#And it seems like he was basically falsely accused of stuff

[octahedral-chaos]

Not going to lie but I kind of feel bad for Sebastian,

Dude got turned into a chimera… and he was arrested for no reason… poor thing

[mysticstarlightduck]

Song of Thorns - WIP Intro/WIP Wednesday

Jumping on the OPEN TAG by @little-peril-stories (here), and @kaylinalexanderbooks tag (here) because I was really inspired and wanted to give it a try! I tried to give my twist on the same format, because it was really cool!

(Also, I had been wanting an excuse to do an actual intro for this WIP for a while now, even though it's not my main one and is a much smaller side project lol)

By the way, if you like this, please reblog, it helps a lot 💕

Rules: Pick a WIP. Post something about it. On a Wednesday. Or whenever! It can be literally anything! (:

WIP INTRO - SONG OF THORNS

Title: Song of Thorns

Genre: High Fantasy/Dark Fairytale

Tags: #wip song of thorns #song of thorns

Synopsis/What Is It About?

Roselyn, a teenage girl from a backwater fishing village on the edge of the continent, moves to the kingdom's floating capital with her siblings - Jasen, her older brother and a brilliant aspiring sorcerer, and their 12-year-old younger sister, Portia - after Jasen gets a prestigious apprenticeship in the mystical city.

However, after a while, it becomes apparent that something is not what it seems in the city of legend. In fact, something is very wrong. When Jasen mysteriously disappears without a trace, trying to find out what happened reveals the true facet of the up-til-then-welcoming nobility, and gets her falsely accused of treason.

Sentenced to death for reasons she cannot understand, Roselyn finds her second chance when the royal family's youngest prince, the nephew of the King, sets her free in the middle of the night with a proposal - helping him stop the full extent of his family's schemes and save the city before it is too late.

With the help of the now-exiled prince and a couple other outcasts, Roselyn will expose the city's corruption and save her brother before it is too late. All the while she starts falling in love with the charming though lonely thief (Renn) who has stolen her heart. But with strange forces being tampered with and magic swiftly changing, time is slipping away disturbingly fast.

Tropes and Nice Stuff! (Or, a.k.a. What you can expect in this book!)

Friends to Lovers! (Renn x Roselyn, Prince Alaric x Jasen)

Eldritch horror, dark fantasy, and blood magic. The royals are basically fantasy mad scientists and it gets complicated...

The perfect city has some really fucked up secrets that nobody was supposed to find out. Ever.

Epic heists (or as I like to call it: these fools doing absolutely everything wrong but failing successfully)

Fantasy creatures, enchanted forests, a derpy giant talking cat. You name it! There are loads of peaceful sea monsters too, and some very dangerous creatures I've invented as well!

Sad, absolutely heartbreaking scenes and some goofy, silly scenes!

Goth thief who is actually very nerdy and not at all brooding.

An aro/ace druid's apprentice! A bit unhinged and admittedly clueless about the world outside, but the sweetest character ever"

An actually Good Stepmother! (Subversion of the Wicked Stepmother trope)

Enemies to Friends (that's a spoiler!)

A villain who may act childish but is actually not stupid at all and is the most threatening MF you'll ever meet

Whump! (Potentially)

Medieval/Renaissance period with a touch of Fantasy Science

A soft magic system

Siblings, family bonds, and intrigue!

Sometimes the villains kinda win and it is scary (but don't worry the heroes find a way to fight another day so it's not all doom and gloom, almost, but not.)

And more!💕

Meet The Main Cast! (The good guys)

Roselyn Lethia

A curious and opinionated teenager, Roselyn finds herself dragged into a net of intrigue, lies, and bloodied secrets after her beloved older brother suddenly goes missing without a trace, and the kingdom tries to convince her he never existed. She is kind, brave, and determined, though she can sometimes take on more than she can realistically handle, and needs to rely solely on her book-earned wits and sparse fighting skills to get through her fears. Her greatest motive is keeping her loved ones safe, but she also, deep down, yearns for some adventuring.

Prince Alaric of the Hyghsummit

Naive and slightly arrogant without realizing it, Alaric is the youngest prince of the reigning royal family. He is the nephew of the King and was largely raised by his stepmother Catallinah, a motherly but no-nonsense woman trapped in an arranged marriage to his uncle after the death of her husband, Alaric's father. Most of his other relatives from his large family consider him a weak link and most don't even bother with him at all - but Alaric is much more than the capital's "failed prince". He is a brilliant and well-read young man who has spent most of his time honing his abilities to bring down the lies of his corrupted family. He falls in love with Jasen, who became his friend after the latter started working as an apprentice to the court's High Sorcerer.

Renn Atrius

A foreign noble from beyond the royal lands, he was forced into the lifestyle of a thief from a young age, after being orphaned when his father was murdered for refusing to obey their neighboring kingdom's crown. Learning the art of disappearing into the night and taking valuables from the land that took everything from him and colonized his nation, Renn quickly became quite the nuisance for the King. But thankfully to his connection to raw blood magic, his slight vampiric abilities ensure no human soldier ever proves a real threat to him. He starts to fall in love with Roselyn, having become friends with her after trying to steal her coin purse (having mistaken her for a tourist from the capital).

Jasen Lethia

Roselyn's older brother, Jasen is a brilliant and highly ambitious student of the arcane arts. Their home village never provided much chances for his studies, but he kept practicing until he was good enough to earn a highly prestigious apprenticeship at the capital's Evocation Order. He is pragmatic, soft-spoken, and painstakingly patient, and though his studies are important to him, raising his sisters has been his top priority since their parents were killed in a bandit raid to their village when he was twelve, especially because their grandmother was too frail to really do much to raise them when she was alive. Jasen becomes close friends with Prince Alaric, who is around his age, though Jasen dismisses his own personal romantic feelings, believing that he would never be deemed worthy to love a noble and saying anything would only ruin their friendship, when in fact Alaric feels the same. Jasen went missing after discovering the truth about the King by accident.

Oriana Whisperleaf

A quirky and extremely talkative druid's apprentice, Oriana was neglected by her birth parents, who did not care for her. When she was five, she wandered into a local meadow and into the woods - no one came looking for her. She got really lost, but thankfully, she met the mysterious druidic witch who lived deep in the enchanted woods of the realm, a beautiful woman who took her in and raised her as her daughter and apprentice.

