#like we know ae has a pretty wild hair

[blue-unifox]

Thought to experiment a bit! Top left model is Thando Hopa and I couldn't find the bottom right one's name unfortunately

[erscogadatabase]

24 - The Void (Part 2)

Date: 7-28-2024 IDST

“Ah, there you are,” Akeldama says. “Lucky for you that I was able to keep us from Falling any further into oblivion. Shall we continue, then, or are you going to waste more of our not-time trying to communicate with The Void Itself?”

Dukermin: Is that what its whole thing is? Its the void itself? I asked what its job is and it just sent me a ⚫ emoji… Thats pretty cool.

“Hmph. Well, at least your reading comprehension has improved.” Akeldama continues ahead to the next platform.

(This platform seems even more solid than the last, yet the Void still feels heavy around you. The platform itself has been meticulously cleared of detritus, and you can see a variety of stones, computer parts, and trash floating in the not-space around it. A staticky structure sits in the center of the platform.)

(Akeldama examines the space around the platform, probing for weak spots.)

Dukermin: *examines the staticky structure*

(At first glance, it appears to just be one solid wall. When you peer behind it, though, you find yourself in what could ostensibly be called a room. A shadowy figure is in here, along with a red-haired woman who appears to be frozen in time, unmoving.)

Dukermin: *waves hand in front of the woman’s face* Hello?? *to Nalitie/Tahlia* Do you recognize this person at all?

Tahlia(?): *shakes her head slowly*

AE! Tobias: *yanking on Dukermin’s hand, pointing at the shadowy figure in the corner (who is currently facing away from you)* Is friend!!! 

Dukermin: Oh… is it? Um, excuse me? Shadow-guy?

(The figure turns around. It has a face, a smiling white blob atop an amorphous black body. Tucked close to its body are two sleeping infants, identical human baby girls with light skin and a small amount of blonde-brown hair on their heads. The figure cradles them carefully in what appear to be two white hands, though they look more like mittens with large black circles on the back, which may or may not be holes.)

Dukermin: Hi! Say do you know a guy named Mr. Face Man? You bear a striking similarity. Also hey, Nalitie, those are your kids kind of!

Nalitie: *responding to the name “Nalitie” for the first time in a while* I have kids??? I mean, other than Rosabelle, who’s theoretical???

Dukermin: Rosabelle? Anyway, this is Lisa and Leonarda. Fantastically named. They’re not like, biological, you took them out of… well, here.

(The shadowy figure holding the two infants regards you carefully, black goop leaking from its ever-present smile.)

AE! Tobias: *pulling Dukermin closer* Want say hi. *reaching with their other hand towards the figure*

Nalitie: *can’t understand Tobias because only Dukermin had the translator when they entered The Void*

Dukermin: Uhh *taps on translator* is this thing on..? Hello?

* 📬︎📬︎📬︎ ☟︎☜︎☹︎☹︎⚐︎📬︎📬︎📬︎

Dukermin: Oh hey Art, it’s you! So you ended up in here as well? Wild. We’re trying to find our way out.

Nalitie: Do you know this guy?

Dukermin: Yeah! He was trying to help us fix our dimension. Weird portal stuff was happening. He figured out this teacher guy had the info we needed. And uh… that’s the last thing we remembered. Oh! I wonder if that teacher did all this!

Nalitie: *nervously* *almost to herself* Weird portal stuff…

* I see… That is an interesting theory.

(Art continues to stare at you, unmoving except to bounce the children in his not-arms.)

Dukermin: Well, what do you think happened, then?

* I… am unsure. I suppose it is of little consequence now.

(Akeldama finally enters the room.)

“Ah, there you…” She trails off upon seeing Art. The two stare at each other for a long time.

Nalitie: *is uncomfortable with all of the tension*

Tobias: *still reaching with his one hand towards Art*

Dukermin: Wow. Get a room, you two.

“Excuse me???”

* Humans… 

Dukermin: Anyway… Should we… continue on trying to find the weak spot?

(Art tilts his head at you, as if in confusion.)

* For what reason would you do that, child?

Dukermin: To… leave? To go home? Don’t you want to do that as well?

* Ah, my dear… Who told you that you would be able to leave a place such as this?

Dukermin: Umm… she did *points at Akeldama* At least I’m pretty sure she did. Prose…

* I fear you may have been led astray, dear human. It is not quite that simple to leave this not-place, certainly not with how far you must have Fallen and with how much you must have lost of yourselves. Although it seems that you, Dukermin, are not nearly as Fragmented as your companion… How odd.

(Akeldama stares intently at Art, nearly glaring. Tobias stops pulling at your hand, looking up at you quizzically.)

Tobias: We go home? 

Dukermin: *to Tobias* yep, soon. Say, Art, how did you know we fell down here? It’s not like it’s our first time coming to the void.

* Ah… I suppose not. “Fallen” is… simply a term we use to describe those who have come to The Void. You mentioned your suspicions that someone was at fault for your coming here, so I merely assumed that your journey to this not-place was not of your own volition. And your dear friend’s SOUL being so damaged—it is a sign that your Fall must have been a great one.

Dukermin: Okay, that’s fair. Definitely over-explained that one a bit, but no big. Well, whether you think we can leave or not, we’re going to keep looking for an escape, so do you want to tag along or what?

(The air around you seems to buzz with a tense energy as Art regards you with an unplaceable smile.)

* I… suppose I am interested to see where this venture takes you. You are still quite far from anywhere that a “weak spot,” as you called it, would be found, I’m afraid.

“You were always fond of the 5th Circle,” Akeldama says, tersely. “You and your… the others.” 

Dukermin: Oh, do you hang out here a lot, Art?

(Art ignores your question, moving towards the door.)

Dukermin: Also, are you good holding the twins? We could take them if your… arms? are getting tired.

(You get the distinct feeling of an unimpressed look from him, although his face never changes. Art’s hands—still holding one twin in each—float very far away from his body. He doesn’t have arms.)

Nalitie: Hey, what about her? *points at the red-haired lady*

* … ah. I had nearly forgotten. 

(He phases over the woman, and she blinks awake.) Woman: Oh… *looks around* Here again? 

Dukermin: Oh! Aubrey! I didn’t recognize you all frozen! Man, the whole squad is here, huh?

Aubrey: … Dukermin? You’re here too, then? *frowns* I suppose it didn’t work, then. We must have all been consumed… 

Dukermin: Consumed by the portals, you mean? That doesn’t totally make sense, though, because as far as we remember, we were not in Erscoga when everything got voided.

Aubrey: *frowns* Consumed by the Apynteu is more what I meant… 

Nalitie: *giving them both a weird look, also a little nervous*

Dukermin: By the whaaaat? Never heard of the ah-peen-too before.

Nalitie: *biting at a hangnail*

Aubrey: You… haven’t? … I guess you wouldn’t have had a reason to. *turns to Akeldama and Art* Would you like to explain, or should I? 

Akeldama just turns to Art. “It’s your turn to explain things.”

(Art hesitates.)

* Ah, The Apynteu… such a terrible cosmic force. Given the circumstances, I am also quite surprised that its name has not crossed your path yet… It is a being which traverses our Multiverse, destroying worlds in hunger for its missing Spark. Truly a great and powerful being, the very thing we aimed to protect your world from…

Dukermin: Oh, this does sound slightly familiar… Wasn’t that one officer trying to tell us about it? I thought GCL had that under control… Nalitie, do you know anything about it?

Nalitie: *changing the subject* Hold on, did you say something about an “Erscoga”? That’s what we were going to name our new dimension, right? Was that already taken?

Dukermin: Ugggggh. Just hurry up and get your memories back already. See what I have to deal with? We need to get out of here…

“I agree,” Akeldama says, her voice tense. “No sense in sitting here having a theological discussion when we could be looking for a way out. This room may save us from Falling any further but it’s not productive, either.”

Dukermin: How dare you say I’m not productive?? I created an entire dimension! …I think something got lost in translation again. Art, I think Akeldama said we were in the fifth circle. Does that mean if we get through this area, we have four more to go through before we can exit the void?

* … in a… metaphorical sense, I suppose. Certainly it won’t be as easy as you seem to think it is.

Dukermin: Meh. We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it. 

Tobias: *reaches out to grab a bit of Art’s… cloak? body? as he walks by, so they’re kind of sandwiched between Art and Dukermin* friend! 

(Art looks down at Tobias. The air around him seems to soften a bit as he looks at the toddler.) 

* Hello, dear child. Despite everything, it is nice to see you again. I only wish the circumstances were anything but what they are.

Akeldama is already way outside of the little “room,” waiting for the rest of you impatiently. 

Dukermin: *leaves with Tobias and Art (and by extension Lisanarda) in tow*

(Nalitie and Aubrey follow you out. The Void extends infinitely in every direction. There are a handful of platforms scattered around, some more solid than others.) 

Dukermin: Hey, that looks like my warehouse! *goes to a platform with a nondescript gray box perched on top*

(The air here seems a little lighter, buzzing around you like static rather than weighing on your body. The platform is deep, and as you get closer, you can see that the gray box is made out of actual metal, rather than a gray developer texture. There are a few scattered piles of debris on the platform outside of the warehouse, and a few sad-looking bushes. A cluster of pixels glitters in the least-sad looking one of them.)

Dukermin: *reaches for the pixels*

(The cluster of pixels settles itself in your hand. It’s warm in your palm, and you can sense the memory contained within it. It’s all jumbled up.)

Dukermin: *unjumbles it*

(As you rearrange the memory, something suddenly clicks and the memory contained within the fragment plays in your mind, clear as if it was your own.)

(He sees many pass through The Void. They cry out for friends, family, caretakers that are no longer there; or rather, that are still in the Storylines these exiled have been erased from. He takes on the role of Void Herald, and greets these transients after they awaken.)

(He takes care to assure them that they will be alright, that The Void is really not that frightening once you get used to it (quashing the existential fear that still resides in his own soul), and does his best to prevent them from being frightened at the sight of his distorted face. He speaks assurances until his proper voice is lost to The Void, and learns to communicate through The Void Itself.)

(He does what he can to cobble together shelter for those who pass through The Void, carving out a space that he hopes feels like home. He watches as an infinite number of deleted Characters come in and out of the Void.)

(You know immediately that the memory isn’t yours, but it attaches itself to you anyway, settling into a dark ring on your index finger.)

Dukermin: Ohhhh the Herald! Not Harold. Everything’s coming together… And I have two rings now. Double fashion!

Akeldama sighs wearily. “Are you still insistent on collecting those? Well, at the very least, you’re catching up on your knowledge of this place…”

Dukermin: *Gasp* *covers Tobias’s ears* Akeldama you can’t say things like that in front of the children!! Anyway, shall we go inside? *enters the warehouse*

(Inside… it still looks like an old warehouse except… what?... There is a fully functioning elevator! everything seems normal… But… a secret hatch in the back of the elevator opens up, revealing a rocky, spiral staircase. The staircase leads to a SECRET floor,)

(The staircase drops off into the nothingness of The Void. Seems whatever was here before is gone now. On the main floor, a very small shadow of a dog is sitting politely in the corner.)

Dukermin: Oh my goodness everyone shut up it’s my dog. *approaches slowly intending to scoop it up and put it in her pocket as its very tiny right now and very prone to running away*

Shadow Dog: *acts very polite right until she’s within grabbing distance then tries to dart off*

Dukermin: *manages to snag it just in time* Haha! Oh hey we can give my dog his memory back!

Nalitie: Oh… *touching the collar around her neck* You said this was his, right?

Dukermin: Running away through the electric fence? Yeah that’s his. *cradling the tiny dog in her palm* *holds him out to Nalitie*

Nalitie: *takes the dog and then stands there awkwardly* *does not know how to remove the collar because it’s like a tattoo*

Dukermin: *Smears the void goop onto Nalitie’s neck* 

Nalitie: *shudders violently*

(The fragment of memory removes itself from your skin, reforming into a tiny spot of white light. It reabsorbs itself into the dog’s SOUL.)

Shadow Dog: *shows no obvious change*

Dukermin: It’s done! I can see that mischievous glimmer in his eyes turn ever so slightly more mischievous. 

(Art watches on in interest. His face does not change, but his surprise is palpable.)

* Interesting... It seems that you are able to release these poor fragments of The Void... I almost envy you.

Dukermin: Yeah… Now I just gotta find the Void Herald, because I think these two are theirs *holds up the hand with tattooed rings*

Akeldama snorts. “‘Find the Void Herald.’ Very funny.”

Dukermin: I didn’t make a joke, though…?

* The Void Herald’s memories, you say…?

Aubrey: Oh! *to Art* That’s you, isn’t it?

Dukermin: Oh! *looks at Art* Is it? That makes sense, I guess, since Tobias seems to know you and it is where we originally met you. *Uses the goop to give Art back his memories.*

(The repaired fragments of Art’s SOUL slot into place the moment he comes in contact with them. For a brief moment, you can see the faint glow of his SOUL in his chest: an upside-down heart shape made of shattered fragments of white light, missing large chunks all across its surface.)

