#and that starts happening sooner than in the old version!!

[reitziluz]

i'm finally getting some practical therapy starting in march, and i've been thinking about what my goals for it would be.

i'm not entirely sure, but i think the kind of therapy i mean translates into occupational therapy in english? instead of psychotherapy, it's a kind of therapy where the therapist comes to your house and helps you figure out how to get more done in your day. or how you could enable yourself to do the things you want to do.

i think for me, the highest tier sign of things working would be if i was able to write enough of a buffer to do a period where i post two chapters per month. that'd be cool.

[apocalypse-shuffle]

MICHAEL MYERS | THE SHAPE (any iteration | any canon timeline idc)

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Sex w/ Michael Myers (Michael Myers x Fem!Reader)

Headcanons

NSFW, 18+, minors dni, shoddy communication (because Michael), mild dubious consent

Pic Source: Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Halloween II, & Halloween Kills(?)

Michael ain’t easy when it comes to letting you know he’s horny.

Let’s say you’re at your computer desk working when he’s suddenly behind you.

He’s all up on you in seconds, lifting you up, taking your place in the chair, and putting you on his lap.

His rough hands find your breasts shortly after. Michael doesn’t speak as he touches you but with him so close you can hear the small groans that crawl up his throat.

You arch your back against him as he tweaks your nipples. Rubbing the dark nubs between his thumb and forefinger incessantly.

Moaning, you throw your head back on his shoulder to pant out: “What has gotten into you?”

He doesn’t react much to the question, only getting just that much louder groaning in your ear as he starts to rut up against your ass.

No sooner is he rubbing his length against your core through the layers of fabric between y’all and you’re left moaning and wondering when he’ll get impatient (because now you’re turned on too and you’re getting impatient) when he hoists you over his shoulder to reposition you.

Michael isn’t a cock warming type of man but once he gets you on the nearest flat surface he’s stuffing his semi erect dick into you with zero hesitation.

He squeezes your thigh and grunts at you to get a move on until you start milking him to full hardness.

After that it’s all Michael for the next while until he gets off, you cuming when he’s trying to nut is not the goal but if you happen to then that’s nice (initially at least).

Mainly Michael deals with himself first before coming back to finish you off after. He will breed you - every time - if you do not dissuade him from the action.

Regardless of where Michael’s cum, once he’s taken care of himself is when whether or not you came while he was getting off will come into play. If you didn’t then you’ll be well taken care of by relentless, nicely overwhelming precision. If you did, on the other hand, then prepare to be thoroughly punished because Michael is going to give you special attention whether you still want it now or not.

This man will (and revels in it tbh) overstimulate you to tears. You wanted to come so bad well then here you go, he doesn’t care if you're jerking around and sobbing he’s more than strong enough to restrain you.

Any form of aftercare depends on the version of Michael. RZ!Michael is definitely going to try, and with some direction from you he’ll be amazing at it. He wants that softer, less frenzied connection with you after the fact, and aftercare soothes and reassures you as well as him. OG!Michael and Old Man Myers (or Peepaw, as the ladies call him) on the other hand I firmly believe won’t care for aftercare all that much; at most you’ll get some base level rearranging done so that you're on a more comfortable surface and whatever supplies you might need will be easy to find and that’s it.

In general; if you're not in the mood (or are alternatively never in the mood) Michael is more or less easily dissuaded. You kind of have to start the pattern of sex for it to be something he goes looking for from you in the first place. If he can’t let out his sexual frustrations with you though then he has plenty of other fleshy and easily stab-able ways to let that frustration out.

Michael also regularly goes dormant - usually of his own accord - and has periods where he doesn’t kill so it’s pretty safe to assume that the same goes for his sex drive. When he’s in the mood to fuck is harder to track, and more spontaneous, than when he’s about to gear up to unleash his bloodthirst on the world though.

On another note let’s say you’re the one in the mood but Michael’s pretty firmly not. Likely it’s because he’s obsessing over a target for whatever reason. During times like these though, when his stalking and slashing are in high demand, you’ll barely even catch sight of him until he’s satisfied regardless.

NOTES: Hope you enjoyed!

I won’t say this was my best work, but I can only fuck around with a post for so long and I think a year was more than long enough for this to be ruminating in my drafts.

btw: if you’d like to leave a comment I’d very much appreciate it! this is a sideblog tho so I won’t respond.

[agenderfrenchfry]

I’m very glad that we, as a community, are taking a step back and evaluating how we interact with each other and the thoughts we put out into the world. I’d wanted to speak up about the inherent toxicity this fandom can exude at times myself, but to be honest? I was scared. I still am typing this out! But I trust myself and the people around me, and view this as an important discussion we need to have. My experience in the ibvs fandom has been shared in bits and pieces before, but never fully mapped out. That’s what I’m going to try to do now. (This might seem random at first, but trust me, it’s on topic.)

⚠️Tw for abusive relationships and grooming!⚠️

When I was 13 years old, I was released into the absolute Wild West that is the internet. By all accounts, I was a responsible kid in the eyes of my parents, so I was given little to no monitoring when it came to the content I consumed. Shortly thereafter, I was introduced to someone who would come to define - and end - the rest of my childhood.

Feli, or RainbowWreck on Tumblr, was a system with alters that ranged from far younger than me to far, far older. We met when I sent a response to one of their vent posts, and quickly bonded over a D&D au of IBVS. When tumblr messaging grew inconvenient, we moved to Discord, where we conversed nearly every day. At this point, I was ecstatic. Yes, one friend halfway around the world may have seemed minuscule in the grand scheme of things to others, but I was a severely lonely, chronically anxious autistic kid in middle school of all places. I had no other friends, I was at the stage of my life where connecting with family was getting harder, and overall Feli just seemed like a godsend. Looking back, I can see now that this really made me a perfect target.

I don’t know when things started growing sinister. Do you ever? Slowly, they started pushing. Ignoring my boundaries and testing me to see just how far out of my comfort zone I could be prodded. This often ended up in a horrible panic attack on my end, but I was terrified of the alternative. When angered, they would grow cold, despondent, and threatening. At the same time, they convinced me that my family was evil; that they were the only safe person in my life. They never lay a finger on me, but the amount of control they held over my younger self was terrifying. At the time, I would have done anything for them.

Over time, I became more used to volunteering information about myself, like my name, face, and where I lived. (Hey kids? DON’T DO THIS) I had an especially close relationship with one alter named Wolfie of about 17, who began to dub me his son. I was still only 13. Eventually, it reached the point where they started openly talking about kink and sexual content around me, and I accepted it. This was someone I thought I was safe around. Someone who called himself my father. I was still only 13.

I got out by sheer luck, and what they’ve done still haunts me to this day. Trust me, I’m only just beginning to unravel all the shit they pulled, and this is only a brief summary.

What I’m trying to say is, when people say that nsfw content of minors hurts “someone”, you don’t fully understand that “someone” is real until it happens to a person you’re close with - or, god forbid, you yourself. But trust me, it does. If I had been less desensitized to pornographic imagery at a young age, I probably would have recognized what was happening to me sooner. Maybe I’d be a completely different, healthier person. But that version of me doesn’t get to exist.

So if you happen to be scrolling on tumblr one day and stumble across content like a drawing of minors playing strip monopoly or a fic where the Jovel twins do hanky panky, please, say something. You could really make a difference in the life of a kid who was like me.

[feyspeaker]

Hi! I made an account just so I could follow your work. Your art is brilliant and honestly and inspiration to where I want to be. I’m an older artist who has all the anxiety when it comes to improving my process. I’m trying to get into digital portraits and I have so many ideas in my head, but it’s frustrating because I’m not where I want to be to make this happen. What are some tricks that help you/software do you use? Of course, you don’t have to share anything that makes you uncomfortable. I currently have procreate and an iPad, but I feel a little lost. Wondering if I need a different writing tablet and photoshop. Not sure. I just eventually want to find that 3D, but also artistic look you are able to achieve.

hey there! thank you so much!!

ultimately, I will sound like a broken record but I always recommend you sign up for local figure drawing or painting classes. have people pose for you at home and sketch with charcoal and paper. go to the zoo and sit down in front on an exhibit for an hour and try to draw the animals in front of you as fast as you can and fill a couple of pages, move on to a new exhibit and do it again!

nothing is more powerful of a tool to learn than whatever writing utensil you have in your purse and the back of a napkin when you see something you'd like to capture. I've spent quite frankly my entire rememberable life doing this. I used to spend every single day in middle school/high school/my brief failed stint in community college with a pack of cheap sharpies and a beat up binder full of old worksheets and homework to draw on the backs of.

drawing/painting from life will teach you better than anything.

I use a very outdated version of Photoshop, and only got a "nice" tablet in the past 7 months.

