#even if their time there was kinda weird cuz they were in the basement most of the time we still loved them like

[prodbyton]

twt briize are actually so braindead like no way you think talking about sungtaro when they were in nct is them shitting on riize and thinking it means they dont want them in riize 😭 lets put our thinking caps on

[itsyagurlchip]

WAIT I SENT THE ASK TOO EARLYA AUWHAUDHDEKDVW

how is the original bone skeleton man doing?? OH OH AND is the setting the usual portal opening in the house and bam you've got new uncles or something else??? YAIOEPEPWLWKWPWBAOAV

buckle up, cuz this is super long yall 🥲

OKAY!!! THIS IS WHERE MY "INTERESTING" PART COMES IN 😁 monsters are just coming to the surface, and speciesism is as high as ever. after a year of this, queen toriel decides to open a human-monster program, something that also promotes her small school.

monsters adopt humans! ebbot was a bit iffy on it, but after realizing the benefits the mayor eventually agreed. (jk that nigga only wants the money 💀-) It was hard to get the program started, because many schools and orphanages werent as trusting, and the state wasn't fundinh it at all. So Toriel took a different approach.

Many monsters put their savings into it, considering their currency is literal fucking gold, and the program would allow each child to get $1000+ per month, depending on their age and needs. and yes giving kids thousands of dollars per year doesn't sound like a good idea, but shhhhh! the plot my dear!

The monsters who take care of them aren't allowed to use it themselves in selfish situations. Both the child and the guardian has rules.

one) you guys have to interact in some way. whether it be verbally, or even physically. two) NOTHING 18+, as all children being minors, that would be kinda weird. three) follow laws as follows- just dont be a shitty parent. four) the child has to want to participate as well, and cant do anything to hurt the guardian. including verbally (bc monster souls are made of feelings pretty much [thats another hc for another day])

id love to go deeper into the details, yet i however cannot bc i dont know how a parent-child program works.

and you have to be in the program for 1 month before you or the child wants to back out.

doesn't matter if its one-sided or not, when someone doesn't like it it immediately stops. id like to say that frisk and papyrus put most if their money into this, just so she can be adopted by toriel.

so when papyrus sees that gaster and sans have been stuck in the lab (not the basement!) for globs of hours at a time, sporadic sleeping, and overall exhaustion from work, he says the craziest shit

"SINCE YOU TWO ARE NERD BUMS, AND I CAN'T ALWAYS BE AT HOME FOR YOU TWO, I ADOPTED A HUMAN CHILD!!"

sans, in his sleep deprived state, promptly rose an eyebrow and fell out of his chair onto his side.

yea, its not that he didn't take the thing well, bro couldn't process it 💀💀

gaster just rolled his only visible eyelight and went back to work

....

well that worked well!!

reader arrived to the house the next day, and seeing that it was a two story house!?!?

AND there was an in-law suite? fuck yea! orphan kid made the jackpot 💥💥😼

they had fuckin steps too les goo!!

Your dark skin shined against the light of the sun, your brown eyes sparkling in excitement.

reader let go of papyrus's hand and ran inside immediately.

Careful as to not smudge your dirty shoes against the shiney floor, you looked around the house in amazement. This place had to have atleast 5 rooms!

and then the in law suite on the side looked like another 2 rooms!?? BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE!!

Not only did you have super nice guardians (you hoped), they were packed enough to keep you and themselves stabilized!! Hell, if theirs more people, they could support them aswell!!

Taking off your shoes, you looked around the living room. The long couch was green, albiet a bit patchy for a nice place, while the tan side couches could lean back!!

where those outlets on the sides? omg

"HAVING FUN DEAR HUMAN CHILD?" Papyrus smirked. He knew that the house of the Great Papyrus was enough to impress anyone, even of young ages.

"You guys are so rich!! wow- i mean, not that im tryna take your money or anything, but like- WOW!! Its so big!! Bigger than anything ive ever been to!" You were now flapping your hands and bouncing a bit. Your locs of hair bounced in it's pony tail no matter how small the fidget-hop was.

Behind the living room was a beautiful and lavish kitchen, and to the right there was the steps. To the right it looked like some like of master bedroom or guest bathroom.

But you didn't care about rooms right now, you wanted to see your other guardians!!

"Where are the other people im supposed to be meeting? Are you my only guardian or do they have to take care of me too? Are they mean? Are they bums? I hope they dont smoke or something, Do they have an addiction? What about-"

"THAT!, DEAR CHILD, IS GOING TO BE FOR INTRODUCTIONS!! DO NOT WORRY, WHILE THOSE TWO MAY BE GRUMPS, THEY ARE PLEASANT PEOPLE TO BE AROUND...EVEN IF THE LACK OF SLEEP TAKES THEIR PLEASANT PERSONALITY AWAY..." Papyrus concluded. You noticed that, despite the way he tried to talk to himself, you still heard it loud and clearly.

Maybe he had a hard time with volume control. meh.

Grabbing your hand and leading you towards the back door next to the kitchen, Papyrus opened the door. He had to lean down a bit in order to hold your hand, but he didn't mind.

The hallway was looooong. Instead of it being regular walls, it was glass windows of different colors. Which made you raise an eyebrow abit.

Seeing your reaction, the tall skeleton explained, "SINCE WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITY, TOTALLY NOT BOMBS, MY BROTHER AND FATHER DECIDED TO LIVE IN THE SUITE!" He said, walking and talking.

You both reached the end of the hallway, hearing mumblings, ramblings, and overall terms that lowkey hurt your brain.

Getting too excited, you open the door to a glass-based lab. With the occasional plastic and metal equipment.

In the middle of the room there was an island counter filled was rainbow colored stuff ('gay as hell' , you sniggered), small green candies, and lots and lots if paper and pencils sharpened to the ends.

At one end of the room, there was a tall skeleton, a little shorter than Papyrus, who was more goop than skeleton. Infact, he looked like someone took a fire torch to his upper body, but you didn't say anything.

At the other end, there was a short skeleton, probably shorter than you (hah, being 5'0 did pay off), laying with his head on the desk, knocked out with blue slob. You marveled at the sight, wanting to know more about monsters at this revelation.

"FATHER! BROTHER! THIS IS THE CHILD I ADOPTED FOR ALL OF US!" Papyrus announced, grinning undauntedly. The smaller skeleton banged his head on the desk at the loud voice, while the other one barely flinched and turned slowly in irritation. "INTRODUCE YOURSELVES WHILE I MAKE LUNCH FOR THE GROWING FETUS!" He declared, marching out with a big smile.

If this plan went correctly, then his favorite family members would be mentally stable (as much as one could try- he thought to himself).

after banging his head on the damned table, sans sat up a bit disoriented.

why was there a human child in the house?

why was it in the lab?

"uhh kid, ur not supposed be here...uhh, its not safe and uh, you could die."

"WOW! Your so freakin cool! How do you talk without moving your face? Are you wearing a mask? I could die here! ooh shiney stuff, can i touch it?"

yea.. this kid has not had a proper friend in a minute

he was overwhelmed by the questions you asked at first, he didn't answer them at all in favor of watching gaster struggle to calm you down.

sans didn't mind how loud you were, it was moreso the curiosity that you brought along with you.

that wouldn't do.

"Hey! What's this?" the kid asked, walking towards the machine that could very much possibly cause the heat death of the universe, before getting snatched up by gaster.

"Enough! you are here to introduce yourself, and you will do as such" It was funny to see the man twitch like that. sans likes this kid already.

After knowing your name and age, sans was a bit surprised.

he honestly thought you were younger.

while introducing himself he tried to keep it simple and short. how old is he?

"how old am i old man?"

His blue slippers shifted from the movement of his ankle bones.

he thought you were just an average kid, but something about you was different.

oddly enough you always wore these earrings saying Y on the right and N on the left.

he wonder what it meant

Now its a week past since you came into the 'haunted house', aka the skele-dungeon

you two play pranks against gaster when he has free time. watching him bounce his leg in irritation every time he finds a lima bean in his notes is pure gold.

since you're virtual, due to your choice, he tries to take you places.

some of the most consistent ones are dance class every saturday and neighborhood walks you take by yourself.

I think of sans is the type of person to give less of a shit about his dad.

mostly because if the way he approaches things, iN tHE NaME oF sCIeNcE

it pisses him off everytime he tries to ask you for a blood sample

and it makes him even angrier when you say yes without a second thought.

but despite that, he cares about gaster.

but he wants to choke him out being his first son.

Despite being constantly sleep deprived, he makes time for this little new joy in his life.

Back then he's sleep at his desk, especially when his magic reserves were too low to shortcut.

But now, and you thought he didn't notice, you carry him to the living room of the main house and turn the tv volume down to 9 when you cant fall asleep.

another thing you both have in common

More often than not, you both find each other at the odd hours if the night.

since he can barely cook shit, it's mostly you making the midnight snacks

he appreciates the food you make for him, despite him initially coming to get a 10 1/2 ounce bag of chips

other times you guys will sit in the living room in silence

occasionally he'll find himself rambling to you about physics, specifically quantum, so he can keep his memory up.

sans likes the way you treat his brother.

as an uncle and not a childish cousin.

You may not be able to keep up with Papyrus's schedules and puzzles

but when you can, you two shine this wholesome light on the whole house that makes sans's soul ache lovingly.

Papyrus likes to take you out for walks more than him, or you'll both hang out in the backyard next to the glass hallway of the suite.

on his breaks, he'll find you two doing silly things

like rolling in the grass

or trying to carry each other.

without being able to admit it, sans and papyrus feel a new joy in their life.

and they got a cool kid to come with it :)

Gaster and sans were in the lab when his father said the most dumbest shit his nonexistent ears could ever listen to

gaster was never fully succumbed into the void, as sans had saved him before anything totally horrible happened.

hence his melted face and arms.

but he saw something, or rather somethings, that his meticulous little nerd brain has been hyperfiaxting on since the child came.

"Let's discover new universes!"

sans was just like 'naw, jit crazy'

so gaster fucks around with the machine for a while in secret while sans is frolicking with his newly adopted child.

ew, children.

but he guesses that she's okay, despite her adamant queries (hehe).

and soon enough, the machine made that man find out after he fucked around

Now that the machine stopped pouring in different variants of his children, this only made gaster more excited to use the machine.

sans on the other hand was fuckin freaking out.

the damn geezer did it

but not only that, there are aggressive ass versions of him who are willing to kill a child and that wont go.

sans is not gonna give on the things that bring him joy that easy.

*insert battle sequence*

ok so he got his ass whooped, no biggie.

and now his adopted child is befriending them. great.

annnddd now his brother is taking care of them. even better.

AANNNDD now his father is too interested in them to try and find a way to send them back. AMAZING!

bro wants to jump off a roof at this point

to be honest, he doesn't like the other versions of himself.

Theyre different possibilities of what could've happened currently and he already thinks about that enough.

but, reader likes them, so he gives them a pass.

but if they hurt her...or even worse, his brother...

he wont need the machine to figure out a way to take them out of this world.

KITTY!! THANK U SM!!! ✨❤️✨❤️✨🫣❤️🫣❤️ EKKK!! YOU GUYS BRING ME SUCH JOY 😋😋😋 YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYATATATTATATATTATATATATATTATATATTATATATATTATATATA IM SO HAPPY!! YHSHABDGSIWKSBHSUWBWHAISNEGEYGSBAOWOAMQNWHUDBRYDUBJQIBSGATUWOWUEHRBXKMXBSYSJBSBZ-

i know the reader sounds super excited rn, which is sorta unexpected for an orphan centered fic, in the official thing you're gonna see a less than..nice attitude from them.

btw i wanna make a house plan to this can make more sense for your guys. ohhhhhhhh- IM TOO DAMN EXCITED 😋😋💕 i prolly gotta learn skeleton anatomy too-

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[takenbypeter]

Got another Maximoff request cuz i can’t get him out of my head.