(You watch as his amorphous body settles into something more humanoid, a black silhouette with a stark white drama mask for a face, with white-gloved hands connected to arms connected to a solid body. He quickly brings the twins closer to his body, shifting them around so they sit in his arms proper. He gives a cry of surprise, and for the first time since you met him, his voice sounds like it's coming from his body, and lacks the usual chorus of digital noises you’ve come to expect from his voice.)

Dukermin: Whoaaa…

Art: Ah… My dear, what a wonderful gift you've given me. Thank you. It has been quite some time since I was able to speak in this way without pain…

Nalitie: WOAh he talks! *has not been able to understand Art up until now because he had been speaking in Wingdings*

Dukermin: I didn’t know the memories could do something like that..? So did you just like… forget how to talk?

Art: Ah… your understanding of these fragments is a bit oversimplified, it seems. It is true that these pieces of The Void’s denizens contain their memories, but being parts of their SOUL, they also contain parts of them as a whole. These pieces you’ve brought back to me are ones I have been missing for a long time, it seems.

Dukermin: So… when we get out of the void, will the missing pieces come back to us or will they be lost forever? Nalitie’s still missing some memories, and I haven’t found any fragments for myself, so who knows what will be lost when we leave if that’s the case… 

Art: I don’t believe you will encounter any difficulties once you leave this place, if you can manage such a feat in the first place. … Although if what I have just seen is true, it seems you have The Void Itself on your side, and perhaps we do not need to worry about that particular hurdle. *shifting the twins around awkwardly in his arms* 

Dukermin: Okay… Are you still good holding them? I could take one at least. *is once again holding Tobias’s hand*

Art: That would… be much appreciated, my dear. *offers Lisa*

Dukermin: *cradles Lisa* *To Nalitie* Maybe you could take Leonarda for a bit? I can take this back *grabs the dog and puts it into her pocket, buttoning it shut before the dog can try to jump out*

Nalitie: Leonarda is… the other baby, right? Um, sure, I can take her… *takes Leonarda from Art*

Tobias: *sees an opportunity and lets go of Dukermin’s hand, walking over to Art* *reaching up* Uppies! 

Art: *suddenly distressed, realizing the implications of Tobias speaking in Wingdings, but says nothing* *picks up Tobias, resting them on his hip*

Dukermin: Well, we tried to ease your burden. Anyway. Should we continue?

Akeldama is already quite a bit ahead of you, and looks like she’s exerting a significant amount of effort despite the fact that she’s hovering in place. “Yes, we should. I already told you that you might as well ignore those fragments.” 

Dukermin: *follows*

(The platforms seem denser in this part of The Void. There’s one to your left with another building on it, this one a white, multi-story building with lots of windows. To your right, there’s a fish-shaped building with a patchy-looking parking lot. Up ahead of you is a platform with a big rectangular prism on it, surrounded by a few trees that look marginally less glitchy than the ones you’ve seen on platforms in the other circles.)

Dukermin: Hey are you guys hungry? 

(Nalitie shakes her head, and Akeldama rolls her eyes. Art hesitates.)

Art: I… don’t believe it is possible to feel true, physical hunger in here, human… Although I certainly can tell you that it is more than possible to hunger for other things.

(Tobias shifts in Art’s arms, settling their head on his chest. Art seems to relax at the physical sensation.)

Dukermin: What a weird thing to say. Anyway, let’s go to GCL instead. *goes to the laboratory platform*

Nalitie: *muttering* king of the inadvertently creepy… 

(You approach the multi-story building. It’s vaguely c-shaped, and sleek and modern. A few of the windows are missing, but it otherwise looks pretty intact.) 

Dukermin: *looks to see if there’s anyone here and also for any pixel clusters*

(The security doors into the main part of the building are wide open, and there’s no receptionist present. The lights inside the building flicker eerily, and the building is empty save for yourselves. The tiled floors reflect your faces, only dropping off in a few spots.)

Dukermin: *goes down one of the spiral staircases*

(The rest of the group follows. Unlike most of the other buildings you’ve been in in the other circles, the lower floors of the building are at least 70% intact. There’s a bit of a tension built up in the space around you as you descend.)

Dukermin: Hey we were able to get downstairs in this one, unlike in my warehouse. That seems like a good sign!

Nalitie: Oh it’s Green Circle Labs. I’ve never seen it this empty… 

Dukermin: Hey you remember GCL, that’s nice! Are your memories coming back or…?

Nalitie: Not sure what else I’d be missing…? I mean, I remember that the folks here helped me with Christine, and then there was all of that stuff with Sam… You know, the whole reason we’re planning on leaving Ask Erik!...? 

Dukermin: Yeah that all happened already. You’ve lost a lot of stuff. Hm. Anyway. *continues looking around*

(You are standing in a large room, near the spiral escalators and the elevator. You can see some bathrooms nearby, what appears to be more bathrooms or locker rooms, and a few hallways. The buzzing in the air seems to be coming from below you.)

Dukermin: Let’s see how far down we can get here. *descends the spiral staircase*

(The lowest floor of the building is about 50% intact. You can see the eternal darkness of The Void through large holes in the floor, with the wooden planks spiralling off into the distance. Where there would usually be walls and security doors around the stairs and elevator and escalator, there is nothing but open space. You can see the room that would usually hold the portal, as well as a few identical hospital rooms with beds in various stages of rendering. Behind you, most of this floor is gone. The air buzzes with an even greater tension.)

Dukermin: *checks the portal room*

(You all walk into the portal room. The portal generator, a giant, geometric construction, sits in the middle of the room. The computer that controls its destination is glitching out wildly. The portal itself looks… odd. It almost looks like it’s active, swirling with rainbow colors, but it also looks vastly different than it usually does. The tension is heaviest here.)

Dukermin: Hm. I’m sure the portal being functional is… too good to be true. *To Akeldama and Art* There’s no way we would be able to just portal our way out of here, right?

Akeldama stares into the swirling colors, a pensive look on her face. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before, where an interdimensional portal is open in The Void. Most of the time malfunctioning interdimensional portals just send you here.” 

Nalitie: *looking supremely uncomfortable at the thought*

Art: I do agree that simply walking out of The Void seems impossible. Although you have seemed determined to prove me wrong up until this point either way.

Dukermin: *takes out a piece of Pocket Lint™ and flicks it into the portal*

(The Pocket Lint™ disrupts the surface of the portal as if it’s a pool of water, disappearing into the swirling colors.)

Dukermin: … Cool, that told me nothing. Art, do you know where someone would typically end up if they go through a malfunctioning portal? Like what circle of The Void roughly? Or is it totally random…?

Art: … I see you have taken on our dear Akeldama’s Theory of The Void. There are a lot of variables in play, such as the speed at which one exits a malfunctioning portal, or whether the portal deteriorated around them… or if they removed themselves from the portal purposefully.

(Nalitie looks away, thinking about something.)

Art: All of these things will affect how far one Falls, I’m afraid.

Dukermin: So since we and this portal are already in The Void, chances are that we would probably just Fall further? Nalitie, what do you think?

Nalitie: *startles, looking over at Dukermin* Um… Well, whatever we do, we should be careful about it. Lots of bad things can happen with um… improper use of a portal.

Dukermin: I’m gonna touch it. *sticks hand into the portal*

(Your hand disrupts the surface of the colors. It’s like sticking your hand into a thick, warm broth. You can sense a memory swirling under the surface.)

Dukermin: *pulls out the memory and unjumbles it*

(As you rearrange the memory, something suddenly clicks and the memory contained within the fragment plays in your mind, clear as if it was your own.)

(She stands in the space station, looking down at the brave new world she and her friend have created. The planets orbit around each other gently, and she sighs, feeling the most at ease that she has in a long time. She pulls up the chart on her computer, tracking the magical energies and Chaos in the dimension, happy to see that the numbers are low—as they should be.)

(She knows that this moment won’t last forever, especially considering everything that happened over their last Christmas—especially the Lost Timeline—but for now she relishes in the peace in their dimension. She pointedly ignores what looks like a puddle of water in the corner of the room.)

(You know immediately that the memory isn’t yours, but it attaches itself to you anyway, settling into a little cluster of stars on your left forearm.)

Dukermin: Oh, this is definitely yours, Nalitie. Here you go. *does the smeary goop memory transfer*

(The repaired fragment of Nalitie’s SOUL slots itself into place the moment it comes in contact with her. For a brief moment, you can see the faint glow of her desaturated blue SOUL in her chest, missing only two small chunks along its edge.)

Nalitie: Woah ok. *looking around, taking inventory* *to Dukermin* Ok, so… something happened to Erscoga and now we are… here for some reason? Did. Did our dimension get destroyed…? *incredibly tense*

Dukermin: There was a portal situation… As far as I know Erscoga wasn’t destroyed. But yeah we’re here. We were… trying to find something at school. Oh wait! We did find it! Art, didn’t we find the cabbage soup recipe? Were we able to deliver it to you or did things go haywire before we got the chance to meet back up? 

Art: … … Ah… I am afraid I do not know what force brought us all back here. I suppose that if you do manage to return to reality, you’ll find the answers you seek.

Dukermin: I mean, you’d think whatever force brought us here would be related to whatever you were trying to save the dimension from but whatever. I don’t think we should go through the portal. We should just continue on, keep looking for more real-looking platforms. 

Nalitie: *visibly relaxes* That seems smart, yeah. What do you guys mean by something bringing us “back” here though?

Dukermin: We came here once, just on a little excursion. It’s where we met Art.

Nalitie: Oh, ok… is… is that how we know all of them, too? *gesturing at Akeldama and Aubrey and Bee and the twins* *shifts Leonarda to the other arm* And whose babies are these??

Dukermin: Uhh. It gets complicated after that. We’ll just keep an eye out for more memories.

Nalitie: *frowning* OK, that makes sense I guess, let’s do it.

Dukermin: *starts ascending the spiral staircase, talking to Nalitie as they all go* We should go up to the roof so we can look around. Also, maybe you should take all the memories we find from now on, because I feel like I’m invading your privacy, so either I haven’t lost any memories here and it makes no sense for me to keep taking them, or if there are some of mine here, and you take them, then we’d be even on the privacy-invading front… Hey look, it's the roof.

Nalitie: I can do that, I think. 

(From GCL’s rooftop seating area—which is looking remarkably intact—you can see out into The Void. On a nearby platform, you can see a group of five teenagers in gray tank tops, looking around confusedly and clinging to each other as they call out. Further in the distance, you can see more buildings: a big, plain white building with no other identifying features; what appears to be a park shelter; and an old, dilapidated motel.)

Dukermin: *waving* Hey, over here!

(The teens look around wildly, as if they can’t tell where your voice is coming from.)

Dukermin: Oh you can’t see! Stay there! *To Akeldama* Do you think you could… do that thing you did before that helped us to see?

Akeldama takes a measured breath, practically radiating impatience. “Look, now that we’re getting close to the First Circle, this place is going to do everything in its power to keep us here and bring us further into Unreality. Do we have to pick up every little thing we find on our way out?”

Dukermin: Great! You’re the best! *drags Akeldama over to the teens* Alright team, hold your hands out. *gestures for Akeldama to shake their hands*

You get the sense that Akeldama really doesn’t want to help these people, for whatever reason. She reluctantly passes Sight to the teens, but glares at you the whole time.

Dukermin: *thumbs up* Alright, so basically we’re trying to find our way out of here by going from platform to platform. We know we’re on the right track if the platforms become more real… like more solid and less glitchy basically.

(The teens look at you in confusion. The shortest one looks at Akeldama with a thoughtful look on her face.)

Tall girl: Um… not to be rude, but who are you?

Dukermin: We’re… hm… Well Nalitie *gestures to Nalitie* and I are the queens of Erscoga. My name is Dukermin.

Nalitie: I Authored GCL. Also, Steven is my… brother. Yeah. Let’s go with that.

(At least one of those sentences sparks recognition in their eyes. The five of them introduce themselves: the tall girl as Magnolia, the shortest as Lian, the third girl as Melody, and the two boys as Joshua and Jonathan. They tell you that they’re Rosetta’s team, and they have no idea where she went, but they’ve been tumbling around in the dark for who knows how long.)

Magnolia: Where are we exactly? This doesn’t look like Erscoga.

Dukermin: We’re in The Void. We’re getting closer and closer to the exit though.

Melody: The… Void? Like the theoretical concept of nothing?

Joshua: What else do you think they could be talking about? Seemed plain enough to me.

Melody: *getting fired up* We work in interdimensional travel, dummy. For all you know this could be some actual place that people just call The Void. You know, like how alternate versions of Reality are still fiction.

Joshua: *about to retort*

Dukermin: Naw. It’s just nonexistence.

(The two arguing teenagers turn to look at you, clearly surprised.)

Melody: This place looks pretty full for being a representation of “nothing.”

Dukermin: A lot of things can be nothing. Anyway. Those platforms all look real enough to me. I suppose its going to get harder from here on out to tell how real something is just from the outside. I imagine TreeGrass would possibly have a memory or two we could find… lots of stuff seems to go down there. 

Nalitie: … TreeGrass? Do we have to? *looking off toward the building*

Dukermin: We don’t have to. We could go to the park instead. Um, but eventually we may have no choice… *starts heading to the park*

(The group travels to the platform with the park shelter on it. The trees here look remarkably better than the ones you saw several platforms ago. Underneath the shelter, about 80% of the picnic tables are intact. A cluster of pixels shines in the rafters.)

