#(not in this story.. we don't talk about the alt endings that im working on)

[heehoonies]

okay i just finished under the table… but aren’t heejaykehoon best friends there? then why are the three hitting y/n up? 💀 it’s just not it 💀 and the way i feel like they’re trying to get in her pants??? that’s *sigh 🤦‍♀️🙅‍♀️ bro wtff i was relieved that jake won her the other three creeps me out ngl 😅

hii nonnie ^-^

well first explanation is they're frat boys 💀 the only person i really intended to look like he was hitting on y/n was heeseung, and heeseung was being extra flirty at times because he was trying to get jake to make a move. shitty? maybe, but he knows how stubborn jake is and felt like he had no other choice. they're all still best friends here so don't worry. and once jake and y/n get together, they all dial it back. just to make sure jake knows that none of them are trying to steal her or are interested.

but yeah. the three of them have naturally flirty personalities in this and they all kinda have a reputation for being overly friendly, so y/n just views their nicknames and behavior as normal. if they wanted to make a move on her, any of them would've in a heartbeat, so she doesn't really care.

maybe i overdid it just a tad with the friendliness and nicknames (i just am so whipped for all three i think it slipped in), i never intended to make them seem creepy 💀 but yeah, heejayhoon aren't trying to get in her pants, they all know how jake feels, but that's just how they are with everyone. whether it's creepy or not is for you to decide, lol, but i like how i wrote them hehe. but yeah ^-^

above everything, thank you so much for reading and enjoying my story!! im sorry heejayhoon made u feel creeped out that wasn't my intention at all 💀 but maybe this explanation will help ease the creepiness lol

[cyberneticlagomorph]

is there something you've got that you've worked really hard on and loved, but not really been able to share extensively, in Jack's world? yes this is an invitation to talk about it.

god theres so fuckin much

the second version of the lore doc is 104 pages long at present and this 3rd edition is gonna be AT LEAST that and some change

i have pages upon pages of weird stuff i've written down and mulled over and will never ever use bc i have no idea how to incorporate it into anything yet

like the-end-of-everything

ok so i gotta put this under the cut due to length and religious stuff and Theseus Hare spoilers

so the-end-of-everything is

a lot?

She's almost As Much as Jack

She's the personified Ending of Jack's Narrative, the Jabberwocky from Alice in Wonderland, the angel Lucifer, The Green Sun from Homestuck, Nidhogg from Norse mythology, Mr Eaten from Fallen London and a million billion other things

She exists currently as a weird dream ghost that has attached Herself to Jack to the point where he dreams about Her every night no matter what.

The same dream, every single night for as long as he can remember

In one of his earlier iterations on this blog, he had his ability to dream SURGICALLY REMOVED (don't ask me how he did it, he just did it, it was hard) and She still showed up every night like normal

You see, their fates are tied together. Jack is the Protagonist, and She the Antagonist, as well as the Ending to his story.

Her in universe lore is fucking WILD and i'm probably not gonna do much of anything with it on the blog for Reasons.

In universe She was made to be Fairyland's original captive star, but She was Too Much on many levels to the point where Her creators had Her lobotomized in hopes that would calm Her down. It did not, She eventually escaped and fucked off into deep space, where She met God (yes that God) and fell in love.

He made Her his favorite angel and named Her Lucifer. And then the shit in Eden happened and She got kicked out of heaven

She swore revenge against God for abandoning Her and when She tried to take that revenge She was torn apart and devoured by... something.

In older drafts it with other deities, im not sure about now tho, but Her leftovers were shoved into a well/hole/pit at the bottom of the universe where nobody could ever find them, Her True Name erased from all history and record. (Hence why we know Her as the Nameless Thing)

She wasn't dead though, not completely anyway. She found Her way into the world of dreams and spoke to people through them, She amassed followers and made plans.

And then a child was Born

Alice was born, many Alices in fact. Each born and grown and groomed for war and lost and lost and lost because they were not the right Alice to slay the Jabberwocky

Jack is supposed to be the Right Alice, Alice is actually his deadname and why his VTM alt is Named That. Jack is supposed to slay the Jabberwocky for good with the Vorpal sword and lock Her away inside of himself forever and always

See, Lucifer does not want that at all, She wants to find Her Name and pull Herself back together so She can kill God for what he did and then devour the multiverse bc everyone let God Do That to Her so they very much should all die about it.

THE THING IS

Outside of the in universe lore, She doesn't HAVE a fucking Name to find. The Writer never gave Her one, She was never supposed to win or leave or anything, and even if She was the Narrative is unfinished and abandoned so She's stuck in here with the rest of those virgins until She figures out a way to Fix That.