Peter Maximoff x non mutant reader and Peter is over protective with them. It could be the most ridiculous thing and he quickly picks them up bridal style. Speeding off with her cuz they’re “always in danger”. Could be a person looking/talking to you or a freaking object heading your way, who knows?!? He calls her love, and especially princess cuz he proudly describes himself as the knight and shining armor with his AWESOME castle (his mom’s basement) to protect his princess from anything that comes near her. Reader jokingly( also kinda pissed) tells him that he’s more like a beast (Beauty and the Beast) cuz he basically wants you all to himself and held you captive as prisoner, until they fell in love with him and turned back to a kleptomaniac silver haired speedster. Peter gives them a “sorry but not really sorry” gift. Which is a rose in a glass dome like the movie. Even though the reader gets really annoyed by him sometimes. They still love him to DEATH. Peter still continues to speed them to safety at any time of the day. Reader calls him sweetheart, ding dong (get it like the dessert 😚), and honey. Also i’m sorry i’m a person who loves puns and movie references. 😭😭

Like Beauty and the Beast

Peter Maximoff x fem!reader

Words:1179

Author’s note: sorry this took me forever to write I had writers block for a little and like a presentation to give but everything is a-okay!!! I hope you like this I had serious fun with this fic.Thanks for requesting and I love you my beautiful moot! ✨💗✨

There it was again. Not once. Not twice. But three times you’ve caught this stranger catching glimpses of you between the aisles. It was honestly quite irritating. You were just about reaching for a snack from the shelf when your boyfriend ran up to you.

“Got the milk,” he stated, proudly setting the milk in your little basket while you muttered a thank you and peeked over at the stranger again who seemed to be busy now. Noticing your lack of attention Peter follows your eye-line, “everything okay?”

You brought your attention back to him, “yeah, just…that guy’s been making weird eye contact with me and it's just sorta weird.”

He leans in a little eyes never leaving the guy before asking, “wanna get out of this place?”

You shake your head refusing to let some stranger put your chores no hold, “nah I’m almost done, I just need a couple more things. Can you get me a few more things from my list please?” You asked giving him your best puppy-dog eyes.

“Of course.”

“Thank you, honey.” You handed him a tiny portion of your list before he sped off again leaving you with your few items.

Eyes drifting back down to your list, you reread the items while turning the corner into the next aisle. With your eyes glued to the paper you didn’t get the chance to see the wet puddle that spread across the floor.

It wasn’t until your foot made contact that it was too late. Once your shoe touched the liquid it was almost in an instant that you lost your balance as your foot swept out from underneath you. You braced your body for impact with the ground but that never happened, you didn’t fall too far as a pair of arms caught your upper body from behind and as soon as you realized you were safe you let out a breath.

Releasing you from his arms, you turned around only to recognize it was the same stranger as earlier. You didn’t know how to feel but all you knew was he just saved you so the least you could do was thank him. But just when you were about to open your mouth, you were suddenly lifted with arms coming up under your legs and upper back holding you bridal style, and back in Peter’s basement you were.

Once picking up on what happened you quickly shoved Peter’s chest and he put you down, “what the hell Peter?”

Despite your angry tone, he looked at you with concern written on his face, “are you okay, love? Did he try anything?” He rolled up his sleeves, not waiting for an answer from you, “he did, didn't he? One second I’ll be right back.” He took one step but you hurriedly reached for his arm, “wait! He didn’t do anything, he helped me.”

That stopped Peter in place while you contiuned, “I almost fell but he caught me.”

His expression shifted into a frown with a little, “oh,” before he shrugged the whole situation off and grinned, “well okay then,” and off he walked, towards his couch that’s placed in the middle of his, ahem, ‘castle’ is what he liked to call it.

“No. No okay then, you can’t just whisk me away whenever you feel.”

This wasn’t the first time he had done something like this.

“I thought you were in danger.”

You sat down on the spot beside him but kept your eye on him. While he did have a point you still felt it was unnecessary. “Sweetheart,” you said, trying to bite back the annoyance you began to feel, “while I appreciate your help, I can handle myself.”

“Are you kidding me?” You gave him a glare and he shrunk back a little with his hands open, “I know you can handle yourself. I just thought you were in danger and I can’t have my princess in danger,” he added leaning closer, a teasing tone hidden in his voice.

You fought a grin against the new nickname from him, “princess?”

His eyes lit up as he explained his hands waving around the room, “yeah. You’re my princess, and I’m your knight in shining armor and this is my great castle!”

You crossed your arms and mumbled, “more like the Beast.”

“The Beast!?! How?”

You dramatically laid back slouching deep into the couch, “you want me all to yourself and you keep me captive as prisoner, at least until I fall in love with you,” you sit back up proclaiming, “well guess what? Belle can protect herself, and so can I!”

His eyes widened, “Belle can protect herself? Oh so next time the beast should just let her get eaten by the pack of wolves.”

At this point you're not sure if this is an actual argument or not, it's sort of difficult to tell with the childish metaphor.

“I just don’t want you to get hurt,” he yelled out before slouching into the couch himself.

You sat there both slouched in your spots while you gazed at him from your spot. Despite the slight tension in the air you reached out and laid your hand facing up on leg. After one moment he rested his hand on yours and you two wrapped your hands, interlocking them together.

“I love that I have you by my side to protect me when I need it. But I can handle some things by myself. If I need you I will let you know, okay?”

Peter’s lips were tight lipped as his attention stayed focused forward, and at that you straightened up and placed your lips against his cheek in a chaste kiss. When sat back you saw the corners of his lips tugging down in a forced frown.

“Sweetheart?” You asked and finally a smile spread out on his face. “Okay, I get it, you're right.”

“Thank you.” You scooted a little closer snuggling your head in between the crook of his neck.

“Am I really the Beast?”

“Yes but that’s okay, the Beast is my favorite.”

You two snuggled against each other and you thought that was the end of that, but the next day you were surprised when Peter was at your door with a red glass rose enclosed in a glass dome.

“What’s this?” You asked, taking the decor. Inside the dome the rose was surrounded by tiny iridescent lights.

Peter tilted his head looking at the item, “I felt bad about the other day so I went out and bought this to say… I’m sorry.”

“Aww sweetheart, it’s beautiful, I love it. Thank you!”

He grins as he watches your reaction, “and it’s sort of my way of saying I’ll love you till the last petal falls.”

That was it, at that comment you set the dome down carefully before going and wrapping your arms around your boyfriend's neck, “I love you.”

His arms wrapped against your waist comfortably as he leaned into your touch, “I love you too.”

Peter still sometimes acted up but you loved him nonetheless.

[riddikulus-writings]

Distracted

Chapter 11

This is a bit depressing. Let the record show, my living, real life husband is alive and well and, at the moment, playing Need for Speed; Heat six feet away from me while I post angsty porn on Tumblr dot com. I asked if he was dead and he said only on the inside.

“Have you ever heard of a game called Rolling Thunder?”

The question was completely random – as most of hers were – as they sat in his office at Belle Reve, munching on cheap fast food. She was draped half-assedly over his desk, snooping through his files, and he was on the floor, back to the wall, legs stretched out. It was only them left in the facility, working late to figure… something out. He couldn’t even remember, it’s been so long in the dimly lit room, “No.”

“Do you play video games at all?”

“No.” he sucked a french fry into his mouth.

“Well, what do you even do in your free time other than be grumpy at everyone?”

He cracked a smile, “Y’gonna tell me what Rolling Thunder is?”

Nyx gave a start, “Fuck, yeah, thanks.” she slapped the manilla folder she had back on the desktop and slid to the floor beside Rick, “Okay, so it’s an old timey arcade game, where you’re some kinda weird spy dude and you have to rescue your lady-partner from these evil people. They make funky noises when you shoot them, and they’re basically just poorly-graphic’d dudes in white suits with multi-colored burlap sacks on their heads.”

Rick blinked slowly at her, “Are you high?”

“No, but I sometimes wish I was,” Nyx commented lightly, “Anyways, no, I was just wondering cuz I was thinkin’--”

“Oh, is that what I smelled?” he joked, “Thought an inmate somewhere found some matches.”

“Shut the fuck up, that’s my line,” Nyx retorted, throwing a crumpled napkin at Rick’s face, “My point being– well, I never really had a point.”

“How did you even get to video games?”

“Well, I found a word in that file I had, and it reminded me of machinery, which reminded me of doin’ hay in the summers. That reminded me of my oldest brother, then I thought of my other older brother, which reminded me of how waaaaaaaaay back in the olden days, me him and… someone used to sit in the basement of our parents house and play dumb PlayStation-Two video games, which reminded me of one of our favourites; Rolling Thunder.”

Rick’s mouth was slack, “You’re cracked.”

“My mom thinks in chain links like that, too,” she explained quietly.

“Hey,” Rick scooted the food wrappers away and turned to face her more fully, “Can I ask y’somethin’?”

“Fuck yeah, I’ll marry you.”

Rick’s voice caught in his throat. He shook his head, closed his mouth, waited a second and spoke, “No, I’m bein’ serious. Can I ask y’somethin’ that’s probably personal?”

“I’m a Gemini and ‘m one kinky motherfucker.”

He placed a hand over her mouth, “I’m bein’ serious, Eris.”

She gently grasped his wrist and slid his hand from her mouth, into her other hand, “You know you can ask me anything you want. I hide nothing from you.”

That was a lie; just mere seconds ago she skipped information on him, “Why do you go far away sometimes?”

Her face fell, and she began wringing his hand through hers; a habit, he’d begun to notice. If she was worried, her hands found something to occupy themselves, and if they didn’t find something to do, she’d rip her fingernails off, “I, uh… I was… fuck,” she looked to the ceiling, blinking back tears, “I was married, once. Some months are easier than others, June and October are the worst, if you’ve noticed.”

She drinks more during those months. He’s noticed. He’s tried to get her to stop.

Nyx took a deep breath, focusing once more back on his hand, “His name was Parker. He was an absolute sweetie. You two would’ve gotten along like a house on fire. His house key is the American Flag one on my truck keys – the one he gave me when we first started dating, when we lived with our respective parents, yet. I never let you in my room because there’s wedding pictures everywhere. His family – parents, his younger sisters – are some of the ones who want to meet you so bad.”

“Wouldn’t it–”

“They want me to be happy,” She cut him off, meeting his gaze, “Mom, especially, is just glad I’ve found someone who makes me smile, again.”

“How–” Rick had so many fucking questions and she was answering none. Just giving him more questions.

“Accident. Icy roads. Oncoming semi,” she gave his hand a hard squeeze, and Rick moved his other to rest over hers, “I miss him.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“You never asked, and I thought it would’ve been weird.”

“Eris,” Rick brought his hands up to cup her face. He brought his closer, their noses almost touching as he looked her straight in the eye, cracking a small smile about what he was about to say, “I know you like being creampied and choked. Nothin’ is weird between us.”

The laugh that blurted from her mouth preceded a wave of tears, and Rick just pulled her into his chest.

“Alright,” Rick placed his hands on his hips, “Who ate all the fuckin’ empanadas?”

“Mine were very good,” DuBois waved his half-eaten one at Rick.

Someone behind him mumbled about having the chicken ones. A quick half-turn, and he found Nyx sitting on an air vent in the corner, shoveling her face. A light breeze blew some of her hair in her face, which made her pause her eating long enough to notice Rick’s look, “What? Rick, you know how I get when I haven’t eaten in a while.” Like a goddamn rabid dog. She gets scary when she’s hungry.

He’ll allow the missing empanadas, just because it was her who ate them.

He gave himself a half shrug – at least he knew where the empanadas went – and turned to the man they had cornered on this rooftop, “Alright, then, here’s the deal; we fail the mission, you die. We find out any information you give us is false, you die.”

Harley sauntered in front of him, “We find out you have personalized license plates, you die.”

“What? No.”

Harley circled him, again, facing The Thinker, “You mismatch blacks, you die.”

“No.”

“If you cough without covering your mouth–”

“Harley,” Rick gave her a one-word warning of knock it off. She went to sit by Nyx, and Rick turned back to The Thinker, “Those last three aren’t things. Although,” he stepped closer, lowering his voice, “probably don’t need to say this, but that isn’t an open invitation for you to cough without covering your mouth.”

“But,” Nyx called out, chewing through her last mouthful of Rick’s empanada she stole, “Anywhore, we’re gonna need you to drive us in our funky little mini bus and get us past the guards at the front gates of Jotunheim.”

Rick nodded, “Once through the gate, we’ll use you to get us through the retinal scanner.”

“There are security cameras everywhere,” The Thinker scoffed.

“They’re being dealt with,” Cleo grinned.

Rick continued, “We’ll neutralize the soldiers there and enter. Once we’re inside, we separate into teams.”

