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cobaltsapphire · 2 years ago

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The Quarry: Playthrough w/ Friends After Thoughts (Spoilers!!)

I’ll try to keep this one shorter than the other one, but a lot did happen so I’ll summarize as well as I can. Also, I’m gonna be referring to my friends as simply A1 and D1 because yeah. This is mostly stuff they were thinking/saying, but I feel like most of it was Emma slander, so my sincerest apologies to any Emma fans who happen upon this.

Before Game

I was showing them the characters and the different ways that the game can be played and when we were on Dylan I stayed on his character for a whole of two seconds and A1 went, “Wait, is that Luke? Go back!” So I clicked through, got back to Dylan and then quickly clicked past, and A1 yelled, “That is Luke! Go back! Go back!” So I actually go back this time and confessed to them that we watched “Daniel Isn’t Real” because Miles Robbins was in it

Prologue

A1 and D1 believe Max and Laura are idiots. They are your typical start of horror movie characters that always die because they made dumb decisions. Like, splitting up? Why would you do that?

What is up with this cop dude

Oh? Old lady? Who’s gonna let us see the future? Why yes, you’re our friend

Chapter 1

Wow! Emma’s pretty, and Kaitlyn’s awesome

Why did Jacob do this ? We’re now stuck here and all of this is gonna happen cuz he WANTED ONE MORE NIGHT

Dylan closing the door on Jacob? That’s literally D1 to me

Also Dylan’s name is actually Luke

Nick’s accent is hot --- D1

Wait, Ryan is the dude from Detective Pikachu? What?! --- D1, said with genuine surprise

Why is Chris Hackett freaking out so much? What?

The Hag of Hackett’s Quarry is obviously the tarot card lady

Ryan is quite obviously Kaitlyn’s love interest

Chapter 2

Nick and Abi are cute but they are literally so awkward, they can’t even flirt properly.

TAROT CARDS. GET THEM ALL

Jacob and Emma? As a couple? Yeah, no. Nuh uh. They don’t work at all

Peanut butter butter pops... Jacob is a kid, but you know what? We’ll let him be happy

Surprisingly, A1 and D1 don’t want to make chaotic decisions, and actually want to keep everyone alive

Wait, are we gonna be hunted by these hunters?

Ryan seems interested. YES

Welp, whispers from the phone, that’s always a good sign

Oh? A trapdoor? Well let’s send Dylan down and get him killed!

Wait, OP, who’s your favorite again? --- D1, as Dylan’s climbing down the ladder

Dylan --- Me

Oh, well that’s too bad --- D1, said with obvious evil intent

Yeah, Dylan’s tall, but is he that tall?

Taking a photo! A1 has given specific instructions as to how we should take it

Wait, Ryan is both Kaitlyn AND Dylan’s love interest??? Is this a triangle??? --- D1

Truth or dare? Ryan’s a truth guy

Also Jacob has no sense of self preservation, so we picked Kaitlyn

Wait Emma. Emma no. Don’t do it Emma. Kiss your ex. Not your friend’s crush. Emma. Emma! EMMA. NO. HOW COULD YOU. YOU BROKE THE FIREND CODE. YOU---WE HATE YOU NOW. WE’RE GONNA LET YOU DIE.

Seriously though that was uncool. Kiss your ex for sake of your friend and her crush what is wrong with you. Plus you didn’t need to full on make out with him. A peck would’ve done it

Tarot card ye---why is Jacob shirtless

Between Sessions 1

Most characters are bleh

Emma is the worse, with Jacob following suit

Nick and Abi are alright, but there’s not much to them

Dylan’s not grown on them yet

Ryan and Kaitlyn are cool, but Kaitlyn’s the best

Ryan is A1′s favorite so far and Kaitlyn is D1′s

Kaitlyn gives Gogo from Big Hero 6 vibes

Chapter 3

Murder time yay!

Abi alone in the woods what could possibly go wrong

Nick’s here!

Uh oh, something’s watching

They kissed! Yes!

Welp nick’s dead

Hunter dude???

This is intense

Oop and now we’re Jacob and sobbing over Emma who’s so not worth these tears

Every choice we make is to make Emma and Jacob stay broken up forever. No hope for this couple

Emma shut up. Literally shut your mouth.

