#2edgy4me

[feral-funeral-dot-com]

Partypooper

[farsight-the-char]

Don't we have a "death race" set with a bunch of Vehicles (and probably mounts) coming soonish?

Yeah the Survival mechanic is a lot of "stealth" support for that.

Nice flavour.

Goes well in Greasefang.

[maskedteatime]

corniest fic the world will ever witness

someone left me alone with the keyboard again

[jumpinggreenjellybeanz]

Have I posted this char yet- I don't think I have so WHAM

HER NAME IS RUTHLESS STEEL AND SHE'S A KNIFE TOSSING CLOWN. She used to be a part of the Big Top Carnival [dramatic creepypasta pause] ..But not anymore. Not since.. the accident. But dw about that :o]

^

Hai

She's also Ringmaster Pyper's mom

[departmentofsnideremarks]

That rainy, Friday morning feeling when you first walk into work and you already know that it's just Andrew burning the crap out of his English muffin in the office kitchen but there's still a tiny sliver of hope that the smell of burnt toast really might be a stroke after all and you might get to go home.

It's the little things.

[vaugarde]

the sole reason i have not spoiled yall with quinn’s entire story by now is because she is so annoying to draw. im so sorry girl

[jumpinggreenjellybeanz]

If y'all been checking out my comic lately, there should be a new one either this upcoming or next Thursday (really wanting it to be the former!) Til then, this was the week prior's!

I've been putting a ton of my passion and energy into it recently, and so I'm really excited in general to just get back into comics after one year of hiatus :oD

New comic is UP!

This one is short, but another longer one is already in the works >:o)

[dingusships]

I feel rancid for thinkin that up I gotta apologize to the little ace in my head who's currently going thru all stages of grief

[feral-funeral-dot-com]

Oh shit

[muffinrecord]

I don't have Yuu but I've been dying to know what she looks like in live2d. Vivi posted these images in the discord last night but I wanted to see her for myself in motion. Luckily she does indeed appear in the event, so

I think it's interesting that unlike every other magical girl so far, she has this crooked neck. Even more interesting, it's present also outside of her magical girl form.

There's something a little off about it. I know this gal is like, 2edgy4me but I genuinely really like a lot of the design decisions made for her. She just comes across as otherwordly, from her witch-like magical girl design to how she stands differently from other magical girls, to her blank eyes and hidden mouth. I just really like it.

If any girl deserves to be void: it's her. I can genuinely believe she snapped when she made her wish and that whatever we're seeing now is someone very different from the person she was before. It's almost like she's an animated doll walking around, a body that doesn't know it's dead yet. I'm fascinated.

[grandmasickomode]

Some of the Palworld "2edgy4me" Paldeck entries

[artbyblastweave]

i get that the birdcage leaders are various villain archetypes (black kaze is ms. Omar wa mou shinderu, teacher is the cat-petting guy, etc) but I can't wrap my head around Crane the Harmonious. Is she Slade?

Slade and some other guys. My read is that she's an attempt to model the Supernaturally Effective Martial Arts Trainer archetype in a setting that doesn't actually have secret supernaturally-effective martial arts traditions that stretch back thousands of years. Lady Shiva, Stick, O-Sensei, Taskmaster to an extent. The characters Upstream of all the badass normals and Martial Arts Capes. There are more of these guys I'm forgetting about. Also, I did notice individually the archetypes each of these guys are playing around with but I'm slapping my forehead that I never put together that the point of the Cell Block Leader thing is to act as, like, a gallery of different flavors of supervillainy, demonstrating the range of archetypes the setting can support. Acidbath as representation for the 2edgy4me late-90s-early-oughts gritty punk-flavored mass-murderers, Gavel as rep for their anti-heroic opposition, Galvanate as an analogue for Kingpin, Tombstone, Hammerhead and the rest of the Mob-villain set, Lab Rat and String Theory as two different strains of Mad Doctor in the Dinosaurs-instead-of-Cancer-Cures tradition, Marquis as the Classy Sorta-Baroque Villain who picks up a cult following and eventually gets longtime fans as writers on the character who push him into Noble Demon territory, Lustrum as the Poison-Ivy-Magneto type who increasingly gets written as Having A Point, Actually, Ingenue as.... actually I'm drawing a blank on this one. What the hell is Ingenue modelling? Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl operationalized as a supervillain?