Portia Lethia

Roselyn and Jasen's youngest sister, Portia is a very quiet and often sensitive 12-year-old kid, who prefers to spend her time in the company of animals rather than people and wants to become an animal healer when she comes of age. She is smart, perceptive, and polite/well-behaved for her age, though sometimes she has a prankster streak!

Plot Points .... or not🙃 (so far, because this WIP is still early in creation)

"Peace and Quiet and All Things Nice - wait what tf is that in the water? Eh. Probably just a sea monster, it's likely nothing."

"You're saying we're going to the capital - a city literally built in the mountains floating in the sky?! Count me IN dude I am hyped!"

"Traveling. And traveling. And traveling some more. Gods, does this goddamn road ever end -? Oh, and we're there."

"Two unsupervised teenage girls explore an unknown city and shenanigans ensue. Also, meet this suspicious royal High Sorcerer dude who will mentor their older brother and is totally not gonna betray him at all. Trust me."

"Things are looking great! I'm having fun, this is nice!"

"OBLIGATORY ONE-YEAR TIME SKIP"

"I have the feeling some sus bullshit is afoot but I don't know why. And I don't know if I wanna know. Everything's fine! Right?... right?"

"BREAKING NEWS: Watch how an entire kingdom tries to gaslight a teenager!"

"...Why are there bloodstains in the castle? What are those gooey-looking branches? Oh, hell to the nah~"

"So apparently I've been arrested. That's new. They have yet to read me my rights."

"So either I'm gonna be executed or have my mind erased. That's new. How about neither? No? This is not how I saw my weekend going."

"Breaking out with the prince. I don't know which of us is more confused. We're totally not gonna die in like two days at this rate."

"Getting lost in a very cursed-looking forest and finding out that the kingdom is slowly dying. At least that druid looks friendly - if she doesn't try to kill us. Yet again."

"Meet this 100-year-old lady who looks 30. She's nice. A bit crazy though, I think, but nice? Real talk, I'm not sure if this is tea or poison, or if she knows, but I'm too concerned to ask."

"So your insane family has sent assassins to kill us? Neat. And you didn't think that was a priority to mention, why exactly..? OF COURSE IT WAS A PRIORITY YOU GILDED DIMWIT!"

"This goth mercenary guy did just try to rob me, but he did save my life, so. Plus he does look handsome in this light, ngl. Why does he look so cute, tf is wrong with me?"

"🎶And I'm never gonna sleep again, sleep again, lalala, what the eldritch hell did I just see -🎶

"Rival civilization! Finally! Pls tell me there's not an insane guild of blood sorcerers in this town my dude. I need a break desperately and I'm not sure if my sanity can handle any more - Oh thank goodness. It's just horrifying monsters beyond my wildest dreams then. I'd take that any day. How much does an inn cost here?"

"Group of dumbasses tries to pull off complicated plan. Proceeds to forget said plan halfway through and ends up improvising an entire heist. Also, that's a talking cat. Why is there a talking cat."

"Finding out your prince best friend has been in love with your older brother since they met. Pt 1"

"Not-so-Evil (actually the nicest) Stepmother jumpscares teenagers and feels bad about it. She has cookies though so that's okay though."

"The King throws a massive hissy fit, Special Edition (:"

"So. This is bad. This is bad. Thisissobad. I'm traumatized. I regret all my life choices and I think I'm going to throw up. This is so bad."

"We need a plan. A better one to be exact."

"Absolutely not! We are not breaking into that place, oh Hells no! No. Absolutely not-" (shift scenes, deadpan tone) "We broke into that place and I regret everything."

That's it so far! I'm still workshopping the ending from here (:

Playlist

Runaway - AURORA

Only Teardrops - Emmelie De Forest

Shadow - Livingston

Elan - Nightwish

Bad Feeling - Jaguar Twain

Tagging (gently, no pressure!) @kaylinalexanderbooks @littleladymab @cabbojage @lassiesandiego @little-peril-stories @oh-no-another-idea @thepeculiarbird @rickie-the-storyteller @crowandmoonwriting @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @gummybugg @forthesanityofstorytellers @doublegoblin @aalinaaaaaa @starlit-hopes-and-dreams @elshells @illarian-rambling @clairelsonao3 @conkers-thecosy @anyablackwood @diabolical-blue @cowboybrunch and OPEN TAG for anyone else who wants to do their own spin in this challenge!

[fever-project]

For the Wip Ask Game, Ace Chain Script?

okay, as the title suggests, it’s not really a fic but just the dialogue and stuff for a specific scene I’m trying to draw for my Ace Chain AU. I’ll just post the whole thing here because I can haha

Wild, stuck behind bars: Hey there Mister Nick, Mystic Maya! Whatcha doing here?

Maya: It’s you! You were one of Zef’s brothers!

Wild: Zef?

Wild: Oh, Zephyr, yeah, yeah. One of my many brothers.

Maya: Like Mister Sky! He called us and said that you got a falsely accused of something.

Phoenix Wright: Are you doing alright in there? You seem rather calm for someone in jail.

Wild: Ha, yeah. I know I’m innocent so why should I worry?

Phoenix Wright: (Well, I guess it’s better to be calm than crazed…I think.)

Phoenix Wright: So, what are you being charged with?

Maya: Betting on murder.

Wild: It was murder.

Maya: Ha! I knew it! Nick, now you’ve own me $5.

Phoenix: I-you didn’t even give me any time to disagree with that! And where did the $5 come from?!

Wild: So, will you help me out with proving my innocence and what not?

Phoenix: Of course! That’s what a defense attorney does after all.

Maya: And a defense attorney should know when to give up $5.

Phoenix: …

Wild: Sweet! Thanks you two.

Maya: Oh wait! Nick, we forgot to ask him something.

Phoenix: What is it Maya?

Maya: We haven’t asked him his name yet!

Phoenix: !!!

Phoenix: (I can’t believe I forgot such a basic question…)

Phoenix: So, uh, what’s your name?

Wild: The name’s Nolan, Nolan Link. [Three heart locks appear]

Phoenix: (Three-three locks already?! I just asked him for his name!)

