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spectrechosts · 2 months ago

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Misc. Short Demon Stories

Untitled stories about demons that weren't written as part of my Vandalize series. Second one probably fits into it though.

"What'cha guys watching?"

"One a them creepy girlchildren found Zep's summoning circle in a book, she's trying to make offerings."

"Oh shit, lemme see."

The three demons stood over a misty scrying pool, and in it's waters watched a young girl chanting in her treehouse, summoning circle etched into the wood, a dead bird in the center.

"Nice. Love getting summoned by weird little girls, they want the best shit."

"Last time I got one she gave me three baby teeth and 15 canadian dollars in exchange for making her good at drawing Inuyasha."

"Did you give her the whole show or just the character?"

The demon shrugged.

"I made her good at drawing in general."

"Softie. You gonna pick up or what, Zep?"

"Nah. I mean, if she had killed the bird it'd be one thing, but she just found it on the sidewalk."

"She's like ten, you want her to kill a bird?"

"I want her to do something. Prick her finger, I dunno. Hang on, I'm getting another call."

The scrying pool shifted to show a man etching the summoning circle into the flesh of a headless corpse.

"Oh, this fucking guy again. Hate getting serial killers."

"Ooh I'm decapitating people and carving occult symbols into their flesh, look at me! Dickheads. Get new material."

"Go back to the kid, this sucks."

The pool shifted back to the treehouse, where the child was dripping blood from the tip of her finger onto the dead bird.

"YEAAHHH!"

"NICE!"

"Okay okay, I'll go see what she wants."

Zep dissipated into smoke, and the two others waited, the scrying pool no longer showing the child now that the summons had been answered. After a few long minutes, she reappeared.

"Well?"

"The pact has been made. Her parents will agree to get her a puppy. And in exchange…"

She took a stack of foil packets out of her sleeve.

"Pokemon cards."

"Siiiiiiiick."

"I uh, I think that there's been um, some kind of mistake?" Kaylee said, looking very intently at the ceiling of her room.

"It's okay hun, don't be shy! Lotta people do this, it's no big thing." Said the succubus now lounging in the center of her room, clad only in a-

To call it a slutty nurse outfit was an understatement. This was slutty costume design on a level mortal minds could never dream to achieve.

"No, no there's actually been a mistake." Kaylee said, her face burning. "You're very pretty, but I was looking for uh, actual medical help."

"And you got it, doll! Hell's very own gender affirming care agency, at your service!" The succubus beamed at her. "How can we help you today?"

Kaylee flicked her eyes back to the demon, made sure she was seeing correctly.

"You look like a succubus?"

"What kind of demon do you think should be handlin' your sexy bits? Gettin' you all prettied up? Trust me doll, when it comes to fleshcraft there ain't nobody better! Whaddaya want?"

Kaylee swallowed. She really hadn't expected this to actually work.

"Um. Just, you know. Girl I guess. Make me a girl."

"Gotta give me more to work with than that, hon. What're you having trouble with?" The demoness said, slinking up to her and throwing an arm around her shoulder familiarly. "Tell your pal Vicky how mortal medicine's failed ya, I'll see what I can do."

"I, I dunno, all of it I guess?" Kaylee shrank inward, clutching her own elbows. She had never said any of this out loud to anyone before. "It's just so daunting, you know? Trying to get psychiatrists to put you on waiting lists to get on pills that'll take years to do anything. I want it to be easy."

"Well don't you worry toots, we pride ourselves on being easy."

Kaylee cracked a tiny smile, she had walked right into that one.

"Alright I'm gonna ask you some questions, just answer as honestly as you can."

Vicky poofed to the other side of the room, sitting in Kaylee's computer chair with a clipboard in one hand and a cigarette holder in the other. "So tell me doll, what kinda timeline you looking for here?" She said, taking a drag while she waited for Kaylee's answer.

"Fast, I guess? Faster than it would be otherwise."

"How important is retaining a resemblance to your current appearance, family, etc."

"Um. Depends on the end result I guess?"

"How important is it that people not realize your transition was magically aided?"

"Not very?"

"Would you want people to remember you as always having been a girl?"

"You can do that?"

"Sure can, hon. Expensive though."

"…Depends on the person, I guess?"

"Mm. Okay, you're giving me very noncommittal answers here sugar. Want me to just run through the basic contracts for you?"

"S-Sorry. Sure."

"Okay. Cheap or expensive first?"

"Cheap."

"Ugh, c'mon doll, show some moxie! We're doin' magic here! You deserve more than the bare minimum!"

"Are you just saying that because you want to eat my soul?"

"Ehehe, a lady never tells." Vicky said coyly.

"Cheap, please."

"Fiddlesticks."

#Spectre Writes #Demons #Succubi

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echoes-lighthouse · 6 months ago

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Had a heartfelt conversation with a friend at work today about our Harry Potter phases and decided to draw up my existing selfships for that universe! I kind of vacillate between not wanting to engage with the fandom and wanting to rub my grubby little genderqueer feminist fingers all over it. Neither of these ships are getting a tag because they're not going to be reoccuring on this blog, but this is just a today thing.

