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bloomeng · 1 month ago

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I absolutely love Superboys Halloween costume. What costumes do you think the batboys would wear for Halloween?

Oh I’m so glad you asked.

I think as a kid Dick was very typical in that he liked dressing up as things he thought were cool, Robin Hood, pirates, cowboys. One memorable year he tried to convince Bruce to let him go as Robin and for Bruce to go as Batman, and he was unrelenting. Finally they compromised and Dick went as Batman and Bruce went as something vaguely resembling Robin. (He wore a red suit with like a green shirt and yellow tie.) As retribution Dick went as Superman the next year and now that’s his go to costume any year that he doesn’t have a better idea. The last few years he’s been really into pun costumes. Last year he went in a running outfit, then over the top he layered like sewing items and went as “Tailor Swift.” This year he constructed a cardboard chapel and grabbed an oar to be “Chapel Row’in.” Get it… like Chappell Roan. Yeah his family all groaned too. (Credit to Micarah Tewers for those ideas, I’m not nearly that clever)

Jason loved Halloween as a kid. He was really excited by the idea of dressing up as his favorite characters, but none of his favorite characters were things that normal 13 year old boys liked. So it was always like Mr. Darcy or Dr. Frankenstein. And he’d really get into the accuracy of the costumes, totally taking advantage of Bruce’s bank account. Bruce would of course indulge him, though it was usually Alfred helping him put his costumes together. Post-Death Jason stopped dressing up all together. It’s only been recently that he’s been getting back into it. The first year he decided to dress up again he opted for something simple that he thought had plausible deniability as “not a costume.” Dick clocked him immediately.

“Are you dressed as the guy from The Shining?”

“His name is Jack Torrence. How did you get that so fast, you don’t even know his name?”

“Jason, you would never wear flannel voluntarily.”

This year he’s going as a Deep One from “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.”

Tim is the definition of low effort costumes. Most years he doesn’t bother to dress up and when confronted about it he’ll say he’s dressed as “Tony Hawk.” However, he absolutely refuses to be that person who throws on a witch hat or some animal ears. When he does actually dress up it’s usually as someone famous in a specific niche community/field that most people would never know off the top of their head. This year he is going as someone “very obvious;” Magnus Carlsen. (Aka he’s wearing a suit, no tie and carrying around a chess board.)

For his first few Halloween’s with the Waynes Damian just let Alfred choose costumes for him. He had to approve of them, but other than that he claimed to not care, but really he was insecure about picking something for himself. He had limited exposure to pop culture and didn’t really even know his own taste at that point, so Alfred dressing him was safe. Alfred’s picks were nice, if a bit generic, and super biased. One year he went as a prince, another year Sherlock Holmes, really anything Alfred wanted to see on Damian. Around 12 he started feeling comfortable enough to pick for himself. Last year he went as the male lead in his favorite Shoujo manga (I don’t know if the manga he likes in canon has a name). This year Jon talked him into a group costume, so Jon is going as Naruto and Damian is going as Sasuke (the designs from the original series, not Shippuden.)

Duke tends to opt for famous film characters. He prefers costumes that he can build out of normal clothing, but as a kid he totally dressed up in those cheap Spirit Halloween costumes. If Marvel existed in their universe, he would have loved going as Miles Morales’ Spider-Man. Now that he’s a teenager, he’s too embarrassed to go as things he deems dorky. He has toyed with the idea of a MMA related costume, but that’s still too embarrassing for him, so he defaults back to cool movie characters. He’s gone as a lot Quentin Tarantino characters. It started with Jules Winnfield, and it spiraled from there. This year he’s going as Warren from “Hateful Eight.” (Not his favorite Tarantino film but he’s running out of new characters and he thinks his outfit is cool)

You didn’t ask about the girls but I have ideas for them too.

Steph ADORES Halloween and she goes all out. She loves dressing up in costumes that she feels hot in. Not in the “insert costume but sexy” way just things that allow her to dress up nice. When she and Tim were dating she tried to get him to do a couple’s costume with her. The result was a very high effort beautiful Corpse Bride next to the lowest effort Victor you’ve ever seen. She learned her lesson and the next year she dressed Tim herself (he bitched the whole time but admitted he looked good when she was done). They went as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. She usually planned their costumes a year in advance, but sadly they broke up before they made it to doing Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel. Tim awkwardly offered to still do it but she declined. Instead she went as Mary Van Tassel. This year she’s doing something classic, and going as a vampire, complete with Twilight-style sparkles. She’s also a big fan of fake blood and usually tries to incorporate into her costume in some way.

Cass is the wildcard of the family. She always keeps her costume a secret until the night of. As far as themes, her costumes tend to be all over the place. She tends to stay in the generic realm, so less referential, but she mixes it up whether or not she does something scary, or funny, or cool. I do think she tends to prefer costumes that include masks or helmets. I don’t know what they’re called but I have a friend who is really into those like cyberpunk robot helmets, I think she’d love those. However, this year she really mixed it up and decided to go as Ellie from “Last of Us” and roped Bruce into going as Joel. He had no idea who that was, but Cass sharing her Halloween plans prior to Halloween is a big deal, so he agreed immediately.

Babs is also a victim of the low effort Halloween costume. She’s fine throwing on a witch hat and calling it good. When she does dress up the costumes are usually fairly recognizable and comfortable. She likes to dress up as red haired characters like Kim Possible, or that one year she went as Lois Griffin (she thought she was hilarious). Another year she went as Link from Wind Waker specifically, just because she had a lot of green in her closet already. The most effort she ever put into a costume was when she poorly recreated (intentionally) the Discowing suit. This year she’s going as Ellie Sattler from Jurassic Park.

Also not a batboy, but we’ve done the whole family might as well do the Bat himself. When left to his own devices Bruce usually goes as one of two things: The Grey Ghost or James Bond. He basically just cycles between those two costumes every year, unless one of his kids requests something else (that is also reasonable). One year he lost a bet, and he dressed up as Superman and that was memorable. As I mentioned this year he is going as Joel for Cass. He hadn’t seen the show before she asked, and to be honest he’s probably only watched the first episode simply for the costume.

When asked Alfred says he’s dressed as the “Butler who did it” in reference to the murder mystery trope.

#this was probably way longer than it needed to be #i just love these types of asks #so thank you #dc #dc headcanon #batfamily #batfam #asks

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just-another-bored-killjoy · 9 months ago

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are you a cowboy, pirate or knight?

i would like to say I'm a knight. like the chess piece i move two steps to a direction only to get distracted and move either left or right. never ending up facing the direction i originally intended to. but that's not a negative thing entirely, i get exposed to new and unexpected stuff which can be fun. only piece on the chessboard not restricted by others i can jump over the things i don't like. not attacking the squares directly surrounding me people can confide in me without feeling any danger.

#asks #greytoafawlt #im sorry my chess player is showing #i know this question meant knight in a classical sense but these were my initial thoughts :3 #also haiiiii!!!!

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comicgeekscomicgeek · 2 months ago

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I learned from a Lego Chess PC game. It had a Cowboys version and Pirates version on it.

Never any good at it though. I always end up treating it more like Checkers, trying to capture as many pieces as I could.

wait wait wait hold on

bonus: tell me how you learnt chess, if you DO know how to play it. i learnt from my older sister, who was in chess club in fifth grade and forced me to play against her.

