#my sister does all the beta reading now tho

[driaswrld]

in the event that we ever reach 700 or 1k im making a discord server bcus i need beta readers ☹️

[imagineitdearies]

Hello! Just finished PS. I cannot praise you enough. Its easily the best thing ive read this year, and my resolution was to read multiple books a month. You surpass ALL OF THEM!

Saw ur authors note at the end abt an original queer vamp novel- is there anymore info yet? Im sure you've got ppl begging already but id truly love to beta when the time comes- or be first in line to preorder.

I feel like i read this at exactly the right time of my life.

The story was so painful yet rewarding bc i see so much of myself in Tyrus. Astarion and Tyrus truly feel like two different exstensions of my healing self. I wont go into it, but im a survivor to. Like tyrus, it happened when i was a young. Seeing his transformation throughout his decade of enslavement, his hatred towards himslef and the world, all bc of one man hit home. I kept telling myself that if it didnt have a happy ending id have to burn my phone or smthn lol. Seeing Astarion amd Tyrus not just defeat Cazador, but do it together, do it solely through their love of one another, broke me. The power of love, hope, and goodness. I havent cried over a fanfic since middle school. Im in my 20s now. I adored the final 2 chapters of the aftermath- im so grateful we got to meet his sister! And with Halsin, no less!

Im so thrilled you'll be adding oneshots and other stories to the universe. Tyrus is so real, so alive, id hate to see him contained in one story.

I love how Tyrus, ultimately, changeed. He didnt change into a monster like he feared, but what happened to him did changed him. Thats not a bad thing, tho. He's still Tyrus, simply a new version. And im still me, simply a new version.

I dont know if ill ever be able to reread, even skimming over the rougher parts was hard, but im so grateful i was able to see Tyrus and Astarion's journey. All of their triumphs felt like mine, all of their failures. Their never wavering love and trust in one another, that they understood it was Cazador that made them do those bad things. Ur right, pain and love must be intertwined, which is why this fic was so amazing. The highs would have never felt so spectaular without the lowest of lows.

Im rambling, i apologize. I do hope you read this, even if you dont respond. I hope my thanks and praise can give u something in return for what you've given me.

If you've made it this far, have you made any content on ur process? Ur planning? The flow was amazing, ur description, the flashbacks- did you go to school for writing? As a writer myself im almsot jealous at ur talent- but mostly curious :) id love to know anything you're willing to share.

Again, thank you. This was a gift, you know. I wont forget it.

Hi turtleurtle!! Great to see you over here, thank you so much for your kind words 🩵🩵 it means a lot any time I hear people enjoyed PS as much/more than published fiction!!

Speaking of, yes, since you ask I do have a little more to say now on my original story. I took a small writing break for a week or so but have now jumped back into the saddle for the next adventure! Lots of plotting, character creation, worldbuilding, and research happening right now.

Reuben, our first main POV, is almost fully fleshed out as a character and I’m so excited for you all to meet him (he’s an eloquence bard, for starters)!! The first book/part is almost fully outlined and I’ve written the first few pages. I’m really starting to get inspired by where the storyline is going.

Back to PS though—I’m so glad you felt seen with Tyrus’s character. He did inevitably change, but by the end he is (mostly) at peace with that and can still forge a good life and happy relationships. Meeting Cynda again was that last little piece of hope he needed to believe it 🥹

Haha the light does always seem brighter when you’re stuck in pitch darkness! On the other hand, it’s something Tyrus only thinks once, but I would argue love is not intertwined with pain more than anything else. Pain is just an inevitability. No matter what you do, you will experience discomfort, sorrow, loss, physical suffering (see Cazador, with absolutely zero love in his life). While love is not inevitable, it’s a choice. Love is a gift we choose to give and to receive in the midst of inevitable suffering and that is why it is so precious. Having that perspective has really helped me heal and have more hope for the future 🩵

Haha never apologize for rambling about PS! This thing has consumed my soul for the last 8 months so I love the chance to hear from/converse with people especially now that the full story is posted and all is revealed. Honestly wish I could sit down with you all and just discuss everything!! But seriously thank you for this message.

As for my writing, here’s a few writing advice asks I've answered, but i haven’t gotten too in-depth on my chaotic process yet. I will say long walks talking to myself, bullet lists, and brackets are my personal recipe for success (besides just writing for years and years) 😂 I did take a lot of classes in school too! If people have specific questions, I’m happy to give my best go at an answer.

Thanks so much 🥰

[flares-of-arcadia]

Live tweeting the (anti) apocalypse: HFW Spoilers

Collecting some thoughts as I talk to everyone before the final mission. Once I start said mission, I will collect more thoughts and add to this. I'm on mobile right now, so no read more. Please be aware that this will have full spoilers (as opposed to the intentionally vague snippets I sometimes post)

Called it! Tilda is gay. So gay. Unfortunately I am growing increasingly concerned that she might get weird about Aloy being a Sobeck clone.

Seriously tho, if she starts getting weird I WILL throw hands. Aloy is /maybe/ 19 around the start of HFW (she's 18 at the start of Zero Dawn, and FW takes place six months after the end of ZD. It's hard to figure out her exact age without knowing how long the events of ZD took).

I still do not believe that Far Zenith left the Sirius system due to natural disaster. Don't have any evidence, but my gut tells me that they had at least some hand in their own destruction. If that's true, then it's another reason not to trust Tilda (who is very vague about the nature of the disaster, but does not imply anything about Zenith responsibility, minus mentioning their hubris). Maybe this is just my lack of faith in greedy weirdos attempting to create a personal utopia (which always goes wrong, a la Bioshock style), mixed with a bit of my understanding of story structure, or maybe I'm just paranoid :)

Regalla chilling on top of a server, sharpening her blade? Hot.

Thinking about how Regalla started her rebellion because of her brothers' deaths, and now she's joining Aloy in a desperate assault on the Zeniths, the people who captured Beta. I wonder if, in the end, she sees a fire in Aloy that she knows all too well. Maybe she wonders what Aloy would do, if they arrived too late, or maybe she fights harder because a tiny part of her wants to spare Aloy of that misery

Really appreciate that Aloy starts her speech by saying what's at stake, and lists Beta first.

The constant sass triangle that is Aloy, Sylens, and Tilda is SO funny. These secretive nerds and their sceming, counter scheming, and insistence that the others not be trusted. I mean, Aloy is mostly counter scheming.

