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mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune · 11 months ago

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My Second Pet Cat Had Surgery (Also My Thoughts About Alastor Situation)

[Note: Mature Audience Readers Only...also because this will get off topic from my talking about Alastor and what went on with my cat...I'm going to have this on "Mature" instead of "For Everyone" just in case...also reading this is optional. and even if the words in this might not be super dirty or super mature, but I'm still having this in Mature just in case...]

first I want to say, that I came so close to losing my second cat, who I was lucky was given to me when she was just a fluffy baby kitten...

and let me tell you this, she had never went to the vet before or been away from the house before that we currently live in...

and ever since after the surgery, she has been extra clingy and even resting on my chest or lap....

but also if she wasn't taken to the vet on time (which lucky it wasn't too late and she was taken on time...) or if those who were treated her made the wrong mistake and cause something really bad to happen to her...

my thoughts were, if I had the power to....

I would start Omnigeddon...

something like Armageddon, but it would involve freezing Hell or at least half of it over and basically going all Alessa Gillespie & Carrie White...even if it might not really happen, but my thoughts still went to the whole wanting to do a Omnigeddon if I lost my cat.

even though I am trying not to become like them, still love the movies of Silent Hill, and I do still hope there will be a third movie.

I still haven't worked up the nerve to watch the new versions of Carrie yet....I'll try to get to it at some point...

just like I should try to finally check my blood type to see if it will come out O RH D Negative for the third time...

I really need to stop procrastinating that whole triple checking to see if my blood type will come out the same for a third time...

it has also been a while since I checked to see if one of those modern radios will act weird on me again when I turn the switch on and move my fingers close to it and it either got all static sound, or what is playing goes off or on or something around good or poor frequency.

then again, like I said before....it does appear to only happen sometimes so it might not happen all that much.

I also want to say that even though it has been days and some weeks since my cat had the surgery, I decided to spend most of them on one of my game consoles while letting my sweet fluffy baby who is even more clingy since what happen...lay on me most of the time and well, there is still the situation where I need to eat something, but we do find a way to work around it.

but let me be perfectly clear, I still like Alastor, and I had found a video that talked about some unpleasant things...which I ain't gonna repeat but I was peeved off...but hopefully things will work out.

and like I pointed out before, I'm not like Other Earth Angels...

I know perfectly well I'm Defective, and the whole self-nickname "Eveningstar" mostly has to do with the funny story that had to do with my Mom when she was still pregnant with me...

that she NEVER got Morning sickness, she only got Evening sickness...

also let me point this out, that I may have before...

not all my Ancestors are white, and I know some of my ancestors come from different religions as well...

and while I use to go by Christian, and I haven't come out to my family about going by Neo-Spiritual, well unless some end up ruining it but hopefully that wont happen.

but yeah another thing I can't come out to my family about is that I am Aroaceflux, well that and Fictoromantic but they may not care much about that last one...

and yeah, before I figured out I'm Ace, I unknowingly been picking up certain toxic-lust energy, and it is part of the reason I wear my gem bracelets all the time....if I'm going to feel any form of "lust" or whatever, I rather it be of my own accord...

but it would appear that I can still be weak to those toxic energies when I sleep, I may or may have brought up the whole second close call when I was sleeping...which lucky some old man and some woman with long white hair and I think pale skin, kept me safe in that second close call dream, that was possibly still a dream-walking thing.

so yeah, even though I took the big dream-catcher down before, I decided to put it back up again after that second close call but instead have it hanging outside my door and pray to both God and Goddess that a type of protective around my room, like on the walls, door, windows and I think the floor...

the other stuff I use my bracelets for besides protecting me from the toxic-lust energy from others, well at first it wasn't just to protect me from the human ones...

I know the first reason I decided to wear a gem bracelet while I sleep, was because a Incubus scared me awake...

like I had explained before, I was on my back and it was like being between awake and asleep or maybe like self aware...

and it was dark and well, I didn't see the Incubus but I felt them touch me in a way I ain't gonna say....and well even if it was for a split moment or second, it was enough to scare me awake.

also my being Aroaceflux/Fictoromantic, is a separate matter from my being scared of being hurt in a certain way...

and I know I talked about the panic attack I had in 2015 in a car, where I was alone in the said car and I ended up hitting my head on the ceiling of it...

even if there can be some guys that could be trusted and who wouldn't do such a thing, but I rather have my first be something that could be like a emotional bond between the heart and soul, and not just the physical that some humans seem to put the whole physical part as more important, and despite what some may think...

there are some Aces who ain't Maidens anymore and have Significant Others, and some of their partners might respect their wishes if they do not wish to engage in the whole certain snu-snu at times.

I mean not everyone is the same, and not all Aces are the same.

of course even though I can still feel the whole emotional crushes, and as weird as it might be I can have a type of multi-crushes but they might not be the very big type at the moment.

but I haven't felt much of the other type of attraction for maybe a few months...but I can still feel a bit of the small crush feelings.

I mean I have crushes on Fizz and Ozzie from Helluva Boss, and those two are one of my OTPs.

and I started to call them Adorkable Sweet Potatoes.

another weird thing, besides my calling those two Adorkable Sweet Potatoes....is the new view I have the Robotic Fizzarollis.

is that since Fizzarolli aka Fizz and sometimes Fizzy, is the Robo-Fizzes Template and Ozzie basically makes them but apparently feels uncomfortable about it...

well I can't help but view Ozzie and Fizz being like the Robo-Fizzes own Dads...

well maybe I will talk about that in a post after this one...

I also want to point out that after watching and hearing what I found on a video that had to do with Alastor, I was shaking some, and I had to wait a bit for my shaking to cool off some before I finally signed on after some weeks.

I did do some drawings on Christmas, that one of them is a bit of a Crossover and well the other being my new fave OTP...

well technically even the Crossover drawing has a ship drawing in it, which I'm calling Mamtella.

I was thinking after seeing the video that talks about it, I should wait to post those drawings, because how I was feeling.

but maybe I will wait a while and see if I change my mind and might post those drawings on here later, like maybe a few hours from now.

I think I should at least try to keep calm and try not to let all my anger out because of what I had found out about...

and hopefully it can work out and Alastor will be safe.

I know that I also pointed out, there is a reason why I have my gem bracelets act as sealing charms and limiters...

because after the whole using a pendulum for the first time and learning a bit on how I can make it move with my mind, or like have it move by a type of asking "Yes" Or "No" ways, but I haven't been using it as much lately and I'm making sure to only use it once in a while.

but because of my using the pendulum, I think it may had ended up unlocking something...

which I found out when I held a pop bottle by it's lid and it started to move a bit like my pendulum, well a pop bottle and even a pen.

of course necklaces that has a gem on it or even a locket still moves in the same way like my pendulum, but I don't want to bother to try to fix that and it's okay.

also I had make sure the gem bracelets still work to limit it so it doesn't end up like that whole pop bottle moving like my pendulum thing, even when I have to take half of the gem bracelets off and even if I do, they should still work and still work even when I have to take all my gem bracelets off every once in a while...but the rest of the time, they are staying on.

I don't think I would be able to control powerful telekinesis or whatever else it could be called besides that, which is why as much as I love the movies the characters come from...

I want to try to not become like Alessa or Carrie.

even if I might be a bit paranoid about it, but better safe than sorry.

I still want to give the Lucifer that lives in our dimension or close to it, the whole cold hands to face punishment.

and no matter the multiverse in the fictional universes where he has his own counterparts, well him and the other 7 deadly sins plus the 8th...who might not really be evil and needs a hug, ice cream and emotional healing...it might be my being weird or paranoid or both, but I couldn't help but have the thought I suffer from the 8th one at times, well I had those two depressions and sometimes I do get my not so great feeling days...

but anyway like I was trying to say, no matter the multiverse, those Eon-Boomers ain't the boss of me...

but I'm okay, well I did get really peeved when trying to progress in a video game I was playing and I was getting really mad, I'm taking a break from playing it at the moment but I think some part of the game is broken, like one of the switches can't turn on even when ya point at it...the other two switches work just fine all but the one where Princess Quest 2 is....and yeah I'm talking about FNAF Security Breach...I got jump-scared by Deejay (DJ-Musicman) a few times when trying to go turn on the switches.

