#as i know it could end up reading like a bad parody if i get it really wrong

[destinationtoast]

britpicking? (Ted Lasso)

So, I seem to be continuing to write lots of Ted Lasso Roy/Jamie/Keeley fic. :D Is anyone interested in britpicking? I'd be especially interested in someone who can help with the essentials of a Northern/Mancunian dialect (e.g., when it's appropriate to say something like, "she were sending a text" vs. "she was sending a text") and also with "innit" (which I know is linguistically more complex than just replacing "isn't it" and has been evolving). I'm happy to beta/ameripick in return, if desired.

I currently have a couple WIPs that are a few thousand words each.

[noharaaa]

𝐌𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐠 (𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐱 !𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫) II

Author’s Note: Disclaimer! This plot is not to encourage drug usage! Don’t do drugs people!

• Reader has no specific gender.

• Parody fic! This is all for jokes.

Enjoy Reading!

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𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲:

Back in your more questionable days, Choi Su Bong was a frequent (and unforgettable) customer. He’d show up at the oddest hours, paying in cryptic compliments and half-finished rhymes while buying from your stash. You were just trying to make a living, but he treated every transaction like a chapter in some epic cosmic romance. He was the aspiring rapper who thought the universe revolved around him, and you were the unlucky drug dealer stuck listening to his "intergalactic" bars. You thought those days were behind you….until now, when fate (or bad karma) brought him crashing back into your life in the most ridiculous way possible.

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Before the next game, Six-Legged Pentathlon, everyone else appeared to be either psyching themselves up or planning their strategies. You had formed alliances well after the first game, teaming up with Se-mi and Min-su, both of whom seem like mentally balanced individuals. But then, as the timer for team formation was coming to an end, you caught a glimpse of something unsettling from the corner of your eye.

purple hair. Of course.

You already knew who it was before you even turned around, you felt him tap on your shoulder as he stood there with Nam-gyu by his side. “Hey, dealer,” he drawled, his purple hair catching the harsh fluorescent lights above. “Miss me?

Before you could say anything, the buzzer rang, locking you into a team with them.

“Great,” you muttered, already feeling a headache creeping up your brain.

As you sat in the circle waiting for the caterpillar race to begin, the five of you were herded to the starting area, each group bound together in teams. You knew a disaster was waiting to happen. You were seated next to Se-mi, while the purple-haired headache was seated on your other side.

And just when you thought the situation couldn’t get any worse, out of the corner of your eye, you spotted them.

Thanos, slipping Nam-gyu a… pill?

Your eyes widened as Nam-gyu caught your gaze and nudged Thanos, who turned toward you with a grin. “Enjoying the show?” 

You almost rolled your eyes, trying to look anywhere but at the visible build of sweat collecting near his hairline. He was fidgeting like a kid who’d had too much sugar, his leg bouncing up and down like he was ready to launch into orbit.

Classic signs. Oh, great. He’s freaking high.

Nam-gyu leaned over, whispering with an amused grin “Boss said you’re a drug dealer?”

“I was” you corrected sharply, shooting a glare his way. “Past tense.”

“Oh, right. Boss said you were the best.”

Thanos tapped his chest unfazed, “Still got it,” he murmured, shifting his shirt slightly to reveal a silver vintage cross necklace tucked inside. “You know….in case you’re interested.”

“I said im not a dealer anymore. I’m already told you im here to survive, not relive my ‘glory’ days with your… whatever that is.” You gestured at the pill situation vaguely.

“Oh, come on, Dealer! Not even a little for old times’ sake?”

“I’m serious, don’t call me that.”

You folded your arms, determined to ignore him. But then the game announcer’s voice boomed out of the speakers, and you watched as the first group of players was herded to the starting line, their faces pale as ghosts. Your stomach twisted into a knot in ways you hadn’t felt in years.

Okay. New rule, no panicking. you said to yourself.

Except your body did the exact opposite.

As you watched the first few teams fumble their way through the grueling physical challenges, the knot in your stomach tightened. Sweat beaded on your forehead, and your body went stiff..

Thanos noticed your unease because of course he did. He always had a knack for spotting weakness and exploiting it.

“Nervous?” he asked, leaning in just enough to make your skin crawl.

“I’m fine” 

You knew that was a damn lie. You’re scared to death!

“Just a thought you know…” he whispered. “You never know when you might need a little… boost.”

Se-mi moved closer to your side, “Is he for real trying to sell you drugs right now?”

“Apparently. This guy has no off switch.”

He elbowed you softly with his arm in an attempt to get your attention once again. He rotated the pill in his fingers, pretending to check for defects. His lips curled into a sly grin as he shot you a sideways glance.

"Tempting," he whispered at random in English.

You shot him a glare, but your heart was pounding, and your hands were clammy. The anxiety was bubbling up, making it impossible to think straight. You hated that he was there, with that stupid pill and that stupid face offering an easy way out.

“Fine, dammit. Just give it to me” 

Welp! There goes your stubborn pride…..

His grin widened as he pretended to ponder for a moment longer, holding the pill up to the light like it was a precious gem before finally handing it over. “Your wish is my command,”

This guy needs a good punch in the face (gotta make it out of here alive first!).

You swallowed it with a grimace after snatching it from his hand, waiting for the tension in your chest to ease. It wasn't too long before the sensibility of relief crept into your system.

For an oversized grapehead-looking guy? Maybe he wasn't entirely useless, just maybe. But admitting that out loud? Never in your life.

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[maxwell-grant]

hi. you've mentioned Donald Duck a few times in your posts, with scrooge being one step removed from pulp heroes, Donalds Paparinik (Italian superhero identity which I love, the new PK Adventures where lovely) in terms of their relation to the Diabolik line of European superheroes and Donalds general tendency to run head first down slippery slopes. so I'm wondering if you have any further thoughts on his comics and weird place in the superhero/pulp world

Oh God, do I. I mostly wanna talk about the superhero side of things but I feel like it's worth mentioning I grew up with Donald Duck comics, specifically the Carl Barks ones. The picture above wasn't taken by me but I own and recognize like 7 of the books in it, my mom always bought these that collected several of his stories and had these beautiful painting covers so we could read them together, and I still flip through them on occasion and love them very much (I really wanna buy a translated edition of Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck to read with her but those cost a liver). Donald Duck was one of my childhood hyperfixations and I got my hands on all the comics and movies and cartoons I could find with him, and I actually did read several of the Italian comics, I could go down the stationery right now and grab 5. I first stumbled on Paperinik via those, and for long I didn't think much of it, because Donald Duck moonlighting as a superhero for decades isn't the kind of thing that comes up often. I just thought Paperinik was a weird but funny idea for the longest time and always liked rereading a story where he puts on the costume to scare a rich jerk into leaving his granny's farm alone. And THEN I stumbled onto PKNA, Paperinik New Adventures, and oh my god this rules so much.

Actually one of the best superhero comics I've ever read, it's just constantly and consistently doing these wild absurd stories and swings into genre territory and quality storytelling. It's famous for opening it's first issue with aliens genociding an entire planet and I thought that was kinda overselled, and it's not frequently this dark (sometimes it actually gets darker though, and I probably stopped before it could really get there), but it is a very weird comic. It's more akin to Fantastic Four's serialized consistency than any kind of graphic novel prestige storyline but it is frequently so good at what it does, even the lamer issues are still worth reading. I like describing it as Donald Duck falling headfirst into Batman-level resources, forced to deal with Superman problems (on both the "huge sci-fi horrors" and "people being really, really irresponsible dicks" ends), while trying to stay Ditko's Spider-Man and failing. These do not feel quite like any Donald Duck comics I'd read before and while they would hold up with a different character, I do think they deserve credit for how they make it still always feel like you're reading a Donald Duck story, if a slightly different one. In fact I'd even say PKNA actually makes the concept feel more suited for Donald Duck in a way that brought the idea full circle.

To those of you that don't know, Paperinik started as a villain, or more of a revenge fantasy. By that point there was a tradition of doing a lot of parody stories with Donald that started in 1953. By the late 60s, readers were dissatisfied with Donald Duck always constantly being mistreated by the rest of the supporting cast and losing unfairly, so it was decided to have one of those parodies feature Donald Duck as uncovering the fortune and resources of "Fantomius" and becoming a masked rogue able to get back at them by achieving the impossible, in that he both steals from Scrooge and defeats Gladstone's luck by framing him for it.

