#anyway: dealing with a powerful ghost is one thing. dealing with a demon is another. an angel isnt a person its a natural disaster

[gilfrespecter]

last night in game my cowboy spent $250 in todays money on beignets and mailing them from nola to the california/arizona/mexico border

[prismuffin]

so for my bday ficcc i have two ideas

idea number one: male reader is based on my demon oc. basically personality wise they very sassy and flirty. kinda a bitch ass ho. idc who u pair it with imma be real. it could be ghost, soap or or price. or like batman. he summons them n junk

idea number 2:

polycule ghost, soap x male reader. male reader is a smart dumbass. like they’re an airhead all of the time minus work. they’re a colonel but honestly dumb as shit outside of work. obvious as hell.

if u want more ideas i can tell u love u mwahhhhh

A/n: Hey Webbie!! Happy birthday!! (Or late birthday depending on when I get this out) decided to go with option 2 kay? also i didnt know how to end this- fight me-

Idiot Boyfriend

Poly!GhostSoap x airhead!male!reader

( summary: Ghost reflects on how he fell in love with two dumbasses )

Warnings?: swearing, mentions of alcohol, talks of guns and violence, reader being a dumbass

!-!more under the cut!-!

Ghost sighed as he watched you chase Gaz around base. He'd apparently tickled you which you saw as a threat, immediately taking off to get your revenge. Hearing a laugh beside him Ghost turned, seeing an amused Soap who was also watching your silly antics. "Go get 'em sweetheart!" He cheered you on and Ghost groaned. "Don't encourage 'em Johnny," "Why not? This is a funny sight," He smirked, sitting next to Ghost, his head instinctually falling onto the taller mans shoulder. Ghost rolled his eyes as he watched you trip, Gaz stopping to laugh at you. "Oh damn, think he's alright Lt?" Soap asked only to get silence as a response. "Lt?" Ghost had heard him, though he was too busy wondering why he was even with such an airhead anyway. He'd already been dating one headache why did he feel the need to worsen his pain with another.

When he'd first met you he was already with Soap, their relationship being monogamous at the time. Though that was more of a suggestion than set in stone. Maybe it was the fact that the first time he'd met you- you were choking some guy out with the power of your thighs alone that'd intrigued him. Either way you'd easily clicked with Soap after meeting him, and after exchanging war stories and silly jokes with the two men all day they both knew at the end of it that they liked you. Initially, it wasn't going to go anywhere but Soap was the one who suggested adding you to their little relationship. Ghost was hesitant at first, not because he didn't like you but because he wasn't sure if you liked him. You'd obviously liked Soap, romantically or not you both clicked immediately, but for some reason for Ghost it was so hard to read you on your feelings for him. Sure you were polite out of respect but could it ever go deeper than that? He knows sometimes his dark humor can fall flat and his stoic tone doesn't help either. Soap had reassured him that he had a charm that couldn't be beat, but of course he'd say that. You and him clicked so easily, you both told terrible jokes and fucked around when you shouldn't. You both had a mutual love for explosives and beer and karaoke and had this natural bond he could only wish for with you. After talking about it they sort of dropped it for a few weeks but it was clear that Soap had liked you and he could understand why. Especially after what he considers the true turning point for him. It was a pretty normal night on base, everyone asleep in their barracks, everyone except Ghost. He often had nights like these where sleep was the last thing on his mind, memories plaguing his brain as he fought desperately to think of anything else. He would wake up Johnny, tell him about the bad thoughts, but he really needed the sleep after the last mission they'd been on. So he thought to deal with it alone, going into the kitchen to hopefully find a stashed bottle whisky to drown his sorrows for the night. Only upon entering he found you, leaning against the counter, pouring yourself a freshly brewed pot of coffee. You both locked eyes, a mutual understanding flooding you both as you held out the warm pot, asking silently if he'd join you. He, of course, was hesitant but had nothing better to do. So he grabbed a mug from the cabinet and watched as you poured his coffee, black.

You'd both sat in silence for some time before you asked quietly why he was up. He told the truth, nightmares, but didn't go into much detail understandably. You hummed, replying with the same answer when he'd asked you a similar question. Your jokey manner was all but lost in this moment, at least for a second. You'd asked him to talk about his nightmares with you, saying that it'd be better than him just holding everything in all the time. He didn't expect it, but you were so easy to talk to. Just the smallest amount of convincing and he did what you asked. That night you both shared the stories of your nightmares with each other. You comforted him, gave him advice and told him things he definitely needed to hear. Him ranting only got the ball rolling as he found himself sitting on the common room couch with you simply talking about anything and everything, your company in the now silent base was warming. You'd even laughed at his horrid jokes, throwing back a few that he's now added to his growing roster of dark humor. He hadn't felt like this since...well...Johnny. As the sun rose and light cracked through the curtains he couldn't help but feel a little glad that he'd gotten to spend time with you. That night alone showed him he did have a natural connection with you. You understood him in ways he didn't even think you could. He found you also shared his insomnia episodes, his love for dogs and specific guns, his respect of stealth and going at it alone on missions. When he saw Soap later that day he nonchalantly added that he's now considering asking you to join their relationship, and he couldn't help but replicate the smile on Soaps face.

One which he held now.

"Lt?" Soap glanced up at Ghost, noticing the slight crinkle in his eye and the small indent underneath his cloth balaclava. To anyone else he'd look completely normal right now, but Soap knew that those miniscule signs meant that he was smiling. Smiling at you as you groaned on the floor. Closing his eyes, Ghosts shoulders bounced in a silent laugh before he moved to stand, Soap following him with his eyes before realizing where he was going, and moving to go to you too.

Rolling on your back, you huffed, the cold floor on your rear as you stared up at the blinding white flood lights that shone down on you. Only they were blocked by a shadow, then two, the smiling faces of your boyfriends stood over you. "Need a hand sweetheart?" Soaps Scottish accent filled your ears and you couldn't help the small smile that found it's way to your face. Reaching out with both hands you grabbed onto one of each of theirs, laughing as they hoisted you up with ease. You felt Ghost pat your back before his arm wrapped itself around you. Looking at him you noticed the small smile beneath his mask and reciprocated his action, now committing to a full side hug. You just held each other there before Soap joined in, now you held both of your boyfriends in your arms. You rocked back and forth between them, your chase with Gaz momentarily forgotten as you accepted this newer task of being held. Only momentarily though as Gaz came back into view you suddenly remembered what you were doing before this, your glare being set on his form. "Garrick!" You yelled and he ran again, you moved to chase him but the hands of ghost didn't seem to want to let you go. "No you don't, come on, we're leaving." "Awww but Simon come on-" you groaned, "I'm starving." He stated bluntly, practically dragging you away from the scene as Soap laughed at your pouting face, following the two of you to the kitchen. Ghost simply listened as you began ranting about some random show that you and Soap had been watching, allowing you to completely forget about the Gaz thing as you got distracted by your own thoughts again. He watched as you and Soap recounted a particular episode that seemingly got on your nerves as it ended on a cliff hanger, silently smiling once again as he relished in the company of his two idiot boyfriends.

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( HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEB I HOPE YOU LIKE YOU BIRTHDAY FIC SEXY !!! )

Thanks for reading! Have a great day/night!!

My requests are CLOSED !!

See my DIRECTORY for upcoming fics!

Masterlist

[platinumrosetail]

Can I request? Can you do the Hulian x m!reader like, m!reader act like Bill cipher from gravity Falls like he always cause some chaos 'for fun' and making deal to random person? And of course Hulian is there to stop them as always they do also can they react if they descover what m!reader do on the gravity Falls in pass?

I hope you can do my request, I I really love your one shot story! Very very much (❁´◡`❁) That's all Thank you! ✨

Sure! Love the crossover, always looking forward to crossover requests when I get them! 😁 they also added smut, so i'll try as I kinda want to start doing it but this will be my first time trying to do smut so i'm sorry if it's bad 😅.

Warning: noob author, male reader, and others.

Characters: hua cheng and xie lian.

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you are the spouse and husband to xie lian and hua cheng, having been with them since xie lian was still crown prince of xie le.

You were a chaotic being that has been alive for a long time and so you know all sorts of things especially cause of your powers. You weren’t originally from this universe/time as after you were defeated from being tricked by sixer’s twin brother.

(You didn’t mention if the reader was apart of their world or not and since you mentioned gravity falls I assumed that means the reader stays a dream demon and so I came up with the idea of having the two fandoms be kinda separate as you can see so hope that’s alright!.)

You like to make deals with people who were gullible to fall for them especially to entertain you while you search for xie lian after losing him at some point, you also used those deals to try and find him but ended up with nothing as xie lian’s luck helped in not letting you find him surprisingly.

Finally you had found him after 800 years of searching and gaining information, you also noticed what seems to be a familiar person and after reading his mind you found out he was the little kid you always saw around xie lian back in the day.

After a few adventures you three married and began a poly-relationship, that still didn’t stop you from making deals with unsuspecting humans, gods, and ghosts though you did have to dial it back as xie lian wants to make sure you don’t get in trouble and such. You told them about the gravity falls and weirdmagadon that happened which had xie lian scold you especially after learning that you gave a child a screaming head as a joke.

When you three decide to go further in the relationship you’re usually the one being a brat that needs to be tamed. You’d think you’d be tamed more by hua cheng but no it was xie lian who was the one that tame you anytime you three decided to have a little fun.

