#also this ville look is soooo good

[godsworstson]

don't talk to me i'm crying

[woofwoofwolf]

That which matters more (part 1)

Tighnari x reader.

EDIT AS OF AUGUST 29TH: I'm still working on this fic, but it's going to be longer than I initially thought. (I'm currently at 20.000 words on chapter 9 out of a planned 18, but that will probably become more.) So you can see this as the first draft of chapter 1.

I know I keep saying this but I will most likely be posting soon ish, with weekly updates! I'm working really hard on this fic, so please stay tuned.

Warnings: Fem!reader, (though I think there is no gendered language in this chapter, but I might have missed something so fair warning) reader is aro/ace, (but again idk yet how big of a role this will play.) Minor injuries

1580 words

This is chapter one of a series I'm working on right now, and although I don't think I'm going to be able to finish it anytime soon, I think if people like it on here it might motivate me more to actually finish this? I currently have 5 chapters planned and I've started chapter 3, but I constantly go back and change stuff in previous chapters (the reason why I never post anything tbh) soooo... who knows. This first chapter might also get changed in the future, but I'm actually decently happy with it so far?

Let me know what you think! I'll post this to AO3 in the future.

“Be careful, please,” Collei nervously clasped her hands against her chest, eying the ivy covered ditch you were standing over. “You’re going to fall!”

“I almost got it, just stand back and don’t worry-” You gasped out. Your left arm was fully outstretched, while your right grabbed on to a branch sticking out from the ledge right across from the flower you were trying to pick. “After this we can go back to Gandharva Ville, I promise-”

“Got it!” You said when you finally had the stem of the flower between your fingers. However your  wide smile soon turned to shock as the dry root you were grabbing onto cracked and snapped, and sent you tumbling down a hole, right through the dense ivy.

Collei screamed as a dull thud sounded at the end of your tumble. “Oh my goodness, are you alright?!?!” Her knees fell to the ground to peer into the hole you just fell into, which was thankfully a lot less deep than she had thought it to be. What surprised her tho, was the big yellow cloud that hit her face, completely surrounding the both of you, while you were splayed out on a bed of moss, entirely covered in ivy and pollen. Around you were dozens of the mystery flowers you had just picked. “O-oh no- What do I do!”

A cough signalled that you were still alive. “A rope would be nice,” you groaned.

“Right! A Rope!” Collei sprang into action, quickly looking for a rope in her satchel. “Can you climb out on your own? Oh.. I don’t know if I’m strong enough to carry you.”

“I’m fine, I’m fine… I only scraped my knee a little bit,” You said as you tried to stand up on the slippery moss. Ugh, your leg was going to be sore for a while… “There’s so many of them!”

“I’ll bandage it as soon as I get you out!” Collei said as she secured the rope to a rock.

“No, not that! The flowers!” You pulled the ivy of your arms, making the pollen fly off you, making you cough again. “They sure produce a lot of pollen too… You think holes in the ground like these are their preferred habitat?”

Collei sighed with a small smile. “Well… At least you’re well enough to still be talking. You could’ve hit your head, you know? Master Tighnari isn’t going to be happy.”

She was right, you knew Tighnari was going to lecture you on your detour from your regular patrol, but you hoped that seeing this mysterious flower would distract him enough to not go on for too long.

You grabbed onto the rope, thankfully still able to climb out of the hole yourself. You triumphantly held up not only the flower you plucked earlier, but also two other samples, WITH roots attached. “They’re BEAUTIFUL! I bet not even Tighnari has seen these flower before!” Observing it a little more closely, it was very similar to a Sumeru rose, but the interesting thing that had drawn you closer to it in the first place was the fact that not only did it glow brighter than a regular similar rose, it had also been changing colours from a soft yellow, to a regular Sumeru rose purple, all the way up to a deep red. But it seemed to have stopped now that you had plucked it. Interesting, you were going to have to examine why that was.

Collei sheepishly smiled, but quickly worried herself over your bruised and bleeding knee. You tried not to worry her further by suppressing the coughs that were coming from your irritated throat, but she noticed nonetheless.

“It must be the pollen,” Collei said worriedly. “Oh no, What if it’s toxic?”

You pensively shook your head. “This flower doesn’t have the usual characteristics for that.” You explained. “Besides, you breathed in a good amount too just now, and you seem to be fine..?”

A bit of anxiety crept up in your chest. If Collei got sick because of you, you wouldn’t be able to face Tighnari ever again, nor would you be able to forgive yourself. You were going to have to hurry back to Gandharva Ville and ask the expert to be sure.

Said expert Tighnari was not very amused when you returned that evening, but before the lecture, came first aid. He quickly had baths filled for you and Collei. While Collei went to wash the pollen out of her hair, Tighnari went to re-examine and properly clean the wound on your knee.

“I collected samples of the pollen in some flasks, and brought a few complete specimens with the roots intact. They’re really quite unique flowers. I haven’t seen them in textbooks, nor have I ever seen them on our regular patrol routes. If you bring me a map, I can point out where we found these. If we figure out what made them grow there, I’m sure we could find more of them. I-” You were cut off by another coughing fit.

Tighnari watched you worriedly, taking out a stethoscope. “Could you lift up your top? I’d like to examine your breathing.”

You awkwardly did as he said and breathed in and out as he instructed. “I’ll be fine, really! I just took in a big gulp of dust and pollen, it’s only natural my lungs are irritated a bit. Collei breathed it in a small amount as well and she wasn’t coughing at all. This plant doesn’t have any of the usual characteristics present in flora that produce toxins.”

“Maybe.” Tighnari answered curtly, a blank expression on his face. “I’m going to have to examine the pollen to be sure.”

You were silent for a bit as Tighnari noted some things down on a clipboard. The lack of the usual annoyed and sassy lecture was spooking you a little bit. “Tighnari, I… I’m sorry…”

He sighed and finally looked you in the eye, looking for signs of sincerity. “At least you have the decency to know what you did wrong.”

You nodded. “I shouldn’t have put Collei in that position. Next time… Next time I’ll note the location on a map and ask for you or other forest watchers to come with me.”

