#Errored birthday party 2020

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The Bradshaw son and Seresin daughter - introduction

Characters: Bradley Bradshaw x female!OC Madison Ella Hanscott, Son!OC Nicolas Peter Bradshaw, Jake Seresin x female!OC Quinn Kelsell, Daughter!OC Hazel Alexandra Seresin, Son!OC Benjamin Jacob Seresin

Warnings: in this chapter: mention of (teenage) pregnancy, pregnancy difficulties, Navy inaccuracy. (Let me know if I forgot a warning)

Summary of the story: The 16 year old daughter of Jake Seresin gets pregnant. The dad: the 18 year old son of Bradley Bradshaw. How will the dads react to their kids becoming teen parents?

A/N: English is not my first language, so if there is any spelling or grammar errors: please let me know

next part - masterlist

Introducing the families

✈️ Name: Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw

✈️ Birthday: June 27, 1984

✈️ Nationality: American

✈️ Gender: male

✈️ Profession: Naval Aviator

✈️ Husband to Madison Ella Hanscott

✈️ Father to Nicolas Peter Bradshaw

✈️ He and Madison met at the navy base in 2020, 1 year after the dagger mission.

✈️ Madison was there for a documentary about the Navy troughout the years, Bradley was one of the people Madison interviewed.

✈️ Bradley asked her out on the last day of shooting the documentary.

✈️ After 2 years of dating, the couple got married on July 10, 2022. 9 months later Nicolas Peter Bradshaw was born.

✈️ Bradley has a good bond with his son and is very found of the idea of his son becoming a naval aviator like he is.

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📓 Name: Madison Ella Hanscott

📓 Birthday: March 5, 1991

📓 Nationality: American

📓 Gender: female

📓 Profession: writer and TV journalist

📓 Wife to Bradley Bradshaw

📓 Mother to Nicolas Peter Bradshaw

📓 She and Bradley met at the navy base in 2020, 1 year after the dagger mission when Madison was in charge of a documentary about the Navy.

📓 She is best friends with Quinn Kelsell.

📓 She is a very busy person and does a lot of overwork.

📓 Her and Bradley decided to buy Sparky for Nick when he was 16. It was around the time both her and Bradley were both very busy with their jobs and they didn’t want Nick to feel alone in his home.

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🏈 Name: Nicolas Peter Bradshaw

🏈 Birthday: April 9, 2023

🏈 Nationality: American

🏈 Gender: male

🏈 Profession: Naval academy student

🏈 Son to Bradley Bradshaw and Madison Ella Hanscott

🏈 Boyfriend to Hazel Alexandra Seresin

🏈 Nick used to play football in high school but stopped to focus on getting into the naval academy.

🏈 His best friend is his dog Sparky

🏈 His dads opinion is very important to him.

🏈 He is named after his grandad and his dads godfather.

🏈 He fell in love with Hazel when she came knocking on her door. She was wearing a sundress and crying about her first date standing her up. Nick was 17 and Hazel was 15. Nick took her out and slowly fell in love with his best friend.

🏈 Nobody knows they are together because they don’t want it to be weird between their parents if they ever break up.

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✈️ Name: Jake “Hangman” Seresin

✈️ Birthday: November 17, 1987

✈️ Nationality: American

✈️ Gender: male

✈️ Profession: Naval Aviator

✈️ Husband to Quinn Kelsell

✈️ Father to Hazel Alexandra Seresin and Benjamin Jacob Seresin

✈️ He and Quinn met at a Bradshaw party in 2021. With Jake being Bradley’s best friend and Quinn being Madisons best friend it was bound to happen for them to meet.

✈️ They dated for 3 years before getting married on December 27, 2024.

✈️ Jake comes from a big family and wanted to have a big family like his own.

✈️ He is very over protected of Hazel and Benjamin.

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🩺 Name: Quinn Kelsell

🩺 Birthday: January 24, 1992

🩺 Nationality: American

🩺 Gender: female

🩺 Profession: doctor

🩺 Wife to Jake Seresin

🩺 Mother to Hazel Alexandra Seresin and Benjamin Jacob Seresin

🩺 She and Jake met at a Bradshaw party in 2021.

🩺 Quinn comes from a small family but wanted to have a big one of her own.

🩺 She and Jake wanted to have more kids after Benjamin, but the doctors said it could be dangerous for Quinns body to have more. That’s when they decided to just having two kids.

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📚 Name: Hazel Alexandra Seresin

📚 Birthday: August 2, 2025

📚 Nationality: American

📚 Gender: female

📚 Profession: High School student

📚 Daughter to Jake Seresin and Quinn Kelsell

📚 Girlfriend to Nicolas Peter Bradshaw

📚 Sister to Benjamin Jacob Seresin

📚 Hazel isn’t sure yet about what she wants to do after high school so she focuses mostly on her studies.

📚 She fell in love with Nick a month after he took her out after her first date stood her up. Nick was playing with Sparky on the beach while she was reading on her towel.

📚 She cares about what people think of her and can get quite emotional at times.

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🛹 Name: Benjamin Jacob Seresin

🛹 Birthday: September 16, 2027

🛹 Nationality: American

🛹 Gender: male

🛹 Profession: High School student

🛹 Son to Jake Seresin and Quinn Kelsell

🛹 Younger brother to Hazel Alexandra Seresin

🛹 Benjamin loves skateboarding

🛹 He is close to his sister

🛹 When the Bradshaw family went on vacation or went away for the weekend, Benjamin was in charge if Sparky.

🛹 He wants to be a doctor like his mom.

🛹 Benjamin is named after his grandad and his own dad.

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2013 Haylor Timeline

Timeline Tag, or years, 2012 2014

3 January hair pinned up at restaurant in Virgin Islands. Harry's "might as well.." Tattoo first seen. Covered with Ferns now.

4 January - Taylor's blue dress on a boat. Harry bite bruise on his hip

6 January - Harry seen in NY

7 January -Harry back in London, date People reports that they broke up. Reports Scott swift told them to slow down.

9 January - Harry seen GQ dinner London. photos of Harry in Richard Bransons hot hub on front page after the break up. (I often wonder what the less famous people think now that they treated him poorly as a kid and he is massive now). Gordon Smart (1:12, warning he follows it with a bad anecdote about 18 year old H), who worked on media for One Direction, said in 2020 that Harry had said:

"Simon Cowell actually paid me to do some media training with them back in the day so I met them before they were massive and they were again really lovely kids. [...] I wrote a front page story about him sharing a jacuzzi with a girl on holiday and he told me it was bollocks and we still ran it, because we had a picture of him in the jacuzzi. It was probably totally innocuous and I really I'd like to apologize unreservedly to Harry for that because it was an error of judgment on my part and it probably tarnished our friendship."

Richard Branson also has gross sounding comments about this 18 year old that day.

10 January - made fun of his accent at Grammy's, Harry at nightclub London

12 January when asked, Niall says he listens to WANGBT, Louis says and Harry’s. 22 MV filmed.

15 January - one direction trip to Ghana for Red Nose Day comic relief

16 January - One Direction Tokyo, when movie scenes filmed

20 January - Harry in London

21 January - Taylor in London reports she saw Harry, Harry at friends house

22 January - Harry got the Butterfly and handshake tattoos

23 January - Taylor in Madrid before performing at the '40 Principales Awards'. H London

26 January Both at NRG Awards, 25 January Taylor posts Cannes Sunset situation. They both stayed in the Intercontinental Carlton Cannes Hotel.

27 January - Harry meeting with Simon Cowell Glasgow,

28, 30, 31 Jan, 1, 2, 4 , 8 Feb - Harry London, Leed 13 -16

1 February - Harry's 19th birthday. £5k tab, messy, wild party. Rumour that Taylor had booked a week in Italy which was cancelled

6 February - Savan Kotecha (WMYB writer) gave interview where he said 1D want to be write but can’t. Probably had left 1D already and doing press to build career. His last 1D credit is Happily. In 2017 praised (45 mins) Harry’s writing. In the later interview Savan also says he spent a year being sad after the 1D thing ended until Ariana came into work with him, (52mins) so that article may have been that he’d already left 1D. He said he was working on Emblem3 which may be the other bad project he talked about (released April).

10 February - Taylor at Grammy's, night Ed says inspired Tenerife Sea

18 February - Harry the Box Nightclub

21 February - both attend Brit awards - Taylor performs I knew you were trouble with Harry in the audience. In march she told the Sunday Times "Well, it's not hard to access that emotion when the person the song is directed at is standing by the side of the stage watching." She goes to an afterparty with Tom Odell and out with him the next night. Tom writes Country Star about Taylor and Harry wrote Happily about wishing they were together. Ed is asked if he would trust Harry around his girlfriend and he said “well he trusts me around his girlfriend so yeah I do. We’re friends we don’t do that.” Harry went on Nick Grimshaw from 6am a hungover.

23 February - 3 November - 1D Up all Night tour, start in Europe

7 March - Taylor sells Hyannis Point House at $1m profit

15 March - Taylor vanity fair article. Says Harry pursued her for a year before KCA, better part of a year after and it fell apart one night in London when he went out and he’s texting her to ask to see her again at the time of the interview. Pointed mentioned she was born in 1989, Easter egged wonderland, talks about Connor being 2 months and insignificant. Implies Harry was a rebound from JG and Connor was a Harry rebound. Says she’s looking for someone who is interested in her not her wiki page.

25 - 29 March - Harry in LA, then back to London

29 March - Taylor played “You're Not Sorry” in Newark. “I truly believe that when dealing with anybody you meet, you should start by trusting them. Any new friend you meet. Any new person you meet. I think you should truly believe the beat in them. And the first time that they tell you they’re sorry I think you should believe them. But then if they keep doing the same exact thing that they say they’re sorry for, that means one thing guys. That they’re not. Sorry.”- here. Appeared in Wonderland cover April 7, 2013

11 April - Louis says 'Taylor Swift' after Harry sings "I'm in love with you" in Little Things

18 April - Harry holmes chapel

20 April - TS on B stage song before “I Almost Do” in Tampa, FL. “everybody’s got like one, maybe two, I don't know how many you have, but at least one person in your life that doesn’t belong in your life anymore because maybe they hurt you or maybe it’s just over but you kind of want to call them sometimes. And you think better of it. But, you almost do it.”- here. Then a Red tour break till the 25th; One Direction tour break starting in Manchester till Paris on 29th. Louis stays in Europe,

23 April - Harry arrives alone in LA without the Peace ring

24 April - Neither Harry or Taylor seen. The day Harry got the ring

25 April - First day Peace Ring is seen. Harry has dinner with Rod Stewart, Rod then plays the Troubadour and Harry stayed at Rod Stewarts house. Taylor in Cleveland

28 April - Harry posts photo of sunglasses on beach. Taylor photographed in a gym in Los Angles. Wears the ring to leave LAX and there is an absolutely insane mob because he is there alone with no security.

29 April - Arrives in Paris alone, still wearing ring, described as a riot. The ring is in This is Us in Paris

April 30 - Taylor buys Holiday House Rhode Island for $18m cash

1 May - Everything has changed released as single

7 May - Harry goes on a party bus in Norway, photos of him drunk, with blonde and talks about party bus in interviews

18 May - Taylor posted rose’s with a Great Gatsby quote: “Just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer...“

19 May - Taylor said to fans, pointly "You are the longest and best relationship I've ever had" at BBMAs and that she only writes about ex's she doesn't want to see again. In the press room she said

27 May - Taylor wrote Wish you Would

2 June - Taylor attended a pre-show meet and greet at KYGO radio in Denver where David Mueller allegedly reached under Taylors skirt. In 2015 he sued Taylor who counter sued. It was not resolved until 2017 when Taylor won damages of $1.

June - September Midnight Memories written with Happily

12 June Taylor on Grimmy, he says Trouble is the “best song ever” 4 times at 11 mins. Best song ever was released 22 July. :)

13 June - Never Gonna Dance Again tattoo seen when Harry got off a yacht in Miami, seemingly drunk, he was underage at the time lyrics from Wham song "Careless Whisper" about regret for being unfaithful. Grimmy had referred to it in September when Harry sung the song on radio

16 June 2013 - Louisville - Harry was feeling himself during “Last First Kiss” and at the end was flirting with someone in the crowd, he mimicked pole dancing then he kissed his heart tattoo

22 June - Taylor and Selena getting ice cream in Mystic Connecticut, near RI.

28 June - Harry seen with Paige

29 June - Taylor gets a fans face paint on her neck that looks like lipstick in Vancouver, Gaylor 'proof'. 1D NY

1 July - Harry cross tattoo NYC stayed at the Bowery Hotel NYC

6 July - both play in Pennsylvania, Taylor has a week off after, unseen. On the 8th Harry was sick on stage.

20 July - Harry on Ryan Seacrest in Niall’s place and says the rest of the band went back to uk on their break but he stayed in LA.

22 July - Best Song Ever released.

30 July - September GQ cover story where they badgered Harry about how many people he’d slept with (two)

August 14 - Lover Journal: August 14, 2013, Watch Hill RI. Says she feels like a tiger in an enclosure, feels hunted, talks about paparazzi and cell phones. Also calls herself a rabbit, a flower growing in a sidewalk that is picked and how photos ruin a moment, online photos/comments and 'level of possession'.

25 August - VMAs, texting each other and shade, together at afterparty. Sang purple rain together at after party.

3 September - Harry tweeted 1975, Matty Healy told an interviewer that went from 4K followers to 15k in 10 minutes and they exchanged numbers and texted, made plans to meet up and he stood Harry up.

5 September - the 1975 cover WMYB in the live lounge

8 September - Taylor “"People think they know who I've dated and they just don't," "They don't know everything."

9 September - Harry badgered by paparazzi till he cries in London. They called him a womaniser. GQ Article where the interviewer bullied him into how many partners he had has (2)

10 September - Media that they had a heart to heart at VMAs

11 September - Harry Rose tattoo.

18 September - Harry at Pixie Geldorf’s birthday, with Nick and first time seen with model Daisy Lowe in photo pixie posted.

27 September - 1D sign another contract with Syco for 3 albums, they are each paid £10m.

28 September: On the anniversary of the Begin Again weekend in Paris 28 September- 5 October 2012 Harry tweeted: "We don't need no piece of paper from the city hall". from Australia.

