#it was a jumpscare when i was watching 87

[ryanthel0ser]

has anyone done this yet

[lunar-wandering]

bite of '87

the title doesn't really have anything to do with this fic, it was just the first thing i thought of when it comes to horror games.

anyways i wanted something silly so i wrote a lil something i thought of a while ago about Mei and Wukong streaming together

word count: 1k

read on ao3

It was a relatively chill stream, all things considered. In fact, despite having the Monkey King sitting in the chair beside her, quietly watching her play the latest most popular horror game on the net, Mei only had a slightly above average number of viewers, compared to her normal views.

And then Mei’s videogame character turned a corner, and triggered a jumpscare.

Mei, herself, quite used to this after many years of horror games, only slightly flinced.

Wukong, on the other hand, had been suitably spaced out, and hadn’t expected it. Thus, it was only perfectly natural for him to jump, fur standing on end, quickly maneuvering himself into a standing position on his chair (how he managed to do that without the chair falling over was a near miracle, Mei couldn’t help but think), and then started shouting.

If Mei had to guess, he was probably cussing out the game.

And, well, she did have to guess, because the noises leaving Wukong’s mouth were inhuman. Literally.

Mei blinked slowly as Wukong finally stopped shouting, panting, seemingly out of breath as he slid back down into a sitting position. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see her chat going wild, but she didn’t have the time to focus on that right now.

Mei paused the game, and then turned fully to face the Monkey King.

“Did- did you-” Mei started, stammered, and then decided to try again as Wukong turned his attention to her. “Did you just- chirp?? Squeak?? Like- like a monkey??”

Wukong froze.

“I mean,” Mei continued, ignoring him, “-you are a monkey, but like, did you speak monkey? Like, actual- y’know- bananas and all that-”

“Okay I’m stopping you right there.” Wukong thankfully interrupted before Mei could further go off the deep end trying to figure out how to describe a theoretical monkey language. “First off all. I did not speak monkey. That’s not- that’s not something I do-”

“Oh, you totally did.”

“I didn’t.”

“Uh, ya totally did.” Mei gestured at her computer screen, where her chat was still going wild. “Thousands of witnesses, Mr. King. They’re clipping this as we speak.”

“Well- uh, they’re wrong. And the clips are wrong.” Wukong said, crossing his arms as he stubbornly looked away from her. “It’s just the audio glitching out, or something like that.”

“The audio- Monkey King, you can’t use the audio as an excuse, because I am sitting here with you right now in real life-”

“No you’re not.”

Before Mei could even think of a retort to that absolutely insane statement, Wukong was gone. No bright flash of light, nothing other than a slight blur and the crackle of magic, and he was gone. The chair didn’t even move an inch. Mei was half convinced at this point that he must’ve put some kind of magic spell on it, because there’s no way a chair that spins around would’ve stayed completely still after that.

Mei continued to stare at the empty spot in silence for a moment longer.

And then she slowly turned back to face her chat.

“Do you see?” She asked, “Do you see now, chat? Do you see what I have to deal with on a daily basis?”

Her chat continued to fly by at a speed too fast for her to read, so she instead leaned back, covering her face with her hands as she let out a long tired sigh.

Only to startle at the sound of her window opening behind her.

“Hey, Mei!” MK’s voice sounded, and Mei shifted to the side so that her camera could see her now open window and the Monkie Kid entering through it. “I’ve got a delivery for you!”

With that said, he lifted up his other arm, revealing Wukong, who looked incredibly unimpressed at the fact his successor was casually lifting him up by the back of his clothes. Stepping down into Mei’s room, MK dragged the reluctant Monkey King in with him.

“…One question.” Mei said, “How did you…”

“Oh, he teleported to me.” MK snorted, rolling his eyes as he dropped Wukong back into his chair, and then proceeded to lean against the side of it. “Like I wouldn’t be watching the stream and would help him hide. Seriously, Monkey King, do you even know me?”

“Unfortunately, I do.” Wukong grumbled under his breath, clearly unimpressed with his current situation. MK and Mei both heard him anyways.

“I’m sorry, what was that?” MK leaned forwards, “It better have been you agreeing to answer Mei and the chat’s questions.”

“I agreed to no such thing!” Wukong tried to get up out of the chair, only for MK to put his hands on his shoulders and force him back down. “Kid, let go-”

“You will sit down, and you will answer the questions, Monkey King.” MK said. Wukong briefly stopped struggling to look up at him.

“…Is this because I knocked over your paints when I teleported into your room.”

“Eh, just a little bit.” Both Mei and Wukong gave MK twin looks of deadpan disbelief. “Okay, so maybe a lot of it is, but still-”

Wukong managed to free himself from MK’s grip, knocking the chair out of the way as he stood up, clearly ready to run again. MK slipped down into something akin to a fighting position, ready to grab him. Mei pulled her legs up onto her chair in order to sit crossed legged as she watched the staredown.

“Monkey King. Sit down and answer the questions.” MK said.

“You. Can’t. Make. Me.” Wukong’s eyes flashed a bright red.

“Bet.” MK’s eyes flashed gold, his hair growing slightly longer.

There was a beat, and then in a flash of golden light, Mei had two monkey demons fighting on her floor. Mei blinked as Wukong turned into a bird, only for MK to pin him down under one hand, prompting him to change back to normal to knee his successor in the chest.

Mei glanced at the game that was still paused on her computer.

Then she reached for her camera, angled it so it could capture the fight, ran as fast as she could with her dragon speed to get some popcorn, and then returned to her prior seat.

As she shoved a handful of popcorn into her mouth, Mei absentmindedly noted that her viewers had doubled while she hadn’t been looking.

Well. Anything for the views.

[tokuvivor]

Hello, my duck-loving friends. In lieu of @violetganache42 providing highlights from last night’s Movie Night (Duckburg Adventures edition), I’ll actually be taking a crack at it.

Chef Donald

Ass shot opening

@shewhowantsmouseears: “This is one of those ‘Donald is trying to live his life and god said fuck you’ shorts, I can tell already”

Trans Donald talk (egg laying)

Waffle misadventures ensue when Donald pours rubber cement into the batter

He’s gonna get his waffles or die trying

Donald’s angry squawk

Taking his anger out on Old Mother Mallard

Seriously, what did she do?

