#ended up adding a backround

[rentnerschnitzel]

Devotee

[koszmarnybudyn]

Decided to post these seperetly so i can rant on each one. Hope you like it :) i really do

Rant and alt backround version behing the read more:

So the full backround ended up accidentely bisexual lol. Now on to the rant, these are meant as the final forms in my magical girl au, that's why they are so extra. This design has a lot more red than usual because being the final battle theres a lot more rage and hate (i think late season Scary in mg au has a lot more blue accents to symbolize love), and her hair is blue to show the love side as well as her fire (plus blue fire is much hotter than normal fire). I wanted her shoes to have a lava/lava lamp effectvand i initially made them a more purple pink but i think the magenta is better (the more pinkish then reddish tones also symbolize how she has come to accept her past as a more girly girl). Her coat has the coat from the previous design but i also added doodler like eyes (as i did in all the final forms) as a nod to them parting with D00d but them still being influential and important. The tentacles on her came, ger shoes and her arms are also a dodler refrence. I think with these designs i went more dnd like so she looks like a fantasy warlock a bit or at least that was my intention. The metal on her top is black parade inspired. And her whole silhouette is inspired by manta rays. I also added a lot of spikes and chains (mostly cause I think they're cool), i really enjoy outting her into more "evil" looking costumes in this au, but also generally (a big pet peeve of mine is charakter healing and losing their alt-ness) so yeah hope you like this little rant :) as always i put a lott of thought and symbolism of these outfits lol.

Btw if you want to support me financially and get some cool art out of it my commissions are open :)

[greg-montgomery]

champagne problems

pic by: @masterwords

my bestie @ssamorganhotchner had a delicious angsty idea so this is it <3

angst - no happy ending

♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

You can still recall every second of that night.

Aaron’s arm around your waist pulled you against him as he leaned in and took your lips in his. You could feel his smile against you and it made you smile too.

“What’s up with you today?” you giggled, your hand cupping his cheek so you could look into his eyes.

“Nothing,” he murmured and stole another kiss from you. “I’m just in love.”

You hid your face in the crook of his neck, shy from his romantic words.

“Oh my God!” you heard Penelope’s familiar voice and a moment later you felt her hand on your arm. “Your dress is gorgeous.”

“You’re gorgeous!” you grinned at her, lifting your head from Aaron’s shoulder and walking straight to her now open arms.

Still in her embrace, you couldn’t see her face, and missed the way she winked at Aaron when he tapped his palm against his pocket, reassuring her that their plan was going great.

“Kids, what are you still doing in there?” David’s voice came from his garden. “The food is gonna get cold.”

“We’re coming,” Aaron yelled, taking your hand and leading the way out.

When Rossi had said he was throwing a dinner party, you had thought it would be one of his famous pasta nights. Instead you found a garden decorated with fairy lights and a table full of expensive food and champagne bottles.

“Damn, what’s the occasion?” you said, grateful that Aaron pulled out a chair for you as you were distracted by the decorations.

“I’m rich,” David shrugged. “Why not spoil my friends?”

“No complaints from us,” Derek laughed.

“None at all,” Emily added, already taking a few bites out of a breadstick.

It seemed like everyone was in a good mood, and most of all, your boyfriend. Of course, you were happy about it, but it felt like you were not involved in an inside joke. Like everyone knew something you didn’t.

Left out, was the word. You somehow felt left out on the same evening that everyone’s attention seemed to be on you. You just didn’t know why.

Soon, the champagne bottles were open and your friends’ laughter filled the air around you. With their drinks in hand, they urged you to join them dancing, so you pulled Aaron by his hand to slow dance with him.

He looked so handsome, every line of his face begging to be kissed by you. You told him so, before kissing the spot behind his ear that always made him melt.

“Hey, easy now,” he whispered.

“Your new cologne has been driving me crazy,” you said, low enough so no one else would hear. “I want you.”

“Don’t worry,’ he said, softly, pressing his lips against your temple. “I have big plans for tonight.”

“You do?” you raised your eyebrow with a playful smile.

“Mhm…” he smirked and without dropping your left hand, he distanced himself from you, enough so he could get down on one knee.

You blinked slowly at him, realizing what he was about to do.

Breathing didn’t feel effortless anymore, and the feeling of everyone’s eyes suddenly on you got unbearable.

You looked down, finding the man you loved, staring at you with adoration. You saw a ring in his hand, sparkling, and waiting to be around your finger.

You saw a man you’d be proud to call your husband.

But you also saw a young girl who hadn’t figured out her life yet, being a wife to a grown up man who had already lived most of his. You saw a little boy calling you his mom, when you still felt like a kid yourself. You saw a life you weren’t ready for.

“Y/N…” Aaron said, maybe too focused on his speech to read your panicked expression. “You are the love of my life. My best friend, my partner, and the person I wanna spend the rest of my life with. There’s no one else I can imagine having by my side in this life. Will you do me the honor of becoming my Mrs. Hotchner?”

The silence from you was deafening even with that romantic song playing in the backround. You saw Aaron’s expression shift, as he realized that the ‘yes’ he was expecting was never coming.

“I can’t,” you whispered. “I’m so sorry, Aaron.” You pulled your hand away, letting Aaron’s drop to his side. “I can’t.”

You left him there, rushing back to your seat so you could grab your purse, wanting nothing more than to disappear. You didn’t dare to look at anyone’s faces, knowing you’d only see pure shock and judgment.

You cried in the back of a taxi all the way home, struggling to remember where you had last seen your suitcase, certain you’d be using it soon.

—

You look down at the phone in your hands.

“Yes, yes, a million times yes!” a lovely woman’s voice comes from your device. You watch as she lets Aaron slip a ring on her finger, and throws herself on him; a huge grin on her face just like on everyone else’s in that room. “Our boss man finally settled down. I love love <3” is Penelope’s caption on her post. You didn’t have the heart to unfollow her like you had everyone else from the bau. Well, she was the only one who hadn’t done it first to you anyway.

You hesitate to double tap on your screen to show your joy over your ex’s engagement. You’re not sure that’s how you feel. You’ve been thinking of him a lot, but - judging from the video you just watched - he isn’t.

[thousandheadeddolphin]

An overly detailed analysis of the scp foundations adopted son, the backrooms

Due to the fact that I have no control over my interests, ive decided that im gonna post cringe and start writing a minimum 100 word (50 for subrooms) review of every single backrooms level (or at least as many as I can get through before the hyperfixation burns out). And before we can actually get to the meat and potatoes, we gonna discuss the universal quality cap contained within the very premise of the modern backrooms (more under the cut)

The history of backrooms is like, pretty simple, and actually kind of similar to how scp started. Some guy posted an imagine with the caption:

"If your not careful and noclip out if reality in wrong areas, you'll end up in the backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, and endless backround noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hindered million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in.

God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you"

The concept very quickly caught on, because even retrospectively, the concept is really good, and then people started to write about. And at this point, it varies very, very heavily from scp. Because scp-173s whole premise doesnt crumble like a sandcastle upon any elaboration.

Ill blaze through this part simply because its by far the most common criticism of the backrooms and im not getting ad revenue from puffing up a video about it. You cant add entities or other humans because the vagueness of the final line and also ruins the isolation inherent to the original passage. You cant add more levels because that gives the person somewhere to go and makes the person less trapped, you cant make your levels death traps because thats just not scary, and you sure as hell cant make them safe because that removes the looming threat of death (this last point also applies to lucky o' milk and almond water). But personally, I dont think that talking about this helps the writers, or even gives us a better feel for what these writers are doing wrong, so instead im gonna focus on the main problem with the backrooms

The writing style is contradictory with the material presented

Since the backrooms popularity boom happened congruently with the one for liminal spaces (which ill just use interchangably with "eerily empty nostalgic space, even though the original definition just describes one thats transitional) even the most recent levels try to invoke this sort of setting. This within itself, is great. Theres a lot of room for very personal, intimate horror, especially when combined with isolation. Guess what they tried to do with it?

They jacked scps writing style, which for those not in the know, is intentionally written from a dry, neutral voice. To describe a setting meant to invoke one of the most personal emotions one can have.

Beyond this, articles, as evidenced by their often dubious writing quality, are written by teens who are far too young to have experienced that kind of nostalgia, so a lot of the articles end up not being able to fully capture the feeling, even if they werent written like a courtroom report.

To summarize, the premise is just kind of limiting within itself, even detached from any disloyalty to the original premise of the backrooms.

anyhow Im releasing the first review tomorrow

[nickeverdeen]

What type of things you're okay and not okay writing?

