#Originally ORIGINALLY before I got my reading comprehension in check

[knightyoomyoui]

[SMUT] TWICE Dahyun x Male Reader - "Conquered By An Abomination"

Here's my final one-shot for this year which is another smut fic featuring Dahyun. I want to say that I'm pretty proud and impressed at myself for being able to catch up on the 4th quarter after being too busy during July-October. This fic has got to be one of my experimental and unique works that I decided to try writing, because the concept that you're about to see here was never been done by me before, meaning that this my first-time writing it. Please understand and pardon me if this one turns out to be not suitable to the liking of some, as I feel like this might not be everyone's cup of tea. Enjoy reading and celebrate a Happy New Year with your loved ones, please!

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On Friday, November 13, astrophysicist Dr. Kim Dahyun and her research team went from Busan to Seoul to visit a location where they were tasked with conducting a comprehensive examination.

Based on radar data from their headquarters, it was seen that around midnight yesterday, an object that seems to be a fragment of an asteroid or comet crashed into the vicinity of Seoul.

Their chief professor and mentor at the research lab gave them the order to report any unusual sightings they came across there before calling the military and defense squad to seize control of the area and place it under lockdown, keeping everyone outside of the sector out.

Dahyun and her group entered the hidden area through their vehicle, bypassing the main road and making their way to the designated site. They made the decision to park close to the danger zone as they were leaving the road so they could more easily reach the astronomical devices inside.

"So what's this anomaly of yours supposed to look like?" One of her intern graduated to SNU, YN LN asked her after arranging all the panels around the van.

"It's almost the same as what we used to find from the sky, but this one was the first to do the unthinkable." Dahyun answered, wiping her eyeglasses. "The record says that it's like a small shooting star that emerged from the sky, but the impact it left when it came contact here almost triggered a mild earthquake."

"So that's why the sent us in." He responded, nodding his head understandably.

Dahyun turns her head around, acknowledging her other assistant who is testing some devices that they will equip on their hands outside. "Uhm, Minyoung excuse me for a sec will you?"

"Yes, Miss Kim?"

"Can you grab for me that gloves beside the first cabinet?" She pointed at the direction. Minyoung saw it and unhesitantly passed it to her. "Thanks."

"Are you guys good now?" She checked on her accomplices. They signalled her with a positive note. "Okay, let's take a look what they have in store for us."

After getting out of the van, they began to swing the tall leaves that were obstructing their view and path on the verdant field. They weren't even gone from their car for that far when they observed something startling.

The three researchers were welcomed with a bald area on the top portion of the field, which was produced by a big crater on the land. The leaves that were impacted by the collision scattered across the hole.

"This looks huge." YN exclaimed with a gasping mouth. "Are you all sure it's just a thin shooting star-like that appeared yesterday?"

"It is. They even presented it to me." Dahyun explained. "The anomalies here would be always associated to the geological condition here. I have a chart that describes everything we have encountered for these past few years and I've never seen anything like this that an unknown object also gave us a hard time dealing with a quake."

"We better get starting now because to be honest, this is getting really unpredictable to the minute and I couldn't understand what's going on as long as we see it ourselves." Minyoung suggested. Dahyun and YN looked at her and they were both convinced. YN planted a huge nail beside the crater and wrapped a rope around it that will serve as their handle when going down to the crater.

As the three of them made it below. They began to look around and observe deeply the surfaces. Minyoung kneels down and poked a stick on a gross material, forming a disgusted expression on her face. "Uhh guys, take a look at this."

Dahyun and YN came towards her. "Does this remind you of something?" Minyoung said as she twirled and flipped it around, almost like she's playing on it.

"Is that an eggshell?" YN asked, furrowing his brows at the black and velvet-colored thin piece swimming at a pool of gooey substance.

"Could be. Just look at the fluids around that probably came from this." Dahyun said, mentioning the slime. They garnered their eyes more at their surroundings, there were even bigger ones that what Minyoung has found and they were also mostly covered with a slime.

"Get away from that, Minyoung-ah. Don't you see how disgusting it is?!" YN scolded his friend. He started to cover his nose too with his shirt. "And do you guys smell that?"

"Yeah, it's bad." Dahyun clenched her face in dislike. "Feels like there's a rotting organ in here."

"Wait, so are we gonna conclude right away that we just discovered a cracked egg?" YN said. He scoffed and rubbed his face. "Am I correct at what I think this might mean?"

"No, YN. We're just getting started here. We are researchers we came here to finish our task and not do it in rush just because we're in an unsettling situation right now." Dahyun protested. "We don't jump into conclusions right away."

"S-sorry, Prof." YN bowed his head. "It's just.. I'm sensing something wrong in here."

"YN, let's just wish it would not happen at all. Okay?"

YN looked at Dahyun's comforting and calm demeanor. He nodded shyly. "Yes, Ms. Kim."

Snapping a few photos of the scene, Dahyun gave Minyoung and YN the order to take everything out of the van that would be necessary for them to make a report and gather any evidence that they would find here. Dahyun borrowed a tracker and used it to glide around the crater's borders while they did so.

The tracker bumped against a tall leaf, and the alarm began to sound loudly. After receiving an alert, Dahyun was perplexed as to what it had discovered. Before she caught anything, she inspected the dirt and leaves in the area.

The leaves did not have sharp, pointed ends. Rather, it appears as though the flower has grown directly onto the leaf, utilizing it as a stem or something unexplainable. Dahyun thought it was rather strange to see a flower extending through the body of the leaves itself.

She stepped back to wipe the dust off her face as the flower burst some sprinkle of nectar on her face as she reached out to touch it. She held her tracker again while she coughed, but she quickly figured out that it was unresponsive.

"There's got to be some power or equipment malfunction" Dahyun hissed on the device as she carried it. "Minyoung! YN! I need a help on-"

Dahyun was about to walk back on the van when suddenly she went out of balance and slipped through the crater. When she was about to get up, she saw the van fleeted upwards to the sky, a hole was formed on the bottom of the vehicle before it splitted in half when it crashed on the ground. Her heart shattered she heard it explode.

She wasn't devastated because of the vehicle, but because of the fact that two of her colleagues were inside that van when it exploded. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!" she shouted at the horrific sight from outside the crater.

Dahyun ran through the ropes and hurriedly climbed but she started getting drowsy and lightheaded, her body losing it sense until it managed to get her out of the grip from the rope, sending her unconscious inside the crater.

Right after she snapped out, the ground she's laying at started to flow like waves.

Dahyun woke up hours later, but not without a clue on her, as her mind was still rebooting from what happened to her earlier. Her eyes opened, and there she witnessed herself sitting in the middle of what it seems to be a cave.

She slowly risen up to her feet, her feet stumbled a bit as she felt a dull ache on her head once again. Rubbing it to ease it off atleast, Dahyun breathed deeply before returning back her attention on her current situation of getting stuck.

She couldn't find any light that would provide her to a clearer vision of everything around her. Nervous and desperate to find a route to escape, Dahyun had no other choice but to walk around and explore for a route way out.

"HELPPP!!! ANYBODY OUT THERE CAN HEAR ME?!" Dahyun pleaded as loud as she can reach on her voice. "MINYOUNG? YN? WHERE ARE-"

She paused as she recalled earlier seeing their van where her two assistants were staying in. Her emotions overtook her, releasing teardrops across her face. She also began to feel guilty, thinking that she should have ordered them to go back inside and fetch all of their equipment on her behalf.

Maybe if it wasn't for her, she wouldn't led both her friends on their own demise. Dahyun sobbed heavily as she repeated calling their names in agony.

She slammed her hand accidentally on some surface. Dahyun probably guessed it a wall where she could support herself while trailing along the cave. She took the opportunity, caressing and patting it.

However, Dahyun noticed something different. It was rough, soft, and quite sticky as she could describe. She tried to smell it, and it brought her to a familiar rotten organ smell she, Minyoung, and YN had depicted earlier.

"Huh? What is this?" Dahyun questioned herself where she is also the only one who could find the answer. With one more pat onto the strange wall, she noticed the entire area start to glow including the one where she is touching.

She roamed her eyes around, and it made her tensed to learn that she does indeed correct on her being stuck inside a cave right now, but rather everything that blocks her from the possibility of escaping is covered with unidentified type of organs.

There was a dark area on the far end just right in front of Dahyun's direction. She could swear that she had a glimpse of something that just moved there and disappeared from the shadows in a few second. "WHO'S T-THERE?!" she shouted as she started having suspicions in her mind.

Taking few steps ahead to check out what it is, a loud roar put her into halt before she was about to scream in terror. She fell on her butt and her breathing goes faster, wondering what kind of a monstrous noise she just heard.

She then saw something emerging from the drak shadows. In her utmost bewilderment and panic, an abomination has appeared in front of her, standing tall with its bulbous, humungeous and very disfigured appeareance.

It's size is like almost half of the space of the cave they're occupying, and Dahyun was in complete disbelief that the fear of YN he was trying to refer a while ago has unfortunately manifested into reality. A beast from the space or in other term made by humans ourselves, called aliens- are real in Dahyun's universe.

"D-don't come closer to me!" Dahyun tensefully said as she starts to crawl away from the monster. It blabbered some unusual noises that almost formed some inaudible words while shaking its head madly, and after that, Dahyun saw something popping out of its body.

