#im so sick of ghost roles

[vampiricgf]

ohmygodddd why does it take ten billion years to even get an initial response to an application like bitch if you need somebody that badly i would assume you'd be all over that shit every day

[shigayokagayama]

incomplete list of weird/interesting manga-anime discrepancies

-you know the bit where they break into the girls highschool in episode 2? yea thats chapter 56. spliced into the middle of chapter 4. its supposed to go before the bit with the ghost family as a lead up to the mogami arc with mob starting to consider evil spirits as just as much “people” as living humans are. all things considered its kind of weird how well it fits its anime placement

-ritsu in the manga gets introduced in the same chapter as teru. you dont see mobs family at all for the first few chapters. infact i dont think his parents appear until like. chapter 25????? every interaction you see between mob and any of his family is completely made up for the anime

-in the manga during the claw arc instead of reigen sending them away all the lackeys just stood there awkwardly during the fight w the scars fdnjksndkjgnd

-mogami arc got GUTTED my god. the part where the fake psychics tried to murder minori got removed, shinras role in the arc got reduced to basically nothing, they move mogamiland ritsu to a bridge like 50 feet away instead of having him walk right over mob, mob only gets beat up like twice, the cat lives, the boxcutter bit is totally removed, the fight with the spirits is made a lot more abstract and less graphic. like im glad this one took the hit instead of the separation arc bc i cant imagine that arc ever being effective as one episode but wow.

-putting the “mob finding his family dead” thing at the end of the episode instead of in the middle of a chapter where it originally was was an objectively hilarious move

-rip the scene of teru outsmarting all three claw guys and saying “say old man have you ever been tortured before” unfortunately all scenes of teru being competent are not plot relevant and must die. also teru can make shadow clones

-hey remember those weird satellite people in claw keeping the viewer updated on where all the characters were in that infinite arc?

-mob with a gun.

-mob getting briefly knocked out while fighting toichiro and dimple possessing him then getting kicked out was replaced w toichiro just throwing him out the window or somethhing???

-toichiro saying that he only kept the super five around as spare batteries and draining serizawas power getting cut was a personal affront to me

-every single emotion mob cycled through in the anime got a 100% meter. the kid was super emotionally unstable in that fight

-that old man whos house they went to whos wraith made everyone asleep that they exorcised? yea they anime team made that up. they never went to his house in the manga, he just went to spirits and such for a shoulder massage

-manga reigen got 0 money for helping the yokai dude. it wasnt on the table. also most of the stuff he was saying was lifted from a video game serizawa played which he pointed out. also serizawa thought getting arrested was a type of spell

-takenakas general meanness was significantly toned down manga takenaka was a huge bitch

-in general the alien arc was a lot funnier in the manga? like the scene where reigen crashes they had reached a dead end on an extremely narrow path and were driving in reverse while tome and takenaka were screaming at each other in the back and inukawa was 5 seconds from snapping and killing everyone in the car. these might be my favorite pages in the entire manga they as so fucking funny

-originally when tome said she wouldnt keep climbing reigen suggested mob carry her with telekinesis (which horrified her) and mob said he was too motion sick to use his powers (obvious lie) but could carry her instead which got her to get up

-mezato asking mob to sign a t shirt for the psycho helmet cult in exchange for relationship advice got cut

-i cry every day that the sequence of ???% waking up didnt get animated it set a very different tone than the anime did. the anime was like. slow build up of dread. the manga was immediately bone deep horror i was literally sitting in my room yelling “WHAT???” over and over again at my computer as i clicked through it

-shigeo and mob conversation cut down significantly, all the references to the body improvement club being mob making a new self rather than embracing who he really is and being scared that all the friends hes made wouldnt like the real him removed </3

-the scene where reigen takes his shoes off is made a lot less somber and depressing. it feels less like “oh he knows hes going to die” and more like. triumphant? in the anime

-100% shigeo kageyama is an anime addition they added specifically to ruin my “the first time we see mob 100% is to fight dimple and the last time is to stop himself from fighting dimple” observation

-anime teru generally seems like hes in a better place than manga teru? manga teru seems very melancholy and like he doesn’t really know what to do with his life or his place in the world (which seems to put shigeo off) but anime teru is like wanna go shopping ^_^ *sips tea happily*

-manga shigeo deliberately threw the cake directly in reigens face and my fury over them making this ambiguous will last until i am dead

[crushedsweets]

Do you have any hcs for how Clockwork and Jeff would act around each other?

yes!! ok so i think i covered their relationship a good bit on my blog (should be in my masterlist on my pinned post), but i can try to scramble more concepts rn

ok for starters theyre really mean. like 'why are you happy you look fucking ugly smiling like that' completely unwarranted. but its very much like older sibling taunting, but theyre both fighting for role of the older sibling LMAO

i can imagine nights of them at the barn, one of them sick to their stomach from the operator(or the various other infections and illnesses theyd collect) and way too ill to do anything. jeff is partial to bringing clocky a joint to ease the pain, clocky is partial to bringing jeff actual food/water to ease his. theyre def not the type to be affectionate or whatever but jeff would scramble to grab clockys long long hair if he realizes shes abt to throw up. then he'd be like 'jesus christ thats nasty'

theyll sit with an ipod or smth and go through a lot of music together too . . . just a lot of "figured youd like this song" or bringing eachother a CD they found and showing it off.

i could see clocky incorrectly thinking toby and jeff would get along, cuz theyre honestly pretty similar. so she'd get them to connect, and then it would go poorly. i think jeff and toby would TRY to kinda hide their distaste for eachother... sorta

like, toby would just be like 'hes fuckin weird' and jeff would be like 'why do you hang around such a loser' but they wouldnt be like "clocky if you so much as mention his name around me im going to go kill him" . until the nina situation unravels, in which case clockys distancing from jeff anyway

i think jeff and clocky would have a lot of convos about like...

theyre really in similar boats. both got infected with O/S syndrome, both slaughtered so many people under the effect, both feel the symptoms/trauma to this day - but they went down different paths. upon recovering from it, clocky made a life for herself, got a job, hobbies, friends, an apartment. jeff just...kept up with the violence and power trips. lives in an abandoned barn, only friends with a freak ghost kid, etc.

clocky isnt the type to beg but when she sees him years down the line, withering away, becoming worse and worse when she tried so hard to get better and encourage HIM to get better too . i could imagine some tears and pleading there. i dunno . he's kind of a lost cause, though

[laikinz]

LAIKA / BILLY / NIMBUS / CHRIS white. 28yrs old. fagdyke. sick in the mind body & spirit. she/her but only if u dont see me as human. it/fae if ur in love with me. i use lots of names u can use any of them to refer to me<3

im a dog im a wolf im a computer im a guy who is sometimes prophetic im a crazy sentient collective hivemind of weirdos im a ghost im spiritually a mess im off my meds aka deadbeat faggot. schizo loser. welcome to my diary <3 icon is my 'fursona' in my past life i was a digital dog or something

i don’t tag nsfw or drug use. follow at ur own risk. im probably rambling as u read this. 7 yrs off hard drugs but im an alcoholic so ive really come so far<3 we can be friends but only telepathically.

cool things i enjoy: sports [NHL NFL CFB](im an eagles & ravens fan; currently pretending the bears and bengals dont exist; vikings<3 my hockey team of choice is the oilers), airplanes, mass effect, yard work, monkeys, minecraft. critical role (me, fjord & jester best throuple award), fat hairy males, robots, newport 100s, working out, carebears, bonfires, reading, dinosarur. leather. death. im a big orb (marble) guy.

[a-whispering-echo]

Heya!! Feel free to not answer or not consent to it, but I was wondering if I could use your Heathers!Dust AU for a big ol' story I'm working on? (The Dustverse)

And if yes, may I know about your Heathers!Dust AU? ( In the form of links or just random little tidbits of info )

. . . and also Pestilence!Dust if that's all goods

Obviously feel free to say no! Hope you have a wonderful week regardless :]

of course you can use them! i'd be flattered!

