#or maybe i could straight up kill her without em knowing

[killerpancakeburger]

Playing Durge on Stealth Mode aka in plain view I save ppl but in the shadows I commit savage murder. I saved the tieflings and now they love me even though behind their back I slaughtered Alfira and broke the legs of that woman in that shed and led Minthara to the Grove. Now planning to let Marcus kill Isobel on purpose hoping the game/butler will count it as me killing her and gives me the prize for it, but without the Harpers hating me for killing Isobel yknow?

[knyontop]

Hello! Hope you're having a good day! And I was wondering if the creepypastas could react to your death but if you're a child pasta? Like say it's from a bullet wound since the enemy defended themselves? Take your time:)

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ONG IM SO EXCITED FOR THISSS

Creepypasta x Child!reader.

Tw: gore, depression and stuff, starving, self sabotage, and other stuff.

Ft: Jeff the killer, Sally, Ticci toby, Ben drowned, Nina the killer, and our beautiful, amazing, handsome, reader.

Jeff:

・He doesn’t know what to say, he only feels anger. Rage.

・The rage of Jeff the killer is something I hope my worst enemy never experiences😭

・He will not sleep until he finds whoever killed you, he will go to the depths of hell to find them.

・He cant even think straight when looking for them the only thing he wants to do is kill.

・he starts to isolate himself from everything and everyone, he will just sit in his room or just go out and kill.

・he killings are much more brutal from the anger.

・taking all his anger and emotion out on his victims.

・cry laughing while he carves em’ up.

・he thought he would be happy if you just randomly disappeared or something but I guess not. ☹️

・He lost his some what friend and sibling.

・He will drink, and drink, and maybe drink some more and drink while killing.

・This just makes him less of human then he already was. He cant do it, he just cant.

・He still refuses to say he cares about you btw. (We all know the truth)

・”Damit kid… you dumbass. Why did you have to die?”

Ben:

・Life is all fun and games to him, playing pranks on people, killing people, torturing people, just the usual!

・This news just hits him like hes being drowned all over again. Hes panicking, feeling like he cant breathe, just losing it.

・Hes glitching all over the place, saying its not true, its not true. You cant be dead! NO YOU JUST CANT!

・Please come back.

・Please just come back.

・He doesn’t find video games fun anymore. He doesn’t annoy people like he used to. He gets more aggressive with his pranks.

・He like jeff takes his anger out on his victims, getting all his anger and frustration out.

・he just wants you back. Please. Come back. Come. Back. Now.

・Hes more glitchy and on edge now, you were like his dumb, little sibling.. but your gone now.

・He just doesn’t get why kids are always the ones who have to suffer, why did you have to die? Your just a kid. You shouldn’t have been dragged into this mess.

・”W-W-Why d-did you h-have to die… y-y-your just a k-k-kid im so sorry.”

Toby:

・oh, oh this poor boy. Hes already lost his older sister, imagine what this is like.

・The worse part is he was there when it happened, and he couldn’t protect you. He couldn’t protect you. HE COULD NOT PROTECT. YOU.

・He will never forgive himself this is like Lara all over again. He cant do this anymore.

・He will eat less and less, just sit in bed. Having random outbursts in the middle of the day, just breaking down absolutely losing it. But who can blame him? Everyone missed you.

・Toby just wished he could have died instead of you, its not fair.

・Hes mad at you, hes mad at himself, hes mad at everyone. Hes now more violent then ever. Hes easy to anger, just everything.

・Hes over here lashingout at everyone, even sally!

・oh and you have no idea how this has affected sally. Omg. 😭

Sally:

・oh this poor sweet baby :C

・She just cries, cries and cries and cries.

・You helped heed forget about all the bad, she had someone to care for and someone to care for her. But your gone now.. why?

・She just misses you so much, shes mad at the world for this. Shes mad at Slender and even Mr. Charlie!

・Sally is now more clingy then ever. She needs more attention and starts to get more “annoying” to everyone.

・visitsyour grave everyday to have tea partys with you, like old times yk? She cant go there without crying.

・She misses when you would brush her hair and tell her about your mission and how there head would go splat splat splat! The sound is so silly to her!

・Sally just wants you back! She wants her parents back, she wants everything back!

Nina:

・Nina is no longer her sadistic silly self.

・She doesn’t have anyone to rant to anymore, she doesn’t have anyone to practice shots on, she doesn’t have anyone to try make up looks on! Her little sibling is gone again! Just like she lost her little brother.

・She didn’t trust herself with you, she thought she would hurt you like she hurt her little brother. But you just ended up hurting her…

・Nina just like toby starts to pass on food, she literally loves food tho! But she just cant anymore…

・”You were my best friend and now.. and now your gone.”

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[operation-cursed-sweet-tooth]

Part 1 collab with @penguinpartypalooza ✨

T-this is ridiculous…!

Two missing penguins and it hasn’t even been a full week…!

Hmm?

*growl* there must be something we’re missing…

We caught the culprit from the previous case… why is stuff like this still happening?! Let alone missing penguin cases-!

GHAA! This is hopeless!!

Whoa- G! What’s the matter??

*groan* Too much is the matter…I can’t even think straight- I haven’t even had my coffee for the day- my brain is all scrambled…. We’ve had multiple reports within the past couple days of missing penguins and even more puffles and no sign of what’s actually causing it…

Sure we caught the previous culprit…but even PH says that they only eat fish….that poor penguin…we don’t even know what actually killed them-

We’ve traced the samples off the body from that reindeer puffle and all traces still led to those wolves…! We must be missing something…o-or we caught the wrong puffle- or-

G- calm down and breathe-

What’re you even talking about for one- what culprit?? And what penguin?? What do you mean reindeer puffle…? It’s nowhere near the Holiday Party-

That…thing- that puffle there is the supposed culprit for a reindeer puffle’s death…which would have to be a penguin due to how reindeer puffles are even found to begin with….or so we thought… it was from a few days ago….

Wait huh??

And it turns out that this one hadn’t even done anything…! There’s no traces of reindeer anywhere…! It was all just fish and berries..! We don’t even know who this penguin was..! They’re permanently stuck as a puffle and are now dead-!

Now we have to start from square one on this case to figure out what could’ve actually harmed them…cause there’s no way it could’ve been Herbert… e-even then…

Hold that thought-

We found a new species of puffle!? And nobody told me!!?

Wha-

Dot…please focus on anything but that…this is serious-

Right, right sorry- you were saying??

*sigh* well…. To sum it up before you get distracted yet again… we came across a dead puffle…we then caught this puffle, only to find it wasn’t even what caused the incident of killing a penguin turned puffle in the first place….now we have to start over-

Not to mention…more penguins have been seemingly going missing since then…and it’s not getting any better…

Missing penguins..?! That’s awful…has anyone found a lead for any of them?? Like anything at all?

Only thing we kept coming across was the same thing…wolf fur- and that just kept leading us back to these puffles… since there’s no other source it could’ve come from…

Hmmm…that seems a bit suspicious to me- what if something or someone is trying to make us think it was these puffles?? I mean cmon- aren’t these fellas supposed to be all sweet and cuddly??

About that- this one here just about ripped open JPG’s arm…and PH could barely approach without it growling and snapping at her face…plus even I couldn’t approach it for even a moment to get a good look at it before it snagged a couple feathers off me… therefore they’ve been put in this cage for the time being… so no, they’re far from friendly…quite the opposite actually- like any other wild creatures I’d assume….

Awwww but can we still keep em?? Maybe they can become a guard dog!! I mean Herbert hates puffles right? What if we used these guys to scare him off??

Dot no- we’re not-

We could tame em and teach em cute dog tricks- oh! Do they come in other colors?? Maybe I can even make little outfits for them all~

Dot-

*CLICK*

Hmmm??

*sickly groan*

[applebuttercringe]

Episode 5 immediate thoughts

Spoilers ahead!

-Oh hey it's the big guy who used to be on Caitlyns strike team.

-Get em Vi

-Jinx is betting on Vi's fights

-Average lesbian breakup experience

-Did she dye her hair black? Or did she just cry enough eyeliner onto herself that it turned it black?

-THE SISTER REUNION

-Vi is reminded by the shimmer tear that Jinx isn't fully in control of herself.

-Proud of Jinx though for being able to be in Vi presence without a breakdown

-Last time they saw each other Vi was fully ready to kill Jinx. Most brutal fight in the series. Now they can work together? Thats kinda rushed.

-Caitlyn using her detective skills again!

-"Peacekeeping operations" Yeah right Caitlyn.

-Caitlyn is full on racist

-Full on fascist

-The Caitlyn stans are gonna be fighting for their LIVES trying to defend her.

-This is the first time we've seen Mel not collected, or at least put together and considerate.

-ELORA!!!

-Mels brother?

-Mels brother!

-Well Vi got over basically all the Jinx stuff pretty quick.

-I mean this is basically what both of them really wanted, to be a family again, and it was achieved with very little ceremony.

-Did Jinx find out the mushroom aren't toxic by eating them? Does she eat every new thing she finds just to check?

-If Vi thinks this is Jinx lying why would she follow her?

