#Happy b-day sonic man

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SONIC MOVIE 3 SPOILERS AND RANT BELOW :)

SOBBING. SOBBING. SOBBING. WATCHED IT YESTERDAY AND I WAS CRYING THE WHOLE MOVIE BECAUSE THEY USED IT. THEY USED LIVE AND LEARN. AND NOT JUST ONCE. A MOTIF. THEY GAVE SHADOW A LIVE AND LEARN MOTIF. I AM EXTREMELY INDESCRIBABLY HAPPY. LET'S FUCKING GO

PLUS: EGGMAN'S MOTIF!!! IT WAS HERE!! THEY USED IT!! AND IT WAS ORCHESTRAL. BEAUTIFUL.

SONIC'S ESCAPE FROM THE CITY PLAYED, TOO, BUT NOT AS CONSISTENTLY. BUT ALSO, WHOEVER WROTE IN HAVING SONIC SAY "FOLLOW ME" UH HUH. I SAW YOU. YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE AND I LOVED IT

I WANT THE DONUT LORD SWEATER. THAT NEEDS TO BE MERCH. I DONT CARE HOW MUCH IT IS. IF SOMEONE MAKES IT DM ME I WANT ONE THANK YOU

SPEAKING OF DONUT LORD. I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T KILL HIM OUTRIGHT BUT OH MY GOD WAS I CONFLICTED. BECAUSE ON ONE HAND, OH MY GOD. SHADOW JUST BROKE LIKE ALL OF TOM'S RIBS. NO PLEASE NO. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND... OH MY GOD. YES. THIS WILL BE PERFECT FOR SONIC AND SHADOW'S PARALLEL.

AGAIN, SPEAKING OF: PARALLELS, SPECIFICALLY THE TIME HOPS IN SHADOW'S MEMORIES OF MARIA. BRUTAL. CRIED THE WHOLE TIME. THAT RECORD PLAYER ONE REALLY GOT ME. GOD DAMN. PLUS, THE PARALLELS FROM TOM'S HEART TALK THE ENTIRE MOVIE AND ESPECIALLY THE MOON SCENE. CRYING. I KNEW IT THE WHOLE TIME BUT STILL. CRYING.

ALSO, OPEN YOUR HEART. SPEAK WITH YOUR HEART. WE'RE WINNING

DAMN: WHY DID EGGMAN GET TO SAY DAMN BUT NOT SHADOW

AND ALSO, NO FAKER! THERE WAS THE CONVO ABOUT WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE ME, BUT NO FAKER :(( MAYBE NEXT TIME

I MIGHT BE REMEMBERING WRONG, IT MIGHTVE BEEN FROM THE KNUCKLES SERIES I WATCHED BEFORE, BUT OH MY GOD. THE WACHOWSKI KIDS' BEDS. KNUCKLES AND SONIC IN THEIR CARS ARE CUTE, BUT OH MY GOD TAILS AND HIS AIRPLANE.

OSSIE!! MORE OSSIE!! LOVE OSSIE. THANK YOU

CHAO GARDEN! AGENT STONE BEING A BADASS CONSISTENTLY. I LOVED AGENT STONE THIS WHOLE MOVIE. HE REALLY GOT A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT. LOVE HIM. ALSO A LITTLE SAD SONIC DIDN'T END UP WEARING A SPEED OR DARK CHAO MASK TO LOOK LIKE HIMSELF OR SHADOW, MISSED POTENTIAL :( STILL FUNNY

WALTERS' DEATH WAS UNEXPECTED TO ME NGL, JUST BECAUSE IT WAS SO ABRUPT. LIKE... OKAY. I GUESS. COOL. MAN'S DEAD.

THE MARIA BEING PULLED BY SHADOW ON SKATES. EVERYTHING MARIA. EVEN WITHOUT THE ILLNESS, THAT WAS THE PERFECT MARIA AND SHADOW DUO. YES

TBH, I LIKED THE GERALD AND IVO DUO. IT WAS SILLY. THEY WERE THE COMEDY IN AN OTHERWISE VERY HEAVY MOVIE STILL SOMEWHAT AIMED AT KIDS. SOME THINGS HAD ME LAUGHING BECAUSE IT WAS SO WRONG, LIKE THE SPANKING AND HOW GERALD JUST GOT ZAPPED LIKE A FLY IN AN ELECTRIC SWATTER. ALSO, EASY TO EXPLAIN GERALD'S AGE, HE KEPT LICKING SHADOW'S QUILL, WHICH IS LIKELY WHAT KEPT HIM ALIVE SO LONG. SO YEAH. I DIDNT THINK IT WAS BAD, MAYBE A LITTLE WEIRD, BUT THATS THE ROBOTNIK FAMILY'S THING

SHADOW'S "BOO." ENOUGH SAID

DID SHADOW REALLY HAVE TO SLAM SONIC'S FACE INTO THE GLASS LIKE THAT LMAO

ALSO SHADOW KICKED TAILS!!! THE STREAK CONTINUES

IT IS NOT LOST ON ME THAT SONIC'S POV BEGINS AT HIS B-EARTH-DAY PARTY. FUN REFERENCE TO GENERATIONS

LIVE AND LEARN. STILL HAPPY. JUST WANTED TO SAY IT AGAIN. THE WHOLE DOUBLE SUPER SCENE AND THEIR OWN FIGHT AND THE FIGHT AGAINST THE BOTS. EVERYTHING. PERFECTION. SOBBED. THE SUN RISE AND LOVE STILL EXISTING EVEN AFTER THE SOURCE IS GONE LIKE THE LIGHT. STILL SOBBING

THE WAY THEY HAD ROBOTNIK LEFT ON THE STATION LEAVES ME TO BELIEVE THEY LEFT IT OPEN ENDED ON IF HE LIVED SO THAT JIM CARREY HAD THE OPTION TO COME BACK, AND THATS FINE BY ME :)

PISSED ON THE MOON AND THE BROADCAST?? AND IT WAS A BROADCAST FOR STONE SPECIFICALLY??? WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

SHADOW'S INHIBITORS. YES. HIM FALLING TO EARTH, ALTHOUGH DIFFERENT FROM THE GAME. YES. YES. YES.

1ST POST CREDIT OF METAL SONIC AND THE MISS AMY ROSE. HELL YEAH. IM SO HYPED. METAL LOOKS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND AMY IS SO CUTE. WONDERING HOW THAT'LL LEAD INTO THE NEXT MOVIE THOUGH?? WHO KNOWS

2ND POST CREDIT WITH PARALLELS?? WITH SHADOW LANDING ON EARTH IN A FIELD ALL ALONE FOR A SECOND TIME, THIS TIME MAYBE AMNESIAC AND HAVING TO ADJUST TO EARTH AGAIN?? OH MY GOD?? I WAS SO HAPPY THEY DIDN'T END UP JUST KILLING HIM OFF, ALTHOUGH IT WOULDVE BEEN REALLY GOOD. IF HE HAD DIED THOUGH, HE PROBABLY WOULDVE GOTTEN A LAST WORD IN TO MARIA ANYWAY, BUT STILL GLAD HE'S IN IT TO WIN IT

PLUS SHADOW SPIN OFF SERIES!! AND NEXT MOVIE IN 2027. THANK YOU KEANU FOR MAKING OUR FIRST MOVIE DREAMS COME TRUE, THANK YOU SONIC MOVIE TEAM, THANK YOU ALL CAST

THIS WAS MY TED TALK THANK YOU FOR READING

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Transcript of Will Ramos' essay on Sleep Token for Rock Sound magazine

I might play in a metal band as part of my job, but I don't listen to much metal music anymore.

A few years ago though, I remember one of my friends saying to me, "Dude, you've got to check out this band Sleep Token… They're pretty cool".

I'd never heard the name before, but I'd listened to 'Hypnosis' and a couple of other songs from the band's second album, 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb', to see what they were like.

Hitting play for the first time, I was caught off guard. You hear the guitar and these slamming instrumentals and instantly you think, 'This is about to fucking kick ass'. You're so sure that the vocalist is about to come in with some gnarly screaming, but then you hear this man singing, and he's singing so beautifully. I didn't see it coming at all, and as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was exactly what I needed to hear.

At the start of a long drive that I had to make on my own, I hit play on 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb' from the beginning for the first time. As the record began with 'Atlantic', I was vibing to the sound of the music, but as it rolled through each track I started to get more and more caught up in this incredible sonic journey. By the time it was over, I realised that I'd been on this emotional roller coaster of love, pain, happiness, sadness and nostalgia.

Boom, that was it - I was hooked on that album. Every single song on that record was so freaking incredible to me, and I needed to know more about Sleep Token. Believing that my friend and I were the only people in on this hype, I spoke about it to my band one day, and they said to me, "You need to listen to 'Sundowning'!" I was so mad that they knew about this band the whole time, and nobody ever told me, but I went back and listened to Sleep Token's first album like they suggested.

I remember thinking it was very different. It's not as polished, but it's very dynamic and so beautiful. I think it definitely says something when you can see the progression of a band from just their first and second albums. From then, I knew they were onto something incredible.

It feels like more and more people have been catching onto that hype over the last year, and now it seems as though their name is impossible to ignore. I remember when they released 'The Summoning' at the start of 2023, the day after they'd released 'Chokehold', it felt like it all went crazy. They had something like 4-million hits on that song in just two days, and now, it's got over 70-million plays on Spotify. It was the beginning of a huge explosion for Sleep Token, and the first time I heard it, I was genuinely confused by it. It's so ridiculously versatile, and on my first few listens I felt like the super jazzy outro didn't fit at all, but the more I listened the more it began to click. I remember at the time I showed it to Elizabeth Zharoff, a vocal coach from The Charismatic Voice, and the outro was immediately one of her favourite parts.

She's from a completely other world of music, so to hear her approval showed me how capable Sleep Token were of reaching people outside of the metal scene.

I might not listen to metal music anymore, but Sleep Token are revitalising heavy metal. It brings back the nostalgia that I felt when I was a little kid listening to this type of music for the first time and being like, 'Holy shit, what is this? This is so cool'. I had started to lose that feeling over the years, but every time I listen to these songs, all those emotions come flooding back. In my opinion, there's no band out there that sounds like them - and that's a truly impressive feat.

Merging metal with pop, R&B, and rap influences, and bridging all these different gaps that many artists have historically been afraid to explore, there's something here for so many types of music fans. For a long time, metal bands have been putting themselves in a box. There's been this idea that a metal band needs to be heavy, that you need to have a breakdown in every song, and that you need to tick all the boxes in order to succeed. It's been so refreshing to see the evolution of the genre over the last few years, and to see bands like Sleep Token bring all these different sounds to the forefront of metal.

It brings a whole bunch of unique people into the fold. People love to say that metal is dying, but it's music like this that keeps it alive. It doesn't just move the scene forward, it expands it.

Now, there are all these people who didn't listen to metal before listening to Sleep Token. R&B and pop fans are coming into this as fans of Vessel's singing voice and hearing all these metal influences along the way. The second verse of 'Take Me Back To Eden' has this great rap-inspired singing part, and it's these little things that speak to different people in different ways. All of this feeds into our community in some crazy way, shape, or form. It's welcoming people into a genre that they may never have been exposed to otherwise, and I think that s a beautiful thing.

As a vocalist, one thing in particular that draws me to Sleep Token is Vessel's voice. I have always been a screamer, but I've always wanted to be a singer at the same time. I always practise on the side of Lorna Shore, but in my mind I'm like, 'This isn't very good. My voice is not fit for metal at all, as far as singing goes'. When I first heard Sleep Token though, one of the first things I noticed was that Vessel and I have a very similar range. Hearing him lay down all of these incredible parts, it makes me realise that I can actually sing metal vocals.

Back when I first discovered them, I wanted to cover their songs in the hopes that more people would hear them. Now, I just want to cover them so that I can sing something that is in my range.

Obviously though, his voice is much more dynamic than mine because he's been polishing it for a very long time. He does a crazy vibrato and can switch between his head voice and chest voice super easily. It's crazy stuff, and as someone who has been a vocalist for so long, I can appreciate the techniques he's using. I love to hear the different ways he's able to blend his voice into the genre.

Another thing that makes his voice so unique is that it's so emotional. When I hear Vessel sing, I can truly feel the emotion behind his words. He might be this otherworldly figure singing about an ancient deity, but there's a distinct humanity to his vocals. You can sense his sadness and pain, and whether people realise it or not that draws a lot of people to Sleep Token's music. They're the band that you can listen to at two o'clock in the morning when you're driving down the road alone. They're the perfect companion for those moments where you're upset about something, and you just need to listen to something that feels like a release.

That's a beautiful thing, because when you write music, you want people to feel the same emotions that you're feeling when you're writing it. The way that Vessel translates all of that is so incredible, and it's arguably my favourite thing about the band. Between his vocals and the instrumentation behind them, you feel exactly what they want you to feel. Even before thinking about what I knew about Sleep Token, when we were thinking about what we wanted to do with Lorna Shore, that was the goal. We wanted to bring a little bit more emotion into heavy metal music, and now they've done that and brought the singing into it too. Metal's now even more emotional because of the way he uses his beautiful voice, and I think that's what this genre has needed for a long time.

