#Underworld Carnival

[satoshy12]

Danny doesn't own all of John's souls after collecting them as Pokemon.

Danny the tiny child who used John to see the Watchtower: "Sorry, John Constantine, I really don't have all of it."

John to the JL:" See, I told you."

Danny explains: "No, I didn't want like 16% of it. The few demons used it as gum, toilet paper, and similar.

I don't want it.

The rest I won in the Carnival in the Underworld. The super fun place Trigon and others showed me The one time we are all neutral from evil, good, and similar."

[seishinnookami]

A little about me!

If you are reading this, ✨congratulations!✨ You have reached a small writer’s posts! English isn’t my first language, so please excuse my grammar errors and spelling mistakes.

This isn’t the first time i write, but only now I thought about actually publishing them to others. I write poems, love verses, fan-fictions and self written books.

i dabble in quite a few fandoms, like;

-Twisted wonderland

-Hypnosis Microphone

-Nu: Carnival - Bliss

-Obey me!

-Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

-Star wars

-Mandalorian

-Call of Duty

-Bad batch

-EPIC; the musical

And many others. I hope i can make many things for you reader to enjoy! I promise not to disappoint. My iconic character is the ducky you see. Also, none of the arts are mine unless written so! I’ll try to credit as many times as i can.

[timmurleyart]

Remixed in the 90s. 🍋🎶

[intimidating-fettuccine]

im not quite sure if youve mentioned it before, but do your yandere creeps live by theirselves with their darling? or do they live in the mansion and their darling just stays in their room?

I tend to imagine them living by themselves. If they do still live in the mansion, Darling is kept separately somewhere else. Generally when I write a yandere I still assume everyone else is normal, so like, I don't think the others would approve of someone being kept hostage in the mansion. I normally tend to invision them living in smaller houses hidden deep in the Underworld where nobody's gonna find them when they're living with Darling.

The main exception to that is BEN, or maybe LJ too, because BEN in my canon can create essentially digital pocket dimensions, and he keeps his Darling in one of those, and my LJ has a carnival he owns and I could see him keeping his Darling there. Because of that, BEN and LJ could still continue living in the mansion themselves while keeping their Darlings easily hidden away and nobody knowing about it much easier.

[theriverbeyond]

THE ANTICAPITALIST MESSAGING IN HADESTOWN TOOK ME SO COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE IN SUCH A GOOD WAY AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ENOUGH PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE ITS SO GOOD AND IT WORKS WITH THEIR STORY SO WELL

YEAH EXACTLY Im like... is it all just so obvious everyone decided it's redundant to mention or??? HELLO???

And I was sitting in the audience as one does and Chant was actually the song that reframed the entire show for me -- up until then I was like "aw :') theyre falling in love and are doomed, I should google all these lyrics later" but that song just... I felt like I was being hit in the face w a fish, honestly!!

"In the coldest time of year/ Why is it so hot down here?/ Hotter than a crucible/ It ain't right and it ain't natural"

"In the darkest time of year/ Why is it so bright down here?/ Brighter than a carnival/ It ain't right and it ain't natural"

Persephone's lyrics here are so specific -> a "crucible" is an ancient tool that can be used to create art but also industrialized into mass production, a "carnival" something that is inherently about celebration and festivity and joy but it is also a thing that can be commercialized almost beyond recognition. Capitalism is ravenous and will never be satiafied or sated, it will steal & exploit every scrap of art and joy that it can, then corrupt it all into hollow immitations that it then sells back to you on websites like SHEIN and Disney+.

"It ain't right and it ain't natural" hits so hard in this song because nothing is as natural, or as "right", as death -- so obviously Persephone is NOT talking about the literal underworld to the literal god of the dead. She's talking about how we need to stay warm and safe and dry in the winter, but we don't need fresh summer fruits imported from thousands of miles away. We need to stay cool and safe and hydrated in the summer, but we don't need to steal water from another state to keep the golf courses green. The winter is natural, the cold is natural, seeking warmth and light is natural. What is unnatural is this overconsumption, this never ending, never satisfied hunger.

And then of course you have Hades' parts,

Here, I fashioned things of steel/ Oil drums and automobiles/ Then I kept that furnace fed/ With the fossils of the dead

And wasn't it electrifying/ When I made the neon shine!/ Silver screen, cathode ray/ Brighter than the light of day

And obviously "fossils of the dead" is a reference to Hades being the literal god of the dead, in the ground, in the underworld, and it is also a reference to the modern dependence on oil and fossil fuels, but TO ME it is also about how capitalism relies on the exploitation of workers. In this show, the "fossils of the dead" are literally Hades' subjects. They're the workers of his factory town, and he both exploits them and is fully dependent on them, just like how the furnance of industry/capitalism relies on YOUR body, YOUR labor, it eats you when you're alive and it often continues to eat you when you're dead.

And then like "wasn't it electrifying" -> it's EXCITING what technology and industry does, but the problem is the overconsumption and the overproduction ("Brighter than the light of day") beyond what anyone actually needs or even wants. It ain't right and it ain't natural!!!

Every year, it's getting worse/ Hadestown, hell on Earth!

