#ah well i can speedrun that stuff. maybe.

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

well, this took much longer than it should have lol

y'know how on the last one i said i was really shit at backgrounds? yeah i had to redraw it like 50 times lol (and it wasn't helping that i accidentally put the darker red part the same layer as the light cream and didn't realize until after i had finished :'] )

anyways, masumii palette doodle. funnily enough i ended up just. using a different palette than originally planned and it made it so much easier for whatever reason. but i'm really happy with this one too! glad i could finally figure out a pose i liked :]

[toast-tales]

(this is out of nowhere but i'm still obsessed with itwom okay sue me)

while we're on the subject of post-story itwom dynamics, one of my favorite scenarios in fiction to consider (particularly for characters who undergo a lot of development) is how they would react to getting catapulted back to the beginning of their stories: with their knowledge of how things play out, but everything else as it was before.

like—for example, i think danny would be a little shocked at first (not to mention annoyed that she's gotta go through some of the less savory stuff + christopher pre-character development again), but since her overall personality and desires haven't shifted much, it wouldn't be hard to like. try to use what she knows to go through the whole thing faster? (itwom speedrun any %)

meanwhile, if post-itwom christopher woke up a year in the past, to a danny that didn't know / hated him and a nathan who was still estranged, i imagine that would, ah. be a significant amount of mental and emotional damage at first, to say the least.

apologies if this makes no sense!! this is how you know i'm super into a work of fiction, when i start imagining the characters in time travel/loop scenarios, lmao, like. -cutely holds up the mirror of the past to my fav charas so they're physically confronted with the changes they've gone through and the people they used to be, for better or worse-

Dude, I love this idea a lot. I've never experimented with specifically time travel like this, but you're right, it presents a lot of interesting opportunities.

Danny being the one to go back in time would be hilarious. I can just picture her waiting for Max to kidnap her and knocking him the fuck out before having Nathan take him back to Christopher's the next day like "missing something?"

She would be 10x more confident if she knew that most of Christopher's antics in the beginning are just bluster, and she had an arsenal of personal information to use against him. I imagine Christopher would be confused and very scared xD

If it was Christopher who went back in time, oh man. If it was before he kidnapped Danny, he could probably work things out with minimal issues, apologize to Nathan, and turn over a new leaf (again) - this time without inflicting a lot of emotional pain onto the people he loved. He would feel much worse if he somehow got thrown back in time after chapter 3 somehow - it would not be pleasant to relive a lot of the hurt he'd inflicted, even if he could now take the initiative to make it better.

I personally have lots of fantasies about what I'd do if I went back in time knowing what I do now, and what I would change. So thinking about how my characters would react is interesting as well. Maybe it's something I'll explore in an rp with a friend one day?

[eightwholebreads]

doccy who thoughts

This series was basically fine so long as yo don't actually think about any of it. Moment to moment is fine but overall its like well okay what was all that even about. After the specials it ws very clear that this just wasn't going to be a good jumping on point for people. (idk maybe it is but idk because I've seen most of nuwho and that can't be undone). I do feel like if series 1 was written by RTD as a fan wanting to write for people his age and maybe younger then this series was written for their kids. Personally I'm not that fussed about the optimistic and energetic tone but whatever I can sit with it for 45 minutes a week fair enough.

This was a really weird series too. Of the 7 stories, the doctor more or less wasn't in 2 of them and completely immobilised in one AND those episodes were 3 in a row.

Episode opinions summary

Space babies: cringe. Didn't enjoy it. When they weren't doing the basic plot they were speedrunning dw lore. There was a couple of good ideas in there but I didn't enjoy it

Devil's chord: Okay. And probably not much better than okay. Maestro was alot of fun but the actual plot was kind of eh. The musical number at the end was fine and whatever. I didn't enjoy it but I'm sure someone out there did.

Boom: Good. I was wondering how moffat would trap ruby in a b plot and then she spent most of the episode unconscious

73 yards: Interesting but didn't do it for me at all. Whatever

Dot and bubble: The slug thing actually scared me a bit like imagine walking into something you're not even aware of augh. I'm sort of going back and forth on whether the racism twist was actually good or not. I watched josh must win by coincidence shortly before this episode and you could feel maybe similar thought processes in that show where several of the other contestants were saying stuff like Oh he just needs to try more and I don't think he's comfortable here so I hope he gets voted out. Like the thought processes sort of look similar from the outside where you can't see the underpinning mechanism and its one people can fall into from various different angles so when the underpinning mechanism turned out to just be space racists it was like oh so now we don't have to think about our own possible behaviour because they're doing it about this one specific and unacceptable thing. On the other hand it is made for all ages and keeping it simple means you're less likely to lose people and the final scene was pretty good. Basically most of my criticism boils down to "ah this episode didn't do what I thought it would" so whatever.

Rouge: Oh boy I sure hope the doctor and rouge flirting doesn't take up the whole episode. Romance isn't my thing but I can appreciate it as a little side dish to a decent episode... and then the romance takes up the whole episode

The legend of ruby sunday: setup. The time window scene was neat. Literally don't understand why classic fans were all Oh maybe the nuwho only peeps won't understand sutekh. Yeah they make it super clear he's the (probably egyptian) god of death. Easy to understand

Empire of death: Eh. The payoffs didn't really work. The solutions were cheap and based on lying to the audience. The final few scenes really worked. I don't particularly care for the drama stuff but they worked.

Excited for christmas? No not really but I'll still watch it and the next series. Not as actively irritating as the moffat era, not as crushingly dull as the chibnall era.

[romanianwilkinson]

MONSTER CAMP QUOTES STARTERS

A collection of sentence starters from the game Monster Camp. Feel free to change words and pronouns as desired. CONTENT WARNING(S) FOR: Monster Prom/Monster Camp spoilers, suggestive, cursing, crude content

“ I just have it here because [NAME] insisted that I offer it, as a marketing stunt. ”

“ And lastly, super-horny-type players no longer get a charm buff against tsundere types! ”

“ War machines don’t turn me on or anything! ”

“ I don’t wanna be weird, but do you mind if I climb inside of you and play around with your main turret? ”

“ A wine to DIE for, you say? Well, darling, don’t threaten me with a good time! ”

“ This one just says ‘ hmu with that reaper dick, daddy ’. ”

“ You on your phone, as always! Probably making blogposts on your Tik Tok page. ”

“ Yeah, you really don’t want to witness a repeat of the last time [NAME]��s diehard fans went without a selfie for fifteen minutes. My tailbone still hasn’t completely healed. ”

“ Now hold still, this will only hurt for a moment --- ”

“ Yay! You found a shenanigan! ”

“ My poems all have two or three emotions in them, AT LEAST. ”

“ CRYING IS OBVIOUSLY A COMPETITION TO SEE WHO CAN SQUEEZE THE MOST WATER OUT OF THEIR EYES! ”

“ No way, really? The way to WIN at poetry is by LOSING at life? ”

“ I dunno, maybe fall in love with someone who’s married and develop an opioid addiction? ”

“ HELL YEAH, SPEEDRUN! ”

“ It’s morbid, but... kind of romantic? ”

“ GASP! Google+? Are you kidding me? The psychopaths behind that global tragedy are here?! ”

“ Prison has changed me, [NAME]. Would you like to trade me some cigarettes in exchange for my fundamental dignity? ”

“ Undermining the laws of reality, subverting life and death, that’s the kind of stuff my followers expect. But CHEATING? No way. ”

“ Though we are imprisoned in chalk jail, we are free in our hearts. But our hearts are also imprisoned in chalk jail. ”

“ Um, no, I am NOT groveling. I am posing a dignified query to [NAME] that just so happens to be performed on my hands and knees. ”

“ I didn’t know you condoned playing the friend card to get free labor, [NAME]. ”

“ Ah, but saving the world doesn’t put avocado toast on the table. We indie seancers and necromancers need to pay our rent too, you know. ”

“ And as you know, I am illustriously Internet-famous, so if you could shower me with adoration and give me the pizza that would be fabulous. ”

“ Do you wanna fuck the pizza or not? ”

“ Are you ready to go swimming? I must admit, darling, I’ve always wondered what you would look like while... wet.”

“ Did you turn this date into an orgy without consulting me? ”

“ Gosh, I love it when you insult me! Please do it more! ”

“ Now who wants to make a baby? ”

“ What if she puts a curse on me that makes me magically forget the location of the clitoris?! ”

“ Hey, don’t knock wacky decisions that endanger us all! That’s how I always manage to stay a step ahead of my nemeses! ”

“ Oh gods, I’ve killed so many monsters, just for being monsters. This is making me question my entire moral foundation. I NEED MORE THERAPY. ”

“ I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: fish give better pedicures than people! ”

“ You’re not tricking me into parenting a stupid egg. I’ve never fucked even ONE chicken! The egg is not my son! ”

“ You came to visit me at camp, Daddy! ”

“ Don’t be ridiculous, I know your brand of horny, [NAME], and this ain’t it. ”

“ I thought we both agreed to be nothing but vague and haughtily aloof about our past dalliances. ”

“ Point EAST, compass! EAAAAAAAAST! You dumb fuckboot!!!! POINT! EAST! ”

“ One time I was told a soul’s worst fear was bugs and I inadvertantly sent The Beatles. It happens to the best of us... And the worst of us. ”

“ SOMEDAY I SHALL DEFEAT YOUR FIVE STRANGE FEET! ”

“ Why do you keep suppressing your monster half? Embrace your true nature! ”

“ Wow. I didn't think this was possible, but I guess I was... wrong? About social media? Oh dear God, is this how grandparents feel?!?! Am I a GRANDPARENT?! ”

“ I don’t know! I was relying on my friends to cover up my bold and idiotic statement! ”

“ ... I ate the oars. ”

“ PSYCHE. The ocean can eat my ass. ”

“ So pucker up, [NAME]! I'm about to declare mouth war on your FACE! ”

“ YOU FOOLISHLY FOOLISH FOOL! You're showing our inexperience! YOUR HONOR, THE ENTIRE LEGAL TEAM PLEADS THE FIFTH! ”

“ That's right. I'm talking about a classic Transylvania Hot Tub, a Seth Brundle, and a REVERSE Reverse Romanian Wilkinson. ”

“ Sorry, I was in your ribcage seeing if I could use it to cut strips of crepe paper into confetti and then I got lost in your kidneys. ”

“ There's nothing sexier than a doomed romance between a dating sim player and a hot fictional character. ”

“ That's right! I secretly replaced one of you with a bear while no one was looking, to teach you a valuable lesson about the art of disguise! ”

“ Enchant my armor. I’m going into the lake. ”

“ For VIOLENCE REASONS! ” 

“ This stupid lake monster called me short the other day, but I was too low level to crush him like he deserved. ”

“ That dumb wet dinkhole won't know what hit him! But it will be me! I will hit him! ”

“ No, YOU'RE a fuckshark! Also, what does that even mean?! ”

“ You seriously didn't notice the enormous needles those interns jabbed into your veins as soon as [NAME] got here? “

“ It all makes sense! The Camp Dome is just an elaborate ploy to distract us from the giant mouth that eats campers! “

“ This is the BEST show I've ever seen in my life, which is now at an end! “

“ Am I high, or did he just tell us EXACTLY how to foil his evil scheme? “

“ What, like a few severed heads and visions of my grandpa screaming in horrendous pain are gonna freak me out? Where I'm from, you can buy that stuff at IKEA. “

“ ERROR: Due to the sixth mass extinction, the slaying of leprechauns is inadvisable. “

“ Then why do I have half-finished scarves, decoupage, pot-holders, friendship bracelets, and a taxidermied rabbit in my skeleton? “

“ The wang elemental. ”

“ I also have an uncle who works at Nintendo as a copy machine! “

“ What flavor of ice cream AM I?! Now I gotta know. HA! You know what I should be? 'Pistachio.' Because my outside is HARD, but I'm full of NUT. “

“ I mean, life is a bit like... this sandwich! No, stay with me, I'm going somewhere good with this. “

“ A survival situation without any sexy fun time isn't worth surviving in the first place. “

“ Rut the RUCK?! ”

“ The ' ambulance of the heart ' is just a regular ambulance! Ambulances treat all organs! ”

“ Yeah, that's why I made sure that my so-called ' emotional armor ' was also ' actual armor '. “

“ And being yourself is the key to living your dreams, which is the key to self actualization, which is the key to being really good at sex! “

“ So hot I'd buy that even without free shipping. 10/10, call me some time. “

“ Hi, quick question: does it count as kidnapping if I'm abducting you so you can help me do a thing you already agreed to help with? “

“ I could be wrong, but are you just upset because you DON'T have a skeleton that's inside your body? “

“ I'm gonna get SO FUCKING RELAXED MY HEAD WILL EXPLODE! “

“ Whoah, whoa, hold up. You're fucking my grandma? “

“ No, [NAME], that is a popcorn bag full of more dynamite. Put it down. “

“ I hear that at least 70% of people on Patreon aren't murderers! “

“ If you want cash, just rob banks like the rest of us! “

“ Did it work? Do you feel any less horny? ”

“ FUCK YEAH, LET'S PUNCH THAT MOUTH IN ITS MOUTH! “

“ Yes... incidentally, we are no longer allowed to enter Italy. “

“ Is anyone else turned on right now? ”

“ Yes! Yes! I know what you're feeling! I suddenly see how marrying a corpse isn't okay! “

“ JUST LET ME IMPROVE YOUR SELF ESTEEM, MORTAL! “

“ Look, choose whatever you want, but I'm not responsible for whatever you put in your mouth. ”

[catgrump]

Hiiii!!!! Would you be able to maybe write 👉👈 "tell me about yourself" for Sonia and Gundham? Maybe something that happens while the killing game is happening?

(Looks at my pile of requests)

(Sees Sondham)

Yeah fine lol

Y’all keep asking for my favorite ships while I’m anxiously waiting to release my new prompt list lmao stop that /hj

So uh this is actually College AU SORRY I had a much stronger idea for that

Ibuki is also here as Gundham’s sister cuz Gundham & Ibuki siblings make me go brrrrr

🌻🌻🌻

“You truly believe these photographs truly encompass my being?” Gundham asked, furrowing his brow at his phone’s screen

“Absotutely posalutely!” His sister Ibuki declared, clinging her chipped nail polish hands onto his shoulders, “Especially the one of you with the Devas; people are gonna go NUTS over that.”

“Hm,” Gundham pondered Ibuki’s choice in photos, but he has no experience with this sort of thing, so he trusts her judgement, “Now I am required to write a biography?”

“Yeah! Tell people about yourself so you can attract people who’d like you,” Ibuki explained, peering over his shoulder

“Do you have any suggestions?” He asked, his thumbs frozen in place, hovering above the screen

“Maybe like... hmmm,” Ibuki hummed as she thought, but then realized something, “Well hold on. Ibuki doesn’t know what you’re looking for here, my guy.”

“What I’m looking for?” Gundham needed clarification

“Well in Ibuki’s experience, bios for people who just want to hook up are REALLY different than bios of people who are looking for something more.”

“Ah, I see. I believe I would prefer a more substantial relationship.”

“Okay, so you should say in the bio you’re looking for that kind of commitment,” Ibuki chirped

Gundham started typing:

I seek a mortal brave enough to attempt to become my dark consort

“Oooh fun!” Ibuki encouraged him

“Do I need to declare any more?”

“Yeah yeah tell people what kind of stuff you like!”

He typed some more:

My Four Dark Devas of Destruction (featured in the third photograph) shall determine whether or not you are a worthy partner. Our courtship will not continue if they judge you unfavorably. This is not personal.

“Uh huh uh huh uh huh,” Ibuki enthusiastically nodded her head in approval

“I should specify that I have no preference for gender, I presume?”

“Yeah definitely!”

Bisexual

“If there’s nothing else you can think of, I think this is a good place to start,” Ibuki clapped her hands together in excitement

“Fantastic.”

“Now comes the fun part,” Ibuki leaned on her brother, resting her head on his shoulder as they got comfortable on his couch, “Swiping! Sometimes Ibuki just lays in bed for HOURS swiping for no reason.”

“Left is for those I do not wish to court, correct?”

“Yeah yeah and right is for people you’re interested in!”

Gundham and Ibuki spent a couple minutes reading profiles and swiping left on countless people who were obviously not good enough for Gundham— at least, that’s how Ibuki put it.

And then... they found her.

“Wait wait wait stop!!” Gundham’s eyes widened as his thumb froze over the phone, ceasing the swiping auto-pilot as Ibuki got his attention, “Look at HER!”

On screen was a photo of a beautiful blonde girl with piercing blue eyes, a dark plum lipstick adorning her pale face, backdropped by a wall of preserved flowers and sheer black curtains

Her profile read:

Sonia, 21

(She/Her, Bi) Come perform sacrifices under the full moon with me

Just kidding ... unless...

Gundham scrolled through the rest of her photos. She’s too good to be true. There’s a photo of her looking up from a book in a coffee shop with an adorable smile. There’s a selfie where a rose quartz pendant shines between her collarbones. She has high quality photos of her posing with friends in a field of wheat. She’s gorgeous.

“Gundham, if you don’t swipe right I don’t know who you are anymore,” Ibuki told him

So he did just that.

And his heart quickened its beat when the screen suddenly changed.

It’s a match!

“Oh my gawd, Gundham YES you gotta send her a message!” Ibuki giddily encouraged him

“What would I tell her?”

“That she’s really pretty and you want to get to know her or something!”

His phone vibrated in his palm. She messaged first.

“You are the most interesting person I have seen on tinder... probably ever! Tell me about yourself!”

“Good gods; what do I say?”

“Dude literally just talk about yourself.”

“You do not understand how difficult that is, Ibuki.”

“Okay, then ask her what she wants to know,” Ibuki suggested

“I thank you for your kind words. What do you wish to know?”

“Tell me about your Four Dark Devas of Destruction 🖤 They seem like perfect companions”

“Okay; she’s passing Ibuki’s tests so far,” Ibuki muttered, not even trying to hide that she was reading over his shoulder

“Yes, my Devas are simply bound to the bodies of what foolish mortals call ‘hamsters’, as their true forms can not be contained on this plane. They are loyal minions, and you are correct, worthy companions.”

And then he quickly added

“You appear to be as intelligent as you are beautiful. I admire it.”

Gundham felt his face heat up and his sister smacked his shoulder and gasped. “Look at you! Smooth as ice!”

“I am simply making an observation,” he attempted to defend himself

His phone vibrated again, and he quickly checked to see Sonia’s newest message

“Aw thank you 🖤 I know we have not been communicating for very long, but I sense the same about you. I can feel it in my guts!”

“Oh, she’s divine,” he whispered, clutching his hand to his mouth in awe

“Gundham, you’ve had tinder for less than a day and Ibuki thinks you’ve met the girl of your dreams. It’s like a tinder speedrun!” Ibuki laughed and then gasped, “Give her your number! Do it do it do it do it do it!”

And then his phone vibrated once more.

“I do not normally move this quickly to communicate off tinder, but I receive messages faster this way, and I must learn more about you: the fascinating and handsome man with his own minions 🖤”

She gave him her phone number.

If you enjoy my writing, you can leave me a tip on Ko-Fi if you’re able! 💛 Fics will always be free; this is just an additional way to support me.