The truth is, from the moment I first heard Sleep Token, I knew they were one of those bands. Between their studio quality, their musical skill, and their ability to conjure up their own lore to incorporate into the music, I could see that they had the potential to be something truly special, they just needed that little push.

As soon as they got that with 'The Summoning', that was it - they were taking over.

First impressions are a big thing, and I think 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb' will always be my favourite album because of the way I first connected with it, but 'Take Me Back To Eden' is phenomenal. They have been able to get all of their emotion out in so many new ways on those songs because there's even more happening from a musical perspective. They've managed to strike the balance between heaviness and beauty perfectly and that's what we strive to create with albums. The goal is to create an album you can sit with, front to back, and feel the waves of emotion. A record to let yourself feel those things, and an opportunity to sit in isolation whilst you experience that journey.

It's a feeling that's amplified within Sleep Token's live shows, and I was able to catch them at Blue Ridge Rock Festival in Virginia. Lorna Shore were also playing, and we had a meet and greet scheduled for that day. It was scheduled to take place from 7pm until 7:30pm, and Sleep Token's set started at 7:30pm. I was a little antsy, because I know that meet and greets always overrun by half an hour or so, and they were the band I was most desperate to catch.

I was sitting there, it was 7:29pm, and the meet and greet line was still as long as it had been when we'd started. I started to hear 'Chokehold' playing in the distance, and I felt so sad.

People online were messaging me to tell me that Sleep Token were playing, and I was like, 'I know! I can hear them, but I'm stuck here!'

That's where it started to set in how freaking massive Sleep Token were becoming. They're one of the biggest metal bands that I'm aware of right now, and there were so many people watching that set. They refer to their live shows as rituals, their fans are the congregation, and the stage as a place of worship. It's something that could easily seem tacky if a band did it with little consideration for the details, but they're so committed to what they do.

After about three minutes, as I heard 'Chokehold' coming to an end, I stood up and said, 'Alright everybody, I've got to go. I'm so sorry, but if you know me, you'll understand'. The people who come to our meet and greets know how much I love Sleep Token, so they were like, 'Dude, go!' I sprinted out of there, leaving the rest of the band still doing the meet and greet, and made my way over to the stage. I thought I was the only one who wanted to see their set, but ten seconds into running I turned around and saw Of Mice & Men's singer, Aaron Pauley, following me. We started running through this huge crowd together, and everybody was so excited. I'm not the type of guy to leave a meet and greet early, but I needed to witness that set. It was an act of true love!

Even when they post on Instagram after shows, the captions are always like, 'The ritual has been completed in Copenhagen'. They totally absorb themselves in the spiritual aspect, physically, visually, and sonically. It's a brand, and they completely own that brand. They've made it exactly what it is, and they stick to it.

When I saw them, they had four people onstage doing harmonies with them, and they just stood there in their cloaks.

They didn't move throughout the entire set, and I began to picture it as a church choir at the side of the ritual. The whole experience does feel super spiritual, and they don't just give 50 per cent to the theming, it's 100 per cent. People feel the emotion, see the way they embody this ideal, and hear this incredible music - and I think that's why people are so ready to absolve themselves in this spiritual moment.

Everybody has a different connection to every song because of the different things everyone goes through in life, but they get to experience all of that in a place where everybody else is feeling something too.

Vessel's vocals translate into their live experience so perfectly, too. His screams are even better live than they are in the studio, and he still sings beautifully, which is so impressive. I was genuinely doubtful that he was going to be able to hit all of those vibratos and do all the other crazy vocal work he does on the albums, but he hit every note. Sometimes, he doesn't even hit the notes that he does on the studio versions, but he hits another note that is equally as stunning. He's a true performer.

You can tell a lot about a band from their live performance, but as a band in the modern age you also have to put a lot of thought into your promotion. The way you come across on social media is important, and the way that people perceive you is largely down to how you come across online. That's why I've always been fascinated by Sleep Token choosing to keep the identities of their band members a secret, refusing to do interviews and placing the focus on their visual identity.

I definitely think that's played a part in their success, because it's allowed the music to take centre stage. I remember when I was first talking to the rest of Lorna Shore about Sleep Token, they told me about the lore behind the band and that the members are all anonymous. That was before 'The Summoning' came out, but since people have caught on there have been some serious investigative deep dives, so l'm pretty sure the internet has found out who Vessel is.

I didn't look that up though, because personally for me, I always really appreciated the fact that they were totally anonymous. I like the feeling that Vessel is just a voice in the ether. You can hear it, but you can't classify it as being the voice of any one person, it's just this intriguing mystery. I've heard a lot of people say that it reminds them of when they first got into Slipknot because when a lot of people I know first listened to that band, nobody knew who was behind the masks. They were just a bunch of dudes making music with no outside perceptions, but then obviously people found out. I think that Sleep Token have that similar allure for a whole new generation, but sadly for me that mystery was shattered when I met them after a show.

It was great to meet them, but I also really didn't want to know who they were. I loved not knowing and I think that the anonymous aspect of what they do plays such an important role in the impact they're having on the heavy metal world.

It's a bit of a double-edged sword because everyone wants to know their identities, but once you do know - you miss the anonymity.

There's something special about the way they're putting their music out into the world with no need for individual validation, and I think it takes a lot of guts and confidence in what you're creating to do what Sleep Token are doing.

Usually, you almost want everyone to know who's in the band, because often that helps push you forwards. If you have someone in your line-up who's been in a well-known band before, you want to use that name to get yourselves out into the scene more. Sleep Token aren't anybody, and that takes a lot of courage and humbleness to do. There's no predisposed idea of what their music is supposed to be or what it's going to be, and that's part of the magic.

It's something that also comes out in the lore, the symbolism, and the cryptic clues that Sleep Token scatter throughout everything they do. There are Reddit threads dissecting every single word in the songs and analysing each pixel within their visuals, but it's not something I've had the chance to fall into just yet.

When I first listened to 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb', I could only find one or two articles about Sleep Token online.

They were basic articles explaining the idea of the band and what they were trying to do, which I thought were cool, but I never really looked it up again.

Over the last year or so, it seems that these conversations have spiralled. People are coming up with these different ideas about the band's story, and there are all these hints appearing constantly. I don't know any of the Easter eggs yet. I'm still just fascinated by the music and their wicked aesthetics, but I love that they've got people talking. It's become this kind of community around the band, and as someone who grew up in this scene, seeing artists who are able to foster that feeling amongst fellow music fans is such an incredible thing.

I think that's one of the reasons why Sleep Token have been able to find success on such a wide level so quickly, because there's a constant conversation about them. If people aren't talking about their music, they're talking about the lore and the stories behind it, or they're talking about the potential identities of the band members. They have this perfect package in place that lends itself to a world class metal band, but they're achieving it at such an incredible speed.

They thought out every single element of this band before they even started, from how the melodies work with the vocals, to the emotion and the quality of the sound. A lot of people put out music that sounds like they're hitting a trash can, and whilst they might have really good singing over the top of it, you can't ignore that trash can. Sleep Token have got incredible production value though, which is even more impressive when you consider how versatile their sound is.

It's so well thought out that you hear new things in each song on every listen. If you listen to 'Take Me Back To Eden', the title track of their third album, there's an allusion to a particular part of 'Chokehold', and it's details like that which make their production so unique. They wanted to make sure that it came out perfect, and maybe - like all musicians I know - they think they could have made certain parts of it better in retrospect, but I honestly can't imagine how.

Between the versatility, the emotion that people feel when they listen to it, the heaviness, the quality, and the songwriting, Sleep Token don't cut any corners anywhere. That's why they're already playing these huge, career defining shows, and putting out music that's changing people's perception of heavy music as a whole. It's so exciting to be a Sleep Token fan, and I just want them to write even more mind-blowing music and play even bigger places because they truly deserve it.

The bigger the places that they play, the better they're going to sound live. They're already playing arenas over in the UK, and with the size of those venues I just know they're going to sound absolutely incredible. They're reaching heights much higher than most metal bands that I know, and the bigger they get, the better their production value is going to be all round.

'Take Me Back To Eden' only came out earlier this year, but I already can't wait to hear them put out more music. lf what we heard on album three is the direction that they're going in, I'm very optimistic to see what the future holds for Sleep Token. I imagine at one point, they're going to make it on the radio - and honestly it could happen sooner rather than later. I knew it when I first heard them, and I'm even more certain of it now - they're going to be huge.

[king-crawler]

The Disney villain book i ordered 3 weeks ago finally came and the sleeve was oily and chafed but at least I get the fabled single paragraph of King Candy insight

this is truly a game changer

And ralf

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Page 166: Disney Villains: Delightfully Evil.

KING CANDY - WRECK-IT RALPH.

RELEASE DATE: November 2, 2012.

DIRECTOR: Rich Moore.

VOICE TALENT: Alan Tudyk.

ANIMATOR: Zach Parrish.

"Everyone should have known with a pass code like UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START that this sugary-sweet king was not on the up-and-up. Who in the gaming world doesn't know that cheat code?! King Candy is the ruler of Sugar Rush, a video game made of everything sweet to eat, or as a wise Wreck- It Ralph sees it, a "candy-coated heart of darkness.' " But Sugar Rush was not always such a dark place; it was once a happy kingdom where Princess Vanellope von Schweetz ruled until an evil racer from a game called Turbo Time messed with her code and took her game for his own. The biggest shock? King Candy and that villainous racer known as Turbo are one and the same. Alan Tudyk, the voice of King Candy, said he had imagined King Candy to be a much bigger character, size-wise, and found it really funny that he was actually such a small man."

“Portrait of King Candy. Artist: Clay Loftis. Medium: Digital."

“Final Frames of Turbo from Wreck-It Ralph (2012)”

"Concept art of Turbo. Artist: Jim Kim. Medium: digital."

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WRECK-IT RALPH - Wreck-It Ralph.

RELEASE DATE: November 2, 2012.

DIRECTOR: Rich Moore.

VOICE TALENT: John C. Reilly

ANIMATOR: Nik Ranieri

“Wreck-It Ralph is a "bad guy" who has been forced to spend every day for the last thirty years trying to destroy the apartment building that took his home away and to thwart Fix-It Felix from fixing everything Ralph wrecks. After "wrecking" the thirtieth anniversary celebration of his game, Ralph decides to go on a quest to earn a medal and prove to everyone, including himself, that he can be a good guy and do good things. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, director Rich Moore said that the idea for Wreck-It Ralph came when he was asked by Walt Disney Animation Studios to revamp an idea they had been working on for a while: a movie that takes place in a video game. "Video game characters do the same job every day," said Moore. "I don't know how you could tell a story about that, and then it kind of hits me. ... What if the main character did not like his job? If you had a character who is actually wondering: Is this all there is to life?" "

Concept Art of Vanellope and Ralph. Artist: Bill Schwab. Medium: digital.

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Story sketches of Ralph. Artist: Jim Kim. Medium: Graphite

Final character pose of Ralph.

Final frame of ralph with the Bad-Anon support group from Wreck-It Ralph, 2012.

“Bad-Anon-One Game at a Time

"I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."

-The Bad Guy Affirmation

Evervone needs a little help from their friends, even if their friends are a group of "bad guys." Bad-Anon is a place where the who's who of gaming bad guys can meet and talk about their feelings and what it is like to always be the one everyone loves to beat. Here are some of the familiar faces from the video games of the 1980s and 1990s.”

Bowser--King Koopa from Super Mario Bros.

Clyde--Ghost from Pac-Man.

Dr. Robotnik- -as himself from Sonic the Hedgehog.

Kano--as himself from Mortal Kombat.

M. Bison--as himself from Street Fighter.

Neff-as himself from Altered Beast.

Zangief-Red Cyclone from the Street Fighter series.

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[the-daiz]

#1— fool me once again

—Angstober day 1: Again

Pairing; Speed-o’-sound Sonic x reader

Warning(s); self-sabotage, unhealthy attachments

Synopsis; He’s always in conflict with himself, between staying and leaving, breaking your heart and caressing it. Either way, you’ll allow him to.

✎Word count; 1.1k

♪ Playlist; Again & Again || A loving feeling

A/N; happy 1st angstober day ;) I love writing angst. But anyhow, Sonic is maybeee a bit ooc

You were an eyesore.

Disgusting, vulnerable, weak, and pathetic. You were everything wrong in this world. Every single flaw that someone could possess you had it, and Speed-of-sound Sonic could do nothing but snarl at its hideous embodiment.

The recoil in his gut intensifies with every glance you give him, and the revulsion in his head yells louder at every smile you offer.

And with your touch, he wants to tear at his skin, the skin soiled by your crud.

But with your everything, he succumbs again, and yet again to the overwhelming spell you've embroiled him in.

And every time, he holds onto it, holds onto you. Loves, cherishes, adores, and promises the better of him.

You were perfect. How could a being be so entrancing in every sense? Your looks, your voice, your strength, and the beauty within you that roamed your presence like an ensnaring scent, how could it be real?

Another night beside you. Another night where the turn of your lips lock onto him. Another night he rests into a soft quiet, and he can love with no regrets.

As soon as that night passes, he is overwhelmed by loathing, at himself and you.

He doesn't want to be this close. He can't be. Letting himself swim in this soft— vulnerable feeling of 'love' made his insides churn with conflict.