“Good.” Tighnari said with a nod. “I know you didn’t deliberately put Collei in danger and that’s the only reason I can begin to look past this. I also agree that from the looks of it it’s part of the same genus as the Sumeru rose. If anything I’d be worried this points to an issue with the Ley lines, but I haven’t heard of any incidents that would point to this… They sure produce a lot of pollen though,” He was more so muttering to himself, than he was explaining anything to you.

“However-!” He pointed his pen right in your face, interrupting his own rant. “Although I’m very happy to see some enthusiasm from you, endangering yourself like that is still absolutely unacceptable.” Ah, there came the lecture. One you absolutely deserved, mind you. “Had you fallen unconscious, Collei would have had to go back to the village on her own to get help. Worst case scenario you could have broken your neck and died. The first and most important skill for a forest watcher to learn, is not the ability to secure the safety of the forest and its visitors, but the safety of themselves. Do you understand?”

“You guys talk as I’m not useful to have around at all.” You both turned to a pouting Collei, leaving your response to Tighnari unsaid.

“Your time as a full fledged watcher will come, Collei,” Tighnari calmly explained. “You’re still young, and besides that we have your condition to worry about. Beyond that you know you have my full trust.”

You self-consciously looked away from the two. You wondered what you could do to earn Tighnari’s trust like that. Maybe the flower you discovered really was a new species? Would that get him to talk to you about it?

“Oh I know,” Collei answered, timidly plucking at her nails. “I’m just saying.”

You interrupted the sweet scene with another set of coughs. “S-sorry.. my lungs and throat feel sore, it must’ve all gotten really irritated by all the dust…” Tighnari hummed in thought. “Best you go wash off all that pollen. I’ll have it examined as soon as possible. If that cough hasn’t gone away by tomorrow evening, please come and see me again. And we’re going to have to schedule you in for more forest safety training.”

You cleared your throat. You were hoping he was going to forget about any punishment. Then again, this probably didn’t count as such in his mind. “Alright. Thank you Tighnari.”

“And, (name),” He said after some hesitation, just before you were to leave the hut. You turned to him, met by his soft gaze.  “Please do know there’s nothing you have to prove to me, okay?”

You felt a warmth bloom across your chest. “…Okay.” With that you turned around to leave, but not before having another coughing fit. You quickly dashed out of Tighnari’s hut trying to muffle your cough with your hand. When you removed your hand you saw that you had coughed up a soft pink coloured petal covered in spit. Gross. Though, you supposed that this petal was what was stuck in your throat and that your cough would let up soon.

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

its funny cause i give my parents updates on this tournament, and the only frame of reference they have is the bands/people i'm into generally. (my mum says "well, you should be glad i don't know who you're talking about because that would mean i'm trying to be hip and cool" lmao). anyways

i think its soooo funny because like. my parents obviously know who oasis is. i have a poster i got from knebworth 22 in my room (place of pride for real), and i've played them in my care a LOT. my mum has a very vague idea of who HIM is because i've got a shirt for them (heart pentagram is such a sick design and i will die on this hill). i showed the two of them to my mum and she was like "obviously liam. the other one looks too much like a girl." and on one hand it was like "you don't understand." but on the other hand, validation. cause like. yeah. liam's gorgeous obviously. but then like. i showed her other picture of ville valo cause i totally voted for him (i'm so sorry liam but how could i not) and she GOT IT.

anyways, dad's upset mariah carey won because "she sings that hideous christmas song and anyone is better than her" and also, he's of the opinion that i should have immediately wanted to vote keanu reeves instead of holding out until i knew who he was up against (still not over liam vs. ville valo the ultimate betrayal and sadness lol)

dad's opinion is also that axl rose should win the next round solely based on the fact that he knows who he is, but really, what does he know, cause he made fun of me rooting for jarvis with my entire being.

idk where i'm going with this sorry. i love this tournament, and hilariously i'm more invested in this than the original bracket, but that's cause my most beloved albums got eliminated soooooo quickly (seeing the same in the 2000s bracket and i tell myself that my taste is just more niche rather than bad)

-from the very tipsy anon that sent something in quite awhile ago. very sorry that you only get these very long winded anons when i've had a few

n.e.ways. this blogs great and i got a kick out of you saying you'd integrate the trent reznor fuck or be like teenage girl thing into your belief system.

also, i agree with the anon that said than radiohead man aged real nice where as damon didn't. given, i last saw him with a mullet, and thought he aged like spoilt milk, but radiohead man (remembered his name Thom! aged real nice)

also, as much as creep is like the stereotypical radiohead song and kinda considered overplayed, it UNDERSTANDS ME and also me as a teen. props to him. idk if i can bring myself to vote for him though (not cause he's kinda weird looking - odd looking people are HOT ok) but cause i had a devestating crush on a guy who was obessed with radiohead and he literally told me that i give off "emotionally unavailable vibes and its cool to make friends with someone so similar to me" and it ruined me emotionally for a good like 5 months)

also, props to oasis for having supersonic as one of their top songs, cause hell yeah Give Me Gin and Tonic! literally my drink of choice lmaooooo

once again, very sorry for very long anon, had another g+t while writing this (that makes 6!)

have a very good evening! i adore this blog! and i think youre hella cool and i could never imagine trying to rum a tournament and answer all the asks that you do (there's reason i'm anon unless i have the amazing urge to send pics in aid of my very special blorbo)

<3

omg no this is lovely actually

Apparently my blog has already met the parents?? I'm so proud ahaha and your parents have some of the funniest takes. I love reading these long asks, it's like a sneak peek into the minds of my viewers and honestly means the world to me. Enjoy your gin and tonic, anon, and a wonderful evening to you as well <3

[starlightfantasy]

Hey! I hope you're feeling better!

Wonho leaving has had me a bit down lately, too - that plus trying to get ready for the holidays, it's honestly crazy!

I'm really hoping this proves to be a nice break for him, he's done so much in the past few years! I'm sure Wonho will come back better than ever.

Libido is what got me to stan OOO, too! The acting & the storyline really got me - but also musically they're so talented? The song itself blew my mind the first time I heard it! Also the choreo!?!?!? OOO really is a one of a kind group IMO.

I've never heard of k-ville, I'll have to check it out! Keeping track of new releases can be hard, so I'll have to look into it.

Those are all great groups you listed!! I've been following the Omega X situation and it's honestly so sad - as much as I love their music I'd rather them get out and be safe than stay stuck in that awful company.