Also, a huge tip to you and anyone else reading this: do NOT get too focused on a "style" that you want. Obsessing over that just ruined me for years and years. I wanted so, so, so badly to be the next Matsuri Hino when I was a kid. I copied her work religiously and it NEVER looked right. Frustrated me to no end. And you know why my stuff never looked like hers? Because I'm not her! You can't force your art to come out any way that isn't natural, and the sooner you can accept the art your hand wants to create, the happier you'll be and the easier art will get for you.

The past couple of years before I started diving into this more realism based work, I was just shoving myself through trying to make what art I envied of others. Very stylized/textured watercolor comic book style stuff. And I just was NOT getting any better at it. I have always been more inclined toward realism work, but I've hated it and yearned for stylized work. Yoshitaka Amano? God, I just drooled over that artstyle and beat myself up for never being able to capture it in studies or otherwise.

I finally essentially restructured my entire career around making the art that makes me happy instead of what I "wanted" it to look like. I was extremely depressed, my life was falling apart, and I still needed to make art to survive but I couldn't "art" if I was depressed and hated doing it, so I just had to step back and stop worrying so much about what I thought I wanted to make, and started making what felt most natural.

there's no easy way, and art can be a soul destroying path at times, truly. your software and hardware should come very last place compared to practicing from life (it doesn't matter if you want to paint cartoony stuff of realistic stuff, always start from life). naturally you will find what makes your heart sing the most.

I get a lot of messages from people telling me similar stuff "oh your art is EXACTLY what I want to do!" but I promise you that kind of thought process is chasing a dragon that is likely to harm or drag your creative process down. art style is such a deeply personal thing, so of COURSE it's important to find inspiration, but the second looking at someone else's artwork stops inspiring you and starts frustrating you, put it away.

There are some artists who I love, that I do not check up on often because their artwork ignites, like, serious bitter jealousy in me. It's the truth. I get so mad at myself for not being more like them, and it's such a poison. I think more artists should be transparent about this feeling because I KNOW the art community has a lot of jealousy and ugliness in it.

A fact of being an artist is that you will never be completely happy with a piece you make. You are always going to see the flaws, and that doesn't change whether you'd been drawing for 2 months or 20 years. Occasionally, you will get one piece that you are like "how did I make that???" and then get frustrated that you can't recreate it lol! It's a tough beast.

It's just really important to step back and work on yourself and where you are at, because at the end of the day, the way your soul wants to express artwork might be WILDLY different from what your brain wants, and it can be really detrimental to let those two go to war.

I hope this helps. I'm very passionate about this, and when I started out I ALWAYS ignored the artists who gave the same exact tips as above. I thought they were so annoying and unhelpful, but now I /get it/.

[talekinesis]

Steps

Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish

So I caved and did it

Here's my fanfic about Dale Dimmadome being nice to his son

I am aware this is not something Dale would do in canon, but I'm the author now and I craft the story with my own two hands

I make it a little sad near the end teehee

I added so many Peri cameos

Summary: Dale's tablet dies and for a second, he puts it down and remembers he's a father

"Hey, uh, Dad I'm going to bed."

Dale didn't look up from his work, busy working on a new project.

"...Dad-"

He waved his hand in the general direction of the small voice interrupting him. "Yes, yes, go to bed, you have school tomorrow." As he heard the sound of small feet walking away, he went back to work, trying to figure out a new, quick, and easy way to get more money out of people.

Without warning, his tablet died and shut off, and he was left staring at his reflection in the dark screen. He muttered a few choice words under his breath. He'd left the charger up in his room, so he quickly turned and made his way up the stairs. He never let his electronics die, he needed them for work, all day every day.

As he climbed the steps he noticed a door upstairs quickly shut. The door to Dev's room. He walked by without paying it much mind and continued down the hall toward his own room to plug his tablet in. He grabbed the cord and clicked the charger into place, just as he heard a door down the hall open and little footsteps running down the stairs.

With his tablet dead, he was noticing more than he usually did. For instance, he noticed his son was not in bed, where he should be. Like muscle memory, he had made the motion like he was going to swipe on a tablet to send an Au Pair to go get his son, only to remember it was dead and charging. Dale sighed and left the room, deciding to just try and parent the old fashioned way; something he hadn't done in nearly ten years.

Now that he thought about it, the last time he actually paid full attention to his kid was when he was about one, pulling himself up on furniture to stand. He thought a little harder and realized he couldn't remember Dev's first steps. He hadn't been paying attention. That was the year he built the first Au Pair to assist him in raising Dev.

The Au Pairs originally had been meant merely as assistants, helping hands, since he was a single father. But that's clearly not what ended up happening.

He descended the stairs and noticed the kitchen light was on, accompanied by the sound of Dev struggling to get something out of the fridge. Curiously, he leaned into the kitchen and saw Dev nearly falling over as he had just managed to pull the milk jug out of the fridge.

Dale crossed his arms. "That's not lactose free." He said, startling the life out of his son, who dropped the jug with a yelp. "Also, I thought you said you were going to bed." He stepped in and picked up the jug of milk, looking down at the smaller version of himself, who looked back up at him with guilt.

"I, well.. I was going to go to bed, but Hazel sent me this recipe I wanted to try, and.. Well you're usually-" He stopped himself, and thought for a moment, not used to coming up with excuses since he usually didn't have to, "I really didn't think you'd notice I was up." He admitted.

Dale sighed and looked at the jug in his hand. He had forgotten to purchase almond milk for his son again. He glanced back down at his boy, and put the milk back in the fridge.

He couldn't even remember his first steps.

He shut the fridge doors, and faced Dev. "Go to bed, I'll pick up almond milk, and we can try that recipe tomorrow when you get back from school."

Dev looked up at his dad so fast you'd think he'd get whiplash. His eyes were wide. "Really? You actually mean that?"

Dale missed his first steps.

Dale missed his first full sentence.

Dale missed his first day of kindergarten.

"Yes. Come on, off to bed, the sooner you get to sleep, the sooner-" He started, but when he turned to look at his son again, he was gone. He looked up and saw him already running up the stairs, and walked after him.

By the time he climbed the stairs and reached Dev's room, he was already changed into pajamas and climbing into bed with his- .. purple dog..?

He leaned in. Don't parents usually say something to their kids when putting them to bed?

"... Sleep."

Good enough, great job, Dale.

He shut the lights off, and left the door cracked, heading back to his own room. That was the most interaction he's had with Dev in years. And it wasn't terrible.

He slipped his jacket off and changed into shorts, getting into his own bed. He picked up his tablet, wiped some kind of purple glitter off of the screen, and set it aside to let it charge overnight.

___

Dale was awoken by his alarm, but only quickly sat up when he heard paws scattering out of his room. He initially brushed it off, but when he noticed that the charging cable to his tablet was mutilated, he groaned.

Damn dog.

Damn.. weird purple dog that he didn't remember adopting.

He got out of bed started to get dressed, still tired. Stepping out into the hall, pulling his jacket on, he nearly stumbled back as Dev ran past him.

"I'MLATEFORSCHOOLBYE!"

He watched his son struggle to get his purple bag around his shoulders and then hop onto an Au Pair, flying out of the house.

He grumbled and stepped back into his room to test his tablet out. Luckily it had charged a little bit before that dog got to it, so he set to work with what charge he did have, almost forgetting the promise he had made to his son the previous night.

Seven and a half hours went by as Dale worked nonstop before his tablet died again. With an annoyed huff, he set it down and cracked his back, stiff from being in the same position all day. He looked at the clock and his stomach dropped as he realized it was almost time for Dev to get back, and he had forgotten the almond milk again.

He rushed out to his car, and stopped before pulling out to the left. He thought for a moment before making his decision, and instead pulled out and went right, toward the school.

Having gotten there early, Dale waited in the car for another twenty minutes before he heard the bell ring and saw the doors open as waves of kids poured out. He got out of the car and looked for his son amongst the crowd, spotting Hazel first. They locked eyes before she turned and spoke to someone still inside the building before pointing back at him.

He watched Dev excitedly run past her and push his way through the crowd of children before quickly hopping into the front seat of the car. Dale got in, himself, and pulled out of the parking lot.

And now it was just them.

He noticed Dev staring at him from the passenger seat, and started to feel awkward.

"I uh.. Forgot to pick up almond milk again, but you're coming with me this time, oka-"

"Okay!"

The silence was deafening in that car. He couldn't even remember if he'd ever had Dev in the car with him before. He usually traveled via drone. What did normal parents do?

What had he wished Doug would do when he was a kid?

"...How was school?"

And just like that, the silence was filled with Dev chattering away about eleven-year-old nonsense. And Dale tried his best to understand, but a lot of what his son was talking about were trends he didn't understand. So he just nodded and mentally checked out until they got to the store.

Dev ran ahead of him into the store, and that was when Dale lost sight of him. He sighed and stepped inside, only to sigh again when he realized just how easy it was to lose a small child in a grocery store.

That kid needed a leash.

He walked around aimlessly for about five minutes until he finally noticed there were signs that showed him which sections were where. He found Dev in the dairy section, opening a fridge door to grab almond milk.

