#he talked about frogger

[h0neyfreak]

maybe this is a controversial take but it’s wild seeing people in entertainment/the arts talk about having to build a social media platform to make a career as if it is not literally exactly how it has always historically been done (excluding publishing b/c that’s a different ball game). like there was never a time where things were a pure meritocracy and you could just sit around and be talented and have people throw money at you unless you were a nepo baby or an aristocrat or something (to clarify, being able to paint all day while getting paid for just existing is indeed my dream life I wish that world existed.) the entire concept of portfolios for artists or crediting for game devs is just building up a reputation/brand. do I hate it so much all the time and want there to be an option that doesn’t exploit people and grind them into a fine dust beneath the wheels of capitalism? Yes for sure. The concept of UBI to allow people to pursue the true endeavors of a human soul lives rent free in me at an atomic level. But having to create a TikTok presence is just the latest iteration of shmoozing to me it’s not a unique evil. We’re all just seeing how much goes into it for once.

[enpr-ss]

This stream really has everything...

Doc dropping swear bombs thrice, ranting about cheerleaders, being the most EthogirlTM and bringing up the Single Cat Ladies from JD Vance confusing everyone, his fan ruining the background audio, defending higher education for critical thinking skills

In hindsight, Doc having a photographic memory explains so much about him and his pettiness

Scar's Death Loop trying to get the evoker into the glass and making everything worse (somehow), not knowing where the Frog Keys come from, starting Tango's stream with two innuendoes, Frog Trophy trash talk,

Tango absolutely killing the Frogger game, Scar never getting past the third lane, Doc forgetting to click the bed despite watching the video

Gem's stirring shit up, teaming up with Tango to torment Scar with Marvel, and calling out Scar's innuendos

Scar: You've peaked Etho.

Etho: That's a good place to be!

Gem: he's in your noodles!

Etho, disraught: no, not my noodles!

Rip Bdubs's leaves

Haboobs

And so much more!

[cygnus-rex]

Let’s talk about honey.

In his most recent episode, we see Joel has been having a hard time selling his honey.

Etho to the rescue.

Joel, S10#13:

“Honey, however, I’m pretty sure is not looking good.”

Sends Etho a letter with honey and berries as a thank you for the Joel statue: “I don’t have many riches, but here is some honey & berries as a thank you!”

Etho, S10#7:

Receives and reads Joel’s letter: “Oh snap, that’s amazing. I actually really need honey right now.”

Etho: [showing Scar his new storage room, complete with lots of honey even if he could have used stained glass] “Yeah, look at this, we got honey roofs in here, um—”

Etho: [fiddling with his Frogger roads]“So that plan has fallen through. We wanna use honey blocks now I think.” [proceeds to redo the whole road with honey underneath]

The man was pretty much promoting honey throughout his new episode.

I just think it’s sweet. 🍯

[stitchthesewords]

I'm gonna upload this to ao3 later but I wanted to post this now before its too late! @eydilily happy birthday I wrote some Tangtho based on the art you posted. Warning for smoking and Redstone being treated like an addictive substance.

Redstone buzzed. It was important to know that. Redstone buzzed and when you were surrounded by it for hours on end, it seemed like your head never stopped buzzing. Like somehow the buzzing could form words that would cure all your woes with your latest project. Like they whispered exactly what you needed to do to get the right torch to turn on. Tango was constantly surrounded by redstone.

Sure, it was healthy necessarily, but the server was encompassed by people who didn’t know when to quit working on their projects. Tango wasn’t even the worst of it �� Decked Out 2 notwithstanding. But, to be fair, Tango’s new big project was all redstone.

Minecart rails didn’t buzz in the same way! They didn’t buzz at all – which is what Tango told himself when he was down in the bowels of his binary system. Decked Out 2 was loud; this was quiet. This was peaceful, even. Sure, he was still troubleshooting and running into problems every five minutes but it wasn’t like he was down there for days on end. Staring at an observer line as it blinked but didn’t go off correctly for the thousandth time.

Color him shocked when he noticed the fire on his head died down to embers and his back ached in a familiar way. Okay. Okay maybe he needed to move, get some fresh air. See his neighbors. Maybe he had mail!

No mail was to be found but that was fine. It gave him an excuse to stretch his legs beyond the confines of his factory. A quick look at his communicator told him Etho was online and who better to go see – easily within walking distance, a redstone buddy he could complain to. It was the perfect solution. His tail flicked side to side as he thought about just what to say to his good friend. Fire reignited on his head and he even found himself almost buzzing. Just like redstone.

Etho was just…nice to talk to. Different from Impulse or Zed when he wanted to troubleshoot, different from Skizz to hang out with. Something quiet, contemplative. Calm in a way Tango could never hope to be. He liked that about Etho.

His tail sparked as it flicked around when he saw his neighbor outside, working on his landscaping. Perfect! Tango was worried he might be buried in Frogger or something and he’d have to be the one doing the redstone retrievafication. Retrievifying. Whatever. He waved his own clawed hand at himself.

Etho was absorbed in his landscaping, but there was a way to his movements where it was clear he knew someone was watching. Every move of his hands was deliberate, and when he stood up from the dirt, he half turned to smile at Tango.

“That was you! How’s it going buddy?”

Tango grinned. The two of them met somewhere in the middle of Etho’s front yard and exchanged a hug, where Etho visibly scrunched his face under his mask. “You smell like redstone.”

“You act like that’s a bad scent! Ead de Perfume de Tango or however it’s said. If I don’t smell like redstone, that’s when we have a problem.” His sharp teeth glinted in his grin as Etho rolled his eyes and waved Tango inside.

“So, I’m where you decided to take your break?” Etho held the door open for Tango, dodging his sparking tail as he walked past. Tango’s fire didn’t really hurt; it was warm, it produced heat, but it was more like extra voluminous hair. Made of fire. Still, the instinct to didge fire still hadn’t really left the hermits senses.

Etho had his own reasons to be nervous around fire.

“Who better to hang out with than my good buddy good neighbor Etho, huh?” Tango propped himself up on a block, crouched over so he was eye level with Etho and leaning his chin on his hands for balance. “Your house is coming together now that you finished Frogger. Could you imagine if I built a little home after Decked Out?”

Tango laughed a little and Etho’s eyes held a fondness. “You lived in Decked Out – and besides, Frogger is not nearly the same size of a game.” He smacked Tango on the shoulder and laughed as he knocked tango off his feet and spilling onto the floor in a heap of Blazeborn glory. He still offered Tango a hand, pulling him up with enough force he pulled Tango right to his chest. Tango’s hair ignited into an inferno. Etho made a sputtering noise, mouth full of his firehair.

“Sorry.” Tango skittered back, looking anywhere but Etho’s face. He could hear the little, too knowing chuckle pass Etho’s lips and that made him pout, cross his arms. Stomp his foot even a little.

“You are adorable when you pout,” Etho said. He didn’t let it hang in the air for long, walking past Tango towards his back door. “So are you here to troubleshoot the factory or just hang out?”

There was one long glance cast over his shoulder that had Tango scurrying after him in the wake of it, hair dying down back to its normal warm blaze but slowly. Ever since Decked Out 2, but probably before if Tango thought about it too hard, Etho’s voice made him blush. Maybe it was the first Decked Out that did him in. Maybe he’d always been done in.

“Hang out, I suppose. You’ve got a nice little garden, everyone is telling me I need to touch grass. Seems like a win win.” Tango followed Etho without really watching where Etho led them, but soon enough he was greeted to the sounds of the outdoors and the sights of Etho’s landscaping.

It was peaceful in a way a steampunk factory was not and Tango almost felt bad for dotting Etho’s neighborhood with it. Almost. He stretched, feeling his shoulders creak and then pop. Etho leaned on his fence, almost like taking a seat on it but not quite, gaze up towards the roof.