Harley, once again, marched in front of him, arms crossed, to yell at The Thinker, “I am walking back and forth!”

Rick sighed, “Okay, you’re going to lead me, Nyx and Ratcatcher-Two to Project Starfish.”

Peacemaker finally piped up, content with loitering in the background up until now, and started towards Rick, “I’m going with you, ‘cause I don’t trust this guy.”

Nyx was suddenly there in Peacemaker’s space, and it sort of shook Rick to see how tiny she was compared to Christopher Smith – it also amused him to see how unnerved Peacemaker was by her, backing up as she closed in on him, “I don’t trust ‘im either and that’s why I’m going with. Pretty sure Rick trusts me more than he trusts your hulking white-bread ass.”

Peacemaker huffed and crossed his arms over his chest, his obnoxious red shirt creaking, “You’re our team leader.”

“Yeah? I’m passing lead to Bloodsport. You follow him, now. I follow Rick. That’s a fuckin’ order.”

DuBois, thankfully, chimed in to try to diffuse their tension, “You’re comin’ with me. Our munitions expertise are needed to place the explosives, starting at the first floor and goin’ all the way up. Once we’re clear, we blow the tits off that thing–” he glanced over the group, “And go home.”

[1eos]

that person is one of two sisters who are neo shippers and are well known and hated among the intl twt ppls. they can even be spotted leaving comments on yt. they are obsessed with mentioning the lack of friendship whenever they don’t do anything together especially if with some other man. twt have said that you and them are the same and I just laughed.

and the arguing on twt is insane like he, literally as you said was doing a musical and he was also doing his own comeback but they say jelpi left it too long that’s what they didn’t include the others. no just let’s put more pressure on him shall we.

omg they left the others out lollll hakyeons priorities are in dramas and movies, redacted was literally enlisted. hongbin no matter how much they say haha let me be editions, is not coming back he’s happy being a twitch gamer. They’re constantly screaming about ot6 and ot5 all the time also them screaming about the lack of promotion from jelpi for the concert because some ppl didn’t know about it.. now them all arguing among themselves over this suspected draft dodging. It’s all ridiculous.

its crazy that neo shippers are so annoying even starlights, delusional weirdos they are, hate them. wait ME AND THIS WEIRDO ARE THE SAME???? FAVEEEE 😭😭😭im obsessed w twt fan bullshit. i say it would be hilarious if 90line were never seen in the same room again just to see shippers suffer but im the one crying over their 'friendship'. while also being hated for being a solo stan that doesn't like anyone else. WHICH IS ITTTT

but this discourse is fucking weird...theyre so obsessed with ot6 to the point of serious delusion. to ME, and to a lot of ppl, its kinda obvs hakyeons focused on acting likeeee he wasnt even rumored to be there when they were MEETING abt the concert lol. and im sure if he wanted to be there he could've negotiated a better date like no one (besides worried kfans) are bringing up leo doing 2 concert dates then immediately going back to west side story. that was fucking insane and im still trying to figure out what hakyeon was busy with lol. like im not gonna get on a high horse and be like u need to pull crazy leo workaholic stunts bc NO. no one should have a schedule like that but also...what the fuck is he doing? is the dress rehearsal for an awards show a month long commitment i truly do not know 😭😭😭and no one i peeped at has given a concrete answer on what he was so busy with

and its weird bc they're trying to absolve vixx of their decisions and blame it all on jelpi. nd jelpi IS very sus and they DO make a lot of bad decisions but in di end of the day if a vixx boy wants to be at a vixx event he gonna make a way to be there. its been 12 years their priorities have changed not everyone's first priority will be to their group 🤷🏾‍♀️that doesnt make them bad ppl imo at most its just kinda annoying that hakyeon just won't put in his resignation fr like put these girls out of their misery alreadydakdkmakm

cuz ultimately why the FAWK should they give up careers and opportunities? its unfair to EVERYONE like just bc [redacted] put off enlisting like the idiot he is should leo, hyuk, nd jaehwan be stuck in the basement doing nothing? and vice versa should hakyeon be forced to not pursue what he wants bc the rest want to be singers 4 life? should they all be jobless bc of fucking hongbin? be frrrrrrr these bitches are like toddlers istg let these men grow and be happy

😭 like your vixx boy not living up to YOUR expectations is a you problem. also how the hell did they not know abt that concert that was ALL over realvixx like??????? LOL????????

p.s. am i the only one annoyed by this idea that idol relationships are only 'valid' if they make themselves available for viewing to the public? like i don't immediately think vixx r beefing just bc they aren't seen with each other. i'll joke that hakyeon don't wanna dance but i'd never say he hates them cuzzzz i mean there's a whole world beyond what's shown on insta or twitter!!!! they could be texting all di time who knows! this entitlement to evidence of idol bonds pisses me off!!!

[bittybattybunny]

HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT I FINISHED

well mostly

that’s a temp crown and I have a single seam left BUT IT’S DONE REALLY OTHER THAN THAT

So now I’m prince ;3c (i also realized i could have grabbed my fake bouquet from my room for more fun---) also I’m wearing a face mask cuz I really didn’t want to put makeup on to fuck around in my basement when I do a proper photo shoot with Snuppet or something I will but deal with the mask (which btw is from @/timetravelinghk !!! It’s one of my favs to wear besides my levisnatch i wear at work)

I’m like super pleased with how this came out; It’s like patterned fully from scratch *stares at the failed attempts* yeah. it’s been a journey.

I’m gonna ramble a bit about the things I dealt with with this costume so read more I’m long winded

For context I started drafting patterns and such for Prince back when I made Snuppet. The idea has always been to cosplay as Prince and HK when I puppet him. However I wound up getting called back to my day job like right after I finished Snups so I never had a chance to continue because hooooo boi this summer was nuts. People wtf we broke records in sales for my work despite pandemic but i’ve ranted before--

There was also the matter of my boots and my wig. See the wig I’m wearing is the SECOND wig i bought for prince. the first one arrived all like... weird. i can’t get it to be fixed so I’ll use it for a monster costume and cover it with blood (its got like weird glue residue. like how some monster high dolls’ hair gets?)

This one is really nice uvu it’s my first arda wig i ordered; I do have the same in a dark purple because I will be making a ‘shadow prince’ version of this outfit in black and purple

and then the boots.

hoo boi

those boots

*inhale*

So let me say, I have decent sized feet. I wear between a womens 10 and 11 and that makes finding shoes a lil hard.

More so when I need very fucking specific shoes.

Yes i could do boot covers but it wasn’t going to be the same.

so I spent over a month looking and finally found those ones. they cost me a little bit (like they by far are the most expensive shoes I’ve ever bought. I hate spending money on shoes even for cosplay)

So they said they’d arrive soonish. I even paid express shipping.

Guys i ordered them in April. I got them late AUGUST. the site was a nightmare i could never get info it was permanently stuck in ‘packaging order for shipment’ and the help desk sucked and I was so busy with work I couldn’t call my bank and then just one day

they were just in a bag shoved in my mail box. i opened them right before a shift so they sat in my car all day

then i ordered gold cord on amazon

LACING THESE THINGS IS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE

the first time I wore them took me no lie about half hour to get them laced proper and on. My sister was waiting and had to come up like “...you okay?”

once laced tho i can easily put them on and off in like 5 minutes

now the costume itself has been. interesting. so you can’t see but the actual way i put this on is there’s a zipper and velcro! I’ve mentioned before I have CFS and chronic pain issues so I try to make my cosplays easy in easy out if i can. so this actually just. zips up and then the flap with buttons velcros down. it keeps the whole thing a lot smoother across my chest. (also i wear a binder for this cosplay. I bought my first one for this. if you cant tell i kinda went all out for this cosplay because I resonate with this fucker on a personal level and he’s brought me peace of mind this last year. I haven’t done a male cosplay in years and it’s kinda nice to do it again.)

Those sleeves

hhhhhh

those sleeves

trying to figure out the proper way to make those puff sleeves was. yeah. and even then they aren’t perfect but they work for me. When I redo this for shadow prince I may make them a little.. poofier? i have the idea how to do it now.

I also like had to alter my pattern after i made it to fit better. I have narrow sloping shoulders so things slip off them easily, my original pattern had very BROAD shoulders whoops.

the collar was also fun. i have to keep like stabbing myself with pins to get it to stand right.

I think the cravat was the easiest thing. it’s actually not tied or anything. its sewn together and then there’s velcro so i just wrap it around my neck and secure. As i said. i prefer easy on easy off.

the pants were. fun. I’ve always had issues making pants. the first set well... I made farrrr too thin. the legs were fine but i couldn't get the waist bit over my thighs or rear TTvTT

I’ve been playing with that pattern for the past week. I actually made them too WIDE today which is a much easier fix. tbh could take them in more but I do want the poof a bit. I do need to not wear LEGGINGS under them next time. like.

this costume is warm. I’m going to be a roast prince when con’s are a thing again. between how warm the tunic and binder are, and carrying/puppeting snuppet if you see me please know if I glare it’s most likely I’m dying. Gods it’s warm. I overheat so easily. (another reason I make it easy on and off)

So yeah! that’s my tirade on my prince cosplay! if you actual read down to this point mwah!

get a laugh out of the fact as I was coming back up stairs i scared my cat. he always freaks out when I’m in cosplay.

Also admire i took these photos blind. I didn’t want to put contacts in so i was playing with my new remote (i got a phone based tripod and it has a bluetooth remote to take photos it’s fucking great ngl)

alright I’m gonna go---

idk watch youtube tbh Im just happy i finished this!!!!

also please ignore the fucking litterbox i swore i moved it out of frame akjkldsffg

[helmarok]

ww is kinda weird cuz both daphnes and ganon are wrong in some ways and it kind of leaves me thinking that neither of them were completely the good guy so here is my 10 page essay on why theyre both dumb old dudes causing problems

ganon isnt the good guy in ww, hes not a good person. he's more like a villain with depth i guess? as much as i love seeing him as some nice old man i gotta think about canon sometimes and hes kind of an asshole, but not just plain evil like he was in oot. i could agree with the fact that he wanted to revive old hyrule but then he ended up saying "give hyrule to me" which showed that he only wanted to bring it back so he can take it for himself.

that kinda bothers me tbh cuz its kinda boring that ganon just wants hyrule and thats that but thats just how he is i guess. i also wanna mention the time he said he wouldnt kill link, even though at the beginning of the game he told his helmaroc to throw him off to god knows where in the middle of the sea. maybe he didn't kill him but he definitely did it thinking he'd never come back. even though ganons dialogue is much more chill and sounds way less evil than in other games, hes not exactly good for the stuff he does and it kinda disappoints me that even though he did some terrible things, it wouldve been really cool if he did these things to bring hyrule back for not him but the rest of the world and his "give hyrule to me" thing really took away from that.

now its daphnes turn and hes different cuz hes supposed to be your companion. the reason i think daphnes isnt so good a person himself is cuz he took some random kid trying to save his sister and nothing more, then used the fact that he was willing to do anything for aryll to get him to kill ganon.

even after aryll is safe, daphnes still gets link to go through with the triforce hunt and kill ganon anyways. now i guess you could say that if he didnt kill ganon then aryll would still be in danger but he already found out that its not aryll who has what he wants so he'd probably just leave her alone. i guess this leaves tetra to be the one in danger, but even then daphnes put her in more danger than she wouldve been in anyways. i think daphnes biggest mistake here had to be giving the remaining piece of wisdom to tetra turning her into zelda. the whole zelda thing was weird on its own but what i mean by this is that by doing that ganon was able to have the complete triforce of wisdom when he took her. the piece of wisdom that daphnes held for all these years was safe with him and he just made the most stupid decision to give it to tetra only to show her that shes royal. add this to the fact that he left her in the most obvious spot, the basement of hyrule castle. and another thing to point out thats not so great, he left her in there with no food? he left her in there not knowing for sure when him and link were gonna come back and that makes me lose it every time like this poor kid just got turned into a princess basically had her life changed and got locked alone in a castle basement for god knows how long because some guy told her she was 💖✨goddess blood✨💖

daphnes was alright near the end when he used the triforce to wish a future for the kids who got caught up in this mess, and then told them to find a new land. he thinks its time for the old kingdom to be left behind for good and there needs to be a fresh start and new history. as great as it would be for the flood to end he does have a point especially if you think about the things the royal family has done in the past, using the sheikah and stuff like that even though thats definitely not what the game was going for but its still something to think about. hyrule has had a rough history and with both ganon and the old kingdom gone its finally time for something new.

i think both daphnes and ganon have good points but things just went wrong like daphnes pulling in some random kid to do what he wanted and ganon wanting hyrule for himself. neither of them are perfect but its ok cuz i think theyre both cool characters anyways 😭✌️

[championfrita]

Creepiest Locations in Pokémon

So, I don't really do Top 10 lists or stuff like that but I recently recieved Black 2 from a friend and reached one of the creepy game locations (you know what I'm talking about).