And again he'll break his promise and leave for a week or two or however long he can keep himself hauled far away from your skin.

He doesn't care. That's what he tells himself. Despite the jittering within him that doesn't quiet unless in your presence. Despite the ache in his heart that cracks him every time he can make out the despair in your features. Even though every time he says he'll never come back again, that he won't let your filth taint his dignity any longer, he always finds himself being drawn back to you.

And you'll wait for him patiently. Just as you had waited before.

Again you sit in your balcony, the soft breeze of the cool night brushing past you. Your gaze is distant, absent, as your thoughts consume you. How many nights have you sat here, the sorrow in you palpable and the void in you deepening?

You allow yourself to be mistreated, manipulated, and used by that man, depriving yourself of sleep and an appetite just because of the yearning that is never satisfied without him.

Why him? You pondered. Why is the one thing that you love more than anything— why the fuck was it that bastard? Why couldn't your brain choose something else? Something truthful?

"Fuck you."

"Y/n-"

"Why can't you just leave long enough for me to forget you?" You turn away from him and storm into your home, your face twisted in utter hurt and frustration.

"I'm sorry." Sonic apologizes. He suddenly appeared before you and you stumbled back a step as you bumped into him. He tries to hold you by your sides to steady you but you push his arms away.

Damn his speed.

"Like last time?" You hiss, watching his face remain still to the familiar insults. "You're always sorry."

"I meant them all." His brows furrow.

"And how does that help me?" You retort, a resigned laugh mixing with your sentence. You sucked in a shaking breath and placed your hand over your eyes. "I don't—"

His palm clamped around your wrist, softly prying your fingers away from your temple, urging you to peer at him. You could see the turmoil in his gaze and the apology lining his expression, it made you want to pull him into you. To thread your fingers in his hair and console him, give up all the forgiveness you harbored.

You expelled a soft sigh and let your gaze fall.

"Why do you keep coming back...? Why do you keep leaving?" Your voice was hushed.

"Why do you keep waiting?" He replied, his words cruel yet his tone oddly tender. "If you just tell me to leave and never come back, then I will."

He won't

"But why can't you listen to me when I tell you to stay?" You slipped your hand out of his grasp, taking a step away from him. "I feel like every time you're here I'm breaking, but every time you aren't I'm shattering."

"Don't you think I feel the same way?" The faintest hint of desperation lapped his words as his volume grew.

"Then come back to me!" You cried, your hands clutching the fabric of your shirt right above where your heart pulsed. His form visibly tensed. The constriction in his face was unmistakable, even in the dim light of the room.

His frame relaxed as he averted his gaze. You felt the heaviness weighing at you tug harder with the guilt evident in his person.

"I'm hurt. I just want you. Do you even care about me?!" The words came out strained and tottery as you attempted to compose yourself.

Sonic's shoulders rose as he inhaled sharply before firmly trotting towards your crumbling soul.

"I never stop thinking about you. No matter how hard I try." He began, his gaze intense as he stood right in front of you. His irises absorbed every dejected, desperate, longing emotion behind yours. "I'm not going to leave this time. I'll come back the next day. I'll do as I promise.

I hate that I can't stop loving you." His voice grew vulnerable upon uttering that last phrase, and all you could do was glower at him with every bit of anger you had left in you.

"I hate..." a trembling sigh escaped your lungs as anguish pooled into your features.

"Why can't I hate you?" You muttered, then pulled him into another desperate kiss, your body portraying all the words you hadn't allowed yourself to speak. Every 'I miss you' that clouded your brain and each 'I love you' you begged yourself to deny.

His touch charred and sizzled onto your skin, and you hoped the burns that were left in his wake would stay longer than he would. Maybe the searing pain could give you the closure that he could never fulfill.

⋆

"I'll be back." He whispered, his palm pressed gently against the side of your face.

"Will you, really?" Your gaze pleaded for empty reassurance as you leaned into his touch. He enveloped you into a hug which you melted into immediately.

"Yes." He muttered into your neck. Both of you could sense the sincerity in his voice, though how long would it last?

Once he pulled away and his warmth was stripped away from you, disdain was quick to itch at the back of your throat whilst your despaired eyes watched him disappear in a blur.

Again he won't come tomorrow like he promised.

And again you'll cry a silent weep as you wait, cursing at him with all of you, knowing every single drop of rage and grief within you will dissipate once you're in his arms once more.

[ohanny]

stabby murder husbands kentakim au!

does this make much sense? no. is it going to be long? yes. am i sometimes very happy about what my mentally ill lil brain cooks up while i sleep? very much so.

tony chen is a rotten super villain in every universe but in this one kenta was his assassin until he finally had enough, turned on his master during the bloodiest night known in these circles, john wick style, and then disappeared off the face of the earth. was tony running the high table? how deep does the lore go? who knows. i was asleep. my brain did not have the capacity to figure it all out.

flash forward some years. kenta is living a normal life. he has a boring office job. he’s reconnected with babe, his estranged brother who ran away from home at the first sight of sketchy activities and was spared from all of tony’s bullshit. unfortunately for kenta, babe - happily married and pregnant - is channelling all his extra hormones and boredom into a mission to socialize his hermit crab of an older brother.

which is how kenta ends up eating dinner in babe and charlie’s warehouse loft of doom, sitting opposite of kim - a regular customer at the couple’s garage and a casual friend. it’s an awkward affair because a) kim can't stop staring b) babe keeps shooting these looks at kenta all “see, i brought you a hot ginger, do something with it” and c) kenta would much rather be at home. unsurprisingly, when kim offers him a ride home at the end of the evening, kenta says no.

this turns out to be a bad call because on his way home, kenta gets jumped. it happens sometimes - after all, he was tony’s weapon for over a decade and made a lot of enemies, no one can escape their past without occasionally being haunted by it. except this time when he limps out of the alleyway, clutching a minor stab wound on his side, there is a car idling by the pavement.

it's kim, rolling down the window and telling kenta to get his ass in. against his better judgment kenta does.

kim speeds off the scene of the crime with the kind of ease and confidence kenta has only ever seen from babe. it quickly becomes apparent that he knows way more about kenta than he should because he starts asking about cameras and when kenta just stares blankly - bleeding all over the nice upholstery - kim laughs and says “don’t worry, even if you got a bit rusty and missed one, i know a guy. or two. since they live with me you'll meet them soon anyway.”

and fuck, kenta should have just trusted his instincts instead of chalking kim making him nervous up to having someone so pretty pay any level of attention to him. he finally finds his voice (and lowkey also his knife) and demands to know who the hell kim is or if he's even called that. “oh i am,” kim answers gleefully, “and you could say i’m a… freelancer.” which, great. just amazing. kenta is being kidnapped by some amateur bounty hunter and his day officially couldn't get any worse.

… but it does. because once they reach their destination, the second he's ushered into an apartment he's greeted by an obnoxiously loud scream of “holy shit, he actually did it!” followed by a slightly less obnoxiously loud “our kimmy here is a big fan!” and then “oh fuck he’s bleeding all over the place, get the med kit dumbass!” and kenta realizes he wasn't kidnapped by some amateur bounty hunter. he was kidnapped by a fucking fan boy. on the bright side they do seem to be capable of basic wound care so there's that.

(yes, the trio is living their best mercenary vigilante life. kenta’s purge of tony happened right as kim was getting into the game and he went full “holy fucking shit, this man took down tony fucking chen and got away with it?” and basically became obsessed with the legendary lore of john wick kenta. so imagine how pumped he was when babe of all people introduced him to his ultimate murder crush goals)

kim: obviously you'll need to stay the night since you're so injured. You can have my room. i’ll just sleep with north and sonic.

kenta: …

sonic: you have a problem with three men sleeping together?

kenta: … no?

north: great! but if you hypothetically did you could ask kim to share with you instead because trust me, he's like super interes -

kim: shut up or i’ll evict you.

north: pls, whose day job is paying the bills here since you only take on charity cases?

kim: my name is on the lease! and i'm being a good person!

sonic: honey, you kill people.

this is where i got with my dream sequence but other things that just make sense in this verse:

the first person kim ever killed was winner. he was a toxic college hook up who kim dumped after few gos but who wouldn't take no for an answer. kim could have dealt with him being a dick on campus but then he started harassing kim’s dorm mates, north and sonic and kim just… snapped.

it all came to head on an alley behind a trashy gay bar. winner tried to grab sonic and kim honestly just meant to beat the shit out of him but went too far. when they read the news the next day it's weird. none of them regret it. they’re happy about it. and when no one knocks on their door to ask any questions, they realize how easy it actually is to get rid of a bad person.

the second person kim kills is a campus dirtbag who likes slipping shit into girls’ drinks and taking them home. they plan it all together but kim goes out alone and after… he's a mess. winner was a crime of passion in the heat of the moment but this is something different. he's all keyed up. he can't settle down and paces around their living room. a man is dead and he thinks he got off clean but only time will tell. he's nervous and elated and half-hard and full of adrenaline and it's sonic who nudges north and goes “look at the poor thing, we should take care of him.”

the night ends with kim’s head on sonic’s lap, sonic’s fingers in his hair, telling him he did well and he's so good when he cries as he's getting fucked into the mattress by north. kim wakes up sandwiched between them, in a mess of limbs. he has a very brief freak out about what the happened - the sex, not the murder - but north shushes him, telling him it’s not a big deal. “we love you, hyungie” sonic shrugs and pecks his cheek. “you two get some more rest and i’ll bring breakfast, okay?” and that's that.

needless to say kenta is in for a culture shock with the northsonickim arrangement. like he's taking a shower with kim and things are getting good when sonic barges into the bathroom, yanks the shower curtain back and goes on a rant of “kim, you gotta tell north to do the laundry because it was his turn but he forgot and now my favorite pants still have cum stains on them!” and kenta is like “um, excuse us?” but kim just rolls his eyes and proceeds to yell for north and then has an entire damn conversation with his dick out while kenta just stands there all 🧍‍♂️. (after he's done chewing north out for the laundry, he turns to sonic like “and you! we talked about this! kenta is new, we don't want to spook him!”)

the whole murder thing will be another conflict. kenta is happily retired. he killed because that's what he was raised to do and he didn't have any other options until he did. kim though? kim kills because he wants to. kim kills because he believes certain people deserve to die.

kim: i have a date with a wife beater at 2am. wanna come?

kenta: stop calling them dates. and you shouldn't be so… flippant about it.

kim, smirking while pulling on his leather gloves: don't tell me you never enjoyed it.

while kenta’s kills were always obvious hits, done using knives and guns, kim likes to deliver justice personally. he warms up using his hands and finishes the job with whatever blunt object he can pick up.

one time kenta’s boring office job takes him out of town for business and kim is climbing the walls. he calls kenta all “please quit and just become a hit man again, the pay is better and you'd be home when i need you” and kenta sighs because yes, his job is boring but he's trying his best to be normal and he has a morning meeting. so he tells kim to go occupy himself with north and sonic

kim: wait.. What?

kenta: don't you guys have sex with each other all the time?

kim: we did, BEFORE i met you

kenta: … huh. well. go fuck or get fucked or whatever before you start hunting pedestrians for stress relief.

kim: is this a trap?

kenta: no? i would never mess with whatever the three of you have.

Kim barging into north and sonic’s room, growling at them to take their clothes off and sonic’s first reaction is “oh shit, they broke up” but then kim’s like “dick first, rings second, i’m going to wife that man so hard he won't know what hit him” and everyone cheers and no one feels bad about having a pre-engagement celebration threesome not involving one of the grooms.

also, pete? did he step up after tony’s death? does he run a business like the continental? is way his weird attic wife that fucked himself over in the business and now can't step a foot outside the hotel without getting his brains blown out the less fun way? in any case he would have an eye on both kenta (because their whole… brotherhood) and kim (because kim is a wild card and truly independent and neither follows nor knows the code).

[foxtophat]

Agent Stone makes a big purchase without consulting the Doctor.

what a way to start the new year, by adding to a fic i haven't touched in 2.5 years!!!! sonic 3 did a fucking number on me and i needed to get this shit out there ASAP. stobotnik is precious to me, and agent stone being a little freak is even moreso.

as usual, please leave a review telling me how much of a little freak stone is, and uhhh happy new year???

fic transposed under the cut for those without ao3 accounts

Work Text:

Stone has never felt as comfortable in his own skin as he does here, hidden away in Robotnik's nondescript satellite laboratory. They're as far away from prying eyes as a two-hour commute to the capitol will allow, and besides him, there's only the doctor, a few nameless technicians, and the occasional clandestine meetings with government officials. Unhindered by expectations from lesser people, Stone has finally found his voice. No more hiding his excitement for messy jobs behind a grim facade of patriotic duty. No more doublespeak, no more pretending. It's a wonder what a little privacy and good company will do for a man.

Speaking of good company — Stone doesn't know where he'd be if it weren't for the doctor. He'd worried before they met that it would end as it always does: with the object of his fascination finding him off-putting and ultimately sending him back into the pool of nameless government lackeys, adding another witness for his inevitable ICC trial. He'd feared that the doctor's reputation was all smoke and mirrors; that he too would have a line Stone would eventually cross. But instead of drawing lines, Robotnik is only ever interested in pushing them: sometimes to see how far Stone might go and other times, just to prove a point.