#chess #tumblr polls #lego

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yamatossideboob · 22 days ago

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ONE PIECE 1131 Spoilers!

This week's restorations!!!!:

TEAM YAMTO ON THE MOVE GOTTA GET THE SWORD

"We've been waiting to get here for ages" not as long as some of us sonny 💀👵

I adore Loki being like 'hey yeah welcome to Elbaph yippee now fucking unchain me from this colossal tree bro"

I'd love to see this next page animated bc you just know that's a deafening silence right there for a split second before the animals react.

"Keenly surmised!" ah crap I'm going to love this heinous fucker

(Loki voice) "Oh, still human are you? Then I am in luck. Could you help me? As you can see I am stuck, without recourse. Please, I have duties to fulfill, and I will reward you handsomely. Well? I am certain you stand to benefit."

it's a good thing that sea prism stone doesn't have a radiation effect or Luffy would be screwed rn

Loki offering to be a Hades summon nbd

Loki thought he was being sly bringing on his own summons lmfao. Unfortunately for him he's trying to get freed by fucking Dr. Doolittle here lollllllllllll

Loki: They are corpses already. Smelly robe fellas: BRUH

I wonder if the red Luffy saw when Loki dissed his idol is the same colour as Shanks' hair...

why WAS Shanks at Elpabh a short while ago... a most intriguing query...

So it's being framed in-story that Luffy will surely have a role in Loki getting free of those chains, but the question is, how does Loki, someone sharper than a serpent's tooth, convince Luffy, a lad who can tell with a glance what someone's about, to get him loose? Clearly the answer is subterfuge, which again is going to be hard to pull off with Luffy, but if any character can wrangle it? It's going to be the namesake of the trickster god. This giant fuck is about to be formidable with the 4D chess fibbing.

In that vein, I'm keen to see what Rodo will offer this arc, I can't see him staying the sees-you-when-you're-sleeping otaku that he currently is. I want to see him leave this rp incel crap behind and grow as a fictional person.

LMAO THEY'RE MAD AT RODO FOR HIS RPF SHIT!! GET HIS ARSE!!!

at least I hope they are. Don't rp as real people lads its aw creepy.

that bridge running panel is just a really nicely done bit of perspective, good arting stuff

aw Hajrudin getting moose steaks for his Strawhat buddies 🥺 wb mate good to see you

The scans couldn't quite pin down what the 'painter' bit means and idk that the official does either bc. what is this supposed to mean??

the New Giant Pirates might be slick operators but they have no Robin onboard and that's why they're sworn to the OGs

SPEAKING OF ROBIN THOUGH

THE ORIGINAL AND STILL THE BEST QUEEN OF MY HEART AND SOUL IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT CAN'T IMPROVE ON PERFECTION A LITTLE BIT DANGEROUS BUT BABY THAT'S HOW I LIKE IT BECAUSE YOU'RE WORTH IT I NEED YOU MORE THAN I WANT YOU AND I WANT YOU FOR ALL TIME MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD SORRY NOT SORRY BOA SPATCHCOCK RETURN TO FOREVER BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ahem. I may have almost started hyperventilating when I read this bit yesterday. the Robin stan life treats me well loves, what can i say. now all she needs is a cowboy hat. we can change destiny.

also this is why I love Brook despite his occasional nonce carry-on, he's a true enabler of epic momence, a hamburger helper of the highest degree 🩻🦴💚

also Lilith's hyuk hyuks at Brook's bits is adorable. Fabulous page all round.

and just to shatter the audience sense of peaceful achievement, here comes Oda with the kick in the narrative pants in the form of Saul not doing so hot. I doubt he'll nix Saul before he meets Robin again but I do think we should brace ourselves for some Kuma on Egghead style grief lads. I cannot wait to see him again...

On that note, we have our next chapter in a week's time! Be here then my nakama, the long-awaited Elbaph stone is finally rolling! 💪💚

#op spoilers #live from ohara #my stomach is full my heart is soaring

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terriblelizbians · 4 years ago

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im going to rewatch queens gambit but only the scenes with benny watts just to give myself the most gender envy

#why cant i be a chess pirate cowboy with a shitty little mustache. why

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nrgburst · 4 years ago

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Insufferably Smug Chess Cowboy/Pirate

Why is this sexy what is wrong with me

#benny watts #thomas brodie sangster #the queen's gambit #the queen’s gambit #the queens gambit #tqgedit #perioddramaedit #userstream #bbelcher #chewieblog #cinemapix #filmtv #tvedit #netflixedit #tvgifs #myedit

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jetspikepub · 3 years ago

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Name: Bianca, 20 y/o

Voice actor: Akemi Okamura

Height: 165 cm

Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Hobby: Windsurfing

Position: A fledgling bounty hunter. Works with her twin brother Kent. She started to follow the trails of her late grandfather when she discovered that he was a space pirate whose name became a legend half a century ago.

Personality: Unlike her brother Kent, Bianca has a strong personality. She's good with weapons but still lacks experience as a cowboy.

Name: Kent, 20 y/o

Voice actor: Kōhei Kiyasu

Height: 162 cm

Hobby: Chess

Position: A fledgling bounty hunter. Works with his older sister Bianca. He provides supporting role to his sibling who tends to jump the gun, or rather cleans up the mess she makes. Kent is aware of grandfather's past but he feels more attached to the image of a gentle old man.

Personality: He believes that there is always room for forgiveness, even if someone causes you too much trouble.

Name: Priscilla

Age on the image: approximately 22

Height: 159 cm

Occupation: Singer

Position: She was the most popular singer of the Solar System 50 years ago and was recognized not only as an idol but also as a very talented person. Her goal was to support those who conquered the space at that time. "Diamonds" was her most favourite song. After quitting business in her 20s she returned to her hometown and has never showed up on the media since.

Personality: Born in a poor family, she faced many hardships but was a kind person. She was never obsessed with money and often donated to disadvantaged children. While modest, she stood her ground and made no compromises.

Name: Ellen McCarthy, 36 y/o

Voice actor: Kotono Mitsuishi

Height: 173 cm

Occupation: Bar owner

Hobby: Dancing

Postition: Jet's old acquaintance, wife of his former colleague (boss) Ronald. She was popular with cops in a bar not far from ISSP department before she married Ronald. After he died in an accident 2 years ago, she opened a bar to run business.

Name: Steve Chase, 32 y/o

Voice actor: Keiji Fujiwara

Height: 185 cm

Occupation: Self-proclaimed music producer・Bounty head

Hobby: Clubbing

Position: A music producer who's got bounty on his head because of collecting money and running away with it. He is looking for Priscilla's unreleased song called "Pearls", which forms a pair with the"Diamonds", in order to make a good use of it both in creative and financial ways. Runs faster than any other person.

Personality: Wears glasses. A playful type of guy. You never know what he's up to. Probably because he doesn't know either. Despite being frivolous, he is just a clumsy person who tries to do his so-called work the best way he can.