He had a stint as a master thief until it was decided it made him too mean, so he morphed into a superhero trying to overcome his prior bad reputation and using his new skills and gadgets (still prone to malfunctioning) to deal with his typical rogues and new ones, and having the admiration of his nephews who don't know that Unca Donald and Paperinik are the same. PKNA, in turn, was sort of a reboot, shedding the previous history and pretty much getting rid of Donald's traditional supporting cast and having Donald stumble onto a different set of resources and means to fight crime, but keeping the idea of Donald Duck having a superhero alter-ego that nobody suspects. The scale and menace of the threats he's up against DRASTICALLY increases, and if anything that fact is crucial to what allows these to still feel like Donald Duck stories, even with Paperinik being a genuinely impressive and cool hero able to save the world. Nobody believes Donald Duck could be a cool and impressive person if he tried, and so Paperinik becomes not just a power fantasy, or a call to something better or be someone better, but it becomes a key component of Donald Duck stories: a thankless job he's expected to do that he doesn't want to do until his pride or something crucial is on the line. These are still parables about human failures and what can be learned from them.

I'd even say a big part of why they succeed is because they introduce a character who can pick up Donald's slack as a comically unpleasant ill-tempered grouch in need of a lesson protagonist in Angus Fangus, a character who's sort of J Jonah Jameson meets Harvey Bullock. Angus has it out for Paperinik and gets up to a lot of the antics you would traditionally expect Donald to be doing if this was a classic Donald Duck comic (and even has a Gladstone-esque rival of his own in another reporter), and getting to learn lessons and be humbled and even have his own set of impressive moments. The choice to give an entirely new cast around Donald greatly added to the comic's ability to experiment and do new things while still keeping the core of Donald.

I actually like a lot of these new dynamics better than the ones he traditionally has, I love The Raider and Lyla and One and oh god Xadhoom, Xadhoom is so fucking cool, such a cool design and name, this powerful roaring supernova stickbug alien person in a crusade of murderous vengeance who names herself her language's equivalent of creditor because the death of her entire planet is the DEBT SHE WILL COLLECT IN BLOOD ENERGY and she is just the most 90s anti-hero ever made except she's stuck in a Donald Duck comic getting into comedic situations and learning to laugh and feel emotions and learn from her mistakes again whether she likes it or not. These two are so good together.

Even with a superhero lair and supercomputer and gadgetry handed to him, Donald Duck is so comically outmatched against his opponents he still winds up winning through guile and will and comedic trickery. Donald desperately wishes he could go on self-serving ventures or just sit at home and enjoy tv, and not get dragged into dealing with murderous alien invasions, or cyberpunk revenge stories, or collapsing future timelines, and still having to solve those problems so there's a world to come back. The stories are frequently fun and they are prevailingly comedic and very good at it too, but they also get a lot out of taking weird turns into unexpected territory.

I haven't finished it because I wasn't able to find it in full or keep track of what's the og series and what's the reboot, still trying to sort that out, but god what a find this series is. What a great strange turn in the history of this great strange character.

[borzoilover69]

ULTIMATE JAKE: an idea and an execution

 iA I Aka the post where borzoi talks to the crowd how awesome Lord Jake English is, the guy that everyones seen around, but have no idea who he is. Pull up a chair, this will get long. 

If Ultimate Dirk can be summarised by the mask of tragedy in theatre, LE Jake, AKA Ultimate Jake, could be summarised by the mask of comedy. I’ve barely read HS2, but from what I can see, Dirk wants to make a serious nitty gritty tragedy of serious and epic proportions. But he tries so hard that he ends up making it almost laughable.

Jake wants to make a thighslapper huckshaw comedy where everyones having a grand old time but  there is such deep and hollow tragedy hidden within the folds of all those pretty smiles.

If anything they abide a lot by aristotles theory on comedy and tragedy. While tragedy imitates men better than average, comedy parodies those who are worse.

Aristotle stated that those of a more serious type that may have once been inclined to celebrate the actions of great heroes in poetry and prose turn to tragedy, while those who’ve been dishonourable, humbled, turn to comedy. It comes down to duality, tragedy viewing duality as a fatal contradiction forever a fault in things, while comedy views it as natural, but something that everyone must live with the best they can, enjoy.  Do you see where I’m going here? Dirk, who praised Aristotle and read the epics turned to tragedy. Jake, dishonourable and hiding from those who he care about, turning to comedy. They line up well with the cognitive psychology of the tragedy and comedy visions, which you should totally look into when you can. 

Tragedy is idealistic, stubborn and serious. They long for something higher and greater than common existence. They value heroism, hierarchy, and finality. 

Comedy is pragmatic, adaptable, and playful. They consider the self, comfortable in their own skin. They’re anti-heroes, valuing situation-based ethics and reversal.

With that out of the way, lets keep to philosophy like it’s a boat in the atlantic. If Dirks look in life upon going ult is one of pessimistic realism, Jake is an absurdist.

If life is a cruel joke to jake, and it has been, then in his ultimate form hes acknowledged it, and given the cruel void, hes decided to seek out his own meaning. And it just so happens to be his best friend.

Misc details

- Capitalist

- He wears old 3D movie glasses because he’s that idiot. 

- He collects a lot of things. He has plenty of things hes shot killed and stuffed in his collection. 

You could say he’s rather past oriented, taking care to document it all out of interest and perhaps a subconcious pursuit to figure out the future.

- Very apathetic. He may be charming, but he’s still a jackass. He thinks existence itself is funny, he’s an absurdist; but he’s also a guy who realises he’s been kicked to the curb too many times and started shooting people. - His crew consists of John/June, (in place of rose. They have a lot of movie nights!), Karkat, and one (1) dead dave.

And finally some thoughts about ult Dirkjake: Maybe Dirk wants Jake to just kill him. It’s a game of cat and mouse, and perhaps it’s love for someone who deems himself unworthy, no, incapable of doing so. What better love than to kill someone? To trust and know they will kill you. Feeling safe in the knowledge they’ve known you in every universe and are here to kill you. Not that Jake would let him. I like them.. I think it’s my fave brand of dirkjake besides the original.. they’re dysfunctional, intolerable, and they hate each other, but it’s just interesting. For better or for worse, they’re stuck, and they’re not afraid of the fact they suck. If anything, it’d spur them to be worse.

“Oh yeah. I find the other guy fucking annoying and I’d gladly take a moment to rip his guts out and walk him around a tree until they’re all out and he's calling me every bad name he can think of, but if anyone tries doing this shit with him without my consent, I’m going to be hells of more pissed off.”

Look. It’s funny in the way that realistically, they could probably do a lot of damage to everyone else but due to the fact they know the other guy exists, they’re too busy trying to kick the others ankles out and then beating each other up to become dangerous.

Oh you bet your nanny it’s the gayest most fucked up kismesis known to man. Ultimate Dirk hates LE Jake, because he doesn’t give a damn. Because Jake makes him feel things he denies feeling. And that ridiculously, somewhere in paradox space, Jake went ultimate and decided he was going to man up and pursue Dirk to the ends of the universe. Ultimately: “My soul is bound to you in explicable ways. Our bonds cross the multiverse and wherever you are, somewhere I am by your side. Even in a hundred universes, maybe even a million. I will still find you.”

Perhaps the greatest thing and a closing note is that given they are the ascended versions of themselves, they’re aware of the fact that they’re aware of every time the other guy screwed them over, kicked them in the balls, etc. But they’re also able to see everything else. So what’s with a little hatelove eh?

[i-love-invincible]

Let's Talk About Atom Eve

Invincible Spoilers and Gore CW Abound! Please watch this incredible series... So who is ATOM EVE?

I would love to talk about this, but first we have to talk about character design in Invincible. The costumes, personalities, and heroes of Invincible are all self-referential. Take the Guardians of the Globe for instance, the first heroes we see on-screen.

We see these people, and IMMEDIATELY we get what they're about... even if these characters are new to us, we KNOW who they are. Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Batman, Green Lantern, all obvious parodies and fun little characters.

