#no god can challenge me AHAHAHAHAHA

[phlurrii]

I was taught the interface of ZBrush recently and I went feral, I have yet to actually be taught how to sculpt and grew inpatient, so I winged XD

Thus I’ve made a Meau head sculpt in the mean time, gonna tackle her ears tomorrow ;3

[speed-world]

Hey, I got this idea from watching some Dark Souls lore videos, so can I request a HC of beast cookies being beaten by a chosen Undead reader.

Plot: when the Beast cookies went on a rampage The Witches knew they had to stop them but the cookie were too powerful to do so so they decided to work together to bake a new cookie, a cookie that can weaken them to a point that they can be in prison, a cookie that can come back from the dead as much as possible until the deed is done, they call them the Chosen Undead Cookie

Sworn Purpose

The Five Beasts. The primordial Cookies created by the Witches as emissaries of the Godly Creators; that fell from grace due to their Absolute power corrupting them completely. The Witches couldn’t bear to see their creations promised as saviors turned apostles of evil, and so they punished the Beasts by sealing them away in Beast-Yeast. At least…that was what should have happened.

The Beasts rebelled, refusing to go quiet into the night. They broke free from their shackles and dominated the lands of Beast-Yeast without challenge. The Witches refused to give up however, and would go deeply into a period of heavy trials and error in baking something …greater. They combined their magic to create a Cookie that could complete the task they failed too. A Cookie that would never rest until they sealed these Beasts, even if the Cookie was crumbled. A Cookie that will rise and rise again, as if freshly baked out of the oven, to complete their assigned life purpose. As the Witches spent numerous days and nights creating this Cookie, they’d mix so many flavors into to them that the Cookie was ultimately nameless to the Witches. When finally completed, passerby Cookies knew them only by a couple of names: Y/N Cookie, or their more known, and more appropriate moniker…Chosen Undead Cookie.

It was never easy completing your task, but you never once questioned it or the Witches. They told you all the features and names of the Beasts, that you must do whatever it takes to seal them away, and you followed as such.

During your first attempt, you could barely make a move against a jester before being crumbled in a mess of crumbs and jam. The last thing you heard was the jester laughing before you reawakened in a different location.

One of the many blessings you had received from the Witches was that you could communicate with and hear them. You could hear some the Witches applaud you for your efforts, and others express their apologies for what you must suffer through. It didn’t faze you though, you had a God-given purpose, and you’d curse at yourself if you never finished it. Maybe one day…you could live a fairly normal life, but it won’t happen until your job is done.

“Oh~? Pfffttt AHAHAHAHAHA~~!! Oh this is priceless, you’re still kicking huh? I mean, what attempt is this, number….59? 100? Isn’t this tiring to you buddy~?”

“Silence, jester. I am not tired, not one bit. I have been assigned this duty by the Witches, and I refuse to stop until you Beasts are sealed away…”

You stared at him with the same neutral yet angry expression that you almost always have. He upsets you, just as the other Beasts. And, like him, they will be sealed by your hand sooner or later.

“Really now…? How many times have you said that? And yet the result is still the same! I’ll give you credit though, you’re getting closer each time!! But all that means is that I’m improving myself to make sure you continue to be the failure you are!!”

“Am I the failure, Shadow Milk Cookie? You were meant to be a savior, a hero to all Cookiekind until the end of days, but you failed at your duty. Don’t tell me, are you jealous that I’m favored and know how to follow simple instruction? Does it upset you that I’m succeeding in the role you failed to fulfill?”

“Tch…didja learn to talk all smart while you were in between the states of dying and living? Those Witches can BURN IN THE OVEN, AND YOU’LL JOIN THEM YOU MISERABLE PUPPET!!!”

“….I’m assuming you’re done wasting your breath away now? I’m glad you’ll be the first I seal, your voice annoys me…”

You readied yourself again for the umpteenth time, and stared holes into Shadow Milk Cookie. “You are the miserable one here, jester…” You muttered to yourself, before clashing with the jester once more.

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The cold steps of the Ivory Pagoda are all too familiar for you now. The aroma of the incense, the reflective gold of the tiles, all of it was practically burned in your memory as you approached the Master of the Ivory Pagoda yet again. Of course, you couldn’t meet the Master without seeing the guardian of Ivory Pagoda as well.

“Oh, Master, look who’s back again~! You must really enjoy witnessing the truth that my Master has to show the world! At this point, you’re the most frequent visitor here to the pagoda, maybe you’d want to stay here for the rest of your life~? It’s not like your immortality is doing you any favors being the Witches’s pawn~…”

You ignored the mocking comments of Cloud Haetae Cookie. They’re not what you’re here for anyways, so they can berate you all they want, it won’t take your attention away from your mission. You walked past the haetae and stared up at the Beast, who didn’t even open her eyes to you.

“One day, you will come to see how pointless your mission truly is. Again and again, you challenge my truth and power, and again and again, you fail to understand that you’ll never succeed…”

“That is where your arrogance has mislead you, Mystic Flour Cookie. You insist on yourself so much that you fail to grasp the reality around you. More and more, I grow resistant to your power, and I keep parts of my flavor in spite of being turned to flour. One day, you will come to realize that the madness you speak of will never be heard as you’ll spend your days sealed away as you deserve.”

Mystic Flour Cookie doesn’t bother responding to you. She only waves her hand, uttering the phrase you’ve heard numerous times now: “Return to Flour…”. Your words were true: you were still maintaining your flavor and everything else about you, and only small crumbs were being taken away, albeit incredibly slowly. Then you lounged at her, slashing at her with your blade….and you cut her. Jam leaked out of her thigh from the gash you made. Although your magic and control over the chains and Witch’s fork specialized for sealing the Beasts weren’t strong enough yet, you were making fast progress.

Cloud Haetae Cookie was shocked, but Mystic Flour appeared unfazed as usual. But one thing was abundantly clear, you were improving. Even if you didn’t seal her during this time, you would overcome her powers and seal her away, even if you were crumbled to flour in the process. Mystic Flour will be sealed, just like the other Beasts, and you’ll rise and rise again until your deed is done and all of the Beasts are sealed away.

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Hellish blazing embers and the ruins of forests are the most recognizable sight you know. Whenever you hear the fires crackling, you know that you’re close to Burning Spice Cookie. Burning Spice stares daggers into you just as you stare a hole back.

“You again, eh? How many times are we going to do the same song and dance until you’ve crumbled for good? Those damned Witches must have spent days, perhaps weeks trying to perfect a herald to defeat us, and your failure of an existence is all they have to show for their efforts. It would be funny, if it weren’t so sad and true…”

“I’ll keep coming back as many times as needed until you—“

“Yeah yeah, until us Beasts are sealed away. You’re a broken record at this point, and it’s really beginning to annoy the Hell out of me…. Then again, you do have your uses for being a toy, free for me to play with and break whenever I feel like it. So c’mon, let’s not waste words and entertain me, Chosen fool~…”

You smirked at Burning Spice; at least you two could agree on something, that being words are useless at this point. You steeled yourself and gripped your sword tightly, and Burning Spice did the same with that giant axe in hand. All you need to do is seal away Burning Spice, and even if you crumbled in the process, it will be done.

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The skies were an incredibly dark shade of pink, and you’ve slowly grown to hate it when the skies were like this. Mainly because you knew who it was that was around, and Witches did Eternal Sugar Cookie, wielding the power of Sloth, utterly piss you off.

All Eternal Sugar did was yawn on top of the cloud she rested on, and looked at you haphazardly with her hand resting on her cheek*

*Yaaaaaaawwwwnn* “Ahh, who’re you again? You always come here for ah…some mission from the Witch’s I think? Can’t you bother anyone else with your nonsense, I have a lot of better things to do than waste my precious energy on you agaaaaiinn…”

The tone in Eternal Sugar’s voice and manner is what really bothered you the most. Although it was fitting of the Sloth power she held, she just couldn’t care less about you or whatever inhumane actions she did to others. Granted, you weren’t much for words yourself, the most you talk is when dealing with the annoyance is Shadow Milk Cookie, so at least with Eternal Sugar you can get right to the point without any hesitation.

“At least you know what I’m here for, Beast…I’ll gladly make sure you’ve suffered in the last moments of your recreation…”

“Mhmmm, sure thing. Just hurry up and crumble already so you can bother someone else when you resurrect, please~….

Without waiting anymore, you charged at the lackadaisical Beast. Thankfully, the more you do this the more stronger and better you’re getting. Because the sooner you seal away Eternal Sugar, the better. Not just for the Witch’s and Cookiekind, but for the sake of your own mind.

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The eerie silence of the area you stepped into would be enough to scare any being beyond belief. It was dark, quiet, perfectly becoming the scene any scared children would have when fearing the dark. Only this was no dream, is was the brutal reality of a vicious Beast that you could never seem to get an upper hand against.

Silent Salt Cookie was just standing there, sword in hand as always. Out of all the Beasts, Silent Salt doesn’t do anything else now except wait for you. Silent Salt knows of your ability to keep coming back to life after dying and knew sooner or later you’d be back.

The quietness from you and Silent Salt was loud and easy to understand. You weren’t much for words yourself, no need to start now with a quiet Cookie. You both knew each other well enough, understanding the other’s goal in mind as you both nodded and readied your swords yet again. The area soon became loud with the sounds of clashing swords in a struggle of life and death.

