#And what makes it worse is that I picked the destroy ending during the play through

[theratking-heheheheheh]

I love EDI

[dilfhos]

WALKING ON GLASS.

#!WHO; SEBASTIAN MICHAELIS x fem!reader

#!CC: power play, o.sex (receiving), implications of demonic entities

NETWORKS @angelshub @bitchcraftinc @planetonet

The sound of dishes smashing against the floors was deafening as it carried throughout the manor. The splintering shatter of an expensive set caused the three three other house aids to grimace. In the upper room of Ciel Phantomhive, his eyes closed and he sighed, for regret was starting to cloud his mind in hiring you— the new maid. The help to what he’d already deemed, ‘A full house.’

Sebastian bowed gracefully, his head cocked slightly as he smiled.

“I will see to it that the mess will be cleaned young master.”

“Make sure that you do. I have very little patience left.” Phantomhive waved off. Sebastian then walked out shutting the door behind him with a soft click. He pulled at his pristine gloves as he walked down the hallways, a devilish grin splitting his face.

When he’d arrived at the kitchen door he’d picked up on quips of complaints from you and Mei-Ren.

“I’m going to be done for sure this time...” You whined, brushing glass pieces onto a dustpan.

“I’m sure you won’t. The young master is lenient. During my recent years I was such a klutz and Sebastian had to—”

The butler opened the door and the conversation halted with unease in the air. Mei-Ren stood nervously and you kept your head low as your fingers trembled to pick up the rest of the glass. The heat of eyes boring into the side of your head didn’t go unnoticed as they clinked softly together in the pile.

“You may go. I shall handle this.” Sebastian’s velvety voice remained low, his eyes glued on your crouched form. Mei-Ren gave a reassuring glance towards you and bowed quickly. After the haste retreating footsteps, the room was quiet except for the soft sound of tinkling glass shards.

“Stand please,” Sebastian hummed, his red eyes trailing your straned movements; your chest rose and fell slightly and he could hear the quickening tapping of your beating heart. Your eyes looked everywhere but at him, which he found a bit rude but another lesson to be made at a later date.

You clasped your hands in front of your body, ready to endure whatever verbal penalty was sure to be made. This wasn’t your first offense.

Countless of glassware had been destroyed by your hand, not to mention the mistakes you’ve made since you were hired by the young master. From nearly burning down the manor due to attempted meals, to using the wrong chemicals in the garden. All resulting in Sebastian’s stern dispraises. Phantomhive pegged you to be just as bad as his other servants put together.

Sebastian began to snake towards you, his movements precise and elegant. With ease, he’s stepped through the shards of remaining glass, not even trailing it behind him. As he got closer, you subconsciously shrunk back until you hit the far wall with a small gasp.

Sabastian brought his hand to his mouth, swiftly biting the fingertip of his glove and pulling it off, all the while his gaze never left yours. Leaving the glove on his left hand, he pressed both palms against the wall on either side of your head, effectively caging you in. He picked out the accelerated beating in your chest as his face lowered towards yours.

Sebastian was never going to admit this to any mortal, but he a part of him was looking forward to another slip up from you. Ever since the young lord hired you, your entire essence intrigued him. On more accounts than one, the need for self restraint became nearly intangible whenever you were around. He knew humans were creatures who could not reject temptation. Never had he thought he’d be acting just like them.

His eyes held a dark glint in them as his lips stretched into a grin.

“That set was a favorite of the young lord,”

“I’m sorry! I slipped and I really tried to catch my fall, but I only ended up making things worse.”

“Yes, the ordeal is quite unfortunate,” He continued. “The entire glass set was a precious family heirloom.” The demon lied, which was proven to be effective given the horror stricken look on your face. You were on the verge of tears and your lips parted to let out a soft sigh.

Sebastian brought a finger under your chin, pulling your head up in his direction. For the first time, you were made to look into his piercing eyes and you gulped.

“I’m sure I can come up with a reason for the destruction of the valuables.” His eyes shone mischievously and a second later, it hit you. And he knew that you were not going to reject the offer. In return, his knee slid upwards, dragging out a gasp from you at the sudden movement and the friction against your core. He smirked and lowered his sight to the rise and fall of your chest, zeroing in on your breasts.

“Lift your uniform and turn around.” His order was low and straight to the point, sending a shiver down your spine. He stepped back, allowing you to do so and once you were facing the wall, your cheeks heated up in how vulnerable you were now before the butler. A second or so later, you felt cool air hitting your heat and you whimpered, turning your head slightly. You then felt strong hands taking hold on your hips, gripping them in a way that sent dull pain throughout your legs.

“Face the wall.”

Sebastian moved closer, licking his lips at the scent of your femininity. It was different and he was intrigued. His finger hooked through the side of your panties, pulling them taut and exposing your glistening lower lips. He leaned forward, giving you a quick and experimental lick, causing you to release a not-so-quiet cry.

“I would strongly suggest keeping your voice down, yes? We wouldn’t want an audience.” He chuckled before returning his mouth to your pussy. You quickly clenched your uniform dress in one hand as the other covered your mouth, muffling your moans in your gloved hand.

His tongue flattened against you, teasing your clit before trailing back until it disappeared inside of you, writhing and thrusting against your gummy walls. Your body was growing flush as he worked his mouth against you, drawing more and more of your slick.

Sebastian’s movements started off as sensual and graceful, much like his surface personality. But each second his senses spent engulfed in your heat ignited something primal in him. His refined technique was abandoned and replaced with one less coordinated but more enthusiastic nonetheless.

Subconsciously, his fingers dug deeper into your hips releasing more added pleasure than pain. Obscene wet noises arose, synchronizing with your low moans. A hand left your hip to push past your folds and curled upwards, effectively sending a shock through your body resulting in a cry this time.

Sebastian hummed, taking the action into memory and his ministrations seemingly went lazy. At this point, it wouldn’t take much more for you to come and he knew this, doing it again.

His face pushed deeper against you, his tongue nudging your clit and at the same time curling his finger and this is what sent you over the edge.

The noise that escaped wasn’t suppressed behind your palm this time. Your thighs quivered as you calmed down, whimpering as the butler gave you a final few laps before standing. Now more than before, you wanted to feel him, see him, touch him as he ravaged you with what he had to offer.

Turning around slightly, you caught a glimpse of darkness, the air around you suddenly cold. Murkiness surrounded you, as you only caught a flash of his twisted face in a snarl—a stark contrast to his typical refined features. A shiver ran down your spine, his grip returning but tighter than the last.

“You still refuse to listen.” His breath was ticking your ear, tone menacing but the same velvet that compelled your limbs to relax.

Before you could come up with some half thought out apology, he sheathed his dick into you, grunting softly when he was flush against your ass. Not knowing when he had the time to release himself, you keened at the sudden intrusion as you shifted and tightened around him.

He sighed, strumming his fingers on your hips before pulling out and pushing into you firmly. His movements formed a rhythm as you were rocked against the wall. By now, your hand had fallen from your mouth and was instead placed on the surface in front of you. Movements increasing in speed as well as forcefulness, moans poured from you, wafting through the kitchen and you could only hope that’s where they’ll remain.

Sebastian grunted before yanking your hands behind you, wrists gripped under his one hand with precision at the small of your back. He’s reverted to fucking you with reckless abandon, his own breathing just barely ragged.

You, however were a mess, your vision blurred with wetness, voice producing a low mantra of the butler’s name as a desired pressure began to build up within you. Over and over, his thrusts hit that sweet spot within you that pushed you closer and closer to that moment of bliss.

“What do you think of this lesson?” It was a strange question, at the even most strangest time. It barely processed in your ears and you’re only half inclined to answer in the state you’re in. However, his hand reaches to tilt your head back, face ethereally perfect as golden pools stare into your soul.

“Hnn..?” You couldn’t think, much less articulate any response he was looking but that was alright. He just wanted to drink in the gloss in your eyes as your mouth moves, no words escaping. Your cunt pulsated around him, each stroke drawing more and more of your essence from your body. Perhaps, he thought, it would be wrong to indulge in a bit of the human soul. Not when you were so vulnerable and pliant under his mere gaze. You didn’t see him now. You didn’t see what he’d become again, as the only thing you that surrounded you was the grip of the cold and your cunt being stretched out.

Only when he released you with a low chuckle did the static disipitate and the pressure snaps, his hand quick to hold your cries.

Delicious aftershocks took hold of you, controlling your convulsions as you clenched repeatedly around Sebastian’s cock. You couldn’t see the subtle twist of his features as he approached euphoria as well, his grip icy as he held you against the wall. Following suit soon after, his hot come spilled into you in copious amounts, filling you until it trickled down your thighs.

He pulled out and your legs buckled slightly beneath you before he chuckled and you were spun around.

“Hey now,”

Sebastian was altogether neat. His uniform remained as immaculate as they were when he walked in, white gloves on and pristine. His face retained its usual fair skinned complexion, void of sweat or any indication of vigorous activity.

Meanwhile, you knew you looked a complete mess if it wasn’t obvious. Sebastian cocked his head and smiled warmly, a bright expression that contrasted the devil in his eye.

“Despite how pleasurable this lesson has been, I implore you to exercise caution and heighten your awareness. The young master would not appreciate any more recklessness from you and neither will I.” As he spoke his teeth gleamed only adding to the weight of his words engraved in your mind.

Still you straightened, your hands clasping tightly over your uniform as you nodded curtly.

“Yes Sebastian!”

After that encounter in the kitchen, your mistakes and slip-ups had been reduced to very little occurrences to absolutely none.

“See I knew you’d get the hang of things!” Mei-Ren beamed.

“Maybe I’ll let you cook something small again. Seeing how much you improved and all.” Baldroy had praised, fanning a smoking pot.

Each of the house aids were ultimately pleased you were doing better than you had been before.

