#IM GOING TO KILL THE MAYOR

[yellows-secret-blog]

I am a very patient person, I don't normally get angry

But why THE FUCK

Would this BITCH prescribe me Parkinson's disease medicine for my fucking DEPRESSION

SHE DIDN'T EVEN LET ME TALK

I told her I got some shaky hands because of the increasing of some medication (that's even gone now that I stopped taking it) and she simply assumed I needed medicine to stop that?!!!

SHE DIDN'T LET ME FINISH A SINGLE SENTENCE

I FUCKING HATE DOCTORS

[dizzybizz]

"this is regrettably the best kiss of your life, you understand?"

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Just now realizing that 'Inevitable' is the apotheosis straight up toying with Emma, bragging that it won. The chorus stating "it's inevitable" and the song literally starting with "Emma I'm sorry, you lost."

[eebie]

GOD i love mr mayor so much itmakes me want to PULVERIZE EVERYTHING AROUND ME into MUSH and DANCE AROUND IN IT making GHASTLY GROSS SQUELCHING NOISES and BLOOD SPRAY  EVERYWHERE

[eyepatchdate]

idgaf about any of the character arcs or storylines in harley quinn EXCEPT banes.

his has been like a 3 season long story about a pasta maker

[dizzybevvie]

Send this to 10 other bloggers you think are wonderful. Keep the game going and have a good day.

U ARE SO SWEET ILL EAT U WHOLE >:((( /POS

[mayordeas-clone]

can the menial minimum wage jobs that no one likes please hire me, i haven't had my spirit broken yet please please please i want money

[connormoving]

tour is donee

[willtheweirdrat]

When you're at a park with a friend and suddently a pack of boars roll up

[dictatortirah]

Welcome to Gleamfolk City!!!

All you need to know bout da main story! Doin dis so new ppl can grasp da story too

WTGC is a story that takes place in a city that claims to be the happiest place on earth where nothing bad ever happens! Gleamfolk City has basically everything to keep someone happy. Jobs, free public transport, all types of food, etc... all accessible as long as you smile!

There are three main characters: Nero, the pessimist. The city can't make him happy no matter what. Sniper, the optimist. Blind but she can still be happy, even without the city's gifts. And Hemlock, the realist. They just don't care.

The story is mainly episodic, meant to be a fun series with a linear story. Mostly starring Nero as he goes through unfortunate situations daily, getting hit with bad luck here and there and sometimes even near-death situations.

Through these situations, he learns that the city is being controlled by this worm-like entity that claims itself to be a god, calling himself Gura. It is Gura's influence and control that keeps the citizens happy and oblivious to issues as long as they're in the city.

In his past life, Gura was a king but got his physical form petrified and destroyed. Now, he can only show himself in dreams or by possessing someone in order to influence(mostly brainwash) the waking world. His main goal is to gain as much power as possible and be worshipped.

Being a powerful worm god, Gura has disciples all over the city who are responsible for spreading his power to other citizens and keeping them "happy". These disciples are fully aware of Gura's presence, having their own special abilities to do their jobs.

As Nero's only best friend, Nero tries his best to protect Sniper from getting under any control by Gura and keep her "genuinely" happy. He makes sure she's unaffected by any of Gura's disciples and keeps her oblivious to any issues that happen in the city. He often gets hurt tho

To stop Gura's reign of power, Nero works with Hemlock, a washed-up detective who used to be respected but due to Gura's control over the city, everyone just has no need for them anymore since no one believes there are any problems in the city. They're a bit of a dick but genuine

There are other major bad guys besides Gura who have a huge role in the story! Mallet, Nero's insane amnesiac brother and only remaining tie to his past. Orchid, mayor of the city who's currently Gura's host, but plans to overthrow him and take his power for herself instead.

Since Nero is the only one who is immune to Gura's power and knows about it, Gura constantly torments him and tries to stop him from defeating his disciples. He also absolutely hates Nero so much that he'd protect Nero from the other bad guys just so that he can kill Nero himself

The story does have violence and disturbing imagery later on, as the themes start getting darker. The more disciples Nero defeats and learns about the city, more is revealed about Gura's dark intentions

(art by my cool bro @blankboyo

That's all im gonna say for now!! Of course there's more story stuff, with more characters and other major events, but this is just the main gist of everything I'm really proud of this series and hope to bring it to life someday, but for now it's going to be a comic

