#33 web serial

[jimmycarterghostland]

About my 33 web novel/web serial:

The premise: The Soynites, a human-looking race of aliens, have to get revenge against the Freeman race, which destroyed their home planet, Soy. And the Soynites have to revive it as well.

33 features alien child rulers, deaths, gray morality, alien corpses that turn into smoke, etc.

It's a dark science-fiction novel.

33 is a multiple point of view novel. There are dozens of different narrators so far, I think. I try hard to make the most important of them have distinct character voices.

It's written in third person past tense.

I have an outline for the future chapters of 33. I even know how this novel will end. Now it's just a matter of finishing the rewriting and then completing the novel itself. I definitely don't write fast enough, though. Especially considering this thing has a planned word count of 20 million words.

33 is the first web serial of mine that I've written a full outline for. Before this one, I never planned a novel so deeply.

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I should make more social media posts about it, but I'm not eager to put 33 on a pedestal. I did that with Redouln Rising, and it ended up flopping so bad. Each time I mention RR, I feel embarrassed.

I can't mention 33 too much, because it's being rewritten and no one can even read it at the moment. The hiatus has to end first. When chapter 75 is out, people will be able to read this web serial. Currently, chapters 1 through 74 are being rewritten. Over 300,000 words of content.

Personally, I feel the novel starts getting really good around chapter 50. And I have great content planned after the unreleased chapter 75. A coronation, for example. And a few important battle scenes that I'm excited to write. Especially a certain one that will take place inside a Freeman space station. I think the reader will love that battle a whole lot. I know I will. That one will be extremely important, for reasons I cannot say.

Presently, 33 isn't a well-known novel, but every popular thing started with a humble beginning. I'm a highly ambitious person writing a highly ambitious work. So it's important that 33 succeeds and becomes loved by many someday. I want it to be noticed. It's why it has a planned word count of 20 million words. One of the reasons why I want to master the writing craft is to make 33 be a literary masterpiece. If it fails, I will try again with a new, similar web serial.

33 is a special number, hence the title.

The cover's main colors are yellow and light blue, because that's the color scheme of the Invincible comic series. It made me realize how great light blue goes with yellow.

It should take me years to finish writing 33. I want it to be something people will be devoted fans of for years, like people tend to do with popular long-running TV shows. I want 33 to be one of the things people look forward to each week.

If I die before I finish it, that will be terrible. I have an ending in mind, and I'm 97% sure I won't change it. There's much I have planned for 33. I know which characters will be killed off by me and which ones won't. There are scenes I desperately want to write, but am unable to because I have to finish the rewrite first.

The rewrite had to happen. The first version of 33 was full of bad writing. One funny but not-so-funny mistake I made was writing with a plot twist in mind, but not realizing that a certain line in the first chapter made that plot twist not be a surprise at all. The mistake came because I hadn't had the twist planned while I was writing the first draft of chapter one. Now it truly is a plot twist. I pray the original readers of 33 don't remember that certain line. The twist hasn't been revealed, not even before the rewrite. I'm desperate to finally reveal it, though. It's one of the reasons why I wish I wasn't writing this rewrite at all. I'm eager to finally reveal the twist.

33 has humor, but I try to keep it to a bare minimum. I'm not fond of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Joss Whedon style of humor. I see it as excessive. Plus, too much humor will make 33 seem less dark. I'm not writing a comedy. There are some characters who I try to write as funny ones. One of the occasional narrators, Sabrina Sam, isn't one of them, but sometimes I read her dialogue and it amuses me.

Here's some cruel humor: I'm a writer who can't visualize while reading anymore. When I read 33, no images form in my head. The same thing happens when I read other novels. I love reading, but I don't enjoy it as much as I used to.

33 is a Royal Road exclusive, but you don't need an account to read it. You can simply keep tabs on it. Remember, it's written by Damiyon Wood. I typically go by LoneWolfShayu online.

Ultimately, 33 is the novel I would want to read if I were not me. So I'm writing it(and rewriting it too slowly). I want to make a meaningful contribution to the world of literature. That's another reason why I'm writing this thing.

I pray someday 33 will be an amazing piece of literature.

Thank you for believing in me.

Your friend, LoneWolfShayu.

MARCH 15, 2024 UPDATE: 33 won't be 20 million words long. That's too much of an unrealistic, extremely difficult goal. I don't have that much time on my hands. 33 will be 5 million words long instead.

[eromancery]

Chum 33

[ctrlhope]

Butterfly (m)

synopsis: he’s been watching you. waiting, stalking his prey. waiting for you to tangle your pretty little wings into his web. chasing you. hunting you. making you play his games until you realise the truth that lies behind your eyes.

j.jungkook x f.reader

୧ ‧₊˚┊: wc: 3.6k

୧ ‧₊˚┊: genre: yandere, serial killer au, college au, dark content

୧ ‧₊˚┊: content: yandere!killer!jk, dubcon, predator / prey, manipulation, fear play, mask kink, slight sub space, slight knife play, strangers to lovers, “public” sex, drug use (alcohol), mentions of blood / injury, threats, allusions to kidnapping, dom!jk, fingering, rough sex, he’s mean but still sweet, obsessed!soft!jk at the end <33

୧ ‧₊˚┊: notes: found this in my drafts back from halloween and i never posted it! so here you go, to hold you over until my long fics are done <33 halloween fic in april lmaooo

18+ -> minors / blank blogs dni -> dark content

Bum. Bum. Bum.

Your heartbeat is in your ears, pulse racing. It was too loud. Everything is too loud. It’s all you can hear. It’s all you can think about as your heels dig into the harsh forest floor. Your shoes long since been abandoned, mud caking your feet as you try to run. Tries to escape from the demon that had set his sights on you.

Him.

Fuck. It wasn't supposed to happen like this. It really wasn’t. It was just supposed to be a fun halloween party! You didn’t really even know if you wanted to go to it or not. But your friends convinced you with the promise of free drinks and guys that were ‘cute enough’ for some random frat.

What they failed to mention? The simple fact that house was in the middle of nowhere. On one side a lake, the other a massive forest.

Like a pretty little trap meant to catch girls like you. Web tangled in the trees just watching for the prettiest butterfly to find its way into. To be caught in the den of monsters that lined every wall of the ancient house.

You were already disturbed when your friend's pretty jeep turned off the main roads, trailing through the woods. Realising just how distant from the rest of society you would be. How every bump of the car sent your little heart into a deeper flutter of anxiety.

Still, you kept your mouth shut. You didn’t want to ruin the night— for yourself or your friends. You trust them. They promised it would be fun. Plus! Their boyfriends were going to be there! So nothing would go wrong!

Yeah. It really wasn't their fault that a lunatic set his sights on you. Wasn’t their fault you started dancing with a man in a mask. Let him lead you to the backyard for a smoke, dumbly followed him deeper into the woods to see his favourite spot. Let him stuff his fingers into your little hole without even seeing his face, knowing his name.

Nah, you did all that on your own. Just a little kitten being led to the slaughter house.

“Okay babydoll…” He breathes into your ear, pumping two fingers deep inside of your cunt. Skirt that was barely covering anything pushed too far up your hips, showing the whole forest just how tight your walls cling to his fingers. How wet you are. How desperate you are for more.

“We’re gonna play a game, yeah?” You’re hardly able to respond, consciousness laced with toxins from earlier that night. Flush to your cheeks evidence enough of just how much you drank— the series of events that led you to this exact moment.

One he had been planning for awhile.

He smiles, throat letting out a low, almost nonexistent laugh. Slowly circling your clit with his thumb, almost mocking the way your back arches. Finding amusement in the way your fingers cling to his arm as his thrusts continue all to slow.

You’re needy, too needy. He knows that well enough. Can tell with the way your hips start to rock, start to squirm. The way your body starts to get bratty on him while your mind is too far in the clouds to realise the position you’ve found yourself in.

You’re cute. Too cute for him to take another second of this. Too cute for him to hold back anymore.

Wouldn’t want you getting too bratty on him anyway, would he? Then his personal treat, the slice of cake he's been waiting weeks to cut into will have to turn into a punishment. Ruin all the fun he’s worked so hard to prepare.

“‘Gonna need you to run into the woods. Fast and as far as you can…” He groans under his breath, the mere thought sending blood straight to his cock, filling his mind with nothing but pictures of you dirty on the forest floor, “And you gotta do your best to stay away from me yeah? Cause if I catch you… I gotta kill you and I wouldn't wanna have to do that… You’re too pretty to kill, you know?”

Fuck. What the fuck is wrong with him? What is he even talking about?

You try to process– try to understand the words that run off his tongue. But it's unfair, everything is stacked against you as he slides the mask off his face. Gives you a first look at his deep brown eyes. Lets you see how gorgeous he is for the very first time.

He didn’t even give you a chance to recover before he started counting down from 30. Doesn’t even move his hand away from your dripping cunt until 20– the expression on your face just pathetic. So close yet so far from the finish line.

Your race was nowhere close to its end. He’d make sure of it.

