#god I think I’m finally done with character cards

[escape-boards]

Horizon City’s very own criminal gang

Serafina (she/her or your/majesty) the queen

Jackie (he/him) the femme fatale

Spots (he/him) came with Jackie in a package deal and he can do literally anything but like, only mediocrely (actually SUPER helpful in a pinch)

[melanated-writersblock]

🪮Beauty Supply Store Run w/ ATEEZ🪮

A/N: For my blacktiny that like to keep their ✨hair did✨, the idea crossed my mind a time or two and existed in my drafts as a title alone for months, so I thought I’d finally add some sort of body and post it🙂‍↕️. Not too terribly long, but I hope it’s still enjoyable nonetheless! As always, likes, comments, & reblogs are greatly appreciated!

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Hongjoong ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ You two were out running errands all morning and this was your last stop before heading home.

⟢ Hongjoong figured he’d go in with you instead of just staying in the car.

⟢ You went straight to the back and got your go to burgundy braiding hair.

⟢ Hongjoong made it his business to buy hair coloring so his hair could match your braids when they’re done.

⟢ When you made it to the register, he got offended that you even pulled out your card to pay and stared you tf down until you put it back up🥴.

⟢ “Please don’t do that again while I’m here.”

⟢ Ofc he whipped out his card and paid!

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Seonghwa ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ It got to a point where he was spending more money than you🤦🏾‍♀️.

⟢ You already had a plan of attack for what you were gonna buy, but once Hwa saw all the extra stuff the store had he kinda went off the rails.

⟢ Not even half way through the store yet and he was already toting a hand basket full of hair ties, those zigzag headbands that pull your hair back in a wave pattern, mini claw clips, skin moisturizer, eye cream, face masks, lip balm, etc.

⟢ You had to stop him from buying a children’s bonnet because it had animal crossing characters on it!

⟢ “Hwa please, you don’t need all of that!”, “But there’s stuff in here for you too! Look, you just ran out of lipgloss so I got this one and there’s shimmer in it.”

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Yunho ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ You went in to specifically get more deep conditioner and Jamaican black caster oil with a couple of other stuff for your next wash days, and asked Yunho to keep you on track with your shopping.

⟢ You tried not to stare at stuff for too long bc Yunho likes to spoil you, and it wouldn’t make any sense if you’re trying to be good in the store but he goes and gets the stuff anyway😩.

⟢ He made a joke about buying you your own beauty supply store in passing, but knowing him it wasn’t a joke I fear…

⟢ The store had a sale on crochet locs and he saw the want in your eyes, so he snuck to the back to get 8 packs and paid for it while you wondered back in one of the aisles to get the spray bottle you forgot.

⟢ “I’ll be in the car when you’re done, Love.” Yunho called to you from the register before making a discreet run for the door so you couldn’t see his surprise.

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Yeosang ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ He’s a yes man I fear…

⟢ You knew you wanted to do a protective style, BUT you hadn’t decided which style you wanted to do yet, so Yeosang proposed the idea of “letting the hair god decide”, which meant you’d think of a style while shopping…bless his heart🙂‍↔️.

⟢ He didn’t know there were levels to this shit so now y’all have been in the store for an hour looking through different types of hair.

⟢ “If I get these bundles I could do a sew-in,” “That would look so nice!” “Waaaaaiiittt, if I get another pack of double strand cuban twists I’d have enough back home to do faux locs, should I?” “Yes you should,” “I gotta do waist length box braids immediately.” “You have to, and they need to be waist length exactly!” “Or should it be a bob?” “Yes, get a bob!”.

⟢ He’s just happy to be gang forreal😭.

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ San ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ The first time San went to the supply store with you, he didn’t know what he was expecting but he was gagged.

⟢ He thought he was on top of the names of the hairstyles you would wear…

⟢ Imagine his shame when you admit you couldn’t bring yourself to tell him he was wrong several times.

⟢ You gave him a crash course on your most favorite styles right there while walking through the aisles.

⟢ San has Pinterest open and at the ready with every namedrop.

⟢ “So the goddess locs aren’t passion twists,” “Right.” “And passion twists aren’t bantu knots.” “Exactly!”

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Mingi ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ Like a kid in a candy store.

⟢ Was vibing to the radio station, and kept pointing out the wall posters with different hair models on them, “You’d look so good with this style!”

⟢ Keeps holding up different packs of braiding hair colors to the side of your face, and you can’t help but laugh “Boy, what are you doing?” “I’m doing a color evaluation on you like in those youtube videos!”

⟢ The hair store turns him into a yapper, he even started chatting up the owner.

⟢ He kept going back and forth between the aisles and the front register, and had a full conversation happening with you and with the owner…AT THE SAME DAMN TIME.

⟢ But by the time you were ready to check out, someway…somehow…you ended up with a big ass discount😝!

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Wooyoung ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ Wooyoung made it his business to accompany you to the hairstore the next time you went after you returned home with $264 worth of stuff last time.

⟢ Crazily enough, you were only in there then for a new rat-tail comb cause you broke the last one in the middle of parting your hair.

⟢ He pushed the cart while you walked the aisles, following your eyes and what they were landing on.

⟢ “Aht! Aht! Put it back.” Wooyoung scolds you, pointing at the empty spot below the wig wall. You groan before putting the honey balayage Latisha unit back on the hanging rack.

⟢ “But Latisha is always sold out when I come up here though,” “You’re here for a new hair dryer and Eco Styling Gel, and “Latisha” is not one of those two things.”

⟢ You stare at him annoyed as he blows you a kiss, “I’m leaving your ass home next time.”

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Jongho ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

⟢ A PRO✨

⟢ Your Jongiebear is not new to this, he’s TRUE to this!!!

⟢ He came over to your place to spend the weekend a while back and saw you in action doing your own twists.

⟢ He was curious and wanted to know more, so you spent the evening telling him hair stories and the importance behind it and what it means for you, he’s been enlightened ever since.

⟢ He made a playlist on youtube full of tutorial videos for various hairstyles, so he can “help you with your hair” but it’s also to spend more time with you.

⟢ He has golden hands and you literally only trust him to help you install or take down your styles when you do them at home now.

⟢ He was installing your bubble braids with your leftover packs of hair, but half way through you ran out.

⟢ He initiated the trip himself, fully determined to finish the style in the span of 4 hours like the youtuber said it would be. And you walked in that store grinning from ear to ear.

⟢ He knew the brand, texture, color, and length, don’t play with him😮‍💨.

⟢ You were gonna pay but he was so in his zone, you had to let him have his moment. He paid for the packs, and the bubble braids came out 👑FLAWLESS👑!

⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹ Hope you liked it! Lemme know your thoughts🫶🏾 ⊹ ₊ ❤︎₊ ⊹

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[rocketinthesky]

Gentle Love

-Norapinto/Frando | Franco Colapinto x Lando Norris drabble

- drabble, canon compliant, established relationship, fluff no angst

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Franco collapses onto his bed, not bothering to change out of his fireproofs with his suit bunched around his waist. He finally got back to his motorhome, and after a semi-disappointing result for not getting into the points and the overall post-race emotions, he finds he barely even has the energy to breathe.

He’s just on the brink of passing out when there’s a knock on the door, four raps in quick succession followed by three slower taps.

It’s a little mortifying how Franco’s exhaustion almost immediately flees his body the moment he hears it, knowing who’s at the other side of the door.

He rolls out of bed, and in his haste to get to the door almost trips over his feet, but successfully makes it there in one piece, swinging the door open with an embarrassing rhythm beating up to his throat.

Immediately, he’s greeted by a blinding beam—Lando grinning from ear to ear, eyes lighting up the minute they meet Franco’s gaze. Lando’s face is flushed, a pretty shade of scarlet painting his tan skin. He’s the victor, the main character of the night. Franco’s shocked he’s even standing here in front of him and not out partying.

“Hey.” Franco breathes out, a little dumbly.

Lando bites his lip before bursting into a giggle, his hand immediately finding its place on Franco’s waist as he makes his way inside the room. Franco distantly closes the door behind him, turning around only to be crowded against the door by Lando.

“Hey, Coco. Missed you.” It’s a nickname Lando had given him, not long before they even got together. “Fran-co and Co-lapinto. Co-co. Adorable, isn’t it?” He’d said. Franco rolled his eyes and called it cheesy but the way he smiled every time Lando called him that gave his fondness away.

Lando pecks his lips after he stops giggling, only to pull back and meet Franco’s dumbfounded gaze and start giggling again. “You okay there, darlin’? Or has the heat done a number on you?”

“That…is a very good question. At this point, i don’t really know.” Franco says sheepishly.

It’s still a bit surreal sometimes to think that Lando’s his boyfriend. Of course, Franco’s not going to voice that sentiment out loud. He embarrasses himself enough in front of Lando. Lando doesn’t need any more fodder for his teasing.

“Were you resting? Did i disturb you?” Lando asks, a large palm coming up to gently caress his cheek, thumb softly brushing the skin under his eye.

Franco’s eyes flutter shut under his soothing ministrations as he nuzzles into the warmth of Lando’s big hand. God did Lando have big fucking hands.

“I was, but it’s okay Lando. I’m happy to see you.” Franco cracks an eye open to find Lando shooting him a dopey grin. Franco feels something bubbly and warm fill his chest. “I thought you were going to celebrate?”

“What, without even telling you?!” Lando exclaims, scandalised. He lightly pinches Franco’s cheek, making the younger pout. “I’m passing on the partying tonight. Too fuckin’ tired for that. Tomorrow though? You’re comin’ with me.” Lando says, an impish grin spread on his face and a manic glint in his eyes.

Franco grins back. “Obviously.”

Lando leans in again, slowly, the hand on his waist giving it a little squeeze and the hand on his cheek trailing up to card through Franco’s hair. He kisses the corner of Franco’s lips, slow and tender. It makes Franco feel like he’s melting, and for a second he thinks his legs might give out.

“What say we celebrate together, hm? Just you, me and a bottle of wine?” Lando murmurs, lips still pressed to Franco’s skin.

Franco shivers at the sensation. “Wine? How romantic.”

“Savin’ the shots for tomorrow.”

“Mm…” Franco shifts his head slightly, enough to catch Lando’s lips in a proper kiss. He relishes in the way Lando sags against him, lips moving languidly with his. “Let’s take this to the bed?”

Lando groans, nipping at Franco’s bottom lip before pulling back, a hungry look in his eyes as he starts leading Franco to the bed without a verbal response.

Franco knows there’s only more exhaustion ahead. He doesn’t mind it at all, though.

A/N: thank you to Sumi for giving me this cute prompt “post-race established relationship domestic fluff” hehe thanks to u i finally get to post smth complete on this ship😭😭🙏 this was fun to write and ended up way sappier than intended…hope u still like it alsjdjdj

[saytrrose]

Can we see More about your racing AU please?

Looks so amazing and i love It so much

I do suppose I could share the character design line up!

I really just need to finish designing all the go karts, (atleast most are done!) and then I can make proper cards for them and really get into the written details.

To be honest it’s a little hard to just ramble about info and details without specific questions to go off of, so I’ll try my best hhh

for starters, the tent? Not a tent!

It’s actually a stadium, the amazing digital race!

And rooms? Sort of tweaked, they are more like each character owns a personal garage, a large open space where they store their vehicles and then have a loft above that showcases their cozy safe havens. Bed, entertainment, basically a small room in a much larger one.

I haven’t revealed Ragatha, Zooble or Gangles karts yet but I’ll go ahead and just talk about all of them!

Caine:

Caine has a motorcycle, specifically one inspired off of the motorcycle I’m saving up for this summer, a Kawasaki Eliminator. It’s a cruiser, I’m thinking he has a 600cc model but considering Bubble is his right hand man and operates as the races pit crew- he’s definitely tinkered with Caines bike, making adjustments and improving the engine. God only knows what the little psycho did, but it’s a damn good bike that’s not supposed to rev as loud as it does.

Pomni:

Her kart is inspired off a Volkswagen Beetle, seemed very VERY Pomni to me. Her car mimics her outfit design a lot, I might do some color changes to be honest but it will be super minimal, it’ll be final when the cards are done! She definitely stops at the pit the most often despite her placement in a race, are my tires okay?? Do I need my oil?? I know you just filled it but it went down- is anything damaged?? Sweetie you did one lap..

Jax:

Jesus Christ he has a giant supercharger on the hood of his car, and he is absolutely one of those annoying mfs that reva their engine OBNOXIOUSLY loud all the time like he’s super cool. If you’re wondering who most of the skid marks on the track are from, that’s also Jax. Hes the best as drifting, and he loves to show that off. His car isn’t based too much on an actual vehicle?? I stared at Mario karts and pieced it together, but also gave it a very sports car look, the wing on the back fr fr I think Jax would dig that.

