#my boy pod better not die

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

fight the future part 1

AHHHHH, i’m so EXCITEDDDD!!!

it usually takes me an hour and a half to write up my initial thoughts on a 45 minute episode, PLUS more time to edit them before posting, so this 2 hour movie is probably going to take all night LMAOOOO

but after having some brief troubles with my laptop’s DVD player, here we are!!!! i cannot wait!!! i’m so excited!! everyone has really hyped this up. but i read the back of the DVD and it didn’t mention gibson at all? so are we just pushing that to the side for now?

okay. yeah. i’ll have to not worry about that little boy. 

oh, and yeah, i'm watching it on a DVD! the quality is... not great. which i suppose adds to the immersion.

post-movie thoughts: i can see shrimp colors and feel their secret emotions.

let’s GOOOOO!

theme music playing……………….. over some oily looking stuff…. YEAH BABY!!!!!

we are in a blizzard. two figures run. wait, it’s texas? oh, it’s ancient texas. a very different time from now.

let us enter a cave together, where we can start a fire and rest. and look around with torches. deeper and deeper into this labyrinth journey the cavemen. it looks like skyrim. i half expect a skeever to jump out

wah! who is this in the ice?

ALIEN ATTACK??? what is going on? alien vs cavemen! place your bets!!! one caveman down!!! the alien escaped?? other caveman wants to know where tf it went!

i get the sense a jumpscare is coming. WHAT IS THAT THING??? it looks like a flounder??????? surviving caveman stabs it and it bleeds. OHHH.... IS THAT THE BLACK OIL STUFF???? YEAH, it is!!! and it crawls all over the caveman!!!! 

wahhhh!!! abrupt jump cut to a boy named stevie falling into a cave. stevie, there may be monsters afoot, please be careful. stevie wants this skull for himself. please alert any local archaeologists of this find instead of stealing it or its historical context will forever be lost to time. NO STEVIE! the goop!!!!! it is upon him!!!

maybe this is what he gets for trying to steal archaeological remains. take notes, children. a lesson was learned today.

it crawls up his legs like evil slugs!!!! and into his eyeballs!! the other kids run!!!

they abandoned stevie in his hour of need… personally, i would not forgive them for this

some yellow firetrucks are here to save the day (and who has ever seen a yellow firetruck?). go, fetch stevie. the fireman up top can’t hear the ones down in the cave through the radio!!!

now, what is this helicopter doing at the scene? they bring out a pod-thing to store stevie in. and this other guy (later revealed to be named bronschweig- simply too many german names on this show) is watching the boy with grave concern.

THIS DUDE LEAVES THE FIREMEN DOWN THERE TO DIE?????

absolutely DIABOLICAL.

a ton more trucks pull in and block off the area while the doctor bronschweig guy calls someone to say that…. the impossible scenario that they never planned for??? well, they better come up with a plan!!

a week later, a helicopter arrives in dallas. the FBI says there is no evidence of an explosive in this building, but this other guy (michaud) says they had better check again. he sees something in the distance….. upon the roof....

SCULLY IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cheered and screamed!

“mulder, it’s me!” “where are you scully?” “i’m on the roof” <- it was her on the roof!! oh, my heart is so happy to see her!!! she says she hasn't found anything. and you know she is good at observing

LMAOOOOO she wants to know what the fuck she is doing there!!! after going up 12 floors of stairs!!! they are not acting in accordance with the data on how to respond to terrorist threats!!! the bomb threat was called in ACROSS THE STREET!! lives could be lost!!! yes diva, monologue statistics!

BOO! mulder scares her LMAOOO LMAOOOOOOO aww. babies.

(her lecturing him on the statistics and terrorist behavioral analysis is so funny because he is the behavioral analysis guy... but i recognize that they are doing a sort of character introduction for the girlies who are just tuning in for the movie, and she is the one who likes to do things by the book)

(he pops a sunflower seed) “what are we doing up here, scully? it’s hotter than hell” <- many are asking this question...

NOOOOO, he’s bored because they’ve CLOSED THE X FILES 💔💔💔 and now they have to follow the rules!!! and do boring things like look for bombs! but at least they get to do it together? that has to be a plus!

“maybe we should call in a bomb threat to houston; i think it’s free beer night at the astrodome” (she glares at him) LMAOOOOO she’s mad as hell!!!! and so is he!!! but in a different direction!

OHHHHHH she pretends the door is locked…. and he goes into open it…. AHAHAHA, OH I JUST GIGGLED!!!

“it’s locked?” “so much for anticipating the unforeseen” (he opens it and turns to her, who is smiling, crossing her arms) “i had you” (he’s laughing) “no you didn’t” “had you big time"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH i love when they write scully as a smartass!!! THAT IS MY BABY!! <3

SHE’S STILL TEASING HIM AS THEY GO INSIDE, BAHAHAHA! he says he saw her jiggle the handle; “i saw your face, mulder, there was a definite moment of panic” “you’ve never seen me panic. when i panic, i make this face” (he has no discernible expression)

BANTER!!! THE BANTER OF IT ALL!!!

OHHHH, SHE MAKES HIM BUY HER A SODA and she wants something SWEET... AGAIN, i say, that is my baby!!!!!!

15 minutes in and i’m already kicking my feet and giggling at their banter, oh my god… this is going to ruin me

LMAOOO what the hell did he just pull out of his pocket as he is putting the change in for a soda?!!

bro is slamming all of the buttons…. bro is kicking the machine… i have been there too, brother, i promise. 

aha! the machine was unplugged!

this DVD is skipping a little but i think he got locked in the drink room 💔 for what purpose??

he panics and calls scully on his nokia, and her number is 555-0113 btw, for those of you who keep track of these things

he says he found the bomb!!!! and she thinks he is joking, but he is absolutely not!!! 

OH SHIT!!!!! the bomb really is in there!!!! where the vending machine should be!! he starts counting down…….

so scully runs out, saying that she will get him out of there, but first: get everyone else out!!!!

YES, TELL THEM GIRL!!! “i need this building evacuated and cleared out in ten minutes. i want you to call the fire department and have them block off the city center and a one-mile radius around the building” “ten minutes?” “DON’T THINK! pick up that phone and make it happen!” <- YAAAAAAS EXACTLY RIGHT!!!

love when she raises her voice at men who doubt her. it brings me inner peace.

she needs to speak to michaud NOW…. tell him to deploy the FBI AT ONCE!!!!

oh, poor mulder, stuck in a locked room with the vending machine bomb….. he jumps when his cellphone rings. “scully, you know that face i just showed you? i’m making it again” <- NOOOOO his normally cool exterior is cracking 💔

she informs him to get away from the door because they are coming in. is michaud a welder????? or do they just keep one on hand for events like this?

michaud says to get out NOW!!! and mulder doesn’t want to listen, but scully forces him out. now why tf would this michaud guy know how to diffuse a bomb?? but he says he does.

okay, but he lies, because he’s just sitting there looking at it?????

mulder wants to run back in but she SCREAMS IN HIS FACE THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TIME!!!

(this was most pleasing to me as well. something about her screaming in his face to save him made me nod in approval)

they just barely get in the car, when the whole building blows!!!! poor limping agents emerge from the bombing as the place is in ruins. “next time, you’re buying”, mulder says. oh, this man, and his dumbass quips…

back to the FBI headquarters in DC. is scully in trouble??!?! but skinner is here!!!! surely he will defend her! oh no… mulder is here, too. there were 5 deaths in the explosion!!!

mulder rushes in, asking if the bodies really were found in the building, because they were told it was clear. but this lady tells him he was late and he better go wait outside… what is afoot at this moment…? skinner shakes his head ever so slightly

cut to him pounding sunflower seeds outside the door while the meeting takes place.

skinner emerges!!!!! NOOOO he gently informs mulder that they’re being blamed for this!!! he was so careful about the way he worded this news, too 💔💔

“if they want somebody to blame, they can blame me. agent scully doesn’t deserve this” “she’s in there right now saying the same thing about you” <- OHHHHHH……….. i fell to my knees in a walmart parking lot.

(metaphorically, of course. for in reality, i sit here, cozy in bed)

mulder says that he broke protocol by leaving the SAC, so he should take the blame, but she says she was the one who ordered him out. and he denies wanting to go back in.

poor scully :( she emerges

and now the people from the panel in the meeting room want skinner back :( she always calls him “sir” :(

NOOOOO, THEY’RE SPLITTING OUR AGENTS UP??? 💔 

“this is not about you scully, they’re doing this to me” “they’re not doing this. mulder, i left behind a career in medicine… because i thought that i could make a difference at the FBI, but it hasn’t turned out that way, and now if they were to transfer me to omaha, or cleveland, or some field office it just doesn’t hold the interest for me that it once did. not after what i’ve seen and done” <- OHHHHHH… his face while she says this…

and her guilt…. it’s like she wants to atone.

again, scully and her need to Do The Morally Correct Thing at all costs. and at this point, can she say that being in the FBI is the Morally Correct Thing to do? i don't blame her for wanting to go be a doctor instead, even though i am surprised she doesn't want to figure out who got her sick and killed her sister. maybe she thought if she cut her losses now, she could still make a life for herself somewhere else.

she looks so SAD, and she says she’s sorry, and when mulder walks away, she grabs his jacket that he left behind... ohhhhh my GOD, her standing alone in the hallway… someone please kill me

(post viewing note: i think he was trying to blame himself for the whole situation and assuage her guilt with the "this is not about you, scully" line, but it seemed like he was saying that he was the only one being persecuted for the pursuit of the great and noble Truth, which rubbed me the wrong way. i think i know what he MEANT, but when he said they were doing this to HIM, it was like, damn, pretty sure y'all have been a team... again with the hearing 'i' when he ought to hear 'we')

NOOOOO! mulder’s absolutely smashed at the bar. bro barely drinks and tonight he is going for the gold. 

