#I’ve been getting back into the fnaf fandom after so many years

[allioaro]

Do you have a moment or two to talk about the fnaf lore?

[pixiemage]

You know, a lot of fandoms I’m in can fade out of my focus after a while. ADHD is like that, where I’m extremely hyperfocussed on one thing for months at a time and then suddenly it just - fades, and a new one pops up. But for MCYT (for Hermitcraft and Traffic and Empires and the rest) that hasn’t been the case. I’ve had occasional and very short one- or two-week breaks to get into something else for a minute, usually old fandoms or new show binge sessions (FNaF, Supernatural, Poppy Playtime - I’m currently watching House beginning to end for the first time lol) but I keep coming back to MCYT.

It’s been years by now, two or three at least. I’ve made so many friends through this community, written so many stories - joined events and conventions specifically to write or cosplay or create something new for the fandom. It’s…kind of amazing. There’s always something new happening, and not nearly as much drama as I’ve seen in other fan communities. It’s refreshing and I’m so so happy to be here.

Most of my fandom experiences haven’t lasted this long. It’s unique in that regard.

Guess it took a game as timeless as Minecraft for one to stick around.

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

i will forever be grateful that the mascot horror of my choosing - welcome home - is not a video game or even a show, but is, in fact, an interactive website with many secret elements that hide the horror. look what happened to fnaf, to tadc, hell, even poppy playtime now that chapter 3 isn’t complete and utter sludge. like, can you imagine how much worse the welcome home fandom would be if we also had over saturated content farms to deal with?

i was into tadc for a week or two (hyperfixation go brrrrr) and part of the reason i lost interest was because of the fucking content farms. tadc isn’t just an indie animated show with horror elements now, it’s something content farms milk to hell and back! i’ve found my little siblings watching shitty tadc content farm videos! can you imagine what would’ve happened if welcome home was executed in any other format other than its current website? the characters are perfect in terms of color and designs for content farm exploitation. it would’ve absolutely wrecked welcome home as a whole and it would’ve never taken off in the way it did if it’d been in a game or show or anything other than its website.

i keep going back to tadc but it’s just the perfect example of content-farm-ification. tadc lost relevance after, what, a month? sure, it’ll likely skyrocket back up into tumblr’s trending whenever episode 2 drops, but compare tadc’s 40k tag followers to welcome home’s ever climbing 1.2 million tag followers. the welcome home tag absolutely just blew up and kept blowing up after its initial rise to fame in march 2023, but tadc’s tag is still similar in followers to the number it had back in october. i blame it on the fucking content farms. sure, tadc has millions of views of youtube, but how relevant is it really?

sure, the welcome home fandom is generally regarded as shitty thanks to all the fucking idiots who couldn’t listen to clown’s guidelines on nsfw content for the few months before they created a tag for that specifically and because of all the weird as fuck aus people have created, but at least we’re not that. at least we don’t have content farms like fucking lankybox completely sucking the enjoyment out of our media of choice and over saturating the search results we get when looking up the names of our hyperfixes.

i cannot stress enough how grateful i am that welcome home’s main way of being interacted with is its website. lankybox and all other content farms can’t milk that. what small child would want to watch them aimlessly click around the website and try to find all the secrets? how is that marketable? how can you make putting in letter combinations into the url and clicking on everything pops up something to scream at your camera about? answer: you can’t. that’s what’s so great about it. there is almost no possible way anyone under age, what, ten? would want to watch someone interact with the website and uncover its lore which makes it practically useless to every single content farm out there.

so, yeah. once again, thank you clown for making your funny little puppet show horror project a silly website with its own secrets and codes rather than a video game. thank you for executing mascot horror in such a great way that content farms have simply not found a way to milk it in the almost year since its initial explosion in popularity. don’t forget to wave up high!

[chuuyascumsock]

hi pookie <33 sorry its been yearsss, lifes been a bit of bitch but im just going to be bitchier 😎

how are you doing? and also i love that you re-watched my little pony, that show RAISED me, I CRIED over Princess Celestia and Luna's reunion and the hundreds of other arcs that it had

I HATE THE NEW ONE ITS SO SODUHVODSHUCO 😔☹️

The old MLP is in my heart forever ❤️ (can you tell i was a horse girl 💀)

BUT OMG THAT BLANKET YOU MADE W LIZZY IS SO CUTE????? its so sweet 🥰🥰

i miss you and tumblr moots :(

and ive been TRYING to deal w my writing burnout 'cause i have an idea for a fic that ive been trying to write but words just aren't wording !!!!

and not to mention its been so unbearably hot where i live its actually horrific, i cant sleep at all because of the heat T-T

but on a lighter note ive been hanging out w some of my friends after we all got back from our respective trips and we're planning a little roadtrip later this month !!!!

and

i got snorb a sibling

this is my second baby 😋 im a proud dino mother here !!!

(this is a cry for help)

stay sexy 😘😘❤️💐

Hiiiii Pookie, I’m glad you sent an ask, I was getting worried about you snookums 🥺

I started watching MLP when I was like 10 because my baby brothers wanted to watch it and I liked it but after that I hadn’t seen it in years so I thought I’d get back into it. I was especially into the mlp creepypasta stuff (it was like the first official fandom I got into when I was 8 and it lasted until I was like 14 and I got a new hyperfixation which was Assassination Classroom, let me tell you— being in the Fnaf, Minecraft, Undertale, and Eddsworld fandoms in that time frame as well was wild. The fanfics and crossovers were embarrassing, y’all.)

Also, horse girl? I had to be one in middle and high school cause my mom made me take riding lessons and at least one competition lol. While I didn’t like it because I nearly broke my hip doing so, I’m still salty they sold the horse I mainly rode for two years and the new owner was a bitch and wouldn’t even let me walk past his stall because she was so possessive. Genuinely was only there to make friends with the horses, I still miss you, Cinnabar :[

And yessss, I love the blanket I made with Libby cause it’s so soft and warm which is great cause my hands and feet are naturally cold like a corpse.

I also get the burnout, I wanna write so bad and I have so many ideas but I just can’t write. I want to finish my second Chuuya hurt/comfort fic and Dazai hurt/comfort fic cause they’re almost done (my Chuuya one is 4k+ words long and the Dazai one is being a bitch and deleted half of my progress). But it’s okay because I named them appropriately so look out for fics called “I said break it down, not have a break down” and “This homeless man won’t leave so I’m spraying him down with dirty brown water” (I think you can guess which is which). So yeah :]

THE HEAT IS KILLING ME HERE TOO, IT’S SO FUCKING HOT AND HUMID AND MY GLASSES GET ALL FOGGY WHEN I LEAVE MY HOUSE FOR WORK I HATE IT 😭

Hurray for hanging out with friends!! I watched the new Deadpool and Wolverine movie with my friends this passing week and my god, Hugh Jackman is the straightest man crush I’ve ever had, he is so fine. I rarely like irl men in general (only do so with celebrities bc irl girls is where it’s at, dating boys is gross) so when I do, yk he’s got IT. God, I’d shred cheese on those abs of his.

And you got Snorb a sibling‼️ Name ‘em Sneeb, Sneeb and Snorb <3

[silverwingborn-moved]

Munday - About the Mun v.03

Name // Soul

Pronouns // She/Her

preference of communication // Tumblr DMs. For mutuals, you may ask for my Discord 👌

experience in rp & how long // I’ve been online rping for 12+ years now. Usually I rp as OC’s or my own interpretations of canon characters. I’ve been in multiple fandoms over the years.

platforms you’ve used // Deviantart, Tumblr, Twitter, and Discord. Tumblr was my preferred before all the dumb changes were made (it’s a pain to be a mobile rper primarily otl). I’ve enjoyed returning here however. Discord I use with mutuals.

name of most active muse // Silver, my OC Nephilim on this blog.

best experience // It’s difficult to pick just one, especially with how many wonderful people I’ve interacted with over the years. My most memorable ones will always be with my first online friend and RP partner, @silverfire113 . You welcomed into your incredible worlds and have helped me grow so much with writing and creating characters 💙

rp pet peeves // People that expect to auto ship and/or want to interact for the sake of shipping. Back in the Undertale and FNAF SB fandoms where I rp’d my own versions of canon characters, 7/10 interactions were romantic seeking. Or treating my canon muse like they already knew each other (mostly OC’s). This honestly drove me away from public rping and strictly to Discord for over a year. I don’t mind shipping, I love shipping! But please I’d love for our characters to get to know each other first and build chemistry. Sometimes there are ones that click very quickly, but in the end a discussion between muns is always appreciated!

fluff, angst, or smut // It really depends on my mood. I love a good balance between fluff or crack, and angst. They feed my gremlin braincell and give so much dopamine~ As for smut, ye there are times I’m in the mood for that.

plots or memes // Usually memes are the best place to start with me! It’s free-style writing/improv. Anything and everything can happen haha. I do love a good plot, especially after getting the vibe of how my RP partner and I work together in the meme threads.

long or short replies // BOTH!! I can do crack RP with as short as a sentence or two, to paragraph semi-lit style with detailings. There are days my brain has overloaded and can only do short, and then absolutely flourish and thrive in longer rps. I mainly match whatever my RP partner does.

best time to write // Evenings hours. I’m a night owl and can stay up well into the late morning hours when really into an RP. During the day I’m usually at work or have appointments and chores to attend to.

are you like your muse // The majority of my muses (especially ocs) have some piece of me in them. Normally it’s my goofy humor and adhd, but I will also implement other elements of me. For instance, Silver in her human!verse works at a bookstore. I myself am a librarian. I like to think I’ve given her some of my determined and resilient natures, just to more extreme circumstances.

