#LoaM Update

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Characters Confirmed to be in the Showdown

This is most characters that have 2 or more submissions already. This will probably be updated frequently. Please feel free to still submit propaganda for these characters if you want. Additionally, the amount of submissions will probably not influence if the character gets in at this point, although that may change.

Ones with 5+ Submissions (You can probably stop entering propaganda for these ones)

Ballister Boldheart from Nimona with 8

General Amaya from the Dragon Prince with 6

Heart from Moonlight Chicken with 6

Harrowhawk Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb series with 5

Suletta Mercury from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury with 5

Quinni Gallagher-Jones from Heartbreak High with 5

Ones with 3-4 submissions

Wylan Van Eck from Six of Crows with 4

Yang Xiao Long from RWBY with 4

Melanie King from The Magnus Archives with 4

Renarin Kholin from The Stormlight Achive with 3

Tougou Mimori from Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero with 3

Korra from Avatar: Legend of Korra with 3

Norma Khan from Dead End: Paranormal Park with 3

Loam Arnault from Entropic Float with 3

Adam Parrish from The Raven Cycle with 3

Ones with 2 submissions

Julian Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House

Luz Noceda from The Owl House

Ty Blackthorn from The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Snake from Zero Escape

Sun Spider from various Spider-Man content

Wu Zeitan from Iron Widow

Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role

Kanatsune Ame from Entropic Float

Viktor from Arcane

Ianthe Tridentarius from The Locked Tomb

Ones with 1 submission right now (but we like them so they are definitely in the showdown)

Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows

Rose Lavillant from Miraculous Ladybug

Alex Claremont-Diaz from Red, White & Royal Blue

Neil Josten from All for the Game

Robin Buckley from Stranger Things

[thepringlesofblood]

Dimension 20 Campaigns Rated By The Amount Of Mice/Rats

(chronological order)

disclaimer: I have not seen Shriek Week, Dungeons and Drag Queens, or The Unsleeping City s2.

for all of these except the last, I command + F’d through their transcripts on the wiki for the terms “rat” “rats” “mice” “mouse” and “rodent” to find the relevant data.

the reason I didn’t do TUC s2 is a. from watching the first season I can intuit a similar level of mouse/rat content in this setting, if slightly lessened rat action due to the lack of a rat PC, and b. laziness. consider all of TUC under the same umbrella

i don’t know what’s wrong with me either.

Fantasy High - 7.5/10. the introduction of Sexy Rat into the d20 canon is iconic. we also have the rat that the sexy rat was created for - Edgar, Zayn Darkshadow’s cute lil plot-relevant pet rat. Not much mice/rat content outside of this, but a beautiful beginning.

Escape from Bloodkeep [update: I watched this while waiting for the fhjy finale, it’s fucking spectacular] - 1/10. aside from Erika Ishii occasionally saying “aw, rats,” there’s only one minor instance of rat action, this quote from Master Ipskix in ep 1 - “We're training little ants and beetles to carry little swords and sharp things, and crawl in, and you know when you get a rat to eat through someone's stomach and come to the other side, we're trying to cover the rats in spikes.” There is a nice moment of Sokhbarr and Leiland collaborating on rat enrichment, but overall the main “creepy” animals this season were spiders (fair) and J’er’em’ih

The Unsleeping City - 10000/10. rats every episode. rat PC. rat NPCs. MULTIPLE combat eps with not only rat swarms but a rat KING. impeccable. kugrash my belovéd. true rat positivity. rights for rats. the height of rat content in dimension 20.

Tiny Heist - 6/10. Solid rodent presence in the form of Tony Manchego, a mouse supporting NPC who is basically Boomer’s main coworker. Several other mice/rats also appear as Felix Flick henchmen (henchpeople?). Not a main focus, but decent background presence. I don’t recall any good/cool rats/mice though, they’re all goons of some kind.