My heathers au is based on the musical - Heathers, where the mtt play the heathers, and Cross is Veronica; Dust plays Heather Chandler's role here.

basically, theyre just the mucical cast but they the utmv guys

In my head, its also an actor au, but you can totally ignore that for plot purposes ;)

Heather Chandler actually dies about halfway through the musical, murdered accidentally by Veronica and JD - or Cross and Nightmare here - so if you wanted Dust to be a ghost or alive, totally up to you!

Chandler's bossy, the leader of the Heathers, manipulative and unappolagetic - mean for the sake of being mean, really

His scarf takes the place of heathers scrunchie here, and when he died, Killer (H.Duke) takes it and wears it in to ‘take control’ if you will. Dust does Not Like That (™) 

This makes Horror (H.Mcnamara) really sad 

i have a *cough* Slime tutorial here if you were interested hehe

Im gonna go through and tag all my heathers au now with 'Rues Heathers AU' so you should be able to find stuff ive done in the past from them, and stuff i will continue to make ;)

He or she pronouns are fine for Dust here, cus i couldnt really decide if i wanted to genderbend everyone to match the genders of the characters or not, so up to you really, both, one or the other, whatever lol

Pestilence is a bit more complicated; from my Four Horsemen Au - where Nightmare, Dust, Killer and Horror take the roles of the four horsemen, who are said to appear at the end of the humanity, and bring about the apocalypse and all that, from christian texts

Pestilance actually has a redesign since i made him, because hes one of my older things, so:

The first horseman, with a bow and crown, rides a white horse - Dust - Pestilence/Conquest

His crown is made of thorns and branches, jesus style, with melting candles dripping wax slowly; its said when the candles fully melt and the flames burn out, humanity is no more.

The actual 'crown' part of his crown are pitch black metal, and are shaped like arrows

The white sheet covers his face, the way you do to dead people - you do not want to end up seeing his face, because you wont see anything after it if you do ;)

he is constantly in a state of dusting - never fully committing to it,

His hands and body are covered and stained in monster dust and human blood, stains that can never be washed out

he is in a perpetual state of dusting, never really committing either way, just..constantly decaying

He constantly has this green illness liquid dripping from his eyes and mouth - its poison.

His arrows are all poison tipped as well

His bow and fletch are summonable, and attach to his belt easily - he can summon and de-summon them at will.

His horse - which i didnt draw because fuck that - is activly rotting and decaying, bones and rotting flesh making up its body. its a white horse, obviously, with voidless black eyes

both he and the horse trail dust everywhere, disease laying in the powder

the illness that he causes can be physical sickness, and it can be mental sickness, basically anything you count as ' being unwell' he can cause

hes a bit kooky really, he screams and cries and laughs a lot more than he actually talks but he is capable of it, hes just quiet and ominous really, and theres this lingering presence of illness and threat around him. like his space, which is ironic, because illness festers in crowded spaces, its where he thrives.

"i will cough on you if you do not leave me alone."

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Mc got sick Trey and Ruggie takes care of them

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last updated: 24/27/2023

[sergeifyodorov]

I just reread strange trails and I'd love to know your inspirations for it! Your ideas behind the worldbuilding, the genesis of the plot, all that good stuff if you'd like to share!

the backstory

im a college student and was unemployed all summer. in order to pass the time while waiting for local jobs to reject me i started a crochet project. throughout pretty much the entire month of june. and possibly also may. i would make my squares and listen to the strange trails album. straight through. every day. i may have gone a little bit insane.

but it's okay. i'm already insane.

lord huron (the band who made the album) has like. lore. am i familiar with this lore? no i am not. am i aware nonetheless that there is lore? yes absolutely. if you listen to their discography there's definitely lore -- recurring themes (resurrection, adventuring, magical seductive women, etc), motifs (depends on the album but strange trails is big on flowers, trees, snow, although there is one song that's set in the desert), characters (they keep mentioning a guy called the world ender.) anyHway the point of all of this is that the music is [solid 7.5 out of 10 but it scratches my exact brain itches] and very evocative of the imagery and idea of a deeper world. my favourite off the album (and one of my favourites in the discography) is la belle fleur sauvage, which tells the listener about a long perilous quest for some mythical thing (a flower. also a woman. metaphor), although one of the ones whose imagery i enjoyed the most is frozen pines, which is a little less concrete but invokes images of cold, the side of a mountain, strange happenings, etc.

the idea

those songs are definitely the most direct inspiration for it but unfortunately my process for developing ideas is kind of terrible because it involves less "sitting down and coming up with stuff" and more "wait for a 60% formed idea to smack you upside the head like rapunzel in tangled and her cast-iron frying pan." which quinn and his sad little corpse did.

if you go back far enough in the quinnfic tag on my blog u can see the post right after it Happened. the idea was literally "quinn hughes carries a corpse up a mountain, and horror."

so i take this little piece of grit from which my pearl of questionable moral integrity will be built and i ask it questions. first off: quinn, why are you on that mountain? who is the corpse? is anyone else with you? soon enough petey decided to join him (although quinn is and was always the protagonist/pov character). the body was The Ghost Of Vancouver before it was brock over top of that.

another inspiration, which i realize i'm leaving out, is this

this is artist grayson perry's work "hold your beliefs lightly" from tomb of the unknown craftsman, and this image of a long perilous upward journey towards some sacred place really combined together with la belle fleur sauvage to form the base idea of the world for the work.

and of course why would you carry a corpse up a mountain to some sacred place if you couldn't resurrect it at the end?

quinn

im big on metaphor. if i'm writing something long it has to have a Point to it, some larger theme than romance and stuff (this is mostly because i'm bad at writing romance)(and also big on curses and the like.) and also because quinn hughes asexual barb i never fucked/i never fucked/all my life man, fucks sake. this was also being written right before the peak of Canucks Captaincy Debate, and in our hearts didn't we all know quinn was going to be the one to wear the c?

so it became pretty clear pretty quick that as well as my attempt at writing horror that this was going to be a quinn character study -- and this is where i should talk about my other fic scheherazade.

in scheherazade, auston actually doesn't make a lot of choices -- he tags along, arguing with the narrator/bill, and only starts to take an active role in the way the story is going near the end, when he finally gets sick of it all. quinn, however, is not at all the same kind of person as auston. he's less artistic and more practical; an older brother instead of a younger one; jewish; not nearly so squeamish. he takes an active role in the story from the very beginning, showing up to the base of the mountain with his pack full, both prepared and not for what lies ahead.

the mountain

vancouver is smack in the middle of the north shore mountains, so there's a million hiking trails about, but the one i can most easily think of (as someone who hasn't been to vancouver in several years) is the grouse grind trail, a popular and fairly short trail that the canucks prospects actually do every year, so i knew quinn and petey (both vancouver draftees) would be familiar. i've never actually done the grouse grind, which was part of the reason i decided to kind of. toy with reality. you can't call me out on inaccuracy when it's Not Real On Purpose (although the sign at the 1/4 mark is copied directly from photos i've seen.)

petey and the plot

once i added petey, i knew i'd have to get rid of him -- a lot of the scene ideas were quinn-only, and petey's way too sarcastic and useless (AFFECTIONATE) to engage seriously with the ideas presented to him like quinn would and did. so i needed to divide them up.

the original plot idea from the outline is actually pretty similar up until the end of chapter 6 (the conversation w the ghost), but it differs in a few crucial ways -- one, quinn breaks down again, crying and everything, and two, he actually does go through with the resurrection instead of using his wish to get petey down the mountain safely. i realized around then that this wouldn't work with the quinn i'd created, especially after his argument with the ghost: he's far less focused on glory than stability, less interested in the cup or his contract and more interested in the safe long bet than high rolling. in a cold, wet environment like the mountain it's a lot easier to get hypothermia without noticing than it is in a dry environment, even if the dry environment is several degrees colder than the wet one. and quinn would know that, having seen petey's thin little sweater and knowing his stubborn ass is going to freeze.

so after that it became about hypothermia. i actually had a bit of a writing pause after this because i knew i was going off-outline, so i had to kind of inch ahead until i knew where i was going. but i'm happy with how it turned out!

