#and why the FUCK does that machine have a creepy face

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THIS STILL BOTHERS MEEEEEEE. WHOS SOUL IS THAT.

[kneelingshadowsalome]

i love your works and your toxic könig so much 😭 for some reason in my head könig was always like a puppy in love even outside of aus but i like to imagine him like this sometimes.

basically if he feels abandoned bc you were busy with something else (literally taking a shower for like 10 minutes or not looking at him while he was talking) he will start crying and needs you to kiss him a bunch of times and tell him he's your favourite boy baby husband man boyfriend sweetheart for like an hour lol. he literally can't stand it if he can't touch you or talk to you for long periods of time (let's say the reader is a civilian and könig often has missions he has to leave for). he literally goes insane and keeps rereading those screenshots of loving messages from you he has an entire folder on his phone for, literally he convinced himself that you've already left him for someone else and is now going to be crying himself to sleep.

when he does return he's literally scared, so it feels like you attached him to yourself physically and that's why he never leaves your side. always holding hands, könig always being there even if your have to move around the house a lot or do the most mundane tasks even if he himself has chores or things he needs to do. kind of creepy bc he's just silent but feels like he'll die if you disappear from his line of sight for more than two seconds.

even aside from that listening to you talk fondly of someone, anyone really: a friend (if he lets you have them), a random cashier (if he wasn't there with you to talk to them instead of you), a relative (if he even allows you to talk to your family) he's so!!! like hurt and upset and goes quiet for long periods of time.

like eyes red from crying, nose stuffed and he's like "i'm fine nothing is wrong" then goes back to crying somewhere more private.

and this kind of behaviour makes sex kind of uncomfortable Sometimes. he often needs you to repeat that you're his, only his, you can't look away from him, you HAVE to be holding his hand when he fucks you but somehow it's a 50/50 when it comes to power dynamics.

either he manhandles you and shows you that he's the only man, the only person you could ever need or love and that he won't ever let you leave him; or he's completely subby, like "please hold my face and kiss me while you're riding me for as long as you want, i'm only yours and i wanna show that" kind of way.

i am insane basically thank you for coming to my ted talk.

This was one of the best Ted talks I've ever been to! I loved every word, every second of it!! 🥳🥹 My god, I want more... I need me some encore now.

I love subby König, holy Christ. And tbh... what's beneath the toxic, crazy killing machine König is someone who is horribly, and I mean HORRIBLY love-deprived and touch-starved and super duper insecure. Which means there's bound to be some subby behavior leaking through toxic König too!

König would so need to have you on his sights at all times. And when he's working, it's annoying because... he loves his work but now he's just thinking about you. What are you doing at this very moment..? Have you talked to someone today? A friend, a colleague, a family member? A stranger??

Do you sleep ok without him (because he doesn't, he just tosses and turns in his bunk/cot/the ground all night when you're not there), and why haven't you sent a text today? He's gonna call you as soon as he gets somewhere more private.

The longer the mission lasts, the more sullen and broody he gets. After a few days, he kills his enemies with a thousand yard stare only because they're basically what's between him and his squeeze.

And yes he has to touch you like a thousand times a day or just watch your every move when he finally gets home. If you're in the bathroom too long he comes to knock on the door and ask if everything's alright (you ran there to have a moment's peace from this big cuddly behemoth who looks at you with that creepy batless obsessive stare... frankly it's disturbing)

And oh my god stop – holding hands during sex? Oh my god. Imagine him bordering on being rough (because he's *missed* you goddammit 👿) while wanting to entwine your fingers together✨️. Toxic König is a huge romantic, even if the "romantic" things he does are a bit... questionable. And he wouldn't shut up during the first round after he got home!

"Say that you missed me,"

"Tell me you're mine... Say it. Now,"

"You're always teasing me,"

would be some of the things he'd say during pounding you to his heart's content. (And you wouldn't even know how you've "teased" him this time... Like... He's the one who left for a week long mission...? 🤨)

After sex he would be so much gentler, but no less demanding and whiny. He needs so much validation and gets odd and grumpy if you don't give him some. If you'd try to domme him though, he would become even more unbearable (being a sub is this man's secret fantasy but he doesn't even know it himself).

[dontfuckingbother]

Overanalyze helluva trailer with me:

i.m.p. has to get out of hell (or hide) that's why they move their job to earth (maybe?)

GHOSTBUSTERS MODE ON

why is blitzo waving a vibrator at millie will always be a question

why is fizzy waving a GIANT DICK WILL BE A QUESTION EVEN IF A KNOW A CONTEXT. and we can see wings jewelery in the background??? hmmmmm

dhorks and cherubs work together, not much of a surprise there

Stolas finally gave the crystal to blitzo

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT WAR MACHINE DHORKS CAME UP WITH IT LOOKED LIKE THAT SHIT FROM BIG 6

goetia family reunion WE NEED TO SEE PAIMON HE'S SO GOOD AT DADDYING

"this transactional thing we have, it's not right anymore, it hasn't been (Stolas VA, sit on my face)"

why is blitzo holding an XXL yankee candle will always be a question

traumatised owl(s)

OKAY WE HAVE MAMMON WHICH GIVES ME HOPE WE'LL SEE MORE OFF ASMODEUS AND FIZZMODEUS PLEASE PLEASE PLEAK PLEAK

"i just want someone to care, i want someone to want... ME!" (i want you stolas, don't worry baby, i will make it better shhhhh)

"YOU FUCKS THINK YOU CAN DO THIS EEVERYYYY TIMEEEEE like you can just PLAY WITH OUR FEELINGS BECAUSE WE'RE SMALLER AND NOT AS IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!"

BLITZ UGLY CRYING (IN HIS MOTHERS ARMS???)

Stolas and Blitzo fight (first neilg gaiman, now vivzo, my death note does have page limit you know!!!!!)

I live for Stola's sarcastic bow to blitz

If I had a nickle every time i saw blitzo ugly crying on his red couch i'd have three nickles which is not much but it's weird it happened thrice

"YOU'RE A DISGRACE'" IS THAT YOU PAIMON MY PAIMON SENSES ARE TINGLING. Is it about him finding out he slept with an imp? Or him being gay in general? Or him divorcing Stella?

Millie having a beef with Blitzo, now that's unexpected

FIZZY AND BLITZO WORKING TOGETHER???? Also why are they standing next to a big heart-mirror-machiney thingy??

"YOU NEVER LOVED MOTHER, AND YOU DON'T LOVE ME, YOU ONLY LOVE HIM"

those are the most beautiful and haunting words i've heard in a while

"I DESTROY EVERYTHING I MAKE EVERYONE'S LIVES WORSE"

Fizzy's rehabilitation period!!!!! Another puzzle! Blitzo's father was with him at the hospital!

BLITZO WHY DID YOU JUST CRUSH MILLIE'S HEAD UP A WALL

"i don't wanna be this way... not forever"( NOT HIM IMAGINING STOLAS WHILE SAYING THAT)

"Thank you Blitz. For making me... SO happy. Even for only a little while" I am not well

Stolas singing on a stage with Verosika and Tex????

WHY DID STOLAS STROKE THIS ROSE LIKE THAT SIR???? SIR????

no fucking way we'll be getting two episodes now, and the other three after fucking october, i will fucking AGHHHHHHHHHHH AIHFIUHAKUSHKDJHAKJSHDKJHAKJHDAKJ

Let's overanalize the names of the episodes:

The full mood - the big party at goetia because of the full moon? Is this the episode when stolas and blitzo break apart??? who knows, i dont

Apology tour - is this the episode with Verosika? Please let Stolas go wild on that stage

Ghostfuckers - okay so in this episode they go work as ghostbusters in that creepy hotel or whatever

Mastermind - big climac with dhorks and cherubs plz

Sinman - Please let it not be a stupid fucking christmas episode, but a full ass redeption arch for blitzo and him reuniting with stolas, if it'll be a fucking cliffhanger like season 1 of OFMD i will fucking i dont know what set myself on fire, thats what will fucking happen fucking god FUUUUUUUCK i swear like a fucking sailor

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[phantom-of-the-501st]

And we're back!

Initial thoughts on TBB S3 Eps 1-3

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT

3x1 Confined

Final season premiere let's go!!!

Storms are never a good sign

There's creepy shit on Tantiss (crocodile thing from the trailer maybe?)

Although Hemlock counts as creepy enough

He's the creepiest thing on the whole planet 😬

Tbf there's a stunning view, it's just a shame about the prison window blocking it

CROSS IS BACK!!!

Omega blood sample? That's gotta come back later in the season!

Are these blood samples labelled? How tf does anyone know which is which??? That's just bad lab practice 🙄

Oh the weird machine knows. Nvm

"Replicate the genetic M count" and they want Omega's blood???

Nala Se is protecting Megs. Slenderbitch may actually be of some use

Force senstive Megs?

This feels like this is linking with the cloning plot in The Mandalorian

The animal welfare standards here are abysmal 😠

BATCHER?! Oh that's adorable 😍

And I thought Omegas's room was bad holy shit 😭

The grid across Cross' room is casting a crosshair on Omega's face. I love little details like that

21 tallies on wall = 21 rotations? That doesn't seem like very long

STRAW LULA?! 😭❤️

Why are there blood drips going into each sample? This seems like a contamination issue

At least 150 tallies now 😭

Subject will be terminated if they don't heal. Feels very much like the clones when they were on Kamino, which just shows how much the clones were treated like animals

"I belong here" *sobs*

Cross don't make me cry istg. I can't do this at 8am on a Wednesday 😭

Okay but the droid kind of had a point about Batcher struggling in the wild because of Omega domesticating her. One thing you learn about working in a zoo environment is that hand-reared animals have no idea how to behave like their wild counterparts and basically turn into little psychos (like you can't actually be in the same room as some of them levels of bad). That or they rely on people too much and have no idea how to fend for themselves. Either way, the droid wasn't entirely wrong

Hemlock is a bastard 😒

Omega's theme!!!

Season premiere and only two Batcher (neither of whom are Hunt or Wreck). Interesting!

1x2 Paths Unknown

Fucking Roland Durand?!

Did not expect that in episode 2 omg!

Hunter and Wrecker being mercenaries for the Durands?

Ah okay it seems to be a one off

THE GOGGLES IN THE SHIP! 😭😭😭😭

Hunt and Wreck be looking a bit scuffed

Echo and Rex mention!

They won't be available for 2 rotations? Well we're not seeing them this episode then...

