#like near death experiences yknow

[chipen]

ㅤㅤㅤ❝  here  kitty,  kitty,  kitty-  ❞  call  it  predatory  thrill,  faced  with  a  being  as  fast  as  she  is.  the  training  room  beneath  the  shoten  wasn't  nearly  big  enough  to  hold  them  both,  ❝  entertain  me.  if  you  succeed,  i'll  bring  ichigo  here  for  you  to  chew  on!  if  you  don't,  you  have  to  do  whatever  i  say  for  two  days,  without  question.  deal?  ❞

@destructivour

[windupaidoneus]

need to write down info about more of my characters & selfships but i never have the energy. sniff. was thinking really hard about absinthe getting pushed into a moat last night though. i think when he was still in child form (which sort of also stopped his mental development in a sense? like he got older but remained. yknow. in a more childlike mentality even if he got wiser & more knowledgeable) he was taken in by a nice young woman but his draconic traits were hidden for the most part so people wouldn't get weirded out, them being revealed led to people cursing him for the black scrawl cases in the town & trying to get rid of him. his regenerative powers meant that he survived the fall but it of course HURT. he kinda stayed there for a while while his body recovered & after that he just started wandering & covering himself with a hood everywhere he went. he only came back once for the woman's funeral but didn't show himself or anything, stayed in the back, & left without speaking to anyone

[thegamingcatmom]

BIRB MAMA LET´S GO 🐦‍⬛

(I can´t get over how adorable/goofy she looks here. How am I supposed to fear any of that?)

If Mother Miranda were to take an interest in you outside the whole vessel thing, it would include:

(Yall know the drill by now: Don´t like my dark and twisted stuff, don´t read my dark and twisted stuff. 🖤)

having to listen to her ranting and gossiping about her "children"

sometimes, it´s straight up just death threats

she´s scary when she gets like that

especially because she tends to breathe down your neck to calm herself (your scent is quite helpful)

having to listen to her feverish prayers when it comes to Eva

Eva is a big topic in general

helping her in her lab

which basically means cleaning up her mess (and she is rather messy, it has to be said)

we´re talking mountains of papers as well as mountains of bodies

ofc she´s gonna make sure to snuff out every last bit of life before she lets you near her failed experiments

she won´t take any risks when it comes to you

as for the papers-

...it´s a mess

and it´s very scary (and very unfair) when she gets all hissy and murderous over you trying to do your "job" and clean up her mess just because, out of the millions of papers, there´s one that she still needs

"How dare you throw that away?!"

"Well, how tf am I supposed to know?!"

...you think to yourself because there´s no way you´re gonna say that to her face (you quite like breathing, tyvm)

Eva

whenever she has one of her downright terrifying smash-things-against-the-wall "tantrums" (as you like to call them not to her face) she gets all purry and touchy-feely after

probs her way of apologizing (cause there ain´t no way she´s gonna use them words)

you hate that it´s working

despite being a mass murderer/mold monster smt who doesn´t require eating or using any stuff that humans usually would (like toilets), she does appreciate you cooking and cleaning for her

things she tasked you with ofc

she quite...enjoys the sight

(smt about that domestic view just...does things to her)

(you force-wearing an apron drives her wild)

Eva

preening

she does have feathers, after all

and those need lots of TLC 💋

makes you clean her mask too

or her hand chains

anything, really

in return, you may wear it

(honestly? totally worth it)

we won´t talk about the fact she´s doing it more for herself (just like pretty much everything else) because seeing you wearing what is hers just...yknow?

but also to demonstrate to you just how good it feels to be bad

"Hm... What do you think, little bird? Do you like it? I certainly do..."

Eva

forces you to attend meetings with her so she can show you off

and also because it almost always gives her a reason to rip into her "children" because that bunch just doesn´t know how to behave around you

especially the tall one who keeps throwing you looks that make it seem like she wants nothing more than for you to drop dead

you kinda share that sentiment

anywhere would be better than here

...she´s scary

something Miranda takes note of as well

one look is all that is needed to put the tall one in her place

in moments like this, you truly appreciate your roommate´s/abductor´s murderous side

when you´ve been especially good for a (long) while (no escape attempts, no talking back, no disobeying her whatsoever) she indulges your childish urges to see her transform into different animals

she will deny any and all accusations of smiling at that, down to her very last breath

(she could be persuaded though...)

Eva

one day, you´ll probs have to go from cleaning that mess to making it

which means actively helping MM with her experiments

cutting someone open etc.

there´s no way out of it, let´s be honest

it´s her livelihood, ofc she wants to share that with you

(isn´t she just precious?)

spying on the villagers for her

(she will find out when you´ve been lying, so don´t even think about it)

Eva

(This actually got way less dark and twisted than I anticipated. Gotta work on that, LMAO.)

Basically, my HC for Miranda includes her getting an absolute kick out of anything family/domestic life. She goes absolutely nuts when it comes to her daughter, so I imagine this would count for an s/o as well. She gets obsessed to the point of no return, and she´ll fight tooth and nail to keep them with her always.

I could go on, and on, and on, and on, and-

But, alas, it is rather late and, unlike some mold monster smt, I do need my sleep. ;3

I might do more posts like that cause I have thoughts. 😩🤌

CYA THERE! 🫶

[crowborn666-writes]

No format today, I’m having bad thoughts about a place I used to live in and I need big brother Lucifer rn. Sometimes I like to entertain the thought of starting a completely new life.

Hopefully vague enough so you can input your experiences!

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You were sick. Surely, you were. What else could explain this nauseating feeling pooling in the cradle of your lower jaw? The hollowness in your chest?

That place that seems oh so happy to invade your mind is long gone by now. It’s in your past, and you never have to look back at it again.

Oh… but what if people who knew you bring it up again? Taunt you with it? Judge you for things out of your control?

