#if I had a nickel for every time somebody asks me if I had a podcast

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I am having a moment of Self-Awareness.

As I sit here in my garden, smoking my dried herbs, journaling obscenities under the pale moon light, voluminous housecoat drawn about me against the cold, I can satisfactorily say that my maturation process, from young Gothling to fully-grown Goth Man, is well done and complete.

[hatchetfieldhighschool]

sporadic activity notice: so ya gal is homeless ✌️🫠 it’s a big ole long story (one most likely authored by lemony snicket) we are safe, we are able to stay temporarily at an extended stay facility and we have family members helping out. we’re able to take our animals with us to the extended stay place too which is such a relief. but until all that is (hopefully) resolved; considering everything going forward from here on out is a big ole ❓(along with suffering mental + physical health) activity will be quite sporadic. i appreciate your patience and understanding. love you all!!! <3

[astra-galaxie]

If Argo ever became a victim and the team had to solve his death, how would his case roughly play out? What would be the events that happen between chapters, and what would the AI be?

Nolan already has one in the works lol

Personally thinking of him being killed in a alleyway by a thug or someone, or maybe even die at Lawson’s own hands and the team had to figure out whether it really was Lawson, or someone else

If I had a nickel for every time I was asked how I would kill Argo off, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice!

I'm sorry I took so long to respond to this ask. I was waiting until I posted a specific chapter ("If You Love Somebody, Let Them Go") in my story before answering it. I needed it to reveal a significant change I’m making to Argo’s story, which plays a part in this answer.

Now that I’ve done that and thought out how to write this hypothetical case let’s see one way I could potentially kill Argo! I’m going to lay it out similar to how I plot out my OG cases in my notebook. (Yes, I have a notebook for OG cases, and yes, it's OCD-level organized to the point that it’s colour-coded by season.)

Info for this case before getting into it:

This murder substitutes the final case. Someone once asked me in an OG case I made for S3 (“Murder From The Past”) if I would kill off Argo in the final case instead of Charlie (I hadn’t even introduced Argo yet, and people already wanted to know if I would kill him or not!). So you’ll see that some things from Last Stand For Justice will be reused for this OG case

Argo and Diego have gotten back together (Argo and Jason broke up during Coyote Gorge) and have been romantically involved since the start of Crimson Banks

For the sake of parts of this case, we'll say that the Squad was already aware that Argo and Diego aren't human (Not sure if they’ll find out in my story or not yet)

The transition between this and the case before it is similar to canon, but instead of Charlie returning to the airship, it’s Argo, and Isaac goes with him

Since Maddie just gave birth and her husband isn't missing, instead of her going to the airship, it’s Arthur with Katherine (who escaped with the Squad during “Best Laid Plans”) tagging along since she knows how to avoid the Justice Corps thanks to the Resistance. That’s how they end up as the investigators

Case Outline

Title: Sinking Justice (Alternative to Last Stand For Justice)

Season: 4

Between cases: N/A - final case

District: Capitol Peak

Partners: Arthur Wright & Katherine Woolf

Summary

Victim: Argo Acquafredda

Murder Weapon: Handgun

(Shot in the heart; heart removed post-mortem)

Killer: Diego del Lobo (Justin Lawson)

Suspects

Diego del Lobo (Profile pieces: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Constable Ramirez (Profile pieces: 1, 3, 5)

Isaac Bontemps (Profile pieces: 1, 2, 3, 5)

Jason Nicchi (Profile pieces: 1, 2, 4)

Maddie O’Malley (Profile pieces: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Quasi-Suspects

Dora Umbright

Lady Highmore

Evie Holloway

Killer’s Profile

The killer eats ration biscuits (Argo’s body)

The killer knows The Caesar Cipher (message delivered by Caspian)

The killer uses moisturizer (Caspian)

The killer has torn clothes (bullet)

The killer has brown eyes (Argo’s necklace)

Crime Scenes/Clues

Airship Navigation room

Victim’s body

Talk to Isaac (no clue needed)

Police notebook (Constable Ramirez)

Squad Airship

Baby bag (Maddie)

Caspian’s letterholder

Capitol Peak Harbour

Flying Squad badge (Diego)

Newspaper article (Isaac)

Caspian

Airship Gangway

Argo’s crutches (Constable Ramirez)

Toolbox (Jason)

Harbour Dock

Engagement ring (Diego)

Fiocco Nascita (Maddie)

Gun (Jason)

Airship wheel

Argo’s necklace

Ship’s wheel

Disclaimer: The order of steps varies; this is just a rough outline of what would happen in each chapter

Steps - Chapter 1

Investigate Airship Navigation room:

Victim’s body (autopsy - Dick)

Police notebook (faded name on the cover; decipher name; Constable Ramirez. New suspect: Constable Ramirez)

Talk to Isaac about the murder (admits he and Argo got separated on the way to the airship, and when he arrived, Argo was already dead)

Talk to Ramirez about being on the crime scene (reveals the Justice Corps tasked him to guard the airship after the Squad escaped but had stepped away for a snack break during the time of the murder, and he never saw Argo enter the airship)

****New Crime scene: Squad Airship (Prerequisite: talk to Ramirez)

Investigate Squad Airship:

Bag (Search; baby supplies; note addressed to Maddie. New suspect: Maddie O’Malley)

Caspian’s letter carrier (Unlock; Coded message; analyze - Evie)

Talk to Maddie about the baby bag (discover she asked for Argo to grab the bag of baby items she had to leave behind on the airship when they fled. Maddie is shocked to find out Argo is dead, and Charlie comforts)

Get results: Autpsoy and coded message

Autopsy revealed: killer eats ration biscuits; left crumbs on Argo’s body

Code message revealed: killer knows The Caesar Cipher; coded message was from Argo to his killer asking him to meet him at the airship

****Chapter transition: Charlie interrupts Arthur and Katherine, who were summarizing the case, to announce he’d just received a telegram from a Resistance member informing them that Argo had been spotted at the harbour before his death

Steps - Chapter 2

Investigate Capitol Peak Harbour:

Flying Squad badge (faded engraving; dust; badge number; Arthur IDs it as Diego’s badge number (there are less than ten members; I doubt that many badges have been issued that Arthur doesn't know which belongs to who). New suspect: Diego del Lobo)

Torn newspaper article (Repair; old article about Isaac’s brother’s death. Talk to Isaac again)

Damaged Caspian; substance on wings (Swab wings; unknown transparent substance; analyze - Viola)

Inform Diego of Argo’s death (Reveals he visited the airship after hearing the Squad had been captured; assumes he must have dropped his badge on the way there as he carries it to remind himself there is still hope true justice will be restored. After being told Argo is dead, Diego becomes distraught and is unconsolable hearing his lover is dead)

