#and not just mega gas giants

[swagging-back-to]

looking at hubble images and galaxies is terrifying bc there's literally billions of stars. at least two planets in our solar system alone have and have had life in some capacity. it's nauseating to know that looking at a galaxy is not only looking however many years in the past but it's looking however many planets with life on them. just imagining the planets in all those solar systems. in solar systems with suns larger than our entire solar system.

[radiance1]

Okay guys.

Dragon Danny, this time not eastern.

BUT HEAR ME OUT, HEAR. ME. OUT.

He's made of....

GOO!

Not just any goo, obviously. But ectoplasmic goo :3

This au is gonna be disconnect from both the Ghost King and Ghost Prince headcanon I should say. Instead of being king of all ghosts, he's basically like...

A mega Blob ghost.

King of the Blob ghosts, even.

Like, basically the equivalent of those giant slime monsters or that King slime boss from Terraria but a dragon!

Whenever he's in dragon form, he can choose if he wants legs or not, if he doesn't, he basically just moves like, well, a snail. Obviously faster than a snail, but still. He doesn't leave a trail behind most of the time though, because he actually needs that stuff thank you very much and leaving a trail behind is pretty messy obviously.

Whenever he uses legs he just walks as any other two legged creature.

Because of his unique biology, he can basically shift between Eastern and Western dragon form at will. He can manipulate his body far more than that, but anyways.

So, Danny has outlived his friends and family, so there isn't much for him to really, well, do anymore. Like, at all.

The GIW was and still is persistent as ever though. Even if he's outlived the original members that were gunning for him.

Apparently, becoming a goo dragon and ascending to his status as King of the Blob ghosts bumped up both his valuableness and his threat simultainously.

Which he guesses is fair because if he saw a guy turn into a giant dragon and he doesn't have a positive relationship with he would see him as a threat too.

So, how did this lead to him being locked up inside of a heavily fortified base created explicitly for him to be contained within.

Well, funny story that (It's not).

He was just minding his business, having recently broken out of another containment facility by the GIW to try and contain him, and he went back to the forest near Amity Park to just chill as he always did.

A few... weeks? Months? He honestly couldn't remember, he was confronted by the GIW. Didn't take them seriously, got this gas/liquid thing shoved inside of him, knocked out, then woke up in contaiment.

Which is basically a giant hole in the ground.

Except that it's a high-tech hole in the ground.

Something, something, ectoplasmic suppressors or whatever that leave him less able to manipulate his own ectoplasm, which is a bummer. He can still manipulate it, of course, just to a far less degree than he could've before, along with that liquid that'll be pumped into him via some metal round in the ground directly below him whenever he gets too rowdy.

Well.

Consider him effectively contained.

So, time passes, how much he couldn't tell you since his concept of time is warped after living for so long plus, it's not like anyone there would really tell him if he asked now would they?

However, today seemed to be an exciting day, because something was happening.

He could see it in the way scientists scramble for an exit and how the guards run through his area. Of course, some still stay to 'guard' him, since he thinks he's some kind of priceless item.

A scientist's words, not his, but being referred to as priceless is nice.

And then wouldn't you know it?

That one scientist that said they would do their best to help him actually pulled through with their words! Thanks, Henry, he has decided that he will not kill you!

(He wasn't going to do it anyways, but it's fun to scare people.)

With both the guards gone, the ectoplasmic suppressors down, and no one to stick that liquid shit into his system.

Well.

You can say he finally gets to go apeshit.

And a dragon is a formidable foe any day. Add to that a rampaging, bored of his mind, petty, dragon that's able to manipulate himself however he wants?

Even better situation for him, how the facility is seemingly being raided right now!

Danny then, no warning, shoves Henry inside of himself. For protection, and then continues his rampage.

Meanwhile, the Justice League, the ones raiding said facility, is currently here because of the Anti-Ecto Acts.

A set of laws they do not, and will not, stand by.

[oonajaeadira]

FLUFFBRUARY 8: shower | blessed | layer (Ezra)

ADIRA'S SELF-IMPOSED FLUFFBRUARY RULES:

Six sentences.

Must be fluffy.

All 29 ficlets must feature a different Pedro.

All three words must be used (Fluffbruary prompt list here).

Use the words in order.

I reserve the right to break rules and/or cheat.

Something tingles in the quiet air of the drop pod, like the atmosphere was just hit with static, and you're about to turn back to your book when the hatch opens and Ezra's top half appears.

"There is a confluence, Trinket--!" his hand reaching, flipping like a fish as it beckons you to follow, "oi, hitch up; let's not miss the shower!"

Once he has you, he refuses to allow you to climb out with dignity, half dragging you down the hatch with a chuckle and a kiss to the cheek as you curse at him under your breath.

But even playful frustration comes to a halt as he takes you by the shoulders and points you toward the wayward horizon...to witness a mega-event micro-meteor shower against the arc of the neighboring gas giant, like a sleeping infant being blessed by a million angels at once.

"Kevva," you breathe, unable to look away as Ezra twines his fingers in yours, leading you forward toward the little lake you are camped beside, "it's astounding."

He agrees, content to let you watch as he undresses by the side of the water before unclothing you, layer by layer, so that you may float with him, hand in hand, within the mirror of the stars, under a glittering veil of beauty, "a pool fit for a queen and her fool," he says.

___

@fluffbruary

FLUFFBRUARY MASTERLIST

CHARACTER MASTERLIST

[t34-mt]

orginally in ms paint, then quickly experimented with the brushes of krita on it today, worldbuilding text about the piece under ->

southern kyhuine taking a break in the afternoon after a training session with this large calf. Surely around his village as just lying down on their stomach (a sign of relaxation) would never occur in wild areas, because kyhuines need to stay alert of their surrounding.

the headpiece is made of bones, that are sanded down, and then painted on. it is originally a thing from the kyhuines of the salt desert (a dried-out sea that contains well, salt, and many fossils), which are located up to the south so technically "northern". tho they are not called northern in world, and are referred to as salt kyhuines.

the concept of south, west, east, and north is kind of not right, as kyhuines are from the middle of the mega continent of altuyur. they used to have a restricted view of the world with a map that was quite small and not even aware that oceans existed at these times, they did not venture out to certain chains of mountains which is why it took so long for the "first contacts" to happen with maanuls. Old maanuls maps, only map out some coasts the rest being vague and the middle being completely empty of information. Both species would have that similar phrase to call non-mapped parts, "beyond the beyond"

I put first contact in "" because it is implied that it did happen maybe thousands of centuries ago, during what their equivalent of prehistory is (history for them does not start with the appearance of writing). Because there is cave art in coastal regions that show maanuls interacting with badly drawn little things that sort for assemble kyhuines, the same goes for kyhuines in their desert biomes, having cave art of them interacting with weird giants. But these happened so long ago that they're not documented in history apart from these odd pieces of art, so with time passing each species thought these were just drawings of spirits, or with time turning these into cryptids.

