#not pictured: giant spider pod

[dorianwolfforest]

My GM asked what Pod would look like if he wildshaped into a horse and I got carried away. With and without his hat.

[alliseaisfandom]

Wordtober day 4: Dodge

using the the official inktober prompts

People say opposites attract. People also say best friends should be like two peas in a pod. Maybe starting with what people say isn’t a great idea, because people also tended to say Deanna was a weirdo. And those were the people Isadora ended up punching.

Rubbing the other woman’s back with one hand and the other laid flat on the duvet, Isadora waited. For Deanna to stop shaking slightly, for her hand to grasp back in a sign she was back from the other side, for her eyes to roll back to the front of her skull, whichever came first.

Being an Oracle wasn’t easy. Deanna took it with extreme dignity.

A sharp gasp brought Isadora’s mind back to the present: The hand on the duvet was swiftly squeezed as Deanna grasped for an anchor and the other reached back for the glass of water they’d brought with them when Deanna felt “another one on the way”.

“Hey, it’s Isa. I’m here. You’re home, you’re okay.”

Deanna nodded, eyes still shut and sipping the cold water through the metal straw, the clinking of it against the glass the only sound in the room.

When she spoke, it was a bit hoarse, barely over a whisper. “It’s one of yours again.”

Isadora sighed. Being a Chosen One wasn’t easy either.

It certainly helped that her best friend had an insight on just what she was Chosen for. In the same way it helped Deanna make sense of her visions if she had been present for most of the life of the subject.

Opposites. Peas in a pod. Take your pick.

Once Deanna was back on her feet, she drew aside the curtain on the far wall of her room, revealing a white board full of two very distinct and equally tiny types of handwriting, a couple books worth of post it’s, and the occasional news clipping. The board was used for most prophecies, but only the really important (and unrelated to them) stayed.

“Why is it me again?”

“I do not know! Ask your weirdly big family if they have a tradition of signing fates off to the supernatural!”

“This is what, the third time this year? Fourth?”

Deanna grimaced “Fifth.”

“Fifth??”

“Yea remember that time I changed my mind and we went rock climbing instead of on a beach trip?”

“Yea?” Isadora raised her head from where she’d flopped down on the bed.

“Yea.”

“Ugh! How do you block the Universe’s number?”

“I’ll tell you what, when I find out you’ll be the first to know.” She basically sighed the sentence.

Isadora got up. She didn’t really know how to answer other than slide her arms around Deanna and hold tight. “I’m sorry, Dea.”

“It’s fine, it’s not like you made me an oracle. And it’s not bad when they’re you. It means I can help you.” She tilted her head, lightly headbutting Isa. “Dodging time?”

Isa smiled against her.

“Okay, so! What do you have?”

“I have the sun, moon and rising constellation of your birthdate.”

“Oh so it’s me me.”

“Yeah. I also have…” She trailed off, brow furrowed.

They’d been doing this for years, so Isa knew not to push. Dea didn’t really have prophecies told to her as much as she was shown flashes of scenes culminating in a giant domino effect that was usually saving or ending some part of the world. Not always, though. Sometimes the prophecies were small like “Mr. Forin will be pissed off next Wednesday and deliver a surprise exam” – illustrated ever so helpfully by a family home, a detailed image of an explosion followed by falling drops and a roulette wheel- or “Old lady Ori’s cat will get tangled in spider webs and wander the neighborhood” – and nobody wants the vivid description of an anatomically correct spider-cat hybrid shared over lunch.

“The first daughter of the first daughter of the first daughter.” Dea almost yelled. But her enthusiasm was short lived, “Wait, that’s doesn’t fit you.”

Isa thought for a bit. “Oh that’s low.”

“What?”

“It does fit. My dad’s the oldest kid.”

“Your da- fucking transphobic prophecies!”

Isadora reached into the sides of the board and pulled in her picture and one of her dad to the small open space where they had for figuring out today’s message.

“Wait, we’ve established they don’t care about blood lines right?”

“Yea, there was that one about your witch aunt that turned out to be your mom’s best friend.”

“Does it have a date?”

“What?”

“The thing I will do. Is it dated?”

“I mean, there are definitely early summer vibes to the scene, why?”

“Because!” Isadora reached across the board again, this time picking up a picture of a woman in her forties, the name ‘Allison’ scribbled in blue ink “My dad is marrying my stepmom in three months on the 20th! And she has-”

“She has two kids older than you!!”

“So in summer, I will be the youngest child!!” Isa grinned.

“And the second daughter!” Dea smiled back, raising her hand. “Dodged!”

“Dodged!” Isa high fived her.

That was their thing. Sure, it wasn’t always this easy, especially when the visions weren’t about Isa. But they’d gotten good at figuring out the who and the what, and if it was worth making the effort to dodge. Sometimes they couldn’t. That’s what the news clippings were for. For every catastrophic train accident there was a front page spread on a miraculous save borne of chance. For every post it with scribbled out names when they got it wrong there were small notes thanking one or both of them for suspiciously well timed advice they’d given someone.

Isadora and Deanna had been best friends since the day they’d met. Isa had been there when Dea had her first vision, when the doctors couldn’t find reason for the “seizures”, when they finally realized her vivid dreams would step out into the world and when they stopped the first one. And she’d been sitting on this same duvet the first time Dea had a vision about her. And the second. And the third. And the on average 4.6 times – now 4.8 – she was featured on some big catastrophic event.

The world was still standing. This was their thing.

Many months after Isa’s dad’s wedding (which Dea attended obviously) and after the supposed coming of the vision (Dea tried to not give her details of the action if she had them, or even of the specific day, but she had looked up to Isa one late spring day, and said from where she rested her head on her lap “it would’ve been today” with a small  proud smile, before returning to her book) , it happened again.

They were in Isa’s dad’s kitchen. He and Allison had gone out for the weekend and Alex and Charlie were still at work, so Isa had dinner on her hands; which is to say Dea had dinner on her hands and Isa was on cutting veggies duty.

The speed with which Isa put down the knife and caught the bag of noodles off of Dea’s hand would’ve made records. And then she waited.

When Dea came back to herself, she was… different.

They did all the rituals and reassurances and then Dea wouldn’t really look at Isa all of the sudden. Eyes shifty and face flush and the nervous finger tapping was back, that had left around highschool, why was that back?

“So… Is it someone you know?” She tried

“Mhm.”

“Oh that’s nice! Is it one to dodge?”

Silence.

Okayy then. “Do I know who it is?”

“I- yea.”

“Oh cool, is it someone from work? That Jayce fellow in the lobby has biiig Chosen vibes.” Nothing. “Or maybe Tessa? I mean I wouldn’t say I know her since she’s your boss and all but-“

“It’s you!”

“Oh! Why didn’t you say so?”

“It’s- it’s also me… It’s tricky.”

“Ah. Well if it’s anything big, we got it right? I mean unless I have to go out into a tick infested backwoods somewhere to appease some fae anthropologists, that was not a fun month.”

Dea stayed quiet again.

“Dea? You there?”

“Hm?”

“You didn’t say it.”

“Say what?”

“You always say ‘tell me about it’ when I talk about that month, and then you tell me one more ridiculous excuse you came up with for why I wasn’t at uni then.”

“Right, yea. Tell me about it.” Dea’s eyes were unfocused. Far away.

“I’m not leaving.”

That seemed to do something. Dea snapped her head up, looking right at Isa.

“If it’s something like I’m meant to leave you or hate you or hurt you consider it Dodged! I would die before I did that.”

Dea opened her mouth a couple times, but her voice got lost on it’s way out and she closed it again. Isa took her hands in hers. “I know you can’t always tell me but- I’m geeing worried here.”

Dea closed her eyes for a bit. “It’s… You’re meant to… Sit alongside me.”

“Ha! Little late for that, started doing that in 6th grade!”

“No, that’s too literal, you’re… not supposed to leave!”

“Pretty sure we just went over that actually.” Isa chuckled.

Dea shook her head violently. Isa’s easy smile fell, she could see her friend was distressed but to not be able to help-

“Dea, I know it’s hard. But I can’t help if you din’t describe it to me, I need to know what I’m aiming for when i say stuff or I ca-”

“Marriage!” She almost yelled. “The closest definition in the english language is… marriage. And all it entails.”

Oh.

Oh.

Dea still wasn’t looking at her. And that just wouldn’t do, not now! I mean sure it was a tricky situation, it wouldn’t do that Dea was uncomfortable every time Isa was around for the rest of their lives, and Isa was pretty sure step one of a marriage was falling for someone and she had had that one down pat for ages so- wait a minute…

The nervous tapping. The flush. The silence at whether or not she wanted to dodge it. The way she wouldn’t look Isa in the eyes goddamnit.

Isa lifted one hand away from Dea’s own to curl it around her chin and gently turn her gaze back

“Hi.” Still nothing. “I have a question.”

It was silent permission but it was permission nonetheless.

“What would happen if I didn’t want to dodge it? Just this once?”

Turning Dea’s eyes to her was the best decision Isa could’ve made because the way the woman’s eyes widened was just about the most precious view she’d ever experienced.

“But it wouldn’t- It’s not you that wants it, it’s the-”

“Dea, you’ve known me for over ten years. In those you’ve had visions of me a total of 65 times. We dodged 57 of them, and the ones we didn’t were a choice. I think we’ve established the existence of my free will.” Isa smiled at Dea’s barely contained eyeroll, even now, at her head for numbers, “so I am not asking about the grand scheme of things. I’m asking you. What would happen if I didn’t want to dodge it?”

Dea took her time: searching Isa’s face, cataloguing every micro expression she’d grown up with, every millimetre of skin waiting for a catch she knew damn well wasn’t coming. And when she was secure enough, she finally answered, voice tiny and hopeful:

“No dodging.”

And Isa didn’t need prophetic powers to tell her that was the best decision they had ever made. Through that night’s dinner, holding hands under the table, through every kiss where they melted into each other as if it was their first again, through every night for the rest of their lives, from the one where they finally did a real proposal to the one where they exchanged teary eyed vows.

No dodging.

[creepycute-kitty-gf]

My friends and I started creating cryptids the other night:

Truth squirrels:

They travel in packs as large as 12. The more of them there are surrounding you, the harder it becomes to lie.

Amnesia Eagle:

Any time it spreads its wings to take off, they release a flash of light like the neuralyzer from Men in Black

Owl that turns you inside out if you look it in the eye

Only works one way. No refunds.

Wolf-fi

So, like, picture a wolf. But instead of fur, it has toxic quills like a porcupine that it can launch off when you startle it. But it gives off a really good wi-fi signal to lure in victims.

Big Jim

He’s like a leprechaun. But giant.

Sasquatch, but with a sword and a jetpack

It’s exactly what it sounds like

Spider-wasps

Imagine flying spiders that hunt as a group. They have wasp stingers and can work as a group to make massive webs to ensnare their victims for later

Ditto, but an apex predator

You heard what I said.

