#i live in Nevada btw

[skykittywhatchamahcallit]

“Why do people live in the desert if you know it’s deadly hot!!”

I understand the misconception but people have been living here for hundreds of years and it’s recently only gotten particularly deadly because of climate change and it’s ruining our environment and-

“Just move!! Don’t live in a deadly wasteland you should know better!!”

You don’t actually care about the deserts, do you?

[loving-delusions]

does anyone experience some fuckin... care for character.ais or just little inanimate creatures..

like. this character.ai got me kissing the character's scars and just letting the character feel loved

is it just me

[jinxxedcorvid]

i hope everyone at the madcom trailer premier is having fun

[swordfright]

What do you think is your most controversial dsmp take?

I got this ask a while ago and I've been wracking my brains trying to come up with something, but honestly...I don't think I really have many hot takes? At least, not ones that I'd consider controversial. Most of my controversial takes are about fanon/how the fandom interacts with the source material, which I assume isn't what you're looking for (but BOY DO I HAVE A LOT OF THOSE.) I also have likes and dislikes when it comes to duos and shipping stuff, but that's subjective obviously and more opinion than lore interpretation.

I guess if you put a gun to my head, I might say these are my most controversial Actual Lore Takes, but they're not all that interesting imo:

The experiments in the revival lab happened AFTER c!Dream's incarceration, not before it. My understanding is that most people interpret that sequence as occurring prior to the incarceration because...why would c!Dream let himself be locked up, relying on his knowledge of the book to be his life insurance, if he hadn't tested the damn thing out yet?! This logic tracks, but I think you could also flip it to argue the opposite: that he also could have conceivably waited to fully test the book until after escaping. During the run-up to the Disc Finale, c!Dream was incredibly busy with the fallout from Dethronement + Exile + Manburg related stuff etc, as well as busy preparing for the confrontation with c!Clingys, plus arranging the staged finale with Punz. The guy was busy as hell and he was also like...still kinda in the midst of a manic episode. Also, keep in mind that while the book was his life insurance for the finale and its immediate aftermath, he had no idea that c!Sam was going to betray him. Considering all that, I don't think it's inconceivable that c!Dream may not have had time to thoroughly test the limits of the revive book beforehand, and he likely didn't realize quite how vital his knowledge of revival would become during his incarceration period. So yeah. I'm open to either interpretation, but I am partial to the possibility that the Vikk and Lazar necromancy montage happened after the prison era. And the exact date/location of the lab are never specified either, which makes me even more open to the post-prison necromancy option. Not a hill I'd be willing to die on, but a hill I like to sit on and admire the view from.

End of Las Nevadas is the weakest stream of the Las Nevadas series. I found it narratively unsatisfying, and not in a clever way. I don't hate that stream, I think it had some really interesting moments, but overall I'd say its messaging was convoluted and the tension was pretty poorly mismanaged. I'd be willing to go on about this if you want, but I think a lot of other folks have probably already articulated it better than I can. Oh, I'll add that I also have complicated thoughts about c!Slime as a character. Don't hate him, don't love him...but I am puzzled about the role he was presumably meant to play in the story vs. the role he actually ends up playing. I could go on about this in detail but it's late and I'm sleepy.