Alva and Kotallo have massive sibling energy and I love them both

Okay, that should be my last thoughts before diving in. Time to rescue my sister! and cancel the apocalypse or whatever, that's important too

[whumpbby]

Hi! So this is kind of a random ask, but I know you have beta fish, and I’m considering getting one. I’ve had beta fish in the past, and despite educating myself on how to take care of them they haven’t lived very long, so I’m hoping you’ll be able to help me. For my past beta fish, I keep them in a five gallon tank (for clarification, I never had more than one beta fish at a time. So I didn’t have multiple of them in the tank don’t worry—they just all lived at different times in the same tank) that had a filter with a pretty low flow on it. I never saw any of the fish have problems swimming with it on. I always used a highly rated water purifying product for the tank water (I forgot what it’s actually called) and I never had any sharp plants that would hurt their fins. I fed them a little every two days because I heard that feeding them everyday was bad for them. Do you happen to know what I was doing wrong? It was frustrating for me because I put a lot of effort into keeping them alive and healthy and then I would see people who kept them in small half gallon bowls have their fish outlive mine. It’s been a couple years, and I want to get another, but I don’t want to accident hurt/kill another one. How do you care for your beta fish? Do you have any advice? Sorry about the rant, but I follow you for your Jason content and happened to stumble upon some of you fish posts and need help. Thanks so much for reading this, and if you do end up offering any advice, I want to thank you for that too!

Hi dear, sorry if I took long to answer - tumblr notoriously does not inform me of messages>> 

I understand your pain - especially that the situation with bettas is very frustrating. They tend to suffer from quite a few genetic defects (they are prone to tumours, for example) and are a very abused fish in the aquatic industry.  Oftentimes by the time they will get to a caring and dedicated owner, they’ve already went through a lot:0 We just don’t know how healthy the fish is before we got it. 

I am by no means an expert, I have lost a few babies since I started the hobby a couple years ago and I can only assume what a few of them suffered from:( One thing that seems to work is leaving them and the tank alone for as long as you can once it’s all set up and cycled and running - apart form the regular maintenance. I am a chronic fiddler who needs to change and add plants, filters, etc, so I constantly have to hold myself back form doing things to the tank. My sister has the same betta for a second year now and the only thing she does with her tank is water changes once every couple weeks - and both him and a thousand of cherry shrimp that live there thriveXD 

Some things I nowadays pay attention to that may be useful, however, are:

- water temp has to be consistent, on the warmer side. I keep mine at 26-27C (I don’t know how much that is in F, sorry>>). To that effect the tank needs a lid - it will trap the warm air, protecting the betta form inhaling cold air then they come up for a breath. They labyrinth breathing organ is quite sensitive to that.

- I feed my boys twice a day, so I am not a part of the ‘feed them little’ club. I give them a little pinch of the good flake in the morning (Bug Bites is nice) and a 3-4 granules of a King Betta or a pinch of a protein-rich micro pellets in the evening. A betta breeder I talked to a couple times advised that it’s better to feed the boys a couple times a day in small quantities rather than once - keeps their digestive tracts working and they can avoid constipation. Constipation happens often with bettas and is a headache to solve. I leave frozen bloodworms for special occasions and just rotate the dry foods for variety.  

- I change water every week - and every other week make sure to vacuum gravel the substrate. In the planted tanks I vacuum only about 2-3cm of the top layer to not disturb planting substrate below and not to suck up any shrimp, so it’s a gentle operation. In the gravel where there is no growing substrate I go deep - the reason being that I want to free any possible air bubbles stuck underneath where bad bacteria may grow. 

- Pick a filter and stick to it. I was very bad at that, but I finally managed to hotwire a combo that seems to work so I will stick to it;) If you can stand the noise, I advise a sponge filter - it’s so easy to clean and manageTT If you can’t stand the hum of the air pump and the bubbles, I recommend a matten filter - or hotwiring an internal filter to a sponge filter - like so - instruction in German, but the visuals are very self-explanatory;] I used gel superglue to connect the filterhead to a sponge filter and now all I have to do once a month or rarer is to pull the sponge off and squeeze it few times in the used tank water! And sometimes clean the showerhead from algae;] It saves you so much money on the cartridges (corner sponge filters are a couple £/$ and last years) and provides extra filtration. My shrimps also eat off it;] 

- get a snail. Seriously, I have a snail in every tank - a single nerite will do best for a 5gal. They don’t breed in sweet water, don’t grow large and will keep your glass clean for you - I have not cleaned my tanks’ glass since... ever>> Joe I and Joe II do it for meXD They also provide company for the betta and something fun to look at. And he will scarf uneaten food form the gravel. 

- I assume you know about the nitrogen cycle, so I will not bore you here about bacteria and such. But a best chance of saving the betta form stress when you get him home is a cycled tank. You can get an ammonia testing set - or, if you find that a bit intimidating (I do for some reason) you can go to an aquarist shop and they will check your water for you. My local store in town does it for free. I am not sure about big box stores, tho. If you see something being wrong with the betta, check water and see if it needs to be changed asap. 

- water changes are mandatory and have to be regular. A 5gal is a convenient size - I am using a 5l bottle left over from mineral water as a measuring tool;) This way I know I am always changing roughly 1/4th of the tank’s water. It’s very easy to see how much water I removed and how much I have to put back in - I can control the water temp and add dechlotinator/vitamins etc before it goes into the tank, so I do not shock my critters with too hot or too cold water. The rule I practice is leaving the dechlorinator in the bottle for about 10 mins before pouring it all into the tank. 

- you don’t have to be intimidated by planted tanks:) A little bunch of anubias on a stick is often enough to start with and a good look for a tank, in my opinion. It also makes for a more natural space for the betta he will certainly appreciate. The less fancy stuff the better - I got my first natural rocks form the side of the road (ofc I boiled the life out of them before they got even close to the tank) and they are usually quite cheap on amazon. A stick with a plant and a rock and some small-size gravel is often enough to look good. The plants will also help with eating up nitrites and keeping the water healthy.

- goodness, what else. Medicaiton. Ok. I have tried many meds for my boys and once the fish is in a bad way not much will help, form my experience :( My med set consists of Melafix - I add it to water according to instructions whenever I see my betta without appetite or acting off. It’s a mild anti-bacterial mixture that does not affect snails/shrimp. If that does not help, I use eSHa 2000 or eSHa Exit - they are two very comprehensive meds that deal with a variety of problems. I have never used aquarium salt, but some people swear by it - there’s no specific reason I don’t use it, I just never got around to it.  