Though you three sometime team up with one another on different occasions and tease and love the one that was being the bottom that time, though you all give each other equal amounts of attention whether that be teasing or love it doesn’t matter as you all get the same treatment.

(A/n: yea the smut part was kinda small, sorry about that 😅 I just didn’t know what to put for it since it’s my first time doing this, also I won’t fully be doing smut like I would if it was a normal request I’ll only be doing things I’m comfortable with as there’s some things I think I might be uncomfortable or just flat out didn’t know about it until now so don’t go sending smut requests as I’m still testing it out on if I want to do it or not, also I’ll be busy for this week what with going somewhere for the first time and so I probably won’t be able to get to do requests a whole lot until I return this coming weekend on the 11th so you can still send requests just expect them to be not worked on for a bit! Anyway I believe that’s it so I hope yall have a wonderful day/evening/night!

[mikyur]

The ghost of the theater~

Yandere oc x Gn Reader

Warnings: watching the reader, slight obsession, mention of death, general Yandere behavior.

You find yourself in an office room of a theater, your office and your theater, your uncle recently died and in his will he made you the new owner of his precious theater.

At first you didn't want to accept such a responsibility, but remembering the few times you visited him you realized how much he loved that place.

And with that you agreed to take care of and manage the famous theater of your dear and only uncle and make this place even more famous, it's a shame that not everything is a bed of roses and soon problems began to arise.

And the problem was that thanks to his uncle's death, the theater's audience fell, as if only his presence made that place work, and without him it's as if everything had lost its life. And you didn't know what to do to reverse it.

And now what do we do? .You ask the manager, one of the men your uncle trusted most and who you knew was willing to do whatever it took to keep this place afloat.

Well, I was thinking of something that might bring the audience back, I just don't know if you'll agree . He speaks a little anxiously.

Right now I'm accepting anything.

I was thinking about doing a presentation on the story 'The Duke's Madness'.

And why do you think I wouldn't accept that?. You ask genuinely confused.

Don't you know the story and what happens when some theater tries to recreate it?.

No, I don't know. At your response he sighs and adjusts his glasses before looking at you again and speaking.

The story tells about a duke who, after going through humiliation and being rejected by his childhood friend and love of his life, makes a deal with a demon and with that he gains powers and with With these powers he attracts women to his forest mansion and these women become his wives forever.

Wow... this story is very interesting, but I suppose there's more, right?.

Of course there is more, but I'm not going to tell you, you'll have to look for the ending on your own, but the most important thing here is that there is a legend about this story, which says that all the theaters that tried to recreate it disasters happened.

Disasters?.

Yes, some have tried but bad things have always happened to them, like actors getting hurt in rehearsals, some employees getting sick and even deaths.

... serious?...

Well, that's what they say, but I don't particularly believe that, just as I don't believe the rumors that there's a ghost here.

Wait, they say there are ghosts here?

Yes, have you never heard? Kind of strange since you've already been here for three days. He speaks and adjusts his glasses back on his face.

No, I didn't know any of that. You said trying to absorb all the information suddenly given to you.

Anyway, I don't believe in these things and I really hope you don't either.

No, I don't believe it, so do you believe that this story will really help us to build the theater again?

It's what I expect.

...ok then, you can start preparing everything for the play because that's the story we're going to show at the reopening!. You don't know where it came from but you feel a sudden enthusiasm and hope that everyone else has the same enthusiasm to make the presentation.

Right now. He says this to you and leaves to start his work.

Ghosts are... they don't exist You tell yourself and start doing your own work.

Time passes and once again you are the last person to leave the theater, as a boss your job ends up being the longest, and yet another night you are walking to the main door to go back to your home.

But unlike other nights, this time you felt cold, a slight current of cold air passed you from behind, which is strange since everything was closed so there was no way wind passed through there, and even stranger and scarier was the sound of a person singing a beautiful melody on the speakers You hadn't left them on, there was no reason for anyone to leave them on, and who was singing?

Gathering your courage you decided to go after the voice, which was definitely in the stage area, it was probably an actor singing, he or she must be training, that's definitely it, it has to be That's what you thought going to the place of the melody.

But when we got there, another surprise was that there was no one on stage and the music had stopped, you sighed with relief, it must have been all in your tired head and almost turning around to leave. You see a person on one of the benches in the middle of the stage, and your fear returned a little but, overcome by curiosity, you went there to see who it was and ask them to leave the place since it was closed.

Look, I'm sorry but the theater is closed so I ask you to leave. You speak approaching the person.

I know it's closed, but I can't leave. You got close and saw that the person was extremely white and their clothes were very beautiful, almost as if they were from some ancient story.

As? You can not exit?

I can't, I'm stuck here.

What do you mean you're stuck there? Sorry girl but you better leave soon before I call the police.

How rude of me She finally leaves the place she was sitting in front of me and leans down to make a gesture of introduction, one of those very old ones that you only see in movies about castles and such. I'm Levi, but you can call me the ghost of the theater.

What?. You couldn't have heard right, right?

It's a pleasure to meet you, the most beautiful person who has ever stepped foot here and I must warn you right away that I am not a girl. He then says laughing a little at the end.

This can't be true. This person who you now know is actually a boy cannot be a ghost, ghosts don't exist!

This is the purest truth, as true as its beauty.

You remain silent, not knowing what to do or say, and then he sees that you are in trouble and decides to take your hand, or I mean, he tried to take you but you only felt a slight tingling and a cold feeling.

It saw? I'm not a living being like you, but I was before and used to be on that stage.

You... were an actor?

Yes, I loved this place, and I precisely died here, ironic, right?. And again he laughs, but I feel a little melancholy coming from him.

So that's why you're here?

Yes, I can't leave and I don't want to leave, and I must confess I'm surprised that you're still here talking to me instead of running away.

My uncle always said that we should be afraid of the living and not the dead, and you don't scare me.

Your uncle was an amazing guy, it's a shame he already had to go, I will miss him.

I will miss him too. You say thoughtfully, remembering the moments you spent with your uncle.

Well at least you're here and I know you'll take good care of my house. He says and reads with a smile.

How are you sure I'll take good care of it here?.

'Cause I feel it, and I trust a pretty face.

You blush a little at his speech and look away from his smile.

In any case, I have the impression that you purposely lured me here.

Yes, yes I did it, you are really smart!

Why?.

Because I wanted to be able to talk to you, since you arrived I have been watching you and I wanted to finally talk to you face to face.

Have you been watching me?. You ask surprised.

Yes! All the time, without stopping looking at you for even a second.

Wow...that's kinda...creepy?.

Scary? I don't think looking at something beautiful all the time is scary. He says thoughtfully and then looks back at you with a smile.

Ok...but from now on you can stop staring at me from the shadows, if you want to talk to me you can come to me, ok?.

He didn't say anything and just disappeared from view, as if he had never been here.

Levi?. You call him to make sure this wasn't all in your head.

I promise not to stare at you from the shadows anymore, little star~

I hear his voice as if it came from the wind and it gives you chills.

Will he really stop? Did this really happen? You ask yourself this, returning to the entrance so you can go home.

Sorry for any writing errors 7w7

[the-sprog]

Listen I love DCxDP crossovers as much as the next person, but every time I see people write John Constantine offer as a solution summoning something I cringe internally a little bit. John is all up for self-sacrificing and doing things you shouldn't but he does not fuck with other creatures he knows shit-all about.

On the other end, do you know who does fuck with creatures they know shit all about?? And keep summoning things and making deals with things they shouldn't be summoning or making deals with? And also doing this most of the times with the express intentions of dealing with the dead?

The Winchester Brothers.

Where are my season 15 fix-it fics where Dean does not give up, he does not say "oh well Castiel died after confessing his love for me I guess that's it" or where Sam does not say "well my brother died during a run of the mill vampire Hunt -not even because of the vampires but because of a rusty nail. Let me just abandon him forever after everything we've gone through and finally actually listen to him and get myself a family with my blurry wife and random son"

And instead they do again summon something that is completely separate from everything else they've dealt with before and they actually managed to contact Danny who somehow is the king of the Ghost Zone or whatever fucking shit you want. Maybe you can make the empty nocturne! That would be really fucking cool :O so Danny somehow gets convinced to bring back Castiel or Dean or both.

Ok now I'm actually thinking about it.

You can even make it adult Danny by simply following the Supernatural timeline. Danny gets his powers in 2004, when he's 14, the Winchesters start looking for their dad in 2005, and they're... 20 something. Castiel joins the brigade in 2009 (I thought he showed up in season 5 lmao it's been a while since I've watched it), Chuck starts writing the books- fuck I don't know. 2012? Was it season 7? **Looks it up** fuck nope he starts writing when they start, that's my mistake. I meant when does he show up. And that's together with Castiel. Wow. Give me Danny who is an in universe Supernatural fan. He's the prime target audience! Starts reading after he gets his powers because we'll they're ghost hunters but the ghosts are actually evil. So it's fine. And they're fictional anyway so no big deal.

But then Chuck stops writing (end of season 5) and Danny is extremely disappointed.

He doesn't learn the truth until 2018 (season 13) when Jack wakes up The Shadow and consequently shakes the Infinite Realms. Nocturne has to be somehow connected. Maybe they're not The Shadow themself, but a subordinate? Like Frostbite is the leader while the yetis are his citizens. And The Empty is the realm they live in.