Also Lucifer and the elder god thing inside of Vorpal have major beef, they had beef before Vorpal died and became a bone sword. I'm 90% certain Luci is why Vorpal fuckin died but i might change that later. Vorpal was made exclusively to kill the Jabberwocky and other divine entities so if they didn't have beef before they sure do now???

ANYWAY

I wanna do so much with Her but i can't cuz writer's block has hands, I'm a coward, and vivzieverse made characters based on biblical figures Weird and Kinda Uncomfortable but The-End-Of_Everything is my fucking BABY and i can't wait for you to meet Her, also she looks like this in jack's nightmares:

art by @/pencilbrony my befriended

[autobots-in-training]

Do ignore the other question from this account; it was my very chaotic friend. However, I do have a question for two of you and just a little thing to say to one more of you, and I do suggest not letting the others see this question. Hotshot First aid and Springer First off, this one is for first aid. I say as a medic myself quite simply that a lot of bad stuff is going to happen in the future to you and all of your fellow younglings, and you are going to lose a lot of bots under your care, but it will not be our fault, and you will become one of the best medics known to the cybertronian species, and I highly suggest you don't read this out loud to anyone else since I sound insane. Now since this "ask" just got a bit quite dark, let's lighten it a bit. Question for Hotshot: Since you are clearly aware your caretaker Optimus Prime is the greatest autobot to exist, have you ever heard of an autobot by the name of Elita-1?

Question for Springer: Since Prowl is clearly your carrier by the looks of it and just by the way you talk about him, did he ever tell you any stories and did he ever teach you anything cool?

- Medic Knockout (PS Im super srry that this is so long)

First Aid- Woah. Uh. Thanks! Are you from cybertron? I've never heard of you. I can list all the medics i know on one hand. Carrier, Lotty, Pharma, Red Alert and Hoist. Though they are all autobots, are you a neutral?

Arcee- First Aid, are you answering a question without us?

First Aid- Oh! Sorry i was just reading the question. These are for Springer and... Hot Shot? I think he meant Hot Rod. *takes a deep breath*

Arcee- Wait don't yell!-

First Aid- SPRINGS!!! RODDY!!!

Arcee- I hate you.

Springer- Hey Aid, whats up? I brought Roddy with me.

Hot Rod- Hi!

First Aid- Cool. Was your time with Hound and Mirage fun?

Hot Rod- Yeah!! Hound took us around the ship in his alt mode!

Springer- Illy got tired, so they stayed with their creators.

First Aid- Ah. Anyway, i called you guys cause you have a question each.

Springer- Nice!

Hot Rod- I wanna answer first!

First Aid- Do you know Elita?

Hot Rod- Riri talks about her sometimes. She's the autobot leader on Cybertron, since not everyone could or wanted to leave.

First Aid- Yeah, i think you were still too little when we left Cybertron to remember anything. You might have been 2-3 thousand years old when we left. Elita is basically on parr to Optimus. I watched them spar a couple times, they were 50/50 on terms of strength and skill. They were best friends too.

Hot Rod- Woaaah!!

Arcee- I was still a bit shy, so I didn't talk with her much. She was nice the times i talked with her. She's actually why i chose to be pink.

First Aid- It's terrifying sometimes. You look like you are covered in dried energon.

Arcee- Exactly.

Springer- What's my question?

First Aid- Has your carrier taught you anything or told you any stories?

Springer- About what?

First Aid- I dunno, thats just what the question is.

Springer- Hm... my riri has taught me quite a bit! I know some stuff about genetics, he knows a LOT, the study of cybertronian genetics wasn't allowed before the war, but both my carriers studied it in secret. I was actually one of their expiriments.

First Aid- Oooh, so they had you to see what traits you'd have from each of them?

Springer- Uh. Yeah. Kinda. He also tells me about my other carrier. I remember very little of him. His optics were... they were yellow. Carrier says i look a lot like my other carrier when he was younger.

Arcee- Thats really sweet!

Springer- I want to meet him again. I'm hoping he's still out there.

Arcee- When the war is over, we'll team up and look for our carriers together!

First Aid- I'l help! There's nothing we can't do when we work together!

Hot Rod- Can i come too?

First Aid- You're too little for that. And wouldn't you miss your riri?

Hot Rod- Oh... yeah :[. I'll stay then. Illy would be lonely without me too.

Springer- Wanna see your carrier now?

Hot Rod- Yeah!!

Springer- Let's go then!