V1: Minerva McGonagall Timeline

My s/i comes to work at Hogwarts after the First Wizarding War, helping the kids recover from the war and the widespread loss of parents. Their eventual goal is to specialize in non-human therapy in the Wizarding World, so they keep going to the Forbidden Forest to interview centaurs, but they also care a lot about the students.

They have a little Yorkie dog as their familiar, who's always tip-tapping down the stone corridors after them. He's also an emotional support dog for the students, they can hold him during sessions.

Dumbledore and I have a mutually wary relationship, but so far we've been working towards the same goals, so the wariness is mostly expressed in being overly cheerful with each other and always buying each other candy. But we're side-eyeing each other the entire time distrustfully.

Minerva and I were also kind of wary of each other initially, but I was also very open about how cool I thought she was, and wanting to socialize more with her. I'm friends with most of the professors: Rubeus, Filius, Ponoma, even Severus, although I had to learn not to pry as much as I naturally do.

The more Minerva and I started socializing, the more we enjoyed each other's company, and one thing led to another and now we're married, although the students don't know. Minerva's pretty private, so we told the staff but not the kids. There's always a couple of them who figure it out, but they're usually queer as well, so they keep it quiet.

V2: Severus Snape Timeline

My s/i in this universe is three years older than the main cast! Both of my Hogwarts self-inserts are Halfbloods, but this one cares a lot more because they're in Slytherin, so it's a bigger deal.

Basically I transferred over from Canada in my Fifth Year and I was like 'wow everyone must have a crush on Professor Snape' and everyone else was like 'what the literal fuck did you just say with your mouth?' and I realized that it was not universally agreed that he was the sexiest professor and decided to basically campaign for my perspective.

As a result, all of the students and staff know that I have a crush on Severus: Severus hates it for several reasons: he thinks that I'm annoying, the other teachers tease him about it, and it's just uncomfortable and he wants to absolutely find an excuse to get me out of the school entirely.

Anyways, I'm generally a big sibling figure to the other non-conforming Slytherins: half-bloods, muggle-borns, queer kids, kids who've broken with their families, I kind of collect them. Me and Luna are also very close, and we dye each other's hair and go to games together.

I graduate in Harry's Fifth Year, but when shit really starts to hit the fan, I organize the alternative Slytherins and get them out of there. I end up tied in with the Order of the Phoenix because of my little student team, and their familial connections to some Death Eaters, that enable them to get us information.

By then I'm all grown up and aware of how uncomfortable I made Severus, so I try to be extra nice to him but not in a creepy way, and he's like 'goddamnit they're competent and good at taking care of their people and they keep making me tea and it makes me feel weird when they have flowers in their hair but they're kicking ass in a dueling session' and then I nurse him back to health after the climax and we fall in love okay??? okay ^w^

Also me having taken all the cool Slytherins is why the whole house is dicks in the final book lol

#harry potter #selfships #my selfships #mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn #lol that last tag was the cat stepping on my computer #ask to tag #my art #temporary selfships #tw age gap