Even Phantomhive seemed content, but not at all surprised knowing Sebastian had a hand in it. The butler was delighted as well, rewarding your improvements with favorable pleasures every now and again.

He still needed to teach you a lesson about listening after all.

DILFOS. do not plagiarize my content— current or archival.

[euphoniumpets]

Climbing over the wall | Nikolai Lantsov x reader

Summary: You haven't met your bethroted yet and from what you've been knowing by your overthinking, you didn't waste a second to come up with an escape plan that didn't go that well.

Requested? Yes by @lexilulove: Love your writing and excited requests are open!! I saw this on insta the other day and now I want nothing more than a Nikolai based around this idea. With Nikolai’s love interest constantly sneaking away during events and parties. Dealer’s choice if it’s an established relationship of it Nikolai charms the shy girl and the relationship grows.

A/N: ngl, took this inspiration from queen charlotte at the attempt of climbing the wall while george is behind her like ??? and that got me thinking about y/n and nik.

Warnings: painfully longing eyes behind Nik and the reader.

The king was late.

And you were growing nervous and thought of every possible way to escape the room.

You didn't enjoyed parties, in fact, you hated them. You didn't like to be the center of attention and it was even worse when you haven't met your bethroted yet.

You was a child from a duke and your father wanted you to marry since he worried of you that you would end up alone knowing that you were too shy to even make social intercation. You had been like that ever since you was a child and when your mother had passed away. Always so quiet and enjoyed your own company.

So, when the rumor had spoken that the king of Ravka was looking for a wife to marry, let alone to rule a whole country, your father had suggested you to him.

You had been hesitant but you wanted to please your father and said yes to the arranged marrige. You haven't met the king personally, but from what you've been told by the maidens and by Genya, Zoya, and Alina, that he's kind and handsome.

You've heard some stories and the rumors about the youngest prince that he was a bastard, but you didn't care that he was one. All you cared that if he was going to treat you right as a husband.

Genya and Zoya had invited everyone to the ball to celebrate your marriage and of course, Nikolai himself was late. Zoya had already gone off to scold Nikolai for being late while Genya was somewhere in the room with Alina, leaving you all alone full with nerves.

You scanned the room and saw an opportunity to escape the ball while nobody was noticing that you were gone. You placed your glass of champange down as everybody continued to chat with each other and the music played loud enough that nobody saw you slipping away.

You walked through the gardens but stopped when you saw a wall in front of you. You huffed with annoyance as you knew that you had to climb the wall over.

But you knew that it would be a struggle because of your dress that Zoya had picked for you and she would kill you for destroying the dress. ''Ah, what the hell,'' You muttered to yourself as you embraced that Zoya will kill you for ruining the dress.

You grabbed one of the branches from the tree on the wall and tried to climb up. Upon hearing, you heard footsteps from behind. ''Milady, do you need help of an assistance of some kind?'' You heard a male voice coming from behind you.

''I am, uh, quite fine, thank you,'' You spoke and didn't look behind and tried to figure out a way to climb up higher. ''You can go back inside and wait with all the other gwakes, '' You dismissed and didn't think much of it since you thought it was one of the maidens that had found you.

''I will, but first, I'm curious, what are you doing?''

''Nothing,'' You spoke and huffed.

''You're doing something,'' The man replied with a deadpanned look.

''I am not,'' You spoke. ''You are,''

''I am not,'' You argued and let out a sigh and looked at the tree in front of you. ''If you must know, I'm trying to ascertian the best way to climb over the garden wall,'' You responded and gestured toward the tree.

''Climb? Whatever for?''

''Because I think he may be a beast,'' You replied and placed your hands over your hips. ''A beast?''

''Or a troll,'' You responded. ''A troll?'' The man replied with an offended expression.

''Who are we discussing?'' The man asked. ''Oh, that is impertinent, none of your buisness,'' You replied and glanced back at him before looking around.

''The king,'' You answered after a short silence. ''From what I've heard: that he's handsome, kind, but some people won't even speak of him,'' You informed.

''And that makes you think that the king is a troll or a beast?'' The man asked. ''Well, I haven't seen him yet,'' You answered. ''And I'm overthinking things,'' You spoke.

''Ah, understood,'' He replied. ''You know, if I grab there,'' You said and pointed toward the garden wall. ''Perhaps you could assist me by lifting up,'' You told him and began to climb again.

''Uh, one question, you do not like beast or trolls? What he looks like matters?'' He asked you.

''I do not care what he looks like, what I do not like is not knowing, now, here, just take a hold here with a lift, I believe that I can make it over the garden wall,'' You said and went back to the garden wall and gestured him to help you.

''You want me to lift you over the wall so you may can escape?''

''That is what I said, yes,'' You replied and rolled your eyes. ''People will notice you are missing will they not?''

''Oh, please, they won't,'' You assured him and waved him off. ''Now, if you please, I just need a little help, come, make haste,''

''I have no absolutely no intention of helping you,'' He responded, making you pause before turning to him. ''I am in lady in distress, you refuse to help a lady in distress?'' You asked him with an offended expression.

''I refuse when that lady in distress is trying to go over the wall so that she does not want to marry me,'' He replied making you look at him with wide eyes and shock. Nikolai only found it amusing when he saw the reaction in your face.

''Hello, Y/n,'' He greeted you with a smile. ''I'm Nikolai,'' He introduced himself and you looked at him. ''Please accept my apology, if I had known that you were you...''

''You would have what?'' Nikolai interrupted you. ''Not told me that you were trying to escape?'' He asked with an amusing expression.

''Well, yes, I mean, I do apologize, moi tsar,'' You spoke quietly and looked down at the ground.

''Just call me Nik,'' Nikolai responded and looked at you with a kind smile. ''The king situation, it towers over us, accident of birth on my part, but I thought maybe perhaps, as my wife, you could ignore it, and I could be just Nik to you,'' He spoke.

''That was of course, before I found out that you do not want to be married to me,''

''I did not say that,'' You looked at him with an offended expression.

''Oh you did,'' He responded. ''I did not,'' You argued. ''You did!''

''It is not,'' You argued and paused. ''I do not know you,'' You replied and sighed. ''I do not know you either, except that you are terrible at climbing a wall,'' Nikolai teased and you saw the smile in the corner of his lips.

''You try climbing a wall in all of this,'' You gestured towards your dress that now was ruined for the ball and huffed at him.

''I was told that you were late,'' You replied and looked at him. ''Yes, my apologies for that, king duties you know,'' Nikolai informed and you nodded slightly.

''There you are!'' You heard Zoya's voice exclaim from behind as the two of you turned around. ''What have you done to your dress!'' You heard Zoya exclaim angirly. ''Zoya, calm down,'' You replied.

''She was trying to climb over the wall,'' Nikolai responded and you looked at him with a glare.

''Over the wall?'' Zoya questioned with a confused look. ''That's is not important, now we have to change you into a new dress,'' Zoya grunted with annoyance and dragged you from Nikolai.

''You will pay for this,'' You mouthed over to him as he looked back at you with a smile as Zoya dragged you away.

[warblogs17282]

The more I think about it, the more that I think that Blitz is gonna hit a mental rock-bottom in ghostfuckers.

So, let's start off with the first clue: Millie being very consistently annoyed/angry in the scenes where we see her in ghostfuckers.

Why could this be? My theory is that it's because Millie is starting to suspect that there's something going on with Blitz, and she tries to figure out what this is exactly, but Blitz just keeps brushing her attempts to do so off, or just straight up won't tell her, leading to her slowly getting more and more frustrated at Blitz.

Another thing of note within the gif is that we see Millie shouting something, I can't read lips, but I'd wager that it's something along the lines of 'ENOUGH!', which could potentially play into what I mentioned in the last paragraph.

And it makes complete sense if Millie is the one to pick up on the fact that there's something going on with Blitz, considering she appears to be rather supportive/comforting to Blitz, with a major example of this being s2 e4, where Millie was the one to break the news to Blitz that Stolas got badly hurt. So it'd make sense to me if Millie is the one to see that Blitz is going through something, and wants to try and help him by making him feel better or something, but Blitz's tendency to push others away just ends up annoying and angering her.

Clue 2: 'Blitz is coping with what happened in apology tour in a not so healthy way.'

Assuming that this comment ends up being true, it tells us that Blitz is employing unhealthy coping mechanisms in order to cope with the events of Apology Tour, and we know that Apology Tour hit Blitz hard, just look at his face when he sees Stolas really enjoying himself with the BTB guy.

So, what method could Blitz be using to cope? A common theory during the mission shorts is that Blitz is purposely overworking himself/throwing himself into work because of the events of Apology Tour, and I personally agree with it, at the moment, it's the one that makes the most sense to me.

Another theory of what this could be was drugs/alcohol because of Blitz's past and previous relationship with them, but that theory doesn't really hold much water to me, mainly because we've only seen Blitz drink in social settings throughout the show, after the events of s1 e7 we see Blitz on the couch asleep after binge eating ice cream, and because Blitz said "oh thank Satan." when Barbie Wire said that she wasn't back on the drug named H-8.

Clue 3: Blitz's literal mental breakdown.

Blitz - "I destroy everything, I make everyone's lives worse!"

During the trailer, we see Blitz having what appears to be a literal mental breakdown, and I'd wager that this is the point where Blitz hits mental rock-bottom for two huge reasons.

1: Blitz's skull necklace that came from his mother that he normally always wears appears to be missing looking closely at this scene within the trailer.

2: A combo of all the other points I've listed in this post.

Truth be told I am not looking forward to seeing Blitz hit mental rock-bottom, but the only potential silver lining I can think of here is that it may make/force Blitz to actually be vulnerable in front of Millie and/or the others, which would allow them to actually be able to give Blitz some support, which it does look likely that Millie is trying to offer Blitz some support in that scene.