*end transmission*

[toherlover]

elle!! hi! can i ask some advice? i have been in what i dont know how to describe other than a "committed situation-ship" for a little over a year now (#embarrassing). like we are exclusive and together and say "i love you" and do everything together, hang out 5-6x a week, and go on dates and kiss (ew), etc etc we just have chosen rn not to put labels on it or define it or admit we are in a relationship basically bc we are coworkers and this will probably all fall apart the second we leave our shitty job and i guess we figure this will hurt less, if we don't have to "break up"?? (i asked for us to not define it for like 10 months but now i feel stupid about it and want to define it and he doesn't but that's a different story). we kind of just planned to have a fun little fling and then unfortunately realized we really care for each other for real and that was not the plan and what to do now!! my mom thinks im delusional for believing him when he says he loves me. and i guess typing it out now it does seem delusional, to ever believe he'll want to commit in the future. ........ok sorry i am getting WAY off track, because i literally just wanted to ask what you thought about valentine's day?? and would it be bad to hope for and want him to buy me flowers? he has never bought me flowers before and i know it's maybe an outdated thing and maybe it's not his style but sometimes a girl just wants to feel romanced you know???? but i guess because he is technically not my boyfriend, i often feel out of line asking for "more" or asking for relationship stuff. like pls buy me flowers, pls call me more, pls be more affectionate rn etc etc. idk why im so stressed about valentine's day when i truly never thought i would be that girl!!! but im worried if he doesn't even think about it then we are doomed or something idk idk!!! sorry this is so long!!!!!!! ily!!!! 💛

hey!! i’m so so sorry i didn’t respond to this until now!!

so there’s a lot of layers in this- but i think if it comes down to the fact that you love each other it’s all about communication. my best friend was in a situationship like this for a while where he wouldn’t say they she was his girlfriend (i’ll send you the list of alt names we came up with it’s hilarious honestly,) and when they finally talked about it and she expressed what she truly thought between the two of them so many lines were unblurred and it all came together. they ended up moving cross country together when her fear of moving without him was what was holding them back.

i don’t think there’s ANYTHING wrong with wanting more. even if neither of you want to label it, it’s what you expect and how you would like to be treated so it’s in no way out of line to ask for more. i would tell him you want to do something for valentine’s day- maybe sprinkle in the flowers and see how he responds.

the worst that can happen is he says no. and yes, that’s awful and it would suck and it would hurt but you would also know!! it wouldn’t be haunting you or looming in the future you’d know! and then you can respond however your heart desires!!

if he loves you i don’t think there’s anything to worry about- i’d try my hardest to put the work part aside bc it’s a bside issue in the long run!!

if you feel that strongly about it it’s worth it- your feelings in this are totally valid and deserve to be felt and paid attention to!!

[sophsicle]

hello

I don't mean this to be rude - I was just wondering what made you change your characterisation of barty and evan from your previous work in choices to kill your darlings?

I mean in choices, I think barty expecially was very antagonistic- what with him being an almost r*pist and an enthusiastic death eater, pretty happy with murdering

i was just wondering what made you change their characters to be more sympathetic? I don't understand it personally, but I know rosekiller as a ship has gotten extremely popular and its just flummoxed me

im just not sure what redeeming qualities they could have, especially with barty in canon being an absolute lunatic

although is that because this isn't a canon universe?

sorry if this comes across as rude or anything im just genuinely confused as to where all the hype and romanticisation around those 2 characters came from

your writing really is lovely though, i look forward to all other povs, and am especially excited for any future marylily!

Y’know I was literally talking about Barty earlier today

But why did I decide to change their characters? Cause it's a hockey/college AU so their canon characters would make no sense here?

Like I suppose I could make them alt-right-Nazis-incels or some variation thereof, but like, I very much did not want to do that, for so so many reasons, but partially because dealing with those very heavy themes was exhausting in Choices, and dealing with people’s reactions to those difficult themes was also exhausting and, idk, did not lead to healthy productive conversations. And kyd was supposed to be ... not that? Like with Choices, I very much had things that I wanted to try to tackle and dissect and deconstruct and complicate and critique and ALL of that. And like I said, it ended up being really very not a good time for me. But kyd was never supposed to be that.

So yeah I wanted to tone them down, and then Evan in Choices had elements of the dumb jock in him and I thought it would be fun to write that in a different context without the horrible parts of his character and so it kinda snowballed from there.

Look, I agree that in canon they have no redeeming qualities, this is just not remotely close to canon so I don’t see how it applies?

I mean I’ve taken elements right? Barty’s overbearing and controlling father, the idea that he’s leading a double life, his mother’s death etc.