[mermaidsirennikita]

The dichotomy between what's popular according to booktok (from what I've see) from the most blandest books imaginable to the most taboo erotica you can think of is kinda wild.

I think that what gets me with taboo books recommended by BookTok is that they're usually very poorly written. And if the writing is poor, you're not really getting the full "shock" value.

Like, when you read Sierra Simone's Thornchapel series, the scenes read as really intense because Sierra is an excellent writer. In contrast, a book like Hooked (that one dark romance~ modern Captain Hook book, a concept I was very open to and wanted to like, for the record) is very badly written. There's taboo content and a horrible hero, but like... It just reads juvenile.

I'm about 65% through A Kiss at Midnight by Anne Stuart, a historical romance that is QUITE dark, but the writing is frankly fabulous. Because Stuart can write, the darkness (which is not like, the corny "oh he's so bad he's in a motorcycle gang" torture sequence stuff--it's TRULY intense and pretty accurate for the era) is balanced out by emotional progression and honestly? A very dry, at times dark humor. If a lesser writer handled this plotline, it would just seem like shock factor after shock factor layered on just to get people talking. Very 2edgy4me.

And I'm gonna be really real here. Some fanfic authors are made to transition to actual published books. I think Ali Hazelwood writes a really solid contemporary romance. I really enjoyed You, Again by Kate Goldbeck, and that's based on a fic I actually read. The Hurricane Wars works as a book. (And mind you, let's not take away from the work the editors and authors did to rework fics into actual books here.)

Some fic authors are meant to stay fic authors and to excel at that. I personally think that one of the reasons why we have so many blaaand romance novels right now is that a) some of them are written by less-equipped fic authors trying to write real books and b) some of the authors have read less actual books than they have fics.

There are some tensely plotted, exciting fics out there. But personally? I think the standout nature of those fics--fics like Manacled, which... I think.... is not.... for me. However, bland it is not lol--makes people think that is the NORM for fic, when it's not. The norm for fic, and what I think a lot of more casual fic consumers and people who read more fic than they do books (compared to a lot of romance readers who turn to fic to supplement their reading habits) is very plotless slice of life stuff.

And that's not meant to be derogatory. It works, especially when you're writing about characters a lot of people know and love and are PROGRAMMED to know and love. Even if it's AU and they're basically other people, if you're writing a modern, sedate romcom about Katniss and Peeta and she mentions going to archery classes and Peeta being a baker, people are like aawwwww and they enjoy the nicely written scenes that are just people being people.

That.... ultimately creates a bland story when you're writing a book about original characters nobody has a preexisting investment in.

[randomnameless]

Final Squad for Alain was the "Cornian Cavalry" : Alain with Renault and Clive on the front line, with Josef (with the ring of the maiden!) and Monica behind - they couldn't do shit in Albion but at least they didn't die lol

I wasn't that fond of Shooters because I felt like while Liza could withstand one or two hits and not die afterwards, she tended to, well, still die when put on the front line, maybe my team wasn't optimal though but yeah, her dmg output is nothing to scoff at and unlike Berengaria, she knows how to use her great shield.

Yeah same, I wanted to get a lot of rapport convos but ultimately couldn't do it, fuck those 2k gold Albion sandwiches :(

I got more use of the Feathershields and Featherbows in the final DLC/added quest where you can play with Ilenia and... Alcina, Gary, Beaumont and Eligor :(

(I laughed way too much when one of the generics who joined with Ileina was named "Casimir" and I was just "daww that's Alain's mom who last saw him when he was 7 so of course she brings kid!Alain's favourite knight who used to tell him bedtime stories!" and then I had sad feelings (tm) about the entire situation because can you imagine the WTF Ilenia must be going through after the plot ends?)