I'm sure your eyes will start glazing over once I go "blah blah subverting tropes blah blah absolute genius." but one thing that Invincible does very well is destroying the audience's connections with established superhero tropes (See the one million white boy video essayists talking about why Evil Superman is awesome.) The reason why the slaughter of the Guardians of the Globe in that fucking THREE MINUTE LONG SCENE is so surprising is because THEY ARE THE FUCKING JUSTICE LEAGUE (while the fight scene also conveniently tosses some casual shade to DC Comics.) Not only is it stunning since we have some frame of reference for how powerful they are, but also stunning because we have ALREADY become attached to these characters.

What follows are a couple real quotes from people I've shown the first episode to: "Oh Batman + Silver Surfer that's awesome!" "OH DUDE! FISH AQUAMAN" "Wonder Woman but she's a lesbian.. as she should be..." .. and all these people, the ones with the most superhero experience, were the ones all most taken aback by the ending.

So let's look at Eve.

At first glance, we get the same impression as a lot of the heroes we meet in Invincible: knockoff. In the same way Omniman and the entirety of the Guardians of the Globe are made to resemble the Superman and the Justice League so to does Atom Eve's costume and powers SCREAM token. She is the first female hero we meet that is Mark's age and perhaps more importantly (and more evident to a first-time viewer) she has some very clear themes of femininity. Such as her costume, which Doc Seismic callously points out in Episode 3 (neglecting the fact she designed her own costume)...

... as well as her name. "Atom Eve" is a combination of her ability to influence atoms and her middle name, but it is also a reference to Adam and Eve (see the bible.) She even has a female symbol with two revolving electrons around it emblazoned right on her damn shirt. So just like the Guardians of the Globe, her design is meant to carry a lot of weight and immediacy to the viewer, you see them and you understand who they are and what they stand for (or at least you think you do.)

So we've seen the way that the Guardians subvert our expectations so how does Eve diverge from the audience's first-impressions? Well for the first couple episodes she doesn't. You might even suspect her of being some one-dimensional, neglected and under-characterized female character (and to be honest if you were reading the comics you wouldn't be too far off...) until you start to see her dissatisfied with being a superhero. Her boyfriend cheats on her, the Teen Team breaks up, her parents consistently disrespect and talk down to her, she's misunderstood by the naive and silly Mark Grayson, and she struggles to find connection with anyone outside of when she's "beating up bad guys." She even goes as far as to reject a position in the Guardians of the Globe just to avoid her ex-boyfriend, despite her killer tryout.

She's frustrated by the frame that's been left for her, and realizes her powers enable her to do much more than beat up random villains. Her powers BY THE WAY, which up until now anyone could have mistaken for "shooting pink stuff," is actually atomic manipulation. She can just fucking rearrange matter to make anything she wants. So instead of being a superhero she fucks off to do things that ACTUALLY help people. Like idk she could be irrigating rivers and feeding the starving or like manufacturing free medicine or something. Atom Eve is a hero who is chronically misunderstood by literally everyone around her, even in the final episode Mark is under the impression Eve just stopped being a superhero to get away from her ex, parents, and school. However with the earth-shattering familial trauma that Mark goes through in the Season 1 finale, maybe they will have more in-common than either of them think.

and NOW there's a surprise ATOM EVE SPECIAL EPISODE! it shows off her origin story which goes even more in-depth into her trauma, and her loss of the only people who even WOULD be capable of understanding her. It also has my FAVORITE FIGHT SCENE OF ALL TIME!!! It was absolutely incredible

ps: omg why tf did they make her far-shot model have an x over the female symbol instead of the detailed electrons (crying emoji) cool i didnt proofread this okay i might do more of these okay bye, i love this show okay

[vaya-writes]

Serving the Serpent -AITA 2

A series of joke AITA posts that are about some of the antagonists in the Serving the Serpent universe. These are prompts and drabbles written for fun that reveal some key details of character back stories that might not otherwise be mentioned in the canon story.

This is a joke post. An "Am I The Asshole" post written to help me understand some of the antagonists in Serving the Serpent, and I honestly just had fun with it as a prompt. But it's from the POV of a biggot and as such there is a LOT of language that is gross and potentially triggering. Please be mindful of tags. 

Content Warnings: slurs and exaggerated ableist language used regarding a child with mutism. Casual misogyny and objectification of a child. 460 words. Divider by firefly-graphics.

You are welcome to DM me if you want particulars before you read. I worry that the tone of this piece might be triggering, even if it’s supposed to be a bit of a parody. 

Previous (part one is not posted yet due to StS spoilers, this link just takes you to a detailed explanation)

AITA for asking my sister to disown her adopted daughter? 

Hey everyone. Some of you wanted an update about my situation. Particularly with the kid and how she’s settling in with my sister? I’m kind of glad you asked, it gives me a chance to vent a little and get this off my chest. 

(As always, names replaced with professions and titles) 

The kid had some severe bruising around her throat and couldn’t initially speak. At first we thought that ‘Healer’ wasn’t doing a good enough job. Two weeks went by and she hadn’t made any progress towards speaking again – we assumed she was in too much pain. Then before we know it, a month has passed and the kid still isn’t even trying to speak. ‘Healer’ tells us that that the kid is dumb, and that the issue is a mental one. 

Since she can’t speak, we don’t have to worry about her blaspheming or asking stupid questions. She also won’t be able to seduce any men or talk to any of the Others. But it’s still embarrassing having a mute in the house. For now, everyone knows she’s not a blood relative. I’m just worried that if she stays with us for a few years, people will start to forget. A generation could go by and the next thing you know, the young'uns could start thinking that ‘Sister’ birthed the kid, and that a defect like that is in our family line. 

‘Sister’ was really broken up about it at first. Everyone was sympathetic too, that she ended up adopting a mute. We told her that nobody would blame her for ousting the child or sending her to the sharehouse, but ‘Sister’ got really defensive at that, and insisted on keeping the kid. Probably assumed that it'd start talking eventually. 

It’s been two months now, and it’s pretty clear that the kid isn’t going to talk. 'Sister’ had to come up with a whole charades game just to get the kid to respond to anything. It’s frustrating as hell.  

I reminded ‘Sister’ again that it’s okay to ditch the mute, that we could send her to the sharehouse. ‘Sister’ just got upset again. Said that she is happy to finally have a child, to have somebody to talk to and look after.  

I really don’t get it. It’s not like the kid will ever amount to anything? I’m assuming it’s just 'Sisters’’ womanly instincts flaring up or something. I don’t know. 

Does anybody else get where I’m coming from? I am torn. I don’t want to upset my sister too much. But I really think she should drop the child, I don’t want it associated with us. Is that such a bad thing? 

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[gamesception]

Sception Reads Cass Cain #31

Superboy (1994) #85 Writer: Joe Kelly Pencils: Pascual Ferry

Another Guest appearance. I vaguely recall DC trying to push a Cass/Conner relationship, or at least a crush or something? I don't remember there ever being much to it, more of a kind of arbitrary 'might as well try pairing batgirl and superboy, because compulsory heterosexuality or something'. Not bad exactly, but nothing I remember anybody wanting or caring about.

But I only would have seen it from a single side, since I didn't really follow Superboy. Like, I read scattered issues of Young Justice here and there and liked that, but not enough to follow any of those characters outside of the team up book. So lets see if Joe Kelly writing of the two can win me over. Also, I think Ferry's another new artist to tackle Cass, and that's always neat.

Ok, right off the bat, the writing isn't really my thing. Conner is supposed to be that annoying-but-funny-and-endearing chatterbox type characters that is so often just ends up being obnoxious, with the annoyance of the other characters around them only enhancing that obnoxiousness instead of undercutting it. And, yeah, that's kind of what happens here, at least imo.

Not to get all 'cinema sins ding' or anything, but why is Kelly having Conner do a parody of Adam West batman? Like, where is he pulling those mannerisms from in universe? Minor nitpick, but kind of adds to the obnoxiousness.

We're here for Cass, not Conner, though, and Conner makes a strong enough first impression rescuing her from a bunch of random exploding zombies no it's not worth getting into.

To which Cass flips over to Tim and is like "who is this?"

I do like Cass in that last panel there. I like how expressive the eyes are, how the chunky belt pouches are used, the casual conversation between Cass and Tim, who knows her well enough to know what she's saying without saying anything. Honestly, Cass's interactions with the rest of the Bat Family could have used more of that sort of easy camaraderie within her own book.

Her waiste is weirdly pinched in that panel, but surely that's just from Ferry squeezing her into the panel and not because we're dipping into outright escher girls territory, right?