Send in the Clones

@writebackatya comparing the ‘87 theme to Hall and Oates

Breaking the rules of strictly Duckburgian adventures

Poe

Beagle Boys sounding like Meowth

Magica’s voice sounding more Slavic than Italian

Mel and I making references to Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle

Dewey’s voice changing?

The Beagle Boys (as the triplets) not wanting to wear their suit jackets

OG Webby!

NO NOT THE DOLL

Webra Walters with the Baba Wawa voice (shoutout early SNL)

Everyone is confused by the clones

“I haven’t eaten in minutes.”

Cracker-snatched

Theme song moment!

Scrooge racism moment

Huey as Chicken Little

Splatter Phoenix is art lesbian Jesus

Another theme song moment!

“Banned!” “That’s my joke!”

Daytrip of Doom!

Missy wanting to smash Scrooge

Webby is scary (and adorable)

Beakley being mad about Scrooge reconnecting with his family

“Ow, my tailbone!”

“Uh…ocupado.” “House meeting. NOW.”

@alex31624 singing the Spanish DuckTales theme

Louie sitting away from the other kids

Dana Terrace!

Beakley’s rules

“Wait, are they gonna kiss?”

Funso’s Fun Zone (“Where fun is in the zone!”)

Dewey definitely taught his brothers to harmonize

Webby autism moments (there are many in this episode, believe me)

Will talking about the parallels between Daytrip of Doom! and Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!

“Unrealistic for children to act like that.” Bitch what

Webby’s first time on a bus

Beagle Boys!

Fuckin’ Timmy Jenkins

Louie showing Webby the ropes

Jane! (Will, you’ve convinced me on just how great she is)

Not water

Jane tries to help Webby

Fruity water

Jane and Gandra are definitely friends

Uke or Puke!

WEBBY KILL

Beakley basically watching a Donald Duck cartoon

HDLW siblings real

Ma Beagle in the house!

Margo Martindale is a legend

Comparison to Mama Fratelli from The Goonies

Episode with ‘87 vibes (this and The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!)

Webby wants to be normal

“Normal’s overrated.” “We need you to be Webby normal.”

Discussing autistic episodes

DONALD KILL

Webby getting the best of Ma

Donald hug

“I’m on Webby’s team!” -HDL

How did Donald not know Beakley was a spy?

Dough Ray Me

White Fenton jumpscare

@godfrey-the-chaos-duck and Will: “You know what else has an arcade?” “My mom!” “…the server.”

Fenton taller than Scrooge

Ghostbusters reference!

Fenton being voiced by a guy named Hamilton and Hamilton himself

OG Gyro

Lin-Manuel Miranda being a legend for saying this

Godfrey putting the do-re-mi pun together

Gyro being an ass to Fenton in ‘17 is karma for ‘87

Fenton’s vampire look

Minor Fenro discourse

Economics lesson!

HSM reference (status quo)

Nice jail cell

German inflation after WWI

Club Penguin reference (there were a few mentions of Club Penguin last night)

Gosalyn would take advantage of fraudulent allowance

Scrooge is pissed

To the moon (like Della)

Going full Peter Griffin

Beakley needs booze (also, Lady Olivia reference)

Reference to a fic about Scrooge having a mental breakdown regarding his riches (Cape Town, 1913)

Swimmin’ Hole

Summer!

Pete Hate Club is back

He took the swimming hole!

Electric fence

“We killed Holey!”

@violetganache42 and I referencing the Suite Life PRNDL scene

Bambi reference

Mickey is too nice

Who is Gizmoduck?!

Spam’s love for Mark Beaks

Huey helping Donald at the bank

Everyone is threatening Huey tonight

Fenton!

Huey’s big eyes when Roxanne Featherly interviews him

Goldie O’Gilt as a Christ figure

Incompetently dangerous or dangerously incompetent?

M’ma!

Mark and his ship names

The Gearloose Hay Wire

Huey climbing up Gizmoduck

Mark is Jasmine from Aladdin

Fenton’s destiny

“You will be mine.”

Gyro firing Fenton

Waddleduck

Huey being extra

“In the recycling, you monster!”

Mark being racist

That’s not Gizmoduck!

“I am not your amigo.”

More Huey climbing

Fenton sacrifices himself…but he’s alive!

He still can’t get his damn respect from Gyro, though

Waddleduck song in the ending credits!

The Good Muddahs

Webby episode!

No one wants to play with her

Someone please give this child a hug

Beagle Babes!

Why do they have globes on their chests?

Pink gun

They got Webby!

Beakley said “hussies” holy shit

Thugs and kisses…

The cops in this episode are immensely fucking stupid and useless

HIS WEE WEBBIGAIL

Beagle Babes with Webby

They’re trying, and so far, they’re failing

That’s not Cinderella

Okay they’re bonding with her good

Shoplifting list!

Pulling a gun on your sister

@hueberryshortcake: “She has two ladylike charms. Sorry.”

Beakley is pissed

Bubba nose

They found Webby! She doesn’t want to leave, though. But what if…

THEY RUINED HER

Webby with a gun help

Bagel Beebs

The boys driving the car

Beagle Babes reformed…wait, they want to go back to jail

Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!

Team Magic!

Tempest in a teapot

Missy’s love for Della

Legends of Legendquest!

Goldie!

“Scariest bunny in the pet shop”

Scheme Team ready to go

Huey farming

Della’s snatched waist

Beagle Boys sweep!

Guhmeemama

“Hellowyn, Llewellyn.”

Honey Bin

Percival P. Peppington (knockoff Willy Wonka)

The child! (Boyd)

Glomgold and Sharkbomb!

“Grandma…OW!…super young aunt”

“Hi, I’m BOYD!”

Lester’s Possum Park

The Duke

A wild Launchpad appears!

Goldie’s legs

Glomgold-Sharkbomb fight!

“Don’t tell me what to DOOOOO!”

#You’reAllWet

Boyd and Gumball sharing a VA

Not the farm!

Goku Huey!

Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid

Boyd goes berserk!

“I swore after last year no one’s eyes would melt out of their heads!”

Goldie betraying Louie

Fucked-up Boyd moment, continued

Goldiemama

“It’s over 9,000!”

HUEY KILL

“This is worse.”