And the wind is so strong/ That's why times are so hard/ It's because of the gods/ The gods have forgotten the song of their love

Lover, what have you become/ Coal cars and oil drums/ Warehouse walls and factory floors/ I don't know you anymore

And it all keeps building in this song, re-emphasizing that Hades is not who he once was, that he has changed. Which again is not only commentary about consumption vs overconsumption, and how so many things started as wonderful ideas that could save people and help people and help make the world better were corrupted and turned into profit machines, killing machines, etc. "The gods have forgotten the song of their love" UGH

I also think the Themes are magnified because this is presented extremely directly alongside Euridyce's growing desperation, especially with the context that Euridyce DOES, in fact, "sell out" to Hades' promises.

There is no food left to find/ It's hard enough to feed yourself/ Let alone somebody else

Desperation forces her hand, she turns to Hades because he offers salvation, and she ends up just another nameless worker turning the gears of his machine. And I feel this is so similar to how when rich people are like "Just do XYZ", or telling people to bootstrap, or selling quick fixes to desperate people, when the reality is they got where they did due to a combination of luck, pre-existing social/monetary capital, etc, and buying into their promises of wealth will only make them richer and you more dependent and vulnerable.

[detectivemaker]

Rogues' Surprise Party for Scarecrow

Jonathan Crane, the infamous Scarecrow, was not a man known for his warmth or social graces. Yet, amidst his shadowy existence, he possessed a peculiar bond with a group of unlikely allies: the Rogues. These villains, a motley crew of criminals, had formed a twisted camaraderie over years of shared chaos and near-misses.

Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, was the mastermind behind a surprise birthday party for Crane. It was a bizarre concept, even for the Rogues, but Tetch was determined to bring a touch of twisted whimsy to Crane's life. The idea had sprouted from a rare moment of empathy, a fleeting recognition of the loneliness that lurked beneath Crane's fear-inducing facade.

The Rogues, each with their own unique brand of madness, rallied to Tetch's cause. Captain Cold, with his icy demeanor, organized the logistics, while Mirror Master conjured a dazzling illusion of a festive hall. The rest of the Rogues, from the playful Pied Piper to the enigmatic Clock King, contributed their own peculiar talents to the surprise.

The day of the party arrived, and Crane, oblivious to the plot, was lured to an abandoned warehouse. As he stepped through the darkened doorway, a cacophony of noise and light erupted. The warehouse was transformed into a grotesque carnival, with twisted clowns, oversized playing cards, and a towering birthday cake adorned with sinister symbols.

Crane, initially startled, was gradually drawn into the macabre festivities. The Rogues, clad in festive attire, offered him gifts: a new fear toxin, a collection of obscure horror stories, and a custom-made scarecrow costume. Tetch, the host, presented Crane with a peculiar gift: a tea party, a surreal experience that tapped into Crane's repressed childhood.

As the night wore on, Crane found himself laughing, a sound rarely heard from his lips. The Rogues, in their own twisted way, had managed to touch his heart. The party, a bizarre blend of horror and hilarity, was a testament to the unexpected bonds that can form in the darkest corners of the criminal underworld.

[blood-drawn-by-love]

For those who are wondering where to go for community as obey-me’s’ downfall is on the horizon;

a bit of a dramatic title lol I propose my community: The Blood Drawn by Love fandom! (Rated 16+)

It is not a fully finished game like obey me, (yet) however it still has content (fanfic, fanart, insert ocs, official art, ect. Even some finished game OST’s!) and currently a small community, which if that is something your looking for we have it.

plus BDBL has overlapping themes as obey me so if you still need to fulfill that demon-boyfriend itch you’ve come to the right place.

read more for further elaboration:

TLDR/summary: You accidentally steal a spell book, transporting yourself into the underworld, ending up having to jump through hoops with the help of an abnormally kind.. demon? He doesn’t seem to like that title. Only to be wrapped up in another conquest that seems bigger than life itself, traveling through the realms and eventually facing Lucifer himself as he took notice of you and your teams deeds throughout the rings.

Shockingly enough obey me didn’t really inspire this game pretty much at all, just for the record.

Blood Drawn by Love is an adventure visual novel with dating sim elements and battle mechanics and so far 20+ characters to interact with. The MC is as neutral in identifying features (such as gender, race, and body type) as I could make them.

here is the discord server.

a significantly longer explanation of the plot:

You play a human who’s really down on their luck recently and while walking by a carnival you spot one of those fortune teller tents. Not having much else to do, you go and get your fortune told. Couldn’t hurt, right? At most you’d loose a few dollars.

It doesn’t look good so the ‘teller’ goes to set up a luck spell.

You end up bumping into a small shelf, causing a few items and a book to fall off of it, next thing you know the air is cold and your waking up somewhere you don’t recognize.

However luck finally beams upon you as your found by someone who looks just a little different than all the other scary creatures you’ve seen.

from than on you realize you’ve been transported to the underworld via the wrong potion falling on the open transport page of the tellers spell book, of whom is actually one of the strongest known witches who would be pissed to know you lost their book.

you both go and adventure the realms to find it, only to get roped up in another, much longer winded scheme of having to save each realm from their own sins personified. Who knew Satan would be a horse and not a red guy with horns and wings? You travel through each ring and learn their various cultures, species, and customs. You meet a lot of strange people but they don’t seem that bad, they’re quite charming in their own ways, even. by time your help is no longer needed you find yourself with a new found community, and potentially love. Would staying be so bad?

