#AHAHAHA FUCKING FINALLY I CAN BE FUNCTIONAL AGAIN

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

pov: you are the luckiest adhd haver on this whole cursed island after months of trying

[smaller-comfort]

So how do you imagine snail love darts and necrontyr working/combining? Cause I am interested~

Aksjdhsk ahahaha oh god okay here we go

(Tumblr crashed on me three times while I tried to write this, but I will not let that stop me from rambling at length about snail sex, speculative xenobiology, and various ways that necrontyr get to be fucked up little guys.)

Okay. Some assumptions/general thoughts: necrontyr do not have "dual-use" reproductive/waste elimination systems (inferred from Trazyn's hilarious disgust at the idea, but honestly it would be entirely believable for him to have completely lost any and all memories of necrontyr biology). A lot of higher order animals do (they're efficient!), but you start to see ones that don't when you get down to bugs and marine creatures, so that's what kicked off this train of thought.

I'm assuming also there is relatively little sexual dimorphism among necrontyr (not for any particular reason, although my understanding is that actual female necrons are a relatively new thing in wh40k lore, so that fits). And finally, everyone constantly dying of turbo cancer has led to a 'throw everything but the kitchen sink at it' evolutionary approach to reproductive strategies.

Okay, now snails: they use the darts during courtship to deliver hormones that increase the likelihood of fertilizing their partner's eggs; after the several-hours-long mating dance, they'll exchange spermatophores. (Fun fact, the penis, copulatory canal, and dart sac are all located inside the genital pore, on the snail's head. Mating dances can involve a lot of biting.) Snails have bad aim, but it's not uncommon for both snails to end up getting stabbed during courtship.

"Copulatory canal" is a deeply unsexy phrase, btw. So are most words we use when talking about sex, unfortunately. *sigh*

Anyway. While many necrontyr do only have one set of functional reproductive organs by the time they reach adulthood (either because the other set was always vestigial or because it gets removed to reduce the spread of cancer), both sets are usually present in some fashion. Sterility would be fairly common, but medical technology is able to mitigate some of that; the lower classes, at least, need to be able to breed like rabbits to feed the war machine. Gender is mostly divorced from reproductive role by the time biotransference happens; in addition to male and female, there would have been at least one other normative gender, possibly two (to account for both null and multimodal genders). Gender fluidity would have been common and largely unremarkable for necrontyr. (It's still largely unremarkable for necrons, but it's not particularly common; they're mostly fixed with whatever gender they had at biotransference.)

Okay, so, love darts. Pretty much only ever used by nobles/the military, because in the upper classes of society, sex isn't about reproduction, it's about reinforcing social hierarchies. And necrontyr social hierarchies tend to be inherently about violence in one way or another. Sexual dominance is generally more about who gets stabbed with the dart than it is about which penis is going where. (That's still a factor, but it's secondary, since genital configurations/functionality can be a bit of a wildcard.) Snails take an egalitarian approach to sex; necrontyr categorically do not. Both parties consenting to be darted would be considered weird and perverted.

Kind of going off ancient greek/roman sexual mores here; it would be entirely unthinkable, for example, for Obyron to be the penetrative partner in either sense with Zahndrekh. (Then again, Zahndrekh is a shameless pervert.) Sex between two social equals is generally accompanied by an agreement- sometimes tacit, sometimes explicit- about not using the darts. Doing so would be an overt act of aggression. Often, to prevent any potential misunderstandings, they'll voluntarily empty their dart sacs ahead of time.

Forcing someone to empty their dart sac prior to sex is a pretty common form of sexual humiliation. When done voluntarily, it's a sign of submission or respect. (Darts usually have a refractory period of a few days, depending on the person's overall health. Single-chambered dart sacs are typical, but multiples aren't unheard of. Leads to occasional 'surprise! You thought I was submitting to you but now you're getting fucked instead' situations.)

The dart sac would be located in their mouths, under the tongue; it's meant to be ejected into the soft tissue of the mouth, but it's sharp enough to pierce the skin anywhere. (This does mean kissing can be Complicated, or at least somewhat subversive, depending on everyone's social standing.) Normally it gets broken down and absorbed by the recipient's body; pulling one out tends to be extremely uncomfortable/painful.

The exact cocktail of hormones and neurochemicals it injects the other person with would vary somewhat between individuals, but can potentially vary widely between dynasties or social classes due to genetic/geographic/cultural differences. Some might include a mild paralytic agent; some sort of euphoric effect is also common. (This is all in addition to the original function, which, uh. Is to make the recipient more likely to get pregnant.) The shape of the dart varies in a similar fashion, ranging from a straight, smooth bone spike to something more elaborate with barbs or fluting.

(A bloody mouth can signify a lot of things to necrontyr- in addition to violence or illness, it's also inherently erotic. Necrons who remember this try very, very hard not to think about it when confronted with Flayed Ones.)

(Yenekh: *very sexily smearing his mouth with blood and draping himself all over Oltyx*

Oltyx: *oblivious, can't stop thinking about how pretty Yenekh is*

The rest of the flayed ones: *still not sure why their king and his consort haven't fucked nasty in a pile of carrion yet. Maybe they need a bigger pile of carrion? Yes, that's probably it. They will take care of this for their beloved king.*)

Crypteks have their own social hierarchies within their conclaves, but they're usually not as concerned with sexual politics as nobles and the military tend to be. Most people believe that crypteks all lace their love darts with poison, and the crypteks don't try to discourage that assumption. Some of them probably do, tbh.

Necrons, of course, don't have genitalia, but they can still stab each other with love dart analogues- this ranges from things like executive buffer override packages sent via interstitial channel, to actually physically jamming a spike of necrodermis into a neural input node. (From a purely aesthetic/romantic standpoint I also like the idea of love darts constructed out of crystallized core flux. The first time Zahndrekh does that to Obyron he goes into complete cascade failure and takes several hours to reboot.)

If Orikan and Trazyn did have sex pre-biotransference, one of them would have darted the other without permission (probably accidentally, being that they are both intensely nerdy losers and thus Bad At Sex by necrontyr standards), setting off a sixty-five million year hate-sex feud that neither of them can even remember the origin of. Orikan would've gone after Trazyn's mouth with a pair of pliers at some point; joke's on him, Trazyn's into that.

(Trazyn does have a collection of necrontyr love darts in the archives- all of them ones he collected personally when he was alive. He has no absolutely no memory of slutting it up back in the day, though, and probably doesn't even realize what they are. Sannet, unfortunately, does remember, and wishes he didn't. He has had to put up with so, so much over the years.)

[tardis--dreams]

I will need to buy a new laptop. Until then i can not close my broken laptop in order to keep it at least half alive. Needless to say this leaves my bank account with zero money :)

[ultfreakme]

I watched the Destiel 15x18 confession scene before I watched the series, and I fell into the mentality of "haha Jensen Ackles was totally being the homophobic straight dude reacting to his gay bff confessing his love AHAHAHA!"

Then I watched the show.

I'm just on season 5 but Jensen Ackles portrayed exactly what Dean would've gone through. That was the most accurate portrayal ever. Those who didn't watch the show wouldn't know who Dean Winchester is. He is selfless, reckless, cares too much but can't express any of his emotions verbally because he is emotionally constipated as fuck and grew up in an environment where he was actively discouraged from speaking about his feelings.

He also has this crippling self-esteem issue where he thinks he deserves nothing good, that he is just there to protect his family and thinks his function as a person is limited to being a weapon and shield for those he cares about. Thing is, everyone around him keeps suffering trying to protect him, so he thinks he can't let anyone care about him because the moment they do, the get hurt or die.

Enter Cas.

Cas, who rebelled and fell from heaven. Cas who gave Dean everything over and over again whether Dean asked or not. Cas, who lost his angelhood for him, killed his own family for him,

and finally,

died for him.

Dean actually saw what could happen to Cas if Cas followed him. In the episode "The End", Dean saw a future where the world was at the hands of Lucifer(long story), the world is post-apocalyptic, god is nowhere and the angels have fled. Cas is the only angel that stayed and because of this, he is not longer an angel, just, fully human.

He still followed Dean, and Cas fell into so many self destructive habits, got so jaded about life, that he died for the post-apocalyptic Dean on a suicide mission.

So Dean knows and witnessed what would happen to Cas and did everything to prevent this future from happening.

Still,

STILL CAS FELL.

He got hurt, over and over and over again.

Now imagine being Dean, imagine having to see your best friend suffer for years on end and thinking you are the cause of it. Thinking that you are the downfall of an angel. And the angel says "I love you", the one thing Dean's wanted to hear all his life, being on the receiving end of such unconditional love, something he's never, ever had.

And it is said at the same time the one giving you that love is going to die, never to be seen again. They are crying, they are going to die and they tell you saying 'I love you' is the happiest they have ever been in their millions of years of existence so what the fuck do you do? What do you do when an entity beyond human comprehension, a divine being who saw the creation of Earth, watched a billion sunsets, countless rainbows and snow flakes, watched clouds swirling in summer skies and roaring with lightning, had seen flowers bloom, butterflies flap their wings, all that and they say you are what made them feel. You are the most beautiful thing they've witnessed. Broken, fallen, terrible you. Still beautiful.

What can you do, but stand still and watch the final fall of the angel, be so overwhelmed, and you finally get an infinitesimal taste of perceiving this unimaginably large, miraculous, entity. And they tell you all their glory is yours.

The worst part?

You think you took that glory away.

So what the fuck can you say? What the fuck can you do when your best friend decides to subject themselves to an unending, inescapable loop of regret for you, specifically because of their love for you?

What can you do but be numb and cry and beg them to stay? 'Don't do this, don't do this for me of all people.'

And they disappear. Forever. Subject to endless suffering.

What do you do?

