#Bunker Fuckery

[julietwiskey1]

A strange bit of hate Azula gets is her “sneak attack” of Aang in the Crossroads of destiny.  I’m not talking about her nearly killing Aang in the avatar state, that is warranted even if I disagree, but her being sneaky.  Shooting Aang when he was unprepared.  But that doesn’t make sense.  She wasn’t being sneaky, she didn’t ambush or surprise Aang.  She surprised the audience.

Azula did not break the flow of combat.  Didn’t attack out of turn.  Merely took the easiest and most effective shot she could.  But it disrupted what audience expected.  

The powerup trope is not new.  It saturates kids media.  The Power Rangers stopping so that they can combine forces into a super weapon for example.  A lot of other shows do this as well.  To the point where no one bats an eye when the hero's get ten seconds to get their power up.  Usually this is the time to cheer and look forward to the awesome fight about to occur and watch the hero’s beat down the bad guys.  Its what we started to expect in ATLA as well.

Azula didn’t let this happen.  She surprised the audience by breaking this trope people were conditioned to expect.  We weren't shown her getting into her stance or new she was about to let leash one of the few times we see lightning used in battles, so when she did it was genuine shock.

But in context of a fight outside of cartoon logic this doesn’t make sense.  Attack when your enemy is unprepared.  Hit them while they are weak.  And its not like Aang was alone.  Katara was still aware of her surroundings if only overwhelmed.  Expecting your enemy to strike at a time like this would be second nature.  They would be aware that something would probably be coming or attempted.  Azula did not surprise them by doing the smart and obvious thing.

In summary Azula did not hit Aang with a sneak attack.  In context of the fight it never stopped for Aang.  It only surprised the audience because it broke a trope we all come to expect.

(Side note:  While in context of a childs cartoon a shot like this is unexpected, that is not the case in adult media.  When guns are involved the counting of bullets by the hero is common and they wait to fight or flee when the enemy is reloading.) 

[docterzerocare]

okay, not an ask about the QSMP Sims Household (yet), but! have a q!Tubbo headcanon :]

so. hear me out: Avian q!Tubbo. but not just any kind of bird, a canary.

now, there's a reason for this, but long story short, i saw a post about how Tubbo would've been the first to really notice that Phil went missing, but nobody would believe him, and then my brain had some interesting Canary In A Coal Mine thoughts that i feel only makes sense to me (basically: What If q!Tubbo Tries To Warn People About Bad Things, But It Ends Up Being Like A "Boy Who Cried Wolf" Situation, And People Only Notice Something Is Really Wrong Once The Federation Finally Does Something To Tubbo? Like A Canary In A Coal Mine-Type Thing?)

it's also because Tubbo is attracting the attention of The Federation at around the same level as the Other avians of the server (and the Brazilians...especially Cellbit).

my current headcanon for the reason that The Federation is after Tubbo so much, besides his rule-breaking machines, is because they didn't manage to clip his wings before he ran off. for context, the only other avian on the server with unclipped wings is ElQuackity, and the only reason his haven't been clipped is because he, y'know, works for The Federation.

so Cucurucho is trying to get him partially because he wants to clip the poor guy's wings :) just an angsty idea for you, my friend

Ooo dandy you are feeding me well, i am a sucker for canary characters

I will be rotating this in the brain microwave

[ardentpoop]

top 10 sam relationships ranked and why

for simplicity’s sake I will try to exclude threesomes/foursomes, platonic or otherwise. but note that every dynamic on the show that I have a dedicated pretentious tag for (all of which involve sam) is one that I like to play with in my head.

samndean. what can I say besides failmarriage of all time. one of the most interesting relationships ever portrayed on tv if you’re watching closely, and too many ppl try to cram it into a box and imo they’re all missing the forest for the trees (to be clear this does Not apply to most people who correctly recognize it as an abusive relationship; imo you can’t truly understand either of them or their dynamic if you are unable to reckon with this)

sam & jack. mother and son biologically linked to the same predator (lucifer) and orbiting the same violent head of household (dean)……both of them scapegoated for their Inherent Impurity and shuffled from cage to cage…..bursting at the seams with anger and grief over how powerless they feel to contain the powers that broadcast to the Men In Charge their slow but steady “corruption”…..sam couldn’t prevent jack from experiencing the exact same life-changing trauma that sam experienced at dean’s hands….what’s better than this 💕

sam & cas. shockingly underrated to this day. they’re patient and doctor (sexual) they’re worshiper and heretic (alternating. also sexual.) they’re dean’s brotherwife (sam) and dean’s cuck friend (cas) who’s in unrequited love with him and regularly getting his wife off in strange and unethical ways. they’re parents to jack and dean is the beloved angry man in their house who calls the shots bc they’re too sloppy and broken to make their own decisions. the lucifer&sam&cas link paralleled with the lucifer&sam&jack link. the devil’s rejects. sam can watch cas torture some guy with a look of admiration on his face and then they’re retiring to sam’s room in the bunker to watch shitty tv together in comfortable silence. cas experimenting with sam’s body is so commonplace that he can offer to do Anything to him and sam okays it without hesitation. I love thinking abt how their relationship developed over the seasons esp given where it started. delightful to me :)

sam & john bc they let me explore my many serious issues with my own father without burning myself too badly <3

sam & mary because much like sam and jack they were doomed from the start in the same way and watching them get hollowed out makes me want to scream (complimentary) plus the audience doesn’t appreciate either of them properly they are both Riddled with interesting bruises in the same places.