A Crown of Candy - 0.5/10. in ep3 Brennan uses the phrase “Everyone thinks we're rats.” to explain political negotiations w the dairy isles. you know it’s rough when the only mention of rats is its use as a pejorative. the 0.5 is for the incredibly gratuitous cheese content. No actual mice, but that counts for something in my book. also Lapin is a bunny, which is another kind of rodent. This is the only possible framework in which ACOC could be described as “disappointing"

Dimension 20 Live aka Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - 6/10. The thrilling return of Sexy Rat. Sadly this is the only significant mouse/rat content this season, but what a banger!

Pirates of Leviathan - 9/10. Another excellent rat-person PC. Jack Brakkow is revolutionary. we love a grimy king. not much else in terms of mouse/rat content though, and Jack’s rattiness isn’t discussed as much as kugrash’s is. there is a character deadass named “Cheese” though.

Mice and Murder - 9.5/10 it’s in the title. No PCs though, surprisingly, which is the main reason this isn’t 10/10. they went more for diversity in animals with this one and tbh it works really well, but also means that despite the title, it’s really Fox and Racoon and Javelina and Weasel and Owl and Doberman Pinscher and Murder. The mice/rats they do have are dope though. Both of the McCabbages are vibrant and interesting, and of course Rosalind Crumb showing her ass is iconic. Thomas Gilfoyle is classic suspicious butler, Carolyn Dickory and Edwina Thimble wind up being extremely important, Molly Milton and Millie Molton are peak Brennan weird naming convention as well as a lesbian power couple, and there’s a variety of other Loam Hall staff that are mice (and they all have wild names like Tessa Teapot and Alfred Honeyhatch). I know that moles aren’t mice/rats, but shoutout to Mrs. Molesly, a real one start to finish.

Misfits and Magic - 7/10. this probably shouldn’t be as high as it is, but I am incapable of not ranking mismag as high as possible, it is what got me into dimension 20 and I LOVE it. K’s amazing cinderella scene at the end is one of the highlights of the series, and they also use mice/rats as surveillance sometimes. Theodore is a chipmunk, not a mouse/rat, but still points for other prominent rodentia. the K fucked-up-disney-princess stuff only has mice/rats a few times, but it’s just so iconic.

The Seven - 0/10. Absolutely zero mouse/rat content. Rip. They went hard on horse girl content (respect), so it makes sense that there was less room for mice/rats. again, the only measurement by which this series could be considered a disappointment, I fuckin love the seven.

Shriek Week - 0.5/10. A “rat man” is mentioned briefly as a one-off gag.  Exhilarating. occasionally, the clicking of a computer mouse is inserted as a sound effect.

A Starstruck Odyssey - 2/10. in Ep. 12, there is discussion of “skiff rats” and rat poison that makes your head explode. This is a very important memory from Skipper’s past, but the emphasis is on the rat poison, and on the consequences of the mass poisoning, not really on the rats themselves. in Ep. 11, when describing a room Brennan says “The walls piled high…with bright blue animatronic mouse heads with the eyes torn out” however this is the only mention of them in the episode. There is one mention to the concept of a computer mouse (Ep. 10), and on several occasions, the sound of a computer mouse clicking can be heard as a sound effect.

Coffin Run - 5/10. in the finale, rat swarms try to eat Dracula. A thrilling moment. other than that, in Ep. 1 we have the quote, “This letter then goes across the ocean in a rat-infested ship”, and in Ep. 5 wetzel accidentally eats some rat poison. highlighted quote: “If we connect all the rats together, can we get a rat king?”

A Court of Fey and Flowers - 0.25/10. in Ep. 4 Mickey Mouse is mentioned, in the context of Hob’s state of dress - “You're either a Donald Duck or a Mickey Mouse” - Oscar Montoya. It’s 0.25 because fuck disney. bit of a missed opportunity, mice can typically fall into the “cute woodland creatures that live in/around fairies” category, and there were so many mentions of trash this season, I was really hoping we’d get some rat action. lacking that, I was hoping a salt goblin would be described as being the size of a mouse, but no such luck. rip. Again, the only disappointing aspect of this campaign, ruehob aka battlemaster of ceremonies is one of the only happy positive romances I’ve seen with a nonbinary person and as an enby myself, the idea that a brennan lee mulligan character could find someone like me attractive is. very validating.