As far as I know we don’t really have any information about Evan other than that he was a death eater so, take that away, and I feel like he’s basically a blank slate,

But there would be no point, to me at least, in writing another fic only to tell the exact same story with each character you know?

Obviously there’s crossover, but like, Snape and Regulus are also very different from how they were in Choices. Writing everyone the same would just be boring to me.

[fly-pow-bye]

DuckTales 2017 - “The Great Dime Chase!”

Story by: Francisco Angones, Madison Bateman, Colleen Evanson, Christian Magalhaes, Bob Snow, Matt Youngberg

Written by: Madison Bateman

Storyboards by: David Baker, Matthew Humphreys, Tanner Johnson

Directed by: John Aoshima

Worth far more than 10 cents.

One of the big changes DuckTales 2017 is the way they handled the nephew's personalities, and as such, we're going to see more episodes that show them. Woo-oo focused on Dewey, this episode focuses on Louie, and Huey's time in the spotlight will come later. Like the last episode, there's two setups.

Louie is enjoying his new life at McDuck Manor...a little too much, in fact. He adopted a "who cares, we're rich!" attitude, wasting soda, throwing away his phone when it just needs to be charged, and he doesn't even want to reach for the remote when he doesn't like what's on TV. Scrooge McDuck is not too pleased by this, and wants to teach Louie a lesson in the value of working hard.

Meanwhile, we get Dewey doing a continuation of the last minute reveal of “Woo-oo!” Just a reminder: I may not spoil the last minute reveals, but I have to talk about their aftermath, so if you haven't watched the one-hour special yet...why haven't you?

The B plot focuses on Dewey trying to find more information about his missing mother, Della Duck, after finding out she was involved with Scrooge McDuck's adventures. Uncle Donald won't tell him anything, and he only has one photo. Even Webby, who has encyclopedic knowledge of the McDucks, is just as in the dark. Her only file on Della only consists of that aforementioned photo, and anyone who seems to bring her up tends to get silenced. They decide to investigate.

Of the two setups, it's clear which one is more interesting. Della Duck is going to be the main mystery throughout the entire series, and it's something that never really came up in the original. One might be thinking that the title is a bit of a reverse bait and switch, as the more interesting plot has nothing to do with the Number One Dime that is being chased after. With the rest of the episode, I'd say it's a bonus.

After a shortened theme song, which, surprisingly for a show nowadays, is not going to be the norm, Scrooge McDuck takes Louie. Dewey and Webby were allowed to tag along, who immediately tell Scrooge they have to use the restroom. Scrooge...doesn't even reply, and they just run off.

Meanwhile, Huey...doesn't exist in this episode. No, seriously, they don't even mention him. It's better than forcing him in, turning him into one of the other ducks, even if that would be far more fitting than a certain other trio.

Of course, they're not going to the bathroom, they're going to Scrooge McDuck's archives, guarded by the librarian, Miss Quackfaster. The very first thing she says is to tell Webby that only Scrooge McDuck and family can come in. Her emotions instantly change once she sees the nephew.

This episode re-establishes that Webby loves to get every single detail about the McDuck family, as she gets excited about books about Scrooge McDuck's favorite smells. Fresh cookies, for the record. Nothing wacky. As for Dewey, his is going to be very difficult, as Miss Quackfaster has to put him through some unclear trials. You'll never know what comes up next with her.

Webby is sure that Dewey will be able to pass the trials, though. Why shouldn't he, he should be the master of the Dewey Decimal System! They really did that joke.

Back at Scrooge's office, Louie gets a tour, including a big painting of Scrooge and some workers, the Number One Dime, and, of course, the famous moneybin! We even get a joke about how swimming in a pool of hard, solid things is generally not a good idea, with Scrooge saving Louie from learning that the hard way. Twice.

He gets dragged into a meeting with the McDuck Enterprises Board, the vulture capitalists that also happen to be vultures. Scrooge gives Louie the explanation that, since they tend to be cheaper than him, he trusts them more than anything. He then immediately disagrees with them when they suggest that the moneybin isn't a great use of assets. These vultures are going to be villains eventually, I bet.

We get this reboot’s version of Gyro Gearloose, the inventor. Right from his first line, this is not the Gyro from the original cartoon. I actually reblogged an explanation from Francisco Angones a few days ago, which is a good read.

Gyro: Shut up, everyone! I've done something brilliant!

Yeah, he's more of a hothead in this one. Scrooge McDuck even forces him to use cards to pitch his latest invention: Little Bulb. Like Little Helper from the original series and comics, he's a tiny bulb robot that, among other things, allows people the joy of not having to do anything by themselves. Louie is excited at the prospect, but the vultures bring up his general problem: his robots tend to become sentient and evil. While he admits that's at least half-true, he tells his robot not to do so.

