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excelsi-or · 4 years ago

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your type (pt. 1)

Hello friends! I have retuuuuurned. I decided we’d go with the ‘dating you because of a date’ trope story (mostly because I’ve suddenly started OVERHAULING the shit out of the other story I’d proposed to you). It’s a decent-lengthen fic, a little more story-based than snapshot like my past two series.

w.c. 2.6k (LOL, enjoy the set up. We hit the ground running pretty quick after this one.)

pt. 2

note 1: I’ve tried to make all the characters/idols in this one, so if you see a name and recognize it, yeah, it’s probably the idol you’re thinking of. I haven’t done this in my last two fics because I usually prefer not to, but I needed so many side characters to bring this story to life and I doubted you guys would be interested in me creating a bunch of random names and people you didn’t know.

note 2: I don’t ship any of the idols that are ‘together’ in this fic or wind up ‘together’ in this fic.

When love is a game on a university campus, the question is always how many people can you get into your bed?

Her girls are all about this game. Between studying for exams, hobbies, volunteering and hanging out; they are swiping left and right, going on dates, meeting new boys on campus that they’ve never interacted with before.

To be systematic about it—because these are science majors—they’ve been working through varying departments. And they’ve left a specific department for their last year at school: the music department. For two reasons.

1) The hottest boys come out of the music department.

2) The fuck boys come from the music department.

If her girls are all about meeting and bedding various men, the boys in the music department are playing the same game. And she has heard various stories about girls trying to change these music department fuck boys.

She’s dabbled in the dating scene, but has quickly learned that the boys on campus just tend not to be her cup of tea.

“Party at Jackson’s tonight,” Jihyo tells her as she slips into the seat across from her at their dining room table.

“And who are you chasing after tonight?” she asks simply, erasing the subscript 2 she’d put down next to her carbon.

“Do you know Choi Seungcheol?”

She snorts. “I wasn’t born yesterday.”

“We’ve been flirting a little.”

Before she can respond properly, the answer to her chemistry question suddenly comes to her. She grumbles under her breath as she proceeds to erase half a page of work. “Did you go for your testing this morning?”

“Still clean,” Jihyo hums. The woman takes the chemistry homework distraction and uses it to her advantage. “How was that boy you met last week?”

“Eh.” She slowly starts over. “He was whatever. Little too handsy, little too spitty. Kinda boring.”

Jihyo laughs. “I still don’t think you’re giving these boys a chance.”

“Boy’s gotta meet my standard or fuck off,” she chuckles. She tosses her pencil into her notebook and closes it. She props her chin in her hands. “I’m guessing since you’re going to distract me from homework until I say I’m going to get ready that you have someone you want me to meet tonight.”

Jihyo shrugs. “No promises, but Cheol did say to bring my friends tonight so we can play card games at Jackson’s tonight.”

She gets to her feet. “We can do that at someone’s house and not at Jackson’s party.” She heads to her bedroom. “But fine. I’m always down to beat new people at cards.”

Having dabbled in a few music classes, she does actually recognize a few of Seungcheol’s friends. Seungkwan and Hansol come as a pair and don’t date around as much as the others do, likely why she’d taken a liking to them. When Jihyo drags her through the crowd at Jackson’s front door and into the living room, those two boys tackle her first.

She winds up on Hansol’s knee, his hand at her waist to balance her there. “How are you? We haven’t seen you since theory class.”

“I’ve been in the research lab,” she laughs. “You said you’d come visit me.”

“Not all of us are graduating, noona,” Seungkwan argues. “You’re done this year, but we have two years left.”

She ruffles his hair. “Excuses, excuses.”

“Have you met everyone else before?” Seungkwan asks when one of his friends returns with a few beers in his hands.

“Briefly.” She shakes her head when Hansol offers the beer.

Proper introductions are made, and conversation is easy. Jihyo is already in Seungcheol’s lap. His hand strokes her bare legs, likely ‘warming’ them. That excuse always makes her laugh.

Momo walks into the room, a little tipsy already, and scans the room. When the taller woman’s eyes land on her, she breaks out into a smile. “I need you to meet someone.” Without a response, Momo grabs her hand and lifts her off Hansol’s knee, pulling her back through the house.

“You good?” she asks Momo once they’re out of the room and entangled in the sea of people.

Suddenly, Momo stops them before an older looking man who looks incredible uncomfortable to be surrounded by university students.

She stares up at this man and looks between him and Momo. “Who is this?”

“My boyfriend, Heechul.”

Her eyes widen. Momo had been going on about some older man she’d met at a café nearby. And Momo has been asking her to meet Heechul for a while, mostly for approval. Her girls think since she’s picky that she knows how to judge good men. She can’t confirm or deny that.

She holds a hand out. “Nice to MEET YOU!” She has to start yelling, because the music has picked up now that the party’s in full swing.

“Oppa was just dropping Sana and me off and Jihyo said that you were going to be here!” Momo gives her a little push towards Heechul. “Talk to him!”

She tilts her head. “Where are you going?”

“To find Sana and Jihyo!”

Momo pecks Heechul on the cheek and tells him that someone will call to be picked up.

Once his girlfriend wanders off, Heechul looks down at her. She motions towards the door. The man seems confused as to why a little girl is bossing him around, but he leads the way out of the house.

She stands on the front porch, leaning against the beam near the steps. “How old are you?”

“36.”

She almost chokes on her tongue. That is a very apparent 13-year age difference. “Right. Momo said you met in a café.”

“I spilled my drink on her by accident.” Heechul seems hesitant to say more. He leans up and squints at her. “Who are you again?”

“My name doesn’t matter, but I know I have some weight as to whether you and Momo continue to date.” She tilts her head. “Why Momo?”

“Why not Momo? She’s gorgeous, sweet, adorable.”

“What is Momo studying?”

“Something in science, but she’s a dancer at heart.”

She mulls that thought over in her mind. “And what do you do?”

The name is technical, which suggests that his job isn’t CEO. But it sounds stable.

“Kids?”

“None.”

“Married?”

“Never.”

She nods her head and then smiles sweetly. “Nice to meet you.”

Heechul doesn’t call after her like the other boys tend to do when she abruptly ends her weird interview, which reflects his age. But she knows he’s definitely confused by the way he lingers in the walkway.

Inside, her ears need to readjust to the volume. She weaves her way back through the house, the bass trying to alter her heartbeat in her chest. Just as she’s about to join her friends in the living room, she gets stopped by Jeon Jungkook. They’d dated for nearly a year during her second year of university. He’s dating his roommate now, but they’re still close. Jungkook picks her up around the waist and spins her.

“I haven’t seen you in ages! Why does it feel like you disappeared off the face of the planet?” Jungkook demands.

“I’m in hiding!”

“Hiding?”

“Don’t want you to suddenly fall back in love with me and leave Taehyung!” she teases. “Where is he anyway?”

Jungkook pecks her cheek. “Somewhere here! I had to drag him out from under his chemistry thesis!” Kim Taehyung wound up joining the chemistry graduate program at the university. His brain is legendary in the chemistry department.

“Tell him I say hi!”

“Where you going?”

She points to the living room over his shoulder. Jungkook’s brows rise, impressed. When they used to come to parties, they’d spend most of the time in whatever game room existed. Many of the houses they visited owned a pool table, and if people weren’t having sex on it, she, Jungkook, and a few of their friends would play rounds of pool until everyone else was too drunk to shoot straight.

“Aren’t Mingyu and his friends in there?”

She rolls her eyes, a smirk on her face. “Wish me luck!”

Jungkook laughs. “You don’t need it! Those guys would be insane to tangle with you!” He gives her a quick kiss on the forehead and pats her lower back. “I would know!”

They promise to meet up for a late lunch the following day after he’s nursed his hangover, and she rejoins her friends in the living room. Momo drags her to the floor. “What did you think of Heechulie?”

She gauges Momo’s expression. Her eyes are out of focus, which suggests intoxication thus suggesting more emotional responses. “Let’s talk about it tomorrow.”

“Yo.” She looks over at Hansol’s voice and catches the Coke can he tosses at her. The boys all ‘oh’ loudly, and she furrows her brow at the overreaction.

Suddenly, someone is leaning towards her and whispering, “He promised that one of you would be sober.”

She turns and finds herself face-to-face with Mingyu. “Okay…”

“It makes Stress a little more challenging,” Mingyu clarifies.

Stress is a speed-based card game, one that Jihyo had taught her last week. Now that she knows the boys love to play it, she understands where Jihyo learned it. When the woman had taught it to her, Jihyo had said, “I can’t wait until you get to play them!”

It had been such an odd comment at the time, but now that there’s a Stress tourney happening in the living room with 8 decks of cards, she gets it.

And here she is, after three rounds of Stress with various people, sat across from a man she only met properly about ten minutes ago: Jihoon. He’s flushed in the face from the heat of the party, the alcohol, or the anxiety of all the people who have been cycling through the room to watch.

“How drunk are you?” she asks as she shuffles.

Jihoon tips his head both ways. “I’ve had two.”

“Shots? Or beers?”

“Shots.”

She nods her head as she begins dealing.

“Noona, it’s not fair!” Chan whines, leaning into her. They’d played each other in the first round, and even with her going slow, she’d still won. “You’re not as drunk as us.”

Gently, she eases him into Seokmin. “I don’t drink. You guys wanted to play, so we’re playing.” She catches Jihoon’s gaze. “Do you care?”

Jihoon shakes his head. “Nah. Easy win regardless.”

Jihyo’s laugh is short and loud to prove a point. “Even if you were sober, Jihoon, she’d smoke you.”

Jihoon gives his head another shake as Seungcheol shouts go.

And she wins.

She has to squirm out of all the grabby hands that try to toss her into the air in victory. “I’ll be back.” She gets up and starts towards the kitchen. She feels someone following her and finds Jihoon there.

“You shouldn’t go alone,” he states.

She doesn’t question it. It is a house party. Guys she doesn’t know will try anything. She ducks around arms and around hands that try to grab her when they call out to her in greeting. She, however, pounces on Min Yoongi who is standing in the kitchen talking with someone.

“Hey kid,” Yoongi says once he gets over the surprise. “Haven’t seen you in eons.”

She digs around in one of the coolers for a Coke. Her drink had spilled four minutes into the tournament when Seokmin had lost and flailed his arms around, promptly knocking her drink off the table. “Jungkookie and I are going for lunch tomorrow. You should come if you aren’t busy.”

Yoongi hums. “Sure, kid.” He glances at someone over shoulder. “I can move some stuff around.”

She gives his arm a squeeze before venturing back through the mass of humans. When someone bumps into her, causing her to topple backwards, she falls back into Jihoon. His cool hands and broad chest keep her steady and guide her back to the living room. He releases her and returns to his spot at the opposite end of the room.

A beer she hadn’t noticed Jihoon take is passed off to Jeonghan. The boys all have someone in their lap or someone trying to get into it, and a few of her girls have disappeared.

She glances at the clock. Jihyo catches her doing this. “You can go,” Jihyo mouths.

She juts her chin their direction. “You going home with Cheol?” she mouths back.

Jihyo glances down at Seungcheol who is talking to Joshua, and then meets her eye again with a nod.

Immediately, she gets to her feet again and begins saying her goodbyes.

“You heading out?” Jihoon asks from his spot on the floor next to two girls and Wonwoo.

“Yeah. Music’s making my head pound.” She squeezes Wonwoo’s outstretched hand and runs a hand through Seungkwan’s hair as she passes.

Once again, when she glances over her shoulder, she finds Jihoon behind her.

“What?”

“Walking you home.” He’s already grabbing his jacket from the overstuffed hall closet. Some people’s jackets have landed on the floor.

She smirks. “You don’t have to do that.”

“You’re gonna walk home alone at night?” He shrugs his jacket on.

“You’re tipsy,” she snorts. “You should stay here.” She slips past him to find her own coat. It’s tangled in the back. Jihoon nudges her out of the way to grab it. He helps her into it.

“Are you going to say goodbye to say bye to Jackson first?” he asks.

“I don’t actually know him.” She zips up her coat and meets his eye. “You go say bye.”

“Come on.” Jihoon motions with his head for her to follow.

“No, I’m good.”

Jihoon somehow knows that if he leaves her for a second, she’ll be out the door without him. “Let’s go then.”

She doesn’t question him. As they walk back to her apartment, she pops open the Coke can still in her hand. “Just so you know, the walk is twenty minutes.”

“You were going to walk twenty minutes on your own?” Jihoon demands.

She glances over at him. “I didn’t realize you were so chivalrous.”

“And I didn’t realize you were an idiot.”

She snorts. “The walk’s well-lit and I find it’s more comfortable than taking the bus or a taxi.”

“Any walk is nice until it’s not.”

Instead, this walk is almost awkward. With anyone else, it definitely would have been. They say next to nothing the entire twenty minutes, though he does sip the soft drink when offered. At her lobby door, she turns and smiles. “It was nice to meet you. Thanks for walking me home.”

Jihoon studies her for a while. She wonders if this is one of his moves. She’s heard of Jihoon’s reputation through the grapevine. And if this is one of his moves, does this really get the ladies going?

Eventually, the scrutinizing goes on for so long that she slowly backs towards the door to go inside.

“Do you want to go for breakfast?” he calls after her.

“Breakfast?”

“I heard you say you were busy at lunch. How about breakfast?” Jihoon asks.

She glances over her shoulder as she unlocks the door. She lets herself into the apartment and stands half in and half out. “Sure. Goodnight.”

“What? You’re not going to give me a number to call you? You could just say no.”

She lifts an eyebrow. “Not as drunk as I thought. 9 AM here then.”

His brow furrows. “You want me to pick you up?”

She glances up towards the lights above the doorway that name her building. “You know where I live. 9 AM.”

Jihoon nods. “Okay.”

pt. 2

#woozi imagines #woozi scenarios #woozi #Lee Jihoon #lee jihoon scenarios #seventeen scenarios #seventeen imagines #Seventeen #svt

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cowperviolet · 4 years ago

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A GUIDE TO MEDIEVAL TOURNAMENTS

Do you have a dynastic wedding to celebrate? A diplomatic visit to spice up? An axe to grind with a neighbour whose pageantry is eclipsing yours? Organize a tournament. It’s always the answer. A tournament of the greatest knights of the realm cannot go wrong.

Of course, it’s also a great and complex undertaking; but, thankfully, this step-by-step handbook should guide you through the process with only minimal pain and no injury

Obtain permission.

In England in France at least, organizing tourneys had become mostly a royal and ducal prerogative after 1340 – if you are not lucky enough to belong to one of those miniscule categories of the population, you would have to seek a special license. Obtaining it shouldn’t be a problem�� unless, of course, there is a war on. In that case, you’d better check the latest royal proclamations – it’s more than possible that one of them contains a temporary ban on all tournaments while men of fighting age might have to risk their lives and limbs against an actual enemy. If this is true, it would be prudent of you to postpone your plans for a few months (or years, depending on how the war is going) – you wouldn’t want to content yourself with the kind of furtive affair that was the Le Hem tournament of 1278. It was hastily staged in direct violation of Louis IX ’s prohibition of tournaments because of the ongoing war, and as a result had to even dispense with the mêlée on the third day.

(If you think the prohibition overbearing and unfair, plenty of people would agree with you – and not just the kind of people who can afford swords and horses. The poet Sarrasin criticized the king in his Le Roman du Hem for bankrupting the heralds, armourers, saddlers and provisioners of France with his tournament ban).

2. Consider the time and place.

Most tourneys run from Monday to Sunday, with Friday being the rest day. You would need a spacious marketplace to divide into lists, too.

A lot depends on what kind of tournament you want to host. A general mêlée whose absence so disappointed the spectators in Le Hem would need more space than a contained joust; on the other hand, mêlée combat has been steadily losing its popularity as of late in favour of one-on-one jousts.