Neverafter - ?/10. it’s not done yet (post written 12/28/22), but things are looking promising so far! we’ve had several mouse swarms, and a whole miniature town of mouse NPCs, plus many descriptions of pib eating mice. if a similar level of mouse/rat content continues, I project a 7.5/10 at the very least

UPDATE: final rating for Neverafter - 8/10. nothing ever managed to match the chaotic rodent energy of earlier episodes, but still a very solid showing. Rosamund’s swarm is a fairly consistent source of rats/mice, though she more often calls upon her “little birds,” and Pib continues to eat mice on occasion. We did have several later season mouse appearances; Aesop has the famous lion and the mouse, and the Land of Beasts is mentioned as being full of mice (among other animals). The Mouse King (from the Nutcracker) appears on the list of the Council of Kings (after being described briefly in Herr Drosselmeyer’s memories in one of the very first episodes). The song “Three Blind Mice” is mentioned several times, with Ylfa saying it is her “favorite story”. Tom Thumb mentions that he “hang(s) around with a lot of mice.” We learn that Pib turned an ogre into a mouse in his backstory. Other prominent rodentia do appear, most notably Pib’s fellow trickster, the Rabbit. Overall, a lot of excellent mouse content early on, with a handful of smaller appearances in the mid to late season.

UPDATE: The Ravening War - 0/10 Not a mouse or rat to be seen, not even a mention. and unlike ACOC, there are no other prominent rodentia to save them. Lady Amangeaux is described as “Jessica Rabbit as a mango” but given than not even Jessica Rabbit is a rabbit, I do not count this. considering the amount of times rot and mold are mentioned, I was hoping a rat might skitter away from a pile of garbage at some point. no such luck. the only point that I would even consider as related to mice/rats would be the amount of cheese content, as we have both a cheese person PC (in this house we love Colin Provolone) and a semi-prominent cheese person antagonist. however, I would say this averages out to considerably less cheese content than ACOC, which has several cheese person NPCs, including lesbian icon Annabelle Cheddar, Manta Ray Jack, Sir Morris Brie, and prominent antagonist Stilton Curdeau, plus a whole battle with ships made of cheese, plus a whole battle with cheese people (though dressed as meat people) as primary antagonists. thus, I cannot in good conscience award TRW any points for that when it made up only a portion of ACOC’s 0.5 of a point. I greatly enjoyed TRW, but not for mice/rat reasons.

UPDATE: Dungeons & Drag Queens, Mentopolis, and the promising beginnings of Burrow’s End

DNDQ - 0/10. No mention of mice or rats. honorable mention to Alvin, a chipmunk who I would call a semi-prominent rodent. I only watched half of the 1st ep* but my usual command + F of the transcripts yielded no results.

*no shade to the queens, this season just didn’t work for me specifically, I have a thing where when I know the rules to something watching people learn them/not know them is like. chalkboard screech. it’s the autism I think. so as much as I love the queens & their characters I just couldn’t watch the actual show. 

Mentopolis - 0/10 understandable as canonically the only animal in Mentopolis is Justin. in absence of any mouse/rat characters, I was hoping for perhaps a mouse/rat fact from The Fix, but i really can’t complain about the myriad of animal facts in this season in good conscience. they were many and varied and I am very grateful. still no mice/rats though. Birds, snakes, and their “prey” are discussed, which mice can certainly be. For example, the heat pits on a python’s lips that Ronnie mentions can be used to detect warm-blooded animals like mice, rats, and other small rodents. But as no rodent is directly mentioned it will not be counted. perhaps next time a reptile eating a mouse will be mentioned, or one of my fave rodent factoids, “a mouse’s heartbeat is so fast that to the human ear it just sounds like buzzing,” will be included.

Burrow’s End - ?/10 I have high hopes but did you know that stoats are actually not rodents??? neither are badgers, otters, wolverines, or pine martens. rodents are all vegetarian - they’re (obvs) in the order Rodentia, so they can’t be in the order Carnivora. so far we have strong chipmunk presence (that’s 3 campaigns with important chipmunks!), and a variety of “woodland animals”, so I remain optimistic.