Tagged: Stolen from @amischiefofmuses

Tagging: @silverfire113 and anyone else who would like to do this! ^^

[thebrokengate]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s a little miffed about this sudden revelation. I’m a fairly old fan of the series - my interest in the games starting with the release of FNAF 2 - but admittedly, I haven’t been much of an active participant in the fandom since Pizzeria Simulator (long story short, while objectively a good game, the tonal/vibe shift just didn’t fit my preferences in what I liked about the other games and I haven’t felt like any of the official FNAF games since then have been able to recapture it). However, I have stuck around and popped in and out of the fandom every now and then just to see what the new games and other additions to the series brought to the table and what theories and ideas were going around regarding the timeline of events, so I was still present for a lot of it. Much the same with this new reveal, I just happened to see it trending on Twitter (I’m not calling it X, fuck Elon - but that’s a story for another day) on one of my daily log-in-and-glance-at-a-few-things-and-retweet-a-few-things-before-logging-out-again-so-you-don’t-get-rate-limited-if-that-still-happens sessions, and when I see new FNAF news even now after the hyperfixation has been missing for years, I still have to run and check up on it. And this.. oh, this. (This gets long so I put it under the cut, apologies in advance for the rambling.)

I don’t want to sound like that guy, but I’m going to be that guy for a second and just say that if they wanted to keep a cohesive, understandable story, they really should’ve stopped with FNAF 3. Sure, there were still a few things we hadn’t seen or questions that could’ve been answered in maybe one book, but back then for pretty much everyone, FNAF 3 seemed like it was the game that finally put the series to rest and closed the doors on that world. I remember the praise the series got, and even the speeches from YouTubers about it who were happy to know that “the souls of the original 5 kids are finally at peace and the person who killed them finally got what he deserved, now stuck in a suit himself just like they were for so many years”. 

But then.. FNAF 4 dropped and changed everything we thought we knew. Another prequel, and.. wait, hang on- is that the bite of ‘87?

Nope. No, it’s.. it’s the bite of ‘83.

What bite of ‘83?

Now, unlike a lot of people I’ve seen, I loved FNAF 4 dearly. It tried something new, and it drove YouTubers batshit crazy because they had to stop their commentary every 5 seconds to listen for the breathing outside their doors. But FNAF 4 was already the first wrench in the system. The bite of ‘87 was always talked about as one of the big mysteries we never got to see happen, and when this child got shoved into the mouth of an animatronic bear and was bitten, war broke out over whether or not it was the bite of ‘87 we just saw or the bite of ‘83. But there was never a bite of ‘83 ever mentioned in any of the previous games. If the bite of ‘87 was given the attention that it’s amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, surely the bite of ‘83 would have to be mentioned somewhere and mean something too, to the people running the establishment. But.. things get covered up - we can let that slide for now. So it’s the bite of ‘83 and it was Fredbear who did it, got it. And all the nightmare animatronics we’re seeing are in this kid’s dreams - that’s why they’re called “nightmare” animatronics, right? And this kid is obviously in a coma, at least for the last couple nights. Flowers show up by the bed, and a pill bottle, and an IV drip - it checks out that he’s in the hospital. And hey, in the end we see that the older brother apologized to his comatose younger brother, but the younger brother can only listen now. Very tragic, but that’s the story, right?

Right?

Nope, it’s gas tanks. 😃👍

What.

Do they realize how stupid that sounds and how little sense that makes looking back on FNAF 4 now? It’s not just that it makes William Afton a no-reason Jigsaw, but it also sounds like bullshit pulled completely out of thin air that no one ever would’ve guessed in that game because there were no context clues for it in FNAF 4. “Oh, but they put in some things that look like gas tanks in Sister Location and there’s cameras viewing the old house.” I don’t care, that is not how you foreshadow a plot twist, especially when it’s a giant leap in logic from all the puzzle pieces laid down in FNAF 4 standing alone. How do the flowers, the pills, and the IV make sense to a gas chamber? And, mind you, where the hell is Jigsaw Afton getting these gas tanks and why? It’s like they looked at Man of Medan, stole a page right out of their script because it looked good to them (even though most people hated the easy-out of explainable fear), and chucked it onto the storyline of FNAF 4 for no reason other than people not being able to look for a deeper reason why things were the way that they were in that game. People have to be given an explanation for everything because they can’t think critically about the media they’re consuming for two seconds, and that’s how we end up with things like this. A way too simple answer for what’s causing the nightmares, fuck everything else, and have a cup of ramen with it.

If it was fear gas all along, there should’ve been clues in FNAF 4 itself that pointed to that idea. It’s a plot twist that no one in that time could’ve even remotely seen coming because there was no groundwork laid for it. Here’s an (albeit spoilery) example for how plot twist foreshadowing should work (skip the next paragraph to avoid spoilers if you haven’t seen The Mandela Catalogue):

One of the characters we follow in The Mandela Catalogue, Adam Murray, is an alternate (a sort of doppelganger/demon in the series). His whole life has been a lie and he’s not human - not the real Adam Murray. It’s a plot twist that took most people by surprise, but it wasn’t an unreasonable plot twist because there were clues that foreshadow this all the way back in the time of the character’s first appearance in Vol. 2. Clues which, upon re-examining after the reveal of Adam being an alternate all along in Vol. 4, make much more sense in the way they’re easily re-interpreted. You hear a line in Vol. 2 where Adam is told to “wake up” and “don’t make me wake the others”. At another point, you also hear music that might play in a nursery coming from the TV - because, as we find out in Vol. 4, Adam was the human child taken and replaced with an alternate of himself by an otherworldly intruder who came through his TV. These were subtle enough hints at the time that were either glossed over, or were applied differently than what truly was going on, making the later reveal mind-blowing for most fans.

But that didn’t happen with FNAF 4. There were no mentions of fear gas, no things that looked like gas tanks just laying around, no clouds or particles of gas visibly floating through the air that would make you wonder “huh, was that just dust or something else?” There was nothing like that. So now if fear gas is the answer, the complete set-up of FNAF 4 we all thought we interpreted correctly just looks like a giant misdirect.

Pull the rug out on me once, fine. Pull the rug out on me twice, cool. But almost 10 years of constant rug-pulling of changes to the timeline and interpretations being shot down with answers that defy logic, and I’m a little miffed muffet. It conflates the story way too much and the series sees no ending. Every time we think it does and we think everything is solved, they throw another wrench in the system and we have to do it ALL over again. Re-shifting the timeline, adding in new plotlines and subplots at every turn, all of it compounding into a non-linear story, and I’m beginning to think they don’t know what they’re doing anymore. They went to the Resident Evil school of gigantic timelines and continuity issues that get out of hand, but they also ignored the golden rule of letting plot holes go when they get too big, because it seems more now like they’re just trying to cover their own asses with random nonsense answers they think fills in the gaps but only makes the gaps bigger. And until I see their notes for the overall timeline, I’m going to continue to think they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing anymore and that they’re just throwing things at the wall they’re hoping will stick. And it makes it so the fans, both new and old, can never fully grasp the overall story they’re being told because there’s too many moving parts that they keep trying and failing to cover in a world that’s too big for the shoes it’s trying to fill.

jesus christ this fucking fear gas thing is so annoying. if it ACTUALLY explains fnaf 4 it tears down a decent chunk of my theories and interpretations about afton and makes him one THOUSAND percent more boring and one-dimensional. im going to kill someone

[amouress16]

My 2022 Animation Overview

This last year was my first year getting into animation. While I’m not fortunate enough to be able to afford college to go the professional route of this kind of art career, I am lucky to have the support to try and push my way in as an amateur anyway. So now here I am, with eleven months of self teaching experience under my belt.

I started back in February with this one here. My first ever animation (and first ever copyright strike, yay for youtube’s auto flagger not knowing how fair use law works ;u;). I’ve been lucky that this one is only one of two of my animatics that I’ve been able to spot a mistake in post upload.

This one was a shorter one that I managed to get done in only a couple weeks, and probably the one I’m least proud of at this point from it’s lack of substance. Still, every bit helps me learn, and it was still cute.

And now to my most popular animation so far! I was very happy so many people liked this one, especially since Vincent is my favorite character in VTSoM, I got to have a lot of fun making it- I’ll definitely be making more Vincent centric ones. Like the one I have in the works right now... ;)

Ye ol classic meme animatic, The Hole. Everyone who watches meme animations for their fandoms has seen some variation of this one. This was mine. This was where I started using more repeat “assets” (read: drawings) for the sake of consistency and saving myself time, for the first time.

And another classic meme approach, vines. I plan on making two more of these for VTSoM in particular, but I will keep them spaced out since they’re a little more exhaustive to make. A lot of unrelated scenes with so many different characters being drawn out over two or three months is, well, a lot!

And finally something from a different fandom! ...listen, I am a fnaf fan on tumblr, Sun and Moon brainrot is par for the course here. This particular animatic was another short one that came after two months of bad art block and life stress and me getting sick back to back. I needed a simple thing to come back with. Not to mention, I got an art tablet as a gift during the holidays, which was a major upgrade for me, so I had to learn (and am still learning) to use a totally new animation program! Thus, this silly little thing.

And that’s all for ‘22!

If you read through this whole thing, thank you! I know I don’t really post my art as often as some folks so it’s harder to tell, but I do work hard and near constantly on creating things. Lately that’s been largely animations, so I don’t have a whole lot of time for other things. And while I’d love to do this all for free, we do live under capitalism and I have to be able to pay for vet bills and groceries. So if you’d like to and are able to yourself, please consider checking out my Patreon! I post weekly updates of my animation progress as well as occasional random WIPs and sketches. Anyway, thanks again, and happy 2023!

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

I wanted to send an ask because I feel alone right now. I know your requests are closed, so I am not asking for anything. I just…found your blog and I wanna say I admire what you do.

I’ve been in a real bad spot lately, depressed for the past 3 years straight it seems… I’m starting to get really tired, but I keep going. I found myself getting back into FNAF again after years, even writing a couple indulgent self insert fanfics as I tend to do. They, and anything else I do in my life really never feel good enough for me to let myself love who I am. Your work on this blog scratched a sort of itch I had for content that I could use to pretend someone was happy with me…wanted me around… Stuff to distract me from all those racing thoughts. For that, I want to sincerely thank you.