Until your mission is fulfilled, until the Beasts are sealed away and no longer a threat to Cookiekind, then you will be raised from the dead. Retaining your mixture of flavors, knowledge and power, and using all of them against the foul Beasts that defiled their roles as promised saviors. Until the deed is done…

[gabrielsbubblegumbitch]

PLZ MORE SILLY VEES HEADCANONS THE LAST ONES MADE MY DAYYYYY

Okay okay I'll try to squeeze a little bit more silly of me, just for you, Anon <333 Because I love making people happy uwu

Velvette and Valentino sometimes end up doing lines of coke off Vox's screen when they're out of flat surfaces. It usually goes something like this:

Vox, look, what's that on the ceiling?! Okay, wait, now don't move... OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Chill, it's not like you don't use my body for your pleasure. Yeah, God gave you this flat face for a reason. We all have our purpose

Valentino is kinda like that friend who went to therapy once and only remembered the part where his feelings and boundaries are super important.

Stop being mean to me! I'm not being mean, I just told you not to kill that waiter. I have FEELINGS. *sigh* We know, Val. AND YOU ARE MAKING THEM S A D. We know, Val.

Valentino once came up with the idea that Vox's pornstar name should be voXXXy. He keeps bringing it up every once in a while, still hoping Vox will agree to have a cameo in one of his movies.

Vox once surprised Valentino with this cheeky red lingerie set. When Val caught on it was basically a Sexy Alastor Costume, Vox ended up couch-surfing for a week.

Whenever Vox doesn't pay enough attention to him, Valentino messes with his Excel sheets, inserting random '69' or '420' here and there, or pasting some of his sexy photos in Vox's Very Important PowerPoint About KPIs.

When Velvette is bored, she comes up with the dumbest ways to die and then asks her succubi friends (since succubi are some of the demons legally allowed to travel to the mortal realm) to start them on TikTok. She's incredibly proud whenever she learns that some soul ended up in hell because of her challenges.

This one time, stumbling home after a party, Vox was like:

Val, Vel, you guys can draw, right? How 'bout I pay you hundred bucks for a big-ass graffiti? What graffiti BIG! Saying what? FUCK ALASTOR AHAHAHAHAHA *hick*

They were cackling like evil children while painting it. It is still there somewhere in Pentagram City, absolutely beautiful.

Vox likes to come up with silly names for his products that are almost cartoonishly evil, because he's a silly evil guy. So, he will market those Cereal Killers to the kids in hell.

[blackwolfstabs]

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 13

GROUP TEXT

Sam is notorious for struggling with modern text language, memes, etc. and is always teased for doing so, but when she misspells a word on the same token, the rest of the Core Four can't let her live it down. (AU: Dead characters are alive)

Primary help from @samcscreams, @dreamersbcll, & @zombiemeadow Other contributing writers: @alkivm & @fantasylandbitch - ty so much for the help!! i couldn't have written it without each of you ♡

Core 4 ❤️‍🔥💪

Sam: Guys, I gotta question.

Mindy: What’s up??

Chad: Shoot

Tara: what is it?????

Sam: What does “IDK, LY,” and “TTYL” mean?

Tara: I don’t know, love you, talk to you later

Sam: Ok, love you too Tara ❤️ Chad, Mindy, do either of you know??

Mindy: omg 😂

Chad: I don’t know, love you, and talk to you later

Sam: Oh ok. Wow I guess I asked at a bad time. Everyone’s busy haha

Mindy: NO SAM THAT’S WHAT THEY MEAN!!! IDK means “I don’t know”, LY means “love you”, and TTYL is “talk to you later” 🤣🤣🤣

Tara: lmfao DUHHHH

Chad: #sendhelp4sam

Sam: Fuck..

Mindy: Girl keep up!! 

Tara: that’s hard for her bc she wasn’t born in this century. she’s like lowkey a boomer fr

Mindy: Ahhh right

Sam: I��M LITERALLY IN THE SAME GENERATION AS YOU TARA

Tara: ok, boomer

Mindy: just by a year, barely

Chad: wait… Sam are you related to Uncle Sam????

Tara: A DISTANT ANCESTOR?????? o.O

Sam: Are you serious… no, I’m not..

Mindy: OK gotta agree with Boomer Sam here. Just because they have the same name doesn’t mean they’re related, dingus

Sam: Stop.

Tara: lol “boomer sam”

Sam: . . . . .

Chad: 21th century got ur tongue there, old timer?? 😂

Tara: nah her dentures probably fell out

Sam: You don’t need your mouth to fucking text…

Tara: ah my bad, then is it the arthritis?

Mindy: Bet it’s the arthritis 100%

Chad: LMFAOOOO

Sam: That’s not funny.

Tara: NO UR RIGHT IT’S HILARIOUS

Mindy: No, T, don’t shout out her, you know how the ol’ elders feel about loud and obnoxious noises 

Chad: OHHH Sam’s that old fish from that one episode of spongebob that kept yelling “Too loud! Still too loud!” it’s so sam-coded 🫡

Tara: ahahahahaha fr tho!!!!

Sam: No, it’s ducking not.

Sam: *fucking

Chad: Ducking??????? DUCKING???!!!!!

Tara: poor thing hasn’t gotten reading glasses yet. I told u to get some a looooooonnngg time ago Sam! did u seriously forget again?? 

Sam: Give me a break, it was autocorrect…

Mindy: Uh.. of course she did! She probably hasn’t refilled her dementia medication yet smh

Sam: SERIOUSLY??? WOULD YOU GUYS STOP!!

Chad: *WOULD YOU GUYS STOP?! - You forgot the question mark there, senior citizen

Chad: Now, she can’t grammar correctly.. Someone get her Life Alert before she does anything else!!!!! 

Sam: Fuck you.

Chad: Hey hey easy, I’m just respecting my elders 😌

Sam: You’re not even using correct grammar either so stfu.

Tara: oh man, I hope you’re sitting down, Sam. don’t want u getting so worked up that u fall and break a hip.. 🫣

Mindy: emphasized “Hey hey easy, I’m just respecting my elders 😌”

Mindy: replied to “Hey hey easy, I’m just respecting my elders 😌”: Oh my God, THAT’S IT!!!

Mindy named the group chat “Granny Sam’s LifeAlert Team 🚑🏥”

Mindy changed Sam’s contact name to “Granny Sam 🧓”

Mindy changed the group chat photo.

Chad: 👏👏👏

Tara: GRANNY SAM??? I’M DEAD 🤣🤣

Mindy: Yesss! We must protect Granny Sam, she’s quite frail after all 🙏

Tara: true, very true

Granny Sam 🧓: 🖕🖕🖕

Chad: rude.

Mindy: Don’t take it personal. She’s just cranky because she hasn’t had her afternoon nap. Who wants to volunteer to take her to bed???

Tara: nose goes! 🫢

Chad: Not it!!

Granny Sam 🧓: I swear to God if I hear someone outside my door, I’ll fucking show you how to take it personal, starting with you, Tara.

Granny Sam 🧓: How’s THAT for cranky?

Chad: Oooooohhhh she mad now…

Mindy: It’s fine. By the time she would get across the room, she’d probably have to sit down. Bad back and everything yk?? Old people probs 🤷‍♀️

Granny Sam 🧓: Ok, Tara, you can thank Mindy because she just took your place in being the one I beat the shit out of first.

Tara: Thx Mindy, love u 🩷

Mindy: Is that supposed to scare me, grandma?

Granny Sam 🧓: It should.

Granny Sam 🧓: Change my name back. Change the group name back. And change the goddamn picture back!

Mindy: Uhhhh excuse you… magic word???

Granny Sam 🧓: Are you serious?

Mindy: Damn straight.

Granny Sam 🧓: Fine.

Granny Sam 🧓: Please.

Mindy: Nah, I’m good

Granny Sam 🧓: MINDY

Tara: PFFT XD

Chad: I’m finna bet money. Fight! Fight! Fight!

Mindy: Okay, but I hope you have medicaid, Ms. Nancy Loomis II

Granny Sam 🧓: THAT’S IT

Tara: O-O 

Tara: shit just got real

Chad: yep. U shouldn’t have brought her real grandma into it.. It was nice knowing u, Mindy 💀

Tara: rip 🪦💐

Mindy: Okay guys, send help. I actually think she might be coming to kill me…

Tara added Billy to the group.

Tara: BILLY!!! ok u know I would never ask for ur help but… CONTROL UR DAUGHTER SHE’S GONE MAD

Billy: We all go a little mad sometimes.

Chad: Ok, well she’s dead

Mindy: Chef’s kiss perfection tho!! 🤌🤌

Tara: NO SERIOUSLY!!! she’s gonna kill Mindy any minute now. U need to stop her 😳

Billy: I’m guessing Sam’s pissed because of the group name, icon, and… her contact name?

Chad: YES!!!!

Tara: YES AND NOW SHE’S GONNA KILL MINDY PAY ATTENTION AND DO SOMETHING

Billy: Sam, you’re not killing Mindy.

Granny Sam 🧓: You asking me or telling me?

Billy: Good point. I’m TELLING you. You’re NOT KILLING Mindy.

Granny Sam 🧓: Or what?

Billy: Well I’d tell you, but I don’t think you want the other 3 to hear.

Tara: 👀

Chad: 😳

Mindy: ?????

Granny Sam 🧓: ……

Granny Sam 🧓: You’re lucky I love you, Mindy..

Mindy: I know I am 😎

Billy: Good girl.

Granny Sam 🧓: Don’t even start.

Billy: Hey, they called me for you. You’re the one who started shit.

Chad: Hey Billy, if I paid you, would you tell us what you would’ve done??

Tara: O.o

Granny Sam 🧓: Hey Chad, if I paid you, would you shut up?

Chad: nope!

Granny Sam 🧓: Fine. Then Billy, if I paid you, would you get the hell out of here?

Tara: lol

Billy: Sorry Chad, but as tempting as that sounds, no. And Sam, how much are we talking?

Granny Sam 🧓: A dollar.

Billy: No.

Granny Sam 🧓: Get out.