This is all the chaotic advice, but things to remember (I am not trying to be condescending, I just don't know how much you know;]) are: cycled tank, regular water changes&filter maintenance, consistent temperature and quality food. Bettas are hardy little suckers, but sometimes they are also frail in ways we can’t see until it’s too late. I am already seeing a tumour growing on one of my boys and there is nothing I can do about it except giving him the best life I can - he is still going strong, but I know he will probably not last to the end of the year. It’s a hobby that sometimes seems thankless, but if you do everything right, even if they leave early, at least you’ve given them a good and peaceful time before that:)

If I you have any more questions or just want to share woes, feel free to message, I will do my best to answer:)

[gammija]

The Hollow review/summary/rant/explanation of why i hate the ending I wasn’t sure whether I should post this, but I did enjoy reading others experiences watching this show, so here’s mine under the cut. Edited from a convo with a friend.

(Obviously, spoilers!)

Me: Okay so to properly express my disappointment i gotta take you through the major beats

The show starts with three teens waking up in an almost empty room, finding out they all have amnesia. They quickly solve a puzzle to escape the room, and just as quickly Adam and Mira realize they have superpowers (superstrength/agility and some weird 'speak to animals/know all languages' hybrid, respectively. also she can breathe underwater and swim really fast. its kind of vague)

Kai is already clearly a comic relief, discount Ron (from HP, the movies, no idea about the books) so me and sister correctly predict he'll get jealous of adam and miras relationship (even if there is none), gets pissy and jealous that he has no powers, but then finds out he has powers anyway he does, hes a fire bender. cant say im not bitter about that cause id put my money on invulnerability but eh its alright he has red hair after all hes still fun

Friend: Of course he is

I just feel bad is all aldjs

Me: adam gets a throwaway line of 'maybe were dead' and kai never lets it go

this food might be poisoned but im starving and hey were dead anyway! right, adam

Friend: I love him??

Me: i loved him as soon as he spoke his first dumb words also he puns but basically hes the only interesting char; adam and mira are just cookie cutter 'male lead 1' and 'female lead 1' i mean, he’s cookie cutter ‘jealous 3rd wheel’ but that has more going on than the first two still servicable though

anyway so the jokes are sometimes fun, and superpowers are always my jam. but the REAL reason to keep watching is just, whats going on? ARE they dead? or in some kind of weird gvnmt experiment? some weird magical vampire guide (dont ask) hints they wanted this themselves ooh, intrigue. and the world is very very quirky they start in a gravity falls-y woods and then get teleported to a desert with minotaurs and witches, then get invited for tea by the Grim Reaper and the rest of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse

tbh Grim is the best part of the show but thats neither here nor there

anyway they have a magic map that updates once theyve been somewhere, and it shows them that the hot dry desert and the swampy wood bunker are like right next to each other

so you start thinking, how are they gonna explain that? this is too weird to be handwaved away. theyve gotta be going somewhere

they visit some other exotic locals, like what appears to be the set of Alien (complete with alien) and an abandoned old fair and a floating island with japanese inspired evildoers on it

the weird magic guide keeps showing up and being vague, dropping hints that there are other kids there etc

at some point Mira says "This is no time for games!" Weirdy: "Thats where youd be wrong~" me and sister: Aha! videogame! that connects all the dots, and also makes the tropes clear: small world with all kinds of different areas, quests, fights, superpowers, an updating map, fast travel Adam, a few eps later: guis i think we might be in a videogame me and sister: [high five]

Anyway in the meantime also the second predictable Kai (discount Ron) plot happens: they meet three other kids (boy boy girl) and they act shady but the girl takes an immediate and obvious interest in Kai so obviously theyre gonna manipulate him and have him betray his friends but in the end he'll see through their facade and kick their ass that more or less happens. The other teens also confirm that this is a game, and theyre trying to win. winning is done by bringing the MacGuffin to a tree fights over macguffin ensue situations are dire but our characters persevere

(also Mira kisses Adam and he acts very weird about it, almost as if hes gay and the only reason they didnt make it canon is censors) (no lingering gaze, just him going 'hehe yeah no thanks, its not you, its me', but in a very... he doesnt seem to be saying it with shall we say burning desire in his soul. hes literally just like 'eh youre a good friend.' Cool move, cartoon that made the two main boys have arguments over nothing cause of course the two main guys have constant dick measuring matches)

this all is not the offensive part btw it was all fun and games, its just a flash cartoon i wasnt expecting Shakespeare

anyway so theyre in a videogame, and apparently thats the answer to all the weirdness. A bit of a cop-out, cause thats a very easy answer, but eh, it works. it wasnt immediately obvious.

also something i hadnt mentioned yet: thisd be ideal for making (self-insert) OCs. Unique powers for each person, there are clearly more characters than shown, the world is your playground

and maybe the video game thing could be interesting on its own in the last few eps the game seems to be glitching out a lot they say its breaking apart so they really gotta hurry now maybe they were beta testers for a vr game gone wrong maybe this is part of it but its like a huge experience that you tell all your friends about anyway there are ways it could be cool, could be expanded to a season 2 despite having solved the mystery

but. last episode. our heroes get the MacGuffin, go to a final stage, and fight the Boss Battle (its a dragon). they enter the Castle....

...and the screen zooms out, into a sudden live action stage, where we see the cartoon (literally what you were just watching) on screen. there are 6 chairs, 3 with our heroes, 3 with the other teens, presumably. theres a host and hes dressed exactly like the weird guy (and that was already kind of a clashy outfit in the cartoon). it was all just a game show. but. the worst part is the live action

you. dont. go. from. animated. to. live. action.

other way around? fine, can work. But now? WHY itd still be dumb and dissapointing but if itd been animated too itd at least have been.... nice to look at but the acting.. oh god they didnt even say anything and it was all wrong clearly theyd just picked the first random teens that vaguely looked like the chars and put them in there cause they had no lines so who needs acting?!

the enemy teams girl had, in the cartoon, pink hair. Purple with pink highlights instead of stylizing that into something more realistic or painting the actual hair, they gave some 30-year old woman a wig and called it a day

keep in mind i binged this show in one go

purposely stayed up late to watch the last ep with my sis even tho we shouldve gone to bed and were disobeying our dad cause we Had to Know

and theres more i said they had no lines but i was lying. Kai did have a line. well, his voice actor did they dubbed him also the line was about him having to pee which is already not the most hilarious in animated version but a live action kid whose supposed to be this character you spent 3 hours with but looks nothing like him saying that in a voice that doesnt belong to his throat, as he stands bashfully in front of a live audience, the only words spoken by your main characters in the last moments...