If you’d like, I would trust you enough to possibly give you the information to read these fics, but it’s up to you. I’m saying this mainly because I just reentered the fandom, so not many of my followers are even interested in FNAF or able to give me much ideas on what they would want out of the fanfics. As a result, I looked at blogs like yours for ideas on what to do, even sending asks in publicly just to get notified of the answers to see how other writers tackle these prompts.

You’re one of the best I’ve found and your writing skills are phenomenal. I wanted to send you some encouragement and tell you how you helped me out a bit. Thank you again.

Aww, Anon thank you so much for this!!! I'd love to read those fics!

I'm glad my content helped you when you were in a dark place and I hope it continues to help. Take care of yourself, okay? I'll be making fics and art for a long, long time 💖💖💖💖

[jane-penvellyn-of-blackmoor]

Nancy Drew #33 Midnight in Salem Game Review

So I gave in and paid the damn $30 to play the dribble that HER's pawning off as their latest game. While there has been major controversy within the fandom over the latest Nancy Drew Game and HerInteractive in general, I'm going to stick to just the game here. My thoughts and opinions on how HER managed the fandom after Penny Miliken came onto the scene have been made clear on my sh!tposts on my blog lol. So we're talking just the game here, nothing pre-start menu - that includes real world HerInteractive drama, none of that. So let's begin...

The Start Menu - Tbh I hated the start menu. It was like a FNAF game's opening menu, clearly made in Unity and the grass textures were nightmarish. If this were my first Nancy Drew game and this was the first sight I saw upon booting the game up, I would never buy another one again.

Voice Acting - Now before ya'll go off on "That's just your nostalgia talking, give it a chance" I will have you know that I tried, I really really tried to like the new voice actress for Nancy but ugh I can't stand it. She sounds like someone pretending to be Olivia Benson off Law & Order: SVU. Like I get they wanted Nancy to sound more like a modern teenager and less "Barbie voice" like Lani's voice would stray towards but letting go of Lani was their biggest mistake. If they had kept Lani as Nancy's voice - especially for such a drastically different game setup - would have helped keep fans fixed within the Nancy Drew world that we've been following for years. Everyone else was great, I especially liked Mei and Lauren's voices and the emotions expressed within them. Also Tourist Girl outside of the Town Hall needs to be brought back in the next game and have her lines recorded on actual recording equipment because what you did HerInteractive was hysterically pathetic and unfair. I don't know if that was a place holder that got overlooked or what but for a $30 game released by a company with so many quality games under it's belt - I expect better.

Storyline - Was pretty good. Fire, robberies, political unrest, sabotage, fraud, hidden wills, all things we've seen before a dozen times but they never get old. I think it's safe to say that the storyline itself is actually what kept me playing, however about half way through I did know it was one of two suspects who was the villian and the very next reveal ensured me which one it was. Still though good story.

Script - Whoever was in charge of the character conversations, for the love of all that is holy please water the interactions down! I felt like 99% of the game was never ending conversations about crap that wasn't useful to the plot. Like filler and fluff is great but conversations that drag on and on and on aren't fun. Have a character say a line or two, then it's Nancy's turn - all this monologuing has me flying through conversations just so I can move onto the next thing. Also some of the way the lines are written make it hard for the actors to read and sound authentic. Like "I can not." (versus "I can't.") levels of unauthentic lines.

Characters - Loved the different characters, would have appreciated more that had models you could interact with.

Puzzles - Needed way more puzzles. Like WAY more. It felt like there was less than 10 puzzles in the game and the majority were stupid easy, the only 'difficult' ones were easy once you understood what they wanted you to do which for some reason wasn't made clear at the start of the puzzle.

Mini Games - Loved making Johnny Cakes and mixing herbs.

Graphics - Horrific. I played on the highest settings of graphics on my HD computer, I had zero issues with it rendering or playing through as intended and smoothly - the graphics were still shit. I've seen better graphics in Barbie's Horse Adventures or The Sims 3. If you're entire argument of shifting onto Unity was for better graphics, HerInteractive, then you need to deliver and you failed miserably at that.

Navigation - I actually had zero issue with the 'swoosh' way we moved around. At times it felt a little restrictive (like in Town Square getting around the stage) but it was fine. I just actually didn't care for the camera tilt feature, it made things ten times more complicated trying to figure out what nooks and crannies they wanted you to notice and which they didn't. I'd happily go back to the old navigation and old engines but I'm fine with the new one so long as they work on making it better.

Cursor - Hated the new cursor, bring back the magnifying glass plz.

Location - I felt that the location of Salem, MA. wasn't utilized to it's fullest potential and that the layout of the town square and the maps of the city were surprisingly unsimilar to IRL Salem. I liked the aesthetic of Lauren's Shop, The Cemetary, The Hathorne House, and Olivia's Store but all of those locations fell victim to the game's graphics, still though props to the designer of those locations in the game.

Austrian Castle - This was jarring. To have a game so drenched in it's location of Salem then it starts off in Austria, it was weird. I get it that they were like "It's connected to the Salem Witch Trials cuz of da Judge dude" but it was super unnecessary and felt like a strange sub-plot location to a game set in Salem, MA. 

Music - I liked the music, felt a little Harry Potter-ish at times and the 'indie rock' music they had that had zero lyrics was annoying but overall it was fine.

Witchy Stuff - I myself am a real practitioning witch, I am an ecclectic pagan wiccan and I know I am in the minority here but some of the puzzles were obnoxiously easy if you know anything about witchcraft. Like even the most basic level of witchcraft. If you ever skimmed through a wicca book in highschool with your edgy friends than you already know more than this game expects you to know. What pissed me off is that it's never actually explained to you. Like they bring up Samhain and fling the word around so it's all spooky and mystifying but they never once have a book or person discuss real Witchcraft with you. Like yeah Olivia is a 'real witch' or whatever and Lauren teaches you about mixing some herbs but it's still not like "Here is The Wheel of the Year, These are Sabbats and Esbats, This is an Athame, This is what we use brooms for we call them Besoms, etc" like the fact that we didn't get a wise old lady who was a clear rip off of Laurie Cabot teaching us about real Witchcraft in a very censor friendly and warm way pisses me off to no end. MISSED OPPORTUNITY HER!!!

Nancy's Behavior - So many times in this game Nancy behaved out of character to me. Like I get it, ya wanted to be all like "let's challenge her belief in ghooooosts!!" but it wasn't done correctly. Nancy wouldn't react to seeing ghosts like Scooby Doo and Shaggy.

Call Backs/Easter Egg - I appreciated the Easter Egg in this game being a literal colorful egg but it was a lame spot to hide it considering it was in plain view. However I appreciated the call backs to previous games with KoKo Kringles, Robotic Cats, and the Dear Sweet Charlotte jack-o-lantern.

Ghosts and Jumpscares - 10/10 best aspect of the game by far. The witch ghost over the bed actually got me really good and the ghosts in the underground tunnels were the best graphics of the game.

Pumpkins - Another charming part of the game that I actually enjoyed more than I anticipated. It was really cute and a fun stupid little thing to work on through out the game to find all the candles and put a pumpkin on each one.

Hardy Boys - PLEASE BRING THEM BACK FOR MORE GAMES AND NEVER STOP THE FRANCY SHIPPING. Also I could be tempted for Joe/Deirdre shipping js.

Overall - I'd rate the game a 4/10 and that's being nice. I liked it more than RAN but that’s really not saying much. It doesn’t come close to classic Nancy Drew Games.

Final Thoughts - I can't see any person who isn't a die hard Nancy Drew fan playing this and being like "Yeah I'll buy more of HerInteractive's future games!" like no. But I do see potential. I can see this as a beautiful beginning on a new platform making more immersive games. Or you know this could be the last game we get from HER and they close and go bankrupt and get flushed away and then the Miss Clue crew buys the rights for Nancy Drew and they make new Nancy Drew Games on the old platform with the old team....whichever works just fine for me :)

[chrisemrysfics]

That moment I can’t recall for sure when I first touched fanfics. And then you get this long post because I rambled about trying to recall and finding the clues.

Read more, but yeah if you’re curious, it’s pretty much my history with reading then writing fics, the fandoms and years, with one two little notes on what I was doing original writing wise.

Long story short: I first started reading fics in (most likely second half of) 2008 and first started writing by the end of 2009, 2009-2011 was a very productive time and it was in YGO GX fandom, then I had a burn out for multiple reason, and it’s by first half of 2013 that I finally had another good productive time with BBC Merlin (while I had mostly left YGO GX, with one fic I still open to finish in some ways), end of 2013 I started writing for Pokemon, and then for a few years I’ve picked up fandoms but never really went far, like I had short term burst of inspiration energy, and long term was just very slow updating because I didn’t wish to quit any of my fics, and then in 2017 I discovered DGM and by July 2017 I was writing for it and have been quite productive since then, especially the first year or so, a big part because it was like, the first big love I have had since BBC Merlin, and it grew as my all time favorite.

A big part of Assassin’s Light being easy to write for a period of time is because it’s half DGM, of course as you noticed things did need to slow down for me, but my love and inspiration for DGM has not lessened. MDZS did come and quickly made me fall so very deeply in love with it, I don’t hide that I love it a little bit more than DGM, but at present time, both DGM and MDZS are my focus, with a slightly easier time writing for MDZS.

(Everything else is still on-going, but very, very, very slow).

The problem is, my files for my fics, I moved them at some point, or copy paste, the oldest dates from 2014 which is two years after I stopped college, which is likely also due to how I changed laptop and such along the years. And the other problem is, I once left ffnet then came back, so I can’t see anymore the actual, initial publish dates.

The best I can use is the date of when I joined ffnet, which is in 2009, but this also places me at 17. I could have been writing my first fic before that, but I wouldn’t have been able to post it until then, and I don’t feel like I had multiple chapters to post, so it is likely that I started writing fics at 16/17. It was my second (of three) years of high school at that age range.