Plus, not to mention literally everything else that's gonna happen in ghostfuckers as well, like Blitz talking to his mother, and that hallucation with Millie, with "You always take from those around you, leaving them worse and more broken than you found them.", those are also 100% gonna fuck with Blitz's mental state a lot.

[sleepyssnail]

I finished Books 3, 4, and 5 of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!!!

Technically I finished them in October but life decided to get busy so here's my late update. All in all, I LOVED IT!!!

And now for my brother's best quotes from my play-by-play update of the books:

Me: They (wangxian) are FREAKS! My Brother: [Laughter] Me: Lan Wangji could teach Binghe a thing or two My Brother: I think anyone could teach Binghe a thing or two, doesn’t Shen suffer all the time?

My Brother: Is this during Mo Xuanyu Era? Like, the era where he’s in Mo Xuanyu’s body. 

My Brother: Jin Ling is like that SpongeBob quote “I can deny it no longer! I am small. BUT I WILL RULE THE WORLD!”

My Brother: [about Su She’s nickname] My Brother: Can we change his name? Instead of Sushi how about...Soufflé

My Brother: Who is Lan Wangji again? Me: Love interest 

Me: And Jiang Cheng is pissed— My Brother: Of course he is

Me: And Soufflé destroys the ward and teleports away using a talisman. You know who else used a— My Brother: THE GRAVE ROBBER! I remember that!

My Brother: [about the second siege of the burial mounds] My Brother: Wait this is STACKED! You have Wei Wuxian the Grandmaster and inventor of demonic cultivation, the GHOST GENERAL, and the LOVE INTEREST!

Me: Wen Ning is just YEETING the kids out of the cave 

Me: Wei Wuxian has a plan and asks Lan Wangji to accompany him— My Brother: [raised eyebrow look] Me: NOT LIKE THAT!

Me: More corpses show up...from the Blood Pool My Brother: The WHAT?! Me: Yeah! Everyone is like “I thought we burned all the corpses” and they did except for the Wen Remnants! My Brother: ... the what? 

Me: [about Jin Zixun] Me: So he thinks Wei Wuxian cursed him with a pimple curse and— My Brother: PIMPLE CURSE?! Me: Well it’s actually a Thousand Holes curse that’s all over the torso— My Brother: THAT’S VERY DIFFERENT FROM A PIMPLE CURSE! You must really hate this guy to be downplaying a THOUSAND HOLES CURSE as a PIMPLE curse! This isn’t a little bit of acne!

Me: [explaining Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli’s deaths] My Brother: [upon hearing how Yanli got stabbed by accident] My Brother: THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED! 

My Brother: WAIT! If the Wen’s are in the blood pool they aren’t controlled by the tiger tally!  Me: Yes! My Brother: I see why you thought I’d like this! I’m picking up on these things!

[About Jin Guangshan] My Brother: So he didn’t die during an orgy? Me: Oh he did, he just wasn’t enjoying it

Me: Like the last two times they ended up at an inn, Wei Wuxian gets alcohol  My Brother: Oh no Me: And Lan Wangji gets drunk Me: Oh he’s OUT like a light!

Me: Lan Wangji is “playing” and he steals a chicken! Steals some fruit and vandalized a fence by writing “Lan Wangji was here!” My Brother: [looks unimpressed and like he should’ve expected this]

Me: [mentions the sexy times] Me: And after they’re done and Lan Wangji is sober, Wei Wuxian plays it off as, “Bros do this all the time! It doesn’t have to mean anything” My Brother: No! Me: It’s worse than Shen and Binghe! At least those two admitted to it! 

Me: So Wei Wuxian is going around fixing Lan Wangji’s drunken actions. He puts the chicken back, goes to clean up the fence only to find someone else already there cleaning it up My Brother: [delighted] Wen Ning!  Me: Wen Ning! He’s good boy!

Me: [explaining how Wei Wuxian startled Jin Guangyao into releasing him by announcing his desire to sleep with Lan Wangji was real] My Brother: I’d also be pretty surprised if my hostage suddenly said that! 

My Brother: It’s an Uncle Royale! That’s what this arc is called!

Me: But he’s [Nie Mingjue] after those with Jin blood and there are three Jins in the temple! My Brother: Jin Ling and Guacamole  Me: And Wei Wuxian. My Brother: ...[realization] OH. Mo Xuanyu!  Me: Mhmm!

Me: The flute breaks! And he didn’t bring his sword!  My Brother: Make another one! Me: Another sword?  Me: [Realizes he means a flute] Oh! My Brother: Another! Me: So Jiang Cheng pulls out Chenqing— My Brother: ANOTHER!

My Brother as Jin Ling: My uncle is possessing my uncle and fucking my uncle, and they’re fighting my uncle who wants to fuck my other uncle! 

Me: Wen Ning is only one here who isn’t Jin Ling’s uncle!  My Brother [as Jin Ling]: Is there anyone here who ISN’T my uncle? Me [as Wen Ning]: *raises hand* My Brother [as Jin Ling]: Not you. 

Me: So Jin Ling is going through it right now My Brother: I mean one of his uncles is trying to kill him Me: Yeah but it was of the two who raised him. And he’s defending Jiang Cheng, and now he’s holding Wen Ning who is pretty much catatonic with a hole in his chest, so he’s not dying too well My Brother: He has a good reason! 

My Brother: [about Jin Guangyao cutting his leg] My Brother: What a fucking moron—wait who is this again? Me: Jin Guacamole  My Brother: Oh okay. What a fucking moron!

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My Brother: [as Nie Mingjue] My Brother: Is there Jin blood out here? I could swear I smell Jin blood. 

My Brother: Are they keeping a record of this? [Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao sealed in the coffin] Me: Oh they are! They have a whole ceremony and seal it up for someone like Shen [svsss] to deal with! My Brother: I was thinking more like Xie Lian

Me: And that’s Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!  My Brother: What about the extras? Me: ... My Brother: [smirking] They had a lot of sex didn’t they?  Me: So much sex... My Brother: I bet it was detailed, and you had to suffer through it Me: Mhmm  My Brother: Author was horny on main! Me: VERY! 

My Brother: YOU’RE NOT DONE YET!  Me: What? My Brother: You didn’t tell me how he [Lan Wangji] knew Wei Wuxian wasn’t Mo Xuanyu! You’ve been teasing it the entire time and you DIDN’T TELL ME! My Brother: Wei Wuxian got him drunk, went around causing tribute, stealing chickens, all that good stuff, and you didn’t tell me! 

And that's that! My feelings are destroyed and somehow all put back together, and now that I've had time to marinate I'm going to start churning out some fanfics.

[kurootooru]

who the phantom thieves would main in mortal kombat 11

characters: akira//ren, ann, makoto, ryuji, yusuke, futaba, haru

type: crackfic; headcanons

note: wow look at me actually writing something

joker;

johnny cage main !!

akiren doesn’t really care about the meta, he just plays johnny cage because he loves the character and how ridiculously over the top he is

even though he doesn’t particularly care about the meta, he still keeps up with all the changes and updates to stay on top of his game; has watched hundred of combo tutorials

spends hours unlocking all the special skins for johnny and makes him wear the most absurd-looking outfits out there

knows literally every special move, crushing blow, brutality, fatality you can think of

in terms of play style, he’s actually a really solid player ; he just can’t resist ending combos with johnny’s signature nut punch but that exact fact is what can make him predictable at times

has some absolutely disgusting combos that take out like 90% of his opponent’s hp and are borderline unblockable but avoids using them when he plays with the phantom thieves to keep the competition fair

he has completely mastered the flawless block mechanic which allows him to take minimal amounts of damage; he never uses it when he’s playing with the phantom thieves and sometimes even lets the them beat him or sets up little handicaps for himself to stop the matches from ending too early (like never using his fatal blow)

overall; solid 8/10 player ; knows most of the mechanics and how to actually use them; just needs to switch to a more meta character

ann takamaki;

jade main !!

garbage player; only knows about two things - 1) how you attack 2) how you block

uses jade only because of her unblockable overhead and spams that single move and occasionally pokes the opponent with her staff

has no knowledge about combos and the crushing blows that she does randomly execute mostly come from random button mashing until the character just does something

due to her lack of knowledge, she can’t take advantage of the the combo opportunities that jade’s aforementioned overhead

overall; horrible player 4/10; she only gets a 4 because some of the others are worse (yusuke) and because her random button mashing sometimes leads to combos and crushing blows by sheer luck (she’s managed to beat joker once)

ryuji sakamoto;

button smasher !! but he actually knows some combos and will occasionally use them when he thinks it’s necessary but can beat most people (i.e the phantom thieves and noobs online without using them)

speaking of noobs, he loves destroying them online

he doesn’t necessarily have a main and can play with most characters reasonably well but he does have a soft spot for scorpion

he gets absolutely destroyed by haru but so does everyone else so it’s not that embarrassing

overall; he’s a half decent player 7/10

yusuke kitagawa;

do i even need to write about him? he’s never held a controller in his life before and he keeps asking joker where the L1/L2 and R1/R2 triggers are every time they play

he can barely land a hit, much less pull off a combo

picked his character based on aesthetics, tries (and fails) to do moves that look aesthetically pleasing

randomly starts rambling about art during matches to the point where it’s incredibly distracting for the other person, i could go on and on

overall; 1/10 player because i don’t have the heart to give him a 0/10 rating

futaba sakura;

mains whoever is meta at the time but has a soft spot for subzero because he was the first character he learned how to play with

knows every character well, she can execute combines perfectly and use move their moves strategically

she has frame data memorised so that she can punish opponents

she’s the only one other than akechi who can actually challenge the phantom thieves

loves smoking noobs online

overall; 9/10 player, she’s good at pretty much every aspect of the game

makoto niijima;

cassie cage main !!

she loves pulling off a good combo, she didn’t think she would be very interested in a game that involved a bunch of button smashing (from her perspective at least)

it was only when she lost to joker the first time and she realised that there was a lot of strategy and execution of specific strings of command that she was truly interested

she ends up learning the frame data for all her main’s moves and most of the combos, she’s nowhere near the level of futaba in terms of knowledge but she knows quite a lot

she’s also very interested in the lore

overall; a 7/10 player and can beat anyone on a good day

haru okumura;

baraka main and by far the best player among the phantom thieves, she prefers characters that just smash their opponents and don’t require intricate set ups or traps (monke brain)

she doesn’t know any combos on any frame data, she just somehow know how to execute some of the most difficult combos in the game

sometimes the person playing against her looks over only to her with a little smile on her face as her character brutally mutilates their opponent

the only person among the thieves who can beat futaba when she’s being serious

overall; a 9/10 player and someone everyone should be at least a little wary of

[acceleracers-baby]

Acceleracers HC’s! Game Night! Teku Edition!