Phoenix: (Why would he feel the need to lie about his own name?)

Wild: The name means “Champion.” Pretty cool, right?

Maya: Huh, that is pretty cool. What did you think Nick?

Phoenix: Uh, yeah, that is pretty cool. Anyways, let’s get this started.

Phoenix: So, Mister Link…

Phoenix: Do you happen to know where the murder occurred?

[valley-of-the-lost]

What's recently happened with Lady Emily? Are there new screenshots??

I don't know how much you know about the situation Anon but quick background if you haven't caught up:

Lady Emily accused Youtuber Chuggaaconroy of sexually harassing her and several other women, specifically accusing him of engaging with unwanted foot fetish roleplay with her and trying to solicit feet pics.

She did provide screenies, but how they're cropped and framed is... notable. Such as, one of her sub-allegations is that she ghosted Emile because she felt uncomfortable and that during the ghosting he got more persistent and aggressive. Except when I look at the screenies provided for that period of time and there's things off about them. Yes, Emile does send multiple messages after she stops responding, but they get progressively more staggered over time. As in, for a few days its like 3 messages per day, then it peters off to 1 per day, etc etc. At the end of the screenie he apologizes for bugging her and says he'll leave her be after that message. After that message there's a reply on September 29th (the day after the "I'll leave you alone message"), but we can't see who it is.

The next screenie is Emile messaging into the void again, and you'd think that he lied about leaving her alone, but the dates are out of whack. Instead of where we left off in September, these messages are about a month later in OCTOBER. It's impossible to tell if Emile kept pestering her for a whole month or if this was a different instance, and there's no clear distinction or clarification about these instances so it would be very easy to mistake it for Emile going against what he said about leaving her alone and basically pestering her for a whole month. Which would look a LOT worse than just messaging for a few days before laying off.

The cropping for some of her messages was sus too. She cropped individual messages of Emile's where he talks about his thing for shoes and certain things he says ("glad we understand each other" & "Being forward with you cause I'd rather not keep anything from you and let you make the best decision for you...") appear to signal a direct and open conversation between the two of them about the shoe stuff. But we don't get to see the surrounding conversation, so it was left in the air if she gave consent or didn't.

Turns out she did give consent.

Like she just released the full screenies of those cropped ones of their discord DMs which shows not only Chugga checking in with her on direct terms to explain about and ask her if she was okay with the little roleplays involving his thing for shoes, and she explicitly said she was okay with it.

There's a framing that's been going around that Emily consented to this under the (allegedly false) impression it was a joke and Emile used that to get progressively more creepy and aggressive with her. But there's a flaw in that in the content of Emile's little roleplay segments don't seem to change. By the time he has that open and direct convo with her, he's already initiated roleplay where he does gags like trying to get her shoes (specified as "cartoony") and spins her shoes around so when he throws them back they knock her backwards in her chair. The content of it doesn't really escalate or change, so I fail to see how she was consenting under a false impression.

There's also the thing about the shoes lol Emile sent Emily shoes as a gift and then asked to see her in them. Emily framed this as him soliciting feet pics from her but despite that she agrees right after with no resistance. And it's not like there's something there like Emile pressuring her to zoom in on her feet (she sent him a fullbody pic of herself with the shoes on).

It's very strange that she cut this all out in the first place, and honestly if you asked me she did it to whip up the twitter mob so she could release the rest later either to undercut Emile using the screenshots or because she'd already set the framing that Emile sexually harassed her so no matter what the screenies actually said people would still side with her.

[fireworkss-exe]

okay. you’ve asked for it. this is the entirety of kendrick vs drake.

so there’s some previous co textual events but the main thing to know is that in october of 2023 drake and j cole released the song “first person shooter” where j cole asserted that himself, drake, and kendrick were the “big 3” of modern hip hop

kendrick didn’t take kindly to it and did a collab where he essentially said “fuck the big three, it’s just big me.” drake didn’t like this and released “push ups,” which is a diss on kendrick for a number of things that don’t really matter, like his height? it was super petty at this point.

a little after push ups, another drake diss got leaked. this one was called “taylor made freestyle,” and it was basically drake taunting kendrick for not responding to push ups and alleging it was because taylor swift had just released tortured poets department and kendrick couldnt release anything that might top her on the charts. drake kinda got in hot water for this one because he used ai to imitate 2pac and snoop dogg’s voices in it

anyway, then kendrick finally dropped a response. it was a six minute long track called “euphoria” where he just talked about how much he hated drake and how drake is a culture vulture and a ton of other stuff. then before drake had a chance to respond kendrick put out “6:16 in la,” which basically continued to call drake a terrible person, but also alleged that drake’s friends were feeding kendrick info on drake behind his back, the cover of this song was a picture of a black glove lying on a bed or something, which is important later.

so drake released “family matters,” a 7 minute long diss track where he basically calls kendrick short some more, accuses him of cheating on his partner and abusing her also, and alleges that one of kendrick’s kids is actually the result of his partner cheating on him with his best friend.

but no one remembers family matters because 30 minutes after it came out, kendrick dropped “meet the grahams.” this song was TERRIFYING. in the song, kendrick addresses drake’s family and basically apologises to them for having to be related to drake. he also calls drake a pedophile and says he thinks people like him “should die” and alleges that drake has a DAUGHTER who he keeps secret from the public. this is the song that makes it abundantly clear kendrick is on a crusade to make drake kill himself. also, the cover of this song is a zoomed out version of the picture from 6:16 in la. it shows receipts and pill bottles with drake’s name on them, indicating that the picture was taken in drake’s home. this pretty much confirms someone in drake’s friend group is feeding kendrick information.

the next day, kendrick releases “not like us,” which goes mega viral and is easily the most popular song to come out of the beef. it’s super catchy and upbeat and basically reiterates everything by kendrick has already said but on a sicker beat. he calls drake a “certified pedophile,” and accuses him of cultural appropriation and a host of other things. everyone regards this as marking kendrick’s victory.

drake releases a response, “the heart part 6,” but no one gives a shit because it’s awful. he basically says that people in his team are feeding kendrick false information to make him look stupid, but Drake doesn’t seem to realise how bad it looks to essentially say, “yeah we WANTED you to think i was a pedophile, to make YOU look dumb.” so all in all, kendrick wiped the floor with drake

thank god I have friends who know about pop culture from past the year 2000

[landhoe-norris]

I was going to just let stuff go, say "Carlos and Lando are both basically universally hated by F1 fans online but loved at the tracks," and move on. But I think there is something to say about all the shit BOTH their families are getting after this most recent race. 