Suffice to say, I thought I'd talk a little about the creepiest locations in Pokemon.

Without further ado, let us begin!

Strange House - Unova Region

Yeah yeah, playing Black 2 so OF COURSE I'd put this on the list, right? Well that's not why. I put this on the list because it, for me, is the CREEPIEST location in Pokemon. Having not played White 2 in a while (because I lost it heh heh ^^') I had mostly forgotten it until now. I find Strange House to be the creepiest location in Pokemon not just because of the way it looks. The entire thing is Hellagar creepy. Not only does it have some of the eeriest music ever, but the furniture moves on it's own. AND YOU CAN HEAR IT MOVING. Straight up paranormal crap guys (and I'd know, I have paranormal investigative training and I'm a sensitive). When I first encountered this place I was super tentative about walking around inside. I jumped three feet when the first Pokemon Battle activated, no joke. Not to mention the backstory. A little girl put in an eternal nightmare by Darkrai who never wakes up and dies in her sleep? Yeah, no thanks. *horrified shuddering* Let's move on, shall we?

Old Chateau - Sinnoh Region

Yeah, you guys kinda expected this one huh? I put this on the list because it also has some seriously creepy music. Sure, Strange House is creepy, but mostly on the inside. Old Chateau is creepy ALL AROUND. Even the dilapidated exterior just screams "Yeah btw I have demons locked up in here, that a problem bro?" HELLGAR YES, IT IS! But that isn't even the creepiest part. The Chateau is straight up haunted. Ghosts of residents and even a butler can be found wandering around inside. Encountering them is for the most part a random event, except for the little girl, who you simply encounter by entering rooms on the second floor in order. Still not the creepiest part. In one of said rooms is a painting...who's EYES MOVE WITH YOU SO IT IS ALWAYS WATCHING. Plus in the kitchen possessed tableware flies at you if you stay too long. Even better? Find all the ghosts and a secret door under the stairs opens up to take you to the basement. Lovely. And guess who's down there? The creepy as Shuppet Gengar who's been using that painting I mentioned earlier to stalk you. I was so afraid of this place that I wouldn't enter it for like 2 years after the games came out. One look and I was like "Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Did I say NOPE?!"

Lavender Tower - Kanto Region

This is obviously a classic from my childhood. Lavender Tower was the original creepfest of Pokemon, and while it may not actually be all that scary anymore, going in there without a Silph Scope was terrifying as a kid. Literally everything was a ghost, not just the ACTUAL ghost of Marowak that haunted the place. Even your Pokemon were too scared to fight in this place. Not to mention the crazy as Shuppet Channelers walking around the joint. Yeesh. Get a life guys.

Caves - All Regions

I know, I know. You're all thinking, Seriously?! You're afraid of CAVES?! Well hold on. Have you ever walked one without Flash, back in the old days when the screen was just black? It's not so much the dark that's terrifying. It's the idea of never escaping that cave. Of being lost in there forever because you can't bear to lose those Pokemon you've spent months lovingly raising. Without Flash, your options were: Try and stumble around in the dark hoping to get lucky and find a way out, or restart your game and do things from the beginning because you done messed up my friend. Horrible. Not to mention you had no idea what might be down there.

Kaminko's House - Orre Region

I don't care what you say, when the screen suddenly goes black and white and some deranged lunatic comes flying out of a creepy mansion surrounded by dead trees roving like a madman to challenge you to a battle, it's creepy. It may not be super scary, but still creepy. Especially when you enter the building and discover that it's home to basically a mad scientist. For a while I thought the player character, Michael, was gonna almost get murdered. Super weird stuff in there I tell you.

Scary House - Kalos Region

Not actually that scary. The way this location becomes pretty creepy is by watching the XY anime episode that goes with it. It reveals the house to basically be a house of horrors for Ash and friends. The old man they find there says it's all for the sake of saying hello the Ghost Pokemon Way. Entertaining his guests with a good scare as it were, except that at the end of the episode both he AND THE HOUSE DISAPPEAR. Then they reappear for Team Rocket. A DISAPPEARING HOUSE?! How is that NOT creepy?

Chargestone Cave - Unova Region

It's dark, weird stones float around, and it has creepy music. Yeah, no thanks. That being said, I absolutely LOVE Chargestone Cave. It is one of my favorite locations in Pokemon, but it's still creepy. You can practically FEEL the supercharged air through the game screen, which sets off all your instincts to flee, and you never know when a Pokemon is gonna suddenly attack you. It just has an all around creepy feeling to it.

Pokemon Mansion - Kanto Region

Oh look, and abandoned mansion. Let's go look inside! Creepy music and statues with switches and eyes that light up? Great! Oh boy, a book! Let's read it. Oh it's a journal…with the creation of a superstrong clone of Mew in it…Oh yeah, btw you're just casually walking around in a place where Mewtwo SLAUGHTERED ALL OF IT'S CREATORS. LOVELY! No big deal, just an abandoned house of DEATH. And you better have an Escape Rope with you if you plan to jump off that broken floor, cuz if you don't you'll be stuck there…FOREVER. Place is super creepy. And thanks to the one and only Braxton Burks and his musical reboot called Kanto Symphony, it just got creepier. Woo!

Route 217 - Sinnoh Region

Yup. I'm just gonna paste this snippet from Bulbapedia:

“If the player re-enters the house near the Ice Rock after the Spell Tag is obtained, the woman that gives it has disappeared. When obtaining the Spell Tag, her speech is: "...A person...? ...A rare sight... ...Thank you for visiting... ...A gift..." The nature of the item, in conjunction with Ace Trainer Olivia's comments of hauntings in the area, implies that the woman was a ghost, specifically a Yuki-onna.”

A Yuki-onna is a Japanese ghost woman who froze to death and roams snowcovered mountains waiting to kill people. It's a wonder the player survived. O.O

N's Room - Unova Region

I LOVE N. Love, love, LOVE him, but his room is creepier than a Mega Banette in a dark alley. N obviously has some serious mental issues, and it's this implication of dereanged mental health, combined with equally deranged music, that makes this place so darn creepy. The whole CASTLE is creepy, but this room takes the cake for creepiest room in the whole building.

Abandoned Site - Alola Region

Not exactly THE scariest location, this newest of creep fests lies in the context of it and the idea of being there in person. I know I'd find it super eerie, especially at night and when Accerola mentions she thinks you're crazy because the room you found Mimikyu in doesn't exist. Gave me some chills, let me tell you. Observant players will notice Mimikyu in the background of this scene, shuffling away behind the chainlink fence.

Pokémon School - Alola Region

While normally cheery and upbeat, if the player does a sidequest in UltraSun and UltraMoon this innocent place of learning turns into the stuff of nightmares. A creepy little girl and her Drifloon want you to look into some rumors...and appear only at night. The music makes for utterly terrifying atmosphere that will give you chills, especially if you find your own school creepy at night. While the occurences turn out to be completely harmless or normal things they make for some heartpounding suspense, and the little girl and Drifloon mysteriously disappear after you finish investigating. Creepy. It is strangely satisfying if you time it right like me and end up completing the quest at in game dawn though.

And that's about it. What locations do YOU think are creepy? Let me know in the comments!

[usagi-zakura]

This week on Adventurer’s League

Our regular DM was too busy so we had a substitute. So instead of doing Storm King’s Thunder we ran a Halloween-themed one-shot. (Which he plans to run again so if some of my followers are somehow PART of that group.. don’t read this post. It may contain spoilers.)

It was the usual crew, cuz no one really had time to create new characters (Well I techincally had my spare buuuuut I love Dott and I didn’t bring any spellcards for my spare, who’s a gnome wizard)

- My kobold ranger/rogue Dott and her pet wolf/horse Ttod.

- A tabaxi death cleric who may or may not be a cannibal.

- A tabaxi rogue.

- A human paladin.

- A human bard/fighter.

- A thiefling bard who acts more like a rogue.

And a new player on the table: an elven monk.

None of our bards are the stereotypical «flirt with everything»-bard, but that doesn’t mean they’re sensible human/halfdemon beings. None of our party members are... except maybe the paladin... and the monk. Don’t know much about her.

We were supposed to be ghost-catchers, heading towards a small village to investigate some strange happenings when we were attacked by a walking scarecrow and a large flock of ravens. (Whom the Cleric wanted to eat. She is a cat I suppose so its understandable.)

I was late to the session but came in just as they were fighting the scarecrow.

We managed to fight them off even though we were all on a runaway horse carriage (the horse got spooked by the scarecrow). Eventually we managed to calm down the horse as we reached the village only to be attacked by even more birds...

We ran inside some old lady’s house. She seemed very friendly, even offering us all hot cocoa (which the two tabaxi took as a murder attempt because cocoa is poison to cats).

The Thiefling Bard, paragon of virtue as she is, decided to put up a Leomund’s tiny hut on the lady’s front door... for no other reason than to block her inside the house I suppose.

We ended up taking a long rest, some of the party sleeping inside the old lady’s house, others in the tiny hut at her front door, but when we woke up the old lady was gone.

We heard some commotion outside and went to investigate, it turned out to be a witch trial, the old lady was the accused «witch» (In case you were wondering how she got out despite the Tiny Hut at her front door, there was a back door.)

Their reasons for thinking she was a witch was of course «she turned me into a newt!» and also the suspicious orb that showed up outside her house. (Thanks bard).

The Paladin wanted to try to help the old lady, and suggested using Zone of Truth... forgetting of course that Zone of truth is a spell, thus magic, thus the paladin is a witch too! But the thiefling bard managed to convince the villagers that she was actually a demigod, and they seemed to accept this.

The Paladin cast Zone of Truth (careful to keep the party outside it) but the old lady succeeded her saving throw... Then things went a bit crazy.

The Mayor suddenly slumped over dead, having been stabbed in the back, and two hags appeared, the old lady changed to her true form, she was also a hag. Surprise! They were the witches all along.

Then... the villagers all disappeared and we all found ourselves in a grey-scale version of the town were it was raining frogs, and the village was patrolled by a large frog-like monster covered in tentacles.

The bard figured out we were teleported into some kind of weird pocket dimension, but she told the rest of us we were probably all dead because again...she’s just so darn nice. And with a deception roll of 22 Dott belived her and immidiately panicked, since kobolds belive that if they die they get reincarnated within their clan...but she doesn’t have a clan, they all died... so no reincarnation for her...

After exploring the strange village we found a totem, as we moved closer so did the frog monster. Roll for initative.

It caught several of us in its tentacles, and even ended up eating poor Ttod, but we managed to bring it down. Dott immidiately cut the frog open to save her companion but it was too late...

The DM however didn’t want to basically take away half of Dott’s power as a BM ranger, so he became a ghost. So now we had a ghost-dog.

The Thiefling bard decided to shatter the totem, this immidiately got us sent back to the normal village, where the villagers were still panicing over the sudden death of their mayor and the three hags (who had of course escaped by now).

When we offered to help defeat the hags they told us to go pick up some weapons at at the graveyard, and also explore the basement of their previous herbalist who had apparently been killed by one of the witches.

We went to the basement first, and were attacked by a jar of hands, an undead brain in a jar and a mimic table.

Also the bard got a hold of a fireball wand to Dott’s great displeasure (she has a bad history with fire) and basically burned the whole room down.

Somehow we all made it out alive, and moved on to the graveyard where we had to fight a banshee...she knocked out several of us, including Dott, leading to the first time ever that Dott got knocked out and Ttod wasn’t (given that Ttod has only 27 HP at level 6 that was kinda impressive...)

The paladin was able to bring us back up however and we defeated the banshee.

Next up we went to the pumpkin patch, apparently the witches had been seen around the area.

