#i really like the vibes i've got going on here

[mrs-pondwater19]

~ The Fallout ~

-Lucifer Possessed Sam x Fem Reader

-Synopsis: You've disbanded from the team after Sam accepts to be Lucifer's vessel for the apocalypse. Going nomad and settling somewhere in rural New England away from what's left of society in order to evade the Devil and the Croatoan Virus. As well as survive the fallout of the apocalypse in peace. Only to be met face to face with a shell of the man she loved dearly. The meeting is rather interesting, recalling the days before the apocalypse, an unholy adoration, all the things that were never said, and experiencing the cold touch of the Devil.

WC: 1,899

A/N: Hello my loves, been reading some fics lately with Sammy and got a little Inspired to write one of my own. I've really been thinking about the idea of possessed Sam and how dramatically tragic it would be, not that I'm entirely one for angst but it's certainly fun to write. I also really wished they would've explored the endverse little more. Just more so seeing where everyone ended up. This story is not only inspired by the episode "The End" but also heavily inspired by the song "Fallout" by Neoni and UNSECRET. Just thought it would fit the vibe.

This story will be split up into three parts otherwise it would be ridiculously long lol.

I hope you enjoy💕.

WARNINGS: S5 SPOILERS, Depression, recollections, mentions of past relationships, grieving, isolation, desolation, slight mentions of death/disappearances, an unexpected visit.

"Hush Now, Dry Your Eyes.

Fate Is Upon Us.

The Changing Of Times.

Welcome Blood Red Skies.

Burn In The Wake Of A World Left Behind."

The wind blew gently around you as you sat in the dead, overgrown grass on the edge of a lake near your property. Overlooking the dark murky water that reflected the dull grey sky and the dark evergreen trees that surrounded you. A scene you had burned into your brain a long time ago.

A shadow of what was and will never be again.

It was a place you frequented every so often, finding a strange sort of peace in the ruralness of it all. Finding comfort in the silence of what used to be a place once full of life. Or so you assumed anyways. You came here after everything had transpired.

After you left everything behind.

But lately you'd been coming more and more, almost everyday. Staying longer and longer each time. Mindlessly staring at the water as if it cast a spell on you.

A spell of grief and sorrow that never seemed to wear off.

And your tears never seemed to dry out along with it.

With every visit you found yourself recalling how you ended up here in the first place all that time ago. The events replaying in your mind over and over again like a broken projector.

Events that left a hole in your heart that never seemed to heal no matter how much time passed. It was still as fresh as the day it all began.

That fateful day when you, Dean and Sam tracked the devil down to Detroit. Despite your better judgement, you went along with it.

The day he said "yes" to the devil.

The day he said the one fucking word.

That was the day the world truly ended.

The day Sam Winchester died at the hands of Lucifer.

You'd hoped and prayed that you'd never see that day, even though everyone warned all of you. All the prophecies that said it was destined to happen. You wanted to believe he was stronger than that, that the prophecies were wrong about him, and that he would say no and walk away like all the times before.

But he didn't.

That day was the worst day of yours, Dean's, and Bobby's on life. Watching Sam, being broken down after denying Lucifer so many times, wearily, but willingly hand himself over to be the Devil's vessel. Watching someone you all loved so dearly inadvertently end their life in front of you.

You would've denied it if you hadn't seen it for yourself. You would've called anyone who said Sam succumbed to Lucifer a goddamn liar.

But seeing the way the Devil forced his way into Sam's body like a hungry serpent. And all you could do was watch helplessly as the darkness completely consumed Sam.

Leaving no trace of his soul to be found.

After that, things started to rapidly change. Not only in your group, but the world around you as a whole. Even though the apocalypse started months before, with electrical storms, catastrophes, and the results of the four horsemen wreaking havoc on the world.

Something shifted.

Something bigger.

Something worse.

A virus.

A virus that Lucifer and his followers had been working as soon as he was released from the confines of Hell.

The Croatoan Virus.

Once it hit the mainstream, things were out of yours and any other hunters' control.

Mass extinction plagued the earth. Millions died within the first few weeks of exposure. Some came back as undead and crawled about, exposing others and spreading the virus like wildfire. Anyone who managed to evade the virus banded together groups in the countryside trying to survive with very little if given the opportunity. Or face the fallout alone.

When you, Dean and Cas formed your group, you hoped to find your place in the world.

But you didn't.

Instead you just felt lost. Unsure of where to go or what to do in this new world.

No matter what you did, you never seem to quite fit into it all.

And as much as you didn't want to. You knew you had to leave. Be on your own for a little while and sort yourself out. Using the excuse that you needed to find your way elsewhere and avoid the virus. Not wanting to risk contracting it and becoming a husk like being. Along with wanting to keep your distance from Dean. As much as it stung, it was a means to keep him safe when Lucifer would begin to seek him out. Knowing the first place he'd look was amongst his friends and loved ones.

Which they weren't complete lies. They were valid reasons for wanting to get away and be on your own for a while.

But deep down you and everyone else knew what the true reason was for you leaving your small group with Dean. Even if you never said it aloud.

It wasn't the same without Sam.

You weren't the same without Sam.