AND THE BARTENDER ASKS WHAT HE DOES SO HE JUST. TELLS HER EVERYTHING??? so she cuts him off for the night. because his alien story seems to indicate his inebriation.

oh my god, it's like it doesn't bother him that he is a joke to his peers when he is getting results, but when he is separated from those results, being belittled hurts

“one is the loneliest number” <- SAID BY THE MAN who never wanted a partner….. oh my god…..

OH, the poor guy can’t even go to the bathroom in peace… which leaves him pissing against the wall… truly an all time low for my best friend mulder

this guy is talking to him while he goes to the bathroom. he says he has been watching his career for a while…….. since he was a promising young agent….. okay, who is this kurtzweil fellow? OH! HE CLAIMS TO BE “AN OLD FRIEND OF YOUR FATHER’S” EEK! i don’t think that will endear him to you 

HE CALLS THEM “FELLOW TRAVELERS”.... RED MR. MULDER CONFIRMED???

he’s trying to get away from this guy. kurtzweil heard he comes in there sometimes. huh, that’s interesting. i feel like we never see him drink. and he said he usually doesn’t, which he stated as much before. maybe he goes there on the tough nights. maybe he gets bored. maybe his general sobriety is being retconned in this film. very interesting.

bro is trying to get tf out of there… but kurtzweil says that michaud never tried to diffuse that bomb!! "they" wanted the medical quarantine office in that dallas building destroyed!! which is where the bodies came from!!! the dead they found were already dead before the bomb went off!!!!

ohhhh, mulder's eyes are alight again… he tells the doctor he thinks he’s full of shit, but i can see that spark in his drunk and pondering eyes.

he is now off to georgetown. where poor scully cannot sleep. in her white robe. sadly looking at the ceiling.

(i know nothing about DC. so scully lives in georgetown? then where does he live? how far away is that? you have to call a cab, so it's probably pretty far... how long are their journeys to work? and most importantly, how far are they from the museums?)

OH she immediately clocks that he is drunk and she is SUSPICIOUS. oh, i want to STUDY this interaction:

“oh, i woke you. did i wake you?” (he stumbles in)

“no”

“why not? it’s 3 in the morning” 

“are you drunk, mulder?” (i find it very fascinating she asks this without judgement- just very matter of fact)

“i… i… uh, was, until about 20 minutes ago, yeah”

“was that before or after you decided to come here?”

“what exactly are you implying?”

(she stares at him) “go home, mulder”

“no, get dressed”

“it’s late”

“get dressed”

“what are you doing?” 

“just get dressed, and i’ll explain on the way” <- ohhhhhh…. will she go with him?

she will, but only after a deep sigh

(post-viewing thoughts: i thought this was so fascinating because it felt like she thought he was going to break whatever tenuous barrier was between them. like, he was either going to try and sleep with her, or beg her to stay, and either one was something she couldn't handle. it felt like she assumed it was sexual, to me at least. and that firm rejection was very interesting. i shall unpack this for decades, i am sure)

back to texas, where the quarantine effort where stevie and the firemen fell in the hole is being resumed. AND CSM IS LIGHTING UP AS HE DESCENDS FROM HIS HELICOPTER!!! sadly and pensively smoking. 

the guy from before who we saw leave the firemen behind- bronschweig- has something to show CSM. AUGH, the fireman that they left in the hole is still alive, but he is very goopy??? why is this???

the black oil alien is eating him away!!! but they managed to slow it down by bringing him back to freezing!!!

he asks if CSM wants him to destroy “this one too, before it gestates” and he says no, no. we need to try the vaccine. and if it doesn’t work… burn it like the others. nasty.

AUGH....... the oil alien moved in the fireman's body a little bit. didn't care for it.

the agents are rolling up to the naval hospital at 4 am. i sure do hope mulder wasn’t the one driving. scully does not seem like the type to allow this.

LMAOOOO he is trying to get into the morgue by pushing around the young and inexperienced guard, and he does that thing where he calls him “son”, which makes me feel so weird, but the trickery of a guy named fox never fails to amuse me. he points out to scully once they're successfully inside that it’s pretty weird a hospital morgue is suddenly off limits on the orders of a general. yeah, seems sus.

mulder is unboxing this corpse, and it is horribly sticky!!! she’s gloving up to investigate. “god, it’s completely edematous”, she notes, and i giggled when she said that. scully using medical words makes my heart skip beats. i even giggled while gagging as she dragged her fingers through the human body that had become gel. and there was evidently absolutely no autopsy, she declares!!! the death report is obviously not true!!!

(shoutout to the props team)

STEALING A BODY with agents mulder and scully! but she is concerned! it takes a long time to conduct an autopsy! she’s worried they'll get caught!! “we’re being blamed for this man’s death. i’d like to know what he died of”, mulder points out, and you know what? i can’t really argue with that logic 

how is she gonna cut the body open if he’s goop?!?!

off to dr. kurtzweil’s apartment, where an outside investigation is taking place, and you bet mulder is going to crash it.

OH SHIT??? the cops who are in kurtweil's place accuse him of a very serious crime??? mulder also found a book he wrote about “global domination conspiracy” um… can we trust this guy? 

earlier when he said he was an OBGYN, my first thought was that he was one of those guys who works in the fertility clinics and makes the clone people… maybe he really is?

(after seeing the film, i think it was just a coincidence LMAO)

mulder make a joke about needing a pelvic examination and cracks the other cop up lmao. he has a way of charming people

GASP! as he tries to leave, he’s being summoned around the corner by kurtzweil!!! he says "they" know that he is talking to mulder. mulder is like how tf did you know all that about the goop guy in the hospital morgue?

well, let me tell you a story about a mouse disease, says kurtzweil.

and FEMA mentioned…. what are they doing in a mouse disease outbreak?? with their newfound powers? hmm.

MR. MULDER LORE!!!! they worked on a bio weapon together. “a plague to end all plagues… a planned armageddon” arranged with the aliens!! that's... not good.

so he says the president will declare a state of emergency when this plague arrives, and all power will come under FEMA/the secret government. and then i think he implies it will be transferred over to the aliens?

he says to go back to texas and dig… or else.

poor FEMA. always being blamed for something.

meanwhile, scully is working on getting an autopsy on the goopy body. but there are people approaching!!!

she hides!!! in the freezer!!!! but no!!!! her phone goes off!!!!

LMAOOOO!!! DESPITE the horrible timing, she picks up and says she can’t really talk right now- but mulder wants to know more about this infection she found. 

he wants her to come to dallas with him, but she says she can’t, she has a hearing tomorrow!!! OH SHIT!!! the army men are approaching, but just in time she hides under the bodies…… very gross

now mulder is in a lab far away. looks like she did not accompany him to texas.

JUST KIDDING!!! SHE DID!!! she walks in right as he is told about some archaeological bone fragments!!

she didn’t want to come, but whatever those men were infected with has a protein code she has never seen before!! and i KNOW scully knows her protein codes!!! it is a serious health threat!!!

time to look at the fossils with a microscope. oh, whatever she sees is crazy, judging by the face she is making

(i thought it was so funny how he tells the dude in the lab he wanted her to explore the bones because it was so conveniently timed AND because they were archaeological remains that were thousands of years old, and i'm thinking, is she trained in archaeology? or is that implied with a training in forensic pathology? at what age is a bone no longer in her area of expertise?!)

back to the texas site…. the scary government people are going to try the vaccine. BLEH, whatever was in that guy has come free through his chest!!!!!!!!!!! bronschweig is looking around all over the place, freaking tf out!!!! where did it go?!!!!!

bronschweig says he can see it?? in a cave.

it looks slimy. and kinda little? he’s loading up a syringe with some sort of liquid that must be the vaccine, but then it vanishes!!!

OH. IT IS NOT LITTLE. NOT LITTLE AT ALL!!!!

GIRL. IT EATED HIM!?!!!! bronschweig stabs the alien fellow with the vaccine, but the other scientists lock him down in the hole because he has been mauled!!!!!!! and they bury him!!!! damn!!! there are truly no alliances in this alien business!!!!

why are we in england now? OHHHHH! IT’S WELL-GROOMED MAN!!! his butler says he has a call….

(okay, yeah, his name is “well-manicured man”, as the subtitles show, but come on!! it’s been 5 seasons of me calling him the wrong name!! i can’t switch it up now!!)