Dukermin: *points the cluster out to Nalitie*

Nalitie: Oh, yeah. *gently puts Leonarda down on a picnic table* *floats up into the rafters and grabs the memory* *pieces it back together*

(As you rearrange the memory, something suddenly clicks and the memory contained within the fragment plays in your mind, clear as if it was your own.)

(He sits in the room, debating the costs and benefits of the plan. He so desperately wants to leave this not-place, to find a role in a Storyline. He is already cobbling together a plot for his own life, from those of the beings he Observes. He sees countless versions of himself all at once, sees the variety of relationships he has with the brothers, a wonderful menu he is free to choose from.)

(He agrees to help Akeldama lure the queens here, he agrees to saddle one of his poor children with powers he knows she will not be able to control as a sort of test run, he even agrees to collect Characters of Interest in their world to attract The Destroyer. He is so, SO tired of not existing. His dear Aubrey, the child he brought into his care an eternity ago, cries as he gives her the power she’ll need to leave The Void, and he pretends very hard not to care.)

(You know immediately that the memory isn’t yours, but it attaches itself to you anyway, settling as a dark ring on your ring finger.)

Nalitie: … um. 

Dukermin: Man, it was definitely more fun being the one to see the memories. What was it? It’s a ring like the other ones from Art.

(Nalitie regards Akeldama, Aubrey, and Art carefully, rubbing a finger along the newly acquired ring.)

Nalitie: … Hey Dukermin. Sidebar? *gestures over to a less-crowded corner of the picnic shelter*

Dukermin: Ooh sure, secret meeting. *goes to the corner*

Akeldama watches the two of you leave, staring after you.

Nalitie: Ok, so… That lady. Akeldama. I don’t know exactly what I saw, but she was in it, and it sounds like maybe she had been… plotting with someone in the memory. I was looking through their eyes, so I don’t know exactly who it was, but they were thinking a lot about Sans and Papyrus, and also maybe about… us??? 

Dukermin: Hmm. Was Art in it at all? Or Aubrey? They all seem to be kind of connected.

Nalitie: Aubrey was in it, yeah, but she was like… a kid? I didn’t see Art… 

Dukermin: And what do you mean by plotting? Do you know what the memory-holder’s goal was?

Nalitie: It was really confusing. Like… The whole memory was this person deciding whether to go along with some plan, and then agreeing to help lure some queens to The Void, and they like… gave Aubrey powers of some sort? But also like… I was seeing a bunch of stuff happening all at the same time, like whoever it was really wanted to leave The Void… but also was thinking about how they were like. Related to Sans and Papyrus but NOT related to Sans and Papyrus, and was like. Their father AND their brother AND their mortal enemy all at once? It was very confusing…

Dukermin: Okay wait. The person who the memory belongs to gave Aubrey the power to leave The Void? Because Aubrey definitely said that Art did that. So we have to really think about this, because it sounds like Art had something to do with us getting here, as well as Akeldama. But if that’s the case, why are they here too? Did something go wrong? And why did they want us here?

Nalitie: Yeah, the person gave Aubrey powers of some sort. I… they felt kind of bad about it, but also not really? I don’t know about the rest of that stuff, though. Like. I know Art has been weird about not believing we can leave, but if Akeldama had to do with us being here then why is she trying to get us to leave so fast? 

Dukermin: I don’t know. But since our goal is to leave and Akeldama and Art seem to want to support that for the most part, I don’t think we should confront them until we’re at least closer to reality. We don’t need two people who know the Void really well to be against us until we have a way out.

Nalitie: True, yeah, I guess. … You said we were here before. How did we get out last time?

Dukermin: Oh we just walked out. But we also willingly went in the first time. I don’t really know how that all works, but it may impact our ability to leave - at least that’s what those two seem to think.

Nalitie: Okie dokie then… I guess we just keep trying to make our way out of here, then? *looking back towards Leonarda, suddenly not really wanting Art to be alone with her children*

Dukermin: So I know that TreeGrass is not really a fun place, but that platform did look promising. So we’ll definitely need to go there soon. But there’s also BOGOF tacos if we want to delay that more…

Nalitie: *extremely reluctant to go to TreeGrass* Do you think there would be anything of value in BOGOF tacos? 

Dukermin: Probably not, and their tacos are mediocre at best.

Nalitie: Yeah, I’m pretty sure Henry gets his supplies from the schools… Whatever they don’t use, anyway. *dramatic sigh* I guess TreeGrass it is, then. ANyway lets go rescue my kids from the creeps. 

Dukermin: *under breath* Ah that’s why they had italian dunker tacos as their special last week… *heads over to Art and Akeldama*

(Akeldama has a look of intense concentration on her face. Art is unreadable as ever, but is saying something to Bee that’s too quiet for you to hear. The GCL team is looking around, wary of their surroundings. Leonarda is lying on the picnic table, being a baby.) 

Dukermin: *picks up Leonarda and hands her to Nalitie* *Walks closer to Bee and Art* Whatcha talking about over here?

Art: Ah, nothing important. I was simply musing about how I could sing now that my voice has been returned to me. A poor substitute for their mother’s lullabies, I’m sure, but a marked improvement on my previous abilities, should you all be stuck here. 

Dukermin: Ok. We were thinking of going to TreeGrass.

“As long as we keep moving, I’m happy,” Akeldama says. She’s already turning to go. 

Magnolia: TreeGrass? You mean that creepy building across the street from us, where none of us know what they do? 

Dukermin: You got it! *grabs Bee’s hand (who is being held by Art) And heads toward TreeGrass with Lisa, Bee, and Art in tow*

Nalitie: *carrying one baby like a normal person* *following reluctantly*

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[saylors-universe]

All Hands on Deck, one

Rowaelin Cruise Vacation AU

Masterlist here

rowaelin cruise ship vacation AU

word count: 1661

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"You did WHAT!" Aelin screams over the phone. If she wasnʻt currently visiting her cousin in Terrasen, she would be in Elide and Manonʻs apartment, conducting this band meeting. But of course the Gods deemed her worthy of divine punishment – for what, she has no clue.

"Come on Ae,” Elide pleads over the call, "think of it as an engagement gift for Lorcan and I."

"Okay one, I planned on getting YOU something, not that dick boyfriend of yours. And two, this is a job, not a present,” Aelin hisses. Remembering that she hadnʻt yet congratulated Elide on the very recent news.

Elide had grown up with Aelin and Aedion, pretty much being adopted into the family as another cousin. Aelin had witnessed all of the trials Elide had endured – maybe she was cursed by the Gods too.

"Fiance. Heʻs my dick fiance now,” Elide interrupts her train of thought, "and I donʻt know what happened with you two but heʻs honestly the sweetest and most caring guy ever,” getting cut off by Aelinʻs cackle on the other end of the line.

"To you maybe,” Aelin snorts, “god, if only you had gone to our high school Elide. Lorcan was such an ass to me and -," she caught herself, choking on his name.

"Rowan?" Elide blurts out, trying to fill the awkward silence.

"Ye- how did y-," Aelin snaps, somewhat defensive. She knew Elide didnʻt understand the painful memories that came with that certain name.

"Lorcan told me about you guys,” Elide corroborates, “you know he resented you two for what you guys had,”

Ha! Aelin thought to herself, Lorcan, jealous? That doesnʻt excuse the asshole personality of his.

“he told me he had finally found that kind of love with me, and thatʻs when he knew I was the one and started planning the proposal." Aelin was happy for Elide, genuinely, and it is because of her love for the plainly beautiful brunette that she tolerates the prick.

Lorcan envied our relationship?

Quick memories of a silver head past love of hers crossed her mind without permission. Midnight drives where theyʻd sing songs theyʻd wrote for each other, a summer class trip across Europe where they shared their first "I love youʻs" in the late, romanticly lantern-lit streets of Rome. As quickly as they came, she banished them once again.

"Anyways," Elide continues, "itʻs a vacation, with only a few gigs. I mean weʻd only need to perform a couple of nights and the rest of the time is ours...

Plus, I managed to get the cruise director to upgrade our rooms for a small cut in our pay.”

She was met with silence, "Come on Aelin, Lys and Manon have already started packing,” Elide begs.

It was a great deal Aelin had to admit. A 21-day cruise trip, not only was it technically free for them, but they would actually be paid doing what they love - performing. She could see it now - Queenʻs Court live from the Great Seas.

They were a fairly new band but had already made some traction, making a name for themselves and enjoying the love from their wild fanbase. It would be nice to get away for a little while, Aelin contemplates. She canʻt remember the last time she did something crazy fun with her girls, besides their small concerts. It couldnʻt hurt.

"Alright, fine," she concedes. She doesnʻt quite know why she had been so hostile and reluctant to this great opportunity. It may have something to do with how she had always been the one to spring the surprise master plan on her friends, finally on the receiving end of it felt weird. "but you know I get seasick."

"Weʻll get you some of those seasickness patches,” Elide counters just as Lysandra snags the phone.

“Hey bitch,” their term of endearment, “is my hot ass boyfriend there with you?”

“Yeah one sec,” Aelin answers then pulls the phone away from her face to yell to her cousin in the other room. “AEDION, LYS AND I ARE HAVING PHONE SEX!”

Her twin of a cousin suddenly appears, putting the phone on speaker and taking a seat next to her on his living room couch. “Trying to steal my girlfriend are you?” He teases, sticking out his tongue to Aelin. “Whatʻs up baby?”

“Aedion weʻre going on a trip, a romantic cruise vacation, and before you say no, I already talked to Darrow and blackmailed him into giving you a month on leave,” Lysandra reveals over the phone. Aelinʻs fairly handsome cousin raises a brow in question to her, “so I expect to see both of you packed and ready at Wendlyn port at the end of the week,” Lys demands.

“Yes maʻam,” Aedion complies. The poor man was so whipped by the dazzling woman, he would follow her to the depths of hell. Aelin was glad they found eachother, they both deserve to be happy.

“Good. I just got new thongs today that I want to show you. Ooh! And we can try those new posit-,” Lys continues not realizing that she is on speaker. Aelin, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable, looks over to see Aedionʻs reddened cheeks and wide eyes.

“HERE. Iʻm still here!” Aelin gawks before she overhears any more of this intimate and awkward conversation. “Get a room you two.”

Lysandra chuckles, “how about a romantic cabin suite. Gosh Iʻm so excited, this is going to be so much fun,” Lysandra beams. And just like that Queenʻs Court packed their bags and instruments, preparing to embark on this new adventure.

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Something had to be wrong, Lorcan never calls band meetings. Rowan internally reviewed every conversation heʻs had with the rigid bandmate of his to determine a possible source of this abrupt meeting. He recalled that Lorcan had just recently proposed to his girlfriend that he never talks about, is it possible for it to have gone awry? If so, why would he feel the need to share it with the band, heʻs normally super private? No, something else had to be wrong. Rowan got situated on the couch, across from the twins, Fenrys and Connal, perplexed by the expression on the standing drumerʻs face.

Was that a smirk? Rowan had never seen Lorcanʻs genuine smile in all the years he had known him. It had been hard enough to get the man to talk about his personal life, let alone express his feelings. Itʻs a miracle that somehow this girlfriend of his had cracked through his thick walls.

"Alright boys," Lorcan opens, "I got us a gig."

"Uh- isnʻt that Gavrielʻs job" the normally quiet Connal pitches in.

And from the rare, conspicuous grin on Lorcanʻs face, Rowan deduced that their booking agent Gavriel was just recently informed of this sudden plan of Lorcan's and took care of all the details himself.

"What is it?" the other twin, Fenrys, chimes in.

"A tour ... overseas. Really itʻs actually 3 weeks of vacation, on a cruise, and a few nights of shows,” Lorcan tells the group, “the cruise line hasnʻt been getting as much traffic as they normally do so they thought a popular band for entertainment would bring in some audience."

For Lorcan, not only was this input very abnormal, but also pretty genius. Not only would it be like their normal concerts with the generous pay, ambitious audience, and regular groupies that followed them anywhere - but they also would get a few weeks of vacation and free food. It would be nice to travel again and get out of Doranelle for a little bit, Rowan imagined.

"3 weeks of hot chicks in bikinis, music, AND alcohol,” Fenrys smiled, “thatʻs all you had to say,” as he looks to the remaining bandmates, “weʻre in.”

"Well hold on a minute,” Rowan interjects, “whatʻs the catch?"

"No catch really, except weʻre not the only entertainment. We trade off nights with Elideʻs band. You see, weʻre planning this whole thing as an engagement/honeymoon trip because of both our tour schedules."

Rowan has never seen Lorcan this content and happy in all their years of friendship. Itʻs nice to see how much heʻs changed from their high school days. Godʻs Lorcan used to be such an ass to him and -. Before he knew what was happening images of her perfect blonde hair, strikingly beautiful turquoise gold eyes flashed across his mind. The sound of her laugh rung through his brain - the first time he heard that laugh he completely lost himself to her. Catching himself – he buried those memories deep down and focused his attention back on their current band meeting.