You’re so mean for literally no reason

Just stop

We’re gonna let you die

TAROT CARDS YES

D1 said no to shortcuts, but allowed us to take one, so we got it Nick in time

Nick’s infected! He’s gonna die

Is this like a zombie? Is he gonna turn into a zombie werewolf???

Don’t waste ammo --- D1, mostly

Only good thing about you is your accent, Nick --- Also D1

To Eliza: Would we even be talking to you if you didn’t offer us a look into the future??

Chapter 4

Let’s get Emma killed

But her evidence. Will we keep it if she dies??? Nevermind, let’s not get her killed

But man is she annoying... wish she would shut up. Jacob deserves better

Ah ha! A chance to get her to shut up! The high road it is then

No amount of talking makes us like you more, Emma

Snooping is our priority. Chance to snoop? Take it

Taser! Get that photo!

Okay now run

Oh yeah we’re being chased

Stay alive

We don’t like you, but we feel obligated to keep you alive, Emma

We outta here

Should’ve let Emma die but oh well

“Oh, it’s a zipline,” D1 says, in reference to the tarot card we saw and how we should totally let that future come true real quick (spoiler alert, we did not let it come true)

None of us would’ve been upset if Emma died

Chapter 5

Ryan and Dylan... what are they

So, are we cutting off Dylan’s hand?? --- Me

Yes, we’re pulling an Ethan Winters -- D1

Sorry, Dylan, we’re pulling an Ethan Winters --- Me

A1 and D1 are unsure as to if we’ll be able to cure you if we don’t so losing a hand is a better alternative

This is fine... not at all painful or anything....

OP, you sound like a mom trying to be cool --- D1

What? I sound normal --- Me

You sound like a cool mom --- D1

Oh --- Me

Yeah, you sound like a mom trying to be cool --- D1

No, it’s too late, you already messed up the wording, I’m a cool mom --- Me

Okay, Mom --- D1

EMMA, SHUT UP

Abi no!

Nick what is happening with you

We love you, nick

Kaitlyn, what are you doing stay here no don’t go out there, stay here

Kaitlyn

Please

Stay alive

“Voodoo doo doo” --- Repeated by A1

Literally anytime the woman whispers to Dylan (Luke): “Daniel?!” (iykyk)

Had a whole debate over cutting Dylan’s hand off and then decided it was the best thing to do for him, because D1 wanted to be able to cure him before he turned, but that’s not possible, so

“I’m sorry, Dylan, but you gotta become Ethan Winters” --- D1

Eye patch lady looks cool but who is she (they ask, unaware that is Laura and that they did not like her at the beginning)

Chapter 6

I’m looking at the notes I took and I kid you not this is mostly Emma slander

Why are you so mean, Emma. Jacob deserves better

Jacob you idiot! Your leg

Hat Emma so much.. Should’ve let her die... keeps stringing Jacob along (D1′s words, mostly). Just stop messing with him.

Jacob wants more out of it and she’s just like “no”

Emma’s done more bad than Jacob. This situation may be his fault, since, yk, he broke the car, but Emma is worse.

Wait

This is all Emma’s fault. It all leads back to her

Okay so... we want Emma dead, but we kinda wanna keep everyone alive.

But also who can we kill

But like keep everyone alive

Then come back and get Emma killed

Nick is being weird... “It’s because he’s turning,” D1, probably

If we have the option to kill him off, we should take it. We started liking him and then he had to go die on us.

No. Nick no. Please no. We don’t want to do this. Nick please.

“I’m so sorry,” D1 starts, knowing what we must do to save Abi. “But we have to put you down.”

Say your goodbyes

Goodbye! Bye bye!

You will be missed

“Someone pay attention to Abi,” D1 states, and then Abi is promptly thrown.

“Looks like someone paid attention to Abi!” I exclaim

Yeah we’re shooting Nick

“I’m so sorry, Nick,” D1 says as Abi picks up the gun. “It was you or me. And you were already gone.”

CONGRATULATIONS! You just avoided an Abi death!

Wait, really? -- A1

Yeah, if you don’t shoot Nick then Abi dies --- D1

Emma why are you alive... oh right, because we want to keep everyone alive

Nick is first love, Dylan’s for life

Almost like Daniel and Luke

D1 would absolutely write a fic where she personally offs Emma if given the chance. That girl w=really gets on her nerves

Between Sessions 2

Kaitlyn is best girl

Who’s the cutest boy that isn’t dead, aka Nick? --- D1

A1, very quietly, “Dylan...”

