#and perhaps if anyone wants to read it early i may post it here cuz why not

[a-luyarus]

fun shattered skies update: i’m starting the second draft! i honestly ended up not liking a lot of the execution of the first draft, which got in the way of me posting it and finishing it at all. i still love the heart of the story as well as the trio of main characters, but i do feel like my writing of the setting and subplots left a lot to be desired, so my hope is to revamp those completely!

not sure if anyone is still waiting for updates, but i’m not sure i’ll be posting this draft (and if i do it definitely won’t be by every chapter)

[sweet-evie]

I really felt annoyed on that kallen and lelouch scene where kallen landed on top of him in a sense where both has something to go back after the battle i mean lelouch was asking her to go back with him, I just felt where would c.c. be after the battle, will she be forgotten after it? Will it be like okay c.c. your job here is done you may go and we will go back to our own ordinary lives, will lelouch just let her go if she decided to go....lol and the list go on, (this is me speaking beyond shipping and as a c.c. enthusiast) and if i didn't know that the director is pushing c.c. and lelouch to each other i will forever hate the series cuz c.c. deserves the best (i mean its very obvious with the official arts and scenes and i remember reading something about it before) (can we also assume that c.c. got jealous on that part too lol what would happen if c.c. didn't speak about tabasco will they kiss? lol) I also really have a love hate feeling w/ kallen, she is really a good pilot and i kinda ship him sometimes with suzaku, sometimes not because i love him with euphie, but really that tension whenever they are together fighting or not Idk if its their strong and badass character but they really look good and compatible with each other but then I really love her with Gino the most lol i mean if i find kallen and suzaku compatible then i find kallen and gino most compatible hahaha Its just that kallen can show that she can be weak/soft can be tired or can breakdown (and not the always strong her) with gino. (I hope you can understand this part) I love it when gino picked her up after her battle with suzaku. How I wished gino appeared more in the series, was introduce early and they had scenes more together. I sometimes dislike her cuz she is over reacting in a lot of times like she is just too much and almost in par with nina's reaction most of the times haha (i kinda dislike/hate kxl scenes in a sense too that its one sided like its mostly k and l shows no interest but sometimes it look like there is a mutual feeling between both of them(i mostly felt its one sided shen watching the movie especially the resurrection) (What can you say about their scenes?, when he put jacket to her while she was wearing bunny girl costume, the refrain scene, when she fell on top of him, when she was captured, their kiss? etc.) BUT if you look at c.c. and lelouch relationship and scenes together its just too consistent lol i just love it how lelouch always assured and pursued her from that rooftop scene after battling with Mao, if she is a witch then he'll became a warlock, when he discovered and promised her about fulfilling her true wish, when she asked him if he hated her for giving him the power of geass and about to do something if kallen did not interrupt and bonus: that resurrection scene when he decided to become L.L. (I LOVE WRITING THIS PART OF ASSURANCE AND PURSUING ABT CLUCLU, MY FAVORITE XD, pls add some if i forgot something) i also kinda agreed to that statement except c.c. part lol going around that Shirley -> Lelouch Lamperouge, Kallen -> Zero and C.C. -> Lelouch Vi Britania but doesn't C.C. knows all lelouch's persona and had been supportive and stayed with him from the very start and in whatever path he chose? 😂 I hate it that people come at c.c.'s age and that she witness lelouch grow up like, is her immortality her fault? Like people are okay for male characters of 123456790 age falling for main girls in dramas or some animes for example but not okay if its c.c. lol SORRY THIS POST IS SO LONG it was supposed to be focus only on the first part about THAT scene 🙏

Whoa~ You’re not lying, this is one hell of an ask 🤣😂😅 I read 4 topics in this xD:

Lelouch, Kallen, C.C. scene

Kallen ships (Suzaku or Gino)

Kallen x Lelouch vs C.C. x Lelouch

C.C. & Lelouch's Age-gap

Let’s go in!

Lelouch, Kallen, & C.C. Scene

(can we also assume that c.c. got jealous on that part too lol what would happen if c.c. didn't speak about tabasco will they kiss? lol)

Maybe, but who knows, to be honest. xD The whole interaction was very impulsive, considering the fact that Lelouch was still fresh off of bouncing back from his depression, which Kallen had witnessed and was at the brunt end of.

When Kallen fell on top of Lelouch, I do believe both of them were thinking about that one moment where Lelouch tried to use Kallen to forget his current circumstances. Perhaps part of Kallen wanted it, but knew it wasn’t right. So I adore her for bitch-slapping him. xD The idiot deserved it.

C.C. was just there... I’m not sure if she was jealous or not. Maybe she didn’t give a fuck xD Before I could form my own conclusions, the entire scene is interrupted again because Zero gets called out into the control room.

Kallen Ships (Suzaku vs Gino)

I agree with most of your points in this part.

Personally, in my own fics, I ship Kallen with Gino a lot because for me, Suzaku belongs with Euphemia by default.

But, I do see the chemistry and the sexual tension that could go between Suzaku and Kallen. Like maybe their fights are really just unresolved sexual tension 😂🤣

I imagine a romance between them would be very explosive, passionate, and rough. I don’t just mean this in terms of sex, I imagine their entire dynamic would swing this way too. They’re really opinionated, and they both literally fight for what they believe in, and their conviction is strong enough to rival each other’s. 

Suzaku and Kallen just clash magnificently. On the other hand, Gino’s and Kallen’s personalities probably combine. They have things in common, but not too much to the point of being passionate and aggressive at the same time.

KaLulu vs CLuCLu

What can you say about their scenes?, when he put jacket to her while she was wearing bunny girl costume, the refrain scene, when she fell on top of him, when she was captured, their kiss? etc.

In that scene where he put his jacket on her, I think that’s gentlemanly of Lelouch. It’s something I expect from him considering he was born a prince, and also, he has a little sister. On a sidenote, I adore both him and Suzaku for being respectful towards the women in their circle, for the most part. 

That refrain scene was a moment of grief for Lelouch and he was being erratic. I said it once or twice, I’ll say it again. I am so happy Kallen bitch-slapped him. It shows that she’s not willing to put up with bullshit, and believes that Lelouch is definitely better than that. Kudos to her, she may have slapped him to his senses. For Kallen, it was a moment of, “Please be who we need you to be.”

It was a brilliant turning point for Lelouch as well. After Nunnally was given the role of Viceroy, Lelouch, at least, realized that his war and his rebellion against Britannia wasn’t just for his sister anymore. It was for everyone he cared about too. It was for the people who counted on Zero’s idea of freedom and perhaps peace.

In summary, I made my stance clear on KaLulu on a separate post long ago. But the gist was, they may have felt romantic feelings for each other, but it was probably brief and suppressed in favor of their grander goals and all that shit that was already going down. Romance just wasn’t appropriate for Lelouch or any of the characters who had something at stake in the war.

In the end, Kallen chose Japan, and Lelouch chose Zero Requiem. That is that. 😊

BUT if you look at c.c. and lelouch relationship and scenes together its just too consistent

Lelouch & C.C.’s relationship is a slow-burn from the get-go. It’s part of the reason why it’s so appealing to me.

Let’s be honest, Lelouch doesn’t even view C.C. as human until halfway to R1, and C.C. took almost all of 2 seasons to acknowledge the fact that she cared about Lelouch.

i also kinda agreed to that statement except c.c. part lol going around that Shirley -> Lelouch Lamperouge, Kallen -> Zero and C.C. -> Lelouch Vi Britania 

I understand why a lot of people like this argument. I, for one, believe there’s a grain of truth in it. 

BUT in my own honest opinion, I think that is a little unfair to Kallen and Shirley. I’m sure Lelouch cared about the two of them in unique ways and perhaps chose to hide behind masks around them to protect them and to preserve his own façade. Hell, he lied to his own sister for most of the entire show because he thought it would protect her and would shield her from the horrors of the world. (It didn’t turn out well, did it? 🤣) Still, my point is, Shirley and Kallen would have been willing to understand and know Lelouch’s every mask. Lelouch himself, just didn’t let them. And it was for their own good, I believe.

So why C.C.?

If there’s anyone in the world who can understand people’s multiple points of view, it would probably be C.C... She lived through most of mankind’s history, and she’s been alive long enough to take multiple perspectives in, meet different types of people, and see lots of ridiculous shit xD Lelouch slowly becomes aware of this fact as the series progresses, and we do see him have deep conversations with her from time to time. She’s capable of being objective. She knocks some sense into him a lot, especially during the beginning. One notable example of this that I will never forget is the episode after Lelouch realized Shirley’s father died because of his actions. It showed how immature Lelouch was being and how idealistic -- thinking war only took out the bad guys in his side of the story. Point is, she knows when to chastise him and when to offer her consolation, which is part of the reason why Lelouch would pick her as accomplice anyway.

but doesn't C.C. knows all lelouch's persona and had been supportive and stayed with him from the very start and in whatever path he chose?\

C.C. does know him. But I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘supportive’, nonetheless wholly supportive.

C.C. had her self-serving reasons, just like Lelouch. C.C. was looking forward to the moment Lelouch could acquire enough power and take her Code from her, so she could die. That’s why she saved his ass a lot in R1 and perhaps at the very beginning of R2. Her wishes and her intentions morph very slowly, and at one point, perhaps even blended together -- half still wanted to die, the other half was slowly empathizing and caring for Lelouch.

But yes, none can deny that she stayed with him from start to finish.

C.C. could have left after Charles & Marianne died, and I don’t think Lelouch would have blamed her if she did -- considering it was obvious that he couldn’t fulfill his end of the contract anymore. But she stayed. She stayed and helped, and kept her promise to stay with him to the very end.

Lelouch & C.C.’s Age Gap

I hate it that people come at c.c.'s age and that she witness lelouch grow up like, is her immortality her fault? Like people are okay for male characters of 123456790 age falling for main girls in dramas or some animes for example but not okay if its c.c. lol

Lelouch & C.C.’s bizarre age-gap is literally not any different from an age-old vampire or any other immortal falling in-love with a human.

I can certainly point out plenty of stories that half this same massive age-gap, and its fans still love it. 

[citialiin]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

fill out & repost ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm. tagged by: @forseenclade thank you ! man i am so bad at doing memes.  tagging: @blossomingbeelzebug @zhrets @lupichorous @dansiere yayayayayayayaya

My muse is:   canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless / complicated [ z/iggy stardust is DEFINITELY not my original character, but 683 is, and every single part of how i rp ziggy from his backstory to his personality was made up by me. that being said, ziggy is still a character that exists in media. ]

Is your character popular in the fandom?  YES / NO. [ im pretty sure ziggy is tied with the thin white duke as one of b*wie’s most famous fictional personas? ]

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom?  YES ? / NO / IDK.

Is your character considered strong in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK.

Are they underrated?  YES / NO / IDK. [ maybe a little overrated ]

Were they relevant for the main story?  YES / NO.

Were they relevant for the main character?  YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG.

Are they widely known in their world?  YES / NO.

How’s their reputation?  GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL. [ celebrity rock god of limitless talent vs inevitable overrated washup. most celebrities are polarizing anyways ]

How strictly do you follow canon?  — there isnt much canon to go off of i think? the album barely even states if ziggy is an alien and b*wie himself got really wishy washy about it (sometimes saying z is a human who was contacted by aliens, he was an alien himself, etc). i dont think we know anything about him besides what he looks like (red hair / weird eyes / pale / “well hung” lmao) and he has a band called the spiders from mars, he plays the guitar left handed, he’s bisexual + androgynous, and he’s charming and popular with the teens but inevitably is a victim of his own ego. and he dies.  that too.  but that’s literally it! we know Nothing else about him.  so i filled in all the gaps because my brain has worms.  theres a little bit of the story that verges on fantasy (that he’s some sort of messiah messenger for “the infinites,” whatever the fuck THAT means, david) so i nix that because i prefer hard scifi.  and theres one BIG part that i just ... deleted out of his canon, in that the world is ending in 5 years in his timeline, and he’s like ... aware of this ?  but that’s dumb and confusing.  i legit dont care anymore. my OC now.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals.  —  im so embarrassed i know i could be genuine and actually try but i have brain blockajjolajlakala33lak33klak333ak3jka3akjj323j3 i guess it’s like ... ziggy is truly the ultimate expression OF humanity because he reveals everything both wrong and right about the human condition, he literally embodies the best of humanity and the worst at the same time, he’s a really interesting critique on the idea of genuineness/earnestness vs commercalism in art, the perils of fame, and also how humans are so inherently corrupting?  a lot of thematic stuff i like exploring is like what is innate to humans vs what is learned behavior, what are things that humans do naturally that ziggy mimics out of his desire to be like us?  i think he has a really good story arc -- he went from being a literal nameless CLONE in a society full of pragmatic forward thinking science-oriented people to a sell out rockstar celebrity in a society of people that value individualism and self expression and art, but in the process completely lost his mind and himself and gave into the worst that humanity has to offer like rampant selfishness, drug abuse, self destructive tendencies, etc. characters changing is always interesting and ziggy truly changes for the worse -- but he is never just black and white, he was never good and then suddenly evil, he just was always the same person putting on different facades and trying to be himself by constructing an identity that maybe was who he wanted to be versus who he actually is.  i dont know what im talking about. hes just an alien trying to be too hard to be human in all the wrong ways.   i just like how “gray” ziggy is. he isnt good or bad, he can be very nice and he can be very mean, he’s overtly showboating confident but at the same time deeply afflicted with self-consciousness (why tf else would anyone be So obsessed with how they present themselves?).  hes an icon of individualism but also commercialism.  he’s freakishly alien but is almost more human than humans themselves.  he struggles as lot in his head -- which makes for interesting writing, i guess !!  Im so emabrrased im not going to go back and read what i wrote so if i typoed dont look at me

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).  —  i think ziggy comes across as really mean and nothing else.  his horrible bitchy rudeness comes across as hee hee hoo hoo sassy isnt he a rascal when it’s supposed to be more like ... he’s so far gone into the celebrity delusion he’s conflated aggressive rudeness with charmingness because no one told him otherwise and everyone worships him to the point where he’s just given into the delusion that he can do no wrong.  i think theres the general simplification problem that happens with a lot of fictional characters, it’s easy to see him as just a whacky sassy glittery quirky rockstar when i guess it avoids the inherent tragedy of like ... everything else about him. his totally fake and false sense of identity built up from superficial things like fame and labels and stardom.  maybe my version of ziggy is just too weirdly depressing and sad when i know his original iteration wasn’t quite so ... grim.  im not very sure tbh.  