The Sages mention something like "causality" but imo, isn't this map basically an AU of what happened in the Norbelle ending ? Basically everyone is red and/or unpromoted (or they are at the level of promotion you get them) and you fight against them on a map that has the BGM of each final stage.

Fave character, personality wise would be Gilbert or Josef himself!

Utility wise, given how Jeremy doesn't know how to count and slaughters units with some bastard cross that has between 10% to 20% of chances to hit, I'll give it to him.

WDYM only Alain can get the killing blow on Baltro???

TFW the Tricorns keep on whacking him to no avail, ditto with Magellan :(

even if plot wise it makes sense

@pandp-author Feathershields are absolutely ridiculous lol, Fodoquir basically exists and makes mage teams/teams where Sorceress try their "surprise you're frozen !" combo completely meaningless !

Sanatio's healing is completely stupid too lol, too bad we can't play more maps with the angels/feathered people, because they're fun to use!

I'll make a more detailed post about the epilogue later but plot wise for the final chapter, as expected, Gharnef Baltro backstabs the Red Emperor, it is revealed Ilenia - Alain's mom - survived in the prologue, but Red Emperor Galerius Galvius when defeated body/soul hopped on hers so she became his unwilling medium (which raises all sorts of questions here, when Alain kills Galvius during the "Rescue Scarlett" mission, did he aleady kill Ilenia and Baltro resurrected her, but she's somehow still alive and not a zombie?) but ultimately she is free when Baltro uses Galvius' soul to open the "gate to the netherworld" or something, to use the souls of the Zenoiran currently in limbo as fuel for his spells.

Given how Baltro notes that the Cornian Royal fam has the blood of the Maiden who survived the sacrifice of the Unicorn and its curse 800 years ago, I guess he implies that is the reason why Ilenia makes for a better host than the random Valmore - the previous human who was Galvius' host - but then it raises the question of Giethe hunting Virginia : wouldn't she have been used as a spare ? Granted, given how Galvius incarnates in the flesh of people who defeat him, the only way to incarnate in Virginia would be for either her or a random to kill Galvius while he's using Ilenia's body (and Virginia would later kill the random).

So I guess if Giethe brought her head Baltro would have been "you dumb fuck", but Alcina's plan to uwu with Gerard in Alain's body wouldn't put a dent in his plans, since he could get rid of Gerard in Alain's body to put Galvius instead if needed.

As cheesy as it was, I liked how the plot unfolded here - despite his "perfect lord" appearances, Alain still wants revenge for his mom and didn't forget what happened 10 years ago : if the player chooses to give Alain his vengeance, despite learning the plot and the truth about Zenoira, he... actually kills his mother, and Baltro is still Baltroing around.

If he acts as the better person and the "saviour", he tries to offer mercy to Galvius, despite him killing his mother and plunging the continent in a sea of blood, which gives Baltro the occasion and opportunity to betray Galvius, thus freeing Ilenia without killing her, and it gives the party the occasion to kill/banish him to oblivion instead.

The usual "follow the plot = you're rewarded + vengeance is meaningless" trope.

Of course I can't talk about the final map without ranting about the green NPCs that are here to "help" you - nice nod to have them be Drakengardians to echo Gilbert's earlier (at the end of arc 2!) words of sending Drakengard's help to help Cornia when it will be needed - sure his help is green units + Hermann (one of his retainer that is blue this playable \o/) but it's a nice nod to the former plot and you can honeypot about the political ramifications of this move (the Liberation Army led by the Cornian prince helped free Drakengard, so now the Drakengard Army will help the Cornian prince to free his country?).

No such lines about the enemy Bestrals - who as Bestrals can't be soul snatched - who are recruited by Dyna who basically tells them "wtf dudes stop fighting with them and join us instead!" but I confess I laughed at their names (il y en a qui s'appelle Paulo mdr, pourquoi pas Bébert pendant qu'on y est?).

Too bad the named minibosses aren't more developped, but I wonder if in the Norbelle aka worst ending we get to fight Reimann and pals instead.

Oh well, I'll have other occasions to replay that map to get the different endings - at least the normal one on this PT (the one where Alain kills Galvius but fights off the possession thanks to his magical plot ring that resonates with the plot ring of his partner).