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haiihellooo · 10 months ago

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I know I talk too much, but I had to get this out, because, like I said, I have nothing better to do. Okay, so, first of all I CAN'T TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE!! I don't know why so many things piss me off, like, to the point where I'll be like "I won't think about this tonight" and it keeps me up all night. Idk if this is some childish shit or I'm genuinely gonna burst a blood vessel. Some stupid fucker says something online and I HAVE to respond. Misunderstandings piss me off so much, and with that, I will name shit that's been pissing me off lately. 1. The comic Lydia situation- I LOVE comic Lydia to death, and I'm sure the two people who, yearly, accidentally click on my posts know that too, but these DUMBASS bitches don't know that. Every FUCKING time I see a post about comic Lydia, it's some braindead idiot saying the same thing we've seen a million times. YES, SHE LICKED CARL'S EYE! WE FUCKING GET IT! "I can't believe Lydia would do that 🥺" If it's so traumatizing, DON'T.READ.THE.COMICS! Another thing is how Lydia was 16 and Carl was 13. I've already established that I ONLY ship TV!Carl X Comic!Lydia/TV!+Comic!Carl (whatever fucking fusion I created) X Comic!Lydia, but people be saying shit like "OMG, LYDIA'S SUCH A CREEPY CREEPER FOR THAT 😭😭!" Bffr, bitch, this girl has been to hell and back, AND was taught so much bullshit. 1. That childhood didn't exist, 2. That people could do WHATEVER the hell they want to her, and 3. That she was an animal. What the fuck do you expect? Lollipops and daisies? Open your eyes, brotha. For some reason, people are saying that Lydia SA'd Carl and trauma dumped on him about her situation at camp. Really? That's what we're going with? Dude, she was TAUGHT to DO these THINGS! Holy CRAPPPPAPAPAP!! 2. The SHOW Lydia situation- This girl makes me want to peel the skin off of my nonexistent balls. People will sympathize for TV Lydia SO much! "She didn't deserve what she went through!!" Be so fr. TV Lydia didn't even scratch the surface of what comic Lydia went through. Sure, she was in a shitty situation too, but girl got TWO boyfriends AND two father figures. Comic Lydia got slapped in the fucking face by her mom, and, in the end, didn't even get to be with Carl. Wtf is this? And people say: "Well, she got bullied." I'm not sure being bullied is worse than being r-worded and nearly killed to spite your mother. I see all these FUCKING "TV Lydia >>> Comic Lydia" shit. What did this girl do? They make her seem like a monster for doing WHAT SHE WAS TAUGHT! If someone tells you "Hey, y'know red means go and green means stop" from the time you're 10, I bet you'd get hit by a fucking 18 wheeler. Another thing, that bitch was ANNOYING! Jesus Christ, I don't wanna sound one-sided but HOLY CRAP! Nothing against Cassady, but "WAAA, MY MAMA HATES ME!" Girl, stop. The Chandler Riggs situation- Stfu about this horse shit. It never happened. Kys. Free my man Chandler 💪 Empty fanbase- I can't do it. I can't fucking do it. I have to keep recycling the same comic Lydia images over and over and OVER AGAIN! There's hardly ANY fanart of her, hardly ANY edits, and the ONLY time I see anything with her "Me reacting to Lydia licking Carl's eye 🤓" These pussy baby bitches, bro. I'm literally alone here. Whenever I try to defend my point online, some overweight person behind a computer SHITS on my FUCKING point, leaving me looking like a damn idiot. All because I'm saying you shouldn't label a kid as a creep because she's scared. But NOOOOOOOOOO, one person says something and the fucking hivemind begins. I'm here with my SCRAPS of comic Lydia content. My SHITASS DRAWINGS, all because people, for some reason, want this girl dead. And with that, I will stfu. Idgaf. Suck my ass. Show Lydia sucks ass, (not) respectfully. I will defend comic Lydia 'til this earth blows. My girl deserves better. If comic Lydia has one fan, it's me. If she has zero fans, I'm dead. And, yes, I will keep being dramatic and rant about dumb shit I read online.

#rant #fuck everyone #comic lydia solos #show lydia is shit

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foxingpeculiar · 6 months ago

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FF7 R&R:

Okay. I beat Remake. So tomorrow (probably), I'll play the Intermission DLC with Yuffie, and then it's Rebirth time.

So, just kind of going through my notes, beginning with leaving Wall Market to head up to Shinra HQ.

First, that must be a helluva motor on those grappling guns of theirs. I know it's a "just go with it" kind of thing, like how Cloud is apparently able to jump like 50 feet in the air and... physics just generally works by anime logic. But I dunno. It feels so... tactile and realistic, especially in comparison to the original, in so many ways, that the anime physics stuff kind of stands out for me. It's not a dealbreaker, it's just silly.

I took the stairs up Shinra HQ, because that's what I always do, and it's worth it for the fun banter. Whoo, you really feel all 59 floors in this one though, don't you?

For the most part, I like what they're doing with the characters, including the non-party ones--Scarlett using a dude as furniture, Palmer being a tea-sipping little nebbish, even turning Mayor Domino into a sort of pathetic freedom fighter is a fun touch that feels like it builds on the world in a cool way.

I still don't know how I feel about Sephiroth in this game, though. They did do the creepy blood trail, but it's Jenova blood (I guess?) that's all purple and sparkly but doesn't have the same visceral impact. And that's kind of the whole thing--you're showing the monster too much. He's right there, in your face, from the beginning moments. And like... it's not clear what his nature is. When he's only in Cloud's head and when other people can see him too, and whether any of those appearances are really "him" in a meaningful sense or just projections according to some mechanism that's not yet explained.

It could be so cool! Cos he is a creepy, eldritch, kind of otherworldly thing. He's supposed to be kind of scary! Like, when you come upon the impaled Midgar Zolom in the original, that's such an "oh. shit." moment, cos that thing just kicked your ass eight ways from sunday. "What kind of power does this guy have?!" you think to yourself. (I'm really curious to see if and how Rebirth handles that.) But now, he just kind of shows up and acts sort of creepy, and it's like I've already fought him and won once, even if it wasn't the real him, so he's just not as threatening or mysterious as he should be at this point in the story, y'know?

I remember struggling with the last few fights the first time I played Remake, but this time they all went down pretty easy. I died once to Rollerball because of some depth perception issues with the camera, but other than that, took 'em all first try. Rufus and Sephiroth both pressed me a bit, but it's not bad, difficulty-wise.

The tour through Shinra HQ was pretty fascinating. The corporatized creepyness of all of it kinda got under my skin. And it was an interesting loredump. There are still things I'm curious about--like what Wutai's interest in the war is. But maybe we'll get there as we go.

Man, fuck Hojo. He might be the most evil dude in this thing, and that's saying something. The whole sequence with him and Aerith was just... ugh. Which is exactly what it should be, so good, I guess. It's just... seeing the whole situation depicted in a modern game--which is a lot less abstracted than one from the '90s--whoof. Like, Aerith casually being like "this is where I grew up" and all these kid's drawings in this sterile, hostile room. It's just... it hits harder than it did for me playing the original.