Nobody in the Devildom knew of your past, (at least you didn’t think they did?), yet it was obvious by how you usually acted that there was something more than just a natural fear of a new place and yknow, demons around every corner.

Satan tried to pry once. Gently, shortly after you’d had flinched at someone merely raising their hand in your peripheral. Yet you gave him no answers, too afraid to have someone see a side of you you so wished to burn and bury.

Yet, here you were, still awake at eleven at night with tension coiled so tightly in your body you couldn’t bring yourself to move. You’re not sure what reminded you of those memories, but right now you were too focused on not puking your guts up.

You just needed to bury it again, deal with it later and get some sleep for RAD tomorrow.

You stared wide eyed at the wall, biting your lip as the sound of footsteps echoed through the halls. Lucifer was doing his rounds to make sure everyone was where they should be.

You swallowed around the lump in your throat, hoping you had been quiet enough in your tears that his inhuman hearing abilities didn’t catch up on. The footsteps neared, your door gently clicking open as Lucifer’s presence poured into your room.

You hoped if you sat still long enough and shut your eyes against Lucifer’s lingering form that he’d go away eventually.

“You’re holding your breath, what’s wrong?” You didn’t even hear his footsteps approach your bed!

You let go of the breath your were holding, the action coming out shaky. You opened your mouth to speak, to tell him you didn’t want to bother him with such trivial things when he should be catching up on sleep.

Yet no sounds left you.

Lucifer wordlessly sat down on the edge of your bed, gently pulling you up to his chest. He cradled you to him, letting you press your ear to his heartbeat, practically leeching the warmth he provided.

“If you’re homesick, we can always arrange—”

Had he been human, your sudden death grip would’ve left dark bruises. You latched onto his arms, body trembling as you frantically shook your head.

“N-No—! No, no, no! Don’t—I don’t—”

The sudden near hysteria coming from you was enough to startle him, his wings unfurling and quickly wrapping around you.

“I don’t wanna go back, Lucifer!” Your voice was frantic, yet you still had enough control to keep your tone hushed, so you didn’t wake anyone else. “This place is better…”

Lucifer’s heart clenched so harshly he himself nearly started crying for you. “Oh, (Y/n)… I won’t force you to go anywhere. You can stay here for as long as you want to, you have my word.”

He stood then, with you in his arms, carrying you out of your room and towards his. You needed it.

[wifeiy]

Greetings, Nia~~~ Hope you're having a pleasant day <3 I saw your latest post about TS LIs, and I'm here to talk about certain demon gentlemen we know and love ☺️

Even though Ais only had minor changes in his part, I think the "It's a nice laugh" scene hit hard for all of us Ais lovers (or maybe some idk)I'm still recovering from that scene as we speak. The "..brush away a tear with a MADDENING SOFTNESS" really has me in a death grip. Because wdym by that? Is he afraid his touch might hurt us?? like his touch could burn or something????//// inhale exhaaalllleeeeee

Ok but hear me out, what if; he didn't touch but just stared and you noticed this and asked, "What?" This startled him and his pupils go slit. He wants to say smth but words choke in his throat so he just looks away, rubbing the back off his neck, like he's nervous, covering his mouth with his knuckles. Then he looks at you, eyes softening into crescent. It's subtle but you can see blush paints his cheeks and even his ears. The corner of his mouth lifts slightly, then you heard a whisper, so soft it feels like it was meant only for you to hear it; "It's a nice laugh." ///PUNCHES WALLS-- crying and throwing up

I know of this feels like an OOC but yknow! what if he does hve this side of him? reserved for someone tht he finds truly interesting?? He becomes a bit shy and maybe awkward when trying to show genuine feelings? It’s such a contrast to someone who jst knocked a guy half-dead

IM SO SORRY W THE SUDDEN BABBLE gksajdgas I need the man blush ok,, cuz we got none in this update SOBSSS Aight Imma go back to my basement🧑‍🦯 Have a good day~

KEN!! hi hiii!! my good day has gotten better with your visit! :3 and not just any visit but one with the Sensational Idea of genuine/blushy ais?!?! 🤯😭😵 and now i, nia wifeiy, am here to expand!! >:3 **so sorry this got so much longer than intended. i got Lost in the Sauce idek what my goals were here.

i think it's hard to imagine awkward or shy ais because he's So. Steady and Confident and Open with his emotions. cool considerate consent and communication king. he's just Like That smh /silly. for someone he's truly interested in, in my mind it (sharing genuine feelings) manifests less as shy awkwardness, and moreso pauses before speaking to think about what to say.. 🤔 which i guess is his own way of being shy and avoiding said awkwardness actually. LMAO

so mMMm i see what u mean with feeling OOC. but it's nOT because flustered genuine ais is impossible!! THAT SIDE OF HIM IS REAL! TO ME! but at the start.... harder to find.

like, in the ocudeus scene specifically i think that, to some extent, ais wanted to amuse/relax mc with his comment.. so he'd have to be off-guard/unexpecting to be flustered :0

also ais's base level composure means he bounces back quickly from being flustered.. esp earlier in the relationship (pre-dating) he's more conscious about tucking away that softer side of him? he likes you, but it can't be That easy! THOUGH he might still blush or soften before deflecting/carrying on >:3

SO!! to FIND a stumbling, genuine ais, imo it'd be later when he's realizing the depth of his feelings. Before he reaches the point of trying to cut you off (iirc he was the one who got too attached to vere?). maybe you find him while he's having a Crisis about it and seeing you magnifies everything he's feeling, and for once he struggles with what to say or do. though that's not a fun fluffy scenario anymore... orz

to BRING OUT a shy blushy ais i would attack with sincere affection after an emotionally vulnerable conversation!! or when emotions are already heightened!! his guard's down, his attention is on you, all he can think about is you, etc. like: you saw straight through him/shown How well you know him and he's like [ ! ], you've both shared something really vulnerable, had a near-death experience, or even (gasp!) saying "i love you" for the first time, etc. etc.