"Dad, can we get chocolate milk too?"

"Grab it, and let's go." He answered, walking past him toward check out.

Dev grabbed both cartons and ran after his father, as fast as his little legs would carry him.

---

Dev ran through the front door, ditched his school bag and bolted for the kitchen, leaving Dale to carry the milk in and follow behind him. He set the milk down and spotted the dog lying in the corner, watching them.

"Dev," he called, turning to look at his son, "when did you get a dog?"

The boy froze. "Uhh-"

"Did I get him for you?" Dale asked.

Immediately, Dev jumped on the excuse he had been given. "Yes. For my birthday."

Dale shrugged and put the chocolate milk away. That seemed reasonable. "Why is he purple?"

"Dogs are less likely to be stolen if their fur is dyed."

Again, this seemed reasonable enough. He called for an Au Pair for Dev to step on so he could reach the counter, where two mugs and a bunch of ingredients sat.

The recipe Hazel had sent Dev was for 'brownie in a mug.' They mixed the dry ingredients first, then Dale took over because Dev didn't know what to do, and mixed the wet ingredients in until they had batter.

Dev watched his dad do this effortlessly. "Have you baked before?"

Dale nodded. "How old are you?"

"Eleven."

"I used to bake about eleven to twelve years ago, then."

He popped one of the mugs into the microwave and set it for a minute.

"Why did you stop?" Dev asked, stepping down off of the Au Pair he had been standing on to reach the counter. He looked up at his father only to be startled to see emotion on his face.

"I used to bake for your mother." Dale muttered, refusing to look at his son now.

The kitchen was silent now, save for the soft hum of the microwave. It beeped and Dale took the mug out, setting it aside and putting the second one in.

"Is mom why you don't really talk to me?" Dev asked suddenly.

Dale felt his heart drop at the question and he finally met his son's eyes. "No, I just-" he sighed. This was a difficult question. "I'm just.. busy, Dev." He bent down, scooped his boy up, and set him on the counter so he could speak to him properly. "I just have priorities, you underst-" fuck. That was what Doug had said to him.

He looked to the side, at the floor, at the ceiling, anywhere as if looking for some script on what to say.

What had he wanted from Doug?

He met Dev's eyes again. "Devin. Your mother is not the problem. You are not the problem. I am. I get caught up in my work, and I understand that. I understand I haven't really.. well.. raised you since you were a baby.." He trailed off.

He couldn't even remember Dev's first steps.

"But I'm trying. Well, I'm trying now. I didn't have any real example on what to do, and I know you know that, but.. ugh.. look, what I'm trying to say, is I'm trying to take some steps in the right direction."

Ding. The microwave went off.

"I understand, Dad." Dev said, a small hopeful smile on his face.

Dale took the mug out of the microwave, and handed it to his son, who handed him a fork in exchange and plopped himself down on the floor next to the dog. Dale leaned against the counter, knowing his knees wouldn't help him back up off the floor if he sat down.

He watched as Dev 'snuck' a bite of brownie to the dog, but didn't say anything, figuring just one bite wouldn't hurt. Even if it did, he knew he could afford a vet visit. He took a bite himself and paused at how good it tasted.

Once they had finished, Dev ran upstairs with his dog, leaving Dale to finish his brownie in the kitchen, and he was deep in thought.

"Au Pair,' he started as one of the bots zipped down in front of him, "Show me recordings of Dev from ten years ago."

The bot beeped a little before projecting a video down onto the counter.

___

It showed one year old Devin, sitting on the floor. Ginger curls on his little head and big blue eyes reaching for the camera. The Au Pair raised a little off the floor, which encouraged the toddler to pull himself up on the couch to stand and reach for the camera again before something caught his attention off screen.

The baby steadied himself and turned a little to look at whatever it was that had gotten his attention. With a coo, he let go of the couch and wobbled a little before he took a step. The camera lowered and turned, revealing a younger looking Dale, faced away and talking on the phone. Dev reached out for him and took a couple more steps before he stumbled and fell back down onto his knees.

With a little grunt, he pushed himself back up and took a few more steps with outstretched arms, reaching for his father. He started to wobble again, before Dale turned toward him, still on the phone, and bent down to pick him up in his free arm, not even realizing that his son had just walked for the first time to get to him.

[rainyarcades]

I have reason to believe Cassie's dad tried investigating into GGY, and it didn't end so well for him.

Let's get into why...

The therapists say to patient 46 (Gregory, while under the Dr. Rabbit (Mimic) influence) that the techs were getting concerned with his diving into the system, hacking it and messing with code to change how the animatronics act. This happens multiple times:

Now, what is Cassie's father? A Fazbear Technician! Evident by the fact he has a Faz-Wrench, something only Fazbear techs own. Now this is absolutely a stretch, right? Well, it is, until I bring up this note found in the AR world:

In the AR version of the Plex, Cassie experiences personal things that wouldn't be there for other people-- cutouts of herself with Roxy, of her with Gregory (and subsequently crying when he's gone), missing posters of Gregory, eyes that stare at her, mirrors, etc. So this note is another personal thing to her, and given the importance of the other personal things listed, it's likely this note has a good amount of significance to her too. I previously thought it was because Cassie's dad had left to look into something, but I had zero idea what it could be-- until now.

Either the note was placed by someone else to cover up her dad's disappearance (more likely, death), or he left it there knowing he'd be gone longer than normal while looking into this mysterious GGY. With people repeatedly disappearing, and GGY linked to the animatronics being messed up, he could've taken the initiative to look into it himself- and, possibly, payed the price for it.

When this happened, I don't have much of an idea. But I assume closer to the time SB took place rather than GGY, since it's pretty likely Mimic's influence was dropped right before the game, and RUIN seems to happen maybe a few weeks to a month after the base game? I think Cassie would've done something, or felt something was off, much sooner if it'd happened before then; but we don't know enough about her yet to know if that's the case. There's no mention of any other family she has outside of referenced 'emergency contacts'.

We still don't have a whole lot of information about Cassie, so we don't know how long she was left alone, if she's left alone often, etc.

With Help Wanted 2 possibly being a prequel to Security Breach, it's possible we'll also get a confirmation as to why and how Gregory got stuck under the Mimic's influence, plus what happened to Cassie's father. Maybe the game takes place a few weeks before Security Breach? I dunno. We just gotta wait and see!

I just doubt this note means 'he went away for a while at some point and came back', and it's not like past tense is used when she says her dad has a Faz-Wrench like it is when she talks about him collecting old lunch boxes. It has to be significant, otherwise, why include it?

I believe whatever happened to him, Cassie doesn't know about it yet- but her link to the Mimic, and by extension Gregory, goes deeper than we realised- that's why she was introduced at all in RUIN.

Her story is 100% far from over, but I don't believe we'll focus on her again juuust yet.

We know Scott doesn't drop huge lore without clarifying it in the next installment; Burntrap > Mimic for starters. Dittophobia happened, Steel Wool is now referencing fnaf 4 in tweets tagged as SB and RUIN. GGY is still shrouded in mystery, answers are bound to come up soon! (There are way more examples of Scott confirming lore in the next installment of something, but I can't bring it all to mind right now-- there's definitely plenty of examples, though, and iirc Scott made a steam post about this once)

Gregory had a huge reveal at the start of this year with GGY's release; plus, the Mimic (and how it can control things) was finally introduced in the games.

I think GGY is next to get fleshed out in the game universe, and Help Wanted 2 is the perfect place to start. And, of course, that all links to the people who'd sunk too deep into the mystery; the therapists, Tony Becker, and the technicians.

[gamesception]

Sception Reads Cass Cain #38

Batgirl (2000) #18 - September 2001 Writer: Kelley Puckett Pencils: Damion Scott Inks: Robert Campanella Colors: Jason Wright

Ooh, a guest in Cass's book. Is this the first we've seen that? I think it might be. We get to see whether Tim gets a better showing in Cass's book than she's had in his.

Far more importantly, though, this issue starts with a dream sequence, one that I've referenced a few times already. I misremembered it as happening much earlier on in Cass's run, because it is so fundamental to understanding who (this version of) Cassandra is as a character.

It starts with 8 year old cass in a stealth suit (if there was one thing I think could improve this flashback, it would be if she was wearing the grown up batgirl suit all clearly too big for her, like the cover of issue 4), sneaking around the Batcave, a mischievous smirk on her face like a kid who knows they're getting away with something. She's tiny in a world too big for her as she creeps up onto a computer panel to reach the bat-cookie jar. There an expression of gleeful triumph on her face as she reaches a hand into the jar to snatch...