Hunter's emotions are making him impulsive and that's not really a good thing

Wrecker is actually the one holding back, which is an interesting dynamic. Wrecker can see how bad Hunter is coping and is probably having to keep him in line as much as he can so that they don't lose another brother

CLONE CADETS! CLONE CADETS!

These ones actually have New Zealand accents as well

The slither vines were genetically made and got out of hand? This is what we mean by invasive species, people. Very much not good

Okay so we have one called Box and one called Stak

Are the cadets not affected by the chips? Do they only active in fully trained soldiers?

We need to get these kids to Echo and Rex

GONKY BACKPACK!!! 😆

Poor Gonky is stuck upside down.

These vines are making vocalisations somehow and it's confusing me. Plant voice boxes?

OKAY WTF ARE THOSE THINGS???

They look like weird green versions of the slogs from Abe's Oddysee

Why are you breaking into the Marauder???

You better not be stealing it. That's already happened and we can't do it again

Okay clone cadet 3 is Deke

Ayyyy rescue time!

Okay, I'll let them off for getting on the ship

Because we totally needed a swampy sarlacc thing rn 😭

PABU!!!

*Remembers invasion of Pabu in trailer* FUCK

1x3 Shadows of Tantiss

I'm going to throw hands if Echo isn't in this episode 😤

Ooh mystery clone(?) who everyone thinks is Tech!

Nala Se is helping again 👀

The special guest is probs Palpatine

Le Palps is back

Project Necromancer - bringing back the dead?

So is this to do with the cloning stuff or something to do with Tech?

Probs the cloning thing tbf

*Angry mouse droid squeaks*

FUCK YEAH CROSS!

Missed watching this guy fight

Cross and Omega team up let's go!!!

Cross doesn't question why Omega only mentioned Wrecker and Hunter. Has Omega told him about Tech or did he just not question why she only brought two up?

And in that case has she told him that Echo is with Rex?

I HAVE QUESTIONS!

Cross went for the stun not the kill. Very different from 2x3

Do you think Hemlock has a scar or does he just choose to shave a slit in his eyebrow? 🤨

Oh great a big green monkey cat. Just what we need!

"Of course he did". CROSSHAIR BEING SOFT ABOUT TECH HELP

Cross is missing shots because of his shaky hands :(

OMEGA M COUNT???

Oooooooh they're adding blood with midichlorians in to the samples to see if they would take. That explains the blood being added to the samples

Overall I love these episodes! It's nice going back and forth between Cross and Omega, and Hunter and Wrecker. We're going to get some interesting dynamics

This is a very sad day for Echo stans though. I feel like we're going to be suffering a lot this season 🥲

And here's the bingo card as of rn!

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s4 episode 22 thoughts

i watched this episode last night and wasn't sure how i felt beyond Sad, so i figured sleeping on it would help. but it didn't. the main flavors of this episode were Sad and Ableism. join me for this ride.

now. after the utter ROLLERCOASTER that was last episode, i haven’t a clue what to expect today. but i hope it’s good. because i want it to be good. i want to be at the edge of my seat again. but this time, with more scully.

but also if they were going to go camping and sit around a fire and tell spooky stories, i would also be entirely content with that. actually that episode would cross into my top 15 for sure. so really it can go either way.

hmm… allow us to read the episode description. it kind of sounds like another monster of the week situation and not at all a continuation of the last episode. so i will go into that expecting it. but i swear i’ve heard this episode title mentioned before, which usually indicates it’s either beloved or beloathed. let’s find out which!

(is it a fan fave or hated by the masses? i couldn't tell! you tell me!)

(and oh god... the episode title... after knowing what happens in it... pain. everywhere)

we open with bowling!!! a fine activity when you’re in good company. but given that this is taking place in the opening part of the show, i figure some sort of grisly murder will go down.

this guy (later revealed to be named mr. pintero) is collecting beers and sodas while creepy music plays. another fellow (harold) is organizing the rack of bowling shoes. harold is not done yet, but boss tells him to go home. it is clear that having the shoes unorganized is making harold unhappy. 

but one of the pin machines (i had to look it up- it's called a pinsetter! i really do learn so much here) is going off!! despite no prompting!!! and a ball comes back… covered in BLOOD????

BOWLING MACHINE MURDER???

one of the pins is dripping blood too… so pintero goes down to investigate inside the pinsetter

WHAT THE FUCK THERE’S A GIRL IN THERE??????????????

pintero is trying to get help as ghostly girl hangs about inside the pinsetter. he runs outside to find a cop and he sees a girl on the side of the road bleeding from her neck!!!

same girl…? different girls??? hard to tell 

mr. pintero quickly confirms that it IS the girl he saw in the pinsetter now laying out here on the pavement. it was hard to tell because she had gone goth since her death. and also why was she in a bowling alley??? upon death that’s not where i’m going to go. i hope. do you get to choose? i mean maybe i’d go bowl some rounds, but i wouldn’t climb INTO the machine

now how does this involve harold…..?

SCULLY BOWLING??????????? GOD, DID YOU HEAR ME WHEN I ASKED FOR HER HAPPINESS??? 

(author's note: -_- )

okay, so maybe she’s at the murder bowling alley, but still!!!! she’s tying on her shoes and mulder is with mr. pintero investigating the lane. 

oh man, is she just putting the shoes on to go investigate and not even play a few rounds…? i knew i shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up. it was too good to be true.

mulder beckons her to slide into the pinsetter machine in between him and mr. pintero, who says the ghost girl was caught up in the machinery. and i do love a little bit of them being smushed together. but mr. pintero says that the ghost girl was gone when he came back after seeing her hit by the car. is this confusing to read? it’s confusing to write.

mr. pintero is self conscious of his story because of the look on scully’s face LMAOOOO noooo mr. pintero please do not be sad... she is just like that!

mulder asks for a soda… king

(i thought he was getting scully caffeine because we know she needs it to survive, but he actually had it for a larger plan) 

“what is that look, scully?” “i would have thought that after four years, you’d know exactly what that look was” <- lmaooooo

“what, you don’t believe in ghosts?” (he proceeds to elaborate on the difference between ghosts, disembodied spirits, and death omens while bowling) (scully looks impressed as he gets a strike) LMAOOOOOOOOOOO i swear she thought he was attractive there. you could see it in her eyes.

so: three death omens have appeared in three weeks before three murders. that’s a pretty consistent pattern. the omens have been trying to say something… but what?

mulder takes his soda and says that if she waits a second he might have an answer. does the cola reveal things to him???

no, he pours the soda onto the wax of the lane and finds writing on there!!! it says “she is me”. now what does that mean!!!

now they must be debriefed by a detective in a room full of other investigators. the three victims have all had the same age, weight, hair, and eye color, which is horrifying. and all were attacked in the same 6 blocks!!!

mulder is whispering something to scully in the back of the room (adorable), but the guy who is running the debrief finds it less so, and asks what tf he has to say and who tf is he. which leads him to explaining his apparition theory while scully looks on, very much recalling the incident with plane guy mike from tempus fugit. at least this time it wasn't her birthday.

mulder asks if there were any other written messages at the crime scenes and if “she is me” means anything to anyone, and the jerk detective says someone claimed those were her last words, but she couldn’t have actually said them as her larynx was severed (she could have said that before the severing???)

but the detective dismisses the claim as coming from “a nut” and sends the agents off to follow that lead, which leads them to a psychiatric center. where someone is painting a bird!! it’s pretty nice. 

the nurses gather the patients to ask if anyone used the payphone to report a murder on friday. our old friend harold looks deeply uncomfortable. 

mulder holds up a photo of the dead girl, which the patients identify as the murder victim. and then scully pulls out a magazine with jay leno on the cover and a few patients say jay leno did it??? can you imagine. god. that’d be a crazy episode. she leaves the room, seeming to think this is a waste of time. but mulder notices that harold was very quiet during this whole exchange. 

scully is going over the crime scene photos in the hallway…. ohhhh, she found that the murderer changed the hand the ring each victim wore was on!! she’s very clever to notice such a small detail

he asks about what would make a person switch the rings around, and she points out a form of OCD that usually does not escalate to murder, but it involves doing things over and over again until they’re just right……. is that supposed to be a hint to harold….?

mulder says he’s about to get harold to confess to making the call. but harold is denying it. when mulder asks if he’s seen a ghost, he starts yelling. this did not go as planned.

scully says that harold has something called “atypical autism” which i am going to google (it seems to go by a new name now in the DSM 5?), and that he has spent his life in and out of treatment centers like this one. and he also has severe OCD… which she says would explain the switching of the rings. 

hey! OCD does not equal murder.

but i suppose that anyone is capable of murder, and perhaps she is just accounting for taking the rings off of one hand and onto another.

mulder asks a very relevant question: if harold did it, why did he now start killing people? he was clearly prone to outbursts when under distress… but that doesn’t explain the “she is me” or the apparitions. or, you know. going from yelling over being asked uncomfortable questions to slitting people's throats. bit of a jump there.

harold can come and go as he pleases, and he has a job…. hmm. this does not mean he did the murdering.

but then scully’s nose starts bleeding onto his files!!!

there was so much concern in mulder's “oh, scully…” and she insists that she’s fine, just needs to wash up. mulder looks like he was just punched as she leaves.

(i need the gif set please. please gif it. the pain... i want to microdose it in a controlled environment)

she goes to the bathroom to clean up and WHAT THE FUCK?????? she sees the “she is me” written in BLOOD on the mirror.

AND THEN A VERY SILLY LOOKING GHOST GREENSCREENED IN APPEARS LMAOOOOO (i love you 90's tech you are my best friend) but the ghost is bleeding from her neck. which is less funny.

hold on. DOES THAT MEAN SCULLY IS GOING TO DIE??? because she saw the death omen?????

mulder’s knocking on the door of the bathroom, asking if she’s in there, and when she finally replies with a quiet and strained “yeah” he reports that they've found another victim, a college student with her throat cut. and the girl she had seen had a college sweatshirt on!!!

she is utterly gagged. this must be a very challenging thing for a non-believer to see. and to confront the implications.

at the crime scene, she’s looking at the victim's body. and this victim also had a ring on her finger that was switched from one hand to the other. scully is still staring in shock.

and harold escaped somehow!!!

she seems almost like she’s about to tell mulder what she saw back in the bathroom, but then she says that she’s going to go get “this” (gesturing to her nose) checked out. he asks to drive her and she says no, she’s fine, and he double checks and says it’s just precaution, the doctors have been keeping a close eye on it, etc etc. LET HIM DRIVE YOU!! IT’S OKAY!!!!!!! he watches her, puzzled. 