Of course, some people grumble that the old days when horsemen smashing into enemy in massed formations were the fixture of any tournament where the days when men were still men. But we are modern, fifteenth-century people, and we understand the importance of ensuring safety both for the participants and the spectators – hence the barriers down the centre of each list to prevent the knights from actually colliding with each other, and fenced enclosures to keep the audience strictly away from the danger. Which brings us to…

3. Decide on the rules.

The traditional rules of joust are the following: the knights are divided into two teams, those ‘within’ and those ‘without’ – or, in other words, the ‘defenders’ and the ‘attackers’. The space is, in turn, divided into three lists, each separated from the other by high barriers. The courses – the charges by two opposing knights – are going to be run down each, towards the spectacular splintering of lances. Each day, a prize, usually in the form of a small jewel or a golden chain, should be given to the best-performing knight and squire from each team.

You can, however, add or tweak a few details in order to make the sport safer for the participants – or more exhilarating for the audience. For example, you could take a page out of Maximillian I’s book and provide the knights with special spring-loaded shields that would flow apart if struck in the right place. You could also follow King Edward of England’s example and model your tournament after the béhourd he sponsored in Windsor in 1278: he specified, among other things, that the participants would have to wear cuir bouilli – a type of leather boiled until it was almost as hard as metal – and use wooden shields and whalebone swords.

If you scoff at the lightweight kind of tourneys popular these days, and especially if you care little for pageantry, then a different kind of joust might be more up your alley. The so-called passage of arms, or pas d’armes, is an undertaking to defend a certain place (usually a bridge or a gate) from all comers. It was inspired by various episodes from Arthurian romances, such as the Romance of Yvain by Chrétien de Troyes. In fiction, the knights undertook the defend a bridge, a gate, or a ford in single combat, and, if they were defeated, the winner took their place. Naturally, a real passage of arms plays out somewhat differently – for one thing, the defense only lasts a specified period of time (rarely longer than two weeks), and one defeat in a particular joust does not mean surrender. The most famous example of any knights attempting this kind of endeavor is probably the pas d’armes that Suero de Quinones organized at the Orbigo Bridge in northern Spain for two weeks until the St. James’ Day of 1434. They claimed a plan of breaking 300 lances in total – if they failed, the organizers promised, they would remain there for a further fortnight. They fulfilled that promise, and ended up withdrawing only on the 9th of August – but even with that extra time, they’ve only managed to break 178 lances in total. It’s no mean result, of course – plenty of minor conventional tourneys end in mighty disappointment for the spectators with not a single lance ending up broken at all.

It must be said that, although a passage of arms is a grandiose undertaking, jousting proper usually only takes a couple of hours a day there – in other words, the spectators are likely to be disappointed anyway. Your fellow knights, however, are going to be delighted by the concept – if, of course, they are true connoisseurs of tourneys just like you.

4. Think of the logistics.

The matter might begin with the rules of fighting itself, but it doesn’t end there. If you are in a position to organize a tournament out of your own purse in the first place, you must be the master of the lands where it’s going to be held, so make sure your subjects don’t suffer as a result of the soaring prices that usually accompany such events, not to mention the influx of professional warriors. Fix the prices firmly for the duration of the tournament, especially the prices on bread, fish, and meat; stipulate that no spectators or unarmed persons are to mix with the participants; make sure each gate of the city is manned by about twelve armed men, and station at least five hundred guards around the setting of the tournament itself.

5. Send out invitations.

Sending letters of invite seems to be the most logical course – however, it is also the most excruciating one, given the number of noblemen of fighting age who would be eligible for participation. In your situation, it would be better to contact the organizer of the tourney closest to yours and ask him to have your upcoming event announced there.

You would also do well to contact the tournament societies in your region – if you live in Germany, it’s going to be particularly easy: the whole concept, after all, originated in Bavaria. Tournament societies are essentially permanent tournament teams from different regions. Instead of laboriously summoning individual knights, one could simply issue a challenge from one society to another. Moreover, some societies’ rules even specify that the members have to meet annually at a tournament -it might as well be yours!

6. Think of the theme.

Of course, you don’t have to have a theme – you might want your tournament to simply be a bit of rough, honest fun it used to be in William Marshall’s days. We don’t live in William Marshall’s days anymore, though, and I suspect you wouldn’t want to be outdone by your neighbours.

The most go-to theme are Arthurian legends. It’s the kind of oldie-but-goldie you cannot go wrong with. The fashion was arguably started by Edward I of England, who set out a round table and acted out a number of Arthurian romances with the other noblemen at the feast after the tournament in honour of his daughter’s wedding. That was a far cry from the spectacular Arthurian festival arranged across the Channel by the lords Longueval and Bazentin in Picardy: they had the tournament presided over by ‘Queen Guinevere’, and stipulated that all the attendant knights had to bring a damsel with them. Another member of the theatricals was named as Chevalier au Lyon, who supposedly ‘rescued’ the ladies in ‘Guinevere’s retinue, and even had a real lion with him.

If this is all a bit too out there for you (or, the other way around, too pedestrian – everyone does the Round Table these days!), you could organize the pageantry of the tournament around your heroic ancestor or your sigil – possibly both. For example, the joust that Adolf of Cleves staged in Lille had been inspired by the story of the Cleves’ progenitor, a knight who was miraculously led along the Rhine by a swan and ended up marrying the local princess. During the joust, the ‘Knight of the Swan’ was to take on all challengers.

The procession, to quote the words of a contemporary, included

‘…drummers; and after them a pursuivant of arms dressed in a coat of arms full of swans; after him came a large swan, marvellously and skilfully made, with a crown of gold around its neck, from which hung a shield of the full arms of Cleves; and from this crown hung a golden chain on which, from one end, there hung the shield of the knight; and this swan was flanked by two very well made centaurs who had bows and arrows in their hands, and made as though to shoot at anyone who tried to approach the swan’.

7. Plan the banquet.

Nothing can sour the impression of a great tourney as a meagre banquet afterwards. The need for a generous display of food is self-explanatory – roebucks, suckling pigs, silvered eels, gilded bread, almond soup, kid goats, and the like – however, this is sadly not enough. You also have to think about the entremets.

What are the entremets? To put it simply, everything that is a part of the banquet, but is not edible. I’m not simply talking about straightforward entertainments like music, theatre pieces, or juggling. Entremets can also be elaborate installations for your guests to admire, such as a mini-carrack, exquisitely executed up to the last rope and laden with goods, or a mechanical forest full of strange, if thankfully unmoving, beasts. Even vessels sometimes count – you could have the sweets be contained in little chariots decorated with gold and azure. If you prefer to walk on the wild side, take a page out of Taillevent’s book (quite literally – it’s called Viandier) and construct a fake lion equipped to spout flame: ‘make it with a brass-lined mouth and a thin brass tongue, and with paper teeth glued in the mouth; and put camphor and a little cotton in the mouth and, when it is about to be served before the lords, set fire to this’.

Just don’t do what they did for the Feast of the Pheasant when they’ve made a statue of a naked woman in a large hat who spouted sweetened wine from her breasts for the duration of the dinner. Please.

Sources:

Normore, Christina. A Feast for the Eyes.

Andrew Brown and Graeme Small, Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries c. 1420–1530.

Kelcey Wilson-Lee, Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I.

#medieval history #medieval #Middle Ages #history #history geek #writing reference #writing resources #writing ref

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telli1206 · 5 years ago

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malvie for the ship ask 😇

Sorry this took a few days - it takes a long time to fill these out! This is for @fuck-you-i-am-spiderman too 😊

Who would be the big spoon/little spoon?

Mal would be the little spoon, but she usually doesn’t consent to spooning. Evie is subtle, snaking arms around her while they study together or watch a movie. By the time Mal realizes they’re spooning, she’s too entranced by Evie’s perfume and the soft touch of her fingers to even try to fight it.

Who would wake up first?

Evie. She always needs plenty of time for her makeup and hair routine. When her hair is perfectly brushed and soft, she’ll take a break to wake up Mal, dragging her soft strands along her girlfriend’s cheek until Mal’s bristling her nose, then finishes with soft kisses to make sure she’s fully awake.

Do they have nicknames for each other?

Mal will forever call Evie her Princess, but she also likes to tease that she’s the Apple of her Eye, and in the privacy of their room she’s her Candy Apple (because she tastes so sweet).

Evie calls Mal Baby Dragon or just Baby, but she’s also her Firestarter 😉

How do they apologize after an argument?

The only way to get time to apologize to Evie is to be her model when she’s working on clothes, so Mal always sucks it up and plays mannequin for the day, giving them time to talk and sort things out. And it’s the best time to kiss and makeup when Mal’s already down to her bra and underwear and she only has to coax Evie into joining her...

Evie knows that Mal’s a sucker for her pouts, so she usually fakes a pretty pout with her fully painted red lips, knowing that even a mad Mal can’t resist kissing it away, which ultimately open her up to Evie’s apology.

What would they be like as parents?

Evie would joke that she’s raising Mal along with her kids, because while Evie keeps a clean house and is strict about eating healthy and getting proper sleep, Mal is making pillow forts, eating popcorn in bed, and plotting Halloween trick or treating routes that have the best candy. Every once in a while Evie has to scold Mal and the kids, but for the most part she loves what a fun mom Mal is, and loves to join in on the activities.

Who is more romantic?

Mal. She knows how much Evie adores public displays of affection, so she goes out of her way to do sweet things, like having flowers sent to her in class, leaving surprise gifts in her locker, or leaving sweet notes on their door for the days she’s away at Tourney practice. Evie’s glowing smile and sweet kisses are plenty of reward for all her effort.

What sort of gifts do they get for each other?

Even though Evie is not a sports fan, she knows that Mal enjoys going to games, so she loves to gift Mal with tickets to games and professional Tourney team gear. Evie will get dressed up in team colors and go to the games with Mal, who loves to sit and explain everything that’s going on with Evie so they can boo and cheer together.

And Mal forces herself out of her comfort zone to gift Evie with beautiful jewelry and accessories to complement the clothing she designs, almost always dragging Dizzy along with her to make sure she picks the perfect pieces each time.

Who gets jealous easiest?

Mal. Evie’s way too gorgeous and sweet, and she can’t help but think that everyone that talks to her wants to be with her. Mal tends to have her hands on her whenever they’re out in public together, always feeling the need to stake her claim on her pretty girlfriend.

Who gets more excited for events e.g.. Birthdays, Christmas?

Evie. She’s always planning handmade gifts, so she’ll think of ideas weeks in advance in order to have the gifts ready in time. She always puts Mal in charge of decorating for each holiday and birthday, but they love to go shopping together to pick out the decorations. Once they’re home, Evie usually gets to sewing while she supervises Mal’s decorating.

Who is the most adventurous?

Mal. Evie usually keeps quiet about Mal’s shenanigans, but her adventurous streak does worry her. She’s hurt herself pretty badly attempting some wild passes by jumping over shoulders at Tourney games. But Evie’s biggest problem is when Mal and Jay concoct ideas together, like when they tried to build their own half mile slip and slide, using soap to go extra fast and aiming it into the school’s lap pool.

Who is the most protective?

Evie. She knows that Mal spent years trying to prove she could be bad to her mother, and some students find it hard to forget that she’s Maleficent’s daughter, despite her decision to be good. Evie is a master at steering conversations politely, and is always right on top of changing topics when someone tries to approach that sensitive subject.

What would they have been like as childhood sweethearts?

Sickeningly sweet to each other, but also an evil power house on the isle. Mal would rule the school and spend her days wreaking havoc with Evie by her side, holding her hand and smiling her approval. Evie also intimidates, but in a more subtle way by quietly threatening with her acids and poisons in hand. After school they’d make out in Evie’s garden, with Mal occasionally sneaking up to Evie’s room to spend the night with her, for cuddling and other activities 🙃

Who uses all the hot water?

Mal. She loves soaking in a hot bath, but she’s always just a waster of water in general. Evie usually gives her a frustrated glares when she has to walk behind Mal to shut off the faucet, shower, or bathtub.

Who would accidentally set the kitchen on fire whilst cooking?

Evie. She doesn’t love cooking, so she’d rather focus her time on her clothing lines. Mal is a decent cook, but she doesn’t love to do it, so they tend to go out to eat pretty often. They’ll occassionally take food back to the dorms to eat, but Evie does like to get out and stretch her legs after long days of filling clothing orders.

Who initiates sexy times the most?

Mal. Evie’s always up for it, but she loves to hear Mal dance around the idea to her. She plays coy and innocent, pretending she doesn’t know what Mal is suggesting, up until she basically pounces on Evie.

Who is more dominant?

Mal thinks she is, and Evie likes to have her believe that, but truthfully, Mal is heart-eyed for Evie and will do anything she wants. But Evie likes to try to subtley convince Mal that Evie’s ideas are hers anyway to keep her thinking that she’s in charge.

What would they do if the other one was hurt?

Lose their MINDS. They hate seeing the other hurt, and both end up right at each other’s sides, grabbing faces and kissing before they check over injuries and escort each other to the nurse. And they’re both great nurses to each other during recoveries, spoon feeding, cuddling, and giving sponge baths until the other feels completely better.

Who gives nose/forehead kisses?

Evie. Mal is too cute when she gets them, scrunching her nose and shaking her hair in Evie’s face after the kiss. And she loves getting them so much from Evie that she’ll come up to her throughout the school day and try to impress her with things she did, like not punching Chad when he got in her face and called her a pussy during practice, so she can earn another nose kiss.

What their biggest fight was/will be about:

I can’t picture them fighting at all, to be honest. There’s way too much love, understanding and support in this relationship. They are for sure relationship goals.

BONUS #1: Song to sum them up?

“1, 2, 3, 4″ by the Plain White T’s

BONUS #2: A head canon?

Evie is head cheerleader and Mal plays on the Tourney team. During almost every game, Evie has the squad do a routine to the beat of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, and Mal knows it’s just for her (Firestarter 😉). The support from her girlfirend always pumps her up, and makes her blush just a little...

BOTTOM LINE: Do I ship it?

10000x Yessss. These girls are the ultimate power couple.

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Podcast question for Jay & Bee: What's the worst version of Goldenhand and the Blue Knight you've ever read? Can you describe any of the scenes that made it so bad? And, relatedly, what inspired this podcast? Loving it and appreciate the distraction from my own undergrad students. ;D

Anonymous: Hi Jay and Bee! I've binged your eps on my work break and I'm a big fan! I have two questions, if you don't mind. One serious and on silly. 1. Were Ser Blue and Goldenhand the figures that got you into history, or are they just the current end point of your path? 2. And how are you the two of you most and least like BOTH of your namesakes/ancestors?

B: The following podcast contains strong language, literary violence, and explicit sexual content.

(tourney horn plays)

J: It’s The Bear and the Poorly Written Maiden, the footnotes! And, for the first time, we’re recording at my place.

B: I don’t know why we don’t record here more often; it’s infinitely nicer than my flat, and you don’t have any neighbours fiddling with their bedframe all night.

J: (laughs) Their headboard is banging, Bee; I think they’re fucking.

B: I know that; I’m not an idiot. I was just trying to be coy.

J: We read out historical pornography on a podcast; coy went out the window along with your valiant attempts for us to just be acquaintances.

B: Yes, suddenly it’s five years later and you’re my best friend.

J: You could do a lot worse.

B: I could do a lot better, too. When you give friends spare keys, for instance, it’s expected they only use them for emergencies.

J: Is this about this morning?

B: I was in a towel.

J: Your bedroom door was open.

B: My front door was locked.

J: I ran out of cereal!

B: You live on the other side of the city! (pause) Right, enough bickering, let’s get on with the podcast.