“Elideʻs in a band?” Fenrys inquired. Lorcan didnʻt share much about his girlfriend – now fiance I guess – he had always been very private about his life, even back during high school.

“Yeah, the Queenʻs Court, theyʻre pretty good, from what Iʻve heard so far – itʻs just El and a couple of her girlfriends” – like Aelin Galanthynius, Lorcan thought to himself.

Lorcan had worked hard to block his youth from memory, completely forgetting about his high school years. That was until Elide introduced him to her bandmates, and he was confronted by the very Aelin Galanthynius he bullied during school. He regrets all of his torment towards her now, but while not knowing if Aelin would be able to forgive him, he makes an effort to be civil towards the blonde nusiance, for Elideʻs sake.

“Sweet, a battle of the bands, you boys up for a little competition?” Fenrys proposes to the group, the three men just shrug. Taking the hint, Fenrys continues, “So what do you say boys? Will The Cadre take stage on the open seas? All in favor say ʻayʻ”

“Ay” “Ay” “I planned this fucking thing so obviously,”

After a few soft chuckles, Lorcan nods, “Then itʻs settled. See you boys at the docks,” as he ushers off quickly to his fiance in Wendlyn.

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[guymaito]

please hit me with those headcanons!!! i too fixate on past avatars and would love to hear your thoughts!

me 🤝 you

fixating on past avatars

under the cut <3

Kuruk was definitely a wild child when she was a toddler, so her terrible twos lasted until she was at least 6 or 7

Roku was really shy when he was a child and it somewhat carried over into his adult life so he still has trouble trying to walk up and talk to people at times

Speaking of Roku, he’s a good dancer!! he definitely surprised Ta Min at their wedding and pulled her onto the dance floor

Yangchan was definitely a bisexual demigirl, she definitely didn’t figure that out until really late in life though, probably at like, 90 or so

They all use neopronouns <3

Wan uses: He/Pup/Xe

Szeto: They/Ne

Salai: He/Ve

Yangchan: She/He/Bun

Kuruk: Pup/Paw/E/She

Kyoshi: She/Ae

Roku: He/Kit

Aang: Bun/Kit/He/Fae

Korra: She/It/Ve/Xe/Pup

^^^^ prolly will be using these throughout 

Salai!! My boy, even though we barely know anything about him other than his name and that he was either the air avatar before Yangchan or the earth avatar before Kyoshi, I feel like ve would be a good herbalist, the best in the Earth Kingdom actually, ve ended up spending a lot of his time in the medical field and in hospitals almost as much as time he spends traveling around the world being the avatar

I said this multiple times a before and I will continue saying it, Kuruk is a little spoon, e feels safe and loved and protected when she’s the one being held

she prolly also likes being on the bottom

Modern AU Kyoshi and Kuruk once started a riot in a mall once

Nobody knows how or why but they did and the only thing that they learned from it was that they shouldn’t be left alone together, especially in public places

Yangchan had a goth phase all throughout her teenage years

She wore mainly black and dark orange but he also wore yellow and black

Wan was in a relationship with Jaya, the human guy from his lion turtle

After Katara, Tonraq was Korra’s favorite waterbending instructor, so they often bonded through waterbending

The first thing Korra her dad was a flower made out of ice pup made out of ice

Aang knows how to make dresses!! And fae is really good at it 

Aang made the dress Katara wore on their wedding night

Roku was prolly the cutest dad when he had his daughter, he was often seen with her whenever he didn’t have important avatar things to do, when she was old enough to walk and run he would sometimes place her on kit’s feet and danced with her

Ta Min also caught them napping together a few dozen times

And by proxy he was a cute grandpa as well

At one point, Szeto had two boyfriends

One of them was from the NWT while the other was from the Earh Kingdom 

They ended up breaking up in their late teens, a few years after Szeto started their airbending training

Korra had a crush on Tenzin during it’s airbending training

Korra also had a crush on Katara for the longest time

Roku dated Sid (his earthbending teacher) sometime after Roku mastered the avatar state

They ended up breaking up around the time Roku went to visit Sozin and found out he was gonna start colonizing the other nations

Wan is the shortest avatar after Roku

Kyoshi: 7′1

Aang: 6′9

Yangchan: 6′6

Kuruk: 6′1

Salai: 5′11

Szeto: 5′9

Korra: 5′8

Roku: 5′7

Wan: 5′5

Wan didn’t know that neopronouns existed until xe was banished to the spirit wilds

After pup learned about them, he officially started the trend of the avatar using neopronouns

Aang and Yangchan are the ‘shortest’ airbenders

Salai has a fear of heights but didn’t know about it until he went to the Northern Air Temple for airbending training

Kyoshi had a sister but when they became orphans she ended dying young

At some point Kuruk learned how to knit and crochet

Kuruk made a crochet sweater for her mom when she first started crocheting

Kuruk also made Ummi a knitted sweater that paw made pupself

Korra is in a queerplatonic relationship with Mako

Salai and Szeto are some of the few avatars that got a job outside of being the avatar

Modern AU Aang plays Animal Crossing New Horizons and Minecraft

Modern AU Yangchan plays Pokemon and most Mario games

Szeto knows how to make flowers out of fire

After seeing Tonraq make ice flowers for ver Senna, Korra almost immediately asked Tonraq to teach her so she could them for pup’s friends

Modern AU Korra likes racing games

Roku often gives Ta Min flowers once a week

Kyoshi can’t cook

Ae once burnt down nearly the entire house trying to cook for Rangi cause it was her birthday and ae didn’t want her to cook for herself

They ended up ordering takeout 

Kuruk knows how braid hair

Mainly cause e has long hair of her own but also cause she’s the oldest of 7 kids, 5 of which are girls

On the other end of spectrum, Roku is the youngest child

Kit had 6 older sisters and 2 older brothers

Compared to Kit’a siblings, Roku was definitely the shyest and the most quiet one, even in adulthood

Aang was an absolute sweetheart when fae was a toddler, just like how he was a sweetheart in bun’s adulthood

Toddler Aang often made Gyatso pictures, usually of him but sometimes of them playing together 

The reason why Korra disliked Asami at first was cause she had a crush on her and didn’t know how to deal with it so she made herself dislike her

Roku was also a sweetheart when kit was a baby!!

Roku often gave her flowers, made her drawings, made her flower crowns (with the help of his father), etc

Yangchan and Kyoshi were pretty chill babies, not much to say here

Wan’s parents died when xe was really young so pup doesn’t know much about them

 Salai strongly dislikes tea, the other avatars are baffled by this

Except Korra, she doesn’t like tea either

Kinda goes with my Apartment Complex AU but, Modern AU Roku met Kuruk at the library he works at

Kuruk was there cause paw was trying to find books about mythology cause e were slowly becoming more interested in pup’s old interests again

Ended up working there as Roku’s assistant

these is all i have for now, i hope you enjoyed this wall of text

[colour-outside-the-liness]

Oh Disneyland Paris sounds fun yeah! Were you and your roommate already close then? I went to Walt Disney's world with my aunt and cousin when I was like 11 but it would've been way more fun if I could've taken my best friend with me for sure. Maybe we can go to the one in Paris now that she lives just 3h away from me! Oh I see, sounds like LA was really fun for you yeah! your roommate didn't mind third wheeling tho? Hahaha

Yeah Canada is beautiful but what I liked about it the most was the massive improvement in quality of life I had compared to where I was living before and just being able to be who I am and people accepting me for it. Not being worried about violence 24/7 felt pretty fucking great too. So yeah I highly recommend living there if you ever get a chance. But I am loving Portugal so far, people are a bit more judgemental here tho but I like that it's easier to travel to a lot of countries I've always wanted to go to. Everywhere you go there are pros and cons tho so sorting out priorities is key. But Toronto is my favourite of all the places I've been, before living there for a year I had already been two times!

Jesus 50 states, sometimes I forget how big the US is. And you can totally do it if you plan it out! After watching Bly Manor tho I really want to go to Vermont especially during autumn season looks really pretty! There's this fic I love (only the sun by prestonarchives) where Dani and Jamie go on a road trip from Vermont to Maine and I did their entire journey on Google maps street view bc I was so obsessed with this one chapter fanfic I had to immerse myself entirety in it hahaha. So now I want to go there irl. Here's the link if you haven't read it before!

https://bit.ly/3BLy4WR

Omg I totally remember reading that on CBML and being a bit confused bc I was like why would she think you can't see the moon from the great wall of China HAHAHA but I thought it was really funny and endearing yeah it's even funnier now that I know you said it irl haha.

Oh so ENFP-T means extraverted, intuitive, feeling and prospecting personality with a bit of turbulence. Which just means you're curious, perceptive, enthusiastic, an excellent communicator, festive and good-natured. On the other hand you can be disorganized, unfucosed, a people pleaser, overcommitted, too optimistic and restless.

I wonder what Jamies and Danis mbti are as well as their zodiac signs 🤔 I think Jamie might be an ISTP-A bc she's definitely an introvert, very practical, stubborn, assertive, layed back and energetic at the same time. And Dani is either an ENFP-T like you or an ESFJ-T with the whole selfless thing going on.

AE already made it canon that Jamie's an aries (and it makes sense) but I can't figure Dani out. I've thought about her being a leo ♌ bc she's generous, passionate, warm-harted and dominant in her own way and THE HAIR haha. But she's got some pisces ♓ vibes going on too...idk. aaand I'm back at it again with the astrology signs haha.

To be fair your recent drunken exp it was dark and at least you didn't think the road sign was a bear or something (don't know what kind of wild animals you've got over there) that you wrestled with and ended up in a ditch and your best friend let you believe that happened for 3 years up until recently haha. 😂 but yeah some things happen for a reason, having life threatening health issues doesn't sound great tho, but I guess it's a good thing it stops you from drinking too much and making dumb decisions. And hey maybe I secretly want that to happen again idk maybe moving countries is not exciting enough, I have to go out and make a complete drunken fool out of myself in a completely foreign place hahaha. I guess that did kinda happen last month when my best friend came to visit me from Spain and we got drunk on wine, I got lost on the way back home and it was way past curfew. 🤔 shit I'm 29 will I ever learn...

Episode 9 is 😢😍🥰😰😭🤬☠️ just the worst roller-coaster I didn't even know I was on. Haha I was more pissed off than heartbroken the first time I watched it ngl.

Well then maybe the way you do accents is friendly and funny so people can't really get mad at you haha. Like Dani! Oh so that's called a Geordie accent! I see, it's really really cool. AE said Jamie is from Lancashire but that's a whole county isn't it? Idk if there's a specific accent to this region. Knowing you speak kinda like Jamie is something else tho, I think if anyone who spoke like her ever talked to me irl I wouldn't be able to pay attention to what they were saying 😂 just the accent haha.

Oh so you already have 4k something words for it nice. I'm kinda starting to feel an obsession with this medieval AU growing in me, I made a Pinterest board just for it ngl hahaha but I'm still resisting creating anything for it, I did a face study yesterday for Dani and Jamie to see if I finally pick up the idea and just do it but my brain was still like "I don't want to do this rn" and was just being a little bitch about it so I'll just let it cook for longer see if we can reach an agreement eventually (if ever) haha.

Glad to hear you had a good weekend! Even if it left you feeling exhausted in the end. And yeah it makes sense for you to say you don't have favourites haha! Have a great week Colour, take care! 👋✨