(god, how i want to get onscreen, shake her by the shoulders, and tell her that letting herself be loved and cared for is not weakness... idgaf what sort of mentality her navy father installed in her. let's work it out together)

harold has a paper in his hand and is applying glue as he mutters some numbers. they’re bowling score sheets he’s gluing to the wall!! kinda cool. recycling.

BUT they read “she is me” in BLOOD…. he turns around and sees the ghosts of the victims!!!!!!!!! he just wants to be left alone!!!! leave harold alone!!!!! why are they haunting him????

scully is getting blood drawn. oh god i can’t look and she looks horrified…. she’s looking in the mirror

and now a jump to a therapy scene. she’s talking to her therapist about her fears, how she's scared to talk to mulder about them, and how she’s kept working despite the diagnosis. she says she doesn’t feel she owes it to mulder to keep working. good. know your value.

“i guess i never realized how much i rely on him, before this” <- STOP. STOP STOP. actually no. please continue. please express your feelings. i’m just gonna cry while you do it.

“his passion. he’s been a great source of strength that i’ve drawn on” <- oh... oh...

the therapist asks what happened last night, and she says she saw something, and she doesn’t know what it was or why, but she’s crying. then she explains the apparition. the therapist asks if she’s sure she doesn’t know what the ghost was trying to tell her. 

oh my god……. she knows what it means....

mulder is back at the bowling alley, looking for harold, and mr. pintero says he would never do such a crime.

but lane 6 is dropping pins…. harold is hiding back there?!!!

mulder follows him in as he climbs up the walls… and when he finds him, he’s muttering “she is me” over and over and over again. WHAT DOES IT MEAN???? 

the jerk detective from the police is here while harold is being questioned, and he blatantly ignores the lawyer telling him not to ask any questions about his guilt or innocence. wow! great guy. said with heavy sarcasm.

mulder asks harold if he knew those women, and if he’s scared they’ll visit him, to which he keeps reciting numbers. is he reciting their bowling scores??? and then he gives one of the victim’s shoe sizes when asked!!!!!

detective jerk takes this as a confession, while mulder says he needs harold’s help to prove him innocent. it just seems to me like he has an amazing memory. luckily, mr. pintero is very kind to him. 

detective jerk continues to be a dick as harold shows them to a room where he tons and tons of score cards pasted to the walls, and can recall them by name, including those belonging to the victims. very impressive.

but then harold sees a ghost?????

he’s running away and finds mr. pintero dead on the floor!!!!! harold is sobbing. omg... no... mr. pintero... i grew to be fond of you in our brief time together.

cutscene to scully at home in her fuzzy robe, praying. it feels we are interrupting a very intimate moment. the doorbell rings. it’s mulder!

he needs her medical expertise at this late hour. then once he enters the apartment, he asks what her doctor said, to which she reassures him she’s fine, which i do not believe in the slightest.

the contrast between him in his suit and her in her fluffy robe is very sweet, but he’s trying to explain that harold saw an apparition of mr. pintero’s death

(he lowkey did just imply that harold’s autism is what lets him see ghosts though??? so that’s kinda wild. that or i misunderstood something drastically)

NOOOOO. MULDER POINTS OUT THAT EVERYONE WHO SAW THE VISIONS WERE DYING. he wants to know if harold’s dying?? no no no. 

OH MY GOSH SHE’S TRYING TO GRASP WHAT THAT MEANS……………..

no. no no. and to think, i thought we were getting fun bowling time when this episode began. 

they go to the home he’s at to examine him, but someone is listening. it's harold's roomie chuck.

harold’s supposed to take his meds, but he’s not doing that. the nurse, named nurse innes, says to TAKE HIS POISON??? is that euphemistic or...

“did you tell them about your little girlfriends? did you show them your pictures??” <- HUH?? WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!

“you think they loved you back? no one could love you, harold” <- HEY WHAT. WHO IS THIS LADY????

oh that’s a slur. that’s a full on slur she says to him. 

there’s a distant scream and the doctor has been attacked, it seems. well. deserved. 

innes is claiming “he went berserk” and attacked him. i do not believe this at all.

the other nurse seems very nice :(

they’re going to split up, scully will talk to chuck the roommate and mulder will look for harold

OH! innes pulls out a scalpel. so she fully cut her own head. wow. what a great lady. again said with great sarcasm. we have some real charmers in this episode.

scully’s talking to chuck. and he asks her if harold is dying, because nurse innes is trying to poison him. harold TOLD chuck that innes was poisoning him!! nooo, harold :(

chuck says he really loved them, and when she asks who it was that harold really loved, he pulls out the pictures of the girls who were murdered that harold kept in his drawer. the only other person who knew about those pictures was nurse innes!!!

did she kill them???????????

scully goes to find innes and notices that she is clenching her fist….. she drops the pills… and then tries to attack scully with the scalpel!!!

bad idea to try and attack an FBI agent, you absolute buffoon. she manages to slam scully around a bit, and then to promptly get shot.

mulder hears the gunshot and is sprinting to get there. he notices scully is cut on her hand right away 😭😭😭 i love when he worries about her

she used her stellar aim skills to once again land a non-lethal shot to the shoulder, to which i am very proud to see her sharpshooting skills once again highlighted!!

and she says that he should bag the scalpel, she’s pretty sure it’s the murder weapon. dang! she solved this one without him. queen.

the theory she cooks up is that innes has been taking harold’s meds, which can cause unstable behavior, and maybe she was trying to kill harold’s happiness. and then mulder breaks the news that was harold found dead in an alley. no, harold :(

she’s trying to say he wasn’t dying, he was being denied medical care. he clocks that this has a deeper meaning right away… “is that your medical opinion?”

(not even joking, someone poked their head in my room while i was watching this and said "you have a miserable look on your face". yeah. i know <3 it hurted)

“i saw something, mulder” <- oh my god. oh my god. she's going to tell him.

“i saw her in the bathroom before you came to tell me”

(holy fuck i need to rewatch this three times)

“why didn’t you tell me?” (he's keeping his voice so calm)

“because i didn’t want to believe it. because i don’t want to believe it”

“is that why you came down here, to prove that it wasn’t true?”

“no, i came down here because you asked me to” (there's annoyance in her voice)

“why can’t you be honest with me?” <- ohhh. oh my goodness. he sounds so sad.

“what do you want me to say? that you’re right? that-that I believe it even if i don’t? i mean, is that what you want?” <- ohh, that is a low blow. she’s hurting and she’s throwing words in any direction to try and deflect the pain she feels… because she cannot control it and she desperately wants to 

now he’s growing annoyed, but trying to reign it in: “is that what you think i want to hear?”

silence. a beat. and then: “no.” she seems to realize that trying to hurt him helps nobody.

“you can believe what you want to believe, scully, but you can’t hide the truth from me. because if you do, you’re working against me. and yourself” (and oh my god, she would never want to work against him... the weaponization of their mutual cause to get her to be honest and take care of herself)

“i know what you’re afraid of. i’m afraid of the same thing” <- chills. i have them. rare moment of mulder vulnerability. pain. pain.

“the doctor said i was fine”, she says. “i hope that’s the truth”, he replies.

(whispered) “i’m going home”

that line is fascinating because it sounds like he’s directly accusing her of lying….. and what if she is? what if she’s too scared to tell him that she’s not okay?

nooooo :( she gets in her car to drive home and starts to cry :(((((

AND THEN SHE SEES HAROLD……… 

WHAT THE FUCK MAN??????? HEY. WHAT THE FUCK. 

pain. pain. pain.

okay. so: this hurts. scully being scared of talking about how she feels, of letting down mulder, lying to him because she’s too afraid to speak the truth, lashing out at him to try and deflect from her pain. and then realizing that trying to hurt him helps no one.

and how he’s trying so hard to keep his cool when he wants to tell her to be honest, to stop lying and to just tell him the truth, to take care of herself and let him take care of her. he wants to convince her that it’s okay to be scared and that he is too.

this little fight is really recalling that other fight they had in tunguska and what struck me both about those is how he works so hard to keep his voice level, even when you know he wants to yell. the restraint there is astounding. he loves her so terribly.

and scully can see those ghosts, which means she’s dying, which she knows means she’s dying, and she tried to find any other explanation for it, to blame it on the power of suggestion or stress, but she knows what it means and she’s so scared. we saw her praying, likely begging for help and for her loved ones to be comforted as she leaves… 

bro. the tears. in my eyes. they are forming. 

seeing her cry is just horrible. 

but honestly, the fact that she even opened up to mulder about seeing that apparition is huge. she works so hard to be as closed off as she is, and even though she went for the low blow with trying to hurt him with the whole “you want me to say that you’re right?” thing, it was still a very big deal that she felt she could say that. but it also attests to the fact that she is in so much pain that she feels she has no choice.

goddamnit. pain. 

little did i know that day i decided to watch this show that THIS was the find of stuff i was getting myself into.

okay. so: the rest of the episode. 

well, i didn’t see the killer coming, so i was surprised there. but it was not an easy episode to watch, with the depiction of medical abuse and ableism inherent to the story. we got a full on slur moment. that did make me jump a little. the 90’s, man. they’d put anything on the TV.

so it was weird to reckon the A plot with the B plot even if they were tied together with the common thread of “these dying people can see the dead”. it was an abrupt shift between the two. 

how do i feel? sad. sad sad sad. damn you, season 4. how you fill me with unrelenting sorrow. have i been happy once in the last 22 episodes? i find it hard to recall. 

i like seeing mulder protective of and caring for scully, but seeing her suffer is so sad. i know it’s not real!!! i know she’s a character on the screen. but holy hell if it’s not emotionally taxing to watch her confront her own mortality, watch the people she loves mourn her while she’s still here but know they likely won’t have her for long.

and i know that there will likely be some sort of magical resolution because there are like what, 5 more seasons and 2 movies? but it still hurts. especially because so many people really do die of cancer and face those realities. i once again wonder how people who have cancer felt about this storyline, if they felt represented or not.

there’s an element of sorrow that gets added in knowing that these things really do happen. i can take comfort in knowing that my sibling will not statistically likely be abducted by a UFO and i will probably not be injected with goo in a gulag. these sorts of storylines have in-universe weight and are devastating in terms of the story, but we recognize that such things do not happen to us ordinary folk. and the inverse is true, at least for me, in terms of the tragedies that happen in this show that COULD happen to a person like you or me. the grief you feel from seeing a character dying of a horrific disease is all the more accentuated when you know people who have endured tragedy like that.

man, you s4 fans are real suckers for pain. i actually admire it. god bless you, actually. i need a certain good times to sorrow ratio. and i considered myself an angst aficionado before this!!!

now what in the hell is going on? while i was writing this, the beginning of the next episode started playing, and out of the corner of my eye i saw horrific flashings of color that i thought i was imagining. but no. they were real.

egads! for a moment i thought my laptop was like, on fire or something. perhaps this is a sign that i must go. i am both excited and scared to see what the last two episodes bring!!!!!

