#honestly just the whole concept like. you're just like. asking SOMEBODY.

[essektheylyss]

Contact Other Plane really is such a perfect wizard and warlock spell, because it truly encapsulates the hubris of those classes. It's the most extreme "fuck around and find out" spell. It's like, you can make a collect call out of this world. You might get some answers, but you also might go insane for trying it. You'll be fine in the morning, though. You will learn nothing from this experience.

[beanghostprincess]

I keep thinking about Yasopp and Banchina and their lavender marriage and how it would affect Sanji's relationship with Yasopp. In a Sanuso concept. Of course. Because I keep joking about Sanji being resentful toward Yasopp for leaving his son but-- But I think that if he let Yasopp explain himself he would understand.

I mean, Yasopp doesn't have to be gay for Sanji to understand why he left and accept him as his father-in-law but. You know. I think Sanji would actually connect with him more this way. Yasopp explains how he has been closeted his whole life and he married Banchina (who just happened to be a lesbian too) to try and pretend to be somebody he wasn't. I don't even think Yasopp knew at the time that he only liked men. He tried to keep it hidden deep deep deep inside of him. But you cannot hide yourself for too long and when Usopp was born he decided he couldn't raise his (very very loved and dear) son like this. Lying to himself and him. And he needed to become a pirate to find himself and be free and follow his dream. Until he was ready to see Usopp again.

And I imagine this conversation being. Like. Before coming out to Usopp. They meet again. There's this huge party. Usopp is very excited to see him again and doesn't even ask why he left exactly, but he does look like he has a ton of questions on the tip of his tongue. And I think Yasopp would try to avoid him as much as possible at first because he doesn't know what to do. Sanji doesn't like that. In fact, he is very pissed at him but he can't leave things like this, as much as he despises having to talk with the man who dared to leave Usopp.

But Yasopp explains everything to him and-- Hiding. Lying to yourself. Being somebody you're not. Being afraid of loving, mostly, and being loved. I think that's something that would hit Sanji hard. It makes the cook see that they're not so different after all. And he isn't willing to soften around him, even after this, but he does tell Yasopp to tell all of this to Usopp instead because he will be way more understanding than he thinks. That his son is a wonderful, brave man. Braver than he could ever be. And Yasopp is extremely happy to hear that, honestly. To see that he's alright.

They have THE conversation. Everything is fine. Yadda yadda yadda. And I can't stop thinking about Yasopp staring at his son. Like. looking at Usopp and Sanji dancing from afar and being oh so happy. And Sanji kisses and holds Usopp like he wants to live in his arms forever and Usopp looks so. So. So happy and comfortable with himself. And lying might be a family thing but cowardice not so much because Yasopp has never met somebody braver than his son.

[withering-sunflower-dust]

You know, I'm thinking abt an empires au more specifically an actor au. I've seen a lot of different actor/behind the scenes aus which has very much dragged me into a rabbit hole for esmp/alsmp actor/behind the scene au

Sooo I'mma post something for it instead of letting it rot my brain!

Random interviewer; How do you take shots with your uhh, evil counter part?

Sausage's actor; oh Supreme?

Random interviewer; that's what you guys call him on set set? over here we call him Bratwurst

Sausage's actor; yea that's understandable, But to answer the question he's not actually green screened in

Random interviewer; really now?

Sausage actor; yea, I think the writers thought the plot would be perfect because I have a twin brother *points off screen*

Bratwurst's actor; sup!

Sausage actor; his voice is a lot different, he normally uses a voice changer on set

Random interviewer; I see!

_____

Interviewer; how did the writers come up with the ending for season 1?

Gem's actor; that's actually a really funny story!

Interviewer; how come?

Gem's actor; season 1 with an actually supposed to end like that we had an ending plant out for like months, but then one day I guess somebody broke havoc and then the sets kind of burnt down.. not entirely there were a lot of sets that were still okay to use like mythlands, The cod empire, and like some others but yeah that's kind of how we ended up with that ending for season 1

Interviewer; so we could've had a different ending?

Gem's actor; yes actually! Our original ending was actually..uhm.. how do I say this..okay I think our show would have actually been rated R if we had the original ending we planned

Interviewer; woah now!

Gem's actor; it's true! Even with the blood and things we have now on the show it's still only PG-13, but I think with that ending it would have definitely been rated R, {*Scott's actor*} was actually supposed to drop an f-bomb at the very end

_____

Interviewer;what are your opinions on the ships?

Scott's actor; uh, I love the ships the people drawing these pieces of art are so talented honestly

Interviewer; if I were to ask what's your favorite ship, what would it be personally for you?

Scott's actor; uuuh, oh that's a hard one, I would say the Jimmy and Scott ones. But, the sausage and Scott ones have a very special place in my heart

Interviewer; and why is that?

Scott's actor; I'm actually married to {*sausages actor name*} so like when I see these fan arts of these two characters that basically resemble us, it makes us feel so appreciated cuz we never thought the day would come where people would be drawing us in a physical relationship

Interviewer; wait, YOU'RE MARRIED?!

_____

Interviewer; if I can ask where did the concept of your season 2 skulk corruption come from?

Shelby's actor; uuh, personally I think it was inspired by sausages season 1 corruption I think it was supposed to be a continuation of that and with a closing space for it since this is our final season so we wanted to close off any kind of potholes and I think this was the perfect way to do it by getting my character corrupted and having {*sausages actor*} help my character out with this whole thing cuz that was like a whole friendship arc I never thought I would see but honestly watching it back I loved how it came out

Interviewer; I see! Well what do you think of the ships?

Shelby's actor; uh, season 2 nature's wife was actually {*sausages actor*} idea but we like went along with it, mind you this was before it was announced to the crew me and {*Katherine's actor*} was actually dating

Interviewer; that is truly amazing!

Shelby's actor; it is! Sometimes on set we joke about how {*sausage's actor*} actually has psychic abilities outside of his character

_____

Interviewer; who do you think were the most chaotic people while filming together was?

Joey's actor; uh, for season 1 I think {*fwhip's actor*} has explicitly answered this question in his YouTube Q&A on his channel, while just on set even if behind the scenes one of the most fun and chaotic people to be with is me and {*sausages actor*} we rock havoc on set

Interviewer; yea that makes sense

_____

Interviewer; a quick question before we continue with everything, who was playing Hermes?

Joel's actor; oh that's actually something I've wanted someone to ask

Interviewer; why is that?

Joel's actor; The Kid that was playing Hermes is actually {*sausage's actor*} Son well more like adopted son but same thing, the kid that played Hermes is actually {*Scott's actor*} and {*sausage's actor} son, so yeah that's actually really funny to think about, cuz both in cannon and real life Hermes is actually {*sausage's actor*} son in both realities

[aeide-thea]

sigh

up in the middle of the night (or, really, rounding the corner of it now) rereading old fic (from a fandom i was never actually in, about a canon i never actually read, because if we're gonna go full Deep Internet we might as well go all the way, i guess) about a, hm, partially queerplatonic polycule and also somebody being nonbinary in a way that somewhat maps onto the way i'm nonbinary—

(or, i don't know, i stopped feeling confident about claiming that language for myself sometime around the time i first saw theyfab discourse happening in the distance and no one in my social vicinity deigning to acknowledge it even long enough to push back at it, so like, these days i mostly just feel like no language assigned or aspired-to is really mine to use, honestly, but i guess 'genderqueer' feels like a modest enough assertion i can probably safely make it: genderqueer, agender, what even is a gender anyway—)

but it really is just like. i wish i could have the experience you're supposed to have in your, like, early- to mid-twenties really, where you live with a bunch of people you have, like, ambiguously queerplatonic relationships with and get to be casually nakeder than conventional norms allow and be, like, a shirtless genderless person around other people and get that reinforced for myself. but of course instead it's like. i missed the boat on the possibility of that experience just like i missed the boat on the rest of life, and i live with my father which is—a grab bag of nice/comfortable/mediocre/stifling but mainly for the purposes of the current conversation just not a plausible environment in which to push nudity taboos and attempt to reframe bodily meanings; and so what i get instead is to flop around in the middle of the night like an unevolved magikarp feeling crazy and melancholy and reading fic where imaginary people make unconventional impossibilities possible for one another because they love each other and it's, like, an updated version of that pathetically tragic anecdote abt the woman calling the gay bars just to listen down the phone and know they were out there…

like honestly i probably would want top surgery really, or at least, to like. wave a wand and have—no tits? smaller tits? something, anyway, sometimes—but i also want people's perception of my self not to depend on my making that happen? i don't know. it's like. my ugly little tits are ugly and i never wanted to sprout them in the first place but it's also like. sux that all roads to social gender acceptance/affirmation regardless of direction involve active cosmetic modification of my own body. like actually that was a major part of the concept/constraint i wanted to get out from under.

i don't know. the things i want seem unreasonable and impossible no matter what camp you ask and i feel gadfly-maddened and oversensitive and despairing about the whole tangle of it (never mind any other aspect of my (non-)life). like it's no fucking wonder i spend so much time as a disembodied word-utterer on the disembodied internet. language my truest tongue of my truest body. heart-sea and heart's ease and heart's blood-without-blood. (found myself thinking here abt heaney's ban-hus (blood-holt, dream-bower) and went to look it up and was poured right back into the problem and then back out of it again. (woman-)body as wordless geography, limned and unlimbed by words.)

gender of the day: poiesis. (ἡ ποίησις, of course—the feminine article, which transcribed becomes he: a meaningless homograph, to be sure, but then so too am i a queerly-drawn thing; and anyway even a wildly-strung cat's cradle is still a cradle, the dots of it connected to hold a meaning like any other constellation…)

[wack-ashimself]

I talk a lot. I know. But I am warning you this is not only probably my longest post ever, at least on here, but it's super hating teachers, so if you're really into teachers or have a loved one that's a teacher, I am definitely going to fucking piss you off.