Boyd is Doofus’ new brother

Mr. and Mrs. Drake growing spines and punishing Doofus

Accidental Timephoon! reference?

Huey’s in too deep

Louie’s picture in Goldie’s wallet!

And there you go! Better late than never, I guess. I tried to get in as much as I could. If I missed anything, feel free to add.

[aotopmha]

And I'm done with the lvl 87 Endwalker quests, ending on the Venat cutscene.

The very first thought that jumps out to me is actually an annoyance: I really don't care for when the story uses jumpscares.

The only time during the game I have thought it was effective happened to be with Edda and it's because the mood was built for it in different ways.

It didn't work with Titania's introduction and it effectively annoyed me with Meteion.

Her transitioning to a grown woman's voice and listing off the dead worlds in a robotic tone was effective enough.

But they just keep doing the jumpscares with her and the more they do the less effective it is for me.

But to transition to some more character thoughts, I love how Hermes's words towards Meteion are also relevant towards Hermes himself.

"Though I gave you these wings to soar the heavens, I did not teach you how to walk the earth."

In the end, as Emet said, Hermes could not see anything good right in front of him on Etheirys. He simply could not find happiness or purpose in his own world, so he hoped to find it in others.

And so it lead to his flawed question and the painful result of it for the rest of the world and Meteion.

He hoped he would find the answer for his quest for meaning in other worlds. Perhaps use those discoveries to pave the way for a more empathic world that did not deny negative feelings. Perhaps to convince the ancients all lives had value. Perhaps to find companionship in his sadness and loneliness.

It was a two-sided issue, as the ancients also worked to not look at negativity, which probably would have had some bad consequences on a bigger scale eventually, no matter how you look at it.

Again, we go back to the idea of mental illness creating tunnel vision. All Hermes could see was the flaws of the society, but the society itself also did not address the issues within. (Or did they, looking at some of the side quests in Elpis?)

Across all of Endwalker, the idea of emotional resillience has popped up over and over again.

And when I first reached some of the parts about emotional resillience while watching someone else's playthrough, I really wasn't sure about the story leaning into the idea of "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger".

Thavnair especially felt this way.

And that perspective is incredibly hostile towards the individualised nature of emotional struggles. What doesn't kill you does not, in fact, always make you stronger.

But Elpis and everything afterwards put in a lot of effort to make it much more nuanced than that.

"As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends. And admist deepest despair, light everlasting."

Might just be the most important quote of Endwalker.

In reality what the game says (at least what I think the writers aim to say and I read the story as) is that we should try to appreciate the good when we have it because it isn't eternal.

And yet we should not look away from the bad and instead digest it in a healthy way.

As I touched on a few lines above, I think the point of the characterisation of the ancients is that negative feelings hurt, but burying and invalidating them will end up hurting more and more and eventually lead to some sort of issues.

Therapy good.

And as the Ascians show us, their tactics just lead to more and more sacrifices, to the point where it started feeling worse and worse and the rift between the two sides of the ancients happens.

The world of the ancients treats mental illness just like our world does and this story is simply commenting on the current mental health crisis, which was even worse during Covid times.

I'll touch on it more in my upcoming posts because I know that Alisae has a few really important lines regarding this idea, but I know I had this criticism for a while and I was really happy the story addressed it.

Another criticism I see Endwalker given is related to precisely the idea that by creating this causal loop the game implies all of this suffering HAD to happen (and that is why it is okay), everyone had to be sundered to survive and thus it fully also excuses Venat's actions.

But to me the nuance here is that while the game agrees with Venat, it never says what she did was "right".

"I create a world of suffering to mire and plague."

She created so much suffering by sundering the world.

And to me that's what makes it interesting. The Goddess of Light, image of "all good" was driven by her own very human beliefs to save humanity, which also lead to much suffering.

Neither side is completely right or wrong and to me that's the most interesting part of this.

Even if affinity to Dynamis was necessary for humanity to survive.

Even if the 13th is an useless void so the full Rejoining was never possible to begin with.

Even if the Ancients just kept sacrificing themselves and were on a path of unsustainable self-destruction, Venat still caused untold suffering with her choice.

And she takes full responsibility for it.

And to me that's a super cool element to the struggle between the two sides of the ancients.

Because on the other side, the Ascians absolutely were driven by love for their people. This was true all the way through.

Duty, love, desire to get back their paradise. There WAS so much beauty and actual kindness in the ancient world, it just had its own struggles, just like the present world gas its own.

Both sides were literally fighting for the same thing.

One looking to the past. One looking to the future.

And I just do not get why people have the need to appoint the right and wrong in this conflict when I think both having their own flaws is the entire point (and far more interesting to me).

I think Venat's manouvering after Hermes uses Kairos goes under this, too.

Her decisions are all driven by her personal perspective as a character (what she believes in, what she gleaned from Meteion's words etc). I've seen her judgements and the memory erasure be criticised as too wishy-washy on a writing level, but I like it because it is so tied to the characters of those affected.

To me her caution and hesitation makes sense considering what is at stake, especially.

I think Emet is the shaky one because I feel he would look into this as deeply as he could. He accepts his memory being gone a little too easily, I think, but I take it considering the biggest tangible loss we see is two familiars (Meteion and WoL).

Finally, I'll comment on the dungeon.

I think Ktisis Hyperboreia is probably my least favourite of the Endwalker dungeons up to this point.

But that also doesn't mean I hate it. I just think we've had so much cooler set pieces and also much cooler bosses with cooler mechanics in other dungeons.

This IS a dungeon in the ancient world with you exploring an ancient facility and you get the ancients as Trusts, which is super cool, but outside of the final third almost being space, it didn't feel particularly unique or interesting to me as a set piece.

I did notice a bunch of bird cages in a room and the notes, but setting aside, the first two bosses in particular were nothing special to me mechnically, either.

The Hermes boss fight did cause some wipes, though. The beams had a very particular pacing a positioning, which caught me off guard and others in the team also had forgotten the fight so we had 4-5 wipes at the Hermes fight, I think.

Overall, though, once again, a very solid bit of story in my eyes.