#cowboy bebop #cowboy bebop game #cowboy bebop tsuioku no serenade

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thebutterflyprince · 3 years ago

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rating undertale aus

but theyre only the ones from this school desk ink video(s) cause im lazy

undertale the original game - the man the myth the legend. 10/10

undersail - the concept of undertale as pirates is really funny. 7/10

underfell - i dont know why undertale but red/black color scheme and edgy and everyones an asshole is so funny to me but its SO funny to me. 9/10

inktale - im like 90% sure this is a sans-only one but when i was like 11 i fucking LOVED ink sans i had an ink sans minecraft skin at one point he gets a 9/10 for nostalgia and also an epic design

dancetale - groovy moves also the art of this one was really pretty. i think this would make a fun game 9/10

errortale - another sans only one im like fairly sure most of errors design is just sans but colors inverted which is super funny. 7/10

aftertale - i gotta be honest most of my knowledge of this fucker is from the christmas party dub but gets a solid 6/10 anyway

sugartale - i never knew what this one was?? i dont think it has a undertale au wiki page? but im like fairly sure its just undertale but with candy designs so like 7/10 i think its cool

outertale - 10/10. its undertale in space i dont need to elaborate

mafiatale - another 10/10. why is the cast of undertale in the mafia? who fucking knows. but its funny as hell

core!tale- i think this one was just frisk but aside from seeing them on like random askblogs i have no idea what this one is about? like 5/10 im so neutral on this one dude

reapertale - the designs for this one fucking slap the concept is also epic 10/10

westerntale - again ive never heard of this one outside of this fucking video but the concept of cowboy undertale is enough for me to give it a 9/10

freshtale - what the fuck was up with this one. sans was some 90s skater guy in rainbow outfits. i ahve no idea if any of the other cast was here. i think sans was posessed by some evil parasite? literally no fucking idea. 10/10

underlust - 0/10 im aroace

chesstale - i dont cvufckng know what this one si? i dont know if they ARE the chess pieces or if they PLAY chess? the art doesnt help?? 3/10 i dont know how to play chess

horrortale - this one had interesting lore but i dont actually rmeember it. what happened here. idk. 6/10

mettatale - this one might have been that one au that like mettaton takes over the underground after a neutral run? but why does everyone have mettaton legs???????????????? 7/10 it has comedic potential

flowerfell - automatic 0/10 for the ship otherwise couldve been a cool concept

underswap - dont know what happened here there was some nuclear explosion in this fandom. about 90% of the explosion was sans. solid 8/10 i think they all have fun designs even if people only cared about sans and maybe papyrus if youre lucky. you guys are not tapping into the potential the temmie and flowey swap has??

storyshift - this one holds a place in my heart i used to LOVE storyshift but like mostly chara and asriel i thought their designs were SOOOO cute. 9/10 for nostalgia points

nightmaretale - i honest to god forget what this one is but the cover image for it its weird. its giving me 4/10 vibes so 4/10

birdtale - another one ive NEVER heard of outside of this video but i think undertale except they all have sick wings is a great concept. i love wings 9/10

pokétale - i love pokémon aus. 8/10

fantasytale - i dont know fucking anything about this one dude 3/10 just cause i dont know ANYTHING about it. it doesnt deserve that low im sure but like i just dont know ANYTHIGN about it

traveltale - i gotta be honest i like have 0 idea what this is. the name doesnt convey much either ?????????????????? 3/10 until i find out more

underland - i assume this is like alice in wonderland undertale but tbh... i dont care for alice in wonderland. 4/10

littletale - i never liked it when i was younger and i still dont really get the appeal honestly 2/10 tho cause some of the art was cute

undertone - i assume this is a music one??? i dont know anything about this one 6/10 tho i love anything music based

understeam - steampunks not my favorite but its pretty cool 6/10

thank you for reading my undertale au reviews. im going to forget about this post in like 5 minutes

#undertale #long post #monamona.txt

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drawing-way-outside-the-lines · 3 years ago

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For Penelope : all for Favorites, 1,2,4,12 for Routines, 3,4,8 for Philosophy and 3, 4 for Other. Please please please please pleasaaaaaase !

Candy? Penny: Hmmm.... probably just ye olde gummy bears, Haribo of course! Kind of pizza? Penny: Hawaian of course! *She chuckles* yeah yeah I know the debate about pineapple on pizza. Look I wont boss how you eat your pizza if you don't boss about mine *winks* Flavor of donut? Penny: Hmmm... there's a bakery not many streets from our house, it has chocolate/peanutbutter on the inside and bright Tourquise blue frosting on the outside. Like my dad's hair *she smiles softly* Yeah, that's my favorite donut. Amusement park/carnival activity? Penny: Bumper cars! No doubt! Guess I got some speed in my blood after my dad *she chuckles* Pair of shoes? Penny: Actually, my fuzzy bunny slippers. Type of weather? Penny: It happens so rarely, but I absolutely adore when it's sunny and it starts lightly raining for just a short while, while the sun is still out. It's absolutely magical! *she smiles bright* Bird? Penny: *Snorts* Raven.... of course! Both the bird and the man *giggles* Scent? Penny: Hmmm... I'll probably say something trivial like daisies or coffee in the morning, but in all honesty.... I love the smell of cat paws. I mean clean ones, not stanky ones that just came off the litter box... I'm weird, not gross! *she chuckles* No, just clean, warm jelly beans. Cat paws have a very cozy and calming scent to me *she smiles softly* Color? Penny: *She shrugs lightly* Any sort of color that has orangy undertones, and orange itself, of course. Subject in school? Penny: Math. Do they put the milk or the cereal first in the bowl? Penny: Adding milk first makes no sense to me, I'd forever drown my ceral that way! So I put cereal first, that way I can better control the ratio of milk to cereal. What do they wear to bed? Penny: One of dad's old tshirts *smiles soft* Right-handed or left-handed? Penny: Technically right handed, but I can write with both. I wouldn't say I'm good at writing with left, but I manage. I dunno why I can, I just tried one day, and it wasn't unreadable? What are their bad habits? Penny: I talk with food in my mouth *she snorts* mom corrects me ALL the TIME! Eh well... beside that I can be a bit of a slob. And I leave wet towels everywhere cause I'm too lazy to carry them to the bathroom and hang them on a hook *chuckles* What are five things that always make them happy? Penny: My parents... wait do that count as two or one? *Ponders for a moment* I'll say one in this case. Uhm... cats... chess.... Jazz and dancing. What is the quickest way to their heart? Penny: Intelligence and charm, but not that fake kind of charm that some men try to lure women with *shivers* I want the real stuff. Genuine charm. What do they value above all else? Penny: Family. What’s something they do to indulge or treat themselves? Penny: *She chuckles* previously mentioned donut. A bubble bath. Champagne. Fresh flowers. Chess. Chocolate. Takeaway food. Or... I hang out with Raven, allowing him to treat me right *she chuckles lightly* not necessarily exactly the way you might imagine. I'm still a virgin *smirks*. Would they rather be a pirate, a cowboy, a ninja, or an astronaut? Penny: Psssssh that's an odd question? *she chuckles softly* Hmm... astronaut sounds tempting, but on the other hand, I prefer my feet on the ground.... and sunlight... and no not the kind where you're so close that you can see the flames *chuckles* Uhm... mom kinda tried the pirate life for a moment, and Raven has told me a lot about his time on board ships... so yeah... I dunno... their stories didn't exactly make it sound appealing to me. I don't think I'm fast or stealth enough to be a ninja, so I guess I'll settle for cowboy *she chuckles* I do like horses though, so I'm not disappointed *smiles soft*

#Thank you so much for the questions :D #Penny #Penelope Diamondsheart Cullman #Daniel mumbles

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rpgsandbox · 4 years ago

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Part homage, all farce, the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is an irreverent, affectionate parody of pop-culture tropes and a love-letter to 80s roleplaying games in a new, modern comic-book sized format! It’s a wacky roleplaying game of action comedy!