-"BITCHMITTENS"

-Typical sibling behavior

-Vi is a child hitter confirmed. Considering Jinx's lingering trauma from Vi's reaction to the explosion in S1 Ep3, I'de think she would have a worse reaction to Vi hitting Isha.

-Whaarwhick is more savage than any beast in Noxus? Knowing Noxus from league I find that hard to believe.

-Wait, did Silco kill Vi and Jinx's parents? Is that why they split? I need to rewatch this frame by frame.

-Singed holding his daughter

-Singed real name is Dr. Reveck

-If Mel and Kino are surprised Ambessa has a love child, were they her hatechilds?

-Mel herself is a magical maguffin for the cult running a foreign nation. I thought she was just a super cool girlboss.

-Jinx is a jacket sniffer.

-Was Vander in love with their mom? I thought he was their adopted dad, has he been their bio dad the whole time?

-Vi defending Jinx 🥺

-Is that Singed daughter on the record Felicity is playing.

-Oh no young Silco is hot

-Felicity sounds like Jinx when she says "working up the nerve"

-That one tweet was right, Arcane music is horrifically literal.

-I don't care if it's rushed. This scene is straight out of a feel good fix it fic and I love it. Happiness and family for the Zaun sisters!

-Is this Salo after being healed by Viktor?

-Knew it

-Jayce, where ya been buddy?

-Viktor broke Jayce out so he could come see him. I mean it is probably not Viktor, it's the hexcore taking people over, but still.

-And once again the dynamic is reversed

-Just leaving Ekko and Heimerdinger in their huh?

-JAYCE STRAIGHT UP MURDERED HIM! HOLY SHIT! WHAT!?

-I THOUGHT HE WAS JUST GONNA BONK HIM TO KNOCK HIM OUT!

-WTF HAPPENED TO HIM!

Overall: Ok, so this felt rushed. The last 4 acts have been tearing these sisters apart, entirely centering on the traumas and outside forces that keep them from being a family. Then Jinx shows up and it takes one sentence to get Vi back, granted Vander being alive is big news, but Vi thinks Jinx is lying to her. Why wouldn't she be mad at Jinx?

Jayce straight up murderred a guy, I wish we got to see more of how he got to this point.

Caitlyn is still as much of a dictator as she has been all, but she does get consistently worse.

Mel is in a totally different story now.

Things are only looking up for Jinx and Vi.

Even with it being rushed I do like Jinx and Vis story here, I want happiness for them , sue me. But I don't see how they could possibly meaningfully redeem all the other characters in the 4 episodes left. Which means I think Arcane season 2 might not be peak anymore, entertaining? Yes. Interesting? Yes. Exciting? Yes. Peak? Maybe not. I still love it, but the cracks are showing.

[colemorrison]

Okay look, I’m not crazy… Well I mean I am a little but it’s fine… Here’s some yandere overwatch..

This will include blood, possessive behavior, blah blah.. Mauga, Ashe, Junkrat, Sombra, Sigma and Ramattra are included.

Mauga :

He was always this over protective right? He threatened anyone who looked at his friends right?

"Where ya going? You're supposed to stay with me remember? Who will protect you and keep you safe if you're not with me?"

The look in Mauga's eyes was slightly scary, desperation pooled in them, he needed you after all. What would he do without you? He'd simply pass away.

"No, no.. You can't go see them. Stay with me, don't you wanna be safe? Darling, I don't want to have to tell you again."

His touches were rough, almost too rough, like he was worried someone would steal you.

"Can't have anyone taking you away from me, mine... All mine."

Ashe :

"Awh how cute, you think you have a chance with them? Oh no, they're mine.. Lay a finger on them and I swear I will show you what hell is."

Her fingers danced over your shoulders, displaying how only she could touch you, touch your body. Ashe was practically dangling you in front of them, showing exactly how much power she had over you.

"Aren't they just adorable? Such a sweet sight, look all you want. But I'm not keen on sharin'."

It happened so fast, painted nails digging into your throat, a shot firing straight past you toward the man, blood splattering across your face and Ashe's.

"No one gets to see my pretty little thing and live. Now.. Each time you think about going toward someone else, speaking to someone else, anything with someone who isn't me, I want you to remember this moment."

Junkrat :

"I'll kill em! They can't have you, you belong to me remember? I will make sure none of them even look at you."

His fingers gripped your skin, he couldn't let you go, his body wouldn't let him, what if you ran away? He can't possibly live without you, you're his favourite person, he needs you.

"Maybe I'll make you a nice little place and keep you here, that way you can never ever leave me. Would you like that? I would, I would love to wake up to you every morning."

Jamie's metallic hand drew hearts all over your back, obsessive traced hearts decorating your skin because of how hard he pressed.

"Mine, mine, mine, mine."

Sombra :

She had access to everything possible, she knew every little thing about you, that thing you wanted to hide and completely forget? Oh.. Olivia knows.

"What do you want for your birthday?"

"My birthday? I didn't tell you my birthday."

"You didn't have to, I know everything about you."

Her tone was playful but you could tell she was serious, the way her finger nails traced over the veins in your wrist showed you that..

"You have no idea mi amor, you are everything to me.."

Sigma :

Yes you knew he was insane but this..? Paper's scattered across his room, photos of you, photo's you didn't take. Your name written repeatedly over the walls, it was his own little sanctuary of you.

"See? I love you. No one else loves like I do."

His eyes were full of obsessiveness, insane cackles leaving his throat as he pinned up more photos of you. He needed to be surrounded by you at all times, he would go absolutely insane without it.

"It would be such a shame if this went poorly. I do not wish to kill you and then myself just so no one can have you."

Ramattra :

He took care of you but you weren't allowed to speak to anyone, absolutely no one. If you needed something you ask him, if you need help you ask him. He's learned how to do anything you might need, that way you'll never ever need anyone else.

"What is it? Oh you're hair is tangled? Well let me help you."

Ramattra moved you to sit on his lap, a brush softly going through your hair while his other hand held you by the throat.

"I need you to be still, you can handle this right?"

He chuckled at the small nod you gave.

"Ah.. My wonderful little pet human. No one else even knows you exist anymore, you really do belong to me."

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Now... I've never written something like this so enjoy, also I wrote this with the help of @bruhhhh-huhhhhh. So he deserves some credit too.

[deathmetalunicorn1]

Hear me out on this one, WHAT IFFFFF mulan inspired reader🤔🤔🤔 they we're fighting any ROR god and that god fell inlove with her🤭 leaving the fight to a tie cause i said so😒

Like reader was a masked assassin, they have this mask/helmet that covers their head and wears those heavy bulletproof vest so they look really intimidating and mysterious plus they don't really talk much cause they're an assassin🧍‍♀️So when brunhilde recruited the reader to fight for humanity without knowing that they're a woman maybe because they just nod and did an 👌 sign.

Fast forward to when they're already fighting the reader having the weapon of switching to any guns they chose they suddenly got bonked to the side smashing their mask injuring them in the process (and possibly giving a concussion) the whole arena goes "OMG- THEYRE A WOMAN !??!!🤯🤯😱😱" (cause yk how they only have men competing) anyways- while they're all shocked the reader then used this opportunity to pin the god they're fighting and point a pistol to their head and looking at em straight in the eye 🫣 feel free to add more😏

So live laugh strong badass women than can kill you😍

-Red Obsidian was your nickname, your codename, a feared codename of one of history’s most powerful assassins.

-Nobody knew you true identity, as you were always masked, always hidden, those who had managed to see you were usually your targets, who never survived.

-You hide yourself well, your Red Obsidian persona was a completely different person, a man, as you wore baggy clothes, padded with tactical gear, and a large helmet to hide your face.

-Ask anyone who had seen you, those who had hired you, would say that Red Obsidian was a man, which helped keep authorities off your tail when you went out and about in normal girly clothes.

-Those who needed your service went to a secret location, one that only those who know where to find you, would tell people to go. They were to leave a photo of their target and your payment, either cash but you did take payments of gemstones, both cut and uncut.

-If your payment turned out to be fake or counterfeit, then you would go after the one ordering the hit, as nobody double crossed you and got away with it.

-When you finally died, dying in an earthquake of all things, you were called to Valhalla, as you were a feared warrior, one that Valhalla would need.

-You didn’t have to do hits anymore, but you would stalk various people, for exercise and for fun, both gods and humans.

-When Ragnarok was announced, Brunnhilde approached you, asking you to fight for humanity.

-You were silent, as you didn’t talk, but you gave her a thumbs up, agreeing to fight for humanity, as it was something to stave off your boredom.

-Your valkyrie partner was the only one to figure out that you were a woman, when she fused with your soul, to create your weapon, a Holy Gun, which could change into different guns at your will. You asked her to remain quiet about your true self, as you preferred to not be bothered by others who you know would give you shit if they found out their killer was a woman.

-Your opponent was strong, giving you a real challenge, a real fight. You were a bit out of your element, as you were an assassin, you usually handled things from a distance away with a well-aimed bullet, you couldn’t do that in the stadium like this.

-You had taken a few hard hits, felt even through your padding, the pain felt exhilarating, you felt so alive!