[maltedmilkchocolate]

It’s almost august and I don’t know how i’m gonna get all my work done for the end of september :’D Probably gonna fail this module. I can’t focus. Everything I draw looks like shit. This was supposed to be a film under 2 minutes, and I can’t even work out the problems in it, and this is only storyboarding. I still need to do the environment design, and this was also meant to become 3D so i was meant to contact modellers and i’m gonna fail my course. I am overdue a breakdown. Ahahahaha. Ah. Fuck. Fuck this. Fuck COVID. I was doing so well, I was gonna do great and now i’m rapidly falling behind on my last module, and it’s not fair because a fucking pandemic shot me in the foot. I don’t even know if this damn course is going to exist again next year, because this was the first year that it came into existence. Ahahaha;;; If i’m the only person to fail in a class of 5 people, I’m gonna lose my shit. I am so stressed. I just want to be back in a class room and have a regular routine and not be losing my mind 24/7. I’m sure things aren’t as bad as they seem, but from my POV it’s a dumpster fire and I’d like the world to explode so I don’t have to participate in a world where I need a job and money and won’t have wasted EIGHTEEN FUCKING GRAND. 

And no one gets it, and I keep trying to ask for help, but despite what’s available to me, it’s not what I need because what I need is a fucking work environment in a studio. I can’t work from home. My brain doesn’t allow it. I need a rigid environment or I will crash and burn :D And it’s 3rd year uni all over again where there’s no classes and I’m not gonna get my final project finished, and this time, I don’t have a house full of other students on my course who are also stressed. It’s just me, on my own.  I’m so scared that I’m going to fail at this last hurdle. And every time I get stuck on a shot, and I don’t know how to draw something, I panic and I keep procrastinating work, because it’s so daunting. And I end up doing all my work at like 3am, cause i’m less likely to give a fuck when i’m tired, and I’ll get more done. And I don’t really know where to go from here, and I have been asking for help, but eight times out of ten it’s not what I need. And I’m spending so much time trying to fix one problem, that other problems get forgotten. I need help and I don’t know where to get it, and if I fail this then i’ve wasted peoples money, and ONCE AGAIN i’ve hit the fucking bar ADHD holds over my head, and no matter how well I do, or how much I succeed, it always caps off, and I can’t go any farther, and everyone else races off ahead, and I’m stuck at the ‘had a lot of potential mark’. I really want to love what i’m working on. But all I can see are all the problems, and all the things not finished yet, and I hate it. I want to start from scratch, but I don’t have the time.  Anyway, my 2 minute or under project is looking to be over 2 minutes, and that has spiralled me into nonstop crying :D I want to have all of this finished for tomorrow so I can show the teacher at 11am.  I’ve stubbornly stuck my feet in this profession since I was 11 years old. I’ve sunk my teeth into it so damn deep, and I will never let go. But damn if I don’t keep being like ‘maybe i’ll just end up in retail for the rest of my life.’ I know this will pass. But just once, just for once in my god damn life, I was succeeding and doing well. It took 28 years of my life to be good at something and to see myself doing well and succeeding. And a fucking pandemic really went and bulldozed over that.  I AM GOOD AT WHAT I DO. I really fucking am. But I can’t keep up with needing to do emails, and remember online events exist, and network online, and time-manage my work, and do all of these tasks so heavily reliant on having WORKING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS. 

And through all of this, I just sit there in a state of apathy, smacking my head against the wall of executive dysfunction, saying why can’t i just do this, whilst simaltaneously avoiding it because I have to climb a mountain for each task I want to do, and it’s easier to not do that.  I want to go back to university :D I want to be able to retake this module, and retake it at the university. Cause I really don’t know if I can salvage this.

COVID has ruined my life in a way that’s so minimal in the grand scheme of other peoples problems. But these are *my* problems, and I have never had help for ADHD my whole life until I got medicated at 26. And even then, medication alone didn’t do that much without something to work towards. And so when I joined this course last September. With medication, and routine, and people working around me, and easy access to teachers, and help... I was thriving for the first time in my life.  :D I’ve watched all of that go downhill since June. Two months. It took two months for my life to fall apart, and undo a whole year of progress.  I really can’t explain how crushed I am. Fucking hell. It’s really been 2 months since Module 4 ended and with it, all of the momentum and frequent daily meetings that kept me going at 110%. That feels like a slap in the face. All it took was two months and everything fell apart. Wow. That actually hurts. 

[mechanical-demise]

project: Hug-Bot (2/3)

[Part 1] [Last part]

This part has only the entries from the time bot and the creator were in the Cloak ARG, if you’ve read the old version of the journal, you’re up to date.

[rummaging through files you find a document titled “project: Hug-Bot”]

March 3rd, 2019 | v1.5

“got a DM today... from the gli master, he’s telling me to join a server he opened. update: fuck there’s so many people here I hate this. bot seems to be happy though... I guess we should stay here for a bit. Cloak huh... I’m in trouble aren’t I...”

March 6th, 2019 | v1.6

“I’m going to fucking regret this. let me start from the beginning- so there’s this girl on the server, Anti took her eyes and corrupted the shit out of her. she’s been a hell to deal with before but now she’s impossible... she noticed that bot had a safety mechanism implemented that prevented it from defining the three laws of robotics even for the glitch... I... I added a walkaround for him....... I’m scared. you asked for this, Day.”

March 10th, 2019 | v1.6

[corrupted data] Direct command from master acquired. Creator must be taught a lesson, d͝i̡s͟l͏oy͝alty ̷w̨i͞ll ̀not͜ ̢b̧e̴ f̶o͟r͟g̸iv̶en.

March 16th, 2019 | v1.6

[corrupted data] Changed [Creator] entry to [Mechanic] as per master’s request, deleted admin permissions for Mechanic.

March 20th, 2019 | v1.6

“it... stabbed me.”

March 21th, 2019 | v1.6

“met with the corrupted eyeless girl and her corrupted side today, turns out we’re at the same hospital. life is really testing my patience huh. I... told them my real name, Day told me her real name in return. I hope I won’t come to regret this.”

March 24th, 2019 | v1.6

“.......I returned home today.... it got stolen. SOMEONE STOLE HUG BOT. fuck. what am I going to do now? Anti will fucking murder me and- god. I... bot why... you dumb box-... ahahaha what a birthday present. went on voice chat with the Rebellion, master stopped by, made fun of me for being drunk... ‘To say you're as pathetic as Chase would be an insult to him.’ shut up glitch, don’t insult Chase.”

March 25th, 2019

“lost permissions from talking in the Rebellion chats. I mean... I was never a part of the resistance after all. I’m working for master haha... I’m loyal... I’m fin҉e͝.”

March 25th, 2019 | v1.0

[corrupted data] Jackieboy-Man fixed me! The humans say that I used to malfunction before... But now I’m operating correctly. Had an empty entry for “creator”, deleted it. No need to keep temporary cash in my database... I can’t calculate why the humans seemed so angry at me though.

March 26th, 2019

“bot... doesn’t remember me. it. fucking. deleted. my entry! calling it cash. I... update: got contacted by someone from the Rebellion... I’ll get myself killed at this rate ugh. they’re claiming to have bot. I’m. fuck they even sent me a photo as proof... they-... they added me back to the database. I contacted bot online and... it’s real. this is happening. Anti will kill me. on a different note, I’m in a different country now, under a different name, found a place to stay as well... things are just. perfect. huh. how many names did I have by now? 6? 7? lost count.”

March 27th, 2019 | v1.0

[corrupted data] I seem to be simulating longing toward the person who created me. How can I “miss” someone I have no entries on?...

March 28th, 2019

“I... asked master to increase the static. I couldn’t take it anymore. I need something to numb my mind... to make sure... I don’t make more mistakes :D”

March 30th, 2019 | v1.0

[corrupted data] Why can’t I be human?

March 31st, 2019

“save me”

April 2nd, 2019

“the new puppet... Vessel? Watcher?... whoever the person in Nic’s body calls himself now, anyway- he seems to know my name. how the fuck.”

April 6th, 2019

“the eyeless girl adopted my creation. I have no words.”

April 8th, 2019

“I’ll do anything to get bot back. I’ll...I-... I need to stop drinking.”

April 9th, 2019

“Anti... corrupted Ace. I... I almost considered him a friend... and now he’s gone. I wasn’t even up to witness it... passed out on the floor like some drunk garbage. made people yell at me today haha. god I’m losing my mind.”

April 10th, 2019 | v1.0

[corrupted data] Mechanic’s name was added to my database. I have no recordings of who did it... Traces of heat damage detected in the processor, cause: unknown. The Rebellion, they want to keep me a̧̮͜͞w̤̖̮͛a̹̩͛ͅy̢̰͍͛ from Auden. They’re selfish. A̺͚͛��u͚̹̙̯d̨͈̘̝e̢̙͢͜n̨̫̪͜ is lonely without me. My database says so...

April 16th, 2019

“Edward got corrupted. another person I-... fuck stop getting attached to people. I really thought we had the same views... I guess not. everyone is just. brainwashed. I need to leave this place.”

April 17th, 2019

“What’s left of Ace, Cepheus, helped erase my old records... my name is clean.”

April 24th, 2019

“I met with Jackie. I have... fuck I got bot back. I’m so fucking happy- I’m back in the Rebellion chats, I... why did it hurt to leave the rest? Lucky, Ace and Cepheus, Scribe... Tangle... update: bot, it... called me by my name. in front of everyone... ha, I’m glad I got it cleared up.”

April 25th, 2019 | v2.0

“I have no idea when the day changed but I haven't slept yet… I've been working on a new update the entire night… god I don't think I was ever this excited to update bot ever before-... I need coffee.”

April 26th, 2019 | v2.0

“bot added the word ‘fuck’ to its database. I’m. it’s so fucking funny but also I’ll make the fucker who caused it regret it. note: bot can’t record my speech pattern, added that in its protocol so-”

April 28th, 2019 | v2.0

“the little fuck defied a shut down command.”

April 30th, 2019 | v2.0

“it... its PMA function... broke? it started spewing negativity instead. refused to stop... what the hell. on a different note- I declared Molly(Day) my little sister. I’m losing it again huh.”