UPDATE: final score for Burrow’s End - 1.5/10. frankly appalling lack of mice & rats given the setting. occasionally (as in 2-3 times in the series) a mouse or rat will be mentioned in passing, but the only rodents the gang actually interact with are rabbits and chipmunks. I’m guessing that’s probably bc stoats are specifically known for hunting rabbits, so mice/rats would be too small of a prey animal for them? plus the watership down allusions. and then of course we have the horrifying chipmunk/bear battle. credit for the few rat mentions and rodent presence in general, but this isn’t the rodent post, it’s the mice and rats post.

Fantasy High: Junior Year - ?/10 I am terrified. there’s a set of antagonists called the Rat Grinders. well, at least we know there will be rats! Zayn also reappears and with him a mention of Edgar the rat, a fantastic character. potentially...could there even be mention of the original, iconic, sexy rat? we shall see!

UPDATE (5/29/24): final score for FHJY - 8.99/10 fucking spectacular. not only do we get multiple mentions and a partial reappearance of the OG icon, Sexy Rat, but we get the Rat-ettes, the Rat Grinders, Rat World, and as hoped for, the return of Edgar, the originator of this whole proud Dimension 20 tradition of plot-relevant rats! He even gets a ghostly little miniature in the “Baron’s Game” battle! Fabian is also gifted (and makes frequent use of) the Pipes of the Sewers, an item which summons rats. The combo of this item and Fig’s Mask of Animal Friendship leads to several instances of rat-summoning both in and out of in combat, the likes of which have not been seen in years. One of the most unhinged and transcendent moments of the season, the Rat-ettes showing hole, led to the uncovering of the ancient name Ankarna, kicking off both a fucking excellent mid-season finale as well the central plot of the rest of the season. The rat swarm minis in The Last Stand & Ragenarok pt 1 truly brought me back to the glory days of The Unsleeping City. The only thing keeping this season from a 9/10 is lack of mouse/rat PCs or major NPCS, which all of our 9/10+ seasons have had thus far. Much as I adore Edgar, I would categorize him as a supporting NPC this season rather than a major one. The Rat Grinders definitely add to this season’s score, but as none of them are actually rats, I can’t count them as rat NPCs. Easily the height of Fantasy High rat content, and that’s saying something. We’ve been in a bit of a drought lately, but FHJY truly delivered.

I would like to give credit to a post I read many years ago that I realize may have given me inspiration to make whatever this is: harry potter rated by mentions of swans.

don’t ask

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Pup ID Masterlist

Literally just a list of all the IDs of the pups I've ever found. There's no real reason for me to put it on Tumblr, I'm just doing it because other people might find it fun to compare IDs and names. And also because the list is getting a bit long for Discord lmao. Under a cut so this doesn't nuke your dash.

Sorted in order by when I found them, with the exception of Juniper, who I actually found after Bree and Ness. I just got her ID first.

10035 Juniper 8477 Bree 10159 Ness 17694 Diamond (pup i spawned in on riv's campaign) 7894 Sprig (hunter expedition pup) 4795 Tide (food tour pup) 9182 Axy (accident baby) 5428 Sleet (hunter expedition pup 1) 5942 Torrent (hunter expedition pup 2) 8763 Forest (hunted survivor expedition) 10222 Alder (survivor speedrun) 13370 Benthus (blinded expedition pup) 8537 Pupa 9491 Honey 14665 Pine (DS+ devtool pup 1) 14684 Wax (DS+ devtool pup 2) 10042 Pastel (gourmand riv agility pup) 5906 Heather (pearlpup) 6146 Shadow (accidental arena spawn) 6910 Glow (pearlpup 2) 11409 Lafen (undersea pup) 15017 Birch (undersea pup 2) 13800 Glacier (devtool pup 3) 4919 Spruce (drowned pantheon devtool pup 4) 6908 Ivy (pearlpup 3) 3018 Dandelion (surprise HH pup) 3108 Cotton (accidental arena spawn) 10121 Alyssum (speedrunner pup 1) 3179 Loam (speedrunner pup 2) 3451 Lily (speedrunner pup 3) 10131 Pieris (accidental arena spawn) 3634 Bounce (speedrunner pup 4) 8260 Wave (lancer hunter pup) 2015 Plum (EXSU pup) 2192 Neuron (NF special pup) 7564 Bluebell (badlands pup 1) 8304 Verdant (badlands pup 2) 4893 Mouse (side house pup) 5426 Banana (broken shelter pup) 5612 Abyss (aqueducts pup) 13366 Snow (aqueducts wiki pup) 7661 Candy (DW pup) 5156 Noonflower (MF pup) 9594 Hydrangea (MF pup 2) 5923 Queen (lost bup 1) 5924 Bumble (bup 2) 8140 Trickle (BY rivpup) 12207 Lavender (DS+ pup) 7076 Hail (RA pup) 28242 Nimbus (Sky Tower pup) 15703 Stratus (Sky Tower pup 2) 7713 Cilia (DSH pup) 8176 Coral (DSH pup 2)