sam & meg bc BUABS gender fuckery forever (they’re both trans. to be clear)

sam & ruby bc ruby is dean-mirror and she is mother and she is fattening up her little lamb for the slaughter and she is teaching dumbo how to fly and she is saying “I’m sorry you’re hurting. I had no idea that dean would do that to you” and she is Poison, dean says, after locking sam up, and she is tenderly stroking the tears off sam’s face and smiling after she permanently shatters his faith in her.

sam & crowley. they are never ever fucking in a million years and that’s the best part. sam’s condescending “am I supposed to be impressed by that?” made my brain short-circuit. she isn’t this mean to Anyone else it’s beautiful.

sam & rowena. I can’t write the essay abt them that I want to write. they’re hot. I love how much crowley would’ve Despised seeing them getting along.

sam & gadreel for the fic potential alone. they are my little cutesies </3

[aemiron-main]

September 8th 1979 at 3:46 PM: How The Hell Was Brenner Watching 001 Get Banished Before It Even Happened? (And Hell, Brenner Shouldnt Even Be Conscious Right Now Let Alone Bloodless And Unscarred)

So, this tweet from 8flix Nick has always haunted me:

And now, I’ve got some realizations about this shot and why it’s so telling and also very bizarre.

So, I went to the Papa script section for this shot:

And there’s some VERY weird stuff here.

So, the key things to keep in mind for this shot/script snippet:

1.) It’s 3:46 PM on September 8th, 1979 (the day and year of the massacre)

2.) Brenner has no blood on his face and no scar on his face at 3:46 PM on September 8th 1979.

Now, when I saw that clip of Brenner watching El banish 001, I wondered “was Brenner watching the banishment live rather than afterwards?” but then I realized- not only was he watching it live, he was technically watching it before it even fucking happened!

How do I know this? Well.

Look at the clock during the massacre- BEFORE 001 is sent to Dimension X, BEFORE the events that Brenner watched on the TVs at 3:46 PM:

The clock says 3:46 PM. The exact time that the script says that Brenner was watching 001 get sent to Dimension X- and yet, that hasn’t even happened yet at 3:46 PM.

(Also, one of the other things that reinforces the idea that Brenner was somehow watching this live/not just watching an old tape of it is the fact that the footage has no time stamp- unlike the tape footage he shows El in the nina bunker)

And then also, Stav reminded me of what I talked about in this post with how the clock is frozen during the massacre- which, not only is that another layer of weirdness, but even with the clock being frozen, that still implies that 3:46 has passed before 001 was sent to Dimension X/that it was 3:46 when the clock froze at the beginning of the massacre scenes (and therefore that Brenner shouldnt have been able to watch that footage at 3:46 PM) and/or that time itself was entirely frozen at 3:46 PM which is a whole other can of worms.

And even setting aside the fact that Brenner shouldnt be able to watch that footage because it hasn’t happened yet, there’s also the matter of the fact that Brenner shouldn’t be able to watch that footage because he shouldnt even be fucking CONSCIOUS right now- he should be unconscious in a room with 010, covered in blood with a scar across his face:

After all, in Brenner’s S4 EP1 version of the day of the massacre, he only wakes up and gets into the rainbow room after the massacre is over/after El’s already sent 001 to Dimension X- and we watch him wake up and go straight to the rainbow room, so there’s not even a chance that he SOMEHOW woke up, cleaned himself off, magically healed his wounds/scars, and watched the security cameras before 001 was sent to superhell- it’s not possible, he wasn’t even AWAKE:

On September 8th, 1978 at 3:46 PM, Brenner should be covered in blood and scarred- But he’s not, because here he is, somehow miraculously bloodless and scarless at 3:46 PM on the day of the massacre:

They also cropped this shot of Brenner’s face so that we can’t see which way his hair parts- which, like I’ve talked about in posts like this post and this post, we can differentiate Richard Brenner from Martin Brenner based on what side their hairs parts on, and we ALSO have the elusive middle part Brenner.

So, isn’t it suspicious that they show us Brenner, who SHOULD NOT BE IN THAT PLACE AT THAT TIME, watching something happen BEFORE IT EVEN HAPPENED, and then ALSO don’t show us his hair part?

Not only is there more than one Brenner, but there’s also some sort of bizarre Brenner time fuckery going on here- which reminds me of something I actually put in a youtube video script that I’m working on, which is the idea that Brenner himself may have somehow time travelled during NINA too, seemingly without being in the tank (although if there’s multiple Brenners, who knows if one of them was in a tank tbh).

Because after all, when Brenner talks about El “journeying into the past,” he specifically says “journey WITH ME into the past”:

However I’m not totally solid that he was NINA’d/he seems to have some sort of bizarre innate time weirdness & may even be using some sort of astral projection techniques to do so, but that’s a separate analysis on its own (see: my current draft about the gateway project/gateway technique and MKULTRA).

Anyway. There’s so much here. What the hell is going on?????

And as a final sidenote re: that rainbow room clock, it’s also weird that we never see the clock during the S4 EP1 version of the scenes leading up to the massacre (the version that follows Brenner/shows him unconscious in the room with 010 that day).

We see it here, during the NINA version of things/El’s POV- but not during Brenner’s segment:

Which rattles something about what I talked about in this post re: two different massacre mornings.

Why did they give us such a specific time in the script related to Brenner on the day of the massacre (3:46 PM) but then also completely hid the rainbow room clock from us/hid the time from us during his S4 EP1 version of the day of the massacre?

Something weird as hell is going on here.

