#okay so once i got past being mad at dewey for being fucking STUPID going down a water slide with mason

[final-girl96]

My Boyfriend's Back Chapter Eleven

When I woke up I was alone in the living room. Halloween was still playing but the house was empty. I stood up feeling a little light headed. I made my way into the kitchen and then walked towards the front door. "Sidney!" I yelled. Nothing. "Where the fuck is everyone?" I opened the door and walked out onto the porch, and went down the steps. A bad feeling settled in the pit of my gut as I slowly made my way to the gate. I saw Dewey running towards me.

"Yn!" He came up to me and grabbed my shoulders. "Dewey, what's going on? Where is everyone?" I asked. "Stay here. I'm going to check the house." He ran past me and went inside. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to just stand there and wait so I started to walk around back. Once I got past the boat I had wished I would have stayed where I was told to stay. Tatum hung from the garage door. She was stuck in the cat door that was in it for Stu's mom stupid cat, her head crushed.

I stumbled back and ran back around front. I screamed when I ran into someone. "Sid! Oh, my god. What the fuck is going on? Where is everyone?!" She grabbed a hold of me by the arms. "Come on, we have to go. The killer, he's here. He killed Billy. He stabbed him!" She pulled me towards the front door but we came to a stop when we saw it opening. Dewey came out and said our names then fell over with a knife in his back. Then the killer came into view.

We turned around and ran towards Dewey's Jeep. I swung open the passenger side door and Sidney got into the driver's side. We locked the doors and made sure the windows were up. When she went to start it there were no keys. A knock on her window had us turning our heads. The killer stood there with the keys dangling in between his fingers. Then he dropped down and disappeared. "Where did he go?" I asked. Sidney's door unlocked and she locked it again. Then my door unlocked and I slammed my hand down on the lock.

We twisted to try and looked and saw where he was but couldn't see anything. Then Sidney was being grabbed from behind and we screamed. I pulled my fish back and punched the killer to get himntonlet go of her so she could get out of the car then she opened my door and I fell out. We ran towards the house but when we looked behind us he was gone. "Where’d he go?" I asked. "I don't know but come on!" Sidney grabbed my arm and we ran towards the house.

"Sidney! Yn!" We got up the steps and turned around to see Randy. "We gotta get gotta here! I just found Tatum!" Sidney grabbed Dewey's gun and pointed it at him. "Stop!" He stopped in his tracks. "Baby! Thank God you're okay!" Stu came running up but came to a halt when Sidney yelled at him to not come closer. Him and Randy started arguing and then Stu started to beg me.

"Come on, baby. I would never do anything to hurt you. Please." I looked at Sidney and she pulled me inside. "Fuck you both!" Then she slammed and locked the door. Stu and Randy started to beat on the door. "What the fuck, Sid!" I tried to move her out of the way but she stopped me. "We can't let them in. We don't know where they even came from, yn. One of them could be the killer!" I looked at her and shook my head. "Are you serious?! Randy would never and could never. And Stu–" I shook my head. Before she could say anything Billy appeared at the top of the stairs.

He stumbled down the steps and Sid ran over to him. "Billy!" She ran over to him and helped him up. "The killer. He's outside!" She told him. I looked at his shirt and realized very quickly that he wasn't hurt. The blood was too light and Sidney said he stabbed him a couple times but if that was true he would still be bleeding and he's not. She handed him the gun and went to the door. I backed away towards the kitchen. Then he opened the door and Randy came bursting through.

"Stu's fucking lost it!" He said as he ran inside. Billy shut and locked the door. "He's gone mad!" Randy said. Billy slowly turned around, his hair fell into his eyes and a smirking stretched across his face. "We all go mad sometimes," he said and looked up. Then he shot Randy. I jumped and Sidney ran to Randy. "Andy Perkins, Psycho." Sidney slowly stood up and looked over at me. I started to back up again but ran into something. When I turned around I saw Stu.

"Stu!" I wrapped my arms around his waist and he instantly held onto me. "Stu, it's Billy. He shot randy." I felt him kiss the top of my head. Then I heard Sidney calling my name. When I looked back at her she shook her head. I looked up at Stu to see him already looking at me then he looked at Sidney. "Hello, Sidney." I looked at the voice distorter that he held in his hand. I went to pull away but he tightened his grip on me. Sidney ran around us to try and get away from Billy when he jumped towards her.

