#but foxy was my first love all the way back in 2014

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Can Secret of the Mimic give us Foxy again? I miss Foxy. I hope he (and Chica) are not thrown aside and we only get Bonnie and Freddy a la Fredbear Family Diner or something.

[aquilacalvitium]

Hey, I really liked learning about Nate from you. I also would like to hear about FNAF if you're up for it? I like the art I see around for it, especially the Sun and Moon boy, but have never really engaged passed that. I know it's based on a horror game which is Not something I've got the guts to play 😅 but I'd love to hear about the story of it and about the characters if you'd like to talk about them?

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Gif from FNAF The Musical

Now I'm letting you know right off the bat that this post is very long. Much longer than my infodump about Nate. If it's too much I don't expect you to go out of your way to read it all.

I've explained the first three games and will explain the rest in a reblog :)

That means if you wanna know about the Sun and Moon boy, that'll be in a reblog too since they're very recent characters.

So if you rely know nothing about FNAF then I'm going to start with the fact that it does involve child murder. We never see anything on screen, but it's pretty obvious that it's happening/has happened. And of the very few gruesome events they actually show, they're all in 8-bit so it's just like a few red pixels.

I hope you're buckled in because I'm about to walk you through ALL OF THE GAMES FROM BEGINNING TO END. Also I'm not the best with lore, I'm not very smart, but I'm going to explain it to the best of my knowledge which considering how complex this franchise is, that's all anyone can really do.

FNAF 1

A small indie game called Five Nights at Freddy's drops suddenly on the 8th of August in 2014 and immediately blows up. This game was a last-ditch attempt by developer Scott Cawthon to create a successful game after several previous failed attempts. His previous game had recieved some negative feedback with reviewers saying his characters moved like "creepy aniamtronics", so he ran with the idea and made a game centred around creepy animatronics.

You play as a night guard keeping an eye on the four animatronics in this Chuck E. Cheese style pizzeria: Foxy the pirate fox, Chica the chicken, Bonnie the bunny and Freddy Fazbear. You're informed that the characters wander at night to stop their servos from locking up and that if they see you, they'll think you're an animatronic endoskeleton with no suit and will try to stuff you inside one. Now considering those suits are full of metal and electronics that would crush you to death, that's not really something you want to happen. So you must ration your limited battery power to keep an eye on where the animatronics are in the building and closing the doors to your office to keep them out. As the week goes on, the animatronics get more and more aggressive with only Bonny and Chica active at first, then Foxy joining in and eventually Freddy himself.

Now on it's surface this is already pretty scary, but then you realise weird newspaper clippings starting to appear on the walls in the cameras. A close-up look at these clippings tell the news story of five children going missing at Freddy Fazbear's. A suspect was caught but discharged due to no evidence being found. Papers dated a little later talk about complaints from restaurant patrons that the animatronics are starting to stink and weird fluids are oozing out of them.

While it's never officially stated, it's made pretty obvious to the player that the five children who went missing were killed and stuffed inside the animatronics. But wait, there are only four animatronics, right? Wrong! While Foxy, Bonnie, Chica and Freddy are indeed the only four on show, there is a secret fifth animatronic referred to as Golden Freddy.

Golden Freddy appears on rare occasions in the camera. Upon doing so, he will then force the camera to close, revealing that he's somehow appeared inside your office. Staring at him for too long will cause the game to crash and shut down, and the only way to survive him is to flip the camera back up as quickly as possible.

And for a few months, that was where the story stayed. Five murdered children and five murderous animstronics. Up until November of the same year.

FNAF 2

(Got sick of looking through the gif gallery, it's like 98% stim boards ugh)

FNAF 2 was like FNAF 1 but bigger! Instead of just five animatronics, FNAF 2 upgraded to eleven! You had the brand new "toy" animatronics with brighter colours, smoother textures and an overall much cuter appearance, and the old "withered" animatronics rotting away in the back room. On top of them, you also had two brand new animatronics referred to as Balloon Boy (BB) and The Puppet/Marionette.

This game's mechanics were pretty different where instead of having an office with two doors, you had two air vents either side of you, one massive hallway right in front of you and zero doors. Different animatronics would approach you from the vents or hallway and you and to remember which ones could be stopped with the torch and which ones would leave if you had a Freddy Fazbear mask on. The Puppet and BB were unique in their own mechanics. BB wouldn't kill you if he got in, but he would steal the batteries to your torch making you defenseless against certain characters and constantly laughing his extremely annoying laugh. And the Puppet remained inside his gift box in Prize Corner as long as you kept his music box wound up. Let the music box run out and you'll start to hear Pop Goes the Weasel which unfortunately means that you're now dead. 100%. The Puppet is on his way and once he's out of the box there's nothing you can do to stop him. At all.

Now the immediate impression everyone had was that this game was a sequel, until you looked closer at the evidence. For one, the withered animatronics - aside from being withered and broken - look very different to their FNAF 1 counterparts. The guy on the phone who talks to you every night (dubbed Phone Guy) is still alive even though he died on night four of FNAF 1. And the Phone Guy also states that once you've completed your week, you're free to move to a day position and Phone Guy himself will probably take up the role of night guard - the position we replace in FNAF 1 after his death.

FNAF 2 takes place before FNAF 1! But why do the animatronics want to kill you if the FNAF 1 killings haven't happened yet?

Now it has been a while so my knowledge about the earlier games is a tad rusty, but between every night there is an 8-bit mini game such as Foxy Go! Go! Go!, and Give Gifts/Give Life. In Foxy Go! Go! Go! You play as Foxy leaving his stage to entertain children. You do this once, then twice, and then three times. But on the third time, there's a strange purple man standing to the side of your stage. Once you leave the stage, you find not five children but five ghosts. The children are dead, and the purple man is to blame. We can prove this in the mini game Take Cake to the Children in which you control Freddy doing as the name suggests and taking cake to children who get progressively more upset the longer you take. But you notice that at the top of the screen, outside the pizzeria, is a single, lonely crying child. That child stays where they are until finally, a purple car pulls up and the purple man from earlier gets out. The player can do nothing but watch as the child's tears grow and grow until they become a ghost. Then the purple guy gets in his car and drives away. That child is dead.

Finally, in Give Gifts/Give Life, you play as the Puppet. There's no beating around the Bush here, you're in a room with four dead children. The Pupept goes to each four and gives them each a present, but that doesn't work. They're still dead. He then goes around again, doing as the title says and giving life. He places an animatronic head on each child. Once the fourth head is on, you get jumpscared by Golden Freddy and the nights continue. But if you're incredibly perceptive, you may notice that there is a single frame right before the jumpscare in which a fifth ghost child appears in the middle of the room.

These are previous murders, ones that all took place before the FNAF 1 location opened and ghosts that possessed the original now withered animatronics. But what about the toy animatronics? Well they're easy to explain.

Phone Guy explains how these new high-tech robots are built with face recognition software and have been programmed with a list of criminals in order to keep the children attending the restaurant safe. Whoever you are, whoever you're playing as, you are one of those people. Or at least you look like one. More on that later.

So then there came FNAF 3

This game is set thirty years after the closure of the last Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria - the FNAF 1 location and it doesn't actually take place in a pizzeria, but rather a low-budget horror attraction based on the rumours and myths surrounding the pizzeria franchise.

You work as a security guard keeping an eye on the attraction the week before it opens. You're accompanied by Phone Dude, similar to Phone Guy in that he speaks to you over the phone and gives you information, but a different person altogether.

Night one is entirely uneventful as you listen to Phone Dude drop a whole bunch of information on you and when he finally hangs up you realise it's 5am and nothing has happened. Yup, night one is actually completely harmless. But then night two starts and Phone Dude tells you that "we found one. A real one." He quickly has to go and leaves you with bunch of recordings that he mentioned in night one which all turn out to be training tapes from old Fazbear locations voiced by none other than our friend the Phone Guy! Quickly, you'll notice something moving in the cameras and sometimes even hallucinations. These are the Phantom animatronics and they're not actually there. They appear suddenly in various places and unless you manage to flip up/down the camera in time, they will jumpscare you. The good news is, they can't kill you since they're not real. Instead, they cause all of your systems to crash which you then need to reboot. Yeah, this game has various systems that break down randomly throughout the night that you need to keep active in order to survive.

But there is one animatronics that's both real and a real threat. Springtrap.

Springtrap is... disturbing. He's worse than all the other animstronics we've met so far. I mean, his jumpscare is a little tame compared to them, but when you realise just what he is? Yikes.

Focusing on his mechanics first, you need to keep him away from you by blocking air vents and luring him with voice recordings. He's actually not that difficult as long as you keep a close eye on him.

Now, just like FNAF 2, this game has mini games between each night. You can play them all normally and complete them all as intended, but that will lead you to receiving the bad ending. Getting the good ending requires finding clues within those minigames, performing certain actions in the real game and then playing bonus mini games which are now accessible. BUT, you then need to glitch out those mini games in order to find crying children and give them cake. It's weird.

Doing all of these will eventually lead you to the minigame Happiest Day. Technically you can access and beat this mini game on any night, but you must complete all the hidden mini games and then this one to get the good ending. In it, you control a child in a puppet mask walking through a Fazbear restaurant. You walk past the four children you met on previous nights now wearing character masks and give them one a big cake. A fifth child standing on the other side of the table and crying will then put on a Golden Freddy mask. Finally, all six children will disappear, leaving their masks behind.

Beating the game after this will give you to the good ending. The children's spirits have been set free and are no longer possessing the animatronics.

So, what is Springtrap, anyway? Well... gore warning.

The normal minigames throughout the week have you playing as animatronics following a mysterious "Shadow Freddy" through an abandoned and broken Fazbear Restaurant until Purple Guy from FNAF 2 shows up and dismantles you. On the final night, you then play as a ghost child. Going to the room where Purple Guy dismantled the aniamtronics will trigger an interesting situation. Four other ghosts will block the exit while you chase Purple Guy. He will be thoroughly freaking out and will keep running away until finally he runs inside a limp golden rabbit costume in the corner to hide. He seems victorious, laughing at you. Until you hear a sudden crunch and he starts shivering. Slowly, he collapses to the ground as red pixels spray out of the suit. So what happened?

Well in the tapes left by Phone Guy, you will learn about suits called Springlock Suits. These function as normal animatronics but include springlock mechanisms. These mechanisms hold back all the animatronic parts, allowing a person to get inside and wear it as a costume. But there's a huge problem here. That's a lot of animatronic parts being held back by tiny springs. So... what would happen if a spring failed while a person was inside?

You also learn from the tapes that after a certain sprinlock failure, the safe rooms in the pizzerias where the suits are kept are being bricked up permanently.

Springtrap is the Purple Guy. He's the child murderer. And he was crushed to death inside a golden rabbit springlock suit. He was then bricked up in a wall for around thirty years, rotting and decaying, until the room was finally reopened and the suit collected for Fabear Frights, the horror attraction.

That's pretty messed up, huh?

WHEW! Okay this post is getting pretty long and I don't want to overwhelm you. I'm going to leave it here, but I will reblog and it and explain the next three games when I can.

[galaxygam3z]

Long ramble!!

So I have three main interests, The first being Fnaf then second Undertale/Deltarune and the last and most recent one is Homestuck!

Fnaf is a big deal for me, I was there when fnaf 2 was getting teased and wow I 9 then if you can believe that. It's been ten damn years of this game in my life and I did regret it sometimes but I no longer feel that, it has it up and way downs but I'm still here. I'm here because it's something I can never give up and I will never let it go mainly because it's such a big part of my personality.

It made me who I am today of all things, it how I got into the Internet in 2014 (I learned about Homestuck then but avoid for 10 years) and it gives me a burst of life I didn't have. I felt alive for the first time in a long time, I went though a lot of shit then and still now but what got me though it was watching/reading to fnaf videos/books, I was way to scared of playing the games!!

I remember my first hyperfixation... It's was on Kellen Goff of all people. I keep seeing him everywhere and then i got my first person fixation (It's horrible, I hate when my brain does that). I remind getting foxy plush and I was so happy then I got the puppet, I adore them and almost cried over them when I got them but sadly it's mostly faded now, to many bad moments around that time. I then just bookmarked Fnaf for awhile and moved onto... Undertale/Deltarune!

Undertale is what fully got me into making fanfics and ocs, I made this AU about Chara/Frisk souls coming together (StitchedTale) and I didn't work on it for long maybe a week but I loved it then I moved on from that to watching comic dubs. Oh God, the comic dubs, I adore them to this day and still go back watch them now. Undertale is my favorite game of all time, I brought the collectors edition, art book and figures.