CSM says there is an emergency meeting TONIGHT. and strughold called it- whoever tf that is.

i have a feeling i am supposed to be most sympathetic towards well-groomed man. especially as he runs for what i presume to be his crying grandchild who hurt their knee. he was also the only one to advocate for working alongside the resistance, which morally elevated him above the others. but still. he is IN the alien groupchat, which you do not enter by being a morally clean fellow

syndicate meeting time!! who is this strughold fellow? aww, well-manicured man’s grandson broke his legs :(

so, breaking news: the alien virus has mutated into a new entity! they need to reevaluate their role in the colonization! well-groomed man points out that they have been used this whole time!! and they dismiss all of his wisdom!

so, they are once again going to ignore his advice of trying to have any hope. but there have been complications… allow us to look at a TV to illustrate

it is mulder and scully on the security footage!!! someone must have tipped him off to what is going on!! and they suspect kurtzweil. so he must go. and so must mulder.

but if they kill mulder, they risk turning one man's quest into a wider crusade… so they must take away what he cannot live without… 

cut to scully!!!! NOOOOOO!

ahhhhh!! i left off at 54:52, i feel that this is an okay place to leave for the night, because my writeups take so long. i started this almost 2 hours ago, and i think a break is appropriate here. so! until tomorrow!!!

ahhhh… so many things to analyze. while trying to fall asleep, i couldn’t stop thinking about the following: scully teasing mulder at the very beginning of the film; how she doesn’t want to work for the FBI anymore without him, and how she no longer feels she can make a change there (and how she Needs to make change rather than simply earn a paycheck); how she is trying to find her place in life still; his sadness at this fact; how he went to the bar and got smashed to cope, spilling his guts out to the waitress, clearly crushed that the world thinks he’s a joke when he doesn't have the answers to dull the pain; how he showed up to scully’s place drunk and she was confused, and the careful line of their relationship was being walked upon when he did so, but she still followed him into the hospital; and then how she immediately started nerding out about the goopy guy, and then hid in the morgue to autopsy him!!!!! and then there’s the whole thing with the well-groomed man and the aliens and colonization and blah blah blah, but come on!! i want my babies back together!! kicking ass and taking names!!! so.

part 2 shall commence shortly!

[that-one-i-think]

Sso in my scifi au, Vylad is going to be half alien and essentially an information broker. He is the one who originally found Aphmaus restoration pod. (Given how she is a clone formed from he DNA of a mysterious alien). Garte was going to use her to essentially try and not only solve THE RED (Shadow Knight zombie parasite) and takeover the galaxy, as power hungry men do.

Here is Vylads major plot points in my scifi au

- He is the product of an affair between his mother and an unknown alien species. While Vylad can be human passing, it was still obvious that he was an affair child. Garte covered up the alien features because Zianna having an affair with a human is a lot better than her having an affair with an alien.

- Zianna did willingly get pregnant because she wanted a baby, her own child that wasn't going to be twisted by Garte. Garroth was already 9 and at "private military school" (human experimentation) and Zane was always following his father because his health prevented him from going to school. (His body rejected experimentation so Garte decided to make him an heir)

- Vylad lived happily under their mothers care for many many years. Given how Zianna refused to tell Garte what type of alien Vylad was, he couldn't experiment and since his wife was happy he left Vylad alone. Until it did get out that Vylad was part alien and he had to "deal with the problem"

- Zianna, seeing the assanation attempt coming a mile away decided to use it to her advantage and made it so Vylad wouldn't die but get sent away. So she staged her own much earlier accident where Vylad ship would be lost on transit and crashed on a planet resulting in the death of her baby. The plan worked, until it didn't.

- The shuttle she sent to receive Vylad's captain worked on a planet that had recently been in a planet infested with THE RED, and it had spread throughout the crew. When Vylad was picked up, they were also infected and before you knew it, a bloodbath had begun.

- The majority of the crew turned on each other with the exception of Vylad and a cabin boy, Zenix. The two were the only ones who had a resistance the full affects of the red and eventually had to team up and slaughter the rest of the cabin.

- The ship did get to its destination and Vylad and Zenix quickly went their separate ways, not wanting a reminder of what they went through. That is when Vylad became employed by his mothers old friend, a cybernetics expert Hyria who used Vylads ability to blend into the background to gain information. Then he quickly became an information broker with the goal of taking down Garte with the help of Hyria.

- He soon gained word about Zane hiring the S.S. Phoenix Drop to transport a weapon of mass destruction and decided to turn the tides. He intercepted the message and arrived at the warehouse keeping the weapon to discover it was Aphmau. So he decided to mess with fate and killed the previous captain of the Phoenix Drop (who had been feeding information about Garroth to Zane) and made it seem like Aphmau was supposed to join the crew.

- He hires Zenix when they meet up again to be a 3 way spy. Hired him to spy on Zane and Garroth while also feeding Zane false information. Betraying Zane and Garroth but also not betraying Garroth.

That's it for Vylad right now.

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 23rd July ✨

This week has been such an amazing week of listening! I’ve found three new shows that I absolutely adore and I can’t wait to tell you all about them ✨

Spoilers ahead!

🌲@hellofromthehallowoods (126) FIRST OF ALL 🚗🚗🚗 BEEP BEEP GET IN LOSER, WE’RE GOING TO GET MOTH 🚗🚗🚗 So glad to hear from you again, Ray!! This line: “the devil’s a better man than I am” had my eyebrows disappearing into my hairline and that’s all I’m going to say at this time. It’s always a risk listening in public, because the scene on the beach made me want to cry a little. I hope in my heart that they’re all going to make it out of there but I have no idea how right now! 

📻 @monstrousagonies (106) the first letter this week made me laugh so much! I was fully expecting the ‘moocher’ to be a brownie or someone like that, so it was a fun surprise to hear of a demonic midnight snacker! I may have to use that excuse when my baked goods don’t turn out so baked or good . . .  

🎞  Tiny Terrors (021) What a welcome VA jumpscare from Mx Wellman!! I loved the story (I, too, would feed the mega-toad to make it happy) but the surrounding footage was really creepy... I sure hope the gang goes to investigate the Riverside Institute. What’s the worst that could happen?? 👀

🌍 OOH the most recent episode of @lastechoespod was genuinely empowering! The political pressure the Archivist is under seems to have ramped up this ep, and reading @skyfullofpods’s thoughts on it last week makes me want to listen to it all again with fresh ears! 

🧛‍♂️ @re-dracula What a great week! Alasdair Stuart nails it as the Captain of the Demeter. His voice in the first ep is the calm surface of the sea, hiding the teeming mass of life and death below. The Renfield arc honestly unsettles me so much, but I, too, would love a kitten if there’s one going spare … 

🧬 Regina Prime (ep 4) The revelations!! I loved the sound design of the getting ready montage in this ep but I loved the lore drop even more! 300 clones?! And cloning is something that’s happening commercially? Damn. The last line actually made me grin, Epsilon is quick-witted and brave (or stupid!) and I like her a lot. Every episode I get more enthralled by this show and everyone needs to be listening! 

 💫 Wolf 359 (20-22) Hot damn. The tension aboard the Hephaestus is something else… the paranoia is written so well, you’re listening with your most suspicious face trying to unpick it and getting nowhere. I love how I have no idea where this is going but I know the ride is going to be BUMPY. 

🎩 I started @ethicstownpod this week and it deserves ALL the hype. The show uses a well-loved audio drama trope to bring us a very interesting new story. The writing and voice acting are spot on from the get-go, and the sound design choices feel fresh despite the radio format. Most podcasts make me feel, but this one makes me think as well! I really love it!! I’ve been following the development of the show on Tumblr for a while and I remember the creator being so excited about January’s VA and yeah, I totally get it. Amazing. Hard to believe the role wasn’t written for him. 

SPOILERS: I love how the main ethical issues are presented while January currently seems oblivious to the ethical quandary of keeping important information from someone and who has the right to make that decision . . . ALSO Artemis and Grace are very close in age . . . imagine if they became friends . . . and then Artemis found out . . . . HOO BOY. 

🥾@doyoucopypod The first two episodes are very promising! In the first ep, the pod-within-a-pod recording leads to some fun & cheesy dialogue which contrasts well with the jaded but wary interludes from [REDACTED]. I love a spooky woodland mystery and I’m really hoping for a Blair Witch style descent into terrifying found-footage chaos! The second episode really tugged on the old heart strings. I need a Does The Dog Die for this show bc I’ve had Wilson for 8 minutes but if anything happened to him I’d make that Dead Zone REALLY much more dead-er. 

🏴‍☠️ @levianpod This show has dropped its anchor right into my heart!!! DAMN. I’ve listened twice this week. I can’t recall the last time I was so immediately ALL-IN for an audio drama. I mean, firstly, that cover art is GORGEOUS. I genuinely think this show has it all, there’s LORE, there’s spiciness, there are sea captains who are also sea monsters (a GIFT for the wlw, thank you 🙏), there’s a teenage romance gone WRONG. Then there’s the voice acting!! Incredible performances right out of the gate. It’s safe to say that I am OBSESSED. Why are you still here? Go fucking listen to Levian. 

🎧 In the most recent ep of The First Episode Of, W Keith Tims talks to Packhowl - a creator I greatly admire. I love these interviews! It’s so fascinating to hear how other creators came to audio drama and it’s shed some of the brilliant The Madness of Chartrulean in new light for me. I miss grumpy space Jesus. 

That's it from me! PLEASE go listen to Ethics Town, Do You Copy and Levian!!