So funnily enough some cultures had cryptids of something that for them was a legend to then at late AOS or GA realize that these cryptids kind of reassemble the opposite species that they're in contact with now

a bit of ramble but yeah, thank you for reading! not sure how clear this can all sound without having a map to show it, i still have no idea how to draw one id love a beautiful one but hmhm i don't know how

edit: also the square shapes on the clothe means health, so with a dot in it its sort of like "good health", clothings can have symbols to give good luck. The square for kyhuines during GA became a wide symbol across cultures to signify health because in others it could mean something else, so medics of GA with uniforms would have that square symbol on their arm or somewhere else where it would easily be seen

[biolizardboils]

Behold—The Grievance of the Graphite Ghostwriter and The Woeful Watercolor Heartache of the Weeping Wet Hairbrush!

notes and a sort-of plot under the cut!

My recipe for these was (Kid + Nuclear Waste + Favorite Creative Utensil) x Personality Trait That Could Realistically Boil Over. George’s trait is his sense of justice, Harold’s is trying to downplay his sadness with jokes

They’re foils to each other in a few ways: Writing vs. Drawing, of course, but also Dry Dust vs. Wet Puddles and Only Eyes vs. Only A Mouth

Their surroundings in the second pic is intentional too. George is attacking the cool-colored Downtown Piqua, where cold-hearted businessmen exploit their workers; Harold attacks the warm-colored suburbs, tearing open nuclear households to feel the warmth inside

They get two forms because Booger Boy and Sir Stinks-A-Lot did too and also I’m indecisive lol. Think of their first form as Mega Evolution and the second as Gigantamax. Introducing Pilkeymon Graphite and Pilkeymon Acrylic

The Sort-Of Plot

First off this takes place in an unholy mashup of all three canons, because again I’m indecisive. Anyway:

One day The Boys realize their comics tend to come true and try to game the system lol. They make one about them getting Writer/Artist Powers and fixing all of Piqua’s problems with them! ...But nothing happens, and it upsets them more than they want to admit

Later they go on separate field trips to opposite ends of town (they’re in different classes like in the Movie I guess). They miss each other and sneak away to self-soothe by writing/drawing

But someone comes to bother them—a teacher scolds George harshly for wandering off, and a mean older kid picks on Harold knowing The Tie won’t stop him. They try to get away and fall into the sewers, where their frustration (and nuclear waste) catalyzes their transformation

At first they use their new powers for good: George “rewrites” the teacher to stop misusing his authority, and Harold “repaints” the mean kid into a literal class clown. But they don’t feel better, so they try harder: bad businessmen give away their riches, and the gas station from Book 9 becomes a candy store. They still don’t feel better, and soon their well-meaning “fixing” turns everyone into either single-minded zombies or forcibly smiling blobs

Melvin was in the downtown field trip and Knows About Captain like in Book 8 or whenever it was, so he finds Krupp, snaps, and sics him on George. Then he goes to the suburbs and “tells” on both Boys to their families. “Hey your sons have been leading dangerous monster-fighting double lives and now they’re monsters and you should be mad at them about it!”

Meanwhile, Captain is horrified that one of his sidekicks has fallen to evil!! He doesn’t want to hurt George and tries to talk him down while dodging his Pencil-Tie. George yells that he could never understand what he’s going through and takes on his Tornado form, blowing Captain all the way to the suburbs. There Captain sees Harold, gets horrified again, and tries the same talk on him—cue his giant Dolphin form. And since he’s spewing wet paint everywhere, Krupp wakes up in front of Melvin and the families. (What Captain didn’t get is that the Boys aren’t evil now—they’re having literal nuclear meltdowns due to past hurt and current stress)

So now there’s two giant monsters wrecking different parts of the city, Captain is down for the count, and the Boys’ families know Everything. Someone says, “Well, at least it can’t get any worse!” Cue the Boys seeing each other in the distance, not recognizing each other, and meeting in City Center for a KAIJU FIGHT (in Flip-O-Rama of course)

Melvin calculates their weaknesses and everyone splits up to gather the necessary supplies. But by the time they meet back up, the Boys have already neutralized each other (Harold bites down on George’s tie, and George sucks the water out of Harold’s hair). So instead the parents just talk to them and hope they’re listening from somewhere inside the dust clouds and dried hair. They tell them that they know what they’ve been going through now, that they get why they didn’t tell them, but that they shouldn’t have to bear so much responsibility alone. Maybe they even get Krupp to apologize for the part he's played in their constant stress (as if I haven’t derailed canon enough already lol).

The Boys emerge, human and crying, and run into their parents’ arms. Everyone helps clean up the city and cure its citizens with the supplies they’d gotten earlier. The sort-of plot ends with everyone going home, making popcorn, and watching the Kaiju Fight on the news. They might’ve caused millions in property damage but hey, at least it looked awesome

The outcome: Now the Boys don’t have to keep as many secrets, and Krupp is a bit more mindful of how he treats his students. (And maybe he knows about Captain now too, I haven’t decided yet)

[between-the-matches-verse]

Throughout the Eras Incorrect Quotes #2

Sub-Zero: The stars are so beautiful...

Sareena: They're just giant balls of gas.

Sub-Zero: You know what, if you're just going to ruin this, then-

Sareena: And yet none of them are as huge as my love for you.

Sub-Zero: Oh...

-----

Smoke: *on the phone with Scorpion* I can’t talk right now, I’m doing hot girl shit.

Scorpion: You’re pulling Oreos apart and saving off the frosting to make a mega Oreo, aren’t you.

Smoke: Maybe.

-----

Tanya: I am the sand guardian, guardian of the sand!

Scorpion: Liu Kang quivers before her!

Tanya: Fuck off!