What inspired you to rp your muse?  —  hmmm ... a lot of things! i just really got into b*wie stuff in early 2019, i’ve ALWAYS loved aliens and sci-fi, and i was really shocked that db sets up such great visual storytelling potential but does it through music.  i just really liked ziggys “story” and i like any chance to think about aliens so i just got invested into piecing together a little backstory for him using, like, the cumulative knowledge of literally every other piece of science fiction ive ever consumed in my life.  this was summer 2019 when i was making initial pitches for my thesis film, and so i just randomly decided to pitch “animated version of ziggy stardust” as one of the potential ideas.  shockingly everyone liked it a lot and so did my professor who thought it was really cool, and then i just ended up sticking with the character and working on him for an entire year.  ziggy became my hobby but also my homework.  he was such a fun character because everything about him was interesting to me and i had just enough source material to have a starting point but so much room to take him in any direction i wanted to.

What keeps your inspiration going?  —  honestly, yooooou guyssssss. i have some really amazing fwends that ive met thru here .... and some of our dumb stupid stories have literally become NOVEL length. it just self generates inspiration because you realize the limitless amount of stories you could tell with this one single character when your character enters his story or he enters their story and etc. etc.  ive drawn endless amounts of comics and stuff for him ... ziggy is just so endlessly interesting ...   cringe be cringed bro but recently (i know this sounds dumb bear with me or die.) ive kind of realized a lot of how i rp z comes as some metaphor for the experience of being an asian immigrant/being asian in the US -- his home “culture” is a lot stricter than the rampant selfish individualism of the usa (he only lives in the uk and usa, so he thinks the whole planet is like this), he’s dissuaded from standing out from his community and his selfishness becomes a community burden rather than a personal flaw, and when he does come to earth, he goes through such awful culture shock, literally nothing makes sense to him and everything is Different.  and while some things are different in a Nice way, something things are different in an Awful way, and he’s given the option between losing his true personal identity as an atominan and giving it up to be a human.  the allure of being a human is a little too much but losing yourself like this is traumatic, in a way.  obvs like ... a little silly and definitely not something that i actively intended to put into his story arc, its just something that fell into place cuz i guess i worked so closely with my own personal experiences and feelings of “alienation” (pun intended) to try to understand how he would feel being a literal alien an shid. its cathartic to write about him. but he also has a lot of my own personal interests just thrown in -- 70s fashion, scifi, science, tryhard implications about human nature, art history, whatever dumb nonsense i get into

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice?  YES / NO / SOMETIMES?

Do you frequently write headcanons?  YES / NO  [ i would prefer information to spring up organically in the story but cuz threads always get dropped i end up just telling people outright. i didnt want anyone to know his home planet/his old name but barely anyone writes enough with ziggy to get to that point to reveal it (i legit managed to do it organically Once) so i just had to write it in a post lmao orz ]

Do you sometimes write drabbles?  YES / NO [ wrote a ton of drabbles ! drew a ton of comics! ]

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO 

Are you confident in your portrayal?   YES / NO / I DUNNO?

Are you confident in your writing?  YES / HAHA NO.

Are you a sensitive person?  YES  / NO. / IDK ? 

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal?  —  definitely!  like i said ... my version of ziggy ended up being the protag of my thesis film and for 1 yr straight his characterization, backstory, design, and even how i wanted to animate his fucking movements (ziggy stardust timing charts.) were beaten to death in a classroom environment, torn apart and rebuilt into something better.  had i stayed with what i originally wanted to go with, ziggy would be so different than how i write him 2day. amazingly my pre production professor is a literal two time emmy award winning storyboard artist and animator so he definitely helped me design him (my version of ziggy is meant for ... a cartoon, obviously, not real life) and give him a better backstory?  and my post production professor is a retired disney animator who worked on hercules and a bunch of old disney channel shows?  had i gone wah wah wah i dont want to hear ur critiques i wouldnt have made him better.  if you ever think ziggy seems inconsistent or poorly written ... tell me !! i literally major in ... animation. cartoons. entertainment.  my job is to entertain you. if you are not entertained, there is a problem.  ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED ????

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character?  —  I LOVE QUESTIONS? i love ... answering questions ... if you ask me something ill come kiss you.

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?  —  sure! i dont know why that would happen, though, because i mean ... he’s an OC. but i gues someone could be like “i feel like this is incongruous to things you’ve previously established in his character” or somethin

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it?  —  i feel like a lot of b*wie stans would find my version of ziggy weird but i mean thats fine!  i guess my goal is to have a well written character, not necessarily an accurate version of ziggy

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it?  —  if you hate MY version of ziggy thats fine but if u hate ziggy stardust in general (like the bowie concept) then u need some taste what the fuck is cooler than a egomaniac genderless bisexual rockstar alien with red hair? nothing. go back to watching your CW shows you dirty filthy normie

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors?  —  yes! dm me though. dont clown me on the dash like that.  i usually write your replies 12 AM - 4 AM so it’s expected.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?   —  hmmm ... maybe! i do like to talk to people and i am VERY nice, trust me, if youre ever sad ill do everything i can to make you feel better. but im quiet! i dont really reach out to people and i tend to just keep to myself.  im not very social or extroverted at all haha i barely can make ooc posts without feeling like god’s coming to beat my head in with a brick. im sitting here at 5:30 AM with this meme feeling like if i post it i will die (BUT I MUST)

[17mounteens]

CEO (Jeonghan)

—  papi, let’s go, cuz i kinda like it  —

Smut.

» A business trip with your playful boss turns a lot more heated than you expected.

“Y/N, have you ever had the chance to go on a business trip?”

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» 5,849 words (idk what happened here)

Tuesday morning had brought about yet another meeting, and yet again you were struggling to keep your attention on the agenda as it continued drifting to the CEO of the company, Jeonghan, who was sitting at the end of the long table. He was young and attractive, and there was something about him that had had you intrigued since day one.

Perhaps it was the lazy look in the gorgeously brown eyes that usually held a playful twinkle, or perhaps it was the gentle smile he usually had on his plush lips. A lot also had to do with the fact that although he ran the whole company, he wanted to be as close with all of you as he could, and would often wander around the office, whether he had anything to talk with someone or not.

And, as you had to admit as you once again got lost adoring Jeonghan while he and the vice president, Jihoon, discussed some upcoming projects and business trips, he was sinfully good-looking, in particular with his hair styled so that his forehead was showing.

You took in a deep breath as you moved your gaze down to Jeonghan’s lips that he right then licked, and it made you swallow.

No, Jeonghan was not only attractive, but you were also attracted to him. Listening to him speak with such a low, gentle voice did nothing to help you focus on the agenda, and you were only glad that you didn’t have anything important to bring up during the meeting. That way you could just sit and adore.

Jeonghan leaned back on his chair and played with the pen he had in his hands while scanning around the meeting table. There was a business trip coming up, and he was contemplating on which one of you to bring with him. Seokmin smiled brightly and fixed his tie as an attempt to get the his attention, but Jeonghan just grinned at him and shook his head: he’d brought the younger male on too many trips already, and he figured it was time for someone else to go.

He hummed quietly, and soon his eyes returned to you. You were fairly familiar to him, at least as far as it came to him observing you at work, and he had been wanting to get to know you a bit better for quite a while despite not daring to show it in the least; not in his position. Tilting his head a little, Jeonghan leaned forward again. “Y/N, when was the last time you were on a business trip?”

You jolted at the sudden addressing, and in particular with everyone’s attention on you, you thanked all heavens for the fact that you actually caught what he had asked you. “I don’t think I’ve ever been on one, actually.”

“Would you like to go on one?” Jeonghan asked with a playful twinkle in his eye that had your heart fluttering a little.

“Of course,” you replied readily, staring right into his eyes. For a moment you forgot everyone else in the room, and it made you smile a bit nervously.

“Then it’s set,” Jeonghan nodded with a grin and wrote something down on his papers. “We’ll head to Tokyo on Friday.”

“Yes, Mr. Yoon,” you smiled, mentally thanking him for still clarifying where you’d go and when, considering that that had been exactly what he had talked about with Jihoon earlier, which you had completely missed.  

“Good that that’s set,” he hummed and gave you one last warm look before moving on to bring the topic to a few new investments, which allowed you to get lost looking at him again.

A few quick topics - practically announcements, really - the meeting was finally over. As you walked to your office, Seokmin almost jogged up to you and chuckled. “Excited to go on your first business trip?”

“Excited and nervous,” you admitted and looked at him with a smile on your lips. “Any tips? You’ve been on quite a few, haven’t you?”

“A few too many,” he snorted before humming in thought. “I don’t know, he’s pretty easy to be around and he’s really understanding in many ways. Just be reasonably professional and there and you’re good to go.”

“I guess that’s comforting,” you chuckled and stopped in your tracks when you reached your office. “Thanks, Seokmin. I’ll send you photos.”

“Don’t, I’ll just get jealous from the champagne,” he laughed heartily before shaking his head. “But it’s nothing, I’m always glad to help. I’m sure it’ll be a memorable trip.”

Oh, if he only knew how memorable it would be.

…

Jeonghan had given you some additional information during the week, and on Friday you met him at a taxi by the apartment complex you lived in. It was early in the morning, and Jeonghan couldn’t help but chuckle when you had reached the taxi with your suitcase.

“Sorry that it’s so early,” he said with a grin, and while yawning, you waved your hand in the air to signal that it was fine.

“I know it’s for practicalities,” you noted and smiled at him while putting the suitcase into the trunk of the car. “Wasn’t it tough for you?”

“It was and still is,” he admitted and winked playfully, “but I’m a master of sleeping wherever and whenever.”

“Just don’t snore,” you joked and got into the car with him.

Jeonghan quirked his eyebrow, and his grin only widened. “Isn’t it a boss’s privilege to do things like that and not get comments about it?”

“I’m not afraid of you,” you noted, hinting at how your job was more or less in his hands, and looked into his eyes that seemed to suck you in them in a way that made you shiver a little.

He had something incredibly mysterious and attractive about him for a moment, until he sighed dramatically. “Seokmin said the same, and these days he just messes around with me. My authority is gone.”

You laughed heartily, and it made Jeonghan snicker, too. The atmosphere felt nice and light, and you talked about some more professional things on your way to the airport.

The way to Tokyo went by fast - of course, since it wasn’t too long of a long way - and Jeonghan did, indeed, sleep for most of the flight. While he slept next to you, you allowed your eyes to wander on him, taking in the soft-looking pink lips, the beauty mark on his cheek and just how well his suit sat on him.

Had he not looked as cute as he did while sleeping, you probably would’ve let your thoughts wander a lot more than you ended up letting them. To further keep your thoughts on the tamer side, you looked around in the airplane and thought about how cute and soft-spoken Jeonghan was on the daily, no matter how sexy he could look, in particular during the rare days that he actually oozed with authority.

It was intriguing, really, how the boss that enjoyed pulling small pranks and giggled at the confusion on his employees’ faces could actually seem so strong and powerful, too, if he really wanted to. The duality never failed to amaze you.