YOUR DESCRIPTION OF HIM IS SOOO 😭🫶 Ais... I need him bad. i am here to share some More thoughts !! >:3

the ais in my head is. Hm. i don't know how to explain my ais. he walks the line of having his heart on his sleeve in a specific way that means. a lot of the time if he Is flustered or hiding from you, he doesn't hide the fact that he's hiding from you .? he's not wholly exposed, but to some extent he always lets you see him.... i don't think i make sense. Sorry .

like if it's a sincere compliment. there's the Eyes widening and stare and words getting stuck in his throat (ur a genius 4 that. cool witty guy Can't be cool and witty?? HELL YES!). and then. he doesn't Turn away from you . But he brings his hand to his face and covers his eyes while he softly laughs in disbelief. he covers his eyes instead of his laugh because he wants you to see it. and when he lets his hand fall YES there's a faint blush and his eyes are soft crescents and his smile and voice are gentle YEAS!!

not 2 say he never looks away. i imagine him doing that a lot w his. Emotional Crisis portion of the relationship at least.

covering his laugh with his knuckles.. that's so beautiful to me. i think it's if you do something and his own laughter catches him off guard. and you're like AIS and he's like sorry (not sorry).

^ and wouldn't it be so nice if you said something that caught him sO off guard he covered his mouth but failed to hide a bright smile and laugh. ais's laugh... can u imagine it... i just fell to my knees

also shy flustered ais might appear if you baby him. just being so so sweet on him kissing his face and being affectionate LOLLL like. to be nsft i guess. if it's during or after sex or something.. flustered and flushed ais oh my goodness. HELP ME!! HELP!! orz o(-(

blushy ais when princess exposes him somehow. i don't know how. it doesn't even have to be princess i just think that'd be an incredible move

pouty blushy ais is so cute he looks like he just got in trouble. or, again, you saw straight through him and he's like >:/ because he can't deny it BSJAHDJSHD

& the 'maddening softness' KILLED MEEE like, he told us about ocudeus in a sort of joke-y tone, but probably still prepared for Some sort of Bad reaction just in case—only to be met with Laughter??

that must've been a relief. that it wasn't a bad impression, that talking about something that's probably fucking him up can be a source of reprieve for you (and joke copium for him at the same time). of course he'd wipe away your tear with maddening softness this guy probably can't believe you're still here and he likes the fact that the shitty curse that brought you to him the seaspring hasn't prevented you from laughing like this!! OH MY GOD!! OHHMYGODD OH MY GODDDD MY

[nhescio]

Okay I have a visceral need for a hannigram time travel fic but instead of the typical Will or Hannibal fix-it, the person that time travels back is none other than Frederick fucking Chilton. Like imagine Chilton wallowing around all crispy and stuff after being human torched wondering what he’s done to deserve everything he’s been through. And when he’s finally okay enough to be discharged from the hospital to go home, an anvil falls on him or smth. And as he’s lying there incredulously, he’s like, yknow what? Im not even upset about this. I think Ive suffered enough near death experiences. Please just let this one put me out of my misery. And as his eyes finally drift shut, he hears an alarm blaring in his face. An alarm from his phone. His phone which, when he goes to shut it off, displays an impossible sequence of numbers— the plastic screen shinning with a date from four years past.

So after freaking out and confirming that he is indeed in the past, (and weeping in joy over his unmutilated body) Frederick does the obvious— he packs his bags, pays a visit to the bank, and gets on the next available flight out of the country.

And then his plane crashes and he dies.

But of course he doesn’t die because that seems to be a common theme in Frederick Chilton’s life!

So he’s jolting out of bed again to that same alarm and he tries not to tear his own face off (not that he would ever actually do that cause he knows how easily he could lose that precious face). And (after a few more tries) since this time loop bs isn’t letting him run away, he does the next best thing— phoning the FBI with a tip so that they would investigate Hannibal Lecter and put him behind bars for good. But of course Hannibal somehow finds out and discretely shakes the FBI off his trail while simultaneously sending one of his murderer protégés after Frederick. And so not even a month passes by before Frederick finds himself dying and waking to that infuriating alarm again.

And he keeps going through different loops trying to avoid being “murder tableau of the week”, but failing miserably every time. After dying for what feels like an infinite number of times, he’s realized two main consistencies. Number one, he can’t personally expose Hannibal Lecter as the ripper if he doesn’t want to be gutted, and two, the sooner Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter begin their weird courtship, whether from Frederick’s deliberate meddling or from ripples of unrelated actions, somehow he’s left with much less blood and chaos in the aftermath. In one incredible timeline, Frederick even managed to only sustain one life threatening disembowelment for three years before accidentally making a rude comment about Will Graham’s lack of a social life, thereby leading to a cold death in the Atlantic.

After this revelation, he vows to get Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter to bang each other as soon as possible for the sake of his own self preservation— going through elaborate plans like befriending and recruiting the FBI’s forensics team, or snapping Jack Crawford out of his obliviousness so he’d bluntly give them a nudge, or even once flirting with Will Graham himself to get Hannibal Lecter jealous (note: that attempt did NOT end up well).

And one day, after a shocked text from his “Sassy Science Matchmaking Squad” group chat proclaiming that Hannibal and Will, lovingly dubbed Hannigram by the group, had spontaneously quit their jobs and run away to Europe together, Frederick suddenly realizes he hasn’t been stabbed or burned or maimed or drowned or disemboweled once! He thinks back to his early success in this timeline— silently high fiving with Beverly and Jimmy (Zeller, the spoilsport, had refused to partake) while voyeuristically watching Will and Hannibal shyly having their first kiss in the shadows of a filthy crime scene. In fact, he didn’t think anyone in their immediate circle had been stabbed or burned or maimed or drowned or— well you get the point.