[satellitefeed]

robbie robertson pussy has me like ohhh so Carny is a 1980 American drama film about a waitress who joins a traveling carnival. It stars Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, and Robbie Robertson. It also includes an early role for Fred Ward. Frankie and Patch are friends who work for the Great American Carnival, a small-time carnival that tours the South. Frankie does an act as The Mighty Bozo, a character who sits in a dunk tank insulting the crowd, while Patch takes the money and runs the game. Patch is also the show's "adjuster," hence his carny name, working with the owner of the carnival, Heavy St. John, negotiating deals with local officials and representatives of the local underworld to keep the show open. What it takes to keep the show open varies from town to town. In one town, it is making good on a city official's gambling losses on the midway and giving a city councilor a pile of free passes to the carnival. In another, it is compromising to allow the strippers to work, but keeping the freak show closed. In a third, it involves providing an underworld boss's thug with a girl he fancies. He also works to maintain harmony among the carnies. Patch is good at his job of patching together the deals that keep the carnival rolling and keeping the peace on the lot, but never likes being played for a fool.

[froggybrainz]

Headcannon time

Just a warning for some, but I wanted to do more of my au accurate headcannons, but it shouldn't be too bad. I told yall before I hate one-sided, but I also love a good horror character, so I tried to keep a good balance. Just wanted to show my characters for who they are in actuality

Willie: full name William Ray Grossman.

Age: 26

5.11ft says he's 6.2ft lol

Straight

Drives a red 1991 Ford ranger

Works as Jack's errand boy. Has had a body or two in the back of his truck bed(adults only William doesnt like to harm kids so he stays out of it) hasnt killed anyone, but Jack makes him bring victims to him when he's bored.

Lives in an old farmhouse given to him by his grandpa's in his will. Everything in that house remains the same and untouched. The only room that's been updated was his old bedroom when he would speed the night and watch Michael Bay movies. Has also spent time at Jack's carnival for a few.

Is always carrying a gun at his waist. You don't know who could be lurking in those woods and he ain't about to be fucked with. He already lost one loved one he ain't going out the same way.

Uses photography to help clear his mind. Used to go to college but left due to Jack targeting his classmates. Had his eye on a certain girl but felt that it was best if he had just stayed away before Jack noticed her. Thinks about her every once in awhile, believes she was going in to be a nurse.

He loves Jack like he was his own grandfather, but Jack has never admitted to caring for him (not to his face at least....) Jack has always looked sad to him when he's alone working. Not a giggle or a smile to be seen on him even when dismembering a corpse. It's just so strange and out of character for this energetic psychopath to just be so...sober.Jack is only killing cause of someone else? Is this behavior only a facade?

Favorite foods: everything and anything you could stuff inside or on top of a grill. Melinda's hot sauce and a bucket of ranch make everything better 👌. He makes alot of King of the Hill quotes, and yes, he does the voices too....

I'm sorry to say this but he believes that just standing in the shower is enough to clean him.... most certainly has 3 in 1 soaps sitting inside of his shower....

Frankie: full name Frankie Lee Anderson

Age: 57 Sorry, he's old but immortal

6.5ft? I can't remember

Gay

Patents were an interspecies couple, which was a big no no back in the day between humans and "monsters." They were part of the hippie movement back in the 1960s, traveled alot protesting that those from the underworld were people too, and unfortunately many were shot for their beliefs. Frankie was born in 1968 and was put into foster care as a child. He never stayed in just one house but found himself being trafficked into the underworld with no one in the system looking for him. His case got swept under the rug as he was forgotten. No baby Boi was not s*x trafficked but was sold and bought as meat. Children in orphanages are easy targets for hungry residents of the underworld, so unfortunately, many go missing. Frankie was special tho, he was gonna be sold for a pretty penny after finding out about his special ability but before the traffickers could take him to get auctioned off the van was ambushed by a mob, killing everyone but Frankie. The leader was an older woman who was looking for her daughters but only found him alive. Her cold heart moured the loss of her daughters, but it also ached, knowing the pain that lil boy went thru when she saw his little hands covered in blood. A real mother's heart cries for all children, and she felt the need to take him in.

Yeah, Frankie gets taken in by a mob leader in the underworld. He learns how to fight and be excellent with gun. He becomes a bounty hunter when he gets older to help track down and protect kids who were trafficked in the meat trade. He made it his duty to find them when the police wouldn't. Donates money and gifts to kids in orphanages.

At first, he was gonna kill Willie due to his ties in the past kidnappings. Became friends later when bonding over a few beers, Willie sometimes cries over stupid things when hes drunk and acts really goofy. Frankie was at first upset about finding his lil acts cute so he argues with himself about it. Pulled a gun out on Willie while his back was turned but just couldn't do it after hearing Will start talking about how his pa would take him fishing on rainy days. Defeated Frankie lowers the gun and listens to Will finish up his story. Months later, he still wonders why he works for Jack. Such a sweet boy doesn't deserve to be used by such a monster.

Drives an Oldsmobile Delta 88. Idk I always loved that car from Evil Dead.

Favorite snacks are those shrimp chips from 5 and Below. Garlic and chillie pepper humas is pretty good too

Great hygiene even cleans under his nails 💅 Willie you could learn a thing or two with him...