Oh, oh yeesh, uh oh.

On a more positive note, this was a cute moment from Kelly, and well executed by Ferry.

But then this, and, yeah, ouch. Ooof, Ferry.

Kind of a shame, because he does a pretty good job with her face, and it's honestly rare to see her unmasked in a guest appearance.

Conner and Cass escape of course, but the villain's long gone by that point, and Batman's medium pissed, plus doing his overprotective strict dad 'I don't like you hanging out with that boy/metahuman' schtick.

But then Conner stands up for both himself and Cass in this bit here that's, uh, honestly kind of endearing? Like, if more of his appearances with Cass were like this, in particular if they were about standing up to Bruce, about giving her a human connection outside of Bruce's sphere of influence that could call him out or help Cass see the problems with how Bruce treats her, then I think it would have made more of an impression on me. It could even have been an important part of Cass's own character development and story arc instead of the plot cul-de-sac it ended up as, iirc.

For now, though, this is honestly pretty cute. Which is way more than I expected, especially after not gelling with Conner's dialog throughout most of the issue.

[sniperct]

with xena being from the 90s is there anything specificically dubious or of the time that people should know of ahead of time before going in? ie the similar vein to warning people of tng test of honor and other drek in 90s trek?

hope you dont mind the ask, youre just one of the few people I see around still chatting about xena

some of it is YMMV. the entire show plays fast and loose with all kinds of mythology and magic from not just Greece/Rome but as far away as brittania, norway, china and egypt. (all the gods of each culture seem to exist simultaneously and occasionally interact/chat with each other.) But generally plotlines are one of the following:

Xena's evil past has consequences

Warlord/God acting up and needs to be defeated

A god is being mischievous and needs to be outwitted (aphrodite, cupid, some others are common here)

something silly/over the top/campy

Gabrielle is trying to figure out her life's direction

Xena's Personal Beef with Rome and Caesar in Particular

sometimes multiple or all of the above (see Fish Femmes and Gems)

Up to season 5 on my current rewatch, I'd say The Way is still probably the most culturally insensitive (they actually had to record a PSA on hinduism over it). The two leading up to that didn't seem to get any backlash that I could tell when reading about it. (its a three part story that's super important to the plotline and character development of the show and hammers home the soulmate angle, especially the second one). But I'm no gonna speak for that culture or anything, just what I read on the wiki. But the third part I know enough to feel uncomfortable with it). Ripped from the wiki:

The episode was pulled from syndication after protests from Hindu groups. It was finally allowed to be reshown with the addition of a public service announcement at the very end by Lucy, Renée, as well as a spokesman for the Hindu community explaining that the producers took liberties with the Hindu religion.

In general, jokes and silliness overall tend to land well, especially if you enjoy camp.

While it can be clumsy in some respects overall it handles gender and race pretty well, there's a variety of women of various roles. They had someone in drag at a fashion show episode who (who late IRL came out as trans) that was handled really well. The Amazons are very much sexy but also deep and spiritual.

Casting generally appears to be race blind with regard to heroic roles, evil roles and the more complicated grey area 'seeking redemption' roles and mostly seems to try to cast appropriately on a cultural basis. Like warlord casting seemed to be like 'are you a big guy? you're hired!'

Nothing ever seemed to approach test of honor's level of bad IMO, except maybe The Way.

(I'd argue there's even some meta commentary with regard to centaurs and centaur culture and how its treated)

Its got some of your standard 'guy likes girl, does stupid shit for girl' type stuff but he gets character growth and ultimately he's family. He's the little brother, 'only we can bully him but god help you if you bully him' type of dynamic. Someone hurts our proto-himbo joxer and xena and gabrielle go for the throat. Then ten minutes later are roasting him.

The only episode I really skip is the gross one involving lice and a skin rash(but at least they let the lady heroes be gross, quite frequently in fact). Maybe also skipping the married ...with children parody episode too. The Way could maybe get by with a summary but I wanted to watch it again specifically to see where it fell on the character part. Pretty important to jumpstarting Gabrielle's peace arc.

[mintytealeaves]

oh look at that. I made a shitty parody

so this is a parody of loser baby from Hazbin hotel but it’s sung by Rick and Craig! It’s reaaaaally bad pls forgive me. But I had a lot of fun with it!

Rick: So things look bad, and your back's against the wall

Your whole existence seems fuckin' hopeless

You're feelin' filthy as your dusty bow tie wall!

Can't face the world sober and dopeless

You've lost your way, you think your life is wrecked

Well, let me just say you're correct

Craig: Wait, what?

**Rick: **You're a loser, baby A loser, goddamn baby You're a fucked up little whiny bitch

Craig: Hey!

Rick: You're a loser, just like me

Craig: Thanks, asshole

Rick: You're a screws-loose chooser An only one-star computer You're a power bottom at rock bottom But you got company

Craig: This supposed to make me feel better?

Rick: There was a time I thought that no one could relate To the gruesome ways in which I'm damaged But lettin' walls down, it can sometimes set you straight! We're all livin' in the same shit sandwich

Craig: I sold myself to a science fetished freak

Rick: And you think that makes you unique? Get outta here, man! We're both losers, baby We're losers, it's okay to be a

Craig: metal headed fact loving hoe?

Rick: Baby, that's fine by me

Craig: I'm a loser, honey A bitch-er and a dummy But at least I know I'm not alone

Rick: You're a loser

Both: Just like me

Rick: I got an appetite for danger!

Craig: I got an appetite for majors,

every Fact and tidbit I can fiiiind

Rick: Go ahead baby, sing that song, come on!

Craig: I got no books left to read up on

**Rick: ** I got no vines to swing myself on

Now I'm on that Johnson’s leash

Both: I'm trapped and it gets worse with every hour

Craig: You're a loser, baby

Rick: A loser, but just maybe if we

Both: Eat shit together, things will end up differently

Rick: It's time to lose your self-loathin' Excuse yourself, let hope in, baby Play your card, be who you are A loser, just like me

@sapphire-jelly

lookie I made the thing :)

[fizzingwizard]

families, politics

Apparently my dad is lately asking my mom if I really believe the (political) things I say on Facebook. Apparently he also told her (I mean I already figured this was what he thought, I just didn't know he'd said it out loud) that going to college turned me into liberal nut.

Where has he been the last.... at least twenty years lol

If anything "liberalized" me, it was friends coming out in middle school - waaay before college - terrified of telling their family that they're gay; another friend being kicked out of home for being gay; learning about historical figures who made amazing achievements and went unrecognized because they were female/black/poor; also, hell, just learning standard American history, about how Prohibition didn't stick and what it was like in internment camps and why the US sterilized people with disabilities... I have no need to be liberal. I do very much have a desire that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Or at least make as much of an effort to limit it as we humanly can.

Yeah, if anything "liberalized" me it was living as a my own thinking individual in a world that doesn't value that. I'm valued for my labor, certain kinds of labor being more valuable than others; I'm valuable for contributing to the population, regardless of my wishes or circumstances. My life isn't valuable by itself. Except it is infinitely valuable to me. And that's why I think a good nation's chief objective should be enabling the maximum number of people to live as freely and securely as they are able. Silly ideas about purity and the "right way" to live your one precious life, which doesn't belong to anyone but you, restrict freedom and security and are therefore wrong. I don't need to be a liberal. I don't need to be safe or secure or even free. I DO need to be WORKING TOWARDS THAT FUTURE.

Of course I believe the things I post. I think, if anything, I've been restrained. My dad posts incendiary things and many of them don't have links. If they do, they link to a far right source. Meanwhile I always source, and I make an effort look for news that attempts to be unbiased. If I read something in leftist news, I try to figure out where it's coming from rather than just react. But I do have opinions, duh. I'm prone to sarcasm but I don't think I've been rude. And even if I have ever strayed that way, my dad regularly posts about "libtards" and how stupid everyone else is. The lack of awareness is stunning.