Okay: wlw, mlm, bullying, very very slight mention of rape (like character mentioning it once in the backround), angst, fluff, character’s death, disorders, physical health issues, cussing/cursing, smut, no happy ending, happy ending, open ending, break-ups, AU, First person POV, Third person POV, crush, pretty much any thrope, family platonic, trauma

Unsure: Pregnancy

Not okay: Rape, teacher x student, minor x adult, any sort of age gap unless it’s just one year, homofobic reader, racistic reader, family romantic, wound-fucking, smut with minors, romance with animals, forced smut, forced love, no consent, multiple POVs

If you want any kinks added then tell me which ones, but it’s very possible that I won’t do ‘em based on which they are

If you got anything I didn’t mention in mind, then ask freely

[wolfcubjim]

Some thoughts/small things I notice while watching Coraline (started like 15 mins into movie, lmao)

The other mother doesn't eat during the first other world dinner

I love Coralines moon and star turning lamp

If coraline had those cutters any higher up then oofers for Mr. B

One of the doggies' nose is red while the others are black

I love Spink and Forcible's fish lamp

Love that they added the cat climbing the tree in the backround, also that cat has great balance to stay on Wybie's back while he's biking away

"I bet he's hungry as a pumpkin," haha

It's so cool but still very sad that throughout Coraline's adventures in the other world, you can see the eyes of the ghost children

Back to unserious, the decals on Mr. B's jacket sleeves look like dicks xD

Cora's mom is pretty harsh when we first meet her but she trys a little, it won't do much but she tried ig

Why do all the indoor lights stay on at the other world??

Also, I love the cat, he's so great

The standing cutout of the guy in the boat, his eyes follow Miss Spink (I'm guessing which is which, pls correct me if wrong)

They really gave Miss Forcible jiggle physics

I haven't pointed it out cause most people already know about the portraits of the other kids behind Coraline in the dining room, but I also love that behind the other father and other mother in the dining room, there are animal skulls with horns

Also, I love that you can see the Detroit zoo snow globe in the background, and it's already fogged/iced up, at least during the other mothers' first transformation scene

Love that the stars on Coralines sweater glow in the dark a little bit

Love that other Wybie uses the chicken oven glove from the other kitchen as a mask xD

The cat in the burning of the doll of her parents' scene is half her size

The food the other mother cooks makes me so hungry omg, it looks so good

The hint for her parents is literally just to use her eyes /s

Poor Other father, at least he helps Coraline

The change is other Mr. B's voice is terrifying when he says "not even that anymore"

Coraline has great aim, first with her hat landing on the mosquitos now with the taffy looking thing that would've hit

I love the slow peeling of the wallpaper as coraline passes throught the house

So funny that her parents don't wonder why she's covered in cobwebs

Each of the dead children has different halos

The ending is always very nice, whether she's still in the other world (as theorized) or not, it's still great

But that still begs the question, are there pocket portals around the real world for the cat to 'teleport' through, or is the other world still around? I personally think that the cat still has portals to get around the real world, it shows him doing something similar in the other world when he sticks his head through the tree and comes out the other end when he shouldn't have been able; I think it's something like that, just in the real world

[morpheus-milkovich]

Adam stanheight x male!reader

Y/n and adam cuddle after a fight

FLUFF

Y/n sighed rinsing his body off in the shower he hated when he and adam fought but its what normal couples do sometimes as long as they talk it out which they always did but letting out steam first always helped them. Y/n stepped out of the shower wrapping the towel around his waist before leaving the bathroom and closing the door behind him.

Laying on the bed? Adam. He was staring at y/n not with lust but love he truly loved y/n and nothing could ever make him stop, y/n looked up as arms snaked around his waist holding him “ads darling i need to change” adam smiled “cmon i want cuddles now though” y/n laughed and turned around facing adam “lay down ill change quick and we can cuddle and watch a movie” adam nodded and laid down.

Y/n got changed and layed with adam, adam pulled y/n in by his waist and held him oh so very tight y/n grabbed the tv remote putting on the nightmare before Christmas and then snuggled into adams neck, y/n was still cold from his shower so the warmth of adam made him fall asleep.

Adam and y/n fell asleep cuddling that night, the movie playing in the backround it was such a sweet sight, their fights always ended in a sweet note no matter if its a big dinner, a date, or simply cuddling all night while talking about the future.

[rhyme-thinks-stuff]

Fractured Life: A Life Series Crossover AU

(I've had this post in my drafts for almost a month now, hopefully it makes sense! i put a lot of work into it)

An AU where I put characters from my various different fandom interests into a Life Series game and shake them about >:]

Features characters from Homestuck, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Legend of Zelda Tears of The Kingdom, Hollow Knight, and all the regular Life Series members, with a total of 44 players. I might add more if I feel like it, Hades and ATLA are especially tempting me, but then that might me too many characters.

This AU is mainly just a concept/outline for now, a little sandbox I can think about and play around in. It's ment to be self indulgent and fun. I've made a whole lot of notes and a few bits of drabbles and oneshots, a bit of art, and a Minecraft World!

Below is an explanation of the rules of the game, a complete list of characters, art I've made, screenshots of the Minecraft world, and some extra ramblings about it.

RULES

Fractured Life has the same basic rules of any Life Series, with some bits of added worldbuilding for the story. This season's gimmick is that it's a mix of every other season, both in the rules of the game and the world itself.

Backround Setting

Players don't choose to be in the games.

Players are sent signs a couple weeks before a game starts, generally in dreams.

Players have all their memories intact when they start their first game but they may grow foggy over time.

When a player loses their last life, they're made a spectator ghost until the end of the game.

Ghosts cannot talk to living players (most of the time) but can talk to each other.

All players are sent home at the end of the games.

Basics

Limited amount of lives

Lose enough lives and you turn red, and hostile

You're out when you lose your last life

You can give another player one of your lives

Each session some of the players will be boogeymen, and will have to kill another player or be sent straight to red

Each player has a “Path” that gives them additional mechanics they have to use to play the game

Each session is 72 hours long, with 24 hours off time in between 

During the break players aren't allowed to kill each other, and timers are paused

Each character is assigned a “Path” which determines which past game’s mechanics they use. Last Life mechanics are spread across each, most players use mechanics from Double, Limited, or Secret Life in addition to this. Winners get the same mechanics they had in the game they won.

Limited

Each Limited player has 864 hours to live (1 canon hr = 36 AU hours)

Normal deaths take off 36 hours

Boogey deaths take off 72 hours

Normal kills give 18 hours

Bogey kills give 36 hours

576+ hours = green

576-288 hours = yellow

under 288 = red

36 hours = 1 life (for trades)

Limited yellow lives can kill green lives of any path

Double

Double players each have a soulmate, with whom health and lives are shared

Boogey consequences are shared but only one player has the curse

A Double player doesn't need permission from their soulbound to trade lives away

Secret

30 hearts as usual

trading lives doesn't change heart amount

regular rewards and penalties

Secret Keeper is in a more hidden location

Red lives are given 1 task to harm someone each session and gain 10 hearts from completing it

Reds may attack players outside of their task, and get hearts from kills

3rd

starts with 3 lives, cannot interact with any extra mechanics

CHARACTER LIST

There's 44 players total in Fractured Life! The total cast of the Life Series is 18 people, it's a bit more than doubled because I couldn't bring myself to cut anyone, and I might add more if the whim takes me. I'm probably not going to come up with full stories for each and every one of them, but I want them here in my sandbox anyways.

Life Series OGs

Grian

Scott

Pearl

Martyn

Scar

Gem

Jimmy

Mumbo

Lizzie

Cleo

Etho

Bdubs

Joel

Rendog

BigB

Tango

Skizz

Impulse

MLP

Twilight

Pinkie Pie

Rarity

Apple Jack

Rainbow Dash

Fluttershy 

TOTK

Link

Zelda

Hollow Knight

Hornet

Quirrel

Hollow

Ghost 

Homestuck 

John

Rose

Dave

Jade

Roxy

Jane

Jake

Dirk

Karkat

Vriska

Kanaya

Terezi 

Nepeta

Feferi

ART

Terezi pushing Quirrel off a cliff because what i even the point of making a crossover AU set in a death game without making characters you like push each other off cliffs. I came up with this idea by choosing two characters at random to write a drabble of an interaction between them, and said interaction ended up being an attempted boogey kill. Quirrel has a sunhat because it'd help keep the sun out of his eyes while he explores, Rarity made it for him!