He went the other way and cut her off before she could get into the living room. Stu walked backwards so she couldn't get past him again. He pulled me with him then Billy cornered Sidney. I tried pushing myself away from Stu but his grip on me was strong. He turned us so I was facing Sidney and my back was against his chest. He wrapped his arms around my waist, leaning over a little so he could rest his chin on my shoulder. I looked at Sidney in panic. "You weren't supposed to wake up yet, baby."

[toddykun]

duckvember 2018: 3. game duck & 5. competitive duck - Duck Siblings (HDLW), Daisy’s Triplets (AMJ), Gladstone Gander & Donald Duck.

game over! or try again?

summary: Louie found a new indie video game made by an unknown developer inspired by their favorite superheroes! Hurray! Only problem? The last level seems impossible to complete. Could anyone in the mansion do it? Also, obviously the Duck Avenger is the best character to play with, right? No, Gizmoduck! No, Darkwing Duck! ...Huh, better ask Uncle Donald.

word count: 1994

n/a: inspired by this wonderful piece by @neon-shesh. april, may and june’s designs inspired by @avespecora, fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants writing.

“Oh, come on! Not again!”

“Umm, Louie, what are you doing?”

Huey looked at Louie, sprawled on the floor dramatically, holding his phone like had betrayed him. Louie just looked at him with this indecipherable expression and then showed him his phone. A pretty high score was glowing in the screen and the words of two options: ‘try again!’ and ‘game over’. It showed too, the international high scores. The colors looked cool and the little animation too, Huey murmured appreciatively.

Huey sat beside him. “But you have a really high score, and into the internationals too, Louie! Why are you so frustrated? What is the game about?”

Louie sighed and got up like it was a trouble for him to do that but he smiled anyway, happy to ramble about his new discovery. “A person on the internet developed this new indie game with superheroes from real life! They have the Duck Avenger even when he’s retired. You can choose between Gizmoduck, Darkwing Duck and the Duck Avenger. I chose the Duck Avenger, of course, he’s the most badass.”

“I would like to argue that. Duck Avenger was the most badass, he retired, he’s no more. Gizmoduck, however, it’s a new superhero and he has so much-.”

Louie interrupted him immediately. “Yeah, yeah. I will fight you on that later because that doesn’t change the fact that the Duck Avenger is the most badass. Anyways, the game is pretty simple. But I can’t past the last level no matter how much I try. It’s stupid, I’m thinking it’s rigged.”

“Maybe the character is not the one adequate for the level?”

“That’s ridiculous, they’re all supposed to pass the levels.”

“Well, only one way to find out. Come on, let me try it with Gizmoduck.”

Louie passed the phone to him and Huey tried it. It was, like Louie said, an actually simple game. Like some Mario Bros game. But the animation was actually pretty cool and fluid and the levels were even more interesting. Until he got to the last level, and he lost. Multiple times.

“This doesn’t make sense! I have changed every little thing that went wrong went I played and none of them work?”

“I told you! It’s rigged!”

Dewey entered the living room and looked at his brothers being a little too mad at a simple phone. “Guys, what are you doing?”

“We are playing this game and none of us can pass it.”

“Oh, can I see? Mmm. I will choose Darkwing.”

“So, Launchpad made you like it, huh?”

“Shut up. Pass the game.”

.

“WHY THE HELL I CAN NOT PASS IT?”

“WE KNOW!”

“THIS IS RIDICULOUS!”

“Boys, whatcha doing?”

“WEBBY, TRY THIS!”

“Oh, ok. HEY, IS THAT THE DUCK AVENGER? I WILL CHOOSE HIM!”

Louie just smiled proudly. “Good choice, little sister. Good choice.” Huey and Dewey just rolled their eyes.

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“WAIT, WHY I CAN NOT PASS IT?”

“UGH, COME ON, NOT EVEN WEBBY?!”

“THE GAME IT’S RIGGED, I TOLD YOU!”

“Maybe the developer made a mistake?” Huey took his book out of his hat and looked out for the page on developing independents video games.

Louie and Dewey rolled his eyes. “Not everything can be in that book, Huey.”

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“Even Uncle Scrooge tried, and he lost too. Well, he didn’t like to play, kept saying that’s it was a ridiculously simple game and he shouldn’t lose his time. But when he kept losing he almost threw my phone like it personally offended him. No good.”

“Cousin Fethry tried too, but well, he didn’t really understand the game either. He thought it was cool though.”

“Well, atI least I’m glad they all have great taste. They all chose Duck Avenger.”

“Yeah but, boys, we have not found a way to win. Granny didn’t want to even try it though.”

“Launchpad tried too, he lost with Darkwing and he was actually good at playing it.”