No, she's caught! Batman, Dick, Alfred (somehow? Has she even met Alfred?), Helena, Tim, Jean-Paul (nice nod there), they've caught her with her hand in the cookie jar neck of the man she killed. She's grown and wearing her batsuit now but she's still so small and they're so big and they're calling her a murderer while Barbara sits dejected, looking up to say 'How could you?' so hurt that Cassandra would betray them all this way, would betray her specifically, sullying the legacy of Batgirl with a murderer's bloody hands, and then the dead man speaks, and it's not the man she killed anymore, now her fingers are buried in the throat of her Father, David Cain, as he admonishes her. "Did you really think you could fool 'em forever?"

...

There's just so much happening here. The cookies - the treat, the prize she's stealing, labeled with the bat symbol? That's being Batgirl. And saving people as Batgirl is the only way she knows how to do to atone for what she did. Except she's a murderer, she deserves to be punished, not redeemed. Worse, being Batgirl is fun! It's exciting and thrilling and the best life she could possibly imagine. It's a reward, not the punishment she deserves, and deep in her traumatized and guilt-ruined inner 8 year old's bones she knows she's getting away with something she doesn't deserve.

Sooner or later her new family will catch her, they'll learn the truth, they'll realize she's not good like them, she's only pretending, really she's a murderer, and when they find out she's sure they'll all turn on her. From this we can infer that her isolation isn't just something imposed on her by Bruce, it's also something she's doing to herself, or willingly allowing Bruce to do to her. After all, the closer she gets to the others, the sooner one of them will realize that she doesn't belong. The more it will hurt when they cast her out.

And there's David Cain calling her out. David, the only one who knows her secret, who knows the real her, the murderer.

....

This is such a good look into Cassandra's character and mental space, into how she sees herself as Batgirl. How dearly she loves it and how badly she wants it and how sure she is that she doesn't deserve it and it's only a matter of time before the others find out and feel the same.

...

I would also say it's fantastic foreshadowing, because this is clearly building to a number of major reveals & confrontations, right? When Bruce finally has to admit the truth and does try to reject her, tearing their family apart in the process as Babs sticks with Cass and the rest are forced to choose sides. Or wondering how Cassandra will react when she finds out that Babs already knows, that she already knew almost the entire time, and that she doesn't care, still loves her, still is proud of her, still wants her to be Batgirl - will she feel relieved, or will she lose respect for Barbara for not holding Cass to the same impossible moral standard that she holds herself to? One could imagine a conflict of Babs vs. Bruce over whether Cassandra is worthy of the costume only with Cassandra taking Bruce's side rather than her own. And David Cain is still out there, potentially throwing the whole thing into an even deeper level of turmoil.

Sadly I can't say this is good foreshadowing, because none of that really happens. Fantastic set up, but not quite landing the follow through. But we're still in the set up part, and the set up part is so, so good, and this dream sequence is maybe the best two pages of it.

...

So yeah there is an actual story in this issue, it's not just a two page dream sequence. I've spent most of my analytical energy already so I'm not going to go in depth, but it's a cool team up story with Tim, where Tim is trying to take down a mob boss while Cass goes after an assassin the boss hired then failed to pay. It's good stuff actually, and well worth a read, but I just want to pick out a couple bits...

We get an explicit limit/exception to Cass's body-reading ability.

Just a bunch of cool art, I like this panel a lot.

We get this moment where Cass opens up a bit to Tim, who starts to connect with her in a way that he hasn't in their previous meet ups.

And it ends on this nice moment of Tim admitting he's been cold to Cassandra and apologizing, extending a hand in friendship. And it's a really nice moment, though the fact that this is coming from Batgirl's creative team makes me wonder Robin's creative team will maintain the better relationship going forward.

As for the question of Whether Tim comes off better in Cass's book than Cass did the last few times she showed up in his, I mean, obviously. What's maybe more noteworthy is that Tim is more likable in this book than even he is in his own, at least as of the last couple issues we looked at. He's thoughtful and intuitive here, self aware, capable of self reflection, capable of recognizing when he's been in the wrong and taking steps to correct himself. All in a story that still emphasizes his detective skills and tech savvy. It makes me sort of wish Tim had his own book... Unfortunately he did.

Of that run of Robin I've only ever read the few issues we've talked about in this project, most notably the two we looked at most recently, and those two especially were were pretty miserable. Not in the sense of being sad and heavy like Cass's book often is, just kind of awkward and unpleasant and mean spirited. Weird choice for a Robin title, imo, you'd figure people would be looking for something a little more light hearted out of that book, with a more likable protagonist. Then again it's really not fair of me to judge an ongoing book when I've read so little of it, so I'm just going to let it go there.

[bowletta]

my thoughts on mario and luigi brothership!

(spoiler-free edition!)

(click here for the Major spoilers version)

I will sort my thoughts into 3 categories: the good, the bad, and misc (not necesarily good or bad just in the middle)

The Good:

+ the animation. I didn't think theyd be able to recreate the charm the sprite animation had, but they nailed it.

+ great job translating the 2d sprites to 3d models. This was one of my biggest concerns when the game was revealed, but as much as I miss the sprites... they did a good job. Love how they added the blue accents from sato's early m&l artwork.

+ the cutscenes look so good. Very charming

+ probably the best boss battles in the series. Every one (except the 3rd lighthouse one >: [ ) was the perfect balance of fun and difficulty without dragging on too long.

+ extremely fun combat (jump attacks, hammers)

+ the characters. I really really enjoyed the characters.. I wish they cut a few of them to give others more screentime, but I was surprised how attached I got to them

+ the extension corps. Early on i thought they were just a rehash of the bffs from bowser jr.s journey... but I feel that they executed it 100 times better. I wont spoil, but they have a good arc : )

The Bad:

- I think the #1 problem plaguing brothership is the pacing. It is atrocious. The first 5 hours are so boring. It really drags its feet to get anything interesting happening. The villains arnt introduced until nearly halfway through the game. Why.

What sucks is I feel like if you can get past the first ocean, it starts to get really good! But looking back at all the leakers quitting a few hours in... I cant blame them.

- adding onto this, bros moves and battle plugs. It takes 5 hours to get your first bro move. You are stuck with standard jump and hammer for the entire first ocean. As much as i like performing those moves, it got old fast. You get bros moves so far apart, and several of them are introduced so late I didnt bother trying to learn them.

I wish the battle plugs were introduced sooner as well, I think it wouldve helped make the early combat more interesting.

- game feels way too long and bloated.

- why do you select luigi's actions with 'A' in battle. Why is there no option to change it. I struggled with this and fumbled my attacks literally until the 4th ocean. Why.

- frame rate issues. Upon booting the game I thought 'oh this is rough'. But then I got used to it. But as you progress, and more people join your ship, it gets bad. By the end, shipshape island is a choppy powerpoint presentation. I could hear my switch's fan struggling from my couch lol.

- weakest soundtrack in the series. Its not even close. Theres like 5 tracks I like, but that doesnt make up for the other 40+ being so unremarkable, esp when its one of the franchise's highlights.

- timing when counterattacking enemies is wildly inconsistent. With some, the timing feels too generous (the flying flower enemies) and other times it feels frame perfect (lakitu)

Misc:

> Theres so many instances where I cant tell if its supposed to be a homage to older games or just copy pasted from them. Theres a character introduced very late who is very similar to another late game m&l character. The extension corps and the bffs. Etc.

> the timeline is kind of confusing... Like how long ago did concordia break up? How long did it take connie to grow the tree on shipshape? Like did this take place months ago or decades ago??

>them reusing peach and bowser voice clips from 15 years ago (bis) was very funny

final thoughts:

id give brothership like... a 7.5-8/10. Is it the new best mario rpg? Absolutely not lol. It has some serious issues but... I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I think it couldve used a few more years in the oven, but overall, it was cute. Definently a contender for the new generation's super paper mario.

1. superstar saga

2. bowser's inside story

3. brothership

4. partners in time/dream team

5. paper jam

[studentinpursuitofclouds]

Hi, Mousy! I heard your inbox is open again, hooray! :D

So......... Do you have any friendship thoughts between the Wizard and Linus? You know, in vanilla, those two are canonly friends or old friends, but SVE kind of dismissed that? Like, those two do not have any mentions of one another, so that is strange... (Unless I missed something...)

I believe that the two of them are really good friends! Linus is already considered strange by the villagers for deciding to live by himself in the wilderness, while the Wizard is, well, a wizard. Not many of the villagers refer to him as a 'wizard'; instead, they call him a 'strange man'... So, pretty much, both of them are 'strange' to the villagers, so they are friends because of that.

I don't know... I woke up to that idea, and I had to share my thoughts about it! I have many headcanons for the villagers that are still raw, hehe... Anyway, have a good day, Mousy! ^^

Heya Nim, glad to see you again here! 😊

We don't have any SVE events that show us Linus and Magnus' friendship, you're right (and there are no hints in the vanilla version either, except for one secret dialogue in Spirits Eve). But I definitely remember that while married to Magnus, he can tell the Farmer that if they overwork and faint again, "his good friend will bring them home", referring to Linus. And also the dialogue where Magnus says he'll "keep Linus company" at a festival, though I've already forgotten which one (probably Feast of the Winter Star). So there are a couple of dialogues, but they're really just literally a few.