And as one year turns to two to four to eight with no word from Hannibal or Will except the occasional postcard, a sort of cautious optimism starts building in Frederick’s heart. The years continue to fly by until one day, Frederick finds that his hair has turned a snowy white, and that his legs are too weak to support his aching body. He tries to take in a breath to laugh but it comes out as a wheeze. He’s at the end of the line once more, but this time at the end of a healthy, fulfilling life. His only wish is that he’s finally allowed to move on. And as he feels his life slowly drifting away from him, Frederick wonders if he’s accomplished whatever divine mission that godforsaken time loop had wanted him to complete. It really feels like he did the best he could this life, preventing every possible death on the East Coast by sending Hannibal and Will packing early. Sure, he feels bad for the poor suckers in Florence or Paris that were probably flambéed for a pretentiously fancy brunch, but realistically, those two would always leave a body count no matter where they went.

All Frederick wants now is to pass in peace. With a heavy sigh, Frederick willingly closes his eyes one last time, content to move on into whatever lies in the beyond.

And he dies. For real this time. Woohoo!

The End

[l0stfoster]

For Cursed Tulsa AU: aksjsjak there are soo many things I want to ask about but first I am SO intrigued by Dally in this AU. So like him seeing ghosts is from his mom and I'm assuming he couldn't see them before he got shot/was rescued so was him 'dying' kind of like the catalyst for him unlocking that power? Did his mom ever tell him about the ghosts and he just thought she was hallucinating or did she never even try to bring that up? Does he know that his powers are from his mom or did he just wake up and was like "I guess that just happens now"?

AND THE AFTERMATH OF HIM JUST. SEEING THEM NOW.

Do the ghosts ever try to interact with him? Can they even? Since he apparently saw the Curtis parents and his mom so like did they try to speak to him ever? Or was it more just ominous staring?

And speaking of which - I'm pretty sure Dally isn't telling anyone about what he's been seeing. Is it just because he doesn't know how to bring it up or does he even understand exactly what's going on? Will he ever tell them? Or is this a secret he's taking to his grave?

Sorry for rambling lmao (expect more of this in the future) but all of this is genuinely SO INTERESTING AHH

Absolutely keep rambling Lunar I love these

His near death experience and sort of ‘rebirth’ was the reason his ghost seeing stuff finally unlocked, yes— however, that’s more in a manner of he finally became aware of it.

He assumed she was just hallucinating, and she never told him about it, both in a selfish way and in an attempt to protect him. Her thought was that if he didn’t know, then he couldn’t possibly channel it— the only issue is that if he had been seeing the ghost since he was a boy, it would’ve driven him down the same path of psychosis and mental unease she had experienced. While his mother had been able to see it since she was young, Dally’s mind had sort of blocked out the whole thing as it was due to how she behaved in correspondence to what she could see. To an extend, he’s always been able to see ghosts, but in the same way he’d blocked the Curtis’ out, his mind blocked the ghosts. It was only after actually encountering Death that this subconscious barrier shattered.

It takes a few weeks of living with it and one really bad hangover after drinking to try and block it out before he knew how to for there to be that oh moment. His mom wasn’t fuckin’ insane, she was seeing ghosts— and he’s doing the same thing she was doing, drinking to ignore it.

The ghosts are aware that he can see them once he acknowledges or reacts to them, after all if he didn’t give them the light of day, it’d just seem like another human overlooking them due to not seeing spirits. They can’t physically interact in most cases, beyond toying with items and things of that sort. The few he does interact with he has sort of ‘befriended’,, but it’s mostly just ones tied to spots that he can walk by, ask if they’d seen anyone from the gang, get an answer, and keep going.

The Curtis parents didn’t really get a chance to try and speak to him, all they’d really manage was his name or something else of a similar nature before he’d panic and block them out. His mom didn’t speak when he saw her, she just watched. Stared at him with dead eyes as he stared back in horror.

Y’know, he never knew that she died.

Dally hasn’t told anyone yet, but I think if anyone were to find out willingly first it either be Johnny or Two. Johnny’s the boy of death, he’d have to know something about seeing all of this. Two’s his best friend, he knows he can trust him.

..I think the person who would find out despite Dally’s unwillingness is Paul. Witches are pretty spiritually tied, are they not? And he’s not stupid, he’s heard about spiritual medium related things; Dally sticks out like a sore thumb when you know what signs to look for. He just won’t bring it up, since it’s.. yknow. Dally

[rashpenguine]

School Bus Graveyard Fic Idea

Possibly x reader???

-Reader has been dealing with the phantoms for months

-Reader is a haunted house blogger, they quit that once the nightly near death experiences started

-Reader is stuck in this alone, as they went into the house alone to do a blog, they have deleted the photos of when they were in the house as well as the blog

-Reader is the child of a gang member so they have parental issues/trauma and all that fun jazzy angst we love

-They know how to defend themself, but it's baseline

-They like walking/running so that's a strong point

-Maybe meet the sbg group when they're dragged to meet family

-They meet them in the phantom realm, and they're shocked to see anyone else here and they save one of the sbg groups asses.

-One of the sbg group then recognises them in person, and reader acts as if they don't know them (best to not get attached yknow)

Any Suggestions or Thoughts?

[druidshollow]

Waitwaitwait

WHAT HAPPENS TO PHRASES AFTER THE COLLAPSE?

