#anne bonny i understand you now

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I love rewatching a series and feeling completely different about certain characters than I did the first time around. On that topic:

I LOVE JACK RACKHAM

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Jack walking into the british for a perdón when they know he has their money AAAAAAHHHHHHH

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Half way through the journey of our analyses

I feel like roughly half of the analysis I'm reading about OFMD S2 is folks who clearly fixated on a character (it's Izzy, it's always Izzy that inspires this kind of analysis) write analyses that cause the 2nd response of, "Um…did you ever study literary analysis in school."

Now I come at this from a slightly odd place in that I did study literary analysis in school (30+ years ago) where I learned it's possible to interpret anything about any way, because we're all bringing different lenses to the analysis. Which isn't to say that an author can't have an intended interpretation. 

Dante in Canto V of Inferno (Divine Comedy) would still like folks to understand fixating on the two damned-lovers and ignoring the details that the artist is putting in there for you to catch about how they are damned because they won't change the toxic patterns that got them there in the first place. Also, they can't because they are in hell, and hell is like that. That Dante-the-writer had Dante-the-character swoon over those same two damned-lovers (because Dante-the-character is on a journey of moral correction) is hilarious, but doesn't make it any less the point of that section of the work, but I digress.

As a career, I am very aware that folks love to misinterpret what is meant to be very clear instructions. Of course, I'm writing policies and procedures, which is a bit different from writing fiction, and is worlds away from creating a t.v. show. But that's the life experience that I always bring to literary analysis. Frequently, people choose their interpretations to fit what they want to see, and that's part of being human.

I've seen a fair number of folks interpret Izzy's redemption arc in S2 as one of a queer man struggling with disabilities and mental health issues whose struggle is made meaningless by his demise. Which sure, you could interpret it that way and in that it's coming from I'm sure an emotional place, I get it. And hmmm… I might give this interpretation more credence  if I hadn't read a lot of Izzy analysis for S1 that was wildly different than the text.

So let's take a step back. 

First, know the rules of the literary universe: OFMD is a show where the reality is not ours. It is either the Core Universe or something very close to it. BTW: If you've never heard of Core Universe or read the seminal BtVS+HtLJ "When Hellmouth's Collide" (https://www.ltljverse.com/index2.htm), a Core Universe is one where everything lines up. Row boats are magic, and where there is a Badminton, he will accidentally stab/shoot himself. 

Terminology more befitting of that fancy literature degree might be to say that OFMD functions along the logic of Magical Realism. Characters will appear briefly for the purposes of the story and then disappear not to be mentioned again (Nana, Calico Jack, Mary Read & Anne Bonny). Things align because they are meant to align. It is a universe where the Gravy Basket is a real place, and meant to be taken seriously.  It's also a universe where a man may become a seagull, because he loves the sea. You change for love, but the ways you change may be positive or toxic. 

They can result in a bird that never gets to know rest. Always flying over the sea. Or they lead to becoming a bird, who can float in the sea or land on a unicorn's leg. 

Transformation. 

Anyway, S1 - Stede commissioned a ship with secret passageways. It did not have a buxom mermaid on the prow, nor something more befitting a ship named the Revenge. He commissioned a unicorn prow and went off to become a pirate. 

A not particularly violent pirate. But a pirate who didn't have a problem with the violence of piracy. See Stede telling Lucius (hardest working man on the ship in S1) to take notes during a violent raid where the show's logo was literally carved into the chest of a dead man. 

BTW: The tone about violence is darker in S2, but the violence was there in S1. It was just presented in a more whimsical way. The nose jar was full of noses in S1. We heard about Blackbeard's violence. A man was skinned alive off screen, but we focused on the Prussian (but also sort of French) party. 

What Izzy needed to be redeemed from was established in S1. The problem is that folks who interpreted Izzy as a) the central focus of the show and b) a put upon manager just trying to do right by his crew (or as one Tumblerina referred to him as the man/father of the family going out to hunt - excuse me while I vomit - and support his family as men must do), are not going to understand what Izzy's S2 arc was all about. 

Ed and Stede are the main characters in a romantic story. There are other characters with their own arcs, but they are the main characters.

In S1, Stede created a safe space where characters had a chance to breathe for the first time. Possibly ever, and as a result revisited parts of themselves they'd lost. Wee John got back in touch with his roots as the son of a seamstress. Frenchie got back to what he loves, scamming the rich. The Swede sang like a siren of the sea, because it doesn't always have to be scary. 

Ed had his first good time in years. After expressing suicidal ideation to Izzy because of his terminal boredom in S1.E4 - Discomfort in a Married state, Ed found himself some balance. Some sweet marmalade. 

Ed and Izzy were in a toxic relationship that only reinforced their toxic behavior. And yes, I'm going to overuse the word toxic. While piracy is a place where you can go be yourself and shag whoever you want (whatever happens at sea stays at sea), it's not a place where you can be soft. Gentle. Emotionally open. Available. 

Ed's only path out that he could see at the time was to plan to skin the face of the man who built a ridonculous boat with a unicorn on the prow and wear it for the rest of his life. A plan to send Stede to Doggy Heaven. 

BTW: This is why Izzy uses the line in S2.E3 - the Innkeeper, that they put Ed down like a mad dog, so that Stede could reply that they sent Ed to Doggy Heaven. Reiterating this concept of piracy as violence, as taking away faces / identity / lives, but also losing one's own. Forgetting even what day of the year it is. Also revealing that Stede knew about Ed & Izzy's plan to murder him, send Stede to doggy heaven, and had moved on. 

This is also why the respite in S2.E4 - Fun and Games is so critical. Mary Read/Anne Bonney are portrayed as direct parallels to Stede/Ed. They are selling what are, no doubt, the spoils of their piracy. But they've chosen a remote location with no community, but each other and a life where they are not actually communicating. Which on its surface is where Ed and Stede end up, and yet…the Revenge can sail back. They are on the shore facing the sea, not in a jungle lost from a clear view. I'll quote the relevant Dante in just a bit, never fear.

Ed and Stede's new inn has the potential for a solid foundation, because the unicorn has been planted firmly in the ground, and if we get an S3, I firmly expect the unicorn leg to have transformed into a tree, because I've read a lot of medieval literature and that's how that sort of thing works. 

Well, it could be a penis tree (this was a thing in medieval marginalia), but somehow I don't think it will be. 

 But I'm getting a little ahead of myself.

Back in S1, the plan to murder Stede and take his identity broke down despite Izzy trying to perform an intervention to get Ed back into the toxic soup, and ended with Ed curled up in a bathtub and opening up about murdering his father. An image the show chose to flash on the screen multiple times in S2 just in case folks forgot that this was a traumatizing event for Ed, and was itself the culmination of years of traumatic abuse at his father's hands. 

Just as Stede kept flashing back to the moment his father tells him what it is to be a man, and kills an animal, the blood splashing on Stede's wee little face. 

That this is the point of the show. Transforming past trauma. It's there. You always carry the scars. Sometimes, you decide to tattoo yourself with the image of the thing you fear, and then the thing you fear is always there, but you've got to keep moving forward. To stay in one place, to stay trapped in the same emotion/action, is hell. I've read a lot of lit crit of Dante's Inferno. Trust me, it's the same thing.

Izzy's redemption arc is firmly based in the events of S1E6 - Here Dragons Be, because it's where the pustule of his relationship with Ed breaks. His attempted intervention fails to get Ed to kill Stede, so Izzy tries to kill Stede. Not realizing that a) Stede is a main character and b) this is a Core Universe show. Where it's possible to win a duel by being stabbed in the left side of your gut and stay there for many hours and not die. So he loses the 1 thing that defines him, his job. 

Izzy's redemption arc is firmly based in the events of s1E8 - We Gull Way Back, where he enlists Calico Jack to lure Ed off the boat (with all the toxic masculinity that entailed) so that the British could show up and shoot the head off the unicorn, and kill Stede. So Izzy can crawl back into his old patterns / job / life. 

Izzy's redemption arc is firmly based in the big drama confrontation in S1E10 - Wherever You Go There You Are, when as a person whose entire identity is tied up in being Blackbeard's First Mate and after realizing that he couldn't cut it as a captain on his own, he does whatever the f- he can to get Ed back into the toxic soup so he can get his old role/job back.  

This isn't to say that Ed's off the deep end actions in S2.E1&2 aren't his own choices. He is a main character. His emotional arc is one of the driving forces of the show. But they are the choices of a man who wants to die. After a lifetime of violent action that had been increasingly drowning him, he wants to die in the violence of battle, but the enemy are never good enough. He wants Izzy to kill him, but Izzy won't. Until he does…sort of. He wants to die in a storm. He's carving notches on his wall hoping to lure Ned Low to him so that he can die in pain. But Ed is the devil and does not die.

Except Ed's not the devil. He doesn't have a head made of smoke. He's a man. Not a fisherman. Not a fisher of men, and what an interesting attempt to go Christ himself off into the wilderness only to be fired for not being that good at it, and then receive his letter from the deep. 

Because in a show full of magical realism, the bottles with messages will reach the intended recipient eventually.

"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood for the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to say what that wood was. So savage and harsh and strong, that the thought of it renews my fear. It is so bitter that death is little more so. But to speak of the good that I found there, I will tell of the other things I saw…and like one with laboring breath comes forth from the deep onto the shore, who turns back to the perilous water and stares, so my spirit still fleeing turned to gaze upon the pass that has never left anyone alive." Dante, Canto 1, Inferno. 

Instead of dying, Ed goes not to Purgatory (sorry I'd quote the opening lines, but Inferno actually works better here), but to the Gravy Basket, where he confronts the spirit of Hornigold. Dead spirit. Aspect of Ed's self. Both. Neither. Hated. Self. Unkillable. 

Is saved by a goldfish incarnation of Stede. 

But just as the imaginary as Stede's vision of what / who he thinks he needs to be for Ed, this is not true. Life being what it is, Ed and Stede rush when they need to go slow. They break apart because they are saying words, but the other person is hearing based on their own interpretation. 

BTW: The clue Dante-the-writer gives the reader in Canto V of Inferno is how one of the damned lovers, Francesca, explains how she hooked up with her brother-in-law, Paulo. She describes reading an Arthurian romance. She and Paulo kissed when Gwenevere and Lancelot kissed in the story. Except the version they are reading (and Dante tells the reader which version this is) was intended as a cautionary tale. Also, Paulo and Francesca were real people who were murdered by Francesca's husband when he caught them together. So there is that too.

I always like it in fiction when characters misinterpret each other because they hear based on their life experiences and don't hear the things that are said/unsaid based on the life experiences of the other person speaking. That's good writing. It's also how we end up with wildly varying interpretations of works of fiction.

But I digress.

Izzy's S2 arc is that he must let go of his relationship with Ed and turn to others. He must learn to let go of toxic masculinity and let in softness. Not weakness. Water is not weak, but it is soft. Calypso, goddess of the sea, is not weak. Her birthday is whatever day you need it to be. She is vast and deep and soft and relentless. 

In Ro-sham-bo, it's a shame that there is not a gesture for water. Because it is not paper that defeats stone, but water that wears away the stone. Of course, scissors wouldn't do much to water either, so that would sort of break Ro-sham-bo, so I suppose it must stay as it is.

It is through a craft's project that the crew of the Revenge find healing. Turn Izzy into the unicorn. A unicorn that Izzy's own actions caused to be decapitated with a British cannon ball in S1. That Izzy rendered legless (drunk). But the Revenge is a boat. They just need to swim/sail. It is through a craft's project that Izzy is able to offer healing to Lucius, who in turn is then able to turn their art away from fixating on Ed, and the trauma that he's been through and back towards love, and Black Pete. 

But it's not possible to see Izzy's S2 arc, if you didn't interpret S1 Izzy as needing to go through his own gravy basket. 

That Izzy dies because his transformation is necessary. He can't leave Ed, and if he doesn't leave Ed, then Ed can't stop being Blackbeard. The kracken. He literally tells Ed this as he chooses to transform. To free the world of Blackbeard, so Ed can be Ed. Yet, I've read so many posts by folks saying, "But why did he have to die?" Which sure, you can choose not believe what the character says while dying.

Which is a narrative privilege. To get a good dying speech. "There he is" get to be transmutted from an attack to an actual seeing. The larger than life concept of a smoke headed pirate can waft away.

Stories are hard to kill. They live on long past us, and as long as someone is remembered, especially in a universe like OFMD, we live. 

Though always reject the gift of a clock. That's someone telling you that you've only got so many hours left of life. If you are a character in a story. 

Thus the other parallel in this season is Izzy to Auntie and Ed to Zheng Yi Sao. Auntie must allow Zheng softness. Izzy must go through a sea change to something new and strange. Also, this would be a case of Doylistically the writers needed to line up Olu with Stede for that to work, and thus the new configurations of Olu and Jim's relationship, which, shrug, could be poly. Could be friends to lovers to friends.  Woulda, coulda, had more time, but that's on Max for not giving us 2 more episodes.

Prince Richard was trying to become a concept, but was too in love with the mechanics of it. Stede was trying to become a concept too. Found his fame, and all too quickly the toxic end of that particular route. Magical Realism was on his side until he tried to face down Zheng Yi Sao, the Queen of Pirates, and then the rules of the story weren't. Because those clocks were ticking. Everyone was in a very dark wood. The memory of blood splashed on Stede's face as a little boy was a warning. It was a reminder. It was the wrong lessons we take from our childhood and must unlearn to become whole.

Having the final shot of the show being Buttons landing on the unicorn leg as a reminder that this is a show about transformation. One thing becoming another thing. Somewhere the dead are dancing in Calypso's court. A dance below the sea and on the sea and with the sea. While the living keep sailing on their magic ship to do…I don't know. 

Because the Golden Age of Piracy is coming to an end. They'll go create new worlds and new places to be. Transforming.