It's interesting to me that we still don't really know much about religious practice in this world. Specifically because Shinra invokes that kind of language, talking about scriptures and the promised land, when discussing the Cetra. And the point the game seems to be making is that they believe in the scripture, but misunderstand it--fatally. By using Mako energy, they're destroying the very thing they're trying to find, but they're--collectively--blinded by capitalism and fascistic power and unable to recognize that.

Which I think is interesting in the context of what Remake is doing specifically with the whole Whispers thing. They're a neutral force--connected to all the same mystical vibes that Aerith and Sephiroth and Jenova are all sensitive to--but they're not aligned with anyone, they existed only to keep the story on the path it was supposed to go down, the plot of the original game.

Except then I destroyed them (I guess? I assume that's what that explosion of sparkly shit meant). And, hey, just as I did, suddenly there's a potentially very significant deviation from the original story when Zack appears, alive. So it's like the story is saying "aha, now we can fuck with your expectations." This feels like a tease about saving Aerith. I feel like it's setting me up to believe I might be able to. Which is why I think I won't. Like, if you changed that, it would fundamentally change the whole story--it wouldn't Final Fantasy 7 anymore. But it shows you "visions of the future" as cutscenes from the original game, and pointedly includes that moment. "This can't be our future" (I think it's Tifa that says that). So what's the point of setting me up to believe that? How is Rebirth going to follow through on that idea? I'm very curious about that, cos I was skeptical about all the Whisper stuff the first time through, but this time it feels more like it's just building to something.

Nanaki is great in this. The part where he "smiles" at Barrett in the truck was a lot of fun. There was a moment that made me wonder... I'm not really clear on how much Aerith knows at this point, about everything that's going on, and how. Like when she stops Cloud and Barrett from attacking him, she says "This child is a friend." And they were both in the lab for a long time, it's conceivable they did know each other. But then there's that whole moment where she reaches out and touches him and something magic kind of passes between them, and the fact that he doesn't speak before that point... the way it's presented made me wonder what, exactly, happened there. How much is she able to intuit and how much does she know from her own direct experience? Especially when she's talking to/about Sephiroth at the end there ("Everything about you is wrong.").

There's a point--and I didn't make a note of what exactly she says, but it's at some point after they're escaping Hojo's trap with the sword-fish-robot thing. Aerith has a line that's like... oh, she knows she's going to die. She's aware she's doomed by the narrative. I wonder.

I dunno, I have lots of smaller stray notes, stuff like:

The PHS terminal in the lab was a nice throwback

Aerith identifying herself as "local florist!" when facing off against Rufus slayed me.

Tifa not wanting to go into the men's room

What does Hojo's lab smell like? They make a big deal of that.

Barrett, of course he was running off to get a gun. C'mon man.

Heidegger almost getting a motorcycle to the face was pretty sweet.

Biggs is alive! Wedge... might not be.

The whole "we gotta go after Sephiroth" moment at the end is so very "...and my axe!" y'know? A tropish fantasy moment.

But yeah. From here, we're in unknown territory.

#personal #video games #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 remake #final fantasy 7 rebirth

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phantom-of-notre-dame · 4 years ago

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My live reaction to the West End production of The Grinning Man: Apeshit Edition (Act 1)

I wrote everything down first so here’s a wild ride

Laughter is the Best Medicine

Ah, Julian

Less flamboyant than Bristol

"Lon Don. Yes Lon Don"

Trafalgar Fair? Ew

We get it, you gotta make references to places

Don't like the speed

Low note!

Violin?

Baaa-kilphedro

Snake rattle!

Yes, draw that note out

0-100 real quick

Too rigid

Ooooh, the "Did you think a change of king" theme during Angelica's intro

Laughing at Barkilphedro?

Oh, it's not Sean as King Clarence

What happened to the "oooo"s during "look at my unhappy children"? They sound like sheep

HATE the new lyrics

EWAN BLACK

WHERE? IS THE PICKLED HORSE???

I didn't think it was possible for David to be More Twink than before

Egyptian lavender? How do you know where it's from, Mr. Organ Grinder?

Why Osric yelling?

Why Barkil yelling???

I CANNOT hear Barkil's laughter

Still hate the speed

"This pissing song" is a phrase I hate

RATING: 3/10 (damn can't believe I did that)

Give Me Back My Mother

Mr. Maskell, I was not prepared for that vibrato with how nasally it sounded?

Hate the speed

Woah, Lady Trelaw admitting to her son that she's gonna die? Don't like that

Why is that beat happening?

Grinpayne breaking into a sob "I promise you my mothe-" 😟

RATING: Initially 4/10, but the ending made it 6/10

Hymn of the Hanged Man

The gradual speed-up freaks me out

But that creepy breath thing to show Hazlitt "coming back to life" is nice

Ewan's tone is different

Louis sounded a little freaked out at "Uhh" you're dead." Nice

Also "Uhh you're dead." Nice.