Hardcover collector's omnibus, softcover rules and adventures, blank ID cards, monster cards, hero role cards, VTT tokens

Are you a fan of the Ghostbusters RPG from the 1980s? Danger Mouse or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Bill & Ted or Rick & Morty? Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Dracula, or sci-fi adventures on the final frontier? Do you enjoy chortling at TV tropes or chuckling at pop-culture parodies? Then the Awfully Cheerful Engine! is here for you!

ACE! is brought to you by Russ 'Morrus' Morrissey (EN World, WOIN, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD), Dave Chapman (Doctor Who, Star Trek Adventures), and Marc Langworthy (Hellboy, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD). With a foreword by Sandy Petersen, co-author of the Ghostbusters RPG!

ACE! is designed for everybody! From talking animals to pulp heroes to eldritch horrors, kids and adults alike will find adventures to love with the Awfully Cheerful Engine!

This tabletop roleplaying game, which we’re calling ACE! with an exclamation point, is one of fast, cinematic, action comedy. To play you need a handful of six-sided dice, a pen, and some paper. Each player plays one Hero, except for one player who takes the role of the Director.

Think of ACE! as an irreverent, fun-packed movie. You might play as ghost hunters in New York City, a band of plucky galactic guardians, vampire slayers, or soldiers of fortune in the Los Angeles underground. Heck, you might even be cartoon animals. Good grief!

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The only limit is your imagination, and the requirement that you have fun.

This Kickstarter is for the full five-book set.

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The core rulebook is just 30 pages in a bright, colorful comic-book sized format. We even gave it an issue number, like a comic-book! After that, each 'issue' is a standalone adventure, designed for one-shots or short campaigns with new characters each time. One week you might be fighting ghosts on the streets of Manhattan, and the next you might be exploring the frontiers of space in your trusty starship!

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Are they comics? Or are they RPGs? (They're RPGs)

ACE #1: Introducing the Awfully Cheerful Engine! With a foreword by Ghostbusters RPG author Sandy Petersen, this book tells you the rules, how to create your Heroes, and gives you a bunch of Extras (NPCs & monsters) to use. By Russ Morrissey.

ACE #2: Spirits of Manhattan. Strap on your Anti-Plasm Particle Thrower, grab your Electromagnetic Field Detector, and jump into your Ghostmobile. New York City needs your help! By Dave Chapman and Russ Morrissey.

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ACE #5: Beam Me Up! These are the voyages of the starship FSS Brazen. Its continuing mission: to recklessly go where plenty of people have probably been before… and hope a major interstellar incident isn’t sparked in the process. In this highly illogical adventure for the ACE! roleplaying game, you’ll explore frontiers you never thought you had. By Marc Langworthy.

We give you four adventures to start with, and we have plans for more, but there's also a free compatibility license so anybody can write and publish material powered by the Awfully Cheerful Engine!

Hardy Hobbit. Teenage Samurai. Cheerful Stuntman. Clumsy Vampire. Squeamish Ghost. Who knew you could say so much in just two words? The possibilities are endless.

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You can download blank ID cards from our website. Don’t worry, there’s a printer-friendly black-and-white version too!

Making your Hero takes about five minutes. And that includes a coffee break.

You can choose from an array of talking animals, alien and fantasy species, and occupations from a bunch of genres. Play a cat, a crow, or a turtle. An alien, an elf, a robot, or a vampire. A knight, a pirate, or a wizard. An astronaut, a burglar, a reporter, or a spy. The core book has dozens of Roles to get you started with, and each adventure book introduces more!

Even better, you can already use our online character builder and make a character in about 30 seconds! It's so quick! Give it a try! And if you felt like sharing your Hero on Twitter with the hashtag #awfullycheerful and a link to this page, well, we'd be most awfully grateful!

Build your Hero online!

Alternatively, each adventure comes with its own selection of pre-generated characters. If you don't want to make your own characters, you can simply use those - perfect for one-shots or new players!

Download the pre-gens for all four adventures from the official website!

In A.C.E! each Hero (that's you!) has a Role. Your Role gives you a special ability only you can use. Here's a quick look at some of the Roles you can play!

Talking animals like Ape, Cat, Crow, Dog, Kangaroo, and Turtle.

Species like Alien, Dwarf, Elf, Ghost, Goblin, Golem, Hobbit, Monster, Ogre, Robot, Vampire, and Werewolf.

Fantasy roles like Alchemist, Assassin, Barbarian, Cleric, Druid, Knight, Ninja, Outlaw, Pirate, Ranger, Samurai, Slayer, and Wizard.

Occupations like Actor, Archeologist, Astronaut, Athlete, Bounty Hunter, Boxer, Burglar, Chef, Con Artist, Cowboy, Detective, Doctor, Engineer, Gambler, Gangster, Hacker, Hermit, Inventor, Musician, Pilot, Priest, Professor, Reporter, Scientist, Smuggler, Soldier, Spy, Student, and Stuntman.

Even a couple of superheroes like Speedster and Vigilante!

Yep, you can play a Ghost. You don’t take damage unless its from a holy source or some special sci-fi ecto-gadget. But you also can’t pick things up. So there’s that.

Each of the adventures adds some more Roles (or recommends some old ones)!

Spirits of Manhattan adds Ghost, Demonologist, Doctor, Engineer, Exorcist, Inventor, Priest, Professor, Scientist, and Student.

Raiders of the Cutty Sark adds Botanist, Double-Agent, Socialite, and Witch.

Strange Science adds Brain, Cheerleader, Outsider, Protector, Radio Presenter, and Tycoon.

Beam Me Up adds Captain, Chief Engineer, Comms, Hologram, Gunner, Counsellor, and Pilot.

ACE! is a pretty fast, light game. If you played 1986's Ghostbusters RPG, you'll see the influence immediately.

Stats! The AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is a d6 dice pool system*. You have four Stats -- Smarts, Moves, Style, and Brawn. If you have a Moves score of 3, you roll three six-sided dice when you try to jump a motorcycle over a ravine. If you roll high enough, you succeed. It's pretty simple!

Focuses! For each Stat you also have a Focus. For Smarts it might be a science, or chess, or history. For Style it might be bluffing, singing, or fashion, and for Brawn it might be brawling or swimming. You can choose from plenty of focuses. Foci. Focuses. Whatever. Anyway, if the thing you're trying to do relates to a Focus, you get to roll an extra two dice.

Trait! You choose a trait, like Angry or Cheerful or Rebellious or Despondent. This, combined with your Role, makes you a Gullible Vampire, a Brave Turtle, or a Squeamish Scientist.

Karma! Finally, you have a bunch of Karma points. These can be spent for extra dice or to absorb damage from attacks, and they're recovered by using your trait.

*Fun fact -- did you know that 1986's Ghostbusters RPG, by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford, was the first ever dice pool RPG? Also Sandy Petersen has written an awesome foreword for the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE!

What, I hear you ask, is a CALAMITY DIE?

The Calamity Die is how you find out that your friends really aren't your friends. You see, when you make a roll, one of those dice is a different color, and is called the Calamity Die. And if your roll fails, and also the Calamity Die rolls a 1, your so-called 'friends' decide what happens to you. It won't kill you or anything, but...

Well, we'll leave that thought with you.

Nooooo! And it was all going so well!