DOES SAINT DO THE THING

I NEED TO KNOW

oh i have a page in a sketchbook page about this! one sec

no sorry to say but phrases does Not get to ascend, i think they just sit there until their systems are overcome by the cold and theyre just. beyond fixing, beyong consciousness. if its any consolation it wouldnt take very long. theyre so far north that the cold is already so encompassing that when there arent two or more iterators near eachother they dont emit enough heat to melt enough water to keep themselves alive under normal circumstances. now the entire world is coming into an ice age and the poles are getting c o l d. soon theres not enough water to sustain phrases and nights, and with phrases age (they were like. midearly gen 2) their structure is giving in on them. nights falls shortly after them

my headcanon for the slugcats follows canon pretty closely, and i like to think moon's group was pretty central, so saint wouldnt get anywhere near phrases' group. in my heacanon the events of saints campaign are just saints experience as an echo forever. i guess you could argue that before that saint went around and ascended everyone then went to the sea, but idk why would it just be moon and pebbles forever, what makes them different from all the others yknow? maybe theyre the first ones saint ascends? idk whatever lmao im losing my point which is no i dont think any of my ocs got ascended by saint

which means that they all just slowly died, like an iterator naturally does without support in a dying world. i would consider this functioning in the cycle like death of old age, and they would all start an entirely new cycle, with no memory of who they were before. maybe they incarnate into like a...... yeek relative evolved to better withstand the cold or something idk

its right below you buddy. the water? right there! tantalizingly close. its so so close, just sitting around your structure but oh you cant drink it, cant reach it because its frozen. its too cold. and now your pipes are freezing. and youre starving. and its there but you cant reach it and your body is giving up on you a

[unapologetiicapathy]

OKAY HELLO THERE FOLKS im here rn to tell you abt a heathers au i have where jd survives !! i wrote most of this vv late at night so forgive me if it doesnt make sense or if its dumb lol, also this is based off the movie bcuz i havent seen the musical yet

(copypasted from notes)

(putting it under the cut cuz its long as FUCK)

-okay so theres multiple versions i have of this au, in one of them jd and veronica arent together, but that made me kinda sad (my poor little mega-crush-on-jd heart doesnt want him to be lonely </3) so i have another au where their shared secrets end up keeping them together, and then that one also has two versions, one where they have a kid and one where they dont (this is proof i have too much free time amd i write shit way too late at night) (also i have way more hcs abt the "they do stay together" version lmao)

-so the bomb didnt work quite as well as he thought it wld. he still got blown the fuck up but not bad enough to kill him (obvi). someone called an ambulance (im not sure who but definitely not veronica /lh), he got rushed off to hospital, he was there for quite a while and got a lot of scars and stuff but somehow he managed to survive (they thought he was a total goner man)

-veronica didnt know he was still alive for a few weeks. the explosion was on the news, but she was majorly avoiding tv altogether at the time (no matter where you are the news is always reporting on some sort of death and tragedy, and it served as WAYYYYY too much of a reminder of what she and jd did). she didnt find out til she actually saw him in person

-she was at the 711 (or wherever the fuck they got the slushies from idk its midnight rn) getting potato chips (yes this is an important detail to me. dont ask me why.) and he happened to be there at the same time

-she totally freaked the hell out when she saw him ("no. no! youre dead! youre dead! youre fucking dead!" "well you see, the thing is, im actually not.") and it took her awhile to come to terms with the situation

-in the "veronica-less" au, they ran into each other a few times after that, veronica refused to talk with him, and he ended up leaving sherwood and going to. um. somewhere else idk thats honestly as far as i got with this version 👍👍👍

-in the "they stay together" version (holy fuck i need proper names for these man), they also kept running into each other, but this time it worked out different yk (god i sound stupid sorry). they were both rlly conflicted abt it. it was like they both wanted to see each other again, but at the same time it felt like the worst thing that cld possibly happen. but you see, it kept happening. and happening. and happening. its like they couldnt  avoid each other. and at some point or another, they started just wanting it to happen. then kind of actively trying to make it happen. and then he finally just asked her out. she said no bcuz she needed some time to think abt it (they did go out a couple weeks later tho)

-(skip back in time a lil here bcuz im a fuckin scatterbrain lmao) when veronica found out jd was still alive she was scared of him yk (i mean i wld be too if my supposed-to-be-dead ex showed up outta nowhere) but she realised that like. he changed. smth happened in his silly lil head when he nearlu died, and he realised that everything that happened was totally fucked up and he actually regrets it and wants to do things different yk. (wanna be a better person? have a near-death experience /j)

-youd expect them to go get slushies when they finally do go on a date. NOPE. they actually go out for breakfast and get waffles (jd absolutely 100% loves waffles and you cannot convince me otherwise)

-at some point or another, veronica buys him little vinyl dinosaur stickers (yknow like the kind you can put on laptops and helmets and stuff). i dont know when this happens. i dont know why this happens. but i know it happens.

-jd kinda wants to be a theatre actor for a lil while, he ends up having tiny roles in a few things but he never rlly has any cool roles yk (im not quire sure why this is part of my au now but its probably just bcuz i wanna watch the musical lmao)

-okay i told you there was two points where this au branches off and congratulations youve just reached the second point 👍👍👍 this is where the path splits between "jd and veronica with no kids" and "jd and veronica with a kid"

-in the "no kids" version, they cant have a kid bcuz theyre scared that they wont be able to raise a child properly and the kid will turn out like they did, and thats the scariest thought in the world to them

-in the "jd and veronica with kids" version (srsly i need the power to create au titles man eueueue), they have a teenage daughter named alina

-theyre super super SUPER protective of her and like theyre always fretting abt whether theyre doing a good job

-they dont tell her abt what they did in '88 bcuz theyre worried abt how shell react, sometimes they think maybe they shld say smth but they always end up agreeing to "just wait til later" (theyre never gonna tell her man theres no way in hell)

-jd knows that the only reason veronica was involved in the deaths was bcuz she was with him, and so he gets extra extra worried whenever alina starts dating someone bcuz hes scared that shell get taken down the same path that he took veronica down all those years ago (which is very unlikely but i mean can ya blame him?)