Quantum squids

So, the squids wrap their tentacles around each others’ heads, making a ring of squids. Once the ring is complete, they accelerate to relativistic speeds and essentially become a Star Gate. The more squids, the bigger the gate and the farther they can travel together.

The Ultra Kraken

It’s, like, 5 giant squids duct taped together.

Centicrabs

Imagine, like, 100 crabs in a conga line. except it’s not a conga line. It’s just one really long, segmented crab with all of those extra pairs of claws. You can’t out run it. It can see into your soul and read your sins.

The Raging Willow

Okay, so imagine if the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter cross-pollinated with an Ent from Lord of the Rings. But it grows explosive seed pods that look like avocados that it can throw like grenades. And it is out for vengeance against the human race for ignoring global warming.

Bearsquatch

So, like, imagine Sasquatch. But his hands are bear heads.

Man-horse

So, imagine a full sized horse. But what if it could walk on its hind legs like a person. And its hooves were replaced with functional hands and feet. And it carries one of those big swords that people use for decapitating horses.

[chelledoggo]

[Fanfic] Bedtime Meditation [101 Dalmatian Street]

genre: oneshot, slice-of-life

rating: all ages

content warnings: none

summary:

Deepak helps Dizzy and Dee Dee fall back asleep after a nightmare.

“Deepak! Deepaaaak!” a tiny voice whispered.

“Wake up, wake uuuup!” followed another.

Deepak's eyes slowly fluttered open to see his sisters Dizzy and Dee Dee had crawled up into his hanging pod bed and were looking at him with weepy eyes.

“Sisters?” Deepak mumbled with a yawn. “What's wrong?”

“We can't sleep,” Dizzy replied timidly.

“We had a nightmare,” Dee Dee added.

“There were snakes comin' out of the faucets...” Dizzy recalled, trembling.

“...and giant spiders in the kibble pantry...” Dee Dee continued.

“Can you tell us one of your stories?” pleaded Dizzy.

“The ones with us in 'em?” Dee Dee specified.

“...so we can sleeeeeep?” they begged in unison.

The “stories” the two little Dalmatian sisters were referring to were Deepak's famous guided bedtime meditations. They were always sure-fired to put even the antsiest pups to sleep, and he deeply enjoyed bonding with his siblings through them.

“Alright, alright,” Deepak replied with a sleepy smile. “But first, we should get you back in your own bed, don't you think?”

The two puppy sisters leaped back down into their own cozy little cubby-bed, with Deepak following behind.

“Alright, get comfortable,” Deepak gently instructed as he seated himself in a meditative position.

Dizzy and Dee Dee lay down and cuddled up close to their brother, looking eagerly up at him.

“Now,” he continued in a soft voice. “Let's close our eyes...”

The three pups closed their eyes, as Deepak lay a paw on both of his sisters' heads and began to softly stroke their fur.

“...And take a nice, deep breath...”

The pups all breathed in unison, slowly and deeply.

“Now, let's imagine that we're all sitting on a big, fluffy cloud...” Deepak whispered. “...And each breath we take...makes it slowly float up higher...”

The pups took another breath together. Dizzy and Dee Dee were already beginning to relax a bit as they both calmly smiled.

“We're slowly floating up...” Deepak narrated. “Above the house...above the town...above the twinkling London lights...”

“I can see them,” Dizzy giggled softly as she followed her brother's narration. “I can see the lights...”

“Me too, me too!” Dee Dee whispered happily.

“We slowly rise above the city...into the night sky...” Deepak continued whispering. “...And as we rise above the clouds...we can see a clear, starry sky above us...”

Dizzy and Dee Dee begin to sigh serenely as Deepak's words painted a vivid picture in their heads.

“So pretty...” Dizzy murmured.

“Mmhmm...” Dee Dee affirmed softly.

Deepak continued on. “It's so calm and quiet up here...with the softness of the clouds beneath us...We can just look up into the sky...Until...we...drift...off...to...sleep...”

After whispering that last word, Deepak opened one eye to see his sisters had already fallen fast asleep right up close to him.

Calm smiles spread across their faces as they lay snuggled up to Deepak, dreaming of lounging on clouds in the night sky.

Deepak didn't want to disturb them by getting up, so he decided to just sleep here with them for the night.

He gently removed his paws from his sisters' heads, and gently kissed them both on their foreheads.

“Goodnight, sisters,” he whispered as he curled up close to them and closed his eyes.

“May we all dream peacefully tonight.”

[allwaswell16]

For the 500 words submission thing!!! xoxoxoxoxx

Louis: Dude wtf is this alien pod doing at the grocery store? It’s not labeled=alien pod #confirmed

Niall: I’m picturing it opening, and tiny alien creatures crawling out like spiders from a sac

Louis: Wtf Niall ew

Niall: Touch it

Louis: I’m still standing in front of it, idk what to do

Niall: TOUCH IT

Ed: Oh god this is scaring me

Harry: Buy it.

Louis: I’m sorry it’s freaking me out too, oh it’s even grosser close up

Niall: so it’s just one giant thing in one box, not labeled

Louis: Yes

Harry: It’s just a lonely fruit looking for love

Ed: It has eyes

Harry: I feel sorry for it.

Niall: It’s watching you

Liam: DON’T TOUCH THE FIRST ONE I’M SERIOUS

Louis: GAH!

Niall: Send it to Harry he will take care of the alien babies.

Liam: IT’S A FRUIT THAT GIVES SPLINTERS THAT ARE NOT EASY TO GET RID OF

Harry: Okay, now I don’t want that shit. Lou, what kind of fucking store are you shopping in?

Louis: I DON’T KNOW ITS JUST OUR REGULAR GROCERY STORE

Liam: It’s delicious but you have to open it with gloves

Louis: I really want to touch it

Liam: it’s not worth it. You’re gonna get hurt

Ed: Then how the fuck are you supposed to get it home?

Louis: But I think I need to touch it

Liam: Are u not reading what I’m saying it’s a FRUIT WITH NEEDLES TURN AROUND

Niall: They should label that shit. Or give you gloves. Honestly fuck that grocery store

Liam: You take them with the plastic bag on your hand

Niall: I’m going to see if they have them in my grocery story and if they do I’m complaining

Liam: It’s called a cactus pear for a reason

Ed: It’s not labeled though. That’s horrible.

Louis: There’s no label. They tried to trick me

Harry: Cactus pears…the BDSM of fruit

Liam: the splinters are unbearable

Louis: Okay I finally walked over to the bananas

Harry: Oh good. Buy some. And please remember to eat one every day, love. You need the potassium.

Louis: I can still see it over there

Louis: I have to go back and touch it

Liam: LOUIS NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Louis: Calm your tits Liam. I’ll use a plastic bag

Niall: I’m going to need receipts. Pic or it didn’t happen

<<<Louis sends a photo of himself touching the offensive fruit.>>>

Liam: Oh

Louis: what?

Liam: I was talking about the other fruit in the picture. The one in front.

Louis: FUCK FUCKING FUCK

Harry: What’s wrong??????

Louis: I FUCKING TOUCHED THE ONE IN FRONT

Liam: Well, I don’t know what else I could have done here

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHA @phd-mama ! So this is from a ficlet I wrote called Danger in the Produce Aisle. It’s an ot5/Ed whatsapp chat thing before we knew about the email chain. This was based on an actual whatsapp conversation wherein I inadvertently sent everyone a photo of a GIANT jackfruit I found at the grocery store, and I had no idea what it was. So basically I’m Louis in this. lol. And I assigned everyone else in the chat a role as well. And it turned into this very silly thing that began all the email chain ficlets. Good times. <3

Send me a snippet from one of my fics and I’ll give the commentary on it! 

[jaybug-jabbers]

Bug Saver Squad Journal

I’ve been going through old boxes of mine and I ran across a little paper notepad stuffed in with a bunch of toy bugs.

Now, a little backstory. As a child, I was super into bugs. Hugely so. So much so that I decided to create a club with my little brother. Our mission was to rescue bugs from harm and help convince other people that bugs were amazing and cool and lovable and they shouldn’t squish them.

Thus, with this in mind, here are the journal entries I have decoded from my childhood scrawlings:

Here begins the journal of the Bug Savers Squad.

12/27/96

Saw a little white mite clearly running on a slug’s body.

12/30/96

Today I found a caterpillar. During winter? I ran for a bug bottle. For now on, I’m carrying a bug bottle whenver I go out, no matter what weather. I think the ‘piller is a buckeye. I’m attempting to feed it snapdragon. Saw a huge daddy-long leg in house. [Older brother] was going to kill it, but I convinced him to put it outside. Lost it in the house, though. The carpet makes long legs almost invisible! Took on my first assignment today. A row of squashed snails! It appeared the snails were all going to this patch of greens. Who killed them, and why? Snails are active at night, and no bike riders ride at night. The house’s people must be smashing the snails to protect their dumb plants! I will go there during the evening and remove all live slugs and snails to prevent any more lives lost. I don’t know how to punish these strangers though. We tried to punch holes in their lawn. I hope that was enough.

1/1/97

Raining well today. Went out worm searching. We saw and took a picture of a worm that appeared to have 4 rattle segments! We also saw a yellow slug with brown spots. We caught a snail that is blue and named it Blue Moon. Found another hammerhead worm (don’t know real name of species) today. That makes (?) more sluggish in rain. It had no hammerhead, but was clearly a hammerhead. Shorter than the last two. Recorded lots of information and let it go.

1/3/97

Tested the bug catcher today on a centipede. It worked! And at the same time we caught a tiny snail shell. 1/6 of an inch or smaller! Saw four bees at our flowers and a couple flies. Real sunny today, as if spring.

1/28/97

Some few monarchs stopped at a park for a while. We looked at them a while. Like to know why they hibernate when they have babies on milkweed.

1/29/2019

Found a neat beetle by our vine today. Caught it. It has a perfect heart on its back. Got pictures. It escaped. Found baby green caterpillars in evergreen tree. Just hatched. One stuck in web. We saved it. Saw stink bug. Our first this spring! Found snail eggs. Saw an egg:

Yellowish. Several already hatched. Must investigate.

Missed stuff: (I assume this note indicates the dates on the next few entries were from previous days and I had forgot to write them down until now)

1/26/97

Saw an earthworm as long as a garden snake and even thicker than one! Put in front lawn. Got worm bin. Will use soon.

1/27/97

Saw a baby grasshopper, ladybug & monarch. It’s like spring! Tonight we saw a baby longleg by the cupboard. Name: Marshmallow.

2/24/97

Saw monarch butterflies. Big pods on trees. Males have dots on back wings, girls don’t. I remember when I saved a stink bug from the swimming pool. Making a newsletter. Made a logo & motto.