Vindication! I got the best validation in so fucking long. Probably years. Talking with my boss about how I hate svsu; biggest waste of time and money in my life. I always say I learned more 3 years stuggling in la than any year at svsu. She said went to svsu, but stppped going because the nursing program was awful. I asked her in which ways. She said nearly every fucking teacher bragged about failing a good chunk of the class every semester. She said another class she failed and had to retake, she saw almost half of her same class was there, again. And even another teacher bragged that only a third would pass. Cuz they give high level courses to freshman (she told me something and I didn't know wtf she said, it was that layered). What are we teaching them? Why are we shaming them into not knowing enough? Because this is intro to nursing. And they were throwing some heavy fucking shit at her.

So thank you svsu. You wasted somebody else's life, and just proved me right you piece of shit college, and one of the only big regrets in my entire fucking life. Never once in my entire career life has my degree helped me ever. Not a single goddamn time. I used to brag it got me an interview once, but I never got that fucking job. #svsu you money grabbing whores, fuck off forever. Honestly? The only thing teachers offer any more is either Hands-On experience, or personal experience. It sure isn't fucking true and ADAPTING knowledge anymore!

Fine I'm going to say it. I don't respect majority of teachers*. I only remember a few of my life that taught me anything of value, most were bullies, and they're all glorified babysitters. Even the fucking College ones. Why? Because you're forcing young naive kids to pay you for dated information so they will be mindless workers. So in other words you're just watching them get stupider. Like a babysitter watching the kids watching tv. Look into the how the educational system was founded. He wanted cogs in his factory machines; never free thinkers.

*off the top of my head I only can remember 3 great (not just good) teachers i personally had. Ironically? 2 of them were in college... NEITHER AT GD SVSU!

1-My 5th grade teacher, mr reynolds. I was bullied cuz I'm loud and opinionated. He stuck up to my whole class for bullying me. He was a kind old man with a cane. I saw him a few years ago, outside work. He was a frail old man now. So I didn't know if he would remember me. But I told him "hey I don't know if you remember me, but I had you in 5th grade, and you saved me from a lot of bullies. I just want to thank you, and I never forgot that." And I don't know if he was faking it or what, but he swore he remembered me, and it melted my heart. I was so glad I got to thank him. It really made my entire month to just see him and thank him.

2- My Philosophy teacher at delta (I will not remember anybody's name from here on out that was good. I wasn't around them for a long enough duration). He really opened me up to debate with logic, critical thought, and different philosophical Concepts I had never considered. I will have to admit it was the highest grade I ever got in college, I think I was even top of the class, so that definitely was an ego stroke too. But I did not know that till the end of the semester so I can say that much to my credit LOL

3- my world culture studies teacher at delta. He was a mean gruff old man. But he was fair and extremely honest. I got one of my worst grades in college from him. Either a B minus or c plus. I honestly want to say C plus. And I worked my ass off. But he literally opened me up to everything that was going on in the world because he explored it. He made me appreciate more than just my own country. And all of humanity. I mean don't get me wrong, I loved Humanity before, but now I understood it a little bit better, so it was easier to love...

But yeah nearly every other teacher from grade school and high school especially and college that i had, go fuck yourself. You did nothing but take time. To be fair I think there was a psychology teacher I had in high school that was pretty cool too. Can't remember her fucking name. She was a hard ass too, but fair. And smart! I never said this, but I once considered taking psychology because of her. You ever meet a teacher that you're like you could be teaching so many better places? She was one of them. I think that's what I respect most in teachers. They want to teach something real, valuable, meaningful, they're honest, and they don't take bullshit. Oh and miss gonzalez! She was my theater teacher at delta. She gave me a real confidence that I didn't have before in other areas that I didn't usually act in.

Okay so maybe it's like five teachers. I'm only remembering them as I'm spouting them off. I could tell you the worst, but I don't want to tarnish somebody's Legacy cuz they're probably dead.

Except for Mr mindy at western. He totally touched young underage girls all the fucking time; I personally saw it. When I got that 10-year how do you remember High School thing, I specifically said Mr Mindy was a perverted should be fired. No joke, not soon after he retired. And Mr Everson got fired. Mindy had a closed door office in his room, with blinders. Mr Everson had open windows in his office, along main hallway. He was way easier to fucking catch. Mindy was just so well liked, so it was ignored. That should have been my first sign that Epstein's Island was definitely going to be a fucking thing in the future.

But if you leave this post with anything, know you can self teach easily nearly anything through the internet now. Of course you got to use harsh critical analysis, thinking and logic to prevail from being fooled there, too....but no massive student debts for a meaningless degree... that's being fooled even more: debt for life and it doesn't even get you a fucking good paying job? Great Ponzi scheme. The best!

< know the number one reason I hate teachers? They never fight curriculum. They just teach it blindly. I mean we taught #CommonCore and that's one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen in my life. You added more steps to math? Why? That's just stupid. That's like doubling the ingredients to a cake when you only wanted one fucking cake.>

[beanghostprincess]

Honestly, this is the worst thing you could've asked because I'm obsessed with making playlists and I was about to make a "Sanuso (Taylor's version)" one! So now I'm gonna drop all my ideas here because these two make me insane! Both Taylor Swift songs and Other artists! Some people don't like Taylor, so, if you're only interested in other songs just scroll past this part <3

Taylor Swift Songs that are extremely Sanuso coded:

Teardrops on My Guitar (Usopp pining over Sanji thinking his crush is unrequited and being jealous of the girls he flirts with)

I'm Only Me When I'm With You (The whole concept of them faking to be somebody else with other people but being honest with each other gets me every time. They're so soft. Established Sanuso, probably)

Hey Stephen (A soft, beautiful song for a soft, beautiful ship. Literally, it's just cute pining. I'd say it's from Usopp's POV but it can change depending on the line, tbh)

You Belong With Me (Easy one because it's just Usopp telling Sanji to stop simping over Nami or other girls because he knows they're meant to be)

Jump Then Fall (This is just- So sweet. So, so cute. Sanji's POV for me)

Today Was A Fairytale (This is how I imagine their first date would go. POV could go both ways)

Ours (It's a song about insecurities and not being able to fit everyone else's standards and how people judge their relationship but they're stronger than that. Didn't end well for Taylor but let's ignore that)

Foolish One (Usopp pining over Sanji thinking it's unrequited because Sanji is always flirting with others but giving Usopp mixed signals is my favorite thing)

Begin Again (Sanji's POV talking about how much Usopp appreciates him and how little used he is to people treating him like he actually deserves love. "Fuck the Vinsmokes" daily and necessary statement)

You Are In Love (This is just the Best Friends to Lovers song. What else do you need to know?)

Delicate (Usopp's POV and his anxiety and insecurities about liking Sanji. Very Water 7 to me)

Dress (Horny Transfem!Sanji fr fr and also Sanuso pining I'm going insane)

New Year's Day (Tender song from Sanji's POV about loving Usopp even through the roughest of times)

Lover (Typical romantic soft song. Also talks about how their romance is something precious to them only and their fear of losing the other)

It's Nice to Have a Friend (Soft BFFs to Lovers. Exactly the kind of vibe I imagine when I say they start dating gradually instead of directly confessing)

the lakes (I like Sanuso being intimate and understanding each other better than anybody else, especially liking being alone together without all the chaos going on)

gold rush (Most people would say this is from Usopp's POV but they are wrong and they should be ashamed of thinking this. I am right and super intelligent tho and I say this song is from Sanji's POV and how he idealizes Usopp's beauty and fears he might lose him)

Sweet Nothing (This is the most Sanuso song to ever Sanuso in the world of Sanuso songs. The soft, tender, soothing love between them... They expect absolutely nothing in return for loving the other)

Paris (Necessary song in every Sanji playlist because I think this describes exactly his type of love)

Other artists that definitely wrote these songs about Sanuso (they told me):

Kitchen Song by Tessa Violet (I think I don't even need to write why this song is Sanuso coded but the domesticity of it all,,, It's so soft)

Lacy by Olivia Rodrigo (I think this song is perfect to describe the way Usopp feels about Sanji. Envying his strength and looks but also being in love with him, complicates things even more. I literally wrote a fic about them with this song in mind)

Hold the Sun by Maya Hawke (Soft but angsty pining song. And Maya's vibe is perfect for them)

Would You Be So Kind by Dodie (I think this song is so Sanuso because it's just so so soft and fun to listen to!)

