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[NSB HEADCANONS] - carving pumpkins with ryan

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pov: it's almost halloween and ryan bought two pumpkins for you and him to carve together and do the best looking pumpkins ever :)

warnings: some swears here and there

type: fluff

member: ryan nguyen (azngami)

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so.. ryan was bored on a sunday afternoon

he was scrolling through his phone to cure his boredoom and saw an instagram post saying "buy pumpkins for halloween" (sorry i didn't had much inspiration for the add caption 💀😭)

ryan smiled and decided to go to the closest supermarket and brought two medium pumpkins for you and him

(More under the cut!)

he's just really creative

while you were doing your own things, ryan came into your room and smiled proudly of his projects that he wanted to do with you

"want to carve pumpkins with me?"

ofc, you said yes <3

and it immediately made him super happy

nguyen would have decorated the apartment with halloween decorations (i know ryan do not own an appartment since he's moving houses to houses with the boys, but let's say he have one with you lol) and spooky stuff around the differents room

i know ryan is a SIMP for christmas, but i also know he kinda like halloween (but not like he do for xmas haha)

ANYWAYS-

he would have put tablecloths or paper journals that you guys don't really use or read on your table to avoid a mess

this man brought even the little knife to do it perfectly

like.. this boy wanted to do this activity with you so bad

"i bet my pumpkins can be cuter than yours"

"lol, you wish"

"ooh y/n have some talk back? mmh i love it"

he smiled while saying that

"if you really think your chances to do an aesthetic and beautiful pumpkins are much higher than mine, then let's do a contest on our ig stories so the stars can vote. the loser have to do the dishes for the rest of the week and have to buy the other, snacks and drinks they want"

ryan love so much the stars

so you would agree to that challenge

and ofc, it would make him super happy

"alright, bet. we have 30 minutes to take all the inside out and we'll have 45 minutes to carve it. i'll put the timer"

"that's a serious challenge.."

"well yeah! if i have to carve pumpkins against my girlfriend, i better take it seriously. i would love to see you doing all the dishes and making me food" he said while laughing

he would definitively (try to) put pumpkin flesh on your face and on your nose

"sorry, it was too tempting"

he would laugh so much and take a lot of pictures

he love taking pictures with you

he love being loved by you <3

he would try his best to make you loose

"oh shit, yours is looking pretty sick.. mind if i add my little spice to it?"

"mind your little spice for later, i don't want to lose!"

"it'll make you win! you know how creative i am, right?"

"right.."

he would def carve something he found on pinterest or in google

' easy and funky carving pumpkins ideas '

" damn, these aren't easy! fuck that shit "

" i thought you were creative.."

"hey you, you know what, shut up, y/n!! mind your pumpkin!" he would say obvs laughing to make you know he's kidding

after that curving, he would be super proud of his pumpkin, but then... he would look at yours and be a bit jealous (just a little bit)

"woah.. y/n, you're really talented! it look fucking good and sick!! i love it!"

he tried his best

like literally

he wanted to win so so bad, but he know how great as an artist you are.. like, you could do whatever you want and it would still look sick and awesome

though, he would still be proud of his, he knew he wouldn't be able to win with your masterpiece

he would post a picture of both of your pumpkin and would add an instagram sticker with the choices (a poll lol) and would pray to win

he love seeing you winning because he can see you smile and can see how excited you are, but he still love winning times to times

after 30 minutes, he would check the results and see how he lost-

listen, he always thought you were a born artist, but he didn't know that his pumpkin was THAT bad looking?

ryan's pumpkin would probably look sick and super good, but you know.. the stars have choosen >:)

he was a bit sad, but at the same time, not really, because your smile when he told you, you won, was so worth it like?? his heart was filled with joy and happiness and excitment? ARGH THIS BOY LOVE YOUR SMILE SO MUCH

"i told you baby that i'll win"

he smirked

"yeah, yeah.. i guess, you're the real artist between us"

"don't say that, ry'! maybe you weren't born an artist but you're still good at dancing, at singing, at videos games.. ok, maybe not at smash, but still.."

"thank you baby.. HEY DID YOU SAY I WAS BAD AT SMASH?!"

"maybe, i did"

"alright, bet, you'll regret that, i'll beat your ass like i do every time when we play. you're going to be beat very easily"

then it turned into a videos games contest and let's say that even if you were trying your hardest, you lost.. sorry, not sorry

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Not sure if I should explain this on every post or not but I'm lightly working on a Lumen game inspired by Hades & Kill 6 Billion Demons, all about you escaping a randomly-generated hell using a weapon of your choice. The weapon system is a core aspect of the game; it's similar to my other Lumen project, Luminous Vein, though you'll only start with one weapon instead of two. It might seem like a downgrade, however-

This is one of the (currently) two weird gimmick weapons with questionable function and clashing aesthetics. The yo-yo has a mechanical focus on gaining Casts - which if you haven't played Hades is essentially a little projectile you can fire that's usually disconnected from how your weapon attacks - but is characterized as being cool and doing tricks & shit. also I've been playing Penny's Big Breakaway so honestly I might change it to add more references and maybe make it more usable. The core combat system isnt too complicated but I dont really want to explain the whole thing in each post where its important, but I can answer any of the questions you have probably

Plaster Yo-Yo

Not a conventional weapon, made as a toy for children in Hypercrash and Cloud 9. Unlike the other weapons, though, this can be pretty easily smuggled into hell, and still used as a tool for violence. 

Stylish: Instead of actions being for direct violence, the Plaster Yo-Yo's actions can be used just to look cool. When you spend an action, you can describe an interesting way for it to play out, and gain an additional Cast for the rest of your turn. When you spend all your actions and none of them deal harm, you can also gain a Cast for the rest of your turn.

Plaster Yo-Yo Actions:

Toss: Can use a cast, a movement, or an action. Throw the yo-yo one range, dealing 1 harm to any enemies in the way. The yo-yo stays in that position until using Recall or moving.

Recall: (Can be used after using Toss) Can use a cast, a movement, or an action. Bring the yo-yo back, dealing 1 harm to all enemies in the way. 

Tornado: Requires 2 actions; deal 1 harm to all enemies within Near range. 

Plaster Yo-Yo Aspects: 

(Costs 1 Titan Blood) Aspect of Style: Gain +1 Cast (for all turns).

(Costs 1 Titan Blood) Aspect of Spinning: After using Toss, the Yo-Yo deals 1 harm to any target in Close range of it, and deals 1 harm to any enemies in Close range of it at the end of every round until it returns to you.

(Costs 2 Titan Blood) Aspect of Break: Recall can move you toward the yo-yo's position.

(Costs 2 Titan Blood) Aspect of Pose: When you gain a cast, cause all enemies within Near range to lose an action.

(Costs 2 Titan Blood) Aspect of Sticky Hand: The yo-yo can attach to a targeted enemy, who will move with it, taking 1 harm for each obstruction or enemy they collide with.

(Costs 3 Titan Blood) Aspect of Sawspinnin’: replaces Plaster Yo-Yo action list with the following:

Rip-It: Can use a cast, movement, or an action. Send a Sawspinner into the arena; if it hits something, it will deal 2 harm before bouncing to another target. Any additional harm added to this action counts as a separate attack. 

Arena Center: any Sawspinners in the arena will begin to orbit towards you, moving 1 range toward you at the end of each turn, dealing 4 harm to any enemies in their paths.

Sawridin’: use Rip-It action, then spend another action to jump on the Sawspinner and move with it. Any movement effects are applied when you bounce off an enemy

the final aspect turns it into a beyblade idk if thats clear or not

anyway vote on what you want to see next pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasif you want. idc

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Additional comment from the submitter: ❝This was popular back in 2015-ish where Tumblr grunge was at its peak and you could see aesthetic posts with reblog chains that are just single alphabet letters (always X) or (always) alien emojis as comments. And people (aesthetic blogs) reblog these posts with their own comment (either X or the alien emoji). The point was to make people see their blogs while the posts were reblogged by new people. So it’s basically self promo. I didn’t think it was annoying back then since most aesthetic (mostly grunge) blogs did this. But looking back now, I think it’s kind of annoying. I don’t see much of these comments now but they still end up on my dashboard here and there. I’ll just go straight to the OP’s post so I can reblog directly from the original source without the comment if I want to reblog the post, since reposting from the commenter and removing their comment seem rude, but I don’t want the comment attached to the post either since it ruins the aesthetic and is pointless for me.❞

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Hello it's a USA election year now and it's extremely important to remember that no matter how ridiculous things get, other people aren't stupid.

I understand the appeal of laughing about the 'Leopards Eating People's Faces Party'. Schadenfreude itself isn't bad-- we all like to see someone fuck around and find out. But 'the outcome of propaganda' makes things different. Who fucks around and who finds out aren't the same.

What we're usually seeing is damage that's been done to people, in action. And there's also no such thing as a completely undamaged person whose perspective, goals, life investments haven't been skewed by some kind of violence.

(This isn't me saying like, 'aw, pity them, they're damaged,' either. That's another kind of mentality that's JUST as self-defensive, self-reassuring as 'how could anyone be so stupid.')

A good, relatively low-drama example of this (I live in the USA, so this is local to me) would be the general conservative rejection of funding infrastructure. The origin of the fucking around-- the wealthy who don't want to return to the 91% tax rate of the 1960s-- hardly ever uses public anything. They have private roads, private planes, private schools, private doctors, and more. But the average person who votes red in the USA probably isn't extremely wealthy; the conditions they experience have made the idea of paying more taxes undesirable at best and unlivable at worst. But whether they're informed about if they'd even be subject to a higher tax rate, or if there are benefits for them in there, they still experience that a degrading environment SUCKS.

So in order to access what a smart, reasonable person (that they are!) would obviously want, we get the 'strong towns' movement, which is basically an urbanism that doesn't compromise conservative narratives... even if in the USA, infrastructure projects and maintenance are massively contracted out to the private sector. SAM.gov exists to facilitate contract opportunities on a federal level. If you live in the USA and want to see more local types of projects, search online for your state's agencies and find their procurement portal. There's thousands of projects up for bid, all the time.

ANYWAY, it would be easy to think, 'are these people stupid? They idealize private business but they want the private sector to get fewer opportunities and less money?' But what's going on here is not stupidity but the outcome of violence. Right-wing populism turns political options into a contest of aesthetics, feeling-bad-feeling-good, to strangle the ability to choose based on more than vibes. It's the destruction of informed consent, no matter what somebody believes about the world.

Unless they actually are the ones who reap a benefit from releasing the leopards, people who get their faces eaten aren't stupid-- they were discouraged from understanding what 'gladiator' as a career choice even was, and now the guy who bought the leopards is giving the thumbs down. And anyone who won't be manipulated into the pit will be thrown in by force.

[acaplaya-musings]

Voiceplay Visuals - Jingle Bell Rock

Voiceplay weren't originally planning to release any proper full-length video for December last year (2023), just a Mini or two, as they were busy in November due to a special performance with the band Chicago. They asked their Patrons for song suggestions for Minis, and then put the three most popular suggestions into a poll for people to vote on. Jingle Bell Rock won out with 55% of the votes, but then a Patron provided a suggestion of doing it "Mean Girls style". Initially the guys were confused, (as was I when I first read the video title when the Premiere appeared) - was there some different musical styling that they weren't aware of? But they soon realised that "Mean Girls style" was referring to the iconic dance scene from the 2004 movie. And so, on the 16th of December, 2023, we got a proper video, not just a Mini, with plenty of absurdity and "Voiceplay brand of dumb", courtesy of Layne! (Layne was in charge of both the arrangement and the video, and is also co-credited for creative direction along with Tony).

Now please don't kill me, but I've never actually watched Mean Girls (*GASP*). However, I know a fair bit about it just from it being popular on Tumblr and the internet in general, and I know this specific scene in the movie quite well, as my dad and I would watch the clip of it every year in December. I have also rewatched the original scene before starting this post, because I'm gonna be doing screenshot comparisons! For one thing, this isn't a super long video, so I'm not worried about image limit, and for another, VoicePlay put a lot of effort into recreating this scene as closely as possible (albeit with some, er, aesthetic alterations 😜), so I wanna prove it, because why not!

Anyway, that's a fair bit of introductory stuff already, so I'll leave my other notes/commentary/thoughts for during the actual video talk bit. Let's get into this!

Making a shot from this little opening bit as the thumbnail was one heck of a choice ngl. Maybe they couldn't be bothered finding a better shot from the video, or maybe they just wanted to keep most of the video as a surprise for viewers, idk, but I was so confused from the thumbnail-title combo when the premiere appeared!😂

Also if you don't already know from the video description, this was all filmed on Tony's iPhone! (Doesn't mean it was all handheld though - tripods/stands for phones exist!). It was because VoicePlay were without a cameraguy for like 2-3 months, because their old one moved states.

So instead of doing any sort of "sexy santa/santa's helper" costumes like in the original, Layne decided that he and the others would be dressing up as characters from Christmas movies! Cesar as Buddy The Elf (perfect casting and also gets off easiest in the outfit department, lol), Layne as The Grinch, Geoff as Oogie Boogie (duh), and Eli as Santa/Sandy

(Also fun fact: the Oogie Boogie costume is the same one that Tony wore for his very brief appearance in VoicePlay's Kidnap The Sandy Claws video! (Also it's pretty hot to wear apparently, and Geoff had to tie his hair back to get the head/hood fitted properly, before he ended up asking for a wig cap, rip))

Also if you don't know the original scene, the original line after "but I'm always on your left!" is "that was when there were three of us, and now the tallest go in the middle", but here, the tallest (Layne/Grinchy and Geoff/Oogie Boogie) already are in the middle, so it's switched out for "now the fat one goes in the middle" (also watch for Eli's/Santa's quick surprised reaction to that line, lol)

(Also not a visual thing, but if you haven't picked up on it already, the announcer doing the "please welcome to the stage" bit is also Layne)

I know I didn't mention it in all my rambling at the start, but yes, shoutout to Adriana Arellano who is also in this video! (And blonde now!). This is her fifth full-length collaboration with the group, and second for a Christmas video! (Third if you count the Frozen 2 Medley).

Also do you recognise the set? Again? I'll say more later, but those curtains were almost definitely added in post-production I'll tell ya that!

Can't recreate the OG scene without an audience, and so we haveone! That just happens to also include the VoicePlay guys themselves! (Geoff must've been sharing his cloning machine around! 😜😆

Huldra has a video on her channel I believe saying who's who in the audience here, but they're also all credited in the description, so I'll list them here for you!

Standing up at the back: Michelle Arellano (Adriana's mum)

Back row: Eli, Ashley Jacobson (Eli's wife), Asher Jacobson (the baby that Ashley is holding; Eli's new son who was born in November last year!), Eileen McCarthy (don't know who she is), and Gayle Stein (Layne's mum).

Middle row: Franchezca Buiser (in shadow behind Cesar) (production assistant for Kathy/VoicePlay), Cyndi Stein (the blonde one behind Layne) (Layne's wife), Christina Arellano (Adriana's sister), and Adriana

And of course in the front row: Cesar, Layne, Kathy, and Geoff!

(Oh and "The Grinch" waving to Layne and him waving back (in the O.G. scene it's Gretchen waving to Jason) was definitely a cute touch)

Cyndi absolutely killed it playing Amy Poehler's part in the scene here, but wow already the similarities are stronger than I realized!

Totally the same picture! 🤣

So long as everyone had a good time, amirite? 😁

Pfft, Geoff acting shocked/scandalised, as if he hasn't done more than that in his Way Down video! 😆

Cesar is having the best time, and we love that for him honestly <3

Cyndi also really got into it! Stan! (She and Layne really are perfect for each other huh - same energies!)

Not a recreation of any bit in the original, but I love the little moment of Eileen and Gayle looking at each other in what can at best be called "great shock/surprise" 😂

Firstly, I love how they managed to include Ariana as a lead singer while still keeping with the original "plotline", by having a 'reveal' that Adriana was just lip-syncing to the boombox track, (still her vocals of course), which is revealed when it gets kicked and starts glitching.

Second of all, I love Cesar's attitude of "when in doubt, Remain Cute". Iconic 😂👌

Lol rip, had to happen! (And in the BTS video, they actually kinda show how this bit was done!)

Somehow I feel like Cyndi had the most fun out of anyone in this video shoot 😝

At this point I might as well make note of something you'd be forgiven for not immediately realizing - or perhaps not at all! And that is the fact that they're not actually on a stage! They made it look like one with the use of clever directions and camera anglings for the audience shots, but yeah no that's the same set VoicePlay used in 2022 for Christmas Don't Be Late, and the same set Geoff used that same year for Way Down, and it's totally flat! No stage!

And that's about all I have to say for Jingle Bell Rock actually! (No I'm not including the end bit - I do have some standards! 😂). That brings us up to date with VoicePlay's Christmas videos, but we're not even halfway into my 12 Days of Christmas In July miniseries! Next up, a couple of bonus VoicePlay Visuals posts, and then we'll be jumping over to Geoff's solo stuff! See you again soon!

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@gothclaudiaaaa we thank you for your service! You asked for Baron teaching at an art college, and so I provided! I do not know anything about art college (or art in general) but I found the perfect course for him to teach! I hope this is to your liking!

There's still time if people want to vote for Baron! If you send me proof of your vote, I will write a snippet fic of your choice!

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Baron's life could have taken a weirder turn, he was sure. Not much weirder, not without veering into the frankly improbable, but it had to be said that when he'd secured his Masters in History, he had never imagined it would drop him into a career teaching world building and creature design in an art collage.

It did make a certain degree of sense, he supposed; worldbuilding ‐ good worldbuilding, not the type that handwaved common sense in favour of shallow but aesthetic window dressing - required a certain understanding of people patterns, of how cultures and civilisations had risen and fallen in the past to make something believable in fiction.

It was a new course, but still one that had managed to become predictable in the short time Baron had been teaching.

"If I have to see one more piece trying to reinvent the Roman Empire, I'm going to go back in time and personally stab Caeser."

His co-conspirator (aka: fellow lecturer on the creature design of things), Haru Yoshioka, looks over her coffee at him as he swings into the seat opposite her. "Which one?"

"All of them."

"You'll be there a while."

"In this scenario, I'll have a time travelling machine. A while is irrelevant."

"Just so long as you grade your students' work on time, I won't mind," she replies. She pushes a cup of tea his way. "Not your own blend, but it's the best I can do in a Starbucks."

He takes the drink and reminds himself that Starbucks tea is better than no tea, and he needs all the help he can get. "I'm begging the universe, give me Phoenician, give me Minoan – they've got roots in the minotaur myth, for goodness sake – give me Mesopotamia. Just anything other than Gladiators: The Reboot."

"Feeling better for the rant?"

"Not particularly." He takes a tentative sip of the tea and manages not to grimace. Heavens, perhaps Muta was right; perhaps he was a tea snob. "How are things on your end?"

Haru shrugs. "Oh, you know. Reskins of dragons and sphinxes. When in doubt, give your creature wings or a human face and call it a day. I did get a student combining jellyfish designs to make mermaids though, so that's different."

That would be Ponyo, Baron thought. "Now I see why you're in a good mood."

"I'm always in a good mood."

Baron raises an eyebrow. "I've seen you running your 8am lectures."

"I'm always in a good mood after coffee," she amends. She finishes her aforementioned coffee, rises to her feet, and... winks? "Anyway, 8am lectures don't count. If you really want to see me at my best on a morning, you'll have to be there on a weekend."

She leaves before she can properly appreciate the fact that her little flirt has just bluescreened her colleague.

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Pls tell me about the angels in your arsonists chronicles 👀

HI YES HI CAST ANGEL TIME I’m way too excited about this LMFAO

Anyway so! Angels! TL;DR of this post, Life Made angels from the clouds.

Why is this important?

W i n g s. The first batch of angels were seraphim, which have pure white or cream feathers and were pulled from cirrus clouds! Oh yeah, I went there. Why wouldn’t I go full weather nerd in this paranormal romance series c’mon!! Anyway, then came Thronim, Made at golden hour which stained the edges and in some cases all their underfeathers a bright, shimmering gold. Last came cherubim, who were Made just before sunset, when the edges of their feathers got stained with shades of dusty pink to rose gold. Listen I like my aesthetics, suspend your disbelief

The second batch came from stormclouds: dominatum have white feathers with brown and/or grey speckles; virtia have brown and/or grey feathers with a small-medium amount of white spots; and potestia have light to medium grey feathers with a blue or cinnamon sheen.

But what if different subtypes have a baby together?

Time for my favorite thing EVER: ✨ paranormal punnet squares ✨

Wing color dictates the subtype of angel, which will later determine abilities and career potential. Subtype is not guaranteed by parental mix, unless both parents are of the same subtype, and have that same subtype at least two generations back. A new subtype will not spontaneously appear in a family line, i.e. if two G3 seraphs have a child, who has two children with a G3 virti, the possibility for those children would be a seraph or a virti, but nothing else.

The Fae are really the only ones that said "oh we can have purple? we'll have a whole lotta that please!!” Minus the please because they’re major fuckin dickheads and the reason there are three gods instead of two.

And yes angels are only given a specific choice of careers according to their subtype, they are. Strict as fuck. It’s weird for how like gentle and soothing Life is that her brainchildren are so. Like That. ANYWAY.

Let’s talk social structure.

The hierarchy itself is like a two-tier cake, so you have everything in the high orders as more or less the same rank, and then everything in the lower order as more or less the same rank. High orders serve Sanctuary and low orders serve the rest.

The high orders are:

Sanctori make the laws. There are so fucking many of them and like 80% can be summed up as “mom said don’t fuck with the humans.”

Imperatori are the judges, there are no juries in Sanctuary. The “Supreme Court” of Sanctuary, aka where you go when you REALLY fuck up, is the Hall of Justice, presided over by the Seven. Current imperatori primus (basically maintains order and serves as the the tiebreaker vote) is Altael, and he is a Delight.

Iustitia are the jailers, they bring other angels to imperatori courts. They’re less cops and more like special agent bounty hunters. With swords. Big swords.

Custodia are caretakers of the holy holding tank, which is where MOST souls end up as long as they haven’t been bastards in life. It’s really hard to fuck up that bad AND YET sometimes people decide to commit genocide for breakfast.

Curatori are empaths and heart-healers. Imagine a therapist on steroids.

Aedifexi are the architects and builders, responsible for housing Sanctuary, maintaining the holy holding tank, etc.

And then we have the lower orders:

Ultori are those who cast out other angels. They do the imperatori’s dirty work.

Praesti are also known as justice keepers. They work with vigilisi (who are stuck at the borders and can’t go beyond) and go after Abominations that escape — to use a mass effect term, they’re basically Spectres.

Vigilisi, or veil watchers, patrol the border for Abominations.

Artifexi are the makers, tinkerers, painters, and other craftsmen.

Focari are those responsible for cooking, baking, etc. They keep Sanctuary fed!

Ultori are the exception to the lower orders serving the rest of the realm; they’re the executioners and thus seen as Unclean. And like the ultori, the curatori aren’t really “supposed” to be a high order and definitely aren’t treated as such, but they needed the authority in order to get where they needed to go. Aedifexi get their rank because they’re literally the backbone of society, there would be no bridges or buildings or indoor plumbing without the aedifexi. We can’t take the birdbaths away from the angels!!

So what happens to the angels who fuck up?

✨ they fall ✨

Naturally, because angels like everyone to fit in neat little boxes, fallen also have Special Titles:

Parvia are those cast out over minor offenses, technicalities, etc; their wings are left intact and they’re simply walked to the border. Bye, have a nice life, we also packed all your shit into this tiny magic box. Don’t open it indoors.

Mediocri are those cast out over nonviolent offenses, victimless crimes; their wings are broken but left attached, then they’re dragged to border and Fithum, Zegan, Stazor & Smith are contacted to come pick up their new case.

Indigni are those cast out over violent offenses; proportional to their crimes (according to the code set forth by the sanctori), their wings are shredded and they’re dragged to border and left for dead. FZS&S have a regular patrol that drives up and down the Veil in case they need to grab one before someone else does.

Nefasi really, really fucked up. Either someone died or a soul was destroyed; their wings are just torn off, and they’re taken to the platform outside the Hall of Justice, and they’re booted off the edge. Good luck! Only three angels have ever become nefasi, and only one has survived the subsequent boot to the back, but Phada is a story for another day. Ask me about vampires sometime >:)

[talenlee]

Game Pile: Hinedere Beat

Hinedere Beat And Saying What You Mean

Watch this video on YouTube

Script as follows:

Thinking a lot about words.

Thinking a lot about how we use them.

Thinking a lot about why I don’t use them.

Hinedere Beat is a dreamlike fluid parkour platformer with room-to-room puzzle-solving. It’s in the model of games like Prince of Persia, the original two in 2d, on a computer that is old enough to be mad about how young people are voting. In that particular model of game, levels are sort of labyrinths designed out of puzzles. Each room has some element of an individual problem to solve, but you still need to pick the right path through those rooms, one after another. In the original 80s games, you had to first work out the right place to go, then work out the way to get there without killing yourself.

Hinedere Beat is a little like that, but without so much of the grand labyrinth. Instead, you’re running through a reasonably linear, limited set of rooms which deliberately stop you from getting lost by encouraging you to instead keep going forward, forward, forward, and offers you a story as a way to incentivise that movement. And that story, I liked a lot. You might notice though that I’m just showing you gameplay and not any of the story. I’m not even showing you how this game shows you its story, and intentionally so. This is in part because the story is itself, pretty interesting and easily segregated out from the play experience meaning that you can go into it blind if you want to, but it’s also because it’s horny.

And it’s horny in a really specific way.

And that was one of the words I got thinking about. What is a horny game? In this case it’s a game where there’s a romantic plot, and it plays out and progresses from meeting to kissing to different types of sex – hand stuff if you’re feeling particularly detail oriented. There’s also a delicious dash of what I guess I’d normally call Anime Bullshit if I was trying to be dismissive about it but which serves as more sort of general warning label. Something that’ll surprise you if you’re not familiar with the media form, something forgettable if you are.

It’s horny, but like, the horny is part of the game? It’s not something that comes out of nowhere; a character is pretty forward, but it’s hardly a mystery. It has a feel to me of games from the late 90s that didn’t come with documentation, downloaded off sketchy sites that maybe didn’t work because your operating system couldn’t handle Japanese characters. There’s a characteristic of the visual novel to it, but also of that time of visual novel – where characters spoke in a particular cadence with an oddness to their word choice. I think it was back then that people like me learned a particular kind of roleplayed space aesthetic, with translators striving to represent Japanese sound effects resulting in english text like asterisk-gripping, or open bracket sharp breath close bracket.

Anyway, while there’s a oddness to it, it’s not an odd idea. You go on a date and have sex, it’s just the character of the date that isn’t standard. And that’s where we run into the next word to struggle with.

I hesitate to use the term ‘surreal’ for anything when I’m discussing games. This is not out of any kind of prestige for the term or any deep understanding. It’s actually oufo f the much more mundane and embarrassing reason that I know I don’t know what the term means precisely or meaningfully, and between theatre, film and art, my nerdosphere has people who I am pretty sure will judge me for using the term incorrectly. And hey, why should I use a term I don’t quite understand to invoke something I think I mean? Aside from that being how most language works if you believe Wittgenstein (and I kinda do). Without this word in my repertoire I have to consider what I mean when I try to reach for it.

I heard the term used to describe Inception a lot? And then subsequently, it means ‘like Inception’ to people, which also, funnily enough, often means ‘about the process of making a movie,’ which is what Inception mostly makes me think of. What I think I want to say when I intuitively reach for ‘surreal’ is not an invocation of incoherence, but rather, a description of the Dreamlike.

And, yeah, this game is dreamlike. It begins and it ends with your character waking up or falling asleep and it’s hard to say which and what it means, because the story features things like cybernetically controlled traditional Japanese ghosts, or rewriting your own past, robot drones and also is, again, a date. It’s weird! Pleasantly weird!

Inevitably though in a conversation around this kind of game, there’s another word that comes up, and that is flow. Flow is a term you probably know from this graph, or from someone else in a much more successful channel bringing it up, but its origin point is –

oh god help –

the book Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi. And honestly, I’m sorry about how that sounded, but I’m doing my best. This book is one of those great Games Studies books in that it has an idea in it that lots of people have built out and explored, and stopped reading the second they got to the definition, because the book has some problems.

For you unfamiliar, Flow is a book about ‘flow states,’ which is so much just like being ‘in the zone’ that the wikipedia page lists both on each other’s disambiguation page. Without going in depth on the book, it’s an idea that psychologists and occupational therapists put to some use. Which is great! I’m glad it’s a term that’s useful for considering how people focus. My beef comes later in the book where Mihaly trots out such ideas as:

Part of the answer probably has to do with innate genetic causes. Some people are just temperamentally less able to concentrate their psychic energy than others. Among schoolchildren, a great variety of learning disabilities have been reclassified under the heading of “attentional disorders,”

Where he goes on to describe that people with attention disorders can’t achieve Flow, or True Enjoyment. But don’t worry he also throws people with anxiety conditions in as well, with:

A less drastic obstacle to experiencing flow is excessive self-consciousness. A person who is constantly worried about how others will perceive her, who is afraid of creating the wrong impression, or of doing something inappropriate, is also condemned to permanent exclusion from enjoyment.

It isn’t like Flow is a terrible concept, it’s just that when you read these statements, it kinda makes you wonder what this person knows about psychology at all. People who are anxious and people who are distracted are unable to attain true enoyment, unable to tap into flow states.

But this is also after a chapter in which he describes the ideal of people who do things not because of incentives but because of their entirely focused enjoyment of them. He calls this the autotelic personality. An autotelic personality, according to the book, is someone who is (probably) genetically born to be better at getting into a flow state, capable of discarding unnecessary stimuli to focus intensely on a project, and capable of doing things that may not seem even to be fun to some people purely for their own sake of enjoying the doing itself.

And all this is after he forwards that the Nazis, well, they were probably in a flow state presented to them by the propaganda of the war. It’s also before he suggested an inability to find enjoyment and fun in things was part of how African slaves in the Caribbean died out.

The book is from 1975. It’s old and it’s by an author who definitely had some weird opinions and bias against things like, say, well-supported socialist safety nets. It’s not to say Flow is an idea we should throw out necessarily. But it does make me wonder about when I want to use it to invoke an idea in a game, because the rest of that book has some frightful stuff in it that goes unexamined when you take one idea out of it.

This is a thing that games studies always does you know. I like making fun of Roger Caillois because of the misogyny and racism but it really is a rarified air in the genre. Caillois argued that the destiny of a culture can be seen in its games, and because Europeans played competitive games like Chess and Poker, which both gave you a way of handling random chance and a way to be competitively aggressive, that was why European culture dominated the world. The game dictated their destiny of domination and superiority. This was used in contrast with African games, which Caillois did not look at at all. If you’re a student of games, you might know that Chess is an Indian game, and Poker is a Persian game – and so to head this idea off at the pass, Caillois argued that Oriental cultures don’t experience the same drive to win at games because they were fundamentally non-innovative cultures.

Which is to say, he just, he just made up some racism.

And am I inviting in those ideas when I look at games, and use those words, without thinking about it? Hinedere Beat is a game with an anime aesthetic. It reminds me of Japanese videogames from the 90s. Its storytelling is disjointed and invokes manga stories I’m familiar with. And it does have after all, an amazing sense of flow.

Horny, surreal, flow.

I really liked this game, I liked the romance it told, and I liked how it interrupted that with being the coolest girl in the world doing ridiculously badass things to impress a cute girl you were on a date with.

And it made me think about words I use.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[whomst-art-thou-whomst-whomst]

3 Lost Tomb Characters’ Guides to Dealing With Wu/Nine Families Issues

Xie Yuchen

1.) Money can’t buy happiness, but it can find tomb raids, which are happy (?) and can support your aesthetic needs. You’re really into jewel tones right now, and it’s reflected in the gear for your next outing. You tried to avoid bringing Wu Xie, both for the disruption to the aesthetic and your sanity, but somehow the most oblivious man alive has a knack for showing up in the wrong place always.

2.) Opera is a coping mechanism and a hobby. Additionally, you look great in the costumes. Work it. Certainly a plus to show up at a Nine Families meeting in full attire, Wang Pangzi always applauds your entrance with a standing ovation and Huo Xiuxiu takes video of people’s reactions. The only time you were upstaged was when Wu San Xing, who was supposedly dead (again) at the time, strutted into a meeting at the very end and cast his vote on something before strutting right back out. You can appreciate the power move there.

3.) Tread a fine balance between helping your beloved friend Wu Xie and avoiding the death stares of his boyfriend when you stop by the house. Being dragged on your back through the desert was humiliating, but Zhang Qiling sharpening his sword at the dinner table while staring at you is terrifying. It doesn’t help that Wu Xie’s mini-me Li Cu, who also seems to suspect you of trying to purloin his adopted father, keeps referring to you as the Pink Panther. Hei Xiazi somehow found out and now life is hell.

4.) Despite your better instincts, get your own immortal emo boyfriend, even if Hei Xiazi is an absolute imbecile and aspiring sugar baby. Remind yourself about that vague crush you had (and will probably always have) on Wu Xie, the overwhelming evidence points to you being a morosexual. Hei Xiazi is…a challenge. But as Huo Xiuxiu points out more than once, you’d never be able to date someone who was easy or uncomplicated.

5.) It’s okay that you aren’t the chosen heir to lead the nine families. It’s okay that you aren’t the chosen heir to lead the nine families. It’s okay that you aren’t the chosen heir to lead the nine families. Repeat mantra until it sounds true. Note that there are probably worse choices than Wu Xie out there, you just need to time to think of some.

Li Cu

1.) Always remind yourself that technically you aren’t related to any of these fucking insane idiots. Always remind yourself that being related to someone doesn’t mean they’re family anyway.

2.) Try to avoid The Drama when you can—sure, it’s how you got into this mess to begin with, but more importantly you can’t be bothered to deal with The Shoes of The Lettuce King or whatever new bullshit they’re all obsessed with digging up. Shit’s crazy. Inevitably you’ll get involved somehow, but put it off while you can.

3.) You are Team Wu Xie. Doesn’t matter if some other family’s representative tries to go behind his back to try to steal your loyalty with money (fuck right off, boomers), or try to convince you that Wu Xie is a dangerous man to follow (whoa no shit wow really?? good to know, never would have guessed), or claim their group can offer you a place to belong (you have a place now and you know exactly where it is, it’s noisy and dusty and creaky and always smells like homemade soup). You always note down the representatives’ names, Pangzi has a notebook for it that he titled The Shady B*tches Burn Book.

4.) Zhang Qiling is the coolest person ever. Like yeah shit was awkward af at first but like. So cool. Last month, when those creeps broke in? Handled. With ease (this is also the night you learned Wang Meng has a frying pan weapon “from last time” and zero fucks left to give). It’s weird, feeling safe. Xiao Ge just has that effect. You kinda get why Wu Xie was so batshit determined to get him back.

5.) Bring your college friends to the Nine Families meetings. It freaks everyone out and they could use the new blood (metaphorically).

Liu Sang

1.) Your Idol lives at Wushanju part-time, when he’s not off on missions or wandering. You accept that going to see Zhang Qiling necessarily involves being force fed Pangzi’s new recipe and half-listening to Wu Xie babbling about grave etchings. Meanwhile Wang Meng color-codes your modeling schedule, Li Cu steals half your food (while making full eye contact) and Kan Jian blushingly sling-shots flower petals into your hair. You might as well move in here, Wu Xie suggests casually one day, and you don’t really have a good argument against it. Wu Xie wants to keep his people close, you realize, and you try not to feel too warm about that.

2.) Always attend the meetings when there is tension. The Wu family is unpopular with most of the other families on a good day…you know they can technically handle themselves but their heir is also a train-wreck who has almost lost all his possessions several times while pursuing goals so the family needs some nice, sensible, super hearing allies.

3.) Xiao Bai and Kan Jian come to all of your modeling shows. Your Idol came exactly once—some designer excitedly tried to recruit him for modeling and he literally climbed out a window to leave the conversation. Still, it is nice to have friends come to your shows, and you save seats for them. You always save extra shoot pictures at their request and it’s a smug and definitely not at all heart-fluttery moment when you see Kan Jian has given your picture pride of place on his dresser.

4.) Allies come in all forms. After your ears get damaged, Huo Daofu is the one who somehow fixes everything while bitching loudly about how no one around here can stay healthy for five minutes the entire time, and you kind of get his deal a little. He leaves you his card, which according to Pangzi is an offer of lifelong friendship, and leaves Wu Xie the bill (which seems astronomical until you figure out their whole situation nowadays, wherein Huo Daofu would be shocked and borderline angry if Wu Xie ever actually tried to pay him back).

5.) Training with the real, actual Zhang Qiling is the best thing ever, so it’s a little disappointing one day when Wu Xie suggests he could spar with you instead for a change. You are a little concerned (and not-so-secretly excited) about kicking his ass in front of your idol. It’s not a surprise that Wu Xie fights dirty, but it is a surprise that Wu Xie beats you. By out-thinking you every step of the way. It’s both humbling and (you will take this to your grave) incredibly hot. From that point on you alternate fight-sparring with Idol and strategy-sparring with Wu Xie. Wu Erbai sends you The Art of War as a birthday present, which you realize—that is the signal that you’ve been fully welcomed into the fold.

[lesbianrobin]

a definitive ranking of how gay each st character is, as voted by me and 104 of you guys

i’ve gone through and calculated each character’s GNC, or Gay (Not) Quotient, named as such because i set this up poorly and the higher your quotient, the less gay you are. 

the GNC is calculated by finding the weighted value of each vote (a single vote for steve in 5th place, for example, gives him 5 points, while a single vote for steve in 8th place gives him 8), finding the sum of all weighted votes, and dividing by the total number of survey respondents (105) to give each character a rating somewhere along the scale of 1 to 13.

so without further ado here they are, from least to most gay (for the drama)!

13. hopper, GNC: 12.10

i don’t think anyone is surprised by this one. at least three of you indicated that you put hopper in last place specifically because he’s a c*p, which i cannot fault you for. personally, i’d put him just a couple of places higher because i think he probably had a gay experience in his youth that he didn’t NOT like and he just wrote it off as a couple of dudes being guys. he definitely isn’t a homophobe. however, i do think he’s pretty goddamn straight, so overall it’s a fair ranking.

12. lucas, GNC: 9.98

guys i’ll be honest. i was NOT expecting lucas to end up lower than DUSTIN of all people but it happened and i’m judging you all just a little bit. lucas may be straight but if he is, he’s one of those straight guys who has a huge crush on like michael b. jordan or someone, yknow? like his #mcm is actually hot and not just some weird ugly athlete. technically not an INCORRECT ranking, but he’s lower than he should be.

11. dustin, GNC: 9.91

so maybe i was a little dramatic earlier and there’s only a 0.07 point difference between lucas and dustin. what’s it to you. i think you all got this one more or less right i think dustin might be a little homophobic honestly. like he wouldn’t call you a slur out of malice but he definitely thinks they’re okay for him to say. fair ranking.

10. joyce, GNC: 9.45

honestly i don’t think there’s much to say about this one. joyce is pretty straight like yeah she wears lesbian jeans and she kinda had a mullet in s1 but they’re not aesthetic choices so much as her just being poor so :/ she’s definitely a very supportive PFLAG mom which is why i think she’s earned her ranking in the top ten.

9. nancy, GNC: 9.10

i know you r*nance warriors are to blame for this. i am not ashamed to say that i personally put nancy in dead last, as did 15 of you, and i am speaking my truth to stick up for all 15 of you because you were right, god damn it. nancy is in the young republicans and she can’t even say the words “gay” and “lesbian” she just says “like that” or “those people.” we all saw how she talked to robin that’s pure homophobia. 

anyway. nancy looked kinda dykey sometimes in s1 so i’ll let it slide this time. way too gay but not an OFFENSIVELY gay ranking, i guess.

8. murray, GNC: 8.69

rest in peace to dr. alexei. rest in peace love. rest in peace babycakes. you would have loved the results of this poll saying that your little jorts-wearing loverboy is, like, medium homosexual. 

six of you specifically shouted out either murrlexei or the gay little jorts in the comment section. three of you specifically said that murray is the most disgustingly heterosexual man you’ve laid eyes on (i’m paraphrasing). this man’s potential gayness is tearing our family apart.

shout-out to whoever put murray in first place. i can’t agree with you but wow do i love the confidence. i think this ranking is more or less fair.

7. mike, GNC: 6.18

this feels wrong :/ whoever put mike in last place ur sick mike did NOT put his tiny anemic little hand over will’s and say “crazy together” for that kind of disrespect. know your herstory. 

anyway. unfortunately for mike, all of these bitches are very gay, and somebody’s gotta fall behind. as we all know mike has a tendency to fall behind the rest of the group because his gay little legs are useless so i suppose this shouldn’t have come as TOO much of a surprise. decent ranking.

6. jonathan, GNC: 6.12

we’re officially in the top 50% of gayness. he deserves it. have you seen the way he stands? the way he puts his gay little hands on his gay little hips? the way he appears physically ill whenever nancy so much as looks at him? the way he’s extremely passionate about being different and “not liking things because people tell you you’re supposed to?” the way he has a nice, tasteful tapestry hanging above his bed?

that is a gay little rat boy. solid ranking.

5. el, GNC: 5.94

speaking of gay little rats! we all watched season 2. we all saw the overalls. we all saw el pull that “get out of my school” shit with max. we all know the truth.

i’ll be honest, i’m a little surprised you all voted el to be gayer than mike, but i’m not displeased. i think s3 is probably what gave her the edge, considering how much time she spent holding max’s hand and sleeping in max’s bed and wearing her gay little suspenders. 

all el needs is for someone to tell her that gay people exist and then she’ll not only get her powers back but become even more powerful than she’s ever been and when she goes into the void it will no longer be infinite blackness but the original rainbow road track from super mario kart for the SNES. good ranking.

4. steve, GNC: 5.67

king steve more like QUEEN steve amirite? 

you guys put steve just about as high as you possibly could considering the competition. and he deserves it! he didn’t wear all of those gay little vests for nothing. i’m very impressed with everyone’s judgment on this one. excellent ranking!

3. max, GNC: 3.83

many of you expressed regret at not being able to put all of our top three at #1, and i must say that i share your sentiment. there is not a single moment in all of stranger things where max mayfield is serving anything less than 100% pure, unadulterated lesbianism. sorry lucas but you’re gonna get hit with a bathroom scene eventually, it’s only a matter of time. f’s in the chat.

anyway, absolutely immaculate ranking.

2. will, GNC: 2.34

it’s what he deserves!

king of wearing gay little wizard robes. king of being a rude little bitch when his friends get girlfriends. king of not caring when his friends get dumped by their girlfriends. king of drawing rainbow ships and standing in front of rainbow apple posters and whatnot. king of not liking girls. king of dramatically destroying the physical representation of his childhood innocence in the middle of a rainstorm. king of getting called two different homophobic slurs by his own mother immediately after being trapped in a nightmare dimension with a monster that’s trying to eat him. 

will byers is all of this and more, which is why he’s absolutely earned his spot as the second gayest stranger things character.

and now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. our winner is...

1. robin, GNC: 1.30!

look, we all saw it coming but i thought she deserved the fanfare.

what is there to say about robin that hasn’t already been said? she’s sexy. she’s smart. she’s got chipped black nail polish and she wears thumb rings and men’s business casual attire with converse. she drew naked ladies and wrote “TIDDIESZ” on her shoes. she has both the desire and the ability to fuck your mom. 

now that she’s been bestowed the honor of gayest stranger things character, not only will she go down on your sister, she will ALSO go down in history.

thank you all for voting!

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

THE BOX IS NABOO

That’s it, I’m doing it, I’m writing that stupid meta I’ve had in the works for two and a half years, I’m sharing it with the world. I promised it for last Thursday, my poll was forever ago, but whatever! I’m writing that freaking thing.

(super duper long post, press j to skip)

Enter my rabbit hole.

First thing to establish: the Box makes no sense whatsoever in-universe.

((EDIT: Something I forgot to mention. IRL, the premise of a giant murder cube and the aesthetic - wall patterns, light designs, etc - of the episode come from the 1997 horror movie Cube, (see the episode’s wookieepedia page). However, while the two are very closely linked visually, the Box does not follow the movie structurally or narratively, as you can verify by simply reading the movie’s summary.))

Recap of the context for the "Box" episode (s4e17): Palpatine is planning his own kidnapping. It was never meant to succeed, and while the plan would obviously benefit him (making the Jedi look bad, pushing Anakin closer to the Dark Side, making Republic citizens more afraid -> more docile, etc...) his actual goal is never explained, and it’s weird that he’d go to such extreme lengths for results so minimal that we’re never told what they are.

So Palpatine asks Dooku to kidnap him at the Festival of Lights on Naboo. Dooku hires Moralo Eval to design a giant box-thingy to test bounty hunters to hire the best of them to kidnap Palpatine. Moralo then gets arrested to alert the Republic that something is afoot, and hires Cad Bane to break him out. Obi-Wan - undercover to learn Moralo’s plan - goes with them. They evade capture and go to Serenno, and Bane and Obi-Wan have to pass the box-thingy test. The level of brainkarked logic here... Truly on par with Megamind, Gru and Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

Setting aside the insane plot holes and utterly nonsensical behavior of the villains, the Box itself is moronic from a plot perspective. It’s insanely complex, obviously incredibly expensive and would have taken months (more like years but it’s a short war) to make when it’s not even needed for the dastardly plot! Just hire some guys who have already proven themselves against Jedi! Throw cash at Bane and Embo and a few others! Maybe attack them with your saber and see how they do! 

And after all that, Dooku still ends up trying to kidnap Palpatine on his own. I can’t even... 

So why does the Box exist? Well, apart from being a nerdy callback to Cube, giving us a good thrill and being generally awesome to look at, it has actual narrative purpose within the SW universe.

The box is Naboo.

What the Box lacks in plot relevance, it makes up for with its heavily symbolic meaning. It very closely follows Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon’s experiences on Naboo - but only certain parts, which I’ll explain later.

We start with clean, sterile environments, SW’s favored way of showing villainy.

Then we have the protagonists locked in a room as dioxis, a poison gas, pours in.

And then they escape... this way.

(Okay, here the shaft is down, not up. And it’s not a ventilation shaft per say, it’s the designed escape route. Same difference).

We then skip most of TPM (namely, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon discovering the droid army, finding Padmé, leaving Naboo, landing on Tatooine, going to Coruscant, etc, etc) to come back to Naboo and go directly to the lightsabers and catwalks.

(Note: in both scenes, Obi-Wan has to propel himself from a catwalk.)

In TPM and TCW, the catwalks are immediately followed by ray shields

And we finally end with the last scenes. Now, they don’t look the same but they are structurally identical. 

Obi-Wan is faced with a challenge unsuited for his abilities (facing Darth Maul // shooting three moving targets when he’s far more skilled with a blade than a blaster) on a narrow space above a melting pit/pit of fire. 

He first watches someone die failing to complete the task...

 ... and has to do it himself, faring much better than expected (holding his own against Maul // shooting all the targets easily). 

He then almost falls to his death and gets saved unexpectedly.

And then there’s the final showdown.

In both scenes, Obi-Wan is angry. And in TCW Dooku eggs him on, banking on his anger. (More on that later.) In both cases though, he centers himself and is able to overcome both his opponent and his own unbalance. But in TCW, he doesn’t go for the kill, because he doesn’t need to. 

The Box, as a literal character-explorator ex-machina, thus shows us Obi-Wan’s growth.  

In TPM, Obi-Wan follows Qui-Gon’s lead. In TCW, he is the leader. He identifies the gas, makes the plans. He doesn’t fall from catwalks anymore - he runs atop moving ones. He doesn’t stay stuck behind ray-shields, he finds the solution. (Btw, how did Moralo know what blood type Derrown the Exterminator was? There was a 50% chance of him dying - thus killing all of the bounty hunters. Was that an acceptable outcome? TCW I need answers!) He doesn’t slay his foes, because he’s become powerful enough, skilled enough and wise enough to survive (and win) without needing to kill.

He’s grown - and, even more interestingly, he’s also stayed the same. In the previous episodes, we see some of the dark aspects of Obi-Wan. How he - like all Force-wielders, all people - could lose himself if he stopped maintaining absolute control.

But in the Box, surrounded by the worst criminals of the Galaxy, the most ruthless, worthless people, he’s still kind and tries his best to keep them alive.

The Box is a reminder and a reassurance for the audience that Obi-Wan Kenobi is still there under Rako’s face. He hasn’t lost his compassion, his restrain. He’s still a Jedi. And he’s an awesome, badass one. 

And now, for what it tells us about Dooku! 

It’s much shorter, don’t worry. Basically, Dooku considers that the best way to pick “the best of the best” of the deadliest people in the Galaxy is making them go through what killed his Padawan. There, I’ve broken your hearts, you’re welcome. 

More seriously, Dooku is a manipulative ass. It’s pretty clear that he knows Rako is Obi-Wan, or at the very least suspects it. 

He has an interesting reaction upon learning Rako’s identity, he keeps praising him despite his usual distaste for low-lifes, he smirks secretively after Eval says “I’ll show you who’s weak” (not included there because it’s a close-up of Dooku’s lips and no one wants to see that) and he tells Rako he’s very disappointed when he doesn’t finish off Eval.

[Later]

(Look at this smug asshole - I can’t. YOUR GRANDSON IS THE BEST, WE KNOW, STOP ACTIVELY RUINING HIS LIFE ALREADY.)

(Dooku... why...)

Now obviously Dooku couldn’t have made the Box specifically for Obi-Wan, because it would have to have been designed months before the Council ever decided to send Obi-Wan undercover, but he has no qualms trying to use it to push Obi-Wan to the Dark Side. Ffs Dooku, making your spiritual grandson relive one of the most traumatic events of his life on the off chance that he’ll join you (and desecrate his Master’s memory in doing so) is not okay!

Final tidbits of analysis: I mentioned that not all of TPM is mirrored in the Box. What’s omitted is the droids (even though Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon fight B1′s and droidekas between the dioxis and the ventilation shafts) and anything pertaining to Sidious (all the political stuff on Coruscant). You’ll also note that the fake lightsabers are orange.

=> The Box distances itself from anything that connects Dooku to Naboo. Red lightsabers are the trademark of the Sith, so they’re not used. The bounty hunters will be facing Jedi, so logically the fake sabers should be green or blue - and yet they’re orange, the color closest to red without being red. It fits with Dooku’s special brand of dishonesty - he always tells bits of the real story but twists them just enough to absolve himself of any fault and to justify his choices. 

(”We can destroy the Sith” -> could maybe destroy Sidious with Obi-Wan, but fails to mention he’s a Sith Lord himself; “the Viceroy came to me for help, that’s why I’m attacking the Republic” -> political idealism is a small part of it, but fails to mention he’s Sidious’ underling and is playing the Viceroy like a fiddle; “Qui-Gon would have joined me” -> maybe, still fails to mention he’s working for the man who ordered Qui-Gon’s death; “I told you everything you needed to know” -> debatable, never said that Palps was Sidious; “Sifo-Dyas understood, that’s why he helped me” -> partly true, doesn’t admit to killing Sifo-Dyas right after getting his help)

So we have a twisted version of Naboo, droid-free (as droids are now irrevocably associated with Dooku, even if that wasn’t the case in TPM) and with sabers that aren’t quite red. Keep in mind that Dooku had already fallen by TPM. (We know this because he killed Sifo-Dyas and created the Clone Army - part of Sidious’ plan - when Valorum was still Chancellor, as per the episode The Lost One.) That means Dooku was (in)directly complicit in Qui-Gon’s death. And the Box doesn’t (=refuses to?) acknowledge that. 

(Also omitted in the Box are the Gungans and Tatooine. It makes sense, because Dooku probably wouldn’t have the full details regarding those parts of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan’s missio as they weren’t as public, and would see them as irrelevant if he did. He utterly despises Anakin, and Gungans are the type of people he always dismisses out of hand). 

Anyway, that’s my two cents about the Box. To quote Lucas...

“It’s like poetry. It rhymes.”

Thanks to @lethebantroubadour @impossiblybluebox​ @nonbinarywithaknife @ytoz​ and @kaitie85386​ for voting for this one. Next up is a compilation of the Jedi being casually tactile with each other (because they’re a warm and affectionate culture, dammit).

Also thanks to @laciefuyu​ for giving me gifs I ended up not using ^^; you rock anyway!

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BBC Ghosts x Eurovision

No one asked for this (and I’ve already seen a few people discussing this but haven’t seen anyone go into much detail) but here are some headcanons about the ghosts watching Eurovision 2021!! Eurovision has been one of my special interests since I was a little kid so combining it with my current special interest just seems right!!

(Also pls comment your own headcanons or even better send them to my inbox AND also send new headcanon topics for us to chat about cause I’ve missed doing that!!)

- Firstly it’s definitely Mike’s doing,, Alison jokes it’s a bit tacky and kinda cringe and Mike is *deeply* offended insisting the tack is what makes it fun.

- Alison also really enjoys it but also enjoys teasing Mike about his affinity

- Alison shows the ghosts a few YouTube clips of old years

- Kitty, Mary, and Humphrey are all well up for watching straight away,, also Pat but we’ll talk about him in a minute.

- Robin doesn’t really get the point (countries are a stupid idea according to him so having a country based competition where people actually get serious about it is just daft).

- Thomas and Fanny both hate the clips they’re shown and call it the “lowest form of entertainment” they’ve ever seen.

- The Captain is also above it... or so he says but he finds his foot tapping along to Emmilie De Forest and is *horrified* at himself

- Julian is straight away racist,, a comment here about EU bureaucracy, another snipe there about Russia. Alison shuts his complaining down very quickly and tells him he can’t say anything he wouldn’t be happy someone saying about the UK or else his phone privileges will be taken away.

- Pat is the only ghost who has seen Eurovision before (Julian has always refused on principle).

- He used to watch it with his family and put on a proper spread for everyone (cause we all know Pat was the family cook). I’m talking mini sausage rolls, tiny sandwiches, a cheese and pineapple hedgehog (totally not what my family does for Eurovision every year... hmmm) and then also a trifle cause it’s the most English pudding ever and you gotta support the home side.

- (I’m hungry,, can you tell??)

- Once Alison has explained to them how the show works, most of them agree to watch - Thomas once he learns of the beautiful women competing and Fanny the same with the men.

- The Captain however begins taking it very seriously once he starts to realise the tactical elements of it,, while he likes the performances, he spends the entire afternoon rewatching previous years scoring segments making mental notes of what gets support and who votes for who.

- The evening comes round and everyone gathers to watch in the TV room.

- The second the flag parade starts everyone is engrossed - even Fanny can marvel at the spectacle of it.

- (I’m not gonna talk about every performance cause Jeez that’s long but here are what I think everyone’s favourites would be.

- Robin really loves Finland and Italy,, anything loud and rocky he’s straight up off the floor and jumping along (same Robin, same) but he falls completely silent and watches in awe at the Spanish entry because of the giant moon (he then also asks Alison to buy a huge moon for the living room - she’s says she’ll think about it).

- Kitty is fully rooting for Malta - Lizzo girlboss vibes is what Kitty lives for. It’s also helped that Alison expressed quite an interest for that one as well.

- Thomas is expecting to like the pretty girls but absolutely falls for Switzerland straight away. Curly haired, blouse-wearing emotional guy with incredibly dramatic dancing is just 😍😍 for him (same Thomas,, can’t decide if he’s very attractive or if it’s gender envy or what??).

- Julian supports the UK... he thinks the song is shit but cannot bring himself to compliment anyone else.

- Pat is an Iceland kind of guy (ily dadi,, you were robbed #eurovision2020winners) and he fully finds himself trying to dance along, smiling all the way through their performance. He likes the weirder ones,, the ones were everyone is clearly just having a blast.

- Humphrey likes the emotional ones,, Bulgaria is a favourite. Righttttt up until France - he picked up a little French from his wife, enough to figure out what Barbara’s talking about and is just in tears by the end.

- Mary actually finds herself enjoying the more folky, traditionally European ones. This comes back to my Morris/folk dancing Mary so I feel like she’d appreciate like Ukraine and Russia - also for the like strong woman aesthetic.

- Fanny is abhorred by the outfits and music but does join Julian in his reluctant support of the UK, she instead prefers to mutter her abuses of the skimpy outfits to the Captain.

- The Captain is also drawn in by the emotional ones like Humphrey, specifically France again. However, a shaggy and shirtless Damiano David jumping about the place in eyeliner and tight trousers awakens something in him he didn’t know was there. He’s horrified by the group and the loudness and the outfits and everything but is also very much intrigued in a way that disturbs him.

- Mike also likes Italy quite a bit cause he’s an Arctic Monkeys/Killers kinda guy (he is,, don’t @ me cause me tooooo Mike) and Alison tends to agree with him but also, like I said, agrees with Kitty on the girl power ones.

- Once the scoring starts, the ghosts start getting noisier and talking amongst themselves about the acts and who they would vote for (they’re not allowed to vote cause Alison refuses to pay for her dead housemates to get a vote each).

- The Captain edges closer to the TV as the others talk over his beloved scoring system, completed overshadowing the research the Captain has done.

- It ends with the Captain sat cross legged in front of the TV with Humphrey in his lap explaining precisely what was happening to Humphrey.

- When it gets towards the end everyone hushes up and they all watch as Italy win. Most of them celebrate.

- Fanny is greatly disturbed by the winners and laments the state of music these days. The Captain vocally agrees but also can’t draw his eyes from the screen.

- Julian has some very choice words for the public for giving the UK a big fat 0.

- Kitty says she’s just glad that everyone had a good time and enjoyed their performances. She also wishes that she could go to the show (don’t we all).

But yeah that’s my collection of headcanons for Eurovision,, once again proving I am a massive nerd who spends too much time putting together little stories.

Anyway,, if you have any more Eurovision headcanons feel free to comment them or send them to my inbox so I can reply and add to them. Similarly, if you have any other shows/music/events/literally anything that you think I should make ghosts headcanons for or that you have hcs for then send them over to my inbox as well!! Love yall stay safe, drink some water if you’ve managed to read this far :)

[chaoticpanenergy]

things i loved about the new sanders aside

-thomas: oh yeah the sanders asides will be really short lil mini-episodes sanders aside #1: *is fully 20 minutes long* fanders: *are blessed*

-all the fanfic writers are now canonically correct about logan being really good at helping virgil calm down when he’s panicking and i adore it

-vIRGILS REACTION TO DECEIT WAS GREAT AND ALSO HEARTBREAKING LEAVE VIRGIL ALONE PLEASE 

-remus no 

-tHOMAS WRITING FROZEN FANFIC

-rOMAN EGGING THOMAS INTO WRITING FROZEN FANFIC

-rOMAN’S ONESIE

-VIRGIL’S ONESIE

-LOGAN’S LOVE FOR HIS SECRET ONESIE

-the weird viking bit at the start?????? incredible.“rEEXAMINE YOUR CULTURAL BIASES!!!!”

-roman BLATANTLY rigging the vote and everyone letting him get away with it anyway bc they love him <3

-baby Anna: I lOVE YOU, Olaf!!!!!! Patton, tearing up: i aLSO LOVE YOU, OLAF!!!!!!!!!!!

-the genuine UTTER JOY in each Side’s voice when they all chorus “JOAN!!!!!!” ????? they love thomas’s friends so much????????? i cannot Handle this???????????

-Logan having iced coffee and then making a face every time he sips it (and also it still being almost entirely full at the end of the whole movie) which like Definitely implies that he hates coffee but thinks he should drink it for the Aesthetic (also Logan why are you intaking caffeine in the evening you should know better stop that ur doing the “self care for everyone else and not me” thing u deserve love)

-“Nope nope I’m an adult that’s not funny” -remus no

-“The ONLY explanation for it is that that’s just his Evil Plotting Face™️” side note dOES THIS MEAN ROMAN HASNT SEEN THAT ONE TUMBLR POST SAYING THE TROLLS ARE EVIL???????

-“AW MAN YEEEAAAAAHHHH IM SO F*CKED UP ON CHOCOLATE FONDUE I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IM SAYING ANYMORE” -also Roman cursed so much in this episode omg

-i love that roman is now canonically That Person who makes snarky comments throughout the entire film while everyone else is trying to enjoy it but will also wax poetic about its virtues at you for 8 hours if you make the slightest critique, it’s so annoying and extra and relatable and very him

-Roman pointing out the footprints behind Elsa as she sings that there’s “not a footprint to be seen” and Logan’s shock and horror and agreement as he realizes roman’s point (also SAME HA IM SO GLAD THEY POINTED THAT OUT IT’S ALWAYS BUGGED ME)

-vague Angsty Patton Hints as he sings along to “don’t let them in, don’t let them see”??????

-“she really shouldn’t let go of any more of her clothing, that’s for sure..... she’ll,, freeze to death” Logan your Gay is showing that was a hastily constructed excuse of a reason, you of all people would definitely have immediately recognized that her ice powers in all likelihood make her completely immune to cold 

-the WAY TOO EXTENDED metaphor about the bridge that at the end of a solid like 2 minutes or however long we learn Logan has been taking literally this whole time 😂😂😂

-Roman: “We need to make like Elsa and—“ Patton: “Let it go!” Roman: “—Lie low in our kingdom of isolation, come ON Patton, don’t go for the low-hanging fruit!!” what a drama queen i love him

-Remus NO

-Logan being SO IRRITATED with Roman’s admittedly annoying movie-watching style 😂

-“Oh, sweet frank iero—“

-virgil: “Just think about it—“ thomas: “Like I have a choice!”

-the small detail of Logan not letting Virgil’s worried comments count for the “5 things you can see” etc and only counting the serious ones that he says <3 <3 <3

-roman: “Yeah, just take it from frozen’s most inspirational song: Fixer Upper!!! [weird metaphor]” thomas: “Thank you Roman, that’s.......barely applicable”

-Logan at the end revealing he was keeping a list of elsa’s powers -“creating fabric from....... ice, I guess??????” -patton’s “yeah, all checks out!!” -logan’s further, incredibly detailed, analysis of what she could theoretically do with those powers

-Virgil’s “what if your soulmate was at the party” comment sending Roman into instant flustered gay panic

-Roman: WE’RE GONNA REWRITE FROZEN ONE!!!!!! Logan: Oh!!!!! Are we gonna [fix it but in loganese]???? Roman: “no! .......yes. ........I don’t know what you’re asking?? WE’RE GONNA MAKE IT BETTER!!!”

-Roman, scoffing at the idea that anyone but him could create perfection: ‘Instant classic’ doesn’t mean ‘flawless flick!’ Logan, SO EAGER to be helpful and back roman up, what an adorable lil underappreciated nerd, i adore him: oH!!! It’s true!!!! Those two phrases are not synonymous!!!!!!1!

-“hans gets a PROPER Disney villain song” Roman r u sure u don’t have just a tiny crush on hans lol

-everything????? this was incredible i loved it send tweet

[jamaiskookie]

bangtan headcanon: OT7 IN HIGH SCHOOL 📓✂️

☞ genre; fluff, crack

☞ warnings; excessively stupid

masterlist  u wanna talk to highschool!bangtan?

《KIM SEOKJIN》

class clown

always manages to sneak kimbap in class, and stuffs his face despite being in the front row. 

he’s alarmingly good at sneaking food into places. 

cafeteria ladies love jin so much. 

and every christmas he brings in his perfected sugar cookies and never shares them.

(he’s in the cooking club)

((he’s the only one in the cooking club))

will interrupt the teacher to make a bad joke. 

“yes so helium is the fo- oh yes seokjin?“

“i was reading an excellent book about helium, i couldn’t put it down!! ahHAHAHHYUKHYUKAHHAHAHHA“ 

nobody’s?? really sure?? if he’s dating namjoon or not?? it’s the schools biggest mystery, there’s currently a betting pool going on worth about $500

likes to annoy namjoon and yoongi about holding bake sales. 

is surprisingly good at planning parties?? but never hosts them?? hoseok always gets him to plan his parties and he even planned prom!!

he’s particularly proud with the theme he came up with. 

‘zombie meets elegance‘ 

it was actually pretty nicely pulled off (much to the shock of the entire student body) 

《MIN YOONGI》

student council president 

takes his job very!! seriously!! 

fights with the principal on funding daily. 

doesn’t come to school without coffee and resting bitch face.

even the teachers are afraid of this short little emo boy. 

is the only one who actually wears the school uniform properly with the little tie and jacket because that’s how you show school spirit. 

definitely that closeted gay in high school who thinks nobody knows about his homosexuality when in fact, everyone knows.

(nobody has the guts to bring it up to him though)

“hyung why are you staring at jimin’s as-“

 “-NO WHY GET BACK TO WORK” 

actually enjoys doing morning announcements. 

“make sure to check out jin’s dumb bake sale i think he’s selling brownies for some charitable reason anYWAYS time for min’s advice column!!“ 

min’s advice column is yoongi’s free therapy. namjoon suggested adding an advice column to the school paper so now yoongi just judges his classmates’s decisions gives subpar advice. 

“i personally think you have no chance with this girl, but you’re clearly hell bent on asking her out. it’s a dumb choice. good luck.“ 

《JUNG HOSEOK》

fuckboy

throws obnoxious parties at his parent’s huge ass mansion. 

somehow?? is?? the nicest? playboy??? evER??

will respect your girl’s boundaries but also would 300% hit on her when you’re not looking. 

aftercare king wILL cuddle with you and help you clean up or whatever until jimin eventually comes in screaming. 

his school id says “hobi 💦👅” ... noone knows how he managed to do it (taehyung thinks he seduced the secretary) 

surprisingly good at romance even though he deTests dating

“it’s a waste of time, money, and ass.“  “- what?”

gives everyone dating advice whether they want it or nOt- he lives his *shhh very secret* romantic fantasies through his best friends. 

once helped taehyung ask out his girlfriend... they’re still going strong!!

defo has daddy issues that he never talks about,, maybe if a girl finds it sexc™️ in that kind of messed-up-bad-boy-she-could-fix vibe he’ll bring it up

kinda failing science lmao he probably needs a tutor.. but will never admit he needs a tutor for sake of his pride. 

most definitely has had sex in the janitor’s closet a couple times, up until yoongi caught him once, reported him to the school board and got him suspended... for a month. 

(yoongi has no regrets, that was the best month of his life.)

《KIM NAMJOON》

student vice president

honestly would probably be the council president and is the most qualified for it but can’t be bothered.

plus he hates public speaking and the president has to speak at assemblies.  

genuinely enjoys learning!! bUT HATES GROUP PROJECTS

because every single fucking time taehyung and jimin pester him about teaming up and he ends up doing like 75% of the work.

not because anyone forces him to or anything.

it’s because jimin and tae are such dumbasses every time they finish their work namjoon has a sudden uRGE TO REDO ALL OF IT BC THEY GOT IT WRONG.

tries to take all AP subjects.

gives up and drops half of them by the second semester.

great student but also will “no yoongi i don’t want to fucking play basketball i've been awake for thirty hours trying to finish this goddamn essay that’s due tomorrow. wHAT DO YOU MEAN WHY DIDN’T I DO IT EARLIER I WAS BUSY TAKING CARE OF MY BONSAI TREES.“

started the school paper!! it’s called “persona post”

writes about actual relevant things like political events and global problems, but everyone else just writes about school gossip *sigh*

although that one column examining hobi’s sex and dating life was a pretty fun piece of writing to read through. 

he sits in the back of the classroom and never raises his hand even though he knows the answer like 95% of the time.

definitely has a crush on seokjin

《PARK JIMIN》

the one everyone has a crush on

and when i say everyone i mean everyone, even hoseok has had a crisis over park jimin. 

(jungkook is definitely president of his fan club) ((in case it wasn’t clear, he’s dating jungkook))

school’s golden boy, basically gets away with everything with a bat of an eye... and the most infuriating thing is he doesn’t even realise it. 

“omg jimin!! you’re so cute!! this shirt looks sO good on you, can i touCH?” “omg thank you i didn’t think it fit well because it’s my boyfriends but that’s so sweet!!” “boy... hm?”

mom friend: sweetest bitch alive and is always worrying about his friends but everyone knows he’s secretly really fucking kinky.

(again, jungkook has no comment)

the kind of person who celebrates christmas in june. 

literally- he starts putting decorations in his locker and around the school mid june. by november, he’s wearing reindeer ears to school.

*lowkey kind of a nerd* genuinely enjoys studying with namjoon.

“well, studying with anybody else is just too stressful!! plus, namjoon’s so chill. he doesn’t look like it but he actually is super sweet and nice!!!“

“... please take those reindeer ears off, it’s embarrassing.“ 

half of the school would probably cut off an arm to sleep with him. seriously, he gets offers like everYDAY it’s kinda getting tiRING

is considering starting a youtube channel where he just takes videos of all the dogs and babies he meets throughout the day. 