Two slimy tentacles just came out from each sides and began crawling through Dahyun to reach each of her ankles and get wrapped. She then felt her body being dragged closer to the monster and Dahyun repeatedly yelled, begging for it to stop while tugging the tentacles with all the force she could apply to yank it off, only to end up with no effect.

As Dahyun was placed almost inches away from the gigantic alien creature, she has finally accepted her fate of being helpless and in danger. Tears filled with nothing but negative emotions streamed out of her eyes before the monster blew out some gas that has a color similar to the nectars that were sprayed on her by an infected plant earlier.

After she smelled it, she soon finds her body growing into a sense of arousal that urges her horny feelings to activate. She tried to endure it but she could swear that her skin were releasing more sweat and her pussy and her nipples are starting to become sensitive.

The tentacles must've found the lustful sensation brewing inside of her, and they took the perfect timing as one of them starts to slid through her pencil skirt and lift it up her tummy before it traces her pussy through the soaked panty. It's partner focused on her clothed breasts, bumping it and feeling its softness as it bounces.

Several more tentacles were released from the creature, but this time with various sizes and colors. Some were lighter or darker, some where thicker or thinner. The thin ones snaked through her sleeve and forcefully spreaded her top, revealing her white strapped bras containing her milky tits.

The rest then helped to remove her skirt, exposing her into half naked with her matching pair of white bra and panties. "NOOO! PLEASE, DON'T DO IT!" Dahyun pleaded until she unexpectedly released a sultry moan when a fast tentacle moves through her cheek and rubs itself on her skin.

All the tentacles starts to wrap around on her meaty thighs and slender arms in order to suspend her in mid-air. Their touch becomes even more satisfying and felt relaxing to Dahyun despite how denial the words coming out of her mouth.

Being half-naked and spreaded in front of the creature's ugly looking face, the tentacle then moved from her cheek to her lips as it continues to rub across Dahyun's pretty face. Her lips starts to pucker and the effects of the strange gas which was probably aphrodisiac as Dahyun guessed, made her more susceptible as it clouded her mind with lust and temptation.

She starts kissing the tentacle before it slid through her mouth, she sucks on it like it was a cock entering on her.

The other tentacles started to become bold also. They tugged and remove her bras and panties, finally making her naked. There's these suction cups- like tentacles went to crept up on her torso to her underboobs, feeling her perky tits bounce on their motions before its lips opened and sucked on her hardened pinky nipples.

Thinner tentacles spreaded her walls, assisting the thicker tubular object crawl and enter her tight pussy. It effectively brought another relieving feeling on Dahyun's aroused body, moaning in rhythm to the tentacle's barging on her constricted hole.

Their movements became faster and rougher, including the suction cups almost biting her nipples then returning to lick on it like there were supposed to have milk leaking out of Dahyun's breasts.

Due to the sudden increase of pace, it also din't allow more time for the tentacles to reach their limit. Despite her little efforts and strength to shake them off their body, Dahyun uncontrollably welcomes their slimy liquid that probably resembles to a man's cum, into her warm throat and womb.

She lets out a poor groan and whimper, sniffling in fear of what it could bring her after when she watched the odd colors and thickness of their cum flowing out of her. She hoped it would not cause her to get pregnant, especially if it would mean that she would breed an abnormal hybrid that sets aparts from what a normal baby should look like.

Desire is what Dahyun could just accept within her, disturbing and letting out the pleasure she has long kept to seek any solutions for it. First load wasn't enough for the tentacles howsoever, as she felt the tentacles changing their hold on her limbs to prepare her for a next position.

Still hanging from the mid-air, Dahyun's body was forced to bend, with her backdoor being the one facing the beast. The tentacles spreaded her legs, causing her cheeks and puffy pussy to open a little.

With her arms around her back, Dahyun endured all the harsh slaps of the thicker tentacles to each of her curvy asscheeks. She lost the count of how many times they played on it, too obsessed on how soft and big enough for it to give comfort on these creatures.

Funtime didn't lasted longer as they went already to the next move. She felt the girthy pair pounding both her asshole and pussy, fucking them simultaneously. Her body went back and forth at their movement.

The suction cups returned to play on her breats, tugging on her nipples and stretching them as farther her endurance could take. Dahyun hissed in a mixture of pain and pleasure only because it aided the abuse her tits were being applied at when she felt something gliding through her entire back.

She turned her head around and witnessed the alien sticking out its wide and long tongue slurping the taste of of the sweat forming across her back view.

The thick tentacles reached their climax, exploding a second amount of load to her love holes. Dahyun huffed at the unmatched energy of these active creatures using her body for pleasure.

As they release from her ass and pussy. She was repositioned again. She was now facing the monster completely before she gulped when she realized what she was about to suffer next.

A huge- like literally- gigantic cock, probably measuring around 14 or 15 inches in size unbeatable to any men's size around the world, is ready to explore Dahyun's innards. Dahyun wiggled her legs, afraid that she might break from being unable to take his girth.

But again, she is outnumbered with numerous tentacles attached to her body, imprisoning her from any attempts of escaping, even though she has no other palns anymore as the aphrodisiacs are still in full effect on her.

Their strength pressed Dahyun's body to the awaiting cock. Due to its massive size it struggled to enter Dahyun's tight little pussy before it succeeded, only for the poor scientist to scream and grit her teeth in a shocking pain while the creature twitched and produced more creepy noises.

Thankfully, it didn't last long as the impressive pleasure began to take over her body when the monster started ramming his cock on her pussy, demolishing her womb inside. She went crazily bouncing on its crotch. Dahyun's eyes are completely white, with her pupils now rolled at the back at the intense pace of fucking she's receiving.

Her mouth began to lustfully agape, with her tongue sticking out as the monster cock continues to push deeper across Dahyun's walls. Her ass starts to create loud claps around the cave as it hits the alien's crotch repeatedly.

The giant cock stuffed into her pussy then pulsated, as it erupted a terrifying amount of dirty white cum almost inflating Dahyun's stomach like she is about to be mistakenly identified as pregnant, before it slowly slid out of her pussy, allowing the rest of the load to explode out of her abused hole.

The tentacles lets go of her body, releasing Dahyun on the ground, which gave her time to rest for a while. She panted heavily and speechless at the rough fucking she just had with the monster alien. She couldn't deny that there might be no other man she would ever met that would match the performance of what this monster has showed to her.

All of the tentacles and the bulbous cock slowly erected again the more the creature stares at Dahyun's messy and sticky nude body lying on the floor. They decided to proceed with the last action, as they focus once again on her nether regions.

Lifting her up, they spreaded her arms and legs again and faced her closer to the creature. The suction cups slowly crawled on her back then cupped her full breasts from behind. Dahyun whined and moaned at the relaxing and tickly feeling it gives. One tentacle went through her tongue, a pair goes back to her pussy and asshole.

There was a twist added again coming from the idea of the monster. Wanting to give every single part of her body that could provide a purpose of satisfaction to this monster's desire, they let go of Dahyun's hands and two tentacles caressed her fingers.

Dahyun sensed their hidden message for doing that and finding out the answer, she formed a fist and gripped the tentacles, stroking them like she would do to a male cock.

All of her body and now functioning properly following the monster's command. Dahyun's mind is full of sex. She has been hypnotized and manipulated too much by the pleasure and sensation that the creature has been passing through her using its ability to fuck her senseless and take her breath away.

The thick tentacles had her overpowered and weak from the way they drill through her holes as deeper as they could get. Dahyun felt her neck bulging as the tentacle gave her a deep throat, her clit being scrubbed by a tentacle with a brush-like end on it to add more pleasure, and the other tentacle wiggling around her ass.

They all began to pull the trigger of increasing the speed while they all moved in unison, their grip on her skin went tighter as they felt this familiar tightness in their system, approaching the climax of their endurance. Dahyun squirted her juices again and spasmed at her own orgasm, resulting to her walls clamping on the tentacles more.

Few more waves, pumps and strokes they gave and finally they executed their final blow, releasing their cum flowing through her throat, ass and pussy simultaneously, as she switches through gags and moans. The two other tentacles enwrapped on her fists splashed their warm sticky liquid on her arms and side of her face.

The rest of the tentacles joined, painting Dahyun's entire body with the rest of the cum flowing and leaking out of its ends. As they finished, the tentacles crawled around Dahyun's skin, giving her body a nice calming massage to ride out their lengthy session of sex and intense orgasms they shared.

Dahyun couldn't opened her eyes wide anymore as she knew she's completely drained now. The creature slowly laid her back on the ground with her body entirely covered with cum. She also weakly spitted and coughed out some from her mouth after unable to swallow all of the load down to her filled tummy.

Now that she can have her rest, Dahyun slowly shuts her eyes as she went unconscious, while the tentacles continue to caress her hair gently and massage her body, especially her addicting round tits, as they wiped away all the stuffs around her pearly skin.

When she woke up again from her long slumber, she found herself lying on a hospital bed with her body now clothed in a hospital gown.

Realizing that she is now in a hospital and two familiar people sleeping with their head resting beside her bed, she concluded that after everything that happened to her, she was now free and safe from that creature she encountered.

She gasped and shuddered as she remembered what it did to her, it awakened her parents and quickly hugged her in response to her fine state. "Oh thank God you're okay.", her mother said.

"How are you feeling, daughter?" Mr. Kim checked up on her. "It's been days you were confined. We were really worried that something worse could happen."