[midnightfire830]

How did the group meet??, how do they interact with eachother??, how many performances have they done??,what type of music do they write???,what timeline is it in this au??,does Holly exist???,what does cuphead and mugmans parents think about them being in a band??, so they enjoy being in a band???, I gotta keep it short Bcus I’m at my bus stop srry, also I’ll finish the lore thing but u started school again Bcus I was sick so it might take me a bit😭😭

Interactions are kinda the same as canon IM. Sometimes the band honestly sees eachother as brothers. Boris being the little brother and Cup the older. Bendy and Cup tease eachother a lot. Mugman and Boris are just really sweet friends. Each takes a certain role in making their songs and that’s kind of a different thing.

I’m not sure how many performances they’ve done but I know it’s a lot. They’ve done a tour or two. They do specifically Pop/Punk rock. The main songs I have in my AU playlists are by Set it Off, Panic! At the Disco, Jhariah, Bear Ghost, and Ethan Gander.

This AU is set in modern times 2020s.

Holly does exist. Cuphead and Holly met in college at Yen Sid University and were pretty good friends. Years later when he started his band he recommended Holly to his band manager and she was hired as a special effects director. Using a combo of rune magic and tech (with the help of Bendy, Boris, and Dr. Flug) to have cool exciting performances. She also work with Alice and Cala in wardrobe sometimes specifically with styling hair. Tho that really only applies to Cuphead and Mugman lol.

Cuphead and Mugman never met their parents. So they have no idea what they think.

Everyone absolutely loves being in this band. It’s so much fun to make, record, and perform songs with their best friends and idols. For some being in the band is one of the ways they feel comfortable and safe, if that makes sense.

Have fun at school!

And thanks for the ask!

[sneakyscarab]

touhou 19 time! this game was literally not even released when i started this, so this is really fresh! this post is probably the closest i will ever be to a real games journalist lol.

nina's thoughts on Touhou 19 - Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost

the most recent touhou, coming out just a few weeks ago, so this review is hot off the presses! UDoALG (wild abbreviation by the way, this name is so long) is a pretty neat game, being a direct sequel to Wily Beast and Weakest Creature story-wise, and a sequel to Phantasmagoria of Flower View gameplay-wise.

UDoALG is another in the competitive-danmaku type gameplay, similar to PoFV but with a number of evolutions to make the gameplay more balanced and easier to control. i won't go over every little change, since theres quite a lot, but ill point out some interesting changes, mostly in relation to story mode. for starters, Ability Cards are back again from UM, although with a much smaller role. each character has 2 cards themed to them, and whenever you beat an opponent in story mode you're randomly given one of their two cards. the three animal spirits are added, but they work completely differently to WBaWC, now being stronger variants of the generic spirit enemies from PoFV. a change that i think is only in story mode is that a new win condition is added, where if you defeat your opponent's boss summon an amount of times then your opponent loses. this is also pretty much the only wincon in story mode, since the AI has insane dodging skills. i literally only saw them lose a life one (1) time across 19 characters' stories (if you're curious, it was in Chiyari's stage 1).

one really interesting aspect of this game is the storytelling. i usually don't bring up the story in these posts outside of how certain characters relate to it, the story usually is a fairly simple affair that just gives the characters a reason to fight, but UDoALG has a much more complex story, which im kinda mixed on. i'll start with the cool part: the story actually progresses as you play through and unlock various characters in story mode, every set of character unlocks represents a later time period of the story, so you don't get the full story and resolution until you play through it all. this is a super cool idea, and gives good incentive to keep playing different routes and see how it all plays out. its a cool idea that uniquely plays off of the large character roster and unlocking method of these competitive vs games.

unfortunately, in order to make this happen and make every character be relevant, the plot is needlessly convuluted, especially in the first couple campaigns. there are so many factions at play, all with their own motives and double-agents and subterfuge. by the end of the 19 story scenarios you will be absolutely sick of the phrase "this is exactly as i had planned", and yet i still dont fully understand What the "main villain"s plan was. i commend ZUN for trying something new with the narrative, both in doing a direct sequel with most of the same characters as a former game, as well as this way of unfolding the story over time through different character routes, but i can't say it was Good. maybe im just biased since it mostly revolves around the WBaWC cast, and that game already had pretty rough plot and characterization, but i dunno. i will say i liked the story more at the end than i did after doing the first couple routes, but some of that early confusion never really goes away, and characters like Ran and Tsukasa dont really get their stories resolved.

time to talk about the characters! UDoALG is furry city, pretty much every character besides the human incident resolvers is some kind of animal-person, plus a few Onis. for returning characters we have Reimu, Marisa, Sanae, Ran (from PCB), Aunn (HSiFS), Nazrin (UFO), Seiran (LoLK), Rin (SA), Tsukasa (UM), Mamizou (TD), Yachie (WBaWC), Saki (WBaWC), Yuuma (the 3rd Animal Realm leader, coming from a fighting game i think?), and Suika (also a fighting game, and SA). for the new characters, we have 3 new youkai who have each joined one of the animal realm families respectively, plus the 'main villain' Zanmu and her assistant Hisami. since theres only 5 new guys, ill just give them each a quick review.

Son Biten is a monkey youkai, based on Son Wukong, recruited to Yachie's Kiketsu family. she's pretty goofy, and has a really neat musical theme. i dont have much to say about her, besides that she has a cool inspiration, and some of her interactions are pretty funny.

Enoko is a dog-type youkai, loosely based on the idea of Cerberus, who was recruited to Saki's Keiga family. instead of literally having 3 heads, she has bear traps on her wrists that act as analogues to the jaws of two additional heads, which is a really neat interpretation of a cerberus concept, as well as having tons of comedic potential. i love all the jokes people make about her offering up a Totally Normal Handshake, dont worry about it. she apparently lived in the Forest of Magic as a dog before awakening as a youkai, so she joins the crew of Marisa's funny forest friends.

the third new Youkai is Chiyari, who is NOT a chupacabra, despite what everyone says. she's based on a Tenkajin, which is apparently an obscure youkai that sucks blood, obscure enough that i could only find a single source for it online, being a Japanese blog post written by who i assume is a youkai enthusiast. Anyways, nobody in Gensokyo knows what a tenkajin is either, so everyone calls her a chupacabra instead since its another bloodsucking creature who is 'pretty popular right now'. most of her interactions are her being annoyed by being called a chupacabra, and eventually coming to terms with it. poor tenkajin gets no respect. shes very funny, and also apparently completely broken in pvp. great character.

Hisami is a 'guide of Hell', who is also inexplicably based on grapes for some reason (or eggplants, depending on who you ask, but im in grapes camp.) she pretty much just finds people in hell and helps them find their destination, although 'their destination' is up to Hisami's interpretation, and multiple times in the story she leads characters somewhere else. apparently she does her job wrong because she wants Zanmu to notice her, and it doesn't work cause apparently that was part of Zanmu's plan all along, so she doesn't care. Zanmu is too busy playing 4d chess to give her suboordinate some attention, so sad.

speaking of, Zanmu is an Oni, and the 'main villain' of the game. i say that with quotes because, despite being the final boss in most routes, and being the chessmaster supposedly laying out the big plans and manipulating everyone, she also is simultaneously resolving the incident, kinda?? its a bit hard to understand her motivations. well i guess her motivations make sense, but its hard to understand how exactly she plans to get what she wants from this plan. like her plan involves getting beat up by Reimu multiple times? hello?? not a fan, and she doesn't even have a cool design inspiration to make up for it, shes just another oni.

alright, lets wrap this one up. i was surprised to see another VS type game come out, and it seems to deliver a lot more balanced and interesting combat than the first one (granted, story mode plays pretty differently from what i can tell). the story is weird though, and the roster doesn't really have many characters i'm excited to play as compared to PoFV, and the characters i do like are pretty bad. (Sanae in particular is really weak in this format, her homing snakes are a huge disadvantage against bosses since they turn as soon as they see an enemy, meaning they wont hit the boss unless every random spirit or fairy is dead first). complaints aside though, at the base level its still pretty fun, and im glad that this type of gameplay is being given another chance.

i said it in my PoFV review, and ill say it again here: if any of you reading this have UDoALG, and are interested in playing the PvP with me, hit me up! itd be fun to try playing this with another person (although i heard the online is rough so i dunno…)

thank you so much for reading, especially those of you that have stuck with me through each post! this is the end of the mainline series, but there's still a lot out there i havent done. im not sure where this will go from here, especially since my college semester just started so i'll have a lot less free time, but ive had a lot of fun working on this project, and i hope that youve had fun reading it! if i do keep going, i might do the PC-98 quintilogy next, or maybe talk about cool fangames like Luna Nights or Mystia's Izakaya, i dunno. whatever comes next though, i hope to see you again! consider this the end of 'volume 1' of my grimoire. farewell!