Also TAN is soooo good! Du du du is one of my favorite debuts this year - and Walking on the Moon is probably one of my favorite comebacks! I really hope they have a long career. Honestly all those groups you listed are great!

Ooooh MX in a supernatural concept.... I'd love to see them tackle that. Werewolves would be great! Did you see they're having a comeback in January!? I'm thrilled - no clue what it'll be like but honestly I'd love to see something darker from them.

Also these are some good questions!!

Favorite Monsta X era: I feel like my answer to this will change every other week because it's so hard to pick! Right now I'm gonna say Shootout. Shootout has some of my fave MX choreo, and I loooooooooove Wonho with black hair.

Fave photoshoot: I think their photoshoot for Fatal Love might be my favorite! The suit looks... Monsta X can really pull of a suit.

Hobbies: Reading & video games are probably my two big ones! I also like journaling, but I'm not super consistent with it lol

Favorite movie: Halloween! I really like horror films

Favorite Food: Lasagna

Favorite season: This one's hard! I want to say Winter, but there's something about Fall that I really love. Can't really pick between fresh snow and leaves changing

Tea or coffee: Coffee - I need coffee to survive lol I probably drink way too much of it but oh well!

What about you??

Plus an additional question: If you could plan a week long vacation to anywhere in the world, where would you go & why?

Also: if MX could collab with any artist, who would you want to see them collab with?

Also that meme omg thank you 🤣❤️

- MBB Secret Santa 🎅

Hey!!I am feeling better! But I will feel better once I hear from him, lol.

In all honesty real life has distracted me enough, with the holidays approaching and all. Do you celebrate? Or do you have any plans in general? It is a busy season anyways, lots of gatherings and parties and stuff…

From ooo i have also really liked all the solos that they have been releasing lately. My favourites are Begin and Be Free, but they all are very good! As you said, they do a lot of work, from producing, to the choreo, they are very unique and that’s what attracted me immediately.

I know we’re he for the monstas, but it makes me really happy to have more in common musically speaking. Music is very important for me and it has been years since I have felt like this. I do like rock from the 80s and indie and grunge from the 90’, even some more recent emo bands, but most of the new western music (or even music in my language, i despise reggaeton, and that’s all people seem to listen to nowadays) so when i discovered kpop I was blown away by everything, the concept, the songs, the voices, the clothes, the choreos and I am perfectly aware of the terrible things that the kpop industry hides behind the glamour ad I hate that there’s no way to support your idols without supporting these problems, but still I love the music and I’m happy with that.

I loooove dark and sexy concepts and that’s something the Monstas do very well. I mean the darkest I have seen was Voodoo doll by VIXX and that was just a cultural reset. I would love to see some more of that.

Favorite Monsta X era: I will say Love killa, cause that is the era that got ge to stan them HARD, and from the eras with Wonho, definitely Alligator! I love how he looks all the time, and that bubblegum pink hair drives me insane

Fave photoshoot: the third photobook from the FOLLOW albums, it’s just my jam, i love all the pictures, all of them.

Hobbies: Reading & handcrafts. Tho I haven’t touched a book in so long I mostly read fanfics, lol

Favorite movie: portrait of a lady on fire. I love that movie, it makes me feel so many things, also Bram stoker’s dracula. I do love horror movies too!!! Now with age i have become i bit squeamish, but I do love gothic and supernatural horror (I am more of a Freddy kinda gal.)

Favorite Food: possibly sushi

Favorite season: Fall, all the way. The crisp air, the leaves the wind…

Tea or coffee: tea! Coffee upsets ,y stomach and I don’t like bitter flavours…

Ooof, the week long vacation….i’d go to a place I’ve never been. Probably Iceland, there’s something about that country that calls to me and I would love to see the landscapes, and feel the (probably shit weather), also I love countries where they believe in elves and fairies (tho they'd never admit that)

I have never thought about MX collabs…. I mean I do not think they’d particularly fit with a western artist (tho so far my fav collab is the one they made with Sebastian Yatra) but also in Korea… they are so unique that I have trouble imagining something that would be epic.

How about you??

Also have I asked you if you got a bias? My memory is shit. 

In any case, if you had one of the monstas for yourself for a day. What would you do? Where would you take him? Adventure? Sightseeing? Cosy time at home?

And yes, definitely check k-ville entertainment, the new video is out and that’s how I found out that sub unit from shinwa has new music and that made my day

"Never mention bald Wonho. Your great-grandmother has been waiting for a photo for years"

"Has he uploaded it yet?" "Calm down, mama, they said that they'd do it soon"

AND IF THAT'S NOT ME.....

have a great day!!!!

[duckulamoved]

I love when there’s a paper or something in a show and it has actual words instead of just squiggles for words. Adds a good freeze frame bonus. Here’s words as much as I can decipher for each page. Some of them are indistinguishable but there’s enough you can tell they actually wrote a full article. 

Missed Connections, getting Glurfsburgers toGether! has: 

Who were you in (Who)-ville [the first part of the area is cut off but it seems like Who-Ville]: You were [indistinguishable] and making noise and eating roast beast and I wanted to hate you! But...when you looked my way, you stole my heart (which grew three sizes). 

Forget the Yips, Save Me!: You were canvassing on [Plain] Street with a clipboard. You cared too much about those poor Yips and I wished you cared that much about me. I signed my name on you clipboard but never got yours. Cure me!

Count on Me: You were counting beans. I was pushing pencils. A light went off and I knew. 

Leftovers for Two?: You were the waitress with the chewing gum and the nice fur. I was the diner who took the leftovers home to my Pandog. But they were really for me...and you?

Pole Vaulting Sneak: I was asleep at my guard desk at the Glurfsburgh Zoo when you pole vaulted past my window. Barely caught a glimpse of you but felt something special. 

Jobs for Failures: 

Grass Measurer: Looking for highly disappointing types to observe grass. This is a growth opportunity! For the grass. Which will grow. 

Elbow Greaser: A person can get anything done with a little elbow grease. And someone’s gotta put that grease on the other person’s elbow. That someone could be you. (No grease allergies). 