I had to leave that dance and arcade place, and go check out the other places in the Mega Pizzaplex and try to get those switches later.

also even though I was planing not to go down that path in the game, but watching the walkthrough of FNAF Ruin DLC, and playing or watching a walkthrough of the game where Gregory doesn't tell Freddy the whole truth about how he really got the upgrade...

it is pretty clear that Gregory in the canon ain't no angel...

we could view every fan's fanon version of Gregory as being the Good-Gregory, or like there being two of him.

and if a fan wants to, they can also have the canon Gregory show up in their fanon au works.

even if Freddy's friends were after him, but Roxy might end up even more after him after what happens in one of the endings in the Ruin DLC, and one of the reasons why Roxy will go after Gregory and not just for taking her eyes....it would be for revenge for someone he left for dead.

it could be possible that the elevator ending, could be the canon ending, even if there is the other endings, but it is possible that what happens in the elevator ending, is the true ending.

but we wont know unless it is proven in a future game, where we get to have a new playable character who could be looking for Cassie.

and anyway, Magic can take on different forms and not all of them will be the same...and my view on what I can do with a pendulum, and well using food salt on some gems could be a type of magic.

well I have been basically praying to both the Heavenly Father/God and Earthly Mother/Goddess on how I want the gems to work and function...

and yes like I pointed out before, I believe in a Goddess now too.

and even if I can still try to still believe Jesus still has some good in him, but because of some stuff that I had read before that involve him and some stuff that has been going on.

(if you wish to skip some of this and go back to reading a bit about my thoughts on Alastor, watch out for the bold words.)

I had started to try to pray for him, and I know not everyone has to agree about it or the theory I have that has to do with why he would possibly be involved in it....and if Archangel Samael is a part of that, I know it isn't possible for me to go all Feral Earth Angel on him...

but with how some of the Eon-Boomers work, their insensitive actions make me want to slap them...

and there is a reason why Mammon is on the wishful type list of those I wish to punch in the groin...

if it is true that humans were puppet into messing with that Covid-19 so recklessly without making sure even if working on a vaccine, to make sure it didn't get out into the world.

and well I do not approve of scapegoating humanity, just to make a point...

I still think I may still want to grab both the Antichrist and Jesus by their ears...if Heavenly Father & Earthly Mother gave me permission to, I would do so...

and well, what I want to say that I think the reason Jesus would end up doing certain actions that would be harmful and even put more harm to the fragile balance between the Masculine and Feminine energies....which would of been fixed a bit more properly ages and centuries ago, if it weren't for the fact Lucifer and the others had to do that little fight at the worse possible time...of all the times he could pick to do that rebellion thing, he had to choose that time.

but anyway, I can't really remember much about the info about it, and I maybe have to look it up, but I know it had to do with Jesus going to Heck when he died...

which my new theory about Hell, is that it wasn't always called Hell, and only became that way because of a really bad imbalance and it was once a part of Omni-Mom's (I'm weird and that is what I started to view Earthly Mother....) Earth Kingdom, or like some part of the Afterlife version of it, which might be Eden.

what became known as Hell, had been possibly quarantined and was possibly full of toxic and negative or something close to miasma.

and yeah not everyone has to agree about this theory and what I believe could be true, but I think if Jesus did certain bad stuff, it might have to do with him becoming infected by that really bad energy that was already there way before Lucifer and the other princes took it over, they may have fell and landed there, but it could be possible they didn't transform into forms that was less angelic looking, until they spend too much time in the toxic, negative miasma energy that was caused by some bad stuff that was going on.

and well it could be possible if it is true, Jesus could of not been aware that he became infected by something that had also infected Lucifer and the others, but there could be some who have a semi-immunity to it, like those who become infected a bit by it, something in their soul could end up fighting it off....like having antibodies.

also besides the whole finally letting it process that Jesus is also family, cause of the whole we are both related to King David.

but I'm going to still see it being a blessing to be a descendant of King Solomon, that still ain't a curse but a blessing.

plus I still think King David should of punished that sicko son of his...

I like being a purple blood better than being a blue blood, plus calling me a blue blood would be incorrect because not all my ancestors are royals.....

and yeah I'm still weird to figure out I'm technically a "Earth Angel Princess" and I have no idea how many there are.

also I had thought about either early this December or before it became December, about if Jesus did have a daughter, he wouldn't just be a Messiah to her, because to her, he would be her Dad first.

and for some weird reason I couldn't help but cry when thinking he may have put his work and duty above spending time with her...

like parents can be in the gray at times, and sometimes they might not know they are hurting the feelings of their own children.

well hopefully if he did have a daughter, he made sure to have some kind of balance and didn't make her feel not loved enough.

also to the topic of Alastor, his abilities could still be magic related and he can still have power over the radio waves.

one of the info about him, is that he is of a mixed race.

and well, he should still keep his heritage in both his human life and afterlife as a Overlord.

it might be interesting if it turn out that Alastor had certain abilities when he was still alive as a human on Earth.

don't know what his blood type is, but if it was like my blood type, when that would explain it, even if it would be a different type of RH Negative.

and yeah I get the whole some RH Negative types are suppose to be descendants of the Nephilim who are suppose to be the offspring of some Watcher Angels...

I wonder if I would have the permission to double flip the birdies to those Grandpas...?

not sure if Nephilim would be mention in Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss or not, but even if they do, what would be left of the original ones would still be their descendants.

I still like the idea of a crossover fan fic about Panty & Stocking with Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss, which would be like a Fanon Crossover Timeline.

I want to try to do a crossover of that sometime...

I think if I did have a twin sister, I would be the Stocking while my twin sister would be Panty.

if a guy can't understand why I don't like being touched at times or I might not be ready certain stuff, and if I had to choose between the guy to go on a date with or sweets, video games and awesome shows and movies that I like.

it would still be the sweets, video games and shows as well as movies I like.....well those, and books, and some of those books being comics.

I would also be the weird introvert while my twin sister is the extrovert...

I think if I did have a older twin sister, she would use her big sister authority to make me out more even on days when I don't want to.

I would go all "hiss like a cat" mode on her and try to hide under my covers if I have to...I wouldn't be surprised if she grab me by my leg and pulls me out all while telling me to "stop acting like a weird cat."

of course I would be the weird twin, I was born weird and was probably still weird even in my past lives....which it might be a good thing not to fully remember some of them, like only getting bits and pieces but not full pictures.

and even if it does turn out that Phenex is like technically my "Dad" through some form of soul fragments merging together, even with the other soul parent being another Earth Angel...

his hope of returning to heaven might very well be hopeless, even if I do end up going, I still might want to find the edge of the clouds and try to go back to Earth, maybe to go live like a Nymph.

but if it looks too high up, I'm likely to freeze like a deer in the headlights.

and yeah, there is the whole if it does turn out that Phenex is technically my Dad (all while still sharing DNA with my human Dad in this present life.) I guess that would make me a type of Demi-Goetia.

I love the hybrids in Helluva Boss, and I'm still going to view Blitz's Mom as 1/2 Imp & 1/2 Succubus and even if canon proves otherwise, I can still view it in fanon even if it might not end up being canon.

I think later, I will watch Ah My Goddess, I think I can relate to one of the characters in it, which I mean Belldandy's older sister, Urd.

and maybe after I watch Ah My Goddess, I will watch Transformers.

I hope things do get better, and I hope the stuff that I had found out about Alastor, can get better....I had no idea that was even going on.

well, I have another reason to be Semi-Misanthrope.

and I seriously don't want to hear "oh, your just being that way because your white." or "oh, your just being a white supremacy"

I do NOT want to hear that...

and well, even if I have calm down and I'm not shaking like I was before, but it doesn't mean I'm still not happy about finding out what has been going on.

but hopefully it will calm down, and even if my whole using gems to protect myself might be strange to some...

but once again, my first time to use the gem bracelet to protect myself while I sleep, has to do with that Incubus...

didn't see them, but they still scared me awake.

my form of "magic" might be weird and strange, and yeah I don't think I have to use the food salt all the time other than for placing it on some food...

but I have been thinking about wanting to throw some of the food salt around the house because of certain reasons.

well, maybe I wont have to do that...

and well there is some stuff that I believe now, I can't really share fully with my family.

and there might always be the type of Toxic-Religious people who will misuse the words "may the lord have mercy on you" or "may god have mercy on you" if ya become open about starting to believe in the Omni-Mom as well...

and if someone cries and says that your hurting their feelings by throwing those words at them, a little advice...

please listen and stop misusing those words, cause that ain't freaking helping and it sure wasn't helping me when a toxic-religious jerk was throwing those misused words at me and no matter how it made me cry and was hurting my feelings, that jerk just kept throwing one of those words at me.

and there might always be some humans in this world, who don't know the whole facts and there can be really bad misinterpretation.

and if it is okay with those who do read this, I rather not go into the whole talk about the bad stuff I just found out about today that has to do with Alastor and hope things will work out.