-A bad blow to the head sent you spinning head over heels, blurring your vision only momentarily before you quickly rolled to your feet, grabbing you gun again to aim another shot.

-You felt lighter, and you froze, seeing your hair fluttering in the wind and that’s when you saw the gawking face of your opponent and everyone around you, “YOU’RE A GIRL?!?!”

-You stood, sighing softly as you rubbed the back of your head, exasperated while you heard shouting from your previous targets, yelling at you because you were a girl.

-You flipped them off, not caring before you removed your padded gear, since your secret was out, not caring now, stripping down to a pair of tight yoga pants and a pink and black sports bra.

-You picked up your gun again and grinned, “Don’t go easy on me now!” before you charged, leaping up, even more agile than before, your opponent dodging your bullets by mere centimeters.

Hercules

-Was stunned to see that he had been fighting a woman this whole time, guilt quickly building in his belly before you charged at him.

-You were a warrior, not just a woman, and he steeled his nerves, swinging at you again.

-You landed on top of his club with dainty grace, shocking everyone as the two of you played a cat and mouse game for a while.

-You stunned everyone when you managed to leg sweep him off of his feet, sending him to his back and you were quick to stand over him, your gun pointed between his eyes.

-You were both panting hard, both covered in wounds as you stood in a stalemate.

-Hercules immediately boomed, “MARRY ME!!”

-Everyone gawked, including yourself, as you were stammering, face turning red like you were a maiden, leaping back.

-Hercules repeated himself, completely serious while many were cheering for the sudden proposal while others were telling him to kill you now that you had been taken off guard.

-You felt your head steaming, as you had never dealt with anything like this before, before you clutched your gun and whacked him on the head, sending him to the ground before you fell back, unable to take his passion anymore and you fainted.

-The battle ended in a draw, the first of Ragnarok, but the first thing you saw when you woke up was Hercules smiling down at you, worried about you, asking if you were okay.

-Your face was quickly red again, as you never had someone care about you before, before Hercules grabbed your hands in his own, proposing again.

Loki

-He instantly blocked a kick from you, still a bit stunned that you were a woman, annoyance quickly building that a woman had been kicking his ass for the whole of the match.

-He charged, holding his chained blades in his hands and was stunned when you caught his wrists, flipping him over in a monkey flip, landing so you were straddling his waist, your gun, now a handgun, pointed between his eyes.

-You felt his blades against your torso, locking you in a stalemate as either one of you could kill each other in an instant.

-Everything was still for a moment, everyone was looking at you both, seeing which one would strike first.

-Loki then smirked up at you, his tongue licking his lips, “Now this is a sight~ I just wish you sat just a bit lower~”

-Your bitch slap, sending him flying across the stadium, was heard even outside the stadium as you were bright red, shouting at him, calling him a pervert.

-Your cute reaction was amusing to see by everyone as the match ended in a draw and you ran to the backstage area, holding your cheeks like you were a pure maiden.

-He showed up to your room after you were both patched up a bit later and before you could slam the door in your face, he quickly slipped inside, hugging you as you tried to get him away, “Don’t be so cold~” he found your flushed face amusing and became a pest that never seemed to want to leave you alone, as he found himself intrigued with this strong battle maiden who reacted so cutely with affection.

[landofzero-archive]

Perplex - Prank Intersection 8

Season: Spring

(Location: Starmony Apartment Hallway (2F))

(Early morning. Rinne Amagi’s prank filming day)

Rinne: Fuaaahfu…… Oi, Yuta…… What time is it?

Yuuta: About 4 o’clock. It’s still dark out, so it’s still the middle of the night.

Rinne: Seriously, it’s only natural that I’m tired…… Whose bright idea was it to do a wake up prank? They’re costing me my precious sleeping time.

Kuro: You’re the one who suggested it……

Yuuta: Yeah. Rinne-senpai’s the one who told us to meet at 4am.

And yet he was the last to arrive and he was late. Are you gonna have self-awareness about your work from now on?

I specifically asked Kiryu-senpai to be the photographer. Do you understand that?

Rinne: Don’t get so worked up, Yuta. If you speak too loudly, the Vice Prez might notice, won’t he?

Yuuta: And whose fault is that……

Rinne: Hm? Actually, Narushii hasn’t come yet, has she?

Kuro: Yeah. Narukami declined since lack of sleep would be bad for her skin.

We don’t need that many people for a little wake up prank anyway.

Rinne: True. But, Narushii is also missing out.

It’s a great opportunity to see the Vice Prez’s silly face. Right, Yuta?

Yuuta: You’re the only one happy about that, you know.

Rinne: Nah, the Yuta that pranked the Vice Prez is just like me!

The prank is a variety show where you make people look like idiots and then laugh at them♪

Yuuta: Haah…… It’s no use. Being with him just makes me stressed in the end.

Kiryu-senpai, let’s get this over with.

Kuro: Yeah. I also want to get a few more hours of sleep in. So, you all line up there.

Rinne: Alright, Yuta. Let’s link arms and get going. We’re fellow accomplices, after all♪

Yuuta: Nope. Stop yapping and get prepared.

Rinne: How cold. The dynamic duo is immediately at risk of breaking up……

Kuro: And let’s go. Three, two……

Rinne and Yuuta: “Good morning everyo~ne!”

Rinne: “Y’all in front of the TV, don’tcha know how late it is? It’s 4am.

There’s only one prank we could be pulling so early in the morning!”

Yuuta: “Yep! It’s the class wake-up pra~nk♪

Oh? Are you bored of watching simple wake-up pranks?”

Rinne: “As a matter of fact, our target ain’t some run of the mill idol.

What a surprise! The target this time is Ibara Saegusa of Eden.”

Yuuta: “When it comes to Saegusa-senpai, even within Eden his private life is especially shrouded in mystery.”

Rinne: “He’s in high demand as a talented CosPro idol. He’s a real super star!

He’s also the vice president of our office, so he might get peeved if we prank him but……

That doesn’t matter! Today I’ll be showing you the Vice Prez’s most private moment without any mercy: his sleeping face!”

Yuuta: “But it’s not interesting just charging in to wake him up, y’know~

So this time…… Ta da~♪ There’s the bonus of throwing a water balloon at Saegusa-senpai!”

Rinne: “It’s also washing his face, so it’s killing two birds with one stone. How about waking up with some nice cold water, gyahaha♪

Btdubs, besides me and Yuta, Dora-chan is also here as our photographer♪

Isn’t it extravagant to use an idol as the cameraman!?”

Kuro: “You’re the one who begged and forced me……”

Rinne: “My bad, my bad. Besides being the cameraman, Dora-chan helped out in a lot of other ways.

There’s other idols rooming with the Vice Prez, so he talked to them and got them to go to other places for today.

Well, none of ‘em are from CosPro so it would be hard for us to do the behind the scenes work. Rinne-kun also worked his hardest, y’know.”

Yuuta: “C’mon, don’t go on forever about the behind-the-scenes stuff. You’re getting too vivid about it.

Or rather, Rinne-senpai had absolutely nothing to do with it. Why are you acting like you did?”

Rinne: “That’s because I’m the one who came up with the project. Any success from it is also my success♪”

Yuuta: “Uwah…… you’re so irrational. Maybe I should jump ship after all.

Juuust kidding♪ Now, let’s end the introduction and go straight to Saegusa-senpai’s room, where he’s all tucked away!”

(Location: Starmony Dorm (Ibara, Mitsuru, Midori, Tsumugi's Room))

Rinne and Yuuta: “(Whispering) Pardon the intrusio~n.”

Yuuta: “Uwah, it’s so dark~. Kiryu-senpai, please watch your step.”

Rinne: “If you were to fall loudly and wake him up, everything would be ruined.

So, where could our Hebi-chan be sleeping? Is it this bed? Or this bed? …… No, he’s over there.

Oioi, take a look at that bed, Yuta, Dora-chan. There’s someone sleeping in it wrapped up in a thick blanket.

I never thought the top idol Ibara Saegusa of Eden would be the type to sleep all snuggled up like that.

He’s surprisingly cute in some ways, isn’t he, Yuta♪”

Yuuta: “Yeah it’s actually kinda cute……

But this is no time for yapping. C’mon, Rinne-senpai!”

Rinne: “Let’s do it. Let’s get right to the main dish then.

—That’s why you’ve all gotta see it! The top idol, Ibara Saegusa’s, adorable sleeping face will finally be revealed!

Now, let’s get a peek! A happy morning’s come, ‘venomous snake’-kun♪

…… Wh- huh?”

Yuuta: “Is that a mannequin!? That’s not the Vice Prez at all, Rinne-senpai!”

Rinne: “OI OI OI, what the heck’s going on? You for real confirmed that Vice Prez was snoozin’ in his room, didn’t ya?”

Kuro: “Yeah. Actually, there’s been some strange noises for a while now.”

Yuuta: “Maybe…… The sound we heard was from the mannequin?

Eh, this……!?

IS THAT A BOMB!?”

