Nuts (Chapter 16)

We need more channels

Get Your Perfect Apples Here!

Time for a new offtopic

This is where I watch my parents die, partner.

i dont have much time, the perfect apple in item form can be found in-

A S S

Here comes General A. S. Swipe

I thlamed my Thpewpa in the car door

Potassium

Capypara was here, Decimeter is a loser.

An Uneasy Truce

Double Trucies

No Triple Trucies

Would you like to eat moss?

You perpetuated the cycle of moss eating

Fuck the Magnezone, Coming Straight from the Underground

Luigi do be ballin tho

Save data is stored in the balls

Sorry, come back when your a little mmm richer

Can I offer you a Reviser Seed in this trying time?

Signed, Lancer

Help, I'm trapped in this chapter title and I can't get out

Somewhere in Nevada

The reason why u furry

Toasters toast toast

he was so ugly that everyone died.

Using attract on my partner in confusion GONE WRONG (Chapter 5)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Seth Rogan 'Wigglytuff'

It's Gonna Get Weird

Darkrai was Gaster This Whole Time!

Croagunk is Ness

DUSKNOIR BETRAYED US!

The World Shall Taste My Eggs!

Beware the Miltank! Not all Milk is Enriched!

This Rock Looks Like Tibet!

Oncelerification Beam

you stoopid

Remembered to use your gummies?

Nothing personal, kid.

is that a jojo reference?

Yo Chatot can I get some perfect apples?

how it feels to chew 5 gum

Haha magnitude go BRRRRRR

Why do I hear Dialga’s Fight to the Finish?

STOP POSTING ABOUT TIME GEARS! IM TIRED OF SEEING THEM! (Chapter 12)

Great canyo- wait wrong game

ah f*ck, i cant believe you've done this.

I’ve come to make an announcement- wait wrong script

I didn't not hit her. It's not true!

oh hi mark

You are Tearing Me Apart Dusknoir!! (LMAOOO)

im running out of ideas, just beat the game tbh

Chris Pratt

Yo dude check out these weird yellow orbs floating around me

change da world my final message

DIAMONDS!!!

grovyle my beloved...

hardmode

Hey Vsauce, Michael here. How much pain are you able to endure?

One Eternity Later

ayo the pizza here (Chapter 10)

I hope you saved up some reviver seeds

not funny, didn't laugh

Dusknoir actin a bit sus, can we vote em out?

Hey bro why is Don't Ever Forget fading in

If bread in french is pain, then I own a whole bakery

Also try Minecraft!

So how's the weather?

no u

Once upon a time

For their neutral special partner wields a gun

You got games on your phone?

Only 1 percent can pass this chapter

Heavy is dead

Itemizer orb moment

Wut is this

i peed on the floor

fighting the final boss at 3am challenge GONE SEXUAL (Dear god why)

Hey Wigglytuff we're out of Perfect Apples-

HE STOLE THE F*CKING TIME GEARS

Yoom-Tah, bitch

Now's your chance to be a big shot!

Proceed

...I can still hear their voice... (Chapter 15)

Follow SkyTemplePMD on Twitter

The chapter where Joe dies

i use arch btw

I only play PMD for the lore. I swear

Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. The future is bright. Or is it?

you are dead. not big surprise.

POW! you are dead!

Partner? Where's the door hole?

GOD FUCKING damnit Kris, where the FUCK are we?

MDGKSNGKA

Quiet people piss me off.

Quiet people need more love too

Complete. Global. Paralization.

sans "befriended" your partner

Shitting Louder

Happy Hour? more like Crappy Hour!

Later

As you can see, the world is very fucked! (Oh big mood)

Is it over?

It's over my friend, let's face it, you're a furry.

It's been 3,000 years...

Grovyle, its been 5 years. You still owe me 16 dollars.

I'm Afraid It's Been... Nine Years (MAN imagine getting this one after being yanked into the future.)

Partner used Sheer Cold!

Leafeon is real

Celebi is a Grovyle Simp

technically grovyle has the highest kill count in the PMD franchise

Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting Bunnelbies…bahahahahaha!

cock (adoodledoo?)

Guys why does Bidoof have a knife

Darkrai does drugs down at dinner

h

para this was just posted

Midlife Crisis

This is just filler content (Chapter 8 and 12)

It's so sad that Grovyle died of ligma.

Coming soon...

We do a little trolling

Alpha Male

The Full Release Male

Male with free dlc

When the dungeon is mysterious!!1!1!

Get Doxxed

Your IP Address is 127.0.0.1

Go drink some water

All Hail the Sentient Cloud

DREAM WORLD?!

Whatever you do, don't eat th

Hey Dusknoir, say Amogus backwards

Remember guys, this game is for kids

Dialga can't hit what he can't see

The part where you become a plushie

plot armor won't save you now

Why do I hear boss music?

you're gonna regret that

hi chat! (Chapter 4)

Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series!

this is so sad, can we get an F in the chat?

this is so poggers

Eat the Rich

Who is TAS and why is he so good at video games?

If it's not fun, why bother?

Glue

02:43 speedrun any percent

give up

Don't give up

We're no stranger to love

You know the rules and so do I (Chapter 7)

Say goodbye

It's a gun

I Have Teleported Bread

YATTAAA!!!

WHAT?

Home Invasions

If an orphan takes a selfie, it's technically a family photo.

please someone help me they trapped me in the title screen someone please someone save me it's been days

Yo guys check out this cool red stone I just picked up

One Bed Only

You missed an Easter Egg (Chapter 11)

This is a certified SkyTemple(tm) moment

Apple Bottom Jeans

obsession

You only have one shot.

You laugh, you lose

You may have entered DLC content

You picked the wrong shop, fool.

Number 34: Burger Nidoking Foot Lettuce

HONEY! WHERE. IS. MY. SUPER. SUIT?!

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!

CELEBI! WHERE. IS. MY. TREASURE. BAG?!

One does not simply walking into grudge trap

Yo dawg can I get some time gears?

You may Spank it... Once.