If we get no more of the show, this is a resolution.

Since I've been quoting Dante, I'm going to end this with the final vision in Paradiso. Because folks who haven't been reading my analysis for the last 30 years / read it, may not realize that the Divine Comedy (a story that begins in sorrow and ends in joy) ends with the vision of a 3 way rainbow. 

"In the profound and shining Being of the deep Light, three circles appeared, of three colours, and one magnitude: one seemed refracted by the other, like Iris’s rainbows, and the third seemed fire breathed equally from both. O how the words fall short, and how feeble compared with my conceiving!…Power, here, failed the deep imagining: but already my desire and will were rolled, like a wheel that is turned, equally, by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars."

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DIANA: Gilbert gave me this in return for your note. He's coming to watch you anyway. I didn't want Jane or Gabby Brothers to see me.

ANNE: [reading from letter] "...to your own opinion. It would have been easier if you told me in person, if you still consider me your friend. Sincerely, Gilbert Blythe." I won't be accused of being a coward, Diana. He doesn't understand. Tell him I'll speak to him the first minute I can steal away tonight.

DIANA: Calm down, Anne.

ANNE: I'm so ashamed. I can't go up on that stage. I can't. I'll be merciless if I fail.

DIANA: You've never failed at anything, Anne Shirley. Go on.

AMELIA EVANS: [reciting lines 76-88 of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus]

Ho! ho! the breakers roared

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,

A fisherman stood aghast,

To see the form of a maiden fair,

Lashed close to a drifting mast.

The salt sea was frozen on her breast,

The salt tears in her eyes;

And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed

On the billows fall and rise.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,

In the midnight and the snow!

[God] save us all from a death like this,

On the reef of Norman's Woe!

LADY IN YELLOW: Mrs. Evans has just completed a European tour.

LADY IN BLUE: Oh, she's a prodigious talent. I was moved beyond words.

MRS. SPENCER: On behalf of the Charlottetown hospital, I would like to offer our indebtedness to Mrs. Amelia Evans for gracing us with such a stirring performance in support of today's benefit. Thank you. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present one of Avonlea's most celebrated students, who achieved the highest standing in the recent entrance examinations to Queens Academy: Miss Anne Shirley.

LADY IN BLUE: It will be amusing to see what arises from the local amateur actors.

ANNE: [reciting lines 1-6, 25-30 and 85-90 from Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman]

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

And the highwayman came riding--

Riding--riding--

The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight,

But I shall [return] with the yellow gold before the morning light;

Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,

Then look for me by moonlight,

Watch for me by moonlight,

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."

Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky,

With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.

Blood-red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat;

When they shot him down on the highway.

Down like a dog on the highway,

And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.

AUDIENCE: Encore! Encore!

LADY IN YELLOW: Dear, you were splendid. Go back. They're encoring you.

ANNE: I can't go back.

LADY IN YELLOW: Yes, you can.

I got the movie quote from greengables-1.tripod.com

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My Possible Unpopular TVD Opinions

DISCLAIMER: This is MY fucking opinions, lets be for real. If you don’t agree, then good. If you do, then great.

This fandom doesn’t realize everyone’s horrible. One thing I’ve noticed about this fanodm is that people really like to pick and choose who’s the worst or the ‘least worse’ character. Idk, I just find it weird that someone favors Klaus Mikaelson, but HATES Damon Salvatore. As if Klaus isn’t terribly worse. Almost every single character in this series has done a multidue of horrible things, especially the vampires, so it doesn’t make sense to people do that. I understand if it was based on personalities, but the way people express their likings, it doesn’t seem like it is. For example, the whole Damon versus Stefan debate. Some people hate Damon because what he’s done, but turn around and love Stefan even though he’s done the same shit, and even worse.

Damon didn’t need to be labeled as the ‘better man’. Look, Damon is my FAVORITE character. I love that man with all of my heart, but truthfully, I don’t think he should’ve been the “better man”. All Damon’s life he has been coming second to Stefan. With their parents, Katherine, Elena, and damn near everyone else. And honestly, I think it got worse with Elena because deep down, she wanted him to be “Damon with Stefan-like qualities”. But he’ll never be Stefan. And that’s okay. I think Damon’s arc should’ve concluded with him accepting the fact that he’ll never be the better man, and him being okay with being imperfect. Not everyone has to be the hero.

Bamon should’ve fucking happened! If Bamon has one fan, it’s me. If Bamon has no fans, I’m no longer on Earth. I just really, REALLY, love this ship, I don’t think you guys understand. Honestly, it might’ve been better than Delena. Damon and Bonnie have some underrated chemistry and tension since day one. And they had a great set up. Damon sworn to protect the Bennet bloodline and now he has this girl who pushes his buttons alot, while he’s constantly pushing her buttons—UGH, I love it. True enemies to friends to lovers. They should’ve ended up together, atleast once. But we all know why it didn’t happen *cough* julie *cough*.

Caroline’s such a fucking hypocrite. I love Caroline, but she also annoys the fuck outta me. And I think it’s just her natural personality. She’s just so judgemental that it drives me crazy, and personally, I can never be friends with someone who always has ann opinion on the shit I do. What really bothered me about her is her drilling down on Elena during the first part of season 4 about Damon. Which I would’ve understood considering her abusive past with Damon, however, she never mentioned or brought up that as a reason why she hates Damon or why Elena shouldn’t love him. Instead, she came off really fucking hypocritcial because not even five second after basically calling Elena an idiot for picking Damon, she’s LAUGHING WITH KLAUS?!?!? Aka the most evil mf in the entire series, like let’s be so fucking fr. Klaus is ten times worse than Damon and this bitch is laughing it up with him over champagne. And not to mention she sleeps with him later on.

Bonnie would’ve made a better protagonist. Bonnie’s storyline had so much potential to be stretched out. Like she came from a very powerful coven that dated back to the first creation of an immortal being AND the other side. Her ancestoral history with the Salvatore brothers. The way she became one of the most powerful witches—like she fucking stopped hell fire, bffr. And Bonnie’s fine asf, she’s that girl. I think her character arc is good, and would’ve been great if racism didn’t occur with Kat Graham.

Elena is not as bad as y’all say she is. Can she a be a little self-centered? Yeah. But it’s not hard to understand why. During the first few seasons, EVERYONE made everything about Elena—especially Damon and Stefan. Like Bonnie was about to die for her during season 2. Everyone has risked everything for her. Shit, if people treated me like that, I would think everything’s about me, too! And no, Elena’s not a crybaby. If I was going through everything she was going through, I would cry every day and night. Girl lost two sets of parents, her brother at one point, and both of her guardians (Jenna and Alaric). And at one point, lost the love of her life (Damon in S6). Not to mention, someone was always trying to kill her, and then she had to deal with an evil doppleganger. Shehas every reason to cry. And the weird thing about that is, everyone calls Elena a crybaby but not Klaus? Every damn picture I see of that man, he’s crying his eyes out. It’s always that same damn crying face too. I love Klaus but y’all really be pickin and choosin who to pick on.

Damon and Stefan’s background should’ve been talked about more. I still don’t know why the producers, or whoever, changed their origins from the books (as far as I know they were from the 1500s in Italy) but I think changing it was so unnecessary. I don’t know why people have such an obsession with 1800s, but it’s WEIRD how we collectively decided to treat that time as an aesthetic while this country was treating people like animals, but hey, that’s just me. ANYWAYS, I think they should’ve brought up the brothers’ history and background earlier in the series, instead of waiting till the end where the rest of the story was falling flat. Because if we’re being honest, in the early seasons, we don’t know much about them. Hell, I don’t even think we know their birthdays. Like we’re aware of their troubled past, but we don’t know their family backgrounds, and I feel like knowing someone’s familia backgrounds helps understanding their core.

“When I kill someone, they’re supposed to stay dead!”. Alaric should’ve stayed dead. Jeremy should’ve stayed dead. End of story.

Kai’s actions are not justified. This fandom and hundreds of others have a tendecy of babying these grown ass people. So what Kai’s family treated him differently. That literally happens to damn near everyone in this world. It does not give you anexcuse to kill your entire family, INCLUDING CHILDREN?? Bitch you deserve to get locked up. They should’ve killed his ass but that’s just me. But Kai’s fun, I suppose. I just don’t like it when people baby him trying to justify him killing innocent children just because his father didn’t love him enough. Who cares? Go to fucking therapy like the rest of us. And then y’all tried to ship him with BONNIE?? OUR PRECIOUS BONNIE?? It’s like y’all forgot how he made her life a living hell in that prison world, which led her to almost killing herself. Bonkai could burn, don’t ever bring up that garbage ass shit ever again in my presence.

Might do a part two

[storkmuffin]

Anne Bonny unnie, I so feel you right now. I feel very cursed by the island of Nassau too. I understand you completely. (Also she keeps speaking in this oracle-type way, like she's channeling the Spirit of the Narrative and it's making me quake in my little fuzzy booties.)

[bloodyentrails]

I saw your tags... have at it! I'm curious :D Top 5 Black Sails scenes please!

i let myself stew with this for a few days because i didn't know what to write XD

so.

my all time favourite moment that i wasn't prepared for was TELL YOUR GUVNOR TELL HIM I'M COMING and, i mean, the whole episode, but it's like we've seen flint be violent and aggressive and we know he's a good fighter but we've not really seen him make a concerted effort and actually marshal troops and carry out an intricate plan and it being allowed to work??!! like he is finally able to use all his grief and anger towards something that makes sense and it's really beautiful. he feels so powerful in that episode to me, the sheer fucking confidence. i tend to pretend season 4 doesn't exist tbh, there's just too much heartache in it, too much in-fighting. but here he's so inspiring and he fucking knows it and in my mind i have this framed and i hope i can remember it forever.

(i think the relationship between flint wanting to protect nassau and rebuild it but never really communicates that vs him communicating it and putting it into practise, ... it's like he feels more alive to me in the season finale? like he's found a way to apply himself and channel his energy. i have spent a lot of time thinking about him wrt shadow work and i think he's one of the few characters who experience their own dark side and integrate the shadow and that is very powerful to me.)

james meeting thomas for the first time. like, the instant chemistry and the sass, this is what it's like to meet people you fall in love with and it's so perfect and i know it's his memory and maybe it wasn't so perfect but it was perfect to james anyway and i love them i love them i love them. i love ships that have this instant chemistry and i love that toby and rupert knew each other and it's so palpable. full marks, no notes.

anne coming home to max in the bath tub and taking off her gear and just sitting beside her. they have so many great moments but this one stands out to me for its ordinariness and domesticity i think. it's so quiet.

anne emerging from the water to take over a ship. fucking hell! i wish the actor who played her was in more things but also i think after playing anne bonny like this you probably might as well retire. love anne leading her people and i'd absolutely want to see more of her fighting and pirating and i love her so much.

flint murdering gates. i have a whole fascination with the intimacy of murder and they did this beautifully. i love that we understand exactly why it is happening (and i'd argue that gates should have seen this coming) and why it's a heartache and still we want to prevent it. like, it's perfect, you know. as far as murders go, it shows you each aspect exactly and you are left powerless. and i loved how much it represents a moral event horizon situation and is it possible to come back from it, and of course it's silver who even attempts to do it. it's rare in drama that a scene feels so utterly in-character for everyone and is so heartbreaking as well. excellent stuff.

honourable mentions:

'i only ever wanted you to be happy' totally unexpected and so beautiful.

vane and flint on trial in charleston. it's so funny and i may ship them a little bit.

idk if that is all of them, i haven't seen the show in a couple of years now, but i remember blogging my reactions to a friend and these were some of the things that really stood out to me.

[returning-spring]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

tagged by @asterdust :) feel free to play if you want: @blackwatervial @ghost--houses @another-lost-one @melodydrifts

How many works do you have on AO3? 34, but funny enough, 18 of them were all posted in 2021, so. I don't actually post a lot of fic per year

What's your total AO3 word count? 160k, and it doesn't really feel like it. I write a lot of oneshots

What fandoms do you write for? right now, it's scum villain and kpts

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? the only two scum villain fics I've posted are my top 2 fics lmao, you can really tell it's the biggest fandom I've written for. the last 3 are all word of honor fics

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? yeah because I like interacting with readers, especially the ones I recognize from previous comments

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? my tankhun/pete fic probably, since it ends with pete getting atticwifed

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? not sure how this could be measured, so I'll say the fic ending that made ME happiest is proper etiquette because I love writing comedic shen qingqiu/luo binghe

Do you get hate on fics? no lol

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? the…. kinky kind? the angsty kind? the humorous kind sometimes? not sure what this question means

Do you write crossovers? not my thing. if I ever want to meld two works I enjoy, I would just write an AU

Have you ever had a fic stolen? nope

Have you ever had a fic translated? yes, a fic of mine was translated into russian

Have you ever co-written a fic before? no, though that could be fun depending on the collab/writer

What's your all-time favorite ship? if we go by longest brainrot, then it's shen qingqiu/luo binghe. if we go by most intense brainrot, then wen kexing/zhou zishu. honestly not sure I have an all-time favourite, but I'd like to promote black sails for a second to say anne bonny/max is one of the greatest love stories ever told on television. I'm dead serious

What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? I wanted to write a gothic vegaspete fic, a bluebeard AU where pete marries vegas out of convenience, and then finds the literal skeletons in vegas's closet. but after my current wip (vampire vegaspete au), I won't be writing kpts fics anymore

What are your writing strengths? outlining, probably. finishing most of my works, for sure

What are your writing weaknesses? god knows. staying in a single pov for an entire fic? some fics are easier than others; sometimes you're just so tempted to write a passage from another character's pov, and then suddenly you have to change your outline so the fic is dual pov

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I'm going to assume this means writing the dialogue in the actual language the characters are speaking, even though the rest of the fic is in, say, english. I don't think this is a useful technique. at best, you write the dialogue in the original language, but you still waste time translating it for the reader in the same passage, which comes off clunky most of the time. at worst, you don't translate it (perhaps as an easter egg to those who understand the language?) and leave the readers guessing from context or pulling up google translate, both of which break the flow of the story

First fandom you wrote for? I don't want to say lmao, but it's not on my ao3 page, it happened in the wilds of fanfiction dot net

Favorite fic you've written? this changes all the time, but right now it's probably my tankhun/pete fic. I love it

[unfinishedbusincss]

muse vomit: anne bonny

Just a collection of miscellaneous thoughts I've had.