[cuttingpenisblackmetal]

murdermag! set during doomstar requiem, during the 'partying around the world' phase. tw: torture, everything that happens in doomstar requiem.

read on ao3

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 11:46:

>hey i know this forum is capital d DEAD but uh… anyone seen the news about toki wartooth?

METALDEATH492 posted 11:53

>lul what news? i thought he was MIA

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 11:54

>that's what i mean dickface. where the fuck is he?

MURMURMURMAIDER posted 11:55

>isn't he at some metal retreat in finland? learning the art of troll summoning

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 11:55

>i heard he moved back 2 norway 2 become a priest

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 11:57

>knew it, nobody knows anything except for stupid rumors… u r all so gullible idiots

METALDEATH492 posted 11:58

>NOBODY knows where he is, that's why he's MISSING idiot

C4NN1B4LC0RPS3 posted 00:01

>my band teacher said he's finally recording his solo album. all toki. it's gonna be called "toki is the king" it's going to blow dethklok out of the water :P

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:03

>LOL ur band teacher is full of shit

C4NN1B4LC0RPS3 posted 00:05

>xD you are so stupid. my band teachers cousin met toki at a wedding once and he told her all about the album. ill show my signed copy to u dildos when he releases it next month o_-

TAMPERINGWITHUREVIDENCE posted 00:09

>i heard hes in hospital cuz a clown tried to murder him

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:14

>You're all wrong. Toki's been kidnapped by the terrorist organization known as the Revengencers.

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:17

>2edgy4me

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:20

>He was kidnapped at Roy Cornickleson's funeral, along with Dethklok's new producer, Abigail. He's being held prisoner, waiting to be rescued by Dethklok.

TAMPERINGWITHUREVIDENCE posted 00:21

>pics or it didnt happen

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:23

>sickpuppy.jpg

>sickpuppy2.jpg

>sickpuppy3.jpg

/

The artificial light of the phone's screen burns into Murderface's eyes. He's aching for need of sleep, aching because he's been staring at this screen for hours, aching because he's two weeks into a bender and plastered to a sofa in a shitty hotel. His fingers move of their own accord. He clicks the link.

/

[The first image is almost too dark to discern a figure in-- there's some sort of basement, lit only by a thin sliver of light illuminating something on the floor. A chain. The chain leads to a dark and indeterminate shape on the floor.]

[The second image shows the distinctive shape of an emaciated human body. Tattered funeral clothes. Long brown hair bunched up around a face, arms wrapped protectively around a head. Badly-mended hole in a stomach sunken with hunger.]

[The third image shows half of his face. Only half of it. It's unmistakably him. His eyes are closed. He finally looks like he's at peace.]

/

TAMPERINGWITHUREVIDENCE posted 00:27

>holy shit dude

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:29

>fake

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 00:29

>is he dead?

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:30

>He is alive and well. I have been taking good care of him. I feed him once a day and give him treats when he's been a good boy.

TAMPERINGWITHUREVIDENCE posted 00:32

>this is so fucked up

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:33

>guys this is so fakety fake fake xD

MURMURMURMAIDER posted 00:34

>o_O

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:34

>I can promise that it's not fake.

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:35

>i can literally see the pixels from your crappy photoshop job dickface…

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:36

>sickpuppy.wav

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:39

>Oh, I think he's awake. Does anyone have any questions for the elusive Toki Wartooth? He's usually quite media-shy. I wouldn't waste this opportunity.

/

He knows he shouldn't click on it. His finger freezes above the screen. In the other room he can hear the soft moans of some woman Skwisgaar's taken to bed, Nathan's thunderous snores. Pickles has been in the kitchen smashing mugs for twenty minutes. He wants them to see him. He wants them to berate him for looking at a fan forum, for thinking about the thing they've all agreed not to think about. He wants them to stop his fat ugly finger from pressing on that link.

