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tobi-smp · 4 months ago

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this was Originally a response in a reply thread [Link] but I've decided that I'd like people to actually SEE IT fadsjklfasd

so ! here's an expansion on my ideas about dream manipulating Everything into place up until the disc war finale, Including technoblade.

How To Blow Up A Country From The Inside: A Step By Step Guide

(by Dream "Was" Taken)

1: dream Intentionally set up the final control room to sow doubt and mistrust. he didn't Need to have eret be in out, he didn't Need eret to make a big show of betraying l'manberg. but it was done Intentionally.

both to hurt the l'manbergians, And to push some of the heat off of him.

because it WAS eret who took most of the heat after the war was over. that's exactly the Point of having a shadow king. to act as a figure head and scapegoat while still listening to everything that dream said (and to be swapped out at will whenever it's convenient).

oh Dream isn't the king, Dream didn't blow up l'manberg. dream's just Some Guy, who Happens to not want people to gate off his house. don't think about it too much. it's a Very intentional strategy on his part.

2: it can be inferred that techno and dream's duel Was canon to the dream smp, or at the Very Least that techno and dream were familiar with each other before he joined the server. dream is Very aware that techno is one of the very few people on the server who could put up a real fight against him, which makes him a Person Of Interest.

3: dream Intentionally allowed schlatt to do his hostile takeover. he would Claim that he was Only following the agreement with l'manberg, that it was So Sad that his hands were tied, but schlatt's actions directly went Against said agreement. he was presenting himself as an ally to the pogtopians while Actively refusing to materially step in.

meanwhile, we know he was making a deal with schlatt behind the scenes, both to get into his good graces, And to get his hands on the revival book.

4: he was Very Intentionally playing four sides here.

singling tommy out to present himself as His Friend, denying it in public but playing nice with him when it's just the two of them. addressing "Tyrant" SPECIFICALLY to tommy [Link 1, Link 2], where he presents himself as an ally while providing excuses for why he couldn't Materially do anything, and at the same time providing tommy a chest full of supplies directly. helping tommy in the pet war, even when that meant hurting sapnap, Etc.

meeting techno in secret to Also give him items, scope out him and his intentions, and Hopefully get on his good side. he is Also, presumably, aware of techno's role in the antarctic empire (or whatever the dream smp equivalent of that was, it's unclear if it was Literally smp earth or not).

very Very actively enabled wilbur's downward spiral and distrust. providing him with the tnt to blow up l'manberg, starting the rumor about the traitor in pogtopia, actively egging him on.

and of course, playing as schlatt's muscle. watching as schlatt drove everyone else away but giving him the false confidence to continue on to the war, to the Breaking Point.

5: the end goal of all of this being the ultimate destruction of every party involved. he lead the pogtopians to schlatt to let them kill him. he shouted in absolute wicked Glee when wilbur blew l'manberg up and killed himself, telling tommy that Wilbur had been the traitor and joined in the destruction.

I've written before about how I think dream Intentionally pushed wilbur into killing himself, to take him out as a threat yes, but More than that because he was Jealous of him and what he had [Link]

but I think it ALSO needs to be pointed out that dream INTENTIONALLY provoked techno into not only splitting from pogtopia, but Very specifically to pit him against tommy.

to be clear, it was ultimately techno's choice to do what he did. he Chose to do that big speech, to attack his former friends, to set himself as a threat, to join wilbur in bombing l'manberg. he Has agency.

but dream 100% wanted this to happen. he Knew that pogtopia and techno's goals weren't aligned, he Knew that techno has a tendency to react violently, and this was advantageous from Multiple angles.

it's a repeat of the eret situation. just like with wilbur, it's demoralizing and frightening. it breaks their spirits AND pulls attention away from him. he'd greased the wheels that lead to l'manberg's destruction, that lead to wilbur's death, but he was Never the loudest one in the room. schlatt was dead, but Techno wasn't. Techno set himself up as the most immediate threat, having vowed to come back to destroy them again if they made another government. even Phil was out there saying that Techno was the traitor in pogtopia while fighting off his withers.

it set TECHNO up at a disadvantage if dream ever needed to "deal" with him. in a one of one fight either one of them COULD make it out on top, but if techno had everyone else in l'manberg as an ally that might actually tip the scales, and he can't have that. in a single night techno lost every one of the allies he'd spent weeks making on the server, lost his base, and had to start off again from scratch, all while branding him with the reputation of a traitor. it was the consequences of his own actions, but it was Exactly What Dream Wanted To Happen

it Very Specifically split techno and TOMMY'S relationship. dream wanted wilbur dead because of what he had, because He was tommy's brother, his leader, the person he'd follow to the ends of the earth. but Techno was one of tommy's idols when he joined the server too, they'd been allies and they could've been Friends (tommy had certainly thought they'd been friends). dream Needed to separate them, so that techno would never come between him and what he wanted.

techno Chose to defect from l'manberg, but it was Dream that came out the other side with everything he'd wanted.

and he was Right. Yes dream was on the chopping block for new l'manberg (ala quackity's hit list). but it was Techno that they'd wanted to kill first. it was Techno that was the immediate threat, Techno that they plastered wanted posters for. dream let techno take the fall Exactly the same way eret did.

6: of course, we have exile. we have dream framing tommy for griefs across the server the Day after l'manberg was destroyed [Link]. you have dream taking advantage of tommy griefing george's house (something completely normal on the smp) to set tommy up, to pit him Against new l'manberg and Tubbo in particular. you have him threatening l'manberg and framing it as a punishment for tommy's actions. his open manipulation of tubbo.

he got rid of wilbur, he got rid of techno, and then he pit tommy against tubbo and took him away. and he was designing pandora's vault and testing out the revival book all the while. continuing to manipulate and watch new l'manberg and techno once tommy was gone.

7: dream Knew about the list, or at least knew that l'manberg was after technoblade. and I think it's really interesting to look at what he actually chose to Do.

because he Could Have helped in a Much more direct way, openly allied with techno and prevented him from experiencing the trauma of death at all. but he chose to help Just Enough to put techno in his debt while Keeping techno as the number one threat.

he Could have openly fought off new l'manberg, he could have let techno die and use the revival book on him after the fact (letting new l'manberg think he was dead and get them off of techno's back). instead he lead techno to the totem beforehand, and lead him back to carl after.

enough for techno to escape, enough for techno to Know what dream did for him, but Not enough for new l'manberg to move the heat back to Dream.

and importantly, it's setting techno up to get revenge. because dream Could Have stepped in to stop them Immediately if he Really wanted to protect techno from the goodness of his heart.

once again, everyone made the choices that they did on purpose. new l'manberg Chose to execute techno, techno Chose to provoke them in the first place, and techno would Choose to get his revenge.

but dream very intentionally tipped the scales to move everything in HIS favor. to advantage HIM, and disadvantage everyone else.

8: likewise, dream had initially been nervous about tommy staying with techno. it was what he'd been trying to avoid after all.

and we can see that in his behavior, we can Watch him stalking them in the background of multiple streams, and of course he visited techno's house Directly. by this point dream already KNEW that tommy was there, he'd seen them together.

dream is a manipulator, and he wants to use techno, but he's willing to do a LOT to keep tommy under his thumb.

the tipping point was, of course, the confrontation at the portal.

dream confronting tommy and techno directly, dream trying to assert his control over tommy. and at first techno steps in, tells him that tommy's with him.

but then he offers the favor. tommy's with him, Unless He Wants To Cash In That Favor. and that told dream everything he needs to know.

dream KNEW that techno and tommy's falling out was coming, and he Also knew Exactly how techno reacts to "betrayal." and what's more, tommy's relationship with new l'manberg, with Tubbo, was being set up to degrade even More thanks to his association with techno.

techno would stop at nothing to destroy l'manberg, and tommy would do anything to save it. they would never last, and tommy would be destroyed when it happened.

he let them go Intentionally, with the hope that this would all crash and burn. to destroy tommy's connections and reputation to ash. to chip away that much further at tommy's moral, at his soul.

9: and in many ways, he was right. exactly what he wanted to happen DID happen, and it was the direct result of him provoking the situation further.

tommy and techno had their falling out, he got his hands on the disc, tommy and tubbo's relationship boiled over.

dream got everything he wanted, except for tommy's spirit. loyal to the absolute end.

techno and tommy Could have been friends, tommy Wanted them to be friends.