Me, “Dylan. Dylan!”

D1, “Yeah, Dylan.”

People who are genuinely nice are attractive

Sorry, Emma, but you’re no longer pretty

You’re too mean

Should’ve gotten Emma killed but oh well

Also, Dylan’s 10/10, 5/5, 1/1, 5 star rating --- A1 and Me

Chapter 7

I took the notes late on this one so I remember nothing and I don’t feel like watching the video back (because we recorded every playthrough... well I recorded every playthrough, they just watched and helped me make choices)

Something to do with flashbacks

Started to get attached to Travis here and understand him a little better now

Also, finally acknowledged werewolves

Someone finally said it

D1 said we should be compliant because A) Less likely to get hurt like that and B) Laura’s a girl and doesn’t look like she could fight back well (I personally beg to differ, but oh well)

Why is Ryan defending Chris so much -- A1 and D1 (they just don’t understand)

Chapter 8

Also barely remember anything, but definitely something about wanting Emma dead

D1 and A1 agreed with the notion that Ryan and Laura were acting like siblings

Freed Jacob! Didn’t kill Nick in the cage

Dylan getting “maced” was hilarious

He’s so dramatic

Like he was screaming and panicking until someone told him it was only air freshener (which, to be fair, probably would sting cuz of the chemicals, but definitely not as bad as mace)

And then he just goes “oh”

Possibly their favorite scene in the game

Between Sessions 3

I literally forgot to take quick notes so I have no idea. I think it was mostly D1 teasing me and joking that we’re gonna get Dylan killed in the scrapyard

Still want Emma dead

Chapter 9

Scrapyard scene!

Hehe, it would be funny if we got Dylan killed -- D1

Anyone but Dylan, D1, anyone but Dylan

Killed the majority of the Hackett's sorry Travis

“This poor man, we just keep killing his family members”

Maybe we can save Caleb though

They’re confused by the lore but that’s only because they’re asking questions that get answered later

Dylan’s got one hand -- D1

Yeah, but he gets around pretty well --- Me

How would you know? --- D1 says suggestively

Did you see him operate the crane and possibly save Kaitlyn’s life??? That’s how I know!!!

Chapter 10

I kid you not I accidentally got Kaitlyn killed

Because apparently you can hold your breath for too long, and I don’t just mean holding it until the character’s out of breath, I mean the red indicating danger can come back

Caleb killed her in the lodge while they were hiding

But we still had 3 rewinds so I instantly used it on her

Most stressed I’ve ever been because I actually did things I’ve never done/seen before in this game at the beckoning of D1 and A1

They had me hide, and then we didn’t investigate and get the silver shell.

But they had me walking around forever so we found the toy in Abi’s backpack and were able to lock Caleb in the freezer

Our mindset after locking him in the freezer alone? “Yay! We saved Caleb and managed to keep at least one member of Travis’s family alive! Since, you know, we killed everyone else.”

We were actually so happy I kid you not

We saved Caleb

And then the outro thing happened

And the words “Caleb Hackett: DECEASED” graced the screen and a piece of us died with him

The devastation was real, not to mention the disbelief

We really thought we saved him

Like, killing Kaitlyn on accident was bad

But thinking we saved Caleb only to find out we hadn’t??? Whole other level of devastation

But we searched up how to save him and keep Kaitlyn and Dylan alive, so that may be in our future

Found all the evidence! So the charges got dropped (which, as annoying as the podcast ending may be, it wouldn’t have been possible without Grace and Anton, so everyone say thank you)

A1′s best boy is Ryan, and I can’t entirely disagree with that, but Dylan is personally my favorite so

D1′s best boy was either Nick or Dylan

But we all agree that Kaitlyn is best girl

And that we need to kill Emma and save Caleb (definitely in our future, I posted this late so we’ve already started on that mission)

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midnightghastly · 3 years ago

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ALL HAIL THE DEMON AU

In this Au, ALL types of demons are looked up to as high class, celebrities, saints even. The top demons are Demon Bull King, Princess Iron Fan, Spider Queen, Scorpion Queen, Lady Bone Demon, Nezha, Chang’e, The Gold Twins, Six-Eared Macaque and of course, Monkey King. Everyone respects them like saints, worshiping them, holding events and celebrations for them. Every year, all types of demons come together to celebrate the Anual Èmó Festival. A week long festival where demons come out of their lands to the city of lanterns to attend the festival where they are treated personal shows, dances, feast and more. Everyone has an opportunity to present and perform in front of them, maybe even a chance to meet them up close.