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[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

new most hated genre of post: people ~getting back at the fatphobes~ for 'complimenting' fat characters by saying they're 'so brave' and 'look like they're so soft and wholesome and give good hugs 🥺' (indeed fucking gross, call it out, stop that) by '''joking''' about how skinny people are 'so cute because they're so sharp and bony and give bad hugs, and you could totally break them in half 🥺'

fun fact! you are not describing the bodies of privileged thin people who just can't take a joke! you are describing the bodies of people who are disabled and/or otherwise extremely ill and/or starving! you are talking about people who face high rates of mockery and medical abuse! even without the other three factors, being underweight has massive impacts on your health and shortens your lifespan greatly! it also makes you physically weaker and much easier for people to manhandle, hurt, and kill, because unlike being fat, being underweight is inherently mutually exclusive with being strong.

how fucking sick do you have to be to talk this way about the bodies of cancer patients, AIDS patients, people with other wasting diseases, people who are atrophied from disability and/or confinement by abusers making it impossible to exercise, people with eating disorders that manifest by reducing their body mass, homeless and food-insecure people in regions that have decided arbitrarily that they should starve, famine victims, war victims, VICTIMS OF THE

FUCKING HOLOCAUST

what kind of soulless fucking ghoul do you have to be to mock us, to say that our bodies are unpleasant to even be touched and treat it as the height of ridiculousness that anyone we love might find us to be anything else, to imply that the only reason someone actually would is because they have a gross objectifying fetish, to treat us as a joke to own people who say annoying things about your stupid fucking blorbos, to talk gleefully about beating and maiming and murdering us and what our bodies would feel and sound like crunching under your hands

i watched my mother die of cancer. i watched her body wither even more quickly than most--on the order of weeks, not months--after she had a sudden stroke that destroyed her sense of taste. i watched her break down in tears more than once when she tried something different, just a tiny little snack, in hopes that maybe this time it would be edible, only for this one to taste like car exhaust too, because she was so, so hungry. she died so hungry.

i'm not going to get too deep into my own body and medical issues here. just writing this out so far is about as much as i can handle, and vomiting up all the years of trauma right now would just about break me. but in short i am an extremely underweight disabled person who's been watching my mind and body waste away for a long time, knowing there's basically nothing i can do about it and it's very likely to kill me, being constantly concern-trolled and splained and guilted and shamed and victim-blamed about how i just don't want to get better, how if i just had the right attitude and powered through it and tried this special diet they read about on facebook and 'it's not that hard to make food, just.... do it :/' then i would magically be okay, i've had people fetishize my body and praise me for it and say i'm lucky and it's great that i lost weight and they wish i had my body when i was malnourished/physically ill/actually dying, i've had to see constant victim-blaming Scare Em Straight PSAs from supposedly eating-disorder-conscious assholes about how DID YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU DON'T EAT ENOUGH YOU'LL [gruesome detailed descriptions of what will happen to me, culminating in my early death],' i've had caretakers demand to know who they can pawn off responsibility on for my death if i died soon so they wouldn't get in trouble for neglect when the police found my corpse

'well fat people also--' shut the FUCK up i'm not talking about fat people right now, i am talking about underweight people because we are the ones you can't keep out of your fucking mouths. have a brain and a fucking soul, and also i can attest that your blorbos are shit solely on account of you using them as an excuse to behave like this. FUCK you.

[leavethemtorot]

you stay soft, you get beaten (only natural to harden up)

I heard you guys wanted more Hearts? Maybe some more Tremaines?

The first time Desi met the eldest Heart it was pouring rain. 

The storm had hit fast and quick. The rain pounding on the boarded up windows and seeping through the walls. Going outside for anything longer than five minutes would be in a death sentence. Luckily, it had already been a slow day at the salon with barely any clients all day. Unluckily, it meant that the Heart triplets were trapped by the storm. 

One of them, Vladijov, had tried to leave but the thunder had scared him back in and the others had quickly whispered about someone coming to get them. All that meant was that she was stuck babysitting. People were never allowed unsupervised in the salon, this is the Isle afterall, but the Hearts weren’t doubly so. The first day they had entered the salon one of them had nearly killed themselves three times. So someone always had to be on babysitting duty and Anthony was tending to the children upstairs, Devin, Dell, and Dixie were no doubt scared out of their mind. 

Kazimíra and Mečislav were draped over each other passing cards to Vladijov who was tearing them in half and braiding them into the twos hair. While occasionally trying to eat one of course. Mečislava suddenly bolted up, staring straight at the door, where the elder prince entered just a few moments later. He was tall, sopping wet with dark hair and darker clothing. She could barely see any red, which was notably strange for a Heart, even the twins heavily wore red. 

“Em!” She cried, knocking over Kazimíra in her attempt to grab the brother. The other two quickly followed after him.

Em looked nothing like his siblings. She couldn’t quite tell what color it was, not with this lighting and how much water was in it, but it was certainly a different color. Almost blue? Not to mention all of the features looked wrong. There is some expected variation between siblings but this was far too much. He didn’t have the heart face shape that every other Heart had. She had never seen a Heart without it, not even the glances she once had of the Queen and King. 

He looked up, brown eyes locked with hers, clearly knowing that she knew something was off. 

A thump sounded, something had fallen upstairs. A series of knocks sounded, a code between her and Anthony meaning that something was wrong with Devin or Dell. Her eyes shifted upwards and despite her best efforts she knew that some emotion showed on her face.

“Go. I have them.” 

She froze, staring at him. He wasn’t looking at her anymore, attention seemingly captured by the babbling triplets surrounding him. Nodding and silently doubling checking that everything was okay with them, all while they didn’t notice or were too used to him doing so that they didn’t care.

Another thump. This time accompanied by a short cry.

Something was wrong. Something was clearly wrong, but the Hearts couldn’t be left alone and this was the first time that Em had ever stepped foot into the salon. Who was to know if he could be trusted.

“Desi?” Dizzy called, standing near the top of the stairway, just far enough down that she could see into the salon, “Can you come up here? Dev-”

She froze, just then seeing the Hearts, knowing that she just said something she shouldn’t have.

He looked up again, this time understanding in his eyes. Something clicked for him. She’s not sure she wanted it to.

“Go,” he said more urgently, almost shooing her away, “I get it. Go take care of them.”

In that moment, Desi knew. Like recognizes like. He may not be their blood, but there was most certainly blood connecting them. Trusting the word of a Heart at face value for the first time, she turned and went upstairs, finding out what had happened to her children along the way.

[thegreatobsesso]

formatting the entirety of the callie ray duology and low-key rereading as I go

Some of my chapters got weird line breaks the last time I saved 'em so I've been compiling final final NEW copy1 final FINAL VERSION and getting everything into 12pt times roman and all that jazz, and every now and then I get pulled in and remember how much I loved this passage or that. Anyway, here's one of them. 🥰

Callie POV

“Sorry,” she mumbled, suddenly unable to lift her eyes. Her beautiful shiny dress from Lucinda Beckett was covered in dirt and scuffed by pebbles from being wrestled to the ground like a rabid beast.  “Call it even,” Bennett sighed, rubbing his cheek where a red mark the shape of her hand was beginning to bloom. “I did just sell you out.”  She blinked against running mascara. “I still shouldn’t have hit you.”  “Well, yeah, that was uncalled for, well spotted.” A giggle burst from her throat. Nothing was funny, she was just relieved, wasn’t she? For herself and for him, and for the sake of a plan to help a couple thousand children she didn’t know from Adam. “You freak me out when you’re sneaky,” she confessed as he unbuttoned his jacket and collapsed into the chair behind his desk. “I didn’t even hear you scheming over the bridge. You played it so straight.”  “I’d have told you earlier if I thought you could keep it off your face.”  “Hey, I’m a better liar than you any day of the week. And you-”  She paused, thinking over what’d just gone down: “You just broke the law, and your moral code. You controlled that cop, messed with his mind, like nothing.”  “No, not like nothing. What I just did makes me sick.” The bridge was opening up again and she could just about make out the outskirts of his sprawling moral labyrinth, twisting and turning without a clear exit, a sensible end point. Scary-ass consequences at every turn and ones that’d just jump out of the bushes and attack if he stayed still and did nothing. It never stopped. “I did it because I believe we’re doing the right thing,” he admitted, hanging his head like in confessional. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. “And that scares me because I know, I know, people justify doing terrible things because they believe they’re fighting for what’s right. Just this once, you know? Because you’re so sure. And I told myself I would never use my power like that, because I see how easy it is.” He closed his eyes and shook his head. “And I did and I hate it, but I don’t regret it. That’s how sure I am. I believe in this so hard, Callie. I wanna stop SISA. I wanna kill it.”  Just like every other moment in her life that felt important, she came up short on good words. “Well,” she fished, “maybe you get points for just thinking about it so hard?”