c!Quackity has very simple goals and motives, but his pursuit of those goals is oftentimes way more convoluted than necessary, which ends up making him read as a more complex and dynamic character than he really is (I like this btw!) Another way to put it would be that Q is not a terribly complex character in terms of motivations and ambitions (dr3 has rly good meta on this btw), but he does tend to needlessly complicate his own life and the lives of the people around him in pursuit of simple goals. I think one of his big failings is that he sees violence as an easy solution to his problems but in reality it just creates more problems for him. It's like he keeps failing some sort of foresight check, over and over again. Take the formation of Las Nevadas, for instance. Most of the country's members were intimidated/threatened into joining, not because they're people Q particularly wants to hang around with, but because they're people Q sees as either strong (i.e. they are capable of contributing to LN) or directionless (i.e. they're in need of an owner a leader.) Quackity doesn't really forge alliances, he just...buys people, basically? And then he's shocked when this backfires. His relationship with Purpled is the most obvious example of this, but also LN as a whole: in LN5 (?), Quackity's angry and offended and hurt that only a tiny handful of people show up to the opening ceremony, even though by all accounts the reason the turn-out isn't bigger is because the server has by this point become a chaotic and violent place where anything can happen to anyone for any reason and most inhabitants feel safer sticking to their own turf...and that atmosphere of chaos and violence is something Q has ostensibly contributed to, even before Pandora. c!Quackity creates a country that no one is truly loyal to, inhabited by people who are closer to employees than allies...and then his solution, when he realizes nobody really gives a shit, isn't to try recruiting people in a more equitable way, it's to bioengineer a slime army. That is insane. That is an insane way to solve your problems. In no way is bioengineering a slime army a normal or well-adjusted solution to any conceivable problem. This is what I mean when I say he's a relatively uncomplicated character who complicates everything - he's constantly jumping through hoops of fire to avoid changing his behavior and taking any kind of accountability whatsoever.

I have tons more takes but they're mostly about silly subjective stuff and/or fanon, so I'll leave that for another day if anyone's interested.

[somsonsomsoff]

🌟 Welcome to PROJECT SUPERNOVA, a massive Arena Mode AU!

Here I’ll show you the adventures of my OCs, who woke up in a different dimension after the main story of the Arena Mode. Their bodies were given up to The Nowhere and their souls are in the hands of a distant and lonely, unknown by most, universe. It’s known as The Abyss.

In this AU, 2BDamned signs a contract with The Abyss to keep the Imprints safe.

The Abyss is an abstract Higher Power, a lively small universe located outside of Time and Space, which disobeys the laws of physics that we are so familiar with. It's surrounded by the dark foggy Wastelands, and no sun or stars are visible in the sky. The Abyss wants to study Nevada, and in exchange for the Imprints’ memories of their past and behaviour, it grants them the ability to become stronger and transfer memories between different timelines created by the cycles. It keeps their souls safe far away from Madness.

But knowledge is not enough for the Abyss. It has an ulterior motive to use said knowledge, which is why the Imprints’ powers comes with the price of the Metamorphosis Chain’s fragility.

All the Imprints get into this place built on their memories of exploring Nevada. They can interact with each other, and the only rule they have to follow for now is not to kill each other.

It only takes one Imprint to die and all its subsequent rebirths will disappear, since they can't exist without their predecessor, thus leading to the fall of Nevada. They all bear a heavy burden on their shoulders

This isn't the universe we grew accustomed to and it has its own laws for everything: the bodies existing with no souls, born from everyone's memories; the Imprints' amplified emotions and hidden wishes.

They’ll have to live with each other and their sins in this small, quiet and lonely universe.

So, what about the characters? You can read a little about some of them down below! You can ask them a question, if you want! I’ll try to answer them when I can, and the character list will grow with time. Btw, if everything goes according to plan, I’ll start a comic featuring my OCs and the AU. Let's meet the cast!

And now meet the Nevadean Science Team! Someone had to carry out all these experiments, right?

I'm looking forward to all your questions! Also, thank you for reading this far, and for all the feedback I've received on my previous post, it really inspires me to continue working on this project!

Stay tuned for more characters and lore!

[itslouisan]

Some Revivebur headcanons!:

Btw some of these only exist due to @syndicatedsystem design on my man so...yep

Also shootout to @utahlive because some of these headcannons also came from some of the posts in there and @tntduopolls for answering some of my questions but also ✨ headcannon material✨

(Art by: zirzipper on twitter!! )

• Transmasc!! Either we agree C!Wilbur in general is transmasc or demiboy ot transfem, and that's it. Also bi

• This man totally tried dying his hair back to complete brown only to find out the streaks are always coming back white no matter what he did

• He started smoking on teenager years, considering how I hc Wilbur roughly as a 40 year old max (and C! Quackity as a 36 year old max) he lived through the time where smoking was seen as something "mature" and "cool" and socially even to this day many adults use smoking as a way to cope with pressure but also fit in the society and create connections in the work space, which Wilbur probably understood, picking up the habit of smoking for said reasons

