#THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO IVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

[pascals-doll]

B.A.S

⋆ ˚ . * ·analysis— In which you were bound to a man you don’t desire or love by your parents. An entire relationship built on resentment and treaty-like. Abby Anderson, you’re neighbor whom lived happily with her girlfriend next door. Unruly cravings and wreckful thoughts take over between the both of you, assuring a succulent dalliance. Guess you Both Aint Shit.

abby anderson x reader

₊˚ପ MEGANS NEW ALBUM GOT ME ON MY TOESS 💋

˚ପ i cant believe ive had this lil plot thought out written somewhat since march and i never had time to finish it and im happy i finally did!

₊˚ପ description: MODERN AU! READER IS FEMININE PRESENTING (only desc of reader), MUTUAL CHEATING!, reader is kinda in the closet because of prejudice parents, mentions of heavy religious parents, reader is in arranged marriage with a man!, mutal jealousy, homewrecking, SMUT NAAASTYSMUT, dom!abby, sub!reader, oral sex (r receiving), reader is unexpirenced!, brief size kink, praise kink, heavy making out, fingering (r receiving), lots of pussyeating, no use of y/n,( ___) is blank for partners names, use of pet names (doll, beautiful, baby)

A lavish life was the experience of finding love on your own, letting it grow on you, and completing whelm your entire being. It was the process of getting to know each other to first kiss, to the ask out, to the relationship, and if your lucky; you build life together.

The stage of growth and love; where you plan as you’re just overfilled with emotion. That trigger to jump with joy at the fact that you’re building a whole life path with your special someone.

Years spent learning about each other, sharing parts of yourselves, and taking that time to progress hand in hand; harmoniously. Something, everyone should have the unlawful pleasure of doing.

It something you’ve always dreamed off, feeling it so close as you watch through your curtains. A secret craven in peeking into the silhouettes of the house next door.

You had seen them together for the past year since they moved in. Their happiness almost tangible as they enjoyed each other's company in the pool or on the patio, sipping cocktails and laughing.

You were hardly ever envious in the years you’ve been on earth—but it’s almost taunting like, the way they have so much to give. Truly in paradise with their passion for each other. Although, something didn’t always seem quite right.

Your life never stopped being stifling. You were bound to a man you could never love. An unfair business arrangement orchestrated by your parents alongside constant trips-pointless trips; taken by your close to nonexistent husband.

Abby's girlfriend was also often away on business, and you suspected that she was lonely. Going throughout your day and then coming home to see her in all alone, all day, in that big house.

The entire marriage was a sham, a rule-set of convenience. You couldn’t help yourself any longer once Abby moved in.

Often finding your eyes drifting to her, imagining what it would be like to kiss her peached lips, engulfed within those muscular arms. Such thoughts made you blush, and ignite a feeling in your stomach.

You couldn’t do anything except push your own crawling agenda away, only to have them return with greater intensity.

Abby Anderson was a phenomenal women. She was lead cordinator at a business with the pleasure to provide and work from home. She deserves someone who can take care of all that hard work.

Her girlfriend clearly couldn’t.

‘If you live a life you don’t love, make best of what you want.’

You had never been with a women before. Only close you’ve ever gotten to exploring was dabbling in lesbian porn when your husband wasn’t around. It didn’t take long to dawn on you—that you had never orgasmed, especially not in the way these women in adult videos do and definitely not with your husband.

It was pitiful, really. The fact you couldn’t enjoy such a liberty. Your own sexuality.

A faraway dream of self-discovery and not the norms fed to you by religious beliefs that you couldn’t claim as yours. Dragged on by your parents whom taught you, it was ‘all in good faith’ and ‘Lord knows whats best’.

The only explaination for your abomination of life. Merely neglectful to your candied desires. Wrong, yet right in every way. You were loosing sleep as nights pass, tossing, and turning restless.

Rolling out of your silk sheets groggily. You stepped into your house slippers before walking down your stairs to your living room where your pack of cigarettes are. You grabbed the pack of your dining table, heading out to your front porch.

It was midnight, blurred gray clouds into the black-violet sky as you lit your cigarette and dazing away. You could feel the stagnant air surround your exposed skin, your lacy satin nightgown—a slip of fabric only covering you.

Unbothered and insomatic, taking drags from your malboro as you sat next to your ashtray that displayed on your side table. If you were to turn your head; facing towards and into all your temptations.

From just the corner of your eye, you could see the lights were still on at such an hour. Impulsively giving into your curiosity, turning your chair; peering into her window across the street.

Puffing till your ash thins into the orange-tip. Your attention drowned out until you heard rustling coming from the bushes at the corner of the street and your home. You whip your head around, blunting your cigarette out onto your ashtray and walking towards the barricade of your porch.

Abby was taking out the trash. She dressed in a loose tank top and shorts. She looked relaxed, her long golden hair falling casually around her face. Eventually catching you, offering a friendly wave and came closer to the fence of your porch.

"Hey there!" Abby greets, cool-toned and intrigued. "Can't sleep either, huh?"

Your heart hammered in your chest. "Sure is, just came out for a smoke…uh-hm! How have you been?" You stammered your question, unsure of what to say.

Abby couldn’t help her gaze drop to your nightgown, her eyes glinting under the streetlights. "Just been cooped up alone, taking care of Bear and ____ is away on another business trip.” She exudes, smiling at the mention of her precious furry friend.

You listened intently, a small smile tugged on your lips “____ been gone since the week before. Preoccupying myself by enjoying my magazines alongside my tea,” You let out a small giggle which was returned.

Abby’s presence tensed you, goosebumping your skin as if you were cold all of a sudden.

A small moment of silence was a momentum of chance.

“Would you like to come in for a glass of wine or water? I’d be a horrible neighbor if i left you hangin’” You offer, stepping aside with a soft smile.

She took you in once more, head to toe and an adrenaline pumped throughout her body before spreaking, “It’d be my pleasure”.

4 words 1 sentence. A saying so simple is all it took, to have you clawing at your sanity.

Two cups of Wine turned into more and lighthearted conversations transformed sentimentally with each cup.

You bonded over the fact your partners often left for work, leaving you both lonely in such a big house. Eventually divulging your marital fraud, your desolation worn on your sleeve like an accessory.

“That’s truly not necessary—” you were cut off.

“Accept nothing but the truth, he doesn’t recognize how lucky he’s got it.” You picked up on how her voice turned stern, straightening up as she reassured you. You just stood there frozen.

You gulped, wrapping your arms around yourself as you suddenly felt exposed. You scrambled to think of something to say, your delusions wanting to take this in every way it wasn’t.

Abby suddenly closes the gap between the both of you, leaning onto your counter and into you. You could smell her perfume, the scent of fresh orcid and essential oils tickling your nostrils.

Maybe It was.

“Do you love him?” A very solidifying question.

“I dont know what love is and I definitely don’t love him, more like my parents did.” You grimaced, sarcastic and plainly disinterested in such a discussion. You truly have nothing to compare your marriage too.

“I hate fucking him too. Don’t feel a thing.”

Abby’s eyes widened, her hand reaching over to grasp yours. “Have you—do you like women?” She quirked, a soft giggle falling from her lips.

“Again. Wouldn’t know, sweetheart.” The nickname seemed so naturally. Like, you had been calling her that forever. Your eyes met with Abby’s; face to face with only so much space.

Then suddenly, she settles her strong hands upon both of your arms “And If i showed you?” She was so gentle with your demeanor, treading lightly.

She wanted it just as bad, just like you.

Her breath fanning your lips causing you to hitch. A trembling hand reached out, your hand brushing Abby's cheek, her hands pulling you from your waist. A passionate kiss spun.

It was electric, your lips molding together, tongues dancing in a frantic exploration. Abby moaned into your mouth, your hands roaming loosely down to grip your neighbor's slender hips. You responded by pressing yourself against Abby, feeling the firmness of her breasts through both your clothes.

Kissing desperately, hungrily, as if starved for each other's touch. Breaking the kiss, Abby nibbled on your ear, a weak whisper falls from your lips, “I need you….” Muttering in between kisses.

“Bedroom’s upstairs.” You finish. Abby taps on the cheek of your ass, signaling you to jump into her embrace.

Stumbles and giggles to make your way upstairs and down the hall to your master bedroom. Abby pulled away from you, looking around the room, seeing the mixture of objects from your husband and your own.

In some way, the infidelity. It made it rapturous.

"Lie down," she ordered you, her voice suddenly husky and full of authority.

you obliged to her command happily, body thrumming with excitement. You watch her climb onto the bed, hovering above you and eyes pouring into your own; a mixture of lust and tenderness.

"You're so beautiful," Abby’s voice was low as her eyes ran up and down, running her hands down your body. Each streak feathered on from her fingers tickled your skin, squirming as you legs lock together.

You felt a fluttering in you stomach at the compliment. "So are you," You meeked shyly, a pink hue on your flustered in face. You were breathless as Abby began to kiss at your neck, nibbling and sucking on the sensitive skin.

Abby continued her slow exploration, trailing kisses down your body, pausing to nuzzle your breasts through your top. "I want to see all of you," she whispered, her hot breath fanning over your tempered skin.

Heart was pounding in your chest as you nodded. The feeling of her gentle but eager hands as she threw off your clothes, baring you inch by delicious inch.

She paused to appreciate each reveal. The swell of your perked breasts, the curves that dipped your body, and to the drag of your soaked panty down your legs.

Completely naked and to her taking, Abby took a moment to admire you. Her eyes ran down over every inch of your exposed-self, salivating at your glistening arousal. "Better than my dreams," she murmured, voice full of wonder.

Insatiably on the same side of a coin. You reached for Abby's top, eager to return the favor. You peeled the fabric away, revealing her lush breasts, nipples eager with the cool breeze with excitement. She metled into your touch as she kicked off her shorts.

It was your turn to admire everything you’ve awaited. Her body glistened under the dim lighting of your room. The way eyes smoldered with desire tranced you as she positioned herself between your thighs. Your needy slick center coarsed Abby’s head; hovering above and planting pecks on your thighs.

Abby leaned into you. The feeling of her mouth searing kisses on your delicate pussy and her thumb teasing the taut peak of your tits. Your back arched arched into her touch, moaning softly as you reveled in the sensation of finally being touched by another woman. By her.

You notice the way she took her time with you. She was observant with each twig and jolt that came from your body, savoring you. She sweetly elicited a series of delighted gasps and whimpers from you as she continued her descent, twirling her tongue around your clit and teasing you down to your folds.

You choked out a cry of shock, “Fuck-ah!" you seethed, your hands gripping your bed sheets. You could feel Abby chuckle softly as she relishing sucked on your puffy clit. You felt like you were on a cloud, feeling completely elevated.

“Gaah! Ab—Abby!” Your thighs tremble in her grasp, feet kicking into her back slightly at the new found pleasure. The jolt that coursed through you felt ferious with the feeling of her moist tongue. She made her way inside your folds, teasing your whet entrance.

Suddenly, you feel the tip of her tongue plunge inside you, “Abby! fuckk Abby!” You let out a throat-curling shriek. Each lick inside you was a push of boundaries.