Billy: Someone change everything that was changed back to normal first. If I leave and get dragged back into this, you’re all gonna pay. 😈

Chad: Yes sir! 🫡

Tara: that’s you, Mindy

Mindy named the group chat “Core 4 ❤️‍🔥💪”

Mindy changed Granny Sam 🧓’s contact name to “Sam”

Mindy changed the group chat photo.

Billy left the group.

Sam: Thank you.

Chad: Don’t thank us, thank your dad

Sam: Take the win, Chad.

Chad: 🫡

Mindy: Okay sooooo what was all that about between you and your father, Sam???? He was like gonna.. Punish you or something?

Sam: Or something. I honestly don’t know what he was getting at, but I wasn’t about to let it get far enough to know so… 🤷‍♀️

Tara: OR you’re secretly a “daddy’s girl” and don’t want us to know?????? 🤔

Sam: Tara…

Mindy: Hmm that gives me an idea… 💡

Mindy named the group chat “Princess Loomis 👑🔪”

Mindy changed Sam’s contact name to “Daddy’s Girl”

Daddy’s Girl: FUCK

this was so fun to write holy shit xD but my apologies if anything said by any of the characters offends you.

to all of my mentioned peeps above, i hope i did your ideas justice! ik i didn't do everything, but i had so much fun writing this that i know i will definitely be writing more text chats at some point. i'll get to the others! thank you again and blessings to you all. ☀

All my best! ♡ - parker

[deaf-sakura]

So someone insinuated that I’m a horrible teacher because I teach SPED and call my kids ‘gremlins,’ but rather than get salty I’m just gonna tell y’all all the gremliny stuff they’ve done this week.

I have one boy who can barely move his limbs, so getting him to be active and engage with stuff is always a struggle. EXCEPT WHEN IT’S TIME TO GO HOME, he’ll give us the cheekiest grin and use every ounce of his strength to lock up his arms so we can’t get his jacket on him. I swear I’ve never had a harder game of tug-o-war than when I’m trying to pull his rock-solid arm through his sleeve.

Same kid REFUSES to paint with me, even though I hold his hand so I’m the one doing the more challenging gripping and he can just move his hand as he likes. I take my hand off for ONE SECOND, ONE SECOND, and he gives me that cheeky grin again and slams his hand into a bowl of paint. Paint on our faces. Paint on our clothes. It works his way up behind his ears and neck and I still can’t figure out how he managed that. We apologize to mom for sending home such a messy kid, but she just says she wouldn’t have expected anything less.

One girl has no expressive language but she’s ALWAYS LISTENING. You could say anything that mildly resembles the words poop, pee, boobs, butt, nuts, balls, or booty, and from across the room you’ll just here this loud “AHAHAHAHAHA!” I could just say, “I dumped everything on my desk-” “AHAHAHAHA” “NOT THAT KIND OF DUMP, OH MY GOD!!!” (then all the other teachers in the room are laughing about how Ms. Deaf-Sakura “took a dump” and then the girl’s laughing even harder).

If a kid CAN feed themselves, we really need them to, because that’s not a skill you’ll ever want them to lose. Of course, one girl knows that if she just sits there long enough, never touching her food, I’ll freak out over sending a kid home hungry and she gets hand fed like a damn princess. Of course, this only applies to her ACTUAL lunch. Once she works her way to the Magnificent Pudding Cup, she can take it from there and I am effectively dismissed.

Once a kid was going down the hall with his gym teacher and passed the principal, and just fucking threw a ball in his face. No anger, no provocation, just...yeet! (this principal was kinda awful so the kid basically did nothing wrong and I stan a legend).

We let the kids get out of their wheelchairs and hang out in a “cozy corner” after lunch because they could all use a good stretch. All of a sudden I just hear this odd scraping sound and see this boy crabwalking over to me (did not even know he could do that! Some of their most impressive feats occur when they are up to no good). He keeps pestering me aggressively until I figure out he wants his leftover honey bun. I pull it out and ask, “Is this what you want?” “YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!” (I’m not even exaggerating with the length, it was like a minute-long ‘yass’ session).

“...Does that mean yes?” “Yes ma’am!” c:

Commence me handfeeding yet another child perfectly capable of eating on his own as he stretches out on the floor like a lazy old tomcat.

BTW if you’ve made it this far into this little rant, I’d like to say this: I don’t think the person who implied this meant any harm, but honestly I would ask them if they’d respond the EXACT same way if I were talking about regular kids? Is ‘gremlin’ just an analogy you’re uncomfortable with, or do my kids’ special needs make them above any sort of reaction from me?

Cuz lemme tell you one reason why they act like this: They’re kids. They’re funny. They’re mischievous. Sometimes they’re brats. Sometimes the best part of their day is that little split-second when an idea pops into their head about what they can do to make me want to pull my hair out, they do it, and I commence pulling my hair out and fussing at them because “omg why would you do that?!” They have a fuckton of personality, and that’s the best part about them.

And honestly if I never reacted to their shenanigans, if NOBODY saw their goofiness as them just being funny and just assumed they’re doing it “because they’re ‘’’’’’special’’’’’ 😢” then that’d honestly SUCK, it’d be like them trying to reach out to a brick wall and getting no warmth or feedback from people who are trying to ‘care’ about them.

TLDR: MY STUDENTS ARE AWFUL TO ME BUT THAT’S KINDA ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THEM.

[femslashmas]

Begin again

amanda why do you actually hate me and want me to suffer oh god my FEELS i miss my boooooooys q_____q

(fair warning i wrote most of this with voice to text bc my wrist is on ACTUAL FUCKING FIRE and i tried to edit it down but idk how well i did so if something doesn’t make sense that’s why ahahahahaha ouch)

link to fic (it’s snowbaz lol)

answers under the cut bc it got long oopsie

1. this fic took a year to write. when I say it took me a year to write i mean it took several months to write five chapters and then i took a giant break and then I challenged myself to complete it in three months.  it also started off as a completely different story. it was originally a headcanon made by another person in the fandom who actually ended up leaving Tumblr before i completed the story :( the original idea was a writer!simon au. it was still an exes to lovers fic where simon was a writer and baz was a book publisher or he worked for a book publisher and didn’t know that he had simons book (i think this actually happened later on) i don’t think it would have worked with the original plan and i’m glad that I scrapped it and i was much happier with where it went and the way the story turned out!

2. this is the first and definitely the last fic where I created an island and it takes a lot of confidence in my opinion to create an island and to just be like hey there’s now an island off the coast of southend-on-sea! yes this is believable don’t question me! i even made a map it was A LOT.

3. there was originally a plotline where baz’s family lived in a historical castle that also had a place for them to live and I think I kept it in there but not in the same way because I rewrote the opening and it didn’t include this one scene that essentially showed what it was so I think in the end I scrapped it because it was too complicated and I was running out of time whoops

4. i know this is technically two facts but because it’s about the same chapter/scene I am counting it as one fact sorry not sorry. i wanted the last scene to take place on the actual day of New Year’s Eve because I felt like it be more special for the reason but the fic flopped HELLA HARD so it’s not like it mattered anyways because nobody was reading it lmao and I also matched up the reunion scene to Susan Boyle‘s version of auld lang syne timed it so it would literally end on their kiss (i think???? like it had a point in there where you were supposed to start reading and then start the song but I don’t remember what it is rip)

5. i like writing open endings and i guess this isn’t very open because they get together but there’s still the question of what’s going to happen After because baz still lives in london and simon still lives on the isle of mage and idk here goes:

-they (baz and simon) try to stay in watford like they try REALLY HARD to make it work but like it’s hard bc memories and ghosts and baggage etc etc etc-neither of them wants to admit this to the other bc they want this relationship to work and they think it won’t work outside of watford??? like the Bubble or whatever-THEY ARE STUBBORN BOYS and put off Talking About It for a while-tension tension tension -andrea can tell somethings wrong bc idk magic bff powers lmao and shes like okay u have to leave this place is driving u crazy and baz is like but simon :((((((((((((-and she’s like him too!!!!-idk where this is going except goats in londonbc simon was like MY GOATS :((((((((((-and andrea in watford for like five seconds-maybe like simons all prepared to hate london except he doesn’t-even tho the stars are different or whatever ahahaha-GOATS ON A FERRY AHOY-and they live happily ever after bc they deserve it !!!!!!! 

send me a name of a fic I wrote and i’ll give you five facts/headcanons about it!

[hermionesterrier]

More Than Human: Chapter 8 Liveblog!

“With the Girl at the Rock Show” *wink* *wink* 

The change in the Blues' dynamic -in Boomer- is adorable and surreal and definitely healthier. Before this point, Boomer's obsession made me uncomfortable and now that he's so taken aback that she likes him back and she’s the one actually making the moves, he's so thrown off and nervous and falling so hard and just....KIDS *_* 

Mrs. Morbucks = HBIC

I'm still not sure exactly what she does though....? Are we ever gonna find out?

Damn. So why aren't JS's clients looking for other Evil Corps to get their dirty work done?

Buttercup's blankie is making a guest appearance!! Bubbles, don't you dare hurt blankie!!

I feel like the girls' boyfriends would always come out scarred for life after a "conversation" with the Professor. Who knows what he does to those poor souls in his lab xD

Why do you want her to acknowledge your existence so badly, Brick, hmmm?

Hold on. Is that the same Julie from that messed family on the show? Or am I confusing Julies?

He glared at her. "You know, generally? You ask permission before doing that." "Generally you ask permission before letting a giant black spike of death stab a pretty girl in the heart, too," she responded. Daaaaamn, shots fired!

OH MY GOD THE LUNCH SCENE! ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITES!! I'm gonna try not quote all of it xD

"You are setting a terrible example as a Senior." "I set a terrible example as a person," Butch corrected. I mean...no arguments there.

Ok, I really don't remember this Julie Bean from the show...