[sandymybeloved]

I recently asserted that Sarah-Jane and the Bannerman Road kids rarely stumble across trouble, trouble comes to fuck with them. I have decided to test if my assertion is true, the numbers are as follows

investigative journalism (characters investigate a company/phenomenom/disappearace/whatever and find aliens): 9/37 stories

an accident (no matter what these characters would have been involved, wrong place wrong time): 5/37 stories

fuck you (antagonists are specifically messing with Sarah-Jane or the Bannerman Road kids, sometimes for the sake of it, sometimes because its part of their plans for world domination): 17/37 stories

fuck you Sarah-Jane (the antagonist wants Sarah): 10/37 stories

fuck you Luke: 3/37 stories

fuck you Clyde: 5/37 stories

fuck you Rani: 5/37 episodes

please note some of the episodes count for multiple categories, obviously every fuck you is targeted, sometimes at multiple people, but sometimes different characters get involved in different ways

also bear in mind I have a better memory of some episodes than others so some may be miscounted

the specific breakdown by story is under the cut

[ID: graphical representation of the cummulative total of types of inciting incident \end ID]

Series 1 (Invasion of the Bane - The Lost Boy)

Investigative Journalism: 3/6 | Accident: 3/6 | Fuck You: 2/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 1/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6

Invasion of the Bane: Sarah-Jane does investigative journalism, Maria is on a tour of the factory when shit hits the fan (1 investigative journalism, 1 accident)

Revenge of the Slitheen: Slitheen infiltrate the kids new school (accident)

Eye of the Gorgon: investigating ghosts at an old peoples home (investigative journalism)

Warriors of Kudlak: Maria and Sarah-Jane investigate weird weather patterns and disappearances, Clyde and Luke play laser tag at what turns out to be the front for the alien's plans (1 investigative journalism, 1 accident)

Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane: the Trickster causes Sarah-Jane to die as a teenager so a meteor will destroy the Earth (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Lost Boy: Slitheen pretend to be Luke's biological parents so they can use his intelligence (fuck you Luke)

Series 2 (The Last Sontaran - Enemy of the Bane)

Investigative Journalism: 3/6 | Fuck You: 4/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 2/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 2/6 | Fuck You Rani: 1/6

The Last Sontaran: investigating strange lights around a telescope (investigative journalism)

The Day of the Clown: a clown follows Clyde and Rani, they then do investigations, but the clown following is the inciting incident (fuck you Clyde and Rani)

Secrets of the Stars: investigating a guy for who astrology works, his plan would have happened anyway, but the group are interested before that (investigative journalism)

The Mark of the Berserker: this one is difficult to call, ultimately the main antagonist of the episode is Clyde's dad, the episode would have ended a quarter of the way through were it not for Clyde's dad stealing the pendant Rani found, him then getting Clyde to leave with him is what got everyone else involved. Ultimately this one is a combination of Rani investigating why that boy was acting strangely, and Clyde's dad taking Clyde and causing the actual problems (investigative journalism, fuck you Clyde)

The Temptation of Sarah-Jane Smith: the Trickster lays a trap for Sarah-Jane so cause the world to descend into a dystopian hellscape (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Enemy of the Bane: Miss Wormwood shows back up and asks Sarah-Jane for help, it is a trap but thats how our group get involved (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Series 3 (Prisoner of the Judoon - The Gift)

Investigative Journalism: 2/6 | Accident: 1/6 | Fuck You: 4/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 2/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 1/6 | Fuck You Rani: 2/6

Prisoner of the Judoon: Sarah-Jane tracks a pod and they find an alien fugitive (investigative journalism)

The Mad Woman in the Attic: Rani's friend has been emailing her about weird stuff at a themepark local to him, as she is pulled into it by investigation from someone not in the main group, I'm not counting it as investigative journalism (fuck you Rani)

The Wedding of Sarah-Jane Smith: another trap by the Trickster (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Eternitiy Trap: this one is tricky, as far as I remember, the group are asked there by some scientist friends, but I don't think it counts as a fuck you deal (investigative journalism, fuck you nobody)

The Mona Lisa's Revenge: the Mona Lisa comes to life while the kids are at the art gallery on a school trip (accident)

The Gift: the Blathereen give the group a gift that turns out to be a bioweapon (fuck you everybody)

Series 4 (The Nightmare Man - Goodbye Sarah-Jane Smith)

Fuck You: 6/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 4/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 2/6 | Fuck You Rani: 2/6

The Nightmare Man: a being haunts Luke with nightmares (fuck you Luke

The Vault of Secrets: Androvax returns and asks Sarah-Jane for help, its a trick but thats how our group gets involved (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Death of the Doctor: the Doctor fakes his death, Sarah-Jane, and by extension the group, are invited to the funeral (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Empty Planet: everyone on Earth disappears, except Clyde and Rani because they were grounded by the Judoon in a previous story (fuck you Clyde and Rani)

Lost in Time: another tricky one, investigative journalism least them to a man who spreads them all throughout time, except the man wanted to be found so its more like a trap (fuck you everybody)

Goodbye Sarah-Jane Smith: a woman ingratiates herself with Sarah-Jane and the gang so she can make Sarah-Jane believe she's loosing touch, and ultimately take over the Earth (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Series 5 (Sky - The Man Who Never Was)

Investigative Journalism: 1/3 | Accident: 1/3 | Fuck You: 1/3 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 1/3

Sky: a baby is dumped of Sarah-Jane's doorstep (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Curse of Clyde Langer: Clyde gets a splinter, then his life falls apart (accident)

The Man Who Never Was: the group investigate a company launching a revolutionary new computer (investigative journalism)

[royalchewy]

Brozone Parents

my personal take on the Brozone parents. Got the idea while matching Brozone to AJR songs and thought “how can I make JD even more sad” and then ‘God is Really Real’ came on and I thought “perfect”. Please let me know any thoughts you have if you read the rest below

Brozone is in its early years, Floyd is getting ready for his debut into the band. Everything is going well, their parents are so happy with how the band is already taking off and their boys are so happy to be performing together. Everything is perfect. 

Then, their mom is taken during trollstice, and their dad is taking it badly. He doesn’t know how to continue without her, they had built a family and home together, she was his true love. He turned grey, he won’t eat or speak, he won’t even leave his bed. He is essentially dying of a broken heart.

Rosiepuff and JD are doing everything to give the other bros a sense of normalcy, they’re still working on new music for Floyd’s debut. Rosiepuff is old though, so JD is stuck with a lot of the responsibilities. This includes keeping the egg that had been in his dad’s hair safe, since being grey means he’s less warm and the trolling in the egg would die if JD doesn’t step in.

JD is doing his best to take over raising his brothers. Grandma handles more of the cleaning and providing a home, while JD does a lot of the parents. It’s a lot of work and always chaotic, but he always takes time at the end of each day to give his dad an update on everything happening and also tries to get him to leave his bed.

Eventually, his dad is put in a medical pod, to give him around the clock care to see if any forms of therapy help, but nothing is working. JD is gradually begging more and more desperately for him to get out of bed and to get better, because he isn’t ready to lose both of his parents. He’s hyping up his newest song, but says he’ll only play it for his dad once he gets out of bed.

One day, he walk into the medical pod and his dad isn’t there. A couple of options from here:

1)Their dad just up and left, and they have no idea what happened 

2)He died from his broken heart and the medical staff moved his body to hopefully prevent JD from turning grey 

3)It’s Trollstice and he is willingly sacrificing himself to be with his love again 

4)He leaves a note to say he’s going to the Neverglade trail, where the two met, and when he feels her spirit is roaming and he’ll feel the greatest connection to her.

All of these leave JD feeling like he failed his mother and brothers, by not being able to get their father back. It’s also why he puts so much pressure on the band, because maybe if they’re successful and can hit the perfect harmony, he’ll make their mom proud from where ever she is, and maybe, just maybe, their dad will come back (in scenarios where he didn’t die).

4 though, is why Clay holds so much resentment for JD. Because he left them for the same thing their dad did, which means he lost all his parental figures (in a way) to the Neverglades. Bruce had the same resentment for that reason too, but it fizzled out a bit over the years and after finding his own true love and becoming a dad.

I wrote a majority of this at 3am one night, so I’m sure some of this needs adjusting, but let me know any thoughts/questions

[naughtless0000]

i played and beat mouthwashing for the first time yesterday. here's how that went..

to start off, i wanna say there's MAJOR spoilers and im gonna be yapping so here we go

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staring off with cool screenshots i took, just so we dont immediately jump off into the depressing yap fest

immediately said "oh boy i love playing fnaf" when i was here (i saw fanart of daisuke and it was him saying 'cmon, its just like among us, you can do this' while crawling though the vents) -

despite the implications i found this to be really fucking cool, but thats just me. and the more you think about it the more games you remember that have a scene where youre going into/coming out of a giant open mouth from the head of a character -

i still cant entirely wrap my head around the fact that swansea has this custom swan key just for him. like, haha, i get it, "swan"sea, swan key.. but where did he get it from? not the key, but the custom holder? makes you wonder how long he's had it for.

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i couldnt find my own screenshot of him, i dont know where it went, but yimpy........ yimpy.. i have a feeling daisuke drew it, who else would it be -

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ok, now its time for the depressing stuff

god. let me tell you about the genuine distress i felt. i had the isopropyl before it was even mentioned, so the first time i had to clear the foam to get to the medicine cabinet. i was just fucking around a little bit when i was stuck in the game (for a stupid reason might i add) so i just mixed it with mouthwash cause i was like "hey, this will make it actually better to use as real mouthwash, right?" (am i an idiot? out of game, like, am i stupid? do you understand what i was thinking though? the disinfectant? anyways..) and when it made the plain mocktail.. i was like "haha this is funny." and then it quickly became NOT FUNNY. when daisuke NEEDED IT, so i had to take the LONG ROUTE TO GET SOMETHING ELSE. AND I BLAME MYSELF FOR HIS DEATH

i know that there probably arent any different routes in the game and it was meant to happen.. but i feel like i should play it again BECAUSE COME ONNNNNN. - i got it spoiled for me that anya was pregnant when i was looking for the solution to helping her out of medical. which, by the way, i was a complete idiot during that part. all i needed to do was click on a different part of the door to continue the game, so im just stupid. you wont believe my face when i realized how dumb i was. so when she said she was pregnant i didnt have a genuine reaction to it, cause i got it spoiled. kind of the same thing for when we get to see what curly looked like before the game, but it wasnt really a spoiler to me because i had no intention of playing the game when i started seeing content for it. i was seeing fanart, and friends posting about it, but i really had no clue. so i knew of curly, and i started to recognize who daisuke was in fanart, and i knew anya but not her name, but i never saw swansea before i went onto the steam page. daisuke ended up being my favourite character.... we can all just WONDER how im FEELING NOW. technically speaking, everybody but curly does die in some way. so if you have a favourite character besides him, forget being happy- actually, scratch that. if you play mouthwashing AT ALL, FORGET BEING HAPPY. BUT ITS SO GOOD!!!! genuinely!! another 10 dollar indie game that completely ruined me!!!!!! mouthwashing is genuinely such a wonderful game, and i wonder if we could be getting another one? but i dont know how a second game would go. does curly ever get found? since he's in the cryo pod, but also (like i just saw someone say when i was looking up the word for cryo pod..) his injuries alone could end up killing him, right? maybe? he is frozen for 20 years, would that stop the bacteria from killing him? i dont know for sure. -