J: Fine. So, this is our footnotes podcast, where we answer your questions, go into a little more depth with our discussions.

B: Eventually, we would like to have a couple of guests on, like your brother does.

J: (laughs) As if anyone would want to be on this! No, that’s a lie, Papa Bee would love to do this podcast. He’s up next week; you should ask him.

B: I am not asking my father for his help analysing historical erotica.

J: Well, it’s a good thing I’m invited to dinner so I can ask him myself.

B: (sighs) Jay.

J: Bee. (pause) Fine. We’ll talk about it later. For now, we’ve had two questions. The first one is from (laughs) oh, this is great. It’s from [email protected]. They must be a fan of The Caged Lion. For those of you that aren’t familiar, it’s the sequel to The King’s Road, and it covers Goldenhand’s journey as he, well, becomes Goldenhand the Just.

B: That is a beautiful scene, as well. Very vivid.

J: Having seen your island, I completely understand the reaction.

B: (pause) It is rather beautiful.

J: So it is. (pause) Anyway, tarthserjaime has two questions, the first is: “What's the worst version of Goldenhand and the Blue Knight you've ever read? Can you describe any of the scenes that made it so bad?” Oh, fuck, well for Goldenhand it has to be Trant.

B: We’ve mentioned Trant a couple of times. That’s Roslin Trant, and she has a whole series of Goldenhand novels, such as The Ravishing at Riverrun, The Kingsguard’s Oath, The Lion and the Maiden, The Squire’s Suprise, The Bedding of the Beauty...she’s written about twenty of them, I think.

J: And in all these books, Goldenhand fucks at least three different people.

B: Oh, at least. In The Quest South, there’s an orgy in Sunspear.

J: It’s got very little in common with the real Goldenhand: Trant writes him as a playboy who’ll fuck anything.

B: He has multiple bastard children, too. Well—

J: (laughs) More than the three he had canonically, at any rate. So, yeah, Trant is the worst. We will have to read some of it, won’t we?

B: I think we’ll have to. As for Ser Blue, the versions vary. I think the worst one is Into the Wild, where, during the Long Night, Ser Blue takes a break during the fighting to engage one of the Wildlings also in the battle.

J: (gasps) Oh, I remember when you read that. I got a series of angry text messages at 3am. THE BLUE KNIGHT WOULD HAVE FOUGHT TO THE DEATH; SHE WOULDN’T HAVE TOSSED ASIDE HER SWORD TO SWALLOW A WILDLING’S COCK.

B: (groans) Oh, Gods, yes, that one is dreadful. And I think, is it Blackwood who wrote her as a broodmare for Goldenhand?

J: Yeah, he knighted her, and then immediately she wanted him to fill her with his seed. She spent the Long Night in their chambers, waiting for a break in the fighting so he could come and impregnate her.

B: Thank you for the reminder, tarthserjaime.

J: Hopefully her second question doesn’t bring up such bad memories.

B: Let’s hope not.

J: “And, relatedly, what inspired this podcast? Loving it and appreciate the distraction from my own undergrad students." Undergraduates are terrible, aren’t they?

B: Not all of them.

J: Of course you don’t think that; you get the good ones. Cee likes you best.

B: Of course she does. And, in answer to your excellent question tarthserjaime, it all started when Jay’s brother Ty came round and he was looking at the strange collection of books on his brother’s nightstand. He asked Jay to read out the worst bits, we all got atrociously drunk, and the next day Ty suggested we should do the podcast.

J: Excellent chance to plug Ty’s podcast, by the way. It’s A Hundred Ways to Disappoint Your Father; listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.

B: Now we have a question from [email protected]. Excellent choice of email address.

J: I’d prefer Widow’s Wail.

B: No you wouldn’t; everyone prefers Oathkeeper. (pause) They write: “Hi Jay and Bee!”

J: Hi yourself.

B: “I've binged your eps on my work break and I'm a big fan!” Well, that makes two. You and my father. “I have two questions, if you don't mind. One serious and one silly. 1. Were Ser Blue and Goldenhand the figures that got you into history, or are they just the current endpoint of your path?” The Blue Knight and Oathkeeper and our family line was certainly the reason I got into history. I was obsessed with knights and quests as a child. I even tried to take Oathkeeper from the exhibit.

J: Is that the photo up in your dad’s hallway?

B: Yes, my neighbour Robb took a picture before my Dad found us and, very gently, told me to put the priceless family heirloom down. (they laugh) What about you?

J: It was my uncle, Gerold, who got me into history. My father didn’t like the stories, didn’t want me or my brother fixating on the golden age of heroes. But my uncle took us to the museums in Lannisport and the Targaryen Museum of Ancient History in King’s Landing. I remember the day he told me I shared the name of one of the greatest knights in history. I was over the moon.

B: He sounds like a great uncle.

J: He was. (pause) Anyway, so that’s the first question, what’s the second?

B: “How are the two of you most and least like BOTH of your namesakes/ancestors?” So not just Ser Blue for me but Goldenhand, too.

J: Well, I don’t have a hand made out of gold. (both laugh) That’s probably the most obvious difference. I haven’t got a sister, but I do have a younger brother. No children. Goldenhand stepped away from family duty really early, but I didn’t. I went to school originally for business and worked at my father’s company for five years before I decided I’d had enough and walked away.

B: There’s actually eight years between us.

J: You were so sweet and innocent back when we first met. Eighteen years old, fresh-faced from the Stormlands.

B: Oh don’t.

J: See, you’re more like Goldenhand. Papa Bee wanted you to go to SEU but you applied in secret to—

B: Bear Pit University.

J: (laughs) Bear Pit University, yeah. You knew your own path and you went for it.

B: I suppose so. As for the Blue Knight and I, we share a similar background. Only child, widowed father, exceptionally tall and plain.

J: Oh pull the other one.

B: Am I not taller than you?

J: You are but you’re not...you had a boyfriend in upper school.

B: One boyfriend does not mean I’m suddenly pretty, Jay.

J: No, but nor do no boyfriends mean that people aren’t attracted to you.

B: I think we’re getting off-topic. (pause) oathkeeper, tarthserjaime, I hope we’ve answered your questions. If you have any more, send them to us at [email protected].

J: We’ll be back with a new book to read very soon. Until then, valar morghulis.

(tourney horn plays)

#braime #jaime x brienne #mine: paragraph prompts #ship: braime #tarthserjaime #fic: podcast verse

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steve0discusses · 5 years ago

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Yugioh S4 Ep 23: Roland Freaks Out for 25 Straight Minutes

Oh man, took a break from the blog for a bit there because I gave myself a project to do that is 160ish color panels to draw by June 30th and um...it takes a while to do that, it turns out. Every time I’m like “wow I actually have enough time to make a buffer for the blog” I get so distracted.

But anyways, I started having some issues with my wacom tablet, my mouse is a nightmare, and so...I’m just gonna look the other way and write a recap and unplug all of the wacom stuff and just stay the hell away from whatever happened to that...tablet.

maybe It’ll be fine tomorrow?

*sweats nervously*

Thank God I didn’t buy a cintique, that’s all I’ll say.

Anyway, lets go back to Yugioh. Where were we?

That’s right. Mokuba is checking in with my favorite Kaiba, Roland, who is currently just trying to keep the company running while the official Kaibas are flying to California.

And I’ll be honest, as I was typing this I thought “and why are they going to California again?” and it took me like...10 minutes to remember that Seto dropped absolutely everything and jumped on this massive plane in order to beat Rafael at cards to win the title “King of Games” which...Yugi had already lost to Rebecca about 2 years ago prior, but don’t tell that to Seto. Or Rebecca.

Also don’t tell Seto that the “King of Games” title originally comes from being possessed by a very emo ghost that has a tendency to set people on fire with Russian whiskey and has nothing to do with whatever shenanigans went down with Pegasus.

Honestly, I like to think that in the modern version of this show, Pegasus threw the “King of Games” line out there as like a corny joke, and when the teenagers started latching onto it like it was real, he was like “Oh what?” and left it alone because he just got his left eye ripped out of his face and was very distracted by the large amount of cultists in his basement that he suddenly needed to let go.

But youknow it’s the end of the world, Kaiba’s company is being bought out by a competitor, one of Dartz’ assassins are trying to kill both him and his brother, but he has to go to California immediately to play Rafael while he has the chance. Not sure how Alister got the tip-off that Kaiba would be flying back to California so quickly, but knowing the Kaibas, they probably jump on a plane several times a week.

I’m just still baffled that Mokuba’s doing this over a cell phone. That he was like “I better call someone.” and instead of calling the Airline or the Coastguard he’s like “I’ll call Roland💗”

I’m pretty sure Roland saw that phone ringing with Mokuba in the callerID and was like “NO NO NO NO NO”

(read more under the cut)

Luckily for Roland, everyone at Kaiba corp has to learn how to fly planes in order to pass the entry exam.

For reals though, that plane just casually bumped off a mountain like it’s in Diddy Kong Racing.

There’s a lot of levels of brother’s saving brothers in this episode. You have Seto who thinks he’s saving Mokuba, but in fact it is Mokuba saving Seto by keeping this plane afloat. And then in reality, you can take another brother step backward and say it was Roland who was saving Mokuba who was saving Seto by giving the phone to that rando, and take even another step backward and say it was this Random Guy who was saving Roland who was saving Mokuba who was saving Seto.

So in reality, no brothers were really able to save eachother, it was actually that one secretary at the desk who screamed “JUST PULL THE LEVER HARDER, I DUNNO” until it worked.

But just remember that the theme of this episode is brothers saving brothers, although Mokuba is too small to really fly this plane, and Seto is too crazy to stop this duel and Roland is not really the secret inept heir of the Kaiba bloodline, and only in my little headcanon.

And also, I just have no idea who that random secretary is.

Anyways, Alister made this thing happen on the field.

Hey guys?

How many guns do you need on a tank?

Like I...

That is a hilarious amount of guns on this tank.

Like every character designer part of me is dying right now. It’s when you’re learning Maya, and you finally figure out the duplicate tool, and you just--you just strap a billion guns on a spaceship. We’ve all done this.

But like...this gunship has a face, and that face has it’s own tiny Oricalchos.

All I’m saying is that Alister is having a hell of a time in his Maya 101 class he takes at the local community college when he’s not busy working for Kaiba Corp Airlines or busy killing people for Dartz. I want to know what grade he got on this project, because in my Maya classes the only people who were this dedicated were building weird ass warships for their games or building intense 3D My Little Pony fanfic.

Here’s a list I can think of from the top of my head of challenges Seto Kaiba either quit or completely failed outright (basically the times Seto has NOPEd out or been forcibly kicked out):

-Joey Wheeler’s many challenges and also Spanish Class (as mentioned above)

-Beating Yugi in a card game

-Not joining Pegasus’ tourney initially so he could go on a vacation.

-We’ll just assume he’s only taken like a bunch of random college classes but only got an honorary degree

-Chess (like he was a Grand Master at one point but wtv, cards exist now)

-Didn’t arrest the Big Five or remove them from his mmo so they freakin died in there.

-Being the actual owner of the Millennium Rod

-Every time Yami tells him that they should be friends

-That whole story line where he was dating a dragon in a past life

-fulfilling that prophecy of killing Yami in the present timeline to end the world

-attempting to blow up his own battle city tournament before it was over because he didn’t win

-Getting all 3 Godcards

-When a possessed Tristan appeared over a mountain top to duel everyone and Seto just went “I’m out” and simply walked away

-Flying a blimp from point A to point B without it setting on fire

-Getting his Dad to build an amusement park

-Just anything to do with Noah

-the existence of magic in general

-every attempt he’s had to rebrand Kaiba Corp as “funtime games inc I swear we don't make tanks anymore, stop looking at all the tanks”

-Seto Kaiba’s entire Destiny storyline this season that he has gone way out of his way to get away from.

And like I’m sure there’s more, but I feel like half of Kaiba’s MO is that he is either Too Good To Bother With This or he has Lost Everything Very Dramatically. Mokuba at least has the right idea, by being one of the few people who has beaten Yugi Muto by peacing out halfway through the duel and stealing all Yugi’s stuff off of Yugi’s side of the table.

Anyway, despite it being like...5 seconds since we saw Roland in a weird cyber room in what I assume was Japan, we now see him with his head pressed against the glass of this helicopter being like “BOYS NO NOT AGAIN WHY”

And youknow, Roland was just trying to do the right thing, but he accidentally made things a million times worse by just showing up.

And so Alister was like “well I better crash the plane now with this gust of green energy that destroys all mechanical equipment.”

Really not sure how Alister was planning to leave this plane after this duel was over. I don’t know if he thinks that far ahead.

this isn’t even a joke I made up, Roland really did run up to the pilot and was like “Just throw down some ladders! That should work!” and it’s like...Do you not see the giant ship covered in a thousand guns right now, Roland?

And then Alister and Seto decide to have a fight about ethics where they’re both pretty wrong.

I mean it’s not the exact line but yes this is basically what Seto said, point blank, and I was like “well...at least he owns it.”

So cards happen, dragons get played (so MANY dragons) and because we had to end this arc, Alister loses the duel as we kind of knew he would.

And then Mokuba, because he knows no other life, sees an asshole older brother in pain and just wants to adopt him.

Enjoy that trauma tossed onto your already megalith sized trauma pile, Mokuba.

Elsewhere, the legendary dragons have started syncing again, which is a weird thing that they can do that none of these guys have any control of.

Mostly it just irritates whoever is holding these cards at the time.

But behold! the glory!

The glory of three tubby dragons wielding a plane!

It’s what Kaiba always wanted but he had absolutely no idea he was doing it. Will anyone tell him that he managed to summon three dragons to fly him around the sky like a mamma bird? No. No one bothers to tell him that his wildest dreams just came true.

FYI There were other stills of more of the dragons and the plane, but I kept pausing on instances where it kinda looked like they were humping the plane so I gave up.

But, at least we all get to meet up, around the smoke coming out the back of this giant plane that now...will just sit here...until someone sues KaibaCorp over it, I guess.

Like a soccermom, now Roland gets to give the whole frenemy crew a ride with...copters or whatever.

I dont’ know how Roland got here, y’all.

This happens a lot with animated shows, youknow, there’s a lot of plot threads, a lot of scenes and episodes that get freelanced out and outsourced, and people who make these shows aren’t working on the whole thing at once, they’re just going off of director notes--so there’s a good chance they had no idea that Roland...just shouldn’t be here.

But it’s OK, I enjoy whenever Roland is panicking in the background. He’s good set dressing.

Seto does not give any more explanation of this corpse.

And then, sprinting as fast as he could out of his copter comes Roland, who does what Roland does best. It’s this moment where you would usually see a parental figure reveal how much they care and adore their little children. But because it’s Roland, and these are the Kaibas, he instead takes this moment to reveal exactly how inept he is at the very last second.

Never change, Roland. I love this massive green haired disappointment.

Anyway, I’m not sure when I’ll get the next update out, since I’ll be knee deep in drawing art I don’t need to draw, but just know I’m not dead. Usually I post fanart or whatever, but all I have is this Dartz I started drawing but he just has so much hair that I don’t think that one will ever get even remotely finished.

But anyway, if you just got here, this is a link to read these from the start.

#Yugioh #ygo #seto kaiba #mokuba #roland #yami muto #joey wheeler #tristan taylor #alister #tea gardner #S4 #Ep23 #episode recap #photo recap

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hunicosmos312 · 6 years ago

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf Blog October 2019

I am sorry to not post recently, I am not sure what happened but I kind of accidently left or something, I don’t remember really what happened. I originally put on the 7th or 10th an update but.. that didn’t save. I hadn’t played that much originally to enough things to go and make one post but then I just stopped playing all together but I will be trying to post more for November and possibly December!