I also know I could be wrong. I told my mom after the election: anything Trump does that is good, I will give him credit for. Doesn't mean I'll approve of how he did it, or forgive him for all the other stuff. But this is politics: there isn't just good or bad, as much as we might wish it could be that clear-cut. If he eliminates a bunch of corruption in the government that's fucking great. I want to be capable of acknowledging that, while also knowing it's totally fucked up to lay off a shit ton of people who now all will be competing with each other for the same jobs, and it's fucked up to present DEI as a discriminatory practice towards white men when its entire foundation is ending discrimination towards marginalized groups. It's fucked up to try to relocate Palestinians away from their homeland. It's fucked up to say you'll turn Gaza into a resort. These things can all be fucked up and be done by the person who gets rid of government corruption. And yes, they weigh more strongly with me - because they'll echo for a long time. Meanwhile the recently cleansed government will 100% become filthy again in no time at all. So. There's that.

Anyway, it's not fun to find out your dad hasn't taken you seriously ever. On the other hand, he recently posted about All in the Family and how Archie Bunker was so right. When I was a teen we joked that my brother was Meathead. Maybe it's me :P After all, if my dad thought that show was a reflection of reality (rather than a parody), he would have no time writing off my opinions or my mom's. The little women are just talking, after all. Once my dad made a foray into trying to become a youtuber. We thought he'd made music. Instead he made a talk video in which he monologued about how annoying women are when we talk. He thought he was being funny. He didn't like being "canceled" when my mom and I were not particularly amused. That's the thing about free speech. You can say what you want, sure. But no one else has to like it. Why is this concept so damn hard? lol.

Funniest part of all would have been a punch line about how my dad is by far the biggest talker in the family. He's so tuned in to how much time my mom spends catching up with her sisters and caring about how their lives are that he doesn't notice how much time he spends talking at her and not listening to what she says... Small wonder they're divorced.

My policy with my dad is no politics. There's no way we can have a relationship if he's going to insult what I believe. I don't insult him. I've watched him get totally bent out of shape because other friends/relatives said something not so nice, while never acknowledging the straight up rude stuff he's said to their faces which provoked them. He's always just "speaking his mind." They're always "being jerks." If he can continue to talk with me without bringing up politics, fine, but I'm worried that with things being as fiery as they are that they won't. Even I have a line not even family gets to cross.

[syrupspinner]

i just completed Hypnospace Outlaw

i sincerely love how much the sci-fi genre is just explaining how much sci-fi stuff would suck if it was real

the reason you play hypnospace outlaw is the aesthetic and presentation, just so were all on the same page. the reason this game got your attention is because its a passionate parody of web 1.0, and it does an excellent job of that. i can tell this game was made with a deep nostalgia for what made the past special without being blinded from its flaws (like the viruses and general difficulty to navigate).

the only problem is that im 24

well i shouldnt say thats a problem. just because i dont have nostalgia for what theyre throwing back to doesnt mean the game doesnt stand on its own. i didnt grow up with a ps1 or n64 but i still enjoy that specific form of lowpoly modeling, for example. its just unfortunate that i cant have the same hit of nostalgia that people slightly older than me can, yknow? i wish i could enjoy this game as much as them

again, the game was still very enjoyable. the puzzles start out very grounded, introducing you the the world and how it functions very effectively, before ramping it up with more abstract mechanics and compounding techniques needed to find more results. the only problem i found myself stuck on in an unfun way was figuring out how to decrypt sandwich files. its one of those puzzles that make you feel silly for not getting it earlier, but in my defence... who the hell would program something that esoteric

as an aside, i saw people discussing what genre games like this would be. by "games like this" i mean hypnospace outlaw, outer wilds, rain world, animal well, that kinda thing. i dont think applying one genre is effective, but instead its about how they combine the genres of exploration and puzzle. instead of having all the tools to solve a puzzle when youre presented with it, you have to leave and seek out the solution elsewhere. notably, if the game isnt build to accommodate/encourage this, itd be pretty unfun. these games and their open-ended design manage to skillfully mesh both genres together: the exploration is the puzzle

so yeah, i really enjoyed the game! there arent a lot of games where its just fun to explore the world as its presented, and HO does a fantastic job of that even without considering the puzzle design. i love just reading about the characters and their lives in hypnospace. this games greatest strength is just how charming it is, theres really nothing that matches it in that regard

i also found it really inspiring. i love how much personality all the characters fit into their webpages. maybe someday ill move this blog to neocities just so i can evoke something half as impact

oh no this was all a secret advertisement for neocities wasnt it! well, it worked, im not even mad (yes i know about the page builder)

anyway! the game is worth it for the vibes alone, and the puzzles are a really solid foundation that everything is built on. totally worth buying! the only thing is if youre going for completion, please use a guide to find all the pages, some are hidden way too well. totally worth it, though. if you know what the "thanked" achievement is named after, you know it makes it worth it. also, buzz was hilarious, i love pranks on the player

now im going to spoil the ending, stop reading this is you want to not be spoiled about the ending, because im about to spoil it now. after sasuke

oh my GOD dylan merchant is such a schmuck. maybe ive just lost too much sympathy for venture capitalist techbros, but i cannot spare any positive regard for this guy. like, okay, i get hes the bad guy, but outlaw 1.0 tries sooo hard to make you feel bad for him it wraps back around to being infuriating. the thing is that i have no idea if this is intentional? like, was a guy who let a teenager go to jail and think about how his prank killed 5 innocent people plus his crush apologizing decades later (*after* being caught) with an unfinished video game supposed to be a sincere tug of the heartstrings? "sorry i killed zane before he could stop being an annoying twerp" "sorry i killed rodney, his family smelled like walmart" "sorry i killed mavis, i think that was her name. i got nothing else to say about her" "anyway thanks for playing the 'final' version of the game that killed everyone. you have successfully absolved me of my sins and sent me to heaven. remember to subscribe and hit that bell icon" DUDE how emotionally shallow and self aggrandizing do you have to be you are a child murderer my guy

[cha-ra-nui]

your analyses on the nothingburger 2024 has been for kpop are painfully accurate. supposedly great debuts like meovv or say my name came and went with little to no interesting material to recall. tws and rescene were slightly better, but didn't have enough hype surrounding their debut to make them mainstream. illit stood out because magnetic broke so many charts, but as a debut ep itself, super real me was fairly mid, maybe high average- 7/10 i'd say.

then a few groups with actually GOOD music such as nature, mirae, or pink fantasy ended without their disbandment gaining a lot of media traction. actually, nature had a few really good tts (girls, oopsie my bad, limbo) but was handled so poorly that maybe it's better for the girls to not be in that group anymore. same with mirae.

comebacks weren't as exciting and that was so disappointing. many companies, but PARTICULARLY hybe, seemed to lose a lot of their creative vision.

red velvet, one of the best girl groups, had their 10 year anniversary, and yet it seemed like the cosmic era barely ever happened. it was an incredible song, though, i'll give them that- popped up on my top 5 songs of 2024.

for one of the queens of 4th gen, it makes no sense for itzy to have (partially) "flopped" as much as they did. gold was their first ot5 comeback after a good while, and while born to be was fairly solid (8/10), it was nowhere near the quintessential and iconic flavour of itzy that so many of their fans know and love.

deja vu sounds like a nugu group trying to be txt. it's got their angsty flair all over it, complete with that awful vocal processing hybe loves to put on txt & enha, but neither the hooks nor production lives up to actually good angsty txt tracks like lovesong or even crown. i have a similar gripe with enhypen-- brought the heat back seemed to be more their group's "thing", whereas XO seemed like polaroid love from temu.

tomboy walked so super lady could trip and stumble through the runway. (g)i-dle fans/nevies will whine and protest that idle's whole thing is changing up their style and staying inconsistent, while putting soyeon on this pedestal of an amazing lyricist and producer, but once you point out to them that idle songs with completely different vibes (like latata, hann, or tomboy) are all bangers and THESE NEW ONES AREN'T, they call you a hater. i was a neverland myself until nxde, i think, which is where their music started becoming tiresome. just because it's making a good point about feminism doesn't mean it's not performative, people! it doesn't mean it's good music, people!!! dammit. fate >>>>>>>>>>>>> literally any of the other songs from the '2' album, or any of their 2023-2024 material.

and stray kids-- what is happening? i adore them, but so much of their content now feels like a parody of their own group. chk chk boom was definitely a step in a better direction after the tiresome lalalala, but not by much, giant sucked, and walkin on water is somewhere in the middle despite being a pretty decent song. they used to be a group whose mvs inspired an insane amount of hype in me, but other than mountains (which is an 8), i don't think any of their songs lived up to their potential. :/

i have more groups to rant about but i figured i wouldn't bother you lmaoooo keep doing your writing things, you're great!!