"I wouldn't solicit advice from someone who tried to sacrifice my sister in a dire situation." "That was an act of heroism!" he snapped. "Except it was going after you," Bubbles pointed out. "So it was less heroic and more cowardly," Buttercup said. "Say that a little louder, Buttercup," Brick seethed, his eyes glowing red. "I didn't quite catch that." Unperturbed, Buttercup looked him right in the eye and enunciated, "You're. A. Pussy." DAMN STRAIGHT! 

"Speaking of fucking," Butch moaned. "This food? Is like an orgasm in my mouth."

I wanna taste Buttercup's food :'(

Even Brick's in love hahahahahaha

Did someone say Tabouli? *_* GIMME!

Poor Julie, she's so confused AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ugh, get over yourself Brick. You're like a 5 year old throwing a temper tantrum because he's being ignored. And you did nothing to Bubbles? Really?

"I wish I'd been around to see that," he said, and meant it. He really did. He wished he hadn't been such a stupid little kid. He could've played with her, and they could've grown up friends instead of enemies, and he might've felt this sooner, this easing of an unbearable weight in his heart every time she looked at him, touched him, kissed him. This makes my heart ache. Blues are killing meeeeeee

Brick thinking he's so mature but actually being a complete baby tho AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Eww Butch stahp

THE PROFESSOR WATCHING ALL THE MALES LIKE A HAWK OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ugh Brick is so stupid I can't even...JUST ADMIT YOU WANTED TO SEE HER DANCE YOU IDIOT

"Butch, boobies," Bubbles said simply, and Butch suddenly shot to. "Where?" he said, eyes frantically darting around. Well that was easy xD

The Blues just standing there hugging tho xD

Bubbles wrapped her arm around Boomer's and beamed at him. "Come on," she said sweetly, encouragingly. Then she looked at Brick. A sudden chill shuddered through him at the sight of her expression, and before he could process it they were already gone. He couldn't even recall exactly what she had looked like as the door shut; it had happened so quickly and caught him so off guard. Bubbles may or may not be possessed but she definitely scares the shit out of Brick :')

That disappointment when you wanna see someone so bad and they're nowhere in sight. I feel ya, Blossom. Let me hug you.

Bubbles is such a little Reds shipper :D

Even I'm overwhelmed by how corny this is.

BUTTERCUP IS SINGING!!!!!

Boomer is outright challenging her. Show that bitch who’s boss, Buttercup!

The more comfortable she grew on stage, the more uncomfortable Butch grew watching her. Bubbles asked, "Butch? What's wrong?" "Great," he said, his voice flat. "She sounds great."

This Buttercup/Mitch conversation is fucking painful. All the would'ves and could'ves....

"I was talking with Mitch earlier," she said quietly, and Butch abruptly decided he'd never really liked Mitch anyway. CAN WE JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE THAT THAT IS ALL IT TOOK FOR HIM TO DECIDE THAT? BUTTERCUP LOOKING SO SAD AND MITCH IS DONE FOR HIM

Butch struggling so hard to understand human emotion though...

"You've never really wanted to be with someone, have you, Butch?" she said, a small, bitter laugh curling around her words. Foreshadowing? :')

I cannot with the Greens. This rooftop scene is KILLING ME I’M GONNA CRY GIVE ME MY OTP PLZ SBJ PLZZZZZ

PERIOD DRESSES AND WHITE WIGS THIS IS ACTUALLY GOLDEN OMG AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh my god these costumes...whyyyyyy

It's interesting how well Brick is getting along with Buttercup and Bubbles. Like friends. Buttercup keeps talking to him and sharing her misery with him, while Bubbles just naturally gets along with everyone and everything. He's even acting like a normal person with Julie! And annoying Blossom, as usual hehehe

I wanna see what Bubbles is working on.

Buttercup jumping at the chance to embarrass Blossom with THAT STORY is what sisters are really for, isn't it?

I really wanna take hip hop classes

Mrs. Morbucks being a sly HBIC :D

Awww @ Blossom feeling pretty. You're beautiful all the time ❤ 

I hate this next part for her...

“Looks, brains, talent," Buttercup said, nodding. Her eyes glazed over. "Plus a chest that you want to... throw rocks at just so you can watch them bounce off." Bubbles shot her sister a look. "Buttercup, you... you're kinda weird." BUT THAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT HER AHAHAHAHAHA

Fucking pedophile assholes leave Blossom the fuck alone how fucking dare you :(

Buttercup would kick (even more) ass being Evil...I think there was a comic or something where she lost her memories and joined the dark side? 

All these ep references are making me want a PPG rewatch *_*   

Brick wants to cheer her up so bad it's so...uncharacteristic and heartwarming

The AB virus...the only villainous thing the Amoeba Boys ever managed to do...unintentionally xD

BLOSSOM BEING A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR LITERALLY SWEEPING BRICK OFF HIS FEET I LOVE ITTTT

I think I just fainted," Brick said feebly, eyes shut and breath once again warm and sick against her neck. "In front of everybody." "You crumpled to the floor in a very dignified manner," Blossom assured him. He pressed his head a little closer into her, almost a nuzzle. "So long as it was a manly faint." "Oh, I don't think it could've gotten more manly than that," she said, and turned to the silent room again once she reached his door. Everyone's eyes were still on the two of them. "At ease, men," she said dryly, and pushed into his room. MANLY FAINT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

H O W did the girls not throw the sharpest object they could find at Butch? I totally would've. Not even exaggerating.

Way to ruin the moment, Brick.

UGH Blues being THAT couple

Someone learned his lesson and is actually accepting help :D

This is probably one of the most insightful conversations about Butch's psyche. His "jealousy" doesn't stem from the fact that it's Blossom, it stems from the fact that it's BRICK. It's not like he has problems getting girls, but, in his eyes, Brick gets everything and then some with no effort....can see why he thinks so. But then again, Brick's still a temperamental man-child with below zero social skills, so I guess you win some you lose some right?  

Buttercup's right though. Butch likes bleeding for things. If he got the same things Brick does while also putting zero effort in it then he wouldn't want it anyway.

SHE'LL BE WAITING OKAY

Hmmm I wonder why Brick is taking so long to recover even though both his brothers were only sick for 1 day...does he have a lower immunity system? Or is it the pretty redhead taking care of him during this difficult time? :')

Boomer's deal with the Devil and how confused he is by Bubbles' horrified reaction... 

There's something so incredibly sad and heartbreaking about Boomer's storyline here. When will Him come to collect, but more importantly, what will he be collecting...?  

Mitch's grandmother tho...very Norman Bates-y xD

Not that into each other, Mitch? I call bullshit! 

MOJO JOJO!!!!!

Awww, same, Bubbles I missed him too hahahaha

Mojo so offended and schooling Buttercup for her cussing tho xD

CLIFFHANGER DUN DUN DUNNN!!!

I really did try not to quote the whole entire chapter. I failed. Obviously xD

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[cardhouseandthecage]

I actually am wondering about the Star recruitment process, Denizen-Star communication, and the interface between our reality and Faerie with regard to all this. Like if you or I was to get sucked into the Star process, what would it be like in terms of ordinary logistics? How would they first reach out to us? What if we tried something like getting other people involved who legit believed in all this but the Cardhouse really didn't want them involved? Apologies if this can't really be answered!

an EXCELLENT QUESTION, friend, and incidentally a subject of ongoing investigation on my part. THE subject of ongoing investigation. My whole life. Which is to say: I can’t give you a complete answer—I can’t even necessarily give you a correct answer—but you have absolutely come to the right place. You wont get any kind of answer anywhere else. Here’s what I’ve pieced together from my research, thus far:I. The first thing you need to know about Stars is that they don’t actually believe in fairies. Not Literally. Not necessarily. 

You are familiar, I assume, with the Moment of Magical Proof™? You’ll find it with most stories that begin in the mundane. Our protagonist might want to believe in magic, but they can’t—magic is fake and everyone knows it—so they’ll rationalize for as long as they can. Then something happens. Magic intrudes upon their lived experience in a way they can no longer deny. YER A WIZARD, HARRY. Magic is real, and will continue to be real for the duration of the narrative.

That moment never happens.

There is no first contact for a Star, no revelation, no paradigm shift: it’s only ever a slow fade. And that little voice of in the back of their heads, the one that knows none of this could ever be real? It never goes away. That’s important. It’s part of what splits them—and without a split there is no harvest.

The Cardmaster settled upon this business model for a reason. Certainly he could present the Cardhouse more literally, but he’d be working against dominant trends: most people don’t believe in fairies literally, and our beliefs govern the channels through which fairies can contact us. So if you don’t really believe that some fairy bitch could pup up in your window and approach you with the deal of a lifetime, they’re going to have a really difficult time making that happen.* It’s much more cost-effective to build on a pre-existing system of belief than to overturn it. 

II. But what’s all this nonsense about the power of belief, HQ? Are you really going to sit there behind your screen and tell me that you subscribe to Magical Thinking? Who exactly is funding this study???

AHAHAHAHAHA NO ONE, naturally, but also: no. No, of course not! I may not be funded but I take myself very seriously here: I’m not arguing that our beliefs can change reality directly. Antoine was absolutely right about the tree root: that’s a thing in the physical universe and it’s going to go on existing regardless of what we think about it—outside of what we think of it. Oxygen doesn’t care about my feelings! There’s a side of things won’t budge, no matter what I believe (I know this; I’ve tried). Even if I clapped my hands and dreamed with every fibre of my being, it wouldn’t wouldn’t make a fairy into something I could bring into a lab and prove.