-----

Smoke: Did you know you remind me of all 26 letters of the alphabet?

Rain: What? Like J F K W S Q X-

Smoke: No, like, U R A Q T.

Rain: Awwww!

-----

Havik: What situation is not instantly improved by the addition of fishnets, I ask you.

Sareena: Being a fish.

Havik: Well, shit.

-----

Raiden: Why are your tongues purple?

Johnny Cage: We had slushies. I had a blue one.

Kenshi: I had a red one.

Raiden: oh.

Raiden:

Raiden: OH.

Kung Lao:

Kung Lao: You drank each others slushies?

[sunsetsands]

This is the second part of the mega alien dump. First part here.

This is yet another aquatic sophont, a meresus. Seeing as how the "dolphin" body shape has convergently evolved several times throughout Earth's history, it made sense to me to make a vaguely dolphinlike alien. Their home planet is probably warmer than the yubotes', with shallower, open oceans, whereas I imagine the yubote world would have very deep oceans filled with rocky/corally pillars.

As is clearly visible above, I'm not fully decided on most aspects of their design besides just being an insectoid dolphin. There's a lot of room for things to be improved here.

This is a letharge, a nonsapient arboreal creature that fills a similar niche to sloths. Unlike Earth sloths, however, these things are native to a planet with oceans of ammonia in place of water, meaning its metabolism, and thus its movement, is much slower. They can sometimes go months at a time without moving an inch, sometimes making it difficult to tell the difference between a living letharge and a dead one.

These two creatures are from the same planet as the last one, though they're more closely related to each other than either are to the letharge. Both of their mouth arrangements include a claw-arm-thing that contains the mouth opening, as well as a long pincer that they use to jab at prey or scoop food closer to them. The one on the left is a solitary pursuit predator, while the one on the right is a social ambush predator. In a setting where there's a sort of interstellar multispecies civilization, I imagine the one on the right would become a popular pet.

I had been worried before that I was running out of original ideas for body plans and that I would just end up repeating the same few ones over and over again, but I've been able to produce a lot more diversity here than in any of the previous dumps I've done.

Slorphs are the obligitory "just a squid" of this shared universe. They reside in a gas giant with a very thick, dense atmosphere, thick enough for the resident organisms to float in as if it was an ocean. The clubbed tail at the bottom acts like a weight, which keeps them upright while they fly around. Due to the lack of solid ground, all of their major structures are either built off of larger floating creatures or midair buoys.

These creatures are phvolax, beach-dwelling squid-slug things with a size and ecological role similar to walruses. The stripes on their backs act like those of a zebra, deterring pests and making it harder to tell where one phvolax ends and another begins, while the marks on their faces help members of the herd tell each other apart. Anatomically and behaviorally, not including their nonsapience, they are very similar to akada, a fact many Almudian spec bio nerds claim is "unrealistic".

Out of all of the concepts procured for this sketch dump, this is probably the least realistic. Polodes have no limbs of any kind, instead manipulating objects with electromagnetism. This electric power is generated by organs similar to the ones possessed by electric eels. I have absolutely no idea of the actual mechanics of this, nor if this is even remotely possible. It's more or less just a "scientifically accurate" way of justifying psionics within an otherwise hard sci-fi setting. In addition to this, they communicate with each other at frequencies too high for most other creatures' ears to perceive, which is, again, just "scientific" telepathy. These things are almost certainly getting scrapped, but it was a fun concept to play with while it lasted.

This is the end of the dump. There were originally more entries, but I realized I couldn't come up with anything interesting to say for most of them, so they just got scrapped. I think I'm good on making design dumps like this for a while.

[heres-to-all-that-is-mine]

Hr-HM, let’s see here…

Formerly-A-Doctor Jonah Juni Emile West, they/he (they/them preferred), is an interesting character to be sure.

For starters, despite their somewhat violent and strange tendencies when it comes to teeth, they’re not actually particularly malicious. Strange and off-putting? Sure, to some degree - that’s just kind of how they are! They try their best to be friendly and cheery, but it hardly seems to matter when people are unsettled by him anyway :(

By the time he picks Phoenix at random for a “checkup,” they’re not in a particularly good state of mind - having been fired and blacklisted from their profession pretty recently, the one thing they knew for sure they enjoyed and found fulfilling to work with! (To make matters worse, it’s exactly the way they felt about it that got them fired! (That is, if one disregards the other little things, of course.)) And, well, who wouldn’t get a little carried away seeing that inside someone’s mouth?

Now, from a young age, Emile’s just kind of known he wanted to be a dentist. Maybe it started the first time he lost a tooth as a child (he can still remember the taste of blood on their tongue, the feel of the gap in their row of teeth, if they try), or perhaps the time they’d had to get a tooth pulled and got to experience the wonders of laughing gas left his head all mixed up afterwards. Maybe it was a hundred little things that built up into a conviction. (Maybe they were just born like this.)

Regardless, they’re a nice enough chap, but they find themself… well, to put it simply, obsessing over teeth. All the thoughts feel like an itch they can’t scratch! Usually they ignore it, but at that point…

Either way their “little” slip-up irreparably changed the course of their life. While they try to track down Phoenix (to apologise, they say, but also - they’re rather invested in what the hell is up with their teeth), they stumble into things they never should’ve seen. For one, turns out Zoraxis - that giant company with its fingers in pretty much every pie out there, you know? - is involved in more shady business than your average mega corporation, and also tends to employ people with guns! Which they found out the hard way.

At one point they find themself hospitalised and teetering between the brink of life and death and they might have met the devil/death itself? It’s a little unclear if all of that happened or if it was the extraordinary amounts of painkillers making them hallucinate or have weird dreams. Either way after a surprisingly speedy recovery they set off again, thrown back headfirst into this confusing conspiracy theory supposedly involving doomsday devices and the CEO of that corporation hiring… supervillains? Honestly, Emile’s not entirely sure they haven’t just entirely lost it. But they have a quest and they’ll finish it if it kills them!

They were never the best with this whole “social interaction” thing - he’s never really been the most well liked guy. And really, they should’ve known not to expect anything different in their dream career, either. His coworkers avoid him, gossiping behind his back, and so on. They don’t mind too much, honestly. It’s just the norm in their life, and at least these people aren’t really rude to his face. They do wish the others wouldn’t shirk quite so many duties onto them, though, because while they do like their job, all the tedious things are starting to wear on them. They’re most definitely not used to things like “comfort” or “affection”.

