#jack || [main] || route 15

[bxtonpxss]

@starchxsn || (Genya) liked for a one-liner!

“Is it safe to come out yet?”

[bxtonpxss]

"Uh... yeah they do?" She immediately retorts, eyes narrowing slightly in disbelief. "You never seen a Geodude or its evolutions before--or an Onix? Those guys are nothin' but moving rocks!" Where the heck did this kid come from? She gets quiet after that response, allowing him to finish with his explanation. She thinks long and hard about the rocks he was describing. Tall, colorful, and see-through? Oh. Wait... was he... talking about the buildings? In the city?!

"Uh, do you mean the buildings? Did you... maybe come from inside the city? It's that big place over there with the tall funny shapes." Even from this deep in the route, some parts of Fuschia City were still visible in the distance thanks to the extremely tall and oddly shaped buildings.

"Nice to meet you Littlefoot! Oh yeah, I'm sure it'll be fine, my mama an papa are really nice!" Not to mention, it wasn't often Jack bought home guests that weren't a certain Houndour. "If we tell them you got lost, they'll be sure to help, and my mama used to have a trainer too! So she knows everything about human stuff an other regions!"

"no, they weren't moving, rocks don't move," at least not the rocks that were on the ground, there were such things as flying rocks in the sky though, but that's not what he was talking about. "they were tall, some had colors to them..some were even see through!" he was doing his best to describe the buildings, just didn't have the right word for them.

when he was offered a place to stay, the young dinosaur's eyes widened in excitement for a moment before his tail curled in around him.

"i'm littlefoot, but are you sure? i don't want to cause any trouble."

[novastaree]

it makes me mad that it’s obvious Adam wasn’t ever supposed to be a big part of the show but then made it so he was in a way but then continue to ignore him 

the title of his first appearance was “jump the shark” which means introducing a character arch or a plot line that is ooc, maybe adds a new character that is new and younger or doesn’t make sense with the rest of the story. usually to try and make it as good as it used to be but usually signifies a downplay in quality or popularity. And having a third Winchester brother was exactly that.

of course the twist of the episode was that he was dead all along and it was kinda of “hah you were mad for no reason we aren’t going that route!”

But instead of keeping true to that they then reintroduced him and threw that away and made him the scapegoat for dean’s inescapable problem with the end of the world to end the show off so Dean could have a happy ending.

but when the continued the show they never went back and tried to fix Adam’s plot line because they chose to go back to the original plan of ignoring him again.

but what really makes me mad is that at a few points spn really did “jump the shark” or at least imo especially in the later seasons there are huge power jumps and they introduced characters like Jack. they have ooc plotlines (szn 8) and lose the dark vibe and feelings the show was built on. And it felt hypocritical to Adam

when supernatural decided to continue past season five they should’ve realized “right Adam we could have left him in szn 4 but we broght him back time to actually wrap up this character” and ik in like szn 7 or smth like that he was supposed to have a plot line and jakes agents got in the way but the show still went quite about him except for two mentions of him. even without being on screen the could have explained what happened more than they did especially when the actually went down to the cage. but instead they were mostly quiet about him till he finally was able to show up in szn 15

and i LOVE midam but i feel how they showed up out of the cage would not have been what happened if they had had the time or the care for these characters.

now i obviously love adam but the show should have only kept him for “jump the shark” OR they should have given him the chance to be a real part of the series, especially because without him the show would have been really different especially the end of szn 5.

im not saying he should have been a new main character along side sam and dean but also not have a ten year gap in between appearances 

[destieltropecollection]

Destiel Trope Collection 2024 | Day 4: Hurt/Comfort

,,Hello, Dean." | @tami-ryver Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1,162 Main Tags/Warnings: Castiel teaches Dean Enochian, Dean Winchester Has Self-Worth Issues, Dean Winchester Has Self-Esteem Issues, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Castiel Takes Care of Dean Winchester, Pining Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester Loves Castiel, Castiel Loves Dean Winchester Summary: Cas teaches Dean Enochian and they both might get something more out of it.

Falling Inside The Black | @tami-ryver Rating: Mature Word Count: 1,715 Main Tags/Warnings: Demon Dean Winchester, Season/Series 10, Alternate Season/Series 10, Pining Dean Winchester, Pining Castiel (Supernatural), Castiel/Dean Winchester Mutual Pining, Castiel and Dean Winchester Need to Use Their Words, Cocky Dean Winchester, Castiel is So Done with Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester Ships Castiel/Dean Winchester, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), 5+1 Things, Pining, Mutual Pining, Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort Summary: 5 times Dean hates being a demon and 1 time he takes advantage of it.

Warm Embrace | @tami-ryver Rating: Mature Word Count: 2,957 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Kidnapped Dean Winchester, British Men of Letters (Supernatural) Being Assholes, Hunter Dean Winchester, Creature Castiel (Supernatural), Castiel Takes Care of Dean Winchester, Protective Castiel (Supernatural), Castiel is Protective of Dean Winchester, Escape, Coils, Hugs, First Kiss, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Angst, Scared Dean Winchester, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Gorgon Castiel, Medusa Castiel, Summary: Dean freezes. He is unarmed, Cas doesn't know how to use the gun and their only escape route is the door to Cas' right. Dean doesn't know what to do, he is paralysed with fear. He is going to die here.

Non Solum | @thisisapaige Rating: Explicit Word Count: 16,061 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Witch Castiel, Hunter Dean Winchester, Strangers to Lovers, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary: Castiel lives a quiet life, a solitary life, a lonely life. He cannot risk anyone finding out he is a witch, lest any hunters seek out his isolated cabin in the frozen Northern Wastes. Interacting only with those who require his healing services, Castiel constructs an existence that ensures he will be alone. Alone, that is, until a bloodied, dying man crawls up to his front door and threatens to tear down everything Castiel has built.

The River | @davidfosterwallaceandgromit Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 16,763 Main Tags/Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, Episode: s15e09 The Trap, Purgatory, Alternate Season/Series 15, Character Study, Angst, Season/Series 15, Divorce Arc Summary: Cas has seen Dean in every state from abject misery to desperate determination, but his essential nature has never changed. This, this fight against Chuck, it’s different. Ever since the cemetery, Dean is acting differently. Rewrite of 15x09 "The Trap," dealing more directly with Dean's control issues and Jack's death.

Love Me Anyway | @verobatto Rating: Explicit Word Count: 22,027 Main Tags/Warnings: Modern setting, CEO!Dean, secretary!Castiel, bodyguard!Castiel, friends to lovers, trauma, panic attack, coming out, character development, pining, falling in love, bi!Castiel, emotional hurt/comfort, PTSD, kidnapping. Summary: For five years Castiel Novak was CEO Dean Winchester's perfect bodyguard and assistant. Novak, the only man the powerful leader trusts. But one day, Castiel Novak quits his job all of the sudden because he wants to marry his girlfriend and have a normal life, leaving Dean speechless. Dean realizes he knows nothing about the best employee he had. As his world turns unexpectedly upside down, the famous CEO decides become Novak's friend to keep him close again. But try to become a "good selfless friend" is something new for Dean... and even more when he discovers through that path he may have feelings for Castiel.

Monster Crush | @thefandomsinhalor Rating: Mature Word Count: 22,441 Main Tags/Warnings: Canon Divergent, Episode: S07E01, Creature Castiel, Angel Castiel, Summer, Vacation Spot, Fluff and Angst, Sleepy Cuddles, Protective Castiel, Hurt Dean Summary: With Godstiel’s reign finally over and all the souls back in purgatory, Dean is aggravated (but not surprised) to learn that yet another problem has surfaced: Castiel, after recovering from the ritual, appears to be growing monster parts. As in, one second he has vampire fangs, and the next he has tattooed djinn arms. And then there are the tentacles. Castiel believes it will wear off. Dean has trust issues. Still hurt by his betrayal, Dean nonetheless decides that he and his mega-monster-shifter angel should lay-low somewhere isolated until they know more. Which makes it very complicated for Dean to keep giving him the cold shoulder.

Graceland | @deliciousblizzardshark Rating: Explicit Word Count: 24,554 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe- No Supernatural, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Mechanic Dean Winchester, Human Castiel (Supernatural),Trans Castiel (Supernatural),Trans Male Character, Road Trips, Getting Together, canon-typical child abuse, Religious Cults, mentions of transphobia, Found Family, Sam Winchester is Dead, Suicidal Thoughts Summary: Sammy died on a Wednesday morning, only a few miles away from where Dean was sleeping off a hangover, sprawled across his bed in a pair of worn boxers as if the world couldn’t hold any more trouble for him. -- Sammy's dead and Dean, who'd devoted his whole life to taking care of his younger brother doesn't know what else to do but to pack up the Impala and take to the road. It's only when he picks up Castiel, an escapee from a religious cult with ghosts of his own, that he begins to learn how to escape his grief and to believe there might be a place where he belongs.

His Angelic Wings Aren't | @Abletownshipnumber5 Rating: Explicit Word Count: 36,249 Main Tags/Warnings: Angel wings, post-season/post finale, Castiel's angelic grace, hurt/comfort, time travel, slow burn, canon-typical violence, kidnapped Dean Winchester, Traumatized Dean Winchester, Swearing, homophobic language, mildly dubious consent Summary: After Dean arrives in Heaven, he discovers Cas has been freed from the Empty by Jack. Jack transforms Dean into an angel so he can serve in Cas' newly formed garrison. However, their reunion did not go as Dean had hoped. Also, Jack brought back angels previously sent to the Empty by Team Free Will and some aren't happy with Dean.