Yeah me and my roommate have been friends since we were like 14 so when we went to Disney Land we asked if we could be roomed together because we've been best friends for that long now... been best friends since school and now we live together. She's seen me at my best, my worst, has seen me in all my stages in life and has been there for a lot of the rough stuff I've been through and I've been there for all the stuff she's been through!! Nah she didn't mind at all we had some moments where me and my ex would just go and be a couple and have dates but my ex didn't want me travelling that far alone so invited my roommate too because she didn't like the thought of me flying 11hours alone or being in airports alone so my roommate came with me and we had a great time Awwh good I'm glad it was such a nice place and that you didn't worry about violence all the time but I'm so sorry you ever had to worry about that anyway that can't be easy. I would honestly love to live in Canada I really hope I get chance one day... I'm glad you're loving Portugal but sorry people are judgemental there but I am glad it's easy for you to travel around to other places... oh yeah every place has it's pros and cons I mean England has some pros but it sure has a lot of cons too so I know all about that Yeah America is SO big but I do want to get around all 50 states at some point and I am stubborn enough and determined enough to make it happen eventually even if I don't get around them all until I'm like 70 I'll make it happen haha!! No I haven't read that fic but it sounds amazing so I'll definitely check it out thank you for sending me the link Yeah... that really happened to me and it was just a dumb moment where I had this momentary lapse of knowledge in my brain and now I look back at that question and I'm just like... "you idiot" and this is why people are shocked when I get questions in quizzes right because I have said some really dumb stuff but I'm glad people found it funny and endearing... and I'm glad it makes it better to know I really said that haha Oooo I didn't know that, I like that and I think it's definitely fitting for me!! I think from what you've said about what ENFP-T means Dani could easily be that too and I don't know anything about the other one but I will take your word for it matching Dani because you know way more about this stuff than I do. I have no idea for Jamie though. And with zodiac signs I love that Amelia looked at Jamie and thought she was an Aries, as for Dani I have NO idea what her zodiac would be... in CBML she's a Leo but in MoU with what I have planned for her birthday she'd be a virgo but I don't know anything about zodiacs... all I know is all the pieces I've ever met have been the opposite of what Dani is so maybe that has something to do with their whole charts but I know a lot of other people always make her a Pieces and I trust what other people say about zodiacs more than what I know about them because I really know NOTHING about them haha Nah I knew it was a road sign because of how heavy and hard it was- nah we have no bears where I live... I don't think we have many dangerous animals where I live... got a couple of badgers that can be pretty aggressive but that's about it we don't have much that is scary here or at least not in the little part of England I live. Having life threatening health issues has been hard and since having my spleen removed in January (that was the surgery I needed to try and fix the issue I had) things are even harder now because I have to take antibiotics for the rest of my life to stop me getting any infections because if I ever get a chest infection now or a really bad cold it can be really dangerous but I take it all in my stride and not drinking is just a way to make sure the antibiotics actually work properly and to make sure nothing happens to me... and like you said, means I don't do anything dumb too... haha drunken stories are the best I have been lost a few times when I've been drunk... and I don't think you do learn, I have siblings that are

like 40 and still do dumb shit... I know at 27 I am still doing dumb shit too I don't think I'll ever learn haha 😂 Its such an emotional roller coaster and honestly I was just devastated the first time I watched it... no TV show or movie has ever made me cry the way Bly Manor did when I first saw it and it still makes me cry now. I can cry just thinking about that last episode. I definitely mean it in a friendly way so I hope it comes across like that. Yeah the accent in Billy Elliot is a Geordie accent and its my favourite accent there are other accents around the north that are called different things. Yeah Lancashire is a county and again in Lancashire there are loads of different accents I can't really pinpoint Jamie's down to a city I just know it's Northern. I'm from Yorkshire but don't have a strong Yorkshire accent I just have a Northern accent, like people never believe I'm from the place I'm from because I don't sound like I am but you can definitely tell I'm northern... honestly there are so many accents in England... you can drive for two hours in any direction in England and the accent will change like two times at least it's insane... see a lot of people say that but I am not a HUGE fan of the northern accent and I think it's because I grew up there. I much prefer Dani's accent to Jamie's but like I said to me, Jamie just talks normal there is no accent really haha Yeah 4k words for it but it's all jumbled up it's not like a chronological story yet it's just all over the place haha but I hope I can get it all structured properly soon!! Awwh good I'm glad you're already interested in this medieval AU!! That makes sense you're resisting creating for it but I think it's so cool you did a face study for Dani and Jamie even if you didn't wanna finish it I think letting things cook for a while is always a good idea if you're not in the right headspace right away I had such a good weekend but I am so tired and today I had a busy day too celebrating my roommate's boyfriend's birthday so I've had so many days that have been so busy and right now I am just really to sleep haha!! Yeah definitely don't have favourites but I have spent more time with one of my nieces than the others simply because I always look after her if her mum and dad are working and I'm not... like until I start this new job I am looking after her for an hour every day after school while she waits for her mum and dad to finish work but I don't have favourites haha!! Thank you so much I hope you had a great weekend and that you have a great week too!!

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The Evolution of “It’s You”

To be honest, I’m pretty sure “It’s You” was the first SJ song I went absolutely feral on, because the beat is so damn catchy, and best of all, it’s a SAD BOP!

If you’ve ever wanted a sad dance track with emotional vibes about how even after a breakup, the one in their heart will always be you (we appreciate a gender neutral love song), then this is the one.

“It’s You” holds a special place for being the last MV that all thirteen members are involved in. It also is the song that SJ was promoting while Kibum was taking a step back from singing (Kibum doesn’t have lines and is missing from promo activities because he was already pivoting to acting at this point in time) and Han Geng was filing his lawsuit. Super turbulent times in 2009.

I was going through all the different live performances of “It’s You” for nostalgia’s sake during these social distancing hours, and I was kinda punched in the gut at how much this song means to me as an ELF. I literally took an eight-year break from following anything k-pop related, yet somehow I ended back here, with Super Junior, as a full-ass adult. I’ve grown to love all the other parts of SMTown and a bunch of other groups and artists, but SJ will always be the one for me, no matter what (okay if anyone pulls something like seungri did they’re dead to me).

"It’s You” really highlights not only SJ’s versatility, but also their growth. Super Junior’s gone through so many line-up changes over the years, and no matter what version of the line distribution and choreo they perform, “It’s You” just continues to develop like fine wine. (How is this song ELEVEN YEARS OLD)

Come through under the cut for the masterlist of performance videos, what stood out to me about each of them, and to experience the evolution yourself! :)

ALSO - please send me song requests for more “Evolution of ___” type posts bc it’s just so much fun to see how performances change and age

SBS Inkigayo (May 17th, 2009)

The first performance of “It’s You”. Ever.

Donghae’s opening vocals were sooo iffy (especially if Ryeowook or Kyuhyun were juxtaposed in the verse right after) back in the day, it’s wild - but also have the time you gotta ask whether he was sick at the time or not smh

ELF are already serving the fan chant sing-along when the song had barely been out for a week - iconic, given the fact that you literally had to buy or pirate in 2009 bc streaming wasn’t a thing

What is Leeteuk’s ponytail

I miss the simplicity of 2nd gen choreo - like the whole vibe of this was “we’re going to move to the beat and make it very obvious via formation who is singing a verse/chorus (giant hint, it’s the center)”

Dance line’s (read: Eunhyuk and Shindong’s) chest pops hitting everyone in the feels - oh wait WTF this camera completely cuts off Eunhyuk and Shindong’s chest pop duet

2009 Eunhyuk and Shindong, don’t worry, your suave vocals will come soon, just give it a few more years

Yesung’s ad-lib solos during the last chorus were done standing up and off to the side - just wait for the the drama to escalate in later performances folks

 Music Core (May 30, 2009)

(I’m maxing out on the number of embedded videos so click the header for the link)

Not much different from the one above, just better camera angles and resolution, and the first(?) time Yesung does his ad-lib solos while kneeling on the floor, bc you gotta add some d r a m a

Music Core (June 6, 2009)

(Once again, click above for the link)

Don’t really know whether this one or the performance right below came first

But Han Geng is MIA bc of...Reasons™, so Siwon takes over his opening ad-libs

Yesung’s face has a blankness to it during his verse, which is just so sad; usually he has an aura of confidence but it was completely not there during this at all (literally just compare directly to the performance above and it’s SO different)

Leeteuk’s awkwardly like smiling during his verse? (It comes off like he’s trying too hard to make it look like things are fine) But it’s not his usual camera expression so you just know something is wrong

Ironically this is probably the stablest Eunhyuk’s vocals have been during 2009 for his line

It’s really obvious that Yesung is struggling to keep it together emotionally for this performance like good god, he’s really been blank-slating a lot of this performance

And then Heechul has to come in looking depressed as fuck (which is hella valid) for his solo and nails it (while looking like his cat died - long live han j(ae) heebum)

Siwon and Yesung bump into each other as they get into the ending pose

God I really could say more about how each member performs as they cope with this but I’ll refrain

Music Core (Sometime later, 2009)

(Once again, click above for the link)

Hella sad times because Hangeng is notably missing right from the get-go again, with Yesung taking his opening ad-libs

Also Kangin is missing but I cannot remember why - kudos to Sungmin for covering (but idk why he was trying so hard to sound raspier like Kangin bc that did not work for him)

Imagine having to rearrange all the formations and reassign parts to promote on a regular music show because you’re missing two whole members

Correction, THREE whole members because Heechul was so emotionally fucked up from Hangeng leaving

Kudos to Leeteuk for being that Bitch and delivering on Heechul’s solo

Like, this was the peak of 2009 turmoil for SJ

At least Yesung had some (angry) spark in him for this performance bc I would not be able to handle another sad/blank performance from him (that shit hurted ok)

This whole performance has a simultaneous sense of muted solemnity and (angry/petulant) fighting spirit to it bc they’re all trying real hard to compartmentalize the shit that’s happening outside of this stage

I think the phrase is more like “y’all think this shit is going to break us, but it’s not” which once again goes along with the whole “SJ is a bunch of veterans that will keep going on even if the road is barren/till the end of the line” concept that they’ve painted for themselves

Super Show 5 - Seoul (2013, no 83line)

The Super Show DVDs give such superior sound quality (infinitely better when listened to with headphones). You can really hear the distinct timbre among all their voices.

eunhyuk what are those glasses/shindong what is that hair

congrats to dance/rap line on their vocal growth !!

Leeteuk and Heechul were off in the military during SS5, which means that Ryeowook and Kyuhyun got to take over Heechul’s mid-song solo. (I honestly don’t think I would have survived had Ryeowook done the ending of that part, because he has the type of voice that pierces through your heart)

yesung going feral during his solo on the platform is everything tbh

Super Show 5 - Osaka (2013, no Yesung)

It’s the same tour, so most aspects of the performance are the same. Yesung’s absence (due to mandatory service) led to some interesting change-ups, namely:

Sungmin taking his first verse with his fresh clear vocals

Heechul pulling a Heechul, appearing on the platform and then promptly disappearing - king of GHOSTING

Ryeowook being in charge of the SCREAM solo. KRY have completely different timbres, and Ryeowook’s take on this solo gives a very different feel.

Yesung’s known for having the more soulful voice, whereas Ryeowook executes in a clearer manner that comes off as more technical/didactic way

KRY comeback next month guys it’s COMING

Super Show 7 - Seoul (2017)

(You’re gonna have to jump to 3:30 bc this is a 2-in-1 vid)

SS7 brought this hit back in a completely new way.

The blindfolds, guys... p l e a s e.

The original choreo relied a lot on the number of members. Even though the choreography has completely changed, and there’s only half the number of members, the song still hits.

Once again, not shutting up about how much Eunhyuk’s vocals have improved. Like...he really was out here during the 8th album/SS7 and taking over main vocal lines. He’s developed so much control over his voice, and the result we hear is a honey-sweet smooth timbre.

Chest pop dance break reinvented but still referencing the dance line duet

You barely notice when Siwon covers Kangin’s lines and Leeteuk covers Sungmin’s during the second verse, bc this time around they actually picked members with similar timbres (i am still ?? at why sungmin tried to emulate kangin’s voice to the point where it messed up his own verse during that 2009 performance)

Shindong leading a chorus, did 2009 us ever see this coming

The fact that Yesung finally does his kneeling scream solo smack in center sends

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Wolf Moon - June 5, 2011

Opens on police searching the woods and dogs barking

Is that house ever the McCall house again? Pretty sure it doesn’t ever look like that

How exactly is Stiles hanging from the roof? Do his knees bend backward? “No a body of water.”

God they’re such babies in this. Stiles is way to jazzed about the body being cut in half. Scott is little red riding hood.

Beacon Hills Preserve- No Entry after dark

Stiles is wearing a light blue Beatles shirt and plaid and hooded cargo jacket and khakis Scott is wearing a burgundy AE zip hoodie and light wash jeans Only one of these is an acceptable outfit

It is raining and thundering Scott nearly gets trampled by a dozen deer and loses his inhaler Cell phones don’t have flashlights on them yet Oh look, half a dead girl When werewolves attack Scott nearly gets hit by a red SUV after escaping the alpha

Beacon Hills High School- Est. 1941

Stiles has a navy target shirt and a hoodie under a blazer Scott has on so many layers and the ugliest appliqué tee shirt

Introducing super powers and Allison Argent

I like her scarf and her hair and her jacket Lydia that skirt is not dress code approved

Man I wish the girl who comes up and complains about Allison hitting it off with Lydia had stuck around. Or that she was Erica.

There is so much American Eagle in this episode

State champs three years running because of Team Captain Jackson This is clearly from when Lydia and Jackson were meant to be a grade above them.

Introducing Coach And his first pep talk

A whistle twenty feet away nearly breaks Scott’s brain It’s the bomb-di-bomb song! Jackson’s so fucking dramatic

“It was like I had all the time in the world to catch the ball.” “I can smell the mint mojito gum in your pocket.”

Stiles jumps to lycanthropy in about seven seconds, but to be fair Scott did say he thought he saw a wolf

Introducing a very baby faced Derek Hale Close your mouth Stiles

“He’s only like a few years older than us. His family burned to death in a fire like ten years ago.”

Cats gone wild That is a skyscraper pretty close to the animal clinic it’s also pretty close to where I live (it might be the mall parking lot?) Glowing eyes and dog obedience Allison has a ‘I’m not like other girls’ speech. Which I do not like. Scott cowboys up and asks the new girl out

And then he wakes up in the woods, in a cave, by a creek. In the fog. Not muddy at all. But there’s an alpha on the prowl In daylight (which is contrary to stuff we learn later)

“My mom does all the grocery shopping.”

“I’m sleepwalking three miles into the middle of the woods and I’m pretty much convinced I’m out of my freaking mind!”

“You’re not gonna believe what the animal was. It was a wolf.” Stiles went from joking about werewolves to believing in werewolves and it took like, three days

Coach’s second pep talk Jackson’s so agro

Scott is incapable of making angry face But we get some more super powers

Why are there so many print outs?