Another random pairing! Zelda and Applejack's bases are fairly close together, and I think they'd get along pretty well! Zelda has diplomacy skills and AJ has friendship skills. Here Applejack is giving Zelda bread, in the early game before everyone gets stable food sources.

My twin suggested that Fluttershy and Mumbo be soulbound together because it'd be funny. So here they are being disasters together :D

Zelda and Hornet are two of my favorite video game characters ever, the thought of pairing them popped into my head and wouldn't leave so here we are <3

Hornet and Link are soulbound. They agree to team for practical reasons, and then Hornet slowly finds herself caring for both them and Zelda. Meanwhile Zelda is a Limited Player, which means she has a timer ticking down instead of lives. Link and Hornet try to keep her alive for as long as possible.

Bases from this post vvv

I love my silly crossover crackship throuple <33 I think Link and Zelda are in a QPP, Zelda is bi and polyamorous and Link is demiromantic and acespec. Hornet hasn't had much chance to be in a relationship like this before, she's still figuring herself out.

MINECRAFT WORLD SCREENSHOTS

Parts of builds from past games are scattered throughout the new map. I did the replicated bases in creative, and the original ones in survival!

Scar's base was torn out of the ground and put up in the sky which he's a little bit annoyed about since he didn't even move out of it. I spent way too much time on trying to get the path blocks here exactly correct!

I built Pearl's tower first, it was very fun! I had difficulty finding reference for the roof but a Scott thumbnail came through for me.

The Scottage, it's at the edge of a town. This one's pretty unfinished

Desetduo home. It's a bit torn up, not exactly in the same way as in canon though. I think the older builds are somewhat built on memory, rather than being the exact same places just moved to this map.

Original builds time! Here's a bridge I built.

This is where Zelda, Link, and some amount of the HK bugs live. It's dimmed so the bugs have a place to hide from the sun, but still spawnproof.

Aplejack's farm area! I just like making big wheat fields. And I think AJ'd want to make sure no one starves to death, even if they are in a death game.

Side note, I wanted to add more images but hit the limit D:

Bonus ramblings!

If you got this far then thank you, that's very cool!! PLEASE ask me any questions you have I'd be happy to answer them, and feel free to suggest ideas for character interactions and things like that :D

I've been working on this AU in bits and pieces since January.

Planning this AU is what made me finally get around to reading the last half of Homestuck.

It's also a large part of the reason I'm currently rewatching MLP:FIM

I haven't been able to watch anything since this without considering adding the characters to the AU. 

Revolutionary Girl Utena, Delicious in Dungeon, and Avatar TLA have all tempted me with this, however I have 44 characters already I really shouldn't. 

I've also briefly considered adding Genshin and She-Ra characters to this AU but I just don't have much the fixation on either of those right now.

Also considering Hades characters that would be so fun. Hmm. but again 44 characters. I'd have to expand the world border.

I've ended up shipping Zelda TOTK and Hornet HK because of this AU. My idea is that Link and Hornet are soulbound together and Zelda is Limited. Hornet sticks with them for practical reasons at first but ends up bonding with both of them and she and Link try to protect Zelda and keep her in the game as long as they can. 

I think this is a post canon AU for the Homestucks, they're probably in their early twenties. I was originally going to have them still be kids because there's something very funny to me about the idea of the other characters being concerned about the teenagers in this death game only to find out they're all very used to death and carnage, but I decided I'd rather they be a bit closer to the other characters so things are a bit better balanced. 

Also all the trolls survived because I wanted Nepeta and Feferi here. I don't think I'm going to include the other six, because again the cast is large enough, but I might change that later if I get more invested in them all. And then I'd probably also add Calliope because I like her and I might as well! 

The ponies are somewhat humanized, but still have their pony ears, coat colors, tails, hooves, and horns/wings. None of them can fly or do magic.

I've done most of the work on this before Real Life came out, I'm not sure yet if I'll find some way to work it in or just say it happens afterwards.

it took me a couple hours to write this post.

I have 37 separate documents for this au in a folder, including it one I used to write this post in.

I have 15,000 words worth of notes and planning

in addition to notes I have ~6000 words worth of drabbles and one shots, and bits of a possible first chapter from Twilight's POV

this post is ~1500 words long and I think I spent over 6 hours putting it together somehow!

[pink-sugar]

hiiiii, i saw your tutorial for the spinning disc thing around a graphic and i want to ask, if you do a gradient outside a graphic and put it into ezgif.com how do you make it not look choppy??? i tried and it didn't work so i had to put a white backround under it (it doesn't matter because of the website i used it for but still) if you know can you give advice?? it's okay if not :)

hihi!! if you mean choppy as in the gif isnt moving smoothly, id suggest maybe adding more in-between frames! if it still looks weird regardless, the assets you're using might just be a little bit wonky. that happens to me a lot, and usually it isnt too drastic so it doesnt end up very noticeable. hope this helped a little!

[tblsomedoodles]

now we know about them, you have me interested in the two children, ugh

so, if we are bacing anything off the comics, which we don't need to, one of the O'neil-Jones children would technically be Casey Marie (Casey Jr) so thats uhh... uhm

but i can def imagine like a family tree hw assignment with pictures and the 03 turts are all listed as april's siblings, but there are no pictures, and something happens. like, they know angie since they are lil babies, one of em has to slip up.

And then, theyre cousin is gone, big sad and then 2 years later he shows up with 6 more (Cassandra is totally their sister) cousins in toe and three of them have the same names as their parents.

i am def thinking way too much about the backround characters-

Hell yes! I love Casey Marie! I only know her from "The Last Ronin" so if she's in anything else i do not know, but yeah! (also the fact that Rise and 03 would have both opposite but matching Casey & Casey Jr sets would be fantastic. Like 03: Male Casey, female Casey Jr. Rise: Female Casey, male Casey Jr.) (another fun fact, 03 Casey's name is Arnold Casey Jones jr. So technically he is the Jr, even though they'd call his daughter Jr despite her actually not being a Jr lol. I'm making this more complicated than it has to be but it's so silly i can't not)

But the oldest would definitely just be Casey Marie. The youngest would probably be a little girl as well, simply because Casey being a proud dad with two daughters would be just very, very cute.

That family tree assignment is adorable! I could see one of them putting it together and adding the 03 boys as their uncles without consulting their parents or anything. So April just comes over to see how they're doing and is just "But i don't have any siblings-oh. I stand corrected." and she just kinda realizes that's basically what the boys are to her at this point. somewhat annoying little brothers.

And yes, those girls would definitely talk about Angie like all the time when they were small. Luckily none of the adults really take them seriously, thinking the their "turtle cousin Angie" is just an imaginary friend they share. but it still makes April and Casey panic a bit whenever one of the girls tries to talk about the turtles to someone not in the loop. It would take years for them to understand that their uncles and cousin's mere existence is a secret they shouldn't talk about.

But then Angie, their cousin and closest friend, is just gone. They'd be 12 and 8 by then, old enough to understand they're probably never going to see him again. And that hurts. But then! two years later, he's back! he's alright, alive, and brings an entire army of new cousins for them to cause chaos with. (is it a little confusing that the human cousins have the same names? yes. Do they care, hell no. the more the marrier lol. who cares about the technicalities when there's chaos to cause : ) )

Oh, i just had a thought! a young Angie who just started his more serious ninja training, trying to teach Casey Marie what he's learned! but eventually the adults catch on and are like, "As sweet as it is that you're trying to teach your cousin Ninjutsu, maybe you should leave it to Leo." And Leo ends up with a second (and eventually 3rd) student. (probably only a few times a week, not every day like Angie but still.) It means Angie wouldn't learn it alone.

Also just realized i never named the youngest Jones child. So, after consulting a Random name generator, her name is Jackie (short for Jacklyn but they only ever call her Jackie.) So Casey Marie and Jackie. (how am i so attached to these two and they only just got names? wow.)

Thank you! i hadn't thought much on them before so going into it a bit was really, really cool.

[okgee]

TW: discussion about suicide

Neil and how lighting has been used to portray his mental state and happiness have been rotting my brain for too long, so now i will ramble about it without any actual knowledge on lighting or filmmaking.

We can see that the more lighting hits Neil the more happy he is. Light is used as to show when something is good in this movie. So darkness means unhappiness, discomfort and hopelessness among other mainly negative feelings.