*its actual hell*

oh oh one more thing at the end the six kids stand in a line and kai is next to other girl they glance at each other and as the eyes of this teen and 30 year old in wig cross, her eye glitches for a moment

dun dun duuun

bUT i dont care anymore, The Hollow. You overestimated your own premise. this wont be forgiven. your most interesting part was the mystery, and the answer  to that was "just a normal game show" (which also doesnt make sense on another level smh) soo if you think that im interested in what these two-dimensional (ha) characters will do now about the glitch in the eye of a bitch then i have news for u

i dont

...if they get a second season ill probably check it out though as long as its animated

Friend: Gammi I'm getting the real sinking suspicious feeling that what you saw isn't the real end but bad on purpose because there's more to it

Me: the show didnt seem good enough to be bad on purpose

and yet im still not done, if youll still hear me out

i mean, im an animation fan so ill still watch but if theyd wanted to be bad on purpose they really shouldve done a better job fleshing out the characters thats what people come back for that was a bit of a sidetrack BUT so i said why the live action itself was just terrible in overal quality

but the resolution that 'oh it was all in a game show' doesnt work on multiple levels

first of all, they show a short flashback of "About 5 hours earlier". The kids stand on the stage and are instructed to take their seats in the vr-chairs, and pick their superpower

2 things i dislike about that

1) there goes all the self-insert/oc potential. they werent teens in over their heads, they werent gvnmt experiments, or just some kids who wanted to play a game -they were in it to win it, from the start. thats very specific and not the most appealing to all kinds of characters (goodbye, all the 'im just an average girl whod never step into the spotlight like that' characters).

Also, all the expansion on lore is gone. maybe there were other games simultaneously? eh, maybe, but theyd be all gameshows. Maybe someone ended uo trapped there for way longer? nah its just a gameshow theyre not gonna let anything actually bad happen. Maybe there are other worlds, other areas, other weird creatures? unlikely, they finished the map and familiarity seemed to be a thing for the audience. Now every new idea has to be put not through a 'whats interesting for a player' but a 'whats interesting for a viewer' lens, and whats a selfinsert if not a player in another universe

2) HOW IS THIS A SUCCESSFUL GAME SHOW

who the hell watches a game show for 5 consecutive hours, some of which mustve been just them walking. also, we zoom out of the screen were watching, so implication is that everything up until then has been what the audience has seen. but... we only followed the one team. there were two? why didnt the audience want to see what they were up to? ~reality tv usually thrives on showinf the worst assholes so realistically they wouldve been the focus~

There are also way too many times *both* teams couldve failed, from early on till late in the game. Not a single game i can think of thats played for an audience is set up like that, and especially not a televised one (okay tbf idk if this was televised, i dont remember if i saw cameras, but. it mustve. monetary reasons.)

What r u gonna do if they all 'died' from the monsters in the first ep? Call it a day? boring for the audience. let them restart from scratch? boring for the audience. the existence of an audience messes with everything

AND THEN ANOTHER THING what do you mean, "5 hours ago?" you never get a time stamp to show how long theyve been in there but there are some cuts, when they travel and such. The actual show is a lil over 3 hours runtime. You mean to tell me you sat through 2 hours of the characters just walking?

okay last thing. so. they were clearly second season teasing with the glitching eye thing. i already said this but. theres nowhere to go from here that isnt worse that the first season. your mystery is dead. you clearly know your live action teens cant act so youd have to go back into the game - but why would they do that? how would that be in any way interesting? you explored all there was to explore.

The other, more out there option, is that as you said the 'real world' was a fake-out and theyre still in a game. but. how would- how would you even make that remotely convincing? if youd just left the 'real world' gameshow as animated too this wouldnt have been a problem. but there is absolutely no conceivable reason to justify, in universe, why another meta-level up is 2D animation again unless they were in a game, in a game, in a game. and thats just dumb. yall aint inception

Friend: HONESTLY if they just kept the whole deal animated it'd probably be okay. Not good, but better,

Me: ye me and my sister came to the same conclusion

i couldve lived with that. at least, i couldve just acknowledged the finales existence but chose to ignore it. now however im full phantom planet levels of denial. in fact i dont even know how the show ended anymore, suddenly

Friend: what finale? what show?

Me: also at least now we know why its called The Hollow

it leaves you feeling empty inside

[eatingfireflies]

this post made me think about junpei and akane’s past and i’m writing fic that deals with that (specifically akane’s death) so i guess i’m going to try organise my thoughts about this.

in the post i linked, OP asked how junpei failed to know about/remember akane’s death when he said the kidnappings were all over the news when he was young and he certainly remembered those.

things that might have happened, based on what we were told in canon:

the kidnapping happened shortly after junpei and akane finished grade school. since junpei and akane are going to different middle schools, it would take a while for him to realise she’s gone. and even then, he could chalk up the lack of communication to her forgetting about him/not wanting to contact him.

the kids were kidnapped in japan but the fng happened in the US, and it might be that junpei’s info came from local tv news. you can check news sources from other countries online, but local newspapers are hard enough to read if you’re 12, let alone a foreign-language one. there might already be gaps in the news (that was available to junpei as a kid), even discounting the fact that no one has reported the kurashikis missing and that authorities covered up the incident up for cradle (or fts). 

not to mention the only person of authority to make it to the gigantic is seven. if his superiors decided to not release the info re: the death of one kid (who wasn’t on the records anyway) to the public there’s little he could do about it.   

so that’s junpei covered. but what about the kurashikis? what happened to them and how did this affect them?

a lot of it depends on how you interpret akane’s death, i suppose. most people believe that akane didn’t really die, which meant seven and snake lied. uchikoshi said this is likely what happened in the 999 Q&A (#24), but he also said he leaves it up to the player’s interpretation. i’ve always wondered about this, since the series has already talked about the schrodinger’s cat thought experiment and i thought the same could be applied to akane in 999.

the schrodinger’s cat thought experiment, essentially, is mr schrodinger looking at the copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and going ‘this is ridic. if you believe that, a cat in a box is both alive and dead until we check on it!’ (incidentally, niels bohr is associated with the copenhagen interpretation. and we know niels is snake’s codename in the japanese version because he’s a fan.)

let’s apply this on 999. (there are other interpretations, but we’ll stick to two*)

the copenhagen interpretation states that until we open the box to see if the cat is alive or dead, both are true. but after the box is opened and we observe the cat as x, the possibility of it being y collapses.

if you follow this, until we reach an ending, akane is still alive and dead. i.e. in the safe ending, junpei fails to save past!akane. therefore, the state of present!akane being alive collapses. june vanishes because her existence as both alive/dead only lasts until the box is opened/we reach an ending. on the other hand, junpei does manage to save her in the true ending. therefore the state of past!akane being dead collapses–in that timeline.

to be sure, the sequels continue from 999′s true ending so we can say that reaching the true ending collapses the rest of the endings where akane is dead.

but they’re still there aren’t they? akane certainly remembers other timelines.