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[atopvisenyashill]

Dead dudes club Anon: I meant that Tywin, Rickard and Hoster dies when their kids are still young leaving their wives as regents for their sons. Like let's say Tywin who doesn't lose his wife but is so worked up that he has a dwarf son that he ends up falling down the stairs and breaks his neck. Hoster could die in a hunting accident sometime after Edmure is born and Rickard ends up with some sort of illness after he and Lyarra have Benjen.

i would like to apologize in advance for my incessant use of em dashes in this post lol. okay even with some adjustments, you run into an issue here where-

steffon, aerys, tywin, rickard, AND hoster all die within a few years of each other, and that’s going to cause a mass conspiracy. i mean JUST jon arryn dying was enough to make the twins suspicious maybe he was onto them & that man was old as balls. nearly every lord paramount dying within a few years is soooo weird. “well doesn’t this essentially happen in canon” yeah because of the political unrest happening tho lol there’s a Reason for it.

there’s no way for steffon to die in the shipwreck and cassana to be regent because robert is already 16 at that point - remember he’s a few years older than the twins! and you can’t have cassana be regent without butterflying away renly bc he’s born 277 and they die in early 279.

also hey 🤧🤧 i did the math just right there on tywin!!! the defiance of duskendale happens in 277, so the twins were only 10-11, which means joanna is regent for a few years still.

we could easily kill rickard off in a wildling excursion but brandon is 20 when he dies in canon which means he’s been lord of winterfell for four-ish years so no matter what, lyarra isn’t the one calling the shots by the time ~the plot~ really starts. i figured it might work better if lyarra is at winterfell when rickard & brandon die bc even tho everything falls to ned next, having a grown adult as The Stark In Winterfell while ned is in the wind/in the vale is interesting - unlike benjen, Lyarra can lead troops into battle. If she had been regent, it’s likely Lyarra is at Riverrun with the Tully kids and Minisa for the wedding though, which could also be interesting and i suppose also gives her more of a chance to actually LEAD because we know it takes a minute for northerners to get past the neck - as robb says, they even wind up starting the war without half their force bc a bunch of the mountain clans couldn’t get there in time. but if lyarra is there for the wedding, that puts her in a position to lead. especially without aerys there to call the parents to court - i don’t think rhaella is going to pull a stunt like that.

i think hoster or rickard is the easiest to handwave murder off - hoster is always up to some shit and both the wildlings and skaagosi have historically picked fights with the north from time to time.

and regardless of alla that, rhaella is likely to seize the regency with tywin’s help anyway - tywin has already made a name for himself, is aerys’ friend, and tyrion won’t be born until 273, which is eleven years after jaehaerys ii dies.

most of my answer still stands here - rhaella is taking the throne with tywin by her side, and you can bet in the years between cersei’s birth & his death, he’s going to be pushing rhaegar/cersei as a match, something that will be in rhaegar & rhaella minds after he dies; either minisa or cassana are likely to be the architects of the southron ambitions plot alongside jon arryn, and that alliance is still going to cause problems for the crown when rhaegar loses his mind, because the moment brandon doesn’t get a straight answer about where lyanna is, Lyarra is probably going to use the northern host to start sacking cities and searching for her daughter (since she hasn’t been brought to the capital to burn by rhaella).

the biggest change here is probably the twincest. we know joanna knows about it early on BUT. tyrion’s birth is likely going to put her out of commission for a minute or two. he’s born in 273 so if we say she’s healthy enough to start moving around by 275 (which. omg these two idiots were really out here feeling each other up at the age of like 6 ajsjs 😭), i imagine she broaches the question of jaime’s marriage at this point, which is probably also when rhaella starts asking around for suggestions for rhaegar. if tywin dies after tyrion, i can’t see her fostering jaime out because he’s lord now and she’s the regent. if she catches them together again, it’s probably cersei she sends away - maybe to lannisport, maybe to the capital (with herself, and kevan stays at the rock to train jaime). even if we have tywin die at duskendale, at that point the twins are 11, and it probably amounts to the same - cersei is sent away while jaime stays home. once he’s closer to 16, she’s going to start talking about jaime marrying elia, and cersei Will attempt to sabotage this.

the canon event goes: jaime helps defeat the smiling knight -> jaime stops at KL to see cersei -> cersei tells him about the lysa betrothal & jaime joins the kingsguard. this tracks even with tywin dead - again, likely (imo) joanna and cersei go back to the capital once she’s healed, and there will be still be an opening on the kingsguard. cersei has also spent several years with rhaegar at this point - he would have married around 176ish, so Maybe they’re married to each other or maybe she’s a lady to his wife - and rhaegar no longer has to listen to rhaella. if cersei is like “heyyyyyy rhaegar, babyyyyyy” WELL….especially if CERSEI is married to rhaegar. but even married to someone else, i mean, the first step to making sure they’re together forever is to make sure HE can’t marry lol. it MIGHT not happen - jaime has spent the last several years not as heir but as LORD and he might take giving it up a bit more seriously But he might not! if this plan is foiled, you can bet joanna is not only asking loreza if elia and jaime can marry RIGHT NOW (IF rhaegar’s bride isn’t elia), she’s also going to do something drastic re: cersei. and like idk man what do you do if your kids won’t stop fucking? send cersei to be a septa? to the silent sisters? she might, if cersei isn’t married yet, get cersei married quickly and far away from jaime but if cersei marries rhaegar, well……she’s not foiling this plot, it’s happening for sure. so basically either cersei marries rhaegar & jaime is on the kingsguard OR cersei is lady to his wife, which Might still let her plan happen.

[wolves-etc]

thoughts on The Last Of Us episode nine - the finale - largely in the order I had them:

[thoughts on: 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | X ]

— "actively about to give birth and running from zombies" is a fucking horrible situation to be in what the fuck

— the fucking RUNNING UP THE STAIRS NOISES I DON'T LIKE THIS

— we had a whole episode without infected where ellie was the only infected, why did they have to do this to me

— honestly kudos to the supreme fucking terror of "the thing you can't see, only hear, that the characters are fucking terrified of," I forgot how effective that can be

— and here's the countdown. she's infected and she needs to get her kid somewhere safe.

…feeding that baby is gonna be difficult in this setting.

— "yeah, you tell 'em." <3 <3

— "you fuckin' tell 'em, ellie." !!!!!!!

— I MEAN YEAH THAT'S ELLIE ALRIGHT! yeah that sounds like a person who'd be ellie's mother alright!!

— this must be why ellie's immune. either some cordyceps went through the umbilical cord before it was cut (I notice it was cut with the knife that was used on the infected, too) or if she breastfeeds, through the milk maybe? would it be different if it's in milk?

— they found a very tiny angry baby for this and it's perfect

— whatever difficulties I experience in my life I'll never run for my life, fight for my life, give birth, realise I'm doomed, save my baby then realise I need to find a way to keep her safe all within ten minutes. she must be experiencing emotions only known to shrimp right now.

— (…is it stem cells in umbilical cords that are a little bit magic, biologically speaking? I'm not sure why else infection via that could be different.)

(that or it's that she only got the teeniest bit infected - it depends whether we think ellie's actually the first, or whether others have, for instance, touched infected with a papercut and ended up immune. maybe never found out, or maybe got bitten after and assumed they were doomed and got killed before they would turn. maybe a few, like ellie, realised and kept it quiet - or maybe they told people and that's how the rumours of potential cures started.)

— I'm told that ellie's mother voiced ellie in the video games and marlene voiced marlene (HI MARLENE <3) which is SO cool. she looks and sounds so much like someone ellie might grow up to be, it hurts a bit.

— holy shit she's made of steel. singing and holding a knife to her own neck and, what, planning to kill herself when she starts slurring? when she almost can't hold the knife steady anymore?

— "I cut it before I was bit," and marlene just tilts her head a little, and anna says again "before."

that's really good acting to subtly convey a thing - that marlene suspects she's lying, that anna maybe knows she suspects it but reckons she can safely stick to that story for now.

— anna having to beg to be killed. fuck.

— this fucking long pause here

— honest to goodness the emotional impact of "cover her ears."

— BUT THEN HE DIDN'T EVEN COVER HER EARS. did he think cloth tucked loosely around her was enough. is he already deaf from gunshots himself. has he never been around a baby before.

— CHEF BOYARDEE, HECK YEAH

— his grin there. he is such a dad.

— "if you wanna beat me at something, it would be this." <3

— "take this for me" and he trusts her with the gun!!! growth!!

— "do you wanna learn how to play guitar?"

he's- fuck. fuck. he's offering to stay with her after all this. THAT'S what he's doing. right there as they're approaching the hospital where she'll hopefully be the source of a miracle cure, he's finding a way to say "I'm gonna stick with you after this, I'm not gonna say it but I will make it clear."

mister "not good at this [talking about feelings]" finding another way.

— (bad screenshot because that unhappy face graffiti struck me as SO video game, I couldn't explain why)

— ellie correctly guessing joel's modus operandi, joel straight-facedly joking about using dynamite instead <3 <3

— joel trying the feelings talk, ellie apologising, joel really softly saying "no, it's fine," AUGH

— ellie you'll give the old man a heart attack.

— OKAY THAT'S A FAIR REASON TO RUN OFF ACTUALLY

— ellie's whispered "don't scare it," joel's promise that he won't. this is so unspeakably tender.

— sometimes it's so clear that ellie's a child, you know?

— I've heard this comment about studio ghibli films, that they have a lot of… empty space for things not happening, just space for wonder and beauty and peace, and it's something I really appreciate. I never thought to see it in a zombie show.