I'm now Sans Undertale, go into my eyes

Make chatot say fuck

WHO GAVE GUILDMASTER WIGGLYTUFF ALL THE WEED?!?

Dawn of the first day -72 hours remain-

a thief? GROVYLE the thief?! (PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!)

The answer is a blast seed. And if that don’t work? Use more blast seeds.

Some items are free

piss and cry

Your Apples have been replaced with Rare Fossils

Is that the Bite of '87?

sunflora what are you doing with that gun

Welcome to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.

I don't care anymore

Sulfurbunny we hope you are ok!*

Y yo a Ti

I won’t hesitate, Bitch

IT LOOKS LIKE YOU FUCKERS HAVE COME TO A STANDSTILL AT FOGBOUND LAKE

i Amn just........... a litle creacher.

*...oKAAAY, turns out I miscounted! I’m too lazy to go back and change all my numbers so just take these four random ones I made up on the spot and go <3 (Also yes I realize this totals 454. Slot #445 is supposed to be blank, but tumblr didn’t like that very much so... just pretend it’s there!)

[song-writer-melo-wrath]

Oh there are Pandora's boxes I could open with this…[legitimately has over 100 OCs]

For the purposes of this I'll go with the Hal squad, and then Ath and Bee if I don't hit the image limit, haha-

I'll go ahead and also put tags here rather than at the end: @spiderin-space , @louise-echoes , @meidomatsuri , @yeah-chilidogs , I'm biased cause I love y'all's characters, but I feel like you folks would fuck with this. If not though no worries, hahaha!

Melody: Off the playlist I have for her, I'll choose,

Shot in the Dark — Within Temptation

Necromancin' Dancin — Bear Ghost

Butterflies and Hurricanes — Muse

Make me Believe — The Everlove

Bleed Magic — IDKHBTFM

(is it mostly pastels? can she dance in it? is it potentially goth? can she turn a girl gay by wearing it? then it's hers, babyyy)

Wrath: Off her playlist, I'll choose

One With The Night — Tales We Tell

Stay and Decay — Unlike Pluto

At the Door — The Strokes

Fire on Fire — Sam Smith

Burning Pile — Mother Mother

(Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable, with a hint of academia)

Solar: Damn, I need to put more songs on this gal's playlist. A lot of them are about her perceptions of others. Or depression. Girl, I'm so sorry.

Don't Panic — Clairity

Human — Rag'n'Bone Man

Wanderer's Lullaby — Adrianna Figueroa

Tears of Gold — Faouzia

For the World — BHz ft. Jackson Bengtsson

(comfort incarnate with a lesbian colour palette)

Yintu From their playlist, let's go with…

Sincerely — Stephen

Raise Hell — Dorothy

they/them/theirs — worriers

Bourbon Street — Jeff Tuohy

Kill V Maim — Grimes

(If looks could kill, they want to leave people choking on their poison every time they enter a room.)

Perlif Needs their playlist organized better. Who's responsible for this — oh. right. Once again sorry I gave you so much angst.

Real Good Feeling — Oh The Larceny

Feel Something — Jaymes Young

Welcome to Wonderland — Anson Seabra

Lonely Shade of Blue — Nick Leng

Sick of Losing Soulmates — dodie

(lots of focus on orange, blue, and brown. the goal of turning people gay, but more casually)

Tamia Aroace swagger, featuring: survivor's guilt and grief.

Loser — Neoni

Sweet Tooth — Scott Helman

Never Been in Love — Will Jay

Damned Eye See — Chelou

Hard Times — Paramore

(colour palette of a maze. part of her arc is actually feeling comfortable enough to wear stuff that suits her)

Athmoth Would it be too self-indulgent to put my own work here? ...Eh, fuck it.

Cotton Candy — Owl-Moniker Athy

Bard Dance (Vocal Cover) — Owl-Moniker Athy

Bloodsong — Owl-Moniker Athy

Alaska — Little Hurt

Ghost Boy — Jacob Tillberg

(pastel 👏androgynus👏romgoth👏swagger👏)

Behemoth ~Bard Durge~

Off My Face — Måneskin

Sharpening My Senses — Merci Raines

Come With Me Now — KONGOS

Terrified — Mblue

Aaaand I'll double the Bard Dance Vocal Cover

Aaaand would you look at that, image limit reached haha. Guess if I ever feel like it I could theoretically do this again, but maybe I'll leave that one up to the judges.

RULES: post 5 songs that you associate with your oc's, and 4 outfits they would wear/their style

(i didn't get tagged but saw this floating around)

for Festé:

Drowning - Radio Company

Forever Ain't Long - Radio Company

Big Iron - Marty Robbins

Cherry Wine - Hozier

Hey Man, Nice Shot - Filter

for Roiben:

The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

Sacred - Depeche Mode

Crimewave - Crystal Castles, HEALTH

Marduk - Heilung

Engin Miskunn - Hatari

i'm tagging: @kirahlene @treshmind @song-writer-melo-wrath and @promtease

if you see this and want to partake too, go nuts!!

[ggidolsmuts]

Butterfly - Loona Yves

Somewhere in Seoul, a butterfly flaps its wings, and the air pressure difference, one of many in the atmosphere, creates a low pressure system over the city. Water condenses, and soon the city is covered in a deluge of raindrops, crashing down on any people unlucky enough to be outside.

Not you, you were lucky, you finished work at a normal time and was just watching videos while you scarfed down your dinner. You jump when you hear the apartment door slam open.

"Hey Yves!" Your girlfriend Yves was not so lucky, and she was completely drenched, her long black hair dripping water on to the floor, her wet clothes clinging to her uncomfortably. You lived closer to her workplace, and so sometimes she would stop by after work - today was one such day. She drops her stuff on the floor and walks towards you.

"You worked late to-" She snuffs out your words with a hungry kiss, jumping herself into your lap and straddling you. She takes your breath away from you literally as she replaces the air in your mouth with her tongue. You find your face being squeezed as she places two hands on you, pulling you into the kiss. You make a muffled protest against her lips, but the not-so-light bite she gives you on your lower lip tells you to shut up.