[ahaura]

yellowjackets s2e2 lb

"what'd you do with my ear, shipman?" says the ghost/hallucination of shauna's best friend <3

i KNOW that they're doing the cannibal gaze w shauna but also it's gay. so.

taissa keeping the others from eating shauna's share <3 <3

"you only had sex with him imagine being me" dont you mean kissing jeff was ALMOST like kissing jackie because jackie was the last one to kiss jeff....

"it's not what you're hungry for" CANNIBAL TIME LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

GHOST JACKIE CUTTING HER OWN FLESH OFF THE BONE FOR SHAUNA TO EAT IM ABOUT TO MCLOSE IT

i really do like that lottie copes with the past by putting on layers of bullshit but underneath all those layers is the girl in the antler mask/headdress i want to SEE the silhouette is so. SO much

also i really really REALLY hope that creepy dude that taissa sees makes a return i want to see her struggle with her place within the fairytale and within the confines of fairytale logic its so insane on the plane that she's operating on

"my mom wants to know if you want chocolate chip pancakes" "no we dont because im breaking up with you" yellowjackets is a comedy <3

TAISSA TRAILING THE REAPER WHILE SLEEPWALKING HER REPRESSED/SUPPRESSED SELF COMING TO THE SURFACE AND SEEKING ANSWERS WHILE HER CONSCIOUS MIND BURIES IT IN DAYLIGHT HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ok but was the reaper leading taissa off the cliff? is her suppressing her true self/the self that belongs within the fairytale urging her to "wake up?" is the forest/fairy tale setting punishing her for not getting in? i need to knowwwwwwww

taissa SHUTTING down even remotely discussing whats happening to her w lottie her Opponent in the forest the one who has embraced her role within fairytale logic vs. taissa who refuses and clings to "logic" and "what's real" instead of letting go and entering into the Self or the Space that Wants her to

taissa after almost walking off a cliff while asleep: "yeah im going to continue repressing these things and not talking about them this is obviously going well for me already"

THAT TRANSITION FUCKS

ALSO IS THAT MASSIVE ATTACK because a movie i watched the other night LITERALLY had the same song im DYINGGGGGG

INERTIA CREEP, BABYYYYYYYYYYYY

natalie in the same camp as taissa "seeing's believing" wherein travis is open to embracing the fairytale aspect and natalie is firmly rooted within the confines she's used to and cannot stand another way because letting go means accepting that you do not know and being vulnerable and it's scary and there's no control there etc etc

misty posting on forums is so funny

YESSSSS CONFRONTATION OVER SHAUNA COPING HORRIBLY OVER JACKIE'S DEATH LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

i love both taissa and lottie in this bec both are like "we care about shauna" but are so deeply rooted in different places that they come at it like enemies its so fun

I LOVE CONFRONTATION AND DRAMA <3

ADAM CONSEQUENCES CLOSING IN?

CALLIE SAVING HER MOM FROM POLICE QUESTIONING? OK OK OK OK OK OK

"so you lied to be feminist" SAY IT WITH ME! GASLIGHT GIRLBOSS GATEKEEP!

ELIJAH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD LETS GO LETS FUCKING GO

NATALIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOO DONT DO IT i understand why but DONT YOU DO IT NOOOOOOOOOOOO AS IF YOU NEED MORE STRIFE BETWEEN YOU AND TRAVIS (I love drama)

surely this wont have consequences at a later date :) surely not?

FINALLLY some travis progress

oh my god thats so fucking up...

im with nat on this. whats the underneath. spill!!!!!!

OH MY FUCKING GOD????????????

I WONT LIE THAT SHIT IS SO SCARY IM SO INTO IT LETS GOOOOOOOOO

um. ok. uh. -

STEP AWAY FROM THE 36YO MAN CALLIE

stooooooooooop callie STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

gay eulogy time!

TAISSA AND LOTTIE FLANKING SHAUNA AS JACKIE BURNS TO A CRISP LETS GO GIRLS!!!!!

loving putting sick in forensics guy hes wonderful finally misty gets her own weirdo bestie

OH MY GOD MUSTACHE IS A COP? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

is travis hallucinating lottie... while he and nat are... wow ok

DID THE WOODS STOP JACKIE'S BODY FROM BURNING THATS SO FUNNY. the woods are like "alright she's been barbecued enough you WILL be turned into cannibals"

w h o o p s

THE CANNIBALISM IS HAPPENINGGGGGGGGGG

something something remember when persophne ate the seeds and she couldnt go back or something idk but they have Crossed A Line and im READY for it

coach is SO next on the menu

WELL THAT WAS CERTAINLY AN EPISODE

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I want to hear more about your version of season 3 of HSMTMTS with the changes you made.

everything is the same except famed internet white man wayneradiotv is there just kind of hanging out /j

im just gonna list the things that are different cause a fair amount of things are the same, and i already explained most of what i would change for Carlos and Kourtney, so this is mostly going to be explaining what I changed for Nini, Lily, Seb, Big Red, and what takes the place of the love triangle i eradicated.

3x01: Nini and Lily are at camp and Nini is gay panicking about Gina, as they've become a lot closer since beauty and the beast and she started working with Jamie. Lily is at camp as well and is putting on a very saccharine sweet performance with Maddox but the other four girls are just soooooo over her bs. none of them were expecting her to be there, even Ricky is surprised lol. so during the opening Rily and Portwell are being all coupley and Carlos, Kourtney, Ashlyn, and Nini are hashtag over it. there are sneaky hints about a Maddox-Madison-Nini love triangle from the past few years that never actually gets explained until later. also there's a scene at the end where Seb and Big Red are playing video games in Red's basement and overall just being very cute.

3x02: Nini is having a chill ass morning by the lake and Maddox finds her working on a song. Nini tells Maddox she was invited to work on an ep with Jamie in LA but that she left her friends behind once for YAC and doesn't want to risk doing that again and it being the wrong choice, but Maddox is like "girl it's two weeks you'll see your friends again in the fall" and at some point in this episode she sings You Never Know. I think everything else in this ep is pretty much the same. Interspersed scenes of Big Red trying to teach Seb how to skateboard and failing miserably.

3x03: The Frozen cast list comes out: Gina is Anna, Kourtney is Elsa, Jet is Kristoff, Carlos is Hans, Ricky is Olaf, and Nini, Ashlyn, and Lily in various ensemble roles. One of Nini's roles is as the Queen (that's important later). Jet and Ricky go on a Just Bros Bonding Adventure because Ricky is pointedly avoiding Lily and Jet is pointedly avoiding Maddox. When EJ won't go to the shrine, Gina takes Nini to find it so she can ask why Nini's been acting so weird around her lately. When Nini won't say anything cause she's still not sure herself, so she finds Kourtney and tells her (and Carlos cause he just happens to be there and he clocks her almost immediately) everything that's going on. Also, Big Red and Seb break into East High and find a ghost.

3x04: So since Jet is Kristoff this time around, when he disappears and EJ fills in for him, he and Gina do WDYKAL. When Jet comes back, he bumps into Nini preparing to leave, and the two have a very weird moment. Jet returns and Val tells him to clean up his act, and he passes Gina on his way into the movie. Gina goes to ask if they can watch Camp Rock, and sees Nini getting the last of her things. Confronting her, Nini reveals she's leaving to work with Jamie and that she can't stay at camp while she's so confused. Gina is lost and Nini tries her best to say what she's feeling without actually up and saying it, y'know? but Gina is way smarter than anyone likes to give her credit for ofc and says she wishes Nini didn't feel like she has to run away from herself. Cue, you guessed it, GINI GOTTA GO MY OWN WAY!!!! Oh, and Big Red and Seb begin investigating who could be haunting East.

