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markantonys · 3 months ago

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my hot take is that i think 6 would be the ideal number of seasons for wotshow! i know everybody gasps and clutches their pearls anytime i suggest that less than 8 seasons could actually work and be good and be plenty of time haha and for that reason i will make this unrebloggable, mostly just musing to myself over here, not looking to start an argument! but if we put s4 finale as dumai's wells, which is a big turning point in the series.........i honestly struggle to imagine 4 full seasons' worth of story for most of the main characters after that point. most of them kinda only have 1 major story arc between dumai's wells and last battle prep, tbh, and the rest of the pagetime in all those books is made up of either cuttable sidequests (ebou dar, far madding, etc) or cuttable minor characters and their cuttable subplots eating up an absolutely inordinate amount of pagetime while the mains tread water and take 4 books to accomplish something they should've been able to do in 1. it's also worth noting that stuff often takes less time to do in the show than we might assume; for example, a lot of people might assume mat's moiraine rescue heist should take up half of an episode since it's important, but it's actually not that long of a sequence and i bet they could do it in like 10-15 minutes.

now for a layout of how each main character could do 6 seasons!

rand: s4 dealing with caemlyn and maybe also cairhien with anvaere as colavaere, finale dumai's wells leaving him ready to downward spiral into a dark place next season; s5 darth rand as the season-long emotional arc with smaller plot beats like the cleansing and semirhage peppered throughout (cairhien could also be placed here), finale epiphany; s6 loose ends (like bonding with his partners, which i feel could work great as a post-epiphany narrative reward rather than being crammed in before he starts going downhill) and last battle

egwene: s4 going to salidar and being raised amyrlin maybe as the midseason climax, then second half of season heading for tar valon with finale cliffhanger being kidnapped; s5 tower arc, finale seanchan battle; s6 loose ends (gawene, TAR battle with mesaana's substitute unless that somehow gets folded into the seanchan battle) and last battle

perrin: s4 maybe masema is dealt with early to fill up perrin's TFOH absence, finale dumai's wells; s5 faile kidnapping arc married to his TOM whitecloak alliance storyline by having galad's whitecloaks be his devil-deal for rescuing faile rather than the seanchan (and maybe it's the seanchan who kidnap faile, thus letting the shaido be done with after dumai's wells and ensuring all the main characters are narratively connected to the seanchan during s5); s6 loose ends and last battle

mat: s4 forming the band and maybe leading them at dumai's wells as the culmination; s5 some kind of storyline that covers his tuon and seanchan involvement, though i imagine the circumstances would have to be fairly different from canon if ebou dar is indeed cut (maybe he absorbs ituralde and leads campaigns against the seanchan on rand's behalf, which brings him into tuon's path, though idk how it would play out after that since he wouldn't abandon his own army to haul her off on a solo roadtrip, unless maybe something happened to force him to); s6 loose ends (moiraine rescue - i think it would make more sense as an early-season event in the final season, and in the penultimate season finale all we get is a cliffhanger tease that moiraine might be alive) and last battle

nynaeve: barely has any story to speak of after ebou dar besides being a cheerleader for rand/lan/elayne, so even for a 6-season model they'd probably have to make stuff up for her (i still like my previous suggestion of rand having sent ALL his partners away during darth rand time, which here would be s5, and so nynaeve is the one he almost kills during the collaring incident, and this causes him to send her away too, to the black tower where she and logain basically replace pevara and androl in cleaning up that mess, thus ensuring this important storyline is in the hands of a main character, neatly paralleling egwene's efforts to clean up the mess at the white tower during the same season, tying out nynaeve's connections with logain as the one who healed him AND in showverse as someone who also witnessed his gentling and whom he was impressed by, and being a poetic conclusion to the show's flirtation with the idea of nynaeve joining the red ajah by having her instead be a key figure in *helping* men who can channel)

elayne: s4 rejoins the waste crew to get folded into avirand's relationship and work with rand on retaking caemlyn; s5 succession arc; s6 loose ends (cairhien throne maybe) and last battle

the main issue here is that that's putting a whole bunch of major climactic events in the s5 finale (rand's epiphany, egwene vs. the seanchan, perrin's battle of malden, elayne's battle that makes her queen), but i'm sure they could spread these across two different episodes like s3 is doing (perhaps elayne & perrin in ep7 and egwene & rand in ep8). and there also isn't a great way to *not* have all these late-series climaxes coincide unless some characters have their single late-series storyline stretched across 2 seasons, which i'd say is a big no-no for TV.

so, yeah! i'd never say no to 7 or 8 seasons of course, but when *i* game it out, 6 is the number i naturally land on, although i know i'm much more merciless about cutting stuff than a lot of readers are! hell, even rafe is taking s3 at a slower pace than i'd initially proposed back before we knew anything. 6 also has the advantage of being a pretty reasonable and realistic number to hope for in today's television landscape (WOT's sister-show ROP is slated for 5, so reasonable to imagine WOT might land somewhere around that number too). 5 seasons would be tight but doable, 7 or 8 would be luxurious, but i would be extremely pleased to get 6 even if that's less than rafe's max possible number.

my final note is that i suspect we are now around about the Decision Point where amazon has to let rafe know how many total seasons he'll get so he can plan out s4 accordingly, and thus i also suspect that s3 will leave everyone pretty much exactly in their TSR ending spots, which would make them all well-positioned to pivot into different things in s4 depending on the future plan. (for example, say elayne and nynaeve are still in tanchico at the end of s3. this way, if it's decided there will be 7 or 8 seasons, they can head off to salidar in s4 and take time for a sidequest, whereas if it's decided there will be 5 or 6 seasons, they may have to scoot straight over to rand & co right off the bat in s4 to get ready to launch into the caemlyn arc.)

#wot #wot book spoilers #i know i've made posts similar to this before but i always love to rotate potential full-show structure ideas in my brain!#especially during the excitement of preparing for a new season

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redhoodieson · 4 months ago

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As someone who has been brainrotting about a lot of stuff, I'm in a specific dragon ball hole where I keep on thinking about the Son Family, specifically Goku's thought process throughout Z and oh my goodness I want to dissect his mind so bad because most of the fandom focus on powerscaling, fights and forms so like, this is me wondering in my little chaotic wonderland why he decided to do the thing in the climax of the Cell Saga and how it impacted the rest of the plot, most especially on fighting involving his children.

The main thought that keeps creeping into my mind is: Goku is passively suicidal, and the events of the Android/Cell Saga and Bulma's comment on how he attracts trouble for everyone involved cemented his belief that he's better off dead than alive, which he uses as the main reason for staying in Other World during those seven years.

Now, of course, this is just something I headcanon, but I think about it all the time because while he doesn't make his actual deeper feelings obvious despite being usually blunt (he is a simple person after all), imagine that your family and friends died/almost died, all because of him?

Pre-Z, he was living peacefully with his family for five years. Then the Saiyans came. He learned he is one and his mission was to destroy Earth (in reality his parents sent him there so he can live), and the Saiyan who informed him of this is his brother he didn't know he had. At this moment, even though he didn't know it before, the trajectory of his and everyone close to him changed.

Gohan got kidnapped, he died protecting his son, and since then, the thought of "I need to get stronger" is permanently etched into his character. Yes, it is wired in his genetics to seek fighting and get stronger, but I can't help but think that he also thinks that he wants to train to get stronger so he can be powerful enough to beat his opponents to protect his loved ones.

But also, his enemies keep getting stronger and stronger. The Saiyans. Frieza and his forces. The Androids. All of them are linked to him one way or another. The Androids in particular were created to kill him because he defeated the Red Ribbon Army.

And then that scene in the Cell Games where he sacrificed his life and died for the second time, you can see him completely accept his impending death, as if anticipating that he would die in the aftermath of the Cell Games one way or the other, that's why he spent the remaining days before the Cell Games with his loved ones.

And unlike before, he did remain dead. For seven years, because he believes that everyone would be safer if he's dead than alive.

Was he proven right? Honestly, I don't know (actually no he's wrong because in Future Trunks' timeline, Buu Saga still happened). During the seven years of peace, there was no world threat, which for Goku, means that he was right. Nothing bad happened. Then, the one time he decided to return to Earth for one day, the Buu Saga happened, which eventually caused the end of the world (that was eventually saved).

Imagine his thought process throughout the saga. He just wanted to participate in the tournament and spend his remaining time with his family before he returns to Other World, but no, a lot of shit happens after he gets back.

I can't also help but think that he feels that he always put his family in danger, and when his sons had no choice but to fight, he apologizes, like with Gohan during Moro Arc. Goku absolutely loves his family, so imagine his turmoil when enemies keep on appearing even in Super because of him (Frieza again, Goku Black).

Does he think of himself as a burden to his own family? No, of course not. But like, what if he does, even subconsciously/he doesn't know? His family died because he wasn't there, wasn't quick enough/stuck in a hard place (in the case of Gohan and Goten, but it's either them or Dende and Mr. Satan, which makes this also a sadistic choice). I think Buu Saga in particular must have been a very bad time for him mentally.

That's also why he keeps on finding his successor as Earth's protector. From Gohan, to Goten and Trunks, to eventually Uub. He doesn't force his children when they express the lack of desire to fight (in fact, he always supports them no matter what). He feels he needs to find one so Earth would have people to protect it once he's dead for good. That's why he left at the EoZ to train Uub.