Paint Watcher: No skills required, no ideas necessary. If you’ve failed at all else in your life, this is the job for you! (Paint watching candidates will be interviewed SnerzDay

The next page is mostly covered but it does talk a bit about Stovepipe! Apparently they have an annual list of rising inventors to look for in the future. They go on to say, “ If you’re not on this list, wow. I mean, that’s gotta hurt. There are soooo many names on this list. Pretty much everyone. 

There’s also a note that says ‘photo of player running with living Flerz tucked in his arm like a football’ and I don’t know if that was a misinterpreted note meaning they needed to place that photo in the paper or what but there you go. 

The last page says “Every inventor selected for Meepville Except One” with the caption “Oh the places you won’t go.” This page is an entire article and I can catch some scattered words here and there and you can tell it’s not squiggles or gibberish but what it says in it’s entirety I can’t tell. Looks like in the end they mention that Guy has a history of exploding inventions. 

It was fun to look at and i wanted to write it down for anyone who wasn’t able to catch them or see them! 

[anon-angus]

23 with Robbie and Anti saying by accident then trying to make up for it because Robbie baby?

((23. “Go to sleep, Santa isn’t real”. Very well, you ask then you shall receive:

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All Anti wanted now was to lie down on the couch and take a nap. Or to sleep at all. Or to torment somebody that’s already asleep. Anything that had something to do with sleeping. Yet everyone was still awake despite the late hour. Why? All because nobody told Robbie that Santa wasn’t real and now the zombie really wanted to see him. And not only did he keep others up, but he also annoyed the living hell out of Anti with all the ‘I think I saw someone by the window!’, ‘Did you see? The dust in the fireplace fell!’, and ‘Can you hear the bells?!’ phrases repeated over and over.

“Wheeenn’sss Saaanntttaaaa cooomminnngg...?” the zombie groaned.

“I’m pretty sure he’s near,” Chase smiled, leaning over to rub Robbie’s hair.

“Reeeaaalllyyy?” his face beamed up.

“Of course! He could be here any minute now!” Marvin promised nervously glancing over to the closet where the gifts were hidden.

“Soooo cooooollll!” the zombie grinned.

And 10 more minutes passed.

“Hooooowww loooonnggg unttiiilll Saaaanttaaa cooooommmmeeeesss nooww?” Robbie asked. And Anti had enough.

“G͞o t͢͞o ̀͡sl̶̕͘ȩ̴͟èp̵̶͢,͞͏ ̢͢S̡̡a̶͠nt̶a͟ ̴i̡̕s͏̨ǹ҉̨’t̛ ͜r̴ea̕͜͞l͏̴!” he announced. And immediately everyone looked at him.

“What the hell, Anti?!” Jackie asked, getting up to face the demon.

“That’s not true, I promise, Robbie!” Chase claimed.

“Anti I vill stab you,” Schneep threatened, grabbing a scalpel he always had with him for some reason and walking over as well.

“Santa’s just... running late,” Marvin tried to convince.

“H͟e's͠ al̀l ̛m͟a͞d͞ę u̶p̶!” Anti laughed, ignoring how dangerously close the scalpel was.

“Bbuuuttt- thhheeee giiifffftttsssss?” Robbie asked, rocking himself.

“Ch̛ec͠k̵ th͝e c͢l̨ose҉t͠,͜ ̵r̀o͢tte̕n̴ b̴rai͝n. ̸T͞he͘r̀e͜ th́e̡y ̡ar̨e, ͝w̴a͠it̕i͠ńg!̀” Anti instructed.

“Shut zhe hell up, glitch!” Schneep growled, seriously getting close to stabbing him. Yet he calmed down when they both heard sobbing. They turned to see Robbie crying.

“Proud of yourself?” Jackie barked to Anti.

“Hey, it’s okay Robbie, Anti didn’t mean it...” Chase hushed, hugging the zombie.

“Buuutttt.... buuuuuttttt heee saaayyyssss-” Robbie sobbed further. And hearing that, Anti didn’t feel the satisfaction he thought he’d get. Almost as if he really crossed the line. He looked away, thinking. There was nothing to be done now, right?

“Scr̢e͢w̵ ̵it,” he mumbled. He took a piece of paper and wrote something on it before walking over.

“What was it? ‘Sorry’?” Chase demanded. Anti rolled his eyes.

“Yo̸ú w̷ish̡, ͝y̕o͞u͞ ͞w̢alk͜i͘ng ̧meme,” he spat and grabbed Robbie’s shoulder, yanking him away from the others.

“Vhat zhe hell, Anti-” was all he could hear before he glitched himself and the zombie away into a different room, leaving only the paper behind.

“Wwhhyyyy?” Robbie tilted his head. Anti walked away from him before turning around and frowning.

“F̛in̶e̷, y҉ou ͜g̵ot҉ ḿe̷. I͡ ̡w͠o͡n̨ ́alr͢ea̧dy͟, so I̷ ̸caņ a̴s͠ ̵ẁèl͡l t͘el͞l yóu. ̢Sa̵nt̨a̕ d̢i͞d ̡e͝xi̛st b̀ef͢o͡re. ̵I͡’m ju̶s͘t̛ ͟m҉a̢k͠i̷ng͟ suŕé ́it’s ̢c͜hańged̕,” he smirked at Robbie’s confused face.

“Whhaaattt?” the zombie asked, tilting his head.

“I̛’ve̢ c͡ap̵t̷ured̷ Sa̕n͢ta a҉nd̛ ͟n̕o̵th͜i̕ng̵ will̛ ́st͞op me! ̴S҉ee̴ thi̛s?͡” Anti held up an hourglass. ”U̕n͝t̸íl̨ it͘’s n̴o͠t ̕b̛ro͝k͠e͜n͢,͟ ͜he’ll̛ s͏tay tra҉p̕pe͟d ́an͜d̕ ҉C̷h͜ri͡s҉t̛m͝as̀ wo͠n͏’́t h̀a͡p̵pȩn!̴” he claimed.

“Nooo! Giiivvveee ittt baaaaccckkkk!” Robbie begged, trying to come closer.