— I want to cradle this moment in my hands like a baby bird.

— joel just resigning himself to the fact that they're following a giraffe now

— offering her that option of just, leaving and living a life, fuck. and it's her choice to keep at it. that's so good.

— "it was me. I was the guy who shot and missed." joel

— "so time heals all wounds I guess." "it wasn't time that did it." they're really not beating around the bush with this father-daughter thing, huh

— they talked about their feelings I'm so proud of them both

— PEOPLE ARE MAKING APOCALYPSE JOKES LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW

I cackled <3

— ...okay. the moment we saw marlene I knew this wasn't going to be good and, well, she proved it.

— the awful thing is I believe that she does understand what joel's feeling right now. and I don't know what's right in this situation. but this is joel and ellie's story and I care about them both and the fireflies are sacrificing a child on a possibility of a cure based on one doctor's theory. no smaller measures first, no biopsy that she'd probably survive, she gets put under immediately to have her entire brain removed.

excuse me for being very callous for a moment (I am also very angry don't you worry) but that is an awful use of resources. if they're wrong they won't have any more chances. if they lose this lab like they lost the others they won't have any more chances - and nor will anyone else with the ability to work on this, as much as I wouldn't trust fedra to distribute the cure to everyone they can. the fireflies are gambling with the death of a child, and if they lose, well, they're doomed anyway.

maybe I'm being overly harsh. I really shouldn't keep the show paused for twenty minutes just to feel things.

— honestly cannot tell if giving joel ellie's knife is meant to be kind or cruel. (okay, probably kind. but fuck.)

— joel yes

— this quiet, grim, inevitable music while joel's just going around shooting people, fuck. he's gonna wipe out the last of the fireflies to save her.

— using ellie's knife to kill one of them. shit.

— tragic musc as befits a tragedy - all the deaths, of course, but also the death of the goal he and ellie set out to achieve.

— and the vibe to all of this, really, but especially the moment the presumably-doctor picks up a scalpel and refuses to let ellie go, it's that the doctor's bravely facing a villain, it's that joel has changed just a little in this decision to get ellie out no matter the cost (was it even a decision?) and now he's something else, something awful, that he has been all along.

— (during that murder spree scene, though, he sure moves like he had formal training. I'm not sure what to think about that tbh.)

— marlene you're saying ellie would want to do what's right but you didn't even fucking ask. you were unwilling to ask her and risk having to actually overpower and murder a scared teenager instead of an unconscious one. you didn't know, so you'll never know, so don't imply it's ellie's call and then pretend you didn't have to bother with asking.

this is tapping into a mess of IRL stuff for me, feel free to skip, where I think that people who kill other people from a distance with deniability and respectability could do with facing their victims more often. for an easier example: someone who wants to launch nuclear missiles should have to face someone they know and cut into their heart to get the launch codes.

and the clean and mannerly murder of a sedated teenager by people who honestly looked a bit guilty when joel stopped them is just too easy.

...but still, I could justify it if I were sure about the results.

— oh. oh, joel.

— she's fourteen. it wouldn't have been fair to ask this of her. it isn't fair to hide this from her. but I don't know which one's less fair and this one leads to her alive and not blaming herself, so long as he does this right.

— but the way ellie's eyes just snapped to him when she said "were people hurt?" and he said "yes," I… do wonder if she suspects something.

— this is selfish of him though. as selfish as killing dozens and potentially dooming so many more just to save one.

— "I'm taking us home." now I'm the one having emotions only known to shrimp

— "well, she was a lot more… I wanna say girly, and I'm not sayin' that you're not girly…" "I'm not." "yeah, you're not." good display of tact from the father of two daughters, here.

— "she had a killer smile. again, I'm not saying that you don't." <3

— it's nice to hear him talking about sarah, but it's strange. I think it's the high of finally getting ellie safe. I think he's talking to cover the awkwardness, ellie's quietness, the big secret being kept from her, not spoken but still partly felt.

...I think he's taken the last step in his mind towards accepting and keeping her as family, and she didn't see it happen, so she's kind of a step behind.

— I figured riley was the first one ellie killed, but it doesn't make it any easier to hear.

— there are a lot of moments in this that I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into or not, but they've all seemed solid so far, so I'm gonna go ahead and guess ellie knows joel is lying to her, she's just… not gonna call him out on it.

— maybe it's a trust thing. maybe she's sensing that whatever it is is so much bigger and worse than what she's faced before - and joel knows that - that she doesn't want to face it. not if it means going against joel. not now they're safely together again. maybe it's just wanting to keep him and sensing this might drive them apart.

— yeah. okay. yeah. that "okay" on the end, that's an agreement to let it go for now.

hoo boy.

so my friend tells me that the ongoing debates in the community are a) whether the fireflies were right to try to do what they did and b) whether joel was right to do what he did then lie to her. I've already reached as much of a conclusion as I can about the first, without knowing more about the situation.

the second? I don't think there were any right decisions to make there. I don't like, on reflection, that joel's motives were probably more selfish than about trying to do right by ellie, and I almost wish the chance of a cure had been a certainty just so this would be simpler. I kinda wish that the fireflies had given ellie the choice, even if they'd planned to kill her anyway, which is making me think I'm not being entirely rational about this.

and what a moment to end on. it's uncomfortable - what I've largely been watching for is the relationship between joel and ellie, and that's been strange and strained for this entire episode, with them finally approaching ellie's goal and then joel keeping things from her after. I think things between them are going to return to some sort of normal now. I think ellie at the end was willing and planning to set this down and stop dwelling on it so much, if joel didn't budge at all.

and I don't like the tacit betrayal in that, the fact that ellie didn't at any point get a choice, and maybe joel could have safely ensured it once he'd gotten to her but maybe not, and it's not like I don't respect a character who leans into salt-the-earth vengeance in defence of a child...

it does feel like by the time he and ellie were taken by the fireflies, the story had pushed them onto a path they couldn't escape from. joel wouldn't have done anything but what he did, except perhaps fail. I don't know for sure what ellie would have chosen - my friend's in slight disagreement with me about that, but he's drawing on the game canon too, and I haven't seen enough of ellie yet. not with how much she clearly cares at the end, and not with her being so angry and so much a survivor.

I'm wrapping these thoughts up four days after finishing the episode and reaching absolutely no firm conclusions, folks. just the faint and horrible suspicion that I might have preferred joel as a character when he was still twitchy and uncertain, when he hadn't yet committed to protecting ellie tooth and nail, no matter what it took.

maybe I'm struggling to see where all that trauma went. maybe I'm not entirely comfortable with the sheer and total starkness of his morality. maybe I wanted to see the comfortable, sassing-back-and-forth joel and ellie just once before the end.

this show was a rollercoaster.

[freelanceexorcist]

OK, hear me out...

(Lucrecia-centric FFVII spoilers under the cut, also TW: suicide, PPD, giving up a child)

First of all, I'm not trying to kill anyone's hate boner. I'm just trying out an alternate character interpretation.

Lucrecia's got Jenova cells in her, and we know that she receives the same types of visions courtesy of her that Cloud does. We know that Jenova can heavily influence or even straight up pilot someone who has her cells, especially if that person is mentally weakened.

Lucrecia had just given birth, which implies the possibility of post-partum depression or maybe even post-partum psychosis (it's a thing). This would put her in a pretty weakened state just as regular old psychosis would do to her son a few decades later.

What if she caught on to what Jenova was able to do and was terrified that she'd be too weak to fight her off if Jenova really tried to take over? What if she did what she did not to abandon Sephiroth out of guilt, but because she thought that was the only way she could keep him safe?

If she took her own life, Jenova wouldn't be able to get to her. But of course Jenova didn't let her, so she did the next best thing, she sealed herself away. Maybe the crystal was a barrier between herself and Jenova. Sure she was taking a big leap of faith by leaving Sephiroth in Hojo's hands, but he was her husband and she's clearly a terrible judge of character, so maybe she thought dad would actually step up to the plate or at least Gast would keep him in line.

Parents give up their babies for a lot of reasons, but I'm assuming the biggest one is because they know (or just think) they can't give them a good life and want them to have a better shot. Imagine that x1000 with a misidentified alien in the mix, and Lucrecia, not being in the best place mentally at the time thinking "if I remove myself from the equation, I remove the threat I present to my son. He's better off without me."

Anyway, I'm just spit-balling and if you chose to read this, thank you. I'm not putting any tags on this because if Team We Hate Skyler White Lucrecia wants to come at me for this, I'm gonna make 'em work for it.