[the-worst-place-in-there]

FAN SERVICE IN FNAF MOVIE (aka little details and lore fragments they put in reference to the franchise, as well as what I appreciated myself while watching it):

Mike, Abby and Garret being movie counterparts to Afton siblings in games - Abby being almost stuffed into Baby, Garret not being there anymore and Mike feeling guilty for this

As well as the names - Abby and Baby, Garret being similar to Gregory (and the fact that he, Gregory and the crying child look so similar)

"employe of the month" with photos of youtubers

The ball pit

That little piece of shit Balloon Boy having most effective jumpscares in the whole movie

Vanessa being William's daughter, which could be a reference to "reluctant follower" as her in-game self

The whole sequence at the start which looks like minigames straight from Scott's

Fan music included

The respective places each animatronic attacked in during the break-in of Max's group - Chica in kitchen, Bonnie in the closet, Foxy in that long corridor leading to security office, and Freddy doing a bite

Again, the bite (of not '87)

"It's just a theory" THE GAME FILM THEORY

Cab driver

William saying "I always come back" (and the theater collectively loosing their minds)

Foxy singing his pirate song

Can I also point out how Matthew Lillard perfectly acted out the deranged look when William took off the Spring Bonnie head? Like, man's completely lost it.

The faithful adaptation of springlocking

None of us knew that we needed a scene where all four animatronics are laying in the fort made of chairs with Mike, Abby and Vanessa

Cassidy being the blonde kid, that checks if William is suffering due to springlocks

"IT'S ME" written on the mirror

This is all I can point out for now.

Also, the whole theater experience should count as fan service with how everyone was invested in the movie and having reactions to the scenes. And the cosplayers - here’s my count: at least 5 Marionettes, Sun and Moon, Bonnie, the one person fully decked out in purple, 2 Freddies, Foxy and more that I probably didn’t notice.

[enigma-the-anomaly]

watched the FNAF movie! It was alright, the acting and animatronics were great. Plot was kinda predictable, nothing incredibly shocking, but it was good. I’m not great with horror movies but this was pretty light, friend called it baby’s first horror movie lol. If you are photosensitive, i definitely think you should skip this tho, my theatre might have had a warning I didn’t see but yeah, I’m not photosensitive but i noticed it is probably not safe for those that are. A lot of flickering lights and stuff like that, plus a scene where the lights and monitors go haywire which had a lot of flashing and colors. Anyway, some spoiler stuff:

friends and i agreed the scariest part was the matpat cameo lmao. I didn’t recognize him by his voice, then they showed his face and that’s when I realized. It’s a small scene but they do throw in a “that’s just a theory” line. I suppose it should have been expected, but hey, a white guy jumpscare is a white guy jumpscare. It just caught me off guard lol.

also when that one girl got bit in half, i said “was that the bite of ‘87?!” as a joke, wanting to say it loud enough for my friends to hear (they were a couple seats away), but it might have been a bit louder than that, i heard laughing from behind me and don’t know if it was cuz of the movie or me.

The scene where the guy drags his bloody hand down the windowed door wasn’t focused on, but i still think it was kinda cheesy. Like it’s such a cliché. Then again this was a relatively light movie

[fandom-madness69]

That movie was great. I don't care what anyone says. The FNAF movie was amazing. The nostalgia!!?! The lump of pure joy in my throat? The cheap jumpscares? The fact that I yelled "Was that the bite of '87?!" when the babysitter got her ass bit in half!

I wish I could have relied on the theaters around me to keep playing FNAF as long as they played Barbie but I couldn't so I watched it on Peacock and honestly? It made the experience better. I streamed it to my BF over Discord and honestly we came to the conclusion 10 minutes in we would have been kicked out of the theaters for never shutting up.

15/10 waiting for the sequel to be confirmed any day now. Like the lore mix up? The focus on the ghost kids as GHOSTS AND KIDS AND GHOST KIDS?!!?! Fucking *chefs kiss* this whole thing is getting the amount of hype it deserves and more.

Now while we can do so let's pump those theater revenue numbers so fucking sky high they never stop making anything FNAF related.

[olivereactsaboutgarbage]

Higurashi When They Cry - Watanagashi Chapter 8

Time for the first of my four remaining daily posts this year!

When last we left our heroes, I think Toddler 01 was dead or something. I’m not sure because I’ve been in an eldritch coma for the last 7 and a half months.

Right now, Keiichi’s mom is telling him that he probably couldn’t sleep because he was excited. Actually, Keiichi’s big secret is that he was scared instead.

He’s high, Rena.

Mion is Missing! Wow, I was so right to put off reading this chapter for over half a year. What’s the point, if Mion is Missing!? Keiichi agrees, so he wants to will Mion into not being Missing! This actually works. Wow, Keiichi is actually the best character. If Higurashi didn’t have Mion in it, there’d be no point, so there’d be no point if Keiichi wasn’t in it.

Rena feels Mion’s forehead and Mion accuses Rena of having Cold Hands Disease. So true, Mion.

“14-year-olds are older than 13-year-olds, so 14-year-olds aren’t stupid” is such 13-year-old logic. Or however old these little fuckers are. It’s not like I’ve been keeping track.

Anyway, Keiichi gets assaulted and blames Toddler 01, but Toddler 01 reminds him that she couldn’t have done it because she died last chapter. So he blames his teacher instead. The one with pronouns. She says that he needs a beautiful face to match her beautiful pronouns.

Wow, Mion is just like L from Death Note. I think. I haven’t watched it.

That’s awesome! I love bits! I didn’t know Mion was a comedian.

She demonstrates her bit, which is just pantomiming alcoholism. Don’t quit your day job, Mion.

She also asks Keiichi whether or not the events of Chapter 7 occurred, and gets mad when he gets cagey. To be frank, I would be cagey too, since that was 7  and a half months ago. I’m on Keiichi’s side here, better not to make definitive statements about something you might not remember that well.

Um, no, Keiichi, your neck’s just hot. Lay off the illicit substances.

Even Rena could tell you’d done drugs.

Wait, has Toddler 02 always worn suspenders? Am I being Affected by Mandela?

Rena racks up some more Rena Points by belittling Toddler 01′s corpse. She also racks up some Detective Points by saying Mion and Keiichi clearly have the same disease. That’s right, Rena...! Call Keiichi out before he becomes a drug addict!