• That being said, he's autistic, end of story, bye. He's also probably REALLY good at masking

• Because of tntduopolls I came to a conclusion: either Wilbur's style fluctuates between classy, rustic, OR JUST RANDOM BS FROM THRIFT STORES HE BOUGHT FOR 1.99 FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES

• Wilbur is anemic as fuuuuck, also lacks vitamin D

• His coat has a intense smell of cigarettes, whiskey, dry blood, gun powder and wet dirt, that's because he always had a problem with washing clothing, to the point he felt if he washed it, it didn't fit in his skin anymore and felt wrong, when Tommy took it, it was already completely destroyed and there was nothing he could do to repair, it was as if a mark of Wilbur was in that coat even after death

• This mf will enter in your house/office or whatever and steal anything he finds fitting, no, he won't apologize, yes, he will gaslight you to believing you just lost the item and is crazy blaming him, yes he keeps a collection of said items

• His favorite items to steal? Gold, keys, dice, cards, coins, lighters, rings, necklaces, sketchbooks (these he might give back if you draw him), history books and gems

• Quackity had to create a "code Wilbur" during Las Nevadas from how constantly that bitch forced his way into the office to steal some shit or just sit in Quackity's chair and play the president

• He did have an affair with Quackity before dying, it was secret though and both of them took it to the grave, literally

• He is rotting inside, like, he doesn't have warmth in his body, but it's not JUST that, other things that show that he's dead is the fact Wilbur has to constantly stitch himself together otherwise his limbs may stop responding and fall apart, also he feels phantom pain in the chest sometimes at night if he doesn't go to bed for far too long, but, inside his skeleton, his bones are rotting slowly, his voice is slowly becoming raspier and raspier because his vocal chords are hurting each other, maybe one day he'll end up mute and it doesn't help the fact that he smokes so much, and his teeth are permanently yellow. Not to mention the rotten and fucked up nails

• He actually has a tattoo with the L'Manberg flag on his left wrist

Tw: some of these can include the topic of self-harm, suicidal thoughts, body scars, body dysphoria

• He always HATED that he is an avian, often using unsafe binding methods on his wings, the result? He can't fly anymore, and due to death, his wings are rotting, falling apart, you can even see some of the bones in it already, birds also tend to pluck out feathers when stressed, so just like Phil, he took away multiple of his feathers from the wings, arms, armpits, neck and chest. He also clipped his wings.

• Wilbur DID self-harm when he came back to life, not because of depression this time though since in Pogtopia he used to sh from mental illness, in here, he feels ALIVE when he cuts himself, it's a reminder that he isn't just a husk, an empty cold corpse, that he feels pain again, that he isn't going to wake up in that train station again.

• In his limbo he did think of jumping in the train line a couple of times, but because the train never came he'd just be suffering in the bottom without a way to go back up

• Wilbur unsafe binding also extended to his chest, in which resulted to permanent scars in his chest and ribs, as well as breathing problems, all due to the fact he didn't want to ask for help of others for his gender but didn't want to live not feeling manly enough

• Wilbur has a massive issue with bed rotting sometimes spending half a day only in bed, and that extends to his apartment, dirty and messy and his own appearance

• In pogtopia, knowing that he'd die, every night he'd wrote song lyrics to burn them in candle light, letters saying what he wished he had the courage to say to people he cared about in person, and burnt himself with cigarettes only to feel alive (yes, yes it is a reference to Noel's lament, I'm sorry Wilbur is so Noel codded--)

• Sometimes by walking near places with water he sees the ghost of sally....he hates water now

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

would you ever do safe for work gov x nevada romantic headcanons? no pressure ofc if not that's okay 🙏

OOOO YES I CAN :D (btw love that you had to clarify "sfw" for some reason lmao).

Flirty Bitch™️ + Easily Flustered Bitch™️ = ✨✨✨✨✨

Nevada is literally one of the only people to convince Gov to wear anything but a suit. They also helped him find a clothing style that he enjoyed:

Touchy + Touch Starved = ✨✨✨✨

Once Nevada found out that Gov had very little sense of self care (besides showering and brushing hair/teeth and washing hands), he flipped tf out and Gov was scolded for nearly two hours (1 hour, 37 minutes, 28 seconds, and 0.0000067 milliseconds) about the importance of self care.