2/25/97

Saw big grasshopper! Lots of beetles that are yellow with black triangles are running around. I remember I caught a lovebug. It had a heart on its back! Saw a mud wasp getting mud. Saw a spider web like this:

1: web

2: string leading to hiding spot

3: hiding spot made of silk

Genius spider!

2/26/97

Saved a bunch of baby caterpillars living in evergreens. Saw lots of aphids crossing sidewalk. Saw an aphid this big!

And a final bonus entry from ‘96, including a drawing of our club mascot:

12/19/96

Looked under rocks at neighbor’s yard. BEST spot for bugs. Lots of ant farms, giant milipede, mother & father earwig, & a baby black widow!

This is a repost on a new blog. The original post was on Jul 25, 2019.

[spxderman-s]

the one that got away

requested: nah, this one is all me xx 

pairings: tom holland x reader 

word count: 3.2k yikes i got carried away again

warnings: swearing, there’s some pg-13 smut, mentions of alcohol 

a/n: yo this is so relieving to finally post something i’ve been working on for weeks and weeks. if anyone has been active, i’ve been going through a really tough funk in my writing and this is the first one i’ve posted in a hot minute. so enjoy lovelies!! 

You deserved this vacation.

Working non-stop for the last three months had completely drained you. So you repeated those words in your mind as you got onto the plane, checked into the resort, and fell upon the giant, lush queen bed--complete with gourmet chocolates waiting for you on the pillow.

Yes, you splurged a little bit on the suite. But damn it, you deserved it! As you ordered room service that first night, drank an entire bottle of wine while watching late reruns of Friends, you felt the weight of working so much slowly lessen from your shoulders, and you drifted into the enormous bathroom to soak in the likewise clawfoot bathtub. Carrying your last glass of wine with you, you ran the water, and sighed in satisfaction as you sank into the heated water.

Yes, you definitely deserved this vacation.

“Can I get a martini?” you asked the bartender politely over the noise of the booming bass oozing from the speakers all around you, resting your hands on the edge of the bar. You had meandered your way down to the lobby, exploring, and came across this small pub tucked next to a bright, wild club. The edge of the bar led into the section of the room that was full of people dancing, purple light cascading over the mass. A DJ sat at a turntable in front of all of them, shouting incoherent words in a mic, trying to be heard over the sound of the music.

Dancing was never your thing. Your eyes wandered along the length of the bar, bouncing from face to face; girls with their friends that traveled in packs, men who held craft beers and sported man buns, women who looked a little old to be partying but partied anyway--and had the time of their life doing it. Everyone seemed to be here with someone, except you.

“One martini,” you heard the bartender say, and you graciously accepted the drink and sipped it slowly, lost within people-watching.

“By yourself?” he asked, cleaning glasses.

You nodded with a polite smile. “I needed a getaway, you know? It’s only for a week.”

“Well,” he said with a wink, “welcome--and have the time of your life: you only live once, remember?”

You grinned at the familiar catchphrase, and lifted your drink in a salute. “Cheers to that.”

Someone pushed into the bar beside you, a little too close for comfort, almost causing you to spill some of the martini. You frowned, and scooted out of their way as they ordered two shots of tequila--chilled.

Paying them no mind, you went back to sipping the drink and scrolling through your phone’s feed. You finished the last of it in a large gulp, and pushed the glass away from you, tucking a few bills underneath it. As you prepared to leave, the person who invaded your space beside you let out a frustrated groan.

“Shit, where did Haz go?” he said, leaning back from the bar, seemingly looking for someone named “Haz”. “I bought that sod a shot of tequila and he’s not even here to drink it.”

British, you noted after he spoke. You only saw the back of his head, which included a mop of unruly, velvet curls that matched the shade of chocolate. He was wearing a plain black shirt that hugged his muscles just right, along with dark blue jeans that gave a spectacular view of his….assets. You found yourself raising an eyebrow with interest at this handsome stranger in front of you.

The stranger cursed again and turned back to face the bar, and the two shots in front of him. With a sigh, he picked one of them up and tossed it back with ease, his Adam’s apple bobbing as he swallowed--followed by a hiss from the burn. When he reached out to pick up the other one, his gaze caught your own, and you averted your stare with embarrassment.

“The way you’re looking at this tequila makes me think you want one of your own,” he smirked, turning to face you and leaning an elbow upon the edge of the bar.

Red crept into your cheeks as you shook your head. “Sorry--I’m not really a fan of tequila,” you apologized, raising your voice above the music.

“Neither am I,” he laughed, handing you the shot. “Honestly, it’s rubbish--you wouldn’t make me drink another one, would you?”

You reached out tentatively and took the shot glass from his hand, feeling the heat radiate from his fingers. The glass felt cool, and before you could stop yourself, you tossed the tequila back quickly--sucking in air after the burn hit your throat. “I don’t think I’ll ever be a fan of that stuff,” you admitted, pushing the glass away from you with a disgusted expression.

The handsome stranger laughed again, and you got a better look at his features. A strong, chiseled jaw tensed and relaxed as he talked, with deep set brown eyes that crinkled at the edges. So he really like to laugh.

“What’s a beaut like you doing in a place like this?” his voice lilted with his accent. The compliment sent a surge of confidence through you, along with another heated blush into your cheeks.

“Vacationing,” you replied, keeping it vague.

“Vacationing,” he repeated, and smiled. “Me too.”

“What do you do?” you asked, tilting your head.

“Me?” he said, pointing to himself. “I’m an actor--not to brag about my work, but you might have seen me in a few things.”

You searched his face again, and he did look somewhat familiar, but you couldn’t place a name to him. You confusion must have been evident, because he looked genuinely surprised.

“I’m Tom Holland,” he confessed, grinning. “The new Spider-Man?”

It suddenly dawned on you. “Holy shit,” you cried, slapping a hand to your forehead. “I--I’m so sorry I didn’t recognize you--that’s….this, this is amazing!” You ran a hand through your hair sheepishly. “I’m [Y/N].”

He laughed again, and ducked his head shyly. “I will admit--I didn’t think someone as pretty as you would know who I was.”

Damn, this guy was smooth--and he was playing all the right cards. Don’t go getting attached, your brain warned you, and you silently agreed. This was just a weekend’s vacation--nothing more.

“Do you wanna dance?” came his voice, breaking you out of his thoughts. Your eyes darted to the dance floor behind the two of you, and you wanted to say no--dancing was not your thing. But something in you just couldn’t resist, and you found yourself nodding, his hand finding yours, and suddenly the two of you were in the middle of the dance floor, moving to the rhythmic beats and feeling nothing but each other, and the heavy bass fluctuating through the room.

Hours later, the two of you were laughing and stumbling down your hallway before stopping in front of your door. Your feet were killing you, but you were on a cloud that you never wanted to come down from.

“Lemme just get my key card,” you giggled, fumbling around in your clutch. Tom steadied you with a hand on your exposed shoulder, and you felt every single nerve ending in your body responding to his touch. All you wanted to do was take him into your hotel room, have those hands all over you, and--

“I should get going,” he spoke low, leaning closer to you so you could hear him. “Darling, I would love to stay and….chat, but you’re truly a lovely girl, and I don’t want to push this night too far.”

Your hand paused in front of the key slot, looking at him with furrowed brows. After a second, you gave a smile, and nodded. “You’re right….I had a lot of fun tonight.”

“Me too, love,” he replied, reaching out and running a finger through a loose curl framing your face. He looked like he wanted to say something else, but decided otherwise. “Maybe I’ll see you around while we’re both here?”

“Sounds good,” you murmured, your gaze dropping to his lips, and back up to his eyes.

He had a knowing expression on his face and chuckled as you unlocked your door. Sliding inside, you gave him one last look before closing it and collapsing with exhaustion against the other side. A euphoric glow was emanating off of you as you kicked off your heels, set your clutch down at the counter, and shed your dress and jewelry.

As you climbed into bed, barely able to turn the lights off before you completely passed out, your last thought was of Tom, and how the glorifying burn for him in your chest warmed you all the way to your toes.

Your eyes opened groggily as you slowly woke up, feeling the effects from dancing last night in your sore muscles. Rolling over to look at the clock on the nightstand beside you, you were stunned to see that it read almost one in the afternoon. While it felt glorious to sleep in for once, you didn’t want to waste any time on your vacation. Sitting up and stretching, you yawned and rubbed your eyes, thinking you were in desperate need for coffee.

You padded barefoot across the suite and into the kitchen, pushing the buttons on the coffee machine, and stood there tiredly--wearing nothing but an oversized T-shirt. While you poured the coffee into a mug, you thought about what you wanted to do that day: laze around the suite, lay by the pool, or maybe do some retail therapy.

You sipped your coffee and picked up your phone, scrolling through the pictures last night. Surprisingly, you took a lot of them. Or--you zoomed in on a few, looking closer--it looked like Tom commandeered your phone for most of the photos. You smiled at how happy you looked in the one you paused on. He was holding the phone out to get both of you in the slightly blurry picture, the purple and red and blue LED lights coloring your faces as you were tucked underneath his free arm, your hand on his chest, the two of you grinning like two peas in a pod.

A loud knock suddenly sounded from your door, making you jump and nearly drop your phone and your cup of coffee. Glancing down at the state of your dress, you shrugged and moved to look into the peephole: a rush of excitement dancing through you as you saw the familiar mop of brown curls.

You opened the door, but kept the chain lock in place. Peeking through the crack, you gave him a mischievous grin. “Do you have the room service I ordered?”

Tom shoved his hands in his pockets. “I hate being the bearer of bad news,” he started, before matching your grin. “--but I don’t have your room service.”  

“In that case,” you joked, teasing him by pretending to close the door on him. “What brings you back this way?”

“I had to see you again.”

That sent another jolt of electricity down your spine. You closed it quickly and unlatched the chain lock to let him in. Standing aside as he walked by you, he let out a low whistle at the sight of your large suite.

“Fancy,” he remarked before turning around to face you. His eyes quickly dipped to your bare legs, back up to your face, clearing his throat. “Ah--what were your plans today?”

“I was thinking about doing some shopping, maybe take a trip down to the pool,” you answered nonchalantly, picking up your mug of coffee. “You?”

“Whatever you’re doing,” he smiled, running a hand through his tresses. “If--if that’s alright.”

God, he looked good today, you thought to yourself. He wore another pair of dark jeans, but with a black polo to go with it--the edges of the sleeves rolled up once, and his collar unbuttoned just low enough you could see a beat of sweat appearing in the hollow of his throat.

“Let me go take a quick shower,” you said, setting down your mug. As you walked towards your separate room, you motioned to the giant TV and the snacks at the bar. “Help yourself--don’t be afraid to make yourself at home.” You could feel his eyes on you as you walked away from him, and an excited, suppressed smile graced your features as you hurriedly closed the door to get ready.