“Li̛ke̡ h́ell͞,̡ I w͢il̷l̡!̡ H̕e’̕s̕ not̨ g̴etti̵n͟g ̡ou͟t̨ of ͜th̕i̕s!͝” Anti laughed, shaking the hourglass around and ‘accidentally’ dropping it and letting it roll to the zombie. “ Òh́,͞ ̧cr͠ap-͟ ̀Rob҉bi̛e, d̷o̸n͏’͏t́ you͜ da̴r̛è ̸sm̢as̷h̛ ̨it!” he growled, seemingly getting ready to fight. Robbe dove to the floor and grabbed the hourglass before throwing it into the wall.

“Saaannntttaaa frreeee!” he cheered.

“N̛O!̨ NO, ͘I ́do ̶n͜ot ac̷cep̕t ͟th͝i͠s!̷ H͡e̴ ̴can҉’t͢ ́bȩ ҉b͘r͡i͡ńg͏in̶g̷ gìft͢s͜ th̷is̷ ̴y̕e̕ar-!” Anti ran over to the shred glass and tried to put the pieces together. That’s when the other egos found them.

“There you are! What’s going on here?!” Jackieboy asked, ready to fight.

“Aaaannnntttiiii traaapppeeeddd Saaaannnntttaaaa! Buuuttt I heeeellllpppeeedd!” Robbie grinned while Anti still tried to fix the hourglass.

“Vhat-?” Schneep asked. Chase was the first one to realize what was up.

“That explains why Santa just ran in, said you saved him and left us some gifts!” he cheered and walked over, helping the zombie up.

“Yeah! He called you a hero, Robbie! You saved Christmas!” Marvin nodded, also catching up. It didn’t take the others long, then.

“Good vork, Robbie!” Schneep gratulated.

“You did better than I ever could,” Jackieboy chuckled.

“Thaaannnkkksss!” Robbie grinned.

“I͘ w̴i̛ll g͟e͢t͏ ͞t͜h̢at ͞o̕ld ̸bas҉ta̢r̷d̀ next̷ ̧y̸e̕ar, y̸ou'll̛ ͝se͜e-!̢” Anti yelled before glitching away into his room. There, he sat, hoping that the piece of paper he left was already cleaned. And that they read all it had on it. Both ‘Put the gifts under the tree now’ AND ‘If you ever speak of tonight, I will kill you all’))

[seenashwrite]

14.03 Round-Up

Well this was a nice one. Good seeds planted. We got some interesting rows to hoe, if they stick with ‘em. I am *extremely* happy with the choice of character they chose to slip in, and with that we get to...

First off, I am pleased to say the “where is everybody” exposition from multiple characters was, across the board, actually handled well, all conversationally and casually. Like, everyone and their mother got name-dropped and it truly wasn’t anvil-y. Well. Then came the load they had poor Jack drop on us *sigh*. #so close 

But hey, good lead-in to get the weak point of the ep out of the way upfront so I may fawn over the strongest part for the bulk of the round-up (I’ll restrain myself, or at least try to).

* Jack and the Sulk Stalk

Once again, we have Cas holding down the fort, and okay. I suppose. The reasoning last time was actually solid -----

And it got told. Again. When all they had to do was have Cas go, “Dean I would’ve been there, but---” - [Dean interrupts] - “It’s okay, Cas. Sam explained. We’re good.” I continue to expect tight scripting, I’ve no idea why. Wasn’t anvil-worthy, but it was clunky.

---- yet this time it was not-so-solid, because random subplot that was random.

We got to see a bunch of the Hunters We’re Supposed To Love And Care A Whole Lot About briefly, just long enough for one to call Sam “Chief-----

“I asked them to stop calling me that”.... welp, first time we’ve heard it, soooo...

-----and then an appearance by another one forthwith who has brought random chick in who was cursed by a witch who was

WHO CARES

We were supposed to, because Jack got all angsty teen and was gonna run away, complete with backpack and note left on the bed. Which, he could - I mean, he managed to get to East Who-Knows-Ville, USA and visit with his gramps and maw-maw, then get back to the bunker at the speed of light, so he could totes get to wherever he wants to, I’m sure. Hey, he should hook up with Nick. Nick’s doing fine without powers. 

*sighs*

But we go through all this stuff where obvious necklace answer is obvious, and Jack gets to show he can actually contribute, and saves the girl, and... and...

Here’s the thing: I like Jack. I like his sweetness, his innocence. I like that they nerfed Jack, no one wants there to be an ex machina, there’s gotta be stuff that’s hard or you don’t have a story. I like that he considers Cas his dad, and these two actors have great chemistry, match made in [ahem] heaven. I don’t mind him struggling with finding his place. I mind none of this.

Problem is, this is the second time they’ve shoehorned Jack into an episode with an out-of-the-blue random that’s not integrated smoothly. I said it in the other round-up, and I’ll say it again: the scene with him and the grandparents was great. Well done. Genuinely mean it. But it didn’t belong in the ep, it absolutely ground the momentum to a halt. Same here with witchypoo, though not as much of a full stop.

I get the whole ep can’t focus on what we’re getting to, but here’s what I’m saying: Have it tie in. Have it be relative to the main plot of the ep. And if it’s something to do with the major arc, something of which we are unaware? There should still be a trace of a hint of that, that there’s something more, something deeper going on, and there wasn’t in either of these two Jack subplot items. Yes, yes, the struggle to belong, but we got that. We got it. So can’t that be reinforced, maybe made a touch more interesting with a tie-in, versus “Hello random new people who just dropped out of the sky”?

Oh, and he’s got consumption.

I’m kidding. He is coughing up blood, though, so it could be TB. Lord knows what germs the bunker ventilation system is circulating.

It’s not TB.

* Dean Gets Clean

HAHAHAHA faked you out, it was a tease, they teased us with wet locker room Dean, and we got nothing. #insert knife #twist

* Dean’s Brain Farts

Supposedly Dean can’t remember all the deets - refers to the possession later as feeling like he was “under water”, good analogy - and the only reason I bring this up is because Cas did some brain diddlin’ and brought up the broad strokes, which might be a point in the Mikey’s Not Hiding In Dean’s Colon column. On the other hand, mighty archangel, and Cas still-----

STILL

------ain’t firing on all his cylinders.

And they covered why his attitude was “off”, for lack of a better word, and it made sense. On the other hand, we could also be looking at Mikey impersonating Dean to get back close to Kaia, which brings me to....

* KAIA!!!!!!