Kickstarter campaign ends: Fri, June 18 2021 10:00 PM BST

Website: [Awfully Cheerful Engine] [EN Publishing] [facebook] [twitter]

#RPG #kickstarter #Awfully Cheerful Engine #EN Publishing

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nothingrpgzone · 3 years ago

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D100+ Cyberpunk Biker Gang Generator

I recently discovered the D100+ generators by Unlawful Games and I was inspired to make my own to make cyberpunk biker gangs.

The Bikes are

Electric

Petrochemical

Main Drive

Drug Running

General Youthful Rebellion

Political Action

Security

How to tell the Head Honcho’s bike from everyone else

The bike has a sidecar with a small protective robot inside

The bike has large speakers that are constantly blaring.

The bike is golden

The bike leaves streaks of light in the air

The bike projects advertisements for how cool the leader is.

The bike shoots flames.

Preferred Weapons

Electric discharge devices

Gas

Grenades

Guns

Homemade pipe weapons

Implanted cybernetic blades

Power tools

Swords

Currently

D10

doing petty crime to make money

fleeing town after an attack from another gang

holding an enemy gang leader hostage

laying low after a police raid

planning a big job

trying to determine the new leader

trying to put themselves atop the pecking order of gangs

undergoing a civil war

upgrading their arsenal

waiting for a very special delivery

Size

D12

Just two people at the moment.

Just a handful

Dozens

A respectable group

Large enough to control a a neighborhood

Controls an entire district

Half the city is under their control

Controls most of the city

Biggest in the mega city

Biggest in the region

Nation Wide

International

Normal Haunts

D20

Abandoned movie theatre

An apartment building under the freeway

Arcade

Bar

Brothel

Computer repair store

Forgotten subway station

In a stalled construction zone.

Inside a junkyard

Overgrown parking structure

Punk House

Strip Club

The docks

The local mechanic shop

The stock exchange

Trap House

Underground roads

Underneath an office building

Warehouse

“Legitimate industrial factory”

Primary AestheticD100

1920s airplane pilots

1950s business wear

1970s fashion revival

1980s hip hop album covers

1990s FPS merch

2000s fashion revival

Anatomical hearts

Asymmetric haircuts

Baldness

Bigfoot is real shirts

Birds

Blasphemy

Catgirl headbands

Catholic clergy wear

Chess Pieces

Chinese folklore

Clowns

Colorful fur coats

Corpse Paint

Cowboys

Cute cat drawings

Denim

Dice

Dragons

Eyepatches

Eyes

Fake cosmonaut suits

Fishnet

Flame button-up shirts and frosted tips

Foppish

Fursuits

Garfield merchandise

Gas masks

Golden jewelry

Greek folklore

Hawaiian shirts

Hearts

Historically accurate renaissance wear

Holographic fabric

Horned helmets

Jack o’ Lanterns

Japanese folklore

Latex

Leather

Leather, but for sex reasons

Lightbulbs

Lumberjacks

Luminescent tattoos

Matching fake nails

Matching jackets with razor blades on the back

Matching mullets

Matching neck tattoos

Mimes

Mothman paraphernalia

Navajo folklore

Neon hair, with matching body hair

Norse folklore

Nudists

Paleoart

Patriotic

Perms

Pills

Pirates

Pixel art

Plague doctor masks

Plastic surgery to look identical

Plastic surgery to look like Ronald Reagan

Playing cards

Polygonal animal helmets

Reflective metallic visors

Salish folklore

Santa Claus

See-through plastic clothes

Sentai

Sharks

Sharpened metal teeth

Shirts with penises on them

Shirts with vaginas on them

Skulls

Snakes

Stars

Stary wizard robes

Storm clouds

Super Heroes

Tarot cards

Tattoos of online forum arguments

Tattoos of their own faces

Tech startup sponsorship

Templars

The moon

The sun

Tigers

Tongues

Torn dresses

Vampires

Video game shirts and khaki shorts

Weed obsession

Welder masks

Wetsuits

Roll 2 and combine

#tables #cyberpunk #system neutral

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rotgsecretsanta · 4 years ago

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2020 Secret Santa Masterlist!

Here are all of the works posted for RotG Secret Santa 2020 as of January 31, 2021!

Prompt 3: I wish for something Sandy related. Maybe something featuring dreams and golden signs. If one or many other Guardians are in it, it would be cool, but not necessary. ;) Art by sp00kfr0st

Prompt 4: Strange relationship between Pitch and Jack before Jack died. The Man From the Dark and a boy who sees him, both longing for someone. Oh, and Pitch losing the only human that saw him, believed in him and loved him. You’ll be Okay by hezuart Longer Longing by winterswrathe

Prompt 5: Bunnymund/Pitch Black - Anything goes, from fluff to angst, in art or fic. Just no Noncon please. Art by winterswrathe

Prompt 6: Orchestra Art by bunnimew

Prompt 7: NDU Proto/Jack (the only two people in the dorms during the holidays) I Can See Your Ghosts by sylphidine

Prompt 8: Perchance Jack's complicated relationship with the moon? Arguing? Grief? Confusion? Comic by hezuart

Prompt 10: Rainbow Snowcone (Jack Frost / Tooth Fairy) Can be anything, just please no NSFW! :D Art by ladyfr0st

Prompt 13: A reverse-power AU, with Jack Black and Pitch Frost? Art by insert-skill-here

Prompt 15: Tooth/Pitch Black - Anything goes. Fluff or angst, art or fic. Just no Noncon please. Art by overmooneleven

Prompt 16: Something with Jack and Pitch! Call It What You Want by askwenjing

Prompt 17: How all of the Guardians are doing with covid and how the world is. Fic by apropoptosis Epiphany by askwenjing

Prompt 18: Jack/older Jamie - Jamie is getting bullied or is having a hard time making friends and Jack comes to visit him at college. Shielded in my Armor by Sylphidine

Prompt 19: (No ship) Pitch, North, and those horror movies where Santa is the villain. Nightmare After Christmas by bunnimew

Prompt 21: MIM!!! With his past, create an angst piece of homesickness and loss. Art by ksclaw

Prompt 22: Dark Jack/Uncorrupted Kozmotis (Pirate/Navy sort of vibe) Fic by apropoptosis Never Lands by eclipseyeger High Seas Hijinks by bunnimew

Prompt 26: North carrying pitch, bridal style. (Otp) Art by ksclaw

Prompt 29: Sandman and Pitch Black playing chess in an old garden. Art, please. Art by ladyfr0st Art by nimohtar

Prompt 32: Jack's cute little Sister Emma Knows Best by bunnimew

Prompt 33: (before the events of RotG) Jack loves to dance on his own under the moonlight. One day he notices Pitch watching him and invites him to join. Art by bunnimew

Prompt 35: Tooth with a sweater/jumper. Art by sp00kfr0st

Prompt 36: Dark Jack/Pitch (u kno ;) ) Art by ladyfr0st Don’t Blame Me by askwenjing

Prompt 38: epilogue to the movie, maybe Jack checking on Pitch later out of sympathy? Afterglow by askwenjing Art by ladyfr0st

Prompt 40: Captain Pitch J Black on the Nightmare Galleon Art by ksclaw

Prompt 43: Pitch black with dreamsand butterflies A Dream Too Good to be True by askwenjing