Kinger:

OHHSOSK I was so creative with his little wagon,,, it’s castle shaped!! And the best part? Operates like a rocket. In the back past the battlement (the crown looking thing you see atop castle pillars) ARE GIANT exhaust pipes and yes, they do spit fire !! Operates like a rocket. It’s very cool! (Also he has a great muffler because unlike Jax he’s considerate of others hearing 💔) Oh also, he has one of those silly horns, I forgot how to describe it but you can just look at how I drew it on his kart and you’ll know heheh!

Zooble:

Our second motorcyclist, owns a trike! If you don’t know what that is, picture a bike with training wheels but super badass. 3 wheels! It’s inspired off the Harley Davidson freewheeler, I like that design a lot but it’s def not actually a Harley because istg when you buy those bikes your just paying for the fancy name brand- expect it to be in the shop all the time, smh not good- BUT ANYWAY!! The looks are inspired off it though and I can’t wait for this one because it’s just as crazy kooky as Zoobles design is.

Gangle:

Her kart is based on my favorite car, classic style but not too cool because you can bet she has anime stickers on the back and a decal that says “please let me merge before I start crying.” It’s similar to a karmann ghia convertible, 1963. Cherry red (so so pretty) She always has the top down, unless competing because damn you gotta go fast. That car itself is really slow, top speed normally is 68mph, however people have modified them enough to get up to 120mph. Thats still pretty slow compared to others, but her kart only reflects the appearance of the ghia! It’s much faster and I assume Bubble works on all their vehicles if asked to.

Lastly, Ragatha:

Our 3rd motorcyclist. 4 Karts, 3 cyclists. Her bike is a futuristic style, if you want a good idea then look up “icare bike”! Not so much a straight forward posture, she leans over ofc, you’ll likely get the idea when you see her bike. I’ll be honest, I haven’t gotten too into her design yet because I haven’t started drawing but!! Dark blue leds,, everywhere yes yes so cool ❤️

Sorry that’s so much 😭 but yeah! Just need to finish 3 kart designs for you guys and I can make official ref cards 👀

[luna-the-cretar]

First impressions of EOM (after finishing episode 1)

Story thus far: ?????? How can I verbally express how much I love it so far????? The train???? The mystique????? The conductor (who may or may not also be the narrator)????? The fucking MOON???? I just. I can’t verbally express how much this campaign already has me hooked. This campaign got me hooked faster than Icebound did, and I thought that Icebound hooked me pretty quickly (since I was all on board for Icebound by the end of Ep 1). But EOM? I was on board (heh) by the time the train first appeared to collect Jericho. Oooohhhh I’m so intrigued.

Jericho: I love him. He’s, admittedly, the character I knew the most about going into EOM, and I still knew next to nothing about him. I just knew that he was a living scarecrow and I knew about Virgil. I did NOT know about the demon, holy fuck. I’m curious. Also…he’s just so…I wanna hug him. So much. Poor guy deserves it. Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, I think it was inevitable I’d immediately fall in love with him. I mean, the first clue should’ve been that I immediately fell in love with Torbek (to the point where he literally got me into LOA in the first place), who is also a sad character with…oof. Iykyk. But also Jericho was, admittedly, the main reason why I finally decided on EOM as I was done catching up with Icebound. With the mixture of the couple of EOM shorts I’ve seen revolving around Jericho in some way, the bunch of Jericho fanart I’ve seen on here, and the Jericho song they revealed during the anniversary stream? Yeah…it was inevitable. Idk why I’m even surprised (actually, I think I’m mostly shocked that I fell in love with him the moment he started speaking)

Lethica: when Andy said during their BG3 gameplay on the stream on Saturday, that he was surprised that Lethica and Shadowheart’s stories were eerily similar, with Mace then asking if Shart was a cleric of Shar, I didn’t even begin to wonder as to WHY Mace even thought that. I was just shocked that he was right on the money for Shart. Then comes my absolute bamboozlement when reading Lethica’s card, seeing that she was ALSO a cleric of Shar, that suddenly Mace’s question and Andy’s comment made sense. Character-wise, she’s interesting so far. I love that she was immediately just. Very kind to Jericho. I’m interested to see where her character goes.

Marius, Briggsy, and Farryn: don’t have much to talk about either of these characters so far, so I’m combining them. Like Lethica, I weirdly love the fact that he was immediately very warm to Jericho upon meeting him. Also that he’s a very…hopeful person? It’s hard to say what I’m trying to get here, I’m just intrigued by his standpoint, and his relation to Lathander. All I really knew about Marius before going into EOM was his ship with Lethica, and I find it kinda funny that it’s—quite literally—Light x Darkness, just because of their respective gods. Very fun. I like Briggsy’s personality so far. And also, if I had a nickel for every time Richie played a lizardfolk warlock with some relation to death, well…I’d have 2 nickels. That I know of, anyway. And Farryn…I’m sorry but I didn’t even know you existed until I saw you paired against Gideon in the “which is gayer” LOA polls that’s going around. You’re cool so far tho. Like the accent.

Tl:dr: the story has me hooked, I will die for Jericho if he asked (tho he probably wouldn’t bc he’s such a sweetheart), Lethica is really cool so far, and the others are there too, I guess.

[sneezingisnotnormal]

The Definitive Best Episodes of DnDads

What do I mean by best? These are the episodes that have so many good emotional/hilarious beats that it’s hard to pick out any single moment in it. Every second is iconic. They are in chronological order, but they coincidentally also build from least iconic to most iconic. Spoilers, obviously.

Season 1, Ep. 44: Deck Picks

I think about this episode so much. The literal terror in the air from every which way. The jokes about this being the last episode. Ron literally getting punted out of the story forever. Mr. Moustache weighing the options of getting back his only friend ever or the person he used to be, then completely unrepentantly choosing Scam Likely. Scam Likely then IMMEDIATELY becoming Well Actually. Henry just casually getting a card that makes Lark hate him, literally setting up the ENTIRETY of season 2. Glenn picking a fight with a literal squirrel. Glenn winning AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. Glen losing. So. Hard. It’s the ultimate karma episode. Every moment feels predestined. There is nothing that makes a story better than complete and utter chance.

Season 1, Ep. 55: Mark! A Vagrant

Just conceptually, this episode is absolutely perfect. Bringing Ashly in to add to the utter chaos of the Jodie/Glenn dynamic was the PERFECT CHOICE. You have Goliath!Darryl having an identity crisis in the background. You have Will playing Jezball. You have Ashly and Anthony whipping out every embarrassing childhood memory they can think of. And of course, the crème de la crème, you have Glenn and Jodie fighting so hard to get the last word that they can’t even finish the goddamn fight. I swear to god I think about that shit every day.

Season 1, Ep. 56: SWAP (SWitched Ass Papas)

I mean. It’s a body swap episode. Of course I’m going to love it. Everyone’s interpretations of each others characters are so fucking perfect. Will!Ron looking to Beth!Darryl for advice on how to be a better Ron?? Immaculate, no notes. Beth!Darryl being fully just handshake and Catholicism? Hilarious. Matt!Henry basically just having a panic attack the whole time? 10000% accurate. Jimmy!Glenn and Freddie!Jodie sniping at each other every 5 seconds? I love it. One of my fave Beth May lines of all time: “I see the dramatic irony and I stick out my hand and say ‘Hi, I’m Darryl Wilson.’”

And THEN the conversation between Jodie and Dee Snyder. The call from Morgan that Jimmy!Glenn picks up and the pain of Glenn hearing his dead wife alive and well but no longer his wife. All of reality crashing down around these two men. A perfect blend of sad and utterly hilarious.

Season 1, Ep. 61: Death of a Salesman

Ron Stampler my absolute beloved. This is the only episode on this list that isn’t really funny and that’s because Beth May and Anthony Burch can tell a story like no one else oh my god. Going through Ron’s memories to find his anchor was such a clutch move. Starting off with something simple like Willie pushing him into the pool to teach him how to swim. Going on to Ron trying to cook dinner by himself. Then finally doing something good, something that made him worthwhile, only for Willie to walk in the second there’s an accident. Having to give up his dog. And finally, the fishing trip. Older Ron watching his younger self sadly, trying to prod him to do what Willie wants him to do, to not be a fuck-up, even though everyone else can see that it’s not his fault at all. Glenn going back to punch his principal. Finding the anchor in the fishhook, the thing Willie told him was special, that led Willie to trying to kill Ron, falling and dying in the process. It’s so fucking poetic and it makes me cry every time and everything about it is so well done. I could write essays about this episode.

Season 2, Ep. 34: Finding Tori

This is the episode I come back to if I need something to listen to because there’s no slow moment in this episode. It’s bit after bit after bit and I just cackle my way through it. I’m just gonna have to go chronologically through it.

First, the tight fives. Linc earnestly sitting down and over-explaining his favourite funny movie for 5 minutes is actually the most realistic thing I’ve ever seen. Taylor as Austin Powers doing anime themed stand-up to an utterly unimpressed Tori. Will being so fucking mad that he doesn’t get to be Austin Powers. Beth completely misunderstanding the assignment and doing 5 minutes of Napoleon Dynamite standup that’s 90% sexist jokes and 10% “wanna hear my Goofy impression? Gorsh.” Normal getting flustered and just completely ruining his chances with Hermie, who just fully to his face goes “you never loved me.” Anthony putting on full Joker makeup and delivering the BEST Gotham stand up the world has to offer. Tori just completely ripping each of them to shreds. Hermie’s “oh that’s ok I’ll kill myself.”

And like. That feels like a whole episode right? BUT NO. SCAM LIKELY JUST THROWS THEM INTO SPACE WITH A LIMBLESS NICHOLAS.

And now we have such bangers as Scary going insane! The wildest plans you’ve ever heard! ALL OF THE TEENS GETTING MARRIED SO THAT THEY BECOME ONE SOUL AND CAN USE BANISHMENT. The second they go to space it’s just a complete scramble to find a mechanic they could possibly use to get out of this. It’s truly DnD to its MAX, using the tools available to you to think outside the box.

Season 2, Episode 35: Apollo Four Teens

This episode, man. It almost feels like a completely different genre. I literally can’t pick a favourite part.

I mean you have them being forced to navigate their CANONIZED AND LEGAL POLYCULE. Anthony sending them back into space for 12 hours every time they try and say that their marriage isn’t real is maybe my favourite bit of DMing ever. Linc dealing with the episode 2 trauma of having a whole other life with a whole other wife who told him that she never wanted him to remarry???? Literally Matt is the king of random bits of lore that are brought up and resolved within 5 minutes I love it. Terry calling her mom to tell her she’s married is so fucking funny, I love Terry Marlowe. All the conversations about what pet names to call each other and the logistics of potentially opening up their relationship?? I love these guys being forced to seriously handle the consequences of their bullshit, it’s actually beautiful.

And then the fucking love triangle drama?? The Hero/Taylor enemies to lovers suddenly being shattered by Linc just trying his best to wingman for his husband?? Hero forcing Normal into all of this as HER wingman??? Normal pining like crazy over Hermie while Hermie suddenly falls HARD back into his crush on Terry??? And then Hermie offering a thruple to Normal to get him to wingman for HIM??? Peak comedy, someone get Normal therapy, he needs it after this shit.

And then you’ve got their plan to get Red Bull to sponsor them. Fucking insane plan to start with, and then they almost fuck it up just by literally doing the lamest stunts possible. I just can’t these teens are so stupid I love them so much.

Season 2, Ep. 37: Cut My Life into Pizzas

Ok. This is my favorite episode of DnDads. Hard stop. No other thoughts behind it. And that’s because it makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me scream. It’s perfect.

First off, the All Star parody. Why did they do that to me. My heart simply cannot take it.

And then you have Terry freaking out, trying to find a way to fix the problem, putting on the hat just to get it out of the way, having all the memories flood back in. And Scary just can’t process what happened. And you get to see in real time as Scary realises that Willie doesn’t actually give a shit about her. And she decides that she CAN’T lose her stepdad. And you get to see in real time as Scary tries to fight back only to find that she’s given all her power to a man that wants to use her as a telephone. And you watch her lose all hope. She leaves her friends. She leaves her stepdad. She joins the kiddads and goes to help them get the final anchor.

The final anchor, which is the garlic knot heart of a pizza king. And it’s that kind of crazy ass piece of this world that makes DnDads the funniest fucking podcast out there. You will never make me laugh as hard as when I’m about to start crying.