“Maybe we could ask Uncle Gladstone? I mean, if someone it’s able to win, it’s him, right?”

All the kids looked at each other and then nodded. All of them went to look for Gladstone.

.

“Do you think anyone is going to ever catch up that you fucked up that last level on purpose so no one can find the secret passage, April?” May asked, making her basketball’s ball turn around in her finger while resting on her bed.

“I didn’t do it on purpose, I don’t know why no one is finding the secret passage in the last level!”

“Well, you should fix it, dear sister. Like me and this little buddy. Right, little buddy?” June cheerfully said from her place in her own bed. She was trying to fix a little robot she was making.

“I. Am. Trying. To. Fix. It! You’re not helping!” April declared, furiously typing on her computer.

May and June just rolled their eyes and shrugged, continuing to do their own thing.

“Girls, let’s go! April, to your programming classes! May, to your basketball practice! June, you volunteered to that activity in the park!”

“Yes, aunt Daisy!” May and June responded and went to look for her things. April made a frustrated noise and started to write even faster. “UGH, WAIT, JUST A LITTLE. I STILL NEED TO SEND THE UPDATE.”

“I’M NOT WAITING. APRIL!”

“UGH, OKAY.” April ended giving up, taking his things frustrated, putting her laptop in her bag. Well, she could just apologize to the gamer community later and post the update, she supposed.

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“Sorry, little beans. Guess video games are not my thing, not even for my luck.” Gladstone did seem weirded out by the result too. He didn’t lose the game but for a really weird reason his character (the Duck Avenger, Louie was glad most of his family had such great taste) got stuck in a weird way, he didn’t lose like everybody else, he wasn’t killed even once but his character kept moving and moving without another obstacle on the way but the way didn’t end for minutes. Until they themselves stopped the game. It was like the game couldn’t let him lose but it couldn’t let him win either. It was actually ridiculous.

Webby sighed but smiled. “It doesn’t matter, Uncle Gladstone. Thanks anyways.”

Louie raised a brow and looked Huey and they both nodded. They were thinking the same thing. “In a way, Uncle Gladstone didn’t lose, he’s actually the only one that didn’t lose, and he never died in the game,” Huey concluded.

“The game is rigged, it’s impossible Uncle Gladstone had not won.” Louie ended saying.

Gladstone seemed to consider it too and then he smiled. “Have you asked Don to play it?”

“Do you think the most unlucky duck in the world can win this game?” It wasn’t like Dewey wanted to underappreciate his Uncle Donald but it was just. Good luck vs. Bad luck, you know.

Gladstone shrugged, an easy smile on his face. “Why not try it? Don holds a lot of surprises.” Also, he is going to flip out if he sees someone has done a game of PK, he deserves a little pleasure once in a while, he thought. “Good luck, kids!”

The kids looked at Gladstone going away to whatever business he had. Well, that only left them with an option.

.

“Kids, I’m kinda busy.” He was still repairing the boat, he didn’t know why the thing could just hold it together. All the kids made puppy faces. Donald sighed, it wasn’t fair. “Ok, ok. Give me that. Wait, is that the Duck Avenger?” He seemed to blush but Webby wasn’t so sure.

For a reason unknown to Webby, it was like that simple phrase lighted up something between the boys that she had not seen before. She blinked confused, the air smelled like competition out of nowhere. She looked at Donald and made a simple question. “Who are you going to choose to play, Uncle Donald?”

It seemed like the wrong question when the boys’ aura of competitiveness grew even more. Louie was the first one to attack, trying to be smooth about it. “It is incredible that the Duck Avenger is in a video game and he deserves it because he is super badass, you should choose him, Uncle Donald.”

Huey jumped next, his spirit wasn’t going to submit to the younger and more spoiled brother. “But Gizmoduck is a promising young hero! He has so much room to grow, and he is super smart and heroic and-!”

Dewey, not about to be left behind, jumped too, interrupting his older brother, determined to make his Uncle choose his hero. “But Darkwing Duck is amazing too, he is a great detective and does some pretty sick moves! You should choose him, Uncle Donald!”

Donald tried to calm them down. “Wow, wow. Calm down, boys. Let’s see.” Donald looked at the screen and then nodded. “Ok, I’m choosing Gizmoduck.”

Huey made a pleased cry, his fist in the air. Dewey and Louie looked at him, feeling betrayed. “But Uncle Donald!”

“Well, Huey is right, Gizmoduck is a promising young hero. Darkwing Duck is from another city and he has more experience, and Duck Avenger is retired, so. Anyways, this is just a game, it really doesn’t matter who I choose.”