[tvlandofficiall]

curious to know if you have any like, completely meaningless and inconsequential deltarune theories that you believe very very strongly. mine is that rouxls was originally meant to be black & white instead of blue & white and yes i do have evidence for this

i'm not sure how many of these count as inconsequential but i did my best to pick ones that aren't big-picture;

• seam! secret! boss! this is one i'm very certain is going to happen, not only because of in-game evidence and not only because of their status as a foil to both flowey and ralsei but also because seam embodies a very specific video game archetype (other examples include the happy mask salesman, zacharie, sly, volo, ect.) and deltarune's modus operandi is putting the focus on video game archetypes. i wouldn't be surprised if that focus lends seam some more importance than many expect them to have in some way or another.

• save file fuckery will also be more present going forward, again involving seam. i think we're going to see more and more of the part of their personality that's heralded by their flowey signifiers going forward in regards to that too.

• ralsei, susie and kris will remain as the primary party for the entire game. ralsei and susie's dichotomy as characters is super important to both the kris' posession plot and the darkners' fates plot. (noelle and lancer are important – they're the two most important supporting characters! but i don't think they're secretly part of the prophecy or anything like that.)

• that said, i do think that now that we've had a few different lightner guest-stars tagging along (ie; noelle, berdly, toriel) we may get some more darkners guest-starring in a similar fashion. since lancer and rouxls are going to appear in ch3, it seems like the chance of turning to stone won't prevent darkners from going to other worlds, and there's also no rule against a darkner being a party member (ralsei's in the main party, after all) either. i'd love to see more of our already established cast get some additional development.

• card! kingdom! two! this is another one i'm absolutely certain on. i don't think ch1 is the last we'll see of card kingdom.

• we will be fighting queen at some point during the weird route.

• i think both lancer and rouxls have a solid shot at getting forbidden knowledge during the course of the game via their proximity to the delta warriors. (noelle already seems on track to do this as well, at least during the snowgrave route.) this may also lead into one or both becoming able to traverse between dark worlds freely like ralsei can, but that depends on if that's a forbidden knowledge capability or not. (my bet here is specifically on lancer.)

• i don't think noelle's gba or the dragon blazers game will be a dark world as is commonly predicted; given that queen (a computer) and swatch (a program on the computer) are darkners, and tenna (a television) and the weather duo (the weather channel on the television) are darkners, i think the gba and the game will be darkners as well if they are to appear.

• other objects i think have a solid chance of being darkners; dess' guitar, the bead toy in the hospital, the cage in kris' bedroom, alphys' symptons tv show.

• i do not think dess is going to come back. i think she left of her own volition and her agency in that decision will be a focal point in connecting her to the game's major themes of agency, choice, and fate. (it also makes for good commentary on the archetypical "save the girl" rpg plot.)

• three lightners know the truth about the objects in their town not being ordinary objects. these lightners are gerson (who died before he could tell anyone his dreams were not just dreams), dess (who left the light world entirely upon finding out and doesn't want to come back), and kris (who sealed a dark world in the bunker as a child and was convinced by the adults around them it was all a dream – until now. ) fate itself seems to have a hand in keeping no one from ever knowing.

• more generally speaking i think there's something up with the light world. details of things like rudy's illness are vague at best and nonexistent at worst, the whole town seems to revolve around asriel, ect. the dark world is often compared to a dream but the light world is the world that operates more on "dream logic".

• lancer and susie will get their monogrammed track jackets.

[elvenbeard]

I finally sat down and played Reed's path in Phantom Liberty and HOLY shit. Spoilers below the cut just in case köahsdföahdsf

MAN. I was like, 95% unspoilered for everything, the only things I knew was: you gotta fight against Kurt, there is a scene in So Mi's apartment, some Cynosure fuckery, and I had seen gifs of So Mi in the core at the end (and deducted HM. she isn't looking to good, I feel like this is an ending where she dies).

But so so so many things came unexpected and got me so damn good!! I had fun fighting against Kurt, his little knife-throwing sequences (though I still wouldve loved a peaceful solution more than this XD a third path where you side with him or sth like that). I did not expect that we'd be fucking with MaxTac alsködhfasf that little bit was so fun, from setting up to having to fight them (though I also really struggled with that at first, rightfully so xDD).

The level design of the Cynosure was amaaaazing, the creepy horror vibes, the voices the jumpscares aödshfasf I loved that so much. I was not at all prepared for the Cerberus mech, that was mean af xD But so fun, gameplay-wise, so creepy, too. I ate up the lore of the place (and how insane that something like this exists under NC - and how much more similar shit must exist as well for other corporations??).

How the apartment sequence was done blew my whole mind, the transition between the bunker and the apartment, the little flashbacks, and how everything slowly crumbled and fell apart. I love that you can hug So Mi ;___; and man, I was crying so much at the end, the pain... but the only thing that felt right in that moment was killing her and giving her her freedom, and it was so raw and gentle and horrible all at the same time (also V's reaction was ;____; aaaahhh my boy).

I loved that we got a chance to shit-talk Myers XD And that, after all that in the end, Reed may finally find his freedom too and get away from the FIA for good!! I was adskhföasf so feral about his and Vince's parallels again, losing everything and being forced to start over. I loved his line that went like "thanks to you I have a choice now, something I haven't had in a long time". And man, I hope he uses his chance to get as far away from Myers and Washington and all that crap as he can, while he still can (just how that whole experience has deterred Vince from wanting to go back to Arasaka for good xD).

Overall though, I gotta say. I felt like the villain the whole time xD From betraying So Mi (still so obsessed that the options are called "Betray XYZ", not "Side with XYZ" which I've seen much more commonly in games with choices - It's a small detail but it makes such a difference in tone!!), to chasing her down all along it always felt wrong xD I'm glad at least towards the end there were some dialogue options that went away from the patronizing "we just wanna safe you" and "this is all for your best", and felt more human again.

