#midnight reaper

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Midnight Reaper

No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

Artist: Sidharth Chaturvedi TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

-Midnight Reaper

[savagebynaturecustoms]

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[islandfailure]

gwen and the buds back at home

[found-gremlin-fam]

For @neverniko101 's DTIYS

I had quite a bit of fun working on this, this is actually my first ever collaboration and dtiys, thank you so much everyone and remember to persist

- Overseer Snow

I really had a lot of fun doing this! Tbh, I think I enjoyed messing around with the brushes for Error's strings and Cross's pose the best lol

- Overseer Midnight

[midnightstarshadow]

I am writing a bitty fanfic, so I must write down all my headcanons so I don't forget

Most of these are copy-pasted from discord, cuz I was talking about them and realized they'd get buried there

In the bitty au, if you want to buy a bitty, you have to take a blood/magic test to see if you're compatible with the bitty

Since they feed off your magic and stuff

Or emotions for Dream and Nightmare bitties

I guess you'd have to take a personality test too, so they don't give you a Dream bitty if you're depressed

If you were to try to handle a bitty that didn't match with your magic/blood, it might kill the bitty or make you sick

Or both

So bitty caretakers (in stores) handle most bitties with thick gloves and bitties are fed with magic supplements if no one in the store is compatible with them

And also don't let you take the bitties from the store unless the person they're for is there

Karen can try shit, but she's getting a lifetime ban from all the stores if she does

If a bitty dies on a store's property, they get massive fines so they really don't fuck around

It's another story with the illegal shops, obviously

They don't do deliveries because that's too much uncertainty and a bitty might die on the way, which means more fines

Like I said before, you have to come in person to the store and pick them up

I'm going with the headcanon that when bitties end up at people's doorstep in a box in all those Wattpad fanfics, it's cuz their previous owner got fed up/realized they couldn't afford to keep up with their care and dropped them off in front of a random house

Bitties are made from small shards of souls

Geno already has a small soul shard, so Geno bitties are very unstable

Like, they need constant care unstable

They get the shards originally with Sanses that ended up in the void (since in canon, if you get voided, you get split across the timeline and I'm going with the assumption that the voids of all AUs/timelines are connected)

Dream, Nightmare, Reaper, and Error bitties are from other multiverses that died/got voided, although in certain multiverses if one of them died, you'd get bitties directly from their soul shards in your multiverse, which is super fun for people who knew them (/sarcasm)

Ink bitties are made when the manufacturers fuck up and accidentally destroy the soul shards of other bitties

They're still alive so the manufacturers figured it'd be fine to sell them in shops

...I think I covered all I need to, but if I missed something, send me an ask and I'll clarify

[polycraftory]

Meghan discusses some of her favorite queer and polyamorous romance books! Since she mostly reads series, she gives overviews / recs for four series that she's (mostly) read this year: Reaper Series by Rin Chupeco, The Last Binding by Freya Marske, Sex Wizards by Alethea Faust, and the Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert.

If you want to read Meghan's book reviews, you can check out their Storygraph account. They have reviews for most of these books on there already (and if they don't have one up for one of the older books, feel free to put in a request and they'll post one)!

This video was too powerful to upload directly to Tumblr, so we've brought it over from Youtube so it'd still be play-able right here.

[aseuki]

Punches out Phemus's Gijinka design because it was practically inevitable at this point--

Don't be fooled by her mysterious look she's still just as silly as always asdkfjn

[visd3stele]

there's always a show of humanity in the arena. the Games were elevated on the basis that humans are vile and will turn to being predatory animals capable of doing anything to defend themselves if cornered and threatened (it's the lesson dr. Gaul gives Coryo when she sends him after Sejeanus).

but, in all Games we've seen so far, there are proves against it. first, Katniss sings to Rue and makes her a bed of flowers, defying the Capitol. she refuses to kill untill she has to and defies the Capitol again by choosing death over killing Peeta. then Reaper tears down the flag and makes a graveyard for the fallen tributes out of it, a blanket to trade for food, a cape to show his defiance of the Capitol. Lucy Gray too decides to flip the finger on dr. gaul's believes. she stays with Jessup, singing to him, closing his eyes, lulling him to the sleep of death. she sings to the Capitol while snakes climb her body, sending a message of rebellion. they can't tame her. they can kill her bldy, but not her spirit. nor Katniss', nor Reaper's.

[stealingpotatoes]

painted some deathloop style posters for my ocs!