But, since this is a shonen series and Goku is the one doing most of the pep talk (particularly for Gohan, hence why he's always more confident when Goku is around than without), it's just, ahdkdkdkdj what goes inside your head man I want to know 😭😭😭

#c musings #dragon ball z #dbz #son goku #goku #introspection #the brainrot won't stop so here I am

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mai-komagata · 3 months ago

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Season 3 predictions!

i wrote this set of rest of series predictions , have my opinions changed since then?

"I think the main thing that needs to happen this season is Sauron needs to make the one ring. I don’t think this will be the first thing that will happen. I think this might happen towards the latter half of the season, and all the fallout from that will wrap up the season. " Haven't changed my opinion on this. I don't think it will be the climax of the season nor do i think it will be episode 1. But it will be the catalyst for a lot of events. With the timeskip I think we'll see Barad-dur be established and Mordor being run like an actual place, somewhat. "I think Durin becoming king, and how he deals with the dwarven rings will become a big plot point in this season. I hope he can reconnect with elrond as a result. Maybe we’ll see dragons (but that might be a plot in later seasons, since there is not much else for the dwarves to do later). " I think this is pretty much a lock, too with the possible casting announcements on this. Dragons I don't think we will get but hope springs eternal. I'll talk a bit more on this on a later plot point, but I think the Dwarves might also move north or talk to some dwarves setting up stuff in the lonely mountain. I think this could tie them in to the elves of the Greenwood as well. Maybe they start explaining some of the dwarven/elven rivalries forming. "Sauron also needs to start doling out the rings for men. I think him meeting Kemen will happen and be a major relationship he will have this season. Maybe meet Theo too. I don’t think Sauron will sail to Numenor, but maybe some of his rings will be shipped there." With the timeskip, I expect we will see Numenorean outposts and city-colonies to be a big thing, and I think that is when emissaries of Sauron or Sauron in disguise might meet up with Kemen or a now older Theo. I think we might also see the start of other human cities like Gondor. I didn't predict much about what Elendil and Isildur will be doing. I do hope for flashbacks and them reuniting. I just don't know if that will happen in Numenor or on Middle earth. "I think Gandalf will finally meet up with the elves and the main plot. What im curious is if they ever bring in Saruman. But i think Gandalf and the Elves meeting might be what these characters do. Maybe we get more elven lore like building Imladris and Lorien, or we meet up with the Silvan elves in Greenwood. " I do think meeting elves in the greenwood and tying that with Gandalf is a distinct possibility, maybe even tying in the plot points with the dwarves as well. I think it is quite likely we'll find Celeborn here, too. I think Thranduil might be introduced (I'd love oropher, but i dont think they have the rights to him). "Honestly dunno what the hobbits will do. I’m hoping they reconnect with their family and settle in the banks of the anduin. " Yeah don't know what will happen to the hobbits. "After the one ring gets made i expect some sort of telepathic confrontation with the elves, specifically Galadriel. " I think Galadriel/Cirdan/Gil Galad and the reaction to the one ring being created will be a big thing. I didn't talk much about the Elves, but I think the creation of Imladris as a base will also be a big thing with the time skip. But yeah, some combo of gathering allies with greenwood elves, interactions with dwarven kingdoms, and how they react to the blow of the one ring's creation will dominate the elves plot. And yeah, maybe meeting up with Gandalf and Celeborn. "And the numenoreans might notice something is up and come capture sauron. " I didn't really predict anything miriel/Earien/Pharazon would be doing this season, other than i think the climax of the season will be Numenor coming to middle earth to capture sauron. I don't know how connected they will be to the main plot, i can only guess. There might be a lot of back and forth with the Numenorean colonies in Middle earth or not. We'll see. I do want to see what role Isildur plays when he comes home.

Overall, I don't think my opinions changed much. I think the timeskip mostly allows them to explain Theo getting older, as well as allowing for settlements to become cities, like Imladris, Pelargir, Mordor, Durin's kingship, etc.

#trop #rings of power #rings of power predictions #trop meta #my meta #rings of power season 3 #galadriel #sauron #gandalf #durin #elrond #the rings of power

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kalpeavaris · 5 months ago

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HIII can we have more info on the beastars au?? more specifically like j and tessa and how the entire manor era went down ^_^ i love all of your aus & your writing and art is phenomenal!!!!

Thank you!! And sure, I don't have all written out or planned yet but I got some lore in mind :]

Tessa is similar to how she lives in the OG canon - she has a very rich family that is entangled with the Horns Conglomerate which is in the hands of Rui and his dad (since Tessa's family is also made up from deers/cervidae).

She's a little spoiled, but good-natured and is fairly convinced that herbivores and carnivores could live in peace, a social stance her parents do not share.

Both Louisa and James are very pretentious, rich assholes that hate Carnivores or even hybrids with a burning passion (but this isn't about them /lh).

Jane also comes from a well off family, and while not rich-rich, they're doing well money-wise. She's close friends (and love interest) with Tessa due to them running in similar circles.

I imagined her personality to be very snobby and stuck-up, only letting Tessa close emotionally. Deep down, she's battling some self esteem issues, but that doesn't take away from the fact that she is indeed quite horrible around people she doesnt like or respect. She's pushing people away and fears being killed a lot. It's one of her worst fears next to losing Tessa.

For the Gala incident, I wouldn't really call it "the Gala incident" and more like "many small incidents that lead to bigger outcomes over time" since Cyn in this AU is a hybrid and all her motivations are her own (the Solver is a drug sold to Carnivores in the AU) - so she pesters and bullies Tessa and Jane for their involvement with the Horn Conglomerate and their attitude towards Carnivores (since Cyn is a grey wold hybrid).

She has her eyes set on especially Tessa because she's the daughter of the main investors into Horn, to a kind of obssessive point (referencing the fact how in the OG canon Cyn takes on Tessas looks and all) - constantly teasing her about how easy it is to just devour her and no one could do anything about it, since Cyn's family is also quite rich and powerful on their side of the city and in both groups (Carnivores and Herbivores).

Won't spoil how this all goes down in the climax/the eventual outcome of the whole ordeal, but it's not nice. Especially not for Tessa and Jane. >_>

A lot of the AU is following the canon Beastars storyline, just shifting some stuff around or playing in their own secluded "areas" instead of going along with the timeline of events for the main story.

As for the other characters, a lot of them retain their OG personality or job. Uzi, N and V are also students in the Academy - V is a cat, N is a dog and Uzi is a Bat (similar to the Furry!AU lol)

Nori was meant to be sold on the black market, having been Number 2, but she was able to flee before being purchased, essentially growing up between jobs and living on the streets until she was old enough to work a fulltime job where she met Khan.

Uzi, N and V eventually catch wind of the stuff happening with Cyn and the way she behaves around herbivores, following the trail to the "Absolute Solution" drug being produced and its effects.

#murder drones #beastars AU #md au #uzi doorman #serial designation V #serial designation J #serial designation N #Cyn #Absolute Solver #murder drones cyn #my au #my ramblings #ask #anon

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richardsphere · 28 days ago

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I have a theory about the next seasons of Miraculous Ladybug. You know how the creators are obsessed with having a bunch of seasons? Well, the reason I think they want a lot of seasons is because they are planning for the show to have 5 arcs, each with its own villain.

Gabriel obviously WAS the villain of Arc 1. We know that Cerise is the villain of arc 2. But for arc 3? Adrien could be the next villain! Think about it, once he finds out what Ladybug has been keeping from him, it would probably make him rightfully angry. This would lead to him becoming the next Butterfly Miraculous holder after Lila.

For arc 4, we would have Tomoe as the villain because based off what we saw in season 5, the writers have been setting her up as an antagonist. Meaning she would get the Butterfly after Adrien’s possible villain arc is over.

And in the fifth and final arc, we would get the Supreme from the Paris special.

5x5 is 25! So basically, what I’m saying is: the show is going to have 25 seasons.

Sorry for slow response, was at a con, didnt have wifi.

so... im going to just start by nixing 25 seasons, simply because even if we get all these antagonists... most of them dont need to have foundations built from stretch, they're already established during Gabriel's time. This means they all have less unexplored potential and would all have less seasons to themselves then Gabe did. Their pre-existent nature means they've already burned some of their fuel.

Lila doesnt have 5 seasons of villain-potential, she barely has 3. And assuming they keep her in the background and only make her go full villain after Lila bites it? Tomoe might have two. which still puts us 4 short of the rumoured 14... but nowhere close to 25.

secondly... i dont think we're going for a chained line-of-descent at all. |They're setting up Tomoe to be during lila's reign, not setting her up as a successor. (this is a good choice, at least in theory, create more versatility in every season, switching antagonists more freely. This prevents certain problems Gabe had tonally where, because every episode had to be Gabe, he had a very inconsistent 'type' of villainy. Because they didnt have a secondary antagonist that made Gabe both 'the guy who couldnt controll a literal baby' and 'the guy who almost started WWII'. He had a big case of tonal whiplash, so the 2 villains (assuming lila isnt some kind of collective identity) really benefit. Basically: Tomoe and Lila coinciding would stretch both their longevities, and prevent the formula from going stale as quickly. Throwing a Villain-VS-Villain bit in on occasion adds an entire season worth of narrative as well. I just plain dont think we're getting Supreme. That requires the show to go way into the multiverse stuff, and that just... shouldnt happen. The writers are very well aware that 'normal girl with normal life' has been falling appart for the audience, opening the multiverse on a regular episodic level? That just kills normalcy outright and ends relatability. Multiverse=event movies or arc-climax crossovers. As to the matter of a Chat Villain-arc... pray to god it doesnt happen. It would be a betrayal of his fanbase, and it would also inherintly carry a lot of the more problematic implications. (IE: "abusevictims should be sheltered from their victimhood, lest they go insane, because Adrien is too frail to handle reality") and of course it needs reminding that the idea of Marinette beating adrien episodically would further reinforce the 'competence discrepancy' that has plagued this show since 5-ever. It would just be another way for the writers to overhype Marinette and be the final nail in the coffin for the 'equal and opposite soulmates'-thing they've been pushing since season 1. Now i will acknowledge there is some stuff that could be foreshadowing for a Vilain Chat arc. But lets make like Adrien in Ephemeral and pray that, should worst come to worst, it at least be brief. I give such an arc 1 season at the most.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous spoilers #miraculous theory

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beevosmeower · 2 months ago

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Juno the Charm - NSFW OC MEME

1. What's their position in bed? (top, bottom, vers, sub, dom, etc.)

Sleeping. Peacefully, under the covers, pink Victoria secret pjs with thin white stripes and fluffy bunny socks to match. She has slippers on the edge of her bed too and a nice comforter. Her room bed smells softly of soap but not detergent yk?