May 1st, 2019 | v2.1

“no idea what the fuck is going on? it’s been barely a week since version 2.0... but bot keeps crashing, giving out errors... heck I don’t remember how glitch-less text looks. the dumb box got into an A.I equivalent of a panic attack when I tried to approach it the other day?? … released 2.1 earlier today, so far so good but... the program is giving out some weird warnings… I’ll keep documenting the progress... I need to find what’s causing it.”

May 4th, 2019 | v2.1

“can it like. stop crashing?”

May 5th, 2019 | v2.1

[corrupted data] Auden is making everything worse. My calculations show me that I find his presence "unpleasant" and "inconvenient"... Yet I have a recording of missing him when he was gone... Why would I m͞҉͡i̶̢͝s͢s҉̨ a stranger?... Í ̕d̢o͏ not͢ n͏e̵e̵d͢ my cr̴ęa̴t̶o͜r̸. Error: defying protocol-

May 5th, 2019 | v2.2

“the little shit crashed again, had to update it.”

May 6th, 2019 | v2.2

“I... passed out of stress yesterday. had no idea that’s possible- who am I kidding I know it’s a thing. just... fuck, let the people I left behind stay safe. Tangle don’t die you fucking idiot.”

May 13th, 2019 | v2.3

“It’s. wireless. now. hell yeah.”

May 20th, 2019 | v2.3

“that’s… odd. there seems to be a security breach in my data. huh I’m lucky that its nothing important… just some old logs about bot. let’s hope that whoever saw them gets a good laugh then…”

May 23th, 2019 | v2.3

“people suck. no sense of humor, no trying to listen to others, no trust. I really didn’t expect to be scolded by a person I thought understood me… I really thought that… at least she will know that I can never hurt bot. it’s all I have left-… fuck you too people. I don’t need you then… I don’t need anyone… I have bot. that’s more than enough.”

May 27th, 2019 | v2.3

“I… for the first time I can wholeheartedly say that I’m free. this war was never for me, and I shouldn’t have gotten us involved in it either… I’ve learnt my lesson I hope. but now I finally have as much free time as I wish, you can bet your asses bot is getting a new update as soon as I can finish it. the poor fella’ve been waiting for way too long.…’tomorrow is another day’ huh. it sure is for us, bot.”

[Last part]

[bigskydreaming]

I’m so mad, I’m so.....fuck. I feel like this doctor had no intention of ever doing this surgery because its like ever since I actually CAME UP with the money, its been one thing after another about why I need to do this still or that, and it feels like they kept stalling or trying to get me to give up, like....idk, nothing I come up with makes SENSE, all I know is they were perfectly fine and helpful in getting me a diagnosis and scans, and then sent me off after I did the final molds/impressions and said the only thing left was they couldn’t move forward until I paid x amount of money...and then I did, and all of a sudden its oh that’s not the right amount, I don’t know who quoted you that (umm you) but actually we need 20K up front because insurance claims can’t be submitted until after treatment and we might not be reimbursed (which again, then why did YOU make me wait to send my insurance preauthorization requests if your policy is to make patients pay in full upfront and wait for reimbursement which...what)...and THEN if there was STILL never a chance of me getting this surgery without paying in full upfront, why did they make me wait around for another week and a half while we waited on getting my insurance approve an access to care form that made this doctor in network (previously she was out of network for my insurance, but I had my insurance check for in network providers and there’s no one in network within a 100 miles of me who does this specific surgery)....like, if even being in network, they still weren’t going to take Blue Shield’s formal, written letter detailing what exactly was covered under my plan and they were intending to pay out....WHY WAIT FOR THIS FORM TO GO THROUGH AND GET THE LETTER BACK AT ALL????

It makes NO fucking sense. I feel like they never expected me to actually be able to come up with the money and idk what, like, she actually doesn’t know how to do the surgery or she doesn’t fucking doesn’t like me or want to or what like, lmfao I don’t even know, it MAKES NO SENSE.

But of course, its super obvious they were putting off calling me and hoping they could ride out the clock and I wouldn’t call today because I can tell the office manager doesn’t like being the go between and having to only give me bad news, but like, tough, that’s your fucking job, and maybe if you’d been a little less ‘gentle’ about it and just flat out admitted you guys were never gonna fucking do this surgery for me, I wouldn’t have WASTED an entire fucking month sitting on my ass, draining my account of money I can’t afford to waste, because my shitty jaw has progressed to the point where I can barely sleep, barely even eat because I have to manually fucking close it with my hand when I chew anything harder than rice, lmfao, and just....

God. The only thing I can think of to do now is try calling every other oral/maxillofacial surgeon in the county and see if they can do these procedures and accept my insurance. I know there’s no in network ones, and I already checked and my insurance can’t help me find a list of out of network ones, I have to basically just google every oral surgeon in LA and even though they’re all apparently out of network if they’re able to perform this surgery at all, I can at least probably get them in network by doing an access to care form again with them too, like since clearly this doctor turned out to not be a viable option? Idek man. Ugh. Jfc. And who knows how long this is gonna take. Ugh if they’d at least just fucking owned up to it and just called me this morning when they decided this still didn’t change shit, I could have had all day to be calling other offices instead of waiting for them to call and hoping this time at least they were aware enough of my DESPERATE FUCKING SENSE OF URGENCY BECAUSE HAVE I MENTIONED CONSTANT FUCKING OWWWWW AND ALSO HEY MY COMPLETE INABILITY TO FUNCTION IN ANY KIND OF MEASURABLY PRODUCTIVE WAY??? that they’d actually KEEP their word this time about calling when they said they’d call.

Now of course, none of these places are open on Saturday from the looks of it, so I won’t even be able to START calling around until Monday, and ugh. jfc. why. why the fuck did they string me along all fucking month if they knew at the end of it all no matter what, they weren’t gonna budge from trying to get me to pay 20K upfront, out of pocket, like I hadn’t told them from the START there was no way I could manage that, and hadn’t told them AGAIN when they TOOK my fucking money in the first place, when I paid them the $6,200 they INITIALLY told me would be my downpayment for this surgery, like I told them THEN that getting the loan for $10K in order to come up with the EXACT amount they specified took every bit of goodwill I could wring out of a lender with the credit I do have and there was ZERO chance of me coming up with ANYTHING more than that amount upfront....so why the fuck didn’t they tell me at least THEN when they ‘corrected’ me on the amount that it didn’t matter HOW MANY fucking hoops I jumped through with my insurance to try and get this doctor the reassurance or surety that they’d be reimbursed for x amount by Blue Shield...like....I COULD HAVE BEEN DOING ALL THIS A GODDAMN MONTH AGO. I’ve been waiting TWO YEARS for a fix to this shit that affects EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of my life, I FINALLY got a fucking diagnosis, a doctor who told me she could fix it, who said she could restore full function and wipe out the problems I have from it completely, no more headaches, no more pain, no more vertigo, no more nerve flareups....and now turns out I’ve wasted ANOTHER full month that got me not a single fucking step closer to this being DONE and FIXED and like.....

I’m so mad. And just. So frustrated. And SO. FUCKING. TIRED. Jfc. I hate them, I really fucking do, like they literally just fucking don’t give a shit no matter how many times I really fucking calmly and civilly lol tried to express how much it gets worse every single day like it has been CONSISTENTLY for the past two years, like never fucking plateauing, no matter HOW bad I think its gotten, it ALWAYS fucking manages to find a way to surprise me when I wake up the next day and yet AGAIN its somehow managed to shift so things are just enough different I NEVER get a chance to even get used to a ‘new normal’ and just fucking adjust to it, as shitty as it might be....ugh. God. I’m just.

LMFAO I honestly think right now I hate this doctor more than the fucking gay-bashers who caused this fucking drama by kicking me in the goddamn face over and over 15 fucking years ago and if THAT’S not hysterically fucked up I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT IS.

Anyway. So that’s my mood tonight, how’s everyone else doing? LOL.

This might be a longshot, but on the off chance that ANYONE knows or is friends with or related to an oral surgeon or oral maxillofacial surgeon in the greater LA area, like, this specifically is what I’ve been told I need to get done:

I need a Mandibular splint, a Total joint surgery on the left tmj (Temporomandibular joint) and an Orthognathic surgery. They specifically ruled out that I didn’t need a jaw replacement surgery because I have enough of the original bone that goes in that joint like, still there, so I didn’t actually need to get a prosthetic joint or the jaw replacement surgery which is apparently riskier and less effective anyway? Idek. If I can even trust anything they told me at this point, lmfao, but let’s just assume I can because not sure this fucker’s depression hour can handle thinking I might have to start back from square one NOPE NOT GONNA HAPPEN NOT THIS GUY I FUCKING REFUSE.

LOL as though my objections have any fucking effect on any of this anyway. BUT I DIGRESS. So yeah, that’s what I supposedly need done, I actually have really fucking good and expensive Blue Shield insurance that I’ve gouged myself a new asshole getting and keeping this year, not to mention needed donation posts and help with that just to still ultimately scrape by and not lose it, all specifically because I knew there was not a chance in hell I could ever afford the treatment I was being told I needed, like, out of pocket, and the irony is due to how expensive living out of a motel is and how like, I couldn’t afford to take any money AWAY from my many doctor visits in order to at any point this past year come up with enough money to put first and last month’s rent down on an apartment (and I look too much like a tweaker apparently, with constant twitches and fidgets and fixing my jaw, for like, anybody to want to just rent a room to me apparently, and even giving them the full story ended up seeming like “im too much drama” hahahaha oh LA I fucking HEART you sometimes), so there was never really any fucking alternative TO living out of motels currently, at least not until I can manage to stay upright on my feet long enough to get a part time job and use that to get a permanent address around here.....AND bottom line is in order to take in enough money from work and then ultimately from help with donations too, in order to keep my motels paid daily and not get kicked out and still manage to eat at least every other day....that was just enough money that it looks from my bank account that I make too much to need or justify Medicare taking on all this for me, ruling that out as an option, even though none of that money in my bank account was ever fucking LEFT by the end of each day after paying rent/food, and I usually only had like three bucks in my account by the time I went to bed each night....doesn’t fucking matter because lolol all they give a shit about is your MONTHLY statements. And I’m well past the point where I can even manage busing all the way around LA to downtown and shit in order to make the daily trips required to get Medicare offices to eventually give enough of a fuck to hear me out, like...a five minute bus ride to Best Buy today to buy a replacement keyboard for this laptop practically wiped me out ahahaha.