…on more than one occasion, they’ve sampled the nitrous oxide for themself. It’s a funny feeling.

[beardedmrbean]

California Governor Gavin Newsom might have an education problem to contend with: parents.

A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California found that 60 percent of parents approve of the way Newsom is handling education. While it is a clear majority, it's also the lowest mark Newsom has received since 2019 and a 13-point drop from two years ago, signaling Newsom might be losing appeal among the group.

Just under half of Californians think the quality of education in the state's K through 12 public schools has gotten worse, and about the same percentage of public school parents say the level of state funding for their local schools is "not enough."

Newsom's education approval is also significantly tied to location. Only in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area did Newsom receive a majority approval for education at 55 and 54 percent, while the less urban areas were more critical.

Parents in particular seem divided, as 50 percent of public school parents say the education system is going in the right direction and the same percentage said the opposite.

"Many parents resent the fact Newsom's kids attended private school with in-person learning while public schools were closed," California parent Paul Walker told Newsweek. "Now parents are angry that children are behind. While most parents like the teacher, they also recognize that many of the students are two, three or four years behind."

Newsweek reached out to Newsom for comment via email.

Some of Newsom's educational policies have centered on LGBTQ+-friendly curriculum, with the governor going as far as to propose fines on schools that do not adhere to the state's specific social studies curriculum as approved.

That happened with the Temecula Valley Unified School District, a more conservative school system within the larger Democratic state, last year, when the government issued a $1.5 million fine threat.

"The three political activists on the school board have yet again proven they are more interested in breaking the law than doing their jobs of educating students — so the state will do their job for them," Newsom said in a press statement at the time.

Newsom in the News

Newsome has received his fair share of pushback for several policies he has enacted.

A recent law that stipulated a $20 minimum wage for all fast-food workers was brought into question after social media revealed an inconsistency by the governor. PlumpJack Café in Olympic Valley, a restaurant Newsom partially owns, was shown looking for a $16 per hour busser, directly violating the minimum wage law Newsom passed.

Newsom has also been criticized for his actions potentially contributing to higher gas prices in the state. He has pushed to increase oversight on mega oil companies, but gas giant Chevron came out in opposition, saying Newsom's moves could cause continued gas price hikes.

Update 4/17/24, 1:34 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with comment from Paul Walker.

[mlobsters]

supernatural s9e6 heaven can't wait (w. robert barens)

first episode with this writer. not sure i'm in the best mindset to do this but let's try. suicide hotline straight out of the gate not helping

i'm glad misha played this bit with the machine straight, i was more worried that he was going to be touching his phone with wet sticky fingers

sam looking especially giant next to kevin like this

so i can't imagine they'd recycle the exact same plot of cas getting wooed by pretty lady who's actually trying to kill him, but if she's above board she.... needs to raise her standards and stick to the no dating your employees rule.

DEAN Were they all basket cases? SHERIFF If you asked me to make a list of this county's saddest sacks, these four would've been right on top.

right, again, nothing new. but i'm tired of how they talk about mental illness. also. it's me, hi, i'm the saddest sack, it's me. literally have sad sack in my twitter profile. anyway i know this is before the always keep fighting campaign and jared talking about his experiences with mental illness

unclear how bodily tissues and clothes all turn into bright pink residue for everyone

the mushy music swells

dean's being kind of an asshole here to cas about him having to work at the gas station. like it's so funny, he's dealing with being human for the first time (and the writers have made him very clueless) and you kicked him out your home and he had nothing and nowhere to stay so he was supposed to .... do what exactly

CROWLEY You think you can threaten me with that hack?! She's all fury, no finesse. SAM I'm not so sure. Our last encounter with Abaddon, she was, uh – she was pretty terrifying. Scarier than you've been in years.

laughed out loud at sam's not remotely subtle attempts to make crowley jealous

CASTIEL You are a hunter. DEAN And you're a hunter in training, remember? CASTIEL Yeah, I remember. You said I sucked. DEAN I didn't say that. I said that there was, uh, uh, you know, "room for improvement." Come on. CASTIEL All right, my shift's over in five minutes, and my date's not until later, so... DEAN Attaboy! I'll go get the car.

kinda treating cas like a doormat. feel like he should be more pissed at dean than he is. then again i thought dean should have been more pissed at him a whole bunch of times so. even steven

DEAN What, you're saying an angel did this? CASTIEL It's no ordinary angel. Dean, this is bad. This is very bad.

you've heard of arch angels but what if i told you there were super mega bad arch angels

getting dean's quick guide to dating

okay boss lady, next time you're trying to ask if someone can babysit, mention the baby. and the sitting. and the babysitting

LOL like drawing blood works like this. this show and needles is so goofy :p most shows are. but like you can just jab a needle straight down into your arm and draw blood is especially goofy.

know that i know the song cas is singing (believe it or not by joey scarbury) because george had an answering machine message spoof of it in an episode of seinfeld...

this baby is a DOLL! my god. precious 🥹

CASTIEL Nobody told you. Nobody explained. You're just … shoved out kicking and screaming into this human life, without any idea why any of it feels the way it feels, or why this confusion, which feels like it's … a hair's breadth (The baby stops crying.) from terror or pain. You know, just when you think you do understand, it'll turn out you're wrong. You didn't understand anything at all. Guess that's just how it is when you're new at this. You know, it wasn't that long ago when all I'd need to do to ease your pain was touch you.

i am glad they're addressing this aspect of how hard it would actually be to suddenly have to deal with being human for cas

reminiscing about the time dean was sweet with the shifter baby

s6e2 two and a half men because i'm soft for baby cuddles

curious where they're going with this and crowley. giving him a little mini redemption arc?

