#monty's brain bug

[m0ntylee]

Oc's for a comic I have in the works! These are HEAVILY based off black and white universal monster films! And I plan on following the stereotype story telling cause well.. it's strictly for fun! ofc it will have my own twists and takes but anyway! I shall place these here! I will add more lore and character details as I go! (if anyone has questions I will answer them!)

[goodolddumbbanana]

Evil Earth is hot. I repeat, failure manic power hungry girl is hotttttt. Girl seems like about to have a breakdown, and god I want to know everything about her dimension!!!

Like what is her relationship with everyone???

Monty loves her surely (simp) but she seems to get disgusted by that, like treating a bug. They are not actually lovers.

And Moon and Lunar?? Moon seems completely under her palm, also Lunar and the rest of the family.

But Lunar also betrayed her multiple times, snap out of the brainwashed and switching sides to the rebellions, which Moon didn't do that, because if the rebellion has Moon on their sides, Earth will already fail.

And did she reprogrammed her father???? Damn that cold!!! And hot! Babygirl now is just a brain, a big fat silly brain but also a brain. Lol. He deserves it.

Make me question when she snapped? Is this when Solar dies? And also, do they have Solar? A jack? A Dazzle??? A nexus? Did this dimension Sun kill Moon or Nexus too?

And I am really interested in her relationship with Sun. Like, Moon and Lunar are smart and powerful, also with the rest of the family, he totally can use the heck out of them.

But Sun? Sun is not smart. At least not like the level of Moon or Monty or Creator.

Why does she keep Sun? Why does she trust him and put him at such a high level? And why do we rarely see her Sun? We had heard Moon's talk, we had met Monty, we knew about Lunar and even Creator. But Sun? Nope, not a single news.

Is it because Sun is loyal? Is it because Sun is the first person she has helped, maybe even in this dimension too?

Makes me wonder for the angst effects, when all things fall down, will anyone willingly stay with Earth?

Moon and Monty and Lunar are cold headed, they may be the one who fights against her. But Sun, what will he do?

I don't know,... I am still obsessed about the pact bond and how Earth also Sun promised will never be betrayed or hurt each other. Lol angst idea am I right

[petvampire]

I’ve got a lot of prompts lined up and chapters to complete, but my brain said ‘WRITE SOMETHING SOFT AND FLUFFY’ and you know what. We all deserve it. 🤣

So: there is a new litter of kittens in Port Townsend. Self indulgent fluff, very safe for work. Also for the purposes of this, cats can interact with ghosts like they’re solid.

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There’s a new litter of kittens in Port Townsend.

It’s not at all unusual for the Cat King to dote on his newly-born subjects, and they tend to stay within the cannery until they’re grown enough to protect themselves. The cats and their King care for them, regardless of where they came from, whether they’re the offspring of pampered house pets or the scrappiest street cats who prowl the docks.

And with the new frequency of the Dead Boy Detective Agency’s presence at the cannery, they’ve somehow gotten roped into caretaker duties as well.

Niko dove in practically without being asked, cooing over the kittens the moment she saw them. Crystal made some attempt to appear stoic, but she softened quickly - as did Edwin, despite his numerous arguments to the contrary. Charles is happily along for the ride, and since Monty’s been there since the litter was born anyway, he’s already a favorite among the kittens, just as he is among the other cats of the town.

The Cat King will admit, he’s not surprised when each of them has a kitten take a particular shine to him, though he’s terribly amused at how it plays out.

A tiny grey beast haunts Monty’s heels, practically climbing his jeans whenever he stops moving, demanding attention and affection. He’s used to it; he’s helped with several of the litters born since he was turned human again, and most of them don’t even notice the crow-scent on him when they’re that young.

Niko dotes on the runt of the litter, carefully nursing her through ill health until she begins to improve and grow, catching up with her siblings. Pure white and delicate, she starts out shy and gradually grows bolder - much like the girl herself. The dandelion sprites are actually nice to the kitten, to everyone’s surprise, largely because she’s the only one of the litter who has not once tried to eat them.

Crystal has a pair pacing her every move, a calico brother and sister who keep bringing her ‘gifts’ in the form of random leaves, scraps of yarn or destroyed toys, and the occasional dead bug. She wrinkles her nose at the latter, but still pets and praises the kittens, and they look at her with eyes too sharp, too smart for their own good, already bidding fair to be among the Cat King’s sharpest subjects.

He suppresses a laugh when the sole orange kitten claims Charles as his own, because - well, honestly. He’s a bundle of fur and chaos, perches on the ghost’s shoulder like a parrot half the time, making his meowed opinions known loudly and often. Charles will complain half-heartedly from time to time, but he spoils the hell out of the kitten, playing and petting.

Edwin has a sleek black cat who resembles the Cat King’s most recent form writ small, and whose attachment to the ghost seems rather similar. He constantly wants to be close, curling himself in Edwin’s jacket to sleep, tiny enough to tuck himself into the ghost’s coat pocket so he can’t be left behind. He’s ended up at the agency more than once out of sheer refusal to leave Edwin’s side, digging tiny claws into the ghostly fabric and not letting go.

The Night Nurse protests the slowdown on case work while they’re tending to the kittens, but melts the second she sees them, though she tries very hard not to show it. She supposes the agency can take a bit of a break for a while, though they’re not entirely off the job. Just… indulging these beasts while they grow.

If she happens to be making small changes to the office just in case some of these cats end up permanent residents, well, that’s her business.

[drconstellation]

Once and Future Royalty

Just, stay with me on this one. I know its going to look crazy at the start, but trust me, I know where I'm going.

It all started with the 537AD scene in Wessex in the opening montage of "Hard Times," S1E3. Yeah, the one where Aziraphale is supposed to be a knight of the Round Table and Crowley is role-playing the Black Knight, and they are both so super-squeaky shiny clean - not a speck of dirt or mud on them. wtf! It looks out of place, unrealistic, and was bugging the crap out of me, like a stone in your shoe. It just didn't fit. I mean, why put a myth, a legend, into that sequence? Oh, OK, yeah, the preceding stories from the Bible, like the Garden of Eden and the Flood, aren't "myths" as well, you say? Hmm. In the context of the Good Omens AU, being a biblical based story, they belong there far more than the legend of King Arthur.

King Arthur, who supposedly united Britain under his rule during the late 5th century and early 6th century, was shown to have the divine right to rule by wielding the mighty sword Excalibur. Some stories tell of Arthur pulling Excalibur from a stone. Some tell of him receiving Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake. Either way, it was bestowed upon him by divine grace. Despite his triumph in battle, he left no heirs, as his queen, the fair Guinevere, was barren. She had a long-running love affair with the greatest knight of the court, Sir Lancelot, but despite this being an open secret in court Arthur would not put her aside. The knights of the Round Table in the court of Camelot were near-paragons of Christian virtue, and there are many tales of their search for the Holy Grail, the cup from the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.

In the end, mortally wounded in battle, Arthur was taken away for healing, and never seen again. It was said he would return when Britain was at it most direst hour to save the day once more. A "messianic" return.

The Once and Future King.

Now, I'm no Arthurian novice; I drank up all of T. H. White as a teenager, read the Dark is Rising multiple times, Marion Zimmer Bradley's interpretation and what ever else I could lay my hands on for a good couple of decades. And there is LOTS of King Arthur stuff around. You are not left wanting for anything new to read or consume. And I'll bet there are a fair few of you also out there who know a quite bit about the legend as well. Oh, and I can't tell you how many times I have watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I still walk around quoting it day-to-day, like the good little Gen-Xer I am, having grown up on that stuff. So I really should have listened to my intuition when bits of Monty Python kept popping up in my brain in response to other parts of GO I was thinking about. (Staaay, I said, stay with me here....)