Teku

(Nolo Pasaro, Vert Wheeler, Shirako Takamoto, Kurt Wylde & Karma Eiss)

+Bonus Round

(Brian Kadeem & Banjee Castillo)

Teku

Nolo Pasaro - Growing up, Nolo had a pack of Bicycle brand playing cards and a dream. Now, he can run a whole game night with nothing but that same pack of cards. In fact, he does it regularly. Poker, Rummy, War, you name it. He knows the rules like the back of his hand. His all time favorite however, is Spoons. No matter who’s playing, it always gets absurdly intense. He loves watching everyone scramble to snatch a spoon when a suit of four is thrown down. The Teku are definitely intense, but it only gets worse when the rivalry between them and the Metal Maniac turns friendly, and they start getting invited to join. On the other hand, watching Mark practically throw himself over the table in an effort to snatch a spoon before his brother could grab one has got to be one of the funniest things he’s ever witnessed.

Very Wheeler - Skate 3 connoisseur. Vert fucking LOVES Pictionary. Like I don’t know to explain to y’all how hard this dude laughs watching people’s interpretations of what the original prompt was devolve into sometimes completely unrelated or ridiculous. Vert has even taken to throwing in some of his own prompts just to mix the game up a bit. For example- “Worlds Greatest Driver” was a prompt that Kurt got to start with. Obviously, he drew a stick figure version of himself. Mark was right after him, so seeing the shitty stick version of his brother, he just wrote down “bastard.” It devolved further from there. Another fun one was when Banjee got the prompt “Fast & Furious” and forgot that the movies existed, so he just drew Taro under the pretense that he fit description.

Shirako Takamoto - Shirako is a master at Mario Party. It’s gotten to the point where it’s basically everyone vs. Shirako whenever they play. He’s just too good at all the mini games. They will actively try and sabotage him and it doesn’t even matter, he’ll still end the game with the most stars collected. He has the strats!!! On top of that, he’s also unusually good at Scrabble for some reason. People assume it has something to do with all the music he listens to, but really he just plays it online all the time, so when game night rolls around he just destroys everyone. Vert lost his mind when Shirako played the word “quixotic” once. He was convinced Shirako was just making up words for high scores, but lo and behold, they looked it up and it’s a legal word to play!

Kurt Wylde - King of pit maneuvering people off the track ironically enjoys the game Sorry. The joy he feels booting someone back to the start is only matched by the excitement he feels during a race. He literally is such a rude bastard (lovingly). He is 100% the type of player to always boot the same person back to start just to mess with them. In his mind, less competition means a better chance at winning. Uno is a very close second. He will legit sit on those +2 & +4 cards and just wait to ruin someone’s day. “Oh you’re about to call uno? Go ahead and pick up the whole deck.” Like Vert, he also takes some liberties with those ‘make your own rule’ cards. They’re always so targeted too. Stuff like ‘let Monkey drive your car or pick up 25 cards’ and ‘get Taro to talk for more than 5 minutes or swap a hands with who’s losing.”

Karma Eiss - Battleship baby!! She is the queen of strategy games especially when it comes to stuff that involves reading people. Like, by the time someone hits one of her ships, she’s usually got half their fleet wiped out. People have tells. The closer she is to whoever she’s playing with, the faster the game goes. Particularly with people who wear their hearts on their sleeves. Vert and Nolo are the easiest to beat by far. Vert always tries to laugh or talk about something else when Karma hits close to one of his ships and Nolo over compensates. Kurt’s a little harder to beat because he’s got a pretty good poker face, but Shirako is definitely the hardest. Due to him constantly just vibing, he’s nearly impossible to read.

Bonus Round

Brian Kadeem - Kadeem’s a big Jenga guy. It’s so simple, yet so fun. His favorite part is when the tower is getting ridiculous tall and precarious so anytime anyone reachers for a block everyone goes silent and tense, watching to see if they’ll be next person to knock it down. It helps that Kadeem has impressively steady hands too. Like, this dude could have been a doctor if he really wanted to. Twister comes in at a close second. I feel like Kadeem is pretty flexible so the game is more entertaining than it is challenging. He loves being the one to spin the wheel because it gives him time to cackle at his friends getting all twisted up. Seriously, halfway through the game when everyone’s practically stacked on top of each other, Kadeem is usually laughing so hard that he’s on the ground with them.

Banjee Castillo - Banjee is the literal king of Mario Cart. He loves it so much he will unironically put on the Coconut Mall theme song sometimes while he’s driving. He swears it makes him go faster. It definitely doesn’t, but don’t tell him that. Banjee always knows the best cart combos and where all the best short cuts are. He usually finishes WAY ahead of all the other drivers, which always leads to some light hearted banter about how he should be as good as he is in the game on the actual track. Sometimes, he will purposely hang back or false start so that way he can use items to mess with the other players. Red shells are the best but after hours of gameplay, Banjee has gotten deadly accurate with the green shells too. Nobody is safe.

——— Thanks for Reading! ———

[amyyythestarry]

Ok so, I was bored and ended up talking to myself about a Minecraft roleplay that I used to watch.

Mystreet. From Aphmau.

I know some people have heard of this.

So I rated the seasons because to me, this was a really good roleplay. Sometimes it was cringey but it was good.

No.1!

Phoenix Drop High S1 - 8/10.

It was a good start to the series. I liked the character introductions and everything.

It was cringey….. But it was good-hearted I swear.

You wouldn’t have to pay me to rewatch it.

Phoenix Drop High S2 - 4/10.

I didn’t like it. Only because, ONLY BECAUSE of Ein.

The omega boy who took over the school once Aaron was gone?

That’s him.

Not even Eugene ( The bully who picked on Aphmau in S1 ) was as bad a Ein. I hate Ein.

But the new characters and the ending of S2 was amazing.

Pay me over 20 dollars to watch this season.

Falcon Claw University - 8/10.

I liked the characters, all except for Betty and the emo werewolf girl and that black girl that was friends with Betty.

Betty was annoying as he**, I’m sorry. 😭

She was worse than the emo werewolf girl ( I can’t remember her name ).

And they acted like Aaron was the only man in the school.

The plot twist at the end was good, I actually didn’t expect it.

The fluff episodes were good.

I also liked Aaron’s perspective parts.

Pay me like a little more than 1 dollar.

Mystreet S1 - 7/10.

Honestly, it was boring. But that was where the least drama happened ( I think ) and it was funny how down graded it was compared to the other season, to FCU and all.

It wasn’t bad because it was down graded, it was actually good like that. So I appreciate that one non-dramatic season.

You wouldn’t have to pay me.

Love Love Paradise - 10/10.

It was amazing.

So fluffy and just a break from everything. I loved it. You wouldn’t even have to pay me to rewatch it.

Lover’s Lane - 10/10.

I liked how they made their own business and everything after literally destroying their old neighborhood.

Theo criminals.

There was a lot of funny oneshots and mini games they played in the Lover’s Lane setting too.

I loved the oneshots and mini games of all series.

You don’t even have to pay me.

Emerald Secret - 2/10.

I cried so much during this season..

I literally remember watching it at night, and I was sleeping in the same room with my sisters. They were all asleep and 9 year old me was awake and balling my eyes out.

Ein ruined everything.

I only liked the plot, but it was really really angsty.

Don’t even bother to pay me. I’m never watching this season again.

Aphmau’s Year - 9/10.

I liked this a lot. But it was really sad, I almost cried.

I don’t really know what to say about this because I kind of can’t remember the episodes, but all I can say is that it was good. I would watch it again without money.

Starlight - 8/10.

The only parts where I cried is the first episode and the last episode(s?).

I felt for Garoth fr fr 🥹.

It was light and less angsty some episodes, but I liked the set up too. It must of took a long time, I understand why Aphmau didn’t make more roleplays.

Angels Fall - 10/10.

I’m rating it a 10 because I loved the plot, the drama and the animation, ect.

This was so so so good but I can’t even count how many times I cried.

I cried more than when I watched Emerald Secret.

Don’t bother to pay me I’m not watching this again.

But it was amazing!! 👌🏽

THAT’S IT!!!

[lyriquette]

Old RWBY AU description for the Frosen Steel chat server - 12/16/2020

A Hikaru no Go-esque crossover. It's an AU about Go. Aha.

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lilac — 12/16/2020 6:46 PM

XD. So relevant stuff. I'll probably keep it to Go, because that's what I understand but I'll keep it super general so you can think of it as chess instead. 8D

So Penny is a very precise and orthodox player, almost mechanical in feel. Her plays aren't particularly exciting, but they're solid. She's weaker at the start of the game, but as the game progresses and the number of possible moves go down, she becomes mightier with every placed piece. Her endgame is nearly perfect, and she's won many a game from behind through her endgame alone. What's worse is that if you're behind by the end of midgame, you might as well resign cause you're not coming back.