[erwinsvow]

was watching the latest hunger games and i don’t know if you’ve seen it but there’s a scene with snow and lucy gray that is so reader and rafe core. like the scene where he kills the mayor’s daughter and lucy gray is in hysterics and he just grabs her, warns her to pull herself together and go back outside and pretend like he’s not just killed someone and i’m like this is so rafe and his casual dominance with reader. 😍😍

babe STOP you are SOOO onto something here.. + that scene in the movie had me FERAL!!!!! picturing season two after limbrey kills that guy (im so sorry i cannot recall any names.. was too busy staring at rafe's arms)

"oh my god!" you squeal, eyes wide like coins, tears filling up and almost spilling over in a matter of seconds. "oh my god, oh my god-"

rafe fucked up. he shouldn't have gotten you anywhere near this situation, it's his own fault. your insistence on not being too far from him and his own ego that found pleasure in that fact had won him over. rafe liked that you liked him, that you needed him around.

but right now he can tell what you're thinking—probably something along the lines of the fact that he was insane, that his dead body had appeared and he was going to take care of it because he wasn't reacting at all like you were, how any normal person would.

limbrey was staring at you, and a sudden fear ran through his mind that she might try and hurt you too.

"go inside-" he barks at the older lady, who doesn't move, gun in her hand. "go inside! m'gonna have to take care of this, leave-" she stalks off, while you watch with your big wet eyes, shoulders shaking, voice run dry from your screaming.

your reaction is normal, expected. he can't find it himself to even be remotely angry. he leaves the dead body where it is, hands finding your shoulders and dragging you away, like that might help you.

"hey, listen to me. listen to me." he says sternly, and you listen obediently, if not due to fear. "don't scream. don't worry. m'gonna take care of this-this mess, okay? we're gonna be fine."

"r-rafe, she k-killed someone. we, we have to call the police-"

"we're not calling anyone. m'gonna handle it. he was a bad guy, okay, no one's gonna miss him."

"a-and that makes it okay? rafe, you-"

"hey," he barks and you freeze up, listening. "listen, kid, have i ever gotten you hurt? haven't i kept you safe? hm?" he wants an answer, so you nod, still shell shocked. "s'gonna be fine. keep it together. i can't have you like this. we're gonna be fine."

"o-okay." you look down at your white shirt, observing tiny little dots of blood. "what, what do i-"

"go inside. throw this shirt in the fireplace. and then go upstairs to my room and take a shower. okay? i gotta take care of this first. then i'll come join you, got it? alright?"

"okay," you repeat, nodding, frozen. you look up at your boyfriend one last time, trusting him like you always do, even when a little part of you is screaming to run and take off in the other direction. "what're you gonna d-do, with him, uh-"

"i don't know, kid. i need to get you away from it first. just go upstairs, please-" your shoulders relax as soon as the sentence leaves his lips. your mind goes fuzzy, like it always does around rafe, but hearing that even in this insane, unfathomable situation, that his first priority is you, makes your head spin.

you lean in, pressing a kiss to rafe's lips, not pulling away until a minute has passed, your shaking hands tight on his arms.

like always, you follow the instructions he's given you, walking away and heading inside, shedding your clothes and burning them, cleaning yourself in the scalding water until you can smell nothing but the vanilla of your soap and the pine of rafe's shampoo. once out, you put on one of his shirts and some of his long white socks, everything feeling cold still.

you wait patiently on his bed, not able to focus on anything on your phone. when rafe walks in, you don't move, letting him come sit beside you.

"what did you-" you start, before being interrupted.

"don't ask, kid." rafe doesn't sound mad, rather protective. "if i tell you, you're in this shit now. can't have that."

you wrap your arms around his neck, crawling into rafe's lap and into a tight hug. his hands tense around your waist, and you close your eyes, inhaling the scent of his skin. he doesn't smell like blood, at the very least, so you think he hasn't done anything crazy yet.

or crazier, you correct yourself.

"the swamp. in the woods. there's gators, and foxes, and who knows what else." it comes out as a whisper, like you're scared that the walls might overhear. "if you bring him there, no one will find him. if no one finds him you can't get in trouble."

rafe pulls out of the hug to look at you, all shaky limbs and wet eyes. he presses a kiss to your forehead.