/

[The camera is shaking. He's awake, there's a glint of white eyes behind one of those long arms. The sound in the video is scratchy, but a soft whimper can be heard above the static. A gnarled hand reaches out, takes one of his shoulders, rolls him from his side onto his back. The hole in his stomach gleams wet and red. His eyes go wide, but he does not resist, does not try to defend himself. He brings his arms around his head. Between those biceps-- the glint of a chain around his neck.]

/

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 00:43

>well that escalated

MURMURMURMAIDER posted 00:44

>WTF

BATFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:45

>pff guys its from some russian horror movie, that doesnt even look like toki, look at the cheekbones

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:45

>Ask me to do something to him. You know you want to.

METALDEATH492 posted 00:46

>GUYS. stop feeding this troll. its just some fucked up freak getting off on a weird fantasy

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:49

>stick your finger in his mouth

MURMURMURMAIDER posted 00:50

>eww lol thats gay

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 00:51

>wtf happened to my thread lol

METALDEATH492 posted 00:52

>too many horny gay freaks follow this band, its ruining the scene, dethklok made metal gay

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:53

>your mom made metal gay to me last night

METALDEATH492 posted 00:54

>that doesn't even make sense

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 00:54

>get a room guys

MURMURMURMAIDER posted 00:55

>i hope tokis okay O_o wtf happened to his chest?

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 00:56

>he got stabbed by all that gullible they found in ur moms house

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 00:59

>sickpuppy2.wav

/

Murderface knows what he's going to see before he sees it.

/

[A long finger, sharp-jointed, a lattice of fine scars criss-crossing the top. Familiar. A pair of thin lips yielding obediently when it parts them. The camera is very close to his face-- his grimy, gaunt face-- in one of his crystal-blue eyes the iris has been ripped open. Sharp teeth close gently around the intruding finger, but then that head turns away, trying to resist the invasion. The video cuts.]

/

MURMURMURMAIDER posted 01:01

>uhh guys maybe someone should call the police? this looks legit…

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 01:01

>what. the. fuck.

BATSFJORDSLUT8 posted 01:02

>hot

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 01:04

>No police.

>If anyone other than Dethklok comes here, I will kill them both.

>Check this out.

>sickpuppy5.jpg

/

Murderface recognises the knife pressed to Toki's throat. He is about to do something very stupid.

/

[His eyes are closed again, his bottom lip pinched between his teeth. The knife digs into the skin just above the metal collar.]

/

PLANETPI55 posted 01:06

>Magnus u fuck that's my fucking knife

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 01:12

>Hello, William.

LIGHTNINGHORSE posted 01:13

>this is getting 2 weird 4 me

METALDEATH492 posted 01:14

>wait… @Hammertime1234 ur magnus hammersmith? are u fucking kidding me

PLANETPI55 posted 01:15

>FUCK UUUUUUUUUUUUUU

/

>You have one (1) private message request.

/

"Murderface," Pickles slurs from the kitchen. "Come help me smash these fuckin' mugs…"

/

HAMMERTIME1234 sent 01:18

>Toki says hi, by the way.

>Do you have anything you want to say to him? He misses you very much.

PLANETPI55 sent 01:20

>u r one SICK individual. are u fucking GETTING OFF on this?? u twisted fucking homo

HAMMERTIME1234 sent 01:25

>hellowilliam.wav

/

"Murderface…" Pickles stumbles into the living room. He's so drunk he has to cling to the wall to stand. "Get off your phooooooone for once… you're always on that fuckin' internet an' shit…"

Murderface doesn't hear him.

Magnus' face is only half in the screen. He looks bad, really bad-- Murderface knows a manic episode when he sees one-- his eyes are wide and blown, he's shaking, the camera's focus is all over the place. He's doing his best to aim the camera at himself with one hand, while with the other he's trying to scrape Toki off of the floor. Toki, tough-as-nails Toki, is resisting-- curling up on himself, rolling to his side, swatting weakly at Magnus' arms. There's a voice in the background, a woman's voice, 'Magnus, leave him alone, come on…'

"Don't be like that, Toki," Magnus' voice is that soft, manipulative purr he once reserved for Murderface. "Your friend's on the phone. Don't you want to say hi?"