So yeah, have some random headcanons about their friendship, and thanks for the ask 😊🫰💕

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Gathering mushrooms and berries together. It seems to me that both Magnus and Linus are usually always busy enough to make time for each other and relax as friends. But sooner or later the wizard runs out of ingredients for elixirs, and it's time for Linus to stock up on provisions for the winter. So they agree to meet in the forest in the early morning and start gathering the gifts of the forest, while sharing the latest news and simply enjoying each other's company.

They don't have to talk about anything to understand each other. It seems to me that both of them can just stand still and watch nature and enjoy each other's company without saying a word. If there was something urgent, they'd say it right away. And if not, they could just relax further, even if there was no topic of conversation. Magnus especially appreciates this quality in Linus, because sometimes you just want peace and quiet.

Tea party/picnic in nature. Wooden cups filled with herbal tea, salads of freshly plucked berries, snacks of mushrooms and cave carrots, sweet fruits.... A picnic/tea party for Wizard and Linus is a pretty rare opportunity, but if the opportunity arises, they are sure to use it. What could be more enjoyable than relaxing in nature with a friend and delicious food and drinks?

Linus will always warn if something is happening in the Valley while Magnus is away. Although our wild man doesn't conjure like the Wizard, he can sense other people's magic and the changes in the Stardew Valley itself. Perhaps he can even sense the subtle threads of dark magic that Magnus cannot see. And so, having a special pendant, which the wizard specially made for his friend, Linus can immediately warn of danger. Together they protect their home and its inhabitants, even if it is a thankless job.

[colourstreakgryffin]

Can I request gojo x child reader? Like fem reader and she's 16. Gojo's really overprotective of her and a bit clingy. And she suddenly starts dating megumi and he doesn't approve🙏🤗 (dad gojo)

No questions asked

Ommggg! I love this a lot! Dad! Gojo is on the same pillar as Dad! Douma

Father! Gojo Satoru

Satoru is a overprotective, loving and clingy father. He loves you more than he loves anything in this whole world, you’re his one and only love so he won’t let anything happen to you

So he can’t stand the idea of boys coming into the mix, they can hurt you and your heart. This is where the drama of you and Megumi’s secret crushes blooming into an relationship begun

Satoru never approves of it when you tell him about it. He has a close bond with Megumi himself and almost views the boy as his own child. He is the last one you should have picked, that doesn’t mean he would approve any boy

Satoru wants you to stay his cute little princess forever and he constantly babies you, even at your current teen age. His little Gojo, born with the vibrant multi-shaded blue eyes of Six Eyes, but can’t use them

Satoru is about ready to commit murder each and every time he catches you and Megumi on dates, from behind his back. His baby is growing up too fast for his liking and he is desperate to reverse it, he wants you to be a helpless waddling little 4-year-old again

Satoru isn’t against Megumi because he hates Megumi, he actually knows that the young Fushiguro is the right choice but he doesn’t want to lose you yet, his bubblegum-bubba. He remembers holding infant you in his arms like it was only yesterday

Satoru is 100% the type of parent to tell stories about baby/child you and show off your baby pictures to everybody who’ll listen. He is proud of how cute his daughter is and he doesn’t mind bragging:

“Faaaattthher” You whine annoyed, planting your head on the table as Satoru shuffled to sit at the table too, swiping a spare chair from nearby table without care. You felt so embarrassed as Megumi smiling nervously at you. “Good afternoon, angel” Satoru purred, smiling genuinely as his black shades hid the way his gorgeous galaxy-like blue eyes flared at Megumi. He actually didn’t mind the Fushiguro, in-fact, he was one of his most beloved students but that favouritism wasn’t enough to save Megumi from Satoru’s overprotective dad senses kicking in

Rather he be a good boy or not, Satoru wasn’t okay with his baby princess seeing anybody romantically behind his back, it actually hurt his feelings. You don’t trust him enough to tell him? Satoru shuffles forward, leaning onto his elbows as your head rose to lock gazes as your sky blue irises sparkled in sync of his becoming visible when the dark shades slide down the bridge of his nose

Could you and Satoru be anymore similar? Nanami called you a mini-version of him, with your snowy white hair and your matching cloudy blue eyes. You almost had no traits from your late mother, you had all the looks from your father that it made people wonder if Satoru is actually just both of your parents, that you had no mother and you just one day, popped into existence from Satoru’s cursed energy or some sorts

“So. What are you two doing?” He asks smoothly, tapping his thick fingers against the wood of the round polished table in a aimless beat as his eyes darted between your glittery pretty date dress and Megumi’s simple but sleek date suit, the way he held his hand over yours. He couldn’t believe that he didn’t notice you sneaking around behind his back sooner, going to eat and chat with one of his most prized pupils at some fancy restaurant

“We’re on a date, Sensei” Megumi bluntly responded, your head rose up just to look at him, you always found yourself admiring the looks at your boyfriend. Your cheeks flamed at the way his defined jaw moved and his smooth skin glowed whilst his sapphire blue eyes made your heart beat faster. Megumi didn’t see any reason to lie to your father and his teacher, even if he wanted to, in case it may save your butt from the older Gojo and his clinginess

You sighed, throwing your head in the direction of your father, who picked up the unused silver fork in front of you to pick out a forkful of the piping-hot spaghetti, he seemingly cared less for the steam flowing up as he stuffed the twirled pile of saucy noodles into his mouth whilst keeping his stern, powerful gaze on Megumi. He was here to crash this little date and talk to his daughter about what she has been doing without his permission or knowledge

Your father is such a immature brat for a nearly 40-year-old man with the title of the strongest sorcerer in the world. You huffed out in defeat as you picked up your handbag in a clean swipe, in which laid peacefully on the floor, besides your white heels, and strapped it over your chest as you snapped your fingers suddenly to draw back Satoru’s attention onto you. Apologising to Megumi, you stood up with both boys’ eyes following your every action

You have quite the talk to give to Satoru

[superluigiglitchy]

Triple Dose Timeline (canon is puddy in my hands)

here's an explanation on how exactly Meggy got fucked over by the universe 3 times

note: The following events replace the anime arc because everyone was to busy searching for Meggy that the anime challenge never happened

Meggy was kidnapped by a group of octarians (who were ordered to do so because DJ Octavia discovered Agent 3 had a sister and had a big brained idea to not only brainwash Callie but also her as well) and got brainwashed by a second pair of hypnoshades that Octavia made (though she didn't quite go down without a fight, Octavia can attest to that)

Agent 3 (Paige) was too busy on a separate mission to go looking for Meggy much to their frustration so Marie recruiting Harbor as Agent 4 came in clutch and also Mario coming along because of course he does which both makes things easier but also more complicated

However during the final battle around the time Marie and Sheldon came barging in the platform Meggy was on ended up collapsing and she fell into the abyss below much to Mario's and everyone else's horror

Fast forward a couple weeks and after hundreds of dead ends and countless sleepless nights, the NSS were finally able to find a lead to where Meggy ended up (and also got confirmation that she still lives thank god, Paige cried a lot at the news out of relief) and so Cuttlefish and Agent 3 are off without hesitation to search for Agent 3's sister in the Metro

Meanwhile Meggy has been Sanitised by Commander Tartar who found her unconscious in the subway, and is currently accompanying Cuttlefish, 8, Desti and The Octoposse who are all stuck in this medical nightmare hell hole because of course and all (well except cuttlefish) of them are missing their memories

Cuttlefish is really worried how 3 will react to their sister being well, green now and zombie like

However despite being sanitised, partially emotionless and amnesiac she is still technically Meggy so sparks still fly between her and Desti much to the others chagrin

At least it makes solving the puzzles easier (especially the 8 ball thank GOD)

The plot of octo expansion stays relatively the same albeit with more people and a more chaotic group chat

They all end up having to team up against a partially sanitised Paige who is somehow stronger than in canon which is terrifying, and it took everything to knock them out

When the boss fight with the giant statue and Tartar happens (who wants to blow up the world because it's gone insane and so has he from the meme energy) Meggy, Desti and the Octoposse jump in the assist 8 in inking the statue to high heaven

Sanitised Meggy is basically a watered down version of canon Meggy having her emotions and memories stripped from her, she still has the desire to win splatfest ofc but she doesn't quite have the drive that made her want her to, and this deeply scares Paige and Mario

A couple years have passed since the incident and Meggy is MOSTLY back to her old self, still a bit amnesiac and lacks the reaction speed for certain emotions but better now

Then she gets fuzzified by Mr. Grizz

Meggy started to work at Grizzco. Via the suggestion of Harbor because she felt self conscious about how she looks during turf wars now cause well she looks like a zombie and it went pretty well for about 3 years

Harbor did a total fuck up and Meggy not wanting him to get fired ended up taking the fall for him

unfortunately this ended up with Mr. Grizz fucking up her back a bit, kidnapping her and then getting fuzzified which FINE

and somewhere during that struggle Meggy ends up in the Splatlands an FAR from Grizzco. and ends up running into Andi and being found thankfully by Cuttlefish

unfortunately they all soon end up falling into Alterna but hey at least she reunited with the others!

splatoon 3 remains relatively the same albiet they know mr. grizz's plan to rid he world of sea life MUCH sooner

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

First of all, Happy birthday!