When the play starts Neil and the stage are lit up. He is feeling happy and surrounded by things that make him happy. He is literally living his dream. As Neil's emotions change during the play so does the lighting.

We can see the change in his expression and body language, but also in the lighting when he sees his father in the crowd. Before noticing him, he is basking in warm lighting grinning from ear to ear. There is also light coming from every direction showing us Neil is feeling amazing and the environment is just adding to that. Then he notices his father and the grin immediately falls off his face. Neil withdraws himself to the shadows to hide himself. Going to the dark by himself shows us that he doesn't feel safe being happy, living his dream with his father around. Neil has to consciously takes himself away from the light(his happiness) to feel safe. There is still some light coming from the background, because this is the place and the environment where Neil feels good and his father isn't able to take that fully away from him.

After Neil has seen his father and goes back to the stage, he is surrounded by darkness, but he himself is lit up by colder light. He has decided not to hide himself, but he feels exposed being there on the stage because of his father. Thus why he is the only visible thin on the stage. Colder lighting lighting him up could mean that he doesn't feel happy in that moment. As the scene goes on and he gets more into the acting and to his role, the background get progressively more brighter. Also the lighting that's hitting him gets a lot warmer, showing how much more comfortable he is feeling. Neil starts look at his father when he starts to get more comfortable. He is trying to communicate with his father trough Puck's lines.

So after Neil's performance, he goes to the backstage looking ecstatic, lively and relieved. He did it and he did it good. Neil is looking up towards the ceiling and he is bathing in light. The dark backround and colder lighting tells us that he isn't feeling really comfortable though, since he just performed in front of his father. This doesn't matter to Neil, having performed and succeeded at it, brings him so much joy that he doesn't care about feeling a bit uncomfortable. That shows us that this is what he wants to do, we haven't seen him this happy in the entire movie. He is living his dream in this moment and it's just as good as he expected.

Now we have the scene where Neil puts on the crown for the last time. He looks hopeless and sad. But Neil is also not hiding, walks towards the vold light coming from outside letting it lit him up and he accepts his fate. He is living through the memories of his probably most happiest evening ever, and then letting them go. The background is completely dark, he doesn't like being there, that place doesn't feel like a comfortable home to him. Unlike in the backstage, he is now slowly looking down and ending up chin to his chest eyes closed. Neil is giving up on the hope that he could live the life he wants and thinks that killing himself will be the only way out. His face is completely shadowed, he is not lively himself that we are used to in the movie anymore.

When Neil is on his way to go to his father's study, we can only see his silhouette. He is coming from suffocating darkness to cold unhappy but relieving light. Neil is walking towards light, the relief of death and not having to live a life he doesn't want. He himself is almost fully dark though showing, that death doesn't make him happy. The little light that does hit him though, could be the knowledge of soon coming escape and relief. Acting is so big part of him that he can't imagine living without it, so he doesn't. Death is the last resort to him.

And here he is, alone, in the dark and surrounded by his father's belongings. He is fully lit up by cold light, he is not happy but is feeling something positive (maybe relief?). The dark room is not comfortable or good for Neil, we know that he strives in light. And he knows himself, he knows he couldn't live the life he most likely would end up having. And this is how he resolves it.

Also when Neil's father wakes up during the night and he walks through their home, he puts on lights as he goes. This shows how their home is somewhere where Neil's father feels comfortable and good, unlike he son who walked through the dark house. They see different things as good and Neil's father can't see that, and in the end that is why things ended the way the did with Neil.

[thoughtemporium]

Rowling ramble

I'm just so tired of all the JK Rowling shit and people finding things to get mad about. She has said stupid things but to examine every word, every little detail and find racism and some sort of hatred in them is just so incredible stupid.

"But she named an Irish character with a sterotypical Irish name, she is a racist. She named eastern European people stereotypically Eastern names", but had she not, people would have gone crazy saying she hadn't paid any attention to different cultures and how stupid she was for not knowing what is an Irish or Bulgarian name. "She should have picked some not so common names!!" and how, exactly, in the 90s or early 2000s, you would expect her to find a list of common first names in Bulgaria? I agree now it's easier to make characters have more depth but come on.

"She named the one chinese character with both only last names" yea stupid shit, but the year was 1999 (prisoner of azkaban) when she was introduced to the series. Did you expect her to fucking Google what are the common first and last names in China? Or did you expect her to ask a random Chinese person to tell her? Imagine all the rage now if it was found out that she asked a random Chinese person to tell her whether or not the name was appropriate. She literally tried, she even added a powerful and meaningful Chinese chracter despite living in her little white bread wonderland and writing a story about the said white bread wonderland world.

"She said Dumbledore is gay billion years after the series ended, she can't do that, she hates lgbt people" No, she didn't. It was revealed when filming the Half-blood prince that Dumbledore is gay, literally a few years after the last book was published and filming the series was still in progress. It is not literally relevant to the story. Harry is a fucking teenager, does he need to know his headmaster's sexual orientation or lovers?? Would you have preferred Dumbledore had a huge coming out scene somewhere? Why, when gay people, are written as you know, regular people, some get mad? Why do you need to make them explicitly gay? Is being gay only putting on a huge show or making everyone know you're gay? And it's set in the 1900s UK anyway, do you think it was super desirable be openly gay then? And when you read the books now as an adult, you can clearly see the special bond between Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

"she is super fatphobic, all the mean characters are fat" Again, look at the time when the books were written. Literally everyone were fatphobic in the 90s and early 2000s. It doesn't make it right, but gives you perspective of the times. And besides, not all the mean characters are fat, literally Draco, Voldemort and Bellatrix etc. And there are chracters who are described as pudgy who are good people and appreciated throught the series, like Mrs. Weasley and Ludo Bagman. Literally anything can be found in there.

"She is a horrible person for making up a cult that hates people for their backround!!" yea BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BAD GUYS AND THEY NEED TO BE BAD. Jesus christ. I don't think Agatha Christie was a murderer even though she wrote a lot of murder mysteries? A lot of the characters are morally gray, like Dumbledore, Snape etc. but THAT'S THEIR WHOLE FUCKING POINT. People nowadays seem to think that eveyone is either GOOD or BAD with no exceptions. And if someone writes a mean/bad chracter, it automatically means they are a horrible person as well. Every single person is morally wrong in someone else's opinion and I'm so tired of people trying to make people be less complicated than they are.

There are so many things as well that annoy me. But the thing I hate the most that people seem to be picking and choosing things that only support their point of view. JK Rowling needs to get educated more about to certain things, but people come on. Use your own brain sometimes.

[ar-fmp]

Development - 18/04

Todo today:

Fix the refund system ✔

Make the UI better / add UI assets ✔

Add more sounds / ambience ✔

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This is what my game is currently looking like. Not very appealing; but I think if it had some better UI, it would be much better.

Before that, bug fixes! Here's a list of the bugs I have encountered from doing some testing:

The refund system ONLY works on farms ✔

The waves stop just before wave 3 ✔

When shot, an enemy will stop attacking ✔

The enemy model is super blurry

The new upgrade system takes up to 5 clicks to register ✔

Starting with the refund system bug, after some testing - it only detects the farm and can't detect the tower or tesla. Looking at the scene in 3D, the farms are clipping into the ground; so I think the problem lies with the level they are placed at (although they should all be spawned at the same Z position...).

After adding a new variable to my Player Pawn script that ensures they are all placed at 420 on the Z axis...

It has changed nothing! Although it did fix a small bug I had just noticed where sometimes my farms would spawn under the map.

Next I changed the collisions for all my assets from Overlap All Dynamic, to Block All. This fixed the refund issue and improved how the enemies attacks as they can no longer stand on the buildings - I just think it looks better.

Another thing I did quickly was change the script in the castle so that if an actor is a certain distance to the castle and has the enemy tag, it will do damage to the castle - fixing the bug that stopped enemies from attacking when shot. I will add this to my other buildings, as the buildings themselves control the damage to themselves.

Nevermind what I said before, this does not stop the enemies from freezing when shot.

Now I should have the solution, this part of the script replaces begin overlap and just tests if an enemy is close to it.

I decided to take a break from bug fixing and add some sounds from Freesound.org to my game. I added a sound for when the player fails to do something (E.G. Doesn't have enough money to buy an upgrade), one that plays each second to represent the player gaining money (it won't play if no money is gained) and I added some ambience to the backround so its not quite as bleak.

The code for the money sound ^

The fail sound I just attached to the false end of the branches.

And the ambient sound is just played with a 55 second delay (the length of the clip) on event tick and begin play in my castle object.