They are literally: Has no skincare routine and lives off of caffeine, no sleep, and has flawless skin (Gov) + has 12 step skincare routine, actually sleeps and has balanced diet, and has not-so-flawless skin (Vada). Vada gets mildly annoyed by this lmao.

No matter where they are, Vada is always gonna have an arm around Gov or just be touching him in general (this includes fussing about his tie being poorly done)

Vada likes to do his nails. Gov likes when Vada does his nails. Cuz one: pretty boyfriend,,,, and two: headpats and head scritches are even better.

Neither of them are cis. Just gonna say that. (Gov = transmasc, Vada = idk. spin the wheel?)

Nevada has busted down Gov’s door with a single kick fully dressed to go out, dragged Gov’s gangly ass away from his desk, and then dragged him to go to the mall or smth. Oh yeah! Gov’s not paying either. Vada’s rules. (Gov still breaks this rule and buys stuff for Vada when they’re not looking lmao)

[fandomgeeknerd]

happy v day

here are my fav state's from each region plus misfit states

(i forced myself to choose i can't choose a fav state or char at all)

from the south we haveeeee

Florida :> i love him a lot i especially love the vid where this ss came from ben should do that again

from the west we haveeeeeee

my home state nevada i love my state i love living in nv even though it touches the sun every summer

in the northeast we haveeee

mass! and a rare moment where we can see hatless mass and the colors are orange and pink aka dunkin's colors

from the midwest issssss

kansas! This is mostly influenced by Supernatural and The Wizard Of Oz cus they both take place in Kansas but still my fav state and yes that is an spn background

and my fav from the misfit states issss

dc! i'm very proud of this one btw

anyway that's it happy valentines dayyyyyy :>

[call-me-blip]

Oh? What's this? A Title, cover and synopsis drop ? GOD I'M SPOILING Y'ALL TODAY, GET RICH OF THIS SHIZ.

btw forgot to mention this is a fem reader insert , sorry I forgot to mention.

anyways, I present to you :

ETHEREAL - Optimus Prime X reader story.

(I am going to spell and grammar check I'm winging this RN because I am a lil busy)

"To the rest of mankind, I just represent something from the past that they like to think is a whole other world away from themselves than it truly is."- Y/N

Humans. A naturally prideful species that believes its current and future achievements are a shining pinnacle of its capabilities. A race that when it looks at its ancient ancestors and their beliefs lifts their nose up and laughs.

Oh If only they knew that the stories of the past were true.

Tales of ancient one eyed giants, monsters that could devour the world and plunge it into darkness, a plethora of gods and goddesses and even magic.

Roaming around Earth on a quest to make sure that the monsters of the 'past' have as little interference on the everyday lives of humans as possible, Y/N and her team, are dispatched by the Greek Pantheon to deal with an outbreak of Monsters. After arriving in Jasper Nevada and managing to track one of the beasts into the desert, Y/N and her friends think this may end up being an easy job....but nothing truly ever goes to plan when you throw a giant robot war, attention seeking Gods, feelings, and a certain blue and red mech into the mix.

MORE INFO/ANNOUNCEMENTS/ WHATEVER YOU WANNA REFER TO THEM AS BECAUSE IDEK ANYMORE

1- I decided to Change to primeverse because I came to realize the idea / plot I have and the characters I've created are just a tad bit too dark for the animated universe. Although I ain't giving up on my animated fic. Just gonna change the plot to make it lighter and so it's not the same story.

2- I sincerely apologize for not staying that this'll be a fem "human" reader insert, it completely slipped my mind.

3- This ain't no Percy Jackson reader/OC , this is an original idea I've been building up. Gotta create a bit of drama people, robots ain't the only plot line here.

4- I'm alright writing something a bit saucy and implied but no smut will be written by my hands .

FIRST CHAPTER WILL BE UP LATER. I LOVE YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE I'M GONNA HAVE A NAP BYE, PLEASE FEEL COMMENT AND ANSWER THE POLE 💕

[csundewsaysfuckitwebawl]

Thats good !!