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before writing this blog, i had another where i was updating as i played the game. here are a few things i said, and i'll be adding my thought now after the fact. -

I HAD EVERY RIGHT NOT TO. I NEVER WANTED TO GIVE HIM THE AXE IN THE FIRST PLACE. -

well. when you show a giant, sharp knife, its gotta be used for something other than cake. time to feast. (IM SORRY.) -

youre just an idiot. click on the door and not just the handle. -

this pretty much sums up my experience playing the game after a while (especially being a daisuke fan) -

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anyways. two more screenshots i took

and thats pretty much it i feel like playing the game again after writing this, so maybe i'll do another post about it take this thing i made before i go

sums it up................

[halfdent]

Two  Face  is  no  court  jester  even  he  knows  there’s  just  nothing  funny  about  this  clown  .  All  the  while  she’s  running  her  mouth  he’s  glaring  in  silent  agitation  .  Quips  about  their  face  aren’t  something  they  are  unaccustomed  to  .  If  anything  Two  Face  found  his  own  remarks  about  it  far  more  entertaining.

❝  y’know  ,  they  says  comedians  get  more  famous  after  they  die  —  well  it  applies  to  artists  or  anythin’  really  —  got  me  thinkin’  though  .  I  wonder  if  I’d  find  yer  funnier  when  yer  dead  .  How  ‘bout  it  ,  clown  ? ❞ Gun  straight  to  her  temple  .  ❝  see  the  really  funny  thing  is  every  part  of  us  thinks  yer  deserve  it  .  Solve  a  lotta  problems  an’  finally  put  the  case  to  bed  make  a  lotta  people  smile  without  none  of  that  gas  of  yers  ! ❞ Clearly  that  was  a  no  to  the  lease  of  their  land  then  .

◖ @thewomanwholaughed  /𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐃: "It's my favorite two-peas-in-a-pod!" She throws her arms wide, as if she's expecting applause and cheers. Only for the Joker herself to take a more closed off stance. Fingers rubbing her forehead. "Okay, that nickname was bad. I'll come up with something better later down the line..." "Anywhoosies!" Bouncing right back into energy, the Clown Princess of Crime started swaying from side to side. Humming in delight. "Just wanted to know I'm going to run a convoy through 'your' part of Gotham." Putting her cane down, firmly, she leans on it with her elbow. Her entire body is smiling, but the subtle threat in her voice would not go unnoticed. "Don't touch it." "And my boys won't have to shoot your boys! You know how it goes! I would take my usual route, but it's a LOT of stuff! And this is faster, so. JUST A HEADS-UP BACKSTABBER!" She's pausing, brows furrowed as she properly leaned on her cane instead of her usual antics. "See, that doesn't feel right either. You usually say two-faced backstabber, but if I just say backstabber, it's... hmmm." "What is it the kids say these days? Let me stew? Well, something like that! I'll get a good one! HAHAHAHAHAHAA!"

[eriexplosion]

Clone Wars - Rising Malevolence

Gonna try to get this whole little three parter done tonight.

This is one I was REALLY looking forward to because when I watched it the first time I had no idea what was going on but I did know that I liked Plo Koon. Well now I ADORE Plo Koon and know more about what the fuck's going on and who Wolffe is so I am excited to see how the episodes hit with that knowledge.

And boy is it getting me more already. LITTLE 'SOKA <3 Plo is just wholesome vibes personified AND I love his look, I want nothing more than to treasure him.

As soon as Anakin says he'll need to ask the council about reinforcements you know the answer is going to be No Sorry. Like, anytime the line is about asking for permission they never seem to actually GET permission. What gets me though is that we have a whole entry speech about how super important it is to find the weapon that's destroying all the ships, then we go into a meeting about how important it is to find the weapon that's destroying all the ships, but when Anakin says they have Plo's last location and then he was attacked they suddenly can't spare any ships for a rescue mission?

LIKE GUYS, PLEASE, HE FOUND THE WEAPON. HE FOUND THE THING YOU WANTED. YOU JUST SAID YOU CAN'T LOSE ANYMORE SHIPS TO THIS THING AND YOU NOW KNOW WHERE IT IS. But suddenly you can't spare ships for it? You idiots? Like, even if they think there really are no survivors, you now know what system it's in and could regroup to take it out, anything other than just going WELP WHAT CAN YOU DO and ignoring it?

I of course also hate the whole not even looking for survivors thing, but that's just my continuous gripe with the lack of value placed on individual lives by Jedi protocol.

Back in the Plo Pod though, I genuinely forgot that Wolffe didn't have his damaged eye yet, so the whole opening I thought he was just some other random clone, whoops. Doesn't help that he's not in armor. Boost and Sinker though I recognize on sight. God bless alternate hair styles, even if the bacon strips look a little silly and Sinker's rocking that Crosshair lego hair look.

I think that Plo Koon's line here - "I value your life more than finding that weapon" - is what really made me think it was worth paying attention to this series on the first watch. It's both incredibly touching on his part, extending care to clones that haven't really received it before, and kind of sad because he still is certain someone is coming for them. And they are, but not because of the Jedi council, who was going to just leave all of them for dead. If Anakin didn't 'redeploy' himself then they would have just died out there without anyone even trying to save them and I just! Hate that for them!

I'm always stuck on the 'non-attachment' point with the Jedi I know, but this episode is just a really good example of it. They don't even consider searching for survivors they just go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and move on immediately. That's not being able to let things go that's just not caring if their allies live or die and the writers keep tripping themselves into that and then go tsk-tsk at Anakin for his attachment problems when he's the only one that's interested in saving lives here. Just ridiculous choices.

On a better note, this episode has some killer horror beats in the debris field, though, like the pod circling around slowly to reveal the dead clone troopers inside. We know that Dooku ordered them all killed, but we don't get to see the how until that second, it's just a nice little moment for Creepy Vibes that contrast with comedy moments like Sinker's deadpan 'HOW are we going to make things worse?' while fixing the power.

Then crash directly into the hope spot of finding another pod just in time to hear them dying in addition to watching it happen! Nightmare material, I appreciate it.

AND THEN THERE GOES PLO KOON, CASUALLY JUST. GOING OUT INTO THE VACUUM OF SPACE. Yeeting Sinker around with the force to take out the droids. Insane choice of solution, I love it. This episode was fun the first time but it's definitely more fun knowing who everyone is.

"Sergeant, why are you so certain no one is coming?" "We're just clones sir. We're meant to be expendable." "Not to me."

THIS EXCHANGE. THIS EXCHANGE GETS ME EVERY TIME. And Plo finding out that it's literally just him and these three clones that survived I'm CRY. He fought so hard for his last three men. I love Master Plo Koon, I love Master Plo Koon!!!

I'll be real this was the episode I remembered most so I don't know shit about what's coming in the next two, but we will find out! On we watch!

[hidingoutbackstage]

Sid I'm inviting you to air our your woes on re6 with Chris's end I wanna hear them

Muahaha I baited you to send this ask I’m such a schemer. Anyway

Gonna start at the beginning, and by the beginning I mean the development of 6, because the original ending of Chris’ campaign has CHRIS infecting himself and sacrificing himself for PIERS, not the other way around. Already I’m going to start with saying that I think this ending is much better than Piers infecting himself and sacrificing himself for Chris. It is a dramatic and kind of satisfying ending for Chris’ story and his life.

Piers, in my opinion, is a direct parallel to Chris, going as far as to look like him and even be the same age as Chris was when RE1 happened. So this ending works as a way to pass on the torch from Chris to Piers (which also considers the somewhat consistent theme of RE6 being about the next generation of Resident Evil and likely being an attempt to shift the focus from old protagonists to new)

I guess the studio, someone or a group of people that were higher up in the company were like "Nope, you can't kill our poster boy" so instead of writing a new ending that still works with these characters, they decided to take the easy way out and go “Let’s just swap who sacrifices himself for whom and call it a day.”

This change makes the impact feel less great, in my opinion, because once you hear it was initially supposed to be Chris sacrificing himself and Piers being left to continue the legacy, you REALLY can’t unsee it and unsee it’s potential. The cutscene between the two men in the elevator where Chris says he wants Piers to take up the torch when Chris retires after this feels a lot more impactful if Chris dies on THIS mission and Piers immediately decides to honor his captain’s legacy and fulfill his request. The end scene with Chris at the bar being recruited for his next mission doesn’t feel like it’s come full circle, it feels like Chris is at rock bottom and nothing has changed, he lost his entire team and is feeling lonely but this time he isn’t turning to drink. It feels more fitting as a mirror of the first scene having Piers be in Chris’ former position, mourning, and being summoned by someone who’s now in his old position. It actually feels like the story came full circle.