Updated whenever I find a new pup.

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

Ughhhhhhhhg the urge to talk about loam worldbuilding on this blog where more people will see it versus knowing I made a wizard sideblog specifically to keep track of loam worldbuilding VERSUS WANTING TO UPDATE MY NEOCITES LOAM PAGE

[archinomy]

A Spiral-Shaped Porcelain House with an Unconventional Facade: LOAM coffee&bar by STUDIO8

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Welcome to my writing blog!!

Loam!! | she/her | arospec/ace/sapphic | genderqueer

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Some of my works might be explicit, but it will be clearly marked and tagged if you want to avoid it!

I am a very, very slow writer, and on top of that I am a full time student, so updates are probably going to be glacial. Fair warning!

Feel free to send me asks about anything, and don’t be afraid to ask me to tag something!

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[ldonnay]

#Freezingcoldtemperatures right now in Düsseldorf (-6°C) at the start of the #mtbride this morning is a good excuse to have a #Glühwein, #CaféLatte and “#Kuchen mit #Sahne” pause at Auermühle in Rattingen. Nice session with the buddies along the single trails to Ratingen and back home discovering new paths. Also, an opportunity to test in the cold some features on my GoPro gear. Check the video in my linkin.bio 4K and sound on! Below more info on the updates done - On my GoPro 8 - I tested the Loam Ranger 4K settings. It is a game changer; the image quality is perfect with colours now a lot closer to reality. And yes, this morning, light was…grey - Sounds recommendations of Loam Ranger: this is the best improvement I have experienced over the last years. Turn the sound of the video on! Now you can finally hear exactly what I hear when I ride. And that is completely new experience. Required change: you must use a wind muff on the camera. But it is worth it. - I tested my GoPro Hero 11 for the first time. All clips after the GoPro Hero 11 text have been made with the new camera. - Again, video settings from the Loam Ranger, adapted to GoPro Hero 11. At the end of the video you will see changing lights in and out of a forest section. Light is constant and colours are true to what I have experienced. - Here also, no saturation or exaggerated colours or highlights: all images are as close as possible to the reality (again, it was really grey this morning). - And again, proper Audio settings, deactivating the wind cancellation from the camera, using High Audio rate and an additional wind muff. And here you go, the true experience starts! Do you have any feedback? #35yearsmtbhistoryproject , @ritcheylogic, #Tom_Ritchey, #RitcheyUltra, #UltraTeamEdition, @onzatires, #Porcupine, @dtswiss, @selle_italia , #Flite, , #SPD, @srammtb , #SRAM, #Eagle, #X01, @magura_bicycle , #raceline, #MT7, #MT8, #Reverb, @reversecomponents, @rockshox , #RS-1, #RS1, @clearprotect , #PredictiveSteering, #WCSTrail,#DUB, #TwistLoc, #VintageMountainBike, #Paul_Turner, #WCS, #xmc1200 (à Düsseldorf-Düsseltal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmRhALuKu6F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[knightsweeties]

Bonus: Genetics

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[nicohverse]

Entropic Float Post-Release Update

 Hi everybody! It's been a month today since the initial release of Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear!