Clothes There are just some things Anne is never without for a variety of reasons. She stays well-armed at all times and rarely lets her guard down. regardless of how she may be acting (see next section). There are, however, three things Anne is never without. Seeing Anne without these things means only the worst (an emergency, capture, marooning, etc.).

hat | Leather and weathered, with only one of it pinned up for better line of sight as needed. One of the first things she acquired with her own coin.

coat | Formerly quite nice, now quite weathered and threadbare, sun bleached. I’m toying with the concept of this having been her father’s, taken the night she was disowned. I dunno if I like that, though.

knife | Noticeably, Anne's knife is not really a piece of clothing. It is also not something everyone knows about, despite being the most significant of the items. At 15 years old, Anne murdered another girl using that exact same knife. She was the first of Anne's victims, casualty of a mistake, and Anne is very attached to the knife for reasons even she does not wholly understand. It is a small, porcelain-handled jack knife Anne keeps hidden on or near her person at all times, usually in the waistband of her trousers.

Relaxation

As well as not being a terribly talkative person, Anne tends to guarded and on high alert at all times. She lives a life of danger so constant, even her “time off” can be stressful and unrelaxing. As a result, I don’t actually know what Anne would do with proper downtime. What she has of it now she often uses re/checking maps, ledgers, stock, notes, etc.; as one of a small number of “learned” pirates, she often feels it’s her duty to perform these re/checks even when not asked to—or, sometimes, even when asked directly not to. So while I can’t give you the activities specifically, I can give you the vibes/signs to look for to tell whether Anne’s actually relaxed around you or not.

She’s not. Lmao nah but:

She is hat off, coat off, and—sometimes—boots off. The less prepared the an immediate emergency evacuation she looks, the more relaxed she probably is.

Similarly, if she’s not tense, has her guard down, etc., you’re in luck. The ability to perceive you as not being an active threat is akin to friendship in Anne’s book!

If the Anne you are interacting with seems peaceful or focused, just essentially not fidgety or mad, she’s actually relaxed. Yes, even if she’s complaining.

[kermitttttt]

let me explain why the ending of that damned yet beautiful show feels off, even if it should be the right one.

the build up for stede’s character in this season is clear: he’s trying. trying to find ed, trying to keep his crew together, trying to be a good and respectable pirate. after the reunion, it becomes even more obvious, with izzy teaching him sword play and all the “captain” thing with ed, that stede wants to grow as a pirate and learn how to protect others, and not to be the one who always needs protection. this parable reaches its peak when he kills the psychopath with the violin (i cant remember his name i hate him he doesn’t deserve that i call him by name), and resolves in the consequences we see in episode 7, in which he becomes a sort of celebrity and starts to be very annoying (i love you stede and i know there’s a lot of analysis and meta on this behaviour of yours but. it’s starting to be irritating. as we say in italy anche meno).

what does all of this say to us, the public? that stede has started his path of transforming into a real pirate (like pinocchio!), but it doesn’t come all in one and it’s not that if he’s not dead, he’s the bestest pirate. he’s still an amateur, but has potential.

while what does all this mean to stede? that he deserves more recognition and he’s a great pirate now. i mean, he’s buddy with blackbeard and won a duel against izzy hands, he should be at their level (this is what he thinks). so, he’s one of the best ones now, and can grow even more.

now. what stede thinks and the reality are two very different things, BUT they have a point in common: stede wants, and can (with some help) be a pirate. let’s get to that ending. edward’s whole character development revolves around his personal identity, i won’t analyse that too (this needs an entire different post) but what we got in the end was that he’s left his rotten side behind, can live free and relaxed, tho this doesn’t mean his “pirate self” is something unworthy and buried forever (buried…haha…). this finale, for him, is perfect! but for stede? it’s the opposite of where the story was going for him. stop being a pirate? now that he was starting to understand how? it feels odd. i don’t doubt he did that for ed, because he loves him, but will he be happy with this new life? i’m not sure (also, i feel like anne bonny and mary were foreshadowing something…). stede is trapped in a mundane life, again. this time he’s with somebody he loves, yes, but it doesn’t mean there won’t be problems. however, this is s3 material, so we can imagine where the story will go.

[eloquentgifs]

I'm going to say things bc that's how I cope.

As a person who thinks that if you're going to do something you should do it right, I can't help it, it bothered me how sloppy this season felt. Of course I fully blame HBO and their cheapness, but it stills bothers me. Not only we got two episodes less than s1, but the 8 we got were shorter, and you can tell. I also blame the budget cuts for the constant yet unnecessary flashbacks, and the weird editing, and the anticlimatic pace. In any case, I want to highlight the things I did like, because I fucking love this show and Im sure that after a rewatch or two I'll be less angry, so let's stay positive:

Since it seems they were having trouble to get the complete cast together in one plot, I do love they kinda let them have their spotlight one by one. Like, Frenchie in the first episodes, Wee John as Calypso, Lucius with his PTSD in ep5... It's not the same as s1, but it's something.

I've seen people complaining about this, but Im happy they didnt invest too much time on the forgiving process. I like it better when everyone gets along fine, and in the end they're pirates and they never seemed to be the kind of people who hold grudges, so yeah lets skip to the nice part.

I did like a lot what they did with Izzy. I don't care if it happened too quick or what, I used to feel indiference towards him and this season I actually enjoy his scenes a lot. I still dont know how I feel about his death tho. It bothered me a little that the whole scene was more about Ed than Izzy himself, but in the end I always saw Izzy as a narrative tool in Ed's arc more than as a character of his own, so I guess it makes sense.

Super happy with the music choices, and also the new outfits.

Really, the first five episodes were absolutely brilliant.

It made me so happy they got Bronson Pinchot as Ned Low.

Huge fan of Zheng Yi Sao and Auntie.

Im so fucking furious at Taika Waititi for his pro-Israel shit that seeing Pop Pop attacking him gave me some sort of inner peace.

Now, things I wished had been done differently: - There were a lot of paralelisms with s1, which is good, but I'd like they brought back more actual elements of s1 into play. Like, the lighthouse painting, the secret wardrobe, the pink robe, a third Badmington (he would have work better as big bad than this prince ricky guy I dont really care about?). Frenchie singing again. This oneis a reach, but I would love to have Mary Bonnet back. And I was really hoping they play with the fact that Stede is "dead". The guy doesnt even mention the Master Fuckery from ep10.

-On that note, I was a little dissapointed on Jim's arc. I was never that invested on them or their plot in s1, but it feels weird how this season it seems like none of that even happened. Even Jim felt like a different character. I feel it would worked better if some of the conflict was related to Siete Gallos stuff, so at least it would feel all of that subplot wasnt a waste of time.

-Little missing opportunities of making me happy: Anne Bonny and Mary Read mentioning Jack (to insult him, mostly); they kissing when the house is on fire; Ed finding not just one letter but the whole pile of them; a better narrative use for Seagull Buttons (well, any narrative use, really); developing the bombclocks thing in a way where Auntie was not deprived of her superhuman detective skills; having Ned Low as bigger villain, with several appearances.

-The general development of Ed/Stede in the final episode... It's just confusing to me. My reading of Stede's mind state was that he was on autopilot since he killed Ned Low, and being abandoned by Ed and having his ass kicked by Zheng would wake him up a little, but this episode he's still in PROBLEM SOLVER mode, zero regrets about anything, still hasn't talked anything through EVER, he's just fine. With Ed I dont even ask for coherence bc he's always been a wtf guy, but I dont understand the "just do whatever you're good at" thing in the beginning of the episode, and he claiming back his leathers and his pirate-self and going on berserker mode and fighting along Stede as equals and blablabla if at the end he's still chosing to be a fucking innkeeper. Also, having a shitty inn in the middle of nowhere sounds too close to the antique shop in ep4, didn't they learn ANYTHING from Mary and Anne? I mean, the innkeeping was a predictible outcome, but the setting up of the episode was really aiming to the opposite, so it feels weird to me. In any case, I'm happy they're together and if being absolutely on their own in the loneliest house in the world doesn't get them to improve their communication, idk what else they could do.

-Still think they should have been lighthouse keepers instead.

-Next season Im totally muting every OFMD tag as soon as they announce the trailer release, because the promo and bts content was absolutely TOO MUCH. Those fuckers had been showing us stuff from the very climax of the fucking last episode since weeks before the season aired. I get it's a me problem, but I do believe it ruined my experience a lot, so fuck that.

And well. That's it. Good season, could have been great. Im happy but sad. Let's just hope that, if there's a season 3, they gave them more money and time to do it properly.

And before I post this and run away from tumblr, Im checking out how much of my wishlist had been fulfilled: - LUCIUS IS ALIVE - Stede Bonnet, berserker era [Not as I imagined, but hey] - The Queen Anne’s Revenge, either being captured or coming back as the ship Ed left behind when he went to The Revenge - The Blockade of Charleston (and make really absurd) [Still might happen in the future?] - Anne Bonny and Mary Read(as middle aged women who kinda mirror Ed and Stede, but they did it right) - Since he was already mentioned in s1, it would make sense introducing Hornigold, maybe as a new antagonist or something. - A rip off of that wwdits episode with the Vampire Council, except this time is the Pirate Council and its members are pirates from other movies and shows [I was really dreaming big here] - On that note, a really weird episode with every person who has played Blackbeard in recent years [Fully tripping] - More women and more asian characters. And more people speaking their mother tongues [So many Chinese gals, not one chinese word :(] - Ed finding out about Stede’s death and believing it [It did happened but not how/when we thought] - Ed meeting Mary and getting along [Never losing hope on this one] - Frenchie adopting a cat (and singing a song about it). - More info about everyone’s pasts. - I would LOVE having Bartholomew Roberts in the show. [YES PLEASE]

[bigbrainkatrina]

Once Burned - a Kim Possible/Shego spy thriller

One year ago, Shego went under a deep cover mission with the Bermuda Triangle. Things turned sour fast and Shego betrayed Global Justice. In a desperate Hail Mary, Kim tries to retrieve her, and learns that things aren't quite what they seem.

“Kim… um, I—I can’t go with you.”

“Ron?”

“I… can’t do this anymore. You a-and me, it’s not working, I know you know that—”

“...Ron. Please don’t do this.”

“KP—I don’t   want   to do this. They’re—they’re making me.”

“Making you? R-Ron, we need to go stop the Seniors. Can you just—”

“You can   handle   the Seniors, Kim. All that we do, you got it. I’m—I’m Class A and you’re Class B…”

“But… no, Ron.”

“Betty wants me doing… I don’t know, bigger things, bigger things I can’t tell you about. I’m sorry, I… I have to do this, Kim. My powers need me to do this and… it’s just—the mission stuff. It’s all we have that’s making   us   work, and I’m… sorry, KP. I don’t want to hurt you, I just…”

“Ron, I love you. Whatever you need me to do to keep you here, I’ll… I’ll…”

“KP, it’s over. And I love you too. I love you more than you can understand.”

“So why are you doing this?!”

“God, I’m sorry, I… I gotta go. You gotta go too. You gotta go save the world now. Alone.”

“No… no! Ron, I can’t—I can’t do it without you, I—”

“No Kim. You can. Remember: you can do anything.”

“Kim, are you with us?”

~~KP~~

 10 Years Later

Kim snaps out of her reprieve and takes a moment to collect her surroundings.

Rumbling all over. The steel plated floor vibrates against her palm. Her breaths are shallow and she feels cold. She pulls her winter coat closer to her purple tunic and looks to her right, where the friendly yet concerned voice is coming from.

Wade Load. Now twenty five years old, he’s as plump as ever with some facial scruff. Still weird seeing him in person. 

“Finally awake, eh?” he jokes.

Kim frowns. She’s in a Global Justice aircraft, with a parachute loaded backpack strapped tightly to her torso. By this point, they should be soaring over Colorado. Over Middleton. She hasn’t been there in years. 

Too bad it’s for a mission. 

“And they call  me  a space cadet with my head in the clouds,” a nasally voice whines from her left. That surprises her. Who else could be here—Drakken. Doctor Drakken. A blue man with a ratty ponytail and scar below his left eye. He wears his traditional lab coat and a thick winter coat like her. She looks ahead.

“Sorry, yeah, I spaced out,” Kim mutters. “Which one of you am I working with again?”

Wade raises an eyebrow. “You don’t know? Kim, c’mon.”

“Oh no! No no no no no no!” Kim gasps in a panic, simultaneously whipping her whole body against her hips to look at Drakken, her apparent partner. “Not  you , right? Please tell me I’m not—”

“I’m crushed!” Drakken moans. 

Kim rolls her eyes. “Who thought this was a good idea? It’s a joke, right?”

“Aw geez, Kim, dude,” Wade frowns. “He’s right there. And for the record, this is on  you  for not playing nice with Team Impossible.”

“Those guys suck,” Kim grumbles, looking back over at Drakken again. “I’ve worked with them, you, Hego, Will Du, Felix, Monique, Bonnie, I mean, guys, I’ve worked with  Junior  of all people! And the one time,  the one time  I worked with someone who could actually keep up with me—uh, no offense Wade.”

“None taken,” Wade frowns.

Kim continues, throwing her hands into the air, “The one time I worked with someone who could actually keep up with me, she turned out to be evil!”