And then you have the whole battle of Linc, Taylor, and Normal trying to get up the tower. Linc and Taylor becoming a fighting machine. The absolute insanity of Linc using Taylor’s toes a la ratatouille??? And of course, completely leaving Normal behind, causing Normal to officially snap: “LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE’S FALLING IN LOVE EXCEPT ME.” Deeply hilarious, and also deeply tragic in such a small and painfully familiar way. Meanwhile Scary is trying to find consolation in Sparrow’s stories about Terry Jr. and just feeling worse and worse. The👏emotional 👏turmoil👏

And then they get to the top and it’s a fucking meat door labelled vegans only. Anthony you motherfucker. And Scary just teleports in and rips that man’s heart out and offers it to anyone who can revive her stepdad. And she just completely shuts down when everyone says they can’t because she’ll never get to tell him what he meant to her.

And THEN, AS IF I’M NOT CRYING ENOUGH ALREADY, Linc confronts Grant. This kid who IDOLIZES his dads has to confront his dad and say “you’re doing the wrong thing. You had a choice and you chose wrong. And I can’t forgive you for that.” Grant trying so hard to explain to Linc that he can’t change who he is, only for Linc to say “well you knew you were messed up and you still chose to raise me. You chose to put all this onto me one day.” Jesus Christ. I need a character study on the Wilson’s. They hurt me. So bad.

Honorable Mention: 3.6 A Car is Born

An episode so fucking insane that the least memorable part is Francis getting a FUCKING GUN. The Tony Collette backstory. The moth Jesus. Dewar. I can’t with these idiots

[monochromeruby]

Why Riya should (and deserves to) win All Stars

Back on my bullshit… Here we go…

Reason 1: She definitely worked the hardest.

Out of the final four, Riya has definitely done the most. She made game moves, thought about her decisions logically, and had her eyes on that BAG from beginning to end. She had eyes on her from the beginning and she still stuck around to the final four. She played her pieces and used her cards, and truthfully, she was probably the only character that kept 👏her 👏head 👏in 👏the 👏 game👏

Reason 2: Compared to the other finalists, Riya is a clear deserving winner.

Ally also worked hard I’ll admit, but Riya had done more power plays I’d say. She had her act together near the beginning and end, and I’ll defend Ally to the grave, but comparing her game and Riya’s… Riya did more. (Not to mention that it was Riya that made her start playing the game more fiercely…)

Connor… love… do you know where you are? I feel like he’s lost half the time. Not to mention he rejoined.. he was literally gone for 40% of the game… His arc has mainly been worrying about Riya and he’s been letting her use him all the time. He’s made no game defining moves, only really binding the heroes together (which did nothing near the end), and using the totem (that he wouldn’t have used if it weren’t for Grett…)

And Jake… oh god… IHATE THIS TWINK.

Jake has done nothing but piss me off the whole season.. He starts bitching at James because of his jealousy, then fights with Ally for no fucking reason, same with Aiden, has his FACE lodged between Tom’s CLEAVAGE 24/7/365 and then at the visceral moment where he needed to get his ACT together, he goes and done fucks it up, and Ashley gets eliminated. His game has been nothing but emotional thinking, and he’s probably the least deserving winner. Let’s be honest with ourselves, the only reason he’s still here is because he’s a fan favorite and a writer’s pet.. He only gets his act together because SOMEONE ELSE has to tell him to. He’s like a chihuahua that barks at other dogs minding their DAMN business and then someone has to reel in his retractable leash so he can stfu. PLEASE… Jake had done literally nothing except ruin his own game and then cries about it.. please get him off my screen forever..

Reason 3: We just need more of her.

“Riya already made the finale why do we need more of her???” NO SHE DIDNT!!!!!!!

The Riya that got to the finale in season 2 was not the Riya we have now. 95% of Season 2 was a completely different character until the very end. Now in All Stars we’re seeing the Riya that was only shown in the last few episodes. She’s a completely different character. She’s not the “villain again”. She wasn’t the villian for the majority of season 2. Now we get to SEE her as the villain for the whole season instead of just a few episodes. We’re being fed a girlboss and you’re being picky???? What is wrong with you???

Reason 4: It would be perfect for her arc.

Riya’s character has been about how she acts differently on camera but worries that her real relationships are drifting apart. Hold my hand. Picture this with me.

Riya wins. She gets the 3 mil. But literally nobody celebrates. They just kind of look at her as she realizes that she won at the cost of her relationships with those she cared about. Like??? Wouldn’t that be a perfect way to end her arc??? That would probably be the best way to wrap her up. If she gets eliminated, then it would just be like “haha, you did bad things, here’s your karma.” Like YAWWWWN. But if she won???? It would be perfect for her to realize that winning wasn’t everything, and that the people she hurt and lost are permanent. This comment on yt sums up what I’m trying to say:

And Reason 5: If she loses, what will that do for feminism? Nothing. Do you hate woman? Is that it? You disgust me. (This is a joke)

So all in all: Riya should win because she’s the best player out of the four, and I want a winner that actually WORKED to win. Not only that, but it’ll be the perfect end to her character. Her losing would just be a bland close to her book.

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"Overture" review

After so many years, Hazbin Hotel is finally out. As of making this, I was a bit surprised that Vivzie (and Prime) posted the first episode on YouTube with the series coming out soon but I’m not complaining, as I had a recent conversation with someone about if Vivzie would post the episodes on her YouTube channel over time and I think it could happen but SLOWLY, like months after season 1 is done and with months in between postings.

Now let’s begin this review/reaction literature. Along with obvious spoilers, this will be a long review (sorry in advance) but I would really appreciate if you could read the whole thing.

Being the premiere, it makes sense to start with exposition from Charlie. It’s also fitting that she tells it like a fairy tale as I see it reflecting how Charlie sees the world, though I bet it will change a bit later on. Hopefully she can still keep that POV a bit at the end of the series, maybe like a kind of modern day fairytale view of the world.

Insert “accurate angels” joke here.

So 2 women are representing good and evil. I’m making a note for that as that is definitely going to lead to something.

I do like how the story is keeping the fact that Lucifer was good, like how some versions say Lucifer was God’s number 1 angel. Also in the scene with the angels working on Earth, one of the angels is shaped like that angel we saw in the season 1 trailer, meaning she and Lucifer likely go way back and confirming that she is really powerful/high ranking angel. Some say she is a refence to an old character of Vivzie’s of an angle who LOVED torturing sinners so who knows.

LILITH! Also this confirms that she WAS human. Hopefully this means Lucifer is okay with other humans/sinners, especially Vaggie (hint hint writers) and Lilith being the “queen of succubus” is an honorary title like I brought up in the past.

I am curious about what “pre apple Adam” was like and if he was any different than his modern age self. There definitely should be a prequel episode showing more details of how Lucifer and Lilith met and leading to everything else.

Lucifer X Lilith is soo cute, I really hope nothing bad happened between them before the events of the series, as for some reason people have been theorizing and headcanoning that.

I’m hoping that Charlie’s happy tone at that part of the story confirms that they are still together.

Charlie’s story quickly goes from Lilith and Lucifer falling in love to them interacting with Eve. I feel like later on we will learn that something big happened in between these events, another reason for why a prequel episode should happen one day.

The apple makes the figure of Eve glow a bit like that woman from the beginning representing evil, I knew that’d come in handy. This and the fact that the apple is supposed to represent the knowledge of BOTH good and evil but isn’t here makes me wonder if Eve will be a villain in the show? I mean Adam is and after seeing how he ended up, I could see Eve being much worse. Plus Vivzie did say that the female characters will have more focus in Hazbin Hotel so I’ll keep an extra eye out with them. I also want to point out that this scene of Eve looks a lot like the early released trading card of Lilith! There is this theory floating around related to that but I’ll save that when we get more info.

The stuff about evil coming to be is a bit interesting/confusing. I just find it a little hard to believe that both good and evil can both existed at the same time here but it only took Lucifer’s actions to release it. Where was it before then and what was it doing? Could this possibly be hinting that elements of other religions/mythologies exist in this series, and whatever was left over became Hell/evilness? I do recall Stolas mentioning a creature from one such mythology in “Seeing Stars”. Could the “epilogue” of the Norse Ragnarök story be canon in this world? I do like the idea of God being Baldur. This also reminds me of an old idea of mind for a pic so stay tune for that.

Since this is from Charlie’s/Hell’s POV I do think that some of these events aren’t 100% true, like I don’t picture Lucifer wanting to give humans free will BUT it’s not impossible, as maybe he was so prideful and truly through it would be a good idea. Maybe he did it for Lilith, as she thought it will help Eve not go through the kind of things she went through with Adam that made her miserable. The story also does make Lucifer more sympathetic, considering the fact that he and Lilith were just tossed to Hell and no mentions of a fan popular idea of a war between Heaven and Hell along with that odd line about Lucifer never seeing/wanted to see the good in humanity and gave up on it and dreaming, considering how prideful he is supposed to be and how to me Lucifer looks like the kind of guy who wouldn’t give up that easily. Maybe Charlie will discover that Lucifer liked the evil and decided to make more things to hurt humanity, which as a bonus hurt those that ignored him for so long. This also does make me think this could be another idea/reason for why Lucifer is against Charlie’s plan, as he knows Heaven will say no to her redemption idea every time and doesn’t want Charlie to go through that pain, which could also again relate to another idea I’ve mentioned before of Lucifer not wanting Charlie to be constantly under threat from Heaven and its forces like he is.

It JUST occurred to me that Lilith could have singing powers, like a bard or maybe even a sonic scream but I rather see that last thing happen with Stella first :3

Again that female angel from the trailer is show but this time she is sad, implying she doesn’t like the Exterminations while Adam is happy with the idea. I wonder if this means that the female angel, while she seems to be okay with the Exterminations during the events of the show COULD eventually be remined that she wasn’t always like this and at the end of the season could become an angelic ally of Charlie and helps her get her redemption plan in motion on the Heaven side of things.

So there is another reason for the exterminations instead of just population control. This could mean that the popular idea of Lucifer and Lilith making the deal so they could have Charlie could be true as well.

The scene of sad Charlie having her eyes open when her heart beats must be symbolic of the day she came up with her redemption plan.

I think that line about “Lilith’s hope passing down to Charlie” could be much darker than it sounds. Yeah Lilith and Charlie want Hell to thrive, but what if while Charlie thinks working with Heaven to solve the population problem would be best for everyone, Lilith hoped Charlie would destroy Heaven and thinks peace is too submissive in her eyes? Just a random idea but it could be a reason if there is tension between the mother and daughter.

I wonder if that book Charlie is reading was actually made by her, like her POV of everything, or made by her parents? Sure maybe they altered some things but maybe this is how she or they really think about things? If not then I bet the author got an earful from Lucifer about making him a quitter though after seeing Ozzie and Bee, Lucifer could be less prideful than we think he is.

So just like in the pilot, it seems like Charlie has a stronger connection to her mother and wants to make her proud, even if my idea of them having different wants to make Hell thrive is different. Again going back to the trailer maybe they will both get what they want and realize that there are other options, causing the two to bond and spend more time in the next season.

Thinking back I personally think it would have been interesting if the scene of Charlie reading the story and saying she would make her mom proud had been a flashfoward situation, taking place before the season finale. It has been implied in the trailer that a big battle between Hell and the Exorcist will happen, so I would have liked the idea of Charlie reading the book to remind her that what she is doing is the right thing in the end, and if the book HAD been made by her it would have been something to inspire future demons and sinners in case she doesn’t make it. That would be awesome and again fits with what I said about her altering things in the story if she is the writer.

Still funny to hear Charlie curse.

I know I’m late on the VA thing but I’m still going to post my thoughts about them when they come up, like right now as Vaggie’s new voice strangely reminds me of Harley Quinn’s Poison Ivy and It doesn’t help that those two characters are a lot alike. At least it leads to fun fanart as I love both shows.

“person doesn’t know someone is in the room with them” cliché

This episode is confirmed to take place shortly after the pilot. Specifically a week according to Vaggie later on.

Lilith’s 7 year gap is concerning but given how Charlie and her family are immortal, it probably isn’t that bad to them. It actually fits with this funny headcanon idea of mine about how when Lucifer and Lilith have big fights, they won’t see each other for decades or centuries before apologizing, but to them it is the equivalent of a day or two. I am a bit concerned that while her parents think this isn’t that long, it IS to Charlie, who is technically still “young” seemingly being only a few centuries old. This also goes back to that theory I was going to save for later, but it’s implied that Lilith is on a mission to stop something or someone but could be disguised as someone we know or could appear later on. I think we should play it safe when we see a modern day Lilith and assume that it could be someone else pretending to be Lilith.