Toki's eyes widen. He turns his head, his body slackens-- Magnus takes the opportunity to slide a hand beneath him. The image blurs with movement, and when it steadies, Toki is in Magnus' lap, his head lulling against Magnus' shoulder, one eye closed, the other half-open. Magnus' face is buried in filthy hair, but his eyes loom perilously white over Toki's head.

Murderface sits up.

"Go on," Magnus murmurs. "Say hi to Murderface."

Toki blinks. He looks confused. His brow draws together. How has he lost so much weight? How long has he been captive?

A woman's voice, off to the side: 'Magnus. You're being a dick!'

"Hi, Moidaface…" Toki says in a thin voice.

The video cuts.

/

PLANETPI55 posted 01:42

>nathan should have KILLLD u

>sick fuck

>sick twisted FUCK

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 01:44

>Jealous?

>I'm taking requests all evening.

>I'm running out of ideas. Give me something new to do to him.

PLANETPI55 posted 01:46

>i want NO part in ur twisted homoerotic games

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 01:48

>You're the one making this gay.

>As usual.

>I bet you'd love to see me stab him again.

>If you know what I mean.

PLANETPI55 posted 01:49

>fuck magnus dont

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 01:50

>Then come GET HIM

>This is YOUR fault

>If YOU came to SAVE him none of this would be HAPPENING to him

>YOU are the one doing this William

>I've been thinking about why you haven't come to save him. You know what I think? I think you want this to happen to him. You want to do to him what you did to me. Stabbed in the back and left out in the cold.

>That's why you're looking at this forum. Isn't it? You're getting off to those videos.

>Admit it, Murderface

>Admit it to me

>I'll give you a nice reward if you admit it

PLANETPI55 posted 02:03

>you're one sick bastard u know that?

>kill yourself and i mean it

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 02:12

>giftforwilliam.wav

/

Murderface's hands move towards the link without his mind's consent.

Someone else's hand closes over the phone.

Murderface turns around and sees Pickles. Pickles does not look drunk any more; his eyes are wide, his face is ashen, so pale that it's grey. "Dude," Pickles says hollowly, "Don't."

Murderface wrenches his phone away. His finger goes for the link.

"Don't!" Pickles barks, smacking his hand so hard that the phone goes flying. "Don't you dare open dat!"

"Fuck off!" Murderface yells back, slapping Pickles' arm away from him. He jumps off the couch and grabs the phone. The screen glows like fire against the darkness that surrounds them.

/

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 02:14

>Just remember that you're doing this

>For every day you don't rescue for him

>For every hour you let him rot here

>That's your hand in the video

>I told him you asked for that one

/

Charles is never in his office these days. He's in Mordhaus' control centre, sitting in his dumb glowing chair, and he looks awful. Even through the video link he looks awful. He looks more tired than Murderface has ever seen him, and the red lighting does him no favours. Then again, he seems immaculate next to Pickles, who is sitting next to Murderface and shaking like a less seasoned alcoholic, hugging his bottle of bourbon to his chest as if it's a teddy bear. Compared to those two Murderface can't fathom how bad he must look. He is, after all, the ugly one.

Charles' expression is unreadable as he browses the files Murderface has sent to him. Not a single muscle twitches. Pickles and Murderface sit too close to each other and, as they've always done with all their problems, they wait for him to solve it.

Finally Charles puts the phone down. "Excuse me for a moment," he says. Then he steps out of view of the webcam, and Murderface hears over the speakers the faint sound of someone retching.

When Charles returns he is noticeably paler. "Well," he says, in a strained voice, "The time stamps confirm that Toki is still alive. That's good information to have."

"Dude," Pickles says anxiously, "Can't you like, I dunno, hack the mainframe on these? Use some computer guru wizard shit and find out where he is?"

"Yeah, get that fat virgin on it," says Murderface. "Hack the fuckin' mainframe and find this sick fuck."

Charles pinches his nose. "I have explained the issue to you before," he says patiently.

"So? Hire one of them hacker dudes, I dunno, shit! Shit! He's right there, do something!"