I would express how mad I felt when I saw the video, but I want to try to keep calm and not give into that really REALLY mad side.

and to the topic of my cat, when I'm able to, I will say what it was that could of had me lose them if they weren't given help on time...

I can talk about what type of surgery it was that they needed, maybe in a future post...

and I wasn't joking about the Omnigeddon thing, my thoughts were that if I lost them, like if anything went wrong in the surgery or like if she wasn't help on time...if I had the power to, I would do a Omnigeddon...yeah might not really be possible but I'm weird and those were my thoughts when the stuff going on with my cat was going on...

and since I know it is possible not everyone will be interested in reading this post, even when it gets off topic...

which is why I gave the option, meaning no one had to read this if they don't want to, but for those who did read all that is written in this post and didn't skip some parts...

I hope you can understand why I would be not very happy about what I had found and my hope that things work out, as well as the other stuff that I talked about along with my fluffy baby who if I had the power to....I would do a Omnigeddon for, which lucky can't really happen.

if ya Bill Cipher involved, it would be Omni-Weirdgeddon.

also I don't want this to be reblog, so do NOT reblog this without my permission...so yeah anyway, I'm going to check out some fan art to make me a bit more happy and I will do another post in a hour or a few, and maybe I will post the drawings I drew on Christmas in those few hours...

PS:

even if I do go into more detail about the video I found out about today that has to do with Alastor, but I rather not talk about the deeper details and well, I know if I do try to, it is likely my words will be misinterpreted. and I want to try to avoid that...

I still love Alastor, and I'm still gonna hope things work out.

I also still love my fluffy baby and once again if I was able to, I would still do a Omnigeddon if they weren't taken to the vet on time.

#do not reblog without permission #do not reblog #mature audiences only #alastor hazbin hotel #my cat #fluffy baby #my thoughts #talking about feelings #hopefully it gets better #december 2023

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unmaskedagain · 5 years ago

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Bridges Burned (Mama always told me that I should play nice. But she never met you)

Just a little something I worked on today. Not fond of the end But I write at work. And I ran out of time. Sorry. I

Marinette officially lost all her friends one sad Friday afternoon. She hadn’t been surprised when it happen. Most had been distant from her lately; cancelling plans or even avoiding in her the hall. Some wouldn’t even bother to hide their dislike and outright glared at her. However, it was Alya who decided the bridge should finally burn. She accused Marinette of bullying poor Lila and disavowing the bluenette; asking the entire the class if anyone considered Marinette a friend anymore.

While a few outright yelled no, no one spoke up, afraid to get any negative attention on themselves and be ostracized like their once friend.

The entire class had latched on to all Lila’s wonderful stories and her promises of meeting famous people, of having their career goals and dreams come true. They didn’t want to hear or even think she was lying, Lila Rossi, as far as they were concerned, were the girl that could make things happen. Marinette Dupain-Cheng, while a great friend, at times was just a baker’s daughter; someone who was clearly jealous of all of Lila’s success. Still, they expect the bluenette to give in and admit she was wrong when face when the prospect of losing all her friends.

However, Alya didn’t get the tears or apologies and promises to be better from the Asian girl like she’d expected. Instead Marinette looked her up and down, scoffed, and said, “Okay. Then we’re not friends.” That was it. No arguments. No meltdowns. Despite attempts from others to get a reaction, Marinette just shrugged it all off. It was clear, that she didn’t care. Lila, for once, was honestly frustrated to tears because nothing went like she thought it would. How could she win over the other girl, if said girl didn’t care enough to compete.

However, it was the following Monday that the class started to realize just how badly they messed up.

It started very simple, the class overheard Marinette handing a note to Bustier confirming she was leaving for the day at lunch. They didn’t think anything of it. Until just before Lunch arrived and pretty, blonde Aurore arrived. The budding journalist had thrown open the classroom door, and immediately tackled Marinette in a hug, “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Aurore kept repeating. “I can’t believe you did this. I can’t believe this is happening. You’re the best. I love you. Oh my god, this is the best day of my life.”

Marinette laughed and hugged her friend tightly, “It’s no trouble. I told Lois I was bring a friend to meet her and decided you’d be perfect.”

Before any of the class could ask what had them so excited, there was a knock on the door. “Sorry to interrupt,” A beautiful dark haired woman said. “I’m here to pick of Marinette and her friend.”

Alya squeaked and then turned bright ready, “Lois Lane,” She whispered in awe. “Lois Lane is in my classroom.”

Marinette smirked, “Ready, Lois,” She pulled her bag over her shoulder, “This is Aurore.” She introduced, nudging the star struck, pig-tailed girl. “Aurore Beauréal.” And this was start of all of payback she had planned.

Marinette’s mom always told her to be play nice with the other kids. The bluenette decided playtime was over. It was time for some bridges to burn.

Lois nodded, “Your journalist friend.”

Aurore squeaked, “Yes, my queen; I mean, madam! Madam.”

Lois chuckled. “I’m happy you’ll be coming with us,” And she was. “I’ve been dying to meet some of little Mari’ friends.” Lois had known Marinette since she was a little girl, loved her a like niece. She’d been hearing from Marinette all about the bullying that had been going on in class, and had been angry for quite some time. Marinette gave her call to inquire if she’d like to help her a bit of revenge. “I always love working with budding reporters; teach them how to really stick it to the man.”

The teen girls laughed as they headed over to the older woman, all eyes following them.

“Aurore,” Lois hummed just loud enough for the class to overhear. “Marinette you said would make a great intern for the Daily Planet for the summer. Normally we don’t employ teenagers but you’re a friend of Marinette. And Marinette always had a keen-eye for talent. So why don’t I interview you while we go to lunch; and if it goes well; maybe I’ll let you do a ride along on some of my stories I got planned…”

Then they were gone. Alya watched the space they were dazed. She didn’t come out of any until Nino waved a hand in front of her face, “You alright, babe?

Alya blinked hard and shook her head, “Lois Lane was just in my class. World-renowned journalist Lois Lane was in my class. And I didn’t say a word.” She groaned. “I could’ve ask her so many questions. Tips, advise, anything.”

Nino hugged his girlfriend, “its okay, maybe you’ll get another chance.”

“Marinette!” Alya suddenly chimed brightly, “She knows Lois Lane. I can’t believe she never told me.” Suddenly dark look appeared on her face. “And how could she recommend Aurore for an internship over me, I thought we were…” The sentence died on her lips as the sinking realization hit her. “We’re not friends.” Regret filled her. “Lois Lane said she just wanted to meet Marinette’s friends. I’m not her friend.”

“With good reason,” Alix snapped. “Marinette’s a bully. You don’t need her. None of us do.”

There were nods, one even of Alya, but Alya couldn’t help but feel that she had missed out of the opportunity of a lifetime.

When Marinette returned to class the next day, she never mentioned Lois Lane once. No one had the courage to ask her about it. It wasn’t until lunch when Aurore tackled the girl, once again, in a hug that they found out what occurred.

“I got the internship,” Aurore shouted, tears in her eyes. “I’ll be working at the Daily Planet all summer. If it goes well, I’ll do it for the next few summers. Some interns even get hired on after they graduate. Lois said I have a killer instinct and she sure I’ll succeed. Thank you, Marinette.” The blonde beamed. “Lois said I had real talent but I know you’re the reason I even got the chance; because we’re friends. This my dream come true.”

Once again it was like a balloon popped inside of Alya. She’d never considered that Aurore would actually get the internship. Jealous raged through her. She was a much better reporter than the other girl. Lois would’ve never looked twice at Aurore, if Alya was still friends with Marinette.

But it was fine. Lila was Uncle worked at the New York Times. If Marinette’s family friend could get the wannabe reporter an internship, then Lila could do so much more.

The next blow came a few weeks later, the class had all but forgotten that Lois Lane had come to visit. Until Friday came, and just before the school bell rang ending the day a man knocked on the door, with and then Nino started to choke.

His eyes were wide, his face pale, “J.J Abrams.” He whispered. “It’s J.J Abrams.”