Likes cleaning his car and has to keep that baby in good condition. Has two cats named Pepper and Charlie, his babies

Jack: Just Jack

Age: He believes he's from the 1800, but he doesn't honestly know.

8.5ft

Bi but straight cause the last person he bonded with was Isaac and Alex being the next just ment that he feel in love with her

Unpredictable, sadistic and bipolar, almost like something controls him at times. He does care for Will, but he's afraid that "IT" will notice. Is not a people person/very awkward around others. If yall ever watched David near on YouTube, he acts like that most of the time when he's being an edge lord

He gets bonded to a woman named Alex when she finds his box, and now is finding himself having the urge to protect her. His first time trying to flirt with Alex was just him failing horribly cause old boi never felt love before. Yknow the whole bs about "well, if a boy bullies you, he probably just likes you." Yeah, I'm sorry, but Jack can be a dick even if that's not what he intended to do. Alex getting fed up with him and talking back to him was like "oh she's just being hard to get", yeah Jack get some help, bud.... he doesn't hurt her, but he's very possessive over her. Unaware, he begins to soften up around her as he starts to forget why he had his walls up so high.

Works on taxidermy along with other arts and crafts in his free time. He's like leather face turning people into cozy home decor.

He hates being alone, so he keeps Willie around. Ma guy has a list of abilities and trades he can perform. He's a whole circus in one, he's the strongman, the contortionist, lion tamer, mind reader, he's the best clown and entertainer you'll ever witness, it's sad that he never got to host a show....

Secretly a sweetheart and Romantic, likes trying to serenade Alex with his accordion. Horse gruff voice used to have a really sweet voice(have yall ever heard of the song Farytale by Alexander Rybak that's what he sounded like before)

Hygiene is eh...his soap of choice is Dr Bronners 18 in 1 castile soap....Alex had to throw it out and buy him some actual shampoo and soap, but it didn't matter in the end cause he just ended up using her soap. Hers smells better he says

Favorite food and only food given to him since he was with Icarus (Isaac never fed him) was Shepherds pie Alex made one night.

Alex: full name Alex Marie Corbin

Age:24

Has short curly brown hair and brown eyes. 5.7ft

Straight

Was the soul survivor of a slaughter at age 18 at her old job at a family dinner. Mother thought it would be best if she took sometime off from school and stay home with family. She would later return 2 years later to go back to school for journalism. She still gets flashbacks of hiding behind the counter along with cracking joints from behind her. The sight of blood still makes her light headed. She later gets a job at a local bar when a strange man walks in, tall, slender frame with shaggy black hair covering his eyes makes his way to a booth. Something about him seems familiar....

She gets bonded to Jack when having a strange dream she comes face to face with a rather big music box. It's sides engraved with gold lettering with cute ornate flowers and lady bugs painted all over it. It calls to her...she opens it.....

She is in love with who Jack was and not who he is now. She loves his lil moments when he fusses over big words or how the kids nowadays are always coming up with new and absurd words like "NOW WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!?", poor old man lost in the times. She only hopes that the man she loves isn't dead inside that doll.

Isn't a great fighter, be manages to get into alot of trouble. Resourcefulness is a great skill to have when you have chicken wings for arms.

Hobbies are going to the library and avoiding people like the plague 😊 has a lil brother so i guess also fighting him too

Drives a mini Cooper

Favorite food is mixed fruit cobbler and Olive Garden bread sticks.

Hygiene is good 👍. Washes her hair every other day and uses dove

Bernie: full name Bernadette Johnson (haven't thought of a good middle name yet)

5.9ft tall girl, used to play softball. long blond hair.

Age: 22

Bi

Same attending the same school as Alex and is her best friend there. Going in for nursing "I wonder we're that guy went?"

Drives a pink jeep, definitely a daddy's girl.

Falls into the typical blond stereotype, but she can and will hurt you. Intimidates men with her height and build being more strong than the typical girly girl. Willie likes a stronge woman who could blame him.

Makes jokes about how her and Alex love each other around Jack just to piss his jealous butt off.

Favorite things to do is go out with friends mostly. She drags Alex put of her house to get her some fresh air from staying in her "cocoon"

Favorite food is a good seafood boil. She got her nails done and now she gonna eat with style.

This girl takes a everything shower EVERY NIGHT. skin care is fantastic and wears her retainer to bed every night

Icarus: doesn't have a full name

Age: unknown

Height: 7.1ft

Gay

Swears he can make it on his own, then proceeds to ask his boyfriend to help him make popcorn. Never once had to do anything for himself when he lived in the Garden, but now he learns how to do laundry. Has bugged Konstantin with so many questions, and with his lack of knowledge of the outside and ends up depending on him for most simple things.

Will not wear shoes nuh uh absolutely refuses to listen, but with just one click of a button and now he's scared to take his "safety" crocks off. Konstantin showed him a video of a guy who got a bot fly in his foot and Icarus about cried.

Sweetheart, who would burn the world down for his dear sweet Konstantin.

Like MLP if you dare say it's for kids and that him liking it makes him a bronie Konstantin would not think twice about using the techniques he learned while in training at the foundation to "put you to sleep"

Favorite food is white macadamia cookies. Eats vegetarian due to not wanting to hurt anymore lives.