I knew this was a talented lil’ actress when she first was featured, though I was “eh” on the character, mainly because I thought we could have another Claire situation on our hands (excepting the talented part) because if you know me, you know I loathe Claire, both the character, and the way the actress plays her. I’ve done posts on that, I won’t bore you here.

But when I saw what happened at the end of the Wayward Sisters pilot? Nashie changed her tune *immediately*. It was what sold me on that (potential) show, because that would have been an excellent first season WAH-POW punch to start them off. And then no show, and then I assumed if we touched on her/them again, it would be a letdown.

Well fuck me sideways.

Following some real fine close-up and detail-revealing pans of fake severed heads that I can only presume were purchased at Party City about five minutes prior to “ACTION!” that day, we got a fine treat of a reveal of Kaia through a well-choreographed fight scene that made up for the lukewarm one we got later. Whatever her stunt double gymnast is getting paid is not enough, the stuntwork that woman is doing is *chef’s kiss*.

The scenes between this actress and JA were pure hotsauce, she held his eye and dished it right back, and the thing I love is that she’s not playing it all petulant teen (stares at Claire, gives slight side-eye to Jack), she’s not over-doing the tough guy false bravado thing, she’s just intense. No broody, no angst, no drama. INTENSE. Love it. Beautiful. I want this chick around more, hundred percent, this is gold. I’d rather her be an ally... or pseudo-ally... than a big bad, and I suspect they’ll do the former, but end of the day, she needs to be there.

* Weird shit

And only briefly:

- Fine, let’s go with “Mikey jumped ship” --> to *where*? Into *what*? Or *who*?

- The monster squad going after Kaia ---> Another fine, IF this was how it went: Mikey senses the presence of a badass, goes to recruit, Kaia refuses, game on.

But we have Sam saying “...finish what he started” and implying that the reason for the monster squad was to take out Kaia------

Which.... no? It’s his new army, instead of angels as it was in his home world, since he’s not got a ton of angels to use in this world

------because her weapon is the only thing that can hurt him, but the problem is, finish what? 

What had Mikey started? When? Where? Not in Alt World, because Kaia’s not from Alt World, she’s from the Bad Place world, and we established last season that Mikey & co. had yet to figure out how to world jump. So how did he know that some sort of metal from some rando world could take him out? 

- And, side note: if Kaia is an analog of our Kaia - i.e., a human with the dreamwalker “gift” - instead of some sort of mimic creature thing like I’d assumed at the time we first saw her, then Mikey couldn’t just cock an eyebrow and eviscerate her on the spot becaaaaaauuuuse......????? 

If I completely did a Dean and was underwater and brain farted something, feel free to let me know.

So that’s that, like I say, they planted some plot crops and didn’t leave what’s been established in the first two episodes in the dust, hopefully momentum picks up a touch from here on out. 

[necromite]

*slams fists down*

OK NECROMITES!

MY DF GAVE THE OK TO INFO DUMP ABOUT THEM TO THEM AND SIIIINCCEEE I DON’T WANT TO SPAM THEIR MESSAGES HERE’S INFO HERE:

Firstly…. I know some of this is gonna sound mEH but this little demon species I made means the goddamn world to meeeee and my lil traumatized ass so don’t b mean™

Now originally I only made a few. Like as a coping mechanism. That was back around middle school because that is definitely where depression™ started. I love demons so much and I was like…. yes demons I’m make them….

Originally, and this still pretty much holds up, they are always themed off of something. And whatever they are themed off of determines their main power.

Now in my original drafts, all of them had a tattoo of the symbol of their power. It was black everytime. Now that does not hold up anymore, instead I gave them what I call “insulators”. They act as a container for their magic and they cannot perform their magic without it on. The insulator is also capable of keeping their physical forms together. If you apply enough force to their forms they will uhhh explode and immediately go back into regeneration within their insulators. So essentially their souls are in their insulators. This is symbolic of going through a traumatic experience and then shutting down and going into recovery. Due to what this is based on, the recovery times vary extremely dependent on what happens to the Necromite at hand. Sometimes it takes more force to break one Necromite than it does with others. It really depends on their level of power and mental endurance to keep themselves together. Once they reform, they come back and are generally ok after that until some fucker hurts them again. While it’s based off of physical force, it COULD also be mental trauma to them too. So physcologically tortuing one has about the same effect as physically dependent on the Necromite, and they will pop and go back into regeneration. However sometimes instead of going back into regeneration, they lash out and go into a “beast form” of sorts. Except….the beast form is what they look like anyway. Necromites are a species that wants to blend in, because what they generally look like scares things that don’t understand their somewhat horrific appearance. They project a form of the predominate species of their area. Most of the time, it’s probably humans tbh. So human/humanoid forms 9 times outta 10 most likely. However they can shift into anything so long as they see it in action. They are not perfect at this, however, and no matter what form they’re in they will always have: horns (any amount, but has to be at least one), long ears, and their insulators. Now insulators can practically be anything but once they choose one they have to stick with it forever. The way it works is that the (probably child?) chooses an item they like and choose to put themselves in that essentially. Until then the parents/guardians help them keep their forms stable if they’re projecting. If they have no one to help them do that, they cannot disguise themselves without an insulator. Generally, insulators are accessories like jewelry or something (not necessary, can be anything within reason that they can have on their person.). Just so they don’t look out of place. They’re extremely sensitive to people touching their insulators and mostly do not allow it. There’s a good reason for this of course. Because, as you can probably guess, if you destroy the insulator you kill them. Destroying an insulator is actually extremely hard though. There’s no specific way to do it but they’re just extremely durable to the point of which someone who is not magic probably cannot achieve breaking it. Regardless though yes they are paranoid so do not touch it unless you want an ass kicking. Now they mostly live in villages with a bunch of other Necromites. Very, very rarely do they live in a place that does not have at least one other of their kind, and if they do it probably involves a significant other of another species. (tHAT IS THE SAME of their projected species so no weird shit….) Speaking of….since it’s relevant, yes they can reproduce with different species if they wanted to, but since they’re immortal they don’t really have to. But y’know sometimes people want kids or whatever so. Yeah. 