"I-I'm alright… I'm just… still tired." Dahyun said in a weak tone. Her eyes became watery when she remembered Minyoung and YN. "Mom… Dad, we-… we got ambushed. They didn't make it, it's my fault." she said as her lips trembled.

"No, daughter. Don't blame yourself, we know you can't do such bad thing with whole intention. I know you." Mrs. Kim said, rubbing her palms to calm down her poor daughter.

"We heard what happened to you and your team, Dubu. We're sorry." Her father stated in sympathy. "But we couldn't help ourselves to be thankful that we have been given a miracle to have you still here, safe and sound."

"I missed you, Mom… Dad." Dahyun holds her mother's hand and looked them in the eyes tenderly. "I thought I wouldn't make it."

"Oh, by the way. If you may be wondering how did we managed to get you here, it's all thanks to your workmates. They sent a rescue on the location where they found you lying on a grass field with your…. dress torn up covering your body." Her father gulped and lowered his head in regret at the last words. Dahyun just furrowed her brows, couldn't recall that part.

Dahyun saw her mom getting choked up on her emotions. She pressed her hands on her own and stared at her eagerly. "Dubu, answer me with all honesty. Okay?"

Dahyun just listened attentively on what her mom's about to ask. "W-who did this to you?"

Their conversation were interrupted when the door opened. Two men appeared in a room, in which Dahyun speculated that it's a doctor and the other one works in the military.

"Pardon to interrupt, Mr. and Mrs. Kim but this gentleman right here is taking a visit and… to ask for a request for the both of you." The doctor said. He looked at his patient, his face lightened in relief. "Oh, you're Miss Dahyun right? Good thing that you're awake. How are you feeling?"

"Fined, doc." Dahyun replied.

"Is there anything you need from us, sir…?" her mother asked.

"General Knight Yoo of the Seoul Military Army. Greetings to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Kim." the military man introduced himself to the family, performing a salute gesture. "Yes, I actually would like to speak with your daughter."

They all looked at Dahyun who became curious at the acknowledgement. "For what, sir?"

"It's regarding to that research that your team embarked near outside Itaewon." Knight elaborated. Dahyun's eyes widened in astonishment as his words struck those memories of her on that given time to repeat in cycle on her mind, including that one awful experience that she had.

"Your faculty cooperated with us in order to seek help when they lost their line to your team. We went through an investigation at that site and we found something… threatening, and we assume that since you're the only survivor in the incident confirmed yet, we would like you to enlighten us as we interrogate you about what actually happened."

Dahyun pursed her body forward slight from leaning on the bed, her face showed a puzzled expression. "Wait, what do you mean 'yet'?"

General Yoo maintained his intrigued stare at the patient. "Ms. Bae Minyoung's remains were found by the forensic team but your other accomplice, Mr. YN LN is still nowhere to be found but some of his torn out clothing were seen inside a cave. We will give it one week before we rule him as deceased."

Dahyun's switched looks at the four people gathered around her before she lured away her eyes filled with hope for her friend's disappearance from them.

Her traumatic experience of being conquered by an abomination should've brought her instantly to cooperate with the armed forces as they requested for her to stand up as the witness and part of the evidence in this important matter.

But rather, she's conflicted about what she should consider telling to them.

The idea of the alien monster who also amazingly pleasured her beyond the edge, disregarding the actual peculiar possibility behind the monster's odd behavior when she was held captive which failed for Dahyun to intepret; made her think twice on the decision she has to unveil.

[theresademoninyouroven]

Who— and What is The Voice of the Decider? P.1

Now that I’ve explained how you would obtain VotD, I can now feel free to speak about what they’re like! Under the cut to keep it tidy and avoid potential spoiling, of course.

As stated before, VoTD AU is an AU where you, TLQ, are able to gain a 12th voice by taking specific actions starting from The Princess and The Dragon AU.

But what does it mean to gain them?

As what I’ve now decided on, the process of getting The Decider truly starts when the name ‘The Decider’ is first spoken. You will gain an option to reject the name. It’s long, so I will either update the original posts, or make a comprehensive post with everything at some point.

Ultimately, You/TLQ reject this name because you know it isn’t your name, even though at this point you don’t know what your name is. Thus, it creates a separation between that name and ‘you’

VoTD is what is created to take up that space created in that separation. It creates a stronger will behind the actions you do. It also, however, creates a greater separation between you and your choices. Because even when you pick something, is it really you who acts out that decision, or are you simply just watching to see what happens?

Beyond the way that they physically have to be intentionally formed, another thing that separates them from a true voice is that they do not embody a personality aspect. Even if they trend towards certain choices, there is no set train of thought for them to fall back on. They are agreeable because it can be hard for them to think their own thoughts, as they embody action.

They are created when The Long Quiet and The Princess alone shared a body. This makes them not fully Quiet, like a true voice. It’s the most likely reason they don’t disappear when it’s time to look into the mirror and check upon the un-awakened Shifting Mound. It’s why, when they’ve finally got enough of themself to fully function, they can recall each vessel before the current one. It also makes them the only voice you can destroy directly by your own hand. (Compared to the original 11, who, in my interpretation, are always with you, but only emerge with certain actions--and therefore, can 'fall asleep' and ‘wake up’ again, like if you take a route that has Smitten after HEA)

But how are they like, as a Person/Voice?

Truly, it’s a bit hard to pin down. They can sporadic, going from one thing to the next and the next, until they decide they want to do one thing for an indefinite amount of time.

When they share a body with others, it means they can agree with one choice just to argue against it in the next moment. They’ll add onto anything some other voice has to say, or have nothing to say at all.

In a situation where they have a separate body from anyone else, it means going off on their own on a whim,

A big part of them is, since they have very little to anchor their self to, they’re able to display the best and worst parts of any other voice, to an extent. They can spiral like the paranoid, or be untrusting of everything, like the Skeptic. They can be blindly trusting, like the Smitten, or simply be trying to get the upper hand, like the Opportunist.

Perhaps in some way, like The Stranger is a shadow of The Shifting Mound, they are a shadow of The Long Quiet.

I've decided to keep this shorter, so that it'll be easier to read than a long block of text. Stay tuned if you're interested!

[princess-charlie-of-hell]

check out this post and read the comments I swear some people need to be handed a book on reading comprehension. Especially a certain someone in there. How does being a charlastor shipper invalidate the op's post? Make it make sense 🙄

https://www.tumblr.com/queen-of-beees/749145465868697600/you-wanna-know-what-makes-me-angry-the-fact-that?source=share

Honestly calling someone homophobic for not liking a queer ship is stupid. Nobody is obligated to ship a canon ship whatever it is queer or straight, people dislikes ship for various reasons.

Just because people criticize Ch@ggie and ship Charlastor, doesn't mean that what they criticized is automatically wrong. I am not a fan from R@dioapple but some shippers have internets perspective and i don't think that their opinions are wrong

And this whole Charlie and Alastor are a father daughter duo🙄 He obviously said it to annoy Lucifer, isn't that clear now? People who claim that Alastor was serious should look closer at the beginning of the interaction before Charlie stated that Vaggie was her gf. He was extra touchy with Charlie so that Lucifer thought for a short moment that they were dating, that was the reason he was so relieved as it turned out that she is dating Vaggie, so is Charlastor Canon now?

And if the show really intend to have Charlie and Alastor that kind of relationship then the "isn't she a bit too young for you" joke from Rosie would be weird as fuck. Image Verosika asking that Blitz about Loona.

And i personally like Ch@ggie and found the reprise cute but i also can understand what op is saying, taking a song which about your girlfriend and her father and singing it to her to show that you love her can be sweet

but the context of the original More than anything was that after being separated for years they finally got to reconcil, so yeah i can understand what op means. This reminds me of something I saw somewhere before where someone pointed out that the two songs which were sung by Vaggie (Whatever it takes, more than anything reprise) always have have something to do with more parental and family love, i don't think the writers intended to have Ch@ggie that kind of love but more to show how people fight sometimes for romantic love and platonic love but it never left my mind since then

Something else what annoys me about the situation is that the post was tagged with Charlastor, so if the commenter hates the ship why don't just block it and don't interact with it, problem solved

[missjomarch]

Hello my lovelies! I hope you had a fun and safe New Years Eve! I wanted to make a little post just showing my appreciation for the last year on Tumblr! I will admit that I am not the best at re-blogging posts that I love. Usually I'm reading between classes, assignments, or right before bed and don't often take the time to share my thoughts on some of the incredible literature on this site. With that being said, I wanted to make this post highlighting some of my favorite works, authors, and stories of 2024. As with all things of this nature, I am very sure some things got left out. This is in no way a comprehensive list of all the works I have enjoyed this year, but just a few I wanted to highlight. If I am in your likes or following, trust that I love and appreciate your presence. So without further ado...Here is Jay's 2024 Tumblr Favorites!

First and foremost is my favorite (only) big sis, of course. If you have not stumbled upon @ladylooch 's blog yet, you are missing a vital part of life. Her AUs are a literal rabbit hole. I started reading about Nico Hischier and I am now emotionally invested in the lives of two original character's and their love story. I love everything B publishes, but this year she gave us a beautiful new story of love and loss, and exploring that world with her has been the highlight of my year. Head over to her blog and jump into an AU, literally any of them. You won't regret it.