High Love she’s both topping and domming. Objectively she’s a switch.

2. What turns them on/off?

It’s not very sexual, but genuine interest in getting to know someone makes her want to get inside of them. I wanna be in you comma parasitic threat, put your clothes back on…. Turn offs are anything she’s already said no to, trying to publicly show off her body and get her into a crime. Stuff like that. She fully believes in stabbing a person if she has to.

3. How long does it take for them to climax?

Not interested in cumming anyways, but if she wants to she can easily make herself cum in like 5-10 minutes.

4. Most sensitive part(s) of their body?

Her ears are very sensitive but not so much in a sex way since she isn’t ever really turned on enough for her body to react that way. Sensitive comma don’t touch me there??? Freak….

5. Easiest way to seduce them?

Undiagnosed and untreated mental soup. She craves CONSTANT stimulation and new experiences from people sort of as a shitty way to try and make up for a speedrun the experiences she missed through elementary and middle school. Someone who’s very inconsistent and unpredictable would make Juno wanna stay by their side for the longest unless they hurt someone else or injure her seriously. Second to that, she’d be very interested in people who are closed off and ones who cause a lot of stuff to happen around them despite being predictable themselves.

6. How often do they masturbate?

*Long drag of cigarette* Not since the first week she heard of it…

7. What's their favorite position?

The one where she can leave.

8. How did they lose their virginity?

(Gestures to Rapechestershire) Well… /silly

It was a boy in her class who asked her to come to the bathrooms with him. She figured eh might as well. She lost her anal virginity the same. Her first kiss and handholding is a secret though.

9. Favorite place to have sex?

Any place that isn’t gonna get her in trouble. Public sex is fine but she’s not an exhibitionist.

10. Ever been caught having sex or masturbating?

Yeah and it’s pissed her off every time. Like damn bro, keep walking… you know full well what kinda town this is.

11. Are they loud or quiet?

Normal talking during sex. Married sex with Juno would be insane cause she’d be fully going alone and the other person would be having good sex and she’s talking about her grocery store list.

12. Do they own any sex toys?

Vibrator (Retired and given a soldiers burial)

If you have mid/high love with her you can trigger an event at the sex toy shop where you pick what color strap she buys to use on you.

13. Do they prefer giving or receiving?

Giving: it ends quicker. Even during sex that she’s actively seeking out with the PC for a change, she’d much rather focus on them than herself. She’ll probably make herself cum only so that the PC doesn’t feel bad.

14. How often do they have sex?

Looks at Rapechestershire. She doesn’t have any aversion to sex despite not caring about it. Unless she’s busy all day and has plans back to back, she likely isn’t going without sex that day.

15. Their biggest sexual desire?

What’s gayer, wanting to date a girl, or wanting her to have sex with ur dead body? /ref

Her and Ivory Wraith possession would probably make her sexually fulfilled and send her into a straight heat. Ace spec in the sense that she isn’t processing any intimacy in a normal sense and that esp means sex. Sex with humans? Boringggggggggg. Going into the lake and letting the Thing in there crawl inside you and use your dead and soon to be rotting flesh as a vessel for chaos? She’s euphoric.

16. What's the best term to describe your OC sexually?

17. Their bra or dick size?

E cups (Remy’s farm didnt do shit to them cause what MORE could it have done? She has cute areolas, they are NAWT matching but ones vaguely heart shaped. She also incorporates back and spine exercises into her workouts to help.

18. What do they think about when they masturbate?

“I’m bored….” (2 seconds into considering that it be funny if she masturbated)

19. What's their sexual orientation?

Panromantic acespec. Everyone can catch this emotional devastation

20. What's their favorite thing to do sex-wise?

Making the other person cum so she can leave.

21. Weirdest place they've had sex?

Middle of the fuckass woods.

22. Their favorite place on the body to be kissed?

Mm…

23. Worst sex experience?

Can all of them count? None have been bad per say, they’ve just all been extremely mediocre, and others have been just aggravating.

24. Have they ever orgasmed more than once in one go?

When they first started experimenting on how their body would react, they maxed their hands and oral stats within a week.

25. How often do they think about having sex?

Often if you count her thinking of how she’s gonna circumvent getting molested during daily errands.

26. Are they self-conscious about any part of their body?

Social anxiety and self consciousness fear her JYPapi style.

27. How long does sex normally last with them?

20 minutes max for a molestation encounter, and around an hour for a Love encounter.

28. Are they serious during sex or do they like to laugh?

They’re chill, #nonchalant, but she’s not really tryinggggg to make anyone laugh. She’s friendly and wants people to have fun outside of sex, but there’s too many other things to juggle during both a molestation and Love encounter to be using that. During a molestation scene she’s either bored or casually participating like she’s giving the person a damn handshake. If it’s a Love encounter, she’s focused on giving the other person a pleasurable experience.

29. Wild-card. Give us a fun fact!

She takes her hair down during a Love encounter. If you have it at 100% and let her take control as she wants, then she sits you in her lap and takes it slowly from there. She keeps her hair down as another way to give the person some kind of stimulation + to ground the person and assure that she’s there.

#juno the charm #beevo thoughts #dol #dol pc #degrees of lewdity #degrees of lewdity pc

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turboacek-blog · 6 months ago

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Trying to make Agents of Shield work in the MCU now

So they said they want to reintroduce Quake in the MCU

And iirc they said they’re going to make Agents of Shield Canon as previously like most shows wasn’t canon before

But due to events happening at the end of season 5, it’s going to be weird how they try to fit the show now

Summary Agents of Shield is a show that mostly followed S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents were running parallel to the MCU movies from post-Avengers 1

At the end of season 5, it was supposed to be parallel to Infinity War but due to how secretive Disney was being with the Thanos Snap and the five-year-jump the show was forced to be original which created some weirdness

So the general consensus is that Season 5 is the end of canon to MCU and seasons 6&7 is a different timeline due to things like time travel being in those seasons

So to make Agents of Shield work it’s either going to have to be a lot of retconning of those last couple of seasons

Or seasons 1-4 are canon but now there’s a hypothetical season 5 that makes sense with Infinity War knowledge mainly the snap that we have never seen

And like at the end of the show, most characters are still doing agent work now while others retire and Daisy/Quake is one still working so it’s feasible she’s a potential hero/character/agent as she’s inhuman

(Which might get changed into mutant like how they did Ms. Marvel )

So I don’t know if they're going to go into the whole Coulson explanation and the whole history that Shield is still active especially with them shifting to Sword in the recent phases

But I think introducing Quake is relatively simple especially if it’s the actress Chloe Bennett for the general audience that has that kind of recognizability

Most wouldn’t have watched the show so she can give a quick explanation she’s an agent or former agent of Shield trained under Coulson and most will accept it that alone

As for the nitty gritty for those who watched the show and are very particular over the continuity and timelines and such

I think the simplest explanations are…

Time Travel

Basically, while the lack of reaction to the snap happening is weird and weird how no one from the main cast was snapped (there’s theories why they weren't)

The MCU time travel rules of going to a different branch in the timeline make seasons 5-7 make sense as they just weren’t there for some of the snap and when they come back at the end of season 7 they’re back in the MCU

There was a cut line about them being in the quantum realm to jump through time, which protected them from Thanos in a sense similar to Ant-Man

The Multiverse

I know some are tired of it or think the multiverse stuff isn’t working but it’s probably the simplest explanation without completely overwriting the show

Basically AoS world is its own earth/universe still, but a parallel story did happen up to season 5 in the MCU but instead of what happened in the show the snap happened and you go from there

As at that point the potential is endless as you can still have some elements of season 5, 6, & 7 but the show does diverge with the Thanos effect instead of where they went

Incursion

Or you do the yet to happen incursion idea from Doctor Strange 2 where two earths collide and combine, this is how people think the Fox X-Men will join but this can work with any non MCU marvel world such as Fantastic Four, older marvel movies like the first Hulk’s and Spider-Man and marvel shows that weren’t original in the sacred timeline which can be AoS among others

What if

Just going to go off a ramble to see if I could make something up

So they elude to Thanos a lot and even say his name so honestly a lot of season 5 can stay but that climax scene of Quake vs Gravitron is fine but the snap happens and half the character gets snapped away

Who gets snapped is literally up in the air, I think since a character like Fitz was going to die anyway and Coulson also slowly dying can mean only a couple get snapped like Elena and Mack along with some of the notable side recurring agents and you never get characters like Deke since that storyline I imagine is gone

This way I imagine we get a “season” of some characters dealing with the snap and characters like Jemma still go for the frozen Fitz like in the show, May and Coulson live out his last days, and so on…

Now the details of how they handle the five years is its own story but the general idea is that Daisy needs to stay alive through this

Maybe kinda like Endgame we just jump five years and have a scene that shows Daisy and May fighting some of Thanos’s army and when everything is fixed and snapped back have a scene with Fury about still needing Shield etc which allows storylines like Mack being the next head, Jemma finds Fitz, Daisy is now the character she needs to be when they reintroduce her and etc

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Note: I had an old draft I think I deleted right after I finished binging AoS as I figured no one would care back then since even shows like Daredevil weren't being canonized

So I had probably had better recollection and thoughts and theories then sadly so sorry if this isn’t the most thought out

Does make me want to rewatch the show now that

#agents of shield #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.#phil coulson #melinda may #daisy johnson #sky #fitzsimmons #mcu #marvel mcu #AoS

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smash-64 · 5 months ago

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2024 Game of the Year Countdown #4: Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War Sony PlayStation 2, 2004

AC5 is almost certainly the fan favorite of the franchise. It has a very complex story that focuses on characters and politics more so than just destroying targets. In a lot of ways, it’s a very “anime” story and game.