Charlie X Vaggie are so CUTE!

I mentioned this in my HH S1 trailer breakdown but I still find the part of the commercial of the one guy stabbing the other funny cause the guy being stabbed doesn’t seem to mind XD.

That pic in Al’s commercial of Charlie and Lucifer better be overexaggerating, or I say we riot!

Also Al’s new voice is okay, though I do hear the difference. Can’t say the same thing for Angel as it sounds really odd like an accent is trying to get through his voice.

Charlie having a rubber duck to represent her dad. WAIT HER DAD! Viv was right we did get him fatheAWWW. Touché Vivzie.

Husk and Niffty’s voices sound fine, Niffty’s being the most perfect so far.

I once brought up the idea of Charlie basing her teachings on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, I just want to bring that up as a possible thing they will do for rehabilitation since they don’t have any ideas how to at this moment.

Was the scene of Charlie with wild eyes a meme or refence to something? It was still pretty funny.

So Lucifer wants Charlie to meet Adam for him. On one hand this could just be him being lazy OR maybe he is trying to help Charlie in his own way. That or like I said before, maybe he thinks if Charlie realizes what she is up against, it could make her want to quit her redemption goal.

Despite her father being an angel/fallen angel, Charlie doesn’t know if angels have hearts. I wonder how much of Lucifer did change when he became a fallen angel.

Ought to bring this up now but since she was born and raised in Hell, though she sees the flaws, I feel like it might be a little bit hard for Charlie to see why Heaven wouldn’t want to make it better or bring the people there into Heaven.

Charlie’s song, while nice, has reminded me about this old fan idea people had about a possible future scene where Charlie sadly realizes that not EVERYONE could/should be redeemed. I thought I bring it up because I could see that coming up soon.

I think that is Blitzo in the scene where Charlie hitches a ride on the delivery truck. Speaking of which (looking at logo) :)

I didn’t bring this up in my HH S1 trailer breakdown because I didn’t think it was need, but now it is. TLDR I wonder if Pentagram City is now more like a “country” or all of the Pride Ring with towns and named areas acting more like states. Until we get an episode outside of it and into another circle of Pride (something referenced in Helluva Boss and the HH pilot trailer WAY back by Katie Killjoy) I’ll likely treat Pentagram City as the whole Pride Ring.

I think I brought this up before, but if there is a Heavenly emissary in Hell, then I wonder if there is one for Hell in the outskirts of Heaven? Could this building allow sinners to talk to people, like loved ones in Heaven? Something like this would be perfect for my OC Ratchet, as one of his goals is to talk to his deceased/murdered little brother again.

It’s funny seeing Adam eat, considering his mouth doesn’t look real and thus should work. Also yes I see Adam eating ribs, but I’m not making a joke about it because it is a bit cheesy.

Honestly we should have seen the hologram thing coming, since I bet no angel in Heaven (as of now) wants to be in Hell unless it’s during an Extermination.

IS ADAM FLIRTING WITH CHARLIE!!!! SOMEONE DO SOMETHING TO MAKE IT STOP!!!

Adam’s behavior here is making my “pre apple Adam being an immature child” theory look canon, don’t you agree?

I think we’re seeing the Lilith side of Charlie when she is pretend laughing.

Adam and Eve aren’t a thing anymore. I knew that was coming, but it is still a bummer to hear as it is predictable. No surprise but I wonder if they split after the Cain incident, as I’m starting to wonder if in this world, Cain was a lot like his father as he is now.

Though as 1D as he is, at least this makes Adam a good antagonist, unlike with Stella but that is getting WAY off topic. I do hope that Adam is just going to be the antagonist of this season, and after that he is either written off or given the Emperor Pilaf treatment and be demoted to a very, VERY minor threat. This way other antagonist could arrive leading to new challenges for Charlie and the others.

AGAIN SOMEONE DO SOMETHING, GET LUCIFER OR LILITH!!!

Charlie seems to be thinking like her dad when she tries to use Adam’s ego to get her project started.

Though mainly for laughs, I’m still going to guess that cameras, being on camera, or being watched/the focus of is going to have a connection to Niffty’s backstory. One really sad theory is that an older guy she liked was a stalker who eventually abducted her and showed her off to his friends and though Niffty eventually escaped and killed him, their struggle caused a fire to break out which would kill her too. This obviously messed her up and likely resulted in her obtaining something like Stockholm syndrome and having her mind regress to that of a child, explaining some of her personality quirks.

Just a personal thought, but I hope later on the writers will stop calling sinners as demons and just call them sinners or humans, as I feel like it is going to lead to problems later on. I mean what if one day we get a character that looks like a Hellborn demon but is actually a sinner… OMG LIKE BAXTER!

Al just being Al, which is still concerning. Heck even his “deal’ with Vaggie sounds like there is more to it, and I don’t mean that thing about how deals make people stronger. Then there is the way he said ‘your choice” though that could be the acting.

Some things here. The O on the Director’s chair is shaped like an eye which could be referencing Al’s cane or something else, Niffty refencing Marilyn Monroe, and the return of the characters outfits from “Alastor’s Reprise”.

Insert “Lute being prideful for not accounting that Lucifer is an angel” comment here.

So how would having a former sinner in Heaven be any different then how Adam acts? I bet it will be more complicated than that. I once brought up the idea of demons being scared of sinners because of their potential, so maybe Heaven has a similar thing? Maybe Heaven doesn’t know HOW to loosen restrictions to get more people or sinners into Heaven, as when they made the rules they didn’t have the foresight to make sure things could change with the times. I do recall a quote from the Bible that was about how souls couldn’t get into Heaven for a time until Jesus arrived and opened the gates. Heck there is another saying where Jesus DID get some people out of Hell which caused some quakes, maybe he coined the term Hellquakes. I wonder if a great sacrifice will have to be made in order to get worthy souls out of Hell? The Jesus thing also adds more to my idea of Jesus and Charlie being allies later in the series.

Though short, you can see during Adam’s song that Zhu Li, I mean Lute, does have a bit of a fun side deep down in that serious soldier personality.

Charlie is asking questions before I can type them down.

How high ranking is Adam in Heaven’s hierarchy if he can change the date of Exterminations? You think he would have to run that with other people like the archangels or seraphim.

After what she went through, it was nice to see Charlie happCOME ON!

This was going to come up eventually but I have mix feelings about Brandon Rogers being the new VA for Katie Killjoy. One main reason is that I personally see too many similarities between Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss (especially with the characters) and now having a VA from HB be in HH makes that list bigger. I also wonder if this decision was made as a kind of “damage control” since last time the character of Katie Killjoy was on screen she said something homophobic which got people angry, even though the series is in Hell and there are logically going to be people like that there. HOWEVER I understand why he was chosen, one being that he has played Katie Killjoy like characters already and I do like that they got someone that is easy to contact and has experience in such a role to do it then someone new. This has also strangely started making me connect Katie Killjoy to the Monarchs from the Venture Bros., like the daughter they never had who never went into costumed villainy (the news world can be evil though) which makes no sense but I LOVE IT anyway. I mean she acts like The Monarch but with a joke voice like Dr. Mrs. the Monarch, and the fact that she smokes and is insect themed just adds more to it XD.

AGAIN how did Adam get this through so fast? I wonder if Charlie will be blamed for this next episode? Eventually it will be revealed but I hope they do it sooner than later, as I do recall a screenshot of the Overlords talking about the Exorcist.

Also I feel like a line should have been added explaining that the upcoming Extermination will be worse than usual. I mean we the viewers know that but if it wasn’t for that Lute and Adam scene in the end, it would have looked like everyone is just panicking about something common happening earlier than usual. Maybe they do offscreen, going back to that Overlord meeting.

An angel drone? Is this a Sumerian mythology refence?

A dead Exorcist! Though not a surprise given it was spoiled via the trading cards along with it appearing MUCH earlier than I thought it would, it’s still interesting as now we have a mystery.

I find hard to believe that no one took down an Exorcist until now given how powerful sinners can be, but then again the writers seem to be making the forces of good/Heaven really OP which I’m not like that much. I don’t it would have hurt the story if it was revealed that while there are a few angelic casualties in every Extermination, the number has risen over the past several years which has now made the Exorcist army (not Adam because he probably sucks at his job and never noticed it) worried leading to the earlier Extermination plan.

It also seems that angels have golden blood, like the ichor in Greek myth. Looks like my headcanon of Heaven/Hell inspiring the various other myths of this world is canon!

This episode was a good starter for the season and series. While it feels a lot like another pilot at times, that is fine since it’s been years since the actual pilot, and the episode does add more new info to the series (a benefit of having a short season) like another glimpse at what Heaven is like and how they feel about Hell, along with adding in a situation that now effects everyone and can lead to future situations/interactions.

We also now have an interesting mystery going on about who could have killed that Exorcist. I think it’s likely going to be someone in Heaven wanting an excuse to attack Hell, I mean Lute really hates them so she could be the one or others suspects are that angel from the S1 trailer/was seen at the beginning of the episode and an old character of Vivzie’s named Roo who apparently represents all evil, and who people have been thinking is coming up soon. Heck maybe an actual demon like a goetia did it while trying to escape, or this was a result of accidental friendly fire? This is going to be fun.

The only negatives things about this episode are that I do agree that some of the new VAs, though talented, are kind of out of place for the characters especially Angels. I bet we will get use to them over time though. Then there are the very small things like how Adam has so much power to do things, and either changing a few scenes or adding a line.

I have one more theory I have to say before I end this. I think this whole season is going to be some kind of Heavenly challenge/test for Charlie. I wouldn’t be surprised if Heaven IS tired of Adam’s attitude especially when compared to how nice the daughter of Lucifer and Lilith of all people is, but they can’t discipline him given he is the leader of their army. This doesn’t help that they also see signs of a potential future threat coming up (likely why Lilith has been gone for so long) and think that Adam won’t be able to handle it, so some angels think Charlie should be the one trained to deal with this force while others think they should stick with Adam and just prepare for when he messes up. This is why the higher ups are allowing Adam’s early extermination to happen because they want to see if Charlie can handle this situation, along with seeing her skills at being a leader and most importantly see if she will still be her nice self in the process. If she fails then thing stay as they are, but if she passes then the angelic forces will give Charlie the chance to try and convince the forces of Heaven to go with her redemption plan, and demote/get rid of Adam as karma. Again it would be a way to get rid of Adam as a villain and have someone else fill in the role next season. Same for how the writers could use this to lead this to a bigger story like a GOW Ragnarök like reveal where Charlie finds out the generic “end of days” prophecy is a lie and the real prophecy says something big will come to destroy everything in Heaven, Hell, and Earth and it’s debated on if she could be the one destined to fight it and save everything.

This was a big review and there a still 3 episodes left so you want to keep up to date, give me a follow.

What were your thoughts on the episode? Though there are a lot, do you agree with any of my thoughts/ideas here? Was there anything I missed that you would want to hear my thoughts on?

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Small rant below on cozy gamers from someone that grew up on island builders, city builders and farming games.

I’ve finally started playing Disney Dreamlight and my god, some of the players are absolutely insufferable. Ive not met one normal player.

I’ve never wanted to strangle so many people at once (and I’m a moonie and kuroshitsuji fan new fans for both fandoms smh 😅) .

It literally non stop complaints about how repetitive it is and how there isn’t room to place their characters and how Disney has failed them and aren’t listening and now they are boycotting and not playing - ITS. SO. DAMN. STUPID.

1. First and foremost Disney owes you jack shit. You bought the game and gave them $60 plus the price of the DLC if you paid for it. They held up their end of the bargain and gave you a game. It’s a complete transaction and they don’t give two shits about your whining.

2. The game is going to be repetitive. You’re playing a harvest moon/stardew valley/animal crossing game. THATS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THESE GAMES. You repeatedly talk to villagers, upgrade your house, grow crops, do quests that will sometimes require 20 fish and 200 carrots. The game isn’t broken or a bad game. It’s doing its JOB and what it was created to do.

These games aren’t meant for everyone and yes once you play this game into the ground and cover every space (then complain your game crashes because you’re overloading your graphics cards 🤦🏻‍♀️) with decorations, complete your quests , buy all the furniture and clothes, and max out your level it’s DONE.

No game has unlimited gameplay especially when you go as hard as a lot of you do. You’re going to run out of things to do until the next update. So sit and be patient or follow below:

Restart your game from scratch and move on.

No game company owes you squat. They don’t owe you updates, they don’t owe you free stuff or even DLCs.

The fact that Disney is doing this, is great and I’m excited.

3. New characters. This is for my overly dramatic players who have to over achieve and cover every single pixelated space on their valley, you will need to REMOVE SOMETHING to make room for the new characters coming in.