I have them up with my fnaf figures, they have been sitting there since Feb of this year. I need to dust them soon! The fan games where also amazing, I played upside or uptale or something like that and I enjoyed it though it was really short, I remember watching sans is ness video when it came out. The theories around that game where crazy and I still believe some though I can't remember most of them.

And now homestuck, oh you Homestuck what can I say about you... You are a something I grow attracted to out of nowhere, I was going to drop Homestuck at page like 200 but I keep going and I didn't know why. I grow to love it even with all of its faults, I adore this characters so much it was crazy it felt like fnaf again. I saw life burst into me again when I needed it, All these story's and art that still surround this web comic is what truly keep me I think.

It felt unbelievable how interesting I got with it, it felt like a hyperfixation then it grow and keep growing into a special interest. I'm super into homestuck but I'm keeping that interest even with Fnaf getting back in with it 10th birthday, I did the quiz to see what aspect I was and keep doing this quiz and I got so many different answers but I'm a breath player and I'm on derse!!

Over all, homestuck become what Fnaf and Undertale was to 9/10 year old me. It's breathed life into my soul that I needed, I love you all!!

Fnaf my one and only true ride or die fandom, I'm part of you and it's a part of me! Undertale, I will always adore you and you help me discovers for much, even with embarrassment coming with it! Homestuck, my newest and new part of my main siting next to the other two, this world you made and all the fan made is wonderful. I have three ocs already for you and I'm hoping to make my own AU with them!! :))

[blood-and-pizza]

I wanna talk about a few of my fan animatronics for FNAF, so beware! LOTS of old fan art ahead:

Catie the Cat - my first FNAF OC, created all the way back in 2014. She went through multiple name changes before she finally got her current one. Originally conceptualized as a flirty, sultry lounge singer animatronic from the FNAF 1 era, she gradually evolved into a playful party girl who's an amazing vocalist AND a drummer. Catie is a light blue cat who originally did not have hair, but eventually gained golden blonde hair on her later iterations. Catie's playful nature has always been a part of her, charming both kids and adults alike. I admittedly haven't had the chance to develop her as much as I would like.

Brewster the Rooster - One of my more recent FNAF OCs from 2023. He was part of my Kawaii line of fanimatronics and was called "Brewster the Bishonen Rooster". Currently, Brewster has sort of become one of my favorite OCs, though I haven't done much with him. He's basically a character known for his good looks, and he's developed such an ego about it he literally thinks he's the main character of the universe. And he uses this information to be as sweet and kind and nice and helpful to everyone as much as possible. He's an egomaniac, but if he had a heart, it would be golden. He's a well-meaning himbo who has a secret love of disco music and calls people "dude" regardless of what gender they are. Oh, and his crow is terrifying as fuck and bone-chilling if he's hunting you down for some reason. If you hear him crow, he already knows where you are. Better run...

Monica Gator - I know, I know. I'm sure other people have their own Monica Gator fanimatronics. But I couldn't come up with a better name for this girl:

Inspired by Montgomery Gator and his awful relationship with Bonnie the Bunny, Monica has a love of rabbits. She thinks they're cute... and tasty, too! She also flirts with rabbit animatronics, but they're too terrified of what she'll do to them if they return her affections.

Pammy P. Parmesan - A mouse girl animatronic who's meant to be a female version of Chuck E. Cheese. Her restaurant, Pammy's Pizza Palace, was a rival to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Fazbear Entertainment ended up buying the rights to Pammy and her friends, which include Catie the Cat, Prissy Poodle, and Molly Mallard (formerly known as Dee Dee Duck). I drew art of the original Pammy P. Parmesan animatronic, who was injected with remnant and made to work as the janitor when the Kawaii animatronics with Berli Honeybear took over that location. I also drew a Glamrock version of her but it's kinda crappy to be honest, and I'd LOVE to redesign her.

There's also Kawaii Bonnet and Kitsune Foxy, who are both part of my Kawaii line of fanimatronics:

There are also three more characters I've mentioned before on this blog but haven't finalized designs for:

Melody and Harmony Pomene, Melissa Pomene's AI daughters from my Fazbear Estate AU, are supposed to have animatronic bodies at some point. But I haven't finalized designs for them yet. All I've come up with them is how they look as programs on a screen on Melissa's laptop:

Melody is on the left, and Harmony is on the right.

And the final character, one I truly haven't envisioned a look for... is Spring Chica, the springlock Chica the Chicken suit haunted by Fredbear's Family Diner's creative consultant, Francine Cantor, who got too close to William Afton and ended up dead for it. I've never drawn Spring Chica. I only know she wanted to kill William Afton and canonically doesn't get to... but in a Time Paradox ending she was successful and... well, I don't know what happens after that. Depends on how she decides to kill William.

Yeah, point is, I never came up with a design for Spring Chica. I should. I want her story to be realized in game form at some point.

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Anyways um fun facts about me:

Nonbinary/queer/demisexual yeah we love gay ppl

ADHD as fuck (I have the silly)

I'm in college!! So I'm a bit busy sometimes but it's okay!! Anyways I'm a film major (w/ a minor in gender studies) if you were curious

Speaking of I'm generally really really passionate about women's rights/queer rights/sex ed/aspec ed/trans rights so if you ever wanna get me ranting like hell send me an ask asking about something specific regarding those. Just don't be purposefully trying to get me pissed off at you about it plz.

I have some silly hobbies which include art (mostly just pencil/pen doodles and some digital stuff though), plushie making (that one is recent), and video games!! I love video games!!!

I also like fun clothes and outfits but only when it's niceish out, when it's cold I default to sweatpants and a hoodie 💀

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Moving On

Fandoms (this is gonna go in depth with each so they are titles for yee so just scroll past the ones u don't care about)

Soulsborne 🗡

I've beaten all of them except for Sekiro and DS2's DLCs (and the DeS remake but I've played the original)

Bloodborne is my favorite (and also favorite game of all time)

Fav characters consist of Lady Maria, Adeline, Simon, The Hunter, Lucatiel, Aldia, Hyetta, Blaidd, Marika, and Rennala

Speaking of, fav ships are (f or nb) hunter x maria, maria x adeline, lucatiel x (f or nb) Bearer of The Curse, and Marika x rennala

Fav bosses: either laurence or orphan of kos, penetrator, manus, smelter demon, sister frieda, and dragon lord

FNaF 🐻

I've been here since before fnaf world, I'm a veteran 💀

Favorite game is 4 but HW1 is better game play wise imo

Big fan of any nightmares, fredbear, springbonnie, rxq, ennard, funtime foxy, and roxy

As for like human characters, I love both movie and game mike, movie Vanessa, Cassie, and game Vanessa's potential

I like a lot of the big fangames a lot too, my favorites being the DSaF series, FNaC 3, and Super Fnaf.

I think the books suck ass (unless they're the logbook or cookbook <3), and the mimic is fucking stupid and should've just been a digital only thing, w/o a physical robot

I'm just salty about security breach in general

Game Theory/Team Theorist

This is Matpat hate free zone!!!

I've been watching his videos since 2015, this man practically raised me

My favorite channels atm are GTLive and Style Theory lol

I actually like his fnaf theories, not necessarily bc I think they're right but bc they're fun and he presents them in an entertaing way lol

Biggest Ash and Amy fan everytime they're in an episode of smth it's slay. Head editor Dan is super cool too.

Best GTLive series/vids are the murder of sonic the hedgehog, JRs, FNaC 3, Bad End Theater, the FNaF lore off, and Trombone Champ

Pokemon ⚡️

First game was white 2 back in like 2014 I think, my first starter was tepig

Favs of each category are emboar for a starter, white kyurem for legend, genesect for mythical, idrc about the ultra beasts, slither wing for paradox, mega lucario, and volcarona overall

Fav human characters are rika, prof sada/ai sada (same for turo), volo, nessa, Lillie and lusamine, ghetsis, N, all of the gen 5 gym leaders tbh

I also like pmd2 a lot!! It's one of my fav games ever actually

Pokemon Rejuvenation ✨️

I haven't played the most recent chapter 💀💀

I love all the characters a ton honestly but I'm the biggest risa raider fan

Sonic 🦔

This is a recent one and my current hyperfixation lol

Favs are Rouge, Blaze, Amy, Shadow, and Espio

Fav ship is blazamy <3 but my fav platonic relationship is rouge and shadow

I'm currently working a couple AUs so maybe those will be a thing on here evntually

No joke got into sonic bc me and my roommate watched the gt live tmosth playthrough together and we both got hyperfixated

Currently working my way through the games!! I just started though so I'm only on sonic adventure 1 and I haven't started the 2d list at all

Also trying to watch the shows but I've only seen the first few mins of X, and a couple Boom eps. I've finished s2 of Prime though!! Excited for 3!!

Also want to eventually read the idw comics but haven't gotten a chance yet.

All sonic girls are Sapphic btw <3

Hatchetfield 🎶

I've watched a few other starkid shows but these are the only ones I've latched on to

I've seen all the content up to this point save hey melissa

alice, bill, grace, steph, lex, hannah, becky, linda, and mrs holloway are my favs

My fav lib is tinky <3

Fav musical is npmd but fav nmt is killer track

Fav starkids are mariah, angela, jon, corey, and curt but all of them are slays fr

Heathers 🍵

I've been here since like late late 2019

Never seen the show but I have seen the off broadway slime tutorial a decent amount and I own a DVD of the movie

I love!!!!! Veronica Sawyer!!!!!

Chansaw if my fav ship by far I love them but McDuke is also slay and there's definitely reason to ship Veronica with almost any other student in that movie save Kurt and Ram lol

Big fan of the AUs where JD and Veronica are platonic besties ngl

Not a huge fan of the West End version though

I didn't know what emoji to out here bro

Sea of Stars 💫

Played it for the first time in December of 2023 and fell in love omg

Seraï is my fav love her <3

Every woman in that game loves women fr

I have lots of thoughts about the bosses I'll post about them someday

God this took me 2 hours I'm gonna go to bed now 💀

[nintendylan64]

My problems with FNAF Lore

Hey guys. I felt like I wanted to explain my problems with the FNAF lore, and how the lore was ruined for me years ago.

My history with the franchise and the lore Now, I discovered the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise back in 2014 through DanTDM's Let's Play of Five Nights at Freddy's 2. It was the first time I had ever been introduced to the jumpscares and characters in-game. But I actually discovered the first game through a YTP someone made of it. With how little I knew from discovering that YTP, I assumed that Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy were anthropomorphic animals that ran the place, and that Freddy just liked to leave scary stuff in his office because he was a horror guy. That assumption was way off and DanTDM's Let's Play let me discover that the antagonists weren't anthropomorphic animals. I then discovered Markiplier's videos on the games in 2014, and fan-animations of the games like SMG4's Freddy's Spaghettiria series, and Piemations' 5 AM at Freddy's series. Besides the surprising jumpscares, what really got me hooked on the FNAF series was the 80s-90s aesthetics, and the lore behind it all. Around late 2014 and early 2015, I had discovered the hidden lore series by MrCreepyPasta, which was what got me interested in exploring the lore. I loved the FNAF lore when it was just, "Man kills 5 kids in pizzeria joint and the animatronics become haunted by the spirits of the kids". This made it feel much more realistic, as murder of kids in a place like this can happen in real life. The fact that the staff weren't behind any of it, and that the guards were originally just some average joes who got hired for a night guard position without knowing the dangers of it was also very realistic too. And the inclusion of another tragic event known as the "Bite of '87" was also interesting. But the biggest thing that made the lore have a charm to it, was how there was an implied history of Fazbear Entertainment, and FNAF 2 showed us the history of the place before the tragedies happened, as well as implying that the negative impression was stuck before the murders was also interesting. The lore was interesting back then because of how realistic and mysterious it was. And when the third game came out, it was a great conclusion to the franchise, in which the killer got his comeuppance, leaving the kid's souls to rest in peace. And the killer haunting the suit he died in as an attempt to escape his torment of being trapped in a suit, eventually leaving him to be burned alive in the location he was at was a very nice way to end things. But the way it had expanded on the story by taking place thirty years after the events of the first game, with the unsolved mysteries of Fazbear Entertainment trying to be recreated by people was a good way to expand upon the story. So basically, I prefer the FNAF lore when it was the story of how kids were murdered in a pizzeria joint, and how they eventually got revenge on their killer, while room was made to show us how the pizzeria joint handled this, and how the alleged hauntings were shown through the animatronics being possessed. Because of the lore being so interesting, I tried making up my own timelines to tie the story of the first three games together. And seeing as how the lore was concluded, it should've just ended there, right? Well... it didn't.