10: doomsday. l'manberg destroyed to bedrock, techno isolated from the rest of the server, everyone's spirit's ground to dust. dream told tommy that this was Fun, that their story would never be over, while standing above the ash.

pandora's vault would be complete soon, and in it he had a place for the axe of peace, for carl. in it, he had a place for tommy, his most prized possession.

techno CHOSE to do what he did, but dream lead everyone to the paths they took On Purpose. he Wanted their relationships to fall apart. he WANTED everyone to be isolated and broken so he could take what was "rightfully" his. he WANTED to keep everyone on a leash until he could own the entire server in a more Complete way than simply being the server owner.

and this is important to me specifically BECAUSE of what could have been and what would have never been allowed to happen. Because of the ways that techno and tommy cared about each other, and yet were fated to be torn apart.

tommy Chose to defy dream when it mattered, to defeat him through his Connections. through his love for the people around him. while techno did exactly what dream wanted him to.

but it's just like.

when I see people talk about what could have been they'll pick scapegoats like quackity or wilbur, or even tubbo or phil. but never Dream. the person who wanted nothing more than to set them up to fail. who DELIGHTED in it.

and it's so INTERESTING to me. it's so Interesting that the person who used and manipulated techno was Undeniably dream. who saw him as a meat shield, who set him up to hunted down, who isolated him, who fully intended to use him to his fullest.

dream WAS the tyrannical force that techno was so opposed to, dream WAS the person who'd disadvantaged techno the most, and yet they Never get set up as being enemies. either in the story proper or in the fandom.

and that's CRAZY to me !!!! the biggest antagonist to techno IS DREAM! but you'd never know it looking at the fandom.

and that saddens me as someone who likes all of these characters Very Much. I'd KILL for fic that explores this exactly. for techno to realize the sheer Extent that he'd been lead on and used. that his relationships where burned away On Purpose. that someone who truly did not think of him as a human being drove him away from the person who'd wanted nothing more than to be his friend.

it's craaaaaaaaazy, and I feel like I'm the only one who knows it.

#dream smp #dsmp #dreamwastaken #tommyinnit #technoblade #wilbur soot #meta #long post

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ominoose · 3 months ago

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𝐎𝐬𝐜 𝐈𝐬𝐜 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭

For my beloved son @jinjersnapz. I know I'm surprised I finally got around to doing this as well. Enjoy :*

Characters: Orderly!Blue, Jonathan, Nathan, Shiv, Jack Warnings: Vague fantasy death and torture references.

𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲!𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬

He saw some 'fuckwit' cleaner playing it on their phone and confiscated it. The moment his office door shut curiosity compelled him. Out loud he murmured that the app was 'stupid', meanwhile for the new few hours of his shift he continued taking over the poor cleaners world until the phone went from 84% to 17% and the diamond chest was emptied.

Most of the time he spent killing things, setting TNT off in the villages, luring creepers into pits of lava and eventually setting traps for any mob in sight. He has a particular hatred for parrots, their habit of mimicking mobs always startling him, especially if it was a spider or zombie sound, the paranoia would set him into a rage until his iron sword had hacked the poor bird to death.

𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐲

The first time he played this game was in its early days, on an old Xbox, with his daughter. In her youth, she was mostly interested in finding dogs, giggling when Jonathan exaggeratedly fought off zombies and making oak plank houses with neon pink wool in creative mode.

Many years later, when his daughter was too old and cool to game with her dad, Jonathan found the old console and game while cleaning out the attic. Nostalgia plucked at his heart and led him downstairs to the living room to boot it all up. The updates took ages, and two cups of coffee ad a cigarette later he was sat there punching a tree.

Quickly he realised he was more of a creative mode man, much like his daughter, wanting to get lost in building a little plank house, starting a farm and amassing a small army of dogs.

A week later, he's watching YouTube tutorials on building cottages with working chimneys and maximizing villager profits.

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧

He was the one that made the working Windows 7 in Minecraft. And the working red-stone powered Die Hard movie.

Ironically, he hated gaming in his younger days, opening more to it as he grew older. Getting up to workout every time there was a minor coding mishap was becoming a drag when setting elaborate red-stone traps to commit war crimes on innocent villagers was free.

On the odd occasion when he's had too many beers, he boots up a crazy mod pack, be it a zombie apocalypse, flood map or something that changes all the mobs to Nicolas Cage.

𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐯

Playing minecraft was a nightly occurrence between Shiv and his son, always putting an hour or two into their shared world before bed.

To Shiv, playing wasn't something he did to appease his son, Minecraft was equally serious to both of them. The man finds himself going to sleep and planning their next nether trip on the odd night, or going to work still pissed off from the creeper that blew up the edge of their base the night before.

Despite being equally as scared of the mines as his son, Shiv takes up sword and shield to protect the boy and their cat as they strip mine.

He also threw his son a minecraft themed birthday party, partially for his own amusement.

𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧

Had never heard of a 'mined craft' until he saw the display of it at a shitty target he was stealing from. Went back every day for a week straight to play on the little 'gizmo', being surprisingly peaceful with a little homestead and farm as he adventured.

Came back one day to see some kid had blew his stuff up and he wired a bomb to go off after the store closed so no one could enjoy it.

#oscar isaac #blue jones #nathan bateman #jonathan levy #mojave jack #shiv #sorry its short mwah #omiwrites

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sillygh0st · 7 months ago

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I vodwatched Cellbit first qsmp vod and wrote down MANY moments that I barely see people talking about o/

Felps crashing the ship bc he trought that It was like using a bike is well know on the comunity, but the ship was also haunted btw

Mike first interaction with richas was him joking about sitting on Richas to hatch him??? My headcanon about qmike being a creeper hybrid with pink feathers was born after this lol

Roier giving diamonds to Cellbit :')

“There's always a fool and a scoundrel leaving the house, you're the scoundrel" (Tem sempre um otário e um malandro saindo de casa, você é o malandro) Cellbit to Richas

Richas taking time to write and writing that she would like to live with her parents :')

Cellbit asked richas who were his parents and Richas responded “vocês” (pac mike Cellbit e felps) <3

Cellbit saying 4 papais aww

Richas saying that he will live wherever his parents want :')

They calling quackity a vagabundo 😭

Slime with Richas for 0.1 seconds and cellbit coming shouting "não não Richas!! Papais!! Papais!!” ( He didn't wanted richas to be with slime and wanted richas to be with his papais :’)

He keeps saying "our son" awwww

"Take the sword your pai gave you!" (Pega a espada que o pai te deu!)

Richas raising the "feed" sign and his 4 papais all desperate looking for food to feed him :'))

Cellbit fighting with Bobby oh no

Cellbit saying he loves Roier but not Bobby aww :’)

Cellbit e slime KISSING!!!!

"Desculpa sou meio manco" (1:49:21)

Cellbit talking photo of them together ,,

"Abrigado pela comida"

"Você só odeia os ovos pq não tem um!!"

Quackity 1% Richas father + Cellbit 24% too yayyy

“You teach spanish and we teach crimes and guns!” Cellbit to quackity talking about Richas LMAO

Quackity singing nossa nossa assim você me mata omg I forgot about this momment

SHAKE BOLOLO

“oi filho!” (Cellbit to Richas)

Everyone dying bc of a bull and a muscle zombie 😭😭

Richas model disappearing and everyone freaking out bc he turned into a tall white thing 😭😭😭 also first time that cucurucho got mentioned for the Brazilians :O (Cellbit and felps were saying his name wrong for like 20 minutes LMAO)

“seus outros papais” “papai felps”

Mac e pike 😭

Richas doing parkour and Cellbit freaking out about him taking fall damage :’)

Richas falling into a hole and Cellbit screaming “tá tudo bem!! papai tá aqui) (its okay!! papai is here) :’(((((

felps said "eu peguei 4 packs" (I got 4 packs) and clarified that wasn't about pac their friend (pegar can be "got" or even "make out", even bc pac and pack rhyme ) and Cellbit said that was the first day, and that they needed a party before??????? while felps said "Not yet" about making out with pac???? ON THEIR FIRST TWO HOURS ON THE SERVER???