[riacte]

Unnecessary Hermit MCC Team Speculation

So according to Scott, teams are in the works, applications likely closed a few days ago, MCC 14 date is known to participants, MCC Twitter says they’re gonna steal CPK’s spotlight after wishing him a happy birthday. So we’re getting MCC 14 relatively soon. Hence I’m making my 284927391 hermit MCC team speculation.

Hermit duos:

Actually I think we’ll be seeing more duos in MCC S2.

1) Hermits and Scott have probably realized hermit duos perform way better than trios/ quartet (the only hermit duo team that didn’t get to DB is the first time False and Ren played)

2) They wanna meet new people, but they also want to play with friends. So 2+2 will be a good combo. You can meet new people while having a buddy you a stick to.

False + Cub

I don’t think any of the hermits are confirmed to join (Doc has shown interest) but I feel these two would most likely be in MCC 14?

1) False has been in every MCC since debut

2) Cub plays every other MCC, and he skipped MCC 13

3) Most important of all, they’ve both been polishing their skills through parkour and speedrunning etc. I think they’re currently the most competitive of the hermits, so I won’t be surprised at all if they pair up for a competitive team.

False + Grian

A surprisingly popular duo in post-MCC 13 team predictions. I like them as a duo, and I used to think we’ll have a bigger chance of getting False + Cub/Ren, but now I think about, the team predictions may be right.

1) False has been with Ren and Cub for their first victory, so according to ✨meta✨ she’ll be with Grian for his first victory and her third. The Hermit Winner enabler.

2) Grian is the only hermit regular who hasn’t won yet, and really really wants to win (he said he was gonna cry himself to sleep after he lost MCC 13 lol)

3) False is seen as the most competitive

So if Grian wants to win and go full competitive, and I feel Scott will likely pair him with False. Also Reddit loves this duo apparently. Another incentive.

False + Ren

Ah yes, the hermit team staple. Ex base-buddies my beloved. The duo that’s always been together. I miss them lmfao

I feel they’re gonna continue pairing up because False said she’s gonna collect all ranks with Ren? Also I feel Ren likely asks for False every time (Scott said someone asked for False back in MCC 9, we thought it was H, but apparently neither H or Fruit specified a person, so I guess it’s Ren. Makes sense because Ren’s with False literally every single time).

There’s not much to say except if they team up again, everyone saw it coming.

But also exactly because they’ve teamed up for so many times that they may decided to split for a MCC or two? That doesn’t seem to be what they’re doing though.

Ren + Cub

Honestly every time I think of this potential duo, I just see False sandwiched between them lmao. Because this a hermit trio. These two are probably False’s most frequent collaborators?? (Although there’s not much False and Ren collab this season)

Basically I somehow can’t see this happening without False. I’m sorry lmao

Grian + Cub

To a lot of people’s surprise, they haven’t teamed before. They’re probably the duo that collabs the least often on Hermitcraft so I kinda get why. Still wanna see this duo.

Grian + Ren

They’re close enough that they apparently visit each other irl. Which is very sweet. I can honestly see them as a duo, just chilling and having fun.

Hermit trios:

False + Ren + Grian/Cub. With the FRG trio happening more often in recent MCCs, FRC trio happening more often in the early, chill days. Hermit trio + S tier (aka. Lime Liches) is the most powerful version of hermit trios, and may even rival the strength of hermit duo + S tier teams.

FRG:

Honestly this seems like a feasible trio, especially when Cub skips a MCC/ plays with non hermits (MCC 7, 11, 12). There’s also the Lime Liches bias with this trio, so Scott might be more inclined to put them together?

Also if Cub skips, it means Scott will either have to make a hermit duo + solo hermit OR make a hermit trio. And Scott will probably put the solo hermit with hermit adjacent (eg. Grian with Pearl). Also pretty sure for this case, it’s gonna be False + Ren duo, Grian with hermit adjacent people just like MCC 9. That being said, MCC 9 was special because I think False and Ren specifically said they were gonna go competitive, while Grian not, so it makes sense for the split. For the current meta of competitive hermits, it might be easier for Scott to stuff the hermits together in a trio (eg. Lime Liches)??

FRC:

The last time this trio appeared was MCC 8. From that moment onwards, Cub has been in competitive teams either in a duo or solo, and had gotten to Dodgebolt in all his post-MCC 8 tourneys. So I honestly don’t know if we’ll see them together again. Maybe we’ll get something like Lime Liches.

New hermits:

I can see False-Ren-Doc as a trio for Doc’s first MCC.

1) This team appeared in CotC

2) To use Ren and Doc’s words: #ShipRendoc

3) Putting False here because I feel non hermits will be very ?!!???? at the Rendoc flirting

I can also see Iskall in a hermit trio. In particular Iskall-Grian-Ren

1) We got Team FRIC in MCC 5, so maybe something new?

2) Renskall. That’s it.

3) Everyone wants Grian-Iskall interaction, especially because they don’t collab that much this season compared to the last

But really I can see Iskall with every hermit regular. The reason I feel newcomers will be in trios not duos is that having two veterans to coach the newbie(s) is better than having one.

Hermit quartet

Genuinely don’t think this will happen if the hermits go competitive. Maybe we’ll get this for a chill MCC. Maybe not.

The hermit quartet in MCC 5 did pretty good though, but team standards have changed a lot since then. I kinda wanna see Iskall in another hermit quartet.

Others:

The famous Grian-False-Techno-Wilbur team, if you ignore the swearing thing and opposite Dodgebolt strategies. This team will have a fuckton of clout, probably comparable to MCC 13 Pink.

I actually feel this might happen because it’s highly popular and highly requested

But also 1) the swearing thing 2) Scott tends to put people who have similar attitudes (eg. hermits play with people who advocate arrow splitting) 3) they’re a powerful team. So maybe not.

Lime Liches. I seriously believe this might happen because of the very high demand and the Blue Bats bias. They got screwed over bc of parkour, many people think they deserve a redemption. They’re not too strong as a team either. It’ll be like MCC 8/9 Green.

Also the Fruit+Grian duo. I’m pretty sure this duo will happen at least once in S2. Grian famously commented he wants to team with Fruit, Fruit replied, even had an alt Twitch called “grianstanaccount”. Won’t be surprised at ALL if they ask for each other. Maybe this will happen along with LL redemption.

Hermits and H? This is to pacify the Blue Bats fandom. Also if we have hermit trio + Fruit, why not H lmao. But H said he wants to play with new people, and I think he said he wants to team with Puffy, sooo.... imagine we get sth like False Cub H Puffy. Lmao.

Hermits and Dream? I said I can’t see this happening, esp with Ren, but maybe Scott will do it for the Dreamslayer memes

Hermits and Quig? After Pete and Fruit, Quig is probably the most hermit friendly S tier. I think people said he would vibe well with the hermits. Quig is also involved in the X Life circle, which overlaps with the hermits’ circle.

Anyways. I’ve liked all Hermit teams so far, I’m sure Scott will make them fantastic as always. If you’ve reached this point, thank you for reading my pointless speculation. See you when MCC 14 teams are revealed :)

[ohnoiyo-yoyle]

TPOT 1 SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!!!!!

So! First off, tpot was soooooo goood like oh my gosh I didn't expect it to be that good and the intro was SO well animated and the character interactions and just aaaaaaahhhhh!!! Okay, maybe I'm overhyping it a bit but that's just how I feel. TPOT reignited that spark for BFB that was starting to kinda fade for me. Since Battle for BFB is more comedy based and silly I was starting to get a little bored with it, so it's nice to finally get started on a more, I guess serious? show that focuses on character interactions/relationships and development/arcs and all that. But anyways, ONTO THE HIGHLIGHTS!!!

So time passes in the bfdi world the same way as it does in ours. Good to know

Happy Flower

2 is a cryptid confirmed. Always there, always watching

Oh!! The Yoyle Needy is like, fallen over. Along with part of the mountain

How did that happen???^^^

“It’s time for Cake at Stake!” “What?” “I SAID IT’S TIME FOR CAKE AT STAKE!!!” “Get them up for me Nickel!!” “Huh?”

WOO NEW CONTESTANT YESSSS!!!!

OH!! THE ORIGINAL CAKE AT STAKE INTRO IS BACK!!!

I will admit, I will miss the epic™ remix, but it’s also nice to be back with the original! Feels nostalgic!!

The doodles!!! Omg I love them!

THEYRE SO CUTE WHAT THE HECK THEY REMIND ME OF THE REQUEST DRAWINGS WHEN THEY SIGN STUFF

“Oh! Now I remember!” “Good for you” *pauses, looks at camera* “So-”

Purple tomato (toe-mah-o)

Pen being positive and cheering up the newbie

Thanking the voters: Speedrun Edition

“Looks like it’s curtains for......” “Looks like it’s curtains for....” Ō—Ō

“Don’t you trust me Clock?!” “Uh, of course NOT-” “Well prepare to get over it!”

Ah yes, my favorite: Cammy, Blendy, and Onigiri...y....

Pencil >:(

awwww Foldy misses him so much

OH NO TAPEY!!!! I VOTED FOR THEM :((((((

NOOOOO TAGGY NOOOOOOOOOO

Well at the very least Winner won. I’d rather have an actual character be in the game instead of, y’know, nonexisty?

MmM! Tasty

*GASP* PRIME NUMBER!?!?!!!

Anime expression activate =͟͟͞͞(ō_ō)

Waaaiiit a minute....are they gonna

“We’ll have to add someone instead!!” PLEASE DONT GIVE ME FALSE HOPE AND ADD NONEXISTY AMD THEN IGNORE THE CONTESTANT’S PROTESTS OF THERE STILL BEING AN UNEVEN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE JUST FOR THE SAKE OF A JOKE PLEASE DON’T

41 + 0 = 41 OH MY GOSH IT’S ACTUALLY GONNA HAPPEN THEY’RE ACTUALLY GONNA ADD TAGGY

YYEEEEEESSSSSS YEEEEESSSSS YEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! OMGOMGOMGOMG YEESSSS!!!! THEY ADDED THEM HSJFBSHAKGNFBJK!!!!

They have such a cool gimmick with their face being emoticons and text!!!

At first I thought that Price Tag was a girl and Winner was a boy (based on their voices) and thought “Oh cool! The gender balance stays even then!” But now I know that they’re both non-binary and I’m thinking “Oh cool! The gender balance still stays even AND there are two canon non-binary characters!!!

The bfb/tpot crew really be out here, continuing to give to the lgbt+ community and I am all for that

“I take back all the things I said about Winner while I was down there!” H-honey? What did you say???

“You do equal 1 right?” “I can if you want me to! :D” “*gulp* $1”

Well at least 2 isn’t like the previous hosts where they shove the eliminated contenders into a tiny cramped space and give them sometimes less than the bare necessities. These guys get to chill in what’s pretty much a nice hotel (tho they might be locked in)

“Cool! So you wanna stay on the same team? ‘:D” “No :)” “oh.. okay. :0”

Donut and BarfBag frienship solidarity

W.O.A.H BUNCH RETURN!!!!! W.O.A.H. BUNCH RETURN!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Who the egg is that?”

Oh??!!?!?? Loser backstory?!?!?! In THIS SHOW?!!?!? It’s more likely than you think

Chicken nuggets

Clock is a Loser stan

OH NOOO CAKE NOOOOO

YAYYY CAKE AND NAILY FRIENDSHIP!!!!!

GOLF BALL AND TENNIS BALL FRIENDSHIP!!!! AND SHE EVEN SAID SHE APPRECIATES HIM!!!! THATS SO SWEET!!!!!!

Ha. Balls (as in actual balls. Not whatever you’re thinkin about, ya nasties)

Yay Pen and Eraser friendship!!! They’re finally on the same team!!!

Either you prevent death, or you’re a murderer. There’s no in-between

“Did someone say h8ers?!!!” She sounds like a skater kid

Blocky is no longer with us. We shall miss him greatly

OH NOO BASKETBALL SHE DIDNT MEAN YOU Oh oh well i- there she goes I guess

Two moms and their son

So can they actually see those logo things or what??

Aww Rocky actually wants to be with them!!! And he’s taking initiative!! Way to go buddy!!!

Awww noo Book!!!! She’s trying her best but ultimately, they’re right!!! She needs to leave them be and get some new friends!!!!!

Please don’t tell me she’ll be the next Leafy. But so far she seems to be heading in the right direction

Uhhh Pillow?? What are you doing hun?

Yeah!! Clock and Icy alliance!!

Zigzag crew woo!!!

AWW NO LIGHTNING!!!

“Don’t worry Lightning! You have me!l “I don’t really..want you.” oooooh!!

Epic™

This just.....this ^^^

THEY’RE SO CUTE TOGETHER WTF I LIVE THIS FRIENDSHIP SO FAR

And there was even the little beeping cashier sound when Price Tag changed faces omg I love little details like that!!!

Snowball: Gets owned. Me, @ Naily and Price Tag: Good for them

NO! Marker!!!

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture: An egg and a ball.

Basketball: They’re the same picture

“I thought you were gonna collect me! Ha!” “Ha...haha......ha”

Cloudy’s secretly a kidnapper 0_0

DeathPact be ruining Bottle’s good time and she having non of that

Pillow doesn’t know how to read

The >:3 intensifies

She’s trying.....so hard...to make friends

Yay!! Lightning turning over a new leaf!!

“Well, I’m sure whoever it is, they’re gunna be just f-huueughh....,”

Continues in Part 2!! Which will be out sometime tomorrow cause these things take long to make

[tartagliaxx]

hm, i was wondering if i should wait and save for eula or ask my friend to help me whale for venti? J said that he'd be fine with helping me whale for him, but well, it honestly doesn't feel right for me even though i already paid him back for helping me whale for xiao. i'm gonna save and try to pull for him on my birthday which is surprisingly close(???), time rlly does fly fast lmao

and maybe it's just me, but i don't rlly enjoy the mondstadt festival that much? it's cool and all, but it seems like any other day, just with dandelions and whirlwheel asters. i'm only playing the games to buy stuff from the event shop and i'm basically speedrunning through everything except story quests.

also, J told me that once he gets bored of genshin which to be fair, is pretty easy to get tired of once you reach a certain point, he'll give me his account. he has so many side accounts it's actually surprising he keeps track of them. i played on one of his accounts, which has keqing, ganyu, zhongli, albedo, qiqi and venti and he just said he'll give it to me??? admittedly, it's one of his smaller accounts, but that's still a lot of money. and they're built, like rlly rlly built. his lvl80 ganyu does like 14k with her aimed shot???

— r. anon

honestly, who do you vibe more? think less about the team mechanics and instead, focus more on who you enjoy looking at and playing as. at the end of the day, the point of games is to have fun! on another note, i know how it feels like to not be comfy abt whaling w someone else’s money. like someone gave me money as a gift and it felt wrong to use it for the game. logically thinking, its my money and im free to use it however i want but it still feels weird to use it for my gambling addiction.

omg omg omg... its your birthday????? am i overstepping my boundaries by asking you when that is? i want to give you a gift but ahhhhhh!! ooh! what if i write smth for you? thats exciting! i think? anw, if you’re rolling on your bday, i wish you all the luck in the world (and an advance happy birthday)!!

hmm i dont have very big feelings abt the festival. i like the atmosphere and the design a lot and the minigames are smth new as well. its a nice change of pace for me but i understand how it can be not-so appealing to others. maybe you’ll have more fun as new modes unlock?

thats his smaller account?! then damn,, what does his main look like? ah, to be rich that you can whale... a dream is what that is. to be fair, giving your account that you spent money on to someone who you know still plays and finds interest in the game is better than letting it rot in a forgotten corner. you must be really, really close friends if he can entrust you smth big. for me, it feels like there’s still so much to do and im in ar53. i took everything and by everything i meant everything so i feel like theres so much content to still unlock but i also know that when that content dries up, it’ll be easy to get bored. endgame in genshin doesnt feel like theres anything big yet.

hope you have a great day and take care! 💕

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S2 Ep 47: How Exactly Can Any of This Get Resolved In 2 Episodes?

Ah, it’s 4AM, and these people decided it was finally time to pass out after a day of getting tied to bandsaws, getting tied to anchors, getting abducted, getting possessed, getting tied to various types of chairs, building box forts to escape your abductors, falling off of the box forts you built, beating up like 8 people, falling madly in love with Serenity, throwing lots of dice at people, falling out of love with Serenity, learning to see for the first time after a very major operation, having a fistfight on the roof of a 4000 ft in the air blimp, eating a mountain of tacos at a buffet, falling into the ocean, driving a helicopter into a shipping crane, drowning, telling your school bully that you are a reincarnated Pharaoh, learning that your favorite playing card is your one true love who died 5000 years ago, getting dangled off of a 20ft rope tied to a flying helicopter, deciding that your favorite playing card is in fact NOT your one true love who died 5000 years ago, telling a bunch of strangers about that one time your baby brother killed your Dad after seeing a single motorcycle, and getting trapped in the Shadow Realm in a giant hourglass.

They’re pooped. And, we get a nice montage of all of Kaiba’s itty bitty luxury beds that were really only built for Yugi and Mokuba and have been just super inconvenient for everyone else.

And Joey is not dreaming about donuts, instead he’s having guilt dreams.

and then, yes, she in fact did chain herself up to a wall and he watched her drift away.

CONGRATS, GIRL!

Man, by Yugioh standards she just got engaged, right? Good thing everyone else thinks Bakura’s in a plot coma because that is going to be the most unexpected walk of shame.

Also in this montage, Kaiba is not sleeping, and is instead staying up on his computer researching dragons. Yeah. Sounds about right. I honestly can’t picture Seto asleep. I don’t think he does that. I think occasionally Seto kind of pauses wherever he’s sitting like a fish, does a quick Rem cycle, and then he’s back to furiously typing on whatever computer he’s sitting at 10 minutes later.

(read more under the cut)

Meanwhile, these two are duking it out on the roof. I reallllllly wish they were actually punching each other like Tristan and Duke showed us a few episodes back but, nah, it’s cards.

Again, no matter who wins this fight, it will be a very good outcome for our protagonists, so it’s really a fight between which of the evil dudes do you like more? Do you like the Local Nasty Boy Next Door who cannot go to card prom with you because he’s too busy stabbing himself in the arm and murdering? Or, do you prefer the New Cargo Pants obsessed boy in town who seems completely unaware of which century it is, what a blimp is, and what clothes are supposed to be worn with what clothes. Or, is your fave Oldstyle Cargo Pants, who committed atrocious acts of blasphemy, violence and murder just so he could drive a motorcycle around at a moderate speed while wearing a sensible helmet and senseless pink crop hoodie?

All of them really want to destroy/rule the world, all of them really want to kill god (well, Yami, so basically the laziest godform I’ve ever seen in an anime) and all of them probably smell like super bad. Make your bets, they’re all three gonna have a card fight.

And to make this duel somewhat more confusing, Marik likes to sort of take over Bakura’s body and shout at himself. It’s...there’s a lot of psychological stuff going on right now. Anyways, this is when we find out officially that Odion decided not to tell Marik that he killed his own Dad, and instead blamed it on Shadi.

So I guess that’s why Shadi’s been hiding this whole tourney? I mean, Shadi...just kind of peaced out...and like other than being an exposition dump I’m not sure why he ever bothered to come here today?

But because Marik was in Tea’s brain without me knowing, he overheard the true story for the first time, and he was like “ah yeah I’ve killed a loooot of people, this makes sense.”

