#i like aliens and fairies and happy endings

[s--strawberry]

yknow ive actually after all this years never read a destiel fic ??? i hate searching for fics and im under the impression most of the fics about them are gonna be tragic and sad which i dont like so i would have to spend a lot of time looking to find a cute funny one,,,

[justagirlswrld]

Thousand year old, sexy, space princess seeks companionship! must be hot!

a/n: i told you i was a mark grayson groupie.

warnings: unprotected p in v. humanoid!reader. stuff that happens in sex happens in this. porn w plot.

part two

“….Mark, why is there a purple…guy outside your window?”, Mark doesn’t look up from the Seance dog comic at the sound of Will’s confused voice, choosing to roll his brown eyes instead.

“Yeah, funny.”, Mark replies in an airy tone.

“No, Mark i’m ser-”, Rick cuts his boyfriend off as he walks through the front door of the apartment, “Why is there a purple man outside of the living room window?”, This finally gets Mark’s attention, he looks over at the window in question and his eyes grow triple their size.

Mark is in his suit in less than a second, comic thrown onto the couch he was just relaxing on. He floats over to the window, taking in the short, stocky….lavender man that flies just outside the apartment on deep, amethyst wings.

Mark opens the window roughly and the man scampers back, he didn’t plan on hurting the creature but it seemed like someone always wanted to fight on his days off.

Mark flies out the large window, he dwarfs the…man easily. He has an uneasy smile on his face, Mark notices that his mouth is filled with long canines and he tries not to grimace. “I’m not helping any….fairies today. so, leave.” With that Mark turns his back on him, a strong hand grasps his shoulder. In an instant Mark is zooming into the afternoon sky, holding the lilac haired creature by the collar of his thin shirt.

His purple skin now has a slight gleam from his nervous sweat. “I’m not a fairy, I come from the planet-“, Mark cuts him off, “I don’t care. Now go.”, Mark releases the being and hovers in front of him but he doesn’t budge. Mark rubs a gloved hand down his face in frustration.

”Mark Gray-“, Mark cuts him off instantly, “My name is Invincible when i’m in this suit. What do you want?”

The alien nods, “Invincible, please. I haven’t come to harm you…my planet needs your help.” Mark groans inwardly, why was it always on his day off.

The mysterious man goes on to explain how another evil alien race has come to conquer his kingdom. He paints a picture of his beautiful world being annihilated and his people being slaughtered without Mark’s help. “I’ve left it in ruins, Invincible. I’m scared I may be the only Solorian left.”

Mark points to a near by patch of forest in exasperation, “Wait there.” He flies back inside without waiting to see if the creature followed his instructions.

With major convincing from Will and Rick, Mark ends up not ghosting the…Solorian waiting in the woods. When Mark floats down through the trees to the hard ground, he’s sitting on a log with a happy expression on his face.

“Where’s your planet?”, Mark’s tone is serious, he really wanted to be back in time to watch the newest episode of this show he’d been tuning into.

The thing stands, brushing the dirt from his odd pants. Mark notices that he’s dressed like a jester, save for the pointy hat.

“It’s many galaxies from Earth, it usually takes a year to get there,-“ Mark makes a sound as he begins to protest but the man continues talking as he pulls a small, metal disc from his pocket. “But with our technology it’ll only take a minute.”

He throws the disc on the ground with his knobby fingers and its turns into a circular pad. Mark and his traveling companion step on and become engulfed in a pale yellow light. Mark only has time to blink before he’s whisked away, landing on what he assumes to be cobblestone streets.

Mark surveys his surroundings as the man picks up his transporter. There’s winged humanoids dressed almost…medievally everywhere, no one lounges as the planet’s two suns beat down on their backs.

He watches as children with skin in arrays of colors play in the waterfall and clear, blue stream. He has to crane his neck to look at the behemoth of a castle in front of him.

“This doesn’t look like ruins.”, Mark’s eyes shift as he waits for assailants to pop out from behind the thatched roofed shacks that line the street.

“Because I lied to you invincible. Walk with me and i’ll explain.”

They glide towards the castle slowly, the man, Edolan, explains that their princess refuses to marry one of her arranged suitors after hearing of his exploits on earth. They go up winding stair cases before they stop in front of a room with large, oval doors. “She says she must….meet you, before she marries.”, Edolan explains with his hands held behind his back.

“You know you could’ve said that”, is all Mark can think to say in response. Edolan nods, “Yes, I apologize for deceiving you but I had to make it seem urgent in a way you’d understand.” Edolan waves a hand and the doors creek open, “The princess is waiting for you. When you’re finished she will give you passage home the same way you came.”

And he’s gone.

When Invincible glides into your expansive room you’re draped over your canopied bed, idly playing with some alien device.

Mark wasn’t sure what he’d be dealing with when he came through the doors but he damn sure wasn’t expecting you to be pretty…beautiful even. You’re as humanoid as the rest of your subjects save for the blush pink skin and hot pink hair.

You look up at the young man standing a few feet away from you. You lick your lips and Mark is happy to notice that your mouth isn’t filled with razor sharp teeth but human like ones instead.

“Mark Grayson of Earth!”, You greet him, cheeks stretched into a wide smile. Mark blushes as you rise from a lying position to a sitting one, noticing that your breasts are only covered in a thin, bralette of shiny jewels.

“Uh-Hi, you can just call me Mark.” You rise to stand on your bed now as you mimic someone fighting, “Or Invincible! Defender of Earth and slayer of beasts and villains.”

Mark wants to argue that he doesn’t slay villains but nods his head in agreement instead, trying to end this odd experience as soon as possible.

“Right….and you’re Y/N, Solorian princess who refuses to marry until you met me…,”Mark rips his mask off, exposing his handsome face to your eyes, “Will you marry the guy now?” Your eyebrows scrunch together and your lips form a pout. Mark thinks that it’s probably the sexiest expression he’s ever seen.

“That was not the agreement. I have yet to lay with you.”, You say from your place on the bed. If Mark had been drinking something he would’ve spit it out in astonishment.

“Lay with you?”, Mark asks in a shocked tone. You laugh at the expression on the boys face, if he pushes his eyebrows any higher they’ll be on the cathedral like ceilings of your room.

“Yes, Mark Grayson. The promise was that I would finally marry an arranged suitor, saving our planet from war, if you bedded me first.” You lay back down on your large mattress as you wait for the superhero to collect himself.

Mark swallows, he’s not sure if he’s turned on or scared. Probably both. “Um, don’t princesses have to be virgins when they get married?”, you cock your head to the side like a confused dog, “I’m not familiar with the word- virgins.” The word sounds jumbled when it passes your perfect lips.

“It means you never- laid with anyone. On Earth princesses usually save themselves for their husband or their virtue or something.”

You throw your head back and laugh loudly, it’s closer to a howl really. “What a sad life these Earth princesses live. As a Solorian we live for many, many years. I am 1,000 years old, just a baby I know-,“ Mark doesn’t reply as you continue, “And I would never be asked to be a…virkin. Solorian’s find virtue in other ways than saving yourself.” You almost look disgusted as you finish your rant.

Your mind goes back to the task at hand. You unclasp the jewels from your upper and bottom half, positioning yourself so Mark can see your naked body well. You watch as his strong throat bobs.

“Will you lay with me Mark Grayson?”

Mark feels like he might combust on the spot as he nods, more excited than he hoped. He walks to the edge of the bed and sits nervously, palming himself through his suit. “On Earth we usually go on a date first.” He laughs awkwardly, willing himself to get hard. He just couldn’t get out of his head to do so.

“We are not on Earth, Mark.” You slither up his back, breasts pressing against the hard muscles. Your hands rest on his broad shoulders as you press soft kisses to his neck. He groans but when he palms himself again there’s nothing. Mark is perplexed on why because you were super hot and he never had this problem before. It must be how weird the situation is.

You notice the mental battle and stop kissing his neck. “Are you well?”, he nods again and you notice him palming himself. You giggle, the sound so close to his ear that it has his heart speeding up again. “You can’t ‘get it up’? As they would say on Earth”, Mark’s torn between defending himself and asking where you learned that from but chooses silence instead when you slink between his legs.

You make yourself comfortable on your pink knees and look up at him through your lashes with big doe eyes. Mark has an instant semi.

He’s rock hard by the time you slip him out of his suit and into your warm mouth. You suck unabashedly on his thick, cock hollowing your cheeks and swirling your tongue around his angry tip.

“Shhhhiiiiiittt”, Mark moans with his hand tangled in your vibrant hair, hanging on for dear life as you bob up and down his member. “St-Stop i’m gonna-.” Mark trails off, his eyes almost roll back when you choke around his length, gobbling the throbbing cock down your throat.

He finally wrestles your mouth off his cock and he takes a moment to collect himself as he breathes heavily. Mark leans down and kisses you sloppily, he tweaks your nipples hoping that it’ll do something to stimulate you sexually. Luckily it works and you moan lowly in his mouth.

Mark picks you up by your arm pits and tosses you on the bed, you laugh, “Yes! Show me your strength, invincible.” His name is sultry as it falls out your lips, causing a shudder to creep down his spine.

He flips you over roughly by your ankle then pulls you to the edge of the large bed. Mark manhandles you until your face is pressed into your thick blankets with your round ass in the air. When Mark’s tongue pushes its way between your folds you’re a moaning mess.

Mark slowly licks from your wet cunt up to your puckered hole, repeating the motion over and over again. You close your eyes tightly as your moans fill the great space of your bedroom. He uses his skilled fingers to search for your clit, praying that Solorian’s have one. When he finally finds the nub he sucks on it harshly, causing you to cry out and fall on your stomach.

Mark lets out a huff behind you, voice raspy from his previous moaning, “If you want to lay with me princess, you have to keep your back arched.” You do as he says and he continues making a mess of you with his tongue, adding two, slender fingers into your pulsating heat.

When you feel Mark’s bulbous head rubbing against your tight entrance you release a sound akin to a purr. He pushes into you slowly, inch by veiny inch until his hips are flush against your backside.