(commission info // kofi)

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[eziojensenthe3rd]

Midnight Gaming: Ancient Egyptian Sleep Aid! How to handle your inner and outer demons through healthy sleep habits and overwhelming violence!

Hey all, happy new year and all that jazz. 2024 was only slightly better than 23 and hopefully 2025 ends up being better than how it appears. I suppose since this is the first MG post of the year, I feel its only appropiate to dedicate the news segment to an explanation. And hey in return you'll get 4, thats right, 4 games I had played past midnight during the december break.

So Midnight Gaming is a series born out of a strange coincidence in 2024. One night I played Crime Boss Rockay City and decided to check twitter a bit before heading to bed when news broke of trump having been shot at. I thought it was just an isolated incident and went on my merry way until the next event.

Another day, I played Fallout 76 past midnight, checked socials again and lo and behold, biden caught covid. Ok so 2 times thats happened, nothing to make a big deal of. Mostly just enough to make a doofensmirtz meme out of but surely it wont happen a third time.

Later on another day, I played Divinity Original Sin past midnight, checked socials and wouldnt you know it, biden stepped down and kamala replaced him in the presidential running. So now I have a thrice coincidence where I've played a game past midnight only for some major event to have happened. Hell later after I started this series, I played Deathspank past midnight, right as the stock market crashed. Seems like a good time as any to start a blog series intent on recreating those conditions.

Best way I can describe this series is that of a guy sitting by himself at the corner of a bustling bar, drunkenly rambling to himself about video game media and current events and maybe occasionally says some compelling shit. Thats pretty much it. As for what this series is to me, its mainly a means for me to get back into writing and creating stuff again since I used to do that in my early teens before burning out and just stopping.... so now Im finally trying to get myself back into that with this series, but it also helps push me into playing more games instead of just browsing youtube and social media, try and get into the backlog a bit.

I usually pick a game to play to or past the stroke of midnight, look up any major events or news, mostly gaming related, and then write about them the next day. Thats the gist of this series.

Honestly when it comes to opinion based thinkpieces about video games, theres bound to be a risk of someone getting irate over what I said. Sometimes its entirely my fault and I wouldnt mind the criticism, hell its why I usually ask for feedback at the end of these. But other times.... look, there are people who spend their working days writing articles with clickbait headlines, with paragraphs of what are arguably just expanded hot takes, who collect a paycheck at the end of the end of the week.

I dont get paid to do this, Im doing this solely for the love of the game. So if I say an opinion that you disagree with please understand that I am sorry, it will happen again.

Of course thats assuming anyone reads this....

ANYWAYS GAMES NOW

First up is Nightmare Reaper which is a rougelike fp... get back here. Yeah I get a lot of people might be feeling a bit of roguelike fatigue nowadays but this game is definatly worth checking out, assuming you havent already. Ypu're a mental patient in a asylum, go to sleep and murder your inner demons through various enviroment with any weapons you find in there. The combat feels pretty damn punchy with all the weapons you come across being effective and varied between either melee weapons, conventional firearms, explosives or even just magic.

Alot of the guns do seem to follow the borderlands formula of having different stats depending on the item rarity, with prefixes such as leech chance, reload speed, magazine size and of course the lovely random projectile which changes what your weapon shoots to one of several different projectile types which could either be plasma balls, ice shards, knives or in my case.... vegetables. Most of the time I just get vegetables as the projectile.

Of course you'd need to scour the map to kill every enemy, find every secret and collect every treasure (which can be irritating when you're stuck on a level looking for that crack in the wall hiding a secret) so you can get all the gold bonuses for completing them per level so you can use them to buy upgrades in an upgrade screen that has you play a super mario bros like game to get the upgrades. You use the gold to enter a level, complete the level and you get the upgrade. Its how you're going to unlock the double jump and dash abilities as well as your typical upgrades like max health and ammo counts.

You'll also unlock two other upgrade minigames with their own unique currencies, the topaz game being a pokemon game with pills that act as modifiers with drawbacks and the jade minigame which is a space shooter with the jade being gained from playing the arena gamemode accessed via a different bed. You can thankfully turn the minigames off if you dont want to bother with them and just buy the upgrades outright. Overall good game, made it to the end

So next up is Powerslave Exhumed, a remaster of the saturn/ps1 version of Powerslave that has been released on most consoles. If you didnt know already, there were two versions of Powerslave with the pc version being a build engine boomer shooter while the console version was more akin to a metroidvania with you collecting upgrades and backtracking to earlier levels to get past obstacles you didnt had the right item.