Keiichi is almost about to have a library scene, but then he abruptly has a telephone scene instead. Shion ensues.

god keiichi have a modicum of tact mayhaps

Anyway, it turns out that Shion and Mion aren’t even roommates.

foreshadowing for umineko

Keiichi is abruptly having a library scene instead of a telephone scene. Shion is ensuing.

Aww Keiichi don’t be that way, Shion is being Based for once in her miserable life.

The Successor

See, I knew Mion was incredibly special and great.

Also, it turns out the Sonozakis are the entirety of capitalism.

OOISHI JUMPSCARE

What? I thought Shion and Ooishi were bitter rivals... was that all in my head? Am I secretly too Keiichicore for my own good?

Shion unsues. That’s the opposite of ensuing.

Ooishi says that the Sonozakis are “yakuza, and also something else, wink wink, welp anyways goodbye”. Thanks Ooishi.

Keiichi decides to defend Mion’s honor. He really is the best character.

Even Ooishi knows Keiichi is going down a dark path of substance abuse...!

Keiichi is the only one who doesn’t know about it. How embarrassing for Keiichi. I wonder if there’s an even darker secret hidden behind this dark plot point.

OH MY GOD!!! Ooishi is a mecha being piloted by Mion! And Keiichi is trapped in a time loop!

OH GOD!!! He’s too huge! He’s going to bite Keiichi 87 times! And here I thought Mion would know better.

Keiichi is Based for this one. Just like Shion just now.

In fact, Shion probably wasn’t even in the room with us earlier.”

SILK HAT! CLOAK! WHITE ROSES!

Keiichi goes deaf and doesn’t notice it’s time for Ooishi to leave. “Oh, and one more thing,” Ooishi says. “I saw you do it.” Mion must have been watching Columbo. I guess that’s where she learned how to act like L from Death Note. I think. I haven’t watched Columbo either.

coup collab symbolism

I mean, um, sorry. Ignore the fact that I said something which doesn’t make any sense just now.

Ah, there’s a double-meaning here. Keiichi is going to spend this entire arc thinking Keiichi is the culprit! So quick Keiichi is to forget the entire scene earlier in this arc dedicated to how Keiichi isn’t the culprit.

Keiichi “uhhhhh mayyyybeeeee i mean uhhhhh who’s to say for sure y’know”

“It’s bad to ask questions. That’s why I’m going to ask a question.”

Shion finally reminds everyone that Camera and his girlfriend are the People Who Die In Higurashi. But wait, this time one of them was on fire and neither of them had vanished? Epic fail. They died all wrong this time. Shabby work hiding Camera’s girlfriend’s burned body, Culprit. You did better last time.

Oh, she also barely counted as wearing clothing. Well, that’s nice I guess.

Shion thinks this is actually a double feature where she and Keiichi will both be the ones who disappear. But if Keiichi just got cursed normally, who would be the bizarre outlier to make this year even more murderous than normal? I guess Toddler 01 could do it since she’s a zombie this time around.

Also, Hinamizawa has an anti-journalism field. How convenient for fiction writers. It’s like Blake Snyder said in Save the Cat! (I became cultured over the break period): “All stories, no matter what they’re about, should include an anti-journalism field. However, if they also include something else supernatural, that would be Double Mumbo Jumbo and bad writing, so Oyashiro’s curse needs to be a hoax.” Simply by the existence of a tragically doomed cat, this level of reasoning is possible for Olivia von Flamiel.

Anyways Keiichi blows up at Shion so she hangs up on him

don’t worry man it wasn’t as bad as last time

Keiichi gets a call from someone who’s not voice acted. Ah, so this is the Schrodinger’s Important Phone Call I forgot to mention his parents were waiting for: They were going to get a call from the living embodiment of sex. The embodiment of sex owns an old man, also. Kinky. Unless it’s Santa.

Meanwhile, in Side Story Land...

Oh, the embodiment of sex was actually also the embodiment of mayorhood. This is just like that collab I mentioned earlier and told everyone to forget about.

Oh, the embodiment of sex didn’t even embody sex at all. He was just pretending. He also didn’t embody mayorhood.

Also, the Mayor is Missing! Mion is aware of this. If Shion was aware of this, maybe Shion would have realized that Keiichi wasn’t going to go missing. Only Shion will go Missing!

Hmm... is Mion enacting a clever scheme? Like L from Death Note?

Well, I guess I’ll never know because I’m never going to watch Death Note. Just like how I’m never going to read One Piece. Goodbye everyone.

[felonius-glitch]

Gricko would know FNAF memes because he's online so he can relate to his adolescent daughter (/ref) and make sure she's online responsibly, so he would DEFINITELY make the "Bite of 87" joke. Doesn't play but he and Hootsie watch playthroughs (or Frost play).

Frost would be the one trying so hard not to get a single jumpscare. This man is nothing but an efficient FNAF player, being able to conserve his energy until the end. If he gets a jumpscare, he simply flinches lightly and sighs in disappointment at himself for failing.

Gideon played ONCE and only because he punched the screen and threw his mouse after one jumpscare (he calls the game stupid because he's salty that he lost his second night after ragging about how easy the game is).

Kremy would look into the lore, because he's the type to fall into rabbit holes. He doesnt play himself but he spends fucking HOURS on the wiki trying to connect the dots. He also watches Frost play.

I like to think that where Kremy tries to understand the lore, Torbek knows it by heart (because that would be funny), he corrects Kremy whenever he can when Kremy gets a plot point wrong. He doesn't play the first few games fresh because he's scared the jumpscares would trigger Duke coming out, but he's okay with watching Frost play AND THEN play after he does (he tries to copy what Frost did)

Twig plays but she plays like Markiplier.

Hootsie would rather play roblox /j

okay. not a drawing but you'll get a drawing out of this i promise. i simply need. feedback.

ouaw crew and fnaf. who would be unaffected by jumpscares. who would scream and jump out of their seat. who would memorize the lore. who would only know the 'was that the bite of 87?!?' joke. i need second opinions. what do you fellas think. its important.

[myfreddyfazbearshinz]

All the night-guards plus phone dude headcanons because I can do whatever I want

Headcanons for:

-phone dude

-phone guy

-Mike Schmidt/Michael Afton (they are the same person in this)

-Jeremy Fritzgerald

-I would put Fritz smith but I feel too bad since he only has like 2 headcanons for him here lol

credits: the phone guy animation is by Foxbear Films while the phantom foxy animation is by Glitron check them out! also I made the gifs myself.