Weiss on the other hand has a strong grasp of the global game state and is very strong at the beginning of the game and early mid-game. Her usual strat is to make the board state extremely complex and then use her superior ability to read the whole board to gain an unsurmountable advantage. Most of her opponents end up resigning when playing her. Because of that, she really just plays an average endgame compared to other pros, nothing spectacular.

Penny and Weiss are naturally rivals, and games go down to if Weiss can gain enough of an advantage to make an endgame meaningless.

lilac — 12/16/2020 11:06 PM

In any case, this is more of a weaker Grimm world. Ozpin and Salem are between plans, still plotting in the background to save/destroy humanity but it wouldn't affect their current generation or the generation past. Beacon ends up becoming two schools - one for Hunters and another more vocational - and Team STRQ ends up being reborn in the other. Part of it is because Qrow screwed up the registration; Raven nearly strangled him for that. And Taiyang and Summer hit it off with their love of the same board game. The game was also originally Mistrali to begin with, so Qrow and Raven knew how to play to, so they had their little group. And because of their dream to become pro, they eventually quit Beacon and joined the Atlas and Mistral circuit because of its greater coverage.

They did go professional for a little bit until a series of tragedies happen. One was that Raven left after having Yang during the middle of their careers ; no one even knew she had a Semblance.

Tai actually hits Grandmaster status at his age but then gets falsely accused of cheating by one of the four others, Jacques Schnee, and is banished from the pro world in disgrace. Qrow had to go on the run because he slogged Jacques in the face after he went all "Even if I falsely accused your friend, what do you think you can do to me here?"

Tai and Summer do eventually get together when they come back to Patch. Summer remains a pro because Tai not wanting her to drop what she loves. At home, he teaches Ruby the game that he adores - Yang didn't want to pick it up, liked more athletic endeavors - and between teaching Yang martial arts, taught Ruby how to play.

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lilac — 12/16/2020 11:23 PM

Summer also teaches Ruby. During the interim, Summer eventually hits grandmaster status and is invited to Atlas for the Schnee Cup. After telling her husband she'll be back soon, Summer gets on a plane to Atlas.

The fatal crash is announced the next day.

That destroys Tai. The game's taken away everything that's good from him, and he stops playing for good except he didn't expect his youngest daughter to be so persistent on learning how to play. Because Ruby always associated it with time with her dad and mom. But as Ruby gets older and realizes the game causes her father a lot of grief, she stops requesting to play and just learns on her own - delves into records and records of recorded games. The only person she really plays with is her Uncle Qrow, mostly because no one her age played - and the game never really caught on in Vale.

Problem is Uncle Qrow - even her family - would always beat her. No matter what she did. She definitely got better and better as her opponents - her family - decided to get rid of more and more handicaps (adding extra pieces on her side of the board for Go, and let's say removing pieces from their side on board like a Queen for Chess) before she began to play even. Never does she know that her family are actually professionals at the game - Taiyang never talks about his professional days as the game is intrinsically linked with Summer's death. Qrow does mention he once was an amazing professional player but he also bragged about how he once punched Jacuqes Schnee, head of the Schnee Dust Company, in the face and got away with it, so he's not quite the most reliable source.

So Ruby never really learns about how good she is at the game until one day Atlas and Mistral decided to host a tournament in Vale both to raise awareness for the game and publicity for grandmaster Schnee's to retain one of the five titleholder positions for the game. Naturally, Penny and Weiss are there.

lilac — 12/16/2020 11:46 PM---

Yang takes Ruby there by motorcycle and tells her that she'll pick her up when the event is done. Ruby goes into the event amazed by all the people playing and learning and teaching. Some people are even selling books and even holding contests to earn prizes.

Ruby picks up one of the puzzles (in Go, it's a "make white / black live in two moves", in chess it'd be "mate in x") and solves it easily and continues to solve them until she finishes off the hardest problem that's offered in front of the receptionist. The receptionist immediately accuses the girl of cheating because the last puzzle would require a low-level professional to beat. Naturally, having heard bits of her dad's history from her uncle (about how he got screwed over in the past by someone falsely accusing him), she gets ticked off and immediately starts arguing.

This catches the eye of one of the organizers which happens to be Weiss, who mediates but still naturally takes her people's side. But she tells Ruby that if she plays well enough against her, she'll let her keep the book. Ruby agrees readily enough while Weiss places down the board and offers a handicap since beating up on the obvious amateur is rather gauche.

Ruby refuses, thinking that this is just someone slightly older than me, how good can she be. And they start to play. Weiss plays more standardly, not with her usual pace of kill the opponent before the endgame just to keep it even with the newcomer, and Ruby capitalizes on that ruthlessly.

They're even by the beginning's end, but it's the middle of the game where Ruby starts to shine. Because places where Weiss thought were dead get reversed, because that is Ruby's specialty - finding a path to life when none are present. To play against someone stronger on a regular basis and not get crushed, it was necessary. Furthermore, because she never played against players on par or weaker than her, she's never really learned how to play using power.(edited)

lilac — 12/16/2020 11:57 PM-

So Ruby learned how to play devious traps instead. And having underestimated her and falling to an incredibly nasty trap that set her back severely, Weiss gets serious as they finish up the endgame. By the time the game finishes, Weiss is stunned upon realizing she lost by the slightest margin while Ruby picks up the book in triumph. As her loss sinks in, Ruby gets a phone call from Yang who tells her:

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"Dad and Uncle Qrow are pissed. They wants you to come back home right now."

"Why?"

"I told them where you were."

"And?"

"I don't get it either, but I'm turning the corner right now. Get out and hop on."

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Ruby takes her book as Weiss comes to, all the while saying "I'm strong, aren't I?" with a triumph giggle and running off. Weiss gets mad but then pales upon seeing who enters just as Ruby's exiting.

"Who let the riffra-"

Their eyes meet.

"You..."

"Have silver eyes..." was all Ruby heard before she hopped onto Yang's motorcycle. The motor drowned out everything else as her sister and she drove off.

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i have a beginning, i kinda have an end-game. just need the middle pfft. XD

[lazyvase]

TMNT TO ME: TMNT 2012 Raw Thrills Arcade Game

This TMNT TO ME is brought to you by @purplekoop, who inspired and encouraged me to make this by asking about what it is, and why I care about it.

The plot is fairly simple. April has been kidnapped by the Foot Clan. (Important note for later: April fights back from being kidnapped, she takes out a few foot soldiers). It's up to the turtles to save her.

We'll go over the rest of the voice cast later, but just know that Seth Green, Sean Astin, Rob Paulsen, and Greg Cipes all reprise their roles. Also, Mikey serves as the announcer. He basically does all the "next level" and "high score" voicelines one expects in an arcade game.

There are three levels to play through: The Sewers, NYC Streets, TCRI. Each level works the same: fight bad guys until a big turtle hand tells you to keep going forward. At the end and halfway point of each level is a boss.

Now let's get onto the gameplay.

Combat

Combat is rather simple. You have an attack button, a jump button, and a joystick for movement.

The big green button is for Turtle Power. It's a super move that clears out all enemies on screen and deals massive damage to bosses. It has to be charged through either beating up enemies or collecting little turtle power power-ups.

There are other items at play too. There's a smoke bomb that stuns every enemy on screen. A cooler that contains Ice Cream Kitty, who bounces from enemy to enemy defeating each one. There's summons. Grabbing this power-up causes either Leatherhead or Metalhead to show up and destroy all enemies on screen. A staple for TMNT games is Pizza serving as health, it's no different here. Finally, there's the shell spin power-up. This basically serves as Superstar from Mario. Your turtle flips on their back and starts spinning, becoming invincible and able to destroy any enemy they come in contact with.

Now, there is one more power-up in the game. But it deserves it's own little section. The last power up is shurikens. They kinda suck. It replaces your regular attack with a ranged attack. This sounds nice. But the reality is that most of your regular attacks cover a wide area around you, which is good because you're often swarmed by enemies. However, the shurikens limit your attack radius to directly in front of you, which often leads you to getting ganged up on. The shurikens are also super difficult to aim with, it's hard to be directly facing an enemy from so far away. The worse part is that once you pick up the shurikens you're stuck with them until you exhaust all ten. You have to use all your shurikens before you can attack normally, there's no dropping or unequipping, you have to hurry and use them all. They're only really good during boss fights as bosses are easier to hit, which is why you usually get some during bossfights. Still, they do appear in regular parts of the level.

There's also plenty of environmental hazards to use against your enemies. Pipes and fire hydrants can be attacked to have their valves fly off and smack enemies. Explosive barrels can be set off around enemies. Trash cans, canisters, and explosive boxes can be thrown at enemies. Enemies can be hit by subway cars and cars. Speaking of enemies.

Enemies

What's a beat-em-up without enemies? We've got MOUSERS (I love MOUSERS). Both a normal grey/white/silver version and a blue version. Both MOUSERS will latch onto the turtles and force you to shake the joystick to shake them off. The blue MOUSERS have a sonar attack of some sort.

There's tons of Foot soldiers. The purple ones can only melee. I don't know what makes the black ones unique as they also only melee. The yellow ones throw shurikens. The red ones throw explosives. The orange ones rush from off screen to stab you. I'll talk about the blue Foot soldiers later.

There's also The Kraang to deal with. Kraangdroids with purple suits can only melee. Kraangdroids with black suits are able to melee or shoot. Naked Kraangdroids and jelly Kraangdroids (Kraangdroids with that blue covering) are able to shoot at you. We will talk about Kraangdroids with blue suits later. There's also Kraang flying around in their little pods. (Note: Nolan North voices all the Kraangdroids of course.)