For the first time, a person hasn't let Stone down. He's as cold, callous and intelligent as the reports implied, with all the psychopathic traits that make for a perfect leader. His engineering skills are beyond compare, and every task put before him is conquered with ruthless efficiency. What's more, he isn't ashamed by any of it. He revels in being better than everyone else.

He's everything Stone has ever wanted and more. Not only is he a proud super genius with a fiery passion and no moral compass to speak of, but he's also tall, handsome, and brutal . In the months since they came to mutual understanding about Stone's... quirks, Stone has been shoved into walls, pressed against computer screens, and had his face groped to the point where it sometimes leaves a mark. He never knows when to expect it, never certain when the doctor will turn from hot to cold on him, or even if he deserves the treatment.

His knees go weak whenever he thinks about it.

There's only been one problem, and it's got a simple enough fix. Stone doesn't bother the doctor with his minor complaint; he simply handles it himself, the same way he handles all of the paperwork and cleanup. A week of calling around the area is all it takes before he manages to find a single La Marzocco espresso machine with minimal use and a flattering, glossy black finish. Six grand seems a little much, but he doesn't haggle over it. He wants it and he wants it now, because if he has to go another week with the old Folgers drip roast, he's going to literally murder the next government liaison he's forced to interact with.

The machine's aesthetics fit in perfectly with the rest of the sleek galley, so much so that the doctor doesn't notice it for almost a week. He rarely enters the galley, of course, but the few times he's stopped by, he hasn't commented on it.

What he does comment on is the improved quality of coffee. Between time crunches and general culinary disinterest, Robotnik only ever takes his coffee black; he'd complained every day with the old brew, but not now. Now, every cup is met with a surprised noise of pleasure, burrowing into Stone's internal organs like wood ticks. He can only imagine what other noises the doctor will make once he begins experimenting with creams and sweeteners.

Imagining it is fine, but Stone needs to know . He wants to understand the nuances of the doctor's palette; he's already memorized the finer details of the man's dental records, so why not map his taste-buds? And if he becomes so attuned to what the doctor wants that he becomes irreplaceable, then so be it. If the doctor can't imagine living without him, all the better.

The Marzocco is a truly marvelous piece of machinery, absorbing more of Stone's attention than it probably should. After all, there are attachments to order, measurements to experiment with, and manuals to read. He cleans it obsessively, as if Robotnik would even notice if a crumb remained from one pull to the next. It isn't as though he has particularly discerning taste. That's going to take time to nurture.

As usual, Stone's obsessive tendencies are his downfall. Distracted as he is by the machine's clean lines and the temperature of the water, he fails to notice when Robotnik enters the galley. The man has a nasty habit of sneaking around the place, but up until now, Stone's managed to catch the scent of his soap or the sound of his boots on the tile. The smell of coffee and hiss of steam have rendered him blind.

When the doctor speaks, it's from directly behind him. "So, this is where I find you."

Stone startles visibly at Robotnik's sudden presence, turning in time to see a pleased grimace flit across the doctor's face. At least he knows he's giving Robotnik what he wants, even when he's about to get scolded.

"Doctor! Sorry, I was —"

"I know what you were doing, you layabout! You've spent twelve hours this week in the galley, fiddling with your little..." He tries to pick a suitably offensive comparison before visibly deciding he doesn't care enough to try. Dreading any sign of boredom towards him, Stone quickly fills the blank.

"It's an espresso machine, sir."

"I know what it is," Robotnik snaps, scowling. "What I don't know is why I'm tolerating your obsessive behavior."

Okay, fine, so maybe Stone's been spending more time fiddling with the damn thing than he needs to. He has room in his life for two obsessions! He's a multi-faceted individual!

"I haven't let it interfere with my job," he sulks.

"Oh, really. And I suppose you would know better than me , wouldn't you?"

"No, that's not what I —"

It's so easy to offend the doctor that Stone still hasn't quite mastered walking the line. That becomes painfully obvious when Robotnik's hand lashes out and grips the back of Stone's neck, fingers digging into his muscles. He tries to wince away and fails to do more than jam his hip into the counter, and the doctor responds by stomping on his foot, pinning him in the uncomfortable position.

The pain is everything. Stone focuses on it over the doctor's hot breath on his neck, desperate not to give his thoughts away. They're in that position for less than six seconds before the Marzocco lets off a hiss of steam from the basket. Stone's trembling knees threaten to give out, but he can't afford to fall. He's too close to the machine, it's too hot, and if the doctor pinches that nerve between his fingers again, he's going to face-plant into the hot metal plate. That pain will be intolerable, and if it leaves a mark...

He can't say anything. He can't admit the fear aloud and let Robotnik think this is his limit. Because it isn't. It isn't, and if he has to burn his face to prove it, then —

A hiss of air escapes from between his teeth, giving him away. Robotnik's grip tenses abruptly, yanking Stone back from the steam-heated metal. Relief and shame pool together in Stone's gut.

Pathetic, he thinks, unsure which of them he's more upset at.

"If I want you to hurt, Stone," the doctor hisses in his face, "I'll do it myself. There's no need for rudimentary torture tactics between us, is there?"

They are so close. Stone imagines he can feel Robotnik's heart racing in the fingers pressed against his neck, although he's probably mistaking it with his own thundering pulse.

"No, sir." He swallows. "Nothing rudimentary between us."

For a split second, Stone catches something that may be confusion in the doctor's furrowed brow, but it's gone before he can confirm it as anything more than a trick of the light.

"Not even coffee, apparently."

It's a surprisingly passive reply, followed by Robotnik removing his hand from Stone's neck. Before the disappointment even registers, Robotnik follows up with a slap to the shoulder that's hard enough for him to smack his head against the overhead cabinet door. Stone doesn't so much see stars as he feels them swirling around his belly.

"I can't survive on the old stuff, sir. It's so..." He makes a face. "Cheap."

"Cost effective," Robotnik corrects sarcastically.

"I think we can afford to splurge. Besides, I paid for it myself." He offers a placating smile that doesn't waver in the face of Robotnik's scowl. "It's 100% government-free coffee."

"It seems like a pointless use of your personal funds," Robotnik mutters, pursing his lips.

There's no point in arguing for his own comfort, considering that Robotnik neither cares about comfort nor has any interests outside of listening to 70's psych-rock at an ear-blistering decibel. But there's another, iron-clad way to appeal to the good doctor's sensibilities. People like to say that the best way to a man's heart is through the stomach, but Stone knows that the only thing you need to feed is his ego.

"You deserve the best in every aspect of life," he says, meeting Robotnik's eyes for a calculated 3.8 seconds before dropping his gaze to the foot over-top his. "And my job is to make sure you get what you deserve."

The ball of Robotnik's boot grinds down against his toes. Stone makes only a cursory effort to hide how it affects him, waiting to see if this is finally a push too far.

"Well." The doctor huffs, and Stone looks up to meet his petulant pout with a deferential smile. "I suppose I can't argue with the results..."

Stone can't resist rewarding the doctor for his lack of boundaries. "And that's just the start, sir. I promise, I have a lot more than just americanos up my sleeve. I've been practicing my biscotti recipe, too..." He can't help how his smile widens smugly. "If you can forgive me a few of those hours, maybe I can sweeten the pot?"

Robotnik squints at him hard through his glasses for a moment, then raises his chin dismissively.

"I suppose you haven't fallen behind yet..." He presses an accusatory finger in Stone's face; lucky for him, Stone knows better than to bite the hand that feeds. "But if I notice you slacking again, Agent Stone, we will be having a more primitive conversation about it."

Oh, boy. That threat certainly doesn't do much to dissuade, does it?

"I understand completely, sir."

"Well? What are you waiting for? You have paperwork to file, a backlog of requisition forms to fill out, and don't think I'll let it slide if you miss the three PM coffee break you've manipulated me into taking! Get to work!"

The doctor slaps Stone's shoulder once again. His thumb and forefinger dig their nails into his nerves, and Stone lets himself crumple to his knees. Why not? It lets the doctor feel physically dominant over him, and it keeps Stone from pushing things past the bounds of civility. Like the espresso machine, it's what's best for both of them.

Robotnik grins wide, fakes a kick at Stone and laughs when he cringes in surprise.

"That's two for flinching, Stone." He tuts, checking his watch. "I'll have to get you later. Reports, requisitions, Robusta!" He turns on his heel and offers only the flick of his hand in the air as a wave goodbye.

Stone, twitterpated to the point of nausea, decides he'll run four minutes late with the coffee. Just to see what might happen.

[blackhakumen]

Mini Fanfic #1239: The Return of Triple N Challenge (SSBU X Darkstalkers)

It was a nice, peaceful morning in the city Smash Town. The sun continues the rise, the birds are chipping in their own pace and melody and our two unusually cute pair, Dedede and Morrigan Aensland are currently resting inside the comfort of the former king's bedroom.

They had another lovely night together yesterday. They took the Smash Kids trick-or-treating all around town, danced the night away at Halloween party back at the mansion, watches Sonic League gets first place at the Costume Contest afterwards while the Salior Moon Squad gets second, and crashed back to De's room as they watch old Halloween movies together and making slow, sensual love for rest of the tonight untill they were both fallen fast asleep.

Every day and evening spent with Morrigan would always find a way to put a smile on the former king's face. Her irresistible beauty mixed with her fun, outgoing personality are more than enough for him to fall for her completely. Sometimes I made him question how in the world he managed to score with someone as amazing aa her to begin with, but it was neither here nor there ultimately. They are happy together and that's all it really matters to both of our lovebirds in the long run

'Buzz' 'Buzz' 'Buzz' 'Buzz' 'Buzz-

'Click'

Dedede: (Reach his Arm Back From the Alarm He Just Turned Off Before Stretching It Up in the Air and Let Out a Loud Yawn) Another good day to be alive.....Morning, Morr.

Morrigan: (Wakes Herself Up as Well While Letting Out a More Cute Sounding Yawn Before Rubbing her Eyes) Good morning, my dear king~ Did you have yourself a good sleep last night?

Dedede: (Smiles Brightly) Oh yeah, definitely. Even more so since I've spent it here with you~

Morrigan: (Heart Begins to Melt in Pure Happiness as She Hugs Dedede's Stomach Next to Her) Ohh you sweetheart of a man~ I love you so much~ (Gives Dedede's Stomach Some Kisses)

Dedede: (Notices a Few Other Teal Colored Kiss Marks Imprinted on his Stomach) Girl, have you been kissing my stomach all night?

Morrigan: Why, of course!~ (Happily Snuggles onto her King's Stomach) It's far too big, squishly, and cuddly to NOT shower it with my undying love!~ (Gives De's Stomach One Big Kiss) I hope you don't mind.

Dedede: (Casually Shrugs) Hey, if it helps you get more comfortable, that's good enough for me. (Rubbing the Back of his Head While Smiling More Sheepishly Now) But I uhh....('Heh') Hope my.....performance tonight was up to liking and whatnot.

Morrigan: (Smiles Softly) Oh there's no need for you nervous at all, my dear. You were remarkably wonderful the whole night through. In fact, I say that your endurance and performance are far more superior than all the other guys I've dated over the years.

Dedede: (Eyes Widened in Genuine Surprise by the Very Positive Feedback Given to Him) Damn, really? How the others do?

Morrigan Some were passable, others were let downs, but none of them will ever match your level of love making. You were so gentle and patient with my antics, yet so rough and bold when the time calls for it!~ ('Sighs Dreamingly') It makes me fall head over heels for you all over again~ Surely you've given your previous dates this incredible experience in the past, no?~

Dedede: Girl, I couldn't even walk a single out of them out restaurant without getting stood up or dragged into some insane BS until you came around in my life. But goddamn....(Starts Chuckling Proudly) Who's the man? I got this sex game by the ass!

Morrigan: (Giggles Softly) Indeed you have, my dear!~ We should definitely do this again sometime~

Dedede: ('Sighs Relaxingly') Absolutely~ A real shame we can't do anymore of that this month Goin forward.

Morrigan: (Eyes Widened in Genuine Shock) What!? Why would you say- (Starts Sighing and Pinching the Bridge of her Nose at the Realization) Ohhh please don't tell me you're taking part in that silly No Nut November Challenge this year......

Dedede: (Smiles Brightly) Yeeup! This is my fifth or sixth run, so I got mta bring my a-game on.

Morrigan: Considering all the times you've failed previously?

Dedede: (Slouches his Upper Body Down With a Deadpinned Look on his Face) Yeah.....Like, I don't get it. One moment, I'm prepared myself for inevitable, fully invested and focused at the at the journey ahead at the top of my game and then the next, without any rhyme or reason, I folded. EASILY! All thanks to por- I-I mean! Uh- ('Clears Throat') Videos of life and....nature. Definitely PG and-

Morrigan: (Giggles Some More) Darling, darling, relax!~ There's no need to be ashamed of watching pornography from time to time. God knows I have.

Dedede: (Eyes Widens Up Again) You watch porn.

Morrigan: (Proudly Nodded) Indeed I have~ It all started days after Lilith and I moved to our very own mansion together. I was sitting in the living room, changing every channel on the TV in pure boredom as we wait for our pizza to arrive. That is until we eventually stumbled upon a few "adult" channels. The shows were as raunchy and exotic as one would expect, but they've also provide shows that explain their rich, artistic, historical origins centuries prior. Kinky as most of them are, it did managed to make me invested enough to appericate the craft itself overtime and that's something I never have any regrets over whatsoever.

Dedede: (Almost at a Loss For Words) .........Where the hell have you been all my life?~

Morrigan: (Playfully Shrugs) I've been all around the globe, undetected! (Gently Grabs Hold of Dedede's Hand With a Very Loving Smile on her Face) But I'm here now, my king~ And I do not plan on ever leaving your side anytime soon, as I'm far too difficult to get rid of~ (Starts Kissing on Top of Dedede's Hand)

Dedede: (Chuckles Ticklishly by Morrigan's Kisses) As if I wanna get rid of you at all! I love you too much to doing all that, Morr~

Morrigan: (Hearts Begins to Melt Once More) I love you more~

'Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz' 'Buzzzzzzzzzz'

Morrigan: (Facepalms Herself While Groaning) ('Uggggggggggh')

Dedede: Work calls?

Morrigan: ('Sighs in Defeat') Unfortunately. (Picks her Phone Up From the Counter Next to her Side of the Bed) I also have another busy schedule on my hands today, so I'm afraid I must go. (Turns the Alarn From her Phone Off) You don't mind me using your shower for the time being?

Dedede: Not at all. It's all yours.

Morrigan: Thank, dear. (Kiss Dedede on the Lips Before Getting Up Outta Bed) Are you absolutely certain you want to go through with this silly challenge?

Dedede: (Simply Nodded) I think so, yeah. Gotta prove myself I am just as much of a man as everyone else in this crazy world, you know?

Morrigan: (Gives her Boyfriend a Reassuring Smile) You'll always be a man in my heart, my love. But I'll root for you nonetheless. While also doing......This!~ (Opens Up her Shirt Wide For her King to See)

Dedede: (Immediately Taken Aback by his Girlfriend's Degenerecy) Woooooah there, girl! You're exposing yourself to me in the early morning!?

Morrigan: (Puts on a More Cheeky Smile) Indeed I am!~ Is that pecker of yours gotten excited?

Dedede: (Looks Down Under the Covers For a Few Seconds Before Turning Back to Morrigan) Not by much, but it's about to be if you don't cover up soon.

Morrigan: (Giggles Once More as She Covers Herself Up) Good, good. Because starting today, not only will I root for upbrings, but I will also be the obstacle getting in your way to your goal. (Forms a More Evil Smirk on her Face) And I will not rest until I see that precious nut of yours break into absolute oblivion~ (Makes a Single Kiss Noise of Death Before Smiling Brightly Again) See you back in a few!~ (Let's Out an Elegant Laugh Before Hovering Herself Onto the Bathroom)

'Door Closed'

Dedede: (Eyes Already Widened in Horror the Whole Time) .................................I ain't gonna make it through month, aren't I?

Dedede's Challenge has now begun.

@bestpony666

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[fuumiku]

Metamy week 2023 day 1 (hella late 😇 bc when aren’t I) - confession / first kiss

Rejoice, tooth-rotting fluff be upon ye! They made me so embarrassed working on this lol 💕 A small comic that I sketched out legit a year ago… It was just two pages but I had to add in that b&w doodle for context, at first there was gonna be Tails too. Alas that’ll be for next time ;) 

This is tied to/based on a big longfic fanfic project I have in store that I love a lot. The context is he gets a voicebox and just sounds like SIRI, which just makes the whole ordeal hilarious. Please think of his lines in this comic being said with a computer lady text to speech voice, à la Feeding Steven style. But where the fun part truly begins is that he can modulate his voice with effect pedals like electric guitars, so he starts having an interest in collecting them + music

Amy gets a little flustered when she’s being loved and praised, but as we all know she’s very big on professing her love being so strong and deep and fated on every rooftop, so these two would be so annoying. The epitome of that couple who’s just so happy and lovestruck in public all the time.  Metal is def a lil’ smug about it, like, “The best organic in the whole world chose me as her partner.” And Sonic is like “Give it a rest man, and like… I get you love her but isn’t that a bit hyperbolic-” M: “??? It is an objective truth of the world. But I understand your jealousy makes you act irrationally and be in denial (I would know). L + ratio + I have been deemed the superior Sonic + maidenless.”

[skaruresonic]

Everytime I catch a glimpse of discussion within the Sonic fandom I feel like I'm going insane.

Speaking purely from my own experience, not too long ago practically every Sonic fan firmly believed that Sonic was an unfeeling hard boiled soldier/action man/dude bro who had zero concern for anything other than his personal amusement. Back then Sonic was "supposed to be" an unthinking action drone that only blows stuff up and runs around doing poses. And if you ever dared to imply that he'd do something sappy, than you would get labeled as a baby who can't handle "hardcore material" or something.

Flash forward to now and it seems like majority is convinced Sonic is a fluffy soft boy who would never hurt a fly and he sincerely prays every night that everyone gets a happy ending. including the people who've done nothing but cause pain. Also he's extremely emotional over everything and hurting on the inside or something. And if you think he should snap back at his enemies you're just an edgelord who doesn't understand anything.

What happened??? How did we go from one extreme to the other??? Why is it so hard for sonic fans to see the characters for what they are instead of making up nonsense???

And if you think he should snap back at his enemies you're just an edgelord who doesn't understand anything.

"So you want Sonic to murder his enemies in cold blood?"

"Where the hell did you get that from? I said Sonic doesn't care about Eggman's welfare and that his attitude seems to be 'if he dies, he dies.' Where did you get 'I want Punisher!Sonic' out of that lol"

Fandoms be fandoming. I personally saw a forum thread back in the day likening Modern Sonic to a soulless vehicle designed to get you from Point A to Point B, in contrast to Classic Sonic who had more "soul." There are always going to be people who think the new shift in direction is soulless, whatever that means.

The irony is, the reason the Adventure games were as comparatively dark as they were (YMMV on that, obviously) was because ST didn't like how cute and Mickey Mouse-ish Classic Sonic was becoming in the late '90s; they wanted to reintroduce, or rather retain, the rough-edged, "bad boy" side of his personality. Hence why they had Maekawa write for those games.

Cultural differences exacerbate these... well... differences in how we perceive Sonic as well. What the West sees as a "bad boy" and what Japan sees as a "bad boy" can be based on very divergent concepts. Kanemaru!Sonic's tendency to sprinkle Engrish sounds silly to Anglophones, for example, but in Japan it's a sign of his worldliness and his overall coolness.

Likewise, SoA!Sonic tends to use harsher language than SoJ!Sonic might use, such as saying strawberry shortcake "sucks" in a Twitter Takeover.

While I can't vouch for how Japanese Sonic fans view SoA!Sonic, to Anglophones, Games!Sonic seems like a squeaky-clean goodie two-shoes Gary-Stu. Which, again, ignores the cultural framework against which his character exists.

All that being said, Sonic is still quite a multifaceted character, even if he isn't the deepest or most fleshed-out in the cast. As a static character who represents an ideal and inspires positive change in others, he doesn't exactly need to be.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of overreductive takes with Shadow which attempt to boil him down to one or two traits at the expense of others, but I imagine it happens to Sonic quite a bit also. Despite being a static character, Sonic, like Shadow, has multiplicity of character. People really struggle with contending with that kind of variability. How he reacts to any given situation will change based on circumstance. Truth resists simplicity, which is antithetical to the kind of Declarations(tm) social media likes to make about the cast. Adding asterisks and footnotes risks diluting the impact of the message. So naturally, people are going to forgo context and nuance in favor of more digestible analyses, in addition to ignoring the games and just plain making shit up.

For instance: "Sonic's selfish" or "Sonic's selfless" is a false dichotomy. The answer is the Schroedinger's cat, both selfish and selfless until someone opens the box, maybe in a quantum state of both. To say one or the other is true ignores the spectrum and the circumstances in which Sonic expresses selfishness vs. selflessness. Sonic can be selfish sometimes, just as he can be selfless, but whether he is or is not depends on what he's doing at the moment and what provokes this reaction.

So on and so forth.

[parkerbombshell]

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show #386

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show  Mondays 12 noon EST , 5pm BST , 9am PDT bombshellradio.com Archival Shows: bombshellradiopodcasts.com COBWEBS AND STRANGE #386 - Labelle - Lady Marmalade (Nightbirds, 1975) - Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (Pills ’n’ Thrills & Bellyaches, 1990) - Franz Ferdinand - Night Or Day (The Human Fear, 2025)* franzferdinand.bandcamp.com - Family - Burlesque (Bandstand, 1972) - Jetstream Pony - Captain Palisade (single, 2024)* spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com - Supergrass - Lose It (I Should Coco, 1995) - The Allergies - Watch What You Say (single, 2024)* theallergies.bandcamp.com - Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up (Drop The Bomb, 1982) - The Clique - Superman (The Clique, 1969) - The Chalice - In My World (Patterns On The Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1974, 2024) - Big Star - September Gurls (Radio City, 1974) - The Soup Dragons - Kingdom Chairs (This Is Our Art, 1988) - Snowgoose - Good Medicine (Descendant, 2024)* - Sofie Royer - Ghost Town (Young-Girl Forever, 2024)* - New Musik - This World Of Water (From A To B, 1980) - Gucci Crew II - Sally “That Girl” (So Def, So Fresh, So Stupid, 1987) - Hispanic MC's - I Do Love You (Rocky Padilla: Sugar Style (40th Anniversary Lost Masters), 2022) - Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me (We Can’t Be Stopped, 1991) - A$AP Rocky - Everyday (AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, 2015) - The Speed Of Sound - Jaunt (A Cornucopia, Pt. 3: Bounty, 2024)* thespeedofsound.bandcamp.com - Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo (Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man, 1984) - KNEECAP - Amach Anocht (KNEECAP (Original Soundtrack), 2024)* kneecap.bandcamp.com - Prince & The New Power Generation - Gett Off (Diamonds And Pearls, 1991) - Echolalia - Odd Energy (Echolalia, 2025)* - Broadcast - Come On Let's Go (The Noise Made By People, 2000) - Mango In Euphoria - Crystals 2.0 (single, 2024)* mangoineuphoria.bandcamp.com - Gentleman's Dub Club - Smalltown Boy (single, 2024)* gentlemansdubclub.bandcamp.com - The Mourning After - Put On A Smile (single, 2024)* chaputarecords.bandcamp.com - The Seeds - Try To Understand (The Seeds, 1966) - ILLIT - Tick-Tack (I’ll Like You EP, 2024)* - Loossemble - TTYL (TTYL, 2023) - Tombstones In Their Eyes - Mirror (Asylum Harbour, 2024)* tombstonesintheireyes.bandcamp.com - Samantha Crain - Ridin' Out The Storm (single, 2024)* - Mt. Misery - Hey! (Mt. Misery, 2024)* mtmisery.bandcamp.com - Librarians With Hickeys - Spying By The Numbers (How To Make Friends By Telephone, 2024)* bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com - Auld Gods - Firefly (Weird Skin, 2024)* auldgods.bandcamp.com - Roxy Music - Whirlwind (Siren, 1975) - Sally Potter - Black Mascara (Pink Bikini, 2023) - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Road To Cairo (The Best Of, 1968) - Dub Pistols - Rapture (Speakers And Tweeters, 2007) - My Chemical Romance - This Is How I DIsappear (The Black Parade, 2006) - Sonic’s Rendezvous Band - City Slang (single, 1978) - The Olivia Tremor Control - A Peculiar Noise Called "Train Director" (Black Foliage: Animation Music, 1999) -  Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions - Let Me Get There (single, 2024)* Read the full article

[maguro13-2]

Shattered Meister ~ Origins of the Ink Demon : Episode Maka Extra 1 "

*Note : Extra are canon rewrites or what really happened in before and after the events.*

"Real World AU 2006 A.D."

"Hang Castle/Mystic Mansion Zone"

Egg Pawn A : Orders from the Hang Castle Security Force executive officer. Over an hour ago, Lord Grim has information that we had remains that are the leftovers from the year of Shadow himself. Shadow has caught the attention of his father and Black Arms leader Black Doom, who has been jailed for a quite sometime since he started the invasion, Adeleine's creation Drawcia, who was presumed to be defeated after her loss to Kirby and co has now resurrected into a human started a science corporation of her own, a mad man known as Eggman Negative who came from Blaze's world isn't a clone, but somehow a descendant that came from 200 years in the future.

Egg Pawn B : More importanlty, 2006 is going to be the worst year for Sonic the Hedgehog, but luckily, Sonic's worst year maybe an ordeal for him, Sonic and a princess named Elise were ordered by Homura Akemi, a girl who time traveled from the 2010s, told them that the flame of Hope, Solaris, would eventually cause indefinite time loop break, Causing Sonic 06's plot to be restarted.

Egg Pawn A : Correct. But apparently, Solaris, the so-called god of the sun, is not the threat to Real World AU, but an entity named Dark Nebula, pseudo ruler of the underworld is looking for a body that will make him and the strongest. The body that would make him powerful is the heart and soul of the King of the Phantonian, the powerful race of Phanto that dominated the galaxy before humanity's birth and descendants to the 14-year old girl Maka Albarn.