I kept chewing away furiously on the Wessex problem, growling in feral frustration at it, but also kept reading and sorting out some other ideas and metas at the same time. Eventually I found the key in a tiny little post, about a small detail in the 1941 Blitz episode S2E4, of all places. I wanted to slap myself with how much was staring me in the face so obviously once the door opened. And the damn beauty of it is, that I already written about some it, out of context, without knowing the why.

OK. Where to start this journey...hmmm, back to Monty Python, because, guess what - the Wessex scene is actually riffing off one the more famous skits out the the Holy Grail. The scene is a masterpiece of political satire, from start to finish, but the relevant part here is this sequence:

In case you missed the salient points: Arthur claims he is king by divine providence, because he was given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake. Dennis the peasant protests this waterlogged method of determination, mentioning ponds, watery tarts and a moistened... well, I hope you get the idea about where this is going.

Meanwhile, in 537AD, Wessex, as the mist swirls around them:

"It is a bit damp," complains a shiny silver Aziraphale.

Yes, Excalibur would be a bit damp after it emerged from the Lake. (vidavalor! Get your mind out of the gutter! I'm trying to have a serious discussion here! Please! And I wasn't even going to go anywhere near what the sword in the stone is really meant to be referring to...it's not even relevant to the discussion at hand, I swear! Well, there is going to be sexual relations mentioned but - oh, never mind...)

Right. Where were we. Lets leave those super-clean elite pretendy knights to swim off through the swirling mist back to their dry homes to write and file reports to head office, along with Patsy and the hired Igors, and Dennis can keep playing in his lovely muddy filth after he finishes protesting being repressed by the divinely-deluded Arthur. I've got a bit more to say about what Aziraphale and Crowley might represent here later but you need some more context first, so lets move on. I just needed to show you the first bit so you can see the Arthurian theme stretches across both S1 and S2, and will likely appear in S3 as well. More about that towards the end.

Ah, before I forget...another ref from the Holy Grail we need to cover:

This GIF, unfortunately, doesn't have the full exchange between the peasants, which is this:

P1: "Who's that then?" P2: "I don't know. Must be a king." P1: "How can you tell?" P2: "Because he doesn't have any shit on him."

Ah. Er. OH!

Have you made the connection?

Who have I been emphasizing as being unusually clean in their Arthurian setting? That's right, Aziraphale and Crowley.

What's this implying? That they are royalty. Celestial royalty. Maybe not kings, but how about princes? You know how we've been discussing whether Crowley was a once at least an Archangel, and there is even a hint that he was a fallen prince of Heaven given during the replay of Gabriel's trial? (Not the prince, but a prince - a seraphim) And that Aziraphale may have once been Raphael, and may be again in the future? Once and future royalty. To me it adds weight to the past discussion, and helps to explain the assumed authority expressed in these two scenes here: On the left, Aziraphale takes control inside the book shop as the angels and demons argue who is going to punish Gabriel and Beelzebub (finally found it after several months!) and on the right, Crowley is shouting at the assembling demons in the street that they are "out of order."

Onward, Patsy. (I hope you're still with me.)

1941, the Blitz part 2, minisode.

We've found Excalibur! On to Camelot!

[Edit note: I've added a few GIFs and screen shots into the sequence of parallels above because I was thinking over a few things since I posted and felt this actually sat better. To try and explain, as they don't exactly match as I would like, in the Holy Grail movie, King Arthur and the knights he has gathered rock up at the foot of Camelot and gaze up in awe at it. "Camelot!" Arthur declares to the party. "Camelot!" Galahad echoes in excitement. And a third "Camelot!" comes from Lancelot. What do we get in GO? Aziraphale leaps out of the Bentley (Crowley's black horse) and declares "The theater! Sophocles! Shakespeare!" I swear, if you put the two side by side, they would match. It's not just a reminder of how much time Aziraphale has seen pass by, or that we are seeing a tragedy play out. But damn it, I could so just see Aziraphale attending a Sophocles performance in Athens back in the day...]

Camelot was King Arthur's castle and home of his court. In S2 of GO the Windmill Theater is established as our court of Camelot where our 1941 Blitz-era Arthurian drama is to play out, involving Furfur and the zombies.

Yes, poor old Furfur. Two's company, three's a crowd, as they say. Now we know we're in Camelot, we need to be reminded of the central tragedy of the Arthurian story, that ultimately led to the golden kingdom's fall. Lady Guinevere, Arthur's queen, famously loved Sir Lancelot, and the two were passionate lovers. It was essentially a love-triangle at the top, with Arthur being jilted, but he wouldn't/couldn't discard his queen. Where do we see this playing out in 1941?

Furfur, pleased with himself for catching an angel and a demon in the act of consorting together (with the help of the zombies,) barges into the backstage dressing room, and confronts the lovers with their crime. But who is playing who in the Arthurian love triangle? I would say Furfur is clearly caught in the role of Arthur here. Consider the following exchange:

FURFUR: Hmm, well, well, well… What have we here? AZIRAPHALE: Sorry, have we met? FURFUR: Oh, no, you never had the pleasure, but… we have, haven't we? CROWLEY: Have we? FURFUR: What do you mean "have we?" You know we have. We were in the same legion. Just before the Fall. Doing dubious battle on the plains of Heaven. Remember? CROWLEY: I remember going into battle, I don't remember being there with you. Sorry. FURFUR: I was right next to you. We did loads together. You use to jump on me back, little monkey in the waistcoat. Anyway, whether you do or whether you don't, it doesn't matter. I'm here to inform you, as a representative of the Higher Powers of Hell, that you, Crowley, are in breach of the Infernal Code. Consulting and collaborating with an angel, Fell the Marvelous, aka… [opens book] Azirapalala. Azirapapap. Aziphapalala. AZIRAPHALE: [annoyed] Aziraphale

Furfur claims a past intimate relationship with Crowley, which Crowley spurns offhandedly. Crowley is playing Guinevere here, jilting Furfur/Arthur, which leaves the demon-smiting Aziraphale standing in for the handsome hero Lancelot (with his French connections, no less), and doesn't he make us weak at the knees when he drops his voice an octave in dominating disgust. (Is it suddenly getting hot in here...? Phew!)

Interestingly, looking back in S1 at 537AD Wessex, though, I would say that Crowley was Lancelot as the Black Knight, a role that Lancelot sometimes played in the legends, and Aziraphale would then be the fair maiden Guinevere. It certainly plays into Crowley's long term role of playing the knight who comes to the rescue of Aziraphale's princess in distress. Excalibur was no where in sight, perhaps still beneath the waters of the lake. Nor Arthur. Perhaps it was still too early in the story then...

I had originally suggested in my very first post that Furfur was given a stag as his demon avatar because he was wearing horns for being cuckolded by Crowley. But I wasn't quite thinking about it in context with the Arthurian legend! The stag is also often associated with royalty, plus while wandering around the medieval bestiary website that someone linked to, it interestingly notes that the enemy of the snake is the stag and the stork (Shax's avatar.) Ah ha!

So how can we extrapolate this knowledge into a possible appearance of the Arthurian theme in S3?

Will we see the love triangle of Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot come back into play and cause more chaos? I'm wondering if it might have something to do with the Fall.

Or will our lovers bring down a divinely-appointed ruler via their committed behind-the-back defiance of expected propriety?

Will Excalibur appear from beneath the waters, perhaps in another form, to declare a new king?

Could it even be a combination Jesus/Arthur, King of the World, returned? And they turn out to be a very naughty boy, disappearing into the night clubs of Times Square, New York, and that's how they lose him? (Social media viral sensation, anyone?)

I wouldn't be half-surprised if Greasy Johnson's name turns out to be Arthur, actually.

And no, I haven't forgotten that Adam's dad was named Arthur as well.

Bring on S3!

**Bonus**

If you've made it this far and you're thinking:

Let me leave you with this last connection.

In the back stage change room, remember Furfur delivers these lines:

FURFUR: What do you mean "have we?" You know we have. We were in the same legion. Just before the Fall. Doing dubious battle on the plains of Heaven. Remember?

