#i think he rambles about all the rules and how he used to cheat when playing against sarah and tommy

[cordyce]

and if i say joel gets rambly about his quirky little hyperfixations then what. huh

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Some betrothed/royalty au doodles, ft. Reader soothing Eclipse during one of his stressed-to-the-point-of-breaking-down-moments, and the first time Reader met Sun (and, not realizing who he was or that he was a royal, decided to start happily chatting with him as if they were on the same level, which caught Sun off guard lmao)

Some betrothed/royalty AU tidbits n info below the cut!

- Reader is a footman! Or,, lady in waiting. Or foot,,person,,, in waiting. Whatever the gender neutral version is, they’re that to Eclipse!

- They’ve known Eclipse for a long time! They were born to a servant who worked in his castle, and tended to follow their mother around as she worked- occasionally crossing paths with Eclipse, and sometimes playing games with him when he was avoiding his tutoring or responsibilities sjdhdjd

- They’re smart and practical, and Eclipse wants to make them his advisor as soon as he has the jurisdiction to do so. They’re very good at seeing the issues politicians debate over from the outside view, one of the people, but also can keep in mind what the political side to an issues is, and Eclipse often asks them what they think when they’re alone and considers it very unfair that their voice would never be taken seriously if brought up at the table.

- Eclipse has had a crush on them for a while lmao

- Also he’s over protective and jealous and has broken at least one(1) bone in defending reader from a rude servant or pushy royal lol :3

- (he has extensively researched ways he could possibly marry Reader without making the entire kingdom hate them n call them a manipulative vex for it)

- Sun and Moon overlook two neighboring kingdoms and have been ‘betrothed’/co-ruling them for a long time! Eclipse’s counsel has decided it would be a good idea to have Eclipse, when he takes charge of his kingdom, be the third to this ally-ship and make a trifecta of three countries that can act as one

- So they’re not really BETROTHED betrothed, but the social implication is basically the same lmao

- (none of them r super thrilled, Eclipse especially lmaoooo)

- Reader first meets Sun separately from Moon, and assumes he’s just a fellow servinghand at the banquet being held to celebrate Eclipse n Sun n Moon meeting under the same roof for the first time

- They start chatting with him like it’s no big deal and he’s so used to ppl being all kiss-ass or backhanded that he can’t stop thinkin abt it for days

- They meet Moon in the garden! They show him their favorite spots and a small patch of blue violets they’ve been trying to cultivate

- When they realize who Sun and Moon are, they just about die on the spot from pure societal horror

- They try to apologize in a thousand different ways, but Sun n Moon, more than a little intrigued/smitten with them, both won’t have it and encourage them to be just as they were

- Before Sun n Moon realize they have feelings for Reader, they realize ECLIPSE has feelings for Reader, and, definitely not bc they r big jealous and also in love with Reader, make it their personal mission to cockblock make sure Eclipse never has the chance to confess or have an almost-kiss with Reader

- Reader loves Eclipse! When that love turned romantic is unsure, and how they’ve been able to cope is by Not Acknowledging The Feelings At All and also denial lmao. When they start to crush on Sun n Moon, they can’t rlly deny the feelings anymore and have several existential and romantic themed crises over it

- None of the boys tell each other about their feelings for Reader bc they all just messy like that <3

- When they all end up confessing to Reader, it’s separately and secretly, and Reader is so shocked that they just say “HHUH UM YYEA I LIKE U ALSO” without thinking

- So now they have three secret royalty bfs and have several more existential crises about whether this is cheating and how in the good golly fuck they got THIS many sweet mans all 🥺👉👈 over them

THATS ALL I GOT FOR NOW LOL OK BYE SORRY FOR LENGTH N RAMBLES

[crwbannwen]

So one way I keep Welsh (Cymraeg) alive in my brain is by translating Hello from the Hallowoods into Welsh. So far I’ve only been sticking to season 1 intros because actually doing the story would be quite the commitment and come with some complicated decisions.

But out of curiosity, I’d like some opinions on:

(If anyone is interested in more about Welsh and why I’m asking this, here’s my very very long ramblings below)

Welsh translations I’ve read often translate names which I’m not fussed on since it can change the intended ethnicity of a character and diminish diversity. The Welsh alphabet is different though (and we often translate names into the English alphabet, too), we don’t have ‘x’ ‘k’, ‘v’ or ‘z’. We have the sounds for ‘x’ ‘k’ and ‘v’ through ‘cs’ ‘c’ and ‘f’ (‘ff’ makes the english ‘f’ sound) but we don’t really have a ‘z’ (but we have ‘s’ which is the same just voiceless), it’s also very debated whether or not we have a ‘j’ (which makes the Wickers a frightening concept to translate). We had no ‘j’ sound so we added ‘j’ for loan words like ‘jiraf’ (giraffe). But some people think that’s us just tweaking our language to suit English. But quite frankly: if you speak welsh you know English well enough to know what the name ‘Kate’ is without making it spelt with a ‘c’. So the only names I’m planning to translate are object or verb ones like the mendes (and maybe the indies)

Some other questions I have: Like what type of ‘you’ should I use (it’s not always clear in english when someone is addressing a singular individual or multiple people or being polite or impolite, it actually makes English particularly effective for marketing)? Should I translate ‘Moth’ and moths pronouns to ‘Gwyfyn’ or keep it in English? Welsh doesn’t have a gender neutral object pronoun (we have a ‘they’ equivalent but no ‘it’ equivalent), so how should I refer to Creep? I’m not aware of any Neopronouns in Welsh, so what do I do then?

Here are welsh pronouns:

Female: hi / Ei + aspirate mutation

Male: e/fe/ef/o/fo/of / Ei + Soft Mutation.

(The many forms of ‘he’ come from dialect (o/e) and complicated rules about vowels (where the ‘f’ goes)).

They: nhw/eu (until the LGBT+ movement, I don’t know if ‘nhw’ was used for singular but it is now)

Objects are reffered to by their grammatical gender, welsh speakers rarely know grammatical gender (some people I’ve spoken to didn’t even know we had grammatical gender) so we just use masculine because the mutations are easier: so should Creep be changed to ‘nhw/ein’ to keep it gender neutral or to the grammatical gender of ‘amalgam of flesh and bone’?

There’s one cheat you can do with this, and that’s ‘mae’n’ is an abbreviation used for both ‘mae e’n’ and ‘mae hi’n’, (roughly means ‘it is’), but that means I’m heavily restricted to one tense and can’t talk about Creep in the past tense.

I could experiment and drop the pronoun, I suppose. Welsh is a pro-drop language. Dropping it in every tense and instance would be interesting at the very least. (Creep pronouns going to be: dim/diolch)

I was gonna delete all this but honestly? No, I enjoy ranting about the Welsh language, no one needs to read it if they don’t want to.

[robby-bobby-tommy]

Okay, I'm obsessed with the lore.... So here's some of me theories/stuff I've noticed. It's gonna be rambling in it's worst, cuz I'm way too excited.

Firstly, let's welcome Madagio! I don't know what's up with him, but here's some info we know:

- he's from some island who is connected to Quesadilla through some system.

- he can travel through servers.

- cats are his eyes and ears.

So with this out of the way, here's some of my thoughts.

- Body language -

Honestly, it's not something important, but I really love how cc! Fit uses body language to convey his character. q! Fit doesn't sprint much, cuz he knows one misjudged step, one unnoticed trap and he's dead. He looks around, afraid of every lighting, every strange noise. He looks at cats cuz how are they even here, if not every person can survive here?

Madagio himself very reserved. He doesn't move much, showing us a difference between him and Fit.

- Roses -

Boy oh boy, do I have something to say. Despite obvious connections to Pac, recently there was another moment with exactly this kind of roses. At Philza's stream on 29th of December, at one point Ramon came to Titan and started to give away these rose bushes to some eggs and Phil. It might be a stretch, but it was very strange. Ramon explained that he gave away the roses, cuz he saw one in Chayanne's arm. But with this added context, I think Ramon's admin kinda hinted at this rule. Like the rose bush is a symbol of connection and love/trust. Fit loves and trusts Pac, Ramon, Chay and Lullah, and Phil too. I might be insane, but I adore this kind of symbolism. The roses show us who he has connections to. And now we understand what's at stake for Fit.