The response has been amazing so far- Wonderful feedback on steam and itch! I hope that with time, my story can continue to reach out and touch hearts.

Today's featured art includes two Artfight attacks I received! One of Loam from Gladebell, and one of Rashmi and Amelie from Liliatdmful~ Due to the timing of this release, the convention, and some other stuff in my personal life I wasn't able to participate quite as much as I did in 2021...  But it was still a lot of fun!

But now, for some actual updates!

August QoL Update

Later this month, I'm hoping to release a QoL update with a few changes. Fixing up a few more mistakes that slipped through the cracks, of course, but a few solid changes as well. I'd like to adjust the trigger timing on the 'Are You Making Fun Of Me?' achievement to make it easier to get, balance the music and textspeed on initialization a little better, and introduce some more consistency with the other routes to the early parts of Amelie's morning route. If possible, I'd also implement a feature that labels save files with the route you're currently on, to make it easier to tell.

Letters To A Beloved Ghost DLC

I'm planning a small paid DLC called 'Letters To A Beloved Ghost'. This would consist of several side stories featuring both the main cast and side cast, as well as a bit more setup for the sequels. The art style would be changed to reflect the paid status- And the DLC's price point would be 5$, or included in any 5$+ backer tiers of the EF2 kickstarter. While certain side stories are already planned, I'll also be opening up a survey to see which characters in particular players may want to see more of.

Entropic Float 2: Land Of The Witch

Keep an eye out for a kickstarter in 2023! Land Of The Witch is going to have much more art and much more gameplay, being a point and click adventure (with an option to switch it to a stripped-down VN format as well). Going too much into the ideas I've got for it would be spoiling the first game, which I'd rather not do so soon, but rest assured that I have big plans... After I recover a bit from the marathon that was creating this first game, of course.

Thanks for checking in. Until next time!

[gallopinggallifreyans]

Week three of work! Forgot to update Friday lol it was pretty cool. I learned how to use a theodolite! It requires lots of math! Actually this whole job is just. Math. Geometry and trig. Bleh lmao

Today I got heat exhaustion! Long story short I dug a 1m x 1m x 30cm unit on my own. In baked loam topsoil and baked clay subsoil. Regrets

Tomorrow I probably won’t call in but I’m gonna stay on screening the whole day because wowza that’s too much

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

hey uh can I get a link to your wizard sideblog?

I’m really interested in loam and I can’t the link, so answering this ask would be really appreciated :D!

@teslacoil-wizard knock yourself out, the Loam lore masterpost is linked in the pinned post but honestly there's not much there yet. Most of its just floating around my loam tag here lmao

I really should go through and update that-

[dracanthropic]

Have some updates.

They sprouted quickly and grew vigorously.

They started to quickly outgrow their little sprouting tubs.

Alas...it has been so very very wet that I do not have loam for my lovely raised beds.

So now that I got some sun I have transplanted them all...into pots...

I have...so many plants...

Not all of these are going to actually fit in the garden, so some will be gifted and others.... perhaps.... experimented on.

Seebs seebs seebs. I have ordered many seebs. Gonna yolo me a garden this year.

[knebulanight]

Some DoubleShake character key art I've made and revealed lately, featuring updated, final designs and new characters:

Top: Loam + Hoodie Loam

Middle: Dinx and Kehlani's final designs + outfits

Bottom: Habiniri the Pyriri and Argil the fisherman

[rennybu]

i just want you to know that i think about your ocs (esp loam and kai) literally all the time and i hope they’re well and i love them and i hope you’re having a wonderful day

GWWWHEGHEHEEHE HOOOO MY GOODNESS THANK YOU SO MUCH MYKEN!!!!!!! oh this means the world i'm so glad my little dudes live on in someone else's head every now and then..... i love YOU thank you!!!!!!!!

heheheeh this is good motivation to finally update Kai's design as well...... O///O i've had some changes int he back of my mind For A While now

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Holy Obedience | Feeding Habits Update #4

Hey People of Earth! Today we’ll be chatting chapter five of Feeding Habits, aka Holy Obedience. TW: animal cruelty, blood, suicide, toxic relationships.