Everyone around you saw how different you were after that fateful day. How you were no longer your optimistic self, how you closed yourself off and began to just some distance between you and the group. Never taking up Dean's offers when he would go on hunts. Or when Cas tried to explain the situation with Sam rationally you just shut him down and put a barrier up, telling him you didn't want to talk about it.

You had become unreachable to the people who cared about you.

Even though you cared about the boys and loved them, you couldn't bear to be around the people you came to call family. Not without constantly remembering the memories before the apocalypse.

When life was simple.

Seeing them carry on without Sam was too painful.

And seeing the pain in their eyes as they watched you become something you weren't made your heart shatter. Feeling as if you were a stranger amongst the people you called family.

It was as if the day the Devil took Sam. He took a piece of you with him.

You knew you couldn't put your loved ones through that anymore. They already lost Sam, they didn't need to watch you die too.

So with a heavy heart, you said your goodbyes. Telling Dean and Cas that you were sorry for leaving, but that you'd be in touch.

That you'd miss them.

You even called up Bobby, letting him know you were going nomad for a little while.

He seemed to be the only one who understood why. And for that you respected him a little more.

Once you said your goodbyes, you left. Never looking back as you made your way up North to the thick, dense forest of New England.

Where you knew no one would find you.

"Down to the ashes.

Bones are left to dry

Waves of desolation

There's nowhere safe to hide."

Late afternoon set in as you sat on the edge of the water. Shaking your mind away from your thoughts when you heard the thunder rumbling in the distance. A gentle fog creeping in around you. Creating a small mist over the glass like water of the lake.

You knew you shouldn't be sulking the way you were. It wasn't going to help you or fix the way you felt.

It only seemed to make things worse.

But it also gave you a sense of clarity.

The world you knew before was gone.

A thing of the past now.

Most of the world had been burned to the ground, nothing but dry bones and ashes.

The angels had abandoned humanity and retreated back to heaven. Leaving you all to fight this war alone, expecting you all to fail.

That was reality.

But you had spent enough time wallowing and grieving about the past and what the world had become for one day. Fatigued from your neverending reminiscing, you found yourself looking over the lake one last time. Burning into your mind before brushing off your pants and making sure your gun was loaded before you turned away. Walking down the path you had beaten all that time ago when you first came to this desolate place.

As you walked, feeling the dead grass crunch softly under your boots. It was calm, the sound of birds chirped in the distance, the ambient sounds of the forest filled your ears. The wind blew gently around you, the smell of wet moss, old wood, and fresh fog filled your nose as you walked on.

It almost made you forget all things that brought you here in the first place.

Until you felt something in the air shift. Feeling a sense of anxiety shudder throughout your body as the wind went still.

A chill slowly running up your spine. The hair on the back of your neck stood up. Your heart beats thumping a little faster than before.

Something was wrong.

Very wrong.

Because it all felt too familiar.

At first you couldn't place it, but you remembered the feeling. The unsettling dread in the pit of your stomach. The heavy weight that seemed to hang off your body.

What was it that made you feel so afraid?

Then it hit you.

When you realized what caused these feelings before now, your heart stopped dead in your chest. Tears were prickling in your eyes as you began to search around for the cause of your fear.

Of your heartache.

For him.

When you couldn't see him at first. You panicked, thinking it was some sort of trick your mind was playing on you. Maybe you had been out here for too long. And as a result you were feeling things that weren't there. That you were hallucinating.

But you couldn't have been more wrong.

Once you scurried down the path a little more, pulling your gun into position as you made your way past the misty kissed birch and cedar trees. Looking all around like you were surrounded on all sides, and yet there was nothing in sight.

But when you glanced at the patch of poison hemlock in a little clearing not too far off the path. That's when you saw him.

His clean, crisp white suit caught your eye as he stood there. Calm and peaceful as he admired the poisonous plant, caressing the flowers with care as if they were the most beautiful, fragile thing in the world.

He found you.

You stared at him in awe, the gun now slung at your side as tears silently streamed down your face as you tried to understand.

How could he have possibly found you?

But the truth was it was obvious. If he had a sense of who Sam was. He knew that Sam knew you'd flee to someplace like this. Somewhere quiet and quaint, somewhere isolated. So truly it was only a matter of time before he found you.

And in that moment, seeing him in the patch of hemlocks, the fog settled around his feet. How the crisp, pure white of his suit contrasted the dark evergreens and greys of the forest, how he seemed so unbothered by it all. As if he expected this to happen.

You realized you were never going to find a safe place to hide from him. There was no place you could hide where he wouldn't find you.

Because he would always find you.

~To be Continued~

[rainworld-fandom-positive]

RAIN WORLD WATCHER DAY 1 THOUGHTS

there are SPOILERS below this read more. this post is tagged with as many spoiler tags as I can cram onto it. if you choose to read on after being warned and complain about being spoiled, you had your chance to not click or scroll away!