[strawberrykidneystone]

brewing

sevika x fem!reader

summary: the annual basket betting is right around the corner and caitlyn is trying to play matchmaker with you

a/n: ty for all the love in part 1!!!!

tags: gilmore girls au, diner owner!sevika, i love the basket betting episode, side poly victor x jayce x mel bc i said so, jayce is the mayor LMAO, fast burn bc im impatient, first kiss (YOU'RE WELCOME), hope you like fishing!

ao3 version

part 1

today was the basket betting day for raising funds to build the old bridge again and you had once again put off buying a basket until the last minute.

"how about this one?" you asked isha, who's face twisted into one of disapproval.

"too big," she signed with a shake of her head.

"okay goldilocks, well you've vetoed the last 3 baskets i've picked out so why don't you just pick it out for me?" you said in a deceptively sweet voice after tossing the basket back into the pile with the others.

isha responded with an eyeroll and dug through the baskets to find a reasonably small one that was still somewhat fashionable. while she dug around the pile of wicker, you picked up a few groceries that you were missing and waited by the checkout for her to finish up, hoping that she wouldn't pick too small of a basket so at least someone would bet on it without setting expectations too high.

out of seemingly nowhere, caitlyn appeared in front of you with a much too eager smile on her face. "morning!" she chirped happily, clutching her own basket that you had no doubt that vi was going to bet on. It was a reasonably sized basket, and you were sure that her kitchen staff wouldn't skimp on a full 3-course meal that would fill the entire thing up, topped with a dark blue ribbon as it did in years past. hell, before vi came along, even you would've bet on the basket for the food alone.

you gasped at her sudden appearance and put a hand over your chest as if you were having a heart palpitation, "jeez cait, i need to get you a bell or something."

she giggled and rocked back and forth on her feet, a mischievous smile on her face. "my apologies, but i couldn't wait to tell you. i've actually found someone to bet on your basket," she said with an all-too-proud look on her face.

you deadpanned and slumped your shoulders, "what." caitlyn's plans to set you up with her "friends" have never really gone right. the last blind date you went on, set up by her, your date would only talk about the stock market and its impact on the company she inherited from her parents. it was so boring that you went through 2 bottle of wine just to make yourself brain-dead enough to keep listening to them drone on.

"oh don't give me that look, it'll be fun!" she said with a big smile on her face with a playful nudge to your shoulder.

"yeah i've heard that before," you muttered under your breath as you could feel the dread building up in your gut as you watched her duck in between the aisles to find her pink-headed beau.

whoever she was setting up with you, it could not be good.

isha brought you out of your stance of disbelief by bumping your arm with the basket she had meticulously picked out and took your shopping basket from your forearm, placing it onto the waiting checkout conveyor belt. you snickered at her eagerness to get back home to stuff her nose back into her latest book, "okay okay i get it kid."

isha had dodged the town fundraiser by being a child still and would be safe in the library with a stack of freshly picked books at her side.

after checking out at the register and grabbing your groceries, the two of you were off to kill a few hours before it was time to bid.

-timeskip-

this was a new low for sevika.

self help tapes? who was she kidding. blah blah blah love yourself. who actually listens to this bullshit?

well, she supposed she did now.

communicating had never been sevika’s strong suit, but she was determined. if not for herself, then for you. who knew that you had to work on yourself to be better for other people? go figure.

her thoughts were interrupted by a loud commotion coming from downstairs and a frantic call of her name.

speak of the devil and he shall appear. well, she.

sevika ejected the cassettee tape out of her speaker and stuffed it in her sock drawer with the original packaging, running her fingers through her tussled hair and tucked it into a backwards baseball cap, before basically clamoring down the stairs at your desperate pleas. as she walked through the doorway, she almost steamrolled over you with the velocity that she had gained running down the stairs to you and looked at you with surprise. she had never seen you this frazzled before, and that was saying something.

"sevika you have to buy my basket," you basically begged, looking up at her with a look of desperation that reminded her of a feral animal being backed into a corner.

sevika furrowed her brows and stood there a little dumbfounded. she was willing to do a lot of things for you, but the basket auction? she still had her dignity. kind of.

"absolutely not."

"please sev! caitlyn is trying to set me up with these weirdos and i’ll be forced to have lunch with them!" you said desperately, trying to give sevika your most pathetic look to convince her.

"do they know they're betting on 2 packs of gushers and a peanut butter sandwich?" she teased but couldn't help but feel her heart ache at the thought of you going on an obligatory "date" with someone else.

"hey i resent that!" you said in an offended tone before a smirk crawled up your face, "it's a peanut butter and nutella sandwich."