It wasn’t until his hand found your hip, gently tapping against the skin that your brain even had the chance to attempt processing his words. Figure out the exact meaning behind them while his lips continued to count down with each syllable.

Such pretty pink lips. Maybe he would let you kiss them if you tried hard enough. If you lean up just right maybe he would–

Wait. Wait. What’s happening? What did he say to you?

Your eyes glance down to your thighs, vision dazed as you try to figure out the object that suddenly pokes at your flesh. The sharp tip grazing your soft skin as you take in the metal; polished to perfection. The deep black handle resting securely in his palm, holding himself back.

Your eyes widen, familiarity cresting your features.

Shit. Shit!

You don’t even think about grabbing your own knife until 15, hand quickly reaching for your hip where you keep it tucked away. Too bad he had already taken it, knew the tool you always carried with you well.

Shit, his own personal little Nancy, huh? Perfect for him.

Survival instincts had to take over for you, forcing your feet to the ground. Urging your skirt down as low as it could possibly go as your legs take off in a direction you hope is the house.

Everything is all too much, it’s not enough. Every little sound is getting to you, making you feel like you’re going crazy. Making you feel like none of your senses can be trusted. Like nothing can be trusted except for the adrenaline pumping through your veins.

The woods– everything looks the same. You can't distinguish one thing from the next but you know you hear something getting closer. Too close.

If his words meant anything you need to keep fighting, keep trying to live. Even as pain stabs into your toes, sticks break under your feet. Even as you’re stabbed by bushes.

It was like the forest itself was out to get you. Like whatever beast behind it is your real enemy in all of this.

Maybe you can pretend it, maybe in your alcohol-addled brain that’s a little easier to manage than the man running behind you. The one with hunger in his heart that only your soul can satiate.

You try, you really do. But your legs can only move so fast. Can only take so much abuse before they start to slow. Lungs can only inhale so much air before they want to collapse.

Too bad he’s done this before. He can run.

And just as you start to be able to see the lights from the tree line, just as hope starts to fill your little heart, you’re forced into the dirt. Two arms wrap around you from behind, tackling your frame to the ground.

Your back presses against his chest as he keeps you there, his face right next to your ear as he pants. Breathe heavy in your ear, hearing the way it cracks every once and awhile as he tries to catch his breath. Lips almost on your ear while he keeps you there. Keeps you trapped under him.

Everything is starting to conflict in your pretty little head, body telling you to get away. Try to get him off. Wriggle your hand— anything out to try and fight back. Try and get away before he keeps his promise from before.

Yet, with every movement, every slight twist of your spine or kick of your legs under his heavy frame he only presses tighter, deeper against you. Presses his cock against your barely covered cunt. Makes you feel every inch of him that he plans to stuff inside. Make you unable to breathe while the rocks dig into your skin.

You put up a good fight, you really do. Better than anyone else. It’s too bad everything is going just a little bit haywire behind your eyes. The world starting to feel like a burden as you try to push away the arousal rushing to your gut.

Shit, you should be scared. Should be petrified of the psycho that took you into the woods, the psycho that threatened to kill you no more than ten minutes before. One that had a knife pressed to your skin and a scythe around your heart. But the chemicals in your brain are mixing into something that you can’t comprehend, can’t describe.

Everything feels like too much, he feels like too much and you have no clue what to do. Head completely gone to mush.

It’s almost easier that way.

“Almost got away, doll. But don’t worry. I’ve got you now.” His voice is rough, harsh as he tries to catch his breath. Teeth clamping against the crest of your ear, hips rolling against your cunt without a care in the world. Especially not for the state of your head. Not for the little world you find yourself slipping away into.

Too many extreme emotions happening will do that to you, won't they? Make you so confused that you’ll just take whatever you can manage. Even if that means plunging his blade into your pretty little heart or fucking you until your pussy wouldn’t even consider another filling it.

He prefers the latter. Too pretty for the former, huh?

He can feel the shift in your frame– one of extreme discomfort, entirely tense to one of a docile little pet put on display. The shift behind your eyes as everything becomes too much, little too difficult to understand. As you slip away just enough to make any feelings of pleasure elevate to new extremes. Let fear spur you on.

The only thoughts in your head are ones filled with him. The way it should be. Exactly should be.

Your hips move again, their last attempt to break free from his spell. Their last attempt to try and get away from the maniac. Yet it does nothing more than press his cock harder against your ass, the mock of a grind against the surface that leaves a pretty little mewl spilling from your lips. A grunt catching in his own.

Wow, you actually surprised him.

“Shit, not patient at all huh?” He smiles, lip quirking as he removes his body from you. Removes the only warmth provided in this hell.

You won't run. Not if you know what's good for you.

He doubts you do– led you right into his arms tonight. But that's okay. He can take over for you. Take over everything.

Hands grip your hips, pull you back against him. Let you imagine how sweet he could fuck you if you just behave. The soft rocking of hips against your own, the gentle way he moves compared to the way he holds you heavy on your mind.

You can’t help the moan that spills past your lips. The way your back arches to meet him better. No one could blame poor little you. No one could blame your mind turning off for just a little bit. Not when he has you. Not with the rough texture of his pants pushing against your cunt. Not with the ruined orgasm of before.

Arousal makes your panties stick uncomfortable to your skin. A disturbing wet patch forming against his own pants where you meet. A flutter erupting in your gut at the way he groans. Way he moves you with such ease.

He really could kill you if he wanted to.

You’re not sure if the realisation scares you or spurs you on.

It scares you more to know that it's the latter.

“I’m not either.” He huffs, air thick with fog, “Been too patient for you. Too fucking patient.”

He grunts, pushing your hips back. Back arching even farther against the forest floor. It almost hurts, it’s almost painful. Not that that really matters. Nothing matters when he grips the flesh of your ass, pulls the cheeks apart. Gets a good look at the mess he’s made of you. Can see clearly how wrecked his little girl is.

Pretty panties sticking against your cunt, thighs wobbly from all the effort of tonight. Shit, if he just hooks his finger under them, pulls them to the side he’ll get to see you all. Get to see your puffy lips, fluttering little hole. Get to fuck himself inside while you just lie there and take it. Get so drunk on his cock you might just fall in love.

Shit, maybe you already have, huh?

Good.

He forces your underwear to the side, stares in awe at the way your slick sticks to them. Imagines how pretty they’d look stuffed with his cum. How you’d tumble around the house, not letting a drop spill just for him.

Because you would know it’s what he wants.

“All of this for me?” He smiles, rubbing his thumb through your folds. Collecting your essence, spreading it around all messy just how he likes. How he knows you’ll like soon enough.

You can only whimper, clutch the ground as your head spins. Tries to catch up with every little minstration he makes. Tries to figure out what exactly is happening. What words he’s saying. How to get him to stop, if you want him to stop.

A shiver runs down your spine. You don’t think you do.

You’re not sure of anything anymore. Only the sound of a zipper running down, the shuffle of pants forced off hips. The hard head of a cock running against your folds like it owns them. Like it was made for them.

The stretch as he forces himself inside. The way it burns, stings with effort. The short, forceful movements as he fucks himself inside. Makes home in your cunt for no one else but him. Makes you unable to think of a soul other than him. Ruin you for all other men that come after.

God he must be big– how fucking big? You have no clue. You wish you could see. Look into those pretty, crazed eyes. Focus on the little mole under his lip as the pain turns into pleasure. Morphs something dark in your brain to like it, to take it just like a good girl. Make you crave him more than anything else.

But instead you stare at the dirt. Hands clutching at the surface as he fucks himself inside. Deeper and deeper with each slow calculating thrust. Fucks you full of whatever twisted definition of love he possess. Makes you see the light, the exact shimmer in his eyes. See that this is the only way to truly live.

“Shit, baby,” His voice is low, deeper than before as his hips finally meet your own. Finally fills you with nothing else other than him. “Been waiting too fucking long for this. Had to make me wait, huh? Fuck.”

His voice harsh, grip bruising as he tries to hold himself back. One last measly reprise he’ll allow you. One last second he’ll give you before he makes you completely dumb. Makes you see what he knows you need to.

“I-I don’t~” You whimper, though the words fall on deaf ears. Not that it mattered anyway, you didn’t even know what you were trying to say. Didn’t know anything except for the way your walls clamp around his cock. Body begging for him, urging him to start and never stop.

He sighs, dramatic, “Little slut, huh baby?”

A harsh thrust punctuates his words, jolting your body forward as you cry. Impatience, ecstasy? He isn’t sure which. Only can notice the way your fingers clench and unclench in the dirt. The way your pussy flutters around him.

“Aww…” He soothes, hips dragging out of your cunt before slowly thrusting back in. The pace slow, antagonising, “Poor thing is having a hard time…” His hips quicken a hair, pretty sounds falling from your lips at the movement.

“Gotta tell me what you need, baby. I can make it all happen then.” A low kiss is placed against your shoulder, the world crumbling around you.

You break.

“Please…” Your voice is soft, too soft, but he hears it. Feels himself cracking as you beg, feels himself lose his mind entirely.

Beg for him. Want him.