Hygiene great 👍, Konstantin helps maintain his hair and puts leave in conditioner to help with knots. Smells like Garnier hair products

Likes watching cute animal videos with Konstantin.

Konstantin: haven't thought about a full name yet...

Age: 29

Height 6.1ft

Bi thought he was straight till he met a really pretty guy.

Likes to watch Sunday football, Icarus doesn't understand it. Is a guns man like he loves guns. Kept a few good ones in his old work van before he got posted as a wanted man for what happened at the Foundation. Is to blame for all the anomalies getting released (entity did it). Was on the run and had to sleep in his work van in the meantime was still fighting the devil that attached itself to him. Was later brought back to the Garden to be indoctrinated when he snuck off and found himself inside a large dark but strangly elegant room with a very large gold cage suspended from the floor There was Icarus locked away like a bird. Now Konstantin couldn't see what was in the cage but Icarus saw him a opportunity to get out so he made himself smaller to seem like a regular human and had Konstantin help save him. Awww Konstantin was a true knight and shining armor to rescue his poor prince. So they make their run for it, it's strange that this man knows where he's going through the long hallways of the Cult but they eventually get to the rooftop and Konstantin takes in the most beautiful stary sky he has ever seen...then get snatched by what felt like a gaint bird. Icarus was ready to go ain't got no time for star gazing Lover Boy. It's not all smooth sailing but that's all you get to know.

Likes a lot of meat products, PROTEIN!

Hygiene he does shower but man needs to lay off the axe body spray abit....

Entity:....

Age"????? Old ass bastard that's all you need to know.

Asexual yes I change it he ain't got time with yo ass.

Found out within his first few days of being cast out that causing chaos is really fun. It's like handing a kid a Nerf gun for the first time, anything, and everything is gonna be shot with it. Ain't no one safe....

If he finds out it makes you uncomfortable, then he gonna keep doing it. You thought Jack was bad. Well, you've been mistaken...

Finds kids failing and getting hurt really funny. Like putting intrusive thoughts in your head and playing it off as he didn't do it. 100% a mean girl.

Likes anything pickled. Will eat an entire gallon of sweet gerkins pickles if you let him his record is 10 jars in one day don't ask why.....

Hygiene.....man smell like constant rotting corpse no shower gonna fix it either...

Luc: Lucifer

Age:?

7ft

Straight....yeah definitely

The original narcissist. Buys a whole new wardrobe every other week or so. Will not let anything less than 24k or class f Dimond touch his skin or he'll swear he'll die....drama queen. Has ran off with Entity's wallet many times. Like nice things can you blame him? Laughs at people who has a platinum card, made Entity give him his own ✨️special✨️ card so he would feel above everyone else with his ✨️special✨️ card.

Slim strict diet as to not ruin his perfect body, he says. Spoiled and unapologetically about it. Is a girls girl if that makes sense. Man hater and will protect any girl he sees getting harassed. Will probably turn the guy into salt.

He goes through women like every day or so like he'll start dating one girl just to leave her for another one right down the road. Thinks money will solve all problems.

Likes shopping and watching the Kardashians.

Hygiene, Bernie wishes she had his skin care routine. As a matter of fact, he doesn't even have to wash or comb his hair to be gorgeous it's like he was cursed to always be handsome, and he's arrogant about it

[yukidragon]

Sunny Day Jack - Mafia AU - Family Business

After my last post about the Blouin family in the Mafia AU for Something's Wrong with Sunny Day Jack I wound up going on a little extra ramble over on my twitter (calling it X is too weird for me) about how the family business got started. I figured I'd post it here too to make it easier to read and reference later.

It all started with a small business run by the beautiful Alma Blouin and her husband ???

I'd call him [Redacted] but that alias is taken already, so let's stick with what was written in the family tree, shall we?

I was inspired by Makes me Smile, an engaging story written by Sauce that takes place in the SunnyTime Town AU, that it actually started as a family-run traveling carnival that was a cover for more shady business. The family name and business wound up taking up some permanent roots in St. Valens because of Marceau.

There were more opportunities in that crime-riddled city to do backrooms deals, score illicit substances, and other stuff like that. St. Valens was a city rife with crooked cops and people with dubious morals. Sadly, this hasn't changed in present day. If anything, it's only gotten worse. It just can hide behind a shiny new coat of paint and colorful smiles thanks to the Blouin family taking over so many local businesses under their brand name of SunnyTime LLC.

Lucy Connolly is actually responsible for the SunnyTime brand, which is one reason why she kept her last name even after marrying Marceau Blouin. Since she was young, she wanted to make it big in the city, really clean up the town. She succeeded in making it big, but somewhere along the way she got sucked into a world full of sin and vice where her formally black and white view of morality was blurred with many shades of gray. She's still trying to do the right thing, particularly for her family and people she wants to protect, but sometimes she found it was necessary to do morally questionable things to do it. It was a slow corruption of innocence in a sense.

In a way, Jack gets his more twisted view on right and wrong from Lucy, as Marceau is a bit more up front about how messed up the criminal underworld is and their involvement in it. Jack tries to keep things as "friendly" as possible if he can help it, so to speak.