It's 2023. Lando has proved his talent and worth to McLaren time and time again. He's among the best paid drivers on the grid. Yet you still have these salty ass fans carrying on on McLaren's socials about them having to prioritize him because he's a pay driver and his daddy pays McLaren's bills. Which is not only a HUGE slap in the face to all of the hard work and effort (especially in the midst of the chronic pain he's discussed) Lando has put in to the team, but also slandering the entire Norris family's character. These people are accusing his dad of paying the team to sabotage his son's teammate? Seriously? The same man who was cheering for Oscar just as loud as he was his own son? These assholes need to build a bridge and get the fuck over their baggage with Lando. They don't have to support him, but this spreading false information and even dragging his family into it is disgusting. Both he and his family know the team is the priority. They've never implied he should be favored over his teammate. (And the Oscar fans hating on Lando over team strategy decisions that Lando doesn't make himself need to get the fuck over it too. Unless these same people were screaming "sabotage" in Silverstone when Lando nearly got undercut but not only Oscar but also George had that safety car not saved McLaren's ass, then I quite literally don't want to hear how the team pitting the second car in the placements is "sabotage." Especially not when the team has routinely explained their reasonings. Shit happens. It's racing. If people can't handle that without spreading lies and conspiracy theories and blatant hatred, try a cooking competition show instead. They usually don't have to work as a team anyway – it'll be right up their alleys). 

Same thing with Carlos. They're not asking for Carlos to be favored. They're asking for equal treatment. Which frankly - given Ferrari isn't fighting for championships or wins right now, shouldn't be that difficult for them to do, yet as Sainz Sr. pointed out, Carlos isn't even sure when he's allowed to fight his teammate because there's completely different standards based upon who is in front of who. That's not being "political" anymore than Ferrari continuously giving Carlos orders to hold position when Charles is ahead, but allowing Charles to fight every time Carlos is ahead is "political." Also, as I mentioned previously, the ONLY time his family gets involved like this is when it's warranted. Contrary to popular belief, McLaren has never prioritized just Lando,  just like they didn't prioritize just Carlos when he was on the team. They prioritize who is faster — sometimes by race pace, sometimes by strategy. Point being, in McLaren, unless it's a situation where one driver is blatantly off the pace, they are generally treated equal. There was no reason for the Sainz family to go on the offense, and now look, practically everyone they encountered on the team when Carlos was here, they're still close with. The ONLY teams that seem to have a problem with the Sainz family are the teams that either don't want to give equal treatment or the other teammates' relatives were causing problems to begin with. 

In short, both their families are tremendously supportive of their sons. And when their sons are being treated fairly by their teams, they're tremendously supportive of those teams too. I don't think you can fault either one of them for defending their sons when their team doesn't treat them fairly, however. 

Okay. End rant. I've just had a laundry day and all of the stuff I have read about both of them in between loads of laundry has thoroughly pissed me off lmao.

i really needed to read this right now. sorry i was so late to post ❤️

[goldentigerfestival]

@crestfallencrest replied: Unfortunately I am now being haunted by this Yuri too, WHAT!!!!!!! Im not too familiar with Crestoria so Im not sure what a transgressor is in this context but holy hell this design???? O_O

Basically a transgressor is someone who was condemned by the majority of the world to be a sinner. Everyone in the world carries a Vision Orb with them to use to record things and they can broadcast things other people do to the entire world, spin a narrative and the world decides if they're guilty of the mentioned crime (they can also leave things out, make things up entirely, etc to fit the narrative they're going for if they're lying).

If the world decides someone is guilty, their Vision Orb breaks and is replaced with a mark called the Stain of Guilt (which is apparently physically painful to get), proving they've sinned and are "guilty", and monster-like creatures called Enforcers show up to kill them (they warp them away into another dimension and kill them basically). Since Yuri isn't dead he warded them off and is on the run like the main cast. Enforcers tend to lay off after a while, but if people see the person again and recognize them, they're likely to call for Enforcers again (in Yuri's case I imagine they'd just call for them anyway, recognized or not, because he clearly has a mark).

When the judgment is that someone is a sinner, the person literally hears their voices of their opinions/comments about them in their head before their Vision Orb breaks, so seeing the general design for Yuri I feel like it fits, but I'm still going to lose sleep for the rest of my life wondering what his story was and how they were going to fit him into the main story (crossover characters could be pretty important and Milla's backstory was tied to the at-the-time main antagonist to the whole story). I'm also ruined over the fact that I am craving Yuri and Vicious interaction in general, plus on top of their Crestoria game stories, as well as their knight boyfriends getting Tired just by watching them together.

Which, for that matter, a Yuri side story probably would've included Flynn, and we'd probably see how Flynn feels about seeing Yuri's crime if not "crime" broadcast to the world and seeing him condemned to be a criminal worth being killed (they don't use Vision Orbs for all crimes, hence why they have knights who handle the small time stuff. Use of a Vision Orb means you're gunning for the person to essentially get the death penalty, which is what will happen if they're condemned and can't fight the Enforcers off). In Vespy we have Flynn being the one who keeps warning Yuri while the people generally love or appreciate him, but in Crestoria it's the complete opposite just based off the fact that he was condemned. Flynn just having to live knowing the whole world hates Yuri and probably thinking he did do something that bad and being so distraught about it... 😔

I imagine it'd ultimately be something like, Yuri was condemned on either false or not-the-whole-story accusations and Flynn used to be one of those people who took Vision Orb users at their word, only to find out how skewed the system was. Would probably meet up with Yuri at some point to get answers (I don't think he'd go there to arrest him if he was a knight in this verse because bringing Yuri back would quite literally mean sending him to his death) and find out the truth. Don't know if Yuri would be on a mission to destroy all the Vision Orbs to prevent good people from being condemned in the future like Kanata is, but he seems to definitely have had a goal in mind. Sad we won't know because his interests feel like they'd have aligned with the main cast's like Milla's did.