No please, by all means, rant away while I'm trying not to tear up at getting such a long ask about something I honestly never expected anyone to read all the way through. I love to read it! You're not bothering me, in fact, you just made my day! My DMs are open if you want to talk about it!

[crossroadsnumber1doctor]

{ this post is entirely ooc }

Hello there! Welcome to this Roleplay Blog out of a million however you might have gotten here. First, something important to get out of the way before getting into the actual intro info:

i am not part nor affiliated with the official BOGGIO team, personally being just a fan of the game / characters, and therefore nothing of which I say or do here should be taken as canon, this is simply a roleplay / parody account of one of their / PHIGHTING!'s characters. I can't possibly know every single detail about, well, anything and will very likely mess things up especially since I don't have a twitter and therefore can't exactly access any twitter posts made about phighting lore and such unless it's directly shared with me. Most of what's here is either taken by Soda's tumblr QnA, the Official Phighting Wiki ( the fandom.com one is outdated ) or my own personal Headcanons.

If you're still here and would like to continue reading this intro then without further ado lets get onto it ( click readmore )

( this is going to be a very long post )

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This is primarily just another silly little RP / Ask / Parody Blog for Medkit from the game PHIGHTING! on Roblox. I'm not exactly the best roleplayer however and might possibly get a tad out of character from time to time if I'm not careful, which I do apologize if that ends up happening.

It might also take me a while to answer and respond to stuff due to the fact that I tend to like to think for a good while before deciding to do so ( or i might just straight up forget / get distracted in which case you are welcome to direct my attention back to it ).

I'll likely also send in some Roblox screenshots and such both IC and OOC. ( with something to differentiate which is which of course )

Although my art's not exactly the best I will likely try to respond with a simple doodle or drawing from time to time because well it's fun to do and I feel that it could make some things seem more interesting and such. :)

Most of the drawings and SS's here are simply my own but I will make sure to provide credits and such if I use someone else's stuff for my own purposes of course!!

Aslong as you aren't NSFW ( gore / graphic stuff is fine by me but will be tagged just incase anyone else isn't fine with it or is made uncomfortable by it ), Racist, Transphobic, Homophobic, A proshipper / comshipper, abelist, aphobic, zionist or otherwise just not really that good then I'm completely open to interactions most of the time! If I don't answer right away then I'm probably busy / distracted but I will try to get to it as fast as I can when I do notice it. I don't mind AU or OC interactions but try to let me know the context behind relationships and such beforehand!

I am relatively fine with shipping aslong as it, yknow, isn't bad, forced or a proship / comship or anything but due to personal preference and the fact that I do headcanon Medkit as Demiromantic I would prefer to take it slow at first atleast. I might also ask for reasoning though that's just out of curiosity if it's something I'm not familiar with.

The Mod / Blog Runner doesn't exactly take things too seriously most of the time and swears a lot so that'll probably reflect in OOC posts. I have pretty bad bad grammar / English aswell so if there's any particularly bad mistakes do make sure to point them out so I can fix them.

Not sharing the main blog for the time being but if you do recognize me then.. Hiiiii!

All in all, I am looking forward to interacting with this community and seeing what happens! :D

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Pronouns for Medkit - He / Him

Pronouns for Mod / Blog Runner - He / It / They / Xe

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Caution;

Do take in account that due to the nature and backstory of the character that this blog revolves around it will likely touch on some topics of extreme violence or atleast the aftermath of said violence, PTSD, Paranoia and Cults / Cult Life.

All of the above will atleast have an attempt to be properly tagged whenever directly mentioned / brought up. Please do let me know if I miss anything or need to use different / more tags.

More will be added to this if seen fit

Although for most of these I either have personal experience and / or tried to do excessive research about please do also let me know if I can do / portray something better!

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Key;

Normal Text in any way -> OOC

Chat + Italics -> Narration / Actions

" Green Chat in Quotations " -> Speech [ Italic Green Chat in square brackets ] -> Thoughts

Bold text in any of these likely just means that it's important or atleast that it should be a focus point. Small text will likely be less important or whispering / mumbling / in a quieter tone of voice depending on the context.

Will add more if needed

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Headcanons;

Suit / Main Reference made by myself.

If text too hard to or unable to read due to coloring here's the text left -> right, top -> bottom

Farsighted

Long Fur + Fands due 2 being blackrock born demon

Long, long-furred tail

Other than longer fangs nothing too remarkable about mouth

he / him under a transmasculine flag

Small Holes in gloves allowing unsheathed claws to stick out

Other;

Due to his current circumstances Medkit probably isn't really looking for love or a romantic relationship in the first place, nor would he probably be able to completely trust anyone viable for that position to get close enough or those feelings at the moment. That doesn't exactly mean he CAN'T but it's very unlikely.

Probably tired most of the time and all the caffeine from the coffee probably isn't helping. And back pain. Can't forget the back pain. This dude literally sleeps on a desk i cant imagine how that back feels.

Medkit usually doesn't let anyone other than the people he trusts on his blindspot / left side while idle and able just so that he can keep an eye on what's going on, frequently preferring to have that side closer to walls and other obstructions otherwise. Also likely so that he knows that someone would be watching on that side while he can't.

[rikas-things]

Diabolik Alcoholik part 4

To read more or get caught up, please check out the table of contents:

Reiji smiled again as he placed his hands on his hips, though it was far closer to a sneer than an honest smile.

"But of course! What, were you not expecting to meet Ayato so soon? Perhaps your guilty conscience has plagued you?"

Her brows furrowed.

"He attacked me first!" She defended, "It was self-defense!"

"That's not at all how it appeared to me," he dropped his smile as he spoke, his voice dry and laced with suspicion.

"I have no reason to-" he held a hand up before she could continue.

"Whether it was or wasn't is of little consequence. The fact of the matter is that you've made an enemy. If you wish to remain in good cheer I suggest you take heed of this: 'to follow your heart is to lose your mind.'"

"What does that mean?"

"Think of it as a warning to keep your wits about you. You seem like the outspoken type, and I'm advising against that. That hotheadedness will not do you good in the long run."

She thought his words over for a moment, not quite sure what the advice he gave had to do with the saying he used but she was willing to try if it meant facing "Ayato's" ire as little as possible.

She grew a determined look in her eyes; she had no idea what kind of family this was or why they invited her into their mansion but maybe she could make this work-who knows?

She could probably make a new friend and become a big sister to some of the little ones!

Whatever they were like, she hoped they'd be nicer to her than Ayato.

"I'm ready. Where can I meet them?"

Reiji put his fingers to his chin as he fell deep in thought.

"Hmm...it seems a few of them have already gathered in the living room."

She eyed him over, wondering to herself how he could tell where they were since she couldn't see a Bluetooth device on his person.

"My brothers are an eccentric bunch, but aside from Ayato, they're mild-mannered."

This time she was completely silent, mulling over one singular word.

"Brothers."

To the mind of someone as boy-crazed as Yui, you might as well be telling her you're giving her a million dollars.

While Ayato was awful she couldn't deny he was quite attractive, and, as she gave Reiji a good look, he was also quite handsome in his own right too.

Messy yet fantastic hair, gorgeously soulful eyes, a strong, chiseled jawline...

If his brothers were anything close to what she witnessed here, she knew she'd have the time of her life.

She ran full speed ahead toward the end of the hallway, hearts in her eyes and arms open wide to accept any beautiful men that were waiting for her-when an ice-cold glass of reality splashed her face.

It came in the form of Ayato Sakamaki, who was wide awake and sporting two large knots on his head and a very unsavory frown.

"This sucks...my head friggin' hurts!" He muttered to himself as he sulked in his chair, his hair and school clothes as disheveled as ever.

As soon as he turned his head, Yui dashed behind the wall and stuck herself against the wall in an attempt to blend in, mortified.

This is bad, this is so bad! She thought to herself. I can't be alone with this guy!

"Hey," a low voice came from her shoulder, which set her alarm off.

Yui turned and nearly jumped out of her skin when she turned to the source of the voice.

"I could smell you from my seat, you idiot!" Ayato roared.

He then sneered at her.

"I got two head injuries 'cause of you! So prepare yourself! I'll show the meaning of the word Hell!" On the last note he showed her a dark grin.