Legs trembling, mouth fully-agape, back arched, tits begging to be touched, nails clawing into your sheets, and grinding into her face completely high off ecstasy. Everything was new to you. The sex, passion, and connection. A seventh heaven.

Just as quick as the erotic came; it left. She pulled away from your eager pussy and anticipated body causing your back to drop and pant breathlessly.

"Patience," she murmured, her breath tickling your sensitive folds.

She continued her slow exploration, indulging her tongue as her fingers dance along the skin of your blimped thighs. Your breath hitched as you were dying of anticipation for her touch, her tongue.

Finally, fucking two fingers into you as she paid attention to your clit. Your deplore was sensuous, another train of cries and whines falling from your drooled lips.

Everything Abby did made you feel absolutely desired. Another thing, your husband could never do.

"You're so wet," Abby praises through her slurps and swallows of your leaking lithe. Abby’s fingers thrust forward, pushing in every inch of herself.

Her eyes darken as they watch themselves get squeezed in by your soppy fuzzed beneath. "So beautiful," she marvels, not getting enough of you.

"Don’t stop! please!”

Her thick fingers curl upward, she stroked your walls with her tips. She enjoys every moment of your writhing. Abby could live in this moment forever.

She smiled as your hips bucked up, chasing after every sensation. "So responsive," she purred, before adding a third thick finger inside you. she stretched you out completely, feeling every bit as your hands tugged onto her blonde hair.

She pulled her fingers out alight from so deep, dragging her tongue down once more your slick folds and lapping up your essence.

"Oh god!" Your moan gutteral and body thrashing against her and your bed. The tip of her fingers swirled inside softly, pressing onto your soft sex-gush.

An electrifying chilled jostled down to cramped hips as your stomach twisted blissfully. "Cum for me," she praises, working through your overwhelming orgasm.

Lewd spewls and ravenous chill flowed out and through you. Completely mind-fucked as you cream all over the tip of her fingers and tongue. Your body tightened like a coil, coating her with your sticky release with a final cry, "Oh, Abby!" As she cupped your leaking cum around her three fingers.

She brought them up to her lips, sucking them clean, releasing with a pop, and groan in delight. “You’re so fucking heavenly, taste it too.” She coos, crawling her way to meet your glowed and fucked out-self.

“Don’t tap out now, doll, I’m only getting started.”

Both of your integrity’s thrown out the door.

“This isn’t….” A pointless mumble left your lips, somewhat dawning the fact; You just cheated on your husband.

“They aren’t even here, right baby?”

a/n: ugh my slut ass probably gonna make another part 🤞🏼🐇

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[jealousmartini]

"Haven't you ever seen skin like mine?" A vault

Skin clarity + glow | Skin tone | skin clarity

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⋆.˚ Skin clarity .𖥔˚

My skin is just so clear and beautiful, I can't help staring and feeling it. I am just in awe at how wonderfully blessed I am to be born with such perfect ideal skin. It is so gorgeously smooth, and while its firmness keeps me looking young and perfect, it is still supple and has a slight bounce to the touch.

I mean my skin is so perfect some friends ask me what brand of skin care I use to get my skin so even and glowing like it does, but truth be told.. genetics and positive assumptions about myself I guess😭?? I've never had any reason to use skin products because my skin has always been naturally flawless, and ive never had any reason to doubt myself because literally look at me- i am the proof. That's just my nature. But every now and then, I'll get gifted high-quality skin korean care sets and expensive most wanted skin moisturisers with the most delicious and entising scents by my mum "just in case" but also because the process is fun😋

It's also so fun being able to eat whatever I want without ever having to worry about my skin because nothing could ever affect its perfectness. I just eat what I want, and the after-effects are like a couple of crumbs on my lips and still looking pretty😭

But some people do be jealous tho🙄. "There is no way she can eat what she likes and still look that good" one says and "what about the acne? Has she even gotten a spot once?" another says. And it's even better when I post pictures or videos cus haters really be out here doing there best to convince themselves and everyone around them (like the clowns they are) that skin is impossible to look that perfect and it HAS to be makeup or it HAS to be a filter or she MUST have gotten some surgery of a kind and they all couldn't be more wrong lmao. I just be existing and nothing else and i am just that naturally radiant😂

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⋆.˚ Skin colour.𖥔˚

I've had people pointing out how dewy and golden like my skin is like all my life and I never even thought about it until now. Well, I kind of always knew that I have the most gorgeous, jaw dropping skin colour that ranged between a deep caramel tan in the light and like a golden brown in the dark; I've even been accused of bleaching my skin to get a lighter tone once but how would that even make any sense when my tone changes slightly due to lighting?😭😭 But anyway other than that one person I've been getting remarkable amounts of compliments both in person and on social media about how glorious my skin colour looks. It's kind of overwhelming but ive been fighting though it.

skin colour in the dark | skin colour in bright lightings

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1 dimple is ♡shaped | I sweat= I shimmer | cutest mole marks

⋆.˚ Unique features.𖥔˚

— Glittery skin when I sweat

I have a rare phenomenon that only 0.0001 in the entire human population have, with my skin where if I am to sweat, my skin will have a light glittery coat. Scientists have recently come to find out that the glittery coat left behind by the sweat is a natural skin protecting barrier. This is incredibly useful for preventing skin problems like rashes, strawberry skin, and uneven skin texture. Scientists have not found a name for this yet (im scientists and don't know what to call it)

— ♡Shaped Dimple

Another rare phenomenon for people to get is dimples. Only 0.01 of the entire human population have dimples, and an even smaller number of people (me) have a heart-shaped dimple. There is nothing scientific about this tho, it's just fun to look at

— Beauty marks / moles

I have a couple of cute beauty marks on my body and face. Also somewhat rare, somewhat not lol. Nothing more to add😊

@theshifterbear @livingmydreamlife5555 @4ellieluv

This was lowkey entertaining to script especially the unique features one too. ONTO THE NEXT!

[chaisshitposts]

Write A Letter To Yourself To Find The Answers You Want. || 'Dear Subconscious...'

have ya ever had a problem at hand that ya just couldn't figure out a solution to? it's such a deeply perplexing problem that ya just decide to shrug it off and maybe 'sleep it off.' and so, ya do just that... and maybe in the middle of the night, or as soon as ya wake up, or maybe even two days later in the middle of a totally unrelated task, ya get a random idea, a random thought, or perhaps a random solution that was the answer. that was yer subconscious, answerin' that problem ya were so stumped on.

which got me thinkin'... why haven't i considered askin' my subconscious a direct question? ive seen this happen in movies before, usually with— people who have DID or MPD, or perhaps someone who sleep walks, or suffers black outs. I've seen people leave notes and messages to themselves.

why haven't I just written a letter addressed to my subconscious and let it solve everything for me? why haven't I asked my subconscious to show me the answer or give me the answers I need to tap into being in the state of pure consciousness? the letter is personal to me, and my subconscious knows me best, so why the fuck wouldn't I trust what it has to say? i already do muscle testin' to get my yes/no answers, I already do fuckin' tarot readin's on myself— so... why not do this? can't believe I haven't done this yet.

and with that thought, I got my handy notebook, sat down at my dining room table, and got to writin', starting the letter off by saying 'dear subconscious...' I spilled my most vulnerable guts afterwards and the rest was history.

I'm gonna tell ya right now, full transparency, I wrote to my subconscious about how much I want to enter the void state/I Am State and asked it for clear signs in my letter, I told it to give me the answers I want in a way that only I could understand. an experiment worth while... originally, i wasn't gonna post this but then i got my answers and i wanted to share this with ya lovely folks of this lil' dandy community.

I bet you're wonderin' what was the answer I got from my subconscious. I got multiple answers, as terrifying as that is, and I cannot even fathom how I can explain them properly. All I know is that I feel unwavering peace in all aspects of my life. but if yer really curious, I got a message in a tarot readin' video and through the spinoff of adventure time that just came out, not too long ago on max. Fiona and Cake. the shit they say in the show is... I can't even explain how it made me feel, just finished watchin' the entire series today. it was everything I needed to know, I asked my subconscious for an answer that only I would understand and what would ya know... i love musicals and animated shows/movies, and behold, i gotta damn combo. i definitely recommend it to my fellow manifesters!!! they literally talk about how easy it is to create yer own REALITIES in the damn show... that's what we fuckin' do!!!!

how do I write a letter to myself?

address yourself a letter as 'dear subconscious' and then get to writin'. you're literally sendin' yerself a letter, say whatever ya want in it, write yer secrets, write yer fears, write yer dreams. ask yer subconscious whatcha need to do to get yer dream life guaranteed and ya shall receive. some people may not like the idea of this but, what's the harm in a lil' conversation with yerself and findin' out the answers ya need. It can especially help ya if you've been strugglin' for a while, 'specially with all ya folks out there who've been on yer void journey for multiple years. what better way to get yer answers than to speak to yerself through yer own mind... wah, that sounds fuckin' coconuts but I stand by it.

essentially, this is just a combo of commandin' yer subconscious and scriptin', that's not hard at all. and who said ya gotta handwrite it? ya can type it out on yer phone or even yer computer if ya want, do whatever feels good and allows ya to write out yer guts and frustration. after that, ya can relax and see what happens next. that's all in this post! thanks for readin' and I hope ya get the answers ya seek! until next time!~

p.s. this ain't a challenge, it's just another way to get to know what you need to do to accomplish your dreams as the individual creator of yer reality. you'll know when yer answers come. hell, might even come to ya in the middle of the night or even in a random movie in the form of a quote that is far too relatable to yer situation ya decided to sit down and watch one day. kinda like what happened with me... hehe.

[gaspshichat]

hi chat. pearl made me cry at 9:30 in the morning so y'all know what time is it. warning there will be swears [i say the f word ☹️] bc i haven't slept but i'm somehow not sick rn which. hasn't happened in weeks

[and a quick health update: pretty sure i have narrowed down what's making me sick to three possible things. i'm hopefully seeing my doctor soon bc the refill on my meds expires in june. we're so close and i haven't been able to breathe]

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OH MY GOD. Y'ALL. IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME AND SOMEHOW AREN'T A PEARL FAN. HOW ???? GO. GO BE A PEARL FAN. IT'S A THREAT

pearl is funny and kind and caring. there is a reason i gave her 10k bits the other day. she deserves the entire world and more. i don't know what the world did to her that made her so kind

i'm not the only one who has a message though !! here are a few messages from people but i've seen so many in reblogs and tweets and whatnot

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from my lovely partner tay aka twitter user PandoraRxse: I can’t catch streams very often but your videos always make me smile and I always look forward to a new upload. Keep doing what you’re doing, you’re amazing Pearl

from lovely twitter user SKYBL1NGS: shes like genuinely super funny and has great content that everyone can get into and shes really pretty and i loce pearlecentmoon

from a lovely anonymous twitter user: she is genuinly such an amazing artist, both in minecraft and in real life, all of her art is so lively in a way that i'm not sure how to describe best. also she is such a kind human being :))

from lovely tumblr user sapphicwhimsy: pearl is such a lovely and sweet person. shes SO kind to everyone in chat, new or old, and creates such a lovely environment to hang around in. her streams are the only ones i can sit through fully, and she has SUCH a lovely voice! i could listen to her read the dictionary, because im sure she would make it interesting. she has such a way to make everything interesting! even things like sitting still for thirty minutes can be something interesting in a pearl stream, because shes always got such amazing things to say. shes absolutely beautiful, inside and out, with a kind soul that matches her through and through. the fact that she always tries to read everyone out personally, and tries to pronounce their names correctly - and accepts corrections wholeheartedly - is so nice. and shes so wonderfully accepting to all of her community, and always has well wishes for everyone. shes truly a very wonderful and accepting person, who deserves the world! honestly the sweetest person ive ever came across.