5 October - Harry pulled a blonde out of the crowd and hung out with her that night in Australia

8 October - Harry tweeted Shania Twain is so good. Shania thanks him and invites him to her show in Vegas.

16 October - Harry talked about Shania Twain 'Still the One' on stage, Tweet Q's - what song would you like to listen to now?

17 October Harry cried onstage, (0:55) during over again Taylor seen with Alexander Skarsgard 3 days later

18 October - throws up on stage reports touring taking toll

28 October - Harry talked about Shania Twain 'Still the One' on stage again, What's the most embarrassing song on your ipod.

1 November - 1D, Katy Perry and John Mayer take photos backstage at a Japanese radio station in Tokyo. New Romantics was written about Taylor being sad her ex had gone to Japan with his new GF.

November -j14 article where Harry says ok to get back together with ex. Also reports Taylor is house hunting in London. Rumour Taylor was seen with Douglas booth.

13 November - Taylors first Victoria Secret show where she wears a union jack dress in NY and performed IKYWT. On 14th Harry in UK for Gemma's graduation, TS in NY for billboard awards.

18 November - Courtney Cox said she hung out with each of them at her house in Malibu

20 November - Harry has dinner with Kendall Taylor tweets ""I've listened to "Hold On" by @ColbieCaillat 45 times today. So on repeat. So important." on the 21st when dinner reported.

22 November - midnights memories release party in la with Ryan Seacrest

23 November, both at AMAs, gold dress. Kendall PDA reported but no record of it

25 November - Midnight Memories released with Something Great written with Jacknife Lee who also worked on Red.

3 December - Lover Journal - December 3, 2013, Sydney.

6 December - Harry leaves Kendalls hotel and they have breakfast. Lunch the next day NY. Harry is carrying notebooks and dressed that same as in the Spotify visual for Where Do Broken Hearts Go. Tabloids say not dating Kendall and he is texting Daisy Lowe.

11 December- Taylor ATW speech talks about songwriting like a message in a bottle, she mentions still love you and I’m really heartbroken

12 December - One Direction in Milan, record the Xfactor final interview with cushions on the floor.

13 December - Taylor posts a series of photos to IG about a rose garden party in Melbourne, Australia while on tour for her birthday. Many think 1989 will be called Roses. The captions made a sort of poem "Roses. Red Balloons. Pretty.... Sparklers. The best birthday I've ever had." Which could be a dig at Harry, Roses being common Haylor imagery, his tattoo and she famously said her 2012 birthday was her best ever when he took her to the Lakes. Harry's "better still be my winding wheel" tweet. Harry posts his Cannes photo December 14.

15 December - One Direction performs Midnight Memories on Xfactor UK Final and Harry arrives at Kendalls London hotel at 2am.

17 December - Harry, Ed and Taylor spotted together in Suffolk. Harry got injunction banning paparazzi from outside his home. Harry likely had moved into his current house. First confirmed at Ben Winston's with Morgan Spurlock in April 2012, Harry later told Rolling Stone he stayed there 20 months. He was seen house hunting in July and reports of his house were September 2012.

21 December - midnight memories MV filmed

Continue to 2014

[rockanroller]

WGA / SAG-AFTRA Strikes Masterpost

[ !! this post will be edited if there are any updates to info or if i discover i made any errors in my research, so i don’t recommend reblogging it !! ]

✤ TL;DR:

viv has now said in an interview posted October 26th, 2023 that the delay was due to Hazbin Hotel not having a streaming platform, and making arrangements with Prime.

prior to that, viv said on July 13th, 2023, that she felt it was "safe to say" the actor's strike "effects both (helluva boss and hazbin hotel)" even though she could only speak for helluva. [ link to post detailing her tweets & replies that mentioned the strikes ]

what i think is the strikes weren't the main cause but they caused minor delays due to their effect on the industry, and the main cause was Hazbin Hotel not having a distribution partner.

the timeline of WGA strikes and Hazbin Hotel's delay coincidentally line up with each other

✤ basic info about a24 and the unions:

A24 handles producing (funding, organizing) and distributing (marketing, release strategizing, platform seeking) of their products.

Bento Box is the studio that handled animation for Hazbin Hotel.

WGA is the union for WRITERS in film, TV, radio, and online media.

SAG-AFTRA is the union for ACTORS and RADIO ARTISTS.

SAG-AFTRA allowed A24 to continue filming MOVIES with SAG-AFTRA actors around late July 2023 due to A24 not being affiliated with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) that SAG-AFTRA & WGA were/are striking against.

the only thing i've found about A24 and the WGA was a Redditor saying that in relation to SAG-AFTRA's decision to allow A24 to use their actors, WGA hadn't made a decision about A24.

The WGA contract does not cover writing for general advertising, however the development of branded television/entertainment shows/projects that are using WGA writers most likely would've been put on hold. Non-WGA writers would also hesitate to work during a strike for fear of ruining rep/scabbing/ruining their own chances to eventually join the union themselves. (pic below)

Regarding the above; "development" usually means earlier pre-production work, so this may not be applicable to HH at all.

✤ timeline of strike updates, hazbin releases, and vivziepop tweets:

A24 picked up Hazbin Hotel in August 2020.

The Hazbin Hotel Twitter posted that it would be coming in Summer 2023 on October 27th, 2022.

Hazbin Hotel's Twitter continued to make general promotional posts with images & GIFs of the characters throughout 2023 starting with... January 31st - "it's going to be one hell of a year!" February 28th - "lovers in hell"

Hazbin Hotel's wrap-party was posted about on socials in late March 2023. [ As far as I've found wrap-parties generally are held once everything is completed & ready for post-production, but can still take months or years to come out afterwards, although the industry tends to want things out the door fast these days. ]

Hazbin Hotel's Twitter continued to post promo tweets... April 1st - Angel Dust's "birthday" April 30th - "Charlie is excited! Are you?"

The WGA strike began in early May 2023

Viv says in a reply tweet that the WGA (writer's) strike wouldn't effect a Helluva Boss episode that had already been written. (this is true.)

Hazbin Hotel's Twitter continued to post promo tweets... May 31st - "What's Alastor so happy about? We'll see!" June 30th - "Someone had a great month! #happypride"

SAG-AFTRA votes in approval of a strike on July 13th, 2023.

Viv tweets on July 13th, 2023 in support of the SAG-AFTRA (actor's) strike and explains the strike "will effect show marketing and promo so things might take longer" but doesn't specify if she meant for Helluva Boss or Hazbin Hotel.

The same day, in reply to someone asking if the strike would effect both shows or just Hazbin Hotel, Viv says she can only speak for Helluva Boss, but that she thinks it's "safe to say it effects both."

The SAG-AFTRA strike officially starts at midnight on July 14th, 2023.

Hazbin Hotel's Twitter doesn't make any further promotional posts or announcements for months

There were many developments and meetings on the WGA strike during September 2023.

The AMPTP met with the WGA to officially restart negotiations on September 14th, 2023

The WGA resumed negotiations on September 20th, 2023, with Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, and Universal Pictures.

The meeting on the 20th was followed by meetings on September 21st, September 22nd, and September 23rd, 2023.

VivziePop posted a tweet September 23rd, 2023, that an update would be “coming very soon”

On September 24th, 2023, the “writers and studios reached a tentative agreement”

On September 26th, 2023, the WGA leaders announced the strike would officially end.

The strike for WGA ended on September 27th, 2023 at 12:01am PDT.

The Hazbin Hotel trailer that announced its new release in January 2024 was released the very next day, September 28th, 2023.

Hazbin Hotel's Twitter resumes posting on September 28th, 2023 when they share the new trailer as well.

VivziePop posted that she had watched “through the whole season of hh” on October 4th, 2023.

On October 9th, 2023 the WGA successfully agreed to a new contract with AMPTP.

The Hazbin Hotel "Happy Day in Hell" preview was released on October 14th, 2023.

The SAG-AFTRA strike is still on-going as of October 13th, 2023.

✤ !! UPDATE !!

Viv has now said in an interview posted October 16th, 2023, that the delay was due to Hazbin Hotel not having a distribution partner (streaming platform), and once they made a deal with Prime they then had to make arrangements. (pic below)

✤ final thoughts

it would seem that they’ve been working the entire time/on and off since March 2023, and the delay was due to difficulty finding a streaming platform/making arrangements with Prime, like Vivzie claimed in this interview, and just happened to fall into a similar timeline with the WGA strike.

since she has said in reference to the actor’s strike she felt it was “safe to say it effects both (helluva boss AND hazbin hotel) then it’s possible that both caused a delay.

i.e. they were delayed while trying to find a platform, but there were ripples from the "drama" of the strikes throughout the industry that could've caused some other minor delays along the way while they were trying to find a platform, and/or as they were settling arrangements with Prime.

alright that's all the data and speculations i have, enjoy, and as always remember to take speculations with a grain of salt!

[ also feel free to send me any receipts you have regarding all this, you can always share your thoughts or feelings or theories in my ask box if you want to, but pls do not come to insist what is or isn’t true without including receipts/links pls and thank you! ]

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LOADING FILE…  ID #010815 AKA CODENAME: ICARUS.   ETHAN HOFFMAN. FELIX MALLARD.

—  GENDER: MALE.  PRONOUNS: HE/HIM.  AGE: TWENTY-TWO.  YEAR: JUNIOR.   STUDYING: ENGINEERING.  CITY OF ORIGIN:  SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA.

NOW PLAYING…  PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BY KID CUDI.  A CLUTTERED WORKBENCH, ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOTS ON HIM, REWEARING LAST NIGHT’S CLOTHES IN THE MORNING, ELABORATE HANGOVER CURES.

IF THE WALLS COULD TALK, THEY’D TELL YOU HE STOLE THE DESIGNS OF AN INVENTION THAT AWARDED HIM A SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND UNIVERSITY. 

MENTOR: AVILA, FRANCISCO.    INDUCTION YEAR: 2020. ERROR:  FILE IS CORRUPT. PLEASE REFRESH.

Name: Ethan Wallace Hoffman Nicknames: E Age: 22 Birthday: August, 15th, 2001 FC: Felix Mallard Gender: Male Pronouns: He/Him/His Sexuality: Bisexual Height: 5′10 Blood Type: B+ Build: Slim Vices: Cannabis, Alcohol, Cigarettes, Party Drugs Favorite Colors: Red & Black

History

Ethan had always been the golden boy. Born to a renowned inventor and toy maker (think the likes of the Bop It or Furby) the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. From a young age Ethan showed signs of wanting to be just as inventive as his father and his creative spark was nurtured as soon as he started crafting his first creations out of cardboard and tape. The older he got the more tools became at his disposal and while Ethan never ended up reinventing the wheel, he felt he got damn close. He watched his father’s success and knew one day he’d follow in his father’s footsteps and be a great inventor.  Coming from money and his father’s impressive line of work it was no surprise that Ethan made friends easily growing up. Who wouldn’t want to be friends with the kid who practically gave out toys just for hanging out? His house was always deemed the cool hangout spot for his extensive toy collection and movie theater in the basement. The older Ethan got his house soon transformed into the party house whenever his parents were away on vacation. While Ethan wasn’t the type of guy you’d go to if you had a problem, he could easily be depended on for having a good time and to cheer you up if you were in a bad mood. He was always carefree and reckless and with parents who hardly told him no his impulses only flourished.  Ethan always did well in school despite his party boy nature. Learning came easily to him but that didn’t mean he went off to university directly after high school much to his parents' chagrin. Instead Ethan took off several years to travel the world and see what it had to offer. He visited over ten countries during his travels and made hundreds of new friends in the process but when he returned to the states his parents had an ultimatum for him. If he wanted to continue being supported he had to go off to college and get a degree. While the pressure was only light from his parents he took it as a sign to go to university as far away from them as possible as an act of rebellion. Money wasn’t an issue for Ethan but still he applied for various engineering scholarships. Feeling like he was in a time crunch and ultimately from his own laziness he ended up using one of his father’s inventions to win the scholarship he used to get into Daskalos University. He’d liked Greece from his time traveling and thought that it was as good a place to go to university as any.

Headcanons

He lives in his own dorm without a roommate. He figured having a roommate could wind up being a buzzkill and he wanted the privacy to be able to bring home whomever he wanted whenever he wants. 

His favorite color is red and is almost always wearing it on his person in the form of red converse. 

Before he graduates college he hopes to come up with the next greatest drinking game to rival beer pong. So far all his ideas for games are too elaborate for drunk people to understand.

He was almost kicked out of the dionysia for being late. He shows up just in the nick of time more often than not. 

Ethan attends almost every party on campus. He’s under the impression that a party doesn’t start until he walks in. 

He schedules all his classes for the afternoon or evening because he’s rarely up before eleven AM.

[jackerscracker]

Warning for a rant/vent below

Forever who may actually be reading this I’m sorry for posting this, talking with bots just isn’t cutting it anymore for me anymore and I just need to write stuff down. If you know me irl please leave this post. This isn’t going to be a well put together and going to have a lot of spelling errors but here we go

Incase I forgot to tag something if like to say this thing involves: SH, meal skipping, sui thoughts, and a bit of homophobia/transphobia

I’ve been struggling with my mental health a lot since last summer and things are going to absolute shit. My grades are fucking ass and it’s all because I can’t fucking focus in class. I’ve honestly tried really hard to but I can’t. My parents are blaming all my problems on technology and my teachers treat me like a toddler. I’ve tried talking to my parents about this being a neurological issue but they denied it and just think I’m being lazy. This isn’t even the first time they haven’t listen to my concerns and that’s almost gotten me killed. Back in 2020 I felt like shit. I was always tired and my stomach hurt so much I couldn’t eat and they just brushed it off as a normal teenage girl thing and I was fine. I went days hardly eating anything and threw up at a birthday party because I ate a hotdog. They only took me to the doctor after this started heavily interfering with school work and it turns out my blood sugar was in the 600s and ended up being diagnosed with type one diabetes. If they listed to my concerns I would’ve been spared a lot of pain I went through during the threeish month period I felt awful.

Diabetes has honestly ruined my entire plan for my career since I wanted to be a pilot for the Air Force since I was little and now I’m stuck trying figure out what the hell I want to do with my life. I wanted to be an animator but my mom instantly shut that down and told me it wasn’t a real job and that I should be an endocrinologist instead.