You call out for him when he pulls out of you and he answers with a moan of his own when he pushes his length back into your tight walls. Mark starts at a slow rhythm that has you moaning with each pointed thrust, still you throw your ass back to meet each one.

Mark’s pace becomes brutal and you struggle to keep up with his pounding hips. One of his large hands slides up your back and wraps securely around your neck. His full lips leaving kisses in its wake. His other hand goes between your bodies to your engorged nub, rubbing slick circles as he continues to pound in and out of you.

Your toes curl so hard that you feel like they may break when Mark hits a deep, spongy spot in your cunt. You call out his name as you come, body going completely still then slumping to your stomach. Mark continues to fuck into your spent cunt, groans turning to moans. Mark pulls out and releases warm come on your lower back and ass cheek.

He lays on his back beside you, both of you two breathing too hard to say anything to one another.

When Mark walks through his apartment door Will is waiting for him, coffee cup in hand as the early morning light peaks through the bay window. Will’s eyes go wide when he takes in his best friend, “Mark! Where have you been? Do you realize you’ve been gone for three months?!”

Mark sits down at the granite island, smiling to himself as he begins to tell his best friend about the alien pussy he had to force himself to leave.

[slimepuparibaba]

hi long one but this is a very important hc / imagine that me and a friend felt is important to share, this is yet another part of the LADS future children series (i made one about rafayel and having twin lemurian babies you can find it in the masterlist here)

taglist: @feralkuromi (if you wanna be added lmk :D)

Anyway without further ado

Xavier adopting a son with you

Have we ever talked about how alienated and alone Xavier felt in his family? How estranged he is from his father and just doesn't seem to fit in?

Xavier would adopt because he probably wants to give a home to some kid that feels just as alone as he did. He wants to give someone a family, a family he didn't have, and he wants to be a good father. He really just wants to be there for a child that doesn't feel like they belong, or even give a kid a home. Wants to give someone that was like him long ago and chance to feel like they belong, or that they at leave have somewhere they can return to and feel safe in.

He will discuss this with you at length, seeming calm, but super nervous because adoption is a lot and he doesn't know your thoughts on it. If you agree to it, just know he will be extremely happy. This doesn't push the idea of having kids being born off the table by the way, he just... really wants to adopt first.

Xavier will do EXTENSIVE research, by the way, this isn't a spur of the moment thing. He's probably been thinking about this for the longest amount of time, and he wants to make sure he does this parenting thing right, especially with a kid who already had a family and must have gone through so much. Genuinely, he is so thoughtful about everything, he will do research alongside you as well.

Paperwork is fun, but hey, you both get through it and end up getting approved.

You end up being matched with a young boy who's about 11-12. His parents were lost in a Wanderer attack when he was 3, and he has no relatives willing to take him in, so he was sent to a home. He had been in about 2 families before but sent back simply because there just wasn't that 'spark', or it wasn't the right fit, etc...

The boy liked taking care of the younger kids. He would tell them bedtime stories or fairy tales, he'd always reassure them... he got used to being there. So when he got matched with both of you, he was surprised (most people who visited usually went for the younger kids because they were deemed 'less troublesome' and had 'no baggage').

There are a lot of pre-placement visits once matched. The first one is nerve-wracking on both ends.

You end up taking the lead in the beginning, learning about the boy, trying to get him to feel comfortable in your presence (he's a little anxious himself), meanwhile Xavier is just quiet beside you (man is overthinking a lot about what to say or do).

In the end though, you leave the two to their devices for a bit (under excuse of 'going to the bathroom') and they start talking. And they get along well.

The boy wants to be a Deepspace Hunter when he gets older so no more kids end up losing their parents to Wanderers. He's currently practicing how to use a sword in school because he wants to be like the knights in stories he read when he was younger, and he always plays the knight whenever playing pretend with the younger kids.

Xavier explained that he's a Deepspace Hunter, and offers to see the boy's technique. And the two begin bonding almost instantly.

As the end of the visit drew near, the boy asked Xavier a question: "If I was your son and you were my dad, would you take me to eat hotpot?"

And Xavier replied: "I would take you anywhere, regardless of if you wanted me as your dad."

The next visit, at the boy's request, you and Xavier took him out to hotpot. And you found out that the boy also had quite the appetite on him.

He and Xavier are alike in many ways. He fit right into your little family. But of course, the boy is the one who must consent to the adoption.

This is a very slow process of building up trust with the boy, but Xavier is adamant on making it work. He's learning how the boy grew up, the environment he's used to, what his daily routine looks like, and already adjusting the home in order to be more familiar to him.

Xavier is also asking the foster parents on advice almost constantly. He's making such an effort to ensure the boy feels right at home (he really wants to get this right, he doesn't want to fail the boy). Man is scouring forums, reading books, everything.

Then the boy does end up being placed in your home with you and Xavier. Things still need to be legalized and finalized in court of course—right now, it's the moment of seeing how he ends up fairing in the household.

He ends up liking the place well! You and Xavier help decorate his room, there's new games that have been bought, and more snacks and food filling the kitchen. The pantries have more silverware, and now there's three plates at the table instead of the usual two.

You introduce the boy to the garden you and Xavier cultivated, you show him the piano (and even play a bit together)... he's making himself at home, really.

He does express fear that you and Xavier may return him back, that neither of you want to go through with this. Because this was the moment when he was sent back the past few times. But, both of you continue to shower him in love.

Xavier really is a good father-to-be, and you recognize that as he helps the kid study for school, knows when to be kind and slightly stern, is doing his best not to overstep boundaries... reminds you of when he was first navigating his relationship with you, and when you realized what a kind and thoughtful partner he is.

It's when the boy one day calls Xavier "dad" and calls you "mom/dad/[insert gender neutral parental title here]" that both of you break. Up until that point, he'd been calling Xavier "Mr. Shen" and you in a similar fashion". But then he told you he wants to be your son. For real. And you and Xavier could not be happier.

After everything is finalized and he's officially adopted, not much has changed. Because truth is, the boy had become a part of the family, had already been seen as your son the moment Xavier met him.

He will grow up into a fine young man, with both his and your guidance. And I know for a fact he will feel loved and cherished by the both of you.

[mambodork]

You answered how each of the hoa buttercups found out about each other, but how do the other hermits react? Is there anyone oblivious to about hoa situation? (I think skizz would be, he would just think mumbo, grian and scar were the normal amount of weird and go ok to anything)

OH, what a fun question! I haven't been thinking too much about this but I'll try my best...

I think after Grian found out about Mumstache he would go straight to Iskall to complain (or maybe prank him along w Mumstache's help). Iskall would just end up laughing his ass off. Like, straight up losing it.

and then it's revealed later on that Grian is ALSO a little guy and Iskall loses it once again, he thinks this is the most hilarious shit that has ever happened ever.

For a more angsty reaction, I'm assuming everyone who knows Grian before his "ascension" AKA the Evo people would be quite mixed emotions at best. Like this guy you've known pretty well dissapears for a bit and then you meet him again and it's pretty cool except for the fact he is now some otherworldly god-thing space spaghetti who has to keep making himself new bodies cuz his old one got destroyed. Like, happy you're not dead man, but what the fuck. Anyways, angsty reunions are always kinda a given in watcher Grian stuff so!! Yeah, not much difference in there!!

I like to imagine Joel and Lizzie to be kinda grossed out by it... like imagine them seeing this weird alien brain creature and facial hair and also blue evil fairy and their face cringes and they just go "eugh..."

Stress would probably find them the cutest little thing ever.

Etho would probably be a little freaked out, i think? Like he would awkwardly just stand there looking at these totally weird & creepy creatures and pretend he's 100% okay with it. Meanwhile Bdubs would just be vocally terrified. Like screams and points whenever he sees them wandering around type thing.

[faeriedaez]

Eureka Investigator OC - Briar Thorne

I decided to redesign an old OC into an Investigator for @anim-ttrpgs's flagship TTRPG, Eureka. Lot's of the fun details are included in this image, but if you wanna know more about her look under the cut! (There will also be some blank copies of this character card template if you wanna make your own Eureka Character in it....)

As far as Investigator Concepts go, Briar DEFINITELY pushes at the edges of what is typically tonally acceptable for a game set in Eureka's assumed setting. But I had fun making her, regardless - and the catgirl character type comes from the tonally shifted Fanservice Files, anyhoot.

Briar Thorne - Character Concept

A catgirl, abandoned at birth, taken in by fairies. She’s a character straight out of a fairytale stuck living her mundanity-ever-after banished to the human world. 

Briar was abandoned in “the woods” at an age too young to remember. The fairies claim to have nothing to do with her feline features. Perhaps her whole family were cat-people, or maybe she was some sort of freak and that’s why she was abandoned. Likely, she will never know. She was found by a group of little folk who took her under their wing(pardon the pun) and into their world. Namely, a garden fairy named Tuft and a few of his friends. Her adopted Fae family was of lower stratum as far as the incomprehensible social structure of fairyland was concerned. Which unfortunately left Briar in the position of ugliest duckling imaginable.

Despite the inherent danger of her life, she lived a happy enough childhood. Galavanting through the woods with her fairy friends, and picking fights with those fairies of middling standing who tried to bully her and hers. Through the course of her life she made a point of becoming versed in the more mundane methods of punishing disrespect. Come preadolescence, she found herself increasingly bumping against her child-like caretakers total lack of emotional intelligence. In her teen years she began to travel back and forth between Fairyland and visiting the Human World with Tuft. Finding herself to be a stranger in both. In Fairyland she was an outcast, but she was at least an outcast on a playing field she knew well. The Human World on the other hand seemed more alien to her each time she visited, and it seemed she stuck out just as badly there. 

Following a rather dramatic adolescent fallout with Tuft, she ended up the court assassin for a particularly unseemly (or if you’d rather, unseelie) family of fairy royalty. At age 22, after failing to secure what was to be the most important kill of her career she ended up banished, spirited away to the human world forever more. Now she’s stuck in a world she barely understands, with a set of skills she has no inkling of how to market. She has been living out of a tent in the woods and hunting for sustenance. She is all too aware she can’t keep dodging the game wardens and coasting by on her accrued fairy wealth of slightly esoteric value forever. 