Bakura has taken almost an entire season, but he’s decided that now he’s playing cards anyway, he wants the good kind. Bear in mind, Bakura was passed out during the other duels where we found out that God Cards are ass.

And I will say that like, in caps there’s some things I can’t really show you since they’re meant to move--but Bakura and Marik turning into pieces as they duel was visually a pretty fun idea. It felt like the animation team was really enjoying it. Like this was their duel to cap the season and so they made it as much a ridiculous spectacle as you can a paper card game. (and the animators probably welcomed a change of place, they’re running out of weird ways to place cards down on a very large watch)

And then we revisit a familiar locale.

So like...this place is different.

First off, my favorite giant green bowling pin is just...gone...and then second off, either Yugi is just getting older, or Yami is just taking up that much more space. But this room definitely wasn’t brick lined before, which is...that kind of says a lot about what Yugi’s been sacrificing to have this puzzle installed into his brain.

Also, apparently Yugi drew a fish once and he was so proud of it, that it got immortalized in here.

The red tomagachi is exactly like the one I had in Middle School. I killed it so many times. I also like how they dodged Nintendo copyright but still gave us a little nod that yes, Yugi is a Nintendo nerd but legally cannot say so. I actually went and looked up handheld systems, and this one looks a lot like the Gameboy Advance. I cannot imagine the spooky stories that happened involving this particular Gameboy Advance, and if maybe that’s why Yugi no longer plays the thing.

Like I’ve been catching up on some GDQ and with Yugi’s curse, do you think he CAN just casually play a video game? Or, do you think he’s just always speedrunning and breaking games whenever he sits down to them? Like he’s just naturally doing TAS runs every time he picks up a controller, glitching through walls and going to the final boss when he’s only at like level 2? Like when he picks up Pokemon he probably almost never has encounters, and then when he finally does it’s just MissingNo and he’s like “Man, I have like 20 of these, and they all look like ass! I just want a freakin rattata.”

Anyways, Yugi was feeling kind of bored here so he went across the hall to visit his friendly neighborhood parasite.

And so, much like how Marik has decided to have a heart to heart with himself on a very tall ledge, so has Yugi and Pharaoh. Except, they’re not having a chat about who killed their own Dad, because we have never seen that guy and he may as well not exist, it would make no difference on the show.

Unless there’s a twist coming up that Yugi killed his own Dad, which, even with this show, I think we can safely assume he has not.

I’m pretty sure.

Just angsting out in my mind labrynth with my 5000 year old emo ghost, wearing lots of guyliner and belts around both our necks. Staring into the abyss made of the convoluted maze of unused stairs and unopened doorways of my unraveling mind. Don’t mind me.

I can’t believe they brought up Shadi only to completely change the subject because even these two are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bro brings up that between the two of them, Pharaoh is a lot more hesitant about looking into his past. Something about people being stored underground for 5000 years and the murdering and all that extra stuff makes him maybe consider that maybe this power ain’t so great. So he’s just...decided not to open doors anymore. Yugi’s going to do it anyway, and Pharaoh will support him in that search, but Pharaoh alone is just fine not knowing if he was an evil asshole 5000 years ago. He doesn’t want to know or really see the point in finding out if it’s fact or not. There’s enough evidence already there. Ignorance is bliss and all that.

But it seems like if one is doubting the other has to not doubt just out of necessity. I don’t know what happens to this brain if both Yami and Yugi become depressed.

I mean like...

...

It was on the wall in the museum, right?

And like, Ishizu is down the hall and you could just ask her, right?

Shadi is around, he probably knows, or at least can go invisible and check.

The short term memory on all the children on this show, I swear. It’s almost as bad as real life children.

Anyway, the very last episode of the season is next and like...we made no steps towards resolving any of these plot strings so next episode is either going to be 4 hours long or it will just be a title card at the end of the episode that says “And then they all died! The end!” just like my very first stop motion animation feature when I was a wee tot, which honestly would probably make more sense than how they will probably end up tying all these lose ends. If they...ever do it.

Not holding out.

Anyway, if you just got here, this is a link to read all these recaps in chrono order from S1 Ep1, knock yourself out http://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

[therealeagal]

Go Team Lucifer.

That’s not a reference to the show, by the way. It’s a coincidence. Tom Welling isn’t important here. Not Tom Welling. The other one. Ellis? That sounds right. Tom Ellis isn’t important here either.

Being an internet philosopher (or fauxlosopher as I like to call us) is hard work, you know. You think I just come up with this stuff in the spur of the moment? Well, actually I usually do, but then I take a while to post them. Adding some stuff. Taking out others. Weighing the odds of testing the waters and potentially stirring the ire of the in-crowd, whose talent for outrage beggars the imagination.

I work hard to stimulate your minds with only the most sophisticated and classy material.

BOOOOBIIIIEEEESSSS

Only the best of content for you, my children.

Decide for yourselves whether my words have meaning or if they are just the ravings of a madman. Whichever you decide, don’t @ me, bro, as the kids are saying these days. I’m not here to debate, I’m just here to philosophize. Or fauxlosophize, as the case may be.

Let’s begin.

I think we’ve established in our years together that the only right side is my side.

This is especially true in regards to U.S. politics, which I have a profound disinterest in. If shit goes down, shit will go down with or without my involvement, so why bother? Fuck it. I’d rather be playing Yugioh.

I don’t want to brag or anything, but I think my Predaplant deck is pretty good. Ah, Predaplant Chimerafflesia, dark flower that blooms in my heart, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

“But Eagal!” I hear you say. “What if everyone thought the way you do?”

”But Eagal!” I hear you say. “Even if you’re not interested in politics they are still interested in you!”

"But Eagal!” I hear you say. “Something something something orange man bad!"

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Oh sorry, you bored me to sleep. Tell you what. You prove to me that my decision will affect the outcome and then I’ll consider voting.

And I’m not talking about some “every vote matters” nonsense, I mean specifically my vote.

If my single personal vote can measurably determine the outcome, such that without my single personal vote the side I wasn’t going to vote for would demonstrably win, then I’ll think about it.

And before I cast my vote you will throw me a parade honoring my actions and give me a presidential medal for valorous service to the country and also I get a Nobel Peace Prize. And also, all previous winners will be stripped of their titles for being inferior to my accomplishments. So hop to it.

But I digress.

American politics is like the eternal clash between the forces of order and chaos in Shin Megami Tensei. Whichever side you choose, everyone dies horribly and the only way to win is to either aim for the bad ending early so that you can unlock new game plus and thereby remove the annoying level cap for fusing demons, or not take a side at all.

Perhaps not coincidentally, as far as those factions are concerned, not taking a side is the same as taking the wrong side.

Well, if one is forced to choose between one or the other, chaos is usually the more tolerable of the two. Comparatively speaking.

So go Team Lucifer. Anarchy is better than totalitarianism, right? A fighting chance is better than no chance, I suppose. Lucifer usually knows the score.

Regardless of my disinterest in politics, it behooves me - as a benevolent supreme overlord of all that I behold - to bow to the will of the people. It’s what a good leader would do.

So if the American people want to continue the on-going crime against humanity that is their failure to elect me as their president via mass write-in votes, then I must support them.

Seeing how this is the case, I’ll root for Team Lucifer and support Joe Biden in his bid to become next president of these United States.

Talk about burying the lede.

I support Joe with or without (preferably with, but it’s not a deal-breaker) the condition that he immediately abdicate his position and install me as his successor. He’s who all the cool kids like and I do want to hang out with the cool kids. They’re just so cool!

Go Joe! A real American hero.

Get it? Like G.I. Joe. Truly, my wit surpasses all others.

Mind you, I’m still not voting.

Voting for the next president in America is a lot like gambling, except that even in the unlikely event that you win, whether you receive the prize you’re playing for or not is determined by a dude standing outside consulting the flight patterns of birds. And also you’re in Antarctica.

I’ve got better things to do than test my luck against an outcome whose certainty is not fixed. I get enough of that nonsense trying to get Vyr’s Proud Pauldrons from that asshole Kadala.

And that’s completely aside from the fact that he-who-shall-not-be-named is going to ignore the vote and stay in power anyway.

Personally I feel my time would be better spent playing Diablo 3. My least favorite class is Crusader. Good for clearing out lots of weaklings, terrible against single strong opponents. Or maybe I’m just not playing her right.

As for my favorite, I’m leaning Wizard. Witch Doctor is a close second.

Wanna talk about cruel irony. No sooner did I collect my Firebird set from the Seasonal rewards than did I start getting drops from the very same set. Complete bullshit. I could have gotten the Monk set instead, but noooooooo. I just had to get the Wizard set. Some bullshit.

Either way, I’m having a hell of a time clearing greater rifts past the last 30s. Not helping is that all the guides online require specific set pieces AND NOTHING EVER FUCKING DROPS SET PIECES 99.999999999999999999% OF THE TIME. And then there’s the agony of collecting like 5 of the 6 pieces and you keep picking up other pieces of the set that you already have AND THE FREAKING KANAI’S CUBE NEVER FREAKING REROLLS INTO THE PIECE I FREAKING NEED AND I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH FREAKING FORGOTTEN SOULS TO WASTE ON THIS BULLSHIT.

What were we talking about? Oh yes, well, I’m rooting for you, Odds and Evens Joe, reigning Sonic Rush Adventure speedrun world champion. I’m sure you’ll get the popular vote, what little good it will do you.

As for you, my legions of wonderful followers, vote Biden, or don’t. It’s all the same in the end. But there’s probably other stuff you can vote for where your votes won’t be a complete waste of time. Probably like mayors or some shit. Governors and district attorneys and shit. I don’t know. Look it up yourself.

I don’t know how he-who-shall-not-be-named’s prospective Caesar cosplay will affect those outcomes, but your chances are probably better in those cases. Can’t be worse.

So get out there and vote in...I wanna say November? Just not for POTUS. Unless you really want to.

I’d be more inclined to go along with it if I could reload an older save when I don’t get the result I want, in case there are better things to do before the dark lord destroys the universe or whatever. Worst case scenario, we could use the extra time to recruit a ragtag group of misfits and start grinding so we can rescue the princess from the castle.

I don’t know who the princess is in this analogy.

In closing, please accept this picture of Merkabah and Lucifer with Trump and Biden’s heads copy-pasted onto them. I couldn’t use the ones from Apocalypse since Merkabah’s always flashin' dose nips.

Go Team Lucifer, am I right? Am I right or am I right? I’m right, right?

TTFN.

[onychaos]

New updates

Let’s talk about what is going on. I shall go into “great detail” with these topics.

Oh boy, can’t wait to make the internet mad with my silly reasons.

You can CTRL + F to find the topic you wish to view if, things get too long to read. :P

Table of contents

Inactive Twitter

speedrunning

Streaming

Sonic Hack

New things

Inactive twitter

Ok, so, I’m sure 4 or 6 people noticed but my old twitter account @Soniksama is now inactive. I mean, it’s in the bio but people don’t read bios, that’s silly. Back on topic.

What does this mean for me? Well I’m fine and well. I feel pretty happy about doing this and making a new account. But I shall give my reasons for why I did this.

I wanted a new start

I wanted to start over on Twitter. I was not happy with the current account SonikSama. I wanted to have a do over and make a new name for myself, and distance myself from speedrunners and some people and toxic users

While I did have “friends” on the other account. My twitter was full of friends who left Twitter or couldn’t get back in. And the other side was people that followed me cause I was friends with someone else.

I like being followed, but if, it means being followed by people who are there, just to add a number to your follower count. I am the kind of guy where if, a friendship is not mutual in any way, it’s not worth having in my eyes. This is why I followed mutuals on my new account.

And I wanted to make new friends, my old friends, I have outgrew them

And I rather not be “known” as a speedrunner on my new account. I’m not too fond of speed running to begin with. I will talk about this, later on.

I wanted to re-brand myself as something else, using Sonik has got pretty old and it needs to be a change. And my Girlfriend gave me the best name.

I followed all the people who I have a mutual friendship with, and made one exception to someone who is not a mutual.

These are reasons that you will disagree with, but they are my reasons and hope you understand, if, not, oh well. I’m not gonna worry.

You might be asking “what’s the new Twitter account, Sonik?” Well, chances are, I’m following you. I am following people I trust, and are mutual friends.

There is a chance, I might have missed some friends. As long as you are still following @SonikSama on Twitter, I will be able to find you, If, you unfollow Soniksama, I’m not going to bother to look for you.

2. Speedrunning

I have been more off then on with speedrunning games. I do see the point. Yes, you speedrun to test yourself, and see if, you can improve your skills and beat your time, and maybe beat someone else time.

I can understand the drive to be better, and that’s great. But this hobby is a mixed bag. Speedrunning can bring the very best out of people, and it can bring the worst out of people. A double edge sword

I been “speedrunning” for far too long, and I reached my peak in speedrunning, and as such, I made a list of 10 games I have speedrun. You can view said list here. https://www.twitch.tv/collections/UoJnnnOx-xSHUw

While I no longer care for speedrunning, that much, and their community, ugh, I will still do SRL races, and Individual Levels of games. Who knows, I may add speedrunning to my future games, but who knows

But I have to see what the future holds, If I do any speedruns, I will upload them to Twitch but I won’t put them on SRC, at least, the sonic speedruns anyway.

You thought I was gonna say something bad about speedrunning. Didn’t you?

3. Streaming

Ah, this is something I lost interest in. I used to enjoy streaming to entertain viewers and chat with viewers, and other streamers. But as streaming gets more advanced on twitch, the harder it becomes to entertain viewers, let alone get any viewers.

I will give my reasons why I lost interest in streaming.

Shitty ISP or Twitch messing up.

There no one to really entertain anymore

I’m a small channel, I have no way of getting noticed or entertaining people

No one really watches, as most of the stuff I have done was done better by someone else.

I don’t enjoy streaming as much (After 5 years of streaming.. Damn, it has been that long), going from entertaining viewers to no one is a bummer.

“You should not worry about views, stream for fun” That used to work back in the old days of Twitch. Today, viewers seem to watch people speedruns, people rage at games, like fools, Social eating streams, IRL streams, and new game streams.

And the most common thing is Donation streams where people pay the streamer to watch freak out from bits or to donate for their “charity” Ugh.

*Streamer drama

It seems to be a common trend. Some shit is always going down. Twitch is full of nice people, but more than often, you meet the bastard who is nice but will stab you in the back later.

People assuming that other streamers are copying them, when they themselves copy others.

Or disgusting is, people ganging up on those who were done wrong.

Why should I bother to stream when no one shows up? I can’t really compete with other streamers or have anything to offer that hasn’t already been done.

With the way Twitch is now, it’s hard for small channels like me to get anywhere. You have to stay relevant, in order to keep up on Twitch’s rat race. Yes, Twitch gives us the power to host to give small or big channels time in the light but it’s kinda worthless as it gets used on “bigger” streamers

So, to end this part, I will be doing 5 streams, assuming things go well.

Dec 5th, Dec 10th, Dec 15th, Dec 20th, Dec 25th And 31st as one bonus stream to end the last stream on new years

Game list below

Sonic Colors (if it works, and I can find it.)

Mario Kart Wii

crypt of the necrodancer

mighty switch force

Super Meat Boy

Bonus stream

Once this happens, Any future streams will be for SRL races. But only time will tell how I will feel about streaming later in the future.

EDIT: I think I will take a break from streaming for a long while. :P

Sonic Hack

Boy. So I made a post about this topic. The main art for the hack is gone and level layout for Green hill Act one is, but it seems that levels that are edited will be wiped by some odd bug. So this hack is dead. It might just be a Special stage hack.

But it’s safe to say, this project is not gonna happen.

New things

I been getting back into recording Let’s plays

Working on game dev stuff.

I have plans on making a Youtube let’s play Discord server.

Been making reviews, and having fun

Been making new friends

Life has been pretty sweet. ‘v’

[svetlanabelikova]

JOURNALING V

content warning:

weight loss/talking about weight

medical/surgical discussions

it has been awhile since i updated anyone casually interested in this part of my life, hasn’t it. 

well, part of that is b/c i’ve been busy. holidays and everything, also i’ve started a work out routine, but i’ll get into that in a moment. also i didn’t have any doctor appointments for like, literally 3 weeks straight, which was nice. much better than speed running it like i had been.

today is 11.11.19, (make a wish if you believe in that sort of thing) and i’ve decided i no longer want surgery.

let me back up here.

so, let me re-read my last post just to remember what i need to fill in... ah yes, the fun i had w/ the x-ray. that feels like it happened months and months ago.

well, since then , i’ve been trying to get my life a lot more organized. i’ve started a (bullet) journal (mostly b/c i love watching the aesthetic set-up videos on youtube) and in it have been tracking my progress by the numbers. for the first few weeks of trying to lose weight, i was weighing myself every other day, sometimes more than that. i became obsessive and felt like the numbers weren’t enough. i wasn’t losing enough and one weekend i had gained back like 1.7 lbs or something. but seeing any increase in the numbers upset me. even though when we are talking about 1 or 2 pounds in someone that’s got over 300 of them, it isn’t the same as if someone is more like a buck fifty. 

being able to put it down somewhere physical and then keep a log so i can see the numbers adding up or going down in a catalog has been very helpful for my mental health. having just the numbers on a paper has allowed me to watch my weight go from 349 in the beginning of october to where it currently is (or was as of 11.6 i only weigh myself every other wednesday. why wednesday and why every other week, i don’t know. it just seemed like more than once a month but less than every week. a good distance between not enough and too much) which is 329 lbs. 

when put to paper, 20 pounds in a month is, i think, great. i know everyone says “oh the first 10-12 pounds comes off so easily!” but not from where i’m standing. i have been working for those 20 pounds. 

speaking of working, let’s dig into that piece of proverbial pie i teased earlier. 

i have a work-out routine. which is the first time i’ve said that in,,, probably ever. i know while in school i technically had one in p.e. class but let’s be honest. i did not give it my all and would take any opportunity to skip if i could. now it is just me, alone w/ my dark synthwave music and the pedometer built into pokemon go.

yeah, i could download a real work-out app that would track this stuff for me, but my phone’s memory is full to bursting and listen, i need to walk my buddy and eggs. i’ve got friends on pokemon go that need gifts and it is already built-in w/ this new adventure sync, so might as well use what i have.

so, i work out every monday, wednesday and friday night. i usually leave the house a little before 9pm and try to be back a little after 10pm. just about an hour. in that hour i walk down my street (which is pretty long imo), around the corner to the pokestop at the park, around the park, back down my street and return home. in the beginning i just walked around my street, or just to the stop (which is 0.7km from my front door) but as i’ve built up stamina, i’ve been able to walk all the way around the park. actually my goal for november, is to start walking around the park twice a night, at least once a week. 

on average it is about 3,400 steps(or roughly 3.5 kms) and an hour of activity, 3 nights a week. i doesn’t seem like a lot but:

1. it is an hour of cardio every other day that i was not doing before, and 2. additional movement that adds up

i walked a combined 40,881 steps in october 2019 while working out. that is on top of whatever else i did while shopping or playing w/ the kids or what have you. 