His hips suddenly snap, fucking himself into your cunt with force you never thought a human could possibly manage. Fast, hard. Pumping his cock into you to search for his own pleasure. His own release. Forcing you to take it, take all of him while you try to keep up. Try to find your own pleasure in the tangle of limbs.

You hate how easily you do. Or maybe you love it.

“God, fuck.” He can’t suppress his own moans, the feeling of your pussy wrapping so tight around him, squeezing him for all he’s worth is too much. Fills his head with even more nonsense about love. About destiny.

His hips would never even consider stopping. You feel too good. Feel too tight around his cock, feel like he should never stop fucking you. Keep you there forever.

“So perfect. So perfect for me,” His breath is harsh, his heart racing as your little sounds only spur him on. Let him know just how good you feel. Just how far you’ve fallen. Just how much farther you’re willing to drown in all things Jungkook.

“P-Please!” You whine, hips arching further. Moving him into the perfect position to scrape against your g-spot with every rough pound of his hips. No clue what you’re pleading for. No clue what you want other than him.

Don’t even know his name. Nothing other than how incessantly you crave him.

“Fucking brat.” He cusses, eyes pinching into a glare as you somehow clamp down tighter. Walls pulling him back in on every thrust. Milking him for everything he’s worth. Making sure you both know your place in this. Know your place after it, too.

“God, been waiting for this haven’t you?” He groans, hips stuttering. He’s too close, “Been waiting for me to fuck you like the pretty doll you are? Make me take everything from you?”

You can only manage a whine in response, cunt fluttering around him. Obsessing in his praise.

Maybe his words are true. Maybe he’s known the exact type of person you are since the moment he first saw you. Maybe he’s right. This is where you’re meant to be. Meant to be with him.

“Shit, yeah. I fucking knew it.” His voice cracks, “Call you a minx but we both know that isn’t true. Just don’t know how to think until you’re stuck on the end of a cock.”

His thrusts somehow pick up speed. Fuck you harder, deeper. He’s sure he could place his hand over your tummy, feel himself fucking you. Shit.

“My cock.” He growls, voice heavy in your ears.

You can't take it anymore. Can’t take another second of it. Nerves tied tight into knots explode, white dotting the corner of your vision as you moan for no one else other than him. Pleasure courses through your veins, pussy pulling him as he falls apart alongside you. A tsunami pulling you under, making it hard to breathe. Making you feel dead and alive at the same time.

Maybe the forest gods were the ones tormenting you. Making you feel better than you had ever thought possible before. Allowing you to see the light of the stars dancing in the sky, so far above the clouds with his cock still pressed so deep inside. Floating through the air as your orgasm runs through you.

He’s no better. A shell of a man as he slowly fucks him cum deeper into your cunt. As deep as you’ll allow. Marking you. Claiming you. Making sure you know your place, even as you finally collapse onto the floor. Finally come back to reality. Poor body too spent to focus on anything else.

It’s okay though, you don’t have to worry. Not about a thing.

He’ll take care of you. Fix you up nice and pretty for your next lesson. Take you away to his apartment, make you fall in love for real. Keep you there, with him, just like you’re meant to be.

Make all of the sick sides you try to hide come out to play. Make you realise you’re just like him.

He wouldn’t kill you. Ever. Even if he had killed the others, none of them matter. He’s been waiting for someone like you for so long. Itching to bring you home. And finally, finally you had fallen into his trap. His perfect little butterfly, caught in the web. Ready to be corrupted by the vicious spider. Ready for your wings to be clipped.

“Mine.”

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[rosemelon82]

Light on Series: Sisyphus whump list (cn)

I took over this list from @love-me-a-lotta-whump so go check out their awesome whump lists if you're looking for some good whumpy series to watch! ;)

Synopsis:

After his daughter Duo Duo dies, Zhang Hai Feng quits his job as a police officer. However, he cannot continue his peaceful life for long because a serial murder case reveals new evidence about the accident that led to Duo Duo's death. Zhang Hai Feng pursues the serial murderer and dies with him. When he wakes up, he is back to the day before he dies and decides to make use of the wormhole to save Duo Duo. Eventually, he starts to unravel the deeply hidden secrets of the people around him and the web of conspiracy that was planted 20 years ago. (paraphrased from KissAsian)

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-fi

Whumpees:

Zhao Bin Bin played by Lu Han

Zhang Hai Feng played by Wang Qian Yuan

Other whumpees listed in orange

TW: SUICIDE, MURDER, DEATH

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW

01:

Zhao Bin Bin:

09:18 - 11:20 - in an interrogation room, interrogated, defiant

16:49 - 19:41 - in an interrogation room, stressed, crying, (flashback: panicked), manhandled, choked, coughing

21:20 - 22:37 - poisoned, chest pain, seizing, foaming at the mouth, rolled into the hospital, handcuffed to a stretcher, unconscious, still handcuffed to the stretcher, unconscious, dazed, weak

29:35 - 30:00 - headbutted (is that a word?), falls backwards, sort of falls of a building, dies

Zhang Hai Feng:

11:20 - 20:48 - depressed, drinking, angry, chokes someone, manhandled, taken away

28:00 - 30:00 - out of breath, dealing with a hostage situation that also includes a bomb, bluffing, shot at, shot in the chest, bomb explodes, dies

02:

Zhao Bin Bin:

07:40 - 08:33 - chased

Fu Jialiang:

13:40 - end of episode - drugged, kidnapped, tied up and duct tape on his mouth, panicked, yelling, has a bomb strapped to him, taken away in an ambulance

03:

Zhao Bin Bin:

16:45 - 20:19 - hit in the head, bleeding, still bloody, trying to find ths person he kidnapped

34:20 - end of episode - shot in the arm, taken away by the police, stumbling, manhandled by police, bloody hand, laid on a stretcher and put into ambulance, treated in the ambulance, in an explosion, dies

Zhang Hai Feng:

end of episode - dies in explosion

04:

Zhang Hai Feng:

beginning of episode - wakes up hazy

(not related to whump but holy fuck this episode was crazy im- what the fuck?????)

05:

Zhao Bin Bin:

throughout episode - interrogated multiple times, accused

end of episode - interrogated in an interrogation room

06:

Lei Qiang:

18:07 - 20:14 - on the run, almost hit by a car, jumps off a roof, hurts leg, interrogated

07 & 08:

none

09:

Zhao Bin Bin:

beginning of episode - shown beaten, glasses askew, bloody nose

Zhang Hai Feng:

end of episode - loss of loved ones, grieving

10:

none

11:

Liu Yuqi:

19:47 - 22:54 - stabbed, pushes the knife further in, death

12:

TW: SUICIDE

Zhao Bin Bin:

end of episode - commits suicide?

Review of drama:

Quite interesting. I personally really like the inception style of the drama. It's a very mindfuck style drama and I like that. It's also interesting to see how the "timelines" or memory lines or whatever they are called differ when he makes different choices but still somehow relate to the main timeline. I recommend watching this drama if you prefer to be confused while watching but at the same time very intrigued by each episode. I hope you enjoy and stay tuned for another whump list soon! (sorry to @love-me-a-lotta-whump for taking so long to do this)

[several-ravens]

so here are my categories updated in light of the recent events aka the end of season 1 (under the cut because it's still long af and i don't want to pollute dashes):

i have been made aware (by my friend, again) that these categories are based on fears, so:

fire:

episode 8, the contractor

episode 12, gerard keay at the hospital

episode 37, guy in the forest and milk bottles

pestilence (infestation, but cooler):

jane prentiss in general (worms)

episode 36, care home (flies)

madness (hypnotic patterns and fractals):

episode 3, not!graham's table? idk

episode 8, the contractor's dad obsessed with fractals

episode 38, homophobic vase

episodes 39, not!graham's table again? idk

bonus: episode 26, michael because

web (name-dropped by martin in episode 39, formerly spiders):

episode 16, arachnophobia

episode 36, zippo with web design that jonathan received

death:

episode 7, guy who met war

episode 11, black tendrils

episode 29, guy who plays faro

darkness:

episode 9, serial killer dad (there's a weird date inconsistency in this one)

stranger:

episode 1, anglerfish

episode 8, not!graham himself?

episode 10, vampires?

episode 27, bedroom doorknob

episode 28, anglerfish part 2 (yes i recognised sarah baldwin's name from episode 1, i'm better than jonathan /j)

episode 39, not!sasha herself?

hunt (name-dropped by jonathan):

episode 10, also vampires?

episode 14, voodoo fingers old lady ("some hungers are too strong to be denied")?

episode 15, cave diving?

episode 31, werewolf

fear of heights (?) (formerly infinity):

episode 21: parachute guy

lonely (name-dropped by my friend haha):

episode 13, graveyard and fog

episode 33, ghost ship and fog

ew (flesh/bones/meat/body/blood) (also probably two categories in a trenchcoat):

episode 8, the bleeding tree

episode 10, also also vampires?

episode 14, voodoo fingers old lady

episode 17, boneturner's book

episode 18, rotting meat nailed to the floor

episode 28, anglerfish part 2 (idk she wears her own skin like a glove and that's gross)

episode 30, abattoir

eyes (not a fear, btw, so i'm gessing fear of being watched?):

episode 12, gerard keay's lighter, and also gerard keay's tattoos

episode 23, mausoleum in germany

episode 39, jonathan feeling observed

claustrophobia (?):

episode 2, casket?

episode 15, cave diving?

episodes i have no idea where to put:

episode 4, ex altiora

episode 5, trash bags (probably multiple categories depending on the trash bag)

episodes 19 & 20, priest (probably multiple categories as well, maybe a bit of madness and a bit of ew)

episode 24, red organ and puppets (i will not let my own fear of clowns and dolls bully me into making a shiny new category just for them)

episode 25, cult roommate (could be lonely, could be darkness, idk)

episode 35, corridors (all of the categories at once)

[immeasurablesaladagere]

I hope really hope you’re doing good :33 II wanted to know if you would ever do cg!Alfred and agere!bruce or cg!Gordon and agere!bruce type of content? Like any :3? I would love any of it hehe, I love your headcanons and tuff :3

An order of headcanons coming up!