You know a game aint fucking around when it throws an m60 light machine gun as the 2nd weapon you find. Anyways aliens are invading egypt, the spirit of ramses offers some help and guidance as you travel to a number of locations, lighting up bugs, mummies and catgirls as you look around for the next item that lets you progress, as well as any transmitter pieces if you want that good ending.

The nightdive port does work fairly well, though in fairness I havent really played powerslave before so if there were changes or differences, im afraid I wouldnt notice. I can however say that I played this first on the easy skill to gauge the difficulty before bumping it up on hard and it definatly feels like a jump since not only do you face more enemies, there attacks do hurt a bit more. A lot of moments in my session resulted in me having low health, trying to find jars in the hopes they drop health power and of course dealing with the damn mummies who can't seem to decide whether their skull projectiles are homing or not. Sometimes they go forwards into a wall, sometimes they chase me with a bit more efficiency than doot skeletons rockets from doom.

From what I played so far, Its a neat lil game and I like the egypt locales and themes, especially since you dont end up in only desert temples and tombs. Theres some abandoned mines, a swamp, a lava cave zone and of course theres the lands that the aliens terraformed that you can go to near the end. One major complaint though, whoever made it so that the breakable jars can sometimes explode when broken, sending out exploding snakes that can damage or outright kill me when I was needing health or weapon power?

I hope you stub your toe. Anyways next game.

I played Blood West back when it was in early access and enjoyed it for what it offered. The 1st act where you rise as an undead cowboy in a wild west teeming with monsters and cryptids is.... well not really original. There are several other bits of media that cover a weird west kinda vibe, heck there's even a game called that made by ex-arkane devs. But were not gonna critique this on originality, just on what it does and if its fun. And what it does is pretty good and is pretty fun.

For one, stealth is prioritised heavily since a lot of enemies can either close the distance to maul, shoot at you with firearms and spells or a mixture of both and the rusty revolver you find early on wont do much to stop them unless you aim for the head, so you better do your best to sneak past them or find better equipment.... or just whack em up the head with an axe when they aint looking.

Yeah I havent really done a proper melee build in Blood West but you could handle a lot of early game enemies with just a rusty axe and some stealth so you can sneak attack some enemies. Heck if you pick the perk that improves your stealth as well as save up cash to buy the bone knife from the shaman early on, you can sneak around and backstab a good amount of threats like a spy from Team Fortress 2 doing a montage for his texas audience.

Doing a proper melee build would be neat to do since theres a good number of skills that work with it such as improving swing speed and doing more damage along with a berserker skill that lets you get health back with melee kills. Mostly I try to stick with the bow for early game before moving towards the sawn off shotgun and lever action rifle, though I mostly just use melee anyway to save on ammo. Hmmm.... I should actually get around to doing that run huh?

Anyways blood west is good, they have the VA for Garrat from the thief series voicing the cowboy, used to be a guy called Jake "the voice" or whatever but they replaced him with Nick Valentine. Also a dlc released recently for this called dead mans promise that has the Shadowman VA in it. Go play it.

So now, finally, we are at our final game for this 2025 start for Midnight Gaming and its a game I've been playing a lot past midnight, all night in fact. From 2024. Its pokemon sleep.

Given the formula I've settled for this series, sleep is gonna be something I have to balance to make sure I dont burnout again while doing this. So I figured I try to use a sleep app to help with that.... and I have a bit of history with Pokemon given I played a lot of blue on gameboy... I was pretty into pokemon as a kid to be honest. The games, the show, the films, the card game, nearly all of it at the time.

So I decided to go with Pokemon Sleep to try and build a healthy sleep schedule via means of bulking up a snorlax with berries and meals. And sleeping, that too is involved. You basically catch some pokemon by feeding them biscuits before enlisting them into indentured servitude to gather berries and ingredients while you feed them candy to make them stronger and get better helpers in your weekly sleep campaign.

So important thing I found from online reasearch early on was that getting a pokemon with the main skill Energy for Everyone gives them a chance to recover some energy for all your helpers, making them perform better throughout the day. Of course its best if the pokemon has a nature that boosts main skill chance as well as sub skills that boost the chance of an activation or a double activatiob, that way you can proc the skill and keep your "helpers" topped up like a living energy drink.