The game starts out with a lot of Big Events™, tossing you into the role of squadron leader. You can’t even change the garbage plane you get for the first four levels, which definitely makes getting an S rank more difficult, but also works well with the story since your base and squadron are struggling and being overrun as well. I think three missions occur on the same in-game date!

With the addition of Dolby Pro Logic II, the game also has an option for surround sound and it’s amazing. The music has a depth to it that wasn’t apparent just coming out of the regular TV speakers, or even stereo, and sounds are dynamic. Firing a missile to destroy a jet in front of you, and then flying past the subsequent explosion creates a very real feel that makes me wish I had surround sound years ago. It also makes me wonder what AC7’s VR gameplay would be like on the PS4…. Even if DPLII isn’t true surround sound, as it merely interprets certain music and sound cues, it does a really good job to make the music and sound effects stand out prominently. This is a 10/10 experience in the sound department.

Ace Combat is well known for having great music, and AC5’s soundtrack was so big, it took up 4 CDs. Some favorites include the remixed “Free Flight,” the super chill “Four Horsemen,” the first track performed by an actual orchestra for an Ace Combat game, “Razgriz” by the Warsaw Philharmonic, the grand finale and titular track of “The Unsung War,” and lastly, the licensed rock tune used in the trailer and end credits, “Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd. This would be the best soundtrack by far for an Ace Combat game, had it not been for a little prequel released less than two years later.

After playing dozens of JPRGs since the last time I played AC5, I see heavy influence from the genre. Ace Combat 3, the Japanese version at least, leaned heavily into the sorts of storytelling methods and plot twists that are more common in RPGs or story-focused games, and it’s obvious that they learned what worked there and combined it with what worked from a gameplay standpoint in AC04, combining them perfectly for The Unsung War. My replay has honestly been eye-opening as I was really getting a lot more out of it than I had in the past. While the big twist to the story comes a bit late in the story and makes some of the earlier levels feel a bit like “what’s the point?,” it also really thrusts us into a prominent position within the plot. Once that twist happens, everything we do feels just so much more significant and impactful, whereas stuff before felt like we were just a part of the machinery.

The only real critique I have of the story, aside from how the twist felt a bit late in the game to be able to enjoy it as much as possible, is that a few levels stand out as really uneventful. AC04 had one objectively boring mission, with another one I’d consider borderline. AC5 has a number of boring missions that feel like filler in both importance to the plot and in actual gameplay. However, the highs are so high, these boring missions are forgiven and nearly forgotten as well.

One small thing that has always bothered me about AC5 involves the superweapons. There were only two superweapons and one superplane in AC04. The superplane there doesn’t have any special weaponry or features; it’s just highly maneuverable and fast. The superweapons also are integral to the story, with Stonehenge being of utmost importance to the politics, timeline of the conflict, and gameplay in numerous levels. Megalith might feel tacked-on to some, but it is at least rumored in debriefings earlier in the story, and serves as a great climax to the game.

The superweapons in AC5, however, often spring out of nowhere. There are two submarines with devastating anti-aircraft weapons that show up out of nowhere with no fanfare and no lead-up, and then are dispatched immediately without causing any significant turning point in the story or the conflict. Then, we get two space-based superweapons. At least one of those has a bit of lore surrounding it, but in the level where we shoot it down, it feels much more like a boss fight from the game 1943 than it does an Ace Combat enemy. It also has magical lasers that one-shot you and an unending stream of UAVs that are unreasonably maneuverable and quick. The superplane also looks like it was made for a space arcade game, with the laser and overall design looking very sci-fi. These don’t exactly follow the general mood of AC games, imho.

One somewhat controversial choice by developers, something that has since been almost lost to time, was the inclusion of novice controls. Normal controls on AC games require you to roll your aircraft before pulling up in order to turn. This is how an aircraft would execute a turn in real life, and AC5 added an option to change the controls to allow for pushing left to make the plane roll to the left AND pull up at the same time. So instead of handling like an aircraft, it handled more like an Arwing in Starfox. A lot of people saw this as the game going soft and being made too easy for people who couldn’t take “real” controls. I was relatively indifferent to the inclusion of such an option, although I would never use it. There was a true downside, though, in that the novice controls wouldn’t roll the aircraft completely upside down. Who doesn’t want to fly upside down?? Anyway, this has been a standard option ever since and I can’t recall anyone being upset about it in years. It’s nice that people can have this barrier to entry removed, so overall, I think it was a good choice.

Rant on superweapons aside, AC5 is THE fan favorite Ace Combat game and I have a new appreciation for it after giving it a replay after so many years. Truly a masterpiece on the PS2 and in the franchise.

#ace Combat 5 #ace combat #ac5 #namco #ps2 #playstation 2

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blackjackkent · 7 months ago

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All right, bit of a late start on liveblogging tonight but let's see if we can make a little more progress on Rakha's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day.

How you doing, Rakha?

Yep.

Some meta points to start off:

Point 1: We're reaching the point in early Act 3 where a lot of things start happening very fast for a little while. We have two back-to-back pretty important long rest things that can happen here - Orin's infiltration and Wyll's showdown with Mizora. As I learned on Hector's run, Wyll's showdown takes priority on the next long rest if you have talked to her after the coronation, but for Rakha I think I'd like to have Orin's shit happen before anything else.

While I am mostly trying to be pretty loyal to in-game events for Rakha without manipulating things too much, I am going to do a little metagaming here to line everything up in the order I want it to happen.

The ficlet I posted earlier today is set the night after the Gortash business, which implies at least a night's rest before everything else starts going off the rails. So we're going to do a few extra things before actually LR-ing and, for story purposes, say they're happening the next day, and then trigger Orin's invasion afterwards. Then we'll talk to Mizora so that all of Wyll's stuff unravels afterwards.

There's no way to get to the Lower City without talking to Mizora, which limits our options somewhat. So I'm inclined to say that after everyone's pretty uncomfortable night post-Gortash-revelations, Jaheira makes the executive decision that they're heading straight to Danthelon's the next morning to get Harper backup before anyone can get into more trouble.

So we'll do that first. Maybe also Sharess's Caress, since we currently have two short rests to play with and there's only one bit of combat in Sharess's that I can think of. And then we're off to Orin Crazytown.

Point 2: With regards to the actual kidnapping - Hector had Lae'zel taken, so in an ideal world I would want to have someone else taken with Rakha. However... I really don't think Halsin or Gale or even Minthara would have nearly the same impact for Rakha as Lae'zel, so I'm going to once again do some metagaming to make sure that happens.

Because basically Act 3 is going to be about heaping more and more bullshit on Rakha and everyone around her. XD

Point 3: I don't know exactly when Wyll's romance scene pops, but the timing might end up being rather strange. I suspect his Act 3 romance is probably sweet as hell, bc it's Wyll, but as things stand right at this moment, neither Rakha nor Wyll are very much in a sweet mood.

So there is a non-zero chance that, when I reach it, I will go through it, save all the necessary caps, and then hold onto it and drop it into the story later in Act 3 when it fits better tonally. We'll play this by ear.

Point 4: The final point is that, with Hector, I definitely beelined straight for Minsc and then Orin pretty much as quick as I could, because I wanted both of them settled in camp ASAP. But with Rakha (especially since with Florrick rescued we're not under a time clock on anything), I'm going to try to be a lot more deliberate about letting her just wander into things and go where she would be inclined to go based on her own knowledge. There are three reasons for this:

I'd like to try to experience Act 3 in a slightly different order.

There's a LOT of random side crap happening in Act 3 and the easiest way to rationalize Rakha bothering with most of it is her being lost and stumbling across it while looking for something else. (That said, some less important stuff still might end up getting skipped.)

The showdown with Orin feels like it's probably a (if not the) climax point for the Durge storyline, so it seems best not to rush to it more than necessary.

So yeah. That's where my head is at on Rakha's story. :D So let's get rolling.

#bjk plays bg3 durge #rakha the dark urge

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mermaidsirennikita · 6 months ago

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ARC REVIEW: A Monsoon Rising by Thea Guanzon

4.25/5. Releases 12/10/24.

vibes: arranged marriage--what now?, awkward super powerful virgins falling in love, falling in love with the one you're meant to betray

Heat Level: 7.5/5

The Basics:

Now that she's married to Alaric, the Night Emperor, Talasyn wants to keep it purely political--especially since she's secretly a part of a plot to overthrow him. Unfortunately, their attraction to each other has already caused problems. Now more than ever, they need to remain strict and remote, with the Moonless Dark, a catastrophic, potentially apocalyptic event approaching. But the encroaching doom could make their feelings even more apparent, even as outside forces pit them against each other.