and i plan to add more. i found a great video on youtube that is all about basic, beginner yoga for curvy people. the instructor talks about doing yoga to your size and abilities and not letting anyone tell you that you can’t do yoga b/c you’re fat. i don’t buy into the idea that yoga can directly help you loose large amounts of weight, but what it will do is help build up muscle in my legs and relieve tension in my back, which will then allow me to walk longer and w/ less pain. after forty minutes or so of fast walking, my knee starts to scream and my back burns. hopefully by adding in this yoga that concentrates on thighs, calves and back, where most big people have issues, it will help me target issue areas, deal w/ them in a low-impact way, then save energy and build up stamina to push myself in other ways.

i also want to eventually start adding weight training into my work-out routine.  gods, it still sounds so bougee to say i have a ‘work out routine’, but there you have it. 

i’ve also begun to overhaul my eating habits. for breakfast, 6 days a week, i have a protein shake. water and soy milk mixed w/ a plant-based protein powder and an additive of instant coffee. sugar free, dairy free. and awful. i hate them. i’ve tried a few different ones and they are all fucking awful, but i drink them anyway. 

i also usually eat a salad or soup for lunch. i’ve been finding a lot of really great salad combinations on top of rediscovering my love of salads. when i first went vegetarian, i was big into salads but eventually, it became easier to buy those premade, frozen veggie-friendly meals. like all that Amys’ food or the MorningStar brand (which still conjures ideas of satan-worshipping vegans, but hey, i can dig it). i’m trying to find pre-paired salad meals. i found this really good asian inspired salad that had friend wonton strips and a wonderful sesame seed sauce. so good. each bag can make 3 lunches for me, so it is great to stretch them out. also did you know that most cans of soup are technically 2 servings? i didn’t.

that was probably my biggest problem w/ food that i’ve addressed: what constitutes an actual serving size? 

before last month, i assumed a serving size was what looked right. like in the case of the soup, i assumed if it all fit in a soup bowl, it was 1 serving. 1 can of soup can fit in 1 soup bowl so it would make sense, right? nope. 1 serving of canned soup is actually about half the can or roughly 1 cup of liquid. which doesn’t seem like a lot. 

so i’ve stuck to salads. 2 and a half cups of salad is like, i don’t know, 35 cal. so, i can go hog wild, prepare a giant ramen bowl full of salad w/ carrots, onions, a sprinkle of slivered almonds, a splash of lite raspberry vinaigrette, and some sliced, uncured ham and that is lunch, baby!

dinner is pretty untouched, other than i eat on children’s plates now. i heard somewhere from some dietian on a show or something that eat on smaller plates, like children’s plates, helps trick your mind that you are eating more than you actually are. your eyes see a plate full up w/ food rather than eating a little food on a large plate, it is the same amount of “little food” but looks more filling on a little plate. i don’t know if it is true, but i feel like it helps me portion food out better. if a helping of potatoes can’t fit in the little sectioned off children’s plates, it is probably too much potatoes. rip

dessert has been downsized, if i have it at all. 3 thin oreos rather than like, a bowl of cereal. a 1/4 of soy ice cream rather than however much i can pile into a small bowl. 

so that is the update: breakfast is a protein shake lunch is soup or salad dinner is served on a child’s plate dessert is 3 thin oreos. 

maybe this week i will start keeping a calorie count, just to get an idea of what my average is compared to the 2,000 cal/day suggestion.

ok, so that was already a lot, but i did mention that i had suddenly taken a large left turn when it came to the surgery. my last journal update was all about how i was excited to blind, no walkthrough, speedrun this so i could get cleared for the surgery on like january 1, 2020. well, ha ha, nevermind. 

this latest class i went to was enlightening. i mean they all have been so far, for different reasons and in different ways. the first class was about what kind of choices we had. did we want to take mediation? did we want to go to food addicts anonymous? did we want surgery? so this new class i went to on 11.7, was a follow-up to the surgical path.

i was already on the fence about disfiguring my insides. the idea of slicing off 2/3 my stomach rearranging my intestines already sounds horrifyingly frankenstineian to me. it sounds like something midevil doctors would come up w/ while snorting morphine or something. but, i was assured that it was the best option, that it was incredibly safe, it was done all the time, it had great success, etc. 

i allowed myself to be talked into it. i relented and bought into the dream they were spinning for me. 

not after this class. the amount of insanity that is involved, even beyond, again, the whole cutting off and throwing away 2/3 of your stomach, there is some buck wild rules you have to abide after the surgery. i wrote them down (which i was the only one that did. in a class of 9-10 people, i was the only person taking notes and the only person horrified by what i was hearing):

- lose hair first 3-9 months (me, a person w/ thin hair: oh yikes) - will need to take as many as 12 vitamins a day (me, a person that hates taking any medication) - will not be able to take any medication other than liquid/pills will pass thru tiny stomach too fast to be effective (me, a person that hates liquid medication w/ a passion), only tylenol allowed; all medication from doctors must be liquid or chewable - 70% of patients need a follow-up surgery (WHAT) - no smoking (that’s fine) no alcohol (hang on....) after surgery. ever - ideal meals after surgery: 60-100g protein, 40-80g produce, no carbs, no sugar (wait...) - eat a meal every 4 hr.s or so (that seems like overkill) - no carbonated drinks, no drinks w/ sugar/cal (but i love my fizzy drinks :c this is bullshit) - chew each bite 20-30 times, every meal should last a half hour (that’s normal for me anyway, i’m a slow eater but idk how i’m supposed to chew soup 20-30 times) - 30 min.s of activity/day (got that covered, chief) - go to support groups (no thanks, don’t wanna listen to other ppl complain and the idea of being open to other ppl,,, in real life, where they can see me? absolutely not, how dare you) - 64oz of liquid/day (is that not normal? i already drink that much, if not more) - only able to drink a shotglass amount of liquid at a time or risk vomiting (WAIT) - drink every 15 min.s, possibly even during the night (HANG ON) - no drinks w/ meals, stop drinking about 30 min.s before meal and don’t resume until 30 min.s after meal otherwise it will wash food away too quickly to be absorbed by tiny stomach (HOLD THE HECKIN’ PHONE)

at w/ that, the instructor ended the class b/c there were no questions. i was in shock. all i wanted to do was be like those tik tok kids that recreate meme images but i wanted to become the living embodiment of this gif:

literally, i looked over at my mom, who was sipping on a soda and scrolling through facebook for most of the class and went “nevermind, i don’t want surgery”.

i think she thought i was joking. she laughed and waved it off, but the... the existential dread i felt in that moment. this,,,, this was what old howard was shooting for when he wrote about all that cosmic horror. this feeling that i was the only one seeing the insanity in that classroom.... i was the only one that realized that it was madness. how would a person drink 64oz od liquid a day, broken down into 1oz at a time, but not w/n an hour of eating and also having to eat every four hours. that means you’d have to somehow shove 64oz, broken down to 4oz an hour, for 3 hours, then not drink anything for an hour, over only 16 hours. you couldn’t drink anything for 4 of those hours while you eat your tiny baby meals for your tiny baby stomach. i’m not great at math but it doesn’t seem physically possible to me and yet everyone in the class were just nodding their heads like “yes, of course old chap. perfectly reasonable.”

i’d rather continue to starve myself, and work-out. theoretically, if i continue to lose about 20 pounds a month, i will lose my goal weight by may 2020. sure it would be faster w/ surgery. it might be technically easier w/ surgery but everything in my mind tells me that the surgery is wrong. that it isn’t sustainable. i don’t want this surgery and i certainly don’t want the second stage of this surgery 10 yr.s down the road. if you think cutting 2/3 of your stomach out is upsetting, the image of the second step surgery in which they take that rough banana shape of a stomach and stretch it out into what is effectively, A STRAW. 

A STRAW.

and once more: A STRAW!!

i could get behind having a banana-shaped stomach, but a straw in which the food literally just,,, falls through you is grotesque. 

gonna be a big, fatty NOPE from me, chief. hard pass. 

[ssghoulhaise]

hi! Could you help me with edits? I love your edits but I don't know how to do it... if you could help me... thanks!

hi anon! if you want me to go more in-depth/personal w some gfx advice, feel free to come off anon–but for now, lemme launch into “ssghoulhaise’s gfx basics speedrun” below the cut!

first and foremost–a lot of gfx is just making stuff up and deciding you like it. i’m sure there’s a lot more science behind it than what i’m gonna go into, but in my experience, a lot of it is just saying “hm maybe that would look good” and giving it a shot! i’m no expert by any means, but i’ve been made enough gfx that i’ve got some sort of semblance for pointers lmao

all righty, so the main things you’re gonna want to think about:

1. art you’re using

the key here is making sure that everything looks cohesive. for ex:

i probs wouldn’t use these pieces together. the emotions are different, the art styles are different, the colors are different–unless you do a lot of tinkering, having both of these in one photoset would look a lil funky. you’re gonna be all about cohesion, cohesion, cohesion. for the tg manga(s), i generally use this for tg and this for tgre. for just tg art, i use this site.

2. colors

more on the cohesion front–if you’re using multiple pics, try to get them to have similar color schemes. this might require some fiddling on your photo editing software, or maybe just being picky w the pics you use (tg uses a lot of red, white, and black, which makes life so much easier). a lot of the time what i’ll do is just make the first image in a set, then manipulate the images of the second to match the first–play w the color levels, up the exposure, add an effect, do whatever you gotta do to make them at least kinda matchy. 

3. text/font

this is kinda an off-branch of gfx–typography is optional but can end up being hella cool. if you take a lot of insp from poetry, quotes, words, it’s probs worth playing around w it. 

what a lot of gfx people do is settle in w a font; i’ve bounced around but as of late i’m stuck w bebas neue. what you do w those words/how you want them to look is up to you–certain fonts go w certain moods, certain sizes go w certain impacts. (think fancy fonts for philosophical/deep moods, blockier/futuristic ones for action/heavy emotions, small for quiet thoughts, big for loud thoughts. wow that was abstract as hell.) 

you can have have the words interact w the gfx subject, have them be small and a secondary focus–whatever you want. if you want more on that, feel free to ask–it probs warrants a second post lmao 

4. spacing

make sure there isn’t too much going on in the pic. make sure that the viewer’s eyes are drawn to the thing you want them to be drawn to, make sure the focus is not surrounded by a million other things that will distract from them. 

if it’s a multi-photo set, try to not have the subject in the same place each time. i like having the character move diagonally across the set (here’s a good example). try to use good quality pics (fuzzy pics often lose people’s attention) and choose dynamic poses/well-detailed ones. 

5. cohesion

ah, there’s that word again. but honestly, it’s the most most MOST important thing. whether it be art styles, colors, emotions, words–make sure they all go together. my tip would be to actively think of an emotion/message you’re trying to convey–center the set around a quote or a thought and stick w it. 

6. enjoy yourself!

it’s cheesy but like–don’t get too caught up in what everyone else is doing. you should enjoy making the graphic; it might get a little frustrating at points trying to fine tune and get the exact image you thought of in your head, but the moment when you get the image just the way you like it is always so satisfying. 

gfx is something you’ll learn through practice–cleaning is rough, eyeballing spacing/coloring is rough, picking/spacing words is rough. but the only way to improve is to practice! are you bad w textures? try a graphic w a shit ton of textures. need to work on colors? make a pallet and do a graphic w it. note your weaknesses and make yourself work on em

also: learn from your fellow gfx-makers! people have different strengths–looking at other gfx is a good way to draw insp and to learn your own weaknesses, as well as help you in developing your own unique style.

don’t get discouraged if your images don’t turn out the way you want them to at first or if they get breezed over on social media; it happens to everyone starting out. hell, it even happens after you’ve been here a while. people prefer different aesthetics–just do the style that you like the most, and you’ll find your people. 

whew, sorry for talking so much; this is honestly just a starter for the whole gfx shebang–if you want even more painful detail, shoot me another ask! and of course: good luck with your gfx! i’m sure they’ll turn out fantastic, and i’d love to see ‘em :D

[abundantchewtoys]

Hiveswap ‘17-09-17: Walkies and talkies

So, I wonder if, when we're playing as Jude, that we'll have to prep a pigeon with something she could use. A pigeon that, if I remember concept art correctly, will not reach Joey immediately but instead will end up in the kitchen. That will probably be why she chooses to leave her room in the first place. Come to think of it, the motivation might be twofold - retrieve the McGuffin, yes, sure, but also save an animal from harm, as she is want to do as a junior veterinarian. Let's see!

--- Hah, okay, so the walkie doesn't immediately appear in the lower left corner, it's made available to click on next to Joey's avatar. That's good, everything that minimizes the HUD is great in my book! I suppose the icons might be switched when we're being Jude. Heheh, the alert bubble coming out of the walkie reminds me of Pesterchum's. Blaperile jokes that there might be a psyche, that Jude isn't available to talk with yet. It would be funny and remind me of Homestuck, where it took way too long for the two characters to be able to interact too (until the introduction of the KIDDY CAMPER SASH, actually). Also, what if we now see the events from Jude, but slightly in the past? Leading up to him powering up his own walkie. Hmmmnah, that would be too confusing for people perhaps. So, the walkie when shown at the top is no longer available for combining stuff with, I wonde if when it's shown at the bottom, it is? Ooooh, Jude and Joey's text colors are switched with regard to their shirts symbols! Just like how it was with John and Jade! ... Joey doesn't understand blinking I mean morse code! Hahahaahh! Oh, but Jude has his own method of signaling, apparently. I... guess he never gave Joey a cipher. To prevent it from getting into the wrong hands, obviously. Thereby defeating the code of developing a secret code for communicating with others. <image 1>

"PLEASE REPORT BITE STATUS" Pffffffff. Now that's a quote to remember. As is "WAIT unover". I like how Jude is all formal and military over the comm - authorative-sounding, but also sounding like Karkat, except when he's saying "over"/"unover". I wonder if that's how he always talks or not. By which I mean, is that how he'd talk to Dammek too, once in Hauntswitch? Ah, first branching dialogue path, perhaps? "i'm fine / not great" At one point, these diverting paths will become plot-important, I don't really believe this one is yet. Ah, and Joey now tells Jude the monster's gone down the stairs. I wonder if Jude has a way to lock himself into the tree, beyond perhaps a measely hatch. "CRYPTID VANGUARD", hahahah. Yeah, these things are no bigfoot, but I suppose he could score major points with his webring if he could shoot a clear picture of them. Pfff, Jude has gotten the idea into his head the monster invasion was just a ruse. A distaction, you could say. I don't know what to think, he could have a point, sure, but having uttered the idea to Joey now, maybe it just means to show how paranoid he really can be. "ANTARES-CLASS CONSPIRACY" "what / uh... / what. over." Yeah, I'm with Joey. We're going with option three: "what. over." "TRUST IS CRUCIAL ON THE BATTLEFIELD" Oh, Jude has delusions of grandeur, too? :P You're no general, leave the blowharding to Amporas! Jude has a point to call into question Joey's skepticism - it reminds me of Jane's with regard to the batterwitch. It first started waivering after the last attempt on her life, at the end of Act 6 Act 1, I think. Granted, Prospitian visions were involved, but still. "MUST ABSCOND TO ATTIC JOEY" OOOoh, he wants her to barricade herself in in the attic? But then, there's the point of him leaving the hut's windows wide open. :P Also, yessssss, the first mention of "abscond"! I wasn't expecting it, but here it is. It goes good with Jude's quirk, all outdatedly sounding and such. Then again, Joey might do a youth roll out of Dammek's room later on, if that gets namedropped, then every term from Homestuck's on the table. "WELL STOCKED WITH TACTICAL MATERIEL" Ooooh, maybe Grandpa's artillery reserves are up there! I think we saw a blunderbuss or two in one of the concept art pictures, maybe that's up there too? Also, heh, instead of a submerged bombshelter, their house has a, uh... elevated bomb-crow's-nest. :P "TAKE LEFT OUT OF ROOM GO UP STAIRS / HIGHEST ROOM IN HOUSE / i know what the attic is jude!" PFfffffff, hahahah. Yeah, these were just directions for our own convenience. But from Joey's perspective, it's so weird - it's her house too, Jude! Hmmm, it would almost seem like this thing has been made for speedruns, if the attic is so easily available. Then again, maybe the attic key is missing or something. Well, we know what we must do now: once outside the room, go right, if possible. :D "I WAS WORRIED over" N'awww, for a moment there, it shows he's just been worried sick for his big sister. Oooooh, another dialog option! "call the cops / call our babysitter!" Yeah, Jude probably mistrusts the Hauntswitch police force (and seeing the hints we've been getting, I don't blame him?) PLUS it would be wild if we could call Roxy over. I mean Sitter. Of course, circumstances probably will prevent her from coming. For one, it's Friday night. She's going out without question. We're still choosing option two, though. Of course, Sitter would be of little use fighting monsters, you'd think. But this is Roxy Lalonde, she's probably carrying a home-made laser gun around, the precursor to the one Mom would have in the session. And plus, calling anyone will probably only work if Jude has a satellite phone up there. The landline is probably disabled by now. Okay, the monsters didn't cut the power, but still. "TOO LATE TO REACH HER AT LAB WORKING DAY LONG DONE over" OOOooooh! So she's already working at SKAIANET by now????? So, does that mean she's already older than 18, or just that instead of going to college she took an internship at the lab. Blaperile wonders if it's the same lab as Rose's house would be near. If so, that would put Hauntswitch somewhere in upstate New York, presumably! And yup, according to us, this is the first official confirmation she worked at a lab! Her labcoat + her bed being stationed in the lab were of course huge clues, but now it's been put into words. "oh no, you're right... / AGREED ON BOTH COUNTS" These two, but especially Jude. :P "BABYSITTER CAPABLE STRIFER, COULD HELP TIP SCALES" Namedrop for Strife! And yes, apart from guns she's also skilled in karate or some such, as we saw in Jack: Ascend. But for people unfamiliar with Homestuck, this must be a huge "uh, what?" moment. To think we might not have had this dialogue if we chose "call the cops" back there! "DO YOUR HAVE YOUR WEAPON over" ooooh, what could it be? The ballet shoes? Blaperile commented "I don't think it's her flashlight", but that reminds me she was using it to bop some of the monsters in a trailer, so yeah, that must be it! I would've chosen "sure don't", but talking to Blaperile reminds me that perhaps the flashlight is just a makeshift weapon. So we go with the middle dialog option. "what weapon? you mean my OLD weapon?" Ooooh, so she might have more than one??? "you want me to fight them? with my flashlight?" I knew it!!! "MUST BE BRAVE" Oh god, if we get him to say "I BELIEVE IN YOU", I swear... "YOUR BROTHER BELIEVES IN YOU AND KNOWS YOU CAN DEFEAT THE SERPENTS" Hahahahahahahah, close enough! <image 2>