So, for Vince's canon, if he goes through with PL from start to finish, he would rather betray Reed - and in return be betrayed by So Mi in the end aöshdajshf but yeah. Immersion and story-wise, her path felt more true to what he would do, even though I liked the outcome for Reed a lot in this. (and I guess that's really where the main difference lies in the end in all the choices, who gets to live and have their freedom in the end, and how much V is willing to sacrifice).

Also, since I went down the path of not handing So Mi over this time and not unlocking the new ending, instead I got new Mr. Blue-Eyes headcanons material O.O aksdfahsöf highly recommend looting the Cerberus mech and crafting the Cyberdeck in the "Unknown Number" related quest after the credits, in case you always wanted two more or less creepy talking constructs in your head xD

[minefield-of-a-ninja]

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Pollen | Dreams | Fairytales | Zanna | and some things more nefarious.

Pollen

A Fight For Love & Glory - Winchesters x you (female)

Summary: You’re struck by sex pollen, so Sam and Dean agree to help you out.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, sex pollen, feelings of guilt, ass play, dirty talk, W*ncest adjacent

Words: 2K

Magic Sex & French Fries - Jo Harvelle x Ruby 2.0

Prompt: Great Big Lesbian prompt: SPN, Jo and Ruby II have to have sex to save the world. Or something. Sex pollen? I don’t care. 😘

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, sex pollen, fisting, confuzzled boys

Words: 1K

Bad Girls Underneath -  Ruby 2.0 x Dean Winchester x Jo Harvelle

Summary: Ruby and Jojo get hit by a sex curse again; this time, they need Dean’s help.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, magical-dick/male-gaze bullshit, probably too much commentary and emotional complication, why am I like this, I’m sorry, sometimes I can’t help myself, fisting, brief choking

Words: 2,600

Dreamy/dreams

Cactus - Dean Winchester x Meg Masters x Castiel

Summary: Post-battle, exhausted and wanting, Dean and Meg and Cas take care of each other.

Warnings/Tags: 18+ ONLY, dreamlike sex, a little choking, Dean’s always hungry

Words: 3,200

I’ll Keep Them Still - Dean Winchester x Jo Harvelle

Summary: Dean remembers promises and pictures in his mind. And he remembers her.

Warnings/tags: mature, songfic, angst, dream/afterlife sequences, purple prose, I’m sorry

Words: 1,100

Moving Furniture - Steve!Cas x Meg Masters 2.0

Summary: She’s been gone for a year – sacrificed herself to save Sam and her unicorn – but Cas still dreams about her.

Warnings/tags: non-explicit dream sex, fluff, shmoop, there’s a dog

Words: 2K

If You Don’t, Dear, Confess - Sam Winchester x Rowena Macleod

Prompt: Sam has dream about being seduced by Rowena in the bunker that gets interrupted/woken by Dean?

Warnings: mature

Words: 620

Fairytales

Hark and Hush - Purgatory Dean x wolf spirit in a female body

Summary: This is the story of how Dean Winchester hunted, became enamored with, and slew the ancient spirit of the Big Bad Wolf.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, this is not your mother’s Dean Winchester, stalking, blood, gore, rough sex, character death

Words: 2,200

More Nefarious *dubious consent

His Sword - Michael/Dean x female prostitute

Summary: Michael takes some time to remind Dean who’s in control.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, edge play, bondage, knife play, blood play, choking, rough sex, name-calling, character death

Words: 2,300

Supernova - MOC Dean Winchester x female reader

Summary: Since Dean’s had the Mark and the Blade, he’s pulled away from you, afraid of hurting you. You miss him, and you’ve had it. One night you push him to the edge.

Warnings/tags: 18+ ONLY, bondage, blood play, biting, bruising, knifeplay, rough sex, dubcon/mindfuck

Words: 2,500

Zanna

Just My Imagination - Dean Winchester x female Zanna

Summary: After Mary leaves the boys a second time, Dean needs a reset, or to blow off some steam – something. He heads out on a snowy evening the night before Christmas and finds just the right thing.

Warnings/tags: mature, Hallmark channel fuckery

Words: 2,800

[azucar-skull]

Wanna hear about a ROTTMNT nightmare I had a few months ago?

Of course you do, you freak-- /j

So preface, I have nightmare disorder. I was born with it actually, giving me the vivid variant. Which means that if I'm not careful, I could wake up with severe side effects like migraine and nausea and disorientation that all last for the entire day. It also means that I have been dealing with nightmares since I was a child, and you can think of me as a "skilled master" if you will.

I enter the dream in the midst of the apocalypse as Casey Jones Jr, in his teens. I have my own bedroom though there is not much too it and I am sprawled out on my dinky bunker bed drooling away as I sleep.

When suddenly alarms start blaring from outside. I tumble out of bed and jump into whatever pants and t-shirt I could find (I slept in boxers apparently) before putting on my boots as I stumble to the door to assess what was going on.

The second I open the door, the door is slammed back into my face. A voice shouting from the other side.

"WE ARE IN LOCKDOWN, YOU HEAR ME?! YOU KEEP THAT DOOR SHUT. DON'T COME OUT OF YOUR ROOM!"

A voice, for some dream logic reason, I recognized as Usagi’s.

And IRL me was like "nah fuck that, I'm bored, lemme see what this dream has here".

And so I venture out, grabbing my chainsaw staff.

To my right is a dead end.

To my left...

I hear screaming. Then a severed head flies out from the corner and slams into the wall. It was Usagi’s.

I had no choice but to move forward.

I peer around the corner, trying to avoid looking at the head. And there I saw Donnie’s lab. The doors bursted open. Mikey and April stand outside before some weird pink slimy tentacles draw them in, screeching and hissing.