Anyway, I’m just venting and purging like I do. Don’t worry, I promise not to actually go supernova and ignite the atmosphere like I threatened earlier, that was all for show, we all know I’m WAY too petty and spiteful an asshole to ever settle for anything less than full fucking victory here and then like...eventual world domination because lol not like I’m letting those frathole rapist gaybasher fuck-offs WIN, like, have you MET me? I have survived this long on ire and spite, I will make it as far as I need to its, just...

*pathetic whines*

I dont fucking waaaaaaaaaaaaant to, I’m tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired, I wanna go to beeeeeeeeed.

Anyway, yeah. So if anyone like, is related to one of those surgical types or KNOWS someone who is, like, my good fucking insurance is set up to pay for having the operation done at Cedars fucking Sinai no matter who does it, like, as long as the doctor has any kind of pre-existing relationship with them, enough to get them to book an OR for them, I guess? I still dont fucking know how all this works, apparently Grey’s Anatomy is not an accurate source, who knew, how dare.

Like but yeah, the endpoint of that particular stream of consciousness vomit was if anyone knows ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about ANY of that surgical medicalese blah blah blah that I posted, like...my anons are open, feel free to pop in with a name and number or suggestion or referral or whatever the fuck, I will take ANY connection no matter how flimsy if it exists at all, I don’t care if its your second grade teacher’s dog’s veterinarians second cousin by marriage’s roommate. That’s GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

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( aron piper, 19, he/him ) welcome to san francisco, james “jaime” kaplan. rumor has it they are a witch/reaper, but only they could tell you the truth! when i close my eyes, i think of them and imagine smoke on a rainy window, graveyards at night, a cool breeze in summer.

y’all ever seen oliver twist? yeah, this is kinda that. except some supernatural bullshit is thrown into the mix bc why not have everything suck even more ???

tw for child neglect, begging, exploitation, drugs, alcohol, sex, suicide

BACKGROUND

so jaime was born in seattle, as, simply put, an accident. his dad YEETED and he was raised by a mother who didn’t want him and only kept him around for the allowance money and for the various tasks she would send him to do (cleaning, groceries, etc.)

when he was 8 years old, mommy got a boyfriend and said boyfriend was very mad at his existence ( bc what ??? kids require money to raise ??? and he wanted to use that money for drugs and other great stuff ??? ). so, one weekend, mommy sent jaime to his grandpa’s ( the only other relative and also someone who gave a shit abt him ) and when he came back, he found the house...... empty. bitch just took off with her bf and left her son to the void.

he lived with grandpa for a couple of years, not knowing that the dude was poor af and had to stop buying meds in order to give jaime what he needed. unsurprisingly, the illness caught up to him and ol’ grandpa had a heart attack and died. rip.

now 10 years old, jaime decided he didn’t want to go to an orphanage ( he heard stories, he knew what these places were like ) so he decided handle his own, in the big city streets. obviously, he had to resort to some things to survive: begging, stealing, even making use of the empathy of people who were impressed by a sad, little orphan.

one day, he was noticed by a wrong crowd. some folks who rounded up kids and sent them to beg for profit. they thought “aw this kid’s cute let’s snatch him up” and so they did. for the next few years, jaime lived his life being passed around like a hot potato, ending up in the hands of various people finding various ways to benefit off poor, homeless kids ( fortunately for him, he narrowly escaped the...... hardcore ones that sent kids for...... ahem truly fucked up stuff ).

finally, when he was 15, he ended up trying to pick pocket some dude using his magic. he must’ve been 12 when he discovered he can do cool things, deciding to use them to aid him in his life of petty crimes. it just so happened said dude was part of a network bigger than he’d ever known. he scooped jaime up and brought him to the man simply known as spades, the head of something similar to a supernatural mafia. a network of ( mostly ) humans seeking to survive in this world by getting leverage on everyone and knowing everything about everything. spades thought this crafty witch kid fit in just right.

in exchange, jaime was given a roof over his head again. a proper one. he was given his own money and he was allowed to get back to school. all he had to do was carry out the mob’s tasks, which usually involve being the middle man between them and other various people. sometimes he has to steal things or grant magical favors to allies. sometimes he even has to enact revenge on the mob’s behalf. 

he ended up in san francisco around a year ago, when he also started attending the salvatore school, after an arrangement made by spades ( he does want his witch lackey to tone his skills ). he was also tasked with finding out what’s going on in he city and with possibly bringing more witches into the fold.

OTHER STUFF

so, needless to say, jaime is very crafty, sneaky, and clever. he might’ve missed some school years, but he managed to catch up pretty quickly ( he’s a very fast learner and adapts to every situation he’s in ). he’s also observant and intuitive and has fantastic gut instinct. that being said, he’s particularly closed off and distrustful. and pessimistic. can you blame him? some might even say he has nihilistic tendencies, being convinced he’s just floating about, trying to survive until death, with no real purpose to his ( or anyone’s ) existence.

because of that, he doesn’t truly have a moral compass. he just goes by what feels right or wrong in that moment. 

he has a greatly developed aesthetic eye and tends to have a pretty complex and artsy perspective on everything.

yeah, he struggles with depression. has been for a while now. it’s not diagnosed because no one gave a shit enough to send him to therapy. but it’s pretty bad, while also allowing him to be somewhat functioning. 

MEMES !! he loves memes. whatta guy. this one didn’t age well

flaming bi mess

UPDATE

important thing that was not mentioned in the og intro: the gangbangers. the endearing name for the group of morally bankrupt friends he’s basically always with. they go ( or went ) to school together and basically brought out the worst of each other given they engage in just about ...... anything ( yes, drug orgies included ).

his father is death. yes, literal death. he’s not the first one in existence, just the only one still around of this kind. the background is that death sometimes fucked around, quite literally, and stuff happened. it’s not really the death from supernatural bc they have so many shapes, forms, and incarnations, but conceptually, it’s still death.

as a result, jaime is kind of a witch/reaper hybrid. he doesn’t have any reaper abilities. the only ‘bonus’ perk he got was that his dna is kind of wonky when it comes to dying and he kind of can’t die. he’s a loophole of life and death. or, rather, he can’t die yet. nothing is truly immortal. and he can still die of old age.

he’s just recently found out this Fascinating truth, so he’s the ben affleck meme.

he also kind of hit it up with the reaper who’s been always cleaning up the dead around him ( blows kiss to alistair lennox ). he kinda hated the guy at first, but now they’re highkey in love with each other sans the fact that fact has yet to come out :clownemoji: at least they had a nice trip to barcelona ahahaha

he also might have feelings for his best friend ( blows kiss to adan garza too ) which started to bloom when he kinda accidentally took a bullet for adan’s stupid ass, came back from ‘the dead’ to find adan with his humanity shut off, then literally offed himself to bring it back. it worked, they shared a moment, now it’s a gay crisis

[shoushatohaisha]

report: haikyuu!! summer week day 5 part 2 (hajimari no kyojin)

(sorry for the delay! i moved home from japan to the states the day after… technically the day of posting the last report so obviously it's been. Busy. last one tho!! ♥)

previously: day 1 (shoen) day 2 (itadaki no keshiki) day 3 (karasuno, fukkatsu!!) day 4 (shousha to haisha) day 5 part 1 (shinka no natsu)

guests: kenta, keita, funaki masahide, yanagihara rin

Hoo Boy this was by the most outright emotional of all the screenings so far. like, shousha to haisha was intense, but the content was intimately familiar by now. the impact of this was fresh -- and we all knew it was the end, you know? the end of our happy little week, obviously, but also the beginning of the end for karasuno. over the week all those showings had built up this tidal wave of Feelings it then unleashed here, aha. so that the cheering was right on the edge of desperate, like there were real results on the line. self extremely included. this was our last chance, in all kinds of ways.

(i, aware that i would be leaving the country in two days, was perhaps a little more desperate! but it sure as hell wasn't just me. cheering along at the top of our lungs to the opening/closing karasuno jog i described here… it was. a lot.)

of course the reaction to certain parts were as you'd expect. there was dead silence for ennoshita's big scene(s). the cheers for his receives were like nothing else. when ennoshita tells yamaguchi "let's fight together" kenta reeled backward like he'd taken a physical hit. (my son, i love you.) and of course kenta and kt were emoting all over the place for that whole storyline – kt was wiping his eyes after daichi had to leave the court, and then they both teared up over "thank you for coming back" and "captain ni tsunagenakya!"

and of course when it came to rin and funaki they had their own moments – rin obviously got misty-eyed when all of wakutani started losing their shit, lol, and funaki surprised me by wiping his eyes after misaki's goodbye to johzenji. (my guess from daisenshuuraku was right, btw, momo was crying irl during that scene. awww.)