Cellbit and felps wanting to teach richas how to kill and richas that he will become a murder machine awwww

Richas died :’) cellbit screaming on chat saying everything wrong was funny

Cellbit telling felps that they need to lie about what killed richas LMAO they didn't wanted the others papais to be mad at them so yeah the necromancer appeared spawned 10 skeletons said “he is watching” and vanished cellps my beloved

Now cellbid said that they need to say that the necromancer had white eyes bc they have herobrine trauma LMAO (pac e mike old series)

“WE ARE CLONES FELPS” (seeing their dead bodies) is also the first time of cellbit saying that there is something wrong on the island :)

Cellps telling tazercraft and quackity ABOUT the “necromancer” but mike don't believe anything that they said LMAO

“Cocorocho vagabundo” - pac

OHHHH FUGA CRUMPS 👀 some long time before this cellbit and richas they hide them under a chest, after (2:42:00) mike says that he saw a white figure (they were saying cucurucho) opened and put something on the chest, felps went to open It and the tnt exploded, killing him. Richas almost split out that It was her and pai Cellbit that put the tnt there, Cellbit says that he didn't put in there, Pac says “oh yeah I don't think you would do this with …. felps'', saying it on a weird and different tone, probably the CC remembering that on fuga cell killed felps 👀👀👀👀👀 FUGA CRUMPS FUGA CRUMPS

Cellbit and pac went to a cave and the iconic celltw kiss happened omg

Cellbit talked with pac about them (fuga four) creating a secret laboratory under the favela where they would do secret and paranormal experiments ohhhhhhhh (chume paranormal LMAO)

Cellbit and pac founded a very weird place that looks like a mine maid by player with MANY torches, one moment cellbit lost pac and freaked out LMAO (they keep calling the place the herobrine cave lol)

“A casa do cocorocho” (they got cucurucho name wrong)

Cellbit wants to sing a lullaby for richas :’) pac is getting Diamonds to do a armor for Richas too awww

Cellbit gave pac a pickaxe and also asked for a stick while pac said “por você cellbit eu te dou 10 paus” (“for you cellbit, i gave to you 10 paus”, pau = stick/dick) and they both laughed

Cellbit almost threw away richas slime "não vou jogar fora o primeiro presente do meu filho” (im not going to throw away my first gift of my son) :’)

THEY LEFT THE CAVE AND ENDED UP ON FIT HOUSE. PAC SAID THAT IT'S A PRETTY AND DIFFERENT HOUSE GUYS GUYS. And now they ARE on Ramon house walking around ,,,,,, guys ,,,

CELLTW AGAIN. They are returning to the favela and Pac said that the day was beautiful and Cellbit straight up said that “com você nele o dia é sempre mais bonito né pac” (With you in it, the day is always more beautiful, right?)

Cellbit and pac returned to the favela with felps Mike e Richas!!! Felps and pac (idk who else too) honked to each other???? 😭 awww also Cellbit screaming for richas and running for him :’)

MIKE PAINTING OF RICHAS :’)

Cellbit and felps screaming and calling each other Crazy for talking alone (with their chats) lol

They are going to do richas first quests!! They are going to give a bath to Richas, Cellbit accidentally hit (pinched) him oh no babie :( they finished their bath and Richas Said “obrigado pais!” While Cellbit and felps suffered from how cute it was

RICHAS ON BED WITH HER FIRST LULLABY BY HER 4 PAPAIS :((((( richas sleeping while they try to be quiet to not wake up the baby!!! They are calling him cute <3

Oh wait they are singing a demoniac lullaby to awake her? 😭😭😭😭 What's wrong with them <3 they want richas to never get caught with his guard down, “olhos sempre abertos richarlyson” ,,,

“sleep with your eyes open" *kisses sounds from all her fathers*

mike caught richas getting up (prob richas admin geting ready to leave) and they started to be like “oh no he is in that age already ,,,,” and while calling their child cucurucho and STILL kept getting cucurucho name wrong LMAO

Richas sleeping model was put into their only bed and now are incredible sad that they lost their only bed 😭😭😭

RICHAS SLIME!! his placenta haha :’) they are so happy framing It on their house aww

Cellbit dancing to the sounds of a dying skeleton? 😭

Pac e Mike logging out!!! Also Cellbit sending kisses to pac and pac too omg celltw ,,😭😭

“beijinhos!!” (little kisses) - Pac e Cellbit for each other AWWWW

Cellbit talking with felps about bbh being the “necromancer and 100% ready to throw the blame on him 😭😭

Cellbit seeing felps talking to himself on the other house and calling him crazy while felps do the same for him god cellps I love you

Bbh appeared to talk with felps and Cellbit and give to them armor, cucurucho also appeared but disappeared quickly D:

Bbh talked with them about the federation oooooooh

Bbh left and after richas woke up!! Bom dia Richarlyson!!

They are making richas cativeiro room!!

“tem cheiro de cativeiro, tem som de cativeiro, tem gosto de cativeiro, mas não é um cativeiro!” felps to richas LMAO

They are putting him to sleep now!! cellbit tried to sing a demoniac lullaby for her but felps stopped him saying that it's a too old song!! So felps singed a song with alien high pitched noises 😭😭

Moments from the vod to yall!!!! so many lgbtqsmp moments and cute ones :3333

#qsmp #qsmp pac #qsmp mike #felps #cellbit #vodwacthing #my stuff #hehehehe so mamy cool moments :33

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sophie-looks-at-stuff · 2 years ago

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Some random modern HotD headcanons :)

Hey y’all! So I kept thinking of some funny, and very specific headcanons for the HotD characters, so I decided to just make it a whole post. This will actually be my first “legit” post on here, lol! Anyways, this will include some headcanons about Aemond, Aegon II, Luke, Jace, Daemon, Rhaenyra, Helaena, etc. But hope y’all enjoy lol! :)

Ok, I am convinced that Aemond has a secret stash of tea hidden somewhere. He's even put them all in a very nice ornate, antique box. It's his guilty pleasure. He probably would have some Earl Gray, English Breakfast, maybe even some lavender mint for the evenings. He'd keep it secret because all the teas he's gotten are way too expensive, and special.

Luke is an avid Minecraft gamer. Like he's basically built Dragonstone, and the Red Keep in his server. He'll play sometimes with Jace, or maybe even Aegon. But he doesn't let them into that world. Aegon would probably blow it all up with TnT.

Speaking of gaming, I think some people are on the same page that Aegon would be some kind of gamer. He'd be up to date on all the new systems and gadgets. He'd be one of the firsts to have the PS5 when it came out. He probably plays a lot of Call of Duty. Maybe even some Valorant when he doesn't wanna fire up the PS. He'd definitely be cursing and yelling at the game, to the point where Alicent threatens to take it away.

While Rhaenyra watches her shows, House Wives, Rupaul's Drag Race, etc. Daemon pretends to be not interested, but really he's super invested. He'd be leaning against the couch, or the wall totally sucked in. And when Rhaenyra tells him to just sit down and watch with her, he's all like, "no no I don't even like this show". But then he'd say things like, "Well maybe if her gown was better made she wouldn't have been eliminated last episode".

Aegon gives me frat boy energy. And I know I'm not the first to say that lol. You already know he's planning all the parties, and picking the themes. I like to think he'd be very invested into picking the themes. They would be things like, dragon night, wear your fave dragon scale colors. Or something like, Dragonstone beach night, wear your swim suits and flip flops.

Alicent likes to knit. Or maybe crochet? It's her stress reliever activity after dealing with Aegon, and the rest of the boys. Helaena is always giving her new patterns or designs to try.

I think Alicent also likes to take the occasional Buzzfeed quiz. "If you were a cake flavor, here's what you'd be based on your star sign".

Helaena runs a very successful tik tok account. She'd post her outfits, and maybe some art or cool bugs she's found.

Aegon listens to a lot of Megan Thee Stallion and Kim Petras. He's blasting Kim Petras' Treat me like a Slut at least 5 times a day. He gets ready to it in the morning.

Aemond will get down to some Amy Winehouse.

Jace works at the local animal shelter as his summer job. He only got the job cause Rhaenyra said he needed to get out of the house. Plus Helaena also works there, so she helped him get hired.

Aemond would be a great bartender. Not with like actually interacting with customers, but he can make some great drinks. Like he's over here coming up with all these crazy cocktails. Although, like his tea obsession he keeps this on the low. He doesn't want Aegon asking him to make drinks all the time. Gods forbid he asks Aemond to bartend at one of the frat parties.

Helaena was a Monster High girl growing up.

Aemond has a motorcycle. It was his one rebellious purchase. Alicent hates it.

Luke can kick Aegon's ass in any game, video or otherwise. You name it, Call of Duty, UNO, Valorent, Go fish...

Rhaenyra has a bit of a sweet tooth, but she has to hide her candy stash, cause the boys will steal it in a heartbeat. Who would have thought Daemon would love lemon drops so much.

I really could go on forever, these are just too fun to write. But I'll leave it here for now lol.