@puck-luck...guys. Andy is INSANE!!!! Everything she puts out is delicious, but I specifically fell in love with her 'New Beginnings' series this year and cannot recommend it enough. I don't even like Trevor Zegras like that y'all, but Andy is a literary genius so I fell in love. I have to save her writing for when I am home & in bed because I WILLLLL have a physical reaction. I kiss your brain, Andy girl. Mwah mwah mwah.

@star2fishmeg and @wineauntie , MEG AND IVY! My (sub) Luke Hughes loves and the leaders of the sub! Luke agenda. GOD!! I love you. Your writing, of course. But I also love that you share my most unhinged sentiments about Mr. Baby Hughes. Check out their blogs, friends. The vibes are good and the writing is even better.

This next one...you guysssss...@tkwrites. TK's 'Snap Shot' series had me HOOKED all year. I love Sarah and Quinn. The emotional turmoil and angst mixed with the heartfelt romance is a complex masterpiece. PLEASE go check it out if you're a Quinn Hughes enjoyer, or an enjoyer of good fiction. Also sub! Quinn agenda!!!!

@theemporium!!! I eat up everything my girl Cece writes, but Luke and Cherry specifically had me by the throat this year. Go read 'The Mortifying Ordeal of Being a 20 Year Old Virgin' NOWWW! RIGHT NOW!!

@mikkomacko...you GENIUSSS. Mob Boss Nico Hischier. Need I say more? I don't think so. If I could have a real Tumblr wrapped, part 4 & 5 of that series would be my most reread fics for 2024 I promise you. The dynamic of Nico and reader, bestie Timo, baby Alex (RIP, give him back Vegas). It is all perfect girly pop. Everyone go read.

I started reading for Will Smith this year because @yankstrash and I cannot be normal about Boston College hockey. @peachhcs Will Smith AU gave me everything I needed and MORE. I can't decide if I want to be Samy or be WITH Samy. They are just sooo *heart eyes*. Also Sub! Will agenda. (Damn, can y'all see a pattern?) Em, I love you and your work. Keep it up lovely.

Alrighty, that about sums it up. I know there is a million more authors and fics I missed, but these have been in the forefront of my mind for a long while. I hope you have all had the best holidays, and here is to another great year of escaping reality with y'all in 2025!! MWAH!

[tamelee]

Just a little rant about HOW MUCH I FUCKING HATE NARUTO FANBOYS OH MY GAAWWWDDDD besides the obvious reasons (homophobia, misogyny, incels) they worship the shit outta the worse characters ever like Shikamaru and Itachi and Hinata. Like I just saw on the Naruto Reddit (my fault, I know, but I searched something up about Naruto and the first link discussing that was Reddit) and they all used that stupid dumbass filler where Shikamaru was asking his dad about Naruto and why everyone hates him and how he doesn't hate him (even tho in CANON he did 😤) and they all said not only is he a better friend to Naruto than Sasuke ever was but (here we go again) Sasuke's more of a brother 🙄 and they also said Sasuke treated Naruto like trash and was the worst friend 🤦🏻‍♀️ like it's so insane to me the dudebros lack of brain and reading comprehension. Like how do you as a grown ass man not know the difference between what's actually real and what's not about what you're watching? Or maybe it's that they just hate Sasuke so much and how much Naruto loves him and keeps talking about him and how he's his best friend in canon (he said it way too much for me to believe that even these ugly incels couldn't understand) that they'd rather give the credit to someone else that isn't a threat and doesn't make Naruto act borderline homosexual. Oh and they obviously ignore Shikamaru's blatant misogyny and still consider him the best thing ever because why would they care 🙄 anyway end rant, sorry. I just hate this fandom 😭 I stay on my side of things mostly (well, other than this one time. But when I do I just rant about it to someone and move on)

Ah yeah it’s frustrating isn’t it? 

I think it’s obvious if you’ve read the Manga. I wonder if they’ve only seen the Anime and just don’t bother checking what is canon first. So much is changed from Kishimoto’s original. (Has anyone seen that twt discussion on filler? I’d love to read your opinions on it.) 

I mean, Hinata’s supposed backstory with Naruto is just ridiculous, but I don’t understand why people think Naruto was friends with any of them? Even if it’s shown in filler that Naruto was around them or they asked their parents about Naruto... what makes fans say they were friends? 

Sasuke was the only one who acknowledged Naruto with a smile and they weren't even friends until much later.

Right before the exams, Shikamaru tells team 7 not to die. Not because he’s worried for them, but because he believes they’re not capable, largely because of his lack of faith in Naruto. While Naruto calls them idiots and insults both Shikamaru and Hinata as he introduces them to the reader. 

'A big mouth idiot' and a 'weirdo' (I believe he actually also called her creepy but I can't find the translation, but remember when Kushina told Naruto not to go for a weird girl? She used the same words xD) And then Shikamaru immediately wanted to target Naruto in the forest of death.

Had either of them at any point been friendly to Naruto or whatever, then we would’ve known here and Naruto wouldn’t have insulted them like he did (as is his right) because he craved a connection more than anything. It’s ridiculous how the Anime at times just blatantly ignores the lonely misery Naruto had to grow up in (ALONE) in favor of these other characters. As if sugarcoating that would make any of them look less bad. And don't get me started on Hinata during that written test because it's no wonder Naruto got so confused and didn't trust her "kindness".

Regardless, I think a lot of Naruto-fans who tend to glorify any of these friendships and extending it for what it is largely do so because they side with a narrative regarding the system and don't get why Sasuke (and others) challenged it in the first place. Brushing it off like it was some evil, selfish thing. I personally like Shikamaru's development and who he is as a character in the end because him showing change might've been very helpful in actually changing the system had they worked towards that. But you know... we'll never know.

[slightly-warmer-hibiscus-tea]

CW: OC talk + Rambling / Blood / Gore / Censored Nudity (character sheet) / Mentions of Drugging

(idk why these warnings are so intense, but I swear it's all just silly OC talk T^T)

I’m kinda sorta working on more (comprehensible) TS OC stuff in between studying right now… I wanna hurry and talk about them but without info dumping (if given the opportunity I will without hesitation 😔…) because in terms of the best stories I have conjured up for OCs in general Naudedel and Noble are surprisingly good and I’m very excited to share how deranged they are together…

Right now it’s just about making Naudy readable and working on extra fun stuff… like monsters!

I’m trying to work out his “monster” form…. The concept is there, but the execution is just not ticking the right boxes for me right now… also, the line art at the end is old and probably will go unused, but thought it was something to add here because like hehe look at my deranged son :)

When it comes to the writing I'm going to split it into two chapters. The first half will be a summary+ of his upbringing, and the second on how he fucked up his arm and why. Just enough info to get a read on what his deal is pretty much. I just need to edit the first chapter and rewrite some parts then it's ready to annoy the world!

I'm trying to think of a good design for his original mother... I'm thinking dark hair and milf (¬‿¬)･ﾟ✧ ... honestly I need to start drawing out the designs for all the other TS OCs I've accumulated over the year (?) here's a fun list-

Hickery (bloodhound OC... dilf oc...I've already been made fun of for his name, but it stuck to me so I'm keeping it!)

Maya (another bloodhound OC)

Cove (Hound's ex-husband)

Cetcher's gf + informant, who still needs a good name...

and that one guy! (doesn't have a name yet... but is important in Hound's part of the story... she bashed some of his guys in the back of head with a hammer... it was a whole thing... Leander got involved... gang war stuff, don't worry about it...)

There are technically more OCs, like that Hightown lady Noble befriended during their first few weeks in town. However, I'm not sure if I'm including her in the final plot meeting. But yeah, anyway I'm rambling so on to Noble news!

For Noble, everything is plotted out in advance surprisingly…character playlist and all... just need to find the words to explain their story other than “parasite with a weird God complex feels guilty” I do have some old memes and art of them though!

Noble curse stuff...

Childhood cult stuff...

Current reality...

Poor person masquerade dress censored for tumblr...

Noble folks!

I actually wrote out a whole little thing for the black dress in a what-if scenario of...

"Oh! ,,,What if there is a masquerade in Hightown and Noble sneaks in to get some information on a certain individual who might know a thing or two about curses, but turns out the whole event if devious and their all eating babies or some fucked up shit,,,, and what if while sneaking around they see Leander and are like 'what's he doing here?' and they lock eyes but he ignores them as he ducks into a closed off area with some important looking people,,, once he comes out he walks past them and they lock eyes again as he leaves,,, Noble chases after him and once they catch up they get to see his cold and detached side right before he hides them from the other guest,,, after they talk for a bit, or more like Leander talking over them and their worries as he slowly wipes their memories while they protest that it's not fair only to wake up the next day back in their room,,, thankfully their curse is good for more then just silly bouts of insanity so they have a hunch on what happened, everyone around them who knew where they went the night before were obviously worried and the general consensus is that they might have been drugged and should go check in with Kuras just in case (wow this is getting long...) but on their way to the clinic they run into Leander and of course discusses their current problem with him ,,, words are exchanged,,, a kabedon may occur,,, as he whispers in their ear,,, all fun till he erases their memories again, or at least tires before receiving a little gift that makes him look at this whole curse thing from a different angle." DEEP BREATH! ...Anyways... yeah.