Boys Like You by Dodie (Pretty much Sanuso angst about Usopp being in love with Sanji despite Sanji not being able to love him back out loud because of his internalized homophobia or the fact that he flirts with every woman he meets)

Line Without a Hook by Ricky Montgomery (Honestly could be from both POVs because they're both insecure and think highly of the other and assume the other deserves better. Because they're stupid. But probably Usopp's POV more)

Boy Toy by Ricky Montgomery (This is so Usopp's POV pining and assuming Sanji doesn't love him back but settling for what they already have. Spoiler, Sanji flirts with him and loves him back and Usopp is just an idiot)

Trees II by McCafferty (Sanuso heavy angst with a lot of Sanji's internalized homophobia and his self-hatred but loving Usopp and apologizing for being the way he is)

If I Could Tell Her from Dear Evan Hansen (This is exactly how I imagine Usopp lying to Sanji about somebody, probably Sogeking or something idk bc that's adorable, saying all these beautiful things about him because he's scared of telling Sanji he's the one in love with him)

Disaster by Conan Gray (They're both pining but think the other doesn't feel the same and their anxiety takes the best of them)

Strawberry Mentos by Leanna Firestone (This is,, Just exactly the energy Sanuso gives. It's so, so romantic and soft. And the food topic just makes it better)

Falling for U by mxmtoon (Sanji's POV. Exactly how I imagine him falling for Usopp. He's scared of his feelings and telling Usopp about them)

Heather by Conan Gray (Usopp being jealous of Nami, probably. Most likely. Definitely)

Bubble Gum by Clairo (This is just,,, Sanuso angst. Because they think it's unrequited. And they don't confess. And it's everything pre-timeskip. And I'm sad)

Cloud 9 by Beach Bunny (Cute soft pining song. Could be both POVs)

Im making a sanuso playlist and I need song suggestions. So far I only have a few songs.

[monstersinthecosmos]

I'm not really thrilled about some of the conversations I see in VC fandom around asexuality. This isn't at all new, in fact I remember someone being quite rude to me about it in fandom like 4-5 years ago, and honestly acephobia is so common on Tumblr anyway, especially with so much of the Radfem-Lite rhetoric that's been adopted in fandom spaces. Like if you're a TERF/radfem I know I'm not gonna change your mind and the best we can all do is block you and ignore what you have to say LOL but. I think a lot of the conversation I see comes from places of ignorance, and while meaning well, can feel very invalidating and hurtful to asexuals.

Basically, I think younger folks in fandom need to understand that ace identity is still fairly new, especially considering how old these books are. I mean even AR herself spoke often about how she was genderfluid or non-binary without once ever adopting it as an identity. Perhaps she wasn't aware? I barely expect regular people TODAY to know about asexuality. I have to explain it every time I come out to somebody. I don't expect 20, 30, 40 year old novels to get it. Like, I read them as a teen and I remember being so excited to see characters in love with each other and attracted to beauty without it being sexual. I loved it so much and it made me feel less weird. But I didn't identify as ace until well into my 20s because I didn't know it was a thing.

So basically, I don't want to hear that VC vampires aren't asexual. Even if it's imperfect or unintentional, there is room for that reading. It's a valid read. You don't have to invalidate the aces in fandom by denying it so loudly. The way you read the book isn't the ONLY way to read it, and there's space for everybody. And no one is asking you not to read your version or have your headcanons. You can do all those things without telling ace fans that they're wrong.

Like, I'm not here to give a sex ed lesson, but asexuality is a spectrum and tons of ace people experience split attraction models. So yes, vampires can be asexual (because they don't have sex) and also be pansexual/panromantic (because they have an emotional or aesthetic attraction.)

In the whole "all vampires are pansexual" vein, it's this thing in the universe that they are no longer restrained by human social constructs. They love everyone, they can be attracted to anyone. But similarly, they don't have sex, and that attraction is not sexual in nature. Asexuality does not mean celibacy, but it does mean you are not experiencing sexual attraction.

(There is of course space here to translate what hunger/Blood means in regards to sexuality and I get that. You can read it more than one way. My point is that you don't have to invalidate aces to share your opinion.)

And, just as an aside, asexuals are queer so it doesn't make the book any less queer. (But that's just the radfems in the room speaking, girl bye!)

I'm 1000% aware that the asexuality lore was born from Anne playing with Catholicism concepts and I don't think she wrote them intentionally to be ace rep, but ace people read these books and feel seen and relate to them and I just think in some of these fandom conversations it wouldn't hurt to be more sensitive to these other takes, because it was personal for us too.

[memryse]

hello trafficblr! today i want to talk about red lives between 3rd life and last life - specifically through the lens of friendships and alliances. last life session 6 spoilers ahead!

the difference between the two series is fairly clear - from the very start of last life, it was made clear that all ties with red lives were to be cut, all alliances with them were cancelled. but let's look at this in a bit more detail.

3rd life saw its red lives remain in their preexisting alliances. from scar throwing flowers at grian and asking if they can still be friends, to bdubs intentionally going red to become cleo's weapon. ren turning red and proving his own loyalty to martyn, to dogwarts. jimmy becoming scott's completely nonthreatening bodyguard. skizz remaining dogwarts' most loyal knight. the list goes on, we all know about our red/green duos. in 3rd life, friendship was something that the red lives believed they had to earn with their green friends. they had to prove that they wouldn't hurt them, that they'd be useful to them, and the two of them worked together as equals. none of these reds even contemplated betraying their friends. sticking with a green was the best chance that they had at survival - and honestly? none of them particularly wanted to jump straight into murder. for out-of-universe reasons, yes, but we can interpret this as the bloodlust wasn't quite as strong in 3rd life. they could resist killing their allies.

in last life, however? whilst friendships are intended to be entirely cancelled, what's really happened is that the entire concept of friendship has been weaponised. in comparison to 3rd life, very little war between factions has occurred: it's essentially become the reds versus everyone else. the greens and yellows are simply fighting to survive, and they'll tolerate anyone who helps them with that. it's simple.

not so much for the reds.

as it turns out, turning red doesn't simply eliminate all of a person's feelings towards their former allies. but especially in conjunction with their allies having to exile them, what it does do is twist those feelings of friendships. red lives no longer feel like they have to earn their friendships, they don't feel like winning anyone's trust not to kill them. and they are desperately, desperately lonely. and the bloodlust relishes in it. tells them how easy it would be - just a tap and they could have their friend back! it'd be great! being red doesn't mean you have to be alone, why can't they see that? they can still be friends!

multiple red lives on the server have threatened to kill somebody to make a new friend. and friendships between red lives are not as easily formed as one might expect.

firstly, joel:

"oops. shot an arrow. now i have a friend!" - in chat, after killing grian. "grian, do you wanna be friends?" - the first thing he says to grian when they meet again.

grian:

"we can still be friends, mumbo!" - i... don't need to elaborate on this one, do i? it speaks for itself. but also that whole creepy bit where he runs around spawn singing "friendship is here, where are you? :)"

cleo.

"you could be my friend! you could have a friend, if you wanted to be red! and red's so much fun! [...] you should join me!" - to jimmy. at first she's not going to kill him, she thinks it'd be kind of pathetic, but then she realises the potential. they can be friends! have fun together! of course, cleo doesn't miss her past allies. they betrayed her. but that doesn't mean she wants to be alone.

bdubs.

"you're gonna join me as a red life. [...] today you join me! yes! you will. we can do this right now, where you could jump off the wall tw- very simple! [...] die twice, be red, we're together! [...] if you don't do that, i will take the two lives!" - trying to convince etho to go red so that they can still be friends. "all you have to do is just stumble off a cliff, right off the side, and boom! we're back, baby! and it's way funner on this side, trust me." - trying to do the same to skizz.

mumbo.

"you wouldn't hurt me. i'm just a fellow southerner, i've got my spyglass..." - as he's tormenting the southerners after trying to kill them. "that's the second time! he's just got it out for me!" - grian, during that same conversation. mumbo spends practically the entire episode - especially the part when he's alone as a red life - trying to kill the southlanders, especially grian, who's dangerously close to going red again.

jimmy and lizzie both find one another relatively quickly, and team up for the rest of the session. neither of them have much of an opportunity to be lonely - however, both of them do express how much they miss their former alliances (with jimmy even begging martyn for a life). interestingly, with these two, their desperation for friendship is used against them: grian's psychological warfare against the reds plays into it. he tells both factions of reds that the other doesn't want to ally with them and is planning to kill them. for reds who have no one (and have nothing too in jimmy's case), this is unbearable.

the only exception is scar. who never had any friends to win back in the first place. who very possibly went red deliberately (the first time at least. but threatened to go red beforehand both times) and immediately turns fully malicious against practically the whole server. he is also the only one to immediately go after an enemy with nothing but killing intent in mind - even grian had the ulterior motive of getting a life from scar.

and even scar joins in with mumbo chanting "friend! friend!" when they meet again as reds. he's lonely. he wants friends. but unlike the others he just doesn't have anyone in mind to lament losing.

[nuclearforest]

🎃 and 🍂 for the ask game!

Ayyy thanks for the ask. I mean, I can only hope that my answers are not too disappointing because my writing process is like. About as unhinged as I am.

🎃 pumpkin: do you have any favorite brainstorming techniques? how do you like to gather ideas for your wip?

I do not; mostly because ideas come to me in either rare moments of genius or I just realize I want something in my life. (I might write something for the big 3 after I got an idea reading some other fic just like, two days ago. I have so many heckin ideas I will never be free). It kinda helps that I've always been inclined for idea generation and honed it as a skill, so now i'm cashing in lol.

But that said, all stories are thievery so if you keep your eyes peeled there's inspiration everywhere. And if you read something that inspires you and you want to transform it, you can always reference where the idea came from if it's direct enough (or if you're using somebody else's OC).