Having left quite early, you also reached Tokyo pretty early into the afternoon. You both let out relieved sighs when you got out of the elevator after checking in the hotel.

“Finally here,” you sighed and checked the number of your room again.

Jeonghan chuckled and nodded while doing the same. “It’s been quite a long day considering it’s barely one in the afternoon.”

“Tell me about it,” you agreed and squinted a little. “We don’t have the meeting until the evening, do we?”

“No,” he grinned and quirked his eyebrow meaningfully. “Thinking about taking a nap during work, Y/N?”

“May I remind you about which one of us slept for the whole flight, Mr. Yoon?” you asked, a hint of playfulness in your voice, and opened the door to your room.

“Touché,” he laughed and smiled at you warmly from his own door. “No, but really, get the sleep that you need. I’ll come wake you up early enough.”

“Thank you,” you smiled and entered your room, yawning almost immediately after closing the door again.

Your nap was heavenly, and would’ve left you feeling good if you hadn’t had such a heated dream about your boss. Rather than getting a peace of mind from the rest, you were left hot and bothered after you had dreamt about how sensual his kisses would be as his hands would roam around your body, over and under your clothes.

It was just about when his hand was sliding between your legs that you heard knocks on your door that, with the familiar voice calling your name, dragged you back from your sleep.

Your eyes widened as the dream was fresh in your mind, but you tried to appear as casual as you possibly could when you went to open the door, smiled at Jeonghan and told him you’d be done in a moment.

The way you avoided looking into his eyes didn’t go unnoticed by him, although he couldn’t figure out why you couldn’t do it.

The meeting that evening went a lot better than you had anticipated, and the next day was just as successful. You really enjoyed being with Jeonghan, and Seokmin had not been lying when he said that he was easy to be around. Although it was quite a short time, you felt as though you got a bit closer to Jeonghan during the trip, and eventually he also asked you to just call him by his first name rather than Mr. Yoon.

You had no objections, although you did find him all the more attractive whenever you - or anyone else - called him Mr. Yoon.

You had dinner together again on Saturday evening, and somehow it felt like something had changed. Jeonghan would look you in the eyes a lot more often, a playful grin would play on his lips frequently, and if you weren’t completely mistaken, he was trying to flirt with you a little.

All that alone made the atmosphere more on the excited, anticipative side, and you found yourself lost in his eyes, drinking up whatever he said with the low, soft voice of his, and eventually you started thinking about the dream you had had the night before. It had been more or less of a continuation to your short dream during Friday afternoon, and so your mind was largely occupied by the thought of him eating you out passionately, demanding you to look into his eyes while he lapped at your pussy.

You squeezed your legs together subtly as heat began pooling between your legs, and tried to appear attentive when Jeonghan told you a story from the last time he had been in Tokyo for a business trip with Seokmin.

While you battled with your thoughts wandering, Jeonghan was having a bit of a battle in his mind. He had a difficult time admitting just how attractive he thought you were, because that brought about a problem: he was your boss, but he was also awfully eager to take you to bed and show you the side of him that he didn’t at the office.

The clothes you’d worn during the trip emphasized all the right parts of your body, and it left Jeonghan with his pants feeling tight and his imagination running loose, only somewhat controlled by the fact that no matter how much of a playful, silly CEO he was, he also knew his position and didn’t want to use it to take advantage over anyone.

But testing the waters wouldn’t hurt, would it?

He continued building up the courage to put his thoughts into words as you dined, and whenever you licked your lips while looking him straight in the eye, he felt his pants grow tighter. At that point he wasn’t even sure if you were being purposefully suggestive - which you were - or if it just came across as suggestive because he wanted you so much.

The atmosphere continued getting more and more clouded by an unnamed, unacknowledged sexual tension, and while digging into his dessert, Jeonghan decided that he’d just go for it.

“Y/N, I was wondering…” Jeonghan began and lowered his gaze, stopped by his conscience telling him that he shouldn’t be suggesting anything in case the feeling wasn’t mutual.

You raised your eyebrows. “Yes?”

Whether it was the way you were looking at him or the champagne he’d just sipped, Jeonghan somehow found the courage to present the question. “Would you like to spend the night in my room?”

Your heart skipped a beat at the question, and your lips parted as you processed it in your mind. “Like…”

“You don’t have to, of course, I just… thought I was feeling something here,” Jeonghan said with pursed lips, his eyes warm yet dark as he looked at you, hoping he hadn’t offended you yet also hoping that you felt the same way that he did.

Swallowing hard, you then nodded. “...Me too.”

His eyes widened for a moment, and then his lips spread into a smile. “Okay.”

Neither of you was in a rush, though, and you finished the desserts - or whatever little was left of them - peacefully, although the atmosphere was a lot more erotically charged than before with some eye flirting.

You had always found him handsome and intriguing, but never had you ever wanted him as much as you did in that moment, as he looked into your eyes with his looking dark and hooded, his lips slightly parted and his tongue licking them slowly. Soon you were done and could head to the elevator, where Jeonghan pressed the button to the 35th floor. You stood close to him, awfully aware of his presence, and slowly turned more towards him while moving your gaze up to his eyes, too, only to find him looking straight back at you.

Without a word and with only minimal hesitation, Jeonghan got his hand to your lower back and pulled you close to himself, and you were the one to close the distance between your lips with your arms wrapping around his neck.

After a dinner loaded with so much sexual tension, it felt almost heavenly to finally have your hands in Jeonghan’s hair and his lips against yours as his hands began roaming around on your lower body, eagerly feeling up your ass and thighs. His kisses were sinfully good and turned you on quickly, although your imagination had already done a fair share of that earlier, too.

“Should I just stop the elevator?” Jeonghan asked against your lips, impatiently bucking his hips against yours while pulling you against him in a way that left no questions about whether he was hard or not.

Moaning quietly at the sensation, you were somewhat able to shake your head. “We don’t want the company to be banned from here, do we?”

“No,” he breathed and pulled away from you. He took a deep breath and looked at you, his lips a bit puffy and his eyes dark and filled with lust. Biting his lip, he frowned a little. “But it’s moving so slowly and I…”

Jeonghan’s voice trailed off as he, again, contemplated on what was okay to say and what was not, but you weren’t about to have any of it. You wanted to know, and so you grinned and cocked your eyebrow while playing with his hari slowly. “You what?”

Leaning his forehead against yours, Jeonghan sighed. “...want you so bad.”

“That’s too bad,” you smirked and boldly slid your hand down his body, all the way until you could palm him through his suit pants, awfully tight on him. Just as he bucked into your hand, the elevator bell rang quietly and the doors began opening. You withdrew your hand and looked at him meaningfully. “Well?”

“Come on,” he grinned and took your hand into his before leading you out of the elevator and into his room, only one door further from yours. On the inside it was pretty identical to yours, just that it had a trace of Jeonghan here and there in form of his things and clothes.

With the door closed behind yourselves, you turned around to Jeonghan to wrap your arms around his neck again, your gaze moving from his eyes to his lips and back to his eyes. “Finally alone.”

“Tell me about it,” he said quietly and leaned down to kiss your neck. You hummed contently and began leading him towards the bed, and Jeonghan grinned against your lips at that. “I like the determination.”

“There’s been enough waiting,” you replied simply while grinning into the kiss, too, and sat down on the bed, looking up to Jeonghan suggestively. “Do you know when you’re at your hottest, Mr. Yoon?”

He swallowed at the way his name sounded said by you with such a determined, dark look in your eyes, and began leaning down as you lay down on the bed and took his tie into your hand, pulling him closer. “No. Tell me.”

“When you know exactly what you want,” you began with a playful smirk on your lips as you continued pulling Jeonghan closer, all the way until your lips were brushing against each other’s, “and when you make sure you get it, too.”

There was something about what you were saying and how you were saying it that had him awfully impatient, and you let out a quiet moan when you wrapped your legs around his waist and felt him grind against you, letting you feel as much of his erection as his suit pants would allow.

“I want you,” he mumbled against your lips and let his hands roam on your body, caressing you over your dress. Jeonghan then took in a deep breath, somehow more confident after your words. “And I will have you.”

“Please,” you said rushedly and got one hand into his hair and one arm loosely around his neck as you kissed him passionately and met his hips with yours as well as you could.

The dress you were wearing was strapless, much like your bra, and Jeonghan was quick to slide them both down on your body until he could cup your breast with his hand, leaving your nipple between his fingers. You leaned into his touch and unwrapped your arms from around his neck so that you could start unbuttoning the white dress shirt he was wearing under his fitted blazer.

With the shirt unbuttoned, you moved your hands freely on Jeonghan’s upper body and deepened your kisses that only seemed to get more and more passionate, as though revealing all the times you’d wanted to kiss him in the past, just to see if his lips were as soft as they looked. He slid his tongue into your mouth, and you whimpered quietly when it rubbed into your tongue with just the right amount of force to have you buck your hips against his in need of more.

Jeonghan grinned against your lips, but when he was about to move down to kiss your neck, you pushed him back and shook your head. It took all of your willpower to stick to your resolution when he looked at you like that, with his eyes so dark and attractive, but somehow you managed to sit up and get him to sit against the wall. “There’s something I want to do first.”

“Oh?” he asked, almost dumbfounded, but had a smirk spreading to his lips when you pushed his blazer and dress shirt off him before starting to fiddle with the button and zipper of his pants and pressing kisses all over his chest as you kissed your way down his body. “I see.”

You grinned and continued kissing your way down on him while pulling his pants and boxers down on his legs when he lifted his lower body a little, and bit down on your lower lip at the sight of his cock, which looked even better than it had in your dreams. It sat perfectly in your hand, and the thought of how it would feel inside of you had your mouth watering.

Jeonghan watched you with a smug smirk as you adored his length, but the smugness was replaced with pleasure when you leaned down to lick a long stripe from the base of his length to the top and repeated it a few times. He grunted quietly and reached down to tease one of your nipples a little, at which you sighed contently, leaned into his touch and guided the tip of his cock to your lips, which you then wrapped around it.

“Yes,” he sighed and closed his eyes, resorting to just petting your head a little as a way to show appreciation for how good it felt to have your soft lips against such a sensitive body part of his, much less how amazing it was to be encased by the warmth of your mouth.

You loved noticing the effect you had on him, and teasingly looked him in the eye when you began lowering your head with your tongue swirling on the underside of his length. He hummed appreciatively and bit down on his lower lip when you began moving your head up and down a little before sticking to simply tonguing the slit and sucking on the tip. It was a sensitive spot, and it was made all the more obvious by the noises that he let out after every little thing that you did, whether it was you sucking on it lightly or moving your tongue on it.

Considering that he was your boss, you were incredibly pleased to have him under your control, and you just couldn’t not make the best of it. And so, after sucking on the head of his cock for a while, you let him fall off your lips when he started to buck his hips up. He pouted as you kissed his stomach and held the base of his cock.

“Are you teasing me now?” he asked and looked at you with a small frown, and you gave him a smug grin.

“Is it working?” you asked and soon returned to his cock, moving your head up and down in a steady rhythm with your tongue gliding on the underside of his length. The soft ahs that Jeonghan let out were magic to your ears, and everything in the situation turned you on beyond belief.

“You could say that,” he breathed, only to hiss when you pulled up from his cock with your cheeks hollowed. “Fuck…”

Grinning, you began moving your mouth sideways on his cock, wetting it with your tongue and pressing sloppy kisses here and there. “What’s it doing to you, Mr. Yoon?”

Jeonghan grunted at the usage of Mr., and looked at you and the way your lips looked pressed against his cock. “Mostly just making me want to fuck you even more than I did before.”

You froze for a second, almost giving in to the temptation of just that, but then kept going with the blowjob that was making Jeonghan’s toes curl. The wet warmth of your mouth felt heavenly on him, and the way your tongue felt when you were teasing his slit with it was making him see stars.

He could feel himself getting closer and closer, and after reaching for a complementary condom from the drawer of the nightstand, Jeonghan gently urged you to stop and lift your face. He looked deep into your eyes and cupped your cheek as he licked his lips slowly. “My turn.”

You got out of your dress and took off your bra and panties, and Jeonghan observed you with interest while putting the condom on himself. You looked at him meaningfully and swallowed when he beckoned you to get closer, which you did, getting one of your knees over his hips and lowering your body so that his cock was between your folds.

“This is a nice sight,” Jeonghan grinned and smoothed his hands over your thighs and ass while you rocked your hips back and forth, shivering a little with how turned on you were already.

“I’m not complaining, either,” you noted with a small smirk and lifted your hips a little so that Jeonghan could guide his cock to your entrance. You looked him in the eye and bit down on your lower lip as you sank down on him, moaning at the way he filled you up. He grunted, too, and held your hips tightly, almost overwhelmed with how amazing your pussy felt around him.