3x05: So after Nini leaves, Lily is bumped up to the role of the Queen, and she continues to suck up to Kourtney and in trying to make them trust each other, she reveals that she stole Ricky's beast harness. In rehearsal, Gina and Carlos do LIAOD, but Carlos starts to feel sick and he ignores both Ricky and Gina asking him what's wrong. Gina expresses to Kourtney that the people she cares about the most (EJ, Carlos, Nini) keep ignoring her genuine concern, and the two bond. Kourtney sings "Monster" in rehearsal and then runs off, with Ricky running after her, and the two reconcile, while Gina goes after Carlos and says that she's not gonna force him to tell her what's going on but that she is there for him should he need it. Kourtney tells Ricky that Lily stole his harness, and he breaks up with her. That night, it's not an official campfire, but the Wildcats make one of their own and sing "This is Our Song" together. Meanwhile, Seb and Big Red plan a stakeout at EHS.

3x06: Mainly keeping the same plot as the original RCOSL episode, but instead of WDYKAL it's Carlos doing "Hans of the Southern Isles" and then he almost runs away again but then he just goes and sits with his friends and is like. Scarily quiet. We see him stretching a lot. And Seb and Big Red lock themselves in the bomb shelter and FaceTime Nini, who is working on her music in LA still, and get her onboard with the idea that East is haunted.

3x07: The color war is largely the same as it was before, with the addition of Lily being there and making fun of Kourtney for not wanting to climb the wall but then everyone else just shoots her the DARKEST look and she shuts up. Seb and Big Red are discovered by Mr. Mazzara, who reveals he's been working on stuff all summer and the noises they heard were probably just him. He kicks them out, but then hears the noises for himself.

3x08: Maddox wants to take pity on Lily, but the other girls, having adopted Maddox already, insist that she's nothing but trouble. Carlos is much more standoffish, even when Seb arrives, and the looming inevitability of the water bucket tradition keeps him from really enjoying their night. We get a genuine cover of "Wouldn't Change A Thing" from Seblos, rather than the weird disco quartet with Jet and Maddox. Jet and Maddox sing a different song that's much more appropriate for siblings. The Portwell breakup unfortunately still happens, but it's more mutual, and there is no third party involved. Ricky's post-Lily time is spent being determined to have a hashtag free and fun summer and helping Jet with all his schemes, completely ignoring any romantic feelings he might be having for anyone because he's single and free and that's totally gonna make the feelings go away, right? At the end of the episode Carlos tells EJ he doesn't want to do the tradition, and he's not ready for it.

3x09: Miss Jenn, Nini, Big Red, and Seb are all there for opening night and the three kids celebrate Ricky's birthday and definitely aren't worried about a ghost, what are you talking about? The episode is largely the same, with the change of Ricky being the one to sing In Summer and still being on his "I'M FINE THERE IS NOTHIGN WRONG" bit that everyone kind of sees right through but especially his besties.

3x10: We get the second half of the performance, including Jet singing Kristoff's Lullaby and looking dramatically over at Kourtney. Nini starts to tell Gina her true feelings, but Gina is whisked away before she can reply, and the cast sings "Everyday" together.

At the premiere a month later, EJ tells everyone that he's not being forced to go to St. Louis and is going to a school further out in Utah, but still doesn't think anyone actually cares about that or him at all. The Jetney and Madlyn confessions still play out, and Jet and Maddox panic over it. Gina is upset that EJ and Val were edited to be romantically involved, when the breakup wasn't really about that, and also that Nini has been radio silent since the performance and she went back to LA. Carlos is mortified that his debilitating body/eating issues have been manipulated to make it look like he was cheating. Ricky wants to comfort all of his friends, but his facade is starting to crack, so instead of chasing after any of them, he just sits alone onstage in confusion.

[night-dark-woods]

Gimme 9 for the OC ask game for either creature! Or both!!

9. Is your OC laid back or do they thrive on drama? What role do they play in their group of friends/associates?

ooh i feel like both of them cause drama but extremely not on purpose.

Fuller is the topic of many arguments btwn Aunor and Ikora, but she a) doesn't know that b) wouldn't particularly care if she did, unless it started curtailing her ability to Do Research. she knows Aunor dislikes her, and knows she is on her shitlist by the constant parade of chaperones/potential assassins that each handle about a month in the Hellmouth with Fuller before begging for reassignment lmfao, but it's not a point of pride for her or anything, she just kind of starts from the assumption that Nobody Understands Her Genius (crimes against humanity and nature), and so if someone doesn't come out of the gate disliking her it's a rare occurrence. she doesn't really respect anyone enough to care about what other people think even enough to like... contrarily get joy out of messing with people (until she starts caring about what Hapax thinks of her!!! uh oh!!! girl who has never experienced meaningful rejection or wanting to change her behavior because of the way it affects someone else about to have her world turned upside down!!! i think at some point she manages to genuinely piss Hapax off/hurt her enough that Hapax like, Leaves for a while. and Fuller is like. what is this horrible sensation. am i sick. should i kill myself. (its guilt))

the only other people who she really hangs out with (pre-Hapax) are her ghost Celadon (happy enabler and credited co-author on her (unpublished) papers) and Toland, who finds Fuller to be the most annoying motherfucker on the planet and thinks she does not regard the Sword Logic (or him) with the reverence it is due. i think she and Eris have probably talked but im not sure what their relationship looks like. probably equal amounts of appreciation from Eris for the Hive-torture, and discomfort with how much Fuller wants to see her Hive eyes lmfao.

as for Hapax, i don't think she causes Drama per se, but she just. Does Not Fit In with the corsairs to the point where complaints make their way to Mara, which is the catalyst for Hapax ending up assigned to babysit Fuller in the first place.

Schiller is like. much much more normal/sociable than her guardian, and kind of regards Hapax the way you would regard your younger sibling who just CANNOT make friends, and so you try to facilitate playdates or let them hang out with your own friends, but it just doesn't work out. she loves Hapax and wants her to be happy but the problem is Hapax just reads like a slightly pissed off blank wall to the vast majority of people. except Fuller. which sucks for Schiller bc Schiller has a normal moral compass and hates the fucking Hellmouth, but also this is the first time she's seen Hapax bond with ANYONE. so now she's stuck in the haunted caves of Luna watching her charge form an inseparable bond with the worlds most annoying mad scientist.

ik we've talked about Strand and Hapax hanging out and i think it would be fun if they interact Before Hapax gets assigned to the Moon and then after (maybe SotHunt? i imagine in the face of that Ikora might let Fuller's leash a little looser tbh, all hands on deck, even creepy ones, to deal with the Wrathborn. though also timeline-wise that'd be a quick turnaround. maybe sotLost.) and Strand gets to see Hapax out of her shell a little bit. and also gets to see Fuller and be like Jesus Fucking Christ why this one.

[verdart]

I want to add on to this. I thought of all the things Ozzie could say, but didn't and so far all I have came up with still didn't save Blitzø.

Im gonna start with the one that has the best potential to work on surface: "He is under my jurisdiction this is my rings issue and this trial is not necessary"

Now this one in surface level the on that works "best". But we have some issues.

1. Blitzø still used the book for a while. And i dont think Ozzie knows this but he coudlve connected the dots.

2. I.M.P. is still undocumented meaning they could still get in trouble for what they do whether its with the book or the crystal

In the case that Ozzie knows what I.M.P.'s buisness is, its a good thing he doesn't speak out bc yes going up and killing people is not something demons should be doing. Or at least not something imps are supposed to be doing. (If that was something they were allowed to do Im pretty sure they would be demons with an inherent ability to do that like "infester demons" as Blitzø calls them in ghost fuckers)

As far as I understood courts issue is Imps stepping out of line, even under Ozzies rule this is still stepping out.

Another thing he could've said could be to reveal or more so expose Stolas' active role in this, to the extend he knows.

Still wouldn't save Blitzø and potentially gets both Blitzø and Stolas in trouble.

And this still wouldn't fix the accusations... Blitzø still used the book of a goetia and did undocumented work. Also wouldn't really fix the "tried to get Stolas assasinated" accusation.

Both of which were not helped with the statements Blitzø was barely able to give.

Wouching for his character. This is not something Asmodeus can do in confidence really. And even if he did its not substential enough to adjourn the court.

I want to also comment on people comparing Vassago and Asmodeus in this sceen. Bc i feel the fandom is putting Vassago on a pedestal that he doesn't merit.