Igglypuff is a good pokemon to catch early on since they have the skill, evolving takes less resources and every evolution levels the pokemons main skill up by one, meaning getting a pokemon that you can evolve 2 or 3 times means you can level their main skill up a bit. Me though I went with a sylveon since they're apparently good. Though it takes a bit to get one. You need an eevee along with 80 eevee candies and about 150 hours of sleep logged with the eevee you want to level in your party. At the very least, I have them now and they have a good nature thats boosts chance along with chance boosting skills, so they occasionally trigger a double skill activation which raises the teams energy by a lot.

And I named them Astolfo. You might say its because they're both pink and you'd be half right.... buuuutttt its also because they remind me of a can of monster energy, so I named em after a character related to that drink thanks to a.....certain......picture.

If you know, you know.

Biggest complaint about Pokemon Sleep is that I have never gotten to track my sleep at all. The hours were saved but any other information beyond that is gone, an error that says they couldn't track my sleep info so I just get a balanced sleep type each time and left to go my merry way since the sleep points, pokemon attracting and other stuff still works.

Also the diets you feed your weekly snorlax are a bit strange. Theres three categories of recipes you can make that your snorlax will want to eat and only eat for their daily meals. Each week a different snorlax will have a different type so you end up cooking those foods for them. First off, Curries and Stews? Makes sense, you can build a decent diet out of that, I think. Salads? Again fine, pretty healthy though, since your aim is to bulk up your snorlax, there isnt very much calories that you can shove into them to fatten them up. And finally, Desserts and Drinks? Yeah... feed your Snorlax a breakfast of fizzy soda that sounds great and definatly not agonising on an empty stomach. Whats for dinner? A hot cup of milk, fuck you.

Its fine, Poke Sleep is fine. Add me on there so I could mooch candy from you.

So thats that. First post of 2025 and it was a big one. Hopefully I can get back to talking about one game and one bit of news for this series agaib and I hope to continue working on it. I generally want to do something that gets me creating something, while also pushing me to play more games. And if any these posts convince you to play any of the games I talked about, thats cool.

Anyways, thank you all SO much for reading this issue of Midnight Gaming. Feel free to leave feedback or game suggestions and I'll talk you all another time.

Ok you know what, it was this pic here and its comparing the size of the can to his co...

[kalechipslives]

A very happy new year to you all! May we find many new stories, and make many new friends.

[londonhalcyon]

I’ve been thinking about my WIPs and the future of this blog.

TLDR: 1) Nothing is changing drastically. 2) I’m still working on The Mad Witch. 3) I would like to begin a shift away from HP-related media.

I have multiple WIPs I’m chipping away at most of the time:

The Mad Witch: Temporarily stalled while I handle major life stuff (nothing bad, just a lot). The next chapter is in a tricky editing stage, and I don’t have the spoons to polish it into something passable enough to post. But no worries. This fic is my baby. I’m not going to drop my baby.

Rosemary Reaper: Rough draft is maybe halfway written—though it is truly, truly rough in a way TMW drafts can never be. When I don’t have the energy for TMW, I work on this fic since I can just write as poorly as I want. No one’s going to see the finished product for a long time, but I look forward to sharing it eventually.

“Writing on the Walls”: Anyone who’s been following me for a while knows I usually participate in a fandom event over the holidays. This year, in place of an HPHM event, I’m participating in the Fallout 4 Big Bang instead. That fic will be posted sometime in spring, so keep an eye out.

By Arrow, By Teeth: This is a new one—and an Arcane fic at that. Before you cry, “Oh no! She’s started another WIP!” I would like to clarify that I am planning one; I’m not writing it yet. As it stands, I won’t for a while. I don’t feel the need to rush, especially since I’m incredibly happy with how the series ended.

Which ties in with my next thoughts. For some time, I’ve been wrestling with how I might eventually shift my blog away from its association with HP-related media. I love The Mad Witch. I will finish it. But it’s become next to impossible to reconcile my love of the fic’s world with JKR’s ever worsening harm. After the fic wraps up, I’d like to branch in other directions.

I started the process a bit ago with Rosemary Reaper and my other Fallout fics, but those have their own separate blog, which doesn’t really affect this one. By Arrow, By Teeth is a nice opportunity to change that. I’ll continue to build its bare, bullet-pointed bones, plotting it out in as much detail as my master’s thesis, so that when I finally do write it, I can do so at the drop of a hat. The hat in this case being the end of TMW.

That being said, there’s still ~20 chapters left in TMW, so change is still a ways away. When it eventually does happen, though, I hope you’ll consider sticking around. I have some unabashedly queer projects in the works that you might just enjoy.