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anyway onto the next part of why i made this post

HOW THE FUCK IS SHE SO PRETTY. WHAT. IT'S GENUINELY UNFAIR. SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE COULD BE A GODDAMN SCULPTURE

LIKE COME ON. I WISH I COULD DRAW SO I COULD DRAW HER. SHE'S BEAUTIFUL. WHAT THE HELL. LOOK AT HER

featuring other GORGEOUS women. my god. i am so

anyway :)) it took me an hour and a half to write this bc i kept getting distracted. in short. pearl is so amazing and wonderful. it's weird how she remembers things about me and actually cares ???

also. SHE PRONOUNCED MY NAME CORRECTLY ???? I'VE HEARD SUCH TERRIBLE PRONUNCIATIONS BUT PEARL. SHE SAID IT RIGHR FIRST TRY. WHAT. i kind of want to hear how karn would attempt to pronounce it

[bc yes. i'm okay with anyone, including streamers, calling me vyren. you know me better than my dad does. it's okay to call me vy, vyren, gasp, or gasps]

sleepy brain wrote this post and i want to say so much more but i can't. i had a better message when i did my 10k bits message but that thing is long gone. the only way pearl knows about those bits is if she sees this

and to her community: i love y'all. y'all are lovely. thanks for helping make my shitty life a little brighter. the world may not be kind to me, but y'all are. thank y'all for that. y'all are so lovely

pearl, if you see this, sending all the love to you and your three cats. and yes. karn is the third cat

[gremlintooth]

AHHHGH DUDE, IVE FINALLY FOUND YOU ON HERE, YESSSS BRO, YOUR WRITING IS PHENOMENAL, (I'd say I'm the biggest lagwafis enthusiast on the internet, as soon as i read lagwafis, I bought the CD, the collectors edition pill pack white shirt, I have so so so many quotes on my Craig Tucker Shrine from the fic, and if you wanted to know, I've currently managed to read lagwafis 388 times, people believe I know it by heart, get it? "I know you by heart, Tweek" and the agonizing fact I quote lagwafis every day whenever I see a brink of reference infront of me, like let's say yesterday, I was in a store- and I saw a tub of chai latte and I was so close to screaming lagwafis reference inside of the store, I'm also cooking up some fan art (specifically from coming home) so I'll totally tag you when it's out) AHHH I'M GONNA WRITE SO MUCH ON HERE IT MIGHT GO TO THE LIMIT, okay so first, let's talk about the fanfic itself, there are SO many tiny details in this fic that have either made me laugh or cry in agony, which is a good thing, also, the characterization is TOP TIER, a lot of fanfictions tend to fall slightly short on the background characters outside of the pairing that tends to be the main focus. This was a great change, especially in Craig's group and Stan especially, everyone felt so real and totally had obvious quirks from the fandom itself that I LOVED SO MUCH, your writing evokes so much emotion that I somehow managed to feel exactly how everyone felt in a chapter relevant to them.

Let's talk about the character description choices, the way you described Tweek in almost every chapter made my heart ache in the best way possible, you made him sound like a fallen angel, the definition of ethereal, also the fact you decided on giving him that mouth scar with backstory to it is TOP TIER, I have a similar scar on my lip and whenever I see it in the mirror I think of Tweek from this fanfic, let's move on to Craig, the way you wrote his internal monologue and the way his emotions played out made me absolutely soul crushed, this entire fic left a deep pit in my heart, especially how Craig was described, Craig was written so realistically that it actually felt like he was real. He purposely blocked off his emotions to prevent himself from being seen as vulnerable, he struggled with keeping his “I don’t give a shit” personality until it all just exploded and the part that he was so vulnerable with was exposed to the entire school.

Also I see that the lagwafis anniversary is coming up soon!! I usually celebrate it every year when I get the chance to, by doing lagwafis related things and shit, this fanfic deserves way more than just kudos and comments and hits, this fic deserves the damn world and beyond, I even had literal dreams of this fic being one day announced to be an animated movie, and if it ever did I would cry and vomit in the best way ever possible, my life would be so complete if we became moots on here, also, I'm not sure if you have TikTok, but that's where I'm most known to being the lagwafis enthusiast on there, i make a lot of lagwafis related videos, my username is spacecadetcraigz, if you ever see this at some point, just know im so grateful you took your time to read through this.

I literally wish you the best life for now on

Yours truly,

Spacecadetcraig

388 times????? That’s true dedication my friend, you must read it like twice a week? Incredible, I’m so glad you enjoy something I wrote this much. I’m also so glad you love the album by Spiritualised too, it’s such a special album and there’s something so perfect about the title track that I’ve never been able to shake.

I didn’t even realise the anniversary was coming up, thanks for reminding me! It’s so weird to think I started writing that story six years ago. At that time I’d been catching up with South Park and when I first saw the Tweek X Craig episode it was my new favourite thing from the first minute in.

An animated movie would be amazing, Matt and Trey give us the rights pls, free of charge if possible (they’d so try for another billion dollar deal ahahahah)

I’m going to check you out on tiktok and if you do make fanart please tag me! I’d love to see!

[seth-burroughs]

mdarc chapter 1 rewatch part 3, and yes, i am aware of the massive pile of asks i have on all my blogs however as always i shall keep running. no don't stop sending them i absolutely appreciate the attention its just i need to mentally prepare two weeks in advance and cry in order to give a sufficient response. you should give it a try and converse with yours truly again some more if the thought of torturing and killing me slowly sounds fun and exciting to you👍

oh look its the child extortion scene

you would think halara, who's got all that trauma from having their family get scammed and destroyed by a friend* they trusted as a child, would be just a tiny bit less comfortable with swindling kids out of their money rn but like you know that's just my thoughts......

they're Reclaiming it <3

*listen. like i know i can't be the only one that thinks that way, but so far so many people ive seen that played this game just went through this gab and thought "oh wow a middle schooler just scammed them that is so crazy lmao", and like. i was under the impression that halara was the one in middle school the entire time, and their "best friend" was just some adult con artist that gained Halara's trust (or just flat out groomed them, honestly) so they could scam their parents. like, you do know this interpretation makes infinitely more sense than... very nefarious 12 year old manipulator investment scamming adults or whatever

has nobody already made a halara "fuck them kids" joke or do i gotta pull out that art program again

this child is like fucking what, five?? literally crying what is your PROBLEM halara...... halara i don't even think he understands half of whatever you're saying to him right now.....................

they didn't even give it back to kei they just tossed it over to yuma???????? lmao?????????

still. they're so fucking cool. i'm giving them the highest honor i can bestow (narcissistic personality disorder and massive autism)

AH WAIT I FORGOT WE ACTUALLY INVESTIGATE SHIT IN THIS GAME OOOOoooooh. ooooooooooh.

i forgot to read the report by the way

*points at jiei colan* SYMMETRY TOOL LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

oh holy shit wait canon age??? jiei is 48??? ok now that is information i am going to blast into my mind permanently and not like. anything slightly more important

casual fatphobia jumpscare

pink blood scene *nods solemnly*

holy shit i know exactly who the culprit is you wont believe it. im so fucking smart. im a genius im a fucking god fondle my nuts while you blow me

i can already feel seth approaching rapidly because my eyes are getting teary and my chest is doing really funny stuff right now. the sense went off

once he arrives i will keep a list of "memorable and beautiful things seth has done in all his 4 scenes" as well as "memorable and beautiful things desuhiko has done in the entire game or perhaps his life" and then compare once we finish. wish me luck

chapter 1 >>>>>>>>>> every other fucking chapter. i am going to kill a man on this hill

THERE HE COMES .

I'm twitching like hell right now. my muscles yearn for the burroughs

UUAAAAAIIIIIGIHUGFFYDFUUUUUGHGHHHHGAAAAAAAAAAGHUSYDGHSDUUUUUHHHHHHHHGGHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! H H

HE HIS STUPID FUCKIDGFG WALK

take that rain cape off you fucking coward this is kanai ward. noticed his lil fox symbol on his back and got reminded of wackpedion's religious seth post but im not gonna look for it now. but yeah he's 100% metal fox church guy i told you this chapter got layerssss to it. this is cinema. video games lore have peaked at rain code chapter 1. scott cawthon has been really silent ever since rain code chapter 1 dropped

his face. its heeehhhhere. i am going tocommit vehicular manslaughter. and ask him why is his skin fucking gray

holy motherfucker I TOTALLY forgot how his japanese voice sounds. he sounds. slightly more normal actually. less pathetic if that was possible. its like he still has hope. help me he sounds so young

i like how. he just calmly extremely quietly tells them to stand up while standing like 20 feet away from them and knowing his voice usually doesn't reach above 30db. like he just stands there mumbling to them to plss get up now knowing they probably can't hear him. he jsut. gives it a try. maybe this time

maybe he's trying to awaken his telepathic abilities.

omg god a charlie radiohead wackpedion oc cameo???? i can't believe that wiki let spike chunsoft put charlie in their game in order to help increase sales it is so cool how they support smaller creators like that once again

that cunty stance. who stands like that.

its not fucking on. how did you notice its not fucking on. or did he just did but tried regardless. dead silence.

truly, a flattering introduction

and he. wasn't even that fucking mad he just gave him a very dissapointed look to go and fix that. which makes me think it has happened before. and numerous times

finally, seth has succeeded. you know whats crazy about that scene?? the peacekeepers were knocked out a solid while ago thats gonna be at least 15, if not just 20 entire minutes. realistically if youre uncounscious for that much time (and im pretty sure halara whacked them on the head) then you're gonna be concussed as fuck perhaps even have serious brain injuries (and im pretty sure halara whacked them on the head HARD) like youre not gonna be ok after this. his voice literally healed them. he commanded them to rise and so they did. combined with the blatant christian themes of rain code (makoto is satan. martina's motorcycle is the ark) the answer is obvious seth is jesus where was i going with this again

seth is so fucking chill its unbelievable. its the fourth time something has happened to him this moment, megaphone guy fucked up the fucking volume and he just. takes a few steps back motions with his arms and doesn't even say anything. if that were yomi he'd just bring out the whip. if that were martina she'd verbally abuse them so fucking hard they would not be able to look her in the eye ever again in their lives. if that were guillaume she'd start screeching at dominic to decapitate that man

i am going to look away whenever they mention Bodies Rotting Quickly In Kanai Ward from now on. i shall not. it is not worth it.

megaphone guy cringe moment

i would say something about the entire "public execution" moment but i think i already said enough before. so.

goodbye seth you absolutely fucking SLAYED it

[rattotheimperialcheesegod]

I wanna rant about my opinions on certain characters and aphmaus own character (mainly the cast of the "smp") this may be garbled since im just going off whats on my mind rn

SMP and OG series talk

Now Im not the biggest fan of mystreet, but im not a hater, i think its og first three seasons are fine (third seasons plot was straight ass through) but after season 4 and all the multiverse and mcd and mystreet worlds are in the same timeline thing, kinda made things werid

(especially with season 4 oh my god wtf was that)

But now that i see how those characters are used now.....for fucking cocomau content...