Why is the piano still going so fast???

Who is panting? Hazlitt? Sir, why?

"The cause that I fought for refuses to die" okay, not mad at it

It's a banger, but it shouldn't be

"Fight for the cause that your little needs" N I C E

That was such an aggressive "FIGHT"

"There's blood in my nightmares" Bro the rhythm doesn't fit with those lyrics

Hate the next two lines

"But I know that I don't want to die" Nice

Hazlitt, stop being so aggro.

Okay, I love the vow to remember his mother and to protect the baby, but as a transition to "By the laws of every land" it's gross

Hate the speed

Also, is this in a different key? Or is Louis doing something weird with his voice

"Help us!" That's good shit it sounds so strained I love it

Get the fuck out of here with that pre-recorded wolf howl shit ew

Mojo has TWO (2) actors. Why can't they do it?

RATING: 5/10

Stars in the Sky

Ah, Sean. Good to hear you properly, man.

The guitar? Gives off a vibe I don't hate

Wait, is it a guitar? Or is it a harp?

The way Louis says "Father?" is so strained it's gut-wrenching

It is not a guitar. Still does not answer questions

"Am I dreaming?" BOY I CRY

Grin, you're a little *too* coherent

A FLUTE! My home!

RATING: 7/10 I genuinely want to give it more but it doesn't deserve it

Beauty and the Beast

DRAMATIC BEAST NOISES

Why does Grinpayne make the Beast sound like an old man???

That final "bleh" was so abrupt Mr. Maskell P l e a s e

Sanne sounds heartbroken I know we talk about Theatre Kid Grinpayne, but...

Theatre Kid DEA

"Kiss him" "Oh yes" BOY I DIE

MWAH mwah mwah mwah mwahmwahmwah ~~~

His emphasis on Lord oh my GOOOD

No "Dance with me" 😔

Why are they making surprise noises? At this point they're flying are they reacting to that?

Grinpayne scared of heights? My heart.

"Never did I dream that you would save me from despair" Louis why are you singing it so Dramatically?

Okay it's tender again

Louis and Sanne... sound like they have a similar range? Like they're singing same note same octave?

They're overpowering each other at different moments. Mostly Sanne (sorry, bb)

I'm sorry the Great Bell of WHAT? I don't speak British.

Also, they cut out my favorite bit!

The "Is your love a kind of healing?/ Your kiss of life has..."

RATING: 6/10 (It was 7, but the Bell had to ruin it)

Something's Going to Change

Since this song wasn't in Bristol, I have no idea what to expect

The intro kinda gives me "Why We Build the Wall" vibes?

"What do you dream of, Dea?" My HEART

"A father who loved me" Loved? Past tense? Bitch!

I just realized Grinpayne never said Mojo's name in Bristol. I'm glad he does it here.

An ocean boiling with foam? What the fuck?

Yeah, this doesn't need to be a song

The overlap is MESSY -- let this be a regular scene

RATING: 4/10

I've Never Seen a Face Like This

Okay it really should be "I Have Never" contractions make it weird

Why do I hate this David's voice? It's Too Posh and Not Posh Enough at the same time

Also, he SAYS "I Have Never Seen " why did they do the title Like That

JosiANAr~~~

A little more musical than Stuart Neall, less dramatic

The way he says "This man has changed my world" is... Off. Rhythmically it's off the way he says "my world" specifically

What is that string instrument doing? I'm assuming it's a violin when he says "an angel with the mutilated cheek" ; it's a screechy thing

It's a cool effect if this were a podcast

That laugh David, good God

"Oh really?" B R O

"Like this?" Like what?

Screechy thing again

"H-o-o-o-ooorn" Josiana, queen!

"All right, tell me" considering how deep your voice went, Josiana, I'd say you're trying to seduce him

"More ugly and erotic than a visit TO THE ZOO" Jesus Christ, David

Unrelated, but I think we deserve to have the Erotic Breakfast Dance in a TGM cast album

I love Amanda Wilkin

"Starts ScReAmInG-ng in the pit of your soul" Don't like the pit addition

"Through your MoWtH"

"And you're utterly... l o s t"

It speeds up weird, very rigid

"That's why I'm jumping up and down and screaming HAĻŁEĹUJÂH" bro

Don't mind the new lyrics

I. Have. Ne. Ver. ~~Smiled~~

Since it's a live recording, I get to hear the audience go ham

RATING: 8/10

Born Broken

Oh, boy here we go

I love this song, So Sean, Louis, and Sanne better not FUCK IT UP

Oh don't like subtle lyric changes

Why'd she draw out "Disharmony"? I don't Like It

Stop changing the lyrics! The Bristol ones were perfectly fine!

Sanne's a little pitchy? Sorry, bb

Okay, thank you for not having Ursus say "Bury your pain/Start life again" 3 times in a row

Also, is that a theremin? It sounds too fake to be a theremin, but idk

Hate the speed

The "Laughter is the Best Medicine" theme with the cymbals is PEAK CHAOS

"No! Not ToDaY! Today I will ShOw them the pain of my *NOT* 👏 knowing" Louis what are you doing?