Second of all, this isn't an AU technically, but i been thinking of it for a good while.

You know how Na'vis can ive longer then Humans right?

I did some calculations, and na'vis life is like 200 normally meanwhile humans live for 80 years normally.

So I been thinking about, Spider living a full life, having a partner(human in this case) trough it and kids, and grandkids.

Then he dies, of crouse the Sully's and the Socorro's are devastated by it.

Spider dies when he's old, so meanwhile he kids and grandkids can "accept" it and go on with their life.

The Sully's are devasted (bonus if Spider doesn't appears when they connect to the tree).

They can't cope with that, with losing him so "young"

So out of pain, they slowly cut contacts with the family he formed. (Image the Sully's living in awa'tlu, and the Socorro's living in the forest).

This hurts the human family because they litteraly grew up calling Lo'ak, Kiri and Tuk "uncle" and "aunt" and their kids cousins.

But they respect the rapport and go on with their life.

In 200 years, there are (according to google) 8-9 generetions.

So they could have met again, during Mo'at funeral, when Spider's grandkids(3th generation) had grandkids (5th generation)

And even then, it was painful to do it, they just been cordial and all.

Also, a theory of mines, is that Humans during the years on Pandora evolved their lungs to naturally breath air.

So from generation 4 on, they breath air.

Jake dies, but before he died, he requested personally for Socorro's family to come the funeral.

They are invited to the funeral, everybody is confused on why, even Neytiri.

And i can't remove from my mind, the image of this teenager with his holding his toddler little sibling/cousin.

And when he comes into the Sully's marui, how everybody freezes because...damn

Apart from little difference (like: moles, lighter or darker skin, eye color) this 15 years old looks identical to Spider when he was that age.

It takes an hour for Kiri to start crying because of it, seriously, the way this teen acts, smiles, talks is so Spider.

Damn even Neytiri is emotional about it.

The four of them (Neytiri, Kiri, Lo'ak and Tuk) talk about the possibility of making the Socorro's family re enter their life.

But then, the family leaves again, goes back to the forest, to their life.

And the Sully's are their, knowing that they cant do anything about it, because in the end is their own doing that made this happen.

What do you think?

Thank you!! ❤️

Damn, I think that is suuuch a bittersweet concept.

I have been fully ignoring the idea of Spider dying so much sooner than everyone he knows, and in this story he would have a human family, which has always been a concept that's not my fav. This is one of the hugest reasons that I have to prefer an Eywa blessed or an Avatar Spider, because I can't stomach him dying so soon and even getting older and unable to move about his home like his friends and family can.

I do love the idea of the family being haunted by a younger version of Spider's relatives though, that's so sad and sweet and the start of a new era. I seriously can't imagine him having a human family though. Love love the idea of humans generationally evolving to breathe the air better though! I think that is absolutely likely.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

I'm curious - you think (most likely correctly) that the Cullens will have to go off the grid forever sooner or later, and also that the coven will eventually break apart due to their deepening personal issues, and also that Bella and Edward will break up spectacularly. What do you think this particular version of Bella would then do if she miraculously woke up as a human back in 2005, on the day before she told her mum that she wanted to move to Forks?

The Cullens are doomed to go off the grid and it will destroy them due to interpersonal drama.

Depends how exactly it happens, almost down to the minute detail, because ah that will inform who Bella can blame.

A Look at Bella

The last we see of Bella, she's a nineteen-year-old vampire who is, for lack of a better word, not that introspective or empathetic. Throughout the series, Bella has a difficult time to see things from others points of view.

What this means is that, at the end of canon, she supports Renesmee and Jacob's romantic relationship despite the very glaring red flags surrounding that entire mess, puts her daughter with super hearing in her and Edward's Marie Antoinette style sex cabin, is quite happy to have proven Rosalie wrong and become a marvelous vampire, and is quite happy to have considered herself reaching the peak part of life forever.

What I'm saying is that this isn't a girl inclined to deep analysis of her situation, those around her, and herself.

When things go wrong, Bella's not going to see this as due to miscommunication/interpersonal relationship issues that have always been there but are just now coming to a head, she's going to try to blame a) some event that's happened b) a person or group of people.

She's going to prefer not to blame herself as, unless things go very sideways, I don't see her taking an action that she would see as bringing about disaster.

Who Dunnit

Depends what happened.

First, we have the reason they had to go off the grid. Did Carlisle just decide it's time and the family agreed? In that case, Bella's going to feel more than a little ire at Carlisle and see him as the start of the madness (at least, depends what happens next).

Did Alice get caught for money laundering and fraud?

Did someone mess up and they couldn't cover it up? In that case Emmett, Alice, Esme, are likely to get the blame. (Bella herself is a contender, and in this case, she blames herself horribly and never quite recovers and probably implodes.)

Alright, they're now in the wilderness, if nothing else had changed Bella would be fine with this, mostly. She'd be very upset about the lack of money and things (as that's half of what being a Cullen is about) but she can still run around in Chanel so long as she's careful not to ruin it and she still has Edward and the Cullens.

However.

Who says Jacob can't come?

The family's going to sit down and tell Jacob that uh he's not going off the grid with them. Please, for the love of god, Jacob, live your own life. Bella will lose it at this.

Really, the whole family gets the blame, but the likely candidates for Bella's rage here are Rosalie and Carlisle. Carlisle as the patriarch could have put his foot down and had Jacob come (he didn't) and Rosalie is likely one of the most vocal opponents.

Bella will be convinced they're trying to destroy Renesmee's life as they're separating her from her wolf.

This will cause ah much family drama and likely Bella trying to run off to meet her paramour er her daughter's paramour er her daughter's best friend who may or may not end up her lover at an age appropriate time.

Edward will either enable this and try to keep it on the sly to keep Bella happy or else try to stop it so as to keep the family happy. It's likely the former, as if he can keep it from the family, then everyone's happy.

This alone could cause the family implosion and is in the... top ten reasons things would go to hell really. They could avoid this but... it's a very likely candidate.

Our other option is Edward grows tired of Bella in close contact with no distractions. Now, he has no one to cheat with (no smelly humans of appropriate character or Tanya) but that doesn't mean he won't start chafing (especially if Bella's imploding over Jacob, which is 100% happening).

Now, Bella's going to implode further, as Edward's unhappy and she knows it. However, having been in this rodeo, she'll try to tell herself that Edward's trying to protect her again. He has his reasons for treating her this way and it's not true. Eventually, though, she'll conclude that he's gotten bored with her, she'll blame the lifestyle change.

Edward was in love with Bella Cullen, the vampire living her best life in beautiful outfits and a perfect member of his family. He's not in love with a Bella who is a blubbering mess living in a cave.

But none of this answers your question.

Rise and Shine, Campers, Because it's Cold Out There

Bella wakes up and it's 2004 (as Bella moved in early January of 2005). She wakes up in Phoenix Arizona, she's human again, and her mother is married to Phil and pining after him as he's away.

For a good while, at least a day, Bella's a zombie. She just had the most wonderful dream, in which she had the perfect husband, was a mother, the greatest best friend, and the mostly greatest family. She was beautiful, wealthy, graceful and athletic, interesting, important, and intelligent.

Bella's very quick to conclude that it was all a dream.

Because how could any of that have actually happened to her?

Renee notices Bella's acting more depressed than usual but isn't sure what to say about it. It goes unremarked upon.

Bella then realizes that she's faced with the same choice originally. She can stay and make her mother miserable or she can go to Forks again, the date of her original departure growing ever closer.

She doesn't want to go and see that Forks is just like the meadow was: a meaningless place without Edward in it.

However, she can't remain here and ruin her mother's life either.

She must go and confront the truth, let this rest once and for all.

She gets there and HOLY GOD, IT'S EDWARD.

Bella's suddenly hit with every emotion. Profound relief and joy at seeing the Cullens unchanged as always (she's crying at the sight of them, Edward thinks she's a freak), confusion over what's happening and how this even occurred, and then horror that somehow it all got messed up.

Bella doesn't pay much attention to Edward nearly eating her in Biology (she knows he won't do it, after all) and instead tries to figure out what happened and what needs to change.

Well, the way she sees it, most of the real problems came down the road in the form of Google making it impossible to cover up fraud, murder, Dr. Cullen's history as a medical professional, pick your poison.

There's not much Bella can do about that, as much as she doesn't like it.