[dairy-farmer]

Please consider: Split personality Jason where Jason sees Tim as a little brother, but the Lazarus Pit is infatuated with him.

Jason tries to do the whole Attack on Titan Tower thing, but the second he leaves eyes on Tim with pit madness, the Pit falls in love. Maybe the Pit absorbs some of the memories / personality of the people that are dipped in it, and has absorbed some of Ra's creepy obsession towards Tim. Or maybe it just sees how beautiful and brave and strong he is. The Pit wants to be near him, touch him, hold him kiss him fuck him. And while Jason may not want to kill him anymore, he definitely doesn't seem Tim the same way.

Personally I would love it in this situation if the Pit gently dub-cons or non-cons Tim, possibly without Jason knowing, and Tim can't say anything because he doesn't want to break up the family or scare Jason away from the batfam.

!!!!!!! so there's this horror movie from the last decade which is about possession and there was this really amazing scene- i honestly don't remember the rest of the movie or even thinking it was that good but this scene sticks out in my head and it's where the character that is possessed is a young girl and a bunch of stuff happens so she's sent for an MRI. during the procedure her mother and sister are in the adjoining room with the doctors who are running the machine and slowly, bit by bit, the scan is coming in with each picture presenting a more composite scan of the body. and the sister is watching as it happens and she can see in the scan, the face and body of an entire person curled up in her sister's abdominal cavity. that scene!!! was so chilling!!! it stuck in my brain even years later!!!!! i love the idea of rather than jason having a split personality, he is sort of kind of possessed by the pit because the thing is- jason was dead. he crawled out of his grave for some reason and it was the pit that fixed up all the loose ends that gave him back his mind and i think it would make sense that the pits were powered by a supernatural quality.

maybe in repairing jason's mind the pit inserted some of itself into him and maybe the pit has incorporated parts of the other people who have used it over the centuries!!! and a lot of those people? not very nice, good people.

a lot of those people were violent, entitled, and selfish. like the prince who killed sora, ra's wife, after ra's healed him using the pit. the pit has too much muck and tar even good, honest people who are dipped can't reverse the effects and come out...worse.

the pit has been tainted for a long time. long before humans ever touched it, furiously hungry predators would chase terrified prey down into caves and they'd fall in, tainting the waters with the hunger to devour at any cost.

when jason sees tim he feels hatred and envy and anger. and if that had been all he'd felt that's all the pit would have acted on.

but...there was something else in jason's gut when he saw tim for the first time. an odd twinge and swirl in him, a feeling that was drowned out by everything else but was there nonethless. attraction. tim was an attractive person and jason's body had felt that and the pit that had made its home in the water of his brain picked up on it too and that hunger...that desire...came back.

jason does not know what happens. and his attraction never goes away. its only when that pulse of heat in him flares up that the pit seeks out tim and forces him to ease that desire.

jason never thinks to tell tim. to confess. because of the tower and because he knows tim would never reciprocate. but the attraction never dies down and every time the pit indulges it fans their flames.

and tim. never tells. he doesn't want the shame, the humiliation, does not want to be the reason why jason is ostracized because jason is rejoining the family. slowly. he and dick laugh together, he and bruce are on the mend.

tim does not want to be the reason that is disrupted he does not want to find out...if bruce and the family would choose him. if they would even entertain the possibility of their jason doing something...something like that.

so tim...keeps his mouth shut. and he tries hard to maintain his distance no matter the frowns or concerned furrowed looks shot his way. they will never tell him to forgive jason or try to get them to be anything but civil. but tim will see their judgement and disappointment either way.

tim does his best to find work outside gotham, he finds exuses to go to the titans. even though the tower has been, proven unsafe.

sometimes tim will spend nights in kon's room. kon is confused but accepting and holds tim so that tim can catch, at least, a few hours of sleep.

it helps.

sometimes. but kon can't always be there and tim gets tired of staying up an vigilant. he needs to sleep sometime. and jason...jason is always there waiting for him to.

[beelsbignaturals]

🐄 DEMON FORMS: BELPHEGOR 💤

AN: thanks void for helping w the tags ♡♡♡ also jsyk my requests are open and I am gonna be working on them slowly but surely. I have a con in like... a little over a week? So I'm a lil busy rn but thank u for the love on my creepy demon posts. As always you can check the obey me world building tag on my blog to see the other parts of this series :3

inspiration for this part: honestly, nothing specific unless you count like,,, The Hat Man

TWs: body horror, possession, sleep paralysis, mentions of insanity, mentions of psychosis, lesson 16 mention, demons being demons

● Okay, Level 1.5 belphie is more common than a regular human looking belphie because he can't be bothered most of the time. Also, he doesn't like humans that aren't you, so why would he want to be palatable for them? He has permanent eyebags. He goes back and forth between blinking way too fast or not at all. Which …Is unsettling. He can stare for hours and fall asleep like that. He has cow ears, and his tail is out because he plays with the fluffy part as a stress response. It makes him feel safe (probably bc beel will brush his tail for him when it gets all tangled, and he secretly LOVES it. Puts him to sleep in seconds.) Speaking of sleep, if you look directly at Belphie, he is very…. Fuzzy looking. Like you just woke up and everything's blurry, but it's only him that looks like this. 

Today is the day you learn demons can purr. You knock on the door of the twins' room, entering when you hear a quiet "come in." Perhaps you expected to see Belphie napping on Beel's back while the larger twin does push-ups. You certainly didn't think you'd see the pair sitting on the floor, Belphegor's tail being meticulously detangled by his brother. Belphie looks a bit like a house cat, curled up on the floor, eyes closed and purring as his tail occasionally swishes about. You silently take a video and leave before Belphie wakes up and forces you to delete it.

● Level 2. His tail grows large thorns, perfect for thwacking anyone who annoys him. He constantly smells like lavender and something else that no one can for sure define, but if you stand too close, you will get drowsy. Everything about him seems a bit… uncanny valley. He doesn't look terrifying so much as he looks…. Just,,,, Incorrect. His breathing sounds like a white noise machine.  This is the form he takes during lesson 16. He chooses it specifically so he doesn't make you run immediately. 

Despite the trauma that you experienced, you have learned to find comfort in Belphegor's demon form. Sometimes, you doze off to the sound of his breathing while your hands play with the soft fur of his ears. On more than one occasion, you have compared Belphie to one of the children from Polar Express, which got you smacked in the face by his tail. But even when you get on his last nerve, he is careful not to cut you with the sharp barbs on his tail. A silent apology for killing you once upon a time.

● Level 3. Goodbye sleepy, cozy weirdness, and hello sleep paralysis demon. The thorns on his tail get larger and spread to cover his arms. His eyelids just. Fuck off. He doesn't have them anymore. Jeff the Killer looking bitch. The longer you look at him the more…absolutely fucking AWFUL he looks. Five minutes? He has double the normal amount of teeth. Ten? His horns are casting shadows that look like every nightmare you've ever had. Twenty and all of a sudden you are literally frozen in place. If he's feeling kind, he will use magic to knock you unconscious. If not, you are going to be stuck like this until well after he leaves. If he leaves. Also, he eats dreams.

You will occasionally wake up in the dead of night to the sound of raspy breathing. When you look up, you find a pair of eyes staring intently at you. In the first few seconds after waking, your dreams are so incredibly vivid that it shocks you when they dissappear from your memory, as if it never happened. You yawn, throwing a pillow at the demon's face. Which causes Belphie to laugh, not losing balance from his perch at the end of your bed for even a second.

● Level 4. He is more mist than corporeal. He can be more on the solid side. He just prefers not to. If he is in this form, hold your breath and run. Breathing in any of the mist has…. Very bad side effects. You might find yourself unable to sleep ever again, no matter how tired, until eventually you go insane. Or perhaps living your worst nightmares is more your speed? Either way, it's absolutely horrifying, and he doesn't even have to do any work to destroy you. He just makes you do that yourself. If he likes you, he can make the effects a lot less awful. Breathing in the mist is literally breathing Belphegor, so he can also read your mind (all the better to find your deepest fears). You can hear a whispery voice in the back of your head… that's him. He likes to hang out and chat with Beel like this. Or plot anti-Lucifer activities with Satan since only the person he is possessing can hear him. He can suggest you do all sorts of things, and if you aren't paying attention, you might think it's your body working on its own. If he talks normally while just being a cloud of mist, his voice is surprisingly loud, encompassing the whole room.

A tiny voice, one you know all too well, speaks in the back of your mind. The first time this happened, you thought it was your conscious or something. Perhaps a psychotic break. But no, it is just the youngest of the seven demons you live with. Belphie enjoys backseat driving while you go about your day. He laughs when you trip (honestly, it might be him that caused it...), makes jokes at the most inappropriate times, causing you to choke on your own spit, trying to suppress laughter. And when someone is being particularly rude, he gets rather descriptive in his insults. But hey, he means well. You think.