Where the problems crept in I think that the problems with the lore crept in with the fourth game. Now, this game could've had potential, as it could've taken place in the location where the withered animatronics were used in before FNAF 2, but it didn't do that. We got instead a child suffering through nightmares, with animatronics that have particularly stupid designs. Plus, what made it worse was that the Bite of 83 was introduced, making the topic of the Bite of'87 confusing since it was implied it happened in the second game, but now it was happening in the fourth game? But then it was revealed to be a separate event, why two separate events of the same thing? What constitutes the idea of establishing a similar event to the Bite of '87? It had nothing to impact the games itself at all. The bigger thing that was confusing is this, Fredbear's Family Diner was implied to have been closed for longer than 1983-1987, and the fact that you see the unwithered versions of the withered animatronics in Fredbear's makes it all the more confusing, since Fredbear's was established as a separate, and early location before it was later re-enfranchised as Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. So why retcon what was established in the previous games? Why not just show us in the fourth game what happened with the withered animatronics before they became withered, and then make a fifth game that took place in Fredbear's Family Diner? I don't know why Scott felt the need to retcon things, especially since most people thought that the franchise had already ended with the third game. Later on down the line, Sister Location came out in 2016. And I honestly hate Sister Location, lore-wise that is. The reason I say this is because Sister Location fucked up everything more than the 4th game. This time, there was more retconning, the horror tone and 80s-90s aesthetic was gone, the game felt like Sci-fi and less like the older games. Worse, Purple Guy was given an actual name, and turned from a cold-blooded killer that killed kids because of being a psychopath, into a mad scientist obsessed with placing souls into animatronics using soul juice in an attempt to create murderous animatronics, and he killed kids to do this, but most of them were his own or his friend's kids, Fazbear Entertainment was actually started by this maniac, and Mike Schmidt from FNAF 1 was no longer an average joe working a night shift job, but instead the son of the killer and later became an unrealistic purple zombie that somehow got hired for night shift positions. Jeremy and Fritz were no longer average joes either, and were now aliases for the purple zombie who's actual name was Michael Afton, making Mike Schmidt another alias for this zombie. And now, this was more about a family that was insane to begin with trying to put their own personal demons to rest, rather than the story of the murder of 5 children in a pizzeria joint, and the killer gets his comeuppance while the faceless pizzeria chain tried keep its reputation afloat, eventually failing which lead to the closure of it. All of this shattered how I interpreted the lore. The biggest things that Sister Location fucked up were the following. 1. Taking away the 80s/90s aesthetic. In the first and second game, the game has an 80s and 90s aesthetic with the looks of the locations and decor, as well as the camera sounds sounding like cassette tapes, and the first took place in the early 90s, while the second took place in the late 80s. FNAF 3 kept the 80s/90s aesthetic, and I'd argue FNAF 4 kept the old aesthetic too, such as how old everything looked in FNAF 3, and how the house looks particularly old in FNAF 4. FNAF SL's aesthetics look way too futuristic for a FNAF game, especially since it's said to take place before the first 4 games. 2. Making it more sci-fi. The original FNAF games, and the fourth one were meant to be horror games, and they established this greatly with audio and visual cues, as well as the storyline having a horror-esque feel to it during the first 3 games, and even the 4th game kept. The focus on sci-fi traits or elements in SL kind of kills the horror-esque feel that FNAF originally gave off, especially the whole soul juice and mad scientist part. 3. Making Fazbear Entertainment have an owner. Fazbear Entertainment should've just been left as a faceless corporation that had nothing to do with the murders, the type of company to try and cover up the damage done to their reputation by cutting costs or not batting an eye when a man kills children in their restaurant. 4. Making Mike, Jeremy, and Fritz into aliases. It doesn't make any sense as to why a company would hire a foul smelling zombie who kept changing his name. I think that Mike, Jeremy, and Fritz should've just been average joes that got night guard positions not knowing that their jobs were dangerous and not knowing the hauntings of the pizzeria they applied to work for. And 5. The Afton Family. The Afton Family completely ruined the idea of the children being killed at Freddy's by an unknown man, since now it's just about a family killing his own for a dumb mad science experiment and the son is trying to stop his own father, making it so you no longer play as an average joe that discovers the dark secrets and hauntings of a pizzeria joint, but instead you're just playing as a zombie that needs to kill his own father in order to stop his father from killing anyone else. Seriously, it feels less like a horror game, and now feels more like a badly written self-insert sci-fi story with some bit of horror mixed in. The FNAF series is way too complicated to figure out now due to loads of retconning and unnecessary changes made to the story. Worse, the Nightmare, Funtime, and other animatronics that have been added to the franchise just seems like an excuse for Scott to just add new characters simply to keep the franchise going. Now, let's look at a FNAF fan-game series with a better written story.

Five Nights at Candy's Five Nights at Candy's has a much easier to understand story than FNAF. In the first game, you play as a female night guard at a burger joint where an unfortunate incident occurred between an animatronic and a customer, and an incident involving two kids at the factory where the animatronics were made. The backstory of everything, such as the original location and the burger joint's opening are explained in FNAC 3, showing how two unfortunate incidents at the puppet/animatronic theatre led to the closure of the place. We also learn more about the main character from the first game, and the one who caused the murders as well as the victims. In the second game, everything is concluded with the daughter of the guard solving the mysteries of the old factory. The reason is because Emil Macko managed to actually tell the story in an effective way, without retconning anything and without relying entirely on twists and misdirection.

Conclusion So yeah, I can't stand FNAF lore post-FNAF 4, because of how it became way too confusing to understand, and with how the series started retconning tons of things and making unnecessary changes. And it's amazing how a FNAF fan-game was able to tell its story better than the actual FNAF fan-games. So for me, I'm sticking with the FNAF 1-3 lore, which is my interpretation of it. Before I end this blog though, what's annoying is that no matter if you mention the FNAF 1-3 lore on YouTube, people will instantly start bringing in the modern FNAF lore and correct you, even if you're following you're headcanon.

[ebonybow]

Fanfic Author Tag Game

Tagged by: @halcyonhowl <3

Tagging: AHHH let’s see @uneventfulhouses @poiregourmande @blacktofade @queerunsolved @mephsation @drunkkenobi i know @sequencefairy has already been tagged by foxy but i’m tagging her again. if any of y’all wanna do this the ball is in your court <3

Ao3 name: sarcasticfishes

Fandoms: unsolved/watcher currently. past main fandoms have been teen wolf, and check please.

Number of fics: 69 total works on ao3 — 25 unsolved.

1. Fic you spent the most time on: waiting for the sunlight (18k, unsolved, 2019), which took me about 9 months to eventually complete. 

2. Fic you spent the least time on: we've been here before (1.4k, unsolved, 2019), i think, which i spent an afternoon working on after i had a Feeling™.

3. Longest fic: most important things (21k, teen wolf, 2013) — i think this was one of the first tw fics i wrote, and it’s also been so long since i’ve read it that i don’t really remember it, nor can i attest to the quality of it. probably cringe!!

4. Shortest fic: you got a heart (full of gold) (300w, hockey rpf, 2016) — this was supposed to be a series of ficlets, and i just never posted the rest of them after the first one. i don’t even know where the rest are now :’)

5. Most hits:  most important things ^ — 41,597 hits as of now.

6. Most kudos: a year in sleepovers (3.3k, teen wolf, 2014) — 3,515 kudos as of now.

7. Most comment threads: ayis ^ — 103 comments overall. idk how many i replied to, i was awkward back then lmfao.

8. Fave fic you wrote: hoo, idk. possibly paper thin (8.7k, unsolved, 2019), but i do have a soft spot for waiting for the sunlight because of how long i spent thinking about it and working on it piece by piece.

9. Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: just like the weather (6k, unsolved, 2019) — i loved writing this and, as nasty as it is, i always wanted to write a soft filthy sequel. maybe some even softer baby fic, WHO KNOWS.

10. Share a bit of your WIP or share a story idea that you’re planning: From my endless sea of WIPs i present a snippet from a random shyanara fic i have cooking. mostly sara/ryan. no context provided lmfao.

...

Sara clutches The Professor to her chest with one hand, reaches for her phone and keys with the other.

“Thank you, Ryan,” she says, and Ryan beams at her, hair slightly more tousled than usual, cheeks bright and pink.

“No prob,” he shrugs, and ducks past her to his desk and she watches him start saving his projects and closing down his software. “Thank you for breaking me out of my editing coma. I’d have probably stayed here all night if you hadn’t come by.”

“You’re telling me the Bergmeister has no Friday night plans?” Sara scoffs, and Ryan looks at her, smiling, his face just a little too open for it to come across as a joke when he shrugs.

“I’m afraid so,” he says, and shuts the lid of his laptop. “Unless walking you to your car counts as plans?”

Sara doesn’t know what on earth possesses her to say it, but the words are out of her mouth before she can help it.

“Come home with me,” she says, and immediately hears the sentence back in her head. “Um. You know what I mean.”

“You and Shane don’t have plans?” Ryan asks, something like suspicion in his voice.

“Ordering in food and watching TV,” Sara shrugs. “The more the merrier. I was gonna have a drink maybe.”

Ryan’s quiet as he packs away his things, and for a desperate minute Sara thinks she’s fucked it all up, and she can’t quite pinpoint how.

“That sounds really nice,” Ryan says, softly, shouldering his backpack. “I’d— yeah I’d like to come over and hang out.”

“Good,” Sara says, relieved, and when she gets closer Ryan reaches out to squeeze her wrist. “Follow me in your car?”

“I’ve driven to your place before,” Ryan points out, with a raised eyebrow, “I know the way.”

“Yeah but I wanna look in my rearview and pretend I have a stalker,” Sara says, as flatly as she can manage, and then cracks a grin when Ryan barks out a laugh at her.

“Okay weirdo,” he says, and she knows she not imagining the fondness in his tone. “Lead the way.”

[maythewidowtakeusall]

The New Widow (Natasha Romanoff x f!Reader)

Wordcount: 1399

Warnings: death, Endgame spoilers

Summary: Your wife promises to see you again in a minute before the time heist, only she doesn’t return afterwards when everyone else does.

There will be no grand funeral. No crying on each other's shoulders. No embellished gravestone to commemorate her life and heroism. Hell, there isn't even a body left of her to bury. There is nothing, just a sentence that keeps echoing in your ears, uttered by your late wife as she had hugged you encouragingly before the Time Heist.

"I'll see you in a minute."

But then you didn't. Natasha never came back. And thus the longest minute of your life began as you realized that you will have to live on without her.

You fought hard and well afterwards. You knew she would never have forgiven you for giving up, and you had no intention of letting the rest of the Avengers down. You sacrificed your every thought and surge of energy for the cause so you didn't have to think about your wife having to die without you. Or about how Nat had begun to plan your future together, your marriage giving her an edge of hopefulness she never had the luxury to possess before. You didn't sleep, didn't even go back to your shared room in the compound afterwards because you just couldn't. Nat was gone, and you sorely wished for your memories of her to die with her, but in more ways than one, she stayed almost vividly alive in your heart and mind. You could feel her arms around your bare form when you took a shower, shivering as you cried and wrapped yourself in layers of towels to kill the phantom touch of her skin on yours. You heard her voice and her laughter everywhere, and as if she lived on in your mind, you could almost know for certain what she'd say or think in different situations. She guided your hands every time you picked up a weapon and fired at an enemy as if she was trying to keep you alive even from beyond the grave. And surprisingly, you made it. You survived Thanos, you survived the deaths around you and you helped reinstate the world to how it was before. The only problem is that you never planned to survive yourself.

You wanted to die. Planned on dying. Imagined death to wear the face of your dead lover. Death seemed like an old friend, like a relief to a neverending ailment. But for some cruel reason, you were spared. Sentenced to life instead of death.

Clint is glued to your side as you attend Tony's funeral. You don't know whether it's because he feels guilty or because he feels sorry for you. Probably both. You down your champagne and call it lunch, feeling like your stomach is half the size it should be. You want to excuse yourself and get lost in the bucolic little forest and lie down in a ditch and be forgotten.

"I'll step outside for a moment. I need some air."