"As Magnus so helpfully reminded you," Charles said, "If anyone other than Dethklok comes for them, he will kill both Toki and Abigail. After seeing these, I would suggest we don't call his bluff."

Murderface knows an expression of disgust when he sees one. Charles is looking right at them and his eyes are pure revulsion. Fuck, our manager finally hates us. They deserve it. The shame is unbearable.

"But-- but--" Pickles' voice has climbed an octave. "He's right there!" he wails, ramming his fist down on the keyboard of Murderface's laptop. "He's right there! We can see him! Why can't you go get him!"

"I'm afraid I can't answer that, Pickles," said Charles in a thin voice. He left unstated the obvious: only you can.

With a wordless cry of despair, Pickles hurls his bottle of bourbon towards the wall. It crashes into one of the doors, and the feminine moans, which have thus far provided an unsettling backdrop to their argument, cease.

"Oh, God," Murderface groans, moments before--

The door slams open. "Will you SHUTS DE FUCKS UP OUT HERE?" Skwisgaar shouts. He hovers in the doorway like a blond, naked wraith, his hair everywhere, his eyes blown wide.

"Will you MIND YOUR FUCKIN' MANNERS?" retorts Pickles. "People are SLEEPING out here, Skwisgaar!"

"Oh fucks you to hell," Skwisgaar snarls.

"And you better not be on dat crystal meth again--"

But the door slams shut. Pickles lets loose a shout that sounds far, far too close to a sob, and without explanation, storms off.

Murderface is left before the judgemental stare of their weary and hateful manager. His phone remains clutched in his hand.

"… Well," says Charles, without patience. "Is this everything you wanted to show me?"

Murderface looks down at his lap, at the phone. He's closed the forum at Pickles' demand but it would only take a few clicks to have it back open. His fingers twitch.

"I'll leave you to it--" Charles begins, moving to cut off the video link.

"Wait," says Murderface. "I, uh."

"… What is it?"

"So you were like… pals, with Magnusch, right? You guys, uh, you palled around."

Charles narrows his eyes.

"I was jusch wondering if he ever… told you a certain schomething about… you know. Him and me."

"We, ah, knew each other before I took on my managerial role," says Charles cautiously. "But he never disclosed anything… personal."

Murderface leans into the laptop; he pushes his fingers hard against the spikes of his phone, until he feels blood welling out of the pads. "Well," he mutters, "Magnusch and I had a… we uh, we kind of had a thing. Y'know."

"Er."

"I'm not schaying it was kind of a gay thing, but… wait, we have manager-client confidenschiality, right? You aren't gonna tell the guys about thisch?"

"I won't tell anyone, but--"

"Cause they might take it the wrong way, y'know, they might be jealousch or somethin'…"

"William, I have work to do, so unless this is--"

"I'm just schayin', I was schpecial to Magnus," says Murderface quietly. There's blood trickling down his knee and he feels like he's at confession, he doesn't want to say this but it's welling out of him anyways. "We just always had schomething. Like Nathan and Pickles, or y'know, Skwisgaar and-- and-- what's-his-face. It's just a little schomethin'… special. Between us. You know?"

"Do you have a point?"

"It should be me down there," Murderface admits.

Charles closes his eyes. "I would advise you not to be too… jealous, of Toki's predicament," he says, voice strained.

"I'm not jealousch," Murderface lies. "I just--"

"Uh-huh."

"I can't schee him again. I can't schee Magnus again."

Charles' face is an unyielding stone. "You've all made that very clear," he says, with no grace, no understanding, not a shred of sympathy. "Good day."

The screen is cut before Murderface can beg him to stay. The dark screen reflects his ugly mug-- his hair dry and filthy, his face bloated from excessive drinking, his eyes puffy. Flabby and cowardly and despicable. Why was he even surprised that Magnus hadn't wanted him?

The phone was still in his hand. He knows he shouldn't do the thing he does next. He opens his browser.

/

HAMMERTIME1234 posted 04:23

>Well. I assume you won't reply to me.

>That's too bad.

>I miss you.

>Goodnight, William.

>goodnightwilliam.wav

/

For once Murderface shows an ounce of common sense. He does not open that file.