Now Danny is slightly terrified because it means all the things that go bump in the night are real. Which is a scary as fuck thought. And also wonders why they've never had hunters in Amity, or why he and the other ghosts are different from the ones in the books.

But he can't really do anything. To help.

Hunters definitely have checked out the town. There's no way they'd fly under the radar. But either there are already hunters INSIDE Amity And they've staked their claim on the town, no outside hunters allowed. Or there's something wrong w the entire place that makes it so that people don't really realize anything is wrong with it. I til they're inside it. But when outside nothing :/ all normal.

I feel like it wouldn't be Dean who summons him though. As much as I love him, they are aware that pretty much only God could pull out Cas and Jack wasn't going to do it any time soon.

But Dean dying like that? No Sam is not going to let his story end like that. But they've pretty much exhausted all options. What's he gonna do? Make another deal w a demon that's going to ultimately make more of a mess? Who's gonna make a deal w a Winchester anyway?

I don't know how Sam would find a way to contact Danny. The Fentons were the first to make contact with the Zone, so the bunker's unlikely to have any resources. Bobby's gone, so that's a bust. He'd have to find something new. Something no other hunter has interacted with, ever.

Again.

Because let's be real. The Winchesters already did that plenty.

Maybe he stumbles upon Amity by accident and sees it as an opportunity, idk.

Sam's kinda more willing to give monsters the benefit of the doubt. They know angels are not all bad, they had werewolf friends, and so on and so forth.

So sure he might start off listening to the Fentons at first, but if he were to interact with Danny (as Phantom ofc) one on one he'd probably see that they're wrong.

Danny would freak out of course. On one hand, fuck man. He's a fan. That's so cool.

On the other, he knows nothing will stop the Winchesters. He's deader than dead if Sam was there to hunt him.

But alas, he'd do anything to help him get his brother (and Cas, as a treat) back. Who's gonna stop him? God? Jack? Idk man I feel like he'd let them have this one lmao. Or still Danny could definitely argue that he's the king of all afterlives, so what he does to his subjects is none of his business (since God (or at least Chuck couldn't) can't interfere w The Empty, only the afterlives he controls. So heaven and hell. Not even purgatory iirc)

[the-haunted-office]

Hey guys! I wanted to take a moment to post on here about the Themes of my blog. This is taken directly from my rules, and it's all the kinds of lovely little themes - happy and dark - that you can find here on my blog. There is a lot of dark and triggering material, but my blog is also a comedy blog specifically to balance that out. I love horror and comedy together.

Anyway, please have a read, and let me know if have any questions or if anything is unclear. Thank you! :)

⭐ Themes

Being centered around horror, my blog features a lot of dark and sometimes heavy themes, such as death, violence, murder, blood, gore, illness (including terminal illness), and occasional mentions of self-harm and suicide (as is portrayed in the typical The Stanley Parable manner, i.e. muses not taking their own lives and physical health seriously because they can respawn in video game fashion, so they may do things like jump off a building, volunteer to be experimented on, joke around about death, show little fear of being hurt or killed, or just generally show little regard for their own safety).

Themes of mental health are also present on this blog. Many of my muses have mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, although it is not heavily or openly discussed in threads. These issues are present through their behaviors, actions, and reactions to other muses and the world around them. They are very much human in that way, so if this sort of characterization bothers you, please be aware of this. I will not trauma dump on your muses, however be aware that they each have their backstories, and they will react to the things your muses say and do and that their reactions are their own - not mine.

My blog is also, obviously, heavily themed on the paranormal and supernatural, so there will be a lot of things about ghosts, spirits, ghouls, monsters, extraterrestrials, cryptids, icky and gross things, freaky and scary things, and just anything in that genre. If it’s anything spooky and my eyes come across it, it’s probably going to come up at some point on my blog. This includes religious things like demons and exorcisms and possessions and themes of that nature (these are not as common, but I’m mentioning them here because I know some are more sensitive to these themes and I want people to be aware that they may be present).

Dark themes aren’t the sole themes on my blog, though! It’s also a comedy blog! And that’s a good deal of what you’ll see here. The silly juxtaposed with the dark. Horror and comedy placed side-by-side is one of my favorite things ever, and I love playing with it here. I love getting a laugh out of dark and troubling themes, out of things that would normally be too frightening to look at. It minimizes the things that are too hard to handle on their own. Life, and death, doesn’t have to be so ugly and scary. We can laugh at these things too, and then they aren’t so scary. Besides, I’m here to have fun too, and that’s what I want my blog to be about as well.

It’s also about friendship and love and never giving up. Found family is another heavy theme on my blog, as is love always winning at the end of the day. It’s about the power of choice and breaking out of your narrative, and sometimes breaking THE narrative. No one is ever bound to the path set before them - you always have a choice, even though the choice might not be clear or obvious. Sometimes you have to carve out the path yourself, brutally, even violently, but as the great mathematician Ian Malcolm once said, “Life, uh, finds a way.”

Untangling life and navigating our way through it all, while having a laugh at the horrors, that’s what it’s all about, baby!

[longbobmckenzie]

I've been reading LITG fanfiction for over 3 years now (!!), so I've read quite a few fics! I thought it was about time I updated my recommendations. You can find the original recs here! There are some duplicates but for the most part I decided to be a bit more biased with these.

Since I have a lot of recs and didn't want to narrow things down too much, I'm splitting them into two posts - this one for chaptered fics, and another for oneshots!

Note: In putting together this list, I included my personal faves and a bunch of fics that I just have good memories of. I'm in no way saying these are the best of the best (which is up to personal opinion anyway), as I've left off a lot of great/popular fics. Plus while I've read a lot, I haven't read everything, especially over the last year or so. Also, like everyone, I'm biased towards certain characters, but if you want specific recommendations for your faves, feel free to send me an ask and I can provide a few!

For more comprehensive lists for each character, you can also check out @litgreadersroom!

Bobby

An Infinite Deal of Nothing by @eskiix - Post-villa fic in which Bobby meets someone after the show. Must-read Say When by twofoursixohone - MC is a CA girl who hits it off with Bobby The Greatest of Them All by @throughthejunobush - MC is with Gary at the time of Hannah's return The One That Got Away by neld13 - Post-villa, Bobby has a thing for MC but she's with Lucas What Other People Say by @thoracic-orchid - Super cute Hallmark-esque alternate universe! Whiskey on Your Lips by @lucas-koh - Love triangle with Bobby and Lucas, alternate universe. Must-read.

Noah

Don't Disappoint Me by @throughthejunobush - MC reconnects with Noah after the show History written in moans and writhing by @bypine - porn AU Of twos and threes by @bypine - Noah/Bobby/MC poly fic told through villa snapshots Rosehill House by @ariendiel - Regency-era Noah fic. Must-read

Jake

In My Veins by @chroniccomicobsession - vampire AU. Must-read Reasons to Be Brave by MamaMiaOhMy - ultimate Jake villa fic. Must-read

Other

Are You The One? by @queen-of-boops (Henrik) - mixed cast on a different reality dating show Capturing the Circus King by TwoSpoonsOfSugar (Rohan, Jake) - love triangle S1 villa fic Caught in the Act by @throughthejunobush (Lucas) - in-villa Lucas fake dating Ego and Enmity, Hannah's Song by @becangle (Hannah/everyone) - Hannah's fanfiction. Must-read

These are either abandoned or still works-in-progress, but

Bobby

The Sun in My Eyes by @sparxaf - angsty, smutty villa/post-villa fic. Might be completed sometime this decade. Must-read Begin Again by @fuseboxmusebox - fluff to heal your soul after TSIME It's Different This Time by Island_Project - very close to canon but it really fills out the villa experience. Abandoned Maybe, sort of, kind of, possibly by @blueberrycupcak3s - villa fic with some of the best banter. Canon mix-up, abandoned Sick Like Me by neld13 - smut-filled AU. Abandoned but outline/extra bits posted at the end. Must-read

Lucas

Damaged Goods by Finality2020 - MC is with Gary until he cheats on her. Inspired by what Lucas says in the wedding episodes. Abandoned Ghost Light by @fuseboxmusebox - exes/enemies-to-maybe-lovers-if-Ash-will-ever-finish-this Playing By Your Rules by @eskiix - spinoff of An Infinite Deal of Nothing with Lucas as the LI. In progress. Must-read The Power Couple by BattleBelle23 - in-villa fake dating/playing a game for the money. Quasi-abandoned Where The Tulips Bloom by @lucas-koh - Friends-to-lovers AU. On hiatus

Henrik

Powder Days by @mountainmanxoxo - snowboarding AU. On indefinite hiatus Lay All Your Love On Me by OverdressedandUnderwhelmed - basically finished villa fic Moss, Eternal by @mountainmanxoxo - hilarious, kinda spoofy villa fic. On indefinite hiatus

Other

Island Villa Apartments by @kittidot (Multiple) - cute, fluffy fic of interconnected stories centred around an apartment complex. On indefinite hiatus Shiny Demon by @throughthejunobush (Seb) - ultimate Seb villa/post-villa fic. On hiatus/WIP The Fortunate Ones by theriverlea (Noah) - MC is a Casa Amor girl who hits it off with Noah. WIP

[totalfknloser]

So totally in denial about the deaths in the movie (Giles, dion, especially zakk) could the gang take on demons a second time? Or other ghosts/monsters and pull off another successful save the world/end the chaos type of deal?