But it was taking so long to write out that I ended up losing motivation so yeah... like everything else we will pray the motivation comes back so I can finish that... plus who knows, I might make an x reader version of it if I can. (don't hold your breath... I'm extremely slow)

Anyway, I'm gonna to shut up now because I've yapped enough. I'mma make some hibiscus tea (ironic) and head to bed... Night night, if you made it this far, thank you for listening to my craziness <3

[mrs-monaghan]

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Hey Shaz, i was watching this video and i noticed that Jk didn’t really say much about Jimin. There were two times when all the other members said stuff about the person whose pic they picked but Jk was silent and then when he finally answered that last question about Jimin, he answered in a very generic way and even Jimin had to ask him to be specific. I dunno but i kinda felt a lil weird about it. Is it that Jk really doesn’t know Jimin that well or did he just intentionally not want to say much about Jimin? Or do u think they might have been going through a rough patch here? Cuz whether u think they are dating or not, those are very basic things that anyone would know about their bandmates atleast so him being quiet while all the other members said stuff about each other was kinda weird to me a lil bit. The only way he really wouldn’t know those stuff is if he really doesn’t give a shit about Jimin cuz after having stayed with someone for that long you will atleast know those basic things about them. I really don’t know what to think about this clip. What do u think?

Aish. Anon u sent me the video and after reading your ask i feel like we both watched 2 different things. Man, when the vermin and antis jump to conclusions idgaf but when a Jikooker does it, it does my head in. Honestly.

Original

(@chicknbunny13 xoxo)

First question

JK answers:

Even i know that answer. Any Jikooker or Jimin stan knows all about Jimin's love for the stage. Huge thing he has in common with JK btw so of course JK knew the answer.

There was some other questions but we don't get to see JK's answers. They edited off a few member's answers to multiple questions. So we only see JK answer twice and already you concluded he doesn't know Jimin?

2nd and only other question he answered

JK's answer

Jimin interjects

So JK rectifies

All the members including Jimin, laugh.

According to my English comprehension JK wasn't wrong. He said that moment was a vacation because Jimin doesn't usually have a preference. Guess he has no issue with organising or going with the flow. And since we have it on record Jikook taking vacations together, its safe to say JK knows what Jimin likes for/during vacation.

Anon you are so busy nit picking the two answers, two! That you missed JK calling Jimin sexy

Then looking right at him

And the grunt he makes before he says that... 🤭

You also missed the part where JK picked Jimin's card on purpose. They were all supposed to pick randomly but JK checked the cards in advance and gave V the other one then kept Jimin's.

You can see JK inspect the cards before handing one to V.

Now, one could argue JK couldn't really pick himself because then where would be the fun in that? And you know what? That's fair. But I would argue a) JK has a habit of cheating in order to end up with Jimin and b) JK peaking at the cards in the first place when they weren't supposed to? Come on now. Refer back to point (a)

So!

JK was never silent. That was just the editing and we never got his answers.

The 2 questions we did see JK got both answers right.

Other members were calling each other handsome but of course JK had to call Jimin sexy. This isn't a word straight men throw at eo willy nilly. (Compare JK grunting at Jimin's photo and calling him sexy, to him shouting "sexy namjoon!" at that online concert and tell me you don't see the difference

In conclusion; this obsession with Jikook fighting every other Tuesday or breaking up has got to end.

[rigelmejo]

I've been checking out Dreaming Spanish's roadmap levels, and doubling the hours since I'm learning chinese...

And I'm very torn on where I actually land on the roadmap levels. I can follow live action shows made for native speakers, at least with chinese subtitles. I have been able to get the "main idea" of most shows since the end of year 1 when Word of Honor came out. What's improved since then is I just grasp more details now, depending on the show. If I use NO chinese subtitles, I seem to understand about 50% of the actual words said and 80% or more of what's going on in general (so from visual context I can still follow the main idea).

DS roadmap mentions only being able to follow easier TV shows and cartoons at Level 5 (600 hours for regular roadmap) and up to level 6 (1000 hours for regular roadmap) for some more complicated adult shows to start to somewhat be understandable. For a doubled roadmap that would be 1200-2000 hours!

I've got at MOST 547 hours of listening or listening-reading to chinese before this listening experiment, or 665 hours total. That would match up with the levels of the ORIGINAL dreaming spanish roadmap. But I am way under the levels recommended for doubling the roadmap for learning chinese as an english speaker.

If I counted my reading only time, sure, yeah, I might have close to 1200 hours of time I spent doing Something I understood in chinese, especially if we count all the reading-only I did while Looking up word translations (which was not comprehensible input in that I couldnt understand by reading extensively, but was Comprehensible with the help of a translation aid - which DS wouldn't count). So maybe that explains why I'm so much above where I would've expected to be?

I guess this is all a reflection to say: maybe if you read a TON, that will give you some boost to your expected comprehension level when you do start listening. Because I expected to be able to understand Peppa Pig (recommended to be understandable at around ~200-400 of the regular roadmap, so even longer expected for chinese). I was expecting to understand some cartoons - not as many as I can, I have been happily surprised my ears adapted to cartoons for 5-10 year olds pretty fast only a couple dozen hours. I was not expecting my comprehension when listening-only to adult dramas, to feel like the end of year 1 with reading-chinese subs of adult dramas. It feels hard, yeah, but doable for main idea. I guess all the times I watched cdramas with chinese subtitles, I was getting a Little listening practice even though I didn't focus on listening.

Another interesting note to self: someone on r/dreaminglanguages went from Assimil french lessons, to just watching french shows, and felt after 250 hours they felt they were making some improvement, then at 600 hours like they could watch adult shows fairly comfortably (of course they were comfortable with the ambiguity and speed from lots of practice with them - which is partly what makes them exhausting to follow at first). I have a lot of reading background in French, they suggested I could just listen more, I probably need to just focus on improving my listening.

I tried to listen to Dracula audio book in French, ended up finding a guy doing a chapter analysis instead, found him fine to understand. Note that I hardly EVER practice listening to french. Note that last year I tried to listen to HP audiobook in French and could barely parse any words, it was easier to understand the Spanish audiobook (a language I barely studied and certainly not for many years like French). So any improvement in listening since last year was kind of surprising. I listened to a handful of InnerFrench episodes fall 2024 just trying out comprehensible input ideas, but that could've only been like 5 hours tops.

Maybe listening just improves MUCH faster if you already have a reading background? I'm going to mull that over.

[risingscorchingsuns]

Loved reading your tags about Kabuki theatre! Would love to hear more facts if you're ok with sharing that is 🥰

Oh my gosh, thank you so much!!!! 🥹🥹 im certainly not an expert by any means, but I had a lot of fun researching it!!! Lemme pull up my old notes and I’ll run over some fun facts! 🥰

Sorry if this isn’t suuuuper comprehensible, it’s 4am and I don’t feel like digging up my old notebooks so I’ve only got my Google docs to go on lol. This is also mostly referenced from my paper on theatrical misogyny, where I used kabuki’s regulation as an example, so that will likely set the tone of my info. but I digress lol

anyway!! here’s some facts from the top of my head!!

-Kabuki theatre was originally developed in the early 1600s, widely accredited to a former shrine maiden named Okuni! She began the first kabuki troupe, which consisted of entirely women; mainly prostitutes and sex workers! Since most of these actresses were female and involved in sex work, this era of kabuki was very popular in red light districts!

-The stories generally depicted by kabuki were tales of excitement; forbidden love stories, doomed lovers, lovers’ suicides, clandestine meetings in the dead of night. The stories were heavily erotic and highly emotional, which were extremely appealing, especially in red light districts. It was known in its medium for exaggerations and vibrancy, which especially sensationalized its popularity!

-The era kabuki was popularized in was one of extreme social repression and uniform isolation. As such, as it gained popularity, kabuki also garnered negative attention from the Tokugawa Shogunate, the government at the time. Kabuki’s sensationalism posed a threat to their strict social hierarchy, and it was very heavily regulated.

-The more regulations put in place by the government, the more different kabuki became as compared to its original concept. Women were banned from the stage altogether in 1629, but even before this, troupes imitating Okuni’s original group began to introduce men to play female roles. These were known as onnagata, as I mentioned in my tags.

-One of the reasons why kabuki was so popular is because it was a form of protest and resistance- it was an outlet of expression amidst the political climate of isolation and conformity. Art is protest!!! Theatre is protest!!!! 🫶

these next few are widely paraphrased and not as closely fact checked, so take it with a grain of salt, but I think they’re neat lmao

- Women would offer sexual services to audience members who could afford it after performances, and it was popular enough that fights often broke out to win the actresses’ favor. Authorities did not love this, so they banned women from the stage and replaced them with younger onnagata

-Unfortunately this did absolutely nothing and actually probably made it worse, since samurai absolutely COULD NOT stop being gay for the actor twinks, and just started fighting over their attention instead lmao. So the government banned young boys from being actors too, and only men above a certain age could perform kabuki.

-This still did little to nothing and eventually onnagata were banned altogether until the mid-1600s. samurai just went apeshit for bitches onstage ig

-I don’t remember where I read this so it may not be true, but I think i remember reading that in order to continually water down kabuki’s popularity, the government just kept getting stricter about their visual regulations. first the onnagata could only be above a certain age, then they had to dress a certain way, and I think they might’ve had to make themselves look undesirable using makeup or something. and it still didn’t work so they banned em lmao. again. samurai love bitches onstage i guess

That’s about the extent of my knowledge!!! There’s many more centuries of kabuki history that I barely scratched the surface of, but it’s a fascinating art with fascinating history!!! Some of the sources I read during my research were Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theatre by Maki Isaka, and the kabuki exhibition from Beyond the Binary by Matthew Scott! It’s irrelevant to kabuki, but I’d also highly recommend Classic Drag by Sue Ellen Case. Very interesting insights on gender and theatre!