“idk i think vlogging would be fun“

《KIM TAEHYUNG》

art hoe

nEVER FUCKING STUDIES OR PAYS ATTENTION BUT GETS DECENT GRADES.

the definition of bisexual mess, WILL trip when he sees hot people.

exclusively wears wired gold glasses and soft neutral sweaters to school. if it’s a good day he’ll wear a beanie. on special occasions he’ll maybe throw in some fUN loafers.

dyes his hair to match ~the vibes~ of that season. the most recent wild hair colour is cool toned teal. 

jungkook said he looks like leprechaun shit, but tae really likes it. 

tried to go vegan countless times, failed each and every one when he passed by a mc donalds. 

carries his sketchbook wherever he goes. he has that thing around 24/7, 100% would not be surprised if he slept with it under his pillow.

really quiet until he has a point to make;; like that time where he launched into a three hour screaming lecture on how phineas and ferb is an animated masterpiece.

drinks tea purely for the aesthetic of it. 

goes to hipster coffee shops to pretend to study... ends up watching barbie movies and critiquing them on the writing blog that he thinks nobody knows about. 

watches anime in class (he recently rewatched all of ATLA for the third time,, failed his econ class but worth it!!1!!1)

《JEON JUNGKOOK》

preppy jock

once again, everyone is attracted to him, but he’s so whipped for jimin everyone’s crush fades away once they talk to him because-

“oh it’s so cool that you have a dog!! you know, i think jimin kind of looks like a pomeranian sometimes it’s sO CUTE- hm? oh jimin’s my boyfriend.“

... it’s disgustingly adorable. 

plays almost every sport and is somehow always the team captain. not out of obligation or with leadership skills or anything, everyone else just votes for him. 

mess with his friends and he’ll put a stink bomb in your locker. 

his nickname is “golden baby” because he’s good at everything, teachers love him so much. 

grades? sTELLAR. sports? he’s done them ALL. creativity? pAINTED THE SCHOOL MURAL. service? volunteers at a pet shelter whenever he can (the bunnies love him for some reason) 

everyone either is 

a) in love w him, wants to fuck

b) jealous of him but is also secretly gay for him

pretends to not know how talented and cool he is and plays it off super cool

proceeds to fail, the only thing he’s bad at is humble bragging. 

“wow omg lol i got a 100 on my bio test and yesterday i got a hole in one in golf, my first time playing it but it’s chill i guess hahhah day in my life amirite.“

**this headcanon is the start of the bangtan school series, stay tuned**

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Requests!

Last Updated: Tue. Sept. 15, 2020

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I am not including requests for events! If you want to see those, go to the masterlists and look at the top for the event for that fandom! 

These are in order for when I received them! Please note!!!! Just because yours is above someone else’s, it DOES NOT mean yours will be written before anyone else’s. Also note!!!! Just because yours is on here, it DOES NOT mean I can change my mind and decide not to write it!! ❤️

if you see one you really like or whatever, comment or send an ask, so I’ll know that it’s one that’s requested by more than one person!! ✧ means that the request has a vote, meaning it will probably get done faster since more than one person wants it

the requests that are all italicized are the ones that have some priority over others

if you see yours and I got something wrong, please do tell me!!

some of these are 18+. You’ve been warned

Table of Contexts:

Mystic Messenger - 8 requests

The Arcana - 11 requests

Obey Me! - 76 requests 

Total: 97, not including event requests :)

multi fandom:

the three Luci’s in a house with an mc that refuses to call any of them by their full names. Or just keeps calling them Luci habitually. Confusion ensues

Obey Me characters meet the Mystic Messenger characters

Mystic Messenger:

dom!Saeyoung - ✧

mirror sex w/ Saeyoung

hcs w/ all of the rfa members + V where mc is a cat mom

hcs w/ the boys w/ a mc who is a hacker (or a runaway agent) in hiding

hcs w/ Zen dating a mc who is a professional athlete

fluff or smut hcs/scenario w/ Saeyoung

sub! Saeyoung w/ dom!reader

hcs w/ RFA + V with a s/o who’s asexual but always likes to confuse them with sounding dirty but they actually mean doing a fun activity

The Arcana:

hcs w/ the boys w/ a chubby female s/o

nsfw content w/ Lucio

fluffy or angsty hcs for Julian or Lucio w/ a kid mc

three different requests to just write ANYTHING for Asra lmao. One request suggests swimming together though, so ima do that

the boys’ reactions to their s/o on their period

reader telling the boys she’s pregnant

scenario w/ Julian and Lucio are huge theater nerds

hcs/reactions of the boys w/ a gn!s/o who’s scary good at hiding

soulmate au w/ Asra where you see colors when you first meet them and see black and white again when your soulmate dies

sub!Muriel

the boys’ reactions to mc being an exotic dancer

Obey Me!:

hcs w/ Beel, Lucifer and Mammon w/ a small, shy s/o that has never really kissed anyone or been in a relationship so they're extremely shy and scared that they'll mess up the relationship or they won't be good enough 

hcs or scenario w/ Asmo and/or Mammon where mc is sad and hurt about that and won't talk to them after but instead make quips about the succubi and how humans must simply suck while eating tubes of ice cream w Beel to combat the sadness 

extra fluffy, spoiler free smut w/ Lucifer

smut w/ Beel after a workout 

hcs/reactions of the demon boys w/ their s/o who is taller and a body builder

nsfw content w/ Satan whose f!mc has a praise kink 

fluff w/ Belphie who has an s/o that loves to cuddle

brothers’ reactions to f!crush going to a lingerie party with other female demons

nsfw imagine where Lucifer thinks Asmo and mc are fooling around when, in reality, they’re not. Jealously ensues and ends with fluff

hcs where the demon brothers react to an mc who is scared of storms. The brothers have to comfort them when there's a bad one that puts the power out

reactions of all the boys to mc wearing an occult symbol that protects one from demons

hcs/scenario where mc is being scolded by Lucifer and is struggling to keep a straight face because the other brothers keep trying to distract her from behind Lucifer in different ways

smut scenario where mc is a sadistic, dominant top and Mammon is a masochistic, submissive bottom

hcs w/ the brothers where mc asks if they can sleep with them after having a nightmare - ✧

hcs where the brothers comfort mc about their past experience (trigger warning)

hcs/scenario w/ a gn!mc that ensues a nerf gun war and destroys them all

hcs w/ the boys with a f!reader who, on the outside, seems like a tomboy, but secretly likes painting their nails black, doing aesthetic makeup, and dressing up in secret. Then, one day, the boys find them

sfw or nsfw scenario of Mammon and mc baking together 

hcs w/ the brothers where the search for mc in the human world and finds out they are in an abusive relationship 

hcs w/ the brothers and diavolo with a short but extremely angry s/o

soulmate au scenario w/ Lucifer where he has a dream that he dances at a ball in Diavolo's castle with a girl and the dreams becomes a reality

hcs or scenario w/ Diavolo where his s/o is small and underweight who struggles to to gain weight 

hcs w/ Lucifer and/or Diavolo comforting an insecure reader

the brothers’ reactions to a mc that has trouble sleeping and gets hallucinations - ✧

nsfw scenario w/ Mammon where he confesses to mc and they have their first time together - ✧

mc flirting with Solomon 

Mammon getting caught w/ his s/o in a hot makeout sesh 

brothers’ reaction to mc singing “no don't touch me there, that is my no-no square.”

scenario where Mammon and f!reader are secretly dating and one day the brothers discover so after reader accidentally calls Mammon a pet name in front of them 

the boys’ reactions to mc calling them daddy? By accident or just unexpected nsfw

reader telling the boys she’s pregnant - ✧ 

mc giving the demonimals (demon animals) ear scratches (during the Paws Event)

the boys’ reactions to mc turning into a bunny (during the Paws Event)

nsfw scenario where mc dresses up as little red riding hood for big, bad, wolf Lucifer (Paws Event)

hcs where mc, who is usually very against touching and contact, gets all touchy feely when the boys grow animal characteristics (during the Paws Event)

anything for cat!Satan (during the Paws Event)

nsfw dom!Belphie scenario w/ fox!Belphie and f!mc that cuddle - ✧

nsfw hcs w/ Beel or Satan (during the Paws Event)

scenario where mc takes a nap with fox!Belphie (during the Paws Event)

fluffy scenario where mc gives cat!Satan catnip (during the Paws Event)

sfw or nsfw hcs where Asmo finds fallen angel!mc covered in blood - ✧

nsfw hcs w/ jealous!Simeon over a f! or gn!reader

Satan smut because I have no choice 

hcs w/ a sociopath/assassin!mc that starts to care and have feelings for the boys 

scenario w/ Asmo where f!reader has trouble expressing herself both with femininity and her emotions. Asmo decides to pamper her and help her

Simeon giving head

“Simeon x mc stuff”

The brothers’ reaction to an mc who has a really big nose and is very insecure about it

the demon brothers’ reaction to an mc with short hair

hcs for how the demon brothers would treat their mc the day after their wedding - ✧

hcs of the demon boys receiving a booty call from mc

hcs where Barbatos and gn!mc cuddle 

I don’t really know if this one is a request but I’m doing it anyway because I love pain. scenario where mc comforts Mammon about his brothers always picking on him and he says he's used to it even if deep down it hurts

hcs w/ the brothers + Diavolo where mc has cancer and is very fragile and weak

hcs of Mammon helping mc w/ math 

hcs or scenario w/ Diavolo x f!reader x Simeon

innocent back hug hcs w/ da demon bois

how the demon boys eat their f!s/o out 

nsfw scenario w/ Levi where a spicy makeout sesh leads to more

the demon bros’ reactions to a really clumsy mc

brothers’ reactions to mc catching them jerking off while saying mc’s name - ✧

nsfw/sfw hcs for an mc being a nun/priest for Halloween and having the demon bois react to them

hcs or scenario where the bros and mc react to seeing a genderbent version of themselves and vice versa

hcs where the brothers are w/ a dominant f!mc

nsfw imagine where Beel is eating out gn!mc and Belphie can taste it because of their twin telepathy and praises mc to orgasm 

hcs/reactions of the brothers w/ a mc that has imposter syndrome 

hcs/reactions where the brothers find out that mc writes fanfiction about them

brothers’ reactions to a mc who got brokenhearted 

brothers’ reactions to mc being an exotic dancer

the demon brothers’ reactions to an mc who was a victim of their respective sin

angsty/fluffy scenario where f!mc is scared of dying and Satan comforts her

smut scenario w/ Lucifer where f!mc starts teasing him before he flips it around onto her. Punishment and degrading follow

the boys’ reactions to mc calling them “my love”

soft dom bdsm hcs with a pinch of praise kink w/ Satan

brothers’ and undates’ (minus Luke) reactions to their s/o grabbing their hand and putting it against their throat

the brothers’ reactions to a f!mc being a bratty sub

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