“Who?” Alya asked.

“A famous director,” Max answered as Nino was clearly too stunned to. “He directed the newest Star Trek movies And the New Star Wars. The Mission Impossible movies. Casper. The TV Show Lost. He also directed Armageddon, a favorite of mine.”

“Why is he here?” Lila asked curiously.

The answer came when a familiar bluenette walked into class, “Jeffery,” She said excitedly.

“Marinette!” He beamed. “Ready for a killer weekend?!”

“Ready to meet Chris Pine,” Marinette sighed dreamily.

The glasses-wearing friend laughed, “He can’t wait to meet you either. Is your film-maker friend still coming along too? You said he’d be good for an internship for Warner Brothers studios; the openings still up, if you want.” The man didn’t bother to hide his smirk. Tom had been a dear friend of his for a long time. He’d known Marinette since she was in diapers. The kid was a favorite of his. And when she mentioned what had been going on in class. Well… he was more than happy to help. “What was his name? Nathan, Neo...” He trailed off.

“Claude.” Marinette corrected. “And he’d love to work at an actually movie set this summer. He wants to direct movie when he gets older. We’ll get him when the bell rings.”

“Any friend of yours is a friend of mine.”

The bell rang moments later, and Marinette and Abrams were gone before anyone could say another word. Everyone else remained behind.

Nino couldn’t believe what just happened. His favorite director of all time had just walked out the door.

“You okay, Nino?” Alya said soothing.

“J.J Abrams,” Nino just whispered, his voice sounding foreign to his own ears. “He was here. Right in front of me. And he didn’t even look my way. I had this exact dream before. Except, he came to see me and wanted me to help him on his next movie. But this isn’t a dream. This is a nightmare. I’m in a nightmare.”

“Who knew Dupain-Cheng had connections to Hollywood,” Chloe hummed. “Maybe I should’ve been nicer. Claude must be thrilled.”

“Claude,” Nino said the name dryly. He knew the other boy well. They had competed against each other for years in local film making contests. The darkhaired boy was a frenemy in every sense of the word. “Claude is going to get an interview to work on a blockbuster movie for Warner Brothers. He’s going to make connections and friends. People are going to help his career going so much further. He’s going to get the chance to talk with my favorite director of all time, and I won’t.” He groaned. “Just leave me here to die.”

Kim winced, “Cheer up, man. Marinette knows him. Maybe she can help you out; introduce you.”

“Why would she do that?” Chloe asked. “You’re not friends. That J.J guy only wanted to meet Marinette’s friends. Why would he want to meet you?”

Alya glared at the blonde, “Nino’s a good director.”

“So?” Chloe lifted an eyebrow. “You’re a decent journalist. But Lois Lane didn’t even bother to learn your name. Why? Because it’s all about connections in this world. Who you know! Who you’re friends with. And guess what that means for Nino…”

No one needed to guess. Nino just slumped in his seat. There was a good chance he’d never meet J.J Abrams.

The weekend passed easily. Photos of Marinette and Claude with the cast of Star Trek, onset of the new movie, filled the two’s Instagram’s. It was all anyone at school would talk about. It took a week for it to die down. A month later, a shaking Claude with tears in his eyes bombarded Marinette during Study hall, “I got!” He yelled excitedly, drawings the classes’ attention and the glare of the teacher. “I got the internship. I’ll be working on the set of the new Buffy reboot movie. Joss Whedon is directing. I’m going to work with Joss Whedon.”

“Congratulations,” Marinette hugged her friend. “You deserve it.”

“No, I don’t,” Claude admitted. “Some college students on his last year of film school deserves it. I only got it because of you. The hiring manager even admitted that someone leaned on them hard to get me the job; they called in favors for some girl named Marinette. I’m going to work with my all-time favorite director, meet Gia Godot and Jason Momoa and whoever’s being cast as the new batman because we’re friends. I got the job because I’m your friend.”

At that Nino just got up and walked out of class. He didn’t return to school that day. It was Alya and Adrien who convinced him to return. Adrien just promised things would get better and he’d get his break to. Alya just reminded him of all the people Lila knew. And that cheered him up.

Lila had made him so many promises of getting directors and famous movie studios to review his work. If someone like Marinette, a virtual nobody, could get Claude an internship with WB, then, Nino thought smugly, Lila would get him a job a director. He’d be making the next blockbuster in no time.

Three weeks, two days, four hours, and eleven minuets was all it took for Marinette’s next plan of action to go into effect.

It was bright Monday morning, class was in session and Bustier had just stepped out for a moment. And just like any time she left, everyone automatically pulled out their phone.

It took five seconds for Nathaniel to yell, “What?” Eyes went to him. However, he only had eyes for Marinette. “You and Marc met Tom King.”

Marinette shrugged, fighting the urge to smirk, “He was in town. He’s a friend of my grandma. Nice guy. I don’t know much about comics so I took along Marc; we’re friends after all. And I knew he’d love the chance.”

Nathanial hadn’t believe his eyes at first. Marc standing with Tom King was shocking. He hadn’t spoken to the boy since he broke off their partnership. Lila said he was holding Nathanial back; that he needed a better artist.

“Marc’s going to New York,” The redhead awed. “He’s going to be working for DC comics.”

“It’s an apprenticeship for up and coming comic book artists and writers,” Marinette explained. “About a dozen artists and a dozen writers are selected every year. Marc showed Tom his portfolio and he was really impressed. Tom King even said that he was surprised no one had snatched him up yet; that he expected a line of comic book writers following Marc around.” Marinette frowned. “He couldn’t believe it, when I told him that Marc was just dropped for not being a good enough artist.”

Marinette looked Nathaniel right in the eye when she said that. She never forgave him for hurting Marc. He hadn’t even told Marc to his face that he was fired; just sent him a stupid text about going in a different direction.

Marc had been devastated. He had really liked the redheaded boy and had thought Nathaniel liked him back. Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t; all Marinette knew for certain was that her friend had been hurt because Lila got her claws into something she had no business in. More than likely, something she didn’t even have knowledge of.

“It’s fine though,” Marinette smiled. “Marc doesn’t have anyone or anything holding him back now. He’ll work with real DC comic writers now; real professionals.”

Nathaniel flinched at her words. He felt numb inside. Tom King said Marc was good enough to work at DC comics. How on earth did he ever think Marc was the one being held back?

Most of the other students in class didn’t know who Tom King was but by the redhead’s reaction it was someone important. Most likely Tom King was Nathanial what Lois Lane had been to Alya.

It was after school on random Thursday, a month since the Tom King incident happened, that Alix was headed to the skate park. Only to be blocked by security that a private party had book the entire park. They’d have it for another hour.

A bit bummed, but Alix had no problem waiting. She spent most of the time on her phone. Her notification that the hour had passed was the familiar laughter of one bluenette girl.

Alix looked up to see Marinette and Allegra, another skater Alix knew well, leaving the park. The pink-haired readied herself to spit acid at her ex-friend. She swore she’d never forgive Marinette for bullying poor Lila to tears. Honestly, Marinette Dupain-Cheng was worse than Chloe ever was. However, before she could, two other people skated out of the park.

The shock of seeing the men caused Alix to drop her skates. “Tony Hawk. Ryan Sheckler,” She said with eyes wide.

“You’re a great skater,” She overhead the God King Of skaters say to Allegra. “You’ll do awesome in the X-games.”

“Yeah, dude,” Ryan Sheckler said. “No lie. You got skills. Marinette… I don’t know how you’re still alive.” This caused laughter. The bluenette blushed. “Seriously, though; it was great meeting you Allegra. When Marinette said she had a skater friend who’d kill it in the games, she wasn’t lying.”

Alix could only watch with envy pooling in her stomach. She only just close enough to hear that Tony and Ryan had helped Allegra perfect her tricks. How happy they were to meet one of Marinette’s friends. That she nailed her auditioned for the games. Then they said something that made Alix pick up her skates and leave, “Sponsorship.”

It was only a potential one. However, it was clear that someone big was searching for female skaters to sponsor and if Allegra did well, she’d be one of them.

Allegra, not Alix.

Alix’s mood was sour for the rest of the day and into the next morning. It took some prodding for the other students to find out what was wrong. When Alix’s story was done, most of the class winced in sympathy.