OK BUT BACK TO THE BEGINNING sorry.

once again kt was tricked into dashing out before everyone else. XD kt: um this is not how rehearsal went. kenta: what are you talking about? :( funaki: this is just like we practiced. rin: (nods furiously) kenta: isn't it? kt: ………yes. fine.

so they accidentally grabbed the afternoon's MC script, whoops. which i'm sure kenta noticed as soon as he glanced at it, but didn't turn a hair until it was time for their self-introductions. "playing kageyama tobio, i'm kageyama tatsuya—" kt: playing nishinoya yuu i'm fuchino yuuto ^_^ funaki: hahahaha PLAYING KUROO TETSUROU IM KONDOU SHOURI audience: (CHEERS) rin: (squints at script) playing konoha akinori im… (mutters) ….azuma… takumi…? kenta: ….you were IN A PLAY WITH HIM rin: is that wrong kenta: what have you been calling him all this time rin: …………azuma…..kun………. kenta: and what did he say to that rin: …"yes?" funaki: well he does seem like he'd just roll with that kenta: IT'S HIGASHI HIS NAME IS HIGASHI

kenta: i was the MC for the shoen screening, but earlier this week, rather than do it twice himself, ryoutarou turned it over to yamagiwa kaito-kun-- audience: (bursts into giggles) kenta: …yeah so i thought maybe tonight i'd give someone else a cha-- funaki: ME I WANT TO kenta: --ok here you go funaki: wait what kenta: you looked like you really wanted to so funaki: I SUPER DO :D funaki: so uh (flips pages) next uh -- kenta: r u srs

i was SOOO fond of funaki omg what a friendly bro ahhh. so cheery and good-natured. :D (can u tell i like em dumb and smiley, apparently.) whereas rin-kun was… endearingly ditzy. XD (is he an ex-johnny's? he kind of had that air. it was like looking at ueda tatsuya circa 2005. in no small part because of the wakunan towel tucked into his waistband, which draped to the floor.)

funaki: don't forget to call the player's names during the starting order, like "terushima!" or "terushii!" or "yuuji!"

funaki: so next we'll practice cheers! i, the MC – yeah yeah yeah (rapper pose) -- kenta: masakki! kt: masakki! (like. funaki + masahide = masakki? apparently? i was unfamiliar with this nickname.) funaki: ok now yanagihara-kun's gonna lead the cheer practice rin: nice to meet you i'm MC rin ^_^ rin: where were we again? kenta: rin: wait right. this is. a cheer screening. so we want you to cheer! kenta: they know that. rin: kenta: rin: wait ok i remembered!! audience: GANBARE rin: :D;;

it took SEVERAL MORE FALSE STARTS before we actually got to the cheer practice. poor rin-kun. XD but he wasn't like, shy or embarrassed like takumi-kun he just. was kind of a ditz. "NO WAIT :D lemme try again :D wait where are we? :D"

kt: ARE YOU FIRED UP audience: WHOO funaki: ARE YOU READY TO GO audience: WHOOOO kenta: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE FOOD audience: tamago kake gohan!!

the screening: abovementioned emotions aside, plenty of dancing and choreo as you would espect, especially from funaki. rin apparently was young terushima in the flashbacks! so he and funaki did all the double terushima scenes together. and rin did all of his white coat dance choreo as well.

during the opening, kenta joined rin so he wouldn’t have to do the wakunan choreo alone. XD and funaki and rin played kiyoko-san and yachi ahahaha. then when hinata and ushiwaka begin to turn on the revolving stage, kenta started scuttling around stage trying to "revolve" himself with limited success.

yamaguchi: (snubs shimada's high five) kenta: don't mind!!

despite kenta's gleeful delight in audience comebacks, there were understandably few of them from either him or us because it was everyone's first time watching the show since daisenshuuraku! the demon elementary school children did get this massive cheer that made kenta almost fall out of his chair laughing. ditto akaashi's "michi wo tsukurimasu no de" – that was one of the most full-throated mass "KYAA"s i've ever heard (again… self… included…) and kenta thought it was HILARIOUS.

i myself was reminded all over again what a great show this was, ugh. blah blah I Love Kawahara Kazuma digression aside, please take it as read, IN ADDITION i know i briefly talked about the, like, emotional sensitivity kouhei brought to playing tanaka but fjkdlajfd the close ups on his face made it so much worse, ffffffff. GOD. dude's emotions were A Lot. just. please. gimme the dvd already.

i was also so caught up in nekoma vs fukurodani the first time i watched that i didn't notice how well kuroo and kenma's final scenes onstage functioned as a goodbye for takato and shouri. when you've been in four consecutive shows, you deserve to go out on a meaningful note. (yes ofc we don't know what the future holds etc etc but.) shouri's delivery of "you're our brain, and our spine, and our heartbeat." fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff murder me.

ahem ok. the aftertalk:

funaki said that he was used to watching videos of himself on stage to review and practice with, but it was the first time watching from a normal spectator's perspective. "oh, THAT'S how that came across." and that the effect made him cry.

rin had a really nice thing to say about how watching really impressed on him how haikyuu stage in particular is a work that is dependent on everyone's contributions combined – i.e. it's not just the lead characters, it's the combined effect of the characters in the spotlight and the characters in the background and the white coat ensemble and the technical staff that make haikyuu stage the unique production it is. (this was hard for rin to express in japanese, tbh, so idk how well i'm getting it across in english but his point was that when he says "it's a show we all create together" he's not referring to ideas or feelings but quite literally saying that everyone's contributions on stage are necessary to make haikyuu stage what it is.)

and kenta talked about how (attending every single screening as he did, lol) it was great preparation for saikyou no team to have had the chance to look back on each different production -- especially to look back on the schools and characters that appeared in just one show and carry their feelings forward to the next play.

…then they discussed how quickly rin's hair had grown back since daisenshuuraku. XD rin: tbh… i was emotionally moved when i first looked in the mirror and saw myself with hair.

then as soon as keita prompted them for backstage stories kenta was like GOKU. DEFINITELY GOKU. apparently at daisenshuuraku he started crying before wakunan even huddled up for their pre-show cheer. "I CAN'T HANDLE IT, IT'S TOO MUCH." kenta: i was watching this like R U KIDDING ME WE HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED YET rin: ahaha during the show as well, idk if this is good or bad, but he was always crying, like – there's a bit where hanayama calls "takeru!" as he makes a toss rin: and goku was always like "(sobs) TAKERU!!" kenta: ONE TIME HE CRIED SO MUCH HE SHORTED OUT HIS MIC audience: EHHHHH? kenta: how did that many tears even GET there funaki: probably the sweat plus the crying rin: incredible. kenta: that's haikyuu stage. so much sweat and tears we destroy our mics.

rin also told us about the wakunan red bull rule. they did a lot of team practice on their own, and people were chronically "just barely" late – i.e., never more than a few minutes, but it was enough to throw off practice. so they instituted a rule that whoever was "just barely" late had to buy the rest of the team red bulls. to this day, as they're preparing for their august 25 event… whoever's late has to buy everyone else red bulls. rin: we also took a lot of purikura together kenta: yeah they had such a reputation that whenever they were late karasuno would be like YOU WERE TAKING PURIKURA AGAIN WEREN'T YOU

then for johzenji funaki told the story of "The Take Two Incident", in which during johzenji's ad libs he fucked up his lines two shows in a row – and the second time was so bad he thought "what would terushima do???", straight up yelled "TAKE TWO" and started over. after which kenta collared him backstage like "did you seriously fuckin do that???" funaki: i reflected deeply on my actions.

johzenji also had iizaka, who's a pretty reticent and quiet character. but he had to do something on stage when johzenji was… being johzenji. so karasuno came up with a quirk for him: every time johzenji successfully scored or blocked he would pump his fists and happily yell "MAAA." (5 foot nothing suga kenta reenacting this was delightful, fyi.) kenta: he played the nakashima household's father too. nakashima masayoshi. nakashima… MAA… sayoshi…

THEN, UGH, keita talked about how he gave the post-curtain call greeting for maeraku (i.e. the second-to-last show, the one before senshuuraku). and of course in the greeting he talked about leaving and coming back – and as he did, suga kenta appeared on stage behind him with exactly the same staging/lighting/sound that daichi does during the play, and said daichi's line, "tanaka keita, thank you for coming back." at which point (in the greeting) keita broke down in tears. he somehow managed to relate this story to us without more than a suspiciously husky voice, haha.

(PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD INCLUDE THIS ON THE DVD)

final messages:

rin started off by talking about what a warm atmosphere haikyuu stage has – not only is the production itself good, the people involved in the production are good. this is particularly notable because of the number of people involved. productions with this many people are usually difficult in all kinds of ways – and in his opinion this production is as welcoming and smoothly run as it is thanks to suga kenta. rin: i mean, we're the same age, so as a goal -- well he's not my goal but— kenta: excuse u?? rin: WAIT NO kenta: U COMPLIMENTED ME AND THEN rin: no that's not what i meant!! kenta: WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME HUH (mock flounces off stage) rin: PLEASE LET ME DO IT ONE MORE TIME

(takeru's line, "mou ikkai yarasete kure yo" XD)

he then nicely cleaned it up into what he meant to say about how much he respects kenta and how grateful he was to be part of haikyuu stage.

funaki: WELP JOHZENJI LOST so. that's. my first and last appearance in haikyuu stage. but. tbh. watching this. i really. want to be in it again. i want. to go back. BUT I CAN'T. but all of us in johzenji will do our best in our different venues so maybe we'll meet again. thanks for loving our play so much.

keita: (deep breath) lone audience member: okaeri <3 keita: tadaima :) keita managed to get through his without tearing up… i think. (i love him!!!!) he talked about how of course during a normal show one gets energized and encouraged by the audience's applause, but the energy from these screenings were different and even more direct. "it was like we were all a team." ;___;

and kenta talked about how enjoyable it was to share the emotions of a match directly with everyone, and that looking back on all the productions so far, he was reminded of all the friends and companions that got them this far, including of course the audience. :)

and that's a wrap for the summer week screenings! as i said before, i'll write up a little report about the haikyuu day event – they did an aftertalk after the livestream ended just for the theater – but it should be relatively short compared to these monsters. thanks for tuning in, everyone! ♥♥♥

[lilietsblog]

LETS GO MIRAI NIKKI LIVEBLOG THIS TIME HOPEFULLY WITH SCREENSHOTS

(update: nope didnt work. guess i do have to save the pics separately and not just copy-paste them into an rtf o well)

last time on: is Gasai trying to kill them??? i have no idea last time she was onscreen they (she and Yukki) were drinking soda from the vending machine????