LMK Characters:

Mk: Mk goes to the festival, hoping to preform and met Monkey King. He does and actually gets quite well acquainted with Monkey King. Leading to him being announced as his successor, (think of Kung Fu Panda).

Mei: She’s nervous of the festival because she too wants to be recognized as a high class demon, hoping that when going to the festival, she’ll be moved up the ranks.

Tang: In this Au, (and mostly because he’s my favorite character), he’s not only a perfertional story teller of demons but also a hidden-identity dancer. Tang’s life is just basically perfect and just the way he wants it, until Monkey King and along the other demons recognize him as someone else… at least that’s what it seems.

Pigsy: He wants to be known for his famous noodles by the demons. But once meeting the Monkey King, like Pigsy, he can’t help but feel he’s known before…

Sandy: He just comes along the ride, but once meeting the Monkey King, like Pigsy, he can’t help but feel he’s known before…

Demons Red Son: It’s his first time coming to the festival, he’s quite fascinated by it, being able to see the humans up close. Turns out that the reason his parents brought him was to find him a mate…

Mayor: He holds the event… that’s it…

Monkey King: He often comes to the festival but hasn’t in years, not after his brothers and master have sadly passed away. His dearest friend/brother (yes I’m making them brothers so sorry shadowpeach shippers…) , Macaque tries to convince him to go. Thankfully this year he does, hoping to find a successor to take his staff as he plans to retire. (His staff has been behaving odd, as it wishes to move on to another holder)

Macaque: Him and wukong are still close firends/ brothers. He use to go with Wukong to the festival but since his brother lost his master and other brothers, he didn’t want to go alone.(yes he has social anxiety…) After years of convicing his brother, they go. Only for Macaque to meet a certain… human… who he is quite… fascinated by.

DBK and PIF: They go to festival to feel remembered and to get away and have some… privacy~

Spider queen: She goes cause she’s such a attention seeker, plus to get people in her kingdom.

Scorpion Queen: Lonely girl just wants to find friends and maybe a mate.

Lady Bone Demon: She takes the festival quite serious. Not wanting anything to ruin the perfect week.

Nezha: It’s his break from guarding the Fire of samahi map, he also quite enjoys the festival.

Chang’e: Like Nezha, it’s her break and a chance to get off the moon and go back to earth.

Gold Twins: Up at their mischievous ways, (might add more)

might add more to the story in the future :0

#lmk #lego monkie kid

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rosesvioletshardy · 2 years ago

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TELL ME ABOUT A FEW OF YOUR FAVORITE HOCKEY TEAMS. IDK ANYTHING ABOUT HOCKEY BUT WANNA GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER. SO I'LL START WITH THIS

okay! (this is weird because no one that i know and are firends with have ever asked me about this so this is amazing)

so to start off, i have 5 teams (which a lot of people hate (mainly dude hockey bros) and they are the colorado avalanche (avs), new york islanders (isles), carolina hurricanes (canes), philadelphia flyers (flyers), and calgary flames (flames)

i'll just tell you a little about each team since i don't want to make this like a whole ass fic

(putting a cut because i accidently wrote a lot)

the avs are the recent 2022 stanley cup champions for the first time since 2001 after a long season and finally making it passed the second round after 3 years of losing in the second round. they have an amazing group of guys and are all brothers to each other, it's lead by gabe landeskog who was named the youngest captain in nhl history but is currently on ltir. we have amazing players and were lucky enough to get cale makar in the 2017 draft with the 4th pick and acquire artturi lehkonen during the trade deadline in march and he was a big help with the playoffs as well as cale

the isles were pretty much the first team i started to like when i first watched the nhl draft in 2015 and thought their now star player, Mathew (Mat) Barzal was cute. the team is pretty much filled with a bunch of veteran players and everyone on isles tumblr loves the 4th line which people in general call "the identity line" but we all call it "the dilf line" because dilfs pretty much