We saw a zombie in the distance, the thiefling bard just threw a fireball at it and killed it instantly... and then we were attacked by a giant pumpkin. Killed that one too.

We then found the witches’ house. The bard threw a fireball at it. Sadly this did not instakill the witches... they just flew out of the burning house on their broomsticks.

During the following fight Ttod ran around on the ground barking because he couldn’t reach them (despite being a ghost dog the DM would not allow him to fly).

The thiefling bard decided to polymorph herself into a giant ape! But was immiditaly polymorphed again into a sheep... Another character (I think it was the other bard or the tabaxi rogue) decided to shoot the sheep so she could turn back into the ape.

The paladin also tried to throw one of the witches off her broom by using Misty Step, she managed to get ON the broom, but failed to get the witch off.

One of the other witches tried to save her sister by dragging her of the broom (she was badly injured from the fight at this point) but this promted an attack of oppurtunity from everyone within melee range (so the paladin, Ttod and the tabaxi rogue) and she was promptly killed.

This our adventure ended, the other witches got away but their coven was basically ruined at this point, so we considered it a win.

TLDR:

Our thiefling bard is an asshole, Dott nearly died from fright but got herself a ghost-dog, we fought a table and the bard got double-polymorphed.

(PS when I call the bard an asshole, I mean the character is an asshole. The player is just fine in my eyes. Most of us just play morally dubious characters. Because its funny. I love this misfit group, its my favorite to play in out of the three campaings I’m currently in.)

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 156: Deku Potter and the Cursed Child

Previously on BnHA: Chronostasis was revealed to be holding Aizawa prisoner on some lower level of the Neverending Basement. He has sexy clock hair which he’s used to basically paralyze Aizawa for the next hour. Deku fought Overhaul for a little bit at 20% OFA and it basically did nothing. Meanwhile Mirio tried to drag Eri away to safety, but ended up collapsing due to blood loss. He told Eri to go and hide, but she wasn’t able to take the guilt of thinking she’s responsible for all this death and carnage, and she went back and told Overhaul she’d go with him if he stopped hurting everyone and fixed them all back up. Overhaul said some more bullshit things which got Deku all fired up again, and our little green hero stumbled to his feet and shouted that he’d save Eri no matter what. And then THANK FUCK, Ryuukyuu and my badass ladies Tsuyu, Ochako, and Hadou came busting in out of nowhere. I really need this girl power squad to turn the tide here because tbh, I’ve had just about enough of this.

Today on BnHA: We flash back to see how the badass lady squad battled Katsukame, the giant vitality-stealing bad guy who kept sucking energy from everyone and converting it into his own power. Just as they were finally wrapping things up, “Deku” appeared and told them that their assistance was needed in the Neverending Basement. “Deku” of course turned out to be Toga, but that doesn’t really matter since in the end she helped the heroes out. Back in the present, Deku asks Ochako to help Nighteye while he goes after Overhaul and Eri. Overhaul tries to escape through the new hole in the ceiling, and Deku leaps after him. Meanwhile we learn through more flashbacks that Eri is actually the granddaughter of the Comatose Boss, and that she was abandoned by her mother (the boss’s daughter) after her quirk manifested and she somehow vanished her father. Overhaul was assigned to look after her and eventually learned that her quirk is able to rewind time. Back in the present (again), Eri’s quirk begins to awaken, and she leaps toward Deku’s arms.

(As always, all comments not marked with an ETA are my unspoiled reactions from my first readthrough of this chapter. I’ve read up through chapter 185 now, so any ETAs will reflect that.)

everyone, I have an announcement. today, 1/13/19, is an auspicious day. today I am finally going to finish this arc after four long years. or maybe it’s only been a couple months. I lost track of time somewhere in the darkness. but anyways. I’m gonna do it. the binge starts... now

oooh!

come to think, we never did learn her actual quirk. obviously it’s something to do with destroying other people’s quirks, because that’s what they were weaponizing her DNA for. but what exactly is it that she does?

so we’re backtracking to “a short time ago”, and Ryuukyuu and her squad have successfully taken down the villain from all the way back in chapter 138

you see how they did that with no casualties? that’s cuz they’re competent. and also because they didn’t split up like fools, although for the most part that was out of the others’ control. (but them leaving Tamaki was still stupid af)

so they’re hurrying to go help the others

but something is happening??

oh shit the guy wasn’t fully knocked out

he’s using his quirk to sap their energy

aaaaand he’s getting bigger and breaking free of his bonds

he’s all amped up on quirkroids just like Irinaka was. fuck

so they were stuck dealing with him for another 20 minutes! during which time two whole months passed in the labyrinth of uninteresting chapters. ugh

it looks to me like the ladies ended up having to babysit the cops

Ryuukyuu’s shouting at Hadou and OH MY GOD WE’RE FINALLY GETTING THE DETAILS OF HER QUIRKKKKK

she should have kicked ass at the sports festival. I still don’t know why she never placed. maybe she just got disqualified for asking her opponent too many inappropriate personal questions

-- hey now what is this

I’m preeeeeeetty sure it’s not!

which means it’s Toga oh my god

so what is she up to?

it looks for all the world like she’s actually pointing them in the right direction so they can come bail the others out before they lose to Overhaul. total betrayal of the Precepts. yes please. I fucking love it omg

also, just to remind everyone, Horikoshi is terrible at math because if this really is Toga she should have only had enough blood to turn into Deku for like three seconds. I wonder if she’ll be in a rush to get back out of there before her cover is blown

(ETA: shoutout to @temperatezone who Did The Math and calculated that Toga probably has around 35 seconds’ worth of Deku blood, so this scene is indeed plausible, if just barely! and we’ll just have to wait and see if she actually used up all the blood she has with this stunt, or if we’ll be seeing not!Deku make any future appearances.)

fuck yes the girls are wrapping this up now! with coordinated team action!

good LORD he got big

and they’re smashing through the ground and winding up in Overhaul’s spiky rock room as we saw earlier!

could you guys also smash just one more level down and save Aizawa too, please and thanks

also Deku is there -- the real Deku -- and Ochako is like

THEN WHO WAS DEKU

hee

-- oh my god fucking gross, Toga

“plus chaos”?? is that their new thing?

do you guys secretly want to go to U.A. too. “we’re forming our own team. it’s called the... uh... revengers”

also is this the first time we’ve seen Compress with his missing arm? I forget if he was in the flashback chapter from before. and I’m not gonna go back and check right now because I have more important things to do, namely BINGGGGE

(ETA: kinda glad I didn’t check, because the Robot Arm came as such a pleasant surprise in chapter 160)

look at this elaborate plan they concocted

was Compress being held hostage?? how much of this arc did I drift through in a boredom-induced haze omg

(ETA: okay so this was never actually clarified, but based on the information we have, it would seem that Tomura was planning on having his minions kidnap Eri when the opportunity arose, and that’s why Twice made a copy of Mr. Compress to save for a rainy day. Compress then used his quirk on himself?, and then simply sat around in one of their pockets waiting for the plan to go into effect.

but this all means that Toga and Twice were both somehow able to lie even under the influence of Nemoto’s quirk in chapter 149, though. so that’s weird. unless they somehow came up with this plan all on their own, in which case it technically wouldn’t have been Tomura’s plan, and so Nemoto’s wording of that particular question would have allowed them to say no. but that seems like a reach. then again, this all does, pretty much. so...)

and also, so we’re back to Twice making more than two copies of things, I presume? or did they do all this with only two sets of them

(ETA: @r5h helped me with this one back in 149; even though Twice can only make two copies of things, each of his clones has the same quirk, and so each of them can make two more copies, etc. etc. although this would mean Twice broke his self-imposed rule of not copying himself. but hey it was for a good cause)

anyway. so Twice is telling Compress that Eri is the core of the Precepts’ operation and that she’s just a little kid

omg. they want Compress to snatch her. like he did with Katsuki omg

listen guys. I’m somehow mostly on your side here. even when you abducted Kacchan, it led to my two favorite parts of the series, so yeah. but if you abduct any more children, particularly this one who has been through enough trauma for a lifetime, you’re going to lose some points again

although why do I feel like even Tomura would end up being way kinder to Eri than Overhaul ever was. I feel like they wouldn’t really hurt her, but they’d probably end up brainwashing and manipulating her much in the same way that AFO did to Tomura. that’s the more classy villain thing to do

(ETA: they’d give her lots of ginger ale)

wtf. apparently Compress is a copy? I’m so fucking confused. can anyone help me puzzle this out seeing as the anime won’t air this for another year. I’m tempted to go find the reddit discussion thread of this chapter and see if they got it sorted

(ETA: bah, the reddit discussion was just a bunch of speculation on what Eri’s quirk actually was and whether she was going to become Orihime 2.0. reddit needs to calm the fuck down sometimes lol)

anyway, so Compress is dropping in on everyone now and bitching about how mean Toga and Twice are to him

Deku’s shouting at Ochako to take care of Nighteye

float him out to safety, I guess? the dude’s already a goner Deku

and he’s running toward Eri

but

Overhaul you BITCH, DID YOU HURT MY SWEET GIRL

DEKU HOW CAN WE MAKE IT SO THIS FUCKER NEVER AGAIN SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY

son of a bitch

I said how can we make it so he does not see the light of day, Deku!!

are you just standing there while he escapes on this jutting rock elevator like Scar singing “Be Prepared” in The Lion King

YES. DUH

oh for fuck’s sake he’s leaping after him and screaming “I won’t let you!”

right now you don’t have a very good track record for living up to those words, Deku

Overhaul’s all “give it up already”

once again, they’re not the ones dragging it out, you ass

and now, weirdly, he’s being interrupted by a giant rock wearing Mirio’s cape?

I dub thee “Lemillirock”

I’m sorry, are we really supposed to believe that a giant fucking rock wearing a billowing cape just somehow got “blown up” twenty feet in the air toward you all on its own?

and what, are they just stopping to admire it now?

Eri’s reaching out to grab the cape

the narration says she wasn’t even conscious of the fact that she was doing it

and she’s remembering Mirio’s whole “a hero’s cape is for safely bundling up scared little girls all snug and secure like warm lil burritos” speech

is her quirk happening?!

what’s going on omg

Overhaul seems shocked by something

FLASHBACK

ahhhhh so she’s the old boss’s granddaughter. that makes much more sense

the boss’s daughter apparently cut her ties with the family after a marriage dispute, and had a kid

and then...

well that’s nice

um WHAT

UM. WHAT

jesus christ. apparently Eri mutated a quirk that had nothing to do with the quirks on either side of her family lineage

don’t mind me just making a note of this for future theorizing. please, continue

so apparently her quirk just straight up makes things disappear. just disappears ‘em

so the boss told Overhaul to look after her, and to also investigate just what her quirk was

so he did some experiments with rats and stuff

WHAT

WAIT WHAT

omg

wait so is this like that thing in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator that de-aged people, and if you took too much you’d actually be de-aged into negative years??

does this mean that with more training she could master control of it and turn it into a time travel quirk??

(ETA: future number one hero here. for sure. unstoppable. Deku this is your successor. actually you’d better watch out because you and Katsuki will have like 10 years at the top at most before she graduates and arrives fresh on the hero scene to boot y’all from that podium.

fucking imagine. she can heal anyone. stop bad guys by removing their quirks and/or turning them into cute babies. alter the landscape during fights. turn a few chickens into fucking dinosaurs. and that’s just scratching the surface.

is she overpowered? fucking yes lmao. do I care? yeah that’s gonna be a no from me dawg. besides, like her equally overpowered Lemillibrother before her, she probably won’t gain full control of her abilities until she’s all grown up, so it’s all good.)

and apparently he started doing fucked up shit to her right away because she immediately tried to escape starting on that day

Eriiii ;_;

:|

I need Eri to be adopted by a loving family and pampered and showered with love and affection every day for the rest of her life and they take her to Disney World and she meets the princesses and they all tell her how brave she is for never giving up, and now she finally has her happily ever after

do you remember how these fuckers were actually trying to bribe her with toys. as if that would make everything okay. sorry you’re being held captive and never shown the slightest affection and you’re being constantly tortured and you’re so scared and tired all the time because no matter what you know you’ll never be safe and you’ve even been conditioned to think all of it is your own fault. but here’s some toys. [leaves and comes back to find them unopened] WHY DIDN’T YOU PLAY WITH THEM. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT DIDN’T MAGICALLY MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER

the narration is talking about how Mirio’s actions “shook her heart to the core”, and that she couldn’t bear to see people getting hurt trying to save her

and we’re back in real time and she’s saying “stop please, I don’t want you to die”

OH MY GOD

like, so wait. WHERE DID OVERHAUL GO

HER POWERS ARE AWAKENING. so they hadn’t before?? WHAT IS HER POWER OMG

but you know what. I can just CLICK TO THE NEXT CHAPTER AND FIND OUT. because like, that was the plan anyway :D

the last two omakes are just (1) Horikoshi announcing that the guy who draws Vigilantes drew him something to congratulate him on the new volume, and (2) the picture that said guy drew. which is Toga and Twice, but it’s not really anything special, aside from the fact that there’s a little caption saying “you know, I could ship this!” which, yeah buddy. I feel ya

[supershadowywitch]

My Daemons

Okay, so I’ve decided to start making a list of my daemons since they’re begging for one. These are in no particular order and if you have any questions for any of them or me we’d love to answer. Please don’t be shy!