She gets off you for the briefest of moments, only to peel her soaking wet pants off her endless legs before she gets back in your lap. As she kisses you again her hands work on your shorts, and you spring free, already hard from the hurricane of passion a butterfly has brought into your lap. Your mind reels when you teleport from reality to a different plane of pleasure - one moment you had Yves' lips pressed against yours, but the next moment all you can feel is her tightness around you, already so hot and so wet.

Yves rides you vigorously, grinding herself down on you, harsh moans leaving her lips and flowing right into your ear. You slip your hands under her blouse, feeling her quiver under your touch as she continues to take her pleasure. Her pace increases, riding you harder and faster while your hands hold her steady, making sure she doesn't topple the two of you over with her needy thrusts against you. A strained moan leaves your lips, letting her know that you are enjoying it, and this causes Yves to tear her top off, allowing you full access to her skin, glimmering with rain and sweat.

You dry her off with your hands, feeling her all over, unsnapping her bra and taking one offered breast in your mouth when she arcs her back, making her moan just that little bit louder as you swirl and lick around her nipple. Her soft cries get more frequent and desperate, her body working all her frustrations out on you after having just worked overtime in the office.

"Ah..." Yves finally releases the first word-like sound she has made since coming in, going stiff in your lap as the pleasure paralyzes her momentarily, making you groan at her squeezing warmth. She goes limp in your arms, shaking uncontrollably, her arms hugging you tightly. You finally speak when you feel her labored breathing return to normal.

"Long day at work?"

"Mmhmm, and then the damn rain... I missed you." She says softly, nuzzling in your neck.

"I can tell." You kiss her long black hair. "I missed you too, want me to cook you something?" You feel her nod into your shoulder. She straightens up and kisses you, her eyes shining with happiness and content.

"Let me get you something to wear, you're going to catch a cold if you don’t put something on." You gasp as Yves grins but doesn't get off you, grinding you hard and fast instead, squeezing you just the way she knew you liked it. Your hands go to her waist, and you gaze into her eyes, wondering how you got so lucky before she wipes any coherent thought away.

She takes you in all the way, and the tension in you snaps like a twig - you throw your head back in a raspy moan as you spill into her, toes curling and fingers pulling her deeper down on you. Sensitive and overwhelmed by your throbbing output inside her, Yves whimpers and bites down on your neck, making you hiss while your orgasm blows through you. The two of you find yourself breathless once more, two bodies quaking like leaves in the wind, but Yves finds her voice first.

"Now I'm warm... and full." She whispers, kissing your neck in apology for the small bite mark she left.

You chuckle before planting your lips on her neck, leaving a small dark bruise as payback. "I love you."

"I love you too." You lean into her to share another kiss.

"Let me go make you something. You should go change, I think I might have some of your clothes here." You say as you gently try to push Yves off you, but she whines cutely and hugs you again, wrapping her arms around your neck and not letting go. "What's up?" You ask, kissing what skin you could lightly.

"Just stay like this, I wanna be around you."

"Well I'm here now..." You feel her shake your head.

"Not now, always, I better be around you." A warmth spreads through you when you hear her being so clingy and possessive.

"Is that a threat? I mean you're free to come here whenever, I love having you around." You joke. To your surprise Yves’ cheeks turn a deep red.

"No I- I mean..." For once the confident Yves you usually know and love seems unsure and vulnerable - she bites her lip in hesitation.

"What is it?"

"Oppa, let's m-move in together." She suggests, looking at you intently, her eyes hoping for the answer she wanted. You boop her on the nose.

"Your place or mine, or did you want to find somewhere new?" Her eyes widen before she matches your glowing smile, and you lean forward, gently capturing her lips with yours.

Somewhere in Seoul, a butterfly beats its wings - the clouds clear up, and the stars shine brightly on the two of you.

A/N: I’ve been listening to Butterfly A LOT recently (as if you can’t tell after reading this lol), and Yves looks absolutely gorgeous with long black hair, so I wanted to write something short, sweet, and kinda fluffy for her. Thank you for reading!

[fruitviine]

she probably will. if a chicken has an open wound, the other chickens will cannibalize it i believe. no questions asked.

that's terrifying thank you! it's really weird to think about how when you think of chickens you think of them eating shit like corn. grains, fruits, whatever. but they'll eat almost anything! don't ask why but I saw this video on my recommended at like 4 am of a guy uh. butchering. rabbits. and he'd just toss its giblets to his chickens on the other side of the fence and they ate that shit up. like a special snacky snack

[tokyonymph]

enneagram aesthetics + playlists: type one, the reformer (1/9)

the rational, idealistic type: principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.

"ones are conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong. they are teachers, crusaders, and advocates for change: always striving to improve things, but afraid of making a mistake. well-organized, orderly, and fastidious, they try to maintain high standards but can slip into being critical and perfectionistic. they typically have problems with resentment and impatience. at their best: wise, discerning, realistic, and noble. can be morally heroic." -the enneagram institute

[listen on spotify]

tracklist:

atlas: one – sleeping at last ○ butterflies and hurricanes – muse ○ human of the year – regina spektor ○ while my guitar gently weeps – the beatles ○ hazy shade of winter – the bangles ○ running up that hill – kate bush ○ the fixer – pearl jam ○ judge jury and executioner – atoms for peace ○ anne – santigold ○ savages – marina ○ warm (ft. raury) – the neighbourhood ○ joan of arc – arcade fire ○ my silver lining – first aid kit ○ broken crown – mumford & sons ○ exogenesis: symphony pt. 3 (redemption) – muse

[stfreds-archived]

𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆.

a summary by chapters of fred dawson’s life / main verse ( TW : long post —— ft. mentions of domestic abuse, violence and general abuse, child abandonment, torture, human trafficking, forced s ex work ).