"(Y/n)," is all Clint says as he draws you in for a long, stiff hug. When he pulls back, an unfamiliar weight in the pocket of your black blazer demands your attention. "Go get some fresh air." The look he is giving you is very meaningful and demanding. You step outside. Manoeuvring the grieving people, you sit down on a bench by the lake where Tony's old heart had drowned not long ago and reach into your pocket. A cheap phone in a red case finds itself in your confused and hesitating fingers. Unlocking it is all too easy, and the phone has nothing on it except for a video. You almost don't want to open it because you know what you're going to find on it.

You play the video anyways.

She looks tired, but young - oh so young with her creamy skin and fiery hair. Her hair is straightened, parted down the middle neatly, and she's wearing that leather coat you always found so foxy. She proposed to you when SHIELD collapsed in on itself, and you almost end up laughing hysterically when you realize that you can tell the years apart by your late wife's hairstyles. This video is old - made probably in 2014. She's so real though that you want to cry, and she hasn't even started talking yet.

"Hey baby."

Now you're crying. Unashamed, fat tears fall from your eyes, blurring your vision up to a point where you only wipe your eyes so that you can continue seeing her. Natasha, trapped in that tiny rectangle of a screen you're clutching so desperately, sighs before smiling slightly.

"I've given this message to Clint for safekeeping in case... well, in case I ran out of all my nine lives. SHIELD is gone and compromised, and I'm helping Steve shut down Hydra, but I can't guarantee that I'll come home. I wish I could. If you're watching this, I'm gone and the mission probably went horribly wrong, which is of course not my fault. Remember how I couldn't promise you to always come back? Well, I want you to know that despite not having made it, I did everything in my power to do so. I just probably drew the short straw or something. But you don't have to, (Y/N). Wherever I am, and whatever might have happened, I want you to keep going on. I know you'd want the same, should our roles be reversed. I'm hoping you never have to see this..."

Her voice trails off as she tears up. You almost forget that it's a recording as you want to console her. But dead men need no consolation.

"... Even now, I'm hoping to delete this one day as you're making coffee for the both of us one morning when we're old. But luck runs out eventually, and we all have to go one day. If there is one thing I know, it's the inevitability of death. I always knew it would come for me too. And sometimes I wished it would because of all the terrible things I've done. ... But you changed that, you know? You made me want to live and you made me a better person. Clint turned my world upside down when he spared me, but it was you who crystallized that change in me, (Y/n). Your love saved me in more than one way and now I want to save you too. I know you. I know you want to be reckless now and you want to take risks, but I'm asking you not to. If you've ever loved me, baby, then you'll do one more thing for me, okay? The world needs good people like you, so do everything in your power to stay alive and continue protecting it. Save people, as you did me. And forget me. Keep going while you have to. Fight your battles. Love those you care about. I'll be waiting for you in the end. A lifetime is a small amount of time to pass if it means I'll get to see you again. Because I will. I know I will. It will all be over in the blink of an eye, in but a minute. I promise. Now get out of here and live. I have to put on my best set of afterlife lingerie before you get here, and you know how long it takes for me to get ready."

You watch the video one last time. It's been years since you last did, but you finally feel like you're ready to let go. Despite tearing up, you even laugh at Natasha's silly joke in the end. Deleting it feels good. It feels like she can finally rest. And you can finally breathe. Hallelujah.

"What's that?" your wife asks you, sinking down on the bed next to you as she glances at the old phone in your hand. "What, this old piece of junk? Just a memory, Wanda. One I'm willing to let go of now."

"Well, good. I need you in the present."

"That's uncharacteristically romantic of you, Mrs (Y/l/n)."

Wanda grins. Hearing you call her your last name always makes her giddy.

"Sam called. He's got a mission for us."

"And here I was, expecting a candlelit dinner or something."

"Maybe later. But we have a world to save first."

[charlieslowartsies]

I can’t decide between stuff LB or DS, bc of the rewrites, for the director’s cut thingy so I’m just gonna send a ⭐️ and leave it up to you ^^;

Iiii can do both if you’d like~ Will throw under a Read More bc it might get rambly. (Sorry mobile users!)

London Bridge: Oh I know EXACTLY what I want to mention in this one. So, LB was the first story written. It had no build up, no explanation other than ‘Mike works at pizzeria and goes to investigate Fazbear’s Fright.’ At the time...let’s see, Fnaf3 must have just come out. (I’m assuming. It was a while ago. And so much lore got released since then ^^;)

When I originally sat down to write LB I knew I wanted something that made people wonder about what came before. I wanted LB to be a sequel like how Fnaf2 was to Fnaf1. ‘How did Mike survive the first five nights?’ ‘Why did he stick around?’ ‘...why does he carry the Puppet’s box?’ And because Mike Schmidt had zero in-game development other than ‘blue eyes’ and ‘possible adrenaline junkie who doesn’t know when to quit’ I basically had a blank canvas to work with. Freddy and friends, at least, had some canon qualities, and I had read some fanfics that gave them some personalities I agreed with...and some I didn’t. But I also knew I wanted the Puppet in the story. I wanted the Puppet to be a gray scale character in terms of actions. He was using Mike Schmidt as a means to an End--but the Puppet did kind of like Mike. At least a little.

Anyway--the very first original characterization of Mike Schmidt was NOT intended to be scrawny, puppy-friendly and curious little idiot he’s become after some 240k words. He was actually more going to be based on Jethro Gibbs from fucking NCIS of all things. I know, right!? My dad LOVES that show, and I used to watch it while I worked back in 2014-15, which is when I started writing the knight guard au.

Mike Schmidt is the perfect example of characters evolving and find their own niche--even if they have to break down plaster to fit where THEY want to do. Fandom!Mike has many variations, and I’m pretty partial to this one, if only because he’s so fun to write as a guy trying to ‘do-good’ in a situation that’s far from good or safe anymore. Mike did get his in-game traits. his eyes ARE blue (when he’s not Golden Freddy) and he certainly doesn’t know when to quit. But that’s what Freddy and the others love about him.

Devil’s Spine: I actually feel bad for Devil’s Spine. It’s my least favorite part out of the whole series. I don’t like how fast paced I wrote it. It needs more work than LB does--and certainly way more work than GS, which is pretty much done except for spell checks. But the one thing I do like is what happened to the characters as I got near the end of it. You can see how I was expecting the foil for Mike to be Foxy (especially since I planned to kill Marion very early. I just never actually DID it until deep into GS.) That was a common head canon I saw in other fics, and I wanted to explore them being besties too! ....except, as I wrote more, I realized how much I had Foxy disliking the Puppet, and how much reckless, dumbass Mike needed a foil that was calmer, and more thoughtful (unless angered.) Mike was always planned to be a smart cookie, but he can’t be everything. He’s physically weaker than the others unless he uses Golden Freddy, and his Captain America drive to protect everyone can lead him into serious trouble. I realized that Mike and Fazbear were far more interesting together, if only because of the swear jar gag. By the time GS came around, those two were firmly cemented as needing each other. Mike is Freddy’s kid, and he loves the young man. He loves how much Mike loves Freddy’s restaurant, and Mike loves how much Freddy has his back. Freddy’s fondness for Mike was explained later in Another Five Nights, during chapter 5. When Freddy was first onlined, he met a then 20ish Micheal Afton. Freddy got his accent because of Micheal’s suggestion, and he would develop his AI by watching after Afton’s oldest for as long as he could.

Until the day Freddy wasn’t there for him, and everything went to hell.

Freddy saw Micheal Afton’s choices (whatever those were) as a betrayal, and cut the sensitive old bear deeply. He couldn’t protect that Micheal from his fate, or from his father, or from his own choices. But the way Fazbear sees it, maybe he can protect this Mike. He has to try. Henry would want him to.

[jordantanevisualessay]

Nicolas Connor Barnes

My mom named me after the actor Nicolas Cage and I hate it, its horrible. Also my dad apparently named me after Sinéad O'Connor you know who she is? the one who sang “Cause nothing compares to you” that girl who is now a crack head so my dad just pulled her last name and put it in mine. Anyway that’s my name.

Tell me about your family?

My Mom’s family is a bunch of crack heads. My dad’s side obviously don’t know my dad, but I still keep in contact with my Aunty, Uncle, Grandma and Grandpa from that side. My mom was a single mom, she remarried. But besides all that they are all from Australia and just plain white. 

Describe your aesthetic

Extra , Boujee, Colourful would you say I’m colourful 

What do you mean by colourful?

Like I have a lot of colours, like yellows and blues and purples.

Oh like you’re colour palette?

Yes, so yeah I said colourful, would you describe my style as designer? Like is that a thing? 

What designer brands are you into?

Gucci, Louis Vuitton, love me some Prada, Dior, Chanel, Dolce, Versace, Bottega Venetta, Jimmy Choo, Fendi, I could be here all day.

So just anything designer essentially?

Of course

So obviously we have known each other since high school, and we have seen a lot of our friends change dramatically, so my question is do you think you have changed since high school up until now? Or even seen a change during high school?

I think I have definitely started to come out of my shell more, like I felt more comfortable to kind of wear what I want, I don’t give a fuck now, like I don’t care if you don’t like it, If I wanted to wear a fur coat to class bitch I will and I’ve done it. 

Through this project I have been reflecting back in year 9 till like both of us in our 2nd year of Uni 

Oh I had terrible style in year 9, actually I think we all did, we all thought we were hot fly and sexy.

How would you describe your sense of humour?

Certainly very dark and inappropriate, but also like I find very immature things quite funny. You know actually imma go real deep here, the reason I think I enjoy immature jokes is cause I never got the chance to be immature as a kids and that’s a fact. Hit the dong on the head with that. But yeah that’s the thing with you and I, feel like we both missed out on our childhood’s and kind of being a kid almost, so yeah that’s probably why I’m the way I am. I find certain stuff really funny but at the same time very mature for my age.

Do you feel like people don’t like that? 

Mainly people would just say oh you can’t laugh at that. But I would generally say it turns some people off but at the same time I don’t really care, I’ll do what I want.

In regards to your humour and perdsonality do you feel like you need to hold back at times? 

I just don’t care. If you don’t like my humour you can just fuck off somewhere else. Like what I find very self deprecating humour funny some people obviously don’t and like I find that very funny and if don’t like it its not my problem.

So tell me, what are your influences?

In terms of what like in life?

Yeah, before we get into like you’re aesthetic influences, I would love to know your life influences or even you why

Definitely my mother, 100% my mom and also just my self influence of wanting to do well for myself. But its definitely because of my mom I am where I’m at, she’s the only influence I need. 

What actually got you into designer clothes?

This is going to sound really stupid, but around the time of year 11 was when I started to become interested in it. And around that time I started watching, this is so terrible, I started watching you know house wives and all of their designer wear,  it was all a different world to me. So I would be like ooh I like that and would google it have a look at the website and find more stuff and then it was a continuous thing, each week a new episode would come out you would see it. Also a lot of the music I listen to its all about the Gucci bags and all of that. It wasn’t until about year 13 my last year of high school I started to watch more Youtube luxury videos of like unboxings, but yeah in year 13 was when I was like I really want these things but can’t afford them. And I actually started to buy fake designer items. And that was around about 6 months and then I stopped, got myself a nice little collection, then once we came out of lockdown the following year, I had all this money and I was like you know what I always wanted to go and buy something and that’s where it started and it hasn’t stopped. So now I don’t buy any fake designer items my stuff is real. A lot of people can call me shallow or whatever but in a way that’s what I put value and that’s my pride, happy and joy. 

Do you feel like you value objects more than people?

Yes omg facts, and they wont turn your back on you they will be right where you left them yesterday.

I know you mentioned before that one of your first designer influences was house wives, what actually got you into the show?

I still watch them, it was because I had a lot going on for me personally during that time, and for me that show even today its the same reason, you see a bunch of people fighting all the time, they go on holiday, they go shopping, and that is a life, not like what I want to have but a life you can almost live by curiously through, so I can put my shit on the side and invest in someone else’s drama, cause its not my drama so I can watch you fight and its not my problem. And it just spiralled out of control but like I have a picture of fucking  Lil’ Kim on my wall dressed in Chanel like she is obviously an influence on me and so is foxy brown. And if whoever asked who are your style icons and I know they are woman and we cannot wear the same things, I mean we could but it would be very strange, but those are my style influences.

I know in this day of age a lot of people are crossing those gender boundaries when it comes to style, is that something you would want to explore?