Truths

I also made trait-esque descriptions for each of her truths. I really enjoyed the process and wholeheartedly recommend:

If You Want Something Done Right: Trust Nobody 

Mostly self explanatory. This truth is being acted on anytime Briar takes matters into her own hands, instead of relying on her fellow Investigators or otherwise makes it clear she doesn’t ACTUALLY trust the people she’s working with.  

Disrespect is Dangerous

Having been raised by fairies, Briar quickly learned that tolerating disrespect will only return dividends of further disrespect. Having no magical abilities at her disposal to punish such trifling, she quickly found more traditionally violent ways of ensuring her own safety. Any time Briar takes actions to punish or otherwise discourage a perceived slight, she is Acting On this truth. 

Yarn Spinner

Briar, while gifted in deceit, will never opt for a white lie when pointlessly convoluted deception will do. Briar is acting on this truth anytime she is making up a needlessly complicated story to trick or otherwise mislead someone. 

Soft-Spot for Kids

Briar is a self interested cut-throat only out for herself… right up until the moment a kid starts crying. She just can’t take it okay? She knows all too well how it feels to be a child in peril, to cry despite the certainty no adult is coming to help you. Anytime Briar acts against her best interests on behalf of a child, she’s acting on this truth. 

I’m the Villain

At this point in her life, Briar is more or less married to the idea that she is a bad person. On some level believing it will hurt her less if she owns it. She’s a liar, she’s a killer, she’s self-interested, and according to her that’s never going to change. Anytime Briar pushes people away, does the hard thing nobody else is willing to do, or otherwise knowingly paints herself to be the villain she is acting on this truth.

(Also, DM if you want the clip studio or photoshop file for this template, I can hook you up.)

[sleepyrxsetea]

It’s official been a year now since I fished The House In The Cerulean Sea and cried for literally hours. Like I shit you not, hours. That book became my favorite book ever.

I think I cried that much because it was such a happy ending and I was a bit nervous. I don’t read happy books typically, that’s on me and I’m planning on changing that. But, I think I was nervous that I would never be able to have the same escape from reality that I had when I was reading that book for the first time and never be able to have characters that make me laugh out loud as much or characters that make me feel seen and loved.

In the past year I’ve read 5 other TJ Klune books. Under the Whispering Door, the first three books of The Green Creak series and Somewhere Beyond The Sea and I got to have that same kind of escape from reality that I had wanted each and every time I read. I always have to stifle my laughter when I read in public, which I more often then I thought would happen, and every book I finished I got to walk away from it feeling seen and loved.

I think that’s how all books should make you feel. I think that all books should help you escape to somewhere you feel safe, whether that be a world full of aliens or fairies or a house near the sea.

I think that all books should make you smile, whether that be from hiding laughter or something really cute happened or whatever it may be that makes you smile while reading.

I think that all books should make you feel loved and seen. Loved by the characters and the carefully chosen words arranged on the pages. Seen because there are characters just like you. Whatever that means to you. And they make you feel validated as a person and that you are not alone.

In this year I plan on reading the rest of TJ Klune’s books and I anticipate feeling these things in each book as I finish it.

don’t waste your time on books that make you feel like shit. I’ve learned that the hard way. Read something that makes you happy, whatever that may be for you.

[theguywithaplan]

List of Video Games Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

Alien: Isolation

Assassin's Creed: Rogue (the one where you play as an Assassin turned Templar.)

Assassin's Creed: Unity (the one set during the French Revolution.)

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky

Azure Striker Gunvolt

The Banner Saga

Bayonetta 2

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea (the DLC where you go back to Rapture)

A Bird Story (a sort of spin-off of "To the Moon")

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (is this a sequel to 1 or a prequel to 1? I forgor)

Bravely Default (in North America)

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (the one with K*vin Sp*cey)

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (to date, the last new Castlevania game to release)

Child of Light

The Crew (going offline at the end of March)

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (a wonderfully strange game from the guy that made Deadly Premonition)

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (in North America)

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (in North America)

Dark Souls II

Deception IV: Blood Ties

Demon Gaze

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Disney Infinity 2.0

Divinity: Original Sin (from the team that would go on to make Baldur's Gate 3)

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dragon Age: Inquisition (the winner of GOTY at the very first TGAs)

Drakengard 3

Earth Defense Force 2025 (EDF! EDF! EDF!)

The Evil Within (from the creative director of Resident Evil)

Fable Anniversary

Fairy Fencer F

Far Cry 4

Freedom Planet

Guilty Gear Xrd Sign

Hyrule Warriors

Inazuma Eleven (in North America. And digital only.)

Infamous: Second Son (as well as its expansion, First Light)

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

The Last of Us Remastered (just one year after the original version came out...)

The Legend of Korra (the game from PlatinumGames that you can't buy anymore)

Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

Lego The Hobbit

The Lego Movie Videogame

Lethal League (from the team that would go on to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (the third and final chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy)

Lisa: The Painful (yes, really)

LittleBigPlanet 3

Lords of the Fallen (not to be confused with Lords of the Fallen, which came out in 2023)

Mario Golf: World Tour

Mario Kart 8 (the original version)

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (the prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which came out 18 months later)

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Might & Magic X: Legacy

Murdered: Soul Suspect (it's like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, but not as good)

Natural Doctrine

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! (a from the ground up remake of the first Oddworld game from 1997)

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 (yes, it got a sequel. I don't know how or why.)

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Pokemon Omega Ruby & Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (the last time that Professor Layton himself was the protagonist. At least, until the New World of Steam comes out)

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Pushmo World

Risen 3: Titan Lords

Sacred 3

Samurai Warriors 4

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (the 3rd one)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Shovel Knight (yes, really)

Skylanders: Trap Team (the 4th one)

Sniper Elite III

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

South Park: The Stick of Truth

Steins;Gate (in North America)

Strider (the one from Double Helix)

Sunset Overdrive

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (or Smash 4 for short)

Tales of Xillia 2

Tales of Hearts R

The Talos Principle

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call

Thief (the reboot)

This War of Mine

Toukiden: The Age of Demons

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (this game merged the storyline of the War for/Fall of Cybertron games with the storyline of the Michael Bay movies. I’m not joking)

Transistor

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Walking Dead: Season Two

Wasteland 2

Watch Dogs

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Here are all of my observations from Unikitty! on what the Unikingdom’s society and culture is like. It’s so I can decide what to include in my AU, and what I’d rather not.

Here’s a full, detailed list of my observations. Long post warning!

The Values and Opinions of the Unikingdom:

Happiness

Fun

Friendship

Love

Carefreeness

Leisure

Creativity and pizazz

These are all very important to the people of the Unikingdom.

Being nice is heavily encouraged; Unikitty has nice princess duties.

Being, quote-unquote, “boring” or anything less than fun, positive, and creative is frowned upon. Being unhappy or angry is as well.

Stories, Mythology and Folklore of the Unikingdom:

Ghosts (There are definitely some spirits in this world. Ghosts are often seen. Could the Score Creeper be a ghost? Dino Dude also mentions the Ghost of Wipeout’s Past.)

Sentient Skeletons

What’s the deal with the Sugar Crash Coaster in Doki Diamond Funland? Can you wish on it? (Unikitty said, “I wish it never ended!” and then the ride never ended for the gang)

Score Creeper traps people’s souls in games

Magical things happening after bedtime (by the way, magic exists in this world)

Spell books for both casting spells and spelling words

Sorcerers

Alchemists

Mages

Pegasus?

Amazon warriors?

Mermaids

Sirens

Ogres

Trolls

Dragons

Wizards that fly on brooms

Witches that fly on brooms

Trickster spirits?

Skin thieves?

Poisoners?

Zombies

Neuromancers

Necromancers

Elves?

Gnomes?

Dwarves?

Goblins

Mysterious hook hands

Chainsaw killers

Lab monsters

Alien invasions

Demons?

An underworld?

Richard dresses like Frankenstein’s monster in Scary Tales?

Scary stories can really be about anything. You can leave someone quaking in their boots with a story about a permanent stain

Stories about pirates

The old beach legend of the Perfect Spot

Detective stories?

People can die from lovesickness in this world by being literally crushed by their crush; their feelings take the form of giant giggling hearts and crush them

The Curse of the Last One There (Whoever is in earshot when the curse is uttered is cursed to be literally turned into a rotten egg if they are the last one to get to a place)

”Chair Valhalla”?

Making wishes with coins, shooting stars, birthday candles, 11:11, wishbones, eyelashes, and four-leaf clovers

Fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Hansel and Gretel exist?

The Golden Goose?

Santa Claus?

The Tooth Fairy?

The Sandman?

Cupid?

Careen Ingle, a director on the show, stated that people can have kids via a stork bringing them pieces that look like them. They build the kid with those pieces. I’m not sure if this happens in the Unikingdom, Frowntown, or everywhere.

Unikingdom Naming Customs:

Animals in the Unikingdom are typically named after their being/what they are.

Lego brick creatures usually aren’t, like Richard, Beau and Kickflip.

Not everyone follows these customs.

Some people’s names are silly made-up words, like Bim-Bom or Stocko.

They don’t use surnames in the Unikingdom.

Areas in the kingdom are named after what they are. For example, Flowery Park is, as the name suggests, a flowery park.

Unikingdom Architecture:

Everything is, quote-unquote, “cute”

Everything is brightly colored and utilizes all the colors of the rainbow

Fountains?

Bouncy castles are legitimately buildings

Towers, either with pointy roofs (like Marques towers) or with round balls at the top

Decorative pennants and banners everywhere

Decorative lights and tassels

Flags

Unikitty’s castle is her, but way bigger

The mouth of her castle is a fountain

The tail is a greenhouse with a garden inside

The horn is a tower; there are crates full of stuff in it

There are secret passages in it (Are these in other buildings as well?)