Okay quick disclaimer: Until I was 17-18 I didn’t realize I had daemons. I had thought they were just imaginary characters I created to ward off my loneliness. I feel utterly terrible for putting my daemons through that and is most certainly not the right way to treat them.

Ash: Oh boy, Ash is one of my strongest and oldest daemons. He acts as my protector and sometimes acts as a familiar. 

Diggory: I think Diggory is Ash’s boyfriend but they’re relationship is really rocky. I created him as a way to help Ash learn to be more civil and to have someone to play with when I was busy. (This was a time when I didn’t have very many daemons)

Ashley: She is the twin sister of Ash. She's older then Ash but appears younger and looks a lot like me. She’s gone through some really rough times throughout the years and has sort of ended up mostly mute. I’ve been trying to find ways to help her but it’s a very slow process.

Gunner: ... I don’t really know what to say about this guy actually. He’s the gun slinging boyfriend of Ashly who protects us when the rest are busy. He doesn’t exactly likes to be called a daemon but says it’s better then being called a tulpa. Not sure why.

Sabriel: A somewhat retired spirit hunter that decided to bond with the daemon I was making at the time. When I was younger she taught me a lot of protective magic.

Sam: A incubus that loves himself and everyone around him. He will try and sleep with everyone and anyone he can. He helps me regulate my sexual desire and helps me out with love spells and some personal trouble.

Jase: .... Just one of those weird daemons I don’t fully know how he came to be other then I found him one day in my head playing with some dolls. He’s childlike and acts innocent but has a deep love for raw flesh, and hurting those that hurt me. He loves to make living dolls that creep everyone out and chitter. When someone makes him cry everyone scatters as to not have Christian’s wrath brought upon them.

Christian (2): A big guy who helps me control my anger and is a massive part of helping my wards be stronger and protect me. He has a deep fatherly love for Jase and if someone makes Jase cry he will personally see to their painful death. Luckly most daemons let Jase and Christian be alone.

Christian (1): I’m not too sure why but for some reason I have two Christians that act the exact same and look pretty much the same except some minor clothing differences. The major difference is that Christian 1 doesn’t have a head and I don’t know why. He says he lost it but he’s also in no big rush to find it cuz he likes being without a head... I don’t know why. He just uses a sort of sign language to speak that he says is German sign language but I’m not entire sure.

Marci: Oh boy Marci.... Marci is a spell caster that helps translate my library worth of spell books I’ve either gathered from spirits or past lives (I’m not entirely sure which) She’s a motherly figure to most and helps remind me to eat when I forget.

Nayola: Sabriel’s younger sister. When first created I thought of her as a wendigo but much later after a friend of mine helped me make her into a much more solid form we found out she's a forest changeling. She used to be very animal like with a massive appetite but has since become into a young woman with large antlers. As of right now we are working together to strengthen our bond and work with fae magic.

Raoul: He’s like the doctor to all of the daemons and loves to read medical text books with me. He helps to remember useful medical facts and study up on medical herbs. He’s not a massive fan of magic and often dismisses it... even if he was created by magic.

Blondie: Okay his real name is Timothée Cazenave but everyone calls him Blondie. He’s usually laid back but helps me work with business things, lists of ingredients or cooking. 

Alan - Ash and Ashley’s young cousin who loves gardening and all things fairy related. He’s a fae type of daemon that has his own garden in my mind protected by massive thorn bushes. He loves to talk with me and let’s me relax in his garden when I’m under a lot of pressure.

Eric: Eric is Alan’s boyfriend and is a human. I’m not entire sure what he does but Alan asked me for a boyfriend so I created him one. They really do love each other.

Black: I don’t know if that’s his real name but it’s all he says I should call him. He’s a drama king most of the time and loves to blare his organ in the basement of my head to annoy everyone. We don’t talk much anymore but he seems happy to watch “Phantom of the Opera” all the time and write music to annoy Ash with later.

Phoenix: A mute little girl to is sort of like a wife to Black. She makes sure he doesn’t play his music too loudly (unless Ash made her angry that day) and helps make sure no spirits are getting through the wards on the lower levels of my mind. She speaks by using large cartoon like signs that she pulls out at random and loves to smack Ash with. (He’s quite the trouble maker)

Victor: (Deceased) Victor was a nice guy for a long time. He was my playmate when I was young and helped me through some difficult times. When I got older I had some really bad undiagnosed depression and he ended up going insane. He was scared and frustrated at me and at the time I was terrified of him. He threatened to hurt and kill me and I actually believed him. One day when I was with all my daemons and he was lashing out at me I ended up killing him. After that all my Damons except Ash disappeared and for a long while it was just the two of us before I decided to try again and make things better.

Red: I don’t know what Red was supposed to be. He was one of Ash’s cousins. Maybe a few years older but I haven’t talked to him for a long while. I don’t think he’s really forgiven me for killing this brother Victor. I don’t blame him really.

Louis/Lizzy: This person is a gender fluid spirit that loves to bake and be a sort of therapist to all of the daemons. I don’t see them often as they do a lot of work with my old daemons that have retreated into areas of my mind I can’t quite reach.

Emily: She’s Louis/Lizzy’s girlfriend. She calls herself a voodoo priestess although I’m not sure why as I didn’t design her that way. However she has an extensive Knowledge about hoodoo and voodoo that helps me when I work with voodoo or hoodoo. She’s sort of a strict mother hen to everyone and can very easily be found smacking Ash or Sam with a wooden spoon when they get into trouble.

White zombie dragon: ... yeah I don’t know either but for some reason I have a 40 foot long white zombie dragon in my mind and he claims to be a daemon of mine. I don’t know how this one came to be other then possibly coming from an obscure story of mine.

Ten: (Possibly deceased) I’m not too sure what happened to Ten. He was a fallen angel daemon that worked some small magic but mostly kept to himself. He was there for another daemon of mine but she’s absorbed herself into her work so he’s be left alone. A little while ago I found out he was helping a spirit that wanted to harm me. He was leaving holes in my barriers to let this evil spirit in. I disciplined him for this but he kept doing it so I told him if he was found talking or helping the spirit again he would be thrown out. I didn’t have the heart to kill him after that happened to Victor. Ash begged him to heed my warnings but he didn’t and I ended up tossing him out and told him if he wanted to repent I’d let him back in. He had a choice and knew I would let him come back but he hasn’t come back yet. I kinda miss him but I feel like I did the right thing instead of killing him.

Beast: Another really old daemon that helps my way between my conscious thoughts and subconscious separated. We rarely talk and when we do it’s usually about this shadow person of myself we call “the Insanity” which he keeps locked up in my subconscious. I don’t know why the Insanity is there other then it might be a tulpa I made when I was in really deep depression. All it wants is to destroy me so Beast keeps it locked up.

Lurker: This guy was one of a sort of set that were going to be made to fit my different magics with. However the plans were scrapped after two so he sits at a reception desk in this empty two story hotel in the middle of a forest. He works only with tarot cards but instead of normal tarot cards he uses playing cards. He’s very quiet and just waits for someone to walk in the front doors.

Puppeteer: Oaky, I’ll put this straight out. Puppeteer shouldn’t have been made at all. She was the same base idea as Lurker and was going to have a massive group of daemons to work with. Puppeteer was designed off of the question of “What would I look like/do if I was soulless?” Worst. Fucking. Idea. EVER. She is a horrible person who will do anything as long as it involves violence. She creates dolls (what she calls “poppets”) to control and torture her victims. I’ve ended up locking her in her room in the hotel. We both know she’s going to die one day and I think the thing that unnerves me the most is that she’s okay with that. Every time I let her out she taunts someone to kill her because she knows I won’t be able to bring myself to do it until she breaks a rule that the daemons and I have set up to protect ourselves from daemons like Victor.

Seeker/Sly’ly: I’m mashing these two together since they’re almost the exact same. They protect my physical and spiritual heart from any possible attacks or spells that would go after it. They make sure I present myself as strong and powerful when I feel scared and help me when I need quiet. 

Luce: I think he’s a shapeshifter that sheds his skin each time he turns into a different human but not when he turns into a different animal. He’s a good friend of Sabriel and works in a roadhouse/big bar that the daemons go to when they want to get drunk (usually). He's sweet and has a really weird habit of sleeping on the pool table and loves to talk about his time trying to kill a mole (he’s basically retelling a comedian’s story about a mole). I sometimes go talk to him when I feel like getting spiritually drunk without partying.

Basil: Basil is a milk chocolate and white furred fae ferret that has a stubbly tail and loves to annoy people. He was created after I finished collage as a way to heal myself after all of the pressure. He was a little different from the rest of my Damons as he was made first into a physical form – a stuffed animal – before a daemon form. He’s supposed to protect me from the nightmares I suffer but I think he’s slaking a little. Although I can’t really blame him when he’s fighting bigger monsters off. (Or at least that’s what he tells me) Alan and Marci love him while the rest think he’s a little devil. He’s the only one on record to have made Jase cry and not have a furious Christian upon him. (I think Christian just didn’t want to hurt a tiny animal that just accidentally scared Jase)

I may add more as they come up but that’s all of them that want to show up right now.

[doesntmakeitalright]

At the very end of junior year, my first relationship with CJ had come to it's last legs, as he just couldn't trust me and I just couldn't take the fighting anymore. It's tragic, it's my biggest regret, I did everything all wrong. My stomach twists in sorrow when I remember what i did to him. I'm going to spare some of the details.

But I started smoking weed because of this guy Alex that I was in orchestra with. He was about to graduate so I remember feeling like I should let it go, but I didn't. The combination of the weed, the idea of freedom, and a brand new drivers license led me to become interested in Alex. We hung out a couple times. The first time I ever got high he took me to guitar center and it felt like a dream. Then next time we hung out he took me to ghost town, if you know what that is, and he gave me a bracelet. We both went on the school orchestra trip to Kansas city and we pretty much spent the whole time together, and I remember on the dark bus ride home I asked him, "if I be with you, is it always going to be like this? Or is it going to be different" and he said it would be just like that.

I kind of sort of led them both on until the night of graduation. I went to Alex's party, and his grandpa came into town. After we smoked and everything was dreamy again, Alex's dad's band was playing in the basement and his grandpa had a beer and he tapped me and said "you like my grandson????" And I said "....well yeah...i do" and he smiled and hugged me and said "Well I LOVE you!!!!" And after that....i made the painful call. It hurt so bad but I decided to be with Alex. I'm still so ashamed, that's why I've never posted about it on here.

But the months that followed were absolute pure bliss for the first time in what felt like SO long. Me and Alex never fought. We spent the whole summer together. We listened to classic rock, there was a station called 100.3 the brew that had like a whole month of commercial free classic rock and it was so great. I'm talking about the journey, def leppard, aerosmith kinda classic rock. His parents got a pool in their backyard and we swam late at night with the radio on. We would make night trips to Dairy queen, we would drive wherever. I had pink and blue hair. Literally everything was an adventure and I was so free. I felt like a hippie.

His grandparents live out in the country and I got to meet them on that 4th of July. They are two amazing people that I will never ever forget. Especially his grandpa. He treated me like I was the greatest person he ever met. And as we got to know each other more over the next year, we actually confided a secret in each other that I won't ever repeat to anybody. Anyway, that 4th was the first time I ever got drunk. It was just so fucking fun.