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — there’s freedom to and freedom from ( prequel ). freddie gallagher, the wife of james a. gallagher, is a s ex worker within the ranks of notorious mobster victor cullen ( her uncle ) in the el paso, texas area. she is forced into the profession as she is forced into her abusive marriage. at the age of twenty-six, after learning she is pregnant, she manages to escape and make herself lost to her family and victor’s crime ring. she gives birth to her child in an arizona hospital, and leaves it behind, giving it up for adoption, then her journey continues, away from texas.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — hope is a dangerous thing ( arc one ). a semblance of a life is gained slowly, achingly, bit by bit, in a town that looks too much like purgatory not to make her wish for atonement. it’s not heaven, despite the name of the place she first sets foot inside: st. peter’s, peter andrews’ bar. he takes her in, gives her food, and a job —— she takes the name of freddie dawson, and with a fake id begins rebuilding herself. a huge step towards a life worth living is achieved by befriending moa zhao, best friend and the total of her family. later on, astoria grim, adopted as a sister. a chance at love is given, too: some casual hookups with a few serious things peppered here and there ( tom keen, notably, remains her boyfriend for more than a little while ). but she remains one foot out of the door, always: a fear in her lungs won’t let her truly breathe in. she looks at the horizon, she’s waiting for a storm.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — happiness is a butterfly ( arc two ). he comes in with the rain, and despite the fear that won’t let go of her, she lets him drown her. kal anderson takes her by surprise, a hurricane with no warning —— she falls in love, harder than she ever has, too fast to hold herself steady. it’s powerful, it’s unbelievable, it’s everything she’s craved: a passion so strong it annihilates her fear, a belonging so certain, so true that she can hardly tell where she ends and he begins. for a year she is his, and he, hers —— by the fourth month he’s moved into her place and she swears to god she doesn’t need anything other than all this love, all the tidal waves of it, for the rest of her life. through him she meets charlie jenkins, kal’s apprentice and coworker, reckless and young and as chaotic as the brother she never had, and severin moran, kal’s old friend, also reckless and also chaotic, but somehow, she senses, broken enough to be recognized as her similar: a kindred spirit. for the first time, freddie dawson is happy. she’s truly, desperately happy. 

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — covered in scars a canyon deep ( arc three ). but kal has secrets, and ways of escaping her, and one day when his demons catch up with him, the truth resurfaces: he was never the charming mechanic come from up north, but a mercenary. there is a hit on her head, a claim raised by her uncle who wants her back —— and he, poor kal anderson, is none other than ilias abørn, gun for hire who’s come to collect his bounty. except he’s fallen for it too, and in spite of the lies, they both know: the wildifre burning them up is real. the love, the annihilation of it all is real. and she swears she can forgive him, they can run away, they can make it work —— but one day he’s gone and she realizes: she’s drowned in him for real, and she can’t swim back up to the surface. 

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — maybe god can be on both sides of a gun ( arc four ). ilias goes back to new york, not just to leave her behind but to face his demons. she learns, without really meaning to, that his demons have the shape of a crime syndicate in which he was forced as a child, by which he was trained and raised under the rule of one sociopath by the name of poe. it is him that ilias goes to face, expecting punishment for the way he so spectacularly screwed up his assignment. some of ilias’ fellow mercenaries lead fred to the sugar factory where he was raised and being held, and together they free him from his torture. it is the moment in which she first realizes the width of her desperate devotion, the lengths she’d go to for him, how her heart has found, in the end, a home — and will refuse to let it go. for about two weeks they try to make it work, escape together and find a real chance at life. two weeks in, ilias gives up and, in order to protect her, disappears: in the end, it turns out he is much better than fred ever was at martyrdom. 

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — how to draw a line between wrath and mercy ( arc five ). hope is a stubborn, flickering flame —— but it can be snuffed out. hers dies when she gets ilias’ dog tags delivered in the mail. maybe she’s too weak to fight it, or maybe it’s just easier to tell herself he’s dead —— gone, vanished. that there is nothing left to fight for, not even her survival. she dies little by little, the flame in her eyes shrinking until she can’t muster up a smile not even for her closest friends —— so she leaves. leaves a town behind where every corner reminds her of him and a time she was truly, overwhelmingly happy. for about six months she hides away between utah and nevada, nursing her grief, slowly, then, with all the love carved out of her, her flickering flame turns into rage —— and rage is a quiet thing. it becomes evident to her how everything good she ever owned, every ounce of love she ever fought teeth and nails for, has been over and over destroyed by her uncle turned jailer, victor cullen. knowing he'd never really give up looking for her and make her pay for the sin of having escaped his grasp, one day she decides to surrender herself in an act of equal parts punishment and guts. because if there is one thing that can keep her going, it's the need for an enemy: and, she figures, she's always been good at acting. she surrenders herself to him and his crime ring, acting like the contrite prodigal niece, returns to texas and for the following two years plays her cards so well she's got him fooled. within the prison that is her commitment to victor’s operation she meets ira dunham, trapped like her, unwilling accomplice like her. the two grow into close friends, relying on each other to survive their shared sentence —— it’s thanks to ira’s help, also, that fred manages to fool victor. he, forever underestimating her, doesn't get it —— how she does his bidding only to keep gathering information on him. how she becomes his right hand only to be entrusted into private meetings and confidential files. how she acts as his accomplice in the business of human and drug trafficking because she's the only one who can sabotage him from the inside, look after his prisoners, and send his operation into flames. he doesn't know. when he catches up, it's too late. three things happen quickly after one another: first, freddie learns ilias is actually alive, but in hiding. a few days later she finds people she can strike a deal with, in hopes to trade all her intel on victor’s operation for ilias’ freedom —— she turns to detective sorensen, at first, and when she realizes jessica sorensen can’t be trusted either, she strikes a deal with detective nam. third, in a shocking turn of events, ilias comes to texas to settle her score with victor.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — kill the angels if they’re keeping guard ( arc six ).  the rest is a greek tragedy —— victor finds ilias, victor takes him, victor tortures him. once more, it’s fred’s life within his hands: and when victor puts a gun in her hands and orders her to shoot ilias, the love of her life, believing freddie to have been corrupted for good, freddie puts an end to the story, and shoots her uncle instead. somehow, she and ilias make it out. somehow they survive. scattered and broken and drenched in trauma that carries the iron scent of blood and death, but they survive. over the years, little by little, they find some semblance of peace. they nurse each other’s scars, and though they can never truly be happy or themselves again, they find a balance —— between terror and beauty, between rage and devotion. eventually, fred and ilias move to a small town on the oregon coast, and try to earn themselves a piece of purgatory. it’s not a happy ending, no —— but they have each other, and what’s left of them is two hearts refusing to give in for good. once a wildfire, now a flickering flame: but still burning.