Marceau started off the business in St. Valens with an entertainment club. You had to know the right signs to get access to the good stuff they didn't show on the menu, stuff that could get you thrown in jail if you didn't have the money to pay off the cops.

One night, Lucy stopped by the club that had suddenly got so popular, thinking it was entirely legitimate, and it led to that fateful first encounter between her and Marceau.

Marceau didn't think he'd be staying in St. Valens long, even if he was trying to take advantage of the place for as long as possible, but Lucy was invested in the city, as it was her hometown. She was friendly and outgoing, and she knew a lot of people there. She grew up with them.

Lucy had a good sense for business, which places would be good to snap up for a song. She knew about the issues with many local gangs and how they intimidated local businesses into giving them a cut of their earnings to not get roughed up. She wanted to stop that sort of thing from happening so that innocent people could live their lives without fear.

Which is why the Blouin family in the present does take care of the citizens of St. Valens and stomp out more unsavory practices like human trafficking. Essentially Lucy wanted justice and went vigilante. (Insert Joker reference/joke here.) When it became clear that not everyone she tried to save was good, well…

That led into her corrupted world view and a more "ends justify the means" approach.

Marceau had been taught to watch his back and stand on his own, not having the best home life. In a sense, Lucy taught him to care more about others, that he could have someone he could trust to watch her back, and he taught her how to not let others take advantage of her and those she cares for.

Really, in the present day, the Blouins own a lot of businesses in a variety of sectors, from entertainment to scientific research to home electronics to weapons manufacturing. They're spread out across not just the SunnyTime LLC brand, but plenty of sub-companies with different names that the average person might not realize is owned by them. The SunnyTime brand has become a known trustworthy across the country and are spreading out slowly internationally.

Well… technically the family business is known internationally, just not in any public circles, and not under any brand name. Marceau alone has committed quite a few international crimes, though no one has been able to pin anything on him publicly. Lucy does a good job of keeping their public facing image squeaky clean, and she won't anyone hurt or take away any of her family.

Now that Jack is in charge, it's his turn to take care of the family and the business. Despite his issues with human touch, both them, and his sunshine, are in good hands.

@channydraws @earthgirlaesthetic @sai-of-the-7-stars @cheriihoney @illary-kore @okamiliqueur @kurokrisps

[satoshy12]

Constantine Carnival of the Underworld!

Because John has sold his souls so many times. It's barely worth anything. So The ones who had it, started to use them like coins and money in a carnival. They started to do once a year about Constantine. Get his Soul to win Prices or Sell his Soul for Food and similiar! JL The Hero Phantom , Danny about to leave to Constantine Carnival with Dani and Val. It's family day and the place is a no Battle Zone.

As he was asked about it by the Heroes. Danny:" You can win parts of John's soul by playing games like throwing rings or balls, or selling his soul for an ice cream." John:" But my plan to make them fight for my soul! When I do so no one can take me!" Danny:" Even a wet Sock is worth more then your Soul at this point. I have no idea what they plan to do with you when you die. But the parts of your souls I now have will give me 4 ice cream scoops."

[javimondragon]

Javier was no stranger to elaborate and extravagant festivities, but a costume ball was something he had not personally attended in quite some time. It was always so difficult to decide on a costume to wear to such an event; never having really been one to soak up the pop culture of the world around him over the centuries. Yet, he'd finally managed to settle on the 'Lord of the Underworld' Hades himself as his persona for the evening and freely let the smoke drift from his body as he moved about the ever-increasing crowd of individuals as they flocked in.

"Ay dios los mio... so many people." He mused with a low hum in his throat. He wandered a little farther into the compound before coming to a halt in front of some of the carnival food stalls that had set up shop. The different smells and scents of their deliciously sweet treats and fresh snacks were all but calling his name. As he contemplated which snack to order for himself, he offered passing thanks to individuals that complimented his costume as they passed. "Gracías. I appreciate your words - I tried to be as faithful to his look as possible."

( @darkskiesrpgstarters )

[audreyscribes]

I know it a little late for this but what the holidays like at camp half-blood and camp Jupiter

Never too late! I kind of want to do a serious and light-hearted answer for this one 🤔 I’m going to go assume ‘celebrating the Holidays’ are the winter holidays like Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and so forth. I’ll try to write about as many of the winter holidays as I can within my current realm of knowledge. Disclaimer, I mainly celebrate the Winter Solstice as an East Asian and grew up with East Asian culture and religion. I have observed others celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah mostly but I did not nor participate in it. The other winter holidays are based on what I have been told or have read about it. I am also not a historian of ancient Greek and Roman culture; just a casual researcher.

CAMP HALFBLOOD: 

Well, going off that Camp Half-blood follows Greek beliefs primarily, they would seem to focus more on the Winter Solstice traditionally, which is usually around December 21st; which apparently was also the time of Festival of Poseidon (apparently because the month is designated as Poseidons?). Putting aside the debauchery bit, much like all cross-culture Winter Solstices, there would be a giant bonfire, grand feasts and sacrificed animals.

Which isn’t entirely too different from Christmas or any other winter holidays if you think about it. Whether campers would deliberately visit during the Winter months for the Winter Solstice or if there are a good significant portion of winter campers, I’d imagine that's what they would be doing. Any other celebrations like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, etc could be held at the same time as the Winter Solstice since everyone is together but that’s really up to the campers. 