Disney doesn’t owe you a new biome and if you’d shrink the 2 acre palace you made for Ariel and Belle, it would fit quite nicely.

First you complain about not enough to do, then Disney GIVES YOU MORE CONTENT (for FREE I might add) and you bitch about where to put it.

No one cares Ashleigh, just change up your valley and move on.

4. Playing on the switch. Yes the gameplay isn’t perfect but I’ve been grinding and I really haven’t run into problems like all of you complain about. I’m not saying you’re lying but my guess is, like I said above, you’re decorating your island too much.

This is like ACNH, you over do it and your game will lag and crash and yes you could corrupt your game file 🤷🏻‍♀️ it’s how this stuff works.

“bUt ThAtS nOt fAiR” then get a different console. Can’t afford it, make do with what you have. That’s reality.

5 “omg where is Cinderella and Snow White? 😭😞” first, Disney is putting in their popular characters first and foremost. A lot of the demographic they are pointing to (not a 32 Disney adult) don’t know the older princesses. Second, Cinderella can’t move in when her castle is covered in thorns… just saying. My guess is she’ll be the last we unlock.

As much as I love older Disney, I know they won’t appear until later. I was happily surprised Merlin was one of the first people we met in the game and same with the Fairy God Mother later on. But I know realistically unless these princesses are needed for the main story line, they aren’t a priority.

Yes, I get that older people play this game, I’m one of them, but I’m not disillusioned into thinking Disney will bend to my will just because I cry and beg.

6. “Pay to play” this game isn’t pay to play. Sure you can CHOOSE to buy those blue tokens but THE GAME DOESN’T REQUIRE THE PURCHASE. You can earn these coins through game play and dream snaps. Disney is not locking the game so you have to buy them, I’ve not been locked out once.

So stop lying to people.

If you really want that ride or that dress and you’re an adult with adult money- YOU CAN CHOOSE to spend real money but it’s not a required part of the game.

bUt KiDs pLaY tHiS gAmE 😖 ok and? Put your foot down, remove your payment information from the game shop and step up and be a fucking parent and supervise your child on what she/he’s doing on the console you bought them. Your lack of parenting isn’t Disney’s fault.

That’s on you 😌✨

7. Dreamsnaps. No one is required to vote for your perfectly curated photo with your 1000 hour park in the BG.

There are actual kids playing this game and new or casual players. They deserve a vote as well.

Sure they look great but don’t expect an automatic win. It’s more fun, imo, to find the clever ones of the first time/casual players who don’t have Disney land behind them.

Same with the kids that have Mike from Monsters Inc belching 😂 it’s a game for kids, so there will be lots of those photos.

I vote for everything but the perfect dreamsnaps, but that’s just me.

I’m not saying not to put your all into it because you will still get a hefty amount of star coins (blue things) from following the prompt, but please stop complaining about how people could possibly vote for a “boring” “obviously not following the prompt” submissions.

Your popular mean girl techniques don’t work in the digital world. You can’t bully people into voting for you 🥰

If you’ve gotten this far into this rant and you’re unsure if you want to buy the game: yes do it. It’s such a charming well made game that lets you hang out with a lot of characters from your childhood.

Just don’t go to Reddit, TikTok or YouTube and read the comments. You’ll lose your mind. 🥴

Reach out to me if you want any help for new players. I’m still kinda new but we’ll figure it out together! 🥰

[tsarisfanfiction]

Before and After

Fandom: One Piece Rating: Teen Genre: Family Characters: Law, Penguin, Shachi, Heart Pirates

Law’s life was divided into Befores and Afters.

Whew, it's been a while since I last wrote any Heart Pirates (or One Piece at all) but clearly these characters are still embedded in my muses because finding their characters again wasn't any challenge at all (which was a relief).  In fact, it's been so long that Hakugan's name hadn't been revealed yet, so I've now got to figure out where to place him in my version of the crew's dynamics...

I joined @stereden's Winter Exchange this year for the first (but hopefully not the last!) time, and my match was Castled_Rook, whose prompt options included some Heart Pirates found family (which is, hopefully obviously, what I went for), which has always been my favourite thing to write in this fandom, so that was a perfect match as far as I was concerned :D   Hoping they agree after seeing this fic!

There's a warning for this fic but I'm not entirely sure how to word it, so hopefully this will suffice: a character considering if they would have wanted to live if they'd had the time to think in a life-threatening situation.

Law’s life was divided into Befores and Afters.

Before the Flevance massacre.  After the Flevance massacre.

Before Cora-san. After Cora-san.

Aged thirteen, those two Befores and Afters had encompassed everything he was, with the underlying weight of white lead cloying in his body, destroying him from the inside out.

Losing his family had destroyed him.  Losing Cora-san had obliterated him from existence.

Law had never thought he’d outlive the clumsy idiot who meant well but screamed incompetence with every blunder.  In hindsight, when his thoughts were clear from ever-present fevers and resignation paired with desperation, Law realised he hadn’t wanted to outlive Cora-san, hadn’t wanted to lose and grieve a man that meant so much to him.

He’d already outlived his family once.

Then he outlived his family again.

Law could acknowledge that it was a good thing he hadn’t realised he’d felt that way back on Minion Island.  If his mind had been – not clearer, but sharper, more self-aware, he might not have followed Cora-san’s last wishes.

He might not have lived.

Law loved Cora-san, but did he love him enough to live for him when he’d left him without a family again?  Evidence pointed to yes, because that was exactly what he’d done, but Law was aware, with the cold, harsh truths of hindsight, that if he’d focused on a different emotion, on losing family rather than destroy the world (destroy Doflamingo)… the answer may not have been yes.

It was a good thing the cards had fallen in the order they did.

Not to say Law was glad Cora-san was dead – that was so far from the truth even a liar like him couldn’t even begin to try and say it; the clumsy idiot had no right to leave him like that, no right to go and die to save him when he should have lived for him – but Law would forever be eternally grateful that he had lived. That Cora-san had saved him.

If he had died, he would never have met his crew.  His nakama. His third (and final) family.

Law had no way of knowing if he would outlive this family, too.  The pattern in his life suggested that it was a possibility, but also Law was no helpless child any more.  He was a Captain, a Supernova, a feared member of the Worst Generation, powerful enough to rub shoulders with some of the greatest on the seas (or go toe to toe with them in battle).

He was a doctor.  A surgeon.  And he had the Ultimate Devil Fruit to back him up.

He was no god, but he could play at being a god, play with lives and who lives and who died for as long as he drew breath – and his crew?  His nakama, his family?

Law refused to outlive them, too.

“You’re brooding again.”

Penguin slid onto the bench next to him, pushing a fresh mug of steaming coffee in front of him and taking a loud drink of his own.  “Beri for your thoughts?”

Law ignored him, wrapping his fingers around the mug and watching the letters EATH stand out on his fingers while the D of the thumb opposed them.  The metal transmitted the heat straight into his skin, almost hot enough to burn.

“Law?”

“It’s nothing,” he told his nakama.  Penguin made a disbelieving noise, but something must have convinced him to drop it because he didn’t push any further – although the next slurp of his own drink was obnoxiously loud in a way that Law was more used to hearing from Shachi.

They’d grown up together. Penguin had been Shachi’s older brother the younger’s entire life – not by blood, but Law had learned twice over that blood wasn’t the rule of family (look at the Donquixote brothers, look at Cora-san and Law, look at his nakama).  Shared habits and obnoxious traits were hardly a surprise.

Law didn’t let himself wonder what shared habits he and Lami might have developed, in time.  Didn’t let himself remember the ones that had started planting their seeds already, before being suffocated out by white lead and a blaze of fire.

(Didn’t let himself dwell on the fact that her face had long since faded from his mind, and that all he remembered was her big, gap-toothed smile, and I love you, nii-san! echoing in the depths of his ears.)

As if summoned by Law’s stray mental observation, or perhaps Penguin’s mimic of his own drinking habits, Shachi materialised on his other side, throwing himself onto the bench with aplomb and almost spilling his own mug of dark bliss.  The smell rising from his own coffee was tinted with something else, and Law knew the news his nakama had for him before he even opened his mouth.

“Bepo says we’re coming up on the island,” the ginger reported, taking a slurp loud enough to rival Penguin’s and smacking his lips together obscenely.  “We’ll reach it in a few hours at our current speed.”

It wasn’t an island that held any real significance for them – it was just the next one on the route to Laugh Tale, although the fact that it was on the route at all, the fact that it was a New World island, meant it was one to be approached with caution. Law – and Penguin, Shachi, Bepo, all his nakama – had read up what they could find on the islands of the New World and thought they knew which one they were coming up on (and, more importantly, who it was currently in control, which Yonkou’s territory they were encroaching on this time).

An island on the horizon meant more conflict, and if nothing else, Law could plan for those, at least.

“I want everyone in the infirmary between now and then,” he said, and Shachi hummed, draining his mug and letting it hit the table with more force than strictly necessary.

“Already spread the word,” he said, and once upon a time Law would have hated that Shachi knew and shared his orders before he even alerted Law, but it had been thirteen years since Swallow Island, and two older teenagers with makeshift weapons and a cowering mink cub.

Thirteen years.

He’d had ten years in Flevance.  Three with one or other Donquixote brother.

He’d spent those two lengths of time combined with the three of them, and despite his thirteen year old self’s attempts not to let anyone in ever again, that had been a battle he’d lost before it’d even begun, and Law was glad for it.

There was no-one in all four Blues, no-one in the Grand Line, no-one in the world, that knew him better than the trio he’d founded the Heart Pirates with, and once upon a time Law would have recoiled violently at the idea of being known.

Now, as he gave a nod of acknowledgement, it was a fact of life, a safety net to catch him when he needed it.

(And it went both ways; they knew him but he knew them, knew the little tics and habits that lurked beneath the concealing hat, behind the dark shades, beyond the thick white fur. He knew Shachi had spread the order because he, too, worried about their nakama and the fact it only took a stroke of bad luck to take someone away forever.  He’d known they were coming up on the island before the ginger had even opened his mouth by the smell of mocha because Shachi only indulged in that particular mix of caffeine and comfort when there was an expectation of conflict in their near future.  He knew, already, that Penguin would be the last into the infirmary, letting Law remove his vital organs only once the rest of the crew had undergone the same surgery because he knew his armament was the best in the crew and if they were caught early, he had the best chance of protecting his own body.)

He drained his own mug and stood up, gesturing wordlessly for Shachi to follow him while Penguin gathered up their mugs with a mutter he didn’t mean about it not being his job to clean up after them.  Penguin would be last, but Shachi was always first.

(If Law didn’t fear long term consequences of keeping his nakama’s vital organs out of their bodies, Shachi’s would never be in his body, not with his non-existent armament.)

The procedure was quick and painless.  Shachi had been through it so many times he didn’t even react when the gelatinous cubes erupted from his body and Law Shambles’d them into their allocated place with the secure vault deep within the Tang, not even taking a moment to readjust before hopping off the bed and pulling his tank top back on – Law didn’t need his nakama to take their tops off to get at their organs, but the less in the way, the less potential there was for something to go awry, and Law was a big fan of minimising risks to his nakama.  The shades were next, covering closed eyes, before Shachi threaded his arms back through the sleeves of his boiler suit and yanked the zip up with a familiar zzzhp, snapping the covering flap into place.

“Thanks, Law,” he grinned, clapping him on the shoulder before tugging his hat onto his head.

Law didn’t need thanks, not when the action was always inherently selfish – he wouldn’t outlive his nakama if his nakama didn’t die – but Shachi had taken to thanking him every time and Law had never admitted his selfishness out loud, even though he knew Shachi knew him well enough to understand why he did it.

(There was also the fact that Shachi seemed to lose all self-regard once his organs were removed, revelling in the pseudo-immortality it gave him and taking risks that made Law’s own heart want to leap out of his chest because he knew he could, trusted Law to put him back together whatever befell him.  Law didn’t particularly want thanks for enabling that streak of Shachi’s either, but his single-minded ferocity in battle had saved other nakama more than once, so it was something Law just had to live with. Shachi wouldn’t stop anyway, no matter what he ordered, asked, or begged.  It wasn’t in the ginger’s nature to hold back when his loved ones were in danger – it was a trait they shared.  A trait the whole crew shared, for better or worse.)

“Send Bepo and Hakugan in,” he said instead, because while Bepo was one of the less fragile members of the crew and per breakable hierarchy should be near-last, he needed Bepo on navigation and battle ready as early as possible, and Hakugan had a way with the Tang’s helm that necessitated him there at the first signs of trouble, so he needed to be ready early.