Lycaon Wolfsbane Silver Where did that history of lycanthropy book come from Stiles? It looks fifty years old. Who wrote it?

Stiles is wearing a white Lucky Brand tee Scott again has all the layers So much gray and the worst blue

The full moon’s tonight “You’re cursed Scott.” “Your blood lust will be at it’s peak.” Stiles nearly gets his brain smashed in trying to cancel the date

Introducing Melissa, mom of the year. Scott is old enough to drive. Which means he was probably has a fall birthday, right after the cut off.

Scotty, the tee shirts Allison’s cute though. Blazers are great Derek creeps on the party and makes a dog behave Oh look, bad music-less dancing Lydia, why are you creeping on Scott while making out with Jackson? Is this supposed to be a hint about her future arc? Stiles, did you really wear a button up and a tie to a party? Not a blazer too

Derek, sweetie, I know that you’re just being protective of Scott but you come off so creepy But also he’s clearly supposed to be young enough to easily blend in at the party My guesses on ages in this episode are Scott- recently 16, Stiles- about six months into being 16, Allison- eleven months into being 16, Lydia- 10 months into being 16, Jackson- recently 17, Derek- about half way into being 19. This all changes a number of times throughout the show and no one ever knows how old anyone is. Except for Erica.

The music in this transformation is fantastic Kinda psycho-ish Understandably Scott got vibes off Derek and made assumptions Superhero landing Drool and pointy ears

Introducing the jeep and Stiles running like there’s something wrong with him Victoria does not have time for Stiles

The werewolf run is just terrible but his face is cool It’s weird that his body is so hairless when he’s got mutton chops

Hello Mr. Argent

Hey look, Derek actually saved somebody It’s sweet that he’s so willing to save Scott And by sweet I mean fucking heart breaking “The bite is a gift.” “I don’t want it.” “You will. And you’re gonna need me if you wanna learn how to control it. So you and me, Scott, we’re brothers now.” Just get right up in the wounded, confused teenagers face and spout some culty non-sense

Scott’s priorities are Allison hating him Stiles’ priorities are how to figure out this werewolf thing and not even a little bit Allison Allison accepts his vague apology and we find out her dad is a hunter End episode One

[sarasfm]

Sarauniya “ Sara ” Davies, 24, pansexual, cisfemale, ISFP Enneagram 9w1; Pisces sun, Sagittarius moon, Pisces rising 1st year Advanced Encryption Major; did not go to a spy prep hs

Imma keep it real with you, chief, I have absolutely no idea what’s going on. I mean, obviously, I know what espionage is ; I’ve read books and articles, and I’ve seen Spy Kids and all the Charlies Angels and James Bond movies, but I genuinely think I need a minute to wrap my head around everything. Make that two weeks, because what’s this I hear about two murders ?  I literally just got sent here to be safe, I — I’m sorry, I’m freaking out. Give me five seconds, and we can start again, because I promise I can totally pretend this is all normal. @gallagherintro​

full name: sarauniya “ sara ” davies

dormitory room: 105

birthday: 20 march 1995

soundtrack: “ go gina ” by sza

favorite dish: efo riro

aesthetic:  when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of light reflecting from her earrings, eyeglasses perched on top of her head, and a caviar iphone always in her hands

Bio Points

her mom’s a nigerian baddie billionaire & her dad’s a soft academic brit

she grew up between london and abuja where their family’s business is based. it’s a trading enterprise, the largest industrial conglomerate in sub-saharan africa

she’s the eldest of three siblings, was raised to be prim & proper and groomed to run their family’s business. her family’s not pushy though and they’re really cool. very healthy dynamic so she doesn’t mind ; she loves her fam and would do it w a smile !

Coding is her Passion though. total dork. stayed up all the time just sleuthing and being an internet geek since she was a youngin’

loves education and is the type who would willingly stay in school to learn. has a degree in economics from harvard and was almost done with her mba when her littlest sister got abducted !  was it about business ? money ? who knows ! the sister’s fine now but her family sure is Scared especially since sara’s alone in the big bad united states

her mom made some calls and went “ gimbiya, look, u aint safe n we sorry. we’ll work something out to make sure u get ur mba degree somehow but shit is wild so we gotta get u somewhere near that’s safe asap. u like studying & ur a geek with computers right ? cool beans, go back to school & welcome to gallagher, babe ”

she enters gallagher in the middle of the spring semester very overwhelmed & inwardly ignoring how unhappy she is about having to be here bc she is not & does not want to be a spy. she just tryna distract herself by looking at this entire thing as a weird vacation where she can do stuff she wasn’t able to before because it’s literally detached from the world. she is mostly probably in way over her head, but let’s see ! 

Other Information

Nicknames: Sara (to everyone), gimbiya (to family, means princess in Hausa)

Languages: English (native), Hausa (native), Arabic (C1), French (B2)

Strengths: is money a strength ? also coding. and being the sweetest. and a general smartypants but that’s in a university setting & gallagher probably doesnt give a fuck

Relationship History: only has one (1) experience. ( well,,, 2 if a three-second drunken kiss w kass counts ) his name’s royce and they’ve known each other since their bougie secondary school back in britain. started dating at sixteen and went to harvard together. they’re long term as fuck. he’s like her best friend and their families adore the couple & each other. got engaged last september and sara broke it off before leaving for gallagher, oof. she deadass milked the opportunity but lbr she wasnt rlly Feeling It so she’s kinda glad for the ‘valid reason’ to appear bc it rlly wasn’t Love for sara so boy bye

Physical appearance: 1.76m, 55kg, long black hair, slim and toned build

Classes: GEN 105, GEN 206, AE 101, AT 101, PE 101

Personality

the sweetest. v charming & sensitive to others & curious about things. enthusiastic too ! loves adventures & is very passionate. queen of empathy. 

she’s not stuck up even tho she loaded. she doesnt rlly talk abt her family having 12B or the fact that she’s an ivy league girl, bc she’s just generally very uwu 

easily stressed and flustered and overwhelmed ! man, gallagher’s gonna shook this goddamn academic dork to her core for the love of god someone pls get the aed ready

rlly fun !!! can be a lil unpredictable bc it b lyk dat for rich girls. loves her independence which she hasn’t maximized bc of her ex fiancé & responsibilities but it’s chill so chill totally chill, no ounce of further longing exists in the crevices of this girl’s heart

she is so not good with confrontation and is so allergic to conflict ok. she will sweep discomfort under a rug and lie on it ‘til it’s flat which makes her a queen of repression & conforming

is she easily overwhelmed & stressed ? yes, but she’ll try not to show it so much. it’s all mostly an internal monologue so don’t underestimate her pls. she’s v smart and competent. can be so competitive ( albeit mostly inwardly ) and a boss ass business bitch like her business momma bc that’s what she’s been training for altho she is still generally a soft bab so ... yeah, if u would be so kind as to Estimate her, that’d be grand

she needs to always be on top of her game. maybe not the best in the class, but definitely pushes herself to be her best, so a lot of late nights studying & won’t settle for bad grades ever. gonna be rough in gallagher bc she is not spy material ok, she’s just a pretty rich geek behind a computer

just imagine her as the nice girl in ur ap classes who’s a lil awkward & just so happens to be super hot & stinking rich

Fun Facts

has a six-month old rescue pup named sooty ! who kinda looks like a sheparnese

has a tendency to ramble if she’s comfy w u enough or mayhaps if it’s too much man 

is v diligent w keeping a journal & does it everyday 

likes to dance ! not super good but she likes it. hits da clubs for dat shit 

is a lil instagram famous bc she’s a gorgeous rich harvard girl & all that jazz. queen of selfies & of looking hot but doesn’t actually get to play around rip ffff 

doesn’t drink much bc she is an extreme lightweight and 2 is her tap out limit

if she’s had more than 2 drinks, she is Very Honest but still very ramble-y 

she is physically active but mostly just runs and does yoga. knows very basic self-defense. is not sporty, definitely not a fighter, may god have mercy on her soul

isnt a virgin but is not sexually experienced lmao lbr she kinda Itching to get out there 

don’t ask me what her accent is because i have no clue it’s all over the place

Established Connections — just bc i think y’all would like to know

kassandra sutton — internet friends ! loves kass to bits. have known each other since sara was 14. when kass was 18, sara took her on a grad trip to montreal and became a lil lowkey into her. doesn’t help that kass drunk kissed her & doesn’t remember lmfao. poor sara told her then-bf & they had a lil fight but they made up bc sara didn’t talk to kass for months. eventually they became friends again & now sara’s in gallagher w no idea that kass is a mf sutton & honestly, my girl is just very shook w everything 

Possible Connections

crushes — she does not know how to flirt. she is ,,,, p pathetic tbh but a real heckin cutie. will be super nice to ur bab ok  

flirtationships — sara and i r gonna continue to keep it real w u chieves, her ex fiancé royce was vanilla and bland as fuck. can u believe she has not been single in a decade ? ? someone give her love & attention & fluster this soft innocent child. get her Experienced but also dont hurt her

enemies/angst !!! —  or maybe do ! maybe hurt her. maybe obliterate her. maybe smash her poor heart to pieces, because tbh i would love that.  so someone pls for the love all things holy and divine, someone hurt her !!!!

fwb — probably just one (1) bc she’s still a romantic ? and she’s probably gonna want something exclusive even if it’s no strings attached and will surely want to ,.,. get to know them a little bit more first ,,, at least ideally , idk , maybe impulse & thirst gets the better of her one of these days who knows lets find out !

friends !!! — sara will love u ok. she may be a lil easily flustered but she’s doesn’t rlly give up on ppl quickly. as i’ve said, queen of empathy. probs feels v sorry for majority of the gallagher & georgetown kids bc, .,.,., this environment just screams highkey Trauma to her and she’s valid bc she’s right

mentors !!! — she hates feeling dumb ok she Always has to be on top of her game, so u can bet ur ass after her first meetings in her classes she goes to ppl going “ hey could u help me out w working out ? boxing ? firing a gun ? literally everything & anything ? ”   

anything & everything — meaning just come @ me & let’s talk about it uwu 

( did i just create georgina’s antithesis ? fuck yes, and i am sooo excited to have a child that’s not always plotting & scheming & being mean like y’all have no idea ;_; nywy, that was long bc shutting up and brevity are things i do not possess. whats up it’s ur og flower garden girl rose here aka bugleweed aka fiancée of many and lover of all, and i am open to anything and everything ! just drop an IM or hit dat like & ill slide in ur dmz w love, plots & sanitized hands x )

[deitiesofduat]

I was wondering if u can do a bunch of random facts/headcannons for the main cast?

Oh man, I mean, I’m happy to try, but I’m not sure where to start for the entire cast of 10… well, now 11 gods. I know have some that are scattered around the blog’s tags, and also in places other than tumblr, but It’ll take me a bit to find them or think of new ones without revealing spoilers, hmm…

So here’s what I’ll try that’s similar to the 1 Like 1 Fact meme I did on twitter a while ago: for every note this post receives, I’ll add a DEITIES-related headcanon or fact about the main cast. The main cast includes Set, Horus, Anubis, Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Bastet, Sekhmet, Thoth, Ra, and nowwwww Sobek – and maybe the Set Spawn and the big bad serpent too, if relevant. You can add a note by +liking this post, and if you’re interested in learning about a particular deity, you can mention their name in a comment (and it’s not necessary to reblog this, unless you want to!).

This should help give me a bit more focus and time to think of some decent non-spoiler headcanons/facts to share. I’ll come back to this post in a few hours and add any many as I can, depending on the amount of notes it receives, and I’ll bump and place them under the cut for easy access. So yeah, go for it /o/!!

[1] Been playing with a headcanon where Horus’s Eye can see an object’s or person’s weak spots – though only for like, a moment once it’s activated, cuz I’ve wanted to avoid him being OP (but then again… he’s a literal god… so >>)

Also a related-headcanon where he can see a person’s past injuries thru his Eye too, including the hidden ones that have long-ago healed and left no visible scar. I’d like to draw the ones he “sees” on others one day if I keep it…

[2] Set is the only one of his siblings that doesn’t have an avian sacred animal, and for a while I wanted to keep it that way and literally keep him “grounded” compared to his family (sans Anubis). But I found that he’s sometimes also associated with crows (and falcons??? interestingly enough), and even though I haven’t found solid evidence of this yet, I also like the idea of him being associated with bats even before I read about it in Kane Chronicles I swear– So those 2-3 animals are probably some alternate animal form that he has but just rarely takes.

[3] Actually while I’m at it– aside from the Sha Animal, here’s a list of 30-ish animals that I keep as Set’s canon forms in DEITIES verse (based on a combination of historical speculation, recorded myths, and personal headcanons), and would love to eventually draw him as one day:

Aardvark, African Wild Ass (and Donkey), Giant Anteater, Baboon, Bat, Boar/Pig, Bull, Camel, Crocodile, Crow/Raven, Dog (some sort of sighthound?), Fennec Fox, Fish (Eel?), Gazelle/Antelope, Giraffe, Goat, Goose, Hare/Rabbit, Hippopotamus, [Spotted] Hyena, Jackal, Jerboa, Okapi, Oryx, Panther, Rat, Scorpion, Shark, Snake (Viper), and Zebra/Quagga.