He's going to become sentient and evil, isn't he? His invention gets denied, and in the midst of everything, Louie sneaks away to get a soda. And then something goes terribly wrong.

One of the first things Louie saw was the Number One Dime, put on a pillow and a pedestal. Said pedestal is another "waste of assets" according to the vultures, but he's not just going to tell them no.

We even get his origin story for the dime, done in paintings. As a shoeshiner, it was the first dime he has ever gotten. That number one dime that Louie decided to use to get a soda that costs 10 cents more than a dollar. Scrooge doesn't know that one, but Louie sure does, as he manages to walk in as soon as they're talking about it. Oh, Louie!

He rushes back to the soda to see it getting collected! He then has to follow this coin collector, but misses the elevator. One of the main running jokes is that Louie desperately tries to catch elevators, but has to take many, many stairs instead. It doesn't really get old.

Meanwhile, Miss Quackfaster is trying to slash these poor kids open, as people have been harmed to know about Della Duck! I didn't skip too many scenes here; she is very unpredictable. My favorite joke in these scenes is that Dewey manages to pick out a book on how to disarm people...and just throws the book at her. I am glad the show's use of little jokes like that is consistent.

When he finally gets to the door where the collector stored all of the coins from the machine, including the Number One Dime, he's sad to see that it's locked. What's worse is that these coins are about to be collected by a coin sucking machine. Gyro shows up just in time, and Louie convinces him to give him Lil Bulb. He waited for someone to say yes, so he gives it to the little rascal. Guess what happens later.

Lil Bulb unscrews the doorknob, and Louie congratulates...himself. Lil Bulb is not pleased. I probably wouldn't blame Louie, to be honest; it was how Gyro sold him! Actually, that was from the cue cards, so maybe it was Scrooge's fault in the end!

We get some modernization in the form with the existence of smartphones, already seen in the very beginning. He looks up an instructional video on how to unlock doors, and once he gets the robot to search coins for him, he decides to play on his phone. It seems that every other example of trying to tie in modern technology would lead to something becoming dated in the future.

Eventually, after Louie's lack of any real appreciation for what he has done, Lil Bulb gets mad enough that he takes over the coin sucking machine, and becomes...

...the CGI giant robot from the intro, and he's gone coo-coo for dimes! Yes, that little light bulb on that robot among the villains really was Little Helper, though calling him a villain may not be the right word. Rampant?

Speaking of which, Gyro gets to see this robot, and he unfortunately has to make an alteration to his list of robots that became good or evil. Heavily stacked on the evil side, because that what seemed to happen in the comics and the original cartoon, too.

Gotta love those hidden jokes. They even referenced the origin for the Cogs in Toontown Online. I looked that up, for the record. The robot broke the elevator, which is bad news for Louie, as that means more stairs. That also means good news, as Scrooges has to do the same problem. Even Scrooge suffers from the running gag in the end, which is a great touch.

Louie: Lazy sunday means afternoon TV...working hard means giant robot attack...great life lesson, Scrooge!

Oh, Louie.

I was really hoping there wasn't going to be a copout after all of these trials, and it almost looked like one at first. However, I'm glad to that that doesn't turn out to be the case. Not only does the Della Duck mystery advance, we get a little thing that changes quite a bit of it. Like I said before, I don't spoil them, I wait until the results.

As for Louie's plot, it all ends in the very money bin, which Louie climbs down a ladder to get into, proving that he's learned something. I did like Gyro's reasoning for Lil Bulb becoming evil so easily: he was a 75 watt bulb made for a 50 watt robot body; he got mad with power! They would have done the "ba-dum tsh", but they did the joke during an action sequence, so it wouldn't be appropriate. Who would have thought?

As Fly Pow Bye DuckTales 2017 review tradition, I'm not going to get into the endings here, but it's safe to say that everyone in the dime plot is happy in the end. I will say the ending of the "dime" plot is a bit of a copout, though it's not unfitting.

Oh, and there's yet another twist, and while it's not as earth-shattering, it's still gives something to look forward to. I’ll just use that image as a hint. Let’s just say...he gets an idea. Again, results.

How does it stack up?

I felt that this episode was better than Daytrip, though Daytrip is still a great episode by my usual standards. Even the A plot, which is more standalone, was entertaining. It’s only fitting the episode where this screenshot came from also gets the rating its associated with.

Next, Webby meets a new friend!

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