Bruce regresses to any age before his parents were killed, so anything less than 8. I'd say his age sort of hinges on who's watching him. If he's on his own he'll be closer to 6 or 7 so he can still be responsible for himself, 5-6 with Gordon, and babyspace and up with Alfred because he has the most trust in him.

He's been regressing to some degree since he was a teenager and Alfred's always helped. It's kind of 70-30 involuntary to voluntary and is usually triggered by exhaustion or strong feelings after a mission.

Bruce "Extended-Periods-of-Silence-Mean-Nothing-Good" Wayne likes to play hide-and-seek without asking Alfred or Gordon to play with him, so he just... vanishes. And despite being the size of a grown man, is very, scarily good at it. This kid is in the ceiling rafters, climbing onto a light fixture, in the dryer, etc. Once they were doing renovations on the manor and there was a patch of drywall they had taken off and I'm sure you can see where this is going, but Alfred found him 30 minutes later because he heard giggling from inside the walls.

Bruce has a star projector for his room and has it going constantly. He actually really likes the dark but the star projector is just cooler. He'd just sit in his room staring up at the ceiling for hours if Alfred didn't force him to get some sunlight. The projector is one of his favourite "games".

Most of his toys are soft things like plushies or sensory toys. He doesn't really like the electronic ones that make a lot of noise and he likes the feeling of soft fabric on his skin and spends a lot of time petting them.

He likes old-school Nintendo games and most Mario platformers when he's feeling a bit older.

Plays elaborate games of School, Doctor, House, etc. with his stuffed animals with ongoing serialized plots that he remembers meticulously. He's made props, costumes, set pieces, the whole thing. It's very professional.

Most of the time his playing-pretend is wholesome, but occasionally he vents some of his feelings about hard missions via the scenes.

Little Bruce is picky as heck. An absolute nightmare to cook for. Only band carbs and perhaps a little bit of spaghetti sauce in a little separate cup. No vegetables, no fruit except for apples and blueberries, no spices, nothing fried, no mixed foods like pizza or soups. Alfred's got the menu down and even manages to sneak vegetables in there sometimes but Gordon doesn't even try, just gives him his bowl of plain pasta and an apple and avoids the struggle.

Alfred reads him bedtime stories but they're not traditional short children's books. Only chapter books, and he'll read one chapter every night (ish). The Hobbit, Charlotte's Web, and all of Harry Potter are all on the table.

Bruce is such a passive-aggressive child. If he's grumpy then he starts getting "malicious-compliance" on everything.

"Master Bruce, could you please help empty the dishwasher?"

Bruce, silently angry about having his game interrupted: "Okay."

Alfred returns later to all the dishwasher dishes outside of the dishwasher, on the counter in one big pile and not put away.

When his stuffed animals are being washed, Bruce sits in front of the washing machine and watches them spin and then dry until they come out.

Poor Gordon doesn't know what to do with him. Just gives him a bag of Goldfish and lets him mess around in his office until Alfred can get him.

[sludgeguzzler]

Got tagged by @web-catz to drop 5 songs I'm really into rn! Thank you sm for the tag, here they areeee!!

• Serial thrilla - the prodigy -> I've been really into fat of the land lately and this one has been making my brain meltttt I love it sm (out of space is a good one too)

• Burn the witch - Radiohead -> I love this song so much. I think that moon shaped pool might be my favorite album from them, along with OKC. This song is soo sosososobrsbvdbamandbakdkqb

• Jaded - Aerosmith -> HEY. J J JADED. For real though this song is so good I love listening to it. Don't have much to say about it dhajd I just like it

• True love waits - Radiohead -> another one from msp teehee.... Wanted to put this one separately bc im So Normal. And So Sane

• Carne e osso - Picassos falsos -> Brazilian music jumpscareee I love this song so much it makes me want to eat concrete. It's not even that good or original, i don't know why it captivates me so much

Anyways yeah that's about it!! I hope someone takes the time to listen to them fbakfbak they're all really good, I promise :33

I'm gonna tag uuuujhhhhhhmmmmm @charliesinfern0 @thatlesbiancrow @mrpsychokiller @yaoiboypussy @origamiyoda and @solluxander !! If any other mutuals want to partake in this as well, consider yourself tagged too :]]]] I mean it

[agendergorgon]

Commissioned some art of Night Hag from the Web Serial Worm off of @temporal-mechanic! Go check out their art, they've got some awesome Star Trek and Doctor Who stuff. Night Hag is a character in Worm whose power is to not die. She dies shortly after we are informed of this. One of the few other facts we get about Night Hag is that she stays in the ghastly transformed state that her superpower lets her assume 24/7. I joked about that in a fic once and said she just had something embarassing on underneath her spooky goffick appearance, but then I stopped and thought that one could throw a bit of gender at this concept. I wrote a fic about her once or twice but it weren't that good. This time though, the art is for a mad little project I've been working on with my husband to be :33

[unicyclehippo]

hi ollie!! 9, 36 & 33 for writer ask <3

9. Thoughts on cliffhangers.

cliffhangers are great, they're a well established way to keep people hooked! what happens next! i do find that if there is a cliffhanger at the end of many chapters in a row, i get exhausted but i feel like its a great tool to use in moderation. i think of it in the same way as old tv shows that operated around advertising breaks - cliffhangers ensured that people would keep watching to find out what happened at the end of the ad break! to a certain degree they're used at the end of book chapters / serial web stories too bc of course we want people to keep going. so yes, i think they're a wonderful tool when used in conjunction with other tools

33. Give your writing a compliment.

oh geez another one? ok uhhh its the product of a lot of effort . is that a compliment?

36. How do you come up with fic titles? What's the one you're most proud of?

i hate fic titles. i tend to do either a line/fragment of line from the story itself OR a fragment of poetry / phrase that inspired the work like museum au is "we are out with lanterns" which is a quote from an emily dickinson letter & its all abt how the story is about loneliness n trying to figure out who they are. my favourite title is probably Faramore, the Modern Pandora. which again is the frankenstein au just because i thought it fit very nicely n i like what it suggests about the story. like, the original is Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, which suggests some inspiration, some gift from the gods given to men. which you can think of in the story as frankensteins ability to animate, to create life, & frankensteins unending torture upon having given his creature to humanity, to the world, & u can think of it as perhaps a tool or lesson that he is giving to his new friend the captain (i dont recall his name), of knowledge idk i have to think abt it more. anyway, i chose pandora bc of the same reasons. the idea of discovering something & opening it, cursing the world with all the ills. having hope left in the box. of finding something & being entrusted with it, of it BEING opened. did she do it? was it done to her? anyway. much to think about

[celestie0]

HI ELLIE!!! Omg, I just started reading IHM. I was originally going to hold off until it was done (or mostly done), because I'm a serial monogamist when it comes to a series (RIGHT NOW I AM LOYAL TO KICKOFF lol), but I ended up reading IHM anyways for some reason. I LOVE IT SOOOO MUCH. I know that we're only two chapters in, but I always love and adore how much thought goes into your characters and writing. I found myself giggling the whole way through lul. One thing I noticed after chapter 2 is as much as Gojo annoys reader, he's also strangely attentive to her needs and is a complete foil to Choso. I'm sure this was supposed to be obvious, but I thought it was very sweet how he called her beautiful in the dress (the same dress that Choso didn't acknowledge her in) and how the ring he picked for her was similar to one that she had saved in her wedding mood board. I'm pretty sure it's not exactly intentional on Gojo's part (or maybe it is?? hehe), but I thought it was an interesting detail. Also, I know this is within spoiler territory, so don't feel obligated to answer this, but how angsty will it get between reader and Gojo's relationship? :,) I know that they're both still healing from personal trauma from their past relationships, so will that come into play as they develop feelings for each other? It seems that Gojo is hesitant to talk about his divorce, so would that be a factor or an obstacle that will hinder him from getting too close to reader? Can't wait for future chapters!!! <3 Thank you for spoiling us *__*

OH MY LOVE THIS IS SO SWEET N CUTE N MADE MY ENTIRE DAY!!! PLS???