But my belief would change something. It would change the Faerie-Reality interface. If I believed fairies were real, they’d be real to me. It would change how they exist in the extra-dimensional space in my head. And that space in my head—in all of our heads—that’s the dimension of things that connects up with Faerie. That’s what empties into Faerie, perpetually, without our volition or consent. I’m fooling myself if I think I’m in control of that space just because my thoughts effect it: I didn’t choose most of my beliefs any more than I chose my body. There’s a whole world of thought that I inherited, and correspondingly a whole landscape of Faerie that’s built up in connection to Reality over time. By this mechanism, then, our beliefs can alter reality: indirectly. Reality generates Faerie, but Faerie is incessantly fucking with us in return, and the ways in which it fucks with us influence the actions we take in Reality. III. Any agency behind such fuckery I term “a fairy.” 

Fairies “live” in the backworld (they’re made of the same stuff it is) and can manipulate the residue that accumulates there: they’re not real by any means, but they do exist. It is worth noting that fairies, by this definition, don’t give a damn whether we believe in them. This may first strike you as counter-intuitive: if they’re made of our thoughts, then surely our belief means a great deal to them? To which I answer: yes, it does. Absolutely. Just not in the way that you’d think. I’m guessing you’ve probably encountered some version theory of belief-dependancy and the Decline of the Mythical? It’s related to a lot of things (many of which are true, see: placebo effect), but generally it asserts that the vitality of imaginary beings has diminished in direct proportion to our diminishing “belief” in them, and consequently there has been a great falling off in the power of gods and fairies and the like as we have entered the modern era. My findings suggest the otherwise. I say we still believe in plenty of “unreal” things, and as strongly as ever we did. Even our science feeds into the Faerie: it’s made of our thought! We use science to describe reality, but it itself is not fully “real.” Besides which, it’s not as if fairies are limited to drawing upon our literal beliefs. We don’t generally think of fiction as real, and yet it shapes us. And a desire can be every bit as potent as a belief. Fairies don’t care whether we believe in them: all they require is that we want to. They’ll play our beliefs against our desires and catch us between them, bring us to our knees before the impossible; we’ll yield our sacrifice readily enough, god or no god.  All they require is that we dream. 

So no, I don’t think we’ve impoverished fairies at all by sorting fact from fiction as we have. I think we’ve blinded ourselves to their power, locked the door and thrown away the key only to have them catch it. I think we’ve given them everything. I think we’ve spoiled them.

IV. But I digress. You asked me about the logistics of Star recruitment and Denizen-Star communication. 

It starts, traditionally enough, with a fairy ring.

Not a literal ring, generally (that’s very retro), but the there are certain channels of interface—certain ‘meta-forums’—that the Cardhouse keeps open as traps for potential candidates. For a while now, the internet has been the best “place” to set up such a forum, so they frequently overlay or branch off from real online sites. But they could be anywhere. Any work of fiction can easily serve as a jumping off point (provided it’s fantastical enough), or else game of make-believe, or even a good old-fashioned glade or a shopping centre or an abandoned house. If you’re intrepid enough you might find your way to to one through pure whimsy: it’s only a matter of stumbling into the right headspace.

Unfortunately, there’s no clear indicator for when such a stumbling has transpired. The meta-forums interface so seamlessly with what we think of as plausible that we don’t recognise them when we see them and we can’t tell once we’re in.** You can’t necessarily tell when someone else is in one either. It just looks like preoccupation—an obliviousness to the “real world.” But it also looks perfectly realistic, especially from the standpoint of the Star. Because fiction exists, and games exist, and there are all kinds of things you can get obsessed with on the internet and none of them especially challenge the laws of physics. They way you engage with the meta-forum doesn’t look different from how you’d engage with any other imaginary thing. Generally, it starts out as a game or an RP or a kind of choose-your-own-adventure story through which you get to know the characters and the basic setup. That setup presents itself very differently depending on what you’re into, but you’re usually given to understand that the Cardhouse produces very special magical items, and that you can help the Cardmaster gather ingredients for these items by undertaking quests or solving puzzles or making certain offerings or blending the perfect tea or getting your two favourite denizens to make kiss or doing whatever it is you’re doing that is “playing the game”. One denizen in particular serves as your primary contact and guide. You might also be given to understand that Cardhouse products are all a part of the ongoing effort to Fight The Encroaching Darkness. It’s a very all-consuming obsession, and while you’re immersed in you often ‘forget’ it isn’t real, but never in a way that raises any suspicion. For the most part, you know it’s just a game. And for some people that’s all it ever is, and they move on.

If you are destined to become a Star, however, at some point the game will change. One day, your denizen approaches you in great distress: the threat of the Encroaching Darkness, they say, is much worse than they had previously let on. The game might end, as if it had never been! You may well never see us again, in which case… farewell in advance! It will be a very moving performance, and naturally you, the potential Star, will be deeply upset by this news. If you’re right for the job you will offer up your assistance on the spot, unprompted. You will say the magic words. Is there anything you can do to help?

…Funny You Should Ask.

And now the denizen will lay it out: there is, in fact, a way. You may not know this, but you happen to be a very special sort of person: a Star sleeps within you—a great power—but its light is not for the human world. If you were to promise to fight on our behalf, we could help you unlock that power on the other side. You would swear fealty to the Cardmaster, pledging your light to the cause and security of our House, and help us to beat back the darkness. But be warned! It is no task for the faint of heart. You would be asked to undertake missions in the depths of the Wild Lands, where evils reign free. You would be placed in grave danger. So yes, you really could save us, but we would never ask anyone to accept such a burden! If however you should choose to do so….well. You would be richly rewarded.

If it’s gotten to this point, the potential Star (feeling very heroic) almost always accepts.They are assigned to a team and presented with a “cage” to help concentrate their powers and serve as a holding space for any magical items they’re give in Faerie. The cage exists between realms and the Star can access it from either side. Generally, the more they use their powers as a Star, the more it fills up with light for them to draw upon. Doing certain things in the Mundane however can cause that light to diminish or spill out, so they learn to avoid doing those things. Yet insofar as they are human, the Star still regards this all as a kind of fantasy. Insofar as they’re a fairy, however, it is very real. How any given Star rationalizes the paradox will vary, but at no point does the human fully “believe” that what’s happening is real. So a fissure develops between the two selves, and the more and more the Star invests in their fae identity, the deeper it splits them.

And here is the difficult part—the part no one understands. People often ask me what a Star’s human self is doing when they are a fairy. Are they sleeping? Unconscious? Physically elsewhere? Mentally dead? Sitting behind a computer screen as in hypnosis? All of those, possibly. None of those, necessarily. The trouble is that there’s not a one-to-one correspondence between time spent in Faerie and time spent in Reality, so it never maps on perfectly. It’s very difficult to make it add up: I don’t have a working model for this part at all.

But I do know this. When a Star is harvested, they are harvested whole. No one notices them go, and there is no body to find. Everything that ought to have been real about them has been redirected to the other side. They make ghosts of themselves. They split off without a trace.

——

*Oh, you might say, well if it’s as easy as believing…—no. Believing is far from easy, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not convinced? Then try! As an experiment: just try to alter your basic beliefs in what’s possible and what’s not. Tell yourself you might wake up in a flower tomorrow morning. It’s possible! Tell yourself the earth of flat (come on, really in vogue). Or tell yourself I’m right! Tell yourself believing makes any difference. COME ON JUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF,,,YOU CAN DO IT!! Ha. Of course you can’t. 

**This may appear to stand in contrast to more traditional fairy-lore, but I think it’s actually very much in line (and it’s one of the many reason I’ve chosen to call these creatures fairies). Sure, in those stories, the human usually knows that they’ve crossed into some kind of Other Realm and accepts the fairies as real, but none of that especially shocks them. They’re not experiencing any major paradigm shift: either they’re in an altered state or this encounter still falls well within their understanding of “plausible.” But their conceptions of plausibility will only stretch so far: they don’t understand that time is passing differently in the other realm, that a very alien set of “rules” governs the very fabric of it. The shock only comes when the person tries to leave Faerie as they would leave a party at someone’s house, and finds that they can’t. And it’s the same with Stars. Our notions of plausible versus implausible have shifted a little, so the trick happens at a different level, but it’s the same trick. The human has passed into foreign territory, but they’re still processing it in mundane terms, and consequently they won’t pick up on the most “unrealistic” aspects of the encounter (if ever) until it’s too late.

[goldenscript]

ah u and i both are putting off english hw. i have a rough draft due monday and whole lotta other shit for the class but here i am. doing none :-) GIRL I CAN WRITE A WHOLE DAMN ESSAY ON OIKAWA AND WHY HE DESERVED MORE. god i love that man sm he’s fighting for my ass and soul with kook. I cant remember the last time i DIDNT spoil myself with a movie tbh.. And UGH im just curious as to how everyone’s gonna work together since the avengers are kind of in a sticky sit atm with the members and (1/?)

everything BUT THE WORLD AINT READY FOR WAKANDA DUDE. ngl t’challa didn’t have a strong intro for me during civil war, i remember being like ‘ok u got claws whats good’ but now it’s like OK KITTY SHOW EM WHATS UP!! what story app was it bc it sounds interesting! it’s good that you’re challenging yourself, it’s so important for artists and authors to venture out of their safe zones (something that i know i struggle with a lot still)!! tbh with u i never got into twilight, i watched the movie (2/             

and i was like ok wats the hype dude. but then again ive always been a huge critic when it comes to real life supernatural teen romance stuff but when it’s an anime/fics im like >:O GASP WHAT’S NEXT >:O LMAO. for me ideas come and go and i do my best to thread them together but a lot of times im like.. wtf this doesnt make any sense *SCRAPS*. ok ur pretty spot on with that, jin would most DEF be the cafeteria lady that everyone ogles over despite the nasty ass goop he plops down on their (3/?             