Especially when there isn’t any world-ending events looming over them; where the Winter Solstice.

I’d also imagine Dionysus would have fun participating because the Festival of Haloa,, which also took place at the same time, would be celebrated in honour of Demeter and Dionysus as well as Poseidon- which seems to occurred around five days after the Winter Solstice, which lands around Christmas of December 25. 

Demeter might not make an appearance cause being bummed out that Persephone is in the Underworld, but there are dues to be celebrated as well. 

CAMP JUPITER:

Considering Camp Jupiter and New Rome still follow Roman traditions and the Modern Calendar is influenced by them, the date of the Winter Solstice was moved to December 25th, so in Camp Jupiter, people will be celebrating the Winter Solstice and/or Christmas; that or celebrate also Saturnalia; a festival in honour of Saturn; the god of agriculture, liberation, time; symbolizing the return of light and renewal of nature from December 17th to Dec 23rd? I’d imagine they would still celebrate the Roman equivalent of December 25 traditions, which would the date of the Brumalia; ‘shortest day; winter festivals’:  a festival that marks the midwinter and end of Saturnalia. 

With Saturnalia, it goes much like Christmas or any winter holiday, except there's a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continuous partying, and a carnival that defied social norms; where there were no social patriarchy/hierarchy, slaves were treated not as slaves and were treated well- so I can imagine back in Camp Jupiter, its one of the few times where cohorts and ranks are not into play (maybe much chagrin to those of like Ocatavian). There’s a bunch of mish-mash of cultures because of the Romans absorbing everything in and reacclimating it to the Roman people, so I expect that to be very much the case for Camp Jupiter and New Rome to also welcome other similar culture practices. 

Hanukkah and Kwanza being celebrated at the same time and shared with lighting candles, sharing food and singing, gift giving of respective cultures, and etc. 

Sources:

[hitchell-mope]

Every serial of classic who.

An unearthly child

The Daleks

The edge of destruction

Marco Polo

The keys of Marinus

The Aztecs

The Sensorites

The reign of terror

Planet of giants

The Dalek invasion of Earth

The rescue

The Romans

The web planet

The crusade

The space museum

The chase

The time meddler

Galaxy 4

Mission to the unknown

The myth makers

The Daleks' Master Plan

The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

The ark

The celestial toymaker

The gunfighters

The savages

The war machines

The smugglers

The tenth planet 

The power of the Daleks

The highlanders

The underwater menace

The moonbase

The macra terror

The faceless ones

The evil of the Daleks

The tomb of the Cybermen

The abominable snowmen

The ice warriors

The enemy of the world

The web of fear

Fury from the deep

The wheel in space

The dominators

The mind robber

The invasion

The Krotons

The seeds of death

The space pirates

The war games

Spearhead from space

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The ambassadors of death

Inferno

Terror of the autons

The mind of evil

The claws of axos

Colony in space

The dæmons

Day of the Daleks

The curse of Peladon

The sea devils

The mutants

The time monster

The three doctors

Carnival of monsters

Frontier in space

Planet of the Daleks

The Green Death

The time warrior

Invasion of the dinosaurs

Death to the Daleks

The monster of Peladon

Planet of the spiders

Robot

The ark in space

The Sontaran experiment

Genesis of the Daleks

Revenge of the cybermen

Terror of the zygons

Planet of evil

Pyramids of Mars

The android invasion

The brain of Morbius

The seeds of doom

The masque of Mandragora

The hand of fear.

The deadly assassin

The face of evil

The robots of death

The talons of Weng-Chiang

Horror of fang rock

The invisible enemy

Image of the Fendahl

The sun makers

Underworld

The invasion of time

The ribos operation

The pirate planet

The stones of blood

The androids of Tara

The power of kroll

The Armageddon factor

Destiny of the Daleks

City of death

The creature from the pit

Nightmare of Eden

The horns of nimon

The leisure hive

Meglos 

Full circle

State of decay

Warriors gate

The keeper of Traken

Logopolis

Castrovalva

Four to doomsday

Kinda

The visitation

Black orchid

Earthshock

Time flight

Arc of infinity

Snakedance

Mawdryn undead

Terminus

Enlightenment

The king’s demons

The five doctors

Warriors of the deep

The awakening

Frontios

Resurrection of the Daleks

Planet of fire

The caves of Androzani

The twin dilemma

Attack of the Cybermen

Vengeance on Varos

The mark of the Rani

The two doctors

Timelash

Revelation of the Daleks

The mysterious planet

Mindwarp

Terror of the Vervoids

The ultimate foe

Time and the Rani

Paradise towers

Delta and the Bannermen

Dragonfire

Remembrance of the Daleks

The happiness patrol

Silver nemesis

The greatest show in the galaxy

Battlefield

Ghost light

The curse of fenric

Survival

The movie

[elliehopaunt]

Ben Whishaw (“Paddington”) and “Happy Valley’s” Sarah Lancashire are set to join Keira Knightley in Netflix’s upcoming spy series “Black Doves,” Variety can exclusively confirm.

More details about the series, which was written and created by “The Lazarus Project” showrunner Joe Barton, have also emerged.