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sugdenlovesdingle · 6 months ago

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Lone star tag game!

thanks for starting this @lonestar-s5countdown

(1) What is your favourite 911 Lone Star Found Family moment? I think either the tarlos wedding with everyone happy and in a party mood, or Marjan's welcome home party/the whole firefam camping out in the hospital waiting for news. Specifically that moment when the doctor asks for Marjan Marwani's family and they all raise their hand. (and of course that also gave us the cute tarlos cuddle with TK sleeping on Carlos' bicep)

(2) Which platonic pairing/friendship dynamic are you most looking forward to seeing again in season 5? I'd say Carlos & Grace but... *sobs*, I like Owen and Judd as bffs, I'm curious about how Wyatt is going to fit into it all, and TNT or just TK and Nancy. And Nancy & Marjan if the writers won't give me Nancy/Marjan romantically.

(3) If you could pick one Lone Star character to be friends with, who would you choose? Oh I don't know. All of them would be fun friends! But I think I'd like to be friends with Marjan. She seems like the kind of friend to just text you "be ready at 10" and not tell you anything else - but you end up having the best day of your life.

Actually - I think I'd befriend Owen so I could hang out with Buttercup!

(4) Which would you rather attend: Catan night at the loft or game night at the Ryder house? Oh Catan all the way. Carlos' snacks alone sealed the deal!

(5) A character of your choice ends up in jail. Who would they call to bail them out (assuming their romantic partner, parent, and/or child didn't pick up)? I'm just going to do all of them - i can't choose. I think Owen would call TK at first but he's enjoying date night with Carlos so neither of them answer... I think he'd call either Judd or Gabriel. Depending on how much trouble he's in. TK - Nancy or Tommy. Sometimes you need your bff to call you an idiot, sometimes you need your work mum to pick you up and give you a hug - and hope neither of them tell your husband. Carlos - Grace or Paul. Either of them would have him out in 10 seconds flat. Marjan - Paul or Nancy. I want the girls to stick together but I love her friendship with Paul too. Nancy - TK or Marjan. Though TK might be in jail with her and she'd end up calling Carlos to get them both out - much to TK's displeasure. Judd - Owen or Tommy. Tommy is probably the better bet since Owen would probably be in jail with him. Grace - Carlos or Tommy. Carlos is her crime solving partner, Tommy is her partner in crime! Paul - Marjan or Carlos. Marjan if he wants someone to literally break him out of jail, Carlos if he wants someone to actually get him out of trouble. Mateo - Marjan. That's his big sister! Though any member of the 126 would do really. Tommy - Grace. Hands down. But maybe Owen who could call Carlos or Gabriel if she needed any "official" help.

i always forget who my lone star peeps are outside the usual suspects so I'm just going to pick some people - also open tag for YOU

@carlos-in-glasses @pimento-playing-hopscotch @lemonlyman-dotcom @welcometololaland @oldfangirl81 @bonheur-cafe @lightningboltreader @tailoredshirt @bringingclawstoagunfight @theredandwhitequeen

@lire-casander @nancys-braids @captain-gillian @pchan-2000 @literateowl

@firstprince-history-huh @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut @mrs-corrections-78 @chicgeekgirl89 @your-catfish-friend

#911 lone star #tag games

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justinspoliticalcorner · 5 months ago

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Kate Connolly at The Guardian:

A German aristocrat who hosted Samuel Alito at her castle in 2023 has revealed new details about her friendship with the rightwing supreme court justice, including that they share a mutual friend who played a key role in JD Vance’s conversion to Catholicism. Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a onetime party girl turned traditionalist Catholic activist who has faced criticism for her defense of far-right politicians in Germany, told the Guardian that she first met Alito in Rome – she could not remember what year – and that both were friends of Dominic Legge, a priest and Yale Law graduate in Washington who Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, has often cited in discussions about his adult conversion to Catholicism.

The relationship between the 64-year-old noblewoman and Alito sparked media interest after the supreme court justice revealed last week in a financial disclosure form that he had accepted concert tickets worth $900 from the billionaire, who refers to herself as a princess even though Germany’s aristocracy was officially disbanded after the first world war. She later told the German press that Alito had overestimated the cost of the tickets, but did not elaborate. The supreme court justice has previously faced scrutiny for failing to report free travel on a private jet from a wealthy conservative billionaire who had business before the court, a story first reported by ProPublica that is a part of a broader ethics scandal that has engulfed the high court in recent years. Alito faced a separate controversy earlier this year after it was discovered that his household had flown an upside-down flag, a symbol of Stop the Steal campaigners who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, as well as a second flag at a beach property that was associated with the Christian nationalist movement. Alito’s disclosure about the free tickets are significant for another reason: they reveal new insights into Alito and his wife Martha-Ann’s apparent personal ties to a European aristocrat who is deeply entrenched in an international rightwing movement that is seeking to advance conservative Catholic policies.

Allies in her fight include the rightwing nationalist Steve Bannon and the ultra conservative German cardinal Gerhard Müller, who she once called the “Donald Trump of the Catholic Church”. Her circle is known to be fiercely critical of Pope Francis – who is seen as too liberal by orthodox and traditionalist sects of the Catholic church. Legge, who leads the Thomistic Institute in Washington, is a prominent member of an elite circle of traditionalist Catholics in the US capital, and sits on the board of an organization – the Napa Legal Institute – alongside Leonard Leo, the powerbroker who is widely seen as having used his influence to install Republicans’ conservative supermajority on the supreme court and reportedly recently called for conservative activists to “crush liberal dominance at the choke points of influence and power in our society”.

[...] Von Thurn und Taxis compared herself to the late British Queen Elizabeth – whose family she noted was of German descent – and said the role of the aristocracy in Germany was to unite people and “keep politics out of the salon”. She also claimed in an email not to know that the decision that overturned abortion rights is called the “Dobbs decision”. But an examination of von Thurn und Taxis’s own activities shows that the woman who was known during a punk phase – before her turn to conservative Catholicism – as Princess TNT, for her explosive personality – has deep political ties that have given her access not only to supreme court justices, but inside the Trump White House.

[...] “This is not just about the arrogance of a powerful man already embroiled in controversial ties to billionaires. It is also about the company he keeps: choosing to accept very expensive concert tickets from a woman who embraces far-right politicians who are aligned with her outspoken hostility toward abortion access and marriage equality,” said Lisa Graves, the managing director of Court Accountability and a former deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice. Graves added: “Their alliance is unsurprising though very troubling since Alito has been using his position on the supreme court to advance a parallel regressive agenda into law.” In October 2019, at a speech in Washington in which she effusively praised the Trump administration, von Thurn und Taxis personally thanked Leonard Leo for setting up meetings for Cardinal Müller, who she was traveling with, to visit the White House and meet with people who were directly advising Trump on religious liberty and free speech.

She warned that, if Trump was not re-elected, “they will come after us” and that “nothing less” was at stake than the right to worship. Democrat Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, later won the 2020 election, but neither he nor Nancy Pelosi, another prominent Democratic Catholic politician, are seen as authentic Catholics by traditionalists. During that trip, von Thurn und Taxis also met and was photographed with Alito, Cardinal Müller, the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Brian Brown, who was then the head of the anti-LGBTQ+ group National Organization for Marriage (NOM). According to reporting by the New Yorker, NOM was actively lobbying the court on cases involving gay rights at the time of the meeting.

This year, in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels in April called Threats to Faith and Family, von Thurn und Taxis served up a series of grievances about the state of the family in Europe, complained that “only homosexuals want to get married”, while unmarried heterosexual couples were opting for pets instead of children. She also criticized – in an apparent reference to the availability of reproductive rights in Europe – how leaders continued to “finance the killing of our offspring”, which she said would exacerbate future labor shortages on the continent. “Does this make any sense? Is there some kind of racism? Are we not supposed to reproduce?” she asked rhetorically, before launching into praise of Hungary, which she said was an outlier in supporting families with children. Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian autocratic leader, has been a guest at the noblewoman’s festival.

The Guardian has a explosive report that SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito has ties to far-right German aristocrat Gloria von Thurn und Taxis.

#Samuel Alito #Gloria von Thurn und Taxis #Germany #Far Right #Gerhard Müller #Thomistic Institute #Leonard Leo #Napa Legal Institute #Fr. Dominic Legge #Martha Ann Alito #Alternative für Deutschland #Maximilian Krah #National Conservatism #NatCon #J.D. Vance

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daily-martyn-itlw · 8 months ago

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Day 156: The other prompt @joifee provided here! Hope you guys enjoy!

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There is a trapped enchanting table in front of he and Ren's base. One that's so obviously trapped, you'd have to be an idiot to go over there and use it.