Immediately, I assume Donnie has been turned Kraang some how. So I decided to dip out of there and find something else. IRL me was thinking about maybe going to the armory or drawing the monster outside where I'd have a bigger playing field. Tight spaces fuck up my head a lot, I need room in my dreams to breathe.

I duck past the doors quickly without getting caught and continue hurrying down the hall.

There I see a smudged trail of blood. I follow it, a bit curious. The blood led to Master Leonardo. His legs were gone, torn. He was crawling dragging himself across the floor.

I run up to him, ready to shout his name when he notices me and presses a finger against his lips. Then his eyes dart behind me.

IRL me just sighed internally and mentally prepared myself for whatever kind of fuckery was behind my back.

I turn around...

And there was Donnie.

Just a normal Donnie. In his future form with the fancy visor and lab coat and all. His eyes were pleading.

He smiles, walking forward.

"Casey. Casey, it's me."

I glance back at Leo, he looked outright terrified.

"It's me, it's Donnie. Your uncle Donnie." His smile widens.

He steps closer and closer. Closer still.

"Don't you trust me?"

Now. Remember how I am a "skilled master" of dreams? Yeah. I can also detect who is good or bad by a gut feeling I get. This is an IRL thing too, idk what it is but I am able to just...know when someone is bad. And in my dreams, it's like all my senses are going haywire tenfold.

And Donnie. Did not pass the vibe check.

"NOPE.", I said, slashing my chainsaw staff into his face.

And then I woke up. =)

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

supernatural episode where Sam gets into some magic fuckery and starts speaking in Old English. coming into the bunker and slamming his research down in front of Dean like "HWÆT"

(absolutely nobody is going to get this but I promise it's extremely funny)

[wre7ch]

hey @cuddlef1sh i'm back btw, want to take turns describing episodes in my Glade campaign of Delta Green? it'll help me pace myself so i dont reveal too much.

my campaign is set in the small, fictional town of Glade, NH. i set up the game telling the agents that they were in a small town where "spooky stuff happens"

1991-

the game starts in winter with agent ribbit, rook, and blue in the bunker. i started with a flashback of the first time the agents saw the strange information video. the video describes the 2 mile radius Anomalous Area that R-cell's bunker is right near center of, and the strange codenames for anomalies: MANGE, OCCULUS, TEXAS, BRANCH, NESS

the catalogue is missing.

a strange weather pattern has begun circling thorn hill road. agent rook and agent blue take stock and try to read up on it, while agent ribbet takes her pickup to drive on the roads. on her way to the strange area, she sees a woman covered in blood run across the road and back into the woods. ribbit stops, calls it in, and begins following the woman through the woods.

the woman is taking a strange arcing path. she doesnt respond to calls, so agent ribbit grabs her with her coat and says soothing words like she's a strange, hungry and wounded animal. her ID says chloe vasquez.

ribbit decides to take her to the hospital, while blue and rook investigate further. they see a house with one side of it blown away destructively. blue and rook find the body of a man, bloody and bitten in the half exploded living room. searching through documents, they found his name was Rodrick Algiers. in a filing cabinet, lists of names from a company named Nu Life.

strange, hungry and wounded animals have begun walking into the yard and staring at the agents, who shoot if the things get too close

on the way to the hospital, near the edge of the Affected Area, chloe bites agent ribbit. ribbit is able to stop the car, and after a moment of struggling, pushes chloe off. she runs into the woods, and that was the last time she was seen alive.

after going to the hospital and getting the bite wound looked at and treated, ribbit goes to the affected house. this is when agents blue and and rook realize that time has not been passing normally. they quickly flee in the face of "time fuckery."

that was the first session. hopefully @cuttlef1sh will continue the story with the case of the deadly photographs, and then i'll be able to tell you about the huge swerve my campaign took with an unexpected death

[rex101111]

I’m sure CEL-240 is supposed to be a really tough, intimidating boss (and well it is), but it ain’t intimidating enough because my preferred strat for dealing with it is jumping right at this glowing machine of red death when the fight starts and immediately charging up a Pile Bunker. And it always works, every time. 

Just this absolute menace of laser bullet hell is charging its Fuck Off And DIE attack, Walter and Ayre are shitting their pants in complete terror of this thing, and then this mute weird lobotomite fucking leaps straight up close enough to make out with it and does a 50 frame wind up attack in full confidence they won’t miss and it fucking works.

It instantly fills up its stagger gauge too, so while CEL is trying to wrap its head around what absolute fuckery it’s just endured, 621 is already switching to duel Gatling/shotguns and peppering it with even more damn bullets.      

[henrysglock]

i gotta ask:

1. why burn money making different jumpsuits for the same guy in the same scene?

2. why have these suits be visibly different from each other in fit and pattern, when it’s supposed to be the same guy in the same scene?

3. why swap out between shots while also changing injury patterns and facial structures, when it’s supposed to be the same guy in the same scene?

unless we have multiple of the same guy.

I mean, Elfen Lied was a huge inspo for ST. There’s a character, Mariko, who is brutally violent and lacking in all empathy as a product of her circumstances from birth. She has 4 clones.

She’s released to kill both Nana and Lucy, the El and Henry coded characters, respectively…she’s kept incredibly thin and frail in her bunker, but she’s still incredibly powerful…

I’m just saying it’s not exactly a reach for there to be multiple Henries. (especially given the NINA fuckery in general plus the timeline shit.)

[crashdevlin]

Leftoverture 5- Still a Blind Man

Author’s Note: Don’t get me wrong, I loved the finale, but I was thinking about how much I miss Dean and I couldn’t stop thinking about ways I could have him back so…I’m going canon divergent while being as close to canon as possible. ‘Cause that’s how Cassie do. Leftoverture crosses over with Crash Into Me !

