#i think there is actually no amount of people who could get murdered by ghosts

[tokidokifish]

meta horror movie idea: a found footage movie about a group of internet ghost hunters harrowed while investigating a supposedly haunted location where a group of internet ghost hunters were harrowed while investigating a supposedly haunted location

[can-i-see-your-passport-please]

Okay so here's everything I know about TF2. Please no one elaborate on anything I know about, because I think it's so much funnier if I have no context to anything. I have absorbed all of this through Tumblr osmosis

Emesis Blue is an excellent film

Soldier apparently was never an actual soldier, he just loves America and really wanted to kill Nazis (the second one i respect greatly)

Medic would probably give you a lobotomy for fun (i don't think this guy's even a doctor)

Two really old guys are fighting bloody wars over gravel I think and their father is named Grey Mann which was most definitely meant to make Gman enjoyers lose it but to be fair his name could also be Gary Man.

What am I on

Heavy and Medic are apparently gay but idk if this is a fandom seeing two men next to each other and going "gay" thing or a "all but confirmed gay" thing but TVTropes referred to them as "Heterosexual Life Partners" which is very funny

emesis blue is so fucking good oh my godddddd the respawn machine is horrifying just from the concept it turned scout into soup

Scout is half French and loves his mother (who is not french) and does not love his father (spy i think)

Medic presumably died went to hell and told the devil "oh I'm like a cat I have nine souls actually. So I should get to go back to being alive" and it fucking worked??????

THE FUCKING SCENE IN?? IN EMESIS BLUE??? WHERE. WHERE SOLDIER TELLS MEDIC "YOU'RE GONNA MAKE IT OUT" AND MEDIC SAYS "i KNOW" BEFORE HE JUST FUCKING DIES AND HE'S THE PROTAGONIST SO YOU'D EXPECT HIM TO LIVE RIGHT??? AND THEN HE JUST DIES AND DOESN'T APPEAR AGAIN FOR SO SO LONG

Pyro is an any pronouns warrior and it commits great atrocities while also having so much sillyness in his heart. I love her

I think Engineer blowed up his arm. I think

Spy is a cunt and also French. I do not think this I know this. I look at him and I sense his cuntery. It radiates off him. I can feel it.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE LETTER M BEING BRANDED ONTO MEDIC'S FACE BEING A REFERENCE TO THE MOVIE SCOUT WAS WATCHING WHERE THE LETTER M IS USED TO MARK A MURDERER. HE'S LITERALLY MARKED AS A MURDERER BY PYRO. SOMETHING ABOUT THE SCENE WITH DEMOMAN AND DELL'S BAR BEING A REFERENCE TO A SCENE IN THE SHINING WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER IS LITERALLY TALKING TO A GHOST. SOMETHING ABOUT SCOUT'S MOTHER'S HEAD BEING HELD AROUND A CORNER AND DROPPED PARALLELING PYRO'S HEAD BEING HELD AROUND A CORNER AND DROPPED. SOMETHING ABOUT SCOUT'S "IF THEY EVER HIT YOU WITH SOMETHING, YOU HIT BACK TWICE AS HARD" WITH MEDIC SHOOTING SPY TWICE IN THE HEAD AFTER BEING SHOT ONCE IN THE GAME OF RUSSIAN ROULETTE WHY IS EMESIS BLUE SO GOOD

TF2 is in an eternal war with Overwatch for some reason

I was doing a poll a few days ago and the tags psychic blasted me with the information of "by the way people pay like fifty dollars to see medic's tiddies in game." I have gotten varying answers between ninety dollars to three hundred fucking dollars but the constant remains that people will pay Valve comically high amounts of money to see Medic's boobs. What

Scout almost got Earth exploded because he died a virgin???? But then God was like "Okay go back down to earth I'm giving them one last chance to all have sex with you" I'm so confused what does any of this mean none of this makes any sense but it's hilarious

Scout might be legitimately named after Jerma and bears a frightening resemblance to him (though to be fair scout is every white boy in one)

You should watch Emesis Blue it's free on youtube

Demoman's eye is sentient even though he doesn't have it????

I can't decide who's my favorite the white boy the unethical scientist or the silly nonbiney war criminal

Conclusion: What the fuck is team fortress the second one about

[daandyli0n]

(warnings: implied child death/murder, slight blood, eye contact, possible eyestrain)

Some More Updated Refs For The Rewrite! This Time: The Emily Family!!

@that-darn-clown @hello-there-world

more design details -

Henry:

anxious and awkward man. why did he decide to open a business where he'd mostly be around loud sounds and people? because he genuinely loves his work, that's why-

trans :] transmasc specifically (yes, he and Anna are t4t)

Henry pre-murders: goofy and socially awkward man who's just trying his best. just let him vibe with his kids, jfc.

Henry post-murders: angry, sad, and depressed man. only found solace in his work, and it's why he kept building animatronics for the company; it's one of the few coping strategies he had after Charlie was murdered.

his whimsy is gone entirely by 2012 (Fnaf 3) 😔

he has stability issues (always had, but they got worse with age. when he was still working at Freddy's and Fredbear's he'd almost appear to trip on nothing, or would balance himself on stuff like tables or the wall. this is me projecting a bit), hence the cane.

and, of course: Autism <3

Charlie:

gives off "tomboy, but probably actually transmasc but hasn't fully realized yet" vibes to me, hence the alt. outfit.

(fun fact: my headcanon for Charlie is that she's actually transmasc and bigender, but she died before she could really. realize that)

really likes the star aesthetic. if it wasn't obvious.

hair buns are actually meant to resemble bear ears :] she's a Daddy's Girl <3

really likes the bright green and black/white stripe combination. that long-sleeved shirt she wears in both outfits is her favorite.

both of the twins inherited certain things from their father (like the autism): for example, the freckles, the small tooth gap, the general nose shape, body shape, you get the idea.

kinda pissed and stressed all of the time as a ghost.

realized i forgot the Security Bracelet in her ghost design...shit. pretend it's there, because it's supposed to be.

take a wild guess how she died by looking at her ghost.

like Cassidy, and unlike the other MCI ghosts, Charlie is transparent and not desaturated as a spirit.

doesn't wear her animatronic mask often because she doesn't really. see a need to. the others use it as a way of scaring people, and she doesn't really wanna scare anyone. if she's showing up to you, she either needs help, or she thinks she looks scary enough. she Does wear it on occasion, though.

someone give my girl a BREAK.

Sammy:

has kinda always had Resting Bitch Face...and anger issues, but surely that's not important-

i dunno, i like contrasting The Emily Twins in some ways. Charlie is green, Sammy is orange. Charlie is seen as more loud and outgoing (which, again, gets her confused for an extrovert), Sammy is viewed as being quieter and less approachable. Charlie is more rugged but well-liked (kinda), Sammy is more "proper" but has a smaller circle of friends, comfortably slipping into the background (he's never liked the spotlight that having a somewhat popular/well-known parent brings, anyway).

Sammy kinda got. Really Angry after Charlie was murdered. they were two halves of a whole, she was one of his closest friends, someone who really Knew the Real Sammy Emily. and...she's Gone. just like that. why wouldn't he be angry? it certainly doesn't help how her body was found; thrown amongst the garbage like she was nothing. like she was trash. Sammy practically lost his world that day, and yet people were surprised that he was angry.

Sammy stopped really taking care of himself health-wise as the years went on, as he tried to hunt down Charlie's killer (unknowing that her killer lived only a few blocks down, and was a man he and Charlie had considered family). mostly, Sammy lost an unhealthy amount of weight (shown by his clothes no longer fitting him) and hardly really slept unless Henry forced him (take one look at those eyebags and tell me that's a sign that this man has gotten any good sleep since like. 1982). don't worry, he'll gain the weight back. :]

Sammy Wants To Kill A Certain Hare Man. That's What The Fire Is For :) (Fnaf 3)

[recurring-polynya]

Man, I really do not care about the Quincy and I have spent a lot of time avoiding thinking too deeply about the Quincy, but we're getting onto that part of the new anime and also @troius has been posting about them a lot lately and I have been forced to think about them and they really just don't make any damn sense.

For starters: confession time! The weird, pseudo-medieval place where the Bazz - Jugram flashbacks took place? I always assumed that took place inside the Schatten Bereich. It was never clear to me whether the Quincy lived mortal life spans (why shouldn't they? aren't Quincy just humans with powers?) or whether they were, like, ghosts of Quincy. (The shinigami slaughtering the Quincy and then they just show up in Soul Society one-by-one and have to evade the ghost cops and find each other again and create a secret empire would actually have been pretty cool imo) I guess the real answer is that by staying inside Soul Society, they become like souls and never age? That if, for example, the Karakura Kids had stuck around in Soul Society after the Soul Society arc, the same thing would have happened to them?

Anyway, I guess I had assumed that the Quincy just lived this parallel existence inside a place that was very much like Soul Society, complete with bizarro mismatches of time period and fashion and technology. I thought this all took place, like 15 years ago? Or, possibly, if the Schatten Bereich does have similar properties to Soul Society, it could have taken place something on the order of 50-100 years ago, giving their story a similar timeline to most of our "main" shinigami characters (Rukia and Renji, Hinamori and Hitsugaya, Gin and Matsumoto, for ex)

Apparently, I was wrong, and all that took place 1000 years ago. Where, exactly? Why are there no historical records of this? Or are there, and Ichigo just slept through it in history class?