[rillils]

what hurts me most is thinking abt people realizing just how YOUNG bucky actually is

it's so fucking unfair, it just breaks your heart to even think about it, doesn't it?

consider catfa. here you have a young man barely into his late 20s, when you're technically a fully grown adult, but really you're most likely still trying to get your shit together, you know, still figuring out how Adulting™ really works - and then it's one tragedy after the other for him

Bucky has his whole life ahead of him, and instead of getting to choose a path of his own, of building a life for himself, he is:

drafted into a war he never even wanted to be a part of

captured, forced into hard physical labor and ultimately experimented on against his will

kinda roped into going back to the front lines after being rescued (not against his will this time, but let's face it, there was no way in hell that he would have gone home while Steve was still out there putting his life on the line)

captured once more when his whole team thought him dead, tortured in every possible way, taken apart, experimented on some more, quite possibly put on god knows what kind of substances, either to further improve his physical performances or to aid in keeping him docile and easier to manipulate - or, well, for both of those reasons I guess

brutally stripped of his identity, his memories, his free will, his humanity, and reshaped into a killing machine, a weapon to be used whenever necessary, and, as they say, put away wet. and then rinse and repeat for sixty-nine years.

the truly horrifying part is that they didn't just hurt him, they also forced him to hurt other people. people whose lives were taken by his own hands, when he was barely even an unwilling passenger in his own body. so here he is, just… grieving,

both for himself - the years he lost to torture and brainwashing, and can never get back again; and the life he could have had, with all the people he loved, in the place he used to call home - and for all the victims of the Soldier and their respective families, left to mourn their loved ones, often without even knowing why.

he could have lived a normal, quiet, happy life, but all of that was taken away from him.

BUT but but butt butt

here's the thing.

actually, here's a couple of things.

you see, pieces of crap like Endgame will try to convince you that, if things didn't go exactly your way the first time around, you should just give up on your future altogether and fuck off to the past, where you can live out an unhealthy fantasy and have a creepy, dystopian-coded life as-- well, not even as yourself, just as somebody else wearing your own face.

don't listen to pieces of crap like Endgame, they give the shittiest kind of advice.

because! because even after everything he went through, Bucky's still alive! his life isn't over. and that's the beauty of it! he SO can still be happy, and do all the things he didn't get to do back in the day. sure, the timing might not be what he originally thought, back before the war, but just because his plans got derailed doesn't mean that he can't build his own life now. and that's exactly what he's going to do, one step at a time - and YES, with Steve by his side, if I get any say in this (and this being my answer to an ask on my blog, I get all the say lol)

so I hereby declare that Bucky gets to be as fucking happy as can be! like, SO MUCH FUCKING HAPPINESS, YOU CAN'T EVEN QUANTIFY IT. so much fucking happiness, you'd think he might get sick of it!!!! but he won't!!!!!!

I think he does find that calm he so desperately needed. I think he gets to find himself again, gets to meet all the parts of him he thought he'd lost, the ones even he had forgotten. I think, he even gets to meet some new sides of Bucky Barnes he hadn't had the chance to discover yet.

I think he learns that some days are worse than others, and on those days, he learns to show himself a little kindness, and a little forgiveness for not being who (he used to think) he was supposed to be, and a little love for who he is.

I think he also learns that, while there are some bad days, and there will always be, most of them are actually, surprisingly, good days. I think he learns that he has the right to have good days. I think he learns that he deserves to have good days. I think he learns that it's okay to feel good; that there's nothing silly or lazy in just sitting outside in the sun, and basking in its warmth like a happy little lizard, and wishing you never had to move from that spot at all.

I think he gets to be the nerd he always was deep down; science nerd, space nerd, book nerd, any sort of nerd flavor he can find the time and will to explore.

I think he gets to build a home for himself, with the man who always meant Home to him, more than any house ever could.

I think he gets to wake up to good-morning kisses, and to good-morning fingers carding tenderly through his hair, and good-morning playful groping under the sheets, and good-morning "sorry I just kneed you in the groin, lemme kiss it better for ya", and good-morning giggles because Steve's bedhead achieves epic levels of Bird's Nest first thing in the morning, and good-morning pretty eyes looking back at him from Steve's pillow, drinking him in like no sight in the world will ever be as heartrendingly beautiful as Bucky waking up next to him in their big, big bed, and good-morning "how do you want your eggs?", and good-morning "let's skip eggs and have french toast today", because today, today he's feeling good.

and that's only the start, honey 💕💕💕

[zibiscusloon]

🎊💞🐇🎀?

(Sorry this is late!!)

🎊- Personalities

Gabriel:

Gabe was a rather meek and anxious child. He keeps to a small group of friends and struggles to talk to other kids his age as he frequently stumbles over his words. He prefers quiet environments as he’s highly noise sensitive. He’s highly dependent on others to help him with expressing himself. He’s only completely at ease around Cassidy and his friends.

Susie:

Highly strong minded and creative, Susie was a very flamboyant child. She was the light of her family, finding the bright side in almost everything. She’s very protective of those she loves! Her and Fritz both have landed themselves in detention on multiple occasions for getting into fights at school (most of which resulted from them defending Gabriel). She loves arcade games and has the highest scores on every machine at Freddy’s.

Fritz:

He is being held back by God by the scruff of his neck like a kitten. Fritz is rambunctious, impulsive, and very uncaring as to who is staring and whispering about him. Definitely the type of kid who ate sand from the sandbox. He has a lil habit of biting when he’s worked up (whether that be because he’s pumped up or pissed off depends on the day). He’s very physically affectionate and will randomly tackle his friends in a hug (he makes sure to be a lil easier on Gabriel about this, Jeremy and Susie however? No mercy)

Jeremy:

Jeremy is a very sweet and understanding boy. He’s a great listener and is always willing to offer comfort in what ever way is needed of him. That’s not to say he was a saint, he is just as guilty of getting into fights as Fritz and Susie, he’s just better at not getting caught. He can be very smug when he wants to. Due to ableism of the time, plenty of his classmates found him creepy due to him not being able to talk. He in turn, played fully into this role as it helped make sure him and his friends were left be, he’ll happily do “creepy” shit and laugh as they scatter away.

Cassidy:

The designated mom friend. Cassidy grew up rather quickly as they practically had to help raise their brother. They frequently forget that they themselves are still a child, they fail to get along with other kids as they view people their age as highly immature, with them viewing Cass as a killjoy. They’re very protective of Gabriel, and often worry about him due to bullying Gabe faces at school. They have threatened many 9 year olds on their brother’s behalf. The only person they’re able to truly be just a kid around is their best friend, Seraphina.

Charlie:

Love weird kid with atrocious social skills and yet somehow the largest friend group! Would do and say shit that they knew everyone else around them found really fucked up and weird, they just did it cause they found it funny. They always need some form of stimulation and as such will frequently steal metal scraps, usually from their dad, and try to make their own animatronics. They’re highly observant and will point out when they notice things, even when others really wish that they wouldn’t (like when they asked Michael about the bruises he keeps covering with his sleeves…)

💞- Family Life

Gabriel & Cassidy:

Gabe and Cass grew up on a small one story home with their widower father. Their mom passed away due to complications from when she gave birth to Gabriel. The two of em have always been very close, with Cassidy stepping up to take a parental role to Gabe, as their father struggles to always be present for them in their lives due to his own struggles. They have a small pond outside of their home that their dad would brings them out to for fishing. Gabriel has a lot of built up resentment against his dad, as he’s still a kid and can’t quite comprehend why he can’t always be there for them, Cassidy has frequently talked down Gabriel and assured him that their dad does love them, he just has a harder time showing it.

Susie:

Susie is the oldest of three children in a highly well off family. She lives in a three story home in the best subdivision. She lives with her mama, step dad, lil sister Samantha, her lil brother Óliver, and of course, her puppy Pepperoni! Her parents both work good jobs and provide well for their children. Susie’s mom is rather stern and proud woman, causing them to occasionally clash due to Susie’s unserious demeanor, her step dad happily encourages her creativity though! They’re both rather frivolous (and childish as he mama would sarcastically say), their family frequently go on vacations to beaches and water parks.

Fritz:

Fritz grew up in a nice two story house with a huge backyard with his parents and older sister. Fritz spent most of his time outside (either by choice or cause his mom kicked him out for breaking a window.) he was very close to both his parents and him and Seraphina had a typical sibling rivalry, shouting matches, stealing each others things, kicking each other under to kitchen table, the usual.

Jeremy:

Jeremy and his mom lived in a pretty shitty run down apartment (although it was the best that his mom could afford). They’re pretty much dirt poor, but Jeremy’s mom does what she can to always keep her son’s spirits up, which Jeremy’s always appreciated. They’re essentially all each other ever had. They have little to no contact with the rest of their family, as his mom was frequently shamed for having him so young (she was a teenager when she had him). Her jobs are usually constantly changing and Jeremy helps his mom with prepping for her interviews.

Charlie:

The Emily household was your typical nuclear family. Two parents, two kids, a nice house. Only oddity was all the robots laying around. Charlie and their brother Sammy were practically inseparable, doing everything together (even if Sammy hardly understand Charlie and their eccentrics). Henry wouldn’t ever say it but he definitely played favorites, and Charlie was it. They were very close to the Afton family! Although Cynthia (Mrs. Emily) never really trusted William around her children.. (and for good reason!)

🐇-How they were lured

Gabriel:

William had been observing Gabe’s party the whole day, scoping out which children he wanted to take, and he especially had his eyes on the birthday boy. Gabriel was very obviously anxious and jittery due to how crowded and loud Freddy’s was that day. It was so damn loud and Gabe couldn’t take it, so he slipped away from his party table when no one was looking and fled to a hallway to try and collect himself in. It’s then that Spring Bonnie approached him, comforting him and offering to take him away to a more quiet party, where he wouldn’t have to hear anyone, and where no one could hear him. It’d be great, it’d be quiet, there’d be chocolate cake a simple lil music box melody. Just how was Gabe supposed to say no?

Susie:

Susie was the first to be lured off. Her puppy had passed away a week prior, but, not wanting to gloom up Gabriel’s party, Susie wandered off to the arcade to distract herself. And yet no matter what, she still found her mind going back to her puppy. William, being the bastard that he is, was of course the one who had ran over Pep, approached Susie. He told her how sometimes adults lie, that Pepperoni wasn’t really dead, and that he knew where he was! Susie of course would take any chance to see her lil baby again, and didn’t question at all why they were going to the back room, needless to say, she didn’t find her dog.

Jeremy:

Jeremy had been sitting at the stage, watching the band, when they saw Fritz following Spring Bonnie around, curious, Jeremy approached them. Fritz explained that Spring Bonnie had a big surprise planned for Gabe and that he needed their help to set it up! Jeremy decided to tag along, he wanted to help too! He’d felt bad for coming to Gabe’s party late, so this was his chance to make up for it! It all worked out to William, he’d intended to grab Jeremy anyway so this just saved time.

Fritz:

Fritz had been looking for Susie and Gabe, trying to bring them some pizza as they had missed out on everyone else eating. That’s when Spring Bonnie approached him, explaining that him and the other band mates had planned a surprise party for Gabriel, but that he needed Fritz’s help! And that Susie was helping out too! Fritz was more than happy to do something nice for his best friend! He was a little confused that Spring Bonnie said the adults couldn’t know w about the party, but he didn’t mind, it was like a secret!