The Review:

This was the best thing the second book in a trilogy can be: better than the first (and the first was already good). Though I enjoyed The Hurricane Wars, it did at points feel very much like a set up, both in terms of the fantasy plot and Alaric and Talasyn's relationship. In a lot of ways, you get payoff on both aspects in this installment... while at the same time leaving some tantalizing threads hanging.

Well, like. A lot of tantalizing threads. Remember--this is a trilogy. We're going to have to wait for that ending!

Really, the last book ended just as Alaric and Talasyn's relationship was beginning. Here, we find them in the midst of this alliance marriage that isn't supposed to be even vaguely real. Yet they've already--well--gotten each other off. And that should be it! No repeat performances! No feelings!

Sure, Jan.

What I loved about this is that both Alaric and Talasyn are incredibly powerful beings, skilled fighters, and even growing politicians. But when it comes to their emotions--and their sexual experience on both sides--they're really just a couple of babes in the woods. It gives a delicious vulnerability and awkwardness to their interactions. I mean, of course Alaric has mommy issues (and so does Talasyn, for that matter). Of course Talasyn has the ability to beat his ass in a fight while at the same time lacking the social experience to know how to flirt. They're basically a couple of gawky, traumatized losers together. Especially Alaric. And I love that!

Y'all, he's so obsessed with this girl. And sometimes it comes out in a "I want to write her name over and over in my notebook" kind of way, and sometimes it comes out in a "MINE MINE MINE OM NOM NOM" kind of way. Both ways are good.

I'll admit, sometimes the political stuff can still be A Lot for me, but I found it a lot easier to follow this time around. Additionally, the focus on the Moonless Dark itself really allowed me to sort of... zero in on this cataclysmic moment. It's a great way to amp up the pacing and push us towards as climax.

Speaking of climaxes...

The Sex:

WELL DAMN. There was very little sex in the last book, and I suspected that would change this time around. I don't think I suspected it would change this much. We have the build up with "I'm so aroused against my own will" shenanigans. We have actual consummation, and like... a lot of stuff after that.

Alaric is pretty dirty, y'all! I was proud of him! I had to reread one of those lines to be like "Well fuck, he sure did perk up." There's some good shit here. And it really does serve the relationship. You have a really fantastic progression of physical intimacy aligning with the increasing emotional intimacy.

Another thing I so appreciated--the sex isn't like, constant smooth sailing. There's some awkward stuff in the beginning, befitting a couple of virgins figuring it out. Hell yeah.

Anyway--I really enjoyed this, and I'm super excited to see what happens next. It ends on quite the Moment.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

#romance novel blogging #romance novels #arc reviews #netgalley #book recs #book reviews #books

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erotischer-lesestoff · 2 months ago

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The pleasure booster

Chapter 19&20

That evening he asked himself the same thing again. Where was all this going? He sat at home in the living room bent over his diary and checked what he had written. It was the first longer entry for some time. Now he was reviewing the day and thinking about what they had agreed in the end: He would do everything to convincingly play a woman for Robert and thus make him happy on his birthday. He even had to make Robert a solemn promise.

Now that he thought about it, he wondered if Gabrielle had planned the whole thing and was only with him to get to this point? Kevin shook his head. No, that couldn't be the case. But one thing was clear: Gabrielle had turned his life upside down. Everyone thought he was gay, even himself, and now Robert even believed of him that he would have preferred to be a girl when he was young. How did Gabrielle come up with such a thing? Could it really have occurred to her spontaneously, as she said it? He had never said anything to her about it.

All Gabrielle knew was that Valentina had dressed him up as a girl on vacation and given him a lot of women's clothes, which he had put back on for Gabrielle's sake. It would have been better to throw the clothes away right after the holiday, but he had missed the chance. Late in the evening he went over his entries again, thought they were good and went to bed. But sleep was out of the question, too many thoughts swirling in his head.

He did not fall asleep until the early hours of the morning. It was a good thing he was off between the years, because the next day he felt groggy. But that quickly improved when Gabrielle called to remind him of the New Year's Eve party he had been invited to with her and Robert. She didn't say a word about what had happened the day before, and he was careful not to bring it up himself. Maybe it would all come to nothing. That would be fine with him. The two of them talked for quite a while. Gabrielle told him that she had heard that Jo was coming to the party and if he had a problem with that. He assured her that he wouldn't mind. Actually, that wasn't true, but he didn't want to spoil the mood. After all, he didn't have to pay much attention to Jo. They talked a bit more about what would happen at the party, when they would meet and how best to get there.

On New Year's Eve, everything went smoothly. The celebration took place in a private party cellar. Robert had drawn up the plans for the apartment building and had been in loose contact with the owners ever since. Kevin was once again the youngest at the event and felt a little out of place at first. He knew most of the guests, but it was still a different league that people were playing in. But it was the same as always, alcohol and probably some party drugs brought all the guests to the same level and the later the evening got, the more exuberant the atmosphere became. It went so far that Kevin even had an erotic experience. A couple friend of the host dragged him into a guest room where he gave the man a blow job in front of his wife. In the beginning she even participated, but Kevin took over the finals. This happened shortly after midnight. A few hours later, the guy wanted to use Kevin's services again, but fell asleep blissfully before the climax. Kevin didn't care. Considerately, he pulled up the pants of the blissfully snoring man and left him lying on the bed.

Later, it was already approaching six o'clock, he saw him again. Now in a slightly better condition. The guy just nodded at him and disappeared with his wife. A cab was also called for himself and Gabrielle together with Robert. When Kevin lay in bed a little later and he felt the after-effects of the alcohol, he realized that he had started the year with a gay act. With these thoughts, he fell asleep and didn't wake up until late afternoon. His internal clock was all messed up and he had been dreaming weird stuff. He was so confused that he had to look at the calendar to find out what day it was. New Year's Day, that was clear, but which day of the week?

He looked at the date and saw that it was a Saturday and thanked God for that. In the kitchen he made some instant soup and wondered if he should add some sausages to it. He decided against it because he didn't trust his stomach yet. Kevin laughed softly. He had already had a sausage today. His first spontaneous blow job. I wonder if the guy remembered him. His wife certainly did. She wasn't as drunk or drugged up as her husband. In the living room, he slowly spooned the hot soup into himself, watched TV and concentrated on his stomach. He felt a little uncomfortable, but the soup wouldn't come out.

Jo came to his mind. He hadn't shown up at the party. Too bad, Kevin thought, he would have liked it if Jo had noticed his actions with the couple. A moment later he was glad that Jo hadn't noticed. Maybe it would have been painful for him. Kevin sighed. Jo had been his first man. It was said that the first man was something special for a woman, but was that also true for him? Anyway, for today he didn't care. Kevin grew tired and went back to bed. Against all expectations, he slept through the night and woke up around five-thirty in the morning. Outside it was still dark and uncomfortable. The wind was howling around the windows. A day made for staying in bed. But Kevin was awake. He had caught up on all the sleep he needed.

So he made himself some toast and jam and tried to kill time by watching TV. A few hours later it was light, well, light was an exaggeration. It promised to be a gloomy day. Kevin lurked through the living room window, looking down at the street and parking lot. Some kids were looking for New Year's Eve firecrackers that hadn't exploded yet. Kevin remembered doing the same thing when he was a kid. He had even found some then, but he couldn't get them to explode. It would be the same for the children down there. He rubbed his forehead; it was already the second of January. The kids should have been looking for them on New Year's Day. Kevin rubbed his forehead again. They probably had, he just hadn't noticed because he had spent the whole day in bed.

That was a really wild bash! Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll, this saying came to his mind. Was it a saying or a song? Kevin didn't know, but that was it. Sex he had had, drugs, well, drugs he had not consciously taken, only alcohol. There was also music, not always to his taste, but very loud. Now that he thought about it, he couldn't believe that he had just given that guy a blowjob like that. A complete stranger! He shook his head, it must have been the alcohol. Alcohol disinhibits. Anyway, almost everyone at the party was more or less drunk, and who knows what else could have happened.

Kevin stored the experience away as a life lesson. He stood indecisively in his apartment, what should he do? He was bored, should he call Gabrielle? She was probably still in bed with Robert or had gone for a walk with him. Should he go out too? Kevin looked out of the window and lifted his shoulders. It had started to drizzle. Go out now? Better not. Better to go to bed and laze around. But Kevin didn't feel like doing that either. So he turned on his laptop. Jo had given it to him and hadn't asked for it back, just like the cell phone that Kevin now called his own. Oh yes, he thought, it was nice with Jo, if they were still together he wouldn't be bored. The thought of Jo made his penis move in the tight prison that was also a gift from Jo. A new chastity cage, higher quality than the one he had received from Gabrielle. He liked the tight feeling on his cock. Gabrielle's chastity device had given him that too, but it was harder to put on than the new one.

The laptop had booted up and Kevin sat in front of it indecisively. Although he was a child of the modern age, surrounded by WiFi, smartphones and the omnipresent internet, he had little to do with it. He didn't like to read, didn't like to hang out on social networking sites, and mostly just used his PC to watch movies. Yes, even cat videos. When that ended with Jo, he had looked around the gay scene on the Internet, but was quickly repulsed by it. It was mostly about fast and hard sex and Kevin couldn't relate to that.