the many-worlds interpretation states that the cat continues to be alive and dead even after observation but in different ‘realities’. this is pretty much what happens to us in the flowcharts of the games. we make a decision and our path branches. both of which realities are true. uchikoshi seems to be pushing for this, as he says (to paraphrase) ‘the story is like a desert and he only presented the player with a few grains of sand’.

there isn’t a lot that changes with 999 as seen through the many-worlds interpretation except that instead of the other endings becoming void once we reach the true ending we consider them all as valid. (great for ficcing yay :p)

so what does this mean about the observers? well, not a lot tbh. because akane is the only esper in the ze universe who can see and remember all the different branches in all different timelines. (and because he was connected to her in 999, junpei in 999 i guess.) sigma has to jump from one existence to the next in order to gather information. to quote tsubasa hanekawa, he only knows what he knows. and he has to make the effort to go to different timelines in order to get the info he needs. to akane who can see everything without shifting, all this information is up for grabs all at once**.

everyone else… well maybe we can look at it this way: alpha seven is the one from the timeline where akane is dead and beta seven is from the timeline where she’s alive. once we are on the branch where akane is alive, we’re already dealing with beta seven. and he has no access to alpha seven’s memories re: akane’s death because those two realities are now separate from each other.

what’s interesting here tho is, based on what i’ve written so far, aoi would have to live with akane for years while she’s both alive and dead (see uchi’s answer #13). i’m not sure how this works, tbh. alpha aoi would remember akane dying, but he’s also interacting with an akane who’s very much alive? (#LifeInTheBox)

i like that interpretation tho, i like exploring the idea of aoi living with the memories of his sister getting killed*** but also interacting with her in real time. it might be hard to look at her sometimes because his mind tells him this is impossible, and yet there she is.

so we now have aoi and a physically observable alive akane (whose existence is a paradox until the true end) escaping from the gigantic and what happens to them in the time period between the first and second nonary games are pretty much a mystery. we know akane told aoi to invest in cradle stocks and that’s how they got the money to make the sng possible. i believe the preparations for the sng would be easier if they choose to stay in the US (altho there’s nothing to suggest they didn’t go back to japan. but what for? nothing’s waiting for them there). it’s also easier to avoid detection if you’re considered legally dead, so the police not covering up the circumstances of akane’s murder might actually be to her advantage (except they did cover it up so). as it were, the police stopping investigations on cradle was probably a good thing since it gave the kurashikis more freedom to do what they needed to do without stepping on policemen toes.

aaaand this became a super long post oops. thanks for reading all of this if you did! (also i have to add that i have a degree in humanities, not science. which means: i’m probably all wrong about quantum mechanics but also i don’t think one interpretation of a text is more valid than the other so theorise on!)

*i lied there are actually three lmao.

**yeah i know, akane in ztd doesn’t know. let’s consider this a ‘relational interpretation’ moment. namely, different observers can give different accounts of the same event simply from having different sets of info and perspective. vlr!akane comes from the timeline where the AB project failed while ztd!akane comes from the timeline where the AB project is still happening, so we can say that vlr!akane is an outside observer, while ztd!akane is (once again) inside the box. only when we reach the vlr ending in ztd and the true ztd ending does akane get both information from her vlr and ztd selves and we determine what actually happened.

**his emotions while telling us about his sister seemed too real to me. i find it hard to believe he was lying/acting back then.

[juyeo-on]

ABWIENEJEU I FOUND THOSE FRENCH PUNS WAY TOO FUNNY. My class constantly makes fun of the weird french numbering system lol, the word 99 has become one of our favorites to make new people in the class say.

And I'm so happy too! I have this one piece that I've been working on for a while (it's a reaction, but one that's literally like 1-2k words PER MEMBER of an 8 member group so it's been killing melee for about a month now and I'm finally finishing it up) and I also have some other stuff that I've started working on for other reasons (including a collab, which I'll tell you about probably tomorrow when I message you aaaaaa) so it's nice to finally be writing again! I wish you luck when you start back up again, you can totally share anything you want with me if you ever need someone to beta read or anything.

I dont watch a lot of current minecraft streamers but my friend does and they tell me about it all the time so I have a lot if secondhand knowledge lol.

My friends also probably should not be trusted around fire, were in backstage crew and literally last week we had an incident where a screw broke halfway in a piece if wood, so we had to use a metal electric saw to saw it off.

Metal on metal created a lot of sparks, and none of us noticed the hoodie sitting right next to the wood so we almost accidentally started a fire lamp. (We didnt tho. It wa sall good luckily)

My younger sister just turned 14, so were pretty close in age. We used to argue a lot, but now that were both a bit older it's a lot less arguing and me having to take care of her which is nice!

LMFAOOOOO IM GLAD I SHARE MY SENSE OF HUMOUR W SOMEONE plssss the number jokes are too funny to be true.

omg an 8 member group?? is it skz ? wait both skz n atz have 8 members dont they N OMG A COLLABBBBB yassss IM EXCITED god im itching to start writing u have nooo idea n thank u for the offer🫂🫂😢 ILL TAKE U UP ON THAT OFFER SOON

omg i see bc like this one streamer who has a cat n is called quackity i think??? hes cute hehehehehe

THAT WAS A CLOSE CALL OMGGGG im glad yall were safe tho whew but some of these incidents are funny when u look back n think abt it like ?!?!?!

im actually qyite clumsy w my hands so i dont do things which use brittle things esp in chem lab so i skip most of the procedures involving glass tubes n the lab assistant looks over it for me🤭🤭 i once almost broke it in my own HANDS so i was like hell nah im not doing that shit anymore

AND AWWWW THATS ACTUALLY SO NICE TO SEE like i have family friends who are much younger to me n i rmb being a small pesky bitch to them when i was younger but as i grew older ive been behaving like an elder sister to them lololol

ALSO SHOULDNT U BE ASLEEP BY NOW im assuming its like midnight or smth for u rn

[itstheobservationalist-blog]

Teen Wolf Season 1 Episode 11

Thoughts as I watch the eleventh episode. Note that I already know some of the things that happen. Obviously spoilers, not just for this episode, but later ones as well. It’s best not to read unless you’re caught up, because I know things all the way up to the most recent season. Anything in italics is either sarcasm or a really, really dumb joke. This is super long, by the way, and not just because of tumblr’s automatic double spacing. This makes the most sense if you watch the episode as you read, or read it after you just watched the episode.

All episode reviews for Teen Wolf can be found here.

Queue integrated recap. My comments on the previous episode can be found here, so enough about that.

“What is he?” His name is Unicorn Wolfman. A werewolf that contains as many sparkles as a unicorn.