Talk to Isaac about the newspaper article (Same as canon; it reveals the truth behind his brother’s death and how Argo found the article, causing the old memories to resurface)

Get results: Unknown substance

Reveals the killer uses moisturizer as it was the unknown substance on Caspian’s wing, but it was not the type Argo used, so it had to have been left by the killer. Viola speculates the killer must have attacked Caspian during the murder and brought the bird to the harbour to dispose of him in the water

Investigate airship gangway:

Argo’s crutches with crumbs on them (Collect with vacuum; unknown crumbs; analyze - Viola)

Toolbox (Search; ID band; compare; Jason’s ID code. New Suspect: Jason Nicchi)

Talk to Jason about his toolbox being on the crime scene (Learn that Mayor Lawson tasked him with checking the airship for traps the Squad could have set. Knew nothing about the murder and was shocked Argo was dead)

Get results: Crumbs

Crumbs belonged to trail mix. Katherine recalls that was the snack Constable Ramirez had mentioned eating

Ask Constable Ramirez about why he handled Argo’s crutches (Confesses he went aboard the airship after the murder and found Argo’s body, dropping trail mix on the crutches after seeing the dead detective. Panicked and ran out of the airship, taking the crutches since his trail mix was on them and hiding them outside to avoid becoming a suspect)

****Chapter transition: Same as in canon; Lady Highmore tells everyone to hide because Judge Umbright is coming, so Arthur and Katherine leave the mansion to search the harbour again

Steps - Chapter 3

Investigate Capitol Peak Harbour Docks:

Locked ring box (Decode lock: open; engagement ring with engraving ��Mi Corazón Es Tuyo - Tu Lobo”. Talk to Diego again)

Torn fabric (Repair; Fiocco Nascita with George Dupont’s name and birth info. Talk to Maddie again)

Trash can (Search; Gun; analyze - Rose)

Question Diego about the engagement ring for Argo (Reveals he was going to ask Argo to marry them (even if it was just a symbolic marriage) after the fall of the Justice Corps)

Ask Maddie about George’s Fiocco Nascita (Tells them that Argo made the Fiocco Nascita for George and that she regrets asking Argo to find her baby bag, thinking she caused him to spend unnecessary time on the airship, which allowed his killer to get him)

Get results: Handgun

Discover the gun is the murder weapon. Rose also discovers that these guns are used by the Justice Corps and are manufactured by Jason. Talk to Jason again)

Confront Jason about building the murder weapon (Is shocked to find out he made the gun that killed Argo but promises he did nothing more than build the guns on Mayor Lawson’s orders. He doesn't know who the gun was issued to)

Investigate Airship wheel:

Argo’s necklace with substance on shell (Collect; transparent substance; analyze - Viola)

Broken ship’s wheel (Repair; restored ship’s wheel; analyze - Charlie)

Get results: Substance and ship’s wheel

Transparent substance: Killer’s tears: reveals the killer has brown eyes

Ship’s wheel: Fibres caught in the wheel: reveals the killer has torn clothes as the fibres did not match Argo’s clothes

Arrest Killer: Diego del Lobo (Or is he???)

Diego confesses that Argo has asked to meet him at the airship as they had been secretly communicating about how to take down Justin. No one was around when they arrived, so they were going to grab what they needed and then flee to join the rest of the Squad at Lady Highmore’s mansion

But Justin appeared and caught them sharing a kiss in the navigation room. Furious, Justin demands to know why Diego (still wearing his Eddie Lebold disguise) was kissing a wanted man

Diego’s real identity is discovered, and Justin draws his gun, planning to take Diego and Argo in himself. The couple pleads for Justin to put the gun away and promise to go with him willingly, but Justin keeps ranting about “perfecting justice” and “ridding the world of corruption” while brandishing the gun

During the argument, Justin shoots at Diego, but Argo steps in front of his boyfriend and takes the bullet meant for Diego. The two stumble backwards into the airship’s wheel, breaking it and collapsing to the floor

Diego is distraught as he holds Argo while he’s dying, and Justin, shocked by what he’d done, leaves without trying to take Diego in

Argo dies in Diego’s arms and asks his boyfriend to take his heart (The Heart of The Ocean; long story short, magical rock that serves as Argo’s heart) so it won’t fall into the wrong hands before he passes

Diego does as requested and takes Argo’s heart; somehow, Argo’s body sustains a physical form. Diego assumes it might have something to do with the fact that the stone is cracked because of the bullet, and thus, the magic is on the fritz

Diego hid the heart in a safe location to retrieve it after Justin was taken down. But Arthur and Katherine caught Diego before he could find evidence to prove Justin killed Argo since Diego didn’t think they would just take his word for it

Thankfully, they believed him, and while they still kept Diego locked in a bedroom, the Squad now focuses their efforts on taking down Justin and getting justice for Argo

****Chapter transition: After Diego’s “arrest,” Maddie appears to reveal George has been taken by Judge Umbright like in canon (but happens late in this case), and now they have to save the baby and take down Justin

Steps - Chapter 4/Additional Investigation

****Following the introduction of the AI, we need to talk to Rose about George’s kidnapping and Diego about defeating Justin

****Maddie and Charlie stand in as partners for the George plotline

****Isaac and Arthur partner for the Justin plotline

Rescuing George Dupont plotline:

Talk to Rose and find out about her plan to save George

Investigate the Navigation room

Baby box (Unlock; baby rattle; analyze - Rose)

Get results: Weaponized rattle

Rescue George Dupont from Judge Umbright using the weaponized rattle

Defeating Justin Lawson plotline:

Ask Diego about his and Argo's plan to take down Lawson (Charlie still made the tracking device but was less involved in the “True Justice” plan since Argo takes his place in this case)

Investigate Squad Airship

Broken pieces (Repair; tracking device; analyze - Charlie)

Get results: Tracking Device

Canon results about how we need to wait until Justin stops moving to catch him

Timeskip happens - Charlie reports that Justin has stopped at the Capitol Peak harbour

Investigate Capitol Peak Harbour

Tracking device

The battle between Justin and the Squad happens like in canon, but he confesses to killing Argo. However, he no longer feels guilty since Argo was “against justice” and disobeyed Justin

Justin shoots Isaac, but the bulletproof vest saves him, and while Justin is distracted, Arthur shoots the mayor in the heart, killing him

Since they are at the harbour and Justin is standing close to the edge of the dock, he falls into the water, but by the time Arthur and Isaac reach the dock’s edge, his body is carried away by the waves and is never recovered. It was lost at sea forever, never to have a proper final resting place

(It was the ocean’s revenge for Justin killing her heart. His soul can never truly be at peace)

Everyone regroups following Justin’s death. Diego is released now that Argo’s true killer is gone, and he’s officially cleared of the murder despite taking Argo’s heart (since the Squad knows Argo isn’t human, they understand why Diego did it and therefore, he isn’t charged for any crime)

The plot continues as usual, with Lady Highmore becoming the new mayor, followed by Argo's funeral. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea at the cove behind his house

Diego recovered the Heart of The Ocean from where he hid it but didn’t return it to the sea, hoping he could find a way to fix the cracks and bring Argo back

Another time skip happens, and the Squad meets in the airship, where everyone reminisces about Argo. Charlie says he has something that might help with their grief that he brought to work but left in his automobile. Maddie goes with him to collect it

After investigating the gangway, they find the film reel Charlie had brought, and after recovering the label to make sure it's the right one, the Squad gathers in Charlie’s lab to watch the film

The film shows the message Argo recorded in case anything happened to him while trying to take down Justin. He talks about how thankful he is to have met the Squad and the friends he has made since coming to Concordia. He tells his family and friends he loves them, along with other personalized heartfelt messages for his family and teammates. The film concludes with a message for Diego where Argo tells him how much he loves him and wishes they could have spent eternity together and hopes one day they will meet again, either in this life or the next

After the film ends, Arthur tells the team that the Squad will be going on an extended vacation. However, Diego announces that he will not be returning to the Squad and plans to leave Concordia to find a way to restore the Heart of The Ocean. The team tells him he is welcome to return and they will always be there for him if he needs help

Phew! That was a workout! Admittedly, my real OG case outlines aren’t this detailed, but this still gives you an insight into how I plot out my OG cases and keep track of everything!

While this isn’t an entirely new original case, I wanted to try my hand at using the idea of Argo taking Charlie’s place as the final victim. Which version do you think is more tragic? Canon or this one?

Either way, I’ll get the tissues!

Thank you for the ask, st4r-th0ughts! This was a fun challenge, and I loved creating a case in which one of my MCs was the victim! (Now that’s a dark thing to be happy about…)

[inchling-prince]

I think the meaning of being pro ship has changed in more modern fandom spaces. originally it meant what you explained in the comments of your last post, being anti censorship, or to me it’s like the shipping version of “art is there to disturb the comforted and comfort the disturbed” where it should exist in certain media for those who want to feel understood in there experience, but not for a media that it isn’t for. Like, I don’t want to watch a found family kids series only to find out people are shipping the two sibling characters, so I’d DNI it. But in more modern times people are only really calling themselves pro shippers not because there anti censorship, but because they enjoy mostly creepy ships, and then there was the whole “pro” in pro ship means problematic?? I know it’s not I just still find it dumb. But it ended up changing peoples whole vue on what it meant.

Anyway I’m sorry this is a long ask I just wanted to explain that I wouldn’t use the the term even though I’m anti censorship just because I know the term has a very different connotation in modern fandom spaces and that’s what people put a DNI on for

I’m aware of the discourse surrounding the term. Frankly though? I was here first. Proshippers invented the word, it means what we say it means. The other guys have comship or whatever if they want to specify that they ship the more controversial stuff. And even if you are using it to mean “problematic ships” good fucking luck drawing that line. The number of times I’ve seen somebody with a proship DNI shipping something that I went ??? at is pretty high. Like if I had a nickel for every time I saw somebody with a proship DNI shipping some dude with the guy that MURDERED him I would have a frankly alarming amount of nickels. Or like over in Hannibal fandom the primary ship (my ship as a matter of fact) is Hannigram, which is absolutely full of manipulation and violence, but people still want to say “proship DNI”. You’re shipping the problematic ships honey. None of you are free from sin.

And that isn’t even taking into account that when plenty of people say proship DNI, they mean you the person, not the blog with the objectionable content. The number of times somebody blocked me for not having a problem with some other dude is also alarmingly high.

[tofautisawa]

Cursed shipping is one thing, but if I had a nickel for every time somebody specifically asked about Silver and Sahara's hypothetical impossible hybrid love child, I'd have probably three? And that's already way too many.

I already expected people to ship Silver and Sahara. It was inevitable, but the fact that there are people who aren't joking thinking I'm just gonna make it canon ( despite me numerous times saying it won't be canon) and bust out an actual hyena/lion hybrid in comic as if that is a thing that can actually happen is kinda funny in a way.

Sorry to disappoint guys, but it ain't happening.

[nsfwitchy2]

is your distinction with incest about growing up? like, if you grew up with your twin and you were besties and loved each other and had repressed interests, and then you found out you actually weren't related. would it be okay to start a relationship or would that be gross cause they grew up together. genuinely never thought about incest like this before. like reverse incest lol.

Oh anon the can of worms you are opening with this ask whwowhwkwhkwhwoeje

Ignoring the rest of what you said, we’ll get to it later, the distinction for incest for me personally when it comes to irl relationships is the same as my distinction for any and all relationships - which is that, as long as every party is consenting and acting of their own free will, do whatever you want, I straight up don’t fucking care.

The issue specifically that comes up with incest a LOT (not counting birth defects because then you delve into eugenics territory) - is that often times there is an unhealthy power dynamic. I remember back when I was on twitter everyone got in a huge tizzy over some guy who claimed he was in an incestuous relationship with his sister and the issue I saw get brought up the most was the power dynamic. If you have lived with somebody for a long time and you have a close familial relationship with them, it makes it much easier for them to manipulate you into doing things against your will.

The topic I was discussing in what I believe is the post you’re referencing, is the plot I’ve seen in a few medical tv shows now (ok it’s just two but that’s a lot of nickels yknow) where like…. Two people meet as strangers, date for years, fall in love, and then discover they’re related and suddenly it rocks their world. Personally??? I think that’s stupid because at that point the ONLY issue is the taboo nature of the relationship. There is no power dynamic created by being family because you have been literal strangers your entire lives.

In relation to what you’re saying though - yeah I guess if two people grew up together and then learned they weren’t related and then decided to date, so long as every party is consenting and there isn’t an unhealthy power dynamic fueled by that previously familial relationship, go ham, idc lmao

[niittinaatti]

Stuff about my @loominggaia ocs and fanfic stuff from the Discord

Here’s some LG fanfic-related stuff that I’ve talked about on the Discord server, and figured should also post here to make it easy to find.

The drawing is based on this meme:

These three probably aren’t actually in a polycule or anything I just felt like drawing this. I think Yue and Awesomeness have fucked at least once tho

Random facts about Yue

Her little fang sticks out because it started growing before the baby tooth came off and ended up going over it and now she refuses to get it fixed because it looks cool. This is based on me except mine is on the other side

She’s around 7’2” tall, and real skinny and flat-chested

Her favorite kingdom is the Unseelie Court, and would probably move there if it wasn’t so far from her birthplace (she dies a lot)

Her favorite food is nettle pancakes

If she’s in Umory-Ond and sees a blue-eye mushroom she’s gonna eat it no matter what

Her favorite animals are snakes and cone snails

She’s bi

The magnet staff is made of cobalt, nickel, and magic crystal

Her earrings aren’t symmetrical, she only has the diamond thing on the left side

She can change herself to a part bat form similar to Lily in that one post.

She was married to an entomologist once, but he died. Let’s call him Beetles (his original name was Beetle but idk if that’s too silly, so let's say it's a nickname) He studied bugs while his wife studied bigger animals nearby. Also Yue was a lot taller than him. She hasn’t remarried since, but has dated a few people.

She doesn’t like sweet food

She thinks zombies are cool, but doesn’t do necromancy since it’s illegal in most places. Loves Zareenite zombie movies

She’s ambidextrous

Doesn’t cut her nails, just bites them when they get long

Doesn’t like new clothes and gets most of them at thrift stores. Also doesn’t like overly fancy clothes, or heels since she’s already so tall

Her house basically looks like it’s decorated for Halloween all the time, with spooky decorations. She doesn’t live there much tho

Yue doesn’t just use illusion magic to turn her eyes red because she thinks illusions are lame and prefers “real” magic like transmutation. And she doesn’t transmutate them because I imagine it’d be really hard to transmutate your own eyes, like doing eye surgery on yourself with a mirror, and given how she fucked up Dr. Awesomeness’ eyes she’s not gonna risk it, and buying contacts is cheaper than hiring somebody else to do it. Especially since she’d have to do it again every time she dies.

About Vanella

My original versions of Vanella and Pakila had white hair (in fact Vanella was named Vanilla) but I changed it to black since they’re dworfs to have it make more sense that they live in Zareen. But like I said, Vanella wants to get transmutated to an elf and move to Mogdir, and since I’m so nostalgic for her old look, I decided to just make that canon. I can’t find a better drawing to save my life but she’d look something like this (warning: crappy old drawing)

And for some reason at some point I gave her an edgy spider tattoo that totally ruins her color scheme. And I’ll sort of bring that back too: Yue is the one doing the transmutation, and gives her an edgy spider tattoo as a prank because she finds Vanella annoying.

I think after Yue has transmutated Vanella and she notices the spider tattoo, Yue goes “I guess, spider, on your arm” and since she can’t lie, lets Vanella come to the conclusion that an actual spider got on her arm and got accidentally fused into her. Yue makes a vague sound that could be interpreted as “yes” and kicks out Vanella once she fails to produce a good enough monster trading card to convince her to remove it.

But you gotta understand, earlier Vanella asked Yue if she can call her Yue, Yue said “mmh” and Vanella immediately started calling her Huey-Dewey-Louie, referred to Mr. Garnet as “my eggs-husband, I call him that because he’s such an egghead, Gargleblaster” when telling how she got Yue’s contact, and sang an entire verse of Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes when describing what she wants to get transmuted. Can you blame Yue

It’s actually a pretty good transmutation though, Vanella can do magic and everything. I imagine about on the level of a gaian made magical as an adult. She can deal with one edgy spider tattoo. The first spell she learns is an illusion to cover it up. Also, she’s shorter than average elves (Yue is not very good at making people tall), but she’s totally fine with that as she’s still taller than she’s used to.

The Looming Games

This is sort of a crack idea me and @darkwingphoenix came up with. Basically, every 4 years, 24 divines fight to the (temporary) death in the wilderness Hunger Games-style in this game funded by the World Athenaeum, and it’s televised by Zareen and shown all over the world, or re-enacted by actors in Nymph Pact territories because that’s funny.

There’s some who regularly compete in it, like Devajaya, Okatogg and Hulushka, and some occasionally attend. But since they can’t always get enough willing divines, sometimes they have to kidnap a few random divines and force them to attend for people’s entertainment. They get magic gems implanted in their necks that track their status and location, prevent them from killing themselves before the games, and explode Suicide Squad-style if they bring any Divine Executioners in. It’s a bit fucked up but that’s on brand for this world.

Misc

Since Dr. Awesomeness was born in Zareen I figure she actually looks Asian-ish, kinda like the canon minervae Mercy. I think she has those narrower eyes under the goggles (if we ignore that one old drawing). In a humanized AU maybe Mercy could be her mom.

Mr. Garnet is allergic to bees. And I’m not sure if Garnet is his first or last name.

Vanella loves food made of bugs, which is one of the reasons she wants to move to Mogdir

I have a lot of other old OCs that I’m thinking of loominggaiaizing, and the ones I mentioned on Discord were Pakila’s probably only friend Maleena (the green-haired girl with one arm) and annoyingly friendly popular girl Sineriina (blue hair and dark skin) who Pakila hates for no reason. Warning more crappy old drawings

I think I’ll make Sineriina a mermaid Aquarian abduction survivor who somehow became really popular for it despite being in Zareen, hence the blue hair, and Maleena just a human who dyes her hair. Btw Sineriina has a twin sister named Akamia not shown here, I think she’s also a mermaid since she has blue hair too, but she’s less annoying so Pakila is more chill with her.

[tsbluvr]

REVIEW NOBODY CARES ABOUT PART V: VIEW MONSTER EDITION

Track listing

Kaleidoskull: 5.5/10

Good song, but ya'll know how I feel about instrumentals.

Amnesia Was Her Name: 7.5/10

I don't really have anything to say. I like it

The Man in Stripes and Glasses:8.5/10

Listening to the Spotify version makes me sad because I could do without the spooky sounds vol. 6 at the end. But I'm not rating spooky sounds vol. 6, am I? No, I'm rating The an With Stripes in Glasses, so 8/10. Also, who else would write a song about Waldo from Where's Waldo being burned to death by a reader's magnifying glass.

Marketland: 7.75/10

This song really are on me, that opening bass is iconic.

Gadzooks: ONE MILLION/10

Best lemon demon song ever (jk probably like a 6.5/10)

Knife Fight: 8/10

Have you seen the live version of this song? because it's freakin' great. It's just two guys in the dorkiest outfits ever threatening to stab each other while holding fake knives. Also, somebody said once this this song has homoerotic energy but I don't really get it. Except that one lyric. You know which.

The Only House That’s Not on Fire (Yet): 7.5/10

Love the percussion at the beginning. This song definitely has some meaning but I'm too stupid to decipher it cool metaphors, I think. I have no Idea what it means.

The Ocean: 7.5/10

mixed feeling on the waltz part, but the rest is cool! Love this song!

The Afternoon: 8/10

This song used to make me almost cry haha. Good

Spring Heeled Jack: : 8/10

I wanna learn how to play this song on piano soso bad. If any of you know where to find some good sheet music for this song, hit me up. any ways the live only not version is a fucking travesty.

Being a Rock Star: 9/10

soso good I love it yayyy.

secretly about herOIN

Ask For Nothing: 7/10

damn 😞

The Satirist’s Love Song: 7/10

damn 😞

The Machine: 7/10

Just mid after mid after mid, huh? JK I love this song and the two before it.

Bill Watterson: 8/10

If I had a nickel for every time a song I really liked was about a weird stalker who is obsessed with a celebrity, I'd have etc etc etc I don't want to finish the quote.

Something Glowing: 7/10

ehh don't love it. nothing against it, it just never grew on me

[lucabyte]

question 1 of the ask game so funny since it is functionally just the concept of purrgatorio in the first place (except of course not friends but weird parental forced character development) anyways for a real number lets say 7, who would make u run the other way

im gonna have to answer question 1 because somebody beat you to question 7 lol

(For (x), list of characters here (x))

1 - do you have any ocs who can't meet, but would be friends if they could?

New Orphidian is a small enough place that in theory anyone could meet (though that won't be happening, rip) so I'm gonna dig into the real box of untouchables which is the ever growing list of "dead before the status quo" characters

which is to say oh my god Domino and Marengo... You only died recently but you could've fixed several people I think. Sorry. You were too powerful...

It's highly unlikely they would've crossed paths with Chrome ever, (since Tabitha lost contact with them years ago) but I think Domino and Chrome could've had fun being gossipy and objectifying men*. She could be like the cool aunt he never had.... And similar with Domino and Selene or Nickel.

(*COULD POTENTIALLY BE BAD FOR CHROME'S LONG-TERM MENTAL HEALTH. THEY'D HAVE FUN THOUGH.)

(Sidenote: sorry this image of selene hanging out with the fence that @samhainian drew in paint kills me every time. everybody say thank you to the fence for stopping this woman from being the absoute most toxic person at the kink bar by dragging her away from anyone who looks like they have low self esteem. Selene is a mess i'll explain her properly someday lol. i like her.)

Unfortunately even outside of the death angle, both Chrome and Nickel would see her as being in age brackets slightly too disparate, given that Domino's children were Tabitha's peers.

Selene could've probably gotten past this though. Selene is maybe the one person Domino would make healthier LOL. Though odds are almost equal that she makes Selene worse. I think it'd entirely depend on if Selene gets a crush on her or not. No I don't know which way around these would go. Selene picks on people pretty badly so a woman who could outmatch her in terms of underhanded cool-headedness would be a challenge.

As for characters who aren't straight up dead. It's a shame that Tabitha and Damon have no reason to ever cross paths harder than walking past each other on the street ever since Damon got demoted from his role in the story, they'd probably enjoy each others company insofar as they'd let each other just sit in silence for hours.

wait i went looking for drawings of damon and i forgot about the way ali will have to interact with His Ward soon. maybe i CAN introduce them to each other....... at least noncanonically..........

[creature-wizard]

Hi, answer when you can im not in a rush to know this,

What's a starseed? Im newly returning to witchcraft and live under a rock

Also what's your opinion on otherkin and therians exploring divination to figure out more about their otherkinnity (or any other part of alterhumanity)

Blessed be, i hope this isnt too random a question to ask and apologise if it comes off pushy im very curious about this

My pinned post contains links explaining what starseeds are.

Divination as a tool for self-exploration in general is fine; however, stuff like past life divination is unreliable as hell so I don't recommend it. (If I had a nickel every time somebody had a "past life" in a made-up place like Atlantis...)

In the future, do not say "blessed be" to me. "Have a nice day" is an acceptable alternative. Thank you.

[hopefulqueer]

If I had a nickel for every time somebody asked me if my bright purple cane is "like what blind people use?", I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's extremely annoying that it's happened twice.

[xtrablak674]

Hard Times on Brown Hill

[Originally published in Fashion Fag Magazine January/February Vol 2, Issue 1, Number 5, 1995, edited for clarity]

"I ain't never asked nobody for nutin' what I got, I got my own damn self."

I was at a dinner party the other day and the question goin' round the room was 'what was the first album you ever bought?' Sounded innocuous enough. I thought about it a hot minute, wantin' to give the most truthful answer.

"Salt-n-Pepa's Express Yourself."

A silence seemed to rise in the room.

Wrong answer?

No.

That album came out in the late eighties. I believe the answer expected by the sea of white in the room was supposed to be an album from the seventies.

I felt ashamed.

Ashamed of bein' poor, ignorant, and so god-damned honest. I was quiet for the rest of the evening. I was told to come to the party and be myself I was and I got hurt.

Later at home I reflected on the evening and thought.

'Theys white folke they don't know no bettah.'

It was a potent question. Growin' up being best friends with poverty, I knew we didn't have, and being a brite n sensitive child I never asked for nutin' I knew how to make due wit what we had.

I remember these white kids' parents who lived upstairs, givin' us their kids unwanted toys, I remember my brothers and me would relish those toys. As an adult reflecting on those memories, my mouth gets dry and shoulders tense. 'They don't know no bettah...'

Why am I so angry? There ain't nothing wrong wit bein' po', right? (We we're so po we couldn't afford the 'or')

What happened at this dinner party shot back into my head as I begin to plan how I was goin to swing rent this month; my funds havin' been seriously depleted, wit havin' to pay two months of rent by myself, bein' unemployed, and my unemployment benefits having stopped unexpectedly.

Some people once said to me that I am a survivor. I hate that. Their wrong I am a Liver, I LIVE. I don't nickel and dime my life away. I'll be homeless and livin' on the street and buy $80 shoes on sale (which I still own, thank you kindly) or hungry and jobless and pay twenty dollars for a nice meal. Lord knows I may step off the curb and get hit by a taxi, at least my belly be full and I was happy.

Nobody is promised tomorrow.

I LIVE.

I don't 'piss away' my money. I use my money to make myself and my friends happy.

Recent events and my personal growth have made me began to wonder and question who my friends are. Time to do some house cleanin'.

If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times. I DUZ WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY. Life is too short to be tip toein' and sayin' 'Well I should have done this or that'

No regrets.

No apologies.

No guilt.

Just live.

Do what makes you happy.

You want to know what makes me happy. It makes me very happy that I totally support myself on the career of my choice, which I get great pleasure out of. Not scramblin' and stuffin' myself into some shirt and tie to work at some temp agency that would make ME miserable. I'd rather be back on the streets huslin' then to get myself caught up in that kind of shit.

Someone else said, why don't you go on public assistance? I said NO! Ain't you hearin' me? Aren't my feelings clear about this shit!! Don't you get IT yet?

I am where I am and have everything I got by doin' it my damn self. Not cause somebody gave me something. I am very independent, not because I want to be. I don't have a choice, I have to be. I don't have no nest egg sittin' 'round for me. I ain't got no parents or family that could help out or drop a few hundred every now and then. If I do not work, I do not eat. If I do not make sure that I cover my living expenses, then I lose my home, and I am on the streets. Y'all say, 'you know you could stay wit me.'

I won't.

Because I've busted my ass to make a home for myself, I was homeless ever since my mother died, I was a visitor in my grandmother's house.

I don't ask nobody for nutin. And the hardest thing for me to do is ask for help or anything, so I don't. In those very rare occasions that I do it hurts me deeply when people question my life choices and fault that for my current situation. Who the fuck are they to question me for anything? Can they say as I can that:

I AM HAPPY WITH MY LIFE.

I feel that I am a very self-indulgent-selfless person. Meaning, I am very self-absorbed but because of that I am very giving. My friends don't usually have to ask me twice for nuthin' 'cause I'll give it to them without hesitation. I keep tellin' people. I hold more value in friendships then family relationships.

You fambly says 'Well you gotta do it cuz you fambly' Well yo friends ain't. And they don't gotta do shit for ya. if they don't want to; for me that is the stronger bond. I had hit a financial wall this month, and after much reluctance, I broke down (swallowed my pride, dry) and began to ask some of my friends if they could help me out.

As I said at the top of this piece, 'I ain't never ask nobody for nutin'. The changes and judgements I had to go through just to get a 'possible' commitment on some money was so difficult. It was as if these few people were tryin' to say 'I told you so', once again judgin' my choices.

I just want everybody to know.

I will never do it again. I will move out on the street first.

And as I said I I'll be doin' some house cleanin'.

[Afterwords: Lord Black Jesus there is a lot going on here even as I was re-reading this for the first time since probably thirty years ago when it was written I was reliving the pain, anger and betrayal I was going through as I wrote this. There is so much rage in these words, which is so clearly expressed through the constant repetition of "I ain't asked nobody for nuthin".

God bless the child who has their own, I think this was maybe a little more than a year since I had left college and I already felt like I was failing, not understanding that those formative adult years can be difficult. You're trying your best to assert your own identity, stand on your own and be reliant on yourself, and no one else. It can be extremely frustrating when things aren't coming together for you to do just that.

What had complicated my particular situation was the fact that when I leased that apartment I did it with a high school friend Henry Diaz. Henry, I guess got overwhelmed and bounced with little to no notice, I was left holding the proverbial bag, never expecting to have to pay the full amount of the rent by myself and currently being in-between gigs, was a recipe for disaster.

I will frankly admit my financial literacy wasn't what it is today. It seems quite irresponsible when you don't have your months rent to be out buying shoes you can't afford, and also being elaborate in buying a meal you also can't afford or frankly justify when you are otherwise quite food insecure. But I also know that what I was really doing was bolstering my mental health trying to make the best of a bad situation by doing things that I thought would make me feel better.

But who in their twenties is making smart financial choices? Y'all don't even need to answer because I know if we're being truthful we know we all could have done a whole lot better there.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the fact-check here or not, but I think its important to actually acknowledge the truth of the situation, not our romanticized or distorted version of the historical accuracies. There was a huge difference between Henry and me, something I couldn't see clearly until decades later.

Henry truly was poor and without additional resources, whereas I had monies left over from the fund that my grandparents had saved from my mom's insurance, the monthly social security payments and any other monies that came in as my grandparents in essence adopted me and raised me till I was of legal age. What I would discover later is that they didn't use any of these benefits but added them to some kind of high-yield investment that amounted to roughly forty-two thousand dollars by the time I was ready for college.

It was naiveté on my part when I actually reported this amount on my college applications, if I had kept my mouth shut this could have been a slush fund for any off-book college expenses, the HEOP program could have covered the primary cost. But by my third semester I had checked out emotionally and stopped attending any classes. Being homeless and in college just wasn't working with the emotional and spiritual toll it was taking to navigate a primarily white educational institution. I had done the math, and I said it would make more sense to leave while I still had some funds left and I could start working proper in the field I had chosen.

So I lied, I did have help in form of this allotment my grandparents had put aside for my college education. I leveraged these in getting my first apartment. I am pretty sure I was the one who paid the security deposit using these funds. And I clearly remember the trip to IKEA to buy furnishings, and the matching futons I bought for Henry and me. I also bought our kitchenette and the ridiculously too big forest green sectional couch for our living corner, yes corner, it wasn't big enough to be a room.

But there was truth in that I didn't ask for any of this.

It was also true that while my grandparents household was upper middle-class, in my mom's house we were probably living at or just below the poverty level. The curious thing about children is that where ever you started is usually where you stay mentally, and even though my grandparents had more means, I had lived my entire life without any real choices or options, and assumed that things were the same in my grandparents home.

In a way it was, my paternal grandmother who was always pinching a penny so hard the penny would go OUCH. Her thriftiness would pay-off with the infirmities she had later in life, because her own money would be used to take care of her. But I clearly remember all the Pathmark no-frills products we had in our cabinets, which would bring me the ridicule of my peers. At this time I didn't realize that store brand and brand names were more or less equal to each other. Her mentality towards saving and hunting down bargains was similar to my moms and I thought, we still didn't have, so I never asked. I never even thought to ask.

Unlike some of my white peers who lived in mortgaged homes with allowances and equity. I had lived in apartments for most of my young life, dealing with unpaid rent and roaches. Having money of my own in my mom's house wasn't even a concept. My grandparents did give me an allowance at eleven I think it was fifty cents or so, I was grateful because prior to then giving me money without a clear cause was never a thing.

Albeit somehow my mom scraped together a couple of dollars for those Scholastic book sales that I really loved to get books from. She wanted to encourage my love of reading even if I was just ordering Heathcliff paperbacks. Curiously my allowance in my grandparents also went towards books. I can recall us driving to the Barnes & Nobles off of Central Avenue and me voraciously trying to figure out how many new Choose Your Own Adventure Books I could purchase. I had such an extensive paperback collection by the time I went to college, I was so sad I would later loose it all.

Now, was I really happy? Or was I over-stating this alleged happiness to make a point? Even though at this time I would begin to have some of the worse seasonal depressions, I do believe these were happy times. Even with all the struggling and ultimately the multiple roommates I had in my first apartment, I was in my twenties and resilient as fuck, and looking for adventure around every corner.

There is one theme in Hard Times on Brown Hill which is still thematically relevant to me today. I am always asserting that I have no regrets, and I would like to believe this to be true. In all this uncovering of the past, I look back and consistently I applaud the decisions I had made, never having the least bit of trepidation about the outcome whether good or bad. I think this is something that I realized then and still realize now. You do the best you can with the information you have on hand, and need to be comfortable with the outcome whatever it is.

Consistency, another thing I love about myself. I am extremely consistent. I said in the piece that I would never put myself in a position where I had to ask for help from folks and I was good to my word, I never have. This instance of disappoint even so far in the past taught me people's true nature, that not everyone is truly rooting for you, they are all secretly judging you and your decisions. I figured out this is all well and good if they weren't paying my bills, because their opinions and judgments were moot.

I would get over my shame about accepting public assistance, I didn't realize at the time that there were other things tied up in my decision not to get the temporary help that everyone is entitled to, no matter what their background. It was the residual feelings of shame I had about my father who was constantly on some form of assistance whether it be disability benefits or public assistance, and I couldn't recollect once him holding a job. He was never a vision of self-sufficiency to me and I wanted to do everything to avoid being just like him.

The white people in this piece also serve a special role collectively. One of the largest issues of cultural adjustment that I had to deal with in college is classism. Obviously racism and homophobia were at play but I had never encountered the level of wealth these white kids on my campus had. This is obviously a reoccurring theme even from my childhood as I admit to the resentment I felt about getting the discarded toys of white children.

There was a theme of always feeling less-than in the presence of whiteness. And I will say that this speaks to more of a systematic issue than an individual issue. If because of your whiteness you have benefited from the legacy of white supremacy in my opinion you need to acknowledge that and take the stance of an anti-racist.

I think I would have had an entirely different experience if even one of the white people at that party would have diffused my awkwardness with something like, 'oh I love Salt N Pepa, Chick on the Side, is my jam!' I wouldn't have felt othered. I would have felt included and that my contribution had the same value as any one else's.

This is for me is the burden of whiteness acknowledging because of some obvious historical imbalances that you have had more opportunities and options than those who are not white, and that you should be hyper-sensitive to when in fellowship with non-whites that you're making sure their experiences are just as relevant and unique as yours.

A reoccurring question I have had from the whites my entire life is, what can I do? Well bish, I just told you what you can do.

I gave the whites a little too much grace in the piece saying they didn't know no better, why do Black people always have to excuse the bad behavior of the whites, why can't they be culpable for their misgivings?

My big takeaway from this piece is that starting out in life can be hard and very complex and difficult to navigate, but its important if you are saying you will be there for folks, that you will indeed be there for them without any judgement, qualifications or hesitation. Personally I am hyper-cognitive of affirming the young folks who I interact with, letting them know that this is a time of change for them, and those that they thought were so close were actually the ones who weren't, and like myself they may need to do some house cleaning.]

[Photos by Brown Estate]

[undyinglantern]

if I had a nickel for every time somebody in a dream asked if I was okay and reached out their hand toward me and then I woke up from the recoil/panic of them moving/stepping in closer to make sure…

[sapphire-heart-tippy]

tippy: *at the mall* "so do you guys have a small TV that can be installed in a refrigerator"

shop keeper: "why would anyone want to put a TV inside a fridge"

tippy: "no reason"

Shop Keeper: if I had a nickel for every time somebody came into my store and asked for some strange accommodations to fit in the fridge, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice *remembering the time Youngseph was asking about fitting a popcorn machine in the fridge for Caeser*

Ghiaccio: Excuse me, SIR. Do you have a stupid miniature bed that could fit only a human head on it that goes in the fridge?

Shop keeper: .... *Takes off his lanyard* I quit.

[skaruresonic]

Man, if I had a nickel every time I've heard the word "disgusting" slung around in posts like this, I'd have enough to buy a smoothie.

Besides, Mom said it was my turn on the brain cell today. Quit hogging all the hivemind juice, guys.

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But i want y'all to put this into perspective, his work is LEAGUES above the shit we've gotten for the past 10 years.

Why do you act like that's an objective fact? What if someone disagrees with your assessment? What if someone finds it worse than the "shit we've gotten for the past 10 years"? Are you going to "nuh-uh" them into submission?

People are not going to agree with things you'd consider universal truths. That's okay.

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All of these games' stories were either mid to dogshit, at least people can somewhat agree that yeah, Frontiers is better than them. Is the story perfect? No, OF COURSE NOT!

So like, how much am I allowed to complain? Is it acceptable if I attribute it to Kishimoto instead? Because bad writing is bad writing.

My problems with Frontiers stem from overall gripes with story, characterization, pace, art direction, voice acting, marketing, tell don't show, reference overload, and reasons for existing, to name a few things.

Of that list, Flynn's involvement is only a portion, a very small portion at that. It's symptomatic of a larger problem, but not the only one.

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He helped write Frontiers, Archie comics, IDW which has some cool stuff in it, Shadow Generations AND Dark Beginnings. This man has a better track record and actually LIKES THE SOURCE MATERIAL HE WRITES!!!!!!!!!

>>don't like Frontiers >>slowly grew to dislike Archie as I read more >>same for IDW - I literally only read it when I'm so bored that it has to be better than watching paint dry. it brings me exactly 0 enjoyment as a piece of media >>haven't played SxS Gens but not happy with the few glimpses I have seen so far >>Dark Beginnings is cool mostly because I have my Shadria ship goggles strapped on too tight, but even that is not exempt from its moments of :L ...I only like about maybe one out of those five examples you listed, and even that like was fueled by me being a shipper while ignoring other problems. Much peak, many wow.

Anyway, he likes Archie. His actual thoughts on the games seem far less enthusiastic, especially given how often he denigrates games characters (Amy is "all over the place," Eggman "never, ever has a solid plan," he's frustrated that Shadow "isn't a conversationalist"); he's referred to Archie as the "sacred texts" while saying he's "made an effort" to track down and play as many Sonic games as he can, as if the latter is a chore and the former is a passion.

Of course he's not going to say he thinks the games are dumb but that doesn't mean the underlying insinuation that he thinks they need to be improved isn't there. It'd just be bad PR to say that about stuff you're working on.

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YOU WANT HIM AROUND!! IF SEGA LISTENS TO SOME OF YOU AND HIRES SOME RANDOM WRITER IT'S GONNA BE YOUR FAULT AND YOU'RE GONNA START MISSING HIM! 100000%

if Sega listened to me, we'd have the Advance games ported to the Switch by now :v

Okay... but, and I say this not to be combative, what if I don't? What if I want somebody else to take a crack at it because at this point it sounds like he's really tired of writing for the franchise, and in some cases warping canon to fit his fanon?