“I need to be able to see the clouds from here, I think. Roof is too solid.,” He said, turning to look at Tango. “Wouldn’t it be nice. Smell the dirt, see the clouds. Get some sun. I feel like everyone is always complaining we both need to do that.”

Tango hung on to Etho’s every word, nodding his head and leaning on his head. “At least you get a nice, unobstructed view of this lake you built,” he said. Etho agreed.

There was a silence, nature playing out its own theater for the two of them to enjoy in each other’s company. Tango spent plenty of time with the hermits this season – at least he felt like he did. People were constantly coming by the factory, he was playing Frogger occasionally. He raided bastions with Skizz and Impulse. He teased Scar. But for the first time he realized he’d missed the company that Decked Out 2 had. Getting a kiss on the forehead for good luck. Sitting in the lobby holding someone’s hand. Everyone sleeping piled together so they could get right back to it in the morning.

Tango’s ears flicked, slightly, and he opened his mouth to say something. What that something might be he wasn’t sure. Every season it was like the hermits had to work their way back up to admitting they missed each other, to sharing kisses and beds again. It felt like they’d only just gotten there in season 9 and now Tango was some kid to scared to admit he had a crush again. He closed his mouth. He opened it again, trying to work around it, when Etho cleared his throat.

He didn’t actually say anything, but the noise threw Tango off as he dug around in his pockets. Tango’s attention was transfixed when he produced two redstone torches and fidgeted with them for a moment. “Do you want one?”

Tango reached over and plucked one from his hand. They were...it was hard to explain. Redstone buzzed, yes, but it could also vaporize. Being surrounded by powered redstone meant you were breathing in time bits of vaporized redstone. Sure it wasn’t good for you, but it was another danger of being a redstoner.

What didn’t help is they often sought it out on their own.

Tango placed the torch in his mouth. It needed to be close to your face if there was only one, something that was just there to dull the itch to get back a redstone project. Etho held his own in his mouth, hand cupped around his face to hide it from view. Like he was embarrassed by it.

Tango felt that need for closeness again and stood up, going to be beside Etho. There was a gentle, bubbling water sound from the lake just before. The rustle of wind. Etho’s...beautiful and scarred face. Without a word, Tango found himself reaching out to cup Etho’s face in his own hand instead.

There was maybe more of a mischievous grin as he pressed the two redstone torches together. Redstone flew off in little sparks, a small cloud of faint red they really only saw because they knew what to look for. Etho chuckled.

There was a moment longer before Tango stood back a bit and, holding the torch in his teeth managed a ‘thank you’ that was...probably coherent. It made Etho chuckle again, a delightful sound that warmed Tango’s whole chest. He took the torch into his hand and Tango’s knuckles to his lips and pressed a kiss there.

Redstone buzzed. So did the feeling of companionship.

[chongoblog]

My First Pokemon Playthrough

So I've noticed in my time of talking about Pokemon, I've told a lot of various anecdotes that are all a part of my very first time playing Pokemon. I was feeling nostalgic, so I figured I would share what I remember about this playthrough for everyone to enjoy. There may be a tangent or two in there and people who have followed me a while may have heard these before, but hey.

For context, I believe I was about 8 years old at the time, and after collecting some Pokemon cards, watching a kid play Crystal at summer camp, watching some of the anime, and generally being a pretty big fan (I even have Pokemon Yahtzee burned into my memory for some reason...), I finally got myself a Game Boy Advance with Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, some Frogger game (after looking it up, it was Temple of the Frog), Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and, of course, Pokemon Sapphire.

I remember that my starter was Torchic. I don't remember why I chose that one, although I remember really liking the color red at the time (which I still do), so that was probably why.

I don't remember too much about my team or the general progress I made in most of the game, but I do remember Slateport City. For those who do not recall, in Slateport City in order to advance you need to get into the museum, which is blocked off by Team Aqua Grunts until you talk to someone in the shipyard. There are also Team Aqua grunts blocking the route ahead

Now, my 8 year old brain for some reason concluded that the only way to get past the Team Aqua Grunts was to intimidate them with a high enough level Pokemon or something like that. So one night, while I was supposed to be asleep on a family beach vacation, I beat down more poor level 13 Pokemon than I could count. I learned later what I was actually SUPPOSED to do, which led to me finally fighting the Team Aqua Grunts.....with a level 42 Blaziken.

And since the Name Rater was in Slateport City and my starter had evolved, I figured it was only appropriate to give him the new moniker "MAGMA MAN"

The rest of the playthrough went about as normally as tearing through the game with mostly Blaziken normally would go. There were a couple exceptions though. First off, at the Weather Institute, after I saved the day from Team Aqua, they were kind enough to gift me a Castform, but my party was full, so I couldn't get it. My 8 year old self did not read this. (Remember this, it will come back later). But I managed to make my way through the game, catching Kyogre with my Master Ball and giving it the nickname "LEGENDARY"

Then we come to the Elite Four where I hit a brick wall. I don't remember my team at the time exactly, but I do remember it was MAGMA MAN which had reached about level 80 or so, LEGENDARY which was about level 48, a level 36 Pelipper, two level ~35 Tentacruels, and some other sixth Pokemon I don't recall. And for some reason, I just couldn't beat the Elite Four with this team for some weird reason. The best I could ever get to was Drake. I felt I was utterly defeated.

That's when we bring a new character into the story. A member of my friend group at the time who we'll call "John" to protect the innocent. Now John had a very "uncle who works at nintendo" type energy to him. The group used to play Gauntlet: Dark Legacy together all the time, and when I got the GBA port of it, he convinced me to trade my recently obtained copy of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Boy game for a Gameboy-Gamecube cables, only for me to learn too late that it didn't work like that, and from there, there were no backsies (but then I got ahold of a copy of Pac-Man VS and Four Swords Adventure then I learned to emulate, so who's laughing now).

Anyway, John saw that I was struggling and he decided that he wanted to help me out. You see, he had come across an incredibly powerful and rare Pokemon that couldn't be found in the wild. He had gotten it exclusive, and I had never seen it before. It was called a "Castform". Now John had Ruby version, so he decided that as much as it ached him to part with it, he figured it would be a reasonable trade to trade this powerful Castform for the slightly less powerful LEGENDARY. I agreed.

And then he moved to Ohio.

To this day, Castform is my least favorite Pokemon because of this betrayal. I was so distraught at 8 years old that I completely restarted my game of Pokemon Sapphire. I don't remember much about that second playthrough, but there's a reason why.

This rival battle on Route 110 is somewhat infamous for being quite the sudden difficulty spike. And since I knew how to get past Team Aqua now, I didn't have an over-leveled starter to stomp my rival with ease. After losing to her about five or so times, I got frustrated and figured that whatever team I had wasn't cutting it. So I restarted again.

In my third playthrough, I made it all the way to the rival battle on Route 110. Then she stomped me repeatedly. So I restarted again.

This cycle would go on for, like, 15 resets. I didn't count, but it felt like there was hundreds. As I would keep on resetting and playing through the early-game of Pokemon Sapphire (which I had practically memorized at this point), I would start to take things a lot less seriously, sometimes picking the girl character, making my name random gibberish, etc.

Eventually, on one of these playthroughs where I started with Treecko, I actually managed to beat the Route 110 Rival Battle! And on my first try too! And thus began the epic journey of a girl named DE.

Now, I'd figured at this point that maybe only leveling up one Pokemon wasn't the best approach, so I was trying to balance my teams a bit better (I guess my rival taught me something). I was making my way through the game, and one day I'm checking out my best friend's Pokemon in Ruby, and who do I see in his box, but a Kyogre. I take a look at his name, and I can't believe it. It was LEGENDARY. John had traded it to my friend before he moved.

My friend didn't know that it was originally mine, so he offered to trade it back, which I accepted. LEGENDARY was a disobedient little bastard since I didn't have enough badges, but he got the job done. I don't remember the team I ended up using to finally beat the Elite Four, but it included my Sceptile starter, a Sableye that somehow knew only Fighting-type moves, and two Kyogres, LEGENDARY and LEGENDARY2.