“God, look at that ring,” you sighed, your breath fogging up the glass window of the jewelry shop. A beautifully crafted opal ring sat nestled in deep maroon velvet, screaming your name. But you absolutely knew it was way out of your budget. “I’d sell my kidney for it. Do you know how much they go for on the black market?”

Tom leaned in beside you, nodding in approval of the ring. “How much do kidneys go for on the black market?”

“Almost two hundred thousand dollars,” you replied. “Don’t ask me how I know that.”

Tom laughed, moving away from the window and his hand slipped into yours. “I adore you already.”

A tinge of pink touched your cheeks at his comment. You noticed that whenever you were near him, you were completely at ease--everything felt natural. Looking at him now, something twinged in your heart, something comforting and deep. But you knew that you two would go your separate ways at the end of the weekend--you couldn’t get any more attached than you already were.

But God, you wanted to kiss him. You wanted to do more than kiss him. You wanted him to touch you, hold you, caress every inch of your body with his lips that you were sure tasted like divinity.

“You alright?” he asked, pulling you out of your sinful thoughts.

“Yeah, yeah,” you gave an apologetic smile. 

He hummed, pulling you in closer and draping his arm over your shoulders. “Do you want to go back to your room and relax?”

“Only if you go with me,” you murmured as the two of you walked back towards the elevators.

“How could I possibly resist that demand?” his voice dripping with charm, his breath tickling your ear.

Once you reached your hotel room again, digging your key card out of your bag, you felt a delicate touch on your cheek. Your hands stilled, your eyes raising to meet his, and his finger traveled across your cheek, over your parted lips, and stopped with his thumb resting against your chin.

“You are truly beautiful,” he breathed, blinking lazily. “I don’t think I ever want this day to end.”

The corners of your mouth lifted in a smile and you pushed open your door, ushering him inside. Closing it behind you, you couldn’t contain yourself anymore as you stared at him standing before you, his eyes glazed with lust as they swept over you. His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed, clearing his throat. “So--,” he started, but you didn’t let him finish. In one swift movement, you were wrapped in his strong, warm arms, lips pressed fervently against his own in a passionate need to get even closer to him. He kissed you with such zealous enthusiasm that you were momentarily taken aback, his hands sliding down your body and gripping your ass. Your fingers carded through his thick curls, fighting for breath, slipping your tongue in between his teeth.

Before you knew it, he had lifted you up and carried you into your bedroom, placing you delicately but firmly onto the white sheets. Breaking the kiss for a moment, he hovered over you, and his voice was low and lustful when he spoke.

“This is what you want?”

You nodded silently, and his dipped his head to kiss you again--slower, gentler. There was something much deeper residing behind it. The flame that had been building in your chest from the moment you saw him in the bar flared the brightest it had ever been, warming you to your toes once again, and you fell into a rebirth of infinity with this man you had just met, but somehow felt like you had known all your life.

Something woke you from a drowsy sleep, and you blinked your eyes groggily as you rolled to your side--to find an empty bed. Glancing at the clock, it read almost two in the morning. You rubbed your eyes to wake yourself up, sitting up and holding the blanket to your bare chest, looking around the room. Lights from the kitchen illuminated the dark bedroom, and you slipped out of the bed and pulled on one of the hotel robes.

“Tom?” you called out quietly, voice raspy from sleep.

There was no answer. You entered the kitchen, peeking around the corner towards the bathroom: both empty.

A little hurt, you searched around for a note or something from him, and found one sitting on the kitchen counter by the phone. Walking over to it, a sinking feeling settling into your chest, you picked up the note and scanned the scribbled words.

Darling,

You are truly magnificent.

-Tom

There was a tiny velvet box sitting beside the note, and your fingers trembled as you lifted the lid to it. Within sat the graceful opal ring you had fallen in love with, and as you slid it from the satin lining, your cheeks were wet with tears.

Why are you crying? The voice in your head was relentless. It was only a fling.

Wasn’t it?

Your heart weighed heavy in your chest as you handed your ID to the woman behind the counter to check your bag onto your plane. After a few scans and some beeps, she handed it back to you, along with your boarding pass. Signaling for your bag, you hefted it upon the scale and she tagged it accordingly.

Your eyes wandered around you, focusing on the entrance into the airport. You swallowed the lump in your throat, and averted your eyes from the sliding doors. Quit looking, you scolded yourself in your mind. 

“Have a nice flight,” the attendant said warmly, gesturing for you to move out of the way for the next customer. Fighting back tears, you made your way up the escalator to find your gate, your hand mindlessly moving to fiddle with the opal ring sitting on your middle finger. A pang of unwelcome sadness hit you in the chest, and you took a deep breath to calm yourself. It was a little goodbye gift, something to remind you of him.

As you sank into a leather seat at your gate, you leaned back and closed your eyes, listening to the bustle of people around you, the voices on the intercom, and the distance sounds of aircraft. Maybe he’ll come running to you, like they do in the movies.

Time passed slowly, you tried to drown out your thoughts by focusing on anything but him. However, you kept playing with the ring on your finger, feeling his tender kisses still leaving tingles on your lips, up until the attendant called for boarding onto your flight. As you stood in line, holding your pass, you felt the burn of tears in your eyes as it became absolute that you were most likely never going to see or hear from Tom again. You handed your pass to the attendant, and before you entered the bridge to the plane, you gave one last look over your shoulder--but instead of tears falling as you didn't see his familiar face, a glimmer of a smile graced your features as you decided to dwell on the happy memories of one of the best weekends of your life.

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Captain Starmaster 3010

**Content warning, and Trigger warning for suicide: Even though it is depicted as a fictional event even within the confines of the story, a character commits suicide. This isn’t to glorify it, but to show an in universe shocking twist in the fictional game, and because the character was experiencing an existential crisis. I apologize to any survivors, or loved ones of people who have committed suicide who might get offended**

The following is taken from a now deleted blog called “Games Addiction” run by a user calling themselves “OldHerbz” or Herbz for short that mostly specialized in the review of obscure video games from the 8 bit, and 16 bit eras occasionally going to into other types of games.

March 15, 2015: Yo Yo everybody it’s your boy Herbz here, and welcome to another installment of Games Addiction were I find old games no one’s heard about, and see if they’re Class 5 classics for Class 1 crud.

So today I was at the local flea market like always scoping out for new games when I saw a counter run by some old guy I had never seen before.

The counter had a bunch of games I had seen before like sports games, shooters, Zelda 2, etc but there was this one Sega Genesis cartridge that caught my eye.

It didn’t have a sticker on it just a piece of white tape with the words “Starmaster” written on it.

I thought it sound like a spaceship shooter like Raiden or R Type, so I asked the man running the counter, and he said it was $5 so I poneyed up the cash and bought it.

So, let’s see how this game plays shall we?

So, we got the usual stuff like “Licensed by Sega of America”, and some logos from a company called Cytek or something that I never heard of before, but the copyright stuff says 1990.

Now there’s a shot of the Earth in outer space, and some white text crawling up.

The text says “Earth: the year 2010. War, and pollution have taken their toll on the Earth, and it cannot continue to support human life.”

We see what looks like a futuristic city with some flashing explosions, Then the screen goes white, and when it clears the city is in ruins

There’s a clip of some scientists working in a lab which pans to show this giant spaceship that looks like some giant tower poking out of a flying saucer

“The surviving governments of the world have decided to put aside their differences just once to come together to combine their collective intellect to create a space colony called the Eden”

there are some guards in futuristic military clothes leading a crowd of faceless people into ramp that leads into the ship.

“The Eden will take a small 10, 000,000-person population into space in the hopes that someday when the effects of man’s ravaging of the planet undo themselves man can return to his home.”

It goes back to Earth in space only now it looks all weird, and alien, and post-apocalyptic, and all that stuff

“The year is now 3010, Scientists on the Eden have determined that the Earth is once again fit for human inhabitation but there is one problem:

In the intervening millennium Earth has been overrun with dangerous, and carnivorous life forms.”

We see a bunch of weird looking monsters the most normal looking ones I can think of look like some humanoid mammal monsters with claws, and slanted eyes but even then they have horns coming out of their elbows, their arms are held out like a mantis’s, and their walking like their sitting down.

The weirder ones look like flying blobs or lizards with what look like moaning human faces, or they look like something out of an old episode of Star Trek.

Then one of these monsters looks directly at the player, and slashes at the screen leaving these white claw marks

“The only hope for humanity is to send down the Eden’s greatest, and bravest soldier Captain Starmaster down to Earth to eliminate the predatory mutants so mankind can reclaim the Earth.”

We see some guy step out of the darkness, and he looks like something out of VR Troopers or Ropcop with this white or silver armor, a black visor, and all sorts of glowing lights on him.

All the while there’s this bad ass sounding super heroic music playing.

“Captain Starmaster is equipped with the most powerful, and deadly weapons in human history as well as various tools which can help him explore any terrain no matter how treacherous”

Now there’s a POW show that looks life your typical red screen with techno crap all over including a target.

Next, we see Captain Starmaster firing some futuristic machine gun that shoots lasers.

We then see the various monsters from earlier being hit and blown up by the lasers in the most PG rated way humanly possible.

Then it shows Captain Starmaster, and the title screen shows up in these futuristic silver letters that say “Captain Starmaster 3010”

There’s a thing that says, “Start Game”, and another that says “Menu”

I go down to “Menu” first, and hit start, and it shows the usual stuff like Passwords, Dificulty, Music all that Jazz.

Anyway, on to the actual game itself I go up, and hit start game

The first level seems to rocky mountain level.

A green text box with a red orb of light next to it shows up.

The text box reads “Captain Starmaster this is Eden do you read us?’

Then the red orb is replaced with a picture of Captain Starmaster’s face.

He says “I read you. My goodness it’s worse than we thought”.

The Red orb replies “Starmaster we need you to clear out all the mutants in this area. We are sending you a Sonic Wave Gun, and some Climbing Claws to help you with your mission.”

Starmaster than says “Understood Eden commencing mission”

The red orb replies with “Good Luck Captain you are only hope”

The game itself seems to be some Metroid knock off.

I don’t think Sega had too many of those except for Slime World but they did have a lot of Mario, and Zelda clones.

The controls are pretty simple you use the D Pad to move around, A jumps, B fires your weapon which is the laser machine gun from the cutscene Start pauses, and C brings up a menu where you equip weapons, and gear which is blank for now.

I move around the level there’s all sorts of weird flying turtle monsters with Xenomorph looking teeth, and rocks that look like they’re part of the background but then when you get too close, they turn out to be some centipede looking creatures.

Eventually I get to some futuristic white pods I can go into.

When I do Starmaster glows green, and a text box says, “You now have Climbing Claws”, and “You now have Sonic Wave Gun”.

When I go to the cliffs, I can now climb up them, and when I switch to the Sonic Wave gun Starmaster’s gun now shoots this yellow wave at enemies that can shatter certain rocks so I can move forward.

After what seems like forever I finally get to the boss.