“To me, he’s just another dumb animal.” So she supports animal cruelty too? Well, I mean, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. She’s evil, so of course she needs to have an impulse to destroy all living creatures. It’s not like this is totally a villain characterization cop-out. I really hope they give her a motivation as why why she’s like this other than, “She’s an evil bitch. So, she does evil things and stuff so... Yeah.”

Do you honestly think it’s a good idea to stick your fingers that close to his mouth? Even if he was just electrocuted, he still has those pointy wolfy teeth.

“Is this a joke to you?” “Werewolves are real. Life itself is a fucking joke.” - Totally Kate

“How do you think I stay sane?” I don’t think that torturing another living being is what literally anyone would call sane.

“...Those are the real ugly ones.” Arguably, all werewolves that are about half transformed look ugly, not just the Alphas. I don’t know, maybe that’s just me. (I know that’s not exactly what she meant by “ugly” in this circumstance but I don’t care.)

Is she going to get pulled over for speeding?

“Me? What I see is natural talent.” Well, what I see is someone who’s ready to manipulate the fuck out of an incredibly talented young girl that does not understand all of the implications behind the werewolf vs. hunters fight. But yeah, the natural talent in Allison is apparent, too.

Yet another scene where Kate’s face is obscured in darkness. We get it she’s evil. How many times are you going to pull the same lighting trick to demonstrate the exact same thing? Do you honestly believe that won’t get boring? I can tell you right now, it already is.

“You wanted to feel powerful? This is your chance.” You can be powerful without abusing that power.

“Go to school,  do your homework...” What was that quote? Oh, yeah, “Study hard, be evil.”

“I’m not crying to get out of the ticket I just-” That sounds exactly like something someone trying to get out of a ticket would say...

“Just write me a ticket. Just fucking do it.” - Totally Allison

“Why tho?” - Totally Sheriff Stilinski

“This isn’t me!” Then who are you? Also, who are you talking to? Are you even talking to the Sheriff anymore?

Ye boye! Training session let’s go!

Why are you shooting an artist’s rendition of the face of Derek Hale when you already have him locked in your basement and you’re trying to find the other beta, not Derek?

He lives! (Of course he does.)

Just slap him right in the titty and tell him to sit down. That’ll do it.

He’s here to pick up Scott. Because he really likes younger men.

“You can make an exception for just this one time, can’t you?” “Not for you, bitch.” - Totally Deaton

Scott does not belong to you.

Oh, how dare he touch the ledge!

Hoo that mountain ash. What a classic.

If you were really a werewolf, you wouldn’t have missed Deaton with the chair.

Another thing to add is that are you honestly going to tell me that no one saw what Peter just did through the glass door and windows? No one at all? Really? Not a single person outside? No? Okay.

Why would Peter enlist the help of Allison? Not everything is about Allison, Scott. He’s probably talking about Jackson here, seeing that he really wants to be a werewolf.

One thing I almost forgot: you think that Allison is your definition of innocent and vulnerable? Really?

“I can’t afford a new one!” A new, life, girlfriend, new phone, or all three?

“Didn’t you say that Derek walked straight into the gunfire? It sounds like he’s pretty dead.” Well, if he were a human, probably. But he’s a werewolf, so probably not. Judging by the lack of wolfsbane reaction from Scott, it’s highly unlikely that those were wolfsbane bullets, just regular ones.

“He wasn’t going to kill anyone.” Source???

Okay, but if the ball hit him on the side of the head and bounced off him, then how did he pull that same ball out from his flannel and toss it to the floor? Furthermore, where was he hiding that?

“Can you at least consider letting him die? For me?” Stiles...

I bet she’s calling Peter, unknowing that he was totally going to bite her, and not in a good way.

Everyone talks about dad jokes but everyone forgets awkward mom jokes.

You know you fucked up when you did something so bad that you made your mom cry.

“...you can’t protect everyone.” “I have to.” Where did this sudden hero outlook come from? You really didn’t care at the start of this season.

“Come on Derek, you killed your sister.” Actually, Peter did. But ookay Derek, just sit there and let her think that you did and not the Alpha.

What kind of laugh even was that?

“Don’t you just want to kick those people in the face?” That’s the face of someone who is thinking, “Yeah. But I think I’d like to kick you in the face more than them.”

“Are you going to torture me, or are you going to talk me to death?” That was 10/10 sass, but during an incredibly inopportune time. I know that, by sassing someone who clearly has an advantage over you, it makes you seem like you’re not afraid of them and thus look brave. However, I also believe that sassing people when you are at a clear disadvantage is a really bad idea. I mean, do you want to get hurt even more than you already have been? If she really wanted to, she could kill you, Derek.

“I was thinking about the sex we had.” Oookay that’s way more than I needed to know.

“But the fire thing, that was fun too.” Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with this lady? Will we ever get a proper explanation for her behavior? No? I’m the only one who cares? Okay...

Yeah you roar at her. Unfortunately, there really isn’t anything you can do to make her fuck off, but you can always try.

“Oh sweetheart, I really don’t want to torture you.” If that’s true, then Derek being a lady is also true.

Who dis?

He’s probably one of the Argent family goons or something.

Why the hell is Scott sitting on top of Allison’s roof right next to her bedroom window? Dude, she broke up with you and has shown almost no signs of wanting to take you back.

He′s going to fall. What a dumbass.

Wait, if they’re just going to transition to the next scene, why did they even show that? To demonstrate how he’s still hung up over Allison? To nail home that Scott is just really fucking dumb? I mean, I guess that works, but there are other ways to show it than incredibly mild cringe comedy.

"They told me that I should cut you off the team. I told them that I should cut off my last remaining testicle.” Ugh. I understand what he’s trying to say, but that metaphor is a little bit too graphic for my tastes.

“You want me to take her to the formal.” “I don’t want you to, I need you to.” “Screw you. Screw you too. In fact, screw each other.” Yeah, that summarizes how Scott and Jackson interact during... however long Jackson is on the show. In fact, that’s how most of the characters interact with each other during Season 1.

“Do it 4 me, bb.” “Fk u.” Is the shorthand summary for this scene.

I like how Stiles is just staring at this exchange with his mouth open, looking slightly stupid. You do you, Stiles. You do you.

“What if I get hurt?” “Then it’s worth it.” “Bitch please...” - Totally Jackson

May I just say that Stiles looks really good in the blue undershirt and blue and grey plaid combination? Because it looks really good.

“I’m not done yet.”I think this summarizes Scott. Just in general, nothing specific.

"TFSkjhsgdkjdugkuguyslkhxkjl dance tomorrow? Yeah I’m great, I’m just skjshefkjahshaskjg formal. You. Asfriendsa. Justfriends.” - Basically Jackson.

“Should you even go? Do you have a date?” I mean, you can always go with Stiles...