Summary: Dean throws in the towel a lot faster than Sam would like. Something's not quite right about Crash giving in and Sam's going to figure it out if Dean won't.

Pairing: Dean x OFC (Crash)

Word count: 1986

Story Warnings: angst, Post-barn scene sads, mentions of major character deaths (Dean and AU!Sam), mentions of depression and suicidal thoughts, memory fuckery, Chuck being an asshole, lots of pain and horribleness, mentions of brainwashing.

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Sam came into the garage as Dean pulled in, obviously expecting to welcome his sister-in-law and step-niece home. His face fell when Dean got out of the car and slammed the door.

"What happened? Where's Cassie?"

"She stayed in Florida," Dean snapped. "With Chuck."

Sam's eyes went wide. "What?"

"Yeah. Apparently, Chuck cozied up to her parents and moved into Crash's room after we let him live." Dean stomped toward the stairs. "He's been calling himself 'Erik' and got in her head about our relationship and her self-esteem has taken a dive because that's always been an issue for her and he knows exactly what issues she has 'cause he's Chuck!"

"Wait, but...but you're alive so why wouldn't she-"

"Because he made her think that we were only together because he wrote it!" He had to take a deep breath to control his emotions about it. "Which is bullshit! Chuck might have pushed her into my life, but he didn't make her the woman I fell for. He didn't...I mean, he wrote circumstances! He didn't write personalities! He didn't write the way she kissed me or how she sings or how she always puts every single person in the world in front of herself and how she never shoulda fallen for a fuck-up like me or…"

He sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "She told me to leave. Not even for the kid's wellbeing or to keep from having to deal with my next inevitable demise...Chuck said he was the only reason a woman like her ended up with a guy like me and she ate it up. She downed it like poison and turned in on herself immediately. It was like he confirmed every fear and suspicion she had about our relationship and it...I shouldn’t have even gone. She was better off…" Dean clicked his tongue against his teeth and started down the stairs. "Better off thinking I was dead."

"Dean, get out of the damn pity party for a minute, okay?" Sam followed him into the Bunker. "If you hadn't gone, if you hadn't let her know you’re alive, you wouldn't know that Chuck had infiltrated her life. What are you going to do abou-"

"Nothing." Dean turned in the hallway, looking up at his brother. "I'm not gonna do anything. She knows who he is and what he's done and she sent me home. She made her choice."

"Choice? What choice?"

"To believe him! To look at our whole relationship and boil it all down to one moment that Chuck created, one situation where he pushed her out of her norm, and decide that everything after that was him!" He scoffed. "Every night I laid awake thinking about her smile, every dream I had about some balance of domestic bliss and hunting with her, every song I can't listen to anymore without thinking of her, every dumb green witch or Vegas lights, frickin' Tombstone I associate with her too, but fuck, it was all Chuck, right? It was Chuck that made me fall in love with her."

His whole posture went from anger and fire to dejected and depressed. "Whatever. Chuck can have her."

"You don't mean that," Sam disputed.

Dean gave a sad smile. "You remember when she was with Mike? He would put her down, make her feel bad about herself, encourage her bad habits and self-destruction. 'Tween him and Chuck...seems like she's got a type and I'm not it." He started down the hallway toward his room. "I'm gonna go get a few hours. I've gotta be at the firehouse at seven."

"Dean. Wait a-"

"It's probably better this way. Bunker's no place for kids, anyway."

"This is bullshit," Sam growled. "You were looking for a reason not to bring her home with you!"

"She chose to stay!" Dean called back as he turned the corner. "Speaks volumes."

Sam shook his head, pulling his phone out. "I'm calling her!"

"Tell her I made it home safe!" Dean shouted before slamming his door shut.

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Sam sighed as he looked down at his phone. She didn't answer. He called four times and she didn't answer once. His sister was avoiding his calls, there was no other reason she wouldn't answer. He had to hope she would read a text.

Dean got home and said you chose to stay in Florida with Chuck and I just don’t understand why. Will you please call me back to explain this?

He set the phone on the table and ran his hand through his hair.

"I'm not sure when I'll be back," Dean said, walking into the library as he adjusted his white Lebanon Fire Department polo shirt. "But I'll bring beer when I come home."

"Dean, you can't just carry on like--like you aren't in agony about-"

"Watch me." Dean's tone was nothing more than a challenge, his face as hard as stone. "I'll be home tonight."

"He has your daughter." Sam stood and looked across the library. Dean bit his lip and looked at the floor. "Chuck has Aria. Even if you don't care about Cassie, and I know you're trying to convince yourself of that, you definitely care about what happens to that little girl. With Chuck in her life...and Mike still in her life...what do you think is gonna happen to her?"

Dean swallowed and gave his head a single shake before he started walking toward the garage. "Doesn't matter. She's not my daughter. Her step-daddy got killed saving two other little kids."

"If she's not your daughter, then I'm not your brother," Sam called after him. Dean stopped in the hallway. "Can't have it both ways, Dean. Either you are Dean, and everything that was his is yours, or you're not. You gotta make up your mind."

Sam watched Dean's shoulders tense, then release before he walked away. He scratched at his brow as his brother's form disappeared. "What do I do, Dean?" he whispered before picking up his phone and trying to text his sister-in-law again.

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Three days of Cassie ignoring his calls and texts, and Dean ignoring that there was an issue, drove Sam to a slightly extreme option.

"Hello?" a soft, high-pitched voice answered the phone.

"Hey, Aria. It's Uncle Sam."

"I know. I saw it on the phone. Hi, Uncle Sam."

"Oh. I wasn't sure if you had my number in your contacts." He cleared his throat. "I've been trying to get a hold of your mom and she's not answering her phone. Do you know where she is?"