[softer-ua]

“At arm's length”

Sometimes I think in how even if Deku applied to UA and didn’t pass the physics exam he would have been in the generals course, and Katsuki probably would have been okay with that, just so he can know what’s he been up to.

Even if Deku went to another school, I’m pretty sure Katsuki would have manage to somehow know how is he doing. When Todoroki and Deku separated from the group in the Tournament Arc, Katsuki went out of his way to find them and spy on them, and even if it was only to find something about their rivalry or the competition, he is very straightforward with those things to be nosy about it.

There’s also all this thing from season 1 where Katsuki acts like Deku betrayed him for not telling him about his quirk, when they clearly were not in good terms at all. He has to know something as important as that.

Katsuki Bakugo kept his distance, yes, but never enough to look away from Izuku Midoriya. Not really.

Sorry for the late reply 🥺

But yeah I fully agree that Katsuki is firmly attached to Deku.

Bakugo follows Deku the way a migrating animal returns home.

It’s instinctive and unquestioned, he’d feel the pull from the other side of the world and would follow it without a single doubt.

He’d swim up waterfalls, cross oceans, take hurricanes for a ride, and he’d do it alone or against a thousand others trying to do the same.

Without hesitation, without ever asking why. Going to Deku requires no second thought. A silent sirens call that resonates in his soul.

No amount of reasoning could stop him. Tell him the shore is gone and he’ll drown next to the rocky cliffs waiting for the beach’s return. Drain the lake and build over it, he’ll starve to death in the parking lot self assured that he’s home. Raise the temperature and he’ll fly through the smoke, brave the flames, and settle in the ash.

No amount of pain and confusion severs that tie. He’d follow it for through lifetimes.

The Monarch Butterfly migrates from Canada to Mexico and it takes 2 to 3 generations to complete the journey and they migrate around a mountain that hasn’t existed in a millennium.

Katsuki would do no less.

[pleckthaniel]

I know I feel bad when I get barely any questions for ask games I reblog, so here ya are. feel free to ignore any you don't want to answer: 6, 7, 9, 19, 22, 23, 30, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43, 46, 48

6. What is a fandom you will never write for? & 7. What is a ship you will never write for?

Combining my answer for these... I mean, there's nothing that I've like, sworn off, I basically write whatever I'm in the mood for. Chances are I'll never write for like, Crow/Squirrel for instance cause I'm just really not into it, but who knows how I'll feel three months from now.

In terms of fandoms, warriors and zyxx (the only two things i've written for recently, though i've done other stuff in the past) both are fun to write for because their worlds are giant sandboxes, and because I have so much encyclopedic knowledge about both of them that I feel like I can weave a compelling tapestry that's like, an interesting response to canon. Anything else I write for will almost definitely have to have those two factors as well, because that's what makes fanfiction fun for me. The only other media that have those things going for them at the moment are like, the hunger games and maybe riverdale. So it's not that I would never write for whatever other fandoms, I just.. probably won't

9. What are your favorite fanfics?

Okay I'll try to be fairly brief here cause I love a LOT of fics hahaha. also only listing warriors fics i do have favs in other fandoms but not really for almost any that i ever talk about on this blog so it wouldn't be relevant to you guys' interests

After Hours With the Moon by Acaeria was, I think, the first fic I read after returning to the WC fandom and it BLEW MY MIND. Absolutely my favorite Ivypool fic of all time

Butterflies and Hurricanes by RavenDreamer which I need to catch up on (and probably reread as well) but the plot twists here are PHENOMENALLY well executed and I absolutely fucking love what they did with Sol

Muffle by Pondfrost/AkitsuneLune (RIP) which is the best take on Blossomfall ever, period, end of story, and also tackles themes of mental health and trauma so powerfully and beautifully it's. very good.

Simpler Times by Haroldosaur. it's just genuinely SO fun and also an amazing take on bramble & squirrel's personalities and dynamics in early TNP. This is like my one fic that I drop everything to read whenever it updates lol

the dead below the earth (and the living here above) by vox_nihilio is just like. FIRESTAR MY BELOVED. legit it's so rare to see fic focused in on him as a character at all let alone anything this brilliantly well realized. The thing they do with the tree falling alone is just like chef's kiss

19. Dead or overused tropes?

In WC fandom? Fix-it fic lol. At this point I think literally every conflict that's ever been presented in canon has been undone by people in fic a dozen different times in a dozen different ways. I mean I get that people like it for a reason and I'm absolutely not gonna stop anyone from writing or reading what they like, and I've even written a good chunk of what could essentially be called fix-it fic myself, but I am just personally tired of clicking on AUs and rewrites and finding that there's actually like... no plot because there are no problems in this version of the world. Maybe that's more a problem of improper tagging than an overused trope though lol

22. Do you listen to music during your writing process? What music do you listen to while you’re writing?

answered here!

23. Long chapters or short chapters?

I have definitely developed a tendency towards longer chapters lol. With Brighter Fires especially I've gotten into the habit of writing each chapter to essentially be a self-contained story, a kind of individualized 'episode' in the longer game, and that means that a lot of the time there's just a lot of shit to get through in each chapter to complete a full narrative arc. Also I have nothing against minimalism, it can be really great and I love Raymond Carver/Gordon Lish, etc etc, but I find that when I try to write that way it often comes off as kind of pretentious and false, so my avoiding that also naturally makes things longer.