“Evil?” Wade echoes with confusion. Drakken raises an eyebrow with a similar energy. “You mean Shego? When did you work with Shego?”

“Yes, I don’t recall that, Kimberly Ann,” Drakken frowns.

Kim winces; she wasn’t supposed to bring that up. “Uh, sorry, I must have been thinking about the Lowardian Invasion or something… heh heh.”

Wade observes Kim carefully, then shrugs. “Okaaaaaay.”

Drakken leans forward with a sharp intake of breath, as if he’s about to say something important. But instead his face falls and he leans back into place. “I’ll have you know, Kimberly Ann, that I’m much geniuser than Shego! I think you’ll be quite surprised by my abilities on the field.”

Kim stares blankly at him. “Uh huh… okay, Wade, how about you sitch us already?”

Wade rolls his eyes, and pulls a remote out from his GJ uniform. He clicks a button, and the hatch before Kim and Drakken opens up, revealing the cold night sky. Vicious winds rush through, whistling and howling. 

“You both have five seconds to make the jump,” Wade says carelessly.

“Oh okay,” Kim chirps.

“What?!” Drakken blurts out, going pale in the blue face. “Wait—can we, erm, do a flyaround—”

Wade smirks. “No.”

Kim pats Drakken on the shoulder playfully. “See you in a few, Drak.”

She jumps. Her ponytail whips behind her head, and the wind rushes into her face. She grits her teeth through it, forcing her eyes to stay open.

Down below, she sees what looks to be some kind of military compound. There’s gray warehouse after gray warehouse, all arranged in a grid. From up high, the streetlamps appear to her as blips and they are beautiful.

She smiles and spreads her arms like wings. Despite the circumstances, she feels calm. 

Behind her, she hears a distant shriek. 100% it’s Wade physically shoving Drakken out of the plane. But soon it fades as the wind overcomes her. Until Wade starts talking in her earpiece.

“ Montgomery Fiske, also known as Monkey Fist, has threatened to level the entire state of Colorado with two nuclear bombs  …” Wade monologues. “  ...unless Ron is to sacrifice his powers to him, which is not an option. ”

Kim narrows her eyes; from her understanding, Ron is off-world right now, defending Earth from invading Lowardians. The Lowardian Invasion back in ‘07 was just the beginning.

“ We have managed to pinpoint the location of the bombs to the Villain Timeshare Labs located in Middleton  ,” Wade explains. “  Your mission is to defuse both. We don’t know where the bombs are, so Kim you should take the West Side of the compound and Drew, I think you should go East.”

“ Which way is East ?” Drakken moans, only able to be heard through her earpiece. 

Kim rolls her eyes. “It’s behind you, Big D.”

“ Don’t call me that. ” 

Kim smirks, and focuses on what’s ahead. The timeshare lab complex gets closer, and closer, the ground enlarging and giving way to more and more detail. Tiny black dots patrol the warehouses, they must be Monkey Fist’s army of monkey ninjas. 

She aims her body like a rocket, falling and falling. The skylight to her chosen warehouse grows near and at the last second, Kim flips mid flight, and she pulls the string on her parachute. 

Fwoomp!

The parachute pulls against her, dragging her out of her dead fall. She lands on the roof beside the skylight, and drops a knee. Waits for some change in formation from down below, but there’s nothing. Apparently none of the Monkey Ninjas saw her. (She assumes the black dots are Monkey Ninjas… though from her vantage point the troops look awfully tall to be Monkey Ninjas.)

The timeshares are arranged in a grid, unfortunately too far apart for her to go roof jumping. Without proper intel, she can’t even ‘skip’ this warehouse so she tiptoes to the dead center of the roof where there’s a skylight. Quietly she goes for her laser lipstick, and starts blasting out the bolts to the skylight. It’s something that she’s done a million times over, so she takes a look around and notices two problems right off the bat.

Firstly, Drakken has already unleashed his parachute… practically one mile into the air. 

Kim growls into her earpiece. “Drakken, what are you doing?!”

“ What am I doing?  ” he repeats sarcastically. “  I’m not Tom Cruise, Kimberly Ann; I’m playing it safe! ”

“Safe? You’re like a sitting duck up there!” Kim seethes. “If they see you—”

“ Kim  ,” Wade interrupts. “  I’m with you, but he can’t exactly fold his parachute back in—we’ll deal with it. Move on. ”

Kim grinds her teeth then shrugs it off. “Tell me about the ninjas—oh shit, hold on—” The final bolt skips out of its socket, and the skylight falls… but Kim catches it. Heavy, the massive piece of glass dips into the warehouse. Awkward to hold, Kim tenses and manages to lift the skylight up through the gap, and set it aside. She throws one foot through the gap, and readies her grapple line. “—I’m back. But the ninjas… those aren’t monkeys, right?”

The ninjas aren’t monkeys at all, she noticed while yelling at Drakken that they were walking, talking humans. 

“ No, I think those are people, which as you know isn’t Monkey Fist’s M.O.,  ” Wade sighs. “  I’m trying to ID them, but I got nothing. ”

“No ID, huh,” Kim sighs to herself. That sounds familiar to her, but she can’t quite place where it’s coming from. But out of her vast rogue’s gallery and network of connections, she knows someone who Wade wouldn’t be able to ID… but who?

She drops down into the warehouse, her grapple line unspooling. She lands on a hard cement floor and the lights turn on in her presence, shining through the windows like a beacon. “Oh great.”

Slamming at the door. Kim scans her surroundings: lots of golf clubs and barrels of exploding golf balls. Not much else. Definitely Duff Killigan’s. How classic of him to be so one-note. She snags a golf club from one of the duffel bags and spins it in her hand. Looks like a Driver club, at least, as far as she knows. Her only experience with golf is from Wii Golf, which she played with Ron before the break-up. 

The steel door flies off its hinges, and smoke pours into the room in a flurry. Two black-hooded heads that just peek over the top of the smog rush into the room, running in opposite directions. 

Kim leans into her heel and lets the two ninjas surround her.

She grins, and the ninjas charge her with a series of kicks and punches. Kim spins the golf club around her like a bow-staff in figure-eights and precise spins.  Clack! Clack! Clack! Flesh strikes steel in precise jabs. 

Kim blocks every blow coming her way. Trained as the ninjas might be, they telegraph their movements immediately. 

“It’s amateur hour, fellas,” Kim snarks.

A kick to the hip, a punch to the chin, a swipe at the neck, it doesn’t matter, she spins her golf club where she needs to, and emerges unscathed.

The ninja on her left goes by a high kick to the chin. Smirking, Kim slashes her club into the air and manages to hook the Driver against the man’s ankle. He whines in pain and she drags his foot higher into the air then spikes the club downard, whipping the ninjas into the cement. 

Kim whirls around and faces the second ninja. He scuttles backwards, hands raised for defense, and she charges him. Cartwheels forward and tries to kick him in the chest with both feet. He throws his body backwards and she lands before him, leaving her wide open. She spins the club horizontally at his head, but he ducks the blow—but before he can fully slip away she flips the club in an underhanded spin, and precision jabs the goon in the face. His body shoots backwards and falls flat on the ground.

Kim smiles at her handiwork, but the moment is short-lived. From the skylight, another ninja drops down. With two sais in hand, he swings at her. With the hilts to each sword as pointed as the blade itself, curved like a trident, it’s a deadly weapon. He swings and swings and swings. Kim dodges and dodges and blocks! But the sai cuts clean through the golf club and the top half tumbles to the floor. Frowning, she tosses the broken club aside and goes for a daring move. Her hands snap forward and grab onto the ninja’s wrists. She pushes and he resists, but his arms shake more than her. She’s stronger. 

With the ninja’s arms locked in place, it leaves the guy’s front wide open. So Kim takes advantage, she swings her head down and bashes her skull against his. He falls backwards, hands losing their grip on the sais, which clatter to the floor.

Kim kicks high and nails the ninja in the face. He collapses, down for the count. 

Kkkkk!  A boot scrapes against cement behind her. Kim tries to whirl around to face the incoming ninja, the first one she downed, but she’s not fast enough. She hears the blades cut through the air, so instead Kim focuses on dodging. She playfully dodges to the left, hands folded behind her back. Another  shwing!  and she bobs to the right. She bobs about, dodging blow after blow. When he swings at her ankles, she hops into the air.

Again and again, the ninja pursues her, but he can’t hit her, and somehow, despite not being able to see him, Kim knows each and every move he’s pulling. 

How does she know? she wonders.

The ninja swings both sais at her neck. She knows that move. Ron used it sometimes when his powers were recharging.

Kim ducks the blow and her hands snap upwards, clamping onto the ninja’s wrist. She struggles, holding the ninja’s arms high in the air. Simultaneously, her arms stiffen, locked into place just like the ninja’s. Deadlocked and stuck, neither have the advantage… until Kim grits her teeth and manages to twist her hips enough to kick the ninja in the stomach. He doubles back, and Kim—unable to resist—yanks the ninja’s hood off his face. 

Hirotaka. From Yamanouchi. 

Yamanouchi gave its sword to Monkey Fist?

Yamanouchi is a secret;  of course Wade wouldn’t be able to ID them! It makes sense.

But it doesn’t matter\, at least for now. So Kim kicks Hirotaka in the face, and he collapses like a broken toy. Sais once again clatter to the floor. Kim looks ahead, throws off her winter coat finally, and runs out the door and into the open night air. Looks up and Drakken is  still  making his way down. She rolls her eyes and looks around in a panic.

“Where do I need to go, Wade?”

“ Cut through the two ahead of you  ,” Wade chirps. “  That’ll get to you Monkey Fist’s, that’s my best guess. Passwords are going to be Coco Moo, Niener and Die Ron, Die. ”

“ Die Ron, Die is with spaces?” Kim notes.

“ And a comma, yeah. Monty’s has gotta be grammatically correct. ”

Kim stops at the first terminal to the first timeshare lab before her. Types it in rapidly. C-O-C-O M-O-O.

The door opens and Kim is greeted by a very familiar sight. Syntho-Drones lie dormant in their acid-filled glass containers, lined up along the walls. Kim hesitates, then sprints through. Takes in the sights. A death ray, a pool of electric eels, a few Weather Machines, and a mountain of cardboard boxes with cupcake logos.

She has to ask.

“Drakken, you—uh—still have your Timeshare Lab, huh?”

“ Hrm  ?” Drakken hums. “  Do I? ”

Kim laughs under her breath. “It’s been twelve years, Drew, you might want to, uh, get rid of this?”

“ I was wondering what that charge on my credit card was every month …”

Kim opens the door opposite the one she came in through and charges ahead to another Timeshare Lab. Types in the password. N-I-E-N-E-R and… this one is filled with plans. Charts and diagrams are smeared across the wall, alongside blueprints of evil devices and corporate ladders. It rings a bell but…

“ Hank Perkins, ” Wade answers for her.

“Hank Perkins!” she cries out with mirth. “I forgot about that guy. Uh, the villainy consultant, right?”

“ The same. ”

“ Ooh  !” Drakken cries out. “  Cupcake Hank? What’s it like in there? I’m in Dementor’s Timeshare right now  —” He pauses and repeats the name with disdain. “—  ugh, Dementor. But his Transportulator, WOW! Don’t tell him I said that though —” 

Kim blinks. “Drew, um, not to burst your bubble, but there’s a bomb going off soon? Maybe you should be, uh, looking for it?” 

“ Oh, erm, yes, I suppose…” Drakken mumbles, still in a trance.

“Drak!” Kim shouts as she exits Hank Perkins’s timeshare. “Up and at ‘em!”

“ Alright! ” he bemoans.

The next timeshare is up ahead, as ordinary as ever. She types in the password. D-I-E-R-O-N-,-D-I-E. The door opens revealing a dark space lit by torchlight. She slides to a stop and scans the space. Flickers of light illuminate aged and eroded monkey idols that are embedded into the walls. Kim keeps looking and at the center of the room she finds first of two bombs. The lid is already popped off, the wire exposed. She narrows her eyes and steps forward—

—only for Monkey Fist himself to drop down before her. Formerly raven black hair grayed with specks of white, his mutated skin aged and patchy, the years have not been kind to the monkey man.

Shuffling from outside as monkey ninjas crowd the entrance. Monkey Fist raises his hand, stopping the ninjas in place. He steps forward, the torchlight playing on his angry face.

“Where’s Stoppable?” Monkey Fist grunts, then looks at his minions. “Go. Find Dementor’s Transportulator, use it to escape.” He turns back to Kim. “Well?”

“Not coming,” Kim growls. “This is sick and wrong, Monty. You have to know that.”

Monkey Fist grinds his teeth. “What’s sick and wrong is that Stoppable child taking the Mystical Monkey Power from  me ! What’s sick and wrong is Stoppable being unwilling to sacrifice his powers to save millions of lives.”

“ Don’t let him talk, Kim  ,” Wade says. “  He’s stalling .”

Still though, Kim finds herself shaken. Because it is true. Doctor Director isn’t willing to give up Ron for  anything . It’s unlikely Ron even knows this caper is going down. 

Kim sprints at Monkey Fist, and Monkey Fist does the same.

“How long do we have?” she asks before shifting into a high kick at Monkey Fist’s jaw. 

“ Three minutes ,” Wade says, anxiety creeping into his voice. Ever confident in Kim’s abilities, it’s unlike him to be so stressed. Three minutes is plenty of time to make magic happen.

Monkey Fist leans back and his hand snaps at Kim’s ankle. He grabs it tight, and with all his might, he turns on his heel, and lifts Kim into the air. He swings her like a ragdoll, and throws her behind where he stood.