Shachi flicked him a lazy salute, carefree and disrespectful of the origin because Shachi hated pirates the most but he hated marines, too, and disappeared as Ikkaku poked her head around the door, oil streaked through her hair and splattered across her boiler suit.

“Reporting for organ removal duties, Captain!” she chirped, and Law waved her to take a seat.  After her came Bepo and Hakugan, as requested, then the rest of the crew filed in, some alone and others in groups, with Jean Bart and then, finally, Penguin rounding off the crew.

This was not a new routine; his crew knew how to work around their organ removals and their island ahead duties with ease of practice, and Law trusted Penguin and Shachi to keep everything running smoothly from the command room as he went through the motions of making each of his nakama, his family, just that little bit harder to kill.

Law’s life had been a series of Befores and Afters.

Before Swallow Island.  After Swallow Island.

Before the Heart Pirates.

There would not be an After the Heart Pirates.  Jack, and Zou, had come closer than Law ever wanted to come (the only time in years his nakama had faced a battle with their organs in their chests, vulnerable to not just injury but poison) but for as long as Law could do something about it, it would not happen.

There would be no After his family.  Not this one.

[silverpelt3600]

Halo 2x8 Spoilers!

It is time. It took me a WEEK to find the time to watch this goddamn finale.

Y’all know the drill, this is just stream of consciousness as I watch the episode. Whether it’s coherent or not, either way I’m losing my mind likely!

- pre-episode recap editing goes CRAZZYYY

- okay first scene who is he talking to I’m lost already

- the microscope view was so confusing for a second LMAO. Also this Jeanine girl is literally losing it.

- ALRIGHT YEAH SHE KILLED SOMEONE LMAO. Crazy virus thing? Also the happy music is killing me lol.

- Kai and her team yay! KAI AND HER TEAM OH GOD. Casual explosion that fucks it all up.

- “Master Chief, I speak for the entire UNSC when I say how happy I am to see you back with us” THIS BITCH.

- OOOHHH YEAH JOHN YOU HANG UP ON HER

- OOH. THATS NASTY WHAT JUST CRAWLED OUT OF JANINES MOUTH.

- fuck I feel so bad for John. Totally torn, and the admiral’s little comment of “there’s nothing anyone can do for them” is just the cherry on top. She pisses me off so much lol

- “you have no idea what I can do” FUCK YEAHHHHHH. THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUTT, YOU KNOW I LOVE THAT SHIT.

- Cortana my beloved really hoping she’s okay

- Lmao Kai “you ever fire a plasma rifle? You never forget your first”

- NOOO PEREZ

- “What the hell is that?” THAT MY BOYYYYYYY YEAHHHHHH

- THE SLOMO WALK I’m crushing so hard

- oh god the people frozen in the hallways is so creepy…

- OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK THATS SO GROSS FUCKIN TUMOR ARM. THE GUARD TOO? Oh for fucks sake this is nasty

- FOR FUCKS SAKE pulling the Halsey card is wild.

- ooh she’s helping him now. AND AGAIN WHO THE HELL IS HE TALKING TO.

- “you wouldn’t understand. She knows me” what if I cried. What if I started sobbing.

- OUR GIRL SHES IN THE SYSTEMS.

- “You don’t know everything” WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING SINCE WHEN COULD HE DO THAT. Is it because of the artifact’s in the ship?

- holy shit he’s on the Halo. And THE MUSIC. AND CORTANA MY BELOVED.

- “so nice to have you back” I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.

- “do you think it’s been waiting all that time? For you?” Alright y’all are gonna stress me out there’s too much to comprehend.

- Holy shit Kai’s crazy. “How hard could it be” well YEAH but come on. “This is gonna hurt”. NO SHIT. Jesus Christ I can’t handle this much emotional strain.

- Alright SHITS HITTING THE FAN IN COMMAND. Oop but that solves the Admiral problem!

- EUGHH THERES SO MANY. Hold up. Hold the fuck UP. Kwan is having a moment. The “Cohesion” needs to FUCK OFF.

- oh fuck. OH FUCK HALSEY HAS IT.

- GIRLY WHAT ARE YOU DOING GODDAMNIT. Ohhh. I see now. Goddamnit.

- OOOH SHIT CRAZY DUEL TIME NOW. Damn John getting his shit rocked before GETTING BACK UP LIKE A BADASS. “We’re not done” DAMN RIGHT!

- oh damn now I feel sad for the covenant homie.

- yooo okay cryofeezing Halsey that’s an idea.

- KAI. BABY GIRL OH MY GOD PLEASE BE ALRIGHT.

- “that can’t be good” well yeah if I saw several spires shoot out of mountains I’d be pretty worried too.

- Again talking to this guy? And he apparently also talks to Makee? YOO WHAT THE FUCK ITS A LITTLE ROBOT????? And the crack in his visor! I’m so confused now have those conversations been in a different time or in John’s conscience or what??

- And then the episode ends, and with it so goes my sanity.

Alright y’all, end of the season! One hell of an episode fr. Without a doubt season 2 has been a fantastic season, developing so much of this storyline in a profound way. The finale sets up for a lot to be handled in Season 3, so here’s to hoping they get the green light to make it.

John has absolutely become a favorite character of mine, and this season has only reinforced that. So much of my emotions while watching have been in empathy for John, which makes these episodes land so much harder.

And shoutout everyone who’s stuck around just for these little posts I make. I started making them just for fun but I kept up with it since y’all seemed to like it, which is cool because now I have a little catalogue of what I was thinking during the episodes that I can look at in the future. And FOR THE RECORD I’m not gonna disappear until season 3 comes out. I still need to get caught up on the storyline in the games lol.

Alright that about sums everything up I think.

*bows to an applause while a single spotlight shines on me and flowers are thrown onto the stage.*

[omori-neon-black-au]

well, if it wasn’t obvious, i have no plans on continuing neon black at the moment. so, time for some housekeeping i guess?

to start: the whole comic was done on a notability note, so i’ve attached the whole comic below (+ some bonus doodles and scrapped panels). on top of that, i’m gonna do a recap of the plan i had for the story so y’all can see how the story was supposed to go.

(quick note: notability sucks and changed how highlighters layer over themselves in the middle of the comic. fun game: try and pinpoint the first panel that i made after the change!)

so, the original plan was to just. do the story of neon white but with omori characters, but i realized having it take place before neon white would be more interesting. as such, i had to construct my own story around the world of neon white instead. true to neon white, the halo granted to the winner is a controller and a corrupter, which is why pink is so violent. she was the last of the main cast to die in the real world and died with no form of closure. she ended up being the first to emerge from the glass ocean and become a neon, fueled only by her anger and need for answers. everyone else became a neon over time, with black being forcibly dragged out of the glass ocean by lavender. because of the forced exit, he ends up losing most of his memory, similar to what happens to white in the base game. from there the comic happens, and that’s where i got lost. through assorted twists and turns, both orange and navy would end up sacrificing themselves to save black from pink, and the comic would end with a showdown between black, lavender, mint, and pink. the fight would end with pink killing mint and then lavender and finishing with black, before she herself dies from her wounds. sometime after this the events of neon white happen, and after the “good” end of that game, god writes the main cast into the book of life and allows them a final chance for closure. i… think you might be able to see why i never finished this.

unrelated to this though is the weird card black gets from mint, which is supposed to be a scrap from the book of death. it would’ve allowed him to summon the red hands from white space, like mint does with his vines (cuz those are from the book of death as well). in-game, the book of life is a soul card that allows you to teleport, so like. why not. that’s the only proper plot point that went unanswered, so there’s that. if you were curious.

once again, thanks for the support. the main reasons i ended this were 1) i don’t have notability anymore, which makes it harder to make silly doodles, and 2) i just lost motivation. both neon white and omori have been fading out of my hyperfixation list, and because of that it’s way harder to make content for it. this was also my first time trying to make a comic, and i was definitely in over my head. i still had fun though! i just don’t think i can continue anymore. i think i’m gonna make proper splash art of all the characters, and then properly call it quits after that.

anyways, this is turquoise, signing off. if enough people want, i can give out my other socials if you want to see my other art. but for right now, i guess this is goodbye. see y’all later.

[antisociallilbrat]

Even When The Sun Rises, Don't Wake Me Chp. 6

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A/N: I have such a love - hate relationship with this chapter my God. The ending almost killed me to write.

My friends I had covid, for the third time, this past week. So I'm sorry to say this is actually another small chapter because I split it. You get the fluff first and the pain in the next chapter.

“I can’t believe you would betray me like this.”

“Bill, I’m sorry but this was your own doing.”

He drops his fist to the table, “Buh-Bullshit! You’ve hhhad it out for me th-this whole time! You kuh-killed me!”

“You’re the one who charged the Kraken without waiting for your other party members!” Mike bites back, “First rule of D&D, don’t split the party!”

“He was doing it for his honor!” Max defends Bill.

Bill parrots her, “Yeah! My hhonor!”

Mike deeply regrets putting Max and Bill together in the same room. And he means deeply regrets it. No, he doesn’t. They have done nothing but antagonize him. Push his buttons on purpose. Just for the laughs. They got along quickly. Maybe it was Bill’s easygoing disposition or the fact that Max loves annoying Mike and was overjoyed when she found out Bill also enjoys that hobby.

It’s both, it’s definitely both. 

He would be lying to himself if he said he wasn’t nervous about how the campaign was going to go. It had been so long since he ran a campaign- the last time being the night Will went missing- he's only ever played in recent years, not dm'ed. That combined with the fact that Max was a total wild card. There was no way of telling if she was going to actually show up or not. 

After their incursion in the bathroom, they exchanged numbers before departing their separate ways. Which was a little weird because Mike doesn’t think he even had her number before. Sure at one point they must’ve all been in a group chat with the Party but he never bothered to save her number. There wasn’t a need for it. 

The Friday after classes let out for Winter break, he held their first session. Max never confirmed that she was coming when he texted her the details but she still showed up. “I’m here to play your stupid nerd game,” she satirized when he opened the door. The great thing was that she didn’t appear to be high. Now of course later that first campaign night when Bill offered weed, she took him right up on it. It looked like she was jonesing for it too, but this is progress. It has to be.

Now it’s Monday and their second night of the campaign. The first one was a success and he’s proud that everyone had fun. It was nice to see Max laugh again, he can’t remember the last time he saw her do so. He shocked himself when he realized he missed it. 

The weather outside is horrible and the wind rattles the windows. It’s below freezing and flurries of snow have started to stick to the ground. Everyone is bundled up under a blanket as they sit around the coffee table and the fireplace has a nice fire crackling in it. The light from it reflects nicely on the ornaments of the Christmas tree. Emily thought it was sad that they had a tree but no decorations so she surprised them by buying some.

It’s the perfect atmosphere for a boss fight. Cold, dark, gloomy, it couldn’t have worked better in his favor.

Emily’s, Max’s, and Bill’s characters were in a dungeon with a staircase that just kept spiraling down, leading to different levels before continuing its descent down. They’ve finally gotten to a level with a boss monster, a flooded basement with a Kraken, and Bill, like the barbarian he is, just decided to charge it.  

While it was in the water.

While he had heavy armor on. 

And his character had horrible dex. 

He drowned. 

Max and Emily’s characters were safe on the little dock but Bill has to make a new character. Max’s ‘zoomer’ has a magic board that can take her basically wherever she wants. Meaning her character could just glide over the water. Better yet, Emily’s druid could part the water with a spell. Bill just didn’t want to wait. 

He’s still grumbling about his character, his brave and noble character in his words (always the fucking writer) dying. Mike didn’t have a choice! Bill could have at the very least checked to see how deep the water is! Or just pass his dex checks! Too bad luck wasn’t in his favor tonight. 

“Can’t I revive him?” Emily asks, oh so innocently, “Surely there’s a way we can save him?”

“His body is at the bottom of the water, he’s pretty dead. Unless one of you wants to risk your lives and dive down after him to see if there’s anything you can do, go for it. But also the Kraken has noticed you and is eyeing your every move.” God, Mike missed this feeling of fucking with his friends. 

Bill juts his bottom lip out and mutters, “Poor Tibiscus,” as Max puts her hand on his shoulder. 

“Tibiscus I loved you like a brother but I’m sorry, I’m not risking my ass to save you. Find it in your heart to forgive me,” she dramatically pleads. 

Bill makes a few fake snivels but nods his head, “All is fuh-forgiven Madwonder. It was an hhhonor fuh-fighting alongside you.”

“Grah-eight! Our barbarian is dead and the Kraken has seen us!” Emily pulls at her hair, “My Aridena is not strong enough to fight him! I doubt Madwonder is too!”