Martyn looks at the thing through narrowed eyes, Ren standing right next to him. They are a few feet away from the very obvious trap, and know it hasn't been down long. Just a few minutes ago Scar had been next to them, prattling on about whatever came to his mind before abruptly taking his leave. Though, if it wasn't obvious what he was doing before, it was pretty obvious now. Scar had been distracting them so his pesky little partner could place down a TNT trap, and then maybe kill them with it.

Unfortunately for those two, it wasn't going to work.

"Are they serious?" Martyn asks, looking from the trap to Ren. There's a undertone of amusement in his voice, from just how easy of a trap this was. Like, you had to be blind to not see it was trapped. Other than the rather bad job they did of hiding the TNT, it's also an enchanting table in the middle of nowhere, in front of their base, in a death game. How Grian thought this would work really is beyond him.

"Yes, Martyn. They are serious." Ren responds, sounding amused in his own way. "And they're right up there, by BigB's! Waiting for us to die!" He continues, and the blonde's gaze flicks to where Ren's is pointing. (Or where he's guessing the brunette is looking, he can't really tell past the sunglasses) And sure enough, there's three little figures standing by their neighbors house. One that's obviously BigB, and one that's slightly taller and another with poorly hidden wings.

"The nerve of those two!" Martyn huffs, walking closer to the trapped table, probably more carelessly than he should. "They better not give BigB any trouble up there or I swear-"

"Careful, Martyn, careful!" Ren moves quickly, holding an arm out infront of him. The blonde stops, startled, and pointedly ignores the burning warmth from Ren's hand on his chest. "We don't wanna set it off!"

"Right, right." He mutters, nodding along. He had walked a little carelessly towards a trap, and probably almost made Grian and Scar's plan complete. Which they weren’t going to do, by the way. They were not going to give those two the satisfaction of winning. Even if that meant they never figured out how to deactivate it and let the table sit there till the end of time.

He watches as Ren takes careful steps forward, sword out and ready, and they brainstorm how to possibly get rid of this annoying little thing...

Barely a few minutes later, more people join the party. Skizz is the first one to do so, having already been on his way before their sand hippie interruption. He's standing next to Ren now, glaring at the enchanting table. There hasn't been much in the way of deactivation ideas, and won't be until the last two party goers arrive at the scene.

(What a fateful party this will be indeed..)

Scott and Jimmy have also made their way over, for what reason Martyn cannot tell you why. But he doesn’t mind, as long as they don't blow anyone up. Especially because Scott says how to dearm the thing. They need to carefully move the TNT away, and not shoot or stab it like the rest of them are suggesting; for that will just kill all five of the. Jimmy just seems to be here for moral support, if nothing else.

After saying that, Scott says he's going to investigate the mountain. Give BigB a hand or two, since it looks like he may need one from down here. Ren agrees with him, and the other three are left to tend to the cursed enchanting table. Somehow, Jimmy is assigned as the bomb defuser, while Skizz and Martyn mostly supervise and give some unhelpful advice along the way.

He is slightly nervous about the amount of people around the trap now, even with two of their party moved off. More people to accidentally set the trap off, and blow them all sky high in the process. Skizz standing over poor Timmy's shoulder certainly wasn't helping that unease either. Stress is like, the last thing you need when defusing a bomb.

But Jimmy seems to be doing well with this, even if he is nervous chattering. He's being more....careful than he generally is, and is making sure not to make a wrong move as he slowly digs the minecart out of the ground. Skizz helps, now starting to dig out the other side. Martyn hums, and feels some probably misplaced confidence build in his chest about how easy this supposedly is going to be.

And then, unseen to the other two, the canary’s knee accidentally bumps the side of the minecart.

Martyn opens his mouth to say something else to Timmy, or maybe crack a slightly stressed one liner at Skizzle, and then the world goes dark.

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There is a loud boom from down below, one that makes Ren's sensitive dog ears ring and has his tail standing on end. He had been up the mountain with Scott when it happened, the two of them at least trying to help out poor BigB. Those nasty sand hippies were trying to steal his poor neighbors cookie, as well as kill him in the process probably. And Ren wasn't going to let anyone do that to man who'd been so friendly to him and Martyn; especially not when it was the desert dwellers of all people.

It seems, in all the commotion up here, they'd all forgotten about that suspicious enchanting table the two troublemakers had placed at his front door. The one they'd left Jimmy, Martyn, and Skizz to handle all by themsleves for some horrible, stupid, stupid reason. With hindsight, and a lot of it, Ren wishes he'd been the one defusing that horrible trap instead.

Scott turns beside him, yells out something that might be his husband's name. Ren cannot tell though, for his ears are still ringing just a tad. When he turns, he quickly finds the reason for the others yelling. There's smoke and clearing debris from what has to be an explosion, and a rather large hole in the ground where a faux enchanting table once stood. As far as he can tell right now, there seem to be no one around it, and no items left on that ground either. Though he doubts someone is down there and injured, the small possibility of it is what propels Ren forward.

"MARTYN! SKIZZ!" Ren yells, joining in with Scott's own cries and running down the hill towards the explosion site before he even knows what his body is doing. He hears two sets of footsteps behind him, now that his ears have stopped ringing. Scott and BigB are the ones following most likely. Mostly because he can hear Grian’s maniacal laughter all the way from down the cliff, and had caught the vague glimpse of the chilling, darkly satisfied smile spreading across Scar's features before he'd turn to run.

It turns out it is indeed Scott running beside him, calling his husband's name loudly, desperately, just as Ren had called out his own allies name into the air a moment before. There is the sound of more feet hitting the grass, and it seems he was right to assume that BigB was behind him. All three of them come to a halt at the same time, just a few feet away from where the crater is. He doesn't know weather to be relived or worried when there's no one there after all.

The three of them panic for a minute, frantically looking around for any items that could be lingering around, despite the intensity of the explosion. Though nothing is really left after that, aside from stray dirt and a few torches that had been thrown to the side and survived.

After finding those measly pickings, the three of them can do nothing but wait. And until someone arrives to try and get what might remain of their stuff, wait includes a lot of glaring daggers at Scar and Grian; who are still atop the mountain and looting BigB's cookie. Well, it includes a lot of glaring for Ren. BigB and Scott are just antsy beside him.

Skizz is the first person to reappear, the man having gotten here before Martyn somehow. As soon as he catches sight of the now red-name, Ren is almost tripping over himself as he runs towards him. Skizz's face lights up upon seeing him, and they almost crash into each other at the midway point.

"Dude! You're a red name now!" Ren exclaims, grabbing his friends arms to stop himself from falling forward. He examines Skizz's newly colored eyes, gray skin, and the purple now fading up from the ends of his arms. He looks rather pretty like that, Ren has to admit, but that is a thought for much, much later.

"I know!" Skizz responds, his voice booming throughout the area around them. He's upset, taht much is certain, brows furrowed and a pretty cross look on his face. "If it wasn't for the stupid enderman I would've still be green when that went off!!"

Ren gawks at him somewhat, his reply contianing a bit of laughter as well as amazement. This man ability to hold a grudge was apparently more impressive than it seemed. "You just got blown up and you're still mad about that Enderman!? That was like, a week ago dude!"

"I know, I know!" Skizz yells, sounding all dejected. The pout he sports is cuter than it should be. "I just really hate those things!"

"I feel ya there," Ren hums, holding back a small giggle. He needs to focus his mind on the more important matters, like making sure his friends are okay; even despite red name status. "But are you good after that explosion? It seemed pretty nasty."

Skizz nods, a smile stretching across his face. "Yeah, I'm good. Other than being red, I mean." He confirms, and Ren gives him a beaming smile. The brunette can't help it really, not with the relief that's flooding him at the words. He's glad nothing worse happened from the explosion, other than the loss of a few lives.

The second and last person to arrive is Martyn, who emerges from a similar direction Skizz had. BigB calls out his name as the blonde comes into view, and Ren's feels his head whip around at near break neck speeds.

Ren sees a singular glimpse of Martyn, a glimpse of his distinct blonde hair and green hoodie, and he is by his side in an instant; the rest of the world now forgotten. His ally blinks, but says nothing as Ren immediately invades his personal space. He seems to welcome it, in fact, everyone able to see how he leans towards Ren without a second thought.

"You okay?" He asks, grabbing Martyn’s chin lightly. The blonde lets Ren turn it with his hand, examining his face for any scars or things of the like. He even brushes some stray hairs out of the other’s eyes, tucking them gently behind an ear. Martyn goes a bit pink in the face, not seeming to notice as he does so.

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Martyn mutters, breath hitching ever so slightly. Ren has half the mind to wonder why. "Is Skizz okay?"