This chapter is the last in Lonan’s POV and a direct continuation of chapter four. I was getting a little burned out as this was toward the end of my 10k word week a few weeks ago, but overall, it definitely achieves what I was hoping for!

Scene A:

Eliza and Lonan chat about secrets which gets intense when Eliza prompts Lonan to burn Harrison’s guardian angel necklace & a few polaroids that were taken as a small easter egg from one of the mini stories!

Lonan grabs everything out in time with minimal damage

Scene B:

Lonan finally burns down his father’s darkroom.

Scene C:

Lonan emerges from the woods and approaches the cabin. Eliza sits on the veranda tending to a dead rabbit she claims she “found”. What happened in the previous memory in ch. 4 of Lonan and his father utilizing the ikijime technique to kill the fish mirrors with the rabbit, despite it actually being dead.

Lonan and Eliza take a drive and talk about the very different lessons they each learned from Lonan’s father

Eliza hits the accelerator and drives the car into the lake. Her fate is left unspecified, whereas he gets out relatively unscathed.

Excerpts:

Here’s this very tender romantical description because I indulge myself obvi:

The last time he saw Harrison, he knew they would not see each other for a very long time after. Sun haloed him. Pinged of his eyes so they shone like gemstones. The earring he’d gifted him from his mother’s collection twirled, mindless, like the surface of a mirror ball. He didn’t forget that image��his lover a painting of the sun, an offering he was lucky to have, if only temporary. As he gurgles at the face of the fire, he doesn’t forget that feeling—the warmth not against his face, but in the pith of his throat, jittering like the wings of a hummingbird. As he shifts forward, closer to the fire, a hand secures around his shirt collar. At first, he’s convinced what he’s seeing will be the last he ever sees—the magnificence of heat. But it’s when he feels its heaviness with a clank against the stone as the clasp comes undone that he understands.

When he turns around, Eliza holds Harrison’s guardian angel in her palm. The chain noosed carelessly around the angel’s throat.

This kind of epic sequence of Lonan yeeting away the darkroom ft a subtle Houses With Teeth reference??:

Lonan will burn down the darkroom one-handed. He hustles through the rain and forest brush with the gas can, the flashlight pricked between his teeth. The woodland seems so irrelevant at night; moonlight pares through clumps of deciduous trees; rain blisters from the opaque clouds; a ground animal, perhaps a raccoon, or squirrel, scampers up a redwood and into its hollow. It’s lost its energy, replaced with irrelevant, forgettable details. But still he moves with conviction, weaving between tree trunks like he’s the one who put them there.

His second reunion with the darkroom is not something of the fantastic. He’s done his time staring at it like it’s got teeth, strong incisors that will nick him if he looks at it the wrong way. When he arrives at its pathway, rain prowling down his cheeks, his left hand wrapped hastily in the eucalyptus towel, he has not come for reconciliation.

Gasoline could substitute the Pacific, he thinks as he unscrews the bottle’s cap and lugs liquid onto nearing brush, smothering the wildflowers needling through the shed’s concrete platform. It moves the same, sounds the same, does the same thing—spreads. He leaves no square foot untouched with fuel. He douses the doorway, its shattered windows, even the individual holes in its hardwood floor. He dresses the darkroom in gasoline and doesn’t blink when he pulls his lighter from his pocket and sets it on fire.

Here’s when Lonan approaches the cabin and first sees the dead rabbit:

Lonan arrives back at the cabin a half hour later, smelling like soot and wet earth. He expects to see Eliza inside, turning over the last bits of scorched wood with the fire iron. Drinking a bottle of red wine turned to vinegar by herself, the cork neatly pushed in the centre of the hearth. But when he approaches the cabin, tracking up rain and dirt, Eliza is not inside.

She sits on the veranda, stooped over the glass worktable, her hands fumbling against the head of a rabbit. There is no question the animal is dead. It’s small, just bigger than the length of her palm, its grey fur gone cobalt with rain. Its head lolls against the frost of the glass. There is no bringing it back to life.