As I feel like I can recall I was reading fics in middle school, the best I can guess is that I started reading fics in my last year of middle school (14 to 15), probably toward the end of it, which kind of feels about right? But that means I spend around a year just reading, like if it’s at the end of middle school, it’s close to when I got to 15, so 2007 (as I would have had my 15th birthday in 2007).

Which sounds about right, I do feel “2007″ is the year I remember. In 2008 I would have had my 16th birthday, and it would have been a year or so since I’ve started reading fics, but the ffnet profile says I joined 11 December 2009, so that’s past my 17th birthday, and makes it easily two years since I started reading fics.

Which blows my mind a bit because I was convinced I started writing not long after, but apparently, not? Like I don’t recall having posted elsewhere before ffnet, so in all logic, it is in December 2009 that I made my account, and likely posted my first fic not long after. So however long I was reading, I was already 17 when I first wrote fics (or late 16 if I started writing a bit but didn’t post).

It is possible I have been mixing up my fic dates with original write, as in that case, I am certain I started writing my first novel in the end of middle school, so the “2007″ in my brain is quite likely when I started writing my first novel (it was end of middle school, so the last few months of being 14 and around being 15, which does all place the year as 2007). Which does make more sense, now that I’m trying to remember, I think I didn’t know yet fanfics when I started writing my original novel?

In short: 2007 aka 14-15, I was writing the start of my original novel (I didn’t finish back then), and somewhere 15-16 so in 2008 I started reading fics (and it was my first year of high school, which, actually does fit better the settings of the school library I vaguely recall). And roughly one year after, in 2009 when I was 17, I made my ffnet account and posted my first fic (which was written either on the spot, or started a few weeks before I made my account, but in any case I was 17 when I wrote my first fic).

For the record: that first fic was Angel and Sephirot in YGO GX, although Eventful Journey followed soon after, so both were completed somewhere in 2010 as I remember I was writing quickly back then, like it was already December 2009 so early 2010 I was very, very likely writing and posting for both fics, and by the end of 2010 I had completed Angel and Sephirot. I know my next multi chap was Hellish Chronicles, and I can find review reply from 2011 in my ffnet inbox. I do think I had some time between Angel and Sephirot and Hellish Chronicle, so that’s why I do feel I finished that first fic at most mid 2010 (and continued more slowly working on Eventful Journey).

I was writing other fics that I had adopted during/after my writing on Hellish Chronicle (which I haven’t put back as I lost contact with the original author, so out of respect I haven’t put them back up), and by September 2011 I can find messages where I mention I was working hard for the start of the second year of college, which does fit since I dropped college after I finished my second year in June 2012, and this also really slowed me down when it came to fics.

In December 2013, I can see the “oldest” fic is Always by your side in BBC Merlin, which is the first I had reposted, and my AO3 was made on February 2013, and I recall that I removed my fic from ffnet when there was some crackdown on fics, but only because I could post them on AO3, so this means I removed my fics from ffnet somewhere between february and december of 2013 (at most, from february to december, less if I didn’t remove them right away). And I started writing for BBC Merlin in 2013 (which seem to be end of 2013), which was after maybe one year or one and a half since I properly wrote anything multi chaptered (while some of the last YGO GX writing I did, one shots, were dated October 2013 so there were still months).

2007 (14-15) is first dabble in original novel, 2008 (15-16) is when I first started reading fics (and never stopped since then!), December 2009 (17) is when I created my ffnet account and so could post fics, first half of 2010 (still 17) is when I likely wrote and finished Angel and Sephirot, 2010-2011 (17-18) is when I was writing for YGO GX, end of 2001-first half of 2012 is when I had too much going on to write as much and so spent months either not writing, or like, writing one chapter every few weeks/months, but also it’s second half of 2012 that I started working again on my first novel, February 2013 I made my AO3 account, in July 2013 I first started writing for BBC Merlin, October 2013 I had written some one shots for YGO GX, but was mostly writing for BBC Merlin.

Let’s see for when I started dabbling in other fandoms. Pokemon is December 2013, December 2014 and early 2015 is when I touched KKM (didn’t go far back then in the fics though), end of 2015 is when I wrote a bit for FNAF (same, didn’t go far), March 2016 is when I started on White Collar fic (once more, didn’t go far), (and March 2016 was also when I first posted my first novel), August 2016 is when I started on Natsume Yuujinchou fic (went a few chapters with not too much time between updates), May 2017 is when I started working on Outlast fic (didn’t go far), and it’s in July of 2017 that I finally touched DGM, which soon became my focus.

Assassin’s Light was started in January 2019, or well, was posted then, I had started writing for it before, through end of 2018, but yeah early 2019 was Assassin’s Light, and in general since 2017 I have been mostly focused on DGM. And then October 2019 I posted Shadows Symphonie, and since then I mostly focused on MDZS while also working on my DGM fics when I can; and leaving everything else to work on whenever I have a higher dose of inspiration-energy. Which is rarer, but I haven’t quitted my other fics.

All in all, I was relatively able to be quick from 2009 to 2011, but college and personal stuff really burned me out, I lost interest in YGO GX especially as it felt different to how I came to write by 2013 (which is why my first two fics are the only one that I might rewrite one day), BBC Merlin stole my heart and brought me back to writing fics properly, I wrote more for it compared to all other fandoms that followed until DGM. All those other fandoms, I had a burst of inspiration, but the actual drive didn’t last, which I also suspect is because it did take me years to feel more, recovered. That and I was working on my original writing too, so. And then when I came into DGM, it brought me a large dose of inspiration, and I’ve wriiten more for it than any other fandom.

When you look at it, I have indeed the most fics in DGM (especially as I did events), then it’s BBC Merlin (which is still one of my all time favorite, alongside DGM and MDZS), and then it’s YGO GX (which is due to how I was more active very early on then the burn out hit me).

And while in number I don’t have as many MDZS fics, in spirit I certainly place it as same level as DGM.

[kyurilin]

2010-2019 Or The Overly Non Dramatic Story of How Kyuri's Decade Went

Technically this isn't a part of this decade review but I'm posting this on December 24th specifically because 10 years ago today I spoke to @mist-over-water on the phone for the first time after having known her for three years and I'm pretty sure we both cried

2010

met @mist-over-water for the first time in person. Took her to the beach where she promptly got roasted by the sun. Took her to the mountains. Took her out to practice driving in a local high school parking lot because why not. I cried so hard when she had to go home and God help me I'd only known her four years at that point.

Flunked a math class for the first time. Funny enough, it was because I'd been put in the advanced math courses for years and that was the year I both had a teacher I hated and could no longer reasonably fake my way through understanding math. Don't put your kids in advanced courses unless you're certain they can keep up with it people I only really was an advanced reader.

My dog Scruffy passed away :(

Started my senior year of high school

2011

Managed to graduate high school on time despite having to take 2 whole math courses during senior year (and with @mist-over-water 's who will now be referred to as Gabby because simplicity buddies sending me 'GRADUATE' messages so I'd have the motivation to go see her in person)

Got to go to England to see Gabby which, dream come true. Had a blast. Met the two precious nieces she had, her brother who's accent I couldn't understand, her mom who is one of the sweetest people, and her grandparents who I got to watch a lot of old British gameshows with.

Saw Wicked from second row seats in London.

Saw Cars 2 three times with Gabby which is why I'm still emotionally invested in Cars 2 because boy getting to see the sequel movie to the movie that ended up allowing you to cross paths with someone you really clicked with is AN. EXPERIENCE.

Cried when I finally had to leave because I was 18 and terrified of the future and didn't know when or if I'd ever see my friend in person again.

Started at community college in the film and video program

2012

Finished my first year of community college

Wrote my first original novel that will honestly never see the light of day. It's terrible ya'll

Through circumstances I still regret started losing my friendship with Gabby and boy do I hate who I was a person during that time

Started my second year of community college

2013

Worked on the X Factor as a production assistant.

Probably around this time that Gabby and I stopped talking which was better for us at that point. Still took an emotional toll to lose a friend that I'd known for 7 years at that point but in the long run we did need the distance (and I'm sorry to throw it all out here like this Gabby if you want it edited tell me I'm just putting it all out lmao)

Through a cosmic aligning of the universe by which I mean a special interest in both Minecraft and Achievement Hunter at the same time, I found a small Minecraft server that I could play on and met some really great people

Started my third year of community college

Oh yeah met @inspector-starfish from the Minecraft server for the first time in person, me and my brother stole her from her college and took her to the state fair with us.

2014

Started easing into talking to Gabby again (I remember the message with new baby Imogen!!!) Which was a blessing

I can't remember if it was 2014 or 2015 but at some point Gabby also hung out with me on the Minecraft server with my other buddies

Worked on Catfish as a Production Assistant for like 2 days and I still think I was fired lmao

My dad was arrested. Which is... The hardest thing to type out. Because everything before 2014 feels so distant because of the events.

He got put in jail and we bailed him out, but a month later he got arrested again and we couldn't bail him out this time.

God help me I'm so glad I had gotten back to talking to Gabby at this point I vaguely remember a sobbing Skype call between us.

I don't even remember what classes I was in at community college anymore that's how bad it is.

I basically dropped out though.

I stopped writing, I stopped drawing, I stopped... Being. That's really what it narrows down to. Only one of my real life friends knew what happened and I broke down everytime I thought about it so i'm pretty sure at one point I had a panic attack on my way to hang out with Friend A, who knew, and Friend B, who didn't.

I did start talking to @rhysispiecess that year. Through a post on here actually (we were also on the same Minecraft server but because I didn't really play that much that I remember after this whole thing I kinda forgot who he was).

I think (maybe???) I also met @belle-sourires and @youllthinkofsomething that year.

We moved from the house we'd lived in 13 years to a little rental house where we had the sweetest neighbors

2015

I spent a lot of time reading and crying in 2015 lmao

Also spent a lot of time talking to @rhysispiecess (the FNAF AU years God bless them for being a much needed distraction from real life)

Dad went to actual prison and boy that's an experience having to visit him there every week

We moved again this time to a small apartment

Got my first real job that wasn't being a production assistant (the same job I still have!)