Also I get the feeling that Yuri wouldn't regret his sin because I can't see him not doing it for a good purpose (and he's got the damn mark on display like Vicious, who was essentially also wrongfully called a sinner). It's a shame that he would have to be a crossover character in status too though, because the mix of his canon story and his Crestoria story would've normally landed his ass right into the main cast and him getting a Blood Sin from Vicious (which Vicious gives people when they accept their sin and vow to live with it basically). Heck, he might've even done that as a side character and just helped on the side like Milla helped on the side.

I'm sorry this is so long LOL the possibilities were just... THERE. If you ever have the time I'd recommend giving the game a watch on YouTube from what's been recorded from the game. The main story is fully voiced, and you've side stories for the crossover characters and event stories like the other gacha games. The manga changed up a few chunks already because of the removal of the crossover characters, so I personally would recommend the game before the manga. :O

[pirdmystery]

the somerton apology video is really world historically bad and almost impossible to watch. what always kills me about the crying youtuber apology videos is that they don't seem to show awareness of why what they did is bad or address any specifics of the accusations without resorting to making excuses. for every thing he says he's sorry for he has to slip in some mitigating factor that in his eyes makes it less bad. "sometimes there was some credit" "i split the money with nick" "i didn't realize anyone thought i was doing journalism" my god dude. it's not like this is the fault of your audience wrongly holding you to some impossible moral standard. the most basic assumption people make watching video essays is that what they are hearing is the perspective of the person making the video and even that was not true. even the editorializing wasn't yours and when it was it was false and/or bigoted. and he keeps saying stuff like that somehow "made it into" his videos. without ever mentioning what exactly "that stuff" is and how it got there (apparently through no fault of anyone?) and why it's bad.

what i truly do not understand is why this guy is interested in making videos at all. he doesn't have his own ideas, that much is abundantly clear. he can't have any genuine intellectual curiosity or he would have a baseline level of respect for the sources he steals from. the only thing i can think of is that he wants to be known as a great lgbt cultural critic, solely for the recognition, without having to do any of the work to deserve that title. which. well.

[smokeybrandreviews]

Fallen Dynasty

This sh*t with Jonathan Majors is getting real serious, man. Dude is getting dropped by his representation left and right, more cats are alleging brutality, and Disney might have already fired the dude from the Kang role. This sh*t is wild to see, man. Majors was finally, deservedly, on the upswing with his career. Dude had some stellar performances under his belt, both Lovecraft Country and The Harder They Fall come to mind, but was poised to have his signature role, this far, really leave a mark. I was a little hesitant to give this man the nod as Kang the Conqueror when Marvel announced his casting, not because of his performance or his race, but because Kang is just a goofy ass villain. But then Majors sauntered through as He Who Remains and I was sold. That one episode we got of his, was more than enough for me to get behind what Feige had planned. Dude was so nonchalant about the destruction of an entire timeline, so smarmy with is inevitable fate. I loved it! I haven’t personally seen Ant-Man III but I’ve heard that Major’s performance as the Conqueror proper, is the best thing about that film. I was looking forward to The Kang Dynasty but all of that is up in the air now because of this chick’s allegations.

It must be stated that Majors has steadfastly denied the allegations and that his primary accuser has basically recanted her initial claims but, goddamn, does this sh*t look grim. His lawyer finally released the evidence she had and, while I think it reads clearly as someone who has come to their senses and wants to try to mitigate the damage they have done to a person’s life, I can see how it can be interpreted as another abuse victim kowtowing to their abuser. As one Twatter reaction stated, “This ain’t the flex you think it is.” I get that. I also get that Majors removed himself from the situation and it was he who called the cops that night. I also understand that the cabbie gave a statement and even handed over the video of the ride where the incident took place. For my money, Majors is being wrongfully accused because, you know, giant, rich, black man. Wouldn’t be the first time. Definitely won’t be the last. But this time is wild to me because of the worms coming out from under their years long hibernation on this subject to make their own claims. If Jonathan Majors abused this many people, if he was violent to all of these alleged victims, where the f*ck have they been? Major’s has been in the spotlight for some time and not a word. But now that he’s on the cusp of super stardom, there’s a line of bodies in his wake? Make it make sense.

I already addressed the stuff about the cats claiming battery from back in his college days but these new “victims” are nuts to me. I get that the case against him was floundering because of the recantation and the cabbie’s statement so now the cops needed way more, which they got. Sh*t just seems real fishy to me, especially considering that there are rumblings of coaching being caught on the body cam footage of the initial response. I imagine it’s not a coincidence that the strangulation charge was dropped but I digress. If that sh*t is sus, how am I supposed to take the sudden influx of other victims seriously? Obviously, I could be wrong and Jonathan Majors could be a decades long violent psychopath but that doesn’t feel real to me. It doesn’t feel accurate. It feels made up. It feels like a false claim. It feels like the systemic lynching of a another rich, famous, black man. But that remains to be seen. I want to believe Majors is innocent in all of this because I want him to be Kang. I want him to get that Marvel shine. I want him to be that superstar. We already lost Chadwick, we need Majors. Time will tell how history sees this situation but, so far, these optics are real bad.

[jeweledstone]

A Dream I Had Last Month that was Kinda Fucked Up Now that I Think About It

Chronologically, this dream was had some time in between the Noise/Mickey tulpa thing’s first appearance and the Painful Sound dream, so at least around May 9th or 10th.

It was another dream about the high school I never physically went to irl (which has become a common trope in my recent dreams). The school in this particular verse had this… club? class? event? idk? where a group of students would be taken to a movie theater in the basement where they’d watch random movies and then discuss/critique them afterwords. Kinda like a Cinematics course I took for college where we’d watch movies and then write little essays critiquing them but in high school instead. As you can imagine, a class where you just watched movies would be highly popular for students who have to endure boring, under stimulating lessons for the rest of the school day, so a lotta them attended it.

Seems innocent and wholesome right? Well, not for long…

One day, one of the teachers who ran the movie class found five dvds somehow. Each dvd was blank, save for a title written in black sharpie reading Disc 1, Disc 2, etc. (kinda like the tapes in 10 Tapes (and arg you should really check out btw) but with dvds instead of vhs tapes). Be it through pure obliviousness or them already being “influenced” by the discs (you’ll get what I mean by that later), the teacher brought said discs into the movie class to be viewed by the students and other staff.