I also added sounds for clicking the buttons and when a building dies.

Now I'm making some assets for my UI and I want to go for something similar to Bloons TD, how their UI matches the game (its all wooden with some palm leaves). After a bit I have gotten this far:

The pieces of paper will have the upgrade's text on them.

[hemihr12005]

W2D2 fundies (software)

(more) photoshop tools:

layer 1 is transparent and background is solid

b = brush

e = eraser

option, delete = fill selection. (if nothing is selected it will fill the whole screen)

shift, command, delete = fill selection wth background colour

window, brushes, genera; brushes = brush options (main 2 are soft or hard brushes)

can get soft or hard erasers too

[ ] = shrink or enlarge brush stroke

command A = select all

delete = clear everything on that layer or selection

number keys = tool transparency:

1=10% 5=50% 9=90% 0=100%

option= colour picker

command D= deselect (so helpful!)

command z = undo

shift, command, z = redo

hold down v then option and copies selection

-in move tool photoshop will move whats under your pointer

command j = like paste in place

holding shift = add to your selection (shape).

holding option = subtract from your selection

holding space = reposition the selection segment.

masks:

new layer mask looks like black and white japan flag (beside layer adjustmentd)

white pixels means visible

black pixels mean clear

option click mask to see inside

when using mask and using black brush make sure you are on the mask part of ur layer and not on normal layer

command t = tranform gizmo

in adjustment layer properties pallet there a setting that effects only the layer you are on

p = pen

same as illustrator really.

arrow, direct selection tool (the one that looks like mouse) same as A on illustrator.

window, paths, command click = shows paths an make adjustments after clicking.

shift command i = inverse selection

messing around with pen tool on photoshop. we used brush (b), eraser (e), fill selection which s just what you have selected and then option - delete. we also used shift - command - delete which is fill selection with background colour. We also played around with brushes and found how to access all the different brushes that are available. I found a spotted one and played around with it. the square brackets means you can change brush larger or smaller quicker. command a was select all -which is different than illustrator that uses A for direct selection tool (on photoshop its on the tool panel). we also played around with transparency.

we also learnt taking cuts out of selections, like circles and overlay another circle a scissor tool shows up and allows you to cut the shape. when selecting while holding shift you could add to your selection (shape). holding option you could subtract from your selection. holding space allows you to reposition the selection segment.

we also learnt layer masks, which is a good tool to help edit in other images to photos seamlessly. in layer settings beside image adjustments there is a tool that looks like a little japan flag and you just select the layer you want a mask on and then click the layer mask button. you can then click into the mask by option - lick. then you just can use black pen in the mask selection to rub out part of the mask. so for the boats above i used black pen to rub out the water around the boat we added in so it looked more realistic. then we changed free transformed the boat to make it smaller. then made the boat lighter by turning down the opacity so the boat looked further away in the distance.

bird edited ready to go into new photo. turned background into layer one so there was a transparent background. used = image - image rotation - flip horizontally to flip bird. then used pen tool to make the wing cleaner so there wasn't any of the original grey background when the image is put into its new background. doing this with the pen tool did get rid of the grey colour but it made the lines very clean and removed the blur effect of the beating wings. so we went back in with blur tool and blurred the ends of the wing and tail so the bird looked in motion still.

some of the settings i used when i put the bird into the new backround. then we used curve adjustment to make the bird look like it had the same lighting as the background picture, which makes it look more realistic. i used the square box pointing down tool to make the curve settings only apply to the bird. for a little extra fun i created a small segment copy from the background and created a 2nd layer of some small flowers which i placed in front of the birds beak so it looked like it was getting food and actually at the plant. You can see this in my final image below.

really enjoyed this task it was fun. :)

[the-travelling-witch]

Scara has my music taste.. SCARA HAS MY MUSIC TASTE

we’re soulmates WRITE THIS DOWN! WRITE IT DOWN!!

I love how each of their music fits their characters so well! Venti being venti (also liking more sadder tone songs.. he’s so lonely guys.. and then hearing a funky upbeat tune)

Aether liking 80’s rock which to me is more softer rock and his pop songs (I can see this fitting him so well! It’s the belly button piercing guys)

XIAO?!? Him liking wistful music makes me think of folklore and indie songs with those Pinterest backrounds of a foggy blue forest with black trees, I can’t explain it but that’s Xiao and I think that’s perfect.

I COULD GO ON AND ON! Looking at the idol group that our favorite detective piercer listens to

BUT I THINK U NAILED HOW UR TRYING TO PORTRAY THEM, I WILL ABSOLUTELY BE ADDING ALL OF THESE SONGS TO MY PLAYLIST!! And I finally get a yummy taste at my pretty teasing favorite indigo haired boys music taste <333, were gonna listen Taylor swift together and he’s gonna like it

-✨

i’m glad you’re enjoying the same taste in music, that means you can share headphones and be all cute <3

what i meant with venti’s taste in music is pretty well summed up by yoru ni kakeru (which i knew from the start had to be on there and inspired his part); if you just listen to the song, it’s very catchy and upbeat, something you might not associate with what the lyrics are about (yk death and suicide)

while yes, the “soft” rock fits him, i think it’d be really fun if aether was into like the “harder” stuff too which is why i put those songs on there (i think one step closer is nu metal and master of puppets is trash metal?) it’s like opposing his soft and cute aesthetic and i like that idea

but yeah, killer queen is his song and you can’t convince me otherwise

yeah that’s kind of what i was going for with xiao which is why i had to put the crane wives on there; between all the indie songs, i shuffled them between characters a lot but i like how it came out in the end; i feel like longing is such a strong emotion and it’s just perfect for xiao in a way

honestly heizou just gave me girl group vibes and idk why; fancy and queencard were no brainers and i hesitated to put zimzalabim on there (even though i love it) but i’m so glad that i did

omg thank you so much, i’m glad you think i did well hshsh the headcanon that venti influenced scara’s music taste means a lot to me and i think as all of them spent a lot of time which each other, they’ve come to appreciate and exchange a lot of their different music styles

the piercing studio says nobody gets judged for what music they listen to

my modern au masterlist || modern au tag

[echantedtoon]

A Bloom In Time Ch5 Time Out

(In this chapter all the poor, Frozen people in Vanessa's manor is getting addressed and it's about time someone gave the poor souls a happy ending. All the mentioned characters are either cut characters or backround characters we've already scene that was only added in the game as a frozen victim in the manor. So to make it more understandable- Frozen Cut Characters: Thor, Mr. Oldster, Tom, Rough Patch, and the shapeshifter. None Cut Frozen Characters: 3 Mafia men, one old man from Mafia town, one Dweller, and one of Snatcher's minions. You can find all the cut characters on the A Hat In Time Wiki.)

"DAD!!"

Dad...Usually something Snatcher wouldn't have batted an eye at- He would've squawked and sputtered, before pouting and claiming he wasn't their 'Dad' and that adopting them didn't change anything. When in reality it made a swelling prideful feeling bubble up from his chest, proud to be a dad he always wanted. But he didn't hear her unfortuntately.  Hattie shook whatever snow was on her off as she continued running now with new adrenaline and purpose in her speed as she ran around the giant manor towards the back to the cellar. The cellar was literally the only way in she knew of and she wasn't about to waste time when she knew something bad had obviously happened. She felt it in her gut. After much running and coming to the doors, she flung them open without hesitation and down she went. The child cared not about the water making her feet absolutely wet n cold, or the fact she could see her own breath, she just had one thought.....GET TO SNATCHER!! She stopped a moment looking around at the old inside of the mansion as she got in ....Where was it..Where was her Dad?! 

"Mrrrrow?"

"WHOA!!" She jumped back a few feet, dropping her umbrella and grabbing onto her hat as something living brushed up against her side and she looked down meeting yellow eyes and a literal bushy tail. It was...." A kitty?" The small bushcat was purring and staring up at her curiously before yawning and doing that famous cat stretch, showing off the yellow inside of it's mouth before waddling over towards her. Meowing again before rubbing against her body. Hattie glanced at him in confusion and despite her still fear she bent down to pet the small thing. The leaves on it's body feeling rough. " Hello there, Kitty. What are you doing here? Don't you know there's a crazy lady running around with ice powers?" The cat continued to purr and look at her calmly, until a flash of red caught her eye and she looked up, "Huh?"