The mouth fountain spills into the moat, which has a rainbow bridge going over it.

But there is another road to the castle that leads into its garage (where the gang’s vehicles are stored)

Buildings, furniture, and appliances can look like anything

They can also be constructed out of anything

Bunnies live in carrot houses

Crabs all live in a giant sand palace

Beds and homes can also be influenced by what type of animal someone is

Batty (a vampire bat) lives in a house that looks like a cave and sleeps hanging upside down on her ceiling

Hawkodile sleeps in a nest in his treehouse. His nest is never seen in his treehouse except for when he wakes up in one episode, so it’s implied he puts it away during the day.

In another episode, he wakes up with him and a pillow attached to a punching bag

Ball pits and silly slides

Circular/round windows

Lots of geometric shapes as well

Roller coaster tracks behind Unikitty’s castle

Spherical floating buildings behind her castle? We never saw what’s inside them

Towers with round, glowing lights

Gingerbread houses?

Fantasy yurts?

Round aquariums

Condomiums?

A Unikitty sphinx?

The Toy Zone/Toy District has shops similar to carnival booths

Japanese-inspired architecture in Action Forest, such as the dojo and the Torii gate in front?

By the way, Eagleator destroyed the dojo. It’s shown that it’s still destroyed to this day, and Eagleator camps out in the rubble now. But aren’t you supposed to treat a dojo with respect? (Did Eagleator kill Sensei Falcomodo?)

I don’t think the Unikingdom is trying to represent any real countries or cultures

Everything about Action Forest is based on gritty action movies from the 80s

Forts?

Stony lairs (such as Flamurtle’s lair)

Torches

Buildings, such as the castle, have secret passages

Tubes with sparkles passing through them

These tubes can also be seen inside people’s brains. Is that where their sparkle matter comes from?

Trash is discarded in trash cans and dumpsters

There are many playgrounds with swingsets, slides, monkey bars, sand pits, seesaws, and springy rocking horses (or rocking animals, or foods)

Unikingdom Symbolism:

Silhouettes of Unikitty’s head are very prominent

I spotted flags that had a silhouette of her head. Are either of them supposed to be the Unikingdom’s national flag?

Are there other unicorn-cats?

Are there any unicorns?

Clouds (Some are rainclouds)

Rainbows

Suns?

Moons?

Hearts?

Stars?

Sparkles?

Sparkle Matter?

Planets?

Cool sunglasses are “an action hero’s highest honor” in the Unikingdom

Hawkodile’s were given to him by his sensei

The torii gate in front of Action Forest…

Is Action Forest supposed to be a sacred place?

Their official bread- a cat-shaped bread roll with cream and a strawberry on top

Their official fish- a wide-eyed orange fish with a beak

Their official bird- A green, parakeet-looking bird

Their official scary man who lives in the sewer- Yes, this is a thing they have. He’s green, and he wears brown rags.

Their official song- Official Song. It just goes, “OFFICIAL SONG! Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!” (That’s all there is to it; it has no real tune)

Their official candy- The gang tried to pick one. They brought their favorite candies to life and had an entire Pokémon-style battle with them. In the end, though, they decided that you should just like the candy you have. So, I’ll just say their official candy is whatever candy you like. There’s a lot of candy in the Unikingdom anyway.

Demographics of the Unikingdom

The Unikingdom is populated by anthropomorphic animals

Like I asked, are there unicorns anywhere?

Some of them are animal-based hybrids

Monsters such as the giant jelly creature and krakens

Lego brick creatures

Living stuffed toys

Anthropomorphic foods (like Burger Person, Cookie Guy, and Herbert Sherbert)

Anthropomorphic objects (like Toaster and the kite people)

Living clouds in the sky

Self-aware robots (and rockets)

Crabs and bunnies have their own societies within Unikingdom society, but both are considered part of the Unikingdom. The crabs also have a “pinch dungeon.”

Aliens?? (Hominid is an alien who travels around in its UFO)

These creatures produce sparkle matter, which is sparkly stuff that pops out of someone’s head when they experience strong emotions.

Unikitty can also change color and burn/flood things with her emotions. I imagined that this is a thing unicorns have.

There are no humans/Lego minifigures in this world.

Who are Hank and Kyle? They, to quote Dr. Fox in their one and only appearance, “haven’t been on the team since their funeral.” So they’re ghosts?

And Batman exists?! Batkitty is the ONLY episode of the whole show that ties back into the Lego Movie, and he’s the only character from it that appears in the show. We don’t see him any other time, so I don’t even know if it’s canon

Geography of the Unikingdom:

The Unikingdom is situated on rolling green hills

The weather is usually very sunny (“Unikingdom- burning hot!”), so it looks like it has a warm climate

It’s prone to extreme weather, such as tornadoes, thunderstorms and typhoons

Action Forest is a lush jungle area; it’s confirmed to be part of the Unikingdom

But the Unikingdom isn’t meant to be fantasy Japan, like I said

Rocky cliffs

Fir forests

Caves

Dinosaur bones are underground!

Walkways made of towers and bridges are built around the cliffs and forests

There are much shorter bridges with no towers, too

Ravines? Some places in the Unikingdom are separated by said bridges (Three citizens tell Unikitty that the bridge to their town is out)

The Unikingdom is also next to an ocean

Tall coastal rock formations

It’s confirmed to be in the north of this planet

It makes sense because they get snow in the winter, and the Unigang can get to the North Pole in a short time

Neighboring deserts

Neighboring mountains

Volcanoes (which can come to life if they’re angry enough)

Some place with ice cream snow? That’s where Mrs. Ice Pop’s factory is

The surface of the sun?? They can go there?

Flora and Fauna of the Unikingdom:

There are non-anthropomorphic animals in this world

People keep pets; there are pet stores

People also keep potted plants

There are gardens in people’s front and back yards

Gators

Cats

Cows

Brightly green grass everywhere

Acorns

Jellyfish

Albatrosses (Puppycorn mentioned them once)

Crows

Gophers (inhabit golf courses)

Iguanas

Flowers with four petals

Pointy trees (fir trees?)

Some round trees, too

Trees can live to be very old; as in, “My grandkids never visit me!” old

Turtles

Aloe

Octopuses

Pancakes

Ladybugs

Colorful bushes (they come in any color)

Whatever the Darling Flower is

Mushrooms

Colorful bushes

Anglerfish

Flowers with five petals

Wolverines?

Penguins

Whatever type of bug Abugail is

Crabs

Manatees

Falcons (falconry is practiced)

Fireflies

Fish (they come in multiple colors)

Fire lilies

Raffodils

Bees (of multiple sizes)

Chipmunks

Shrews

Flowers with six petals

Sunflowers

Moonflowers

Roses

Bell flowers

Caterpillars and butterflies

Sharks

Dolphins (they can swim in freshwater)

Winged dolphins

Electric eels

Lava sharks

Cacti

Corn

Chickens

Raccoons (they are realistic)

Worms

Snakes

Lions

Monkeys

Sloths

Zebras

Parrots

Giant scorpions

Peacocks

Flamingoes

Tarantulas

Ducks

Beavers

Deer

Bunnies/Rabbits

Smaller birds of multiple colors and sizes (such as the red-chested warbler, northern oceanic blue bill, and the red speckled hen)

Dinosaurs

Elephants

Squirrels

Flies/Gnats

Unikingdom Society

Unikitty is the princess of the Unikingdom and the sole leader

Her and Puppycorn’s parents are never seen or mentioned; Richard is their guardian. Fans assume they’re dead.

Unikitty is a friend of her citizens, but they acknowledge her status as princess

They don’t acknowledge the fact that Puppycorn is a prince, though.

There is no social hierarchy to speak of, but this society is matriarchal. The law says that the Unikingdom has to be ruled by a princess

Maybe that’s why Puppycorn is never viewed as a prince by any citizens

However, it seems like the current princess can just pass down the ruling position to a relative of another gender if she feels like it. (Unikitty decided to let Puppycorn be the ruling prince for a short time in one episode)

Can the princess be elected? I think not, because Master Frown, who is not from the Unikingdom, suggested there be a princess election in that episode

There are no armies/defense forces to be seen.

Hawkodile seems to be the bodyguard of both Unikitty and the kingdom as a whole. He lives in a treehouse behind the castle. Pretty much all the defense is handled by him, and he’s, to quote Cast Aside the Truth, “the toughest bodyguard alive.”

The kingdom can also be defended by giant kaiju-like mechas

Unfortunately, though, there are cops… such as the Action Police and Science Police… Detective Dan literally mentions a Unikingdom Police Department, and there are buddy cop movies…

It’s implied that firefighters exist here, too

Action heroes/fighters require action licenses. It works like getting a driver’s license; they get it at the Department of Mayhem and Violence (DMV).

Did Sensei Falcomodo not know this before giving Hawkodile his shades? Did Unikitty and co. not know this before (presumably) hiring him?

Unikitty is also assisted by her resident scientist, Dr. Fox, who lives in the castle and has her own high-tech lab right under it

Dr. Fox seems to be the one handling the kingdom’s technology. For example, she built the security system at the zoo. Also, her smarts and inventions help solve problems in the kingdom

Occasionally, she dabbles in medical stuff, even though she’s not licensed to practice it

Unikitty and Puppycorn also drive cars, parade floats, and bulldozers, despite not having driver’s licenses, or so much as a learner’s permit

The Action Police’s job is to punish those who don’t have action licenses. The Science Police’s department is to punish those who experiment dangerously. I feel like noting that both Hawkodile and Dr. Fox end up earning their respect in the respective episodes they appear in.

Anyway, pilots in the Unikingdom have to take a pilot’s test. Hawkodile is seen doing it, so I guess they can take it with no plane-flying experience (except maybe some studying?) (Did Dr. Fox need one to build and fly any of the aircrafts she built?)

People apparently also need a license to love chinchillas.

As mentioned before, crabs and bunnies have their own areas/societies that are considered part of the Unikingdom

There are also courtrooms and jails in the Unikingdom.