the flyers, they're a lot. last season they fired their head coach and we had a replacement but with him they kept going on losing streaks, not doing so good, etc. so this off season, they hired a coach who not everyone is a fan of, i think he's eh because he's actually making them be good but at the same time he hates it when younger players in the league try to do something cool. the only player that a lot of people hate is tony deangelo because he's a racist so whenever he scores we call it a ghost and don't acknowledge him at all. the only thing that sucks with this team sometimes is the injuries since we've lost a lot of core guys due to them

the flames are the only canadian team i like and they're doing decent this season but also not good which sucks because our goaltender last season had nine shutouts and you think acquiring jonathan huberdeau and mackenzie weeger from florida while losing matthew tkachuk and johnny gadreau to columbus would make up for it but it's been a battle, especially losing johnny and matthew, but we have nazem kadri who was on the avs and won the stanley cup with them so that's also a plus

and lastly the canes. i was happy we got rid of the racist but upset when he went to the flyers but we ended up getting brent burns from the san jose sharks so that makes up for it. a lot of friendships on this team like all my other teams, andrei svechnikov and pytor kochetkov, who have a little brother / older brother relationship especially because andrei helps pytor a lot with translating since he knows little english. there's also sebastian aho and teuvo teravainen (who's currently on ir which sucks), and so many more they have a great twitter admin that's truly amazing. at the end of home games if they win, they have something called a "storm surge" where they gather at center ice around the logo forming a circle, clapping their hands slowly then quickly before they do something like skate and hit the boards etc. here's a video from 3 years ago of all the storm surges if you want to see

#sorry this took a while #and for how long it is #but tysm i've never had anyone tell me this before #mothdruid #rosesvioletshardy answers

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dojae-huh · 3 years ago

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Jaehyun went live with Taeil and Jungwoo. Got no idea what they saying but looking at the Jaehyun tweets mostly are talking about his visuals but literally Jaehyun does nothing and everyone is happy to see him. He does really look good with crappy service haha. Honestly, what is it like to be Jaehyun… sigh…

Jaehyun has zero fat on his body and diets before MVs and performances (same as Do). There is a lot of bts work to be pretty for a minute onscreen.

I can't tell for sure when Jae secured this popularity, but I should note that he hosted EnNaNa for two years every damn day. He is MIA now, but he wasn't before.

Baekhyun fans told me that his insane sales were due to him communicating with fans all the time (like Do does). Stans care about the idol and making him big more, then the music itself. Now I'm curious if Jae will be able to be big as a soloist with the minimum fanservice of his or not.

Do you know about the Russian with the stage name Lelush in China? As I understand, he got so popular because he represented the young employees/uni students who had to work/study despite not liking it. His "I want to lose and leave the programme, but I'm trying my best to learn choreography to support my firends" attitude was refreshing and attractive. Him having model looks doesn't hurt, lol. He is very good looking by Russian standarts as well.

Jaehyun appears rarely, but he is always polite or has a warm smile, he is funny during games, etc. He is honest in his actions, which might add him in attractiveness. A few of my friends said they like my straightforwarness because they know I won't backstub them or talk behind their back (like their collegues do at work). Plus, the halo effect, anything becomes a virtue (untill the next shadow of a possible scandal).

#Ask me away #Jaehyun is a dance machine #food all around chips all around

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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago

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Darkwing Duck Reviews Halloween Special: Fungus Amongus and Ghoul of My Dream

Happy Halloween! Halloween Havoc races to the finish with another Darkwing Double Feature! Love is kinda crazy with a spooky girl like Morgana, and in this case “kinda crazy” means a board of ghouls stealing pizza, sentient mushrooms, grumpy spiders, student lone debt, and a gremlin who somehow sees himself as a valid romantic option. It’s a Darkwing Duck Halloween under the cut.+