“ooo my bad,” she said mockingly, still looking at you unimpressed.

you clasped your hands together and gave her the saddest eyes that you could muster, “please sevika! this is my hour of need and i need you! i would never leave you hanging like this!”

sevika pressed her lips together and tried to resist your sad eyes, but she was only so strong of a woman. she knew she could never truly say no to you, especially if it prevented you from having a lunch date with someone other than her.

“fine, just stop making that face it’s making me nauseous.”

“yes! thank you thank you thank you i’ll never make it again!” you cried out in joy with an obvious lie, dragging her out of the diner and over to the crowd that had gathered in front of the big gazebo.

the usually empty caged structure was adorned with multiple baskets of every shape and size you could imagine. while participation for the women in the community was “optional”, meaning you would get an earful from jayce if you didn’t make a basket (besides sevika who protested against the event every year), the community needed to raise money for the old bridge once again. jayce was shining on stage in his pristine white suit with both of his partners on either side of him, mel presenting the baskets while viktor meticulously kept track of who had bet on each one on his yellow legal pad.

jinx’s basket had just finished being bet on, sold for $5 to ekko with no resistance from the crowd (there was probably a stink bomb in the basket).

jayce held his hand out to mel, who picked up your basket as it had been next in line. you stood with sevika in the crowd with your arms unconsciously wrapped around her bicep, rapidly tapping her arm as jayce held your basket up. “it’s that one,” you whisper-shouted to her, slightly hiding behind her tall figure from the two people that caitlyn had picked out for you to bet on your basket.

"we'll start the bidding at $3," jayce said pointedly, smiling out to the crowd.

"hey size isn't everything!'' you said through gritted teeth, looking nervously at the two people who both raised their hands to bid.

sevika raised her hand when jayce called for $5 and soon the price of the basket had increased to a whopping $50, something that you could literally never imagine.

"$100, final offer," sevika said gruffly. you couldn't help but gawk up at her, shocked that she would go up that high for a basket that she knew the sad contents of.

the crowd was silent and jacye looked around for any opposers, "going once, going twice, sold to sevika for $100!"

there was scattered applause throughout the crowd and you could help but sigh in relief, hugging sevika's are slightly tighter, "thank you 'vika, you're a lifesaver."

"yeah yeah i'm a fucking saint," she grumbled, silently reveling in the grip that you had on her arm.

the rest of the auction went by in a blur, and you let go of sevika's arm for her to go claim her prize. as she walked back to you with the basket in hand, she looked into the small vessel and grimaced at the pathetic amount of food on the inside. when you opened your mouth to defend yourself, sevika held a hand up and interrupted you before you could, "let's just go get some food from my diner."

you smiled sheepishly and put your hands on your hips, "deal, but we still have to eat it outside like a picnic."

"deal."

the two of you walked side by side back to the diner, getting some intrigued side eyes from the rest of the townspeople of zaun who have been waiting for the two of you to be together since you first moved in. sevika made you two a quick meal and bagged it up, already knowing your favorites off the top of her head. she took the bag under her arm before you could even reach the bag to take it yourself. you fake-pouted about not carrying the bag, but "allowed" her to carry the bag as you followed her into a familiar clearing in the nearby woods that overlooked the dark green town lake that was sparkling in the afternoon sun. you unfolded the red gingham picnic blanket that had been stashed in your little basket and smoothed it out against the grass that stopped right before the sandy shore before taking a seat on your hip. sevika plopping down close to you with her legs crisscrossed, so close that your shoulders were practically touching. you couldn't help but watch as she meticulously laid out the spread of food onto the blanket, it looked like something straight out of a movie.

both of you sat in a somewhat awkward silence for a bit as you started to eat, neither of you quite sure what to say. was this an actual date? or just a friend thing? god this burger is good. i wonder what isha is doing right now- shit, focus, focus.

you polietly wiped your mouth with your napkin and cleared your throat, looking out at the lake, "have you gone fishing lately? i know you've mentioned liking it before but i don't think i've ever actually seen you at this lake."

sevika nodded along as she finished chewing the food in her mouth and finally swallowed it down, "there's honestly not much fish in this one, 'usually head out to the one on the border in my old man's old boat."

"i bet i would catch something if i fished out here," you said in an overly confident voice, hoping to get a rise out of her.

"you? fishing?" sevika said in a tone where you knew that she didn't believe a word you said.

"what? don't give me that! i've never been fishing, how will i know i don't like it unless i try it?" you scowled and crossed your arms over your chest defensively.

"you know what, fine. i'll take you out fishing," she said defeatidly, a playful smirk on her lips.