1/10/19

Spooktober is here! I walked around town and talked to my villagers after not playing for a week or 2. After that, I went to the south-east of my town where I found the self-proclaimed spooky czar of Halloween, Jack, who I became the loyal subject of to help with the when its 31/10.

After talking to him, I went to the Able Sisters, to buy the Lucky bandages mummy mask.

8/10/19

After completing a challenge in a town for a halloween event, I received the crown as a prize found in the maze as well as lots and lots of sweets. I sold it for 250,000 Bells.

Using that money, I made a bridge from a corner of my town to the town plaza (Note: This bridge will 100% not be moved or removed via hacking for later, definitely 100% yes).

12/10/19

Today is the October Fishing Tourney! Before heading to the Plaza I went to find the fossils that I only found 2 of. After that, I headed to the Island to catch some fish or I mean chasing fish.

After that, I time travelled to 5:50PM to see if I would win but as it turns out amazingly Diving doesn't work in the Fishing Tourney. So I spent another 6 minutes catching a fish only to have Peanut beat me by 0.05 inches because I thought I caught the bigger fish.

31/10/19

After my long break, it is now Halloween! I changed the time so that it would be good to go Trick-or-treating at 7AM in real life. First thing I did was put on my Halloween costume and take out my candy stored in my closet. I walked around town looking for people, first was Cesar rushing up to me making me take cover inside Peanut’s house. Inside we played a match of charades with the answer being about bowling to be honest it wasn’t even charades she just gave me a clue about a sport. I won a candy from that. I now continued my quest to look for Jack, I gave him a candy in return for the mummy mask that I was already wearing. Honestly, I get scared really easily so being chased by 3 villagers made me just start to shake so that wasn’t fun and I got scared by someone wearing a green pumpkin mask appearing next to me when walking past the town hall.

Until I got stuck on the lake I had no idea Jack would run up to you so I thought he was a villager. From him I got another mask, this time a skeleton hood.

From Reneé I found that either Papi or Peanut are scared of skeletons so I went to their houses. I found that Peanut was not the one by getting robbed by her. Kabuki was my next victim, he was either scared of skeletons or bugs, with the skeleton hood still on I found out the correct answer instantly as well as a lollipop.

After some more conversations, everyone wanted me to continue to torture Papi.

everyone wants me to torture papi please help what do i do i’ve already gone into his house like 3 times wearing the skeleton hood no one will give me new information even if im on the opposite side of the map.

Well anyways, my day continued as I attempted to find all the spooky furniture to be put in a spooky Museum Room when I unlock that Public Works Project.

#sobiacnl #animal crossing #acnl #acnl blogging #animal crossing new leaf #october #spooktober #halloween #i dont know what to tag

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cardfightcentric · 7 years ago

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Weekend report thing

Aka. Sneak report + Locals report + Thoughts on standard/premium

Busy weekend! The first official sneak of the new format, and when I finally went and picked up my trial decks, so my first games in standard and my first games with a true premium deck ( sort of), not just a G-Deck. So I have a lot to talk about today!

The sneak went pretty well for me, I wasn't originally gonna buy anything since I don’t really plan on making blasters for standard, rather just waiting for aquas and granblue before I really start to invest. But i wanted new marrons, so I figured why not and got two kits. Ended up pulling really well and made my money back more or less, and got some trades to making my own semi jankish blaster deck for standard, just to hold me over until algos XD

I had picked up a blaster trial deck simply because if our head judge wanted to run a standard tourney I could actually play something. But since I pulled some stuff for it and wanted to use my newly acquired playset of new marron, I threw something together with soulsavers and a few new cards and a trial deck. I tried playing a few games with a friends similarly janky kagero deck. Honestly while it felt nice to slow the game down a little bit, it also felt just...almost too slow and vanilla with what i’m used to playing. I understand its very early so i can’t really pass any judgements about how the deck plays yet, of if this is what the rest of standard format decks will be like. But it did feel extremely slow and honestly kind of boring. I’m sure it will be significantly more exciting for me playing aqua force, granblue and eventually golds. But for now I will continue to just kinda sit back and wait for those since honestly i’ve never been a fan of playing blasters XD

For the tourney i played the royal deck I fell in love with: brave. I had yet to use it in a real tourney, and i had made some adjustments to my original list so I was itching to try it out. What makes it a premium deck? I put in the new triggers lol. I figured since my list had very few “brave” triggers anyway, trying the 10ks would not be a bad idea, since I’m playing mega aggression 12 crit brave anyway. Balls to the wall deck, in other words. And i’m actually surprised at how well it went, considering the matchups I had.

Round 1: Novas vs Brave

This is my friend who usually beats me in the final rounds, our meeting just happened to be in the first round today. Honestly i think this matchup is very 50/50. If i can outrush a nove player early i can win, but if he’s drawing fire he wins just as easily. The first game I lost by the second stride, the second game I won by the second stride. Since I hadn’t played brave in a while before this, had I not messed up my guarding on the third game, I would have been able to win. I went first, so he could stride first. I g guarded once. And I HAD THE IDEA IN MY BIG BRAIN to guard the second, meager attack with maskgal, since then I would be able to hit 1st stride GB4 with fides and basically take the game. Did I guard with maskgal? NO. So I went into my turn, pushed him to 5 damage with two cards in hand, and then got crit to death. I’m not entirely upset about loosing that way since I know a lot more about how to win the matchup and its honestly not overly difficult if you know how to work with brave resources. It was more of a lack of foresight on my part since I haven’t been playing a lot the last few weeks. And if I have, I’ve been almost obsessively playing Gurguit since I miss him <3

Score 0/1

Round 2: Kagero vs Brave

You know like I don’t even care about this matchup honestly. It’s like go ahead, retire my cards. So long as i’m able to keep a majority of them in my deck the matchup is actually very easy. Because while they have big scary purge turns and easy access to retire, kagero lacks the hand size to really be able to put up with brave and function well. Like yea your gonna purge me, but that's the only attack your going to get this turn, because you had to drop all your rgs to guard me last turn. Both games i was able to sweep with a 2nd stride turn fides. The important part here is really just to make sure their hand is small before sweeping in for a fides turn. Since not a lot of kagero players play heavy draw support it’s much easier to just run them off the field, especially since their key mechanic of retire does very little to stop you from doing what you need to do. If you set up all your Felaxs in the back row they can’t denial you either, so your safe to just steamroll.

Score: 1/1

Round 3: X Gallop Vs Brave

This was actually a very funny set of games. The player that was using X Gallop is horribly annoying, so playing with him is usually a chore within itself. I also despite playing against X Gallop since they draw so much, my rush decks just usually can’t keep up. But brave is the king of rush decks for me, so i worried. First game I managed to sweep since he didn’t realize what fides does ( i talk about the card all the time so i was like really?) and therefore didn’t plan to guard very well. 2nd game was probably the most horribly unlucky game of brave in my life. I drew or damage checked all 8 of my calling grade 2’s (Sulliman and Liverot) so my plays were pretty stunted. Its unfortunately a weakness of the deck, but its something thats kind of difficult to fix due to the way that vanguard just works and the fact that brave royals don’t really have a way to renew resources. If they did, then it wouldn’t be so much of a problem. But I got clapped. The third game was probably one of the most hilarious games i’ve ever played. So this player I was playing against is infamous for being outrageously cocky, so this is kind of karma coming back around. The game started off pretty bad for me. He drew all 4 of his reika's ( i think that's how you spell it) and with a commander laural was able to draw something like 14 cards. Since I choose not to drop a perfect since he had one of the guard break triggers active, and would have sacked it. But i’m a dumbass and I let it hit. So i’m going into my turn with like 20 cards in his hand. He’s at 3 damage, so he’s kind of safe. I stride into fides and i’m trying to figure out how to make this work while not blowing all my own resources. Since I couldn’t get fides call skill, due to not being at Gb4 I decided to attack with him first, and come swinging with the rear guards later. He no guards, which is super cocky in my opinion with that hand size. Then fides decided to bless me and land me a triple crit off my drive check ( to be fair I had thinned a fair amount, and hadn’t seen any triggers in my early turns, so i knew they were in there). I won that game, which usually ends with his cocky ass luck sacking me every time. It was good karma and the look on his face was priceless. I love Fides.

Score: 2/1

Round 4: ChouChou vs Brave

I was...not optimistic about this matchup. While I out pressure, i don't really have big hands to protect myself with on his big turns. With that being said however, I think it's very similar to novas after playing the matchup. Your both going to put out pressure and it comes out to who has better hands to guard with, since mt guard restrict and his restand stride are both very easy to reach. We did get to a game 3 after i just overwhelmed him using my grade 2’s to take him from 2 to 6 damage in one turn, with no triggers might i add. The third game if i had just had ONE MORE card to guard with in my hand of ANY value, I would have lived and then just swamped him next turn. I didn’t actually feel too bad about this loss either, as i felt like i played it very well. Its just a simple fact that the chouchou deck has fr more synergy with itself then brave does, and with the cards I was dealt ( literally) I felt like the games went pretty well.

Record: 2/2

So I felt like it was a pretty good day, i found some adjustments i’m going to make to fides and I very much enjoyed playing the deck. While I know it's not a balanced playing field with the new triggers now, i feel like the bigger triggers really helped brave with its already low hand size and massive power. I really liked playing them and will probably do it again next time i play fides, since its like eh, why not.

I apologise if the formatting on this is bad, I had to wrote in on mobile since my new router sucks ass

#cardfight!! vanguard #cardfight vanguard #trading cards #localsreports

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farklelucas · 8 years ago

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Could you write a jaylos fic where like some people at auradon prep are thinking jay and Carlos might be more than friends because of how they act with each other? Loved your last jaylos fic!

ahhh omg thank you!!! <3 every time i get a jaylos prompt my heart melts in happiness. this is a 5x fic, titled: 5x everyone thought jaylos was a thing and 1x it was. alternatively: i’m lazy and i like the 5x format.

always taking fic prompts

1. Evie

It was nothing out of the ordinary, really. Nothing popped out at her, no one popped out and pointed anything out to her. It was just casual observation of an, admittedly, small thing.

The four of them have a movie night every other week - Evie, Mal, Carlos, and Jay. Sometimes it’s in Evie and Mal’s dorm, other times it’s Carlos and Jay’s. They see each other throughout the week anyway, but regardless, it’s an established tradition among the four VKs.

It’s Mal’s turn to pick a movie, and she’s selected a documentary on… true crime maybe? Evie isn’t sure. She hasn’t really been paying attention. It’s around the end of the movie (maybe a foreign film?) that she even notices.

Jay and Carlos are sitting… awfully close.

It’s not unusual for the VKs to share some physical affection from time to time. Evie will rest her head on Jay’s shoulder, Mal will run her hand through Carlos’s hair, Jay will hold Mal’s hand while walking down the street. (Sometimes, Evie will hold Mal’s hand too - and it feels like electricity popping through her fingertips. It’s something to examine another time.)

But they’ve been sitting like that the whole movie. Before Evie and Mal got there, even. And it’s in a position that… Evie finds curious.

As the credits roll and Mal gets up to go get the DVD, Evie examines the boys, who both look tired but are talking and laughing. Simply to sate her curiosity, Evie asks, “Jay, will you do me a favor?”

The boys break mid-conversation and look at her, both still smiling. “Yeah?” Jay asks.

“Could I possibly borrow your math homework? I, uh, forgot mine in my locker and need to copy the problems.”

Jay shrugs and stands, unwinding his arm from behind Carlos’s back and going to his bed to get his homework.

… Huh.

After Jay returns and everyone says their goodbyes, Mal and Evie wander into the hallway. As they walk in silence, Evie ponders what to do with this new information. “Hey, Mal?”

“Yeah?”

Evie frowns. “Do you think something’s up with Jay and Carlos?”

Mal hums thoughtfully for a moment. “No clue,” she decides. The rest of the walk is spent in silence.

–

2. Ben

Ben may not be the most observant captain in the world. But if you give him enough pieces, he’ll learn to put together the jigsaw puzzle.

Which is exactly the case with Jay and Carlos.

At first he was a little confused as to why Jay would constantly volunteer to privately help Carlos with tourney. Or as to why Carlos would tutor Jay in math. They don’t have to do everything together, surely?

Even with all of Jay’s extra practicing, though, there are days Carlos doesn’t do the best on the field. Today, particularly, seems to suck. Coach calls him out of the lineup after almost five minutes of scrimmage, and Carlos nearly faints with relief. Ben can see his legs shaking from across almost the entire field, and wonders briefly if he should go check on him.

But then, in only a few seconds, Jay is there, kneeling down to Carlos’s sitting height and talking to him. After a minute or two, Jay reaches out and wraps his arms around Carlos, who immediately reciprocates.

They hug for at least ten minutes, or so it seems to Ben. When Jay finally untangles himself, he runs over to the forward’s starting positions next to Ben. Ben smiles at him. “You’re a really good bro,” he says.

Jay looks at him, startled and confused. “Excuse me?” he asks.

“You know, for Carlos,” he explains. “You’re a great friend.”

There’s a long pause. Then, slowly, Jay raises his eyebrows. “Right,” he says, and then flicks his helmet back on.

Oh. Yeah. Oblivious as he might seem, eventually Ben will begin to get the big picture.

–

3. Fairy Godmother

Teaching Villain Kids isn’t… always easy. They’re a lot like other kids, except they’re less bored by you and more confused by you. Which is fine, sometimes. She’d rather have “why are you teaching this way” than “why are you teaching,” hands down.

But sometimes she doesn’t know what to do with Villain Kids. Like when one has a panic attack in the middle of her class.

Halfway through the lesson on the history of Auradon, Jay looks like he’s about to puke all over Chad Charming, and he gets up and runs from the room. The entire class stops and looks after him, confused and alarmed. “Um,” she says. “Well, that was odd.” She glances around the room and lands on a face she trusts to send out of the classroom. “Ben, will you please -”

“No!”

They all turn their heads. Carlos De Vil is half-standing out of his chair already. He looks at her with big, pleading eyes. “Please? Please let me go instead?”

She looks around the room, and everyone is staring at Carlos with wide eyes and curious expressions. But Carlos is only looking at her, his heart completely on his sleeve. “Um, yes,” she says, blinking. “You may.”

Carlos says ‘thank you’ quietly, and then slips from his chair and into the hallway after Jay in the blink of an eye.

The lesson continues on as normally as it possibly could, and about twelve minutes later, the boys enter quietly through the back door. Carlos has his arm around Jay’s waist as he guides him back to their shared desk.

After class, they come speak to her about Jay’s predicament. It’s the first time she’s ever had to plainly explain to someone what ‘dyslexia’ meant, as if they’d never heard the term before. And judging by the look on Jay’s face, he never has.

–

4. Jane

“So the annual cotillion is coming up,” she says conversationally. But the topic is anything but conversational.

Almost a year ago, she and her then-boyfriend were at the cotillion. Now, they’ve broken up and are trying to be friends and she has no date to the cotillion. So, everything is about 70% worse.

Carlos hums, and continues to type away on his phone. She has no idea who he’s texting half the time, but he’s driven to keep the conversation going with them, at least. He puts the phone down and smiles up at her, continues to eat the salad he ordered for lunch today. “I was just thinking,” she begins. Then the phone buzzes.

“Sorry,” he murmurs, but picks it up and answers it anyway. He puts it back down and looks at her again, and she’s barely opened her mouth to continue her sentence before it buzzes again. “Sorry! I’m sorry, I’ll put it on silent.”

So he picks it up and silences his phone, while taking a moment to answer the texts anyway, and then puts it down on the table and looks up at her. “Okay, what were you saying?”

“I was saying that the cotillion is coming up, and if you don’t…” She trails off, staring at his phone, which keeps unabashedly blinking with new messages. Each new one is from Jay, lighting the screen up every few seconds. Huh. She sighs. “You know what, never mind.”