It looks like some weird mix of a gorilla, and a mole on top but the bottom looks like an earth worm or a snake.

It attacks by shooting its own wave attack, and then launching a couple of rocks that attack the player in some circular motion.

It takes me forever but eventually I find out you supposed to hit the monster’s eyes until some green jewel like orb shows up on its stomach, and fire at it.

Eventually I win, and the monster explodes in typical 16-bit fire effects.

That’s all for now but tommorow I’ll get to the other levels.

I’ll try to be as brief as I can with the next few levels.

So now we have a forest level.

The trees are a mix of the kind you’d see in a forest in California, the kind you’d find in the jungle.

Some of them have seeds that look like angry faces with sharp teeth, and move around with spider leg like roots, and attack by waving their branches around like whips.

Some of the monsters look like a cross between a wild cat, and some bug like a termite or a wasp.

I’m supposed to get a weapon called “Homing Sniper”, and an item called “Wood Saw”

The homing Sniper ends up being some blue laser that locks on to enemies in an L shape, and the wood saw clears trees you can’t get past.

The boss is weird I don’t know if it’s one creature or two.

The top part looks like some yellow, and black insect with dragon fly like wings, spider eyes, and a grasshopper like body while the bottom looks like some tumble weed with a billion purple eyes, and these giant white, and red flowers that shoot lasers.

I find out the weak spot is the wings, and the tumble weed part, and move on.

Next is an ice level with these creatures that look giant balls of fur with teeth and tentacles, and giant sea urchins that look like they’re made of ice.

I get these boots that let you walk on ice without slipping, and a flame thrower for melting blocks.

The boss is some weird lizard creature that looks like a brontosaurus with a turtle shell, and a t rex head that breaths freezing mist, and shoots lasers out it’s eyes that I have to shoot the neck of when it’s not attacking.

Next is volcano level where I get a heat shield, and an ice beam.

Some of the monsters here are weird looking like these green blobs that turn into humanoid shapes, and some hoping stick insects that fire spread shots.

The boss reminds me of Gudis from Ultraman towards the future only skinnier, and purple.

It attacks with these blue energy rings, and this green gas.

I’m supposed to use the freeze ray to freeze the gas into a platform that I can use to climb and use my other weapons to attack the exposed brain which is the weak spot.

Now it’s a water level there’s all these weird monsters that look like a cross between a crab or a lobster, and some coral.

Another looks like some squid or octopus, but its tentacles are electric eels

I’m supposed to get an item that allows Starmaster to move through the water without sinking, and an “Electro Gun” that fires electricity in a weird trident formation.

I get to the boss, and it’s some cross between a shark, a whale, a manta ray, and a bunch of other sea animals.

The weirdest thing is that sometimes it points itself up, and the bottom which is now the front looks like some deformed mermaid or something.

I’m supposed to hit this angle like tail it has when it goes to the mermaid stage.

After that I get another cutscene where the red orb of light says “Captain Starmaster we believe we have found your last target enter the ruins, and eliminate the mutant menace once and for all”

Starmaster replies “Affirmative Eden I will not fail”.

The next level is a sewer level they bring back some of the monster from previous levels and include some of the monsters from the opening cutscene.

It also seems like a final exam level because I’m supposed to use all the weapons, and items I collected so far.

I also have to get one last time that lets Starmaster go through radiation clouds without getting hurt, and this thing called “The Super Laser” that’s this big laser that takes up a third of the screen.

Not only that but I have to fight the bosses again.

Then I get another section and it looks like the surface of the ruined city from the opening cut scene.

I fight all the various monsters until eventually I get to the final boss.

I’m trying to think of a good way to describe it other than it’s like a PG rated version of something you’d see in John Carpenter’s The Thing.

It’s got four legs, and four arms, it has insect wings, and bird wings.

The legs look like a mix of reptile, and mammal.

I think has fins, and gills, and it has some weird mollusk like head with a billion eyes, and some melting looking human face for a stomach.

It’s not surprisingly the hardest boss in the game since you have to use every weapon in the game to hurt it.

It swipes at you with its arms that your supposed to freeze into platforms to climb and shoot the head.

Then it fires lasers and breaths fire, and you’re supposed to use the electro gun, and homing sniper on the head.

Next it spits acid, and you’re supposed to use the Sonic Wave gun to disorient it while you use the flame thrower on its acid sacs.

Finally, it fires a wave attack from the melting face while you use the super laser to finish it off.

At last we get one final cutscene.

Captain Starmaster then walks through the ruins of the destroyed city and enters a building.

He walks up to a computer, and a spike comes out of his arm like in Robocop and he enters it into a port.

Some binary code flashes on the monitor, and then we see an image of a man in a recording.

Some text appears on the screen.

“They abandoned us. They thought no one else was left on this planet but we were”.

The man continues “Please if you can hear us there are still people trapped on Earth. Pleas rescue us”.

The recording continues “It’s no use we’re stuck here our best bet is to try to survive, and repair what’s left of the Earth”.

Then the recording shows the man only now his teeth looked like fangs, and his eyes were all yellow.

The man said “It’s too late. Our scienitsts say because of all the lingering chemicals, and radiation those of us left behind are starting to mutate.”

He adds “At first it will be physical but at some point, our minds will revert back to knowing only how to kill or be killed. Oh god why us.

Then finally it just shows one of the monsters from the game, and the text now says “Meat. I must have meat”. Then it shows him roaring, and it plays the sound file for the monsters roaring.

Starmaster then asks, “Did you see that Eden?”

Then the red orb of light appears and replies “unfortunately yes captain”.

Then it flashes back to the Eden leaving Earth.

Then it shows a still image of people on the Eden as the text says “At first when humanity left Earth in the Eden everything was peaceful, and everyone was happy”

Then it shows the people looking frightened.

The text says “But it didn’t last the survivors realized they weren’t enough resources to survive a permanent existence in Eden”

Then it shows Eden’s computers, and the inhabitants looking at the Eden’s robotic workers.

The text now says, “Faced with a difficult decision the survivors made the hardest choice they could make”.

It then shows the people in tubes next to computers with glowing lights, and then cut to the lights on the eyes of the Eden’s robots lighting up

The text continues “The inhabitants of Eden downloaded their brains into the ship’s computers, and then uploaded them into robotic bodies.”

It then cut back to Starmaster in the building saying “So that’s it. It was all for nothing”.

Then it shows Starmaster taking off his helmet to reveal a Terminator like robot skull.

Next Starmaster reaches into his own chest plate pulls out a device that looks like a cross between a mechanical heart, and a miniature nuclear reactor, and crushes.

Then his red eyes go dead.

Next, we see the Eden land, and its robotic inhabitants walk out.

We see the robots doing experiments on the mutants.

The text says “Unfortunately the inhabitants of Eden were unable to return the mutants to human form but they after continuous experimentations were able to restore the inhabitants’ sentience.

Then it shows the robots growing mutants in tube, and then showed them going back into the mind transference machines.

Then it shows the mutants in the tubes waking up, and it showed the robots, and mutants living in harmony.

Then the text says “And so the sad tale of Captain Starmaster came to a happy end. Humanity maybe extinct but life will find a way to continue who knows for sure if this is truly the fate that awaits us but if we continue on our current path it might”.

Then it shows the Earth in space again with the letters Game Over The End.

Well that’s Captain Starmaster.

The graphics are great for the time.

The gameplay is awesome.

I wonder why they never released it publicly other than obviously the big twist would have been seen as a bit too intense for young kids.

Not to mention I can’t help that a lot of players would have thought the twist would seem like a fuck you ism to them.

Still considering that environmentalism was a big deal back then, and this was just before the USSR ended, I can see why they felt the need to make a point on what the aftermath of war and pollution.

That is why I’m declaring Captain Starmaster a class 5 addicting game.

This is OldHerbz saying stay addicted.

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50 DND Questions

1. What do you think your d&d race would be? Proabably human. If I get the choice, I’d like to be either an Elf or Dragonborn. I’d be cool with either of those. 

2. What class? Mostly likely a fighter? I’m not religious enough for a cleric, and not smart enough for a sorcerer or wizard. I like the idea of being able to throw hands. 

3. What two feats would you have? I’d want the Alert feat, and more than likely the Lucky feat. Alert means my initiative gets improved, and Lucky means that I can reroll a bad throw. Those would get used a lot. 

4. What has been your favorite d&d character you've played? (NPCs count for DMs) I’ve only got the two for now, but Liander’s been getting the most love. She’s probably my favorite. 

5. Which of your d&d characters has been the most like you? Oh, Liander, without a doubt. She’s pretty close to my baseline personality.

6. Which of your d&d characters has been the least like you? And that would be Cade. Cade is just this side of Chaotic Evil, so she’s a little harder for me to get into the right headspace for. Playing her takes a lot out of me, to be honest. 

7. How do you go about making a character or NPC? That’s hard to say - I give the session about an hour or so to feel it out, and let the personalities develop naturally over time. My playing style is reactive, so I let the situation dictate how said character would respond. 

8. What is the most memorable natural 20 you've ever experienced? That would be with Cade. I’d rolled to take out a stone giant, suplexed them (because she’s a barbarian and her strength stat is wild), then chopped his dick off with my battleaxe like I was swinging a golf club. It uh, made an impression on the rest of the party, and the rest of the enemies. 

9. Has one of your d&d characters ever died? How? Not yet, so don’t jinx me! I’m still attached to both of them, and would like to keep them around! 

10. What is your favorite class to play? So far, it’s been my ranger. She’s fun, and I’m digging the whole ‘animals as companions’ thing she’s got going. 

11. Have you ever fought a dragon? Yes. Between Cade and Paileous, we cut it’s head off. It’s currently a trophy back at home base. Got a lot of gold for our trouble, too. 

12. Have you ever fought a beholder? NO. Not entirely sure I wanna, either! 

13. Have you ever fought a mind flayer? No, but it’s coming up. My buddy is having us roll new characters for the Underdark campaign. I might try a cleric just for funsies. 

14. Have you ever had a romance with an NPC or another PC? Nope. I am here to tell you that neither of my characters is looking for any of that. Liander’s too busy, and Cade is a halfling barbarian surrounded by equally questionable Drow paladins and rouges. No thanks. 

15. Do you prefer to DM or play?  I have no desire to DM. I’ve only been playing for a little while, and I’m not creative enough to attempt it. I’ll stick to playing. I’m good at that. 

16. What is your favorite D&D pod/vodcast? I’ve been listening to Critical Role - I’m relistening to the Whitestone/Chroma Conclave arcs. I love No Mercy Percy so much. 

17. Who is your favorite "celebrity dm?" I only know the one - Matt Mercer. 

18. Do you use props/minis/terrain in your game? Very rarely. I think we’ve only had like, two sessions that actually had terrain and mini’s. 

19. How did you discover D&D? My friends. I sat in on one of their games, and just for the hell of it, they rolled me a character, and thus Cade was born. 