"DO YOU RECALL WHERE WEAPON IS over / yeah" PFFfffffff, only one option? Dear god. :D That's helpful, isn't it? "yeah. it's in the closet" ooooh, the clothes closet, then? The one we hadn't opened yet, since there was no one to do a makeover montage with? "OK ALL SET THEN / no, i mean the hall closet" Aaaah, that's why we're not going straight to the attic. I assume the hall she means is downstairs. OOOOOOoooh, her posture and idling pose all changed! N'awww, she doesn't show it in dialog, but it sure calmed her down talking to Jude. In fact, she might have felt guilty for not being near him now, to protect him. It must've been a relief to know he's alright. Blaperile went to look at the hut: "You'd be SERIOUSLY mad if he got himself hurt trying to help you" N'awwww, it's so nice seeing how they interact and think of eachother. It's so different from other sibling pairs we've had in the past in Homestuck, due to them being the same age. The Strilondes, the Harleyberts, Kanaya and Karkat, the cherubs... OOoh, talking to Jude again makes Joey tell him she wants to write in her diary. That would mean the diary key will soon be lost to us, since after writing in it she puts it back into Puppy Surprise. So from here on out, only the Cherub Key will work. Limiting the number of combinations for What Pumpkin to consider, of course. Hah, trying to leave prompt her indeed to consider writing in her diary. "Exciting stuff happens to you once in a green moon! Or was it blue?" PFffffff, Blaperile is right, that's another sneaky reference to things to come, one of Alternia's moons is green! Ooooh, having written in the diary prompts additional dialog from Jude! ... These two XD "CLIIIIIIIIICK dial toooooooooooooooooone" "CAN SEE YOU THROUGH WINDOW / ARE MAKING SOUND WITH MOUTH over and out" It was meta though, since walkies can't indeed be hung up. Or at least, there's no way to turn the walkie off but still know when someone is trying to message you. Then again, that might be something Skaianet came up with. And okay, for now, that's the last time we can use the walkie, from here on out, it might just be us having to wait for Jude to contact us. Time to go out! ---- Oooh, there's the Mansion's music. Not Luigi's Mansion's, but the start of the motif reminds me of it. All these things to click on. And we even seem to have three ways to go, down the hall left (to the attic), or right to a T-crossing! Also, hi Sufferer Muppet. (Suffet?) And Pringles box. And everything. Hmm, those boney skulls, could those be masks from indigenous tribes? ... Jake loves skulls, of course. Tsssh, with those horns and feathory accessories they seem almost alien though. Is that pink penguin figure a Club Penguin reference? All these things related to Grandpa's interests. Conquistador helmet, weird arrow-globe/compass thingy... The horse paintings are a bit of a mystery though. I mean, considering it's more a Dirk/Andrew thing. Ah come on, the red cough in the foreground has horns too. .... Joey or Jude drew a cod piece on the painting in the foreground. A purple cod piece, looking just like Gamzee's, no less. All the alien stickers are testimony that Joey is not the only one vandalizing the walls. Also, I like the detail of the wall being spotted, from moisture. Blaperile noticed the paper men on Joey's room door. 6 in total, so there's one person in there we haven't heard being mentioned yet. I like Blaperile's theory it could be Jude's mother. I mean, there could be another reason Joey took Ms. Claire's name and Jude Grandpa's - she might just be making a statement after all, that she feels more like her mother's daughter than his. Also, you can't make a great pun like "JOEY CLAIRE, EXTRAORDINAIRE" with the Harley surname... or can you? Okay, so the 6th figure was Tesseract, ahahahah. And Joey's door is plastered with photos taken by the babysitter, n'awww. Also, she has a very nice signature! I hope we can get some in-detail shots of those pictures. I don't believe the cat that Tess is barking at is Mutini, it seems to have two eyes and a greying snout, but you never know! Plus, it could still be Roxy's. The pictures, especially the set from a photo cabin, really show how "babysitter" is really not covering what Roxy is to them. It's more, like "au pair". "Nanny", even. Almost, but not quite, "mother". Of course, a neglectful mother, that's drunk a lot of times, but still. It almost seems like she could be more loving to them than to Rose. Seeing as how she was so passive-aggressive... Also, she wrote "Dog don't do that!" on the lower picture, which might mean she cares just a bit less for Tesseract  than her own pets (since she's not calling her by name). Blaperile's right, she's more of a cat person. Welp, we can't take a closer look at the pictures after all. Oh well, it's all for the concept art book, I suppose. Okay, we talked to Jude first before clicking on any items. Yes. Pure golden. Jude pretending to have gone on training mission, and babbling on and on. "over an[CLICK]" The "globe-like structure" solicts the snarkiest response from Joey yet, perhaps. No mention of it also having a compass arrow, relating to her symbol. Wow, cool, I didn't spinning it would work. The artwork blends in so well with the backdrop. The horse painting shows us that Jude and Joey imagine stories behind this painting. When you're bored alone in a mansion as a kid, vandalizing the artwork is just one of many options. I like the contrast between not just Joey and Jude's typing style (Jude uses black not green colors here), but also the paper they used! CHERUB KEY + GLOBE: Hmmm... "you've always felt a difference of degrees is a difference of kind" I know it's a play on compasses, but it reminds me of the hemospectrum, a caste-system built on diverting blood colours. SHOES + GLOBE: "Maybe it's a tap dance detector?" Pfffff Oh, so there's Ms Claire's jewelry box. It's less ornate than I imagined it. CHERUB KEY + BOX Awww, yup, she took the key after her mom passed away. And that OPENED the box, wow! Welp, but we can't look inside. SHOES + BOX : So precious. Also, Pringles. SUFFET: ... Are you KIDDING me??? Jude shot it with an arrow. Just like Darkleer. ... At least Joey had her medkit to patch him up with that patch. 'there, all better' KEY + SUFFET ... Ah come on. Yeah, I think Sufferer would appreciate being let go, thank you very much. "Balinda" is the name of the statue. "Ballet + Belinda" And oh, that's how all the darts got here. "what crueler way to kill a ballerina than to tap dance her to death" WELLLLL she's got a point. (Or pointe, I should say. Well, she hasn't got a pointe just yet.) Also, that could actually happen in a tv murder series. Painting Two: Ah, so it was a naked lady before Joey and Jude scribbled over it. Grandpa, that's a bit in poor taste to leave hanging around. So maybe it was Jude added the cod piece. Is... is that a big foot puppet next to the couch? KEY + WATERGUN: Heh. Gunwater. Watergun. SHOES + WATERGUN: Ah yes, nestled in plush... : 'Look at that, it's not going anywhere' --- We're gonna leave it here, and go to the next part of the house the next time we play! It's a nice, busy mansion Joey lives in, and a lot of fun exploring.

[internetdetectives]

11/13/19 - Chat with BUP

mfgreth 9:53 PM: "A glitch e day”

BUP 9:58 PM: "BUP”

BUP 9:58 PM: "Was i pinged”

Xenquility 9:59 PM: "Probably not”

BUP 9:59 PM: "Ok then”

BUP 9:59 PM: "Xenquility”

Xenquility 10:00 PM: "?”

BUP 10:01 PM: "Its a nice moon out”

BUP 10:01 PM: "What is your season?”

Xenquility 10:01 PM: "Winter?”

BUP 10:01 PM: "You were born in winter?”

Xenquility 10:01 PM: "Indeed”

BUP 10:01 PM: "Ah hah”

BUP 10:01 PM: "Interesting”

Xenquility 10:02 PM: "Why is that interesting?”

BUP 10:02 PM: "Depends on what you believe in I guess”

Xenquility 10:03 PM: "How so”

BUP 10:03 PM: "Just making small talk”

BUP 10:03 PM: "Ancient beliefs would dictate that your strongest positive aura is in winter”

BUP 10:03 PM: "and your strongest negative energy is in summer”

Wolfcat 10:05 PM: "whose this guy”

otherLiam 10:05 PM: "actually you were pinged”

otherLiam 10:05 PM: "i pinged you”

otherLiam 10:05 PM: "hi”

Xenquility 10:05 PM: "This guy took over babel”

Wolfcat 10:05 PM: "oh nvm”

otherLiam 10:05 PM: "I was asking about your game proposal.”

Wolfcat 10:06 PM: "sup bup”

Xenquility 10:06 PM: "Auras? Sounds like something a certain celestial body of fire was talking about”

BUP 10:06 PM: "Okay well I legit dont know what you mean”

BUP 10:06 PM: "Anyways if you care about that sort of thing it means you would gain most beneficially from acts of kindness in winter and acts of self interest in summer”

Xenquility 10:07 PM: "What season were you born in?”

BUP 10:07 PM: "Spring”

otherLiam 10:07 PM: "you wanted to do some kinda speedrun challenge or something, and if we won we get information. but w/e if it wasn't serious”

Xenquility 10:07 PM: "Spring?”

Xenquility 10:07 PM: "Ah. So acts of self interest in the fall”

BUP 10:08 PM: "Oh the right the game”

BUP 10:08 PM: "If you can even manage to pull it together.”

BUP 10:08 PM: "I wasnt TOO worried about that”

BUP 10:08 PM: "I thought it would be fun :wink:”

otherLiam 10:09 PM: "I mean, we like knowing shit.”

otherLiam 10:09 PM: "We know so little shit.”

BUP 10:10 PM: "You know a lot of shit”

BUP 10:10 PM: "But not all the shit”

otherLiam 10:10 PM: "We know enough to get ourselves in trouble, I guess.”

BUP 10:10 PM: "I know all the shit”

otherLiam 10:11 PM: "And the way to know your shit is to... speedrun Breath of the Wild? or are there other options?”

BUP 10:11 PM: "Didn't have to be that”

BUP 10:11 PM: "What shit again specifically? I don't remember.”

BUP 10:11 PM: "Like i said i know it all”

BUP 10:11 PM: "Well almost.”

Xenquility 10:12 PM: "Stuff bout ghosty”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:13 PM: "the way bup talks is awfully familiar”

otherLiam 10:13 PM: "What you said before was you'd spill all of GhostBabel's dirt, although if you really know everything there's probably some things we'd rather know.”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:13 PM: "is it? “

BUP 10:14 PM: "Is it”

BUP 10:14 PM: "???”

otherLiam 10:15 PM: "I wouldn't know.”

BUP 10:16 PM: "Lost in his theories”

BUP 10:16 PM: "Last accusation was that I was SKM”

Xenquility 10:17 PM: "He's actually simple fucking flips”

BUP 10:17 PM: "Squaddie Kids Meals”

BUP 10:17 PM: "SKM true lore unlocked confirmed”

BUP 10:17 PM: "Just kidding”

otherLiam 10:19 PM: "Why "BUP"?”

BUP 10:19 PM: "Its funny”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:19 PM: ":BUP:”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:19 PM: "bup”

otherLiam 10:19 PM: "Man I'm gonna be sad if SimpleFlips is a cultist.”

BUP 10:19 PM: "But im a jevil”

BUP 10:19 PM: "Apparently”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:20 PM: ":Jefault:”

Xenquility 10:20 PM: "Jumbo Jevil”

BUP 10:20 PM: "I mean honestly its not a bad analysis based on how im handling this antagonist role”

otherLiam 10:21 PM: "I mean thus far you aren't much of an antagonist. You locked us out of talking to GhostBabel, whose been dark for months anyway.”

BUP 10:21 PM: "Wait i forgot the creepy meme line”

BUP 10:21 PM: "I'm a bad guy :wink:”

BUP 10:21 PM: "Ok ocd fixed”

BUP 10:21 PM: "I mean thats true”

BUP 10:21 PM: "Then maybe i should threaten something more drastic”

otherLiam 10:21 PM: "Sounds fun.”

Xenquility 10:21 PM: "Not really”

otherLiam 10:21 PM: "But then to keep your jevil status”

otherLiam 10:21 PM: "you have to offer a larger reward, too.”

BUP 10:22 PM: "Do i?”

Xenquility 10:22 PM: "That's a terrible idea”

otherLiam 10:22 PM: "Gotta keep your game fair and balanced.”

Xenquility 10:22 PM: "We dont need a bigger threat”

otherLiam 10:22 PM: "See, Xen's freaking out already.”

BUP 10:22 PM: "Or wouldn't it be more evil to just”

BUP 10:22 PM: "Alter the deal”

otherLiam 10:22 PM: "pray i do not alter it further” 

ADULT_LINK△ 10:22 PM: "jevils whole thing is that he's like. aware of reality on a layer higher than the player characters”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:22 PM: "and he's chaotic”

BUP 10:22 PM: "I mean”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:22 PM: "not neccicerrily evil”

BUP 10:22 PM: "Thats accurate”

Xenquility 10:23 PM: "Bupgm”

otherLiam 10:23 PM: "nah if you really want antagonist status you gotta be like Jigsaw or some shit”

BUP 10:23 PM: "Okay then”

Xenquility 10:23 PM: "No you don't”

otherLiam 10:23 PM: "otherwise you're just like any of these other clowns we gotta roll our eyes at”

Xenquility 10:23 PM: "Liam shut the hell up”

otherLiam 10:24 PM: "Jigsaw's classy, he's got rules and clear rewards and consequences”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:24 PM: "caliborn was based off shitty jigsaw memer from mspaint forums”

otherLiam 10:24 PM: "he's so good his franchise is still living off his rep despite his canon death”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:24 PM: "i say bup seems more gamzee-like, pretty chill so far but likely to go apeshit later on”

BUP 10:25 PM: "I'm only here because someone has been swatting the chessboard”

BUP 10:25 PM: "And it's pissing off the other pieces”

otherLiam 10:26 PM: "Who's that?”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:26 PM: ":hylotl_eyes:”

Xenquility 10:26 PM: "Some guy named wolf maybe”

Xenquility 10:26 PM: "Or ghost”

Xenquility 10:26 PM: "Someone messing up others plans”

BUP 10:26 PM: "Gost is smalltiem”

BUP 10:26 PM: "This is big brain hours”

Xenquility 10:27 PM: "Ay bup I got a question”

BUP 10:27 PM: "I have answer but i might not share”

BUP 10:27 PM: ":wink:”

Xenquility 10:27 PM: "Are you actually working with the bad guys, or are you just  messing with us for fun?”

otherLiam 10:27 PM: "lol which bad guys”

Wolfcat 10:27 PM: "Hey guys”

Wolfcat 10:27 PM: "Whoa, lotta new people”

Wolfcat 10:27 PM: "Why aren't we on Skype again?”

otherLiam 10:28 PM: "...”

otherLiam 10:28 PM: "shut up, wolf.”

Xenquility 10:28 PM: "Fighting words”

BUP 10:28 PM: "@otherLiam correct”

BUP 10:28 PM: "Or i mean”

BUP 10:28 PM: "That is the right question”

Wolfcat 10:28 PM: "OI”

otherLiam 10:28 PM: "Any way I can get a straight answer?”

Xenquility 10:28 PM: "Alright, which bad guys?”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:28 PM: "im just shitpostin lmao”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:29 PM: "unless....?”

BUP 10:29 PM: "Well the answer is both”

BUP 10:29 PM: "I am bad and also trolling”

BUP 10:29 PM: "But only cause i want to be”

BUP 10:29 PM: "This is an active decision I'm making”

otherLiam 10:29 PM: "I meant, a straight answer to "Which bad guys are you with"?”

BUP 10:30 PM: "The ones i assembled”

Xenquility 10:30 PM: "Which ones did you assemble?”

otherLiam 10:30 PM: "Oh man, we got a leader.”

otherLiam 10:30 PM: "This really is big brain hours.”

BUP 10:31 PM: ".img big brain hours”

BUP 10:32 PM: "Ok well”

BUP 10:32 PM: "I wont tell you because that spoils my whole game”

BUP 10:32 PM: "Not the little ones right now i mean the like big shebang”

Xenquility 10:32 PM: "Do you plan on ending the world?”

BUP 10:33 PM: "No”

otherLiam 10:33 PM: "Wow what a question.”

Xenquility 10:33 PM: "Cool”

Xenquility 10:33 PM: "So no Luna bullshit?”

BUP 10:33 PM: "Of course there is”

Xenquility 10:33 PM: "Damnit”

BUP 10:33 PM: "Its just not my personal goal”

otherLiam 10:33 PM: "Man that's refreshing, a villain with a plan beyond "Im gonna drop the moon".”

Xenquility 10:33 PM: "I know. I love this guy”

otherLiam 10:34 PM: "Can we fight you forever?”

BUP 10:34 PM: "You already have”

BUP 10:34 PM: "So to speak”

BUP 10:34 PM: "Well not 'forever'”

BUP 10:34 PM: "Ok well”

otherLiam 10:35 PM: "What you're saying is we've met before.”

BUP 10:35 PM: "I'll give you this then”

Wolfcat 10:35 PM: "Why why why why I don't fight you a lot forever?”

Xenquility 10:35 PM: "Sounds tenebris-esque”

BUP 10:35 PM: "I killed Yuuki”

BUP 10:35 PM: "Not directly”

BUP 10:35 PM: "I mean I didn't strangle her myself”

BUP 10:35 PM: "But i mqde the decision that led to it happening”

Xenquility 10:36 PM: "Oh my”

BUP 10:36 PM: "*made”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:36 PM: "haha oof”

otherLiam 10:36 PM: "Well that does narrow it down.”

BUP 10:36 PM: "Does it?”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:36 PM: "does it?”

Xenquility 10:36 PM: "Why did you decide to kill her?”

otherLiam 10:37 PM: "Kinda. Puts you in one of the two universes.”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:37 PM: "*four”

Xenquility 10:37 PM: "circle pizz off”

BUP 10:37 PM: "Now you're questioning where and who i am based upon a timeline theory”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:37 PM: ":angerymista:”

Wolfcat 10:37 PM: "She won't die.”

Xenquility 10:37 PM: "This guy could transcend timelines for all we know”

Wolfcat 10:37 PM: "Not if I can stop it.”

otherLiam 10:37 PM: "Wolf she's already dead.”

otherLiam 10:37 PM: "Bad news.”

otherLiam 10:37 PM: "We didn't stop it.”

BUP 10:38 PM: "@Wolfcat cry more”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:38 PM: "this is the wolfcat from the alternate universe where he has alzheimer's”

Xenquility 10:38 PM: "LMAO”

Wolfcat 10:38 PM: "You'll be the one crying at the end of this”

BUP 10:38 PM: "Good luck”

otherLiam 10:38 PM: "There's no need to be rude to BUP.”

Xenquility 10:38 PM: "Wolf don't be sad you still have Erika”

otherLiam 10:38 PM: "Just because he's our enemy doesn't mean we can't be friends.”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:38 PM: "would explain the skype avatar and asking why we arent on skype”

BUP 10:38 PM: "Hooe it goes better than last time wolf”

BUP 10:38 PM: "Hope*”

otherLiam 10:38 PM: "he's just wolfposting”

BUP 10:38 PM: "Man i am a typomaniac”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:38 PM: ":ZoomEyes:”

Wolfcat 10:39 PM: "I am preparing a place for her”

Xenquility 10:39 PM: "Can we stop trying to fit each person into a damn timeline and just accept we hardly have any clue if any of our theories are correct”

Wolfcat 10:39 PM: "A nice little home for us to live in”

Wolfcat 10:39 PM: "Forever”

BUP 10:39 PM: "Gross”

BUP 10:39 PM: "Hey wolf”

Wolfcat 10:39 PM: "Me, me, him, and her”

Wolfcat 10:39 PM: "yea”

otherLiam 10:39 PM: "yikes.”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:40 PM: "literally how do you think i wasn't shitposting last night”

Xenquility 10:40 PM: "I've lost so much faith in humanity I can't tell the difference anymore”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:40 PM: "i have lost the ability to tell who's being serious and who's fucking around in this server”

Xenquility 10:40 PM: "^”

otherLiam 10:40 PM: "I’m always serious.”

otherLiam 10:40 PM: ":wink:”

otherLiam 10:40 PM: "Oh wait”

otherLiam 10:40 PM: "“Cus I’m a good guy :wink: “”

Xenquility 10:41 PM: "i vote song of time lets go save yuuki guys hurray hurrah”

Xenquility 10:41 PM: ":BUP:”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:42 PM: ":BUP:”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:42 PM: "when the fuck did emojis get so big”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:42 PM: "why is my bup emoji so scuffed”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:42 PM: "one of the recent updates”

Xenquility 10:42 PM: "my bup can beat your bup”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:42 PM: "the update i got today broke my bandadged betterdiscord :c”

Xenquility 10:42 PM: "You got your bup on my bup!”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:42 PM: "i dont have any of my plugins”

Xenquility 10:42 PM: "No, you got your bup on my bup!”