Started to make actual attempts at writing again but struggled with it a lot

2016

For the first time since 2014 I actually wrote more than a simple one off story of the course of a month

Saved up my money and went to California to meet @rhysispiecess and @27thousandlizards.

Confused the shit out of Luke's (@27thousandlizards ) grandma

Was so tired I cried when I saw how little Corgi puppies are

Got to see @inspector-starfish and @youllthinkofsomething in San Diego where they were doing a robot thing as usual

Got to see the end bit of Route 66 cause wouldn't you know Rhys lives right near it (and as a huge Cars fan oh my God FATE)

Had an absolute blast with both Rhys and Luke and cried when I had to leave them because boy do I love friends

2017

Cars 3 came out and I transcended to a higher plane of being

Okay not really but I'm sure ya'll remember the days where I was mostly a Cars blog

100% I know I've said this before but all of the Cars movies have hit with specific messages at exactly the point in my life I needed to hear those messages so like. Poetic cinema.

Made some fantastic friends from those days

After 11 years of attempts at writing a redemption arc for a certain Cars character I finally wrote one and IT WAS GREAT

Cars 3 also managed to make me write again which has continued to be a struggle since 2014

Oh yeah became single again I was in a relationship but that ended TIME FOR ALONE (learned I'm still a terrible person who doesn't handle relationships well so hey not bad I'll leave people out of my overly anxious 'they must hate me' mentality)

2018

Fell out of writing again after the Cars 3 hype died down enough lmao

Got to meet @whipplefilter and @the-kings-tail-fin for a road trip around NC which was fantastic

Played way too much Nintendo Switch

Gabby got engaged and I absolutely cried for like an hour because how the fuck do you not cry when someone you've known for so long gets engaged (I'm still so happy for her @onetruejonsey seems like a really wonderful guy)

Oh yeah we moved again we have a real house now but the neighbors are redneck assholes

2019

Thanks to FNAF Help Wanted, I got whiplashed back into that fandom BUT I did start writing pretty regularly again. In fact I've written more this year than all the years since I stopped COMBINED. Which means I was both in the right headspace to actually want to write again as well as being able to keep myself focused on it.

Met Jodie Benson (ARIEL!!!!!!), Daniel Logan (KID BOBA FETT) and Christopher Sabat at GalaxyCon. Right. I went to my first convention despite being terrified of it

I cried like a bitch meeting Jodie Benson and she hugged me. I told Daniel Logan I'd had a crush on him as a kid and that Attack of the Clones was still my favorite Star Wars (which it is I wasn't lying) and he hugged me. Got to hear Sean Schemmel call Christopher Sabat out for being so friendly that his line was ridiculous which was great because boy did I not have enough money to meet more than three people. Christopher Sabat was fantastic too.

Went to DC with my 3 closest IRL buddies I've known since like 2008 and despite some arguments none of us killed each other. Nearly destroyed my feet from all the walking though. Don't know how we'd survive a trip to Japan which they all want to do.

Started formulating my next novel idea

It's been a long decade. Really the first half feels like it happened to another person.

I want to say, more than anything, if it weren't for Gabby I never would have had the courage to meet so many of my other online friends. She flew over here to meet me when I was 17 and she was 15 going on 16. We were so young and my dad and her mom worked so hard to make sure that we could actually meet each other and I'm forever thankful for that. I went across the ocean by myself at 18, an autistic disaster of a human, and somehow I didn't panic or get lost or anything. Without those experiences I never would have had the courage to do a lot of the things I've done since.

I'm still terrified of the future though. I have no idea if I'll even save enough money to go to England to see Gabby again (and God we actually need to talk more because I feel like a terrible friend ALL I DO IS SEND GIRAFFE PHOTOS). I don't even know what I want out of life.

Here's hoping though that I can continue to have some adventures and meet more of my online buddies in the next decade!

[melissatreglia]

Did You Miss Me?: Darkiplier in 2018

For the most part, 2018 was a quiet year. In contrast with 2017, where we were gratified to see Dark's monochromatic visage throughout the year, 2018 carried playful hints and teasing of the elusive entity's presence but no confirmation. There were thumbnails and quick flashes that indicated He was continuing to pull strings, ensuring that His presence was felt but His face never really seen.

Throughout 2017, He'd show up during what us mere mortals consider major holidays or important events. Valentine's Day. Easter. Even Cinco de Mayo got a nod. And of course, the infamous Friday the 13th late in the year.

But 2018? He apparently decided to stay home in the void during our days of revelry, with the possible (though not confirmed) exception of the decidedly strange Fall in Love with Markiplier video for Valentine's Day. And for the TWO Friday the 13ths in 2018? He was a no-show. In 2017, He'd returned to shake things up in our safe little lives... and in 2018, He left us wanting more, like the skilled manipulative seducer He is.

Getting Over It, Part 8 included a thumbnail with Mark's dour expression and a suspiciously familiar colour scheme. The thumbnail for WATCH OUT!! had Mark reaching for us in a state of panic (which belied the contents of the video itself). 

Try Not to Smile Challenge #3, while the smile-free serial killer laugh is creepy, it's not a Darkiplier moment. Though, him joking near the end of the video that people who didn’t smile at some point during the video are "soulless demons" does seem to be a Darkiplier reference of some kind (or maybe a Devilplier reference, since the Cuphead song was released just two months later)?

In Madison, when his game character watches a television that glitches and fades to static, Mark fearfully squeaks, "Darkiplier, is that You?!" While in the description for End My Suffering, just ten days later, Mark wailed, "What malevolent being did I piss off to be cursed like this!"

Brother Wake Up promised "I’ll try to help in whatever way I can but you have to wake up!" Which, while it fit perfectly with the title of the game, the description also fit pretty damn well into the channel lore too. And Umfend's description was likewise ominous: "You shouldn't have forgotten about me... I'll make you remember..."

Meanwhile, the title for the video of Welcome The The Game 2.0 doubles as a callback to an earlier Darkiplier moment: "Don't Play This Game". Horns of Fear did it one better, with the thumbnail featuring many eyes staring out at the viewer (again with an all-too-familiar colour scheme), while the title warned us "DON'T LOOK AWAY..."

In the Warframe playthrough late in the year, Mark's camera briefly freezes. But in 3 Scary Games #9, his camera freezes repeatedly before glitching back to normal, and he implies that "there's something else" messing with the camera. In 5 Nostalgic Games, when Mark gives the definition of ubiquitous and bares his teeth while saying "We're learning today!", the video suddenly glitches. 

The thumbnail for Markiplier has fled the country had Mark lunging at the camera, his face completely darkened by shadow. And the thumbnail for 3.75 Scary Games blatantly toyed with the fandom with text shouting "DARKIPLIER?"

And the fanbaiting didn't stop there. More thumbnails that hinted at Dark included a hand bathed in blue light reaching out to the viewer for the fittingly titled The Devil Haunts Me, and a cartoon of Mark cowering away from Dark's furious glare for You're Perfect.  

Markiplier's Tour: The Movie featured the improv teacher stating that Markiplier wasn't at the shows. "I don't know who that guy was, but it wasn't him." Even the Markiplier Animated short I've Got Boobs?! features a brief scene of a shadowy Darkiplier rising from a well and whispering something unintelligible.

For the most part however, the teasing came directly from out of Mark’s mouth.

In 3 Scary Games #5, Mark jokes that a ghost (clad in the classic white sheet and glitching somewhat) is Darkiplier. 3 Scary Games #13, the first (jokey) game called "Death Trips" features RGB text and Mark narrating in an echoing voice. In Midnight Shift, a game where Mark is memorably being chased by mannequins, he jokes that an RGB poster on a wall is "expricitly [sic] Darkiplier". In SCP Containment Breach #57, Mark jokes when he sees the intro screen of a pretty lady in 3D with an open third eye, "Look at this Darkiplier ass thing... it's like Celine, straight out of [Who Killed Markiplier?]". 

In 3 FNAF Fan Games, he even chortles that the game has “Darkiplier letters.” In Devil Daggers, he scoffs, “A high-pitched ringing in the darkness. That’s always good.”

[Image captured by me, on June 3, 2018.] 

Just before midsummer, I received a pleasant surprise. In Imscared: Steam Edition, Mark says "I gotta go get back into the Shadow Realm, the Upside Down." Which, personally, made me very happy at the time. Since I first became active on Tumblr in July 2017, I've been referring to Dark's void dimension as the Shadow Realm, while Mark has referred to it in the past as the Upside Down, making the link fairly clear in this statement. (Somehow, whether by happy accident or serendipity, my terminology and its proper context made its way to Mark. As a fan, I can't describe how pleased that made me, to know he might have actually seen something I’ve made.)

(But enough about me. I’m just an obsessive Darkiplier fangirl. So let’s get back to cataloging all the hinty goodness!)

By this point, you’re probably wondering, “Okay, so all those hints are decent. But where the hell is Dark in all of this?!” But that’s the point, my friends: He was there the whole time. In brief flashes of imagery, in hints and innuendo. Unseen, but his presence clearly felt as our expectations were played with by our channel host.

We expected a wild ride at the beginning, when Mark made two brief livestreams on January 5th, wandering through the theatre he was slated to play for the You’re Welcome Tour. 

The first of the two, “What’s Going In?!”, he showed us the back area of the Paramount Theatre, using only improvised narration and acting to build an atmosphere of dread. He claimed the theatre was haunted, and that he could smell “the scent of death”, ultimately vowing to protect those who would be visiting the theatre to see him that night. He also declares the EXIT a trap, before being pursued by an unseen entity.

The drama continued with “...” (a title that is impossible to find using Youtube’s search options), that begins with an eerie quiet. Tyler eventually finds Mark’s dropped phone. He asks the viewers where Mark is, before going on a search. He’s eventually attacked from behind and the stream cuts off, leaving those who weren’t at the show that night to wonder how the matter resolved.