I love my mom but we don’t see things eye to eye. She was the first person in my family I told I was pansexual and instead of telling me that she supported me she just went on a giant rant about how and I quote “queer people are more prone to STDs and have horrible mental health” she’s also a religious woman and told me that being gay was a sin and that I can’t tell anyone at the barn I work at I’m gay (they all knew before her). If terrified that if I tell her I’m a guy she might actually send me to one of those “pray the gay away” camps and take away all of my access to the internet. She’s even considered putting me in her friends little private Christian school since she think public schools are “forcing” the idea of being gay into kids. Choosing not to tell my parents that I’m trans has taken me down a path where I can’t get the stuff I need to feel euphoric and comfortable in how I look. It’s gotten so bad that I can’t even look myself in a mirror topless anymore without freaking out. I’ve managed to get my hair cut decently short and use the male terms for gendered words in Spanish class but that’s as far as I can get. I honestly hate how I look and since I can’t change anything about it I’ve been caught in this web of dysphoria and SH that I’m struggling to climb out of. I’ve though about just flat out giving up on my life since it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere and just offing myself multiple times. I can’t bring myself to do that though since I have a friend who might not make it through high school if I don’t stick around and I’m not going to leave my sister to struggle through her middle school days without guidance. My dogs would also be sad if I died

I think I’m being bullied at my school but it’s weird. It’s all happens in my PE class and everyone but a few kids are in on it. It’s two groups of people doing it, I’m calling them the A and B groups to make it less confusing if you’re still reading this. Group A is just a group of friends who think it’s funny to try and exchange me in conversations where they act like I’m their friend just to entertain the rest of the group. They ask me stupid questions and always speak in a condescending tone. Group B is basically the copy & paste popular girls in the class. They just fucking shriek at me whenever I mess up during a game or when they beat me in something. One of them screamed in my ear once and I couldn’t hear well out of that ear for a while. Me and a friend had to play them in volleyball ball once and one of them just chucked the ball past me and yelled fetch as if I was some kind of fucking dog. They also like making fun of how I say things, they spent a whole class period talking about how I said the word “bloody” when I yelled at one of them. Also the teacher has witnessed most of this happening and didn’t do a damn thing about it. I’m not sure why he didn’t do anything about it, even after my friend informed me that her mom sent him an email about it.

I’m sorry again for posting this, Im just really tired and needed to just sit and write out some of the bullshit going on in my life

[angelvyxen]

NEWS BREAK‼️🗞️🚨

-Abortion pill ruling expected from US Supreme Court within hours https://apple.news/AzDpWr_X3QFKhMkvXFi76Kw

-There are even more 2020 election defamation suits beyond the Fox-Dominion case https://apple.news/AY0roK9IGTkOlR2y00hgREg

-Four members of an elite competitive cheerleading team in Texas were shot after one of the athletes reportedly mistakenly tried to get into the wrong car after practice The alleged gunman was arrested. https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1648547405015445505?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-A 20-year-old New York woman was shot and killed by a man after she mistakenly drove up the man’s driveway. The 65-year-old was charged with second-degree murder https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1648159146296979458?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-On secretly recorded audio first reported by the McCurtain Gazette-News, GOP McCurtain County, Okla. officials — including the sheriff — talk about hiring hitmen to assassinate local journalists and complain that Black people now have the right to not be lynched. https://twitter.com/heartlandsignal/status/1648006079815483393?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-Ariana Grande on the leaks of her unreleased music during r.e.m. beauty Q&A: “You’ve stolen all my unreleased music, it’s horrible” https://twitter.com/popbase/status/1648045868392800257?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-Phil Dowdell, who had committed to Jacksonville State University to play wide receiver, was one of the victims shot and killed last night at his sister’s birthday party in Alabama. https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1647669060815974401?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-4 dead, more than 20 injured after a shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday celebration in Alabama https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1647596243361710081?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-5 people shot after a pizza was delivered to the wrong house in Detroit. https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1647001971935809536?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — The 84-year-old white man who shot Ralph Yarl, a Black teen who went to the wrong house, turns himself in to authorities. https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1648392038595829764?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-Hundreds of Staley High School students and staff walked out today in support of their classmate Ralph Yarl https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1648456407526830080?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-Morgan Freeman says Black History Month and the term ‘African American’ are both insulting says the man who had sex with his step daughter and caused her to k word herself. Completely unrelated Ik but sir please stfu. https://twitter.com/popbase/status/1648037093388718080?s=46&t=6IIfCmFJC09gIma2nDjk2Q

-Morgan Freeman had affair with step-granddaughter: alleged murderer https://nypost.com/2018/04/20/morgan-freeman-had-affair-with-step-granddaughter-alleged-murderer/

And as always that’s all for now…

Ladies! Our weekly news cast is here! 🗣 Thank you as always to our lovely corespondent, News Anon for her work.

- Honestly, fuck the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v Wade. Old people are destroying this country.

- People are still talking about the 2020 election and mind you, it’s about to be time for a new election anyways.

- People do not need to have guns. Everyone who owns a gun is so trigger happy, like?!

- Another shooting. What a surprise. 🤦🏾‍♀️

- I am so serious when I say this; we need to form a group that assassinates certain elected officials. Quickly. Kill them before they kill us.

- This has nothing to do with the news but had Ariana just stopped making music? Like what is she doing?

- WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND WITH FIREARMS?! This is quite literally the 20th shooting since last week.

- Rest In Peace.

- Rest In Peace, again. What is with people and shooting on sight over small errors? Someone knocks on the wrong door, shot. Someone gets in the wrong car, shot. Someone walks on the wrong side of the sidewalk, SHOT?!

- I saw people standing outside Ralph’s house on Twitter. They need to burn that bitch down with him inside. I’m tired of people patient and peaceful with these YTs. Malcom X’s way is the right way.

- That’s nice that his classmates are supporting him.

- Why does he think the term African American is insulting? And what’s wrong with Black History Month? Rest In Peace to his stepdaughter though, but Morgan? Is this a end of life crisis?

- 😀 What?

This weeks news was eventful. A lot of shootings, Morgan Freeman might be a senile creep and the Supreme Court may or may not once again prove to be a bunch of little bitches. God, when will our suffering END?!

[iamjalen-unhinged]

Before you read: This is a long post about my ex. I promise you I am not posting this for you to read, however if you do, enjoy the ride. If not it's really just to vent and let it go. The following will have grammatical errors, and spelling errors. I don't care, I'm currently high and venting. I might delete this, I'm not really too sure. But here goes...

I got with my ex in 2019, --my last year in college-- and it has been one of the most rocky journeys of my life. I won't get into everything, but to add context to the situation I will talk about some of the bull shit that went down, but please keep in mind, parts of the stories are left out.

First, I was cheated on while I was in another country. Mind you, I was in another country because I was jump starting my marketing career post college. What was supposed to be a happy and glorious moment, and time for me was partly ruined by the fact that I got cheated on. Mind you, the nigga gave the bull shit excuse of "I need to be by myself" and brokeup with me before I even found out about the cheating. It wasn't until a month after that, his friend slipped and told me he cheated on me.

Fast forward end of 2019 going into 2020, my dumb ass starts talking to him again, I went to visit this man a whole hour away from where I live and did so a few times. One time in the mix of partying and drinking, this man calls me the other niggas name in front of all his friends. That shit was wild (I was hysterical that night)

Now you may be thinking, why are you still fucking with this man after all this? but check my technique... it's hard to let someone go bro. Especially because he was the exact opposite of what I had before (you don't even wanna know about that emotionally abusive ass story). On top of that, I was doing off the wall shit too. I just never got caught.

So fast forward again, we've both kinda matured and are in decent places in life (mentally). We decide to be cool, and spend time together and shit like that.

Though this time around, I never put my guard down. Knowing this man and the past shit he put me through, I would never let my guard down with him again. Plus in the back of my head I never thought that us being cool and spending time together would become anything more.At that time I didn't want anything more from him or from anyone, but he brung a good nut and good times. We had also both agreed (he brung up the idea) that we would not fuck other people in fear of STIs and giving it to one another. Fair, right?

WRONG

Everything was going well up until this past summer. In June, this man comes around and tells me he's going to be celibate (Bull shit). I found out in maybe September that in July (right before my birthday)... Let's just say, he broke the agreement, and exactly what we wanted to avoid, ended up happening.

So here we are in October and now this guy has a whole new situation and tbh it irritates the fuck out of me for several reasons. But I'll only list the main 2.

The first reason is... Why didn't that nigga like me? Like we had great times together and it was nothing I wouldn't have done for him, so why no matter how hard I tried this niggas just did not want me!!! and that alone is such a hard pill to swallow because I internalize it when I know I shouldn't. But I genuinely want to know, why wasn't I good enough?

Second reason, BITCH aint no way you about to prosper with this ugly ass nigga (who has the same name as me) after you did me THAT bold. Like fuck you, I hope you and that nigga rot!

...

Now granted I left A LOT of shit out, so this post may come off as the "bitter ex" but that's okay, I'm almost at the end process of letting it go.

I myself have a person that interests me, and I actually do like the person. I hope with time we can actually make something out of it. Because at this point, bitch, I deserve to be happy.

Also (you might be mad) I actually still talk to him to this day. I thought about cutting all ties with him and I still can, however, I don't think it's really necessary for me to do all that. I still value the friendship we did actually make, and I do like spending time with him. As long as no feelings are involved, I will be fine. I'm mature enough to do that, I think

....

If you actually sat and read all of this, I love you and if you want a gift (I don't have anything to offer but nudes) DM me or even like this. Thank you for taking the time. Now back to your regular scheduled programming.

[secret-time-is-here]

Errored birthday Party 2020

UT!Error (Errored), Template, DS!Error (Strings), UV!Error (Glitch), FMtT!Error (Balance), TkahA!Error (Edwin), IS!Error (Ru), PTSD!Error (Viver), THS!Error (Star)

2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022

“Welcome back everyone!” Template cheered, “Sadly Reboot and Middle weren’t able to make it, but--we have five newcomers! And a guest!” the newcomers shyly waved, “So… introduction circle again!” He smiled

The year had come and gone, and while they were able to set up everything for another party, sadly not everyone was able to go. Middle wanted to stay at home to spend the day with his brothers and Reboot got caught up protecting his multiverse.

Nonetheless, they still managed to get five new Error’s and what Template suspected to be one of their boyfriends to come.

“I’ll start! Hi all, the name’s Template, and I protect the Au’s from Pale!” The sans variant said simply, “Your turn!” he pointed to the skeleton on his right. Sighing the skeleton rolled his eyes.

“I’m the original still, I guess I’m going by Errored. Hate the Au’s and destroy them for fun.” Errored shrugged before looking to his right.

“Hi everyone, You can call me Strings, I come from a universe where everything runs a little differently than the original. Nightmare Cross and I are on the run from Dream and his organization.” Strings, explained, using the hand that wasn’t holding the skeleton’s to his right to gesture.

“I’m Glitch,” the next Error started, “And I come from a multiverse where everyone’s a little crazy, mainly Ink--but I somehow ended up in Strings’ multiverse so I’m also on the run with him.” Glitch looked to his left, the first new skeleton to speak up in the circle.

“Hey, You can call me Viver, my multiverse Ink and I share PTSD from the AntiVoid and treat each other like brothers,” Viver explained,  “That’s about it.” A little grimmer of a multiverse, but it seemed to have a nice ending. Template winced hearing how the AntiVoid had affected him, but all multiverses were different. Even by a small detail as that.

“Hello, other mes’? Error’s?” The next skeleton started, “Ok, bad introductions aside, friends have nicknamed me Star, so I’ll go by that. My multiverse I dated Ink for a while some cheating and weird stuff happened, and now we’re co-parenting a kid that is made from our past battles.”

Weird and out of there, and a kid with the enemy? Defiantly not expected, but once again, it sounded like paying a penny for a dollar. The end seemed to be good, despite all the angsty sadness that was probably rolled into it. The next skeleton quickly picked up where the other left off.

“You all can call me Ru, and my multiverse is… to put it best weird. Cutting a story short, I’m happily dating my boyfriends, or well, all of Nightmare’s gang and Nightmare himself--and have a multiversal truce with the Star sans’.” Ru explained going straight to the chase. Once again weird, but different. A thought of a creator imagined.

“I guess I’m next, Error’s my middle name, so, I’ll just go by my first name, Edwin. Our multiverse sounds… to put it lightly, drastically different from all of yours.” Edwin struggled to explain, looking to the dark skeleton next to him for help.

“The easiest way to explain everything would be to simply say that Edwin and I are best friends, and not long after I was crowned king of our Kingdom, we ran away to get away from the royal life and eventually moved to America.” Edwin’s best friend explained although template had a feeling that wasn’t all they were, “I’m Neil by the way, although from the sounds of it, you all would probably know me better as Nightmare.”

The last person was up, and then time to relax and talk.

“Heya, suppose I could go by balance, in my multiverse Nightmare and Dream are Deities of emotion and Night and I are considered the dads of the gang. Although I parent Fresh more than anyone of ‘Mare’s boys.”

Standing up and clasping his hands together, Template smiled. That went way more smoothly than last time!

“Alright! Feel free to talk to one and another, and when everyone’s ready, cake time!”

It took time and coaxing on Template’s part, but soon everyone was in one group or another talking. Viver and Errored managed to get talking. Ru and Star started talking about “The gang” and things similar to that. Glitch and Strings were flirting and throwing jokes left and right. Then Balance got Edwin to get out of his shell and bit and open up, Neil standing nearby, a string subtly connecting him to Edwin.

Walking over to the more closed off of everyone, Template gently interrupted, “Edwin, Neil! Have you met Glitch and String yet? I think you all would get along pretty well. Oh! And Balance, have you tried talking to Ru and Star? Think they’ve been gossiping about the weird and silly things their gang has done.”

“Alright, see you two.” Balance waved, walking over to the gossiping Error’s quickly joining in with his own stories of their gang and the shenanigans they have pulled.

“Glitch String!” Template yelled out, catching their attention as he gently pulled Edwin and Neil over, “I think the four of you would get along well! I mean, all of you do have a background of running from something or another. Maybe it could be a bonding topic? Oh! I think someone’s calling me over, bye!”

And with that, Template left them be.

“So you guys are on the run too?” Glitch started, leaning back into the couch as he cuddled into Strings who chuckled at him trying to nonchalantly be clingy.

“We used to be,” Neil started, sitting down on the other side of the couch, Edwin sitting a little ways from him, but not too far. Their hands still connected by the string, “Thankfully, Ian- um, Ink is now head of the court and stopped the searches for us.”

“Court? You live in a medieval era?” Strings questioned, happily snuggling back into Glitch. Blatantly showing their love, further confusing Edwin and Neil.

“Actually, we live in the 1900s, we have some technology, but not a lot. We rely on magic for a lot of things.” Edwin explained, “U-um, are you two dating?”

“Hmm?” Glitch hummed, unsure why the other was so nervous about asking, “No need to be so anxiec, and yeah, we are. Is being gay a big no-no or something for you guys?”

“Y-yeah...” Edwin sighed, looking away.

“Don’t worry, you guys are safe here, I think literally everyone in this room is gay… so. Yeah, we’d be hypocrites otherwise. Ru’s got his boyfriends, and from what I’ve heard Star is married to this guy outer, and he used to be dating Ink-who is also a guy so, you’re plenty safe.”

“Oh thank magic,” Edwin sighed, immediately laying back against Neil, who wrapped his arms around his aid, pressing a soft kiss to his lover’s skull.

-----

With Edwin and Neil finally relaxed and a lot more open about their relationship, Template moved everyone to cake and presents. Everyone sat comfortably in the living room, the dining room a little small for the number of people they had.

Soon everyone was settled, cake set aside for now or eaten, and all the presents were set in the middle. Just as last year, all the names were put in a hat. Once the rules were explained, Template let Errored pick first, starting the white elephant.

“Glitch… ” Errored spoke, “Seriously?! Again?! You were first last time!” He yelled angrily.

“Luck of the draw,” Glitch replied smoothly, grabbing a random present from the middle, finding supplies for battle or training carefully wrapped and put away in a box. “Fuck yeah! Now, this is what I call weapons.” Balance chuckled, mumbling a little something about having help from his gang in picking his gift. Errored eyes lit up.

Next Strings drew, pulling out Ru’s name.

Who quickly stole the supplies. So quick to stealing.

“They were so good,” He dramatically sobbed, before dropping the act and grabbing a new present. A cookbook and knitting supplies. Star gave a small smile. Glitch grumbled as he drew out the next name.

“Edwin.” The aid quickly grabbed the baking and knitting supplies.

“Come on?!” Glitch yelled, getting further frustrated as Strings pulled the tantrum-throwing skeleton into his lap, giggling and patting his head.

Pulling over a new gift using his magic, he tore it open, revealing a simple blue kitted pillow and blanket, Errored gave a short nod. Seemingly proud of his work.

Next was Viver, who grabbed a gift from the middle, get not so useful art supplies that he could probably regift to his Ink.

Then Star’s name was called, and Viver was the new object of torment, Star stealing the supplies for his son. Star groaned. Once again grabbing a gift from the middle.

This time, it was likely from Strings, a carefully sewn doll in Classic’s liking, a bag of clothes of the different Au sans’ in the box with it.

Next Templates’ name was called, and, deciding to try and get the rest of the gifts open, grabbed something new. More art supplies. He looked over to Viver, who gave a small shrug.

Then Strings went. Opening a new one again, he was presented with a carefully tailored suit of armor that had deliberately stitched under clothing. From a chest plate to shoes, it was well made. Whipping his head he looked over to Edwin and Neil, who smiled innocently.

“You guys said you did tailoring and blacksmithing but--DAMN.” Strings spoke enthusiastically, already admiring the detail and care put into it.

Balance’s name was called and he much like many others wanted to steal the suit.

“Nooooo, I’m still admiring it!” String’s whined as it was slowly pulled out of his hands.

“You can admire it when I’m wearing it.” Balance smiled deviously as Strings continued to pout, already grabbing a new present.

The new present wasn’t as big or grand as the literally handcrafted suit of armor, but Ru’s gift was still good. A series of books that he had explained to be invested in--after his Nightmare had gotten him into it--paired with a hot cocoa set and some bagged snacks as well as treats.

The last name to be pulled was Errored, who, despite looking like he wanted to steal the doll, decided to just end everything and pull the last gift from the middle, who could only be from Glitch.

Spiced chocolate, movies, and several extra buttered packets of popcorn. Nothing that Errored wouldn’t be content with.

After many more hours of talking, hanging out, and even more stories being told and shared, Everyone departed. All put back in their rightful multiverse’s. Until they would see each other again the next year.

Template belongs to @unu-nunu-art

OG! Error belongs to @loverofpiggies

Dreamswap Error belongs to @onebizarrekai

Underverse Error belongs to @jakei95

Balance is from my series From memories to trees

Edwin is from my series The King and his Aid

Ru is from my series I should...

Viver is from my series PTSD/ Putting together savorless decisions

Star is from my series The hidden star

[mostlysignssomeportents]

How copyright filters lead to wage-theft

Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcyOxtkafMs

Marina posted a video with a snatch of her performance of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," published in 1801. The composition is firmly in the public domain, and the copyright in the performance is firmly Marina's, but it still triggered Youtube's automated copyright filter.

A corporate entity - identified only by an alphabet soup of initialisms and cryptic LLC names - had claimed Ole Ludwig Van's masterpiece as their own, identifying it as "Wicca Moonlight."

Content ID, the automated Youtube filter, flagged Marina's track as an unauthorized performance of this "Wicca Moonlight" track. Marina appealed the automated judgement, which triggered a message to this shadowy LLC asking if they agreed that no infringement had taken place.

But the LLC renewed its claim of infringement. Marina now faces several unpleasant choices:

She can allow the LLC to monetize her video, stealing the meager wages she receives from the ads that appear on it

She can take down her video

She can provide her full name and address to Youtube in order to escalate the claim, with the possibility that her attackers will get her contact details, and with the risk that if she loses her claim, she can lose her Youtube channel

The incident was a wake-up call for Marina, who is quitting Youtube altogether, noting that it has become a place that favors grifters over creators. She's not wrong, and it's worth looking at how that happened.

Content ID was created to mollify the entertainment industry after Google acquired Youtube. Google would spend $100m on filtering tech that would allow rightsholders to go beyond the simple "takedown" permitted by law, and instead share in revenues from creative uses.

But it's easy to see how this system could be abused. What if people falsely asserted copyright over works to which they had no claim? What if rightsholders rejected fair uses, especially criticism?

In a world where the ownership of creative works can take years to untangle in the courts and where judges' fair use rulings are impossible to predict in advance, how could Google hope to get it right, especially at the vast scale of Youtube?

The impossibility of automating copyright judgments didn't stop Google from trying to perfect its filter, adding layers of complexity until Content ID's appeal process turned into a cod-legal system whose flowchart looks like a bowl of spaghetti.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/12/fairy-use-tale/#content-id

The resulting mess firmly favors attackers (wage stealers, fraudsters, censors, bullies) over defenders (creators, critics). Attackers don't need to waste their time making art, which leaves them with the surplus capacity to master the counterintuitive "legal" framework.

You can't fix a system broke by complexity by adding more complexity to it. Attempts to do so only makes the system more exploitable by bad actors, like blackmailers who use fake copyright claims to extract ransoms from working creators.

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/

But it would be a mistake to think that filterfraud was primarily a problem of shadowy scammers. The most prolific filter scammers and wage-thieves are giant music companies, like Sony Music, who claim nearly *all* classical music:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/22/crisis-for-thee-not-me/#filternet

The Big Tech companies argue that they have an appeals process that can reverse these overclaims, but that process is a joke. Instagram takedowns take a few seconds to file, but *28 months* to appeal.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/cheap-truthers/#robot-sez-no

The entertainment industry are flagrant filternet abusers. Take Warner Chappell, whose subsidiary demonetizes videos that include the numbers "36" and "50":

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/annemunition-bizarre-copyright-strike-youtube-random-numbers-1317750/

Warner Chappell are prolific copyfraudsters. For decades, they fraudulently claimed ownership over "Happy Birthday" (!):

https://consumerist.com/2016/02/09/happy-birthday-song-settlement-to-pay-out-14-million-to-people-who-paid-to-use-song/

They're still at it - In 2020 they used a fraudulent claim to nuke a music theory video, and then a human being working on behalf of the company renewed the claim *after* being informed that they were mistaken about which song was quoted in the video:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/05/warner-chappell-copyfraud/#warnerchappell

The fact that automated copyright claims can remove material from the internet leads to a lot of sheer fuckery. In 2019, anti-fascists toyed with blaring copyrighted music at far right rallies to prevent their enemies from posting them online.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/23/clever-hack-that-will-end-badly-playing-copyrighted-music-during-nazis-rallies-so-they-cant-be-posted-to-youtube/

At the time, I warned that this would end badly. Just a month before, there had been a huge scandal because critics of extremist violence found that automated filters killed their videos because they featured clips of that violence:

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/06/people-who-document-evidence-of-violent-extremism-are-being-shut-down-in-youtubes-crackdown-on-violent-extremism/

Since then, it's only gotten worse. The Chinese Communist Party uses copyfraud to remove critical videos from Youtube:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#communist-bandit

and so does the Beverley Hills Police Department:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duke-sucks/#bhpd

But despite all that, the momentum is for *more* filtering, to remove far fuzzier categories of content. The EU's Terror Regulation has just gone into effect, giving platforms just *one hour* to remove "terrorist" content:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/eu-online-terrorism-regulation-bad-deal

The platforms have pivoted from opposing filter rules to endorsing them. Marc Zuckerberg says that he's fine with removing legal protections for online platforms unless they have hundreds of millions of dollars to install filters.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/25/facebook-has-a-facebook-problem/#played-for-zuckers

The advocates for a filternet insist that all these problems can be solved if geeks just *nerd harder* to automate good judgment, fair appeals, and accurate attributions. This is pure wishful thinking. As is so often the case in tech policy, "wanting it badly is not enough."

In 2019, the EU passed the Copyright Directive, whose Article1 7 is a "notice and staydown" rule requiring platforms to do instant takedowns on notice of infringement *and* to prevent content from being re-posted.

There's no way to do this without filters, but there's no way to make filters without violating the GDPR. The EU trying to figure out how to make it work, and the people who said this wouldn't require filters are now claiming that filters are fine.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/11/protocols-of-qanon/#no-filternet

Automating subtle judgment calls is impossible, not just because copyright's limitations - fair use and others - are grounded in subjective factors like "artistic intent," but because automating a flawed process creates flaws at scale.

Remember when Jimmy Fallon broadcasted himself playing a video game? NBC automatically claimed the whole program as its copyrighted work, and thereafter, gamers who streamed themselves playing that game got automated takedowns from NBC.

https://old.reddit.com/r/beatsaber/comments/bi9cp5/beat_saber_stream_blocked_by_jimmy_fallon_show/

The relentless expansion of proprietary rights over our virtual and physical world raises the stakes for filter errors. The new Notre Dame spire will be a copyrighted work - will filters block videos of protests in front of the cathedral?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190425/09282042084/why-your-holiday-photos-videos-restored-notre-dame-cathedral-could-be-blocked-eus-upload-filters.shtml

And ever since the US's 1976 Copyright Act abolished a registration requirement, it's gotten harder to figure out who controls the rights to any work, so that even the "royalty free" music for Youtubers to safely use turned out to be copyrighted:

https://torrentfreak.com/royalty-free-music-supplied-by-youtube-results-in-mass-video-demonetization-191118/

We need a new deal for content removal, one that favors working creators over wage-thieves who have the time and energy to master the crufty, complex private legal systems each platform grows for itself.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/content-moderation-broken-let-us-count-ways

Back in 2019, Slate Future Tense commissioned me to write an sf story about how this stuff might work out in the coming years. The result, "Affordances," is sadly still relevant today:

https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/affordances-cory-doctorow-sf-story-algorithmic-bias-facial-recognition.html

Here's a podcast of the story as well:

https://ia803108.us.archive.org/3/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_314/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_314_-Affordances.mp3

Meanwhile, governments from Australia to the UK to Canada are adopting "Harmful Content" rules that are poised to vastly expand the filternet, insisting that it's better than the alternative.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-content-1.6007192

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Have you ever have any doubt about cockles? If so, why? And if not, why? This is not to cause discourse I promise. Neither am I a troll as people seem to call anyone who sends such asks a troll. I'm just genuinely curious because some times I wonder if I'm projecting destiel onto cockles.

When I learned about cockles, I spent a whole nine months reblogging posts and liking posts without actually ever posting anything about it. I had my doubts because c'mon that couldn't be real right? Wrong.

The one thing that made me doubt was Jensen calling Misha "brother" the whole of 2018. He made sure to include that tid-bit every time he commented on his IG which was sus in and of itself.

The other thing was the jokes Jensen always made at Misha's expense.

Anyway, as time went on I dug deeper― I had all the time in the world because of the 2020 quarantine ― and I realized that Jensen had never called Misha bro/brother at any point in time save for 2018 which was rather strange and I have my thoughts on that to be addressed another time. So that was very very SUSPISCIOUS.

As for the jokes, I realized it doesn't only apply to Misha. They all made awful, terrible jokes about each other all the time. It's just that the jokes about Misha were blown out of proposition and used by Misha haters to propel their propaganda that Jensen hates Misha which― LOL ― even a blind person can see how much he loves him.

So once I realized that, I became at least 90% sure and then:

I came across their little horny performance at Rob's Birthday party on stage during Dallascon, 2015. That whole thing is not safe for work or any environment tbf. Two men who are just friends should never cross some lines with each other but they crossed those lines and there's no coming back from that!!!!

The whole 2019 madness and lovefest from straddlegate that caused Jensen's aubergine to rise, the chest-chest selfie, and the 10 year anniversary post―not to be confused with the 10 year challenge.

Those two isolated incidents sealed it for me because there was no heterosexual explanation for any of it. I even went further and compared how Jensen is with other men he is close to and spends time with a lot―Jared, Rob, JDM ― and nothing and I mean nothing came close to how he is with Misha.

So without any will of my own, I just fell into the dumpster with 99.9% belief ― .1% is margin for error because nothing is 100% foolproof― that it's real and that's where I'm at at the moment. I'll keep you apprised of developments if anything ever changes.

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Ask Answers (March 3rd, 2021)

Here’s our latest batch of anon ask answers! Thanks for waiting for them.

Will there be a 'Our Life' game for each season? Please say we're getting a winter one! 

As of right now we’re only planning on making two, summer and fall. They take quite a while to finish and we’re not sure where we’ll be when the second OL is truly wrapped up. But it’s not impossible we can do a third. Though, four Our Life games is probably not super likely, honestly, aha. Maybe the third game, if we make one, could be switch between winter and spring or something.

What engine/engines do you use to make your games? 

We use Renpy for all our projects!

For version 1.2 of OL, did you make any changes to the DLC? If so, could you post a changelog detailing what exactly (or at least a general overview)? If it's not too much trouble, could you also elaborate on the bugs/errors you fixed in the base game? 

There aren’t really any changes to the DLCs, except for the voiced name DLC getting an expansion. We fixed very few small typos and added a couple extra lines. Unfortunately, we don’t have a list of exactly what all the little fixes were.

I've been playing OL and I love the characters! As soon as Baxter showed up, I knew I wanted to learn more about him! Would you consider adding him as a prospective LI in the future? 

Yep, Baxter (and Derek) will be getting his own romance story as an optional DLC late in 2021! Glad you like him.

Hellooo! First off I'm a huge fan of the game and can't stop playing it. However, I was wondering about how much domestic life with Cove we'll get to see in step 4. Meaning the time before the wedding and the time after. In my game Cove and I talked about having children and I was hoping that would be an option in step 4. Either way, I cannot wait for the release and I send my best to everyone working on the production :) thanks! 

I’m sorry, there’s no children or scenes after the two are married. There’s sort of endless possibilities for what that future could be like, so we unfortunately can’t depict it. You only get scenes before they’re married and, if you get the wedding DLC, you can see the day they get married. It ends there, though. But thank you for the well-wishes!

Hello! I was just wondering, so step 4 is going to be similiar to the prologue/epilogue scenes of the game. Is the Wedding DLC going to be one long scene too or will that have moments? (I love the game by the way, its ruined all other visual novels for me in the most wonderful way <3 ) 

Yeah, Step 4 and the wedding DLC will be like the prologues/summer ended parts of the game. There won’t be separate Moments you can play in any order. I’m really happy you like the game so much!

You said that the OL MC's birthday can't be in summer, but what if you headcanoned it to be? 

You can headcanon it as being in summer! There just aren’t birthday events in the game even if you do know your MC was born in summer. We had to leave those out, since some people might not want their MC to be born in summer and then they’d miss out on extra birthday scenes because of it. It wouldn’t have been fair.

Hello!😺 I absolutely love your game!😻 I can't wait for DLS with Derek and Baxter. And I wonder if Baxter could have seen Cove and MC at the party during their first failed dance? Or is Baxter only paying attention to who he's dancing with, or is he not dancing with anyone at the soiree at all then? 

Baxter isn’t really paying attention to the couples on the floor. He’s just cruising the outskirts for someone available to dance with him. So he doesn’t get any memories of the MC or Cove at that party if the two just dance with each other. It’s great to hear you like the game!

time-wise/step-wise when does the nsfw dlc take place? 

It’s not super strict in terms of an exact of weeks/months, but generally it’s sometime not long after the end of Step 3.

Heya! I'm currently obsessed with Our Life (I played through the entire game on Valentine's Day, hahaha– ha... hah), and I have one silly question: if I start playing Step 3 with the less... "romantically inclined" interest levels (Fond & Disinterest), is there still a chance of getting a romantic ending with Cove? Can Cove and the MC realize "they're the one for me" in just one summer? Or... are confessions off the table completely unless at least at Crush level? Thank you in advance! 

So happy you’re having fun with it! In OL1 deciding that Cove is your friend means he’s truly only a friend. You can’t decide you have a crush partway through. But we are considering doing things differently in future games.

hey i have some questions about our life

a) is there a way to be friends with that mean bowlcut kid or is he always... like tha

b. what is coves ethnicity?

A. He is always like that, haha. At least as a kid, he does grow up to be different~

B. Cove’s mom Kyra is white, but Cliff’s race doesn’t come up and players are able to headcanon it. So Cove is half white and half whatever you prefer Cliff to be. 

how do you get to the two mc cut-in scenes from the new update?

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Hiii! I'm doing another playthrough (it's only like my 100th time playing through the entire game) after the 1.2 update, and I was wondering how to get the new art? I also really love all the new stuff, thank you for working so hard and creating such a wonderful game :)

You can check our our CG guide on Steam for that! Thank you for the kind words.

Sorry to bother you, but I have a question about the Patreon moment. Will there be initiative settings there too? And if there aren't, will the MC lead the whole thing or will Cove lead at certain points too? Thank you~ 

There will still be flexibly in what you’re comfortable with and whether you want Cove to automatically do things or for choices to always be involved :]. And you don’t need to apologize!

Hello!! I wanted to ask a couple of questions about Our Life:

1. Will we able to buy all the DLC via Steam or will there be some of them only available in Patreon? Just to know if I should create a Patreon user XD

2. Will Our Life: Now and Forever be about the current MC, Cove and the other characters or will it be a game with a New MC, new romantic options and new characters?

1. There will be a Patreon-only NSFW bonus Moment. But all the normal planned DLCs will release on Steam.

2. Our Life: Now & Forever is about new characters- new MC, new family, new LI, etc.

just some small bug I noticed: even if you didn't ask Cove to dance, if he asks you at the Soiree in Step 2 later and you say yes to dancing, the MC acts like they got to dance with Cove again even if it was the first time. 

Thank you for the report on that! We thought it was fixed, but I guess it didn’t work.

I was messing around with the new update and I noticed that all the hands in the firefly CGs have the same skin tone regardless of what you put in, (with the exception of the really dark skin color) is this a glitch or something? 

The skin tones aren’t the same. It’s just because they’re out at night with only fireflies for light that it makes each image look dark and therefore similar. But if you line them up together it’s clear how there are changes in every option.

How long did it take to plan out and write the story for OL? Not including the programming, art stuff, or the DLC chapters, I mean just planning and writing the base game story alone. The base game story seems hefty as is, and then on top of that there's the changes to scenes depending on MC's and Cove's personalities and relationship, I'm curious how long that took 

It took basically the full development time, aha. I’m someone who doesn’t fully outline a project before start and instead continues to come up with stuff as a project progresses. There were new parts to the story being created right up to near the launch. So, starting in 2016 or so to later 2020, with some breaks/hold-ups throughout that time.

Hello! I'm really, really enjoying Our Life: Beginning and Always, it was the kind of sweet, wholesome content I needed during these past months. I had a quick question, will you be making any female characters for the MC to romance? In this game or any others like it? I'm a lesbian and I'd love to have a female love interest with such well written romance as yours! Thank you so much. 

Thank you for the nice comment! Our Life: Beginnings & Always won’t have a female LI since we didn’t want to treat other gender options as second fiddle to the male lead. But we have just started full production on Our Life: Now & Forever, which will have a starring female LI! There’s a silhouette glimpse of her Step 1 self here~

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[CN] Shaw’s S2 R&S - A Gentleman’s Promise

🍒 Warning: This post contains detailed spoilers from an R&S (君子一诺) which has not been released in EN! 🍒

Features S2 Shaw

In terms of sequencing, this is Shaw’s fourth S2 R&S!

[ Chapter One ]

The first time Teacher Zeng met Shaw was three or four years ago.

Back then, he was just a little over thirty, and was still at an age of surging vigour. Based on the results of his online searches, Teacher Zeng carried a bag, bringing along some tools, and came to this mine shaft alone.

Lifting a torchlight with a weak light, he carefully observed the surroundings, trying to search for the stone tablet with the symbol “8″. Despite walking quite far in, he had not been able to glean anything. It was most likely another instance of “mistaken information”.

But he had to admit - this mine shaft was built too loosely. As a graduate in archaeological studies with practical experience, Teacher Zeng guessed that there was sandy soil underneath. For safety reasons, he decided to leave this place first.

That was when the accident suddenly happened.

Teacher Zeng happened to walk into an exceptionally narrow space. Perhaps the mine shaft was too dark and there wasn’t any space for his feet. Just as he planned to turn around, Teacher Zeng felt the ground beneath his feet soften. Knowing that he had unfortunately stepped onto soil which was too loose, Teacher Zeng reacted quickly, attempting to lunge forward. However, the sinking sandy soil was even faster than his thoughts. He was about to fall -

Before he faced imminent peril, he felt an external force grabbing him suddenly!

In the next second, the sandy soil filled the air, collapsing from above. How could a person’s strength withstand the speed of the collapsing soil? Almost immediately, Teacher Zeng attempted to free himself from the other party’s grip, not wanting to become another person’s liability.

As though sensing Teacher Zeng’s intentions, the other party shouted in a muffled voice, “Hey, grab tight!”

All of a sudden, lightning as bright as daytime appeared out of thin air. In the next second, a loud crackling sound of electrical currents seemed to gather into a ball. Along with a few "boom” sounds, the sandy soil and the wall of the mine were instantly exploded open by lightning.

Taking in light and air once again, Teacher Zeng was still badly shaken up. He subconsciously looked at his “saviour”, who appeared to be a young man of around eighteen or nineteen years of age. His head of bluish purple hair was very striking despite the sand and soil that had fallen on it. And in his palm, there seemed to be some electrical currents releasing buzzing sounds.

Even though he’s an ordinary person, Teacher Zeng had seen enough over the years to guess that this young person was likely an Evolver with an ability related to thunder and lightning.

While a sizeable number of ordinary people had issues against Evolvers, Mr Zeng naturally felt very grateful that his life was saved. He panted loudly, thanking him repeatedly. “Little Bro, I’m truly grateful to you.”

“That’s enough. It wasn’t as exaggerated as you said.”

“But you should consider yourself lucky. Leaving someone in danger isn't my style.” The young man arched his brows while speaking, his tone sounding very flamboyant. He looked Teacher Zeng up and down, his gaze sweeping past his weak handheld torchlight and shovel. While brushing his hair lightly, he casually asked, “You brought quite a number of tools. What are you doing here?”

At the same time, Teacher Zeng also noticed the other party’s protective equipment used in archaeology.

That mine shaft was definitely not a normal site for exploration. But according to Teacher Zeng’s knowledge, there were quite a number of people like him who were searching for the “historical ruins” represented by that special stone tablet. He might have the same goal.

Probably because the earlier rescue left a favourable impression on Teacher Zeng, he deliberated for a moment before testing the waters. “I heard there might be an unusual stone tablet in the vicinity. I came to have a look since I was curious. What about you?”

Hearing this, the man’s brows arched high. He patted the sandy soil off his body, standing up in an agile manner. Only then did Teacher Zeng notice that he was really tall.

Carrying a black bag, his lips hooked into a smile. “It’s good to be curious. Looks like we’re kindred spirits.”

Watching the man’s back as he left with large strides, Teacher Zeng couldn’t help but surmise where exactly he came from, and how he dared to take action alone at such a young age. However, when he thought about the other party’s skills, Teacher Zeng tossed aside the thoughts in his head: He should be concerned about himself first.

With this thought in mind, Teacher Zheng opened the notebook he brought along with him. Out of habit, he hastily made a brief record before preparing to leave.

It’s a pity that this was yet another futile exploration.

-

[ Chapter Two ]

The next time he met Shaw, several years had gone by.

A few years isn’t exactly long, but it was enough to gradually morph Teacher Zeng’s perseverance in the face of returning empty-handed again and again, into a state of giving up on exploration and finding historical ruins.

That morning, Teacher Zeng reached his work department: the Ancient Literature Society of Loveland City. After conducting the routine selection of a theme, he suddenly received a call from the front counter, telling him that someone was looking for him.

Right after stepping out of the elevator, he instantly noticed the especially striking head of bluish purple hair next to the pillar. Teacher Zeng subconsciously furrowed his brows, feeling as though he had seen such a conspicuous hair colour somewhere. Just then, the other party turned his face leisurely, meeting Teacher Zeng’s line of sight.

The young man narrowed his eyes slightly, giving him a contemplative glance from top to bottom, and an almost indiscernible interest appeared in his eyes. On the other hand, Teacher Zeng remained stunned in place, the memories from relatively far away stirring in his mind.

“You’re that...”

Before Teacher Zeng finished speaking, the young man arched his left slit eyebrow. “...it’s really you.” He swept a glance at the surroundings. “This place isn't convenient. Let’s chat somewhere else?”

The desolate flower nursery at a corner.

“The last time we met was an accident, and we didn't get to introduce ourselves.” The 10am sunlight filtered downwards through the clouds, providing a contrast to the glistening colours in the young man’s eyes. “I’m Shaw. The reason why I looked for you today...” 

“The reason why you looked for me today couldn’t be because of what happened a few years ago, right?”

Not expecting Teacher Zeng to be so direct, the corners of Shaw’s lips curled upwards. “Since you’ve already asked, I’ll get straight to the point.” While speaking, he retrieved a slightly yellowed old photograph, holding it before Teacher Zeng.

Once he saw the photo, Teacher Zeng lifted his head in surprise. “Why do you have this photograph?”

There were two people in this old photograph. One of them was an obviously younger version of Teacher Zeng, and the other was, astonishingly, Shaw’s mentor.

[Note] Shaw’s mentor is introduced in his 2020 birthday R&S!

Shaw raised the old photograph. “That old man standing next to you left this to me, and said I could look for a helper based on this photo if I ever needed it. I found it a while ago, and realised the person the old man let me look for was actually a ‘familiar person’.”

Teacher Zeng was stunned. So he’s...

Even though Shaw didn’t make it clear, Teacher Zeng already had an answer in his heart.

Shaw rolled his shoulders casually, then continued. “The old man said that you’re really skilful when it comes to online searches and exploration.”

“I’m not that good, maybe just a little faster in searching than ordinary people.” Suddenly hearing Shaw bringing up his mentor, nostalgia flashed across Teacher Zeng’s eyes. “Come to think of it, I just graduated back then, and many things were based on trial and error. Being guided by your mentor for a while was truly a huge fortune.”

“That old man...” Shaw couldn’t help but laugh, but he quickly returned to the earlier topic. “You should also know that we aren’t the only ones searching for the ruins.”

“The speed of one person is limited, so I’m looking for a ‘helper’. How is it? Are you interested in working together?”

After Shaw finished saying this, Teacher Zeng unexpectedly hesitated, growing quiet.

Along with Teacher Zeng’s silence, Shaw slowly retracted the smile in his eyes.

“Actually, in recent years, I haven’t continued in this matter...” A wave of perplexity appeared in Teacher Zeng’s eyes. “I’ve been disappointed too many times over the years. So many times that I’ve gradually lost my motivation despite being unwilling to.”

Shaw’s tone was very calm. “Anticipating failure is something archaeologists should have gotten used to since a long time ago.”

“You might say that, but what exactly is this so-called “ruins”? Whether or not it truly exists - even this answer is a blank space-”

“It doesn’t count as a blank space.” Shaw interrupted him. “Whether they are those picture scrolls kept by the old man, or the notes he left behind, all the records and markings are traces of the real existence of the ruins. As long as they’re around, it’s worth exploring.”

“The instincts of an archaeologist tells me that the secret hidden within it is definitely related to a certain mysterious civilisation. And we might just be missing that final push.”

Teacher Zeng was left in a daze, and he didn’t speak.

Hearing Shaw bringing up his mentor’s picture scrolls and notes, Teacher Zeng’s own notebook, which already had hairy edges, suddenly flashed in his eyes. Actually, there were many times when he wanted to store the notebook in the bottom of his box. But until now, the notebook remained at the top of his drawer even though he couldn't fathom why.

"Although there are times when I dislike how the old man goes on a wild goose chase,” Despite how Shaw said “dislike”, a small smile appeared in his eyes, “But he said something which was correct. As long as you persevere, there will come a day when the secrets within will be revealed. So, as long as there’s a shred of hope, it doesn’t count as a disappointment.”

After saying this, Shaw kept the photograph, then shrugged when he saw how Teacher Zheng remained stunned in place. “But people who are as stubborn as the old man are truly a rarity of rarities. If it’s too difficult, forget it. I’ve never forced anyone into doing anything.”

“All right, that’s all. I’m off.”

“Wait!”

Teacher Zeng called out to Shaw without realising it. His mouth hung open. For a moment, he had no idea what he wanted to say.

A person’s subconsciousness is always the most honest. It turned out that he had never completely let go of searching for the historical ruins. And what he needed was perhaps a person to give him another push.

With this thought in mind, Teacher Zeng met Shaw’s bright eyes. “If you really need it... I could try helping you out once or twice.”

-

[ Chapter Three ]

After agreeing to Shaw, Teacher Zheng spent the following week using codes and calculations to search almost every corner of the panoramic maps on the internet. He meticulously searched for new locations of the historical ruins, not expecting the progress to go even more smoothly than expected.

“With such speed, you truly live up to your reputation.”

Teacher Zeng sent the location to Shaw. “I’ve found two likely positions. One of them is this abandoned factory building which seems more plausible.” Shaw stared at it fixedly for a few seconds, then curled a corner of his mouth and said, “Okay, got it.”

Next to the railing on the roof, sunlight seemed to be even brighter than usual. Magnificent solar flares leapt in between Shaw’s bluish purple hair. He straightened up, his confident expression even more dazzling to the eyes than the sunlight in between his hair. Shaw kept his phone away. “Since I don't have anything on tomorrow, I might as well take a look first.”

Hearing Shaw saying this so lightly, Teacher Zeng instinctively wanted to give him a cautionary warning. However, since it was only their third meeting, he didn’t really know how to phrase it. 

Tidying the hair on his temples which were blown messy by the breeze, Teacher Zeng finally spoke. “I might be overthinking it, but I feel as though it’s been going too smoothly. In the past, I’ve always had to exert double the time to find hazy markings and traces. In short, be more careful tomorrow.”

Shaw arched his brows. “Got it.” Shaw lowered his head to check the time, then waved his hand. “I have class in the afternoon, so I’m heading off.”

-

That evening, Teacher Zeng slept without a peace of mind, and he woke up just as the sky started to brighten. Rubbing his bleary eyes, he subconsciously tapped open the address that he had discovered earlier, but realised that the markings he saw earlier had vanished!

Were the markings he saw earlier false information by someone on the internet?

Teacher Zeng was startled awake completely. After checking for the third time, he immediately contacted Shaw, but realised that he couldn’t get through no matter what. Feeling anxious, Teacher Zeng rushed to the abandoned building with his quickest speed. 

The moment he entered, he saw countless rusty iron sheets and iron pipes. He keenly detected a strange atmosphere: this place was abnormally quiet.

Just as this thought flashed in his mind, a deafening sound drifted from the building in the next second. Thinking of how he had not contacted Shaw yet, Teacher Zeng trembled with fear, sticking himself against the wall of the staircase, and running up quickly.

-

[ Chapter Four ]

“BOOM-!”

While Teacher Zeng was rushing up, Shaw was facing an unknown attack.

The attacker was hiding in a dark place, and was probably an Evolver who could control metal. The iron pipes in the surroundings were pulled mid-air in an astonishing angle, sent smashing in Shaw’s direction. The air was very quickly mixed with the muffled echos of metal.

Shaw’s eyes keenly swept towards the dark area. As though accurately predicting the other party’s thoughts, he unfurled his palm in contempt, sending crackling lightning towards the iron pipes which are not too far away. With a muffled thud, the attacker was struck down.

Perhaps the consecutive failures had left the attacker in a complete frenzy. In the next second, a loud sound of metal exploded in the air.

But Shaw’s reaction was even faster.

His fingertips instantly crackled with electricity. With a flick of his wrist and a stretch of his arm, along with a frigidly cold “hmph”, the loud sound of electrical currents followed the expanse of metal pipes, striking the attacker like a sharp blade.

Most likely sustaining heavy damage, the attacker no longer cared about anything else, fleeing by jumping from the window in a flurry.

In a single breath, Teacher Zeng ran to the roof of the building, but only made it in time to see the moment a hazy figure leapt out of the window.

Shaw furrowed his brows, lifting his hand in distaste as he wiped the rust off his face. “Tch, I actually let him get away.” He turned his head and saw Teacher Zeng who had suddenly appeared, then pursed his lips. “What are you doing here?”

Teacher Zeng explained softly. “I just found out that this could be a trap, but I couldn’t contact you, so I rushed here without thinking too much... it’s a good thing you’re skilled.”

Shaw casually tidied his drooping fringe, revealing his eyebrows, which were arched high. After all, they were “co-workers”. Hearing these words blurted out by Teacher Zeng, the initially sharp expression in Shaw’s eyes turned indiscernibly gentler.

While heading down with Shaw, Teacher Zeng released a sigh, then laughed bitterly. “It’s been so many years. From what I know, due to the lack of progress, people who were searching for the historical ruins like me, you, and your mentor, gave up in succession. I just never thought that aside from there being no progress, it actually became even more dangerous...”

“That’s enough. This matter had nothing to do with you. Searching for the ruins isn’t dangerous.” Hearing Teacher Zeng’s self-abasement and guilt, Shaw interrupted him. “In the process of searching, I accidentally made a few enemies. The one from today was probably just targeting me.”

While speaking, they walked out of the abandoned building.

Despite going through this shocking wrestle, it was only daybreak. The rosy dawn served as a foil to the rising sun, elegantly travelling thousands of miles in the sky, the rose red rays of light spilling across the overgrown land, spilling into Shaw’s serious eyes which refused to concede defeat.

“When it comes to things worth persisting in and challenging, I’ve long since mentally prepared myself for protracted warfare.”

Shaw’s lips hooked upwards, an earnest spirit leaping in his eyes. “They will definitely lose.”

Seeing the stubbornness and seriousness hidden in the depths of Shaw’s eyes, Teacher Zeng’s heart suddenly received a jolt.

At first glance, the young man in front of him looked youthful and flamboyant. But his tenacity and dedication far surpassed the imagination of most people, and made Teacher Zeng re-discover the surging emotions he once had in his earlier years.

He’s akin to a giant creature hiding in the deep sea. Once he bit onto a goal, he would never let go.

For some reason, Teacher Zeng found this emotion rather familiar. It’s as though time had flowed backwards to several years ago. Back then, under the guidance and assistance from Shaw’s mentor, he had once seen a similar expression and tone of voice in the other party.

When the faraway memories surged up, Teacher Zeng stopped breathing. What accompanied this was that smiling face reminiscent of a mischievous child, the web pages he found after days and nights of searching, and all the locations he had once explored without a regard for the results...

Emotions he had not felt for a long time suddenly surged in Teacher Zeng’s heart.

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[ Chapter Five ]

The weather today is very humid, and there doesn’t seem to be a single gust of wind.

After lunch, Teacher Zeng heads to the grocery store to buy a box of cigarettes. Then, he makes his way to the small flower nursery at the corner. Just as he breathes a few mouthfuls of smoke, the sound of footsteps suddenly drifts from behind him.

Teacher Zeng bites on the cigarette bud and turns around: it’s Shaw.

“Good afternoon.” Shaw has a hand stuffed into his pocket, elongating his words teasingly. “Since you’re smoking to entertain yourself, looks like Teacher Zeng has been pretty bored lately.”

Teacher Zeng chuckles softly. “Why are you here today?”

Shaw purses his mouth. “This might sound baffling. This morning, someone dressed in black suddenly attacked my antique store, wanting to search for some leads...”

Teacher Zeng ponders on this.

Slightly irritated, Shaw kicks a pebble at his feet. “It isn’t that easy to defeat me. We have to find the starting point for the ruins first.”

He lifts his eyes and looks at Teacher Zeng, arching his brows. “If I remember correctly, you mentioned being able to help “once or twice” that day. I’m now asking for that second round of assistance.”

Ever since they parted ways the previous time, Teacher Zeng had been giving it much thought. Perhaps Shaw’s persistence moved him, or Shaw’s mentor made him feel sentimental for the past. Regardless, a certain thought in the depths of his heart is especially clear: Actually, he had never let go of searching for the historical ruins. Since that’s the case, he might as well be involved in it entirely, and it wouldn’t put the years of accumulated knowledge to waste. 

Teacher Zeng has a small smile as he speaks leisurely. “Helping out is definitely not a problem. I’ve already been searching for new leads over the past duration. But I’d like to change the conditions.”

Shaw shoots him in glance with deep interest.

Extinguishing the cigarette bud beneath his foot, Teacher Zeng turns his head and says, “If you face more problems, it’d no longer be ‘once or twice’. We’ll work together formally. Can you accept this condition?

Finally, the clouds on the horizon seem to be dispersed by the wind slightly, revealing rays of light.

Shaw arches his brows. “Deal.”

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[battlemaiden13]

Master List 1

Here are links to most of the questions/imagines I’ve answered before. This page is updated constantly and I hope it helps you find what your interested in.

I hope this works 

Asks list 

Skeleton Nicknames If your lost 

Clarification on Syrup and Berry

Mutt Vs Syrup 

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House Next door (or other fanfiction) Specific asks

Thoughts on MC? (As of Hnd Chapter 56, Falling 10, M.A.G.E 5, RTSTZA 5)

HND mc saying “I love you, would you be my boyfriend” (Chapter 55)

The skeletons are just like family to MC (Reaction at chapter 56)

Swimming pool

Pets genders

where the Pets came from 

Pet’s bathroom explained

Doomfanger liking MC more then Edge or Red

What if reader met Berry and Edge First (not Blue and Papyrus) 

Where is HND set? 

Spending time with the skeletons

HND play Among Us

HND in Hogwarts houses 

HND Biggest Fear 

HND Skeletons jobs

HND house blueprints 

HND Kings court if an order was to kiss

HND kings court ordered to twerk 

Finding out about Orange and Syrup’s writing 

God and Goddess high school dating sim in HND

Snipers gift to reader in HND chapter 54

Skeletons rooms

HND brothers interacting with each other 

What would make the HND skeletons cry or get them really angry 

Random Headcanons 

RTSTZA Syrups reaction

RTSTZA have the skeletons encountered any other humans

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Royal s/o Saga

Skeletons Meet their Royal S/o 

Orange and Syrup elaboration

Syrup getting closer to S/o

Princess and the Pauper

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Parent Saga

Skeletons find out they’ve got a human pregnant 

S/o goes into labor early

Child's first word is dad

Taking care of small children

Child is kidnapped

Teaching the kids to deal with bullies

Skeletons as uncles

HT and UF as husbands and dads

Shy Child Trilogy PART 1, PART 2, PART 3

Their child wants them to train them 

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SFW

Headcanons for Undyne and Alphys

Would the Skeletons let a human boss them around? 

Could Humans do Magic?

Explosion scare

Who would be a Food Judge for a cooking contest

Younger brothers first words

Secretly drawing them

How do the skeletons react to you Singing for your food

What would make the boy's Soul glow?

You’re Oblivious

Sans’ personalities cooking skills

You’re ashamed of your Freckles 

Orange and honey food

What does Sniper cook?

S/o is already married PART 1, PART 2

Love Triangle PART 1, PART 2

Cracking bones PART 1, PART 2

Wrong number

Ecto-bodies PART 1, PART 2

Feelings on food trucks

Protective of skeletons brother 

S/o unaffected by the cold

Who would like entertainment venues?

Snippets of Syrup trapping Orange in his sleep

5’1” human physically picking up skeleton

Blue and Red & Berry and Orange Friendship Headcanons

Absentmindedly speak a pun

How they help you through grief

S/o acts as a parental figure towards their own siblings

Sans’ personalities worried about messes attracting bugs

Prank wars

Do the skeletons like hotels or similar things?

S/o is an introvert

Meeting S/o through Frisk/Chara

Clumsy S/o

Crush thinks they might be gay

Glued to skeletons in public 

Favourite tastes in food (Sweet, savory, ect.)

Curvy S/o wears tight clothing

Red with a super affectionate S/o 

S/o makes Red is favourite food to help him after a stressful day at work

s/o is desperate to make Syrup happy

S/o spoils the skeletons

Skeletons befriending a goofy human that tends to stare blankly in random intervals

Ghost Mc headcanons

S/o giggles at everything, even when gravely hurt

S/o dyes their hair but someone says it looks bad

S/o already has a partner but that partner is cheating on them

S/o is basically a walking pharmacy 

Timeline reset/reload before Skeleton met S/o 

Skeletons pretending to be prompts for halloween

Skeletons Feelings on halloween 

#/10 how good are the skeletons at carving pumpkins 

S/o making skeletons favourite food from scratch 

S/o has two very protective guard dogs

S/o is a secret dragon 

Walking in on brother and their s/o being cute 

 s/o having Asperger's/sensory overload?

S/o with a huge scar on their neck from trauma

Vintage Wardrobe 

Lovey dovey drunk

Where the skeletons prefer to live

City slicker S/o prefers small villages 

Overprotective brother

High fives

UF S/o is a professional chef

S/o thinks they are heavy because of something the skeletons said

Combo attacks

Trusting towards humans 

How the skeletons met their respective Undyne and Alphys

card games, computer online/mmos/ mmorpg games, and board games popularity

S/o asks do you want to have a bad time?

S/o who acts like Underfell Papyrus

Doomfanger gets attached to your cats

S/o makes their own custom prosthetics

Who likes Spongebob Squarepants 

Do compliments and praise go to the skeletons head

Who is comfortable walking around without a shirt 

Walking past a sleeping skeleton 

Positivity to cheer up depressed friend

Glomp tackle Friend 

Human bossing them around 

Can humans use magic

S/o gives amazing cuddles

NM, Ink, Dream, Error and Fresh crushing on the enemy 

Planning a Kid’s birthday party

Dream with a Goddess of Balance 

Looney tunes or Animaniacs 

S/o can’t sleep by themselves anymore 

Accidentally ripped skeletons scarf/jacket/bandana

S/o watching christmas movies early

S/o stress cleans from emotional trauma

Skeletons Swimsuits

S/o tells the skeletons they make them feel safe

Skeletons covered in marker

S/o with the same sleep schedule as Orange 

S/o sewed their skeleton a new set of clothing 

What confuse the skeletons about human anatomy 

San’s personalities met the swap version of the fallen child 

S/o acts like a motherly figure 

Orange and Syrup with a S/o with super long hair

Biggest pet peeves

Confused the skeletons when they reached the surface 

S/o never blushes 

S/o has a phobia of doctors and dentists 

Reaction to learning of mosquitos and blood drives 

Growing food 

Syrup drinking maple syrup

Cursed arm 

Bad Argument with S/o

S/o saying they like the skeletons laugh

Karaoke

Skeleton Birthdays 

S/o is easily sunburnt and found passed out in the yard

Classic, Geno, Error, and Fresh, how they act when they are cuddled by their s/o

Neighbour jumps out with a water gun

Which of the skeletons are overprotective 

Mettaton and Napstaton types of actors and musicians 

Do the Skeletons consider themselves professional chefs

MC is a meme lord 

S/o is cold all the time 

Complicated family Tree

Skeletons Favourite bad Movies 

Skeletons as Disney Princesses 

S/o has never been in a relationship 

S/o is suddenly fearful of skeletons 

S/o has an at home daycare

S/o cracking bones 

Grillby Headcannons 

Laughing box in the hand trick

Papyrus and Blue are challenged to a serious rumble 

Would the skeletons let a touch their Ectobody

S/o is expressive in body language 

S/o has tourettes 

Halloween costumes for 2020

Skeletons crush has a crush on their brother 

Do the skeletons need glasses 

Papyrus and Blue cursing 

S/o with an interesting pet

Would Syrup admit he’s a yandere 

The skeletons as Henry VIII wives

Friendship headcannons with a pair of brothers 

Berry and Syrup in a poly relationship 

Dating someone with ADHD

Edge with a Clingy S/o

Syrup with a insecure S/o who craves affection

S/o encounter with a were creature 

Kundere fawning over a pet 

S/o stress bakes 

S/o is very fast with tasks 

[koizumicchi]

LIP×LIP English Translation Masterpost

keep in mind that Japanese and English aren’t my first language. i never claim my translation (attempts) to be error-free. as always, if you’re going to use or reference my translations, please do not claim it as your own and credit me.

all of my translations are cross-posted on my livejournal.

istg i only meant to translate judge and tsuki no hime because during that time no one picked them for translation and the fandom is so small....but before i knew it, my translation attempts and my love for LIPxLIP piled up and up until you have this (growing) masterpost.

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Songs

ジャッジ☆ Judge☆  月の姫 Tsuki no Hime (+ 2nd voice) リペイント Repaint チョコカノ Choco Kano ホワイトデーキッス White Day Kiss 青華 Seika Yellow LOVE&KISS この世界の楽しみ方  許してサンタさん  他のやつにいくなんてさ ジュリエッタ  青へ  俺無しじゃ生きていけない？   新時代  ラストステージ   (LIPxLIP notes) 弟には秘密 母親って 推しの魔法 HALLOWEEN KISS

FT4

Alive ; BLUE ; Dear LAYLA ; FAKE STAR ; LOVE ANTHEM ; ONE NIGHT ; TASTE ; WELCOME SICKS ; Xmas Party

In General

Guru Koi Bouken no VLOG Romantic Wedding Nakama Hazure 東京サニーパーティー ビビっとラブ 好きな子に嘘ついた。 元生徒 コスプレしたいのっ！ アイドルでよかった。 HONEY FLOWER マサキじゃないけど好き ぎじれんあい きらきらスイーツパーチー 転生したら可愛かった 最近めっちゃかわいいね 可愛くなれたらいいのに 兄には秘密 ビュティホ

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Docchi Kiss (2019)

LIP×LIP Radio Track 1 (en subbed) LIP×LIP Radio Track 2 (en subbed) Romeo Music Video Making Haniwa Livestream for Docchi Kiss Release LIP×LIP Docchi Kiss First LIVE Fan Report (Zepp Tokyo)

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Kono Sekai no Tanoshimikata (2020-2021)

LIPxLIP FILMxLIVE LINE stamp Romeo Light Novel Introduction Romeo Light Novel First Photo Kono Sekai no Tanoshimikata LN Prologue Kono Sekai no Tanoshimikata LN Chapter One Kono Sekai no Tanoshimikata LN Chapter Five Kono Sekai no Tanoshimikata LN Chapter Six Lawson Collab Cafe Sneak Peak Animation LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE Spoilers 1 2 3 LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE Special Radio LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE Cheki Voice Drama LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE Animate Tokuten CD LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE SNS Clear Card Hashtags 01/2021 Animage Magazine Interview 1 2 3 4 5 LIPxLIP FILMxLIVE Secret Program Interview Questions LIPxLIP FILMxLIVE Pamphlet/Booklet Director Interview QR Code Drama Tracks Exclusive with the Standees from Japan QR Code Drama Track from the Standees (New Year Greeting)

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2022

Mini Anime  1  2  3  4  5  6

Countdown  10  9  3  2  1

After Talk  2  3  4  8

Animate Standee POP  Yuujirou  Aizou

ULTRASONE Collab Special Voice  ULTRASONE Collab Voice Comic

A Day in the Life of LIPxLIP

SANIPA LIVE (MC Talk)

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Fantasia LOVE&KISS (2022)

LN Introduction LN Summary/Translation  1  2 Haniwa Commentaries Quote (chapter vi) Animate Limited 4P Leaflet

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Umareta Koto Ni Kansha Shinasai! (2024)

Animedia Magazine March Issue はじめての二人っきり旅行 (Full) LIPxLIP Radio 2024 Track 2 (Full) LIPxLIP Radio 2024 Track 1 (Meoto Part) LIP×LIPからのスペシャルボイスメッセージ

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Miscellaneous (Official)

Haniwa 10th Anniversary Livestream 1 2 3 Sukisugite Yabai Tokuten LIPxLIP ft Hiyori  LIPxLIP + Hiyori Drama CD Part Translation Secret Story Film Trailer 2 A B Secret Story Film Trailer 3 Secret Story Film Chibi Ad feat FT4 Catchphrase of the Film LIPxLIP SMASH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 LIPxLIP Xmas Gift Answers LIPxLIP part of your partner you want to fix HaniPure Full Combo Comic ft LIPxLIP & Mona Excerpt from one of the short stories (2/22/21) HaniPure LIPxLIP White Day Event 2021   Haniwa Day 2021 (about LIPxLIP / Yuujirou) HaniPure Dream Story New Year Festival 2022 Chp6 HaniPure Dream Story New Year Festival 2022 Chp7

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Fanarts / Doujinshi

LIPxLIP Birthday Countdown:

2021  ;  2022  ;  2023

クリスマスのせいにして！ (by shirase-san)

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Rodeo Penguin Marry Me Ganbare! Stay with Me Samishigariya Samishigariya (2) Last Name Problem Sukima (Gap) Koichirou vs Aizou 11.11.21 Pocky Day Romeo Light Novel Spoiler Jurassic World x LIPLIP meme Koichirou and LOVE&KISS costume Hiyori’s Manager Level 100 Aizou: idk that Yuujirou

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for translations done by others, see this tag.

[the-green-maiden]

Supernatural Fair Fight Livestream Recap with timestamps

(based off of the notes I took while watching live. any errors are mine and not the fault of the cast or abrams)

21:01 Panel Starts. Misha introduces panel- Stacey Abrams, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padelecki, Erik Kripke, Berto the ASL interpreter.

21:02 Stacey Abrams talks about how she got into SPN. Talks about running for governor(?) in California(?), having trouble gathering support/campaign funds. On a particularly bad day, ends up watching SPN in her hotel room. Loves it, ends up watching the whole show after this. Quotes “Even if it’s hard we can’t stop” and “who else is going to do this” and talks about keeping going.

21:05 Kripke: “Wow”

Ackles: “That’s one of the most beautiful interpretations of what we do, how we tell the story.”

21:06 Kripke: “Grateful we could provide inspiration” 

21:07 JarPad: *reiterates above* joke about how “Kripke’s writing is questionable at best.”

21:08 Misha: “The reason we tell stories is to inspire people” creates an allegory about the ‘invisible enemy’ of voter suppression with the invisible enemy trope common in storytelling. “As we made the show, we were taking inspiration from [Abrams]”

21:09 Kripke asks Abrams to tell more about Fair Fight

21:09 Abrams talks about a secretary of state(?) [whose name I didn’t catch but who JPad refers to as ‘Lucifer”] who was in charge of voter registries in Georgia who wrongfully removed thousands of voters from lists, closed essential polling locations, and prevented people from voting, which disproportionately impacted POC and youth voters, and led to 8+ hour wait times in remaining locations. Abrams tells of how her and FF acted to fix this and change the whole system for the better. “If this becomes about politicians, no one is going to care, but when it becomes about people’s [list of basic rights and essential services]...” “...Patriotic belief that democracy means that if you’re eligible to vote, you get to be heard. Fair Fight is committed to ensuring that every voter in the US has the right to vote, and we are pretty good at it.”

21:16 Misha voices concerns about Trump’s attempts to make the 2020 vote counts seem unreliable.

21:17 Abrams gives an in-depth history of voter suppression in the US, committed by both parties at various times, including restrictions on mail-in votes, ID laws, and something about the voting rights act.

21:18 A bunch more panelists join in, including Jake Abel, Felicia Day, and a number of other SPN cast members.

21:19 Abrams says that in Texas a gun license is a valid id to vote, but a college id is not. “Everyone should get to participate, not just the chosen.” Mentions that she has not seen the final 3 episodes yet, request no spoilers until she logs out.

21:22 Kripke thanks Abrams for her political work.

21:22 Felicia Day says she was very excited to meet Abrams at Dragon Con.

21:33 Misha and Kripke try to move panel along to comply with Abrams limited time availability.

21:24 Rachel Miner “We all admire you [Abrams], you’re our hero.”

21:25 JPad gives a long speech thanking Abrams that was too fast to write down verbatim. “It’s important that everyone have their own voice” says it’s an honor to meet Abrams.

21:26 Bob Singer asks a question about Purdue(?) not showing up to a debate.

21:27 Abrams gives a detailed answer about swing states, swing voters, the lack of swing voters in Georgia, and the relatively small impact that Purdue(?) missing a debate would have on his numbers. Long speech about mail-in voting.

21:29 Sebastian Roche asks a question about run-off votes. Abrams answers.

21:30 Rachel Miner asks a question about voter registration descrimination against people w foreign names.

21:31 Abrams talks about how this has happened and what Fair Fight is doing to combat it, and how Fair Fight’s legal actions have managed to significantly reduce the amount of mail-in ballots thrown out for having difficult to understand names on them.

21:33 Shoshanna Stern thanks Abrams for her efforts in making voting more disability accessible.

21:34 Abrams answers, gives more info on the subject and the importance of having accessible voting locations.

21:36 Jim Beaver says it’s wonderful to be able to talk to Abrams, etc.

21:37 Abrams realizes her time has just about run out, and says thank yous and good byes. Mentions that tomorrow is her birthday. Multiple members of the cast wish her a happy birthday. More goodbyes from everyone, and thank yous to and from Abrams. Abrams exits call.

21:39 Kripke and Misha encourage people to donate to FF

21:41 Misha and Jensen rib each other, joke about an open bar.

21:41 Misha “Now we’re just going to waste your time for half an hour now that she’s gone”

21:42 Curtis Armstrong tells a short story about his mother, who was a voter activist in Detroit and Switzerland, and how nice it was to see Abrams talk.

21:43 Trivia intro. Multiple jokes made at the same time about state capitals.

21:44 Jim Beaver “When my kid was 7, I asked her the capital of Vermont and she said V”

21:44 Kripke asks semi-serious question about what JPad wore as protection in the ball-crusher Japanese game show scene in Changing Channels.

21:45 JPad “A thimble. A mini-thimble. No, a cup.” says something else about the cup.

21:46 Ackles “Our special effects team likes to go above and beyond”

21:46 JPad comments about real fear in that scene

21:46 Misha tries to get trivia back on track. “Without powers, what does Dean say Cas is?”

------[Baby in a trenchcoat]

“Other name of the Impala?”

Julie McNiven guesses “A special place”. Someone calls out “baby”

-----[Metallicar]

“Name of Sam and Jess’s friend who goes with them to the bar in the pilot?”

Even JPad, who was in the scene, does not know. Kripke comments that it was named after an irl friend of his from Tiuanna, named LUIS.

“5 works Kripke ripped off for SPN?”

Everyone guessing at once, including: Animal House, On The Road, Good Omens, Constantine, Star Wars, and several others.

“What herpes medication does Sam have to do a commercial for?”

[Herpexia]

21:52 JPad and Julie rib each other about herpes meds, and argue whether the term is prescription or subscription for medication. One of them brings up the example of having a subscription to dog food.

21:52 Jake Abel “What if your dog has herpes?”

Misha “I only hope that Stacey Abrams has tuned in”

Seb makes another joke about state capitals, then asks JPad the capital of Albania.

Jared has no idea, guesses ‘new albania’

Seb “Tirana” talks about having lived on a boat, presumably near Albania.

Rob Benedict: “Thanks for tuning in”

Bob Singer asks who knows the story of Seb getting a massage at VAncouver airport.

Jared (paraphrased) “We all fly through Vancouver airport a lot. Just past security there’s a massage place [with the chairs where you face the floor].” One day JPad and Ackles went through security and saw Seb getting a massage. They go over, convince the masseuse [who knows them all at this point] to let JPad take over. Seb does not notice, despite the fact that the masseuse is a small woman and JPad is holding his hands weird to try to make them smaller. JPad says he put his hands down Seb’s back and up his shirt, and Seb still did not notice, just making a noise and saying ‘very nice’. JPad gets as far as groping Seb’s ass before Seb notices anything is up. This is still the middle of a busy airport.

21:58 Seb “It was strangely sensual. Thank you, Robert, for bringing that up.” “I was perturbed for the whole flight back.”

Ackles “Another highbrow story”

Seb “It’s really fun being on that set. It really is” Claims they are also serious sometimes, to which there is laughter in response.

Ackles “It going to be like that on The Boys, Krip?”

Kripke “No massages to completion”

Seb “Wait there was no completion”

Krip “Saw photos of [Ackles’s] supersuit today”

Multiple jokes from several people about Ackle costume for The Boys being assless, crotchless, entirely made of paint, and cowboy-themed.

22:01 Misha “time for about 5 minutes of outtakes”

Someone jokes about adding ‘give Seb a massage’ as a donation tier.

Misha thanks the fans, says he loves and misses all the cast. Asks Rob B to sing.

22:02 Rob B “tune into my radio show” [for singing]

22:03 Misha announced that $225,000 has been raised for charity so far in the stream.

More thank yous from everyone to everyone, including the zoom team.

22:04 Seb “Vote out Mitch McConnel:

Jensen “Such as British accent to tell us who to vote for”

Seb “I’m half French half Scottish”

Jensen and Seb joke about scottish and french alcohols, and how they can’t be mixed.

22:05 Kripke thanks the fans for 15 years. Everyone else joins in on thanking fans for 15 years.

Jake Abel “There was a big gap in there for me somewhere”

Seb asks if Jake was in the first season.

22:06 Jake “3rd, 5, and 15”

Seb gives long thank you speech.

Jensen talks about how the cast is sticking together “This group is not being dispersed”...”I take comfort in knowing this” jokes that they’re stuck together whether they like it or not.

Misha “Like herpes”

Felicia “Genital or otherwise”

22:07 gag reel begins, including Misha’s ‘on-camera finger, Jensen falling off a chair “furniture could use some work”, Jensen failing to pick a lock for a very long time and Jared asking ‘Cas” to open it, Jensen saying ‘hail misha’ instead of ‘hail mary’, Misha failing to keep a straight face while looking at Alex Calvert, Jensen eating something too hot(?), and more that someone has probably already uploaded in full anyway.

21:13 stream ends.

[acciocrzychickfics]

2020 Remadora Fanfic Recommendations

So these are not all of my favorites because there are so many, many to choose from but these are. Also I rarely read fluff, so I struggled with that list, sorry. I have put an * next to any story that is fabulous read by has been abandoned.  

MutliChapter Rec

1. If Only by LoquaciousLupin

Tonks meets a mysterious, charming and handsome man at a muggle bar, imagine her surprise when the next time she bumps into him is at her first Order meeting! Will they continue their flirtatious relationship or push aside their feelings in the name of the Order?

Rating: K  Status: Complete

2. The Bureaucratic Error by Iniga

After his death, Remus finds himself 5 years in the past, having undone Voldemort's defeat and Teddy's birth. He's going to need his old friend Sirius to help him with this one.

Rating: T   Status : Incomplete* 

3. Chasing Grindylows by Firetoflame

She pens the note on official Ministry letterhead. Remus Lupin, it reads. You are hereby summoned to attend an Auror interview regarding case file number 713, suspect to be named, Sirius Black. You are required to attend promptly at nine o'clock on the morning of Tuesday the twenty-first. Sincerely, Nymphadora Tonks, Auror Department

Rating: M Status: Complete 

4. Lycanthropy, Love and Other Curses by Thora Jane

This is the story of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks from beginning...to end.

Rating: T    Status: In-Progress (last updated on 12/13/20)

5. A Marriage of Convivence? by BDA 

The Ministry of Magic is preparing to pass new and extremely restrictive laws against magical beings. The Order must scramble to protect Remus, who will be greatly affected by the restrictions on werewolves. Thankfully Dumbledore has a solution. It is decided that Remus will marry Tonks - a pretend relationship to take advantage of a loophole in the laws. Will it work? How will the pair find being married to each other? 

Rating: E       Status: Complete

6. A Crinkle of Fate by AFaith1192 

What if you were given a second chance? An opportunity to change everything... At the last minute before dying, Nymphadora Tonks makes a desperate wish; a wish to save more than one life. But changing the future has a price, and she will have to learn how to pay it. 

Rating: T Status: In-Progress (last updated on 11/15/20)

7. Flying Colours Series by TauraNorma 

The ‘Flying Colours’ trilogy follows Lupin and Tonks’ romance across the canon timeline, from the beginning of the Order of the Phoenix until the end of the Deathly Hallows. 

Rating: E      Status: In-Progress 

8.  Snapshots by brainyisalwayssexy

Mini scenes and moments that could’ve, should’ve been in the films, but weren’t. Movie-canon semi-compliant. Not meant to make sense from chapter to chapter, and not in chronological order.

Rating: M Status: In-Progress (last updated on 12/21/20)

9.Muggle AU Series by AyashiTetsuko132

A school teacher with a rebellious past. A punk musician with a dynamic present. They have an interesting future together.

Rating: T Status: Complete 

10. Protection Detail by LoquaciousLupin

As she can't actively be involved with the search for Black, Tonks is sent to co-ordinate the protection of Hogwarts and Harry Potter whilst Sirius is on the loose. Whilst there, she befriends a charming but secretive new professor. Set during Prisoner of Azkaban. AU in later chapters. Rated for language! Remus/Tonks centred fic.

Rating: T Status: Incomplete (last updated 06/27/20)

11. Worth the Risk by HeadintheCloudsForever

AU. Odyssey-length long fic. Tonks/Remus. Following an Order mission gone horribly wrong that results in Tonks becoming gravely wounded, she meets Remus Lupin when he and Moody rescue her, and Dumbledore assigns Lupin as her new partner for the year, and during the painful time of healing as the young witch recovers from her injuries, she slowly begins to warm up to the man and falls in love with him. Remadora.

Rating: T        Status: Complete 

Angst/Hurt/Comfort

1. I Can't Tell Her by accio_spaceman

He couldn't tell her- it would ruin everything. But can he stop himself? Originally written about Remadora but written in such a way that you could make it about pretty much anyone. 

Rating: K    Status: Complete 

2. In Denial by secretfanficlover

Remus and Tonks try their best to prevent Tonks from becoming pregnant, a war wasn't the time or place for a child, but Teddy was going to become part of the family whether they liked it or not.

Rating: K  Status: Complete 

3. The First Goodbye by couldbemoresonic

“I’m leaving. Albus,” he nodded to the Hogwarts Headmaster, who nodded in return, “has asked me to go into the Underground to help with recruiting.” A few people gasped, Molly audibly said, “Remus no, that’s far too dangerous!” Remus didn’t look at Molly Weasley though. He found himself instead, looking directly into the pale grey eyes of Nymphadora Tonks.

Remus leaves to be a Werewolf spy for the Order, but stops in to say goodbye first.

Rating: G  Status: Complete 

4. Clearing the Desk by HecateA

Harry inherited a certain someone's desk in the Auror Office and finds out just how many slices of someone's life can be contained in a couple of drawers. Oneshot. 

Rating:   K  Status: Complete 

5. For the Sake of the Daughter by Gilpin 

Tonks brings Remus home to see her parents and it's a meeting of mixed emotions for all. Set just after the end of HBP 

Rating:  T  Status: Complete 

Fluffy, Fluff

1. The Order’s Most Eligible Bachelors by cafei-au-lei

The Order's Most Eligible Bachelors, or: the ladies indulge in some firewhiskey and gossip. Sirius and Remus stumble upon a game they're not sure they want to be privy to (okay, maybe Sirius does.) The results lead to some necessary conversation and introspection for a few of the parties involved. Oneshot. 

Rating: T  Status: Complete

2. Lucky Stars by Sirussly 

Series of oneshots (most are fluffly haha)

Rating: G     Status: Incomplete*

3. Chapter by Chapter by HecateA 

Due to a mix-up in the school library, McGonagall's new TA gets the book that Remus needs, which leads to some slow and painful torture. Oneshot. University/College AU.

Rating: K Status: Complete

4. Strange Magic by ItsSoRonksItsRight

Molly comes across a pair of bright purple female short-style lace briefs, what will Remus do? Ronks. Rated T to be safe. One-shot. Disclaimer: I do not own anything relatable to Harry Potter, I'm just borrowing. 

Rating: T Status: Complete

5. The Love Life of Nymphadora Tonks by miniandminie

After Tonks slips to Sirius that she likes someone, the entire Order of the Phoenix is on her case to find out who that ‘someone’ is, including the ‘someone’ himself: Remus Lupin. RLNT, Remadora.

Rating: K Status: Complete 

Family (Remus/Tonks/Teddy)

1. The Talk, Or The (Lighthearted) Trauma of Teddy R. Lupin by cafei-au-lei

Teddy knew when Dad brought out the firewhiskey that something was suspicious. Then again, maybe he wasn't giving Dad enough credit for being the cool parent. AU. Remus and Tonks survive to raise their son and give him The Dreaded Talk. Oneshot.

Rating: T    Status: Complete

2. Grocery Shopping with the Lupins by Deletinvthissoon

What happens when Teddy Lupin gets lost in the grocery store?

Rating: K   Status: Complete

3. In Case I Don’t Live Forever by ThatHCWriter

While cleaning out her attic years after the war, Andromeda discovers a strange muggle media device. She turns it on, and when it begins, Andromeda's world stops.

"Is this thing on? Teddy! It's your dad."

Or, how an accidental discovery allows Teddy Lupin to hear a message from beyond the grave.

Rating: T   Status: Complete 

4. Remus, Teddy! by LadyLoss15

Remadora oneshot Tonks spends an amazing day with Remus just to realize at the end of the day that, to her horror, they have forgotten about bringing Teddy home from the kindergarten. Or have they really?

Rating: NR Status: Complete 

5. The Miracle of Accidental Magic by Mills87

Teddy has a bout of accidental magic when he and his Grandma are attacked by a remnant group of Voldemort supporters on his third birthday. His magic transports him and Andromeda back in time to three years before he was born. With no way back to their time will Andromeda find a way to safely alter time to save her loved ones, what consequences may lie ahead?

Rating: T   Status: Incomplete*

Smut/PWP

1. Awake at Night by Skelpielimmer

Tonks muses on her newfound obsession with Remus Lupin's hands. OotP. Rated M for adult content!

Rating: M   Status: Complete

2. The Perils of Patrol by Worthfull1

Things get a little heated when patrolling undercover. Rated M for swearing and smut. One-shot.

Rating: E    Status: Complete 

3. Under the Invisibility Cloak by AWideEyedPhoenix84

Lupin and Tonks find themselves in a precarious situation on a mission for the Order, and months of pent-up passion come out right before the full moon.

Rating: E    Status: Complete

4. Under the Desk by immahorny

Tonks pays Lupin a visit at Hogwarts. What will happen. AU - Remus is still a teacher when they have an established relationship Book 6 . ***CAUTION: HEAVY SMUT. RATED M FOR A REASON. DON'T LIKE DON'T READ***

Rating: M    Status: Complete 

5. Phantom Touch by Fleshisonlyflesh

Dora is unable to sleep, and her fantasies of a certain werewolf cause her to find a way to relax...

Rating: E     Status: Complete 

General/Romance

1. First Meeting and She’s a Piece of Work by firetoflame

He doesn't even know her, not really, and somehow she's ended up with his wand. He thinks maybe next time he'll listen when Sirius tells him his cousin is a real piece of work.

Rating: G   Status: Complete 

2. Remus, Interrupted by Tonkswyrda 

Sirius likes to interrupt people when they're in the middle of things.

Rating: K  Status: Complete 

3. Things Sirius Black Cannot Unsee by HecateA

In which Sirius doesn't know how to knock, sees something he shouldn't have, and can't keep it to himself—especially not during a very serious Order meeting. Oneshot.

Rating: T Status: Complete 

4. Pluto by bikelock28

A series of Lupin/ Tonks one-shots. Canon universe. Ch84 now up. "Did you send him away, Professor? Or did he ask to go?".

Rating: T  Status: In-Progress (last updated on 12/18/20)

5. Girlish Giggle by failuretoland

Sirius could always tell when Remus had an enjoyable evening, and he had a bad habit of announcing it to anyone who would listen.

Rating: G   Status: Complete

6. The Dawn Patrol by aegle 

Mundungus Fletcher resents being dragged to Yorkshire by Remus and Tonks. He laments.

Rating: T   Status: Complete

7. On First Impressions by cafei-au-lei 

"'You know,' Sirius said, 'it's kind of funny. For someone who thinks Remus is so annoying, you sure can't seem to stop talking about him.'" A series of moments in Remus and Tonks' developing relationship as they get to know each other and learn that maybe first impressions aren't necessarily everything. OOTP. Oneshot. 

Rating: T  Status: Complete 

8. Tuesday by Moreofaguestage

“Sure, Okay let's go get married” Tonks replied brightly. “Where do people get married at 8pm on a Tuesday evening?”

Rating: G  Status: Complete

9. Find Us in a Week by myscribblinquill 

Tonks' new case is different to those she's had before. First off, there's no crime to solve, all she has to do it collect information on the mark and pass it along to her client. But the problem is there's nothing to pass along, he's so boring and yet, somehow, Tonks can't stop following him.

Rating: G   Status: Complete 

10. Dora by notoriously

Meetings with the Order are long and boring, and Don't-Call-Me-Nymphadora Tonks doesn't do long and boring. She takes some time out of her duties to carefully consider Remus Lupin, and he quite-significantly-less-carefully considers the name that leaves his mouth when addressing her.

Rating: G  Status: Complete