Okay first things first I am actually a console gamer but by some grace of whatever god is looking out for me my piece of shit laptop that is in no way designed for gaming in any capacity went 'You know what, sure, I'll let you play the game'. I fully do intend to buy the game on console when it comes out so I can do completionist runs and stream it easier (my pc hates twitch and discord and everything that has a moving image usually. it is literally my Fanfiction Box)

My first impressions/Notes

You NEED to have completed either Monk or Survivor to play Watcher. Which is nice! For most people. I however had not completed either on pc as this silly machine is tempermental as explained above. So I had to sit there and complete Survivor first. It was... rough. I usually play as Rivulet or have the speed buff on when I play expedition mode so going slow was a challenege but hey, the authentic RW experience of "what the shit am I even doing any more" and "fuck swimming mechanics" and "god I fucking hate the leg". I did it though! Yay for me!

Pups in the opening cut scene for Watcher, very cute, very rotund! The white pup was really giving Survivor vibes but the default slugcat colour does seem to be white. I am more curious about the reddish-pink one that looks a LOT like Hunter. I don't think it is, no scar (though this could be HOW Hunter got that scar, I don't want to assume and I don't think this will be answered). Very sad that they're probably Dead.

The opening subregion of Industrial Complex is very nice! I always wanted to see what was up there and now, I can! The first thing I did was accidentially stab a scavenger while trying to save him from a pink lizard. The echo effect at the start of the campaign kind of gave me the idea to head straight for Pebbles. More on that in a moment.

First impressions was it all felt just like vanilla except... something felt. Wrong. First of all, I don't know if this is a glitch or not because I was able to get other passages but sheltering in any of the four vanilla regions I've been do did not count towards the Wanderer. In fact the Wanderer has not shown up AT all. I have been able to get survivor passage, cheiftain and have started on dragonslayer. Monk, Hunter and Saint have yet to pop up but thats probably because I've been dying a lot.

There's fucking red lizards. This seems to be a similar difficulty to Hunter or Spearmaster or Artificer. I have yet to see miros vultures but I have 100% almost died to a king vulture in Chimney. Because that's the standard Chimney Welcome <3

Before going to Pebbles I was going to swing by Moon, see how she was doing but... Garbage Wastes was blocked... by Rot. Okay I think, no biggie, I'll try to get there through Drainage System! Aha... nope... also blocked by weird purple Rot. Okay so Pebbles first it is except I get to the top of Chimney and... Sky Islands; rot. The Wall; rot.

And that's when I heard it.

The echo is... weird. It has A VOICE NOW, and it looks a lot different than the vanilla ones, smaller somehow, you can see its head way more defined... calling it now, working theory that is very very basic; Sliver of Straw. Or it is an entity that represents the Void Sea itself. But the Watcher can understand it, without the mark of communication. Just. Like. Saint.

Cool I think, more Karma. EXCEPT I HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED. I get plopped back into the starting region but now things seem... darker. There's rot there too now. As I explore Industrial there's also weird plants and it seems like some rooms are disintergrating???

So off to Shaded I go. Shoreline is also inacessable from here. I have not checked Garbage Wastes from Shaded but I have a feeling thats a no-go. Same with going through the gutter into drainage from chimney. I would reccomend visiting Shaded before Chimney or Farm Arrays (accessable through outskirts. beware of the red lizard and motherfuckering dropwigs). Literally I don't know how they did it but Shaded got more Shaded. And kinda purple.

Now this is where shit started to freak me out. Echo gave me a gift! The ability to blend in with my surroundings and avoid predators! Cool cool (echo also called the world a 'meat world' which implies they're not organic which leads me to think either iterator echo or this is The Actual Void Sea Itself talking to us.).

The world is fucking melting. Everything looks like Bendy and the Ink Machine had a party in Rain World, at least in Industrial it does. Food is... purple... and weird. You eat it it gives you half hunger saturation and stuns you for a second; also the poppy corn plants pulsate in weird ways and the black gunk also pulsates. And the blue fruit as well is affected.

Do not the purple. Do not the fucking purple.

... the lizards did the purple. I have no clue what is happening to the lizards but the poor geeny that hangs out in one of the first rooms of industrial got fucked up by the purple. I did not stick around long enough to find out what it could do. But the noises it made straight up sounded like it was about to start dropping the sickest dubstep my ears have ever been blessed by. And as someone who spent a lot of time In The Club, I have heard some dubstep.

Sick.

There's Red Lizards.

Panik.

Get eaten by rot.

"aite imma call it a night".

So far I don't think I've encountered any major glitches, unless the wanderer passage not showing up is one. I have seen ZERO overseers but considering shoreline and exterior (which means Moon and Pebbles) are currently Void Rot Gooped Up, that seems intentional. I did some how manage to rocket myself across a room at mach 4 like the ghost of Rivulet possessed me for a minute but that happens regardless when I play on console. Pipes get fucky when there's a scavenger in them sometimes.

Pretty interesting so far! And I've not seen any of the new regions and only ONE new creature which was basically just a meth lizard. I have no clue what is happening but I am loving it!