...I can't really give mystreet shit cause its cast was sent right into kid sensory video hell or just hell since a lot of characters didn't end up in the cocomau smp unless it was highschool themed videos (RIP katelyn and travis, forever in highschool puragatory dimension)

But those who were spared from the waste bin were cursed with a experience worse than death

Character Regression and Character Assassination

The entire cast of the aphmau smp (and one video returning characters too) all have their worst traits put to eleven or are at their most basic traits of the trope of their character where they are competely soul-less or lose past development in their character as a whole

(or your pierce, and you get a competely different personality from the og series you were from)

Now the reason why everyone is like this is of course (kids channel now) and (everyones supposed to be in a server and are irl ppl now)

But...when i said characters have their worst traits put up to eleven, is for one reason

Its so aphmau and aarons actions look better in comparisson, since shes the all perfect main character that does no wrong and is so nice to everyone and...aaron is basically the mvp of the smp, best fighter, builder, and "hottest guy" on the server and is the mysterous loner or some shit.

(Fact I hate these two so fucking much)

littary aphmau is the most overdramatic marysue bitch ive ever seen when it comes to reasons why she has the right to go apeshit on her friends and i could bring up several videos, i really could, its not hard

noteablely, the many times she has decided to just kill her best friends or ruin her friends lives out of petty reasons and childish reasons none the less, and god this girl just loves getting pissy when someone does the exact thing she did to another, since only she can steal others stuff or blow up their house, or be overpowered to a point where shes just cheating.

But oh my god, jessica you know how to make me hate all the rest of your bitches too!

(besides noi, kim and pierce, they are perfect to me, noi is on thin ice tho)

KC, Zane, Ein and Aaron are on my list of bitches I wouldnt hesitate to fucking kill on sight if i saw their color coded asses spawn into a ACTUAL minecraft server. (ill get to that color coding thing too btw)

The Asshole and The Clown

Now fuck where do i begin with these four, like all of them over the past three to four years has become the most annoying and aggrevating characters

But, just so I don't pull someones nerve with the true "fan" favorites, Aaron, the jerrysue of the smp and basically her perfect half cause hes jusr her but as a man, he's a jackass that is never called out for his asshole behavior like every other male character is, hes always put as being smarter, better, stronger, and more attractive than any of the other guys too, basically being the best alpha male ever to exist....but not really, not even a single bit

I swear this is the worst verison of aaron ive ever seen in my life, the biggest try hard ive ever seen, all the girls wanna date him, always gloating when theres someone around he believes hes better than, and god he is not nice to others who arent good at building like him. Honestly, MAN ISNT NICE AT ALL!! like only time he is nice is of course to the purple stain that is his irl wife, like the times this guy was just violent for no reason, insulting or just aggrevated around anyone was just making me feel like...

aaron do you even like any of these people??, cause ive seen every way he talks to all of the cast and he sounds like he wants them all gone and dead so he can just be all cutesy and shy around aphmau, like dude if you think all of them are annoying, dont live near by them?????

(Now, ive mentioned both the channel mascot couple of the smp, but heres the thing, when i said the other characters make these two look like angels, i mean it)

Now we are actually really digging, and we didnt even need to go far, we've already struct gold!...but theres not much...

Ein, the worst villian and most pathetic man to ever live.

What a time, season 4 of mystreet! and we got the biggest clown with the biggest alpha complex to ever exist! and the evolution of a creep in werewolves as a whole....it was fucking werid

Anyway, now smp ein is a true irl villian, hes no longer just a anime incel, hes a fucking sexist gamer incel also!

Now, Ein really isnt too interesting (wow what a surprise) really hes one of the characters who has been put to his most basic traits making him extra annoying, extra obessed with power and, of course still be madly in love with aphmau but if it wasnt known, aphmau changed alittle bit of eins lore, making him no longer related to her (only in the smp cannon tho💀) which is a good thing! but its only a change that was made for horrible reasons, being that she still needs him to be aarons rival and as i said before, be aphmaus possible second "choice", which is...normal for aphmau honestly....

(Aphmau can't have a single man on this server just not be into her, even if the guy clearly has a love interest thats not her)

Strangely though she really likes to romantically pair Ein with everyone, even men, so at least we know she still has that problem with her ocs...

Hes like her little lab rat and i hate her so so much, but fuck its hard to feel bad for him since this women will than have this man be the worlds second most grossiest sexist incel you could ever come across

wait did I say second--

Zane ro'meave and his several counts of "GET A JOB, STAY AWAY FROM HER"

(mystreet zane is fine, mcd zane is the perfect kinda villain for what mcd was, and smp zane is hell on earth, the end)--

Zane in the aphmau smp is kinda...a jumpscare in a half since you never know when hes gonna switch, cause...he has the biggest habit of either, being the biggest smartass in the room or the scariest "my lady" ass incel you could ever fucking dream apon, just every bit of his charm from mystreet that made you kinda push aside the slight every now and than werid behavior he had, its just GONE

absolutely vanished! and yknow what

I hate zane, i hate him more than i hate anyone in this damn cast, im the biggest zane hater you will ever meet, and the reason for it is cause this verison of zane is the dark universe of if zane never grew from the FIRST season of mystreet, never got humbled or anything, and also if he still acted like a hormone filled highschooler whenever any women even looked his fucking way.

Hes a creep, hes a incel, hes still sexist and overprotective of his only female friend, but now even wants to date her just to have more control over who she can't and can speak to (code for, no guy friends allowed/no aaron, bo womp) and if he isnt doing that, hes drooling and creepily mumbling to himself about the pink cat girl he has a massive crush on.

Honestly worst part of it is that he acts like this outta nowhere, and even worse, recently theres been this obession with him NEEDING KC's diary, wanting to know every single little thing about her so he knows how to woe her and even see if she likes him, which is just...

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIM???!!!??

APHMAU WHY DID YOU MAKE HIM BE LIKE THIS??!!??

(and hes not even punished for it, like maybe kc telling him that hes creepy or smth, nothing, just nothing, proubly cause recently they have been competely implied to be dating now)

but, its not like miss kc is perfect, oh boy, kc is...

The two sided bitch and her jealously and spite of her "perfect" best friend + shipping

Oh KC, when i first started watching all this cocomau trash, you were boring as hell, just a cute cat girl who likes to bake and be pretty, and just another yes man for that purple cunt, but ever since you started being a cunt yourself, you have only been a pain to watch and listen to, you have only made me hate you and your little lap dog of a boyfriend even more honey

So KC, our resident cute cat girl isnt really all that cute of recent, she slowly becoming more spiteful, having anger issues, being more whiney, bratty, jealous, and unloyal to her partner, creating the most toxic couple in the entire smp verse

(but this was something that was gonna happen at some point, aarmau has to stay as the perfect ship, couple goals yknow, so zane x kc has be anti-aarmau, toxic behavior all around)

Now KC is a unloyal and horrible partner for a few reasons, shes a massive hypocrite and sadly abusive.

1. She gets mad at Zane for even speaking to other girls, or even seemingly flirting with them, specifically any of the marry, date, kill videos with both of them in it can be a big example of this behavior.

But than when we look the other way to her, she gets to playfully talk, compliment and flirt with any guy she wants, and gets all angry when shes stopped from doing it, also she only does this with aaron btw, since shes jealous of aphmau having "the hottest, coolest, and sweetest guy in the server" for a boyfriend.

(aaron is littary none of those things and just pointing out more to how aaron is a jerrysue)

2. KC IS SO FUCKING VIOLENT WITH ZANE OH MY GOD, i guess aphmau still thinks when a women hits or beats up her male partner, its her being in the right or it being super duper funny and wacky!

(this entire short is an example of that)

But I will say though, it isnt just KC, their a toxic couple cause their both terrible partners, zane is equally just as hypocritical and unloyal, but hes a lot more oppessive and even more jealous prone,

(kim is usually a victim of being between the two but fr fr, kim genuinely hates zanes, aphmau just keeps making more drama for no reason and really wants ppl to also ship kim x zane, which....when it comes to everyones opinion of mystreet kim and ghost existing and everything with season 4....it is never gonna fucking happen you dumb purple cunt)

My Inner Demons-Character regression and personality switches (a short one)

Now that we are off those characters, lets end this off with our favorite little daemos!

Noi and Pierce!

Now, im a advid lover of my inner demons, its the last of aphmaus good content before the purge and its sadly the best of her writing, but the fact that she put them in the smp is a red flag, and i instantly noticed things...

...Pierce is a silly himbo goofball now that has a brain the size of a pea, and who loves sheep

and

Noi is the most basic sweet little good boy, does no wrong little guy, baking cooking and eating pizza

(now im not mad about this, since i got to know the smp verisons of them before their og selfelves)

but fuck i prefur when noi had depth and was genuinely mean and kinda rude on purpose.

im mixed with pierce tho cause i like both verisons of him, i think both verisons of him are neat, his va has good range, respect that

The End

Well thats all i gotta say, ratto out and about

[coolritofacts]

Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse: A Strange Journey

Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse (known as SMTIV Final in Japan) is a sequel to the original SMTIV, both of which are 3DS games. It follows an alternate story that begins near the end of the original, where a new protagonist accidentally kicks off a sequence of events that leads to the game playing out completely differently.

It's... not perfect. The gameplay and audiovisual design are not only top-notch for the series, but for RPGs of the time as a whole, but the story fails to execute on its admittedly interesting ideas, and the third act in particular might be the most spectacular way I've ever seen a piece of media completely fumble the bag. This post will be a chronicle/unstructured rant of my entire two-week journey through the game. Spoilers for both SMTIV and Apocalypse will be covered in detail. Strap in: this is going to be a long one.

For those who aren't aware, Shin Megami Tensei is an RPG series that dates all the way back to the 80s. The gameplay involves fighting demons based on mythological gods and beasts, convincing them to join your party, and fusing them together to create stronger demons. Most SMT games take place in a post-apocalyptic version of Tokyo and center around the conflict between those aligned with the ideals of Law and Chaos. The series is best known for its largest spinoff series, Persona, but SMT has so many other increasingly obscure entries and spinoffs that they could probably form an iceberg video with their titles alone.

SMTIV in particular takes place in the year 2038, 25 years after nuclear war ravaged the world. Thanks to a confluence of factors, Tokyo was protected from the war by a giant dome that covered the entire city. A few survivors managed to breach the ceiling and form a new city up there, and since time flows much faster above the dome, an unusual medieval society called the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado, with "Samurais" and a caste system, has had over 1500 relative years to develop by the time the game starts. The cast of SMTIV hails from Mikado, while Apocalypse starts in Tokyo.