He sounds like a petulant child; it's so goddamn funny

Also, Josiana, David, and Barkil *just* showed up oh my gooood

"Barkilphedro, get down! I can't see" Josiana just step on him

The way David says "get ready to shit kittens"

RATING: 6/10

I am the Freak Show

Too Musical, Louis

"I'm the stuuuuff..."

It's so quiet

"I'm the shadow who walks in the night" where's the pizzazz? Did Dea replace you as the Resident Theatre Kid?

I miss Bristol's "and I strrrip all the stars in the sky" 😔

Okay, the "Who am I?" was Theatre Kid Grinpayne adequate

"I'm the source *oF yOuR fEaRs* I cannot articulate it through text but he sounds like a gremlin

"I'm the whisper of doubt in your ears" then why ain't you whispering?

WIPE The tears you cry!

yOuR PiTy...

Mr. Maskell, what are you doing???

The "I am the Freak Show" is so rigid and aggressive, Jesus

Oh he is straight up Not Having a Good Time Right Now

Hate the speed

fUUUUUCK MEEEEEeeee

Josiana ma'am I'm begging you

Who is applauding right now? The real audience? If so, why?

"It's even better than the last time" David you sound like a proud parent, what the hell?

It. Cannot... BEEEEE

Barkilphedro, why did you go up at least 1.5 octaves there???

He shattered a mirror asdfjkl

RATING: 7/10 (was 6; Josiana & Barkilphedro brought it up)

Brand New World of Feeling

So I've listened to this before, but I'll give it a solid review

This scene should be called "Josiana's Letter" but that's just me

Very rigid

Amanda Wilkin send tweet

With a. sshhiver of paIN

Not a big fan of Grinpayne's new lyrics

That honkytonk! I love it!

I can't really understand Josiana's new lyrics but I don't like them

Like the Cut. Of. A Kniiifeee^uh

It's a Banger! Groove with me, babey!

You're what at the riverbank? My hearing comprehension is piss poor, apparently

Very "Pharaoh's Song" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat vibes

RATING: 7/10

A Scar is Born!

Why is the exclamation point there?

Oh Sanne's "Grinpayne"s are heartbreaking

"Something is scorching the air 'round my head" Bro you don't get to sing that; it does not sound right

I miss the Bristol harmonies

Osric what happened to your voice?

ooo-ee-YOU-ee (I do not know how to describe that sound)

I'm Law-ghing like St. Frahncis

Hate the speed

"I've got a funny feeling in my hand/ it's feeling kind of freer like a brain that's been trepanned" hate this

Based on this and the Egyptian lavender bit, I think Osric was a nobleman's son who ran away to join the circus

Whatever the fuck happened here, I cannot describe it (1:05-1:08)

Grinpayne your lines are stupid

Still miss the Bristol harmonies

Hate the new lyrics

Hate that ending

RATING: 3/10

#the grinning man #madeline's lon don reaction #lon don reactions

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ladyyatexel · 3 years ago

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Hahah, now we have like an inverted diagram of franchise consumption or something. Having finished everything last night, I now have Further Extensive WTF Thoughts, but I'll keep those for another late night post only 10 people will appreciate. I've been looking up as many Japanese clips from the anime as I can to see more of Yami Bakura laughing and haunting the hell out of people, though. Especially because he gets to do a lot more of that in the anime, vs the manga doing stuff like 'okay, so he goes and kills several people playing a card game to get himself into this bullshit tournament, one panel of a baby goth getting absolutely Fucked Up by the spirits of the dead, moving on' but I definitely don't have the patience for all the filler dueling. My larger mental map of how the anime is structured and such is based on 15 year old memories of the dub and a consistent consumption of the Abridged Series over the years at this point, haha

There's an image somewhere that motivated my decision to go manga for this weird detour through Past Interests Town in addition to being That Kid and it was a comparison of the shot of confused and injured Bakura after Yami Bakura stabs himself (again!) in order to do whatever the fuck Marik is up to and it was like, "4Kids - a bandage; Original - some faint pinkish stain on the bandage; Manga - bandage but also his arm is absolutely drenched in blood" and I was like, ah, yes, my preferred version has been clearly laid out for me.

So yes, 4Kids is definitely the reason you did not fixate on Ryou Bakura, haha. I was really into him back in the day, but it was so early on in the story of things, I didn't even know the full spectrum of bullshit. I was very, oh, this pretty kid is kind of tortured and sad and he's haunted, I will draw big eyed fanart, because I am 16. Somewhere, there is the start of pixel dress up dolls, even. I did not fully appreciate at that time how much I liked twisty creepy shit and my friends all actively discouraged it, so even if I'd known how messy he got I don't know if I would have been able to get into to properly. Now that I'm 'allowed' to like things scary and creepy and soaked in blood, I enjoy it even more because I'm not trying to mask the feeling. And now, getting to see what was removed or altered and that Bakura's actually like, "I'm a huge nerd who gets obsessed with model making and detailed RPG storylines. I'm unsettling and weird! Do you want to touch my actively bleeding arm wound?? It doesn't even hurt, so weird! Check out my collection of cards featuring undead ouija board playing broken dolls! :D I'm confused a lot because I'm blacked out 50% of the time. I don't love that so much, and would like my friends to not die, but, look, tarot cards!" I like him even more than I did as a dumbass teenager. He's a Delight. I do not need to convince you of this, you also like 90s/2000s era art covered in blood. But Still, my enjoyment now and my general feelings of indignant outrage that he was not treated better compel me to yell about him when the moment strikes.