Carlos looks up from his phone, frowning. “Jane, tell me! I really want to know.”

She shakes her head, smiling. “No, it’s totally fine. It’s not that important. Tell me how you’ve been.”

He smiles gingerly and goes about telling her about his week. Well, that’s that, she supposes. Maybe she’ll ask Lonnie to the cotillion…

–

5. Mal

Mal makes it her business to keep out of other people’s business. You don’t want her to know something? That’s fine. You want her to know something? That’s fine too. You want her to pretend something never existed and never talk about it again? Sounds like her specialty.

But nothing could prepare her for the amount of nosy people telling her about the business of Carlos and Jay.

It starts with Evie. Then it’s Ben. And now Jane, who said even her mother has said something about it? This is far too much.

So she investigates. It is so not her style to go snooping into other people’s lives. But everyone’s got her so curious, she’s got to know. So she does what any teenager in her position would do: sets up a game of truth or dare.

She invites the other three of the rotten four, Ben, Jane, Lonnie, Chad, and Doug. They all hang out, aimlessly talking about everything and nothing, and then she subtly introduces the idea of truth or dare. As any group would do, they immediately take a liking to the idea and begin to play.

The game goes smoothly for a while. Mal gets dared to change Ben’s hair (she thinks it looks better spiky anyway), Evie gets asked when her first kiss was, Lonnie has to text the first person in her contact list the entire Auradon Prep Alma Mater.

And then, finally, it’s Mal’s turn.

She’s had a lot of time to think about this. She could go after Jay, who’s more likely to do anything on a dare. Or she could go after Carlos, who is objectively the more honest and open of the two. She considers carefully and then turns to her prey. “Carlos,” she says.

Carlos grins. “I’ll take dare,” he says. Hm. Interesting.

She feels her smile growing wicked as she says, “I dare you to kiss the prettiest person in the room on the lips.” Carlos’s eyes widen, but he smiles a little all the same.

There’s a vague grumble of dissent among the players. Apparently, no one wants to know that they aren’t the prettiest person in the room. Hey, Mal wouldn’t care. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. “I have an idea,” Doug says. Stupid, diplomatic Doug. “Why don’t we all close our eyes. And then if we’re not picked, we won’t know who was picked?”

There’s a vague grumble of agreement. Carlos shrugs. “Okay,” he says. “Eyes closed.”

Mal sighs dramatically and closes her eyes. She sits quietly and listens for footsteps to indicate Carlos moving, but no. All she gets is silence.

Eventually, Carlos says, “Okay, open.”

Everyone opens their eyes and looks around at each other. Looks like they’ll never know. Except…

Except that Carlos and Jay are sitting right next to each other. They wouldn’t even need to move to kiss. How convenient.

Luckily, they’re the first to leave. They say goodnight and as soon as the door shuts behind them, Mal turns to the group. “There is definitely something going on with those two,” she says. Everyone nods in agreement.

–

+ 1. Carlos

It’s a few days before the annual cotillion. Carlos is seated across from two of his best friends, he has peanut butter and jelly for lunch, and Dude is sitting at his feet in the shade. What a great day.

Mal and Evie are talking about… something. He should probably focus a little more, because he’s gotten in trouble for not listening before. He snaps back to attention.

“… theme this year is atrocious anyway.” They turn to Carlos, almost in unison, and smile. “What about you, Carlos?” Evie asks. “Are you going to the cotillion?”

He looks between them, a little confused, mostly because they look a little bit like the twins from the shining. “Uh… yeah,” he says.

Mal tilts her head. “Oh, really?” she asks. “Anyone special?”

He frowns and considers the answer to this. “I mean, Jay’s special to me, but I don’t know about anyone else,” he says.

There’s a lengthy pause where they both just stare at him and he bites into his PB&J. “You’re… going with Jay?” Mal asks eventually.

“Like, going going? Going together?” Evie presses.

Carlos chews on his sandwich. “Yeah,” he says, swallowing. “I mean, he hasn’t officially asked me, but I assume we’re going together after so long.”

The girls look at each other, looking befuddled. Carlos is befuddled as to their befuddlement. “Wait, you guys are dating?” Evie asks. “For how long?”

He quickly does the math in his head. “Seven months?”

They both nearly fall out of their chairs.

“Seven months?!” Mal yelps. “Why didn’t you tell us?”

Carlos snorts and says, “You never asked.” They both stare at him, looking angry and annoyed. “Besides, we thought you knew. You’ve almost walked in on us making out about a million times. Plus, we hold hands and hug and text… constantly.”

Mal throws up her hands. “We all do that!”

“It’s different,” Carlos says, simply because it is different. Sometimes, texting or talking to Mal and Evie and Jane feels like an obligation. With Jay, it feels like a constant.

He finishes up his sandwich in one last bite and grins at them. “Lovely chatting with you ladies,” he says. “Now, if you excuse me, I’m going to go find my boyfriend.” With that, he stands and walks away, Dude hot on his heels.

–

carlosDid you know that the girls didn’t know we were dating?

jaywtf???? we are literally the most affectionate couple i know???

carlosI guess that’s saying something about the other couples we know, because they had no idea.

jayhuh. lol.

jayguess we just gotta dial up the gay.

carlosThat is the most romantic thing you’ve ever said to me.

jayits an art ;-)

#jaylos #descendants #katie writes #anonymous #what kind of woman doesnt have an ask #so much fun to write omg #otp: he's kind of like my brain

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rezilient-m3 · 5 years ago

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6) James and I started dating on January 19th, 2001. I still remember that night vividly, even though we had been drinking. It wasn't much, but enough to make me do dumb things, like take him into the raunchy bedroom with no sheets and have sex with him. Not even thinking of his gf, my old best friend from a cpl years prior. (You'll see that I have a tendency to do this to ppl). I was a bitch. But I really thought they weren't even together at the moment cuz they were always breaking up, as kids would do.

I think a big part of why I did was to get back at the boy who I let take my virginity and didn't talk to me after, UNTIL this night. Or tried to, but I wasn't for it. I had a handsome, new guy to think about now. But like I said, I didn't think he'd even be into to me after lol. So, I wasn't even expecting his call I got the next day. He made Marie call my landline (I had my own number) and he came on. I was so happy! I don't really remember how things went soon after, but I know we were inseparable for a year. (He was living with Marie and her family, my uncle is her dad, and her mom was sisters of the social worker in our reserve. So, something about a voluntary placement so he can stay on the reserve. James' mom lived in a city.) After school was out I always went visit him at his mom's, and he would find places to stay to stick around our reserve. I'm pretty sure at one point he was staying with my older sister, Gale, as a sitter for her kids lol. Our families accepted were were a couple.

When school was about to start, I was only going into grade 8, and him 9. I was bummed he'd be an hour n a half away but was going to accept it cuz he had to go live with his mom now n go to school. BUT the weirdest shit happened. I was visiting him, we were about a week away from the first day, him n his mom were talking about what they can do about him coming back to the reserve and where he can stay, cuz he didn't want to move. All of a sudden I heard her say, "why don't I ask her mom if you can stay there?" Shocked the hell out of me, then I remember thinking, "no way my mom will agree and say yes." Wellllll, she fucken did. Lol. I was only going to be 13, he had already turned 15. All I can say about that is just WOW. Can you imagine the scandal? Lol.

At the time I was happy we would be together. My mum's only rule was, not gonna share rooms. That lasted like a week or 2. Soon, we were in the same bedroom and living together. This was September. I don't even remember how this worked, or if I even hung out with my friends. Pretty sure I did cuz my room was the place to hang out and match each other weed.

We had reached our year Anniversary. Never broke up in that year. But I remember I was feeling smothered by him always being around and him not wanting to go to see his friends, or leaving me alone. I started ditching him at home, not telling him where I was going, cuz he was a lil stalker and always found me. Crazy when I think about it now. Needless to say, I started cheating on him. Dumb thing was, in my thinking, "he should know so he can decide if he really loves me to stay, or go." And I always told him when I did. It was almost always too. Rank. I started to sleep around with different guys. I was pretty shameless. Kinda gross lol. Omg.

I used to keep count, but almost most of the guys I knew going through my high school years. And it wasn't even intentional either, I'd black out, drinking, and was always looking for someone to hook-up with. James and I were always breaking-up and getting back together. It went on like this right until March 2006. I feel bad, now, for the way I've treated him. Cuz back then, I don't think he actually ever cheated on me. Or maybe he did, idk. N I can't even tell you why he endured all those years of humiliation. Think it still bothers him today, cuz even now when he's been drinking he brings up our past. Mostly our recent past, but all of this was the beginning of our ugliness.

I should mention, we split for a few months the winter I was 14, had to be March? Can't be too sure, might've been earlier. There was a hockey tournament in another city, our reserve always went. And me n my friends would follow and go drinking. I met this guy, and shocker, I slept with him that night in his truck. (Like I've said, I was shameless). He was from another reserve, at the same tourney. I thought that was the end of it. Next day i was embarrassed cuz my friends knew and I noticed him following me around, always tryna talk to me. I felt this way cuz he was a chubby kid that wasn't all that hot. He wasn't hideous, but I just wouldn't have gave him a 2nd thought if I was in my right mind. Poor guy lol. Funny thing about this guy was he had a cousin living in my reserve, and dumb thing was, this cousin was the kid I had always been fooling around with on James lol. Small world. So, he got my number from his cousin. AND even came as far as coming to out reserve, to our school, with his cousin and was roaming our hallways a few weeks after the tourney. I swear I almost died when Marie come running to me, telling me, "you'll never guess who's here!" Lol. Omg. We left the school and we were walking to her house and they pulled up to us, asked us to jump in, we go, most awkward ride of my life, get dropped off and say bye lol. We go out with them drinking that night, it was the weekend and I give in and start getting to know him. He was funny and easy to get along with. Big head grew on me lol. He was my bf for the following months into summer. I loved him. I think he did too. But I was a bitch and treated him like how I treated James. Always cheating, but he'd never wanna break up. I was horrible, cuz he really was a good kid. At the time, before me, he never really drank, pretty sure I took his virginity that night in his truck, and he danced powwow. I feel like I corrupted him. The way we ended was, one weekend in July, it was his reserve's powwow. My grandma and mum were actually staying at his mom's to attend and visit. I actually didn't feel like drinking but his friends, and the cousin from my reserve and his gf all wanted to drink. So I did. Bad idea. I was at a house party, not knowing who was who. The cousin's gf knew he and I always hooked up before and decided now was the perfect time to jump me with 3 other girls I don't know. And they all let it happen. I was blacked out, I don't remember any of it. I got dropped off at his mom's by a couple from that party who probably felt sorry for me. Next day, not knowing the whole story, I left back home with my mum and grandma. That was the end of us after I heard from his cousin's, who were sort of my friends, and they heard from people at that party of what really happened. I never got to ask him why he let it happen. Anyways, it's almost time for school to start, and I was was still friends with his cousin's. There were 3 girls who were always together. They talked me into moving in with one of them and starting the school year there. Idk why I choose to, cuz it didn't last. I moved back home after a month and a half. The girl I chose to live with was a thief and always stole money, real fake friend. I just didn't feel right, plus we lived with her older sister, cuz like me, she came from an older family. I just didn't feel like I belonged there. During those weeks of living there, though, I almost took my ex back. I wanted to, but he never admitted he wanted to and I never did either. So that was the end of us after that. I heard he turned into a man whore after that. Now, he was the one cheating on gfs. Think he ended up having 3 kids with 3 girls. He passed away the year I was pregnant with my first daughter. Died young, in a collision cuz he was a truck driver. RIP.

I moved home that October, in grade 10 and continued on with James. So, in those years, that was our break. Until we ended it in March of '06.

I can talk about my first son's dad, D. It's now April and the time of MSN messenger, we didn't have a computer at the time so only used it at my other best friend at the time, Mary's, where she used to babysit. She had made my account and added who she had on hers. Nobody, but close friends, really knew who I was on there. And one of them was D. He noticed I was on there and would keep asking who I was, and I never told him. I knew who he was. I'd seen him around, he was new to our school and used to go out with my cousin. One time I happened to actually agree to babysitting for my oldest sister, Ann. She had a computer and I was logged into MSN. My niece, Demi, was with me visiting and went on and started answering my messages. One of them was D asking me, again, who I was. He finally knew. Then dummy asked me out. That's how everyone had got together, it wasn't dates first, you just become a couple lol. And she wrote yes! I was so weirded out cuz I didn't know him personally and never even thought of him that way. After I was done sitting, I went pick him up at his sisters, drove around awkwardly and dropped him off. In school, even though he was about 3 and some years older than me, I was still ahead of him in classes. We only had one class together and it was weird cuz that one class, he'd just stare lol. At the time I had 2 other best friends, along with Marie and Claire, I had Charles and Randall. I was more with them than the girls now, since like grades 8 or 9. Anyways, not about them. Point was, I told Charles and he was laughing, like wtf, odd couple lol. And everyday after school I had a rule about my truck, Charles and Randall always had dibs, and whoever wanted to come had to call the 2 other seats. One day, D was waiting by my truck. Mind you, the only talking we ever did was on messenger. So i was freaked out by the surprise. He jumped in, and got super stoned with us. He didn't even get high regularly lol. He asked to be dropped off and that was it.

I was saying I didn't think I could do it cuz it was too awkward. But he ended up calling my mum's house, breaking up with me. So, I say it's cool, no hard feelings lol. His reason was, his mom and my dad were cousins. I accepted that... like what a weird side story. But noooo, he called me like 3 days later saying he wanted to give us a shot cuz, "he wasn't my real dad, so we're not blood related." Fuck we were dumb lol. But nobody seemed to care, cuz technically, he was right. And again, I got used to him. We actually turned out to get along really well. Our humour matched each other and I had always had fun with him. I graduated, we spent the summer together. Then, I decided I wasn't going to post secondary and "take the year off". He decided he didn't want to go back to school cuz I wasn't attending. So, like my previous relationship, he turned out to be super clingy. And, again, I was a cheater and he never wanted to end it. It was sort of toxic cuz he would cheat, even went as far as getting another gf 3 hrs away and going to see her. But we always took each other back.

That December I found out I was pregnant. I was 18, he was 22. We stayed together, and were good for those months. But it went back to being bad again cuz I started drinking after I had my son.

James was always in the picture cuz he'd always call and I never really let him go, and he was always the one calling so I take it it that he didn't either. During this time too, James had been in 2 other relationships, and been in jail for the months I was pregnant. (I wouldn't know what for for real until a couple years later). But he had heard from his current gf I had a son, cuz she would look at my Bebo profile. Back when that was a thing.

My son was only 5 months old when I broke it off with D for the last time and went back to James. I can't really say I regret this decision because I'd go on to have my 3 beautiful daughters and I'll just have to believe everything happened for a reason.

I just feel horrible I did that my son's dad. He really was a good guy and I knew he really tried to have a family and he loved me. I was young, not really ready to grow up and I thought I loved James more.

My son is 12 now, was raised good, a respectable young man. He was raised by D's parents. D has a gf, had been with her after us, so a long fucken time lol. We still hooked up (before her), like a couple times. Still talked about things, and I was happy at the time we could still be friends. He was a person I still could have trusted about anything. It all changed when he got this gf though. Idk why, I knew we were over. Once, when James and I broke up (my son was already living with his parents, and before I got pregnant with my first daughter) I had asked D if he wanted to try again. I swear that was my first time ever asking someone to take me back lol. But he said no, he didn't trust me. With good reason, though. I had hurt him. So, idk why that girl made him delete and block me on Facebook. Just one day, I was going to ask him if he ever gotten our kid's school pictures done and he was gone. It was just done lol. To this day, we don't talk. I talk small talk if he comes into the store when I'm working, but nothing else. Whatever though, I hope he's happy lol. It was just sudden, cuz we were actually friends before that. Damn jerk lol.