We’ve made it! While I got less Halloween reviews done than I would’ve liked, I’m still happy with the ones done and there’s still two more to get in the pocket before the day’s up. So with Halloween today it seemed fitting to talk about the Justice Ducks resident sorcerer and Darkwing’s Girlfriend, Morgana Macawber. Morgana was the only one of the four to stick around as a recurring character out of the four Justice Ducks: Gizmoduck would show up once more after the four parter, and sadly Neptunia and Stegamutt just seemed to vanish but the crew clearly liked Morg a lot and her relationship with Darkwing, so she stuck around for the rest of the series, and is even the focus of the final episode “Malice’s Restaurant”, as well as a sizeable part of the comics. And it’s easy to see why as Kathie Sourcie had great chemistry with Jim Cummings and Morgana’s very presence, being a sorceress raised by the munsters and living in a creepy mansion, allowed for diffrent stories than what Darkwing usually dealt with. While magic didn’t feel like it contrasted with the world, as Darkwing’s world feels like your standard superhero fantasy kitchen sink where anything is possible, most of his foes were either super villains or the kinds of super spies you’d find in a comic book. So fighting ghoouls, goblins, and Satan himself, yes that’s an episode that actually happened, no it’s sadly not on Disney plus, and yes I will be covering it eventually, was a nice out of genre experience and a nice way to put our daring duck of mystery out of his element.

She brought something diffrent to the table, both forcing Darkwing to grapple with letting someone into his life, and with having something to focus on other than Gosalyn or crime. So I wanted to see how this plays out, so expect me to cover all her episodes and not just the Satan one or the Valentine’s Day one, though like my Tom Lucitor retrospective, expect this one to also take some time. So with that all set up, Halloween is the perfect time to begin our journey with her first two episodes.. and Morgana’s Villian Career. Yeah while she only had about 9 episodes to her name, 2 of them are as a Catwoman or Black Cat style antagonist, someone whose likeable and who are hero is attracted to, but is on the wrong side of the law.

She eventually came around, but it’s still an intresting way to start things and an intresting dilema for our hero I wish stuck around for just a smidge longer. These aren’t bad episodes with Ghoul of My Dreams being a pretty good one. If I had to guess though the reason the dynamic fizzled out.. is they simply didn’t have a lot of ideas of how to use her as a bad guy. Part of the reason i’m covering these two episodes together is that they follow basically the same plot beat, the only differences being Darkwing meets Morgana in the first one and they know each other in the second, and that the evil entity who ends up turning against her she works with is different for both. The third act is also entirely unique to each episode, so it feels less like them lazily repeating themselves on an episode and more like they genuinely realized they didn’t have a ton of ideas for Morgana as a villain and thus had her reform with the Justice Ducks two parter. And I can’t blame them: fan would get annoyed if basically every Morgana plot played out the same, and this way she could know Drake’s secret identity, and thus allow the stories to use Gosalyn, though I do wish she’d shown up in one of the villian ones just to see how that played out. But still her time as a Villian is there, and is even a plot point in the valentine’s episode, so let’s see how it played out and see what I think.

Fungus Amongus

The plot here is fairly simple: there’s been a rash of mysterious thefts in St. Canard, and Darkwing is stumped.. until Launchpad asks if they can go for pizza, because he’s hungry and Darkwing is the terrible kind of boss that doesn’t’t care about meal breaks. It makes our hungry hero realize that each of the thefts are connected to PIzza Toppings, and after thwarting the bats and spiders stealing some anchovies, figures there’s only two left: Green Peppers and Mushrooms, and so he decides it’s time to split up gang and while Launchpad guards the peppers, Darkwing goes to visit the head of the mushrom company, who naturally turns out to be Morgana. The two end up taken with one another, to the board’s annoyance as Darkwing is onto them and could stop their whole evil plan and they want to just murder his ass and be done with it. But Morgana proves seduction’s a bit more useful as she sweetalks our hero into leaving, and points out given he’s also a creature of the night in a sense, she plans to turn him.. or kill him if she has to. More on that in our next episode. The facade dosen’t last long as Darkwing goes to help launchpad at the pepper place, and ends up finding out oh no the hot lady he met five minutes ago is bad! While the board plans to feed Launchpad to mutant mushrooms, while Morgana seemingly turns Darkwing into her mindless slave.. but really just played the board and switched sides, not wanting to hurt the guy she just met because he’s cute, they defeat the mushrooms and the board who turn into mushrooms in the light because....