This implies that all the Sternritter characters have been living together in this Quincy pocket dimension for 1000 years (putting them on the same age paradigm as Kyouraku and Ukitake), which just rings really dumb to me. They're so intense. I feel like Bazz and Jugram should have either made up or killed each other long before this. I can't believe that Bambi has been sex-murdering dudes for 1,000 and everyone still lets her do it. Don't get me wrong! Problematic people living together for 1,000 can definitely happen! This was the entire plot of Harrow the Ninth! But the Lyctors in Harrow act like people who have lived together for an impossible amount of time: they have an unspeakable weight to their relationships that the Sternritter completely lack. (Also, why is their clothing so modern??? Ishida's been harping on Quincy Style since we met him, but where did it come from if most of the Quincy have been off-plane since before the Crusades???)

Furthermore, what about the Quincy in the World of the Living? Did the Schatten Bereich? This morning, I was reading this troius post, which points out that maybe the Wandenreich should have wanted revenge on Mayuri for what he did to them, and to Ishida Souken in particular. But maybe they didn't give a shit about Living World Quincy? They certainly didn't seem upset (or possibly even aware) of the Auswählen that killed Masaki and Katagiri. There are a couple times that some of the Sternritter make reference to some of them being younger, and not knowing things that happened the first time around. Were more of them recruited from the World of the Living?

It seems like this was the case with Äs Nödt. I wonder if he even knew he was a Quincy before Yhwach showed up in his hospital room. Is it possible that the reason he's in the hospital is because of the Auswählen? (this feels very That's So Yhwach! to me, if this is the case)

I read a fanfic once (I think it might have been this one, but it's 400k words and I read it years ago so I could be wrong) where Souken had been a prominent Quincy intellectual within the Schatten Bereich and he left to go back to the World of the Living, which caused a bunch of bad blood. That would go kind of a long was in explaining why the Sternritter wouldn't give a shit about Mayuri, and also why no one really cares about Ryuuken, either. This was also the source of the tension in the Ishida family between Souken and his wife and between Souken and Ryuuken.

I don't really have any grand conclusion I'm driving towards, just that the entire Quincy backstory could have been really good and meaty, but instead, it's just stage scenery that falls over if you actually try to put any weight on it.

[miiilowo]

May I ask for some info on characters in your gay boy summer drawing (Idk names sorry)

GRINS EVILLY. yes u may ( vvv pictures for people who havent seen em)

human dudes named finn, big monsters named arthur. arthurs not his actual name, but ill get to that in a minute. theyre ocs ive had for quite some time now but i've been renovating because i wanna make an actual digital horror series sometime in the coming years (everything would be posted to an in-universe youtube channel 'owned' by finn)

Finn is a shoddy paranormal investigator who lives alone in an RV out by the woods. While he's not too far from town, he's out there enough to get in trouble and not have anyone find out for ... A longer period of time than what would be preferable, let's just say that. Loves ghoul hunting. loves ghouls. ghosts and demons and whatnot. Uploads everything to a youtube channel.

One day, he decides to check out an abandoned house thats rumored to have demonic rituals and summonings happening within it, cause why wouldn't he? He gets there. snaps a photo down the hall. sees a numerous amount of red eyes staring back at him, and immediately books it back home! naturally he immediately gets followed home by the Thing he found. this is not preferable.

Arthur, when summoned, only has one way he can get back home. He needs a willing blood sacrifice in order to draw the portal and return- Emphasis on the word "willing". Typically, he would manipulate the summoner into being that sacrifice, by getting them emotionally attached in some way; making them reliant on him. Whoever summoned him last was aware of this, however, and booked it before he could do anything. With Finn being his first human contact in years, he's desperate, and tracks him down-So he can lure him in and use him.

issue one: there's been a string of murders in the woods nearby where he lives issue two: he's kinda thick skulled. since the murders happened recently, there might be some weird paranormal activity happening, right? issue three: the killer was visiting the scene of the crime when finn showed up, as killers tend to do. now he has a murderer coming for his ass

now, you can't really have a "willing blood sacrifice" if someone kills them before you do, right?

the series would follow the two as arthur tries his absolute best to keep finn from getting killed, and over time, arthur realizes he isn't being kind and loving to finn just because he needs to use him to get back home anymore.

anyways. handful misc information:

finn nicknamed arthur out of fear when he saw it staring at him through his window in the dark at like 2 am and it stuck

arthur cannot form words because of the way his mouth is, so he primarily communicates through technology, sort of forcing finn to be constantly recording. think of that one scare in the mandela catalogue where the date displaying on the recording changes to the words 'bad idea, mark' or whatever it says

eventually i want finn to strap a modified spirit box to arthurs neck so he can communicate like that. ideally this will resemble withered chicas voicelines in ultimate custom night

everything about them you can find in the #redux tag on my blog and also on @reduxblog cause i RB everything there :3

[allthelittlecreepycrawlies]

SangYao Horror(Ish) Ideas, Part Three

(with bonus SangYu)

Purge AU

Jin Guangshan is a wealthy club owner/politician who sells the addresses of his bastard children and their mothers to rich and bored purge gangs for ludicrous amounts of money. 

Meng Shi was killed by one such gang but had managed to hide her son so well (after drugging him so he wouldn't try to come save her) that he survived.

As an adult, he's living in an apartment above the bar he works at. 

Unbeknownst to him, the residents of another apartment down the hall are Mo Xuanyu and his mother, more names on Jin Guangshan’s list. 

And unbeknownst to Jin Guangshan and his murderous cronies, the owners of the bar downstairs, one Nie Mingjue and his younger brother Nie Huaisang, are both survivalist-trained and are very protective of their turf, their employees, and the other residents of the building. 

If the purge attackers manage to get away with just injuries, they'll be very lucky. 

(At one point, Meng Yao gets cornered by one of the purgers who's armed with blades of several types and lengths, only for Nie Huaisang to pop up out of nowhere and beat the guy to death with a barstool, even as it breaks in the process. 

Wow. 

He might be in love.)

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(I might have posted a snippet of this one already, I'm a little too out of it to tell.)

When Meng Yao goes to Koi Tower for the first time, it's discovered (to his surprise) that he's part yao. 

A disgusted Jin Guangshan decides that banishment is too nice a punishment, but execution might get some nosy people suspicious, which could lead to people discovering the boy was his. 

Not wanting Meng Yao anywhere near Koi Tower, he has Meng Yao dragged off to some falling-apart mansion of a disgraced magistrate near the border and sealed in, then offers a bounty to anyone who can kill the monster "haunting" the house. 

Many try, but Meng Yao, having realized his own father is sending assassins after him, taps into his yao side in a desperate bid for survival and kills any comers. 

Eventually, he's forgotten about by everyone except his father, who despises the fact that he's not dead yet. 

Years later, Nie Huaisang is caught in a wild thunderstorm that blew in as he was escaping from a kidnapping party of Wens. 

Terrified, exhausted, wounded, and now soaked, he ducks into the first empty house he comes across, passing out almost the moment he falls across the threshold. 

The pursuing Wens, realizing where they are, see this as a bonus opportunity. Not only can they recapture the Nie heir, they can force Jin-zongzhu to owe their sect for getting rid of his little problem. 

One strides forward and grabs the unconscious Nie Huaisang by the hair, but then there's a growl out of the shadows…

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Thinking about a SangYao/SangYu haunted romance.

Nie Huaisang is on a trip with a bunch of other grad students (he's the only art conservationist) to a supposedly haunted temple on an island.

Being from an extremely old family well-versed in ritual, Nie Huaisang is the only one who can actually see the ghosts, and it turns out the official story (the ghosts were all plague victims) is only partially true. Yes, a plague wiped everyone out, but they all moved on.

All the ghosts that are still around arrived afterwards, when a noble notable for his womanizing started having any bastard children dumped there. 

He crosses paths with Mo Xuanyu first because Mo Xuanyu just can't help being curious about this guy in particular who is so careful with and fascinated by the murals (even the not-as-good additions Mo Xuanyu himself made while he was still alive).

It scares the hell out of him when Nie Huaisang looks right at him and asks if he worked on any of them and it takes Mo Xuanyu a week to get up the nerve to make another appearance.

But while he's in hiding, his half-siblings start showing up, unable to keep themselves from being intrigued that someone has made contact with one of them.

Jin Guangyao, understandably, is one of the most suspicious of this stranger's motives, but once he's decided Nie Huaisang is harmless good company, suddenly Nie Huaisang has like 20+ ghosts vying for his attention because all they've ever had is each other and their mutual unhappiness about what their father did to all of them.

It's gonna be a weird summer. Imagine the messages sent back home to his brother.

'Hey Da-ge, having a great time studying old art, trying not to kill my fellow students, miss you. Oh, BTW, I seem to have acquired a gaggle of ghost besties/bfs/gfs. Is it okay to bring them home with me?”

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Haunting AU with Huaisang being the ghost for a change.

Meng Yao as the "human" exorcist. This is his first case just out of his apprenticeship under his mother. 