I think I'll stop here. I now have a son, and just gotten back together with James. I think I'm at January of 2008. Rough times ahead.

Plus, there's a lot of stuff I've missed in my high school years I'll probably come back to if needed. All of these are just main events. But until next time, ✌.

#allofme #mystory

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astralescent · 8 years ago

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another thing I wish canon didn’t just gloss over is the entirety of Marth’s exile, like, how can you skip ahead three whole years like that as if nothing important happened in there. anyway i always felt like these years had to have a major impact on his development as a character/fighter/person/etc. so I’ve been thinking about all kinds of things that must have happened during those three years and I think it’s about time I jotted some of those down

Marth doesn’t look away from Altea and then the horizon until he passes out with exhaustion two days into their trip to Talys

when they get to Talys and the king offers them sanctuary in the eastern fortress, he also suggests Marth joins the local school to resume his education once he feels up to it. the entire exchange is between King Talys and Malledus, with the occasional intervention from Jagen. Marth doesn’t say a word the entire time; he just stands there, shaking and struggling to keep himself in check

they leave him alone their first night in, but bring to his attention the next day that they will need to get organized to make things work and keep the fort in order. they of course leave that up to him and that is his first experience at dealing with managing time, people and resources. he has no idea what he’s doing at first but learns quickly thanks to being very open to his knights’ feedback

they establish a routine of maintenance tasks mixed with mild training over the weeks. most of the knights gradually build their moral back up with friendly sparring and shared meals

Marth eventually gets frustrated with them for taking it easy on him during training. on a whim, he challenges Ogma instead, leader of the local band of mercenaries and bodyguard of the king’s daughter

he gets wrecked

it really hecks him up for a while, makes him start believing he really doesn’t have what it takes and lowkey gets flashbacks of overhearing his dad mentioning his ‘flawed physiology’ and considers he should just give up

someone among the knights understands what’s going on and informs the mercs of how badly that fight messed him up

Ogma sits down with Marth and tells him that his lack of physical strength is only gonna hold him back if he keeps trying to fight like someone who’s physically strong. he tries to convince him there is a way for him to make use of his natural assets, which takes a while because it is a concept his dad and the trainers he hired made sure to never let him consider

Marth decides to take a break from training to ponder on that. he isolates himself for a couple of weeks, never joining the others for meals or anything, only taking care of his horse in the morning and then taking off to god knows where around the island

when he gets back to mingling with the others, he tells Ogma he wants to train with him. Ogma accepts on the condition that he submits himself to a little merc initation, which he does but im not gonna talk about it here because it deserves its own post

Marth kinda ditches his knights except for meals and tasks; he spends the entirety of his days training with the mercs. it takes a major toll on him as he is both not fit to keep up with them and not willing to settle for less. Barst is the one to point out that he is still very young and this much training just can’t be healthy this early in his development

the next time he dines with his knights, Marth asks whoever’s free to ride to the castle and arrange for him to meet with the king, who extends an invitation for dinner in the following days. the next day, Marth returns to the place where he had his initiation, on his own

he eventually has dinner with the royal family. notably, he meets the princess of Talys, and the king offers him to join her on some of her daily classes

Marth falls into a very steady routine of spending his mornings in the capital studying, his afternoons with the mercs training, and his evenings with his knights

on Marth’s 14th birthday, the King gifts him with some furniture and accessories to make the fortress more homely. he and his knights spend most of the day placing them around the fort, and then decide to treat themselves to a good dinner at one of the restaurants in the nearby village

Marth gets very sick during his first winter in Talys; after an intense sparring session, he accompanies Barst, who wants to go chop some firewood, dangerously under-dressed. he’s already coughing by the time he processes how cold it is and is bedridden with a pneumonia for a solid two weeks after that

about a year and a half into his exile, King Talys asks Marth if he likes his daughter after they’ve been through a few weeks of dancing lessons together. not understanding the sense of the question, he says yes, and the king arranges for them to have a few dates over the following months

Marth mentions this odd turn of events to the mercs, who are like older brother figures to him by that point. they don’t have any comments on the matter, until, weirdly enough, Ogma isn’t around. that’s when they explicitly tell Marth what they suspect the king has in mind for the young royals

uneasy, Marth stops taking classes at the capital and instead asks for unlimited access to the library. he starts studying by himself at the fort and gives as an excuse that he wants to spend more time with his knights, which eventually turns out to be true; Marth develops a special attachment to Gordin, who’s closest to his age of all the knights and doesn’t speak to him with as much formalities

he keeps in touch with Caeda, who starts visiting the fort regularly. their friendship evolves a lot more genuinely without constant adult supervision

he also gets to see Caeda and Ogma interact in a more casual manner for the first time. it gets him curious about Ogma’s story, so he asks the other mercs about it eventually

learning of his mentor’s past redoubles his motivation for training and he makes tremendous progress within a few weeks, now able to best Ogma’s subordinates and any of his knights

on Marth’s 15th birthday, the mercs, the knights, Caeda and him all get together at the eastern fortress. they drink, they get Marth drunk, he has a good time and sings and dances for a while. things get blurry but they eventually find him curled up in the corner of some room upstairs begging to go home

he has no recollection of any of it the next day and gets frustrated with everyone suddenly going soft on him. he responds by becoming rude to them, which eventually leads to him getting into a fistfight with Cord. Cord gets a broken nose, Marth gets a broken wrist

Marth is forced to take a 8 weeks-long rest to recover, and decides he needs a break from people. during those two months, he only really talks to Gordin and Caeda

a few days into it, he decides to visit the town closest to the fortress. an antique shop catches his interest, where he finds the first piano he’s seen since leaving Altea. he plays a few notes with his left hand, his right one being out of commission, and attracts the attention of another boy in the shop

the boy introduces himself as Gabrien, son of the owner of the shop, and explains that he never learned piano but played this one a lot because his father has had it forever and can’t seem to sell it. he notices Marth’s handicap and offers to be his right hand. they play music for a while. Gabrien eventually tells Marth he’s supposed to meet with his best friend later that day and invites him along

Marth meets Allie, Gabrien’s best friend and the only child of a couple of farmers. they get along nicely, and he spends most of his 2 months break with them

when that time is up, he’s told he can start exercising again but still can’t go back to full training, so he still spends a lot of time with Allie and Gabrien who now go out of their way to come fetch him at the fort

on a sunny day, Allie comes to get him without Gabrien. she says her friend can’t make it, but she and Marth can still have a picnic just the two of them, so they do. she kisses him, he lets her

on the next rainy day, Marth meets up with Gabrien at the shop, who says they won’t be seeing Allie because she has to help with chores at home. Marth sits down to play some piano on his own now that he can, while Gabrien sits next to him and listens. Gabrien eventually kisses him, and Marth lets him

neither Allie or Gabrien shows up the next day, or the one after, or ever. Marth eventually comes to the conclusion that they spoke to each other about what happened the last times they saw him respectively, and he feels awful

he spends days locked up to study the few books he has left, and gradually starts joining his knights for meals again. one day, he apologizes for his behavior from months earlier, and rushes to see the mercenaries and do the same

he spends the rest of his recovery doing light exercises and watching everyone train. when he finally gets the okay from his healer, he trains by himself while the others are busy with other things

a month later, he challenges Ogma to a fight

he wins

in the next days, he rides to the capital to return his many books and takes a quick detour to visit and thank the King for the first time since he stopped school

he visits the antique shop and the old farm on his way back, but doesn’t see either of his former friends

since it’s most of what they occupy their days with at that point, Marth decides to shake things up when it comes to training. he has his knights and the mercs come together to help out and challenge each other, and turns it all into something more pleasant by organizing little tourneys, relays, games of capture the flag and such

on Marth’s 16th birthday, he is gifted with a very nice rapier and a new battle outfit that’s pretty similar to his old one but actually fits him

there’s just a bit more than a month that passes after this before the Galder Pirates invade, and that time is arguably the best of their stay as everyone is in good spirits

#⌈ ★ headcanon ⌋#this got long but im glad it's finally out there

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defunctblogtobedeleted · 8 years ago

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8/26/17, 6:27pm - Some Kinda Closure pt 3

So this week had some shenanigans. Got drunk with aaron and cody, found out gay guys think I’m hot as shit, so that’s always a nice ego boost. Also I talked to Aaron and these guys at the bar about me joining their amateur pool team. They said I’m gonna be on the very low elo end of the spectrum (he said I’d be like a 2/9) but that makes sense considering how it’s probably the exact same as melee. I’m pretty fucking pumped to get into that.

Finally drug it out of Angie that she was like kinda ghosting me so that I could start hitting up girls on tinder again. There was this cross dresser dude who wanted to drive an hour and a half round trip just to give me an NSA blowjob before i went to work, and I was both perturbed and extremely flattered. Like how thirsty do you have to be to just want to go down on someone? Am I like that? Is that how girls think about me when I want to drive out to sleep with them? Crazy. But super neato. Ended up passing on it, was excited to cross trans off my bucket list but he wasn’t actually trans just liked dressing as a girl. Does that count? hm.

Anyway, dealt with a bunch of bullshit in parking fees, my laptop’s been on the fritz, that could be better, but nbd. Finances are super stable right now so that’s great. Bought new scrubs and I look great in them and they feel wonderful. Thought I’d hate this brand but feels fine.

Been playing a fuckkkkton of hearthstone instead of melee. This new set made my deck ALMOST viable but there’s some op bullshit going around. So I’m just trying to see how high I can take it, but I think I’ve peaked. Gonna unlock this nifty card back and call it quits unless there’s a patch. Was saying I’d try to make legend by the end of the year but if that means playing the op classes then that sounds fucking gay lol. Which is ironic, I think about how i’ve said a ton of times in melee “if you didn’t think your character (/class) was the best, why would you play it?” and yknow I guess if I was trying to win that’d be a reasonable thing to think but it’s just fun. So nah. Anyway, I really wanna kick it into gear with melee soon though, so gotta take a break from it, I’ve been playing hearthstone like incessantly lol since I’m like the only person in the world trying to make this deck work I’ve been doing all the experimenting on my own.

Ok so all of this post probably could’ve been skipped if it weren’t for this shit that went down on tuesday at the melee tournament. HAD to make a post to tell this story because it blew my mind.

I show up to play dubz with weilin, and there’s this girl with downs in line in front of me. She’s telling the geeks cashier melissa, who I had just gotten in trouble for flirting with a few weeks ago, that she wanted to enter the tournament but didn’t have any money so what could she do. She was like uhhh what. no it costs money for the prize. And she’s like yeah but I don’t have money. And i just stepped in and was like it’s no problem, I’ll cover her because melee is cool as fuck and I didn’t want her to feel like she wasn’t welcome just because she didn’t have money. Lex later told me that was a good look, bc melissa must have told him, but I tried to shrug it off because I was trying to be cool and not tell anyone about it hahaah. So me and weilin do alright, ALMOST fucking beat blackchris and sneak but i choked, and we had this crazy great set against dashtip where we had a 5 stock comeback, but then got demolished by hifiRone. Fucking sucked, I felt like we could’ve beat them but I also felt really spent. I didn’t really sleep well the night before from playing too much hearthstone. So intermittently throughout the tourney I’m chilling out back on the steps staring at the tree and the sky and thinking about how that baby blue and green are the best colors and just trying to zen out, but when I go out before my singles bracket, Nicole, the girl with downs who I paid for, is hanging around outside.

I decide to be polite and say hey and talk to her for a bit, even though I’m really out there to be as alone and quiet my mind as much as possible. I ask her how the tournaments going for her and how she’s doing and she says it’s fun and she’s great but she’s been really upset lately. I say oh no, what’s the matter. She says that her sister’s been trying to have a baby but that her other sister just had a baby so she didn’t want her to. I say well that’s a little silly wouldn’t you want both your sisters to have kids? She says yeah, but the first sister’s daughter passed away. I don’t remember the wording she used, but to me it sounded like a miscarriage of like an infant. So I go into my like neutral condolences like “so it goes, these things happen but that’s why it’s more important for your sister to have a baby too right?” Yknow, because slaughterhouse 5 is still my go to for dealing with death. She says well no, when my niece got hit by a truck it really scared me. I’m like WHAT. she got hit by a truck? She says yeah. And she looked at me like she wanted me to help but I couldn’t do anything to save her. She just looked at me in the eyes as she died. I keep having nightmares about it So I was like hooooly shit. That’s understandable. That sounds horrible.

But just like that she was off the conversation. We talk about something else for a moment and then I’m staring up at the tree again and she says “I have a boyfriend.” So I say that’s great, is he nice to ya. (I’m thinking this girl is like 16 or something, turns out she’s 25 like me). She says well no. He hits me and whenever I annoy him he punishes me. I’m like WOAHHH WHAT THE FUCK. that’s not okay. you’ve gotta tell him he can’t do that. You’re a person like anyone else and you don’t deserve that no matter what fuck that shit fucking call the cops if he treats you like that ever. EVER. I go on like this for like a While because she says like he’s a grown man who can do what he wants and I say well You’re a grown woman and so you can do what you want to so grown people can’t do that to each other it’s fucked up.

All that shit like rattles me, man. I’m like thinking about how shitty someone can have it and how fucking silly it is for me to be worried about anything. I feel like horribly depressed and for the first time think about quitting the tournament before i get knocked out. I just play it out half assed and head out to go home, but someone out front gives me a cig and some random strangers just introduce themselves and start talking to me and it makes me feel really good about life again. Like yknow it sucks that people have it so bad off, and it’s unfair that I have it so much better off than other people. But I have to remember from all the shit that’s happened that my life is fucking excellent and I’m doing really goddamn well. I love my life, it’s still fucking awesome.

But on that, I’ve gotta wrap this up and head out. I’m leaving work and seeing this beautiful chinese girl from tinder in just a few minutes. Gonna drink and chat and listen to some good indie rock. Should be excellent. And if not lol I have another date with this skinny cute uncg girl tomorrow. Fuckin killin it lmaoo.

Wish me luck, fam.

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sidhewrites · 6 years ago

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Corianer Outline of Events

All is subject to change without warning. But this is how it goes more or less. Feel free to send messages either in ask box or IMs about the plot if you have questions.

Knittelnau

Coriander meets Jasper, a travelling Wright in Knittelnau in April.

Coriander’s hometown in the wilds of Cresce, population <300, surrounded by farms and fields of wildflowers

Wright: One capable of magic. Not extremely rare, but uncommon. Denoted by specifically shaded green eyes with gold flecks. Limited to one element or aspect of magic per wight.

Jasper helps her with chores and errands.

Coriander helps her mother prepare dinner for the party with mother’s friends

Jasper joins Annie in the fields around Knittelnau the next day

Jasper invites himself to dinner that night. It’s very awkward.

Jasper gets Annie to Ride a horse -- and then gets that horse to race out into the wilds outside of Knittelnau before getting it to take her back. And then he says hey why don’t you come with me as a travelling companion, i’m lonely and besides you can buy your mom a dress from the town nearby that has a river running thru it so you can get fancy imports. Bestina very reluctantly agrees.

anyway i don't know hwo to go about that i think he chose her a) bc she's in an abusive space and wanted to get her out and b) he’s impulsive and doesn’t think things through. I don’t know if he knows ahead of time about the pure of heart thing.

The Wilds

Maybe two weeks of camping. Coriander learns to cook. She loves it.

Wolves attack, but Jasper bravely defends her with magic, getting wounded in the process. Coriander knows basic medical aid and gets a few herbs for a poultice and bandages his wounds.