On the first level, he is referring the Great War in the Good Omens AU.

On the second level, Furfur is paraphrasing Milton's Paradise Lost.

On a third level, I can (and will in a future meta) connect this back to the training initiative paintball fight at Tadfield Manor in S1.

And even deeper on a fourth level, if you do know the Holy Grail movie well, you'll remember there is an odd little subplot in it, that infers that the whole King Arthur and his knights thing is merely a full-on violent cosplay that is murderously rampaging across the countryside in the present day with the police in hot pursuit. It's a strange juxtaposition between reality and dream, and you aren't quite sure what it is real or not. The ending is bizarrely and abruptly surreal as the two story lines collide in the heat of battle, as the police turn up and arrest the combatants. A bit like this:

[girl-in-a-bubbl3]

Glamrock Bonnie(FNAF) x Reader Part 8

Not enough sassy Bonnie fanfic so here we go...I'll try to upload at least once a week.

Notes:

AU Fanfic/NonCanon

Bonnie is terrible but he likes you

5 greenrooms on RSR (we include Monty)

Sun/Moon are the same animatronic

Moon has a lil touch of the virus

Will probably be some spicy parts so...18+

Also just using the gif

After talking to Sun for a few hours, your brain was completely frazzled but also yearning for so much more information.

First of all, Sun and Moon both were an extremely interesting animatronic. Truly an engineering marvel, honestly. Apparently, when the lights went out, they designed Sun in a way where he turned into a completely different animatronic, that being Moon. It all made sense but you never knew they were even remotely designed like that. It was fascinating. You also learned that they could communicate with each other inside of their head. So the times Sun was staring in the distance... he was actually having a side conversation.

Secondly, Moon did have a virus. It wasn't as bad as it used to be, but Moon was still pretty unpredictable around people. Sun did make it seem like Moon liked the virus. It seemed to give him more freedom, the side effect being it also made him very volatile in certain situations. You definitely wanted to take a look into that but Sun made it pretty clear that Moon said it was off limits.

Sun didn't understand why Moon did what he did with you, though. He wouldn't answer his questions or give him his thoughts or feelings. When speaking about you, Moon would shut down completely. You and Sun were both perplexed by that.

You asked Sun if Moon had ever actually hurt anyone before and he didn't want to talk about it so you assumed that something happened. You made a note to ask Freddy about that too.

Sun did let you scan him and, surprisingly, there was nothing wrong with his code. No virus, no bugs. Everything perfectly normal. Your brain was on fire with the need to keep looking and learning how one was effected but the other wasn't but you didn't want to overwhelm Sun.

You really liked Sun. And Moon, too.

Looking down at your Fazwatch, you noticed it was now around 4 am. You needed your last few hours to check up on the Glamrocks one last time before you had to leave. You completely forgot to scan them while bowling and you figured they purposefully didn't remind you.

"Alright Sunny, I guess I'll head out now."

"Oh do you have to?! I was having so much fun!" While having your talks, you both had started coloring and making crafts to take the pressure off of Sun. It was fun. And you wish you could stay and just play with the glitter glue and pipe cleaners.

"Unfortunately, I do. But I really enjoyed our time together! And Moon, too, I really enjoyed meeting him. Even though he wanted to be all grab-by and mysterious." You chuckled and rubbed your neck, thinking of his grip. Lazily wondering how tight it could get while still being comfortable...

What is happening with me lately?

You looked up and saw Sun staring at you in what looked like...shock? "Sunny? You okay?"

"You like...Moon?"

"I do. He's the other part of you. You like him and I trust your judgment so..."

Sun's voice got very quiet and his smile grew wide and very warm. You heard his fans start to whir loudly. You made another note to ask Freddy what that could mean.

"Thank you, Sunflower. We're both very happy to be working with you."

"Same here, Sunshine. And tell Moon that I want more time soon but I expect better behavior."

Sun's eyes glazed over for a moment and then he gasped, whispering to himself quickly. "Moon I will not say that!"

You leaned over the table and poked Sun on the shoulder. "I want to know!"

Sun started chuckling nervously and stood up fast, skipping around the table. "Time's ticking! Better get going to the others!"

Sun scooped you up in another big hug and spun you around while gently setting you back down and ushering you towards the daycare exit.

"You can't keep hiding things from me, you know. I'm going to start bugging you eventually!"

You looked back at Sun when you were almost through the big, wooden doors. His genuine smile was back on his face as he stared down at you.

"I know... but Moon said we can't reveal everything all at once! Ruins the 'mystery'" Sun wiggled his fingers at you, "See ya Sunshine!"

Sun rapidly closed the daycare doors while giving you a big wave before you could get out another sentence. You were left staring at the locked exit in stunned silence. Were they teasing you?

You couldn't help but walk away with a shy smile on your face. You were really enjoying your job and the people you were going to be working with.

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You were almost out of breath when you made it to Rockstar Row. You really needed to work on your cardio...

You approached the familiar door with the teal light and yellow star on the door. You were actually pretty excited to see Bonnie tonight. Before you even knocked on the door, it slid open and in front of you was the big bunny himself.

He looked down at you with a lazy expression before you saw his mouth pull up into a little smirk. "Can't stay away, can you Peeps?"

You rolled your eyes and crossed your arms but couldn't help yourself from breaking out into a big grin. "You're just so charming I don't know what I would do without all of your lively remarks."

Bonnie chuckled and moved to let you in. "Come on, before I change my mind and shut the door on you."

You shook your head and walked past him. You had seen his room recently. When you saw it last, it was an absolute disaster. Things were broken, stuff was everywhere, etc. But looking around the room now, everything was so...clean. It looked like Bonnie had organized and replaced (or at least tried to fix) the furniture that was broken.

It was nice.

"Wow, you really cleaned up in here."

Bonnie narrowed his eyes at you. "And how do you know that?"

You shrugged and started taking out your tablet. "I saw it when I was looking for you guys earlier."

"I didn't answer so you just welcomed yourself into my room?"

You froze and turned to look at him. "I wanted to make sure you were okay. Drop the attitude."

You noticed the tip of his ear twitch. He was quiet for a moment before grumbling to himself and heading to the couch to sit for the scan.

"What took you so long in the daycare anyway?" Bonnie asked as you started the scan.

"I was talking to Sun. And I met Moon."

Bonnie made a noise like he was choking. "You did what?!"

Bonnie whipped around and grabbed your wrists, yanking you closer to him. He started doing his own little scan of your body until he froze when he looked at the mark that was left on your neck.

Immediately Bonnie's face went from shock to anger, extreme anger.

"That son-of-a-bitch."

Bonnie ripped the wires out, stopping the scan, as he proceeded to race out of his room, presumably towards the daycare.

"Bonnie, no!!"

You started running after him, panic settling in.

Oh no no no.

To be continued...