Kim spins through the air and soars over the bomb. It all happens fast, but in her mind’s eye things slow to a crawl. She looks down, and sees the matrix of wires looped over and over each other, and the sequence plays in her mind. Red-Purple-Green-Yellow-Brown-Blue-White. Her hands reach down and just as she passes over the bomb, she snatches the Red, Purple, and Green wires from their spots. Lands on her haunches and stares at Monkey Fist. 

“Stoppable’s not here, Monty. Because he’s Class A and you’re a Class B Threat. But I’m here,” Kim growls. “And I’m going to stop you.”

She vaults forward and flips over the bomb. It plays in her mind again as time slows. Yellow-Brown-Blue-White. She snags three of them, leaving the lone white wire behind and cartwheels over to Monkey Fist to—

—it doesn’t matter, Monkey Fist strikes first. Sends his leg crashing into her back as she flips forward. 

Crack!

Kim hits the floor, dust from the flooring smearing her tunic. She tries to boost herself up, but Monkey Fist presses one bare foot against her stomach. She squirms under his hold. He smirks and, before she can recover, he stomps her face in, heel of his foot nailing her in the nose. Her head bounces back, striking cement and rebounding up, blood squirting out of her nose, her face bruised. 

Monkey Fist goes for another stomp.

This time Kim reaches into her utility belt and comes back with a pistol. Aims it right at Monty’s face. He flinches and so does she.

Twelve years of being a Global Justice agent and she’s still never killed someone. 

Monkey Fist takes advantage of her lapse in judgment, and snatches the gun from her hands. Points it at her face. 

“Well, Miss Possible,” Monkey Fist tuts. “You’re quite the worthy adversary, and I do not enjoy our play, but if you die… well, they’ll just have to send Stoppable, won’t they?”

Kim presses her teeth together, trying to suppress the smile itching at the corner of her lips. 

And Monkey Fist fires.

Click! A hollow sound. He frowns and raises the gun to his eye level. Presses the trigger again and nothing. 

“What?” he exclaims.

In Monkey Fist’s lapse of focus, Kim strikes. Hits him like a freight train. Snaps her legs around Monkey Fist’s waist and flips him onto the floor. He hits it hard, the gun sliding out of his hand, not that it matters. She never loaded the thing so that she’d never be able to use it. Makes for a good sleight of hand at a moment’s notice however. 

Before Monkey Fist can regain his footing, Kim charges him. Grabs him by the waist and flips him completely upside down over her shoulder, then piledrives him headfirst into the floor. She feels him crash into the cement, his body twisting and contorting as she squeezes his body in like an accordion. Finally, when he can take no more abuse, he collapses in a heap, and so does she, at least briefly. She stumbles back up, and runs at the bomb, plucking out the white wire. 

The bomb shuts down with little fanfare. 

“Alright, that’s one down,” she barks into her earpiece. “We’ve got eyes on the other one?”

Wade answers immediately. “ Yes, it’s in DNAmy’s, but uh—we’ve got a problem. ”

Kim thinks for a second and starts her jog to DNAmy’s—wherever that is—and responds. “He forgot the sequence?”

“ Kind of, I’m trying to talk him through it, but the bomb sprayed him with some gas. Made his eyes like a dog’s or whatever, he can’t see color. Look, I’d talk it through with him, but I don’t know where the wires go. I only know the colors and I was thinking —”

“That won’t work, I don’t trust him to follow directions,” Kim charges into the open night air and turns. Her limbs snap against their joints, pushing her ahead as quickly as possible. 

Then Monkey Fist rounds the corner behind her, giving chase on all fours. Kim looks over her shoulder and sighs.

“ But Kim! You have one minute !”

“One minute is plenty.”

“ No it’s not! ”

“I don’t care,” Kim snaps. “Directions, I need directions.”

“Kim, you’re killing me over here,” Wade growls. “You’re going the right way. Pass by three more timeshares and it’ll be on the right.”

Sweat beads on her forehead. She wants to have faith in herself, she always cuts it close like this… but something about this whole caper feels… off.  First, the Yamanouchi Ninjas. Then Monkey Fist’s point about Ron being a no-show. But that is what they do at Global Justice; they don’t negotiate with terrorists. 

Now there’s this. Can she make it? Can she do it?

“ Remember  ,” Ron said long ago when they broke up. “  You can do anything. ”

And she can. She knows she can. She can—she can—she sees the timeshare up ahead. Panics. She doesn’t know the password, she doesn’t know the—

Another line plays in her mind.  Cuddle Monkey  . DNAmy used to call Monty her  Cuddle Monkey . 

She types in the code.

C-U-D-D-L-E-M-O-N-K-E-Y.

“Kim, the password is—”

“I know what the password is!” Kim snaps. “I just need to… need to… yes, door’s open, we must have thirty seconds, right?”

“ You have ten, Kim .”

Her heart nearly stops. She sees Drakken crouched helplessly over the bomb, she sees the wires. Around them, animals float in tankards. Experiments-to-be. She rushes to the center of the floor, drops a knee. Starts plucking away.

Red-Purple—Blue? No, Green! 

Her hands hover above the wires, her jaw drops. 

“ Kim  ?” Wade chokes from his end. “  Five. Four. Three …”

She remembers. Red Purple Green… she plucks them out as the colors flash in her mind. Yellow. Brown. Blue. 

The final wire: White. 

She reaches for it and—

—and—

Boom.

                                                            The bomb goes off. Heat pushes against Kim’s body, the light is blinding. She braces herself and—

—a globe of blue light materializes around the explosion, trapping the fire from escaping. Flame pushes against the blue light, and curls backwards like a wave. The explosion surges against itself, and Kim opens her eyes. Slowly, the globe of blue light shrinks inwards, and then becomes so small it crushes the explosion out of sight, out of reality. 

“Nooooo!” Monkey Fist howls, snapping Kim from her reprieve. “Where’s the kaboom?! There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboo—”

Boom.

Blue light explodes again, this time into a portal at least twelve feet tall. Light flashes from within, the light within the portal airy like storm clouds. Drakken and Monkey Fist both turn on the portal, jaws agape, not sure what to expect. But Kim? Kim groans and smacks her forehead. 

Another distant boom, and a flash of light through the portal. A silhouette appears as a blip that becomes larger fast, and then Ron Stoppable swoops out of the portal, and soars right at Monkey Fist. Grabs him by the throat, and jettisons him across the room, smashing into a tankard holding a baby elephant. Cracks splinter the glass, and a foreign, green liquid spits out the cracks only to retreat back inwards. Blue light burns along the cracks, resealing the glass as nothing was damaged to begin with.

Ron has barely aged since their high school days, Wade’s theorized it has something to do with Ron’s powers. The only hint that he’s in the beginning of his 30s is the occasionally white hair speckled along his blond head, and even then, it’s mostly from stress.

And then there’s his eyes. Formerly brown and amber, they’re hardened now and a cold, steely blue. They glow like headlights when he uses his powers. 

With some extra muscle caked onto his lanky frame, he fills out his navy blue Global Justice uniform well.

Kim wonders sometimes if Ron is even human anymore. 

Ron stares Monkey Fist in the eyes. A crack of light and Monkey Fist’s body goes limp. Carelessly, Ron lets Monkey Fist’s body slide out from his grasp and hit the floor. He turns over to Kim. “Don’t worry, KP, he’s just knocked out, I didn’t kill him or nothin’.”

Kim stares at Ron, still on her hands and knees. “Who called you?”

Ron frowns, taken aback. Probably because she hasn’t seen him in  months,  and yet she’s still unhappy to see him. “Oh, um, Wade, called me like a few seconds ago. Heh.”

If it wasn’t for Ron, all of Colorado would be gone… all because Kim Possible wasn’t willing to give Doctor Drakken basic instructions. She can still feel the heat from the explosion singed on her body. It’s the closest she’s ever felt to death.

She quietly gets to her feet. “Wade, can you keep Ron’s appearance off the books?”

A long silence.

“ Sorry Kim  ,” Wade sighs. “  I can’t. ”

~~KP~~

“For the last time,” Monkey Fist moans, handcuffed to a wooden chair in an otherwise empty interrogation room. “I didn’t mind control anyone from Yamanouchi, they willingly joined me.”

“Really?” Doctor Director scoffs. “You’re really sticking to this story, huh?”

Doctor Director is a tall woman. She towers at least half a foot over Kim and Ron. Over the years, crows feet have grown into her skin around the eyes, the creases particularly harsher from behind her eyepatch. A streak of white cleaves through her neatly cropped, chestnut brown hair. 

Kim’s never seen her outside of her GJ uniform. 

Standing besides Kim and still in uniform, Ron frowns. “You said Hirotaka was there, Kim?”

Kim nods. “I know, it doesn’t sound like the Hirotaka we know.”

Ron’s frown only sinks deeper. “Yeah…” he says with the air of someone who knows a little bit more than they’re letting on. “Betty, I think… Monty’s telling the truth on this one.”

Kim raises an eyebrow. What is it that she doesn’t know? She used to know everything but now that she’s stuck in Class B…

Doctor Director raises an eyebrow too. “Stoppable, if there have been issues at Yamanouchi, you need to be communicating that with me.”

“Sorry,” Ron bows his head in shame. “Sensei and I… had an argument, and I kinda interpreted it more as a personal problem than a saving-the-world kinda problem but I guess… yeah, I’ll do better, Betty, I swear it.”

Kim sympathetically reaches over to Ron and strokes his back.

Ron looks up. “Thanks, KP. Uh, so do you want me to round up the Yamanouchi peeps who got away?”

“It’s fine,” Doctor Director snips. “Possible’s got it.” 

Oh, yeah,  of course  Possible’s got it.

Monkey Fist sneers at the three of them. “Some people in Yamanouchi felt that I had a point—that the Mystical Monkey Power shouldn’t belong to someone who isn’t willing to sacrifice their powers for the greater good.”

Ron sniffs loudly. “Dude, I didn’t even know about this shindig. I would have—”

“Don’t finish that sentence,” Doctor Director snaps. “God, you two… alright, I’ll take your word for it, Fiske. For now. You tell me where your people are hiding and we’ll be in better standing, got it?”

A twitch in Monkey Fist’s cheek. “Not a chance.”

“We’ll see about that,” Doctor Director growls, bending away from the chair. She shoves the door open with her elbow, and walks out into the hallway at a brisk pace. Kim and Ron follow.

The hallway is a pristine white. Not a speck of dust in sight. Immaculately clean, this is Global Justice DC, the homebase for most operations. 

Doctor Director regards Kim harshly. “I don’t even know what to say to you.” She stares at her for a moment, her single eye burrowing deep into Kim’s soul. “You’re suspended for a week.”

She figured her punishment would be something like that. 

Doctor Director turns on Ron. “Thank you for your work, Stoppable. While you’re still out here, I’d love a briefing on what’s happening in Lowardia.”

Ron glances over his shoulder at Kim. “Actually I was kind of hoping me and Kim could catch up, it’s been a minute for the two of us and um—”

“ Now , Stoppable,” Doctor Director says coldly. 

Ron cringes and offers Kim a meek hand wave before walking away with his commander. 

Once they’re out of earshot, Kim slouches and exhales.

“I know,” Drakken says suddenly, and Kim jumps. She looks back and sees the Formerly Bad Doctor staring at her from a few feet away. “Sorry, did I surprise you? Ha, who would’ve figured I’d be able to get the drop on the great Kim Possible…”

Kim winces. “I’m not great, I’m not even Class A.”

An awkward silence unfolds between the two, Drakken doesn’t seem to understand what she’s saying.

“Whatever, I’m just having a bad day,” Kim sighs, joining up with Drakken, nodding for the two of them to go to the cafeteria. “So don’t gloat about surprising me. Can you see colors again?”

He nods. “Could we… not go to the cafeteria? I actually wanted to speak with you. About a private matter.”

Kim stops in place. Blinks and shrugs. “Where to?”

~~KP~~

A few minutes later, they wind up in Drakken’s dormitory. It’s a messy room in need of a maid. Blueprints and schematics are scattered all over the floor. A half-filled mug of cold coffee sits at his desk. 

“Apologies for the mess,” Drakken mumbles, using his heel to slide some of his paperwork underneath his bed. “Been working overtime on some… projects.”

Kim raises an eyebrow, but doesn’t think too much of it. She takes his desk chair while Drakken takes a seat on his bed. 

“So?” Kim says when Drakken doesn’t say anything.

“Mm,” Drakken bites his lip. “It’s about… Shego.”

Read Chapter 2 today on AO3! Chapter 3 coming soon. : ) 

[egorax]

This is my review of 100 gecs discography including their respective solo and side projects, which means that this list will include the following discographies:

CAKE POP (Dylan Brady side project)

Dylan Brady (member of 100 gecs)

Laura Les (member of 100 gecs)

osno1 (an alias for Laura Les)

100 gecs

This is also a very diverse discography, including studio albums, remix albums, live shows, DJ sets, and what are commonly referred to as The Minecraft Shows, which were digital concerts that were hosted in Minecraft due to Dylan and Laura living in different states at the time, money constraints, and quarantine, but I will be referring to them as the Digital Shows as some of the shows weren’t actually hosted in Minecraft, but they were all held in some way digitally. I will label what each release is with the following indicators:

[S] - studio album

[R] - remix album

[L] - live show

[DJ] - DJ set

[DS] - digital show/Minecraft show

I will be laying thing out like this:

Year - Album title - artist name [I] 6/10

1 - Song 1 1/10 \\note about the song

2 - Song 2 7/10 \\note about the song \\dog

3 - Song 3 6/10 \\note about the song

Album description/explanation of review

2013 - tape 1 - this town makes me sick sometimes - Laura Les [S] 5/10

1 - friends drive by 4/10 \\I was overall uncomfortable while listening

2 - i wanna try cocaine 5/10 \\this would probably get a better rating if it weren’t so amplified

3 - cheif keef cant breathe 4/10 \\no comment, it’s just loud

4 - i just wanna go home 5/10 \\it’s cool I guess

5 - random act of violence 5/10 \\there’s just so much noise

This is a very bizarre EP, it was deleted almost immediately after it was released and I can see why, I don’t think it’s really meant to be listened to, I think it was more of a personal thing, because the version that was released is extremely over amplified to the point it’s hard to even understand, but from what I could make out it sounded more like Laura was just venting and getting stuff out of her head than anything else.