“Do you have a suit, a ticket, a ride there?” Translation: Do you have anything for the Formal at all? “No.” Other than werewolf powers and “morals”, Scott doesn’t really have much going for him. I’m just saying.

Of course he agrees. I don’t think Stiles really does it for Scott, he just wants to try and beat the odds where ever odds are present.

“Ever heard of the phrase, ‘Don’t frown. Someone may be falling in love with your smile’.” If Lydia had Pintrest, I feel like it would be filled with these superficial inspiwational quotes and clothes. But the clothes are irrelevant to my main point.

Honestly, that just seems to support the general idea that you’re not allowed to be sad ever, which is pretty terrible, but it seems that general society seems to emphasize. Pretend to be fine, and everything will get better. Except it doesn’t.

Sorry, irrelevant tangent.

I hate how, every time that Lydia and Stiles are within the same frame so far, Stiles does or says something that inspires a lot of second hand embarrassment. It’s the worst. It’s like they purposefully make him look like a dumbass every time Lydia is near by. This changes as the series progresses, but I’m going to sit and be angry in a corner until that stops.

“Aww, don’t frown. Someone could be falling in love with you smile.” I love Lydia’s look of “Bitch. How dare you use my own words against me.”

Although, I’m left wondering why Lydia actually asks Stiles to the formal, despite the fact that she could very well just go out with some irrelevant jock guy anyway, despite what Allison says. Is there something I’m missing here? Or is this just forced Stydia fanserivce?

“Is this a 24-hour Macy’s?” It looks like she only picked two dresses so far. Calm down. Unless it’s less than a half an hour until closing, this should not be an issue.

How did Peter even know that Allison would be here? There are two ways he could have tracked down Allison, all of which are incredibly creepy:

1. He used his werewolf hearing to her voice and track her down, hearing her talking to Lydia.

2. He recognized her scent, and followed a scent trail to Macy’s.

He was already stalking Allison from the shadows from an indeterminate amount of time using either of the methods above, waiting until Lydia left Allison alone.

Yikies.

Who is he to walk up all doe eyed and gently critiquing her choice in dress, as if he hadn’t been stalking her for who knows how long and had just ‘happened to pass by’.

But Uncle Creeper is right; that dress really would look unflattering.

“It’s because I’m pale.” Why does Peter have the look on his face of “No sweatie. :) The proper term is ‘fair’. :)”

Honestly,m I think you could put any of those Sweatie memes onto this and I don’t think anyone would even realize it wasn’t a part of the original meme.

As a random aside, let’s give that a try!

Oh no.

Shit,,, what have I done.

FUCK.

Anyway, this needs to stop. Back to the actual review of the episode.

Ew now he’s being even more creepy. What’s his obsession with objectively “nice” skin? Was it because he was burned alive? Is it just another thing that’s just doesn’t make any sense and is never going to be explained because he’s supposed to be evil and therefore as creepy and irrational as possible? Judjing by the writing so far, I’m going to guess it’s the last option and not the first. Villains don’t need a real reason to be creepy and evil that’s just who they are. Just accept it okay?

Allison keeps looking around as if she’s trying to “subtly” find a way to escape. I don’t blame her. I’d be doing the same.

“See?” *staring intensifies*

“You’re not here alone, are you?” Literally she starts backing away from him. Just run away! Call the cops! Something!

Saved by the lady announcing over the store’s speakers that something is wrong with her car. An interesting mouthful of an alternative from being saved by the bell.

Wow, Peter is a huge fan of just standing around and quietly monologuing instead of looking at Scott and talking directly to him. Why? He’s a villain! Nothing he says or does has to actually make sense whatsoever.

Why is it that instead of just Killing Derek™ like she claims she wants to do, she decides to beat him up with more words instead of actually murdering him? Hasn’t she basically talked him to death at this point anyway? What’s the purpose?

God, speaking of the sweetie meme...

Kate doesn’t just reference the sweetie meme, she IS the sweetie meme, embodied.

Derek looks on the edge of tears. He may be grouchy, growly, and sometimes an asshole, but he does not deserve this!

History repeating. Isn’t that the theme of Season Five, kind of?

How is it that from this bullshit assumption of history repeating that not only does Kate get it right, but she gets it right? That’s actually what’s happening. She pulled that right out of her ass and she’s right.

God I hate that.

Fixing things with duct tape? Isn’t that the Stiles thing to do?

Season 1 Scott, stop pretending to be Season 2 Stiles.

“Pants off now.” Domme Melissa is in the house.   ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

“Stag. There’s a difference. Sort of.” If you can’t say what that difference is, then is there really a difference?

“...It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever had.” “...It does go away.” “I don’t want it to.” He wants that pain? Scott is a very subby masochist. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) #SMMCCALLCONFIRMED

Thank you for bringing in some realism for this moment. There’s no way she actually knows how Scott feels.

“Listen, dumbass-” God I now know why everyone loves Melissa McCall. That’s what I want to say to Scott all the time.

“Just. Tell her the truth.” Honestly, this is the best relationship advice you can give someone. It doesn’t even have to be for a romantic relationship, it can be for any kind. Just tell them the truth. It can be difficult, yes, but you’re always going to be better telling them the truth.

Anyways, enough with serious talk. More of me being an asshole and memes.

“But when you do, keep that buttoned.” Ladies are a lot more likely to take guys seriously if they keep their clothes on. Especially when it’s in a public setting. There’s a lot less screaming an running away in fear. Trust me I know.

Already Allison looks like she’s regretting the decision of saying yes to Jackson. Probably because they haven’t even entered the party and he’s aiming to get shitfaced drunk. This is going to be quite the night.

“Scott’s not coming? Damn, my entire night is ruined.” - Totally Allison

Why the fuck does she think it’s funny/cute that Scott is somehow on the top of the school’s roof? Instead of asking questions like, oh I don’t know, how did he get up there? Especially when considering the fact that there are no other buildings near by in sight of the high school. Why is he up there?  Furthermore, it’s pretty dark out, right? How the fuck would she even be able to see him in this lighting that far away? Just because there’s a person on the roof does not automatically mean it’s Scott.

Just because it does turn out to be Scott is not the point, okay. The point is that she sees a person on the roof, assumes that it’s Scott, and is somehow correct, despite the logical impossibility of the situation.

Aw yis. My favourite part of the show. Stiles.

I love how it’s been less than a minute and Stiles has already nearly fallen over two times. That guy. I love that guy.

“I will not fall prey to society’s desire to turn girls into emotionally insecure neurotics who pull up their dresses at the first flattering remark.” Hey could you say that any faster?