DEAN Listen, Cas … Back at the bunker, I, uh... Sorry I told you to go. I know it's been hard on you, you know, on your own. Well, you're adapting. I'm proud of you. CASTIEL Thank you, Dean. (Sighs) But there's something Ephraim said. The angels – they need help. Can I really sit this out? Shouldn't I be searching for a way to get them home? DEAN Me and Sam will take care of the angels. You're human now. It's not your problem anymore.

glad he apologized. i think he should have offered to help with money or something. should have given him a bundle when he booted him in the first place. if we're on the cas-is-family train, dean is good at taking care of people and knows what it's like to be food insecure and unhoused. he's falling down on that job with cas right now. if they want me to take their relationship as seriously as they talk it up to be, gotta follow through with more actions

[fablewritesnonsense]

Welcome to the Pizzaplex

Felix is a graphic design student at the local community college, coming in from out of state to get his degree. But degrees cost money and after his grades slipped the tiniest bit, he lost his scholarship. Go figure. Thankfully the local entertainment complex, Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzeria Complex, has offered him a high paying paying position in the Daycare. During the day shifts he'll take care of the kids, during the night shifts he watches the daycare bot and makes sure he doesn't get into any trouble.

There's plenty of red flags along the way, but it's not until his first night shift that he truly understands why his roommate warned him not to work for Fazbear Inc.

You can thank @justaduckarts for this one

Chapter One: The Introductions

“Felix, my brother in Christ, what compelled you to actually take a job at the Pizzaplex?” asked Lennox, his roommate, as they broke down from their podcast recording.

“Thirty dollars an hour,” Felix said, putting up the stack of library books in the basket to go home. “And, and, a Fazbear Scholarship. They’re going to let me work on classwork while I’m at the desk, Lennox.” Felix tossed his braid of bright green hair over his shoulder and put the mics in their box. “Honestly, Jaq daring me to apply was the best thing that she’s ever done for me.”

Lennox raised a perfectly groomed eyebrow at him, “This isn’t a stupid tattoo, Felix. This is Fazbear we’re talking about!” Felix snorted.

“I swear, you locals are so uptight about Fazbear but that doesn’t stop anyone from going to the complex. Hell, you had us take you there for your nineteenth birthday!” He laughed. Lennox stood up, their slim frame extending itself to it’s full five feet ten inches to look two inches down at him.

“There’s a difference,” they said softly. “I’d tell you, but it’s too late now for you to back out,” they said, turning and walking away.

“That’s not fair!” Felix said, stomping after them. “I might!”

“Nope! You’ve locked yourself into this Faustian bargain, time for you to learn from your actions!” they said, striding down the hall and slamming the door behind them. Felix huffed and continued breaking down without them.

“Passive aggressive ass bitch,” he muttered, looking into the box again “… all of their books were based on Faustian bargains.”

***

Perhaps he should have admitted they were right when he was going through the paperwork and saw that there was a waiver he’d signed that was summed up to: “I agree that Fazbear Incorporated is not responsible for any grievous bodily mutilation and/or death that will happen as a result of our animatronics.”

And that was just the legal language he understood.

But, he refused to acknowledge that maybe Lennox knew what they were talking about. Instead, he showed up to his first day and sat through the eight hour training day, meticulously taking notes.

The next morning he had to show up an hour before they opened, to run around the Pizzaplex and meet everyone. Because apparently the bots didn’t react well when they saw you backstage and hadn’t gotten a chance to meet you.

He was first taken through Rockstar Row to meet the Glamrocks. His new manager, a scrangly old man with a gray combover and a beer belly named Scott, took him into the main area, where they could see all the windows into the rooms. Felix had seen the bots a few times from a distance, but mostly had seen the merch.

“All Glamrocks please report to me,” Scott said into a walkie-talkie. Felix watched them all stop what they were doing and look up. “I’m the lead mechanic.” that was whispered proudly into Felix’s ears, and he thought he could smell gas station nachos on the old man’s breath.

“And you’re in chare of me, why?” Felix asked. Apparently that wasn’t the correct response, based off the sour look that he received.

Felix looked way from Scott, and almost screamed. Each of the bots had moved to tower over them, all staring at Felix with giant glowing eyes.

“Hey guys, this is Felix, he’s going to be working in the daycare with Sun and Moon,” Scott said, motioning to Felix. Each of their eyes blinked in and out a few times, as if they were processing this information. “Felix, have you met them before? With backstage passes or anything?”

“Nope, sure haven’t,” Felix squeaked, leaning into the wall.

“Well, everyone, introduce yourselves,” Scott said, waving a hand to Felix.

“Hello Superstar! I’m Freddy Fazbear!” Freddy said warmly, waving a hand.

“You don’t have to call him Superstar Freddy, he’s not a guest,” Scott said with a sigh.

“Nice to meet you, Freddy,” Felix said with a nod.

“I’m Roxy, feel free to stop by and tell me how much you love my music,” Roxy said, extending her hand. Felix nodded at Roxy and held up his own, recently painted fingernails.

“Sorry, just got them done,” he said to get out of whatever she might want him to do.

“A man with style, I like it,” she said with a toothy smile that almost made Felix wet his pants.

“Monty Gator,” Monty said, boring holes into Felix with his eyes.

“Sup,” Felix squeaked, pressing himself further into the wall before looking to Chica.

She… screeched at him.

“Chica?” Scott asked. She screeched at Scott too. Scott heaved a sigh and picked up the walkie. “Guys, I’m sending Chica down to you. Her voicebox isn’t working. Again. Chica, scooch on to your service elevator. Go on.” chica looked at him for a very long moment, but eventually turned around and made her way back to her room.

“So, that’s not normal?” Felix asked.

“It’s why she doesn’t sing,” Roxy said with a laugh, pretending to toss her hair back.

“No, but parts and services should take care of her,” Scott said. Felix couldn’t help but notice the sideways looks the animatronics gave him. Suddenly he was wondering what the fuck happened in the background here.

“Okay then…” Felix said.

“Alright guys, you’re free to continue getting ready for the day,” Scott said, and the bots wasted no time getting back to their rooms. “Alright, next stop, DJ Music Man. And if you’re ever down there and see Freddy getting too close, get him headed the other direction. He goes absolutely apeshit on the dance floor, took out some wet-floor bots that way.” Felix quirked an eyebrow at him for that, but got ignored.

The DJ almost gave Felix a heart attack when he crawled out of his ceiling hole, and most definitely took a few years off his life, but Scott ignored this and all but dragged him out.

“Last stop is daycare,” Scott said, leading him towards the area that actually mattered.

“Cool, I hope Sun isn’t as scary as that bastard,” Felix wheezed, leaning on the wall of the elevator as they traveled to the ground floor from the Fazcade.