"then it's a date," you declared, shifting in your sitting position slightly.

that gave sevika pause as a much mroe comfortable silence stood between the two of you.

"...is this a date?"

you turned your head to sevika and blinked at her owlishly. your eyes scanned her face for any sign of her usual joking manner with you, but found none. she was being completely serious.

"do you want it to be a date?"

"yes?... no? i don't-" sevika sighed and took a deep breath to gather herself and think about what she wanted to say next. she looked deep into your eyes with her singing gold ones that gleamed in the sunlight and took your hands in her, her cold metal prosthetic contrasting the warm blanket of spring that had enwrapped the two of you.

"no, i don't want this to be our first date. i don't want our first date to be something that i bailed you out on because you didn't want to go to lunch with a stranger and especially not because of something caitlyn set up." you could feel tears welling up in your eyes and you couldn't help but giggle at the mention of caitlyn's failed plan, but you would definitely have to thank her for causing this.

sevika squeezed your hands in hers and chuckled with you, bringing her focus back to you when the moment passed. "i want to take you out properly, the way you deserve, the way I've been dying to take you out since you first came into my diner begging for coffee. will you please do me the honor of going out with me on a proper date?"

instead of responding, you cupped her cheeks with your hands and pulled her into a kiss. it was surprisingly soft but firm, as if both of you were holding your breath as it happened. her lips were satly from the food, but she smelled like freshly brewed coffee, a scent that attracted you to her from the beginning whether it was purposeful or not. when you pulled away, sevika's eyes were practically twinkling and dazed, looking at you as if you were her whole world. you couldn't help the smile that creeped up on your lips. "yes, yes of course sev," you said softly and sealed it with a peck on her lips.

she nodded and opened her mouth to speak but no words came out, she had wanted this for so long and it was finally happening, there were no words to express how happy she was in this moment. thank fully she didn't have to speak, she simply pulled you into another kiss, pouring all of her feelings against your lips, which you happily accepted.

a/n: sorry this update took forever college has been kicking my ass😔😔😔

part 3 coming soon

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[mesapies]

Canon lgbtq+ avatar characters

Korra and asami - bisexual

Kya - lesbian

Kyoshi - bisexual

rangi - lesbian

Zeisan (sozins sister) and her lover Rioshon - sapphic (I think zeisan is a lesbian but I'm not 100% sure)

Mingxia and her gf Melin - sapphic

Zenko (left) and his named husband - gay

Katara saved zenko and their daughter chio from a fire nation attack

Akuudan and tayagum - gay

Akuudan and his husband tayagum were water tribe warriors that helped avatar yangchen

Hua and Rose - sapphic

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. Rose was a wealthy girl who purse was attempted to be stolen by Hua a firebending criminal but they later fell in love

Dalja Rose - trans(I think)

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. Attended fire academy fir girls when they realized they didn't truly feel like a girl.

Jiang - gay

From adventure booklet: the burning fuse. He's a detective from republic city who gained airbending through the harmonic convergence

Junyi - gay

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. He was a earth nation Outlaw during the time of roku. Hes was swordsmith who fell in love with one of his clients. The two men were set to run away together, but his lover's wife, the mayor of the town, discovered their affair. She had her husband killed and pinned the crime on Junyi. (Messy as hell)

Makittuq - trans woman

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. She's northern water tribe girl from the tims of roku who knew she assigned the wrong gender since birth. When her family didn't accept her she connected with sports who did

Massak and nyn chei - sapphic ex lovers

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. During the time of roku, Massak was a swt boatwright and inventor and he ex lover nyn chei was a fire nation inventor and engineer who'd inventions helped create the new fire navy coal fuled fleet.

Mayu - trans man

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - republic city. From republic city him and his friends Yuka and Saya ran away together after mayu came out to his traditional fire nation family who didn't accept him.(im think Yuka is non binary as well)

Mosi and his husband sayako - gay

From adventure booklet: pirate of crimson sails. From a fire nation colony as a earth nation guy. Mosi as an adult became a pirate working to go against azulon. He later fell in love with a firebender, sayako. They married and had a daughter, lily

Sunlin - non binary

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - quicksart. They were a joyful and idealistic orphan from Harbor City, and a former member of the Fire Finches during the late stages of the Hundred Year War

Wen - non binary

From avatar generations. Wen was an Earth Kingdom archaeologist broadly interested in relics. They explored the four nations in pursuit of their studies.