Like, you guys are assuming whoever takes the reins next will be Pontaff-tier disasters when that's just not a given. Maybe they will be worse, or maybe they will be better, or maybe they will present a different set of plus and minuses just like every other writer. Sometimes, it can be good to have new blood working on the IP because they can offer fresh perspectives not colored by their own biases as a fan.

Did Pontaff mess up various characters? Depends on who you ask. Their Eggman was pretty good, though. They weren't perfect, but at least they didn't push to straight-up alter established canon because they liked their fanon better.

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Ian Flynn is a fucking human being that has a developing craft and he can take criticism to improve his work,

You speak of him as if he's a fanfic writer posting to AO3 for free and not a professional being paid cash money for his work.

Also, I know he's a human being. Not sure what you're trying to imply here, but it's not like I've ever talked to the guy since I've got a staunch no-contact policy with IDW staff. Meaning he shouldn't be looking at my blog for criticism anyhow.

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he is NOT on the same fucking tier as the previous game writers and localizers.

Why is it that his authority is so selective that his word on the series is to be taken as practically as good as ST's, but when it comes to his mistakes, he's Just a Guy(tm) we shouldn't criticize?

Plus, he's been writing for the series in some capacity for close to 20 years at this point, and he keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. You'd think he'd understand that Shadow isn't a conversationalist by now.

The amount of hate Ian Flynn gets in the Sonic community due to some YouTubers criticizing his work, is actually fucking psychotic and kind of disgusting to be honest. You guys can be a real hive mind sometimes.

Now look, is his work perfect? No, no writer is PERFECT! NOTHING CAN BE PERFECT! Are some of the callbacks forced? YES! MHM! AGREED!

But i want y'all to put this into perspective, his work is LEAGUES above the shit we've gotten for the past 10 years. Colours is mid, Generations is bleh, Lost World SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Forces was LAUGHABLE!!! All of these games' stories were either mid to dogshit, at least people can somewhat agree that yeah, Frontiers is better than them. Is the story perfect? No, OF COURSE NOT! Ian Flynn is a fucking human being that has a developing craft and he can take criticism to improve his work, he is NOT on the same fucking tier as the previous game writers and localizers.

He helped write Frontiers, Archie comics, IDW which has some cool stuff in it, Shadow Generations AND Dark Beginnings. This man has a better track record and actually LIKES THE SOURCE MATERIAL HE WRITES!!!!!!!!!

YOU WANT HIM AROUND!! IF SEGA LISTENS TO SOME OF YOU AND HIRES SOME RANDOM WRITER IT'S GONNA BE YOUR FAULT AND YOU'RE GONNA START MISSING HIM! 100000%

GOODNESS! Get it together Sonic community, fucking hell.

[inthememetime]

Alfred finds and adopts three homeless teens while the whole of the Batclan is away, the three teens are of course The Fentons. Alfred on the other hand had been dealing with a bit of Empty Nest Syndrome and takes the trio in, so by the time the rest of the Batclan filters back there are three extra people in the Manor but the Fentons deliberately ghost the rest of the residents.

I love this for four reasons:

The potential for Alfred, who wishes Bruce would stop adopting small violent children, realizing that HE is the same.

You can't tell me Alfred, Danny, Dani, and Jazz won't be BFFs. Jazz is the only (mostly) sane person in this house besides him. Dani absolutely WILL spy and report on injuries in exchange for more of that casserole. Danny and Alfred have similar sarcastic wit.

"If we had a nickel for every billionaire with a secret identity we know, we would each have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but weird it happened twice."

The SHENANIGANS!!!!!

Shenanigans include:

At first, Alfred doesn't tell the Batfam because they're a family of detectives. Surely they'll notice. Over time, it becomes a contest of who can make them suspect the most without being found.

Alfred either playing it off or staring with a raised eyebrow when one of the Batfam asks why/if he's talking to himself.

Jazz can only be turned invisible in the nick of time so many times before somebody finds out about her. "It says here, Ms. Fenton, that you have a brother?" "Yes, Danny. He died. But don't worry, he got better!"

When Tim is forbidden caffeine for a week, Danny drinks his coffee super fast or Dani replaces it with chamomile tea with black food coloring.

Dani: "You know Dick, you really shouldn't do that."

Dick, after a moment of panic, realizing there's nothing in the room with him. "....God?"

Dani, realizing how much chaos she can cause: "yeah, that's me! God."

Danny and Dani take turns being human just to walk past open doors. They all look enough alike to Tim, Dick, Damien, and a young Jason in uncertain light that the rest of the fam has to do double takes.

When someone calls Constantine over as a favor, he takes 2 steps into the manner, says no, and RUNS.

"So I've heard the voice of God, and it sounds like a 14-year-old girl."

"....how hard did Bane hit you again?"

"God says Jason is the one who stole your book."

"...right ok."

Bruce decides he's gonna go be Batman while wounded. He snuck out, so Al calls his Secret Ghost Squad.

Batman is repeatedly interrupted (*cough* saved) by 2 OP glowing metas. Constantine will no longer cross Gotham's borders.

Danny: "You need more ectoplasm. You're a growing half-ghost."

Jason: *shoots the wall* "WHAT THE FUCK WHO WAS THAT?!"

Danny: would you believe it was God?

Jason: NO

Jason figures it out first because he's being parented by a dead guy. He actually doesn't mind that much because he gets to visit the GZ

Cass figures out second because she's observant.

Dick figures it out third by spraying 'God' with paint. He then realizes he attacked an invisible creature that can go through walls with no idea how to fight it.

Tim figures it out by deliberately putting salt in his coffee to see what would happen.

Damien finds Cujo. He is Upset that Cujo already has an owner. Danny tells Damien in exchange for Damien to stop yelling insults at him. (Dani calls him Weak for this, and tells Damien 15 minutes later because he thought she was calling HIM weak and had Opinions)

"Oh shit."

Steph bribes the 'house spirits' for prank help, and then tricks them. They tell her out of Respect.

Duke starts talking to himself about star output on his homework, gets stuck, and SpaceBoi helps. Duke's 10 minutes into stars actually being interesting for once before he realizes he's talking to a ghost.

Bruce has been introduced to them by Jazz. Alfred made her after the 4th sleepless night due to researching the surprise metas.

Dani: its cool dude, but now I have to go prank Tim. Bye!

Vlad shows up for a private meeting with Bruce Wayne. The ghosties reveal themselves in order to kick his ass.

Alfred is the only person who can get away with calling Danny 'Daniel' and Dani 'Danielle'. Anyone else has Serious Regrets.

The Joker breaks Alfred's leg in a bombing. He's never seen again. Danny, Dani, and Jazz are a little TOO innocent