-jd 100% needs therapy but cant get it bcuz how the fuck do you tell a therapist that you murdered three ppl and then tried to explode yourself. so instead he has a diary he writes in every day and he uses it as sort of self-therapy (i tooooootally didnt just take one of my own personality traits or habits or wtvr the word is and give it to him. totally not. totally. 👍)

-uh thats it for now but i definitely have more au hcs tucked away in my one singular braincell, i just need to find em apparently- also apologies for the excessive parentheses 👍👍👍

[revclver-jesus]

{{ ok so. Miles and miles of me rambling incoherently about the musical--

I never really got to see the kotone version of the musical?? I'm not sure why... Maybe I was already on hiatus by the time it came out, i'm not sure, but I'm just now seeing it!! And~ adding it to my extensive Strega knowledge!! dskhgdkhs

First thing, I really love how Jin is depicted in the femme MC musical,,, a very slight change, but Jin is very distinctly an active agent of Takaya's agenda in this depiction. I love these two together !! They are such good friends !!!

There's a great little musical bit ( its short so im not sure i'd call it a song, but it is a musical tidbit lol ) where they actually depict Takaya,,, doing cult leader stuff! And he's preaching to a crowd. And Jin is an excellent hype man!! And its sinister but they have such great chemistry-- they're efficient together, yknow? And once again, its obvious that Jin is not a victim. He's a cunning and willing accomplice.

And even more interesting-- when they come to break out Chidori, Jin actually talks more than Takaya, being the one to say the line " you don't belong anywhere else but with us" and adding on to that sentiment that "some things are never meant for people like us" of which Takaya simply says "Harsh, but true" basically lmao. Takaya also indicates more open resentment, referring to Junpei as a "Self righteous hypocrite". As always, reading between the lines of his cool, confident demeanor indicates the sincere emotion behind his actions.

Combining this with Jin's canon tendency to refer to Chidori as a very dear friend to him? Its emotionally complicated. Jin is not manipulating her like a supervillain, he is emotionally manipulating her accidentally through self projection, the fear of losing one of his only friends, and giving bad advice from traumatic experience.

THUS INDICATING THE EMOTIONAL COMPLEXITY of Takaya AND Jin's relationship with Chidori. Because if both characters can say that line interchangeably.... their motivations are probably quite similar, even if they express it differently. Especially because Jin is so in agreement with Takaya in that play. Takaya is also giving bad advice due to traumatic experience-- made evident by his earnest resentment for the heroes-- he just does it on a wide scale and with a far more calculated way of speaking. But the origin of why they think the way they do is identical.

And then, of course, the most important scene-- showing exactly how Takaya saved Jin, its clear that Takaya also saved Chidori-- just more literally speaking, in that he shot the men leading them into missions that would inevitably kill them and ran away with them in tow. ( Somehow he had a massive revolver-- they do not explain where he found the gun, I guess he stole it off a lab assistant? lmao ) There was no reason for him to do it except to help them. But, the reason its most memorable to Jin is that he interrupted Jin mid suicide attempt-- seeming to be driven to kill those men because of Jin's near death. ( saying the same phrase as the bridge scene! )

And there is something very striking about the way the actor plays his younger self, accompanying the shadow actors, as so emotional. Because in this version of the story, this is the first time we see Takaya scream like that, let alone to save someone else, completely shattering your perception of this character who was otherwise calm and sinister up until now. There is really no way to interpret what he did as anything other than an act of empathy to stop someone from dying. And what an unexpected side to see of the....... death cult messiah lmao.

mini observation-- I know this is just a thing people do on stage plays to cleanly transition and not leave props behind, but I like the detail of Takaya picking up Chidori's weapon and looking at it for a moment before he leaves. idk lol. }}

[ragdollsgender]

episode 6 liveblog

yayyyy more expanding on comics plotlines

waow theyre making powerplex have some rlly solid points here

its against safety rules to continue wearing your lab coat outside of lab settings. and safety goggles no less??? girl take those off

yayyyyy becky ^_^ i heart hater women

WOAH. i wasnt expecting those disks 2 actually like. be embedded in powerplexs skin. i thought they were just on the costume. well i love when men get stabbed

this is literally playing out like a bdsm scene. im sure there are videos of women hitting eachother with sledgehammers and sticking weird needle disks in eachother on this very website

how can he change out of his costume when the disks are on top of it. maybe they didnt want him to be shirtless cuz it would look even more like a bdsm scene

oliver is making a :3 face a lot this episode

paul is self deprecating againnnnnn bro stop it

dramatic music <3

literallyyyyy william is so right youre both adults. mark lowkey needs 2 get over himself

i dont like the title bit here :( i think powerplex has good points and it seemed like they were taking him more seriously this time but ig not rlly

rudys bob looks particularly fuckass with those goggles. also all those components lined up like that i know what you are (autistic)

the music player ui on that screen implies rudy is actually playing this music. canon music preferences lets goooooo

hand on the hip??? gay

YOURE WHAT?? like i knew raes story could go literally anywhere but quitting is wild it kind of came out of the blue. looking back all the talk abt her childhood couldve been foreshadowing it but idk. it didnt seem like that it the time. but anyways i want 2 see where this is going

"that man is disturbed" try listening 2 what hes saying,,,,,,,,,,, damn

ugh "if you protect invincible youre as guilty as he is" that line is kind of. like you can kind of tell centrists wrote it