Judges in the courts are decided by spinning the judge wheel.

Some jails have a specific theme, like ice pop jail.

It seems like prisoners can escape jail at any time.

How are the characters familiar with mayors, emperesses, and Madame Duchesses?

It’s implied that they use a Gregorian-ish calendar in the Unikingdom, but some of the months are different, like Brickcember

They also use analog clocks and alarm clocks to tell time. In one episode, Richard says, “I’ve been up since 5:30 this morning.”

By the way, 5:00 AM in the Unikingdom is long after sunrise, when the sun is pretty high in the sky

The Unikingdom uses dollars as its currency. They also have coins, so are they, like, their equivalent of cents? (Puppycorn changed this to paying for things with high fives for a short time.)

The Unikingdom has banks. Unikitty refers to the bank as the money store.

Anything can be sold, in either shops or roadside stands.

There are pet stores, as I said.

The Toy Zone/Toy District seems to particularly sell toys and games.

The episode Special Delivery shows us how wacky and zany the Unikingdom’s postal system is. Dolphins can deliver mail, and there’s even literal snail mail. (As in, snails delivering the mail.)

Stamp collecting is a thing, too.

Unikingdom citizens get their news from The Unikingdom News Super Good Morning Time Action Program Information Show Now!, the Internet, and much less popularly, newspapers. (I say much less popularly because no one wanted to read Richard’s newspapers)

The people use tablets and cell phones.

There’s a secret society of people wearing cloaks, and they use stickers and books to open up a portal to the underworld?!

Issues in the Unikingdom can be about anything, from super major problems to super minor ones.

Art in the Unikingdom

Origami

Colorful tapestries with a silhouette of Unikitty’s face on them

These tapestries can have other symbols, too; see the Symbolism section above

Stickers are decorative

Firework art (Unikingdom citizens love fireworks)

Knitting

Crocheting (Richard mentions learning how to crochet)

Drawings with pencils, pens, and crayons

Paintings with lots of paints splatters

Renaissance-style art? Modern art? Pop art? Surrealism? Cubism? (There are references to real paintings in the show, and those styles are what I could glean from them)

Shapes- hearts, stars, sparkles

Rainbow colors are used

Apparently, every color symbolizes love

Photography? We see lots of framed pictures in the show, and people take photos with cameras and phones. Selfies are also popular.

Uhhh… why does Hawkodile have a torii-shaped picture frame in his treehouse??

Proscenium theaters (look them up)

Dance floor stages

Large indoor arenas

Magic tricks (as in, sleight of hand and illusions)

Sea shanties

There’s a morning song that’s sung in the morning

Culinary arts

Sock puppets

Comic books

Gold statues of random things. These are very expensive

Knitting

Friendship bracelets

Juggling

Unicycles

Pillows can be shaped like hearts, squares, suns, moons, and pretty much anything

Couches are cloud-shaped

Beds can have headboards and footboards shaped like anything

Daytime television in the Unikingdom is described as “Like regular TV, but weirder!”

So… regular TV in the Unikingdom is early-morning, afternoon, and nighttime programming?

Uni-TV is, to quote, “The Unikingdom’s favorite and only television network.”

There are four known record labels in the Unikingdom (Unikingdom Entertainment, FoxZone Music Group, McCorn-Horn Records, and Rick and Roll Records)

Cars have radios built into them

Popular music genres:

Techno

Hip-hop

Pop

Rock

Metal

Making up songs in one go

Popular film genres:

Fantasy

Action

Romance

Drama

Sci-fi

Musical

Comedy

Popular TV shows:

Third Degree Love Burns (which is, like, a Bachelor-ish romance show)

The Nightly Late Night Nighttime Show (the moon- yes, the moon- watches this late night talk show so she doesn’t get bored at night)

The Early Morning Daytime Daytime Show (a morning talk show for the sun to watch)

Styles of dance:

Hip-hop dance (like breakdancing)

Capoeira

Rave dancing (like glowsticking)

Partner dances

Tap dancing

Moonwalking

Salsa

Country dances

Disco

Headbanging

Polka

Ballet

Waltz?

Can-can (Dr. Fox and her clones are seen doing it)

Musical instruments:

DJ turntables

Singing

Conical drums

Drumsets

Pianos

Keyboard

Keytars

Organs

Horn pipes

Cymbals

Shaker sticks

Xylophones

Banjos

Saxophones

Guitars

Ukuleles

Tambourines

Cowbells

Accordions

Triangles

Gongs?

Vuvuzelas (mentioned by Puppycorn when he tries to say Viva La Lazy Sunday)

Giant versions of musical instruments exist, too

Sound equipment includes boomboxes, radios, speakers, and handheld mics.

Sports and Games in the Unikingdom:

Board games seem to be common

Most notably, adventure board games like Spoooooky Game, and fantasy RPGs like Castles and Kitties (Is Castles and Kitties meant to be anything more than “Look, DnD reference!”?)

You can even get transported inside the game

Could that happen even if Score Creeper wasn’t there?

Games involving dice

Card games

Sudoku

Trampolines

Piñatas

Arcade games

Video games (There are Gameboy-like consoles and controller consoles)

Light as a feather, stiff as a board (played at sleepovers)

Walking your pets

Playing fetch with your pets

Video games can put their controls in the real world and turn people 16-bit

Escape rooms

Hot dog eating contests

Skydiving

Racing

Carnival games (like Whack-a-Mole, ball toss, ring toss, and those basketball hoops)

Hide and seek

Jump ropes

Laser tag

Arm wrestling

Sailing

Monster truck rallies

Escape rooms

Marathons

Robot fighting

Skateboarding

Ziplining

Archery

Bowling

Fishing

Golf

Rodeos

Fencing

Jet skiing

Weightlifting

Kickball

Cheerleading

American football??? They even have their own equivalent of the Super Bowl, the Pasta Bowl.

Tennis

Running marathons

Baseball

Soccer

Surfing

Basketball

Pet shows

Catch with balls

Bingo and water aerobics are enjoyed by elderly citizens

Traditions, Customs and Holidays in the Unikingdom:

Snow Day, a holiday on which people make snow angels, build snowmen, carve ice, sled, build snow forts, have snowball fights, drink cocoa, decorate their homes with wreaths, peppermints and bright lights, etc.

Problem Fixy-Day, on which the citizens state their problems and Unikitty offers her solutions

Valentine’s Day? (there’s a Valentine’s Day special)

Halloween? (there are two Halloween specials)

Christmas?! (there’s a Christmas special)

There’s no Christianity in this universe, by the way. There’s a throwaway joke about nuns from Unikitty, but there are no churches or anything to be seen.

Parade Day (there was a self-expression parade in that episode, so do they pick a yearly theme or something?)

Rave-a-palooza

Hide and Seek Championship

Jump Rope Championship

The Skaterz Stuntz Gamez

Best Best Friends Competition

Atomic Battle Royale

Bounce Olympics? (Unikitty mentions them once and only once while she and Puppycorn are, well, bouncing)

The Unikingdom Awards (The awards presented are VERY random and VERY specific, such as Most Likely to Be Crushed by a Falling Statue, Best Lil’ Bro a Princess Could Ever Ask For, and Best Name That Rhymes With Schmuppycorn.)

Chore Day/Lazy Sunday, where Richard wants everyone to clean the castle, but Unikitty and Puppycorn want to chill out on the couch all day. Does everyone in the kingdom observe one of the two?

Trash Day happens every week. People throw out all the stuff they disposed of. What day of the week is it?

Unikitty chooses a Flavor of the Month.

There’s a Helpful Helpers Auction where the gang lends their services to the citizens for a day or so, and it supports next year’s auction, according to Puppycorn.

There’s also an annual Ice Cream Festival.

There are lots and LOTS of specifically themed parties, such as a Piñata Party, a Burger Party, and a Jazz Party. In fact, they celebrate something almost every day. Some of these parties are annual, like the Cotton Candy Pool Party.

I guess that informal IS formal in the Unikingdom.

Unikitty also has these kinds of conferences with her citizens on an outdoor stage?

People have sleepovers, where they eat pizza, do prank calls, watch monster movies, and play sleepover games.

Birthdays are a huge deal in the Unikingdom. They’re taken very seriously. They’re observed with cake, presents, big parties, and the Happy Birthday song.

Weddings are held outside. There’s wedding bells, flowers, groom top hats and tuxes, bridal veils and bouquets, and engagement and wedding rings. And wait a minute- bishops?!

In a scene where Dr. Fox is watching her robots get married, the officiant robot is wearing a mitre.

Funerals are done by burying the dead person in a coffin. There’s a gravestone, wreaths, and their picture. The attendees wear black and throw flowers on the coffin.

Traditionally, the people lay down a towel at the beach to claim a spot.

Elderly people customarily tend to their gardens, clean their dentures, feed birds, wait for their loved ones to call, apply ointments, bake, swim, and eat dinner in the afternoon

The elderly are seen as “always napping at weird times, drinking tea and knitting.”

Dessert sweepstakes are a thing. Unikitty and her friends search for a winning ice pop stick to win a tour to an ice pop factory

Libraries are run pretty strictly in the Unikingdom. They have a strict return policy. If you don’t return your books on time, you get banned for life

When on vacation, people take selfies and photos, try new foods, and buy a lot of souvenirs

Going to the zoo is a fun activity to people. So is going to the park.

Coupons to the zoo are sold online

On a hot day, people wear, quote-unquote, “cool” outfits and strike “cool” poses. More on this in the Fashion section

In his treehouse, Hawkodile has SOME kind of shrine for Sensei Falcomodo. There’s his picture, a bowl of incense, candles, and a cloth on the table.

In the summer, people go to the pool for a fun pool day, play/watch sports, have barbecues, go on picnics, watch fireworks, go to the movies, catch fireflies, try on shorts, ride bikes, try on shorts, and go to the beach

There are carnival games at amusement parks

Amusement parks sell fried foods on a stick

There are also park mascots

Unikingdom Education:

Despite being roughly 11 and roughly 9 respectively, Unikitty and Puppycorn are never seen going to any kind of school.