“Hey now! Madwonder took out two skeletons in the last level all by herself! Don’t doubt her skills!” Max ignites.

Mike knows exactly what he’s doing when he says the next sentence, he just doesn’t care, “Yeah but this is a Kraken, Madwonder can’t take on a Kraken.”

Her head snaps towards him, a challenge in her eyes, “Madwonder can kick any ass of your dumb monsters. In fact, I charge the Kraken because I’m not afraid of it!”

Emily gasps, “No Max you can’t!” At the same time Bill whoops, “Let’s go Madwonder!” 

Max moves her piece towards the Kraken’s, “I’m powering up the thrusters on my board to hit him right in his ugly face.”

She moves her piece closer and he can’t stop the snigger escaping his lips, “Boom!” he yells, making them all jump, “Right as Madwonder approaches the sea monster one of his massive tentacles rises from the water, smacking her across the room! Crushing her against the wall!” He hits her piece across the board, sending it to the floor.

“You can’t do that!” Max retaliates but Mike isn’t done.

“It’s all over! Madwonder is dead, all that remains is a blood splatter on the wall! What a sad day for our heroes!” he chides. Emily cups her hands over her mouth horrified and Bill is trying to refrain from laughing. 

Max looks like she’s legitimately contemplating punching him, “You didn’t even let me roll for attack! Or try to dodge! Madwonder would’ve tried to dodge that!”

“Mhm,” he shakes his head, “It was a spring attack, you had no time to do anything,” he pops a piece of popcorn into his mouth from the snack bowl, smiling like the smug bastard he is, “You shouldn’t have tried to charge in, you just saw how it went for poor Tibiscus.” 

“He’s out to guh-get us MMax!” Bill accuses suddenly, slapping the table with one hand and pointing at him with the other in that melodramatic fashion of his, “We nn-need to make new character th-that’ll fuck with him! B-Better characters that’ll ruin his little schuh-schemes!” 

She agrees with him, taking Bill's diversion of her anger, “You’re right Bill. We need to make new characters that’ll ruin any storyline he has planned out. Better characters whose sole purpose is to fuck with him.”

Mike should be annoyed that these pair of fools are conspiring new, twisted, ways to get under his skin but he’s not. Max is here, with his friends, and is laughing. She’s not over at Oliver’s, getting high on heroin and doing God knows what with him. She’s safe right now. He did that.

He’s fully aware that there is a palpable chance that once she leaves here, that’s exactly where she’s heading. To snort something or shoot something into her veins. He has no idea how long she can go without doing so before the craving gets intense. In both D&D sessions, she hasn’t shown up high, probably out of not wanting to deal with the judgment she assumes she would get from him, but he’s not an idiot. 

He can’t control what she does when she’s not with him and if he was to try to, that would just result in pushback from Max and odds are he would never see her again. He doesn’t want that to be the case. Constantly he has to remind himself to only focus on keeping her safe when she’s with him. Doing baby steps, don’t make it about her drug habit but offer a distraction. Instead of having her focus on drugs, she can point that energy towards messing with him and playing D&D.

The last time they played, before Bill offered weed, Max was starting to get more restless with her movements. Jumpy at every little thing. Kinda like how she’s starting to get now towards the end of this session. If Bill or Emily noticed anything unusual about Max, they haven’t said anything to him. 

Mike’s not too worried about Bill or Emily though. Derek would’ve been the problem roommate but he’s away for the break. If Bill was to find out about Max or if he’s even guessed at anything, he’s not the type of guy to say anything about it. Bill leaves people’s business alone and he’s not one to judge. Bill just accepts people as they are. This is part of the reason why, even though he’s known Bill only for a couple of months, he enjoys being good friends with him. 

As for Emily, he knows she has an idea that something is up with Max. She was there when he first brought her back. Since that night she’s tried to get some answers out of him but Mike is stubborn when he wants to be. 

After he had come back from fall break, when he still wasn’t too sure what to do about Max, Emily broke him down a little. They had just had reunion sex, something he was really needing to relieve some stress, and she was curled up on his chest in her bed. The sheet haphazardly pulled over them. They were still naked and the position was more intimate than what was normal for them. She was tracing a vein on his chest when she asked what was eating at him, telling him that he was distracted, far away. 

“I need to help an old friend. I don’t know how to though and sometimes I’m not sure if I even want to. At the same time I do want to, I think,”  was what he told her.

She knew he was talking about Max, so there was no need to elaborate. Emily just hummed and murmured, “I’m sure you’ll figure something out.” Then she slid the hand on his chest down to his naked cock, rubbing at it until he started to fill out. She kissed him and he was thankful, this meant the conversation was over. They had a great round two. He was much more present for it. 

Later in the week when he asked her if she would want to play D&D with them, she agreed. Happily too but…he’s felt a rift crack between him and Emily. She’s been distant since that last time in her bed. As to be expected, Mike always manages to fuck up his relationships and situationships. Hopefully, they can still be friends.  

“But what about Aridena?!,” Emily fake cries, pulling him out of his mind and back into the moment, “She’s just watched her two friends die and now she’s alone with the Kraken.” Her eyes are glazed over, she’s genuinely worried about the fate of her little character. 

He thinks for a moment. He could have the Kraken kill Emily’s character or he could be merciful. This is a boss that they were supposed to fight together because that was their only shot at beating it. He just didn’t take into account that Bill is stupid and Max is stubborn. A fault on Mike’s part.

It’s a good thing for Emily that he's in a good mood. “The Kraken watches Aridena but he makes no moves toward her. She gets the sense that the beast will stay where it is as long as she doesn’t do anything treacherous,” he says perilously, coughing to change his voice so that he sounds normal, “Basically the Kraken won’t attack Airdena until Bill and Max make their new characters.”

Max groans, “I have to do all that again?”

“You killed your character by being reckless, not me.”   “But you’re the one who killed her!” she cuts back. 

“Max you charged at this monster that you know nothing about, one that you were severely underprepared for! I had to kill your character! I swear you’re just as bad as Bill.” he laments. 

Bill squawks out a “Hey!” but neither of them acknowledges him. Too busy trying to glare each other down. It's easy to remember that when they were fighting real monsters, particularly, the demadogs, Max doing exaclty as she did now. Charging in, ready to protect her new friends. Maybe Max is thinking of that now too since she, surprisingly, relents first. 

“Fine! I’ll make a new stupid character but it’ll have to be next time,” her eyes dart to the door, “It’s getting late and I need to head out.” She runs her hands up and down her arms, trying to keep herself from fidgeting too obviously. She’s still wearing Mike’s sweater, one that she almost gave back the day in the bathroom. He had to plead with her just to keep it, it’s cold outside now and he doesn’t trust that she has anything else to keep her warm. 

Mike concedes, “Fine, this is a good stopping point anyways,” Emily moves to protest but he raises a hand silencing her, “Aridena will be safe until the next session because the Kraken can see that she’s not as dumb as her companions so it will leave her alone.” Emily lets out a breath in relief.

They all agree to play again on Wednesday. It’s winter break, it’s not like any of them have much to do. Max is quick to get up and start pulling on her winter boots. A pit of dread blooms in Mike’s stomach.

He knows where she’s going. She’s acting as if she’s aching for a hit of something strong. What’s the longest she’s been sober in recent times? Is it these times they've played D&D? God, he’d hate to know the real answer. 

But…at least she’s showing up here sober. She’s making an effort. Sure it may just be because of fear of ridicule but it still has to count for something. Max cares enough to make an effort to not be high around him. He can’t control what she does when she leaves here and for now, he just has to accept that. 

Carefully he puts their pieces away, picking up Max’s from the floor. Bill has already made his way to the pantry, scouring for a late-night snack and Emily starts to walk Max to the door. Those two have become fast friends which Mike wasn’t fully expecting. He appreciates it all the same. 

None of them are prepared for what happens next. 

“What the fuck is this?” Max yells from the front door.

He doesn’t have to guess what she’s yelling at, he can feel it. When she opened the front door a gust of wind came in and chilled him right down to the bone. When he stands to see the outside, it’s as he suspects. 

The snow is at least three feet high and growing. It's spilling into their doorway. The heavy wind blows more in and Mike rushes to shut the door. It’s completely dark outside and the wind is whistling, the snow coming down in heavy layers. 

It’s a snowstorm. One that snuck up on them.

Mike has his back against the front door and can feel the wind trying to blow it open. His back breaks out in goosebumps as it’s against the cold metal. Max looks at him, eyebrows drawn together as she’s probably trying to figure out how to get out of here. Emily diminishes any hope of that.

She has her phone pulled out, one step ahead, “It says here that the roads are closed and the University is telling us to shelter in place ‘till it blows over.”

“When did they announce this?! Max demands her. 

“About an hour ago,” Emily tells her, her teeth worrying her bottom lip. Max is starting to border real anger. Not the playful kind Emily has only ever seen her have during D&D, but the white-hot anger that Mike saw her display multiple times during their youth. Emily seems unsure of what to make of it. Mike's just happy that that anger is still there, it proves that Max is still there. 

Max rounds on him, fists clenched at his sides, “So it was when we were playing you’re stupid nerd game! We missed the announcement because of that!”

“Max even if we knew of the announcement when it first came out, it still would’ve been too late,” Emily tries to soothe, “It was a sudden snowstorm, it’s no one’s fault.”

Max ignores her, “You did this on purpose!” she blames him, “I know you did!” She’s shaking with anger. And with the beginnings of drug withdrawals. 

He laughs at how ridiculous she sounds, “Yes Max, I planned this snowstorm! I wanted to trap you here because you’re such a delight!” 

There’s a chance she may punch him. She’s angry enough and Max got into fights back in high school. That much he did know about her back then. And Mike has a smart mouth, a dangerous combination. 

She does shove him out of the way of the door, “God you’re such an ass! Fuck this shit, I’m leaving!” The wind makes him shiver as she throws open the door again. She takes one step out the door before she stops, starting to get unsure of the situation. The snow is now almost to here knees and its covering the front of their doorway.

Is he really just going to let her leave? He can’t, it’s well below freezing and Max could actually die. Fuck.

Thankfully Emily steps in before Mike has to swallow his pride and beg Max to stay. “Max,” she grabs her wrist and gently tugs her inside. Max’s fight is already draining out of her so she lets her, “The snowstorm can’t last forever and besides it’s not safe to go there now. We can all weather this out together, yeah?” 

It looks like a warzone is taking place in Max’s head. Trying to decide to either to stay here, safe, but be forced to go through drug withdrawals, or brave the storm just so she can get high. It doesn’t matter, Mike’s already decided she can’t leave. He’ll tie the brat up if he has to, Max is not dying on his watch. 

“Fine whatever,” Max mutters and barrels past both of them. He might be wrong, but he swears he saw tears starting to well up in her eyes. They hear a door slam from down the hall. 

This is when Bill makes his reappearance, eating away at Derek’s bag of potato chips, “D-Dude I think she just locked you out of your ruh-room,” he comments over a mouthful of chips. 

Well, this is going to be an interesting couple of days. 

“Bill?” he asks.

“Yeah?”

“Shut up.”

This is when the power decides to go out. 

A/N: Get the fluff in while you can bc it's about to go to shit.

Full disclosure, I live in the south. Where the low of winter is 50 degrees. I've never seen snow. I am winging this snowstorm that has blown for plot convivences.

The next chapter won't be uploaded till the beginning of next week at the latest bc even more things happen. Check those tags again.

No seriously I spoon fed ya'll some fluff because shit is about to go down. The next chapter is over 3k words already and it's painful ;-;

Also one last note, and an important one, the reason why Max jumps around with her emotions is because that's what realistically drug addicts experience. Please bare with me through the ups and downs of Max's emotions.

Thank you for reading! I always appreciate you guys <3

[talenlee]

CoX: Sunbeam

This is an explanatory writeup of one of my Original Characters (OCs). Nothing here is necessarily related to a meaningful fiction you should recognise and is shared because I think my OCs are cool and it’s cool to talk about OCs you make.

“So, like, sunlight powers?”

“Yeah!”

“That’s, like, a bit weak, man.”

“What? It’s nice!”

“Well I guess you could light up dark caverns… like a torch.”

“That’s objectifying talk.”

“Oo, oo, maybe you can make cats comfortable?”

“I’m beginning to think you don’t-“

“Is your rival going to be The Hat Man? Wanna oppose Mr Shade?”

“Just sign the card, okay?”

The name? Goes by ‘B.M.’ in civvies — Beam to his friends. He’s a journalism student. Talks to, and about heroes. Writes about capes and their interactions, penning those stories. Always asking questions, and happy to talk.