“I can’t believe Marinette,” Alix huffed. “Took Allegra to meet Tony Hawk and Ryan Sheckler,” The class blinked. The only skater present was Alix but everyone knew who Tony Hawk was. “Now Allegra is competing in the X-games. She’s gonna get sponsored. And I’ll be watching them at home, like always.”

“Chill, girl,” Alya smiled. “Lila said she’d introduce to a bunch of go-green companies looking to sponsor skaters. The X-games are so 2000 and late. They’re whatever now. Who cares?”

Alix just stared blankly at the other girl. While she was comforted that Lila would help her get sponsored, the X-games weren’t a thing of the past. All real skaters went there. It was where pro-skaters separated themselves from the amateurs.

Kim was the next target on Marinette’s list. It was quite simple; Marinette gave a note the gym teacher about something. The coach’s eyes went wide and had no problem believing the girl was telling the truth. Word had been spreading around school of just how many famous connections Marinette Dupain-Cheng had. The coach took the chance to ask the sweetest girl in school for a favor,

Kim had no idea why his swim coach told them they wouldn’t be swimming today. He figured it was just going to be a motivation speech and safety demonstration. He thought that until he saw Marinette and Ondine in swim suits at the pool.

“Now,” Coach said giving them a stern look. “We will just be watching the training. We will not be interfering or making too much noise. Pay close attention.”

Kim huffed. Why did he need to pay attention? He was a much better swimmer than Ondine. He frowned. However, the frown gave away to show when Michael Phelps emerged from the water.

The coach went over and quickly introduced themselves and thank Marinette for allowing the swim team to view the training.

“No problem,” Phelps said. “I’m a friend of Marinette’s godmother; used to help babysit the squirt. I was in town anyway. Marinette told she had a friend who was good enough to go for the gold, I decide to come around for a visit. Plus I could’ve never the kid in the water. So two birds one stone.”

And that was how Kim was forced to watch the guy who had been an idol of his since he was a little kid and who’s poster was on Kim’s wall, trained his main competition; perfect her technique, recommend her to French Olympic coaches. Anything for a friend of Marinette.

Kim decided right then and there, that life wasn’t fair.

When word spread from the other members of the swim team that Michael Phelps trained Ondine and Marinette, the school once again caught on fire. Kids in class gave Kim pitying looks. They all knew how much he adored the Olympic swimmer. Lila took the moment to remind the class how many Olympic athletes she knew.

“They’ll be happy to meet you, Kim,” Lila promised. “Once they have some free time.”

Kim smiled. It might be Michael Phelps but an Olympic athlete was still pretty cool.

At this point, most of the school was waiting on their toes to see who Marinette would be bring next. So far there had been two more reporters; no one really famous or jaw dropping like Lois Lane but one did come from the New York Times which caused Alya to cry. Cat Grant, budding tycoon, came for Marinette who introduced her to Chloe. Then there were famous actors, chefs, animators, writers, supermodels. There was even a prince.

Prince Ali to be exact. Marinette had become friends with him after his first visit and had loved his go-green efforts. So much so that she introduced him to her godfather who had no problem seeing the boy’s plans to new levels. It had taken months and months of work but went everything was a success.

The young prince showed up personally at school to thank Marinette after plans went to launch and were already succeeding.

Rose had been so excited to see Prince Ali. They had been penpals, if not outright friends. However, the boy only had eyes for the bluenette. Prince Ali was so excitedly, so proud of what he had achieved he didn’t notice anyone else. He invited Marinette and all of Marinette’s friends to a gala he was hosting in celebration. Then proceeded to take Marinette and Aurore, who he promised to give an interview to, to dinner. A week after that pictures of the Prince’s Gala made headline news, and an exclusive news story by budding report Aurore was on the cover of the Daily Planet. Alya was once again reduced to tears.

Rose cried into her pillow for the rest of the weekend.

However it was just before winter break when Max found himself being the one to who needed to cry. Mr. Damocles practically burst opened the door, looking all the simpering kiss ass people believed him to be, “Marinette, you’ll be leaving early today,” He announced. “You’re godfather is here to pick you up.”

“Did you even call my parents,” Marinette asked bluntly. “To verify?”

Before the principle answered, Tony Stark came marching into the room, “Mari!” He beamed at Marinette. “Time go. Chop, Chop. Plane’s waiting.”

“School day’s not over yet, Uncle Tony.” Marinette crossed her arms. “It’s not even lunch.”

Uncle Tony, the class’s eye went wide. They knew Marinette had a godfather who was an engineer but she never said he was Tony Stark.

“Pssh, there’s nothing you can learn here, that I can’t teach you myself,” Tony waved off the complaint. “Right, Principle. I’m sure we can work something out. Maybe a sizable donation for the art program. My niece is quite the designer, you know!”

Dollars signs appeared in Mr. Damocles’ and Marinette knew that if the principle had to drag her out of the school to get the money, he would.

With a sigh, Marinette packed her school bag, “You’re calling my parents.”

“Why?” Tony whined. “They’re your parents.”

“You’re the adult!”

“Since when?”

Marinette groaned as the two left the class. Mr. Damocles trailing behind them.

“So those are your classmates?” They heard Tony Stark say. “Which one is genius who though a napkin could take out his eyes that he was wearing glasses?”

Max blushed. It did seem foolish in retrospect.

“No one important,” They heard Marinette say.

“Good,” Tony put in. “Hey what happened to that genius kid who build his own AI. That kid’s gotta be worth something. You wanted me to consider him for an internship.”

“We’re not friends anymore,” Marinette said. “His choice, not mine.”

They heard Tony Stark tsk, “Not that smart then.”

It wasn’t the biggest blow any of the kids had been dealt. Everyone knew that Max idolized Tony Stark. To think he had a chance to work at Stark industries but he blew had Max headed to the guidance council. And perhaps a therapy session.

News that Tony Stark picked Marinette Dupain-Cheng, his goddaughter up for Christmas vacation spread like a wildfire. Pictures of her with avengers at their Christmas party were a hit. However, they weren’t the only pictures people were talking about.

Suddenly, Marinette’s Instagram and twitter was filled with pictures and videos of other people no one even realized she knew. Harry Styles, Chrissy Teagan, Selena Gomez, the kids from the Strangers, Olivia Wilde, and Ryan Reynolds were among them; apparently Marinette had designed for them all. Then her twitter started blowing up.

Particularly when the official Taylor Swift twitter account followed Marinette and send a tweet about how much she loved her the MDC dress Selena Gomez were to the AMAs. That she’d kill for it.

Then Marinette sent a tweet replying that it wouldn’t fit her body shape but… And then Marinette posted a five quick pics of different designs she had previous sketched after Taylor Swift’s last album came out. Marinette was a huge fan. Each design was ranged from pretty and cute to sophisticate.

Taylor loved them. Then they debated on color and hem length; whether she wanted bright or dark. What make-up would look right for each look. The fans loved it. Other models and fashion designers offered their input. However, it went on for quite some time. To the point where Chrissy Teagan tweeted, “Okay Taylor, Mari, this is too much. Hey Tay, I got MDC’s number. Hit me up and I’ll pass it along. I swear! Just stop!”

Five minutes later, Jennifer Lawrence tweeted, “Chrissy, can I get that number too?” Marinette was found fainted on the ground not long after.

Buzzfeed at a field day. Articles of the tweets conversation were after. Buzzfeed had quite a few “This is MDC. And this why you should love her” pages.

It was a credit to the class, apart from Lila, that no one tried to worm their way back onto Marinette’s good side. Lila had tried her best to claw her way into a friendship with Marinette; kissing up and completing the girl, she had clearly had not too long ago. As far as Lila was concerned Marinette was her new meal ticket. Sure, Adrien was handsome, but Marinette had more connections in her pinky then the blond boy had in his entire body.

If only I knew when I got to class, Lila frowned, I’d have just gotten rid of Alya and became Dupain-Cheng’s number one B.F.F within days.

The rest of the class all held to their guns. Marinette was a bully. She picked on poor Lila who never did anything wrong to anybody. Lila spent her life helping people. What had Marinette done?

Marinette never even bothered to tell them about all the people she knew. Or that she was designing for celebrities. What kind of friend was that? They had heard her say something about contracts and non-disclosure agreements but refused to acknowledge that. If Lila, someone much more important Marinette, had no problem giving out all the deets to her many accomplishments and adventures than Marinette shouldn’t either. As far as they were concerned what Marinette did what little better than lying.