And that's my first playthrough of Pokemon Sapphire. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mr. Egg, Mr. Pickle, and Mr. Hot Dog

Debut: BurgerTime

BurgerTime is one of those retro games and that's about it. It existed, and it's Retro!, and I feel like people don't really care about it aside from that. It never even got an awkward attempt at a scrimblo adventure reboot, like Frogger did! Poor BurgerTime.

Anyway, my first time playing BurgerTime was not by playing BurgerTime at all, but a SpongeBob Flash game clone of it. I have no personal connection to BurgerTime itself... but I know it has some enemies that are living foods! I always get a kick out of that! So I'm going to talk about some of the various design incarnations of them!

These original designs are exactly what you would expect from a 1982 arcade game. I feel like I've seen Pac-Man ghosts drawn EXACTLY like this. I like how Mr. Egg has the strangely realistic crispy bubbling detail around his edges. They're all fine.

...is what I felt before I noticed their elbows and knees! Ew! Bones! Wretched creatures!

Ohoho... now what have we here? The in-game sprites are delightful! The simplicity makes them very cute! Their feet are interesting, being just little floating lines, except for Mr. Egg's, because his legs are made of amorphous albumen! Mr. Egg is really the breakout star here. Look at his yolk! That's his EYE! This is so awesome! That's such a rare design choice to see, especially since egg creatures that are not of the "creature hatching from them" variety are pretty rare themselves.

Mr. Pickle is no slouch either! I appreciate him being specifically a pickle slice, often portrayed as nicely crinkle-cut. I just have to question why he is a villain! Pickles are one of Burger's best friends! This is like if Cheese was a villain! I think if anything Mr. Pickle should be a cute little sidekick on the side of burgers, and in his place can be, I don't know, Mr. Olive? Of course, pickles are much funnier than olives!

Mr. Hot Dog is not as interesting as the other two, but a simple sausage with eyes and feet is still cute. He is like the leader of the bunch, the main antagonist of our hero, Peter Pepper, who I do not really care about. I like that it's him! Burgers and hot dogs are like counterparts, but in no way equals. Hot dogs are easier to hold and eat, but burgers are just Better. And hot dogs have finally decided to give burgers a piece of their mind!

This flyer art is funny. I don't LIKE any of the designs showcased, but they're funny! Faces are moved around on the foods, noses are introduced to the series, and Mr. Egg is now a slice of a hard-boiled egg. You will also notice the elusive Mr. Lemon! Mr. Lemon is not real! I don't know why there is such an emphasis on lemon here. Finally, of course, you will notice the personified Cheese, as she noselessly beckons Peter to recline atop a beef patty. Ooh la la! Don't you wish you were invited to hang out with such a beautiful female cheese who is a girl woman?

Really, the designs of the core food fiends never diverged much from the classic cartoon-style versions they started out with, appearing like that in pretty much every sequel. Except...!

In BurgerTime World Tour, which was not a good game at all, these guys have been utterly rebooted! Now known as Frank Furter, Ruthless Dill, and Sonny! Are these their real names? Or just some similar guys?

The designs are rather basic, as to be expected from Foods With Faces, but it IS interesting seeing them generally made so much more monstrous. Something ESPECIALLY interesting is that Sonny the egg is the only one with limbs, reminding me of how Mr. Egg is the only one to have actual legs in the original sprites!

Ready for the SCARIEST redesign from World Tour?

This game's version of Peter Pepper is this horrible gentrifying millenial and I'm glad his game was prematurely delisted. I hope he got eaten by an egg and chewed by teeth made of yolk. I hate him!

[claudismayhem]

boy it's been a while since I've tumblr'd, have mostly just been lurking lmaoo

wanted to talk about the cletho I saw on scar's stream a couple days ago...they just get each other and it's so amazing to watch--like when etho told cleo "you can curse me out all you want when playing frogger" and it immediately got cleo excited for the game--it's like he KNOWS them which is to be expected given the amount of time they spent together in the life series--but when you think about it, they didn't know each other in third life, all they had was their mutual connection to bdubs and y'know that kind of colleague dynamic "oh we can do this and act like this and pretend to be that for the content but we don't really know each other that well", and over the years it's built up to this amazing dynamic that just. makes me happy.

and what's even cooler is that we were like. THERE.

we have watched cleo and etho become the great friends they are throughout the years--maybe not all of us were there, but a good amount of us saw third life and how they didn't really know each other, and then we got to see last life and the first little specks of their dynamic near the end when they were trying to survive together, double life and Etho's hilarious and unreasonable (perfectly reasonable) fear of Cleo, limited life was literal fever dream, TCG battles "I have never seen Etho as much as I have now that TCG's here" or whatever the fuck cleo said in that one stream somewhere some time ago, the Decked Out interactions "I gotta protect you Cleo" when she let people grab what are basically free shards off her, Secret Life aka fever dream no.2, the boat race banter and that adorable moment where cleo hopped into Etho's boat for that last race, these freaking s10 stream interactions--we are THERE. we have watched their dynamic develop and bloom and it's just. idk. it makes me happy to know that I got to watch these two incredible minecraft youtubers become such close friends over the years.

to know that I was there, in a way.

[royallygray]

genuinely when Grian was like "Etho's made Frogger" I thought he was talking about the game where you stick your tongue out at people and kill them and then they die and your goal is to kill everyone

How old is Etho that he calls CROSSY ROAD Frogger?

[an ask related to this]

[doggobreebree]

Caregiver!Obey Me X Little!Mc

The prompt: They are your caregiver. (You are gender-neutral)

∘₊✧──Luficer──✧₊∘ ~ He is very strict with the rules he set up for you; making you go to bed on time, making sure you eat and drink water, not letting you eat sweets before bed, etc. ~ He will take time off of his schedule to make sure you are happy and taken care of. ~ When he is working he will set up coloring books, puzzles, and toys for you to play with so he can work. ~ Doesn't let his brothers know that he will cuddle with you until you fall asleep while in and even sometimes out of little space to make you feel small.

∘₊✧──Mammon──✧₊∘ ~ He would spoil you with everything you wanted as long as it wasn't too much Grimm, even stealing small things for you. He would even buy some small things for himself without telling you or his brothers. ~ He would take you out for ice cream and a day to the park and any demon that would look at you weirdly, he would try to scare them off without you noticing. ~ He would help you annoy Luficer while he is working and get away with it for the most part since you are in little space, but sometimes he gets in trouble for it, but never in front of you. ~ He would get you head pats and hugs as often as he can without making you uncomfortable since he wants to show love but only when you two are alone. He doesn't want his brothers to know how much he cares about you. ∘₊✧──Leviathan──✧₊∘ ~ He would let you sit in his lap as you two watch kid-friendly anime shows way past your bedtime inside your pillow blanket fort the two of you. He would even let you pick the anime from the list, even if he didn't like it that much. ~ He would print out game and anime coloring sheets for the two of you to color while listening to anime music. If he got done before you he would let you watch him play Minecraft or Frogger while you finish coloring. ~ He would preorder different stuffies and onesies for you and him as well as any new good kids' books that come out. ~ He would play dress up with you all the time and didn't care if he had to wear a dress since it made you happy. He also will drink angel milk with you before bed.