Warnings for: the timeline makes no sense, implied child death

-as much as Mike loves Helpy, helpy sorta scares him, they look like funtime freddy. Just small.

-Phone dude loves horror! Yes, he may end up screaming but it’s just so exciting to him!

-he seems like the type who would love those horror attractions/rides that have fake jumpscares

-Mike has a pet cat called Lizzie (it may or may not be named after Elizabeth)

-Phone guy happened to be cousins with Fritz (the missing kid), although they weren’t all that close. They barely knew each-other’s existence. Phone guy didn’t even know that Fritz went missing until Fritz’s father told him 3 months after Fritz went missing.

-there was a huge age gab between them, Fritz was in 2nd grade elementary when he went missing while Phone guy was around 16-17.

-phone dude was/is very interested in the ‘’rumors’’ about Freddy’s. in fact, a lot of the Fazbear Frights horror attraction was based off of these rumors about Freddy’s.

-phone dude made up some rumors about Freddy’s himself. Most of them had to do with the paranormal, ghosts and stuff (mostly because he liked paranormal stories)

-Michael literally had to use animatronic parts to help him walk, he used them like prosthetics.

-when he moves he feels pain, but he sorta got used to it after a while, it still hurts but he has learned to ignore it.

-Fritz and Jeremy are friends :D

-Jeremy’s sibling tried to sue Fazbear Entertainment after the bite of 87, but Fazbear entertainment was able to bullshit their way out of it. Jeremy’s sibling hates them with a burning passion.

-phone guy used to work the dayshift before Fazbear Entertainment put him as the nightshift because there wasn’t enough nightguards (most of them died lol)

-phone dude seems like the type who will eat leftover food/drinks from the Fazbear Frights horror attraction because ‘’it can’t go to waste’’ even though it probably has other people’s saliva and tears on it. He has no shame. No shame at all.

- (he doesn’t really care about it going to waste, he’s just hungry)

-Michael knows how to cook, after William went ‘’missing’’ he had no one, so he had to do everything by himself (which makes him a bit sad especially thinking about the fact he had 2 siblings whom are both now gone) although he prefers getting fast food then making food himself.

-believe it or not, before the bite of 87 Jeremy’s sibling had been trying to teach Jeremy to cook. They had a lot of fun together, most of the time they ended up making a mess but all that mattered to them is that they had fun.

-Although after the bite, Jeremy’s sibling stopped trying to teach Jeremy, it was dangerous. Jeremy now couldn’t feel fear/shame, he could easily burn himself and not even do anything about it because he doesn’t feel fear, not only that but Jeremy had just suffered an injury that would affect him for the rest of his life, he has to live with that head injury for the rest of his life. so it isn’t really a good idea to teach him how to cook.

-Fritz makes himself food most of the time, he’s way too broke to buy food.

-phone guy doesn’t really cook, yes he does know how to cook, but he’d much rather buy food than make food, plus he doesn’t really know how to make anything but noodles (everything else is too hard for him). Which isn’t all that healthy.

-(Phone guy brings food to work, he puts it in a lunch box from when he was like 14, and brings it to work)

-when Phone guy was a kid (around the ages of 4-10), he loved Freddy’s, he would watch fredbear and friends after school, he had a bunch of fredbear and friends plushies (that he slept with), most of his birthday parties were celebrated at Fredbear’s, he would even draw little drawings for the characters (which would sometimes be put up on the wall).

- Freddy Fazbear was phone guy’s least favorite character in the band. He didn’t hate him; he just wasn’t a fan of him.

-Micheal was friendly with most of his neighborhood, in fact he was so friendly that parents trusted him to babysit their kids when they weren’t home. Pretty much everyone loved him.

-Jeremy has a pet puppy at home! The puppy is only 2 months old. Jeremy used to play with it after work/school. Even after the bite of 87 he still plays with it. He loves it!

- (it isn’t actually his puppy, it’s his sibling’s, but the puppy likes him more than them)

-phone guy intentionally withholds information about the springlock suits to the new nightguards to not scare them into quitting the job (also because he would rather not make the nightguard have a heart attack and die)

is it short? yep, do I care? nope. small note but requests are open if your interested

[kazuhasbunny]

Just watched an hour and a half long video about the whole timeline of all the games (including SB it's very recent) and wow I thought people were exaggerating when they talked about William constantly coming back but wow he really does not die 😭 also Ballora is the mom according to the video but wow there's so much that you can't really figure out on your own bc of the order the games are in ... I didn't know the second bite incident (I believe the bite of 87) was caused by Mangle I feel really bad for all of them 😭 especially Charlotte (Henry's daughter) and Evan (crying child) and also the marionette part lowkey made me tear up ?? Like it was designed to protect Charlotte yet it failed bc of William and those kids ugh poor kids 😣 but the way the story just ... twists?? Like you have all the games consistent with the Henry/William partnership, William's kids dying and Henry wanting to set the kids free or whatever up until Help Wanted and Security Breach where it's just all about Vanessa all of a sudden 💀 tbh I feel like the games could've stopped before SB and it would've been fine lore-wise but I'm not complaining 🤡 I really love Chica's design in Security Breach and her voice is very cute too but yeah idk the glitchtrap thing threw me off for a bit lmao why does it look like that 💀 wow I rly used to just watch people play these games for entertainment without thinking about the plot 😭 I'm kinda glad I only got into the lore now tho since it's actually all put together but I could talk about it forever it's just so ??? Like it actually sounds like a horror story rather than just games with jumpscares and nothing else yk