My parents brought Alex on vacation to california with us and it was seriously like road tripping with a best friend or something because we would just stay up at night and go outside and smoke weed and cigs and look at stars and it was all just so new to me and so cool to me.

The entire summer was incredible, another one of the best times of my life. But when my senior year started and he started working at Jiffy Lube, we did start to fight. But for the most part I just did whatever the hell I wanted and he never tried to stop me. I hung out with my friends always and he never objected.

Things started to almost flare up with Liam again, like I said earlier. I walked a wobbly course for a little bit, but I really fuckin thought I was gonna marry Alex for a while there and I stuck it out even though he was a disgusting fucking slob because I was blinded by how much I loved his family situation. He had a brother only a year or two younger than me and I got them to become close. I never had a sibling, so I was obsessed with the idea of having a "little brother" 😍 lmao like one time he asked Alex to buy a rated m game for him and Alex was like fuck no so he asked me and I was like oh my gosh yes!!!! I would be honored to do that for u little brother omg and like Alex was short and temperamental but his little brother was huge and gentle so they ALWAYS reminded me of Ed and Al Elric from FMA and that was charming as hell to me!!!!!

Anyway, come spring time, I went on another school orchestra trip to Chicago (a very good story), obviously this time without Alex. It was really weird cuz, the week or so before I went, I was like OBSESSED with Alex again and inseparable but then once I left for Chicago i slipped up once and for all and after I got back nothing was ever the same with Alex again. Our fights got worse than ever and we started to actually hate each other. We held on past my graduation, through summer, until August, just after my birthday, and then he dumped me. It was extremely unexpected and it hurt me pretty bad but I'm glad I didn't stay with him because like I said, he was gross.

[croquines]

when i sleep for a really long time and/or the sleep is rlly deep i'll have a dream that lasts too long and i'll wake up feeling scummy and bad, like i dont belong in this world and instead i belong in the other.

thats what happened tonight, i dont remember how long i slept but i know it was a super deep one. i cant remember all the details or even most of them bcuz i went back to sleep afterwards to make myself stop feeling weird.

hmm basically i think what happened is that... i think there were 2 distinct halves of the dream but that theyre still connected - so the first half of the dream was that i was a little girl maybe 12 years old and i was at a very complicated and kinda old feeling house with a bunch of other girls and a teacher/authority figure. we didnt live there, we were visiting. idk why. but eventually i had to go to the bathroom really bad and i was trying to find a bathroom that was kinda hidden from the rest of the girls so i could be in privacy but every single one i found was either taken or really gross.

some of these bathrooms were really really hidden, like walk through several rooms that snake into each other and when u finally reach the end of that theres the bathroom inside a bedroom. and even THAT one was taken and at that point i had like, given up hope. this part was really stressful i remember cuz i REALLY had to go (it might have been a period thing?? i cant remember that clearly). honestly this is probably just a manifestation of the fact that this keeps happening to me irl LOL

BUT on my journey i stumbled across the basement... and in my head i remembered that we were told not to go down there but i really needed to (honestly part of me was really just curious) so i walked down the stairs - which btw werent normal skinny stairs, they were about 4 regular staircases wide and were covered in smooth red carpet.

when i got downstairs and turned on the first light i realized i had stumbled upon something way cooler than i expected, because the basement was HUGE and absolutely filled with all sorts of cool areas. there was a kitchen, a movie theater, a playroom, a fountain, a dance hall, even an inventors room etc etc etc. these werent all just like laid out before me like u did have to go through several rooms and hallways to get to some of them (the fountain room was very hard to get to and i knew that one must be top secret).

and so eventually.. this is weird but i like. discovered that creatures were living down there?? i have no idea how to describe what they loooed like bcuz my brain couldnt rlly grasp them but i would say they were kinda like big muppets? and most if not all were shaggy. like had a decent amount of long hair/fur.

these guys kinda mucked up my memory here bcuz i rlly dont know the timeline of events here but 1) i found out these creatures arent supposed to be here 2) i had some fun w some of the creatures especially watching some tv and they helped me find more cool rooms 3) i think i finally used the bathroom LOL

but eventually i heard walking upstairs and i was like oh shit i uhhh have to leave this place but i had turned on so many lights!!!!! i had forgotten to turn off like every single light so i was rapidly running around trying to find every single one i left on, one next to the tool desk, one next to the fountain, the one on the kitchen, the one in the theater, the one in the hallway with a lot of coats for some reason, etc etc until i finally figured i just needed to get out of there and i walked up the stairs (there turned out to be a light button on the stairs too which i pressed and turned the stairs lights off, dont know how that turned on)

but of course i had the sneaking suspicion that the lights not being turned off might mean that the creatures could now escape...

and then i woke up :-/

[acindra]

You Are Better Than Butter On Bread

Pairing: Jeremy Heere/Michael Mell

Words: 1.946

Summary: Jeremy walks in on Michael wearing a dress

Read on AO3 or under the cut

Michael was just pulling on his other sock when the door to his basement opened suddenly and Jeremy appeared in the doorway.

“Hey! Your mom let...me… in.” Jeremy’s greeting stuttered to a stop as his brain fought to process what he was seeing.

Michael was wearing a red jumper dress and was putting on white knee high socks. He opened his mouth but no sound came out.

Jeremy was equally stunned, gaping like a fish.

They stared at each other for a long moment.

Jeremy was the first to find his voice. “I. Uh. Wh-. You. Um. I. Um. I gotta pee. I’ll be right back.”

Well. Sort of.

He fled from the doorway and ran to the closest bathroom. His mind was still trying to process that he had seen Michael, his best friend, in a dress.

Coming to terms with this also involved him analyzing his own reaction which forced him to realize his body had betrayed him.

He leaned over the sink and stared at himself hard in the mirror. “I am not going to jack off to Michael wearing a dress.” he told himself, about as convincing as he felt.

Which is to say, not very much at all.

“You’re pathetic. Stop thinking about it.”

Which really made him think about it more.

Jeremy groaned and rested his forehead on the mirror. “I hate you.” He told himself. “This is just like multitasking, isn’t it?” he muttered, thinking back to when he got off to Michael’s voice.

Thinking about that really didn’t help his situation.

“We’re really doing this?” He asked himself.

His image in the mirror didn’t respond.

“Fuck.”

-

Ten minutes later Jeremy was splashing water on his face, trying to wash away his guilt and shame.

It didn’t work.

Taking a deep breath to steel himself, he forced himself to leave the bathroom and go back to the basement door. This time he knocked.

“Come in!” Michael called.

When he entered the room it was like the last time hadn’t happened at all.

Michael was slumped on his bed playing pokemon yellow on his gameboy color, clad in his typical jeans and hoodie.

The only thing that belied the situation was the fact he was faintly blushing.

“What the fuck.” Jeremy said, entering the room and closing the door behind him.

“What?” Michael asked, distractedly, pushing roughly at the buttons.

Jeremy took this to mean he didn’t want to talk about it.

Which was fair.

“Er. I meant hi.”

“Hey.” Michael replied, waving one of his hands but not looking away from his gameboy’s screen.

There was a long awkward silence where Jeremy tried very hard to not stare at Michael’s legs.

“Are you going to just stand there staring or what?” Michael finally broke the silence.

“Oh. Right.” Jeremy took a seat at Michael’s desk. “Do you want to work on the english homework?”

“Not really, but we should probably do it cuz it’s due tomorrow.” Michael sighed, saving his game and shutting it off.

Jeremy’s eyes tracked him as he made his way across the room to his backpack.

Michael rooted through his bag, finally pulling out a textbook and his notes. He straightened up and eyed Jeremy. “So you probably need your notes out.” he said, conversationally.

“Right!” Jeremy tried to turn his attention to the task at hand.

But his mind kept thinking back to Michael in a dress. And Michael’s legs. And Michael’s voice.

He shook himself as shame crawled up his spine coupled with what was probably lust if he stopped to think about it.

Michael sighed after the third time of explaining something to him; he wasn’t even sure what. “Alright. I guess we’re talking about this.”

Jeremy squeaked at being caught out.

“Go ahead. Ask away.” he said, sitting back.

Jeremy couldn’t get his thoughts to coalesce to a singular question. “Uhhh.”

“Cat got your tongue?” he teased.

“How long..?”

“I’ve been wanting to wear a dress for like a year now. But I didn’t get one until a couple months ago.”

“Why?”

“Why did it take me so long to get a dress or why do I want to wear a dress?”

Jeremy shrugged. “Both, I guess.”

“I was nervous. I had to drive a town over to even look at them anywhere but my computer. Luckily there was a really nice lady there who helped me find a few.” he ran a hand through his hair. “As for why I want to wear them… I don’t know, really. I just like how they look, I guess? I really like how they look on me.”

“You looked really nice!” Jeremy told him, wincing internally at how eager he sounded.

“Yeah?” Michael tried not to look as pleased as he felt.

“Yeah. I mean- I only saw for a second. But what I saw. You were…” he made a vague noise, unable to think of a word besides ‘hot’.

“Thanks.”

“Um. Does anyone else know?”

“No.” Michael looked listless.

“Oh. I’m sorry I barged in.”

Michael tapped his pencil against the desk. “It’s ok. I’ve kinda been meaning to tell you. You’re my best friend, yanno?”

“Still. I’m sure you would’ve liked to make the decision to tell me.”

“Maybe a little. But now you know so it doesn’t really matter, huh?”

“I guess.” He hummed thoughtfully. “So does this mean you’re gay?”

Michael gave him an exasperated look. “I mean I am, but this has nothing to do with that.”

“Oh.” Jeremy’s brain tried to reconcile with this new information.

“Are you alright? You look like you’re having a stroke.”

“Well, you see. My whole worldview has been changed.”

“Dude.”

“What? It’s not every day your player one tells you he’s a girl.”

Michael frowned at him. “I’m not a girl. I’m a boy, just like you. I just like dresses and skirts and stuff.”

“Oh.”

“Any more questions, or are we good?”

“What were you doing when I walked in?”

“Just putting stuff on. To be honest I thought the door was locked- I’m usually very good at remembering to lock it. I guess when I got home I just wanted to get into comfortable clothes so I forgot.”

“Are your clothes now uncomfortable?” Jeremy asked, waving a hand up and down to indicate Michael’s jeans and hoodie.

“I mean. Not particularly? It’s just the dress I was wearing is more comfortable. Or maybe that’s not the right word. It’s softer?”

“Do you want to put it back on?”

Michael looked away. “But you’re here.”

“Jeremy Heere, in fact.”

Michael snorted.

“I don’t mind if you don’t.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“O- ok. Promise you won’t be weird about it?”

“I promise.”

There was a strange underlying electricity in the air as Michael got up to go rummage under his bed.

Jeremy turned back to his homework to try and give him some privacy, but really he was trying to prepare himself for what he was about to see.

“How do I look?”

Jeremy whirled around and drank in the sight. He hadn’t noticed before but Michael wasn’t wearing anything under the jumper dress, so he could see his bare arms. And he hadn’t realized the dress was so short, coming just midway over his thighs, because he had been sitting before. He swallowed.

Michael wasn’t wearing any shoes either, just the knee high socks. “Well?”

Jeremy stammered for a few seconds, unable to articulate any words at all.

“Are you ok? You said you wouldn’t be weird about this.” Michael accused.

“Uhm. Your- your thighs look really nice.” Jeremy blurted the first thing that popped into his head. He managed to cut himself off before he could say the rest of that trail of thought, luckily.

“My… thighs?” Michael asked, looking down.

“Uh. Yeah.” Jeremy took a shuddering breath.

Michael looked up at him suspiciously. “Are you getting off on this.”

Jeremy was mortified. “I. You. That’s-”

“You are!”

“I am not!”

“Do not lie to me, Jeremy Heere.” he said, stalking over to him.

Jeremy pushed his chair back but Michael continued his advance until he was looming over him. Jeremy eeped at the intense look as Michael bent down to whisper in his ear.

“Am I doing it for you, Jeremy?” he purred. “Are you getting off on me in a dress?”

“Michael.” Jeremy whimpered.

“Can I kiss you?”

“What?” Jeremy was starting to hear the rushing of the ocean in his ears and it was distorting his thoughts.

Michael pulled away. “You heard me.”

“Why?”

“Why do I want to kiss you?”

Jeremy nodded.