That led me to assume they were homeschooled, but who would homeschool them? Richard?

In fact, we almost never see any kind of schools in the Unikingdom at all.

They do summer camps in the Unikingdom, like Lost at Sea Survival Camp, or camping trips for kids.

Action Forest is where action heroes train, and they practice in a dojo?

Hawkodile had supposedly trained in the dojo his whole life. It’s also implied that Sensei Falcomodo raised him and Eagleator.

Fuzz Fuzz (a baby caterpillar that Unikitty decides to adopt and who grows up) attends a Giant Monster Community College… but he’d graduate with a degree, not a diploma.

Wait, so college exists?

Medical school is a thing, too?

They have the same periodic table of elements that we do.

Unikingdom Mannerisms and Etiquette:

Being silly and loud seems to be considered acceptable.

Chores (such as cleaning your home) and renovations are done in fantastical, goofy ways. Any way that isn’t is seen as boring.

It’s normal to be carefree (to the point where you can neglect your responsibilities)

Talking in unison

You can slap someone to help them stay awake

Fighting Styles and Weaponry in the Unikingdom:

There’s some form of hand-to-hand between Hawkodile and Eagleator, and between Eagleator and Flamurtle. I see punches, kicks, blocks and stances.

Being cool is emphasized in Unikingdom fighting.

As I said, Action Forest seems to want to combine martial arts with 80s action movies.

Boxing gloves. Hawkodile and Eagleator wear them. (Are there any boxing punches?)

Swords (like broadswords, katanas and scimitars)

Shields

Punching bags used for practice

Dummies

Whatever those rotating poles with pegs sticking out of them are

Archery (bows, arrows, round targets)

Hawkodile often mentions karate

He also mentions judo, like, once

Kung fu is mentioned in an episode where Richard has a book about it, and several other topics

Shurikens?

Kunai?

Big honkin’ bombs with timers

Small bombs with fuses

Missles

Cannons

Tasers

Tanks (Not just for combat. You can go on a tank driving tour through Action Forest.)

Mechas and robots, which can have any of these weapons

Lasers

Axes

Cages

Booby traps

Nunchucks

Whips

Grappling hooks

Hand grenades

Pickaxes

Sais

Forks can be used as throwing weapons

Cards can be used as throwing weapons, too

Daggers

Nets

Knight armor?

Morning stars

Tridents

Flame throwers

Staffs (like the flame staff, explosion staff, and the training staff that belonged to Hawkodile’s sensei)

Safety suits are worn to keep people safe as they do risky/daredevil-ish stuff

”Work hard, play hard!” is a philosophy that Sensei Falcomodo taught Hawkodile.

Ninjas and samurai are seen, but why do they attack the kingdom? Why is there a sneaky stealing samurai squad that causes mayhem? Why does Hawkodile wish for a ninja attack in the asteroid episode? 🤨

Any Language in the Unikingdom?

Everyone Speaks English™️

Spanish?

German?

French?

Japanese? (Hawkodile says, “Protect me, Dummy-san!” in one episode?)

Sign Language?

Hawaiian? The gang throws a, quote-unquote, “luau” when they crash land on an uncharted island… no one else is on it but them.

Slang terms such as Sis and Rad are very, very common

Puppycorn gleefully answers, “I’ll do my best, Miss Ma’am!” when Unikitty asks him to keep an eye on the surface of the pool

Sir and Ma’am are used here

Dino Dude has an Australian accent.

FeeBee speaks with a Southern accent.

Really Old Edith wrote a story about her discovering an ancient something and deciphering a lost language. When sharing it on the Nighttime Show, she’s interrupted before she can get into any detail

Unikingdom Food:

In my notepad, I accidentally put some animals in this section. My bad.

Dishes are served on plates and eaten with forks, knives and spoons. People use napkins. Utensils, plates, bowls, mugs, etc. are cleaned with dish soap and sponges.

Food is eaten at tables, though people can have picnics on blankets.

Things such as flowers and candles are used as table centerpieces.

They have a concept of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Napkins and bibs are used. In the tourism video episode, Puppycorn suggests using an entire tablecloth as a napkin and a bib. (“The whole table is covered in napkins, so you can be as messy as you want!” And he tucks it into the suit he’s wearing.)

Some restaurants in the Unikingdom don’t allow outside food.

There are refrigerators in this world. But there’s also a big, icy vault in the castle to store frozen food in. Do any other homes have this?

Steel is edible in this world.

Cheese

Tea (specific types named are Chamomile, Earl Gray, and Mint tea)

Noodle Soup

Soup

Salt

Pepper

Macarons?

Juice

Tacos

Carnitas?

Pretzels

Cauliflower stew

Berries

Bananas

Celery

Ice cream sandwiches

Muffins

Chili

Hot sauce

Chicken nuggets

Tomatoes

Smoothies

S’mores

Marshmallows

Graham crackers

Sprinkles

Icing

Breakfast cereal

Whipped cream

Bubble gum (even long after you chew it, it doesn’t lose its flavor)

Sunny side up eggs

Donuts

Hot dogs

Cheesy puff snacks

Fried foods on a stick (there are even fried sticks on a stick, so sticks/twigs are edible in this world)

Burgers

Cakes

Caviar and truffles? (There’s a restaurant in the Unikingdom called Caviar and Truffles by Giovanni.)

Bacon

Ice cream (comes in different flavors, including a mystery flavor)

Butter

Ketchup

Cookies

Milk

Sandwiches

Finger sandwiches

Poke? (Dr. Fox mentions a restaurant called Poke Bowl, but it’s never seen.)

Apples

Radishes

Barbecue (there are barbecue grills)

Rutabaga

Cauliflower

Peanut butter

Jelly (I think; the title card of What’s Grampa Eating looks like peanut butter and jelly)

Cranberry sauce

Pie

Popcorn (there are popcorn stands)

Subs

Hoagies

Jam

Waffles

Pancakes

Pizza (mostly pepperoni)

Hot chocolate

Beans

Coffee

Cupcakes

Salads

Bags of chips

Brownies

Churros

Sushi? (There’s playground equipment that looks like sushi rolls.)

Chicken? Turkey?

Chicken/turkey legs

Macaroni

Hot Sauce

Sauerkraut

Ketchup

Pickles

Salt and vinegar chips

Bite-sized candies

Gumballs

Chocolate bars (that can be filled like Milky Ways and Twix bars)

Candy canes

Peppermint bark

Taffy

Lollipops (such as Lickypops)

Cinnaburns

Sweet Buns

Chocolate Caesar bars

Peppers

Cherries

French fries

Watermelons

Baguettes

Bagels

Wheat bread

Snacks served in vending machines

Thai food? (One of the Unikingdom citizens, Batty, runs a Thai food restaurant)

Pineapples

Trail mix

Broccoli

Ice pops

Pudding (like the bad vibes pudding)

Unikingdom Fashion and Dress Code:

The people of the Unikingdom don’t usually wear clothes. They’re pretty selective about it

Even during the winter, the people can play in the snow wearing nothing but a pom pom hat and a scarf. Even Hawkodile does despite hawks and crocodiles being cold blooded, but normal logic does not apply in this show

Some people DO wear clothes all the time. Dr. Fox is always wearing her lab coat and some pants, or is fully dressed in some other articles of clothing

Hawkodile usually wears nothing but a pair of shorts, his sunglasses, and his boxing gloves

Flower crowns? (Unikitty gives one to Hawkodile for protecting the gang in one episode, so are they a symbol of gratitude?)

Boots?

Berets? (Worn by film directors, and worn with formal outfits?)

Puffy chef toques and aprons worn by cooks, and when cooking

Plaid shirts and light jeans worn by home renovators/architects

Wide-brimmed, round sunhats are worn in hot weather

Lab coats and glasses/goggles are worn by scientists in the kingdom

Black jumpsuits/ski masks are worn by thieves and criminals

Prisoners wear gray and orange boiler suits

There are MJ-ish fedora hats

Rulers wear yellow crowns, but Unikitty doesn’t?

Shorts

Coats

Hats

Shirts

Socks

Masks (in an episode where Puppycorn bought a mask, one of them looked like a sugar skull)

Tutus

Baseball caps

Top hats

Sweater vests, visors, ties, caps, and collared shirts are worn when people play golf

Multicolored safety hats and suits

Ugly limited edition sneakers exist

Headbands

Life vests

There are specific safety vests Hawkodile uses:

Laser proof vests

Teddy bear proof vests

Bee proof vests- they look like beekeeping suits

Ice ray proof vests

Insult proof vests- they are armed with mechanical hands that pop out and knock you back when you insult their wearer

Long, wild hair and dramatic makeup for rock and metal fashion

Flamurtle has a Mohawk

Pocketed khakis?

Fanny packs/waist bags

Cozy sweaters

Cheerleading outfits have white, long-sleeved shirts, navy blue skirts, pants, and a rainbow U.

Other cheer outfits are purple two-piece uniforms with orange edges

And powder blue sleeveless uniforms with yellow edges

Pom poms can be any color

Hiking shirts, coonskin caps, ascots, stringed hats, and backpacks are work for camping and hiking

People sleep with hair rollers, even when they don’t have hair

Purses are worn by old people

Fun and silly costumes are worn on certain occasions, such as the gang dressing up in submarine sweaters and caps when they rode in Dr. Fox’s submarine. There was also an entire episode where they dressed in Batman costumes.

50s fashion- leather jackets, sunglasses, pompadours

Action Forest students and fighters wear karate uniforms.

Action fighters can wear sunglasses, bandanas, jumpsuits, boxing gloves, jackets, tank tops, and shoulder/elbow/knee pads. They’re usually armed with a weapon or two.