Vassago spoke out for Stolas' sake. He wanted to hear the story from him and still did not vote to hear Blitzø out. So I am sick of seeing people that act like he is this anti-system hero. He is not.

He doesn't harmonize with Satan bc he is suspicious that there is still something up with this case orrrr he is reacting emotionally to Stolas' "reveal" to him it may have even felt like betrayal...

Anyways he is associated in the ars goetia with seeing the past and future as well as finding treasures and revealing hidden or lost things. This would mean he innately wants to seek the hidden truth in this case. (Not enough to hear Blitzø out tho)

Asmodeus the same Asmodeus people say wants to uphold the oppressive system actually votes against this system along with Bee this is not really motivated imo by their "want to dismantle the system" but more so motivated by their proximity to the opressed class. Either way they vote for a fair trial.

Does Asmodeus harmonize with Satan? Yes. But we also so him react the whole time and seeing thorough both Satan's and Stolas' bullshit. At that point all I can think is that he thought "if Stolas thinks this is the solution Im not gonna speak out." If he speaks out this would defoil Stolas' statement.

He is aware of Stolas' feelings at the very least so when he sings "he is the law" he is just doing his part in the choir I feel bc he knows the whole mastermind confession is bullshit. He knows stolas has feelings for this im "who needs to acces the mortal realm to carry out HIS WORK" Asmodeus obviously knows Blitzø is not some pawn in Stolas' plan. He even knows the plan was never Stolas' to begin with.

I've seen people say even if what he does won't fix the issue he should speak up, I feel like they dont understand that him speaking up would most likely make things worse.

And as a member of the audience I want to take a moment to think like a writer. Lets say he goes with telling the truth and adding on that now Blitzø is under his jurisdiction and its him who should "punish" him and saves the day. This would be basically just axing the plot.

Asmodeus needed to stay silent for the plot's sake as well. He is (no matter how beloved) a side character, and he shouldn't be the one fixing this problem. Or else we wouldn't have the mastermind episode (or song). We wouldn't have a Stolitz reunion, and we wouldn't have the sinmass, probably.

It would be so underwealming if this big court sequence ended the moment Blitzø was accused and Asmodeus saved him.

Maybe i should've made my own post or essay at this point.

Some thoughts on Ozzie's response at the trial

One moment that caught my attention, and I've seen a few reactors comment on it too, is that Ozzie's defense of Blitzø's right to a fair trial is lukewarm compared to Bee's. She gives a character reference, speaking about him almost fondly, while Ozzie offers one understated line.

He speaks lightly, but isn't that the kind of phrase usually accompanied by a side-eye and a pointed, "You do have a good explanation, right?" And I've seen a lot of Ozzie call outs for not just "sharing the truth," since he "knows what's really going on."

But the more I think about it, the more I feel like his slight involvement probably makes things look worse from his perspective. Tbf, the dialogue disparity could be timing constraints and wanting to make use of Kesha. Still, I honestly suspect Ozzie knowing more than Bee would make it likelier he'd be reluctant to outright vouch for Blitzø's character even if he supports a fair trial.

I do plan to touch on a few separate points. But the BIG thing I haven't seen brought up: Ozzie is the only person in that room who may know the extent to which Blitzø's use of the grimoire has actually, undeniably endangered Hell. I feel like this fact has sort of slid from people's minds, but as a reminder:

IMP obliterated part of Ozzie's ring directly outside his club. In a setting where there are likely security cameras, and at the very least, his bouncers were shown to be in the general vicinity. And there were cherubs with high tech battle suits visibly involved. Assuming Ozzie investigated this, his additional knowledge isn't actually in IMP, Stolas's, or Blitzø's favor at all.

Rewinding to touch on what Ozzie actually knows about Stolas and Blitzø's situation:

Ozzie is aware that Stolas has feelings for Blitzø.

He could guess, if he ever thought about it, that Blitzø must’ve been getting to earth a different way beforehand since his business precedes the crystal. However, he's never told this. Depending on how much he cared to look at the particulars, it possibly didn't occur to him at the time (though if he looked into the Lust Ring attack, he likely figured it out).

He also has no confirmation that Blitzø has feelings for Stolas. Fizz has probably speculated, maybe he shared Blitzø had come to Lust for toys—but Ozzie has only seen them together at Ozzie's, when he was more concerned with helping Fizz revenge-ruin their date than drawing any relationship analysis (except in the ways that helped him revenge-ruin their date).

Ozzie may also know about the anti-Blitzø parties, or at least that Blitzø has a poor history with relationships. Fizz knew his "love life [was] a pile of shit," and that giving the stage to Verosika during House of Asmodeus would get results, so at the very least, he seems familiar with Blitzø's bad habits. If Ozzie doesn't know Stolas is different, a very possible explanation might be that Blitzø had been using Stolas’s feelings to get the book. Not "forcing himself," but not really Lust King-approved.

I.e. Ozzie can assume “not forced,” but not “mutual feelings,” or “Blitzø did nothing wrong." Blitzø has also told him one of his skills is "killing things without giving fucks," so again, the background knowledge of Blitzø isn't necessarily a good thing here.

Then after Apology Tour, Blitzø went into a depression slump and probably cut off contact with friends, including Fizz. From Fizz and Ozzie's perspective, the day Blitzø got the crystal, his thing with Stolas outwardly ended, and he likely never shared much about what happened (if he didn't deflect outright). Fizz may have noticed and commented on Blitzø acting strange, but the circumstances are ambiguous.

To summarize: Ozzie can guess Andrealphus is full of shit, and that some sort of setup is happening. But he doesn't know "the truth," in the sense he could speak up and clarify everything.

What else he possibly knows:

IMP had a massive fight with well-armed heavenly beings in the middle of the Lust Ring.

This was shown to have caused substantial damage. Loona destroyed what looked like one of his buildings, on top of other property destruction, right in front of his club. If they had security cameras, Ozzie probably knows this. Like I mentioned before, two of his own bouncers were outside, alongside dozens of witnesses. If he investigated at all, there are ways he could piece together what happened.

A frequent reaction has been, “Ozzie knows everything Blitzø did was above board, he could’ve clarified.” But Ozzie has a lot of facts that actually look awful? Depending on what surveillance caught from that fight, Ozzie very well could've connected IMP to cherubs coming to Hell. To his ring specifically.

Two conclusions to be drawn from this:

If Ozzie has recognized as much, he hasn't said anything. Which is both him already covering for IMP, but it also means he's hiding something Satan would desperately want to know.

Ozzie has a legitimate reason to be upset at Blitzø and Stolas for bringing him into this. First because Stolas wasn't up-front about the formerly illegal details of Blitzø getting to earth (let alone moments like in Truthseekers where there's already been major transgression). Then afterward, when the spillover of their indiscretion caused damage to his ring and possibly got Lust Ring demons killed.

Ozzie is involved enough that all this could cause trouble for him if he's implicated

I've seen people say he'd be immune because of his rank. But while he'd physically be fine, Mammon was already going at him and Bee about their partners. Mammon has also threatened that Ozzie would "regret revealing" his love for Fizz, in pretty clear foreshadowing. Ozzie has a big, well-known weak point.

Also, Blitzø was on trial about unlawfully going to the human world (or doing it "unwittingly" as a pawn of the evil Mastermind Stolas). And this all happens while he has a registered Asmodean Crystal on his wrist. He even tries using it to get to Stolas while they're dragging him away. The more Ozzie speaks up, the more closely Blitzø is examined, and the clearer it is that Ozzie is involved with something illegal.

The legitimacy of Blitzø's behavior on Earth is a bit dodgy as well. Remember how Verosika let Blitzø win that bet because she was wary of getting into trouble for the conspicuous monster? They’re clearly supposed to keep a low profile. If Ozzie linked IMP to the Lust Ring incident and realized they've been stirring up trouble topside, his lack of interference may indicate he's already making allowances he legally shouldn't be.