They’re at the next town over, and he gets them rooms at an inn where a party is going on to celebrate the engagement of the innkeep’s daughter. It’s a party and she gets roped into dancing but she panics and starts to cry and runs out. Jasper who was nowhere near her was still keeping a close eye on her and follows her out and apologizes and offers to escort her up to her room. Coriander blushing furiously like, propriety man cmon, but she does wanna go to bed. Also she relishes getting the chance to bathe again.

He tells her about how he came from threston, not ninoom, which is a northwest trading port and he could only go from threston to a port in ninoom since it’s forbidden to go to berall without an invitation. Hints at a bad life but doesn’t elaborate, instead avoiding it with talk of stories and fairy tales, and eventually admits he’s planning on stealing the Hollow Ring from Berall

A magical artifact made by the Sylph to grant immortality if wielded by a pure soul (Actyually the wielder needs to give up their soul for the other but hey. U know. He doesn’t know that)

It belongs to the high elves in Sterea, the capital of the country to the north. Jasper wants to return the ring to the elves.

Berall: The queen’s city and capital of Cresce, no-one enters without an invitation

They are about to turn back while he;s scrounging for a way to keep her going w him so there’s a circus coming by!! Fancy that! And he lies and says they’re travelling west so coriander is like Fine, we’ll go w them.

Join the circus which is travelling to Berall under the guise of a Performing Wight and his servant

It’s 2 weeks past and coriander is excited seeing them perform and bonds w laureline, but she’s constantly worried about getting home

They see a deep red, opalescent dragon shot out of the sky in the distance by a massive arrow, far far to the north over the mountains of Nashoth

They celebrate beltane with the circus and a farming town just a few days travel from berall. Coriander helps with the preparations and jasper wows everyone with his magic, and Coriander dances with Laureline, a dancer from Ninoom, the southern middle-east coded country

Berall -- May.

Arriving at Berall, where they see a procession for Queen Lillian pass by

Queen Lillian recently ascended the throne a year ago, after her mother’s death. She is barely 18, young and intelligent and wants to see the world, but has never been allowed outside of the Queen’s city.

Lillian has magic that allows her to see people’s True Hearts, which is why she is trusted with the throne at such a young age.

Coriander is allowed to wander freely and get food and supplies while Jasper works on his plan and figures out the guard’s schedules. Preparations for midsummer are going on, and Coriander is thrilled to see the excitement, even if it’s over a month away.

She meets a disguised Queen Lillian, who is excited to hear an adventurer’s stories, invites her to the palace for a bath, proper food, and tea.

Coriander tells Lillian about what little of the world she’s seen so far, and promises to write every chance she gets on her adventure.

That night, the circus performs. Coriander watches from the sidelines in awe, wishing she could do something spectacular herself

Next day spent mostly watching the ocean and ships because she’s never seen it before.

That night -- stealing the Hollow Ring. Coriander is used as bait. The guards find her, and Jasper is unable to save her before she’s dragged off to the dungeons.

The punishment for breaking into the queen’s treasury ofc is beheading.

Next day spent in prison. Jasper visits and promises to save her.

Two days with no word from jasper, dragged off to the execution block. At the last minute, Jasper makes a daring rescue. He breaks into a small house, which turns out to be the Queen’s Townhouse, and Annie weeps with relief.

Lillian senses the hollow ring has a certain wretched aura about it and while she doesn’t like it, jasper has managed to steal the ring from under her nose and leave a fake in return. Maybe has to send someone after them to catch them and bring the ring back ???????? Maybe she like, helps them escape with it but also has to make it seem like idk man i need to rework this part

The Wilds Again to Nashoth, the Dwarven city.

Jasper reveals to Coriander he did steal the ring on the way to Nashoth. They get two days into the two week trip to nashoth, before guards arrive and jasper needs to cloak them with magic. The guards (what guards as i even thinking of here) are sensing magic however so they have to hide and travel only by night.

The mountains are too dangerous to cross on foot, but the Dwarves have always granted safe passage underneath to those who pay for it.

Queen Mor who needs a new name greets them all and is a v motherly figure to coriander. She has a glorious beard.

Except now there’s a dragon in their main hall/treasury, so nobody’s passing through.

Solomon the dragon, a white, opalescent firedrake from the northwest was in the wrong place at the wrong time

Dragon eggs are extremely rare, and his sister had lain a supposedly dead egg a century ago, but it’s finally starting to hatch and he needs to visit her.

If they can convince the dragon to leave, they can pass through freely and be outfitted with gear. Jasper, ofc, throws Coriander to the wolves aka “She can talk to the dragon and make him leave!”

Coriander convinces Solomon to talk with her because she smells like flowers and isn’t rude, and winds up helping him by removing the 6ft arrow in his wing and healing the wound. They become friends, and she talks him down from the idea of getting revenge against the elf who shot him. “Fine he promises. I won’t hunt down my attacker.”

I think solomon comments that coriander has green in her eyes. It’s the first time she learns and she tudies her reflection a bit. (Jasper knew from the start but assumed she knew and didn’t say so himself)

This takes almost a month, turning it to July.

Solomon leaves to complete his trip south, then go home.

The wilds (again)

July To August, travelling the last month into the Elf kingdom of Gaelgallah.

Arrival in Gaelgallah

The most direct path to Sterea is through a few large cities but they don’t want to risk it with a few wanted posters around the country looking for Jasper and Annie. So they take side roads and wilds

They stop in a small farming village similar to Knittelnau that reminds Coriander of home. There, they celebrate the Harvest Season with a festival and a tourney that Jasper participates in

Just before reaching Sterea, they have the first snowfall.

??? stuff happens??maybe a few smaller character building moments, and/or forshadowing for the rest of the story ie: why Jasper took her or the Hollow?

Sterea!

They are escorted by the kingsguard to the capital city, which is GORGEOUS and snow filled. Jasper is almost unable to enter since that’s what he’s been trying to do for years. And now it’s here.

They’re received with celebration and reverence because Coriander’s new reputation as the Dragon Healer precedes her, even above the berall news.

At the feast, Coriander meets Iriral, known Dragonslayer, pursues Coriander romantically despite her lack of interest. (she’s ace!!) he’s not put off by her uncertainty, but he’s polite and does value her friendship. just doesn’t pick up on things whoops.

Mylene, captain of the queen’s royal guard, offers to teach annie to wield a sword and while she agrees, she has difficulty with it and doesn’t enjoy it.

???? something? Maybe something with the Dragonslayer?

Jasper returns the ring to the king and queen, and offer immortality and all eyes are on Annie

Jasper explains to her that you need a pure soul to wield it. The elves correct him -- not just to wield it, but to give up the years they have left so Jasper could take hers and achieve a longer life span. Not pure immortality -- he has to keep doing it every 80-100 years or so to get more years. He didn’t know that and doesn’t want to hurt annie but he also doesn’t know how to give up on his dream so he looks to her at lets her decide.

She’s incredibly hurt, and doesn’t much feel like celebrating anymore, knowing it isn’t inconcievable to him for her to sacrifice herself and that he’d even ask her to do it, indrectly or not. Spends the rest of her time training with Mylene, the other champion knight, and learning to ride horses and use a shield.

ALSO TO QUESTION: Is that why the elves gave it to the humans, who couldn’t wield it, and they didn’t want people to be killed? Or was it just stolen from the elves hundreds of years ago? [[if it was stolen away has anyone used it to gain immortality? Is there any threat if someone has? Could the elves reverse that?]]

After the celebrations, Coriander refuses a permanent place in Sterea and wants to return home before the winter hits the village. So she’s given a horse and rides home with a single guard, stopping to greet the Dwarves

Queen Mor who needs a new name of the dwarves welcomes her with a feast, new clothes, and jewels for her hair. She rejects the jewels, in favor of flowers, and learns a dwarven dance in her two day visit and an old song, and becomes a proper friend to the dwarves. She’s given a wrist brace at least, made of dwarven silver (some version of mitrhil tbh) and one of solomon’s shed scales that can deflect any blow. -

Back in Knittelnau - Late October into November.

Bestina, who genuinely mourned her daughter, very quickly falls into old habits and it becomes stifling and difficult

Coriander only barely stops Ma from cutting her hair off, facing a wall of verbal abuse and invalidation for it but now she can stand up for herself.

OR DOES SHE GET IT CUT OFF and hates it and realizes how much she loved how long her hair had grown. (The length of her entire arm in less than a year! Maybe there is some magic in her after all.)

(there is. Surprise. Just not a lot. Never a lot)

Helps with the winter preparations, but feels stifled.

Irial Shows up to tell her that a dragon is attacking Sterea and burning the forests and they need her to help. He puts her on his horse, who can travel faster than the wind and they get to Sterea in a matter of days. She stops them to pick some wild chervil. It’s important even if he doesn’t believe her.

Sterea (Again)

Gaelgallah is burning. People have been displaced. Farms destroyed. A great opalescent drake flies above Sterea, burning everything.

Annie is given a sword and shield by Mylene, but she rejects it, and instead climbs to the tallest tower, and raises the flowers high in the air

Solomon stops, and goes to find her. She points out all the people he’s hurting, all the death he’s causing. He says elves can’t die, but doesn’t realize all the humans around the country instead, and all the flowers he’s killed, and the two dragon eggs being incubated in the Sterea Palace

He agrees to leave, and makes to fly away but the wind made by his wings destroys the already crumbling tower and annie falls to her death. Last thing she sees is solomon trying to save her.

ooh or does she fall before he agrees to leave

Hyla Lea.

A floating island of permanent late spring between Life and Death where the Sylph Lives. Sylph is basically the top god in the pantheon

Coriander wakes up under a sea of stars in a field of flowers. It isn’t the middle of winter, but late spring. It’s warm and pleasant and a breeze is blowing.

The sylph appears and tells her all that’s transpired

All who touch the hollow ring have their fates hidden from Fate after they touch it, and since she remembered fate’s flower in Knittelnau, he took a liking to her and followed her maybe?

Solomon retreated to his home thinking he killed Annie

Jasper has been crying and hasn’t left Annie’s side since he found her in the rubble

Irial is mourning privately, and has vowed to slay Solomon

The Dwarven Queen finally leaves Nashoth for the first time in centuries to aid the elves in repairing Sterea

The city mourns for coriander.

She is taken around Hyla Lea to see the goldstone palace, the (Castle in the Sky Robots) Guardians, etc, and tells Coriander the choice she has

Stay in Hyla Lea as the Sylph’s companion (something few mortals have ever been offered) or return to the world of the living. If she leaves, however, she can’t return and will be sent to the Hollow if she dies. A few mortals have accepted the offer before and greet her but it’s mostly sylph and annie

Hollow: A pale, misty reflection of the world of the living, but no wind blows, nothing grows and you can’t see more than 20-40 feet away. There are other wanderers but it’s unlikely to find anyone as you wander eternity.

Coriander chooses to return, because she hasn’t seen nearly enouhg of the world to be done with it yet.

Back in Sterea

She awakens to find Jasper at her bedside. He begs her for forgiveness, and vows to do everything he can to make ammends

She doesn’t forgive Jasper, but gives him the chance to atone over time. She has to go to find solomon.

Before she goes, the Elf Queen says that Solomon can MAYBE return, if he comes with her only and comes in peace, and find a way to make repairs for the damage on both ends

So she takes Jasper and Irial, who wants to keep her safe as well, and they start off into the Dragon Lands to find solomon together the end.

#coriander #outline #writing

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remembermemorablememories · 6 years ago

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Friday, January 18, 2019

post #375

main points:

- woke up to shovel snow

- toaster strudel breakfast

- one punch man episode binge through the rest of season 1 / talk to mudit about CS career stuff

- clean up phone photo files

- smash tourney! i showed up on stream :O

today i:

- woke up around 8am. i saw that our school district had a 2 hour delay so sheena was still home. i set an alarm for 8:30am cause i saw there was already snow collected on the ground from last night. if it kept snowing, i was gonna shovel it so the kitchen guy could come in. dad’s also sick so i didn’t want him to shovel

i got up really groggy and sheena was already up doing APUSH annotations. she said she heard dad go outside. i was like “ahhh no dad”. he was just heating up sheena’s car. i rushed downstairs and told him to go inside and i would shovel the snow. it was pretty thin, maybe 2-3 inches. my dad suggested i use the broom and then went back inside

i shoveled/broomed the snow for maybe 30 or so minutes and got it cleared + the sidewalks

- i came back in around 9am and sheena was on her way out. cause of the two hour delay, school started at 9:25am. i heated up some toaster strudels as the kitchen guy came in. he asked mom what she thought between the two vs. three lights. i was kind of confused cause my mom said she wasn’t sure what she thought would look better. i personally thought three would look good but also it’s her kitchen so she should decide :p the kitchen guy suggested two and after some deciding, my mom settled on two. i finished making the toaster strudels and started eating them and decided to watch S1E5 of one punch man

then i went upstairs and continued to go on a binge... LOL i love this show so much. i watched S1E5 to S1E10 or so, then took a lunch break around 1pm. i ate the salad that mom leftover from panera two nights ago. i also finished the blog post for yesterday cause i watched one punch man last night instead of writing it

- i had constipation earlier this morning when i was watching one punch. i held back on applying the medication for the hemorrhoids cause i’m not sure what to make of it. i’ll give it a few more days and see what happens

applied the medication after i finished eating lunch and then finished one punch man S1E11 and S1E12. ahhh i want moar one punch

- also talked to mudit about CS career stuff. he was asking if i had any resources for behavioral questions and general programming practices. i tried to give a few examples of behavioral answers i give and realized that they might not actually be that impressive... but i also feel like interviewers don’t worry too much about it cause they usually focus on the technical portion. we talked about the question “what’s a challenging project you’ve worked on?”. what’s considered “challenging” is subjective and i felt like my example HQ bot answer didn’t really help him... :’( i tried :shrug:

- spent some time from 4pm cleaning up my phone files. i realized that apple Photos doesn’t let me create separate Photo app things -- they all get bunched into the same thing. but fortunately on my backup hard drive i have everything broken down by months manually in folders when i made the switch a while ago. since i can’t put the Photos format on my external hard drive since it’s not apple formatted, i use the plain folders there. i decided on my mac, i’m just gonna keep dumping everything into the Photos app and just call it “2018-” until i decide to stop adding to it. i liked the geotagging/visualization and live photos feature. otherwise i’d just delete it and manually use my own folders

- shaved my face and then left around 5pm. i stopped by walgreens on the way to get metamucil to increase my fiber to try to help out with my stool. cause i’ve been having constipation since i started applying the medication. then i stopped by wawa near the smash venue, getting a bacon avocado club sandwich and mac and cheese. i just ate it in the parking lot :p

- i got to the venue around 6:15pm and checked in. then i just hung around for a bit. i hopped on a setup and a guy joined me for friendlies. his name was vincent i think. he had a diddy kong that was really good and he wrecked me. then he used mewtwo and i got more wrecked. but after 5 or so games we got kicked off the set up to be used for doubles. but then the setup was open after the doubles game was played so we hopped back on. i met another asian guy named... i forget. his name might’ve been vincent actually... but anywho, we chatted a bit about our lives while we played friendlies. he and his friends just started freshman year of CS in new jersey :o that’s wild. i told him i just graduated LOL i’m so old. we played some falcon dittos or a bit, then got kicked of the setup and played on another one shortly afterwards. we also just kind of chilled at the wall talking. it was nice getting to meet him. we talked about what video games we played in middle school and high school and how his classes are going at university

- singles started on time around 7:45pm. my first set was against a link and i won 2-0. the winner of our set got placed on the streaming setup against a really good king dedede. while i was waiting i was messaging deepak about it LOL. he saw that the guy i was playing against placed 9th last week at the venue and his dedede is really good. oh boi

i got on the set up around maybe 8:30? anyway i saved the link so you can see a play by play but i got wrecked 0-2 LOL. he was really good at spacing with his gordos and i also kept overextending when i shouldn’t have. he was also part of a crew and they were also cheering him on on the side occasionally which was kind of distracting but oh well. he was clearly the better player. after we finished, we went to report the score and he told me about falcon’s nairs. i can’t string them in a combo on heavy characters like dedede unless i have rage or something. that was really nice of him to share with me :)

waited around for a little longer and then played against an ike in loser’s bracket i won 2-0. i felt kind of bad cause i found out it was the first tournament for the guy i was playing against. so basically me last week :p

finally my fourth game was against a lucina. i won the first game, lost the second game in a really close one, and then sd’ed in the third one and lost 1-2. it was a really close matchup though. we kept getting neck and neck, one stock each and at like 100%+. oh well, gg’s to him. he said i should ask him to play friendlies later

i hung around for a bit until a setup opened up and just as i got on, he also got knocked out. i learned that his name was matt and we just played friendlies from 10-11pm. he was a really nice dude. he played pichu and wolf. i played snake and mario. and then we both went back to lucina vs falcon for a few times at the end, playing another mock set. again, so close each game but i lost 1-2 :p

he game me his phone number cause he said if i wanna play doubles with him next week i should let him know. i was like booyah yeah sure. if i can make it next friday i’d be down

- drove home and got back around 12am. watched myself play on stream just to see what the commentators were saying. one of them gave me a semi compliment saying i wasn’t playing too badly considering i’m a newer player LOL

i’ll take it

anyways, that’s about it

i went to sleep around 1am

the end

#post #normal #january #2019 #smash

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dandelliongirl · 7 years ago

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Enjoying the chill

Literal and figurative.