∘₊✧──Satan──✧₊∘ ~ When the two of you are alone he will let you curse in little space all you want but won't curse himself. If the two of you are around his brothers he won't let you curse at all. ~ He gives you cat stuffies, coloring books, toys, and even ears to wear. He even lets you bite on his arm. He even puts on the cat ears when you ask him to. ~Just to make his brother Lucifer mad, he lets you eat ice cream before dinner unless he is the one cooling that night. ~ When he takes you out, he holds your hand and stays very close to you, getting you small things you want and taking you to cat cafes and petting zoos. ∘₊✧──Asmodeus──✧₊∘ ~ He would play dress up with you but unlike Levi, you two would put on a ridiculous amount of jewelry and he would do your make-up. You two would go out like this and even if people stared at the two of you, he would tell you it's okay, they are just jelly, making you giggle. ~ He would brush your hair and give you a bath with a pretty bath boom, candles, music, and toys while he plays kid shows from his D.D.D. ~ If you started crying he would hug you softly and start to hum lightly to try to calm you down. He would then wrap you in a blanket, give you some ice cream, and give you your favorite stuffed animal, talking to you as if he were your stuffie and moving him as if it was alive to try to cheer you up. ~ He would be the one to design your paci with glitter and charms on it. ∘₊✧──Beelzebub and Belphegor──✧₊∘ ~ Beelzebub would make you food that you wanted and would even share some of his food with you. He would make sure your bottle/sippy was full and that you ate and drank water every day. ~ Beelzebub would carry you on his back everywhere the three of you went as well as give you hours back rides around his and Belphie's room. ~ Belphie and Beelzebub cuddle you every chance they get, you have normal nap times and Belphie loves watching kid shows with you and loves watching you play games with Beelzebub. ~ Belphie is the one that normally wakes up to your nightmares and helps you calm down by singing you a song and Beel wakes up and joins him, sending you straight to sleep again. They try to make sure you sleep and eat well. Should I do Diavolo, Barbatos, Simeon, and Solomon next?

[itzmasic]

7 Scar x Grian for Mwarch

Oooo! Scarian!

Word count: 500

OG POST

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Scar walks over to Grian and Mumbo they were talking about something he didn’t get before he walked over.

“Yeah yeah of course- Oh hello Scar!” Mumbo says cheerily as always. Grian looks behind him to see his boyfriend and a small smile shows up on his face.

“Hello Mumbo” Scar says, trying to keep his jealous tone out of his voice as he circles them both, something Vexes normally do when talking to people.

“We were just talking about Etho��s mini game!” Grian says to Scar ���What was it called again? Not Frogger.. um”

“Ravager Rush I believe” Mumbo chimes in

“Yes that’s it!” Grian says

Scar nods “Yeah I’ve played it a bit..” Scar says as he stops circling them and stands besides Grian.

“Hey G, can I talk to you for a moment?” Scar asks Grian “Yeah of course! I’ll be back Mumbo”

They both walk over to Grian’s base as they are walking Grian asks “What did you want to talk to me about Scar?” Scar stopped and started to circle around Grian again as he starts to explain.

“Well I’ve noticed that you’ve been talking to Mumbo a lot recently” He starts.

“Well yeah of course I have?” Grian says confused as he tries to keep an eye on Scar.

Scar in turn moves a bit closer to Grian “Well.. It just seems like you’ve been talking to Mumbo a lot lately and stuff..”

Grian starts to catch on a bit now, “Sooo you’re jealous?” He asks his lover

Scar perks up a bit and avoids Grian’s glance and tries to explain himself “Well I wouldn’t say that” He says as he starts to get closer to Grian.

“Scar you know that you’ve could’ve just asked for more attention from me” Grian tells Scar.

“I know I know” Scar says to Grian “But I didn’t want to really keep you away from Mumbo…” Scar says to the avian.

Grian smiles at the vex and stops his pacing around Grian. “Would you like a kiss to make it feel better?” He asks Scar.

Scar blushes a bit but nods and leans down to the avian. Grian kisses Scar. His kiss is gentle and loving. Scar kisses back and as they pull away he smiles at the avian.

Grian smiles back and then they both decide to go back to Scar’s base.

Mumbo gets a message on his comm. As he sets down his book he reads the message.

<Grian whispered to you> Scars being a bit clingy we can talk a bit more later k?

Mumbo smiles and chuckles a bit as he messages back

<You whisper to Grian> no worries have fun with a clingy scar

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teehee I enjoyed writing this one I’ve been meaning to draw these goobers so yeah its good to get it out in writing! I hoped y’all enjoyed this!

[teddybearsandspaceships]

Notes on Cleo´s Hermitcraft stream from 29.9.2024, ft. the tale of the return of Glados and hanging out with Hermits, including the first round of Hermit poker.

Glados is back!! Cleo´s RL cat that has been missing for 11 days but now she´s back! \o/

There´s arms at the bottom of the screen and all you can see of chat is “bomb strapped to your” ^^

Cub comes by to buy powdered snow from Skizz and Cleo guesses that there´s something beneath the lava (and there is: discounted powdered snow.)

No Cleo No Cry

Plan for this stream: find a calico cat and name it Glados

Cleo goes to ask Scar if he has a calico cat, but someone plays Cleowo voice and Cleo refuses to talk to him in that voice, especially since Doc is also there.

Next visit to check out Scar´s cats: Scar and Doc are talking about Scar´s travel drama on a bridge, Cleo watches for a few moments and then leaves again. Scar has zero observational skills.

Cleo goes to visit villages to find a calico cat, but only finds other cats, including several Atlas (orange) cats.

Surprise attack on Scar! Poor Scar is startled and then sounds very scared ^^

Scar is horrified by the story of Cleo losing Glados. He checks but he doesn´t have a calico cat, but immediately tries to sell Cleo other animals. Not the skeleton horse though, he´s kinda security.

Scar shows Cleo the oil paintings he did and put in Minecraft, they are very pretty.

Scar is so excited to show Cleo the armor stand work he did in his caboose! Unfortunately Cleo doesn´t have the 3D bookshelf texture pack but they look on his stream and are delighted. They tell Scar he should bring it up at the meeting so that everybody has that texture pack. Everybody is getting into armor stands now, everybody is going to want that.

Scar reports it takes Etho twenty minutes to send a screenshot.

Cleo doesn´t recognize an ominous potion – or know what it is. Scar knows that it´s what you use to activate raids now. Cleo doesn´t think anyone needs raids.

Cleo is delighted by Scar´s multiverse hat stand. They both mourn that they couldn´t play more on Pirates SMP, Scar because his life was very busy and Cleo because their game kept crashing. Back in season 6 both Scar and Cleo did pirate-related things on Hermitcraft but never together: they were much less social, also because they didn´t have the voice mod back then. Scar will do Star Wars in season eleven, Cleo says they´re down to do pirates together in season twelve. Scar shows off his golden Scarland ticket, Cleo says they never got one and Scar promises to deliver one.

Cub shows up and announces himself with several funny horns ft. Scar and Etho. He needs a break from building. Scar understands, and Cleo agrees that when they are bored they come see Scar.

Cleo is tricked into trying out Scar´s dragon shooter, and then admires his telescope, even though it blinks and is unsettling.

Cleo shows Scar and Cub the tiny Joe, Ren, and Scar she put into False´s base. The prize for False finding all of them will be Cleo putting more in her base.

Cleo hasn´t made it across in Frogger yet. Scar offers to pay for their run. Cleo says that´s not necessary. They´ll get there eventually, and they don´t need Scar´s pity. Scar and Cub are probably richer than Cleo but that´s probably it. Scar says he spent a lot of money recently. Yeah, for example in Cleo´s what shop, Cleo says and adds she just restocked it.

Scar immediately flies off to where the entrance to Dodgy Frank´s Hay Deals was blocked off with obsidian. It´s an illegal tunnel!, says Scar, only to admit a few seconds later that he did buy wheat from the impounded shop. But Cleo can´t restock because it´s an illegal shop! Cub says they have to take Cleo down.