Now…

This is the part where it gets kinda cringe…

Apparently, the original creator of the five discs was a version of G-E Spamton that was less powerful than ours (only a B class reality bender rather than S) but WAY more malevolent. He basically implants these 5 discs somewhere in a random universe for some idiot to find and watch. Each disc contained two “movies” (sides?) of sorts on them that featured images and video of gore, violence, and other horrific imagery as well as bizarre propaganda-ish stuff talking about how great he is and that everyone should follow and obey him. The goal was to slowly brainwash the viewer, turning them into one of his mindless drones that follow his every command.

So, when you take something as dangerously powerful and mind-melting as those dvds and show them to a fairly sized group of people, obviously shit’s gonna go down.

It only took a few viewings of the first disc (both sides were watched twice for some fucking reason) to make the people who attended the movie class to develop a cult-like obsession with this, let’s call him False Spamton for clarity’s sake. Eventually the school (consisting of both students and staff) was split into three groups:

The people who watched the discs and started borderline worshipping the false Spamton (I was one of them, mostly cause I didn’t know he wasn’t the G-E I was already a loyal follower of)

The people who’ve never seen the discs and didn’t know wtf was going on and basically acted as a neutral party

The people who didn’t see the discs, but did enough research to know what was happening and were actively fighting to stop it

I remember the people actively fighting against the cult were mockingly referred to as “clowns” by cult members (you can probably guess what’s gonna happen to them if False Spam wins in this scenario…) and were often abducted by said cultists and forced to watch the brainwashing movies in order to try to “convert” them whenever possible.

The way I personally found out the Spam the cult was worshipping wasn’t my Spamton was pretty Deus Ex Machina-y. Basically I was kinda sorta questioning how brutally the other cultists were towards non-believers, which caused my fellow cultists to shun me and accuse me of being a clown. Panicking, worried I might get kicked out of the group and face “Spamton’s” wrath because of it, I ran down into the school’s basement to the theater where the movie class was held (and thus where the “holy” discs were kept) and started praying to him for forgiveness. Cause y’know, I’m crazy like that. It was during that prayer session that the real G-E Spamton appeared and basically told me that I haven’t actually forsaken him and the Spam my school was being controlled by was a false god.

It was then that I woke up, so I can’t say wether the false god was ever stopped or not.

[sweethangman]

okay. this is the entirety of kendrick vs drake. i have warned you

so there's some previous contextual events but the main thing to know is that in october of 2023 drake and j cole released the song "first person shooter" where j cole asserted that himself, drake, and kendrick were the "big 3" of modern hip hop

kendrick didn't take kindly to it and did a collab where he essentially said "fuck the big three, it's just big me." drake didn't like this and released "push ups," which is a diss on kendrick for a number of things that don't really matter, like his height? it was super petty at this point.

a little after push ups, another drake diss got leaked. this one was called "taylor made freestyle," and it was basically drake taunting kendrick for not responding to push ups and alleging it was because taylor swift had just released tortured poets department and kendrick couldnt release anything that might top her on the charts. drake kinda got in hot water for this one because he used ai to imitate 2pac and snoop dogg's voices in it

anyway, then kendrick finally dropped a response. it was a six minute long track called "euphoria" where he just talked about how much he hated drake and how drake is a culture vulture and a ton of other stuff. then before drake had a chance to respond kendrick put out

"6:16 in la," which basically continued to call drake a terrible person, but also alleged that drake's friends were feeding kendrick info on drake behind his back, the cover of this song was a picture of a black glove lying on a bed or something, which is important later.

so drake released "family matters," a 7 minute long diss track where he basically calls kendrick short some more, accuses him of cheating on his partner and abusing her also, and alleges that one of kendrick's kids is actually the result of his partner cheating on him with his best friend.

but no one remembers family matters because 30 minutes after it came out, kendrick dropped "meet the grahams." this song was TERRIFYING. in the song, kendrick addresses drake's family and basically apologises to them for having to be related to drake. he also calls drake a pedophile and says he thinks people like him "should die" and alleges that drake has a DAUGHTER who he keeps secret from the public. this is the song that makes it abundantly clear kendrick is on a crusade to make drake kill himself. also, the cover of this song is a zoomed out version of the picture from 6:16 in la. it shows receipts and pill bottles with drake's name on them, indicating that the picture was taken in drake's home. this pretty much confirms someone in drake's friend group is feeding kendrick information.

the next day, kendrick releases "not like us," which goes mega viral and is easily the most popular song to come out of the beef. it's super catchy and upbeat and basically reiterates everything by kendrick has already said but on a sicker beat. he calls drake a "certified pedophile," and accuses him of cultural appropriation and a host of other things. everyone regards this as marking kendrick's victory.

drake releases a response, "the heart part 6," but no one gives a shit because it's awful. he basically says that people in his team are feeding kendrick false information to make him look stupid, but drake doesn't seem to realise how bad it looks to essentially say, “yeah we WANTED you to think i was a pedophile, to make YOU look dumb." so all in all, kendrick wiped the floor with drake

HELLO????? i. goddamn

[writingreadingdaydreaming]

in really really towards omega jobe because i feel like that would bring the most pain/angst!! also i understand the jude not acting quite like a full on incel but from my experience, when you have to watch someone you grew up with change like that to someone more irritated and was openminded and understanding, the change seems so drastic that in your mind they’re basically an incel anyways.

also i feel like a headcanon like this is really interesting because irl people are always like “oh but this guy has sisters so obviously he won’t turn out badly!1!1” completely ignoring the fact that those sisters sometimes turn into the first ‘victims’ of whatever the guy internalises. so it would be interesting if when jude first starts changing and stuff if jamal is like “nah, it’s not possible, why would jude act like this when he’s always so protective and loving towards jobe” but then one day he sees the two interact and sees that even that’s different.

like maybe the protectiveness becomes more toxic, where instead of jude wanting to make sure that jobe is safe and that jobe can always turn to him for help, jude starts to be more harsh like telling jobe not to go putting himself or asking for trouble and just his tone and everything is not the loving tone that jobe was always so used to hearing and jamal is standing there shocked and maybe makes eye contact with jobe where they both come to the same silent realisation.