Authors notes:

Kind of a short chapter to transition into some...stuff lol. What's going to happen between Bonnie and Sun/Moon? o.o So sorry for the suuuuper slow burn. Creating a foundation is so tedious but I want to make sure that's something I don't skip. I want to do a spicy chapter soon so... stay tuned for that xD Much love guys! <3

[doofnoof]

OKAY SO. IMAGINE WITH ME IF YOU WILL. THAT YOU VISIT THE DRIVE-IN ALL THE TIME AND SUN AND MOON TAKE NOTICE AND DECIDE TO INVITE YOU TO HANG OUT AFTER-HOURS BECAUSE ALL THREE OF Y'ALL ARE LONELY. Sun likes to play rom-coms and Moon likes horror movies, slowly but surely y'all become friends and have scheduled movie nights that aren't technically allowed by Faz-Co but nobody snitches, they're just glad that Moon isn't ruining their own little not-quite-allowed dates anymore by being frightening and making sure everyone strictly adheres to the rules, as long as they let him pick the movie one night of the week. Both Sun and Moon try to make moves and it fails spectacularly (in their favor) (something the other animatronics very much enjoy watching. It's like a car crash and they can't look away.) Sun will do the ol' Yawn'n'Hug technique mid-movie, stretching his frankly slenderman-esque arms out and then throwing one around your shoulder nonchalantly as though that one move didn't almost fry his circuits from Nerves. He steals a jacket from lost and found so that if it ever gets chilly in your car he can offer it to you. He doesn't specify that it's a date, but with the way he keeps making big baby eyes at you whenever there's a romantic scene it's pretty obvious. Big Dork. Moon on the other hand forgoes the jacket technique and waits for something scary to happen on screen before pulling you close in a Mock-Comforting Gesture and wondering aloud if his choice in movie is simply "Too Scary For You," before hinting that maybe next time he'll pick a calmer movie, or even let you pick the next one yourself (only fair, since he picked the one you were currently watching and Sun had picked the movie last week), subtly tricking you into agreeing on another date while you're distracted by the panicked woman screaming bloody murder on-screen. He's not as handsy as Sun, but he gets a kick out of watching your eyes widen and your forehead slick with sweat as the slasher eventually catches the final girl at the climax of the film, and he'll keep you topped up on popcorn and fizzy-faz for the entire time. When it ends and it's time for you to head home, Moon is nothing less than a gentleman, making sure to open your door for you and offer a hand when you stand up to throw away your wrappers and popcorn bucket, folding his arm into your's Wizard Of Oz style as you stretch your legs. If you happen to notice that he slips another ticket (same time and place) into your pocket when he walks you back to your car you wouldn't say anything, especially not when there's a free movie involved. And if you call ahead next week to make sure your date is still on and hear Sun in the background scrambling to take the phone from Chica when he hears your voice on the other end (hard to miss when he's hollering "I'LL GET IT" and loudly skating into what sounds like the candy display stand and then the wall and then the cash register while Chica giggles into the receiver), No You Didn't <33

Hey Ghosti can I be mentally ill about your carhop au real quick?? 👉👈💦

Uh, sure? Just please don't hurt yourself!!

[rainrayne]

Hii kg ppl .. so yeah.. I have finally made a list of the vocaloid songs I associate with Kindergarten characters/I have an idea of an animatic for.

WARNING: there are some songs that features/talks about/mentions murder (and it's varies, like stabbing, beheading..etc.) and blood so please be warned for those if you want to watch them! I will mark the ones that has blood (in the og videos) with a star.

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1. Abnormality Dancin girl - Ted

2. Alice Human Of Sacrifice - Alice, Ron, Madison, Lily and Billy

3. Android Girl - Penny and Kidd (ft. Buggs) (Opposites attract)

4. Anonymous M (P) - Kidd and Penny

5. Bad girl online - Carla (ft. Penny, Lily, Cindy)

6. Bitter Choco Decoration - Ted and Felix

7. Bug - Jerome

8. Childish War - Ted and Felix

9. Churirira churirira dadada - Kidd (ft. kindergarten 1 characters.)

★ 10. (Son) Daughter of Evil - Felix (ft. Ted)

11. Death Should have not taken thee! - Lily and Billy

★ 12. Fear Garden - Felix (other characters featuring.)

13. Hate it! Hate it! Huge Ego! - Cindy (ft. Penny)

14. Jigsaw puzzle - Ted (ft. Other characters)

15. Love Trial - Buggs and Cindy

16. Machine Gun Poem - Carla (ft. Jerome) (things that go boom?)

17. Niccori^^ Survey Team Theme - Penny (focus), Cindy, Ted, Felix

18. Positive Club vs Negative Club - Ron and Ozzy

19. Positive ☆ Dance Time - Penny and Cindy (ft. Other characters)

20. Right Brain Left Brain - Ted and Felix

21. Remote Control - Ted and Felix

22. Rin-chan (Ron-kun) now! Seasons - Ron, Madison and Alice

23. ROKI - Monty and Jerome

★ 24. Servant of Evil - Ted (ft. Felix)

★ 25. The Game of Life - Kidd (ft. All Kindergarten characters)

26. This is the Happiness and Peace Committee - Penny (ft. All kindergarten students)

27. TRASH and TRASH! - Ozzy

28. Twin Masters - Ted and Felix

29. We are NOT suspicious dealers - Lily and Billy (ft. Nugget and Kidd)

30. Yaminabe!!!! (Dark Hotpot!!!!) - Pretty much every kindergarten character.

31. Your Adventure log has vanished! - Lily and Billy

I hope you guys like them. This list will be remade when I find more songs! That's all , bye bye ! :3

[lakesbian]

i am kind of bewildered by how whenever a wormpost breaches containment in any way people always just come up with the absolute wildest guesses for what they think it's about when like. Worm is a specific ass book. Some specific fucking things happen in that book. you'd think that when people see a post referencing events that are 1. clearly fictional and 2. so hyper-specific they're unrecognizable as anything familiar they'd just go "ah yes this must simply be about niche media i'm not presently aware of" but instead people will be like "i thought it was a metaphor for monty python's life of brian" "wait so this isn't about family guy" "thought you meant taylor swift lol" like. at what point are we going to switch our brain on and consider the possibility that we do not know every media ever and maybe this is just about one we haven't heard of before. seriously how do you get to something as specific as "he's had bugs on his dick and emanates darkness to cope" and still be trying to make it about brian (family guy) instead of thinking it's maybe about a brian (guy you don't know) i don't fucking get it

[balshumetsbaragouin]

Valentine's Core Exchange Gift: Hybrid Affinity

I can finally talk about this! I am excited to have been able to take part in the first Valentine's Core Exchange. My giftee for this event is the amazing @nursal1060writes! I hope you enjoy your gift! Only the first chapter will be posted on AO3, this week, but they get the Full Monty in DMs. Thanks @valentines-core-exchange for connecting us!

Link: Hybrid Affinity Rating: Mature Characters: Danny Fenton, Vlad Masters Relationship: Danny & Vlad(Badger Cereal) Warnings: Implied/Referenced Torture, Past Torture, Torture, Psychological Torture, Medical Experimentation, Medical Torture, Non-Consensual Drug Use Chapter Word Count: 2,577 Story Word Total: 20k

Summary:

A momentary lapse of attention, a weapon's blast grounding him, an agent's boot heading towards his jaw…

Danny has been the 'primary research subject' of the Area 23 facility for the past three weeks. Since he was captured, he's had no contact with the outside world, and no chance of escape. After complaining about a lack of conversational partners, his heated cage finds a second occupant: Vlad Plasmius.

With his last chance at escape captured with him, Danny's hope dwindled until he heard the other halfa promise he had a plan. The only problem: He doesn't trust Vlad.

Have a sneak peek at the story below the cut!

The gun at the back of his head pressed deeper into the base of his skull. “I’m moving.”

“Not fast enough, ghost.” The agent tapped the spot right over his brain stem, “Keep dragging your feet, and I’ll save the government the expense of containing you.” The hiss of the pneumatic doors ahead of them sent tingles over his skin. The air on the other side smelled like the ecto-suppressant they pumped inside, burnt acrid chemicals, and days old sweat. 

“I’m floating; you see me floating forward, right?” He stopped just on the other side of the barrier, long enough for the scan, and moved again when the light flashed green above the entrance. The hum of the ghost shield grated his ear drums as it scrapped over his skin. “No need to be so hostile.” The door clicked shut behind him, the agent no longer bothering to threaten him once he reached the inside of The Oven. “Whatever.” Danny floated the rest of the way into the heated metal box and tried to decide which wall he’d sizzle on for the next few hours. He’d favored the one facing the door when he’d first arrived, but the heating element sat closer to the surface. The sadists running this circle of hell designed it that way. Their scientists were probably measuring how long he’d put up with more pain to feel ‘secure’ or something. 