Like would I want walk across the street in heels, no. Thats not for me but I generally feel once I move out of home, cause my mom does make some comments on what I buy and decide to wear, but once I do move out of home I will be able to wear more. Im not huge on purses or anything like that not for me. Honey I sit there all the time looking at them, like they are so beautiful. But still not for me, but still there are some for when I do move out of home then I may be able to start looking into that more. I more kind of want to explore that unisex area of more feminine fashion but also masculine at the same time. I wouldn’t go for a purse which is feminine but I just want that balance. 

Would you use/wear a purse or like have them on display?

Like look at my Chanel bag I’ve never warn, but yeah once I do move out of home there are bags I do want like the Chanel Boy bag, its not a super feminine its more one of the masculine bags they have but it certainly not a ‘guys’ bag. It’s probably one of those things that I will grow into at some stage.

Theres certainly a scale of some kind of  masculinity and Femininity what are your personal thoughts on that and where would you fall on that scale?

Personally for me, Im certainly not the most masculine fellow out there but there are way more feminine people than me as well, but I would say I’m in the middle but leaning more towards the masculine. Im certainly in that middle point because there are some part of me that can be quite feminine.

So yeah back when we talked about Influences you talked about housewives and but then mentioned a bit about music so tell me more

I listen to a lot of current things when I was young like whatever Britney Spears had put out, whatever was just on the radio, we didn’t have Spotify or anything like that, and then it go into 2014 I got very interested in Nicki Minaj, she’s kind of into her fashion as well but I didn’t really take any notice of her. This is really strange but I found out about Lil’ Kim cause they both had beef, instantly liked Lil’ Kim more than Niki Minaj, and that’s when I began to notice she was a bit more out there. One of the first songs I listened to by Lil’ Kim the first line was “Being the first rap bitch to rock Chanel” and it was just very prevalent, and even all of her outfits and everything was very extra. 

What Is the main difference between Lil’ Kim and Niki Minaj? 

Honestly they are quite similar to each other, and thats why they had problems. For example Doja Cat, I almost would say Niki Minaj, Cardi B and Doja Cat are in the same box in terms of how they are very poppy, rappy. But Lil’ Kim is outta of the hood, and she’s never really done like pop music its very hardcore rap. Same with Foxy Brown, again all hardcore rap and even some of their music has heavy depth. I was thinking there’s a quote by Foxy Brown “And if you only knew I hold my minks at nights with cheap, Or no other hands can hold me right” Things like that are just like ouch, like I feel that. Obviously they are both very like into their designer labels so I was like me too. I just love that they don’t keep it PG and I can relate to that as I’m very outspoke myself. I just love me some hood music. 

Yeah and you just started recently going clubbing now too

Yeah I got to the point where I was like you know what I need to experience it at least once before I’m too old, and now I just keep going. I actually saw old videos of me slut dropping and back in that moment I thought I was hot as fuck but after seeing that not anymore.

What Clubs do you go to?

One of the first places I went to was Shadows which in enjoyed since they played early 2000s music I was all up in on that. Went to Ding Dong, it was creepy, didn’t like it, it was a very satanic vibe. It was an underground bar with a bunch of strip polls and shit like that, it was weird. Bar 101 is terrible, been once and never again. Went to Cassette for like 4 hours, Cassette was so much fun and then I went to Family Bar for like the rest if the night. But yeah my main bar/club is Family Bar. Even though there is just drugs everywhere shirtless people like where am I. 

What you mentioned before about once you move out and have more freedom where do you see yourself in that future ahead?

Hopefully I will be graduated by then. I really don’t think my style is going to changed its just going to be more of it. Alot more outfits, shoes, bags, hopefully some diamonds. Love me some diamonds. Me as a person, I don’t think I’m going to change much either, I say that because I look at everyone else I grew up with especially  from high school I would say everyone changed completely compared to myself, some for better some for worst. I’ve felt like I’ve been consistent with who I am, so I don’t think that’s gonna change. I’ve never had that rebellious phase that most of us goes through. I had to keep it real, having that childhood innocence taken from you and having to be mature early on, theres no room for that rebellious side, there’s so many bigger things in life than just vaping and doing that shit. But like I still have my fun you know, just have my head screwed on straight. 

How have you coped with this current lockdown?

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve really struggled with this lockdown. Like I just don’t wanna do anything, I will literally just sit here dead sad, so I just start drinking and I will just drink, like last night I got fucked. I’ve drank everyday, I’ve finished a bottle of grey goose in a couple of days. I’m just really struggling but I know once this lockdown is over, my life will pick itself over. Im not worried I will become like an alcoholic or something but its been rough. 

Tell me about your Instagram Lux with Nico 

Oh no, oh god, okay well its my Instagram page, which I haven’t on for a long time. It was a way for me to get into the community of designer lovers, like I’ve met some amazing people through it. Especially here in New Zealand, people don’t really get the whole designer thing.  My mom is always like what the fuck, why do you need this, and a lot of my friends don’t understand it either but they kind of accepted it but I do feel some sort of judgement from some people, they just don’t get it. So its nice to have that community not in a bragging kind of way like omg I brought a Gucci bag, and there’s other people excited for you and when they get something you get excited for them, and its a nice community to be apart of it. You get to see a lot of other peoples things and they get to see yours and you can get into those conversations. It’s nice but it always does has it dark side to it, its like a blog and you are wanting that blog to grow and they only way for it to grow is when you buy things. So I felt this kind of self pressure to be like “omg I haven’t gotten anything a new thing in like a week, what am I gonna post” so then I would go look at Prada like go looking for anything to buy just so I can upload something, to keep growing my account. Cause I did this everyday for awhile, and I just ran out of things. You look at other peoples accounts and they buy like Louis Vuitton bag like every week. I came to realise that was very fucking stupid, you should only buy things that you want and can afford. So yeah there is that dark side to it and you can go down that hole, you feel like you have to buy things for other people to look at. Which really it’s not what it’s about.

Do you wish to continue with that account and going into that social media realm?

I do, but I got this point where I ran out of things to post about. Like do I start posting pictures of the same thing but in a different angle? I mean I’ve brought things that I haven’t posted. But for me if i’m going to start posting again, I want it to be regular thing. And yeah I can post maybe weekly and space it out but you can’t really grow your account, you need to be very consistent if you want your account to really grow. I got to like 300 followers in a month, like I know that’s not huge and that’s even 3 times that what I have on my own personal account. After awhile the numbers were kind of slowish because you reach all the people that are interested in your shit. More people did come and I even had people like I had this girl who did custom designs on designer items and I had people like that who reached out to me, being like “oh we love your collection, we would love to do this for you etc” that’s stuff is nice and all but I did get to the point where I was like I don’t know what else to do here. 

Using your imagination is there anything else you would love to do besides posting of your designer items etc? Like even create your own stuff?

I would love to make my own collection of something, actually I would love to sell shoes, like design my own shoes. Would love love to do that, but then i’m like how would even start that sort of thing, would people even buy my shit. 

Would you say your favourite designer item is shoes?

Well, the only things i’ve brought this year have been all shoes. I mean I love my shoes, that’s my thing. 

And on top of all of that your studying psychology

Yeah I’m wanting to get into the Clinical side of psychology, I’m currently in my 2nd year doing a bachelor  of Psychology at University of Auckland. I think the reason of me wanting to get into that field stems from childhood things, like all of the people studying psychology are fucked up so. But yeah I would love to help someone else and give them that second chance. Currently at the moment we are doing a section on relationships and intimacy, I would love to be a relationship therapist that would be great, like that to me is super interesting. 

Why are you more interested in the relationship side of psychology? 

Don’t know really, just very interesting to me, seeing how relationships work through its ups and downs and all that kind of stuff. And for order for me to get into Clinical I will need to get a PHD and write a whole thesis, so I was kind of thinking of doing something on the lines of retail therapy, and I feel that would be very interesting for me to explore in a psychological level. 

So I know you are wanting to become a psychologist after your studies but do you think you would ever get into designing your own stuff like you mentioned before?

I would love to have my own brand or design something, that’s not a realistic goal though. You have to work fucking hard, everyone will say the work you put into is what you get out of it. You can put your heart and soul and even money all kinds of shit, but if no one buys you’re shit you’re not successful. So half of it is yeah people have to like it and want to buy it cause otherwise you ain’t going to be making shit. But if you go into a job in like psychology there is good money associated with and there is money for it, so for me that’s the most financially responsible decision. 

Were you born here in New Zealand?

Yeah I’m actually from Palmerston North, we lived briefly in Rotorua and then lived in Auckland up until now. I don’t really have a sense of belonging to a particular place, like Auckland yeah I grew up in the city and I have respect towards it but I don’t wanna live here, but also know that I’m very luck and very thankful for being in Auckland cause I don’t not think I could survive anywhere else. I know that sounds terrible but like Wellington I don’t like the atmosphere, Christchurch is the same. And anything smaller than that no thanks, we live in the city and I’m very thankful for that, we’re in the most established place in the country, and I’m grateful that I live here in Auckland. Im a mother fucking city girl. 

Do you wanna move outside of New Zealand then?

I know for a fact I do not want to stay here, I would actually love to live in Dubai or like Sidney or even London. Theres nothing really keeping me here in New Zealand, like I don’t have a huge family or anything and the opportunities here are very far in-between, cause I do feel like in New Zealand there’s a certain place you can end up, and no room for growth but I feel like in other countries there’s more opportunities, more money to be made and even more places you can go. So that my reason. 

Like you mentioned before about not having a lot of family holding you here, I know for a lot of people they are rooted to where they come from and have that connection what are your thoughts on that?

Yeah I just feel like this is where I live and that’s about it, I don’t see myself being here forever.

Do want that family aspect like in your future would like to start your own family?

I think so, I want to find a place where I can call my own, I mean you never know once you explore the world. Its quite interesting thinking about life like that. Yeah I’ve never realised how much your childhood affects you in your adult life until now. Especially of the way I am, that I’m very closed off. I do have that part of me that wishes for a family which I didn’t have growing up but then at the same time I’ve gone along time without it so why do I need it. Honestly I feel like would be a good parent but I don’t think I would want children, cause I would always try to do the best for my children and at the same time I don’t have real desire to have them. 

How are you with people Generally?

Oh still hate people, I think everyone is a piece of shit.

Final question of the day but what are your life goals? 

Having a job, be financially stable and just do the best I can for me personally. I know that sounds very boring and cliché but that’s the truth.

[anythingstephenking]

Mr. Manager

We made it to the Bill Hodges trilogy yo! I’ve been looking forward to these, mostly because they seem to be the most popular of this century’s King. I understand why; these books seem to be Stephen King writes John Grisham novels, and who(’s grandpa) doesn’t love a Grisham?

King calls this his first “hard-boiled detective” book, and I suppose that’s true, although both his Hard Case Crime books come close, falling short by having “normies” solve those cases.

I didn’t expect anything that goes bump-in-the-night here, but for what it lacks in the supernatural it makes up for in positively disgusting incest and racism.

Rant break: We’re in 2014. I’ve cringed through a lot of overt racism in King’s earlier work, and was cautiously hopeful we’d turned the corner here. I was wrong; there’s racism AND homophobia here, and I know it exists to distinguish between the good guys (the ones that DON’T use the n-word) and the bad guys (the ones that do) but c’mon man. We know the serial killer is a bad guy. He has sex with his mom! And killed a bunch of people! We don’t need him to be racist to know he’s a douche. I just don’t like it.

Ok, now that I got that out of my system, let’s discuss. There’s really not a ton to unpack here honestly. Bill Hodges is a recently retired detective and if you’ve ever seen a single cop movie you know they’re no good at being retired. Listless and bored, he gains 30 pounds and considers killing himself. Until a letter arrives from the perpetrator of his most publicized cold case - the Mercedes Killer. Mr. Mercedes wants Bill to kill himself. And Bill’s all “nuhuh, I say when I kill myself ya fucker” and it’s off to the races.

Sidenote: I just about peed myself when Derry Public Radio said that Mr. Mercedes reminded them of the Mr. Manager gag on Arrested Development, thus the title of this entry was born.

Back when he was investigating the killing spree, Hodges was real shitty to Olivia Trelawny, the owner of car that was stolen to run over a bunch of people (including a baby). Can you imagine if you came out of your house in the morning, your car was gone, then you learn the person that stole it used it to murder a bunch of people. And then YOU got blamed for negligence? Seriously, fuck that logic.