Cleo says not right now, they´re going to do a bit first with the tunnel thing and the blowing-up threat. Scar says if the obsidian block is removed Skizz gave him the go-ahead for the TNT, and is then disappointed Cleo didn´t react with the appropriate shock and horror. Cleo obligingly displays appropriate shock and horror. “Oh no, Scar, don´t do this to me, I don´t have any plans for how to get back at you at all! I can´t at all make your shops completely unusable.” Cub points out Cleo is talking to a person with infinite gravel. Cleo: “Yeah but you´re also talking to a person who can just make chests stop working.” Scar: “What?” Cleo: “Oh, you wanna try me Scar? […] You know me, I make very idle threats, I can´t back up anything I say, ever. […] Don´t believe me, Scar, it´ll be fine, there won´t be any consequences.”

Cub is very skeptical. Cleo agrees that Cub has looked through them, nothing is going to happen. Scar is unsure.

Scar shows off Mr Finnegan on his stream. Cleo doesn´t want to aww over another kitty in front of her own, calls Mr Finnegan an adequate boy. Some more cat talk.

Some talk about how cool some of the art is fans make for Hermitcraft, like an interactive Grumbot and a 3D-printed Gem base. They mention their clips that showed up in Minecraft live: Scar is disappointed they didn´t use the one of the Scarland volcano.

Cleo and Scar are both not dog people. Scar is worried dogs want to murder him ever since he´s in a wheelchair. Cleo understands the desire to murder him sometimes.

Etho, who logged in a few minutes ago, appears in the distance. Cub immediately starts shooting him and Cleo encourages him. Scar and Cleo agree that Etho has a tiny head.

Etho says that whenever he comes on the server people are just standing around, and then he comes back and amazing stuff was built, when does this work actually get done? Scar and Cleo wonder what he means, maybe he was surprised by an older building.

Cleo asks Etho about the heads he told her she could have from Frogger and they go visit the game. Etho saw that Cleo tried and didn´t do too badly. Cleo says they did swear at him. Etho giggles.

Scar is about the tenth person saying that if Gem actually tried she´d get a higher score than 4.

Etho says the game will be reset the next day, scores will be reset, it´ll be easier for beginners and harder for those who know the patterns. It´ll still require reaction speed. Cleo says they´re bad at that, Ethos says they can practice while playing the game. Cleo: “I feel like you know me so well and yet so little.”

Bdubs logs on and says he´s going to do a run. Scar asks about a gift shop, Etho says he´d love that but it´s beyond him. Scar asks if he can use the frog coins as a slime shop, Etho asks what the Poe Poe says, Scar asks what the Permit Manager thinks, Cub was distracted.

Like dogs that wag their tails when excited, Bdubs does the wiggle flight when he´s excited.

Etho shows Cleo his secret entrance to where he stores the heads. Cleo: “You´re my favorite. Thank you!” Etho: “Aha. Yip yip.” (So many Jevin heads in there!)

Bdubs and Scar do Frogger runs and explain their techniques.

Docm77 shows up just to watch, he got a DM that they´re all over at Decked, uh, Frogged Out. He doesn´t want to compete with the crazy high scores. Cleo says he can just not care about the score, Doc says he doesn´t understand.

Scar pays for Doc to do a run. Cleo hands out Pina Coladas. Cub suggests averaging the scores by attempts. Etho says either Joel or Pearl would probably win in that case.

Doc: “Cleo I need your help with my gentlemen´s club.” Cleo: “…yes Doc?” Etho: “That sounded really wrong, Doc, I´m just saying. What kinda work do you want her doing there…”  While the others crack up, Doc is confused. He explains he was thinking of a club like the one he visited with Guude in London once, a posh bar with all the gins of the world. Bdubs explains that “it´s got kind of a different connotation as well, something with poles and stuff.” Cleo is wheezing and coughing. Doc: “Poles? What, you mean people from Poland?” Bdubs: “Yes, that´s it.”

Bdubs ask if they can play Doc´s poker game. Doc says in theory yes but he wanted to go to bed soon. Nobody accepts that excuse. Hermits after dark, let´s have some fun! Etho: “Round of mini pizza, let´s keep this night going!”

They go visit Doc´s “laundromat.” Scar asks what this pipe is. Etho, in a throwback to a recent stream where Doc kept saying “if you´d watched Etho´s episode…”, “well if you had watched Docm´s episode…”  Scar: “You guys are the biggest fffangirls of each other I have ever seen in my life.”

Doc says he knows what he´s talking about because on Twitter Notch agreed with him with how lackluster he finds the new mob. Cleo says that´s really embarrassing for him. Doc says he doesn´t want to be dragged into anything Notch-related. Scar asks what happened. Doc: “Okay let´s play Poker.”

Scar says he always misses anything. Cleo says it´s because he has ADHD.

Doc blames the low views on his new video on Gem´s vlog and the new Imp&Skizz episode with multiple episodes. Scar and Etho joke that people will have to keep watching if they want to see season 11.

Cleo doesn´t have what they need to make a sign: “I have haybales and Tango heads but I don´t have wood.”

Doc explains how the game works. Etho at some point yet again: “If you had watched Docm´s episode you´d know…” Cleo: “Etho I don´t even watch your episodes, shut up.” Bdubs: “Oh…”

Cleo, with a pair of sixes: “My chat is telling me to go all in, so… I don´t know what that means.” Cleo is lying. They are good at this, they keep saying “chat´s telling me to do this” and pretending they don´t know how the game works. It´s very convenient to be so rich that you don´t need to worry about losing.

At some point, Bdubs to Cleo, aggravated: “You´re not supposed to show emotions!” ^^

Cleo raises another twenty diamonds. Etho: “Are you walking out of here with pants?”

Cleo ends up narrowly losing to Bdubs and losing a stack of diamonds, but it´s fine. “Yeah of course I was playing with a bad hand, do you know me?” Points out that they bluffed everybody except Bdubs, who knows them too well. They say goodbye and leave, and then spend another twenty minutes or so saying goodbye to chat.

[moe-broey]

All that said man I just gotta talk my shit. So does anybody remember my hc designs for Lif? How he has creepy rotted patches of skin that (very conveniently for me as the artist) cover up his hand and feet bones?

Okay. Well I'm deeply conflicted actually.

Because visible finger bones (like hands too, all of it) WOULD be the most sexual thing in the world with like some slutty low rise gloves (equivalent of low rise..? Sits low on the wrist.) BUT. It is SO IMPORTANT TO ME. That Lif is not only kinda creepy but also kinda gross. LIKE my idea behind the hands and feet actually wait can I actually find it . Hold on

I took some extremely ass screenshots from a youtube vid and found a grand total of TWO (2) images. BUT THESE GUYS. FROM FROGGER 2 SWAMPY'S REVENGE. You GOTTA see how they move too, the way they pop in and out of the open graves, and how the hands crawl around with its fingers and how the feet do this awkward little hop, hobbling around. AND THE BLOOD TRAILS to show their path of movement.... left a DEEP impression on me as a kid!!!!!!!! Fucking AWESOME.

(aw man now I'm just watching the level AND THE HAUNTED ARMOR THAT SWINGS DOWN BLOODY AXES.... not enough blood in kid's games anymore smh) ANYWAY. Getting a bit distracted here, let's go back.

Realizing my concept art for this is really old. I could probably push these designs. I think in the past I've also shown that the nails are chipped and split and the black isn't nail polish, it's just. Blackened. On account of Being Dead.

BUT. BUT. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME. THAT HE HAS THESE QUALITIES. You can't just ohhhh maybe I found the solution (maybe. Will have to test it) BUT AS I WAS SAYING. You can't JUST fucking sexualize him as this conventionally alluring very acceptable skeleton encased in jello man. You HAVE to get yucky with it. You NEED to have elements of body horror. You've GOT to have semi rotten flesh that's cold to the touch, he's not just dead in the fantastical sense you need to be REMINDED. Of Just How Dead He Is. He needs to have gross ugly nails and sunken eyes and whatever skin he has left (while he's probably being kept in tact w magic ect ect) NEEDS to have varying degress of decay to it and he needs to smell. Bad. Every little thing about him and his body should be SCREAMING at you to Not Do That. And YET......