Without much further ado - you were way too horny to just take it easy - you began rocking your hips on his lap, knowing just how to do it to get the most pleasure for yourself, and judging by the noises Jeonghan was letting out, he enjoyed it, too. His cock hit all the right spots inside of you, and while you worked your magic with your hips, Jeonghan was mesmerized just looking at you.

You were gorgeous, and the sight added to how amazing he was feeling had him feeling several other things, too. He grunted at how well you were moving your hips and contracting your muscles around his cock and moved his hands from your hips to your breasts to play with them. You moaned at the sensation and placed your hands on his chest to support you when you began moving on him a bit harder and faster, and since the positioning of your hands squished your breasts together a little, Jeonghan grinned to himself.

Somewhere amidst you riding him desperately, Jeonghan began fucking up into you, his hands now back on your hips and pushing you down on himself. You whimpered. “Y-yes, that feels so good, ah…”

Jeonghan merely nodded and bucked up harder, although a few moments later he stopped and stroked your thighs. You quirked your eyebrow and looked at him in a daze, only able to think about how sensitive you were and how you needed more.

“I don’t want you to have to do all the work,” Jeonghan said, his voice low yet soft, and helped you get off his cock. As you sat next to each other on the bed, he kissed you passionately while playing with your breasts, after which he told you what he had in mind.

You grinned as you lie down on your right side and bit down on your lower lip when you felt Jeonghan lift your left leg so that he could more easily push into you, and moaned satedly when he had bottomed out. He hissed when he was encased by the warmth of your pussy again and kissed your upper back passionately while holding your right breast snugly in his hand, playing with its nipple every now and then.

It felt heavenly on both ends - something about the position made you feel even tighter than before, which in turn made him feel bigger - and you focused solely on the pleasure you were experiencing. Jeonghan was very much lost in you; lost in how amazing you felt around him, how amazing you sounded, how amazing you felt under his touch… It was all perfect.

As his orgasm started approaching him, Jeonghan began fucking you a bit harder, which had your breath hitching in your throat a little. You were so turned on and the knot in the pit of your stomach was tightening a little, and yet it felt like something was missing; something that would throw you over the edge.

You met the movements of Jeonghan’s hips as well as you could, and it didn’t take too long for him to push deep into you, suck lightly on your neck and hold your breast almost desperately as he released into the condom. He panted, and you continued moving your hips a little as an attempt to get closer to your own release, too.

“You didn’t come, did you?” Jeonghan mumbled by your ear, still rocking his hips back and forth slowly. You shook your head weakly and moaned quietly when he squeezed your breast and kissed you by your ear. “Let me get you off, too.”

He let go of your breast, pulled out of you and got rid of the condom, and with a mere blink of your eyes he had moved to the lower end of the bed, turned you to your back and spread your legs so that he had easy access to your pussy, soaked with anticipation and begging for more touch. You looked at him with your lips parted, but as he dove right in to lap at your wetness, you closed your eyes and threw your head back.

Jeonghan grinned when you bucked your hips a little against his mouth, and when you got one hand into his hair, he only got more excited. He ran his tongue over your swollen clit relentlessly time after time, and only when you began quivering a little underneath him, he moved lower to tongue your entrance a little. You whined and bucked against him, and once he returned to focus on your sensitive bundle of nerves, you moaned.

The knot in the pit of your stomach was tightening at a fast rate, only fueled by the wet sounds that came from Jeonghan eating you out with such vigor. He pulled back a little, and you let out a dissatisfied whine.

“I want you to look at me,” he said, his voice far from the soft tone he had been using for the longest time, and instead full of the authority he so rarely showed. The tone alone sent shivers down your spine, and so you quickly folded the pillow underneath your head and looked at him right in the eye, and the way it all reminded you of your dream the night before made you clench around nothing. His eyes curved as he grinned. “Good.”

You bit down on your lower lip as you struggled keeping your eyes open and focused on Jeonghan, ho looked back at you intently while his tongue explored your pussy, massaging your clit in ways that made you see stars. He wrapped his lips around it, and smirked almost devilishly when you momentarily shut your eyes as a moan left your lips. You were quick to open your eyes again, however, and as some sort of a way to reward you for still following his order of a kind, he began sucking on your nub lightly, just enough to have your back arching.

“J-Jeonghan,” you breathed, your chest heaving rapidly as he continued eating you out eagerly, and you continued giving him encouraging nods with your orgasm approaching you faster and faster.

He began giving your clit fast licks with just the right amount of pressure, and it wasn’t much later that you were bucking your hips against his mouth in a steady rhythm with your legs on either side of his face and your hand tight in his hair. You threw your head back and closed your eyes as your orgasm rocked through you, only intensified as Jeonghan continued giving attention to your most sensitive parts and eagerly lapped at your release.

Soon he pulled back with a wide grin on his face as he looked at you, panting and looking incredibly sated and spent. He crawled up on the bed, and after wiping his face with the back of his hand and licking it clean, he leaned down to kiss your neck. You lazily got your arms around his neck and pulled him into a proper kiss before letting him go and lie down next to you.

For a while you were both silent, merely looking at the ceiling and catching your breaths. Jeonghan reached for your hand, and you smiled as you let him take it into his.

“You know,” Jeonghan began quietly, slowly rubbing the back of your hand with his thumb. You hummed, encouraging him to continue, and turned to look at him curiously. “I’ve been keeping an eye on you for a while.”

“What kind of an eye?” you asked with a grin and moved a bit closer to him on the bed.

He looked at you with a silly, wide smile and shook his head. His eyes twinkled happily. “Not the kind you think. Or maybe a little.”

“Go on,” you hummed and let yourself get lost in his deep, brown eyes. Jeonghan let out a quiet giggle.

“Firstly, your work performance is spectacular,” he began, and as he continued, his voice got softer and his smile widened. “But you’ve also got the brightest smile of the office, and I like the way you look at me.”

“The way I look at you?” you asked with a snort and hid your face with your arm. “What about it?”

“It’s cute, and you seem to get lost in thought a lot,” Jeonghan said softly and got closer to you on the bed so that he could move your arm away from your face and look into your eyes. “And I love it when you act like you weren’t staring.”

“I’m glad if you don’t mind,” you smiled, and it only widened on your lips when he leaned down to kiss you.

“Not at all,” Jeonghan whispered after pulling up and licked his lips. He looked into your eyes in a way that made your heart flutter a little. “We don’t have to be weird about this, right?”

“No,” you said quietly and shook your head a little while placing a hand on Jeonghan’s shoulder. “I know you’re my boss, but… do you think we could do this again sometime?”

“Dine and have sex?” he asked with a playful grin and nodded. “Regularly, if you’d like. I want to get to know you better.”

“Me too,” you replied and played with his hair as he leaned down to kiss you again.

After the business trip, the two of you did, indeed, meet up every now and then over dinner and, more often than not, sex. Sometimes he’d even ask you to stay overtime - for a reason, usually - and it would often end up getting steamy, with the two of you starting with simply making out and ending up having sex in his office.

Neither of you was particularly fond of being a part of an office romance, but you were too drawn to each other to mind, and although you knew you were each other’s only ones, you didn’t think too deep about it nor did you treat it too seriously.

You just were, with no strings attached yet with so many strings attached, and until one of you expressed unhappiness, that was okay. The two of you enjoyed being with each other in various ways, and for now that was enough.

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*coughs so loudly that I wheeze* Heeeey so, to anyone who cares, here’s a thing I’d like to say. Announce. Provide info about. Formally declare.

Anyone who’s been following me since the early days (2013-14 era rest in pieces), will know that I have a fair amount of controversial ships. As I’ve explained before, my taste in ships differs from the majority of the fandom most of the time (I’m used to being in smaller communities and shipping the less popular ships so K/L is a very new experience tbh), and I view fiction very differently than how most pple seem to here.

Sometimes I multi ship, and end up making friends from both sides of a ship war lol. That makes things very awkward for me, cuz I want to keep my friends and not be judged by them or receive backlash. But I'm tired of caring about something that doesn’t even matter and is way overblown. Also this is my blog so I can post what I want.

My controversial ships tend to be heavily disliked (duh that’s why they’re controversial lmao), so I lose a fair amount of followers when I post/reblog content for them, and many pple may not be aware that I ship those pairings, because they only recently started following me and didn’t check my ship list on my blog....so it comes as a Nasty Surprise sgdhfghgjhf

So even though no one will probably read this, or check my blog, I’m gonna do a final warning.

If you and I are in any of the same fandoms, and you have a NOTP that you feel strongly about, perhaps consider checking the ship list on my blog. I’m letting you guys know ahead of time so that you can unfollow or blacklist the tag.

I tag pretty much everything, so if there’s a ship you dislike, you can blacklist the tag.

Of course, that doesn’t really work on mobile, so if it’s really bothering you, feel free to unfollow. I won’t mind at all. (it just annoys me when I warn pple and then they don’t listen fdhdffh)

So unfollow, blacklist the tag, whatever. Just don’t send unnecessary hate; I stay in my lane, and you stay in yours.

[attract-mode-collective]

Undefined Behavior Is My Famicase Game Of The Year 2018

It's that time of the year, in which METEOR throws an art show featuring fictional Famicom cassettes.

Now, I'm a somewhat hard to impressive individual, though I was able to find a record number of carts (about 20) that I not only found pretty to look at, but which also got me wishing that they were playable. A self-produced requirement that may seem silly to some, but hey, that's just me. Anyhow, here's the rest of the bunch...

BTW, a bonus mention for @brent_ashe's entry, for also designing the packaging...

It's also that time of the week, in which I go over all the stuff I tweeted the one before. So! Sticking with fake games for bit; Ikea is finally publishing games for the PS4 and the names alone sound a lot more interesting than their offerings for the Xbox 360 (via @campbellbird148)...

I wasn't joking about the 360, cuz case in point; hopefully Grand Theft Alex improves upon Grand-ma's Auto’s flaws (the load times were atrocious; via kotaku.com)...

Anyone else remember that Genesis game that would have starred only the female members of the X-Men? (via segacity)

Sticking with old game mags, we've got another cover to cover tour of an entire issue, courtesy of Chris Alamio at Classic Gaming Quarterly. And this one's a good one; Nintendo Power #7, the one with Mega Man 2 on the cover...

... It's a great watch; Chris makes the same observations and asks the same questions you have also also made, back in the day (and have since long since forgotten). It's also perfect for a lazy Sunday. You know, how video game magazines used to be?

Yet another thing I miss about game rags are the ads. The sillier the attempt at being shocking, the better (via oldgamemags)...

Today’s recommended reading is a survey of all the times Mortal Kombat graced the cover of game mags during the 90s (via retrovania-vgjunk)...

Behold the IRL inspiration for Allen Snider, from the forthcoming Fighting EX Layer (via mysterious0bob)...

I REALLY wish Fight Zone, a mid-90s UFC rip-off) had lasted long enough to at least spawn a really bad tie-in video game for the Jaguar CD (or Nuon via lordmo & lordmo again)...

Forget dragon punches, forget hurricane kicks, forget fireballs… none are as effective as the most devastating blow of them all: heartbreak (via newkidsonmycock31)...

For perhaps obvious reasons, I try to avoid anything related to politics, but as someone who is part Korean, this image strikes a serious cord (via basedsatan)...

It’s funny how I’ve never even come close to thinking about what it'd be like to have a real deal shield from Legend of Zelda, until getting a decent look at one, and then all of a sudden (via retrogamerblog)...

It’s practically summer weather here in NYC, which is the perfect weather for some Flying Power Disc (aka Windjammer) action + related attire... tho going outside & not playing video games is also an idea I guess (via miki800.com)...

I want… no... I need this Astro City shirt from GAMESGLORIOUS (via miki800.com)...

They also have a Mega Drive shirt featuring some sexy girl, which I’d be more into if it was someone I recognized… like Tyris Flare, Blaze Fielding, or Amy Rose (via @GAMESGLORIOUS)...

As someone with a brain crammed full of ultra obscure Sega knowledge, I still had zero idea about the existence of their Video Driver system...

Meanwhile, did you know that Chuck E. Cheese's origin is grim af? (via @topherflorence)

A fresh coat of paint always does an indie cab good (especially if it’s been in a DIY space for several years; via @DBAArcade)...

Cuz it’s been a while since I posted random arcade pics (via duchamp-is-innocent)...

It’s Virtua Fighter 1, 2, and 3 (well, technically, it’s 3, 2, and then 1; via gaijira)...

Not sure what the games are in this instance (the one on the right is something for the Neo Geo, that’s all I know; via b0mbass)...

"vaporwave arcade" (via alext)...

Hey, arcades in the US can be pleasing to the eye as well, make no mistake (via sadboyxclique)...

That feeling you get when you come across an assortment of arcade machines, and you realize The Simpsons is included (via gamefreaksnz)...

Nothing fills me with such unbridled joy like arcade pics circa the early 80s (via retropopcult)...