[scoobydoodean]

so imagine emma somehow reappeared in season 15. i think we can all pretty much agree that dean would be quite emotionally affected by her, but how do you think sam would react? obviously he’s changed a lot since season 7, and of course they’ve had jack now, so do you think he’d feel terrible and admit he was wrong, or even with all that do you think he’d defend his actions? do you think he would bring up amy and let it become a bigger debate about other times they’d disagreed? thanks in advance if you answer :)

I certainly don't think Sam would try to kill Emma again. I think he saw killing her as a necessary evil in 7.13 due to his and Dean's tenuous psychological states, which caused Sam to assess her as a much more serious threat to Dean's life than Sam would at almost any other point in the series. Basically, in any other season, I think Sam would look at Emma with much more compassion, and would believe they had the practical capacity to try and get through to her (see: 1.16, 2.03, 4.04, 5.06, 12.04, 13.01-13.03). In another season, Sam would (imo) be willing to risk another surprise assault thinking they could handle it if it happened—especially in the future with the bunker at their disposal. But in 7.13, the brothers have no home (not even the impala), recently lost Bobby, and lost Cas. They have absolutely zero stability and no resources. Dean is suicidally depressed, and Sam is hallucinating. Sam does not believe he and Dean have the capacity to handle a brainwashed child who might show up and ambush them within that very precarious context, so he kills her. He has lost everyone and everything, and he absolutely will not risk losing Dean too. That fear comes out as rage at Dean in the car, but I don't think Sam killing Emma was mean-spirited or an attempt to punish him. It was just... incredibly cold and calculated.

Is there a reason why you pick season 15 specifically for an Emma revival? Sam navigating how to handle a revived Emma later in the series would be interesting, but I personally wouldn't do it in season 15. I'd do it a little earlier than that—maybe 13-14. Maybe it's just because of my bias against season 15... but it feels too... mytharc heavy? Sam's morals surrounding family sacrifice change around season 14/15 which adds another complication as far as how he might re-assess 7.13. I think Dean might just implode if he had one more thing on his plate in season 15 and a lot of the juiciest father/daughter bits would be subsumed by Dean's fears of Chuck meddling which to me would be a shame. I also think conflicts between Sam and Jack over Emma would be juiciest in season 13 or 14 and imo there's a lot of potential there that would be overcomplicated or missed.

In general though, Sam handles a lot of negative emotions and traumatic experiences by pretending they do not exist/never happened. This is why he immediately sows the narrative that Emma was not really Dean's child. So he can make that the story and invalidate any significance she might possess. Her coming back would force him to confront something he already knows deep down but won't face—that Emma was Dean's child who had been brainwashed by a cult, and Sam killed her in perhaps the most cold-blooded play he's ever (knowingly) made. It's possible that Sam would react negatively to being in Emma's presence because it would resurface those feelings and that Sam would eventually make justifications to try and shove all those feelings back down again. But I actually suspect if Sam went the "Well things have changed now but I wasn't wrong for what I did back then" route, his main conflict wouldn't end up being with Dean. I suspect his biggest hurdle in terms of family conflict would end up being with Jack in a season 13-14 context, because I think Jack would see their similarities, and it might color his perception of both Sam and Dean's reaction to him in early season 13. I think he'd have a lot of questions about how Sam could see the good in him but not Emma despite him being objectively far more dangerous than her and having actively demonstrated that several times by hurting and killing several people and almost reviving ancient evils, etc. I think it could revive some of Jack's early concerns over Sam wanting to use him and not really caring about him. I'd even wonder if he might see Dean's initial rejection as part of a foundation Sam himself laid when he killed Dean's child then went back on without any explanation. Like I think they could reach common ground and Sam could reassure Jack, but I think it could create some very juicy conversations surrounding Jack and necessary evils.

I don't NOT think Sam and Dean would have a conflict over Emma, but tbh one has to acknowledge that at the end of the day... there is pretty much nothing Sam can't get Dean to shut up about, including his own traumatic experiences in hell that Dean specifically does not ever talk about because of Sam. If Sam tried to kill Emma again, that'd be another matter... but if it was just about whether Sam was wrong for Doing All Of That...? I'm genuinely not sure I would look to Dean to reignite a war over it. If anything, he probably told himself the entire situation was all his fault a long time ago. Now if you push that Emma revival back to the CARVER era...

[lol-jackles]

First off, big fan of your blog! I read it like a newspaper every day.

What I wanna know is, if the SPN revival ends up happening, what route do you see them taking where they don’t mess with the canon? I think it would’ve worked out fine had Jensen not ret-conned quite a bit with the prequel. Now what? Will TW be considered canon? Is it better to let Sam and Dean rest and just base the revival between 15x19 and 15x20 so the endgame is not impacted? Wanna hear your thoughts specifically.

Also, a lot has happened between SPN’s end and now, and a lot more will happen still before the revival takes place. Speaking in terms of J2 and their friendship and their dynamic, particularly post prequel gate, should we expect to see slight changes in the SamDean dynamic come the revival as well? It can’t possibly be the exact same as how we got used to seeing it s11-s15 with this domestic bliss, we-are-eachother’s-endgame bliss.

Thank you friend.

The Winchesters was retconned to take place in an AU, so it is irrelevant to the main SPN-verse. Think how the Apocalypse World where Sam and Dean were never born has very little impact on the main SPN-verse. There is a pair of AU Sam and Dean running around in Brazil but again, no impact in the main SPN-verse.  So while TW is canon, it is entirely separate from our SPN.

Jared seem to like the idea that 5 years passed between 15x19 and 15x20 so I think there is a fair chance the revival could take place during those 5 years, Since Jared actually looks younger now than he did in season 15, then it can work.  (Sidenote: Jared started out looking normal in season 15 but midway through he trained for the marathon and gave himself the gaunt "runner face" that significantly aged him in appearance.)

 With Jack remaking heaven and keeping the angels away from earth and Rowena keeping demons away from the Winchesters, the brothers’ hunts return to the simpler days of monster hunting and explore new urban myths.

During these so-called simple monster hunts, Sam and Dean could go deeper into dealing their personal issues, which will draw them even closer leading up to the fateful Barn Scene day. Among the drama I would like to see closure to unresolved arcs, like what happened to Sam power?   Where are all the demons that Dean made during his apprenticeship as hell’s torturer?   Belphagore opened up that opportunity in season 15, which we also saw clues that not all demons are going to follow Rowena. Then we can have queen Rowena seeking help from the Winchesters to wrangle wayward demons either back into hell or into the Empty.

I expect we will still see the same Sam and Dean dynamic. First, based on the first and second convention after the prequel mess, the J2 magic was still there. Think of the times you haven't seen friends or family members for years and as soon as you re-connect, you immediately fell back into the old dynamics out of habit. Second, Hollywood is like an endless high school.  You may not have liked your high school but you find yourself going to every reunion because nobody else in the world know what you’ve experienced other than your classmates even if you hated them back in the day.  Many deep and casual relationships are based on shared experiences rather than actual compatibility. 

[loosesodamarble]

Hi, can you make an dating sim recommendation list from beginner level to hard for everyone who wants to start playing them and maybe give us all some tips too if you are okay with it.

Hello lovely, Anon.

I’m flattered that you would ask me for dating sim recommendations since, to be perfectly transparent, I’m also pretty new to playing dating sims. I’ve only been playing dating sims for about 4 years now and the list of games I’ve played through is limited.

Still, you came to me so I’ll answer to the best of my abilities!

For reference, these are the games that I consider to be part of my current library (some are completed and some aren’t but they are ones that I actively play at this time):

Code Realize: Guardian of Rebirth (+ the fandiscs Future Blessings and Wintertide Blessings)

Cafe Enchante

Collar x Malice (+ the fandisc Unlimited) [note: shortened to CxM for the rest of the post]

Winter’s Wish: Spirits of Edo

Radiant Tale (+ the fandisc Fanfare) [note: shortened to RadiTale]

Variable Barricade [shortened to VariBarri]

Virche Evermore: Error Salvation (+ the fandisc Epic Lycoris)

Piofiore: Fated Memories (+ the sequel Episodio 1926)

This second list is dating sims I’ve played to completion but aren’t ones I actively play at this time (either due to issues with technology or a lack of interest).

Cinderella Phenomenon (+ the fandisc Evermore) [shortened to CinPhen]

Nameless: the one thing you must recall

Dandelion: wishes brought to you

Backstage Pass

Royal Alchemist

Taisho x Alice [shortened to TaiAli]

Cupid Parasite [shortened to CupiPara]

In total, I’ve only really played 15 dating sims. (Also, none of these are titles available on mobile devices so anything I say in this post, I can’t guarantee also applies to mobile dating sims.) I also have a bit of knowledge about other dating sims from looking at discussion threads and researching the games to see if it was something I’d be interested in. I’ll just be using whatever information I do have about these games to answer.

If anyone just wants a straightforward recommendation list, just skip to the end, but if you want to read me explaining at length various aspects of dating sim difficulty, just keep reading from here.

So to me personally, there are three main factors that can contribute to a dating sim’s difficulty: gameplay mechanics, UI, and the story/writing of the games themselves.

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Part 1: Difficulty from Gameplay

The easiest level of gameplay would be dating sims which are purely choice-based visual novels. You read for a while and then you’re given a choice and that choice will affect character affection or scene progression. Most of the dating sims I’ve played are pure choice-based ones. To name them all, they’d be: Code Realize, RadiTale, Cafe Enchante, Winter’s Wish, TaiAli, CinPhen, VariBarri, and Virche. It really is as simple as choosing what to say or do.

The next level of difficulty when it comes to gameplay in dating sims are games with some kind of interactive element other than choice-making. I’m not just talking about minigames but the general idea of interacting with the game that isn’t just making choices. Granted, in some cases, the interactive element is a minigame. In CxM, the minigame is pressing a button in time with a visual cue on screen. Nameless has a card matching game in a majority of the routes (it’s either 3 or 4/5 routes, I don’t remember exactly). I’ve also heard that the dating sim Jack Jeane has a rhythm minigame that comes up during each route.

Games like Piofiore and CupiPara have interactive elements that I wouldn’t consider minigames. Piofiore has a mechanic called Meanwhile Stories: at certain points during a route, the story will cut away to other characters and what they’re doing while the heroine isn’t around. Some Meanwhile Stories play automatically but others have to be selected by the player to be viewed. From my own experience, skipping out on seeing certain Meanwhile Stories will direct you to a bad ending in Piofiore (no joke, I was stuck on Orlok’s bad ending for so long before I realized I was forgetting to play the Meanwhile Stories). In CupiPara, the player is asked to answer a series of “Yes or No” questions to determine their Love Type; and depending on the Love Type result a player gets, that will determine the route ending one gets. Piofiore’s Meanwhile Stories and CupiPara’s Love Type test aren’t minigames but they are parts of the game that the player acts on and affects the story. And, well, some people might not want to deal with added elements.