omg i feel you about the serial monogamy towards one series/show at a time 🤣 except for me it’s probs just hyperfixation 💀 but i’m so happy you decided to give ihm a read 🥺💕 it means sososososo much to me n i’m really excited for the seriesss

AWW IM GONNA SOB TYSM i have put quite a bit of thought into the characters in ihm bc i really want it to be like a web? of interactions btwn them all, and i’m so glad you saw that choso is foil to gojo!! yes!! he is very attentive to her, and i think sometimes it’s intentional n other times it’s just bc they’re meant to be honestly 😭💕 we’ll see that reader too is very vigilant too despite everything she’s got going on :”) i LOVED writing the scene where he calls her beautiful in the dress, every girl deserves to be called pretty in a dress she really adores!! and yeah the ring was totally coincidental but 🤣 again i guess they’re meant to be? hahaha

yesss i think there will be quite a bit of angst between the too, mostly surrounding their ex lovers, and just in general their pasts. i kinda wanted it where reader has lived in town her whole life (childhood home) whereas gojo mysteriously moved in next door less than a year ago, so they both don’t know much about each other despite being next door neighbors. but honestly i think a lot of the angst actually comes from secondary plotlines that end up bringing reader n gojo together!! but there will still be angst between them for suuuure 😭😔 yes gojo is very hesitant to speak up ab his divorce, sorry i simply cannot write gojo without avoidant personality bc i feel like he bottles up a lot in the show too so it just felt fitting 💀😞 but for reader too, i think she kinda…doesnt care to learn much about him as of right now bc she finds him annoying lol, and then later on when she has feelings i think it’ll be too painful for her to learn ab certain things too…so yes definitely i can see how they both would avoid their feelings and instead do the thing most adults do and joke about their feelings to lighten tension or completely avoid them all together 😃😃 (or do i just need therapy loool)

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS ASK my love :”) hope you have a wonderful day/evening/night!! much love from me <33

[its-no-biggie]

hello biggie!! so your posts about orv have really piqued my interest and i’d like to read it!! only thing is i’m not quite sure where to start,, i hear there’s a webtoon as well as a novel?? if you have any suggestions i would very much appreciate them <33

AAAHHHH OMG!!!! so glad my orv propaganda is working >:3

i usually recommend reading the manhwa (read: korean manga i.e the webtoon) first and then the novel, especially if you arent familiar with korean media and like. genre conventions. it gets you hooked quickly and it sets you up well for the novel in my opinion. plus its still ongoing (and will be for like. 8 more years. no im not exaggerating) so it forces you to read the novel to see how it ends hehehe

but the novel is really the important one!! so you can completely skip the manhwa and start there if you want. in fact, im of the opinion that the manhwa is not a very good adaptation of the story, but that it kind of works as an introduction anyway? i have a post where i discuss it on my blog somewhere but either way. some would say dont read the webtoon at all but personally i like it i think it adds to the experience. so its up to you

ALSO!!! if you do start reading it you MUST block the tag 'orv spoilers' because theyre BIG BIG MAJOR SPOILERS. be very careful and try to avoid the fandom (even the wiki!!) as much as possible until youve finished it, bc theres a lot of really big reveals that happen toward the end and you dont want them spoiled. trust me

and for a little bit of extra context: there are actually 2 versions of the novel! it was originally published as a serial webnovel, and then later edited and published as an ebook. personally i would recommend the ebook bc a) the manhwa is adapting the ebook version, b) once you download the ebook you can have it forever, and c) i generally agree with a lot of the edits they made to the original. but i originally read the web version so i can promise you theyre both very good and very much the same story. theres just some mild discrepancies that you might run into in the fandom lmao

[jimmycarterghostland]

My web serial 33 is still in rewrite hell. Just the other day, I found out that across and across from isn't the same thing. So I had to go through each chapter I revised so far, use the find tool option to search for every instance of "across", and make sure to add "from" after it, wherever it was needed. It was irritating, but I got it done.

For the newbies who don't know what 33 is, it's the science-fiction web novel I've been rewriting for a year now. 74 chapters total, all being rewritten. Hence my recommending nobody reads the novel until the rewrite is finished.

33 features two alien races: the Soynites and the Freemans. The Freemans destroyed Soy, the Soynites' home planet. And the Soynites have to get revenge and revive Soy. There's gray morality in 33, alien royals, death, at least one coronation(there will be multiple), spaceships, etc. It's a multiple point of view novel. If there aren't dozens of narrators in 33 right now, there will be. The planned word count is 5 million words. Formerly 20 million. I realized the 20M word plan was extremely unrealistic, so I dropped that down to 5M.

Embarrassingly, I've been rewriting 300,000 something words of 33 for the past year. That's the amount all the chapters so far add up to. Distractions and life in general are big reasons why the rewrite is taking up so much time to finish. Plus, there's the actual rewriting. There's always something I have to go back and edit in chapters that I had already revised. Sometimes I have to rewrite an entire already revised chapter, not just editing a sentence or two. But the whole thing. It's frustrating. One change can lead to me having to rewrite a whole chapter. That's what happened recently. I added something in an already improved chapter. I did it because I needed a certain character to show some cleverness. That change caused me to edit a few chapters that I had already edited earlier in the rewrite. I had to edit them in their entirety.

Anyway, my plan is to make 33 be my magnum opus. This is the work I want to be more popular than anything else I've written.

I work hard on 33. And I try to give each narrator a distinct character voice, using things like a character's mindset, a character's vocabulary, etc. to create a well-written multiple POV piece of literature. I've gotten better at writing character voice in general, but it's a challenge when there are a bunch of narrators you have to make sound unique. It is a lot of fun, though. Someday I want to be a master of writing multiple point of view literature.

33 is a Royal Road exclusive, but I plan on eventually publishing it in the original work section of Archive of Our Own. I'm eager to see how it gets received on AO3. It should be an interesting experiment.

I no longer have the detailed information about 33 pinned on my blog anymore, because seeing that post every time I went to my blog ended up frustrating me. So I figured other people felt that way too, which led me to unpin the post. I should really make more posts about 33 on here, though. Every Wednesday on Royal Road, I post an update on the rewrite.

I work on 33 every day, but progress on the rewrite moves extremely slowly. But I do have to finish this rewrite, then write the remainder of the novel, because I want 33 to be a popular and beloved piece of literature someday.

[red-gtech]

Prologue: Foreign Currency Notice

※Bold = Verbatim from MTL

The chapter begins with what seems like an author’s note from SingShong. The author’s note begins with thanking the readers for waiting for so long for the side story. The author laments that they started writing the side story but didn’t actually know what to write because it (orv) wasn’t written with a side story in mind.

The author mentions how they had read the comments from the fans in the last episode while on break and they were surprised. They praise the readers as geniuses and compares their self as thoughtless and admits that the main character for the side story hadn’t been decided yet.

The author goes on to say how the main story’s content was written smoothly but now they feel like someone had hit the back of their head hard. They then wrote that they still had to write a notice like this, as if complaining.

The POV then switches to the first person POV.

The main character of the side story, an author, stops writing and erases what they had typed. They berate their self for using a sentence that a professional writer can’t use. They bite their nails and start to rewrite it from the top.

They then begin to introduce their identity to the readers (us) by stating their appearance on Episode 549 of ORV while self-deprecatingly telling us that they’re sure we’ve all forgotten about it. They go on to introduce themselves like Kim Dokja did.

The author’s name is Lee Hakhyun. He mentions the reason for him being named as such was due to his father naming him with the cost of 300,000 won. Because his father wanted him to fly like a crane though he goes on to say that when his father found the hidden parenthesis in front the character hyun which was light.

He reintroduces himself as Lee Hakhyun, 33, (lighthearted) a hit web novelist.

He then gives the title of his only hit novel:

Omniscient Reader’s View - 551 Episodes in total Writer: Lee Hakhyun

He goes on to say that he had been with this novel from his late 20s to his early 30s and this was his first. However, he is contradicted by his editor, Ji Eun-yu. He introduces Ji Eun-yu as an experienced editor and the reason why someone like him could be in the industry. He thinks of his editor as a lifesaver.

Ji Eun-yu asked him what he wanted to do and Lee Hakhyun answered with a brooding voice that he knew and then asked what he should do. He then gets caught playing a game on steam but Lee Hakhyun tries to pretend that he wasn’t but Ji Eun-yu reveals that he got a notification that the game started after Lee Hakhyun denies opening steam and instead claims that the app opens automatically when he turns on the computer.

Lee Hakhyun immediately turns off the game that just loaded and tries to play it off by saying he wasn’t playing games to play games but to get inspiration. He then goes on to mention his editor’s theory after 6 years as an editor.

Writers who play games to get ides only play games even if they get ideas.

Lee Hakhyun agreed with her theory.

The two then went on to discuss his plans, he goes on to say that he tried to write but it didn’t work. His editor mentions how they talked about him using his previous works and combining it as one.

Lee Hakhyun then remembered his previous works one by one.