20. If you run a homebrew game, give an out of context spoiler. I’m not running it, but smuggling is a thing, and the dude we’re smuggling for is someone whose face is on a wanted poster in my pocket. 

21. Drop a picture of a mini you painted (if applicable) Sorry, I don’t have any minis. They’re all with my DM. 

22. Write a brief scene centered around one of your characters! Uh, hang on -  "That was nice. I didn't ask you to get it for me, and I distinctly remember telling you I can get my own. Not my fault you don't listen worth a damn." Liander says with a slight grin. She doesn't know why, but she likes poking at Chancel. Not many folks react the way he does, and the scowl he sends her just makes her grin wider. "Come on. I cannot possibly be the only one who's pointed that out to you." 

 "Yeah, me. Two minutes ago." Zulth mutters into his mug.

23. Do you have any art of your characters? Yeah, one of my more artistic friends drew a sketch of Liander for me, complete with her cat on her shoulder. It’s pretty cool. It’s also huge, which is why I’m not posting it here. 

24. Have you ever played any TTRPGs other than D&D? No, this is my first foray into TTRPGs. 

25. What is your favorite snack for d&d? I reach for Cheetos or Doritos usually. They’re good, crunchy snacks. 

26. If you could have one potion from d&d, which one would you choose? If I could just load up on superior healing potions for life, I’d be a happy woman. 

27. If you could cast one spell from d&d, which would you cast? Fireball. That’s a nice equalizer, I think. 

28. What is the most memorable natural 1 you've experienced? Oh man. That would be with Liander this time. She was trying to sneak into a well fortified part of the city, and tamper with the water supply for one family. Well, I had to roll to hop the fence to do so, rolled a natural one, my foot caught in the fence, and there was a dog right in front of me. Landed on my face, and got bitten for my trouble. Still got the mission done, though. 

29. Have you ever been drunk playing d&d? I’ve been buzzed. Does that count? 

30. Homebrew or prewritten? Both? Both. Both is good. 

31. Tell me about your current party! Which one? Well, for the Alagaesia campaign, there’s my character Liander, a dwarf named Thorin, a rouge(?) named Zulth, an herbalist named Liam, and the man who hired us, an NPC named Bjorn. We’re actually trying to accomplish something with this campaign, or so the DM says. 

For the Guardians of Gravenhollow campaign, I’m a halfling barbarian named Cade, there’s a drow Paladin named Varis, and another Drow rouge named Paileous. This particular campaign is just chaotic evil fuckery. 

32. Most memorable NPC you've encountered in a game you played in. Victor. He built a clock, I wanted his tinkering kit, and wound up buying both at a just criminally low price. I kinda feel like I ripped him off, tbh. 

33. Do you listen to music while playing? What kinds? Mostly the Skyrim soundtrack with a little Witcher soundtrack thrown in for funsies. Atmospheric stuff. 

34. Favorite accent to do for characters? I don’t really have one for either of my characters. Mostly because I’m bad at keeping it up. I forget. 

35. Favorite classic d&d trope Tragic Backstory(TM). Only one of my characters has it, but it’s damn fun to role-play.

36. What was your first d&d character you made? That would be Cade! She started out as kind of a throw-away, but she got mixed in with Paileous and Varis and she’s living her best chaotic life. 

37. What is the most recent PC or NPC you've created? That’d be Kahtri, actually! I haven’t played her a whole bunch, so I’m not really familiar with her yet, but it’ll be interesting to play a Drow cleric who doesn’t actually worship Lolth. (I don’t do spiders.)

38. Goblins or Kobolds? I actually haven’t dealt with either yet. I’m slightly more familiar with Goblins simply because of CritRole. 

39. Favorite villain you've defeated? Uh, I dunno if I’d classify her as a villian exactly, but Cade’s killed an NPC named Creed who was a servant to the god Grotz. Pretty sure he’s out for revenge now. 

40. What d&d deity would you be a cleric of? I am a cleric of the Drow deity Elistraee. (I had to double check the spelling on that) 

41. Give an out of context quote from one of your games! Liander - “I tried to stop him, but he fucking yote me across the room like I wasn’t even there. Is it weird I’m bitter about that?”

Thorin - *emerges from the wreckage of the crate we were smuggling holding dragon eggs* “I FOUND LIVING ROCKS!” 

Liander and Zulth in tandem - *knows exactly what he’s holding* “Oh for fuck’s sake!” 

42. Have you ever rolled turn into a potted plant on the wild magic table? No, I don’t think I know anyone who plays that particular class, so I’ve never seen it happen. 

43. Minis and terrain or theater of the mind? Theater of the mind, good sir/madam. 

44. Mulligan, Mercer, Murphy, or McElroy? Mercer! Mercer! Mercer! 

45. What is the longest session you've ever had? Oh, jeez. Like, fourteen hours, give or take?

46. What is the longest battle you've fought or run? Uh, that’d be the fight with Creed. It took us like two hours to beat her down with three of us. She was stupid powerful. The bounty was great, though. 

47. Have you ever played at level 20? No, my highest level character is a level 11. I’m working on it, though. 

48. Does your dm say "How do you want to do this?" Oh yes. The table just blows up when that happens, not gonna lie. It’s fun to hear, especially if it’s aimed at you. 

49. Have you ever played an edition other than 5th? No, I started playing last year, so 5th is all I know. 

50. Will you try to convince others to play? Already done so. I’ve added a couple people to the group - my husband, whose character is the best straight man to our fuckery, and one of our mutual friends whose lunacy works with our brand of crazy. 

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Over 47 Dog Halloween Costumes for 2020: A Guide for Real Dogs and Their People

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The only thing better than planning your own costume for Halloween is planning your dog’s Halloween costume. A dog dressed as Wonder Woman, Superman, or Batman? Heck yes. Celebrate your love of Star Wars via Yoda dog ears? Absolutely. Seeing your favorite pooch dressed like a minion? The cutest.

If you need a dog Halloween costume idea, we’ve got you covered. However, keep in mind that when shopping for a Halloween costume for your dog, the most important consideration is size. Because dog costumes are not all manufactured in the same way, your pet could be a medium in one costume and a 3X-large in another, so be sure to measure your dog and use your pet’s measurements and the product size chart as a guide to ensure their best fit. Once you have a costume, go slowly and check your dog’s comfort level before, during, and after getting dressed.

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And for non-costume doggy dress-up ideas, check out Halloween bandanas and collars. Pro tip: Chewy has a very cute Halloween collection right now (like this Halloween pet bandana for eight bucks!)

The Top 4 Dog Halloween Costumes for 2020

Ranked for simplicity, comfort, cool factor, and impact, these are the best-rated Halloween costumes for dogs you can find.

This dog costume is a perennial bestseller. It’s clever, cute, and surprisingly easy to put on. And since UPS drivers have been elevated to frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, this costume is also very on-trend for 2020. The shirt sports sleeves for your dog’s front legs, and then fastens around your dog’s neck with Velcro. It’s pretty low-lift and if your dog tolerates it well, you can add the visor for the full effect.

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2. Easiest to Wear: Lion Mane

The lion mane costume looks good on small dogs and big dogs alike, with a special flair on Golden Retrievers, Black Labs, and Rotties. You can get one in gold, black, or brown to match your dog’s coat.

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3. Most Adorable: Ewok

What is it about Star Wars costumes? They appeal year after year, and they look great on small dogs like Havanese, Terrier mixes, Brussels Griffons, and more. Note that this popular choice from trusted brand Rubie’s runs small, and is only likely to fit dogs up to 20 or 25 pounds.

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With the presidential election just days after Halloween, look no further than this President Trump-inspired outfit for a very topical dog costume for 2020. Designed for smaller pets, it comes complete with a poofy wig and a red necktie that secures around your dog’s neck with Velcro.

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Some costumes just look better on big dogs, like this moose headpiece that gets rave reviews. See our handy article on the best big-dog approved Halloween costumes. When shopping for a large dog costume, or designing one, keep in mind that a headpiece adornment or t-shirt outfit is often easier to pull off than a full jumpsuit. PetMD has some good tips for assessing the suitability of a costume for your pet here.

Popular big dog costumes include:

If you’ve got a petite pet, we put together a variety of costumes for small dogs here that range from no-fuss to total showstopper. Many costumes are designed with small dogs in mind, from the Ewoks and pandas to the mermaids and dinosaurs. Because let’s face it—your wee furry friend may already look like a living plush toy!

Like any dog costume, when selecting one for your small pup, make sure to double-check the measurements! If your dog is skittish about animal costumes, you can also opt for a comfy, spooky dog hoodie.

Popular small dog costumes include:

If you’re looking for breed-specific dog Halloween costumes, we’ve got you covered here. And yes, they’re all as cute as this literal “bull dog” Bulldog costume. Consider your breed’s best-known qualities and go from there. Some ideas we love:

Labrador Retriever: Olympic swimmer (just add a doggy life jacket!)

BorderCollie: Einstein

Pug: potato (inspired by the pug-tato meme)

Yorkie: princess

Boxer: Well, a boxer (pro tip: get some miniature gloves)

Pitbull: superhero (Batman or Spider-Man, depending on whether your dog is more of a Marvel or a DC Comics fan)

Goldendoodle or Labradoodle: teddy bear

Pomeranian: Ewok

Husky: rock star (they love to sing!)

Any puppy: cup of coffee

Picture this: Your dog goes as a raptor, and you go as Jeff Goldblum (or Chris Pratt if you like the Jurassic World reboot.) That and even more ideas are featured in our matching human/pet costume article.

Popular dog and human couples’ costumes include:

Bee and flower

Donut and coffee

Chip and salsa

Garth and Wayne

Beauty and the Beast a la Disney

Luke and Yoda (or Leia, or Darth Vader)

Ghostbusters

Batman and Robin

Minnie and Mickey

Dorothy and Toto from the Wizard of Oz

Cat and … dog

If you don’t think your pet will go for a full-on costume, or if you want to celebrate for, like, the entire month of October, these Halloween-themed dog collars are your best bet, and we found the internet’s biggest variety. Chewy and Amazon are both excellent sources for high-quality picks this year.

Want more than a collar but less than a full dog Halloween costume? We have Halloween bandanas in there too.

If you’re crafty, DIY costumes offer endless possibilities. As detailed at that link, you can turn your dog into a pineapple, a pool float, a lion, a cupcake—the list goes on. Popular DIY dog costumes include:

Fruits or veggies

Other animals

Teddy bear

Martini glass (just add the cone of shame)

Winged creatures

Desserts

Get yourself some felt, scissors, and a glue gun, and the sky’s the limit. Giant soy sauce meets sushi, anyone?

And for fun, here are some downright terrible dog costumes …

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If you belong to a multi-species household, your cat can also get into the Halloween fun! Sure, a cat costume may sound silly, but just wait until you see our test cats sporting all the latest looks. Pro tip: lightweight, easy-to-wear costumes like bat wings are best for kitties.