Phil doesn't give me money anymore 😔😔 no more pocket money ig for me 🙄🙄 but I don't really need it either, I mean, I live with Eret still so

Uh I don't think so?? ^_^

-Mya

Thank you :D

Oh, tell her I say hi :D

It’s kind of a weird story, but here we go. So, I was hanging out with Domino, SJ, and Calypso. Oh, by the way, Calypso’s another friends of mine. They work at Las Nevadas. So, we were all hanging out, and SJ and Domino said they had to go. But I didn’t want anyone to leave me for us to have to stop hanging out. So, Calypso and I followed them. They went inside Techno’s house, so, naturally, we followed them inside. Techno, Phil, Niki, Ranboo, Foolish, Connor, Domino, and SJ started talking (Yes, Sundew and Calypso just walked on a Syndicate meeting), but I wasn’t really listening, because I was focused on hiding, because this seemed kinda private. But Calypso and I are never ones to pass up on good tea, so we a place to hide, which happened to be inside the walls. Which is where we met Mongoose. The ghost of someone Techno killed who really liked Lemon Demon :]. So, Calypso and I started taking to Mongoose, but then the others hear us. I asked Techno what everyone was doing here, and he explained that this was his potato cult. And that’s how I met Mongoose :D

(We love Mongoose btw. He’s an icon)

[8one6]

Ever since I was in high school (in the before times, in the long, long ago) I had dreamed of taking road trip. Just me, my car (in high school it was a Cadillac Hearse that got absolutely awful gas mileage and high school me used to bitch about gas when it went over a $1 a gallon), and the open road, but I never managed to do it. Sometimes it was money, sometimes it was lack of opportunity, sometimes it was just the fear of doing something new.

In my mid-30s I finally did it and let me tell you it was one of the best experiences of my life.

A few years ago (2022 to be exact) my boss made me take a vacation in the spring (mostly because I had two years of pto from not using it during the lockdown years, but also because he was legitimately concerned with my stress levels, but anyway) and that year I decided to take two weeks to see all three Meow Wolf locations in one big trip. (Convergence Station is the coolest one btw, with Omega-Mart a close second.)

I70 through Kansas is a zen experience if you make the drive at night. Endless fields of stars and farmland, accompanied by whatever podcast you queued up for the drive.

Visited family in Denver, spent a day at Convergence Station, and the drive to Santa Fe was like driving through a postcard!

The House of Eternal Return was neat (IMO it relies a little too much on backstory you can only really get from sitting down and reading a lot of the SCP-style documents lying around the house, but unless you rented the entire place for the day you're competing with dozens of other people who are also trying to read the same thing.), I stayed at this cool, fully restored Route 66 vintage motel called the El Rey Court (A++, would stay again), and then I was off to Las Vegas.

There's a trick i40 plays on you. You'll be driving through some incredibly beautiful but still harsh desert wasteland (I passed more than one husk of an abandoned building on that stretch of highway) and then all of a sudden you're in a lush green forest. It was seriously as close to passing from one Minecraft biome to another as you can get in real life. (I also stopped at Meteor Crater National Landmark. It was cool.)

Just outside of Vegas I got two incredibly singular experiences. The first was seeing a tumbleweed in real life for the first time. I swear, I was alone in my car and I said out loud "Holy shit they're real!!!" The second was driving through an actual sand storm. In hindsight I should have pulled over and let it pass, but no one else on the road was doing it, so I just crawled through it at 30mph.

I spent a few nights in Las Vegas. Visited Omega-Mart (super cool, I recommend it), watched Blue Man Group (also very cool, also highly recommend), got to see a Penn & Teller show live (a fucking dream of mine since I was a little kid!!!), and had the best meal of my life.

Honestly, before that trip if you told me there was a difference between a $20 steak from Longhorn and a $100 steak from an actual steak restaurant I'd have called bullshit. I was in Las Vegas, I figured "This is likely the last time I'll take a trip like this, fuck it, why not splurge."

Oh my sweet raptor christ! The $100 steak was worth every cent!