Anon I just want you to know the detail you are sending this asks in with is literally something I will forever treasure. I feel so lucky that you decided I’m worth all these words.

(and a content warning for mentions of abuse/s*xual assault here)

And I can see Jude using Jobe as a shield for his own misogyny. He’s not going out of his way to harm beta women or omegas, but he’s also still associating himself with people who have because, well, they didn’t go to prison right? That means they aren’t bad? The bad men go to prison and none of my friends are in prison therefore they can’t be that bad, right?

Whenever Jobe calls him up on it, he gets defensive really quickly, saying that he knows that the things they’ve been accused of are bad in concept, and he’d be disgusted if someone he knew actually did those things (despite the fact that yes, people you know have done those things), but then he goes into a point about ‘false accusations’ and you can see Jobe just deflate. Knowing that whenever Jude is asked about omega rights, he immediately uses Jobe’s career and ambitions as a reason why he is actually this big feminist who is for gender equality - cause on the outside, it looks like he is. Jude does some shoutouts for women’s teams, does some campaigns denouncing the mistreatment of beta women and omegas in sports and just general other stuff in that regard (aka. the Mason Greenwood ‘r*pist’ comment incident). But it does nothing to solve these inherent issues that Jude carries simply from being a man in society. Is it his fault that these biases have been instilled in him? No, it happens to every beta man/alpha before they even realise what’s going on. But is it his fault for not challenging these biases, especially when pointed out to him? Absolutely.

Part of me kind of wants to give Jude a slight ‘redemption arc’ but also I’m not sure. Most men don’t have a ‘redemption arc’, but also I think Jude is at a stage in his life in this fic universe where he’s still open to change, it just takes a lot of work to get there. I feel like at one point, Jobe would basically go non-contact with Jude, and it would either be a wake up call that he needs to sort himself out or it would make him double down on his subconscious beliefs.

(Btw I do just wanna remind people (mainly for the sake of my own anxiety) that what I say in these head-canons isn’t real. I don’t know if the real Jude Bellingham would also hold these beliefs or not. It just happened that this idea I had fell on the fictional version of him’s shoulders. Just saying this before I get any hate or accusations that I’m making false claims about some celeb. Remember guys this is all FAKE.)

[navree]

Do you think Margaery in the books will have the same fate as in the series? She seems too sly for her own good and there’s really something hypocritical about her

I'm not the best when it comes to theorizing about ASOIAF proper, so there are probably people who can answer this better than me, but I think it's certainly possible.

The books have both done a lot to build up Aerys's hidden caches of wildfire under King's Landing, so we know that, at some point, those are going to come into play. We've also gotten some important stuff surrounding Cersei and wildfire, like when she burns down the Tower of the Hand and how disturbed Jaime (one of only two people alive who knows about Aerys's wildfire plot) felt watching it. So the idea that there's a connection to wildfire, the destruction it can cause in the city, and Cersei isn't out of nowhere. And doing something insanely destructive and so incredibly large scale isn't out of character for Cersei, she's vicious and she believes in might as power above anything else and it seems like the kind of big and insane gesture that she'd do without thinking of the long term consequences, all for the sake of getting rid of her rivals.

I doubt the circumstances will be exactly the same though. Cersei and Margaery are both in pretty different places by the time ADWD ends than they were by the end of season 5, and so they're both gonna be in different places whenever this happens in the books. Margaery isn't the only member of her family accused, for one, and she's accused of much serious crimes than she is in the show (in the show I think her main crime is bearing false witness in connection to Loras's trial, while in the books Loras isn't involved in this at all and is currently dying, which will also affect Margaery, and she's accused of adultery against Tommen with numerous men) for another, and even beyond that, she's already released from the High Sparrow's custody by the time ADWD ends, having been put into Randall Tarly's custody because the case against her is already falling apart. Cersei's also gonna be dealing with different things, because Jaime's not currently on her side anymore, Myrcella is still alive and isn't dead, and she was under some strict house arrest on Kevan's orders before he died, which is absolutely going to cause some upheaval in her life as well as just the realm at large. So while the overall motivations might be the same, the intricacies of it might be different, as well as the process for both Margaery and Cersei to get to that point.

I've never really gotten anything sly or hypocritical from Margaery in the books, at least the way I've read it. I think she's more than just the doe-eyed little thing she presents herself as, and there is absolutely an intelligence and a cunning to her that most people ignore, but even when viewed exclusively through the eyes of other people, the only person who thinks that she's a schemer or devious is Cersei, who is just not very good at reading people, insanely delusional, and also completely blinded by Maggy's prophecy, which drives far more of her actions in the books than it does in the show (it's basically the impetus for nearly everything she does). Margaery's interacted with Tyrion, Sansa, and Jaime in their POVs, not just Cersei, and all of them agree that she's nice, but also intelligent, and definitely has some of her grandmother's steel in her, but not that she's actively playing people false or being a hypocrite. It's more the show that played that up, since it seems D&D decided to take Cersei's interpretation of Margaery at face value rather than, like, understand that Cersei's never had a correct opinion about another person ever in her life.

TL;DR I think it's definitely possible, and there's some clues that point to that being set up, but the circumstances will likely be different in their minutia to account for the way the plot is going in the books, and as well as the fact that Cersei and Margaery are different characters to their show counterparts.

[smokeybrand]

Fallen Dynasty

This sh*t with Jonathan Majors is getting real serious, man. Dude is getting dropped by his representation left and right, more cats are alleging brutality, and Disney might have already fired the dude from the Kang role. This sh*t is wild to see, man. Majors was finally, deservedly, on the upswing with his career. Dude had some stellar performances under his belt, both Lovecraft Country and The Harder They Fall come to mind, but was poised to have his signature role, this far, really leave a mark. I was a little hesitant to give this man the nod as Kang the Conqueror when Marvel announced his casting, not because of his performance or his race, but because Kang is just a goofy ass villain. But then Majors sauntered through as He Who Remains and I was sold. That one episode we got of his, was more than enough for me to get behind what Feige had planned. Dude was so nonchalant about the destruction of an entire timeline, so smarmy with is inevitable fate. I loved it! I haven’t personally seen Ant-Man III but I’ve heard that Major’s performance as the Conqueror proper, is the best thing about that film. I was looking forward to The Kang Dynasty but all of that is up in the air now because of this chick’s allegations.