Do I think the imagery of Ozzie and the other Sins falling in with Satan during the song may go complicated places? Possibly. And Ozzie clearly did want to help after Fizz’s text and seemed to feel he couldn’t. I don't think he's exactly blameless, in the sense he's aligned with a messed up system here. I also have no idea if the writers considered any of this, or if we're ever going to see Ozzie's thoughts or feelings about the attack on Lust. Maybe that was just a cool fight scene to set up the cherub/DHORKS threat, and it won't have further relevance.

But honestly, the fact that illegal use of the grimoire brought trouble to Ozzie's doorstep makes me more willing to shrug off his muted response at the trial. Even if Ozzie isn't aware, Blitzø and Stolas's lawbreaking led to an attack on his ring. If he is aware? It’s already iffy to expect he'd stick his neck out in a hopeless situation where it’d only get scrutiny turned his way. Wanting him to do so despite associating IMP with a heavenly threat and massive property damage? That's a big ask.

Maybe overthinking, especially if it’s revealed he doesn’t have much intel on the Lust Ring attack. But I feel like Ozzie knowing more about Blitzø's situation makes it harder for him to intervene, as opposed to easier. He may even have legitimate reason to feel like IMP has been endangering Hell, but has kept quiet for Fizz's sake.

Mostly, I wonder if it's coincidence that the show made that Lust fight visually, noticeably destructive, then next time we see Ozzie, it's Bee vouching for Blitzø's character, while Ozzie's statement focuses on getting an explanation. Her defense seems to be "he's cool, I don't think he'd do this." Ozzie's is more coded like, "It's fair to see what he has to say." Like maybe he's thinking it would be in character for Blitzø to have done something illegal and ill-advised that puts Hell at risk, so he'll stick with a safer defense. And honestly, I love Blitzø... but I also get why Ozzie might be ambivalent.

[fataleefemmee]

holy shit

holy shit am i trying to keep it the fuck together right now. between work, dating, being alone, feeling alone.. sometimes this shit gets hard man. i work 90 fucking hours a week, im miserable 85% of the time im here, i just feel like im slowly losing my fucking mind sitting at my desk all day, dialing leads, talking to people who are rejecting me. its this never ending cycle of talking, getting hung up on, getting people to maybe want the plans, then ghosting me at the last second. im putting all this stress on me because last year i was that fucking girl, that boss bitty, and this year i sucked ass because my ex fucked everything up for me work-wise. its just insane. ontop of all that it sucks knowing i was such a good fucking girlfriend, i did everything for him, i supported him, i did everything all for him to shit on me and make me lose a huge part of myself and then fail at work, he set me back but can i even blame him or blame myself for putting up with it for as long as i did.

i enjoy being by myself and playing to my own tune but like fuck do i wish i could have someone to lift me up. then there is him and im starting to like him and have some sort of feeling sbut i am being so closed off because i do not want to get hurt and i dont even know if i want to be in the girlfriend role right now. im obsessed with wanting someone to want me but then i feel so alone, like so alone. it ry to express my feelings and myself to my friends and my family but then im told by everyone all these opinions that just make me feel like shit which is so insane because i actually feel happy when i talk about him yet everyone fucking judges me. im so sick of everyones words man. this is why im so closed off and i dont tell anyone anything and i rather just be private about it, but being private about a person who makes me feel something, like actually feel something, fucking sucks.

i could just be overtired right now, which makes the most sense but im in this rut of feeling like all i really have is myself... im constantly disappointed by people, no one puts a smile on my face the way i put a smile on their face... i rather live in solitude than express myself or my feelings lol.., how sad is that? im such a happy go lucky person, the second i stop laughing or smiling at people they make me feel like shit for it, they call me moody, they call me a bitch.. like i cant fucking win, i cant fucking please everyone AND please myself. i dont even know why the fuck i care, why do i care?

im about to book a one way ticket far away just me and atlas and forget everyone and eveyrthing. i cant take it, i cant take the disappointment, i cant take the judgment, i cant take NO ONE being happy for me legit ever, its always something, everyone always has something to say. the most insane part about all this is that no one fucking ever checks in on me, like ever, yet i check in on them all the fucking time. no one ever reaches out to me, yet they all notice when im in a bad moood... isnt that something? I went through a break up with an abusive piece of shit, everyone knew about it, and NO ONE fucking reached out lol, and people are still fucking friends with him.

like my own dad man, my own fucking dad after the shit he pulled, supporting my exs like its his job... im trying so hard not to spiral and go back to therapy but fucking a sometimes i feel like im gonna blow my brains out, its wild to me

one of the guys i was closest to in the office spreading non stop rumours about me saying my anxiety is fake like bro what are you saying...

im so over it, i thought if i didnt write this all down i was going to walk outside and keep walking with no direction but i decided to write and i know i jsut scrambled, i know none of it makes any sense i just need to type.

why the fuck do people suck so much lol its insane to me, i never treat people the way they treat me, if i was a fucking cunt like everyone else is then maybe people would respect me?

[tpc-tangled-au]

Chapter Two: Trusting to Fairy Tales

And it all began, not in Othrys among the ghosts, but in a kingdom among the stars. Once upon a time…

It was a bitter winter’s night, but no wail of wind gained any notice. The footsteps of Frederick, King and Master of Othrys, were all that the palace folk heard, as he tramped furiously from his bedroom. Whispered words passed between them, wondering at what the sound might portend.

Frederick knew his steps were heard. He did not care. In his ears, they sounded heavy and hollow on the cold floor.

Though many heard the echoes, only one man was there to see the source, or to glimpse the tears in the king’s eyes before he rubbed them out. Small a comfort as it was, Frederick was glad it was Lazarus, and only Lazarus.

“That Galvan fella hadn’t found anything, y’majesty?” asked the counselor, as if knowing the answer.

“Nothin’ to help, just worse news.”

Lazarus’ dark brow clouded. “What kinda ‘worse’?”

“She’s—” But the word thickened, halting him. As if saying it aloud would make the nightmare irreversibly real.

“What?”

He took in a breath. Then, with great effort and a sick feeling bubbling in his chest, Frederick forced out the sentence he’d so dreaded. “She’s got the Galen.”

The man’s eyes widened, and his reply was hushed and sharp. “Miss Eudoria’s got the Galen? That awful ol’ galenitric disease?”

Silence came over King Frederick. The image of his wife’s black hair turning leaden, her face greying like ash, flashed before his mind’s eye. Though it nearly blinded him, he nodded.

“Lordamercy,” Lazarus muttered, voice shaken. For a moment, he made no further reply. Then, a plain, troubled question. “What about the little baby? He got it too?”

He turned his back and took a few steps. “Jacob doesn’t think so, but that won’t do a lick of good if he can’t get him out.”

“Still stuck? Why, he ain’t even as big as he ought, comin’ so early! Isn’t there some other way to get ‘im out?”

“With her health like this, he doesn’t know if he ought to try a thing like that. And if the baby does get the Galen from her, he—”

Frederick broke off like a snapped icicle.

“Y’majesty?”

His fists clenched. “They’re gonna die.” He forced his shaky voice to level out, though it was still rough. “My Eudoria, my little boy, they’re both gonna die tonight. And there ain’t a blamed thing I can do about it.”

“Well, now, King Frederick, you—”

“King? King? You just take a look at what good being a king does now!” With a sharp growl, he slammed a fist, heat against the wall’s cold stone.

The noise it made was not loud, but it silenced all others. Once it echoed out, the only sounds to be heard were the faint moans of a dying queen, creeping from below a door, and the wind as bitter as a banshee, keening for coming death. Lazarus said no more.

Frederick’s gaze dropped to his other hand, then to his shoes. Now more than ever, he felt unfit for his role. Often in his life, he’d thought himself born into the wrong profession. His feet seemed fitted only for patched-up shoes with worn soles. These big, rough hands seemed like they must have been made for plowing fields and pounding fiends; in them, a scepter seemed unwieldy. If he was made to lead, it was not as a king.

And as a king now, what? He couldn’t make a decree outlawing illness. He couldn’t order soldiers to rescue them from their peril. Even a country farmer would know better how to tend the sick and care for the pained.

But here he was, a country at his command, and with not an ounce of power to save the two people in it who meant more to him than the whole.

“I’m no king. I’m just a man with a crown.”

A moment passed, like the faint moonlight through the frosted windows. Then, a low voice dared break the silence.

“Well, sire, I reckon the same thought went through King Carter’s head.”