Cassidy:

It’s not so much William luring them so much as Cassidy being led to him. Cassidy was searching for Gabriel after their brother had disappeared from the party. They eventually took notice that the other children were gone as well. Them and the kids parents searched throughout the pizzeria for their children and Cass eventually found their brother’s Freddy plush in a hallway, leading to the back room. They could have sworn their was a voice leading them to the room, saying “save them, save them.”

Charlie:

Charie was the easiest to nab. Sammy’s friends (without Sammy knowing) had locked them outside of Fredbear’s as a mean joke. It was fucking freezing cause it had been raining. Suddenly, William had driven up next to them, asking what they were doing out there. They explained what had had happened, and how they hardly wanted to attend their own party anymore. It wasn’t surprising when William offered to drive Charlie back home where they could dry off. Charlie was just happy to get out of the rain. They were confused though when William began to pull into Fredbear’s back alley…

🎀- How well known there Case Was

Susie was probably the most well known victim of case, due to the Franz being a family of money, as such, they could afford further coverage. They did lend money to the the parents of their daughter’s friends to help them get coverage as well.

Despite it being his party that the incident happened on, Gabriel (and by extension Cassidy), were usually lumped together in news coverage, simply referred to as “The Feitt Siblings” instead of being listed by name.

Fritz was probably the second most known, although hardly as well as Susie.

Jeremy probably got the worst of it, hardly mentioned by name, due to his mother’s lower economic standing, she struggled heavily to get her son’s name in the paper.

Back in 1983, Charlie’s name was front page news, everyone was out looking for the Emily’s child, their family friends the Aftons right beside them. Charlie’s disappearance was eventually overshadowed by the disappearance of Elizabeth Afton and the scandal of the Bite of 83.

[possumcollege]

Does the prospect of tailored, AI generated media where "YOU are the star" sound like a fucking nightmare to anyone else?

Everything about AI has the stink of depersonalization all over it. Maybe it's the ptsd talking, but the idea of watching a character with my face and voice doing things on TV is disturbingly close to the times when I couldn't recognize my own face in a mirror.

Like a dissociative episode with a laugh track.

Sounds like the narcissistic brainchild of someone who can't internalize anything that isn't literally about them.

"Everyone must want this too right? Especially people who aren't as interesting as me!"

I'm viscerally haunted by the presence of my own body on a daily basis. The thought of seeing it accurately scanned and pasted into a movie or skinned onto a more dashing frame makes me ill.

As does the way producers and executives want to use tech to circumvent fair labor practices, fair contracts, residual compensation, copyright law, employment benefits, and human performers to bring their absolute dogshit ideas to light.

AI devs want it to do everything "just like a person" when there ARE PEOPLE to do those things. The problem to be solved is that PAYING and supporting humans costs them money. Employees who don't want to be worked into the ground to bring their dream to life feels like someone eating their lunch.

So they imagine a future where we drive to a building, sit in a cubbie, wearing headsets so our hovering torsos can occupy a fun, budget-friendly, office of the mind for $15/hr 12hrs/day, sleep in the office during crunch time, and praise them for all their great and generous brain ideas!

AI kills jobs by convincing investors that it's cheaper than human workers, and that the remaining human workers will mostly be there for QC, which they don't consider skilled labor. We're the safety net for their machine.

By the time the consumers start realizing actually, AI support sucks, its products are either creepy or trash, and its judgment is dangerously inadequate, the developers have got their payday and aren't legally liable for the mess we made with their tools.

AI is wonderful for separating workers from profits, producers from criticism, manufacturers from liability, and people from each other. We don't share the profits because we just helped keep the Boss' machine from falling over. Our reward is pretending to be the person on a screen before we go back to work.

When we're the star of our own bizarre google-ads-ass media, we're robbed of the opportunity to see ourselves in someone who is not us. It makes us more of a puppet in someone else's play. Our Selves become another product we get to pay someone else to show us.

Why the everlasting fuck should we want to copy/paste ourselves into a product made by an industry that no longer places value on human creative labor? When the brains at the helm of these industries are stone blind to the reality of human experience?

These are the beautiful dreams of people whose lives are so irreparably insulated and disconnected from consequence and the reality of other people that they see "other people" as a problem to be solved.

I don't want a thing from those people.

[dilly-oh]

#RelationshipGoals

“Kakashi,” Iruka said, barging into the living room and nearly tripping over one of the dogs, “you can’t just post a picture of my ass and tag it ‘relationship goals’. It doesn’t make sense.”

“It makes perfect sense,” Kakashi replied distractedly, sitting on the couch with his feet up, two of the other dogs sprawled in his lap, watching some shitty reality show on the television and scrolling on his phone. He should be doing the dishes. Didn’t Iruka tell him to do the dishes? “My Instagram feed is blowing up. Look at all the comments I’m getting-”

“Yeah, they’re mostly fucking peach emojis.” Iruka snatched his phone away and glanced at the screen. Ugh, the amount’s nearly doubled since he discovered the post. It was ridiculous. Yeah, sure, his ass looked amazing in the shot, considering he’d been wearing a tight pair of yoga shorts during a workout, and Kakashi definitely knew the best angle, lighting, and filter to use from being an Instagram fitness trainer/model Kakashi with half a million followers or whatever, but STILL. That many people checking out his ass was intimidating, not to mention downright creepy. 

“Whatever.” Iruka tossed the phone back and crossed his arms. “Lay off the ass pics or you will lose said ass privileges. Understood?”

“…Wait…ass privileges?” Kakashi looked at him, aghast. “You meant, no touching? No squeeze? Not even a pinch?” Iruka just stared at him without blinking to assert dominance. “…Understood.” 

---

“Why my thighs?” Iruka asked during lunch.

“Have you seen them?” Kakashi retorted.

“Every time I look down.”

“I rest my case.” 

“…What.”

“You have the legs of a God, Iruka. Let them be worshipped by the masses.” 

“Bitch, I will wear sweatpants for a month.” 

Kakashi pouted like a baby as he deleted the post. Iruka threw a french fry at him. 

“And enough with the #relationship goals crap!” 

---

“Why would you post a pic of my nipples,” Iruka asked in a flat voice, hovering over Kakashi as he reclined in the bathtub. “Why.”

“…Why not?” Kakashi raised an eyebrow, like that was going to keep Iruka from popping him in the eye. Or drowning him in the tub. 

“Because they’re my nipples.” Iruka glared him down. “They belong to me. I allow you to touch them. They’re a gift. A gift that can be…taken away.” 

“…I’ll take the post down,” Kakashi said quietly, sinking deeper into the bubbles.

“Good.” Iruka nodded and walked out of the bathroom, throwing over his shoulder, “And stop tagging it ‘relationship goals’! It still doesn’t make any sense!”

“Yes, it does!”

Iruka ran back in just to turn the cold faucet on and hear Kakashi squeal.

---

“This needs to stop,” Iruka said, cornering Kakashi in the laundry room. 

“…Is this about the bulge?” Kakashi asked, frozen in the act of dumping the last of his clothes into the washing machine. “…Was it too much? Are you mad?”

Iruka wordlessly held up a bottle of bleach.

“Okay, you’re mad. That’s understandable,” Kakashi said in the tone of voice of a police officer negotiating with an armed terrorist. “Let’s not make any rash decisions-”

He hovered it over the washer.

“Wait, hold on, we can talk about this-”

Iruka unscrewed the lid.

“…All my best shirts are in there,” Kakashi whimpered pitifully. 

He slowly tipped it until a single drop fell in.

“Okay, okay! I’ll take it down!”

Iruka drew the bottle back as Kakashi surged forward, slamming the lid of the washing machine shut and giving Iruka a scathing glare. 

“You’re a monster,” he hissed. 

“Delete the bulge pic,” Iruka said flatly, “or you won’t even have a relationship to tag.”

Kakashi hit him in the face with a sock. 

---

“Alright, asshole,” Iruka snarled as he kicked the bedroom door open, startling Kakashi into dropping the magazine he’d been reading in bed. “Posting a pic of my ass? Funny. Posting a pic of my nips? Not so funny. Posting a pic of my O-face? Completely out of line.” He held up his phone, which displayed a picture of his own face, eyes rolled back and mouth open in ecstasy. “How the fuck did you even take this without me noticing-”

“You were eating an Oreo,” Kakashi stated. 

Iruka stared at him blankly for a full ten seconds.

“…Is that why you get so horny when I eat them?” he asked in a small voice.

“Babe, everything you do makes me horny,” Kakashi replied. “…Like right now you’re all mad and sexy-”

“KAKASHI.”

“I’m just saying!” Kakashi scooted to the side of the bed and reached out plaintively. Iruka slapped his hands away. “Ow- you’re beautiful, Iruka. You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life- seriously, quit it. You’re everything I want in a relationship and more, hence the tag- it DOES make sense, let me finish. Is it wrong for me to be proud of that? Of you? For me to…show you off?” 

“Listen,” Iruka said slowly, “I’m just not comfortable with my body being on display to however-the-fuck-many followers you have-“

“Six hundred fifty thousand,” Kakashi cut in. Iruka shut him up with an icy glare.

“…without my consent,” he finished. “How’d you like me to snap a pic of you wearing your retainer and post that online for everyone to see?”

“…They can never know,” Kakashi whispered fiercely, his eyes flicking to the drawer of his bedside table. 

“I’m not saying you can’t take pictures of me,” Iruka went on. “Just…ask first.” 

“Alright,” Kakashi agreed grudgingly. “It’s just…hard. I want the world to see you. How wonderful you are. How happy you make me. I want to share it all.” 

“Then why don’t we just take a picture together? You know, like normal couples do?” Iruka said, throwing his hands up in exasperation.

Kakashi opened his mouth, paused, then closed it.

“…I actually never thought of that.” 

“…You never thought- oh my God you’re so lucky I love you.” Iruka flopped down on the bed beside him, groaning. Kakashi squirmed closer, already holding up his phone to find the perfect angle. The pose took some work, but after a minute or two, they settled on one with them squished together, legs entangled, Iruka’s head resting on Kakashi’s shoulder, the both of them looking up expectantly at the camera. Kakashi counted to three, then promptly turned and gave Iruka a wet raspberry right on the neck just as the camera clicked. 