[4] RELATEDLY… I REALLY REALLY like the idea of Set somehow acquiring a Thylacine form even tho it’s in no realistic way in the current timeline because thylacines weren’t native to Africa let alone Egypt. BUT… I JUST… THEY REMIND ME OF SHA ANIMALS SO MUCH o)——–

[5] When I was considering the color schemes for the main cast, I once briefly envisioned a purple/violet scheme for Nephthys, but decided to scrap it because (1) I wanted her colors to contrast with her sister’s and match a bit more with her husband’s and son’s and (2) I found that purple was nigh impossible to find in AE wall art and admittedly worried “maybe it won’t look authentic if I use those colors;;;”

Even though I’m happy with her orange/black/red scheme now, I’ve recently found that purple is a common association / kemetic UPG (or doxa?) with her?? SO THAT WAS INTERESTING… I don’t think I’ll change her color scheme for DEITIES, but maybe I’ll draw her in an alternate purple outfit one day to see how it looks on her >>

[6] One of the reasons why I like Horus, Anubis, and Bastet as their own casual friend group in DEITIES verse is that, because they’re all relatively young gods, they all share the experience/pressure of being measured up against their older royal relatives – Horus being seen as both his father and mother’s legacy and feeling the pressure to restore his family’s throne; Anubis being know for his infamous father, and even having his paternity questioned (via rumors and “myths”); and Bastet being the youngest of Ra’s daughter, sometimes being compared to her sister’s roles and achievements.

They’re all really good at masking any pressure they feel, but they also probably confide in each other about it more than with others, cuz they’ve all “been there.”

[7] Relatedly, one of the earliest version of DEITIES Project, before it was known as “Deities Project,” had Horus, Anubis, and Bastet as the main trio. That’s been changed “for reasons” since then, and their characters were quite different back then, but it might be fun to explore a story that focused on the 3 of them someday.

[8] Okay ya’ll know the part during The Contendings where Horus and Set are racing in stone boats and Horus “wins” by painting his wooden boat to look like stone? I have ideas for how that entire race happens in DEITIES verse that would be fun to explore as a side story, but in order for me to give Horus a “legit” way to win without outright cheating, he covers his boat with stone casing/accents, and after he wins and is confronted about it… well…

HORUS: “The rules we agreed on were to sail a boat made with stone. They said nothing about it needing to be made entirely out of stone.”SET: “…”HORUS: “ :)c ”SET: “…” *Internally raging*

[9] I’ve headcanon’d that Nephthys has her own set of ~7 Shabti who act as her personal assistants while she’s conducting her nightly duties, or working around her home, but I haven’t decided much more past that (still debating on how she acquired them, and if she more-than-likely named them…).

The concept and number were loosely based on how many of the other goddesses had their own sets of 7 as extensions of their power and/or control (7 Ribbons of Hathor, 7 Arrows of Sekhmet, Isis’s 7 Scorpions), and I thought it’d be neat if the Goddess of Service had her own Shabti that exemplified that part of her domain.

[10] Thoth is an avid lover of puzzles, trivia, and strategy games, and he’s also exceptionally skilled at games of chance. He doesn’t gamble or make bets often because he understands the risks, but when he does he tries to be calculative about it… and also has a natural knack for luck going his way (EX: That one game of senet that he won to help assist Nut with having her children… which is another story for another day)

[11] Ummmmm Isis is the only one of the main cast who I haven’t drawn a ref of her sacred animal form yet… or at least, not digitally. Her animal is the kite, but I’ve been debating on a while for what species to base her design on. I like the idea of her kite form looking like the Black-winged Kite, although those species aren’t native to Egypt… but some are native to Africa… and they’re so fricken pretty and they fit her colors so well so I might cave on this ffffffffffff–

[12] While we’re on the subject of sacred animals (and to help me get somewhat closer to the note count lmao I’m trying guys–), Horus’s falcon form is based on both the Peregrine falcon and the Lanner falcon, with more simplified markings for my own sanity when I draw him in dozens of panels.

At one point, I considered making his falcon form leucistic to contrast more with Anubis and Set, buuuuuut I also liked the brown colors on the falcons’ normal coloration, so I kept it. (That and more leucistic birds of prey are hawks, so… maybe for Khonsu tho if I don’t change him to an owl, hmmmm…)

[13] Okay continuing thoughts on animal forms, Bastet is able to shift her cat form into nearly any coloration or breed she desires (aside from her eyes, which remain green), but for the purposes of DEITIES I draw her as a brown cat with light gradation markings. I knew of the Egyptian Mau but also realized the spots would take a lot of effort to redraw in the panels where she appears as a cat (much like the spots on falcons for Horus). I also personally really like solid-colored coats on cats, and in particular I liked the coloration of the Havana Brown, so it may be a little less authentic but it did factor into her colors as well.

[14] I'm still debating on Sekhmet's main hairstyle and want to play with it a bit more -- not the arrangement per se but whether to keep it as locks or to make them more obvious twists -- or perhaps a combination -- since I can see her with both style at certain points in time. Either way, at full length Sekhmet's hair is very long: if she were to loosen her tie and let it fall, her longest locks would reach past her hips.

[15] I initially gave Set yellow eyes because even though he's often depicted with red eyes, I didn't want to over saturate his design with just... well, red -- especially in his animal form where his entire body is covered in red fur (red eyes + red sclera would have been, a lot). I like how his yellow eyes provide some contrast, and I've since found some story-related reasons where his eyes might play some role in the plot… but anything further might be spoilery 8')c

[16] It took me a while to settle on Osiris's "resurrected" skin tone because there were a lot of sources that describe his skin as being green, or blue, or black in coloration. I even tried them out in an earlier color test that I shared on patreon, but I eventually went with black since the color has had various meanings in Ancient Egypt that include both life and death. (It also gave me some opportunity to give green skin to Ptah and blue skin to Hapi to help vary the designs for each of those gods).

[17] Relatedly, Osiris's mortal form is a naturally dark skin tone, but following this death he can no longer appear in that form. He is also unable to travel to the overworld / realm of the living, though I'm still debating on how restrictive this is (if it's limited to his physical body or if he can split his soul under special circumstances, or with assistance). Regardless, most of his correspondence with other deities have to be arranged within Duat for this reason.

[18] I haven't made any plans to designate a spouse or romantic partner for Ra. I understand that there were a number of goddesses that were associated with him in the myths and often said to be his wife, but for that reason it was hard to settle on choosing one -- or multiple, and I realized that for the purpose of the main story it might not be necessary. I also kinda like exploring the idea of this high king and powerful creator deity who's also a happily single father, and where it's not for tragic reasons like the separation from or death of his spouse (not to knock that trope at all tho sdjfdsf). I'm not opposed to him being shipped with anyone though, I just don't think I've been inclined to do it myself lmAO;;

[19] RELATEDLY, while Ra's daughters (Sekhmet, Mafdet, Hathor, Serqet, Bastet) don't have a biological mother, I like to think that they were raised in an environment with a lot of parental figures and mentors to go around, aside from just their father. I haven't quite settled on how it was organized though, but I know that the daughters regard Thoth as something of an uncle/secondary dad (tho their dynamic with Thoth is can vary a lot from the one the have with Ra), as well as their teacher and mentor. I can also see where other gods like Khnum, Khepri, and Bes, and goddesses like Neith, Seshat, Taweret, Ma'at, and Mut, might also have played some direct mentor role in the daughters' upbringing and sense of self.

[20] (squick + implied nsfw) I uh… have this minor gag headcanon where Horus, Isis, and Osiris just don't eat fish. They just… don't. And it's entirely based on that one part of the myths after Osiris's death, where a certain part of Osiris's desecrated body ended up in the river and was swallowed by a fish 8')c (should be noted that I'm not saying that event did happened in DEITIES canon, but I'm also not disputing it either >>).

Apparently that was considered a bad omen, and I still find conflicting information on whether consumption of fish was taboo for some or all in Ancient Egypt (I think "for some" makes better sense, cuz why would an entire society that resides near the Nile river pass up on a perfectly available food source?? But I digress, I might need to review this again so take my thoughts with a grain of salt--). I also admit that I've seen it mentioned that fish are not ideal food offerings for Isis and Osiris?? and I can imagine that maybe Horus adopts the distaste for them as well. Either way, I go with the DEITIES canon that while most people and deities happily consume fish, Horus and his parents will not, and they don't enjoy it as offerings either.

I’MMMMMM gonna end it here for now cuz my headcanons have run dry for the time being, thank you guys!!

[tristinleighhh]

✨☀️ my heart & soul are so full.

This was truly the best experience of my life. Envision is something else. I danced and sweat out every negative energy that I had stored away before I came here. I feel like a new person..

🌊 I loved the whole vibe of the Uvita area. Everyone was so nice. I've missed the salty air in my hair and on my lips. Being surrounded by the jungle and the ocean is a euphoric feeling. 🐟 I ate a lot of good fish outside the festival and I am definitely missing it. I loved the fresh fruits and coconuts everywhere 🥥🌴🍍🍌🍓

🏕️ our air b&b was just a couple minutes away from the festival and our host Jose was the nicest human ever. He was constantly making sure everything was perfect for us and coming back to get sleep in the ac was prime. I'm very glad we did that. Cabinas yuriel 💛💚❤️☁️

🐳 we went on a whale watching tour and we're blessed to see a male and a mama and her baby playing around! Humpback whales are my flavorite animal and I haven't seen them since I was in Hawaii so it was an epic treat.

🌄Then Dan and I watched our last Costa Rican sunset for the trip and took a nice stroll home. On the way we saw a sloth in the tree, a crazy poisonous snake and a gnarly looking centipede. 🐍🌙

I have fallen in love with envision and everything it stands for and for the beautiful country of Costa Rica. I will be back there's no doubt about that. I want to explore everything. Thankful for this trip and all the lessons learned and friends I met along the way. Until next time 🥥✨ Pura Vida ✨🥥

✨ Top Envision Moments & Music ✨

🔥 the sunset and fire spinners on the beach with the drum circle. I had hoped to spin some fire down there but I'll be a little more prepared next time.. you walk up the path onto the beach and you are met with various vendors with cool bones and jewelery, cheap beer and food as you emerge into a sea of people on the sand. The sky was on fire and the vibes were hiiiigh. The drum circle was tribal and euphoric. Looking around me being surrounded by jungle and ocean and beautiful people was straight bliss.

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🍄 seeing Paul staments talk about mushrooms. I only caught one but it was so cool to hear him share his stories and experiences with us.

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🍽️💦the dishcoteque

The waste at this festival was pretty much non existent. It always makes me sad how people can leave a place so destroyed and covered in trash. I had to pick up no trash from the ground and all the volunteers who were picking up trash barely had anything in their buckets. When you got food at any vendor here you received an actual dish, bowl, silverware or cup. When you were done you'd bring it to the "dishcoteque" and recieve a voucher for your next one. No plastic at all barely any paper products besides some paper straws .. the bathrooms also did not have toilet paper in them.. you had to get it from the outside and bring it with you so they were not overflowing with paper and and overuse of products.

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✨🎨✨ the art & the stages

There was so much phenomenal art. I was blown away by the murals everywhere and the art gallery was bursting with talent and creative energy.

The bars and booths were all made from the materials surrounding them. Everything was made from the earth. The Sol stage was surrounded by a beautiful design with a big screen in the back that had really awesome visuals on it

The lapa stage was filled with house n deep techno vibes all day and night. It felt like something out of an epic movie in there with all the mist and the lights. The entrance to the beach was right there too. It was a great place to go to just dance and chill out.  And finally... The Luna stage. W o w. The most incredible stage I've EVER seen in my life and I've seen quite a few cool stage setups. It was a huge tower of Earth and wood and vines and beauty. There was a portal where people danced behind. The lighting was a1 from the lasers to the mapping on the funktions. It was truly other worldly there.  I will be riding the high of that stage for a long time. There was water refill stations in all the right spots which made staying hydrated in the jungle heat so easy.

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🌮🍓🍦🥑🥙 the food

It's usually hard for me to eat at festivals lately because I don't eat meat anymore. Chicken fingers was always a go to for me but I've sadly become very picky. Everyone was pretty accommodating to my needs ( I wish I thought about asking for no cilantro before the last day 😞 I hate that shit )and everything was so nourishing and healthy. I have not been eating well lately and I feel so nice and full after all the smoothies and juicy goodness I ingested over the weekend.

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🕷️ the huge tarantula like spider that happened to wander through the crowd of people dancing with the bass vibrating the floor and onto our blanket. It was SO BIG how did you even make it through the crowd?! Stealthy dude. That was wild.

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☕🍵The tea party!

I went to the bathroom and I came across a tiny but huge tea party. Everyone had tea cups along a very small rectangle table/stool and they were singing jungle tea time jungle tea time and cheersing to life it was so cute

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🎭🤸‍♀️🔥💃 the performers...

Wow. I haven't seen performances like that ever. Every collective blew my mind they all had a vibe of their own and absolutely slayed it on stage. Serious inspiration

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🎶🔊 the music

Every set was so good. Nothing was like oh that was cool .. everything i was was so we'll put together and everyone definitely out out jungle vibes.