Another snapshot from the golden age of gaming in the United States (via tvgame)...

Meanwhile in Japan; Space Invaders was insanely popular everywhere, including the US, but in its homeland, it was on a whole different level (via videogamesdensetsu)...

I’m a sucker for any “detailed” interpretation of what the Space Invaders look like… I also love buttons based upon shmups (via miki800)...

Not that anyone has asked, but if I had to choose my fave shmup ship design, I would have to the SA-77 from Silpheed...

... That last image is from videogamesdensetsu, BTW/FYI. Also BTW/FYI: my affinity for Silpheed's SA-77 naturally means that I wouldn't mind a miniature replica on my toy shelf.

Like this one (via my homepage, fort90.com)...

Or this one (via dannychoo.com)...

Am not as into the SA-08, aka the ship from the very first Silpheed (the Sega/Mega CD version is actually a remake), yet this model is neat nonetheless (via @musuke_twit)...

Revisiting that old blog post of mine, to get that Silpheed model pic, reminded me of others based upon Radiant Silvergun & Ikaruga that I’d also love to get my grubby mitts on...

I also still need to get my hands on this transformable Vic Viper from Zone of the Enders, even if I’ve never been super fond of its ship form (a moot point given how I’d probably keep it in its mecha form; via zakgaigar)...

I believe I’ve highlighted this R-Type kit not all that long ago, but when you repost pics as much as I do, it’s easy to lose track (via shmups)... 

So all the pics above, of ships that soar among the stars, engaging in wars, were all tweeted on a single day. May the 4th to be exact, due to the fact that I didn't have anything directly related to Star Wars Day handy. With this Star Fox gif being the most popular of the bunch (which again I might have shared already once, a long time ago; via k-eke)...

This past Friday also marked the grand re-opening of The Rodney Shop!

And also making a grand return was the man who redefined what's musically possible on a Game Boy, who came back to redefine what's musically possible on... a calculator? (via @Nullsleep)

Time for a bonus track: if there was an adaptation of the film Escape From New York on the MSX-2, this is what it would sound like...

Please enjoy this pic of a Super Nintendo controller covered in vaseline for whatever reason (via kotaku.com)...

And last but not least, a question: is there enough background info on the game Alien Solider to justify a near 20-minute video? The answer: yes... 

[coalessscence]

HOW HAS YOUR CHARACTER DEVELOPED FROM THEIR ORIGINAL CONCEPT ?

IF YOU HAVE A CANON CHARACTER, answer in the sense of what made you want to play them, how you have come to interpret them differently -

(for both MIRA and HERB, who i consider to be my most well-developed OC and CANON muses, respectively) PART ONE. what thing(s) initially inspired your character ?

mira. i was inspired to create her as a character years ago, when the mentalist was still on tv. the seventh season had yet to air, and there were the usual spoilers of questionable validity going around. some blog wrote a “leaked spoiler” article about how they were going to have the seventh season of the show include an “intellectual equal for jane” and the people i knew in the fandom at that time were pretty unhappy about it, imagining how badly it could be handled, and the possibility of a forced love triangle that no one wanted. i decided to try and figure out what kind of character i wouldn’t mind having as that “intellectual equal” and ended up writing a fic about it- and thusly, mira was born. this is why her default full canon crossover verse is set in the post cbi world at the fbi in texas, and also why i arranged her backstory connections the way that i did at the time.

herb. the reason i decided to write herb came when i got sucked into wkrp in the first place. i had always known about it and liked it well enough, thanks to my parents, but hadn’t seen much of it or been very invested. i somehow ended up finding a channel on youtube with almost every episode posted in nearly uncropped sizes. of course, i began to binge the show, and although everyone on it are my children and i adore them all- herb is.... my type. he’s awful, he’s a jackass, he’s everything you’d love to hate, and in the early seasons he’s written like an antagonist sometimes. but he has a character arc- one of the more notable in the show (aside from bailey’s and venus’), he becomes less of a jackass over time. you learn about his childhood and you see the man who raised him, you see how he interacts with people, and how those ways change over time. and you realize there’s a lot more depth to this character than you thought. and for some reason, i just couldn’t leave that alone- i wanted to bring my problematic son to life.

PART TWO.  how has their personality developed from their first concept ?

mira. my initial concepts for her character were all terrible. i won’t go into great detail about them, but i hadn’t done my research or thought anything through that well. i was probably about fourteen. it was not a good thing. however, the fic universe went through remakes and updates, and i kept updating and adjusting her universe and character as i saw my mistakes in hindsight. even now, outside the world of her OG fic, when i made her blog, i gave her backstory, personality, and all the specific timeline dates and details a major overhaul, and made other small adjustments when i later moved her to this blog. originally, she was a lot more... like jane, to be honest. a lot more shit eating and closed off in a different way- reminiscent of the way that he is in the show. she had very little causation for how she had become who she was in her backstory; a lot of facts with no reasons to back them up. she was more flippant, and she was also much younger, in her early-mid thirties. her imagined style of dress was very different- think of the fashion posts i reblog for ruby nowadays, instead of mira’s fashion tag. the way she spoke was a lot more obnoxious- still with emphasis on sounding sophisticated, but without the casual flair. if you’ve ever written with mira, you know that she has no use for formality; she speaks with proper-ness but she throws out procedure in favor of a more real human interaction. in her original incarnation, she spoke with big words for the sake of it, and used sarcasm past a point of her proper tone. i spent half my time googling synonyms for words, and in fact, most of my rewrite of her OG fic was just me fixing her now cringey incorrect dialogue.

herb. when i first started writing him, i think i focused a whole on on the fact that i knew he was an asshole. that was partly because i had just come off of only writing the sweetheart of the nation, lorraine baines. but, it was also because i was very aware that my love for him as a character caused bias, and that i could accidentally end up purifying him in a way that would bring him out of his character. i knew from seeing it in past experience that fandoms can take a character that has a lot of issues at the source of their personality, especially when the character is from a canon that involves a group of people/friends/family/whatever, and victimize them, blaming exclusively outside sources- perhaps even the character’s friend group- for their faults. i was super against falling into that trap, and i think i may have over compensated a bit, forgetting that in the show, herb does canonically display actual, normal human emotion and speak with more openness about some personal situations to other characters than i imagined he did. i have, over time, become very comfortable writing him, however- very aware of his faults and problems, and the things he’s done to himself, but also aware of what qualities of his are actually good. re-centering myself with the actual essence of his character, rather than stereotyping him in my own writing, is something that i think has improved my portrayal immensely over time.

PART THREE.  how has their appearance developed from their first incarnation?

mira. i was thinking that she still looked about the same, but to be honest that couldn’t be further from the truth. i would show you the “face claim” (read: random, unnamed image i found on google one time) i used to represent mira in the thumbnail of the first iteration of her OG fic, but i don’t have it anymore. however, she was wearing heavy eye makeup, she had mid-length brown hair, but it was styled so that it swept straight up at the roots- a very 90s-grunge look, for some odd reason. remember, this was at the same time as i was hc’ing her wearing frilly dresses and heels everywhere like life was a ballroom. it was a mess and i didn’t know what i was doing. as for how she looks now-

she’s gotten older, obviously. her hair is a conservative middle or side part; her face is more angular than i initially imagined it. her hair is just past her shoulders (although not many of my icons do properly represent this). and her makeup is very much an essentials, 50-products-but-it-looks-like-nothing look. also, for those of you who don’t know, her main official FC is rachel weisz.

herb. i’m afraid i don’t have much to say for him in this category? his appearance has always been determined by his canon representation, and that hasn’t changed at all. very plaid. very terrible. although, i really thought about that one episode of the show where jennifer, a coworker, makes him dress super nice and like... Actually Look Good for a day. his clients who come in that day are convinced that he’s not one of them (a sleaze) anymore and pull their business in search of someone else like them. in trying to regain their trust, we hear him promise, “hey, come back tomorrow and- i promise you i’ll have on a suit that will make you airsick!” it’s made me wonder what point in his character arc did he realize that the way he dressed was genuinely horrifying? whenever he’s been affronted about his clothes, he’s defended them heartily, even well into the final season- past the point where he refers to them as able to make you “airsick”. does that man that he’s now just maintaining the act because he feels trapped in it? and if so- how many other, less trivial things in his life are being maintained for the same reasons?

PART FOUR. what do you think most makes your character unique ?

mira. i must admit that other than people writing canon characters from the show, i have not seen anyone writing a character who can be described as a “mentalist”. i think that mira’s “abilities” are part of it, because it’s like trying to write a telepathic character who doesn’t have any supernatural abilities. she’s just a good guesser who’s studied her craft well. i also think that her backstory is probably a part of it. she has come from a very specific place, and it’s effected her thought processes and personality today in a lot of specific ways. she’s been in a few notable situations in her past, and it does give people writing other muses a lot of options to connect with her in a plotting situation. i think the concept that she’s based on, while having grown and changed exponentially over the years, is still one i haven’t seen done elsewhere, and helps to propel her storyline in a unique direction.

herb. he’s the opposite of everything in his presentation- he’s a serial skirt chaser, who actually really loves his wife and family and does not want to cheat. he’s an asshole who actually cares about people and, in subtle, clumsy ways, tries to help them- as long as it remains a secret. he’s a lot of very inexcusable things- sexist, homophobic, etc. it does, in a way, take some commitment to portray him canonically and know the consequences. a lot of people i’ve tried to plot with just really couldn’t like him, and i don’t blame them. he is, after all, a jackass. he’s just... really not as bad as he likes to act as though he is.

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[bkroger7793]

-Ice to Meet You-

It was March 2016, I had been on a ship doing a contract for about 4 months by this point.  I had some ship flings here and there but nothing crazy serious.  My two people that flamed this mistake, are actually two people who I was just jealous of and I am grown enough to admit it at this point.  Noah and Matt.  Noah was an incredible British musical theatre performer who was playing our Kenickie in our production of “Grease”.  He’d done ships before and was currently in a great relationship with another cast member on board, but had just gotten out of a very serious relationship that sounded incredibly mentally damaging.  Matt was our Doody, he had a keen way of making me feel like shit (whether on purpose or accident).  Either way, at the end of the day we had a very interesting on board friendship.  Now I can look back and see that this was all entirely my insecurities and jealousies.  

Now that the exposition is out of the way, on with the story!

   It was March and the ship had three shows.  Our production show, an Aqua show and an Ice skating show.  The gossip train had gotten around our cast, that Noah’s ex boyfriend (the one that made him an alcoholic and broke his heart) was coming on board to join the new ice cast.  Naturally, my sadistic mind was curious.  I was excited to see what the hype was all about, because Noah is a gorgeous boy.  So to think someone would break his heart, they had to be something special.  Me and Noah weren’t the closest, but we were still friends.  

    *What happened in these 7 months, I’m not proud of but they happened and it’s my journey and I’m owning up to this all.*

    One day while I’m sat in the mess, I look up and see this new boy walk in.  He was a very handsome young man, with curly brown hair and chocolate brown eyes.  He was very tall and lean, he was what the Weather Girls were singing about in “It’s Raining Men”.  The boy who I’d never seen before looked at me and didn’t take his eyes off of me.  I looked back with an interested but quizzical look on my face.  I never like to fully give away if I’m into someone or not, but when I was looking at him I felt excited, scared, sick and anxious.  I thought it was love at first sight that I was feeling, but it was something completely different.

    From that moment on I was always excited to run into this mystery boy, who I instinctually knew was Noah’s ex-boyfriend.  I told one of my friends on board, “I’m in trouble.  Keep me away from that boy.”  They told me, “That’s Noah’s ex.  He’s off limits and really messed him up.”  My brain translated that to “That’s Noah’s ex but let’s see where this takes us.”

    I went up to the smoothie bar with my best friend in the cast Frank, we ran into one of the current skaters Ashley and she was with Noah’s ex, Wyatt.  I got my typical smoothie and he asked me what was in it, I told him “it has peanut butter, banana, whey protein, almond milk and a shot of espresso.”  He looked at me and then the smoothie and then back at me, “sounds like everything I need and more.”  I looked at him kind of incredulously and he read that as me not been interested.  I walked around and said by to Ashley and nodded bye to Wyatt.  Noah was planning on leaving the contract early, and I was trying to fight it off.  He was attractive but way to forward for my taste at the time.  I would go around to crew parties and people would come up to me and tell me “someone in the new cast has a crush on you!”  There were only 2 gay guys in the cast and one of them was already talking with one of the aqua cast members so the message came across pretty loud and clear.  I was nervous!  I didn’t want anyone to think I was truly purposely swooping in on my cast mates ex boyfriend, but I did kind of use “the secret” for it.  We ran into each other at the crew bar and we talked for a bit and then I offered to buy him a drink, to which he responded that he quit drinking a year ago.  I then left to get a drink and make sure I was far enough away from him for the rest of the night.  

