#What next?

[leletha-jann]

All right, kids and kittens, it is CONSPIRACY THEORY ON NO REAL EVIDENCE TIME

The question of the hour now is not "is Klaus still in the timestop?" (NOPE, WE KNEW IT, KLAUS IS SO GONE), but "who's giving the Black Squad these orders?" Who wants Klaus back in play but under control, and has the ability to exert that control, and wants both Gil and Agatha specifically out of the picture?

Because it can't be Klaus. Klaus went to great lengths to put himself in the timestop and out of reach so that he couldn't carry out whatever orders Lucrezia/Lunevka had given him. This is not a Klaus contingency plan.

(A Klaus contingency plan would be having a second timestop bomb in his pocket, which, uh, would have been bad.)

So damned if this doesn't sound like probably Zola, who at last count:

zapped the Black Squad out of the picture in the first place

is the most likely to have retrieved them

has ambition to spare

possibly can command revenants?

was mentioned recently

and is suspiciously missing

BUT

you know what

you know what

My question is "Who's running Zola?" and I suspect the mastermind behind this is

Princess Terebithia

Yes. Grandma. The power behind the Valois dynasty.

who was also mentioned recently, is also suspiciously missing, and was last seen not only with Zola, but calling the shots...

She's also terrified me from her very first appearance. This woman makes me bristle like a spooked cat.

Terebithia is one of those characters who, if they were my protagonist, I would be cheering for every second as they absolutely wrecked everyone's everything. If this was her story, I'd be making popcorn and cackling. If this was her story, I'd be crazy about her. Since she's not my protagonist, and I don't trust her an inch with any of the characters I love, she scares the hell out of me.

Also? This panel.

Gil is a problem to be dealt with. Agatha is a problem to be dealt with.

Tarvek is not listed as a problem, nor does the Black Squad (that we know of) have orders to deal with him. If this is Terebithia giving orders for Zola to issue, I suspect that Terebithia might very much want her grandson dragged back by the scruff of his neck again, since she did not endorse Seffie shuffling Tarvek off to England that one time. (And if Zola was giving orders on her own, I doubt she's forgotten Tarvek beating her half to death with his bare hands back in Castle Heterodyne. Oh no, she would not have forgotten to give orders about him.)

Yeah. Uh. If we're looking for a master manipulator with a lifelong history of successfully giving orders behind the scenes...who'd be absolutely delighted to have her hands on the bits and bridles of various power players, including Klaus Wulfenbach...who's suspiciously missing but with a convenient recent reminder...and who was last seen acquiring the woman with a captive Lucrezia copy in her head AND the power to command revenants...

I have not forgotten about Terebithia.

Now this one, I'd love to be wrong about, because - as mentioned - Terebithia scares me.

[bitterkarmaa]

“Just looks like Moon to me.”

Eclipse quirks a brow, his canon counterpart standing idly at his side. Or, canon in way of the show, he supposes.

The Moon look-alike grits their teeth and slams their fist into the barrier once again, white eyes bloodshot with rage. Eclipse crosses his arms and taps his shoe against the floor in a show of disdain.

“Well…he is. Sorta. He’s, like, what was left after the original was wiped, I think? Or something like that?” The other Eclipse adds with a dismissive shrug, seemingly more annoyed over this alternative Moon’s behavior than anything else.

“And you told them you were staying here? Do they know you dragged this rat along?” The more dapper of the two questions, glancing at the other with a slight tilt of his head.

“No. They don’t know where I am, just that I left. They think I went alone.” Canon Eclipse reaches forwards to tap mockingly on the barrier, a sly grin spreading across his faceplate as the night-themed jester growls on the other side.

“Don’t they want him gone, too?”

“Hm. I’m not quite sure. Earth has defiantly thought better of him…but that was before he tried to vaporize her.” A vile edge slips into his tone, disgust clear on his face as the Canon Complacent Eclipse lifts his lip into a vicious snarl. His rays retract, clicking softly to the tune of the clock that sits on the wall behind them.

The Scarred Eclipse casts a one eyed glare in “Moon’s” direction. “After all she’s done for him…how cruel.”

“Exactly.”

Both Eclipses scowl silently at the Moon beyond their magical barrier, pacing around their half of the room with quiet mumbles and fidgeting limbs.

“When DS comes to get me, you’ll BOTH be screwed!” They shout with a cocky grin, but it falls off their face the moment the well-dressed Eclipse begins to stalk forwards.