"he was unwell" again??? hes literally not

"maybe thats because of what my dad and i did" maybe?????? he literally said that is the exact reason try listening when people talk????????? like maybe mark couldnt hear clearly at the time but during the previous incident when powerplex was on the news mark couldve watched that back. bro

ok i wouldnt go so far as to say "if he hurt people here wouldnt it be my fault" like no other ppls actions arent your fault if you indirectly caused them. but you should have talked to himmmmmmm. use your wordsssss bro

rae is so correct abt everything yessss you matter your own self is important you dont have to die for strangers

if your answer to "are you happy" isnt yes then its no

"i dont get to be happy" damn that is extremely on the nose. i wouldve expected rex to be more repressed about this but maybe its his new post near death experience personality change. also ermmm is this setting up for. yknow. comics readers know

rex bro you can make a new identity its literally not even that hard. read dorley hall. also referring to the rexplode identity as "it" instead of "he" is kind of,,,,, something,,,,,, idk what it is. not being coy or whatever its genuinely only a LITTLE SUBTLY transgender. but it could be more transgender i see it

not only are they kissing they fucking drew rae standing on her toes STOP BEING STRAIGHT. im heterophobic. she should be taller

really bad idea to duct tape an infants mouth. children are rlly susceptible to respiratory failure. ok at least hes taking it off right after

damn it i thought they were finally talking like normal but then the writers just made powerplex suddenly less reasonable. centrists :/

that episode was alright ig. i would say somewhere in the middle in terms of the ranking of season 3 episodes. maybe low middle

[goldstargloww]

transcript:

background info: during mcc pride 23, martyn reads a chat message thanking the mods yes! yeah yeah yeah, BIG big thank you to my mods tonight, for um, keeping chat clear

anybody who's been coming in this evening, if they're still lurking or whatever else, and you've been coming in like, "[mocking gibberish noises]", like just saying random homophobic shit

you're a fuckin loser. like, honest to god, like- and i say that, hahah, sincerely. like- you need that bluntness and that harshness to give you a wake-up call, but you are lacking compassion currently. you are lacking compassion and understanding and love. you are wasting your finite moments on this planet by being horrible.

and as much as like, you know, i wouldn't say that you're awful, i do sympathize that people are products of their environments for the most part but you can change and you should change. so, if you can, you don't even have to take time to like, read, or learn, or do any of that sort of stuff in relation to these topics, just. don't say anything, yknow what i mean? like you just don't need to go and spout horribleness.

nobody's out to get you, nobody's out to convert you, nobody's out to do xyz, people just wanna love who they love and they wanna live their lives, and they wanna enjoy the same minecraft event that you do, they wanna go and see the same films you do, they wanna watch sports, they wanna cook food, they wanna do paintings. all of it. like. literally. what they like to do, behind closed doors or even out in public, it genuinely shouldn't concern you.

like, it shouldn't take some kind of world shaking or near death experience for you to have this epiphany. that's all i'm tryna say, like, you really need to understand that, yknow, you could be doing something so much more productive.

yknow what, even if you are, like, a mega sweat, instead of spending time coming to people's livestream chats and saying xyz, why don't you go get good at the game? why don't you go get good at something, like, develop a skill or a talent, or, you know what i mean? like, if you wanna be heard, if you wanna be seen, and whatever else, if you're doing it purely for attention, make people pay attention but for the right reasons. that's my take on it. it's just- it's just not necessary. it really isn't. so, there you go.

yeah, develop a personality, at the moment you are genuinely like, reducing yourself, unfairly so, to being just like a toxic soundboard that's not saying anything different to all the other people that are devoid of all their unique traits and personality. you don't want your mark on this earth to be just like other people. be unique, but for good reasons. be unique by contributing something. something that'll last not even to the whole world, not everybody has to remember you, but make sure the people that're around you will remember you for really lovely reasons. really good reasons. that's all you can do. so, there you go.

you can be funny without being discriminatory, a hunnndred percent, yeah! hundred percent you can. i'm just funny with doing stupid puns and breaking the fourth wall every so often. that's my niche.

[unrelated, doing parkour: "oh i finally got it, let's go! mmmm… woop! ooh, it's a bit of a neo here.]

so there you go. that's my, that's my little, my little rant against hate.

and for anybody that's just coming in from owen's stream, this is the vibe in here all the time, not the shouting at people, telling them, saying be better be better be better, but, we have one of the most inclusive communities on twitch i feel. we have got people all across the spectrum, all kinds of, um, yknow, sort of representations. and it's just a nice place to be honestly, i genuinely really really am proud of this chat, and the same with the people that i collaborate with as well, people like owen and bek and eloise and oli yknow scott and people like that, like, it's just a good time. it's genuinely a good vibe.

[big-nerd-boi]

Kill the crown.

Idk how to label my posts but ayyyy I gotta brand this right y’all lmao. Anyways!

Since kill the crown is a sequel to Journey to the West, this means I get to use the pilgrimage for my own nefarious purposes HEHEHEHEH- cough.

That means creative liberties as well since I’m terrible at following canon! Especially when I’m honestly looking at everybody like they’re idiots ( Pigsy. Pigsy. PIGSY.) and I am a character development kinda guy.

So with my own version of Tripitaka, he gets a few extra experiences within this long, tedious, dangerous journey!

Along with a not so fancy holy monk design.

The cassock Guanyin had given him is said to be in the wraps carried along with the supplies, so I think he’d prefer something easier for travel.

Did you know he’s only 18/19 starting the journey? I bet he had near chronic puffy eyes from all his crying, which, me during exam week.

Finally, his leg.

Now I’m not sure when it takes place besides when the entire pilgrimage is together. But a cobra demon kidnaps Tang shocker surprise, he pleads to be let go- that he doesn’t wanna be dinner, that monkey is gonna rock their shit, etc.

But the demon just injects Tripitaka with their venom, and waits for it to kill him.