   A few days later, I was with my same friend Frank and received a message on Facebook.

Wyeth: Hey Cody 🙂. I think you're really handsome and a nice guy... always want to talk w you more but both of us are always going from one thing to the next and I never really get the chance. Would you be interested in maybe gettin lunch or dinner with me some evening soon? 😃

Me: Hey Wyeth,

I'm flattered to say the least haha  and in normal circumstances I'd definitely go to dinner with you but I don't feel like with certain company present on board/in my cast, that I should really do that. I hope this doesn't come across in a bad way but I'll still be nice and down to chat in the mess and crew pubs and stuff. Hope you got to get off today and I'll see you soon : )

Wyeth: Yes I certainly understand. It was my only hesitancy in asking, but I am working on moving forward, and I definitely have interest in getting to know you better... I don't want to put you in An uncomfortable position at all. Perhaps we could just see how things go and wait a few weeks. 😉 if you have any interest, once things change a bit around here, perhaps you could revisit the notion. And yes, I look forward to hanging out a bit more. X

Me: That sounds like a plan cuz I'd be lying if I said I didn't have any interest in you

Wyeth: That's certainly exciting to hear 😜.  Looking forward handsome 🙂

Me: I’ll see you around, Wyeth.

          These messages made me feel the most attractive I’d ever felt.  He knew that.  The only thing holding me together was my uncertainty and my initial rejection.  I don’t know why I gave in.  At the time I wasn’t that attracted to him.  I just didn’t want him to try to go back with Noah or potentially go out with Matt (because rumor had it that he flirted with him as well).  

    We secretly would hang out in his cabin and watch movies, laugh and kiss…a lot.  We went on our first date at a really nice restaurant in Miami.  Our server was so taken a back about how beautiful we looked together. That was our thing. Everyone had to stop and tell us how beautiful we looked together. It was an amazing ego boost.  After all of this time feeling like I wasn’t worthy or going to amount to anything, I was finally with a guy who was seemingly head over heels for me and who looked amazing next to me.  

      One night we were watching a movie in one of our friends cabins and we were all snuggled up.  It was two days before Noah was going to leave.  Up until this point the only thing that may have given us away was that I went out to Jamaica with him and his friends and we rode a canoe together and he posted it on Instagram.  For reasons I don’t know, because I asked him to try to keep this a secret.  I felt uncomfortable and uneasy but didn’t want to jump to conclusions because he said “he was trying to work past and change”.  

   But we were watching a movie and were snuggled on the floor, then theres a knock on the door.  Our host goes to open the door and its Noah, he immediately see’s us together on the floor and looks stunned.  I look back scared and ashamed, Wyeth seems oddly at ease, almost as if this was everything he wanted from this.  Looking back on this now, I feel very used and taken advantage of.  

     The next day again, I received a message from Noah wishing me the best of luck and that he couldn’t be upset because he was in a happy relationship at the moment.  I told him thank you and that I would never have wanted him to think I would do this for any reason beyond wanting to give Wyeth a chance.  

    The contract went by and we stayed together.  It was amazing sex, incredible memories and I was treated like a prince.  He wanted me for him all of the time, all day, everyday.  It felt scary, it felt comforting and it felt intoxicating.  I was beloved by his friends and even when I met his mom (who is not an easy critic) grew to form a positive opinion on me.  I thought this one was it, he was the one.  

    We got off of the ship and he came to visit my in New York.  He had missed me so much and I had missed him as well(he finished the contract earlier than me).  The first days were great, I met his family friends who we were house sitting for and a few other friends.  I liked them a lot.  We went out to an HBO premiere party and it was the biggest deal to me.  I looked over and he had a glass of wine in his hand.  “I thought you don’t drink?” I asked.  “No I’ll be fine, it’s just some wine.  Besides I only gave it up on the ship.”  I didn’t want to be his mom and tell him that that was not what he told me, but instead I let him go for it.  It was nice, we both could have a social drink together.  He would look around the party the entire night as if in search for something or someone else.  When we met his friends he tried to put me down a lot because I was so excited to be at an HBO party (mind you I was just acting grateful, I wasn’t being like dough eyed baby ingenue).  We stayed out till 4 am.  It was very odd in comparison to our picture perfect life on the ship where we went home straight after work and where I was expected to be back in his cabin at a certain time and I couldn’t go out with my cast.  Anyway, we went out again the next day and I brought him to visit and meet my closest friends that were in the city.  He was good, but always with my friends he would get super quiet and would never try to initiate conversation.  Wyeth always had to make it a point on how young everyone was as well, because he was 31 and so ahead of the game than me because of it.  I tried to shrug it off and have a fun night.  We then got on the topics of ex’s and then he started talking about this boy named Chris who in the 5 months of dating I’d never heard of.  “Who’s Chris?”  I asked.

“He’s my ex boyfriend,” he pulled out his phone and showed me his Instagram.  Chris looked like a white version of that bad boy model guy with the mug shot that was famous online for a spell.  Nothing like me, or even Noah (who I was also compared to on multiple occasions).  

“He’s very handsome.” I say, trying to be nice and hoping for him to turn and say that I was more handsome than him or something sweet.

Wyeth proceeds to say, in front of all of my friends, “Yeah he is,” he said this like he was ‘the one that got away’.  I was left mortified, my friends were looking at me like I was dating the hugest douche bag ever.  He then asked if we could leave early to hang out with Chris’ best friend Brandon.  I said, sure why not.  We went and immediately felt weird, the Brandon boy was like no friend of Wyeth’s I had ever met, and could have given less of a shit that I was in his home. I was then ignored the entire night and didn’t sit next to Wyeth the entire time.  I left him at the bar and didn’t see him until he got back to the apartment at 4:30 am.  

   He then woke up at 9 am to visit with his “manager” and told me he’d be back soon.  He then went to get a massage, then to run an errand at Sprint, and then never answered me back.  He disappeared.  I called all of his friends who I knew, to which one of them responded and said.

“Oh no, he does this sometimes.  He’s probably doing drugs, the city isn’t good for him. Just stay there and be there for him when he gets back.” Like I was indebted to him, and should accept this behavior of his if I wanted to be with him.  I stayed up the entire night and tried to sleep whenever I could.  I couldn’t sleep at all.  Wyeth didn’t come back home until 11:20 am the next morning.  Looking terrible and feeling like shit.  We cried and he explained more of his problems and past with me, I didn’t know what to do.  In front of me I saw this sincere guy who had a trouble past who needed someone like me.  Someone loyal, trusting and loving.  He asked if I wanted to do this still, and that he knew he was difficult to date.  I couldn’t say no to him then and there because I was just on this emotional rollercoaster and saw someone so broken.  I was willing to sacrifice so much of myself because he couldn’t take the time to just go out and get professional help.  Now, I may come across rather cold in regards to this but that is what this relationship came down to.  He thought I could fix something that was so broken and deeply rooted in him, when all it was doing to me was breaking me.  His problems were becoming my problems and my problems were becoming non existent, and worse of all irrelevant.  

   Wyeth left for another contract, our relationship went from ‘we are in this for the long run’ to ‘we’re taking it day by day’.  He started telling me about this other skater who’s from Canada and was going to be in the Olympics this year and they were becoming great friends because they both were in very serious relationships.  I was happy for him that he was making these friends, he told me that the other skater was engaged to be married to another skater who was around my age.  I then started to get a little weirded out because he would talk about him all the time, and still was continuously talking about all of these ex boyfriends he still was in serious contact with.  To which we got in an argument about when he came back to the city, why all 100 of his ex boyfriends were still so relevant in his life.  I understand an occasional text or message on a birthday or a holiday, but this was constant contact.  Wyeth then proceeded to get angry and tell me in the train station that I couldn’t understand because I had never been in a “real” relationship before so I wouldn’t understand.  It was fine if it was one ex, but ALL of them, all of the time.  It wasn’t normal the way he talked about them either but he gaslighted me into believing I was overreacting.  I then started apologizing for caring and trying to add up his behavior, actions and words.  He then left for his next contract and while he was gone I had constant anxiety, I couldn’t sleep.  Wyeth was drinking and partying on a regular basis, he was distant whenever we talked on the phone and would never want to actively be sexy or show true affection.  

   I then found out from an anonymous person that he was being super flirty and entertaining thoughts of being with the Engaged Canadian Skater, and that the Engaged Canadian Skater was entertaining the idea as well.  They had a “genuine connection”. I knew my anxiety was leading me to the right direction.  I never told him I knew that, but I broke up with him.  He looked at me in the eye on FaceTime so angry and I said “It’s not fun always thinking that your boyfriend is looking for something or someone else, when he has something already amazing in front of his face.”

He responded saying, “I have to go to work, because thats what people do.” He then hung up.

I thought I had overreacted and he continued to not own up to any of his odd behavior saying the only thing he wish he could have taken back was when he disappeared on me in NYC.  I’m still trying to shrug it all off, because I really thought he loved me for a moment.  He didn’t. He loved the idea of me and knew that he should have loved me, but he will always love himself and “the game” more.  I feel tired, I feel played but overall I feel strong.  At such a young age and having not have been in any “real relationships” (as he says), to know what I deserve and want out of life that is bigger than any dick, or hotter than any face or ego.  I want a patient love, an honest love and a love that respects me for how strong I am.  A love that believes in me and is greater than stereotypes.  

Not all that glitters is gold.  But sometimes you can take the glitter from that experience and get your sparkle back.  

My anxiety is gone, my thoughts still cloud my brain but I know when this negativity leaves, a power that is greater than anything I’ve ever experienced will be in the horizon.  

[survivor-iceland]

Ep. 5 - “i want to see a live reaction to this in the reunion chat” - Maynor

Stephen

Ahahaha by the grace of the inactivity gods im still here. This is my karma for suffering through the preseason of Erinsborough. Now, I may not have actually gone home, but who knows I had an gut feeling and those are usually right.

Stephen

*laughing about surviving* Jay: Music Videos! *stops laughing*

Dylan C

me: [volunteers to edit for this challenge] me: [regrets this 5 min later]

John

ok i have a LOT of tea that needs spilled so sit back, relax, and enjoy this feature presentation:

-first things first, cormac. why couldn’t you have just voted. i would have one more ally and stephen would be out. so thanks.

-second, zoe told me about her advantage and how she has connections to the other side so that we should have a group of 5 at the merge. so that’s mind blowing. i’m just like in shock because in a way, cormac getting pulled allowed me to be zoe’s number 1. and that’s amazing. we stan.

-third, sierra is driving me insane. constant overdrive from her, and she’s starting to cross the divide between helpful and micromanaging. she can micromanage herself out of the game for all i care.

-fourth, timmy is ADORABLE. i’m definitely trying to get a cross tribal alliance with him bc wow. he cute. like really. he’s cute.

Keith John

Well if episodes are named here, This title of this episode would be "How you get screwed When tribal council gets Cancelled."

From being in a safe position last night to waking up and realizing that I am screwed in this game.

First of all, THANK YOU CORMAC for going out at the worst time possible. Last night my name was thrown out by Stephen. So obviously people entertained the idea.I do feel that I would have stayed but Cormac's evac has changed alot.

I had a planned final three with Cormac and Zoe, with Cormac gone. I'm down one alliance member.

Stephen is still in the game. And I know he is targeting me.

Maynor never spoke to me about the vote much. Inspite of me approaching him before tribal to see if he wanted to work together

John. who said he would have my back and would tell me if anyone would throw my name out. Never told me about Stephen's plan. I am sure he knew about it.

Sierra and I haven't bonded much personally. A little my fault there.

And Lastly Zoe. I know for now she definitely has my back. And I have hers but it feels like my game is extremely dependent on her. I feel alot of people want to work with her. And how long will she want to work with me? That I don't know.

Honourary mention: JAY thanks for throwing a challenge that I would suck at the most. I hate being on camera, Hate singing unless I wanna punish someone. 

Raffy

Cormac being gone kind of relieves me since he has been giving me bad vibes ever since day 1 of this game. Now that's just one more person that I do not talk to out of the way. I figure that merge is happening at 11 because Jay said there was a twist which can only mean that it is merge or that someone is coming back into the game. Maybe both. I'm just going to focus on winning this challenge for my tribe by providing the lip sync of my life. This shit is about to be so FIRE.

Raffy

I think I am fully in crackhead behavior. I just messaged 6 people at the same time trying to have conversations with them. This one world has made a mess of me, and I do not like it. Also, I am pretty much giving up on the idol because I don't want to go through the effort of hunting for it. So, instead, I'll just pray that it isn't used against me.

Maynor

Well. Now im not sure if Stephen vote was true or not but i have to rely on that my allies were gunna be with me. Its sad seeing cormac go since he was someone i connected with. But im glad it was done before tribal and not after tribal. Im hoping we could win immunity this round since im still feeling a little nervousish. 