Netxflix Oma and shu - sapphics

Aiwei (left) - said to be gay but I couldn't find anything confirming

Jargala (right) - her artist said that she's pansexual but there's nothing confirming it

Unnamed gay air nomads and fire nation sapphics(getting arrested) from when kya was explaining to Korrasami the different views on gay ppl in the different nations

[coro-sg]

SPELL TALES - SECONDARY

-A role in which a person is used as a second host for the Voices

Rambling Below :>

Think of Secondaries as a second phase to a boss fight

I’ve already mentioned before that the Secondaries only exist because the Voices know the original Sword Wielders are destined to lose against the Hero. At the same time, the Sword Wielders are a weakness to an important person helping the Hero

Banished Knight wishes to redeem themselves and regain their Majesty’s trust after being accused of attempting to steal the Ice Dagger. While helping the Hero sneak into the castle, the Voices begin to affect them saying that the Hero is going to kill their King and be a clear threat to Blackrock. This is worsened when Kitchen Wizard is ‘killed’ and Banished Knight mistakes the Hero for killing them.

Before the King dies to the Hero, Banished Knight takes the Ice Dagger away from the King and essentially stabs themselves to corrupt their arm into an ice claw. The Secondary assistant now becomes an enemy to the Hero. BK won’t die, but they do have to lose the arm the ice claw is on

Mayor Thaniyel had actually ignored the Voices claiming that he needs to get the Venomshank before another person takes it for themselves. The Mayor is the only one who knows its location until his own son learns about the location and kidnaps his own dad to grab it out. While he watches his son battle it out with the Hero, the Voices begin to get louder in his head saying that the Hero has no intentions of sparing Rogue. So, when the Venomshank is knocked into his direction and his son is down, he uses its power to root himself and sap energy from surrounding living factors and boost himself to fight (but it’s also sapping his own life away)

Rogue snaps out of the Voices control and almost loses it when his own dad is being fought against. Fortunately, the Hero conducts a spell to put the Mayor to sleep and works with Rogue to get him out of the roots.

Chapter 3 and Ghostwalker doesn’t have a Secondary. The only difference thing im adding to that chapter is making the Butler an actual enemy lol

[homestuckreplay]

Is The Wayward Vagabond Good At Chess?

On page 721 of Homestuck, the Wayward Vagabond kills time by playing chess against himself – a ‘stiff training regimen’ (p.720) for the citizen-militia of Can Town that leads to Black checkmating White, just as it was prophesied by Nannasprite that the forces of darkness would always triumph over light. But how does WV’s chess game actually play out, and what can this tell us about them and about Sburb?

First, as @tenaciouschronicler pointed out, the board is set up incorrectly. It’s a perfect mirror of how the board should be – the bottom left and top right squares on a chessboard should always be black, but in WV’s game, they’re white. To analyze this, I transcribed the actual moves that WV makes, and flipped them all horizontally – moving a piece to a2 became h2, b3 became g3, c4 became f4, etc – at which point the game becomes correct.

Here's the game after move 6 and move 13.

And, in standard chess notation (which is surprisingly quick to learn!), the moves that got us to this point.

d4 Nf6

c4 g6

Nc3 Bg7

e4 O-O

e5 Ne8

f4 d6

Be3 c5

dxc5 Nc6

cxd6 exd6

Ne4 Bf5

Ng3 Be6

Nf3 Qc7

Qb1 dxe5

Every move WV makes is legal within standard chess, so right away, we know they’ve got a good grasp of the rules and aren’t cheating. As Black, they play the King’s Indian Defense, which allows White to control the board in the early game in hopes of a counter-attack afterwards – according to chess.com, it is a ‘risky opening’ that ‘leads to unbalanced positions where Black tries to fight for an advantage instead of equality’ and makes it ‘more difficult for White to play for a draw, which tends to lead to more decisive games’.

Black’s fifth move with the knight is uncommon, but not bad. I spoke to a chess International Master to get his thoughts on the game, and he said ‘Normally people play 4…d6 in the King’s Indian to stop the knight being pushed back like this, but what Black did is also good, and he has a comfortable position out of the opening.’ He described the King’s Indian as ‘a typical fighting opening to get White to overextend’, and White fell for the play.

Homestuck doesn’t show us the middlegame, instead returning to WV’s mayoral dreams and Tab drinking as the timer rapidly counts down – but we return to the game with White in a terrible position. Here's the game where we pick up, and with White in checkmate.