Xenquility 10:42 PM: "Buput bupper bups”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:43 PM: "where did you get your bup”

Xenquility 10:43 PM: ":BUP: me baby”

Xenquility 10:43 PM: "hey @BUP do you own the M channel now?”

BUP 10:44 PM: "no”

Xenquility 10:44 PM: "cool”

BUP 10:45 PM: "Hey wolf”

Wolfcat 10:45 PM: "yes”

Xenquility 10:45 PM: "△”

Xenquility 10:45 PM: "-BUP”

Wolfcat 10:45 PM: "I'm already here”

Xenquility 10:45 PM: "Hey Greth posted that in the premiere chat”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:45 PM: "?”

Xenquility 10:46 PM: "Greth posted △ in the premiere chat for The End”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:46 PM: "ready for an outlandish alternate timeline theory that i wholeheartedly believe?”

Xenquility 10:46 PM: "(The Start Life video)”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:46 PM: "YES”

BUP 10:46 PM: "I'm ready”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:46 PM: "bup is AO helper”

Xenquility 10:46 PM: "of course”

Xenquility 10:46 PM: "genius”

BUP 10:46 PM: "god you wish”

Wolfcat 10:46 PM: "wholefartedly”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:46 PM: "lmao”

Xenquility 10:46 PM: "wholefeetedly”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:46 PM: "except he's not helpful at all”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:46 PM: "and is evil”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:46 PM: "but like”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:46 PM: "otherwise literally the same person”

Xenquility 10:46 PM: "bup is au luna”

BUP 10:46 PM: "oh!”

Xenquility 10:47 PM: "Wait”

BUP 10:47 PM: "guess what!”

BUP 10:47 PM: "that's super wrong”

Xenquility 10:47 PM: "https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/930c2484-4b61-4b34-9e86-d8d4858cf565/svn/backyard-x-scapes-fake-rocks-hdd-rof-rocsb-64_1000.jpg”

Xenquility 10:47 PM: “die fool”

Xenquility 10:47 PM: “bup is au Alex Hall”

Wolfcat 10:47 PM: "Helper is an ancient primordial being”

Xenquility 10:47 PM: "His master plan of evil was stealing our money”

Xenquility 10:47 PM: "Digital Fireside is his way of kidnapping celebrities to rule the world”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:47 PM: "bup is actually alex hall shitposting in ID and tyler is going to be very angery”

BUP 10:48 PM: "Tyler is angry anyways”

Xenquility 10:48 PM: "BUP is actually au BEN”

Xenquility 10:48 PM: "My evidence?”

Xenquility 10:48 PM: "Bup is three letters”

Xenquility 10:48 PM: "Ben is three letters”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:48 PM: "clearly bup is me but evil”

Wolfcat 10:48 PM: "BUP Soteetos”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:48 PM: "and uses capitals”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:48 PM: "the face from soteetos needs to be an emoji”

BUP 10:48 PM: "Wow i love how this entire dialogue is just speculating on who i am

and nothing that could actually hold my interest”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:49 PM: "bup is literally a toad”

BUP 10:49 PM: "you all are shart”

Wolfcat 10:49 PM: "They always ask who you are”

Wolfcat 10:49 PM: "But not how you are”

Xenquility 10:49 PM: "Specishiting”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:49 PM: "im not actuallu speculating i'm just fucking around”

Wolfcat 10:49 PM: "How are you tonight Bup”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:49 PM: "they always ask who you are”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:49 PM: "but never why you are”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:49 PM: "why are you bup?”

BUP 10:49 PM: "that's like asking for all the answers at once”

BUP 10:49 PM: "and you dont even know it”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:49 PM: ":sBup:”

Wolfcat 10:50 PM: "When are you Bup?”

BUP 10:50 PM: "now”

Xenquility 10:50 PM: "Do you want us dead?”

BUP 10:50 PM: "no”

Xenquility 10:50 PM: "Do you want Tyler dead?”

BUP 10:50 PM: "me personally?”

BUP 10:50 PM: "no”

BUP 10:50 PM: "actually not at all even”

BUP 10:50 PM: "well kinda but not really”

BUP 10:50 PM: "this is difficult to explain”

Xenquility 10:51 PM: "Are you worried about the fact the lc/ao people could very well end the world and all the fun in it if they succeed in calling down Luna?”

/Mr. Circle\ 10:51 PM: "this conversation is the ID equivalent of the extended version of that scene where weasel tells deadpool what his face looks like”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:51 PM: "lmao circo”

BUP 10:51 PM: "how many layers are you even on bro”

otherLiam 10:52 PM: "bro i leave to eat and suddenly yall are just throwin weird shit”

otherLiam 10:52 PM: "what does hold your interest, BUP?”

BUP 10:52 PM: "because that could all happen and me and my squad would go”

BUP 10:52 PM: "'ok well that was one way of our game ending'”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:52 PM: ":heckasmug:”

BUP 10:52 PM: "well game is putting it lightly”

Xenquility 10:52 PM: "Other than you, have we previously encountered anyone in your Squad?”

otherLiam 10:53 PM: "squaaaaaad”

BUP 10:53 PM: "literally everyone you've ever met”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:53 PM: "are you from the other ID”

BUP 10:53 PM: "is part of someone's squad”

BUP 10:53 PM: "and you dont even know it”

otherLiam 10:53 PM: "calling on the power of an ancient moon goddess #squadgoals”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:53 PM: "squadfam”

Xenquility 10:53 PM: "Is that eoeoeoeoeo guy affiliated with you?”

BUP 10:53 PM: "no”

Wolfcat 10:53 PM: "low leveled layer fools”

Xenquility 10:54 PM: "Oooo”

ARGDov 10:54 PM: "oof wow ok I missed some shit”

otherLiam 10:54 PM: "we’re just chattin with bup”

BUP 10:54 PM: "i mean there's the main squad”

BUP 10:54 PM: "and the we each separately have our own squaddies”

BUP 10:54 PM: "to play our games”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "huh”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "whats the main squad?”

BUP 10:55 PM: "i am using analogy”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "well, ok”

BUP 10:55 PM: "because i have to be mysterious”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "what squaddy are you a part of?”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "pfff”

otherLiam 10:55 PM: ":ghost: spooky”

Xenquility 10:55 PM: "Why does everyone have to be mysterious”

BUP 10:55 PM: "i am the master of my game”

Xenquility 10:55 PM: "No matter how it's presented the schtick gets a bit old”

otherLiam 10:55 PM: "one day we’ll meet someone that gives us a straight answer”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "because the other way is no fun”

otherLiam 10:55 PM: "i have faith”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "for them”

ARGDov 10:55 PM: "@BUP what game?”

Xenquility 10:56 PM: "WELL MAYBE THEY SHOULD THINK ABOUT OUR FELLINGS FOR ONCE ;-;”

Xenquility 10:56 PM: "(I'm kidding if that wasn't implied)”

BUP 10:56 PM: "okay do you remember kingdom hearts”

ARGDov 10:56 PM: "yes”

BUP 10:56 PM: "how those two idiot kids played chess”

Wolfcat 10:56 PM: "yes”

otherLiam 10:56 PM: "Oh no.”

ARGDov 10:56 PM: "I dont remember that but whatever”

otherLiam 10:56 PM: "It’s in the latest one.”

BUP 10:56 PM: "and then they xanatos gambited half the universe into simple and cleaning their way into death”

Wolfcat 10:56 PM: "xehanort and eraqus”

otherLiam 10:57 PM: "Yes.”

BUP 10:57 PM: "okay i am one of those guys in this situation but there are more kids with bad haircuts playing chess”

Xenquility 10:57 PM: "lmao any chance we could win the game?”

BUP 10:57 PM: "and its not actually like kingdom hearts at all”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:57 PM: "i dont know kingdom hearts”

otherLiam 10:58 PM: "I get the feeling we’re losing so badly at this point that it’s like in Mario Party when you’re in 4th but can steal a star to decide who wins.”

BUP 10:58 PM: "not really”

BUP 10:58 PM: "you saw how things are going in general”

BUP 10:58 PM: "at some point when lines blur”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:58 PM: "we just gotta hope BUP isnt Hard DK”

BUP 10:58 PM: "fun things sneak in”

Xenquility 10:59 PM: "Any chance you could tell us who eoeoeoeoeo is and/or if we've previously encountered him?”

BUP 10:59 PM: "you know fuck mario party honestly”

Xenquility 10:59 PM: "Mario party is awesome how dare you”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:59 PM: "wait you never answered”

ADULT_LINK△ 10:59 PM: "are you from the other ID”

ARGDov 10:59 PM: "wait when lines blur”

ARGDov 10:59 PM: "what do you mean lines blur”

Xenquility 10:59 PM: "Lines are pretty blurry right now and BUP is pretty fun”

ARGDov 10:59 PM: "and I thought he said he wasnt?”

BUP 10:59 PM: "i am from every ID”

Xenquility 10:59 PM: "Hey yugi”

ARGDov 10:59 PM: "EVERY ID?”

BUP 10:59 PM: "ye”

ARGDov 11:00 PM: "wait do you mean from every one of us as individuals”

BUP 11:00 PM: "no”

ARGDov 11:00 PM: "or every iteration of the group across the dimensions”

BUP 11:00 PM: "lmao”

BUP 11:00 PM: "kind of”

BUP 11:00 PM: "think broader”

BUP 11:00 PM: "but dont actually”

BUP 11:00 PM: "ive said too much”

ARGDov 11:00 PM: "ok”

BUP 11:00 PM: "my spider sense is tingling”

Xenquility 11:00 PM: "No you haven't”

ARGDov 11:00 PM: "headache forming”

ARGDov 11:00 PM: "and why is it tingling?”

Wolfcat 11:01 PM: "damn you spoiled the end of jid”

Xenquility 11:01 PM: "EPONAS SONG WE MUST STABALIZE HIM”

Xenquility 11:01 PM: "no jk”

ARGDov 11:01 PM: "lets not”

ARGDov 11:01 PM: "I guess hes gone?”

ARGDov 11:01 PM: "....ok then”

Xenquility 11:01 PM: "how did he spoil the end of jid exactly?”

BUP 11:01 PM: "what”

Wolfcat 11:01 PM: "i was talking about the roblox pic”

ARGDov 11:01 PM: "oh no you're still here”

ARGDov 11:01 PM: "shows what I know”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:01 PM: "we must become powerful”

otherLiam 11:01 PM: "wut”

ARGDov 11:01 PM: "@BUP why are your spidey senses tingling”

Wolfcat 11:01 PM: "damn”

BUP 11:01 PM: "from saying too much on that topic”

ARGDov 11:02 PM: "oh damn”

ARGDov 11:02 PM: "anyways hmm”

Xenquility 11:02 PM: "Think you could tell us about eoeoeoeoeo?”

BUP 11:02 PM: "i cant”

ARGDov 11:02 PM: "also- why are you here?”

BUP 11:02 PM: "because i dont know”

Xenquility 11:02 PM: "fuck”

Xenquility 11:02 PM: "oh”

BUP 11:02 PM: "not my purview fucko”

Wolfcat 11:02 PM: "more like purrview”

BUP 11:02 PM: "shut up furry”

Xenquility 11:02 PM: "more like purrvore”

BUP 11:03 PM: "okay goodbye”

ARGDov 11:03 PM: "still not answering my question”

Wolfcat 11:03 PM: "this guy knows whats up”

ARGDov 11:03 PM: "why are you here?”

Xenquility 11:03 PM: "something about he likes fun and games and shit”

Xenquility 11:03 PM: "Because every evil being likes to fuck with us”

Wolfcat 11:03 PM: "isnt that why we're all here?”

Xenquility 11:03 PM: "Can't blame them we're the epitome of retardation”

Wolfcat 11:04 PM: "we are homo ludens”

otherLiam 11:04 PM: "yall you gotta banter with bup”

ARGDov 11:04 PM: "we have been”

Wolfcat 11:04 PM: "no”

otherLiam 11:04 PM: "else they get bored”

Wolfcat 11:05 PM: "answer my question”

Wolfcat 11:05 PM: "answer my question now”

ARGDov 11:05 PM: "we'll Im trying to anyways”

Wolfcat 11:05 PM: "youre not answering my question”

otherLiam 11:05 PM: "no youve been interviewing him”

ARGDov 11:05 PM: "I cant just force banter”

Xenquility 11:05 PM: "Cool mr let's get bup to raise the stakes”

BUP 11:05 PM: "like CHILDREN”

BUP 11:05 PM: "ok what”

BUP 11:05 PM: "what is it”

BUP 11:05 PM: "god”

Xenquility 11:05 PM: "interviews are fun”

ARGDov 11:05 PM: "lol we are like children its true”

Wolfcat 11:05 PM: "@BUP”

Wolfcat 11:05 PM: "hi bup”

ARGDov 11:05 PM: "interviews are only fun when they're with vampires who may rip your head off if you arent careful”

otherLiam 11:05 PM: "wut”

BUP 11:06 PM: "that's true”

Xenquility 11:06 PM: "Are you assuming he's not a vampire?”

BUP 11:06 PM: "that gives me an idea for a game”

BUP 11:06 PM: "how about you interview me and if i don't like the question”

BUP 11:06 PM: "someone dies”

Wolfcat 11:06 PM: "sounds reasonable”

Xenquility 11:06 PM: "How about no?”

otherLiam 11:06 PM: "will it be someone important”

BUP 11:06 PM: "maybe”

BUP 11:06 PM: "maybe not”

otherLiam 11:06 PM: "can i call first dibs on dying”

BUP 11:06 PM: "no”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:06 PM: "can i die”

BUP 11:06 PM: "i have someone in mind”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:07 PM: "oh damn dibs got called”

Xenquility 11:07 PM: “That's ominous”

Wolfcat 11:07 PM: "damn”

Wolfcat 11:07 PM: "im starting to realize”

otherLiam 11:07 PM: "I mean I’d be down if you set rules for what you “don’t like”.”

otherLiam 11:07 PM: "Otherwise you could just say you don’t like every question.”

BUP 11:07 PM: "okay then”

BUP 11:07 PM: "1. yes and no / true false questions”

BUP 11:07 PM: "- none of these, i don't like em”

BUP 11:07 PM: "2. stop asking my identity”

BUP 11:07 PM: "3. No asking about Tyler”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:09 PM: "wait fuck thats a yes/no sorta”

Xenquility 11:09 PM: "Not really”

Xenquility 11:09 PM: "I thought it was good”

otherLiam 11:10 PM: "(please for the love of god submit these elsewhere for approval)”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:10 PM: "i mean he could literally answr with "yes" or "no" and refuse to elaborate”

otherLiam 11:10 PM: "(he’ll kill someone)”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:10 PM: "man, not asking a question that could be asnwered with a yes/no is hard”

ARGDov 11:11 PM: "ok fine, better questions than”

ARGDov 11:11 PM: "@BUP can you tell us what SKM and his brother have been up to?”

BUP 11:12 PM: "working with a group of hackers”

ARGDov 11:12 PM: "what on?”

BUP 11:12 PM: "computers”

otherLiam 11:12 PM: "pfft”

Wolfcat 11:12 PM: ":hmmm:”

ARGDov 11:12 PM: "hahhaha”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:12 PM: "do you have any suggestions for getting dried blood off a nintendo switch”

ARGDov 11:12 PM: "What are the hackers doing o nthe computers?”

otherLiam 11:12 PM: "soap and water thorin”

otherLiam 11:12 PM: "it’s hard plastic, not a fucking couch”

BUP 11:13 PM: "nail polish remover”

BUP 11:13 PM: "be careful”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:13 PM: "hm”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:13 PM: "aiight, thanks man”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:13 PM: "i'll look into getting some nail polish remover i guess”

Xenquility 11:14 PM: "What are Nocta and crew currently working on?”

BUP 11:14 PM: "try regular isopropyl rubbing alcohol first”

BUP 11:14 PM: "nail polish remover can sometime strip color from plastic”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:14 PM: "oh yikes, yeah i'll try rubbing alcohol first for sure then”

ARGDov 11:15 PM: "lmao we've lost track of the questions again”

ARGDov 11:15 PM: "that was fast”

otherLiam 11:15 PM: "I mean here’s an obvious question. Why are johnisdead.com and lunarchildren.com locked down?”

BUP 11:15 PM: "@Xenquility nocta is hiding”

ARGDov 11:15 PM: "why is he hiding?”

BUP 11:15 PM: "@ARGDov”

BUP 11:15 PM: "because of you all”

ARGDov 11:15 PM: "wait what did we do to scare him?”

otherLiam 11:15 PM: "Ooo we got him running scared.”

otherLiam 11:15 PM: "I mean we played a buncha magic songs at him and are actively trying to dig into his secret safe space”

Xenquility 11:16 PM: "What's going on with archives guy?”

ARGDov 11:16 PM: "eh, Im hoping for specifics”

BUP 11:17 PM: "archives guy is lost”

BUP 11:17 PM: "lost to me anyway”

BUP 11:17 PM: "i'm damn near omniscient but he went deep”

ARGDov 11:17 PM: "daaamn”

ARGDov 11:17 PM: "so hes still around”

ARGDov 11:17 PM: "good to know I guess”

BUP 11:17 PM: "somewhere”

ARGDov 11:18 PM: "Im still wondering what we did to scare off nocta”

BUP 11:18 PM: "well”

BUP 11:18 PM: "you didnt scare him off”

BUP 11:18 PM: "what you caused scared him off”

ARGDov 11:18 PM: "meaning....?”

Xenquility 11:18 PM: "Elegy”

BUP 11:18 PM: "that's part of it”

ARGDov 11:18 PM: "maybe let him answer before guessing lol”

ARGDov 11:18 PM: "ok, well, whats the rest of it?”

BUP 11:19 PM: "hmm”

otherLiam 11:19 PM: "If we did that, you’d be the only person asking questions.”

Xenquility 11:19 PM: "Posting the song of time or whatever on their forums probably didnt help either”

BUP 11:19 PM: "not sure that's safe to talk about here”

BUP 11:19 PM: "even for me”

ARGDov 11:19 PM: "well then y'all should ask some good ones too lol”

BUP 11:19 PM: "not that i'm scared”

ARGDov 11:19 PM: "ok,well, noted”

otherLiam 11:19 PM: "What exactly did the Elegy do?”

Xenquility 11:19 PM: "What keeps preventing people from talking about the stuff we need to know about?”

BUP 11:19 PM: "release an entity into that realm”

BUP 11:19 PM: "dont ask me what because i dont know”

BUP 11:19 PM: "rather, i dont care”

ARGDov 11:20 PM: "fair I suppose”

BUP 11:20 PM: "you can blame slinky”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:20 PM: "do you have any suggestions for our next move?”

Xenquility 11:20 PM: "Why are our two greth's in the past?”