Maynor

Catch me voting out John for calling Timmy cute.

Omg. Like i want to see a live reaction to this in the reunion chat. Them finding out we are dating. 😂😂

Raffy

I kind of put my neck out there in this challenge by suggesting the song. While I am not editing the video, I did make the song suggestion which is almost as important. Perhaps this could lead to my downfall. Furthermore, I talked to Dylan and they said that only themselves, Ellie, Justin, and I submitted videos which means we are missing Timmy's and Joseph's. Plus, editing takes a long time, so Dylan might not even use their videos if they are late. I just hope what people managed to film is enough. I've never won a music video challenge, and I am hoping this game can change that. I'm not that confident though. 

Raffy

I think I have made some strong connections in this tribe and the other. The people who I have talked about staying strong and working together include Justin, John, Dylan, Ellie, Timmy, and Keith. This seems like a diverse group of people that I can fall back on if one ends up turning their back on me. I always have to have back-up allies, otherwise I am liable to get voted out early in merge which I suspect is soon. I just want to establish myself in another alliance, but that seems hard in this game. I don't know who would be in that new alliance, but it would be some combination of the people I mentioned and others who I get good vibes from. Let's pray for me!

John

if rupaul was judging this music video challenge, she’d be telling us to sashay away. we are literally on the level of valentina with her mask on bad.

Ellie

Let’s hope that this damn video comes togather 

Stephen

We’re losing this challenge. Theres only about 4/5 of us in the video, a lot of the video is from the original music video and the rest is... ok, but not great. Dylan CI wanna say we have a better video but I'm gonna be the most biased on the tribe since I edited the damned thing for about four hours. I had to sacrifice some synchronicity a little bit towards the beginning to get Ellie in for the 10 seconds for the extra points. I had originally trimmed her clip to what I could match up the best, but then I double checked the post lol. Hope the judges don't care too much there.

Dylan C

I'm not even gonna go feral. I'm just gonna lay face down on my kitchen floor for a while.

Stephen

I.... okay, im not complaining. But yeah judges thanks but the fuck?

Dylan C

I'm like, actually upset right now? Like not so much that we lost, but that I spent all that time editing, when I've been worried about getting all my homework done this weekend but I volunteered to edit and wasn't about to back out cos that'd be shitty!!, only to lose by 20 motherfucking points. And also? I worked with what my tribe gave me bitch!!! Raffy was the only one who recorded the whole song, Justin did like half, Ellie and Joseph only gave me short clips, and Timmy was sick so he didn't film anything? I just wasted my entire afternoon and evening on this when I have real life shit I should've taken care of, but I made a commitment to my tribe, and for what? Tribal that's going to be happening while I'm at one of my Thanksgiving events! Granted, that was going to occur regardless upon losing since I'll be busy both Thanksgiving and the day after. But fucking still. Kinda just wanna ghost the world atm.

John

i’m kinda torn that we won. on one hand, we’re safe. on the other hand, i wanted to vote out stephen. so like, i’m feeling mixed emotions. these people will be dangerous to take to the merge. i hope it’s not next.

Dylan C

Kinda funny how I was so zazzed to be strategic at the start of this but I really haven’t been since. Strategy? I don’t know her. Also I’ve been ass about socializing one on one with ppl on the other tribe so I have a feeling that’ll bite me in mine. 

Sierra

By some miracle, we’re safe! I’m so glad that we don’t have to vote anyone out right now... especially because I don’t have my vote right now. Maybe I can make it to the merge and hide for the first vote there without having to vote. 

Joseph Collins

I am confusion. Dylan did such a good job editing. Our tribe and group is such a great mix of personalities and stories. And they came together to blend and make an amazing video. I actually got emotional watching it. I was very surprised to find out we lost. And now, we have to vote someone off our tribe. I hate it so much. I feel like it’s gonna be Timmy. He was absent in the time-crunch immunity challenge. Even Justin showed up and showed out which I thought was awesome. I like Timmy. And I feel like this is a hard vote for others so now I have to go be cutthroat Jo

Justin

Alright, so another tribal for us. I feel better than last time, but I'm still not 100% confident I won't be targeted again. Before the results for the challenge came in though, Raffy approached me and started talking to me some more about working together which makes me feel better keeping him around. Especially since I realized that he talks to me more than Ellie, so honestly I want her out now cuz whenever I talk about working together she leaves me on read. So, in conclusion I don't want you in the game lol. At least Raffy talks to me and says he wants to work with me, even if it might be fake. I told Joseph that I would like Ellie out, but he says Timmy cuz he doesn't talk to him and he feels Ellie could be our shield. I don't want him to go yet because I feel like he would vote with me, but I'm not jeopardizing my game to save him since he barely talks to me too. Although Joseph makes a good point that Ellie can make a good shield, I feel like we have other shields to hide behind in Raffy and Dylan. Plus, I feel like she has more connections than Timmy could get if he keeps playing the way he is.

Maynor

Im so happy that we were able to pull of the win in immunity. Im making it to the final 11. I really want to make it far in this game. I am really hoping Timmy stays alive. Like i know its bias cuz we are together. But we normally dont play the game together. Im just hoping we can make it far together this time. Plus ❤️ Jay. It would be amazing if i won this game. Me winning my first and last game would be pretty awesome. So im going to try my hardest.

Timmy

So apparently Justin is going around saying my name. Does this idiot not realize that I’m the reason he stayed last tribal we went to. Like seriously, and apparently he’s telling everyone the same thing that he’ll be with them always. And he calls me inactive, like sorry you message me at 9am when I’m walking into work and j can’t answer you until like 5pm when I get out. He better leave this tribal. I wish it was happening tonight just to also move things forward.

Dylan C

Me? Lying by omission to Ellie? It’s more likely than you’d think. Justin gave me her name earlier, and I tried to talk him out of it. He made a comment about keeping it between us. Now Ellie’s told me that Justin through her name out. “Between us.” Sure, Jan. And hey, I never mentioned it to Ellie or Raffy in our alliance chat (which exists as of last night). So I did keep it between us unlike him. Didn’t mention it because he had a decent point about Ellie’s strong social game, but now isn’t the time to try to get her out, IMO. Especially since I’ve just allied with her. Granted, I’ve turned on allies shortly after making alliances before but that’s not happening in this game. No way. So, I just acted like I didn’t know when Ellie told me and I’ll keep on that. That’s how I’ve been doing a lot: acting like some information people has given me is new to me (usually with Joseph tbh) when it isn’t new at all. Just kinda agree, maybe say I was already thinking about that, but not imply that I’d been Discussing it, depending on how I’m talking to.  

Ellie

So Justin is scrambling like HARDCORE, He threw Timmy’s name out and hen my name out right after saying that we were tight, and he’s so paranoid and it’s driving all of us crazy. Like we have until tomorrow night, chill out. And Jospeh really wants Timmy out but I’m like IF WE TAKE JUSTIN TO MERGE HE WILL FLIP WITHIN FIVE MINUTES!! Timmy might not be the most active but at least he’s fucking loyal. Raffy, Timmy, and I want Justin out so badly. Dylan is trying to listen before making a concrete decision, and Joseph and Justin want Timmy out. Justin even wants me out apparently.

RaffyA lot happened today, so I am going to break it down. Last night, Timmy, Ellie, and I (Just Go With It) discussed the vote early. Timmy suggested that we might want to get rid of Joseph or Dylan since he thought he would be able to sway Justin, since he considers Justin a close ally to him. That's when we all compared notes that Justin had claimed his apparent closeness to everyone on the tribe. This immediately put him on my radar as it could be a sign a double-crosser later down the road. As was not going to push anything since tribal was two days away, however I did talk with Ellie a little bit and she seemed down to vote Justin since she had a close relationship with Joseph and Dylan. While this was happening, Dylan created the Hypothetical Alliance with Ellie and I. This is great news since that means Ellie and I have control over two other votes (Timmy and Dylan) based solely on votes. In this way, whoever I wanted gone would go. Justin messaged me early in the morning asking about the vote. He heavily suggested that we vote for Timmy because he is inactive and bad at challenges, but those are the things that I want in an ally going into a merge. Besides that, Justin was asking incessant, paranoia-filled questions regarding the vote and would not let up. It is safe to say that he doesn't get that he's being incredibly messy and scramble-y when he doesn't have to be. The vote isn't until tomorrow, yet he's acting like it's in thirty minutes! The King of Crack right here! Anyways, so I told Ellie and then she was experiencing the same thing, so we then told Timmy. Timmy instantly wanted him gone which meant what I wanted from the beginning was going to happen. Furthermore, I learned from Ellie that Justin does not trust me and that he thinks I am vague and noncommittal. Not only that, apparently Ellie heard him say her name from someone. This dude is incredibly dangerous for my alliance! So, I was determined to see him go and to get everyone to go after him. Joseph was a tough nut to crack. He was very adamant today about voting out Timmy and keeping Justin. Apparently, Ellie got through to him, but I do not know how well that worked out for her. I have a feeling that Justin also said that he was tight with Joseph to the latter as he did with everyone. And Joseph thinks it is serious which means they'll be a powerful duo going into merge. I have to keep my eye on Joseph and make sure he doesn't slip from my grasp. Other than that, I managed to get Dylan on board with the vote as they thought Justin's paranoia and overall messiness was also a danger going into merge. Finally, Zoe approached me today asking who I felt good with. I knew she was sniffing for an alliance so I said Ellie, Dylan, and Timmy. She suggested that, since a merge was coming soon, that we create an alliance with Dylan, Timmy, and John making us a strong 5. I immediately agreed of course. A strong alliance helps me navigate the merge more comfortably and easily. Plus, in that alliance, I have Dylan and Timmy to have a majority over the decisions. So, if it came down to us 5, I would be good. Not only that, but this means that Dylan and Timmy will vote together in this tribal along with Ellie and I, ensuring that Justin goes to EoE. This is all working out for me. I do not know whether to tell Ellie about this alliance eventually, but I am planning on keeping it pretty tight-lipped for the most part. What doesn't kill her makes her stronger. And that's what you missed on Glee Johndamn. who knew i’d align myself with the perfect ride or die. she has an advantage and NOW she has an idol?! she is STACKED, and now i gotta protect her at all costs.

Maynor

Ive been talking to Keith a lot more now but heard from Timmy that people have been saying that he has been doing that with everyone so idk what to think of our bonding. Like i would like to think he would be on my side but who knows. We been talking about pokemon cards and the funko pops that i have. Its been fun. Im really glad talking to him more. 

Keith John

Due to thanksgiving. Tribal was moved a day ahead and everyone was busy celebrating. So things have been slow.

I decided to take the opportunity to complete the fox portion of the idol hunt. which turned out to nothing, As Zoe already informed me and Cormac that she got the advantage. after informing her I told her I will give the other path on the idol hunt a try. didn't want to go behind her back and do it. especially we are expecting a swap. this is my first time playing so I'm not sure that its a sure swap or another twist. 

Also finally I messaged Timmy again. After he didn't reply to me the first time. which was like 10 days ago. I know since I felt that I wasn't in the best position possible during the last tribal. I should have made an attempt before to talk to him as I need people, any people who want to work with me. But since I have had previous instances when I worked abroad, when people immediately snubbed or ignored me or changed their attitudes towards me when they found out that I am a Pakistani. N for a moment I felt like Timmy had decided that he didn't want to work with me. And me being a Pakistani was the reason. Which I guess is stupid on my part, I saw he added other people from the game to his skype. But didn't even reply to me. So When Zoe brought up the possibility of working with him. I decided to approach him again. This time he did reply. he seems nice but reserved. hopefully, we swap on the same tribe since we might have mutual friends who want to work together. But I would also like to make a genuine friendship with him and whether that becomes an alliance or not. that's to be seen.

OK Signing off for the night.

Timmy

People are quiet today in PMs but i hope that’s since we talked about tribal yesterday. Justin better be going bc he’s a snake ass bitch and I can’t deal with that shit.

Zoe

I got an idol, folks!!!!!!

I'm incredibly surprised at the rest of the tribe's laziness, considering I now have an advantage and an idol. The downside of the idol is that I have lost my vote next tribal, so now I really have to have trust in my tribe members and alliances cross tribal to keep me going through the twist, unknown as of five minutes before tribal. I predict a swap, but (not) knowing Jay makes me doubt that as well.

I'm still really sad about Cormac, but it's my game, not his game. As long as I can still count on my other connections, I'll just have to go on strong and know that it wasn't his time.

[kaoarika]

Dumb thing I gave my opinion about this morning and someone actually making me engaged in the comment section of a web*toon:

I generally avoid comment sections to discuss stuff that would take over 500 characters to make my whole point about it. Some times, I’m fine when I see ppl agreeing with me (in the same comment section), but other times, I suppose my opinion is “controversial” (I use quotation marks because it’s actually silly to call it “controversial”), because I’m applying IRL hindsight instead of willing my suspension of disbelief), but yeah.