Prompt 44: Gen, no pairings, the main Guardians and Pitch book or film characters, any kind of AU (pirates, cowboys, royalty etc), fancy costumes etc (No gender swap/crossdressing) Knights and Pages by sylphidine

Prompt 45: A ROTG Hogwarts AU crossover maybe? Fic by apropoptosis Yule Never Live This Down by bunnimew

Prompt 48: Color palette swap, Pitch black and Jack Frost. (Otp) Art by bunnimew Art by heyitsmoonbard

Prompt 49: found family Beautiful Ghosts by askwenjing

Prompt 50: Jack/Bunny - Bunny coaches Jack through a panic attack, maybe triggered by Jack feeling like he messed up his Guardian duties or something. Fic by sarsfe

Prompt 51: Kozmotis Pitchiner/Lady Pitchiner. Anything goes, with art or fic, just no noncon and no changing the ship. Art by ladyfr0st

Prompt 57: Any human AU where Bunny and Pitch can be bros / friends. Art, please Art by winterswrathe

Prompt 58: Feudal Japan Art by hezuart

Prompt 60: Nightlight x Katherine and/or Jack x Katherine in a mermaid AU. Art by ksclaw

Prompt 61: Jack/Pitch OTP - Dragon Riders AU. Bonus for soul bonds/mind bonds/creature bonds. No gender swap/crossdressing Soul Riders by bunnimew

Prompt 64: Jack + trees and/or Ents (Gen, or if you insist on romance, blackice) On Trees and Mistletoe by Nimohtar

#rotgsecretsanta2020 #rise of the guardians #masterlist

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glitterblazercalum · 4 years ago

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got a river for a soul, and baby, you’re a boat

or: Oh, fuck. We showed up wearing matching couples’ costumes to this party by accident and now everyone thinks we’re together.” + cashton

hello and happy halloween everyone!! giant thank u to ainslee @ashesonthefloor for putting this event together!! and for forcing me to actually get this fic done, looking it over, and generally being a major source of serotonin in my life. another huge thank u to bella @clumsyclifford for being one of my favorite people and loving frat boys enough that it made me want to write a fic about them to annoy her <3 love you both <3

here is the link to the event masterpost bc I highly recommend checking out all of the other amazing fics:

https://ashesonthefloor.tumblr.com/post/633534107120549888/hello-welcome-to-my-halloween-fic-event

warnings: mentions of alcohol

word count: 2,872

without further ado, please enjoy the fic I wrote mostly all last night while looping drag me down for thirteen hours straight :))

Calum doesn’t know what fuckhead came up with the idea of having a joint Halloween party for Sigma Nu and Sigma Pi this year, but he really wants to fight them. He thinks he’d probably have a lot of people on his side, considering how much Sig Nu and and Sig Pi hate each other, so he tucks the idea of interfraternity war away in his head as a contingency plan in case the party goes to shit, as joint parties with any other frat always seem to. And it’s not like it’s a one night thing, because all three days of the “Halloweekend,” as Michael refuses to stop calling it, are supposedly going to be spent with Sig Nu, one party at their own house, and two at the shithole that he assumes is the Sig Nu house, in some deranged attempt at bonding. He’ll be lucky to make it out alive, probably.

Before college, he really never did anything of his own for Halloween, mainly used to being used as a prop or side character for his sister Mali-Koa’s elaborate costumes, or, after she’d moved out, sticking a pair of fake fangs in his mouth to hand out candy to the few kids who rang the doorbell despite his efforts to keep all the lights in the house off. Last year, as a freshman, he’d gotten roped into a group costume with some of the other Sig Pi pledges, and while his memories are...hazy at best, he vaguely remembers falling asleep in a Teletubbies onesie at the end of the night.

This year, though, no one has tried to tell him what to dress up as, so it’s now a few hours before the first of the three parties, and Calum still has no ideas for what he should dress up as. A quick Google search for “cheap easy costumes” hadn’t really been all that helpful, so he decides to ignore the problem and take a nap until he actually has to leave.

A few hours later, Michael barges into the room to drag him out of bed, and looks around for a few seconds before asking, “You don’t have a costume, do you?”

Calum groans, pulling himself out of bed and wracking his brain for an idea that he can plausibly bullshit in the next few seconds, because he can’t let Michael be right and have something to tease him about, so he blurts, “I’m going to be a salt shaker.”

Michael gapes at him a bit for a few seconds before asking, “What the fuck? What kind of costume is that? What are you even going to wear for that?”

Calum mentally kicks himself in the shin, as hard as possible, because he really hasn’t thought this through. Why couldn’t he have just said cat or cowboy or something even slightly in the realm of normal Halloween costumes?

“Uhhh.. y’know that baseball tee I have? The one with the black sleeves and white middle?”

“I’m pretty sure that’s in my closet, but continue.”

“What the fuck, dude? Give it back!”

“You haven’t noticed that it’s missing for like three weeks, I just assumed it was mine now. Tell me what the rest of the costume is,” Michael demands.

“I’ll just tape a piece of paper with a big ‘S’ on it to the front of my shirt, and then put one of those pots with the holes on my head. Bam! Salt shaker!” Calum says, moderately impressed with his ability to pull stuff out of his ass this quickly.

“What makes you think we even have a colander?” Michael asks, crossing his arms.

Calum gives him a blank stare. “A what?”

“That’s what the pots with the holes are called, you idiot.”

“You think Harry would live anywhere that didn’t have a fully-stocked kitchen? There’s bound to be one in one of the cabinets or something.”

“Fine. I’ll go get the shirt while you look for the colander.” Before Calum can object, suggest that he look through Michael’s closet himself and steal back any of his other clothes that have somehow wound up there, Michael’s already halfway down the hallway.

Sighing, he trudges down the stairs towards the kitchen, where one of the seniors, Niall, is sitting with his head in his hands, dressed as a pirate.

“Hey, dude, nice costume,” Calum offers as a greeting. “You wouldn’t happen to know where I can find a colander, would you? I know Harry—”

“Do not talk to me about Harry right now,” Niall says, and Calum stops his search for a moment to send him a concerned look.

“What happ—”

“That needy-ass motherfucker thinks that just because I didn’t want to do a couples’ costume with him, it means I don’t love him anymore! Never mind the fact that he literally mentioned this idea to me yesterday, well past the point where everyone finalizes their costumes.”

Calum offers him a sympathetic look and offers, “Couples’ costumes are boring and cheesy anyways. Neither of you are missing out on anything, at least in my opinion.”

Niall lifts his head up from where he’d been repeatedly hitting it on the table to smirk at Calum and ask, “Have a lot of experience with couples’ costumes, do you?”

Luckily, Calum has finally found the colander, so he opts to ignore the question and just leave the kitchen entirely.

When he gets back upstairs, Michael’s in his room, unabashedly checking himself out in the mirror that’s on the back of the closet door. “Yeah, yeah, your anime character of the year looks great, now get out and let me get ready.”

Michael scoffs, “Get ready, as if you’re even doing anything,” but moves towards the door anyway.

Michael’s right, the costume is ridiculously easy to throw together, and two minutes later, they’re both out the door, walking across Fraternity Row to get to the Sig Nu house, where the music is already blaring and strobe lights throw red, then green, then blue shadows across everyone’s faces. On his way to the kitchen to grab a drink, he sees Niall and Harry walk into the house, holding hands and laughing together, so he assumes that their fight has blown over as quickly as all of their other fights always seem to.