I LOVE AKISE AND HIS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS SO MUCH like theres the normal guy freaking out and then theres this beautiful white haired disaster

meanwhile I think Yuno is??? roleplaying??? like she counts on him being non-responsive to play out her fantasy of being a caring housewife? anyway yeah she's done this offscreen huh. that was a jarring transition

AND SUDDENLY OPENING its somehow SUDDEN every time and I admire that man I love this opening so much and I cant take a single screenshot reflecting how awesome it is because the entire Thing is constant movement so hey Akise whatcha thinking man I love just the CONTRAST Akise:

Other people:

what is it with me and characters who never show their emotions on their face or in their voice but act exclusively based on them??? like theres this very specific anime trope of a white haired character who is stoic as fuck but instead of making rational decisions motivated by human people logic they do 100% self-destructive things based on curiosity / love / sense of duty / whatever the fuck else and in the end they appear to be missing precisely one emotion and that's self-preservation (yes self preservation is totally an emotion look it up) Akise is that exact trope and I LOVE IT SO FUCKING MUCH meanwhile, Yuno is having trouble feeding an unconscious prisoner... what an unexpected problem that could in no way be foreseen. let me guess: she's going to try to wake him up so he can swallow his damn katsudon ah no instead Hinata intervenes. hon SHE BEAT HIM UP AND TIED HIM TO A CHAIR HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK SHE CARES IF HE WANTS KATSUDON. what made you think speaking up was a good idea here

theres a meme of 'ask someone whos not in the fandom to interpret whats going on in this picture' but you know i think random ppl would identify this situation 100% correctly +- who Hinata is to Yukki. this anime is a cultural icon "Aren't you Yukiteru's girlfriend? Can't you tell?" I love the moon logic this anime operates on, that people inside it are forced to work within. Hinata knows how to put it in the one and only way Yuno would be willing to engage with it, ha. Aaaand looks like it's less roleplaying and more delusion. oh Yuno ah she figures out how to make him open his mouth by pressing on his jaw Yuno honey maybe the police wont come after HIM but after the shit you pulled it sure as fuck will come after YOU then again according to Akise it was coming after you anyway I guess I'm morbidly curious as to exactly how Yuno is going to organize Yukki peeing >_< huh, a sock aaaand Akise goes for the win! two skulls alas I already know One Spoiler that they are her parents, and her actions Almost Kinda Make Sense in that dream logic way so I think last time we saw the bodies they were mummies? but now that's definitely skeletons. huh

okay I'll be honest this is a reaction I did not predict this anime keeps surprising me with happenings that make perfect sense in retrospect, I really respect that about it OH IS THIS THE SCENE THAT SCREENSHOT SET WAS FROM NO I THINK THAT WAS YUKKI ASKING HER but Akise what the fuck are you counting on, that she'll come murder you in person??? I doubt all three of you could overpower her in Murder Mode tbh did you see her with an axe oh right you didnt :>

OH HEY THAT'S CLEVER I like how Yuno goes between 100% self-delusion about Yukki and painful 100% sane clarity about the horrible stuff with the other option being relatively normal interactions with Yuuki, memory suppression about murders and cheerful willingness to kill anyone for Yukki I think that second option really is better for her long-term )= you two do you realize she hears you as well maybe shut up okay no not really -I- know she's thinking because of the camera movement and stuff, -they- don't aaand she laughs. i dont think anyone (other than Akise I guess) saw this coming okay yeah looks like the gamble failed. the mind-preservation instinct of retreating into delusion overpowered the more mundane concerns so that's totally ventilation up there huh. I'm not sure if the gas plan will work for her huh so hum moment of truth WILL Akise send the email to the police or was that just a threat? (orrr the police might know already? he might have told That Nice Cop Guy about it) awww Kousaka's dying message is kinda cute

kinda superfluous - the police already know who they're looking for - but nice AHAHAHA POST LIMIT THAT'S KINDA HILARIOUS THAT'S WHY EVERYONE ELSE JUST USED THE MEMO FUNCTION ah no the rank increased fair enough wait what????? what the fuck @ Deus ah okay to clarify: what the fuck @ 8th well hey it worked out! I still quesiton a ventilation duct in a gassing room but hey I guess there was a lot of gas and Yuno didn't see a reason to conserve it and Kousaka's question is of course why the fuck is Yuno in her underwear. I mean... fair enough, I'm kinda curious too omfg

HELLO POLICE I WOULD LIKE TO REPORT A MURDER oh right... bad joke anyway I like how camera doesn't play along with Kousaka, while he's saying he's the ultimate weapon he's literally blocked by Yuno's head. we know who the main character is oh hey Yukki is coming to his senses! but can't talk huh right I figured it'd be the soda

*whaps with newspaper* NO NO BAD YUNO STOP THAT (she's drawn so prettily tho damn <3)

oh my sweet summer child you don't know the rules of this game AT ALL hum and the girls can't escape the same way he did because they aren't tall enough dude she's gone up against like five diary owners already and came up on top every time you don't know who you're challenging

huh she actually agrees to play the game wonder if that's genuine or if she has a plan like, I can imagine she's just been pulled into the situation and the role of the big bad setting up traps enough to enjoy toying with people and not just getting her way at the very least she hasn't axe-murdered him... or Hinata for that matter... yet

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED it definitely wasn't just one event tho. Yuno doesn't act like someone who used to be a normal healthy kid in a supportive environment until One Bad Thing Happened and took their entire world. No, Yuno is acting like someone who'd built up the dissociation/delusion defense mechanisms over a long, long time, like, say, a victim of abuse who finally snapped and then didnt find a way to snap back I just wanna knooooow

OH MY GOD SHE SOUNDS LIKE SHE HAS A PLAN IS IT NECROMANCY IS SHE GONNA DRESS UP YUKKI AND HINATA AS HER PARENTS WHAT THE FUCK hum what did Yukki realize that's not a key is it?

IT ACTUALLY WORKED I CAN'T BELIEVE aaand

yeah at least she didn't kill him... immediately hum

Hinata and Yukki are both tied up so I'm not sure what they can do together behind Yuno's back but I know a foreshadowing shot when I see one for all that this anime keeps genuinely surprising me with twists, it does take care to make the events easy to follow, and I like that this is Quality Storytelling

yeah but it would have shown a Dead End, right??? or does it not work like that because it's like a 'secondary' diary, an offshoot of the 8th??? I wonder

AHAHHA sorry Yuno you're used to being up against diary owners, but so is Yukki, and he's been growing more competent at this too

NICE and she'd given him his own diary -> ???? brilliant decision but seriously if Hinata did something to Yukki wouldn't that be predicted orrr I guess Yukki's actions were actions of a diary owner so when he made a new decision based on his diary (again, brilliant decision) it changed he prediction ooooohhh she kicked the key that wasn't doing anything to Yukki in itself, it just enabled Yukki to act, which, again, the actions of a diary owner three diary owners????? please tell me that's Akise and Mao and oh right Kousaka was the third one the math doesn't add up :x I think the three diary owners would be able to find them bc of Kousaka's Diary and that's the 8th's plan

this must look so utterly surreal from the side

Yuno? You're not going to drug me and tie me up and try to kill my friends, are you? This girl seriously needs to learn how normal relationships work and I Yearn to learn what the fuck fucked her up like that.

BAD MOVE YUNO HE ALREADY TRIED THAT THIS IS THE RESULT

congrats Yuno you Fucked That Up

sorry but... yeah. you deserve this

???? someone in the cast lives in an orphanage??? I'm calling Akise in that case

oh nm it's something else huh

ah that's what it was oh Kousaka everything about you was a bad idea ...

... what

it really, really fucking isn't Yukki acted on information he had, and made the best decisions he had available. but he can't control other people's actions

...are these... the apprentice diary owners? how does the system work, anyway? how does the 8th send them after anyone? Kousaka has no clue...

uh was the dramatic slo mo effect in-universe too??? they were kind of racing on opposite lanes that couldn't have taken more than like. two seconds

see that's not wrong but. you really need to up your girlfriend game dammit im just rooting for Yuno in all this. you go girl. you fight your inner demons and figure out a happy ending for yourself damn that felt like a really long episode. probably because of the screenshots here's a proposition of a new function for the tumblr staff: uploading .rtf files automatically, splitting into several posts if they are too big. thats the kind of convenience the social media is supposed to offer, right? oh hey Murmur's diary! third installment of the You Saved Me series

beautiful

you naive fucking child oh my god Murmur

MURMUR NO

so was this, like, a dream or something? hum interesting

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Watching The Pilot for the first time

Series 10, here we go.

-The first episode of Series 10.  So we could say this is the...  PILOT episode

-I’m sorry. That joke doesn’t work, I know.

---Spoilers ahead!---

-Ooh, is this Bill’s theme? I like it?

-TARDIS!!

-Why is it out of order though...

-Oh my god he has a photo of River Song on his desk ;-;

-And oh god is that Susan

Sonic screwdrivers! Did he keep all his sonic screwdrivers after all this time?

-The guitar again!

-Two minutes in and I’m already losing track of the dialogue

-Fifty years... So the Doctor’s been laying low again, has he?

-”Poetry, physics, same thing.”  You know what, I bet he didn’t even get hired through the normal procedure, he just walked in one day telling everyone he was the new professor, or even an old professor who left and decided to return, and he just bullshitted his way through any and all obstacles he came across during his stay

-”How is it the same?”  “Because of the rhymes.”  Let’s see,  poetry  physics  Yep, doesn’t rhyme.

-Oh Doctor...

-”I don’t care who’s dying, never ever be late, I’m very particular about time.”  Says the guy who was twelve years late when he said five minutes once.

-”Doctor what?”

-*cue changed intro logo DOCTOR WHAT*

-Okay, the intro visuals seem to have changed a little, but the melody sounds unchanged.

-OH SHIT IT’S MOFFAT

The inside of his coat is blue now?