This costume is so lightweight and easy to put on, our test kitty didn’t even realize it was there.

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There’s more where that came from. See our verified reviews for more details and photos on cat costumes for Halloween and beyond.

Dog Halloween Costume Review Video

It can be hard to choose a Halloween costume online. How big are they really? How are you supposed to measure a wiggly puppy or an older dog? Can you trust that your medium dog is really a medium?

Check out these reviews from The Dog People to get a better idea of how these fun dog costumes fit.

Bonus: there are some seriously cute dogs in this video:

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Tips for Dressing Your Dog Up

Whether you make a costume at home or buy one from a store, there are some things you can do to help your pet have a better time on the 31st. Fido will need some time to get used to that dog dress or hot dog costume!

Get your pet’s costume early. It gives both of you a chance to get used to it before the big day.

Let your pet sniff and show interest in the costume before putting them in it.

Keep treats handy so they see the costume as a good thing. As much as you can, use the treats to guide your pet into the costume—for example, if you’ve got a lion’s mane that goes over their head, guide their head through the hole by enticing them with food, and let them take the treat a few times before fastening it on fully. You don’t want your dog to feel tricked.

Once the costume is on, take frequent breaks. Try not to keep the costume on for more than a few minutes—say 10 or 15—at a time. And keep the treats coming while they’ve got their costume on. (This is also a good time to take a million cute photos and send them our way, please and thank you.)

Next, try taking your pet on a walk while wearing it. Be ready for them to be slower or distracted while they get used to the sounds and feelings of their costume, and of course, treat, treat, treat.

Allow your dog to skip the costume party if they’re not feeling social. A Halloween party can be unnerving for dogs because of the strange outfits on all the new arrivals.

Hopefully, by the time Halloween rolls around, they’ll be comfortable enough in the costume to last the whole night as the witch to your cauldron, the candle to your pumpkin, the pea to your pod.

Dog Halloween Costume Safety

Here a few things to consider when choosing a costume for your pet.

If you’re going to be walking around with your dog, make sure you choose some element of the costume that is highly visible so that your pet can be seen from a distance—you want to make sure they don’t get lost, and also that cars know they’re there. A luminescent collar or a reflective material can be great for this.

Choose breathable material, and make sure the costume isn’t too tight. This will help your pet feel more comfortable and avoid restricted blood flow. Consider how heavy the costume is, as well, since the added weight means your pet has to exert more effort to move. You don’t want to tire your pet out or possibly overheat them.

Avoid small, dangling costume pieces that your pet might chew or choke on. The last thing you want is an emergency Hallow’s Eve vet visit.

Keep your pet’s tags on. It’s not uncommon for pets to get separated from their owners on chaotic days like Halloween, so if your pet bolts, you want to make sure their tags and microchip will help them get home.

All preparation aside, if you realize that your pet hates their costume, they don’t have to wear it! Stress and anxiety aren’t good for pets, and the last thing you want is a grumpy dog zombie on your hands. Happy pets are better than costumed ones any day.

Fun Dog Halloween Treats

Who can resist festive dog treats? Especially when they’re spooktacular like these Banana Coconut Bats. Click for the recipe, or, if you’re more a visual learner, check out our video on how to make Pumpkin Spice Jack O’ Lantern dog cookies.

For more DIY dog Halloween treats, take a look at our collection over here.

Halloween and Dog Anxiety

Halloween can be scary for dogs, and not for the same reasons it is for us humans. Costumes, strangers at the door, unusual noises: There’s a lot going on that will seem suspicious to your dog.

If your dog is prone to anxiety even a little, consider keeping your dog indoors in a cozy, dog-safe zone for the evening, or tap a trusted pet sitter to keep them company. Halloween night could also be a good time to employ anti-anxiety tools for your dog—and there are many available, from hemp oil to pressure wraps. Talk to your vet about these options.

For more tips on how to help your dog navigate Halloween, check out this post from an experienced trainer.

More Dog Halloween Costume Ideas

Colleen Stinchcombe is a professional freelance writer in Seattle, WA. Her two rescue pups wish she were a professional ball-thrower.

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The only thing better than planning your own costume for Halloween is planning your dog’s Halloween costume. A dog dressed as Wonder Woman, Superman, or Batman? Heck yes. Celebrate your love of Star Wars via Yoda dog ears? Absolutely. Seeing your favorite pooch dressed like a minion? The cutest.

If you need a dog Halloween costume idea, we’ve got you covered. However, keep in mind that when shopping for a Halloween costume for your dog, the most important consideration is size. Because dog costumes are not all manufactured in the same way, your pet could be a medium in one costume and a 3X-large in another, so be sure to measure your dog and use your pet’s measurements and the product size chart as a guide to ensure their best fit. Once you have a costume, go slowly and check your dog’s comfort level before, during, and after getting dressed.

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And for non-costume doggy dress-up ideas, check out Halloween bandanas and collars. Pro tip: Chewy has a very cute Halloween collection right now (like this Halloween pet bandana for eight bucks!)

The Top 4 Dog Halloween Costumes for 2020

Ranked for simplicity, comfort, cool factor, and impact, these are the best-rated Halloween costumes for dogs you can find.

This dog costume is a perennial bestseller. It’s clever, cute, and surprisingly easy to put on. And since UPS drivers have been elevated to frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, this costume is also very on-trend for 2020. The shirt sports sleeves for your dog’s front legs, and then fastens around your dog’s neck with Velcro. It’s pretty low-lift and if your dog tolerates it well, you can add the visor for the full effect.

Shop on Amazon

2. Easiest to Wear: Lion Mane

The lion mane costume looks good on small dogs and big dogs alike, with a special flair on Golden Retrievers, Black Labs, and Rotties. You can get one in gold, black, or brown to match your dog’s coat.

Shop on Amazon

3. Most Adorable: Ewok

What is it about Star Wars costumes? They appeal year after year, and they look great on small dogs like Havanese, Terrier mixes, Brussels Griffons, and more. Note that this popular choice from trusted brand Rubie’s runs small, and is only likely to fit dogs up to 20 or 25 pounds.

Shop on Amazon

With the presidential election just days after Halloween, look no further than this President Trump-inspired outfit for a very topical dog costume for 2020. Designed for smaller pets, it comes complete with a poofy wig and a red necktie that secures around your dog’s neck with Velcro.

Shop on Amazon

Some costumes just look better on big dogs, like this moose headpiece that gets rave reviews. See our handy article on the best big-dog approved Halloween costumes. When shopping for a large dog costume, or designing one, keep in mind that a headpiece adornment or t-shirt outfit is often easier to pull off than a full jumpsuit. PetMD has some good tips for assessing the suitability of a costume for your pet here.

Popular big dog costumes include:

If you’ve got a petite pet, we put together a variety of costumes for small dogs here that range from no-fuss to total showstopper. Many costumes are designed with small dogs in mind, from the Ewoks and pandas to the mermaids and dinosaurs. Because let’s face it—your wee furry friend may already look like a living plush toy!

Like any dog costume, when selecting one for your small pup, make sure to double-check the measurements! If your dog is skittish about animal costumes, you can also opt for a comfy, spooky dog hoodie.

Popular small dog costumes include:

If you’re looking for breed-specific dog Halloween costumes, we’ve got you covered here. And yes, they’re all as cute as this literal “bull dog” Bulldog costume. Consider your breed’s best-known qualities and go from there. Some ideas we love:

Labrador Retriever: Olympic swimmer (just add a doggy life jacket!)

BorderCollie: Einstein

Pug: potato (inspired by the pug-tato meme)

Yorkie: princess

Boxer: Well, a boxer (pro tip: get some miniature gloves)

Pitbull: superhero (Batman or Spider-Man, depending on whether your dog is more of a Marvel or a DC Comics fan)

Goldendoodle or Labradoodle: teddy bear

Pomeranian: Ewok

Husky: rock star (they love to sing!)

Any puppy: cup of coffee

Picture this: Your dog goes as a raptor, and you go as Jeff Goldblum (or Chris Pratt if you like the Jurassic World reboot.) That and even more ideas are featured in our matching human/pet costume article.

Popular dog and human couples’ costumes include:

Bee and flower

Donut and coffee

Chip and salsa

Garth and Wayne

Beauty and the Beast a la Disney

Luke and Yoda (or Leia, or Darth Vader)

Ghostbusters

Batman and Robin

Minnie and Mickey

Dorothy and Toto from the Wizard of Oz

Cat and … dog

If you don’t think your pet will go for a full-on costume, or if you want to celebrate for, like, the entire month of October, these Halloween-themed dog collars are your best bet, and we found the internet’s biggest variety. Chewy and Amazon are both excellent sources for high-quality picks this year.

Want more than a collar but less than a full dog Halloween costume? We have Halloween bandanas in there too.

If you’re crafty, DIY costumes offer endless possibilities. As detailed at that link, you can turn your dog into a pineapple, a pool float, a lion, a cupcake—the list goes on. Popular DIY dog costumes include:

Fruits or veggies

Other animals

Teddy bear

Martini glass (just add the cone of shame)

Winged creatures

Desserts

Get yourself some felt, scissors, and a glue gun, and the sky’s the limit. Giant soy sauce meets sushi, anyone?

And for fun, here are some downright terrible dog costumes …

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If you belong to a multi-species household, your cat can also get into the Halloween fun! Sure, a cat costume may sound silly, but just wait until you see our test cats sporting all the latest looks. Pro tip: lightweight, easy-to-wear costumes like bat wings are best for kitties.

This costume is so lightweight and easy to put on, our test kitty didn’t even realize it was there.

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There’s more where that came from. See our verified reviews for more details and photos on cat costumes for Halloween and beyond.

Dog Halloween Costume Review Video

It can be hard to choose a Halloween costume online. How big are they really? How are you supposed to measure a wiggly puppy or an older dog? Can you trust that your medium dog is really a medium?

Check out these reviews from The Dog People to get a better idea of how these fun dog costumes fit.

Bonus: there are some seriously cute dogs in this video:

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Tips for Dressing Your Dog Up

Whether you make a costume at home or buy one from a store, there are some things you can do to help your pet have a better time on the 31st. Fido will need some time to get used to that dog dress or hot dog costume!

Get your pet’s costume early. It gives both of you a chance to get used to it before the big day.

Let your pet sniff and show interest in the costume before putting them in it.

Keep treats handy so they see the costume as a good thing. As much as you can, use the treats to guide your pet into the costume—for example, if you’ve got a lion’s mane that goes over their head, guide their head through the hole by enticing them with food, and let them take the treat a few times before fastening it on fully. You don’t want your dog to feel tricked.

Once the costume is on, take frequent breaks. Try not to keep the costume on for more than a few minutes—say 10 or 15—at a time. And keep the treats coming while they’ve got their costume on. (This is also a good time to take a million cute photos and send them our way, please and thank you.)