For my current WIP, Sirens' Guard Dog, I actually thought of the base concept of taking mine and a few friends' OCs and giving Hans a siren harem back in Mermay. And uh. Just one road trip later I had ideas buzzing in my head for how it was no longer going to be a single chapter ordeal. So I started winging it, as usual, and got like 9 chapters in dreading it the whole time. On an entirely different roadtrip, I managed to clear that plot block that had me dreading continued work and actually made an outline all the way through to the end. So now it's much easier to churn out a few thousand words per week since I know what's going on. Which is like, a rarity for me because I usually wing shit the whole way through. (A Month to Love a Werewolf was just a new prompt every day and I went for it and strung it into a story lmao).

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🍂 leaves: what does your editing process look like? how does your wip typically change as you work on it?

Editing? Who is she?

I have no beta and honestly the best I get is MAYBE skimming a chapter before I post. (I mean sometimes I will share things with friends if I'm super unsure of it and want some reassurance it's not hot garbage, but...). I'm a brave fool. Most of the time I catch a few errors here and there because my fingers move a bit faster than my brain and my eyes aren't watching, so sometimes like months after posting I'll reread and go in to update it.

Other than that, there isn't much about a WIP that changes in the process. Mostly because I'm used to winging things. Funny enough the Sirens plot has had a few minor tweaks to make things flow a bit more logically or hit more interesting plot points, but even for something planned it's a relatively constant river. I'm definitely proud of it! Here's to hoping I manage to hit 130k by the time I'm done.

[marshmallowprotection]

Seeing how many ppl asked for matchups I got curious.... idk why I was so hesitant at first but lets go (if someone recognises me from this no you don't, my identity is a mystery shush)

Both romantic and platonic are fine, whichever you find works best honestly! I’m lesbian but I don’t mind being paired with men since this is all fictional anyways.

Alright so. I’m an ISTP-T and my one hobby is drawing (unless daydreaming for hours on end counts as a hobby). I’m an introvert and I have lots of trouble with opening to new ppl but I really cherish the friends I do manage to make. I love living in my own little world and thinking about my ocs who are basically one of the only thing that truly makes me happy and I love imagining a cosy little future for myself even though I have no real ambitions beside continuing to draw and getting better at it.

I’m very good at school stuff and all (I’m a genius but also rlly dumb and uncultured and lazy), I’m very stressed all the time, I often dislike elements about myself like my appearance or my personality and I’m kind of a cleaning freak. If there’s one thing I hate about ppl it’s ppl who don’t put in the effort to better themselves and their surroundings. If there’s one thing I love about ppl it’s ppl who take the time to understand others and still try their best when things are hard. I think having some kind of drive, even if it’s not what’s considered as a « noble goal » and may seem insignificant or silly is admirable.

Something I think is important to know is I despise the idea of the tranquil committed lifestyle as a concept in fictional stuff (I don’t really mind it irl but a matching would count as fictional so I’m adding it to this). For reference Saeran’s normal ending made me want to tear my brain out of my head bc of how torturingly boring that life would be. The idea of not having any option to get out of something is something that terrifies me which makes me hate when characters talk about getting married, having children, etc. The fact I move very slow when it comes to romantic stuff doesn’t help and is my main problem with the mysme cannon route bc dude we’ve known each others for less than two weeks.

Now this is only about fictional characters so I don’t know how relevant it is, but one thing about me is I have terrible taste. Irredeemable villains? Give them to me. Characters that are universally hated and are so one dimensional it’s laughable? Come here babe, I’ll invent you a whole backstory and make you my favourite character. Maybe I’m a contrarian, maybe I just like blank slate characters bc it gives me room to write them how I like them, maybe my gay awakening being through the bullies/rivals in otome games permanently affected me. But there is nothing more shameful to me than the characters I do actually end up liking.

Anyways that’s it I don’t want to rant too much about myself. I rlly like your writing and I’d like you to know you have inspired at least a hundred hours of daydreaming (though most of it used your aus as base and just expanded on them by going completely off script. But know that I mean this with tremendous respect and it doesn’t take just any old fanfic to get my brain engine going that hard)

I match you with...

Yoosung!

You view the world in a very particular way. You like things to happen realistically. You don't want a suspension of reality. You want to put in the effort even if that takes a lot longer than it would for other people. You just want to know that what you're getting into is going to work out for you, and there's really nothing wrong with that at the end of the day. Everybody has a comfort zone and you know what yours is. You should commend yourself from being able to understand what it is that you want. With that in mind, you need somebody cut understands your perspective and wouldn't try to push you into a corner. 

You're going to have to hear me out on this one because you might not get it at first. If there's one thing that we know about Yoosung, it’s that he’s driven. He gets a little lost in life because of his grief but that doesn't mean that he gives up on everything. He struggles to find himself and it's thanks to your compassion that he's able to have a better understanding of himself and the things that he wants.

His route if given a bit more time would realistically work out for you. Because it goes in such a way where you start out as laughing together as friends before he formally ask if he can be your pre-boyfriend instead of your boyfriend. This would be his first relationship so it makes sense. You're going to work with him slowly on this to build an interesting relationship. You're testing the waters and it's not as if you're exactly dating, but it's figuring out if that's something that you want to do.

You and Yoosung could drive each other to your passions and goals. It feels like that would be a nice balance for you, regardless of if you were to date or not at the end of the day. A little optimism would never hurt so Yoosung would be the counter to your realism. It’s nice to have someone who believes in you no matter what happens, y’know? Be grounded but hopeful, that’s what Yoosung does for you.

[dirtandspitoftheworld]

I have to be honest. I do worry that he's not innocent like we thought. Abuse doesn't have to be physical. Please don't call me a fake fan. Just hear me out. Could his lawsuit just be him panicking? And there are SEVERAL former girlfriends and colleagues (guys & girls) who have said he's just a terrible person. Sure, I don't believe Ashley Smithline or Dan Cleary. But what of other stage crew who haven't come forward? I mean, none of us were there. What about former fans who claim he was inappropriate, even groped them on the tour bus? That wouldn't be their fault, even if they are groupies. If somebody gropes you without consent, it's SA. If somebody jerks off in front of you without consent, it's SA. Or indecent exposure.

I really don't care about "fake fan" shit honestly. if you like music, you're a fan. there's nothing more to it. You really gotta worry less about what other people think of you.

I don't doubt that he's done bad things in the past. The environment he was in made it acceptable. He was encouraged at every turn to be more shocking, more abrasive, alienate himself more. At the end of the day yes his actions are his own responsibility, but the influence of the culture surrounding him absolutely cannot be ignored either.

What I care about is whether a person has changed. And he has.

Also: there is 100% some personal accountability to consider. The entire "groupie" culture is "hanging around to fuck band members." That's a given. That's what a groupie is, by definition. If you present yourself as a groupie, you can expect to be treated as one, and you need to be prepared to take the initiative and set boundaries if that's not what you're actually up for.

cancel me if you want, but the whole modern concept of asking for explicit permission before absolutely every action is extremely far removed from how actual adults interact. I don't care about someone assuming something is ok and being wrong as long as they back off when they're told to. That's just how shit goes sometimes. This idea that people should never HAVE to say no and that everyone should just either read minds or write scripts and contracts for every interaction is fucking backwards.

[everwitch-magiks]

dance with somebody (ch. 16)

start from ch. 1 | back to ch. 15

When Dex steps into Chowder’s bedroom, his single knock on the open door no more than a nostalgic habit, these days, as opposed to a present requirement, he’s certainly not expecting to be faced with, well. With this.

“What’re you doing?��

Chowder looks up. He’s sitting cross-legged on the floor with a myriad of different colored post-it notes spread out around him. Dex crouches down, picking up a couple of the notes (yellow and pink, respectively) to skim through their contents. Louis, helped solve Halloween cupcake disaster, 2 points. Hops, volunteered to do dishes entire week, 6 points.

Dex raises both eyebrows towards Chowder. Chowder, meanwhile, is staring down at the colorful mess surrounding him with a decidedly troubled expression. He sighs.

“I’m figuring out my dibs.”

“With a points system?” Dex prompts. He’s not sure if he’s impressed or concerned. “Looks ambitious.”

“I just don’t want anyone to think that I’m being unfair,” Chowder explains glumly. He picks up a green post-it (Jader, gave up half his vanilla scone at breakfast, 1 point) and stares at it dejectedly. “Or that I don’t care about them. Oh no, what if I pick Jader, and then Joyo inevitably assumes that I hate him? I could never do that to Joyo."

“Dude,” Dex says. He’s trying very hard not to smile. “You don’t have to make a decision yet, you know? It’s not even Christmas.”

Chowder frowns.

“It's almost Christmas.”

“I suppose,” Dex agrees carefully. “Are you sure this isn’t just some big procrastination project? Got any big finals looming, hm?”

“Finals,” Chowder scoffs. “Are finals really more important than the precious feelings of our hardworking underclassmen?”

“Oh my God. What’s all this?”

Nursey strolls into the room without knocking. He places a kiss on top of Dex’s head and then plops himself down between Dex and Chowder, his hand lingering softly at Dex’s nape.

“Chowder is having a bit of a dibs crisis,” Dex fills him in.

“Oh, man. Hard same.” Nursey frowns. “I was dead set on giving mine to Ford. Of course Ollie and Wicks had to go and snag her, first.”

“She and Tango seem pretty happy up in the attic, though,” Dex points out. "And this way, you get to be hausmates with both of them this year."

“I suppose that's true," Nursey allows. Then he shrugs. "And I guess I’ve still got Louis. He’s let me borrow his good bluetooth speakers basically this whole semester, so. Might be an option."