A story of friendship and sacrifice, “Black Doves” is set during Christmastime in London. It revolves around Helen Webb (Knightley), a politician’s wife, doting mother — and professional spy. For years, Helen has been passing on her husband’s secrets to the Black Doves, the shadowy organization for whom she works. But when her lover Jason is assassinated, Helen’s life is turned upside down and only her old friend Sam Young (Whishaw) can keep her safe.

Helen and Sam set out to discover who killed Jason and why. But Sam, a suave, champagne-drinking assassin, also has problems of his own. Out of the game since his last job went wrong, he soon realizes his past is coming back to haunt him.

“Together, they set off on a mission that will lead them to uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy,” reads the logline. “One that links the murky underworld of London to a looming geopolitical crisis — and leads them to question the cost of the moral choices they’ve made.”

Lancashire will play Helen’s enigmatic spymaster Reed.

Joining Knightley and Whishaw in the six-part series, which began shooting in London last week, are Andrew Buchan (“Carnival Row”), Omari Douglas (“It’s A Sin”), Andrew Koji (“Warrior”), Kathryn Hunter (“Andor”), Sam Troughton (“Chernobyl”), Ella Lily Hyland (“Fifteen Love”), Adam Silver (“The Diplomat”), Ken Nwosu (“Look the Other Way and Run”) and Gabrielle Creevy (“In My Skin”).

“I started writing the scripts for this show over last year’s Christmas holidays, fuelled by turkey sandwiches and discarded bottles of cream liquor,” said Barton. “To be now going into production with a cast and crew full of people whose work I admire so much is unbelievably exciting and I couldn’t be more thrilled to get to see this show come to life.”

“Black Doves” is produced by Joe Barton’s Noisy Bear and Elizabeth Murdoch-founded Sister (“Chernobyl”) for Netflix. Barton exec produces for Noisy Bear alongside Jane Featherstone (“This Is Going To Hurt”) and Chris Fry (“Giri/Haji”) for Sister and Keira Knightley. The series is directed by Alex Gabassi (“The Crown”) and Lisa Gunning (“The Power”). Harry Munday (“Kaos”) is producing.

[e-102]

Carnivals and Meat

I've been turning over the black whale/succession arc in my head for a while and what keeps coming up is sexual slavery and colonization. Birthright and blood relation is undeniably what the king Nasubi Hui Guo Rou cares most about, and its whats been required to participate in the succession war (bar some rule bending) since before he himself became king. Nasubi's frame of mind is reflected in his nen beast, a spider like woman made of breasts and a vagina like mouth. He is uniquely obsessed with creating children like livestock with women who are animals. But we can assume that his nen beast manifested a few months before his own succession war took place, this frame of mind did not come to be at that time, but has always been his vision for the Kakin empire, to go forth and populate.

He, like beyond, has been preparing for decades for a voyage to the dark continent in order to conquer new land. They have both been planting seeds, literally leaving their spawn, strategically throughout the empire for this very reason. Introducing the carnival.

A random village is chosen where half of the people there see to the festivities and the other half is raped as the royal family sees fit. Every few years a massive group of royal bastards are appears, they cannot be aborted, they have to be carried and born. All of the royal bastards are scarred at birth to denote their origin and sent to an institution where they are shuffled into the Heil-ly mafia family, which run by a bastard of the royal family. There they either become 'meat' or 'flesh' (prostitutes, victims of snuff films, anything you could think of to denote meat) or workers.

This is not just an indulgence on the Kakin royal families part, this is an operation to keep blood flowing into the Kakin underworld. The last carnival being two years ago, at the start of the series, and the system was put into place at the time Nasubi won his own generations succession war.

This isn't that different in terms of goals compared to Nasubi taking many wives for his official heirs, firstly this is in service of the succession war, but they are all connected to his goal of colonizing the dark continent. Everything that he does to sustain the structure of the Kakin empire has been in preparation for this voyage, and I believe that Beyond Netero has been by his side for just as long-

-doing the exact same thing. He plans to completely supplant the royal family with his own child. None of the military children, but a child he fathered with a woman who is blood related to the royal family, then snuck into the care of a queen. The military children are suicide bombers, cursed at birth so that when they die they will take out one of Nasubi's heirs. Almost none of them know this fact. They are nothing, born as meat to die for their fathers goals. I'm not entirely sure if Nasubi does or doesn't know about this, its worth considering that he does know because as much as blood is tantamount to his goals he doesn't actually seem to care who ends up ruling. Instead, this ritual that requires the bodies and souls of those who failed in the succession war is what preoccupies him.

This is a physical beat you over the head metaphor of genetic obsession, a toxic reproductive drive where your offspring are nothing but your blood is everything. They are the succession of Beyond and Nasubi's wills, in Nasubi's case there is something being kept secret about the continuation of the Kakin empire that he feels requires the blood of the royal family. For Beyond, they are his pawns, unknowing tools of his ideals. Nasubi seems to be looking into the future to make sure his empire is prosperous by means of colonization, incredible violence, rape, and blood sacrifice. Beyond is looking to the present, to colonize minds and bodies, discarding human dignity and cheapening the lives of his children, in hopes of complete control in his current situation.

In this way both 'Morena' and Longhi are both in almost the same position, actively fighting against the purpose they were born for. I hope they both fucking destroy Nasubi and Beyond lol.