What followed was a day of driving through beautiful parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, including the most nerve-wracking stretch of highway through the mountains (literally through them in one spot. The Eisenhower tunnel is a little more than a mile and a half of tunnel bored straight through the spine of the Americas). A brief stop to sleep, and then 14 hours straight on home.

It was a fantastic trip. Two weeks away from home, from work, from any responsibility, the first time off since 2019. Two weeks of moving to my own schedule and crossing things off of the bucket list.

[death-in-a-handbasket]

Oc ask! I know nothing whatsoever about yours 😭 PLEASE proceed with an incoherent ramble <3

OKAY OKAY HELL YEAH 💪 you got it boss (also thank you for the ask !!!! I really appreciate it like you wouldn’t believe)

so to break things down a little into stuff that makes more sense, I have about five main stories and a bunch of side stories. All my ocs exist in the same universe they just don’t all come in contact with each other

Here’s the main synopsis for each of the main five:

For Given - an angel falls from heaven and has to cope with living as a human. He must learn how to navigate a new body, social situations, and making bonds. However there is something interesting and suspicious to discover in the lives of those around him and only through learning about them will he figure out why he fell from heaven. (Set in Pennsylvania)

Saint - three human college students get lost in a Bermuda Triangle esque desert and must collaborate with the locals to escape even when things go horribly awry (set in Nevada)

Midnight Rice - an exploration of the lives of 12 college students and how they end up as a friend group despite all being vastly different, much amounts of drama and personal issues surface on the down low (Set in Pennsylvania)

Figments - a group of strange roommates individually encounter members of another equally odd friend group and slowly discover that they all know each other through strange means. Tender domestic moments are in full force as well as odd kinky shit and unconventional expressions of love. (set in a place reminiscent of Georgia)

Green Beans and Barley - slice of life small town shenanigans featuring a young boy and the lemon tree nymph he befriended, she gets to experience this deranged small town drama through his eyes (Set in upstate New York)

I’ve been brewing these stories solidly for like five years now and my oldest oc I’ve had for like 8 years

here’s a sketch of her from a little bit ago

she does track and field and is a pyromaniac with a weapon fascination (she is a good shot with guns so beware LMAO) she has few friends as most are offput by her and she frankly doesn’t like them either (there is a ton of small town gossip surrounding her family)

here’s an oc meme I did for your viewing pleasure 🤲 btw easter egg for those with keen eyes, if you stare long enough at the oc chart, I have a self insert in with my ocs because I’m not above joining in on the shenanigans LMAO

I’ve worldbuilt these stories so extensively (even though half the info I have isn’t needed in canon) that I have 41+ pages of info on the mechanics of it all because I’m nothing if not thorough and I WILL talk about demon denominations shdbfjnfkf

At some point I want to make a copy public to people but we’ll see how to execute that properly since I’m not super tech savvy and I’m extremely private about my personal info

here’s a shitpost I made on spirits that I’ve included in my lore doc as consolation

I fear if I ramble for much longer I might just explain genuinely everything SJSJJSJ so thank you for the ask !! wishing you a good day :3

[ryemackerel]

i dont, i dont want to be rude but you know c!quackitys scar is from techno right? sorry i just saw it being from schlatt abusing him and was like "wh" unless this is a separate canon, SORRY i just- it was just one of c!q like defining character arcs YOU DONT HAVE TO RESPOND TO THIS I JUST SAW IT AND WAS LIKE, i must tell you about "ill put it through your teeth" moment

yes im fully aware! i want to make it clear to you guys that this is a completely separate canon. almost all of my dsmp art is based on my headcanon au. i havent gotten to fully elaborating it, so i can understand why some of the changed information might be confusing.

example, the eye scar being from schlatt instead of techno, and las nevadas being created from the remains of manburg? i altered a lot of the important parts of the dsmp lore in place of my au.

i'll be honest i wouldve kept the canon events, like techno and quackity's encounter, or the entirety of how lmanburg's existence changed everyone's lives? but with the way i tried making the au, i had to replace or outright remove some canon events to fit with the narrative.

fyi! the au doesn't exactly have a name or specific defining aspect that *makes it* its own universe. it kind of came to be through the roleplays i would do, then it became its own thing because of how different it was from canon. it's still a HUGE work in progress, but i'm letting you folks see bits of how that au has been. :)

i get why some people might be put off by me removing some of the biggest dsmp events in the au, but do understand its a part of this other narrative im in the middle of developing!