Something to note is that while it was released in 2017, it was recorded "some time in 2013".

2014 - APPROPRIATE - Dylan Brady & Death Grips [R] 7/10

1 - BURN THROUGH IT (Lil Boy) 7/10

2 - PIRATE (Anne Bonny) 8/10

3 - ON MY WAY (TWO HEAVENS) 7/10

4 - BOUNCIN (Stockton) 7/10

5 - FUCK WHOS WATCHING (Whatever I Want) 7/10 \\it’s only 56 seconds

6 - FEELING IT (Takyon) 6/10

7 - TRAMP (You Might Think He Loves You) 6/10 \\strangely calm and chaotic at the same time

8 - FEEL ME NOW (Black Dice) 6/10

9 - ICE GRIPS (Artificial Death) 6/10

10 - I'VE GOT SOME SHIT TO SAY (Lock Your Doors) 6/10

This whole album is just Death Grips remixes, it’s honestly kind of interesting when you listen to something for the first time and you already know all the words, it’s interesting

2014 - Zero Halliburton - Dylan Brady [S] 5/10

1 - Zero Halliburton 6/10 \\I love the Daft Punk sample in this song

2 - Fizzy Lifting Drinks (Interlude) 4/10

3 - Box Car // Jug Of Wine 5/10

4 - Mountain & Beach 5/10

5 - Knives 5/10

6 - Pyrotechnics 5/10

7 - Give Me Back My Phone 6/10

8 - Fedex 8/10

9 - Ice Grass 5/10

10 - Yoda 4/10

11 - Sam Rothstein 5/10

12 - You Were Crying (Bonus) 5/10

13 - Look How Far We’ve Come (Bonus) 8/10

The instrumentals on this album are alright but the’re nothing in comparison to APPROPRIATE

2015 - Iff Itt Mmakkesss U Happyyyyy - osno1 [S] 4/10

1 - Iff Itt Mmakkesss U Happyyyyy 4/10 \\this was deleted

It is just weird ambience and slowed down audio of Laura saying “if it makes you happy.”

2015 - Better Get Sharper; Better Change Yr Name - osno1 [S] 4/10

1 - Better Get Sharper; Better Change Yr Name 4/10 \\this is 25 minutes long

Like tape 1, this was also deleted soon after it’s release, but unlike tape 1, there is only 1 song and it’s 25 minutes long, this also seems to be Laura’s first time going as osno1. This single is just as noisy and amplified as tape 1 and it is pretty hard to sit through, it feels a lot slower than tape 1 though. It seems that certain parts distort over time and eventually fade out as the same vocals loop over and over again throughout the song… it’s very unnerving. The end has a very weird, loud guitar.

2015 - All I Ever Wanted - Dylan Brady [S] 5/10

1 - Piano Prelude 5/10 \\this song makes me laugh because it sounds so dumb

2 - Let Go / Enemies feat. Nok from The Future & Night Lovell 7/10 \\the drums that start about halfway through the song are really good

3 - Little Bando 5/10

4 - 314 feat. Night Lovell 5/10

5 - Trailing Some New Kill feat. Ravenna Golden & Kevin Abstract 5/10

6 - All I Ever Wanted 4/10

7 - Yee feat. Nok From The Future 4/10 \\the bass is good

8 - U>Them feat. Ketema 4/10

9 - Gold Teeth 6/10 \\I often wonder who the kid in the intro to this song is and how he’s doing now

10 - Unknown Caller PT. 2 feat. Saputo 5/10

11 - Finale (Marvin Gaye Cover) 6/10

My rating will likely be somewhat biased as this is a hip hop-esque album, and I’m personally not a huge fan of hip hop. This album just feels empty, it’s alright but I don’t really get anything out of most of it.

2015 - fuck art #1 [sorry grandpa, im gonna wear a dress if i want to] - osno1 [S] 7/10

1 - fuck art #1 [sorry grandpa, im gonna wear a dress if i want to] 7/10 \\this song is so chaotic and I love it \\dog

There is a dog barking sound in this song, which is somewhat significant since at some point after 100 gecs was released Laura and Dylan said that they would put a dog bark in at least one song from every album, at the time of this songs release none of this had been said yet but from now on I’m going to be mentioning a dog bark in the notes of the songs if I hear one.

This song seems to be a bunch of songs by other artists mixed together and sped up.

2015 - Cake Pop - CAKE POP [S] 7/10

1 - Birthday Party (ft. Dylan Brady) 7/10

2 - Midnight Boys (ft. Dylan Brady & Adam Newcomer) 7/10

3 - I Love Cheeseburgers, Apples Pies 7/10

4 - Poison (ft. Lewis Grant) 6/10

5 - Do You Think I'm Mean? (ft. Dylan Brady, Robel Ketema & Night Lovell) 6/10

6 - 757 Remix (ft. Calvin Lewis, The Kid Devo, Robel Ketema & Dylan Brady) [Bonus] 6/10 \\this song is in no way related to the song 757 by 100 gecs released 2023, this is a remix of another song with the same name

7 - Do You Think I'm Mean? (Five Star Hotel Remix) (ft. Dylan Brady, Robel Ketema & Night Lovell) [Bonus] 7/10 \\I love when one song is significantly louder than every other song on an album

It seems that around 2015 is when both Dylan and Laura really started refining their skills.

2016 - Sticky Fingers - CAKE POP [S] 6/10

1 - Sticky Fingers feat. Lewis Grant, Dylan Brady & osno1 6/10 \\this is the oldest song I can think of that features both Dylan and Laura, which leads me to believe that this is the collaboration that helped inspire them to make 100 gecs

2016 - No Sleep Nun Days Coming Soon - osno1 [S] 1/10

1 - No Sleep Nun Days Coming Soon 1/10 \\My ears hurt :(

this song is indescribably loud, I actually had to lower the volume so that I could tolerate it

2016 - 100 gecs - 100 gecs [S] 9/10

1 - dog food 8/10

2 - gum 9/10 \\dog

3 - bloodstains 10/10 \\this is legitimately one of my all time favorite songs

4 - fuck teeth 10/10 \\this is the song that got me into 100 gecs \\dog

5 - 25 bands and a geccco 8/10 \\dog

2016 - Choker - Dylan Brady [S] 5/10

1 - Lbvs 5/10

2 - Coming Down 5/10

3 - Seattle 5/10

4 - Marlboro Man 6/10

5 - Go Away 5/10

6 - Will You Look for Me When You Need Someone 5/10

My opinions on this album are very neutral

2016 - hello kitty skates to the fuckin CEMETARY - osno1 [S] 6/10

1 - ditch a body in the laundry (feat. Dylan Brady) 8/10

2 - gone with a knife; given all wrong 6/10

3 - nothing just hangin out 6/10

4 - cemetary 4 6/10

5 - there are a lot of things wrong but i dont hate the world only myself maybe 5/10

With the exception of ditch a body in the laundry, the songs on this album aren’t very good on their own, but it’s good as one piece

2017 - dead serious and out of options - osno1 [S] 5/10

1 - dead serious and out of options 5/10 \\dog

The song is goofy

2017 - Dog Show - Dylan Brady [S] 7/10

1 - Lately 7/10

2 - Hit Me 8/10

3 - 127 Hrs in Bed 7/10

4 - Cum Stains 6/10

5 - My First Time 6/10 \\S O M U C H B A S S

I like it but it would like it more if it weren’t so loud

2017 - sticky glue+ - osno1 [S] 7/10

1 - sticky glue+ 7/10 \\according to Laura Les, this song was made in 1 hour \\dog

Laura is just talking about sticky stuff

2017 - i just dont wanna name it anything with "beach" in the title - osno1 [S] 8/10

1 - how to dress as human 7/10

2 - dumb pics 8/10 \\dog

3 - darkest part of day 8/10 \\dog

4 - creep 4 yr bones 10/10 \\dog

This is honestly just a really good EP, it shows major improvement from Laura’s other works.

2017 - A Conversation I Overheard - osno1 [S] 8/10

1 - A Conversation I Overheard 8/10

In this song Laura takes a more rock-esque approach to her music, this song seems to be about her struggles with an eating disorder

2017 - Date Night ❤ - Dylan Brady [S] 6/10

1 - ​date night !! 💎🎀 6/10 \\who puts emojis in their song titles

2 - i hope its ok !! (dinner w my parents) 6/10

3 - ​u can find me here 💙 6/10

4 - will u go 2 the dance w me 6/10

It’s alright but not my favorite

2017 - LETHAL POISON FOR THE SYSTEM - 99jakes, Black Dresses & osno1 [S] 7/10

2 - Paper Planes (osno1 "i Want The Laugh Cry Emoji On My Tombstone" remix) 7/10 \\dog

This is the most annoying remix on the EP and of course Laura did it, it’s like a bomb is going off in my head and honestly I enjoy it.

2017 - laura les drops HEAVY BIRTHDAY BASS - Laura Les [DS] 7/10

1 - dog food (osno1 puppy chow remix) 8/10 \\dog

2 - paper planes (osno1 lethal poison remix) 7/10 \\dog

3 - barbie girl (osno1 punching a hole in the wall remix) 2/10 \\it is a crime to make me listen to any form of this song

4 - how to dress as human (LOUDMIX) 7/10

5 - dumb pics (LOUDMIX) 8/10 \\dog

6 - X (osno1 21 pound timbs flip) 7/10

7 - GONE (osno1 heavy halloween remix) 6/10 \\dog

8 - i miss you (osno1 psalms 6:6 remix) 6/10

9 - bloodstains (osno1 victory lap remix) 8/10 \\dog

10 - magnolia (osno1 lazy kitty flip) 6/10

11 - SAUSAGE (osno1 RIP vine remix) 7/10

12 - peanut butter jelly time (osno1 mumblecore remix) 6/10

13 - ss2 7.5/10

14 - i fucking hate being 17 7/10

15 - BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (osno1 BUCKwild nxc RMX) 6/10 \\dog

16 - monster 7/10

17 - teenagers (osno1 sad prom will never end remix) 7/10 \\dog

While there were a few people watching live, most viewers saw the show digitally

2018 - Remixes 2017 - osno1 [R] 7/10

1 - london bridge (osno1 remix) 9/10

2 - we r who we r (osno1 remix) 7/10

3 - barbie girl (osno1 punching a hole in the wall remix) 2/10

4 - i miss you (osno1 psalms 6:6 remix) 7/10

5 - when love hurts (osno1 remix) 6/10

6 - beautiful girls (osno1 big fuck remix) 6/10 \\dog

7 - 100 gecs - bloodstains (osno1 victory lap remix) 8/10 \\dog

8 - X (osno1 21 pound timbs flip) 7/10

9 - BLNTSMK - GONE (osno1 heavy halloween remix) 5/10 \\dog

10 - Lil West - Bit My Tongue (osno1 VIP flip) 7/10 \\Laura actually produced this song, which allowed her to have more resources when making a remix \\dog

11 - magnolia (osno1 lazy kitty flip) 6/10

12 - peanut butter jelly time (osno1 mumblecore remix) 6/10

13 - SAUSAGE (osno1 RIP vine remix) 7/10

14 - 100 gecs - dog food (osno1 puppy chow remix) 10/10 \\dog

15 - mr brightside (osno1 remix) 7/10

16 - scars (osno1 SUPER LAZY remix) 6/10 \\this HAS to be satire, it can’t not be satire, I wont except it

17 - Bloom - VISION (osno1 raving and loving remix) 6/10 \\dog

18 - teenagers (osno1 sad prom will never die remix) 7/10 \\dog

Most of the songs are just sped up and sound effects are added.

2018 - Big Summer Jams 2018 - Laura Les [S] 7/10

1 - pirate (feat. Lil West and Lewis Grant) 8/10 \\honestly pretty good for rap

2 - feels good (feat. Dylan Brady and Laura Les) 7/10 \\dog

3 - hell yeah brother (feat. Lil West, Lewis Grant, and Girls Rituals) 7/10

4 - being on yr own (feat. Calvin, lil mai, and SYBYR) 6/10

5 - the river (feat. scum, Yung Skrrt, and 99jakes) 7/10

6 - livin my best life! 6/10

This is probably Laura’s most normal sounding release

2018 - Coalchella - 100 gecs [DS] 10/10

1 - Intro (feat. Anthony Fantano)

2 - I Don't Have Any Fun 10/10 \\this should have been put on an album

3 - (more talking lol)

4 - im addicted to energy drinks / we could try 10/10 \\this is also an amazing song

5 - LauraCantGetOutOfMinecraft.mp3

6 - ringtone (demo) 10/10 \\this is the best version of the song

7 - (talking again)

8 - dogfood - osno1 puppy chow remix 10/10 \\the bass isn’t as overbearing on this version \\dog

9 - (chitchat break)

10 - Drove U Crazy (dylan brady remix) 9/10

11 - minecraft jokes told by someone who doesnt play minecraft

12 - i fuck it up 7/10

13 - We Could Go Anywhere 10/10 \\I really like this song

I didn’t rank the intermissions because it seemed unnecessary.

This is an amazing release that I think every 100 gecs fan needs to hear. It is also my favorite digital show.