“Nah, Sun is specifically designed to be child friendly,” Scott said. “So unless you’re a wimp, you’ll be fine. I’m not going to shit with you though, DJ Music Man still scares me. And, be careful if you’re in the vents. He’s got mini-mes on security detail there.” Felix was so flabbergasted that he had no clue what to say to that.

The doors opened up and Scott led him to the giant doors that lead into the daycare. A swipe of a badge and they opened, letting them both into the colorful soft-play area.

“Sun, report to the daycare security desk,” Scott said into his walkie talkie after not seeing the bot. “So, here’s where you’ll mostly be. You had your first aid training yesterday, right?”

“Yeah?” Felix said.

“Cool, so in case you and Sun can’t stop one of the kids from doing something stupid, here’s a first aid kit,” Scott said, kicking the box that had a picture of Chica in a weirdly sexualized nurse’s outfit. “Sun’s usually pretty good, and Moon’s alright with the kids. But, unless there’s an emergency, stay behind the desk.”

“I can do that,” Felix said, sitting down in one of the chairs.

“Oh, actually,” Scott said, looking around. “Let me get you a map of the backup generators. Just in case the lights go full out while the kids aren’t having naptime.” Felix frowned.

“Can he not turn them on himself?” Felix asked. Scott snorted and shook his head.

“And I’d suggest you get to them fast, don’t want Moon out too long,” Scott said, pulling a map out of his bag and handing it to Felix.

“Wait, how does he work-” Felix was cut off as a gangly jester appeared from the ballpit.

“Hi hi hi!” Sun said, skipping over languidly. Felix’s jaw dropped, realizing just how tall this thing was.

“Sun, this is Felix, he’s your new Daycare Attendant! He’s just here in case things get spotty and you need help,” Scott said.

“Awwww, but what if he wants to join in our fun and games?” Sun asked, waving his arms around cartoonishly. Scott sighed and looked at Felix.

“Well Sun, you see, Felix here has to take classes, so if you want to play, make sure he’s not busy, okay?” Scot said, giving Felix a look. Felix nodded.

“Yup, gotta make sure I’m not in the middle of homework, bud,” he said.

“Got it!” sun said. “Oh we’re going to have so much fun when there’s no homework!” Sun said, skipping away.

“Did you actually mean that or…”

“If you bored out of your mind you can interact with the kids, just keep a walkie on you just in case,” Scott said. “Just tell him you’ve got homework, bring a book or something if you have to. The only other thing you’ll have to do is handle pick-up. Sun automatically sends reports of the children’s behaviors through the day to the cloud, which is put in a document you can access. Just hand that to the families when they get picked up and maybe chat with the parents for a minute if you have to.” Felix nodded and plopped his backpack down out of sight.

“And if the kids get behind the desk?”

“They know better,” Scott said before leaving. “Have fun kid!” Scott said, tossing a walkie pack over to Felix.

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[sinister-faye]

One thing that bugs me above anything else in games or movies. When we are in a fantastical new realm or planet. And their moon is just straight up a copy pasted image of our moon. Like you know. The thing you all know and learn about since we are about two. You can't fool me. I know what our moon looks like.

Examples: not to be like those YouTube click bait bitches but circled below are the parts of Luna(the name of our moon, real unique I know) that match with a counterpart.

Mario Odyssey. Zoomed in on this portion of the moon.

Gears of war, bonus for having two moons buuuut. Ya just rotated the moon 90° to the right and jacked up the brightness. I can do the same in a photo editor.

I just feel like with all the amazing custom artwork you can just make a moon. Or hell use some other moons. There are a lot of moons you could also just copy and paste a pic from. Here. I found one of Charon, Pluto's....moon? (Depending on who you ask)

Awesome. Before like 5 minutes ago I knew Pluto had a heart on it, but I didn't know much about this awesome moon with a little hat on top. What a lovely fantasy, scifi, alternate world moon ya got there. Make new moons. And using our moon as a way to hint that this is our world but different is pretty neat. But ya gotta be subtle about it. Or I'm gonna get on you about that.

Bonus rant:

Side moon bullshit that authors rarely take into account: our moon is kind of crazy unique if you look at the facts.

It is absurdly perfectly aligned to have a solar eclipse so ludicrously lined up. Like holy shit, our moon is just absolutely ideal for eclipses. Most other planets would just be little spots missing from the sun or just covering it for a while. To have the corona around it is pretty god-damned wild. Any closer and the halo ring would be larger. Any further the sub would just go out for a bit.

Tides. The moon is the reason we have tides at all. So elder scrolls Skyrim talking about riding with the tides is like. Bruv, there are 3 moons. Low Tide might not be for another year. And the mere existence of some of these moons can just fuckin go away, and come back on a whim. Let alone one moon literally being up to debate. That alone would wreak havoc on the environment. Since the elder scrolls is in a perpetual Schrodinger's superposition of realistic cause and effect and mega bullshit amazing magic that can just alter reality just cuz.

And lastly I am a sucker for life sustaining moons and dead planets, star wars get bonus points every time we get a moon location, though I feel like yavin 4 would have more reddish tones from reflecting of that gas giant. But whatevs. Episode 4 was more of an indie movie.

[the-firebird69]

There's a couple more businesses or projects really we started and they're doing fairly well the kit car industry is going to be huge right now as well 0.3% of the entire industry but in a few weeks it'll be more like 1% and that's huge and it's going to grow and our efforts might make it gigantic. I'm going to try and do what he's saying and start with other things you might make our version of the Saran and make it a street version and an Enduro two different ones I want to be a little bit heavier but not much and we use the battery that's better and a slightly better motor than the top of the line and we'll keep it cheap around 4 grand and have it RTA which will bring it down to about three grand and even a sun can afford one. I also do it with dirt bikes and street bikes of certain types that are regular ones and it was done a little bit back in the day and it takes a small box and cheap cheap on delivery and that doesn't take too long to assemble then we'll start sending other things broken down then we'll start hiring people to assemble it's really a process that's happened but these are great ideas there's a lot of things you can send RTA it's easier to send they it makes a lot of money

--#other projects that are working that we started construction we're still at about 20% well no we have increased it about 40% of new construction and we're going to game busters we're on the supply side we're in the manufacturing side we're just about to take over huge areas and begin manufacturing tons of stuff it is a giant industry and we are going to be very big we have about three humongous companies and we're starting about 20 large projects in the perimeter for housing and 30 more coming up and we've got two mega projects we haven't started building cities they can have a war and it's going to be kind of slow and we won't go to warzone but sometimes they have a building removed and they want a new one and we'll do that