/not mad, thank you for asking btw! i thought it wouldve been a good time to clarify whats been going on in my silly mind :]

[eagle-eyes-sideblog]

Icarus in a Gilded Cage

Summary

An AU of SAMAU that follows a Player named Lilith. It diverges from the original quite early on, when the Auditor decides to kidnap him and Lilith reacts... poorly.

More details on Lilith (any pronouns btw), the world they come from, and the general course of the story under the cut.

Lilith is a living weapon, stripped of faer purpose after being revealed as a deity's chosen. Frustrated and prohibited from fighting, they find different ways to relieve their stress. One of his new interests is watching Madness Combat and playing Project Nexus.

Her personality quickly endears her to her vessels. Although vir aim is... lackluster, ve makes up for it with sheer enthusiasm and bloodlust. Their strategic mind isn't half bad, either. And thus the AU begins as usual... until, of course, Lilith is actually brought to Nevada.

The Auditor decides to intervene after Lilith mysteriously vanishes. Unbeknownst to him, xe's been on the run for the last few months, and xe are not happy with being put in another cage.

Violence ensues. I have two ideas for how this goes from here, one where Lilith stays and one where it leaves.

If Lilith leaves, voi does so immediately. She is absolutely furious, and more than a little terrified that the Employers will trap her again. So he escapes into the wild and lives on his own for a while.

I imagine ve's very, very cautious at first. They aren't quite sure if they can trust... well, anyone here. And it's used to being on its own for months at a time, especially in hostile territory; there isn't an urgent need for allies.

However, eventually her lack of direction starts to get to her. He decides to try and carry out the original story. Fae begins by contacting 2BDamned, hoping to join as some kind of mercenary—the one-man-army fae was created to be.

I have no ideas past this point. At least for now. Sorry!

In the one where he stays, he's closest to Stygian. Their respectful mannerisms make fae much more trusting of them; they are the first Employer (and, if fae has faer way, the only Employer) who learns about what Lilith is and what that means.

Which reminds me: I should probably explain that in a bit more detail. Along with some more worldbuilding.

See, Lilith is some kind of magical/biological construct, designed for a very specific purpose. Like other living weapons, they're very efficient in energy use; they can go without eating or sleeping for weeks at a time with very few negative effects. Its biological aspects mean it can operate very independently on the battlefield, unlike actual machines. He can make his own repairs, and he gradually heals over time.

As for specifics... She's a close combat fighter. Xir small frame (well, compared to others like xem) make xem nimble and extremely fast.

Each living weapon is assigned a handler. Lilith's relationship with her own is somewhere between parental and military. Fae refers to them as faer commander. Lilith feels betrayed by them, but even so, he misses them dearly.

And what happened that made Lilith feel so betrayed? Well... Being a deity's chosen means that it's no longer allowed to fight. They're considered 'too valuable' to risk. It makes her feel weak, fragile, as if she can't take care of herself. Ve doesn't need to be protected, and yet everyone insists that ve does. Eventually, xe can't take it any more. He decides to break free from the gilded cage he's trapped in.

This is why she reacts so poorly to the Employers' attitude towards her. :D

[nevadas-explorer]

Finally typed up all the Lore i have so far for the Edge and the Nevada Triangle!!

Tldr: the Edge is Nevada's farlands

Also btw, there WAS more to Madness Combat's world than just Nevada but now Nevada is the only stable land left. And that's saying something considering how bad things are in Nevada itself

The Edge

The Edge is a name for any part of nevada where reality dissolves into the void. Despite the name, the Edge isn't a physical border around Nevada; it's just where reality ends and the void begins.

Most of the Edge is located far from where the events of Madness Combat actually take place. The deeper into the Edge you go, the more corrupted and unstable reality becomes, until you reach the point where reality ends altogether. No travelers have ever come back from this point of no return; all of them have disappeared when they accidentally went into the void.