Half way through the wall was a dweller. A red dweller with a fox mask, it tilted it's head at her cusriously before fazing the rest of the way through and going towards her. At the same time the door to the bar area opened and out came a.....A mafia man and another smaller old man?? The mafia guy and the old guy looked scared as they all stared at her before looking back at one another.....then at her again with a scary expression. She still stared at them all before the Dweller stopped right in front of her curiously tilting it's head as it did so. ...Hattie jumped again when something shoved it's head out of the very corner....before scurrying quickly towards her. The two men shouted in fright before ducking back in the room but Hattie was frozen in both shock and fright as it came up to her and stopped. Slowly rising on it's two back legs and staring down at her. ....She wanted to scream. This thing was a mass of what looked like multicolored rags sewn together, the inside of the ragdoll was darker than the darkest night, and multiple eyes stared back at her as it swayed from side to side and eyed her form. Before it bowed.

"THaNK YoU dEaR CHILD. For My FREEdOM," it spoke in multiple voices at once sending a giant chill down her spine. 

Before she could say anything else, whatever the thing was turned and did that creepy as peck scurry back towards the celler door where she came in from before she could say another word. She jumped snapping out of her stunned stupor and held out an arm to him about to shout "Hey! Wait!', but the mafia man and the old short man peeked out of the room again slowly and looked nervously at her. Eventually the mafia man spoke.

"Little girl, I-is that scary shadow lady g-gone?", the mafia man asked. 

Hattie blinked up at all of them and shook her head. "Where did you all come from?", she asked the Dweller looking at her but they didn't speak, instead the mafia man did again.

"B-Boss heard there was old castle with gold. S-S-Send mafia and goons to go look," the blue tuxedo man was shaking and stuttering looking around the place like he was still looking for Vanessa most likely. "B-B-But Mafia don't like shadow woman."

"That doesn't matter! Have you seen m-"

And then a scream. Not Vanessa's scream of terror. Not like a mafia man she's heard before. This voice was a high pitched male's that echoed throughout the entire building. The cat bristled up a few of the leaves on his body falling to the dusty old floors and the mafia let out a high pitched squeal for a big 'tough' man, making both the men fall out into the hall away from the noise that came from the entrance to the second story stairs. That voice....That same male voice was Snatcher's. She recognized that loud voice of his anywhere, but now that voice was screaming in horror. More panic shot through her and before she knew it, Hattie had jumped over the struggling men and began running up the second floor stairs towards the second floor of the mansion. 

"SNATCHER!?", she desperately shouted as tears began to form in her eyes, "DAD PLEASE!!"

"K-KID?!", that voice shouted back as she ran and she felt relief hit her as she burst through the second staircase door and stopped at the top of the stairs looking around. 

"I'M HERE!! WHERE-....."

"KID!" One red and one yellow eye and a mouth full of sharp teeth smiled down at her from the form of a kneeling man on his knees. The shiny gold crown on his head reflected the moonlight shining in from the window behind him and his kneeling form was looking rather pale as he smiled at her. The child stood there as he held his arms out to her as he smiled ever so releived. "OH THANK PECK!! L-Look I really m-m-messed up ok!! I don't know what happened but you gotta help me...I-I feel so weak..." ....His face suddenly turned into a mean scowl and a COMPLETELY different voice came outta that man's mouth as his mitchmatched eyes looked off to the side. "Peck? Really? Even now you can't control yourself for one moment to not tramatize the poor child further?" His angry face suddenly snapped to the other side and she jumped a step or two back. "Stay outta this moonboy!! If anyone here is tramatized it's ME!!! L-Look at what happened!" The man looked down at his shaking hands and moved the fingers oddly slow. ....As if it was his very first time seeing or using hands. "Funny. Maybe stealing and using that time piece was a bad idea after all." "I SWEAR I will end our lives again if it means I'll un-stick with YOU!!"

"Dad?...."

Both strange voices shut up and the man looked over at her when she slowly said that. She had.....She knew this man. The brown shoulder length hair. The weird old fancy fairytale prince looking  clothes. This was-.......A Prince. The very same prince from the paintings in the mansion. The VERY same Prince in that story book she had gotten from that time rift. She didn't even notice the random people coming in from the other rooms around them and walked up to the kneeling man who looked down at her with those strange eyes. She stopped right in front of him and narrowed her eyes at him, eyeing him up and down carefully.

".....Snatcher?," She questioned unsure about what she was seeing.

The man sighed, "Yeah.," that soon-da-ray's same scratchy voice came out as he stared at her defeated. "It's me kiddo." "And don't you forget me as well, blood jack-o-lanturn peckneck!!" "Oh! Now who's cussing in front of the kid!?"

.......She blinked at the other voice. "UNCLE MOONJUMPER?!", she asked not believe the other voice that just came out of the man. Unlike Snatcher's scratchy husky voice, Moonjumper's was much more smooth and sorta echo-y. 

The man suddenly gave a dignified look and placed a shaking hand to his chest. "In the flesh! Quite literally. I'm afraid Mr. Shadow Stealer decided to use this time piece and now we're stuck together in this weak form." He suddenly snapped back angry to the left. "IT WASN'T MY FAULT YOU MOONSHINE DRUNK IDIOT!!!" "Ooh.~ Such feisty words. Im sure you can get us out of this. Imbecile!!" "You're really pushing this moon-idiot-" BONK!!! Pain suddenly exploded from his....their?? Head and he..they? grabbed his(their) head and looked back to the child holding her umbrella out. "OW!! HEY!! What was that for!?" "Indeed. That was very harsh for me who didn't cause this."

"YOU STOLE THE TIME PEICE!!!," she yelled at he...THEM suddenly swinging her umbrella down at them in a small fit of rage. He brought up his jello arms to block the rapid hits. She was SCARED. She was put into this entire situation. And he STOLE her time piece. "STUPID GHOST NOODLE!! PURPLE SLIME!! DEAD DUMMY!!! YOU STOLE MY TIME PEICE!? AND YOU MADE A MESS!?" her wacks became weaker as tears began to stream down her cheeks again as all the adrenaline and panic and feelings all came back to her and with a last weak hit she started crying. "...AND YOU S-S-SCARED ME!!"

Both felt a sudden pange in their gut seeing the child like this and looked down at them selves. Well Snatcher did. Moonjumper was only going along with this for now. Still ignoring the others around them, the crying child just jumped on them and burried her face into their shared chest making them jump...before Snatcher sighed and brought their jello hands down to calm and consol the poor girl clinging to them for dear life. ...Their eyes looked back down to the floor next to them. The dusty, cold carpet on the floor was littered in tiny blue shards of glass that glittered in what dim light there was available in the entire mansion from the cold snow that continued to blow outside despite their predicament. ....He really did screw up this time didn't he? "Yes, you really did! We share the same thoughts right now!" Moonjumper's oh so helpful voice chimed in their shared head and Snatcher mentally growled back staring at the mess on the floor he caused.....Then looked slightly further and. ABSOLUTELY. FROZE. A few feet away from the sparkling shower of magic time piece glass and metal was a human. Wouldn't be TOO weird considering there was a bunch peeking out from the rooms and the hall now, but when the long beautiful gold hair shown just as brightly as the sun, and vibrant beautiful earth green adorned her. She was a beautiful young lady of the golden sun hair that he knew very......VERY well and was so, SO frozen by. 

Especially. WHEN. SHE. MOVED.

The two absolutely frozen in....fear? Shock? Curiousity or confusion maybe?? Watched as the beautiful woman laying face down on the floor groaned softly with a beautiful but familiar voice and slowly begin to sit her front up. The kiddo on the other hand had started to calm down from her crying fit and removed her face enough to stare down at the shattered remains of the once time piece, and sighed. She could put it back together but it would take a little bit just like the one on the ship- Hattie jumped when They jumped and their grip on her got a lil bit tighter around her, making the child look up confused into their terrerfied face. The red and yellow eyes looking past her at something so naturally she followed their gaze and blinked surprised at the beautiful lady push herself off the floor slowly and show them her lovely face. She looked JUST like a princess out of her cartoons. Her face was beautiful as if sculpted by angels, not a blemish on her except for the beautymark on her right cheekbone, her lovely shiny golden hair framed her soft features, and beautiful ruby red eyes blinked open eyelashes fluttering as she did so. Yes, Hattie admitted she was very pretty. But something immediately didn't sit right in her gut. This princess, like the prince who held her, was the exact same one in the paintings too......And the same one in her story book.

"V-Vanessa", Moonjumper spoke out in a fearful tone. SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!!! Snatcher's voice boomed inside their head but it was too late.