“What?” Chowder exclaims. “No, wait, I might pick Louis. You two couldn't maybe give me some time to figure this out, before you stake your claims?"

“I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works, C,” Dex tells him gently.

“That’s definitely not how it works,” Nursey agrees, his grin playful yet his tone kind. “If there’s someone you have in mind, Chow, you should just go for it. You snooze, you lose."

Chowder whips his head around, aiming his wide, pleading eyes at Dex.

“You’re not considering Louis, too, are you?”

“Honestly? I wish I was considering anyone.” Dex sighs. “I would’ve gone with Whiskey, but obviously that’s out, and I feel like the Waffles have gotten this strange aversion to doing any of those dibs type favors for me since I became captain. I think they don’t want to act like they’re sucking up for the wrong reasons, or something.”

“Maybe give them some proper incentive?” Nursey suggests merrily. “If word got out that you’re, like, completely undecided about dibs, I’m sure both the Waffles and the Scones would be falling all over themselves to please you. Might be fun to watch.”

“Nah. I’ll figure it out eventually.” Dex shrugs. “Graduation is still really far away. I’m not gonna worry about it, yet.”

“It’s not that far away,” Chowder disagrees. He sounds serious. “Guys, it’s almost Christmas. That means we're graduating in less than six months.”

Dex very nearly flinches. Six months? How is that even possible?

“That can’t be right,” Nursey says slowly. His expression has turned uncharacteristically unchill. “Fuck. Why haven’t I applied to more grad programs, yet?”

“I need to start looking at job listings more seriously,” Chowder chimes in. He's looking down at his post-its with an expression that’s unusually difficult to read. “I guess I can't put it off forever."

“Hey,” Dex says. He’s trying his best to sound reasonable, despite his own inner turmoil. Suddenly, the feeling of Nursey’s hand that’s still resting at his nape seems more important than ever. “It’s not over yet. We’ve still got a whole semester.”

“Yeah,” Nursey says quickly. “Yeah, you’re right. And even after, it’s not like you guys are ever gonna be rid of me. Got your backs, remember?”

“That's true,” Chowder agrees quietly. He’s not smiling, Dex notes with no small amount of concern. Especially considering the fact that Chowder kind of hasn't smiled at all since the start of this conversation. His whole expression looks wrong, somehow, without that familiar spark of effortless joy. “It’s all happening so fast. I wish everything could slow down, just a bit.”

“We’re just gonna have to make every moment count,” Dex says firmly. Impulsively, he reaches for Chowder’s shoulder. “We’re here for you, man. You know that, right? We're always gonna look out for each other. Always."

“Of course. Yeah, of course.” Thankfully, that seems to do the trick – Chowders lips curl into a soft grin. "Ugh. I think I'm just gonna go through my notes for that UX design final one more time. Can't be more stressful than trying to choose a single Waffle for dibs."

"Or a Scone," Nursey reminds him brightly. "There's some good freshies, too, let's not forget."

"Says you, who's got your eye on Louis, too," Chowder points out with an amused roll of his eyes. "I may be panicking, Nurse, but I'm certainly not stupid."

"Ah, and here though myself completely subtle." Nursey grins. "Weren't you gonna study?"

"Actually, yes." Chowder gets to his feet, only to immediately pause. He narrows his eyes towards Nursey. "But if you lock down Louis while I'm stuck cramming user interface design techniques, you can expect some serious payback."

"Chill, man." Nursey's grin softens. "Look, I haven't actually decided on Louis yet, but if it would make you feel better we could have some sort of dibs treaty until the end of finals week. After that, it's anyone's game. Sounds good?"

"I suppose that’s fair." Chowder nods, and Dex is relieved to see the genuine smile he offers in return. "I think I left my books downstairs, so. See you guys later."

He pads out of his room, leaving Dex and Nursey alone in the sea of post-its.

Immediately, Nursey scoots a little closer to Dex.

"Just us, huh," he remarks, his tone a clear attempt at casual even though his smile indicates otherwise. "D'you wanna get lunch, or something?"

Dex hesitates.

"I've actually got some things I need to work on," he says carefully. "Could we maybe meet up later?"

"Sure. Of course." Nursey's response comes just a little bit too quickly. "That's chill, man. Whatever you need."

Dex studies his boyfriend's expression for a moment. It's been a concern of his, ever since he started setting aside time to work on his secret project, that Nursey might eventually start to realise there's something Dex isn't telling him. Dex has been monitoring carefully for any sign of doubt or confusion on Nursey's end, and this is the first time he thinks he's seeing exactly that in the subtle frown that's replaced Nursey's relaxed smile from a moment earlier. Obviously, it's the opposite of what Dex hopes to achieve with his secrecy.

Thankfully, the solution is very simple.

"Hey," Dex says quietly. "It's for you."

Nursey looks puzzled.

"I'm doing something for you," Dex clarifies. "That's why I've been a little busy, lately. It's going to be a surprise."

"Oh," Nursey says. He sounds surprised, already. "You're… Huh. What is it?"

Dex grins softly.

"A surprise. Duh."

Nursey raises a curious eyebrow.

"Don't I get a hint?"

"You really don't understand the concept of a surprise, do you?"

"Fine. Be that way." Nursey smiles a little excitedly, and Dex relaxes a bit. "I suppose I'll see you at dinner, then? The guys all want to go to Jerrys.”

"Actually, can we do dinner just you and me?" Dex asks quickly. "There's been so much team stuff, lately, and I've honestly kind of missed us. Tonight, I want to just... Order in. Preferably from someplace that makes a mean garlic bread. And after, we should put on Netflix and get in bed so I can cuddle you while you rant about the dubious plot changes in another one of those Austen adaptations."

Nursey blinks. For some reason, he's staring at Dex with a serious look in his eyes, one that's only vaguely familiar.

"What?" Dex asks, a little self-consciously. Was it something he said? “You like those period dramas. Don’t you?”

Nursey drops his gaze. He takes Dex's hands in his and holds them gently, almost like they're something delicate, like Dex is someone precious and worthy of protection.

"You're in love with me," he says quietly. "Aren't you?"

Oh, shit.

It's true, is the thing. And honestly, Nursey can’t have been unaware of it up until this moment. Really, he must have known. Dex might never have said it in so many words, and they’ve technically only dated for a few months, but it’s not like either of them are blind to the fact that they were dancing around this thing between them for several years, before. That goodnight kiss out on the porch at the very first kegster of the fall was never the beginning.

Dex briefly considers making some sort of joke to downplay this moment, if only to stop Nursey from being completely obnoxious about it in a minute or so. Except, the heavy look in Nursey’s eyes compels him to make a different choice.

"Yeah," Dex says, almost steadily. "I am in love with you. Quite hopelessly, actually."

Nursey’s breath hitches. He squeezes Dex hands tightly, and then he’s leaning over, capturing Dex’s lips in a fiercely desperate kiss that leaves Dex completely breathless. And if Dex didn’t feel it so completely, just then, in every achingly delicate touch of Nursey’s fingers against his cheek, his throat, all the way down his chest, he might’ve been a bit anxious about the fact that, technically, Nursey didn’t actually say it back.

As it is, Dex isn’t worried. If anything, he’s amused.

“You’re welcome,” he chirps gently after they break apart. “I guess I should be thankful you didn’t just tell me to chill, or whatever.”

“Fuck you, man,” Nursey breathes out, his voice breaking in a way Dex didn’t expect at all. “Also, just, shut up, okay? You already know that I’m writing literal fucking poetry about you, about your freckles and your eyes and your hips and your smile and your stupid fucking lips, okay. I’d like to think you’ve been able to safely assume that I’m more than casually into you.”

“I’d like to think that’s the impression I’ve given you, too,” Dex says slowly. He feels a little confused. Suddenly, he’s tempted to drag Nursey across campus to the wood workshop and just show him, right now, to expose everything that he’s dreaming and hoping and wishing. “Nursey. Hey, Nurse. Look at me.”

“No, you’re right.” Nursey takes a breath. He meets Dex’s eyes with a watery smile. “I don’t know, man. It just hits differently, when you say it out loud. Feels more real. It’s like you spoke it into existence.”

“Maybe something for your next poem,” Dex teases gently. This moment feels too fragile, somehow. He racks his brain for some way to break the tension. “Did you ever read me the one about my hips?”

“Um.” Quickly, Nursey looks away, his smile suddenly more of a bashful grin. Bingo. “Did I mention that one, just now?”

“You did.” Dex grins, too, taking in Nursey’s clearly flustered expression with interest. Oh, this is gonna be good. “Tonight, okay? Read it to me, tonight.”

“I don’t… It’s not my most coherent work, probably.” Nursey clears his throat, and Dex grins a little wider. It’s not often that he manages to make Nursey this unsettled. “I mean, I’ll see if I can find it.”

“Suppose I’ll just have to inspire a new one, if you don’t,” Dex suggests slyly.

“Actually,” Nursey breathes out, already moving to climb into Dex’s lap. “That sounds-”

“Oh my God!” Chowder exclaims from the still open door. “We’ve been over this! You both have your own rooms, okay, you’ve literally got zero excuses for getting your freak on right in the middle of-”

Dex presses his lips briefly against Nursey’s before scrambling to his feet, quickly slipping past Chow into the hallway.

“Sorry, Chowder!” he calls out over his shoulder as he takes the stairs two steps at a time. “Love you, Nurse! Bye!”