2018 - Peace & Love - Dylan Brady [S] 9/10

1 - Key Of C 8/10

2 - I'll Make You Miss Me All The Time 9/10

3 - Walking Through The Park 8/10 \\short and sweet

4 - 7/11 Drone 8/10

5 - What I Made 4 U [Lofi-Dub] 8/10

6 - Of Course I Still Love You 10/10 \\this song is about Dylan’s relationship with his dad

I might have cried while listening to Of Course I Still Love You once, the whole EP is good but OCISLY is on another level

2018 - november2018 - Laura Les [S] 7/10

1 - scar 20181129 6/10

2 - fox 20181129 7/10

3 - cleaning your room can be fun 20181129 8/10 \\gotta love the unnecessary blast beat

4 - beat up 20181129 7/10

5 - tripp 20181129 6/10

This album is exclusive to Laura’s Patrion, it consists of demos made in November of 2018

2018 - december2018 - Laura Les [S] 6/10

1 - distney princess 6/10 \\dog

2 - dreams demo 2018 5/10

3 - evening news 6/10

4 - i wish (summer singles) 5/10

5 - in the place of dreams 5/10

6 - nail polish 6/10

7 - sad happy hardcore 7/10

8 - shadows in our eyes 6/10

9 - tetetencho 6/10

This album is also exclusive to Laura’s Patrion, it consists of demos made in December of 2018

2019 - Fire Festival - 100 gecs [DS] 8/10

1 - gecgecgec (demo) 7/10 \\some of the notes on this are different to the main release

2 - gec 2 Ü (demo) 8/10 \\this version is significantly different to the main release

3 - 745 sticky (demo) 8/10 \\the quality of the vocals are significantly improved in the main release \\dog

4 - I Need Help Immidiately (demo) 3/10

5 - xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx (demo) 8/10

6 - No Future Bass in My Fucking Room 7/10

7 - money machine (demo) 8/10

It’s not the best but overall this is a pretty good show

2019 - 1000 gecs - 100 gecs [S] 10/10

1 - 745 sticky 10/10 \\dog

2 - money machine 10/10 \\the opening line always makes me laugh

3 - 800db cloud 10/10

4 - I Need Help Immediately 4/10 \\it’s an intermission, don’t expect it to be good

5 - stupid horse 10/10

6 - xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx 9/10

7 - ringtone 10/10 \\they took out my favorite part but the part that replaced it is still good

8 - gecgecgec 9/10

9 - hand crushed by a mallet 10/10

10 - gec 2 Ü 9/10

This is genuinely one of my top ten albums, I listen to it regularly. It’s also a nice break from what I usually listen to, as this album is not super serious. This album is very fun and lighthearted, and not too silly, just the right amount of goofy.

2019 - 100 gecs & The Chamber of Secrets - 100 gecs [DJ] 8/10

1 - NTS Intro (Pixar Remix) 8/10 \\this is honestly a sick intro

2 - 745 sticky [NTS] 10/10 \\dog

3 - Soap Theme 3 5/10

4 - money machine [NTS] 10/10

5 - Chamber of Secrets Wholetone 6/10

6 - 800db cloud [NTS] 10/10

7 - quiet mode (sicko mode remix) 8/10 \\this song is unnecessarily funny

8 - stupid horse [NTS] 10/10

9 - If I Can't Have Ü (Dylan Brady Remix) [NTS] 7/10

10 - Act 5 ! 6/10

11 - Steal Her Man (Laura Les Remix) 7/10

12 - Cake (Dylan Brady Remix) 6/10

13 - Too Much Sauce Noise 1/10

14 - Blame It On Your Love (Dylan Brady Remix) 7/10

15 - California Girls (Dylan Brady Remix) 7/10

16 - Hand Crushed by a Mallet [NTS] 10/10

17 - Eat Yr Nylon 5/10

18 - ringtone [NTS] 10/10

19 - No Future Bass In My Fucking Room [NTS] 7/10

20 - Kid Cudi (NTS Remix) 7/10

21 - Abandon All Life 7/10

22 - gecgecgec [NTS] 9/10

23 - xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx [NTS] 9/10

24 - Eternally Yours 6/10

25 - Rock Band 8/10

26 - Baby (Dylan Brady Remix) 5/10 \\>:(

27 - 12 Tone 1 4/10

28 - How to Dress as Human [NTS] 7/10

29 - Of Course I Still Love You [NTS] 10/10

30 - Bit My Tongue (osno1 NTS flip) 9/10 \\this version is much closer to the original than the one on Remixes 2017 \\dog

31 - bloodstains [NTS] 10/10

32 - I CANT GET NO REST (Sanchez Mix) 6/10

33 - I Need Help Immidiately [NTS] 4/10

34 - 420 Mix 6/10

35 - creep 4 yr bones [NTS] 10/10 \\dog

36 - ditch a body in the laundry [NTS] 8/10

37 - gec 2 Ü [NTS] 9/10

This whole show was broadcasted over NTS radio

2019 - Mine Gala - 100 gecs [DS] 6/10

1 - came to my show (intro) [demo] 6/10 \\there might be a dog bark here, I’m not sure

2 - came to my show (demo) 7/10

3 - Without Me (MineGala Remix) 6/10

4 - instrumental 1 7/10 \\goofy

5 - ooooooooohhhhhhhh + Instrumental 2 9/10

6 - Feel Good Inc (MineGala Remix) 8/10

7 - Instrumental 3 8/10

8 - Shoota (MineGala Remix) 7/10 \\there also might be a dog here

9 - Potion Seller (MineGala Remix) 7/10 \\how do you even remix this?!?

10 - Appalachian Spring (MineGala Remix) 4/10

11 - My Heart Will Go On (MineGala Remix) 5/10 \\I don’t like the original so i’m somewhat biased

12 - toothless (demo) 8/10

This is probably their weakest show, despite this, some of their most popular non-album songs to play live came from this show

2019 - Summer Nights - 100 gecs [DS] 8/10

1 - Intro of Darkness 8/10

2 - 800db bongrip 9/10 \\this is a very interesting remix

3 - instrumental 1 7/10

4 - what Ü think that we think is cool 8/10

5 - CAR CRASH 9/10

6 - MAND CRUSHED BY A HALLET 8/10 \\dog

7 - Stronger (Summer Nights Remix) 6/10

8 - instrumental 2 4/10

9 - when im holding Ü 6/10

10 - gec dance 7/10

11 - my boys got his own allstar 8/10 \\this song makes me take psychic damage

This is honestly a pretty good show but it takes a while to get used to because of how powerful the bass is, sometimes it starts to drown out the music

2020 - Square Garden - 100 gecs [DS] 8/10

1 - THX Intro 2/10

2 - TIGER 9/10 \\how the hell did they make such a good song out of eeny meeny miny moe

3 - fallen 4 Ü 10/10 \\ one of their best songs

4 - the mall 7/10

5 - Last Train To Awesometown (SquareGarden Remix) 7/10 \\I’m honestly somewhat intimidated by Parry Gripp, how does someone become this popular over music made for children

6 - small pipe (live @ fishcenter) 5/10

7 - Instrumental 1 5/10

8 - CHEST 7/10 \\this is music from a bad timeline

9 - Thos Moser (SquareGarden Remix) 8/10 \\this is significantly better than the original \\dog

10 - we got numbers in the title 4/10

11 - One Two Buckle My Shoe 9/10 \\this is actually a very early demo of Hey Big Man

12 - Metalcore Song 8/10

13 - ice cream pizza 4/10

14 - What's That Smell? 8/10 \\this song is about Laura’s fucked up tooth that caused her to have to get eight root canals and eventually she had to have it removed, this song is definitely acquired taste

15 - Instrumental 2 3/10 \\ass

16 - when i walk away 5/10

17 - 800db cloud (live @ fishcenter) 10/10

18 - SquareGarden outro 3/10

This is my third favorite digital show, it has so many great unreleased songs

2020 - 1000 gecs And The Tree Of Clues - 100 gecs [R]

1 - Money Machine (A.G. Cook Remix) 7/10

2 - Ringtone (Remix) feat. Charli XCX, Kero Kero Bonito, Rico Nasty 9/10 \\I think the KKB AAC line is clever \\dog

3 - 745 Sticky (Injury Reserve Remix) 8/10

4 - Gec 2 Ü (Danny L Harle Harlecore Remix) 7/10

5 - Hand Crushed By A Mallet (Remix) feat. Craig Owens, Fall Out Boy, Nicole Dollanganger 10/10 \\this remix is on another level, it’s just so well done.

6 - 800db Cloud (Ricco Harver Remix) 8/10

7 - Stupid Horse (Remix) feat. Count Baldor, GFOTY 4/10 \\this remix is just so annoying -_-

8 - Ringtone (umru Remix) 6/10

9 - xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx (Remix) feat. Hannah Diamond, Tommy Cash 1/10 \\I cannot stand this song

10 - 745 Sticky (Black Dresses Remix) 8/10 \\when they said “y̷̛̰͍̬̰̦̠̓͑̿̔̈́͒͒ͅę̴̡͓͖̤̞̥̻́̉͐̿̆͛͜ǎ̶̧̦̞̦̘͕̠̳̬̇͑̊̓̐” I fealt that

11 - Gecgecgec (Remix) feat. Lil West, Tony Velour 9/10

12 - xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx (99jakes Remix) 7/10

13 - Gec 2 Ü (Remix) feat. Dorian Electra 9/10

14 - Hand Crushed By A Mallet (Nothankyou Remix) 9/10

15 - Came To My Show (Intro) 7/10

16 - Came To My Show 9/10

17 - Toothless 8/10

18 - Small Pipe (Live At Fishcenter) 5/10

19 - 800db Cloud (Live At Fishcenter) 10/10

This is definitely my favorite remix album. Most remix albums I hear, like Reanimation by LINKIN PARK, feel very lacking, but this one is really well done. :)

2020 - Lavapalooza - 100 gecs [DS] 9/10

1 - can Ü hear me now 10/10 \\I love this song so much

2 - Blackout (Lavapalooza Remix) 9/10

3 - Delete my Fuckn Socials feat. Alice Gas 9/10

4 - ​Ievan Polkka (Lavapalooza Remix) 7/10

5 - mischief 10/10

6 - MTC (Lavapalooza Remix) 7/10

7 - geccraft 10/10

8 - Old MacDonald 6/10 \\funny

9 - torture me (demo) 9/10

10 - always miss Ü 9/10

This is my second favorite digital show, it has no skip worthy songs, in my opinion.

2020 - Appleville - 100 gecs [DS] 6/10

1 - ratratrat (intro) 7/10

2 - Want Ü 2 Love Me 9/10

3 - It's Tricky x War Pigs (Appleville Mashup) 4/10

4 - Blinded by the Light [Manfred Mann] (feat. Tony Velour) 6/10

5 - cook real good 7/10

It’s a cool concept but I can’t bring myself to really enjoy this show.

2020 - DISCO4 :: PART I - HEALTH [S] 8/10

3 - POWER FANTASY (feat. 100 gecs) 8/10

Honestly a pretty good song, I’m glad that HEALTH and 100 gecs did a collaboration

2020 - LONELY MACHINES - 3OH!3 [S] 8/10

1 - LONELY MACHINES (feat. 100 gecs) 8/10

I’ve never been a 3OH!3 fan but this song is pretty good

2020 - laura les @ 909fest - Laura Les [DS] 8/10

1 - The Boys Are Back In Town (Remix) 6/10

2 - West Virginia (Does your dad wanna kill me) 7/10

3 - hand crushed by a mallet (909 Remix) 8/10 \\dog

4 - Get this collar off my neck 7/10

5 - Run Rabbit Run (800 db remix) 8/10 \\same as the end part of the Summer Nights remix

6 - Come Back Someday 7/10

7 - Comedy 6/10

8 - Happy Fartcore 6/10 \\:(

9 - Starlight 8/10

10 - Bangarang (Laura Les remix) 7/10

11 - Walls Are Closing In 8/10

12 - Hardcore Will Never Die 8/10

It’s pretty alright, definitely better than I was expecting

2020 - live at HEAV3N goes 2 H3LL - 100 gecs [DJ] 7/10

1 - live at HEAV3N goes 2 H3LL 7/10

this is a single hour long recording of the set, I couldn’t find a version with the tracks separated to bare with me please

2020 - Laura Les @ A2B2 - Laura Les [DS] 8/10

1 - Tired 6/10 \\the oof breaks me

2 - Haunted (demo) 8/10

3 - Ken 7/10

4 - Bring A Gun 6/10 \\funny intermission

5 - Whats Happening 8/10 \\wasn’t expecting anything like this

6 - In The Trunk. 5/10

7 - U X Me 8/10

8 - And Make Sure Its Loaded 7/10

This set was pretty good but so was most of Night of Fire

2020 - sympathy 4 the grinch - 100 gecs [S] 9/10

1 - sympathy 4 the grinch 9/10

One of the only good christmas songs

2021 - One Step Closer (100 gecs Reanimation) - LINKIN PARK [S] 9/10

1 - One Step Closer (100 gecs Reanimation) 9/10

Though I’m disappointed that LP wasn’t able to go through with the whole second Reanimation, I’m so glad that this song happened, I’ve probably listened to it more than the regular version of One Step Closer

2021 - Haunted - Laura Les [S] 9/10

1 - Haunted 9/10

This song took a while for me to get into but it really started to stick with me recently

2021 - Live @ Vampalooza - laura les & petal supply [DS]

1 - vamp_intro 5/10

2 - Lately 8/10

3 - I <3 U a lot 7/10

4 - ddiscombbobulated 6/10

5 - PRTY GRL 7/10

6 - Kiss Goodnight 7/10

It was an alright show, some of the talking seemed a bit unnecessary

2021 - Cake Pop 2 - CAKE POP [S] 8/10

1 - black rum 10/10 \\the vocals on this song are so good

2 - cake happy 7/10

3 - whistle 9/10

4 - magic 5/10

5 - ether 7/10

6 - candy floss 7/10

7 - satin bedsheets 6/10

8 - boom (let version) 8/10 \\this is the original version of the song, after its release Dylan changed the line “let the speaker go boom” to “make the speaker go boom”

8 - boom (make version) 9/10 \\I prefer this version

9 - pombachu 8/10 \\wtf is the outro(s)

10 - almost famous 9/10

This is honestly a HUGE step up from the last album 6 years prior

2021 - Live at Terminal 5 - 100 gecs [L] 10/10

1 - crowd's hyped (Live at Terminal 5 Intro)

2 - hey big man (Live at Terminal 5) 9/10

3 - new york fricking city (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

4 - stupid horse (Live at Terminal 5) 9/10

5 - what's up y'all (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

6 - 757 (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10

7 - new york, new york (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

8 - gamelan (Live at Terminal 5) 7/10

9 - new york, new york (Frank Sinatra cover) [Live at Terminal 5] 7/10

10 - ringtone (Live at Terminal 5) 9/10

11 - somebody's watching (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

12 - fallen 4 Ü (Live at Terminal 5) 9/10

13 - the great city of new york (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

14 - hollywood baby (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10 \\I had this version of the song on repeat until it’s release

15 - new york (Live at Terminal 5)

16 - gecgecgec (Live at Terminal 5) 8/10

17 - 3DS (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

18 - hand crushed by a mallet (Live at Terminal 5) 9/10

19 - new york, new york (Frank Sinatra cover) [part 2] {Live at Terminal 5} 6/10

20 - billie knows jamie (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10 \\I love the improv in this version of the song. Something to note about this track is during this show they play the studio versions of the songs in the background for the instrumentals and they also have the vocals in the background for the effects that they can’t do live, the vocals aren’t in the background for this song which implies that the vocals hadn’t been recorded yet, this also explains why there was an improv part in the middle of the song, they hadn’t finished the lyrics yet.