I hope this was interesting!!! Thank you so much for asking, I had a lot of fun researching this and I’m glad to share!! I’ve had an idea floating around for a while of a kny oc that was born into a kabuki acting troupe… maybe I should revisit it lmao

[aihoshiino]

It's finally complete! Holy crap!

Over the past week or so, I've completed my translation of Viewpoint B, an official short story set just before the events of the series that centers an unnamed B-Komachi member and a surprise encounter she has with Ai. Much like 45510, I consider this essential reading for anyone who considers Ai one of their favourite Oshi no Ko characters, so definitely check it out!

As stated before, this translation is a combo of my own comprehension, some MTL assistance and various Japanese dictionaries. I will be the first to admit that it could be better and if there are any translation errors - or if a better translation comes along - please do let me know! I also want to give a shout out to u/kinekocat who also did a preliminary translation of parts 2 and 3 they were kind enough to let me reference. It was extremely helpful in places where I found myself puzzled by words or idioms I didn't recognize!

TL NOTES:

１）My goal overall with this translation was to get this both in English and also, like... readable, lol! Viewpoint B is much longer than 45510 so I wanted to make sure it didn't read too clunkily and avoid any confusing wording. To that end, there are places here and there where I lightly reordered or combined certain sentences in English to flow a little better – there were multiple times where a character's speech would be interrupted by some single sentence aside in the narration that made the dialogue kind of stuttery and made it kind of hard (in English) to tell which character was talking at any given time. The content should still be largely the same, I just wanted to make sure nobody got lost in the more dialogue heavy exchanges (as I almost did!)

2) The B-Komachi member in this story is not Mei! There was initially some confusion on that fact because her name crops up in the dialogue, but it's clearer in context that this is a third party. This means the B-Komachi members who narrate 45510 and Viewpoint B are both unidentified – and not the same person. That makes two stories about B Komachi members whose name we don't know, huh.... dammit Aka, just tell us who they are!!!

3) There were a few details in the story that seemed to contradict previous information established about Ai and B-Komachi that were a little confusing to come across – for example, the number of founding B-Komachi members and the fact that Ai is implied here to not be one of then, even though the whole point of 45510's reveal was her being part of that group..??? In places where I came across these inconsistencies, I went the route of assuming it was my misunderstanding the text versus a weird retcon and just translated it more in line with the pre-existing information as best I could.

4) There are two places where the text gives an age for a character in one place only for that age to change when referenced again. Based on the short timeframe of the framing device and the story itself, I went with the assumption they were both typos and just kept the ages consistent in my translation to minimize any confusion.

[riftiee]

hi I got you on my tl because I follow the hld tag and saw the ask talking about what the game is about! I've beaten the game myself but I have pretty much no knowledge of the lore , I know you weren't wanting to talk about it bc spoilers but do you know where I could learn more? I don't think the wiki is a good place is it? is there a wiki that's not the Fandom one that might be better? :0

[SPOILERS FOR HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER]

Forgive me, I’m pretty sleepy and typing this on my phone, but I’ll take a crack at it ;]

sadly Hyper Light Drifter doesn’t really have a great comprehensive lore wiki that is all in one place. The game itself is very interpretive and the lore is pretty ambiguous, a big part of it is a lot about filling in the blanks.

An important thing to note is that the game itself was inspired by Alx Preston’s (the creator) congenital heart disease. There is a lot of symbolism relating to this concept throughout the game.

One of the most important parts of lore in the game comes from the Monoliths. Once you locate all of the Monoliths, you reach a library room containing every monolith plus a bonus walk of text. The bonus wall of text, after being translated, reads:

“HARNESSING A GREAT WELLSPRING, A PERFECT IMMORTAL CELL WAS CRAFTED TO BE IMBUED WITHIN ALL SENTIENT LIFE A NOBLE GOAL, THOUGH SUCH A POWER TERRIFIED OTHERS, AND BROUGHT RUIN AS ITS PURPOSE WAS TRANSMOGRIFIED THE ABHORRENT CELL STILL FESTERS DEEP IN THE CHAMBERS OF THIS WORLD”

Knowing that Judgement is also known as the Perfect Immortal Cell, we are able to figure out that HLD is set in a world where scientists (?) created the ‘immortal cell’, Judgement, by harnessing the power of something called the Great Wellspring [Anubis]. I believe the Perfect Immortal Cell’s original intention was to, well, grant the people of the Land of Light immortality… but some people were fearful of of this power, and so eventually, a war broke out, which caused the Immortal Cell to become corrupted, creating what we now know as Judgement.

It is unclear what the four Titans came from and what their intended purpose is, but we do know that they were somehow involved in the war. It is often theorized that Judgement was the one who ‘activated’ the titans. The four Titans ravaged the land, wiping out almost everything in their path, and completely wiping out the South zone, leaving it as an uninhabited desert. They were all eventually ‘killed’, leaving their ‘skeletons’ to litter the Land of Light.

After the Titans ravaged the land, in order to try and contain the Immortal Cell/Judgement, the remaining population gathered together and trapped the Immortal Cell in an underground cavern in order to prevent it from being able to harm anyone anymore. This same underground cavern under the central town is where the final battle of the game takes place.

The Immortal Cell (at least up until the events of the game) has festered beneath the earth ever sense, waiting. However, for some reason which is unclear, Judgement still haunts the Drifters, giving them frightening, violent visions and presumably causing them their illness.

Again, as I’ve states before, there is seriously just a TON of extra stuff that I can’t even begin to dig into… This game is absolutely full of little secrets. Alx Preston has also done a lot of Heart To Heart streams in which he talks about the lore of Hyper Light Drifter, so if you’re ever interested, those are a cool thing to check out; He gives a lot of interesting little details that we otherwise may not have every known!

Overall the game is intended to be pretty vague, and is extremely symbolic. A lot of it is meant to be left up to interpretation, so take it as you will…! There’s some really great posts out there on Reddit, as well as this Youtube video which does a MUCH better job than I could ever do at explaining the lore in much more detail.

Sorry if this was a bit convoluted or not what you asked for, but I do hope this helps “:] Thank you for the ask, as always!!!

[gwydionmisha]

how do you keep up with all these articles and websites? With twitter being down the shitter, and tumblr recycling month old posts, i havent been able to find a good central news source. I figured I could use RSS feeds, but these sites post SOOOO frequently that I find it overwhelming. any advice?

it's an eclectic process. I watch some TV news which gives me a heads up on things happening. So does dreamwidth and tumblr and friends with different areas of interests that will let me know about things happening in the areas they watch or in their countries. I also watch a couple of other progressive aggregators with sort of Venn diagram interest areas with mine. So some stuff over laps with things I already read, but there are more things I wouldn't have spotted on my own that are important and/or interesting. I also have a bunch of searches I do for longer running things, and things I'll do a random periodic search on to check in with ongoing situations that mostly fell out of the English language news cycle.

I started out doing history articles and archeology news, that sort of thing. Then there was a little commentary. Then Us politics went completely berserk and I ran out of time to properly read and post breaking news, let alone the things i still care about but are so much less world on fire. I try to squeeze some in at the edges never theless.

It helps that I read stupid fast with a high comprehension rate. also, I'm disabled and don't work, so I have time other people don't have, even working at whatever pace my body is up for that day. I can just go lie down if need to. I don't have to force myself to type much if my arm is completely fucked that day. Most people have a whole lot of time sucked into working and commuting. Most aggregators are working to some sort of schedule if only self imposed.

A lot of why my out put rate is so uneven from day to day is some days I am too busy or ill. Some days I do a ton of reading and prepping, but am too ill or tired or in pain and can't post much of it. The massive output Sunday evening was an example of the opposite thing, where I hadn't time to read, but I had a ton of links read and preorganized, so I could toss them onto the dreamwith scaffold and post them very fast at the same time on Tumblr, so I gnawed through some of my backlog pile.

(I post a sorted aggregate on dreamwidth once or twice a week at https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/. Tumblr they mostly go up in batches).

I am doing this on the most basic level out of love. I love learning stuff, hence my origins over on livejournal before the Russians got it, sharing links to articles about cool things people dug up. I grew up in a political family. I've been watching politics since the Ford/Carter debates. I do care about the world. I want things to be better. I can't march. I can signal boost, and write, and share links, and call politicians to complain about stuff. It means a lot to me when people I don't know look at what I do and it helps them in some way.

I would be reading news regardless. I learned at the age of eight that when confronted with horrors, that for me personally, I do best if I study the enemy. This allowed me to work out how best to resist and survive. all these decades later, my survival strategy dishes up news links organized in anxiety friendly ways on dreamwidth, and in the more chaotic but blacklistable form here on tumblr. I'm anal retentive about news tagging to help the people who aren't here for that or who aren't up to staring directly into the void with me and drinking from the news fire hose. I never even expect my closest friends to read all my output, because my volume is rather excessive.

Don't feel bad if you aren't up to it, some days or weeks or months. My adaptation is wildly atypical and for most people this would be unhealthy.