It’s been insanely hot but my office is very cold so I’m kind of glad I get to come here during daytime. Sure, beach life and summer fun would be great and I’m a bit jealous of people with paid time off but hey - if I had time off it would be +5 degrees and snowing right now so at least other people get to enjoy summer now that I’m indoors.

My derm appointment last Thursday didn’t go as I hoped. Turns out I needed the old scar removed and a bit of extra buffer skin around it just to make sure they got everything out the first time around. So now I have a new set of stitches and no sauna/swimming for 2 weeks. I’m sure this nice hot summer weather is going to stop the day I get my stitches off and lake water will go back to being +16... I have an inflatable swim-doughnut spare tire thingy in case I want to go to the lake from the waist down but this sucks majorly. Also trying to keep the tape on my back makes showering real hard and getting sweaty and uncomfortable means that the wound itches a lot and there’s a high risk of inflammation. This is the worst time of year (or decade - even century) to have surgery of any type. But hey - cancer would suck more right? Gotta try to stay positive although it does feel super unfair. Even if I did have time off I couldn’t enjoy summer... I guess it’s good that I’m working anyway?

For some reason I woke up at 2:30 am on Monday to an anxiety attack. I haven’t had anxiety in a while and everything is 20 times worse at night when you really feel like you’re gonna die so in reality it probably wasn’t that bad but still bad enough to wake me up. I got up, went to pee and tried to fall back asleep but the anxiety woke me up at 3:30 again. I got up, drank some water, stretched and browsed twitter for a while since I thought there would be no point in trying to force myself to sleep and only make myself feel worse. Eventually I found a comfortable position hugging my teddy bear with my back against other plushy toys and managed to sleep until morning. The anxiety was with me all day Monday and partially Tuesday as well but now it’s mostly gone. It might just be the heat and a continuous need to drink water because I can’t think of any other reason for it. Or then it’s just a bunch of different stuff that I’ve got on my mind like my boyfriend returning, work starting to pick up next week, my stitched back, my disgustingly dirty house because it’s too hot to clean etc. Anyway I haven’t had anxiety like this in over a year so it was a surprise.

The yard at our summer house is going through some transformations. We have a new parking lot built and the spot for my new little sleeping cottage is prepped. I might have a new house by the end of this summer which is both exciting and kind of sad as my old dear little house is going to get taken away. The new one will be so super cute and free of mold so it’ll be easier for me to breathe there. ♥

So last week I hung out with my friend on Thursday after my disastrous derm appointment and it was good to have company. This time around I don’t really care to watch out or be careful with my wound or the scarring process and paying no attention to it has helped it feel less sore I guess. I had keloid scarring on the previous scar as well even though I was so so so careful so who cares at this point if the scar is just going to keep growing anyway.. Anyway me and my friend went shopping and played ACNL. The weekend was a bit rainy so I spent Friday at home watching YouTube videos and Skype calling my Israeli friend while playing some Stardew Valley. On Saturday I went shopping with mum and dad and after lunch we drove over to our summer cottage. It was a rainy but very warm day. On Sunday me and mum wanted to make a blueberry pie and going to pick blueberries I saw a viper snake on the path to the house. That scared us real bad since we haven’t seen any snakes on our lot. They usually hang out near the bigger road but I guess either the abnormal heat or all the new cottages being built around has somehow screwed with their territories. Anyway that was terrifying but we managed to make a delicious blueberry pie regardless.

On Monday me and my friends from ballet went on a picnic after I got off work. We spent the entire evening from 5 pm until midnight at the beach talking. We found out that one of my best friends from that group is getting married next summer and I’m SO excited and happy for her! We talked lots about weddings and the girls’ future plans now that they’re all high school grads and are going off to travel the world and go to college. I really hope we don’t drift apart.. I had such an amazing time and our little get-together was much needed. ♥ What’s better on a warm summer day than a picnic at the beach with some of my favourite girls and not a care in the world. ☼ Also wedding planning. ♥ ♥ ♥

So far I’ve been fine with the heat but last night was a bit tough. It was +30 in the house all night and I couldn’t really get a draft in because the air just wasn’t moving at all. Also, like a smart girl I made s’mores and monkey bread in the oven. Real hot. Everything was about to expire and I’m going on a diet starting August 1st so I have to get rid of all trash food in my house as soon as possible. It was bordering on uncomfortable but I managed to sleep so that’s fine. It was a sweaty and very warm evening watching mischacrossing 100% Breath of the Wild and play some Captain Toad Treasure Tracker.

My parents are coming back from the summer house today so I probably won’t go to the cottage today. I’m going to try and get a draft in my apartment but if it doesn’t work out I might have to come up with a plan B of what to do. Maybe me and mum can go for a walk/run. I could use it. I’ve been doing some squats and other body weight exercises at work this week. I’ve even napped a couple of times both on and under my desk. It’s hilarious but yeah - I misread my boss’ outlook calendar and she isn’t coming back until next week. A couple of my colleagues had an office chair race down the hallway yesterday so we’re all going a bit stir-crazy in here. Anyway I’m enjoying my time in the cool replying to the occasional request tickets and flowdock chat messages while watching videos on YouTube, listening to music, grinding the heck out of another Chip’s fishing tourney in ACPC + collecting gyroids, talking to friends, browsing Twitter/jodel/LinkedIN/Tumblr, watching twitch streams and taking care of other occasional stuff. Oh and taking long lunch breaks.

#personal #diary #July2018

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steve0discusses · 6 years ago

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Yugio S3 Ep 26: Marik’s Low Speed Escape From the Museum

This episode is quite short and contains about two things 1.) this weird 4-way duel that has little bearing on anything except who gets to play Marik and get super cursed first and 2.) flashbacks.

I am so thankful for flashbacks, because this was mostly watching Kaiba doing his damnedest to manipulate Joey Wheeler and Yugi into not working with eachother so that way Joey would lose and go up against Marik when Joey Wheeler has already decided he was going to go up against Marik.

It was very catty. Kaiba at his cattiest. He really thought he was breaking up this friendship of two people who were once chained by the ankles to an anchor when they’re like “no, Kaiba, you don’t get it. Kaiba, this is totally unnecessary, Kaiba. Kaiba, calm down.”

To be fair to Seto Kaiba, he probably absolutely believes that this is what Yugi is going to do before their Senior Year of High School is over. Kaiba kind of lives in a Game of Thrones situation in his head when in reality...he’s in high school playing cards.

(read more under the cut)

We also get a flashback of this show desperately trying to prove to us that they had planned JoeyxMai this whole time. I’m starting to realize this is just how they write most romances on this show, by inserting flashbacks instead of actually showing any romance in the current timeline.

And by romance, I mean aggressive friendship because yes that age gap is...still there. My bro was like “I dunno if they’re even still in High School at this point. I think they wrote them out of High School without telling us” but like, until they show me directly that they have graduated, then I’m just gonna still believe they’re in high school. Except Seto who is like both 18 and 16 and a college graduate at 14 or just never graduated the 9th grade depending on who you’re talking to. Seto will be our outlier of “he’s in class but don’t ask.”

Anyway, lets go hang out with Ishizu to see what happened when Marik decided to pay her a visit at the museum. This occurred directly after she handed over her God card to Seto Kaiba.

Yes, she gave her God card to Seto Kaiba, and then, once he was out the door, decided to lock herself in a vault, just so she could spook her little brother’s cultists. This family and their weird pranks.

But here’s the thing I just realized that I can’t shake. I know it’s a kid’s show so none of this will matter, but let me go a little Ace Attorney on us here and just throw out a very quick “objection!” to the floor because...there’s some continuity issues.

+++++++++++++++BORKED TIMELINE RANT FEEL FREE TO SKIP ++++++++++

(Shocking on this show that has Seto Kaiba’s timeline, that there’d be some continuity issues, but youknow...now we have new one.)

If she JUST gave that card to Seto Kaiba, and she did not leave Japan from the time that she gave Seto the card and the time the tourney started (since this museum show I assume has been in Japan this entire time), then why is Marik here?

Marik came here on a boat in the middle of S2, he made a big fuss about it, but apparently he was already here just weeks earlier. He was already in Japan, then got back on his boat, and just sailed around in the Pacific for a spell before heading back?

Did he just come here to get these cards and then also drop off Bandit Keith???? Except...Bandit Keith was...before Ishizu showed up in the timeline of this show.

Or, and this is might be even more confusing, what if this is happening in Egypt, and it’s a completely different museum, and Ishizu just left Japan at some point to stand in a vault until her brother showed up,and then got back on a plane back to Japan just in time to crash Yugi’s date?

And here’s the thing, lets just pull out that borked timeline. The Ishtar timeline, from the perspective of the Isthars, lets do this.

1. Marik feels like going on a really exotic yachting trip with his cultist buddies and decides to check out Pegasus’ Island off the coast of America(?) While there, he unexpectedly comes across Bandit Keith, who (and this must have been really shocking to every single cultist there who is used to living underground) is violently shot out of a strange slip n’ slide mechanism, that pops him out of a cliff-face and vaults him directly into the ocean. Curious, Marik picks the weird Trash American out of the sea, and he finds out that Bandit Keith knows Yugi, but instead of invading Pegasus’ island where Yugi was currently residing, Marik decides to go allllll the way to Japan (Which is crazy because Bandit Keith did not know what part of Japan Yugi lived in. Japan is freakin huge and made up of several islands.)

2. Since Marik wanted to get to Yugi ASAP, he tosses Bandit Keith onto the coast of Domino in order to abduct Yugi on his way to soccer practice. We can assume this happened...like a few weeks later (I really am not sure how fast his party yacht moves, but like...considering we also don't know where Pegasus’ island is (Maybe like the coast between California and Mexico?????) I can never say.) At this point, Marik probably just peaced out and went to Guam to hang out 20 leagues away from where Noah was currently plotting his revenge.

3. While Yugi is recovering from 3rd degree burns form the warehouse fire, and during which time, Yugi’s doctors were also trying to figure out how the hell to get Yugi to let go of the goddamn golden puzzle that remained in his hands from the moment Yugi passed out to the moment Yugi woke up in the hospital, Ishizu lands in Japan via a plane (although the English version erroneously says she lands in America, because for a little while they wanted to pretend that this entire show takes place in the US.) She unpacks her cargo, sets up a museum exhibit, and then on the news/psychic phone call, invites Seto Kaiba over so she can give a God Card to Seto Kaiba. I assume al that happened the very evening that the museum show opened. Like maybe this happens over the course of maybe a week or so from when Marik left Japan after dropping off Bandit Keith?

4. Shortly after (within the amount of time it takes Kaiba to get the idea to do the tourney and the time to hastily throw it together (which could not have been long, this tourney is a complete disaster)) Marik crashes Ishizu’s museum in.......Japan? Japan or Egypt. Something like that. Considering he wants to go where the God Cards are, he’d probably go to the exhibit that also has the giant God Card tablet that will curse everyone that looks at it. So...probably Japan. However, there are palm trees here, and so maybe it’s Egypt? I don’t know. After that doesn’t work out, he peaces out yet again, and then gets back on his boat for the second time, and goes straight back to Guam or wherever.

5. A few days later, Ishizu crashes Yugi’s and Tea’s date. (and if she has been in Egypt spooking Marik in a vault, this means she had to get off of a plane in order to make it in time to spook this date as well on the other side of the world) She tells Yugi about the tourney because for some reason, Kaiba has invited everyone with invites but just...didn’t send an invite to Yugi for some reason although Yugi is the only reason he’s throwing this tourney. Then she shows Yugi the cursed God Card tablet and then peaces out so she can join Kaiba’s tourney and play cards peacefully while everyone else was getting attacked by cultists.

6. About a few days later into the tourney...Marik arrives in Japan and we act as if this is the first time he ever has and it’s with a MUCH better motorcycle, but we’ll get to that motorcycle later.

It’s not as bad as the Kaiba timeline--I can’t even put the Kaiba timeline in a consecutive order, but mm. This brother sister team realllly likes to travel across the entire world and back within the span of a couple of months, huh?

++++++++OK THAT’S ENOUGH ABOUT THAT TIMELINE, BACK TO THE SHOW+++++++++++

I am so weirded out that Marik doesn’t wear like anything under his cloak. Like nothing. It’s just a gross sweaty cloak and that’s it...and like I have NO idea if he has pants on, they never scroll down. I mean, I assume he has matching purple pants...or probably cargoes, but...does he? Or does he just wear that cloak over a pair of golden boxers?

Also, why is he wearing golden arm bands with a long sleeved cloak? It’s because he knows he’s gonna take that cloak off at EVERY opportunity, right? Like that’s the only reason you would bother with the arm cuffs?

And then we get the most unexpected motorcycle in history.

So like...remember how Marik was hella into Motorcycles? Remember how it was really cool hot rods that made him start towards the evil side in the first place? Think about the coolest motorcycles you know and then...admire this one

This motorcycle that moved so slowly that the cultists casually jogged behind him like it was a parade or something. Like, did he steal the motorcycle from this museum collection?

Anyway, bro let me know that apparently in the Japanese version she’s got armed guards with guns, but they were edited out. Funny thing is, bro also mentioned that since Marik can just mind control people, it makes more sense that Ishizu wouldn’t bring an armed militia with her. I gotta agree, this is the one instance where the English version actually works better.

Although that motorcycle though. Wow. It’s like out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Marik just stuffed himself into that baby side car, making vroom vroom noises with his mouth as he glides away at a smooth 10 mph.

This is our serial murderer that killed Bakura, folks. It was this guy.

Kinda wish he kept the side car this entire time, that would have been a treat throughout S2.

Anyway, here’s a link to read all the recaps from Ep1 S1 in chrono order.

#yugioh #yu gi oh #yugioh recap #photo recap #episode recap #s3 ep 26 #I looked up this motorcycle and it's called a ural classic and that is an unfortunate name #hot damn I know it's a vintage motorcycle but did no one on the development team 50 years ago think youknow what ural sounds like?#yugi muto #seto kaiba #joey wheeler #marik ishtar #ishizu ishtar #sidecar motorcycle

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