+#there's industries like boats campers all sorts of types we have about 1/3 of it or 30%. That's going to increase the next couple weeks as they leave the Midwest about 70 or 80% and we're going to man the factors we're going to put production and full gear we're going to look at replacing all the camper systems with panels it takes a third of the time and some much better quality vehicle and it's easier to repair. And it has much better installation and it's about 1/3 stronger. We're going to get going on that now all we need to hire people tons of people and we're looking at RTA houses we have a whole slew of designs and we have a panel that's perfect and he actually wants to build one and he has a lot of fun things he wants to do

-#converting to electric motorcycles is not huge converting electric to gas is now huge and we are looking at which motor to use brings and Stratton make some motorcycle motor just still in business we can piggy back their sales it's a great idea Coleman makes one and some motorcycle engine and they're in the United states. These are two very good ideas the Briggs & Stratton is famous for a motorcycle motor it's really a nice motor we have other things coming up but these ideas are terrific and they actually work with businesses and projects that are up and running

-we're going to start looking into making RTA items for people to buy Briggs & Stratton motorcycle was just brought up by Hera he says wow that's a great idea she's going to have him say it but she is and we're going to put together a package to make one and he likes it's not a cafe style but it looks like it it's kind of a like a triumph and newer one they look really nice they're easy to ride it's in every person motorcycle and you can we'll even put an automatic transmission brings the Stratton does that often and it's really an easy easy bike to ride and it will be fast but 150 miles an hour so I'm going to put that together now we'll probably sell too many and have it RTA or assembledon I missed $3,000 RTA and 4,000 assembled it's nothing and it's really worth it. We have other vehicles and things to sell and we're going to get going on it we do need to start and as soon as possible. We do have some success with the harvester is 10 companies trying two of them have the body ready and all the other parts are coming together within the couple weeks or a week and they have decent packages and it's for the small SUV

More shortly

Thor Freya

It's very nice that it's working and it's hopeful it's a decent portion of the automotive industry and they'll be making more and more and will be making things can't piggybacking where possible

Briggs & Stratton is one of the best ideas he's ever heard he says Troy-Bilt tractors are not being sold too much people don't have a demand for that kind of yard work equipment but everybody wants a motorcycle so I'm going to look at other vehicles like a REV trike street bike and more even off-road stuff

Hera

Troy-Bilt is known to have a lot of land working equipment mostly for farming and for breaking sod and growing things and it's really landscaping work they had a landscaping division and they did pretty good with that you did a lot of projects a lot of people bought tillers. It was one of the number one sellers it was everywhere and people are making their own gardens. My husband and I suggest to start that up again and offer a small equipment to begin with that are actual lawn tractors I say that because these lawn mowers don't do crap they don't have the horsepower and they don't have the torque at all and they don't have machinery parts that can last it breaks down if you try and do yard work and the Troy bilt did not so people loved it and I want to start there and then start making the Troy-Bilt tractor my husband used one it's a it was a different brand it was very small but it was a backhoe it was smaller than the lawn mower he used to know is about the same size and it had a backhoe attachment excavator bucket and he dug up the driveway when he was a boy and we want to go ahead and make those and then make them a little bigger and a little bigger and we'd stop at what he calls a small backhoe but it's really a mid size and that would be for light duty backhoe work and would start with Briggs & Stratton and Coleman can can make them but they be RTA and it's telling us it saves like half the price and excavator the size of the one that he did the pool with they'll sell for about $25,000 and you could sell it for about $15,000 RTA and it would be delivered for a couple thousand dollars but really you're saving about 10 grand by doing it that way and with this product it probably end up costing about $12,000 or $10,000 they seem more like $10,000 and shipping for a thousand so you're saving $16,000 or something $15,000 it's a lot of money and brings very reliable and we can make all switches small piece of equipment in the all over the United States before you can blink

Hera Zues

We needed for construction and landscaping utility work really a lot of it and for the small ones we need it now that's kind of tough to do right now is not really true so if you combine Troy-Bilt and bring some Stratton you've got a business and you start with the smaller tractors and they order more of them asking to ask and ask we're going to do that to talk dirty to make them real simple and blast them out and we're going to go ahead and do it

Thor Freya you still need intermediaries for this particular product line do you see what our intention is it's to do the lawn equipment the farming the small farm equipment larger tractors for farming not huge ones and up to mid size backhoe and excavator and front end loader and those are and we would probably have a small dump truck most dump trucks can't do the work

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Olympus

[wuffzilla]

Time to type up everything I can recall about this absurd dream so that I can maybe design these characters later. I sure hope people block my "Taffy Dreams" or at least my "Long Post" and "Very Long" tags since I can't put these under a Read-more for fear of losing the text because Tumblr is a functional website.

ANYWAY - General plot: Humans are being abducted by an alien & being released right where they were abducted from a few hours later. Standard amount of belief + disbelief is had from the public about their experiences, but with a lil more disbelief since their description of the experience is all basically the same but also extremely mundane. So even people who believe in aliens + abductions think they're just folks who know each other online & are pulling a coordinated prank.

General description amongst the abductees is that a giant snake/planarian/worm/eel(?) with arms and HUGE TITS is making them take PE class. They're made to take a quiz on various "Earth" swimming terms to see what they already know, then made to learn any they missed, then being forced to swim various strokes in an indoor pool. They were also warned that a random selection of them will be taken at a to-be-determined later date to other planets where they will be made to swim again in various fluids similar to their Earth water, so they better study.

And they're right, a giant Snake-Planarian-ETC alien lady with HUGE TITS IS making random people swim laps & study swimming techniques. She's a scientist working on a research paper. She works at an alien college & studies various "Thinking" races to test our swimming skills for her upcoming Thesis paper on other worlders ability to function in liquid elements they didn’t evolve to survive in. I think there's about 10 other planets that are on the same level as Earth she's pulling members from for this study.

I was, and still kinda am, pissed she had those mega tits tho as im one of those boring people who hate when human standards for gender/sex are applied to other races for no reason. ESPECIALLY REPTILES. But also, it was REALLY funny. And Funny usually nulls any objections I have to fictional design choices. And apparently every member of her species has them, they arent a sexual dimorphism thing. They work kinda like camel humps & some other things I dont recall. ANYWAY.