If the news is too much, it's okay to take a mental health break. I do ask that you vote, because we need everyone, regardless of country to save the world. The news will still be there when you are up to it

Any aggregate has a bias, both selection, and the other kind. there are things i don't cover because I don't know they are happening or because there isn't time. There are a whole lot of other things that I don't or barely cover because they aren't good for me. it is so much harder to see absence than presence.

My best advice to you, is to find someone like me who gets a lot of the things you are interested in so you can at least skim headlines. More than one is better, but if you get stressed out by the output keep it simple. Find some news sites you trust or if you have a good local paper get a subscription. (I used to read the paper everyday, but my local paper is extra bad, so I'm all online now). Read articles on things that interest you. If you are up to it do some searches on topics important to you.

Whatever you do, never read or watch one news source exclusively. Every source has biases. If all that history training has taught me anything, it's that.

Remember that no one can read everything and that's okay.

I have no idea if this helps. I just stopped to read your note before bed, so I'm a bit rambly.

[sonderwrit]

C91: Dr. Wang pretends to be a pyscho

I Have to Be a Great Villain - Masterpost

Wang Yi pretends to be a crazy scientist and takes note of a very interesting slime while verbal bullying a captive mermaid for show.

S-0: The work He Came from Horizon's Edge has a very short plot less than 200k words long. It takes place in a secret lab that researches strange organisms.

S-0: In the story, a new female researcher got to know and fall in love with a [mermaid] experimental subject, before the two of them escaped from the icy cage of the laboratory to the ends of the sky (horizon's edge)—in the vast sea.

S-0: Your mission is very simple. Just keep submitting requests to [Dissect that mermaid] to create tension for the male and female lead.

S-0: How's that? Since this is supposed to be a fluff work, it doesn't really matter whether the villain exists or not. Host can just laze around the lab to your heart's content, oh~

Wang Yi: Oh? There's no crap like a Main Plot Mission this time?

[Wang Yi: Biology Researcher. Due to his stellar research results, he's been placed in an important position in the research lab.]

S-0: Right. 

S-0: But if the male lead could still fall in love with you under these circumstances while struggling at death's door, the Main System might focus on troubleshooting and eliminating future [Male Protagonists] related to your missions?

S-0: Still…Host seemed to have promised Qin Xian something last time.

S-0: Were you sincere, or…?

Wang Yi: (Eliminate?)

WY: ….how could I actually mean it.

WY: I just reassured him back then because I was afraid I'd trigger him to try drastic measures.

WY: (But since it's a promise, I have to fulfill it…)

S-0: Oh, that's good then.

S-0: In any case, this story's all about capturing strange creatures beyond human comprehension and doing experiments on them underground. There's no such thing as death or intrigue, just experimental subjects waiting for you to cut them up.

WY: All right, I got it. I'll go check out the male lead first, then find a few scapegoats back to experiment on them and that'll be enough, right? (I'm familiar with lab experiments.)

S-0: Yes! As long as you uphold your crazy scientist persona, Host can do whatever you want during other times.

WY: Wow…Sao Ling's being so gentle all of a sudden. 

S-0: Heheh…

S-0: It's also because my error dragged you into this in the first place. But if Host recovers quickly, perhaps next time we can try…something more epic?

WY: ….

WY: I've got stuff waiting for me here first!

—

[Building for housing experimental subjects]

WY: Greetings, I'm Dr. Wang here to pick out experimental subjects.

Guard: Please enter.

Whoooosh~

WY: Sheesh, the security's pretty tight here. (It's just one door after another.)

S-0: Precisely. After all, the subjects kept in here are all—dangerous organisms.

Weird-Multieyed Walrus: WOOAHHHH! *STARES*

Wang Yi: Huu…impressive. All these are mutant species?

S-0: A portion of them, yes. Some of the subjects here were forced to undergo radioactive treatment. Others came from the deep sea. There are even specimens from outer space.

WY: Ah, what's this thing?

S-0: ?

WY: The description says this slime is extremely abnormal and can regenerate itself no matter how many times you cut it.

Slime: !

S-0: Oh, looks like the lab has fantasy creatures too. Is Host interested?

[Jelly-Textured Super Regenerative Slime - Has ability to regenerate back to original form no matter how many times it's been cut.]

WY: Hm, wouldn't it be super convenient if I brought it back? I can dice it up as much as I want without worrying about hurting anything…

Slime: WHOOM.

WY: ! It's acting up? Is it aggressive?

Slime: BANG BANG

S-0: The records don't indicate as such. It just reads that it doesn't need to eat but all other data is unknown, and the hopes that the staff here can research it soon.

WY: Then there's definitely some risk involved.

Slime: BANG

WY: I'll keep looking.

Slime: BOOM BANG BOOM

S-0: Fuu, the area ahead of us should be where the [Male Protagonist] is.

Slime: BANG BANG BANG

Slime: … … *slides down*

Slime: (Hungry.. … hungry.. …HUNGRY… …)

WY: Woooow~

WY: (The mermaid that only exists in children's stories! Although he's male, he's super pretty.)

S-0: Fish, delicious!

WY: Cough.

Mermaid: ?

WY: (This is wrong, I have to play the part of a pyscho doctor.)

WY: …

WY: (But that's not my only goal right now…)

WY: Hah.

WY: What a lovely organism.

WY: Seeing such a dazzling exterior can't help but make me think…what sort of scenes I could see inside its body?

WY: (If this mermaid is Qin Xian, then he should be able to read my thoughts.)

WY: What do you think?

WY: (Hey, I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm here as a person to fulfill the promise and rescue you back into the sea.) [Don't be scared off by my psycho acting.]

WY: (Are you Qin Xian? Or maybe you go by another name, but can still read people's thoughts?)

WY: (If that's a yes then move your head, please.)

Mermaid: *turns away*

WY: ?!

S-0: Host, your performance was great!

WY: (Why'd he swim away? HUHHHHHHH~? Was it hard to understand what I was thinking? Did he not get it?)

WY: Hmph, I'll pick that for my experimental subject. Leaving now.

WY: (That can't be right. Did the male protagonist not awaken his mind-reading powers yet, so he couldn't read a thing?)

WY: (Ahhhhhh! When will he see them?)

Slime: *notices Wang Yi*

WY: (Do I have to come back and try again everyday?)

WY: (That's gonna be troublesome…)

Slime: THOOM BANG

Wang Yi: (So loud)

Slime: BANG BANGBANG

—

OMAKE

WY: There's no prize for guessing, but who does everyone think is Qin Xian this time?

Slime: (Me! It's meeeee!)

[187days]

Day Thirty-Five

I teach the same Global Studies lesson four times in a day, but sometimes it goes very differently in each section. Like, today I did fill-in notes about the origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (students got a paper copy of my slides with some of the words left blank, I projected the slides and talked my way through them, they filled in the blanks as I went), and then I assigned an article specifically about Judaism to read and annotate. It's a simple, no fuss and no frills introductory lesson that's usually effective, but today I'd say results varied.

A few of the boys in my first section kept , winding each other up on purpose, disrupting the class for the attention. It's a very "middle school" behavior, and I've written before that I've come to expect it. Most days they settle pretty quickly, so it's not a big deal. But today they never really did, which was frustrating, but I just had to keep calm and carry on, and try to teach as best I could.

Next two sections? Everything went super well. Students were attentive and engaged as I went through the slides, they asked questions and shared their prior knowledge, it was fantastic. Then they worked hard on the annotation assignment, most of them finished before the bell, I was very pleased.

It took students in my last section a long time to settle, but once they did it was all good. They asked some great questions, we had a solid discussion about the "Big Three" religions. A lot of them didn't get the annotation done before the afternoon bell, but they're generally good about doing work outside of class, so I'm not too concerned about that.

So yeah. Same lesson, totally different outcomes.

It makes sense because students are different, after all, and class dynamics are different. It's just that it can be really striking sometimes, just how significant those differences are. I was actually being observed by Mr. V during the first and third sections, so he got to see that, too. And I think it's good to watch a veteran teacher when their teaching is on fire, but it's also good to watch them when it's not, so I'm glad he saw both in my room.

As for APGOV, that was excellent. We read and discussed, in the words of my students, "a chonky article" (note: it was six pages) about the federal budget appropriations process. I asked them how they wanted to tackle it- read it all silently, then discuss, read aloud together, etc...- and they decided to chunk it into sections, read silently, and discuss after each section. I thought that worked really well, and I was able to check their comprehension and field their questions easily. The House of Representatives gaveled into session as we were wrapping up, so I pulled up CSPAN's live stream and we watched a bit of the debate about who should become Speaker. It's cool to be able to watch something like that live, and, gratifyingly, my students asked me to send the link in chat so they could keep watching after my class ended.

Gotta love that!

I had a department meeting in the afternoon, and I made it quick because I really just wanted to communicate a couple reminders and ask for teachers' input about next year's budget. I had about twenty minutes to spare afterwards before I had to log on Google Meet for a union board meeting, so I just stayed at my desk and got work done until then. The meeting agenda was fairly short, but we ended up talking longer than expected because we were also sharing what it's been like working in the midst of the district's staffing shortage. The experience varies from school to school, grade level to grade level, really, but it's challenging no matter what.

After the meeting wrapped, there was a bit of prep work I wanted to get done, so I stayed a little longer, made it to my car just in time to beat the late buses out of the parking lot. Always a win when that happens!