The third level of difficulty for dating sims are the ones with stat raising elements. Of the games I’ve played, that would be Backstage Pass, Royal Alchemist, and Dandelion. You have to manage your beauty, stress, intelligence, etc on top of making choices to raise affection levels with a given love interest. Sometimes, you don’t even know how high you need a certain stat to be to pass a checkpoint. Those three titles in particular at least give players a few dozen save slots (as well as quick saves) so they can save scum and retry their stat grind. However, it can get tedious reloading a game over and over to get the optimal stat spread. So unless someone is comfortable/skilled with handling this kind of gameplay, I’d say a stat raiser is a harder type of dating sim.

The final and most difficult level of dating sim are games with much more intense/involved gameplay mechanics. I’ve never played games such as this myself. However, I’ve heard that games like Rune Factory and Boyfriend Dungeon have both dungeon crawling and dating sim gameplay as part of them. Action games aren’t inherently difficult but compared to purely choice-based sims, dating sims with more active gameplay could come across as harder.

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Part 2: “Difficulty” from UI

I use quotation marks because I haven’t played dating sims more demanding than a stat raiser and so the difficulty I’m talking about is subjective. Really, I’m talking about certain UI/quality of life features in dating sims that make them easier to play/complete. Those exact features are a skip ability and a love catch system.

Dating sims are games that take a long time to play. They are visual novels and so have a lot of text to read. A player probably doesn’t want to re-read every single text box when replaying routes to see all endings. All dating sims have the ability to fast forward through text that’s already been read; there’s even the option to fast forward through unread text (you know, for the folks who don’t want to button mash through bad endings). However, more recent titles give players the ability to not just fast forward but jump ahead in a route to either the next instance of new text or the next choice that a player needs to make. It’s a nice feature to have for those who want to save time on completing all endings or don’t want to put up with a route they dislike. It also helps since a player doesn’t have to worry about accidentally disabling fast forward in the middle of it and pausing their progress for a second. Having to wait as you fast forward through a game isn’t the worst thing in the world, but sitting and waiting for choices to come up in the game can be a drag.

Still, if you’re the type that wants the convenience of a “skip to next choice” feature, then CinPhen, TaiAli, CupiPara, Virche, VariBarri, RadiTale, and Winter’s Wish all have that feature.

The second UI feature I brought up is the love catch system. The term refers to a feature which gives players indications of when they make good choices and increase the affection level of whichever love interest they are pursuing. This can take the form of a status screen. Or the game might give players a visual or audio cue (sometimes there both) when they make a right choice to increase affection. Several of the games I’ve played actually do both, giving players cues when they make good choices and letting them check a status screen to see how much affection they’ve built. A love catch system is a valuable tool for decreasing game difficulty since it guides a player to the good ending the first time around. It’s also helpful for players who seek out bad endings first, for those with an “earn your happy ending” mindset (it’s my preferred playstyle). Not to worry for those who want to play blind and be surprised by what ending they get, the games that give the “good choice cues” allow players to turn off the cues (although the affection status screens still exist and one just has to ignore it to the best of their ability).

But then there are games that neither give a cue for good choices nor have a status screen to check in on. In that case, a player has to go in blind and just pray to the dating sim gods that they don’t accidentally get the ending they weren’t aiming for. The lack of a love catch system is especially frustrating in games with long common routes, the part of a game where the player is interacting with all the love interests and not playing the story of a specific character. Unless the choices are blatant like “talk to Character A” or “talk to Character B,” then it can be difficult to tell what choices will set a player on the character route they want to play. Then on a character route, the choices can still be vague and hard to tell which is good and which is bad. The only other choice is to play using a guide written by someone else to get one’s desired ending.

Games with no love catch system: Code Realize (and the fandiscs), Cafe Enchante, Nameless, TaiAli, CxM: Unlimited

Games with in-game cues but no status screen: CinPhen (and Evermore)

Games with no in-game cues but a status screen: Piofiore (in Fated Memories, it’s kinda difficult to understand; it’s easier to follow in 1926)

Games with both in-game cues and a status screen: Winter’s Wish, CxM (yeah, I don’t get it either; why have a love catch system in the original game but not the fandisc?), RadiTale (and Fanfare), Virche (and Epic Lycoris), VariBarri, Royal Alchemist, Backstage Pass, CupiPara, and Dandelion.

Again, as I said at the start of this section, the “difficulty” I talked about here is subjective and the features are more quality of life than actual gameplay complexity.

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Part 3: Difficulty from the Writing

Just like Part 2, this aspect of a dating sim’s difficulty is subjective.

What I mean by a dating sim’s writing making the game difficult is that the content of the story might be too dark or heavy for some people.

Dating sims, like any genre of game, tell a wide range of stories. They can be goofy, dramatic, horrifying, and so on. Some stories are realistic while others are off-the-walls bonkers. If someone is looking for pure, unadulterated fluff and romance, that’s going to be hard to find. Just looking at my own experience with dating sims, the stories have a variety of tones and a wide range of topics that they cover.

I made a tier list to visualize what I feel the tone/intensity is for each game. Remember, this is my personal opinion regarding these games.

Fuck you and your happiness tier: Virche and Piofiore Gets heavy but it's not soul-crushing tier: CxM, Code Realize, Cafe Enchante Heavier topics have a presence tier: Royal Alchemist, Winter's Wish, TaiAli, Nameless More happy than sad tier: RadiTale, CupiPara, CinPhen, Dandelion Honestly not much to worry about tier: VariBarri, Backstage Pass

Let me also provide a general list of potential triggers and content warnings for each game. I’ll work my way up in intensity.

Backstage Pass: Depictions of anxiety. Sexuality, age gaps, and public perception are topics that come up depending on the route. At worst, there are strained family dynamics in a couple of routes.

Variable Barricade: Arranged marriage is a plot point. One particular routes includes attempted sexual assault and threatening suicide.

Dandelion: Mentions of terminal illness, depiction of emotional abuse, inferiority complexes, obsessive partners, and threats of violence.

Cinderella Phenomenon: Mentions of a past war, depiction of political corruption, murder, child abuse. It should be noted that one romantic interest is the heroine’s step-brother but they weren’t raised together and are hostile acquaintances at best before the game’s events.

Cupid Parasite: There’s kidnapping, romantic obsession, stalking, and attempted sexual assault. It’s also a bit more sexual than the other games I’ve played; nothing outright explicit but simply more sensual.

Radiant Tale: There’s fantasy violence and a lot of emotional baggage. Emotional trauma, terminal illness, political corruption, enslavement, and self-sacrificing mentality.

Nameless: Self-loathing, school bullying, physical abuse, attachment issues, emotional manipulation, and sexual assault.

Taisho x Alice: Topics include financial debt, arranged marriage, obsessive lovers, eating disorders, child abuse, mental health, suicidal ideation, kidnapping, and substance abuse.

Royal Alchemist: human trafficking, political corruption, assassination, human experimentation, brainwashing, concerns over war, and mass murder.

Winter’s Wish: Mild fantasy racism, kidnapping, violence against children, sex work, description of a corpse, attempted suicide, dubious consent, and terrorism.

Cafe Enchante: Age gap romances but are, for the most part, unrealistic (centuries old nonhuman characters). Depictions of self-sacrifice, unwanted bodily transformations, brainwashing, cannibalism, kidnapping, and mass murder.

Code Realize: genocide, chemical warfare, psychological conditioning, terrorism, emotional abuse, kidnapping, attempted murder, and attempted suicide.

Collar x Malice: The police, as an organization, play a large role in the plot but they are not wholly good and even get blamed for multiple tragic incidents. The game has terrorism, online bullying, alludes to bullying in a school setting, kidnapping, murder, stalking, and brainwashing.

Piofiore: The mafia in this game don’t play nice. There’s revenge, gun violence, murder, human trafficking, weapon trafficking, drug trafficking, religious indoctrination, abuse of faith, kidnapping, and sexual assault.

Virche Evermore: This game has a lot of dark content. This review includes a visual indicating all the potential triggers. Though I do believe it should be mentioned that Mathis’s route’s bad end does also heavily imply sexual coercion.

If you are sensitive to any of the heavier topics that I mentioned, I would have to advise against playing these games or to play those games with caution.

Subject matter can make a piece of media difficult to approach or enjoy. For a genre like dating sims, it’s largely marketed as romance games, but the stories the games tell aren’t always romantic but rather dramatic and emotional.

For easy to digest dating sims, I would suggest anything from the lowest two levels of my tier list. But for something darker or more plot heavy, the higher levels are there too.

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Thank you, Anon, for sending in your ask. I’m sorry if my reply is longer or more confusing than you thought it would be. I just wanted to give my honest and thorough thoughts on the matter of dating sim recommendations.

Let me finish my post by giving my top five dating sim recommendations based on the factors I mentioned before and some other factors.

#5: Cupid Parasite. Despite my own lack of overall interest in the game, I can still point out what makes the game worthwhile. It’s got the quality of life features that more recent dating sims have. It’s got a fun blend of fantastical and modern elements. It makes interesting use of mythology in places. The cast is colorful in design and personality. The side characters actually get up to some interesting things too, depending on the route you play. Overall, it’s a comedy but it can still provide the soft, sweet moments of romance as well as more intense drama scenes. There is a fandisc but I’ve never touched it and even without it, Cupid Parasite on its own feels like a complete and fulfilling story.

#4: Code Realize. You don’t have to get all three games but at least the first, Guardian of Rebirth, is worth a recommendation. It is one of the heavier games but even with the sorrow and drama, there’s always a happy ending where the heroine and love interest are able to be other and work towards a brighter, happier future. This game doesn’t come with the nifty UI features that make ending hunting more convenient, but with how many charming little gems are in the story, I think replaying routes from the beginning is the way to go.

#3: Royal Alchemist. I’m not terribly fond of the stat raiser element, it was still a very charming game to play. Everything is drawn beautifully, it’s very easy to get into the flow of the game, and all the characters were pretty interesting. Not just the main character and love interests but also side characters helped build the world and made it feel genuinely lived in. The political intrigue plot in the game is ever-present but it doesn’t loom so heavily over the player that they can’t have fun. It’s an indie project and is $20 on Steam so cheaper fare than the dating sims from a studio like Otomate.