21 - rare intersection (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

22 - mememe (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10

23 - one million dollars (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10 \\Laura goes crazy on the guitar

24 - hope you're not doing sup-par (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

25 - money machine (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10 \\I love the fact that the whole crowd sings the opening lyrics

26 - insistent gec chanting (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

27 - what's that smell (Live at Terminal 5) 8/10

28 - i was on instagram today (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

29 - sympathy 4 the grinch (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10

30 - poll/thank you/last one (interlude) [Live at Terminal 5]

31 - 800db cloud (Live at Terminal 5) 10/10

I listened to this show everyday waiting for 10,000 gecs to come out. I genuinely love this show so much, I really wish I could get to actually see them live. I watched the recording of the show on the night of the album's release… I might’ve cried when it came out.

2022 - Snake Eyes - 100 gecs [S] 10/10

1 - Hey Big Man 10/10 \\I don’t care if the lyrics are cringy, the song goes crazy and the bass is amazingly intense

2 - Torture Me (feat. Skrillex) 9/10 \\they took out the part that I liked in the original version :(

3 - Runaway 10/10 \\when I first listened to this song I was so scared that it was going to be one of those shitty heartbreak songs and then it kicked and I absolutely lost my mind because this song is so fucking good.

So one night I decided to look up if any new info had come out about 10,000 gecs and there was an article that was 2 minutes old saying that this was released, I immediately bought it while sort of crying with joy because I really wanted new music and I finally got it.

H2023 - Boiler Room: 100 gecs in Los Angeles - 100 gecs [DJ] 7/10

1 - Commentary 1 6/10

2 - Eruption 6/10

3 - Where’s Your Head At (100 gecs Remix) 9/10

4 - Waves 7/10

5 - I Can't Stop 7/10

6 - Cinema [Virtual Riot Remix] 6/10

7 - 800db cloud (Ricco Harver Remix) 8/10

8 - Both [Remix] 7/10 \\I love unnecessary air horns

9 - Incredible / Blackout (Remix) 7/10

10 - A New Day Has Come (Remix) 6/10

11 - Werk / Go Hard (La.La.La) 7/10

12 - Are You That Somebody (Remix) 7/10

13 - Bust Down 6/10

14 - Get Up / Ugly 6/10

15 - Hate or Glory (Custome Edit) 7/10

16 - Haunted (Dylan Brady Remix) 7/10

17 - Jump Around 7/10

18 - Smiling 6/10

19 - ID1 7/10

20 - Z 6/10

21 - Hit Em 7/10

22 - Hey You There 6/10

23 - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) [Jay TP Edit] 6/10

24 - Heads Will Roll (Leroy Remix) 7/10

25 - Mantra (Nitepunk Remix) 7/10

26 - ID2 / ID3 7/10

27 - Void Song / Hello Music 6/10

28 - Jump in the Line 7/10

29 - Walkin' On the Sun 7/10

30 - Feel Good Inc. / Music Sounds Better with You (Leotrix Remix) 8/10

31 - TiK ToK (Leotrix Remix) 6/10

32 - Torture Me 8/10

33 - Join Us for a Bite 6/10 \\I’m just mad that I had to listen to a FNAF song

34 - Faneto 5/10

35 - McDonalds 7/10

36 - The Star 6/10

37 - Hounds 6/10

38 - OHFR? 7/10

39 - Report Card / Solar 7/10

40 - Divide & Conquer (Noisia Remix) / Livin' la Vida Loca (PLURGATTI BOY 420 Remix) 6/10

41 - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Dirtyphonics Remix) / Yeah Right 8/10

42 - Immortals 6/10

43 - I Serve the Base 7/10

44 - Rock the Bells 8/10

45 - anthems (Dylan Brady Remix) 7/10

46 - Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit) 6/10

47 - Weeble Wobble 6/10

48 - De 38 Carregado / Better Off Alone (Weird Baile Remix) 6/10

49 - hand crushed by a mallet (Laura Les Remix) 8/10 \\dog

50 - xXXi wud nvrstøp ÜXXx (Shinigami Remix) 9/10

51 - Everytime We Touch (Remix) 7/10

52 - Satisfaction (Remix) 7/10

53 - ORANGE SODA 6/10

54 - Commentary 2 6/10

55 - Toxicity (100 gecs Remix) 9/10

56 - Woke Up This Morning (Remix) 7/10

57 - Commentary 3 5/10

It’s a pretty good show, it’s also an hour and 26 minutes long.

2023 - 10000 gecs - 100 gecs [S] 10/10

1 - Dumbest Girl Alive 10/10

2 - 757 10/10 \\I love the Star Wars noises \\possible dog bark here

2 - 757 (physical version) 10/10 \\the version of this song and BKJ on CD and vinyl are vastly different than the digital release

3 - Hollywood Baby 10/10

4 - Frog On The Floor 10/10

5 - Doritos & Fritos 10/10

6 - Billy Knows Jamie 10/10 \\I really like how aggressive this version is

6 - Billy Knows Jamie (physical version) 10/10 \\I honestly prefer this version but the other is just as good

7 - One Million Dollars 10/10 \\the guitar on this song is amazing

8 - The Most Wanted Person In The United States 10/10 \\dog, the dog bark is realistic this time

9 - I Got My Tooth Removed 10/10 \\if you pay close attention, after the second time Laura says “I got my tooth removed” you hear what sound like a small moan, if you slow the song down to about 40% of its original speed you can hear that the “moan” is actually some voice saying “I know” which is a really cool easter egg

10 - mememe 10/10

This is by far one of my favorite albums if it wasn’t apparent, it was well worth the wait. I still get chills whenever I listen to this album, it’s just so good and such a leap in quality from their first album. I wonder what 100,000 gecs will be like.

This is 32,124 characters long and took my around 4 days to do

Sorry if it is kinda rough, I don’t do this very often, but if your interested I’ve also made a review for Death Grips and Rammstein

I would absolutely appreciate any feedback I can get

:3

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(@ask-manny-and-doi @britkunoichi92 @schleimplay @ghostwriteser)

omg all the people in the comments who were fangirlimg about lesbian pirates need to read this right now, ok, so last summer I subjected myself to the horrors of nonfiction and one of those things was a book about pirates and stuff and:

There was this one girl, born to a wealthy guy who had an affair-with-the-maid situation, and I think his wife divorced him over it, and he ran away with the girl, dressing her up as a boy so he could pass her off as his apprentice without anything seeming suspicious

There was another girl, who also got dressed up as a boy her whole childhood for Plot Reasons (except this is actually nonfiction, it really happened)

They both continued to crossdress into adulthood, one of them joined the army or something and the book said that the guy she was rooming with in the tents or barracks or whatever considered himself very lucky, and I think the other joined the navy or got on a merchant ship or something, still dressing as a man

And somehow both of them ended up on the same pirate ship, with Calico Jack

And THIS HAPPENED:

Or... almost happened I suppose

But there you go! [almost] lesbian pirates in real life!

Like they were genuinely attracted to each other and would have gotten together if they knew that being lesbian was a possibility, their interaction went like this (based on my interpretation of what the text actually says)

Anne: *omg the new crewman is really hot holy heck*

("...found herself strongly attracted to the new member of the pirate crew")

Anne: *subtly sidles over until they're both leaning over the prow looking at the stars together* "hey, um, just so you know?" *seductively* "I'm... a woman, actually."

("and in a quiet moment when they were alone she revealed herself as a woman")

Mary: *oh crap she's beautiful, this is the best day of my life*

Mary: *wait shit I'm not *actually* a guy, I can't have sex with her she would find out eventually she's going to be so disapointed oh crap why couldn't I just actually be a boy*

("knowing what she would be at, and being sensible of her capacity in that way")

Mary: "I- I'm sorry, I can't *I wish* I'm also a woman"

("...was forced to come to a right understanding with her" ... "she let her know that she was a woman also")

Mary: "I'm so sorry, I think we have to tell the captain" :(

("To avoid any further misunderstandings, Calico Jack was let into the secret")

Anne: "O-oh." :(

("...to the great disappointment of Anne Bonny")

*both of them are disappointed and assuming the other is straight*

But we can pretend that the author doesn't know the whole story and that they actually did get together, right?

Pirate jokes

[barbarianne]

Hello! If you've found this blog, I'm Ren--she/her, 30, CST (GMT-6), etc.--and I have a confession to make. This isn't a traditional OC. This is a spinoff from @neverhangd, my RPF account for the pirate Anne Bonny. This is Anne reskinned from D&D (although I think her stats are wrong rn).

Now, if you have no problems with RPF and/or characters based on real people, please feel free to skip this paragraph. If you do take issue with RPF and the like, and before you go clicking off, please consider my argument: there is very little known of the pirates of her era, and there is even less known about her, because she was a woman existing in an era that didn't care for women and ultimately is only a blip in the map of history. What little we know even "factually" can fairly be called into question given the integrity of the most popular "primary" source about her. For all intents and purposes, I am writing a version of a legend in a way I choose, imagined twice-fold through a fictitious lens. If you remain unsatisfied and unswayed, I understand. Thank you for your time and attention. I hate having to defend what I do, but I do understand that some people take offense, and I can understand why.

If you are willing to write with me, whether before or after my defense, thank you again for your time and attention! I'm excited to adventure with you!

[manilafm]

Brittany's on this blog, Discord, and RPnow/net with the other members of this RPG! And I am no longer on a vacation, but I am still having to do my own chores, and things like that.

Notices : Please make sure that you are following Admin. Alex’s multi-muse blog for Lynn, Jr., Loud from The Loud House / The Loud House Movie / The Casagrandes / A Loud House Christmas / The Really Loud House and with a Ciara Bravo playby, Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and with a Kathryn Newton playby, Ginevra ‘Ginny’ Weasley from Harry Potter and with a Bonnie Wright-Lococo playby, Pacifica Northwest from Gravity Falls and with an Olivia Holt playby, Angelica Pickles from All Grown Up! and Rugrats and with a Virginia Gardner playby, Chloe Carmichael from The Fairly OddParents and with a Dove Cameron playby, Trixie Tang from The Fairly OddParents and with a Ming Xi-Ho playby, Vicky from The Fairly OddParents and with an Abigail Cowen playby, Kuki Sanban A.K.A. Numbuh 3 from Codename: Kids Next Door and with a Haruka Komiyama playby, Fluttershy from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and with a Kristine Froseth playby, Helga G. Pataki from Hey, Arnold! and with a Maya Hawke playby, Lilo Pelekai from Lilo & Stitch and with an Auliʻi Cravalho playby, Riley Matthews from Girl Meets World and with a Rowan Blanchard playby, Whittany Biskit from Littlest Pet Shop and with a Bailee Madison playby, Chloé Bourgeois from Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir and with a Meg Donnelly playby, Courtney Gripling from As Told By Ginger and with a Virginia Gardner playby, Starlight Glimmer from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and with a Hailee Steinfeld playby, Alexandra Margarita ‘Alex’ Russo from Wizards Of Waverly Place and with a Cierra Ramírez playby, Mia Warren from High School Story/Choices: Stories You Play and with an Olivia Holt playby, Luz Noceda from The Owl House and with an Isabela Merced playby, Ronnie Anne Santiago from The Loud House / The Loud House Movie / The Casagrandes and with a Cierra Ramírez playby, Bubbles Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls and with an Olivia Holt playby, and Brittany Miller from ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks and with an Dove Cameron playby, HERE, Manila RPG members !!

Admin. Alex., you will now have forty-eight hours to make at a very minimum of three I.C. replies as Brittany Miller from ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks and with an Dove Cameron playby either on Tumblr, RPnow.net, and/or on Discord, but if you will need an extension on your I.C. replies as Brittany Miller from ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks and with an Dove Cameron playby, then please use the form below, and send it in via our ask box, or submission box !! Thank you, Admin. Alex. !!

( Mun ) is in need of an extension, so please allow ( list every character that you roleplay in this RPG ) an extension to post I.C. until ( date that you will be able to post I.C. as all of your characters ), and this extension is for ( Tumblr, RPnow.net, and/or for Discord )

Thank you for letting us know that, Admin. Alex !! And we completely understand that chores have to be done.