He hovered in the middle of the room, eyeing the coolest wall, with an ache building up in his core. He decided to split the difference and sat against one of the walls perpendicular to the door. A low hiss filled the room as he sank down to the floor and leaned back. “You know, you don’t have to BBQ me. I’d be happy to answer questions without being spit-roasted.” The agents on the other side of the monitoring equipment couldn’t hear him. He’d made a show of cursing and insulting them the first… however long, until he was hoarse. They’d only told him they didn’t receive audio after he couldn’t speak. They said, ‘we’re not interested in any lies you ghost vermin want to tell’ and sneered down at him like he’d become a bug that learned to speak. They did monitor his energy levels, though. When he’d attempted an ecto-ray, a whole host of guns popped out of some panels in the ceiling and hosed him down with molten misery. The liquid didn’t start hot, not like the walls, but as soon as it touched him…

He rubbed at the spots along his forearms that got the worst of the spray. The jumpsuit still laid odd over those spots, like the ectoplasm underneath refused to come back all the way. He poked around the area, feeling the way the latex enmeshed with the healed flesh under it. Other areas stuck because he was slicked down with sweat, but here it felt glued down into the muscles. He leaned forward and frowned down at the half-melted state of his boots. The soles of his feet and the back of him always took the worst of it whenever he was back in the cage. Still, it was better than being in the labs. The blazing temperatures and grating silence granted a peace that left him when they wanted to stick tubes down his throat or needles into his skin. “I could even convince myself this is pleasant if I couldn’t smell that burning ectoplasm.”

[popcornfairy28]

Trick-or-treat

Thanks! I couldn't make up my mind, so you're getting multiple goodies 😂 🩵

Been too tired to write the past couple days, but I'm pretty sure the last sentence I wrote was this:

He might as well go bug Candace.

I'm sure you can figure out who the "he" is here 😂. But you can't gather what the fic it's from is about.

New fic idea! (not what the previous sentence is from, just to be clear lol) I had this one after our commenting back and forth on "Best Secret Keeper Ever", of a Vanessa-POV fic taking place right after OWCA Files exploring why she (and Monty) didn't show up in the episode. She first receives a cryptic text from Stacy alluding to the situation and then tries to ask her dad what happened, only to end up going to Perry to get the real story.

While we're on "Best Secret Keeper Ever", I just remembered some behind-the-scenes info regarding that fic, which was that back when I was writing it initially (the doc was created April 15, 2023) I had the idea of Stacy making a group chat of her, Perry, and Vanessa which is what grew into "The Older Siblings"!

Pics of my document for "Best Secret Keeper Ever" (since I don't write in a notebook anymore lol):

Original titles:

Original author's note:

Episode notes (featuring me struggling to remember episodes lol since I'd only watched most of season 4 once at that point):

Annnndddd bonus chapter ideas that ended up turning into something...

I'm gonna hold off on any other stuff for now. I know that some of the information in the episode notes is incorrect, but that's kinda the point that I was having a hard time remembering back then lol. But anyway, there's a glimpse into my kinda messy note-taking for fics haha. You can definitely see that sometimes my brain takes off faster than I can type and I just leave a sentence hanging.

[bumblepuppy]

002 Oberon!

002 | Give me a character & I will tell you

How I feel about this character:  I want to treat him like a kneaded eraser. I want to study him under a magnifying glass. I want to catch him in a butterfly net. Robin Goodfellow gives me cute aggression. I like him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:  I don't really ship him passionately, but I get the Gudaobe appeal. I haven't read the recent JP summer event but apparently that makes it even better, so I'm excited to read that when it comes out in NA! (And hear Monty talk about what the translation got wrong)

My non-romantic OTP for this character:  His dynamic with Castoria is so... hhhh. I'm gnawing at the bars of my cage. I love this confusing cursed guy in a shitty world being kind to someone that has otherwise not received any kindness. The fact that she's hearing his Vortigern voice through the staff of selection too? Chef's kiss. Mwah. I love them.

My unpopular opinion about this character:  I don't think melon is his favorite fruit. I think, due to his always lying curse, he thinks it's fine and everyone interprets it as 'Haha, that Oberon and his melon!'. He thinks they're fine. He likes them alright. But sometimes he wants to enjoy a nice plum but everyone in Chaldea is giving him fuckin' melon.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: He should have given Blanca a kiss on her soft little forehead, and maybe even a nice treat or a chin scritch.

my OTP: Oberon x the beautiful person reading this post.

my cross over ship: Uh... hm, I dunno. Oberon/Kariya? Guy who is a bug x Guy who is filled with bugs. They both illuminate a certain part of my brain.

a headcanon fact: His favorite bugs are antlion larvae. :)

Also related but LOOK WHO ARRIVED LAST NIGHT

squeezing him

[m0ntylee]

My official OC ref and Self insert have been updated! (deleted other posts with em to freshen em up)

But hi! It me!

(will update lore later or as I go!)

[whyitdoesntworkforme]

Clone Wars Fic Tropes that drive me crazy

I want to start this off by saying that if you write/read fics with these tropes this is no disparagement against you. I live very much by the live and let fic/live and let ship philosophy. And most of these tropes I get why they are popular. And fanfiction is a great way to put fantasies and fun scenarios down on paper, whether they make sense or not. Most of these I probably wouldn’t have a problem with if I didn’t see them so often because they are VERY prolific tropes. You know when you watching something or notice something in movies/TV/comics and you don’t really think it’s good but it doesn’t really bother you … then you see it over and over and over again and that’s when it starts to really bug you? Well that’s me with most of these fic tropes. I have my reasons for not liking them but they are not really big problems with the fics (or even the writing) itself sometimes. More that, the more I see it the more my brain thinks about it, the more problems I have with it.

So yeah, I’m really only writing this because it’s Saturday and I can’t go anywhere because I dislocated my toe and writer’s block has struck at just the wrong time. So here we go:

 The Medic Tropes

The Beleaguered/Long suffering Medic: Like I said in my intro there isn’t really any problem with this as character concept but it is just EVER SINGLE MEDIC CHARACTER that has ever been written in every clone wars fic I have ever read. Anyone who knows of a fic that writes medics as anything other than utterly competent doctors who have to deal with people not wanting their care (we’ll get to that), please comment. The medics deserve more depth.

The Medics Outrank Everyone/Disrespect: This unlike the last one is not in every fic with a medic in it but it’s quite prolific and it also ties into another trope I’ll talk about in the next section about protocol. I often see medics not addressing commanding officers with the proper respect. People take the medics outranking their superiors when it comes to the health of the men and kind of use it as an excuse for the medics to speak to said superiors with disrespect like I’ve never seen. This ties into the next point as well about people avoiding medical care. Just because they have final say in this one specific area doesn’t mean that they outrank their officers and that they wouldn’t be court martialed (and rightly so) for speaking to them that way. The worst I saw was a fic where Cody wants to get out of bed, he’s recovering but stable, there is no escalation, no serious danger to life or health and the medic literally shouts at his COMMANDING OFFICER that he will bench him if he hears one word. WTF? Take the scene for the Clone Wars episode ‘The Deserter’, Rex is seriously injured, wants to keep going and look at how medic Kix deals with it, he says, “Sir, as the team medic, when it comes to the health of the men — including you — I outrank everyone. So I respectfully order you, sir, to get some rest.” He speaks calmly, measuredly, respectfully. How does this very simple caveat to the chain of command translate to the medic being in charge of everyone, being able to speak to whomever they want however they want, and everyone being scared of them?