The Oak Philosopher

Infinite Prison Service

System Breaker

The Wizard of the Endless World

Method Master

How to Become a Star Writer

He goes on to say that it was impossible for all 6 of his previous novels to work together naturally. He then reveals that the last novel couldn’t even be used because it was an absurd story where the writer (he uses his own name) becomes a “star writer” by imitating a novel.

Someone asked why there’s a need to crossover with a masterpiece. And then Lee Hakhyun reveals that most of his novels stopped being serialized without even getting paywalled.

The answer was everything was fun.

His editor then said that even if he said that, she wouldn’t comfort him at all.

It’s mentioned that Lee Hakhyun once went up to the rooftop drunk and thought of something and then he was asked why they couldn’t do it again. Lee Hakhyun answered that he already tried it.

It was followed up by a question if he felt a tingling sensation in the back of his head, like swimming in his dream.

Lee Hakhyun sighed without laughing or crying.

Lee Hakhyun then narrates that Yoo Joonghyuk stabbed him in the back of his head in the novel, Han Sooyoung sent him the novel, and that he wrote it well but now he doesn’t know and really wished that he could do that (writing well) these days.

He apologizes and Lee Hakhyun acknowledges that his editor said it (the nagging) out of frustration. It’s then revealed that there’s an economic depression and that Ji Eun-yu’s management was affected. There was a mass resignation and their writers were moving companies one by one or leaving the writing industry.

He then wondered if it would help the company if he wrote a side story. Lee Hakhyun shifts the somber tone by saying that there was a lot of reader’s waiting for him but when asked where it was.

It’s then revealed that ORV was the best free novel in the platform and Lee Hakhyun mentions how active his readers were and the community only to then say that no one remembered his story now. He called ORV as a once-in-a-lifetime story.

Ji Eun-yu told him to stop talking and said that his readers were still there.

Lee Hakhyun swallowed his question asking where they were and instead said that he’d do his best and sullenly hung up the phone. He then decided to have a drink today and closes his computer to head to the nearby convenience store for a can of beer and snacks. He chose a pack of protein biscuits over potato chips because he was already at an age where he had to pay attention to those things.

While he was drinking beer, he remembered Ji Eun-yu’s words.

⌈”There are a lot of readers waiting for the writer’s story”⌋

Lee Hakhyun then reveals to us that words enclosed in ⌈⌋ were his special thoughts. And that he was having a special thought.

Are there still readers waiting for my story?

He emptied the beer and opened the web novel platform. He was bombarded by notifications such as the system asking for continuous serialization and notes from fellow writers announcing the start of the serialization.

and—

I enjoyed watching it, writer.

comments from his readers.

I’m a 14 yr old middle school student. It was the first webnovel TT

Some notes were cute, some desperate.

Reading this novel was the joy of my military life...

All fragments of narrative left for me by readers. And three years have passed.

A reader who was a middle school student would have become a high school student. The reader who was a high school student would have become a college students, the reader who was a soldier would have been discharged, and a reader who was a job applicant would have been employed.

Lee Hakhyun comments that the readers became something and left the story while he stayed in the story and became a boring person choosing potato chips mass-produced protein biscuits.

It was fun writer

Lee Hakhyun choked and was surprised to see that someone would still leave a message to the author, 3 years after the completion of the novel. The sender was from an ID: Representative Kim Dokja.

Lee Hakhyun remembered the ID during the height of ORV’s serialization.

It’s already been three years since I finished reading the book. Every year at his time of the year, I think of the past, so I binge-watched it, and I enjoyed reading it again this year. Every time I read it again, it feels like I’m reading a different novel, so it’s fascinating.

It reminds me of three years ago. I had a lot of fun reading the series.

That was what I wanted to say.

Lee Hakhyun remembered the UID as his reader who wrote him comments everyday and sent him notes every time. In short, “CEO Kim Dokja”  was a person who fits well with the nickname.

Lee Hakhyun goes on to read the rest of the message.

I don’t know if you still remember.

He answered that of course, he remembers. He still sees the messages from those days and remembered writing to death everyday until the deadline, exhausted as he read the comments and messages sent by his readers before going to bed. He admits that without it he wouldn’t have been able to endure the solitude or write the last sentence. Just as he grabs the keyboard to reply to his reader using his own words and not in a novel, he sees the end of the message.

By the way.

There is a small fan event tomorrow at 7 p.m. If you have time, I hope you can come and enjoy it. I will also give you a special gift as a thank you.

I’m sorry, but tickets for the event are charged. I have to make a living too.

Lee Hakhyun remembers the prologue of ORV and comments how the note seems like a joke prepared by an old reader imitating Kim Dokja receiving a note from TLS123 about the epilogue being a paid content.

He thanks the reader and declines the present and only accepts the reader’s thoughts however he ends up worrying if there was a separate gift to be given at the event. Lee Hakhyun continues to drink his beer and the chapter ends with Lee Hakhyun stating that he had no idea of what would happen to his life the next day. Table of Contents|| Episode 1: The World After Conclusion

[danielxwhitechapel]

❀ *ﾟ chris wood. cis man. he/him. straight/bi-curious. ⇝ hey, isn’t that Daniel Anderson? i think that the thirty-three from Nashville, TN that works as a hacker, but outside of that people describe them as shifting of calculating and observant eyes in the dark corner of a room, dork glasses with a twilzzers hanging from the corner of lips, ghost white knuckles with a burning rage-filled cobalt eyes, late nights under the glow of various computer screens and a litany of coding, sarcastic comments almost as sharp as instant insults. i hear they are sadistic & cunning, but they are also known to be charming & patient. consider giving them a visit at their home in the marionette and get to know why they’re called the chess master. 

triggers:  domestic abuse, alcoholism

stats

Character Name: Daniel Samuel Anderson

Character Name: Danny

Age: 33

Birthday: June, 27th, 1989

Gender/Pronouns: Cis man, He/Him

Sexuality: Heterosexual (bi-curious)

Occupation: Freelance Hacker

Birth Place: Nashville, TN

How long they’ve been in Anchorage: Six months

Currently lives: 2-bedroom apartment at The Marionette

Face claim: Chris Wood

Inspo: Spotify | Pintrest

personality

impulsive

sadistic

manipulative 

patient

observant

charming

pretty goofy most of the time (idiot)

temperamental

cunning

THE CHESS MASTER - this is an incredibly patient muse, they may seem oblivious, but in reality, they are quietly plotting something big. they’re intelligent and not everyone around them is aware of this, which works to their advantage.

key points:

triggers: murder, parental neglect, childhood abuse, domestic abuse, death, drug addiction, violence

Born and raised in Nashville. 

Danny’s grandfather was a serial killer in the 1970′s.

Oldest child - has one younger sister.

His father was extremely abusive to both his mother and himself. A drunk through and through.

His mother was a drug addict.

Has a pretty bad temper. He’s getting better at controlling it but it still pops up from time to time.

The kind of guy that can be ruled by his emotions (impulsivity) and thinks about things later. His mind need constant stimulation or he grows exceedingly bored and that leads to the impulsive decisions that bring a sense of chaos and adrenaline he needs. 

Wasn’t the best student around but is a tech wizard. Found his passion and pursued it in community college - not that he needed to.

Does freelance hacking - ethical as a day job but his real source of income comes from illegal hacking jobs in the dark web. 

Came to Anchorage to escape the heat from the police back in Nashville.

biography.

triggers: murder, parental neglect, childhood abuse, domestic abuse, death, drug addiction, violence

Danny’s full biography can be found here or in the source link!

wanted connections

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL LIST OF HIS WANTED CONNECTIONS

Ex-girlfriend

On/Off

Best Friend 

Enemies 

One night stands

Flings

Drinking buddies

GIVE ME EVERYTHING

[tsukiyadori]

Reading+Watching+Listening Log 2024.07 - July

Previous: Reading (+Watching+Listening) Log 2024.06 - June

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Reading languages: German, English, French, Japanese, not listing which was what. (There’s also been some feeble attempts at Chinese, but that was more on drama and music.)

Titles are as I’ve read them either first or most and thus remember it for that title mostly

Not going to bother putting in the original titles of translated reads unless there is something worthy of note to it

Cursive titles have been completed

If it says a volume number, it may mean it has been finished or is still in progress

Some notes’ content may be subject to repetition here and there, as I also copied some older notes from casual conversations over and didn’t go through any rounds of cutting things down.

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JULY

Trying to return to reading stuff on the apps daily has failed rather miserably

and keeping up online serialized chapter releases continues to be a mess. For some I've by now given up, as I buy them anyway...

This month started with Tearmoon Empire and I was thinking surely this month was gonna become the Tearmoon-month, but then... distractions happened

By the end of the month, it consisted pretty much just of last minute JNC catchup readings... which actually have proven I can still read fairly fast, but organizing those readings is a mess beyond description.

The music section stays, because this month's list is just too short again.