He sees a few different trays of shots and decides he might as well take one to get the night started off right. After, he realizes that he probably shouldn’t grab a beer now, Mali’s rule about sticking to one color of booze for the night ringing in his head, so he settles for filling up a Solo cup with whatever glow in the dark gin concoction is in all the punch bowls. He wouldn’t put it past the Sig Nus to poison the drink on purpose, but it tastes relatively normal, so he grabs another cup for Michael and attempts to leave the kitchen, steering around the couple sloppily making out in the doorway.

It’s harder to spot Michael than it usually is, considering that at least half the people at the party are wearing some type of wig, but Calum eventually makes his way back over to him. He’s talking to Niall and Harry, and they both offer him a smile before continuing on with the conversation. Once that reaches a lull, Niall leans closer to Calum and says, “Mate, you didn’t need to lie to me about couples’ costumes.”

Calum has no idea what Niall is talking about, so he shakes his head and asks, “What are you talking about?”

Niall cackles, and Harry turns to look at him adoringly before going back to talking to Michael, and Calum is more confused than ever. Niall grabs his shoulder and spins him around and points in the direction of a clump of people. “You’re salt and he’s pepper, right? That’s such an obvious couples’ costume, although you two do seem to have a bit of a disconnect on how much effort you put in. That guy really went all out. And dude, why haven’t you told us that you have a boyfriend? You know we’d want to know about that, give him the Sig Pi seal of approval and all that. Wait. Unless he’s a Sig Nu, in which case, I don’t want to know because I’d probably have to kick you out. That’s a joke, by the way.”

Calum barely has the presence of mind to mumble, “He’s not my boyfriend,” before crossing the room to get to the guy in the hyper-realistic pepper grinder costume.

The guy smiles as Calum approaches, and despite the costume covering most of his body, Calum can tell that he’s cute. “Why so salty?” Pepper Guy greets, the sunshiney smile still on his face.

Calum smirks and replies, “Maybe I just need some more spice in my life.” Pepper Guy laughs, and just like everything else about him, it’s cute, and Calum wants to hear it again. “I’m Calum, by the way.”

“Ashton. Nice to meet you, man.”

Calum leans a little closer so that it’s easier to hold a conversation over the loud music and asks, “What’s the deal with the super realistic pepper grinder costume?”

Ashton makes a strange noise, somewhere between a laugh and a groan, and says, “I got it off some random sketchy website, but it was supposed to be a chess piece. Something clearly went wrong somewhere in production, and my friend Luke said that I might as well sharpie a “P” onto it and just go with it.”

Calum makes a noise of agreement, mind stuck on a dumb idea. Before he can reconsider, he sends Michael a quick text that says if u’ve already taken over as dj, can u play that come grind w me song? and a few seconds later, he hears the opening notes and grins.

“Hey, Ashton?”

“Yeah?” Ashton replies, as realization slips across his face.

Right in time with the singer’s voice, Calum says, “Come grind with me,” and he laughingly pulls Ashton towards the makeshift dance floor. Neither of them can really dance, so it’s a mess of laughter and limbs flopping around, but Calum feels an unmistakable electricity between them too, and once the song is over, they stay for the next few, enraptured by each other. When they finally exhaust themselves with all the laughing and mock-twerking, Ashton asks Calum if he wants a refill, and when Calum nods, he grabs his hand and starts pulling him towards the kitchen.

Once they’re there, Calum goes for another serving of the glow in the dark punch, which is steadily dimming as the glow sticks run out of light. Since that’s really the only light source in the kitchen, Calum doesn’t see Ashton until he’s turning around and Ashton is right in front of him, reaching around him for a cup. Calum’s kind of trapped with his back against the counter, Ashton’s pepper grinder costume tall enough to really block out the view of the rest of the party, and the world narrows, all of it contained in where their eyes connect, and then, after Calum has safely set his drink back on the counter, that narrow point expands just a bit to where their mouths land on each other’s. The colander gets knocked off Calum’s head as he lifts himself up to sit on the counter, wrapping his legs around Ashton’s waist to pull him closer, as close as he can possibly get him.

Ashton’s sucking a mark into Calum’s neck when Calum has his first coherent thought of the past few minutes and pulls back, breathlessly asking “Wait, wait, you’re not a Sig Nu, are you?” fully expecting the answer to be no.

Ashton steps back a little too, and it takes him a second to register the question before he groans, “Of course you’re a fucking Sig Pi, that’s the only explanation that makes sense for me never seeing you anywhere before. You’re too hot for me to not notice otherwise.”

Calum flushes and mentally curses out whatever idiots had started the rivalry between Sig Nu and Sig Pi before he grabs his stupid colander off the ground and gives Ashton an awkward wave goodbye.

Once he’s out of the kitchen, he quickly glances around in search of Michael, and when he can’t immediately find him, he just gives up and leaves entirely. Fuck Sig Nu.

He spends most of the next day bitching about his hangover, and then, a few hours later, bitching about his hangover while helping to set up the house for that night’s party.

He doesn’t really have much more of a costume for tonight, throwing on a gray shirt and sharpie-ing some whiskers on his face. Michael takes pity on him and makes him a headband with an approximation of what they both think mouse ears are, and Calum is mildly entertained by going up to everyone and saying, “I’m a mouse, duh.”

His heart’s really not in the right place to party tonight, which is probably breaking the cardinal rule of being in a frat, so he sticks close to Michael, who has taken over the role of DJ, once again. Zayn from Alpha Sig strolls over after about half an hour, devil horns askew, and quietly says to Calum, “Cat and mouse, huh? Didn’t think you had it in you, Hood, that’s proper cute. Not as cute as me and Lou, mind you, but still, I respect the effort.”

Calum is reluctant to look up and see who he’s accidentally matching with today, because, with his luck, it’s probably another guy from Sig Nu. When he does eventually look up, he immediately makes eye contact with Ashton, who happens to be walking by, dressed in all black and with whiskers sharpie’d onto his face too. Calum wants to bang his head into a wall because the universe clearly hates him if it’s having him match with Ashton again. Even beyond that, Ashton looks so good out of the stupid pepper grinder and in all black that Calum wants to make out with him again.

Ashton is clearly having similar thoughts when he gestures Calum over and leads them towards a little pocket of quiet space in one of the lesser used hallways.

Calum really wants to hook his thumb into one of Ashton’s belt loops, so he does, as Ashton looks him up and down a few times. “Is the mouse costume your way of telling me you want me to chase you?”

Calum murmurs, “Shut up,” before leaning in to kiss him, frat rivalry be damned. It’s just as good as it was the night before, maybe even more so, now that the pepper costume isn’t in their way. At this point, there’s no denying the chemistry. It can’t be blamed on being drunk since Calum’s been nursing the same beer all night, and the part of his brain that’s protesting against being this close to a Sig Nu is getting smaller and smaller as he and Ashton continue to kiss.

They stay in that hallway for the rest of the night, eventually sliding down to sit on the ground, legs pressed together, sharing stupid stories about their respective frats. Calum’s surprised when the music shuts off because it feels like it’s only been an hour at most, that’s how easy it is to talk to Ashton. Ashton heaves himself up and reaches both hands down to help Calum up, too.

“I don’t think there’s any way you can match your costume to mine tomorrow, but I’ll come find you anyways,” Ashton says, as he leaves Calum with a kiss on the cheek.