OMG i watched like half of it .. still now finished yet though ITS 1 HOUR LONG I SNSHWJ i’ll watch it nexy week maybe 😆 and yes william really meant it when he said he always comes back.. like ok peepaw u do ur thing ig 🙄 yas ballora is their mom…. william made her based of her and that’s kind of …😥unsettling ngl. yeah the game released are apparently not in order so it really confuses everyone including me😞😞 AND YEA!! i didnt knew before that bite of 87 was caused by mangle but now that i think of it that must’ve been bad ☹️ i really sympathize over the dead children .. like. all of them. they died just to get stuffed??? like theyre children pls what😭 yea marionette’s story was sad 😢 (i will be honest i cried alot watching the storyline. of fnaf bye) yea i was kinda confused why suddenly help wanted is all about vanessa but its okay… ig??😨 i dont mind if the game stopped anywhere but can we stop having that peepaw pls!!!!! so tired of him ugh🙄 OMG chica liker????? i lovee her design its soo cute!!! she’s been my fave since the first game LNDKWMW help. GLITCHTRAP LOOKS SO????😭😭 ew. why it be looking like that………….. help😭 i never really got into the lore before until like. the 4th game cause of the bite of 83 and suddenly i just started binge watching the lore videos again… and i mean like almost all of them that i cant grasp which is which 😭 it’s fun though, i’m really glad that a horror game with jumpscares has like , insane lore.. enjoy it lots

[beastwars-transformers]

@prussianmemes i’m greatly exaggerating because this was more awkward than explosive but I went to a local con for my birthday last year and I wore the megop bag as a crossbody purse and the Soundwave bag as a backpack. Now this con was geared more towards anime so I expected nobody to really care but I wanted to wear them anyways.

While browsing a little Lolita fashion shop in the dealer’s hall, I hear someone shout “is that the decepticon logo?!” (The yaoi bag has one alongside an Autobot pin) so my ears perk up in hopes of a fellow fan. First warning sign: it’s a guy in a suit.

We made our greetings and one alarm bell goes off for me: the only TF related stuff I had watched by then was TFP and Bayformers. Maybe a few episodes of G1. This guy has seen. ALL OF THEM. So now I’m stuck with a fanboy because I’m separated from my friends and I have no idea what to say because I’m way out of my league.

What follows is snippets of conversation I remember for being even more embarrassing. More so for me being stuck in this and having nothing to add than him:

Me: (fuck the yaoi bag is so stupid uhhhh) hey i also have my soundwave ita check it out! *turns around*

Him: cool buuuuuut I wish Balster got more attention he’s way cooler than Soundwave :/

Me: *has only seen blaster on a merch page once* oh um. Sure hehe.

———

Him: do you have any obscure favorite character in the series?

Me: uhh I like Windblade! She’s really cool I hope she shows up more

Him: yeah but she’s so obviously the fan favorite and they make her like win like all the time like how in Cyberverse she was kicking ass while Optimus was struggling it doesn’t make any sense. It’s really dumb.

Me : (oh fucking no) well women should. Always win haha *said in between the ongoing rant*

———

Me: (oh wait if I mention that I’m a bayverse defender he’ll get annoyed and this will finally end!!!) oh uh well. You should know that I like the Bayformers movies hehe *points to my commission button*

Him: oh my god I loved the Bayverse movies too! Especially since…*this keeps going and I just made it worse for myself.*

———

Somehow the conversation started to talk about how distraught children were when Optimus died in the ‘87 movie

Me: it’s kinda funny cuz when I was 7 and watching ROTF I wasn’t upset at all when Optimus was brutally killed by Megatron haha

Him: well that’s because modern media has a lot more death than media in the 80s people back then didn’t expect their main characters to die so they were a lot more shocked than us today *this also keeps going. No matter how times I try to interject I was the same age as those kids in 1987 or the fact I only watched MLP and Disney back then, I am not heard.*

———

The last funny thing was that the conversation finally turned towards TFP, still my favorite so I can talk about it. If I could ever get an edge into this conversation in the first place.

Anyways. He started saying “it’s awesome how in TFP how crazy Megatron is” and it was very clear his next part was going to be “and how he doesn’t love anything” but I swear I saw his eyes flick down to the bright yellow yaoi button sitting on my chest and immediately course corrected and said “and how he’s so destructive and angry”

This was the only time I influenced the conversation probably.

Anyways. During this entire time I was trying to edge away and browse the Lolita shop we were in to escape. It doesn’t work because he keeps following me and keeps talking.

He decides to give me one last jumpscare by asking for my name. By this point I was just kind of frustrated with all of this and I wanted to find my friends again, but now I was straight up panicking. Paranoia sets in hard for me when this happens, when I feel like I’m being hit on. So I gave him my go-to fake name and prepared for the worst. He just told me his name, stuck out his hand. We shook hands and he left. I was free. I crashed at the concessions stand and texted my friends to find me so we could go to the artist alley. All while trying to slow my heart and assert the fact I am not in any danger. This is also stupid because paranoia in an anime con is stupid.

Let me make one thing clear. It’s pretty obvious this guy was somewhere on the spectrum. This was probably his favorite thing and just wanted someone to talk to about it. And I was the worst person to talk to about it because how I like TF was very different from how he liked TF. I should’ve been more forthright about wanting to leave. Maybe mention my friends and how I had to go find them or something. I’m not really mad at him at all. It’s just a funny experience looking back. I wouldn’t mind to see him again if we do ever cross paths. Maybe we could talk about beast wars.

But. That was a relatively small, local con. I’m going to a big one in March. Peter Freaking Cullen will be there. I’m afraid. Very afraid.

I wanna go to this con nearby and wear my ita stuff but idk if it would be safe to bring the robot yaoi bag since peter Cullen is there

[i-demand-a-hug]

So, as I mentioned earlier I bought the first Five Nights At Freddy’s game. I’d only ever watched walkthroughs on YouTube, so I wanted to try it for myself. I want to try analysing the series as a horror game, considering I am an outsider to the fandom.

I knew beforehand that the animatronics can only get you if you use the cameras. The game’s designed that the jumpscare only happens when you put the camera down or just when you’re using the camera. What’s stopping you from just sitting in the room without using the cameras at all? Foxy. He can attack you regardless of whether or not you’re using the camera, and he’s much more likely to attack you if you don’t check on him. He’s basically the game’s way of punishing you for not using the camera. Even on the very first night Foxy can attack you if you don’t use the camera.

In buying the game I wanted to see if I could go through the game without using the camera and just keeping the left door closed, since that is the door Foxy always comes through. My answer: no. Just keeping the one door closed and doing nothing else drains too much power. It’s easy to run out of power when you’ve just reached 4am. At one point I tried to see if I could wait until 1am before I closed the door to see if that helped, only to find Bonney had already broken the buttons. Not only that, Foxy tends to bang on the door if you close the door on him, which drains a little bit of your power. One time he managed to drain a whole 10% of my power with just one hit. You can’t know when Foxy’s about to attack without checking the cameras, so this is a strategy that needs much more work.