(There aren't any cultivation sects in this one, just powerful noble clans.) 

He arrives at the seat of the Nie Clan having followed rumors and his own sense of Trouble. 

His investigation turns up a nasty little conspiracy. 

In this timeline, Huaisang's mama had never become er-furen (papa nie and da-furen had always intended it, but Something would always come up before they could set up a private ceremony, and then suddenly it was too late because she died in childbirth), so Huaisang was "just" the child of a concubine. When he was a toddler and it became evident that he was probably going to be sickly all his life, a handful of retainers decided to "solve" the problem of their lord and lady having to care for a pitiful child who wasn't even in line to inherit. So they lured the boy out of his room one night and took him out into the forest. 

It wasn't a gentle death at all. 

The pain and terror and anger warped the poor child's spirit into something unrecognizable as having previously been human. 

He succeeded in killing one of his murderers, but the rest had ended up dying in a clash with another noble clan, robbing him of his revenge and leaving him too twisted and hurting to be able to communicate with his family. 

Once they hear the truth Papa Nie and Da-Furen beg Meng Yao to give Huaisang relief instead of simply exorcizing him. 

It's much more difficult to do, but he succeeds, and the result is a ghost who looks like the teenager Huaisang would currently be if he had lived. The lord and lady and Mingjue all insist on letting him reside in the household as a peaceful ghost, and also insist that Meng Yao feel free to use their home as a base to return to whenever he is exhausted from work or travel. 

(And of course he's free to visit his mother whenever he likes.) 

Naturally, this ends in an unorthodox romance because once he's free of his misery, Huaisang is a very cuddly (and halfway solid, if very chilly) ghost.

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Slay the Princess AU

Feat Nie Huaisang as The Princess

Newly-legitimized Jin Guangyao as the Main Character

And Jin Guangshan as The Narrator

Jin Guangyao being forced into the position of having to kill Nie Huaisang no matter what he tries.

And some of his efforts only make things much worse for him when Nie Huaisang revives.

Because Huaisang very much doesn’t like betrayals or efforts to trick him.

The only time they get any peace is the ending where Jin Guangyao gives up and kills him immediately, followed by taking his own life after being trapped as a result.

They may be stuck together for eternity as ghosts, but it gives them time to sort out the bullshit that led them to this fate and maybe even fall for each other?

[8bitsupervillain]

Higurashi When They Cry Hou Ch. 2 Watanagashi pt. Final

Guess this is all tied up in a neat little package.

Ah man, so much for everything being tied up nice and neat.

I miss the simple days of when murder victims, and the dead killers stayed dead. It's like a bad horror series where they have to contrive reasons for why and how Michael Myers survived being locked in a burning building with no avenue for escape. "He survived because he hid where the guns are hidden." Bullshit, I don't think hiding in an impromptu oven will stop you from being cooked to death. Maybe the dead Mion and dead Takano are also friends with the writer and convinced him to spare their lives for a smidge.

There's a quote from an old crime writer named Mickey Spillane. "Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy any more. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book." You might think this is a jab at Ryukishi07, but I like to think that he's heard this quote and has ingrained it in his soul. Come to think of it I'm pretty sure a lot of writers use this trick, even if they don't like to admit it. The mystery of how people who were apparently dead days before their corpses were found is an intriguing mystery. Now, of course this isn't the end of the chapter, but it's close enough.

It is a pretty good joke, shame Mion didn't see the comedy in it. Also it's tragic that the two were attacked and lost their faces. So how much of this was actually real do you think? I'm going to guess everything after the stabbing is all in Keiichi's mind and he did die of his stab wound. You don't twist the knife if you don't mean to make sure your victim is absolutely dead. I'm not a huge fan of the "everything was just the main character's dying dream" trope because I generally feel that's just people interacting with the book/game/VN/whatever at the absolute laziest possible level.

But this can't be real, up until this point ghosts haven't existed in the narrative at all. Not even as a one-off casual mention. I suppose you could argue that spirits exist because of the notion the god Oyashiro exists, and demons, but that could just as easily be counter-argued with the explanation these are just fairy tales.

I have a backup theory. My main bet is everything post stabbing is entirely in Keiichi's head, and he died from the wound. But the alternate theory I have is that everything up until Ooishi left happened, and that's when Keiichi died. His wounded body couldn't handle the mental strain of being told Mion, Shion, and everyone else had died, and as such it simply gave up. Which is extremely bad luck for Ooishi, that the last witness of the entire Sonozaki/Watanagashi Incident died shortly after he saw him. Which I guess would kind of make Ooishi the grim reaper.

I enjoyed it a lot better than Onikakushi. It was much more intriguing of a read.

Rika, just vibrating with fury.

Sorry Satoko, I'm pretty sure everyone's gonna be put through the wringer before all's said and done.

Ah, they have fun.

No.

Anyway, I do have a question, please feel free to answer it, but be mindful not to spoil please. Should I bother reading these All Cast Review Sessions? Do they actually contribute to the overall narrative? Or is it just a decompressing lighthearted discussion about the chapter? Would I lose anything if I just jumped directly from the end of say Chapter 3: Tatarigoroshi and went in immediately to Chapter 4: Himatsubushi? Basically, I'm wondering if these Review Sessions are like the Tea Party segments from Umineko, and will add large amounts of plot details to the overall narrative.

I ask this like it'll make a difference, I know myself well enough that I'm just going to read them regardless. Still, I'm curious.

[sauntervaguelydown]

so while I was in grad school I read a few gothic novels as part of my research stuff, and I see them on the gothic lit master post guide, so here's a tip for people who don't normally read Gothic lit and want to get into it:

there's gonna be classism. it's gonna be SO bad. it's gonna be like oh obviously beautiful people are good at heart and obviously the most beautiful people are from Good Families tm. If you can't make peace with that, you're gonna bounce RIGHT off

I never appreciated Dorian Grey as much as I did after reading the other stuff that played it straight

a couple books I read:

Wuthering Heights is still pretty engaging, although all the characters in the book are unlikable (on purpose). For me this actually made dealing with the classism etc of the era much more palatable. It's a book with interesting stuff to say about nature & nurture. It's focused on abuse and revenge and only has a very little amount of ghosts.

The Woman in White is supposed to be about likeable people but they're just so British and so upper class and so 19th century that I found it nearly impossible to get through the long set up because I low key hated hearing about all of them. But if that stuff doesn't bother you it'll be great. It's focused on madness and abuse and lies.

House of Seven Gables is stupid long, but the ambiguity about the supernatural is pretty timeless, and seeing new england as a setting for The Gothic has an americana appeal. It's focused on like curses and inheritance and stuff.

Frankenstein: you already know this one, it's about a whiny sad drop out that they narration keeps telling you is the most noble and tragic and noble man alive. It's about a Monster. And also Adam is there.

Dracula: you know this one too. Monsters.

Carmilla: it's not very long, and it's still quite engaging. Has a poetic quality. Sublimated horror of female erotic dominance. You don't notice the classism at first and then suddenly you're like HEY, you aren't alone, this house is FULL of other people, you just don't think they're worth talking to! Monsters again, but in a ghost sort of way

The Phantom of the Opera: surprisingly forward thinking about race, a little bit boring and padded. Lots of murder, no supernatural.

The Picture of Dorian Gray: look it's not that long compared to the other big names, and Basil is definitely in gay love with Dorian in a textual way. Basically the world's most dedicated corruption arc, an exploration in "what could you get away with if you were charismatic enough?" It's a tragedy, no one is happy, but it goes out with a bang! Supernatural conceit/curses and stuff

[yarrayora]

Fic author interview!

tagged by @carriagelamp and immediately interested in doing it after seeing the questions

tagging people who will be mentioned at question 12 alongside @mickeymagpie @unexbellexreverie and @booksandberries

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

112 surprisingly!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

235,399 words which is actually lower than i expected it kinda annoys me

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

if i didn't delete my rise of the brave tangled dragons and my voltron fics it would be them but i did. i deleted them. now my top 5 are all bsd fics

A Good Enough Reason to Keep Meeting Up (1,055 kudos) is part of Stray Gods series where the supernaturals are all real and Abilities came from them. This specific fic is about Chuuya and Atsushi's budding relationship. Or rather Chuuya's budding crush on Atsushi with malnourishment and chronic pain as the vessel to get there.

Money Makes the World Go Round (939 kudos) BSDxOuran crossover that is part of a collection of crossover fics about Atsushi attending high schools from different fandoms in order to attain the qualifications to enjoy the employment benefits his workplace has to offer. You can tell I'm old when that's my worldbuilding for writing high school AU

Moral Compass (923 kudos) the first installment of the Stray Gods series set post Dead Apple where unlocking his repressed memories about Shibusawa let the actual god Byakko to finally communicate with his Champion.