Jewelry:

Earrings

Necklaces

Bracelets

Can be made of gems or pearls

Swimsuits:

One-piece swimsuits

Swim trunks

Pool floaties (float toys and inflatable arm bands)

Tank tops and whistles are worn by lifeguards

Swim caps are worn by old folks

Winter clothes:

Scarves

Coats and pants

Earmuffs

Pom pom hats

Underwear:

Briefs

Tank tops

Formal clothes:

Poofy gowns/dresses

Tuxedos, ties, and bow ties (of any size; Puppycorn had a comically large bow tie that he wore on his head in one episode)

Pajamas:

Night caps

Matching shirts and pants

Onesies (can have bows on them)

“Cool” outfits can consist of:

Cool sunglasses/shades/reflective sunglasses

Pearl necklaces

Heeled boots

Cool, shiny baseball caps

Gold chains

Puffy skirts

Hoop earrings

Gem earrings

Pearl earrings

Sick, wicked, awesome gems (aka SWAG)

Gold coins

Headbands

Headbands that you tie back (Hachimaki?)

Swoopy hair/wigs

Pompadours

Animal print shirts

Jackets with popping collars

Cutoff jeans

High top shoes

Patterned pants

Sweatshirts

Roller skates (can have rockets if the wearer wants)

Striking cool poses can actually make things colder and freeze things

Anything lame counteracts that, melting all the cool

Cool poses can come in literally any shape

Examples of cool poses:

Pizzazz (a zigzag shape)

Puzzle piece

Bathroom sink

”Night steed?” “Fiesty?” I don’t really know what Hawkodile said

Jazz panther

Funky cowboy

Resplendence

Head rotation

Squinty eyes

Duck lips

The infinity gaze- the coolest of cool poses!

Unikingdom Queer Culture:

People of all genders are respected in the Unikingdom. (“Sir, or ma’am or neither, I don’t wanna be presumptuous…” “Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between!” These are real quotes said by Unikitty.)

Same-gender couples are also respected

Queer people can have kids!

Other than this, there’s not that much info on queerness and queer culture in the Unikingdom

Unikingdom History:

Other than character backstories, almost nothing is known about the Unikingdom’s history. It’s just kinda there.

In this world, movies were invented by Really Old Edith.

She was also the champion of cheerleading 100 years in a row.

Her book, The Most Interesting Story Ever Told, took her 110 years to write.

Hardcore skaters were wiped out forever in the Skaterz Stuntz Gamez, and their hardcore ghosts are believed to haunt the ramps.

Dr. Fox studied hard and earned a PhD in science. But where?

Richard’s past is unknown, but he has a criminal record?

Hawkodile and Eagleator’s whole backstory together. Sensei Falcomodo is implied to have raised them. They trained together in the dojo. But… Eagleator destroyed it? And it’s still destroyed to this day?! Also, did he kill Sensei Falcomodo?

Hawkodile is orphaned, and he never met his birth parents.

Eagleator says that his family was kidnapped by bandits, and he’s running out of time. It’s also implied he has a baby sibling, but we never see them or find out who they are.

There are occasional s’mores wars in the Unikingdom between graham crackers and marshmallows, but how far back do they go?

Lego beings can grow and age like people do.

Really Old Edith is over 110 years old, so it seems they can go on living for a very long time.

In one episode, Unikitty says, “Before the castle was built, I told the castle builders to surprise me!”

When was the castle built?

When was the Unikingdom founded?

Who founded the Unikingdom?

Unikingdom Transportation:

People drive around in cars, vans, and trucks

Many cars are colorful convertibles

They also often get around on foot

If they want to, they can transform their bodies to put wheels on them

In fact, they can transform themselves into any of the vehicles listed here

Planes, with party lights on the aisle floor

Scooters, skateboards, and bikes are used

Unikitty has her cloud car.

Puppycorn has his trike.

It looks like people don’t need a license to drive, since kids like them can do it

Does anyone else have cloud cars or trikes like theirs?

People do have to take pilot’s tests to fly a plane, though (I mentioned this earlier)

Sports cars

Rigs (can be attached to trucks and vans)

Ambulances

Helicopters

Roller coasters are used as a form of transport (Puppycorn implemented roller coaster highways for a while in one episode)

People drive roller coaster wagons (This isn’t seen in the show, but it is a mini Lego set)

Ships (pirate ships, cargo ships, and cruise ships)

Rafts

Sailboats

Flying toasters

Hot air balloons

Steam rollers

Vehicles can turn into mechas

Vehicles can also be armed with cannons and such. (The roller coaster wagon Lego set has a disc launcher. Even when they aren’t mechas, Unikitty’s cloud car and Puppycorn’s trike both have cannons)

Motorcycles

Baby carriages

Blimps

Submarines

Double-decker sightseeing buses

Trains (Richard mentions reading a book about them)

Paddle subs (and paddle boats)

Space exploration has gone very far, with all the rockets Unikitty and her friends travel in

[kmiwiptheorigin]

List of my blogs:

My first blog, the origin, the genesis (you know the one that can't be deleted) 😅 (suitable for mom)

My supposed art blog (pretty abandoned) 😔 Here are the finished things, someday

Blog where I reblog everything I like or find interesting, without a specific topic. (not suitable for mom 😏) Mom, don't watch this 🫣 My current obsession is very noticeable here 🤣

From here on down, blogs where I upload drawings and references for myself divided into groups of OCs, Worlds and AUs

A fantasy world with some fairy tale themes, witches and other things, in a modern context, more or less

Another world of fantasy and magic, but not modern, where OCs and remakes of official characters turned into OCs coexist so that I can be happy, completely full of self-indulgence.😊Everything modified and adapted so that they enter the same world in the most discreet way possible.

All my ships end here ❤️

Attempt at Majo Shojo based on Kirby (mostly), Cardcaptor Sakura, Pretty Cure, Corrector Yui And Uchū Patrol Luluco,The idea is that it has a good dose of romance (as it could not be otherwise) , action, and powers (it's not magic because they are aliens) 🤩

Here I upload reference drawings for myself of concepts not sufficiently formed to have their own blog.

Here I reblog references for various things

And last (for now) but not least, my Cult of the Lamb blog, where all my AU references are gathered and I also reblog everything related to COTL.

I'm going to have this pinned on each of the blogs,

#kmiwip It's my label for all my things

If you want to know about me, maybe I'll write it someday, but now me da hueva

[stygiusfic]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love ❤️

thank you for tagging me! it's been a minute since this ask (and longer since @sharkodactyl sent the same my way), but it feels timely to do it now, as the new year is starting.

these are all fics in which i set out to do something i hadn't done before, and it brought me joy to try and learn. i'm excited to enjoy more trial & error in 2025!

a question of access (critical role). aka: the Luxon beacons heist. I had such a blast playing with every weird idea that came to mind here: heist movie sequences, script formatting, 2nd person narration... all things that i thought might alienate readers, but i was having too much fun to care, and then those "weird" elements wound up getting the most compliments. i can't recall a single moment i didn't enjoy writing this! i also think it's the best thing I've written yet, quality-wise.

call the name of god (and pray that he will listen) (hades). aka the vampire AU. wrote all 6k of this in a fugue state over the course of a single day & i'm still amazed at it. truly possessed by the muse that day—my brain was braining in a singular direction, full steam ahead. i made myself cry by the end. and i'm just so grateful and happy that it was received with so much love.

petals for armor (hades). aka the megzag hanahaki fic. I found out about the hanahaki trope and immediately viscerally needed to play with it myself. this was for a big bang and the deadline was definitely stressful but i'm so glad i did it, & so grateful to everyone who cheered me on and drew art for it.

the beast in the woods (fire emblem). aka the little red riding hood retelling. i love fairy tales, and also recurring elements that show up differently each time. this is a bit of a weird one, and so dear to me because of it.

this specific scene in some godsdamned peace and quiet (baldur's gate 3). playing the dark urge origin for the first time unlocked a kind of madness in me, and I wrote so much for Silence (and will likely write more yet). he is such a freak and it brings me joy. to me, this scene is perfect in every way; writing these tidbits renewed my love for my own words. the power of the homemade blorbo is great!

here's to more self-indulgence like the fics on this list in 2025!

[tyrantisterror]

Criticizing the police in a superhero story is kind of straightforward, examples exist, but what about the military in a kaiju story? Like, it's one thing to have the monster be immune to weapons but how do you avoid the usual cliches?

I would say most kaiju movies are pretty critical of the military - and so are a lot of Western giant monsters movies, to a lesser extent. The military is almost always impotent at best in a kaiju movie, rarely accomplishing anything more than stalling for time, and often end up making the situation worse. All the military's actions in the original Godzilla, for example, do nothing but make the monster more pissed off, until his final and most horrible rampage is directly provoked by the military's incredibly thorough and diverse attempt to kill him with every weapon they can think of. That is not a flattering portrayal of the military.

In fact, this trope is so common in the kaiju genre that it wasn't until decades after its inception that people tried to go against it - one of the directors of the 90's Godzilla movies talked about how G-Force in those movies was made because he always felt annoyed as a child that the military never accomplished much, and wanted to have them put up a better fight. Yet even then, MechaGodzilla, Moguera, and the various super xs never win - they come close, but Godzilla proves indomitable in the end.

Victories in kaiju movies overwhelmingly hinge on noncombatants and diplomacy - the happy ending comes from a scientist creating an ingenious invention, or fairies convincing their moth goddess to save our ass, or simply allowing Godzilla to swim off into the sunset when he's done defending his territory from the invasive monster of the week.

Some modern American kaiju pastiches find interesting ways to make the military useful while trying to stick to the themes baked into the genre's bones - Godzilla 2014 has a protagonist who, while in the military, specifically works as a bomb disposal expert, i.e. someone who keeps violence from escalating rather than perpetuate. Said character is drawn as a direct reflection of Godzilla himself in the same movie - heroes defined by their desire to stop a violent situation from exploding rather to destroy for the sake of destroying.