No-one seeks medical attention unless forced to: Again, I get why this is a trope, it is the selfless, pure hearted, yet strong person who ‘doesn’t want to bother anyone’ or ‘take up resources’ or ‘doesn’t have time to be sick’. That works for things like a cold, or a headache but I have read a fics where … specifically Obi-wan Kenobi has a gaping gash in his head and he tries to avoid the medic (this was not a crack fic). At first I found this trope funny, as that Monty Python skit where a knight with no arms says, ‘tis but a flesh wound’ comes into my mind. But when you see in practically every Clone Wars fic where someone gets an injury (and it’s war so naturally it happens a lot), the more stupid it starts to look. These are highly intelligent, practical people most of the time. Especially for the superior officers, not seeking medical attention is actually pretty selfish and self-indulgent in their position. As I said, ignoring a cold or a headache is the sign of someone who wants to power through or someone who is under a lot of pressure. Someone who just came out of a deadly mission with multiple injuries ‘not wanting to bother the medic’ is not strong or selfless, they are a blithering idiot. (Hello Kenobi who comes fresh out of Zyggeria in most fics portraying it with near fresh whip marks on his back and says, “Yeah, no need to bother the medic, let me meditate this away”). The writers know that seeking medical attention is the right thing to do but the denial of it is almost always portrayed as something almost heroic that is supposed to be met by the audience with a fond eye-roll. I certainly eye-roll.

 Clone Relationships/Interactions

The things that come up here didn’t get on my nerves until I started understanding soldiers more. Soldiers have a very, very unique bond that is hard to explain because it’s forged in very unique circumstances. Most of us know we would die for the people we love but we are rarely put in a position where that is a decision we will have to make. Not only that but we will never have to contend with the fact that a person may die in front of us and we (for the moment) will just have to ignore it and keep going. How do you reconcile dying for the people standing beside you while also accepting that you can’t indulge in mourning them when they die for you? This naturally will create a unique yet powerful, if difficult to understand bond with very unique ways of interacting with your peers. This bond is rarely portrayed in fics. It’s kind of sad that these unique relationships aren’t at least attempted in fics, especially since the Clone Wars resonated so much with soldiers and soldiers families in its portrayal of the clone. So most of the following tropes are connected to that feeling.

The Clones are Brothers as in Siblings more than Brothers as in Brothers-in-arms: As I said, the clone wars resonated so well with soldiers and their families and that came from how well the clones and how they interacted with each other were portrayed. In fics they seem to interact the way normal siblings would interact in a familial setting. Without repeating the intro to this section I’ll just say that siblings and brothers/sisters-in-arms do not interact the same. Yes, the clones are genetically made from the same person but the way they were raised and told what their purpose was, the way they were taught that being a soldier was what they were, why they were made, and what their purpose was means the normal sibling bond you or I would know would not be there. The brothers-in-arms bond would. This only bothers me because it feeling (just to me mind you) that the soldier bond that was portrayed so perfectly and resonated so well with people is kind of relegated in favour, we’re all one big family unit that all happen to be soldiers. Rather than soldiers whose family was forged in training and battle. This trope comes in several forms including but not limited to:

·         Talking to superior officers in a manner and at times that fly completely in the face of protocol (which we know the clones take very seriously).

·         Random clones using Cody or Rex’s name without their ranks (personal relationships and exposure to the person coupled with the type of conversation, would warrant dropping a title)

·         Clones sleeping in a pile

·         The use of the word Sibling in place of the word Brother (brother (and sister) have connotations of comradeship in addition to familial whereas a sibling cannot be anything but a family member. And the clones weren’t raised as Siblings they were raised as comrades.)

·         Clones hugging and kissing each other casually, and sometimes extensively (this one is more the familial portrayal of the interaction rather than the action itself).

·         Saying I love you (again more the familial/casual portrayal, even if a part of me doesn’t see many circumstances in which that would have to be said between clones)

·         On visits to Kamino, little clones bounding up to visiting Commanders and Captains like excited, normally raised children. (2)

So yeah, the bond between soldiers may outwardly seem distant to most people especially those of us who grew up with all the hugs and kisses we could ever need. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t deep, or meaningful or can’t be portrayed well without just throwing in overly tactile, sometimes cloying interactions that don’t happen among soldiers, tend not to happen among men in general, and definitely would not be natural for soldiers raised the way the clones were.

And lastly, I think there is a lot of lost beauty in thinking of the clones as this way. Military training is designed to break you down so you can be forged into something else. And it does do that. The clones all being the same on the surface but different deep down is what being a soldier is. Being out in the battlefield you are one unit, you were forged together on that training field and you have a shared fate to step onto a battlefield and maybe die but underneath it all that, a spark of what makes you, ‘you’ is still there. The whole siblings angle kind of dilutes, if not erases all that nuance of what it means to be not only A soldier but SOLDIERS.

 Jedi and Clone Interactions

Fanfiction tends to gloss over a lot of unpleasantries because they are uncomfortable and the relationship between the Jedi and the clone is very, very complex. Most Jedi respect and some even love their men (the main ones do anyway) but not only are they they’re commanding officers but also in a sense, their owners. The republic owns the clones and the Jedi are part of the republic. I see it portrayed like the Jedi are just like the clones, they have no choice but there is a difference between having to serve a system you don’t take part in (much less one who bought you) and being against something a system you take part in does but doing it anyway. The, they were just following orders argument is a historically uncomfortable one so I don’t know why it keeps being used. The Clones are slaves (chipped like chattle), the Jedi are not. So this fandom portrayal is kind of icky. At best it glosses over it, at worst it excuses it or outright denies it.

There are loads of examples but one that made me stop reading a fic I was enjoying was one where Obi-wan goes to Kamino to ask about potentially force sensitive clones has a conversation with Shaak-Ti that includes little clones running to her bedroom, sitting on her lap and confessing nightmares to her about killing Jedi.  

Contradiction or softening of Jedi actions: Let’s take the Shaak-Ti example. This is the woman who when presented with an either physically or mentally ill clone who out of nowhere killed a Jedi for no reason and is told that they should ‘terminate the clone’ her reply is, “I believe this solution is ill-advised” … ill-advised? This sounds exactly like the kind of woman whom baby clones would confess violent nightmares to. And taking into consideration her actions during the Fives arc and her having nothing to say when the discovery of the army’s origin, exactly the kind of woman who would handle it well.

The clones are just there to protect the Jedi: That is what the clones believe that again it disturbs me a bit that, that is what the writers seems to only see them as good for too. A fic example is one where the clones find the chips and free themselves but the first thing they do is ‘free’ the poor enslaved Jedi like they aren’t a powerful religious order that is part of the republic and running this whole war, bought them and used them in the first place. No, forget that these soldier were chipped like animals, forget their whole lives have been one example of inhumanity after another, forget that brother after brother has died for nothing, it’s the Jedi that deserve the saving and the sympathy.

I want to put a comment in here to say that this is not a Jedi hate train (though full disclosure I’m not pro-jedi) but why are THEY the ones who get the head pats and the ‘poor you, you’ve been through so much’ treatment when there are far more worthy candidates like the child soldiers they’ve been commanding? Much less said child soldiers being not much more than a tool to bring relief to their Jedi commanders. That is what they were created to do so it makes sense that they would do that. What doesn’t make sense is why that seems to be what most fic writers see as a happy result for freed clones. Once again, it’s not just that it’s disturbing but it takes a complicated relationship that would be difficult for characters to navigate and makes it simple by hand-waving the bad stuff. So yeah, many writers don’t seem to know what to do with the clones as their own people. This tends to be a thing in fanfiction in general, one side is the hurt and the comforted and the other side is the comforter. This is something I’ll be complaining about in the Codywan section.