Now generally, Necromites are under rule of their Queen. Who resides in their dimension of origin. She gathers up incredibly powerful Necromites and raises them to do what she says, and what she wants them to do is colonize other places all around different dimensions. There are 5 classes to those who live under her rule: Citizen->Servant->Solider->Commander->Elder 

Citizen lives there and does general citizen shit. I mean…y’know whatever the fuck people do when they live somewhere. 

Servant is a servant. That’s pretty straight forward. They do shit for her and reside in her palace or whatever I haven’t decided wtf she actually lives in yet bc I’m soooo good at this.

Soldiers are the fighters. They are essentially…yeah?? They’re soldiers man they fight battles and take out opposition. 

Commanders train the soldiers and protect the Elders. 

Elders are the most powerful and are exceedingly gifted when it comes to magic, charisma, and cruelty. They are the ones sent out to colonize. Sometimes it’s a matter of convincing the people of the area they go to colonize bc they’re stupid….hence the charisma aspect. 

Most of the time though, people don’t want to be under a new rule, especially if they didn’t have one in the first place. If they do, the Elders kill the leader. If they don’t, the Elders kill a couple of the people in example of what will happen should there be anymore opposition. This has been going on as long as the species has been existent. Queen is the literal God to the demons and she can spawn demons from thin air if she wanted to, but she much prefers to just let them grow from a baby. Some things to keep in mind are that she is a cruel tyrant and she really only cares about expanding her influence and nothing else. She is about 40 feet tall. She has the ability to control any demon of the Necromite species so long as they are pure Necromite. Meaning that if a Necromite bred with a human the baby would be half human, in which case she only has half control. She’s evil as evil gets and also insanely powerful, there has never been opposition to her…. EXCEPT….. until a Necromite named Gin came around. He was used by her since birth and is arguably the second most powerful Necromite alive behind Queen herself. For a long while, until about his late teens, he worked for her without question. He was not capable of emoting or understanding emotions all that well. Some would say he was even apathetic but that really was not true. One day one of the commanders he was assigned to started picking on him while the other 6 Elders he associated with were not paying attention. This commander is named Luciana. (She belongs my best friend) She was raised from birth to die for her cause if need be and that was all that mattered, except….. she’s pretty quirky and silly. And she saw something different in Gin than she did any other Elders. She had the hunch he could be a much better person than he was raised to be. And she was right. She also fell in love with him. He didn’t really know this at the time, and therefore he came off as rather insensitive to her feelings and hints that she dropped at him. Eventually, he ultimately decided he was done being a pawn to Queen. He was going to rebel. He told Luciana and a few citizens who shared his views of wanting to be free and he put his plan…. well actually he did not have anything planned he just did it. He was successful, and he took Luciana and the citizens to a world that the Necromites had never been before and sealed off the portal and any traces of energy that would have helped in tracking them down. He was injured, of course. He had to fight Queen before he was able to leave after all. He did not succeed in killing her though, only fazing for a short amount of time. And well? Gin and Luciana’s group of people were free now. It was the first time anyone had done that and so they had to work together to make their village, which still stands to this day. And if you’re wondering…. yes Gin and Luciana are married and they are cute as fuck. Gin is now dead though but there’s a lot more to things than that. To keep this post from getting any longer though I’m going to summarize: Gin instated six other Elders to work with him and lead the village and they weren’t really that nice. He also recruited 7 more potential Elders and trained them and raised them, acting as their fatherly figure and treating them as more than their ability to destroy. The local species of angels that happened to live there…. I forgot the name I gave them….. were like….. “hey what the fuck you can’t be here you’re demons” and all that racist shit djdjdjsjsj. And eventually they got into fights and then war broke out and Gin and the other six Elders were killed as well as the leader of the angels and ofc tons more of casualties. So the kids Gin had raised to take their place did exactly that. They are grown now and are currently the leaders of the village. They’re good at what they do but they hold resentment for what had happened. So there are two kinds of Necromites, ones that are aligned with Queen and the ones that are not. It’s dangerous to not be aligned with her because you know her petty ass is trying to hunt down the rebel village. She hasn’t been successful just yet though. And that is the history behind that shit in the shortest possible summary. Now more about the species in general is that there are regular ones and there are gifted ones. The gifted ones are born with a huge amount of power and those are generally the ones that are made into Elders. Elders are protectors of those they lead and if you try to mess with their village they will fuck you up. The way villages generally go is that there are 7 Elders to run it and the rest are citizens. They’re generally peaceful unless provoked. If you were to kiss one for some reason, their saliva would taste like your favorite sweet thing, and if you taste it while they are aroused, it turns into an aphrodisiac. Honestly though like… they don’t take advantage of this or anything. You shouldn’t really be kissing them like that unless you like… love them or something anyway. Necromites with tails are somewhat scarce for some reason, no one really knows why. There’s two Necromites that canonly have tails and that’s about it. There are currently none with wings but it isn’t impossible. Any other features are pretty common though. Like clawed hands, multiple limbs, unnatural skin colors, etc. Females generally have notched ears whereas males do not but who gives a fuck about gender tbh I give the men notched ears all the time. And ofc just for the record they also do not give a fuck about gender and there are trans and nonbinary Necromites all the time. They don’t tolerate people who discriminate and the punishment is either exile or death. The person gets to choose. Most choose exile. As said earlier, they look really strange when they aren’t disguised. I don’t have a visual reference of this yet but: lanky bodies, elongated limbs, large jaws and needle like teeth, they generally can only stand on four legs because of their large limbs but standing on two legs is totally possible. Standing upright they’re about 6 feet tall at the shortest in most cases. Some are smaller or larger though. Their eyes are narrow and their pupils are slitted. All in all they have the sentience of humans mentality wise and generally stick together. They’re social but mostly only towards each other. Sometimes outsiders aren’t even allowed near their villages and sometimes they don’t give a heck. It really all depends. They have their own language, but they adapt and pick up ones that are spoken around them often. Uhhhhhhh I can’t really think of anything else right now sO RANT OVER

[jbemin]

we have similar music taste!! what got you into nct? and what other groups do you stan? hope you have a good day! - ❄️ (also sorry, i wasn’t thinking!)