So Bill is on the case, now motivated somehow to not kill himself but find Mr. Manager. He starts with Janelle, Olivia’s sister, who inherited her estate after she KILLED HERSELF BECAUSE SHE GOT BLAMED FOR SOMETHING SHE HAD NO PART OF. Janey is foxy (of course she is) and described as being “striking for 44″. Excuse me sir??? Fuck right off with that shit.

Janey is kind to Bill, even from the get-go, and I’m all “huh?” cause ya know the dead sister stuff. Turns out Olivia was getting letters from Mr. Manager too, and Janey hires Bill to find out who he is. Bill’s all “sure I was gunna do it anyway, but it’ll be more fun with a hot piece of ass like you”. Do you like my imagined dialogue?

Bill’s a fat retired cop and Janey is a hot tamale with a cool 7 mil in the bank, but they fall for each other anyway. He describes her body as “hard against his flab” when they finally hook up. It’s written in a believable way, but like still, yuck. Maybe because I’ll be 44 soon and I don’t want to fall in love with a retired cop in his 60s? Always all about me.

The story really gets fun as Bill picks up steam and a merry band of crimefighting misfits along the way. Jerome, his 17 year old neighbor becomes IT support; Janey’s cousin Holly becomes… somehow also IT support? They’re all so adorable and their witty banter made me giggle more than once.

Meanwhile, Mr. Manager, whose name is Brady, is running around, taunting Bill and planning his next big ka-powey. Oh and also getting handys from his mom. No more gross handys Stephen King! Enough is enough.

The clock ticks down to LITERALLY the last second as the merry misfits chase down Brady. I honestly thought they were all gunna die. Because Janey does. I skipped that part, but yeah, she gets blown up. Major bummer.

Bill, for some reason, does not inform any single person of authority about what is happening, as a deranged mommy-lover is packing four pounds of explosives into a boy band concert. WHAT. And then he has a heart attack! Like there’s 4,000 people’s lives on the line bro, call for help and maybe don’t leave it all on the line while quite literally chasing a murderer carrying 30 extra lbs. Just a thought. If Holly and Jerome hadn’t saved the day, Bill would certainly be transported to jail from the hospital. But the tension is high and I couldn’t put the book down, so all this poor decision making proves for strong storytelling.

We do get a great cliffhanger at the end, and… duh duh duh…. We haven’t seen the last of Mr. Manager. I’m glad the core gang made it through and I assume they will all be back in Finder’s Keepers. I hear Holly runs through to The Outsider, so I can breathe a sigh of relief that she’s safe for now.

By the end I didn’t hate Bill as much, but I really hope there’s no more May-December romances in the next ones.

7/10

First Line: Augie Odenkirk had a 1997 Datsun that still ran in spite of high mileage, but gas was expensive, especially for a man with no job, and City Center was on the far side of town, so he decided to take the last bus of the night.

Last Line: “He says he has a headache. And he’s asking for his mother.”

Adaptations:

Another adaptation I was excited for and let down by. Great streak on enjoying books, terrible streak on enjoying adaptations.

The series Mr. Mercedes is well reviewed and rated, so I could be in the wrong here, but in the age of prestige crime dramas, this didn’t hold it’s weight for me. I have also watched literally every crime drama (most European) available on streaming services so I have a high bar for excellence. They know how to tell a good detective story in Sweden, just saying.

Anywho, King’s said he wrote Bill Hodges with Brendan Gleeson in mind, and here he is, playing the role. That’s what’s called “putting it into the universe.” I know Brendan Gleeson has a long, illustrious career, but if you can listen to him talk without hearing “it tastes like goblin piss” in Mad-Eyed Moody’s voice, you are a better person than me.

Mary Louise-Parker is TOO HOT FOR BRENDAN GLEESON. Gah, I know I am a broken record but C’mon.

At least in the series they decided to have Bill ask the cops for help before he keels over with a heart attack, so that was good.

I’ll skip seasons 2 & 3, assuming they follow the plots of Finders Keepers and End of Watch. No more goblin piss for me. I’m watching The Killing now as a palate cleanser. I’m weird.

[ellab-ba1b]

FIVE NIGHT’S AT FREDDY’S: Springtrap

3D MODEL CASE STUDY

My treasure item is a worn down toy bunny that used to belong to the King’s daughter. This reminded me of my favourite video game franchise Five Night’s At Freddy’s especially the character Springtrap. In this game, you play as a night guard working at a pizzeria and you have to keep an eye on the animatronics using the security cameras and keep them at bay. The character Springtrap first appears in the third game as the model in the top right. The top left model has not appeared so far in the franchise but Scott Cawthon created it to show the before and after. For brief context, the body inside the suit is William Afton who created the chain of pizzerias along with his business partner Henry. William was an evil man who would wear the golden bunny suit in order to lure children into the back of the restaurant and stuff them into the suits that were shown in the first game. (From left to right: Foxy, Bonnie, Freddy, Chica and Golden Freddy). Later down the timeline, he tries to dismantle the possessed animatronics but the souls of the children started to chase him. So he hid in his infamous golden bunny suit and the spring locks were activated, causing him to die in the suit. Afton from then on haunted the suit known as Springtrap in the third game.

In the third game, Springtrap’s suit is neglected and left to decay just like the pizzeria (the main office pictured below). My toy bunny is also left to decay as the King abandoned his kingdom. I absolutely adore his design and storyline line, the character himself is extremely cursed and is technically immortal. But the pizzeria in this game is used as a horror attraction called ‘Fazbear’s Fright’.

Although the main five animatronics have children inside of them, Springtrap is the only character out of every single animatronic in the game that still moves like a human (with the exception of Golden Freddy as he never moves and the Marionette who is a puppet- pictured below).

Going back to the top four photos, the different version in the bottom right is called ‘Scraptrap’ or ‘Afton’ (Afton is more commonly used in Freddy Fazbear’s: Pizzeria Simulator). This game is considered the sixth game by the creator Scott Cawthon. He is also referred to as ‘Decimated Springtrap’. In the end of the third game, it is mentioned that the pizzeria got burnt down and this explains why this character is more worn down than before. Although you would think the fire would have finished him off but as mentioned earlier he is cursed and immortal. My scene will not have been set on fire but the way he is modelled is still an amazing example of decay and corruption. Briefly, there is a plushie version of Springtrap called ‘Plushtrap’ which appears in the fourth game. The toy still has the same amount of decay but is close to the size of my 3D model (roughly around 15cm tall).

Regarding the amazing character design and storyline, the bottom right version is completely different. This version was introduced during Five Night’s At Freddy’s: Help Wanted (Virtual Reality). This character is called Glitchtrap. Basically Cawthon breaks the fourth wall and stated that when they were making this game they scanned Springtrap’s chip in his suit and his spirit manifested into codes creating Glitchtrap. I love it when games and films break the fourth wall of their reality- by doing this Cawthon places his creations into our world and as the VR game is played, there are a collection of tapes that the player needs to collect. These tapes are voiced by an actor pretending to be one of the team members who helped build the game. The fourth wall is definitely broken when they mention the office atmosphere whilst creating the game- it is mentioned that Glitchtrap actually starts to possess someone in the office.

The games in general have strong lore and all connect in disturbing ways. The chain of games is still being produced as well as a movie that is rumoured to release in 2021/2022. I chose this character as it had similar traits to my treasure item. But overall I have always been fascinated with 3D character design (and character design in general). This game definitely kickstarted my interest in 3D and writing. Scott Cawthon went from working in a dollar store whilst making a game in his spare time to producing one of the most impactful games in the industry with a whole team and the new game soon to be released Five Night’s At Freddy’s: Security Breach is part of the PS5 family. He is such an inspiration and I would love to produce or work on a game someday (or work in the gaming industry).

References

Five Night’s At Freddy’s (Developer Cawthon,S. 2014)

Five Night’s At Freddy’s (Developer Cawthon,S. 2015)

Five Night’s At Freddy’s 4 (Developer Cawthon,S. 2015)

Five Night’s At Freddy’s: Pizzeria Simulator (Developer Cawthon,S. 2017)

Five Night’s At Freddy’s: Help Wanted (Developer Cawthon,S. 2019)

Five Night’s At Freddy’s: Security Breach (Developer Cawthon,S. PlayStation, 2021)

https://youtu.be/J5vnQu4Hy1A

[star-valo]

How Markiplier Saved Me

I’m sure everyone’s seen his late night video by now, and I’ve seen a few people in the tag posting their stories.

And I feel like now is the right time to share mine. It’s not the typical life saving story, but it definately got me out of a life where I was so terribly unhappy. And considering I’m an extremely naïve 25 year old who is now stumbling about life in such an ungodly awful manner, I feel I owe a lot of who I am now to @markiplier

This will be long. Very long. Brace yourself, I’m a story teller. - TW: Abuse mention

I met him when I was 19. He was 29, turning 30 in a few months; and a month after I met him, he was due to get married, to his girlfriend of 10 years. I was at uni, out on my own with my anxiety in full swing for the first time in my life and I wasn’t coping. I’d stopped eating entirely, I was geting every bug that went around campus and I’d lock myself away in my room for hours on end.

I forced myself to go to a convention that was near the university. Anxiety attack ensued, and I was in a very vulnerable state, which is where I met him. Subsequently, it turned out, just about every male that was remotely plesant to me that weekend, had ulterior motives. Unfortunately, his didn’t start until after the convention.

Bit of context. I’m one of those “growing up ugly” kids. The “popular” kids at school would fake crushes on me to get a laugh and ridicule me at every oppertunity. As such, I’m oblivious to any actual interest anyone may show in me. I can’t pick up on those social queues at all, because I just don’t believe they’re genuine.

He got married, we stopped talking. The next convention, 4 months after his wedding, he kissed me and made me super uncomfortable for the rest of the weekend. Apparently, married life wasn’t going too well, so his attention had moved from his wife, to me. This started the manipulation, feeding me stories about his wife, apologising endlessly for making me uncomfortable and showering me in gifts.

Against my parent’s wishes, I ended up in a relationship with him. For 3 years. and his control over me continued for an additional year before I finally managed to cut him out completely. Leaving me a rather broken 23 year old.

Now, where does Mark come in?

He is what opened my eyes to the mental and emotional abuse and blackmail I was being subjected to, and eventually pushed me to leave.

Part two of the story starts here.

I was browsing Tumblr, seeing a lot of this stuff poping up on my timeline relating to something called “Five Nights at Freddy’s” and of course, Markiplier’s name was popping up as well. I was curious. So, Hallowe’en 2014, I was visiting my bestie who I only see once a year due to distance and money, and we decided we’d watch some spooky stuff. I suggested a FNAF playthrough, to which Bestie’s sister insisted that we watch Mark’s because it was definately the best out there. So we did.

My bestie wasn’t particularly taken with FNAF so we only watched the first part, but I was hooked, I wanted to see more. So I got home and binge watched the rest of Mark’s FNAF playthrough. Of course, I wanted someone to share this new found enjoyment with (good god I loved theorising with FNAF Lore, still do), so I showed it to him. Who then proceeded to take it and use it against me, my pathetic ass wussy self that I am. I’m very easily scared as I have an extremely overactive imagination. Have since I was tiny.

He bought FNAF, would hook it up to his TV, turn out all the lights, start the night... then decide he needed a cigerette, and leave me alone whilst he went outside to smoke. Of course, I was curled up in the corner, bracing myself for the jumpscares. One night, I was at his place, I got up to go to the toilet. I’d gone to bed early because I was tired, he was still awake, drinking beer and watching crap telly. He heard me and hid on the stairs which were directly outside the door to his bedroom, where he knew I would be passing to go back to bed. Thankfully I saw him sprawled out on the stairs before he could execute his plan. He was going to play Foxy’s jumpscare sound on his phone (He had the video ready and everything) and grab my ankle as I walked past.

I won’t go in to some of the other things he did, but the manipulation was there. The sexual abuse and emotional blackmail was there. I just didn’t start to see it until I watched more of Mark.

One week when I was off work because I felt unwell and there weren’t new Markiplier videos because he’d gone into hospital (turns out I was unwell because my appendix went fucky, I went in to hospital the day Mark came out) I binge watched his old videos. I really enjoyed his Vlogs, just him talking to the camera made it feel more personal. I watched his Draw my Life, Live-action skits he’d done, Videos of him on other people’s channels too.

Even just the silly little things he’d do like calling “us” beautiful. The milestone videos where he’d say how much we mean to him, and how thankful he was for letting him have the life he has. It all got me thinking. Never had I seen emotion from my boyfriend. He had never called me beautiful, or pretty, or expressed any sort of happiness for me being around, unless it was to manipulate me. He’d cry and self harm and spout all this stuff he thought I wanted to hear when I tried to leave in the past, how he didn’t want a life without me in it, how he loved me... All when I was trying to get out. Of course I stayed because he was threatening to kill himself.