Calum’s too wired to sleep much, so he opts to help clean up the house instead, and that takes up enough of his day that when nighttime rolls around, he’s stood staring at his closet without a costume idea for the third time in as many days. After ten minutes of consideration, he digs through one of his drawers to pull out the fake vampire fangs that he had somehow remembered to bring with him, and he goes down the hall to ask Jack to put some fake blood on his mouth and neck. Jack always goes all out for Halloween.

Once he’s at the party, he doesn’t have to wait long to find Ashton, who looks incredibly good in his werewolf costume. There’s fake blood on him too, which is really the only way their costumes could be understood to be matching, or so Calum thinks. Tonight, Jack and Alex are the ones to tease him, “You know what, I agree. Jacob and Edward should have ended up together, Bella was boring as shit.”

Calum’s really not bothered by the comments at all, so much so that he’s already thinking of couples’ costumes ideas for next year when he finds his way over to Ashton and whispers, “Let’s get out of here.”

“Are you trying to make a move on me? I’m a respectable Sigma Nu, I don’t know if I can allow that.”

Calum laughs and tugs him out the door, “Told you I wanted some more spice in my life.”

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nocturnalsleeper · 5 years ago

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500 Drawing Prompts

waterfall

wizard's staff

zombies

sandcastle

fangs

tattoo

family crest

spaceship

mythical beast

spooky tree

alien

tropical cocktail

robot

dragon

tombstone

medieval goblets

king's throne

mermaid

vampire

witch's cauldron

tooth fairy

deep sea monster

magic carpet

sculpture

coral reef

wine bottle

statue of liberty

beast

beauty

elephant

Mayan ruins

birds

cameras

bowl of soup

breakfast

lunch

snack

dinner

flower vase

ladder

full moon

bright sun

autumn

summer

spring

winter

butterfly

caterpillar

troll

roller skates

rain boots

weeds

flowers

bedroom

kitchen

dining room

bathroom

egg hatching

wrist watch

night

harvest

pond

raincoat

hat

water bottle

flashlight

sailboat

dandelion

earthworm

bank robber

policeman

superhero

villain

view out a window

cactus

sunflower

mosquito

spider web

star fish

flip flops

lawn chair

trampolines

pots and pans

sword

lighthouse

pie on a windowsill

house plant

soldier

chimney

barbed wire

squirrels

hot sauce

chain

beehive

helicopter

hot dog

venus flytrap

stained glass

sphinx

skateboard

serenity

open book

werewolf

hourglass

tower

camel

Cleopatra

favorite book character

desert

forest

mountains

ocean

pumpkin seed

pine cone

octopus

mannequin

lollipop

something sticky

footprints

tractor

slime

island paradise

sand dune

archer

my favorite outfit

trophies

fishing fly

black hole

cyclops

swan

mirror

microphone

pretzels

newspaper

submarine

scrambled eggs

eel

wave

bike

leather boots

keys

coffee cup

self portrait

snake charmer

playground

sumo wrestler

crystal chandelier

eight ball

secrets

treasure chest

children's toy

something that sparkles

penguin

unicorn

pirate

tribal pattern

suit of armor

pinball machine

erupting volcano

seahorse

ninja

happy monster

futuristic car

three little pigs

magic amulet

yeti

toolbox

fish bones

zipper

carpenter

handcuffs

doll house

mask

telescope

piano

windmill

double sided axe

samurai

ghost

hot air balloon

bubbles

polka dots

plate of cookies

snake scales

pair of socks

high dive

belt

figure skater

fisherman

space

jack-o-lantern

Cinderella's glass slipper

hay bale

bumper cars

cover wagon

spy

fighter jet

parachute

tree bark

radio

art gallery

bow and arrow

pepperoni pizza

snail

bushel of apples

doorknob

talking object

harp

chess pieces

sprinkler

electricity

computer keyboard

presents

barn

plaid

jewelry

ballet

curtains

tripod

sunglasses

bow tie

Saturn's rings

birdcage

swap creature

horse and carriage

banana peel

stapler

toothpaste

thunder storm

movie poster

video game controller

cinnamon sticks

target

skull

elf

alien plant life

first love

new baby

kids jumping

glaciers

shark

scarf

wheelchair

blacksmith

four wheeler

cowboy

crossroads

pedestal

police car

pug

someone who is full of joy

what's under your bed

hieroglyph

dolphin

wooden shield

laughing

jump rope

desk

something big next to something small

taxi

staircase

tomahawk

hummingbird

hedgehog

gorilla

firetruck

soda can

teddy bear

fortune cookie

fruit basket

smirk

game of marbles

crumpled paper

swordfish

alarm clock

goldfish

puppet

salt and pepper shakers

jet pack

time machine

hands

wood fencing

cave mouth

milkshake

high heeled shoes

music

smile

mad scientist

telephone booth

skyscraper

gargoyle

diamond

sushi

brier patch

something that comes in pairs

box of chocolates

brick wall

bat

chicken

bonsai tree

headphones

a new typeface

jellyfish

candy canes

lawn mower

rain puddles

school

lamb

wolf

bed

bowl of popcorn

lampshade

peacock

turtle

bear

ceiling fan

yo-yo

oil spill

kite

invisible man

casino

Abraham Lincoln

ice cream cone

corn on the cob

claws

beekeeper

coins

watermelon

landing on the moon

rotary telephone

brain

rocks

needle in a haystack

picnic basket

fireplace

bottle of poison

genie in a bottle

knight

hammer

acorn

orange

owl

hair

wheel barrel

pyramids

exploding dynamite

shrimp

guitarist

keyboardist

drummer

singer

griffin

carousel horse

bunnies

puppies

board game

a famous painting

stone walkway

maple leaf

lizard

eyes

ears

nose

mouth

leopard

record player

bulldozer

bride

snowman

feather headdress

playing cards

windy day

sleeping bag

dancing skeleton

piggy bank

wizard

evil prince

lantern

beach ball

cherub

sprout

aircraft carrier

olympic swimmer

wedding dress

feather

baseball glove

noodles

cat

dog

happy

sad

angry

relaxed

graffiti

motorcycle

tornado

caveman

pineapple

Lock Ness monster

flag

gas mask

starry sky

dream house

deer

Goldilocks

frog

tadpole

swing

circus clown

earth

cupcake

lace

rocking chair

bravery

Big Ben

doctor

railroad car

parade

Christmas sweater

Ferris wheel

sci-fi gun

medicine cabinet

birthday party

cutlery

great wall of china

umbrella

traffic sign

catapult

light bulb

bamboo

heart

moon colony

sandwiches

juice box

lake house

bushes

hard candy

camouflage

platypus

football helmet

soccer game

balloons

astronaut

missing teeth

memory

jukebox

tulip

ladybug

birthday cake

t-shirt

igloo

golf ball

fossils

your least favorite food

pencil cup

half eaten apple

food with a face

horseshoe

daffodil

castle

tea party

scared

bag of chips

camping

cabin

bonfire

ship

watering can

palm tree

wind chimes

armchair

fireworks

knife

wine cork

waitress

farmer

fountain

last leaf on a tree

saber toothed tiger

grocery store

rainbow

typewriter

engine

bluebird

shooting star

a new invention

school of fish

bearded lady

secret garden

suspension bridge

viking artifact

Eiffel tower

a feast for a king

guitar

tree house

seashell

dinosaur

sea lion

Taj Mahal

your favorite animal in a tuxedo

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