"Yeah, he is." The dog confirms, thumbing Martyn's cheek a bit. His skin feels the same, thankfully. It has not changed like Skizz's has. It is still pale and soft and warm beneath Ren's hands, which he is happy for. Skizz had been slightly cold when they touched earlier...

"Good." The blonde nods slightly, breath hitching once again. Ren muses that his friend must be out of breath then, if it keeps hitching like that. Probably because he had to run from whererver it is he'd respawned at. Certainly no other reason, surely.

As if on cue, Skizz yells out a rather annoyed string of words. "All my stuffs been blown up!" Normally, that would've gotten a chuckle out if both Ren and Martyn, all due to the way their friend says it. But they are still engrossed in each other, green eyes locked with newly turned yellow ones and soft words being mumbled between them. Ren still holds Martyn's face after all these seconds and minutes. While the blonde has subconsciously gone to hold the brunette by the waist with a hand.

"How'd that even happen dude!? Scott told you a way to diffuse it, didn't he?" He remembers vaguely hearing the aforementioned man tell the little trio not to use a bow, and that moving the TNT minecart carefully and manually would be best. If they could dig it out of that hole and away from the trapped enchanting table, that is.

"Tim accidentally bumped it," Martyn murmurs. "He didn't do it on purpose, he was just a little freaked out is all." The blonde adds the last part on hastily, like Ren will go after the newly made red name otherwise. And he's right, Ren would. They both know it.

But its an accidental thing, and Jimmy died as well, and Ren is not as heartless to try and take him out of the game forever. It's far too early along for that anyway. They can ajm for more permeant kills later, when the stakes are higher and the risk if worth more. "You're yellow." Ren mutters, now properly cupping Martyn’s cheek in his hand.

"Yeah..." The blonde mutters, sounding slightly upset by it as he places his own hand over his allies. Though not upset as Skizz was, or anyone else would be. Like the status of his lives is a fleeting, unimportant thing compared to the state of Ren's own.

"I don't like it." Ren sounds more distressed by it that the person who literally died does, a frown etching its way onto his features. If Martyn is yellow that means he is closer to death, to dying forever. He doesn't know what he would do in a world without Martyn in it.

"It'll be fine, I swear it..." Martyn murmurs, leaning forward. Before Ren's mind can wander to, erm, him doing something else, Martyn presses their foreheads together. And they stay like that for a good moment, eyes closed and holding each other. It's just as good, if not better, than the other thing Ren was maybe envisioning.

Far too soon, just as Ren is really getting lost in the moment, Martyn goes to look around, and he scans the area quickly; taking in everything. "Where’s Tim?" He asks, yellow eyes wide with that seems to be anxiety. A terrifying question of if they lost someone for good in that explosion. If the first forever death has happened. Ren is really glad that's not the case, if only because he can comfort his best friend with the knowledge.

"Jimmy?" Ren hums after a short pause, running through the list of people at the scene in his head. "I don't think he's come back yet." The blonde in front of furrows his brows at that, and Ren cannot help but share his slight worry for the other new red name.

"He does live halfway across the server..." Martyn mumbles, like he's trying to comfort himself. Ren responds with nothing, just slips a hand into his friends as they walk back over to Skizz, Scott, and BigB; who is already starting to trail back to his house and the slightly broken cookie atop it. The other two quickly check up on Martyn, and make an effort not to mention the handholding.

Somehow, a few minutes later, the group ends back up near BigB's house, right infront of the damn perpetrators. He thinks they're up there because B offered to give them some extra supplies and tools he had lying around. A kind offer but it doesn't fix the fact that the murders still haven't left the scene of the crime. Ren has to hold back a snarl when they come into view, and stands protectively in front of Martyn. Skizz doesn't move any closer, but he is standing by Scott. And Ren trusts Scott for right now, because he is a kind man, a kind man who just watched his husband die to the two horrible hippies in front if them.

They don't end up getting the supplies BigB promised, all far too distracted with the sand hippies. Ren almost doesn't care in the end, as long as the murders leave at the end of the exchange.

"You're a monster!" Scott yells towards Grian when they return, the latter still giggling like the madman he is. Scar says nothing, a cheeky smile still plastered on his face. He looks so positively pleased with himself, Ren wants to knock the smug look right off his face.

"Jimmy literally just died!" The green life continues, and that seems to make the two feel bad at least, because Scar's face falters for just a moment. They don't really apologize through, but Grian does offer to help find Scott’s husband. Because according to the avian, Jimmy is probably sulking somewhere. It's a quick interaction, and before Ren knows it three of them are departing. Scar and Grian lead Scott away, back towards the flower valley, and away from the scene of their crime.

And Ren isn't very comfortable watching Scott walk away, alone with two murderers, but it is not any of his business in the end. So he says nothing, and watches as a still slightly shaken BigB retreats as well. He only mutters that they're leaving, and grabs Martyn and Skizz's hands. He leads them back towards the base, and tells them that he's going to try and do some damage control. The site of the explosion is given a wide breath, and they go in through the back way.

The rest of the day is spent fixing up his two allies, getting them so replacement gear and what not, and all of it ends up being positively exhausting for the three of them. Ren again wishes he'd taken their places in the explosion, just so they wouldn't have to waste this many items on this much stuff. One person dying certainly would've saved them half the iron, that's for sure. But he doesn’t really mind, not as long as the iron goes to good use. And making Martyn and Skizz swords and other tools was a very good use indeed.

That night, once the sun is set and his allies are set up again, Skizz stays over at their base on Ren's own invitation; who drags both of them into bed with him despite any protests. After a while of low conversation and getting comfortable, Skizz ends up leaning against him, dozing off slightly; while Martyn is practically curled up in Ren's lap like a little kitten. It's the most comfortable Ren has felt all week.

He stays wrapped around his yellow and his red the best he can, the urge to protect them stronger that ever before as they stay cuddled up in bed. As much as Ren isn't showing it, the explosion from earlier had really rattled him. Ever since Martyn and Skizz had got back in his sights, the urge to hold them and never let go was a strong one. He wasn't very good at fighting it, either, as evidenced by the cuddling.

The dog hybrid hums, a vain way to distract himself from his own thoughts, running delicate hands through blonde locks. Martyn just murmurs something into his chest and sleepy leans into the touch. Skizz looks over at the sound, curious, and chuckles quietly at the sight.

"You two are adorbale" He teases, his tone light as he leans further into Ren's touch. The brunette wraps his other arm around Skizz, drawing the other closer. The three of them make for a pretty good and comfortable cuddle pile, he must admit.

"You could be adorble with us too." The dog huffs in response, and moves until he can nuzzle his head into the crook of Skizz's neck. He still makes sure one hand is running through Martyn’s hair as well, even though the man has definitely fallen alssep by now and cannot tell the difference whatsoever. Skizz just laughs quietly again, and leans into the touch for the millionth time that evening.

It's how they all fall asleep that night, Ren's face hidden in Skizz's warmth and Martyn drapped over the former like a cat. And it is how they wake up on the next morning after. The three of them wake up warm, tangled together, and fighting off whatever weird instincts that come with being yellow and red with pure adoration for each other.

Ren presses a kiss to both of their foreheads, and promises to protect and keep them both close to his side, as long as he shall live in this wretched world.

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fountainpenguin · 6 months ago

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"Build high the walls, build strong the beams... A new life is waiting, but danger's no stranger here..." (x)

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On the other hand… Sniff had finally settled down a little, and Grian didn’t have a clue where to find a dummy for his mouth. He almost drowned, you know. And from his point of view, he basically got abducted by aliens. A little thumb-sucking would probably be okay. Joe poked in his head then and, with Grian’s permission by proxy, snipped off a lock of the baby’s hair. It looked pretty pale, the color of pancake batter, though the hair around his ears suggested it might darken with age. Sniff started. Joe gave his head a soft stroke and addressed the baby, not Grian, with his next words: “I’ll ask around the human towns. I might be able to dig up information on your parents. Your dad sounds like a nasty guy, but if I find your other parent, I’ll let you know. Okay?” Sniff sucked his thumb, mute as a snail.

In which Grian and Joel, having saved a newborn sniffer hybrid from drowning, go through the basic motions of "What comes next?" - Like childproofing the floating foster home.

Character and lore study for an urban fantasy "Hermits avoiding humans" mob hybrid AU

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SnifferMyFeet was not an accident, though Joel and Grian swore they’d never tell him that. “We think your parents lost you in a storm; we never found them,” sang sweeter than “Your mother’s out of the picture and we watched your father throw you in a river when you were three weeks old.”