30. What writing software do you use?

for bigger projects (brighter fires, golden hathor, etc), i use smartedit writer. otherwise i'll mostly just write in libreoffice which is my default word processor.

34. How did you find the magical world of fanfics?

IIRC my parents actually directed me to a Harry Potter fansite when I was like 7, I read one fic on there and thought it was the bomb (in retrospect.. it was not! it was a really shitty self-insert fic) and a couple years later I found FFN and got really into Warrior Cats fic, the rest is history.

35. What is your favorite review?

Oh man I literally have screenshots of over 50 comments saved in a folder on my laptop, I'm not going to dig them up right now but I might make a post of the highlights later

36. Did you ever delete a work of yours?

Sometime in high school i completely purged my first FFN account out of embarrassment. otherwise, i try to make a point of not deleting things once i've posted them. and even then i've reuploaded one of those old purged fics to AO3 and may someday reupload the rest, even though they're obviously fairly garbage lol

42. Rudest review?

Oh god I don't have any screencaps and I deleted them but I've gotten at least a couple of apparently well-meaning comments on but i've got an angry heart which basically consisted of "good writing, but breezepelt is still just a whiny spoiled brat in canon." which is already rude as hell, but my AN for that story literally explicitly states that I relate to him because I had an abusive parent like... why lmao

43. Guilty pleasure tropes and scenarios?

I mean I try not to be guilty about the things I like but

Really dark hurt/comfort or whump or whatever you wanna call it. I have to be in a very specific mood to want to read or write it but when I am in that mood. pain time. i generally don't post most of what i write that falls in this category though because when i'm not in the mood for it i really don't wanna look at it

46. Few long essay reviews or many short reviews?

Probably few long essay reviews just because i fucking love it when people point out the parts they liked to me, it always makes me look back at my own writing with new eyes. But honestly I am overjoyed whenever anyone so much as looks at my writing lol. Getting a kudos email from Ao3 is often the highlight of my day

48. What is your favorite sentence that you’ve used in a fanfic?

OK I'm going to have to do a lot more than one here cause. come on

I still love "She stares at the reflection of the stars on the water wondering if her father’s soul went up when he died, or if he sank to the bottom of the lake like a fucking rock, and wondering if she hates him or if that’s too much like hating herself" from like father, like daughter. in many ways, it's the thesis statement of that fic and I really think the understated irony married to genuine emotion is super fitting.

I'm also inordinately fond of "At best, you’re a dead weight and at worst, he’s nuts" from and if it's not tonight. I was doing some experimental things with POV and I'm honestly still not sure if it really worked but I just loved the concept of what I was doing so much.

"He just lets himself feel it and experience it, the smile and the dark and the warmth and the touch all at once, thrumming with discovery, glowing with joy" from i am afraid to own a body. That fic has serious issues but I still adore it because I feel like the emotions ring true and this particular sentence really captures that.

"Destroyed eyes, shredded ears, chunks of torn flesh, guts spilling onto the ground – she had seen all of it and matched each red problem to the springs of green, yellow, orange that could solve it" from violent ends. That fic was another experiment but a more successful one IMO, and I'm super proud of this imagery.

"With a flourish of his tail and a cold flash in his baby-blue eyes, he says, “Consider it a welcome gift.”" from and i'm committing arson. I mean I truly love just about every other line in that fic because I really let myself go crazy with the ~literary~ phrasing and purple prose imagery and layered dialogue but this one just really works for me on many different levels, like I could talk about it a lot more but I'm not going to subject anyone to that.

"the night wind blows cold over his skin, carrying a scent of something unfamiliar, the moor, or maybe the mountains, or something further than that" from upon dead minds because i wrote it in the span of like. maybe a couple hours while i was procrastinating on homework and i really wasn't expecting it to be any good but now every time i think about it i have a lot of emotions and in some ways this line sums up why.

[dadukos-arc]

𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆.

a summary by chapters of freddie dawson’s life / main verse ( TW : long post —— ft. mentions of domestic abuse, violence and general abuse, child abandonment, torture, human trafficking, forced s ex work ).

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — there’s freedom to and freedom from ( prequel ). freddie gallagher, the wife of james a. gallagher, is a s ex worker within the ranks of notorious mobster victor cullen ( her uncle ) in the el paso, texas area. she is forced into the profession as she is forced into her abusive marriage with jimmy gallagher, his right hand man. her only salvation at the time is her friendship with ira dunham and the vague protection kel mehmeti, victor’s business partner and a rival of jimmy’s, can offer. at the age of twenty-eight, after finding out about her unwanted pregnancy and almost dying at the hand of jimmy, fred decides to ask for kel’s help to get away and disappear. he helps her stage her death, and fred runs away: first she gives birth in an arizona hospital where she gives her baby up for adoption, and eventually relocates to the town of ashford, california.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — hope is a dangerous thing ( arc one ). a semblance of a life is gained slowly, achingly, bit by bit, in a town that looks too much like purgatory not to make her wish for atonement. it’s not heaven, despite the name of the place she first sets foot inside: st. peter’s, peter andrews’ bar. he takes her in, gives her food, and a job —— she takes the name of freddie dawson, and with a fake id begins rebuilding herself. step by tiny, immensely modest step, she finds her space among the burnt ruins of the town of ashford: she adopts a cat, she buys a car. she begins to live again. but she remains one foot out of the door, always: a fear in her lungs won’t let her truly breathe in. she looks at the horizon, she’s waiting for a storm.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — happiness is a butterfly ( arc two ). he comes in with the rain, and despite the fear that won’t let go of her, she lets him drown her. kal anderson takes her by surprise, a hurricane with no warning —— she falls in love, harder than she ever has, too fast to hold herself steady. it’s powerful, it’s unbelievable, it’s everything she’s craved: a passion so strong it annihilates her fear, a belonging so certain, so true that she can hardly tell where she ends and he begins. for a year she is his, and he, hers —— by the fourth month he’s moved into her place and she swears to god she doesn’t need anything other than all this love, all the tidal waves of it, for the rest of her life. through him she meets charlie jenkins, kal’s apprentice and coworker, reckless and young and as chaotic as the brother she never had, and severin moran, kal’s old friend, also reckless and also chaotic, but somehow, she senses, broken enough to be recognized as her similar: a kindred spirit. for the first time, freddie dawson is happy. she’s truly, desperately happy. 