There was also the Volturi problem, but that's easily solved enough. If Bella never jumps off a cliff, and Alice doesn't think she's dead, then Edward would never go there to kill himself. None of that, of course, would have happened if they'd never broken up in the first place which Edward admitted was a huge mistake.

Similarly with the baseball game, if Bella doesn't go that day, then she never runs into James, he's never killed by the Cullens, and Victoria doesn't swear vengeance and create her newborn army.

(Wow, Bella's on a roll!)

It does not occur to Bella that a) James could still cause problems if he fixated on Alice again which was entirely possible (albeit not likely) b) Edward would very likely still dump her as he was convinced it was the best outcome for her c) Jacob would likely not shift without Victoria's rampage meaning that he would not remain in her life or imprint on Renesmee and become effectively immortal.

Bella continues to think about what went wrong and, again, likely blames some combination of Rosalie and Carlisle. If she can just get Rosalie to calm down about Jacob after Renesmee's born and the Cullens to not have to leave society so early then everything will be perfect!

Otherwise she'll fix all the other little things that went wrong and start dating Edward as soon as possible and not waste those early months of trying to figure out what he is.

Next time Edward shows up, she confesses she knows he's a vampire, she's his future wife (who he impregnated and turned into a vampire), she knows the Cullens are vampires, and Edward doesn't know it yet but they're already deeply in love.

... And, as Edward has been privately looking for an excuse to kill her, likely ah uses this as the temptation proves too strong/he's too alarmed at everything she's saying. Edward murders Bella Swan and the Cullens have to leave town.

[reuska]

How things I make for my HC end up being in Genshin

I will share with you a matter of great pride for me ♥ I've wanted to write a post like this for quite some time but there was never enough time.

Some of you might be familiar with my Genshin OC Hette (eventually known also as Vesna and Silver). I created her sometime during Year 1 of Genshin and her story started and was meant to remain in Mondstadt first. But as my preferences changed (the interaction target moved from Diluc to Zhongli), her story just naturally, in small chunks, progressed from Mond to Liyue. I didn't rewrite it, I simply continued. It was incredibly fun to watch as I had no idea how far her story would actually go.

But the probably most amusing thing on this journey was watching, how things I made for Hette and her story, with no or very vague base in the lore at THAT time, ended up happening or being verified by the game not so long after. Some of them visual, some in worldbuilding and some ABSURDLY and unbelievably accurately happened in the story. My biggest trophy is that I basically came up with whole Furina's story concept long before Fontaine aired. If you're interested, just keep reading ♥

Hette's green patterns

The first thing that comes to my mind are the green patterns (and palette) on Hette's scarf and coat-thingy. We didn't even have Inazuma when I created them. What I had in mind was that she used to study botanics in Sumeru and I wanted it so seem somewhat oriental. Well, as things have it, when we got the Sumeru academia, we learned that all students wear berets with lining color specific to their darshan. Here's the beret for the Amurta darshan which would naturally include Hette's botanics studies:

It just seriously looks like she just loyally wears an Amurta scarf. Thanks, lore ♥

2. Outfit

Speaking of clothes, let's focus on the outfit as a whole. When Genshin first teased Collei's outfit, it instantly became one of my fav designs in Genshin. And there was no wonder, I CLEARLY have a type. Just look at the similarity and placement of design elements (even the ombre on tights xD). Hette was created roughly one year prior Collei's first reveal - outfit-wise, with no basis for future Sumeru visuals. I wanted to combine her being from Mondstadt with influence from her studies in Sumeru. Well, and as coincidence has it, Collei is from Sumeru, influenced by Mondstadt. Same design concept.

3. Silver's palette

Since we're at visuals now, I will go fast forward to Silver. If Hette is a Bulbasaur, Silver is Venusaur. She's a sword user with affiliation for Dendro.

Now if you think she looks like fem version of Alhaitham, with his secondary blue color substitued with her magenta, you're not wrong. She totally does. Only I designed her sometime in March/April 2022 while the first leaks of Haitham's didn't come sooner than July of the same year.

4. Time and leylines

When I started with Hette's story, I made few blind reaches with the worldbuilding. I wanted her to communicate with slimes, I decided it was plausible for the slimes to reside in leylines and as such her ability needed to use leylines in a deeper sense than your regular catalyst mage. She's not OP but she has this niche ability to reach into leylines. After the moonchase festival, I yolo decided I wanted to send her back in time to meet the adepti of old (also would give her the much needed knowledge of Morax). There was no known time travel nor time relativity in Genshin by then so this was the most baseless move I ever did with my lore. I used her leyline ability to make the accidental time travel - she would drop back in time when using her ability near leyline disorder. Meaning I decided to connect Genshin time with Leylines.

The next Genshin update gave us Raiden's second story quest which confirmed both time relativity and its connection to leylines. Pretty wow moment for me.

5. Zhongli pulling his fav peeps from different spaces

This one is still insanely riddiculous to me. So you know how Hette involuntarilly traveled back in time. Long story short, MANY things happened there but eventually she got sucked in the time stream again and had the choice to attempt to move back to her original time. And she did just that. However, when she reached the moment she believed lead to her OG time, she lacked the ability to crack from the leyline space back to the normal one. However, dendro slimes see her there and they manage to call Zhongli to help. That's where I made another completely baseless move and had him pull Hette out of the leyline space using his powers.

What happened two updates after I estabilished this fact? Yes, this.

Different space? Checked. Zhongli pulling someone out? Checked. HOW THE HELL???

6. THE WHOLE FURINA THING

You think this is crazy coincidence? Weeeelll, wait till you hear this one. When Hette's back in the early Archon War era, she has her Vision still with her, in time of no Visions. In another baseless move, I decided that her Vision would thus have strongly amplified powers, almost akin to a Gnosis. This eventually leads to her being mistaken for a god. Trying to not bring attention to her time travel (to not change anything), she has to roll with this claim. She ends up being part of the adepti but she doesn't engage with them in fear of being revealed. Meanwhile common people revere her so there is this invisible wall between her and others, she's lonely and this act is extremely painful for her. She's not aging at this point because the dendro is so strong with her it just keeps instantly correcting her. And she has no idea how long she'll have to keep it up.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR???

Zhongli, who got to meet her in the future(Hette's original time) had no idea about this connection between her and the weird god who used to fight alongside them for a brief time in the past. He figures out this connection when he realizes Hette was sucked in by the Leylines. So you have this god figure learning that a mere mortal was forced to play a god role in a lonely selfless act and said god figure is pained by that realization.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR??????

(And yes, I estabilished this headcanon over a year before Fontaine came).

For the record, Furina had it worse. She was truly alone. In Hette's case (or Vesna's, that's the name she went by back then), she had the luck of Marchosius being too people-person (bear) and too nosy. He eventually got her to spill the beans and confide in him. Ever since then, he kept mentoring her in a way, looking out for her and providing moral support. Which is the only reason she didn't go insane.

7. One more outfit thingy

So we estabilished Hette traveled there and back again in time, after which she becomes who I call Silver. An identity she estabilishes because she feels her Hette self is dead and doesn't want to have anything to do with her Vesna self. But a lot of leyline stuff happened, right.

When I was designing her outfit, I wanted to put a pattern on her gray sleeves. I chose hollow circles with dots because this has been one of my fav designs for a looong time, there was no real underlying thought for it. And as far as I knew, it had never been used in Genshin in any way (and they have a lot of symbols there).

Well, guess where the hollow circle with a dot appeared for the first time in Genshin? If it isn't Irminsul, aka the tree which's roots are the FRICKING LEYLINES which Hette can enter...?

For the record, I later realized Paimon has something a little similar - a big star and half a circle around it in a constellation on her cape. But Paimon is widely theorized to be affiliated with time. Time is somehow connected to the leylines so the funny coincidence still stands.

[racfoam]

Can I have like a talk between voldemort and his future child with Harriet whether it's a boy or girl pls pls pls

You all really want spoilers... -.-

But who am I to deny! :D

I still don’t have any names, but here you go, anon

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Lord Voldemort was usually a master of hide and seek. However, he was starting to worry he lost his seven-year-old daughter and that if he did not locate her soon, his daughter would find trouble sooner or later. She was his daughter, after all.

Do not let the adorable face fool you. His daughter has the makings of a great witch with how cunning she was. Usually, he was proud of her for it, but today, he was not very amused.

He looked everywhere in the house, which meant the little princess had most probably jumped out the window — because he did not hear the door open and close when he counted to ten — and fled into the garden full of flowers. It was its own small forest, the garden Harriet grew and planted.

“Papa!” yelled a tiny, young voice, and Voldemort immediately drew his wand upon the urgency in his daughter's voice, “Help!”

Voldemort found the seven-year-old girl squatted beside a bush, hissing quietly. Upon closer inspection, Voldemort noted she was speaking to a small hognose snake. The snake was injured, its tail was missing. It was coiled in on itself, its head raised, its jaw open, hissing at his daughter, glaring at her, all its scales rising up.