Back to the game. I knew a few things about it before I decided to start playing it, the first (and most striking) of which being the protagonist's design:

There's just so much to take in here. His haircut is insane, he's got one pant leg rolled up for seemingly no reason, and the "NO WAR" text on his suit and the peace symbol pin are a good indication of how subtle the game's themes will be. My favorite part, though, are the lyrics to John Lennon's Imagine emblazoned right below the pins. They might be too small to make out here, but trust me, they're there. Also, his name is Nanashi, which literally means "nameless."

After an entire hour of downloading a ROM onto my very real 3DS (accompanied by this completely insane blurb) and trying to figure out how to make the DLC CIA file work, I finally opened the game and was immediately greeted by this:

This shit is SERIOUS. We're going to WAR here.

The game opens with two random guys telling Nanashi (who I gave the hunter codename KILLJOHN, as a reference to my everlasting mission to kill John Lennon) and his childhood friend Asahi that they're too young and inexperienced to join the Hunter Association and become official demon hunters, then tasking them to beat up a couple demons as basic combat practice. Nanashi picks a phone up off the floor, starts killing, some demons, and immediately gets jumped and dies. In the afterlife, a demon called Dagda shows up and brings Nanashi back to life under a contract of complete subservience, then jumps into his phone to help him take down the demons.

With the two random guys dead and nothing else to do, Nanashi and Asahi collect some demons of their own and start doing quests from the Association. One of these almost gets the two killed, but Flynn, the protagonist from the first game, and his friend Isabeau show up to rescue them. Flynn has a major speaking role in this game, which is always cool to see in a sequel.

Throughout the game, you'll be given several dialogue choices that alter Nanashi's alignment. In vanilla SMTIV, these were centered around Law and Chaos and were entirely responsible for which ending you got, but in Apocalypse, they're more focused around being "good" or "evil" and the consequences for which one you choose are a bit different. Since Dagda constantly (and I mean constantly) tells Nanashi to betray his friends and work alone, and most of the "evil" options are Nanashi acting like a total dick to whoever he's talking to, it reminds me a lot of specifically the SnapCube fandub of Shadow the Hedgehog, where The Devil from The Bible repeatedly shows up and tells Shadow to be an asshole and collect Sin Points.

Another fun element of this game is the lore compendium, which contains such things as the entire plot of the first game, an unnecessarily lengthy entry about the preparation and history of fried chicken, and the unrequested information that Isabeau reads yaoi. The fried chicken thing is even lampshaded in-game, just to give an indication of how unserious the game is going to be.

For the gang's next mission, they take a request called "plz stop fight" and travel to the Fairy Forest. Waiting for them is Nozomi, a character from a series of side quests from the first game that's been upgraded to a party member here. Since most of her development already happened in that game, her role in this one is as more of a mentor figure and as a mouthpiece for Dagda's mom, who lent her power to Nozomi so she could carry out her duties as queen of the fairies. She asks Nanashi to take care of King Frost, the king of all Jack Frosts, while unleashing this humdinger of a line:

Your next mission is given to you by some demon guy, who instructs you to go to a really cool waterfall dungeon to unseal a powerful being. With nothing else to do, the gang goes off to do exactly that, and they're greeted by this twink:

He introduces himself as Krishna, leader of the Divine Powers, a group that wants to create a new universe outside of God's grasp so humanity can be free from his constraints. Unfortunately, this means killing everyone in the current universe, so he's gotta be stopped. He starts a war between the Divine Powers, Merkabah (God's chariot) and Lucifer (Lucifer), kidnaps Flynn to use in much the same way as Dagda has with Nanashi, and fucks off to do his own thing. At this point, Dagda drops one of my favorite lines in any video game:

I refuse to believe someone at Atlus wrote this line and unironically thought they were cooking. They are not beating the Shadow the Hedgehog allegations.

The game then gives you two quests and lets you choose which one to do first: clean up the Divine Powers' invasion of the Fairy Forest from earlier, or go to the big tower that leads to Mikado to collect a part for a thing I'll mention in a moment. Both of these lead to boss fights, and I killed both of them in about three turns. SMT has a reputation for being really hard, but if you have enough experience with the series and spend more time nose deep in the fusion calculator than playing the game, it's not too hard to turn any boss in your way into red mist, especially since the first one of the two has a habit of using a skill that guarantees that his next hit will be a critical hit when he already has a status that does the exact same thing.

The second boss of the two is worth talking about a bit more, though. Medusa is a boss returning from the first game, and her encounter here is meant to mirror the one from that game as closely as possible, from the legendarily kickass boss music to the dialogue being nearly the exact same. One line in particular sticks out:

This game has uncensored swears in it, which makes me believe that Medusa just called Nanashi several slurs. You also get a new party member here, but he sucks so I don't feel like talking about him.

This seems like as good a time as any to mention how amazing this game's OST is. SMTIV already had some awesome tunes, and this game naturally carries most of the tracks from there while also adding some unique ones. The entire soundtrack is gold, but some of my personal favorites are the Large Map theme and the Divine Powers battle theme. I'd highly recommend looking these up to accompany your reading if you've already made it this far.

Your next mission is to defeat the Divine Powers' Evil Snake. Joining you is this wonderful gentleman:

This guy goes out of his way to use your turns to attack. This has a high chance of getting you killed in random encounters. He's also almost necessary to kill Evil Snake, since he carries around a spear blessed by God that's super effective against it. I love this guy. The battle against Evil Snake is also pretty interesting; you need to choose the right dialogue options so you don't get wiped. Most major bosses in both SMTIV and Apocalypse do this, but the Evil Snake fights really make you feel like a tactical smart guy for choosing the right options...

...or at least they would if I didn't have a guide at the ready. If there's one thing I regret about this game, it's looking things up on the wiki way too often and ruining some things for myself that I would've liked to see with my own eyes. I needed the alignment guide to make sure my Sin Points were at sufficient levles and a walkthrough to get through the incredibly crankass final dungeon, but I could have survived without the constant wiki diving.

Anyway, after killing the Evil Snake, a couple of creepy old ladies tell you to kill Flynn and the Divine Powers. The gang obviously objects to the former, so they let you skip that part as long as you let "this weird child" (their words, not mine) named Toki follow you along for the ride.

The second she joined my party, she instantly killed an enemy I ran into and then said this. You can't make this shit up. Isabeau also formally joins the party around this point, rounding out a complete set.

The whole squad goes off to fight the Divine Powers, which completely backfires in their face and ends up revealing to the entire party that Nanashi is essentially a corpse being puppeted along at the whims of Dagda. Nobody is happy about this. After the confronration, one of the Divine Powers sets up a barrier that makes everyone in Tokyo unable to summon demons (except Nanashi because he's different). One of the leaders of the Hunter's Association asks you to quell an invasion of Nanashi's home, leading to one of my favorite dialogue choices in the game:

During the invasion, Asahi's dad dies. Womp womp.

While Asahi mourns, the rest of the gang turns their focus to destroying the barrier. To do this, they need to seal five jars that power the barrier through collecting emotions from five of the seven deadly sins, because I guess the Divine Powers couldn't afford all seven. Toki volunteers to do this because she's trained to seal her emotions away, and she gets brain blasted by all five of the sins while she's sealing the jars. After getting through the lust one, she says "I'm too young for this"... and then slightly later, she returns with her mask off and with a habit of calling Nanashi "Master" and openly thirsting over him. This could be generously described as an unorthodox writing decision. Since Asahi starts developing an interest in Nanashi around the same time, this is (to my knowledge) the only SMT game with a genuine love triangle.

On that topic, this seems like a good time to mention a major criticism with the game, that being that it feels more like a cheesy sitcom than a "real SMT game." This is definitely true, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. As I said before, there are like 40 SMT games, so it shouldn't really matter if one of them isn't super dismal and depressing like the rest, especially if the game uses that tone to tell a compelling story. It... doesn't, but that's besides the point. Also, something really funny happened in that dungeon:

Next up: beat up the Divine Powers, for real this time. After getting through a genre staple Fuckass Teleport Maze, you finally get to partake in a formal bout with Krishna, who's probably the hardest boss so far. He loves to stack multiple status effects on your party at once, making it nearly impossible to move at times, while simultaneously tanking your stats and raising his own. If there weren't a party member that blocked status effects, I genuinely don't know how I would have gotten past him. He doesn't even die, either; after you beat him, he just goes "ohhh nooo I've been defeateddd how could this possibly happennnnnn" and fucks off to do some more plotting. Somehow, the entire party is fooled by this expert subterfuge. Flynn is also rescued during this operation, but he's acting a bit freaky.

The next thing you do is infiltrating Mikado for a reason I literally forgot. Since Mikado's Samurai get assigned at the age of 18 and most of the gang distinctly does not look that old, they put on stupid-looking disguises, which leads to Asahi getting totally owned by the angel guarding the gate:

After a bit more work, you finally arrive at the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado. This moment is awesome for both story and meta reasons: the characters are astonished by the fresh air and the feeling of sun on their faces since they've lived under a dome their entire lives, and the player (me) is astonished by being right back at the initial hub area from the first game. The music and visuals are exactly the same, and you get to use all the same facilities and things that the Samurai do. It's a really rewarding and cool feeling after the extended gap between my playing of the two games. As another bonus, Nanashi gets to wear the supremely cool Samurai outfit:

Ignore the green shades. He thinks they look cool.

At this point, Merkabah and Lucifer officially declare war and start trying to beat each other up. To stop them, you need to go through an area from the first game, interspersed with sections of Lucifer's Palace (but not Merkabah's Purgatorium, for some reason). At the center of the area, Merkabah and Lucifer are talking shit to each other, with Flynn sitting in the middle and calling them both poopyheads. At this point, you can side with either Merkabah or Lucifer to get a Law/Chaos bad ending that ends the game early, or kill both of them like the game clearly wants you to. Gaston breaks his heavenly spear and becomes a worse character by replacing it with a normal one, and some other guy does some thing that I don't care about. Once you do that, all of the evil forces of the world are totally dead, so you can go back home and celebrate! Woohoo!

At this point, I came to a realization: I was really invested in this game. Sure, the tone was very different from any other SMT game, but I didn't perceive that as a bad thing. The characters were fun (if a little simple), the plot had set up lots of interesting threads, and the gameplay and vibes were as excellent as ever. I might have even been enjoying myself more than the first game. I went into the comments section of a review to see if other people shared this opinion, and I just ended up disagreeing with most of the reasons people weren't vibing with the game, but I also came to another, much more terrifying realization:

I had stopped to check right before the plot turned into a shitshow. A magnificent one, but a shitshow nonetheless.

Surprisingly, the game doesn't actually end after you beat up Merkabah and Lucifer. At the ensuing party, Flynn reveals himself as a reincarnation of the Evil Snake from earlier and eats the souls of everyone at the party. This would probably be a much more shocking reveal if he didn't spend the entire Merkabah/Lucifer encounter making this face and the game didn't draw attention to it every single time he did.

Once he reveals himself, Evil Snake jumps at Nanashi with intent to kill, but Asahi jumps in front of him to protect him, dying in the process.