"She's in Erik's room. He's helping her meditate."

"She's-" Sam pushed his hair out of the way and looked around, despite the fact that Dean was out of the Bunker. "She's alone with Erik?"

"Yeah. He helps Mum meditate every day." She sighed dramatically and it almost made Sam smile. "She's weird when she gets done though. I'm sorry if that's mean to say that."

"What do you mean?"

"She walks weird and talks all slow and she's like when she drinks beers."

"Beers? Like she's drunk?"

"Yeah. Like when her and Dean would sit in the Dean Cave and have drinks and watch movies and she would get kinda wobbly but not sick wobbly? That's what she's like after."

Sam could hear worry in the young girl's voice. "Oh, okay. I'm...I'm sure that's just how the meditation is affecting her," he tried to soothe her. "She is probably just really relaxed after."

"Okay."

"Can you tell me if your mom has been acting weird other than just after meditation with Ch--Erik?"

"Um...she's dressing up a lot...and wearing makeup again, but all the time, not just when she's going out."

"Is, uh, is Erik your mom's boyfriend?" Sam didn’t want to know the answer, but he felt that he needed to know so that he could give Dean the full picture.

"I saw him kiss her."

"Right." Sam was more than a little upset that Dean's jealous assumption was right. "Um...that’s okay. Can you...do you know how to text?"

"Yeah."

"Do me a favor; if you see your mom acting really weird, text me."

"So she doesn't hear me on the phone with you?"

"So Erik doesn't hear," Sam corrected.

"Okay."

"Thank you."

"I miss Dean. Is he ever coming back?"

Sam ran his hand through his hair and sighed. "I'm working on it, sweetie."

"Okay. I hope you get him back soon. Mum isn't the same without him."

"Me either." Sam looked up at the ceiling and sighed. "I'll fix this. Just keep an eye on your mom for me, okay?"

"Okay!"

"Bye, Aria."

"Bye, Uncle Sam," she whispered before the call disconnected.

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"Dean, we need to talk." Sam had the words prepared, he just needed his brother to actually listen to them.

Dean shook his head, not looking up from his sheet of firefighter radio codes.  "Nope."

"Just listen, then." Sam sat down across from him, hoping Dean would give eye contact, but not being given the satisfaction. "I called Aria's phone and-"

Dean's eyes snapped up. "You what?"

"I called Aria's phone," Sam repeated. "And she misses you. She misses who her mom is with you. She wants to come back."

"She's a ten year old. She's fine without me."

"No, she's not. She's not fine and neither is Cassie. She's--she's weird. Aria said Cassie is weird since Chuck's been around. I think he's doing something to her."

Dean looked back down, putting back up his defenses. "I'm sure he's fucking her by now. She never has had much resistance to a guy who thinks he's God's gift and treats her like crap. This one just happens to be God."

"D-Dean, that's...what the fuck is wrong with you?"

Dean looked up with a tired expression on his face. "What do you want from me, Sam? I died. She left. Chuck got his sights on her. She moved on with him...sent me home to…"

"Did she say she moved on with him? Or did she want you to be with her?" Dean shook his head dismissively but Sam continued before he could argue. "Because Aria says Erik has been helping Cassie meditate. I think he's been fucking with her head and if I'm right, you are leaving her to be controlled by Chuck just like we were controlled our whole damn lives!"

Dean ran his hand down his face. "I don't think so. She looked clear to me. Yeah, she was excited to see me and then she lied and said that 'Erik' was just a nice guy living in her old room and then she chose to stay-"

"What if she didn't know she was lying? What if he's brainwashing her? We've seen that normal humans can do massive damage to a person's psyche with the right psych knowledge and a bit of magic assistance. Chuck would know-"

"Why would he even do that?" Dean argued. "He didn't know I was coming back, he didn't write it, so he couldn't have set this up to punish me."

"Maybe it's a power trip. I just know that this isn't just Cassie falling victim to her poor self worth. She's fallen victim to him."

"Yeah, that's a nice, convenient, coincidence, but I think you're missin' the horse for the zebra." Dean stood, snatching the paper off of the table. "She moved on. She's allowed to do that. Let 'er move on."

"I don't think I can do that." Sam stood and headed in the direction of the garage. "And I don't know how you can."

"Leave it alone!" Dean called after him.

Sam didn’t respond as he picked up his bag of clothes and tossed it in the back of the old pickup truck. He had to know, one way or the other, what the hell was going on in Walton.

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[battlexworned]

* Hear me out on my EarthSpark Ironhide verse- there will be a hint of spoilers I think:

If he ever appears in the show, I always imagined that the episode would start on the malto kids reading transformers comic books. Jawbreaker and Thrash become fixated on this strong and brave autobot who took part in the final battle, which is Ironhide mwehehe

Optimus comes to visit and the kids (obviously) are eager to know who Ironhide exactly was and where is he if he’s still alive- so they ask the big boss

Though with a kinda saddened expression, Optimus reassures that Ironhide is alive, but it has been years since he last saw him (kind of a similar situation to bumblebee, MIA-ish) and with that he leaves. The kids are confused by his reaction but they move along continuing to be fascinated.

Hours later Jawbreaker and Thrash are in the woods re-enacting a scene of that said comic book, then some fuckery happens (still can’t think of how) and eventually they come across Ironhide! BUUT the fucker is controlled by Mandroid so the kids make a RUN FOR IT, THIS WHOLE SCENE ALMOST BEING HORROR MOVIE STYLE

The “main objective” of Ironhide is to capture at least one malto in order to lure the rest. Luckily the two babies are able to defend themselves, but soon grow desperate at the fact that no matter how many hits Ironhide takes, he still keeps going , further proving those little details on those comic books true: This bitch is STUBBORN AND CANT BE DEFEATED EASILY

Thanks to the emotional connection tho, the rest of the maltos realize that Jawbreaker and Thrash are in trouble and begin pursuit with Bumblebee by their side. Once they arrive and realize who’s the culprit of all this mess, Bumblebee has no choice but to call in Optimus, since he knows that prime is pretty much one of the very few people that can go through to Ironhide.