“You’re hot, I’m gay, I’m in a dress and you seem to like it.”

Jeremy nodded again. “Wait. You think I’m hot?”

“Nerds really do it for me.” Michael deadpanned.

“You really do it for me.” Jeremy blurted out, blushing more.

“Can I kiss you, then?”

“O-ok.”

“C’mon, let’s move to the bed.” Michael tugged Jeremy up out of the chair.

“What?”

“I don’t want to have to lean down the whole time- it’ll hurt my back.”

He followed Michael onto the bed like a lost puppy.

“Still good with kissing?” Michael asked, crawling over until he had a knee on either side of Jeremy.

“Uh. Yep.” Jeremy confirmed, suddenly at a loss with what to do with himself; Michael was practically on his lap.

Michael’s hands came up to cup Jeremy’s face and he pressed an open mouthed kiss to his lips.

Jeremy kissed back after a little prompting, surprised at how soft Michael’s lips were.

Michael kissed like he did most things- lazily but with intent. He pulled away and looked pointedly at Jeremy’s hands which were hovering in the air. “You can touch me, you know.” he informed him. “I won’t bite, I promise. Unless you’re into that?”

A thrill shot up Jeremy’s spine. “Maybe a little?”

Michael grinned. “Kinky.”

“I am not.”

Michael snorted. “Jeremy, I’m like ninety percent sure you’re a furry and you’re turned on by me in a dress. I don’t think you have a platform to stand on anymore.”

Jeremy pouted.

“Ah. God, you’re so cute.” Michael swooped back in for another kiss.

Jeremy made a disgruntled noise.

Michael’s hands found Jeremy’s and pulled them closer until they were on Michael’s waist.

Jeremy clutched at Michael like a dream upon being woken up, afraid he would disappear as soon as he opened his eyes.

But he didn’t.

He remained a very real, very solid weight on his lap.

After a while, Michael pulled away. “Hey, do you want me to help you out?” he suggested, nodding pointedly downward.

Jeremy’s brain short circuited.

-

They were sitting on Michael’s bed, Michael playing pokemon yellow again, Jeremy technically watching.

They had given up on the homework.

If he was honest with himself, he was still very distracted by Michael’s outfit.

“So does this mean we’re dating?” he asked, finally.

Michael looked up at him in surprise. “Do- do you want to be?”

“Do you?”

“Yes! Are you sure? I know you like the dress on me and all, but I’m still Michael, you know?”

“Yeah.”

“Is that an answer or an acknowledgement?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you trying to annoy me?”

“Yeah.”

Michael nudged him with his shoulder.

Jeremy laughed a little. “So we’re dating now. Cool.”

“Yeah,” Michael teased.

“Don’t start.”

“Yeah.”

“Michael.”

“Yeah.”

“Michael please.”

“You know, if I had known getting a date with you would be so easy, I’d have shown you my dresses a lot sooner.

“Yeah?”

“Oh my god stop it.”

-

A week later Jeremy bought Michael weed patterned thigh high socks.

They didn’t get a lot of homework done on that day either.

[fantastica-daily]

Los Angeles Overnight – Interview with Screenwriter Guy J. Jackson

by Staci Layne Wilson

 Even though I’m born and bred in L.A., I still see the city as a magical place and its history absolutely fascinating. That’s why I was so interested in chatting with screenwriter and actor Guy J. Jackson about his new independent film LOS ANGELES OVERNIGHT, a neo-noir directed by Michael Chrisoulakis, and filmed on location. The movie stars Arielle Brachfeld, and features icons such s Lin Shaye, Sally Kirkland, and Peter Bogdanovich.

 “Arielle's apartment complex in LAO was once lived in by Leslie Howard of GONE WITH THE WIND,” Guy told me, when I asked him about some of the more under-the-radar locations of the film. “One of the noir movies I studied heavily for dialogue-style was THE PETRIFIED FOREST and then voila, there we were at poor ol' Leslie Howard's bungalow complex.”

 He also said that one of the locations has an especially dark past. “Aaron Kai's scene and a lot of audition scenes and the basement scene and the bar scene were all filmed at Harold Examiner Building, which has now been closed down for filming.” (The filmmakers consider themselves very lucky to be among the last allowed to shoot there.) “Anyway, I don't know all the details, but according to one of the building managers, William Hearst's pregnant mistress was last seen in the top floor office of that building, the room right next door to where we did the scene with Arielle in the acting class. Then she vanished because Hearst was married.

 “And the bar in the last scene where Arielle meets Junebug is of course in the basement of the American Legion on Highland, and its where Kubrick did pick up shots for The Shining. The stories from the American Legion are also legion, including the gross one about the theater where they showed girls to studio execs in the 20s, and if you go visit the building the enthusiastic veteran manager there is more than happy to show you around and give you the blow-by-blow of the history.”

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 Q: Neo-noir contains the stock elements of its’ predecessor; the femme fatale, the morally ambiguous hero, complex plots, the double-cross, hard boiled dialogue, and so on. But there is room to play within the genre – and you did that. How would you describe LAO to film buffs?

 ​A: Let's say it's a sun-drenched, crazy-from-the-heat thriller by way of a David Lynch vibe with dashes of early Tarantino (though by no means is this one of those PULP FICTION knockoffs from the '90s, we totally totally totally promise) gently souped with Hitchcock odes. But also we managed to tap the hyper-surreal side of L.A., and so in some weird ways I'd geekily-film-buff-ly reference Steve Martin's L.A. STORY.

 That's all just touchstones though, even as we call it "noir" or an "L.A. movie" or whatever else. I think and hope it's just something unto itself. I hope anyone can jam with this movie. Director Michael Chrisoulakis, in his calm, workmanlike way, unified the whole cast and crew and movie around a "we are all dreamers" campfire. Sure, dreams most often unfold in darkness, especially in this movie's case, but isn't it still kinda nice and charming that all of humanity dreams?

 So could we call LOS ANGELES OVERNIGHT "a dream about dreamers made by dreamers in one of the world's nexuses of dreams"? Would that sell a film buff, and everyone else?

 Yeeesh, I'm such a Logline Can Of Wormser.

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Q: Have you always been a fan of noir? If so, what are some of the first ones you remember seeing and how did they affect you? If not, then what was the prompt to write a screenplay like this?

 ​A: I really always loved Film Noir without actually knowing what it was for quite some time, not knowing it was defined by The Great Depression and all that stuff, and I especially liked any movie written by Ben Hecht or featuring ​Edward G. Robinson. But then Michael Chrisoulakis kindly came along and was like: "You just write me this neo-noir about an actress who steals big, just do that and we can make it, you'll see." and I was like: "Um, well, I'm not Hitchcock or nuthin', sure you got the right writer...?" and he was like: "No, it'll be fine, you write good emails." and away it all went.

 So from there I dug into the lore of what Film Noir was and where it came from and Michael and me went to the Film Noir Festival and so on and this whole universe opened up. My very favorite Film Noirs became THE PETRIFIED FOREST and HEAT LIGHTNING. I especially dig how they go showy with dialogue from the days of being a theatre major. Lots of dense dialogue always turns my crank. And man oh man the Noirs were sharp about it when they were first invented. They were reacting to a specific melancholy in society, for really the first time that film got to do as much, and they were reacting sharply. And I guess SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS would be one of the bestest examples for anyone who wants to hear just how sharp the dialogue could get. But then maybe I was the only Noir Neophyte out there and everyone already knows this stuff.

 And finally I had the words of one of these screenwriting gurus, John Truby, ringing in my head, when weirdly, because it was years before I met Michael, I went up and asked Truby some dumb Noir-neophyte question at his seminar and he said (paraphrasing): "In Film Noir no one really changes. There is no "change" character. Life is rocky but somehow that's still an elegant thing. The best and most innocent people in the story might meet unfair ends...but somehow that's okay. The world is balanced by injustice in Noir. That's why it's a shadow facet of the human story." So yeah, I could dig that.

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Q: Since you read scripts for a living, how did you find that basis of knowledge helpful in writing yours? (It seems it could go either way; ignorance can be bliss, after all!)

 ​A: Yeah, that's my day job and I read for a couple contests. Generally, out of every 10 scripts, one will be awful, one will be great, and the other 8 will be in need of more drafts. Whereas Hollywood Cynicism would demand that 9 screenplays out of 10 are awful. But no, people are becoming better and better at telling their stories, and so from those 8 out of 10 almost-but-not-quite scripts you can still observe patterns of failure and success and learn and be better. It's always fascinating when perfectly decent scripts suddenly drop the ball on page 70 and can't stick the landing of their Act 3s. We've all been there as screenwriters, eh? So you'd think that "failed" screenplays (which are really only screenplays that haven't seen an insane amount of drafts) would drive you to "chameleon" them and you, too, would become a terrible writer. But no, if you read 500, or 1000 screenplays a year, the good, bad, and ugly, you get a sense of where blunders and pitfalls are, and you then start to avoid such missteps in your own work. A couple producers I read for have brilliant-yet-unmade scripts on hand, so of course I get my doses of others' perfections, too, but even when the occasion arrives to read complete garbage you still learn things. I reckon reading scripts by the ton can actually can make anyone, by teensy tiny increments, a better writer. All grist for the mill.

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Q: Los Angeles has such an incredibly and unparalleled film history, especially in regard to locations. You had so many wonderful ones at your fingertips – were they written into the script, or, as indie filmmakers, were you guys pretty fluid in your approach?

 ​A: Mostly fluid. We filmed over 9 months, dribs and drabs, here and there, scrabbling together shoots whenever we could. There were some locations that were picked in advance, like the diner, which is a stock location for movies (Lin Shaye, while on set there, said: "Oh, this is about the 8th time I've filmed a movie here.") Or there were some locations Michael was obsessed with getting from the get go. He was always after the 1st Avenue Bridge (the scene with the train) and palm trees (I guess they don't have them in Australia cuz Michael really really really really was into those palm trees), and he definitely had a Herzog-ian obsession with setting a scene in an oil field.

 ​But just as often Michael or me would say "Dude, I saw this great spot for filming such and such..." and away we went. We picked the beach location, the midnight bike path location, the "rabbit hole" location all like that.

 It worked because Michael had these wide open Australian eyes for seeing everything as stuff from a different country from the one he was from, of course. And I don't have a car and I bike or walk or public transport around everywhere so I was already deeply exploring L.A. in that fashion.

 I'm glad we were completely crazy and blind with ambition and seized by the movie gods because looking back I can't believe I was so innocent as to write a script with an impossible amount of locations and filming to do on our shoestring budget. But I'm glad for that innocence, it led to a great adventure. And for some reason the movie just kept getting made and getting made until it was made and distilled. A small miracle, considering its journey across the whole of the city.

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Q: The shady lady at the center of the story is always key in these mysteries; can you talk a bit about how Arielle Brachfeld, who is really anything but hardboiled (both in life and on camera, she has an innate sweetness), was cast and what she brought to the table?

 ​A: We so completely totally lucked out entirely to meet Arielle, and not just because we would call her randomly over a period of almost a year and be like: "Uh, oh, hey, can you film such-and-such this weekend?" and she kept showing up with a smile and remembering the placement of her bookmark in whatever part of the performance.

 But anyway Arielle's "inherent sweetness" is perfect in being so disarming to the purposes of the movie. Great ghoulish fun to watch this innocent person become arch and destructive and not mind giving away her conscience. But the question of whether her character is that way from the get-go, and the question of whether its cravenness or misguided hypnotherapy or plain boredom that drives her to wrecking everything around to get what she wants is a fun question (or so we hope) for the audience to chew over after the show.

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 Q: When you wrote the script, did you already plan on playing Smalls?

 ​A: Yeah, Smalls actually began as a cameo because I kinda sideline half-assedly in Acting. But then as the movie kept getting made and getting made and getting made Smalls accidentally became a larger character, because his thru-line of "fuck it, go for it" matched and paralleled Priscilla's (the anti-hero, Arielle's part) thru-line. But my primary motivation was to play a character who didn't have any lines to memorize. Because I'd just come off two years of doing one man shows and I was sick to death of memorization. But what was so gratifying with Smalls was when the character seemed to demand I go deeper than just avoiding memorization. I love it when art forces you to work with profundity in ways you didn't expect.

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  Los Angeles Overnight will be out soon. For now, check out the trailer here.