“That’s a fine, isn’t it?” Pips calls from the living room as Dex practically sprints past. “Hey, wait! Major fine! Pay the fuck up!”

Dex let’s the door to the Haus fall shut behind him. As he makes the now familiar trek across campus, he doesn’t stop smiling for a single moment.

ch. 17

[nadziejastar]

Challenge: It's easy to complain about bad decisions. but it doesn't actually solve anything. Let's say that SE decide that Lea and Isa's story was mishandled and decide that you're the person to get it back in order. You're not allowed to throw KH3 out, but you can tweak and retcon things to support future narratives. How do you fix the story going forward?

Well, maybe this will sound like a cop-out answer, but…if I was in charge, I’d just go back to the original idea for Lea and Isa’s relationship. I complain so much because it really was too good of a story to waste. If I was in charge, I really wouldn’t try very hard to stay consistent with KH3’s mess of a plot. I mean, it’s not like KH3 tried very hard to stay consistent with the previous games’ plot points, anyways. Not just with Lea and Isa, but in general. KH3 assumed its audience was a bunch of total idiots who wouldn’t notice obvious discrepancies and plot holes. It had flagrant disregard and disrespect for the series’ story and lore. It was honestly one of the worst cases I’ve ever seen in that regard. It truly is beyond my understanding me how anyone can defend it.

I mean, Saïx was totally evil and sociopathic for the whole series. He was not humanized in any way, shape, or form. Last we saw of him, he was trying to kill Axel in a psychotic rage. Now, he’s on the clock tower asking for ice cream. There is NOTHING in-between to justify this change.Then he’s happily celebrating with all the good guys in the ending. That Twilight Town scene’s purpose was obviously just to introduce the sequel-bait girl. KH3 didn’t give a single fuck about having Saïx’s character make a lick of sense.So, I’d do the same. I’d ignore his personality in KH3, just like KH3 ignored ALL of his previous story and characterization. And I’d emphasize that he was possessed by Xehanort the whole time in future games.

It was hinted over and over and over again that Isa had his heart captured by Xehanort. He was there against his will and was being controlled. They weren’t even that subtle about it. He was the only one who couldn’t “see” Xion. They devoted an entire secret ending to showing us that he was taken by Young Xehanort before he woke up. He had orange eyes, pointy ears and a scar shaped like a Recusant’s Sigil.His personality changed drastically since they snuck into the castle while mind control experiments just happened to be taking place. Yet in KH3, we are told that he joined Xehanort of his own free will to “atone”. This happens off-screen and is never even directly stated. It’s only hinted at through the Secret Reports. If he has to atone, then he is morally responsible for Saïx’s actions—therefore the implication is that Isa was NOT possessed. Just shameless retconning. Well, what’s the harm in a bit more then?

I’d retcon some new info in to make Isa Subject X and the little girl they were trying to rescue Kairi. Ansem’s Reports were not really written by Ansem, but his apprentice calling himself Ansem. The reports about Subject X can be the same. They were written by Isa, Xehanort and Ansem the Wise, but somebody doctored them as part of a cover-up, or something. I don’t know exactly where KH4 is going with Subject X and the memory experiments, so I can’t say exactly what I would change yet. But at least in KH3, you don’t even have to change the Reports that much to make them fit Isa perfectly. So yeah. She’s not Subject X. He is. Skuld can have her subplot with the memory experiments or whatever. I guess. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about her. But whatever. She’s separate from Subject X. I’d bring back all of the dropped plot threads from BBSV2 if I was in charge.

Seekers of Darkness were directly stated to become another Xehanort when they had his heart implanted within them. We saw Master Xehanort transfer his consciousness to Isa and control him at the end of KH3D. Yet, in KH3, they are all there on a volunteer basis! Demyx just thought it’d be fun to bring about the end of the world, I guess! Musta been a Monday. Plus, we know how much he loved working for the Organization! 

Now all of a sudden, you can just directly implant hearts inside of replicas, and poof! They’re magically human! Before, the concept was that replicas were implanted with memories, akin to installing data on a hard drive. This caused them to develop a sense of self; an unwanted consequence for Xehanort. The heart and memory are intrinsically linked. That’s what Ansem’s research was all about. He interfered in the depths of Terranort’s heart and restored his lost memories, unleashing Ansem Seeker of Darkness upon the worlds.

People can share hearts in this series. All the Seekers of Darkness shared a heart with Xehanort. The fact is that Xion was created from memories of Kairi. She shared Kairi’s heart to experience her emotions. Roxas had fully developed empathy and the ability to wield a Keyblade from the very beginning of Days, because he had Ventus’ heart inside of him the whole time. Unlike Axel, Roxas and Xion didn’t NEED to grow hearts of their own. That’s why Roxas and Xion were called “special” about 10,000 times. They were different from the other members. And it wasn’t because they grew hearts. They already HAD hearts due to their unique circumstances.

Yet, in KH3 the only value Ansem’s data provided was telling Sora that Roxas and Xion’s “hearts” were inside of him. No, the only other heart he had inside of him was Ventus’ heart.The whole point of Re:Coded was that Sora had memories connected to other characters’ hearts inside of him. He was supposed to actually do something about it. But all this was just retconned away, like it never even existed. There was NO point to Re:Coded. But Roxas and Xion are back, so who cares! Besides, it was assumed that we’d be too stupid to realize that it makes no sense!

The Recusant’s Sigil symbolizing death and endings? Never heard of it! It was just retconned away, like it never existed. Well, I’d do the same. Isa and Lea were not apprentices. They were kidnapped and used as test subjects after they snuck into the castle. Why did they say they were apprentices? Who cares, just ignore it. I’m sure they were forced to do some awful things as part of the experiments. Maybe it can be revealed that they said they “became apprentices” as a euphemism for the true horrors they experienced, that are hard to talk about directly. Yeah, it’s total bullshit. But it’s no more bullshit than what KH3 did. Its story required me to ignore ALL of KH3D and ALL of Saïx’s character arc until that point.

[neutralbardicmess]

Hey, I know that this isn't your responsibility or anything, you don't owe me anything especially not your time. I just want to give my perspective on the whole concept that it's swedish culture to not invite people to dine with them for dinner.

Bottom line is; I have never heard of it.

I'm swedish and seeing any posts about it just makes me go "what the heck are you guys talking about?" That have never happened to me, and so I asked everyone I know who is swedish — everyone answered the same; no one have ever been made to go without food as those viral posts describe.

I have no idea what those people are talking about. If they were made to go without food that's horrible and messed up. But I don't think that's Swedish culture.

Once again though, it is not your responsibility to hear me out... And yeah leaving people to go without food like they describe is horrid so by all means shame them.

I just wanted to provide at least the option of another perspective. It's kind of confusing to be implicitly called an child abuser because I'm swedish, just because some choice few people decided their experience was swedish culture.

I've never, would never, and will never make somebody's sit out on food. And neither have I experienced it, nor have my friends, in our 20+ years living in Sweden. I don't know what else to do, I can't really rectify this wrong because this "wrong" never really happened in the first place so how do I atone for a crime I never did? I feel kind of bad for burdening you with this. You're just a stranger on the internet, reblogging what is funny memes and I assume you think you're advocating against leaving people without food. I can't blame you for that.

I'm sorry, this is very entitled of me... If you read it all I appreciate you giving my words at least the time for that, and I hope you can forgive me for this rather selfish vent. If you didn't, that's fine too, you don't owe me anything. Regardless I hope you have a good day!

ur all good ! I dont really get asks of any kind so this is kinda new lol

ive honestly been on this hellsite long enough to not really believe most of the things i see on here bc 9 times out of 10 its just someone being a jackass---- I appreciate the input/concern though! considering i am also a jackass trying to be funny on here, i prefer getting called on my shit that way i can do better moving forward!

Tho at this rate if someones on here for a little while and their still gullible enough to fall for shitposts like the sweden thing thats going around,,,, its kind of on them? this place is a godless wasteland and they should know better akcjaknc

that being said, as long as it stays as a harmless joke i dont see an issue? but if it ends up escalating past that then ill prob just delete the posts

[oldmyths]

hiya drew, what are a couple bands/songs you'd recommend for someone interested in getting into classic rock? I hope you're having a great day

hey anon! this is an extremely loaded question! sdfjdfkgjd (and i’m really flattered you’re askin me, because, omg, it’s an honor)

(under a read more bc i talk too god damn much)

okay. lemme preface this by saying i barely scratch the surface when it comes to classic rock. in fact i just like the “popular” classic rock bands, because i’m a hipster loser (and i grew up on some of this stuff and don’t really have much of an interest venturing further but hey, who knows, maybe i’ll expand my spotify library in due time)

there are people on this website in the CR fandom who are so much better equipped to answer this, but u asked me, and i never really bothered to integrate into the cr fandom anyway because i feel like theyre all cooler than me and i just wanna sit down and listen to like, the same two albums on repeat, but anyway. to answer your question…

it really just depends on what genre you like. what kind of music you want to get into; i can sit here and tell you to listen to pink floyd and go on about their significance but i can’t make you Like them yknow?

so…..i’m just gonna list a few of my favorite songs by the most well-known classic rock bands because, like i said i just kind of barely scratch the surface on the classic rock format as a whole

as some of you may be aware, i am drew “beatlefucker” angelshane (thanks ana) and to get these bug boys out of the way, i’ll give u some song recs from the beatles! (early 1960s to 1970) (genres: rock, pop, psychedelia)

surely you’ve heard of them; if not, they caused a huge uproar across the world called beatlemania. think of like…tumblr, as a planet, and the beatles is the newest, hottest anime of the season, and everybody’s got a huge heart boner for them. because that’s basically what it was.

here are some of their songs that have been in my head for the past few days: drive my car (rubber soul, 1965); eleanor rigby (revolver, 1966); and if i fell (a hard day’s night, 1964)

revolver is the most recent album i’ve listened to, they have more but the next proper Album is sgt. pepper and that feels…like. so much. it’s a Huge Album, both content-wise and…history-wise? anyway, it’s very intimidating for me and i think i want to take my time with it before i rush in

i’m just gonna get led zeppelin (late 1960s to 1980, some reunions sprinkled here and there,) out of the way, now, too. (genres: hard rock, blues rock, folk rock, heavy metal)

let me just say right here: i hate jimmy page. as a person. and i honestly think most of his solos aren’t…that great. but for real, i won’t tolerate any of that ugly shithead on my blog and just because i like LZ doesn’t mean i condone any of the shit he did.