[echolynn13]

SFTH Chaotic Highlights (The Meringue Haberdashery)

Part 2 of the longforms, here we go:

So first things first, when I heard this title I had to google the definition of haberdashery because both myself and my mom thought it was one of those words that basically meant nonsense. Apparently it doesn't even mean that in America so idk where we got that idea

"I teach you nothing, I only show you the way" Someone needs to tell Don Juan the definition of 'teach'

"I sewed the funeral suit, she looked better than when she was alive" Not the best time to be prideful of your work but go off I guess

"It was a difficult time, and I found myself, uhhhhhhhh-" Absolutely no one knew what was going on at any point in this entire play and I'll never get tired of the chaos that vibe created

God, there's so much to say about the fucked up flashback sequence- The confusion over whether the dead girl was Don's wife or child, AJ assuming Sam was playing Don's child self as opposed to the kid who died, Don Juan being continuously 'in the flow' while no one seemed to know wtf he was on about, the girl's name changing to Nikita, AJ stage slapping the shit out of Sam, and ofc the fucked up death of a needle going through the child's eye shown via Sam's brilliant stagecraft

Also I think "You can sew a waistcoat perfectly, but you cannot sew a narrative together" deserves its own bulletpoint, I love that line so much

"I've had a difficult life, Don Juan, and if you want to live it... Then go for it" Words of wisdom from Don Juan #1 there

Even in a brief moment, we really get to see the gears turning in Sam's head when hearing the word 'sopa', searching the 'Spanish vocabulary' section of his mind before confirming Luke is in fact talking about soup

"You ever wonder why you and him have the same name?" Luke bringing up the elephant in the room that will soon become a surprising plot point

"He has no ambition!" "He's had a rough year!" He's like damn, give my name twin a break, his daughter died in a really traumatic way, of course he's not alright

"For many years his daughter was alive and healthy! Yet the shop stayed the same size! W H Y ?" Luke's delivery on 'Why' is perfectly over-the-top, as always

The back and forth of the soup bit "Give me a spoon" "I gave you a spoon" "Oh. Well this spoon is shit, get me a better one-"

*insert Adam Driver 'good soup' meme*

This is just a question, but could anyone tell me what Luke says after Sam says "He could maybe find some closure, some religion, something else-" because I can't for the life of me understand, and the autogenerated captions completely gave up on it

"I am a very sexy man" - Tom, in every goddamn improvised play (unless of course, he's a very sexy woman instead)

Luke deciding to become a ghost/hallucination of Don Juan #1's dead daughter- I know she ends up being a ghost, but the first scene really has vibes of 'oh this man has PTSD' so idk what the original intentions were

Idk if it was Nikita's voice or the fact a customer had just stolen the store's bell for some reason, but Don Juan has lost his ability to form words! That shit wasn't even stuttering anymore, it was full-on, natural-sounding gibberish, like he was playing the translator game with a language that doesn't actually exist

"Don Juan.." "Yes, Don Juan?" Ah yes, the culmination of the joke I've been waiting for

Sam suggesting AJ already tried giving himself a lobotomy after AJ speaks fluent alien-speak again is top-tier comedy

Unexpected Don Juan lore drop: Not only was he born and abandoned inside the haberdashery, he also constructed the entire building himself, as an infant. The more you know!

"Just like the namesake of this haberdashery, you are cracking! Like a meringue that's been left out too long... I can't watch your mind fracture like a meringue under a hammer" Guys I think Don Juan #2 might be trying to remind us of the play's title and that it's totally relevant to the plot

Hey so has the fandom decided on what the dead daughter's name is? Or is it like a Billy/Timothy/Benjamin type thing? Because I need answers

"Has your dead daughter been saying things to me fro beyond the grave? No! ... My wife on the other hand-" I don't have anything to add here, I just like that bit

Sam caught that needle in his hand like he caught the cocktail in The Hare Who Wore A Sweater

"You know anti-psychotics could cause mental cracking in healthy minds, so we're just wondering, what's going on here?" The tone of this whole conversation is as if the doctor is trying not to cause drama, as they actively (and accurately) accuse the 'sick' wife of drugging the town. I can't tell if that's just the characters general vibe or if they're worried about their own safety if they piss this lady off

Luke: "What are you doing?" Sam: *silently trying to figure out who the hell this character's supposed to be* "Nikita-?" Luke: *closing one eye to make it more obvious* "What are you doing??"

Sam goes through the same confused thought process after the 'What are you doing to yourself?' line

"Who is making you do this?" "He is" "Who is making you do this?" "He is making me do this-" "WHO is making you DO THIS? Come on!" "I- I'm making me do this-" ".. It's your wife, your fucking wife" Nikita/Luke is so tired of Don Juan/Sam's shit

"Do you ever wonder why you and my father have the same name?" Luke started this plot line, and now he's the one to end it

Luke being the translator for the audience is so funny. He said 'es verdad' and was like 'fuck you aren't gonna know what that means, here I'll spell it out for you'

"I was never sick.. I just don't like working!" Understandable villain motivation

"He said I was a bad influence and he kept me away" I mean you did drug the whole town, I can imagine you weren't the best influence back then either

Also wow, they made the daughter's death even more fucked up than before-

Tom being summoned to stand and represent 1000 Don Juans, as his singular self

"We really have to finish the show" "So it finishes with the villain winning!" A villain played by Luke winning is the only kind of unhappy ending I want to see, really it couldn't have gone better

Final thoughts: Everyone that thinks The Lighthouse is the most chaotic SFTH play needs to rewatch The Meringue Haberdashery right now

[zan-the-second]

Brainrot so bad I'm making a Taylor Swift playlist AND I'm making up song titles for the cover

Made in here

Ramblings about the songs and what I think they sound like below the cut :P

Most of the titles are straight from the movie and book, the others are my own personal naming convention for certain themes and scenes.