Besides there was nothing Marinette couldn’t do that Lila couldn’t do better.

Unfortunately for them, that wasn’t true. Particularly when it came to revenge.

When Luka came knocking on Marinette’s door looking more downcast then he ever had before, it was clear something was up.

“They kicked me out of the band,” Luka sighed, “Some Lila chick told them it was weird to hang out with an older dude; that never get famous with me. So they dropped me. Even Juleka agreed and said I should start a band with kids my own age instead. My own sister.”

Marinette spent the rest of the day comforting the older boy. Anger surged through her. She thought they’d learned. That they’d get the message. But no…

Her ex-friends proved just how big of morons they really were.

Well no more.

Before the week was over, Marinette pulled every string she had, called in favor after favor, by Friday of that week, just to get Luka was singing in front of some important people to at least hear him sing; a record producer, a record Executive, and an talent recruiter for famous label. Jagged Stone’s label to exact. They loved him.

Luka was announcing his recording deal by Sunday all thanks to his friend Marinette.

Marinette walked into class on Monday to the downtrodden faces of the remaining members of Kitty Section, “Good Luck find a new singer,” She snipped at them, a bright smile on her lovely face. “Heard you said the last one was holding you back. That he needed to grow up.” There were multiple flinches at her words.

“What happened to you?” Mylene asked. “You used to be so nice.”

Marinette scoffed, “I am nice. To my friends.” To her enemies, she was hell incarnate.

She just needed to do one final play. One last move before she declared checkmate. Granted she had already won far more than she had set out to win. It wasn’t enough. There was blood in the water, and Marinette wasn’t going to stop until all of it was spilled.

Once the entire class understood just how badly they had messed up, just how much they had lost; only then would Marinette declare game over. Then the last of the bridge that had been her friendship with the class would finally be just ashes. Marinette would finally through with them. She’d finally be done.

The Checkmate happened on Friday, and Marinette actually had nothing to do with it much to her dismay. She had been planning for something at the end of the years but life had other ideas.

No one blinked in surprise when, during study hall, the door burst opened and in walked Jagged Stone. At that point they were used to various celebrities popping in to visit everyone’s favorite bluenette.

“Again,” Marc groaned. “Really?”

“This school needs better security,” Claude said.

Aurore nodded, “They can’t keep taking her away, can they?”

“Don’t they need a note from her parents or something?” Marc asked.

Ondine shrugged, “Marinette asked the principle about that once, or least calling her parents but he didn’t blink an eye.”

Aurore rolled her eyes, “Anyone with money and a little bit of power just can just walk all over him.”

“I feel like as a good friend, I should file a complaint,” Claude said. “But I really want to see where this goes.”

“Mari, darling” Jagged yelled, followed by his exasperated Fiancé Penny. “Why in the hall of fame is everyone trying to poach my designer. I found you first.”

“We talked about this,” Penny sighed. “Marinette can work with whoever she wants. And Hello Marinette, how are you doing, sweetheart?”

“I’m fine,” Marinette smiled. “But you really shouldn’t be here. I have class.”

“School’s totally rock and roll,” Jagged grinned. “But Penny here wants you design her wedding dress so we figured we stop by. Also tell Harry Styles, I found you first, yeah. He can bite it. Or I’ll let fang bite him.”

“Jagged!” Penny and Marinette chastised. “I’d love to design your dress, Penny!” Marinette added. “I have so many ideas!

Jagged threw up his hands, “What? Who still another’s man designer? Totally not Rock and Roll.”

Unfortunately for Jagged, it was Bustier monitoring study hall. It was Mendeleiev, “Enough. Mr. Stone,” She tutted. “Marinette is in class. This behavior will not be tolerated. You may speak to my student after school.”

“But!”

“NO!” Mendeleiev snapped and gave Jagged a look that made him feel fifteen-years-old again.

Jagged crossed his arms and pouted causing Penny and Marinette to laugh.

“We’ll leave,” Penny said, and started to push a reluctant Jagged out the door. “Marinette, we’ll be at your place. Okay, love.”

It was Aurore who stopped them, “Jagged Stone, I’m an intern at the daily planet, is it true some girl saved you cat from being hit by a plane.”

“Cat!” Jagged roared. “I’ve never own something as ordinary as cat. Not cool.” He went on rant about weren’t rock and roll; and totally mainstream.

Penny rolled her eyes, “He’s allergic. Can’t get near one. Certainly never owned one.” Then she pushed Jagged out the door, “Sorry for interrupting.” She said she closed the door.

Mendeleiev narrowed her eyes, “I’m going to make sure they leave. Everyone behave.” And was gone.

“He never owned a cat,” Chloe laughed. This was too good. “He’s allergic. So how did you save his, Lila?”

Said girl’s eyes were wide as everyone waited for her answered. She tried to stutter out excuses but they were all too unbelievable. One thing was clear…

“You’re lying,” Alya accused. “Having you been lying all this time?”

“And the sky is blue,” Ondine chuckled.

The fallout was nuclear. Mendeleiev came back to find nearly all of Bustier’s class verbally ripping into Lila Rossi. She quickly got them back into order. Unlike her young coworker, there were things Mendeleiev refused to tolerate.

When the realization that they had been lied to all time sunk in, the students realized that Marinette hadn’t done anything wrong. She stood up against a liar, a bad guy like she always did, and suffered for it.

Not only that, but they been taken in by Fool’s gold and had ignored the diamond that had been the Bluenette. It was a hard pill to swallow, especially when they realized all the promises they had been counting on wouldn’t come to pass. And the girl who couldn’t made it happened refused to so much as return their texts. Now they knew that the truth and it was too late.

Marinette would have given them the world…

…If only they were still friends.

#ml salt #ml salt fic #Marinette deserves better #marinette dupen chang #class salt

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A new conspiracy theory called “The Storm” has taken the grimiest parts of the internet by, well, storm. Like Pizzagate, the Storm conspiracy features secret cabals, a child sex-trafficking ring led (in part) by the satanic Democratic Party, and of course, countless logical leaps and paranoid assumptions that fail to hold up under the slightest fact-based scrutiny. However, unlike Pizzagate, the Storm isn’t focused on a single block of shops in D.C., or John Podesta’s emails. It’s much, much bigger than that.

As most terrible things do, this story begins with a post on /pol/, a sub-board of the more-or-less-anonymous, anything-goes website 4chan. Over the last few years, /pol/ — which technically stands for “politically incorrect” — has slowly but surely become a top contender for the ever-coveted title of the most upsetting community online. It’s the sort of place where neo-Nazis and people who believe women shouldn’t have basic human rights used to meet before we started verifying them on Twitter and electing them to public office. And as of late, it’s expanded its ranks to include fringe members of all shapes and sizes.

On October 28, someone calling themselves Q began posting a series of cryptic messages in a /pol/ thread titled “Calm Before the Storm” (assumedly in reference to that creepy Trump quote from early October). Q claimed to be a high-level government insider with Q clearance (hence the name) tasked with posting intel drops — which he, for some reason, called “crumbs” — straight to 4chan in order to covertly inform the public about POTUS’s master plan to stage a countercoup against members of the deep state. It was, in short, absolutely insane. However, thanks to some rather forced coincidences — like Q kind of, sort of guessing that Trump would tweet the word “small” on Small Business Saturday, and this one time the internet decided that Q was “totally on Air Force One” because he posted a blurry picture of some islands while Trump was on his trip to Asia — and a whole heck of a lot of wishful thinking, people believed he was the real deal.

So he kept talking.

According to Q, Trump was never really involved with Russia, and isn’t actually under investigation by Mueller & Co. On the contrary, Q insists thatit’s actually Clinton and Obama who were corrupted by Putin (and are nowactually under investigation by Mueller) because they’re obviously just evil, money-hungry globalists who’ll do anything for the highest bidder. (Oh, yeah, and they’re also apparently into raping and killing children, though the crowd is split over whether this is because they’re satanists or just part of some weird blackmail scheme involving the CIA.) Q also claims that Trump, the genius that he is, figured all of this out way back when he was just a measly presidential candidate, and has been pretending to love Putin and/or be involved with Russia ever since as a way to force a third party to investigate these horrors — without drawing the attention of those evil Dems-who-must-not-be-named, of course — because he’s just that selfless of a leader.

In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or justabout to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

They believe all of this will be coming to a head any day now. That “The Storm” — of arrests, political turmoil, and Republican vindication — is coming. Though there have been some, uh, miscalculations as for exactly when.