(you’ll notice a trend, especially in the older bands, that controversy is super common. u can’t..really get into classic rock without having to see the darker side of your faves. it sucks, nobody’s perfect, and i don’t agree with separating the artist from the art, but it does get hard to like certain music when you know the shit that happened with certain artists.)

Anyway! that being said, i truthfully only really listen to led zeppelin and led zeppelin ii. some physical graffiti but, eh. So, if you wanted to get into lz, you’re askin the wrong person, is what i’m saying jfkgsdj

here’s my song recs: good times bad times and dazed and confused (led zeppelin, 1968); whole lotta love and ramble on (led zeppelin ii, 1969); kashmir (physical graffiti, 1975)

and honestly the JP thing is why i don’t really listen to LZ much outside of their self titled and lz2. cos like. i just can’t.

QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN (1970s to…now? personally, if freddie mercury isn’t involved then..is it really queen) (genre: rock)

if you don’t know who queen is, you know who queen is. bohemian rhapsody? of course you know that song. everyone does.

but if you don’t then that’s perfectly ok too. it’s a good song imo. not their Best, but it’s good

i gotta be honest, i listen to singles mostly. i’ve got a lot on my proverbial plate and while i Love freddie mercury (bi king) sometimes i’m just. not in the headspace for queen. they’re good but a certain specific set of circumstances need to happen where i feel aligned with queen music enough to listen to it. also, freddie’s death makes me really sad and if i think about it too hard i’ll get depressed.

here’s my favorite queen songs!!!

brighton rock and killer queen (sheer heart attack, 1974); you’re my best friend (a night at the opera, 1975); somebody to love and GOOD OLD FASHIONED LOVER BOY (a day at the races, 1976); TOO MUCH LOVE WILL KILL YOU (made in heaven, 1996)

honestly..queen is so influential and inspiring and i fucking love freddie mercury so like. those are just a few of my favorites. i could honestly go on forever about it but let’s stop there

now let’s get away from the boys and talk about stevie nicks because she is my mother and i would die in her place given the chance. i love her. I Love Her.

but i mean you’d probably better begin at fleetwood mac (late 1960s to the mid 1990s; late 1990s to …now?) (genres: pop rock, soft rock, blues rock, art pop, british blues)

this is a band i don’t know much about. because there’s apparently so much to know about them, so much inter-band dynamic drama. from what i’ve skimmed. So Much Drama.

i…can’t provide any songs for you, because i dont listen to fleetwood mac and i need to fix this ASAP but i feel like the time isn’t right yet. is that dumb of me to think? probably, but i’m gonna stick by my guns.

you should listen to fleetwood mac and tell me what you think!!!

(yes i included a portion on stevie nicks without giving song recs because i’m awful: listen to edge of seventeen, bella donna, 1981)

okay back to smelly dudes cos that’s all the world fuckin cares about i guess

pink floyd!!! (mid 1960s to mid 1990s, mid 2000s, and early/mid 2010s) (genres: progrock, art rock, psychedelic rock)

i mean i love them but i’m just dipping my toes in the water here. i’ve barely listened to them, but from what i’ve heard they’re very good. VERY politically driven. i cannot stress this enough. they’re the good kind of politics i think though

you’ve most definitely seen the album art for the dark side of the moon. like, you just have. there’s probably no way you couldn’t have. (but if u haven’t thats fine)

here’s some tunes: money (tdsotm, 1973); the wall. just. the wall. if you love concept albums, here you go. listen to the wall.

that’s all i got. pathetic, i know, but i’m workin my way up i promise

here’s where we get into more familiar territory. ..having said that, i don’t really know much about the history of the rolling stones, but a good friend of mine Does and maybe i can pry info out of her. but i won’t bc she’s too cool 4 school and she’s really great

anyway, the rolling stones!!! (early 1960s to like. now i guess) (genres: rock, blues, blues rock, rock and roll)

woof. what can be said about them really. there’s…..almost too much to say. i love them a lot.

Okay when i get into bands, its in my DNA to listen from the very earliest recording i can find (usually on spotify nowadays) so i’ve been sslowly working my way past the baby pebbles albums (mostly covers) to their original work (fun fact did you know john and paul of beatles fame wrote their own music, and when mick and keith of stones fame found out it was In Fact That Easy they began to write their own music too? fascinating.)

ANYWAY here’s some stones songs: gimme shelter and you can’t always get what you want (let it bleed, 1969); angie (goats head soup, 1973); sympathy for the devil (beggars banquet, 1968)

again i am….Slowly inching my way up their discography. snails pace. i’ll get there. (u can ask glimmerkeith on tumblr for stones song recs, bc shes great and knows much more than i do and i would die for jenn)

now here’s a band…….that i’ve rediscovered pretty recently. try, last week.

AC/DC!!!!!!!! (early 1970s to now) (genres: hard rock, blues rock, rock and roll)

this is Very Much Your Dads™ Music. probably. most likely, anyway. but listen: i saw them in concert once and (while it probably…wasnt the best experience for me) i had a fucking Blast. very sad things happened in this band in the last few months.

not recent, but very important, in 1980 their lead singer bon scott died and everyone was sad. then brian johnson came out with his fuckin voice and everyone was like “ok sweet lets get back to rock n’ roll”

so this will be split by scott’s era and the johnson era (heh heh) And, because i’m familiar with this band, i’ll list the album in question and name a few songs off it instead of just naming songs. because yes.

scott:

T.N.T (1975); it’s a long way to the top (if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll); T.N.T; high voltage

dirty deeds done dirt cheap (1976); dirty deeds done dirt cheap (edit: i just realized how much i actually hate this album and only like that song so WHOOPS but i wanna keep the formatting so, yknow)

let there be rock (1977); let there be rock; whole lotta rosie

highway to hell (1979); highway to hell (it just felt really weird, making a reclist of songs by ac/dc and Not including this one)

johnson:

back in black (1980); HELLS BELLS; shoot to thrill; given the dog a bone; back in black; you shook me all night long

for those about to rock we salute you (1981); for those about to rock (we salute you)

the razors edge (1990); thunderstruck

making this list, it hit me how much of bon scott i actually Listen to when i listen to ac/dc dfkjghjdfksdsfj but uh yeah those. are good

AND NOW…FOR THE FUCKIN MOMENT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

GUNS! AND! ROSES! (mid 1980s to NOW MOTHERFUCKERS!!! THEYRE BACK!!! well, touring at least) (genres: hard rock, heavy metal

arguably my favorite band. subjectively, my favorite classic rock band. objectively? they own a huuuge portion of my heart, and my ass.

so listen up: these two kids from indiana run away to california to get out of fucking indiana, because who wants to stay in indiana, (it’s more like, one gets out, and like a year later the other kid tries to find him in the big mean streets of L.A) and along the way they get shuffled in and out of bands together. they start bands, break up bands, the whole fuckin shebang.

and then a few chance miracles happen and suddenly guns n’ roses is formed in like 1985. my boys? those are my boys.

i’m gonna do what i did w ac/dc and bullet the albums and then i’m gonna talk about the albums because i got SHIT to SAY

appetite for destruction (1987); welcome to the jungle, out ta get me, paradise city, sweet child o’ mine, ROCKET QUEEN

all right so here’s the deal, it was very hard not picking every single song on the album because every single song on the album is fucking perfection. actual gold. there’s no flaws in this album. Nothing. everything is good and perfect and i’m not biased at all

did you know axl rose (one of the boys from indiana) recorded each line individually? so, he sang a line, and then stopped recording, and then started recording the next line because he wanted it to be perfect?

did you know appetite was originally a flop album but after this dude got the guys at MTV to play the music video for Jungle at like 5am, guns n’ roses BLEW THE FUCK UP. Everybody know about them practically overnight. it was surreal and really cool, apparently.

and did you know axl played the synthesizer in paradise city? that’s adorable. i fucking love him.

gn’r lies (1988); patience; used to love her

the first four tracks in this EP are from their very first EP ever recorded - it Sounds like it’s taken from a live show but they dubbed in the audience in post, to make it seem like they had huge crowds attending their shows when in reality that wasn’t the case. (their first ep was released in december 1986, they had loyal fans but the crowd wasn’t that rowdy until after appetite came out)

believe me when i tell you. don’t listen to one in a million. or like, do. but i’m not gonna fight anyone about this. it’s fucked up. i’m not defending axl at all and i actually struggled with liking guns after i listened to it.