Here, White is in check with an opportunity to take the opposing queen, but instead plays the following endgame moves.

Ke2 Qxg4

Kf2 Ne4

Kf1 Qg3

Re1 Qf2

This isn’t a strategic choice, but ultimately doesn’t matter - ‘No reason at all not to take the queen, White’s move is ridiculous - but he’s completely lost in the endgame anyway, with no real drawing chances’ (Chess IM). The game ends quickly, and the IM’s overall analysis is that ‘Black plays very well, either a strong tournament player or he’s cheating :) But not enough moves to go off to decide that. White is much weaker’.

Of course, Black and White are the same player. This tells us that WV does have a strong knowledge of chess, but either only knows how to play as black, or has a strong bias towards black winning. Either is believable. As a citizen of the ominous planet where the black chess pieces live, WV would likely have spent a lot of time learning strategies for Black to play, but their only knowledge of White would be how to counter their moves. They’re also indoctrinated into loyalty to the dark kingdom royalty, and to seeing Black as the superior force in battle, fated to always triumph.

Especially notable is WV’s unwillingness to capture Black’s queen. It’s an obvious move that wouldn’t have cost them the game. On page 687, WV asserts their hatred of kings as ‘petty, bossy tyrants’ who are ‘basically awful in every way’, but says nothing about queens – I wonder if WV retains some loyalty towards the dark kingdom’s queen, leading to an internal conflict where they’re unwilling to harm even her can representation.

While the battle/chess game likely plays out differently in each iteration of Sburb, WV comes from John’s game and is recreating the battle ‘years in the future’. Can this game tell us about dark and light kingdom politics during John’s game, predicting what we’ll see next in Homestuck? If so, it seems like four white pawns – perhaps representing the four players – will be allowed to initially advance, making it appear that they’re doing well in the game. John, Rose, Dave and GG will have some successes, and might let themselves get complacent with their abilities.

But the dark kingdom will hold back their best resources, and plan for the long term. They’ll take advantage of a couple big mistakes our main characters make while fighting on the side of light, skillfully eliminate these pieces from the board, retain their own queen while destroying the light kingdom’s, and, as the title of page 721 foretells, ‘lead [their] men to victory’.

It’s not a great prophecy for John and his friends – but then again, it’s uncommon for a piece taken off the chessboard to travel to another planet and start sending commands back through time. So, maybe there’s still a chance to swing the real battle in light’s favor.

[darthbecky726]

daredevil born again 1x09

daredevil born again finale spoilers below!!!! im literally soooooo hyped!!

that recap before the title sequence was diabolical

AND TO START IT OFF WITH THE MUSIC AND DEX SHOOTING RIGHT THERE

ONE YEAR AGO??!??? this is vanessa hiring dex??? whyyyyyy

i cant believe how many times ive been saying vanessa is doing terrible terrible things but killing foggy is where i draw the line and yes hiring dex as a hitman is the same as her pulling the trigger, she killed foggy nelson because he got in her way which is fucked up bc thats my boyyyyy

vanessa stays manipulating ALWAYS

dex and the fucking buzzing it always sounds like theres wasps swarming in my walls

THIS MUSICCCCC this song has been living with me for the past week im obsessed

and NOW we get the title sequence i cant believe this is the last episode were gonna get for like a whole year sick and fucking twisted

i need to lock the fuck in

MATT IN THE HOSPITAL I KNOW HIS ASS IS HAVING A BAD TIME RIGHT NOW this man hates a hospital so fucking much not him asking if its karen

kirsten i love you so fucking much kirsten you need to enable him lmaooo

vanessa being shaky over this is soooo fake also wilson wearing matts blood like that

matt hates hospitals sooo damn much i cant wait for frank to bust his ass out of there. SURELY thats whats gonna happen??

charlie fighting for his life not to make eye contact here lmao if i had to stare past someones face sitting right in front of me i would be failing soooo hard

mayor kingpin is fucking losing ittttt yall know theres due processes you can follow to go above this guy right?? you can contact the governor or smth damn

not fisk trying to put a hit on matt as if thats gonna stick at all

matt you need to tell kirsten about daredevil so bad lmao also karen better show up in this and talk shop with matt, i need her to rock fisks fucking shit again. shes so powerful they had to send her to the other damn coast

what angle is sheila playing fr

oh as if this fucking fake wesley wannabe is gonna kill matt in the hospital, grow up. fisk isnt even thinking straight on this one

whats he got in that bag, a bomb?? a gun??

thank you commissioner!! go up the damn ladder please oh hes for sure not making it to albany

a syringe?? lame

oh they really blacked out the city where the devil is about to set loose?? bad idea lmao

how is there not one singular backup generator in the entire city?? especially in mcu new york??

matt did you know youre bleeding?? you should call claire

FRANK RAHHHHH

nightgown man lmao get his ass

KAREN CALLED FRANK YESSSSSSS

he called him red yesssss frank is really asking the real questions bc what was the thinking there

are yall really trying to sneak up on daredevil right now??? did fisk not brief them on his entire deal??