Before it can, he’s saved, demon killed, happy ending! All except, Tripitaka can’t move his left leg. Well he can move it at the hip, but below the knee? Nothing. He can vaguely feel it, put some weight on it, but he can’t move it beyond some bending of his knee.

So Bai-long-bai is immediately tasked to step up his game, and Tripitaka gets to realize that he’s had a far too close brush with death! Fun!

His priest staff is also now used as a cane for when he’s walking.

This can also give him the excuse of why he can’t just run away at times, because he can’t run.

I really really hope I can make his character more likable man,,, something beyond the jerk he is in the book. Okay that’s not just it. He’s complex, I’ll say that.

I just don’t root for him compared to Wukong yknow? He feels flat!

I wanna change that, even if he’s no longer the main character. Despite all my complaints, I still love journey to the west with all my heart and I want to do it justice with Kill the Crown!

I hope I can do that, and that you all can enjoy it as much as I do.

[flowerslut]

I'm almost sure you (or maybe it was volturialice) already talked about this but I've been rewatching twilight and I noticed that even though Jalice is described as a not-very-touchy couple in the books, in the movies, absolutely every scene in which Alice and Jasper are present together, they are touching. Like all of them. And I love that. Fuck the deep emotional connection shit, that man needs fucking cuddles!!! And I also love how you put this in your fics, it's just beautiful

as the queen of jalice meta of course g has tackled this topic in depth! for what it’s worth I 100% agree (shocker there) and think it’s super duper dumb that, because of smeyer’s weirdness, she thinks that jalice having a mythical, psychic, we-don’t-touch-each-other-after-near-death-experiences relationship makes sense for them. you’re trying to tell me that alice “no boundaries” cullen and jasper “there would be no limit to who or what he would destroy for alice” hale would just… stare at each other post new moon volturi debacle? like, sure steph. whatever you say

we also touch on it briefly in a recent episode of @threebooksoneplot so don’t worry, it (jalice) is always on our minds 🤪

but yeah the movies are SO funny in that the whole team at lionsgate seemed to collectively go “nah” and put these two all up in each other’s business. like g, I also imagine that, given what we know about their individual characters, they’d land somewhere in the middle between movie and book canon! they can have a deep emotional connection AND get those cuddles, yknow? which is what I like to portray in my fic versions of them!!!!! so i’m very happy that you enjoy that 🥹🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[casdeans-pie]

Falling (In Love)

Destiel Fanfiction 2,065 words Rated G

Tags: Aftermath Of A Case (we don't see the case, but we see what Situation Dean and Cas have ended up in because of it), Castiel Is A Fallen Angel, Dean Sees Cas's Wings, Near Death Experience, First Kiss.

Summary: Desperate times call for desperate measures even if those measures are jumping out of the window on the seventieth floor with nothing but hope and mangled fallen angel wings to keep you in the air. Probably not the best time for a kiss... or is it?

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In terms of ‘situations where escape seems impossible’ Dean would probably rank this at a solid two. He’s not entirely sure what keeps it from being number one, since there are currently a group of eight witches blocking the only doored exit to the room, and the only other way out would be through the floor-to-ceiling window behind him – seventy stories up from the ground. Dean lost his gun a few floors back, and Cas’s angel blade was stolen by the witches, so they’re also weapon-less. But he figures that while the spell book that he and Cas just stole is still in his hands the witches won’t risk damaging it, so at least they can stall for time while he thinks of some way to get them both out with the book. He’s escaped with impossible odds against him all the time.

It just feels a little more impossible than usual.

Dean glances over at Cas, hoping to see some kind of glint in his eyes that means he’s got a plan. But he’s not looking at Dean. His eyebrows are drawn together in indecision and worry and he’s staring straight ahead with a vacant expression that means he’s deep in his thoughts.

Hope flares in Dean’s chest.

He’s learned enough from Cas’s expressions over the years to know that he’s got something up his sleeve. Something risky, but hell, Dean’s not picky about that right now.

The witches all take a pace forwards as a unit and Cas tugs on Dean’s shirt sleeve to pull him back further towards the window, to keep their distance. Nothing but a desk separates them now.

The huge glass window is pressing cold and solid against their backs in a cruel reminder that freedom is a pane of glass away, but they’d never survive the fall.

“Just give us the book Winchester,” one of the witches snaps.

“Give us the book and we’ll let you both live,” another adds in a low, persuasive tone.

“Like hell you will,” Dean retorts with a snort, “you think I’m gonna trust a single damn thing that comes out of a witch’s mouth?”

A witch taller than the others takes another step closer to them both, her chin held high, and she examines her long, blood red nails as if bored by the whole situation. “Boys, boys, boys,” she says, with a shake of her head, “I grow tired of this. You’ve stolen my book, and I want it back. There is clearly nowhere for you to go, so I suggest that you hand it over, or I will regretfully have to kill you both and hope that my book survives.”

“This book contains angelic spells, and it belonged to the angels before it belonged to you. You’re the ones who stole it in the first place. You have no more claim to it than we do,” Cas says suddenly, his voice firm and full of defiance.

“Yeah, except Cas is an angel, so really, yknow, if it belongs to anyone it belongs to him,” Dean adds, tapping the front cover of the old book with his knuckles and scoping out the room again while he stalls for time, hoping to find any way out of this. Preferably without him and Cas becoming spell-practice for witches or bloody smears on the sidewalk below them.

The bold witch at the front laughs in a throaty cackle.

Dean smiles. “Wow, nice laugh you got there, Wicked Witch of the West, you about to tell me you’re gonna get me and my little dog too?”

“Mm, you are pretty I’ll give you that. But no, I’m just amused that you can call that an angel. I’ve been using those spells a long time, so I can see something of this… abomination’s true form, and trust me, Winchester, if you could see what I see you wouldn’t call it an angel.”

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