It's not only Ramon, who's in danger. Phil, his kids and Pac (probs Tubbo and Sunny too, but they didn't get roses) are also in the middle of crossfire. Madagio knew that it's in human nature for us to connect and getting attached to others even if told otherwise. Contractor knew that Fit won't be able to cheat or escape the deal, cuz he knew the veteran will have a lot at stake. He made this contract unavoidable. I love it sm.

- Music -

Since my post about Fit and his tragedy, I believe that a lot of decisions made about videos/lore streams are intentional. Like, back in a day, when we saw first dream, we heard "Étranger au Paradise" ("Stranger in Paradise "). And this song like fits Fit (pun not intended) like a friggin glove. Cuz even still, Fit feels like a stranger, undeserving this the heaven that is Quesadilla island. For example literally today he said smt along the lines of "What did I do to deserve a son like him[Ramon]?". He loves people around him, yet he can't show it, when everyone does it quite easily. I think Stranger in Paradise can be seen also in light of relationships. Like Fit considers Pac better, he loves him, but doesn't deserve his love. Agh

So why am I saying this? Well, you see. Cc! Fit uses a few songs to use before cinematic. And today he used "We'll meet again". And there's no connection, right? But what if it's a hint to contractor? Fit'll have to meet Madagio. Veteran has no idea when or where. But he knows they'll meet again some sunny day. Like, mb it's a stretch, but I really enjoy finding this connections. To this point cc! Fit was very intentional, so mb I have something here.

- Mon Dieu éternel, je te prie -

(sorry for probably butchering it, but anyway)

Well, now I have the most unimpressive and obvious theory, that leads to more interesting one.

During this stream it wasn't confirmed that contractor is a god, but there are a lot of hints. His name being an anagram to "I am a God" (Thank you, Tumblr user, who noticed it), he can't be hury, but is able to travel through the servers, and his first words to Fit are literally a rephrased "be not afraid", that is usually connected to angels.

Also his unusual connection to cats, that are his "extensions" Doesn't seem humain at all. Yet it isn't confirmed so idk.

Now, Black Concrete is closely tied to Cucurevil and can have bad effect on a person. The only people, who interacted with it and weren't affected at all, were Fit and Philza. Why? What if it's because they're protected by Gods? Like, fitza have a lot parallels in their lore, and mb it also hints at devine nature of Madagio? Rose protects Phil and his close ones out of kindness (I guess) and sends birds to cheer up her protège or show her support. Madagio literally does the same thing. But he sends cats not to show support, but to remind that he is always there, he sees and hears everything. Does it prove my theory? No, I guess. But it gives smt to think about.

- End -

At the end we see Fit waking up (smt that we've never seen before) and sees a cat. They look each other in the eyes and veteran convulsively shakes his head, refusing to something implied. Now, I'll be honest, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I didn't really understand what he refused to? Was he saying he didn't need contractor's help? Idk. And this whole montage of moon, cat, and Madagio is very interesting, but I can't put my finger on it.

After browsing for a literal second, I have some ideas. Moon typically represents the rhythm of time, as it symbolizes the cycle. So maybe Contractor reminds Fit how little time he has. Like, time's running out. Cats, though, have a lot of different meanings, but I guess the most important to this case are freedom and mystery. Madagio is free and mysterious, so ig it fits.

- And just my thoughts ig -

God, i loved it so much. Fit's lore is subtle yet very important and interesting. It shows a character and builds on it so much, while explaining the world itself. Guuugh I love it so much.

And here's just some screens that shows how much Fit has grown.

He is no longer doing everything for himself only. Now he cares for others, breaking a simple rule made by contractor.

P. S.

I feel like this picture rn

[athene-owl]

Dream Video Bullshit

I decided against my better judgement to watch Dream's latest video. Here are the main things I wanted to say - if I don't mention something it's probably because I actually agree with what Dream said or don't know/care. A lot of this is rambling and venting because I'm annoyed and refuse to give him/his fans anymore of my energy or time to polish up this post.

1:16 - Dream says his accusers will make it harder for 'real victims in the future' to be believed and I just need to say that this felt like a really brash and entitled thing to start the video up with. Now you wanna care about victims Dream? After what happened last year? We'll get to that.

3:40 - This is a very small thing but Dream says here that in one video while he was playing Minecraft muted, he was being 'interviewed' by a SWAT Team member next to him in the room and I just can't help but question the validity of this because how did this happen? You were swatted and had someone in the room with you asking questions and you divided your attention between that and still playing Minecraft? You didn't just stop playing to focus on the SWAT Team? This barely matters but it fascinates me.

5:09 - Dream really goes out of his way here to point out that his speedrun cheating was discovered by a cheater and plays a clip showing how illegitimate this guy's speedruns were. This absolutely feels like him shifting blame and trying to paint this rando as a bad person to somehow excuse his own cheating which he says was unintentional. At 5:30 he says him and a developer had ruled out him using a mod - how did they determine this when he WAS proven to have used a mod and insisted he didn't realize? He doesn't elaborate.

6:30 - Here Dream acknowledges his behavior towards the speedrunning mods was bad and takes responsibility for it which is good but does not erase all the drama and bullshit he caused. When that whole thing went down, his stans passionately took his side but now that he's admitted to acting wrong they are fawning over his maturity - you guys sure didn't have a problem with it back then. At 6:40 he makes the point that the speedrun was 3 years ago and a lot has changed and I just don't see that change when he's still causing dumbass drama every week. Good on him for taking his videos down and apologizing to the mods but, again, his stans were all enthusiastically on his side then so I don't want to hear them now praising him for doing the right thing when clearly his behavior wasn't enough to turn them away from him 3 years ago. This is a trend with Dream's stans.

10:02 - Here Dream admits he was wrong to immediately and publicly disregard the info dug up about his domestic abuser friend which OK, good to admit, but 2 things - 1. Why, only a year ago, were you so quick and eager to disregard reports of abuse and 2. How did the fandom react to this. Again, if people took his side and disbelieved the victim, they can't now be so proud of him for admitting he was wrong. This does NOT instill confidence in me that him and his community would take later allegations against Dream seriously. Hot take, but I really think his initial response was despicable, irresponsible and I just feel sorry for the guy's victim in all of this. At 11:48 he pats himself on the back for how he handled the situation (besides initially brushing off the evidence) and ends with "I made it clear I didn't support domestic violence even at the detriment of one of my oldest friendships" and I'm sorry but given how Dream conducts himself, that feels like a manipulative little ploy to look good and garner pity for doing the bare minimum. Again, how many of his stans leapt at the chance to brush aside abuse reports and documented evidence and what did he do?

EDIT: Previously I thought the info on the friend was revealed by the victim herself speaking up but I was corrected on this and now know it was the friend's info being leaked and people snooping. Check my reblog for more info.

15:00 - He defends his Snapchat use with the fact that he promotes content on there but the photos consist of him doing random shit in his day-to-day life so I fail to see how that promotes his content rather than feeding his fans' parasocial relationship with him lol. At 15:20 he admits he isn't the one liking weird fanart on his account and 1. He's just admit he's been lying about running his own account for years and 2. Did he ever speak against the weird sexualisation in his community? Why did he allow his friend to keep liking weird shit, only messaging her to unlike it after the fact rather than laying the rules out? Idk this is just weird man. At 15:23 he shows a tweet by a defender of his stating that clearly he runs his account because if he had someone else running it, there would be a disclaimer. His fans gave him the benefit of the doubt and chastised others for not doing the same only to be proven wrong themselves lmao

17:08 - Dream claims he 'doesn't take himself too seriously' and I do not fucking believe that. This man has the ego of a planet and is lashing out at others every fucking week over it. Be fucking for real.

20:10 - Here Dream admits that him calling his fanbase 'kittens' was weird and he regrets it but also insists the whole 'Discord kitten' meme wasn't big back then and, this is purely anecdotal, but I absolutely think it was. Anyway, again, I wonder how many of his fans defended this back in the day and how many of those same people will now agree with Dream it was embarrassing and weird solely because HE now says it is and not because they can critically look at his behavior themselves. I'm skeptical of him insisting it wasn't meant in a weird way and he randomly chose the term 'kitten' because everyone back then instantly connected it to the Discord kitten thing but ok.