I have so many questions. Didn't she know that Nanashi just comes back to life whenever he gets killed because of Dagda? I've died plenty of times throughout the game, so she had to have picked up on that by now. Is she stupid? Well, yeah, she is, but you know what I mean. Also, why can't Dagda just bring her back to life like he does with Nanashi? Is he gonna do that later in the game? Oh, God, he totally is, isn't he? And why does nobody else in the party care!?

The possible explanation for that last point is that Evil Snake just turned into a giant egg that's going to hatch and destroy the universe. Krishna shows up, says "hey bitches I didn't die", and now you gotta deal with them again. Great. At least I got Nanashi a lovely new outfit for his troubles.

The moment you get into the Cosmic Egg, Krishna turns to Toki and says one of the most stranger danger lines I've ever seen:

After that, he extracts the demon living inside Toki's brain (which still has her conscious inside it) and whisks her away to stuff souls into the demon to create new demons, which he will not stop describing as "giving birth". I have no idea how this got past QA and made it into the final game, especially since Toki is fourteen years old. Even more strangely, after traversing the majority of the Cosmic Egg (which looks like this the entire way through, overlay included) and defeating the demon possessing Toki, she just reverts to her personality from before the thing with the jars, implying that the way she acted for half the game was the result of that whole process altering her brain and turning her freaky. They try to insert a character arc of her trying to find inner strength or something after this, but it feels more like someone suddenly telling you about the job interview they just got out of after several hours of showing you Homestuck porn.

After another piss easy bossfight, you finally get to the decision the entire game has been building up to: destroy the Cosmic Egg with the help of your friends to preserve the current universe, or betray your friends and use Dagda's power to create a new universe where humans take back the godlike powers stolen from them by God. Since I pride myself as a comprehensive reporter, I'll be going through both of these routes, starting with...

Pacifist

On the Pacifist route, Dagda's mom shows up and tells him "fuck you, I'm gonna kill you, give me 2000 Macca" and creates another Dagda that's less of an asshole so you can kill the old one. After beating Dagda MKI up, Dagda MKII releases the souls of everyone eaten by the Evil Snake and therefore trapped within the Cosmic Egg, resulting in Asahi coming back to life completely unscathed despite her physical body clearly being eviscerated when she protected Nanashi earlier. Man.

At the end of the Cosmic Egg, you find Krishna waiting with Flynn crucified next to him. He soliloquizes a little more about saving the world, then fuses with Flynn to become Vishnu-Flynn... who I effortlessly destroyed because I accidentally set my difficulty to Conflict instead of WAR and forgot to change it back. Whoops! Also, I'm pretty sure they forgot to translate one of the dialogue options that appears when you fight him.

After defeating Vishnu-Flynn, Flynn separates from Krishna and deals a very anime-looking finishing blow to him. Krishna is sealed away back in that waterfall dungeon, the Cosmic Egg is deactivated and becomes a tourist attraction, and all threats to Tokyo are destroyed, so everyone from both Tokyo and Mikado can return to living peaceful lives. Also, the time dilation in Mikado is removed because the Evil Snake blasted a hole in the ceiling earlier. Sounds like a happy ending for everyone, right? WRONG! An expy of Stephen Hawking appears in the dreams of the entire party and tells them to go kill God, directing them to the universe where he lives, which is one of the most agonizing final dungeons I've ever had to sit through:

What this map doesn't show you is that every single floor here is absolutely gigantic, which, when combined with Nanashi's sluggish walk speed, results in a dungeon that may have genuinely killed me if I didn't have a guide telling me exactly where to go. Throughout the dungeon, you fight clones of Merkabah and Lucifer that God created to beat you up, and then the real Merkabah and Lucifer show up to become SATAN! He is not remotely challenging. Satan creates the door to God's house, and you finally come face to face with the big man himself... or perhaps "face to face to face to face to face to face" would be more accurate.

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen.

This boss is ridiculously hard, for a number of reasons:

Flynn and Isabeau split off from your party to form their own with Jonathan and Walter from the first game, who show up here just to kick God in the pants. You swap between the two parties every turn. This sounds beneficial, but Isabeau is the best partner in the game, so losing access to her for the final boss really stings.

God naturally resists all elements. To counter this, you need to have Flynn use Godslayer's Sword on him, which reduces his defense against a random ailment, and even turns it into a weakness if it hits the same element twice. There's no guaranteeing which element this skill affects, so you might end up giving him a weakness to normal attacks and absolutely destroying him... or a weakness to an element none of your demons can use.

This is a two-phase boss. The first phase is relatively inconsequential, but it does drain your patience and resources before the second phase, which is where shit gets real. He gains a skill that fully buffs all his stats and gives him a very dangerous status, a skill that fully debuffs your entire party's stats and has a chance of blocking you from using skills at all, and a full-party nuclear bomb that pierces affinities and does massive damage. Thankfully, he doesn't tend to use these skills one after the other, but it's still incredibly hard to deal with, especially since Flynn's party has a very limited set of items to work with.

The boss is levle 100, while Vishnu-Flynn was only lv87. I assume they want the player to make up the difference while going through the dungeon, but since this struck me as a massive waste of time, I fought him at around 10-15 levles below what seems to be recommended. I could have fixed this with a bit of grinding, but that's dumb and lame and I didn't wanna do it.

For all of these reasons, I was genuinely unable to do the boss on WAR difficulty and had to step down to Conflict to finish the game. It's a shame, too, because I think the concept of the boss is really cool; you need to have your entire party reject God as a concept by forming a proper understanding of him and thus denying his mysterious power, and once you do this enough, he reverts to just another regular demon that you can take down like any other. It's a pretty awesome fight from a lore standpoint, and it also fits in with absolutely nothing else from the rest of the game. After giving God the old one-two, you get a heartfelt goodbye from the gang as a slideshow of what they've been up to scrolls by, and the credits finally roll.

Ignore the guy with grey hair and the weird green ghost thing, they don't matter. This ending is kind of infamous for being incredibly saccharine and feeling more like a Persona ending than an SMT one, but at this point, I've been through enough shit that I think I've earned it. I shouldn't revel in this for too long, though, because now I have to get through...

Genocide

On the Genocide route, you side with Dagda in order to create a new universe that promotes solitude and personal strength above all else. Unfortunately, this is in direct conflict with your friends' goals, so now you have to kill all of them and harvest their souls so you have the power necessary to create a new universe. I fail to see how this makes you any different from the Divine Powers, but I digress. Hilariously, after killing all his friends, Nanashi says "Dagda" in a much more evil and fucked up way whenever he calls him to pull up the menu. Nanashi and Dagda then walk up to Krishna, tell him to stop yapping and turn into Vishnu-Flynn so they can beat him up, and... I got instantly wiped. Not only is he tougher and seemingly smarter on WAR mode, but you also obviously don't have a partner for this fight and can't reap the benefits of that. I clearly need to do some preparation to take this guy on.

Actually, that relates to something I haven't really gone into yet. Whenever I play an RPG, I have a habit of optimizing my build as much as possible over the course of the game, and SMT is no different A large part of my time with Apocalypse in particular wasn't actually spent playing it; instead, I tend to bury myself in a fusion calculator (basically a chart of every demon and every way you can fuse them together) and refuse to let myself out until I find a way to fuse the exact demon with the exact set of skills I want on it. Occasionally, I'll spend an entire day going through the calculator to find a certain combination without playing the game at all. I have mixed feelings about this habit: it's fun to figure out how to acquire the demon I want and incredibly satisfying when I find a recipe that works, and annihilating a boss with a team specifically created to exploit their weaknesses is ridiculously gratifying, but it's usually unnecessary, greatly increases the amount of time I spend on the game, and sometimes leads to me finding out about certain plot-relevant demons before I wanted to. In any case, once I found a combination of demons that was suitable to take down Vishnu-Flynn (which included Shiva, ironically enough), he went down without a sweat.

Dagda then tells Nanashi that he needs a "goddess" to properly recreate the universe. This goddess can be any of the party members you just killed (or Asahi), regardless of gender, and Dagda will bring back the one you choose as a puppet and consume the rest to fuel his new universe. He also possesses Flynn for good measure. I chose Isabeau because she has the best skills and she's a pretty woman. Oddly, Flynn essentially turns into a walking corpse who only exists to serve Nanashi, but whoever you choose as your goddess seemingly has their sanity totally intact. However, things aren't over just yet, since there's one man standing in the way of your path to godhood: the Creator God himself.

Since you actually have an impetus to kill God on this route, Stephen mostly just appears to tell you where he's at and how to do it. Once I made a pit stop to pick Krishna up from the waterfall dungeon and wiped out the Secular Press, I went back to God's Universe for a rematch against the big man. The return trip was about as interesting as the first; I tried to do some of the DLC quests, but they whooped my ass and pissed me off in equal measure, so I kept my distance and went straight to the boss with my squad:

Fighting God at lv99 on WAR mode gave me much more of an appreciation for how fun the fight is. On the Genocide route, the second party consists of only Flynn and Satan, but that's hardly an issue since Satan has ridiculous health and stats and every skill you would want him to have. Instead of your friends rebuking God's pity, you have to choose the right dialogue option to disavow him and progress the fight (or at least I think; I'm not sure what getting these wrong actually does). With proper preparation, the first phase is essentially free, meaning you get to the second phase (the fun part) much more often, which is as much of an assclench as ever. He's still incredibly hard for an enemy you're expected to fight in the main game, but I thoroughly enjoy everything about the fight from both a gameplay and lore perspective, especially on this route. Once you sufficiently kick God in the pants, Nanashi takes his seat at the Throne of Creation, Stephen Hawking warns him that more messiahs will come to fight him off the throne which is clearly a teaser for SMTIV3, Dagda vanishes into the cosmos to watch over their new universe, and the credits roll.

Honestly, I vastly prefer this to the Pacifist route. The act of killing your friends and possessing Flynn for your own benefit makes you feel like a bit of a dick without hamming it up for shock value too much, and actually having a reason to go to God's house and punch him in the teeth makes the ending feel a lot more natural. Also-- and this might make me sound like a psychopath-- I didn't realize how much I didn't want my friends screaming into my ear until they were all dead. That one YouTube comment I saw once was right; the best part of this game really is getting to kill your annoying ass party members. There's also a DLC where you collect the protagonists from the other games to fight Stephen Hawking, but I couldn't even get past the first phase to get to the second one where he stands up and becomes obscenely difficult.

Conclusion

Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse is not a perfect game. I probably wouldn't go as far as to say it's a great game, and it's definitely worse than the original. That being said, I still had a lot of fun with it. There are a fair few genuinely novel ideas hidden behind the shaky execution, and the gameplay is absolutely phenomenal, even compared to other entries in the series. I also can't help but feel like I learned a lot about myself and how I consume games during my time with it.

I have a very particular way of playing most games. I'll usually wait until a game has been out for a while so I know what to expect and I can get it on sale, or, in the case of older games, I simply pirate it. I collect all of my preexisting knowledge on the game and go "okay, this is what everyone likes and dislikes about this thing, let's see what genuine value I can find in the good and ironic value in the bad". If I'm worried about getting something wrong during my playthrough, I find a walkthrough and follow it to a T. I report amusing happenings or interesting observations about the game in a Discord thread, and by the end, I come out with the lives of me and a couple others enriched by the experience, no matter what flaws the game may have. I am a strong believer that (almost) any game has value waiting to be found, no matter how rocky its surface may be.