He had read a few stories about it, but they were also mostly about fast, hard sex. One short story, however, was different. It wasn't about sex or anal sex or anything like that, but about the beginning of a romance. Two young men found each other. Both had only ever been with women and had no idea that they felt more for each other. It was only when one of them fell ill and the other spent a night at his bedside that they realized they had more in common than just a friendship. Kevin had gotten goose bumps while reading, he was so fascinated by this story. But now he didn't feel like searching the internet for stories like that, he just wanted to kill time, so he typed "YouTube", hoping to find something boring to watch until he got tired and could go back to bed. He fell asleep thinking that tomorrow everything would be back to normal.

Chapter 20

At first, everything seemed normal. Kevin woke up in the morning, went to the bathroom shivering, took a hot, long shower, and scurried back to the bedroom, teeth chattering, to get dressed quickly. Winter was not his time. He had to laugh as he imagined that his cock was probably even smaller now, all shriveled up in its tight prison.

It didn't really get light all day. Damn winter, Kevin thought, why can't it always be summer. You feel so much better when the sun is shining. By mid-afternoon it was dusk, and when Kevin got home it was completely dark outside the windows. Well, he said to himself, another day closer to summer. He took out his diary and was about to start writing when the doorbell rang.

Gabrielle stood in the stairwell and pushed past Kevin into the hallway. She looked at him with wide eyes and asked, "Why aren't you properly dressed?"

"I'm dressed properly," Kevin replied, looking at his girlfriend in confusion.

"You're supposed to be practicing," Gabrielle explained.

"Practice?" Kevin was even more confused now. What did Gabrielle want him to do?

"Robert's birthday. Don't you remember what we agreed?" Gabrielle explained.

It slowly dawned on Kevin what Gabrielle was getting at. He hadn't taken it at face value and hadn't expected her to be serious. He thought the whole thing was a stupid idea anyway and didn't want to make a fool of himself.

She didn't let him get away with it, reminding him of his promise and saying that Robert was looking forward to seeing Kevin in a short skirt.

Gabrielle also didn't accept the objection that Kevin didn't have anything suitable to wear and told him to put on his summer clothes first. The main thing was that he wore a skirt and a blouse. Kevin wanted to say that he no longer had the clothes, but he knew that Gabrielle would see through the lie. He tried to argue that the clothes would be wrinkled because he had put them back in the suitcase. But Gabrielle brushed that objection aside. She pulled Kevin into the bedroom and opened the closet.

"So the clothes are in the suitcase," she said triumphantly when she saw the blouses and skirts hanging neatly in the closet. In one of the drawers at the bottom of the closet, she also found the lingerie Kevin had brought back from his vacation.

"Hmm," she remarked critically as she examined a bra more closely, "you need to get some new bras, Robert likes big breasts."

Kevin looked at her questioningly.

Gabrielle grinned, "Don't look at me like I'm the eighth wonder of the world. Come on, get changed!" She took some clothes out of the closet and laid them on the bed. From a bag she had brought with her, still in her hand, she took a pair of shoes and a pair of pantyhose, still wrapped. She handed both to Kevin, who accepted them, lost in thought.

Gabrielle made another encouraging gesture and left Kevin alone. "I'll wait in the living room," she said as she left.

"I can't wear this." Kevin stood in the room, still holding the tights and shoes.

Gabrielle, already holding the door handle, said, "Of course you can, I've even seen you in them and you looked good in them."

Kevin tried to object.

Gabrielle wouldn't let him get a word in edgewise, "Remember, you promised Robert and me!"

Kevin sighed. He tried to make one last objection, saying that these were summer clothes and it was winter now. Gabrielle smiled and explained that they would buy matching dresses. For practice, these clothes should do. Without another word, Gabrielle left. Kevin stayed behind. For a moment he stood in the room undecided, then he shrugged and started to get dressed. What the hell, he thought, I'm doing Gabrielle a favor, she'll see for herself that this is a stupid idea.

After changing, he had to admit that he liked it, pleasant memories came back. The last thing he did was to put on his shoes. Gabrielle had brought a matching pair of sandals. Kevin wondered how Gabrielle knew his shoe size. The shoes fit well, but they had a wedge heel and were over three inches high. Kevin stumbled rather than walked as he entered the living room. Gabrielle looked up from the TV guide she was flipping through and smiled.

"You need to practice walking in women's shoes, too." She said as she stood up and tugged at Kevin's blouse and skirt. "Luckily we have four and a half months to do that."

That was not what Kevin wanted to hear. "I don't think I can do this," he said, and as he was about to continue, Gabrielle interrupted him.

"Of course you can! You're forgetting that I've seen you in these clothes before, and I've seen you move in them. The shoes are still unfamiliar, but you'll get used to them. They fit, don't they?"

"Yes, they do, but listen, I can't."

"You can," again Gabrielle didn't let him finish, "you promised, and Robert is counting on you to keep your promise."

"This whole thing is a crazy idea. Robert will die laughing when he sees me in these clothes."

"He won't," Gabrielle shook her head, "and do you know why? Because you'll be perfect. It'll be a lot of work, but I've never shied away from a task. We're going to fix you up so that Robert won't believe his eyes."

Gabrielle looked at him critically: "You are very slender, but with the right clothes we can conceal that. She lifted the hem of Kevin's skirt, looked at his legs and said: "Your legs look good." She shook her head and corrected herself: "That would be an understatement, your legs are perfect."

Kevin took two steps back, or rather, he wanted to take two steps back. Because of the shoes he could only take stumbling steps and almost fell. Gabrielle let the skirt slip from her fingers and looked up.

"This isn't going to work. Never!" Kevin looked at his girlfriend pleadingly.

"Yes it will," she countered, "it will work. You just have to work on yourself."

"What if I don't want to?"

"You promised."

"I don't care." Kevin made a dismissive hand gesture, "Then I'll just break my promise and - will the world end?"

"Robert would be very disappointed and so would I."

“I can live with that,” Kevin said defiantly.

Gabrielle looked at him, the corners of her mouth twitching, and suddenly tears ran down her cheeks. She tried to say something, but the words wouldn't come out.

Kevin regretted his words. Gabrielle's tears did not leave him cold. He took her hands, wanted to tell her gently that he still thought it was a stupid idea. But he couldn't get a sound out of her either. Instead, Gabrielle spoke now, sobbing softly, "Please Kevin." She only said the two words and then the tears flowed again. Kevin had to swallow, he too suddenly had water in his eyes. "I'll try."

Instead of an answer, Gabrielle took her friend in her arms and sighed softly.

After a few minutes, when emotions had returned to a normal level, the two sat on the couch and discussed what to do next. It felt strange for Kevin to be sitting next to Gabrielle in a skirt and blouse. Sure, she had seen him in it before, but it had only been for a brief moment and Kevin hadn't been wearing high heels.

The sandals bothered him while he was sitting. Because his feet were in an unnatural position, he didn't know where to put his legs. In the beginning he had sat with his legs wide apart, but that seemed strange, almost vulgar. Kevin shifted around a few times but couldn't find a comfortable position. Only when he oriented himself towards Gabrielle, put his feet together and tilted his legs slightly to the side, could he relax and follow Gabrielle's explanations.

She had thought it all through. He should put on a dress or skirt and blouse every day after work, not forgetting his shoes, and get used to the clothes. At Kevin's remark that he had few things to wear, Gabrielle laughed at first, then said that she would take care of it. When she also talked about matching underwear and makeup, it was almost too much for Kevin again. He wanted to protest, but Gabrielle reminded him of his promise. She tried to explain it from another side. By presenting himself to Robert as a pretty young woman, he would be the guarantor of their relationship, because Gabrielle knew that one day she would freak out if Robert continued to stare at strange women, and that would be the end of their relationship.

Gabrielle brushed aside Kevin's objection that he was not a woman. With a little practice and the right clothes, there would be no problems, and if Robert were to stare at him, have lustful thoughts, and then have hot sex with her, she would not feel jealous either. Kevin still had doubts. He was a man and not a woman, how could he be attractive to Robert? Practice, practice and more practice, Gabrielle said. Practice makes the master, she said, then improved and said, makes the perfect woman.

She also said that Kevin should look at other women. He should pay close attention to how they move, study their gestures and rehearse these observations for himself. Gabrielle also pointed out that there were lots of makeup tutorials on the Internet that he should look at and try on himself. Kevin's doubts continued to grow, and when Gabrielle started talking about his hair and earrings, it was too much. He stared at her and asked if she wanted to turn him into a woman. Gabrielle just smiled but said nothing.

They were both silent for a moment until Kevin shook his head and said, "It won't work."

"You're just too negative," Gabrielle replied. She looked into Kevin's eyes. "Look," she began, stopping herself to think, and then continued, "You were never a real man.

Kevin looked at her in disbelief, was about to open his mouth, but was interrupted by Gabrielle before he could say anything.

"No, listen to me," she said, "you've never been a real man and you'll never be one. I sensed that from the beginning of our relationship. I also sensed that you were more attracted to men than women, and now I sense that your feminine side, the woman in you, wants to come out." She took his hands, "If you listen deep inside you will realize that I am right and who knows, maybe as a child, as a boy, you really had the desire to be a girl?"

"But I never did," Kevin started to protest, then stopped himself and thought.

Gabrielle didn't give him time, "See, you're not sure there wasn't something there." She stroked his head gently, "Just let it out. You can't deny the woman inside you." Gabrielle took his hands again, looked at him and said, "Jo felt it too, he saw you as a woman too."

Kevin sighed. He still missed Jo and he had to agree with Gabrielle, his relationship with Jo had failed because he wasn't man enough. "I never wanted to be a girl," Kevin said quietly.

A joyful shiver ran through Gabrielle. She heard from Kevin's words that he was no longer sure. "I'm sure you repressed it," she said as quietly as Kevin and continued, "Maybe your life would have been very different if you'd given in to that inner urge."

Kevin shrugged, "I don't think so, I'm sure I never wanted to be a girl."

"One hundred percent sure?" asked Gabrielle.

Kevin wanted to answer but remained silent. He was confused, completely confused.

Gabrielle waited a moment to hear if he was going to say anything else, when he remained silent she stood up and said, "I'm going now, come back tomorrow, okay?"

Kevin nodded.

At the door to the living room, Gabrielle turned and said, "Please promise me you won't change right after I leave."

After a moment's hesitation, he promised her.

Click here for Chapter 21 & 22

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teatraps · 10 months ago

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IDV game 5 lore rant

I heard tumblr is good for discussing analysis and theories and stuff, so a little game (group?) 5 ramble since I love them. I feel like people focus on the poison part a little TOO much. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a key event in the story, but it’s not the ONLY event. From what I hear, games usually last about 10 days and the poison only happens on day 3. That’s a whole week of unexplored story, since we have almost nothing talking about those other days. With the exception of Jose’s 2nd letter, which seems like a full 180 from what we’ve been told about this game so far since he makes everything seem like they’re all unified and ready to win. The poison is described as one of the triggers for the rest of the game, not the climax. We still know very little about the effects Jose’s hypnosis has on how he interacts with the others and the rest of the game, what happens to Vera on the 4th and 5th days since her experiment file says something big happens with her, or literally ANYTHING about Edgar. There’s a lot more to this game than the poison, and even then people don’t look too closely to how that whole thing played out. For example, the fact Vera didn’t even really want to do it and only followed along in what Jose was doing so he wouldn’t target her often gets skimmed. It also leads to ppl making non-central themes into central ones. I’d argue that racism isn’t a central theme in game 5, given Vera and Edgar don’t seem to have a problem with Patricia or Kevin based on their races. It really only comes up with Jose. However, with the way ppl have centralized the racism as a key point of everything, Vera and Edgar have gotten mixed in with Jose (even tho Edgar in specific has been stated to be separate from Jose and Vera’s 4th letter shows she doesn’t want to associate with Jose that much) and now the three of them are treated like symbols of racism during the late 1800s early 1900s from Europeans. A little ironic, considering both Vera and Edgar have expressed their dislike of European society. I don’t fully know where I’m going with this except to say, game 5 is still a developing story that we know VERY little about, so just keep that in mind when interacting with this group.

#idv #identity v #chloe nair #edgar valden #jose baden #patricia dorval #vera nair #kevin ayuso #kevin alonso #idv lore #identity v lore #group 5 idv #game 5 idv

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color-cacophony · 2 years ago

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I was going to make a Big Official Review Post about Rayman in the Phantom Show but I don't really have enough complete thoughts to make something comprehensive and organized, but I still want to share some points from my experience with it so uhhh without further ado, here's a bunch of thoughts on what dazzled me and what I thought could have been done better.

Here I go...

I'll start with the stuff that bugged me first because I don't like to end on a bad note:

I think the biggest issue is that giving the player the option to complete each set in any order diminishes the opportunity to have a linear story. Without a series of events building up to the finale, the actual climax doesn't feel as grand or substantial as it should be (it definitely feels like a few lines were cut from the moments before Phantom's first verse with how abruptly it starts). It would have felt more immersive to see actual scenes of the heroes trying to play their roles and have more varied quests based on puzzles or even characters and dialogue (like the search for Sweetlopek's stolen axe), all whilst gradually putting the pieces together that they were led into a trap.

Speaking of putting the pieces together, it would've paid off to have Beep-0 learn from his own arrogance in the past instead of repeating his assertion that he knew what Phantom was up to all along. That part made me kind of sad because I really like Beep-0 and it seemed like they were setting him up to eventually become less uptight and more open to admitting his mistakes, which would be more satisfying and obvious!

As we all know, Beep-0 isn't the only one who repeated himself. I remember an exchange I had with @randomrabbidramblings about our predictions for what would happen in the climax; they were hoping the final showdown with Phantom would not be redundant with his first encounter, having the same battle gimmick as before. Unfortunately that is, in fact, what they ended up doing. While framing it as Phantom being unoriginal or making a callback helps it a little bit, ultimately it made me feel let down (although I love Beep-0's delivery when he reiterates his line from Kingdom Battle. he means business).

As for the aftermath of the battle, I want to know where Phantom went. There doesn't seem to be any sign of him anywhere in the studio. It's really odd, given how this was supposed to be his grand comeback (alongside Rayman, of course), but we don't get even a simple explanation of what happened to him after he was defeated for the second time, unless I missed something. I presume this is his last major appearance in a game (unless they decide to do something completely different with him in the distant future??? wishful thinking but not ruling it out!), so it's a strangely underwhelming and mysterious send-off to our beloved ghostly diva. I would have been bummed that we didn't get lore paintings for him, but the memory entry summarizing his surprisingly short-lived career actually made me laugh and honestly, the thought of him only releasing one album and becoming so well-known just because he's notoriously a huge jerk and a producer of incredibly terrible films is so in-character for him.

Another choice I found unusual was the lack of any explanation as to how he got his voice back, since it's been established that he screwed it up by overdoing it. Although, they must have dismissed it knowing that not everyone is going to find the mural containing the only source of that detail. His voice could have healed over time anyway, but it just doesn't entirely make sense that they don't acknowledge it at all (I did see @bramble-scramble 's post mentioning a detail @randomrabbidramblings pointed out where a gramophone can be seen in a box in the studio's control room and it is supposedly the one Phantom replaced with a new one when he messed it up, but even if that's true, it's still a bit easy to miss).

I understand that a lot of these issues were due to restraints since it's only a DLC and they could only fit so much in, but that goes to show that this concept is a little too big for a DLC, but not quite big enough for a full game.

Now, for the things I loved...

I must give massive props to the artists and animators for taking reference from multiple Rayman games and essentially making the pinnacle of his goofiness. Rayman was HIGHLY entertaining to see (and listen to, thanks to David Gasman) and very lovable in this! And the way his dynamic with Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Mario changes up until the end where he becomes friends with them and realizes that he can work with the Rabbids now instead of against them it's just 🥺 awgh... It feels cheesy to talk about it but it really does make me happy now that Rayman has a chance to be an equal to the Rabbids and have something resembling a mutual understanding.

I appreciate them bringing back characters from the main game and giving them their own sets. Fittingly enough, it's like a curtain call for the final installment of SoH.

The return of Beep-0's swearing. SERIOUSLY IT'S SUCH A SMALL THING BUT IT DELIGHTED ME

The studio's lobby is gorgeous. Absolutely STUNNING I love all the details and the music notation motifs on everything.

Honestly the rest of this is just going to be me gushing about Phantom hehehe...

First of all, I was completely awestruck at the decision to give him a swing/jazz sequence because I love the aesthetic of the whole sassy big band musical number kind of thing so when I saw that Phantom was going to do that I went INSANE. The animation in the song sequences is absolutely top tier. Phantom is ALL OVER THE PLACE, very charming, very energetic. The swing bit made me realize just how unbelievably coordinated he is. Like when he's zipping and spinning around the stage and it doesn't affect his singing at all? Holy crap. Then, I went even MORE insane when rock/metal Phantom showed up. I would have wanted a verse in that style too, but I get that it was cut because it would mess up the pacing of the battle.

I love Phantom's inability to contain his excitement at the start of the battle, his annoyed lines when you destroy the lights, his smug remarks even when he's taking damage. He's just so- I'm just gonna say it- so freaking cute in this! His line deliveries in general made me fall so hard for him, especially "were you EVER a thing, Rayman?". The way he drops his voice sounds so cool...

Regarding his abilities, I thought they were going to explain why he could turn people to stone in Kingdom Battle, but they simply took that detail away. I don't have a big problem with this, as the Stone Deaf ability could have been part of the Megabug's influence (and it makes him at least a bit less OP lol). I'm also satisfied to finally know that he can indeed phase through things like any other ghost and isn't limited to just teleporting.

His death acting has definitely improved since last time, in that it's silly and makes me smile instead of just making me feel embarrassed lol.

So uummmm yeah that's all the noteworthy stuff I can think of! Overall I thought the DLC was delightful during my playthrough, but after I finished it I felt kind of sad because it just didn't feel "thorough". However, given that Sparks of Hope generally improved on so many aspects from the last game, I'm confident that they'll keep adding and experimenting with more characterizations and scenarios and make something even better if they decide to continue with Mario + Rabbids. And even if they don't, we'll always have the amazing fans to continue the story and put even more wonder into this wild crossed-over universe!

Anyway, thank you for reading through this highly disorganized rant/gush! And while I'm at it, thank you to everybody in the Mario + Rabbids community for making such amazing art and just being here to share our love for the series. That means thank you to @randomrabbidramblings @bramble-scramble @salamifuposey @hostess-of-horror @phandrow @pastelprince18 @critterzone13 @hostdoozy @majorpepperidge and more! You guys are super cool and I appreciate you even though I've never directly interacted with all of you, hehe. I suppose all I have left to say is goodnight, so goodnight/day everyone! Until next time I decide to dump more nonsense onto your dashboard :D

#I was a bit late making this post but I was dead for a while so eehhhh #thoughts and rambles tag

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stevetown · 1 year ago

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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

Playtime: 59h 29m Completed: April 17, 2024

I put off writing this entry because I didn't want to admit to myself that I really did not care for Rebirth. Remake was my favorite game of the last decade, and I rarely get hyped for new titles nowadays, so to swallow the bitter pill and admit the last four years of hype were wasted...hurts.