All in all, the game really does do a good job of building up a scary atmosphere. You’re met with dark rooms, animatronics that are creepy as heck even when they’re not moving, and fuzzy camera feed that means you have to peer closely to see if there’s something there, which would make it easier for jumpscares to... well, scare you. There’s also the creepy glitch-y like jumpscares here and there, as well as the sound effects such as footsteps, singing, cheery music, laughter, as well as sounds from the kitchen which is suspiciously the only room you can’t look into. Jumping to a camera only to find an animatronic staring right at you gives a good Weeping Angel effect, which, if you’re like me and grew up with Doctor Who, is immediately creepy. Also, there’s little easter eggs here and there that are easy to overlook. A poster will show Freddy ripping his head off, or all the broken animatronics will be staring at you suddenly, or the animatronics will start glitching to make it look like they’re moving, or there will be mysterious newspapers suddenly, etc. All of this is made to unnerve you, which is effective for a horror game.

Personally, I think the first one is the best in the series. It’s simple with enough easter eggs here and there that point to a deeper lore. The future games, however, while creepy or scary in their own right, often have the extra purpose of continuing the lore: people are returning to the games not to play a scary game but to see if they’ll finally discover the truth behind the mysteries surrounding the games’ backstory. The second game had way too much going on in terms of mechanics. You had even more animatronics going after you, Foxy could jump out at you at any moment, you didn’t have a door and there were two air vents leading right to you. You get a Freddy head to wear instead of a door to trick the animatronics, but like Foxy in the first game there’s something to stop you from wearing the Freddy head the entire time: the music box. If you don’t periodically wind the music box, the Marionette gives you an instant death. With so much happening and so much to look out for, it’s easy to stop feeling scared and instead feel annoyed. The next games tone this down and give a much creepier atmosphere than 2, but also add more story: 3 shows the true killer and lets the spirits of the children be appeased, and 4 shows what really happened during the bite of ‘87 (or maybe not). Sister Location is by far the most story orientated of the games and gives you a different way of playing the game, and is also probably the most stand alone of the series aside from hints the opening dialogue gives. Whether or not it benefits or suffers as a game due to this is probably up to someone much more versed in these games and the lore.

Though I stand by my statement that the first one is the best, it also has its flaws. Many YouTubers are terrified by this game at first because they have no idea what’s going on or what they’re meant to do, but as they go through it they discover most of the scares are due to the jumpscares, and once the fear from that wears off it feels much more like a strategy game than a horror game. At this point many players find the gameplay tedious and enjoy it less than they did in the beginning, which causes the many criticisms fired at the game, especially after the fandom grew so large and the game became so well known. However, as an indie game I think it’s still very good, and definitely achieves what it was trying to do: that being a creepy game that carries mysteries beyond the surface impressions. The sprinkles of dark humour here and there are also a nice touch.

[backpfeifen-gesicht]

1, 8, 26, 40, 63, 70, 79, 84, 87, 127, 135, 138, 143, 154, 157, 192, 202, 208, 214

1-How are you? This winter’s been pretty hard on me, physically and emotionally! Not the best I’ve been, but I’m hanging in there!

8-What did you do on your last birthday? I don’t think I did anything!

26-Something you are working on right now: I’m trying to get better at how I spend my money! I’m trying to be more responsible in general.

40-What do you think about the most? I mean, it’s definitely girls and music. Not going to lie. But I do also spend a lot of time thinking about life in general, what I should be doing next, etc.

63-A quote you try to live by:“Don’t take life so seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.”

70-What is your favorite thing to do? I want to be cuddling all the time. But also nature hikes and aimless driving.

79-Your favorite ice cream? Oh shit. It’s either vanilla bean or orange sherbet! Or…both?

84-What’s your favourite scent? And on the opposite sex? My favorite scent in general is probably like a lemon verbena. I also really love sandalwood. On a ladytype, I mean, I don’t know any perfumes by name. If we’re talking general scent, cinnamon is nice, as well as lavender or rose. 

87-What are four things you can’t live without and why? Music because it keeps my mind active in entertaining ways. Friends, obviously, because duh. Comedy, because I love to laugh and see things differently. And, uhh, a good jacket! You need a good jacket.

127-What is the first thing you notice in someone? If we’re talking visually, it’s usually hair and eyes. If we’re talking, like, first thing I stop and take note of and appreciate, it’s laugh, sense of humor, smile for sure.

135-Say 1 fact about the person you like: She has an excellent choice in meals, and is a good cuddler!

138-Do you think someone has feelings for you? I don’t think it’s beyond reasonable to think so! I am actually a pretty cool guy most times. Charming at points, I would hope!

143-Have you ever liked someone you didn’t expect to? Absolutely! It’s not always easy to control who you are smitten with. I’ve definitely had it happen before and been like “wait what”

154-What’s something sweet you’d like someone to do for you? Oh god. I’m actually really big into the romantic stuff. A camping trip for two, a candlelit dinner, going to the beach at night (or anywhere far at any time) just to go - stuff like that.

157-Are you in love? I am, but I don’t think it goes both ways or that anything would happen! 

192-What type of movies do you like watching? I really like old musicals, horror movies (even though I hate jumpscares and generally swear a lot when I’m scared) and comedies.

202-What is the first curse word that comes to mind? Fuck! FUCK! FUUUUUUUCK

208-5 things within touching distance: Oh man guys, here’s my clickbait article on the top 5 things you ABSOLUTELY WILL BELIEVE I have near me!1. Toothpicks. I love chewing on the little fuckers!2. My vape! I was smoking cigarettes for a while (I blame a bad influence and ennui) and I switched to vaping so I can continue to satisfy the oral habit while intaking little or, lately, no nicotine. Definitely way healthier, smells and tastes better too!3. My phone. It’s a Samsung UHHHHH I think Galaxy J7 or something?4. A nail clipper. Don’t judge.5. A knife! It’s a fixed blade by Smith&Wesson, and it’s in a sheath. It is always a good idea to own a knife.

214-Leave me a ridiculous question: I think this was an instruction for you, the question asker? I am not entirely sure. Anyways TA-DA