#2: Variable Barricade. Although one route touches on some heavier topics, it’s generally very light-hearted and goofy. The love interests are presented as problematic weirdos but they’ll hopefully grow on you as you play and you’ll see there’s more to love than a picture perfect image. The game has a good skip feature and easy to follow love catch system. What’s nice is that the one game is a complete package (other titles have fandiscs where, while not necessary to get a complete story, you might be compelled to buy a fandisc to get more content of the characters). Also, it’s one of the few dating sims out there with a voice heroine.

#1: Cinderella Phenomenon. This was the game to really get me hooked on dating sims. I will never not recommend this game to people. The art is cute and feels kinda timeless to me, the characters are charming and lovable in their own ways, and the routes are uniquely compelling (from the more interpersonal drama of Rod’s route to the trauma-fest that is Fritz’s route). I kinda rag on the step-brother route but the character himself is actually a good guy and I can’t hate him beyond the awkward position the game put him in. Evil gets defeated every time which is cool to see. The game’s heroine is one of a few who get to join in on the action, depending on which route you play. It’s a straight-forward choice-based dating sim with UI features that makes it easy to get the good endings and easily replay to see the bad endings. Also, it’s free to play on Steam and itch.io. And the fandisc Evermore is only $10. It’s pretty accessible price-wise for anyone who plays on PC.

If my post helps anyone in their search for dating sims, I’d be happy. But I’m also happy to just talk about this somewhat understated passion of mine.

Once more, thank you Anon for your question. And thank you to anyone who took the time to read this post, either in part or in full.

To everyone, have a love day or evening, and take care of yourselves.

[moons-of-milo]

https://www.tumblr.com/moons-of-milo/784010840264294400/yall-wanna-hear-about-the-fucken-uhh-into-the <- IM ONE HOUR LATE BUT YES

HELL YEA OK !!!! TW for like bullying and mentions of suicide bee tee double you !!! more under cut yay

Mylo C. (UTMV s/i) is the main one !! he dates Night ofc (though sometimes I will just draw errormare bc I kin error!!). "MyloMare"

He lives in night's castle and hangs out with the 'bad sanses' and is a very silly werewolf werecat thing.

he has the most lore (which I may write and post eventually) but basically if we reeally dumb it down: NM is drawn to Mylo's AU "Undersky" due to the negativity -> he reminds NM of his younger self -> Mylo's bullies try to drown him -> NM takes Mylo in -> yaoi -> Mylo learns that NM is low-key a terrorist after getting kidnapped by the star sanses & they have a whole angst arc -> The bad sanses and dream truce -> MORE YAOI :)

Mylo "Warden" C. (Creepypasta s/i) is slenderman's adoptive son and lateeeerr Jack's bf "KidneyKeeper" is their ship name lol

He's the most simular to me in physical appearance since he's meant to be an older version of an alternate universe me.

Basically he lives basically the same life as me (but is being stalked by Slenderman) -> but at 14/15 he tries to commit a double suicide with an AU version of my current bf -> bf succeeds but Mylo fails & ends up spending a month in the psych ward -> The literal second he gets out he buys an axe, makes a mask, and kills his whole family in the middle of the night. He becomes the "warden" of the creepypasta manor and makes sure that nobody gets in or out who shouldn't !! he meets jack and they start dating after Mylo gets hurt and has to spend a while under jack's supervision bc I'm a stubborn mf

Mylo Vermin (Helluvaverse s/i) is either Vox's bf or Alastor's weird pet freak depending on the route. Their ship names r "StaticRat" & "RadioRat" respectively

He's a rat demon who died and went to hell for making viruses that cost several companies billions of dollars in damages & committing hella fraud !!! He was also probably low-key a scammer.

The minute he gets to hell he creates a computer virus that costs voxtek MILLIONS IN DAMAGES ^__^. Depending on which AU this is he's either is snagged by Al to prevent Vox from getting his hands on the rat boi's computer skills, OR Vox takes him and forces him to use these computer skills on his behalf. Either way, shenanigans ensue.

Mylo "Doc" C. (Pokemon s/I) Is GUZMA'S BF !!! their ship name is "Phasmid" or "Exoskeleton" bc they specialize in ghost and bug types respectively

I lied he's actually probably the one who looks most like me considering that he is literally just an older me. He's also 1/2 zoroark. His Pokemon team consists of Decidueye , Ditto , Gengar , mimikyu , and 2 twin lycanrocs if u were wondering :3 also bonus trevenant but his typing is redundant and I considered giving him a pallosand but again redundant-

Basically !!! He's from Unova but gets yoinked by CPS because he's basically an orphan -> gets adopted by a lady in Alola where he meets Guzma when they're both like 12 -> gets taken by CPS AGAIN bc the lady low-key sucks so he has to go back to Unova -> then moves BACK TO ALOLA to study and become a pokemon biologist where he and guzma reunite awww

Mylo C. (FNAF s/i) He dates Sundrop and Moondrop ! their ship name is "Skyzone"

He's again basically just an older version of an AU me-

AuDHD dysfunctional rat of a college student somehow lands a job w/ fazbear entertainment !!! He's basically their "handler" and does nightly repairs on the boyz !! when the pizzaplex burns down he lowkey steals them and they live 2gether yayyy

[lavender-teardroplettes]

All (current) Si ships - Updated 5/15/2024

Another look into all the ships for Si that I currently have running around my head at all times. The backlog for art is still long and I continue to pile onto it like the down-bad fool I am. Some ships have been removed due to falling outs, let's leave it at that. ❤️

Note: There will always be more I just need to establish lore for new ships/get around to seeing how I think Si would fit well with.

Here we go part 2, electric bugaloo!

RH:

Ezra x Si (main pairing admittedly)

Exra x Si x Chris (Guard Dogs au)

Ezra x Si x Bess

Si x Bess

Si x Steph (accidentally angsty but also cute besties to lovers)

Si x Steph xBess

Si x Sammy (⚠️horny⚠️)

Si x Chris

Si x Chris x Bennie (realized I could add him to the list now lol)

YaH

Si x Adam

Si x Cain

MDHM

Si x Alan

Si x Stu (mostly were au, but some in game angst hohoho)

Si x Jules (I've been eyeing him recently)

STNAF

Si x Friend

Si x Carter

Si x Z ( were!Z though still *knuckle bite harder*)

Be My Muse (LMRY)

Si x Zecharias

Si x Salvador (waiting on more lore but Sal and his cute lil tsundere crush- *gets pelted with a violin bow*)

SWWSDJ

Si x Jack/Jacktor

Si x Shaun (da-

Si x Nick(-ddies)

Si x Ian (ex-boyfriend and angsty purposes until more lore is dropped)

DachaBo

Si x Bo

Blackberry Winter

Si x Conrad

MINE/FLVN

Si x Keith

Si x Damien

CWP

Si x Harper

Si x Malik

Si x Malik x Gavin

Si x Dante (yan!Dante yan!Dante yan!Dante----)

Si x Gavin

Si x Sophie

Si x Jazz (yes anon got me thinking of them both lol)

Mushroom Oasis

Si x Mychael

ATA

Si x Douglas

Would You Stay?

Si x Virgil

Si x Virgil x Rizza

Would You Pick Me?

Si x Mikey

Si x Jack

Si x Narrator

ADSM

Si x Charles

Si x Charlie

Si x both of them maybe?

Seven Blood Nights

Si x Ares

Si x Beelzebub

Si x Morpheus

Si x Eros

Si x Hubris

The Kid at the Back

Si x Sol

Si x Crowe

Weathering Feelings

Si x Dr. Nubloso (uwu if you know you know)

Yandere Island (so far with current routes available)

Si x Markus

Si x Oliver

Si x Torrin

Si x Nicholas

Don't Trust Him (as far as the current demo goes it's being reworked)

Si x Riley

Si x Dia

Si x Leon

Froot Basket Valentine

Si x Momotaru

Love Me Dearly

Si x Takuma

Duplicity

Si x Tris

Si x Griffin

Vile Strangers

Si x Theodore

Yan ocs w/o a game

Krow x Si (@ thekrows-nest)

Vic x Si (@ starsetven)

Avery X Si (@ starsetven)

Si x Miles (my oc)

BG3 (Si’s a Teifling btw uwu)

Si x Will x Karlach (trying for this in current play through, but will be happy with just Karlach lol)

Si x Halsin

Si x Astrion (not romanced in game yet)

[bxtonpxss]

@sillymuses

Jack's been watching the bigger cat quietly for a while now, curiosity etched upon her little face. "Whatcha doin' mister?"

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

Okay when I was like 14/15 I was REALLY obsessed with Into the Woods since the Disney version had come out recently, and I was ALSO obsessed with Ever After High since the series was at its peak at that point

You can see where I'm going with this already I'm sure

I had this whole scenario in my head that I adored, where Headmaster Grimm wanted to illustrate to the students the dangers of going off-script, and so mandated a performance of Into the Woods, that he cast and directed himself

So to start with our main two girls, Grimm casts Raven as the Witch, so she can practice being evil and doing evil magic, using people to get what she wants, and because of the Witch's relationship with her mother. Apple is cast as the Baker's Wife, the leading lady who is kind, clever and caring (but also has a thing for Cinderella's Prince)

The Baker, main man, is played by Hunter, since part of what the Baker does in the story is save Red and her Granny from the Wolf. Cinderella is Ashlynn of course, as well as Jack being Jillian and Red being Cerise. All self-explanatory enough

Cinderella's Prince is Daring, and Rapunzel's Prince is Dexter. The two Charmings playing the story's two Prince Charmings. Daring is more full of himself and cocky, and gets to have a fling with Apple's character. And Dexter is more sincere and not really invested in the stakes of the main events, just trying to pursue his and Rapunzel's own happily ever after. Also, these two singing Agony together would just be hilarious

I always thought Rapunzel would be played by Holly until the Witch cuts her hair, then it would switch to Poppy haha. Also the Wolf used to be Sparrow until they added Ramona as a character. And of course Grimm would cast Ramona as the Big Bad Wolf, but Sparrow as the Wolf was so funny

Ashlynn's step-cousins will play her stepsisters, and Farrah will be her mother's spirit who makes her ballgown for her. And Tiny, of course, will play the Giant's Wife.