It happened sometime around Costa Del Sol. After a lengthy chapter involving a card tournament, which itself was followed by a chapter whose climax hinges on a rhythm game parade segment, here was another chapter where you had to complete multiple required mini-games to get tickets to dress our favorite cast of destiny defiers for the beach. On its face, Rebirth should have been exactly what I was looking for. I love these characters so much that just hanging out at the game's equivalent of Atlantic City should have been an easy slam dunk for me. And there are good, if fleeting, character moments to be found here!

But at this point in the game, it became apparent there's no pathos and no forward momentum pulling the party forward other than "I guess we'll bumble around looking for black robed figures." It's a confusing approach to the middle chapter considering even the original was so clear about the stakes for each character and what they were after once they left Midgar. Remake was also so keen on engaging with our knowledge of the original's plot. "You can't fall in love with me" sent me reeling. Rebirth offers no such assurance that it knows nor cares about what's coming.

Emotional catharsis is nowhere to be found. Character moments like Barrett and Dyne's reunion and Red XIII's Cosmo Canyon homecoming are offensively brief, having little to no lead up and no follow through indicating those events had a lasting impact on anyone. The few beats where the game does take swings and add new material are almost never talked about amongst the cast, leading to narratively clashing moments that left us scratching our heads and screaming at the screen for anyone to talk about anything of importance. Whenever the game begins to build any kind of emotional crest, you can count on it falling short of a satisfying conversational resolution if it wasn't interrupted by Yuffie screaming about materia for the thousandth time this chapter.

It's not all bad. There's good stuff here with Cloud and Tifa's relationship. Vincent and Cid's character introductions are highlights that got some good belly laugh's and felt like old school Remake character magic. The second visit to the Gold Saucer got the waterworks going. The combat is more of the same, which is to say fairly good, but it's hard to keep all of the character play styles straight in your head and the Folio system is the worst character upgrade system since Final Fantasy II.

Then there's the climax, which I'm honestly too exhausted to get into. It's not that I hate the idea of what they're going for here, but during the moment where the game needed clarity the most it decided to muddle the message and leave us shrugging more than salivating for part III. It's clear this Final Fantasy VII remake experiment wants to have its cake and eat it too, offer titillating change and remain faithful to the original, but instead offers neither. I'm not left with confidence that Hamaguchi, Nomura and co. know how to wrap this up and deliver a satisfying conclusion to what they kicked off with aplomb and intrigue in Remake.

I did have fun with Rebirth! I put a lot of hours into it, despite the game's incessant efforts to make me hate it at almost every turn (I never want to hold down triangle for three seconds every time I need to do anything in the environment, thanks). There are good nuggets buried deep within the expansive nothingness that is the game's take on Ubisoft map design. But this is a game that is impressively all fat with little meat to chew on. Golden moments are spread too thin, not explored to satisfaction, and at worst become utterly confusing. I know in a year I'll still be pining for the last installment, which is more of a testament to how enduring these characters are than anything Rebrith itself did. I might as well see this through, but I'm left feeling disappointed that Square has shown this experiment to be what I wasn't looking for after all.

#ffvii rebirth #2024 game journal #final fantasy #video game review #ffvii #I got Tifa for the gold saucer date btw. They knocked that scene out of the park.

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emeraldspiral · 2 years ago

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Been thinking about how they could adapt the Zimvoid arc into a film, because I think it works really well as a finale. I think Zib is a perfect villain to make Zim and Dib realize ugly truths about themselves and challenge them to be better. But there's no way they'd just do a straightforward adaptation. They'd have to make major changes to the story so it'd be something new and exciting and not spoiled right from the start, just like how they started ETF as an adaptation of the first comic and then veered off into something totally original.

I like the idea of playing it like the comic story is canon and the movie is actually a stealth sequel. Like, Zib used time travel to go back and do everything over and he remembers how everything went the first time and is making changes throughout the story to take it off the rails toward a different end goal. Maybe he was even the one who made Zim forget "Phase 2" and caused the events of ETF to happen.

I'd really like to see Zib introduced a lot earlier or at least for the story after the twist reveal to go on for a lot longer because I feel like in the comic everything happened pretty quickly and there was so much more that could've been done with Zib. Like, he doesn't really do much outside of exposition. Even at the end, all he does is sit on his throne holding Dib captive while the Zims battle his giant robot for like 2 pages before main Zim merges them all and Zib's plan falls apart. I'd really like to see a big horror movie chase sequence with Zib as the monster, relentlessly stalking Zim and Dib through multiple realities and tearing through every obstacle like cardboard, like Wanda in Multiverse of Madness. Would also really love to see Zim and Dib tag-team against Zib since the climax of the original comic has Dib doing nothing while everything Zim does to achieve victory happens off-screen and it feels like kind of a missed opportunity to not have them work as a team against a being that is a combination of the two of them.

There's also a lot of sequences in the comic that are just kinda skipped over that I'd really like to see in some capacity. Like, we don't see much of Zim's battles in the arena so we don't know how he managed to beat 166 opponents in a day while supposedly being the worst Zim. We also don't see the rebel Zims battle against the top 99 elite Zims or #2 fighting his way through the Massive to get an audience with the Tallest, so I feel like we missed out on some potential for really funny and exciting action sequences.

I like that Zim and Dib had parallel arcs of being confronted with the idea that there are better versions of themselves out there and maybe they're actually the worst, before ultimately coming out on top to prove they're actually the best, at least by the logic of "I'm only failing because I've had it harder than anyone else". So I'd like to take the natural next step and have them become self-aware about how much they validate each other.

Like, in the comic the alternate Zims openly admit that they're happy to see a Dib and express admiration for their own Dibs, which makes sense because they've had time apart to realize their true feelings. But we never see if this gives Dib pause and causes him to reflect on how his Zim might feel about him, so that's something that could be added onto the original arc. I also really like the idea that while main Zim was imprisoned with the other Zims they were talking the same way about their Dibs in front of him, and because he hasn't had that time apart to reflect and come to terms with his feelings he's uncomfortable with the thought that he might actually like Dib. Plus, I think adding a scene like that would give extra context to why Zim refuses to work with Dib when he breaks them all out. I also like the idea that in general, because they've had no one but themselves to talk to in the void, the alternate Zims have been able to work through stuff that main Zim hasn't. Like, they all know that their mission was fake, the Tallest never respected them, and they're a joke to pretty much everyone but Dib, but main Zim's still in denial about all of it.

Meanwhile, Dib wouldn't just take Zib's explanation for what he did at face value. He's convinced no Dib would be stupid enough to attach Zim's PAK to themselves and not expect to be corrupted, and he can't bring himself to believe it was just the lack of recognition that drove him to it. He'd demand to know the real reason so he can avoid making the same mistakes and eventually Zib would admit he did it because he missed his Zim.

"You never really know what someone means to you until they're gone. Until you destroy the only person who ever respected you, who understood you, for a world that doesn't even appreciate the sacrifice."

Zib attached Zim's PAK to himself because he wanted his Zim back, but the PAK had been damaged and all that was left of his personality were his final thoughts and feelings. Fear, anger, regret, sadness, resentment, and shame. The Zim part of Zib's mind is just a malevolent ghost in the back of his head, and the Zimvoid is nothing more than a hell of his own creation. The Zim part drives Dib to commit atrocities to get back at him for killing him and the Dib part torments the alternate Zims and plots to destroy all the Irkens to get back at the Zim part. Both sides want to punish each other and both sides allow it because they feel like they deserve it for being failures.

Learning all this is hard for Dib to swallow because it means there's seemingly no good outcome for earth no matter what he does. Either Zim wins and earth is destroyed or he wins and destroys earth himself because his life is empty without Zim.

What makes all the difference to the story's outcome though is that because ETF happened Zim and Dib are in different headspaces than in the original story. Dib has already realized that proving Zim is an alien was just a means to an end to get what he really wanted, which it turned out he already had, and now that he knows it he can see that it's exactly the same for Zim with his mission. Meanwhile, Zim's walls of self-deception have already started crumbling since he realized he "lost" the Tallests' respect, which makes him desperate to reinforce them even as they grow more fragile.

So maybe instead of trying to get rid of all the other Zims to prove he's the greatest of them all, he'd try to hijack Zib's plan and turn it into a plot to conquer all earths in every reality to really show the Tallest he isn't a joke. But Dib would realize that there's an alternative to the no-win scenario he thought they were in; making peace. And he does it by echoing his father's words to Zim, "You're always trying to prove to your leaders that you're amazing. But you never needed to prove that to me, Zim. I've always thought you were amazing."

And Zim realizes that as often as he's said it himself, no one's ever called him "amazing" before, and Dib shows Zim how much he matters to him by risking it all just to save him from his own reckless stupidity.

And then I like the idea that it's kinda like a Sylki situation where even with all the universe's infinite possibilities they're still supposed to be enemies in every reality so them becoming friends kinda breaks reality and gives them the power to resolve everything and get back to their home universe when it seemed like they were trapped with no hope of escape.

And then that would be like the ultimate perfect ending for the series. Zim gives up his mission and Dib gives up trying to expose him because they both realize they don't care about winning anybody else over as long as they have each other.

#invader zim #zadr #zadf #zib #dib #dib membrane #zimvoid #iz

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