[cuts to the Reaper's Throne Room]

Grim (Metal Sonic) : So after a bodacious time loop that Sonic caused to retcon the plot of Sonic 06, here we are in a time loop to find out what really hapened here. So, all evidence sonic's universe have been erased, and the cause of that, I'm beginning there are some evidence of we don't know what's going to happen. Believe it that me and my men are in time reset, this was all a plan from Yoshikage Kira person in the first place.

*door opening*

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Hmm?

Seto : Happy new year, Master!

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Huh?

[Special Relaxies - Kenichi Tokoi]

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Did this happened in a time reset loop?

Seto : What's it look like to it? Yeah, I know. We are in a time reset, where 2006 just been retconned by the game's events, Sonic 06 was trash anyway.

Solva : Yeah, Kinda feel much that Sonic 06 was just reseted, I mean, if the events were here to be like this, wouldn't it be that the recolor Mephiles was behind all of this nonsense, Solaris blown out in a Retcon. We're all glad that we began to celebrate New Year parties.

Grim (Metal Sonic) : You realized that New Year's eve and New Year's was passed before Martin Luther King Jr day, you know that?

[Record scratch]

Seto : You're right, we need to change our clothes, don't know how wearing a tuxedo and japanese clothing to celebrate the new year's, same goes to you, Solva.

Solva : For realsies! Let's get into our normal clothing. Like we always do!

[scene flips]

Solva : Ha, that's better. So now that the game's plot has reset time and we're in this excursion to break a time loop curse, how are we gonna solve the events of Maka not being the hero of Soul World, what could be another way to figure it out this mess?

Silver : You only needed to have something that have it's plot retcon, that's how stories are rewritten in all most natural causes.

Grim (Metal Sonic) : You are...?

Silver : Silver the Hedgehog, from 200 years in Sonic's world.

"Silver the Hedgehog : Hedgehog from the Bad Future".

[Dreams of an Absolution by Bentley Jones plays]

Seto : What, we don't remember you coming down here.

Solva : So the hedgehog of the 06 game has decided to comeback for a retcon. Are you here for Iblis or what?

Silver : No! I' I'm looking for Eggman Nega and you gotta tell me where he is perhaps that I would guarantee you ladies would give me a proper sighting to find Eggman Nega! So I suggested that--[Seto pulls his ear, disciplining him] Ow! Ow! Ow! Watch where your pulling ear!

Seto : First of all, I'm Seto the Deathless, and second, your are being rude to us and master Grim! Shouldn't your mother taught you some manners!?

Silver : Okay! Okay! I'm sorry that I acted like a jerk in Rivals! Pinky promise! I swear!

Solva : Seto. Release him. (releases him)

Seto : Alright, future boy. How did you come back after Sonic 06 retconned. I mean you say that "It's no use", but you're the one that is useless after Blaze was nowhere to be seen after the reset.

Silver : She went back to another dimension, I meant to say the dimension, her homeworld. So now...I just discovered that everyone has turned into collectible items called Cards and it's only a thing in Rivals.

Seto : Wait, who turned everyone into collectibles?

Silver : Egman Nega.

Seto : Woah, woah, woah! You can't say racial things like that on TV!

Solva : No, Seto. I believe "Nega" is short for "Negative". Just because it's not a racial slur, doesn't mean that Negative is the definitive of someone saying "No" or someone that is an evil doppelganger.

Seto : So that guy from Sonic Rush is actually from 200 years in the future?

Silver : Yes! It happened during the 2006 reset! And I discovered that before Dark Nebula would soon be unleashed to cover the galaxy in darkness. Now I'm going to understand how everything happened in the year of 06 before Sonic retcon the plot and reset everything in order of how did things happened before.

Seto : Well...I do believe so. On the occasion, we decided that only one hero that will save Real World AU in in this reset time loop in order to find out what the cause of this.

Maka Albarn : Seto, Grim. How long have I been awake after I found out the world of Soul Eater isn't real?

Seto : Hey, Kid. So you finally manage wake up after Lord Nightmare put you in a sleeping spell or something, ah yes, Lord Nightmare was the one who put you in a sleepy beauty after finding out that Maka.

"Maka Albarn : Hero of a Forgotten World".

Solva : So yeah, You woke up from a fantasy before, and I didn't expect you to woke for three years after you were on a sleeping Beauty curse. There's one teensy weensy problem. How come you haven't aged a bit?

Maka Albarn : Well that's because I was in a curse and suddenly, time did has lost it's effect on me. Don't where did I get that from? Probably in the year 2017 perhaps. This is why the states of the rocky mountains or the western states. Guess calling myself a western is no bigger problem.

Solva : Yeah, I doubt about that. While you dreaming, you were one of the trio that you never forged with, a story of three that wields weapon-turning humans that absorbs the essence of the souls of bad people called "evil", right? And evil isn't nice. That's why we decided to prefer "evil" people to be called "Heartless", those creatures that are from the heart of a person. Those souls of evil were the souls of a million heartless that the weapons have been feeding on heartless.

Seto : Heartless? Hey, yeah! I remember those guys! They're the ones who attacked this castle and rumor has it, they've been under the influence of Demon Vibe that were getting it's attention on the destroying the Kusakabe Legacy! That bastard Darkside Death had his tricks up his sleeves again. Oh yeah, heartless don't have sleeves.

Maka Albarn : Than...that means, have been in a sleeping curse for three years? All of this was a lie wasn't? If there was never a God that I defeat, then I realize I've been stubborn fool when I hero of the story! Where's Black Star, Death the Kid.

Silver : What? Who's Black Star and Death the Kid. We don't know any of those guys.

Maka Albarn : You don't remember them? Did I even think that we were and two boys and a girl trio? Soul Eater revolves around a story of three! We were two guys and a Girl trio that is us! Why can't I remember anything! How long have been in Soul Eater's story!

Seto : Because, Maka. To tell from the eyes of truth, there is no world of Soul Eater! There is no Kishin, and there is no such thing as Madness! Don't you get Maka, you were living in a fantasy all this time, it's only a dream inside your head. The author that made Soul World only wanted to impress Japan by making money! And you were just a civilian born on an alien sanctuary on the planet Jupiter, for years and you've been into a sudden fruition!

Maka Albarn : A fruition, so have I been living in a fantasy the entire time and nobody would notice the truth? If I existed in the Real World, then where is everyone from Soul World before?

Seto : All of them existed here in the Real World, the name Soul Eater was just a play on words from Sega, like One Piece and Bleach. All manga and anime titles have a play on words. [referring to somebody] Jackasses. And I found two expulsion letters from that were in top-secret files. These are the ones that had a nasty attitude have discovering their whereabouts of the world of Soul Eater and Shinra Kusakabe himself.

Maka Albarn : These are Black Star and Death the Kid's expulsion letters.

Seto : And I also have this note. (reads note with glasses) "I now realize that we being a two guys and a girl trio is like the most overpowered in the Japanese mangaka/Anime industry. What a joke to Maka Albarn thinking that we're Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura of Soul Eater"! My god, I now realize that Soul Eater isn't a story of one, it's a story of three! I recognize that trope, two guys and one girl. And that is you, Maka. You were part of a trope that became incredible usable. But it's also alternative for Two Girls and a Guy trop, like us! Death the Kid and the Thompsons are a Two girls and one guy trio. That's kind of a mix up. (continues reading) "So after finding out we've been expelled from Soul World, we will never trust maka for being a stubborn brat who cares about a punk kid named Crona".

Solva : Do you know what that means?

Seto : I'm beginning one certain answer to explain this to Maka Albarn, she's still a target to Heartless!

*beeping*

Computer Voice : You got...(in Joe's voice) MAAAAAAAAIL!!!

Seto : An email? I didn't remember emails on my computer. Hold on.

*double click*

Seto : What the--? It's from Carson City!

Solva : Carson City, you say? I don't know much about Carson City. That's a city in the U.S. Maka, you do know your states and capitals, when did you learned this at school.

Maka Albarn : [thinking] States and capitals...States and capitals...[determined] I do know about states and capitals. I learned at school in San Francisco when I was only a little girl. I know of a state where Carson City is the capital of...It's Nevada.

Seto : What? Nevada, you say? That's where the remaining half of the Ohkuboverse is! Nevada's being in peril with that so-called manga! Why is Nevada being a major setting for a world of a Japanese manga?

Maka Albarn : I'll tell you why Nevada's in peril...it's because of the Ohkuboverse that we're living in.

Seto : ...What?

Maka Albarn : Yeah, I finally figured it out what's going on. You're not gonna like it.

"Meanwhile in Nevada..."

"Carson City, Nevada..."

Dry Bones : (seeing through binoculars) Now then...What are you up to now, you crazy sons of b*tches. Hmm?

[Tails in Trouble - Takahito Eguchi]

[heartless growling and laughing sinisterly]

Dry Bones : Why are the hearless are coming? Wait, the Heartless coming...The heartless are coming! [outbursts] THE HEARTLESS ARE COMING!!! THE HEARTLESS ARE COMING!

Sheriff Dust : Ain't no way that they had come to this day! Nobody makes a mess on our turf. Alright, boys! Let Ol' Sheriff Dust Bone take care of the people of this here city! And we mean business!

"Sheriff Dust Bones : Carson City Sheriff"

Sheriff Dust : Giddy up, Partners! We got some vermins that are plaguing our state! Let's take them down for Nevada...ALL FOR OUR COUNTRY!

Dry Cowboy : ALL FOR OUR COUNTRY!

~ Extra 1 : War on Nevada ~

[chrancecriber]

Radio SunLounge Romania (April 20, 2023)