Lastly, there are Squirrelanoids. Yes, Squirrelanoids. They try to hit you and throw up on you. Pretty nasty stuff.

Now, let's talk about the blue. I hate the blue Foot soldiers and blue suit Kraangdroids. Both of these enemies wield a large laser gun. It's fucking undodgeable. No matter what you do, you will be hit by the beam and take a ton of damage. It's such bullshit.

Now, that we're done with the low lives, let's tackle the big bads.

Bosses

A little forewarning. I'm pretty sure the intended way to fight the bosses is by beating up the constantly summoned enemies in order to generate turtle power, then unleashing that turtle power on the boss. Directly attacking the boss is discouraged as they often quickly swat you away. However, I usually just ignored the smaller enemies and attacked the bosses head on, which is probably why I died so much. Still, I did find out that you can bait out the swat by hitting the boss twice and running away.

The first boss of "The Sewers" is Chrome Dome. He just has the stereotypical evil robot voice with stereotypical evil robot voicelines. Also he uses the Elite Foot-Bot model instead of the actual Chrome Dome model from the show. But in all fairness, the models are pretty similar. His attacks include: A laser eye beam that functions identically to the bullshit large laser guns, a plasma whip attack that you can’t dodge, a jump slam that you can easily jump over, flying into you, and hitting you with a plasma sword.

The final boss of “The Sewers” is Baxter Stockman. You fight him in Splinter’s dojo of all places. Phil LaMarr reprises his role. Baxter Stockman has what appears to be a modified Kraang blaster. His attacks include: a little flying spin, throwing up right in front of him, throwing up in a long straight line, and shooting at you.

The first boss of "NYC Streets" is Bebop. J.B. Smoove didn't come back to reprise his role. Bebop is instead voiced by Arif Kitchen. The replacement isn't bad, but it is noticeable. Bebop's attacks include: hip blasts, a hip blast cluster where five blasts come out at the same time, and his iconic mohawk attack. Bebop can still turn invisible, and in fact even uses this to become temporarily unattackable.

The final boss of "NYC Streets" is Rocksteady. Fred Tatasciore reprises his role. Rocksteady's attacks include: rhino charge that you can't dodge, flamethrower attack that is completely random to dodge, and a jump slam.

The first boss of "TCRI" is Krang (1987). Pat Fraley reprises his role. Krang's attacks include: a jump slam, missiles that rain down, and a bullshit eye laser attack.

The final boss of "TCRI" is Kraang Subprime. Gilbert Gottfried reprises his role. Kraang Subprime attacks include: a spin attack, firing a missile, a jump slam, and a bullshit eye laser attack.

Ending

The final level "Shredder's Lair" is unlocked after beating the three previous levels. It's a gauntlet contained to one room. You have to fight off waves of Foot-Bots and MOUSERS. You also have rematches against Bebop, Rocksteady, Chrome Dome, and Baxter Stockman.

Once you re-defeat the previous bosses, Shredder steps down from his throne (which he was previously insulting and taunting you from). Kevin Michael Richardson reprises his role. Shredder attacks include: a kick that summons a blast of white energy that flies at you, a smokebomb teleport, a jump slam, and a charge that launches you across the room, along with a few slashes of course.

Once you beat Shredder, you get the absolute prize that is the ending cutscene. The turtles free April from Shredder's dungeon. (Note: April does not have any lines, so Mae Whitman did not reprise her role.) April then proceeds to... I think the pictures speak for themselves.

The gang celebrates with pizza. All is well.

And now I have a confession to make about a previous statement in my post about my journey to play the game.

I didn't actually beat Shredder.

My playthrough was a solo run as Donatello at first. However, since this is a public arcade, eventually other people joined me. I spent the first three levels playing by myself. However, soon after I started "Shredder's Lair", a little boy joined as Leonardo. Shortly after the little boy joined, a little girl joined as Raphael. Their help was greatly appreciated, for they helped me deal with the swarms of enemies faster and deal more damage to the bosses. However, the little boy got the last hit on Shredder. Meaning that I technically only helped beat Shredder. I guess the canon ending of Leo defeating Shredder always triumphs. Although, technically the cutscenes imply that April defeated Shredder, so who's to say what really happened.

Thank you all for reading. If you want to see gameplay footage of the arcade game, I suggest the Review & Full-play video by Arcade Heroes on youtube. It's where I got most of the pictures used in this post.

Next time will definitely be about the fan boards.

[petitsdieu]

Meta + childhood - food - jewelry

𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝑬𝑻𝑨 + 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 , 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 , 𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒉𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔.

𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 ( 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒆 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 ).

Her earliest memories with her family are the most amicable. Sitting on the laps of her parents, getting costumed by her mother, gifts from her father, playing games with her brothers. She's too young to question anything. She perceives the family dynamic as normal and as love. But the older she gets, the more she becomes more of her own person, she notices the distancing. This quote sums up her childhood arc the best:

"Leia felt her corner of their world shrinking tighter and tighter until she could hardly breathe in their presence. Nothing she said or did seemed to affect them in the slightest. Although she was too old to call out for her parents when she had a bad dream, every once in a while she wanted to do it anyway. But she never called for them. She never wanted to find out for sure that they wouldn’t come." — Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray.

I can picture her doing things to get their attention. And at some point even bad attention is good. Or at least in the instant she gets it because afterwards, it would make her feel worse about her fall from their grace.

I think it gets more complicated when she starts understanding the benevolent utopia that is her planet appears to be is more face than body. Meaning it is the image of her family had crafted over multi-generations / thousands of years and less factual. But her idea of true wickedness has limitations. She doesn't understand evil until she witnesses it. Her father destroys a planet to kill her boyfriend and her boyfriend's family legacy would have never been something her imagination could come up with. Especially combining that and how she found out what true love really looks like, It serves as a paradigm shift. Childhood ends for her at sixteen in this sense.

𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒅.

In any verse, she is a finicky eater. The pool of things she's willing to eat is very small. She's also a vegetarian; abstaining from the consumption of meat but not animal by-products ( she will eat some things with dairy, even eggs ).

She adores fruit to the point it can be considered a gift ( see gift-giving headcanon here ). It's very likely for her to have one or two fruits hanging around at any given time. And she can consume a lot of it in one sitting, or rather gazing over a relatively short time. Some of her favorites include but aren't limited to: peaches, clementines, honeydew melon, cherries, pomegranates, strawberries, plums, grapes, pineapple, jack fruit, mangosteen.

She loves breakfast. She's most likely to eat the most during her first meal of the day. Beyond fruit here, she does love a lot of breakfast foods. The typical things you'd see on a breakfast section on a diner menu like waffles and pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns or home potatoes.

If you were to ask her "What are you in the mood for tonight?", she might say Italian, Japanese, or Thai. She also really loves french fries. And if she has a romantic partner or someone else she's really close to, she might grow used to their cooking and might start setting their quality as the base quality ( ex. If she orders ravioli at a restaurant and it is not as good as how her boyfriend makes it, she might not eat it ).

𝑱𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒓𝒚.

She doesn't have any pieces she wears regularly. But typically, if she's wearing any jewelry, it will be rings, anklets, or necklaces. Sometimes a bracelet. Usually one piece of something at a time. She's more likely to pick gold over silver. She loves pearls, especially irregular-shaped ones. Most verses she doesn't have her ears pierced / piercings.

Poison jewelry ( Galaxie Verse ). Most commonly worn when she's off planet, that contains poison. Dangling earrings, rings, necklaces. When I reference them in threads, I usually depict them as red ( though in canon they can be any color ) and earrings. The idea is if she were to be in a bad situation, she could swing her head and pop it into her mouth to take herself out.

Jewelry from romantic partners and other significant people in her life will likely be worn always. She'd like the idea of having something tangible that would remind her of someone. Something she can feel if she misses them.

𝒇��. @luckhissoul

[thevalleyoftriumph]

Since I reblogged it from you, here’s what I’m curious abt for your OC’s!!

MY ENTIRE EXPLANATION FOR 11 JUST GOT DESTROYED IM GOING TO KILL TUMBLR. anyways since last ask had an 11 im choosing a different ocverse for this one

11]

hi. um. roblox ocs :3 their lore takes forever to explain so im just gonna explain the characters instead of the plot.

basically theres 3 of them ok.

cody, a noob who loves playing fighting games and helping people get their footing in them. very silly, very kind, and has a bestie thats a guest named horns [horns is my friends oc :3]. cody ALSO has a bit of a slow moving "curse" that is the result of their arm being Fucking Cut Off. its a corruption in their code that is slowly spreading across their body, which will end up with their entire set of code and body being Basically unraveled from the inside out in a way thats Worse than death ! :D they spend most of their time trying to figure out a way to undo that while still being the same happy person. they see blade [other oc] as a brother figure once the two meet!

blade is a bounty hunter of sorts, who goes after exploiters to make the world safer for people, thanks to his own experiences as a kid with exploiters. he is VERY good at his job, having been training since he was a younger teen, and has been doing his job for anywhere from 15-20 years [havent decided.] his current target is inkcap, his childhood friend and previous crush. its a whole thing. also, hes the one who saved cody from being COMPLETELY killed during their exploiter encounter!

inkcap is . well. the exploiter mentioned previously. instead of their encounter with exploiters driving it to better itself and help others, its trauma [and also blade leaving it when they were both 15 to go on his first mission, and then just. never coming back] had led it to lean into its trauma, and learn the same exploits that hurt it, and more. it decides that if it couldnt be happy anymore, if it lost everything and everyone it loved, then no one else should be able to have these things - because no one tried helping it when it needed it. its the one who attacked cody, and the one blade is currently hunting down - but inkcap is sneaky, and good at its own "job," being the most infamous exploiter - and for good reason.

the whole story with these three is the different ways people deal with trauma, mostly the.. unhealthy ways, and their very, VERY slow path to healing and getting better. it has a happy ending! it just takes a long time to get there. they all have a Lot of stuff to work through.