As for the tracklist it mostly follows the plot of the movie and book in Aldo's pov. Each song loosely based on a Bellini scene.

Sound-wise I thinks it's like if Midnights and TTPD had a baby with a sprinkle of folkmore. I just think Aldo's got that Midnights vibe in him.

NOW FOR THE SONGS(yes there are 13 of them ;))

Track 1-Secrets Of The State

Loosely inspired by State of Grace

Just Aldo's musings about his tenure as Secretary of State and also being one of if not the closest to the late Holy Father

Lowkey Lucky One and Nothing New coded

Sound-wise it's like if Lavender Haze and I Can Do It With A Broken Heart had a baby

chess metaphors(of course) with Aldo feeling like a pawn in his mentor's game

Lord, what would become of me when I've lost my novelty?

Track 2-Loved More Than Anyone

First of all, I need to preface that I'm INSANE about this line WHY DID THEY CUT IT

Heavily Maroon-inspired(which is funny bc it's also the track 2 of Midnights)

that's a real fucking legacy to leave vs that's a real fucking legacy, to leave HAUNTS ME AND IS SO ALDO WITH THE PREVIOUS POPE

Those two make me insane THOMAS WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE LOVED HIM MORE THAN ANYONE

very my tears ricochet core with the mentor-mentee relationship

what am I supposed to do when there's no you?

Imagine you loved someone so much and believed in their ideas and now they're gone and you don't know where to put this love

no other notes other than imagine Maroon but about this gay cardinal

Track 3-No Sane Man

Lowkey his I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

him just going 'bro why do you all WANT this???'

His Anti-Hero really

Basically just his auditorium speech in the movie of being like these are the things I stand for and I will not change them take it or leave it

But with an undercurrent of WHY IS IT NOT ENOUGH WHY CAN'T I BE ENOUGH

I stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

I can go anywhere I want just not home

Track 4-Know In My Heart

This is his marjorie

Him asking for advice from either God or the Previous Pope

Production style similar to The Archer

Just the mounting dread and anxiety

In a way also very Dear Reader

never take advice from someone whose falling apart

my fourth drink in my hand, these desperate prayers of a cursed man

Him grappling with his ambitions and dreams all the while knowing he isn't brave enough to pursue it so he just pretends he doesn't want it

Lowkey a denial song imagine him going 'I swear I don't want this thing I swear' then it's just him telling how wonderful must it be to have this thing(Is this about Lawrence or the Papacy?👀)

Track 5-Precious Doubts

NOW FOR THE DIVORCE

Some TayLore for those unfamiliar: Track 5s are her most vulnerable/personal songs

A lot of her heartbreak songs are Track 5s think All Too Well, Dear John, and So Long London

This is THE So Long London of the album

If tolerate it was in Midnights

Highkey very loml coded

This is the song that dives into his relationship with Lawrence and the trust and grief and heartbreak and doubts they both carry

HE WAS SUNSHINE I WAS MIDNIGHT RAIN

he wanted it comfortable I wanted that PAIN he wanted a bride I WAS MAKING MY OWN NAME CHASING THAT FAME

Track 6-It Is War

The Great War but without the reconciliation at the end

lowkey You're Losing Me

I'm fading thinking do something, babe, say something, lose something, babe, risk something, choose something, babe, I got nothing to believe

somewhere in the haze got the sense I've been betrayed

Him just BEGGING Lawrence to pick a side. Either support him or break his heart just be DONE with this

Track 7-Search Your Heart

Very Question...? inspired

I Wish You Would coded

Regret and all the feelings that come with it

A more subdued version of It Is War still bitter but less angry

Lowkey him wishing Lawrence would apologize LMAO

How You Get The Girl and The Other Side Of The Door core

doesn't everything feel like second best after that meteor strike?

Track 8-Breaking Of A Seal

MY BOY ONLY BREAKS HIS FAVORITE TOYS!!!!

HE WAS MY BESTFRIEND AND THAT WAS THE WORST PART

Just the metaphor of breaking things. Trust between him and Lawrence being broken when Lawrence broke Vatican law and when he refused to continue his candidacy.

I can kinda hear sounding like Down Bad

just the eraticness and otherworldly sound

first verse is very subdued and quiet but then the seal cracks before the chorus and the production shifts into a heavier synth

once I fix me he's gonna miss me

Track 9-Burn Them

High Infidelity coded

I bent the truth too far tonight I was dancing around it

Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th? Implying he took Tremblay's offer

His entire convo with Lawrence about the simony papers

Conflicting feelings of knowing what he's doing is wrong BUT also being so fucking tired and cannot deal with the alternative

Track 10-Pope John

Ngl this is only here because of Dear John

Afterglow coded

tell me that you're still mine tell me that we'll be just fine

Apology WITH tears

is it cool that I said all that? Is it chill that you're in my head?