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Peggy Lee - Fever (Gabin Remix) 16:18 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 16:13 Paul Hardcastle Feat. Maxine Hardcastle - Soft Rain 16:10 Mathieu & Florzinho - All Forever One (Feat. Barbara Rebecca Boahene) 16:04 Spiritual Soul - Green Coffee - Ethereal Mix 15:59 Brook Sapphire - Wave By Wave 15:58 El Petit Jardi - Clic Du Mer (Original Mix) 15:51 Pensees - Intro 15:45 Jens Buchert - Octalimbo 15:43 Alexander Zhakulin Feat. Eva Kade - Antigravity 15:40 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 15:35 Daytripper Feat. Patricia Chaviano - Until The Sunrise (Chillout Mix) 15:30 Kraak & Smaak Feat. Parcels - Stumble (Blue Motel Remix) 15:28 Dadamnphreaknoizphunk Feat. Jen - Waiting 15:25 Living Room - Cloud 7 15:22 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 15:19 Juzhin - Wonderful 15:17 Frank Doberitz, Oliver Schlolaut - Can-'t You Hear Me (Enigmatic Vocal Chillout Mix) 15:14 Greenfinch - Sad Ballerina 15:11 Marcel - Love & Lite (Feat. Katie Gray) 15:04 Tycho - Into The Woods 14:59 Mazelo Nostra - Angels Are Coming 14:57 Marcel - Love & Lite (Feat. Katie Gray) 14:54 Atb - Black Nights 14:47 Roberto Sol - Won-'t Give Up - Cafe Del Mar Mix 14:41 Xemplify - Always You 14:36 Donna De Lory - The Unchanging (Atom Smith Chill Yoga Flow Remix) 14:34 351 Lake Shore Drive - Seabeam 14:31 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 14:25 Paul Hardcastle - Cloud Watching 14:20 Chimaera - Fly Away 14:15 Gushi & Raffunk - Check Me Out 14:12 Suntheca Prod. - A Drop Of Melancholy 14:09 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 14:07 Alex Gopher - Quiet Storm 14:01 Hooverphonic - One (Sven Galy's Flemish Shuffle) 13:55 Climatic - Left 13:53 Chris Zippel Feat. Sophie Tusnelda - Still Love - Klangstein & Chris Zippel Mix 13:49 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 13:44 El Segundo - Blue Marlin (Juan Padilla Serve Chilled Remix) 13:39 Mark Oakland - Sunny 13:35 Elliot Berger Feat. Laura Brehm - Diamond Sky (Shaddike Remix) 13:33 Diascries - Anemone (Original Mix) 13:29 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 13:26 No Horizons - Stranded (On The Beach) (Early Bird Edit) 13:21 Kosta Rodrigez - Soul 2 Sell (Boosanova Chill Mix) Feat. Denise 13:19 Climatic - L'horizzonte 13:15 Living Room - Aqua 13:12 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 13:09 Mahoroba - Des Moments (Guitar Mix) 13:03 Philip Aniskin, Alexsandra Mell - Sunday Thoughts (Lounge Version) 13:00 Living Room - A Day At The Beach 12:56 Sebastian Davidson - Freefallin' (Tariq Pijning On Sax Mix) 12:53 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 12:51 Kaxamalka - A Shine Of Concupiscence 12:44 Stendahl Feat. Jama - Follow Me (Original Mix) 12:39 Vargo - Goodbye Is A New Beginning 12:37 Amberland - Obelisk 12:30 Ugress - Autumn Colours 12:28 Fineconfine - Drops 12:21 Blank & Jones W. Jason Caesar - Pura Vida 12:20 Therr Maitz - Found U (Riesso Remix) 12:13 Late Night Alumni - Mistake 12:08 Arrojas - Over The Past Year 12:05 Late Night Alumni - White Bear 12:00 Max Sedgley - Life-'s A Beach 11:53 Tears - Cicada 11:50 Project Blue Sun - Show Me What You Know 11:43 Frame By Frame - Out Of Norway 11:41 Leonard Sign - Sea Of Shinas (Beauty Atmosphere Mix) 11:34 Kraak & Smaak - Sommeron (Feat. Imugi Weapon) (Satin Jackets Remix) 11:29 Jens Buchert - Seroton 11:23 Climatic - Doo Wop 11:21 Rey Salinero - Barefoot In The Park 11:17 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 11:12 Playton Feat. Julia Blumental - So Many Ways (Downtempo Mix) 11:06 Miguel Migs - Breakin-' It Down 11:02 Smoke City - Underwater Love 11:01 Florzinho, Amroota Natu - We Are One (Original Mix) 10:57 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 10:51 Jen Meets Salz - Offcenter Moon 10:50 Krystian Shek, Surya - Habitat 10:46 Grooveprofessor - Summerbreeze (Fresh Dub) 10:43 D. Batistatos, Evita Saloustrou - After Dark (On The Road Again) 10:40 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 10:34 Angela Puxi - Padapapapaa 10:29 Collioure - Timeless Pulse 10:28 Flight Facilities - Waking Bliss 10:24 Cafe Del Chillia - Silencio 10:21 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 10:16 Grande Delacroix - Your Name 10:11 Didascalis - Together 10:06 Merge Of Equals - Trees On The Moon 10:04 At The Eleventh - Venice Beach Girls (Springbreak In The Hotel Californa Mix) 09:58 Nofilter Feat. Furns - Just A Fling (Original Mix) 09:51 Aquanote - Nowhere (Speakeasy Remix) 09:45 Naoki Kenji - Bedtime 09:44 Lazy Hammock - Fly So High 09:40 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 09:35 Emotional - So Free (Vocal Chill Mix) 09:29 Almadrava - Do You Think You Know Me- 09:28 Peter Silence - Boost 09:21 Blue Lotus - Eshu Igelu 09:18 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 09:13 Lemongrass - Let The Day Begin (Feat. Jane Maximova) 09:08 Funkstar De Luxe - Tell Me Why 09:04 Bernon - Don't Worry (Wellness For Your Soul Mix) 09:02 Naoki Kenji - Sunset Beach Club 08:58 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 08:55 Deephouse 84 - A Night On The Beach 08:50 Lemongrass - For All Seasons 08:45 Gushi & Raffunk - Sound Of You (Beat Ambasada Mix) 08:43 Albo - Superstrings (Part I) 08:33 Under The Sun - Waves Of The Sun 08:26 Esonic - Hazy Moods 08:21 Twentyeight Feat. Tesz Millan - Into You 08:20 Marga Sol - Come And Love Me (Original Mix) 08:17 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 08:10 Don Gorda Project - Symbolic Interaction 08:04 York - Iceflowers 07:59 Frontera - A Baia 07:57 Blank & Jones - Darlings (Feat. Laid Back) 07:53 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 07:52 Blank & Jones - Die Blaue Stunde 07:45 Marga Sol - Hidden Glow 07:39 Smood Vs. Natascha Grin - Principle Of Love 07:36 Miriam Kappert - Remember This Time 07:33 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 07:24 #esteve - Sunset Beach 07:19 Good Chillaz - Stoned Love (Jazzomatic Mix) 07:16 Jens Buchert - Reflections 07:12 Emar - Smile At Your Heart 07:09 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 07:04 Ganga - Cold Wind Blowing 06:58 Eventual Groove - Simeiz 06:55 Bebel Gilberto - O Caminho (Guy Sigworth Mix) 06:52 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 06:44 Dido - Worthless 06:43 Nox & Jab - High Expression 06:36 Clelia Felix - Dreaming Of You 06:35 Candy Dulfer - Ambiente 06:32 Flamingosis - Make Me Late For Breakfast 06:28 Blank & Jones W. Jason Caesar - Pura Vida 06:22 Enjoy Your Life - Chris Le Blanc Feat. Liz June 06:15 Velvet Lounge Project - How Far, How Long 06:13 Cafe Americaine - L Amour 06:10 Everything But The Girl - Mirrorball 06:03 Twentyeight - Monday Night 06:00 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 05:54 Vladi Strecker - Meditation In The City (Smooth Evening Cut) 05:47 Idenline - At Sunset (Original Mix) 05:43 Ybu - Soul Magic 05:41 D. Batistatos - Sunset At Noon 05:38 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 05:33 Citrus Jam - Hakan's Way (Jazzman Mix) 05:31 Living Room - Sundown 05:21 Triangle Sun - Buddha 05:19 Jazzamor - Tonight 05:16 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 05:13 Ross Couch - Music Is My Life 05:08 Blank & Jones - Heart Of Wax (Late Night Mix) 05:03 Nick Prosen, Dew - Taking Me Home 05:01 Sunyata Project - I Know Him (Extended Mix) 04:58 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 04:55 Electus - Pandora 04:52 Marie Therese - Drive Your Way (Original Mix) 04:46 Boom Jinx & Aruna - Light As A Feather 04:43 Duo Varial Feat. Enaïd - Fly Away 04:40 Curly Brown - Serenity 04:33 Light Of Aiden - Loving You 04:28 Lounge Aura - Today - Smooth Bar Cafe Mix 04:27 Kled Mone - Tensegrity 04:23 Electus - Pandora 04:17 Artenovum - When You Fall Asleep (Slow Coach Mix) 04:11 Aware - En Busca Del Sol 04:09 Atb Feat. Melissa Loretta - White Letters 04:03 Dj Sleeptalker - Autumn Leaves 03:58 Do For Love - Do For Love 03:56 Hotel Riviera - Another Chance For Love 03:53 Jox Talay - Rethymnon Chillout 03:49 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 03:44 Dub Mars - Take A Trip Down Memory Lane 03:38 Faro - Bahia 03:32 Solanos - Estranha 03:30 Marc Hartman - Love Can Save The Day (To Roberto Concina) 03:20 Pnfa - Keating 03:17 Kosta Rodrigez Feat. Amy - Gale In The Waterglass (My Love) (Long Beach Cut) 03:10 Luis Hermandez - Soulwalking 03:08 Atb - Some Things Just Are The Way They Are 03:05 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 03:04 Michiko - No Place Like Home (Lemongrass Playa Bossa Remix) 03:00 Night Cruzer - The Nightcruise 02:54 Jazzamor - Sunday 02:52 Northbound - Twice The Day 02:49 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 02:44 Ayla - Open Your Mind 02:38 K Krown - Watching The Sky 02:37 Lee & Sun - Underwater 02:34 Lunatic Soul - Time To Remember (Original) 02:30 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 02:29 D.batistatos - Summer Wind 02:26 Roberto Sol - Obsesioì 02:19 Suburban Crew - Giada - Original Mix 02:17 Privat Projekt - Sunshine 02:14 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 02:09 Paul Hardcastle - In The Key Of Time 02:03 Vincenzo - Summer Breeze 02:02 Phontaine - Node 01:58 Anthony Island - Promets 01:55 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 01:50 Middle - Warm Sunset 01:48 Benirras - Ghost In A Bottle 01:42 Brook Sapphire - My Name In The Sand (Original Mix) 01:38 Beach Hoppers - Bit By Bit 01:32 Pearldiver - Motionflow (Original Mix) 01:30 Trillian - A Little Love 01:23 Diario - Two Shells 01:20 Husky Rescue - Fast Lane 01:17 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 01:12 Tom Schlueter Feat. Valery Brusilovsky - Stadtillusion (Experience 20 Mix) 01:07 Urban Phunk Society - Love Echoes 01:06 Beach Hoppers - One Love 01:03 Rangiroa - La Isabela Beach (Original Mix) 00:56 Esbe - Midnight Ocean 00:50 Moonwatcher - Sofa Loafer (Original Afterhours Mix) 00:49 Brain Child - The Guitar Power (Original Mix) 00:46 351 Lake Shore Drive - Blue Baby Moon (Feat. Picidu) 00:43 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 00:37 Headstrong Feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw - Love Calls (Floris De Haan Mix) 00:36 Sonic Adventure Project - Haze 00:29 Vargo - Get Back To Serenity (Beach Mix) 00:26 Lounge Vargos - Follow My Dreams - Sunshine Mix 00:23 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 00:21 Beth Orton - Daybreaker 00:15 Johannes Huppertz - At Frederun 00:10 Ielo - Beautiful Flower (Feat. Karen Gibson Roc) 00:08 Indian Dawn - Predictions 00:05 Jingle - Radiosun.ro 00:00 E-Sonic - For What I Want

[samueloneworldproductions]

All 2022 Films Ranked

GOLD MEDAL (A++)

1-The Fabelmans 2-The Batman 3-Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 4-Gulliermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

Best Of The Best (A+)

5-Barbarian 6-Top Gun: Maverick 7-Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 8-The Menu (2022) 9-Everything, Everywhere All At Once (2022) 10-Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022) 11-Scream (2022) 12-X (2022) 13-Pearl (2022) 14-Nope (2022) 15-Turning Red (2022) 16-The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022) 17-Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (2022) 18-The Northman (2022)

AWESOME (A)

19-The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022) 20-Terrifier 2 (2022) 21-Prey (2022) 22-Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers (2022) 23-Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022) 24-Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022) 25-Elvis (2022) 26-Violent Night (2022) 27-Smile (2022) 28-Hellraiser (2022) 29-Bones And All (2022) 30-Emily The Criminal (2022) 31-Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) 32-Marcel: The Shell With Shoes On (2022) 33-The Black Phone (2022) 34-A Christmas Story Christmas (2022) 35-Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022) 36-The Bad Guys (2022) 37-Bros (2022) 38-Clerks III (2022) 39-After Yang (2022) 40-Do Revenge (2022) 41-Marry Me (2022) 42-Ambluance (2022) 43-Rescued By Ruby (2022) 44-Hustle (2022) 45-Rosaline (2022) 46-Jackass Forever (2022) 47-Better Nate Than Ever (2022)

GOOD/GREAT (B+ to A-)

48-Black Adam (2022) 49-Thor: Love And Thunder (2022) 50-Causeway 51-Enola Holmes 2 (2022) 52-Orphan: First Kill (2022) 53-Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore (2022) 54-Hotel Translyvania: Transformania (2022) 55-Emergency (2022) 56-I Want You Back (2022) 57-The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) 58-Crush (2022) 59-The Sea Beast (2022) 60-Funny Pages (2022) 61-Not Okay (2022) 62-Day Shift (2022) 63-The Whale (2022) 64-Spirited (2022) 65-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) 66-Fire Island (2022) 67-Samaritan (2022) 68-Me Time (2022) 69-Bullet Train (2022) 70-Dog (2022) 71-The Gray Man (2022) 72-Hollywood Stargirl (2022) 73-The Lost City (2022) 74-The Cursed (2022) 75-Blacklight (2022) 76-Kimi (2022) 77-The Adam Project (2022) 78-Lightyear (2022)

SOLID ENOUGH

79-Babylon 80-DC League Of Super-Pets (2022) 81-Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) 82-Night At The Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again (2022) 83-The Princess (2022) 84-Death On The Nile (2022) 85-Wendell & Wild (2022) 86-Prey For The Devil (2022) 87-Cheaper By The Dozen (2022)

DECENT ENOUGH (B-)

88-Disenchanted (2022) 89-Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody 90-Moonfall (2022) 91-Uncharted (2022) 92-Beast (2022) 93-Men (2022) 94-Spiderhead 95-The Royal Treatment (2022) 96-Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) 97-Moonshot (2022) 98-Minions: The Rise Of Gru (2022) 99-Studio 666 (2022) 100-Sneakerella (2022) 101-Halloween Ends (2022) 102-The School For Good And Evil (2022)

MIXED BAG (C+)

103-Deep Water (2022) 104-Strange World (2022) 105-Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022) 106-They/Them (2022) 107-Don't Worry Darling (2022)

MEHHHHHH/BLEHHHHHHH (C to C-)

108-Senior Year (2022) 109-The 355 (2022) 110-Memory (2022) 111-Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022) 112-The Ice Age Adventures Of Buck Wild (2022) 113-Luck (2022)

BAD BADDDDDDD (D+ to D-)

114-Paws Of Fury: The Legend Of Hank 115-Morbius 116-The Invitation 117-The Munsters 118-Amsterdam 119-Tall Girl 2 120-Pinocchio (2022)

TRAINWRECK (F)

121-Dashcam 122-365 Days: This Day 123-The Next 365 Days 124-After Ever Happy 125-Jeepers Creepers Reborn

[thespiantherepist]

Android Iida x reader pt.2 SFW

Iida had been feeling weird lately. He'd been relaxing more. Charging, and rebooting himself constantly. He wanted himself to be in perfect condition for you. He started setting his food compartment up daily, judt so hed be able to eat with you. Sometimes when youd come home crying, or have bouts of sudden emotion he'd drop everything. He'd put his arm around you, and hum a lullaby.

And everytime.

Everytime.

Hed get that thrum.

That soft, and fast rotating within himself.