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — covered in scars a canyon deep ( arc three ). but kal has secrets, and ways of escaping her, and one day his demons catch up with him — a demon, specifically, by the name of kafka, who murders charlie’s family and barely even leaves him alive. when confronted with the bloodshed kal is forced to admit the truth: he was never the charming mechanic come from up north, but a mercenary. there is a hit on fred’s head, a claim raised by her uncle who wants her back —— and he, poor kal anderson, is none other than ilias abørn, gun for hire who’s come to collect his bounty. except he’s fallen for it too, and the murder of charlie’s family was kafka way to snap ilias out of his lovesick reverie, send a deliberate message: that his place was not burning under the californian sun, but in the sickening darkness of the sugar factory where they both were raised. still, in spite of the lies somehow fred knows — the wildifre burning them up is real. the love, the annihilation of it all is real. and she swears she can forgive him, they can run away, they can make it work —— but one day he’s gone and she realizes: she’s drowned in him for real, and she can’t swim back up to the surface. 

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — maybe god can be on both sides of a gun ( arc four ). ilias goes back to new york, not just to leave her behind but to face his demons. she learns, without really meaning to, that his demons have the shape of a crime syndicate in which he was forced as a child, by which he was trained and raised under the rule of one sociopath by the name of poe. it is him that ilias goes to face, expecting punishment for the way he so spectacularly screwed up his assignment. some of ilias’ fellow mercenaries come asking for fred’s help: evander, whom fred had met before, introduced to her by kal as an old friend. randy, perhaps the most empathetic of ilias’ siblings. lenore, who had been his jailer and his lover before, but still cared enough about him to ask for fred’s help. they lead fred to the sugar factory where he was raised and being held, and together they free him from his torture. it is the moment in which she first realizes the width of her desperate devotion, the lengths she’d go to for him, how her heart has found, in the end, a home — and will refuse to let it go. for about two weeks they try to make it work, escape together and find a real chance at life: them, charlie. two weeks in, ilias gives up and, in order to protect her, disappears: in the end, it turns out he is much better than fred ever was at martyrdom. she tries to move on from there, but her heart is weakened, she has no strength left. she decides, in the end, that the only think she can do is move somewhere the ghost of him won’t follow. fred asks randy to take care of charlie, and leaves.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — how to draw a line between wrath and mercy ( arc five ). hope is a stubborn, flickering flame —— though it dims, hers doesn’t go out. for eight months she lives in kansas, vaguely attempting a new life, and failing, always on the verge of utter despair. then one day a note, a cryptic one, is left in her mailbox, along with ilias’ dog tags. there’s hints of a trip they’d taken once before, to the tennessee mountains, and despite her heart being so tired of hoping, despite the ache the thought of him continuously brings, fred decides to trust her instincts: she gets in the car, she climbs up the mountain, and finds him there in the cabin they’d shared once before. reunited, she takes the time to nurse his wounds, to heal him, to devote herself to the care of the only thing she ever truly loved. and in the meantime they begin thinking, and desiring, ardently, a way to be free —— free to love each other, and have a pitiful chance at a future. a plan is hatched in which, thanks to ira’s help, fred will infiltrate victor’s gang and gather enough material on him to lead his operation to an end. for over a year she remains under the employment of victor, acting as his assistant and all the while gathering as much material as possible to eventually hand him in to the authorities — all with the outside help of ilias, ira, randy and what few allies they can count on. the end comes abrupt, and bloody like every good ending.

𝐕 . 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 — kill the angels if they’re keeping guard ( arc six ).  the rest is a greek tragedy —— victor finds ilias, victor takes him, victor tortures him. once more, it’s fred’s life within his hands: and when victor puts a gun in her hands and orders her to shoot ilias, the love of her life, believing freddie to have been corrupted for good, freddie puts an end to the story, and shoots her uncle instead. somehow, she and ilias make it out. somehow they survive. scattered and broken and drenched in blood, but they survive. over the years, with randy and charlie they relocate to canada, in alberta, under the fake identities of ed and lucie turner, and they find a balance —— between terror and beauty, between rage and devotion. there in the cold, they try to earn themselves a piece of purgatory. it’s not a happy ending, no —— their demons still lurk, and the night gets darker every day. but they have each other, and what’s left of them is two hearts refusing to give in for good. once a wildfire, now the timid candle sitting on their windowsill at 2 am, while they hold each other, sleepless. a tiny light, still burning.

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I wanna hear about the PO3 au's the anon left out! skyclan, loner, po5. Im guessing loner is Crow/Leaf raising the 3 outside of the clans. I love hearing you talk about your au's!

aww thanks! okay, same plan as before, details below the cut.

skyclan po3: it's, uh, pretty on the nose. crow and leaf run to skyclan with their kits.

loner po3: this is a catch-all term for three aus with similar premises, but i don't have a clear/short title to differentiate them. one is leafcrow, one is mothpool, and one is just leafpool. i'll talk about each of them.

po5: this is my internal name for the jaywing au. this, if you don't remember (and why would you), is a bit of a parallel to the dovefeather/med cat dovewing au where jaykit and dovekit are siblings.

skyclan po3: "they move on tracks of never-ending light" (title song)

the au title for this in my notes was "whitewater," but i think i'm going to save something else for that. (if you're confused why i have two titles for all of the aus: when i make a big au, it usually gets a temporary title that's short and easy to search, but i replace it with a permanent title later. sometimes they stay the same, like ashes, but usually i change it.)

so my only notes on this is

crowfeather and leafpool make it all the way to skyclan with a trio of newborn kits.

and like yeah, that's basically all i've figured out.

uhhh i know skyclan will come to the lake sooner, obviously, and i know that jay's character arc plays out really differently because there's less ableism.