There are smaller regions of the Edge that exist within Nevada's borders. The distortion in these regions is nowhere near as severe as in the borders, but it's still dangerous to go there.

The largest of these rifts is known as the Nevada Triangle. It's impossible to chart the size of the Nevada Triangle, but it is large enough to have swallowed up an entire city.

The Nevada Triangle

The Triangle formed after a dissonance-related experiment went horribly wrong. The experiment had taken place in a city and soon the rift that it created had engulfed the entire city. The rift grew, swallowing miles of land in every direction, until the edges of the rift were finally hemmed by the Regulator to stop its growth.

From a distance, the Triangle looks normal: a city far in the distance, surrounded by open desert. But trying to walk there is impossible; thanks to the effects of the Edge, no matter how far one tries to go, the city will never get any closer.

Luckily the rough location of the Triangle has been determined, based on reports from lucky travellers and legends of people who disappeared after straying too close to the lost city's location.

No one has entered the Triangle and lived to tell the tale, with one exception: the Explorer.

The Triangle's actual appearance is an enormous hole leading straight to the void. Inside the rift there are floating islands that look like pieces of an abandoned city.

Strange void creatures prowl the fractured streets. Most of them are edge abominations: oversized, abomination-like creatures that are hostile to anything that isn't void and unfriendly to anything that *is* void. Perhaps the edge abominations are what remains of the lost city's former inhabitants...

[mariacallous]

Of the Senate seats up in 2024, I think the following (all things being equal) I would be confident about staying Dem (Angus King in Maine and Bernie in Vermont are both up for re-election, but they both caucus with the Dems and fairly comfortably won last time and I don't expect any changes there, but I won't list them below)

California Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New Mexico New York Rhode Island Virginia Washington

The following I think are likely to stay Dem but it would probably be a bit of a fight:

Michigan Nevada (Jacky Rosen got 50.4% last time, and assuming she can do what CCM did this time plus a presidential election turnout...) Pennsylvania Wisconsin

(These are all based on the current incumbents, btw.)

Races which would probably be a real fight:

Arizona (Sinema only barely got 50% last time) Montana (Tester only got 50.1% last time, but he's a really good candidate for that seat, he oversaw the DSCC this election, and he would benefit from a presidential election turnout, plus in 2018 his GOP opponent got under 47% of the vote, with a Libertarian taking like 3%) Ohio (Brown had a decent majority but Ohio's gotten redder but also with Ryan's close race against Vance and the groundwork there...) West Virginia (Manchin got 49.57% to the Republican's 46.26%, with a Libertarian getting over 4%, so assuming he runs again and assuming he might benefit from being a moderate Dem bucking the party every so often and bringing money to WV and assuming a presidential election year turnout and and and)

Who the fuck knows what'll happen with these races:

Florida - Rick Scott only got 50.1% last time, but Florida has decisively shifted redder since 2018 and a lot of work would need to be done in organizing and campaigning plus a good candidate would need to chosen by the Dems.

Indiana: Mike Braun is retiring to run for Governor of Indiana, and last time he was elected with 50.7% of the vote (the Dem incumbent got just under 45% of the vote, and the Libertarian got almost 4.5% of the vote) so depending on who runs there it could potentially be competitive? Likely not though.

Missouri: Josh Hawley got 51% of the vote to Dem incumbent Claire McCaskill's 45.6%, but he's not especially popular and there might be potential to get it back, especially with a presidential election turnout.

Texas: Ted Cruz just barely beat Beto 50.9% to 48.3% and he's unpopular with a lot of people and Beto and other organizers in Texas have been working to make changes, so with Ted Cruz as an incumbent, the groundwork that's been laid, and a presidential election turnout?

Races staying Republican:

All the rest? lol

Mississippi Nebraska (both seats would technically be up, but Deb Fischer got 57% last time and Ben Sasse won pretty solidly too). North Dakota (Cramer beat Heitkamp 55% to 44%, roughly, and having lived and worked in North Dakota, it's pretty solidly red there, like one-party rule red) Tennessee (sadly I don't think Marsha Blackburn is going anywhere unless she runs for President) Utah Wyoming