plate, but i mean his smile is what makes everything worth it right?? he would def work at the same school with yoongi to which everyone thinks is unfair esp kook but hey boy shut your roach ass up. then there’s tae and jimin who somehow landed the delivery boy jobs together. it would be more crack+slice of life tbh haha. (4??/) -sjsu     

girl i hella put off my english draft due today too jdshfjsfh luckily my teacher doesn’t grade drafts for content and more or less for completion. since this paper is like 1500-1800 words he was like “it’s ok if you only have a few paragraphs” done so bless that ‘cuz i got my points for it. AND OMG GIRL. I FEEL THAT THO. LIKE I FEEL SO STRONGLY FOR THE CHARACTERS AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. i want them all to succeed gdi. & mood, i love kook with my whole heart n soul 2.

honestly i always spoil myself with movies but i told myself not to do it for black panther and that’s probably it ahahahah. but yooooooo, i haven’t seen civil war yet LOL. i haven’t even seen winter soldier so i was like “Well i obvi can’t watch civil war then” jkdsfhs soon tho. just so i can keep up with the storyline. & ok i had to search and redownload it but it’s called heroes rise! it’s like a trilogy app bundle and you gotta pay for it (sorry boo but it’s so fun and i rec it!!!!!!!)

it’s something i just gotta do, man. i wanna try diff genres to find my niche so if it’s hard then that just means i gotta work to get it together. ^_^ and i read the book and i was having a huge moment for vampires and werewolves, that’s the only real reason why i liked twilight so much LOL. i can’t write vampires for shit tho ‘cuz i feel like that’s one genre i can’t really…. satisfy myself with? l.j. smith (author of vampire diaries and night world) made such a profound impression on me with that genre so i can’t hold a candle to her kjsdfhksjfh but i think it just makes more sense to like it as an anime since they’re technically animated and usually the plots are a lot better, more cohesive than most real-life depictions.

ahahahahaha, yes thank u! they’d have pockets of issues like sometimes wishing they had powers again. probably namjoon messing around in the library trying to read up on godly stuff, maybe trying to find a loophole on their sentence. or something pops up like “alright bitches,,,,,,,,,,,,,,” and their past starts coming back to haunt them LOL.

[survivesalem]

Episode 2 - “AHAHAHAHAHA 😂 -screams -” -Jessie

My plan worked, mostly. Czern left and I felt bad but it’s survivor. Raffy (I believe it was Raffy at least) voted with Czern which I don’t like tbh. Raffy has a lil target on my back and I’m sitting pretty with me being the least likely to go home at this point on my tribe. 4D chess, I don’t play chess but it’s hot. I hope my tribe and Liam’s tribe don’t lose any more challenges so we can dominate. I miss Liam 🥺🥰.

Originally I'm from tengaged so the way a social game is played and how you communicate with people is really different. Unfortunately I'm bored with a lot of people on my tribe. Austin is someone I like... I want him to view me as someone new and someone who'll make a good sheep. I can kinda sense he's gonna be trouble in a way, he doesn't seem super trustworthy. Jessie is a big question mark for me. IDK where I stand with her but I think we can get along but I also think she feels comfortable. At first I didn't like Dylan all that much but now they're really rubbing off on me. Dylan stans Avatar, I stan Avatar so in my eyes Dylan is a good person. Paolo is super friendly, he's also new to the ORG community so I feel him & I could make a good duo. Zach is probably my favourite person on the tribe idk why I just feel a good energy from him and I like it so I feel like if Paolo, Zach & I could link up and form a tight 3 and just knock off someone like Jessie that would make me feel good. I really wanna prove myself with the scavenger hunt challenge I feel like I've done a lot with the challenge but I feel like I can do more so I'm ready and willing to fight to keep my tribe safe.

Omg okay so I never made one of these but I will right now! So basically I like my tribe. I know a few people on here and the other ones seem nice. I would LOVE to avoid tribal, as I think I am not in the *best* standing, but I think if I attend tribal I mayyyy be able to survive. I LOVE THAT THERE IS NO TWIST THANK FUCKING GOD. Here are my thoughts on my tribe: Brien - I have hosted Brien and he is super talkative 24/7. He is a great guy and I really want him to trust me, but I have heard he created an alliance without me. I think if I just have some more activity we might be in the clear w him. Eve- I LOVE EVE. I played with Eve in BBPokemon and they were an incredible force. I know they tend to be villainous and make a splash every season, but hopefully I can them on my side and I won't be at the receiving end of their chaos. Cameron - Don't know them and will hopefully make them the first boot. Gizmo- Awesome! They are super nice to talk to and I can tell they are a good ass player. I want to align with them on this tribe, but I am not that passionate about it. Keegan- I. LOVE. KEEGAN. Keegan is super a sweetheart and such a good guy. He is SO good at orgs and I want to go far with him. Def my #1 fav on this tribe!

UM HELLO TRIBE WHERE ARE YOU ? Legit only me and Liam are submitting for the scavanger hunt and the clock is tick tick ticking . Like guys we aren’t winning if only two people submit . Do they not realize two tribes go to tribal ? It’s literally as quiet as the movie the quiet place . On the bright side maybe me doing stuff for the tribe means they’ll keep me because wow I’m active !

Here's the problem: my tribe is half inactive. Ben and Alex truly do not give a fuck whether we win or lose. This means they will be very easy vote offs during this phase of the game, but I don't want to risk having to repeatedly go to tribal over and over again. I am starting to get frustrated. They are literally not responding to any of my messages at all. I've tried reaching out to Ben twice now, and he hasn't replied back to either of those messages. I am so sick of it. For Alex, I don't know what his problem is either. This tribe truly is cursed in part due to them all being men. I need a swap to happen soon so that I can actually be put on a competent tribe. I am terrified that we are going to lose the challenge because it doesn't even seem like Ben or Alex know that it's even going on. Ugh. I'm so over this.

This scavenger hunt has been fun. I was thankful to already own most of the items between my apartment and my parents house. What I didn't have I had to drive around to find. What gave me the most trouble was the Magic 8 Ball. I ended up finding a mini 8 ball that was fully functioning. Given that 2 tribes are going to tribal counsel, and the current state of our sheet, I'm pretty sure Good is going to tribal council. I hope I'm wrong! But hope for the best, prepare for the worst. I think I'm safe this vote. I seem to be in the majority so long as I can trust them. I just hope we are all loyal until at least tribe swap or merge, whatever happens first. If we go to tribal, I'm pretty sure Eve will be getting the vote, but who's to say.

I do not believe we are winning this challenge. But I don't think I'd be the one voted out in any case. Alex and Ben both seems like they're not even going to submit for the challenge, so I will just ride this tribe out until we get rid of the both of them. I predict that there is a swap after this round because then it will be 15 which is the perfect time to swap into 3 tribes of 5. If not, I believe that we'll go till 14 to swap into two tribes of 7. Then, we'll merge at 11. I predict that Mac, Jay, and I will be able to survive till swap, but I'm not sure how I could begin to survive a merge. Maybe if I'm put on a tribe with either Dylan, Paolo, or Austin. I can make a pull on pre-existing relationships, but I will definitely have to give up control to them.

My tribe is filled with people who never learned how to read rules properly. Alex really said "I didn't know I had to put them in a doc." Like,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I am exhausted. Why can't people rise to my level? Is that too hard to ask? And! Alex said something in the tribe chat which means he's actively ignoring my messages and for why? This doesn't make any sense to me at all. Are they purposefully throwing their social games down the toilet? This is what I get for being on a tribe with all men.

There’s an hour left in the challenge. I feel like we have a chance but also think we will lose. I’m worried but I know if we go back to tribal I’m the least likely to go home. That’s king shit. ✌️😙

I am sad because I know Czern wouldn't have disappointed me like this. Jay told me that Mac or Alex allegedly said that Ben was good at challenges. Where is that? Such bullshit.

Also Alex really didn't even attempt the videos nor the high point items, huh? Ugh

Yay we flopped again x IM GETTING TRIGGERED FROM MY LAST SURVIVOR ORG!! Anyways. I am the swing vote without people realising which is hot. I’ve decided Ben needs to leave since he costed us the challenge by not submitting. I have to break it gently to Alex since he’s good mates with Ben. This also means people won’t see me as playing both sides. Woohoo. I’m not going home.

Ben is leaving because he didnt do the challenge and he doesn't talk to anyone and if Raffy wasn't on this tribe I honestly have no idea what I'd do. Pls swap soon thanks

WE WON AGAIN. wow I’m so proud of this tribe. I truly did not expect us to not go to tribal just because it’s a double tribal. Wow I’m just so proud of us. I feel like we are a very cohesive tribe too. We really vibe.

WE WON IMMUNITY *Happy dances* I feel really good about my tribe now! I really like Jessie now which I didn't think would happen but we've clicked finally. We made an agreement not to vote each other out for now. Zach is such a sweetheart and I love him. Paolo is a lil inactive because he's busy but I love his determination to contribute. Dylan is a literal fucking genius They are super intelligent and I'm so impressed. Austin is like a big ? for me if we lose I'll probably vote for him... I'm praying for a swap right now, I would like to meet new people and make more bonds before merge and then I can make some moves!

AHAHAHAHAHA 😂 -screams - so after me complaining a lil last confessional about my tribe being missing in action they came out of no where and we snagged the win. I’m currently vibing with Liam who seems to be as big of a book nerd as me . I love just finding people I get good vibes from . Still searching everyday for advantage items I’ll never stop looking for those because I never know when people will decide I’m no longer an asset. I will keep trying my hardest in each challenge 💕 we got this Tituba tribe . I’m lowkey proud of us all for snatching the win . Also my hair smells like milk I need to shower .