At that point we've covered everybody whose destiny plays a part in Into the Woods so the rest of the roles go to whoever would play the part best! Duchess is cast as the Stepmother, because I think she would just be great in that role. Same with the casting of Lizzie as Jack's mom, I think she could make that really really funny

Briar could also be funny as Granny, and Alistair I think is the only guy left who could give an even somewhat emotional performance as the Baker's Father. Sparrow is relegated to Cinderella's Prince's Steward, which is a great hateable character that Sparrow could make comical!

I saw a production of Into the Woods where the Narrator was a separate character that had a little spotlighted podium just off-stage. After Rapunzel gets crushed by the Giant's Wife, the characters all suddenly become aware of the Narrator and realize if he hadn't started telling the story none of this would have happened. So they grab him, drag him onstage, throw him under the Giant's Wife's foot, and then come up with their plan to take her down themselves, knowing they're really the ones who are coming up with it. If Ever After High decided to go this route with their production, I think Maddie should be the Narrator, since Brooke can't actually appear at the school.

And last but not least, Milky White will be Humphrey Dumpty in a cow costume

There are so many little tidbits and moments from the EAH production of Into the Woods that have lived in my head rent free for like 8 years, but this post is already long enough so I'll leave it here! I hope this is entertaining to somebody out there

[frostedturquoise]

I don't know, maybe its just funny because it's been like idk 10 going on 15 years and i had the thought while cooking noodles today that ended up continuing into my 'have a coffee and try to find this missing pair of pliers for a separate (non bead) craft project (spoiler, i did not, in fact, find them. so it is now a problem for later me) In my misery of having to take antibiotics that are easily almost half the size of the whole first half of my pinkie finger on an heavily inflamed throat and anything i hear sounding both half muffled and doubled over, i gave up on trying to catch up on podcasts because it was disorientating so here have this ramble instead, that is fuelled by three layers of sick, and just plain boredom and lamenting my inability to just lay outside and suffer without being told 'your sick nobody wants your germs; because i alas live in a unit complex where the only 'yard' is a communal space and i am yearning for an open space with good active airflow, preferably heavily forested. Under a read more because none of you definitely asked for this ramble lmao. It might get pretty long and i remembered this time.

Anyway the point:

It is so so fucking hilarious but sad that in all that time up until my brothers ex girlfriend started yammering the fuck on about a gatcha game and its fucking companion anime. FUCKING she sole it better than the friend group around 2010-2018ish did. the whole time. She had better opinions of characters that i had heard nothing good about the the whole time and its funny i only looked at shit because i wanted a better flow of conversation than asking her sixty thousand things because most of the names she was rattling off i had no fucking CLUE about. Sure being gatcha only with no context her thinking Archer Emiya was a dick is fair, less context for why but infinitely funnier because he is less of a dick than the version the Extended Friend Group (of like twelve people minimum) used to rag on about. In all honesty im glad i was more distracted by the whole 'now where the fuck have i heard about that series from i cant place it' while knowing jack all but somehow coming across as knowing enough that people just never clocked on that i was the only person there who had like, never actually touched any of the content just knew a handful of things in passing. Just-- man it would of been so fucking funny if everyone was honest and none of them took the 'sheeple route' as they would of put it so they didn't rock the boat with an minority opinion.

I don't know shit outside scraps outside anything but ONE portion of the anime of the OG game plus scraps about the VN itself and the rest is random piecemeal outside wiki dives to understand what the fuck Gatcha Girl(tm) was saying so i can asked more targeted question than like asking a million of them and wasting time. And yet shit they thought was flat or they didn't get was as subtle as taking a solid wooden cricket bat to the nose. I got far more depth than i was expecting and maybe its good that t came waaayyy later so i didn't wind up roasting upwards of 9-12 people by accident for having piss poor analysis skills. But, in saying that, it would be unfair because i was That Guy/Girl/Whatever whose shit in 2012-13 was held together by two paperclips and a rubber band due to having jack all free time because i either couldnt sleep but Had To Be Considerate Of A Whole Dormitory(tm) and couldnt even fuck off for midnight walks to waste time only for m weekends to be mostly spent asleep for two years because it was the only time i could catch a break. (long story short being unable to stay weekends i had to redo ALLLL my classes on year one because my main classes were OFF site so grade 11 was a total disaster because despite asking nobody told me i had elected for like. the worst classes for what i wanted. So outside The Crew adjacent classes it was boring as fucking sin and i was sick of getting mixed results depending on what class i chose well beneath the original ones i had pencilled in and or ones i took that were useful to pad time. or that had to no excuses.)

So i find it funny that i came across as just? A bit moody if well adjusted and collected despite 80% of my time being 5.4 seconds and an single errant Bad Stimuli away from an vibrating gif thats captions are just 'AAAAAAAAAa' But that said i may of got too good at underplaying shit because nobody liked my flat honesty so neutral dismissive answers it was because 'eh things are okay (my lived definition of 'okay' at the the time was three steps away from abysmal given life circumstances)' or 'could be worse' because i spent almost my whole life being dismissed because 'other people have it worse' or fifty other nonsense dismissive answers. So it was easier to internalise everything and say nothing at all because nobody likes it when you ACTUALLY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINGS.

So needless to say a lot of the 'bad flat boring characterisations' were as obvious as a bat to the face. Like it takes one 'liar via omission' who just keeps i trucking on despite having like 2345678 internalised issues and fucky wucky guilt over could have beens to spot another from a mile away. But honestly that 'subtext' was so fucking obvious even in OG shit im floored that this shit has been under a paper thin layer of the surface of my internet circles since fucking forever and i spent like eight years with an overaching friend group who talked about it WAY more than i thought. (even if 25% of the time it was memes lmafo) and im only finding out recently??

So yeah if at the time i would of been asked 'OH what makes YOU say that?' due to being the Sole Opinioner (out loud anyway) being grilled about that one would of been so fucking 'shishitshtshit' because id have to try to blatantly skirt the real reason why it was super mega obvious outside obvious in your face shit by mistake. Very much the kind of character you 'get' in ways you wish you didn't that makes you want to beat them up with a frying pan while telling them to get over themselves. But man, given his situation i wouldn't blame him for going of the rails since i wouldn't expect someone like that to react rationally.

Not sure if it was he meme exposure brainrot, or if??? They were just genuinely so dense that they couldn't even have a decent grasp of Rin or Shirou. Hell it'd probably be a tie between Shirou and Archer who?? Just??? They had collectively completely missed the most characterisation of, it going over their heads entirely.

Still, in hindsight its funny how shit panned out the way they did, my cousin telling me the shit he did only for like eight years later to be more caught up on 'holy shit how were you ALL this dense. it was obvious. in your face obvious' part whenever the series comes to mind half the time that, y'know, the actual context.

But maybe now that this half out of it ramble is out of my system i will hopefully think about it less.

I still cant believe it took them like eight to ten years to figure out i never knew jack all about Fate as an whole, and it was all because they thought a OC i adapted for a DnD game was a direct reference to it.

But honestly i still, outside this, do most of my facepalming over the characterisation of mythological figures (man waaaaay too many white people. why.) which sometimes is funny, sometimes novel, other times weird and 'whhhhyyyyy' but file it away as 'Fate Edition(tm)' in ones head as a clean degree of separation. Also whatever the fuck is up with the reasons why most characters i know the names of that are NOT white being not-white due to??? magic?? yeah sure i guess whatever but it seems to be a weirdly recurring pattern that is like 'idk man. people can tan. people can just be not white-white its just variability in human nature dont be weird about it' is probably, well. Yeah what the fuck is up with that? Ironically the first thing about canon i decided to yeet out the nearest window because man that's just fucked. dont. So i try to not think about the excuse for why they are like that. Even if not because of the weird possibly undertones, but because i am an human being that's as white as a fucking ghost but if i get any kind of regular sun im just...not? That happens. That and just ye ole 'oh wow the variations all look different though!' well golly gee they are from different timelines so MAYBE that version just looks different, so what. SDFGHJKL

Honestly outside the whole having to pause something to bitch with Gatcha Girl(tm) over Gil being a fucking blue eyes blonde pasty ass pretty boy and being Offended(tm) as a kid who was interested in any kind of mythology i could get my hands on. Its in the same boat as when i was a kid i used to be all 'they are in egypt! Why is everyone wwhhiiitteeee' I too, want to clock him over the head with either a cricket bat or a heavy ass cast steel frying pan. But for different reasons.

Fuck honestly i think im just running out of shit to say that doesn't end in the topic completely fucking pivoting to something irrelevant outside the series itself. Namely because when i was talking to my brothers ex gf while wiki diving i was all 'oh i remember that name!' and just-- fucking flat out said without shame at 3am on whatever day of the week it was that Cu Alter looked biteable. Which was more than she probably wanted to know, but before that point i had already listened (read) about her gushing about like five characters that were in the Babylonia anime anyway so fair was fair i guess.

But by the nines when i unwittingly started this abysmal metaphorical snail aces media road trip i did NOT expect a backlog of fuck knows how long the series has been around of unwitting second and tri and whatever onwards hand exposure to lead to an almost net zero correlation of information. Its bad when you learned more from the piss poor overplayed memes than like?? Anything you had heard people sat before maybe idk october last year. With the exception of when she first talked about it back when he was still going out with my brother maybe but never followed up on because it was a bus week and i just flat out fucking forgot to ask the follow up questions because i don't care if i don't know jack shit i could carry a conversation about an actual concreteish topic over random nonspecific smalltalk.

Fuck. I dont know man. Shits weird. Shit i have had some weird experiences before with fandoms, but this has by far been one of the worst with this main situation being the sole criteria. Still nowhere near as awkward as going 'shit idk what character to pick i just want to START' with Borderlands The pre Sequel (which i knew nothing about aside from maybe two cutscenes and a few lines and second hand accounts of an event from) and rolled a die, got good ole timtams, and had the abysmal experience of playing a a character that was forced to pretend to be someone lse while being hounded by relatives who hounded me for being 'different' or 'too emotional' when i dont know man i gave up on pretending for the sake of a social appearance and when someone is chronically sleep deprived for a minimum of four years averaging like 20hr sleep a WEEK at BEST more than not. Someones not going to be the most emotionally stable. The game was good, but i could of certainly gone without that and a few other things that were so owwie i had to like. Turn the game off, flop over the couch, and stare at the ceiling for a few hours.