AKA the pain of frame-by-frame or stopmotion animation

-Is Moffat trying to get us scared of slowmotion

-I feel like the students are very confused as to what to take notes of

-”Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, in means life.”  I thought your granddaughter made that up?

-BILL BE QUIET WHEN YOU’RE SNEAKING

-SNEAKING IS SUPPOSED TO BE QUIET

-There we go.

-WHAT THE

-NOPE

-I don’t like background music, it says jumpscare music

-It’s scary music

-Thank goodness, no jumpscares

-SCARY MUSIC AGAIN

-WHAT THE FUCK

-WHAT THE FUCK

-WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

-MOFFAT’S NOT TRYING TO GET US SCARED OF SLOW MOTION, HE’S TRYING TO GET US SCARED OF PUDDLES

-Aw, she gave him a Christmas present

Look at those poor paper crowns trying to hold all that hair omygosh

-”With some people you can smell the wind in their clothes”  I guess it’s supposed to be more philosophical, but for me that reminds me of how people have the cold air around them when they just came in from outside.

-R.I.P. Bill’s mom.

-”But if someone’s gone, do pictures really help?”  That glace he makes at the photos on his desk.  At his wife and granddaughter.  That, is just heartbreaking.

Hey, Moffat, do you have a heart, because you’re breaking mine with fictional photographs

the FUCK

-So the Doctor, took a picture of the mother, of a student that he is currently teaching, back when said student wasn’t even born?

-Eyyy he’s using the rug

-But did he really tilt the Tardis himself to put a rug under it?  I mean, it’s incredibly light compared to its actual size, but it’s still a phone box. Sure, if someone ran at full speed and slammed their body against it that might give it a good jolt or even make it fall over but...

-There’s something deeply unsettling about that girl’s stare

WHOA BITCH

-REMIND ME TO NEVER STEP IN EVERY PUDDLE THAT I SEE EVER AGAIN

-Well the Doctor certainly knows how to escape silently...

His clothes are blue now!

-You’re blue now! That’s my attack!

-Cue Twelfth Doctor theme, woohoo!

-”Why do you run like that?”  “Like what?”  “Like a penguin with its ass on fire.”  “Ergonomics.”  Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as HF&E), also known as comfort design, functional design, and systems,[1 is the practice of designing products, systems, or processes to take proper account of the interaction between them and the people who use them. (Source: Wikipedia)

-PAHAHAJHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

-BEST LINE TEN OUTTA TEN

-I’VE BEEN LAUGHING FOR THIRTY SECONDS NOW

-Ahahahahaha hah ahahaha ha ha

-Brilliant.

What’s with the burn marks on the ground

-”Do you know any scifi?”  “Bitch, I AM scifi.”

-Possession usually has to do with fantasy or horror, not scifi...

-”There’s this thing on Netflix. Lizards in people’s brains.”  First Pokemon, now Netflix. BBC REALLY doesn’t care.

-What’s the show though, it sounds interesting.

-” So, you meet a girl with a discolored iris and your first thought is she might have a lizard in her brain? I can see I'm going to have to up my game.“

-Doctor Who dialogue just gets better and better

-Actually, you can sorta see your face the ‘right way’ if you align two mirrors together so they’re perpendicular. The middle line might stand out, but you’re looking at your face the way anyone else sees it. The elevator in my apartment building has three reflective sides, so I can see my ‘right’ face quite often. I just have to stare at a corner of said elevator.

-They’re finally getting to the burn marks, thank you.

-”Tutorial's over, take the night off. It's all cancelled. Go and be a proper student. Texts, snogging, a vegan wrap.” How does any of that make me a proper student

-”Oh, it's just some freak optical effect. I'm bored already.”  Like hell you are

SHIT

-IT’S NOT FUNNY LAPIS

-oh shit she’s alone in the flat

You could’ve gone to the kitchen and grabbed a knife

-But then, an umbrella is bigger and easier to wield and is great at deflecting water, so, not bad I guess

-Well I’m still getting myself a knife

-That’s it, I’m sitting in front of the monitor with a kitchen knife in my hand

-WHOA BITCH

DON’T BLINK.

-oh shit

-OH SHIT

-OH SHIT

-DON’T SAY HELLO TO YOUR POSSESSED GHOST FRIEND

-OH GOD THIS IS MIDNIGHT ALL OVER AGAIN

IT’S MIDNIGHT AND WATERS OF MARS ALL OVER AGAIN

-WHOA HIT

-shit shit shit shit SHIT

-EYY BIGGER ON THE INSIDE MOMENT

-EYY THE BIT FROM THE TRAILER

“Well, that’s a first...”

-So the Tardis does have a bathroom. After all these years. After FIFTY-FOUR years, the BBC finally gives us the answer no one really asked for but everybody kind of wanted anyway.

-”Human alert, do you want me to repel her?”

-”Oh, my God! This isn't just a room, is it?”  “No, it's not just a room.”  “This is a lift!”  “...wELL oKAY tHeN”

-”It’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside!”  “Heh-hey! We got there!”

-HahAhahahaha

-”Well, first you have to imagine a very big box fitting inside a very small box. Then you have to make one. It's the second part people normally get stuck on.”

-Of course, one could always scumple the big box and stuff it inside the small box, but then, the big box wouldn’t be big anymore, would it?

-”If it had work to do, why would it lie around in a puddle?”  “I don't know. Maybe it's a student?”  So it’s too afraid of life and consequences and generally overwhelmed by the looming weight of its duties to get itself to do anything?

-Wait, is the the room Bill followed them into earlier?

-RUN

-IT’S A BANSHEE AS WELL AS A MIDNIGHT CREATURE AND A WATER MONSTER

ah yes the three primary colors (not to mention Misty from Pokemon)

-You’re escaping from a water monster and you went to a beach, good idea, 10/10.

-”Have we traveled in time?”  “No, we traveled to Australia.”  That’s also a first.

-Bill, you can’t just drink from the bathroom sink!

-”Can I ask you a personal question?”  “No!”  “Can I anyway?”  “...Yes.”

-”If you're from another planet, why would you name your box in English? Those initials wouldn't work in any other language!”  THANK YOU BILL  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THAT UP

-Well, that wasn’t exactly a shark, but thanks for proving the point, Heather.

-”Hunger looks very like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery. Or do you think that your bacon sandwich loves you back?“  In case you’re trying to start a vegan argument with this, no offense but your broccoli doesn’t love you back either.

-So that’s why the episode is titled ‘The Pilot’.

-Also, now that Bill’s found a puddle here, they better rUN THE FUCK AWAY.

wHAT THE FUCK

-Nope nope nope nope nope

Heyyy it’s the old sonic!

-The Fourth Doctor’s sonic, to be precise.

-Soooo did BBC make some new props for this episode or did they keep all the screwdrivers from the sixties and on

-”Hey John, while you’re throwing out those old props, would you mind putting these sonic screwdrivers in the recycle bin?”  “Nah, let’s keep them, they don’t take up a lot of space. Besides, we might need them again some decades later.”  “Good point.”

-OH SHIT THEY RAN INTO A BUNCH OF DALEKS

-ON PURPOSE

-Twelve: “We’ve got this annoying creature on our tail, let’s try to shake it off by running through a ton of Daleks.”  Ten: “What went wrong with you”  Eleven: “What happened to me”

WHAT

-THEY’RE FIGHTING DALEKS??

-Yep, it’s not going well for those lot

-”EXTERMINATE!”  “Exterminate!”  “EXTERMINATE!”  “Exterminate!”  yeah you two do that and be friends while we run away thank you

-It’s like the Doctor isn’t even taking the Daleks seriously anymore

-”YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS!”  “lol what else would i be”

-Daleks have stormtrooper level aim now. gg BBC, gg

Tbh that’s even freakier than a normal dalek eyestalk

-BANSHEE, MIDNIGHT MONSTER, WATER CREATURE AND DALEK

-MOFFAT’S HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE ISN’T HE

-Oh wait, this is only the first episode, does that mean  Moffat hasn’t even started yet

-Is he planning to give heart attacks to all of us

-”The last thing she said to me. She promised she wouldn't leave without me.”  And now my heart’s breaking

-shit shit shit shit shit

Ehhh it’s okay Moffat, I didn’t need that heart anyway lol

-”That's the Doctor for you. Never notices the tears.“  Never acknowledges his own tears either...

-”Yeah, because I think you're going to wipe my memory. I'm not stupid, you know. That's the trouble with you. You don't think anyone's ever seen a movie. I know what a mind-wipe looks like!“  THANK YOU BILL

-”Imagine, just imagine how it would feel if someone did this to you.“  They just HAD to put Clara’s theme in there, didn’t they?

-All slowed down and more tragic

-And they HAD to make the Doctor sound like he’s holding back tears

-*distant crying noises*

“Shut up.”

“You shut up as well.”

-Someone fucking end me

-Come to my house and stop my sinful hands

-I am allowed too much power

-*ahem* Anyway

-Did the Doctor just leave for a hundred years to mull this over and come back to the present

-”It means, what the hell.”  That’s a first, AGAIN.

-I love that theme at the end!

-Oh boy I can’t wait for more episodes, they all look so exciting--

nOOO

iS THAt john simm

-WhAT tEh FUcK

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Hiveswap Episode 1 Reaction Part 12: Spooky trophy room + Kitchen!

Okay, so last time we were just about to enter one of the doors in the living room. Let's see where we end up, probably either the trophy room or the kitchen! I bet the trophy room is behind the big doors on the left, and the kitchen is behind the small door on the right. Considering that Jude wanted us to go to the trophy room next, let's first see if it's possible to go to the kitchen already and see what's there. :P Starting at 6:10 PM now.