So we have to go to tribal I’m a little nervous bc there is always a chance you can go when you’re at tribal but it gives you the rush you crave. I have my 4 person alliance with Gizmo,Cameron and Keegan leaving Eve and Lukas in minority and I would love to stay loyal to it if they are loyal to it as well. I trust Gizmo he seems like a stand up guy Keegan seems sketchy but I trust him more then Cameron tbh. I know Gizmo has a good relationship with Lukas so I’m hoping he can keep Lukas from saying my name. I was wanting to Target Eve this tribal however I’m sure things are bound to get messy and with me and eves history she might just be petty and try to get the votes on me but I told her that if the vote is based on the challenge it should be Keegan and hopefully Keegan is the Decoy vote and gets 1 or 2 votes but ideally right now the 4 person alliance sticks together and votes Eve and Lukas can vote with us too so we can look unified and everyone can feel unified going into a potential swap. I’m gonna keep my options open come swap time bc the only person I trust 100 percent on this tribe is Gizmo idk if that’s his social game being so good but I don’t think he is playing me. So right now it’s looking like Eve will go but I’m sure if eve even has an inkling that she is getting votes then she will stir up trouble and I’m ready for trouble

Well everything has been super slow since we keep winning lol. I mean k love winning but it sometimes doesnt show where you stand really on your tribe. Jessie I trust 100% and I wanna work with liam and dylan too. I know zach paolo and dylan all know each other tho so I wanna break that up if I can before swap guess we will just have to see what happens after tribal

My alliance is voting out Ben. It is the easiest and least complex vote. I do not believe anyone would want to do anything else. It's really just that simple. I doubt this boy is even going to vote lmao

Tonight is first tribal. I hope everyone *sticks to the plan.* Eve is supposed to go home as far as I know. I had to lie to their face today....I don't like it. But! Its how the game is played. Its not personal, its drag.

[allofthisnonsenseplease]

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 so. you know how our Jack is dumber than a bowl of mice?

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 Yes

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 i keep imagining him being shocked--SHOCKED!!--by Gabe two-timing him with 76. Jack: You were seeing me behind my back! Gabe: I was dressed as Reaper fucking you as Soldier: 76. Jack: 76! That SLUT!!

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHAHA I'M DEAD!!!!!!!!! Gabe thought they were on the same page XDD He knew Jack was soldier and he thought Jack knew he was reaper

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 Gabe: Jack it was literally just me and you the whole time.

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 Gabe: wait does that mean you thought you were cheating on me

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 Jack:...we never said we were exclusive Jack: ANYHOW WHAT DOES HE HAVE THAT I DON'T??

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 OUCH JACK DON'T DIG YOUR GRAVE DEEPER Gabe: Gabe: I'm leaving you

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 A WISE DECISION

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 Jack: FOR THAT 76 PUNK?? Gabe:

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 Jack: FINE!! I'LL GO BACK TO REAPER, THEN!! HE'S TWICE THE TENTACLE MONSTER YOU'LL EVER BE!! i really really need an OW soap opera

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 Gabe: where's the camera I need to look at it LOLLLL

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 X''D

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 an overwatch soap opera where Gabriel is painfully aware he's in a soap opera

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 YES OMG PLEASE

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 this is the best concept ever LOL widowmaker alone is a great soap opera

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 !!! =D Gerard can come back!!!!

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 YAY

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 NO ONE STAYS DEAD!! EVERYONE GETS AMNESIA!!!

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHA GABRIEL'S TWIN BROTHER THAT HE NEVER KNEW HE HAD RETURNS FROM EXILE

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 DAMN YOU GAYBRIEL!!! JACK KEEPS GETTING HORRIBLE AND INEXPLICABLE INJURIES

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 AT SOME POINT JACK NEEDS TO DRAMATICALLY ANNOUNCE THAT HE'S PREGNANT

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHAHAHAHA that's where Gabriel loses it and leaves

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 X'D GABE YOU CAN'T LEAVE! THE WHOLE WORLD IS A SOUNDSTAGE!!

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHA

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 good god. so much crack!fic, so little time

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 I want it so bad holy shit Just everyone else carrying on and Gabriel just holding his head in his hands

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 XD What if Jack has an evil twin brother, too, and it's literally just him wearing an eye patch

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHA

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 Jack leaves the room, and comes back in with the eyepatch on. YOU THOUGHT IT WAS JACK, BUT IT WAS REALLY ME, EVIL!JACK! Gabe: ...there isn't enough alcohol in the world

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHAHA AND JACQUES FALLS MADLY IN LOVE W GABRIEL AND KIDNAPS HIM AND CHALLENGES JACK TO A DUEL FOR HIS LOVE

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 OMG OMGOMGOMG X''''''''''D

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 and Gabriel is sitting there like "you do realize the outcome of this shit has zero impact on my feelings right" "Although the cons of fucking Jack are really starting to outweigh the pros"

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 OH NO WE'VE FOUND GABE'S BREAKING POINT XD It turns out that Jack was adopted. He announces that he's leaving Gabe for Jaques. Gabe: . . .Jack. You hate yourself.

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 HAKDKSJCSKFK Gabe: you know what Jack. Go fuck yourself. Literally.

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 Jack invites Gabe to join him and Jacques for a threesome. Gabe is like: 'You know what? I gotta see this.' Be cause how the fuck? He shows up, and it's Jack and some Evel Knievel wanna be out of a 70s porno and Gabe NOPEs right out of reality.

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Then Gabe gets turned into reaper and is just like fuckin..... REALLY

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 Come on, Gabe, you know what they say: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 XDDDD Gabriel decides to take the soap opera route and use his newfound powers to take revenge on all these silly people for ruining his perfectly normal life

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 oh god. can he have a cape and a snidely whiplash moustache? like on top of his normal one? so that people know he's EVIL AND HE WEARS IT ON THE MASK TOO it's the one time everyone else points out something absurd. Gabe snaps. Death Blossom.

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 LOLLLL GABE TRIES TO OUT-SOAP OPERA THE SOAP OPERA

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 i'm just imagining the reaperbeans laughing evilly and trying to rub their nubby little flaps together while Gabe puts his Evil Plan into action XD

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 Awwwwwww omg the reaper persona really makes a lot more sense once you have the lens of Gabriel trying to out-dramatize everyone else after being a victim of soap opera

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 lol it kinda does XD

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 Pros about giving in to the madness: fantastic impossible angry sex with Jack XDD

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/08/2017 XD also, lower blood pressure from not being angry and stressed all the time. XD oh shit. dude. X''D Gabe just speaking spanish the whole time and everyone runs with it and reacts according to whatever they think he's saying.

firesonic152 - 08/08/2017 AHAHAHA nobody comments on the fact

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 pfft. what if Jack's a fukkin doctor? Jack, misty-eyed: I always dreamed of being a field medic, but I'm a doctor, not a soldier, dammit! I can't help win this war.

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 AHAHAHA Waiting expectantly for Gabe to give him a dramatic pep talk That never comes

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 Gabe: Jack, there's no war. Jack: Love is a battlefield. Gabe: You. Aren't. Making. Any. Sense. Jack: THIS CONSTANT FIGHTING IS WHAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. MAKE LOVE TO ME, GABE. MAKE LOVE TO ME LIKE WE USED TO BEFORE ALL THIS CAME BETWEEN US.

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 DHAKDKAKXKS Gabe: BEFORE WHAT CAME BETWEEN US, WE'RE FINE Jack: YOU CAN'T KEEP PRETENDING TO BE FINE WHEN YOU'RE NOT GABRIEL IT'S NOT HEALTHY AND I CAN'T BE WITH SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN A FANTASY!!!! Gabe: I'M the one in a fantasy??

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 X''''''''''D Jack: Are you going to tell me that you know nothing about THIS??? [pulls out roosterbean] Gabe: the fuck? Jack: I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING WITH THAT--THAT--THAT COWBOY!

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 AHAHAHAHAHA Gabe: JACK THAT WAS YOU. YOU SLEPT WITH HIM.

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 ((also i really need the roosterbeans to be a thing and i can't even tell you why but omg))

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 AHAHAHA Bless

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 Jack: [gasp] HE CHEATED ON BOTH OF US!! Gabe: I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE ISSUE HERE

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 I'M DYING SQUIRTLE this is the dumbest shit ever and I've never giggled this hard in my Life

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 XD

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 I'm cackling

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 laughter is good for the soul X'D

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 poor Gabriel deserves a break I'm dead

SuspiciousPopsicle - 08/09/2017 oh lord he really does. maybe next plotting session should be something nice for him. he deserves it. ^^

firesonic152 - 08/09/2017 you're right time to give Gabe the break he deserves

[sodasexual]

Yobanashi Deceive (Mediator Challenge, Pt. 9)

(Part 8 can be read here) (Final Part can be read here)

As the group entered further and further, the ominous feeling they experienced only got worse and worse. Soon enough, communication with the outside became impossible, as Takane was quick to notice from inside Shintaro’s cellphone. Not that it’d have been very useful to contact anyone else.

Momo? What exactly could she do except making herself an easy to catch target? The other two Tateyama kids? By the love of God, they must be drowning in grief right now. Not exactly the rescue task force that she’d want coming for her.

Besides, Shintaro said that he had a plan. They were forced to interrupt their chat after that bit, as a guard approached them, but he’s been surprisingly reliable today, so she’ll trust him. From the way he talked, his plan relies on her, right? So she must be in top shape to assault!

As for Shintaro, he’s looking left and right for any detail, any nook and cranny that he might either recognize or memorize now. There haven’t been many timelines where he’s gotten to this place, as he’s usually killed before even learning who’s behind the mysterious murders and incidents of August 15th. From what he does remember, however, the last few floors should be packed with computers, most with perfectly fitting USB ports.