But man out of a minimum of twelve other people IRL how nobody 'got' something so simple -especially as ANIME ONLY WATCHERS- just?? miss?? So much glaringly obvious subtext that their only good opinion on some characters was 'cool aesthetics and stabby stabby devices'

IS it sad that i manged to go like?? Up until october last year without knowing both Shirou and Archer were THE SAME GUUUYYYYYY So final point before i decide to stop my tangent: Had i known that a certain discussion in the computer lab when i was in grade 12 would of gone drastically differently to the point the whole 'you?? never seen or read it?? dont know anything???' post DnD discussion would of been 90x more hilarious because it would of been a very jarring connection of dots that surely even an average joe who was just, normal average upbringing and was otherwise (mostly) decent would of been able to sandwich two and twp together given the shit that was said.

Hell maybe them thinking i KNEW was i was just too good at rolling with conversations while being all 'hmm i dont know shit but i can hazard a pretty good guess on this' if i chose to talk.

Ah. If you actually read all those take i don't fucking know, have a digital metaphorical facsimile of your beverage of choice because like fuck am i going back to read all my rambling that i just decided i wanted out of my head. Because you cannot give real ones out over the internet like this unfortunately.

[dailyrugbytoday]

New Zealand U20 team to play Argentina U20 Rugby Championship

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New Zealand U20 team to play Argentina U20 Rugby Championship

On 02 May 2024 at Sunshine Coast, Australia, New Zealand U20 performs the Haka prior to the Rugby Championship U20 Round 1 match between South Africa and New Zealand at Sunshine Coast Stadium.

Argentina defeated Australia handily, setting up a thrilling showdown with a winner-take-all format. Argentina looked impressive in this victory. The trophy will be awarded to the player who finishes first after the three round-robin matches.

Rico Simpson, the starting five, and Dylan Pledger, the halfback, are the main players who have changed. The majority of the second half was spent by the two players playing South Africa, with Simpson’s long throw being crucial in the setup of two tries.

The New Zealand U20 Rugby Championship

When World Rugby combined the Under 19 and Under 21 systems into a single tier structure in 2008, the New Zealand U20 was officially designated as the senior age grade team in the nation.

New Zealand is one of the most successful teams and is currently regarded as one of the main routes to the Bunnings NPC, Super Rugby, and All Blacks selection.

Before losing in 2012, 2013, and 2014, the New Zealand Under 20s had won the first four World Rugby Under 20 Championships from 2008 to 2011. Wins came back for New Zealand in 2015 and 2017. With three apiece from England and France, New Zealand has won the most titles of any country with six total.

The team play on Tuesday at 7pm NZT.

Wellington’s second 5/8th Originally listed as a non-traveling reserve, Tofuka Paongo enters the midfield and lines up next to vice captain Xavi Taele, who shifts to the centre.

Stanley Solomon will now be on the left, and Frank Vaenuku will take King Maxwell’s place on the right flank. Isaac Hutchinson is replaced at fullback by Sam Coles.

Cam Christie takes the field at lock for the forwards while Tom Allen moves to the bench. Crusader Johnny Lee shifts to the bench in the back row, and Matt Lowe takes over at openside flanker.

Read more about New Zealand U20 score with South Africa U20

New Zealand’s Rugby Championship Under 20 Schedule:

New Zealand vs South Africa, Thursday 2 May, Sunshine Coast Stadium, Australia – Draw: 13-13 New Zealand vs Argentina, Tuesday 7 May, 7.00pm NZT/5.00pm AEST, Sunshine Coast, Australia New Zealand vs Australia, Sunday 12 May, 5.30pm NZT/3.30pm AEST, Sunshine Coast, Australia

New Zealand U20 team named announced

1. Will Martin (Chiefs, Waikato) 2. Vernon Bason (Hurricanes, Manawat?) (c) 3. Joshua Smith (Hurricanes, Hawke’s Bay) 4. Cam Christie (Blues, North Harbour) 5. Liam Jack (Crusaders, Canterbury) 6. Andrew Smith (Chiefs, Waikato) 7. Matt Lowe (Crusaders, Tasman) 8. Malachi Wrampling (Chiefs, Waikato) 9. Dylan Pledger (Highlanders, Otago) 10. Rico Simpson (Blues, Auckland) 11. Frank Vaenuku (Chiefs, Bay of Plenty) 12. Tofuka Paongo (Hurricanes, Wellington) 13. Xavi Taele (Blues, Auckland) (vc) 14. King Maxwell (Blues, Auckland) 15. Sam Coles (Hurricanes, Manawat?)

Reserves:

16. Manumaua Letiu (Crusaders, Canterbury) 17. Sika Pole (Blues, Auckland) 18. Kurene Luamanuvae (Blues, Auckland) 19. Tom Allen (Hurricanes, Hawke’s Bay) 20. Johnny Lee (Crusaders, Canterbury) 21. Ben O’Donovan (Crusaders, Canterbury) 22. Cooper Grant (Crusaders, Tasman) 23. Josh Whaanga (Highlanders, Otago)

New Zealand U20 opening match results

Two of the team’s five changes to the backline that began in the 13–13 opening draw against South Africa will come on Tuesday, May 7, when Dylan Pledger and Rico Simpson take the pitch as the new halves tandem.

The second five-eighth While King Maxwell moves to the right flank and Sam Coles to fullback, Tofuka Paongo enters the midfield to partner vice captain Xavi Taele, who moves out to centre.

There are just two alterations in the forward line-up: Matt Lowe at openside and Cam Christie at lock. Sika Pole and Manumaua Letiu also make the matchday roster; the two front-row players are placed in the reserves.

[trainsinanime]

Let me introduce my current main WIP. It's not fandom related, it's for my model railroad, and it's not yet finished.

This is a rendering of a circuit board that I'm designing at the moment. It will be a DCC command station. My model railroad is run digitally, which means the tracks carry digital signals that tell each locomotive and switch individually how to run, which lights to turn and so on. The command station is the device that generates that. I have a number of different layouts, one of which has a good command station, one of which has a crappy old one, and the final one isn't even digital yet. So this will be the one that solves all issues for me, hopefully.

The design above isn't finished yet, and even the parts that are are not yet fully representative. The different capacitors are just there as options; some screen print overlaps; and some components (in particular all plugs and the relays that control the programming track) don't have 3D models so they don't show up.

Planned features:

Four layer board

10-25 V DC output, software controllable

Up to 5A output power, limited mainly by the main switching regulator.

Input 15-25V either AC or DC with polarity protection, selectable with some solder bridges (not yet in there). Optionally you can also bypass the main power regulator with another solder bridge (that I haven't added yet); useful in case you use e.g. a laptop power supply with a switchable voltage and don't need any regulation after that.

Railcom support

USB connection; not yet sure what for, but the main chip I'm using has USB support and I have some spare USB connectors here, so in it goes.

Speaking: The chip is an STM32L433RCT6P, chosen because I found it in stock at an electronics distributor. 64 kB RAM, 256 kB EEPROM, with support for an additional up to 256 MB externally (there's a spot for that on the board) and lots of fun extras that I don't technically need. It has an FPU! I don't need an FPU, but I will definitely do some floating point math computation on it just for fun.

Main external connection is WLAN using an ESP32 WROOM U module. I haven't decided on the housing, but I may go for extruded aluminum, so it's the U version that allows and requires an external antenna

It supports XBUS/XpressNet connections for old throttles from Lenz and Roco that I should probably throw away, but I paid good money for them, dang it.

It supports CAN for LCC / OpenLCB. I may not populate this part on all boards that I'm building, because I haven't actually decided whether I am interested. But the chip has CAN functionality built in, so why not.

There's an I2C connection to connect a cheap tiny OLED display for status messages.

Test points for all important signals (in particular the different internal voltage levels; yes, there is 3.3V, A3.3V and -3.3V and I need all of them).

Stuff still to add:

I will add pin headers (or space for pin headers anyway) for all the remaining pins on the STM32, and perhaps some on the ESP32, for future expansions.

Status LED and stop/go button on the front

Wire it all up, maybe move some stuff (mostly the STM32 around), which will cause all sorts of fun new routing issues.

Adjustments to make the jacks line up with the front panel once I've decided on a housing.

Features I'm not considering adding:

s88. I vaguely know what it is but I don't have any devices like that, and if that ever changed I could probably build (or perhaps buy) a converter that connects them via CAN.

Other buses like LocoNet.

Ethernet. I don't need it and it's actually more expensive than WLAN in this day and age.

In terms of software, I'm planning to use DCC-Ex on it. The whole project actually started out as a DCC-Ex shield, but once I realised that this wouldn't fit, I decided to make it standalone. Now, DCC-Ex is designed for Arduino, not STM32, and it doesn't support XpressNet, nor OpenLCB, nor Railcom, and their Wifi protocol is pretty weird and annoying which will be an issue (I'm planning to write my own control app for iPhone for it), so I'll probably change that or just replace it with the z21 one… so really, the software will not look a lot like DCC-Ex once I'm done with it.

Will this all work? I have honestly no idea. I mean, I'm fairly confident, I'd have given up on this long ago otherwise, but I have no guarantees either way until I've spent a lot of money on components and circuit boards and start soldering. Turns out doing it this way is not really cheaper than just buying a half-way decent one. That's what makes it exciting, though!

If it does work, obviously this will be released as open source. But it's still going to be a few days (more realistically weeks) before it's even ready to order the parts, and then a lot of soldering (current BOM stands at 194 actual components), and then a lot of software development before it's ready for that.

[no-i-didnt-notice-im-short]

CM Criticism.

I am writing this instead of sleeping so bear with me.  These are just a few, believe me i have more and i might make a part 2 of this post focusing more on the others. (if you want that, tell me so i can speed it up. imma write it anyways)

Part two of this rant

Mind you, Criminal Minds is one of my favorite shows so this is coming out of a place of love and maybe I am a bit late to the party considering i started watching it fully this year only.

I took a break from Criminal minds a while ago to catch up on Supernatural’s seasons 13,14 and 15 before 15.5 aired 2 weeks ago (then i re-watched a few of the earlier seasons for nostalgia reasons) and once i went back to season 13 of Criminal Minds (i am currently mid-14) i can’t help but hate this tiny very important detail of CM’s:

They should’ve fleshed out the characters more.

They should’ve gave us more episodes of the BAU being a family and just chilling. There is a reason S7 finale is the best one. They should’ve gave us WAY more character-centric episodes.