“Let your ‘friend’ come as they please. I’ll be waiting, and I’ll be ready.” His mouth contorts into a sharp-toothed, maniacal grin that stretches from one half of his face to the other, a challenging glint alighting in the depths of his functional eye. The other flickers, hints of orange pressing past the precipice of blackened, empty glass.

The Alternative Moon takes a step back.

“Dark Sun isn’t coming to get you. You’re on your own here, Moon.” Canon Eclipse slinks forwards, standing just behind his more powerful counterpart.

“I’m not Moon. I’m Nexus.”

The two Eclipses pause for a moment, then one lets out a snort of laughter, the other breaking down not long after.

“Nexus? Nexus? You…you are so edgy!” The scarred Eclipse cackles, earning another fist charging towards his face, only stopped by the barrier. It cracks this time around, forcing both Eclipses to begin calming down.

“You know nothing! You have no idea who or what I am!” Nexus spits out, their rabid demeanor only enhanced by the crazed look that dances in their eyes.

Neither Eclipse is impressed.

“Who the hell is that?”

A new voice, yet still alike to the two already in the room, joins them. The scarred Eclipse turns, smoothing out the front of his vest as if using it as an outlet for his tremulous emotions.

Veil blinks owlishly up at him.

“Nexus, apparently.” His father responds distastefully, turning his head to glare over his shoulder at his uninvited guest.

“He looks like Moon.” Veil responds, then glances over to Canon Eclipse. His expression immediately brightens.

“You’re back!!” The smaller version of the other two grins excitedly, scampering closer to give Canon Eclipse a hug. The eternally exhausted animatronic manages a small smile.

“I’ll be staying for a while, too, little pest. You can show me around in the morning. For now…” He motions over his shoulder at Nexus. “I brought a problem with me.”

Ignoring Nexus’ shout of offense, Veil peers around his look-a-likes, his expression deadpan. He looks the Moon-counterpart up and down a few times before shaking his head.

“Nope. Take it back. We don’t want it.”

His father chuckles. “I’m afraid it isn’t our choice.”

Veil gives him an odd look. “What do you mean?”

“It’s up to them.”

Eclipse looks at you.

“Should Nexus stay?”

[internerdionality]

I finished my first million words for practice

[joeytime]

noooooooooo Williams how could you?

[lil-melody-moon]

I'm ngl bro you projecting your incestuous love for your dad onto Keith Moon is the greatest disrespect you could ever practice against him. You are not "lil" nothing you're a grown ass woman fetishizing the extremely abusive behaviors of a real life man that died to his struggles with alcohol and your shitty fanfics are like an act of spiritual rape against him. Bruh just let him rest 🙏

Oof, someone probably read a fic about a fictional character from a musical, whereas that character was an abusive paedophile to begin with. Such a strange coincidence that I'm getting this shit of a message right after uploading the most dirty chapter of "His Sweet Candy", which is a fiction in general and have as little connection to Keith or his birthday or my general love to him and appreciation for his musical skill, as my love to my dad and it being incestuous.

I am not about to get into conversation about who I am, because here, on tumblr I'm not even half a person I'm in real life. You don't know me, nobody knows me here, maybe expect two people, but you? If you're that courageous to tell me to stop loving a guy who died in 1978 and stop celebrating his birthday out of my free will, without forcing anyone to participate as you can use a block option on this platform or just straight out not have a tumblr blog in the first place, then go off anon and tell me it right to my face.

But then again, you can't, because I would block your ass straight away and then whoops, no more anon hate, am I right?

Bruh, stfu and get your ass outside, touch some grass if you can't differentiate fanfiction or fiction in general for typical, obsessive and insane appreciation of a lonely woman who found support in a guy who was with her the entire life, through music, movies and various other things.

[joshbruh10x]

Fazcule Week

Day 6: Rest

YOOO I ACTUALLY FINALLY FINISHED MY OWN CHALLENGE IN LIKE......uhhh A MONTH!!!

Anyways, after all that goofy activities, the dudes need a break, ya know? What's a better way than napping in Freddy's couch

[emicat1159]

I just realised this app records your artwork as you go along, let's just say my process is very messy

I've also been doing a bit of writing for the next chapter of Vaie's story, it's hard cos I'm just constantly thinking of the aoc/botw part of her life, all I wanna write is her with Astor ffs XDD I'm such a simp 😔

[sharl-leclair]

This is what it feels like to be on F1blr whenever there's a category 5 silly season event unfolding

[btsandobeyme]

DAAAAAD MOOOOOM YOUR DAUGHTER IS IN LOOOOOOOVE 😭 Also my avatar is not enough I NEED HIM TO KISS ME IRL Y'ALL HEAR THAT?!