Those red ruby eyes laserfocused on the male voice as soon as Moon-idiot spoke It and for an uneasy few seconds, those two grown ups just stared up at each other with Hattie glancing between them.....grip on her umbrella suddenly tightening. 

The blonde lady blinked at them. "My prince." Instead of a sweet voice to match the woman's beauty, a raspy voice the child knew ALL too well came out, the woman reached a hand towards the frozen pair of ghosts. "You came back-"

WHAMP!!! A loud thud echoed throughout the room again and the woman faceplanted the dusty carpet right in front of them with a thud. Where her head was, was a blue umbrella held by the scowling girl with a few last tears leaving her eyes. ......Snatcher blinked their shared eyes as he stared down at the unconscious Vanessa once again...before back to the little alien who now wriggled her way out of their grip and glared down at the woman she stomped over too, giving just a few seconds before nudging the pretty lady with her foot. Vanessa didn't move and remained unconscious much to the girl's satisfaction. As Hattie turned around, placing down the umbrella to pick up the metal frame of the hourglass and scowling at it, the fair end of the second stairs opened and the mafia man and old short man appeared curious and probably too scared to do exploring alone. Bushcat at their heels, and a red dweller fazing through the floors. At the same time other people started coming out more too. Two more mafia men wearing the exact same clothes as the first one, one from Vanessa's bedroom and one from the very end of the hall. A strange man with a black gotee and mustache and tan hat, along with another older man  with.....three eyes?? From the bathroom. Another old scruffy looking man from the end of the corner where the abandoned nursery was,....and surprisingly one of Snatcher's Minions. Hattie looked up from the broken hourglass frame and blinked around at all these people that were now around her looking around at her and everyone just stood in silence for a long moment, before the man in the red shirt and goggles spoke. 

"Um...Excuse me there," he spoke in a light british like accent as he addressed the small crowd, "But would someone kindly explain to me what's going on here?"

"Mafia would like to know too," one of the newer mafia men spoke up too but he like his college look nervous, "Where is scary lady with red eyes?"

Hattie looked at all of them for a real long time...then down to the broken magical artifact in her hands. .....Slowly piecing together what could've possibly happened, but was again interrupted by a loud meow and Snatcher/Moonjumper and her both looked over to see a loudly purring bushcat happily making it's way over to them and it seemed once again the duo froze as they watched the cat walk up to them. ".....R-R-Rough Patch?", Snatcher's voice shakingly asked as the cat wondered forward, "....R-ROUGH PATCH!!" He smiled brightly and held his hands out to the cat that continued to waddle up to him. "C'mere boy! Come to daddy!!" As soon as 'Rough Patch' got close enough, he was scooped into the Prince's awaiting arms still shaking like crazy and he happily brought the purring, meowing kitty close to his chest. Smiling so heard it hurts. "Hello my little friend. Did you miss me? I missed you SO much. Oh, look at you. You look as good as new! I haven't see you since....she..." Snatcher paused. Before slowly turning his head back over to Vanessa's unconscious form. "SHE FROZE YOU!! THAT STUPID LITTLE DENYING PECKNECK!!" "SNATCHER, STOP IT!!" The Prince's head turned back around as Moonjumper finally spoke again. "As much as I agree with every single thing you're thinking and saying, don't you think you've done enough for one day? Kindly control yourself before something WORSE happens will you?"

"What did you guys do?" Both looked down at Hattie as she scowled up at them, holding the metal frame up to them. "What happened?!"

.....Moonjumper scowled. "Ask the shadow creton." "OH!! Be quiet you!" Snatcher rambled back out started to pet Rough Patch who was purring in his master's hold. Hattie continued to look at them with a scowl before the ghost sighed. "Alright. Alright. ....I'll tell you."

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The cold air didn't affect the undead in the slightest. Not that if it would it would make a difference too the two evillily smiling ghosts. Wind whipped around them as Snatcher's dead yellow eyes glowed dangerously against the reflective surface of the magical hourglass, making his yellow eyes reflect against the sparkling blue sand within it as he smiled dangerously at nothing in particular, but....Something seemed just a little off as Moonjumper looked over at him. He said something but Snatcher didn't pay attention when he just floated against the cold wind and made his way towards the looming mansion in front of him. Going back here....To the place he once lived and died. It made a dreaded feeling boil down in his ectoplasm and want to leave, but the desire driven by revenge and anger overpowered any dreaded feelings and rational thinking to be honest. Gone...Soon Vanessa would be gone. And He would be entirely FREE from her annoying existance. Then he'd claim this whole frozen waste land. True it didn't suit him, but it would've been his if he had married the witch. And she took his kingdom away from him when she locked her away, it was justified if he took hers. Again, Moojumper was looking a little nervous between him and the time piece and said something but Snatcher still ignored any warnings he was making as the shadow of the mansion loomed over him and consumed himself into the shadow as well. Almost camoflauging. He didn't need a passage way to get in, just teleport himself with the magical thing inside the cursed place and boom! He'd be home-free. ...Or so it seemed. Again the same brief purple warping and he was within the walls of the manor. The ghost's smile became a frown instantly looking around the first floor of the building. Ah. He remembered where this was. The cellar door was just down the hall, and the library and kitchen were just in front of him a little ways. The whole place was dusty and cold, with the wind blowing outside shoving aroundthe snowflakes and adding to the overall creepiness of it, he still frowned as he floated his way down the hall towards the second staircase to the second floor of the four story manor. Moonjumper fazing through the blocked front door right on his tail as the dapper spook was looking less and less sure around him at the manor in fear. 

"Snatcher....Perhaps this is a b-bad idea after all. A-After all Vanessa's can't do anymore harm to us like this," he pleaded to his counterpart but Snatcher still ignored him.

.....Only stopping to slowly look up at the old worn painting on the wall. It depicted a blonde woman and a taller man with brown hair. He stared at it for a long moment, before that jack o lanturn fanged mouth came up in a snarl, and he growled dangerously. In a split moment of anger staring up at his stupid former self, he let out some inhuman snarl noise and rammed one of his hands up and into the painting. It didn't stand a chance between the ghost's claws and the poor painting fell to the floor with a loud thud. Torn to shreads and frame snapped in two, Snatcher's hand was still embedded into the wall which now had a hole in it from his punch, but that wasn't the worse part. The slam was loud enough to echo throughout the quiet home, which also got a started yelp out of Moonjumper before the ghost slapped his hands over his mouth. A few quiet seconds passed-

"Whooooo's there!?," A shrill voice came from above making Moonjumper squeal in fright, his form glitching even more. But for once in one thousand years, Snatcher smiled and even welcomed the voice that shrieked from upstairs. It meant his prey was just that close. "WHO DARES ENTER MY HOME!?" The shadow ghost approached the voice, not caring for the glitching nervous ghost behind him. Daring to charge the voice as he fazed through the ceiling above him and emerged in all his glory through the second story floor. Time piece in hand as the spook smiled evilliy at the new floor around him. The floor was completely devoid of any life just like the first floor....But there was plenty of afterlife. Especially the beast in front of him who hissed from across the hall as he appeared and smiled at her. "Who are you?," Vanessa. The Once Queen of Subcon. Hissed in that terrible aweful voice of hers as she approached the ghost. The cold aura she radiated distorting the air around her and threatening to freeze anything that got too close as she approached. "You'll pay for defying the Queen!"

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Don't recognize me do you?!," he taunted as she approached his own vision distorting as she did. His voice and appearance had changed dramatically just like hers upon death. his smile soon turning into a challenging snarl and grimace. "GOOD!! I NEVER want you to remember me!! In fact, you're going to be nothing but a memory soon enough!! You took everything from me!! All those years of being nothing but loyal to you and doing everything I could to make you happy! I wish I never wasted my time with you!!" Vanessa couldn't wrap her warped head around anything he was saying. Too warped from hundreds of years of being in this negative state. Too bad. He would've liked to see a face of fear on her for once but he'd settle for this. The hourglass shined as the ghost let out some unhuman hiss and raised it above his head threateningly as she was just a few feet away. Mind flashing to all those times he felt worthless, never enough, or having to be just a perfect. FAKE. STORYBOOK PRINCE!! "TIME FOR YOU TO GET LOST YOU PECKING WITCH!!! NO MORE AFTERLIFE IN THIS HOUSE!!!"