In Simulacra, there's a brief flash of Mark in his Big Mood outfit with text saying "WAKE UP". When the simulacra changes the colour of the cellphone's display and begins to speak in a calm, creepy voice, Mark reflexively responds, "Darkiplier?" and sounding unnerved at the mention of "behind your black mirrors", then being stunned as the screen appears to crack.

At the end of Simulacra, he gives an uncharacteristically downbeat speech, declaring that "We're all just digital copies of ourselves, idealized in a digital form. And maybe that's the way that life is just supposed to be. Maybe we should all just roll over and accept it, because there's nothing that we can do to change our fates, after all. And who's to say that it's not better for us just to wear the masks that are our digital personas, and live our lives as those? Maybe that is for the best."

The How To Make Slime video goes from harmlessly silly and takes a twist for the stabby. Mark declares "In order to appease the Dark Gods..." then he instructs the viewer to slice their palm and "whisper the words of power." The words in question? "They shall rise. They shall consume. All will be lost when they rise from the darkness of the ocean. Madness opens up to everything." When the making of the slime is concluded, he adds that "We all get to enjoy three years of peace before the Dark Gods consume us all."

I have no idea what that means, but I’m pretty sure it may involve Cthulhu chomping on my kidneys. (Then again, Darkiplier is a Lovecraftian monstrosity Himself. So, if it’s Him who’s one of the Dark Gods? He can have a kidney from me if He’s really that hungry. Kidneys are a redundant system anyway, so you really only need one.)

April Fool’s Day brought us the gag gift of The Official Markiplier Rock, with a suspiciously deep voice informing us that the rock is available in white. Additionally, the video warned to alert the SCP Foundation if the rock appears to start talking! (What? My rock has been talking to me since I got it, and there’s nothing wrong with me!)

Baldi’s Basics: Secret Ending featured an explanation about attaining the secret ending, with Mark’s otherwise normal voice echoing slightly with subtle white noise effects. (Hmmm...)

In December, for the charity livestream and archived in a video called Santa Spills The Tea, a Santa Claus that sounded suspiciously like Wilford Warfstache declared that Dark, the master manipulator and Big Bad of Mark’s channel, was a “sweetheart! He shouts a lot, but he’s just a big ol’ pussy. He can’t even possibly… he didn’t hurt anybody! He didn’t kill one person! If there’s anybody who’s on my naughty li— uh, on my list of people who’ve been bad, he’s the only one not on it.” (And mind you, in 2017′s Markiplier TV, Wilford sang a little ditty about how he killed Santa Claus and the kids wouldn’t be getting any presents that year. And Dark still convinced us to shoot someone in A Date With Markiplier, while apparently feigning regret. But heck, use your own judgement.)

Mark also dropped one heck of a hint of things to come in, of all places, Markiplier Tries Korean Beauty Products. There, the descriptive intro to the following year’s DAMIEN animated feature can be heard at one point. “Snow blankets the field, a pristine meadow of untouched white. No animals call. No birds cry. Only the steady rustling of wind through dead trees accented by the impact of his axe. A crack-like thunder rings out as the ancient pine finally succumbs to his murderous assault. The old giant crashes into the ground. Dami-”

Wilford Motherloving Warfstache was, of course, focused on the mustachioed entity. But there were elements to the short film that felt like Darkiplier was watching along with us. Particularly the VHS-style glitch at the end of the film.

Of course, there were only three videos that year that potentially contained Darkiplier himself.

One candidate is Fall in Love with Markiplier. Yes, the name on the title is Mark’s... but is it really him? The entirety of the film is a fourteen minute staring contest with Mark, as he lovingly (and somehow also creepily) gazes at the viewer in different settings -- by the ocean, at a dog park, and in a bubble bath. The only spoken words are in the intro, over the strains of the music from A Date with Markiplier: “It’s scientifically proven that you can fall in love with someone simply by maintaining eye-contact for an extended period of time. So now, you can fall in love with Markiplier all over again in these three locations. Happy Valentine’s Day.”

The second candidate is World’s 5th Quietest Let’s Play, released just 5 days prior to the Let’s Have a Romantic Staring Contest video. Unlike the previously mentioned video, there’s more going on this time around. The game to be played quietly this time around is Bennett Foddy’s infamous rage-inducing creation “Getting Over It”. 

He threatens the developer with the words, “You will see the inside of your entrails, when I drag them out of your abdomen and show them to you.” (Ah, how romantic.) He goes even further than that, saying soon after, “This is a representation of My sins... You will be purged in the fires of absolution, along with all of your ilk. I will burn the heretics that you are harbouring inside of your soul... I will destroy you.” (Now there’s the smite-happy Hellgod we all love!)

But He doesn’t stop there, snarling under His breath, “You will burn in the fires of My own hell! And I will choose your pain to last eternity!” However, He is ultimately defeated by the game, departing our company with  “Alas, I leave you now, to slumber amongst the ancients.” (Aww, poor guy needs a hug. And I know just who’s ready to snuggle with Him...)

But the last of the video to potentially contain Darkiplier is... the four-hour long play through of Hearts & Heroes. Is it canon Dark? No, probably not. It’s a fan game, though the words of dialogue are acted out by Mark himself. But rather than simply recounting key phrases for you, here’s the Boss Battle between Mark’s team and Dark, edited by the lovely icedpinkpeebles (Mark’s goofy character names and all!):

So, what does all of this ultimately mean? Why did Darkiplier fade into the background in 2018? And, most importantly, what is He up to now?

The truth is I don’t know any more than you do. I can only guess.

But I can tell you this: We don’t know Darkiplier as well as we all think we do. Many of us (including me) fully expected Dark to raise hell following the events of the jokey Darkiplier vs Antisepticeye video in 2017 (because He did mention how He hates being mocked!). And while we did get more Dark at the end of that year, it was in the form of an origin story.

Whatever Dark’s planning, we’re not going to see it coming. Because He’s playing a long game. And when you’re immortal like He is, you have all the time in the world to get what you want. Be it for love or revenge, Darkiplier remains a force to be reckoned with.

But here we are, in the eye of the storm. Only time will tell before the final wrath of the hurricane makes landfall.

[perish-the-creator]

My New Love

Finally making a post about my journey so far.

I've never really been in any community with such vast history. I've said it before but yeah. Right now, it is still new to me but that's the exciting part. There's so much lore and material to go look back on. So many comics and movies and spin offs. And that's incredible to me.

I've been in the marvel fandom, and I can say the vibe is different. I will say, it's so weird to me how acceptable Star Wars and Marvel are now considering those were for the nerds. Meanwhile, Godzilla is still giving a passing glance.

When I walked into the theater that night, I didn't know what to expect. I had seen the trailer the year prior and eventually it left my radar. I hadn't expected the film to drag me into the pool that was it's community. Seeing those creature reminded all and all of one of my first loves; dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park/World and Godzilla have a meaning to me. Jurassic world more than anything beginning as it did make up my childhood. But my new found love for this has something much deeper.

I've had my phases. Doctor Who, Fnaf, Undertale, etc. But this time I think it'll last. I have a multitude of materials to watch and analyze and share.

But that's the sad part. It's harder to share this than any other fandom I've been in. Even harder than Jurassic World being as one of the actors is also in Marvel. And that sucks. Not to mention, which may not be a huge problem, but my race also plays a factor here.

I haven't seen many black fans yet, and if there are it's hard to come by(being as everyone isn't an idiot like me who has to constantly remind my followers via reblog or my bio). While to some race doesn't matter in this it does for me. Growing up I was alienated from the other kids for my interest. Rarely any of the other black kids fooled with me because I could talk about Minecraft and the lego series.

So that's why I loved that there were black actors in this new film! Why? Because I hope it draws more of us in. I hope that when damn school starts again I won't stick out like a sore thumb anymore. It's a new world after.

But the issue overall is friends still give the film a passing glance. Only one so far is willing to pre order tickets with me for Godzilla vs Kong next year (because he's the best friend we all need). Otherwise, my other ones don't want to. And i mean yeah I get it because I say no to their stuff too. Riverdale? Hell no. Mean Girls? Pass. Certain anime? Fuck it!

But still, I do want to say thank you. Thank you to all the older fans who are helpful and willing to show me and fellow newbies the ropes. Thanks for to Toho for even creating this legacy that I can gladly go back and look at. And thanks to Godzilla himself and all the Kajius that are slowly taking over my life.

For the first time in a long time, I'm excited to show what I love! Look out world!! Here comes the crazy Dinosaur Godzilla fan!

[paigelts05]

IFZRF - Mission: Hold the street

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/IFZRF-Mission-Hold-the-street-818573443

Published: Oct 30, 2019

IFZRF, known as International fandom zombie response force to me as the name of this mega crossover, and referred to as international frontline zombie response force inside the AU and to the characters. It's essentially a massive crossover, spanning approximately seven or eight different fandoms. Not all of them will appear here, but I just wanted to say that I'm giving all those big movie companies a run for their money here with the scope of this crossover. The main aspect of the crossover is that it's a Resident Evil crossover, so the main plot of all related things is "main protagonist of the games in the crossover fights zombies". The only main characters that don't really show up are those from RE itself because I want to give the characters that I'm crossing in a bigger spotlight. This specific drawing is a crossover of FNAF, Resident Evil, and BATIM, and I thought I'd write a short story to go with it, to make the crossovers a bit more apparent.

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"We're outside. What the hell happened in there? Some of them are outside, and one of our problems is here too. Those - things - seem to be coming from under the door, but I guess you'd know more about them than I ever will." Krasnyy screamed into his earpiece, hoping that the man on the other end would hear him. A few seconds after he finished talking, he got a reply.