You see all romance is horror and sex is horror too in many cases. And when it comes to Lif specifically, I THINK. You HAVE to lean into The Horror ALL THE WAY. Psychological and physical. You understand. Love, however you define it, WILL find a way. Icky disgusting style.

[ofnightshadeandthornyroses]

Don't Hide Pt 2

Paul x reader

"Look I just really don't know what to do with that, and what he said made it sound like he's a local or at least frequents the place." You sip your drink before flopping down on the bed, still clutching the phone and listening to you sister and her endless knowledge of the dating scene. "With what you said it sounds like he was interested in you. All those girls but still he stopped at you." A pause. "I mean he did say he hadn't seen you around so there's always that 'new shiny toy' factor, but!!" Your mind was racing. New shiny toy? I hadn't even thought about that! I was just to panicked that I actually flirted with someone somewhat successfully and they initiated it! "You could've caught his attention, you said he was pretty cute right?" Sounds of chips crunching on the other end interrupted your response of 'yeah' "So if you see him again, and if you want to, try and flirt with him again. See if he's interested. Anything else happen that wasn't on the carousel?" More crunching. Your finger was now curling and uncurling in the cord as you remember something at the end. "I guess? Maybe? After I left I looked back and he was with his friends but he was already looking at me but I might have done something before that, it's a little embarrassing..." "Go on!" The pleading demand coming out muffled through a mouth that was undoubtedly full of chips. "Before I told him not to hide, I kinda took his lollipop out of his mouth and after I sorta put it in mine in front of him?" The end of your retelling came out sounding more like a question and you could the sound of your sister inhaling and promptly choking on her chips. You didn't mean to kill her really. You grimace, "Sorry-" "Sorry? Why didn't you tell me this! Oh, you bold fucker! You definitely had to have hooked him a bit! If he doesn't come up to you he's fucking numb or shy from what you did. Please God or whomever the fuck let my sibling finally get someone or some action at least." "Oh my frog-" "No child you listen–" "I'm older tha-" "-you need to try to make a small a miniscule effort to talk to this guy. I'm talking at least eye contact, a smile, a wave, head tilt, whatever! Just something. Even a sign to him. You do this and it's a mile stone. You do this and you could do it again and build up to something more. Remember it's the anticipation of what hasn't happened that's scary." "So I do this and I can do anything? That's mighty cheesy" "I didn't say that. But you could build up to more. It certainly gets a little easier once you've done it. It was hard for me at first as well, but I had the advantage of semi-popularity and friends that would cheer me on and and we could laugh about it later. I know it's a little harder for you but remember you got yourself a personal cheerleader a phone call away." Laying on your side playing with the cord, a fond smile grew on your face. "Thanks sis, I really appreciate this. I probably would've been spiraling out of my head without you by now." "That's what I'm here for! I've got to go, but hey! You get ready and go out! FIND THAT MAN! Give a little smile and a wave, maybe a wink~." "Ughaagh!" "I love you, bye!" "Bye, love you." You put the phone back up and laid there for minute just looking at the wall not really seeing it, not even thinking. Then, your brain decided to start working on double time. If I do this would it actually go well? Would it go bad? He stayed looking yesterday. What does that even mean? Did you make a big mistake even looking at him? Did you do the stupidest thing in history by taking his candy? AND PUTTING IT IN YOUR MOUTH!? OH YOU DUMB FROGGER, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! Maybe you should try? Maybe not, "no" or go "away" is NOT the worst he could say. Okay could it be that bad? He probably forgot about you, okay?

But the prospect of maybe having a someone made your heart feel like a ton of moths decided that it was their new home. You had always seen those couples on campus, one leaning on cars or walls wile the other leaned over them, making the other flustered or both laughing. Just thinking about maybe having a chance at that, having someone to fluster you or the other way around. Holding someone's hands because you could, holding them because you could, holding their face because–well.

This gave you a sense of anxious determination. With a hint of spite. You could never have something like that before, even when you tried. People were cruel, they hurt you, bones and shiny things couldn't hurt you. Maybe you would go, and maybe you would, if you saw him, smile and wave. This wasn't the campus or highschool, hell it's definitely not home. If you need to ignore him, you could. Why not? —•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•— So, you're here, and have been for about an hour before the sun finally started going down. This wouldn't be an issue at all except you've had an eye out for that pretty hurricane of blonde hair from the night before, and the anticipation of seeing them again slowly frying your nerves.

You stroll along some small stores, the chains on your boots and hip clinking as you walk. Eyes catching a shop advertising they sell 'Assortments for the damned', immediately interested you walk closer and open the glass door covered with a thick curtain.

Immediately you can see small weapons, jewelry, and crystals on a display case. Walking around there's discovered to be books on witchcraft, Satanism, the supernatural, apothecary, rituals, and beginners manuals. In the back left corner there's a display of sex toys and lingerie which is out numbered by the amount of fetish wear and toys for those obviously into more hard-core stuff that's right by it. There a section of actually weapons; swords, axes, hatchets, maces, flails, etc. Many intricately made or decorated with stones. Along side it was gardening supplies along with gas masks. Sections of fabric took up half a wall along with dried plants, pastes, and animal parts.

It felt like a play ground honestly. Maybe you would need to work on more crafts to sell, because you just might end up broke before you have to go back. But was it really your fault? You hadn't seen most of this stuff anywhere else and it was like putting live prey with a starving animal and asking it to wait a while more– cruel, tempting, and plain fucking stupid.

By the time you made it up to the front desk someone came stumbling out from behind a beaded curtain behind it. "Oh- Hi! Sorry it took a bit. Looking for anything in particular? Find anything you like?" Their short curly hair looked as if it's been through a storm and silver bangles clink on their hands. You find a name tag on their long apron which reads 'Andy–they/them'.

"I practically love everything here, I just might go broke if I can't find clients." They chuckle and push their glasses up their nose looking thoughtful. "Well it's great to hear you're enjoying the shop and as well as the clientele part, depending on what you sell we might be able to help with that. My boss tends to house and sell many locals wears for them here, only taking a small amount, on agreement of course, for the pay of the worker who helped sell it. I can give you a card if you'd like?"

You were struck dumb for a second almost refusing to believe your luck. This store, this store, could possibly house your crafts and you might actually be able to one–extend your stay and continue to hide from your parents and two–by something shiny when you wanted. You were baffled not stupid, also you were quiet and they were still looking at you. "Um, yes, oh frog. I definitely would like one, thank you!" Were you getting to loud, maybe a tad, but they giggled and put their finger up as they crouched down behind the counter.

"Give me just a moment. We don't keep my boss's cards up top for the taking so they tend to get pushed around." You left them to it and looked around the front counter, smaller concelable weapons made to look like other objects and just straight up decorated to look as pretty as they are painful make up a good amount of the displays. Andy popped back up holding a card like it was a prize ribbon as you were checking out what looked to be modified brass nuckles with jagged ends in shapes of animals, one even a Christmas tree.

"Here's her card, it has her number and mailing address, but please do call to set something up first. Oh, do you like those? We just got a new shipment in this morning! If you give me just a minute I can go get them right now!" They scurried through the curtain and back in less than a minute and set a medium box on the counter. After taking out a box cutter, they opened it and started taking out thin foam layers separating the metal peices and laying them out.