Light Novels/Web Novels/Novels:

Brunhild v3

Fake Saint of the Year: You Wanted the Perfect Saint? Too Bad! v1

Fushi no Kami v1

Grand Sumo Villainess (Light Novel) v1p1-5(ch2)

Heavenly Swords of the Twin Stars (Light Novel) v1p1, v2p1

I Could Never Be a Succubus! (Light Novel) v1p1-3

I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I’m the Strongest? I’m Not Even an Adventurer Yet! (Light Novel) v1-5

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? v11-12

Tearmoon Empire v1-4

The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (Light Novel) v1p1, v3

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish v1

The Disowned Queen’s Consulting Detective Agency v1p12

The Rebirth Of The General Who Always Sees Himself As A Replacement ch2-3

vTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream v1

((classified))

Manga:

Dahlia lässt den Kopf nicht hängen v2

Der Filmriss - meine Flucht vor der Realität

Doll-Kara ch1, v8ch42-47

Domestic na Kanojo v14-16

Doukyusei v1

Fangirl v2

Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! (Manga) ch1, ch8

Girl Crush ch64

Go For It v2ch7-12

Gothic Angel

Haikyu v41

Hari to Hitsuji no Fune ch11.1

Himmelblaue Zeiten v1-3

Hot Dog

I Can't Write About This Kiss

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch19

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch33

Nachtregen

Purgatory Survival v2ch5-8

Queen's Quality v19

Sonna Kazoku nara Sutechaeba? ch73-75, ch72sample

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten ch13.3-14.4

The Saga of Lioncourt v1-6

Webtoons:

Silent Lover ch192-195(S2ch50-53)

Taberare Usa ch110-113

Drama:

Story of Yanxi Palace #1-8

Music:

Just a selection of those that left the most impression, had me check out its lyrics and/or popped up high in the replay count.

Still all the stuff from last month

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 01 - 看 (電視劇《延禧攻略》主題曲)

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 75 - 誣陷

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 57 - 反擊

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 33 - 腐朽化神奇

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 14 - 危在旦夕

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 12 - 出手相助

Story of Yanxi Palace OST - 11 - 入宮

RADWIMPS - Suzume (Suzume No Tojimari) [Dante Levo and Kindred Remix]

Suzume no Tojimari OST - 27 - Suzume feat. Toaka

Zhou Shen - 铃芽之旅

Zhou Shen - 触不可及

Zhou Shen - 濃情淡如你

譚維維 - 繡春

张渠 - 玉人

Notes:

Tearmoon Empire v1-4 - I really thought at the beginning this month was just simply going to be a Teamoon month than then this whole post could just be summarized with a 'Sweet Moons!" – Btw, those moon expressions really are nice. I kinda want to adopt them, but then Mia is Mia and apparently all the other Moon families of Etoile aren't…. Much more brainy, either. How to be torn! Anyway. I kinda expected a cute girls doing cute stuff comedy, which is actually still is, but then it also starts surprisingly brutal with the execution and the whole depiction that Mia legit does have more than a few little and big traumas, but at the same time (maybe because she is a bit daft after all) still manages to get on her feet and try to get life in order pretty darn helluva well. That's some strength that kinda gets underestimated, maybe even most by the narrator who really can't leave a chance out to diss this character. (By v4 said narrator kinda starts to feel a bit mean spirited.) And maybe it's not even all her own quality - after all in part it's because she bluffed so much she now has no choice but to actually become more like her bluff. But v2 thematizes the idea of self betterment, forgiveness of flaws and mistakes so well, I felt like this was totally fluff, but tucked behind the most tsundere veil ever. This series is like the diagonally opposite of Livid Lady (which I'd like to call the anti-fluff), where no one gave the MC any sympathy for her efforts, which causes an escalation of demise and no mercy. Mia's self betterment however ultimately springs out of Ludwig honoring her will and effort to at least try and Anne's sympathy to give her at least a token of humanity until the very end, which then is the seed to cause snowballing not downwards, but upwards. That's just such a bright, positive note to capitalize on.

That being said, I was surprised how quickly the first arc wrapped up with just two volumes. It could have well held on more volumes before the guillotine danger vanished. And then v3 pulled a Sailor Moon Dark Moon arc. Except that this series' Chibi-Usa equivalent is a bit less obnoxious to start with. Somehow the arc seems a bit more weak in terms of its plot pull, but also it seems like a build up to some more stuff building up on it, and so I'm curious what twists it may walk to. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it managed to surpass volume 2.

Brunhild v3 - Its events take place some 100 years after v2 and still a long long ago before v1 (which so far definitely is still the least interesting volume of the series). But I am quite taken with multi-generational stories and how one life's course affects some others later on even when they are long past and gone. As such, v1 does get some more bonus points in retrospect, but the memory of it being a bit of a slog unfortunately remains. v3 was cool to have another strong female protagonist, but somehow lacked any bigger twist that v2 still had. Maybe that's because Krimhild really only gets some agency much later on.

Fushi no Kami v1: Good heavens, this volume is dragging on forever. 87% in. Unfortunately, right in the middle of a Maika part. I'm half considering skipping paragraphs. The world building around the overarching lore of the ancient civilization and their writings and books still remains interesting, but it's really at the back burner of the plot right now. And every single Maika part just. Argh, I'm really not interested in your cheese PoV...

I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I’m the Strongest? I’m Not Even an Adventurer Yet! (Light Novel) v1-5 - This was a complete surprise. I expected some generic OP power fantasy thingy, but then it was all about misunderstandings, and they seemed to be on Tearmoon levels, while not being half as funny and hilarious, which I half thought was a bit disappointing. After another volume I figured, this series just works from differently and I had to look from a completely opposite angle: it isn't a comedy and satire on the forefront, but more action and badassery. But both have in common that every character suffers the Mia-bug equivalent of this series and there is an escalation ladder which prompts everyone to be coaxed into self-betterment. That's a nice thing.

And despite being rather OP the MC still isn't a Gary Sue and has to spend effort and isn't always saving the day on his own. Meanwhile, secondary female MC definitely got some real elegantly cool looking spotlight.

I mean, just look at this!

Elegant badass female (secondary) MC spotted!

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? v11-12 - I, uh, accidentally skipped v10 after only reading 30 pages of it. The most baffling thing is, it…. did not even really feel needed. Of course v10 appears to have changed a few things considerably, but they were so considerable, they were shown and explained in v11 again anyway. That being said. V11 felt like quite the complete slog as well. By the end, I was probably more skim reading than not…

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish v1 - Oh my. I will say the situational comedy aspect of this is quite stellar. It does come up with the wildest absurd ideas (tho the biting the jewel bit is a bit facepalm.) That and the short chapter do prompt me to read on as it goes, but it feels a bit like the instant gratification feedback you get from, say, playing Tetris. So far I read until the half line of v1. While I can feel this slightly addictive feeling while reading, as soon as I put the book down, overall, I can't say I am very wowed. I think this stems most from the fact that the MC is kinda…. bland? That is to say, it's like he has personality, but no character. Despite everything being narrated from his PoV the reader has rather little insight to his background, his past, his weaknesses, strength, personal motivations, how clever or not he is, stances or even what his opinion of the characters of this world, which he knows from the novel he read, is. And that's… weird. Second MC is known as a to-be-tyrant to him, he knows his past, present and future, and you'd think that should have colored some sort of opinion and stance, but he appears to be strangely indifferent to him, aside of primary instincts and that his life kinda depends on him. But maybe that impression is still too preliminary? Will see.

Initial Impressions I've blabbered in German while reading after being prompt:

Pet Fish p118/ch11 durch: What have I just read….

Also soweit erstmal: Es ist unterhaltsam, aber ich glaube, wenn das einfach nur so weitergeht und nicht irgendwann noch ordentlich ernst für Tiefe wird irgendwie wird es bei mir nicht richtig zünden. Aktuell fehlt tatsächlich was ziemlich sehr: MC hat wenig Charakter. Also er hat Persönlichkeit, aber irgendwie… keinen Charakter. (Falls das irgendwie Sinn macht.) Dazu gehört u.a. auch Hintergrund zu seiner Person oder Motivationen im Leben und so Sachen. Man weiß ja mal so gar nichts aus seinem früheren Leben, und auch so wie er handelt, macht keinerlei Implikationen, was für eine Art Leben er geführt haben muss (abgesehen, dass er einem Kommentar nach halt aus PRC China kommt.) Sämtliche Handlungen bislang sind auch weniger eigene Motivationen, als Motivationen durchs System. So lustig und trollig das System auch sein mag (soweit eine interessantere Version von dem System in Wiedergeburt als Schleim) und zumindest etwas Anhaltspunkte gibt, an dem er sich entlanghangeln kann, damit es überhaupt einen Handlungsstrang hat - Es nimmt ihm auch die Agency weg. Was halt irgendwie nochmal gar nicht hilft, dass er eigenen Charakter zeigen kann. So wie er sich benimmt, Reaktionen und Gedanken und so die Art erinnert er mich auch etwas an Mia aus Tearmoon, aber gerade bei Ihr wurde gleich am Anfang Hintergrund, und neben Persönlichkeit auch schnell Charakter etabliert. Sie ist keine Leuchte, sie ist ziemlich selbst bezogen, faul, fehlgeleitet, eitel, denkt nicht weit, aber kann durchaus ihr Bestes geben, wenn die notwendige Motivation da ist, oder lernfähig sein, wenn es sein muss (i.e. triftige Gründe fürs Überlegen) und letztlich ist sie zwar egoistisch und ihre Handlungsmotivationen in den meisten Fällen fragwürdig, aber sie hat kein wirklich schlechtes Herz, das Treue und gute Taten anderer nicht wertschätzen kann. Und es ist auch direkt mit einigen griffigen Ereignissen klargemacht worden, warum sie so ist.