She's a vaguely ethical scientist I guess. She didn't let anyone die but she did make them push their limits & several people did end up with lungfuls of water. Her lab was some kinda refurbished abandoned big city underground sewer/subway station, but immaculately cleaned. Like, the Ninja turtles couldve stumbled upon this place if not for the things she used to deter people away from it. They were kinda like those machines that make lil whistles & clicks that some people use to scare off mice. Except people didn't really sense anything, theyd just feel like "HMMM I definitely wont go over there after all for no reason whatsoever".

She was Dream Main Character 1 & DMC2 was some dude she snatched from a skatepark in the middle of the night while he was scarfing gas station hotdogs. He was immediately smitten with her????? And tried SO HARD to impress her. She thought this was very odd but had also heard that humans will absolutely court anything, so whatever. It felt to her kinda how like when certain birds do courting dances for their keepers at zoos. Tho they do recognize that humans are not mentally like "animals". Humans are considered a higher thinking race, but others just have no respect for us due to the way we treat each other (which is hypocritical considering how some of their own customs are BUT THATS ANOTHER STORY).

So since she was bored ONLY working on her swimming paper she decided to start another paper chronicling all he went thru to attempt to Woo her. She'd give him a vague set of criteria for how certain kinds of courtship happens on her planet & give him 2 weeks to figure out some Earth equivalent. Some were actual courtship practices for her kind, but several were for other races, and several were just bullshit to see how far he'd go. She might catch professional flak for allowing one of her research subjects attempt to court her tho.

He also had to think up his Own methods of what he thought might work, without using any of the info from the vague guidelines. One of which was him finding a Were-Crocodylia & convincing them to turn him into one. Her 1st reaction to this was being surprised Earth Humans had such a evolutionary/adaptability, but but also why did he pick that species. Why not something that looks similar to what you all call her (Snake/Worm/Planarian/ETC). He had to admit that he just thought Crocodylia were super cool & it hadn't occurred to him to pic a species that resembled her.

She's pleased tho cause now she gets to work on a THIRD paper while here and I hope she gets famous on her planet for being the first to discover & study "Lycanthropy" on our remote backwater planet.

Last bits of the dream was her getting really into studying Lyncathropy & finding what animals humans could "merge" with and looking thru genetic material to see if any were predisposed to certain kinds & just SO MUCH excited nerd research. She also researched various ways to "cure" it and to see if any kinds could be mixed & matched.

Dream dude was more than happy to let her experiment on him & by the end I do think they were officially some kinda couple???? I know she found it handy to have such a willing guinea pig & at first it was a personal convenience thing. But I /THINK/ she was starting to actually like him riiiiight before I woke up. Maybe. It was really hard to tell.

He also ended up some kinda MegaWere who could turn into all kinds of shit & mix + match features, it was cool as hell & he looooved it so at least theres that. Hopefully he gets to keep the rad powers if they ever break up.

[swldx]

BBC 0419 16 Mar 2023

9915Khz 0359 16 MAR 2023 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55434. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z then ID@0359z pips and newsroom preview. @0401z World News anchored by Neil Nunes. Troubled banking giant Credit Suisse says it will borrow up to 50bn francs ($54bn; £44.5bn) from the Swiss central bank to shore up its finances. U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors have found that roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a Libyan site that is not under government control, the watchdog told member states in a statement on Wednesday. South Korea and Japan's leaders meet in Tokyo on Thursday in what has been hailed as a new "milestone" in their fraught relationship. It comes just as North Korea fired a fourth round of missiles in a week. Sports. Senegalese security forces on Wednesday fired tear gas at legislators seeking to reach an opposition politician barricaded in his Dakar home amid growing political tensions. A mega-prison in El Salvador brought in a second wave of suspected gang members who will now serve out their sentences in the notorious facility that has been criticised over its 'severe conditions.' @0406z "The Newsroom" begins. Backyard fence antenna, Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2259.

[texas-electricity-ratings]

A Few of My Favorite Smart Home Things: CES

A Few of My Favorite Smart Home Things: CES

Which CES Smart Home Things Were Best?

From smart gardens to giant wiresless TV tech, find out the smart home things we want here in Texas that caught our eye at CES 2023!

Top manufacturers debut their best new products at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and the 2023 show did not disappoint. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity, energy, and robotics are just a few of the categories where companies showcase their doohickeys, doodads, and thingamabobs. So what are some of the best electricity and smart home things from 2023 CES?   

Indoor Gardening Without The Hassle 

If your green thumb is more shriveled and brown than vibrant and healthy, the LG Tiiun can help you grow your own herbs. It looks like a large wine fridge or a small gas station beverage cooler. Its automated lighting, watering, and climate control give you a fool-proof way to enjoy fresh produce. The only thing easier than growing your garden is switching power plans at Texas Electricity Ratings. This one takes the cake for the best among smart home things.

An Artistic HVAC System

If you install a mini-split AC unit in your home, one big issue is where to put that big white box on your wall. Usually, it goes up fairly high to be as unobtrusive as possible. But it is still ugly no matter where you put it. 

LG has solved that problem with Artcool Gallery. It’s a wall-mountable, mini-split AC unit hidden behind a 27-inch digital photo frame. Remember those Samsung TVs that show a picture when the set is turned off? This is the same concept. Put your favorite photos in the display, and you can look at them instead of an appliance.  

Sure, it’ll run up your electric meter like any other mini-split system, but you don’t have to look at it! 

Smart Stand Mixer

The stand mixer has been a staple in American homes for decades. Any home baker worth his or her salt has one. But the latest version from GE has smart technology. It monitors the texture and viscosity of food using the motor’s torque. Never overmix your cupcakes again!   

Mega Wireless TV

With the video boards stretching dozens of feet across sports stadiums, a 97-inch television may seem like a snoozer among smart home things. But this one is wireless! It’ll still draw Texas electricity through a power cord, so you’ll have to hide that particular wire. But you no longer need HDMI cables! If you can’t stand having an exposed wire between your television and gaming consoles, the LG M3 Series is for you. 

Electricity For Smart Home Things

Regardless of which smart home things tickle your fancy, you need a home power plan to keep them running. Shop for your next electric plan at https://www.texaselectricityratings.com. You’ll have a smart power plan to go with your cool new devices.