The Hand of the Author: The relationships between the clones and the jedi are often very … I don’t know how to put this … easy? And I don’t mean individual clones and individual Jedi like Obi-wan and Cody or Anakin and Rex, I mean THE Clones and THE Jedi. The clones respect the Jedi as warriors and commanders, even admire them but that often translates in fanfic to every clone knowing every Jedi is a good person who whom they should trust. If we go back to the Shaak-Ti example clones were raised in an environment where disobedience or deviation got you a one way ticket to lab table, Shaak-Ti shows up and is polite and nice and now … I instantly trust her and know she’ll have my best interests at heart even though I’m a soldier and therefore know that the needs of the war far outweigh any needs I have and any commander as far as I know would get rid of the weak link to protect the chain. Her just being nice, the Jedi being nice to the clones is not enough to get that level of trust from any reasonable person let alone people who have been incentivized to never trust any but their brothers. And even when it comes to individual clone Jedi interactions, it goes from fear to trust in nothing flat. And trust is not something that comes as a whole. Clones, and people in general are far more like to gradually offer trust with some things then over time more trust is given. I named this one the hand of the author because WE know that Jedi characters are kind people but it’s just like magically all the clones know that. An example of this is the Slick storyline. I see a lot of arguments that ‘Slick could have gone to the Jedi’ as is a sergeant would have any reason at ALL to talk to a general without going up the chain of command let alone a literal slave who, as far as he’s concerned would be going to his owners and saying, ‘hey I’m a slave, could you maybe do something about that?’ Slick doesn’t know Obi-wan or Anakin like Cody or Rex do (and not even Rex confides his growing concerns about his brother’s circumstances that we see and if he did Anakin didn’t do anything) and I’m not so convinced that they would have done anything if Slick had gone to them considering the looks of derision and dismissal they give a man telling them he is their slave. Do they consider it? Nope? So I say hand of the author, maybe more wish of the author. (Fic Rec 2)

 Jedi Relationships

Jedi are family: Believe it or not this is actually in a weird way defending the Jedi a little bit because the reason the Jedi cite for taking kids from their families so they can be raised absent attachments and outside influences is because ‘attachments lead to the dark side’ and family is the first and one of the most powerful attachments anyone can have so have to server that bond in its infancy and teach them to avoid attachment. Portraying the Jedi as family (especially in the fandom way where families look like normal, everyday, earth families) is kinds of worse than portraying the clones as one because at least the clones aren’t damaged by it. It is an uncomfortable prospect that our heros are raising their children without getting attachments or allowing them to form when every healthy adult knows that, that is incredible, sometimes cripplingly damaging (the main reason I’m not pro-jedi). So writers like to portray Jedi lineages as functioning like normal families. But if the Jedi REALLY did raise their children in this healthy way … why did they take the kids away from their families to begin with? This actually makes the Jedi look worse because now they have no reason for removing wanted children from loving homes. I think most people who try to defend this are young and not yet parents because if someone came into my house … I’m not even going to finish that thought. And no, parental consent doesn’t make it okay because they parents aren’t the one you are committing the greatest wrong against, the child is. You’ve not just taken a child from a family, you’ve taken a family from a child.

There are ways to try and soften the Jedi in fics but having padawans with the same master introduce each other as ‘my brother’ is not it. Once again this is not just a pro-jedi vs anti-jedi thing. If that were the case it wouldn’t be on this list, it’s once again throwing away all the nuance surrounding these relationships and how they function. It’s another case of removing the bad to make it sanitized and simple.

Jedi Romances: This is much the same as the other one and it comes down to the argument that ‘you’ve misunderstood, jedi are allowed to love’. Yes, Jedi are allowed to love but they are not allowed to form romantic relationships because romantic relationships are attachments and if you are not attached to your romantic partner (not sexual partner, romantic partner) it’s probably time to consider if it’s not working out. There is also the argument that love is not attachment. So if the Jedi can have romantic, loving relationships then why can’t they get married? The piece of paper is a symbol of that bond rather than the cause of it. Kiadi Mundi is permitted to have many wives because his species has a low male birth count but he loves none of them. These supposed non-attached romantic relationships in fics look identical to the relationships that literally everyone else has. You can’t just write a normal relationship say it’s different and it becomes so. I’ve seen several fics where it’s straight-up portrayed that Anakin just ‘misunderstood’ the code all these years. Yeah, the guy who was raised in this creed since he was nine, being an attached and emotional person probably had it drilled into him multiple times to make sure he really got it, just mistakenly got in into his head that he had to hide his relationship and is flabbergasted when the council is totally cool with Obi-wan dating Cody … Like they totally would be.

Note: You can be Pro-Jedi without jumping through hoops to basically make them just like everybody else with relationships that are just like everybody else, again throwing aside the nuance of this belief set, code of conduct and state of mind. That is where all the interesting, juicy stuff lies.

 Codywan

I know this whole article has just been a case of preference with excessively detailed reasons for said preference, but it goes doubly so here. Live and let ship. And again most of this stuff, like the medic tropes just come from seeing them too many times.

Cody is Obi-wan’s emotional support clone: This is really just a rehash of my complaints about the Jedi being portrayed as if they are the slaves who need rescuing rather than active participants in a republic they serve by their own will. This one just takes on a more person edge. I get it, Obi-wan is everyone favourite whipping boy because he’s just so pretty in pain and big, strong, manly Cody is there to save him from not only the vagabonds but his own selfless nature. It’s a bit full on but basically harmless. I just wish that more writers treated Cody like his own person rather than someone who’s there for Obi-wan. (Fic Rec 5, 6 and 7)

Cody is always the one infatuated: I know, I know, we all love Obi-wan and Cody is not a character much explored in canon so he can serve as the blank slate through which we can smother Obi with love. But I guess I just find Cody really interesting in the sense that … what does it take to be a perfect Marshall Commander, what does it take to be the highest ranked clone in the army. What kind of man would that be? It’s interesting to think about. And I just love to see Obi-wan pine over him. I’m seen a couple of posts on tumblr expressing the same wish for there to be more fics where Cody is the sought after one but they remain frustratingly hard to find. (Fic Rec 3)

The Hardeen Arc is a-okay: The Hardeen arc is glossed over to a frustrating degree. The ‘Obi-wan had to’ arguments don’t cut it because not only is he part of the council that made the decision (FYI fanfic Obi when you are a ruling council and you implement a decision that council makes you don’t get to blame the council, you’re on the bloody council), it is a monumentally stupid decision. Obi-wan is a high general, he has an entire Corps to look after, he one of the poster boys and you big brains think that making the galaxy think he is dead is not going have any repercussions on the war? What was a big subplot of Revenge of the Sith? Oh yeah, it was killing Dooku and General Grevious so that crucial elements of the enemy’s leadership would leave the army floundering. I know most of this comes down to the writers not considering this, but it’s in canon now we have to deal with it. And dealing with it is not just saying, ‘poor obi, you had to make that silly decision and I’m just so happy you’re alive and not in the least bit angry that you not only made me think you were dead but abandoned your men.’ Generals do not participate in covert ops, this was so incredible dumb and dangerous. You think this didn’t embolden the seperatists, and potentially cost the lives of your, no doubt temporarily floundering army? But no, it’s all okay. (Fic Rec 1)

I have a fic rec list after this and I just have to shout out I’ll Orbit Your Flicking Star’ by Sunskippa. It’s the only fic covering the Hardeen arc that includes Cody giving Obi-wan a rank appropriate dressing down and the only one that appears to have even considered what this whole Hardeen debacle must have done to the army. Not only that it actually has Cody as a real person. It’s a perfect fic.