21:29 - Dream discusses the whole 'selling baby photos of himself' thing which I had never heard about before and am a bit gagged by. Anyway, here he specifically points out that celebrities have sold their baby photos before as if that helps his case at all, he explains the hard drive wristband thing was the product BUT it is still insanely weird and egotistical to me to include baby photos on that drive. He compares this to a biography but, again, this does not help the parasocial allegations because what the fuck has he done in his life to warrant a biography and what sort of audience needs this? I know this might be sacrilege to say but uhh this was objectively weird of him to do and he cannot sway my mind on that. Also for someone who doesn't take himself seriously, he sure was happy to quote himself on the hard drive???

36:09 - Finally into the more serious shit. Here, Dream points out the fact that Amanda was defending him when the whole face reveal happened 10 days before her allegations came out + liking his tweets 2 days before the allegations. I just wanna say this really means little, victims can be in denial or have complicated feelings. Also, at 36:18 he then says that she made her accusations because of the hate train following the face reveal and she wanted to get in on it even though he just said she was supportive of him and defending him? He's spinning this both ways - saying she was supportive to discredit her claim and then saying she suddenly hated him to also discredit her claim.

38:05 - He gets his mum involved to prove a point and I cannot emphasize enough how meaningless this is, even if its the truth you expect me to think your mother is unbiased and wouldn't lie to cover your ass?

40:06 - Bold of Dream to criticize Amanda for not treating the situation seriously when Dream stans are running around calling this shit a 'drontroversy'. At 44:20 he even says this isn't online drama. He also uses the image below as proof of her wanting him or whatever which 1. Doesn't matter when discussing underage exploitation because her behavior would never warrant her being taken advantage of and 2. Also shows him making weird sexual comments which he vehemently denied doing earlier.

42:12 - Dream asks how, if Amanda is dishonest about some things, how can anything she says be trusted? Why can't that same logic be applied to Dream for things he has no actual evidence for? He makes this argument again at 43:20 - if she's lying about the photo, how do you know she's not lying about everything else? Not a great argument from Dream of all people.

44:00 - AGAIN this man relies on victim-blaming rhetoric to make his point - "Go to the police. Or sue me. The standard of proof for you suing me is only proving that it's more likely than not that you're telling the truth. 51%. Come take my money." The insinuation that it's easy or simple for women to take men to court and sue them for sexual crimes is laughable and shows a real arrogance and ignorance to Dream. Again, regardless of how true the allegations were, women have gone to court with every type of evidence under the sun and still got nothing so what makes Dream assume this is an easy process? Do victims need to sue their abusers to be telling the truth? With all of his money and privilege, would Dream not be at a huge advantage in court? Weak argument that really feels disrespectful. At 44:15 he makes a little remark about how in court, her 'weird comments' and 'character' would have to be questioned and answered for. Despite the fact that any comments she made as a minor would be irrelevant in this case, despite the fact that someone's 'character' doesn't automatically determine whether they're a victim or not, this is also a funny comment because he's right - yeah, in court the female accuser would be picked apart and judged for shit that doesn't matter. Good thinking there Dream, really making your case!

44:25 - Here he gives a little lecture to Amanda about her hurting 'real victims' and again, as a reminder, this man publicly disregarded those concerned about intricate reports of abuse, has watched as his fans doxed and abused countless people and yet positions himself as an authority on deciding who is a real victims and who isn't. What also makes shit hard for victims is highly popular men like him convincing people to instantly disbelieve women, send them endless hate and make ignorant comments about how victims act. I don't want to hear any moral lecturing from Dream of all people about others 'hurting real victims'. Argue with the wall.

He then has a whole section on Nick Cantu and let me make this clear - Nick being a violent asshole has nothing to do with Dream's behavior or the allegations so I don't care and I do in fact think he focused on it to make himself look better.

57:50 - Dream wants to talk about the dangers of swatting and doxxing. You know, his own stans have doxxed people and once endangered a black person by sending police to their house for a welfare check in an area where welfare checks had resulted in black people being murdered by cops. He says that he always condemned this behavior but shows no proof of this. What actions did he directly take to discourage and stop this and help the people his own supporters had hurt? If anyone has receipts on anything he's done to help, feel free to show me because he provides no evidence of doing anything and I am really not amused by him skirting around his own community's doxxing of people.

1:00:20 - So here he plays the infamous moaning video in it's entirety but has it muted? I get it's gross but when the audio is the whole point, it seems so useless to play it muted. Just a weird choice but it is easy to find elsewhere.

1:09:28 - Makes another statement here that if something is disproven in court then that means it didn't happen which is blatantly untrue, esp when we're talking about sexual crimes. Very ignorant thing to say and really annoys me with how much he's positioning himself as a champion for victims.

After this Dream does a lot more talking about how people treat victims and it's mostly good stuff but AGAIN this is coming from the guy whose fans have doxxed countless people and who instantly mocked people for caring about serious abuse reports. He never makes this parallel, he never points out that he has undoubtedly done more harm to victims with his bullshit, he just puts himself on a moral high ground and its really obnoxious. I cannot emphasize enough how fucking annoying and self congratulatory this man is holy fuck.

EDIT: Initially I had a point here about how little Dream went into the 24 page document released compiling evidence against him, but I was informed this came out right before the video's release, a day before or on the same day it appears. I thought incorrectly it had come out earlier, I will say I still believe he needs to address this in the future, check my reblog for more details.

1:17:00 - This is a doozy and will be my closing point. Dream spends a bit talking about 'false allegations' and calls it a popular trend, happening to hundreds of online creators. IRL, false allegations for rape are severely exaggerated and, if anything, rape is horribly under reported. Women are significantly more likely to be raped then men are to be 'falsely accused' and, when you factor in how horrible the justice system is towards victims, rape culture, how difficult it can be to prove something like rape and how low the rates of successful convictions are, the truth is that a lot of 'disproven' cases are true and were just brushed aside. Furthermore, all crimes have 'false allegations' yet the only one to ever be discussed is rape because it's an easy out. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that rape has comparatively low rates of 'false allegations' compared to other crimes but idk. I know the internet is different, I know people make up lies all the time but I am NOT fucking keen on how much Dream emphasizes false allegations as a common thing when IRL they are not. I am NOT looking forward to every content creator from now on claiming its just 'false accusations' and people falling for it because their favourite Minecraft YouTube insisted it was an epidemic. I am NOT keen for discussions of victims and rape culture to be dominated by this shit and for victims to continue to be silenced and disbelieved. I think you have to be very, very fucking careful when talking about 'false allegations' and I do not think Dream of all people is remotely capable of giving this the nuance it needs. This is gonna be so fucking unbearable in the future to deal with and every single fandom will latch onto this to brush off potential red flags, I guarantee.

[doctor-hopper]

(Previous posts, now I want to ramble a little more!)

But yeah, “Servant” to me stands for the things Komaeda feels he’s been cheated out of.

My original view was that he would probably just give up the Servant thing soon after Monaca goes to space. Whatever happens next, he’ll need new names, new roles. But now I see the sense in the idea he might just keep it, too. After all, he still wears the hand, the symbol of the Despair that Enoshima awakened in him. Why not the chain, to stand for the Despair that’s been in him all along?

He’ll idolize Naegi, a true Hope, or even Kamukura, who I think he’d quickly come to see as something of a false Hope and an equal middle-finger to his past ideology in the other direction. But his love will come with a lot of weird envy, all buried down somewhere in the mix. Whether he’s fully aware of this or not (and either way, he sure is weird about it—“huh huh huh huh huh huh huh?” [funny evidence №3]), it would also serve to feed whatever Despair now rules him.

If it’s Kamukura, his servitude would carry a special sting as he retraces well-worn patterns that mean nothing to him anymore—the over-sung praise of talent on something he knows doesn’t deserve it, the pleas to be used for something that fall on ears he knows won’t listen.

If he decides to work with Kamukura in any way that treats him as Hope (which he very well might not, especially once he knows the full story, Kamukura’s origin, serving Enoshima, etc.), I can’t quite see Komaeda just accepting Kamukura’s apathy either, though. Hope lies in motivation and struggle—even more, now, with his new focus on the underdog. What good is a Hope that Komaeda can plainly order around, and when he doesn’t, does nothing at all? It could be something—an obstacle Komaeda could put in the path of someone like Naegi, perhaps—but it’s not Hope. Komaeda’s here to serve, to facilitate. He pits one force against another. He keeps himself out of the equation, at least on paper.

So if he took an interest in Kamukura and wanted to make him Hope, he would have to find something that actually kind of motivates him—then press his buttons and pull his strings in that roundabout way, until whatever results from that can be roughly passed off as “Kamukura’s idea”. Depending on what sort of motivation Komaeda latches onto (because glimmers of it do exist for Kamukura), how he goes about fostering it, and whether Kamukura actually ends up becoming more motivated or just decides to play along like he has with everyone else who’s ever wanted something of him, this could go wonderfully or horribly or somewhere weird and ambiguous in between.

Talk to me about them they’re fascinating

[ampersketch-art]

tell me abt your favorite video game character from anything

Ok, I was going to talk about one character but now it’s two because they both share a space in my thoughts. Also enjoy the rambling of someone who’s bad at explaining stuff.

Spoilers for Portal & Portal 2, and minor character detail spoilers for A Hat in Time.

Firstly there’s GLaDOS from Portal. I like how in Portal 1 she seems like a regular robotic voice guide for the testers (and especially Chell), and even with some of the unethical workplace testing lines she delivers, but never anything to indicate she’s sentient. She can actually call you a horrible person early on in one of the test chambers, but it’s optional so the player can completely miss it.

Then after the tests are over and the player gets rewarded (with fire), her mask slips a bit after the player escapes. Then while continuing to escape, GLaDOS drops all pretenses of ever wanting to help you and starts talking to the player in a “I’m not mad, just disappointed, and also I hate you” kind of way. And it’s wonderful.

Don’t think I need to explain too much about GLaDOS because she is an iconic video game character (or at least I think she is). Portal 2 is where she shines the most, but I also wanted to highlight the first game as well. One of the best things that happens is you teaming up with her in a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” sort of deal when she gets put in a potato battery and can do literally nothing.

There’s also the sympathetic element with her when it’s revealed she used to be a human named Caroline whose brain was put into a supercomputer because of the dying wishes of her boss (another great performance by JK Simmons but also fuck you Cave Johnson). So a lot of what GLaDOS does, while not morally right (morals? In Aperture Laboratories?), it’s also understandable why she turned out this way.

Also I was never a believer of the “Caroline is Chell’s mom” theory, but now that I’ve grown up and can understand that a lot of Glados’s dialogue can also sound like it’s being said by a bitter ex, it only makes her even funnier in my mind. I’ve said before that Portal 2 is one of my favorite games and one of the main reasons is because of her. Ellen McLain does a great job portraying her and is given some funny lines, as well as singing three of the greatest songs in this game (Still Alive, Turret Opera, and Want You Gone).

Speaking of characters that used to be human and whose voice actor gives a great performance.

I love Snatcher. Glados was my favorite for a while and then he showed up. I think one of the reasons I gravitate towards him more is that I’m generally more interested in ghosts rather than robots. He can also be very intimidating, with him stealing the players soul and straight up killing the player if you refuse to sign his first contract. But also he looks like this:

(this used to be my discord icon for a while)

I like silly goofy character designs, what can I say?

As I said before, Snatcher also has a sympathetic backstory with him once being a prince. Then his lover, Vanessa, locked him up in the basement of her manor when she thought he was cheating on her (he wasn’t), then everyone in the kingdom died, including him, then in between all that he became known as The Snatcher and now rules Subcon Forest.

This wasn’t even supposed to be his backstory, but it was after the character it was made for (never forget Moonjumper) was cut from the final version of the game. This backstory isn’t important overall to the main game as Subcon Forest is only part of the overall game (I have not played the Vanessa’s Curse DLC where I know it’s brought up again) but even without the backstory I would’ve considered him my favorite character of all time. He’s funny, he’s goofy looking, he’s a “soon-deh-ray” (as his steam trading card calls him), and he’s amazing. (Also 'Your Contract Has Expired' is a great track).

[tobiasdrake]

Timey-wimey whippity woo, let's see what this new thing... do?

I can't be 100% sure but I think it hates me. It looks like it's going to try and murder me the second I touch it.

We do? Huh. Guess it's like the Vespertine at the Sky Council. I love being asked to retrieve things I already have. Important question: Will I be paid for it?

*jots down in notes* TIA is a Chatty Cathy when he's working. Okay, good to know. Wish I'd known that back when we were on speaking terms. So much I could have tricked him into talking about.

What the hell is a Chronophage? Like a... time virus? I don't think I want to be infected with a time virus. That sounds uniquely horrifying.

...did he? I guess he did tell B"st, but....

Hold up, because there is a communication breakdown somewhere.. Did he intend for you to bring us here or was he just rambling? Because if he was just rambling then no, he just left this somewhere in the world and we happened to get lucky and stumble upon it.

But if he did mean for you to bring us here then what the actual fuck, B'st? You never mentioned this! At all! And I specifically went around the ship asking people if they had anything they wanted to do following our gladiator brawl in Brisk.

Why didn't he tell us.

Why didn't YOU tell us.

I'm furious right now. A parting gift from one of the most powerful beings in the cosmos is not something we should just be randomly bumping into as an Oh By The Way.

...wait, is this what you guys were muttering about through the fucking tattered curtain like I couldn't hear every goddamn word you were say--

...

...

You know what, let's just say there's blame to go around and not focus on any individual Who Knew What and When, and move along to the important bits.

Wait, is...

...is this the Time Egg? Are we going to go get Garl?

I think we're going to go get Garl.

T-T This is the gallon jug of cookies he made for us. He was our bestie and we love him dearly. T-T

Shut the fuck up and get in the door before I shove you through GARL WE'RE COMING

T-T We'll be back with our plus one or the cosmos will know a fury that makes World Eaters seem quaint.

This is it. The moment of time Resh'an created by stretching out recursive loops of an infinitesimally small duration, right at the moment before Garl took his fatal injury.

Aephorul thought he did that so they could have some time to talk. But it was just more cheating, because fuck him. Get denied your rightful compensation for our violation of your rules, asshole.

We may have to be sneaky about this since Aephorul isn't frozen in time like everything else is. Alright, guys. A little unconventional but you know how we do.

Plan A: Quiet burglary. Plan B: Civil negotiation. Plan C: Hostile negotiation. Plan D: Armed robbery.

We're leaving with Garl. It's up to Aephorul to decide his level of involvement in that.

Hold up, are we going to have to trade you for Garl? Is that how this works? Garl comes with us, and you mold into his form so that you can repeat the actions he carried out in his final moments of life?

Please don't be offended when I say that I accept your sacrifice without hesitation thank you thank you thank you thank you.

Oh. Yeah. That's a good point too. I was treating this like we were trading lives but no, you don't get hurt by things. You're just given the conscious suggestion to behave as if you were harmed. You have a way better shot of tanking that hit than Garl did.

...

I mean. No. I already knew that and that was exactly what I meant when I said I "accept your sacrifice without hesitation", yeah. I, uh, I was already thinking that you were going to live and....

You know what, I made this really awkward and we don't have time. Let's just grab Garl and talk about it later.

Oh wow, when you're staring down the barrel of it like that, that shot is pretty terrifying. Garl is so brave. I am going to give him the biggest hug ever as soon as he's unfrozen from time.

What's the plan for rendezvous if you live through this? Do we meet you at Garl's grave and you ooze through the dirt or... or what?

Y'know, now that I think about it, this isn't even technically cheating. Aephorul was only promised that he could shoot one of us. Resh'an forgot to quantify an amount of harm to be committed. I yelled at him about that earlier.

So as long as someone takes the shot, no rules have been broken. It definitely goes against the spirit of the agreement but the letter is nonetheless satisfied.

Meet you at Garl's grave and you ooze through the dirt. Got it. We're doing Time Egg and Robo replanting the forest. We'll come get you as soon as we get back topside and finish the emotional reunion.

Have, uh... have fun pretending to be dying and basking in all of our tearfelt warm wishes. Oh, don't forget the monocle story. That's important. When we ask, Garl used a monocle to move the platform at Zenith Academy. It took him eight hours to concentrate that much sunlight and there was a night spent halfway up in the air.

Make sure you remember that. It's one of my favorite memories and I don't want it to... I don't know, be erased or something because we changed history? I don't know how time works.

That is the reason that I forgive TIA for abandoning me and no longer hold any hard feelings towards him of any kind. T-T

It's Garl. He gave us back Garl.

Serai your robot is showing he never learned about that

Hi... buddy... You, uh, you might have missed a lo--

*flat* What.

Okay, I was going to tell you not to freak out but it sounds like you have shit you didn't tell me either.

T-T I can't believe this is really happening. I've done so much violence for you. The most violence. With more still to come.

Okay, no. Seriously. What. That's not. That's not how this. This was not a resurrection, this was a temporal rescue. How did....

Did your ghost just Time Bastard you?

Having a very long nap. We should probably go grab him, huh?

I am so freaked out that you don't need anything recapped for you. Unfortunately, I can't question it too much because it's being overridden by my overwhelming relief to see you again.

[onward--upward]

WIP Word Search

Thank you @heybuddy-drabbles and @firenati0n for the tags!!

RULES: use this generator to generate three random words (or however many you'd like to do!) and share the lines where they show up in your wips!

(I had to cheat and generate like six words because somehow every word i got was not showing up in my 100 page document lol)

CALM (from make me misbehave - chapter 2)

Like, neither of them have used the b-word (boyfriend,) but Alex also released a song that’s literally titled “baby” which is essentially all about how soft he is for Henry, and Henry never fails to call him after he’s had a terrible meeting with his grandmother just to listen to Alex ramble at him until he’s feeling a little more calm.

DRAW (from make me misbehave - chapter 3)

“It does,” Henry says hoarsely, but he doesn’t draw away from Alex’s touch, so Alex risks brushing a thumb gently across the warm skin just beneath the sleeve of his t-shirt. “It’s hard enough to exist under her control when it’s just me. I can’t watch it happen to you, too. I think it would actually kill me.�� 

CONSTRUCT (from make me misbehave - chapter 2)

Just another one of those gender expectations that has been built upon lifetimes of social context and prejudice, entirely constructed by society over years and years. 

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tags @eusuntgratie @hoodie-buck @shitouttabuck @inexplicablymine @celeritas2997 <3

[nogenderbee]

Your hand for Childe, Heizou, Yae Miko win

You were rambling about TCG to your friend a lot lately, and they suggested a little competition which of course you taked gladly

⊱ from your stories it sounded like something similiar to sparing but instead of using muscles you have to use your brain, and Childe was up for the challange!

⊱ after you explained the rules to him he almost immidietly suggested a duel

"I understand so what if we... gamble a little? Well if I win then I receive your hand in marriage and if you win you can choose what you want. Up for the challange, comrade?"

⊱ let me just tell you that he gives his best in this duel, he seriously want's to marry you, it's not just so he can show off or treat you like a slave, he wants to live a happy live with you

⊱ if he wins, his ego just grew and he's more than ready for his reward

"Haha! It looks like I won! So YN, I know it's already set but I still prefer to ask" that's when he goes on one knee in front of you "Will you marry me? I know it was the deal but I want to be truly happy with you so I'm still ready to accept denial"

⊱ although if he loses he's a little disappointed but accepts the failure

"I see... just for you to know I WILL get my revenge! But a deal is a deal, what's the prize you want?"

⊱ if it's money he's willing to pay, after all it's really not a problem to him, if it's something romantic he might ask you for a remach on the spot with the same prize on line

⊱ when you introduced TCG to Heizou, he acted like he had no idea something like that existed but in reality he's well aware of this game and even won a couple matches himself

"It sounds like interesting game! Would you like to play with me? If so then how about we put a prize on the line to make the match more intense? Then if I win I get to marry you and if you win... you can have whatever you want from me, what would you say?"

⊱ did you saw his detective skills? He definitely uses them to predict your next move, and it actually helps him a lot!

⊱ you would have to be SUPER good at TCG to beat him so if he won, he's really confident about his abilities but also feels a little bad for not telling you earlier about him wonning TCG matches before

"Hehe, I think you know what this menas YN, so is there anything specific you want on our wedding~?"

⊱ but if you somehow win he's a little suprised by the fact that you beat him but at the same time he saw it coming around half of your match

"Well congratulations YN, you beat a detective in logic game, you should be proud! So what is that prize you want?"

⊱ if it's something like money or his help with something, he's willing to do it, but if it's something more romantic he definitely will pay more attention to you so he can find out if you like him as well

⊱ Yae Miko knew very well about TCG so when you started talking about matches you played, she also says couple of words about matches she played

"Since we both know what TCG is, what if we play a serious game? If you're worried about how serious let me just serious that our lives will be on the line? Oh don't worry nothing dangerous! I meant your hand in marriage if I win and if you win I will be your trustworthy companion!"

⊱ if you agree on that then good luck because she will try every trick in her book, going from just being smart to (minors or people who don't like suggestive stop reading here and start reading when you see 💗 emoji again) playing some dirty tricks on you

⊱ if you also play dirty let me just tell you that it's going to be very hard to fluster her and she might just fluster you even more, but if you somehow do just know that now you have higher chances of winning

⊱ but if you tell that she's cheating she will say that there's no rules saying anything about dirty play so she is actually playing fair

⊱ (💗 you can start reading again from here ^^) so if she won, she thinks that it's well deserved win, after all you sounded so confident about your abilities while telling your stories about TCG

"It looks like I won, and you know what that mean~! Is there any specific ring you want or should I just go with the one I think would suit you the most?"

⊱ although if you win, she's surprised by how good you are in this game, and that you managed to go through all her teasing that she gave for whole game

"My, my, congratulations YN, you just granted yourself a kitsune companion!"

⊱ if you would like her to just accompany you on your adventures, she will beat any enemy in a second, but if you ask to pet her ears or tail, you better ask her for that when she's in a good mood and she may enjoy it as well

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[morgana-ren]

General facts! 😺

All of this is quick. Think of it as a theology scholar in 'wizard school' asking a teenager in Toril for their quick analysis of the Dead Three in the beginning of class to get a general understanding of them. I do this so I don't fucking go absolutely wild and just ramble for hours.

Bane stands as the God of tyrannical oppression, hate, and terror. That is his current dominion. All of the Gods, in a way, are given a folio of shit they get to rule over, and that is his. Quickly put, it was Ao's way of keeping 'order' amongst the gods. Everyone gets a slice. However, if Bane had his way, he would be the God. The only one in all of Faerun. Predictable, given the name.

He was not initially a God. Like many of the current Gods of Faerun, he was once mortal and had an apotheosis by a trial of sorts. He was once a man with sheer fucking determination. So much of it that he and two others, joined by their dogged ambition, took on a goddamned God to have it-- Jergal.

Does the name 'Jergal' ring a bell? It might not. They are referenced in Baldur's Gate 3 in that ancient sea-side temple you run across in the beginning. So ancient that even your companions, given a highish religion check, will reference that they didn't believe that anyone worshiped them anymore. Ancient ancient.

Jergal is the Scribe of the Dead-- or was. Jergal grew tired of Godhood. It wore on him. So tired, in fact, that he allowed the 'Dead Three' to 'trick' him into giving up his godhood. However, shit went awry and those same three rascals had to duke it out over a fucking game of knucklebones over who got what when it came to their new dominions and they had to split Jergal's godliness amongst themselves.

Naturally, Bane won this game and was the first to choose, and his chosen folio was 'strife.' He thought 'Man, that sounds great. I could take over everything with that!'. (Dictated, not read.)

The other aforementioned two that he adventured with towards Godhood are who we know now as Bhaal and Myrkul-- the losers. They also chose dominions they thought they could exploit to become the 'ultimate' ruler.

This is part of why Bane feels fucking cheated. That entire dominion should have been his by right. This is what he feels, hence his rivalry with the others.

Bane is not content with a piece. He wants everything. That is his true nature. He earned it. He beat a goddamned God and he fucking earned it.

That same line of thinking is found in his followers. People who clawed and ripped and tore open the jaws of reality with bloody fucking fingers and wrote their name in that blood on the scroll of history. People who earned it. People who earned their strength and used that strength to exercise their will over the word and puppet it to their whims. The strong. The smart. Those worthy of the name and title they tore from the scalp of lesser kings and now wear that crown upon their own heads.

Bane is, by all accounts, an evil God, but we know how I feel about the word evil. It's banal (lmao Bane.) He has little (if any) mercy for those who are failures, including his own followers. He respects those who are clever and strong and shape the world to their whims. If you can take it, it is yours. If you cannot, you have nothing. You are a slave to those who can take you.

However, he does have rules. A code. Things he respects and things he does not and will therefore punish his followers for. Things he expects from his followers. He backs off and will watch you like a distant father, allowing you your throne that you have earned when you please him (his will exempted, you will adhere to him) and you will suffer if you do not.

He is, in my opinion, the most intelligent of the Dead Three. He knows when to forge alliances and when to enforce his will with might. Sometimes accomplishing a goal means working with others. He is not so stubborn or foolish that he will pass a chance to achieve. He will, however, do everything within his substantial power to come out on top of this bargain. He plans. He calculates. He strategizes. He chooses carefully. He is, in a way, quite patient.

He will dominate other Gods. He has killed other Gods. He has been killed himself, actually. He planned for that. He rose again, just like the others, and now lives in a state of quasi-Godhood trying to claw his way back up.

He's a nuanced guy. Banites are seen as evil, but sometimes, things are better with them in control. Instead of a bureaucratic nightmare where nothing gets done, you have a ruler who is competent because they have been deemed worthy by a fuckin' God. Sometimes, when a Banite warlord takes over a province, the province ends up safer because they have a system of power. Rather than the spoiled, complacent nobility that was running the place before, they have an active ruler that deals with bandits, keeps the roads clean, keeps resources allocated, etc. They have someone who earned the power and knows how to wield it.

However, that isn't always the case. Sometimes, they really are just power hungry bastards for the sake of being power hungry bastards. It very much highly depends. Given the choice, you probably shouldn't put a Banite into power, but that being said, they don't often give you a choice.

He is lawful evil. There are crazy atrocities carried out in his name, but he's not like Bhaal who is just edgy 'death death murder blood waaaaaaghghgghaaa' type of God, you feel?

[zylian]

So with unhinged zam, how does castle arc really go down ^-^

Like if mapicc knows what zam is really like why chase after him? Maybe to keep an eye on him, to not let him have an escape and go after mapicc somehow. It definitely would be advantageous for him but I'm curious about your thoughts

And does zam see it as a game like mapicc does in canon

Gaahh devotion duo but Worse :33

Castle arc hurts my brain- too many thoughts: (Rambling answer SORRY I got carried away!)

At the core of it, yes, Mapicc is keeping an eye on Zam originally because of what Zam may be up to.

Zam wants to play fair without dupes and so he forced Mapicc down to play fair. When the fighting was no longer fun he turned to fight his teammate to make it fun.

Unhinged Zams “fairness” is being on the same playing field which means no one uses cheats and plays within the rules. That’s the only way he has fun.

Zam knew it would make Mapicc mad, that’s why he didn’t bother talking it out on the nether roof. He painted his picture and made Mapicc a monster. When Mapicc first showed up to the castle, Zam said he felt like it was over for him. He said his last goodbyes and essentially said that because Mapicc found him he was going to be banned.

Zam expected it, yknow since Zam loves playing with death.

Mapicc witnessed Zam blow up new silvington just because Pangi found it despite all of his attachments to it just so he wouldn’t be a sitting duck waiting to die. Yet in the castle arc, Zam knows he’s going to die, Mapicc knows Zam is going to die and Zam chooses to stay.

Zam made Mapicc his enemy so his existence at that point was an issue Mapicc couldn’t ignore. Mapicc is always looking for Zam, it’s ingrained in him since he practically babysitted Zam in s2 so I think Mapicc realized he screwed up the second he found Zams castle.

Mapicc even accidentally messaged Zam “I think I found his base” whether accidental or not, even if he wasn’t going to kill Zam, Zam stayed there and Mapicc realized he expected him.

Despite Zam cutting ties, Mapicc knew at that moment if he didn’t do anything it was going to come back to bite him since Zam has a history of never giving up unless it’s with a ban.

Zams feelings are fickle. Mapicc knows this is what Zam wants and won’t give it to him. He also knows what Zams capable of if he ignores him. When Mapicc attacked Zam before they were even teamed, Zam geared up 5 ppl to attack back. Zam is persuasive, he has a reputation and it’s proven time and time again when other server members put Zam in a separate view than his teammates despite all of the stuff he’s done with them.

Banning Zam wouldn’t solve it if someone else would just bring him back and Zam would target him again so Mapicc couldn’t afford to let Zam get stronger.

Zam doesn’t think of it as a game. Zam takes everything seriously. To him he can find “fun” in anything so there’s no reason to play games. He just needs a good reason and that’s enough for him whether he’s winning or losing.

It’s why Zam got so upset finding Mapiccs room in the castle. Zam found out that Mapicc was going to keep him in this loop as Zams fun/purpose was slowly dying (Pearl dupes/time glitch popped up)

((Castle arc Zam says words but since his actions counteract it, his words aren’t true))

Zam made Mapicc his enemy cause there was never a day he wasn’t bored. His adrenaline was high and he thrived off of it. Zam only feels confident when fighting and when he fights against Mapicc nothing is guaranteed

I hope this makes sense-

So it’s always a game when Zams involved in Mapiccs eyes cause he can’t leave Zam alone without Zam causing something to happen that effects him and Zam doesn’t think it’s a game, since his “fun” is taking it seriously and Mapiccs existence is fun to him.

[ramblingdisaster73]

Rambling thoughts while rewatching Episode 4x12 “Swipe Left”

Carlos tells TK he is putting too much pressure on this – but says that after listing out his whole ass tea box

Lol – it’s supposed to be fun

My research had told me that the Rabbi would most likely want Carlos to convert.

My 42 years on this planet told me that Tom would be a douchey religious dude that thinks any and all queers are going to hell – I have quite literally heard it my entire life

No wonder that I am so repulsed by organized religion (I don’t care what you practice – just don’t put your beliefs on me.)

I do agree with the Rabbi on not listening to outside forces

TK thought that when Carlos told him that he was married – it was the last of the “difficult conversations”.

Like I said before – If your partner says there is a gaping chasm – there is one.

When can we stop using comas for why we don’t communicate? There have been 26 episodes since the last coma. Just fucking talk.

Or making the secret wife jokes – Each time – TK’s face has NOT been amused – but ha ha funny fucking joke. Please keep joking about the lie you kept from me for our whole relationship.

Carlos’ tone is very dismissive in the kitchen – I get that he likes to avoid things, but that was really trying to avoid it. Not just about the kids thing – but about TK telling him that he feels a rift growing due to their lack of communication on the subject.

I really strongly dislike Mitch Geralds, his wife too but he is just so instantly punchable.

He is lucky he met the 126 post Owen’s punching people stage

He reminds me of a creepy dude that I know – appearance and personality.

High quality manure for a low-quality couple

I love that they brought him in for her love interest.

She really is/was the only one not currently coupled off

I feel like Marjan has had the most consistent storyline this season.

I love the pre-dating training sessions

“How many princes did you kiss babe?” Mateo – I love you – never change

Also – so valid of Nancy to just move on with her dating tutorial as if he hadn’t spoken.

So, is Owen’s safe word rutabaga?

Not sure who was more enamored with the cheating cheater who cheats, but I think it might have been Owen – Marj didn’t go on a fried chicken bender

No fucking thank you on 8 kids – also especially not with that super douche. However – at least he is up front with his preferred spawn count.

I love that she asked on how they would feel about her working after marriage – For her – that is such a huge part of who she is.

“In a teahouse?”

Are people still that nuts about Harry Potter? I know that they had to movies & the stupid game that is/coming out, but are people still as into it as that dude was?

So, do we think he really does dog rescue crowd sourcing or did he just google image a dog with deformities for compassion points?

How many days passed in this episode? There were 4 dates in one day, right?

So the training was 1-2 days (I am guessing based on clothing) they probably started the training sessions that shift – so that would be day 1, then day 2 was with Tarlos.

Then the dates – all 4 in one day makes sense – but would it really be that easy to set all 4 up with a 1-day notice?

Plus the officiant day before the shift

Then the shift where they commiserate over dating issues

Leading into the pregnant lady rescue

Then Tarlos talk to their parents – another day (Could be the same day as the shift of commiseration)

Then the next day when they talk at the end

So at least a week total?

This talk in the bunk room makes me very happy that I haven’t had to date since 2007.

Dating rules are fucking stupid and I LOVE NANCY for that.

“You sure you’ve never dated before?” – Mateo

She is so cute though when he texts her – but not as cute as she is with Yusef.

At first, I thought that they set her up with the guys and chaperoned for the one they set up – until Owen fell in love & Mateo made a new friend.

I feel like working the desk in a no-tell motel would be both fascinating and sad as fuck.

I guess Judd had the day off

I do like the parent talks

“Avoid? I don’t avoid.” says Carlos Avoid & Deflect Reyes

This is among the best advice that Owen has given throughout the series

I like that throughout the episode neither of them doubts the love of or for the other.

The only irritating thing for me was Andrea telling Carlos it wasn’t true when he told her that he had only had a relationship with Gabriel until 2 years ago. – That isn’t for her to decide or determine. I would love to get to explore that a bit more – but with Gabriel

I do think that my spec fic was pretty right in the big ways (other than the very self-indulgent venue burning).

I like that we got a confirmation that Paul & Asha are together

Babe - you could have bought a cat – it would be a pet you could pet & wouldn’t cause too many nightmares.

Also – I don’t love that impression either, but I love that they are comfortable being dorks together.

The closing scene in this is the growth I needed to see in Carlos. This was him actually speaking, something that he was truly worried about (he even said as much to his mother in why he hadn’t talked about it before), but doing it anyway. Telling TK that he didn’t want kids, may not ever want them. He knew that TK might not be ok with it, but he still did it.

Through the episode, it felt to me that TK was trying to come to terms with his life picture changing, leading him to the conclusion that, for him, being with Carlos is the more important part of the picture, and he was ok with that. It just took time and thinking.

Lets hope that Carlos can continue having the hard talks instead of deflecting from them.

[gyllenhaalstories]

as always, love your word vomit!! i too am so incredibly gullible for whodunnit media 😭 the entire episode i was bouncing from person to person but the scene that made me cackle was when rusty said ‘whoever did it must be having a fucking laugh’ and the next frame was my girl barb having a hoot at kyle’s game. though it was a short lived laugh i thought it was a funny coincidence… but truth be told i don’t know what to believe at this point. it really could be staring me right in the face and i would be none the wiser lol. carolyn is still sooo suspicious to me and i really think that she just liked the power that she felt from being with DA rusty and breaking up a marriage. i don’t like that woman i’m sorry ‼️😭

sorry this was so long :(( but! i am so looking forward to your episode 4 rambles!! hate that we have to wait a whole week but it fuels the suspense i guess. also looking forward to your rusty fic! for some reason i’m not as bothered when i’m the one he’s cheating with but that’s neither here nor there 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

hi anon!!! 🥰 i like reading the post again the next day and wow <3 i was almost coherent this time! YES! the focus on barbara sighing after rusty and kyle hugged. the focus on barbara after rusty says that........... look i am stupid but they're leading me to barbara and i am following them blindly. just watch them put a plastic decorative plant in the frame and i'll think the plant did it. i am stupid. the more i think about it the more i realize that rusty and i share a lot of similarities: we're dumb, we're pathetic, we're panicky and we're clingy! i don't think i should be proud of that 😭 i feel like it's petty to so strongly believe the power thing but like... why not? what if she was just that simple of a character? i hope not, i hope we get some big revelations about her that fuel our hatred for carolyn! it's what we deserve honestly for putting up with carolyn ruining rusty's bubble with the you can control falling in love bullshit. can i just take one moment to point out how BORED she looks when he's being soft with her? on the couch in episode one after his shower, she looks bored out of her mind. again on the couch in this episode. their breakup too, she seemed so nonchalant about it. creepy creepy creepy 🤨

please, don't be sorry! you can talk about it as much as you want, i'm happy to listen!!! 💖 ME TOO. i'm not a very patient person and this series is testing my limits. i want all the episodes! now! 🥺 omg!!! if i can get my brain to write the smut before like next year, it'd be so fun! i'm looking forward to posting them, one day, someday! it's a two-parter so i'm trying hard to finish the second one so i can post them close together. thank you for your excitement about it!!! 💖 EXACTLY YOU GET IT ANON. it cancels it if he cheats with us, i don't make the rules it's just how it is.

[misty-caligula]

I’m on the record as Not Being A Fan of Walter, but... I am a fan of Misty being happy. And I can absolutely see a reality in which they work together and where she feels genuine connection and gets all that potent Need out from him. I don’t imagine it’ll actually happen IRL but ...  I can see how it would happen. And if it led to a happier, healthier Misty I’d be all for it.

The thing is that one of yj’s serious strengths is the ability to show the way that we can let patterns rule our lives. Especially when we do not understand them. Misty’s difficulty connecting with people goes both ways, it’s not just that she’s misunderstood, it’s that she also is largely unpracticed in understanding others. In developing real trust. In advanced body language, reading between the lines, making general conversation, etc.

Walter really throws her because all of her normal coping mechanisms don’t work with him. He’s difficult to manipulate, he’s straightforward and clear in his communication and doesn’t (appear to) lie. He is capable of calmly accepting just about any information or turn of events. And because she’s really never met anyone quite like him before, she struggles to understand him.

I would hazard a guess that Misty’s so completely used to being tricked, lied to and abandoned that she’s kind of driving herself mad trying to find the shoe that’s about to drop. Her hypervigilance just grows and the longer Walter goes without attacking or betraying her or showing her “what he really wants” he’s even more mystifying, and she’s even MORE sure that there’s a horrible trick waiting that she just cannot see. So, tired of waiting for the shoe to drop, she drops it herself and exiles him away from her, before he can hurt her.

I think the two truths and a lie game really got to her, because she HATES being lied to, but then he did worse than that, he TRICKED her by cheating at the the game. And in doing so he told her three real facts about himself, and now wants three from her. She’s seen THIS particular thing before, with Crystal, and she’s learned her lesson the hard way. So she just starts rambling off inconsequential bullshit.

Am I the only one who thinks that perhaps she was giving him 3 lies? For some reason ultra super sleuth Misty Quigley, the expert at putting 2 and 2 together, doesn’t strike me as a conspiracy theorist...

Anyway no matter which way it goes, she’s not engaging with the game honestly, because she’s not giving him useful or deep information about herself. Because again, she’s learned her lesson.

But has she? I mean think about it. Here’s a man who didn’t bat an eyelid as he acknowledged that she’d likely murdered someone. While sitting in a car with her, absolutely unafraid. He doesn’t really understand the specifics of why, he’s just happy to acknowledge that her life is complex. But he’s not judgemental at all, to him it’s just a ... fun fact about her. Misty is a great detective, she hates maple+mustard, and she’s a murderer. No problem.

If she told HIM her deepest, darkest secret, if she let him know that it was her fault that they were stuck in the wild for such a long time, do you really think he’d have exploded at her? No way, he’d have gone “Huh, that explains why it took so long.” Another fun Misty factoid.

Misty has learned the wrong lesson, and is seeing the wrong pattern. To her, people are fundamentally untrustworthy, and WILL betray her (yellowjackets possibly being the exception to the rule). She cannot see that Walter is different from the others, that he’s different from Crystal, that he could genuinely accept her. Because she’s learned the wrong lessons and is stuck in a pattern created deep in her past, and it’s going to cost her a potential REAL friendship and maybe relationship (and may well cost Walter his life).

misty spilling her darkest most shameful secret because she finally found someone that she connected with and became overly trusting with because once she got a taste of real friendship she felt like there was nothing she could say that could possibly ruin it but then she realizes she went too far and it ends in literal death and then adult misty finding someone new that she starts to connect with and when he wants to play the two truths one lie game so she’ll open up to him she becomes very closed off because she remembers how horribly it ended the last time she really opened up to someone

[supermarvel-fics]

Tickletober Day 2: Drawn On

fandom: marvel

word count: 1,580

pairing: peter 1 x reader (platonic)

summary: peter wants to play a game with you for his vlog

You loved Peter like a little brother. Really, you did, but there comes a day where you should get a pass from the little games he liked to play. Today should have been one of those days.

Consequently, you and Peter were the only two in the tower aside from Stephen Strange, but there was no way in hell Peter would have asked him to be in his vlog.

You sat at the kitchen island, picking at your salad as Peter rambled on about the challenge he wanted to do with you for his YouTube channel.

“Okay, wait, wait, wait,” You shook your head and furrowed your brows. “You talk so fast. Explain it to me, again?”

Peter sighed, realizing he was talking a little too quick for most people to comprehend, then sat in the chair next to you. “I saw this game and I thought it would be fun for you and I to try since we’re the only ones here.”

“Okay,” You nodded. “How do you play?”

“It’s super easy! You use a randomized generator to pick a body part and then the other person has to draw or write something on that body part while you try and guess what it is!”

You hummed before sipping on your water. What harm could it do? You had nothing better to do today, anyways.

“Sure, Peter. I’ll play,” You said, chuckling at his more than obvious excitement.

“Awesome! Thanks, Miss Y/L/N! I’ll go get my camera set up!” He replied, scooting out of the chair to race into the common room.

“It’s just Y/N, Peter!” You called out after him while shaking your head, knowing it fell on deaf ears. You hurriedly finished your lunch and put your dishes away before joining the young boy. A tripod held up his camera and he was sitting comfortably on the couch.

“Okay, so, I’ll introduce myself and you and all you have to do is play along,” He explained.

You gave him a thumbs up. “Got it.”

With that, Peter glided over to press the record button before coming to sit back next to you. “Hi, everyone! It’s me, Peter Parker, and I’m back at the Avenger’s tower! I know what you’re thinking! ‘Peter, you’re always at the tower!’, well, Mr. Stark constantly has me working on stuff, even when he’s not here. Like right now…”

You fought back a giggle at Peter’s enthusiasm and showmanship.

“Anyway! Everyone is gone except for the Avenger’s most successful Sniper, Y/N! Say hi, Y/N!”

You shyly waved at the camera. “Hi…”

Peter continued on telling his audience about the rules of the game you were about to play, whipping out his cellphone to open a generator filled to the brim with different body parts.

“So, she’ll go first!” He declared, looking at you expectantly. You did as told, pressing the button and watching the wheel turn until it landed on the word ‘PALM’.

“Seems easy enough,” You muttered, sticking your hand out towards him. He gripped your wrist to brace it.

“Close your eyes! No cheating!” Peter instructed. You snickered, following his directions. “Now, I’ll write or draw something on her and she’ll have to guess what it is!”

Using his index finger from his free hand, Peter began making a shape in the center of your palm. You had to fight not to flinch away or close your hand. It wasn’t ticklish, per se, but it definitely felt strange—sending shocks through your arm.

“Uh, it feels like you drew a star?” You scrunched your face up, ending the sentence with a question mark.

“Yes! I did! Okay, my turn,” Peter released your wrist to press the button on his phone, the random generator settling on ‘CALF’. “Weird, but okay.”

“Peter, you came up with the body parts!” You laughed as you chastised him. He laid down on the couch, flipping onto his stomach so that his legs were exposed to you. Without putting too much thought into it, you started writing the letters of his name on his right calf.

“You definitely just wrote ‘Peter’,” He turned his head to look at you. You grinned while smiling and nodding, admittedly enjoying yourself during this little game. A couple more rounds were played with mildly easy things being drawn on each other’s person without a wrong answer.

“We should make this a little harder,” You suggested, glancing at the young spider-boy. “Drawing more difficult things and writing longer words.”

“Yes, perfect! I like the way you think!” Peter exclaimed. “Alright, your turn.”

Pressing the button, you spun the wheel, eyebrows raising at it settled on ‘BACK’. Oh no. You cleared your throat to mask your obvious nervousness, gritting your teeth together as you turned your back towards Peter.

You did not want to let Peter, or whoever watches his little videos, know that you were extremely ticklish, but stopping the game here when you just decided to up the ante would be a dead giveaway. All you had to do was hide your reactions. Simple enough, right?

You took a deep breath, shutting your eyes to wait for the inevitable. As Peter’s fingertips touched just beneath your shoulder blade, you flinched.

“Are you okay?” He asked, taking his hand away from you.

“Yeah, sorry! I just wasn’t expecting it. Go on,” You waved a hand at him, wanting to get this over with as soon as possible. Peter touched his fingers down again and you knew better than to react, but when his nails began dragging over your skin tight tank top, your hands balled into fists and you bit your lips together.

You couldn’t focus on what he was drawing because all that was occupying your mind was trying not to move or laugh.

“Okay, what did I draw?” The boy asked you. You slowly released the breath you’d been holding, deciding on just naming a random object.

“Uh, was it a dog?”

“Whahat?” Peter chuckled. “No! Here, let me try again!”

Before you could protest, he started drawing again, and this time even slower than before. You felt two circles being drawn onto the backs of your ribs and damn it, you giggled and arched away from his fingers.

“M’sohorry,” You apologized. “Sorry, sorry.”

“Y/N… you’re ticklish?” Peter didn’t let you respond before he scratched lightly at that same spot, now with the intention to make it tickle. You barked out a laugh, twisting your body away so that he no longer had access to your back.

“Yehes! Okay, ohokay! Let’s not mention this to anyone who lives here,” You pointed at him with what should have been a stern glare, but with a ticklish smile on your face, it was difficult to take you seriously.

“Oh, no way!” The teenager shouted, lunging at you and digging into your sides. “Everyone’s gotta know about this! Plus, we still gotta finish the game and it’s all on video.”

Peter fought you down onto your stomach so that he could continue drawing on your back. It didn’t take much to subdue you. You were a sniper for a reason—combat was never really your thing. And Peter was literally Spider-Man, so it wasn’t hard to get you exactly where he wanted.

“NAHA! PEHETER!” You belly laughed with your face pressed against the couch cushions. He wiggled his fingers up to your ribs as he sat on the backs of your thighs.

“Okay, I’m gonna try one more time! Maybe you’ll get it this time!” He said to you tauntingly. Again, he started with two circles—one under each shoulder blade—making you jolt every time he neared the sides of your ribs.

“Peheheter, I cahan’t focus! It TICKLES! PETER!”

“You have to guess, Y/N!”

Peter resumed his drawing despite your squirming and giggling and you tried your hardest to ignore the tickly feeling so you could picture it in your head. He drew some lines attached to the circles, but it all seemed very incohesive.

“AGHAHA!” You laughed through a groan. “I-hi don’t know! A cherry, a-a pair of glahasses, a bihike!”

“A bike! You got it!” Peter pulled his fingers away and you let out a breath of relief.

“Great, awesome, amazing. Can I get up, now?” You uttered, voice muffled a bit by the cushions of the sofa.

“No, not yet. Here’s your prize for winning!” He replied. A screech ripped through your throat as Peter dug back into your upper ribs, his fingers nearing that horrid spot under your arms. “Wohow! I can’t wait to tell Mr. Stark and Mr. Rogers about this!”

“I-HI SWEHEAR TO GOHOD, PETER! IF YOHOU… T-TEHELL ANYONE… I—PEHETER, PLEHEASE!” You begged, laughter pitching up as he moved back down to pinch at your sides. You took the time to try a reach behind yourself to grab his hands, but Peter was a little too smart and snuck the fingers of his right hand into the hollow of your underarm with the space you provided him.

You screamed in desperation; even Peter not expecting your reaction. You thrashed underneath him with your face pressed against the cushions to dampen the sound of your belly laughter.

“AHAHA! OKAHAY! PAHAHARKER, DAHAMN IT, NOHOHO! MEHERCY!”

Peter stopped without question, ripping his hands away from you and scooting off your legs. “I’m done!”

You hiccupped to catch your breath, rolling over onto your back to look at the young teen.

“Yohou… Gohod, Peter. Yohou are dead meat.”