Could their respective gf/significant others survive as well? Imagine zakk and his gf destroying monsters, saving each other from the supernatural or Medina and brodie meeting someone who saves the two of them 😳

YES! i think that all of the dead people especially Zakk would be more powerful! i think dion and giles wouldn’t rlly know how to use their new magical powers or whatever but i think Zakk would learn fast and like totally own it!!! tbh instead of Zakk killing the main villain i think it would be funny if Dion or Giles did it and Zakk would be super pissed he couldn’t do it himself as much as i believe it would be that kind of jar thing where ppl are like “open this jar for me” and the other person does it easily and then the first person is like “wtf i just loosened it there’s no way you opened it by yourself!!” yk like that but with Zakk being the open this jar and Dion/Giles being the one to open it except i think that Zakk wouldn’t ask to get the jar opened or the big demon dude killed it just kinda happens because wtf else would happen?? anyway I think that Zakk’s gf/so would be kinda like Medina when she was kicking demon zombie type shit ass but like extra badass cause idk they’re with Zakk?? i just feel like anyone who can handle Zakk would be extra strong in multiple ways. Medina and Brodie being saved by someone else tbh i can see it lol. i think Brodie would sorta be a little wimpy when it comes to this big bad mega demon/entity of some sort. and i think Medina would be eager to kill it but going by this situation, they would not win but they would not die because i refuse to have them die <3!! idk who that person to save them would be but i’d bet they’d be like Zakk tbh!!

[inkribbon796]

Egotober 2023 Day 12: Things Unsaid

Summary: Séan and Marvin have a lot of talking to do, but still manage to leave things unsaid.

A/N: Let’s check. Green park, yes. Septics are green, yes.

Prompt: Green

Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

This park was rather special to Marvin and Séan. From a time before they were superheroes, or even teens. They were kids, just running around the Althone woods and every once in a while they returned to it.

Today was one of those days.

The two of them had coffee cups and a takeout bag with sandwiches in between them. Both of them were in costume and had to deal with the occasional people wanting to talk to Jackieboy Man and Marvin.

But as their visits were regular, most of the locals let them be.

Jack sipped on his coffee, “You sure you’re up to the move.”

Marvin shrugged, “Not looking forward to taking new pictures for his passports. All my old pictures have me without the scars. And it’s about to run out anyways.”

“I know the lads will miss you,” Séan said.

“Yeah, sure,” Marvin said as he sipped on his coffee and grabbed his sandwich out of the bag.

“I mean, who will Daithi and Rumble ghost hunt with?” Séan tried to joke.

“I mean, Chase could use a good scare, and you guys will be fine, it’s the dipshits in Egoton that need help. I just teach one of them how to read aura and then I’m back.”

“Hope you have fun, hear Egoton can get a bit crazy, especially when Wilford gets involved,” Séan smiled.

“I’ll be fine,” Marvin smiled, lifting his mask up a bit to eat.

“Yeah,” Séan said. “If anyone on this team can take care of themselves, it’s you. Even if you love trouble.”

“Trouble loves me,” Marvin said around his food.

Séan nodded, “Yeah, but you got this, I know you.”

“Yeah,” Marvin said.

They sat and ate before meeting up with the rest of the Septics, Jackieboy Man was in high spirits but Marvin was less so.

He was good at pretending, masks and brightly colored outfits helped hide.

Marvin couldn’t help but feel awful and resentful about the whole mess. He and Jackie had gotten into a huge argument over that damn stone that Marvin had just been trying to research. He needed every opportunity to improve his magic.

Marvin wasn’t like Jackie or J.J who seemed to get their powers and be good at them all at once. When Marvin’s magic started he was little, maybe five, and he had sucked at it for a long time. Couldn’t even do lame faux magic card tricks. Everything Marvin had he had to struggle and work for it.

Any source of real magic was another opportunity and so what if he got a little excited? And so what if he got a bit careless when he was excited?

He needed to get better, he needed it badly. And the one thing Egoton had was a surly demon and his magical, absolutely mad boyfriend. Lots of time to study and learn and get better. Then Marvin could come back ten times more powerful and he could solve any magical problem they had.

All Marvin needed to do was prove he could handle it. And he could, Marvin knew he could. He would handle it, not only would he be able to get better he would make Dark remember his time in the States.

While Marvin was out walking through the streets and the parks he was making a mental note of magical research he would do. He would get his hands on anything that the Egoton Branch had on magic and teach the hell out of whoever was most capable to do it.

Marvin would do the best job ever, or he would die trying.

[ardenssolis]

@tenkoseiensei said (inbox):

' are you demons always so... intimate? ' brevity; a brief moment of peace. there's music playing from somewhere as der doppelganger slowly surrounds himself with empty alcohol bottles, bits of glass from the ones fecklessly tossed and broken behind him too - nothing to mind, a hornet would sometime clean it all up. ' humans are social creatures. they exist in groups, and that makes their psyches easy to influence and distort. but demons like you, love, are always picking up one individual after another, one at a time ... no? i'd almost call it dedicated, if i didn't know that a thing like loyalty had nothing to do with it. ' he grins and takes a deep swig of his current choice of drink, a priceless pinot noir, red wine rich as blood. ' is it because of those contracts of yours? what's the use in those, anyways? haa, it's funny no matter how i try to twist it. you could have been a god, the lord and master of many, but instead you're so satisfied as one's servant. if it's like that, love, shouldn't you be happy that you've found someone to dedicate your entirety to? and forever? '

     EYES CLOSED, HE MERELY lounged about on a nearby couch, arms resting over the top of it and head tilted back with his face towards the ceiling. He heard the other speak, but said nothing in response – at least not right away. His silence would have come across as him sleeping to someone else, but Doppelganger was an eerily patient sort when he wanted to be. He knew that Ozymandias was not dozing away. Rather, the demon was allowing their words to drift about his thoughts before he deemed to answer. A minute or so had probably passed, that awkward pause soon broken when Ozymandias’ eyes opened and lips parted to speak. ❝Intimate? Is that what you call it? I suppose we do come to know our targets quite intimately in a sense.❞ Targets… That was what those they aimed for were. Demons were often predatory, purposely aiming for those who were desperate in madness, desperate in despair, desperate in rage, in love--- These were the easy ones to wrap around one’s finger. But a hungry ghost knew that well enough without explanation. ❝Dealing with groups can be a bit complicated unless that demon manages to make them believe they are a god to worship. Thus, it is far more prudent to separate.❞

     However, there was no denying that the more powerful and cunning ones could gain a great deal of power from those who looked to them with devotion, ready to do any and everything for them even if it meant hurling themselves off a cliff or into a raging river. How dull. Absolutely dull. Demons like this were so tasteless. The other’s latter words rang in his mind – repeated once, twice… It was so instant how languid demeanor shifted, replaced by that burning, intense rage beneath the very surface of pleasant façade. ❝Servant?❞ he hissed, soon sitting up so that his gaze was now trained on the other. ❝Oh, what a way with words you have. It makes me want to dig my hand past that ribcage and gently squeeze that dead heart with all the adoration I contain in his body.❞ It was then that he pushed himself up, his steps purposely heavy, shoes clacking against the floor with each and every step until he stood before the other. Leaning forward, hands rested upon the couch, the demon now so close, that surely they could feel the heat emanating from his body in droves.

     ❝Do not pretend as if you are free, Hungry Ghost. You are bound by your own desires. Constantly hungry, constantly trying to fill something in that dead heart of yours… Although ultimately never finding anything. All this drink…❞ he paused, glancing off to the many bottles that littered the floor, ❝do nothing for you. Even the people you kill and devour to make yourself feel something deep within…do nothing either.❞ He looked back at the other than, his hand lifting to brush against cheek, ❝how very sad…yet the perfect source of amusement for a demon to toy with as they watch you dance to fate’s cruel strings with very little hope of escaping it in your infinite deaths. But one day it will end. All things end.❞ This union was not forever. He would see to its destruction one way or another, and when the day came, he would laugh.

     There was no forever.

     That was all a myth.

[bibliophileiz]

I want to get my Winchesters theory on the record before it probably gets disproved next week or in the finale.

So in a nutshell my theory is that the akrida are a byproduct of postseason 15 jack trying to remake the universes chuck destroyed in the final season. They can bleed through cracks in time bc of weird universe-making rules existing outside of time or something. We know Robbie Thompson's into messing with time and also I miss when doctor who was good. So something-something time's already screwed a little anyway so jack sends back some time traveling angels to just ... Drop little hints to the humans in like hieroglyphics or the dead sea scrolls or whatever about how to deal with these aliens from independence day. His version of the angel/demon/leviathan tablets. That's how you end up with secret supernatural-studying societies like the mol beating back the akrida throughout history even though there is literally no mention of them ever doing that in spn and in fact their whole thing is non-involvement anyway (except during WWII I guess, which is fair). That way there's not supernatural beings DOING THINGS that they haven't already been established doing and the groups that would be into this stuff anyway just have like, another thing to be into, so instead of killing just vampires they're killing vampires AND akrida. But what about when abbadon wipes out the mol Dean asks jack. Jack is like, idk, maybe Rufus can take care of it. And dean's like I know a hunter. And Jack's like no. And dean's like you killed my mom. And Jack's like ok but they can't know who you are. And so Dean goes down to earth on what is supposed to be a temporary trip to tip John off and then hangs around because when has Dean EVER done what an all-powerful supernatural entity told him to do?