He just needs to find one and run for it and Takane can solve the rest. The only problem is, how will he manage to get an opening? And he doesn’t have much time to figure a perfect solution. It’s 11:00 PM already. Clear Eyes has a whole hour to kill Haruka and turn him into a time bomb for a tragedy 2 years in the future...

Speaking of Haruka, he’s been awfully quiet ever since they’ve entered here. Shintaro can’t avoid feeling a pang of pain whenever he spots the other with such an alarmed expression. He’s his only friend left that hasn’t died yet. The only thing separating Shintaro from permanent blindness. And more important, his only chance of finally putting the ghosts of his past to rest...

On a side note, this Haruka looks quite younger than the one he once met in Hive City. ...Quite adorable too-

(HELLO, BRAIN?! THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO HAVE GAY THOUGHTS!!!)

Ehem, back to our schedule, they finally arrive at the place where Shintaro supposes the worst is planned to happen. A room packed with computers of all models and sorts, plus a couple surgical beds and even a few of those tanks for humans you see in science fiction. Not a pleasant place at all.

“Kehehehe, you like what you see? I’ve gotta tell you, it was kinda hard getting this beauty up. Imagine, only having a single year to get the money needed to buy both installations, equipment and henchmen, all while having to share a body with the good teacher here and keeping my influence hidden from the public. Having centuries of expertise with observating humans and learning how they tick sure helped, though~.”

“You sure have a twisted sense of beauty here, you bastard... What do you even expect obtaining with all of this? A quick shot to alleviate your addiction in sadism?”

“My, my, so cruel, so fierce in your remarks. Hehe, I like that. The more defying they are, the more delightful their screams are when they are into despair. Ahahahaha... What a stupid way to live! Yes, please entertain me soon, Shintaro-kun, AHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

The snake kept laughing for a while, before regaining composure. “Of course, I’m not doing this just for my pleasure. I’m just a snake tending to my host’s wish, as all the others do. Kenjirou wants to be alongside his beloved again, and what a better way to realize that wish than harnessing the power of the Kagerou Daze?”

“Well, I don’t know... anything that doesn’t involve killing a bunch of people in gruesome ways?!”

“You sure are quick to scream at him, eh, Shintaro-kun?” Kano replied in a carefree tone. “Careful there, snakes can bite back, you know? Don’t think that those eyes of yours are a permanent safe ticket towards him.”

“Speaking of them, I’m genuinely interested. How and when did you get those eyes?” The snake approached Shintaro and grabbed his jawline in a painful way.

“Urgh...”

“I’ve looked around for any news that’d suggest a Kagerou Daze opening the past few years. I’ve even read about the one involving your sister and your father, yet I’ve never found anything regarding you being involved at that. And the way you’ve been intruding in my operation today... It’s like you’ve known beforehand what’d happen. Did Ayano open up to you at some point?”

“Oh, please, as if she’d have done that. If Nee-san had told this guy about everything, wouldn’t he have tried to save her? He would have known about her plan, wouldn’t he? And she was his friend, wasn’t she? But then again... he is a pretty awful person. Perhaps he just didn’t care at all about her...”

“T-That’s wrong!” Haruka protested. “S-Shuuya-kun, you’ve got it all wrong! Shintaro-kun cared a lot about Ayano-chan. We all did! It’s just...” Tears began forming on his eyes. “There was no time to change her mind anymore!”

“...What do you mean?”

“I-I mean...” Kano’s sudden deadpan response sent a chill over Haruka’s spine. He knew that he couldn’t back down now. For Shintaro’s sake... and his own. Shintaro needs to save him, right? And he was trying to talk to Kano earlier. So perhaps... the key for their safety is the boy before them.

“Hoh... Now this will be interesting to watch...” Amused by the discussion about to occur, Clear Eyes let go of Shintaro. He took a deep breath and stared at Haruka.

“Shintaro-kun... he’s only learned about all of this yesterday.” As in, the Shintaro from the future has only arrived today, but no need to go for those outlandish details for now. Haruka himself hasn’t fully wrapped his head around it yet.

“Ayano-chan was very determined to follow along with her plan. *sniff* Shintaro-kun tried to talk to her, he really did! But... there was nothing that he could say to change her mind. As long as you guys were in danger, she’d do anything to keep you safe. E-Even... Uoooooh...”

“Senpai...” Shintaro and Takane both listened to Haruka’s words, impressed by his standing for Shintaro. The NEET in particular was rather happy that Haruka was willing to defend him like that. His words are true, yet Shintaro would never have been able of saying them himself without being a major asshole.

For in the end, Kano had the right to be angry at him. Especially now, he’s just lost Ayano, so he doesn’t have yet the privilege of time to calm down and reflect about his own emotions. Not that the deceiver would ever do that without some big external motivator, though.

And he surely isn’t in the mood to do it now. After Haruka finishes talking, he hangs his head low, chuckles for a bit... then looks up with a rather unamused expression. Definitely not what you’d expect seeing in Kano’s face usually.

“...So what? I know how stubborn Nee-san can be. But words aren’t the only way you can stop someone from doing something, are they?” He slowly starts approaching Shintaro, his steps getting more and more ominous as he advances.

“He could have held her hair down. He could have locked her in a room. He could have knocked her down, drugged her down. Heck, he could have even called the police to detain her! But he didn’t. He didn’t any of that. He gave up as soon as words didn’t do the magic effect he’d expect. Sure must be easy for you to forgive this trash, huh?! C’mon, Shintaro, be honest with me. Look right into my eyes and tell me...”

All of a sudden, Shintaro felt Kano grab his hair, forcing him to be on his eye level. And what he saw was...

“WHY DIDN’T YOU SAVE ME?!”

“Ayano...”

Shintaro could feel himself shaking, his breath short and his vision blurring. He hated it, he hated how Kano was right. He could have saved Ayano. He should, he should! He didn’t do it, though, and why? Because it was the easier choice to leave her to die, not because it was the correct one.

And look what his choce has warranted so far. Takane has already been killed and Haruka will soon be next! Even with the insight of literally thousands of worlds, thousands of probabilities, he was still unable to do anything for them. He’s a failure, a rotten boy who should have died on that day, not them! Why, why, why-

“...Can’t I ask the same of you, Shuuya-kun?”

And then, a sudden breeze of fresh air came to the NEET. Both he and Kano turned to look at Haruka, who had now dried his tears and stared quite seriously at the blond boy.

“Shintaro-kun has only learned about Ayano-chan’s story today, so he couldn’t have done much to help. But you... you knew about it from the beginning. You knew of Ayano-chan’s struggle, shared her secret and all. From the way you just turned into her right now, perhaps you’ve even covered for her without us noticing in the past?”

“So what?”

“So what... that you had plenty of time to think of a better alternative to help Ayano-chan, to stop the thing on Sensei’s body. You had plenty of help to ask us for help, or the police, or the firemen, or even this Marry person that Shintaro-kun mentioned earlier. Is she the so called Queen?”

“S-Shut up... That’s not...”

“Not right? Listen here, Shuuya-kun, I understand that you must be under great pain right now. In that pain, you want to find something to blame so that you can get rid of it. ...However, if you insist on blaming my only friend left for this tragedy with the sole basis of projecting your own faults on him... Then you’ll have to get through me first.”

“Yoooooooou.... SHUT THE HELL UP!!” Kano pushes Shintaro far enough for him to hit a bunch of electronics, then advances towards Haruka. “What do you know about me? What do you know about her?! I-I was the only one by her side... The only one she could trust... YOU WERE ALL GUILTY!! SHE TRIED TO SAVE YOUR UNGRATEFUL ASSES!! YOU ALL DESERVE TO DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”

“Okay, okay, that’s enough, Shuuya.” The snake, seemingly amused, pulls Kano away from Haruka. “This was pretty fun to watch, but we have a schedule to follow. Is everything ready for the procedure, Wakagi?”

“Yes, everything in order, boss.” A couple of henchmen grab Haruka from behind and start pulling him down.

“H-Hey! Lemme go! T-Tateyama-sensei... Please, stop this madness! You can hear me, can’t you?! Don’t let that snake domain you!!”

“We’re almost done with the preparatives for Shintaro Kisaragi’s memory erasing protocol too. Nothing else should deviate from our plan.”

“F***... H-Haruka!!” Shintaro shouted and tried to stand up, but he soon noticed that he was stuck in place. His jacket had gotten entangled with some of the machinery, so he was unable to move properly enough to stand up. What a great time for a wardrobe malfunction...

“『K-Kisaragi, what’s going on?! Haruka, he’s being taken! W-We’ve gotta do something!』”

“I’m trying, I’m trying! If I could just get my arm free... There!”

“Hey, what’s going on there? Peng, please go check on Shintaro-kun there. We should avoid any other card on his sleeve.”

(Oh crap, they’ve heard us this time!) Panic began filling his body. He was almost completely out of options. His mind raced at frenetic speed trying to think of something, anything that he could do to change this. Oh God, tell him that there’s something left-

“『What was that 100% successful plan of yours again? If you can do it, do it now! It’s our only chance!』”

The plan... Shintaro quickly looks around and, as if a miracle dictated it, found what he was looking for: an USB entry. Shintaro thanked to the heavens that he had bought that trinket from Hadenwa that allowed you to have a cellphone cord inside the phone itself. He pulled it out as Clear Eyes’ subordinate rushed towards him.

“Okay, Senpai. Here’s the deal. Sorry to put you again online this soon, but you just gotta do whatever you want inside it. Don’t stop no matter what, you hear me?”

“『So... I’ll be some sort of hacking tool? ...Hehehehe! I’ll admit, that does sound cool. Just do it, Kisaragi. I can take care of the rest!』”

“Very well. Insert aaaaand... GO!!” Just as Shintaro connected his cellphone to the system, the henchman held him. It was too late... for Clear Eyes. Now, it’s just sit down and watch the spectacle to come.