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I'll just put this first in case you don't want to read all the way cause this was my flavorite part 💓

👽 Tipper 👽

This was my 30th show.. in the jungle...and the Luna stage couldn't have been any better. He played so many fat unreleased tracks and vips I have never heard before. Serious deep jungle vibes. I can honestly say that was my flave set I've seen by him so far. There were no visuals but I was so okay with that. the lights were so on point and the performers were so freaking good and well paired with what he was putting out. I am sooooo freaking thankful for that experience and to have had it with all my tipper family. This community has Brought me all over the country and now out of the US. I am constantly overstimulated and it's just getting more intense as I get older so traveling can be difficult for me. The high energy if the airport is a lot for me. Music festivals are even a lot for me but I eventually get comfortable..I just love the epic moments of euphoria through music and these experiences that I'll push myself through the rest of it. The way tippers music makes me feel is so worth trooping through a sea of energies to get to that moment. It's truly beautiful for me and I know others feel the same. Blessed to be alive for the making of tipper music

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Thursday

✨ the first real full set of music we saw was jpod.. someone ive never listened to and I'm so glad I know about him now. It was so fun I found all my friends and it was the perfect way to kick off the weekend.

✨Naughty princess was someone I didn't know as well and she threwwwww down a dirty heavy dubstep set. It was proper as fuck and she looked like a boss in the dj booth.

✨Honerable mention to Govinda and an-ten-ae

✨🔮Clozees first set on Friday night was so surreal. Seeing her live is a true experience. It got so heavy and blissful it was by far my flavorite set I've seen from her. She's so humble and cute and beyond excited to be doing this for us. When she plays she emmits such a powerful feminine vibe. The high that gave me was super intense.

✨ Honerable mention to

Stylust beats with the filthy dubstep set

Nico luminous

And attya to close was super smooth

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Saturday

✨ The funk hunters played two sets. The but their Saturday night set on the Luna stage was so fire. They're so fun and energetic

✨ Random rab was so beautiful. Probably the most beautiful performance I've seen by him yet. His voice is absolutely amazing.

✨LAZY SYRUP ORCHESTRA...... If you don't know them please go listen to their sets on SoundCloud. The sun had risen and the people were vibin.. 6am set - ???? It was so freaking good ahhhh words can't even decribes

They're all so talented I want to return to that moment forever.

Going to the beach and jumping in the ocean after that was so freaking cooooooool.

✨Honerable mention to symbolico for throwing down two dope sets & moontricks on the Sol stage

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Sunday

✨ Drrtywulvs ... Wowza. That was so fun and uplifting.. all the booty shaking..I love his music and all the noises. It always makes my body move in the weirdest of ways.

✨SUPERTASK..he's one of my flavorite artists ever and he threw downnnnnnnnn such a dope set in the jungle.

✨ SOOHAN was everything I wanted. His music makes me dance in all the best ways

✨🌄 Clozees played a sunrise set @ 545 and it was beautiful. She was very downtempo and played a lot of slower vibe songs.. it was perfect and blissful.

✨ and finally emancipator. They are forever one of my flavorites. They played at 7 am and closed out the Luna stage with the most magical morning vibes. I feel like they played a lot of new music and it was a perfect way to bring down the high energy from the night

✨Honerable mention to dirtwire on the Sol stage who pulled me out of my funk bc of the rain I love their music so much and Seeing them live is a huge treat.

If you've made it this far thanks for reading! Envision is my new flavorite place and I am already counting down the days until I can go back. ✨🥥

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

Sacred Beasts 2 | Astra 2 - 3 | Given 1 - 2 | DanMachi II 1 | Demon Slayer 15 - 16 | Dr Stone 2 | Fruits Basket 14 | Cop Craft 2 - 3

Rolling out the tags soon.

Sacred Beasts 2

“Sissy” always pissed me off as a nickname for your sister. It’s clearly meant as a term of endearment in some cases, but it also is the equivalent of “wuss”, y’know???

I’ve seen mushroom soup out of a tin…that don’t look like mushroom soup in that case.

Uh, random question…she has th same surname as Will, but is Schaal herself adopted???

Y’should’ve followed Hank, Nancy…(is her name Nancy or Schaal? Schaal is her middle name, yet she seems more commonly referred to as Schaal…hmm.)

*sees synopsis* - No one mentioned Nancy’s hometown was called Livletwood Village…

I pause my shows a lot to get down these notes…then Crunchyroll or my internet (or both!) cursed me with regular buffering (that can sometimes play video and subs through it, but generally sets down a few seconds after unpausing and lasts for a minute) and made it a pain in the butt to make these notes. But you do realise I basically have notes for almost every show I’ve ever watched under this system? These notes are special to me, which is why I put up with the buffering. It also means impactful scenes lose their impact, meaning well-paced shows get favoured in my picking process on CR these days.

Astra 2

Yup, the 2nd time we talk about how to scavenge for food this season – gotta remember this…in case I ever get into a situation like that. You never know! (creates “The More You Know” star with hands)

I-awwwwwww…I never thought I’d see the day where the Luca Javelin would get animated, much less Astra as a series. Dang, is this a dream???

Eyyyyy. Nothing like endangering your little sister to really understand why you love her…much less understand that you love her in the first place. (partially sarcastic)

Given 1

This is my second rodeo with BL anime (I’ve only read one BL manga and it was pretty darn mediocre, but the one BL game I tried was okay)…hopefully it’s good.

Was there the ticking of a clock in the background???

…and cut to OP. Yay! I can predict when the OP happens now…(It only took me years of training…okay, I’m kidding.)

I think this OP is like a music video…and I think that’s the point.

Kaji??? Is this Eva (LOL)?

I’m no band person – I was merely a solo pianist in my time with music, although notably I did have to sing for one of the musical pieces – but “Thom Yorke” and “Keith Richards” sound familiar. Why???...Okay, so it seems Thom Yorke is part of Radiohead and Keith Richards is part of the Rolling Stones. I’m familiar with those bands by name, at least.

Lemme guess…this guy (Ritsuka) sucks at improv.

I had to go back and find out what Yayoi said a few lines ago…and  love her already because she’s like “You suck”…she’s just like me, to be honest.

Early husbando predictions say Haruki is my dude of the season.

Seeing manly dudes act like blushing schoolgirls is great…!

Yushiro-who???...Okay, Yushiro Ishihara is apparently that’s a singer that’s already passed away, but has a bit of a rep behind him.

Is it just me, or is Ritsuka basically a lesser Bakugo…?

Come to think of it, it would be hard for me to teach someone piano now that I haven’t properly played since the end of 2014…almost 5 years. Geesh, that’s a long time.

Welp, that was…actually pretty good. The only thing that sucks is that this ED isn’t rock, to go with the rest of the show.

DanMachi II 1

Another counterintuitive name for a sequel anime season…this is my last premiere before I wrap them up, or at least until Machikado Mazoku (or whatever) land on CR.

…and of course, it’s back to Big Boobies (aka Hestia). She’s probably the worst part of the show for me.

Why does Bell need an advisor anyway…? I never thought about it when watching s1.

Who’s this Naza-sama, anyway…?...Okay, it seems she’s a doctor from the Miach Familia. I don’t remember her from s1, really.

I’ve forgotten who Asfi is as well…Oh yeah, that blue-haired woman from the Hermes Famlia. Hermes seems like a bit of a loose cannon – the sort who wouldn’t have a Familia if given the chance – though.

I think we saw Freya in s1…just scheming behind the scenes…

Hermes looks like a sleazebag half the time he’s on screen…

I forgot how much I loved Miach’s character design in s1...and to a lesser extent, Takemikazuchi.

Demon Slayer 15

…Zenitsu is annoying again.

I didn’t think Tanjiro was scared of anything…excpt maybe losing Nezuko again.

Oh! I just realised Natagumo has a hint in its name…The “gumo” can be read “kumo”…as in cloud or spider, but it’s given with the kanji for spider so it can only be a spider-related problem on Mt Natagumo.

I’d hate to have Smellovision on this show…(What’s Smellovision, you ask??? Here, read up on it…at least, I was thinking of the Google variant, so read up on the Google version.)

Ukogi appears to be a type of plant known as eleutherococcus and ukogi rice is rice with ukogi leaves.

Dr Stone 2

Episode 3’s title is like “Weapons…of SCIENCE! *cue Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song*”

Ooh, nice angle! (on Senku and petrified!Yuzuriha being protected by Taiju…and not just because Yuzuriha’s butt is showing…)

“You can eat lion?” – No duh, Taiju!

“I want to give thanks to the circle of life…” – Sorry, but can I interrupt with a meme here? *cue ululations that ae meant to imitate the iconic song from The Lion King, y’know, the one that goes “Ahhhhhhh zee bun yah… (etc.)”*

Tsukasa’s frickin’ tall, man! Look at him tower over Taiju and Senku…

Having read the manga before, I just realised Tsukasa is mighty suspicious when he says Senku could be able to rebuild civilisation from scratch. That was harder to recognise in manga format though, I think.

I also didn’t realise, but the shell tale is talking about Tsukasa! Hmm…interesting.

Dr Stone’s ED…never in my life did I think it was going to be a rap song. Unless, of course, it’s a science rap…(There’s hydrogen and helium and lithium, berrylium…uh, I don’t remember the words after that…)

Oh, that next-ep font takes me back…it reminds me of the 90s, where terrible WordArt font like that was everywhere and I had to get by on Lucida Calligraphy.

Fruits Basket 14

Oh, crab meat…these CGI cars look absolutely terrible…

Pay attention to the relationship between Kyo and Kyoko…you people who don’t know about manga!Furuba are in for a real revelation on that front.

Wow, the effects on the flowers are really pretty for the ED…

Cop Craft 2

That OP is just so good…*swoon*

Well…they spelt “Unknown” wrong…on Kei’s phone.

Hmm…I think the insert song was in English.

Astra 3

Oh…something didn’t make sense. It turns out the word the subber is using is “attitude” when it should actually be altitude…

Given 2

Ooh, Haruki does coffee in the OP! I didn’t notice that, since I had to skip it…there’s some kinda suckish buffering on CR, which is why I have to skip as much as I can.

Welp, I’m a pianist. I’m as clueless as any other non-guitar player when it comes to guitars, so I don’t mind the lesson but also don’t need it.

Given this is a BL/yaoi (no pun intended), I think Akihiko and Haruki should pair up…but maybe I’m just going nuts with the shipper glasses here.

“You’re going to have to do something about that soon.”

Aye…I relate, Mafuyu. When you’re younger, you can beg your parents for money, but equipment, books etc. really costs some hard cash. I remember having to go to Hong Kong to find a pearl pink metronome on the cheap…the poor thing isn’t getting much use now. (But still, I think the more I watch and see Haruki in action, the more I like him. Not necessarily as a husbando, but more in the sense of that one cool dude you gravitate towards.)

It randomly cut to Salon Harusame…don’t tell me this is how Haruki gets his money???

I think the comment that said “lolol” actually had 超 in front of it, so that would be “super lololol” or, in my personal way of saying it, “major lololol”.

Oh, so that’s what was in the OP!

I swear Uesama (LOL) should just get a job as a guitar tutor to little kids…well, that would work if he were in college/uni, maybe.

Hey, a girl! Didn’t expect one in a BL work…(LOL, my standards are so low for BL/yaoi, eh?)

Hmm…I get the feeling amateurs get their hands on acoustic models instead. I know a guitar player, y’know (although again, that doesn’t mean I know the first thing about playing a guitar).

I love how the show turned green all of a sudden. The colours match the mood, basically.

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This episode’s titlecard only has a wave pattern…I probably know what the pattern is called, but I’ve…probably forgotten that name.

Hey, a Demon Slayer girl! (My standards seem to have been lowered in regards to seeing gals in leading or even supporting roles…It’s more acceptable for Demon Slayer, given its historical setting, but still, how sad it is to not see many girls…)

(TW: abuse) Why…for some reason, this feels like an abusive household, specifically where the father does evil things to the mother…but this time, the son’s part of the problem.

I find it funny Zenitsu just calls Inosuke “Wild Boar”. To be fair though, I don’t think Inosuke introduced himself to Zenitsu, way back when they were meant to.

This scene where Zenitsu is crying and has his back turned to the “camera”…they clearly used a CGI model for him.

It’s a BODY! Holy s(BLEEP)!

“Chu-Chu chuuuuun!” Oh my glob, Ukogi is so adorable~!

Hey…where was Ukogi hiding before he chose to come out again?

Another CGI model when Zenitsu walks away from the camera. It’s so dark, nobody can see Ukogi…I don’t think he has a CGI model and that’s good.

I had a weird thought, but…I think Tanjiro would be a good breakdancer, if he were living in 2019.

Inosuke, you did it! But I wonder if those stats are correct and Inosuke’s going to call his name properly at climactic moments…?

Cop Craft 3

Brother Kenny…you’re just lewd.

“…O or V or A.” – Aside from OVAs, hmm…O would be (CENSORED), V I don’t know about and A…I don’t know either, but I guess it’s (CENSORED).

Kei Manoba (sic).

Doreany seems to be humanity…Did they already introduce that? I forget.

This show looks pretty bad, but the story makes the stay worth it.