For example, take this “crumb” left by Q on November 1:

Q Clearance Patriot

My fellow Americans, over the course of the next several days you will undoubtedly realize that we are taking back our great country (the land of the free) from the evil tyrants that wish to do us harm and destroy the last remaining refuge of shining light. On POTUS’ order, we have initiated certain fail-safes that shall safeguard the public from the primary fallout which is slated to occur 11.3 upon the arrest announcement of Mr. Podesta (actionable 11.4). Confirmation (to the public) of what is occurring will then be revealed and will not be openly accepted. Public riots are being organized in serious numbers in an effort to prevent the arrest and capture of more senior public officials. On POTUS’ order, a state of temporary military control will be actioned and special ops carried out. False leaks have been made to retain several within the confines of the United States to prevent extradition and special operator necessity. Rest assured, the safety and well-being of every man, woman, and child of this country is being exhausted in full. However, the atmosphere within the country will unfortunately be divided as so many have fallen for the corrupt and evil narrative that has long been broadcast. We will be initiating the Emergency Broadcast System (EMS) during this time in an effort to provide a direct message (avoiding the fake news) to all citizens. Organizations and/or people that wish to do us harm during this time will be met with swift fury – certain laws have been pre-lifted to provide our great military the necessary authority to handle and conduct these operations (at home and abroad).

POTUS will be well insulated/protected on AF1 and abroad (specific locations classified) while these operations are conducted due to the nature of the entrenchment. It is time to take back our country and make America great again. Let us salute and pray for the brave men and women in uniform who will undertake this assignment to bring forth peace, unity, and return power to the people.

It is our hope that this message reaches enough people to make a meaningful impact. We cannot yet telegraph this message through normal methods for reasons I’m sure everyone here can understand. Follow the questions from the previous thread(s) and remain calm, the primary targets are within DC and remain at the top (on both sides). The spill over in the streets will be quickly shut down. Look for more false flags — stay alert, be vigilant, and above all, please pray.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Love is patient, love is kind.”

God bless my fellow Americans.

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but November has come and gone without the slightest hint of a Q-style military-backed Armageddon. Yet, this pretty glaring mistake doesn’t seem to have weakened anyone’s faith in Q. If anything, it’s brought more followers into the fold.

Over the last month and a half, the Storm has spread from the depths of 4chan and 8chan to Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter, where it’s found hundreds of thousands of devout followers. Some of the most popular explainer videos boast nearly 200,000 views, and the QAnon hashtag has gotten so popular, it’s honestly difficult to track. (I signed up for one of those freebie “Track Your Hashtag Now!” services and #QAnon hit the 2,000-post limit within four hours.) Some poor soul even took the time to write a 117-page book charting Q’s rise to power, which I’m guessing has been seen at least as many times as this very aggressive Imgur guide, which was at 137,000 views as of Sunday night.

It’s been a little over a year since Edgar Welch, military-style assault rifle in hand, walked into a D.C. pizza parlor, convinced it was part of a child sex-trafficking ring run by Hillary Clinton, and the internet hasn’t gotten better. If anything, it’s worse.

Sure, in the wake of Pizzagate’s brief encounter with reality, a lot of changes were made: Reddit shut down the conspiracy’s designated sub, Twitter suspended some of the movement’s most vocal supporters, and the whole thing was debunked time and time again by the press. But it’s more evident now than ever that this was merely a Band-Aid, not a cure. And now, here we are a year later with the same thing. Sure, it’s a bit bigger and a whole lot less focused, but at its core, it’s the same. What is there even left to try? We know that stopping the conversation doesn’t work. Neither do the facts. How can we even begin to argue with hundreds of thousands of people who choose to believe that a top government agent is speaking to them through 4chan, that Trump has been playing a game of 4-D mind chess this whole time, and that the Las Vegas massacre was an inside job? Is the next Edgar Welch already out there, scrolling through the Calm Before the Storm thread, and if so, is it even possible to stop him?

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#conspiracy theories #pizzagate #the storm #4chan #alt-right #qanon

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May 2018 List Re-Review

I did this once before for fun and wanted to do it again. For the reference, the May 2018 analysis was here.

If you’re not familiar with the idea, in this post I will be highlighting statements where I made predictions about the shape of the format to come and scoring them based on how accurate they turned out to be, then tallying those scores at the end to see how well I did. Let’s get into it.

(Also, September 2018 list analysis is on the way. I didn’t want to do it at first but have received a request for it.)

Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King

Yep, this is Luster Pendulum. He’s now Zoodiac Drident crossed with Apoqliphort Towers, and naturally he’s on the banlist again. Feel old yet?

To continue on that analogy, I fully expect this deck to go the way of Qliphorts and continue to see play as a stun variant. Note that nerfed Draco is still a better deck than Qliphorts, unfortunately.

Correct on both fronts: Qliphorts are still bad, and Draco is still seeing play as a stun deck with two variants, one using The Monarchs Erupt, and the other using Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries, both with the intent of winning by preventing your opponent from playing the game and drawing cards to beat them down once they can’t.

Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis

Woohoo, we won’t get Plant FTK! With that, I have the feeling we’ll be getting the Aromage Link Monster next set, since that’s the card that enables this FTK. Once again, a good hit.

Wrong: We didn’t get the Aromage link monster, but who cares. I’m not going to score this because this post isn’t really about my predictions about Konami’s product design, but rather the metagame.

Oh and we technically got a plant FTK involving Samsara Lotus. Whatever.

That Grass Looks Greener

I’ve been a 60-card player since around this time last year, and Lightsworn is my favorite deck of all time, so I’m sad to see this one go, but it was absolutely responsible for 60-card decks’ most unfair hands. “Oh, you decided to drop Ash Blossom on my Lonefire? Here, let me just mill a third of my deck real quick and end on Naturia Beast or Void Ogre Dragon with Fairy Tail - Snow and Shiranui Spiritmaster in the GY. Oh, and you only have three cards in hand. Sorry, not sorry!”

There’s nothing factually wrong about this since there’s no real prediction, but I would like to mention here that a totally different 60-card deck has seen play since: it turns out that there are some Pendulum variants that legitimately have 60 cards they want to play and wouldn’t have played Grass even if they had the chance. Shine on, you crazy diamonds.

Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter

This is the best card in Draco that isn’t named Master Peace, and is the sole reason for why I think the deck isn’t totally dead. Return and Apocalypse are still absurdly strong cards going first and this card searches them.

Correct: I don’t think anyone would disagree that this is still the scariest card left in that deck (unless you think it’s Rivalry, but Frogs and Altergeist play that too).

Gem-Knight Master Diamond

Here’s another “spin the wheel” hit; the Gem-Knight that actually burns is Lady Lapis Lazuli, but hitting this hurts the deck’s attempts to play legitimately, too. Problem solved, I guess, but at what cost?

They can’t make Calamities anymore, either, but that matters much less when they can’t actually kill you, either.

Wrong, unfortunately. Gem-Knight FTK has topped once since this hit happened. I don’t know how and I don’t really care. They should have banned Lazuli.

Chain Strike

And there’s a strange hit! Chain Burn has been a nuisance since, well, the release of Chain Strike, and this hit is kind of out of nowhere, but who cares. Chain Burn is dead if you don’t draw an insane hand. Better now than never.

Correct, haven’t seen this deck since. Don’t care to either.

Semi-Limited Cards

Apoqlihport Towers

Ring of Destruction

I’ll take “Cards that have seen no play” for 800, Alex.

Though much weaker in a format with copious Extra Deck-based removal by battle, this card’s namesake lives on as a reference point for insurmountable boss monsters.

This card’s errata in 2015 addressed its infamous problems in tournament by preventing it from stealing games and forcing draws.

Correct.

Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

Compulsory Evacuation Device

Fairy Tail - Luna saw no play and Solemn Strike is still at 3. Who cares.

Also Correct.

Grandsoil the Elemental Lord

The functional errata is effective already, though we won’t get it in print until FLOD: SE. Elementsaber buff, though the deck really isn’t good anyways.

I don’t remember getting this spicy. Yeah, Elementsabers didn’t turn out great. Correct.

Mathematician

This is still a solid card, honestly. I could see it seeing play again in decks that don’t need a Normal Summon, or if they finally unban Construct. I don’t think that deck’s in the game right now, but it could be soon.

So Mathematician saw no play whatsoever, but I still think it’s because the right deck doesn’t exist; after all, Armageddon Knight is arguably more restricted than Mathematician, and that card does see regular play (in Gouki because it’s a Warrior, in Dinosaurs because it can send Overtex, and in Zefra because it can send Destrudo). All that really proves is that a monster which consumes a Normal Summon in order to send something generic to the GY is good enough to play, and Mathematician is definitely that, so I think we’ll see him come up again once a more useful Level 4 or lower target is introduced for a Type or Attribute that doesn’t already have a better alternative, or for ones that need three more copies of it (with Armageddon Knight, Dinosaurs have eleven cards that send Overtex to GY or search a card that does). For that reason, I’ll call this a maybe--ultimately, as much as I can try to demonstrate that it’s a good card, it depends on whether that deck comes to exist.

Atlantean Dragoons

Dragoons was tearing through boards years before SPYRAL Tough was, and honestly, there’s very little stopping it from doing so now with Light of Sekka in the game (Abyss-scale is a brick and chances are that you don’t run any spells that do anything more impactful than drawing two cards and fixing your hand). This is kind of like when Charge of the Light Brigade came back to 3: It’s a fairly solid buff to a fairly solid deck. Add onto that the imminent reprint of Moulinglacia and the new Mermail Link Monster, and the deck is looking like it’s soon to be in a very strong place.

Mermails have seen minor competitive play, but it is certainly stronger than before, and indeed, the deck plays Sekka’s Light over Abyss-scale. Correct.

Ignis Heat, the True Dracowarrior

This means virtually nothing compared to Dinomight coming back to 1.

…

Okay, hear me out. Ignis was the deck’s best play going second since it grabs Heritage, which plusses off of disruption. That’s fine, but:

Amano-Iwato stops your opponent from doing anything to stop you already.

You are going to search your spells with Diagram anyways, and you don’t need your opponent to be using effects on your turn to do that.

Heritage is still a disruptable card itself, and the proper play with Ignis is usually to let him hit the board and swing over him later in order to give the opponent Heritage on a turn when they can’t immediately use it.

For these reasons… yeah, Ignis doesn’t actually matter that much. Draco would still be fine with Ignis at 1, and I don’t really expect that he’ll be run at more than 2 at MOST due to the way optimal ratios work with Card of Demise.

This is a pretty contentious portion of that post and I kind of regret being so bold. Actually going through and looking at what was right and what wasn’t here is a mixed bag because much of it plays upon theory that is half-true and ended up being half-followed. Let’s take a look.

Ignis is an important card in Draco.

Ignis is a good card in Draco, and the deck often plays two or three copies.

True Draco with Master Peace and Demise regularly played the same ratios of eight monsters in the Main Deck: 3 Amano/Boarder, 1 Ignis, and two Majesty and Master Peace.

The current incarnation of the deck plays roughly nine monsters. It has lost two of the previously available ones and gained a potential three more; not counting the other Dracos, this would account for 3 Amano/Boarder and Ignis, 2 Majesty, and 1 Dinomight, but about half of the lists I’ve seen play two Ignis and a sparse few play Dreiath and/or Metaltron.

Waterfall of Dragon Souls is a fair bit more popular now than it was then, too.

Finally, optimal ratios for Demise necessitate as few monsters as possible, but optimal ratios for Desires insist that you play more cards in triplicate than usual.

So with that said: I feel safe in saying Ignis can be justified at 2 or 3 copies, and I definitely feel safe in saying that he’s a worse card than Dinomight. Going off of this, I’m tempted to say I’m right, but my language was a bit too decisive and derisive (surely people would have played 3 Ignis even if it was demonstrably wrong), so I’ll say this was at least partially wrong and call it a maybe.

In the last section, I made a bunch of predictions about various decks; I’ll go over them each and judge how they should be scored. I’ll also tally this separately just to see how well I guessed how the format would pan out; these will not be scored twice if I mentioned them earlier.

Magicians nerfed. FTK and Zexal builds murdered. Pure deck is still viable.

Every other pendulum deck nerfed, though pure Metalfoes arguably lost the least. (Zefra didn’t use Astrograph at all, but really needed AFD.)

Magicians are still a tier 1-2 deck (is Gouki tier 0 or 1?). Pure Metalfoes actually really liked having Astrograph, though for what it’s worth, it is the only one of these decks that doesn’t need to play bad cards in order to make Vortex. Zefra also did play Astrograph, though at the time, the only Zefra player I knew complained that it took two slots in a very tight extra. Maybe on this.

Draco nerfed. Still viable, mark my words.

Correct.

60-card is dead outright. The best playmakers are still there, but Left Arm into Grass is no longer valid backup for Lonefire Blossom. You may see 40-card Dino or Zombiesworn lists in the future given good enough hands, but there’s no good way to fit the Lonefire combo in 40 cards without bricking too often.

So this is a weird one. The Lonefire combo has seen play at least once in the form of a Gouki deck, but that follows a different combo route than the Lightsworn variant did and is demonstrably a worse version of that deck: it’s hard to get more explosive than Gouki already is, and it requires at least two more bricks. 60-card decks as we knew them are totally dead, so I’ll say this is correct.

Gem-Knight FTK dead.

As mentioned above, unfortunately wrong. Haven’t seen it beyond that one time, though.

Chain Burn, for some reason, also dead.

Haven’t seen it since. Correct.

Every deck that plays Destrudo into AFD is nerfed or dead. I expect ABC and Zefra to survive through sheer power, though both lost much in consistency.

This is correct as it is obvious. Calvin Tahan would top with ABC in Nekroz format if it happened again today and Zefra will be better than the best rogue deck until they start losing copies of Zefraath or get horrendously powercrept.

Invoked are fine, though invoked hybrids lost AFD, I guess.

Invoked didn’t really do much but get power crept. I guess this is wrong? The one Invoked hybrid, AKA the deck with six field spell engines and nothing else, did lose this, but it also literally died. So.

World Chalice untouched. If you think you’re good at this game, try this deck and realize how wrong you are.

I didn’t make an explicit prediction here, so no score, but I should mention that it did top at least once during this time. The only list I can find doesn’t use Knightmares to their full potential, but to be honest, the deck doesn’t entirely need them; it can still do an extra link and make the opponent discard four cards off of an opening hand Venus and any monster without Knightmare Goblin.

SPYRAL untouched. Easily a top-tier contender.

Deck was really good for a while, yeah. Correct.

Burning Abyss untouched. Still a solid deck with proper backrow.

Well goddamn, it turns out Burning Abyss is still a solid deck without proper backrow. Current lists run Sekka’s Light at three copies and more than a dozen hand traps. I’d like to call this a coincidental maybe, but I honestly felt at the time that Burning Abyss was only strong due to its ability to pack in powerful backrow without losing consistency, and in that regard, I was totally wrong.

Paleozoics untouched, though the worst part of their worst matchup is totally gone, and they’re very solid versus Altergeist. Budget players, keep an eye on this deck.

Paleo Frogs were good for about half of the format and dropped off pretty hard. It’s not like what it does it bad, just that there are more counters to it. Also is indeed a budget deck. Still correct.

Neo-Spacians tier 1, obviously.

AHAHAHHAHHAAHAHHHAAHHAHAAHHAAHHAHAH

This dumbass one-off comment I made has come full circle because Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin saw regular play in a tier 1 deck, that being Gouki. It is played because it’s a level 3 Warrior that can mulligan your opponent’s hand of hand traps, and in that regard, it is absolutely unmatched. This card’s burn damage closed out the last game of the European WCQ in time. Do I deserve to be correct for this? You decide. I think so.

Trickstar ANYTHING

This deck has fallen off a bit, but Drollcarnation is still legal and the deck is still a threat based off of that alone.

Another funny one. This wasn’t that true early in the format, but so-called Kid Touch (Trickstar Sky Striker) ended up being a tier 1 deck for a couple of tournaments immediately after the implementation of the new end-of-match procedures, though not entirely because of them, and not entirely because of Drollcarnation, but both together ended up being an unbelievably scary combo: Trickstars could now make Link Monsters without drawing Scapegoat, and Sky Strikers could get even more consistent advantage while also ticking away with burn at a time where it matters the most. Correct either way.

Tallies after eliminating duplicates:

11 Correct

3 Maybe

3 Wrong

64.7% correct, 17.6% definitely incorrect. Pretty good ratio.

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