Or maybe Sniff had two fathers. We shouldn’t assume; the hate crime could be diverse. They hadn’t asked for details while struggling to rescue the burlap sack from snot-thick water, but the anti-hybrid slurs the human on shore spluttered out painted a nasty picture as it was. Joel tried to bite him. That probably didn’t help The Hybrid Agenda, but Grian would’ve bit him too if he hadn’t been coughing up sluggish brown water and bits of sand and kelp.

So, you know… SnifferMyFeet joined the party. Xisuma sighed when Grian brought the baby in. Less about the paperwork and more about the general cruelty of the world (One would hope). He pulled his gloves higher on each hand, so you knew red tape was about to hit the table. And it did. Xisuma better aligned his helmet, then dragged a wobbly chair to his too-tall desk.

“Right. So… Were you followed?”

“No,” Grian murmured. “We cut through Joel’s dad’s territory.” Across the creek, around the brambles, and straight through the ambiguous flats that everyone claimed housed a skunk mating ground, but Grian swore stunk like sulfur. Then past Doc’s perimeter and you take a wander through Scarland, which is hands-down a must-see on any escape from a human encounter. Don’t put children down for a sec to look at stuffed Jellie cats. You will either lose them or bury them alive.

“And where is Joel now?”

“Warm shower. Slowly, I hope. He was in that ice water for a while.” And it always clung so heavy in his fur. Once, on a wild stunt Grian would rather forget about, he and Joel spent two weeks together living with the wolf pack where Joel had been born. No father to speak of (I mean, obviously), though Joel always claimed the alpha male treated him like a son.

Anyway, winter blew fiercer winds than either of them expected. Joel slipped on the ice. It cracked beneath his butt and dumped him in the lake. Grian spent a whole weekend bringing back his health while Joel lit TNT in place of campfires and felt real sorry for himself. Well, he was Joel, so it was probably a #No Regrets sort of thing, but… still. You should’ve seen his gray-brown fur soaking wet all down his arms and legs. His tail could’ve been a sewn-on sock and he wouldn’t’ve been the wiser.

“Ah.”

“Ick-‘suma, it’s a hybrid. The dad—The parents—I mean… We didn’t see the mum.”

“You’re bleeding…”

“Oh. Yeah. He shot me. Joel too. Joel a lot.” Red dots stained the red and yellow leaves.

Sniff’s huffs turned to whines. Grian stood, holding the baby to his chest so the legs dangled down, and bounced on his toes. He used to do this with Junior. It sometimes helped. He spun a circle and murmured poems and lyrics and little things. And Joe Hills, sitting backwards on a chair, commented lightly that the humans were getting bolder; Sniff’s debut wasn’t the first time they’d been spotted at the river. The Hermits might have to move again.

“Good,” Grian muttered back, cradling the straining infant to his chest. He’d have to ask around in case anyone had a baby sling. Zedaph sometimes used them to carry mobs around, especially while delivering them by air. Grian shifted his arms to adjust the weight distribution, but the baby didn’t really get that Grian couldn’t suckle, so that was a whole thing. Hm. NPC never pestered him for milk. Ariana and Victor did, though.

Anyway, “I don’t want to live near humans if they can’t sort their issues out. Right… I’m taking a break. This little guy needs me more than anyone. Come get me when the season turns.”

“Are you sure?” Xisuma asked him softly. “I’m just worried about you getting burned out. You’re already raising 6.”

“Right. Who better to take him in than me?”

Through the tint of Xisuma’s helmet visor, Grian caught a flicker of eyelashes slipping shut. One finger tapped his table. Twice. Just twice. He asked Joe to step out for a minute. The eternally ambiguous hybrid bowed with a flourish and vanished through the door like a ghost. Grian felt his feathers puff. Water dribbled through the vanes. But he stayed very still, clutching the baby sniffer hybrid, as Xisuma turned back to him.

“Grian, I’m asking as your pack leader, really for the paperwork, but you don’t have to tell me unless you’re comfortable. Are you seeing anyone right now?”

Empty faces with dark eyes and gaping mouths floated through his vision. Grian’s fingers twitched. “Anyone in the commune, you mean.”

“I didn’t say that.” Gentle. Paper-thin. Grian’s eyes blurred, but he grit his teeth and shifted his weight forward in his chair. His talons snagged against the carpet. Right, and the baby started in his lap. Grian, because he was good at what he did, shushed him with a few soothing pats to the head. Sniff yawned and stretched before curling in his arms.

“I have a mate.” This was unprovable fact to most the Hermits (in the ways that they thought mattered). Just… just… Look. He kept that information private, and that was the the end of this conversation. Xisuma nodded like a panther’s pawsteps, resting two fingers against his nose.

“7 kids is a lot, even for two or three adults.”

Grian’s feathers fluffed up again. “‘ey, listen; I know what you’re getting at. Mumbo and I aren’t dating, but he’s just as committed to Ariana, Grum, and Junior as I am. We’re ‘ride or die.’”

And for the baby’s sake as it fussed against the folds in his soggy jumper, he lowered his voice:

“I’m too much ‘a monster’ to live with humans. I’ll never get to study in their schools or go to conferences or publish my research, right? I do one thing in this world, Ex-ee-zuma: I’m the dad who steps up. I can do this. Parrots form flocks. I’m good at this.”

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#Grian #SnifferMyFeet #Xisumavoid #fic announcement #Half Hidden AU #ridwriting #I've been listening to this song for 20 years and I was today years old when I found out the lyric isn't “build higher walls”#apparently art #mcyt

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rutellingmeashrimpfriedthisrice · 1 year ago

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MCYT Yuri Week Day Six!

Prompt: Sleep/Party

Ship: Cleo (ZombieCleo)/Lizzie (LDShadowLady)

Series: Life Series SMP

Word Count: 287

@mcyt-yuri-week

Last Life was over. The game had been won.

Yet Cleo couldn't stop seeing visions of pink in their dreams.

She would lie awake in her house long after Scott had gone to sleep across the bridge, bright blue eyes and tinkling laughter on a loop in their mind.

As they slept, Cleo would be plagued by memories of that night in the Fairy Forest. The look of fear and panic on her former ally's face. But there would also be good dreams, every now and then. Secret kisses in the trees, running from skeletons together hand in hand.

Cleo would wake up shaken either way.

The following season wasn't much better, either. New team, new game, same restless nights. She wore red paint beneath her eyes to hide the dark rings.

Between TNT minecarts and ravager chases, they saw the girl who haunted her thoughts more than anyone else. In every hour lost, they caught a glimpse of her old team mate.

Even in her final moments, facing off against Pearl, Bigb, and Grian, she couldn't help but feel a bit relieved that- at least until the next season- she could rest outside of the games.

Finally, three seasons later, Cleo could see her again. She almost hadn't believed it when they saw the pink haired girl standing around spawn, but once she heard her voice, they knew it couldn't be anything but the real her.

"Lizzie?" She spoke as she stumbled across the girl setting up a base along the river.

Lizzie turned to face her, smiling just as beautifully as she had in Cleo's dreams.

Only this time, Cleo wasn't sleeping.

Lizzie was here, at long last.

Cleo could finally sleep peacefully at night.

#mcytyuriweek2023 #shadowrot

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panda-wearing-pants · 1 year ago

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Best Life Series episode #6

S1E6: Grian makes Pizza banners, Scar sets fire to the wool castle, Jimmy and Scott are caught by Cleo with Impulse's villagers, Grian sets up traps and a bunker in the desert, Scott and Jimmy's wall iss burnt down, they spend the session trying to find who it was, Joel takes down his banner, Etho is killed by Scar for sneaking around their base, the red army and pizza alliance have a standoff in the desert, Scar attempts to activate the TNT in the sandcastle, and nearly kills himself and Tango, Cleo dies during a battle on Dead Bush Hill

Goodtimeswithscar: Mistakes Were Made!