She smiled as she sweated profusely, barely hiding her fear.

How do I get out of this??

"Ahem," another voice rang through the hall.

Reiji appeared with a bitter grin on his face.

"As much as I'd love for you two to finish your chit-chat, it's time for you to make your way to the living room."

As Ayato ranted about Reiji taking too long, Yui let out a long, loud sigh of relief.

A little too loud, as Ayato caught wind of it and turned his attention to her, leading no end of threats and jabs at her expense.

Having heard enough, Reiji intervened as he adjusted his glasses.

"Enough of this, hurry up for the meeting, you two!"

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Helluva Boss Theory: Blitzo Is The Prince Of The Wrath Ring (And Cash Buckzo Is NOT the Father...)

[Note: Reading This Post Is Optional, but this post will still be for Mature Audiences Only...so not for kids.]

this is just a theory, and likely of it being canon is very small probably.

but yeah, I think it could be possible that Blitz (and his sister Barbie) are NOT Cash Buckzo's Biological Children.

and Blitz's Bio-Dad might be The Embodiment of Wrath himself, that his Mother "Tilla Sr." (in the Fanon the Tilla that is Blitz and Barbie's Older Sister from the Pilot, could be viewed as Tilla Jr.)

had a possibly secret relationship with the King of the Wrath Ring, which ended up giving birth to the twins Blitz & Barbie.

Tilla Sr. (Blitz's Mom) could of been pregnant at the time when she and Satan of Helluva Boss, had ended their relationship, and at some point Blitz's Mom met and married Cash Buckzo, but Cash knew that the twins that she was carrying weren't his, and she wouldn't tell him who the biological father was.

if Blitz and his twin sister Barbie, are possibly Satan's Offspring...

in the Helluva Boss & Hazbin Hotel's shared universe, that would make Blitz and Barbie Royalty, and possibly The Prince & Princess Twins Of Wrath, and they could of been possibly been born in that ring but were raised in The Pride Ring.

if that theory is true, that would mean Loona is also technically The Granddaughter Of Wrath.

it would also mean that Blitz would kind of out rank Stolas and most of the other Ars Goetia, because of Blitzo being The Prince Of Wrath.

yeah this theory might be really strange that pop into my head, and for all I know, I'm not the only one who came to this conclusion.

plus it would explain why Cash Buckzo treats Blitz so poorly and even guilt trips him, and treats Fizz as if he was Cash's Bio-Son...

it's because he doesn't view Blitz and possibly Barbie, as his real children, even if he knew they are the children of someone else that their mother wont tell him the name of.

so the possibility of Satan from Helluva Boss, being Blitz & Barbie's Real Biological Father and being the biggest plot twists ever...

we don't know how Blitz and Stolas will take the news when that big secret gets revealed.

so yeah, this theory will be a fan-headcanon and I will view it as possibly being true until it gets debunked.

I mean whoever Grunkle-Paw Cain's Bio-Dad is, we could view it as being something that needs to be on some show that is a parody of Jerry Springer.

and yeah I'm still gonna call Cain by that nickname, even if he is technically my Ancestor Grandpa, he is also my Uncle through Seth...

but Seth is also both my Ancestor Grandpa & Uncle...

which is why anyone else who has both of them as both Ancestor Grandpas & Uncles, would have them be like Grunkle-Paws.

so both of them are Grunkle-Paw Seth & Grunkle-Paw Cain. XD

but yeah, even if there are the whole Samael or Lucifer being Cain's Bio-Dad, but even if that were true...

one of them may have been his father, but they weren't his Daddy...

even if Adam wasn't the Bio-Dad, he is still Cain's REAL father...

and if some watched Silent Hill Movie, that has to do with the strong bond between Rose and Sharon, who despite not being biologically related, Rose was and will always be Sharon's true mother.

same goes for the man who raised Quill in the Guardian Of The Galaxy Movie Series.

of course Cash Buckzo, couldn't be considered the "true father" even if it does turn out that he isn't biologically related to Blitz and Barbie.

he possibly never viewed Blitz and Barbie as his kids, or treated them with kindness like any parent would, we don't know how bad he treated them or how bad of a Step-Father he was to them.

we will have to wait and see how bad of a father he was to both Blitz and Barbie, I mean not sure if we will see it in the future or not, but we can wait and see if we do end up seeing a future episode of it.

if Cash Buckzo and Blitz's Mom/Tilla Sr./Real Name Unknown, were married at the time when Blitz's Mom ended up having a secret affair with the King of Wrath, it might of been because Cash Buckzo treated Blitz's Mom badly, and she likely fell in love with the King of Wrath....but like how Blitz viewed Stolas, she started to believe that the man she had fallen for, didn't love her back and she at some point ended things, but she was already carrying Blitz and Barbie when they split up.

Blitz & Barbie's Mom, likely kept the secret that those two are The Prince & Princess Of The Wrath Ring, and didn't want them or their Biological Father to find out the truth.

Cash Buckzo would be the only one who knew the truth besides his possibly late or ex-wife, we don't know if Blitz's Mom died or not.

plus Blitz's father being someone else, would explain why Cash Buckzo mistreatment to Blitz, and treating Fizz a bit better as if he was his real son...

Fizz likely couldn't see how bad it was for Blitz, and believed he was just jealous because he was more talented than him, but for all we know, it was Buckzo that turned Fizz even more against Blitz.

if it turns out that Blitz is technically a Prince, not only Fizz and Stolas (and possibly Moxxie, Millie and Loona) would be super shocked from the news.

but also Cash Buckzo, who had mistreated The heir of the Wrath Ring...

and yeah until that theory and fan-headcanon gets debunked, that has to do with Blitzo being The Prince Of Wrath and Satan/Samael's Son...I'm still going to view it as possibly being true.

for all we know, the one who might take the news even harder to process, would be Moxxie. who might not be able to handle the truth right away, that Blitz is literally The Son Of Wrath...like picture Loona poking him to get him to respond only for Moxxie to fall over from the shock of the news.

well at least he doesn't have to go through the whole having the realization that Cain's Bio-Dad would be technically this Defective Earth Angel Princess's Grandpa...and Cain's Bio-Dad is still not the boss of me...

at least both shows of Helluva Boss & Hazbin Hotel, get it right that Lucifer and Satan/Samael are NOT one in the same, one of the problems in real life, is that they are mistaken as being one in the same.

I'm also gonna hope that Jesus is only a distant cousin, and is NOT my Ancestor Grandpa...even if some info I found before might prove it could be true, I'm still gonna hope it isn't...

the patriarchy on both sides a bit messed up, and I still think the Divine Feminine needs to get a bit more stronger to protect us from a terrible future that involves both Jesus and Antichrist.

I think I can still believe in Jesus, and as weird as it might be to some, I did start to try to pray for him and try to keep him from crossing lines that might do more harm than good, which if it is true, that would mean he is being influenced by the corrupted toxic-masculine energies that have plague this world since the wrongful dethroning of The Goddess...

but I'm not gonna force everyone to believe it, I mean its just what I believe now and not everyone has to believe the same as me when it comes to the whole my believing in a Goddess/Earthly-Mother now, even if I can still believe in God/Heavenly-Father as well.

just wish a certain Toxic-Religious jerk didn't hurt my feelings so badly and kept throwing those misused words at me, just because I believe in a Goddess now as well, well it might of also been about my still figuring out the type of Nonbinary I am as well...

like I did once thought I was Gyno-Agender, but I found out that isn't it...

but yeah, their problem may have to do with my being both Nonbinary and believing in a Goddess.

well excuse me if this Nonbinary-Gal who is a Earth Angel Princess and gave her the nickname "Eveningstar Princess" because her Mom only got Evening Sickness with her and NEVER got Morning Sickness.

doesn't fit the whole Patriarchal Perfection...

no matter if your religious or not at all, anyone can get hurt by a Toxic-Religious jerk like that...

like you try to tell them that them throwing the words "may god have mercy on you" or "may the lord have mercy on you" (which I know it was one of the two they were throwing at me and making me feel really bad to the point making me cry...)

but no matter how much you try to get them to stop it, they keep throwing them at ya and making you feel not so great...

I had no other choice but to block that jerk over at the place it happen at, and I can't remember the name they went by.

but I know they had hurt me, and it wasn't okay for them to do that, same would be if they did that to anyone else.