Similar to ivy production-wise ESPECIALLY the bridge

Track 11-Firm Hand Of Yours

Quite possibly the horniest song in the album

Think So It Goes..., Guilty as Sin?, and I Can See You vibes

If that Eras Tour Dress x Afterglow mashup was a singular song

LOWKEY I Can Fix Him(No Really I Can) because I find it funny

you're good Lord doesn't need to lift a finger I can fix him no really I can

now you hang from my lips like the gardens of Babylon

Production is very if reputation and TTPD had a baby

Track 12-Moth Of Holiness

Lawrellini's Labyrinth or Sweet Nothing production and lyric-wise

everyone's up to something I find myself running home to your sweet nothings

lowkey invisible string with how they'll always return to one another

I drive down different roads but they all lead back to you

cowboy like me coded too

I got some tricks up my sleeve takes one to know one

Track 13-Checkmate

Basically Mastermind sound-wise

more chess metaphors(coming full circle from Secrets of the State)

Very Clara Bow lyrically especially with the ending kinda comparing Vincent to the previous Pope

you're the new god worth worshipping promise to be dazzling

YOU GOT EDGE SHE NEVER DID

THE CROWN IS STAINED BUT YOU'RE THE REAL QUEEN

[phoenixcatch7]

It's always funny to me when in an lu fic the chain is offered bananas and don't accept them. Like, you're offering these high energy adventures free food?? Fruit they'll have never even heard of before??? A ridiculously expensive imported good at best?? AND it boosts your attack?

Not ONE of these idiots would ever turn down something new and interesting to eat at least once. They'd be all over those bananas and immediately get dubbed yiga and I'm honestly surprised no one has used it in a fic yet 🤭

[chirpsythismorning]

Nick himself said that his knowledge is confined to the leaks prior to s4, the s4 scripts from his verified source (likely within a source) and basic knowledge most fans paying attention have been able to formulate about s5 based on what has been released officially/unofficially, trends from Netflix and common sense.

He is saying based on all that, he doesn’t think byler is happening. 

And if we think back to what the Duffers themselves shared in the 4x09 script, it literally implies Mike’s monologue worked, and that it was entirely genuine. This tells me that the script the Duffers released for Emmy consideration, is not that far off from what Nick saw for himself. 

I think it’s likely Nick got something that the average below the line worker might manage to get their hands on if they tried hard enough. A copy they know they have to water-down to prevent these very situations from happening.

Unfortunately for the Duffers, it just so happens that they didn’t scrub their watered down copy hard enough.

Unfortunately for Nick, he admitted that it’s possible and even likely that the production will release things that aren’t exactly accurate with the sole purpose to lead fans sleuthing astray, without realizing it may have ironically already happened to him. 

[necrotic-nephilim]

i recently remembered DickTim Week 2024 is happening very soon and i looked at the prompts again to see if i could get anything out for it and. the Hades & Persephone AU prompt for day 1 has got me really thinking so here's a vague concept i plan to write.

i've been pretty burnt out on modern Hades & Persephone retellings because of how they always seem to fall into the same generic "innocent wide-eyed girl runs from her evil mean mother into the arms of a dark mysterious man because actually she went willingly and chose to marry him" which has gotten repetitive for my tastes. (for clarity i don't care if this retelling is your cup of tea personally, so long as you're not actively trying to rewrite the original myth and claim untrue things about it, if this is your favorite flavor i sincerely hope you enjoy the buffet i just have little interest in it since it feels overdone for me and exhausted of it's supposed commentary atp)

but? but. biblically accurate Hades & Persephone AU has me all kinds of interested. because wait listen so hear me out right. Hades!Dick and Persephone!Tim, obviously. i feel it'd be more loosely inspired by with themes and imagery (though playing with death and nature powers could be interesting, i haven't decided) rather than explicitly making them gods and all. but. something dark and fucked up where Dick and Bruce are especially estranged. maybe to do with Jason's return, maybe to do with them just clashing and having their usual explosive arguments. and Bruce knows the peace needs to be kept, if he and Dick are at odds then everyone starts to pick sides and things just fracture so he needs a peace offering.

and the peace offering is Tim.

Bruce (the stand-in for Zeus) offers up Tim. agrees to have Tim move to Bludhaven and be Dick's... whatever Dick wants him to be. knowing that with the implication comes the likelihood of Dick grooming Tim. and Tim has no real say and is hesitant to put up a real fight. he doesn't want this, he knows what this is going to imply Dick will do to him, but he also knows if he says no things have the possibility to just... fall apart. so he's the unwilling bride, dragged off to the metaphorical underworld (Bludhaven) with Dick, away from his family, his friends, the life he built.