12] pick a fav

OK THATS THE THING I GENUINELY CANT.

theyre all equally loved as a whole because i adore them, but in terms of different catagories, THEN theres favs, so just. choose whichever one you think is most valid.

for drawing, i LOVE cody. theyre so simple and cute to draw i have little doodles of them in Every notebook and sketchbook. i like drawing them with my friends oc. :3

for actual design, i LOOOVE inkcap. inkcap is my beloved their design is sooo <333 pretty

for LORE.... i love blade the most SORRYYY his whole deal makes me sick in the head

19] describe the sillies you think about that dont go in the story

I HAVE OTHER ROBLOX OCS FOR UMM. A THEORETICAL GAME. theyre not related to those threes^ story at all so they count for this question lol

theyre another noob/guest duo, agon and unnamed/default [both are interchangeable]. since i do one day wanna make their game a reality i wont go Too into detail but they live in a mountain town and are besties who have Something going on and theyre super sweet to each other and are bestest friends Ever ever but then default goes MISSING one day and NEVER COMES BACK and agon has to DEAL with it and gets all SAD and um. yeah :]

20] how have they horribly mangled your message/theme

they would either villainise inkcap to hell into an irredeemable villain, OR turn blade into a budget cop. i hate it so bad but thats just what would happen.

THAT or theyd completely IGNORE the message of the story being about healing from trauma and how some coping mechanisms are unhealthy and turn it into like. a classic "everyone just gets over it" thing and turn the whole trilogy into a shitty action film and ignore the characters trauma and their paths towards healing and it would be so bad and oh god oh god . puts my head in my hands.

theyd also probably turn inkcap into a girl and cody into a boy so like. not a story mishap but a general fuckup theyd do because of how inkcap is an it/they w a romance plot w blade [and also their character model has the "girl torso" from the blocky character pack on roblox] and cody is a they/them with a masc name.

[slifarianhawk]

RESIDENT EVIL: ARCHANGEL

chapter one: not a monster

I was deep in thought, what would have happened if I hadn't met him. I'd probably be dead or even far worse off. I'd most likely would have been a soul less corpse wandering hungry for the flesh of another person. I have been under since 2005. He "recruited" me to work on his research. Little did he know that I was playing a role of myself that he had never seen. The role I made to take down Albert Wesker.

The year was 2006. I was running, the town was full of people. I had sneaked in to the town during the night hours. I knew there was a research facility not too far from my location, thanks to the backup drives of Umbrella notes and case files. To think I'd be out hunting him is a shock. My heart wants me to call out and yearn for him, but after that incident, I had no faith that he would even know I was alive.

Surgei altered the files on the experiments he ran on me, not to mention the one i was after had shot me. I tucked into the sewers and sighed. I'd stay here till night fall. I needed to get my facts straight. I was going to use the name of my former student who Vladimir had killed. She stole the files I needed from him of her own volition saying that she wanted me to be happy.

Alistar was a fool. She should have known that I wouldn't have been able to protect her. I found a heating area surrounded by a fence. I took a step back and thought of where I should hide. It was honestly the best idea for me to hide. If I got caught they'd try to kill me and I'd have to show what I truly was. I jumped up and over the fence. I placed a B.S.A.A emblem next to me and huddled up in the corner exhausted. My mind raced back to her death scene. She bleed out in my arms handing me the backup drives of the Wesker project, the Angelis project and mostly all of the rest of umbrellas files.

I closed my eyes to stop tears from flowing down my face, reaching for my necklace. I flicked it open and looked at the pictures in it. My little brother and sister was on one side and my fourteen year old son, Jake, on the other side. I sobbed as I stared at my brother's picture.

"I might as well." I pulled out my phone and dialed his work number.

It started to ring, and I wished he didn't pick up. I heard and click and groaned inwardly. He picked up.

"Redfield." He said.

"Hey...." I mumbled.

"Who is this?" he asked.

"Take a guess... and don't get on me how long it's been since I last called." I sighed tears running down my cheeks.

"T..." he remained silent for a few minutes, "where are you?"

"I'm in Africa, I have some lose ends to tie up before I truly join the B.S.A.A". I said quietly.

"Look I'm sure he isn't alive... I watched him plummet with Jill. You have to give up this obsession. It's clearly putting you through more than you need to." He said, "I already have the paper work ready, and Rebecca said she can't wait to help you make the vaccines."

"I'm not sure anymore Chris after the Harperville g outbreak I saw tricell collect the sample of the g virus. I saw the same sample on the black market not three weeks later by a man named Irving. I'm going to bring down every last one of umbrellas creations." I snapped quietly.

"You don't have to do this alone anymore! I'm here Claire is here we are here for you!" Chris shouted.

"I'M A MONSTER CHRIS I'M NO BETTER THAN HIM! I'M JUST ANOTHER ONE OF UMBRELLAS FAILED EXPERIMENTS!" I yelled back my voice echoing through the metal halls, "I'm just better off dead."

Chris sighed, "you're not a monster, you're my older sister and I want to make sure you don't get yourself killed just because..." He stopped before he could finish. I already knew what he was going to say and he knew how I felt about it.

"Look Chris I'm sorry I'm worrying you and everyone else but I want to make sure that umbrella and all its creations are destroyed" I said softly to him.

"I know you do but I can't let you do this alone please let me help T." he cried out. I would let him help but I'm afraid either ill hurt him or he'll get killed, and I won't lose another loved one.

"I'm sorry Chris I can't risk you getting killed because of me." I sobbed memories flashing back to her body.

"We are family we're supposed to look out for each other regardless of what we think." He said calmly

"Chris there's something I want to tell you. "I said calming down, "Jill's still alive I found documentation of her location nearby."

"Do you have it on a flash drive or a PDA?" He asked in shock.

"No, sadly I couldn't find one but I'm sure they haven't deleted the files yet but from what I saw they plan on turning her into a B.O.W and test a new virus using her as the first subject." Before he could respond I heard yelling coming from down the hall, "fuck they found me."

"T wait." Before I could hear him finish I tossed the phone and smashed it to pieces. I pulled the sunglasses over my eyes and hood of my cloak over my head. Pulling myself out of the corner, I jumped over the fence rolling when I landed.

"There she is!" a small white man called out. I quickly stood up and glanced behind me. There was eighteen men in armored body plating and holding AK 47 assault rifles. They were being led by a man I knew to be a black market arms dealer, Ricardo Irving.

I ran as fast as I could so fast I didn't think they could see me, but they still fired the guns anyway so I ran toward one of the majini and snapped his neck. When the dead majini collapsed on the ground I saw the one person I didn't want to see at that moment Albert Wesker. When I saw his crooked smile and dark sunglasses I ran as fast as I could to avoid him. Try as I might to out speed him. he was faster than me and ended up hitting me in the chest with the cobra strike. it wasn't enough to knock me out. I fell face first onto the ground and I was stunned. Wesker turned me on my back and said "you are becoming a nuisance" then he stomped on my head and knocked me out.

[thevindicativevordan]

Comics this week ?

Batman #137 - Jimenez art is carrying this hard. If he wasn't drawing this I would skip it. Bruce's actions make sense given what Zdarsky has been doing with him, but the rest of the Batfamily are morons.

Steelworks #4 - Superbooks don't get enough credit for how well they're handling interconnectivity right now. Genesis pops back up here and is relevant to the plot, but it's handled in a way that is surprisingly organic. Dorn has shown improvement with each issue, DC should give him another book after this if he's interested.

Superboy: Man of Tomorrow #5 - Trav is my favorite new villain for Conner in ages. Such a delightful little sociopath, and this issue was extremely 90s in an entertaining way when it comes to the fight scenes. Conner using his TTK to deflect Trav's blasts, ripping off Trav's arm (it's not something Clark would ever do but that's why I liked it!), Trav rigging his own arm to blow, then transferring his consciousness into the Kryptonian clone body was great. One more issue to go!

The Riddler: Year One #6 - Great ending to a great mini. Makes me want to rewatch The Batman.

Birds of Prey #1 - Solid first issue, but it didn't wow me. Normally I'd keep reading through the first arc, but I have to cut back so this gets dropped.

Fire & Ice #1 - Beautiful art, decent comedy book. But again, I gotta cut back so I'll drop this.

Blue Beetle #1 - Mandatory to read Graduation Day if you want to read this, but the quality is at the same level as the mini so that’s not a problem for me! Bummer that the movie wasn’t a bigger success so we could hopefully get a longer run. I liked seeing old Ted foes show up, I’m curious if they’ll be bringing in Jenny Kord from the movie here too since they already moved Jaime and his cast to Palmera City.

City Boy #4 - Pak played up Cameron's moral grayness, and this is the issue that focuses on that. He's practically a supervillain in how he enslaves Bludhaven to attack Nightwing, with the only saving grace being that he was trying to do right by someone else. That, and I couldn't help feeling bad for him when he saw that his mom ditched him because she didn't want him. Heavy stuff, hope the Swamp Thing showing up is Levi. He had family issues too, I bet he and City Boy could have a good back and forth about dealing with your parents.

Immortal X-Men #15 - Even Gillen is starting to decline in enjoyment for me at this point. Still I think end is in sight for this book, and I want to see what the plan is for Xavier since he’s going to get off his ass at some point.

Fantastic Four #11 - Everlovin’ Thing indeed. Nice to see Ben be the one using his brains to get the F4 out of a trap.

Dr. Strange #7 - Strange has always been his own worse enemy, making that literally true has been quite exciting. Kind of funny how much Marvel touts that they’ve never rebooted and everything is canon when they still pick and choose what to acknowledge. Feels odd to not bring up the OTHER time Strange destroyed himself out of desperation to achieve his goal, during Hickman’s New Avengers run.