Not to mention, Chris literally shows that he’s willing to die for the good of the world when he tells Jake to shoot him, it’d feels like he’s showing he’s serious about it if he infected himself to save Piers and take down the HAOS, then saved Piers by forcing him into the escape pod and leaving him behind. Chris is determined to eliminate bioterrorism, no matter the cost, and he’d definitely be willing to sacrifice his own life to keep one more B.O.W. out of this world. Piers being young and naive and desperately trying to save Chris because he hasn’t been as hardened by this world as Chris had again just feels a bit more akin to the vibe I feel like they were going for.

I know 6 didn’t give a shit about Marhawa Desire, but I do, and again I feel like Piers living would make that more impactful too. Piers promised Merah that he’d take out bioterrorism with Chris, Merah asked that of Piers, so Piers continuing on for both Merah and Chris is again, impactful.

Not to get too spoiler-y for Your Heart’s Still Beating, but Piers carrying on Chris’ legacy works in regards to my favorite AU, where he takes Chris’ role in 7 and 8. It works as kind of development for Piers, he isn’t Chris Redfield and his approach in the world of bioterrorism is different than Chris’. Could have been fun to see! Oh well.

Another tiny thing I would’ve preferred be different about the end of Chris’ story in 6 was to see Chris, Piers, Jake and Sherry all fight the HAOS together. It really felt like they were building up to that fight in-game, before Jake and Sherry left them for seemingly no story reason. Chris sacrificing himself could’ve been impactful there too if the four of them had escaped together, Sherry seeing the death of someone she admires (because ofc Claire told Sherry about her brother) Piers helpless to save his captain who he promised Merah he’d fight alongside to end bioterrorism, and Jake seeing the man who he literally pointed a gun at and told Jake he’d killed Wesker, now sacrificing himself for Jake and the others, that’s gotta hurt. Only exists in my mind ig

[princecharmingtobe]

New guy! Don't know if anyone remembers the "punk rock bard" I made up a while ago, before BG3 was out. A tiefling named Rebellion, Rebel for short. I finally caved and got the Basket Full of Equipment mod, and I am so glad I did, look at my boy. He should be an interesting one to play, as he is very chaotic good, and as his name suggests, HATES being told what to do. His in-character reaction to Lae'zel asking "Do you intend to die for a stranger?" would be to turn to her and say "Yes, as a matter of fact!" before continuing to search for a way to open the pod.

Backstory for those interested: Rebel was born to human parents (obviously they didn't name him that), and his mother died in childbirth. His father tried to raise him out of obligation, but very obviously blamed him for the death of his wife and saw him as a devil, a curse on the family, and after only a few years abandoned him. Rebel was found by an older tiefling who basically took in kids like Rebel and tried to give them the best upbringing he could. When Rebel was about 15~ the old man was murdered, and he and his "siblings" decided that simply trying to live a good life wasn't enough, if things weren't going to change for the better they'd MAKE them change. However, he came to realize that his siblings weren't so much trying to change the world for the better as they were just taking their hurt out on whatever targets they could find. After a violent disagreement with them he left on his own, traveling the land to spread the message of rising up and pushing back against oppressive and bigoted systems and mindsets.

[mathmusic8]

Reaction for Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 - Faster

(spoilers under the cut)

I see Tech has the brain cell today XD

Safa Toma - planet with a whole lot of shady people

Pod racing? Okay, there's potential here--we haven't seen much pod racing since Phantom Menace, and it's one area that hasn't been extensively explored by the fandom as a whole yet, at least that I've seen--

Oh, riot racing. They're allowed to shoot each other. Doesn't seem like a very sustainable idea, but okay

...hmm, I'm really, really sorry, TAY-0, but you're... not my favorite. I guess rude-cocky-idiot-flirty-playboy droids don't quite do it for me

Cid's full name is Ciddarin Scaleback? Sounds appropriately lizardly XD

Millegi--I think he's the same species as that one Inquisitor lady from Jedi Fallen Order (looked it up later and yeah, the Ninth Sister was also a Dowut)

...Cid, this doesn't feel like a good idea

...okay, this is officially a filler episode XD

Welp, there goes TAY-0

Omeeeegaaaaa, what are you doing....?

"Yeah, I'm inclined too" love Wrecker backing up Tech there XD

Oh no, TAY-0 trying to boss Tech around--this isn't making me like you any better, sir.

Good job keeping it chill, there, Tech

TAY-0 STOP BASHING ON TECH D:<

Aaaand there goes TAY-0. Again.

Awwww, Wrecker's face when he says "He's not joking." He looks legitimately concerned that Tech might not walk away from this (for good reason)

(But we all know he will. This would be a very, very stupid way to die)

"I can do both." Love how calm Tech is about all this XD

Ah, he's gonna made them grab each other instead of him--yup :D

Omega: "You did it!!" Tech: 'You sound surprised."

Yeah Omega, we're only like 4 episodes into this season, calm down XD

...I don't trust that other racer fingering his balster....

Ah, the big boss stepped in. Good.

...and that's the whole episode!

Cool, so we're getting more Tech and Wrecker appreciation, exposing the boys to civilian life in new ways, and overall it's a fun, chill filler episode. Is that the whole goal here, or are we getting started on a larger arc of the Bad Batchers finding new jobs and hobbies?

Very curious to see which way this goes

[rosegoldorigins]

Masterpost

Here are all my stories in one place! Comments, asks and interactions are greatly appreciated! ^-^ <3 <3 <3

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One-Shots (Mcyt)

They've Killed Me But I'll Live (As Long As You Keep Loving Me)

Tommy, Tubbo and Ranboo revive after they die. They don't expect King Philza and his family to accept them after learning about Tommy's death but they get pleasantly surprised.

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Gem Of The Pod (You Bring Us Together)

TommyInnit grew up around mers thanks to his brother's job. It meant he didn't fear getting close with them.

| AO3 Link |

You're Worth More Than The Gold You're Made Of (Or The Legends To Your Name)

Technoblade got cursed into the crown that advised him for the entirety of his rule. When he came back to awareness Tommy was being coronated.

| AO3 Link |

You Got Too Close (And That's Not Fair. I Fell For You)

Shapeshifter Tommy got himself in a mess with the Fae. The forced contract was expected. The love and care they gave him was not...

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Groundhog Death

Tommy gets stuck in a death loop trying to save Wilbur. He finally realises the only way to get out is to let Will go.

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He Walked Onto My Land (That Makes Him Mine)

Werewolf Technoblade made the mistake of walking onto vampire territory. Wilbur doesn't want him to leave now.

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It's Always Nice To Have Someone To Look Up To (It's Even Better When They Lend A Hand)

Zombie Tommy was infatuated with Human Technoblade. The human was just so cool... who knew the man would give him his second chance at life?

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Don't Take Solace From Me (I'm One Of Them)

Zombie Technoblade finds Human Tommy stranded on a fire escape surrounded by a hoard. He makes noises to draw the creatures away allowing Tommy to be safe again.

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It's Always Nice To Have Someone To Look Up To (It's Even Better When They Lend A Hand)

Zombie Tommy thinks Human Techno is cool. Techno ends up helping Tommy turn human again.

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Get To Know The Real Me (Because Everything That Came Before Was A Lie)

Tommy has illusion powers and when Techno swaps bodies with him he learns the boy looks different from what he thought.

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Family Means I'm On Your Side

Werewolf Tommy learns what protection from a pack feels like (with SBI)

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Not The Afterlife You Expected Huh?

When Tommy dies in exile he gets sent to the Underworld where he meets Cerberus and Hades.

| AO3 Link |

Wild Card (I Wasn't Expecting You To Join Me)

Vampire Scott was sad after his friends died but thankfully Lauren wants to join his evil league.

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Another Successful Laundry Day

Tommy is a racoon hybrid and he takes his title of 'Laundry Bear' very seriously.

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When Laundry Day Goes Wrong (Call Your Brother For Help)

Sequel: Tubbo accidentally ruins Tommy's laundry day. Wilbur has to come over and fix the situation. | AO3 Link |

Broken Silence (Now There's Faded Secrets In The Air)

God Wilbur is cursed to silence. Mortal Tommy enjoys learning sign language and communicating with him.

| AO3 Link |

No Such Thing As Family Immunity

Vampire Tommy annoys his brother and next thing Techno knows he's protecting his fledgling from Wilbur. It's all in good fun.

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Eh... No Big Deal

Tommy is a recently turned vampire that isn't as bothered as most humans would be.

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Our Bonds Are In The Blood

Vampire Tommy wakes up to an abandoned nest. He doesn't know the SBI were stolen and held captive from him.

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Don't Break Our Hearts Like That

Piglin Technoblade gets zombified. Hiding it from his family he enters the forest to die a noble death without infecting his clan. Human Wilbur and Phil won't allow that. They quickly correct Techno's mistake and cure his disease.

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Why Didn’t You Learn? (We’re Here For You)

Sequel: Piglin Tommy starts noticing the effects of the zombifying process on himself. Techno catches his symptoms and insists he'll help. | AO3 Link |

The Magic Was In The Love

After their magic gets locked away Witch Wilbur doesn't realise Familiar Tommy is dying. He does everything in his power to correct his mistake, he needs Tommy to know he loves him.

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5 Times SBI Try To Get Rid Of Tommy And 1 Time They Succeed (The Victory Is Not Sweet)

The Syndicate doesn't know Tommy has revival powers until he dies in their arms.

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I'm Here To Accept The Parts Of You You Reject

Technoblade neglects his wings when they form. He's never had a problem with binding them for the sake of his image as King until Philza arrives and teaches him what they are supposed to look like.