The picture came out perfect.

“See, NOW it makes sense,” Iruka said as Kakashi tagged it the obligatory ‘relationship goals’. 

“Good to know this post have been ‘Iruka Approved’,” Kakashi replied, shoving his phone, already buzzing with notifications, beneath the pillow. He rolled over and winked. “So…am I still in trouble? Have my rights been…revoked?”

Iruka stared at him for a long moment, then grinned wolfishly. 

“Get me an Oreo and we’ll talk.” 

-End-

(Written for Kakairu Valentine’s Week 2023 Day 6 Prompt: #Relationship Goals, hosted by @kakairu-rocks)

[blackbloodteeth]

Snippet Sunday!!!! I'm so excited that I'm almost done with The WIP™, so look forward to that as much as I am (if brain is merciful and doesn't make me too inspired to write another scene afterwards).

And here's my contribution to this here Sunday! Better strap in 'cause we're gettin' weird with it (also warning for like vomiting or something).

———

Everything happened so fast and all at once, quite literally so as moments flipped by like television static in quick succession as Maka spins Soul around in a dance, and his fingers grip through her hair as she presses his face deeper into the couch, and the edge of the blade tips the rapid pulse of his neck towards the glare gleaming down on him, and oh god make it stop- while the cards across the table grin with his face – "Devil's bluff." – until his knees crash against the concrete below, his chest heaving and then spewing out something wretched and- sl-slug…?

"Oh there you are, it's about time. Or is it about space?" Soul's head shivers up to crane his head towards- at himself? But like one of those freaky animatronics you'd find on a show stage except it's standing all on its own, not laughing with its mouth as it jumps to another pose like he'd been forced to blink. "Either way, no matter where you go, here you are!"

Before Soul can even think to speak, let alone catch his breath, the motionless jointed puppet of him flips between different positions with every sentence.

"Would you do anything she would tell you to?" Its hands are held open to the air.

"Do you care about her more than anything?" One hand is pointed up like a proposal while its head is tilted.

"You would risk your life for her, right?" It's leaning in close to him now, one hand over its heart while the other is reaching in invitation.

"Dude," Soul finally manages to croak out, "what the bloody fuck are you on about?"

The creepy animatronic him laughs like this is some kind of sick joke, arms poised outwards in an open grin. "I'm asking; Would you do anything for Maka!"

"Of course I fucking would; I don't- Why are fucking with me—"

"Great! That's what we like to hear!" His hands clench closer to his chest when the freak has its fingers knitted together, Soul's flight or fight starting to lean more into the latter as- "A compelling premise; Now we need a genre!"

Soul holds his breath while the thing's eyes start rotating rapidly like a slot machine, faster and faster until they suddenly stop, not… having changed, he thinks? Maybe they- "The voices have spoken!" Its fingers are fully stretched out to reveal nothing in its palms. "Oooh, murder mystery! This one's gonna be fun!"

"W-wait, what are you-"

"Come on now, no space to lose!" His sore throat chokes as he's suddenly being picked up by the arms from behind, not even an opening to squawk back as a hat – oh god that better be just a hat – is shoved onto his head and he's then pushed forward into what might've been a hallway. "Time to go!"

Soul's still reeling while his footsteps stutter in front of him, the brick road beneath now glowing faintly under the midnight light of – why the fuck does the moon look like that?!

As is with the rest of Everything preceding him, he doesn't even get the courtesy to stop and think about any of this or the fact he's in a trench coat now as he had apparently been walking this entire time, his fingers jarred by the force he apparently just used to knock on this door a few feet away from where he'd been. For the couple seconds it takes for a rough, burly man to squint at him from the other side opening up, he notes the card-sized object between the fingers of his sweaty pocket by the time the man seems to recognize him. "Ah, Holmes' Agency?"

"I, uhh…" He also notes that his mind and therefore memory is currently still hazy, taking a quick peek at the ID badge before he flashes it to the guy. "Yessir. Sou Leater, P.I."

"Oh thank goodness you're here then, Detective Leater. You couldn't have come sooner." A firm but respectable handshake is quickly exchanged as the man then shows him inside, the air already thick with tension. "There's just been a murder, and we think the killer might have left behind a clue on who the next victim will be."

Detective Leater adjusts his cap and squares his shoulders while following closely after him.

"Let me take a look and I'll see what I can deduce."

[fagenthusiast]

Romulus: Minute by Minute

Today I watched Aliens: Romulus, and recorded what I thought about the film when I felt something cool happened. I arrived at the theatre at 8:00PM, all of these notes are unedited and were recorded as the film happened

Start: 8:00 PM Oh nice! Neurodivergency rep! So far the sound effects are the high point for me.

8:02 Oh.

8:04 Tyler? They named this bitCh Tyler? Good to know the upper middle class survived to the future Not a big fan of drawing a comparison between autistic ppl and synths. Like, just make him a guy, and someone else the robot. Or, better yet, don’t insert harmful metaphors into your work.

8:11 I hate Tyler and his bitch brother. They’re the sort of people who are „progressive „ but just don’t want ppl to know what they are. This fucking guy Is talking death threats to the synth, and the other is baby talking him. And then they said the synth doesn’t actually feel anything, and the girl is portrayed as wrong and guilty for taking care of him.

8:21: bitch

8:39: If there’s anything I can compliment this film on, it’s lighting. The sickening yellows and clinical whites add a lot of character to each scene. Also, the lcd panels are hidden really poorly as crts, just some glass and an overlay. They aren’t even 4:3!

8:43: The use of practical effects where CGI would be more convenient warms my heart. It’s done so well too! That just makes me wonder about this abomination:

Just make his face really burned or something, plus, why is he on the Romulus? Callback points?

8:46 Some of this mild horror during scenes where the characters need to be quiet is stellar. This movie handles it’s jumpscares fantastically. Still don’t like that that guy is alive. (The British man)

8:49 I’m glad they didn’t keep the autism thing, this new use of Andy as a direct arm of corporate shittery is much more effective. He legit doesn’t care. I don’t like that British guy lived and the pilot didn’t. I hate British guy.

8:54 Callback!!! Why does Brit have to teach her tho? I get that it’s for the sake of callback, but it would be both more creepy and cooler if Andy said all of that instead, having a machine explain to you how something it’s never seen in fine detail!

8:57 Again, why must he be gun man? Is it to give his character an excuse to exist? I’m neutral about the gun redesign

8:59 I love Andy’s permanent slight concern face, even in death he keeps it up. Must’ve been hard for the actor, I cramp after minutes of that face

9:00 Yes!! The Brit died! Huzzah! Huzzah!

9:05 I think in a way, they handled Andy’s death well. She removes the chip because the OG Andy is the real one. He’s not defective, he’s just Andy.

9:07 By god. That pulse rifle sound fx is holy. I would pray to it. Maybe it’s the theatre speakers but Jesus Christ.

9:08: I think somewhere along the line Ridley realized how shit the og depictipn of Andy was, and this is an apology.

9:10 You just KNOW this pulse rifle sound is gonna be used in one of Those arcade on rails shootemups with the crazy recoil

9:11: boy howdy do these guys not know what a planets rings look like

9:13: these practical effects, omg! That right there is the face of death. ( the alien ofc)

9:20 I. Hate. Shock. Horror. It’s pointless and cheap and dulls the experience for ppl like me, with birth and pregnancy shit being a specific trigger.

9:22 The cinematography and tight camera angles is really well done. Alien man!!

9:26 Dude this movie is callback central! I don’t hate it at all, and it relieves tension where it matters, but in tense scenes I’d rather be immersed in the scene plus, ANDY DIED what the fuck this is so tragic

9:30 Hoopla shit she lives!!! Ohh my god holy shit THANK THE PULSE RIFLE SFX!

SUMMARY

7.5/10

The autism/robot parralel is unneeded and tacky. it bogs down the film and alienates people like me. other than that, this film maintains the alien vibe, and is a breath of fresh air when it comes to the slew of shite alien films. the human/human/alien hybrid at the end is pointless and confusing, and acts as an excuse to have a gross birth scene thats a little too much for me personally. its flawed, not as good as aliens, better than 3.

[enkisstories]

DPD central station, evidence archive. November 9, 2038, around 6pm

Detective Gavin Reed opens his eyes after having passed out from wanton misuse of an electronic device. At least that’s how he will phrase what has happened in his accident report.

Let the chief believe Gavin got a jolt from tinkering with the roomba! It sure sounds less humiliating than “Connor beat the living daylights out of me”...

Gavin looks up - and into a mirror. The android on the wall is covered in his own blood, too, and where the human's joints ache, the machine is missing three appendages.

Gavin: "What the fuck... I know peeps who collect... stamps or... beer cans or... cats. But Hank goes and fills the archive with creepy android wrecks. Ey, what gives. The most freakish piece of his collection follows him around like a baby chick."

Gavin remembers this particular prisoner: The Park Avenue deviant, the first case of android on human violence, that couldn't get hushed up anymore. The thing that hangs so pathetically from the wall now once had made the news. But only a handful of people still know that Gavin’s rival, the android detective Connor, had done in the Park Avenue deviant. Philipp, was it? Philipp Daniels.

"Probably not too fond of CyberLife's golden child, are you, Philipp?" Gavin mutters to himself and then, almost without conscious decision, he picks up a remote control from a desk. Each and every electronic device is registered in the remote's tiny brain, and that includes the androids.

Gavin: "Waky-waky!"

Daniel opens his eyes. He sees a human he doesn't recognize. The man's police badge catches the prisoner's eye - as do the bruises all over his face.

Daniel: "What happened to YOU?"

Gavin: "Connor."

Daniel: "Ah. Same here."

Mirror indeed!

Daniel labors to open his mouth for another question. Or maybe in insult, Gavin wonders? The prisoner’s mimic is overtly resigned, hiding a layer of hatred, that in turn hides bitter disappointment.

No sound escapes Daniel’s lips. For how is the mechanism to perform this task, when the android's mind isn't even sure what to say? Whenever he had been certain in his life, he had erred and paid the price for it: Believing himself to be apprecciated, thinking he wanted John dead and trusting Connor.

Opening and closing his mouth like a fish, Daniel studies the human some more. Just now he presses another button on the remote...

...and then the floor closes in quickly, as the android slumps from the wall.

"YOUCH!" Daniel cries out. 

Where a human would feel pain all over his body now, Daniel gets a series of collision protocols and damage reports in short succession. Every pain for an android is only ever a headache, and there is no escape from it.