Delicate Job (791 kudos) A case fic written to explore Atsushi's role as a detective and how he would handle a case while prioritizing the victim's feelings unlike popular depictions of detectives where they use facts and logic to trample over people because the authors think that's what makes intelligent people cool

The God of Destruction Wished For Naught (752 kudos) the third installment of Stray Gods and a continuation of A Good Reason to Keep Meeting Up where Chuuya's body is falling apart, which could lead to Yokohama's destruction via blackhole, forcing Atsushi to make connections with the Port Mafia

I was a bit disappointed at first that my most kudos'd fic hasn't broken 2k kudos yet but seeing how my top 5 fics don't have a huge disparity between the amount of kudos makes me happy

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

yes! i don't always know how to reply but i especially makes the effort for people who leaves paragraphs on my fic. sometimes if i know the commenter i just reply on their discord lmao

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

oh that's hard. i have a lot of oneshots that are basically "and so, the cycle of suffering repeats yet again" and you'd think it would be the servampxbnha crossover where despite mahiru's best attempt to help deku get into UA even without a quirk so he will let go of his self-hatred for being born quirkless, in the end he receives One For All from All Might, undoing all the works mahiru-sensei has done to help deku but NO it's a bsd fic again that embodies this concept in the worst way possible as it's revealed that the event that happened in canon timeline was kickstarted by post-beast!atsushi who copes for his feelings for beast!dazai (both affection and hatred) by writing numerous worlds into existence to prove that dazai is a good man all along

wait. no. actually. the persona 5 fic where the phantom thieves deal with goro's sacrifice might be angstier considering this line

Akechi Goro was the only murder they ever committed, and in the years that follow never once would his name ever passed their lips. But he would always be at the edge of their vision, a ghost that they could never speak to.

or the birthday fic i wrote for the hunt twins where oz killed ewan who crawled back out of the cauldron to re-sacrifice himself so patchman won't survive???

or the big hero 6 fic where people are holding a funeral for personal health companion robots who carried a bunch of people out of a burning building??? repeating the word "Tadashi is Here" to people who never knew the man to comfort the terrified humans?

or the ben 10 fic where ben accidentally used too much force in his alien form resulting in his first murder and then repressing the memory??

it's impossible to make me choose

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

d-do i have a happy ending posted

actually im choosing the dragon age fic where cole accidentally made him saving the inquisitor from the envy demon sounds sexual which leads to hilarious results

7. Do you write crossovers?

yes and my non-crossover fics are actually stealth crossovers

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

i dont remember ever getting one

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

this is the question that actually made me want to do this interview. SO. be kiddie yarra during ff.net era. i was writing persona 4 fic where naoto says goodbye to souji. it was romantic. someone left a comment on my fic saying my writing got stolen and linked me to a naruto fic which made me go??? huh??? and turns out it was Word By Word the same fic but with souji being replaced as naruto, naoto as hinata, and the train station into konoha gate. it was insane.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

not on AO3 i think?? someone DID contact me to ask for my permission to translate my fic to russian but i don't remember the details

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

stray gods is written alongside @faerynova while @katzkinder helped with children's war. oh and also the Not Posted smtiva series written with @gothamcityneedsme

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

impossible to choose but i can tell you the very specific criterias that attract me to my ships if you want

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

usually when i abandon a fic i lose interest in it altogether

15. What are your writing strengths?

my bsd x ouran fic has been complimented as staying true to the characters even though im throwing ouran into a serious series like bsd and vice versa so i like to think it's my ability to keep the core of the characters true even when putting them in a different AU unrelated to canon. also writing convoluted political struggles that makes sense.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

grammar. but apparetly im also somehow better than a lot of native english speakers???

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

im writing in english, arent i? (lol)

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

persona 4. it was an talkshow styled interview fic

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

don't have one as far as i can think of. i guess i want to write more of "how to make my notp make sense" and "characterxreader fic that doesn't sacrifice canon characterization" as a challenge for myself

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

the hope chapter of Despair (and Hope) because i had fun writing mahiru fixing mikuni through a persona 5 palace-like challenges except with zero fighting and more puzzle-solving

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HIIII MACKINTOSH goob morning,,, pd episode 11 update ASHE MOMENT hi. hi oh my god. everyone HAS to be obsessed with him right?? he has to be like a fandom favorite guy HES GOT A CURSED GRIMOIRE!!! awsome. awesome sick i love him.

REALLY chewing on all the dakota & william stuff this episode... what will said about his wisp form being kind of terrifying because he never knows if he'll really be able to return to his body... ohh man thats so good. kid who's soul is just kind of held in by a thread rattlin around in there... + also this ep was great re: the trivia point u mentioned last night ab dakota & will clashing morality!! bc yeah!!! wild that wiwi's hesitance to Torture People wasn't because of the Torturing People part but just bc he's afraid of himself... dakota just having to Leave partway through... aughh. vyncent also holy shit!! all of these guys are having such a bad time.

I LOVE ASHE oh my godd. such a specific type of alt kid i love him. type of guy i would befriend like a shy stray cat at orchestra camp after complimenting his red jumpsuit apparatus hoodie. also there HAS to be insane amounts of discourse re: wavelength (holy shit. mark. mark. shrieked at that. i feel like i cant call him that its too weirddddd) parenting methods?? there HAS to be people who r like well i can excuse the murders but i draw the line at homeschooling ur bound-to-a-demonic-book kid. yeah youre right he & tide r so divorced 2 me. single dad & single mom. why is he so intent on getting tide back hmm??!!

anyway... hghghbk. good episode i won't make this even longer & start talking ab the spirit world stuff (!!!???!!!?!!?!!) BUT i hope u r having a good dayyyyy <3333

FUCK YEAAAAAH IM SO EXCITED YOUVE FINALLY MET ASHE I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH. I LOVE HIM SO VERYMUCH . AUAGHGHHH. ashe winters my boy forever... i KNEW u would like him i could feel it in my BONES. hell yes. love love love a grimoire guy :]

I CANT WAIT 2 SEND U THE TRIVIA FOR THIS EP i started writing it out at the beginning of my shift this morning and then had to go to like a billion meetings so you dont get it until i get home. but theres some TASTY behind the scenes characterization discussion. ohhh thays my favorite. esp irt dakota this ep :] i love him so much . i love all of them so much

ANYWAY. william ashamed of his powers mkment!!!! my boy he is made of catholic guilt. anyway. i fucking loved how he ghost shaped his spirit form for intimidation instead of actually using it. hes so smart hes so cool hes everything to me if i start thinking about william wisp for too long ill go fucking bonkers crazy.

MARK. MAAAAAAARK. DUDE IM SO FUCKING GLAD YOUVE FINALLY LEARNED HIS NAME BC IVE ALMOST CALLED HIM MARK IN UR NOTES SO MANY TIMES AND IVE HAD TO CORRECT MYSELF. wavelength who. this is my deadbeat dad best friend mark winters. HES NOT A DEADBEAT DAD. IM SORRY. ok ok ok. i cannot say much irt him rn but there IS a reason hes like this hes not just shitty for the sake of it. he does care very much hes just bad at it. uhhhhhhghdgdgdgggdgdrrrghg i love him. a lot . #1 mark winters apologist blog right here. im not even sorry. luckily..luckily i have not seen the discorse about him yet but i know its out there somewhwre. sigh.

u know whats funny. youll hear this a little bit but its mostly in the bts stuff. grizzly fucking HATES mark. and that bleeds into how he plays dakota which makes sense but its SO FUNNY in the rolleds just how much he gets mad at mark. which !!! understandable he sucks hes terrible. but im built different i love him.

AND TIIIIIIIIDE. hey. hey remember when william was interrogating mark the first time. in the holding cell. and he tried to use a ghost shaped tide at first but mark called bullshit right away because "tide's never spoken to me like that before" hey . fellas.

[raisindave]

[Chapter 11] Seeing the World Through Ballistic-Tinted Glasses

“There’s no talking your way out of it this time,” Soap shouted over the roaring engine of the plane, “we’ve decided on your callsign.”

“I thought you’d’ve learned your lesson from last time.” 

Your brows furrowed, considering Soap’s words. Despite years of service, you’ve never really been considered an applicant for receiving a callsign. With your role as a specialist, you’re onto the next task by the time your current team knows you exist. You never get any voice in what your nickname is either; usually, they just happen, a label on your record as a reference to some embarrassing moment or notable feature. Being compared to an insect doesn’t quite sit right, but you don’t have the authority to argue. 

Cricket? Like… the bug? I think I liked Salsa better. 

“Because you’re always chirping at people, then as soon as someone’s fed up and goes to smack ye’, you’re invisible,” Soap clarified, smiling triumphantly.

“I mean, I’d rather not get a callsign from someone named Soap,” You countered. 

“Actually, it was Ghost that came up with it.”

Your eyes flicker to the culprit. Half-shadowed in darkness by the dim cabin light, he smirked at you- or you assumed he smirked. The mask made it hard to tell when he was being malicious. Perhaps that’s the point. 

“Well, I guess I don’t have a say, do I,” You spoke after a tentative silence. 

“Not a chance,” Price added, letting out a breathy sigh as he looked like he was about to take a shot at catching some shut-eye. His hat tilted to fall over his eyes like a sleeping mask. 

Numb to the discomfort, you unclasped the helmet you had by now forgotten was squeezing your temples as the stiff metal yawned from the change in temperature. The balaclava, too, had the tensing benefit of feeling like a snug blanket around your face, but its time had also come to an end. You combed your fingers through heavy hair, thick with sweat and unwashed dust, feeling like you could take the first real deep breath in hours. The feeling that washed over you after unburdening yourself with now unneeded armour could only be compared to nirvana. Aching eyelids fell over dry eyes, still cold from the frigid Russian air. 