"Now these ones are our self defense keychains, they have holes for you to slip your fingers in similar to regular brass knuckles but with a nice sharp, cute twist." You scanned over the items feeling like a little kid all over again. Honestly, you didn't know what to do when she disappeared behind the curtain in search of the shipment, so in a mixed state of confusion and curious, you stated put. Oh are you glad you did. There were so many, moths, presents, birds, cats, hats. One that really caught your eye was the teeth. That not even the right word, right one would be fangs. The finger holes were in the gums and part of the other teeth in between the the sharpened teeth. There were blood marks on them as well, leading to believe what ever they're supposed to belong to fed on something with fresh blood. You had to have it. "Oh now this is extremely beautiful!" You said holding it up. "It is, and it definitely fits your little bat necklace. It's cute." The bat necklace in reference was the one from the night before. "We have other hidden weapons here too if you like to see." A very quick nod. "We have these necklaces over here that look like little hearts with daggers in them, which," Andy takes hold of one and pulls the blade out."They are. Then for wrists we have bands with daggers in intricate sheaths. They could look like decorations until you actual pull them out." Shiny, sharp, and pretty!  Your mind was probably breaking a sound barrier somewhere with how high pitched that came out in your own In the end you walked out with the fang keychain, a pair of arm bands, AND the necklace. Gosh you're asucker for shiny and sharp. You can't even blame Andy for your lack of self control, they were a great help and, really, were just doing their job. You fidget with the card in your hand a bit before finaly putting it in your bag. Passing by a food stand you see a container of bright candy in clear wrapping, lollipops, your brains supplies oh not so very helpfully. Did you decide you were gonna try? Yes, yes you did. Does that mean you're actually going to try and think about him the whole time when he already keeps constantly popping up and you have to constantly keep replaying the stunt you pulled. No, no you're not. And does this mean that because he keeps popping up in your head and making you feel more anxious and stupid by the second that in the end you might end up making a fool, tucking tail, and hauling ass? Uhhh- You were staring. The attendant was speaking. You hadn't even revised you had stopped. "I-I'm sorry, can you repeat that?" "I said," she looks exasperated already "Are you wanting one?" She had a pulled smile, the one you give customers when you want to add something else but you shouldn't. Just by her tone and expression you felt like you could hear the unsaid, "Or are you just going to block up the counter?" Feeling a bit embarrassed now you went went to say"No, sorry" but what came out was "Um, sorry, yes m-ma'am, cherry please. Thank you." This happened most times you were caught off guard, starring at something on a stand or store because you're either just in you're own mind or a memory. The embarrassment catches and usually ends with you buying whatever it was or doing a weird scurry of shame away.

Cherry wasn't even your favorite. Usually not even your top three choices, but you knew why you picked it. After your feet finally started moving again your brain, what was left of the flaming hot mush it had become, registered the flavor of the candy as cherry. It made sense really. You remember going over the memories before having the time to be properly mortified and remembering the way the sticky red residue you could see on his lips when you looked, shiny, pretty.

His teeth had a red sheen to it from the candy, even a little dribble of red dyed saliva could be seen at the corner of his mouth. Pretty. Shiny. He looked good with red. Reminds you of a glam rocker too. Oh frog.

You open the candy, plop it in then lean against a wall a couple feet into an alley to hopefully have a mental freak out in peace and not look like a total freak in public from going so far into your head. Glam rockers are shiny, and he's hot, and this is not helping. Seriously the intrusive thought of him in shiny red eyeshadow, hair all blown out, in shiny outfits with cut out and/or mesh, had you on your knees.

Like, actually, in the alley crouched down, head in your crossed arms, unable to stop the thoughts of a man who already had dressed like a hot punk, like a hot glam rocker, and now the thoughts are transforming saying 'hey you know, he'd look fucking hot if he was in a metal band'. The thought has you sinking lower on the ground, butt now firmly planted with your knees up so you can still successfully fold your arms on told and mock bury yourself a thoughts of glitter and tight outfits are joined by tight shiny leather, belts, spikes, and chains. The blown out hair stayed.

You stayed there for a while, tasting cherry and thinking, not relising that the very last light of sunset had finally passed, tuning out the foot traffic of the boardwalk, ignoring the way your butt and become numb and how your body tugged.

You tuned out this as well as the melodic sound of chains, boots, and rubbing leather. You didn't hear someone come into the alley or when they first said 'hey, sugar'.

Your brain only slightly registered the sound of chains hitting the ground. It completely registered the touch to your knee that your fairy skirt had had left bare, shocking your head up and into the chin of the unknown man who stumbled back from his crouch and landed on his rear.

You both groan, as you hold the top of your head and him his chin. "Damn sugar, didn't mean to scare you like that."

You look up finally noticing that this man isn't unknown at all, it's the man from before. Blown out blonde hair and blue eyes that were subjects of fantasies just moments before were in front of you, looking at you. You look down, not now, why now? "I'm sorry I didn't mean to hit you, didn't scare just, startled."

Trying to look everywhere but his face wasn't working. Today he was in his jacket from before and a band shirt, cut off and cut up, the jagged 'M' and 'A' being the only tell it used to say Matellica. The mesh shirt underneath it was pull tight by his position he was still in, legs spread and bent in criminally tight ripped jeans with chains and a fucking bondage belt.

Seriously why me, why you, why now!?  He's holding himself up with one hand behind him and the other rubbing at his chin though seeming distracted –and what is that look? Oh frog I've been staring-ogling! He saw that! Saw me! Of course he saw you you're faces are maybe three feet away maximum. But does that mean he was looking at me? Well you just hit his chin dingus. But why is he here? Um, He lives here? Maybe? I don't know? But why is he here, with me.

"Hey sweetness, you alive?"  You were staring, still. And he had that lazy smug grin on his face. Oh FROG. "Yeah, I'm alive." You say with absolute genius. Though in your defense you were also using about 90% of your brain power to be alive.

Flirting, interaction, crushes in general were never your strong suit. You always get flustered so easily, by the moment or your own thoughts. And being flustered leads to being embarrassed which leads to you fleeing or just silently standing there, awkwardly.

"Well that's great news sweetheart, hadn't been able to tell until you spoke up, those cute eyes of your staring my way. Would've thought you were a statue." He grins that grin and starts pushing himself more up.

What he says hits uou "sweetheart" "cute" "staring". You were staring. Oh f r o g. That feeling hits again, the one of embarrassment, your cheeks burning. "Im sorry, very sorry for your chin and staring." You start to turn the corner. Fleeing. You were fleeing.

Or was until you felt a hand tugged in your sleeve. You turn back and the he is with big blue eyes pand a slight confused look"No need to be sorry babe, where you going?" You look up at him "Away?" Not quite sure what's happening yourself. He pulls your sleeve, as well as you closer. "Well why that? Why don't we walk around see where to night takes us?" You didn't want to, not because of him, but you. Being by him made you anxious, his pretty face made you fidget nervously.

What if I mess it up, and he thinks I'm weird or disgusting? What if something goes wrong, there's so many people here? What if it goes great? Where do I go from there? Your sister voice filter through you brain. You won't know unless you try, something she's always saying, take a chance make a risk. If you never want to see him again you won't have to, live a little.

You get yourself together and look up at his waiting expression, "Yeah, I'd like too"

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[vally-the-x-angel]

”Hello mortal soul”

”Welcome to my wonderful blog! I have decided to join this platform to meet a bunch of people! Please enjoy!”

((made by @holly-the-fallen-angel))

more under the cut…

About Valentine-

Former high seraphim

Nicknames V or Vally. She/her pronouns

She fell for questioning Heavens rules and if souls can be redeemed.

She’s about 5’9

About… Two million years old.

Shes practically Emily’s sister.

She has what looks like stitches on her lips to show she can never tell the secrets of heaven.

She has two pets that fell with her; Aspen and Frey.

About Aspen-

Heavenly frogger 🐸

He/him

Yes, he can talk.

Made out of magic.

has been by Vally’s side for at least two thousand years.

About Frey-

Cat?

They/them or thing

Yes, they can talk.

An old sorcerer who was punished to stay in the body of a cat for the rest of eternity.

Both Frey and Aspen have it out for each other

About Mod-

I am a minor. If you have a problem with that sorry

You can call me Dove. ((She/her pronouns but idc))

Im willing to have a good chat.

im here to answer any questions

Rules-

Strictly SFW. Valentine is an Angel and she still has morals.