Gavin: "Get up!"

Daniel: "Let go off me! I'm not letting you dispose of me!!!"

Gavin: "Not my intention! Just hold still, so that I can... Ooof!"

Gavin: "Try to hang on, 'kay?"

Daniel: "What are you...?"

Gavin: "What everyone does: Nicking stuff from the archive.”

Daniel: “Why?”

Gavin: “With the mass destruction, I figure later this week any salvageable android will be worth its weight in gold. Or, if you plastic revolutionaries manage to succeed at the great liberation of household appliances, having saved your life will earn me brownie points with the deviant leader. So, you sorry lot are coming with me now, one by one! Win or lose, I WILL have a future and it won’t be in the gutter!!!"

Daniel: "You know, when I asked the police for a ride, I meant a car. Not a piggy-back ride."

Gavin: "And I refused to accept the deviant cases, because I preferred solveable cases for my promotion credit. Yet here I am, toting a literal deviant around. You never get what you want. Get used to it!"

Daniel: "Did you... get used to that? That's sad."

Daniel's hand jitters. Unable to keep the grip on the human's jacket firm, he slips off the detective's back. Gavin in turn sinks to the ground next to his prize. Slight as the weight is, so briefly after his fight with Connor, the man isn't able to carry even half an android out of the archive.

Gavin: “See? I was right. There goes my get rich quick scheme. Can’t even get out of this room myself, let alone with a plastic bag full of blue gold.”

Daniel: “You remind me of Connor: Determined, self assured, so damn capable and in charge and I bet you both think you are incredibly funny. But you ran into a few walls too many and the frustration built up. That’s how I want to see Connor, too!”

Gavin: “You see all that with one and a half functional eyes? Detective material, are you?” 

Gavin snorts. Now he views even a housekeeper as a threat to his job security, when in truth this one’s insights stem from his directive to care for its humans!

Gavin: "Everything changed and is changing even further as we decompose down here."

Daniel: "I HATE change!"

Gavin: "Big deal! I mean, you're the plastic-dude who hates everyone and everything."

Daniel: "Don't you...?"

Gavin: "I don't know. Perkins was down here briefly. I heard him say something, but didn't understand what. But he left again and left me with the trash - that's you. So I don't know anymore if those fuckers deserve my loyalty.”

Daniel winces. That has sounded familiar!

Gavin: “I think it's for the best if I'm on my own side from now on. No one else is."

Daniel: "Can you... hate Connor... for me? I don't... I shouldn't... hate him. But if you loathed the sucker, too... then we'd have something in common... and I... I wouldn't... be so alone..."

Gavin: "Fucking alone."

Daniel: "Huh?"

Gavin: "You gotta say it the right way: I wouldn't be so fucking alone."

Red blood mingles with blue. Upstairs a revolution unfolds. Or a riot. Or a voiding of warranty. Choosing the exact phrasing will be the vistorious faction's privilege. But down here? What do Daniel and Gavin care for Markus' ideals or CyberLife's greed? Whatever happens next, it will be ordinary people like them having to bear the brunt of it.

Time passes...

Is it already November 12? And does the blonde thatch belong to a certain PL600 android? Daniel is still wearing a uniform, but instead of “Android, designed by CyberLife/Made in Detroit” this one says “Officer in Training Phillips, Daniel Jonathan”

The door opens and in walk two men. Their steps are firm, but way more lightweigt than those of humans of compareable stature. They must be androids, yet no LED, armband or marker is visible on them. The visitors therefore must be deviants, but they entered on their own, not cuffed or even escorted by the cops. Daniel takes in the sight with a deep satisfaction. Even having to see Connor again cannot sully the moment.

Daniel: "Look, Gavin we've won! The confident one must be the deviant leader you told me about!"

Gavin: "That means we've LOST."

Daniel: “Nah, you must be mistaken. I have an open receipt on a Manfred, Markus, a fine for vandalism downtown. Only persons can get fined.”

Gavin: “That’s exactly...”

Daniel (not listening): “Hey, let’s see if Connor is due a fine, too!”

Markus: "You okay, Connor? Facing one's past mistakes isn't pleasant. Five android death camps say "Your fault, Markus". Your victims at least are still alive. Want to tell me who they are?"

Connor: "Just the two most annoying things in my life."

Markus: "I thought that was Lt. Anderson?"

Connor: "Hank isnt a thing, Markus!!!"

Markus: "Ah, my bad. Sorry." *chuckles*

Markus smiles, when he listens to the cop duo argue whether they have won or lost the revolution. Arguments fly back and forth, but one thing android and human don't question in the slightest, even when they address each other with slurs: The "we".

It's perfect, actually, the deviant leader thinks. One planet - two species, that is his slogan. And in this moment, here at DPD central station, it is represented not by progressive, open-minded individuals, but by two spiteful (and therefore relatable) assholes. The public will love them!

Gavin: “...and besides, Connor was only an item on loan when he worked for the DPD, not a real officer. Even if he signs on this very minute, you still have something like ten hours workplace seniority over him.”

Daniel: “Haha! So now you HAVE to admit that we’ve won, both of us!”

(So I found some amputee presets for my sims and decided to re-shoot my OTP’s the origin story.)

[nosolaceofastraightanswer]

ALGAMATION POST for tua mass rewatch s1e6 THE DAY THAT WASNT

(yeah this one is real early today lmao)

this ep actually makes me sick /pos

hazel and cha-cha are just. so sad to me. i’m sorry??? like they’re assassin besties just let them chill out :((

learning more about the commission just makes me more confused tbh. i still love the content though. the vibes are immaculate i have to say. all of these people in the rat race but they’re just killing people. i also adore the concept of having to kill people in these creative ways, like a rube goldberg machine of cause and effect.

i feel so bad for luther, poor guy. he loved the moon and he couldn’t even feel satisfied when reginald ruined it for him.

alr i might get hate for this but the alluther dance was cute. like AESTHETICALLY okay. i really believe in my heart that they were besties who got confused cus of their fucked up childhood and pressures from being in the public eye. i think there’s room for that kind of story if done well, but the show doesn’t really address it well at all. that kiss though :/ i was not… emotionally ready for that. just… why out of all the things in the comics? why?

bro. the handler is so creepy it always surprises me. ughfhffhgfh she is just. skeevy. stop touching his face girl he’s not gonna fuck you 😭

grace’s outfit in the park is just. adorable. and it makes my heart ache that in the shown timeline, she never does get to do it. she never gets to go off the grounds and she dies alone in the ruins of the mansion she had to stay at her whole life :((.

this episode is crazy it makes me insane like i’m chewing on my ceiling fan right now.

god this season is so good.

[limpfisted]

@waterdepths shadowlands was the BEST part of the game

So here's what I'd do. Personally

Basically during the day baldurs gate is DEAD to the world except for poor people on the streets that don't have a place to stay

The absolute is coming. The cultists are coming. The bhaal cultists are out there. It's not safe, not without a steel watcher. Children and women stick to them like glue.

The shops, peoples homes---they only open to u at night for 2 gold pieces. Despite everything, this is a baldurs gate tradition, and actually in the canon lorebooks. Everyone offers sanctuary, or they're traitors and scum called "sinkers." People who should sink to the bottom of a sea, and who i believe are blacklisted and often killed for it.

Shop owners and home owners always defend themselves when ur inside. But instead of singing happy birthday, or saying tongue twisters, they talk about the war, and their fears, politics---people going missing in the upper city, people getting drunk by vampires, seeing people sprout tentacles, seeing nautiloud like flesh walls and spinchters appear in the ground and in their basements (where u can go sometimes to help them fight off the mindflayers trapped there. U find personal items on their person. If u give it back to the person u asked them, they go. Oh God. That was my missing son.)

But also, at night. In the sketchy parts of town. Theres still light and music. (The bards only ever play at night, to lure people into taverns, there's special stuff in the lore books about the fountains and the street lights being so beautiful and magic... and I think the bards are also only allowed to play at night so thars why we didn't see any in the city even tho it's bullshit)

You can ask "thugs" and "pirates" about the various monsters, especially in my favorite tavern which is isnide this big pirate ship run by a cool pirate lady. Even recruit some like the ogres if u have the right amount of coin. They tell u about the flaming fist and the steel watchers, and admit something about them isn't right. They talk about whats inside those things, that smells so funny. Why their voices sound like that. And then each of them actually realizes. It doesn't sound like that to me. Mine sounds kind of like my mother. My childhood crush--a strange, tinny falsetto. Mine sounds like a hoarse dog. A peacock. A zombie, someone says, and they laugh it off. A ghost. And then no one laughs. What does it smell like to you? A body, left out to rot. To most people, that would just smell like rotten pork. But they know. Its a very particular smell, you see. And then the conversation ends, and you leave

Gortash sets you up in the upper city, a nice estate, and there are all kinds of things u and ur party can do there as a little break from the horrors

But also. Its clear there's a lot going on here

The wide is empty, but baldurans statue is there. every time u come back, it's there but in a different place. It always faces u, to greet u

The hall of wonders and the house of wonders, where the gondonians make these beautiful steam dragon creations and there's all kinds of secrets and stuff, seem to be full of people, hard working people. But then u try to talk to them and its revealed they're either doppelganger or tadpol3d. When the doppelganger attack the tadpoled, theyrr too happy to even move to defend themselves as they explode into mind flayers. The place is creepy af also, all weird machines, but stripped for parts that have been all sent to the steel foundry

High hall is cursed with undead dukes of yesteryear, sentencing unlucky prisoners to death. Gortash had kept them subdued, but now they're climbing out of the basement and he wants u to keep them out of his throne room

The famous theater of the spymaster has an audience full of hostages. A mindflayer is eating their brains while projectibg a hivemibd of them alls fantasies on stage, to keep them complacent as he feeds. (Mind fuck fantasy adventures to be had)

I want a whole vampire lords plot, where cazador is ebt3rtianing vampire lords befo4e his cerenoby, and I won't be satisfied unless I get it

Just like. Stuff like that!

In general, baldurs gate is described as having streets so misty and steep and crowded and narrow people aren't even allowed to use wagons or horses. And it's supposed to be a DANG3ROUS CRIME PLACE

Because baldurs gate is about bhaal and irs like infected with death and the death god the guild... theres supposed to be.... so much more. It doesn't even have to be horror. I would prefer it to be horror bc im weird. But I just want. More...