Here are some things in the show that don't NOT support this theory

1. Dean's voice over in the pilot makes a point that the akrida aren't just a threat to earth but a threat to "the entire universe". Which is interesting bc dean knows chuck is going to wipe out all the other worlds in the universe in like 50 years, so what's a few decades give or take?

2. Obviously there's some time travel going on bc dean is hanging around. But it's ANOTHER LEVEL OF TIME TRAVEL to summon the future ghost of someone who is not yet dead, as they do with Henry Winchester.

3. idk how that last one actually supports my theory, it's just super weird and I find it fascinating.

4. The akrida existing are the only thing bringing John, Mary, Carlos, and Lata together, suggesting they may not have all been pals in the original timeline, which means Carlos and Lata don't necessarily die young and tragic like the rest of Mary's friends. This isn't really evidence, just a nice thought and another reason I like my theory.

5. I feel like I had more evidence than this but I can't think of any more

Basically I just think this theory is a good way to make Winchesters take place in another universe without making it ANOTHER UNIVERSE where it's not our John and Mary, the parents of our Sam and Dean. Probably chuck and jack will still have to show up and do some memory erasure of John or something to keep the future timeline from being too messed up though.

[thryth-gaming]

Ghost Hunting Lore and Horror RPGs

You may or may not know about real-life ghost-hunters. If you know about them, then you're likely saying "of course I know about them, who doesn't?" but it is a fairly narrow sub culture and there are lot more people out there that don't know about them than we may think being people in whose interests at least overlap and travel in the same circles.

Put simply, "ghost hunters" are people that, in real life, are out there seeking to prove the existence of ghosts. They have created a fairly complex lore to explain why and how ghosts operate. It's unfounded pseudo-science, mostly invented to either explain why they don't get the result they're hoping for or reframe something as proof of a ghost.

The majority are hobbyists who don't take it any more seriously than just something to do on the weekends. Then there's a handful of believers with a variety of motivations. These are varying degrees of harmless. But there's plenty of grifters in this sub-culture as well. People that sell their services to people experiencing strange events that can usually be explained by perfectly normal things or people that sell over-priced gear to hobbyists and true believers.

However, as much as their theories are pretty worthless for real-life application, they make neat seeds for use in fiction. That said, because the lore was made to explain lack of evidence or turn tiny details into something of significance, they deal with very subtle things. On their own, they aren't going to get you to the horror experience you probably want, but they can be used as ways to gain clues to point to the real danger. And can be used to add a touch of authenticity to your games, which is a weird thing to say about pseudo-scientific theories.

Anyway. Some basics:

Low Temperatures

One theory is that the activity of ghosts uses up a lot of energy in the area round it, thus explaining the cold spots that appear around a ghost. In this theory, persistently low temperatures indicate a very active ghost and large spikes of cold air indicate that the ghost is doing something or about to do something big. Because of this, ghost hunters make heavy use of thermometers and temperature measuring gear.

Per the lore, human ghosts are only capable of making an area cold and are not strong enough to take things to freezing. So this is often used to point to whether a particular spirit is actually a, gasp, demon or something similar. For an RPG, you don't have to limit yourself to the idea that human ghosts aren't strong enough to make the temperature drop so low, but the idea that colder temperatures mean higher strength is definitely useful.

Consider describing frost appearing on glass and metal within the area with high speed and use that to lead up to something spectacular triggering where the ghost does something like a flip a table, suddenly filling the area with ghostly screaming, or manifesting physically in some other way.

Electrical Fields

Another theory related to the idea of ghosts having an environmental impact when they use their powers is the idea of an electro-magnetic field (EMF). This is similar to how ghost-hunters believe cold-spots come from ghosts drawing energy from the environment, they believe that EMF's result from the ghost using their abilities.

In truth, high electromagnetic fields can have a number of health effects, including increased anxiety, that match a lot of the things people say are characteristic of a haunted victim. In real life, they normally result from houses with poor wiring. Electricians have a tool to measure EMFs and try to identify spots where wiring is bad and needs to be fixed. Ghost-hunters have taken this tool for their own and use it to look for EMFs appearing in places where there's no electric appliances or walls to explain them.

Ghost-hunters who are either diligent believers or want to appear to be will first figure out what the basic EMF of the area is like and identify places where there are explainable EMFs. For example, they'll check around appliances or wall outlets, looking for naturally occurring fields so that they can have an easier time identifying unnatural fields.

Most of the EMF meters measure on a scale of 0 to 5. As with low temperatures, a constant higher than usual EMF can indicate the presence of an especially active ghost while spikes of high EMF will be found immediately after a ghost does something. Also, as with low temps, higher EMF measurements imply inhuman ghosts but in an RPG fiction you can use this as a measure of the ghost's strength. You can also use it to reveal hidden electrical equipment in the walls, perhaps monitoring the house or trying to do a fraud.

You might also use the sudden EMF to short out equipment in the area. Or use the idea of equipment shorting out to distract the hunters from the intentional ghost activity going on. For example, the ghost might be trying to write a message somewhere and as it does so, it causes the television to suddenly turn on and burst in a short circuit. Then, the characters will find the writing mysteriously present when they go back to looking away from the now burned out TV.

Batteries

Related to electrical fields, there is a belief that batteries will be drained extra fast in areas where ghosts are present. So ghost-hunters will go into an investigation with lots of extra batteries. This is almost more associated with low temperatures because this is another theory about the ghost drawing power to do something.

REM Pod

A device that radiates its own high-EMF on the idea that if a second EMF passes through it, then it will react creating noise.

Electronic Voice Phenomena

EVP happens when the ghost hunter goes into a dark room and tries to interview the ghost while recording the conversation. They generally won't hear anything at the time, but when they go to listen to the recording later, they'll pay attention to any unexplained sounds or static that may seem to be in response to their questions. Ghost hunters will perform these interviews in darkness, feeling it makes things easier for the ghost to talk.

The idea is that the ghost's responses aren't immediately audible but will be recorded on a sound recorder. Ghost hunters will often try to modify recorders to be as sensitive as possible which often results in more static, then they will try to analyze any deviations in the basic static and work it out to words and messages.

Horror fiction often involves garbled but clearly distinct voices being heard after the fact on these recordings. This also works well for RPGs. There's no particular indication of strength for this in ghost-hunter lore, but it can be used to determine how lucid or friendly a ghost is.

Spirit Box

A spirit box is a modified radio that will shuffle through frequencies. It is otherwise used similarly to a voice recorder for EVPs but it will be used to get immediate responses. The theory is that the ghost will stop the frequency shuffling and play a snippet of local radio broadcast that gives something similar to what answer they want to give. For example, if you ask "who are you?" then it might try to find a lyric of a song or a statement by a DJ that uses their name or a proper description.

Again, these interviews are done in the dark.

Automatic Writing

This is believed to be a psychic ability where a medium will open their mind to a ghost to use their hand to write a message. They idea is that they hold a writing utensil over a page and leave their hand limp while willing themselves to be open to messages from the local spirits. Then, in theory, the ghost takes control of their hand to draw the message. This is supposed to come with erratic motion that doesn't look right for someone using their own hand.

The automatic writer will typically be in a trance while this goes on. Though they may be awake and feel their hand acting against their will. Horror fiction will often have hostile or strong ghosts take such firm control that the medium is terrified and trying to break the connection while their hand works against them.

Automatic writing will usually be very unsteady, you know, like if some were writing without opening their eyes and trying to act like their hand was being moved by something else. Horror fiction will instead have the writing appear in bizarrely difficult patterns done with inhuman speed.

I've also seen some games (such as Phasmophobia) instead portray this as a ghost ability and they'll just leave out a journal and writing utensil for the ghost to use if they desire or are able to do so. There's implications that the notepads and journals used for this have been modified to make it easier for a ghost to do so.

Camers and Ghost Orbs

Ghost orbs are small orbs of light that generally only appear on video or in photographs. In reality, these are likely specks of dust that caught light in ways that aren't immediately visible to the naked eye but stand out to a camera. Or else happen too quickly to see but will be caught by a static photo.

There's a lot of different theories about orbs, what they are, and what they mean. There are also some people that go deep on this with examinations on how active the ghost orb is. Does it just hang around? Is it agitated? is it falling up or down? Is it a single orb or many? Etc. But I'm not sure how much of that is ghost-hunter pseudo-science, folklore, pop-culture from games and movies, or some mixture of the three.

In addition, sometimes photos and video cameras will pick up what people presume to be ghosts even though nobody at the time notices anything. This seems especially true if a photo or video camera has a nightvision mode that's being used.

You can use this in horror RPGs to imply certain things. For example, perhaps a large multitude of orbs means there's a lot of ghost activity here. Or maybe it means there's a lot of ghosts here. Calm and peaceful orbs may mean that the ghosts are non-hostile... or maybe they're just waiting for something.

DOTS

This is entirely made up by the game Phasmophobia as a sort of evidence but it expands on the idea that a ghost-hunter can use modern gear to make some ghost phenomena perceptible to humans. In this case, occasionally a ghost will enter a mode that will cause the ghost to interrupt the light projected by a DOTS field, which is a bunch of tiny beams of light, green color in the case of Phasmophobia. A couple of other games have since copied Phasmo's idea here.

That screenshot is probably some sort of bug since there's only ever one ghost in a game of Phasmo, but it's neat so I used it. Phasmo also expands on this with one particular type of ghost that will do the DOTS thing but will only appear on video camera and only do it if there is no one in the room with it.

Ectoplasm

This one has less to do with real ghost-hunter lore, as I've rarely if ever seen ghost-hunter reality shows engage in this. But a lot of ghost-hunting fiction delves into the theory that ghosts are formed of some material often referred to as Ectoplasm. And that it will be left behind as mystery residue after some ghost activity. The "slime" in Ghostbusters is an extreme example of this. More subtle versions of this can be found in Phasmophobia where ultraviolet light can reveal the presence of ectoplasm in the couple of minutes after a ghost touches something.

More on Phasmophobia

Phasmophobia and a few of its imitators also expand on the idea of these evidences by suggesting that different sorts of ghosts can be identified by which of the above evidences they do.

The exact combinations of the above screencap from the Phasmo wiki are entirely a game-based thing made-up for gameplay purposes rather than a pseudo-science effort to explain real phenomena in a way that points towards ghosts. The basic idea is that each type of ghost will produce three out of the games seven types of evidence.

So if you find a ghost that leaves UV handprints, drops the temperature to freezing, and will write in the ghost book, then you have a Demon. But if instead you get a DOTS image, find ghost orbs, and still have UV hand and footprints... then you're dealing with a banshee.

You can similarly use this idea in your game and suggest "oh, yeah, you know that this particular combination means X". You don't have to worry about pre-setting these and can just make them up on the spot, but if you do tell the players about a particular combination, make sure to note it down for yourself to remember later and also to help avoid plot holes by given the same combination of evidences multiple possible meanings by accident. Of course, you can do that deliberately in order to imply some other variable not covered in the stuff the hunters know about.

Also, yes, Phasmophobia uses the names of a lot of things that aren't often viewed as ghosts.

Psychic Powers

The use of psychics who can sense or even see ghosts, or feel emotions, are often used in ghost-hunting reality TV shows. In horror fiction, they will have access to information that the scientific investigators won't and may have a more clear impression of some phenomena that will only appear on video or the like. They basically provide extra context. Some fiction puts them as superior to scientific instruments, some puts the science as the superior tool, but a lot of fiction implies the two combined provide a more complete picture of what is happening.

In Monster of the Week terms, an Empath might feel a sudden burst of emotion that does not seem attached to any present person indicating the presence of an unseen spirit. Sensitives will feel the supernatural activity. Someone with The Sight will see ghosts more readily, assuming they don't try to hide. Meanwhile, scientific evidence might reveal stuff that about how the spirit's powers function. ie: When the Spooky saw the ghost do X, the Searcher's scientific gear did Y, maybe there's a link there?

Types of Ghosts

Phasmophobia and its imitators create a lot more types of ghosts than are usually used in real ghost-hunting due to the needs of creating a fun game play experience. In horror fiction, that can also be useful, but I tend to feel that modeling the smaller, more general, number of ghost types discussed in reality-TV ghost hunting shows works better for TTRPGs because it works better with the concept that each ghost is going to be a unique instance rather than a predictable variety.

Phasmophobia is basically spooky sudoku. It's a logic puzzle wrapped up in a horror experience so having predictable varieties is necessary to the desired gameplay experience. In a TTRPG, we're more telling a unique ghost story, so it's often more beneficial to have less definitive ghost varieties.

Residual Haunts

A residual haunt is basically an imprint left behind by intense emotion or traumatic experience. These sorts of ghosts will simply repeat the same actions night after night, perhaps once per night. They won't respond to living people and just do what they always do. They're basically a recording of a past event. This is a perfect case for comparing what a psychic sees compared to what non-psychics see. Most people might see a vague humanoid form while the psychic sees a clear image of a person and what they're wearing.

In the lore, residual haunts can be a result of a single intense spike of emotion such as a traumatic accident, murder, or argument. Or it can be the result of years of the same lingering emotion being experienced over and over and over by the person who lived there. The difference between a path worn out in the ground vs the crater of a meteorite impact.

Regardless of what causes them and how they are used. Residual haunts in a horror story will never be the main threat. They are not characters. They don't interact. They're the equivalent of grainy supernatural security footage. It will show some actions, psychics may be able to reduce some of the static and get a clearer image, other occultists might gain enough knowledge from it to perform a seance to talk to the actual person's soul (at which point an actual character is introduced.)

These are useful for depicting the past victims of a monster or murderer. Perhaps the investigators come looking for a dangerous ghosts, but really all the ghosts are clues about the actions of a serial killer. Or maybe they're scars left behind by the practices of a horrific cult. Or maybe they're reflections of souls held in captivity by the demon that is the true monster of the story. Many different explanations.

The point is that residual hauntings are predominantly going to be clues rather than entities.

Intelligent Haunts

This is going to be the bulk of ghosts in horror stories and RPG scenarios. They are aware and able to respond to the players. They may be friendly and up for a chat. They may be hostile and attack. They may try to warn the players. They may be disturbed and have difficulty interacting with reality.

These are going to be the ghosts most people think of when the word "ghost" is said.

Inhuman Haunts

These range from demons to fey and other folkloric entities. They will represent non-physical entities that might be mistaken initially for human ghosts. In general with horror fiction, inhuman haunts are the most dangerous as they are typically both more powerful and have more nefarious purposes. You'll make use of a lot of statements like "you've never seen temperatures this low before" and so on.

Inhuman haunts are more likely to do bizarre reality warping things.

Poltergeists

Poltergeist is any ghost that does a lot of things like breaking or throwing objects around. There's a lot of theories about poltergeists ranging from:

aggressive ghosts

unconscious and uncontrolled psychic activity, especially in kids ages 6 to 15

accumulated supernatural energy clutter (ie, a symptom of some deeper problem)

Possession

When people talk about someone being possessed, they usually refer to the idea that a spirit has taken control of someone's body and is now in control. In folklore and ghost-hunting, that's usually pretty rare. Instead possession often takes the following forms:

A person experiencing the intense emotions of the possessing spirit and trying to make sense of them from the context of their own life. They may thus appear to be overreacting to day to day problems.

A person experiencing strange illness or tormented by nightmares and visions.

A person around whom strange events occur, leading the people around them to view them as a bad luck charm or maybe a witch. This isolates the victim, making the people that might help them instead accuse them.

It may be that the more typical idea of possession as full control and replacement is something a ghost works up to by wearing down their victims' wills until they can no longer resist the full control.

Quite often, confused and uncertain human ghosts will do the first type of possession and stop there. It could be said that Mediums have the power to allow the ghost to more easily possess them, but with a chance of shoving the ghost out. Strange illnesses from possession are going to have more to do with angry vengeful ghosts and inhuman ghosts.

Strange events happening to people around the possessed victim are also most likely to be inhuman ghosts in fiction, though if a vengeful ghost is targeting multiple people, they may also do this. There's an east Asian film, I want to say Korean, about a man's high school friends slowly being killed off while he experiences consistent fatigue and sore shoulders. And it turns out a girl he used to be friends with in high school was assaulted by those friends, with the main character being pressured into taking photographs of the event. This led to her suicide. So the ghost is killing the ones that assaulted her and plans to torment the photographer for his entire life rather than killing him.

This is great for RPGs because you can have characters get possessed without taking control from them. You can just start describing stuff that nobody else can see or explain how very strangely sad they suddenly are.

[cyanlastride]

finally got around to listening to the beetlejuice musical! honestly, wasnt as good as i had hoped.

i was introduced through an animatic of "say my name" where it seemed like adam and barbara are alive, and lydia kills herself at the end of the song to possess her dad, which as a premise interests me a lot more than what actually happens. also my favourite line of "say my name" (and lo, the entire musical) is "so he wants the perfect daughter" which i was really hoping was gonna be a motif from another song, which it isnt.

so yeah. in my head exists a version of this musical where beetlejuice and lydia are both ghost-demon-things and are battling for power over the scale of a small community, and people are willingly letting either one possess them to defend themselves from the workings of the other. perhaps with a message about the power but ultimate shortcomings of martyrdom as a means of change, or the problems that arise when you only have two agents of change to choose between (and both are evil). you can hear it though, right? left cast versus right cast, bee-tle-juice, ly-di-a, bee-tle-juice, ly-di-a, bee-(ly-)tle-(di-)juice!(a!) with beetlejuice going low and lydia going high, ahhh very good.

so adam, barbara, and lydia are all siblings, right, and adam and barbara both summon beetlejuice to deal with the problems their dad is causing them (beetlejuice resolves these problems in a non-murderous way. in this head-cannon, the more people that summon him, the more power he has. no, i havent actually seen very much of beetlejuice's character. yes, this is going to character-assassinate him in the worst way. sue me). lydia, however, does not trust beetlejuice, and is also much more suicidal than her siblings. so, after lydia rejects beetlejuice's offer, she offs herself. the dad, obviously heartbroken by this, mourns her, and happens to say her name three times in a row. the ghost of lydia laughs, and starts fucking shit up big time for the dad, who is weeping and confused. the siblings, still in shock from watching their sister throw herself off a roof, experience a bit of schadenfreude, but that quickly turns to horror as they realize the gravity of what is transpiring. lydia nearly kills the father before the siblings intervene. lydia, feeling betrayed, fucks off to sulk for a while. the siblings explain to their father that they cannot say lydia's name three times in a row, because doing so represents a serious health risk to dear old dad. dad is distraught because he has to be careful in how he mourns his daughter. however, beetlejuice still has some control over the siblings, and uses the situation to his advantage, pressuring them into making others summon him or else he will force one of them to summon lydia. lydia, still being new to this and having lost control over her father, haunts some other emo kids in town who summon her, and start a little cult to get back at the adults in their lives. badaboom badabing, youve got a small-town-cult-off, where there are no winners and everyone is sad.

anyways. that was fun. time to never think about this musical again. (so he wants the perfect daughter... fuck, that line is good)

[m39]

Doom WADs’ Roulette (2007): Cheogsh

G2: Cheogsh

Main author(s): Shadowman

Release date: August 2nd, 2007

Version played: ???

Required port compatibility: GZDoom

Levels: 1

And now, for the first partial conversion of the 2007 roster, and, probably, the first real banger of the 2007 roster, we have Cheogsh. Created as a tribute to the author’s passed best friend, in around 1.5 months (counting a break). And while there is no written plot in the textfile, there is some stuff in the map itself talking about fighting the titular hell lord.

I’m running out of stuff to stay, so let’s see what this map has to offer.

Let’s start by saying that this map looks great. While it’s mostly covered in red, black, and brown colors/lightning, the map still manages to look incredible and has many distinctive locations. I don’t know if this is the prettiest-looking map I’ve seen up to this point (ignoring the maps/WADs that were released in the following years), but at worst I would consider it pretty close to that position.

The soundtrack is also great. I don’t know if it is the original track or was taken from other media, but its epicness on every level (even the parts that are calmer) is worth taking a listen to.

Asides from one shitty location to play through, this map isn’t really complex. Now let me tell you what you do on this map (I would warn you about spoilers but this is a 15-year-old map; bite me).

You start on the beach shores near some ruins. As you explore them, you notice a temple. You go in, you kill doormen, and you use teleporter.

You suddenly end up in a cage with fellow marines. You break out, and after a while, you end up in some kind of demonic community area with a tavern, pool, huts, etc. As you go around doing shenanigans, you eventually end up in the catacombs. These are the worst part of Cheogsh; a fucking labyrinth full of ghosts and skeletons (if you know what I mean) that has barely enough light and you can’t even see the layout on the map. I legitimately hate this area.

Anyway, after dealing with that filth, you finally get the yellow key which you use to get the blue key. Doing this takes you to some human house (based on and created by the passed friend of the author’s) to grab the hidden BFG.

With BFG in your hands, you go back and through the blue door to the underground cavern where you find the red key. With this key, you get access to Cheogsh pentagram. This thing must be turned off by pressing five switches, each dedicated to one beating heart that powers the demon lord. You do that, and you are finally allowed to fight the titular demon. After turning him into mush, you go back to the shore to notice that the sky is now blue. The corruption has been lifted. You won.

Now changing the subject, aside from catacombs, there is another thing in Cheogsh that I don’t like (although, not on such a magnitude) – the unskippable cutscenes. Not the ones where Cheogsh talks (where Korax’s voice lines are used), but the ones where are forced to stop and listen to some ramblings (with some broken English) either from you or Casper the rambling marine. Sure, it’s not as horrible as 007 WAD, and it happens only three times, but I honestly believe there should’ve been a skip button to not waste everyone’s time.

Cheogsh isn’t exactly a hard map. It suffers from the hard pistol beginning that every map has, where you have nothing but a pea shooter, but it gets easier and it overall ends in-between on the difficulty scale. I can at least say it’s harder than Genesis of Descent and it rarely has hitscanners.

What doesn’t make this map a complete pushover is the new enemies. These were originally introduced in Knee-Deep in ZDoom, a WAD released a few months before Cheogsh. And since that WAD also won a Cacoward in the same year as this map, try not to act surprised when I’ll be talking about these mofos again when I get to KDiZD:

Starting with three, new Imp variants – Howler, Soul Harvester, and Nightmare. The first one is basically if Class 2 imp from STRAIN was more unique. In that case, we still have a fast Imp-like enemy that functions as a weaker Arachnotron but is now slightly tougher than a decade ago.

Meanwhile, Soul Harvester is like a smaller cousin of Revenant, in that he shoots homing projectiles. These are much harder to dodge (they will usually turn around and still hit you almost all the time), but at least they can only scratch you... I guess?

Nightmares... just suck. They act like ZDoom stealth enemies, you can only hit them when they attack you, and as soon as you spot them, you almost always get hit... hard. At least they appear in the catacombs section and can be seen with night goggles.

From 2002’s Nimrod, we have Mauler, the Pinky variant that for some reason can launch at you like a freaking Lost Soul. At least it has a better design and is still as tough as the regular Pinky.

The Hell Nobility also earned two additional variants – Satyr and Hell Warrior. The former runs around after snorting a line of coke trying to rip you apart. Thankfully, he’s melee-only.

The latter one comes from 2004’s ZDCMP1, but now it has a lion head and his shield can shoot projectiles too (I don’t remember him doing that in the original project).

We can’t forget about the titular Cheogsh, of course. Dressed as the bruiser demon, he can fire a single projectile, a volley of these, and a barrage of floor fire. Fighting him isn’t really hard, just annoying since he’s three times tougher than Cyberdemon and the last attack makes him teleport.

I haven’t encountered bugs in this map, but the Doomwiki article mentions how the blue key has a chance to appear under the platform it lies on.

Cheogsh might have the baffling catacombs area, and some of its cutscenes outstay their welcome, but it is still a great map worth checking out.

I can only hope that other single map WADs/partial and total conversions keep up the fun factor this map has.

See you next time.

Bye!

[barrenstars]

figures. if rose was around she would have shown herself way before now, before she even got a glimpse of shaddix's darker side. but jane didn't mind. in fact, it made her quite happy knowing there was someone who was protecting rose, who was willing to go toe to toe and murder a teenager for her. from what jane has seen herself, roselle had a few people like that in the past. people she had known for a very long time and people she had merely just met, but all of them ended up vanishing. or, from what jane could gather, it was rose who just vanished. up and leaving them for absolutely no given reason. but jane knew why, and she couldn't argue with rose about it. she was just wanting to protect those people and allow them to live a normal life, which was hard to do with a stray moon witch floating around you. jane, on the other hand, has absolutely no one. no parents, no siblings, no friends, no one willing to murder a teenager to protect her; she was truly alone in this world. it would be a lie to say that rose cared about her because jane knows rose only has an interest in her because of her power. when the time comes for them to kill their coven jane has to be the one to do it. or rose could take her magic, she could drain her dry and leave her to crumble away and die and rose could do it herself. it brought jane a great deal of anxiety just thinking about it, mostly because she was unsure if she could put the latter option past rose. rose has killed people before, and she could very well kill jane if it meant saving her life. plus, jane hasn't lived a life, so killing her wouldn't be so bad. in jane's eyes, anyway. she has nothing to live for.

watching him with an amused smile, she gives a firm nod, wandering closer to the counter and resting her arms there comfortably. ❝ i can help you restock? ❞ gesturing towards the box he has just pulled out, she arches a brow in waiting. granted she didn't know where things went and whatnot, but she could sort out the crystals and he could put them away. sitting around and just waiting would be really awkward while helping him out made conversation much more comfortable. ❝ i could also write the signs for the crystals? i've been told my handwriting is quite nice. ❞ even if she does need help with spelling given the fact english isn't her native language, she enjoys helping whenever she can. half turning, her attention wanders around the store before settling back on the demon, giving another half-shrug. ❝ waiting and doing nothing would be boring. i can help. ❞ she also has rarely been in any occult stores, in fact when she's out in public she stays away from anything related to witchcraft or magic, having to lay low and be as invisible as a ghost.

for a solid minute, all shaddix can do is simply stare at the damn white paw that's made its way through a hole in the floorboards. clearly, he hasn't done a good job with keeping up maintenance if the cat has found a hole big enough to put its paw through. his nose scrunches up, especially as a soft meow is heard and he can see bonbon's eye pressing up against the hole, looking down at the person who he had presumed was an intruder just moments ago. his hand comes up, pinching at the bridge of his nose as he lets out a loud groan. as much as he loves bonbon and the queen that she is, she is easily going to be the death of him if she keeps popping in like this. he can practically picture her tail swishing back and forth, amusement on her cat features –– she is rose's cat, through and through; desperate to make trouble and then gloat when she presumes she's right. eyes turn back to the girl at hand; he wants to go back to intimidating her, but the moment has flown out the window. no, now as he glances back at the eye staring at him through the ceiling, he knows that some part of her is telling the truth. bonbon doesn't get along with just anyone and he knows that first hand –– it had taken her forever to warm up to him. so obviously rose does know the girl in front of him, and she isn't a threat because bonbon wouldn't be so eager to show herself if she were. shaddix lets his hands fall to his sides, landing on his hips as he keeps his eyes on the cat for a second longer. it's like he's trying to get her to speak to him, to tell him he's doing the right thing because there's still that nagging in his chest, telling him he isn't.