The tiny glass object in his claws shone brightly for a brief moment, before Snatcher's swung it down at her. The beautiful blue sand and glass toppled through the air as it tumbled towards her. A shattering glass sound filled the air as the time piece smashed to the floor. Glass and sparkling blue sand caught their reflections in their sparkles, energy gathering up and then-.....White. The energy was so bright  he had to turn his head away to avoid it, the energy wave knocking him back to the floor and everything going black. 

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............................................."Uuuuuuuuh-"

What?...W-What happened? ......He didn't remember being so heavy, but he guess he must've been slammed back harder from that energy blast than he thought. But no matter, as long as Vanessa was gone. The ghost reached his arm up against the floor and slowly pushed himself up after a few more minutes of just weakly laying there, he coughed dust exiting his lungs and slowly raised his heavy body up. White dots scattered his vision as he blinked his eyes up at his surroundings. Many shiny shards of glass twinkled up at him in the dim light, as he pushed himself onto his knees with his pale ha-........He froze. Staring at the VERY human hands with five fingers, pale skin, nails, and shaking like a leaf. .....Those eyes looked down at the human's body as those hands went to clumsily pat that chest working up towards the human's face as he patted along and actually FELT every single pat to his body and then his face......Those panicked eyes glanced back down to the glass shards as they twinkled back up to the human. The reflections showing a very fair brown haired man.

"A-A-A-......AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

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WHAMP!!

"Ow!!" Moonjumper's voice shouted as he reached a hand to rub where Hattie's umbrella collided with their head. Rough Patch bristling at the suddenly jostling. "My dear girl, you forget that I'm stuck in here too."

She looked apologetic for a moment. "Sorry, Uncle Moon." She scowled again and pointed the umbrella at them. "That was for HIM!!" She must've meant Snatcher as they frowned at her. "You STOLE my time piece. You turned into some weird looking stuck together prince. And you broke it!!!"

"Hey! I don't look that bad!" "Snatcher......Perhaps for once listen to the child. You really messed up this time." .....Snatcher said nothing but looked back down to the meowing bushcat and sighed. "Alright, alright. I messed up ok and....I'm sorry, but if you ever tell someone I'll ground you from the forest for a week. Now...Could you PLEASE fix this?"

Hattie was about to say something when they were interrupted by the man wearing the hat with goggles again, one of his gloved hands was holding a bag slung over his shoulder and the other hanging from his side as he glanced over them all. "I'd hate to interrupt you, Girl, but what's going on? Who are all of you?"

"...Hattie blinked up at him but was again cut off from talking by Snatcher. "Sorry. She's not allowed to talk to strangers. And I could ask you the same thing." Their mitch matched eyes squinted. "You look familiar. Just who are you?"

"Oh of course." The man reached a hand up and tipped his hat to him as the two older men with white hair stood by him. "My name is Thor, and these are my colleges. Mr. Tim." He gestured to the old man with three eyes who smiled brightly at them. Thor then pointed to the other older man who looked just plain grumpy and done with everything. "And Mr. Oldster. We're historians  at the Opal Island Museum of History and Magical Properties. We were here on a historical expedition to do research on the cursed land and disappearance of the ancient Subcon Kingdoms." ....He reached a hand up to rub his hand in slight embarrassment. "Unfortunately I don't remember much."

Snatcher seemed to get a look of realization. "Oh yeah. I know you! Heh. Some expedition you turned out to be huh?"

Thor looked slightly offended. "Sir, I have never met you I  my life, but I'll have you know we were very successful with getting past this nasty spook who let us go free in exchange for our books on the region." "Then all of a sudden it got cold like magic," Tim stepped in from Thor's small rant kindly smiling. "We found this seemingly abandoned mansion right in the middle of a giant iced in bowl with no way out except a giant opening above the whole house through the ice. We took shelter and the last thing I remember was being attacked by a shadow while exploring. Then all of a sudden, I wake up and find all these people here talking and yelling."

The young girl finally got a moment to think for herself as she glanced at these guys....and all around her at everyone else. Three explorers, four Mafia, two of Snatcher's Subjects, a bushcat, and a random old man probably with the mafia.....Why did all them look so familiar? Surely she wasn't around when a whole bunch of random people ended up in Vanessa's castle and got fro-.....Frozen. The child blinked and shook her head, blue eyes again grazing over all of them carefully, Snatcher at this point had already looked back to her and rose a brow as her gaze went carefully around the room, before blinking again and snapping back up to the fused ghost,...and then back to the still unconscious Vanessa. It looked like the lil alien was calculating something inside her head as she slowly glanced back to the shards of glass below her. ......They were all frozen. All the frozen people around the house. THESE PEOPLE WERE THEM!! And Snatcher and Moonjumper were fused together inside their old self as the Prince on the paintings, and Vanessa-....She gave the blonde woman the stink eye. Vanessa was human again too, which meant that, everyone was..."NO MORE AFTERLIFE IN THIS HOUSE!!" Living? Well not Snatcher's minions, but....They weren't frozen either. 

"Your wish," She mumbled nudging a shard with her boot, "....It must've brought everyone back to life!"

"WHAT?!," Snatcher yelled looking at her like she just lost her mind, "Whaddya mean it brought everyone back to life? 

She stared at him dead panned and gestured to himself. "You guys are two halves of the same person, when you wished for no more dead guys the time piece must've brought everyone back to life and fused you two back together into yourself."

Their face paled. ...Before Moonjumper smiled. "D-Dearest. I don't suppose there's any possible way you could f-fix this mess could you? I-I think I like it better unfused."

.....She sighed and again nudged some shards of glass to the center. ".....Yeah. But it's going to take a long time before it's fixed because you broke it." She scowled before plopping herself on the ground by the shards and looked carefully at her choices,....before carefully picking up a larger shard. "..." Then stopping completely and looking up at the people around them. ".....I can't reverse it while they're here!"

"What?," Snatcher questioned but stopped when the girl reached over to tug on their sleeves.

"I can't turn them back to icicles." Her eyes pleadingly looked up at him with worry. "They'll just be all trapped here again....ALL of them."

Snatcher paused for a moment before looking back to the purring Bushcat in his arms who meowed in their arms. Before back around him at all of them and relented, but ONLY because some of his minions were here and he didn't want to loose Rough Patch again....And the look the kid was giving him was enough puppy dog eye power to melt a thousand ice cold hearts like his.

"Alright, Alright. But only because I hate loosing minions." Their head snapped to the small subconite with the glowing yellow eye and pointed a shaking hand at them. "You!" The minion jumped from the confusion of their own boss's mouth coming out of a human but didn't disobey him when he motioned with a finger to come closer. "Come here." Snatcher shifted Rough Patch in his arms until the small bushcat was placed in the small minions arms with a meow, making the minion wobble a bit from the bushcat's weight. "Escort all these fools back to my home and keep them there. The bridge is always out, so take the long around and try not to let them die in the swamp. It'll be colder and take longer but it'll take them safely out. "....Snatcher then looked back to all of them with a raised brow. "I suggest you all follow my instructions very, VERY carefully. Follow my minion, wait at my home, and touch any of my things or wonder off. I won't be liable if you die from your stupidity or if I eat your souls from invading my privacy. I NEVER want to see any of you back in my forest when this whole thing is over. Now...Follow the minion. All of you."

The minion nodded, turning around and wobbling towards the second floor stairs still holding Rough Patch. "Sure thing, Boss! R-Right away!"

Everyone else shifted their gazes to look at each other unsure....But staying in an abandoned, cold mansion where they would be turned back to ice was NOT a good option. So one after the other they slowly started following the wobbling cat carrying minion until Snatcher was again redirected to the child as she again tugged on her sleeve, and then pointed to Vanessa still currently unconscious. "What about her?"

Moonjumper and Snatcher turned their head to her, a face full of extreme hatred and fear filled their features. Oh the things he could do to get revenge....But he had enough trouble to sort out on his plate as it was and the kiddo would've just been scared out of her mind. So with GREAT reluctance, he sighed and looked back to her with an idea. "Remember those locks and keys you had to get off the doors when you first got here?" She nodded. "Do you happen to know where one is?" 

"Yeah!" She pointed down the hall to the stairs that lead to the third floor. "I left them on the floor. Why?"

He smiled at her. "Go get it. We're locking her in the bathroom where she can't bother us in case she wakes up. .....And ask someone to help drag her in there while you're at it. These noodle limbs can't even help me up."

Hattie rose a brow at him for a moment with a face of concern....but she didn't question it as Vanessa....Wasn't a good person. The small girl bounded up and went to go get as Snatcher had asked but unknownst to everyone. A small disturbance awoken in the floor just above them all.