SMTIVA completely broke this system. The game shattered all expectations I had for it in both good and bad ways, the walkthrough and relentless wiki-diving led to my playthrough becoming much slower and somewhat artificial, and my need to report on every single facet of the game dragged things out even more and led to me doing some things that I absolutely wouldn't bother with on a solo playthrough. My philosophy of every game having something to enjoy hasn't changed, but perhaps I should spend less of that time carefully planning out how to go through the game and what to say about it and more of it just... playing the game. As a result, this might be the only post I make in this format, or at least the only one nearly this long. I still like the idea of writing reviews here for games I finish playing, but I'll try to keep it to just a few paragraphs instead of nearly six thousand words.

In conclusion: play Shin Megami Tensei. It's based as hell. Persona, too, for that matter; regardless of how much I rag on it, that series contains my favorite games of all time. And no matter what you choose to play or how you choose to play it, remember to have as much fun as you possibly can. That's what video games were made for, after all. Before I leave, though, I have one more word of wisdom for all of you:

Nice

[rodent-king-buunii]

Were more than halfway done, this is eps 9-12. I put pictures + screenshots in this time.. Bare w me here

TW: Death

Episode 9:[not much happens]

The street clip is back

The real life footage is fuckin trippy stop!

THE BEAR ONSIE MADE A COMEBACK! LETS GOO!!

Alien Freddy Kruger has made an appearance..

Oop- damn she found a Knight..

O no.. what is she bout to do w track 44?

NOT HER PARENTS GETTIN BUSY WHILE THEIR CHILDRENT ARE FUCKIN DYIN N KILLIN!?

THE SKINWALKER IS STILL BABBLIN BUT IS MAKIN SOME WORDS?!

The boy lives!! HE GAVE HER A SMOOCH?! N PUT HIS FUCKIN GUM IN HER MOUTH

Not her mimickin the sister’s babble on the banana phone

This episode has a lot of info + big words i don't entirely understand, i just know that Lain is bein duped in the wire like a deepfake matrix

WHO IS THIS FUCKIN DUDE?!

Episode 10:

THE FUCKIN STREET CLIP[i feel like i should have a counter for this shit too]

AYO SO THE DUDE AT THE END OF THE LAST EP LOOKS LIKE IS MONOKE HAD A BROTHER BUT THAT BROTHER WAS JUST… NOT HITTIN LIFE RIGHT?! THIS MFER SUPPOSED TO BE GOD?! HE LOOK LIKE A EMO NEANDRITHAL

GIRL GOD HAS ME KICKIN N SCREAMIN IM--

Not them beefin by readin each others minds out loud… this is the shittiest fuckin battle ive ever seen HELP

Why have a desk for someone that dosent exist?

Lain havin an existential crisis part 12..

They made this whole fake ass family to keep this creature[Lain] in a state of calm? She is some sort of experiment, her state of mind and body are separated. Like some sort of computer simulation that has made itself believe that its real..

As if she was a real girl but somethin happened n her consciousness was uploaded into an A.I. n is remembering that this fake world is hers, shes the god of her own world.. She is everythin n nothin

Dude2 finally made an appearance but bout to get EUTHANIZED!!

NOT HIS SECRETARY FINDIN HIM

DUDE 3 GOT FUCKED UP N GOT A BULB SHOVED IN HIS MOUTH HELP-

O shit the mom that the delivery dude was tryna get w got fucked up too

Kid didnt even notice…

The men in black are supposed to be the good guys but o my fuckin gods they talk like super villains- i liked it better when they didnt speak

They denounced the emo God for both worlds.. He cant be Hannah + Miley anymore

WHY THIS MFER LOOK LIKE EMINEM?!

Wait okai so it made sense when the dad said he loved her but when Eminem said it it made me confused??

Mfer look like the one meme

God is a dick dude “i created you” “love me” “theres no one else”

LAIN FIGHTIN BACK

Episode 11:[empty episode]

Openin up w/, what i can only assume is, Lain hookin up to her set in this empty house she once called a home.

It feels like a music video you vaguely remember seeing as a kid, is about to start.

Were Lain + the dead classmate actually friends?

Were any of her friendships real?

Was any of it real?

After 8 straight minutes of never starting a music video we got to the plot?

Emo god is back-- fucker

THIS BITCH IS SOFTWARE?! IS THAT WHAT YOURE TELLIN ME?!

She understands but doesnt at the same time + i feel her for that.

The dead girl + the guy from the club are playing angel + devil on her shoulder, playing the suicide game + trying to vaguely convince her not to..

Alice’s teacher “rumor” is still in hot pursuit

ALICE IS BEING STALKED BY FREDDY KRUEGER?!

O its just Lain bein weird.. Nvm..

She is the wired

Love that for her

Shit Lain passed it on like a fuckin virus

Episode 12:

“I was overthinking things all along” --Lain

What a fuckin mood

THE FUCKIN STREET CLIP IS BACK BBY!!!!

Alice is onto Lains ASS

+ LAIN KNOWS

Fuck Lain is bein creepy af usin her power to creep out her “best” friend

Taro is still up on the “i kissed an angel” thing-

Lets all love Lain

The man is tryna blend everyone + everythin usin Lain

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKIN DEATH SCENE WTF?!

WHY ME MOVIN LIKE THAT?!

HE SAW LAIN + FUCKIN SPAZZED TO DEATH

EMENEIM DOES TOO FUCK I LIKED HIM

Alice comes to the Ikura residence + walks though this trashed deserted house. Hits some gas, sees the skinwalker w/its head split in half, still babbling in search for Lain

Lain sleeps in a cocoon bed like i do :>

“Watching what?” Lain: :>

Lain thought she was loving Alice, Alice thought Lain was bat shit outta her mind + hated her.

Theyre connected without having connected

“Alice, i love you” girl don't-

Alice is a better friend than i am…

FUCKIN EMO GOD NEEDS TO FUCK OFF MY GUY

LET LAIN GO SHES SCARING ALICE ITS NOT A BUG SHES HUMAN DAMNIT

ITS NOT A BUG, SHES HUMAN

ALICE SAW THE HAND OF GOD

Not Lain talkin back to EMO GOD

I love her questionin him, tellin him that theres a god before him

Lain fuckin leaves him to go with Alice so he threw a fit + created a body… fuckin pussy

These girls watched as a false got destroyed himself

Death Count

+5[theres no telling how many global Knights there were]

+1

+3[?]

New total ≈19

Thoughts:

I shouldnt have laughed as much as i did during episode 10 +12. God was givin v musty.

||P1||P2||P4||

[winderlylandchime]

Hello!! I love how we are all hoping that Jordan brings back the podcast, i need those two besties back so badly. I feel like they have so much stuff they could talk about especially now with the strikes, it’d be fun to hear their take on it. I am honestly not ready for him to find out how the filming and the aftermath of the show was on Gale and Randy. I know he’s gonna lose his shit to find out how some people were towards them (especially since his idea of Gale in his head is obviously different and in his mind Gale and Randy are bffs like how he is with his friends.) but also i think he will be shocked to find out they both kind of stepped back from the show and had certain issues with it. He did storm in my room randomly today and went ‘IS THAT WHY THERE WAS LESS SEX STUFF?!’ Which btw it was 10 am when he did that, I barely knew i was awake. Basically he was up almost all night thinking about the finale and the podcast (he is once again that conspiracy meme) and he realized in later seasons there’s less sex scenes and now he is distraught that maybe it’s because Randy was uncomfortable. He was having an entire crisis over it. While I don’t know what all i will show him/what he’ll see on his own (i wanna show him bts content and like obviously anything else i can find) but i will be keeping con videos/posts FAR away from him because some of those are the worst things ive ever seen in my life, no offense to anyone. I will say, If you or anyone has any ideas what else I should show him, let me know because he has been losing his mind begging me to let him listen to more of the podcast.

As for our mom, i swear that woman is actually pretty chaotic herself but unlike my brother she hides it better. Both of our parents are insane but for some reason only he doesn’t even make an effort to hide it. She did get a long email sent to her by my brother because she was ignoring his calls and he wanted to talk about s4 finale. It was titled ‘IMPORTANT! NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SHOW’ and then it was almost a short novel about the show.. He wanted to hear her thoughts since he is still undecided about Justin not saying yes to moving in. And he wrote a little bit about the podcast and he also asked her if she thinks Randy would like him if they met (clearly he is feeling a certain way about this) which caused a different crisis, a much bigger one: would Gale like him if they met. That crisis lasted almost 2 hours btw. Anyway as a reply to the email she just forwarded it to our dad who forwarded it back to me to tell me to ‘change the wifi password.’ And then I immediately got a call from my mom about the podcast asking me if it’s about the show and how he already has enough weird hobbies and why can’t I get him into something normal like a pottery group or painting group or something with normal people around. And then I heard in the background our uncle who went ‘after all the stories about him talking to DOCTORS, you want to unleash him on a person who is not medically trained?’ So he is now being encouraged to stay home and watch tv. Also: he is currently talking to his best friend about the finale, while writing down mind maps and lists of what he thinks season 5 will be. He’s having a bit of issues with it because the LA offer apparently fucked quite a lot of things up for him so his original list no longer makes sense. He is also talking to him at the same time (he’s jumping from topic to topic) about Gale and how shocked he was that Randy didn’t enjoy the qaf fame. I don’t know how this became my life. More importantly I would just like to say: i cannot wait for your new fic! I mean your last fic got us here so I can’t wait to see what happens next. But also bearded Brian>>

The podcast talking about the strikes would be amazing! I was hoping we would get a Barbie movie episode but alas. I really want to hear the besties talk about Greta Gerwig.

I have never seen the con clips and I’m grateful. I have too much secondhand embarrassment to sit through that boundary-crossing behavior and invasive questions.

I LOVE that your parents were like “change the wifi password” and uncle was like “unleash him into the world?” and they responded “jk never mind.”

I personally think Gale and Randy are still friends but we would never know with the one proof of life per year Gale gives us and Randy being tightlipped about his time on the show.

Wait until your brother realizes that one of Randy’s partner’s is named Justin (or is that the kid? either way there’s a Justin!)

I am dreading his reaction to S5 but we all watched it so he must as well…

And, yes, bearded Brian >>>

BUT I saw your request at the top - folks let’s start to pull together a post-S5 education for all necessary BTS for Brother Anon to fully understand QAF! In box me or comment on this post.