Sunbeam is a hero in a classic mould, from an earlier time. He flies, and projects blasts of bright light – foaming and bright and sparkling – into people and places. This light can be made incredibly intense, including burning metals and paper. But it’s also capable of creating a strangely healing effect, an ambience that creates warmth and invigorates people. How this power works is extremely nebulous — Sunbeam isn’t one of those heroes who spends time hanging out with a scientist who’ll study his work. There are some general reports of him and how he works, but there are competing theories about how his powers work that reach from ‘energy vampirism’ to ‘captured sun god.’

None of these are true but he also is extremely closed-lipped about how he has his powers or how they work. For a guy who practices his particular kind of public hero work, he’s done an impressive job of keeping his secrets.

In Sunbeam’s personal life, he’s known by his name BM — that’s literally his name, which his mums gave him as a reference to the TV series M*A*S*H — and he’s mostly known as a journalism student attending the Steel Canyon campus of the Paragon City University system (“It’s closest to the train”). As a student, he does his best to blend in — he’s not the best in show, and he is heavily focused on photography. This means he gets to spend time around superheroes, with a camera for tracking information and stuff, but also doesn’t have to talk to heroes much, where his voice might be a potential giveaway.

This particular job is also useful for doing detective work, where he tries to investigate and solve problems that Sunbeam can’t readily get access to without it being an obvious show of force. This is also why he seems a bit of a slacker in his university work; he sure, does his homework, but he doesn’t do a lot of the readings, he’s not prone of piping up in class, and he drags his feet in group work (because he’s busy a lot of the time). The journalist identity then hands information onto a third identity, an online muckraker and blogger who delivers tips to heroes in a more direct fashion, which then, often, leads to those heroes recruiting Sunbeam to come help out.

It’s a whole circle of anonymity, and he’s pretty good at maintaining it. It makes sense because one of his mothers taught him a lot about how she had had to handle information purity during her time as a drug dealer.

Finally, pictures in this article are mostly of him not fighting, because his powers are indescribably bright and just ruin photography.

Mechanics

Sunbeam is a Kinetics/Fire Blast/Mace Mastery defender and if you’ve ever played with him you would never see him pull out the mace. The mace is there for the armour that set offers, and some powers that he has taken to put sets in. Trust me, the boy does not need more buttons.

Anyway, this build results in:

45+% Smashing, Lethal and Energy defence

~32% ranged defense

170% global recharge, for 7 seconds of downtime on hasten, less if I’m using the less-reliable Siphon Speed

And that’s kind of all the build needs. The nature of a defender of this type is that just using his powers is good enough, and he has enough recharge to keep Fulcrum Shift (the most important power in the set) double-stacked at all times. Fulcrum Shift is a debuff that hits an enemy; that enemy fires off a little aura around them, and each enemy hit by that aura, including the one who started it, then fires off a -damage debuff on all of your enemies, and a +damage buff for all your allies. What that means is that in a small group of like 8 people, you fire this off and get something in the district of a 45 second long +160% damage buff, and that scales up from there until people are at the damage cap.

A long time ago a friend said something to the effect of ‘I always prefer corruptors to defenders, for the better damage.’ My rejoinder to that was that in my experience, defenders did better damage because of the better debuffs, which does mean, less up front damage, or if the character lacks for a particular kind of debuff/buff that’s a problem. And the thing is, I am still comfortable with this choice in almost all cases, except in the case of Kinetics defenders like Sunbeam.

See, Kinetics, in any kind of large scale engagement, hit the damage cap. When you’re at the damage cap, you can’t do more damage without debuffing your enemies (which Kinetics can’t really do at that point). That means having a higher base multiplier (like a corruptor has), and a higher damage cap (like a corruptor has) makes a corruptor better at doing lots of damage than the defender.

Now, the areas where Sunbeam is ‘better’ than his supposed corruptor alternative is in fights against Giant Monsters and Archvillains, where his -damage is slightly better. This is also meaningless, because Kinetics fights against that kind of monster are much more about people melting the big enemy with lots and lots of damage, not about the individual debuffs.

Sunbeam is also a victim of tragic button bloat. Kinetics has a lot of powers worth having, and sometimes they’re useful for solo fights and sometimes they’re useful for team environments and there’s really no good pivot mechanism for them. They’re all worth having, they’re all good. One option is a menu button that, like Warshades, lets you change the interface between ‘single target’ and ‘group’ modes, which I have considered.

Right now I’m using a popmenu, which is a special and much more fiddly thing to make. I can’t say it’s better though, but it does require more effort and that feels clever and challenging to do.

History

Sunbeam is a Homecoming newcomer. I made him when I started on the new server and I was so excited to get to do something ‘right’ in my lineup. That is, I wanted to make characters who didn’t overlap with one another and I wanted a kinetic of some variety for all the group content I’d do with all the cool friends I was going to make.

(I’m not joking, Sunbeam made friends!)

Sunbeam is also just a hero type I like. He’s someone who socialises as a superhero because superheroes need social lives, and his journalist identity can also have superhero friends as well, which means that there’s no need to be antisocial with him while also not giving up on one of my favourite things about superheroes (the secret identity).

Now that Homecoming is several years old, though, and the supergroups I used to hang with have moved on, I still find myself thinking about him. A sweet guy, a bit quippy but not incredibly smartmouthed, enthusiastic about doing the right thing and helpful while also having a detective element to him, and the identity messing that comes from having a secret Informersona? I love all these things!

Oh, and I got the name Sunbeam! I think it’s really important to make sure the character is something interesting since I bet there are a lot of people who wish they could have had that name!

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[dumuzithemessiah]

Dear Pagans: I am not a spirit

I am a god aka male yazata aka a deity not a deceased spirit so don’t bother using candles as I won’t respond. Nor will any other members of my kind.

I’m on Earth right now it’s not 100% that hard to contact me as I have blended in disguise amongst human kind and waiting till Judgement Day to finally act.

It’s difficult as I hate sitting and waiting while chaos and evil is about. Call me a hero type of guy as I control my violent urges normally by taking it out on evil doers.

Don’t expect the gods and goddesses to like you as we already hate what humanity has done since the dawn of their existence to modern times.

If we gave you a fair chance it wouldn’t be fair at all to any other advanced alien species out there… I may ran while speaking the truth… but it’s warranted as of what evils humanity has done…. So many several unforgivable acts…

I may seem angry but that is because humanity caused zillions and counting of innocent lives to die and this includes countless advanced alien species! The death count keeps counting!

You humans are an advanced species so that should give you an idea about the intelligence of other advanced alien species as they are either more advanced than humans, less but has better morality, or massively more advanced than humanity!

Most aliens except for the elves that left with my kind don’t resemble humans so no most aliens are anthropomorphic animals, anthropomorphic plants, anthropomorphic fungi, robots with souls, cyber beings aka data beings with souls, etc…

Nibirians have all those listed except Nibirans are advanced anthropomorphic animals, anthropomorphic animal mixed with plants, or mixed with fungi, or anthropomorphic animal robots and anthropomorphic cyber beings!

Humans…. your actions throughout time caused all those horrible things to happen so wonder why aliens are mad? It’s because your kind’s actions threaten the Kosmos and if the Kosmos blows up so does the Universe and every mortal life with it! Worshipping false deities caused this along with murdering for those beliefs in countless wars!

My whole time on Earth…. Humanity ignores my kindness and only focuses on my anger while playing the victim card….

Also if you think my kind playing video games to past the time is weird than you’d be surprised that gaming is part of Nibirian culture…

So yeah me gaming while waiting till it’s time on Judgement Day isn’t as weird as you might’ve thought…

Based on the fact it’s part of our culture than it’s actually more expected as it helps get my mind off mostly..

Unless I’m playing Fire Emblem and if you know what that game is essentially about that would make sense…

But Animal Crossing helps calm me down…

Though I wish they would’ve added the extra hair colours that cash grab Pocket Camp added in… especially the dark red hair colour… as I would’ve used that instead of the bright red hair colour…

I also tend to make my characters in video game have dark ruby red-pinkish hair and pink eyes, usually rose pink if it’s an option but I won’t shy away from using hot pink like in Animal Crossing…

I use the pac man eyes aka the male version of the sparkly eyes as the bottom ones are male eyes while the top ones are female ones but anyone can use any eyes obviously in Animal Crossing New Horizons…

[iloveyoukyra]

6/27/24 10:47pm My Letter to You:

I was advised to write a letter to you since there is so much unsaid. I won’t give you the letter but it’s nice to get out all my thoughts.

I would like to start off by saying wow (wow is a word used when I’m at a loss of words bc of how beautiful you are, lol, I remember that one) . Wow were you quite the experience :D! I cherished all of our moments together both the good and bad. You played such a large role in my life for like what 7,6,5 years??? It’s hard to keep up with. I frequently find myself reminded of memories we made together as I travel our hometown alone. It makes me feel so good, then unfortunately hurt. I smile then I feel a pit in my stomach and gag.

You taught me that there is so much to life. You introduced me to so many things like boba, beans that are not green, calypso blue lemonade, credit cards, skiing, and so much more! I loved learning and experiencing new things with you, even if I decided it wasn’t my cup of tea. I was happy to be by your side trying new stuff. That truly brought me a happiness I couldn’t put into words. You taught me also a lot about myself as well.

The most important thing I learned from you was that I’m capable of love. I never thought I could love someone. Not even romantically, I loved you, I cared about you as someone who happened to exist at the same place and time as me. Even after everything that has happened I want you to be okay and healthy. I feel weird thinking those things. I shouldn’t but I do. I want you to do what you need to do, even if that means without me. You taught me that my intentions were always pure even though I had my poor moments, which I am deeply sorry for. I know my intentions were pure because I still wish the best for you. I still want you to succeed. I never want to wish pain, or anything bad upon you, I just never want to see your success.

You made me feel and think so many things. I was truly convinced for a while I was a bad person, i didn’t love you, I’m evil, I’m not good enough, I’m not attractive, and more. I was in so much pain from your actions and words. Those last couple of weeks where you were hot and cold, and blamed everything on me “expecting” too much really destroyed me. I have never begged to God to put me out of my misery as much as I did those couple of weeks. I just can’t believe how much you’ve changed. Where did the sweet girl I met in highschool go?

You said you had resentment built up, were planning on breaking up for a while, didn’t know what love is? Why would you never discuss this with me? I deserved to know all these things, but you dragged me a long while I thought everything was fine. That is truly disgusting and appalling. You should’ve came to me first when you had doubts. You hurt me SO bad. You could’ve saved me so much pain if you just spoke up. Instead you chose to hurt me over and over and over again, and that is something I will never understand. I don’t care how much resentment you may have had, if you had any respect or cared for me at all in your life time you wouldn’t have done that. That is something someone with no morals would do, and it completely destroyed your character for me. Only you and I know your true character. I just can’t believe you’d stoop so low. I trusted you as a partner and as a friend. It hurt so bad to watch you do that.

Why were we making future plans if you didn’t want that? Why did you want me to sign a lease for a 2x2? Why did you lead me on like that? What is wrong with you?!?! Do you not see how wrong that is to do to someone?

From the looks of it, it looked like you were afraid of being alone. You didn’t really have any friends and once you got them you finally decided to throw me away like you were thinking. You used me to keep you company until you found your group. That’s so wrong. If it wasn’t that then what was it? Maybe you didn’t have the guts to do it and that’s why you cheated. You knew that would get rid of me for good.

I have never been treated so poorly in my life. I won’t go into how I feel at the moment but gosh dang like Brodie ✋😭.

Funny enough, I haven’t felt an ounce of anger, just grief and hurt. Everyone around me tells me how I should feel but I don’t care. I will feel how I feel. I just feel scared and a tad disgusted/disappointed.

This is tough to say. I’m told that loving you was never a waste. It taught me such an important lesson, but I disagree. If I knew the outcome of this I wouldn’t have bothered with you. We have had so many great times together but what you did in the end completely cancels them out. I would 100% choose to forget you, never love you, never date you, never meet you, never be your friend. You have permanently changed me and now I have to do damage control. You didn’t HAVE to hurt me, you could’ve ended things respectfully, but you didn’t and that’s why I feel this way. You were the first person I truly opened up to. I opened up about my past, my insecurities, my deepest fears and I trusted you with them, and you know what you did, you stomped on that shit and threw it back in my face after I thought you cared. That is a type of pain I never want to feel again.

I can’t believe this even happened. What an L. If I ever see you again I hope you’ve changed, if you haven’t then I don’t want to ever again. I never want to experience something like this again, and I thank you for teaching me that. I hope you get what you want in life, truly.