Next, try taking your pet on a walk while wearing it. Be ready for them to be slower or distracted while they get used to the sounds and feelings of their costume, and of course, treat, treat, treat.

Allow your dog to skip the costume party if they’re not feeling social. A Halloween party can be unnerving for dogs because of the strange outfits on all the new arrivals.

Hopefully, by the time Halloween rolls around, they’ll be comfortable enough in the costume to last the whole night as the witch to your cauldron, the candle to your pumpkin, the pea to your pod.

Dog Halloween Costume Safety

Here a few things to consider when choosing a costume for your pet.

If you’re going to be walking around with your dog, make sure you choose some element of the costume that is highly visible so that your pet can be seen from a distance—you want to make sure they don’t get lost, and also that cars know they’re there. A luminescent collar or a reflective material can be great for this.

Choose breathable material, and make sure the costume isn’t too tight. This will help your pet feel more comfortable and avoid restricted blood flow. Consider how heavy the costume is, as well, since the added weight means your pet has to exert more effort to move. You don’t want to tire your pet out or possibly overheat them.

Avoid small, dangling costume pieces that your pet might chew or choke on. The last thing you want is an emergency Hallow’s Eve vet visit.

Keep your pet’s tags on. It’s not uncommon for pets to get separated from their owners on chaotic days like Halloween, so if your pet bolts, you want to make sure their tags and microchip will help them get home.

All preparation aside, if you realize that your pet hates their costume, they don’t have to wear it! Stress and anxiety aren’t good for pets, and the last thing you want is a grumpy dog zombie on your hands. Happy pets are better than costumed ones any day.

Fun Dog Halloween Treats

Who can resist festive dog treats? Especially when they’re spooktacular like these Banana Coconut Bats. Click for the recipe, or, if you’re more a visual learner, check out our video on how to make Pumpkin Spice Jack O’ Lantern dog cookies.

For more DIY dog Halloween treats, take a look at our collection over here.

Halloween and Dog Anxiety

Halloween can be scary for dogs, and not for the same reasons it is for us humans. Costumes, strangers at the door, unusual noises: There’s a lot going on that will seem suspicious to your dog.

If your dog is prone to anxiety even a little, consider keeping your dog indoors in a cozy, dog-safe zone for the evening, or tap a trusted pet sitter to keep them company. Halloween night could also be a good time to employ anti-anxiety tools for your dog—and there are many available, from hemp oil to pressure wraps. Talk to your vet about these options.

For more tips on how to help your dog navigate Halloween, check out this post from an experienced trainer.

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Colleen Stinchcombe is a professional freelance writer in Seattle, WA. Her two rescue pups wish she were a professional ball-thrower.

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Episode 30: Space Spiders And 80s Fashion

In the Asteroid Belt we see a fleet of cargo ships. The captain of one of his mates talk about how they need to deliver everything to Bloody Syndicate. The captain gets angry knowing something could go wrong. A light in the distance rushes forward, revealing to be a giant robot spider. The cargo ships reveal red laser cannons, but they just end up causing weird radiation to bounce off. More of these robot spiders, called Tarantulas, web up the cargo ships at the rear so they can be boarded by space pirates. This is the Tarantula Syndicate, led by the Asteroid Queen, who announces all this via echoing radio. After the episode title we see the J9-3's boosters run out of power just as they leave the replica Jupiter. The engine gets steamy everywhere, Jimmy is unsure if it can be fixed. Some banter ensues as IC notes they are entering the Asteroid Queen's territory. After the bantering DD walks in to give his two cents on things. Basically the Bloody Syndicate destroyed the Tarantula Syndicate four years back and its founder's grandfather became Asteroid Queen, turning the remnants into vengeful pirates. In this flashbacks souzers and eadles can be seen in the massacre. The heroes start getting nervous, IC tells Jimmy to do his best repairing the booster while giving everyone else things to do. Yays are said and the booster is detached for repairs Lots of time passes, we even see a pod vehicle with a pair of claws. Susie screams as JJ-9 spots the corpses of the Bloody Syndicate from the fight earlier. Lock, Birdy, and DD take a white and green space sailboat for scouting, quickly spotting domed cities on asteroids shattered. A Tarantula is spotted and the ship fires a blue laser only for the weird waves to go off and red energy webs from the rear used to capture them. A spin effect on a still is done and a distress signal reaches the J9-3. At J9 Land Bloody God is told by an underling about the Tarantula Syndicate's actions, calmly responding that they should be exterminated along with Double J9. Bloody God is nearly killed by a spider bomb in his wine and his guards start scrambling. Wow he's taking this assassination attempt well. Lock, Birdy, and DD have their space sailboat taken to a shattered domed city on the planet Tarantula.

Eye catch.

Once inside we see the trio unconscious before Asteroid Queen on her throne. The Tarantula Syndicate really likes goggles. They soon wake up surrounded and unarmed. Gotta like how their space suits read J9. Asteroid Queen starts talking to them. DD likes the tilt up shot much to Birdy's disapproval. One of her underlings alerts her to an upcoming assault by the Bloody Syndicate. She goes to a war room where she tells them to have the Tarantulas on standby. The trio are placed in a stone tower jail cell pondering what to do as their only escape is a tiny window high up. Asteroid Queen tells a picture of her grandfather that revenge is soon upon them. Beat and IC show up with two of her guards disarmed, but she laughs them off as she knows they are Double J9. IC wants to know where the others are, she tells them in exchange for staying out of the way. IC points out the Bloody Syndicate is too powerful. At the tower cell IC and Beat can tackled by Lock and Birdy, Asteroid comes in requesting a temporary alliance. The Bloody Syndicate arrives with a large squad of eadles followed by the Tarantula Syndicate destroying their base and leaving JJ-9's mark in neon lights on Tarantula's surface. The eadles pursue J9-3 when Tarantulas show up to fire three laser cannons from their back. The eadles reveal they can fire red energy balls from their wrists, but this helps very little. Lots of explosions happen as J9-3 transforms into Sasuraiger to deal with those that followed them so far out. Eadles get punched out before the missile pods fire on them. The goons start being concern as Asteroid Queen laughs at their demise. So many explosions. Eventually the leader is taken down which brings a smile to Asteroid Queen's face. After the fight the team is glad Bloody Syndicate lost as hard as they did and Birdy hammers Beat and Lock for calling Asteroid Queen pretty. The episode ends with J9- flying toward the sun.

Preview! IC is caught by Aurgan and then strangles him and Birdy is topless.

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Good Morning Lovely People,

I’ve been gone for some time now, have I not? I hope with this piece I’ll be more regular on the blog and in reading your posts too.

It was written aboard a flight. I took several pictures too of what inspired this piece. Like these –

The pictures aren’t that great but then I’ve never been a great photographer anyway.

This whole post is dedicated to Man’s genius and his handmaiden – Technology. Read on to see why –

I see them stretched out For miles and miles. White, bright, Like ripened pods Of a cotton crop.

Here you may find Salt flats and Dead Seas, Cold, vast deserts And ever changing dunes Of white, poofy silt.

Dark tufts of blinding light, And thunder, ready to explode, While the tame, little ones Herald rains To the greens below.

Plateaus shaped Like an eagle in flight, Or a flying squirrel, if you will. Canyons and hills afloat on Turgid seas of white foam and blue.

Here and there, where they thin out, You see our beloved earth, Its mighty rivers reduced to trickles Its mammoth mountains reduced To mere bumps on the terrain.

And man, the mightiest In brain and industry, Nowhere visible To the naked eye.

Save his creations, His spider-web cities and roads. That resemble a giant’s veins, Snaking their way through every Mountain, plain, plateau and vale.

And yet this far up, Close to the heavens as we know, Wingless man is the only Creature you will find.

To think we fly in a metallic bubble In the realm of clouds, ghosts and angels. That we look ‘down’, like Gods, When we were meant to be looked down upon! Miraculous, is it not?

Please visit The Perfectly Imperfect Bunch Blog where we are covering Tools For Writing this whole week. It’s amazing how technology has aided us in writing and how much easier it has become to write now than it was before when there were no MS Word, no delete options, no typewriters, no printing press. Makes me respect our earliest writers even more!

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In The Realm of Clouds Good Morning Lovely People, I've been gone for some time now, have I not? I hope with this piece I'll be more regular on the blog and in reading your posts too.

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Louise Bourgeois’ exhibit, “An Unfolding Portrait” is the absolute highlight of MOMA’s current collections. Bourgeois was a French-American artist, renowned for her installations, sculptors, and etching prints. Completed in the last decade of her life, the collection showcases her most profound prints. Her pieces embody recurring themes of nature and femininity. While highly suggestive, they are equally as delicate in execution. Completed with pencil and soft-ground etching, her prints portray the symbiotic relationship of both physical and human nature. Roots, vines, seeds, opening buds etc, hint to parts of the body. When walking through this portion of her show, I couldn’t help but notice how her abstract portrayal were almost direct portraits of certain plants or objects in nature. 

“The Nest” 2009. Soft-ground etching with selective wiping.

Bald Face Hornets Nest.

“The Fall” 2009. Soft-ground etching.

Sedum Jelly Bean Succulent. 

“The Unfolding” 2007. Soft-Ground etching, with selective wiping.

Melopea Specialissima seed pod bursting open. 

The focal point of “An Unfolding Portrait” is her depiction of spiders. Made out of steel, tapestry, wood, glass, fabric, rubber, silver, and bone, the giant arachnid is just one of the sixty-two scaled sculptures Bourgeois has created. Depicting images of spiders since the 1940′s, Bourgeois called them her “friends,” as well as a representation of her mother who restored tapestries for a living. “The concept of spinning a web and sewing were entwined.” Bourgeois said, “The spider... why the spider? Because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat and useful as a spider.”

“Spider” 1997. 

The cage the spider hauntingly clings over is representative of isolation and entrapment.   

“He Disappeared into Complete Silence” Plate 4. 1947. A fragment of a series of etchings produced before Bourgeois graduated into sculpting and installation art. 

The theme of motherhood continued in her depiction of femininity and the body, continued a floor above. Soft-ground etchings paired with pink watercolor were strong as they were ethereal, soft as they were hard, they were woman. Her piece “My Inner Life (#5)” (pictured below) shows just that. 

The woven French translates to: “My mother was right. Suffer and die. Ah! Mommy I am suffocating. I never suffered so. I AM NOT PRETTY ENOUGH FOR HIM I AM TOO UGLY, HE WILL NOT NOTICE ME. What idea of me will he take away? He will believe I love him.” 

Louise Bourgeois’ work is a central haven to feminist art. Combining power with the gentle, strength with the beautiful, she is depicting the concept of motherhood and aging as a whole. “An Unfolding Portrait” is a crucial show for all to see, as well as some of the most beautiful work I have ever laid my eyes on.