So, I started binge reading this web*toon called “Yum*i’s Cel*ls”, I cannot believe it’s over 400 episodes, so ofc my decision in doing this as such was actually the wrong one (stuck right now in Ch 216), cuz I’m trying to devour EVERYTHING and it’s quite enjoyable, and I HAVE CRIED, even, at times.

I understand that there should be a “drama” rule when it’s about stuff about relationships and I suppose half of the problems in maaaaaany romance stories (I do accept I’m doing a bit of this too?) could be resolved with communication in any kind of relationship.

Some lack of it VERY BADLY *cough*KoiInu*cough*, and sometimes at least they try?

Okay, that being said, I’m going to explain some basic points before going forward.

YC is a romcom/drama with some Fantasy (biological, tho?) touches. It’s about a woman in her early 30s who had her heart closed up to anyone after a messy and sad breakup with her ex, but it kinda started changing when she had a crush with a guy who happens to work in the same company as her. Thing is, the guy isn’t interested in her, and is, instead, trying to set her up with a friend of his that might like her... and they eventually fall in love.

Then shenaningans happen, because OFC! It’s a romance/drama! *SIGH* I want to express a lot of my thoughts, but I’m going to synthetize them as muh as I can.

So, it happens that Yum*i’s bf, Woo*ng has a female bff that was ACTUALLY pining him for YEARS, but never did any kind of move... and he was also pining for her for YEARS, but eventually gave up. So, when he actually starts clicking with Yu*mi, the snake of a friend reveals her real scales, and start doing EVERYTHING in her own will to separate them :’) Also, Woo¨ng has some lingering feelings for his bff, like, HAH, ofc, he does. And he is freaking oblivious and dense about it.

There’s some obvious topics around that the series discusses like, “are men and women be allowed to be friends who aren’t pining each other” (IRL response, yes), but ofc the series doesn’t play it as such because... drama and usual tropes like “friends to lovers” (and like I said, both Woo*ng and S*ia were pining for each other at least a moment in their lives).

And heck, I do like the tope... if used and done well, of course. But, man, how I am still frustrated over this love triangle.

I mean, Yu*mi has her reasons to be jealous (because Si*a was purposely pining on her bf), but, Woo*ng is such a dense dude that, GOSH, bless his soul. Si*a was simply using the “best friend” card to do her duty as antagonist in this love triangle, and it made me so frustrated, because there’s ppl like that and trying to put her POV as “if winning his heart” would be a little nice romantic bs story to tell her grandchildren :/c. Yu*mi had all her right to hate and dislike her. But... Woo*ng was really in between a hard and rock place to choose what to do.

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Here is the main point of this post and my opinion on that comment section, because at one moment, Woo*ng is realizing that Si*a is not having the best intentions of the world to still being his friend and “wanted something more” from their relationship.

Yu*mi straightly tells him that she dislikes Si*a. And Woo*ng response is similar, instead of “it’s complicated” (because he had lingering feelings for her, even though she is not in his Top 10 priorities, lmao). So, Yum*i "casts a spell” with him to get him out from awkward situations with her or any other woman. “My gf wouldn’t like that”, and, if they ask him “what? are you asking permission from your girlfriend over something like this? Are you whipped out by her?”, he would respond with his name “Woo*ng”.

Now, here is the issue I have with this (and technically I disagree with the majority of a 3-year-old comment section in this episode! Yay!). Sure, I get it, Yum*i was looking out for him, she is his gf. And Woo*ng is SO FREAKING DENSE, istg. So, this was some kind of way to declare that he was already "owned” by someone else, so “BACK OFF!”

But... I think, this could be worded soooo much better than what it is...

I mean, isn’t it bad hearing this same thing from a girl with a bf, right?  So, is it OKAY from a guy’s perspective??  “I don’t think my s/o would like this” DEFINITELY sounds as anyone is “asking permission” to do something. It doesn’t sound good, no matter how you put it. No matter if the one saying it is a woman or a man or a nb person.

All I said was, “if this was worded better (instead of saying ’I don’t think my s/o would like that because (dumb reason)’, this couldn’t get interpreted wrong” If it was worded so MUCH better, perhaps the situation wouldn’t make it look bad from my POV. There are better ways to decline an invitation.

SURE, Si*a response was made to get through him as a way to prove her point, duh. Let alone, again, Woo*ng, being the dense guy he was, was being manipulated by Si*a using the “best friend card”, “what’s wrong in two friends watching a movie together?”.SURE, it’s nothing wrong, but your intentions are also gd CLEAR on this, such a manipulative b*tch you turned out to be :) .

There’s also this. Like, the way the translation uses “Woo*ng” as a way to respond to the “are you totally whipped by your gf?” is... UHM... debatable at best. In English, “Woo*ng” may sound similar to “wrong”, but... in Korean, apparently “Woo*ng” sounds like an informal “yes”, so... it’s like answering “Yes, I’m whipped out by my gf” in Korean... but “No, I’m not” in English... SOOO... Make that as you want.

I know discussing this might be stupid, because “fiction”, and my exp. in romantic relationships is pretty null at this point,  but... I suppose you are also expecting something else from a series, you know? Because I’m simply cheering on the main couple of this series (at that point, spoiler!), and overall, Yum*i...  Also, sometimes I lose some neurones in comment sections... *shrugs* and I was expressing my opinion on why I think the way it was portrayed was dubiously good.

I still think the way this all started was with how Woo*ng told Yum*i that he also “hated” Si*a as a way to avoid a fight... but Yum*i, although understandably jealous and would like him to stand out by himself and the like, was saying it as such... it could have been better, really. I know you are thinking in the good intentions of your s/o, but it would turn otherwise. A romantic relationship is mostly built around trust and compromise... not being possessive of your s/o (even if you don’t want to make it look as such). No matter how sly an outsider is and may be willing to separate you.

...

ALSO, don’t get me wrong, I love this series! It’s quite good (and WOW the change of art style over 4 years is astounding!) but I cannot not criticize some stuff here and there :) and boy, do I have some small issues around...

[attract-mode-collective]

Dat Genesis Aesthetic

Welcome to the next level of the Attract Mode blog! As explained last time, every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday) I’ll be sharing all the wacky game culture goodness that crossed my path the previous week (mixed with bits and pieces that I’ve long wanted to share, but haven’t, cuz I didn’t think it worked as a stand alone post or some other reason).

And kicking things off is Studio SUPER’s “Lives & Times”, in which they created eight different animated scenes, all running in tandem on a CRT monitor (i actually discovered this in a post in a CRT enthusiasts group I belong to on Facebook, which is a private, so I’ll say no more), and all of which screams dat Genesis aesthetic. Each of the ten monitors displays a letter, spelling out “Lives & Time”; the above are actually animated gifs, but due to Tumblr’s technical constraints, they’re simply still images, hence why I’m not going to bother to share the individual monitors (so please check out the source to see everything in action).

But yeah, it once again warms this old school fan of Sega’s 16-bitter that the kids today are embracing the look and feel of the platform, whereas those used to be punching bags, primarily among Super Nintendo devotees. Though, to be honest, the above actually reminds me of 32X’s aesthetic; the other night was my yearly attempt at giving Knuckles Chaotix another shot, and dear God does it ever look like someone attempt at making a game based upon found internet art and vaporwave album art that’s all been inspired by the Genesis, which means I absolutely adore AV, but dear God is it unplayable or what.

Back to the Genesis/Mega Drive real quick; here’s your new desktop wallpaper, courtesy of @SEGAotaku; you’re welcome…

With the new way of doing things around here, bits of randomness that had been the basis of semi-regular gags will be folded into the new weekly format. Like the Please Enjoy entries. So, please enjoy this wonderful mash-up of Sonic and Totoro, with a dash of the Iron Maiden font… on a t-shirt (courtesy of twosatans)…

It’s that time again, in which I really wish I had a PC. And GDC has barely gotten under way! By the end, I’ll no doubt see some new game that I’m dying to play, but cannot, unless it gets ported to the PS4. Though in this instance, I’m talking about DESCENT, which Prosthetic Knowledge describes as “Part music video, part demoscene production, part art history remix”. At least I can enjoy this video in the meanwhile…

Sorry, can’t say I agree with this statement. As for my choice for top FF, you’ll have to see what I wrote on the wall of the men’s room at Grassroots Tavern (located on the sound side of St. Mark’s between 2nd and 3rd Ave) in person….

Yet another “feature” of this blog, one that was only recently proposed, are semi-arbitrary comparisons. And they too will be part of the package every week, starting with; which do you prefer, this old photo of a young boy, proudly showing off his newly unwrapped Galaxian tabletop arcade cab, courtesy of ausretrogamer…

Or this somewhat more recent pic of young girl, one who is to ecstatic to have gotten a Game Boy Advance SP, courtesy of 2000ish…

Classic Gaming Quarterly just posted another Let’s Read, its in-depth, page at a time analysis of a classic gaming mag. In this instance, it’s Electronic Gaming Monthly #6 from early 1990…

Among the more interesting questions asked and observations made…

- Yeah, what exactly was the deal behind Fester’s Quest? Why in the heck was there an Addams Family game in the year 1989 (and not 1990 as stated in the video) for the NES? Then again, the same could be asked of Midnight Mutants, which was based upon the Munsters for the Atari 7800 in 1990. Is there a connection between the two?

- Not only did I have no idea that there was an arcade board based upon the PC Engine, I also never made the assumption myself that the SuperGrafx was perhaps originally destined for the US, given that the name of the PC Engine follow-up is more closely tied to the name of the US version, the TurboGrafx!

- Though I do recall people not being all that impressed with Super Mario World’s visuals upon release, as well as how the original Game Boy was considered a disappointment for a long while there. In fact, in EGM’s end of the year assessment for gaming hardware, for many years there, the GB was constantly scoring super low numbers.

One can never understate how important Pokemon’s arrival was for the platform in the US, which is actually 21 years ago today BTW/FYI!

Speaking of Game Boys, yet again, I really wanna play Kimutaku vs Predator; according to obscurevideogames, Takuya Kimura is from the J-pop boy band SMAP, but I bet most of you knew that already…

And back to the subject of video games rags; which cover featuring a shmup do you prefer, the one with Xevious…

Or Radiant Silvergun? BTW, both were found over at the shmups Tumblr, naturally…

Remember my round up of classic video game music on vinyl? Well here’s a clip that I wanted to include but couldn’t cuz I hit the limit of YouTube embeds in a single Tumblr post, plus it’s of a re-release on CD; it’s the third disc of a trilogy box set, of classic Namco tunes, and perhaps the best of the bunch (since I realize straight up Xevious audio ain’t for everyone)…

Sticking with the subject of music, Kotaku actually posted a real oldie but goodie, and since it was on a Sunday, there’s a good chance many may have missed it, so…

And back to shmups, as well as something else that one of the major outlets recently posted that’s definitely worth a look for anyone who may have missed it, is The Verge pointing out a rather intriguing part of a Fast Company write-up on Atari head honcho Nolan Bushnell’s early 80s high-tech incubator. Which is how the triangle in virtually every GPS system out there is actually the ship from Asteroids!

Which do you prefer, this old pic of Mexican wrestlers from Lucha Underground playing Mortal Kombat X on the PS4….

Or this recently release image of the WWE’s John Cena playing... I dunno actually... on the Nintendo Switch….

Speaking of the Switch, my aforementioned personal fave angry video game nerd recently shared his thoughts on Nintendo’s forthcoming hybrid home console/handheld. The title pretty much says it all: “NINTENDO SWITCH CAN SUCK IT!!!” is pretty much all you need to know. Still worth watching though! As is his recent follow up…

Said it before, and I’ll say it again; I don’t have to agree with BitHead1000 to find him hilarious.

As you may have heard, a Dreamcast signed by Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst was recently up for grabs on eBay. The original auction ended without a winner, which means everyone out there still has a chance to be one! One of six; I want to know the circumstances that led to Durst signing a Dreamcast, let alone several. Though I have to wonder if the seller will actually go through them all, let alone the first…

This animated gif by mazeon really makes me wish that there was a video game based upon The Black Hole. Actually, it’s ripe for a LucasArts/Double Fine-esque adventure! What do you fellow fans of the movie think? All six of you…

And finally, one last comparison; which do you all prefer; this Virtual Girl, who I found via posthumanwanderings…

Or this Virtual Boy wearing and Mountain Graphics’s STAR SOLDIUS shirt, which you can nab in the Super Attractive Club shop, along other things…

Don’t forget: Attract Mode is now on Medium! There you can subscribe to keep up to date, as well as enjoy some “best of” content you might have missed the first time around, plus be spared of the technical issues that’s starting to overtake Tumblr.