Where are my Omega Cody Fics?: … That’s it. I found 1 (Fic Rec 4)

  Fic recs

(I may not be Pro-Jedi but none of these fics aren’t Jedi bashing as most Jedi bashing is just as absent any nuance and fairness that the ones I’ve complained about are)

1) I’ll orbit your Flickering Star by Sunskippa (See above gushing) https://archiveofourown.org/works/24639628/chapters/59531782

(2) The Edge of Providence by whimsicalimages (never really been a Fan Jango/Obi-wan but the stuff with the clones on Kamino is amazing. You know what I was saying about wariness and trust? The development is perfect here with baby clones acting like how kids like them would act rather than normal kids. Also has an unfinished podfic.) https://archiveofourown.org/works/29253276/chapters/71833074

(3) Traveling at the Speed of Light by Saerus2665 https://archiveofourown.org/works/41343510 (The one fic I could find where Obi-wan is the one infatuated)

(4) Uncompromising by Flowerparish https://archiveofourown.org/series/3261756

(5) Find It On Your Own (But I'll Be Here When You Return) Redminibike1 https://archiveofourown.org/works/32007316/chapters/79280521

(6) Profane by Glimmerglanger https://archiveofourown.org/works/43896583/chapters/110369320 (I put it on here because at least it has a portrayal of Cody that is quite different … more innocent J)

(7) Cody and the Wonky Concept Of the Live Force Ezekiel0205 https://archiveofourown.org/works/31314800/chapters/77425691 (Cody goes back in time, stands up to Jango and pulls rank on the Nulls, what’s not to like?)

 So yeah, rant over. I want to reiterate that fanfiction is great because it allows for scenarios that you will never see and, most of the time, shouldn’t see in canon. If these tropes are things that bring you joy to read or write that’s awesome. I’ll probably regret posting such a rant but I just wanted to get some personal pet peeves off my chest and maybe try to jump start the old creative juices. Plus I spent hours writing it so it’s bloody well going somewhere. I welcome any thoughts, and especially welcome any fic recs.

[chaoticsimlish]

Get To Know Me

I was tagged by the sweet and endlessly talented @salemssimblr for this! Apologies it took so long to get to it, wanted to wait until I was on my desktop again haha

What’s your favourite sims death? Gotta be laughing to death! I had a sim for a legacy challenge propose to her girlfriend once and her girlfriend was already in a silly goofy mood but rejected her and then proceeded to laugh to death. I hadn't even known that could happen and was caught completely off guard!

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? I tend to lean more towards Maxis Match stuff but I really have move of a blend happening

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Nah if it happens it happens, you can't have a sim push out four babies for a legacy and still have a stick lol

4. Do you use move objects? Definitely do! Even switched back to my old keyboard because it is better equipped for handling move objects in build mode!

5. Favorite mod? More columns in CAS! I cannot make sims without it!

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I bought every expansion/game pack/stuff pack that came out until My First Pets Stuff so it'd be Outdoor Retreat! I only recently caved to that stupid stuff back, always swore I'd never put money down on a DLC for a DLC but it was on super sale and I think I'd like to have rats in game

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? Liv definitely, I know in context it's LIVE mode but I have never said it like that

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? Probably Monty! My green haired sim I made originally to submit to a story that someone else was doing. I have the most back story on her! If not her than my boy Kaz who was made to be a bachelor in my bachelor challenge that ended abruptly when the save got corrupted and life made it hard to play! Kaz still to this day remains my favorite base to use when making male sims :3

9. Have you made a simself? A long time ago! I should probably make a new one

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? Creative, Clumsy, and Geek!

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? I really like the darker brown and the auburn-y red

12. Favorite EA hair? I rarely use the EA hairs lol I don't really have an answer for this!

13. Favorite life stage? YA for sure because it has the most stuff to do but also I started playing Sims 4 when I was 20 so I was a YA when I got to play with it and it has always just felt like a good home base life stage!

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? When I do get to play, I'm in it for the gameplay! I honestly hate building from scratch because nothing ever seems right so I usually tweak builds I find in the gallery! I also really hate how much time it takes to decorate and clutter things up!

15. Are you a CC creator? I used to be! First thing I created (like five blogs ago now) was a set of nerdy art for my sims, I also recolored a bunch of hairs in Pooklet's colors and recolored a handful of items. Pretty sure that's all gone now though and I definitely don't have time to do it anymore!

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? I have a couple people I feel like I can chat with without feeling like I'm bugging them! @salemssimblr and I talk on discord about this and that (mostly writing!) and @druidberries and I have had a few good moments as well! I used to have a group I was part of on discord but that's been a long time ago now

17. What’s your favorite game? Favorite series is forever Bioshock! The depth of the worlds and just how well those games were developed and thought out was always great for me! What Remains of Edith Finch changed my entire brain chemistry it was so good, Dragon Age Inquisition has been played about fifteen times, and I'm really enjoying Tears of the Kingdom right now!

18. Do you have any sims merch? Somewhere, lost to the basement which devours everything, I have a plumbob light thing I got with a special edition of something. Other than that no

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? Nope! I'm happy posting on here where no one can hear me stumble over my words and watch me spend an hour debating over which hair to put on a sim lmao

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? It's changed pretty drastically I'd say! My early sims, when I started really getting into the Sims 2, were all super goth and had the most wild and ridiculous outfits! I used to make sims who looked like they walked out of My Chemical Romance music videos! Now, though I still have to push myself to not use as many of the same or similar features (I'm really bad about almond eyes, down turned lips, and noses with the nostrils just so), I feel like I do make sims with more variety. I also work hard to make sims who are either queer, non-white, disabled, or occult as well. It's really easy to fall into a pattern of making the same kind of sim over and over so I fight that as much as I can.

21. What’s your Origin ID? EchoSoul I believe, there may be a 13 in there somewhere lmao

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? I think the creator I jump to download all their cc every time I reset and whose cc just gets used and abused in my game is @clumsyalienn! I have almost everything they make and I'm pretty sure every single sim I make has at least one thing on their's on them!

23. How long have you had a simblr? I've had this simblr since 2018, before that though I've had multiple other simblrs that either got killed off because of a lull in notes or just disuse. I started in the simblr community in 2009 I believe! I've been on tumblr since 2008 and as soon as I found the sims community I've always had a foot in the door!

24. How do you edit your pictures? I don't lmao

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? I'd have to say that Realm of Magic and City Living! I'm a sucker for magic and witches and to this day San Myshuno is one of my favorite worlds to live in! Can't go wrong with the Spice District!

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? I have all of them except for Dream Designer and a handful of kits so I'd say Dream Designer lol

NOW

I tag @shittyysimblr, @lilypixels, @whyhellosims, @pink-chevalier, @katmk36, and anyone else who'd like to do this who hasn't been tagged yet!

[madcatdaderpydrawer-blog]

You really activated my angst brain here. Monty heading back to Earth from dropping off TF Lunar, snapping at him to stop bugging him after the nth time the poor guy tried to start a conversation that job. Five minutes later he realizes he forgot something at the lab, and teleports in, only to find Lunar in his tube, tears streaming down his face, with his hand buried in his chest. Before Monty can even comprehend what he’s seeing, the bean is violently tearing out his own voice box. Because what’s the point in talking to people if it always ends in pain, if nobody wants to hear his voice in the first place? Of course, nobody would talk to him at all if he didn’t start the conversations, which is even worse, so he would’ve regretted it pretty fast. But in the moment it just seemed like a good idea that might make him just a tiny bit more likable.

Monty is completely taken aback seeing him literally tear out his own vocal cords, and rushes over to stop him from doing more damage. Due to how much damage he did to himself when he tore it out, putting the voice box back in is insanely difficult so he ultimately decides to just make the repairs without the voice box. So he can’t speak anymore. And TF lunar starts to realize how much more he hates this, because it’s like he’s not even there now that he can’t speak and make them listen to him. They’ll just do fun activities and hangout and stuff with him RIGHT THERE and he can’t join in, or even try to anymore, so he just stands off to the side while they talk like a kicked puppy.

[bloo-the-dragon]

ASK ASK ASK

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🌻 - Who are your favorite FNAF characters, aside from the DCA?

MUSIC MAAAAAAAAAAN

Also Monty is p cool

🌒 - Do you prefer Sun & Moon to be separate animatronics or share the same body?

I like both equally actually! Though i will always see them as being two separate individuals, whether they share a body or have their own, both are fine for me :3

💭 - What inspired you to come up with this AU?

I'll answer for the bugs one for this

Basically i doodled a slug moon as a joke and then brain went brrr