There were some episodes that could’ve been replaced with an episode that focused more on our main characters with their families or with their traumas instead of it being just 5 mins at the end of the episode.

Have they not noticed how well the episodes that focused on our characters did?

Entropy. God, Entorpy. That whole episode had a case but it focused on my boi Reid and it’s the highest rated episode of the show.

100, Zugzwang, Profiler Profiled, Minimal Loss, Amplification, True Genius, LAUREN, Damaged... so on.

I know the first two have deaths in them that make it heartbreaking, but the others don’t.

They RARELY address anything on this show.

Reid was a DRUG ADDICT. This should’ve been addressed way more than it was. And not just in passing like S7 Ep2 did. Why didnt they show us Reid sympathizing with drug victims. They had cases with non-consensual drug use. What about going to more meetings? Don’t get me fucking started how poorly they handled it with the team’s LACK of reaction or help or support.

What about his friend (ex-lover but i am not gonna touch on that, they totally fucked in New Orleans) Ethan? Was he even mentioned again? Why is Reid shown as a loner all throughout the show but they said he coached basketball ball and had a friend in Ethan. I get the characteristic of him being a loner and the bullying but he did say that “his social standpoint changed once he coached basketball” also he seemed to have friends in that episode in S1 at the bar. He plays chess in the park, surely there were people his age.

Also is he not close to Will? I feel like he would be considering he is his son’s godfather. Also i want to know how well Reid and Stephen Gideon knew each other. They hugged when they saw each other at Jason’s funeral. Were they friends through Jason?

What happened to his Headaches? Was that really just a reason to introduce Maeve into the story? I don’t think so.

They showed Reid buying a piano, did he learn how to play?

He was banned from casinos in Las Vegas, what’s the story there and how was he caught.

He took care of his mother from 8 or 9 to 18. That needed to be addressed more. Also she slapped him in S12, that is 100% not the first time from Reid’s reaction so i want to know if he had to avoid CPS and how.

Hotch was abused as a child and this was mentioned ONCE. The whole show revolves around trauma, why did they never address it again? He lost hearing in one of his ears due to an explosion and it was mentioned in just ONE other episode. At least his stabbing scar tissue made a reappearance in episode Route 66 with the hallucinations which was also truly one of the most heartbreaking episodes. The only consistent thing they did on this show is Hotch’s relationship with Jack and i am grateful for that.

Hotch’s exit was unjustified and childish. I get that there was a problem BTS but Hotch was is one of the MOST IMPORTANT characters on the entire show and they did us so dirty. It was rude and disrespectful. Did he really not contact the team after Mr. Scratch died besides to tell them that he’s not coming back?

Garcia is a adopted and they mentioned it in 2 episodes. She was recruited instead of going to Jail, she was a criminal. A well respected criminal.

JJ had a miscarriage and Emily had an abortion.

I wanted to know more about Morgan’s home life, his sisters and his mother. What happened to his cousin? Why was he placed in the BAU from the Bomb Squad? That’s a big shift. Is he working now or retired. (i don’t think this was mentioned). Why didn’t they show us his reunion scene with Reid? He meant more than the world to Spencer, not just Garcia. I can’t believe Reid would not tell Morgan he was in prison. Also was Reid named Hank’s godfather? i know Garcia isn’t his godmother.

Look i am not saying all this determines a character’s entire... character. But i just wish they humanized them more then just 5 mins at the beginning of the episode and 5 mins at the end or 2 or 3 episodes out of a 22 episode season. These facts are all we have. The show had 324 episodes.

Maybe i am this worked up about it because I went from re-watching Supernatural to Criminal Minds and they work with two different formulas. But if they had just fleshed out the characters a bit more, it would’ve been better. (Not that Supernatural is any better but that’s another post)

[twentythousandvolts]

Skrillex From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Skrillex Skrillex in 2011 Skrillex in 2011 Background information Birth name Sonny John Moore Born January 15, 1988 (age 33) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Genres EDM[1]brostep[2]dubstepelectro houseEDM trap moombahtonpost-hardcore Occupation(s) DJrecord producermusiciansingersongwriter Years active 2004–present Labels AtlanticBig BeatOWSLAAsylummau5trapSumerian Associated acts From First to LastJack ÜDiploDog BloodBoys NoizeForeign BeggarsEllie GouldingHikaru UtadaZedddeadmau5IncubusJustin BieberPoo BearTHEY. Website skrillex.com Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American DJ, record producer, musician, singer and songwriter. Growing up in Northeast Los Angeles and in Northern California, he joined the American post-hardcore band From First to Last as the lead singer in 2004, and recorded two studio albums with the band (Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count, 2004, and Heroine, 2006) before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007.[3][4] He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore joined the Alternative Press Tour to support bands such as All Time Low and The Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of Alternative Press' annual "100 Bands You Need to Know" issue.[5]

After releasing the Gypsyhook EP in 2009, Moore was scheduled to record his debut studio album, Bells, with producer Noah Shain. He ceased production of the album, however, and began performing under the name Skrillex, distributing the My Name Is Skrillex EP for free download on his official MySpace page. Subsequently, he released the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP in late–2010 and More Monsters and Sprites EP in mid–2011, both of which have since become moderate commercial successes. On November 30, 2011, he received five Grammy Award nominations at the 54th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and won three: "Best Dance/Electronica Album", "Best Dance Recording", and "Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical".[6] On December 5, 2011, the BBC announced that he had been nominated for their Sound of 2012 poll.[7] On December 12, 2011, he was also named MTV's Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year.[8]

Skrillex has won eight Grammy Awards, more than any other electronic dance music artist.[9] Skrillex has collaborated with Diplo and Boys Noize to form the groups of Jack Ü and Dog Blood respectively. It was announced on Moore's 29th birthday, he reunited with From First to Last and released a single named "Make War". In 2017, Skrillex produced and mixed 8, the eighth studio album by rock band Incubus.[10] In July 2017, Skrillex released another single featuring debuting solo artist Poo Bear.[11]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 From First to Last 2.2 Dog Blood 2.3 Jack Ü 2.4 2004–2007: From First to Last 2.5 2008–2013: Solo career and extended plays 2.6 2014: Recess 2.7 2016–present: Collaborations and return to From First to Last 3 Influences 4 Personal life 5 Discography 6 Filmography 7 Awards and nominations 7.1 Grammy Awards 7.2 Kids Choice Awards 7.3 MTV Video Music Awards 7.4 Annie Awards 7.5 DJ Magazine top 100 DJs 7.6 Electronic Music Awards 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Early life Moore lived in the Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles,[12][13] but was brought to the Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco at the age of 2, where he attended elementary school. At the ages of 9 and 10, Moore attended a boarding school in the Mojave Desert LV, but eventually moved back to Northern California. Both of his parents were Scientologists.[14][15] He was adopted at birth by family friends of his biological parents and did not find this out until he was 15.[16] By the time he was 12,[citation needed] his family moved back to his birthplace of Northeast Los Angeles. There he enrolled in a private academy school specializing in arts, the school used some of L. Ron Hubbard's teachings.[17] Later he was home schooled at the age of 14 due to bullying. In 2004, he learned he was adopted[18] and dropped out of the program when he was 16.[19][20] While a young teenager in Los Angeles, Moore would attend punk gigs in Mexican American neighborhoods in East and South Los Angeles, and later at electro club raves in the downtown's Silver Lake and Echo Park neighborhoods.[21][22]

Career From First to Last

Skrillex's logo Main article: From First to Last From First to Last is an American post-hardcore band based in Los Angeles Area and Tampa, Florida. The band is composed of lead vocalist Moore, lead guitarist Matt Good, rhythm guitarist Travis Richter, bassist Matt Manning, and drummer Derek Bloom.[citation needed]

Dog Blood Main article: Dog Blood Dog Blood, a side project by Skrillex and Boys Noize, was formed in 2012. Their debut single, consisting of the songs "Next Order" and "Middle Finger", was released on August 12, 2012, on Beatport and iTunes. The song "Next Order" managed to top Beatport's Techno chart.[citation needed]

Jack Ü Main article: Jack Ü Jack Ü is a duo made up of Skrillex and Diplo. Jack Ü's debut performance took place at the Mad Decent Block Party in San Diego on September 15, 2013, which is a nationwide tour that record label Mad Decent puts together to showcase different artists signed to the label.[23] Diplo announced the project by releasing the Mad Decent Block Party lineup with Jack Ü playing at multiple stops on the tour. After some guessing by many of who Jack Ü was, Diplo finally came out to reveal that "Jack Ü ... means Skrillex and Diplo together".[23]

2004–2007: From First to Last

Sonny Moore in 2008 In 2004, Moore contacted Matt Good of From First to Last about playing guitar for the band on their debut album. After flying out to Georgia, Moore was heard singing by three studio producers, Derrick Thomas, Eric Dale, and McHale Butler, and was then made lead singer, with Good playing guitar. In June 2004, Epitaph Records released the band's first full-length record with their new bandmate, Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count. After performing on several successful tours, two being the Vans Warped Tour and Dead by Dawn tour, they began recording their second album, Heroine with producer Ross Robinson. The album was released in March 2006 on Epitaph. With high record sales once again, the band found themselves part of many successful tours, until Moore started suffering vocal problems, causing the band to resign from several tours. After going through a successful vocal surgical procedure, Moore informed the band he would be permanently resigning to work on a solo career. FFTL's last show performed with Moore was in their hometown of Orlando at The House of Blues while touring with Atreyu.