❝ your kind, meaning the coven. ❞ shaddix pulls his eyes back to her, another sigh leaving his lips as he allows his posture to relax. whoever she is, there's a genuine connection to rose, and if he's mean to one of rose's friends, it means it's going to cost him tarot card readings for at least a week; which wouldn't be tragic, but she's actually pulling in cash. as he begins to move back toward the counter, every inch of him stiffens at how plainly she puts what he is, what he does. there's a sour taste in his mouth at the mere thought of it –– there's days when he's completely fine with who he is, but when a complete stranger puts it so bluntly? offers themselves up like that's a good idea and that he hasn't killed someone before? there's all sorts of nerves that strike up within him, and it's only through a few careful breaths that he manages to banish the panic that's rising in his chest. he waves her off, ducking down underneath the space in order to grab another box of crystals to be sorted (bought in bulk off of amazon, he has no shame) before looking at her once more. ❝ bonbon's looking for you is proof enough. i don't need to do...that. ❞ a careful breath is pulled in once more, his nose scrunching; for a moment he sees jasmine and the undeniable trust she had in him, the young love that had blossomed. she had never known the danger that she was in, and neither had he; her ghost continuously haunts him, and when his activities are brought up so plainly, it's like it gives her just a little bit more life. another little edge to remind him of why he's working an occult shop and not doing something normal. ❝ she isn't here. she's out running some errands but you can wait for her. just don't...touch anything that actually looks real. ❞

[astaroth1357]

More undateables with a demigod hades mc???

By request, have yourself a part two!! 

Demigod MC Series: Hades Pt. 2 (Un)Dateables Edition!

I will ask that y’all please don't ask for continuations of other gods unless I say it’s okay to do again. This series already fills my inbox something fierce and this is a one-off that I allowed for during the request window.  If I have to make ideas for new gods while continuing a bunch of old MCs, it'll burn me out fast...

Demigod MC Series: Intro, Aphrodite, Hermes, Hades, Dionysus, Demeter, Athena, Hades Pt. 2

Diavolo

Oh, he has no problem at all hosting a child of the Underworld, hell he even throws them a welcome banquet when he finds out! Hades is a dear friend - and practically a parental figure to him growing up - so he's more than happy to take in one of his children for a year.

Diavolo is actually one of the few people that the MC can talk to about their home with any kind of fondness. Usually when they bring up things like the comforting wailing of the River Coctyus, the brothers will give them weird looks... but Diavolo knows where they're coming from!

He spent numerous summers in the Underworld growing up doing things like pestering Charon on the River Styx or playing games with Cerberus (the other one) in the Asphodel Meadows... His beach house is actually modeled after his childhood summer home in the Isles of Paradise! Really, it can be a lovely place if the gloom doesn't bother you!

So in the spirit of his fond memories, Diavolo really tried to make their time in the Devildom a fun one!... in his maybe trying a little too hard way…  

Poor MC found themselves offered pretty much everything under the moon… Tickets or exclusive passes to different cultural events/festivals, invitations to gala events, and tours of nearly every inch of Hell by the Prince himself - it was… it was a lot for the poor introverted thing…

It didn’t help that Diavolo would have a hard time gauging if they were having any fun due to their naturally melancholic nature, which only pushed him to try harder… He means well, he does. He’s just not the most in touch with what would make an anti-social doom child happy...

It took Barbatos and Lucifer stepping in for the mortal to actually start getting some much needed space and that improved their experience significantly. Sometimes less is more, Dia… Less is more. But they appreciate his efforts anyway.

Barbatos 

Also has a pretty amicable relationship with the Ruler of the Underworld, though his is much more professional compared to Diavolo’s. He actually has a good deal of appreciation for the man for taking good care of the Prince during his visits, so he sees this as an opportunity to return the favor.

Like Diavolo, he’s rather focused on making sure the MC is having a good stay in the Devildom, but he’s much more subtle about it. He’ll come by the House often to check up on them and make sure everything is to their liking... 

Even the brothers notice that he treats them like anothering visiting Lord/Lady in that way, which he would argue they very much are and should be respected as one. It’s the least the Devildom can offer their father at this point.

His visits may also be an excuse for keeping an eye on the brothers to make sure they don’t do anything to inconvenience their “young guest…” To be honest, the entire House is a little paranoid about that… Nobody wants to know the punishment for hurting MC if Barbs is the one dishing it out...

Apart from watching out for them, Barbatos tries to encourage the MC to accept the Young Lord’s gifts (while also actively advising Diavolo to go easier on them at the same time). It would be so disheartening to him if his Prince feels like he hasn’t offered them the best experience that he could… He’s sure they understand.

Any time that he invites the MC to tea, they usually end up talking about their father in some way. Barbs knows a surprising amount about the god… He’s been around about as long as Chronos - preceding the birth of Aether and Chaos themselves - so he has some stories to tell.

The MC did once ask him why he doesn’t just run everything if he’s really been around for so long... his answer was: “Kings and their kingdoms will rise and fall… Worlds upon worlds are born, then cease to be. But time is what brings about all changes… So, I think I’m perfectly content with the power I possess. Wouldn’t you be?” 

Annnd they never asked Barbs another question like that again… and people think death is scary… 

Simeon 

He was honestly a little worried for their new companion for quite a while… It’s not like there’s never any sadness in the Celestial Realm or anything, but they seem to have something else entirely…

He’s heard stories about the Underworld. He’s never been himself, that’s usually a job for the Seraphim due to the… dreary nature of the place - but he’s heard it would make the Devildom look downright festive…

If he were being honest, he had half expected the MC to be obsessed with skeletons, ghosts, and other elements of darkness but that wasn’t the case. They certainly knew a lot about those things, but they appeared to have a healthy interest in the afterlife in general, so they asked him a lot of questions about the Celestial Realm, angels, and how the souls of the blessed are treated up there… It was surprising to say the least.

Of course he did the same and, frankly, Simeon found it incredibly wasteful that so many Greek followers find themselves just wasting away in a field of nothing for so long… but that’s neither here nor there.

He was also surprised by how gentle of an influence the MC ended up being on Luke as well. He had always suspected that the little angel just needed a bridge between him and Devildom to start finding appreciation for it, and the MC fit that bill perfectly - nothing he was used to, but still approachable enough to make everything less frightening. He thanks them a great deal for that… but...

It’s just that… Well they’re just so… depressing sometimes…! He doesn’t want to blame them because it hardly seems like their fault! They’re a very kind person, it’s just an atmosphere around them… It brings him to tears if he isn’t careful…

He’s invited the MC to Purgatory Hall on multiple occasions to chat and try to make them smile… When they do, the gloom is dispelled - even just a little - and they’re a truly beautiful creature regardless. It’s just so unfortunate that their life brings so much sadness...

Even so, he actually likes the MC enough to consider basing a character on them if he ever wrote another book. Something about a gloomy but sweet protagonist at home in a world of darkness sounds appealing… doesn’t it?

Luke

He didn’t know how to feel about the MC when they met. At first, he actually thought they were just as unhappy as he was to be there due to how depressed they looked but when they told him that wasn't true, he was really confused...

The Devildom is a dark, brutish, and dangerous place. Why would anyone feel at home down here??

But… well… He would spend time with them at RAD between breaks (partially to help scare off their many, many demonic suitors) and it might be weird to say, but they really made the Devildom look beautiful… literally.

The world just looks better when they’re around! It’s really hard to describe because it’s not something you notice much until they leave, but when the MC is around everything looks more vibrant and inviting! The grass gets greener, flowers grow bigger, and butterflies/birds hover around wherever they are like they have their own gravity - the realm loves them!

It started getting hard for Luke to hang onto his disdain for the place when they made it look so appealing… And then they started talking to him about the Underworld and the creatures they’d befriended there… creatures a lot worse than any demons he’d seen there...

Like. If the MC can be good friends with a bunch of rude walking corpses, then he could probably make friends with a demon right? There’s nice ones… kind of… 

Beel. He can make friends with Beel.

Like Simeon, he does feel bad that they seem so sad all the time… but unlike the older angel, he’s a bit more understanding that this is just how they are and enjoys his time with them regardless. (It helps a lot that just being around this little bean of a boy can lift their spirits anyway).

And you know what’s even better for him? When Lord Diavolo gives the MC tickets to things that they don’t want to go to, sometimes they’ll invite him along or give them to him instead! 

He’s gone to the Devil’s Coast with MC and Simeon sooo many times by now and he loves it!! Maybe the Devildom isn’t so bad after all, I mean, it can be a lot of fun when you go to the right places, anyway.

Solomon

Oh, he finds them both deeply fascinating and utterly terrifying - so just his sort of test sub-er, person!

He kids (somewhat), Solomon isn’t that dumb/lacking in self-preservation instinct. Experimenting on a child of death in a land of the dead (even if it’s not their “home turf”) would be asking for trouble. They’d have more than enough ammunition to fight him off and if their father found out? Immortality wouldn’t even begin to save him...

That being said, questions aren’t necessarily experiments… and oh boy, does he have a lot of them.

If the MC isn’t being pestered by Diavolo or the brothers, then they’re probably having to put up with Solomon nipping at their heels trying to get them to use their powers or answer all sorts of “innocent” scientific questions…

“MC, reanimation of Greek dead requires a blood offering, correct? Do you have to sacrifice animals for that process or do you allow them to feast on your own?”

“MC, when you’re controlling a skeleton do you move the body as a whole or do you have to animate each individual bone due to their lack of ligaments?”

“Think fast!! Oh look, you just caught the skull of my good friend, Richard! Could you bring him back from that, or should I fetch the rest of him?” 🙂

They put up with it because, believe it or not, he’s not nearly the weirdest person they’ve ever met (a lot of crazy people drift in and out of the land of the dead…) and well… they’re a pretty lonely person too so it’s not like they have a lot of standards when it comes to friendships anyway.

But the second they breathe a word of this to Barbs or Diavolo, this boy is on his way to a royal restraining order… Where does he even get those skulls…?