I'm not a big fan of Toxic-Religious people when they cross some lines, and don't get me started on the ones who seem to have a problem with Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, though if they even bothered to watch some of the episodes, they would see there is more to it than what they assume.

still gonna use the dream-catchers and gems to protect myself, and I'm still gonna keep that one dream-catcher on my door outside my room, after the whole three close calls...

well the third close call did happen even when that dream-catcher was still on the door, but it only ended up not protecting me that one time, because of a bad dream catcher I was using in my room...

it's fine now, because the dream-catcher on the door and the one that I have now in my room are protecting me properly now.

while that bad energy dream-catcher is in that bag that I put some salt in with it and keep it as far from my room as possible.

if there were others that had some close calls like me, that someone that lives in the same place as them but sleeps in a different room, that gives off a dangerous Toxic-Lust Energy.

I don't know if it will work for everyone, but it might be safer to get a dream-catcher to put on your door and get one for inside your room.

but not the tree type of dream-catcher, I mean just get the non-tree design ones, for the door and even for inside the room.

I'm still not 100% sure if it will work for others who possibly went through the same thing...

the first close call wasn't so bad for me, and I might of been protected by my gem bracelets and I became self-aware in the dream to understand what was happening...and lucky nothing happen.

but I didn't know I would have to worry about something else other than that one time that I was scared awake by a possible Incubus.

I still believe that experience, was from a Incubus scaring me awake...

but the Incubus seems less scary to me now than those three close calls I had...

in the second close call, I had to run for it and there was this old man and woman with long white hair and pale skin who might of been protecting me in that second close call dream...

I can't remember their faces though, and well I didn't really see the woman's face, but she was protecting me from the one I was running from.

the third close call happen, when the dream-catcher was on the door, but also when the bad energy dream-catcher (that I now have in a bag that has salt in with it.) was still in my room...

it seem a bit more....bad than the other two, but at least it didn't get really bad....I know I remembered clawing at eyes.

but the point is, that I'm keeping those safe dream-catchers up at all times because of a certain someone who gives off too much Toxic-Lust energy.

and the only reason that Third Close Call happen, and the dream-catcher on the door open the barrier up, was possibly because of that bad energy dream-catcher...

not everyone has to believe it, but I rather not go through that again after having those three close calls.

anyway, back to the whole theory that Blitzo is The Prince Of Wrath.

even if it is possibly not canon at all, but we can't really rule out that it's not, at least not unless it gets debunked.

and even if some might not like the theory, and they don't have to.

I hope some do like the theory and what it could possibly mean for Blitz if it turns out to be true.

but even if it turns out not to be canon, it can still work in the fanon.

just picture The King Of Wrath and acting in the a fatherly way to Blitz, that would be the same way Blitz treats Loona.

so basically The King Of Wrath would be like Blitz, and Blitz himself would be like Loona.

also I'm still not 100% sure if the whole dream-catchers protecting others from another person's Toxic-Lust energy will work for everyone.

then there is the whole needed to be careful not to get bad energy type dream-catchers...because it might not work very well with the one that ya hang on the door outside your room.

maybe it's okay I'm the only one that uses them for the purposes of not just protecting me when I sleep, but also protect me from Toxic-Lust energies that caused my three close calls.

maybe there has been others who had also experience the same thing, but I don't know how many had experiences the same thing.

anyway if when I do end up talking about the theory again that has to do with Blitz and his sister Barbie being The Prince and Princess Of Wrath, I will bring this up again at some point...

and once again, hope some like this theory even if it might not be much at the moment and I might only have little to go on about the theory that Blitz is The Prince Of Wrath, and Cash Buckzo is NOT his biological father...that is all a fan theory of course.

but if The King Of Wrath is Blitz's Dad, and he found out how Buckzo has been treating him, maybe Cash Buckzo will get beat-up...maybe?

that is if The King Of Wrath gave a care about his own kids, though that is perhaps not likely to happen, but who knows maybe if the theory is true, he might surprise us and will treat Blitz in the same way Blitz treats Loona.

being a Dad who treats his fully grown offspring like a baby, and embarrass them.

Loona might end up enjoying the show, on how her Grandpa Of Wrath treats Blitz and goes all Wrathful Daddy Mode if anyone breaks his precious baby's heart...

I know I might find it both sweet and funny watching the shoe being on the other foot, and Blitz having to be treated in the same fatherly way that he had been treating Loona.

which is like both sweet and funny, so him going through the same thing would be interesting if it turns out this fan theory is canon.

but once again, the chances of this theory being canon is perhaps very small.

so until it gets debunked, I'm going to view this plot twist theory, as just Fan-Headcanon.

wonder if there has been other fans who came to the same theory besides me...?

well if there have been others, guess we might all freakout about the theory if it turns out to be true, but we have to also suspect that it could end up being debunked and the theory will end up becoming 100% Fanon.

pretty sure my theory about Blitz being Adam's Reincarnation, was debunked already.

and I'm fine with that theory about Blitz and Adam being debunked.

still gonna ship Adammon (Adam x Mammon) because those two, even if they haven't met in canon, they have that perfect bromance going on in the fanon...why do they seem too perfect for each other, like in both platonic and romantic. O_O

but at least their ship name doesn't make me think of Nutella and food, like Mammon x Stella's ship name Mamtella does.

it was one time that their ship name made my stomach growl and made me hungry, then again maybe it had happen more than once...

but doesn't happen like all the time...but still, Mamtella just reminds me of food.

I'm weird, and for all I know, I could be the only one who got hungry because of the ship name Mamtella because it reminds me of food.

anyway hope some like the fan theory about Blitz being The Prince Of Wrath, and Cash Buckzo not being Blitz & Barbie's Biological Father.

also if the theory does get debunked, we will have to accept it and let it be like a Alternate Timeline in The Fanon.

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Finally started playing the English version (fan translation) of Mother 3 for the first time a couple days ago. I’m on Chapter 5 (no spoilers for me please, but also be warned that i might spoil a detail or two since this is my post). I have a lot of feelings but I’m not sure what all of them are just yet. This is gonna be a little disjointed and stream-of-consciousness.

EarthBound was HUGELY formative to me growing up… it shouldn’t be surprising to me how much more refined M3 is versus EarthBound, but it really is. (And yet in so many ways, it also isn’t that much more refined? They’re so clearly related, even beyond the art and the music and stuff.)

EarthBound was super up-front about Giygas being your antagonist and Ness being specifically tasked with stopping it (wait, shit, is Giygas it/its or he/him or something else?), whereas M3 is a lot more coy about what’s actually going on (I mean, Fassad introducing Money And Television into a utopian commune pretty clearly marks him as Very Bad, to say nothing of the casual animal torture, but I doubt that he’s The Main Antagonist, and no one is saying anything about the party being uniquely responsible for stopping him or anything).

i like the fact that the narrative viewpoint keeps changing. That’s interesting so far.

i love Flint, he’s simply great, and I hope he joins the party again later. (I’m prepared to be disappointed on this but I’m still hopeful regardless.)

there does seem to be a little bit of casual racism that seems out of place? The whole “Ma[slur]” people seem a bit… eh, i feel like maybe tossing a slur into the name of the drag-queen-coded genderfucky inhuman demigods could maybe have been avoided, and i also feel like everything about Reggie could have used a little (read: a lot) more care. So that’s, you know, not great. Don’t love those parts.

tbh, so far i don’t see why Lucas is a pivotal character… i know he’s apparently the MC but it feels like there’s plenty of options for more interesting characters to have taken the lead role. Idk. Maybe he’ll be more interesting later.

i absolutely cannot get the hang of the rhythm battle thing (even when the enemy is asleep)… if i can get three hits, i can usually get a few more, but getting the combo to start at all (except through luck of button-mashing, which of course ends the combo on the second hit) is something i seriously struggle with. And i have a pretty decent sense of rhythm (i mean, I’ve only been playing drums for six and a half years now), but… it’s just starting the chain that trips me up.

it’s still very funny to me that the sprites are so much more involved and expressive than in EarthBound and yet Lucas and Kumatora (and most people tbh) have faces that are just :|

M3 somehow feels like less of a genre parody than EarthBound was, which is both good and bad. I guess i respect not wanting to just do the same thing over and over.

probably more later… still forming my thoughts.