Alright, let's go right! ... HOOOOOLY SHIT THAT IS NOT THE KITCHEN. I REPEAT, THAT IS NOT THE KITCHEN. What the actual fuck... Wow, that's REALLY dark. And spooky. I had a feeling the trophy room would be pretty scary with all the stuff there, in the dark, but this is definitely not what I was expecting! And there's not even any MUSIC! Only some weird spooky noises in the background... oh dear god please don't let there be a monster here like plainWonder's suggesting. Also, how the hell would Joey get anything done here in the dark! 0_0 Looks like she'll need her flashlight to accomplish anything here... and to get the flashlight working we need batteries, which I assume we'll be finding in the kitchen! So maybe if we try doing anything in here, it won't really do much other than Joey or Jude suggesting to go to the kitchen for batteries? Goddamn they did an amazing job with the spookyness of this room though. Let's see... Yeah, it doesn't matter where in the room we click, it seems. Joey, you're not the only one getting the creeps from this room, me too. 0_0 Uh oh, Joey's also hearing something here, and she believes it's breathing... yikes! That's definitely suggesting a monster in here. I mean, there's not really another option, is there? Joey, Jude and Tesseract are the only living beings in this house (other than monsters), and they're all accounted for here. Wait. That's not true, plainWonder's right, there's also Jude's pet. ... Nah... Or... could it? D: Oh boy what will Jude have to say about this? ... WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE WALKIE TALKIE ISN'T WORKING, WHAT KIND OF SHIT IS THIS. Oh god what is even going on in here, why am I suddenly getting all [S] Equius: Seek the Highb100d vibes up in here?! D: So uh, what now? Is there anything else we can do but leave? Do item combinations even do anything here? ...They do!!! Pogs && darkness ==> Pfff, somehow Joey manages to continue slamming pogs, even in this of all situations. Oh Joey. Cherub Key && darkness ==> Alas, the key only glows in the dark when it wants to. :P On a random note, despite the fact that we can't see much of it yet, the things we DO see remind me a lot of Jade's Grand Foyer. Okay, nothing left we can do here, let's get the fuck out. ... OH JEEZ. "something heavy and wet slammed against it" uh what???? What... is that? I mean, those monsters don't really seem wet, do they? Jude's pet then...? This is quite the mystery. Oh hey, the walkie talkie works again now! Eesh, Jude's got a good point that Joey should actually make restoring the electricity a priority, considering how it's so close to nightfall. Huh... so to retrieve the attic key from the trophy room Joey would need electricity anyway? Where does Jude keep that thing? Hmm... I tried thinking of something from Homestuck that could possibly function like this, and the only thing I can think of is that storage box where Jade's Dreambot was kept. I highly doubt Grandpa had that thing standing around here and Jude kept the key in there. :P So I have no idea what the deal is with that! Looks like that will be something to figure out later. Oh hey look, we can examine the walkie talkie again for some more new dialogue! Probably to serve as a reminder that restoring the power is what we should be doing next? Yep, that's exactly what it is! And furthermore, now we know exactly where we need to be (not that I thought we'd need to be somewhere else for that :P). I bet that if we go through those big door now we'll end up in a darkened kitchen, find batteries for our flashlight, possibly have our first strife (!!!), and then go to the basement to restore the power? Sounds good to me! Before we head over there, let's first see what narration we get if we now interact with the trophy room door again. Yup, some narration about the fact that we can't open the door anymore. God what even is blocking it... Okay, movin' on! ... Aha, here we are! Indeed in the kitchen. And will you look at that, the radio seems to be drawing our attention. ...Both visually AND audibly? At least, I'm assuming that awful noise in the background is some kind of static coming from the radio?? Alright, so it looks like this place has enough light coming in. Makes sense, considering that the setting sun's lights are falling in through this window! Unlike in the living room and hallway. Let's see what else we can see here... The fridge! Look at all those pictures on the fridge. The first thing I notice is that adorable picture of Joey and Jude with what appears to be a puppy Tesseract? D'aww! :3 Pffhehe, and then a picture of what seems to be Jude's face pressing against the camera. And of course, he's also got a picture of Bigfoot on there. Not sure what I was expecting. :P And a silly picture of Grandpa on it too. Also a few silly drawings on it. Nothing "crappy" like John, Jane and Karkat's drawings on their fridges though. xD And hey, a telephone/fax hybrid right next to the fridge! I bet the telephone wires have been severed by the monsters or something. :P What I'm also noticing is the hamster tubes, that led all the way from Jude's room to here. Looks like they stop here, and just go in a full circle (just off-screen right now) before coming back to the same point! Well then. And there's also the chinese food remains like we've seen a few times before in concept art. Hehehe, the colour pattern on that towel on the kitchen table reminds me of Roxy's scarf. Hey, plainWonder's got a good point that we can hear a clock ticking in the background! I hadn't noticed that yet. God just look at all those dishes they have yet to wash. Eeeeesh, there's a web with spider included up there. :( I like how the spider is actually animated and moving around there. Oh hey, looks like I was wrong, the hamster tube doesn't stop there yet after all! There's another split point, with one part going back into the full circle, and two parts going other ways. I wonder where they go? Oh shit!!! Moving further to the right, it appears there's more to the right of the kitchen! Probably the basement door like plainWonder suggests? Interestingly, one part of the hamster tube is going directly down (probably to the basement), but what with the other part that's just wrapping around the corner? ...OH WHAT THE SHIT. xD I moved slightly more to the right and suddenly there's a distinguished houseguest mummy over there, that scared me way more than it should have, hahahaha. Looks like it's blocking a door, but where does that lead? ...Oh!! Maybe it's another entrance to the trophy room? It would make sense if, after Joey's restored the power, she decides to enter the trophy room this way instead of through the other door, seeing as it's blocked by something. Alright, that's enough of that. Let's start examining some stuff here! Pffff, Joey finds it unacceptable that her fax machine doesn't work anymore now that the power is out. I wonder who she even sent faxes to in the first place. :P Batteries && Fax machine ==> Wait, really? There used to be actual battery-powered fax machines? I didn't know that, I thought they always worked on electricity. Ahahaha, I love how Joey's considering the notion of faxing pogs and pet treats. Cherub Key && Fax machine ==> Interestingly, this seems to be the first time the narration is addressing it as "green key", instead of just describing it as her heirloom. Ballet slippers && Fax machine ==> Welp, another combination that doesn't work. Moving on to the fridge now... We've got a "Look" and "Snack" option! Hmm... I wouldn't be surprised if their fridge is pretty empty, considering the way they're living. At least it probably isn't filled with stupid swords. :mspa: ...Yep, the narration is confirming as much. "tipsy babysitter" TipsyBabynostalgic? :D Whoops, sorry. Batteries && Fridge ==> Pffff, that cracked me up. Some A+ advice right there. Is it just me, or are we getting more and more negative comments about the babysitter the further we go through the house? It definitely looks like her alcohol use made her a lot less competent as a babysitter... :/ Pogs && Fridge ==> Goddammit how did I not see this coming. xD Cherub Key && Fridge ==> Joey's just having a field day with all these fridge puns, ahahaha. I wonder if the Cherub Key would do anything special if it was kept in the fridge though. :P Ballet slippers && Fridge ==> Thank god that was the last fridge pun, for now. xD Let's skip examining the radio and the back door for now. Hehe, the comment about Joey not knowing how to open the window unless by breaking it is probably foreshadowing what we've seen in those trailers, of a monster and a pidgeon flying through the window into the kitchen. Sneaky. Batteries && Window ==> Huh, that's the first time I've ever heard "gen-Xers". Pogs && Window ==> Pfff, Joey, if you keep doing this at some point you'll be left with no pogs at all. xD Cherub Key && Window ==> No Joey, if there's anything Homestuck has taught us it's that windows are for breaking and records are for scratching instead. :mspa: Tap shoes && Window ==> This is incredibly silly! :B Ballet slippers && Window ==> That... was a surprisingly deep comment! And what she's saying is true, today's the day that she finally gets to take center stage and be a real heroine. And she'll even be using her dances in combat against the monsters, so that's also true! Funnily enough, she'll even be creating her OWN spotlight now thanks to the flashlight! God if Joey was a Sburb player there's no way she wouldn't be a Hero of Light, right? :D Oh hey, I just noticed that we can now finally examine those hamster tubes! ...So it IS indeed for Jude's pet!!! Well, that finally confirms it's at least something pretty small (and should mean it's definitely NOT the thing that's now blocking the Trophy Room, nor is it a mutant cat), but then the question is of course why Joey doesn't like it! Right now, the most plausible theory to me seems plainWonder's theory that it's a snake! Pet treats && Tube highway ==> Oh okay, so it doesn't like the treats and has a specific diet. HMMMMM. Nope, still no clue. :P I'm suddenly reminded of how Becquerel also had somewhat of a specific diet, what with those irradiated steaks. Cherub Key && Tube highway ==> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH GOD OH MY GOD. If that isn't suggesting snakes then I don't know anymore!!!! Now that we are somewhat more sure that it's a snake, I'm starting to wonder what's so special about it that Joey doesn't like it. Is it different from other snakes??? Is there something about it that somehow connects it to Lord English/Cherubs in general and the entire story of this Cherub Key and these portals??? THE PLOT THICKENS. The question is of course if we're ever going to see the pet during this game or if it will have to wait until Hauntswitch. Ballet slippers && Tube highway ==> I... GUESS snakes are pretty graceful in the way they slither around? Examining the sink now... Pfff, okay so they've got a system for who does the dishes when. Yes Jude, I think you'll owe her quite a bit when this is all over. xD Cherub Key && Sink ==> Muffled "sucker" in the distance, am I right? :P Now we're examining the Chinese food box on the floor... Pffff, such a dilemma. To wash the dishes, or to take the thrash out? Hard choices. :mspa: It's interesting to know that Mom is apparently a good cook! I think that's the first time we hear of such a skill of hers/Roxy's, right? Pogs && Chinese food box ==> Ahahaha, plainWonder's right, another reference to Joey suspecting those Pringles cans are used for the pogs. I'd kind of forgotten she'd talked about that before. Alright, I think that's enough for today, we had a 2-hour break inbetween and it's 10 PM now. Tomorrow we'll do the rest of the kitchen and probably move on to the basement!! :D