and on the flip side, i think weirdly enough, your best pick for the Demeter stand-in is *Jason*. just, hear me out on that. not necessarily on the side of it being motherly, but on Jason being just estranged enough from the Batfamily to be the one willing to call it out for being bad and wrong and raising bloody hell to get Tim back. maybe it's because Jason wants Tim for himself, maybe it's truly out of a concern for Tim to have autonomy, i'm toying with the idea of it primarily being Tim's POV and him genuinely not knowing which of these is true. (and the truth possibly ends up being a complicated middle ground) and because i like Helena, i think you can use her as the Hekate stand in, the one who strikes a tentative alliance with Jason and tries to go find Tim and bring him back. Tim stuck with Dick, getting groomed and hyperaware of it, possibly even getting fucked the whole time as well, knowing he can't go back without causing massive issues for Dick and Bruce because well, Bruce did promise him to Dick. so he has to adjust his whole life, try to figure out being a vigilante in this new city with Dick breathing down his neck the whole time.

and then much like the ending of the myth, a sort of compromise is struck that's a shaky deal for everyone involved. Tim is put on an essential timeshare, going back and forth between Gotham, where he has friends and family and a support system, then getting dragged right back to Bludhaven with Dick in this brutal cycle that he slowly gets used to and stockholm'd into even liking it. Dick isn't so bad, once he gets used to the quirks of their unbalanced 'relationship'. the sex is even something he can adjust to as well. not quite a happy ending but one that sits in this realistic grey area that becomes Tim's life.

i will write this, eventually, but i don't know if i'll get to it before DickTim Week ends so by posting the idea i'm essentially putting it out into the world so the peer pressure holds me accountable. i just. really like the potential of making Hades/Persephone AUs as fucked up as they can be simply by adhering to the source material and making it a raw story of being stolen away and forced to like this new home you didn't ask for.

also a less fleshed-out aspect of this idea i have ties into Persephone becoming the Queen of the Underworld when she's taken and how the transition from Kore to Persephone could be reflected in Tim. how he makes the best of the worst situation and becomes something far more dangerous and dark when he's in Bludhaven, possibly takes on a new vigilante name/identity and leans into the worst quirks of his personality he tries to tamper because there's no point in not going full tilt Obsessively Weird if he has no choice anyway and it being one small way he takes back his autonomy, and that inevitably making Dick *more* into him, because he gets to see Tim finally just. let loose.

[timothyslucy]

oh, i started episode 7x09 btw, and also... i love my firefam, just look how wholesome. 🥰🥰

[gexavery]

UGH

[cosmogyros]

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[hirazuki]

Okay, see, the thing about your story ending on a negative/dystopian/'despite everything that's happened nothing has changed in society' note and doing so successfully? It needs to have been set up for that in the first place, and it needs to be done in an intentional manner.

I have nothing against works that reinforce how cruel/meaningless/pointless/etc. the world is -- I enjoy a fair few! -- but the works themselves need to be some sort of commentary about it; the plot might be demonstrative of the futility of everything, but the story never should. It should take that and build on it and use it to make a statement, underscore a point, etc. to its readers. Having everything carry on business-as-usual without acknowledging it, especially in a genre that's generally meant to conclude on optimistic, uplifting, and hopeful notes, comes off as callous and in direct opposition with the values it extols.

Plus, the story itself should never be futile because, then, well, it never mattered as a work and it makes no difference if you've read it or not. Which... that's just a badly written story lmao.

[keeps-ache]

linelesssss oohoohoo !!

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

Hey CJ 👋 I hope you’re doing well in life.

I’m on the same page as you, when it comes to taking a step back from TWDG & the fandom. And, coming back to the games after sometime & seeing it in a different light. Some things that didn’t click with you back then, makes a bit more sense now.

Also, I’m curious.. what are thoughts on true colors? Steph & Ryan? 👀

Hello, my friend! 👋 Been a while! But yeah, I'm doing fine; a lot of the usual work with writing fic and blog posts in between.

Yeah it's funny to step away from a fandom you're so engrossed in for so long, like twdg was such a huge part of my life back in 2018-2020 with me running this blog, writing fic, and streaming. Now I'm just in a completely different headspace in general, and looking at the games now, they're still amazing but my reasonings are different. Also I talk about the comics a lot, which isn't something I would've guessed I'd be doing. If you go back to when they were announced, I made posts being like "yeeeeeah I dunno if I'm gonna read them :/" jokes on me. I read them multiple times, I need to make that useful haha.

As for LiS True Colors, I actually super loved it?? way more than I ever did the first LiS game?? though I think I might've loved it for the wrong reasons. I don't know, I haven't actually looked into what LiS fans thought of it compared to the other games, but for me it was a "perfect time, perfect place" game in the moment. To me the whole thing was nearly a perfect escapism game; the music is an A+, the entire town is gorgeous and covered in flowers and woods, Alex gets to live in a nice apartment for free [the true fantasy], there's a whole LARP campaign to play through, a flower festival where I've never been so conflicted on who to give a rose to, and overall just the coziest vibes. I swear, I spent most of the game just wandering around the town looking at all the flowers, it was great.