Ah yes. Say that and then immediately fall prey to it. Graet job. You’re the good role model that every teenage girl needs.

Who’s the vocalist with the Bieber haircut? I mean, I know this is 2011 where almost every guy had a Biber haircut (I do indeed remember, 11 year old me in Grade 6. Oh how things have changed.)

Peter #SPOTTED

Now you see me, now you don’t. But seriously though, how did Coach miss the 40 year old man in the middle of the room? I understand that he missed Scott because Scott is tucked behind the bleachers in a corner. Unless this is a joke on just how oblivious teachers supervise school dances. Or maybe just to show how inobservant teachers can be when talking. But I don’t know. It still seems kind of unrealistic to me.

I feel bad for Allison. Jackson is probably going to ignore her the whole night.

Well, at least he didn’t ignore you completely, right? Right? (There has to be some silver lining somewhere.)

“Get off your cute little ass and dance with me now.” Oh shit! He’s pulling out the big guns!

“Interesting tactic, but I’m going to stick with no.” But why not? Don’t you go to school dances to um... DANCE?

“I know that beneath your cold, lifeless exterior there is an actual human being.” I love how Lydia’s all “Me? A human being? Bitch when?”

It’s funny because she’s a Banshee and has therefore never actually been a human.

Oh. So someone just has to say “i nuw yesmrt” for them to get you to dance. I see. Maybe I should try that some time.

“I see you McCall!” Run boy run. This world is not meant for you. Run boy run. They’re trying to catch you.

I like how he says it as MCCAOL.

“Danny!” “What?” “Dance with me!” “No.” “PLEAS!”

“mCAOL! What the- what the hell are you doing?”

Why is everyone staring? Can’t Scott just be bi? Why is that not allowed?

Oh they’re staring because they think Coach is being homophobic. You know what? That’s kind of progressive for 2011. Good job.

Wait why did that work? Coach was yelling at Scott waaaay before he started “dancing” with Danny. Surely someone noticed, right?

Of course he beelines straight to Allison right after instead of wondering where Peter went or what he’s doing.

Okay. So. Maybe that look Scott gave Allison was cute. Maybe. Don’t quote me on that, though. I’m not sure.

Speaking of the dance, goddamn that’s quite the opulent decor for a high school dance. I keep forgetting just how well-off the people of Beacon Hills are.

Jackson looks like he’s minutes away from keeling over and passing the fuck out.

You know what? This is starting to look a lot like how a realistic teen horror movie would start. Guy drunk as fuck nearly stumbles out of the high school during the dance and enters a forest area. Dumbass dude bumps into a murderer or something. Horror movie begins.

I bet you the “glowing red eyes” is just that asshole guy with the glowing earbuds. No wait, it’s too close to the season finale for that. I guess that’s where Peter went, then.

She looks like she’s trying to find Jackson. And some people are still convinced that Stydia is actually going to happen. (I know I said that I shipped it unironically, but that doesn’t mean I expect it to be canon.)

So he sees those glowing eyes in the woods that are making him scared, and he just goes into the woods instead of running back into the school where it’s safe(r) and pretending that nothing happened? I mean, if I saw creepy glowing eyes I would hide in a building or vehicle, even if I knew it would end up being ultimately useless in the end. At least there was an attempt to buy some time. Not this idiot. Glowing eyes? It’s time to go straight into the woods.

“I wanna be like you.” This guy knows almost nothing about being a werewolf. I mean, I’m not a werewolf, but I’ve seen many TV shows. Being a werewolf is not all it’s cracked up to be.

The fuck? Okay, there’s no way those clearly glowing eyes (which CLEARLY blinked) were from the Argent hunters here. No sir. No fucking way. I could at least pretend to buy the weird ass glowing earbuds Lasers look WAY different from eyes, even in the dark. Unless Peter was in the woods and being tracked down by the Argents and then did the bullshit disappearing werewolf act I could accept that. But there’s no way in hell those red laser things could look like eyes. Fuck you Teen Wolf. F u c k y o u .

“I don’t think I can give you what you want. But I think you can help me.” This is the part where Jackson should run for his life from this creepy man. Come on. I’m waiting.

They never officially made up. So Scott doesn’t have to apologize for making Allison upset or anything? No? Okay. Sorry, I was just wondering where the realism is, but I guess it’s nowhere.

“It was about everything you wanted to talk about.” “Shut up Scott. My feelings aren’t relevant to the plot and have nothing to do with fanservice, so we need to skip over that because this is a Teen Show™.” - Totally Allison.

“Do you promise that you won’t hurt him.” Wait, does Jackson actually care enough about Scott not so see him hurt? Is Jackson secretly... a tsundere?

“I’m going to take care of him.” You do realize that’s another way of saying that you’ll kill someone, right? That’s basic villain slang.

You just missed him. By a hair’s breadth you just missed him.

They still haven’t properly made up and he’s kissing her? What? Why?

“Why’d you do that?” “Because I love you.” *sigh*

Aren’t teachers who supervise dances supposed to make sure that the kids don’t make out on the dance floor? Am I the only one who would find Coach yelling at them to break it up funny?

“Jackson? What did you do.” “Oh not much. Just revealed the fact that your best friend is a werewolf to a guy who hunts werewolves. You know. Nothing big. Everyday things.” - Totally Jackson

Although, with the way he says that... It’s like Mr. Argent did some... other things to convince him to say who’s the werewolf... Like... whatever happened out there... traumatized him...

I knew Mr. Argent was an incredibly shady character. I just didn’t think he was that bad.

This must be the part where Peter corners Lydia in the field. He bites her in this part too, right?

Lights turn on for ~dramatic effect~.

Then again, it is Peter. He seems to have a huge affinity for unnecessary tension and drama.

Stiles doesn’t need to say it twice.

I thought that Peter just bit her. But it seems he also clawed her.

“I will let her live. If you tell me where Derek Hale is.” “Why would I know that.” “You’re the smart one.” Oh shit.

“If he still has it. If it’s still on. You’ll be able to find him.” Well. RIP Derek. Even though he basically already almost died. He’s going to almost die again soon.

“Are you okay?” He’s looking at the bus as though it’s evil. Maybe it is.

“We should really get back to the dance.” Yeah really. Who wants to have sex in a school bus? Be classy. Go to a love hotel instead.

Vroom vroom motherfucker. It’s time for some werewolves (AKA Scott) to die.

Why did you even make that clip slow motion? If you have just made the actors move slower, it would have worked the same way, except making it slightly less stupid, because the obvious slow motion edit wouldn’t be noticable.

Music: dun DUn DUN BUM BUM BUUM!

Well that’s the end of this episode. I’ll stop the end message here so that I can actually get started on the next episode.