"Yeah, sorry. Things went south pretty quickly. I'll get the mission complete, and they should stop. In the meantime, keep the outside secure. We don't want any of them getting out. Just be glad that when these things die, they don't come back." The man on the other end was called Henry Stein. He must have been over a hundred by now at least, but how he stayed looking and acting fifty wasn't something that anyone at the International frontline zombie response force wanted to know.

"Right, and how the hell are we supposed to know that they aren't all the same one?" Krasnyy sounded more scared than angry, but then again, being calm when faced with zombies isn't something that is done easily. And before anyone could reply, Mike shrieked as he ducked under the fleshy sythe of the parasite that had taken over the metal carcass of Bonnie.

"I don't care about the differences! We just need to kill them before they kill us!"

Krasnyy nodded in agreement, turning his focus to the inky blobs that were seeping from under the door and out into the street. Without a second thought, he filled the strange semi-liquid being with bullets.

It had been five years since the IFZRF was started up, and five years since the corpses inside the animatronic suits at Freddy's had become infected. Both Krasnyy and Mike considered themselves lucky that they and their friends had managed to survive and find this organisation, but things hadn't been the same since. Zombies had been popping up left right and centre, all over the globe. This was just one of many instances of the same thing, over and over again. You become numb to the horror of the situation after a while, but the shock and fear of death never changes.

This mission was to a rather perculiar animation studio from the 30's. Many of the workers there went missing, so who knows what other things rested in those walls, but now was no time to worry about their mission. Now was the time to focus on making sure the street was secure from whatever zombies crawled from under that door, and whatever zombies followed them there.

Krasnyy snapped back to reality to the sound of his headset going off again. He pressed his finger to the button, and said "Hello?" And then Henry Stein replied.

"If you see an ink zombie that looks like it has a cresent moon shaped head, run. I don't know where it is, or if it can even escape, but I know that it can't be killed until I've done what I need to do down here."

Krasnyy was rather confused, so asked a question.

"Why can't we kill it?"

"Because it regenerates, and it regenerates fast. Just evacuate the area if it shows up, but I doubt it will leave the building. Better safe than sorry though."

"Alright, I'll keep that in mind."

Krasnyy shot at another one of those strange faceless monsters as Mike continued to fire at the fleshy parasite known simply as Zombie Bonnie. More of the faceless inky droned seeped from under the door, and Krasnyy fastened his fingers on the trigger to dispatch them.

This was going to be a long night.

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[oraculideluna]

Munday Meme

Name: Liz

Pronouns: She/Her

Selectivity: For my sanity, I’m fairly selective, though I do try to be open about RPing with new people who aren’t mutuals.

Favorite animal: Sharks, cats

Favorite muse you’ve had so far ever: Luna. I’ve invested so much time and love into her, and she’s really come so far from when I first started RPing her, so she’s easily my favorite muse. However, my Assassin’s Creed muse is also very dear to me. God, I love him so much. Out of all the muses I’ve had in the past, he’s one I regularly want to go back to.

Muse you kinda wanna pick up: Mm. Don’t judge me, but I enjoyed Charlie from the FNaF novels quite a bit, though I’d probably also lean heavily into the game lore, since we now know her role in those, too. But I haven’t had a lot of inspiration for new muses so much as I constantly think about old ones lol

Most identifiable fictional character: I can’t think of many off the top of my head, but I tend to feel like a mix of Rapunzel from Tangled, and Megara from Hercules.

What color your aura is/think it is: I think...maybe a bright blue? With a constant tinge of anxious red that fluctuates.

Personality stuff you agree with (astrology, mbti, Hogwarts house, etc be as specific as you want!): This one is tough because some of it is self-identifying, which is very subjective, while others are observational, and some are incomplete. I enjoy all of these as character building tools and such, and I know my general personality test results, but I don’t particularly live my life by these kinds of things. (But the zodiac is a favorite, I love it. Luna and my AC muses are both Libras, but while Luna regularly fits as a Libra on the cusp of Virgo, Cal is the most un-libra-like Libra I have ever seen. He’d work far better as an Aries tbh, but check his October 21st, Libra-Cusp-Scorpio birthday and laugh with me that he fits neither.)

Do you think you’re a good driver: Yeah. I mean, I used to be a bit less cautious, but I was in a car accident with a street light in December 2016 because of all the ice, I broke my hand and ended up having surgery (to remove a tumor that started growing because of the break), and I’ve become a bit more careful. Still, I don’t put my car in a full stop to make a turn. 

Favorite minor discourse (pinapple on pizza, what color is the dress, etc): I don’t know if it was more than just a small thing on twitter, but I saw several tweets about gummy candy, and my answer is sour gummy worms.

Favorite vine and/or meme: idk about vine, but I love the Star Wars ‘high ground’ meme. Also, all the EA memes.

Why did you choose this muse: Sort of an aligning of the stars or whatever. I had just left a fandom rpc for being incredibly toxic (which sucks because I’d been wanting to RP that character for years) and was in-between muses, looking for someone new, and then E3 footage of XV aired and it really caught my attention. I resisted for a couple of weeks since the game hadn’t come out yet, but July 1st 2016, I gave in. I researched everything I could about the game (since previously I had known mostly the Versus XIII version of the game and hadn’t looked too deeply into XV), theorized heavily on what I thought would happen, and then dove in.

Favorite rp memory: Hmmm. Well, there was an intermission I had between group / fandom RPs, during which I had just a personal thing going with one friend. It was Marvel with heavy leanings into mythology (since it was Sif, Thor, Loki, Sigyn, and several others), and we had just...these epic plots and plans, and at one point, we took such a turn with the plotting, killed one of our characters after a year of buildup, and sure we brought her back eventually, but man it was devastating to write her dying. Still sticks with me to this day. My heart doesn’t regularly shatter while RPing, but that one did it. (Jay recently did this to me, too; broke my heart to pieces and it was so good. I’m still not recovered.)

Favorite thing you’ve written, in rp or not: Most of my ‘favorite things’ I’ve written are either super short oneshots, or like...a line, or a scene or a paragraph in an RP. Sometimes, I surprise even myself when a combination of words comes out that’s particularly good. By way of plots, I’ve got some really well fleshed out ones with Jay that I’m absolutely in love with, and I enjoy writing pretty much everything we do there. Also, on my AC muse, I have a lot of stuff I’ve really enjoyed. That fandom was so down for flexibility of plots and exploring all sides of characters. I had AUs on AUs and it was glorious.

A line/lyrics/quote/etc you like or that means a lot to you: “If brokenness is a work of art, surely this must be my masterpiece.”

Give a shout-out to someone: Since I’ve called out Jay twice here already, I’m gonna shout out my bro @ravusnightblossom <3 What an amazing and rad mun with such a well thought out muse, and mmm I am so happy to have this Ravus in my life. I just absolutely love them both so so much, please know that I love them and am glad they enjoy me spamming their inbox :] *hugs*

Also, @dromii has been with me and Luna for a really long time and has been such a positive influence on us both. I love them and their Cloud (and all their muses) so so much. So much thought and care gets put into all of their AUs and plots and muses, and it really shines through in their writing. (Also, they hit me with so many feels and I live for it ;_; <3)

Tagged by: I blatantly stole this from @totustuumegosum

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do it

[feralmoonlight]

OH NO I FUCKED UP THE NUMBERING- anyway~

how did you get here?

OK SO I SAW SOMEONES MEME ABOUT @bamsara​‘s Solar Lunacy 8 when Moon is running his hand up YN’s back and uh... WELL it made me feel things. I’ve been watching them on here for forever and I’ve loved their art for Y E A R S and I kinda always thought FNAF was sorta...  dumb >w>;;;; BUT... BUT. I CAN NOT DENY AMAZING WRITING and about 4-5 sentences was enough to turn my head so fast it flipped my world view. September 10th 2022 is the day I started singing the daycare tune and I haven’t looked back since lmao. I was standing in line at Halloween Horror Nights waiting for a haunted house and by the next morning I was done with my first readthrough of like. 7 or 8 times now, and proceeded to throw it at everyone I knew to get them to read it too uwu

why these characters in particular? what was the hook for you?

Fuck this is a hard one, cause it’s developed so much in different ways? Uh... At first it was honestly just the edge of ‘ay this MF could kill you but also look how careful they can be?’ cause I’m a sucker for that shit. Goes all the way back to the first actual story thing I tried to write in 7th grade that got my teachers head turning cause everyone else was writing bullshit about ‘oh we went to the mall after school’ kind of stories and here I went building a whole science experiment lab with these monsterous creatures and my dumb self-insert ass(i didn’t realize at the time but it was a first person perspective story) wandered right into the middle of danger and uh.. Well. Things got detailed in a sfw way? but the same kind of intimate/danger/touchy shit that goes on with the DCA boys in a LOT of stories (we know what we’re about) has been ingrained into my headspace for at least 20 years on since that. Probably longer, but that’s just what let it out. There’s so many different flavors that have been presented now that I’m just chomping at the bit to explore every one, and that’s a problem lmao.

how long have you been here?

Just over a month and a half ; w ; I am a fandom baby.

have you actually played fnaf sb?

Nope. I am tempted to, though? I’ve seen uh.. part of a playthrough? And most of the rest that I know I’ve been learning from others telling me and the recap videos, and through fanfic/fanart depictions of ‘events’. I may play through someday though, but I don’t usually like horror games.

if you make content, what’s your favorite piece you’ve contributed?

On technical aspects (my own skill in art stuffs) UH... Technically a smut piece cause I love how clean the lines came out on it? But content wise, It’d be this one with my default YN and Moon, cause it gives me really comforting vibes and I drew it when I was feeling kind of just down and done with everything and it cheers me up to look at it. It’s scribbly and messy, but I love it.

what’s your favorite sort of art or fic? what genre/flavor/style?

I refuse to answer this one on the grounds that I physically can not pick. My taste goes across the board and it depends on my mood and so many different things because-- give me handsy eclipse kisses and i will melt i swear to god every fucking time fuck

what’s your favorite au?