NOT THE PUNISHER FANBOYS PLEASEEE FRANK BETTER BEAT THEIR ASSES

oh franks not gonna stop matt you know that, these guys are wearing his colors they need to be put down

god frank thats so messy

ooh matty you okay baby?? is matt about to kill someone?? no not today, hes got his morals

yes i love when they fight!!

they really blew up upstanding lawyer, Matthew M. Murdock's apartment whilst hes in the hospital recovering from a gunshot he took for the mayor?? for shame

KAREN!!!!!

i missed her so much!!!!! yeah she fucking called frank, of course she did and shes so right, matt would NOT be ok with being assigned a babysitter lmao

I MISSED THEM SO MUCH

yessssss drink that oat milk you bisexual king

got shit to do? what kinda shit lmao

ohhhh frank you care so fucking muchhhh STAY SAFE HE SAID THAT FOR MATT

fucking bootlicker daniel shut the fuck up i hate everything that comes out of this fuckers mouth

not the whole city going to purge immediately fucking mcunyc

DAMN THAT WAS BLATENT not that im not surprised bc its the fucking nypd but what damn

matt pulling out the heartbeat card every damn time i love him

KAREN AND MATT I MISS YALL SO MUCHHHH

AVOCADOS AT LAW PLAQUE IM FUCKING SICK

now how the hell is red hook a free port lmao foggy was really onto something

DAMN that transition with the fireball

of course frank is coming to back them up, he cannot stay away and he STAYS slitting peoples throats

ohhh we neeeeeeddddd more punisher in the mcu

oh he is pissed, they are wearing his fucking logo on their chests and killing innocent people

where are they shooting him??? where is matthew???

ohhhh i knew sheila was gonna do that, bc shes a fucking coward

whos this now? commissioner gallo you know where the fuck hes about to take you huh

where is matt i need to know do they really think those fucking zipties are gonna hold him down?

man shut the fuck up, you are not doing yourself any favors here

i love frank castle so much

OH its been a minute since weve seen fisk kill a man with his bare hands

OH HES GONNA CRUSH HIS SKULL GODDAMN

OH THAT WAS NASTY WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID I JUST SEE THAT ON MY MOMS DISNEY PLUS

i cant believe matt let karen come this far in with him then again, hes not really in any position to argue

shes so right, he will die or he will kill

he can hear his city i love them so much

hes gonna take this city back and they need an army

that was a great shot wow

heather?? get your bootlicking ass out of there right now actually i never really liked her Oh shes really doing it huh

hows frank doing in all this?? i kinda thought that was gonna be a dramatic rescue mission

fisk saying we survived together as if he did not crush a mans skull with his bare fucking hands "he chose to resign" yeah from life

now how are you gonna issue a curfew on new york city???

and where the fuck is spiderman in all this actually

not matt pulling a "when i was a boy"

NOT THEM SITTING IN JOSIES WHAT IF I CRIED

matt and his fucking darkness oh hes confronting that darkness right fucking now

stopppp theyre actually gonna make me cry i love them so much

RADIOHEAD???? the fucking radiohead kick ive been on for like the past month now im so serious most of that has been me listening to ok computer on repeat since i got broken up with but thats neither here nor there

fisk and vanessa taking a fucking stroll through their vigilante dungeon istg

now why did i just check the runtime and theres only 8 minutes left??! how big is this fucking cliffhanger about to be????

ok is he giving a speech right now or is this his inner monologue??

WHAT THE FUCK???!!!! THEY JUST ENDED IT LIKE THAT??? THATS SO FUCKING MEAN HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO REACT TO THAT WHATTTTTT

oh and a midcredits scene ok

frankkkkkkkk

yeah anthony whatd you expect was about to happen?? of course that was a setup lmaoooo

ok i feel a little better about that knowing franks getting himself outta there, matty needs him over at josies for the prefight meeting lmao