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Werewolf Cuddle Pile

Werewolf Tommy dares opening the door to the SBI's den. He loses the bravery to go in but his actions lead to the pack coming to him for a cuddle.

| AO3 Link |

Don't Look At Me Too Closely (I'm Dead)

Continuation of LuckyMagicBelle's scrap bin idea.

| AO3 Link |

The Fae Have Resigned From Child Rearing (Please Stop Palming Your Kids To Us)

Fae Technoblade is left rearing Human Tommy and Wilbur.

| AO3 Link |

When The Corvid’s Eyes Turn Black (It’s An Omen Of Death)

Bunny Technoblade saves Corrupt OriginsSMP Philza

| AO3 Link |

Sounder Leader Tommy

Tommy loses his clan and is forced to find a new sounder. When he gets fostered by Philza's hybrid family it quickly becomes clear he must become the new head of the family.

| AO3 Link |

It'll Be Alright In The End

Technoblade has major favoritism to a scruffy avian (Tommy) working in a cafe.

| AO3 Link |

My Nimbus Brings Rain For You To Dance In

Witch Shelby and Scott bond over a bird.

| AO3 Link |

Don't Put Him In The Sky (He'll Probably Fall Out Of It)

Grian collects the bad boys glasses after they pass.

| AO3 Link |

As I Dance On Worn Wood (Come Join Me In This Tradition)

Grian and Mumbo learn of the Prime Path.

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Philza GhostCraft

Ghost Philza builds and he doesn't quite know why. He never understands his builds but they seem to convey emotions, places... people. He can't remember who. He's missing something.... And then Ghostbur finds him.

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Pricked Fingers Rattle My Soul

Wilbur is revived and the afterlife still haunts him.

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Open Mornings

OriginsSMP Philza, Wilbur and Tommy live in the Pub. It's their duty to open the place up for the public each morning. It's Phil's favourite time of day.

| AO3 Link |

Don't Leave Me Behind (I Want To Be By Your Side)

Tommy had always dreamed of the day Wilbur would pass down his old guitar to him.

| AO3 Link |

Don't Dull Your Vision To Match Others

Philza finds an avian child who is embarrassed about their wings.

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(Lego Monkie Kid)

Let's Get Through This (Together)

MK's gone missing. With Sun Wukong transforming into the kid and pretending everything's ok his friends don't notice. Macaque very quickly sees through Wukong's disquise and he's going to do everything in his power to get the boy back. Even if that involves asking for help.

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I'll Guide You Through The Dark (It's What I Do)

Sun Wukong goes blind in a fight. Thankfully Macaque is there to look after him.

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Let Me VENT

Red Son steals one of MK's art books. A few years later when Mei and MK crash at his place they find the book and he has to face the embarrassment of hoarding the drawings.

| AO3 Link |

I May Have Forgotten A Lot But I Haven't Forgotten My Brother

Sun Wukong loses his memory temporarily. It heals his relationship with Macaque.

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(Good Omens)

You're Not Evil (You're Just A Demon Going As Far As He Can With Hell)

Aziraphale falls from heaven after the season 2 finale. He fears Crowley will reject him but nothing has changed between them.

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Confessions on Alpha Centauri

After season 2's ending Aziraphale goes searching for Crowley. He finds him among the stars.

| AO3 Link |

(Sanders Sides)

Chasing A Mermaid's Tale

Captain Roman is certain he's spotted a mermaid late one night.

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Chaptered Stories (Mcyt)

I'm Out Of The Norm (Oh, You Are Too?)

Demon Tommy gets adopted by werewolf SBI.

| AO3 Link |

It's A Mystery How I Can Fit In Among You

Demon Tommy gets adopted by human SBI.

| AO3 Link |

We're Villains Not Buddies (Don't Expect Me To Save You)

Villain Tommy saves Siren and from then on his life gets tied up with the Syndicate.

| AO3 Link |

Static In Your Ear (I'm More Than You Bargained For)

Villain Tommy with sound powers captures the SBI team. In the hero's attempts to escape Tommy learns his mentor Dream doesn't hold the same loyalty to him.

| AO3 Link |

We Were Running Away With No Where To Run To

Continuation of 'on the getaway mile' by Odaigahara.

| AO3 Link |

To Take Down My Power

Technoblade gets taken by the Egg. Niki gathers the Syndicate and Puffy to free the server.

| AO3 Link |

So How About That Domestic Life Huh?

Philza's kids are born with hybrid features. He never stops loving them and eventually they find their place in the world.

| AO3 Link |

When You're Banished From Home (Run Into My Arms)

After piglin Technoblade gets banished from his clan he helps piglin Tommy who is struggling with the same scorn.

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I Know I’m Tough (But That Doesn’t Mean I Was Born In The Right Place)

After Tommy saves Mumbo and stays a few days in HermitCraft he realises his old home hasn't treated him well. He ends up living with the hermits.

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It's Only For My Public Image (Nothing Else)

Vampire Technoblade needs to boost his public image so he adopts a human child (Tommy)

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Hefty Loss (But A Rich Gain)

Centaur Technoblade gets saved by Phil and lives on his farm.

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Monster Hunt (But Maybe There Are No Monsters Nearby)

A Hunter vs Monster AU featuring Hermits and Life Series characters.

| AO3 Link | Martyn Human Design | Martyn Kelpie Design |

Dear Hunter You Call Us Monsters (Though It's You Who Kills)

The deleted prologue for Grian. | AO3 Link |

Drive Around The Block (I Want To Get To Know You)

Tommy is a getaway driver, the SBI are villains and Tubbo + Ranboo are Tommy's support team talking to him over comms. The villains get attached to the driver they hired.

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I'll Plead Guilty If You Go Down With Me

An extra oneshot where Tommy decides to sue the heroes. | AO3 Link |

Water Falling Through My Cupped Hands (Please Stay A Little Longer)

Human Wilbur gets trapped by sirens. Mer Technoblade saves him and takes him to Philza.

| AO3 Link |

You’re Days Of Being Strong Are Over (You Are Safe Enough To Rest)

Werewolf Tommy has to learn how to get along with others. When he winds up in Philza's place he finds his family in the SBI.

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Black Ash Against My Scales (We're Not All As Dark As Our Legends)

The humans steal Philza and Kristin's egg. When Techno finds a hatchling in his camp he suspects it might be the child that started this whole war.

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You Don't Know How I Feel (Until You Do)

Technoblade and Tommy switch bodies. It helps them understand each other and heal.

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Good Riddance

Deleted ending. Dream comes to bother Tommy and it doesn't work. | AO3 Link |

A Biased King (But Only For You)

General Technoblade loses his sight in battle. Philza struggles to help his friend because of his duties as King though thankfully his people support them in the end.

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My Wings Mean Freedom

Ranboo is terrified of avians until he moves to a town where avian Tommy and Tubbo live.

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Do You Know The Rules? (Because I Know How To Break Them)

Pirate Tommy can determine the value of any object in front of him. It makes him an excellent thief and it saves his crew from being stranded after a coup.

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Cows And Soft Memories

Tommy pack bonds with a cow.

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Too Much Trouble (He Outsmarts Us)

Piglin Technoblade gets banished from his clan. It takes him time to find a new one but Philza's clan is good.

| AO3 Link |

Hungry For Power (But Only Given A Taste)

Villain Wilbur hates sharing his power and his territory with Philza. The man plays games he didn't want to be a part of.

| AO3 Link |

The Parts Of Us We Stash Away

Racoon Tommy has concerns that his less desirable instincts (aka gathering trash) will not be taken well by his new family. AfterlifeSMP Lizzie assures him his instincts are normal.

| AO3 Link |

Watch Me Fall, Watch Me fly

Bench trio in a corrupt circus.

| AO3 Link |

Finding Your Friend Right Beside You

Technoblade gets turned into a Hoglin. Philza goes looking for his friend in the Nether not realising Techno is the Hoglin following him.

| AO3 Link |

Plot Armour Cause Baby +1

Techno and Phil are big goliath mers, Tommy and Tubbo are recently drowned humans turned mermaids.

| AO3 Link |

New Year?

Tubbo's perspective of "Make Sure You Know Who To Shoot" by 7CxRhye.

| AO3 Link |

Paws And Talons (What’s The Difference When We Chirp The Same?)

Avian Wilbur starts manifesting his wings during a meet up with Racoon Tommy. Phil takes his son back home to the nest, Tommy follows and finds himself adopted by a flock of avians.

| AO3 Link |

I Have My Morals (Don't You Go Trying To Change Them)

Vampire Tommy gets captured and sent to the SBI coven.

| AO3 Link |

Trust Is Letting Someone Do Your Hair

Hair care is sacred to Piglin culture. Technoblade hardly believes his eyes when the SBI find out and respect his traditions.