[ratsonas]

out of all the art ive ever seen in museums the one piece ill never forget is kool aid man in second life. absolutely insane that it was in a real life art museum. i sat with my mom in a dark room for 15 minutes while we watched kool aid man watch a girl fuck a dragon in second life. people came and went and were too weirded out to stay but i sat there and watched the entire video. it was one of the best experiences of my life i love modern art

[demonkeeperdark]

This is going to be a loooonnnnnggggg story so I'm having to put it under a keep reading line lol

For those curious - this is a recent experience I had at a metallica weekend concert which waz the best weekend of my life

My dad had gotten me metallica tickets for my birthday in April for night one w/pantera and mammoth WVH because I had never thought I would ever see pantera in my life (Due to Dimebags tragic incident) and I had already seen 5FDP last year when Megadeth opened up for them. A few days ago before the concert I found out that we had accidentally gotten both day tickets. I was stoked because I had been thinking how cool it would be to see 5FDP again along with metallica twice in one weekend. We carefully planned out our weekend because I was not going to let my dad waste those tickets let alone we had 2 more- One for his girlfriend and originally one of his buddies who backed out. I pulled along my boyfriend since 1) hes never been to a concert and 2) metallica is also his favorite band so if he saw them as his first band I thought- well shit- if I was in his position I wouldve been fucking stoked (best part he said the weekend was his best weekend ever)

Friday morning we skipped school and work and shot immediately down to LA to avoid traffic (if you live in California or have at least driven through LA at least once you know what i mean) and had to find somewhere to stay the night and get ready for the first night.

We get to the stadium and find our seats and hear Mammoth WVH first and ive never heard any of their music and it was very good (highly recommend listening to them) and I was slowly getting more hyped. Pantera came up and- Phil Anselmo gets out there on stage in fucking board shorts and no damn shoes on his feet and hella made the entire stadium straight up go fucking crazy. So well fucking performed that night. We had about an hour wait before metallica and when they came up playing Creeping Death- like holy fuck??? Just straight up slapped in the face by this godly fucking music ive only heard in the car- on my headphones through either phone or cd player- through my record player- and now I get to hear it for real...right there...and oh my god, I felt like i was in a dream all day that day, and this wasnt even the best part of this weekend- and I felt so fucking amazed. The next 2 were Harvester Of Sorrow and Leper Messiah and it sounded so fucking good...2 very good songs I wasnt expecting them to play but holy shit- it was worth it. On came The Memory Remains- the entire stadium was singing- you could hear your own voice align with everyone elses... And then it was Lux Æterna- and then it was Too Far Gone?... It was great- it was amazing. Rob and Kirk had a little bit of a "doodle"... And they looked like they were having fucking fun. Next they played Fade To Black, and I started getting emotional...then they played Shadows Follow which is my favorite off the new album which brought my emotions back up- Just to get myself lost into listening to Orion...and Nothing Else Matters really kicked me in the feels...

Sad But True played and my bf got really hyped since it was one of his favorites off the black album, and once again i got hit in the feels with The Day That Never Comes....

And once again Hardwired brought my energy and emotions up and when Fuel hit my dad and I went full on screaming the song to each other and watching the pyro and flames go off.

Metallica all paused for a second and went...

"We have time for a couple more songs...how do you all feel about...SEEK?"

I didnt hear the first "seek", but fucking hell...my bf lit up like a light bulb...

And then fucking Master Of Puppets to finish off put that cherry on top.

And all i could think off was...

I get to see them.

Again.

In two

Fucking

Days.

NIGHT 2

Hyped as shit.

I get to see 5FDP Again.

I get to see fucking Metallica Again.

My phone dies...

So I think welp I'm fucked if I want to take photos and videos for myself but eh I get to enjoy it in person, I dont really need my phone and I cant complain about just seeing it and everyone else could record it and take photos so we could all look at it later together or something and have fun with it

It was hotter this night compared to the first, so before we ran to our seats we got drinks and I ended up cutting my hand open on a water bottle but I didn't let it bother me much

We went to our seats and started getting settled and this guy came up with what looks to be a VIP ticket slung around his neck and an envelope in his hand and goes

"Hey how are you guys tonight?"

My dad with his audacity goes

"Well my daughter got a cut on her hand from a water bottle a bit ago but this is her late birthday present and shes not letting that bring her down so I think were doing great!"

"Fucking sick!" This guy replies and says, "Hey you know what?" He puts his hand into the envelope...

4.

Fucking.

Snake Pit Wristbands.

He hands them to us along with guitar picks that my bf took so fucking many of and walks away saying

"You guys will be down there, have fun"

I start balling my eyes out.

I couldnt believe all of this was happening, we were trying to find our way down and I'm just crying while everyone was taking turns guiding me down and I stand there in this field and I look around really questioning if I'm asleep and I'm just tripping on drugs or if I'm literally in the middle of the snake pit and imagining how fucking cool James Hetfield is going to look standing there in front of me where I was standing against the wall.

I must've lost it for another 15 minutes before I came to my senses and actually started getting hyped for all this because everyone would be right there in front of me.

A few minutes later Ice Nine Kills performs and I also havent heard much of their music but they were badass, all dressed up and acting like they were killing people on stage and it looked so cool yet if you were where I was it also looked so fake at the same time but it was fucking great.

They ended and 5FDP was up next and the first time I saw them it was another situation where I was at the top of the stadium and i just saw them from a distance but now I could actually see them right in front of me.

And then they came up.

Holy shit.

I was so excited to see them again and right there that I couldn't stop jumping (literally) and I had more energy then everyone else in the pit for them to the point I had Ivan Moody, Zoltan Bathory, AND Chris Kael point at me at least once.

They started wrapping things up when Zoltan Came over, points at me, and throws a pick directly at me, and I had everyone around me trying to catch it before I did but I got it directly thrown at me and caught it and I got so happy I shook my bf, dad, and his girlfriend.

Next thing to you they played The Bleeding and Chris comes over and points at me while playing his bass guitar and we looked at each other and both lip sang to the song and I got more excited over that then getting the pick.

When they started leaving the stage he came back and gave me his sweatband that has his last name imprinted on it and I couldnt fucking take it.

It was so fucking cool and badass and I didnt stop wearing it till a couple hours ago when I could finally put it somewhere safe.

Everyone started crowding in for metallica and we all started getting crowded in, and once AC/DC's A Long Way To The Top started playing everyone got really excited and hyped and crowding in more.

Everyone also started looking at Jason Mamoa amd taking photos of him in the snake pit with us before metallica came out.

After Metallicas long cutscene/intro finished they came out and played Whiplash...

If I had just reached as far as I could I could've touched Hetfields foot thats how fucking close I was to him.

At that point I couldnt even explain song by song how amazing it was, I was just rocking out and I couldnt stop, it was so fucking cool and amazing and I couldnt stop jumping again and throwing up the devil horns it was great.

End of the show they were doing theyre out to and throwing everything out and my bf got one of their picks and I started having that verge of tears again because I still couldnt believe what I just witnessed.

Not only did I get rare collectables from 5FDP, but Metallicas crew gave us pit tickets to make everything possible and that proves how fucking amazing they are.

Best weekend of my life, I couldnt be anymore grateful.

[pardonmekreature]

15 questions, 15 mutuals

thanks for the tag @whumpsday :D!

1. Are you named after anyone? Nope! Not at all apparently

2. When was the last time you cried? Probably while I was watching a movie or something and not remembering lol (so maybe like a month ago? A week? Who knows)

3. Do you have kids? Nope, never seen a child in my life

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Yeah, defiantly more than average. You could say most everything I say is sarcasm if you make a good enough argument.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people? Online its their use of emojis or emoticons or just other general internet speak. Outside of the internet, idk I don't tend to stare at people? Maybe its how rude they are to me lol.

6. What’s your eye color? Hazel!

7. Scary movies or happy endings? Ironically I think i've only watched one scary movie... ever in my life (and it wasn't that scary). I've never had friends that wanted to watch scary movies with me, nor have I had the specific desire to watch a scary movie so I am unfortunately still scare-less. (also yes I am a sucker for happy endings)

8. Any special talents? I can draw decent, that's something! I can also dissociate in a instant see watc-

9. Where were you born? US, not stating where because mystery is cool

10. What are your hobbies? I love to draw, read (on the internet...), play video games and spend way to much time online.

11. Have you any pets? 4 goblin cats, 2 stinky dogs, and one gerbil. Five of which are black and white.

12. What sports do you play/have played? I don't think ive ever touched a sports ball in my entire life actually /hj

13. How tall are you? 5′4?? I think. I am unfortunately short.

14. Favorite subject in school? Art and English (self explanatory). Though I also liked theater (also self explanatory)

15. Dream job? Artist? I suppose? Mainly just winging it and hoping for best. Tagging: No idea, @oddsconvert perhaps? And anyone else who wants too!

[waspstar]

xtc, and on the side andy and the dukes?

im about to have an autism attack so extreme i love you johnny

FOR XTC:

favorite song: this is so difficult because obviously a lot of their songs mean a great deal to me, but generals and majors i think will always come out on top.

close runner ups are battery brides, chalkhills and children, runaways, toys, and probably a few more. i wont exhaust it lol

least favorite song: i hate saying this because i love xtc so much but its definitely cynical days. and theres times when i even like this song too!

close runner up is all of a sudden its too late, theyre kind of the same to me

favorite album: BLACK SEA! black sea forever and ever until i die! i love the concept i love that it was orignally going to be called working under pressure and it was going to be a play on being a deep sea diver and also a musician under the scrutiny of record companies, i love its music videos, i love the artwork for it, everything about it is beautiful.

close runner ups are oranges and lemons, big express, and english settlement

least favorite album:

i genuinely dont know if i can say. i really love them all.

song that got me into them: same as my favorite! generals and majors! my friend recommended me it in sept 2020 and i decided i loved it so much i had to hear the album it was on. after that xtc changed my life forever

seen live: no haha they stopped touring in 1982

rate: 1 billion/10 they are the best band to ever exist

FOR THE DUKES:

favorite song: mole from the ministry! its the boys' favorite music video, too! i love the mastering and the effects used in this song so much.

least favorite song: ummm probably shiny cage. sorry colin! i like the lyrics but its a bit boring sonically

favorite album: 25 o'clock! i like both mini albums but i like 25 o'clock's vibes more. 25 o'clock feels more like alice and wonderland to me and psionic psunspot is a little different

also, andy illustrated the cover himself! :)))

least favorite album: psionic psunspot, but they only released 2 mini albums and a compilation of both so its not like i dislike any aspect of it haha

song that got me into them: idk, i guess 25 o clock? i just found out about them bcs they are literally xtc LOL

seen live: no lol they never toured as the dukes

rate: 1 million out of ten

FOR ANDY:

favorite song: wonder annual. its in my opinion his most beautiful song, i could talk about it forever and ever.

least favorite song: you like me?. its so fucking bad. i hate it so much. not even gonna link it

favorite album: ive only heard up to volume 5 of fuzzy warbles but i think vol 1 is still a big favorite, though i do like 2 a lot and i think 4

least favorite album: probably fuzzy warbles volume 3? though i do like a lot off it. maybe 5?

song that got me into them: well i listen to his solo stuff bcs hes the lead man of xtc, but at some point i found out about young cleopatra and remembered liking it, so i guess that was a catalyst lol

seen live: the entire reason xtc stopped touring in 1982 is because of andy's anxiety disorder and withdrawal, so he definitely wouldnt tour on his own lol

rating: 1 million out of ten

[navvigating]

THIS IS THE BEST MUSIC VIDEO IVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

[hatedmaggot]

that was the third best music video ive ever seen in my entire life