“Ha! In your faces!” Huey jumped, happily, the winner of the unsaid competition. Dewey and Louie groaned.

“Huey,” Donald warned.

“Sorry, Uncle Donald…”

Webby tried to regain the attention to their actual issue. “Well, let’s play, Uncle Donald!”

Donald lost more times than any other person they asked for, the kids were about to give up until, eventually, he screamed ‘It says this is the last level!’, the kids jumped and hovered around him to see the screen. It was, in fact, the last level. They all felt dread over their bodies. Even Donald was starting to tense over this simple game. He started the level and the kids even felt like they couldn’t breathe. For now, it was going well. He avoided the obstacles even when the kids distracted him with their shouts of ‘be careful!’, ‘no, to the left!’, ‘uuuuugh’ and ‘jump, no, run, no, just walk!’. He was almost getting to the same point that Uncle Gladstone was. He only needed to make a simple jump and not fall into the hole. Simple enough.

He fell. The kids’ spirits fell too. Nobody had ever felt into that hole, it was an easy jump.

“NO!”

“UNCLE DONALD, HOW? WHY DID YOU LOSE LIKE THIS?”

“WHY? WHY? IT WAS A SIMPLE JUMP!”

“UGH, SO CLOOOOOSE.”

“Um, kids, I fell into a secret room.”

All the kids stopped their wailing, confused and asked at the same time. “Secret room?”

In fact, there was a secret room. The kids started to shout again, happy and almost hysterical. Donald kept moving his character until he got to a door. It read ‘FINAL BOSS’. They all gulped. Donald made the character enter the doctor without much thought.

Donald did give the final boss, Negaduck, a fight. It was sad that he lost, anyways.

Donald sighed, mad at himself, feeling the dread of the disappoint he probably left in the kids. “I’m sorry I didn’t win your game, kids. I-”

The kids couldn’t care less, they all hugged him. Donald returned the hug, greatly surprised but confused nonetheless.

Huey was the first one to talk. “Are you kidding? You were the only one that found the secret room, Uncle Donald!”

“Yeah, that was pretty cool!” Dewey followed.

“Especially since not even Uncle Gladstone could. I mean, he didn’t lose, but he didn’t win either. It was weird.”

Donald was even more confused now. “Not even Gladstone?”

Webby smiled and reassured him. “Not even Gladstone. You’re the best, Uncle Donald!”

Donald smiled harder and hugged them harder. The kids just laughed, happily, hugging him in return. Who knew that what they actually needed was some little of bad luck?

[sharethisgemwithme]

Are... are you kidding me? I swear to god that sounds like a title from Fake SU Episodes.

My predictions: Well, if we're going on vacation, does this mean we're going to the barn? Or somewhere new? I don't really know what to expect from this one, but my guess is it won't be as relaxing as everyone hopes. I do think that we'll get a few more "Steven tries to reach out to Connie, but gets no response" moments, but that will be resolved in the closing minute of this episode.

I'm watching via on-demand, and will start the clock with "We!" As always, first time I'm watching straight through with no pauses or rewinds. For the benefit of those on mobile who can’t blacklist, the text-log and further reactions are behind a cut.

0:00 - Part two of the bomb. 0:21 - Madeline and Lauren. 0:29 - Lots of unanswered messages. As I expected. 0:38 - Trying too hard there. 0:54 - Greg, what the hell? 1:09 - That's... a pretty bad way to solve that problem. 1:20 - Nine million dollars. Good to know. 1:31 - FUCK YOU RONALDO. 1:40 - Greg, how do you not know that everything is not okay? 1:57 - Uh, way to go there. 2:10 - Ronaldo, did you miss the part where he was IN SPACE? 2:24 - Amethyst, what are you... ok, that's just an egg. 2:39 - Cheers and applause. 3:04 - Pearl, you are seriously such a bad liar. 3:14 - And somehow Garnet is a worse actor. 3:29 - And the decision is made. 3:52 - Put down your damn phone and enjoy the outside. 4:09 - Amethyst is going to cause a massive loss of the deposit. 4:27 - Uh... what? 4:43 - Pearl got bit by a snake? 5:08 - Amethyst, you were doing so well for a brief moment. 5:24 - Never mind, I guess that was kinda OK. 5:40 - Everyone is being super weird. 6:00 - WAIT WHAT 6:14 - WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT. WHY WOULD YOU INTERRUPT THAT LORE BOMB. GODDAMMIT STEVEN 6:25 - It'd be funny if he had no signal out here. 6:52 - You've done a shit job at coaxing. 7:20 - That's a great open, Pearl. 7:37 - And everyone is just talking past him. Dammit, we're gonna get some.. 7:57 - You ok there, Pearl? Anytime you could finish a sentence would be great. 8:29 - Greg can handle human stuff. 9:12 - Well, she is mad, but yeah she will eventually get over it. Probably. 9:49 - CALLED IT. FUCKING CALLED IT 10:14 - eighty four missed messages? 10:36 - FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU RONALDO 11:11 - So we didn't get the reconnection with Connie in this episode. Dragging it out. I don't mind.

IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS: A good look at how someone can be so taken in by their own problems that they can't enjoy what's around them. In a way, given that, I'm glad that we didn't get a "everything's OK" ending, even if it stung a bit at the time. It makes sense that all the gems thought this was a response to what he saw or what happened on Homeworld, and that--given that--Greg didn't know what to do. And let's be honest, a road trip with Greg has a good track record so far. With the gems being bad at human stuff, the only one for Steven to talk to would be Greg. But Steven, no matter what else he is, is a teenager, and teenagers want nothing less than to talk about relationship problems with their parents, so that gets resisted as long as possible. I hope at some point, we get to hear about Connie's perspective during this time, both while Steven was gone and immediately afterwards. Did she talk things over with her parents?

Second watch notes:

How long has it been since Steven got back? I feel like "Dewey Wins" took place over a few days, and Steven has sent quite a few messages to Connie, so it might be a week or so. Is that way out of the ordinary for how long Steven and Connie go without seeing each other on a regular basis? (Granted that even if they don't *see* each other on a daily basis, they are surely talking/texting regularly)

Was Greg getting "trapped" by the hose just the first thing he was trying to snap Steven out of his funk? 'Cause otherwise, that still makes no sense to me.

It's a stupid sight gag but Steven rubbing the entire bottle of dish soap against the plate like it were a sponge was funny. I'm not sure if that was a Lauren Zuke bit, but I definitely feel like I'll miss their brand of humor once their episodes run out.

I hate Ronaldo, and I hate digging through Ronaldo gibberish for clues but "Did you get to the part where Koala Princess and Kangarufus kiss?" Yeah I don't think we're gonna see Steven and Connie kiss anytime soon. And then the unspoken "Sorry that's a spoiler but its like one of those spoilers that makes it better if you already know?" OK, that's not foreshadowing, but that's definitely a razzing of our fandom.

LOL Garnet transporting some of the groceries on her head. And then applauding with two other bags of groceries.

That said, what the fuck is with Garnet narrating her dialogue? There's stilted and then there's comically stilted, and then there's whatever that was.

"It really makes you think, is the way we interpret media consumption a projection of self compared to the intended delivery of the writers?" I've read that a few times, and I'm still not sure it actually means anything as a sentence, but I am twice as sure that it's a razzing of the fandom from Zuke.

I'm not quite sure how Steven could be literally staring at his phone for hours on end and not see that he has no bars, but y'know suspension of disbelief, I'll forgive it.

Greg with ponytail? Sure, why not.

OKAY THEN the big moment. PD holding multiple destabilizers. Garnet, Pearl, BISMUTH, and two other gems there, but not Rose! Again the date of "5750 years ago", so this was very early in Garnet's existence, and PD is "ravaging the planet". Garnet thinks she is addressing what Steven thinks he did wrong. Where exactly was she going with this story? I know Steven doesn't ask follow-up questions, but for him to be actively cutting off stories, he is TOYING WITH US.

Pearl trying to be all coy about "I don't know what Homeworld is like now"... obviously none of you do, but that's not the point!

And actually, HOLD UP. It's not true that "none of you do" because HEY GUESS WHAT? PERIDOT DOES. Why don't we bring her into this conversation? Context from the past and context from the present!

But... and this is tying in something from Discord chat just now, so hopefully it isn't spoilers for the rest of the nuke, but... Pearl says explaining these things is "impossible". And she might be speaking literally about that. Gem tech is some fucked up stuff, it's entirely possible there's some sort of memory wipe or block in place. (and then, yet again, steven cuts off any lore conversation with his petty human drama) (I'M KIDDING)

[back tracking] yep, when he gets in the pool and you see the shot of the phone with the Steven/Lion background, there is very definitely a red NO symbol in the upper corner.

Greg trying to be playful with Steven saying he's embarrassed, yes more of that please.

I'm not sure why we needed the Gems to pile in to try to get cell phone service, but man was that a dramatic build-up for a tiny thing.

lol ronaldo broke into the house because ronaldo