[sacaeblade]

@twistedisciple asked:

The Lady of the Plains. Emblem of Blazing. Lyn, but that name had to be wrested from the recesses of memory, hidden beneath the epithet "Ponytail Chick" he'd mentally used instead. Griss hadn't been much acquainted with her. Even as he played his role as one of a greedy king's hounds, the glimpses of the man's prized possession were few and far between, and such occasions had the man clutching his ring like the very wind would steal her away. Truthfully, Griss is surprised by the color of her hair first when he catches a glimpse of her on the deck. It's the verdant hue of what he imagined the plains of her title might have been, the scent of grass all but real, not the blood red Lord Sombron blessed his Emblems with instead. And then comes the surprise that he'd recognized her at all among the crowd, all things considered, but the eye had a habit of finding the familiar in a sea of not. That she hails from their destination is the final piece, buried even deeper than her name, tugged out of some dusty old history book during his younger years in the monastery. In other words, recognizing her meant he had an opportunity to shake some valuable information out if the others hadn't already wrung her dry. When her allies finally leave her, Griss pushes off from the mast he'd been leaning against, watching her not-so-subtly for a good while now, and calls out to her to stop: "Not so fast, Ponytail. What're you in a hurry for?" His leisurely stride sets the pace as he comes up alongside her with a smile that is, for all of his (mostly) innocent intentions, still just a little bit too wide to be without threat. "I got some questions for you." Like if she could summon doubles here too and maybe they could test each of their blades on him-- No. "I wanna know what's up with your homeland and dragons. You think we're really about to walk right into a war 'cause they're scared of the sight of 'em?"

A year and some change is not an insignificant amount of time away from home. Even before touching ground, there are many things to be done, preparations to be had, people to discuss with, including people she didn't even realize she needed to discuss with.

"It's not Ponytail, it's Lyn," she corrects with a tinge of irritation. The rude way he calls out to her and the wolfish grin on his face are enough to make the hair on the back of her neck stand up straight. She is no stranger to the stares of men, but this...is different. "I'm busy right now, so—"

The question he poses is not one of further harassment, as she expected, but a fairly reasonable one about the state of affairs. Lyn stops in her tracks.

"My homeland?" she asks, parroting his words back. He must be a foreigner, then, to not know about The Scouring and what it meant.

"It's more than just simple fear," Lyn explains. "A thousand years ago, humans and dragons fought against each other in a war called The Scouring. At some point, the dragons began to multiply rapidly, far faster than the humans could kill them and their great power caused the Ending Winter. Snow fell in summer. The Eight Legends forged legendary weapons that would allow them to fight back against the dragons. Mulagir, the bow of Hanon" —Lyn gestures at the bow strapped to her back— "is one of those weapons. The dragons fled from the world through something called The Dragon's Gate and the Eight Legends went on to found the different nations."

If ancient history were all it were, then they would not be hurrying home like this. Even a few years ago, it would have been easy to write off the rumors as just rumors, but having seen the might of dragons with her own eyes, Lyn feels her pulse quicken just at the thought.

"A few years ago, the gate was opened again and we were able to defeat the dragons that made their way out with the help of two of the Legends, but... it had only been a few dragons and the Legends are no longer with us. The gate should have been sealed again, but..." Lyn shakes her head, banishing the thought. "Either way, I believe that humans can come to live with dragons, but this is not a commonly held sentiment."

[afarcryfrommymain]

I like cult Aphid bc I like writing and drawing characters with something wrong with them™️ but the amount of prerequisites for him to join and STAY is a lot because he's got a lot wrong with him without also joining a cult, it takes some heavy fuckin lifting. So I'm just going over bullet points for this au in this post tbh.

1. Sister has to visit his home a little after he moves to Hope County, before the cult is at its worst and before he really properly starts at the sherrifs office

2. Has to meet John in a friendly setting prior to this and able to stand him enough to actually become his friend. (He absolutely cannot meet Sharky in this au until after its too late because it will become about them and its supposed to be JohnxAphid)

3. Big fight between him and Ruby which causes him to go over to Johns house and rant for 30 minutes about how he's got no one and he's sick of his family

(Alternatively Ruby dies but I really hate killing her just to make my boy sad in general and I don't like the idea of killing her until like, New Dawn time maybe and even then its like blaze of glory shit, its also more interesting for her to be alive in this au)

4. This prompts John to get him to join Edens gate, hes on the fence about joining but he's sort of considering, but like he's heard all the bs you have to do to join and isn't exactly jazzed at the idea of it. Hes also incredibly weary of a lot of religion because of his childhood n shit but let's not talk about that.

5. Aphid hops on the denial train when shit begins to hit the fan and Ruby trying to help gets into it with him again but this time its like "hey lil bro, I noticed your gay ass is about to join a cult so maybe don't?" And another fight and hes like "fuck it" and joins out of spite (dipshit)

6. Now he has to have good reason to stay in, which I'm genuinely not sure about outside of like, him and John start dating and he's like "fuck it" and leans into it. Like dating for long enough that it's at the "meet the family" kinda point.

7. He also can't be around for the first time Faith gets replaced because he could ignore it if it happens once (king of "not my business not my problem" in this au fr) but probably not twice

8. Continues to ride the denial train for a while but eventually when the reaping begins he doesn't really stay because he believes in it or whatever but because he just knows enough members of the project that he doesn't want to fight them anymore and kinda drops out of his job at the sherrifs office one day without 2 weeks notice or anything. (Point of no return for him, this point forward he can't be convinced to leave by anyone or anything)

9. Ruby will have to to take place of "main problem causer" this au (I finally let her do something woah) and the resistance generally sees her like "oh sorry your brother went crazy I think you gotta kill him tho??? Sorry"

10. Can't tell which Seeds die or if Aphid works really fucking hard to keep em around, John makes it because Aph is consistent in protecting people he loves in every au fr but they lose the bunker key in the process. Same with Jacob maybe.

11. Faith is difference bc Ruby is a bleeding heart with a savior complex and completely falls for the front she puts up and is like "but we gotta help her 🥺" but Faith does get to leave the project (sorta kinda, it's a whole thing) and survives

12. Dude idk if I can keep her from shooting Joseph and I kinda want her to fr like he starts doing his speech and she does not let him finish. Aphids busy with keeping his very pissed off boyfriend, the brother who looked like he was about to be cool with death, and the members he was able to get to safe. He doesn't even realize he straight forgot about Joseph til its too late.

13. Ruby does a broadcast about Joseph and asks Aphid one last time to come back but he's all in now and probably isnt gonna back out anytime soon. He still goes to confront her and since Aphid might as well be a raid boss theres a big show down between the two of them. They're fighting and Ruby gets really close to killing him but she hesitates because "fuck that's my brother, I raised him, I love him, this is so fucked"

14. In the minutes she hesitates the collapse comes. It's late, but it happens and Aphid just bolts to the bunker he had holed up with John in up until that point. Can't decide who Ruby's bunker buddy is. Could stick her with the Edens Gate people and have fun new issues but who knows.

That's the broad strokes though, probably won't write anything for this past a one shot or two if I feel like it but I thought it'd be fun to lay it all out like tism

[invasionimminent]

A Sickness Without A Cure / Put A Name To The Face / Nameless Angel

Where were you when I was in so much pain

I couldn’t stand? 

I know exactly where you were, 

But it seems you blanked.

Made me walk to dance class and 

Dance for two hours straight

That amnesia never left me 

I put a name to that face. 

The face of you staring down at me

As I cried, I couldn’t control myself

Dry heaving, sobbing, screaming

On the verge, was gonna kill myself

Who helped me when I was manic?

Who calmed me down from panic?

Sure as hell wasn’t you, 

You used me as your therapy.

Where were you when I was at my worst?

Actively seeking abuse, all you said was

“Girl, it’s your fault.” 

And where were you when I figured myself out?

“No you’re not,” “I don’t think so,”

You never had a doubt

Maybe you could accept you were wrong

Raised a kid in the wrong day and age

This economy and your trauma, they

Let me grow up in a screwed up way

Where were you when I thought hurting was love?

You were the one teaching me that

I had to do good things and beg for praise

Because all your energy was on your other kids

Where were you when I struggled in school?

Denying me autism care and a wheelchair because I’m not like

The five year old kids you deal with at your job

And come home from work exhausted, 

Unable to love me

Tell me it wasn’t that bad

When my joints were hurting

Tell me it’s how I’m eating When you neglected me to the point where I overate 

And binged and hid food and technology away

Because everytime I had something good you would take it Don’t do that to your offspring, unless you want em to hate you

I can’t be angry because you guilt me and you say

I deserve a better family, like hey sherlock, okay,

You’re oddly self aware for someone so self absorbed

I wonder if you knew I flinch whenever someone slams a door 

Where were you 

When I began to think

Maybe having to sneak food

And hide tech in my room

Was something that I had to do

I know exactly where you were

But your amnesia must be getting worse

Where were you when you found it all

You called me a curse, why would you

Where were you when I felt unloved

So I was seeking out hurt to feel anything at all?

You were the one making me feel scared and alone

I remember everytime Dad took me in his car

Told me I was the reason you two didn’t love each other

So of course I’m mad, dammit, why shouldn’t I be?

You ruined my childhood, I should have a right to be

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 attempts

And each of them failed you didn’t notice

Of course I’m angry

When you snap up and mock me and trigger me and

I know exactly where you stood

When I was getting bullied

“You slouch!” “You’re gay” “You’re too weird.” 

The awkward kid you sheltered and raised

Instead of living and learning and letting her play

You were the one that tore her away

From her friends, took her to a scary unfamiliar place

You didn’t do anything to help

You never listened when I spoke

You never apologized to me, just schluffed it off

Maybe you bought me a gift so I wouldn’t off myself

And when I’m struggling to cope you tell me

My mechanisms are triggering 

I can’t say I don’t resent you 

For what you did

But at least acknowledge it

The hate festers like an open wound rubbed in dirt

I smile and say “love you goodnight”.