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

Toxic Shock

The Assassin of Mediocrity

Book Review

Stephen Jay Morris

4/2/2024

©Scientific Morality.

Recorded history must be correct and precise. Otherwise, why bother to study it? There are thousands of years of lives that existed before you were born. Some people don’t care about the past. Then, there are the curious and those who want to change history to fit their political or religious biases. My generation has received the most criticism from authors who want to discredit every rebellious generation that ever lived in the towns and cities across the USA. From the Beatniks of the 50’s, to the Hippies/Yippies of the 60’s and 70’s, all the way to the Punks of the 80’s. Most of that has come primarily from reactionary conservatives. A lot of suckers believed the propaganda and stereotypes that the political right wing utilized in their books, so as to mischaracterize the culture rebels and artists of those times. I’m not even going to mention their names. All of it was to say that the so-called woke and Left are evil.

This book, the subject of my review, is crucial within the rank and file of the cultural revolutions of the past. It sets the record straight about the punk movement. Critics who stereotyped leftists as lazy bums who lived off government programs and bought pot with their welfare checks blatantly lied.

There is what’s known as the Anarchist work ethic. One subject of that ethic is this book’s author, Bill Sassenberger. He was a Yippie who became a supporter of garage bands and the punk culture. He went from being homeless in 1977 and working in various low paying jobs, like being an apple picker in Washington state. He drove an ice cream truck in Orange County. Somehow, he ended up in Pomona, California and took over a headshop, converted it into a record shop/clothing shop, and sold fanzines for the “Blank Generation.” It got to the point where he released records on his own independent label.

This book is anchored throughout by reminiscences of his beloved wife, Julianna, and her fight to recover from a debilitating stroke. I recall meeting her casually, but never really got to know her. Bill writes about her in detail and in admiration. I’m sorry that I never got to know her.

The original punks were art school drops-out in Hollywood, California. They were elitists creeps. However, the punk scene eventually spread to suburbia, which energized the scene in the 80’s. Kids were starting bands left and right. Bill nurtured the suburban movement by putting on concerts and releasing records. He even had his own radio show on a college radio station.

In this book there is never a dull moment. Bill’s story includes the shakers and the movers of the punk scene. It’s part autobiographical, part travel log. It contains American history, suspense, compassion, and music. Bill clearly describes his moments with the trials and tribulations of a Baby Boomer. Perseverance became the order of the day. He struggled with poverty, crime, reprobates, the mentally ill, and a sick wife. Fortunately for all, he lived to write about it.

Bill’s writing style is unlike that of Jack Kerouac, with the lyrical poetic props that permeate the novel, “On the Road.” On the contrary, Bill’s style is comprehensible and gets to the point. His recollections are a light-hearted romp through experiences and other anecdotes.

The book is filled with historic photos, band fliers, and fantastic artwork, all of which is printed on glossy paper stock. I must protest, though: my failing eyesight struggled with the small font. Luckily, my trusty reading glasses served me well. Also, Bill includes comments about his book by people he knew.

I hope to Buddha that more books like this are produced. I have a friend named David Spaner who is writing a book about the Yippies. He is a Canadian living in Vancouver. No publishing date has materialized. I do hope he gets published. We need more books about the New Left, starting with the 60’s. Bill’s book is the first shot into the 1980’s American suburban youth atmosphere.

This book was so compelling! I finished it in just four days. I hope “Toxic Shock” by Bill Sassenberger, becomes an underground success.

Buy this book!  If you value history like I do.

For more info on this book, go to:

toxicshockrecords.com

[measuringbliss]

Spider-Man Read-Through 035: Stalked By The Spider Slayer (ASM 167-170)

MASTERPOST

In this batch...

Aah, this storyline reaches its climax!

Ross Andru opens this batch with his traditional (and lovely!) building views. Here, Jameson's shooting lasers at Spidey thanks to a suit made by that scientist we've seen a few times.

Well, he's shooting at slides, not at Spidey proper, but that's a detail.

In the meantime, a glowing fireball-shaped human causes a car wreck, but it doesn't matter because we've got some delicious slice of life!

I love the way the team draws eyes in close-ups, it's beautiful. Also, why not? That's a nice plot for May.

Seeing her like that, Peter can't help but wonder... maybe it's time to tell her he's Spider-Man!

His thoughts are interrupted by feeling that someone's watching him. This is, what, the third time he has that feeling now? I wonder what's going on with that plotline!

He asks to be alone, and MJ is comprehensive, and after a quick costume change, he stumbles upon... Jameson in his new robot suit!

Remember that Jameson believes the real Peter Parker is dead, as he saw the pictures that someone took of Spidey getting rid of his clone. He believes our Peter is an imposter, and that's why he was watching him.

Or... maybe not? Jameson simply says that he knew following Peter would lead him to Spidey. Hmm. What's up with that?

Anyway, this is the return of the Spider-Slayer! We already saw that same scenario twice before, as a caption helpfully informs us.

Can't wait to see what's in Jameson's brilliant mind.

MEANWHILE.

My jaw dropped! Time to check back my previous batches because I'm sure I saw that guy...

...Okay, can't find him, but I know it! Maybe it was just under the same role, but he has the most suspicious face to ever feature in this magazine. Is he a hypnotist? I hope he's not doing anything bad to Harry :( Like bringing back his Green Goblin memories...

Later, Spidey surprises Robertson in his car and gets a stern reprimand. It's funny because this is the second time I see a panel on my dash, and read the page not long after! I knew it was coming because I recognized the art style and figured it would come soon.

And it's well-deserved.

So Spidey finally goes to Jameson's office and gets the famous envelope. But before checking at home (gotta build suspense!), he's distracted by our firelight and follows him.

Spidey immediately attacks WOTW even though the latter says he doesn't want to fight, which I suspect was a lack of coordination between the artist and the script because it seems really odd.

There's an envelope quidproquo, then Jameson's remote controlled robot arrives to make the situation even messier.

In the next issue, Jameson is left dissatisfied, while WOTW leaves... literally. Thankfully for JJ, Dr Madison says she'll build a better Spider-Slayer. Oh dear...

Yup. The plot moves forward!

WOTW returns to his creator, Jonas Harrow!!!!!!

Wait, who?

Oh. Okay.

So WOTW and Spidey fight on 5th Avenue! What a fun panel. It's actually nice to see them interact in this decor, feels quite original.

Spidey "we always have a choice"-izes WOTW, who realizes he can't kill Spidey and lurches at the doctor who's in the crowd... and disintegrates, by the baddie's doing, with the simple press of a button.

Time for #169! It's a great cover (check the first pic of this post if you don't believe me).

That's funny, Len Wein, because I was thinking about this run so far and---Sorry, it was too easy.

I wouldn't say Wein's run has been dull so far, but I'm not exactly impressed so far, it seems very... inconsequential. I'll have to see how it evolves (and this batch's intrigue does reel me in!).

Marla Madison is a girlboss, but she can only do so much.

Jameson is kind of over this, though.

You know, I can appreciate what Wein's doing here. He's creating some sort of status quo with those two characters regularly fighting Spidey, a bit like Lex Luthor and Spider-Man, but I can't say I'm particularly attached to this idea.

Meanwhile, the evil (and devilishly hot) doctor returns!

Hm. He's visibly less... intense here. And his thought bubble doesn't show murderous intents. Intriguing.

Just as Peter gets home, someone rings the bell. It's Jameson!

Great fit, Peter. I'm almost tempted to replicate it. "Yes, I'm cosplaying Earth 616 Peter Parker on one page of issue 169, huh-huh!".

That hair grab, though! Is it me, or...? I mean. Some people will see it.

After some prolonged hair grabbing, Jameson surmises Peter's not wearing a mask after all and shows his envelope, that Peter put back in his desk last issue.

What's Peter's explanation?

Oh! Well done, handsome. That's ingenious!

So... Harry's stint as the Green Goblin is public? Wow. Just... wow. That's. Peter... *sigh*

Anyway, he looks so adorable, small-ish then very happy. Adorable!

That's an interesting panel on the left. That's how Marvel wishes to present itself: admired and read by everybody. A bit on the nose imo. The yellow border reinforces its meta aspect.

Spidey ends up at a super secret mega evil lair with mooks shooting at them. He gets rid of them, sees a large shadow and calls out the Kingpin... I grimace...

Except...

Huh. Not a name that inspires trust, you know.

In the readers' letters, the team says Len Wein is known for his long-range plots, and I'm not surprised. I'm here for it. Kinda. "He has the storyline worked out on THOR for the next two years. [...] He tends to lose an issue-by-issue perspective on things." Huh-huh.

#170 time!

Yeah, I had a feeling. He's a Captain America #192 expat, and it's not the first time we see stuff from another magazine come up here in Wein's run...

So that happens, Spidey gets essentially hypnotized by Faustus's smoke and helps them rob a factory or something (it's actually a fun sequence!), but more importantly, girl bonding!

Meanwhile, some guy rents May's house that she owns to retrieve something...

Dr Faustus seems to be an anti-smoking ad personified, and I'm like, sure, why not. At the end, Spidey takes care of him too.

Overall, it's a fun batch, but the Spidey/Peter ratio is completely, utterly messed up. Decompressed storytelling: why not! But that's not it. Still, there was fun stuff.

Also, know who we're going to see in the next post?