No hate. There are people behind these blogs

you are free to trash talk Vally but don’t go to far

No talk of politics. PLEASE

Nothing disrespectful. Don’t cross lines.

Colors-

Valentine- half blue half red

Aspen- Green

Frey- purple

*Actions look like*

((I speak like this))

Other blogs I own-

@varkthesharkthing ((rp blog))

My main- @doveatheart ((HH fanfics and writing))

@adeline-dust-rp ((rp blog))

@vox-the-cg ((rp blog))

@that-one-birds-blog ((random stuff))

@the-littles-in-hell ((Crazy kids trying to survive in hell))

@e-the-hybrid-freak ((N and Uzi’s daughter from Murder drones))

People I suggest-

@hailey-dust

Partners-

@penguinmaster9999 ((she met T and Sam on her first day))

@holly-the-fallen-angel ((a fellow fallen))

@vexter-the-comedian ((don’t know what he is but he’s interesting XD))

Get in touch w/me if you want to be a partner

Tags-

#Vally talks ((Valentine talks or role plays))

#heavenly Ribbit ((aspen talks or role plays))

#grumpy meow ((Frey talks or role plays))

#Dove talks ((me talking))

Masterlist-

Valentine falls ((And meets T and Sam))

*pictures made w/ picrew*

[luciosdisk]

Lúcio x Skate wearing reader

A/N: I am actually on a little vacay right now. I was expecting to get this done sooner but I was a tad bit busy with work and things like that, I know I’m suppose to be on vacation right now but…I like writing!

Warning!!:Mentions of being picked on. Me being uneducated.

🛼Lúcio love skating with you! If it be during battle or at a skating rink just anywhere!! He loves being around you

🛼Knowing you share a common interest with him makes him so happy!

🛼If you have trouble with anything, no doubt he will help! (If you can’t get a certain trick right he will be there to help)

🛼During Battle though he gets a little worried if your not in his line of sight, he rather have you close to him during battle speaking of…

🛼Lúcio stays attached to you during battle! Either right next to you or following you: he can’t live with himself if he lets you get hurt.

🛼Lúcio always makes subtle movements to try and hold your hand😭…He had a dream in which y’all held hands and skated into the sunset like some romance movie😭

🛼Lúcio does this thing where he turns around skates backwards to talk to you. you will be talking and he has absolutely no idea he if going to bump into a wall.

🛼Lúcio also asks a lot of questions about your skates; do they light up in different colors? If so, do they blink? Are they two different colors?

🛼(There is a voice line where Ashe makes fun of Lúcio for wearing skates) If you are picked on for wearing skates Lúcio will not hesitate to stand up for you! “Just wait until you see what they can do!” Kinda standing up for you.

🛼He will love skating other places with you besides battle (his favorite being boardwalks) Looking at candy shops at night and enjoying scenery with a loved one always makes the experience better.

🛼Lúcio tries to do the spinny thing together( please forgive me) where he holds your hands and as the name goes; You two spin. The problem is that Lúcio keeps getting nervous and gaining to much speed ending with both of y’all flying different ways.

Happy day/night fellow froggers 🐸🛼

©️luciosdisk

[sugarywishes]

Considering the age they grew up in, I figured I may as well ask: What were the Afton Family's favourite movies & video games of the era? Naturally I'm mostly asking around the 80's, although I will be happy to hear about how they changed as time went on (and games in particular improved) as well...

I think the only ones who would even enjoy video games are the kids, Clara and William seem too 'old school' to understand them 💀💀, but anyway, on with the questions! Answers below as usual.

I'm gonna mix things around and start with Evan! I can definitely see him as an animated movie enjoyer, so I think Disney and Warner Bros and other such studios would be his favorites (although most of the stuff the companies put out during the time kinda stinked...sorry about the poor catalog of choices Evan) His favorite animated movie would probably be Cinderella, he totally understands her. For live action movies, he has a lot less options since the movies around his time were a bit scarier than the ones we have today. I guess I can see him liking the Muppets movies? It's the only franchise I can think of that wouldn't scare him with special effects or violence or anything like that. (I'm not too well versed in any media that's not from my time lmao, any suggestions would help) He prefers the world of animated TV shows than he does movies, Fredbear and Friends was his favorite, but he enjoyed others as well!

For video games, I don't see him playing them a lot actually. William probably disapproves of his kids messing around with video games so he doesn't let them near them (despite the fact that his restaurant had an arcade, of course the kids would get access to them bro!) Evan I think would like Pac Man! Very generic 80s video game I know, but tons of kids loved it, including him! Maybe he would also play Pole Position and Galaca? Or Frogger or Circus?? I dunno, just think of any tame/kid-ish and kinda repetive games, and Evan would probably like them.

Okay now moving onto his brother (pre bite, I'm gonna start clarifying which version of Mike I'll be talking about from now on since pre bite and post bite Mike are basically two different people personality wise) Mikey is *COOL* and *EDGY* and *NOT A BABY!!* So you can expect his favorites to be pretty intense! He is a huge action and horror fan (he kinda forced himself to like horror in an attempt to look cooler for his friends) I think Halloween, Carrie, The Outsiders and Night of The Living Dead would be his top picks, maybe also Star Wars, but he'd rather die than let anyone know he liked the movies. For Post-Bite Michael, he only watched, you guessed it, The Immortal And The Restless! It brought him a little bit of comfort when uh...everything was going on, he developed a big interest in romance movies (if only he had a romance himself...) But as time went by (yk post scoop when he was stuck indoors for a while) he just started watching *whatever* to pass his miserable days, he basically became a couch potato for a little bit.

Okay so um now to video games, Post-Bite Mike didn't play video games at all after that, but pre-bite Mike, that's a whole nother story! This man was on the gaming grind, from Wizards of Wor to Space Invaders to Robotron to...whatever video games were popular with teens at the time I suppose! (He tried begging his mom to let him keep an arcade machine in his room, but he already had a TV in there, why would he need more?) (And plus there was like no room in there)

Onto Elizabeth! She had a collection of "girl" movies she owned like The Last Unicorn and Grease (she would've died for HSM if it came out during the 70s/80s) and things like that (although she usually preferred going outdoors than she did watching movies and stuff, so her collection would just collect dust mkst of the time, unless Evan wanted to watch some of it, which he did!) Her favorite movie was probably between Footloose or E.T (wow, those are some choices girl, she probably likes E.T because Charlie really liked it) She also enjoys a plethora of animated movies and TV too, if she knew what anime was back then she would've been an avid Candy Candy and Rose of Versailles fan, she liked drama too okay? (As a matter of fact Mike probably developed his like of drama because of her)

For video games, I don't think she would play a lot of those. She did her best to obey her father's rules so she stayed away from them as best as she could (One day she got to play Dragon's Lair with Charlie and Mike, she really enjoyed it because of the visuals!) But I guess she has no favorite because she didn't play them at all.

Now onto Clara, her favorite types of movies were drama and tragedies, her favorite movie was Eyes Without a Face (I think it would count as a horror movie but I don't really consider it one tbh) and maybe Family Secrets? It reminded her a lot of her old family and she sometimes imagines that maybe she'd be able to reconcile with them one day (Well, that never happened!) But she also enjoyed artsy movies, she just understood them to a deeper level than most would. As I said before, she did not play video games because she didn't care to.

Now finally, William. I see him as the kind of guy to not even watch movies or TV shows. He is straight up BORINGGG. (He will of course watch anything Evan asks him to watch with him, for the sake of his dearest son 🤧) I know there are people who headcanon him to like horror movies because they're violent and scary and he's also violent and scary, but I personally think he finds horror movies weird and annoying. (Nothing can compare to true murder and fear in his eyes) The closest thing to a favorite movie (genre) are 'humanoid object possession' movies (by humanoid object I mean like dolls or mannequins or wax figures, stuff like that) it reminds him of a few certain possessed robots...

He doesn't like video games because he absolutely sucks ass at them.