“Where did you find that?” Lonan asks. He wrings his hair of rainwater knowing it will get soaked again before another minute passes.

“It washed up.” She strokes its ear, examines its fur with her thumb and middle finger, as if tending to cashmere.

Lonan impales the rabbit in the same way he impaled the previous chapter’s fish and this is what happens after that. We also get a hint at why the chapter is called Holy Obedience:

“Do you do everything in the name of your father?”

“Obedience is an act of love.”

“Burning down his darkroom is not what he would’ve wanted.” Eliza pulls her arms close to her chest, gnaws on a bloody hangnail.

“That’s what I wanted.”

“Then you have two conflicting agendas.”

“Isn’t killing the rabbit what you wanted? Aren’t you vegetarian, Eliza? Aren’t those two conflicting agendas?”

Eliza taps the hilt of the knife, fully upright in the rabbit’s skull. Her lips purse. Her posture straightens. She wipes her mouth with the clean plane of her forearm. When she deescalates the veranda’s steps and walks past him, he doesn’t follow her at first. He watches her back, the way her hair flutters before sinking with the rain. How blood drips off her fingertips and onto the dirt driveway, pinkish, like the colour a child might want their wall.

And the fateful drive begins, ft. a scene I repurposed from the old ch.2:

Loam gives under the car’s wheels, sputters up onto the windows as she backs the car onto a dirt path. He does not ask where she’s going. Even as they drive deeper into the thicket of trees, branches combing the windshield, paths he’s never been, he does not ask.

“What other things did your father teach you?” she asks after some time dozing through the woods.

Eliza’s hung a lucky rabbit’s foot from the rear-view mirror, tannish fur that whitens when Lonan reaches and turns it over.

“This isn’t vegetarian,” he says, scales the foot with his fingernail, bloodying it just as the rabbit on the veranda. Its ball chain clatters with every brush of his finger, the sharp jut of its cap, neatly carved into the head of a rabbit, prickling against his finger. Rain clatters against the window, each drop’s shadow inking his jeans, arms. “Genesis. How to kill a fish. The easiest places to be caught when you run.”

Me leaving the city haha:

They parse through trees, bushes, and Lonan knows each species even without looking, and the longer she doesn’t answer, the more insistent he becomes at stating them aloud. “Red alder. Pacific dogwood. Cascara. Ponderosa pine,” he says.

Here are the final two paragraphs. Fun fact, I stole “holy vengeance” from myself which appears in one of the later chapters in Rewired.

The next time Eliza presses the accelerator, it’s with a holy vengeance. As if something guides her, her heel gorging into the pedal. They move so quickly, Lonan doesn’t know when the forest ends and where the beach starts—it all melds, a mosaic of vague landscapes. He doesn’t know when he reaches for the rabbit’s foot hanging from the mirror and holds it to his chest, like he knows what she’ll do. Even before she says, “I always wanted to be buried by cattails,” even before the car’s wheels whir over sand, driftwood, strings of kelp, even before they dive head-first into the lake, he knows.

Crashing into water sounds like rising to heaven. He doesn’t know why this is the first connection he makes, or why all he visualizes as the car sinks is the wisp of white clouds, the balmy lift of air that hikes him through the sky. Even though the water is dark, all he sees is light, crisp and glittering from above. As he ascends, he turns to look for Eliza, and there she is, slumped over the wheel, a stroke of blood dripping into her mouth. He is weightless when he stabs the cap of the rabbit’s foot into the corner of the window so it splinters. Weightless when he inhales and pushes through the broken glass like it’s Peter’s gate and he’s a step away from salvation. Weightless when he paddles through the water like a sunfish, his body ready for this, good at this, as he holds his breath. Weightless when the car sinks, and his head breaches the water like an orca, weightless when he opens his mouth to the storm and exclaims his hallelujah, his new beginning, his ultimate baptism.

That’s it for this update! I will be back sooner rather than later as I recently completed chapter six, but that’s a wrap on Lonan’s POV y’all!

--Rachel