“It won't let me help it,” said the girl, scowling in a very similar way to how Voldemort used to in his youth. The resemblance was rather uncanny to him. “It keeps snapping at me.”

“It’s injured, so it thinks you’re a predator. You’re very big and it is very small. It’s gone onto the defensive.” said Voldemort.

The girl’s lips pressed together, her dark eyes sparkling with tears. Now, his daughter looked exactly like a tiny version of Harriet, ready to cry.

“I can heal it from here,” said Voldemort. His daughter's dark eyes lit up hopefully. “If you keep its attention on you. If it senses another presence, it will flee and bleed out.”

His daughter lit up, grinning. She nodded, determined. She squatted back down while Voldemort moved away, to the side, to sneak up on the snake’s side. His daughter did as told, talking to the snake, keeping its attention on her.

Close enough at last, Voldemort cast the healing charm on the serpent. Its tail regrew on its own, the wound closing completely. The snake startled, then looked down upon its tail.

Voldemort paced back to his daughter.

“What happened to you?” hissed Voldemort softly.

“It wasss my humans...” the snake replied; its voice sounded young, more feminine than male. It was clear it was a female hatchling. “They threw me out of the box... And then a flying creature took my tail...”

His daughter frowned. She turned to Voldemort, clearly confused by the idea someone would throw a snake away.

“Why did they throw her away?” she asked.

“Most people don't understand snakes.” said Voldemort.

“But not us,” his daughter hissed softly, her dark eyes staring back calmly at his. She gave Voldemort a toothy smile.

Voldemort smiled.

“Not us.” he agreed softly, watching as the hognose curled atop his daughter's palm, apparently happy to stay there for a while.

This time, when his daughter gently encouraged the snake, the little one slithered right around her extended hand, settling itself on her palm. She had gained her trust.

As Voldemort watched the small hognose wrap itself around his daughter’s tiny fingers, he could not help but be reminded of a moment he shared with Harry.

“I once showed your mother a hognose snake,” said Voldemort. “It was white, with red eyes.”

“Like papa!” his daughter chirped, smiling. “What did mummy say when papa showed it?”

“She said: ‘How can't you love such an adorable face?’”

His daughter giggled, a sweet sound. “Mummy called papa adorable.”

“It was the snake she called endearing,” said Voldemort.

“No,” said his daughter without hesitation, eyes full of conviction. She looked very serious. “Mummy called papa adorable.”

Voldemort felt a smile curl his lips. He had not been paying much attention in that moment, staring at Harry's face and smile instead.

“I suppose she did," he said, delighted by the realization.

“Can we keep her?” his daughter asked, turning pleading eyes to Voldemort. It was a look he could never say no to.

Voldemort eyes the hognose. “Ask her first.”

“Do you want to stay with us?” his daughter asked the snake. “We have lots of snakes, and we all speak. And Nagini will take care of you.”

The light brown hognose looked with its dark eyes from Voldemort to his daughter. Then, she gave a single nod of her head, inclining her head downward.

His daughter beamed.

“Yes! Thanks, papa!” she yelled happily, and hugged Voldemort around the legs. His skeletal arms reached down, wrapping around the small girl, holding her close.

“I’m gonna show it to mummy!” said the girl, letting go of Voldemort.

Without wasting a second, the black-haired girl dashed back toward the house, yelling. “Mummy! Papa and I saved a hognose and it's staying with us now!”

Voldemort watched the girl go with a fond smile, then set down the garden path toward the house too, just as Harry opened the doors.

“Another!” yelled Harry cheerfully, hugging their daughter, lifting her up into her arms. Voldemort’s heart soared at the sight of mother and daughte. His stomach fluttered, like a duel was happening inside it.

“What’re you gonna name it?” asked Harry curiously.

“Athena!” declared their daughter. “Cus she fought off the bird like Athena!”

Harry laughed. To Voldemort, it was the most wonderful sound in the world.

Their daughter may have his eyes and the same hair colour he used to have, but her smile was Harry’s.

Voldemort reached his soulmate, nuzzled her head, winding his arms around her. Harry chuckled.

“What’re you grinning about?” she asked.

His red eyes glew. “Do you remember when I showed you that hognose?”

Harry blushed. Her green eyes shifted from his eyes and strayed across his face. She was nervous. Voldemort purred.

“You called me adorable,” he whispered against her ear, delighting in her shiver.

Before Harry could say anything — by the beetroot colour of her face, Voldemort was right — Voldemort lifted her chin with his fingers, cradling her face softly, and kissed her.

“Ewww!” said their daughter, reaching her fingers down to cover the hognose’s eyes, too.

With Harry's lips on his, Voldemort barely cared.

[manonamora-if]

December Check-In

I promise I didn't almost forget :P Even if I definitely forgot to do the weekly devlog last Sunday... To be fair, it had been a week...

Recap of last month’s progress

IF Events in the Next Month

Plan for the next month

Still long post ahead. If you want a mini version, head over to itch.io!

November Progress

Still play more IF and maybe review. ✅

Finish the edits of Harcourt Ch5 ✅❌

Fix one of the semi-completed games: ❌either the Egg parser or TRNT (and make it a proper parser)

Finish that darn SugarCube Guide: ❌there aren’t much left in the guide to cover, but there are a few things to fix.

Again, I knocked the first one out of the park. I reviewed all inkJam, EctoComp, and Bare-Bones Jam entries (which helped me get on the main page of the IFDB). It was nice to play shorter games again - it makes reviewing pretty quick... Now that the IFComp is also over, I kind of want to go back and check out the entries I didn't manage to play.

As for the rest... It's been a bit of a hell of a month, and it's not looking like it's ending any time soon. Still, when I had some free time I managed to:

Finish my portion of the edits of Harcourt (and MelS was almost done with it... before he ran into computer problems - dw the file is safe!)

Assess the damage with The Roads Not Taken and come up with a plan to fix all of it. I also started on this one, but there is truly a lot of damage.

Make a bite game in binksi, Tower of Sleep, for the Two-Button Jam

Make a One-Button prototype, Don't press the Button, to test some JavaScript/jQuery (half-failure)

Make a zine for the first time: An Ode to Pissaladière

Make a new code template: the Character Creator

Submitted a bunch of seeds to the SeedComp!

Does it look like I got distracted by a shiny new thing instead of finishing my projects? Yes. Do I care? Nope. It brought me some joy and amusement in some weird months... Banging your head against the desk because code is not working is... not, obviously.

What’s happening in December?

A bunch of jams are happening on itch, because end of year means maybe some free time, and also, you might as well do something for the sake of saying you've made something.

The ShuffleComp (@neointeractives) has started, though the entries won't be available before January. You can listen to the kickass full playlist in the meantime!

The Sprouting Round of the SeedComp! (@seedcomp-if) has just started. There are 99 new seeds available for use to make a game! Deadline is March 1st.

The Deck-Month has just started, to make a game with Decker.

The PunyJam #4 ends in about 2 weeks (if you have the time to learn Inform w/ the Puny extension...)

and of course: la Partim 500 numéro 8, for those who want to do the Neo Twiny again... but French!

I'm probably gonna pop-off a Partim. I did it last year and it was fun :P

The PLANtm for December

December is a busy month for me, which includes a lot of time offline, full days travelling, and lots of planning. So I will take any free time I have and do fun stuff if I can!

But if I have space for IF, I'd like to:

Play more games! Well... I already am, just not really IF. My Steam Library is crying for attention. I would like to knock down maybe a dozen more IFComp entries if I can. There were a lot of good games, a lot of loooong games.

Code Ch5 of Harcourt. That will be MelS dependent - well, MelS's computer dependent...

Finish fixing The Roads Not Taken. I have a plan, I have the notes... I just need to sit down and re-code (and re-test).

Finish the Guide for real! I know SugarCube 2.37 is coming soon, which will affect the state of some pages (and maybe require more pages). BUT I've been working on fixing old pages (typos - re-explanation - clearer examples). So, this is likely to be done sooner rather than later...

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Taking the list of TO-DO from August…

To-Do not require much of new stuff:

translate Escape Goncharov! into French. ✅

fix the bugs in EDOC + overall the French version to match

fix the bugs of TRNT + find a way to add the missing pieces (ongoing - translation unlikely)

fix the formatting of DOL-OS + translate into English ✅

update LPM with the missing content + translate into English ✅

No change this month :/

The rest of the To-Do pile was:

Finish The Rye in the Dark City (and maybe translate?)

Finish P-Rix - Space Trucker (and try to translate)

Finish Exquisite Cadaver (translation unlikely, current gameplay too complex to port for French)

Add a chapter to CRWL + fix/reopen the blog

Re-working TTTT to its originally planned state (lol, not likety)

Re-working SPS Iron Hammer (samesies)

Coding TTATEH (MelS dependent - shooting for end of year)

Emptying my inboxes (they are not all answered tho)

Honestly, this pile probably won’t get done this year…. Maybe TTATEH has a shot...