Like if Gabe didn't die and True Colors was just about Alex moving to this fantasy-like small town and working through her issues with the help of her powers, I would've been 100% on board. I didn't mind the mystery, though I totally guessed Jed would be the twist villain given the first episode immediately presents him as a hero who saved a bunch of people in the mines, I was like "Oh did he now... mmhmmm mmhmmm and he's Ryan's dad, oohhh he's gonna be this game's Jefferson-" except he was done better than Jefferson imo. He didn't turn into a cartoon character and his motivations behind the cover up were interesting. He didn't do it for the aesthetic like Jefferson did. And in the end I got everyone to side with me, except Charlotte because I told her to take the money so she wanted to speak out but couldn't, which was honestly fine with me like take their money, send Ethan to college, we'll stab Typhon just fine without your vocal support.

I liked most of the characters, except for Diane and Mac, though I reluctantly disliked Mac less by the end... Diane can suck an egg, though. I don't think I've ever wanted to throw a character out a window more than when Alex came back all bloodied with a bullet wound on her head as she exposed the truth and when she asks why no one's saying anything, Diane just goes, "We don't want to embarrass you" kjlkajdslkjalkjdl LADY DON'T PISS ME OFF

As for Ryan and Steph, I liked them both, trying to choose between them was absurdly difficult. It was like True Colors saw how easily I picked between Louis and Violet and took it as a challenge to create Ryan and Steph specifically to stump me. I mean, soft boy who loves nature, goes out of his way to be kind and helpful to those around him, has a slow build up to being emotionally available with someone he trusts, and has some daddy issues? A girl with pretty brown eyes who loves DnD and LARP, has a passion for music and will deflect with humor, who knows who she is and is eager to help those around her, and who isn't just another rehash of Chloe? They knew what they were doing; they dressed Steph up in as a witch after having Ryan act like a goof acting like enemy creatures, they were made for me.

Having done both routes, I do prefer Steph. I adore her and Alex together, but Alex and Ryan are super cute, too.

It's not a perfect game and there are issues in the writing but honestly, I don't care. I had a good time. I was engaged. I looked at every single flower and kissed a pretty girl so good that the world exploded. What a great game.

[ninjaliike]

can't believe i missed our 6th birthday here! damn ... time flies, eh? ❤️

[mad-hunts]

@forensisch sent🔪 to walk in on my muse standing over a dead body.

the smell of sea salt and blood intermixed with one another wasn't quite as unpleasant as barton thought it was going to be initially. there was quite a bit of the iron-rich substance around as well at the moment, too — both his and the man he'd just killed. though it was mostly faust's, his newest victim, as he'd only been able to cut his hands as barton had immediately reached out to cover where faust was striking at the time; and this was in an attempt to defend himself. the blonde let out an exasperated sigh as he laid beside the man who was now a corpse, almost completely out of breathe. faust had led him around like a chicken with its head cut off just to try to finish the job of killing him.

but in order to understand how things had ended up in barton going on what was essentially a chase to dispatch him, we'll have to rewind to earlier that evening. he'd been looking for more victims to quote unquote 'procure' in places that were infamous for attracting tourists. and one of these places was a nice, underground bar, complete with a pianist as well as a very 'speakeasy like' aesthetic. that was where faust had approached him. which, was a bit unusual considering he was usually the one to have to initiate a conversation with his prospective kills, but the man seemed to have beat him to the punch. it seemed like he might've been purposely looking for someone to befriend but there was a heavy undertone of something else there. something romantic, as faust had expressed interest in them 'getting out of there.'

so, how could barton refuse? it was even better of a situation than he could've imagined. barton didn't have to feign interest in the man up front as he was already interested in him, and from that point forward, they'd agreed to drive to a secluded spot near the main beach of gotham in barton's car. this was, of course, under the guise of him 'knowing someplace where they could be alone.' why he really went there though is because, at this hour, there'd be no one else around... so it'd serve as the perfect killing ground. faust seemed quite eager to get the show on the road then and before long, they were kissing. little did he know that barton was just using this as a distraction so that he could stab him quickly. but in the end, things didn't end up going according to plan, as faust caught wind of barton pulling something out of his pocket at just the right time. and he'd dodged the original swipe that barton attempted to cut him with.

'well, so much for this being an easy kill,' barton had thought at the time whenever he could only watch as faust stumbled out of the car and ran towards a shed more near the surf. from there, a lengthy fight had ensued between the two of them, with faust throwing things at him and even disarming him at one point to deliver a few slashes with barton's own knife to his hands. but he'd made one crucial mistake during all of this — he left one of his blindspots open — and as such, barton was able to turn the tables, hitting faust in a rather painful spot (the kidney) to force him into a daze. this is when he was finally able to sink his blade into faust's heart and how he ended up in his current position. barton was just starting to get up when he heard someone, or something, jiggling at the doorknob.

barton had barely enough time to say ' what the hell? ' before he was bombarded with the sight of someone who looked vaguely familiar opening the door of the shed. he looked from faust's dead body, then, to the stranger and made a split decision to pull the other inside by the bicep. this was so that johann couldn't leave to alert anyone. barton stifled an incredulous but also snide chuckle, before pressing the tip of his knife to his throat, ❝ oh no... come here. you're not going anywhere, you hear me? ❞ he leaned in to get into the other's face, ❝ now don't lie to me when i ask you this or i'll kill you twice as fast. the only reason why i would think anyone like you would be here at this hour is if they were following me. so, have you been? ❞

[honeyvenommusic]

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