It must be stated that Majors has steadfastly denied the allegations and that his primary accuser has basically recanted her initial claims but, goddamn, does this sh*t look grim. His lawyer finally released the evidence she had and, while I think it reads clearly as someone who has come to their senses and wants to try to mitigate the damage they have done to a person’s life, I can see how it can be interpreted as another abuse victim kowtowing to their abuser. As one Twatter reaction stated, “This ain’t the flex you think it is.” I get that. I also get that Majors removed himself from the situation and it was he who called the cops that night. I also understand that the cabbie gave a statement and even handed over the video of the ride where the incident took place. For my money, Majors is being wrongfully accused because, you know, giant, rich, black man. Wouldn’t be the first time. Definitely won’t be the last. But this time is wild to me because of the worms coming out from under their years long hibernation on this subject to make their own claims. If Jonathan Majors abused this many people, if he was violent to all of these alleged victims, where the f*ck have they been? Major’s has been in the spotlight for some time and not a word. But now that he’s on the cusp of super stardom, there’s a line of bodies in his wake? Make it make sense.

I already addressed the stuff about the cats claiming battery from back in his college days but these new “victims” are nuts to me. I get that the case against him was floundering because of the recantation and the cabbie’s statement so now the cops needed way more, which they got. Sh*t just seems real fishy to me, especially considering that there are rumblings of coaching being caught on the body cam footage of the initial response. I imagine it’s not a coincidence that the strangulation charge was dropped but I digress. If that sh*t is sus, how am I supposed to take the sudden influx of other victims seriously? Obviously, I could be wrong and Jonathan Majors could be a decades long violent psychopath but that doesn’t feel real to me. It doesn’t feel accurate. It feels made up. It feels like a false claim. It feels like the systemic lynching of a another rich, famous, black man. But that remains to be seen. I want to believe Majors is innocent in all of this because I want him to be Kang. I want him to get that Marvel shine. I want him to be that superstar. We already lost Chadwick, we need Majors. Time will tell how history sees this situation but, so far, these optics are real bad.

[harostar]

What happened with Shield Hero?

It has many problematic elements, which makes people go "......bruh". I've heard from other people that the author seems to, based on the work itself, have very Conservative Japanese Values (tm) that are unsavory.

Among the issues:

The series starts off with a woman getting close to the protagonist, then falsely accusing him of Sexual Assault. His life is ruined, his driven out of society, he's basically Enemy #1 while the other three Heroes get all the worship and support.

The female protagonist and love interest is introduced as a child he buys from a Slave Trader, then forces to learn to fight. (Because his powers are inherently Defensive, so he needed a Fighter tm). Her species matures by Leveling Up, so when she reaches Level 18 she becomes an adult and his eventual love interest.

He acquires a second party member by buying a monster from the same slave trader, which turns out to be a super-special one that has a human form and full sentience.

Later on, one of the other Heroes challenges him keeping two cute girls bonded to him with Magic. The seal is broken, but this is treated as Very Bad and the girl gets the Slave seal replaced by the slave trader.

The Slaver Trader is treated as a shady evil dude, but also an important ally. Yikes.

The series alternatively treats Slavery as terrible (when its the heroine's sad past) while also having the protagonist make use of a Slave Trader and the tools of Slavery to do stuff. There's no attempts to dismantle the slave trade, and it's used as a plot device which is ???

Apparently there's a bit about an abusive relationship, and the heroine basically doing the Japanese "we should mind our own business" thing.

Like it's......honestly, I watch it and enjoy it overall. But damn if it doesn't have aspects that make me cringe.

[dinogaby]

Omggg this is giving me soft feels! 😭😭😭 Gaah you are right, the audio fits them perfectly! 😢🥺 Sorry for being off the grid for so long, but garmakoko is a sure way to call me back to life 😆 Guuuh in my garmakoko headcanons, their origin story also goes along the idea of Koko having to choose between her clan and Garmadon. I just have a very general, sketchy idea in my head but it's something like part of her family turns against her based on false accusations. Koko's father (who is the leader of the Iron Dragon clan) is murdered and it's made to seem as if Koko is responsible for it (but she is not, obviously). Family rift begins and at some point Koko's life is threatened. Then Garmadon, who has been waging wars against multiple clans around the area and has been following Koko's family's antics, saves her when her life is in danger and that's how she starts falling in love with him. So he proposes an "alliance" between him and her and whatever remaining loyal followers she has, in order for her to regain control of her clan leadership. Obviously everybody questions her alliance with Garmadon, because it seems like he's just doing it for his own profit. But eventually he does end up truly falling in love with her. So basically at the end, it's them against the world xD.

Alternatively, Koko and Garmadon start to get involved with each other before any onset of obvious family feuds. And because her family disapproves of Koko falling for him, Garmadon is framed to make it seem like he is the one responsible for the murder of Koko's father. Koko knows that Garmadon wasn't responsible for it, but will her family believe her?

Lol sorry for the rant. I just have so many lose ideas about their origin story. I wish i could better flesh out that story, but writing is not my forte. Maybe one day. 😅

But yess i love your drawings and garmakoko lore, so much angst! And your videos like this one, gossshh I consume that stuff like oxygen!

I heard the audio and I thought of them and when I thought of them, I thought of you! @dinogaby Gaby I know you’re alive! You better come here and see this!

Kimiko (Koko in my AU) was a well respected Dragon Samurai woman known as Lady Iron Dragon. She was mentored by Lady Crimson (the red dragon woman in the video) and Lady Crimson and the other members of the clan that were originally dragons had fought Oni centuries back so you can imagine the feelings Crimson had when Koko would eventually throw her Dragon samurai days away to be with Garmadon.

TheyDeservedBettershipping now has a shorter, easier name DestructiveDragonshipping, thanks to @pillowmints4lloyd (I can't believe the name was literally right in front of me the entire time and I didn't see it I really need to get my eyes checked again. XD)