Frederick scoffed softly, but not scornfully, letting his eyes slip shut as he nodded. Trust his royal counselor to bring him back to their history. “King Carter.”

“And a fine fella he was at that, but he wasn’t made for kingin’ any more than you. Ain’t none of y’all right down the line felt they fit those shoes, even the man as made them. Why, a carter’s just what he was!”

“A carter turned king, Lazarus. A man who broke spells and conquered the dead.” He shook his head, recalling the reputation Carter had in their legends—adventurer, protector of the innocent, and the first Master of Othrys. And what was he, unable even to break one fever or stop two deaths, to that?

“Well, surely, power came to him, and so he used it for good. But he wasn’t built to be no king neither. He was just a man doing right by the folks counting on him. Just like all of y'all right down the line. Just like you, y'majesty.”

A corner of a smile twitched at his mouth. “Well, that’s some nice encouraging for a man at this kind of work. Thank you for that.” The corner folded. “But I don’t think King Carter is gonna help my wife and son get through this night, any more than I can.”

“Now, sire, y—”

Lazarus stopped short.

“Wait a sec, here.”

Frederick turned to face his counselor, and found him staring wide-eyed in thought or realization. “What is it?”

“Sire, you said you don’t think ol’ King Carter’s gonna help ‘em get better. But I think he might. Him and a couple other kings, they just might.”

What this meant, Frederick had no earthly idea. But something in Lazarus’ words or tone or voice put hope back in his bones. “Tell me how you mean!”

Lazarus raised his eyes and fixed them steadily on his king. “The story of Septimon.”

“Septimon? That kingdom of stars?”

“Yessir, and the stones in ‘em. The hearts of the stars. You remember the story, how there was that grand ol’ battle, with the cruel queen and the princess o’ light? Fighting over those stones, they was, though the princess was just trying to keep her from getting ‘em. A real piece of work, that queen. But in their battling, y’see, the stones got knocked right down to earth! Anybody as found ‘em was bestowed with great powers.”

“I remember, I remember!” Frederick nodded quickly, stepping closer. “That’s what the carter used to conquer this land, make it safe for the living to settle. It’s why we’ve even got a kingdom here.”

“Right, y’majesty! But that stone, that one he had, didn’t stay as a stone. ‘Long about the time of King Ward, it got put into a different form…”

“A flower aflame.” Frederick’s eyes widened. He saw now the path to which his counselor was pointing him.

“And that fiery little bud was able to give folks back their youth… an’ their health… an’ even their very life.”

A moment passed, breathless and taut with potential. Then, Frederick asked the only question left. “Where can I find it?”

“Story says it got planted someplace, but nobody knows where.”

“Nobody? No clues at all?”

“Not as I know.”

“But it’s in Othrys. If King Ward planted it, it’s got to be in this kingdom here.”

“Oh, yes, the story says that much, sire.”

“Then that much is enough for me.” Frederick drew himself up and put his hands behind his back. King or no king inside, he was ready to act as one. “Lazarus, I want a decree sent out. You have pen and paper?”

“Always do, y’majesty,” he grinned.

The king heard a door opening behind him as he began, but he ignored it. “Then take it down. ‘I, King Frederick, Master of Othrys, declare a search throughout all the land for the magical fireflower planted by King Ward. If it is found, it must be dug up and brought to the royal castle. Your queen’s life depends upon it.’ You got all that?”

“‘…depends upon it.’ Yessir.”

“Now, you go grab as many heralds as you can find—make sure it’s ones you can trust, now—and have ‘em spread the word. I want this whole kingdom on the hunt.”

“If I may, sire, is that your great hope of saving the queen?”

The brogue of Jacob Galvan punctuated his king’s words. Frederick turned to give it answer. “A last hope, but yes, I reckon so. You’ve said yourself there’s not much else you can try.”

“Aye, sire, but trusting tae fairy tales…”

“And to your skill, Jacob. I don’t doubt that my wife would be dead already if not for you. But what are fairy tales for if it ain’t our darkest hours?”

“Unless a fella doesn’t believe in them, o’ course,” added Lazarus, as if asking a question of the Scot’s uncertain look.

“Believe? Oh, I believe in them, Counsel. I believe in far more fairy tales than are known in this land, and I couldnae doubt if I tried. But trusting tae any of them has never served me well i’ the long. Any but one, that is.”

“Well, let’s hope one serves us well tonight,” said the king. As he spoke, he took his signet ring off one great finger. “Lazarus, have that decree sent out as soon as possible.” He handed the ring to his trusted advisor. “Seal that paper and as many copies as the scribes can make.”

“Oh, yessir.”

King Frederick then turned to put a hand on the doctor’s shoulder. “Jacob, keep trying to save them. And if nothing else can be done, keep them alive as long as you can.”

Despite his prior reluctance, Jacob nodded with dutiful certainty. “Aye, your majesty. That I’ll do.”

“Thank you, and both of you.” With that, he strode from them... but not back toward the bedroom. Instead, he headed down the hall, marching off into wintry shadows.

“Wa-wait a moment, sire!” called Jacob, reaching after him in bewilderment at his direction. “Where are you going now?”

“Stables!”

The doctor glanced from the departing Frederick to Lazarus (the latter of whom nodded with a knowing smile). “Stables?”

“You don’t think I’m gonna sit and wait a minute longer when there’s something I can do?”

“But what are y’ doing, Master Frederick?”

Frederick dared a few precious seconds to pause, giving a glance to the doctor and the counselor in turn. A gleaming determination was in his eye. “I’m going to look for that fairy tale.”

~~*~~

[Chapter 1/Writing the Story] ... [Chapter 2/you are here!] ... [Chapter 3/The Two Heralds]

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[in-a-cave-with]

a list of fic ideas that i constantly think about all the time yet have neither the time nor skill to actually write them (from least to most absolutely off the shits ridiculous):

being framed for murder isnt all that great mr stark: (mcu) just as the title might imply, it entails spider-man being accused of the murder of general ross. peter then starts receiving messages from the actual murderer telling him that they’re holding his aunt hostage and that if he wants to get her back safe he has to follow their orders in order to carry out their next devious plan. peter plays along to track down the killer, undermine their plan, and prove his innocence. tony tracks down peter to get answers about this extremely worrying situation (as peter taking matters into his own hands and going off the radar makes him look 300% more guilty in the government’s eyes). 

my friend the ghost of captain america: (616) it turns out director stark's hallucinations of the recently dead steve rogers aren’t all hallucinations, because occasionally they’re actually the semi corporeal form of the actual steve rogers, who managed to free himself from the effect of the time bullets somewhat! emphasis on somewhat. follow tony and ghost steve as they try to turn steve back to normal while disagreeing on basically everything how to go about doing it. oh, and also extremis is slowly killing tony after it started malfunctioning from the fight with the mandarin (he’s not going to tell anyone this though)

hearts of kyber: (mcu-aligned, star wars au) tony stark (former imperial engineer turned empire’s most wanted after he sabotaged the early death star plans) runs into peter parker (former jedi padawan turned bounty hunter turned rogue after order 66) on a planet colonized by kree soldiers. they manage to escape the planet together and are picked up by nick fury (who is really mace windu with a prosthetic hand and eye also on the run from the empire). he eventually recruits them for his squad of rebels, nicknamed the avengers. together they carry out various missions for the official rebel alliance, and discover hidden plans from a secret sect of the empire’s engineering division for something called “UL-TRON”

space-dust crusaders: (616-aligned, jojo au but set mostly in space) after a fight with an enemy stand user [axis], tony stark (alter ego iron man) now has an evil double from another dimension named Superior who uses his own stand power [extremis 3.0] to give tony a disease that reaches fatality within 50 days (as he tells tony in a dramatic evil monologue). after the rest of the avengers (a team of stand wielding superheroes) manage to chase him off of earth superior fucks off to a far off planet and sets up a base there with the ultimate goal of taking over the galaxy, recruiting multiple stand users to help his cause. after finding out about tony’s predicament a couple of tony’s friends on the avengers team board a spaceship to find said planet that superior fucked off to and kill him to get rid of the sickness, but what they DON’T know is that tony has managed to tag along for the ride with every intent to bring down his evil double himself