Optimus had no choice but to face Ironhide head on, and in order to remove Mandroid’s influence by destroying the chip, he had to exhaust Ironhide.

Succeeding, Ironhide was now out of the mind controlling but of course he’s fucking depleted. Optimus lifts him to his arms and tells the malto family that the situation is now resolved, but Ironhide needs refuge. And thus, the family let Ironhide rest inside the barn’s bunker and hopefully wake up after a few hours or even a day.

During this, Thrash was checking up on him, and so did Optimus. Out of curiosity, Thrash asks Optimus as to why he was sad talking about Ironhide, and prime answers by telling one of many reasons why Ironhide was missing:

Ironhide was one of the autobots who didn’t agree with cutting all contact from Cybertron and risking the only source that can save their planet, he pleaded to Optimus that there should at least be another way to fix all of this- and prime promised. So by throwing the allspark to the space bridge and destroying it, Optimus felt that he betrayed his old trusted friend’s trust. After the battle and the reconstruction of it all, Ironhide wasn’t seen again, and Optimus felt fault of that.

BUUT everything turns alright! Ironhide wakes up the morning after and is confused as to where the fuck was he. After a long explanation by Optimus, Ironhide took a bit to understand. But also reassured prime that Ironhide never hated him, and that his journey was his to do and just needed time to think of it all without the war on his shoulders. With that out of the way, the two reconcile.

Ironhide would probs be another bot that gets to stay with the malto family and also help Bumblebee mentor the little Terrans (Jawbreaker and Thrash specially). The Terrans are like his little nephews and he will KILL AND DIE FOR THEM ONG

[aemiron-main]

Mark Hogancamps' Scar vs Brenner's Scar

So, I have a LOT more analyses coming re: Welcome to Marwen, Brenner, and Hawkins not being entirely "real," but for now, I just want to point out that Brenner's eye scar really reminds me of Mark Hogancamp's eye scar from Welcome to Marwen (which is on the S4 board):

And in Welcome to Marwen, Mark creates an entirely fake miniature WW2 village called Marwen in an attempt to cope with his trauma after being attacked by a group of white supremacists/neo-nazis after he drunkenly told them that he's a cross-dresser. And the lines between reality and fiction get extremely blurred for Mark/he ends up believing that Marwen and its inhabitants are real, and that he IS his Marwen alter-ego (Captain Hogie).

Which, the whole "Captain Hoagie" thing makes me think of Captain Brenner in TFS and a.) the idea that Brenner Sr may not have actually been a WW2 Allied captain & instead, that's part of some sort of fantasy in Brenner Jr's mind, especially if the real Brenner Sr was actually on the side of the Nazis (staring at Brenner being a German last name and all of the Nazi references that surround the Brenners). And b.) the idea that the Brenner we see in-show with the eye scar might somehow be Brenner Sr/Captain Brenner via some sort of science/body swap/age and timeline fuckery, which the connection between Captain Brenner and Captain Hogie with the shared eye scars would reinforce this.

And just as a little sidenote, it's interesting to me that we never get a first name for Captain Brenner versus the fact that Victor Creel's first name is, frankly, a little on-the-nose/almost a little fake- after all, an Allied pilot name Victor?

Might as well have named El "Superhero Girl" or named Henry "Spider Man"- "Victor" is literally the perfect name for a charicature of a WW2 Allied Pilot, which also makes me think of all of the weird "Brenner is Henry" TFS stuff that I've talked about in posts like this post and this post, and how in-show Victor seems to be the opposite of Captain Brenner- Captain Brenner seems to have been harsh as a father/gotten into an argument where Brenner Jr said he hated him/he seems to yell, etc etc- whereas Victor seems much calmer/seems to genuinely love his kids despite his issues. Victor almost seems like a more "ideal" version of Brenner Sr in some ways/in the same way that naming a WW2 Allied veteran "Victor" is on the nose.

And also, the doll/toy inhabitants of Marwen reminds me of all of the references to "playing" that surround Brenner, such as El being told to "play" nice for the doctor in the NINA bunker:

Anyway! Lots to think about. What the hell is going on??? I'd love to know.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

would they play bunkers n badasses together and if so how would they play

OH I KNOW THIS ONE.

If going by Wonderlands rules Hammerlock would be a shroomwraith (spore warden/blightcaller combo) and Wainwright would be a trapscallion (spellshot/stabbomancer combo).

If going by official Bunkers and Badasses ttrpg rules Hammerlock would be your standard-ish hunter (duh) and Wainwright would be either a mechromancer or world's most mentally adjusted gunzerker.

In both cases Hammerlock's character would be mostly-ish a self insert but Wainwright would go full fantastical roleplay and really get into what he's doing. Neither of them are really into stat minmaxing but Hammerlock is more mechanically skilled at the numbers and combat parts of the game (he'd definitely use his character's abilities in creative ways to win).

Unfortunately on their first few tries to play the game they were temporarily banned from the table because the moment their characters met one of them would ask to make a Seduction Talk check on the other. As a result all BMs that know them have a rule that specifically bans them from doing that, but more lenient ones like Angel would still let them do it on like, session 7 or 8.

Hammerwright is permanently banned from BnB due to causing eldritch rule fuckery and also demanding they take multiple turns.