He finds a bottle of whiskey in the kitchen, lies down beneath the table, and drinks himself into a dreamless sleep.

[papirouge]

the recent 2edgy4me rounds of "um ackshually it's okay to commit infanticide/abandon an infant in a dumpster if the mother doesn't want it, what if she was scared" is like the most base lizard-brain take I've seen in a while, what's worse is it's not even the first time people have unironically put forward post-birth abortion (aka infanticide) as a practice we should view neutrally (eugh). or there are those who think it's okay for a woman to continue to do drugs even if she knows she's pregnant and thus willingly harming her developing child. and if you aren't okay with either of the above you're just a misogynist!!! stop trying to control women!!! etc. etc.

like radblr sometimes imitates male sociopathy too closely lmao another one I love is people claiming they're pro-choice but also get mad when a woman didn't abort when "she should have." umm sweatie it's her body her choice is it not? if she wanted to keep her baby what business is it of yours?? this seems like an almost exclusively American attitude for some reason, I'm thinking because the average American is so politicized and fanatical. literally cannot have a normal conversation about any of this without being called a million names and told to kill yourself, radfems on this website are more civil to trans identified males than they are to pro-life women, even liberal or Democrat or atheist pro-lifers, I respect some radfem tumblr users but most of them are just so lacking in self-awareness it's kind of pitiful

It all boils down to radfemistan biggest ideological inconsistency that every choice women make should be critically instigated (shaving, plastic surgery, make up, etc) UNTIL it comes to abortion. Either women have to question every of their choices, or they don't.

Oh, and I might get a lot a shit for that but IDC : the growing trend of women to defend abusive women under the dArvO thing is crazy and they all come off as abusive psycho themselves using coping textbook psychology gotcha to excuse their destructive personality. IDC what radfem say patting themselves in the back for not making fun of Amber Heard (congratulations for being a... decent human being??) they were the first to harass, and bullying pro Depp WOMEN (calling them "Deppford wives"). They even rejoiced when it's been revealed a girl who was pro Depp killed herself (don't know if it was related to her bullying).... Everytime I see a dumb radfem/feminist quote that "Chateau Bunny" xitter girl I get major red flag because that batshit crazy chick was full on invested into those bullying campaigns targeting (young) girls whose only crime was defending Johnny Depp. Bunch of deranged no life witches....

I'm absolutely not here for their dumb historical revisionism of them acting like they were the only one to stand for "women" when they were in the socials streets harassing women for thought crime. They were there to defend a hot blonde millionaire woman from defamation allegations they somehow projected into - that's all.

You're absolutely right about feminist oddly having a bigger commitment harassing fellow women than men. There were plentiful pro Depp moids, as far as a I know.

I understand there's no "perfect victim" and that you can violently react to violence inflicted to you firsthand, but what I don't understand is that they act like this shit was a prerogative of women. I'll never forget how those feminists were like "there's no perfect victim" to defend Amber Heard .....while dragging all the nasty shit Johnny Depp did decades ago to prove he couldn't possibly be a victim himself. Or because he was richer or older... Wasn't Heard richer/more famous than her ex she was infamously arrested for physical abuse? That her stans argue the openly LGBT female officer that came on the scene was lesbophobic?? And then they use the fact the ex gf withdrawing her justice complain is evidence nothing actually happened, because WE ALL KNOW DV victims NEVER backtrack when they take action against their abuser? 💀

If genders were reversed, we all know those women wouldn't go to all those hoops to defend Heard shady past, but we all know why they do that...

That's what I dislike the most with abortionist/feminist : they're so duplicitous and hypocrite you can't never rely on them to be remotely consistant on the broad scale. I'm absolutely not surprised a bunch of them turned pro white supremacists when it came to kill Palestian women bc it was an opportunity to kill "rapists Muslims".

They have the same destructive mindset with their anti tra obsession, now rubbing shoulders with know racists rightoids known to not give a shit about women's rights unless it comes to shit on (alleged) trans people. It was first Kiwifarm and now xitter bluecheckmarks muskophants they screenshot as gender"expert". We are in the trenches.