Scarlet Witch #8 - Winning a duel of words with Loki? Hopefully the Wanda fans will take that feat as much cooler than a magic contest. Oh and Joseph is being used as a pawn again, since they beta you over the head with that this issue I’m sure no one is surprised. I am looking forward to how the fight with Hexfinder goes. Wanda could use a good rival and she shows potential.

[crimsonshadesblog]

What are the Divinity games you mentioned like?

I've never played

Divinity!

So I've only played Original Sin and Original Sin 2, which are the most recent entries in the series that's been going for a while. I can't really speak to the older entries. They're all set in the same world, though to my shock and horror, the first Original Sin is set like 1000 years before the second and all the other Divinity games happen just before the 2nd as well, so the first one is kind of way off by itself, just vibing, I guess?

They're a lot like Baldur's Gate 3, if that means anything to you, top down perspective, parties of up to 4 characters, walking around a fantasy world, picking up everything that's not nailed down (and crouching before taking stuff that belongs to other people) and choosing dialogue options that may or may not have consequences. There's different spells that react with the world and multiple ways of solving problems. Typical western RPG stuff, overall, but with some really fun twists. I like the way you can just take levels in any class as you level up and learn skills all over the place.

This gets really long, so, uh,

DOS 1 had two canonical main characters, so it was great for co-op. The best thing was that occasionally over the course of the game they'd talk to each other, either to comment on story developments, or about things that happened in battle (I remember my character making a snide remark about not seeing my boyfriend's anywhere during their last fight, because we were on opposite ends of the map each in our own battles. Or one time I think I hit him on accident and his character complained about it after the fight was over. Stuff like that) and depending on the options you picked, their relationship in the end would change. I hear there was the option for them to fall in love. In our specific ending, one of them (the game did not specify which and left us puzzling to this day) confessed their undying love to the other, but the second one said "Nah bro" and rode off into the sunset, leaving the first one heartbroken and wallowing in misery for the rest of their days, which is definitely fucked up. A goddess literally said she would ensure we would have happy lives, what happened with that???

There's a total of four companions, two of which are DLC. We hate one of them deeply. When he joins you, he's all vague and one word answers and then, at some point, bro will not stop yapping. It's horrible. He told me his entire life's story for 15 straight minutes once. One of them is a girl who was raised by bears and whom I love dearly, one is a mute thief who we left in the homestead and then he accidentally died at some point because of some hilarious bug I think and we had to reload and then there was this warrior with a southern accent. She did great damage.

They're not super deep and you cannot romance any of them, but they have interesting stories. Except for the guy who would not shut up.

The game had a mechanic I genuinely enjoyed, where, depending on choices you made, your main character's personality would change, which gave or increased different skills. They were on a scale from independent - obedient or blunt - considerate. I haven't really seen anything like that before or since and it was great! Even if you never knew what you were going to get in advance.

The story was fun. There's an evil cult, because there always is an evil cult in Larian games, and then it turns out the cult is even worse and it turns into this epic tale for the fate of the world. Typical RPG stuff.

The game is set in the world of Rivellon which is under attack from this thing called the Void, which spawns endless creatures and just essentially tries to destroy everything forever (or does it?). Also there is this magic called source, which corrupts everyone who uses it (these people are called sourcerers! Cute). This is different from other types of magic, for reasons that I don't understand. Because you can learn skills that are basically magic, but that's not the bad magic, so don't worry about it! :) I would usually summon at least one skeleton warrior to do my evil bidding in battle, but that's not the evil magic, you guys. The player characters are source hunters, whose job it is to hunt down the evil sourcerers.

In the end, you purify source, which was tainted by the void, and now it's good forever and safe to use!

In DOS 2, you play as sourcerers! I thought that was very fun! Especially because the game starts with your characters getting shipped to prison, because despite our hard work 1000 years ago, the void is back and source is considered evil again, because using it attracts more void creatures, so all sourcerers are getting sent to concentration camps to be gruesomely experimented on and hopefully die.

DOS 2 improves on the formula in a lot of ways, because the graphics are better, the companions are great (my wife is among them, I am greatly biased) and you have more options to customize your player character. The first one let you be a human man and woman. Here you can play as a lizard. Or a skeleton. Or a skeleton lizard! If you play an undead, regular healing damages you, but you can heal yourself using poison instead. You are also immune to death fog, which instantly kills all living things. But you need to wear clothes, otherwise NPC will get aggro at you, because the undead are thought to be twisted and evil. It's really fun. This is why my character, who was a healer first and foremost, was also a ruthless undead killing machine.

There are still party dialogues and banter and again, you can romance your companions and even have a sex scene with them, yes, even with the skeleton, but the personality thing for instance was lost, which was a bit sad. Also while this game still offers co-op and still works, it feels like it's more catered towards a single player. In the end, only one of you can become the Divine, after all. This is also why at one point all of the companions not currently in your party die. I was absolutely destroyed by that, personally. Especially because they come back to fight you at a later point and bitch at you for letting them die. You have to convince the other members in your party to let you have the crown and if there's two players, you have to fight it out. It's definitely fun, but I thought we were playing cooperatively! Anyway, I destroyed my boyfriend in a 1v1 fight for the second time and then we somehow got the bad ending. I don't know why. It was great.

Absolutely recommend these games. Especially the second one.

Please bring Fane with you. He's very important. To me, yes, but also the plot? He didn't accidentally ruin the entire world for you to let him die on a ship -

[mikaelamagbanua]

how's adulting so far from someone who just turned 26 last November?

well for starters, backpain is getting worse lol. kidding aside, life's good somehow. nothing close to perfect but still pretty good. mostly because I've learned few important things that I'm gonna share here as well:

1. if something is meant for you, you'll never miss it

missed opportunities in the past took me a step closer to where I'm supposed to be. fallbacks are temporaryyyyy and always remember that rejections = redirections

a little story about me:

got accepted to this food company last dec 2020. First na inapplyan ko yun na tinanggap ko saya ko, medical nalang kulang but I got rejected due to my diagnosis of inactive ptb . applied to more companies, got accepted again pero wala pa ata ako two weeks nakapag leave na agad kase nafracture collarbone naman ko. ff to 2024, can't believe this girl shifted career. data analyst na ako and recently got promoted 🥹

2. it's so important to stay curious and keep learning istg

you're never too old to learn new things. not just based on books type of learnings but also on experiences. learn a new hobby/sport , read a book, learn a new word, explore a new place or learn a new recipe. your mind and body needs it . train your self by gaining more knowledge and experiences

3. allow yourself to have bad days and take all the time you need to heal

being an adult doesn't make you invulnerable to having breakdowns but it demands you still show up even after breaking down (or during lol haha) peak adulthood experience yung umiyak while working kase may pinagdadaanan ka pero need mo pumasok office lol

crying is normal and I believe it is indeed healthy. don't you get that feeling of relief after a good cry? yes, crying doesn't solve the problem itself but who doesn't need a good cry when all around you feels like falling apart. also, it sometimes feel that it is the only thing that we can do

4. you're never too old to have fun. do what makes ü happy :)

find ways that makes you heart feel blissful despite the situations you're put through . spending time with my friends and family, trying out new recipes ,coloring books , planning the next trip , dressing up, going to the beach to watch sunsets, listening to my fave playlists ,writing whatever thoughts I have , playing with kids , endless scrolling on my tiktok fyp , re-watching 'friends' while I wait for new episode of '911' ,reading books that I like, buying the food that I've been craving and more. Happiness doesn't always have to be the big things, it can also be simple things we do each day because altogether they can make you feel better

5. you'll make mistakes and it's okay

as you strive to grow up as better person , know that not everyone is molded that way. you can end up trusting wrong people but that it is not a reflection of your worth but rather a reflection of who they are. we can't control how people act around us, if something is bound to destroy you, it will. what matters is how you react from that. grief, be mad , heal then pick yourself up. mistakes like that doesn't mean you can't start over. take what you learned and move forward.

and sometimes, we can also make mistakes by hurting other people with our own words and actions. intentionally or not, reflect on what you did, think how you can be a better person than who you were before and forgive yourself for doing things you're not supposed to. grow up and try to live a better life and be kinder!!! the world is already cruel so don't be one

6. find your people

while watching an episode of 911 I recently discovered an old song entitled 'find your people' by Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors. there's a line in the song that says "you gotta find your people, then you'll find yourself" which actually speaks truth. wanna gatekeep this song but I think it is a good reminder for all of us about choosing the people welcome in our lives. who you surround yourself with is very important to the type of person you'll be and know that they will the first people you'll run to when the world seems to turn their back on you

7. catch and release

let go of people , opportunities or things that no longer serves a purpose or goodness in your life. losing them may be hard but you still have a whole life ahead of you. if plan A doesn't work, always remember you can make as many plans as you can

8. take good care of your health

invest on your health mentally and physically. be active , meditate and eat healthy. as much as we wanna work hard, do not abuse your body and your mind. know when to take a break and rest . health is the most expensive thing for me because it is not something you can just buy. it requires effort , consistency and discipline which not all of us can afford. then when we don't try to have those things, that is where the real expense of getting sick comes to haunt us

9. it's a privilege that we always have a chance to try again and do better

as we turn older each year, our thinking and beliefs (should) grow too. but may we never lose our inner child. after all, we're just kids trying to navigate this adult life. I'm actually passed my mid twenties and all I wanna say is that despite of my shortcomings, I hope younger versions of me are happy and proud of where 'adult me ' is 🫶

and i hope you , whoever is reading this, knows that little versions of you are so proud of you. so, pat yourself on the back and keep going. may we all win life this new year...

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this was actually supposed to be a bday post but I end up forgetting about it. still, posting it anyway lol.