Pacific Rim explicitly focuses on a military organization of pilots in giant robots trying to fend off alien invaders using kaiju as weapons - but in the movie's greatest break from reality, said force is woefully underfunded, stripped to just a handful of robots and pilots. While the Jaegers of Pacific Rim have the trappings of some real world miltiary stuff, I think ultimately they don't resemble the military that much in execution, being more akin to, like, a remnant of an army turned into a guerilla resistance force, and really they make more sense when you take them as a metaphor for the few people actively fighting against climate change in our world (which the movie makes pretty clear is basically the theme, more or less - the aliens are specifically seeking our world out because we've fucked up the environment enough to make it favorable to them). And, ultimately, the Jaegers only manage to get their job done thanks to the help of two very brave scientists.

But, in all honestly, I feel no need to do away with the "cliche" of the impotent military in kaiju flicks. Fuck the military. Show them as incompetent, war-mongering, overfunded and undereffective assholes. Fuck 'em. They get their cocks sucked by every other genre with a budget, they can take a few beatings in the kaiju flicks.

[theemeraldforesthideout]

*softly closes The Hideout doors behind me* *smiles as the dappled sunlight of spring makes everything glisten*

Right, where was I... *VCR rewinding noises* I don't want to go :( Our last night... on Lord Hereford's Knob (...it's a mountain) Cute baby horses and the final stone circle (with only two stones remaining...) "Hello. I've got 30k. Could have it in GREY please (?!)" Professor Ronald Hutton talks about his fairy encounter New favourite beach + warm sea + skinny dip = happiness Nerp -- Nerp -- Nerp -- Nerp (a blown speaker means the bass sounds... frog-like, so we nerp along to the bassline). "Apparently as a very young kid, I came here, to the Preselis, and when it was time to leave I cried and cried and cried. It was so noticeable, that it was a story told by my parents for many years afterwards. Only a few years on from my birth... did I feel something, even then?" "I'm in love with the Preseli hills. I just feel at ease here. It feels like a home I've never known. Let's just go back to the Preselis. Why does EVERYTHING good turn bad, and so quickly too!?! Bosherston has fallen... my beloved... Beltane Hawthorn Ritual around a bonfire with about 30 people An eccentric and brilliant Horrible Histories-esque guide Open a grey SUV store/become a billionaire "We've essentially paid to... remove our freedom" At Mwnt beach, a girl who looks just like Billie Piper gets her car stuck in a ditch, after some dude-bros force her off the road. We offer to help push it out. But it is well and truly stuck. In the end, a passing Cornishman with a camper van tows her out. Early morning in the fairy forest. The grass is so soft, so I go barefoot initially, but then I shed everything and embrace the moment fully. Warm sun, the greenest green, the softest grass and moss. Spend time solo at sundown around the Owen Brother's Cairns. Get lost... in a field... somehow. Very peaceful and completive moment. Press my hands on one of the big stones and muse about not wanting to take, but rather a want to give, in the general life sense. "Maybe they are grey aliens and it's just a silly in-joke" An empty Beltane Pentre Ifan... a friend's words in my head keep me from being disappointed. Also a song by Perfume called 'Flow' starts playing in my head. Tiny bunnies so cute sooo cute ahhhhh cute A BJD making-of photographer Welsh Bayou Naked in the river. Warmth of the sun. I close my eyes. It's Annwn. "He's listening to the Beach Boys... because he's on a beach" Okinawa Blue A conversation with an owl The Llandovery SUV Glitch

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A new camera and all that gear for that price?! Wow. Seriously, my life without mutuals would be that much lesser. Social media in general and tumblr mutualships are two completely different things.

*Faster VCR rewinding noises* This is just the darkest, bleakest winter I've ever—

Stop! Too far back

Ah yeah, my camera. Aw what a joy to use and to have, after a year of wonky, fuzzy photos. I took over 1200 photos and revisited a few places from last year to take advantage of it.

[buriedlove]

The last party - for the mysterious final love interest…

This was a Halloween party unlike any other. A party held in a celestial realm. A vast and shimmering space filled with stars, planets, and nebulae. There were floating islands made of moonstone and crystal, and waterfalls of moonlight cascaded into the abyss below.

The guests at the party were a diverse group of beings from all over the cosmos. There were fairies, elves, aliens, and even a few other deities. Everyone was dressed in their finest costumes, which ranged from ethereal moonbeams to glittering galaxies. A more diverse group of ethereal beings had never been gathered in one party, but there was only one person the host was trying to find in the crowd, their eyes shining and reflecting the stars around them, shifting from blue to green and back again, with flecks of gold brighter than the moon.

And then the eyes landed on the person they’d been searching for. The stars in the sky suddenly seemed to pulse with a bright light, as if supercharged by a new energy.

The host moved across the crowds towards them and the pair immediately embraced. They then spent the evening dancing among the stars and feasting on celestial delicacies. It was a truly magical evening, almost like living in a dream.

Towards the end of the night the host gently stroked their love’s hair before kissing them on the forehead.

“From the first moment I saw you I knew. It felt like a thousand galaxies exploded in my chest that first time we met. I would have travelled through time and space to find you.”

They opened up a small box which contained the most beautiful moonstone. It seemed to shimmer and swirl in the light.

“This is my way of promising you the moon. The stars too, if they make you happy. I promise you my now and my future.”

They smiled softly and shook their head. “I’m sorry to get so deep at a party, I just have so many things I want to say when I see you. For now shall we just enjoy ourselves? We have the rest of our lives, after all.”

And just like that they were swept back into the party, the galaxy swirling around them until it seemed like they were one with the stars.

[northwyrm]

(@trixierosewrites) happy sts!! tell me about the three eyed raven? 👀👀👀

Oh man so a bunch of things mentioned in my list of bloodmood critters appear briefly in chapter 6 when Harriet goes on a walk about town and sees a lot of entities which have escaped from the lab. Trolls and werewolves get to reappear again later but slimes, shadow entities and three eyed ravens are only mentioned briefly (I copy-pasted relevant section below the cut...).

This said, I am getting a lot of 3-eyed-raven love so I might plop him back into the plot later. Also I cannot remember what I got him from and I've got a gnawing suspicion he was a Game of Thrones reference...

The sun was bright, the air was cold, there were foul city smells on the wind, but at first everything seemed normal. The street immediately outside Harriet’s flat block was in the deep shadow of the building itself, and she did not feel fully safe until she was in the sunshine at the end of the street. Foil wrappers and burger papers rustled along with autumn leaves as she crossed the road and pondered her next steps.

The obvious place to try and find blood would be a butchers’, so she supposed she had better start there. She walked past an Institute Agent on her way to the local park, which had a path through it that cut across to the middle of town. There was a satisfyingly deep and crunchy layer of sycamore leaves on the ground.

Ahead of her there was a woman having some trouble with her dogs, one of whom was barking and snarling and lunging at a bearded man, while the other shrivelled and cowered trying to crawl out of its own skin and run in the other direction. The woman was apologising profusely to the man, saying “they don’t normally do this!” and the man was… staring down one of the dogs and making a canine growling in his throat in reply. This was ignored by the woman, who kept apologising.

A werewolf in daylight? Harriet walked around them, pretending not to notice. None of her business, she did not work for the Institute anymore. The large geometrically complex pattern burned into the grass also wasn’t her problem. She was admittedly curious as to how crop circles were made and wondered if it was actual aliens or something else which burns patterns into grass, but again, this wasn’t any of her business.

At the exit to the park there was a large boulder on the path, and one of the Institute Agents was standing guard next to it. He nodded to her, and out of habit she nodded back. Harriet left the park without further incident.

She tried her very best to continue to ignore weird things, like children’s shadows racing each other across walls without any children present, or a weird blue ooze that flinched its way back into a bin as she walked past it. Mercifully, as she approached the middle of town there were fewer weird things that she needed to ignore.

# Then Harriet fails to buy any blood at the butcher shop because you can't just walk in and buy blood. She meets a fairy. Then her walk home...#

Grinning from ear to ear she walked back home, carefully ignoring the rather alarming three eyed raven which hopped after her whispering some sort of doomed prophecy. She was now very good at ignoring all the things that escaped from the Institute.

[indigestibletruths]

Open letter to Joe Burrow’s cult:

The evil cult of Joe Burrow fans is something to be scared of, I am impressed by the aggressiveness and intolerance of these people, and how they can be so alienated from reality. One question: why is it so difficult to accept that your idol is not nice, and that he is like every man, who has his masculine needs and is not concerned with respect and affection? You're nothing more than a bunch of retarded teenagers who believe in fairy tales and happy endings. Why don't you accept once and for all that your idol is fucking a lot of women out there, he's been single for a long time, just you idiots who live in a parallel universe, and still think you know a lot about his life, right? you are a joke, I think it's funny that suddenly Cincinnati became the habitat of everyone on this site, everyone here lives there, or knows someone who lives there🤣🤣🤣Seek urgent psychiatric treatment, this obsession of yours causes a lot of fear. And I’m warning you: I WON’T SHUT UP!!!!!!

[themousefromfantasyland]

Allow me to be a little sappy and sentimental.

Christmas has many different meanings for many different people.

Christmas is both a sacred date for Chritians and for the very special religion of my own making.

If I have anything close to a religion is the belief that dreams and fantasies are the only things that can give us meaning and comfort in a cold, uncaring universe. And who knows, maybe these exactly fantasies are the things that will inspired people to make a dark universe a little less dark.

In the end we all need our own paracosmos.

Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas, the true fairy tale-like Christmas that inspire joy and dreams in old and new folk alike...They are part of my paracosm and are the things I will try to keep alive for the rest of my life.

For me, Christmas is a time for magic, wishes, and Santa Claus.

Sappy, stupid. Ridiculous nonsense holiday cards manufaturers tell. But it's the thing that keeps me calm at night despite my severe anxiety

For all the wonderful people who follow me and that I follow back. To all the wonderful people that I met on this wonderful site.

That your paracosmos never become devoid of Santa Claus, elves, cryptids, gods, fairies, ghosts, demons, aliens and other magical and wonderful things that will guide and comfort you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE

That your wishes may come true some day

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @princesssarisa @angelixgutz @amalthea9 @the-blue-fairie @natache @tamisdava2 @thelittlehansy @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @mask131