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There's always more to come! I hope you have enjoyed my stories :)

[the-firebird69]

You got the girl to do a comparison and it's Madhuri and she's looking at his muscles and says it's kind of like his but your shoulders are big but his are probably 18 inches and so she says he's like him and his muscles are about 18 inches and he's gonna look like that no so she said he's gonna be a big boy and she's seen it before and she's doing a comparison and it's not real simple it's a genetic study of his DNA test using how it's affecting the chemical makeup of the test versus a regular one and to see what the differences are and to compare it to people who are on Prilosec and things like that to see why the DNA is masked or why the test is masked and what the effect is of the medicine and it's really the immune system in growth hormone and she went into it at her job started studying it and found out that almost every medicine that they were on and you were on this immuno suppressive and they had to reduce yours but they didn't much and they kept the medicine coming and they're trying to threaten him and hold him in captivity and put him on machines and that's the mac proper but they were gonna have you do it so we couldn't do that and you're still thinking that stupid **** so John Cena has been plugging up your inquisition and questions on the Mac proper even about Saturn and he had trump design the car. And he escaped in the pod and I helped him design the whole system but the sphere you're blessed with a better cloak and people can't figure it out for some reason they still don't get it and on the ground that car would go so fast that you would need to make it able to fly or you'd be gone and the G force from start to a few hundred miles an hour would put most of you asleep the way we would build it is with a regular engine at 12 cylinder it would have about 8G's and that's the car on the ground it's a lot of power he is trying to do it and cant the little ones want to. they like it. and might die so what want to seeit teh whole thing need to they believ my hsuband. need it...need the cena fly cr design. and have trumps build it are mean..and they do it lol good.

Hera Zues

get erady for chaos lol ok my freind

Priest

ahmen to that

Zues Hera

goo the old spelling good

Priest

Olympus

[boneapple-tea]

A dead god

A being so larger it's own gravity has pulled it inward and has even formed an internal atmosphere. It's unknown how it grew to be this big or how it lived without being noticed it seemed to just appear.

It was a normal patrol a drone sent out to survey a part of our empire but instead of normal space this was there. Less than 3 hours after it's discovery more drones were sent these one's were meant to map its body... most never made it close enough. It seemed as if the shell was flaking apart that it was turning to dust before us... oh how we wish it was.

The drones were destroyed one by one a few got good views at what was attacking. It was as if raw flesh muscle and bone were Givin life and shaped like a machine. They looked like old rockets but where alive. Some had guns that shot viscera and bone others opened up to rows of teeth.

Two did make it back. One had black bone spike going through its right side, and the second was seemed to have flown through acid. We took samples to see what we were dealing with and it wasn't good news. As soon as we set it down an alarm went off we were under attack.

It didn't take them long. They tore open the door and we opened fire there limbs were blasted off their weapons seemingly fused with the user screamed as we shot at them. Bone blood guts lasers and metal were flung from both sides as I ducked and ran for my life. I dared to look behind me and saw that even though they should've been dead they were still moving, as if the loss of there arms legs and even head in one case was nothing but an inconvenience.

I know I was the only one making it out alive I ran and hit the button on the secondary door rushing through as soon as it opened. I ran as fast as I could down the hall and yet it wasn't fast enough. As a burning pain hit me on the left of my back I could feel whatever had been shot into me was moving it legs pushing itself deeper. I couldn't breath for a second couldn't even make noise as tumbled onto the ground.

I couldn't die here! I reached behind me and grabbed whatever was trying to get in and Pulled! It scratched and cut my hand made me scream but I pulled it out gasping for air but it was too much and I just couldn't stay conscious.

I woke up in a medical bay apparently I've been having seizures and had hit my head pretty bad. The nurse attrica has been helping me with my nightmares but she seems off? Her eyes just look wrong sometimes. I've gotten better and got back to work my nightmares are no longer there and I've even managed to get attrica's number!

He's a joy attrica and I have a baby boy I love him. I've watched him grow up into a fine man and I couldn't be more proud. `~'-^,:_~` the nightmares are back more vivid but different. This time I've been taken somewhere and put in this weird pod with needle like tendrils that dig into my body.

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It's not real non of this is! Attrica has tried to help but she's not real ether I point out how I have no memories before waking up in the medbay and she says I'm sick and need help. I haven't been here for years maybe weeks but not years humans don't take that long to grow up and yet my son did!

I'm waking up I know I am my eyes are opening I can see the inside of the pod and I can feel needles in my skin like thousands of bugs crawling on my skin. They've changed me Instead of 2 eyes I have 3 instead of 10 fingers I have 4 claws. I can feel my tail wiggling and I know I'm not gone.

I'm staying awake longer and longer and I think I can tear out soon.

I tore into the pods fleshy skin my teeth now sharp take chunks out with ease I shove my hand through the hole I've made and sretch it open my hands still look somewhat human though I'm missing a finger and my nails are replaced with black claws.

As soon as I feel onto the floor I was surrounded. I didn't care... I jumped to the closest one my hand going straight into its ribcage as I grabbed its spine I flung it toward the others that jumped at me, and dodge the screaming bullets made of bone that came flying at me. I bit and tore clawed and rended flesh. No matter how many I tore down they just kept coming and at some point I got to tired to continue...

[whiskeynovember]

The tomatoes are finally at a place where I am somewhat pleased. i now have 7 Roma/ Better Boy, i moved the beefsteak over to the open area, and I'm gonna try my hand at propagating parts of the better boy tomato that wasn't necessarily bad, but was just becoming too much. the plan is to plant just one more in the empty area. i have 3 that seem viable, so whichever looks best...

the cucumber seeds are sprouting. one might have been chewed on, so I went ahead and threw in a replacement seed. i need to pull up the radish and toss it as well... I'm pretty much done collecting seeds and pods.

i am slowly watching the poor cucamelon die. i am pissed, but what can I do besides rage on all 🐛. i found 2 today, one on the sweet basil in ground, and one on the purple basil in ground. i thought they were supposed to repell pests!

fuckers.

I'm gonna keep moving forward with the cucamelon and maybe it will surprise me by not dying. maybe one of the newly planted seeds will sprout. tbh, as far as germination rates go, these kinda suck. at least they're not as bad as the poha berries...

which... sprouted. i do believe these might have came from the berries I ate, and not the ones I purchased. i have 6 so far. i put them in the pot that the Korean mint seeds were in. they never sprouted.

i also added the rest of the Korean mint seeds to the pot. i don't have any more seeds, but the korean mint plants are failing. i dont know why... they just have always seemed so frail. kind of like with the lemon balm.

i don't get it because these plants are supposed to be hard to kill and here they are... dying on me.

i added extra seeds to the holy basil as well. 6 seeds, one in each hole.

I'd like to purchase more Korean mint, holy basil, cucamelon, and maybe something else...

the rest of the prop seedlings are gonna have to go. nothing is moving. none of the garlic chives sprouted, but the society garlic is doing great so I might try to grow more of them. the chives I purchased are still adjusting. some seem like they're dying, so I may cut them back and hope they regrow stronger.

i also have a few more pine berries I see sprouting so I'm excited to at some point get them into the towers. the basket strawberries are still great.

*ordered 30 cucamelons, 100 holy basil, 100 Korean mint, and 15 Asian cucumber, because... why not? with the way the cucamelon is (not) doing, I could put some on the opposite side and still have plenty of room.*

[fuebruja]

noemi sat with one leg tucked under her and the other just barely touching the floor if only to pivot her back and forth in the chair. she had been chided more than once for her inability to sit still but it did little to stop an old habit that would surely only die with her. her friend sprawled across the bed was no better. mina’s hands were constantly in motion and noemi watched like it was meant to be a synchronized dance routine.

throughout the entirety of their time together, noemi had a grin stretched across her face. she liked mina. and she knew she would like her since the first time she had met her despite the circumstances involving her terrible taste in men. everyone had some red flags and being entrapped in shitty relationships was something noemi could overlook. when she had sucker punched the guy mina had been seeing at the time, things could’ve easily gone south very quickly. but instead of exploding into a cat fight, the two girls had left the bar arm in arm and in that moment, noemi knew they’d become inseparable.

mina’s theory on the workings of her brain caused a laugh to catch in the back of her throat. she swallowed down the fit of giggles and instead, splayed her hand across her chest with a faux gasp. “ i can’t believe you have so little faith in me. soooo little faith that you think this … ” she leaned forward in her seat so she was closer to eye level with her friend and tapped the side of her head with one slender finger. “ … this bad boy’s gonna run out of things to say. i’ve got more than just one devious world locked in here. ” little did mina know how literal her words were and that’s what made their friendship that much more fun. they were two peas in a pod but with nothing short of a whole world unknowingly between them.

when she fell back into the chair it slid back on its wheels. with her arms crossed over her chest she shook her head defiantly. “ in fact, a non believer like yourself doesn’t even deserve my ted talk. ” noemi’s restless fingers found a pen and spun it between her fingers like a drum stick. her eyes wandered around the room momentarily before a thought came to her and she pointed the pen at mina, only inches away from her nose. “ but forget all that, you owe me an update. what’s the next tour stop and have i kissed ass enough for your manager to let me tag along ? ”

@fuebruja sent: are you going to make me do a ted talk about my devious inner world? / accepting.

mina hums thoughtfully, flipping over on the mattress and hanging her head off the edge of the bed to stare at noemi, doe eyes wide ( as though trying to see through her into said inner world ), before her expression splits into a decidely teasing grin.

❛ that depends, ❜ she says, finally, reaching a hand up to clumsily gesture in mid - air, palm tilting side to side in the universal eh gesture, ❛ just how deep does your devious inner world go? 'cause, like, if you don't have enough to talk about, i don't wanna listen to you repeating the same thing in different words to try to meet the word count, y'know? ❜ her hand flops backwards, reaching over her head and dangling off the bed as she stretches her hand in her friend's direction. her fingers wiggle playfully. ❛ but to be honest, i feel like you've got a lot going on in there. ❜

she laughs, reaching her arms up for one last stretch before moving back onto her stomach — hanging upside down like that was making her a little dizzy, though she'd never admit it — and resting her chin against her hands. ❛ like ... i've seen that look — and don't look confused, 'cause i know you know what look i mean — in your eyes before. i know what you're capable of, and you could totally use it for ... deviousness if you wanted to. which i feel like you could totally want to. ❜