Aww that’s nice!! uwuOmg that’s actually a quite adventurous story, bc as everything you love in the end, it starts with hate xD When I first saw/listened to NCT it wasn’t even a month, since I was into kpop and everything was new to me and sort of weird (bc I hadn’t fully accepted that I like kpop and was kinda ashamed (?) and yeah). And there’s this yt channel, maybe it’s known to you, the name is “K-Ville Entertainment”. It makes it’s own kpop chart videos and shows them as “top 100″ to the audience. BTS was the only group known to me (tb to when I was obsessed xD) and NCT kinda shooked me xD They seemed SO weird, like what was that mv, styling and the song even??? Yk that was my mindset. So that’s how it started. But for some reason I watched their first Weekly Idol episode and learned these five members (Taeyong, Jaehyun, Yuta, Winwin and Taeil), but still didn’t really liked NCT. Fun fact, but to this day my comments is one of the top comments under the video in which they dance to sm songs. And since then, I kept following them, 50% intentional and 50% unintentional.And for whichever reason I decided to check out their 2nd album, which was surprisingly FIRE. The first album followed, which was also fire. But NCT 127 was honestly not doing it for me (I still had that Fire Truck trauma xD). And I got myself into the system of NCT and the unit thing (which was back then kind of hard, since there were no proper explanations since sm ignored nct lol), but at some point I got the idea of it and through comments and what not, I laid my eyes on NCT Dream. And yeah that was THE moment. I watched “My First and Last” and I was honestly not expecting anything at all, since all the comments said, they’re just cute kids and the music is good, but nothing for “older” people. And with that in my mind, I were like “ya check them out, props as fail as 127, just some kiddos lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯“. But then Huang Renjun happened. I mean fr I liked the song from the first listen haha, but Renjun at 0:52 (when he walks to the teacher and sings) I was like wehohfoiewiohf error error, boi what. I remember it so clearly, that after that, I paused the video and looked for his name and then his age xD I decided for myself that the Dreamies are accepted and I could NOT understand, how someone could all say this about Dream, when a whole Renjun and Mfal exists. End of the story was that idk maybe about 2 week later NCT 127 announced a cb (Cherry Bomb) and this was the sign I always waited for so then after the album came out, which I really really liked, I decided to stan (lowkey stanned Dreamies since then but ya know haha). Well of the story is that since Lucas, Jungwoo and Kun were introduced and Boss came out + Jaemins comeback, they kinda transformed themself into one of my ult groups :)Jfc that was soooo long and I’m so sorry for that (and everyone who has this on their dash now ._.)!! And now onto the other question c: Well I don’t stan many groups, to be exact, only five. GOT7 and NCT are both my ult groups. And then there are Seventeen, Blackpink and Loona :) 

[hundredacreemma]

Ultimate Ranking of Villain Songs

This was a much harder list to make than I thought it would be. I’m gonna start at my honorable mention and then work my way backwards to my number one. This is just my opinion. Things definitely could be in different orders. Even as I’m writing this, I’m moving things all over my list. Also, why are all female villains altos? I’d love to have a princess in my range. It makes us look evil.

Okay, my honorable mention is I Wanna Be Like You. This song is from my favourite non princess movie. I just can’t actually decide if it’s really a villain song. It’s very villainy and so I thought I’ll include it but not on my actual list.

Number 13 is Savages. Part of that is my prejudice behind that movie. This list was hard to make and this one didn’t stick out like it should be higher. This a song that is also a little too much like our political climate here in the USA, so it’s a little scary.

Number 12 is Prince Ali (Reprise). Oh Jafar, stealing your protagonist’s song and using it to expose him. It’s wonderful. But I couldn’t find a way to shift things down and make it higher.

Number 11 is Painting the Roses the Red. Some people would argue that it isn’t a villain song but it talks about the Queen of Hearts. This is actually one of my favourite songs in all of Disney if I’m being honest, but there’s so many amazing villain songs so it had to be low.

Number 10 is Cruella De Ville. I keep moving this one around. I can’t decide where it should go. I’m not the biggest fan of the original but there’s so many great Disney Mania covers of it which made me like it. Like Selena Gomez rocked her cover of it. So it’s a weird one for me.

Number 9 is The Siamese Cat Song. I love this song. All the music from that movie is so good and I can decide where to put it so #9 it is. It was one of my favourite songs growing up too.

Number 8 is Shiny. So I still haven’t seen Moana because I suck, but this song and the scene (I watched the video Disney released) is sooooo amazing. It’s such a perfect villain song. It’s evil and picks on the protags. I can’t wait to see the rest of the movie.

Number 7 is Love is an Open Door. Oh my god this song. Hans was such an amazing villain. He was something very new. It wasn’t immediately distinguished that he’s the villain like some other movies. Tbh Elsa and her dad (who I will rant about someday, about how he messed up with his daughter’s anxiety) seemed more like villains when that part of the movie was happening. So it’s an amazing song. It made you want to fall in love with Hans and then he was the villain.

Number 6 is Mother Knows Best. Mother Gothel is an interesting character because all she wanted was to stay beautiful and never cared that she was literally imprisoning a poor innocent girl. Sometimes I wonder if in her sick little mind, she didn’t realize how completely wrong what she was doing is. Oops sometimes I’m a bit of a villain sympathizer. Never in real life though.

Number 5 is Hellfire, aka when Frollo almost burnt down France because he was hot for Esmerelda. This is a weird one to be so high because I haven’t seen Hunchback in so long, but this song will never not be something I think about.

Number 4 is Gaston. This is such a good song. I’ve gotten my dad obsessed with it. I also have a Gaston voice I use when I’m singing along. Gaston is just stupid and thinks with his junk, but it makes for a good villain and a great villain song.

And now for the top 3.

At number 3, I have Friends on the Other Side from the AMAZING Princess and the Frog. I love this villain and this song and this movie. Part of it might be my love for ghosts and voodoo and all that, but it’s so good. Shadowman was an amazing villain.

My number 2 is Be Prepared. Oh my god this song is soooo good. I can’t believe I didn’t realize how good it was until a few weeks ago. I don’t like Lion King all that much, but this is such a bop.

Drumroll Please

My number 1 is the quintessential villain song, Poor Unfortunate Soul. This is probably everyone’s number 1. It’s such an amazing villain song. I will never get over the body language part. Ursula wanted her man and she was gonna do whatever to get it.

That is my Ultimate Disney Villain Songs Ranking.