Where were you when my room was destroyed?

You thought it was okay to take your 14 year old girl’s door lock off

You thought it was okay to go through all her stuff

You thought it was okay to watch her screaming and crying

Hold her down and force her to an insane asylum

Make her think she was insane

Had a sickness with no name

Where were you when I got assaulted? 

Where were you when love was all I wanted?

Where were you when I needed you to save me?

Caught up in yourselves I had to fend and fight for myself

Something no kid my age should have ever had to do

Years of being told I’m mature, but really

I’m just a kid who never got the chance to grow and live

I’m immature, I’m angry, I’m overreacting

Everytime you yell I wonder if you know

How I clamped over my ears

How I tried to give you hugs

How I sobbed when you hurt the cats

How I screamed when you took my favorite plushies to Goodwill because I told you I didn’t like what you were doing to me 

How I screamed when I couldn’t sleep because something was wrong and you called me dramatic

You’re pathetic excuses for parents I guess

But I gotta live with you until I’m 18

Just for more years and I’m finally free

I wanna know when the countdowns will stop

I wanna know when you’ll stop being hurtful

Recover and let me grow as a human being so

Stop treating me like a therapist and acting like I’m a ghost

Where were you when I tried to overdose?

You didn’t care, because yourselves are what matter most

Take your bloody chance, shoot it between the eyes while you can

I didn’t think there was a cure to my sickness

Found an easy way out, saw a chance and I took it 

Thank whatever’s up there I recovered

So that I can write down and speak out about how much I hate my mother

As I’m typing this, she snapped up and yelled,

Mocking me when I cried

Because I couldn’t take it

Scaring me, saying she was gonna

Pack up to a hotel and leave

She guilted me 

“I walked into your bedroom” Woman, you trashed it

You threaten to leave me with my drunk bastard of a dad

Say it’s “all your fault” and then you tell me I asked for it

I never asked to be alive

I never asked to be brought to life in this generation where 

I had to hide and not be listened to

I don’t feel safe when you go through my room, so damn, listen

If your kid feels the need to hide shit from you, maybe you’re the problem

“Your life is so terrible, you have a roof over your head and a mom who makes sure you have clothes and food” 

Okay, the bare minimum, and hell about the food

Three tomatoes, a slice of ham, and half a cucumber

I starved for years and got an eating disorder

All you could do is give me some bodily autonomy

As I’m writing this she’s telling me to put my computer down

And lecturing me about how my depression room 

And my tech are all making me worse

Girl, it’s you, just admit you’re the problem

Or keep listening to that onion stuff that you neglect me to read on Facebook

Not everything you see on the internet is true, get it through your thick skull

Have another kid, forget me and move on

But never forget you screwed up 

I need to work but you do too 

You need to work on yourself

Least you could do for your kid is to give them a mobility aid when they got chronic pain

But no it’s about you, you have to “reduce stress”

Girl you make it for yourself, 

You make problems for me too

“Two study halls and you’re still a failure”

“You’re the reason I’m graying, making me lose all my hair”

Okay, so you stress yourself out! And for what?

Just to have a heart attack and blame me all for it?

This poem doesn’t even make sense, but I gotta type

I’m worried she’ll get mad again and threaten on my life

Cmon, that DCFS call

Wasn’t nothing at all,

You just 

Threatened to drive the car into a tree

Kill both of us or just hurt me 

Whatever you cared about

I’m not your priority 

Or maybe I am, 

But you’re doing a damn bad job at raising your “prize”

1, Count down, you’re done. 2, you’re more done. If you get to five you’ll close it yourself, take it out of my hands like you did my bedsheets after you wrenched them off my bed, taking a cruel pleasure in listening to me sob and scream because you took everything from me - and you don’t care what consequences you’re gonna face afterwards.

 But I can’t say anything back, it’s “Fucking convinient my joints hurt, or that I’m smart at 9pm”

 “you’ve had all day to be tippity typing on this shit”, “why are you like this?”

YOU HAD YOUR CHOICE, YOU MADE IT, GO BLAME EVERYONE ELSE

 STOP INFANTILIZING ME, OKAY? 

DON’T TRY TO IMPLY THAT I MADE MYSELF THIS WAY

OKAY? I DON’T WANNA WAKE UP IN THE MORNING

EVERY DAY I FORCE MYSELF UP AND I GOTTA GET SHIT GOING

FOR MYSELF BECAUSE YOU’RE ALWAYS FIGHTING WITH MY DAD

JUST MOVE OUT ALREADY LET ME MOURN THE LIFE I NEVER HAD

I WANTED A CHILDHOOD I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS, DON’T CRY ABOUT IT

“I��M GONNA CRY ABOUT SOMETHING I DID TO MYSELF BECAUSE I WAS TOO LAZY TO PUT WRAPPERS IN THE FUCKING TRASH CAN, BLOWS MY MIND” HER EXACT WORDS JUST NOW

I’M NOT PULLING ON THE STRINGS ANYMORE, THIS ISN’T MY OWN SHOW

THIS IS THE LIFE SHE MADE ME LIVE, I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW

SHE’S MAKING A MOCKERY OF MY MISERY, PLEASE HELP ME OUT

IF I KEEP GOING THIS WAY, I’LL DIE SOON, IT’S WITHOUT A DOUBT

I’M NOT “PULLING MY BULLSHIT AND INSTIGATING TO STRESS YOU OUT”

I’M A KID WHO NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO GROW UP

I’M AN ANGEL WITHOUT A FACE BECAUSE I NEVER GOT TO MAKE ON E

DON’T THREATEN TO TAKE AWAY MY AUTONOMY AGAIN

I’VE BEEN LOSING MY MIND FOR FAR TOO LONG 

I’M SO TIRED, I CAN’T KEEP IT UP

THERE’S NO CURE TO THE SICKNESS I HAVE, SO I HAVE TO

HIDE IT AWAY FROM EVERYONE

I’M IN A CHOKEHOLD, IT FEELS LIKE MY CHEST IS BEING COMPRESSED 

CONSTANTLY HELD UP TO THE BEST, I WANT TO 

BE A NORMAL KID FOR ONCE, CAN’T DEAL WITH THIS STRESS

IF YOU’RE READING THIS, SOON I’M GONNA LOSE IT

I HAVE NOWHERE TO GO NOW AND NO ONE BUT MYSELF, IT’S TRUE, IF YOU’RE READING THIS, SEEING THIS, HEARING THIS, WHATEVER

I’M SCARED TO BE ALONE, DON’T WANNA BE BY MYSELF

THIS POEM DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE BUT THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP

I DON’T MEAN TO USE SWEAR WORDS, 

BUT THIS IS THE WORLD I GOTTA TELL, HURRY UP

I’M IN A LIVING HELL

I’M SORRY

YOU’RE STRESSED AROUND THIS HOUSE? DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT?

DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING YOU’VE DONE TO ME KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT

WHEN I WAKE UP I HAVE NO REASON TO STAND

MY SORE BODY YOU REFUSE TO GET ME MOBILITY AIDS FOR IS MAKING ME LOSE MY ABSOLUTE SHIT 

BECAUSE STANDING IS HELL, LET ALONE WALKING THROUGH A WHOLE SCHOOL

ALL BECAUSE YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME 

AND IF YOU READ THIS POEM WHICH I PRAY TO GOD YOU NEVER DO

I WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW AFTER 14 YEARS JUST HOW MUCH I HATE YOU

I’M LOSING COHERENCE, I’VE BEEN MANIC FOR SO LONG

I NEEDED TO VENT THIS OUT SOMEWHERE, AND I NEED SERIOUS HELP THAT SHE WON’T GET ME 

PLEASE DON’T SAY ANYTHING, BECAUSE ALL SHE’LL DO IS MAKE MY LIFE WORSE

I KNOW IT’S FOR THE BEST BUT MY HEALTH IS DETERIORATING

I’M SCARED BECAUSE THE NEXT FIGHT WILL BE VIOLENT

INSTEAD OF SCREAMING AND MOCKING I’M GENUINELY TERRIFIED

I’M SORRY TO DUMP ALL THIS ON YOU, BUT I’M ANGRY AND I CAN’T BOTTLE IT UP ANYMORE, OR I’LL TAKE IT OUT ON MYSELF LIKE I DO EVERY TIME YOU HURT ME BECAUSE I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO PLACE MY RAGE 

MY ROOM WAS MY SANCTUARY, MY PRIVATE SPACE

AND NOW I FEEL UNSAFE

I NEED TO BE SAVED

I AM A NAMELESS ANGEL, WITHOUT A FACE

MISPLACE MY ANGER, THERE’S NO CURE TO THIS SICKNESS, 

I HAVE SECURED MY OWN FATE

GOTTA FIND SOMEONE TO HURT EMOTIONALLY TO GET OUT ALL THIS RAGE

PARDON ME WHILE I FOLLOW THE PATH OF BLOOD TIL I’M SATED