At another convention, two weeks after my appendix surgery, we wore matching FNAF Pirate Cove tops (because matching tops were his way of showing he owned me, turns out.) I got talking to some guys about FNAF, ignoring him. It was when one of the guys mentioned that he was watching a youtuber play Five nights at Fuckboys at the moment, I instantly interjected with “Markiplier?”, who of course it was. At the mention of Mark, more people perked up and joined in the conversation, isolating my then-boyfriend more because he didn’t watch Mark.

I was in a lot of pain after the first night, I spent most of the convention in my hotel room in pain, which annoyed him because he wanted to party, and I wasn’t with him. I ended up calling my dad who came to take me home two days early, which my new Markiplier-friends came to see me off and say goodbye. Of course that annoyed him too.

I’m pretty sure this was the point that he realised that it wasn’t FNAF that he had to try and take from me. It wasn’t FNAF that was helping me make the friends that he wanted to keep away. It was Mark.

From then on, he’d do everything in his power to ruin Mark for me, to make him seem like an asshole, to make me stop watching his videos. Combining this with other things that I cared about, he was starting to get desperate. His control over me was slipping. I was starting to stand up for myself and he didn’t like it.

He’d get annoyed when I started watching Prison Break with my mum because I didn’t tell him what I was doing. He got annoyed that I wouldn’t text him back, whilst I was at work, in 2 minutes. He resorted to trying to buy me, buying me gifts and food, taking me places, surprising me with things in an attempt to buy me back.

He lashed out at me for not wanting to go swimming, because he wanted to see me in a swimsuit and ignored my anxiety and low self esteem making me freak out. He got extremely angry with me for going to bed without giving him a hug, because he’d insulted me and I didn’t want to be near him. He fed me lies about how all the new friends I was making were only trying to get into my pants, how none of them really liked my company and that if Mark were here, he’d be doing the same. It’s “all they wanted”, to get into my pants, he was “protecting” me. One of my favourite singers thought I was stupid because of one line in one song.

The final straw - for him - was when, on my birthday, I didn’t facetime him when opening my presents. When I did. This is when he stopped talking to me. In six weeks he’d moved on to another girl, one he worked with. He was being rude and cruel to me, so I finally deleted him from my facebook. I didn’t want to see it. I wasn’t coping well as it was. Everything I had known for the last four years had gone, and I was left alone because he kept stopping friendships before they formed. A barrage of insults came in the form of texts. As soon as he realised I’d deleted him and his friends, and that he couldn’t monitor me anymore, he flew off the handle. I crumbled completely. I was signed off work. I was a mess. Sadly, all this happened around the time of Daniel’s passing, so Mark wasn’t uploading. That’s when I turned to Jack’s videos. He wasn’t Mark, but he was funny, and he gave me a welcome distraction from all the pain and distress I was feeling.

Since then, Mark and his videos have been my go-to before-bed entertainment, time zones and all that fun stuff. He’s what’s making me strive to better myself, to move past the barriers and fears that the abuse has left me with. To push myself, to do that cosplay, to post that drawing. Dye my hair, buy the thing, put myself out there. I’m still trying. I’m still pushing myself. I’ll get there with attempting youtube myself one day, It’s just getting the software to do it, and then i’ll have to put my face out there, which is something I hate doing. But I’ll do it. I left work because, despite it being a terrifying thing to commit to doing, I deserved to be treated better. I am capable of so much more, I just need to believe in myself and know that I can do it if I put my mind to it.

And I believe all of this because of Mark. He believes in us as a community, and us as an individual. No one has told me that as often as Mark tells us all. All I have ever wanted is to make people happy, but now I don’t feel like I have to sacrifice my own happiness for others. I can make them happy, without demeaning myself, or decreasing my value and self worth. I’m funny, I make people laugh, I’m smart and creative, and that’s not a bad thing to say. I’m not blowing my own trumpet by saying that. I’m giving myself the value and credit I deserve because It’s far too easy to say that I’m not smart, that I’m not creative and I only make people laugh by fluke.

I have talents and abilities. I shouldn’t belittle them because they make me who I am, I need to embrace them, not push them aside.

I know this may seem like I’m putting Mark on a pedestal, but I assure you I am not. I feel indebted to him, yes, because I credit him as the catalyst that gave me the strength needed to save myself. Something that no one else had done in the four years I was in that relationship.

Genuinely and Honestly Mark, If you read this, Thank you. I owe you so much. I don’t know where I would be now had I not been introduced to you and your videos. Your sense of humour matches mine so well that I can’t help but laugh with you, even when I don’t feel like smiling. You have inspired me to do more with my life, to take a leap of faith, to push myself and try new things.

It sounds stupid and fan girly, but I honestly love you, so much. You have changed my life for the better, and I someday hope that I can repay you for saving me

[ts1989fanatic]

Katy Perry vs. Taylor Swift Beef Debrief: Experts Declare Winner & Loser -- Or Call for a Truce

For almost three years, it was the Voldemort of pop diva beefs: a roiling public battle whose generals could not, would not be named, even if everyone had both on their tongues almost from the start. Taylor Swift came out first, swinging hard with "Bad Blood" in 2014, but in interviews she demurred when it came to describing the subject of the song beyond saying it was "about losing a friend" and that the person (ID'd as a fellow female pop star) did something "so horrible" they became "straight-up enemies."

Katy Perry, her alleged target, subtweeted a short time later about watching out for "Regina George in sheep's clothing" and then weighed in on a side beef between Swift and Nicki Minaj with another tweet in 2015. Fast-forward to last month, when Perry revved up the promo machine for her Witness album by menacingly telling Entertainment Weekly: "You can't mistake kindness for weakness and don't come for me."

It was the first of several shots fired from Perry, who went on to give the most complete rundown to date of the source of the duo's beef during a "Carpool Karaoke" segment -- it was, as rumored, over shared backup dancers -- during which she doubled down on her previous finger-wagging comments. The singer tripled and quadrupled down in subsequent interviews, telling the NME that Taylor tried to "assassinate my character with little girls" after releasing the not-at-all-subtle Minaj duet "Swish Swish."

So there's been a flurry of activity in a battle that everyone thought was pretty much over. In every war, there must be a winner and a loser, so Billboard asked some PR experts to weigh in on who they think came out on top, or whether two of the most powerful women in pop should just call a truce and work together to make a change.

Karen Civil, author, social and digital media strategist "I ran my first marathon listening to 'Roar' the whole time, and I loved how Katy was always so empowering, but with this project and her demeanor, I was confused," said Civil, who took particular issue with Perry's Migos collabo "Bon Appétit," which she said just confused her. "Her and Taylor had their quarrels, but they never said each other's names -- you had 'Bad Blood' -- but when you go public because you want it to be part of your press campaign? You always let the records talk."

Civil said Perry might have looked better if she had arranged a performance where the two women hugged it out, but with Swift keeping quiet, there is no clear winner or loser in this public feud. "Katy usually wins with her music, but this time, it’s not resonating, and Taylor coming back being petty releasing her music on Spotify [the same day Witness dropped], that's not what I want to see," she said. "These are both great women and I hate in our society that there can't ever be more than just one [woman who wins]."

Given the choice between Witness and grabbing all her favorite Swift songs on Spotify, Civil opted for neither, instead grabbing SZA's CTRL album. "It's just Katy beating a dead horse, and, you know, Taylor's not paying it any mind and will just come out with a hit record while Katy's album will come and go," she said. "Taylor needs ammo, and music is therapeutic for her. You're just giving her ammo for a No. 1 hit about you. I'm expecting 'Bad Blood... Continued.' This is a one-sided beef, and I'm not into it."

Verdict: Swift by a nose

Howard Bragman, veteran publicist and crisis manager, founder of Fifteen Minutes PR Bragman is a longtime proponent of the "everyone loves a good comeback story" line of reasoning when it comes to America's obsession with redemption tales. When it comes to this kerfuffle, though, he thinks it's mostly a teen-pop tempest. "I think in the world we live in, it depends on who you liked going in," he said. "The one you like better going in is probably the one you will like going out. We all have an amazing ability to see the world through partisan eyes."

Given Perry's massive career, including what she's done and what she will likely do in the future, Bragman doesn't see her shots fired at Swift -- followed by a series of olive branches and even a "Swish Swish" lyric swap during a performance Monday that switched "don't you come for me" to "God bless you on your journey" -- as a game-changer either way. "This is a non-controversial controversy," he said. "It benefits them both and it doesn't do any real damage. They're both laughing all the way to the bank. I think if they saw each other in the real world, they would hug each other."

Verdict: Both winners

Holly Baird, veteran publicist, crisis manager Baird isn't even really sure if the Taylor vs. Katy beef is as big a deal as Taylor's skirmish with Nicki Minaj over VMA nominations. Plus, she thinks the dancer tug-of-war is only half the story and that the real beef between the women might be the unspoken girl-code breaking that occurred when Perry dated John Mayer after Swift had a brief fling with him in 2009.

"When you're making friends in the industry, any woman, when you call someone a friend and that friend dates someone after you do... you have to wonder, 'Was that person my friend?' and wonder what their motives were," said Baird, who would also rather see women in the industry collaborate than bicker. That said, Baird thinks Swift has taken a "much more gracious route" in this latest digging up of dirt, especially for someone whose every move is placed under the microscope and analyzed in minute detail.

"I love Katy, but I'm not sure if these antics and the interviews where's she's saying, 'You can't mess with me' are really her. It's so edgy and it might not be who she is," she said. "Taylor releasing her music on Spotify is a smart cover move, but I think it would have happened whether Katy was releasing an album or not. I don't think the Spotify thing is a quick call that instantly releases everything. It's a longer process. It's not that deep, but maybe just a sh--ty coincidence."

The bottom line for Baird is that the silent moves are the best, in which case Swift's best one is to not mention, acknowledge or give it any attention. "If you do that, then the situation can't control you -- that's what I tell my clients," she said. "Just release better music and have better contacts and friends. Katy has always been such a great advocate for women standing up for themselves, but sometimes you get in a situation where your emotions are caught up. The best is if they say, 'Let's bury the hatchet and discuss ways we can work together to help other women.' Because that's the message she’s trying to get out. She's not being [counseled properly] and decided to get into dirt and that message isn't getting out."

Verdict: Swift

Marvet Britto, publicist, brand strategist and Britto Agency founder who has worked with Mariah Carey, Foxy Brown, Eve, Angela Bassett and many others

In a career aimed at helping female artists make the most of their brands, Britto has a very simple rule: Stay focused on you. "They're each fueling a beef that is not in alignment with their brand -- being a wholesome advocate for girl power," she said. "They should talk through it privately, because young girls are their base and they should focus on being champions for young women, girl power and feminism. That's what has allowed them to have such vast audiences."

Britto noted that Swift has stayed mostly above the fray this time, coming off as the more mature artist and following her golden branding rule: "The moon never barks down at the dog." In other words, when you're on top, you should focus on what’s ahead and not what's beneath or behind you. "Responding is a distraction that takes you off course," she said. "[Perry] should get back to music and why people fell in love with her in the first place rather than building her career on the back of someone else. True stars at the top of their game are focused and deliberate and don’t allow distractions to take them off course."

Verdict: Call it a truce

ts`989fanatic I personally don’t care what they say Taylor Swift stayed out of it and wins hands down.

[thezachrogers]

SUMMER MOVIE RECAP

I know, I know; It’s been over two months since I have written anything and I am sorry! There are PLENTY OF MOVIES to go over.  Half of this will be a rent list and half will be a theater list. This will be a different kind of post, it will be a “See or not to see” list. So, here we go.

IN THEATERS NOW:

Spider-Man: Homecoming PG-13 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.1/10 on IMDB

SEE THIS MOVIE IN IMAX!!!

Holy cow guys, what a great movie. Rotten Tomatoes is ranking it in the top 5 comic book film list ever. Tying with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, Fellow MCUer and the film that started the MCU 2008′s Iron Man, and Logan. This has definitely been the year of comic book films with five already released and one more on the way. 

My wife and I saw this movie in IMAX and it did not disappoint. This is the first Spider-Man film I’ve actually liked in 13 years since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2. The prologue of this film picks up following the events of 2012′s Avengers with a New York clean up crew led by Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) cleaning up the mess the Chitauri Army, Loki, and the Avengers left. Another time jump to Peter Parker filming on a go pro the events that took place during Captain America: Civil War in 2020. Then another time jump two months later to where this story takes place.

Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is a sophomore in High School and is considered a loser nerd. Nope there is no Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborne, or J, Jonah Jameson in this version folks. This takes us back to the basics. Peter is just trying to navigate how to be a teenager and have powers. Interestingly enough, this is the first cinematic Spider-Man without an origin story, AND IT WORKED!

Yes, Hot Aunt May is the best part of the movie. Marisa Tomei stole the whole movie. I think she should get her own spinoff. She is a great mother figure to Peter. And Tony Stark (RDJ) cannot get over how unbelievably attractive she is.

The entire cast top to bottom, Holland, Tomei, Michael freaking Keaton, WOW WOW WOW; Jon Favreau, Zendaya, everyone is fantastic in this new take on Spider-Man.

Go see this movie in theaters. Excited for what we are going to see from the new Spider-Man, Mr. Tom Holland!

Wonder Woman PG-13 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.9/10 on IMDB

More babes. 

Gal Gadot is the fox of all foxiness. She is also incredibly elegant, witty, and stands for unity and love in DCEU’s take on Wonder Woman.

She didn’t come to a fresh start in Batman v Superman. One of the worst comic book films of all time, the script was so bad they only gave her three lines of dialogue. She was the only thing that makes the film watchable because she stole the entire movie. With Zack Snyder at the helm of the DCEU, the Wonder Woman film was not so promising with three out of three bad movies already on the slate. 

This film was shockingly good. All the characters were great. Chris Pine was amazing, Danny Huston was a great villain, and the reveal plot/twist of the main villain was also great. This movie was full of action, great visuals, stunts, and humor!

This movie was not full PC (politically correct) and try to push feminist agendas which I liked. It portrayed women as loving, caring, smart, and charming, but can be badasses and not over sexualized. 

GO SEE THIS MOVIE BEFORE IT LEAVES THEATERS!!!

Despicable Me 3 PG 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.4/10 on Rotten Tomatoes

Universal looooooves milking their franchises. Mummy, Fast and Furious, Despicable Me, Jurassic...the list keeps on going. 

Gru and the Minions are back for the 4th time in seven years to take on another evil villain who thinks he is badder than Gru, IMAGINE THAT!

Yes, it has its humor, yes its a great movie for kids, but unless you have kids, there is no reason to go to the theater to see this. Save your money for Dunkirk or Planet of the Apes.

If you love these movies, wait for rental, it will be out in September.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales PG-13, 29% on Rotten, 7.0 on IMDB.

Unfortunately in today’s cinema culture, if you do not have a good score on Rotten Tomatoes 24 hours prior to release, you’re not going to do well in the box office. Sad day for the swashbuckler franchise. 

I honestly thought it was one of the stronger movies in the franchise. It was a whole lot better than the third and fourth installments. Unfortunately it did not do well enough to include a sixth installment, so it is looking like this is the final adventure for Captain Jack Sparrow. 

I liked it, but didn't love it. What this film did was make my love for the first two films grow and appreciate the characters a lot more. I don’t care what anyone says, Geoffrey Rush is part of the heart and soul of this franchise, His character in this final installment makes him one of the most lovable anti-heroes (or villains) ever. Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann make their return and they get the ending we were all hoping for. Javier Bardem is 100x better than Bill Nighy’s awful CGI filled Davy Jones character. Due to the technology, this is the best film of the franchise as far as visuals go. With the new characters they could have easily renamed the film Pirates: The New Generation. 

This movie honestly needed a lot less Johnny Depp. It was overacted and too much. I like him less and less every film.

This will be a great movie for rentals, probably your best renter this year. It is still in limited theaters, but don’t go out of your way to find it. It will be out on digital 9/19.

The Fate of the Furious PG-13 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.9/10 on IMDB

Guilty pleasure.

I hate to love these movies, but I do. We watched on Exodus KODI on digital and I was surprised at how good it was and how they can keep the plot going. I would rank it as third best in the franchise next to the original film and Dwayne Johnson’s debut in the franchise: Fast Five.

Following this film there will be a F9 and F10, as well as Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham getting their own spinoff from the franchise after studio altercations between Johnson and Diesel. Vin, we know you are Dom Toretto, but clearly you cannot smell what the Rock is cooking...step off.

Great renter, I wish we would have seen in theaters, but it will not disappoint in your living room.

Gold 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.7/10 on IMDB

It’s strange. Matthew McConaughey is one of my all time favorite actors, but since Interstellar in 2014, all he has done is crap movies. Makes me hesitant to go see The Dark Tower next month. I honestly think he believes changing his appearance and weight will win him Oscars and Emmys. I mean he did it for Dallas Buyers Club and True Detective, it will work again right?

No Matthew, it won’t. 

If you want to completely waste your time, watch this movie. One of his worst films to date. Now on DVD and Digital.

Saban’s (Mighty Morphin reboot) Power Rangers 45% RT, 6.2 IMDB

It just keeps getting worse and worse people. 

If you’re a 90s kid, you loved the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, if you go back and watch the nostalgic 3 season series on Netflix its so campy for its time. Its as bad as the 60s Batman series, but yes I understand it was made for kids, as this film probably was too. Its not made for grown ups who watched the series as a child, if that was their goal, they did a terrible job. Its such a campy 2017 movie. The CGI is not even that good and you can tell it was done a tight budget. Looked like a TV movie.

Sorry 22-30 year olds, but let the nostalgia on this one stay nostalgia and don’t see this movie. (Don’t worry the sequel wasn’t greenlit). Now on DVD and digital.

A Dog’s Purpose 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.7/10 on IMDB

All dogs don’t go to Heaven apparently. Nope, they get reincarnated into other dogs’ bodies. Yes people, yes that is the plot of this film, told from a reincarnated dog’s perspective who remembers all of his lives. What a retarded concept for a movie. My wife was watching at home and I caught the last hour. 

It might be the stupidest movie I have ever wasted precious life on. No one should see this movie, I am not even going to let you know of it’s availability for rental because I would do a disservice to you.

Well that’s a rap peeps! Next review will be on Nolan’s Dunkirk dropping next weekend!

Thanks for reading! 

Z

[taytay4ever]

For almost three years, it was the Voldemort of pop diva beefs: a roiling public battle whose generals could not, would not be named, even if everyone had both on their tongues almost from the start. Taylor Swift came out first, swinging hard with "Bad Blood" in 2014, but in interviews she demurred when it came to describing the subject of the song beyond saying it was "about losing a friend" and that the person (ID'd as a fellow female pop star) did something "so horrible" they became "straight-up enemies."

Katy Perry, her alleged target, subtweeted a short time later about watching out for "Regina George in sheep's clothing" and then weighed in on a side beef between Swift and Nicki Minaj with another tweet in 2015. Fast-forward to last month, when Perry revved up the promo machine for her Witness album by menacingly telling Entertainment Weekly: "You can't mistake kindness for weakness and don't come for me."

It was the first of several shots fired from Perry, who went on to give the most complete rundown to date of the source of the duo's beef during a "Carpool Karaoke" segment -- it was, as rumored, over shared backup dancers -- during which she doubled down on her previous finger-wagging comments. The singer tripled and quadrupled down in subsequent interviews, telling the NME that Taylor tried to "assassinate my character with little girls" after releasing the not-at-all-subtle Minaj duet "Swish Swish."

So there's been a flurry of activity in a battle that everyone thought was pretty much over. In every war, there must be a winner and a loser, so Billboard asked some PR experts to weigh in on who they think came out on top.

Karen Civil, author, social and digital media strategist "I ran my first marathon listening to 'Roar' the whole time, and I loved how Katy was always so empowering, but with this project and her demeanor, I was confused," said Civil, who took particular issue with Perry's Migos collabo "Bon Appétit," which she said just confused her. "Her and Taylor had their quarrels, but they never said each other's names -- you had 'Bad Blood' -- but when you go public because you want it to be part of your press campaign? You always let the records talk."

Civil said Perry might have looked better if she had arranged a performance where the two women hugged it out, but with Swift keeping quiet, there is no clear winner or loser in this public feud. "Katy usually wins with her music, but this time, it’s not resonating, and Taylor coming back being petty releasing her music on Spotify [the same day Witness dropped], that's not what I want to see," she said. "These are both great women and I hate in our society that there can't ever be more than just one [woman who wins]."

Given the choice between Witness and grabbing all her favorite Swift songs on Spotify, Civil opted for neither, instead grabbing SZA's CTRL album. "It's just Katy beating a dead horse, and, you know, Taylor's not paying it any mind and will just come out with a hit record while Katy's album will come and go," she said. "Taylor needs ammo, and music is therapeutic for her. You're just giving her ammo for a No. 1 hit about you. I'm expecting 'Bad Blood... Continued.' This is a one-sided beef, and I'm not into it."

Verdict: Swift by a nose

Howard Bragman, veteran publicist and crisis manager, founder of Fifteen Minutes PR Bragman is a longtime proponent of the "everyone loves a good comeback story" line of reasoning when it comes to America's obsession with redemption tales. When it comes to this kerfuffle, though, he thinks it's mostly a teen-pop tempest. "I think in the world we live in, it depends on who you liked going in," he said. "The one you like better going in is probably the one you will like going out. We all have an amazing ability to see the world through partisan eyes."

Given Perry's massive career, including what she's done and what she will likely do in the future, Bragman doesn't see her shots fired at Swift -- followed by a series of olive branches and even a "Swish Swish" lyric swap during a performance Monday that switched "don't you come for me" to "God bless you on your journey" -- as a game-changer either way. "This is a non-controversial controversy," he said. "It benefits them both and it doesn't do any real damage. They're both laughing all the way to the bank. I think if they saw each other in the real world, they would hug each other."

Verdict: Both winners

Holly Baird, veteran publicist, crisis manager Baird isn't even really sure if the Taylor vs. Katy beef is as big a deal as Taylor's skirmish with Nicki Minaj over VMA nominations. Plus, she thinks the dancer tug-of-war is only half the story and that the real beef between the women might be the unspoken girl-code breaking that occurred when Perry dated John Mayer after Swift had a brief fling with him in 2009.

"When you're making friends in the industry, any woman, when you call someone a friend and that friend dates someone after you do... you have to wonder, 'Was that person my friend?' and wonder what their motives were," said Baird, who would also rather see women in the industry collaborate than bicker. That said, Baird thinks Swift has taken a "much more gracious route" in this latest digging up of dirt, especially for someone whose every move is placed under the microscope and analyzed in minute detail.

"I love Katy, but I'm not sure if these antics and the interviews where's she's saying, 'You can't mess with me' are really her. It's so edgy and it might not be who she is," she said. "Taylor releasing her music on Spotify is a smart cover move, but I think it would have happened whether Katy was releasing an album or not. I don't think the Spotify thing is a quick call that instantly releases everything. It's a longer process. It's not that deep, but maybe just a sh--ty coincidence."

The bottom line for Baird is that the silent moves are the best, in which case Swift's best one is to not mention, acknowledge or give it any attention. "If you do that, then the situation can't control you -- that's what I tell my clients," she said. "Just release better music and have better contacts and friends. Katy has always been such a great advocate for women standing up for themselves, but sometimes you get in a situation where your emotions are caught up. The best is if they say, 'Let's bury the hatchet and discuss ways we can work together to help other women.' Because that's the message she’s trying to get out. She's not being [counseled properly] and decided to get into dirt and that message isn't getting out."

Verdict: Swift

Marvet Britto, publicist, brand strategist and Britto Agency founder who has worked with Mariah Carey, Foxy Brown, Eve, Angela Bassett and many others In a career aimed at helping female artists make the most of their brands, Britto has a very simple rule: Stay focused on you. "They're each fueling a beef that is not in alignment with their brand -- being a wholesome advocate for girl power," she said. "They should talk through it privately, because young girls are their base and they should focus on being champions for young women, girl power and feminism. That's what has allowed them to have such vast audiences." 

Britto noted that Swift has stayed mostly above the fray this time, coming off as the more mature artist and following her golden branding rule: "The moon never barks down at the dog." In other words, when you're on top, you should focus on what’s ahead and not what's beneath or behind you. "Responding is a distraction that takes you off course," she said. "[Perry] should get back to music and why people fell in love with her in the first place rather than building her career on the back of someone else. True stars at the top of their game are focused and deliberate and don’t allow distractions to take them off course."

Verdict: Call it a truce