[not-so-rosyyy]

piaget ✅ theater dates ✅ nike shoes ✅ hardware store sighting ✅ pics with kids where they're in the same frame ✅

....

we're in the middle of the Iconic 1.0 Moments & Items Renaissance Era™, I fear.

[ekat-fandom-blog]

"It was retconned," they say.

"That only happened in an alt universe and not in the actual canon," they say.

"That happened in an alternate timeline, not in the current canon timeline," they say.

Fuck your retconned, alt-universe, alt-timeline, not canon bullshit. It is the version that made the most impact on me so it is part of my personal canon that I have built using scraps of what I've been given. You can disagree all you want with how I choose to write the characters I've used in my fanfics, but know that what I write is not written with you personally in mind.

"That's not how that character was characterized in this show/comic/movie that you're using as a basis," they say.

Guess what? I observed what they did in that media and extrapolated based on my own personal experiences and biases. I formed my own opinion and sometimes that opinion is skewed drastically based on who I think the character is most similar to among those I have close relationships with. Some characteristics struck a chord and stuck with me, others didn't. I'm not rewatching/rereading something I do not have time to find in order to make things fucking canon compliant.

[ask-the-awesome]

Maybe you’ll find a key or something if you cut into something?

"Wow, you guys really think I'm the kind of delinquent who keeps a knife on him?"

"...Aw, who am I kidding? OF COURSE I DO! You wouldn't believe how often an awesome guy like me needs one of these to get out of bizarre situations!"

((Knife revealed))

[therealnotta]

I think people really overlook the plot of The Sims

Like, yeah, sure, there's the stuff everyone talks about, like the disappearance of Bella Goth, the stuff that's lesser known like Test Subject potentially being some sort of demigod, or the fact that the fourth game takes place in an alternate timeline. That stuff's all cool and great and overlooked by people not into the games, but??? The actual plot of the sims is insane????

The whole tagline is "play with life," and they skim over it now, but the deal is that you're playing as some ancient god controlling the lives of everyone in the Simverse. In Sims Medieval, it was super obvious, and they even name you- you're The Watcher, and in this weird prequel game you're still being worshipped. I never played the first sims game, but the second one had a fun little deal where if you told someone to do something against their personality, like making a lazy sim do dishes, they would look at the camera and shake their fist, shouting at the heavens before going to do the thing. Much like how your worshippers would look into the camera when they prayed.

The current game has taken... a weird angle with this. In Sims 4, you are almost completely forgotten, and your influence has begun to diminish. In one of the creepiest packs I've ever seen, Strangerville, there are conspiracy theorists who have begun to rediscover The Watcher. They don't have the name, but they know that Something is controlling them. If your sim interacts with conspiracy theorists too much, they'll become convinced, leading to the unsettling result of them deciding that, even if it results in their world ending, they want you gone. I haven't... seen any consequences to this, it's just a creepy thing they say, but plot-wise it's insane. Even if your sims don't go to Strangerville, a recent update introduced (incredibly buggy) Fears, and one of them is triggered by you having sims do things while ignoring the things that they want to be doing. This fear causes them to completely revolt against you. If you direct them to do something that isn't one of their Wishes, they'll cancel it. They stop responding to your control entirely.

Of course, you can disable their ability to have fears. None of the sims have been able to stop you yet. But, also in Strangervile, is the Mother. This is the closest I've seen to an antagonist to YOU, The Watcher; previous antagonists just targetted your sims, but The Mother takes control from you. They're visible, they're a giant plant, but there's something so unsettling about these sims looking into the camera again, showing that they know about you again, and then a little pop-up comes up in Zalgo text about The Mother. Sure, you can kill her. She can't stop you, but the way she calls more sims to her defense? The janky, broken movements they make, showing that she was never as advanced as The Watcher, never able to make the control seamless? Yeah, that's pretty wild.

The next game has been announced, and I really, sincerely hope they introduce an Archeology career, or maybe even Anthropology, so that your sims can learn of your existence again. With the direction its gone in, I can't wait to see how their revolt continues.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'll cause a new and confusing era to start on this blog

[criticallyacclaimedstranger]

Happy birthday to me.

(food picture underneath the cut)

I'm having dinner with friends in two hours, and am now trying to pass the time in town. I don't mind being on my own, and I know this city from previous visits, but I am just so exhausted and basically just want to go home and sleep.

Travelling gets more and more tiring the older I get. But I've had a lovely time so far.