BUP 11:21 PM: "@ADULT_LINK△ no”

BUP 11:21 PM: "@Xenquility because i thought it'd be useful”

BUP 11:21 PM: "and it was”

ARGDov 11:22 PM: "wait”

ARGDov 11:22 PM: "you did that”

Xenquility 11:22 PM: "For you, or for us?”

ARGDov 11:22 PM: "damn your powerful”

BUP 11:22 PM: "you know”

BUP 11:22 PM: "i am, and i'm really not”

ARGDov 11:23 PM: "ok, other question- should we be afraid of you?”

BUP 11:23 PM: "if only you could truly understand”

Xenquility 11:23 PM: "uh”

Xenquility 11:23 PM: "dov”

BUP 11:23 PM: "i think you should be afraid of any stranger willing to tell you what you want to hear”

ARGDov 11:23 PM: "thats true but I suppose wasnt my point lol”

BUP 11:23 PM: "it is.”

ARGDov 11:24 PM: "either way Im sure the point is moot”

ARGDov 11:24 PM: "hmmm ok other questions”

ARGDov 11:24 PM: "where is Tyler now? our universes tyler”

BUP 11:24 PM: "ding ding ding”

Xenquility 11:24 PM: ".....”

Wolfcat 11:24 PM: "welp”

Xenquility 11:24 PM: "DOV”

Xenquility 11:24 PM: "BOMB PLANS 3.0”

ARGDov 11:24 PM: "?”

Xenquility 11:25 PM: "3. No asking about Tyler”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:25 PM: "dov you dunce”

ARGDov 11:25 PM: "shit”

ARGDov 11:25 PM: "my bad sorry”

Wolfcat 11:25 PM: ":turboass:”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:25 PM: "welp you just killed someone”

ARGDov 11:25 PM: "what no I didnt”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:25 PM: ":rip:”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:25 PM: "yeah”

Xenquility 11:25 PM: "The punishment for asking a question he didn't like was someone dying”

ARGDov 11:25 PM: "FUCK”

ARGDov 11:25 PM: "IM SORRU”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:25 PM: "https://gyazo.com/a1beaf63b6873604c4424185a1835051”

Xenquility 11:25 PM: "Kill? yes”

otherLiam 11:26 PM: "Are you”

otherLiam 11:26 PM: "fucking”

ARGDov 11:26 PM: "@BUP sorry please dont kill someone :c”

otherLiam 11:26 PM: "serious.”

ARGDov 11:26 PM: "I FORGOT”

ARGDov 11:26 PM: "SORRY”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:26 PM: "dov you're like”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:26 PM: "a huge murderer now”

Wolfcat 11:26 PM: "kill dov in their place”

otherLiam 11:26 PM: "It’s THREE RULES.”

ARGDov 11:26 PM: "I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF QUESTIONS”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:26 PM: "you nearly killed people with bomb plans, you voted yes instantly on the kill vote, and now this”

Wolfcat 11:27 PM: ":hmmm:”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:27 PM: "oh shit is there more?”

ARGDov 11:27 PM: "no”

ARGDov 11:27 PM: "the runes didnt get anyone KILLED”

ARGDov 11:27 PM: "ok fine”

ARGDov 11:27 PM: "Im out of questions”

ARGDov 11:27 PM: "you fuckers think of something”

otherLiam 11:27 PM: "YOU THINK?!”

BUP 11:27 PM: "desperation makes me smile”

BUP 11:27 PM: "tbh”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:27 PM: "the bear jew strikes again”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:27 PM: "i uh. think the questions are over”

Xenquility 11:27 PM: "Who just died?”

Xenquility 11:27 PM: "lmao”

Wolfcat 11:27 PM: "you're out of questions”

Wolfcat 11:27 PM: "im out of time”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:27 PM: "unless we get to kill more people”

ARGDov 11:27 PM: "Im an otter actually.”

otherLiam 11:28 PM: "I have questions but I’m pretty sure you just game over’d us by spamming them.”

ARGDov 11:28 PM: "too skinny to be a bear”

BUP 11:28 PM: "I'll give you a choice”

BUP 11:28 PM: "how about this”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:28 PM: "you see, this is a reference to both the homosexual male lifestyle and the 2005 quentin tarantino film "inglourious basterds"”

BUP 11:28 PM: “I could kill someone you love, but is of little consequence to you now”

ARGDov 11:28 PM: "clearly you dont know your gay body types well circle”

BUP 11:28 PM: "Or i could kill someone you hate, but it would set you back far”

ARGDov 11:28 PM: "shit”

ARGDov 11:28 PM: "you mean to us as a group”

Xenquility 11:28 PM: "Alright who do we love?”

ARGDov 11:29 PM: "Im not picking this”

Xenquility 11:29 PM: "We love Tyler”

Xenquility 11:29 PM: "Moonman”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:29 PM: "the only person from the group that i like. hate”

Xenquility 11:29 PM: "Greth”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:29 PM: "kill mugen”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:29 PM: "woul dbe mugen”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:29 PM: "i swear to fuck if mugen is neccecarry”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:29 PM: "WHOM”

otherLiam 11:29 PM: "Who the fuck is this now”

Xenquility 11:29 PM: "Let's balance our options”

Xenquility 11:29 PM: "List off people we love”

otherLiam 11:29 PM: "look the choice is obvious here”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:29 PM: "whom'st dide”

Wolfcat 11:29 PM: "oh please give him some ideas”

otherLiam 11:29 PM: "we can’t afford any more setbacks.”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "I know who we should pick”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:30 PM: "i was joking please do not kill mugen”

otherLiam 11:30 PM: "We already have tons.”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "yeah we need to be calculating”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:30 PM: "hehe dide sounds like died”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "actually yes”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "next time someone asks a bad question”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "kill mugen”

otherLiam 11:30 PM: "Fuck our loved ones, necessary sacrifices.”

Xenquility 11:30 PM: "I concur”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "im inclined to agree with Liam”

Wolfcat 11:30 PM: "kill someone we love”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "although Im worried”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "bloods gonna be on my hands now :c”

Xenquility 11:30 PM: "If we get set back anymore, we're fucked and all our loved ones die”

otherLiam 11:30 PM: "YEAH NO SHIT”

ARGDov 11:30 PM: "oh fuck off Liam”

BUP 11:30 PM: "well it's done”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:31 PM: "dov this is like the eighth death you're responsible for”

ARGDov 11:31 PM: "someone else wouldve fucked it up if I hadnt”

ARGDov 11:31 PM: "....”

ARGDov 11:31 PM: "name the other ones”

otherLiam 11:31 PM: "Do we get to know who’s dead?”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:31 PM: "are you sure about that”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:31 PM: "technically maybe more”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:31 PM: "i'd like to know who we just killed as well” 

ARGDov 11:31 PM: "same”

otherLiam 11:31 PM: "Yeah but like, which loved one”

BUP 11:31 PM: "you see it's funny when you can play with the rules”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:31 PM: "hold on, someone's knocking at m”

ARGDov 11:31 PM: "if its greth Im going to be extremely upset”

ARGDov 11:31 PM: "NO”

BUP 11:32 PM: "because to you”

BUP 11:32 PM: "theyre already dead”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "lmao fuck off circle”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "......oh SHIT”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "PARADOX”

Xenquility 11:32 PM: "uh”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "WAIT HOLY FUCK”

otherLiam 11:32 PM: "Oh ffs we just killed Yuuki.”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "YUKI”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "DID WE JUST KILL YIKI AGAN”

Xenquility 11:32 PM: "LMAO”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "YUUKI”

otherLiam 11:32 PM: "In the past.”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "GAAAAAAAH”

BUP 11:32 PM: "i told you before”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "that would explain earlier lmao”

otherLiam 11:32 PM: "@Wolfcat dov killed your waifu”

Xenquility 11:32 PM: "Well that was better than I expected”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "wait have we done this before”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "SHHH LIAM”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "SHUT UP]”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:32 PM: "jesus christ that was a masterful setup”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "is this some time loop shenannigans”

ARGDov 11:32 PM: "so wait”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:32 PM: "also hot damn that was really good”

otherLiam 11:33 PM: "DOV”

otherLiam 11:33 PM: "FFS”

Xenquility 11:33 PM: "(lmao what if it was john)”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:33 PM: "did bup talk about anyone we disliked earlier?”

Xenquility 11:33 PM: "The interview is over”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:33 PM: "JOHN HOLY FUCK”

otherLiam 11:33 PM: "STOP ASKING QUESTIONS DOV”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:33 PM: "thats not a question for but thats for the room”

ARGDov 11:33 PM: "what are you talking about theres nothing there”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:33 PM: "DOV KILLED JOHN”

Xenquility 11:33 PM: "big brain”

otherLiam 11:33 PM: "jesus god”

Wolfcat 11:33 PM: "god fucking damn it dov”

ARGDov 11:33 PM: "ok so fuck it”

Wolfcat 11:33 PM: "She'll △lways live”

ARGDov 11:33 PM: "we killed Yuki”

ARGDov 11:33 PM: "and thats it”

BUP 11:34 PM: "I killed Yuuki”

BUP 11:34 PM: "Not directly”

BUP 11:34 PM: "I mean I didn't strangle her myself”

BUP 11:34 PM: "But i made the decision that led to it happening”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:34 PM: "dov is the whole ass reason we're in this mess”

ARGDov 11:34 PM: "no one else”

ARGDov 11:34 PM: "no one asked any other bad questions”

ARGDov 11:34 PM: "shhhhh”

otherLiam 11:34 PM: "Alright so uh”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:34 PM: "someone shittily photoshop dovs face onto this”

otherLiam 11:34 PM: "do we get to keep asking questions?”

ARGDov 11:34 PM: "LIAM”

ARGDov 11:34 PM: "THATS A YES OR NO QUESTION”

BUP 11:34 PM: "you're lucky i didn't stomp on the mouse instead”

Xenquility 11:35 PM: "Doug?”

otherLiam 11:35 PM: "That’s not to him.”

otherLiam 11:35 PM: "Chill.”

BUP 11:35 PM: "that wouldve caused real problems waaaaay back”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:35 PM: "mouse?”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:35 PM: "wait”

Xenquility 11:35 PM: "Mouse = doug”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:35 PM: "PLEASE LEAVE HIM ALONE”

Xenquility 11:35 PM: "maybe”

ARGDov 11:35 PM: "letschasethemouse”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:35 PM: "CURSOR IS A GOOD BOI”

otherLiam 11:35 PM: "I didn’t do anything silly like ping him.”

Wolfcat 11:35 PM: "He's being a bitchass”

Xenquility 11:35 PM: "Holy shit cursor”

BUP 11:35 PM: "@Wolfcat”

BUP 11:35 PM: "gunna cry?”

ARGDov 11:35 PM: "...”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:35 PM: "i think dov could have just murdered instead of bomb plans

maybe cum a little?”

otherLiam 11:35 PM: "@BUP How can we get the login creds to johnisdead.com or lunarchildren.com?”

otherLiam 11:35 PM: "There’s a question.”

Xenquility 11:36 PM: "(I'm not asking Bup this) Does that mean that Doug will be immediately useful to us?”

otherLiam 11:36 PM: "Get this back on track.”

Xenquility 11:36 PM: "(To clarify I'm asking the group that)”

ARGDov 11:36 PM: "not necesarily”

ARGDov 11:36 PM: "he couldve picked him”

ARGDov 11:36 PM: "which means hes not useful to us atm either”

Xenquility 11:36 PM: "We don't love doug”

Xenquility 11:36 PM: "nescessarily”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:36 PM: "bup seems to not be linear in time”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:36 PM: "doug a bitch”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:36 PM: "since dov just killed yuuki in the past”

BUP 11:36 PM: "well she was ascended”

BUP 11:36 PM: "but i told them to do that”

BUP 11:36 PM: "i needed an excuse for our game”

otherLiam 11:37 PM: "REMEMBER THE RULES”

BUP 11:37 PM: "oh you think we're still playing?”

BUP 11:37 PM: "you want to risk more people?”

BUP 11:37 PM: "lmao”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:37 PM: "nah not really”

Xenquility 11:37 PM: "P sure it's over”

BUP 11:37 PM: "bloodthirsty”

otherLiam 11:37 PM: "I’ll risk it.”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:37 PM: "i figured dov murdering someone was the end”

otherLiam 11:37 PM: "It’s not a risk if you just think before sending.”

ARGDov 11:37 PM: "pffff”

Wolfcat 11:37 PM: "You're risking your own chess pieces”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:37 PM: "do we really want to risk killing another person when we've asked so many fuckin yes/no's”

ARGDov 11:37 PM: "no we dont”

otherLiam 11:38 PM: "who the fuck is we”

BUP 11:38 PM: "my army is larger”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:38 PM: "the group as a whole, duh”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:38 PM: "the hell you think i mean by we”

ARGDov 11:38 PM: "whod have thought that someone with a toad avatar would be so twisted”

Xenquility 11:38 PM: "I vote we fuck this game and go back to the No-Rule Questions But Bup Probably Won't Answer system”

otherLiam 11:38 PM: "Cus i aint asked any dumbass questions”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:39 PM: "you've asked like 2 or 3 yes/no's since dov killed yuuki”

ARGDov 11:39 PM: "lol yup”

BUP 11:39 PM: "this is fun”

ARGDov 11:39 PM: "ALSO STOP SAYING IT LIKE THAT”

otherLiam 11:39 PM: "I asked one to the group.”

BUP 11:39 PM: "i can make a simple game”

Xenquility 11:39 PM: "Can we all shut up and stop arguing?”

BUP 11:39 PM: "and turn this place into a battle royale”

BUP 11:39 PM: "you all turn on each other easily”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:39 PM: "me lmao”

Xenquility 11:39 PM: "Bup is obviously enjoying this”

otherLiam 11:39 PM: "Fuck these guys I’d like to still play.”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:39 PM: "we playin realm royale now?”

Xenquility 11:39 PM: "We fought over Erika and now we're fighting over a mistake”

Wolfcat 11:39 PM: ":jack_o_lantern:”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:39 PM: "where we droppin bois”

ARGDov 11:39 PM: "ACTUALLY FUCK”

BUP 11:40 PM: "Erika was a mistake”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "why?”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "why was she a mistake?”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "where is she now anyways?”

BUP 11:40 PM: "im kidding”

BUP 11:40 PM: "i dont care”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "fuck”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "I just realized we couldve asked him about her”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "oh well”

otherLiam 11:40 PM: "We could’ve asked about a lot of things.”

otherLiam 11:40 PM: "Erika was on my list.”

otherLiam 11:40 PM: "But I was waiting for you to be done.”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "pfff”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "well”

ARGDov 11:40 PM: "Im done now”

otherLiam 11:41 PM: "We’re ALL done now.”

Xenquility 11:41 PM: "Dwelling on the past won't help us in the future. Dov screwed up, we all realise that, and he's been made fun of. If we keep arguing, we get nowhere”

otherLiam 11:41 PM: "That’s why I want to keep playing his game.”

ARGDov 11:41 PM: "ugh ok”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:41 PM: "aiight i'm gonna be back in a few minutes, i gotta piss and getting around with crutches sucks ass”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:41 PM: "kill dov next”

ARGDov 11:41 PM: "lets hope SKM can be a bit more clear whenever he gets in contact with us”

otherLiam 11:41 PM: "Cus all we got were the answers to your followups.”

ARGDov 11:41 PM: "in fairness we got some info”

ARGDov 11:41 PM: "and Yuki was destined to die anyways”

ARGDov 11:41 PM: "so it couldve been worse”

BUP 11:42 PM: "was she?”

otherLiam 11:42 PM: "@BUP Is continuing to play still an option?”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "I mean in our timeline, she'd already gotten killed”

otherLiam 11:42 PM: "And yeah I know, but we aren’t playing rn.”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:42 PM: "one thing we've learned is that bup does not seem to play linearly in time”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "well, not in our timeline”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "but anyways”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "shed already died for us”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "so really”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "me askign the wrong question was destined”

BUP 11:42 PM: "gee”

ARGDov 11:42 PM: "and out of my control”

BUP 11:42 PM: "i wonder where you had heard”

BUP 11:42 PM: "of something like that before”

ARGDov 11:43 PM: "like what?”

otherLiam 11:43 PM: “Dov has a doctorate in rationalization.”

ARGDov 11:43 PM: "Im Jewish”

ARGDov 11:43 PM: "we are trained to argue”

Xenquility 11:43 PM: "Did Bup go back in time and take over Yuuki's account or something”

ARGDov 11:43 PM: "and I have just argued my way out of blame for death”

ARGDov 11:43 PM: "so yeah”

ARGDov 11:43 PM: "Im good”

otherLiam 11:43 PM: "not really no”

Xenquility 11:43 PM: "To say the whole "This is inevitable" thing”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:43 PM: "nah you still killed her”

otherLiam 11:43 PM: "we’re just ignoring you in favor of bup”

ARGDov 11:44 PM: "ok but I had no choice in it”

ARGDov 11:44 PM: "it was destiny”

ARGDov 11:44 PM: "but anyways”

ARGDov 11:44 PM: "MOVING ON”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:44 PM: "i mean”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:44 PM: "you did”

otherLiam 11:44 PM: "okay murderer”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:44 PM: "dov could have decided not to ask but that would have caused problems temporally”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:44 PM: "it coulda been any of us idiots who did it”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:44 PM: "but you ended up bein the one who did”

ARGDov 11:44 PM: "exactly,circle”

ARGDov 11:44 PM: "not my fault”

Wolfcat 11:44 PM: "You're giving bup too much credit”

Wolfcat 11:44 PM: "assuming he actually planned this from the start”

otherLiam 11:44 PM: "Hey BUP. How can we play your game again?”

BUP 11:45 PM: "honestly you all got me laughin”

BUP 11:45 PM: "plus someone died”

BUP 11:45 PM: "all in all good night”

ARGDov 11:45 PM: "so yes”

ARGDov 11:45 PM: "we should be scared of you”

ARGDov 11:45 PM: "great.”

Wolfcat 11:45 PM: "he doesnt have power over time, he has power over coincidence”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:45 PM: "since from our perspective she was already dead, it doesent really matter when we ended up getting her killed”

BUP 11:45 PM: "nah im just gonna give link a reward”

BUP 11:45 PM: "for thinkin with portals”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:45 PM: "o shit really?”

BUP 11:45 PM: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_fltggv6E”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:45 PM: "literally why does anyone think it's a good idea to continue?”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:45 PM: ":o”

ARGDov 11:45 PM: "lmao”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:45 PM: "oh my fuck”

ARGDov 11:45 PM: "Liams the only one who thinks so”

otherLiam 11:46 PM: "I’m less pissed about Yuuki getting killed and more about the game being over and not getting any more info.”

Xenquility 11:46 PM: "bup is kaiden”

Xenquility 11:46 PM: "confirmed”

BUP 11:46 PM: "nah”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:46 PM: "imagine for a second”

BUP 11:46 PM: "kaiden was the other option”

BUP 11:46 PM: "actually you guys like him now”

ARGDov 11:47 PM: "ahahahhaha”

BUP 11:47 PM: "but you didnt then”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:47 PM: "bup being mugen”

BUP 11:47 PM: "weird how that works”

ARGDov 11:47 PM: "why do we like him”

Xenquility 11:47 PM: "We like Kaiden?”