S2E6: Mumbo, Etho, Joel, Jimmy, Bdubs, and Scott are all chosen as boogeymen, Cleo, Scott and Pearl become Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, Scar places TNT on the snow fort before Skizz and Bdubs convince Tango to give Scar a life, Grian, Mumbo and Martyn hide outside the snow fort while the boogeyman is chosen, and are discovered soon after, and Etho throws a potion of poison on the entire group (Southlands and B.E.S.T.), allowing Mumbo to boogey kill Bdubs, and Etho then boogey kills Mumbo, Tango gives Bdubs a life, Joel tries to trap Lizzie's house but gets blown up when Lizzie activates the observer, Bdubs boogey kills Tango, Joel returns to the shadow tower and kills Lizzie, Grian steals the skull from the tower, Scott attacks Impulse, but Impulse eats his enchanted apple and escapes, but is later pushed into a pit by Scott at the Southlands, Martyn gives Scar a Lifetime Hydration Crystal, Scar drowns in Scott's tower, Jimmy is blown up by Lizzie's trap, and he then boogey kills her with a pit in his exiled shack, Mumbo attacks Scott who dies from fall damage from an ender pearl

MumboJumbo: KILLING AND DYING

S3E6: Scott and Cleo secretly listen in on the reds' meeting, which Pearl is invited to despite being yellow, Scott and Cleo are discovered but escape, Joel kills Scott with a firework crossbow, the reds go to the ancient city to find Cleo and Martyn, Martyn gets shot by Scar, and dies when Cleo drowns trying to escape, Joel, Etho, Bdubs, and Impulse create an alliance, Joel and Etho go into the nether, but die to a trapped portal when they come out to help Impulse and Bdubs, Impulse and Bdubs escape the divorce quartet through a secret passage concealed by lava, Pearl kills Bdubs and Impulse, but Tilly is killed, Martyn turns on Scott once Bdubs and Impulse die, but Scott escapes, Martyn attacks Pearl, but she kills Cleo, Scott sacrifices himself to let Pearl win

Pearlescentmoon: Something Wicked This Way Comes

S4E6: Pearl and Cleo are replaced with Lizzie and Gem, Cleo decides that Scar is her favorite son,

<Smallishbeans> Grian

<Solidaritygaming> say yes or no

<Grian> yes

Smallishbeans fell from a high place

Solidaritygaming fell from a high place

Grian accidentally activates the pit trap in Froggy Tower, killing Jimmy and Pearl, Jimmy and Joel set up an enderporter and try to get kills, but fail and Joel dies when Grian activates the enderporter, Etho tries to trap the Clockers, but Scar kills him and discovers the trap, Etho then sets off the trap, but only kills himself, Martyn has a birthday party, but the Bad Boys drop TNT on the party, but no one dies, Scar starts a raid, and Grian nametags one of the ravagers "Grian", the ravager later kills Jimmy, Pearl sets up a trap for Grian as the boogey, but he is suspicious of it, so she punches him in and he dies to lava, Etho is invited to a family dinner, but Cleo kills him twice

Goodtimeswithscar: Unintentionally Destroying Etho

S5E6: Tango is replaced with Ren, Etho and Grian have to reroll their tasks, and must bring a wither and warden to spawn and make them fight, Mumbo goes with Grian to collect wither skulls, but ends up dying in lava, Joel hires Jimmy to assassinate Scott, Jimmy, Lizzie and Martyn all have Pearl do various things to damage non-reds, Scar, Bdubs and Impulse play multiple games of chicken, one causes Bdubs to die, Rengo makes deals in exchange for Decked Out Frozen Shards, Jimmy has a funeral, even though he is still alive, Lizzie is eliminated while trying to knock Scott of the end island, the Warden and Wither fight, eliminating Jimmy and Mumbo and killing Grian and BigB, Scott ends the session on half a heart

Grian: THE HARD TASK

#3rd life #last life #double life #limited life #secret life #life series #traffic series #traffic smp #Best life series episode

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pup-pee · 5 months ago

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Stands in your asks

I think Bart should be good at those minecraft parkour maps or those minecraft servers where you have to race against other people he would be great at them-

BITES U HI MADI

I THINKT HSISBSIS SO SILLY I THIN HES A HYPIXEL FROG

hes never made his own map but god does he speedrun those houses,,,& also the lobby course((i wish i could))

i bet 4 a short period of time he got rlly huperfixated on 1 of thr minivgames & strove 2 b on the leaderboards

i could b rlly obvious & say party games but lets say i didnt day that :3

bart allen parkour god pixel perfect jumper lava runner fanatic DONT PLAY TNT RUN W/HIM HE WILL WIN

“guys lets play minecraft!” “bart tnt run lags out my computer,,,” skill issue actuslly

#anyways TY 4 LETIIGN EM RAMBLE #ABOUT BASICLALY NOTHING #HI MADI ILYYYY HIHI #srry ive been dying ::3 #im comvinced i am the biggest victim of car sickness #im inlake bc of a wedding #ignore the editing is it a good idea 2 announce where i am??? idk….#i skipped internet safty 101 #this reminded me of a cute post where bart played horror games & kon watched & now i wanna find that post again it was so cute #it tickled my every fancy #uhmmm anyways srry #<3333 #madi!!! :3 #puppee asks

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dandelionsprout42 · 4 months ago

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Quick summary of Apple Arcade games I've played thus far

All games were played on the Apple TV 4K 128GB model, most with Dualsense, while games that support Siri Remote used the remote instead.

Sonic Dream Team: The maingame (except the contrived red-coin system) is a masterpiece, and the first Sonic platformer I've ever completed. The postgame(s) got weary on me, however.

Easy Come Easy Golf: Plays pretty good for a non-motion-controlled golf game. Could need to have far more courses far earlier in the game, as meaningful variation is practically none even at rank 8.

Way of the Turtle: Very good from the 25〜90% marks of the game, where it's a better Crash Bandicoot game than a lot of actual Crash Bandicoot games. But the endgame levels are brutal to the point of feeling like they weren't worth it.

Alto's Adventure: Honestly a fairly good game. I recommend it to people who've just bought an Apple TV and who are learning how the remote control works.

Amazing Bomberman: Complete rubbish. I could count the framerate on one hand, and that's on the newest Apple TV model.

Gear.Club Stradale: Kept crashing to desktop all the time. And I mean all the time. I was only able to complete 1 race on 5 attempts at starting the game.

Rayman Mini: Severely outdated. No one wants autorunners anymore, and certainly not autorunners that mangle the Rayman Legends timed missions.

Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat: Safe to assume that Apple told the devs to make the game less weeb than most other TnT games, which is a good thing. The Power of Love is a nice touch, and the evergreen Cruel Angel's Thesis, the Touhou Song (Night of Knights), and Funiculi Funicula (a.k.a. the Spider-Man 2 pizza song).

Tetris Beat: Weeb stuff. Gave up after 10min because I hadn't heard of any of the songs.

Samba de Amigo Party-to-Go: On the entirely opposite end of the scale, and in fact has too many dance-pop songs. I do give positive shoutout to that its version of Macarena use the actual lyrics, and not the ones with the teenage girls chatting.

Riptide GP Renegade: Practically unplayable with Siri Remote, so I never tested it with Dualsense out of spite. Never got past the tutorial.

Pocket Card Jockey: Tested to see how far I could bruteforce my way through the intro with a Siri Remote, far past the alleged "Connect a controller" prompts. I miraculously managed to get to the first main level, at which point I felt that I had done my duty and never played it afterwards.

Frogger and the Rumbling Ruins: Managed to be less controllable than Pocket Card Jockey even with a Dualsense. Couldn't get past the very first section.

My Little Pony Mane Merge: The "Merge" genre is by itself the worst new game genre in several decades, but Gameloft clearly can't possibly have played even one puzzle console game in their lives, judging by how they mangled the controls beyond recognition.

Kimono Cats: Hardly has any activities in it that count as a game, and the few small remnances that are there are either weeb or Daily Challenges.

Disney SpellStruck: A good concept and is fun to play early on, but dear lords does it get repetitive. Not to mention the word validation system rejecting a lot of common words while accepting nonsense. The cameo of Tinker Bell's house from her titular movies is a nice touch, but a very short touch.

Warped Kart Racers: "We already have Sonic Racing Transformed at home" vibes. Additionally, the battle mode system is the worst in the history of car games. Yes, worse than that of FlatOut 3.

Squiggle Drop: Incomprehensible career progression, not helped by puzzles that start to make no sense after the circa 25th one.

JellyCar Worlds: If you've played 10 levels or so, you've essentially played them all.

Marble It Up Mayhem: Roughly half of the point-to-point levels were reasonably good. The "Collect spheres in a zone" levels were pretty boring.

Beyond Blue: I refuse to believe that any professional livestreamer scuba diver would willingly want to use a suit she described as itchy.

Ballistic Baseball: Seemingly impossible to hit the ball, and the English commentator has the least enthusiastic voice I've ever heard in my life.

#apple arcade #games #sonic dream team #easy come easy golf #way of the turtle #alto's adventure #rayman mini #taiko no tatsujin #mane merge #mlp g5 #beyond blue #hardcore analysis and stuff

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