The day is saved though we do get the one standout bit of the episode. Darkwing despite his attraction to her, wants to turn her in, while Morgana simply teleports her house away. And thus the dance begins. As for the episode... as you can tell by how brief I was... for one i’m not doing my usual died in wool recapping for these two to get them out on time. And i’m also not because this one.. is pretty thin. The mutant mushroom and boards’d esigns are cool and Morgana is intresting.. but having seen Ghoul of my Dreams first.. it’s just not as fun, funny or good on the Morgana Darkwing dynamic. Morgana just decides because she wants to ride that dick she’ll be good for a moment, and throw away her hard worked scheme, and the board is turned into mushrooms because.. well see the lex luger pic above. It’s not a TERRIBLE episode, just not a terribly intresting one. It has good elements, but they just don’t come together well and the pizza scheme isn’t as funny as the episode thinks it is. I can kinda see why this one was buried deeper into the series and Ghoul of My Dreams is where they put focus. I just don’t have a lot to say about this one, it’s just bland and uninteresting. It’s kind of why I just sorta plopped it next to Ghoul, I needed to review it for completion’s sake, but lord if I can think of a lot to say about it that isn’t tied into the next one. So since I can’t...

Ghoul of my Dreams:

Now this is better. The basic plot is still simple but allows for a lot more intresting set pieces: It’s a slow night in St. Canard, to Darkwing’s natural annoyance, until a bunch of fire fighters start sleepwalking and throwing gold to some spiders and bats. Something is afoot and since the bats belong to Morgana, Darkwing goes to investigate her. Granted we just MET eek and squeak, but it’s easy enough to assume Morgana struck again off screen and some time has passed. And i’ts honestly what makes this episode more interesting: now it’s more of a cat and mouse game, with Morgana using their chemistry against him, but still being genuinely drawn to him and not wanting to hurt him. It’s better than “I met you five minutes ago might as well throw away my money for you”. Instead Morg truly likes Drake, but wants to keep doing crimes to, in easily the best joke of the entire series “Finally pay off my student loans”.. which makes her already not really a bad guy. I may not haves em but I know people who do. Those loan people do not play around. It’s investing and Sourcie and Cumming’s chemstiry really makes it pop. Sourcie really is what makes the character, giving her energy, sedcutivness when called for and a really sympathetic quality that makes her face turn, sudden as it is, believable. It’s why I really like the character. And I get why some don’t: Her romance with darkwing is sudden, her face turn is even more sudden, and she gets in the way of Drakepad shippers. The first two are valid criticisms, while the last one is understandable.. depending on motive. If your just bummed this relationship you don’t like is forced into the show and gets in the way of the one you actually enjoy.. trust me...

BEEN THERE. And far far worse.. I didn’t start up an entire retrospective on the guy who DIDN’T get the girl here for nothing. But if you say “oh well it’s homophobic or you hate gays” if you don’t ship drakepad, which I have actually heard for both this ship and delpad.. kindly go fuck yourself and stay away from my posts. It’s NOT homophobic to ship a character who is CANOCIALLY into women, with a woman. Launchpad had a girl of the week or two in ducktales, Drake’s attraction to morgana is canon and he also had some ship tease with Neptunia. They both like women.. but there’s nothing saying they DON’T like men, don’t want to date men, or aren’t attracted to them.

Been waiting to reference Schitt’s Creek at some point here now i’ve started watching it. It’s biphobic to say this sort of harmful shit, and it doesn’t’t help there are plenty of gay people who genuinely believe bi and pan aren’t sexualities and harm their own community by doing so. Saying this kind of shit just fuels their fire and bi people like me and pan people like my firend have a hard enough time with straight people being dicks about this. You should know and be better. Don’t bring that shit into this fandom. We’ve already ridden incest out on a rail we don’t need this. I already put up with enough bullshit being a loud house fan and having to deal with ACTUAL homophobic ships like Sam/Lincoln, aka setting up a character you don’t know to be anything but gay, versus her girlfriend whose canocially been shown to be bi if preferring women, whose the proment and well like love interest of a woman, and pair her with her younger brother to clearly troll people. Now that’s a homophobic ship and that you shoudl be angry about, not “oh no the person who likes women in canon.. LIKES A WOMAN IN FANON”. It’s part of what made shiping delpad hard at times because people got really dumb about it to the point someone drew some very horrible fanart just to clog up the tag. Knock. it off.

And if your curious for my actual thoughts on Drakepad: in the classic series.. i’m not a fan, but I get it, and I do think they could work... it’s just. that Drake treats Launchpad really bad, including throwing him out of the house for a year without telling him why over something that really wasn’t his fault, not feeding him, not treating him as an equal after a while. This would have to change for them to work but I could see it happening, as the comics and one of the peisodes make a point that Drake can be a pretty shitty partner to Morgana too.