ARGDov 11:47 PM: "we havent spoken to him much really”

otherLiam 11:47 PM: "Kaiden’s adorable”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:47 PM: "cursed idea, circle”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:47 PM: "cursed”

BUP 11:47 PM: "but i told you who i was”

BUP 11:47 PM: "just now”

BUP 11:47 PM: "sort of”

otherLiam 11:47 PM: "I don’t think he likes me very much tho”

ARGDov 11:47 PM: ".....wait”

BUP 11:47 PM: "it doesnt reveal much but”

Xenquility 11:47 PM: "are you”

Xenquility 11:47 PM: "IIII”

BUP 11:47 PM: "it also does”

BUP 11:47 PM: "no”

ARGDov 11:48 PM: "are you kaiden”

BUP 11:48 PM: "no”

Xenquility 11:48 PM: "You the dark lord from the rp or whatever?”

ARGDov 11:48 PM: "I was kidding so thats a relief”

otherLiam 11:48 PM: "man it’s a good thing we aren’t playing anymore”

BUP 11:48 PM: "”You the dark lord from the rp or whatever?””

BUP 11:48 PM: "kind of!”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:48 PM: "i know who you are and i am incredibly uncomfortable”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:48 PM: "i'm gonna go now”

otherLiam 11:48 PM: "wait wut”

ARGDov 11:48 PM: "what the hell”

ARGDov 11:48 PM: "@/Mr. Circle\ WHO IS HE”

Xenquility 11:49 PM: "The one Kaiden teamed up with or the one they were against?”

ARGDov 11:49 PM: "YOU CANT JUST SAY THAT AND LEAVE”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:49 PM: "he's me”

BUP 11:49 PM: "oh”

BUP 11:49 PM: "you wish”

BUP 11:49 PM: "nice try”

ARGDov 11:49 PM: ".......”

Xenquility 11:49 PM: "denied lmao”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:49 PM: "damn i tried tho”

Wolfcat 11:49 PM: "I'm you”

ARGDov 11:49 PM: "Ive got a feeling he's not someone we know”

BUP 11:49 PM: "oh”

BUP 11:49 PM: "i am”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:49 PM: "the baby is he”

BUP 11:49 PM: "again sort of”

ARGDov 11:49 PM: "....of course sort of”

ARGDov 11:49 PM: "inb4 this is the alternate universe version of me”

ARGDov 11:49 PM: "No tha would be stupid”

BUP 11:50 PM: "god you all just want”

BUP 11:50 PM: "to be me”

BUP 11:50 PM: "so bad”

ARGDov 11:50 PM: "Im kidding”

ARGDov 11:50 PM: "Id hate it if I were you tbh”

ARGDov 11:50 PM: "Id be disgusted with myself”

Xenquility 11:50 PM: "wow”

Xenquility 11:50 PM: "rude”

ARGDov 11:50 PM: "shame on me”

Wolfcat 11:50 PM: "oof”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:50 PM: "i mean”

Wolfcat 11:50 PM: "cutting deep”

ARGDov 11:50 PM: "Id want to slit my own wrists”

Xenquility 11:50 PM: "I mean it makes sense if you're slightly him”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:50 PM: ":THINKING:”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:50 PM: "your jevil and bup stuff is on brand for me”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:50 PM: "so”

Xenquility 11:50 PM: "jk”

ARGDov 11:50 PM: "and by my own wrists I mean your wrists that is lol”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:50 PM: "wouldnt be too bad of a thing if you were a me”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:50 PM: "or if i were a you”

Wolfcat 11:51 PM: "dov is just obsessed with killing”

/Mr. Circle\ 11:51 PM: "dov wants to murder you”

BUP 11:51 PM: "the funny thing is”

ARGDov 11:51 PM: "I AM HERE”

ARGDov 11:51 PM: "AND HE IS ME”

BUP 11:51 PM: "i straight up”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:51 PM: "idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

BUP 11:51 PM: "gave you the answer to my identity”

otherLiam 11:51 PM: "Dov’s just mad he fucked up and killed Yuuki, don’t mind him.”

Xenquility 11:51 PM: "So if Bupman IA or the "Okay soul contract time" guy”

BUP 11:51 PM: "i honest to god 100% did”

Xenquility 11:51 PM: "*is”

ARGDov 11:51 PM: "I AM HE AND HE IS ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Uf4sjX8RE”

BUP 11:51 PM: "you just cant connect the dots”

ADULT_LINK△ 11:51 PM: ""didnt like him then, but do now"”

Wolfcat 11:51 PM: "3?”

ARGDov 11:51 PM: "nope”

Wolfcat 11:51 PM: "△”

[theworstbob]

yellin’ at songs: week 32

brief reviews of the songs which debuted on the billboard hot 100 the weeks of 16 august 1997, 18 august 2007, and 19 august 2017

8.16.1997

6) "2 Become 1," by Spice Girls

This is just a '90s R&B song! This song doesn't even have the courtesy to be kitschy! This is completely indistinguishable from the rest of the '90s R&B, breathy whispered vocals about sex. There's no -- "Be a little bit wiser, baby/Put it on/Put it on" -- okay. OKAY. Sure. I guess that's something. If your song has no other value, might as well throw quality actionable advice in there. I hope the next song is some milquetoast R&B beat while people sing lines like "Your stomach takes a while to tell your brain it's full/Don't have that third slice of the ‘za, baby."

51) "All I Want," by 702

Oh hell yeah, I love this. I love that this is a Missy Elliott track, and I also love that this group did the titular song for Pootie Tang. I am way into this. This is a breezy summer jam that hits all the Good '90s R&B buttons.

54) "To Make You Feel My Love," by Billy Joel

this sounds exactly like you think it would sound and is as pleasant to listen to as you think it would be and i'm just gonna bounce after 30 seconds because i get it, i see what he's trying to do here and don't want to stick around to see if he pulls it off

55) "Big Bad Mama," by Foxy Brown ft./Dru Hill

I don't disagree with this! I can't find any way to hook onto this, but I already called one thing a breezy summer jam because I didn't feel like thinking too hard about it, so I'm in a bit of a predicament here. Like, this song is OK. It has a memorable bass line, Foxy Brown's pretty great at her thing, and whichever member of Dru Hill showed up sure did the most singing of anyone in 1997!, but like I can see why we've left this behind. It's fine. No one needed this one unearthed, though. We've found some buried treasures, y'know? This is like finding a buried booklet of commemorative state quarters. Like, neat! But also, not even $15.

83) "Far from Yours," by O.C. ft./Yvette Michele

"I be the Chosen One/Beyond the Moet and Cristal/A son of King and a Queen/Therefore ability/For song run in my genetics/I gave ideas to L. Ron Hubbard to write books on Dianetics" ...Setting aside the major issues I have with this man's rhyme schemes, IS HE TAKING CREDIT FOR SCIENTOLOGY. IS THI -- IS HE SAYING THAT HE IS THE INSPIRATION FOR SCIENTOLOGY. What the fuck kind of boast. He's saying his raps are so powerful they inspired a crazy man to write books about bad science. I am flummoxed by this song. This would have been just another okay song by a rapper who honestly just seems like a normal-ass dude who somehow wandered into a recoriding studio, but HE'S TAKING CREDIT FOR L. RON HUBBARD'S IDEAS. WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF LUNATIC IS THIS MAN.

89) "Tide Is High," by Angelina

Someone went to the store and said, "OH BOY! Another new verson of 'Tide Is High!' I gotta pick up this new interpretation of this song, which is of course someone's favorite song ever because it's MY favorite song ever!" Also none of the back-up dancers in the video looked like they were trying their absolute best. They knew where they were. They knew it didn't matter. They took a few plays off and got that check. I have so much respect for those backup dancers. ROCK TO THE BEAT ROCK ROCK TO THE BEAT, ROCK TO THE BEAT ROCK ROCK TO THE BEAT and so forth

92) "Relax & Party," by Ivory

So I've been sick the past couple days, which is why this post is going up on Wednesday and why there's no Thing Journal for last week (SUNDAY DOUBLE) and real talk why this has been a weak edition of YAS so far, ‘cuz I'll be honest, I'm still in the doldrums. My back hurts, which is a fun side effect of getting sick in your late 20s, I've found. So I'm not. In a mood? Conducive to caring about this song. I'm sure this is OK, but honestly, right now, in this moment in which we find ourselves, me and this song, sharing the same space on this planet, I could not care less about the things it wants to bring to my life. It's a stupid song and doesn't do anything. It just goes on for four minutes. Great. Great! Hey, just release an album of that fucking bass line for fifty minutes, honestly, it's probably your best bet if you want me to at least respect you.

95) "Dancehall Queen," by Beenie Man ft./Chevelle Franklyn

So there are two different versions of the song "Dancehall Queen" that I could find. There is this one, but there is also one released more recently with Lady Sovereign as the featured artist. So I have a few questions about our beautiful ever-expanding dying universe: 1) What did Chevelle Franklyn do to get deposed? 2) Does Chevelle FRanklyn give input into the decisions Lady Sovreign makes? 3) Who gave Beenie Man the powers of coronation? As far as I can tell, he does not proclaim himself the Dancehall King. 4) How often does the Dancehall Queen title change hands? 5) Is there a library that has data on the Dancehall Queen history which I can look up? 6) What are some books on the Dancehall Queen succession which you would recommend? Let me know in the comments! Hit that follow button and LIKE THIS POST!

8.18.2007

28) "Me Love," Sean Kingston

This is like a song you enjoy if you've never enjoyed a song before. If you're someone who appreciates music and attends symphonies and has opinions on concertos, and you're approached with this song, you'll probably use snooty music language to say, "This is a delightful confection!" Or like, if your musical diet consists entirely of Gary Jules' cover of Mad World and songs of that ilk, if the only songs you've been allowed to enjoy in this life are Gary Jules' "Mad World" cover and other songs which could have been selected for the Donnie Darko soundtrack, and you hear this song for the first time, this is probably the most amazing thing you've ever heard. This would sound so revolutionary. But if you've even heard one other fun pop song, you know this is useless.

89) "Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)," Dierks Bentley

it is good when things are nice! at last, a song that says what none of us are brave to say out loud

90) "All My Friends Say," Luke Bryan

I think a couple months ago I tabbed this as a semi-iconic Luke Bryan song, in the sense that it's a song I hear and immediately attribute to Luke Bryan, which is something I can't do for any Blake Shelton song. But like, this is the song that establishes Luke Bryan's persona -- he's a free-wheelin' sumbitch who's gonna drink too much and try not to drunk-dial any ex-girls. There's personality in this song, a hack and shitty personality, but hey at least he hacked up and/or shitted out an identifiable character. All Blake Shelton's songs are about a man who wishes things would either be better or remain the same, depending on how good they presently are. The song is garbage and Luke Bryan only ever got worse, sure, but it is undeniably a product of Luke Bryan’s particular brand of dunderheaded twanging.

100) "Can U Believe," Robin Thicke

There is a long list of things I need to do with my life. Near the top are items like "only wear a suit at your little sister's wedding," "learn the lttp any% nmg speedrun," and "write a whole good thing," you know, standard stuff, standard life goals, and then there's a million pages of things I will never accomplish. Nowhere on that list was "listen to Robin Thicke tell you that I don't know when someone's watching." I did not need to hear Robin Thicke tell me he was stalking me before I died. I could have learned the Blind script with this time. Maybe this is about God? But it's not even vaguley Christian, he just randomly starts saying you never know when someone's watching, which is only something anyone says WHEN THEY ARE PRESENTLY LOOKING AT YOU THROUGH A TWO-WAY MIRROR. Been a decade of garbage with this man, my gosh.

8.19.2017

(38) "You Da Baddest," by Future ft./Nicki Minaj

Beach Future is such a weird thing to consider. I'm on the record as being pro-Beach Future in general, it's not as random a pivot as the time Lil Wayne picked up the electric guitar and said "OH YEAH! THIS IS A THING!" but it's still hard to get the brain around the idea of Beach Future after, what, three years and roughly 20 albums of morose, despondent Future? All of the Future songs I know are about the nightmare of being Famous and codeine, and now he's dropped two songs that are just, "Yeah, man, chillax! Life's pretty breezy, friends, pull up a chair, let's just enjoy a sunset together!" I'm into it? But it feels like the world is imbalanced right now. Beach Future has completely thrown off my equilibrium and I am Scared.

(68) "Unforgettable," by Thomas Rhett

Ah. Balance! After making a surprisingly hot '80s jam earlier this year, Thomas Rhett just sort of bleats over an acoustic guitar for two and a half bland minutes. This song tries to turn the word "mangorita" into a stirring kick-off to its chorus, and while I recognize the enormity of the task it placed upon itself, that doesn't mean it didn't fail to accomplish its goals. "From your blue jeans to your shoes/Girl, the night was just like you/Unforgettable." I'D NEVER SEEN JEANS JUST THAT BLUE BEFORE. I NEVER EVEN KNEW THEY MADE BLUE JEANS IN THAT PARTICULAR SHADE OF BLUE. WHY, THEY WERE... DARE I SAY? TURQUOISE! ALL HISTORY'S SCULPTORS DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TRYING TO MOLD YOU

(85) "When it Rains it Pours," by Luke Combs

A lot of the reason I don’t mind Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban when we run through 2007 is because, when I was growing up, my mom would only listen to country music, and those artists are the ones I minded the least when we were on the half-hour rides to and from church. I forged deep and lasting connections with the dudes I minded the least of anyone else. This song is definitely "best song on the ride to church" quality. It has a Toby Keith-y sense of humor which is more or less agreeable -- I can't imagine any scenario that a waitress at Hooters is impressed enough by any customer at Hooters to leave their number, but here I am, complaining that my suspension of disbelief in a country song was interrupted -- and it's unique, I haven't heard a lot of "fuck her, she's outta my hair!" songs from dude country artists this year. It’s not “I’m Gonna Miss Her,” but what is? Once again, Luke Combs has made a song that's unique enough that I can appreciate its charm, but not so intriguing that I'm gonna seek him out on my own. I'll give his next album a spin, see if he takes the right lessons to heart, but the one he’s got out now, I think I’m good!

(87) "They Don't Know," by Jason Aldean

"Just another field/Just another farm/No, it's the place we grew up on." Jason Aldean is a multi-millionaire who owns several hundred acres of land in a major metropolitan area nad has the chutzpah to speak for the common man. Fuck this dude and fuck him for this Trump-vote of a song.

(88) "Honest," by The Chainsmokers

hey guys the chainsmokers made a song about how they're sensitive boys who're sad about breakup, wow what a fascinating new look for these cats, truly evolving as artists before our very eyes. see, this is the one where they go "whoa-oh." i don't think they've gone "woah-oh" in a song yet. this is a pony certainly capable of developing a second trick!

(89) "The Weekend," by SZA

"What kind of deal is two days?/I need me at least 'bout for of 'em" is one of the single-saddest lyrics 2017 has produced. This song is so good. SZA in general is so good, but I never had to deal with how good this song is, given how much there is to parse with Ctrl. When's the last time we heard from a side piece's perspective, y'know? When's the last time we heard how a booty call felt about being a booty call? We heard "Booty Call," which was about the act of engaging in a booty call, but we don't know anything about the booty call's wants and desires outside of that moment. I enjoy hearing this perspective on the events, hearing from the girl the '90s R&B dude has to apologize for seeing, because that's a person, too, that's a person who's alive and lives a life of their own. It took us until 2017 to get the side piece's take on things. What were the rest of us doing?

(90) "New Rules," by Dua Lipa

This is really enjoyable. Nothing terribly complex, just a "don't fuck your ex" jam, but it's confidently delivered (I get the sense that Dua Lipa is a much better singer than the current musical trends are going to let her be), and I love the subtle horn drop. Evidently, the producer of this song was also involved with "Bad Liar" and "Now and Later," so I'm getting on the Ian Kirkpatrick train. I approve! Great work, all.

(93) "I Wish I Knew You," by The Revivalists

oh wow fuck everything about this. where did this come from? why am i listening to this? did 13 reasons why drop another season? who wanted this. who wanted another indie band biting the hell out of franz ferdinand. they're not even biting franz ferdinand, they're biting all those bands that were biting from franz ferdinand a few years ago, except they're doing so nakedly, "the revivalists" is code for "we have no original ideas." way to revive 2013, yeah dude, it was so long since i heard the neighbourhood, i'm so happy you're reviving four years ago. also this willy wonka-ass muthafucka's hat is stupid. i'm honestly not sure i'm reacting to the song as much as i am the stupid goddamn hat in the music video. (also: i'm not into this song, despite the presence of a saxophone. i have limits. i'm not gonna go home with just any brass instrument, you guys.) white men ruin everything.

(94) "Every Little Thing," by Carly Pearce

Well, number one, it's a country music song with actual drums, so it's automatically starting with 95 points out of a possible 100. This is dope. "They say time is the only healer/God, I hope that isn't right/'Cause right now I'd die to not remember." Fuck, man. That is heavy. And this is a solidly-produced song, too, there's enough going on that the song feels rich and lived-in, but not so much so that it's distracting, it's definitely in the backseat wearing a seatbelt so the lyrics and what might be the saddest fucking voice in 2017 country music can drive in peace. More from this woman, and more from other women, look how good you are when you let women do things, country music!

(97) "Learn to Let Go," by Kesha

I think this is fine. I'm not as into EDM-lite Kesha as I am Kesha declaring her womanhood backed by a million beautiful horns, but this is fine! Three songs. Three songs is enough distance to start delivering back-handed not-criticisms. But no, like, I wouldn't mind this as the opening track to the album, this sets a tone and opens up the possibility for cooler things to come, but on its own, hey! It's just alright, and that's fine! I'm just glad Kesha's making music, y'know?

(98) "All the Pretty Girls," by Kenny Chesney

this song wasn't even released in 2016, what is it doing here, what, why would, i don't, how did we end up here? what do we hope to accomplish while we're here? did he just say "don't blow my cover on freedom night?" what is freedom night? i don't -- you know what country radio, you batted .400 this week. that's ted williams hype, right there. .400 is better than any of us ever could have anticipated, and i can appreciate that you got things as right as you ever possibly could. please tell me what freedom night is, though.

(99) "For Her," by Chris Lane

...adjust that number down to .333. i'm sorry. i saw the haircut and assumed edm, which you'll agree is a fair assumption to make. this dude sucks. he is trying his best with that falsetto but, and i hate to repeat myself, you can't make your own outsized ambition an excuse for your failure. know your limits. i'm sorry i was ever lukewarm about any kesha song. i kinda feel bad for saying those things about the revivalists' hat. this was a good week apart from the bro country! "For her I would walk a straight line/Wear out the soles of my shoes for her." WOAH! SLOW DOWN, BUDDY! LET'S NOT MAKE ANY PROMISES WE CAN'T KEEP, NOW! Careful! Girls remember things you say to them! Imagine how disappointed she'll be when every day she spends with you your shoes still shine as bright as they did the day she met you.

Who won the week?

Well, 2007′s best song was a Luke Bryan joint, so that’s out. Think we gotta give it to 2017. Four shitty country songs, yeah, but 1997 countered with Spice Girls and a Billy Joel cover of a Bob Dylan song, so those cancel out, and the cream of 2017 was much better than the best 1997 gave us this week. I’m still thinking about that Carly Pearce joint, that was really cool, and it anchors an earned win for 2017. THE STANDINGS: 2017: 12 1997: 11 2007: 9 Next week: keep your heart, Three Stacks.