(Am I currently obtaining the 2016 movie because Bakura gets to have Some Moments both in character and wardrobe and it's based on the manga continuity? Yes. Yes, I am.)

I am glad you liked my horrifically photographed doodles! I will at some point make them not horrific photos and post further ones likely for your benefit only. I was definitely trying to do something like merging the vibes. Many of those characters are unrecognizable without the shape of their hair, or the distinctions of how evil they are at the time is based on what absolutely not possible thing their hair is doing, so I was looking into ways to maintain recognizability while also taming some of the sharp angles. There's also stuff like, 'how much of a distinctive nose or face shape can I give this character before they stop clicking in my mind as that character but still don't all look like clones with crazy wigs'. So there's some facial feature drifting happening while I figure out where things should go, but they've been fun to do.

Yami Bakura songfic sounds like one of the most early 2000s things I can think of, well done.

Thank you for enjoying me talking about Yu-Gi-Oh, my childhood best friend can only withstand so much after she endured me liveblogging like four volumes of the most ridiculous part of the manga at her.

I Went On A Manga Binge

So you don't have to

For those of you who have wisely avoided the shreds of it I've left around the blog thus-far, I had some weird notion to go re-experience Yu-Gi-Oh uuuuuh a week ago? We'll go with that. Time is meaningless.

I'd been able to read a good portion of the early manga at the end of highschool, and somewhere in my stacks and stacks of paper is fanart from this dark time, so you know I cared. I also still own a Dark Magician action figure somehow, so. I'd also watched a large portion of the anime with my brother because it had been laced with some kind of crack and we couldn't look away? I remember when we both were just like shit, wait, don't change the channel, I can't stop looking at it. And the next thing we knew we were waiting for new episodes and I was doing research on the Japanese original because I was that kid.

Anyway, unnecessary backstory out of the way, here are some... let's call them Observations and Consequences of having read somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 chapters (and growing) of a manga primarily hinged on card games from a spectrum of sources ranging from boringly lawful to sketchy as fuck.

Surprise actual character that develops in typical shounen fashion being Jounouchi. My limited experiences with the 4Kids dub and only early manga had not painted him in a particularly good light. I don't know if episodes were being aired out of order or if I had just missed the ones that established that he was making shit up as he was going along, but Wow I liked him a lot more going through the manga than I ever did watching the (dubbed, heavily edited and censored and thrown into a slurry machine) anime. I'd managed to come out with the impression that he was just as reasonably experienced with the game as Yugi back in the day. Wild.

I'm now reading every single comic-style post on Tumblr backwards.

Striking inverse to first point, wow, I don't like Seto Kaiba. Though he gets points for his general philosophy of the future, and the line I read in my sketchy online combo of scans and scanlations in which he said, "If God is in your way, you run him down," was Metal As Fuck. I somewhat shame-facedly admit to enjoying him a lot more as an Abridged Series character. (I watched Abridged as it came out back in the day! The experience of watching the anime with my brother had been so fresh that I got all the in jokes about the way things were edited and dubbed, it was great. Series remains influential part of my life to this day, which is hella weird.)

I almost understand how Duel Monsters works now. I don't want this.

That said, wow a lot of the decisions made in the anime made everything a lot more ridiculous than the admittedly already ridiculous original. I got the distinct feeling in the manga that the Duelist Kingdom stuff we were seeing was designed to be used and exploited in ways that don't make sense in an actual cardgame just played on a table like a normal person and this was part of testing everyone to think higher, differently. Maybe this is obvious to everyone already, I don't know. I had always liked that it was very, 'Not so fast, I'm going to blow up the moon to change the tides,' but I'm not really sure the anime gave enough explanation that this was an extra layer added to things for that event? You can see people actively getting used to it in the books, and people who aren't considering the real or 3D nature of it getting owned, but my memory of anime version is everyone just like, 'oh, shucks, fuck me, I forgot to consider the phase of the moon before i played this card, can't believe I forgot.' No one calls Yugi on any of this stuff because it's valid play in that situation. Plus Yami Yugi had mad trickster energy in the beginning and it suited him to think of ways to do things inside these little simulation boxes the way it suited him to set perverts on fire. I imagine the real card game trying to emulate this element as something that would be to its detriment, but I neither know nor particular care haha

Ryou Bakura.