Das fehlt mir hier etwas sehr. Also, ja, er will halt nicht als Fisch krepieren, aber jenseits davon… Was treibt ihn eigentlich so als Figur, Charakter selbst an?

(Zwangsleerzeile, weil tumblr)

Das andere was mir jetzt auch etwas, uh? ist, hängt wohl damit zusammen (und dass es letztlich ein BL ist). Einige Reaktionen sind für mich eher ??? Dass er kann nicht aufhören kann mal zu erwähnen, dass der Prinz sehr hübsch ist, ist ja noch kein Ding. Aber dass der dann gleich so überreagiert, weil er an seine Haut kommt und er nackt ist, äh. Hat der im letzten Leben nie in einer Umkleide oder so andere Kerle gesehen? Oder hat der schon immer so reagiert? Weiß nicht, sind auch nur Kleinigkeiten, die kommen mir irgendwie nicht so natürlich nachvollziehbar rüber. Und dass es dann jetzt schon eskaliert in Richtung schlüpfrigen Humor, also ja, es ist BL und schon irgendwie klar, sie landen wohl noch im Bett am Ende, aber mag es dann doch eher, wenn das natürlich für den Charakter von MC und ML läuft und nicht, ja weil Plotchecklist.

Und allgemein denkt er irgendwie nicht so viel nach. Wie ist der hier hergekommen? Scheint ja nur einfach beim Lesen eingeschlafen zu sein, mal kein Truck-kun o.ä. Aber dann auch: keine Gedanken, dass er abgesehen von wieder Mensch werden zurück in seine Zeit/Welt will? Der hinterfragt auch null das Moe Pet System. Und wäre ja eine Sache, wenn es einfach zu seinem Charakter gehöre nicht weit denken zu können, aber irgendwie…. fehlt da was, das griffig einen Grund impliziert. Und auch grad, wenn der die WN von der Welt schon kennt, der kennt den Prinzen ja schon, und das Wissen poppt hier und da mal raus, und wird mehrfach betont, er kennt den Plot. Aber dafür, dass er ihn so gut kennt, lässt er irgendwie keine Meinung zu ihm als Figur je anmerken. War das seine Lieblingsfigur? Fand er ihn furchtbar? ….? Sowas müsste doch eigentlich seine Interaktionen und Reaktionen prägen. Und er hat im letzten Leben wohl WNs gelesen, ist der dann ein Otaku von? Kennt der die ganzen Tropes? Oder nur Gelegenheitsleser? Das müsste sich doch auch in seiner Haltung dazu, dass er jetzt in einem WN Plot gelandet ist (mit einem Game-style System) widerspiegeln wie Genre-savvy oder nicht der ist, aber bislang auch Niente.

Also kann alles ja noch kommen, aber bislang sieht es von der Art her nicht so ganz danach aus, da es noch nicht wirklich einen Vorbau gibt/"Samen" gesäht wurden.

(Klingt jetzt eventuell harscher als es ist…)

vTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream v1 – … the premise is interesting. It felt like a walk out of the comfort zone to test this one out, and maybe it was too far out. In any case, I cannot console myself with how this just celebrates the booze a bit too much. And it's not even like she has the immunity and can drink the stuff like it's water.

((classified)) - Which is not quite the case over here for some characters. You can even play bingo games here for how often something alcoholic appears and they drink it like water or juice. Not much more to say yet than that the MC gives me more and more aroace vibes and there was even a scene that was almost made me grovel and flop down on the table facedown, because it hit a bit too close to home. But it's kinda nice to see how the MC is having people supportive to them and also in way it's feeling like being earned.

Domestic na Kanojo v14-16 - Collection of Immediate impressions as I have read them:

v14: (nothing of note after reading and zero in my memory right now anymore)

DomeKano v15: New character and kind of everything about her is grating on my nerves…

A bit later: finished the volume, Hina… how come you are so… kinda useless….

DomeKano v16: So much rabu rabu…

Reaching closer to the end: …….

That whole "female molester" arc is rather losing me

Doukyusei v1 - It. Uh. Now this one is very famed and acclaimed and everything and I have read some Asumiko Nakamura before and I also do not dislike her style. But this one, kind of. I went out, and it's just leaving any impression whatsoever in my memory? Which is weird, the covers by themselves are quite memorable somehow, but anything inside did not want to stick around whatsoever.

Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita ch19 - The cheese has very much clearly started. But it's very soft cheese. And darn pretty looking cheese.

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsusuru ch33 - Pouts, pouts POUTS--- And some other good faces:

Oh and also, volume 1 in German got out end of July!

Story of Yanxi Palace #1-8: Over all the dance choreographies I watched of the 浮光 song (I babbled over that last month) youtube decided to throw me a dance performance clip of The Legend of Haolan over. Which had Haolan be misnamed as Yinluo. Haolan and Yinluo share the same actress, but the latter is the MC from Yanxi Palace, and then youtube decided to bombard me with clips of this series. All over the place out of order, and I probably have watched half of the show this way already, so figured could just start actually watching the thing from the beginning. And Yinluo is just so darn great of a strong, witty, quick brained and clever character. The show, aside from being full of pretty props, a very interconnected cast and plot also knows how to be funny to offset some of all the drama, death and broken hearts. And from the clips it seems like it's also a good example of how a person can love two people simultaneous, even if in different ways. And most importantly, how that that love stuff is not controlling her life. Integrity and purpose far supersede it. And she has the wits and later the means and power to stand her ground over it. And moreover, she is not above using dirty and bloody methods, but she stands firm at being what she is and who she is, and what her values are, so her character remains very true to herself. That's something really hard to pull off in life. She is quite the awesome character~

Some German describing (fangirling?) over her: Sie hat Grips, kann schnell und flexibel auf alles das ihr entgegen kommt reagieren, hat allgemein einiges drauf, kein Angebertum, aber sie macht das, was sie kann auch nicht klein. Hat keine Hemmungen ihre Meinung zu geigen, aber auch genug Menschenkenntnis zu wissen, wann man das machen kann oder nicht sollte, scheut sich nicht die Hände dreckig zu machen wenn nötig, aber wenn nichts und niemand sie zum Handeln nötigt, dann lebt sie ein friedliches, hilfsbereites Leben.

Which really. Actually. Is the exactly same description you could just as as hang onto Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries. (Except that Maomao has her poison antics in addition and really gives some big aroace-moods as of LN v2 to me.)

看 (電視劇《延禧攻略》主題曲): The opening song of Story of Yanxi Palace. As the OP it's pretty much got no vocals beyond the reciting of that poem at the end, which I still wonder if it's some classic poetry or specifically of this show. The full version features some lyrics, and they are quite nice, too. The opening visuals additionally are quite great and being atmospheric. What is astonishing is, that it's actually a whole bunch of stills with only kinda simple effects - the sort you frequently see in say Manga MADs or MMVs. And despite the simplicity of effects that kinda even look a bit cheap, it works. Really well. The direction and composition of the stills of the sequence definitely is eye catching. (Unfortunately the ED doesn't work as great. It also has the stills and effects, but inside is also a clip of the series itself, which is normal movement and kinda breaks the atmosphere completely for me.)

Other songs from the show's OST. You could also call these tracks the Yingluo-goes-badass tracks. Especially 反擊 is the Badass Yingluo comes, let's all have smug faces as watchers-theme.

张渠 - 玉人- Another track from some dance video yt foisted on me and it was nice to have in the playlist for a few days.

Zhou Shen - 触不可及 - Oh darn, this Engrish. But probably that made it so memorable, too. The melody is nice and the lyrics have a nice contemplative and kinda optimic note. The track was apparently the Chinese track to a movie, of which I have watch the first movie from a free years back. And at the time (and still) think, it is a good movie, but I really, really did not like the characters and some of the messages. So, just for having some fun and learn some sunlight in your life it's ok to speed on the highways or do prank calls to hospitals faking an emergency? I just can't get behind that. And knowing it's the theme song to it kinda soured me eventually on it. :/

Zhou Shen - 铃芽之旅 - The Chinese Version of the Theme Song of Suzume no Tojimari. I still haven't watched the movie, but I do like the JP version already, but I prefer the Chinese Version a whole lot more. Maybe it's because the voice is a bit lower than Toka's which this would imply:

RADWIMPS - Suzume (Suzume No Tojimari) [Dante Levo and Kindred Remix] - I like this Version more than the original too and it's some remix that does some pitch manipulation that lowers the one from the original.

The rest was nicely repeatable and mainly served to balance and accompany the above in the playlist.

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