And just to show i’m equal opprtunity, despite shipping Delpad in the past, i’ve moved on to Penpad and Drakepad , ironcially enough, i’m not as big a fan anymore. LIke the above, Della just dosen’t respect launchpad as a human being. She was willing to keep the Halloween thing up JUST to scare children, looks down on him, and whie is his friend, is not all that close. I could see them happening, and do still think it’d be cute, it’d just take a ton of work and there are better ships for both. And yes I do ship Drakepad in the reboot, but there the two aren’t employer and employee, but equals who genuinely love and respect one another, listen to one another, and value each other. In the Reboot they have genuine chemistry and I could see them together, while in the original Launchpad and Morgana both really deserve better.

Now that’s settled, we get a fun scene of the two primping for each other. then flirting a bit, though Morgana, in AWFUL looking black lipstick wins with the move above and has her spider web launchpad, who hates morgana.. which is one part common sense given how darkwing gets around her and one part ho yay. But yeah this is pretty much Launchpad for both these episodes.

And darkwing dick is calling the shots so fair enough. But Morgana is once again nto wokring alone and is working with a creepy, well designed gremlin, named Nodoff... eh i’ve heard worse, whose giving her sleeping dust to knock out her targets and hits on her constnatly. Naturally he plans to betray her as soon as he can, and is likely only tolerating her because he wants to hit that. There dynamic boils down to this.

There’s also tons of fun dream sequences including one at the top with darkwing being confronted by his enitre Rogue’s gallery before seeing morgana, NOdoff using baseball on Morg’s next target and some great ones at the climax. It’s part of hwy I like this episode better: While someone using dreams for stuff has been done a lot, it’s given a creative spin here as instead of killing them, Morgana’s simply using them to steal. Good stuff.

Darkwing foils their first attempt, though gets blamed for it because St. Canard is about as grateful as New York when it comes to superheroes. Morgana knocks darkwing out with some dust via Eeka and Squeak and admits Nodoff is working for her, though fobids him to harm Darkwing. This.. dosen’t last and we get another great setpiece, of sarkwing on a high dive. Thankfully, Launchpad finds him, and they find Morgana, who gives off the student loans comment. But in the struggle to stop her, Darkwing accidently puts her and the city to sleep.. and Nodoff is now super powerful and imprisons morgana. Darkwing i s back at her house, wondering what to do, but the bats give him a clue.. by flying him thorugh the door to fight Nodoff. It goes about as well as you’d expect with him freeing Morgana.. then trying to murder them both. Darkwing however pulls an Elm Streett 3 and says to think happy thoughts and take control of the dream.. which ends up at Darkwing’s Wedding to Morgana to his horror..... remind me whose the hero again. The woman who, while doing crimes is trying to pay off unfair debts, or the guy who finds the idea of commitment horrifying.

Anyways we get some more great bits, I brush over them so I don’t ahve to talk about them conantly, including darkwing getting a cake on him, before Darkwing turns the tables by finding the hourglass full of the dust.. and in a clever finale, loading it into his gun and firing it on nodoff. This puts him to sleep.. which puts him in the real world, while Launchpad uses a giant alarm clock to wake everyone. They throw NOdoff back into the dream world.. for some reason.. and the episode ends iwth morgana kissing darkwing and the episode possibly having been all a dream.

This one, while I was again breif, is a classic, with a much more interesting dynamic. Instead of a morgana who goes from willing to kill we get one whose conflicted over things, who clearly wants to be a crook but may like darkwing more than that, as evidenced when he talks her out of taking Nodoff’s offer of riches. It’s good stuff and the gags are back to the show’s usual top notch level. It’s a creative, fun episode that really helps Morgana come into her own and I look forward to more of her. Overall i’d recommend skipping fungus amongus, but DEFINTELY check out ghoul of my dreams, as it’s throughly fantastic. I’ll be back in a bit for one last Halloween review and as always you can find my backlog on my blog. i recently covered Tiff of the Titans and there’s regular ducktales coverage every monday. Until then make sure to vote, wear a mask and check your house for gary busey till we meet again! Play us out Gerard Way!

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