The circuts underneath his face would heat up lightly due to the stimulis. Causing his face to light up red.

"Iida, im taking you to the hospital."

"SCRREEECH!"

His glasses glared, even without lights shinig on them. He stayed firmly planted on the fridge. On the top of the fridge rather.

Why did you have to take him to the programmer's?

Because you would hear clanking coming from him at night.

A loud tink in the middle of the night. Hums, and whirrs would comw out louder than normal for an android.

"Listen Y/n, we could talk about this!" He sputtered quickly.

"Either come down, and let me take you, or youll have to evaluate yourself."

Iida shivered, he hated, absolutely dispised where his evaluation socket, and cord connected. It made him feel violated. Although, he wasnt sure if he could actually feel.

"W-ee dont need to do all that MY STAR!" He said, getting louder as you probed at him with the stick of your broom.

"WHY DONT WE GO TO THE MOVIES OR THE ICE SKATING RINK INSTEAD!"

You glared at him. Then you started counting.

"Programms, set countdown forbtotal system reset. In 10, 9, 8, 7, 6..."

"My star?" Iida said scared, and confused. He felt his servos, and codes getting the programm ready, and it was then he realised what was happening.

Iida knew what he was feeling. He couldnt deny the reasons any longer. He knew he loved you. When he shut down for the night his systems warmed bringing back data from his memories of you.

He panicked.

"NOW NOW LETS NOT GET BRASH MY STAR!"

"...5."

"y/n. Theres." "4." "Theres nothing, wrong with me, its just." "3."

OOOH God he could feel everything in his body being strangled, and the humidity recyclers in his eyes started leaking his face scrunching.

"2."

"Y/N what I mean to say was!"

"1."

"I LOVE YOU, DAMNIT, THATS WHY MY SYSTEMS ARE LOUD. IT TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT TO PULL STORED DATA. BUT MY BODY WORKS HARD TO FIX IT. TO KEEP ME COOL!" He started sobbing, still crouched on the fridge. "I understand why you'd want to leave me. Or just reset me now." He said chocking on his tears. Trying to calm himself down.

"Cancel reset protocol, Iida baby come down here." You said it softly, a command, but a light one.

He gently came down, he felt much better.

"Mast-" You roughly threw your hands around hia neck, bringing him in for a kiss. Entangling your hands through his hair.

He was shocked.

You.

kissed.

HIM!

His servos damn near exploded.

"But Im."

You put a finger up to shush him.

"Youre more human than anyone I will probably ever know. I love you soo much!"

He grinned broadly, then started crying happily into your shoulder. Leaning down. Wrapping his arms around your waist.

"My Star?"

"Only yours."

[primusdemoniccreatrix]

Printemps (The Mandalorian x Reader)

Just fluff I thought of while doing exams; platonic, slow burn. Reader is from Earth, and I just really enjoy nature. Might make a series of this? Feedback is much appreciated! btw Printemps is French for Spring. Reader doesn't know Mando's name. GIF: @oliviajdjarin

Printemps

The Mandalorian: Din Djarin/AFAB! Reader

This was an easier hunt than he thought. Good.

His last bounty on Kashyyyk put up a fight, and while he'd gotten good pay for it, he absolutely hated when his bounties put up such a fight and in so many stages it got hard to track whether it was genuine or a ruse; to him it could matter little as everything could have been a ruse as far as he cared, all that mattered was that he didn't fall for it. But the violence to the bargaining, then pleading for mercy, then taunting him with the child as if the kid wasn't so sacred to him that he'd kill anyone who spoke of him with such an ill mouth, to struggling and cursing while he was being dragged after causing so much of a scene on the way to the ship, it wore him down and he was all too happy to slam him into carbonite, placing his slab on the rack, glad he didn't have to deal with that pathetic man anymore. It wasn't a hard fight (the pathetic man was pretty weak and not good at fighting), but Maker did it drain his energy.

Din sighed, flexing his shoulders in order to relieve the tension that the bounty had caused. He was definitely going to take a quick warm shower, he needed it.

But first, to get the kid and his babysitter.

Din turned round, walking back down the ship's open ramp, not fearing anything coming for his ship from the Wookies' home planet as he descended back down towards the forest clearing near the open hill where he'd parked the Crest.

He'd met you not long after meeting the kid, finding your skills with tools something extremely helpful to someone with a ship that breaks something almost every trip, and the fact that the baby liked you was something that he knew was too good an opportunity to pass on. He was initially wary of you, as you were a stranger in his ship and therefore on probation to him, but within a few weeks into your recruitment you'd managed to become the baby's favourite person and his most trusted mechanic when he'd found you repairing a part of his fresher that he didn't even know was originally wrong with the Crest when he'd gotten injured, taking care to adjust the sonics so that it wouldn't put too much pressure on his wound. You'd done him a world of good while he was healing from a nasty cut at that time, and he'd been indebted, grateful to you ever since.

That had been months ago.

You and Din had reached a sort of understanding of one another of shared duties, and your conversations were amiable, never pushing buttons but always pleasant. Now, he could honestly say he'd come to see you as a friend, trusting you with his most precious thing, and knowing you'd listen to him and respect him when the rest of the world seemed to want to fight him. He was thankful for that.

Din's boots hit the grass of the hill, walking down the gentle slope of the hill towards the trees that bordered the clearing. The sky overhead had greyed while he was getting the bounty into carbonite, meaning that the day might end soon, and he had another bounty to catch on Corellia. He walked past the first few trees, their leaves whispering by his pauldrons and helmet as he traced your footsteps: you told him you'd sit and play with Grogu in the forest while he went on the hunt, so he rationalized it was where he'd find you since you weren't on the Crest.

The crunch of leaves underfoot accompanied him as he walked through the forest, the darkness from the tree canopy opening up to light further inside. A coldness settled onto his skin through his flightsuit, and through his visor he could see mist coming in. It would rain soon.

He walked up to the light, where there was a smaller clearing in the forest, and grass rushed up to his ankles, flowers brushing soft petals around his calves as they grew tall in the temperate climate. His audio receptors picked up the soft birdsong in the air, the fluttering of leaves in the breeze, and he could hear the distant rush of water.

He found you in the centre of the open glade, sitting atop a boulder that sat on the edge of a small stream, water flowing at your feet where you sat as the Child was in your arms, cradled in your lap and loving hold. Your hair was let down, waves where you'd have braided your hair back, some of it in tangles where flowers had made a home for themselves; mist fell onto the strands, and whatever light there was in the clearing reflected off the droplets, a gentle veil of light.

Din watched you tilt back your head, look up into the sky, and breathe deeply; you exhaled, your breath turning to mist as the air cooled, and he knew it must have felt amazing. You kicked up your feet, splashing some water, and he could see your body fully relax.

You looked so...content.

His feet moved towards you, and he knew you could hear him when you turned your head to greet him. A smile as soft as a cloud graced your face, your eyes gazing at his visor in a way that sent a shiver down his spine. He came and stood close to you as you leaned back once more to look up at the overcast clouds.

The warrior looked up into the clouds, wondering if you could see something he couldn't, only to hear you breathe deeply once more, sighing. What could have made you so wistful, he wondered?

Your eyes looked up at him, pinning him to the spot with your gaze as your voice drifted to his audio receptors.

"Do you ever think of how beautiful so many of the places we visit are?" you asked, a voice as far away as other planets. Your eyes glazed over, as if distant, before continuing: "Do you ever stop and just...breathe, and live in the moment?"

This question you seemed to want an answer to. Moments passed and you continued to stare at him, waiting for an answer.

"No. I just hunt bounties, I don't have time to stop or absorb sights that aren't necessary to the hunt" he said, the modulator of his voice giving the answer a more biting tone than he'd intended.

You gave a low hum, as if disappointed, looking away from him, and for a moment he wanted to apologize; he didn't mean to take whatever joy you and the kid could find in constant travel away from you.

"Want to try now?" you offered, and he was about to turn you down and remind you there was a bounty waiting, but you seemed to beat him to the punch, saying: "It'll only take a moment, I promise". You patted the flat boulder, inviting him to sit. "I know that bounty hunting takes a lot out of you, some relaxation might do you good, Mando".

Din sighed, too exhausted to argue, not that he truly wanted to; he did need a break. He unclipped his jetpack and set it down on a smaller rock, before sitting himself on the boulder, his armoured back to you.

Getting to experience smells under the helmet wasn't easy, but this time, in a safe, open space, Din could feel the air travel under his helmet and fill his lungs with fresh oxygen, notes of flowers, rain, and water filling him up with their delicious scents. It felt...good. Better than that. He was enjoying it.

His audio receptors filled his ears with the rustle of leaves, the trickle of water, and distant birdsong, accompanied by the gentle humming of a wordless song you were giving the baby. He could physically feel himself relax, his body, his mind, his soul taking a moment of much-needed rest, his tense shoulders loosening just a tad.

He couldn't remember the last time he did something like this; maybe he'd never done it. But it was definitely worth it.

Din could feel additional weight on his back, and he knew it was you leaning back on him a bit, just a touch, as though to make sure you weren't making him uncomfortable. He leaned back as well, his head resting against your own as you both basked in the misty afternoon in the glade.

He found himself thinking about you. You've been wonderful to the child, taking to him as though he were yours. He knew you loved the baby a lot, but he wondered what you thought of him, your employer. You were kind to him, respected him and helped him whenever you could, fixing things and easing his jobs as father and hunter, but was that simply because you were hired to do it? Did you like him at all, or just tolerate him as an employer for the sake of the baby you adore? Did you consider him a friend, like he thinks of you?

A quiet plink! sounded against Din's helmet, the noise so sudden it prompted him to sit back up, unbalancing you both. You sat up as well, knowing that Mando probably had things he needed to do, and your moment was up anyway. You carefully tugged your sock on with one hand, before slipping your shoe back on, moving the baby to the crook of your neck as you worked with one hand.

A droplet landed on your head, and you understood: he wanted to go because it would rain soon. He confirmed so when he outstretched his hands for the Child, cradling him as he took him from your arms. "We need to go, it's going to rain". You agreed, nodding as you hurriedly donned your shoes.

You slipped off the rock, following Mando as he walked back towards the ship, the baby tucked into his side, enjoying his father's presence. You three walked under the canopy towards the hill where the Razor Crest sat.

"Do you feel better?" you asked him, your voice quiet, but the open space echoed towards him.

Din caught your wistful gaze as he pressed a button on his gauntlet to open up the ramp. You glanced over your shoulder towards the forest before turning back to him, you eyes seeming to want an answer.

"I did. It was...good" he found himself saying, earning another of your soft, understanding smiles that never failed to make him feel like the world was not as heavy as it felt sometimes.

He smiled back at you under the helmet as you climbed aboard after him. A gust of wind ruffled your child-mussed hair entangled with flowers as you took the child from his arms, while he set to closing the ramp.

Din found himself looking back at the forest, a drizzle of rain already falling into the glade and nearly clearing the canopy. One last drop of water hit his pauldron as the rain came, the mudhorn looking as though it were crying.

He'd be sure to return here sometime. He really did enjoy spending a moment in nature, and you...Your smile suited you, and he would do what he could to make sure you kept smiling.

[chaotic-vibes-only-please]

Hi! I'm a bit shy with this because it's my first time requesting, but. Have you ever thought of Toby with an S/O that jumbles up their words a lot? Like, the words in their brain go faster than sonic and they involuntarily try to go at the same pace, causing them to stumble over their words and have a hard time. I hope this isn't too confusing or anything, but I thought it would be kinda cute 💖 👉👈👀. You're amazing, don't forget that!! ><💗. - 🌕 moon anon 🌕 (Can I be moon anon?)

Toby With an S/O Who Mixes Up Their Words Head Canons

A/N: This is so adorable! Of course you can! it's okay to be shy, I've never sent a request before but when I do I'll probably be the same way🤭Hello moon Anon 💕 I really love this request because I myself tend to do the same thing👉👈Thank you, but you're MORE amazing😌I hope you don't mind some headcanons!

Toby's heart melts whenever you get passionate about a subject to the point where you try to say everything that pops into your mind. He smiles at you and waits patiently as you stumble with your sentences

He reminds you to take deep breaths while placing his hand on top of yours because you get frustrated that you can't let out all your thoughts clearly.

Toby doesn't really care, like it doesn't dieter him in anyway. He's just happy that you're trying to express your interests to him. He thinks it's so cute. You know how everyone has a quirk? He sees it as yours and that's fine.

Jeff does like to constantly tease you about it whenever Toby isn't there, but when your boyfriend is present he'll threaten to chop the smiling man's head off with one swing by his hatchet.

And if anyone for that matter tries to make fun of you, Toby will get very overprotective quick and take out his anger on the assholes who think it's funny.

Since Toby knows what it's like to struggle with speaking do to his stutters, he can relate to it in a way. At the end of the day he sees it as something the two of you have in common.

It's seriously the cutest thing in the world to him. He kind of enjoys to see you frustrated because your cheeks become red and puffed out, a grumpy scowl on your face. You look like an angry kitten to him.

He sits back and listens to you, giving his full attention towards your rant no matter how many times you have to stop in order to stop stumbling your wording. "T-Take i-it easy b-babe, sl-slow down t-t-theres no rush" He always tells you with a grin.