Really, though. I think he became kind of casualty of 'wow, we have a lot of characters who really aren't able to do anything in this story anymore,' despite the fact that his whole inner life could have been as interesting as Yugi's. I always like thinking about the possibilities of stories in which main character falls into magical world and is given magical item and told they're the hero and then they find out they've been the bad guy the whole time. The first several volumes of manga were about the quiet weirdo kid that no one talked to who was always blacking out and turning into a fucked up version of himsef because he was so attached to his ancient Egyptian jewelry, so like, Bakura could have much the same shit going on. I want to know what's happening with him so much. He clearly doesn't love being possessed, but he's also so drawn to the ring. Despite it having stabbed him at least twice and him knowing it's a danger to him and his friends, he keeps being pulled back into it. You see so much more of him being like, 'Oooh, a creepy thing, I love that! :D' in the manga than ever in the anime, which I'm all about. Also more blood. I'm very about that as well. Though my memory of the anime also made it look very much like normal regular daily Bakura was just a weird facade in places before he ever would have been. I think that was it trying to compensate for what people didn't see from the Toei anime, but okay whatever, that I love everything about this guy is not news, I don't need to talk about Bakura excessively here, I'm pretty sure that's gonna show up on my blog by itself

On a related note though, damn, more of these people need to talk to each other. Can we have some existential crisis support clubs or something. Can we get like some apologies or something? "I respect you as a duelist." "Cool, but you literally built a tower designed to specifically assassinate me and my friends? You were supposed to get Better after I retaliated by putting you in a coma, but you kinda didn't." "Why would the coma have made it better" "I just told you it didn't" ---- "Sorry I went along with the plan of your evil parasite stabbing you, misled you, and then also jumped in and took up some real estate in your head too." "I understand, I also have an evil thing inside me that does things while I'm blacked out." "...no, I was conscious for all of that." "Oh." "..." "..." "..." "Do you like Ouija Boards?" "sure okay" ETC. Like damn we are reading shounen manga because no one is talking extensively about their feelings here and I'm tapping my foot angrily.

Holy shit there are so many mythologies happening at once. The ancient family guarding the Egyptian Pharaoh has a surname that's a Mesopotamian goddess. None of the god cards make any Egyptian sense except Ra, and just like. Baaarrrrely. Somewhere either Evil Ring Bakura or Mar/lik makes a reference to cremation and spirits being taken to heaven with smoke which several things, but definitely not Ancient Egyptian. Marik/Malik meanwhile is clearly trying to head Arabic, along with Rishid, but then, hey, our sister is just Isis. Goddess McGoddess. Sometimes they're the same goddess! Her name could be Isis Isis or Ishtar Ishtar. Meanwhile, all the obviously 'occult because Christians think it is freaky' stuff. ~ancient egyptian pentagrams~~~This isn't a complaint, I guess so much as a 'Wow, I can kind of see the cultural spot the author was coming from and where he was aiming' kind of thing.

Wonder where things would have gone if the card games had not been latched onto the way they were.

Managed to forget how gross the pre-cardgames stuff was on the sexual harassment front. I'm glad there was a sort of explanation of everyone drifting away from being dick heads and that that decision was made. It got way more comfortable to read after no one was bringing Yugi p*rn on VHS.

Yugi looks better with a nose, glad we got that upgrade.

Interesting to watch the series style shift as it goes away from being horror to being over the top cardgames and friendship (with blood!). The first picture of Mokuba is fucking Jarring. Also noticed that the nicer a character is, the less their teeth are defined.

Glad manga did not go as completely off the fucking the rails about Marik's face. I never got as far as seeing him back in the day because college occurred, but I remember seeing pictures and stuff and being like, "what in the Fuck happened to that dude, I think the house style has collapsed in on itself"

Things the author Really Likes: motorcycles, belts, SHOES, holy shit the shoes. These are some of the most lovingly rendered sneakers I've ever seen. All the detail on his characters goes straight to their feet and then it's stretched upward until it forms stiff peaks. Gently fold in 3000 years of trauma and bake face down in a crumb coat of scattered mythology. Remove when you roll two zeros.

Where the fuck am I going to put the extremely large omnibus volumes of this comic I purchased in order to balance out how much I would be reading for free on the internet. I should have grasped that a three in one edition would be Thick and yet somehow I was still :O when it arrived. Have I strategically purchased volumes that contain my favorite parts, maybe, what's it to you will i eventually get the whole thing because incomplete book series gnaw on my soul? yes

Wish the transition from "I've murdered several people in delightfully karmic ways" to "all you need is friendship in your heart and cards in your hand" Yami Yugi/Pharaoh had been discussed more/transitioned better. Buddy, where did you get this approved for television high horse? Please go back to strangling people with yo-yos or at least tell me why you stopped.

I still can't tell anything that looks like a big robotic monster apart from any other big robotic monster. My dude, I can't tell cars apart, all these monsters look the same.

Yami Yugi fascinated me way more in highschool? Maybe because it was still super early and the anime was like 'we need to torture you about his origins WeEkLy. Now I'm just like 'wait hold on, can we go back to Bakura and Marik for a minute, there's some extreme unpacking to do here?' Those two are paying so much more in baggage fees here my guy wow

Violently uninterested in any of the spinoff media

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