(even in the windclan au, jay is intertwined with ableism: in that case, it's "either you're the same, or you're not capable." but leafstar is a sensible leader who doesn't have that problem.)

otherwise, yeah, i don't really know where i'm going with this, other than i think it'll be fun to explore, since leafpool is firestar's daughter and named after leafstar.

loner po3: the common thread in all of these is what happens to thunderclan's medicine cat after leafpool leaves?

(tbf, that's a common question in quite a few aus. but it makes itself a central conflict in these three.)

loner po3 I: leafcrow. "on and on we run in loops"

uh, yeah. they run away, and stay away. this one isn't supposed to focus on the kits that much, but rather, leafpool's struggle with duty and desire.

i've got this:

“There’s a loner,” the kittypet said, her voice languid, claws extended, but with an air of ease, “named Leaf. She’s been helping out loners for, oh, a season or two.”

as a quote from it. it's my least favorite of the loner po3 aus.

loner po3 II: single mom leafpool. "between us, i'd trade you for them every time"

i've talked about this one actually quite a bit, but it's probably going to take me a while to write it. it's inspired by "butterflies and hurricanes," but instead of leafpool dying, crowfeather dies.

also, the chapter titles come from "marjorie" which is basically 90% of why it's going to take me a while to work on it, that song makes me cry a lot and uh, things are a lil Much right now.

i've got a few scenes sketched out, from holly running away, and leafpool panicking, to leafpool worrying about bringing her kits to thunderclan.

loner po3 III: mothpool. "to make a choice in all this mess"

this is the au competing with divided po3 for next po3 au to write, and i'm...i love it. (as a note, i won't write two aus for the same time period at the same time. that's why i was waiting to finish wfmisus before i got back on doahins. now it's all messy. but i get confused lmao.)

anyway, i have the least written for this, but i'm very excited. in my first warriors fic ever, "if you love me any, let me know it now", leafpool thinks this:

(Leafpool should have left. She should have found Mothwing and told her and left. Maybe pause to say goodbye to Squirrelflight. Mothwing would have gone with her, and things would be alright. Not like they are now, all tangled and impossible.)

and well. i'm weak.

i don't have a ton of concrete stuff to say about it, especially considering it's so high on the list, but i mean, i'm excited.

po5: "wing and feather"

alright, this is an old one. since it's also high on my list, i want to explain where it came from rather than what it's about, because that will cover what it's about in a broad sense, without tempting me to give away the details.

(also, w&f is a working title. much like "feather take flight," i may change my mind.)

anyway. i started getting into warriors with "cloudtail's daughter," an au where dovewing and ivypool are brightheart's kits.

in a post so old i had to go to my main blog to find it, i said this:

i also want him to be dovewing’s brother. but the au where brightheart gives birth to dovekit, anxiety child, and jaykit, blind, and feels like a failure despite the fact that its not like her half-blindness is genetic, is not this au. that is another au.

and the seeds were planted.

so right, i'm writing up ctd around when i'm first reading "flightless dove, poison ivy," which will go on to inspire dovefeather (med cat dovewing au, but as you'll see, dovefeather is the assigned working au name. after i decided i didn't like feather take flight, i reverted back to its initial working title, dovefeather.)

so i've got these two things rolling around in my brain.

dovefeather comes first, because i reread fdpi so many times and i just. i want dovepaw to stay in riverclan. i don't want her to leave. i want her to be happy. (also please! i'm still finishing ch 2 of fdpi no spoilers it's taking me embarassingly long to finish.)

but anyway, consider this a bonus au talk because explaining what po5 is, imo, requires me explaining what dovefeather is. like, in an au talk scenario. they're unrelated aus, from a reader perspective.

so i come up with this list of "things i want to be different in oots":

dovewing should be cloudtail's daughter

dovewing and jayfeather should be siblings

dovewing should be a medicine cat

dovewing should go to riverclan

ivypool should be the fourth cat (but i'm not revealing which aus this applies to bc big time spoilers)

and this creates a bit of an au matrix. pick and choose, you know? ctd is (1).

dovefeather is (3) and (4).

but i still wanted (2), and so it seemed pretty natural to make a (1), (2), and (3) au.

but that's a retrospective analysis, what really happens is, i get like fourteen "what ifs" deep, until i'm writing fic for my fic for someone else's fic. kind of.

dovefeather diverges pretty sharply from fdpi, especially based on what i've read of ch2. it takes the same core idea, and because my idea of riverclan was inspired by fdpi, there are plenty of similarities, but i think it's functionally very different, and superficially similar.

(also, hollowflight ends up in a completely different trio lmao dovepaw hangs out with rushpaw, troutpaw, and mossypaw.)

but anyway, i'm trying not to write another au of the same time period, but i just finished writing out the full outline for ashes, and the next chapter (i.e., ch 12, which i'm hopefully posting today if all goes well) gets me thinking, and i can't let it go: i want (2) to happen.

so i look at my outline for dovefeather, because the rule is, it has to be very different from this.

since dovefeather is like 70% drafted (altho that number seems low, because i suspect i'm going to end up adding a lot into the fourth chapter), i now know that was never going to be an issue, but at the time, i was very worried.

so i was like! well, that means i'm going to fuck with every part of po3, and we're going to get ivypaw and hollypaw roped in, and jaypaw is always going to be a warrior, and i think i made squilf his mentor? or maybe sandstorm lmao.

either way, it ended up being defined by jaypaw, which i didn't initially plan on. but that's po5: squilf's litter lionkit, hollykit, ivykit & brightheart's litter dovekit and jaykit grow up together.

it's got a similar vibe to ashes IMO.

okay wow that ended up being a lot i've been hyperfocusing on dovefeather all weekend, and in my head, it's inextricably linked to ashes, ctd, and jaywing/po5, so uh. yeah.

hope this was what you were looking for?

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