Moore announced he had left From First to Last to pursue a solo career. He then launched a Myspace page displaying three demos ("Signal", "Equinox", and "Glow Worm"). This led to Moore's first performance since his leaving From First to Last. On April 7, 2007, alongside harpist Carol Robbins, Moore played several original songs at a local art building. After months of releasing demos via Myspace, Moore played on the Team Sleep Tour with a full band. The tour also featured supporting acts Monster in the Machine and Strata. Moore made several demo CDs available on this tour, limited to about 30 per show. These CDs were tour exclusive and were packaged in "baby blue envelopes", each with a unique drawing by Moore or bandmate.[24]

2008–2013: Solo career and extended plays

Skrillex in 2012 In February 2008, Alternative Press Magazine announced the second annual AP Tour, with All Time Low, The Rocket Summer, The Matches, and Forever the Sickest Kids, as well as Sonny Moore. The tour started in Houston, Texas on March 14 and went through North America, ending in Cleveland, Ohio on May 2, with the majority of the shows being sold out. All bands playing the tour would be featured on the cover of Alternative Press Magazine's annual 100 Bands You Need to Know special, and would be interviewed on the Alternative Press Podcast. During this tour, Moore's line-up consisted of Sean Friday on drums, Christopher Null on guitar, and Aaron Rothe on keyboards. On April 7, 2009, he released Gypsyhook, a digital EP, which featured three songs and four remixes. Also included was "海水" ("Kaisui"), a Japanese version of "Mora". Physical copies of the EP were available at his shows. After going on tour with Innerpartysystem and Paper Route and opening for Chiodos on their European tour, Moore performed at Bamboozle on May 2. He performed on Bamboozle Left's Saints and Sinners stage on April 4. He toured with Hollywood Undead in April 2009 performing under the band name Sonny and the Blood Monkeys, with Chris Null (electric guitar), Sean Friday (drums, percussion, and beats) and Aaron Rothe (keyboards, synthesizers, programming, and turntables). Moore has stated that the album Bells will not be released.[25]

In 2008, Moore began producing and performing under the alias Skrillex at clubs in the Los Angeles area.[26] The name, according to Moore, has no meaning and was "a stupid old online AOL screen name".[27] Previously, he had been known on the Internet as Twipz.[28] On June 7, 2010, Moore released his official Skrillex debut EP, My Name Is Skrillex as a free download.[29] Moore provided programming and vocals for UK metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon on their third studio album, There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret.[30] Later in the year, Sonny began a nationwide tour with deadmau5 after being signed to mau5trap recordings and released his second EP, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.

(L to R:) Porter Robinson, Zedd, and Skrillex performing at SXSW on March 16, 2012 Moore kicked off the "Project Blue Book Tour" in 2011 with support from Porter Robinson, Tommy Lee and DJ Aero as well as appearances from Sofia Toufa for a new song, "Bring Out the Devil". Skrillex unveiled several new songs on this tour including "First of the Year" (formerly known as "Equinox"), "Reptile", and "Cinema" (remix of a Benny Benassi track). "Reptile" was featured in the TV commercial for Mortal Kombat 9, and "First of the Year (Equinox)" is featured on More Monsters and Sprites, his follow-up EP and remix companion to Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. In April 2011, Spin premiered "Get Up", an exclusive new track from Korn that was produced by Skrillex. Korn made the track available for free download via their Facebook page.[31] On April 15, 2011, KoRn joined Skrillex on stage for his set at Coachella 2011. On April 18, 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEA) development studio Naughty Dog released a trailer[32] for the multiplayer component of their PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, featuring "Kill EVERYBODY" from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.

In June 2011, "More Monsters and Sprites" was released on Beatport, an EP consisting of three original tracks, including "First of the Year (Equinox)" and two versions of his original track "Ruffneck". The track "Ruffneck Bass" had been leaked on the internet months prior which used the same sample as in the new "Ruffneck" tracks on the EP. Skrillex released a music video for "Rock n' Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)" on his official YouTube page on June 20, 2011.[33] On August 17, 2011 Skrillex announced his label, OWSLA.[34]

Skrillex performing live at the 2011 Ottawa Bluesfest "The label's first releases will come from Bristol-based dubstep producers KOAN Sound, electro-house newcomer Porter Robinson from North Carolina, singer-songwriter Alvin Risk, and San Francisco-based M Machine (formally Metropolis)."[35] Skrillex released a music video for "First of the Year (Equinox)" via Spin.com on August 19, 2011. In late August 2011 it was released that he would be appearing Knife Party's first release, collaborating on "Zoology", a Moombahton style track. A preview was released on YouTube. In late September 2011 he created the track "Syndicate" as promotion for the video game of the same name. Kaskade's 2011 album Fire & Ice features "Lick It", a collaboration between Kaskade and Skrillex. The video for Skrillex's song "First of the Year (Equinox)" appears on the first episode of the Beavis and Butt-head revival.

On November 8, Skrillex stated that he intended to release an album, Voltage. Skrillex gave fans more info about Voltage in RockSound Magazine after a photoshoot for the cover and doing an extensive interview on his tour.[36] For unknown reasons, however, the album was never released, however on December 21, 2011, Skrillex unveiled the Bangarang EP for a Beatport release on December 23, then on August 12, 2012, his new side-project formed with Boys Noize called Dog Blood released an EP called Next Order/Middle Finger. On November 6, 2012, Skrillex released a limited edition triple vinyl box set.[37] Skrillex composed the song "Bug Hunt" for the 2012 animated film Wreck-It Ralph, as well as making a brief cameo as a DJ in the film's first act, and in December 2012, "Make It Bun Dem" is used in as a looped variant during the single-player mission 'Kick the Hornets Nest' in the video game Far Cry 3. He composed the score for Spring Breakers with Cliff Martinez.

2014: Recess Skrillex confirmed at a show in January 2013 that he would release a new LP in the summer.[38] On January 2, 2013, Skrillex released his 7th EP, Leaving, on the OWSLA subscription service, Nest IV.[39] He later released the single "Try It Out" with Alvin Risk.

On March 7, 2014, an App titled "Alien Ride" was put up on Apple's App Store which contained a secret folder with 11 hidden objects and a countdown ending March 10 at 6:30EST. Moore's website was updated with the App's picture on the front page and it was later revealed the folder contains Google Play and iTunes url's which eventually were revealed to be 11 new songs available to stream that comprised his debut LP, titled Recess. The album was made available for pre-order at midnight and was released on March 18, 2014.

2016–present: Collaborations and return to From First to Last Skrillex was getting into the K-pop industry by collaborating with the girl group 4Minute. On January 25, 2016, Cube Entertainment released the tracklist and individual teaser images for the members. The first track, "Hate", was composed and arranged by Skrillex.[40]

On January 15, 2017, Moore tweeted "Happy Birthday" with a link to a new From First to Last song which featured Moore on vocals.[41] He later joined the band in Emo Nite LA for the first time in nearly a decade.[42] In 2017, he released the songs "Chicken Soup" with Habstrakt, "Would You Ever" with Poo Bear, "Saint Laurent" with DJ Sliink and Wale and "Favor" with Vindata and NSTASIA.

In July 2018, Skrillex teased fans by collaborating with Missy Elliott on a snippet nicknamed "ID", a release date for the single has yet to be announced.[43]

On October 8, 2018, Skrillex uploaded a photo to Twitter showcasing a collaboration between him and English DJ and producer Joyryde, later posting a video teaser of the song to Instagram.[44][45] The collaboration, "Agen Wida", was officially released on October 19, 2018.[46][47] On October 24, 2018 on Instagram, he previewed the song "Arms Around You", a collaboration featuring XXXTentacion, Lil Pump, Maluma and Swae Lee. The full single was released on October 25, 2018.[48]

Skrillex, Poo Bear, and Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada collaborated on "Face My Fears", an opening song for the video game Kingdom Hearts III. The single was released on January 18, 2019.[49][50]

On July 18, 2019, Skrillex released a two-track EP, Show Tracks, consisting of "Fuji Opener" featuring Alvin Risk and "Mumbai Power" featuring rapper Beam.[51][52]

Influences Moore has cited Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails[53] and the Doors[54] as early influences. Moore stated in an online interview that he is a longtime fan of Warp, a label whose roster includes notable electronic artists such as Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.[55] In an interview for Daft Punk Unchained, a 2015 documentary about the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, Moore said he was first exposed to electronic dance music after attending the duo's highly praised 2006 Coachella set.

Personal life In a 2015 interview, Moore stated that although his parents practiced Scientology, he does not. He explained that music consumes most of the time he could theoretically devote to religion.[14] His mother died in June 2015.[15]

Discography Main article: Skrillex discography Studio albums Recess (2014) Filmography Let's Make a Spaceship (2014) Moore partnered up with Red Bull to produce a documentary titled "Let's Make a Spaceship". It premiered on October 11, 2014, at 10 p.m. CT at the ACL Festival after his headline performance.[56] His performance and documentary, and others' performances are available for stream at Red Bull TV's website.[57]

Awards and nominations Grammy Awards Year Nominee / work Award Result 2012[58] Himself Best New Artist Nominated "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" Best Dance Recording Won Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites Best Dance/Electronica Album Won Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go – "Cinema (Skrillex Remix)" Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Won "First of the Year (Equinox)" Best Short Form Music Video Nominated 2013[59] "Bangarang" Best Dance Recording Won Bangarang Best Dance/Electronica Album Won Promises (Skrillex & Nero Remix) Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Won 2016[60] "Where Are Ü Now" (with Diplo and Justin Bieber) Best Dance Recording Won Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü (with Diplo) Best Dance/Electronic Album Won 2017[61] Purpose (as a featured artist, producer & engineer) Album of the Year Nominated "Purple Lamborghini" (with Rick Ross & Beat Billionaire) Best Song Written for Visual Media Nominated 2019[62] "Midnight Hour" (with Ty Dolla Sign & Boys Noize) Best Dance Recording Nominated Kids Choice Awards Year Nominee / work Award Result 2017 Himself Favorite DJ/EDM Artist[63] Nominated MTV Video Music Awards Year Nominee / work Award Result 2012 "First of the Year (Equinox)" Best Electronic Dance Music Video[64] Nominated Best Visual Effects[65] Won 2013 "Breakn' a Sweat" Best Visual Effects[66] Nominated 2015[67] "Where Are Ü Now" (with Diplo featuring Justin Bieber) Best Visual Effects Won Best Art Direction Nominated Best Editing Nominated Song Of The Summer[68] Nominated Annie Awards Year Nominee / work Award Result 2013 Wreck-It Ralph Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production[69] Won DJ Magazine top 100 DJs Year Position Notes Ref. 2011 19 New Entry [70] 2012 10 Up 9 2013 11 Down 1 2014 9 Up 2 2015 9 No Change 2016 9 No Change 2017 16 Down 7 2018 21 Down 5 2019 21 No Change 2020 15 Up 6 Electronic Music Awards Year Nominee / work Award Result 2017 "Purple Lamborghini" (with Rick Ross) Single of the Year[71] Nominated See also List of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists