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aza-trash-can · 5 months
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I finally got up off my ass and read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream last night, and I'm still thinking about it. Like, holy fuck, holy fuck
I think I need to re-read it while taking notes or something, cause there's just... it's a short story, but my god does it hit hard
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allthatdivides2 · 1 year
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every night i ask myself. do i watch a horror movie or do i play minecraft. and the decision is impossible every time
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star-mum · 4 years
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LIVE REACTION TO NIGHTMARE TIME EP 1
Idk if anyone would even be interested in reading this but as I was watching the show last night I kept writing down my reactions on my notes so here we are
*this is all in caps idk why just roll with it*
THE OPENING SONG IS SUCH A BOP OMG NICK LANG HIMSELF ?????? MONSTER FUCKER RIGHTS ???? HIDGENS ENTRANCE HOW ICONIC "LUCY IS HAVING NONE OF IT" I LOVE THAT OMG JOEY PLAYING KONK (?) IS SUCH A POWER MOVE I LOVE THAT THE BEGGINING IS JUST TARZAN FANFIC SKSKSKSKS MARIAH IS TEXTING JOHN (?) AND HES LAUGHING SM WE LOVE A COMEDY QUEEN I LOVE THEM USING THE ZOOM BACKGROUNDS SKSKSKS KONK IS AWFULLY CLOSE TO COCK AND I THINK ITS ON PURPOSE ?? SPECIALLY WITH THE LAG I HAD TO DO A DOUBLE TAKE SOMETIMES SKSKSKS SOMEONE JUST SAID "TED'S ORIGIN STORY" ON CHAT AND I LOST IT !!!!! COULD YOU IMAGINE ???? HANDSOME LADY ? I MEAN SURE TIGHT JOHN IS LOSING IT FUCK MAN, SAME CURT OMG THAT ACCENT OOOOOOOOHHHH BOY I KNEW IT WAS HER FIANCEE SHIIIIT WE CANNOT TRUST HIM I KNOW THIS !!! "ENTAGLED" SKSKS WHAT SIR HES GAY CHILL OUT WHATS THE YEAR, IT FEELS SO OLD TIMEY "I'D SAY YOU HAD FEELINGS FOR THIS APEMAN" OOOOOOOHHHH DONT U SAY JONATHAN IS A PUSSY BITCH I CAN TELL LUCY JUST DROP IT OH SHE ACTUALLY DID ????? FUCK IT UP BABE
(I JUST ACIDENTALY DELETE HALF OF WHAT I WROTE SHIT, ILL HAVE TO REWRITE IT FROM MEMORY) WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE TRICKING US??? THEY CALLED IT, WHAAAAAAAAT WDYM "PLAY THE PROFESSOR" IS HE NOT A PROFESSOR WHAT ALTERNATE REALITY IS THIS I NEED TO KNOW
ARE THEY GONNA FUCKING KILL HIM WHAT??? SINGING LONDON BRIDGE WHILE CHASING SOMEONE IS MY FAV SCARY TROP HAHAHHA YEEEEESSS "TOOK OFF WDYM" GIRL HE IS HOLDING A GUN WHAT DO YOU THINK "WDYM" WHY DID HE KEEP THE KONK ACT AFTER LUCY LEFT SKSKSKSKS TED WTF SKSKSKS "I DO SOME OF MY BEST THINKING WHEN IM ERECT" HAHAHAHA TED LIKES TO BE A HIMBO THATS GREAT IS HE GOING TO KILL TED ?? AAAAAAAHHHHHH TED HE HAS A GUN PLZ DONT TEST HIM HE HAS ALREADY KILLED A MAN OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH FUUUUUUUUCK RECAST???? WHO IS TAKING TED'S ROLE ????? OH SO ITS NOT OLD TIMEY AFTER ALL RED SOMETHING???? OH TED'S GONNA PROPOSE IS SHE GONNA SAY NO? SHES GONNA SAY NO RIGHT ? FUUUUUUUUCK HAHAHHAHA WHY IS HE NAKED ??? JAHAHHAHA WHAT WHAT IS HAPPENING TED WHAT ? "PROFESSOR SHOULD GO FUCK HIMSELF" HAHAHAHA PORNHUB PREMIUM ACCOUNT HAHAHAH "OOOoooOOoOoOoOoOohhHhhHh BUT IT IS" FUCK NO DONT KILL HER OOOOOOOOOHHHH TED'S DEAD SHIT OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH ROBERT'S ACTING IS *CHEF'S KISS* DAMN OH SHIT TED *NOW* TED IS DEAD FUCK HIDGENS IS HERE NOOOOOOOOOOO IS HE GONNA KILL HER ??? OH SHIT OH FUCK LUCY'S CAUGHT IN  A BEAR TRAP WHY ARE PPL SAYING WORKING BOYS IN THE CHAT ??? OH THATS WHY !!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHH MINE IS A LITTLE BEHIND IS SHE BROKE ??????? OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHA I KNEW IT HIDGENS GOT PLAYED THATS ON YOU BUDDY OH FUCK HIM UP LUCY ! BECKY BARNES ????? HATCHFIELD LORE ???? WAS SHE RUNNING AWAY FROM HIS HUSBAND IS THAT WHY SHE CLIMBED A TREE APE MAN SHOW UP PLZ WHO IS IT THO ?????? JEFF HELL YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK JESUS CHRIST APE MAN YEEEEAAAHHH WOOLY FOOT ?????? IS IT CHUMBY???? OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH HAHAHA YEEEEAAHHH HOW DID HIDGENS KNOW ????? OH IS IT OVER ?????? NOOOOOOOOOOOO I WANTED MORE ;-----; THIS WAS SO GOOD THO OOOHHH FUCK ANOTHER MUSIC NUMBER JAMIE YOU LOOK AMAZING !!!!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT FOR THESE SONGS TO BE AVAILABLR FOR US (IN LIKE 3 YEARS CAUSE IM BROKE SKSKSKSK) HE DANCES THE CAN CAN ?????? OKAY I SKIPPED A BIT TO BE ON TIME WITH EVERYBODY "ARE YOU FUCKKING HIGH????" YEEEEEEEEEAH PART 2 BABEY !!!!! NICK'S HAIR LOOKS AMAZING OMG OH ???????? BILL AND ALICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD I MISSED THEM !!!!!!!!! OH THE TEEN ANGST I LOVE BILL SM HE'S SUCH A GOOD DAD DEB ????WHY WOULD U HURT BABY ALICE LIKE THIS ???? "I MIGHT NEVER SEE DEB AGAIN" GOD ALICE CHILL OUT LET HER BE A PLAY WRITER BILL CMON "MY BUDDY PAUL" AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH BLINKY ??? I DONT TRUST THAT AT ALL FUCK NO JOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHNNNN I DONT TRUST HES CHARACTER THO OOOOHHH LOVE DISCOUNTS I DIDNT LIKE THE WORKER CALLING HER PRINCESS THO, SHES BILL'S DAUGHTER NOT YOURS OOOOOOHHHHHH NO OH NONONONOONO BILL IS GOING TO DIE I JUST KNOW IT BLINKY IS EVIL I CAN FEEL IT ALICE NO NO LITTERING WHORE JAMES !!!!!!!!!! ALICE IS ALSO GOING TO DIE MAYBE RIGHT NOW WHO KNOWS BLNKY WTF SHE IS A MINOR WTF AAAAAH I DONT LIKE IT HERE JAMES ILY BUT THIS CHARACTER IS CREEPY AS SHIT I DONT LIKE IT HAHAHAH TIGHT LOVE THEME PARK STUPID SHIRTS "I DIDNT KNOW YOU WERE FUNNY" HAHAHAHAH DROWSY TOWN ? THE CHAT PULLED MY ATTENTION TO THAT BUT I DONT GET WHY ? IS THIS BAD "I'D FOLLOW YOU ANYWHERE" THIS IS SUCH A DAD THING TO SAY OH ALICE CMON DONT SAY THAT BILL CUT IT OUT WITH DECIDING YOUR KIDS FUTURE THATS NOT FUN OH GOD I DONT TRUST THAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO "AHOY BOYS AND GIRLS" NO NONONONONO UNCLE WILEY FUCK OFF THE SNIGGLES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUUUUUUUUUCK NOOOOO AHHHHHHHHHHHHH "WE'RE THE SNIGGLES DONT BE SCARED" YOU KNOW WHAT SNIGGLES I AM SCARED BUT HELL YEAH SONG TIME OOOOOOOHHH FUCK IT UP JAMES OH ARE THEY GONNA LIKE GIVE THE AUDIENCE A SLEEP INDUCING DRUG OR SOMETHING ??????? "DONT BLINK" AHAHAHA I DONT TRUST THAT AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH "GREAT WE'RE DEAD" HAHAHAH THE SONG WAS A BOP THO "WHAT ARE THE SNIGGLES?" GREAT QUESTION ALICE "NOW U KNOW HOW I FELT WHEN I HAD TO SEAT THROUGH DEH" HAHHAHAHA "SEE U IN A SNIG" HAHAHA SNIGGLETTE ???U OKAY BBY??? OOOOOOOOHHH MORE SONGS HELL YEAH I LOVE ANGELA'S VOICE SM THE SNIGGLE PUNS ARE KINDA CONFUSING ME NGL WHY WAS THAT SO SAD OMG OOOOOOOH SHIT OH FUCK THEYRE GONNA KILL HER I JUST KNOW IT OMG "PRAISE THE WATCHER" OH MY GOD PLZ DONT KILL HER "UNTIL HE'S SEEN EVERYTHING" W H A T LAUREN'S VOICE SKSKSK SO CUTE PAPA SNIGGLE I DO NOT TRUST YOU THOSE ARE ALIVE ARENT THEY ????? OH FUCK SNIGGLETTE IS SHE OKAY ????????? "ANGELA R U ALRIGYT" WHAT "SHUT UP JEFF" OH MY GOD I DONT LIKE WHEN THEYRE SELF AWARE SKSKSKSK " U CAN SHUT THE HELL UP LAUREN" HAHAHAHA BILL OMG HE'S SUCH A DAD HAHAHAHAH ALICE IS SO NICE DO THEY NOT KNOW "ARON AROOON" HAHHAHA OH CHURROS I LOVE THOSE THE GIRL SHE DOESNT LIKE ?????? OH NON BINARY RIGHTS LOVE IT "IS THIS A FRIEND OF ZIGS" OH LOVE RESPECTFUL DAD DEB NOT COOL OH ALICE SHIT ALICE BBY IF SHES CHEATING ON YOU THATS NOT ON UR DAD STOP SHITTING ON HIM LIKE THIS "ITS UR MOTHERS FAULT" OH MY GOD HAHAHHAHA GREG AND ALISON ? AND BETH ?? DOES BETH LIKE HER ????OH NOOOOOO GREG NO U SHITTY SON OF A BITCH GOD FUCKING PUNCH HIM OH  NO HAHAHA FUCK NO THEYRE ALL POSESSED ARENT THEY THATS THE TEEN FROM THE MOVIE THEATER HAHAHHA "it lagged ;-; now we wait" A MAN IN A HURRY HAHAHAHHA OH SHIT BILL IS MAD IS HE POSESSED TOO ??????? OH SHIT WHATS HAPPENING BLINKY ????????? OH NO OH NO SHES GONNA HAVE A PANIC ATTACK THEYRE GONNA BE FINE RIGTH ??????? RIGHT ???? BREATHING EXERCISES BABY CMON OH NO PLZ DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID BILL NOOOOOOOOOOO BILL PLZ DONT DIE AGAIN I LOVE YOU SM PUT UR SEATBELT BACK ON PLZ NOOOOOOOOO OH THEYRE BOTH GOING TO FALL ARENT THEY OH NO OH MY GOD OH SHIT PHONE IS BROKEN OOPS AWN IM GONNA CRY PLZ LET THEM SURVIVE I BEG YOU NICK LANG OOOOOOOOH TWILIGHT BUT GAY I AM *HERE* FOR IT OOOOOH THANK GOD THEYRE SAFE THANK YOU NICK LANG BILL YOURE SUCH A GOOD DAD OH GOD SHIT ALICE CHILL OUT ITS JUST A PHONE BABE "SHE KNOWS IM WATCHING HER" I DONT TRUST THAT IS *SHE* POSESSED OR IS THIS JUST TEEN ANGST ALICE UR DAD IS TRYING HIS BEST PLZ CUT HIM SOME SLACK OH MARIAH TURNED HER CAMERA OFF OH DEAR GOD WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HAHAH I LOVE LIVE BLOOPS OH MY GOD BLINKY IS TERRIFYING FUCK NO DO NOT GET THAT WIGGLY JUNIOR BILL DONT HOW ??????? OH MARIAH IS BACK WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ??????? WHY CANT BILL GET THE MALLET THING DONT TAKE IT YES SMART LAUREN ? SKSKKSS WHAT MADAM IRIS I DO NOT TRUST YOU WHAT ?????? IS THAT ALICE'S PHONE ???? BILL DONT GET SCAMMED OH ITS AN ALL SEEING IPHONE ALICE CHILL PLZ IS HE GONNA DIE ????? PLZ NICK DONT DO THAT ALICE DONT DONT KILL UR DAD 49.95 AGAIN BILL PLZ TRY ANOTHER GAME JAMES DAMN THATS RUTHLESS BILL WHAT AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH IS THAT REAL ???????? IT CANT BE ??????? OH ITS NOT REAL ARE THEY MAKING THEM HATE THEIR FAMILIES AND KILL EACH OTHER ?? A TENDER KISS ON THE CHEEK FROM A DEMON HOW NICE GUYS PLZ JUST GO TO THERAPY I BEG U WHAT ARE U GONNA DO BILL? KICK HER HEAD ??????? (SORRY I HAD TO) BLINKY'S FUNHOUSE THAT SOUNDS WARM AND COMFORTING THIS IS LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF NOT UR SEED FIGHTING IN THE MIRROR PART OF A FUN HOUSE IS ALWAYS A GOOD HORROR MOVIE TROPE OH FUCK ARE THEY GONNA WAKE UP OH FUCK PLZ WAKE UP ESCAPE THIS ALIVE YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH OH SHES GONNA SHOOT HIM ISNT SHE ????? SHES GONNA SHOOT HIM I JUST KNOW IT HES AWAKE SHES NOT IS BLINKY GONNA KILL THEM ?? OOOOOOOOHHHHHH FUCK I KNEW IT OH HELL YEAH ALICE FUCK IT UP ARE THEY GONNA DROW ?? OH NO OKAY DID THEY SURVIVE ???? IS SHARED TRAUMA GONNA SAVE THEIR RELATIONSHIP SKSKSKKS THEY SURVIVED !!!!!!!!! THANK YOU NICK LANG (AGAIN) WAIT HOW DID SHE GET HER PHONE BACK ? OH MADAM IRIS DID GIVE HER PHONE BACK AWWNNNNNNNN ALICE THIS ONE HAD A HAPPY ENDING YAY WELL IG THE OTHER DID TOO BUT NOT FOR THE CHARACTERS WE KNEW
THIS WAS SO GOOD I LOVER STAKID !!!!!!!!!!! I JUST WISHED I WASNT BROKE SO I COULD PAY FOR THE NEXT ONES KSKSKSKSK WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU GUYS TO DO YOUR REACTIONS FOR THE NEXT ONES !!!
I HEARD GREG AND IT WAS CRAIG SKSKKSSK OOPS
*from this part on is reactions from after the show when starkid was answering questions from the chat*
YEEAAH VOTE FOR BIDEN HELL YEAH STARKID
"THE WITCH IN THE WEB" WEBBY ???????? DO WE GET TO SEE HANNAH AGAIN ?????
A THEORY ON TUMBLR FROM REDDIT ON A INSTAGRAM ACC ON YT OH MY GOD SKSKSKSKKS
THE STORIES ARE CANON !!!!!!!!! THEORIES LETS GO GANG
STARKID FANS WHO CAN DONATE TO STARKID PLZ DO I WISH I COULD DONATE TO THESE TALENTED PPL G O D
I WAS CORRECT IT WAS KONK WITH A K
NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE YES!!!!!! WORKING BOYS !!!!
"NICK LANG IS A BOSS"
MARIAH: SAYS FUCK AS ALICE ALSO MARIAH: GEEKED THE *FREAKED* OUT
TIP JAR HAS BEEN OUT FOR 11 YEARS HELL YEAH
HOW TF DO YOU SPELL ZIGGS BTW
OOOHHH THEYRE FAKE THAT MAKES SENSE OK NOT FAKE COMFIRMED BUT PROBABLY FAKE LETS HOPE DEB DIDNT ACTUALLY CHEAT
"WELL I WAS BORN IN 1989" HAHAHAHA
BECKY CLIMBED WHILE RUNNING FROM HER HUSBAND I FEEL LIKE THATS WHAT THATS ABOUT
OH GOODIE I GET TO WATCH THEM LATER IDK WHEN BUT AT LEAST IK SOMEDAY
BLINKY VS WIGGLY
OH CMON NICK I WANTED TO KNOW ;-;
THIS WAS SO NICE I MISSED THEM ;-;
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masterweaverx · 4 years
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Hollow Victory
Cinder’s glass heels clipped down the shadowed hall as she dragged the bound and blindfolded girl along by a leash. “Come along,” she purred, emphasizing her order with a tug. “We don’t want to keep Salem waiting, do we?”
“Do you really want me to answer that?”
“I suppose it is a bit rhetorical,” Cinder allowed, her smirk not fading in the slightest. “You don’t need to hide how you’re feeling, you know... not anymore.”
“Really? I mean I am a bit thirsty, to be honest--”
She jerked the leash, catching Ruby’s chin with her stygian hand. “I can practically taste the mortal terror rushing through your veins.”
“Um.” Ruby cleared her throat. “When I said thirsty, I meant, like, for water. Not, uh, whatever this is.”
Rapidly approaching footsteps alerted Cinder to the arrival of her disciples (and Neopolitan, who she was sure would become one in time). She released Ruby’s chin, gesturing dramatically to her prize. “Ah, Emerald, Mercury. And Neo, of course. We have a... guest to escort to our master.”
“Hey guys,” Ruby said, nodding vaguely in their direction. “How are things?”
Mercury shrugged. “Eh, could be worse. The free room and board is nice, and Hazel’s a surprisingly good cook.”
“Mercury,” Emerald hissed, “shut up.” She bowed to Cinder, offering her a wary smile. “It is ever a joy to see you, of course, but may I be the first to compliment your skill and cunning on this day?”
Cinder hummed approvingly. “By all means!”
“I... uh...” Emerald faltered a bit, but rallied quickly. “I admire the, uh, ease--the talent! The talent with which you have brought this, uh, rebellious child to heel, and, and can only wish to one day witness even further grandeur!”
“Smooth,” Mercury deadpanned. “Get that out of one of the bodice-rippers Salem pretends not to have?”
Ruby leaned toward his voice. “Wait, Salem reads trashy romance novels?”
Cinder frowned, pushing Ruby back with a single finger and glowering pointedly at Mercury. “Now is not the time for such mediocre attempts at humor,” she reprimanded dryly. “Not now, when in truth we have a great victory to celebrate!”
“Wait, what are you talking about?”
Cinder turned to her prize, dark glee curling her lips into a dangerous grin that Ruby could not see through her blindfold. “Why, your capture, of course. You’ve been such an annoying little thorn in our side, for so very long. But now, now you will pay for all you’ve done.”
“You’re going to fine me?” Ruby asked worriedly. “I don’t even have a lawyer!”
“...She means we’re going to torture you,” Mercury said flatly.
“Oh. Oooooooh, right, queen of the Grimm.” Ruby nodded thoughtfully. “Yeah, I guess she might be a little, uh, aggressive sometimes. Come to think of it, so’s Cinder--is she, like, your mentor or something?”
Cinder stared at Ruby for a few seconds.
Then she slapped her.
“Acfth--! Oh, are we starting now, is that it?”
“Your insolence,” Cinder hissed, “only earns you greater torment in the future.”
“You’re being very poetic,” Ruby observed, seemingly ignoring the faintly bleeding scratches on her cheek. “I mean, with all the fancy words and all--”
Smack went the back of Cinder’s stygian hand, her eye flaring as she sneered at the girl. “Don’t you understand? Our feud has ended. You are at my mercy. I. Have. Won.”
Ruby stared at her for a moment, brows furrowing behind her blindfold. “...Oh.”
Cinder nodded firmly. “Now at last you realize--”
“You see me as a nemesis, don’t you?” she continued in an awkwardly genial tone. “Uh, wow, gee, um... I’m flattered, really, but, I don’t feel the same way.”
“...what.”
“I mean,” Ruby explained as gently as possible, “sure you’ve done a lot of bad things and I’ve always tried to stop you, but, um.... See, I do that because I’m a Huntress. Saving people is my job, right? And that means killing Grimm and stopping bad people, and--you’re really evil,” she assured Cinder quickly, “don’t think I didn’t notice, but it was always just about making sure you didn’t hurt anyone. Well, anyone you hadn’t already hurt. Or killed.”
Cinder’s grip on the leash was tightening, slowly, sparks of flame crawling from between her fingers.
“And yeah,” Ruby barreled on obliviously, “sure I get really into the fighting, but that’s--that’s just because a good fight, gets the blood pumping, you know? It’s never about who I’m fighting. I’m sorry if I led you on or anything, I never meant to toy with your feelings like that. But, uh, you are pretty evil, and you have hurt a lot of people. Maybe there’s somebody out there that will hate you like you deserve, right? We can just be... hmm. Casual enemies, I guess.”
Out of the corner of her eye, Cinder could see the expressions of her three followers. Emerald’s face was a portrait of slowly growing horror, Mercury was keeping a very carefully neutral face, and Neo was slowly spinning her umbrella on her shoulder with a small, smug smirk.
“And what,” she seethed, “about Beacon? What about what happened on the tower?”
“Oh! Oh, is this what--oh, this is awkward.” Ruby chuckled a bit stiffly. “So, uh, I didn’t even know that the silver eyes were, you know, a thing back then. And I did just see you immolate Pyrrha, so... I guess I let my emotions get the better of me and suddenly, fwoosh! I’m honestly surprised you got hurt by that,” she admitted, “I mean other Maidens have been in the blast and they never got hurt.”
“What.”
“Yeah, uh, Raven, Penny now... plus the silver eyes only activate in the presence of the Grimm.” Ruby shrugged, ignoring the faint whiffs of smoke crawling up her leash. “I guess if you had some sort of Grimm essence in your body, my eyes could have... burned it up? And that could be why you got so, uh... you know...”
“The spider-roach,” Emerald breathed. “When you took Amber’s power--”
Cinder silenced her with a glare, but it was too late.
“That could do it,” Ruby admitted. “I mean, I’m not a hundred percent sure, but Salem would know. I’m sure she warned you, right?”
The end of the leash snapped off in Cinder’s grip, embers and flame eating away at the loop.
“So, yeah, that was... way too forward of me,” Ruby admitted. “Way too big an attack. I’m sorry, I should have been more professional.” She gave Cinder an apologetic smile. “What can I say? I was fifteen. Young and stupid.”
The hallway was silent for all of twelve seconds.
Cinder snatched the smoldering tip of the leash, slammed it into Emerald’s hand, and marched briskly away. Nobody reacted until after the clinks of her footsteps had turned the corner.
Then, slowly, deliberately, Neopolitan began to clap, each impact emphasizing the smile spreading across her face.
Mercury shot her a look. "I thought you wanted to kill Ruby too.”
Neo tilted her head for a moment, before waggling a hand noncommitally.
“You only want to kind of kill her?”
“I think that would be maiming,” Ruby mused thoughtfully. “Hey, if you do, can you go for a leg? I mean Yang’s lost an arm, Blake got stabbed in the body, Weiss has a scare on her eye, kinda want to be unique.”
Emerald finally came back to herself. “I should gouge out your eyes!” she snarled, pulling Ruby along. “Disrespecting Cinder like that--”
“Hold on, are you trying to be my nemesis now?”
“SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!”
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unidentifiedprimate · 6 years
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So, I’ve been listening to the Hunchback of Notre Dame off Broadway soundtrack a lot, and I’m having FEELINGS. 
This got long so here is a cut in case you don’t want to read ramblings about Quasimodo and co.
I love the Disney movie and the off Broadway musical, but sometimes I wonder what they could have been if they had stuck closer to the book in some respects. Because, of course, Disney changed some stuff. I mean, it’s Disney, and they tend to avoid the more traumatizing aspects of the source materials so their young viewers don’t claw out their own eyes to keep them from seeing the horror. And most of the changes I am okay with. I like seeing Esmeralda being smart and a fierce champion of the outcasts, and I really like seeing her being nice to Quasimodo. I like sweet, innocent Quasimodo being naive and talking to statues. I like... okay I don’t like Phoebus being a hero or being The Love Interest. I hate that, actually. If they absolutely couldn’t bear to go all the way and make Esmeralda love Quasimodo, why oh WHY did they have to choose Phoebus, the handsome, strong, heroic soldier man? Having him turn out to be terrible underneath his beauty would have totally fit with the theme! And then they could have had poor stupid Gringoire be the romantic lead instead of ignoring him completely. 
But okay, that’s not what I intended to talk about. Setting aside horrible Phoebus and his golden armor of LIES, the change I actually wanted to talk about was the relationship between Frollo and Quasimodo.
In the Disney movie version, Frollo kills Quasi’s gypsy mother and then when he sees little infant Quasi he is horrified and would have killed him as well except that the Archdeacon reminds him that God is watching. So Frollo reluctantly takes Quasi in, raises him in total isolation, and teaches him to be ashamed of what he looks like. Even the name he gives him is an insult, because it means “half-formed”.
In the musical, Frollo’s sinful brother asks from his deathbed that Frollo take care of his child, who turns out to be Quasimodo. Frollo declares that the infant’s deformity is God’s judgement upon his brother’s wicked ways. He then decides that God is testing him by sending him the monstrous child, and takes Quasi in to raise him and teach him “to think like me”. Again he keeps Quasi in total isolation in the bell tower and teaches him to be ashamed of his deformity. Again, the name is an insult and reveals Frollo’s casual evil.
In the book, however, Quasimodo is left in a spot in Notre Dame for abandoned babies. (This is after being switched by gypsies for a “normal” baby girl oooooooh foreshadowing...) Everyone is horrified by his ugliness and no one will adopt him, until young Claude Frollo wraps him up and carries him away. His only motivation is pity for the poor child who no one wants (which reminds him of his young brother he loves with all his heart, who could have suffered the same fate). He gives him a name that both commemorates the day he found him - Quasimodo Sunday - and which means “almost like”, as in almost like a child. It’s maybe not the best name, but it isn’t meant as an insult. He cares deeply for Quasi, and tries his best to raise him well. He does not lock Quasimodo away and forbid him from ever leaving the bell tower. But whenever Quasi does go out, the townspeople are terrible to him because of his ugliness. Children even like to run up and stick pins in his hump. He has also been deafened by the bells he loves so much, so finds communicating with people very difficult. The only person he can really talk to is Frollo, who uses gestures to help him understand.
Now, I’m definitely not trying to defend Frollo or do the whole “he’s just misunderstood” and that makes everything okay. But I do love a complex villain, and Frollo is not simply evil. He is actually very compassionate and tries really hard to be a good man of the church, a good brother, and a good surrogate father. He’s just also kind of unhinged, and can’t deal with failure. He hates his failure of being unable to turn his brother away from debauchery, hates that he failed to make Quasimodo more normal, and then later hates that he failed to resist the temptation of Esmeralda. It’s only when his frustration and impotence overwhelm him that he uses his position in the church for selfish ends, and uses Quasimodo’s love for him to do wrong. And Quasimodo does love him. In the movie and musical, when Quasi turns on Frollo and kills him it is played as triumphant; finally he sees that Frollo is evil, has never really cared for him, and has been lying to him his whole life. But in the book, when the deed is done Quasimodo acknowledges that he loved both Esmeralda and Frollo, and with them dead he has nothing left. It’s heartbreaking. And I wish we could have had some songs about all THAT.
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pendulumprince · 8 years
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This is your left, that’s your left!
This is your right, that’s your right!
This is your left, that’s you’re left!
It’s 136—
They’re all gonna die.
*deep breath*
MY GOD THAT IS A MASSIVE DRAGON.
TOKUMATSU AND SHINJI’S REACTIONS ARE RATHEWR MUTED
I CAN’T EVEN BLAME THEM
WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING AT IS UNBELIEVABLE
SAME WITH THE ACADEMIA SOLDIERS, ALLEN AND SAYAKA
BACK IN STANDARD
SHUZOU’S HOLDING DOWN THE FORT WITH THE THREE PRECIOUS DARLINGS
HIMIKA… IDEK WHAT TO CALL HIMIKA’S REACTION
OKAY SO REIJI, REIRA, SORA AND EDO ARE STILL AT ACADEMIA
ZARC’S VOICE IS HORRIFYINGLY DEEP
HE STARTS ATTACKING ACADEMIA SOLDIERS
AM I SUPPOSED TO BE MAD?
TBH I’M NOT REALLY MAD A LOT OF THEM DESERVE IT
A FLASH OF PINK GLITTER FLASHES PAST REIRA
RAY IS THAT YOU?!
REIRA AND REIJI EXCVHANGE SOME WORDS
THEY BOTH RUN BACK INSIDE
EDO AND SORA START FORMULATING A PLAN
BACK WITH LEO, HE’S BUGGING OUT
LEO YOU IGNORANT HILLBILLY
YOU DID THIS
YOU AND YOUR GENOCIDAL WAYS
“RAAAAAAY!”
SO SHE HASN’T COME BACK
THAT WOULD BE FUCKIN HILARIOUS IF NOT FOR THE GIANT DEMON DRAGON DESTROYING EVERYTHING OUTSIDE
ZARC IS DEADASS BLASTING AWAYY AND KILLING PEOPLE
EDO AND SORA CONTINUE TO TALK THINGS OVER
AND
SORA OFFERS EDO A LOLLY?!
THIS IS LEGIT THE FIRST TIME I’VE EVER SEEN THIS KID SHARE HIS CANDY WITH SOMEONE
YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, KID
MEANWHILE IN THE FUSION D
PEOPLE ARE RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS, DESPERATELY TRYING TO ESCAPE ZARC
BUT THEY CAN’T ESCAPE A DRAGON AS BIG AS THE FUCKING SKY LOL
ZARC GOES IN FOR THE KILL
BUT
BUT!
SOMETHING BLOCKS THEM!
A MONSTER?!
DYSTOPIAGUY, IS THAT YOU???
ANNNNND EDO AND SORA HAVE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE
YES
RUIN HIS LIFE, MY BOYS
ZARC BECOMES A DARK CLOUD??
LOL GROSS DUDE
THE CLOUD DECENDS ON THE EARTH
OH
OH EW WHAT THE FUCK
YOOOOOOOO YUYA
WHAT’S HAPPENED TO YOU
TIME AND THE POWERS OF DESTRUCTION HAVE NOT BEEN KIND TO YOU
YOU NEED SOME MOISTURIZER OR SOME SHIT
GODDAMN
I THINK EDO AGREES?
SORA DEMANDS ANSWERS
WHATEVER ZARC SAYS FREAKS SORA AND EDO OUT
BUT THEY ALL TAKE OUT THEIR DUEL DISKS
ZARC TAKES FIRST TURN
HE SETS THE SCALES 0 TO 13
YEESH!
HE SUMMONS TWO 1800 ATK DRAGON MONSTERS
HE ENDS HIS TURN
EDO TAKES HIS TURN
PLAYS SUPER FUSION
FUSES TWO OF HIS OWN MONSTERS
SUMMONS DYSTOPIAGUY AT 2800 ATK
AND BY IT’S EFFECT, EDO TRIES TO DEAL DAMAGE
BY THE PENDULUM EFFECT OF ZARC’S PENDULUM MONSTER, THE DAMAGE IS NEGATED
AND ZARC GOES UP TO 5600 LP!
EDO TAKES A CRACK AT TAKING TO YUYA
ZARC: BLANK FACE :|
EDO GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK
PREDICTABLY, ZARC STOPS THE ATTACK VIA MONSTER EFFECR
EDO PLAYS A MAGIC CARD
DYSTOPIAGUY GOES DOWN TO TO 1400 ATK
EDO GOES DOWN TO 2600 LP?!
AND ZARC, TO 7000 LP
FUCK ME SIDEWAYS
BY DYSTOPIAGUYS EFFECT
ONE OF YUYA’S MONSTERS IS TAKEN OFF THE FIELD
EDO SETS A FACEDOWN, ENDS HIS TURN
SORA TAKES HIS TURN
HE PLAYS A MAGIC CARD
IF SCREWS AROUND WITH HIS EXTRA DECK MONSTERS
AND HE PLAYS ANOTHER MAGIC CARD
IT LETS HIM FUSE
IT’S DESTOY CHIMERA
SORA GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK
TAKES OUT ZARC'S OTHER MONSTER
BUT
ALL THAT HAPPENS IS ZARC GOES UP TO 8000 LP
SORAAAAAA DON’T BE IGNORANT
OKAY WAIT THOUGH
HE’S EXPLAING SOMETHING
LOOKS LIKE SORA HAS A PLAN?
AND!
IT’S A FLASHBACK!
TO EPISODE 6!
OMGGGGGGGG THEIR FIRST DUEL
BACK IN THE PRESENT, SORA HOLDS UP YUYA’S PENDULUM!
“SHISHOUUUU!”
*CRYING* YUYA DID END UP BEING HIS TEACHER, THOUGH
HE REALLY DID
THIS ALL GREATLY AMUSES ZARC
AND “YUYA’S” LACK OF A REACTION…
MAKES SORA SHED ONE LONE, SOLITARY TEAR
SORA SETS A FACEDOWN
ENDS HIS TURN
UGHHHHHHH AND ZARC TAKES HIS
HE PENDULUM SUMMONS AGAIN
BRINGS OUT BOTH MONSTERS FROM BEFORE
EDO ACTIVATYES HIS TRAP CARD
AND SORA ACTIVATES HIS IN CONCERT
OOOOOOOH SNAP
ALL OF ZARC’S MONSTERS ARE DESTROYED
AND ZARC GOES DOWN TO 6000 LP
I MEAN… THEY SORT OF PUT A DENT IN HIM?
EDO AND SORA… ARE LOOKING WAY TOO HAPPY
ZARC IS ABOUT TO FUCK UP THEIR SHIT, AINT HE?
YEAH
LOOK AT THAT SMIRK
ZARC SAYS SOME SHIT
EDO AND SORA LOOK… CONCERNED
ZARC SUMMONS ASTRO AND CHRONO’S FUSION
IT’S AT 2500 ATK
YEAH GUYS
THIS IS THE MONSTER THAT FUSED YUYA, HIS COUNTERPARTS, AND THE DRAGONS
OH SNAP
ALL FOUR OF ZARC’S MONSTERS COME BACK ONTO THE FIELD
UGH
YOU’RE ANNOYING, ZARC
FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT EVIL LAUGHTER
ZARC BANISHES HIS MAGICIAN
AND NAMES ALL 4 DRAGONS
HE… BANISHES THEM?
WHAT’S HAPPENING
WHAT’S THIS
WHAT IS
THIS
IT’S THUNDERING?!
THE THUNDER IS RED AHAHAHA WOW THAT’S NOT GOOD
EDO AND SORA BOUNCE
SHUN AND KAITO WATCH IN MUTED HORROR FROM AFAR
THEY CAN SEE WHAT’S GOING ON VIA SOME SORT OF SKY VORTEX?!
THEY SEE SORA AND EDO RUNNING FROM WHAT APPEARS TO BE YUYA
THEY RIGHTLY COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT’S ZARC
BACK TO ZARC, HE… SPECIAL SUMMONS, BUT IN A NEW WAY?!
AND OKAY
SO HE JUST SUMMONED HIS DRAGON FORM
NICE
WE’RENT YOU JUST OUT HERE, DUDE?
I GET IT, YOU LIKE TO SHOW OFF
AND THIS MONSTER STANDS AT 4000 ATK
OKAY, INTIMIDATING. BUT 4000 ATK IS FOR SURE DEFEATABLE
AND
“FIELD MAGIC: CROSS OVER AXEL”
ACTION CARDS DISPERSE!
WHAT’S HAPPENING?!
SOMEONE’S ENTERING THE DUEL?!
KAITO AND SHUN
THEY EACH TAKE THE 2000 LP PENALTY
OH SHIT
BY ZARC’S EFFECT, BOTH SORA AND EDO’S MONSTERS ARE DESTROYED
AND
NO NO NO
BOTH SORA AND EDO GET TAKEN DOWN TO 0
FUUUUUUUUUCK
KAITO AND SHUN RUN OVER TO SEE IF THEY’RE OKAY
KAITO TALKS TO EDO…
SHUN DOES THE SAME TO SORA
AND SORA HANDS OFF YUYA’S PENDULUM TO SHUN
WAIT
DON’T YOU TELL ME THAT MY FUSION SONS ARE DYING
THEY’RE LOOKING WAY TOO WEAK AND THESE ARE LOOKING TOO MUCH LIKE SOMEONE’S FINAL WORDS
SHUN AND KAITO GO ON TO FACE ZARC, WHO IS REALLY FEELING HIMSELF RN
SHUN TAKES HIS TURN!
PREVIEW TIME!
SHUN LOOKS AT YUYA’S PENDULUM
SHUN SUMMONS HIS MONSTERS
AND ZARC
SUMMONS DARK REBELLION?!
OH NO
OH FUCK DAMNIT
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Wine & Dine Weekend Part Three: Post Race Party
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Wine & Dine Weekend Part Three: Post Race Party
Welcome to Part Three of the Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend, the character filled conclusion with the Post Race Party! Part One covered the Expo, Jay’s last-minute registration, and the 10K. Part Two followed us along the Half Marathon course as Jay ran his first RunDisney Race. 
I knew when I signed Jay up for the Wine and Dine Half Marathon, I would have a hard time convincing him to go to the Post Race Party at Epcot. It wasn’t his fault he was so tired, we signed him up late and he had no time to train even if he wanted to. We went home after the race and spent most the day either sleeping or on our respective computers. The Post Race Party officially started at 10 p.m. with admission as early as 8 p.m. I have an annual pass so we go whenever we please anyway, so there was no rush. Around what I thought was half past seven I suggested we start getting ready. It was actually closer to 6:30 because I had forgotten to change the clocks when we got back. We wound up arriving at Epcot around 8:30 p.m. which turned out fine, because we didn’t realize that nothing would be open from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. It never occurred to me things would close while they swept the regular guests out of the park, because at Magic Kingdom the special event starts the moment the park closes. I assumed Epcot would be closing at 10 p.m.
Silly Chelsea. 
Our first stop in Epcot was actually Guest Relations because when we went for Food and Wine in early October we found the normal, not-part-of-Food-and-Wine margarita booth missing. I wanted to know where to find my frozen margaritas! Thankfully, Guest Relations assured me the quick service location in Mexico would have them, and she was right. We made the long, slow, hobbling walk up to World Showcase and got in line at La Cantina de San Angel just before 9 p.m. and were actually ordering as Illuminations went off overhead. It was the first time in what was probably several years watching it, because if I’m in the parks that late at night I’m usually watching one of the other nighttime spectaculars. Epcot is the park I spend the least amount of time in since Duffy was chased out by the evil Daisy Duck. We realized they had closed the line off behind us and that the park was shutting down. Jay looked at me, rather grumpy since that meant the place he wanted his drink from would also be closed. I promised him we’d make it to the Rose and Crown before the night was over and then we headed towards Germany. If we had to sit around waiting until 10 p.m., we might as well do it in line for something. 
My sole priority for the Post Race Party was all about the characters, not the food. We had already been to Food and Wine once and had another trip planned so as soon as we had the brochure in our hand back at the Expo, I started planning. There was only one character on the list that I had never met, so we started there: the Witch from Snow White. 
When we arrived in Germany there was a small line of about ten people already formed so we jumped in line behind them and sat down. Photos from the races were finally starting to show up on My Disney Experience, so I spent my time waiting downloading those and sending them to my Mom. The Witch appeared promptly at 10 p.m. and we groaned as we got to our feet and the line moved up. It was almost our turn when the Backstage Door beside the Witch opened for several Cast Members on their way to work the Food and Wine booths, and their reactions were priceless. Clearly they didn’t know anything about the event they were working, and they were so excited to see the Witch. We were up in no time and she fussed over Duffy before we took our picture and moved on. 
The party had been officially started for ten minutes and we had already met one character! We moved on towards the U.K. since I had promised Jay a Welsh Dragon from the Rose and Crown. He was moving much slower than I was, so I suggested he jump in line for our next character while I went to fetch the drink. As we passed America we saw Mickey Mouse out in his patriotic best, the same outfit I met him in on the Fourth of July. I asked Jay to hop in the extremely long line and I kept going, only to pause as I passed Japan. I saw Minnie Mouse out sporting a kimono! I called Jay as I kept walking as fast as my sore legs could carry me. 
“Do you actually want to meet Mickey?” 
“No, not really. We met him this morning.” 
“Okay, I’ve met him in that outfit. If you don’t care about it, I think you should move over to Japan and get in line for Minnie.” 
By the time I got back to him with his Welsh Dragon, (it is a good thing I don’t like that drink considering long as I had to carry it around the park without drinking it) Minnie was being pulled off for a cheese break. She was supposed to be right back, but there was some sort of wardrobe malfunction and it was about half an hour before she reappeared. We were much more patient about this than some of the others in line. One man started yelling at the Character Attendant and it took everything I had not to step in to defend her. 
We were in line long enough to see Minnie switch again, but the second time was much more expedient. Minnie immediately took Duffy away from me to hold him for the photo and blew both Jay and I a bunch of kisses. She was super cute. I love meeting different versions or special versions of my favorite characters. 
It was about 11:10 p.m. so our second character had taken an hour on her own, but we were still two characters in already. I felt we were doing fairly well. Jay wanted to go see one more character and leave. I kept saying I wanted to see the Adventurers Club, but he seemed to think they wouldn’t be fun. Since we were right next to Morocco and the next show started at 11:15 p.m. I convinced him to stop for just a few minutes to watch the start, and then we could keep going. 
We wound up watching the entire show, and laughing our heads off. 
Back in the days of Pleasure Island, the adult themed area of Downtown Disney, there was a venue known as the Adventurers Club. I’ve heard about it since I became a Jungle Cruise Skipper, but didn’t really know anything about it because everyone talks to me like I should know what it is. There’s something called a Kungaloosh, and until the Post Race Party that was pretty much all I knew. The Adventurers Club was a multi-act comedy show with different events happening in various rooms all night long. Based in a similar era to the Jungle Cruise, it is a grand organization of the world’s most daring and witty explorers. Due to the nature of Pleasure Island, they told jokes that Skippers would never get away with. Nothing graphic or crude, but lots of clever innuendo. The Kungaloosh is not only the club greeting, but a famous drink. For the better part of a year I’ve listened to the Pirate Crew (Jay, Robert, and Victoria) refer to it like I should be familiar with it. Unlike my friends, I did not grow up with frequent trips to Walt Disney World. When the Adventurers Club closed in September of 2008, I had just turned seventeen and was in my senior year of high school. The last time I had been to Disney I was fourteen, and if my mother had known what the Adventurers Club was she probably wouldn’t have taken me to see it. (Then again, she took me and two friends to the Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was sixteen, so who knows?) 
So at long last, on November 5, 2017, almost ten years after the Adventurers Club closed its doors, I learned what they were all about, and I LOVE THEM. I used to frequent (and still do when I am in town) an improv show in Knoxville, and while the Adventurers Club was at least semi-scripted, it was the same kind of dynamic, quick humor. I wish I had gotten more of it on video. They taught the crowd to do the secret handshake, recite the Club Creed, and sing the song. There were three men and one woman, almost all equally funny, and I heard some jokes I never would have guessed I’d hear in a Disney park. With crowd suggestions, they did a rendition of “Old McDonald had a Farm”. We had a pig that went oink, a cow that meow and a moose that went vroom vroom. The final suggestion came from one of the Adventurers Club members, a haystack! 
“A haystack doesn’t make noise!” 
“Yes, they do, I used to walk past one every day on my way to school and it was always moaning.” 
He proceeded to make a moaning noise like someone having a really good time. The Club President, Pamelia Perkins, quickly interrupted. 
“It must have been a haunted haystack!” 
“It sure was, because it was always shaking all about!” 
So sure enough, we sang “Old McDonald had a haystack, ee-ay-ee-ay-oo, here a ooooooooh, there a ooooooh, here a ooooooh, there a oooooooh, everywhere an ooooooh oooh!” 
I realize reading it isn’t nearly as funny, but I can’t wait to show some of the videos to my improv friends at Einstein Simplified. We walked away laughing so hard we were almost crying. 
The strangest thing about the Post Race Party was instead of the usual soundtrack of World Showcase, they had a DJ playing music that reached around the world. So walking through the U.K. we saw a group of Cast Members dancing to the Cupid Shuffle. Had Jay not been so sore I would have joined them. 
We made our way over to Canada where Koda and Kenai from Brother Bear were meeting. I had to make Jay watch the movie a few months ago because he had never seen it. While they’re not Duffy, I do love bears. Koda and Kenai were SO CUTE! They were dancing to music in between guest interactions. I got hug-attacked by both of them, and Koda wanted to keep Duffy.
Apparently, he belongs with other bears. We got our picture taken and I had to tell them Jay wanted a hug. This is a common occurrence; all the Disney characters always want to shake his hand until I say something. So, he got hugs from both and I got another hug from Kenai, and off we headed. We made one last planned stop by the Chocolate booth for the Nitro Almond Truffle. It was one of my favorite items from the Food and Wine Festival this year. 
Our actual final stop was by the DJ booth by the Future World Fountains. As much as  I love characters, and I loved the Adventurers Club, my favorite thing about this party as much was how much fun the Cast Members were having. A bunch of them were having their own dance party at the DJ Booth. A shift that late at Disney is going to be almost entirely College Program and Part Time Cast Members, and they were having the time of their life. It made me so happy. 
It was about 12:40 a.m. by the time we got to the car. Staying awake for the drive home was almost more of a challenge than running both the 10K and the Half Marathon. 
I love RunDisney. I love running their races, even if I don’t train for them like I should. The Wine and Dine Half Marathon is my second favorite race I’ve run, just behind the Princess Half Marathon. Especially now that Jay has the RunDisney bug, I hope to be running the Wine and Dine Two Course Challenge again next year. My only concern, as is a lot of RunDisney fans, is the ever-climbing price tag. The Challenges are over $300, and paying for two runners was over $500. That’s on top of the time I have to take off work. With my 30 by 30 plan now thrown off by the hiatus of the West Coast races, I’m not sure if it will be as much of a priority as it was. 
I say that now, but we all know come registration day I’ll be signing up. I live here! At least I don’t need a hotel or transportation. 
Cost: The Wine and Dine Two Course Challenge was $362.44. It included the 10K and the Half Marathon for 19.3 miles, three runners’ shirts, three medals, and a ticket to the Post Race Party. The Wine and Dine Half Marathon was $224.92. It included the Half Marathon for 13.1 miles, one shirt, one medal and a ticket to the Post Race Party.  
Value: Pricey but worth it. 
Duration: It’s a minimum of a three-day event if you do the Two Course Challenge because you have to pick up the bib and shirts at the Expo. 
Add Ons: There’s all sorts of stuff and it changes with each race. They have VIP Runners’ Retreats and Cheer Squad for spectators. 
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Wine & Dine Part Three: Post Race Party
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Wine & Dine Part Three: Post Race Party
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Welcome to Part Three of the Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend, the character filled conclusion with the Post Race Party! Part One covered the Expo, Jay’s last-minute registration, and the 10K. Part Two followed us along the Half Marathon course as Jay ran his first RunDisney Race. 
I knew when I signed Jay up for the Wine and Dine Half Marathon, I would have a hard time convincing him to go to the Post Race Party at Epcot. It wasn’t his fault he was so tired, we signed him up late and he had no time to train even if he wanted to. We went home after the race and spent most the day either sleeping or on our respective computers. The Post Race Party officially started at 10 p.m. with admission as early as 8 p.m. I have an annual pass so we go whenever we please anyway, so there was no rush. Around what I thought was half past seven I suggested we start getting ready. It was actually closer to 6:30 because I had forgotten to change the clocks when we got back. We wound up arriving at Epcot around 8:30 p.m. which turned out fine, because we didn’t realize that nothing would be open from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. It never occurred to me things would close while they swept the regular guests out of the park, because at Magic Kingdom the special event starts the moment the park closes. I assumed Epcot would be closing at 10 p.m. Silly Chelsea. 
Our first stop in Epcot was actually Guest Relations because when we went for Food and Wine in early October we found the normal, not-part-of-Food-and-Wine margarita booth missing. I wanted to know where to find my frozen margaritas! Thankfully, Guest Relations assured me the quick service location in Mexico would have them, and she was right. We made the long, slow, hobbling walk up to World Showcase and got in line at La Cantina de San Angel just before 9 p.m. and were actually ordering as Illuminations went off overhead. It was the first time in what was probably several years watching it, because if I’m in the parks that late at night I’m usually watching one of the other nighttime spectaculars. Epcot is the park I spend the least amount of time in since Duffy was chased out by the evil Daisy Duck. We realized they had closed the line off behind us and that the park was shutting down. Jay looked at me, rather grumpy since that meant the place he wanted his drink from would also be closed. I promised him we’d make it to the Rose and Crown before the night was over and then we headed towards Germany. If we had to sit around waiting until 10 p.m., we might as well do it in line for something. 
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My sole priority for the Post Race Party was all about the characters, not the food. We had already been to Food and Wine once and had another trip planned so as soon as we had the brochure in our hand back at the Expo, I started planning. There was only one character on the list that I had never met, so we started there: the Witch from Snow White. 
When we arrived in Germany there was a small line of about ten people already formed so we jumped in line behind them and sat down. Photos from the races were finally starting to show up on My Disney Experience, so I spent my time waiting downloading those and sending them to my Mom. The Witch appeared promptly at 10 p.m. and we groaned as we got to our feet and the line moved up. It was almost our turn when the Backstage Door beside the Witch opened for several Cast Members on their way to work the Food and Wine booths, and their reactions were priceless. Clearly they didn’t know anything about the event they were working, and they were so excited to see the Witch. We were up in no time and she fussed over Duffy before we took our picture and moved on. 
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The party had been officially started for ten minutes and we had already met one character! We moved on towards the U.K. since I had promised Jay a Welsh Dragon from the Rose and Crown. He was moving much slower than I was, so I suggested he jump in line for our next character while I went to fetch the drink. As we passed America we saw Mickey Mouse out in his patriotic best, the same outfit I met him in on the Fourth of July. I asked Jay to hop in the extremely long line and I kept going, only to pause as I passed Japan. I saw Minnie Mouse out sporting a kimono! I called Jay as I kept walking as fast as my sore legs could carry me. 
“Do you actually want to meet Mickey?” 
“No, not really. We met him this morning.” 
“Okay, I’ve met him in that outfit. If you don’t care about it, I think you should move over to Japan and get in line for Minnie.” 
By the time I got back to him with his Welsh Dragon, (it is a good thing I don’t like that drink considering long as I had to carry it around the park without drinking it) Minnie was being pulled off for a cheese break. She was supposed to be right back, but there was some sort of wardrobe malfunction and it was about half an hour before she reappeared. We were much more patient about this than some of the others in line. One man started yelling at the Character Attendant and it took everything I had not to step in to defend her. 
We were in line long enough to see Minnie switch again, but the second time was much more expedient. Minnie immediately took Duffy away from me to hold him for the photo and blew both Jay and I a bunch of kisses. She was super cute. I love meeting different versions or special versions of my favorite characters. 
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It was about 11:10 p.m. so our second character had taken an hour on her own, but we were still two characters in already. I felt we were doing fairly well. Jay wanted to go see one more character and leave. I kept saying I wanted to see the Adventurers Club, but he seemed to think they wouldn’t be fun. Since we were right next to Morocco and the next show started at 11:15 p.m. I convinced him to stop for just a few minutes to watch the start, and then we could keep going. 
We wound up watching the entire show, and laughing our heads off. 
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Back in the days of Pleasure Island, the adult themed area of Downtown Disney, there was a venue known as the Adventurers Club. I’ve heard about it since I became a Jungle Cruise Skipper, but didn’t really know anything about it because everyone talks to me like I should know what it is. There’s something called a Kungaloosh, and until the Post Race Party that was pretty much all I knew. The Adventurers Club was a multi-act comedy show with different events happening in various rooms all night long. Based in a similar era to the Jungle Cruise, it is a grand organization of the world’s most daring and witty explorers. Due to the nature of Pleasure Island, they told jokes that Skippers would never get away with. Nothing graphic or crude, but lots of clever innuendo. The Kungaloosh is not only the club greeting, but a famous drink. For the better part of a year I’ve listened to the Pirate Crew (Jay, Robert, and Victoria) refer to it like I should be familiar with it. Unlike my friends, I did not grow up with frequent trips to Walt Disney World. When the Adventurers Club closed in September of 2008, I had just turned seventeen and was in my senior year of high school. The last time I had been to Disney I was fourteen, and if my mother had known what the Adventurers Club was she probably wouldn’t have taken me to see it. (Then again, she took me and two friends to the Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was sixteen, so who knows?) 
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So at long last, on November 5, 2017, almost ten years after the Adventurers Club closed its doors, I learned what they were all about, and I LOVE THEM. I used to frequent (and still do when I am in town) an improv show in Knoxville, and while the Adventurers Club was at least semi-scripted, it was the same kind of dynamic, quick humor. I wish I had gotten more of it on video. They taught the crowd to do the secret handshake, recite the Club Creed, and sing the song. There were three men and one woman, almost all equally funny, and I heard some jokes I never would have guessed I’d hear in a Disney park. With crowd suggestions, they did a rendition of “Old McDonald had a Farm”. We had a pig that went oink, a cow that meow and a moose that went vroom vroom. The final suggestion came from one of the Adventurers Club members, a haystack! 
“A haystack doesn’t make noise!” 
“Yes, they do, I used to walk past one every day on my way to school and it was always moaning.” 
He proceeded to make a moaning noise like someone having a really good time. The Club President, Pamelia Perkins, quickly interrupted. 
“It must have been a haunted haystack!” 
“It sure was, because it was always shaking all about!” 
So sure enough, we sang “Old McDonald had a haystack, ee-ay-ee-ay-oo, here a ooooooooh, there a ooooooh, here a ooooooh, there a oooooooh, everywhere an ooooooh oooh!” 
I realize reading it isn’t nearly as funny, but I can’t wait to show some of the videos to my improv friends at Einstein Simplified. We walked away laughing so hard we were almost crying. 
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The strangest thing about the Post Race Party was instead of the usual soundtrack of World Showcase, they had a DJ playing music that reached around the world. So walking through the U.K. we saw a group of Cast Members dancing to the Cupid Shuffle. Had Jay not been so sore I would have joined them. 
We made our way over to Canada where Koda and Kenai from Brother Bear were meeting. I had to make Jay watch the movie a few months ago because he had never seen it. While they’re not Duffy, I do love bears. Koda and Kenai were SO CUTE! They were dancing to music in between guest interactions. I got hug-attacked by both of them, and Koda wanted to keep Duffy.
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Apparently, he belongs with other bears. We got our picture taken and I had to tell them Jay wanted a hug. This is a common occurrence; all the Disney characters always want to shake his hand until I say something. So, he got hugs from both and I got another hug from Kenai, and off we headed. We made one last planned stop by the Chocolate booth for the Nitro Almond Truffle. It was one of my favorite items from the Food and Wine Festival this year. 
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Our actual final stop was by the DJ booth by the Future World Fountains. As much as  I love characters, and I loved the Adventurers Club, my favorite thing about this party as much was how much fun the Cast Members were having. A bunch of them were having their own dance party at the DJ Booth. A shift that late at Disney is going to be almost entirely College Program and Part Time Cast Members, and they were having the time of their life. It made me so happy. 
It was about 12:40 a.m. by the time we got to the car. Staying awake for the drive home was almost more of a challenge than running both the 10K and the Half Marathon. 
I love RunDisney. I love running their races, even if I don’t train for them like I should. The Wine and Dine Half Marathon is my second favorite race I’ve run, just behind the Princess Half Marathon. Especially now that Jay has the RunDisney bug, I hope to be running the Wine and Dine Two Course Challenge again next year. My only concern, as is a lot of RunDisney fans, is the ever-climbing price tag. The Challenges are over $300, and paying for two runners was over $500. That’s on top of the time I have to take off work. With my 30 by 30 plan now thrown off by the hiatus of the West Coast races, I’m not sure if it will be as much of a priority as it was. 
I say that now, but we all know come registration day I’ll be signing up. I live here! At least I don’t need a hotel or transportation. 
Cost: The Wine and Dine Two Course Challenge was $362.44. It included the 10K and the Half Marathon for 19.3 miles, three runners’ shirts, three medals, and a ticket to the Post Race Party. The Wine and Dine Half Marathon was $224.92. It included the Half Marathon for 13.1 miles, one shirt, one medal and a ticket to the Post Race Party.  
Value: Pricey but worth it. 
Duration: It’s a minimum of a three-day event if you do the Two Course Challenge because you have to pick up the bib and shirts at the Expo. 
Add Ons: There’s all sorts of stuff and it changes with each race. They have VIP Runners’ Retreats and Cheer Squad for spectators. 
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