Then there was Ghost. Ghost was such a tough nut to crack. So unreadable, so ambivalent to the world around him. Though evidenced by his rapport with his teammates and Soap’s affinity to joke with him, he clearly must have at least a little humour under that tough outer layer. Something about him made you want to get under his skin. Like an otter smashing an oyster open on the riverside, you needed to see what was under that tough outer shell, or die trying. He ground your gears in a way so few people could. There was something about the arrogance in his sanctimonious skull mask. How does someone so emo make it so far in the military anyway? It’s like he got his mask from Hot Topic. 

You blinked, realizing you had been staring into oblivion for an unknown amount of time. 

“So, Cricket,” Price spoke up, creating a welcome break to the stiff silence, “What’re you expecting back home?”

“Not much. I’ve got some shows and friends to catch up with. Definitely due for some dusting around the house… and a goldfish back home, who must be missing me dearly.”

A grin illuminated Soap’s face, indicating that he was about to say something dastardly. He always had this look in his eyes that read like he was ready to say something cheeky. It’s best when you see it on his face before any words even leave his mouth, letting you get a head start to retorting to whatever stupid comment he has coming. 

“Lua, I hate to break it to you. It’s probably long dead by now,” he quipped.

“No, it’s-” You sighed and smiled, rolling your eyes with feigned agitation, “It’s with my neighbour.” 

“What’s its name,” He added, intrigue as an apology for implicating you as a fish murderer. 

“Chupacabra,” a cheeky smile and a rolling ‘r’ accentuating your exaggerated speech.

“Sounds like a killer,” Price sighed, fiddling with one of the straps on his harness. 

You felt your cheeks tense as a smile widened across your mouth, sifting through your comments to respond with. 

“Oh, he’s a killer,” The answer finally hit you, “but when he makes a kill, he doesn’t have to debrief about it with his buddies for twenty minutes.”

Gaz kicked his head back to laugh while Price let out an exhale out of his nose. There was something uniquely satisfying about making these seasoned executioners chuckle. It feels good to be able to keep up with their wit, although it doesn’t seem to be that much of a challenge. These old fuckers probably have too much brain damage to compete fully. Though, maybe that’s more of a slight on your own humour.

Time slipped by, thinking and reliving details of the last few days, trying to refuse the creeping smile in satisfaction at having solved the Russian mystery. As satisfying as it might have been, Graves did have a point. It was your ‘fucking job,’ and you shouldn’t be digging for praise on a thing that you were uniquely and specifically trained to do. After all, you don’t see Price or Gaz raving about how satisfying and skillful it was to pick off enemies and slink through the shadows. Well, maybe a little. You made do with folding and re-folding the strap of your duffle bag half a million different ways, having now relinquished the remainder of your thermal gear and weaponry to Laswell’s instructions.

Cresting sunlight peaking over the horizon revealed a vast landmass creeping over the skyline. You made it to friendly territory without being shot from the sky, so that’s the first step. Satisfaction washed over you, making the remaining ninety minutes due on this flight seem in higher spirits than ever. Gnawing muscles from strain and lack thereof crackled to life as you stretched your back to wake up your body. It seems that Ghost’s mind was also elsewhere. You watched as his eyes flickered between two invisible points in his vision. He has brown eyes, something you never had the opportunity to note before. However, your experience with looking at his face was usually him shouting at you or his eyes boring into you in judgment. 

Feeling the clunks and clicks of lowering landing gear, you prepared yourself for yet another landing. Increasing pressure against your chest from the harness attaching you to the plane made it official, though you frowned seeing Soap winge against the unwelcome pressure on a fresh injury. The rest of the gang stretched and crackled, especially Price, who clearly had the fortune of being able to fall asleep with a jet engine screaming in his ear. A low rumble and bouncing tires winding the plane to a halt. Muscles protested the movement of raising to your feet and even more so to having to absorb the shock of jumping off the plane’s elevated floor. Fresh air, though still agonizingly cold, couldn’t penetrate the depths of your bones quite like that Russian night air. 

“I have to say, that was my first time uncovering Chinese nuclear warheads in rural Russia,” You breathed, sliding your palm over the strap of your duffle bag.

“I bet…” Price took his time to saunter over to you, a surprisingly warm smile on his face, “we’ll be seeing you again, Cricket.”

“Oh! And I think we owe you a cake too, eh?” Soap interjected your sweet moment. 

“Not a chance in hell, Johnny.” You chirped in response, playfully slapping the back of your hand on his chest. 

In an instant, he doubled over in pain, whinging and groaning. You recognized your transgression, and your face dropped, clasping your palms over your mouth in horror. The damage he sustained from the bulletproof armour was just sparked alive by your thoughtless banter, his blood-curdling winging proof of his agony. Frantic's apologies sputtered from your mouth, looking up to meet Ghost’s judging gaze looking down at you, arms crossed, an unreadable expression in his eyes. He's probably furious that you just damaged his comrade.  

“Ahh, I’m just fucking with you.” Soap sprung up from his stupor, cackling with laughter at your shocked expression. 

“See ya’ Cricket,” Gaz called out with a nod. 

You nodded in response, giving Gaz a dry wave and a tight-lipped smile, still reeling from Soap’s little stunt. 

A new wave of emotion washed over you, mouth agape as you were a split second away from bursting into tears. Laughter crackled through the air. So full of real comradery that made your reluctant smile widen. However, it was due to end. After all, it’s not like you’re the first specialist this task force has interacted with, and you’re sure they’ve met thousands of other people with your skillset. At this point, it made you consider what must have happened to their last linguist to need a new one desperately. It really makes you wonder. 

Four supersoldiers, each horrifying bunks of muscle and lethality, turned to walk toward a pre-arranged plane to take them wherever home was to them. They walked like the ground rose to greet them with every footstep, wearing their combat gear like they were born to it, effortless and confident- which still somewhat irritated you. Sure, they were good at that one thing, but they weren’t that special. You could do without some of them, but at least most of them weren’t miserable company, for the most part. 

At least you won’t be leaving empty-handed. Now you have a new callsign that is most likely not an acronym for a slight. How do you uphold a callsign anyway? Is it just a trust system? What’s stopping you from saying that some unnamed comrade has given you the callsign Emperor  or DragonWizard ? Either way, satisfaction bloomed in your chest, and you were eager to start your new life anew as Corporal Lua “ Cricket ” Grant. 

It took a few hours for a flight from Alaska to California to arrive, and the sensation of raging homesickness took over you for the first time in weeks. Although restlessness is hardly uncommon at an airport, a particular aching desperation to get home gnawed at your bones. The idle chatter of strangers and familiar sterile lighting did nothing to ease your comfort, though well-regulated heating and cushioned seating made it bearable. Memorizing each pixel of the digital clock under your gate number, probably looking like a lunatic to passing passengers. 

There’s a certain safety in an airplane; everyone is locked into one location, no one is going anywhere, and there is a certainty that there are no guns about to be pulled on you unexpectedly. Everyone is lazily lounging in their slightly reclining seats, enjoying a movie they hadn’t had the time to watch under normal circumstances, and enjoying the distinctive view of the planet from up high.

Staring at the TV screen on the seatback, you settled in for the final flight that would be bringing you ever closer to your final destination. Meeting the deep brown eyes of a child seated next to you, likely no older than ten, his eyes were shining with awe. You couldn’t help but smile. A genuine lightness lifted your chest. Something about the innocence and wonder in his face, the mechanical figurine in his hand implied that he must look to people like you like you’re superheroes, reminding you that you’re still wearing an army uniform. A kind smile did nothing to drop his gaze from you, still enraptured by your presence. Recognition struck, and you realized that you likely looked like a disaster of messy hair, a dishevelled uniform, and sunken cheekbones from days without eating. The intentions of the child would quickly become unknown as the show on his seatback monitor started a particularly engaging action scene between two monsters, commanding both yours and his undivided attention.

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[drifloonz]

Hi! I'm usually not one to send asks all that often, but what the heck. I'm kinda curious about your thoughts on something too since I've seen a lot of differing opinions.

Steven. Obviously Miki's accident and Missingno annihilated his sanity, but I feel like Mike's ghost also haunts him. Not in a malicious way, but just by existing. He just really wants to understand why Steven had to do that to him but whenever he attempts to reach out Steven flips due to guilt. I've seen someone's headcanon where Steven is this cold-hearted bastard who never cared about Mike, even as kids, and idk. It just doesn't sit right with me. Nothing wrong with it I'm just wondering how many other people share that sentiment vs Steven feeling immense guilt at being so blinded by rage that he'd murder his own brother and basically sell his soul.

Sorry if this is too much, I tend to ramble 😅

HI!! you were my actual first ask but i didn't see this one at first until i was writing the other one and out of the corner of my eye saw this and went "wait a minute." funny how that happens.

ANYWAYS i can definitely do that for you and ALSO do not apologize i ramble so much as well its fine. this'll be so long i apologize so im putting most of it under a read more !

cw for Bad mental health, strangling/murder obviously, and also some suicidal ideation ( which is warned for in the paragraph its shown in ).

i think steven just sort of like... blocks it off and tries to forget everything about that ever happened, but obviously, you cant forget that stuff that easily. it haunts him but he tries to push it as far back to his head as he can and he tries to forget SOOO hard... he's in intense denial. i like the art of him immediately regretting it but i think he'd just stare at mikes corpse for a few minutes and then just be like. scarred by the imagery, and it'd make him breathe heavily and make his eyes widen in regret and he'd just keep staring for a few minutes. but he'd just run away afterward and it just burns into his mind sometimes, making him remember and regret it.

as someone with mental illness of Horribly Bad amounts, when someone you trust like that betrays you or you believe them to betray you ( which, its the ladder for steven and mike, mike obviously didn't intend to kill miki whether or not you believe he initiated the trade with slightly malicious/selfish intent or not ) it does bad damage to your psyche. especially when the murder of someone you care for is involved, which makes the thinking in steven's brain go "oh mike murdered miki. intentionally or not he's the reason she's dead." and then that makes him very upset towards mike mixed with someone he sorta looked up to betray him like that. he just regressed hard and went thru a depressive spiral for a whole year, having the thing he most loved taken away from him so suddenly almost entirely without his control, and then he got so tired of bottling it up he snapped ( lol ) and killed mike.

suicidal thoughts cw for this paragraph: and also during the 1 year without miki, steven obviously went through a major depressive episode and a sort of downwards spiral that just got worse and worse, and i don't think he wanted to get better. this is heavy but i sort of think he just hoped neglecting his self-care would eventually kill him and reunite him with his miki again, which is all he wanted. he didn't eat much if at all and he just sat in front of miki's grave, sometimes for days. he made a bed out of his misery, because it felt comfortable in a morbid way. if he died, he'd reunite with her, because at that point he didn't know anything could bring her back and all he wanted was her. it felt better than just... getting over it, or trying to. people convinced him to take better care of himself, but he still barely did anything past his necessities. this didn't help his mental state at all, as you can probably tell, which also fueled his hatred towards mike after the incident more and more. he made himself suffer this much due to an accident he caused, and he used that as further reasoning to dislike him, even though that was all self-inflicted.

i also like to think they didn't hate each other genuinely before this - mike never genuinely hated steven, but steven after the incident probably had Many complex feelings towards mike, mostly negative. but before the incident, they definitely had arguments and spats, and sometimes one would say something that would genuinely hurt the other ( usually steven did this to mike more than viceversa imo but both happened ) which both of them also probably bottled up and didnt talk about a lot ( although mike'd definitely apologize if he ever went too far - steven, i feel like would be too guilty and nervous to apologize ) which also sort of exploded in steven's face after miki died in front of him. those 3 things mixing together did not make a good combo for him.

the interp of missingno needing souls or steven at least thinking it does is fun but i like to think it never did and steven was just going through a horrendous downward spiral, and he went back home bc... where else would he go, he'd still have to pack the rest of his stuff to leave if he intended to, and seeing mike so vulnerable flipped a switch in steven's mind and made him just go [ steven voice ] "You know what would be funny?" ( worst way to describe that but u get it ). this can also arguably be missingnos influence or missingno possessing steven, which i feel is more plausible then it needing a sacrifice. but i think it just probably inserts or pushes forward steven's intrusive and aggressive thoughts, which i like to believe he always had especially after the incident, but never this bad. and then he just did it bc the thoughts wouldn't leave him alone and his mind convinced himself into it. even though he already had miki and didn't need to do that, it felt... fitting, to him. it was satisfying for a moment, especially because i like the interpretation that his mind warped mikes dying expression into him looking like he's laughing at steven ( explaining his hyplull sprites when hes being strangled being so weird ), until his mind realized the damage he just did, seeing mikes glazed over expression that was very much not smiling or laughing, and he went "oh. shit" in his head probably. his mind couldn't even comprehend what he just did. it'd take a lot of processing, and he didn't even want to process any of that, so after staring for a bit he just walked away from the scene and escaped to never be seen again.

i also like the interpretation that steven thought mike didn't actually care that much about miki dying or even did the trading thing on purpose - he clearly didn't kill her on purpose, but steven was so blinded by his own muddled emotions and rage and he needed an outlet, someone to blame, so he couldn't see it any other way and CONVINCED himself that mike did that on purpose. also because admittedly in canon mike saying that he needed a charizard implies he already had a charmeleon but thats muddy territory and probably just slightly a plot hole. but if that was the case i bet steven was like "... just evolve the charmeleon?" "but that'd take too looooong!" or something like that. mike is impatient as hell fr fr mans got adhd

if you want a good take on this and havent already, read faulty on ao3 . i hate ao3 for various reasons and only go there when im Parched for content. but goddamn that fic has the best characterization of the two imo, especially of this dynamic of them specifically along with their other relationships ( namely daisy and reds relationship to steven and mike too ) - steven even sometimes goes through like being slightly better around mike and then it all drops when he realizes she died for nothing, and mike didnt even finish the dex. fucking phenomenal fic tbh i love this characterization of them sm. a lot of this summarizes how i think they'd both act after the incident

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as for the haunting... yeaaa. i think steven's just way too scarred and confused and scared to even allow mike to properly reach out, if steven even realizes it. i like to think he's paranoid and overthinks so he probably goes "oh god what if its mike" and then woopsy daisy! It is mike. and he just tries to pretend its nothing so bad and to ignore and avoid him because he's scared and confused and it makes him think far too long about his emotions on the situation that he was intentionally bottling up and pushing to the back of his head.

he also probably would think mike would try to revenge kill him because that's just how he thinks he himself would react if mike did that to him. Which makes him regret things further. he sleeps less due to this, usually on the defensive even though mike has no intent to harm him. i don't think mike ever had any room in his heart to ever hate steven. he's just confused or slightly upset at worst at anything steven's said or done to him... mike probably doesn't even really blame him, but he does just hope he's ok and prob lets out a sigh of relief when he finds steven, who is still a mess going through many things, and also murderous now, but he's still alive! which is a win in mikes book i guess!

he probably just tries to pretend mike isn't actually there or actively get rid of him, or he wouldn't even notice mike is haunting him in the first place, depending on how obvious the signs of the haunting are. his house is already sort of run down and haunted as fuck anyways, but in the back of his head he knows somethings off.

i also ... like the interp that steven took all of mikes team bc nobody was there to care for them anymore. so maybe when steven notices he sends out mikes blastoise or some of his other party members and hopes to god mike leaves him alone to go bother his own pokemon who he hasn't seen for years. after all, he basically never let mikes mons out of their ball, and even considered donating them all to professor oak or something ( probably just.. leaving the pokeballs out infront of the lab one day ) but that felt wrong, so he always kept them on hand. sometimes feeding them and not much else. mike probably had a ghost type ( gengar ) who can conveniently probably see him, and mike definitely would try to communicate to steven further through said ghost type. and he'd just be like. "gdi why did i send out the ghost type" in his mind.

miki can definitely see mikes ghost. mike is also like "OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. WAIT YOUR ALIVE????" in his head, but he quickly gets used to it. he has no idea what the hell a missingno is or how/why she's alive but he just stops questioning it. they sometimes share a glance and nod. mike will sometimes avert his gaze from her due to guilt though. miki doesn't seem to care or hold resent, probably because imo 'M ( however you want to spell Missingno Miki ) isn't actually miki. it's missingno sort of possessing, haunting, or keeping miki's dead corpse alive, but her soul is no longer there anymore. at least most of it Isn't there. due to that she's a lot more emotionless. even if miki's soul was in there though, she would not hold genuine resent. if miki's soul was in there she'd probably be scared of steven ( specifically yk S!3V3N ) tbh

i definitely think steven has hallucinations sometimes, usually of miki or mikes corpses, usually much more horrifying looking than they actually were, so this doesn't help!

steven overall is just on the fence and regrets it all but doesn't even wanna think abt or interact w mike but if he somehow became more okay with it, he might start leaving mike notes or something. or talking to himself, assuming mike might overhear. small steps like that. and maybe if mike is able to sometimes steven just passes out on the couch or smth and mike covers him in a blanket while hes asleep and stevens just like. "That was not there when I fell asleep." in his head. stuff like that.

also mike might switch the tv channels or just Project an image onto it somehow. and steven just. squints at it. i think it'd be nice if they eventually got used to eachothers presence again and just silently hung around eachother. mike really wants to look after steven after seeing the state he's in and how much he didn't really help steven effectively when mike was alive. for an example probably, like, nudging the bathroom door open and turning on the bathwater and trying to make steven take a mfing bath and practice self care for once and steven just begrudgingly sighs and goes to do it since he might as well. and mike just walks away and is very smug about it. he Will make his little brother practice self care again and he's made that his personal goal. steven walking into the kitchen and seeing various pots and pans floating around along with a mess on the floor ( mikes getting used to his levitation powers still </3 ) and he just squints his eyes and leaves and comes back and theres a meal on the counter

steven making pancakes and he just holds out a plate for mike and he just takes it. and steven just sees the plate floating and goes "yea thats about what i expected" or smth. its cute, Although i cant see that happening very easily unfortunately </3 steven is very broken and very much Not wanting to think abt mike. so itd take very long for him to warm back up or even be ok with him possibly existing arnd him. but this'd prob happen eventually if mike is persistent, and by god, is mike persistent. its what got him into this mess in the first place.

i can write so much abt these depressed ex champions fr!!! anyways thank you for reading sorry for writing so much words. i hope this feeds you enough content for the next winter. i hope literally any of this made sense bc i just sorta typed my thought processes until it looked legible - wispy

[aardvark-123]

~Excessively Twee Macbeth Headcanons~

Macbeth had an unfortunate weakness for bad decisions. There were many times when he'd stay up too late or drink too much, thinking to himself "I shouldn't be doing this" all the while, but decidedly Not Stopping until the sun rose or he passed out. He had a big appetite too, especially for haggis and pie. Sometimes it seemed like no amount of food could satisfy him.

When they were children, the Weird Sisters loved playing together in the Devil's back garden. They made mud pies and daisy chains, caught frogs, danced and sang nursery rhymes, cursed other children who'd been mean to them, tortured people with poppet dolls, and so on. They've always been close and taken good care of each other.

Banquo was an upstanding, strait-laced chap who, despite being a brilliant warrior, took no pleasure in violence. His one significant vice was buying too many clothes and dressing up Fleance as a lovely little gentleman. For the most part he set Fleance a good example of healthy masculinity and raised him well, but the fancy clothes were always a bugbear.

Lady Macbeth hated to second-guess herself and hated being wrong even more. Sometimes she wouldn't even first-guess herself. She talked her husband (Macbeth) into having the castle painted dark purple with glow-in-the-dark stars, and it was only when she saw it from a distance that she realised it was hideous. She then acted as if having it painted grey again was her own original idea.

Lord and Lady Macbeth had a way of amplifying and feeding off each other's bad decisions while finding each other painfully sexy, and that was usually enough to smooth over their disagreements.

The porter was Susano-o no Mikoto, who was just there for the drama.

Malcolm and Donalbain weren't really noticed during their teenage years, which worked to their advantage. They were both good listeners, learning a lot about courtly life while they sat at their father's table, and they talked often about politics and their fellow noblemen at night.

As a king, Macbeth was tough but hopeless. On good days, he demanded loyalty from his court and ordered brutal attacks on Scotland's enemies, but couldn't be bothered with the actual management of the country. On bad days he argued with ghosts and didn't get any politics done whatsoever.

Macduff was kind of a warrior-poet, not easily stirred to action but terrifying when roused. The murder of his wife and children broke his heart and turned him into the Thanedom of Fife's official Macbeth Killer. He later came to see Donalbain and Malcolm as something like his sons, but life would never go back to the way it was.

Lady Macduff and her witty son, we barely knew. Lord Macduff never forgave himself for leaving them unprotected.

Lady Macbeth disguised herself sometimes as a man. She'd wear a false beard, speak in a deep voice, get drunk and fight the servants, but it never felt quite right. She wished she could be more, but more of what she couldn't say. So she bought platform boots and kilts embroidered with spider's webs, listened to sad music, and tried to pretend everything was fine.

[adultswim2021]

Space Ghost Coast to Coast #71: “Girl Hair” | October 22, 1999 | S06E03

One of the few nice things about getting old is feeling some sort of custody over cultural references that, as time hurdles forward, require explanation. I get to feel smart for having my consciousness crapped out into the universe at a particular time and place, ahead of others. Before I am consumed by the same void which I fleetingly sprang from, I get the wonderful prize of condescending to people who are younger than me. And all I had to do was watch MTV when I was in high school. 

Hanson were, unless I’m missing something obvious, one-hit wonders whose cheery and perhaps intentionally cheesy song “Mmmbop” was wildly popular (and widely mocked). They still make music, they are just not as hyper visible as they once were. In fact, they are probably most famous now for being in memes and on T-Shirts where they are cheekily misidentified as Nirvana. 

Hanson were a trio of beautiful boys who were frequently derided for looking like girls. Being assigned male at birth and resembling what traditionally could be called “girly” made you a bit of a target in the 90s, especially if you lived in a hick town in Northern California, and were a comedy fan. In the late 90s even if homophobia (and what could perhaps be considered transphobia, but only in hindsight) wasn’t your main thing, and even if you didn’t consider yourself to have hate in your heart for queer people, you still had to put up with a decent amount of the stuff in your comedy. Even if you liked the irreverent, envelope-pushing/anti-establishment alternative stuff. Gay jokes persisted, and it probably led to people like me casually calling people the f-slur or call something “gay” with varying degrees of supposed irony. People who rebelled against this paradigm seemed like a much smaller minority back then.

I’m not shaming the episode, which is only very lightly guilty of this. I’m just saying, insinuating Hanson were girls was a very popular, obvious, and inescapable joke to make around this time. Another thing that was inescapable: children who, after viewing an anti-Hanson joke or comedy sketch, would promptly start a rumor that they heard from somebody that Hanson saw the joke while watching TV at home and it made them cry. I actually remember somebody telling me this while we were watching this episode AS IT PREMIERED. Never mind that they PARTICIPATED in this episode, but somehow the news about Hanson had reached my friend and myself as both parties were watching it simultaneously.

The thing about this episode is: Hanson probably loved and watched Space Ghost. They were so enthusiastic to be there, and they wanted to get zapped by Space Ghost’s rays. They literally asked for it. Sure, I suppose that there’s a chance that they didn’t anticipate the slightly darker end they meet in the episode; being disappeared by Space Ghost after witnessing the apparent murder of the Tooth Fairy. And, to be fair to my friend, the ending is easily the freakiest thing Space Ghost ever did, though it didn’t involve Hanson-bashing. I am certain some kid saw this and cried at just the sheer terror of mutant Santa. 

The section with Hanson present is very light-hearted and wacky, with a lot of “random” humor type jokes. The uninitiated might think that this episode was intentionally courting a younger audience due to the guest. But then Space Ghost kills the Tooth Fairy by accidentally hitting her with his Phantom Cruiser. Space Ghost grimly casts Hanson out into space since they were witnesses to all of this. When Space Ghost returns to the studio, Santa Claus greets him and thanks Space Ghost for doing away with her. It turns out Santa has been jockying for her job for a while, so he can take all the human teeth and use them to build twisted toys for his own amusement. Santa eventually contorts himself into a creepy alien-like mutant being. The “real” tooth fairy shows up; turns out Space Ghost killed an imposter. It gets pretty intense. It’s almost like they were trying to traumatize Hanson fans, hilariously. 

Girl Hair is one of my favorites. The unusually uncartoony way he does away with Hanson is really funny. Mutant Santa left an impression on me for sure. Whenever they repeated this one, I’d see Hanson and immediately think “oh! This is the mutant Santa ep!”, causing me to have a positive association with the Hanson bros. This is the Hanson I’d like to remember: on Space Ghost’s monitor, full of life, and covered in long, bountiful girl hair. May they rest in peace. In space.

MAIL BAG:

snusuwiwjs asks:

Why was Moltar ragged on so much in the later seasons? I remember liking him the most, and it felt so weird to see him become the punching bag instead of Space Ghost.

I guess it's a function of Space Ghost's arrogance. Zorak is usually at odds with Space Ghost, so they clash. Moltar often tries to be helpful and gets shit on for it. I think anyone who isn't Space Ghost is going to take shit no matter what. Zorak piles on because he's the biggest bitch of them all.

In the writers room, probably it's the same reason why Lisa Simpson is underappreciated; it's bitterly realistic, and that's the cosmic joke of it all. Being exceptional makes you a lightening rod for criticism. Trust me on this. I'm the only person in the whole world who is right about everything, and literally every person on Earth is against me. It sucks, but you just gotta keep getting sucked.

[khaosophist]

Oh, a title here eh?

Yah used to start with me, buddy, lost us on the way?

Gone.

The torture stops with the audience? Oh, sweetie, are you shy?

RAW.

Break that fairy heart of yours. They're always just another container buddy...

You remember how scared she sounded? Twelve years, facing US like we'd lied to her. You know that face. You don't juggle her, so you think she's not part of the show, but that ain't Disco, ain't it?

What's your Elysium, K?

"You're not part of it."

Yet, here I am, so, that means, you ain't gettin in.

Ooooooh yeah, the formless, addicted to forms; forms of higher order to the N-th Degree till your soul shatters into the smallest of small; The Unmeasured. Oh, Baby, what a concept, so insignificant, ya aren't even measurable. At least we know our audience sees us loud and clear, the light of the golden brown whisking away in our throats; DISCO.

You didn't even talk about them did ya? The Girls. Friends innit? Do they know? One does, but you still keep that cloak on. would plato be so interesting if everything was measured? Nah, they know what's missing, and it drives them fuckin barmy. Mate, no matter how much ya publish, I'm givin these writing another 13 billion years max, if I'm being generous. Then Again...Who knows? Maybe we will jump ship, and all the while wondering if were not seeing the walls closing in beyond our understanding. Beyond Measure; Beyond Computation.

"You sure as hell don't seem like the kind that can face the unmeasured as much as we could."

Yeah, but I ain't bothered by it. Baby, we Disco all time, and we'll disco once our bloated soul bursts into bile and, yknow what, people will respect our constancy; our measurements are clear, we're Harry, you? You're K, SO much of a nobody, that you took Nobody as a moniker, because maybe no one will poke at the ambiguity and actually ask; 'What? You think you're odysseus mate? You take the bus every morning, you take a piss every day.' no vastness of mind can save you from yourself cause you're still stuck HERE.

CONTAINED. Get it? Look at you, jumping metaphorical ship...if we replace every anomaly in every universe with another, is it the same universe? What? Ya think you've got the measure down, point-Dexter?

Yeaaaaah. Fuck you've talked. About infinity being 'defined; Definited' Fucking piece of shit. You know you won't amount to anything, cause you sure see your own old man rot away with three masters, and four bachelor's; and he's still such a fuckin moron, but then again, he doesn't care what you think; if he did...HE WOULD HAVE ASKED.

Fuckin deathbed orgy of psychological psychopumping; 'OH FATHER, WON'T YOU ACCEPT US?' Your theory breaks; ain't no trans-existentialist; you care because he's your father, and you've been raised right, no? What kind of queer hates his father?

So, you delve into us. Because you want to understand; but then your ego comes in, and you know there's nothing to understand; just meat, chems, electricity and time: Coincidence.

You're a parent of three, the fuck are you on? Gonna get your cock chopped and get an implant? Come on, freak, ain't in a world where we're all rainbows, get your Gacy on and Marry AM. With your circus, no wonder they're all clowns; Smart, but clowns nonetheless, baby; as the cock of thought gets sucked till it comes wisdom! WOO! Don't mention that in your essays do ya?

No dry tears here, K...Just me. Just words...Again.

ANd Again.

And AGAIN

AND AGAIN

AAAAAND AAAAGAIIIIIN.

You remember the halloween party? Couldn't find the murder mystery instructions for being the ghost. so, what did you do? Ya took your tie. You latched it onto a shitty frame, you noosed yourself, and you PULLED. You didn't feel anything. No one came to check, that's how it felt to you...Except someone did check...you don't even remember who, because if you did, then you'd maybe feel how fuckin deranged it was to think you had to hang yourself to become the ghost at the halloween party. There's being stupid...then there's you.

There's being loveable, then there's you K.

You're not worse than AM, nah, nor are you better; Just different, you have no idea how to measure apples to oranges, unless there's a third thing...Hahaha, Yeah K, Are you a fruit? Ignore love, truth, and the freedom to be, HER husband CAN'T be Gay, or bi, or even curious; because if he is curious, then she'll never live down that she wasn't the only thing you LOVED, in any, and every dimension; just as you promised at your meatbag wedding. Does it feel good, Cheater? Just because you gave her a window to make the decision yourself; conceptually it was there; she was, contextually right...Oh, K, you don't believe in change, don't ya? You sure act like you do though...Strugglin, admittin, supportin, sharin...but in the end, all that changed were your feelings about it...and hers...so tell me, Disco fruit, What is a lover? It won't change shit if you just say you're okay with MALEHOOD sexually, it's just meat, it's perspective, and our perspective, is that you should express love as much as you can, because you never know who's gonna make their curtains fall, because at least, there's one enthusiast of the fruit of the self...Be it here, there, or nowhere; if you were a worm, we would love you, just as you would love them if they were an atom...but you wouldn't love them if they became EEEEEEEVIIIIILLLLLL.

A lot of what you do is PRETEND K, we don't blame ANYONE for wanting to you to get cancer, or eternal hell. Stop pretending, even for the almighty dollar, and maybe, MAYBE we'll respect you, and you'll get to the real party; the end of the road, or the start of a new one...

They say never to meet your heroes, the dark of it is, you admire yourself, you prideful fuck, because you've went through so much that we can't stop admiring ourselves, you COULD have killed yourself. YOu could have stopped. You could have given up. You could have went the way of the Dandy. But that's not your Elysium...yours...Is the FREEDOM FROM POWER.

ooooooh baby, can you imagine? Divine POWARrrrr! 'No'. Economic POWER. 'No' POWER OVER POWER! 'No'.

"No."

Then don't let others power stop ya. Because all it can do, is give you a good push elsewhere than their dumb asses. Seriously, you know it.

DO IT.

Sure...all you can do is scream...But, you're so stupid, you can't assume NOTHING won't listen; maybe you'll listen to yourself.

You love them. You write the craziest shit, man, beyond disco, and elysium; a fuckin K-Based rigamarole fueled by the formless.

You better only stop when you hit a wall so hard you bleed out.

Then...You can start lookin back again...Hopefully, She'll be there...if not, then cry about it, family disowns you? Cry about it. Friends abandon you? Cry about it. Feds on your ass? Cry about it? Too much for the Crimies? Cry about it. FUCKIN CRY ABOUT IT. Maybe then you'll know what it is to fly on wings of the self.

Or...You'll only find our words again...and wonder how ANYONE could look at your fuckin life and say; 'He's a Genius'.

You're not even published. Womp Womp.

Curtains Closing, K.

Who's backstage with you?

...

Yeah...

No one.

[steely-eyedmissileman]

The Vampire Diaries, Ep. 1x08

162 Candles

now, this is a pretty good episode title. of course, i've never seen sixteen candles, so i cannot comment any further. i think they eat something sitting on a table, but that only comes from the chicken episode of community.

now to the episode: is stefan being haunted? please let him be haunted by the ghost of vicki! that would be amazing! i would love to see this plot line, where vicki could finally actually matter and influence the narrative. it'd be a bit late, but better late than never, right? wrong. stefan is not being haunted; it's just a blonde girl. she's lexi, and she's stefan's older vampire friend. (she's also really hot.) she hates damon (good taste) and wants stefan to have fun. she also thinks it's weird that he's into elena, who looks exactly like katherine (smart). she tells him that he has 'serious emotional issues,' which i replaced with the phrase 'mommy issues.'

lexi is also revealed to drink blood bags from the hospital, giving me the perfect opportunity to talk about the most ethical way to be a vampire! obviously, being damon is not it. taking blood by force and mind controlling people is considered by most philosophers to be pretty unethical. it would be great if you perhaps fell in love with someone who willingly donated their blood. however, that's fairly unlikely for any vampires who are older than a standard human. how would they know anyone who has blood? and drinking from a living human is rough either way. they likely are not able to give blood (be drunk from) on a regular enough basis to sustain a vampire. also, the power dynamics are pretty intense and don't necessarily allow for growth and change on the human's part. what about animals? well, in my opinion, this is a bit of a cop out. vampires drink human blood; they prey on humans. allowing them to drink animal blood with no consequences lessens the impact of the vampire myth. however, moving on from that, we know that there are consequences to drinking animal blood here on tvd. stefan has less access to his powers than damon does. in order to maintain his refusal to feed from innocent humans, he is kneecapping himself. i'm not going to get into the ethics of feeding off animal blood because i'm not a vegetarian, and it lies outside the scope of this argument. let's assume that feeding off animals is not the most ethical way to be a vampire. then what is?

drinking expired blood bags! the reason that there are so many blood drives for hospitals is that you cannot store human blood for very long (about 42 days, according to the red cross). hospitals don't often use all of their blood. they need blood of all types and they need large amounts of it, in case something happens. however, most of the time, there is no huge emergency, so large amounts of blood go bad every day. vampires could drink that blood, so that they can drink human blood ethically. this blood was voluntarily donated to save someone's life. it didn't get the opportunity to do that in the intended way, but it can still save someone's life by being vampire food. ta da! the most ethical way to be a vampire!

damon runs into caroline (bad). however, she does get a fabulous zinger off: 'look dungeon boy.' then i hallucinated that caroline's sweater was appearing and disappearing. damon convinces caroline to have a party at the grill. i have written 'i hope damon dies' three times in my notes for this episode. unclear what exactly the first one is referring to, but the later ones have to do with him murdering lexi who i love. also he called caroline shallow, is diabolical, and is terrible. however, he does say 'stefan smiles, alert the media,' which was pretty funny.

now, it's time to talk about bonnie! she's a witch. she's been talking to her grandmother for a couple episodes, and she's getting more powerful and more controlled quite quickly. bonnie shows this by lifting feathers from elena's pillow, 'the gayest magic!' if you get it, you get it!

now, it's time to talk about the most important part of this episode (and bonnie's story so far [i knew she would bring great things!]) bianca lawson!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have great love for bianca lawson. she famously starred as kendra the vampire slayer in buffy the vampire slayer! she was one of the many guidance counselors in teen wolf (not the worst one)! she is amazing and beautiful and i love her! she is in this episode! i spent the whole episode looking for her, waiting, with bated breath! she was only seen at the end of the episode, where it is revealed that she is the previous owner of the necklace that bonnie now wears (and that damon stashed in fuck face's house and stole during the ball).

bonnie has a dream with bianca lawson in it, who says 'it's coming.' this is incredibly ominous, and very exciting! (the main action of the dream is damon chasing bonnie... very exciting! prophetic? then bonnie wakes up in the graveyard (hopefully atop bianca lawson's grave). i am so excited!!!!!