Oh no. Oh god. Oh jeez. OK THIS ONE i literally can not choose. That’s like choosing a child. Cause is this MY AUs? Friends AUs? Wild AUs I’ve stumbled across? THERE ARE SO MANY.

do you have any ocs, or have any ocs you’re fond of?

I have many OCs, yes >w>;; No I will not elaborate.

what do you think of the dca’s canon appearance? Scary? Cute? Something else?

HONESTLY when saw them the first time they were disturbing as fuck? But now they’ve grown on me and I would definitely give them both cute little smooches. Though in my defense, mascots/animatronics have always been kinda horrifying to me at a base level. I’m just used to them now. XD

what keeps you in this fandom despite the very small amount of canon content the dca had?

THE SMALL AMOUNT OF CANON CONTENT. I am a FAN of FANWORKS (hell most of my art is fanworks of other peoples fics at this point lmao) I’ve been in many fandoms, but almost every time the thing that keeps me IN the fandom isn’t the canon content at all. It’s what everyone else creates and builds on with these basic blocks we’re given, and the freedom to interpret the what, 10 minutes or so of active screen time with both of them and to create ALL OF THIS??? It’s absolutley bonkers wild and everyones so god damn creative to come up with these intricate deep stories that are constantly making me cry(in a good way). I am here for everyone else that’s fallen head over heels for these idiots. Yall are the MVPS of this fandom.

be honest: if you had to pick only one, sun or moon? 

Moon my beloved. Sun is nice. Sun is fun. Sun has grown on me SO MUCH and for some reason I keep creating more content that is Sun Centric over Moon and I’m just like... HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING. But there is a reason my username is FeralMoonlight. uwu

thoughts on eclipse?

baby boy. bastard man. beloved. bitch. HE’S SUCH FREE GAME ON WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH HIM SLDKFJSLDFKJSDF It’s like having 80 OCs in ONE and there’s NO RULES??? YOU WANT GLITCY GAME WORLD ECLIPSE? YOU WANT VIRUS? YOU WANT TRAUMATIC PERSONALITY MERGE? YOU WANT ONE BOY TAKING OVER THE OTHER? YOU WANT BIG BROTHER? MAFIA BOSS? BODY GUARD? CRYPTID? YOU WANT SPLIT PERSONALITY? YOU WANT GIANT MURDER CREATURE? SCARED BABY THAT NEEDS TO BE LOVED? ELOQUENT? SPEAKS IN STATIC? ASL MURDER MIME?????? sldkfjsldfkjsldfkj jesus there’s so many routes. I love him. I love every design. I love every take. I am living happily in the center of Simp City and I am flourishing.

thoughts on pre-glitch sun?

*Vibrates* Pre glitch Sun seems cute and I would love to be a kid in the daycare to play.

thoughts on pre-glitch moon?

*VIBRATES HARDER* PRE GLITCH MOON SEEMS CUTE AND I WOULD LOVE TO BE A KID IN THE DAYCARE AT NAPTIME.

do you interpret sun and moon as two sides of the same person, or truly two separate beings in one body? does it matter?

YES, NO, BOTH??? IT DOES MATTER, based on the setting, the scenario, the mood. Are they 2 personalities in one mind? Are they linked? are the separate and warring with each other?  THESE ARE HARDER QUESTIONS THAN I REALIZED.

what’s something in the fandom you’d like to see more of?

The blanket statement of everything feels like it doesn’t work well and is kind of a cop out... But right now I’m very content? IF I had to pick something, I’d say maybe more OUT THERE AUs?  I love the ones that completely break from canon. Either starting out off canon (aliens, mermaids, casino mysteries), or the ones that escape from canon (cryptids, spicy club stuff, post fire scenarios). The daycare setting is always AMAZING don’t get me wrong, but exploring outside of the box, as I mentioned earlier, is definitely my biggest draw to the fandom)

what’s something in the fandom you’d like to see less of?

Policing of what’s ‘ok and not ok to write about’. Let people make their smut. Let people write their dark ideas. Let people get really fucking weird with shit. It’s fiction. Not to sound OLD but ���back in my day’ the phrase Don’t Like, Don’t Read wasn’t even a question. Dead Dove: Don’t Eat is the new equivalent and people need to remember they need to wrangle their own consumption of content and stop fucking with other people that are creating these ‘problematic stories’ because you DO NOT FUCKING KNOW WHY they are choosing to write what they are writing. It is not your business, and no one is forcing you to read these things. It’s a culture of fandom these days that makes me so angry. Blacklists exist for a reason. The block list exists for a reason. I am not going to ruin my own fandom experience by hiding behind a tinfoil shield and walking on eggshells to make something consumer friendly . Fiction is not always perfect and not always pretty. You don’t know what the end game situation is going to be. If you don’t like it, just move on and leave it alone. /rant over

anything you’re looking forward to?

Actually getting my own writing going XD I’ve been struggling with getting my own shit off the ground cause I keep getting distracted with everyone else’s projects cause they’re just so tasty <3

do you think you’d actually get along with the dca if you met them irl?

I am one huge dork. I absolutely would (once I got over my internal panic fest)

free space! talk about whatever’s on your mind!

YALL I AM NOT READY TO DIVE INTO 2 OF MY FIC IDEAS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE ONE IS DARK BAD OH NO AND THE OTHER MAKES ME FEEL BAD FOR WHAT I AM DOING TO ONE OF THE BOYS BUT I AM SO EXCITED TO WORK ON THEM AND-

*falls to the floor with a tranq dart sticking out of my ass*

Tagging @darkwingswarrior​ cause I AM CURIOUS HOW YOU’RE DEVELOPING IN THIS FANDOM TOO >w>

FNAF DCA QUESTIONNAIRE I decided to fill out for funsies. Link to the original is here.

1. How did you get here?

That is a great question. Honestly I feel like I stumbled ass first into this fandom and now I'm just kind of here to stay for a while.

2. Why these characters in particular? What was the hook for you?

I think the hook for me personally was the fact that the DCA is, in essence, a caretaker, which oddly enough called out to the inner child in me.

3. How long have you been here?

In this fandom specifically? Only a few months at this point.

4. Have you actually played FNAF sb?

Yes and it was a frustrating ordeal. I got lost multiple times because the map was absolutely useless and at times I got confused as to what my next objective was. But I did manage to eventually get to 6am.

5. If you make content what is your favorite piece you've contributed?

My favorite so far that I've contributed personally is my AO3 fic, The Daycare Attendant's Little Assistant, where you the reader are a kid who befriends the DCA. It takes place before the events of Security Breach and just has a lot of wholesome fun as well as some hurt/comfort.

6. What's your favorite sort of art or fic? What genre/flavor/style?

I love me some wholesome content. Give me all of the hurt/comfort and warm fuzzies.

7. What's your favorite au?

There is this one Cowboy Au that looks like a lot of fun. I believe it's by @castercassette .

8. Do you have any OCs, or have OCs that you are fond of?

This may be a little biased but I'm rather attached to my y/n from TDALA. They are just so grumpy and salty about life (for reasons) and they do not start off on the right foot with Sun and Moon at first.

9. What do you think of the dca's Canon appearance? Scary? Cute? Something else?

I know I'm probably in the minority on this but I absolutely love Sun and Moon's canonical appearance. It's the perfect blend of creepy and whimsical, a combination I enjoy playing with when writing them.

10. What keeps you in this fandom despite the small amount of Canon content the DCA had?

A combination of things. One of which being the there are a lot of fun and awesome people I've met through this fandom in just the short time that I've been here, but there's also a lot of fun and creative stuff to he had here. And there are no shortages of lore and theories revolving around these two.

11. Be honest: if you had to pick only one, sun or moon?

I cannot put into words how much I hate being asked this. But fine, gun to my head I would probably pick Sun because he's the one least likely to kill me.

12. Thoughts on eclipse?

Again, I feel like I'm in the minority on this when I say that I really don't have strong feelings towards Eclipse. Cool concept, the art surrounding him is pretty neat, but that's about it.

13. Thoughts on pre-glitch sun?

So many. And the fun part is I get to explore them in my fic. Before the glitch, Sun is a lot more put together. He still has his overly zealous tendencies but a lot less of the anxiety and clingyness we see in game.

14. Thoughts on pre-glitch Moon?

Another fun concept that gets explored in my story. Moon has always been a bit of a gremlin, but he plays into it for fun. He's fully aware that kids find him slightly more unsettling than Sun but he tries not to let it bother him and instead uses that to his advantage.

15. Do you interpret sun and moon as two sides of the same person, or truly two separate beings in one body? Does it matter?

Oh I absolutely believe that Sun and Moon are two different personalities in one body and good luck trying to convince me otherwise. I don't know, I just think it's more fun that way.

16. What's something in the fandom you like to see more of?

I always love seeing new theories, not just about the DCA but security breach as a whole. The FNAF franchise is fun but dang do they just love to leave things vague and leave it to the fans to pick apart everything.

17. What's something in the fandom you'd like to see less of?

NSFW content. This is merely a personal preference and no judgment to those who do enjoy it.

18. Anything you're looking forward to?

The DLC as well as the upcoming series of books featuring The Pizza Plex.

19. Do you think you'd actually get along with the DCA if you met them irl?

Oh, absolutely. I would probably have to take Sun in small doses because I'm just eternally tired, although who knows maybe he could just spot me a few Sundrop candies and I'd be fine. And if Moon is willing to help me sleep (like just night time sleep and not the eternal kind) then we'll be best friends forever.

20. Free space! Talk about whatever is on your mind!

I'm really glad I joined this fandom. I've been having a lot of fun so far and it's gotten me back into writing and drawing two things that I both agonize over and find a lot of joy and comfort in. I hope to make more friends and fun times while I'm here.

Tagging: @lovelymoonmagic @thewordofm @yes---but---no @theohnocorral @jess-themess05 @jaythejokerfan @sharpmarble76 @certified-handler @feralmoonlight @sleepyjuniper and anyone else who wants to fill this out! I'm curious to know what y'all will answer.