but unfortunately here we are and i saw them in concert and i had to deal with some fuckhead in the row behind me and his friend who kept Shouting that they play the song, when nobody on stage could her them, and like. of course they wouldn’t play it today. fuck off man

use your illusion i (1991); right next door to hell; dust n’ bones; perfect crime; november rain; BAD APPLES; COMA

i tried to limit these to five songs an album but i fuckin can’t, anon. illusion1 is just so fucking perfect. i can’t choose between my children. pls forgive me

on dust n’ bones and double talkin’ jive is izzy stradlin doing vocals (the second indiana boy, the one who left indiana first) and he’s regarded as the most unnderrated member in gnr by like everybody. so much so that it’s almost…too much. but like basically he was addicted to drugs and everything and then he sobered up when everyone else in the band was still hooked and he was like “wtf i’m out” and axl was like noooo :(

use your illusion ii (1991); civil war; 14 years; GET IN THE RING; locomotive; estranged; you could be mine

UYI1 and 2 were released on the same day. can you imagine how fuckin wild that day was? gnr fans scrambled to their record stores by the hordes probably.

izzy does vocal work in 14 years and this album was his last contribution to the band

uhhhh this album is also fucking perfect but i get sad listening to it sometimes so i try not to? very emotionally driven work. but like, where UYI1 was mostly passionate and angry-ish based, UYI2 is much more contemplative and uhh. sad. i guess.

“the spaghetti incident?” (1993)

this is a cover album and also the last album to feature my love, my soul, my light, my heart, slash. also duff. i mean i love him probably almost just as much but, yeah. duff actually looks like my cousin’s dad so i can’t really…. um. i feel weird about talking about him kjdfgd

but SLASH my god what a perfect man. i love him more than almost everything.

hey fun fact in between UYI and TSI, guns n’ roses toured with metallica and that tour is when slash, In His Autobiography, said he “lost” axl. his word. he Lost axl.

axl rose is a whole fuckin…..topic for another time, and i’m not gonna get into my own bullshit here, but that’s basically the situation when you listen to TSI. the band is fractured and barely holding together. after TSI, slash and duff leave GNR and axl is the only original member from the band still in it

(of course that opens up a conversation of who was originally in guns n’ roses but that’s another discourse for another time)

CHINESE DEMOCRACY (2008); CHINESE DEMOCRACY; BETTER; THERE WAS A TIME; SORRY; MADAGASCAR; PROSTITUTE

I. FUCKING. LOVE. THIS. ALBUM. MORE THAN I COULD EVER EXPRESS. everyone says it’s “not gnr” of COURSE it isn’t gnr, when YOU think of GNR, you see slash. and like, i love slash? but he didn’t make the band. EVERYONE - axl, izzy, steven, duff, And slash made the band. after steven was kicked, gnr lost a huge part of what made them stand out, what made the band unique.

and like, fuck, i love dizzy. i love all of the new additions. but you cannot. fucking look me in the eyes and tell me you love UYI But you hate CD because it’s “not gnr”. like. fuck you man.

ugh anyway. i just gotta let y’all know my Stance on this. i love chinese democracy. i’ll defend this album with my fucking life. i was really…disappointed when, at my concert, i didn’t hear more CD but like i also saw slash in person (albeit, from far away, but we shared the same arena and that’s. more than i can handle)

i wanna get lyrics from prostitute tattooed on my body.

also like you can’t tell me better and sorry aren’t about slash sorry but that’s just the fuckin tea

Now, listen, this ask got away from me. i didn’t include…SO many bands because, like i said, i just scratch the surface of what classic rock is. my word isn’t law, ok? that bein said, i am always, ALWAYS down to talk about any of the bands here, and others!!! if i know of them. i’m always taking music/song recs, too.

thanks..for reading this stupid answer to your innocent ask sdfkjghsdf

[ciircumserpent]

(( I actually have a question I've been thinking about for a while if you're up for it, and that question is : How the actual fuck does Liquid Snake think genetics works? Do you think the whole 'I got all the recessive genes' thing is BS for the sake of having more reasons to hate David, or do you think he honestly believes he's at a genetic disadvantage somehow? This shit keeps me awake at night.))

mgs clarification questions.

i will never understand the attention that this particular point gets because it’s been so... beaten into the ground by the fandom. yes, liquid snake doesn’t know how genetics work, that’s a thing that happened. it just also happens to majorly push the plot, so it looks glaringly stupid if you realize that he’s wrong.

but, like, that’s the thing. the majority of people aren’t going to. i know i’ve seen so many comments like, ‘anybody with an eighth grade understanding of genetics will know he’s wrong!’ so how many people is that, really? how many people first playing the game when it came out knew that recessive genes didn’t mean weaker genes? what about kids playing it today? after all, if you ask the average middle or high schooler what the difference between recessive and dominant genes are, their answer is probably going to be that dominant genes override recessive genes -- that dominant genes are stronger. never mind that genetics is so much more complicated than that; that is a basic understanding of how two categories of genes function. recessive genes get written over by dominant genes and are never expressed ever. they might say something about blond hair and blue eyes ( both of which liquid have, by the by ), and how they’re signs of ‘weak’ genes that didn’t get swamped by ‘stronger’ genes. 

yes liquid is a grown ass man, but he ran away at the age of twelve, and even if he came back to britain to be in the sas, he’s not a geneticist. when, in learning how to pilot planes, was somebody going to give him a crash course on the finer points of genetic science? if some coworker of yours was like, ‘i guess i’m just bad at this because i have only recessive genes’, you’d probably have one of two responses: firstly, if you don’t know what he’s talking about, you’d blink and look away; secondly, if you do, then what the hell are you going to say? uh, okay? are you going to confront liquid snake about his poor understanding of reproduction? so he can start telling you about human cloning that isn’t really cloning? i mean imagine how fast you’d back out of that conversation if you even started it. you’d get past ‘that’s not how genes work’ into straight sci-fi territory and you’d be convinced that this guy was crazy.

in canon, we have a few possible explanations for this ( excluding kojima being the misinformed one because he’s already stated that it’s liquid who’s wrong and whether or not he’s covering his own ass we have to take it at face value because we will never know ):

1) liquid heard someone talking about genes when he was like... ten or eleven, made the natural assumption that ‘recessive’ means ‘weak’, and just rolled with it from there, never correcting his information.

2) the above happened, it was corrected, but liquid was already so obsessed with the concept by this point and had fueled his hatred for snake and big boss to such a degree that he just didn’t care enough to change his point of view. one way or another, someone chose snake to be ‘better’ than him. recessive v. dominant is just a way of expressing that.

3) liquid just knows that snake is supposed to be the ‘better’ twin, either because someone told him or because he knows that david is chilling in america while he’s running wild around africa and the middle east without an adult in sight to take care of him. he also knows that, as a clone, his genes are flawed. there is something wrong with him; you can go with the dolly the sheep telomere theory ( a bit dated but still viable especially given the time these games were written ), you can believe fully in the patriot ‘failsafe’ that caused their rapid aging. something is causing his body to age more rapidly than a normal person’s. by mgs1, people who know snake are commenting that he aged poorly, and he’s only thirty-three, meaning that he has nine years to live. by that logic, liquid is in the same boat. he is already feeling his advanced aging, at least to a degree. with a minimal understanding of genetics, he expresses this as having ‘flawed, recessive genes’, emphasis on the genetic material taken from big boss being poor in quality rather than them being recessive.

4) we go all the way back to his original dialogue and try to fit it into retconned canon, which leads us to the conclusion that venom snake didn’t know shit about genetics -- which, with all his brain issues going on, is fair. this falls through in that venom was a medic, but between his conditioning and the fact that medic does not automatically equate to geneticist, it’s plausible. ‘he always told me i was inferior.’ i don’t know how this would translate to venom knowing about david to compare the two, or whether the real big boss actually met liquid or not at some point in the 90s. either or neither is fine. combine with any of the above explanations, but put venom / big boss as the source.

but you really could chalk it up to bad writing, since the entire premise of mgs1 is that they literally took prominent ‘soldier genes’ from big boss -- traits that just made him a better candidate to be a superb soldier -- and transplanted them onto teenagers and adults to enhance their abilities, which is so much more bullshit than a manchild with an inferiority complex not knowing that recessive =/= weak and dominant =/= strong. if they hadn’t backed out on liquid and had the team itself call him out for his stupidity, we might have just had to accept that in the world of metal gear solid, genes actually worked like that. but no, they made liquid look like a fool, but never... raised any issue... with the entire genome soldier plot. somehow big boss’s genes are killing them? i’d say that’s probably from trying to experiment with ‘grafting in genes’ on a cellular level than from anything being wrong with the genes themselves. straight up... how did that... work... and i’m not a geneticist either so i literally don’t know but why does everyone harp on poor liquid who never did get that standard eighth grade science education instead of the fact that the government meshed big boss’s soldier abilities into preexisting u.s. soldiers... also this never... comes up again... even kojima knew it was stupid as hell.

OTHER THAN THAT it’s up to any given liquid writer to decide what the truth is but if you try to take metal gear seriously as an anti-war war story you are missing the half that is sci-fi anime bullshit and also essential. metal gear’s apparent gritty realism has always been balanced with garbage and it’s made harder by the fact that some of kojima’s political points are so spot-on that you forget that this is also a series with active telepaths where the characters know on and off that they’re in a video game.