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klunsgod · 6 months ago

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Fanverse (and FNaF World) designs. i believe... that's the end of the designs. obviously, like, drawings of those designs will come at a later point. maybe Reupload Gonanza again.

ha ha... probably not.

if you like, my Read More has a lot of my hopeful thoughts on the Fanverse

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what a terrible initiative

promoting fans of yours into a much higher ladder of power in the fanbase is a recipe for disaster. the rush of excitement is definitely there at the beginning, but you're ultimately giving unqualified people a lot of power.

with all eyes on them, scrutiny on their actions are much more prevalent. this is very troublesome for a lot of reasons, but it's definitely brought some good. Jonochrome being exposed as a predator would've happened much later if he didn't get Fanverse-promoted.

what this has also caused is a lot of in-fighting. Cawthon says this is "Wave 1" of the Fanverse, so naturally a lot of inexperienced know-it-alls try and up their fangames in hopes of getting picked for the next Waves. give it more lighting, add more detail, make it more cinematic. the standards for a fangame in the fnaf community have risen dramatically, alienating up-and-coming developers and, at worst, causing simpler fangames to be criticized for daring to be simple.

heads will try and gain more power, to be recognized and gain the promise of having your fangame be picked by Scott and be profitable with merch and console releases -- fame, essentially. so they start scheming; gain information for more manipulation. while the fault still lies on the individuals, The Pear wouldn't have happened if not for the holy grail that is the Fanverse Initiative. part of The Pear initially worked because some games by those developers were considered for Wave 2.

i've talked with someone in contact with a leaker that's part of the Fanverse and the picks for Wave 2 were just dreadful. a PG version of Dayshift at Freddy's? come on. good thing Dialtown came out and DirectDoggo could branch out to be an original developer.

that's another thing. your original work can still be profitable without Scott's permission, and the Fanverse has blinded them all from that chance. Playtime with Percy managed to sell plushies, Shipwrecked 64 used to be a FNaTI fangame. your hard work and all profits will go to just you, and not be shared with the 40-year-old Texan that will use the money earned from your characters to donate to candidates you don't agree with.

Candy, Popgoes, Flumpty, they're all original characters that these indie devs could profit from outside of the Freddy brand. The Joy of Creation is the only thing that's forced to be inside of the Fanverse, and what a tragic thing because that's the only game in the Fanverse i honestly am excited for.

phew, okay...

yeah i am not excited for the rest of the slate. Flumpty's 3 could only be celebrated for a short while, but now you can only celebrate it with a giant asterisk hanging above your head so you can't even jump for joy. its Console release is in limbo because nobody at Clickteam wants to release the Games Made By a Pedo.

Candy's 4 has shown literally nothing to bite on, and recent scrutiny placed on the previous three games (lackluster gameplay with a disproportionate focus on story cutscenes) makes the 4th game worrying to look forward to. side content is nothing to be excited about.

despite promises of being different, POPGOES Evergreen sounds like the original 2016 POPGOES and relies on those initial fans being invested rather than bringing in a new audience, causing a static war between the parasocial fans and dickhoppers to anything Carter might say. side content is nothing to be excited about.

myPOPGOES is also just ripped off of a Radiance Team shitpost game, which is extremely funny because Radiance Team is blacklisted from the Fanverse. so imagine getting money off of a game made by a team who aren't allowed the same privileges

and Freddy's Plus is canceled after being run by someone with the mentality of a middle schooler who still thinks it's cool to be rude to the detriment to the friends around him. right now people are desperately tripping themselves to try and "finish" Plus, but they don't have that middle schooler mindset, that vision, that true drive to one-up whatever you're shitting on, so any recreation is moot. side content has been removed; no excitement there.

i would've shat on Joy of Creation, but Nikson has recently started development and has made an incredible amount of progress in the time he's been back. an actual demo of a stage will be released in early August, isn't that incredible? side content is... not there at all, and yet excitement can be found.

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so in summary: hopeless, very hopeless. except the Nikson game. surrounding that is hopeless.

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #popgoes #the joy of creation #five nights at candy's #fnaf world #critique #candy the cat #cindy the cat #saffron the squirrel #sara the squirrel #popgoes the weasel #flumpty bumpty #ignited freddy

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the22ndcj · 3 months ago

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Twintober Day 3+4: Skeletons + Taco Bell

(I combined them because I'm late)

River had played up his fear of skeletons over the years. Turned it into a joke, something he could laugh at. Something he could cope with. But what about a building FULL of skeletons?

The Twin Paranormal trio has decided to check out a supposedly haunted skeleton-themed museum. It wasn't far from home and the owner Selena had practically been in tears recounting all the horrors she'd faced since she bought the place last year.

All of this raced through River's mind as he followed Ryan and Wyatt into the museum's rusted double doors.

Selena had hurried through her knowledge of the history of the place, slapped the key into Ryan's hand and left like her ass was on fire.

It took Ryan a moment to get the key to work in the lock, pushing open the doors as soon as he was able. The interior was very dark. River flipped his camera light on. It revealed a long hallway as the entrance to the museum, lined with displays. Even from where River was standing, he could see the pale grinning faces of the dead.

He gulped and adjusted his hat. He wasn't scared. Not a bit.

One of the stories Selena had told them was about how she came in one day only to find a display open and the skeleton nowhere to be seen. She had thought that she had been robbed only to turn a corner later and find the missing cowboy with his six-shooter pointed at her.

But skeletons didn't move on their own, River assured himself. He had seen a lot of crazy stuff during his paranormal career and he felt like he knew the limits of what entities could manage to do.

Moving entire skeletons wasn't one of them. No, no. He was being silly.

"You do the hallway, I'll get the office in the back," Wyatt told River casually, already on his way down the hall with his camera. Ryan was following him with the REM-PODS in hand.

“Okay,” River called after them.

He got his camera ready, pondering what and where he was going to film for B roll footage. It was fine if he was on his own. He wasn't scared…

His whole body jerked as he turned and found a gnarly skeleton staring at him through the glass. It was dressed like a sheriff with a little bowler hat and badge.

As the other two went through the door at the far end of the hallway, the room fell quiet. River's boots sounded deafening to him as he made his way along the row of displays to pick one to film.

Cow skeletons. Not too scary.

Wolf skeletons. Not bad, but they reminded him of Resident Evil.

Stepping past the wolves, he spotted another human skeleton. It was dressed up in a cowboy outfit with a leather vest, tattered flannel shirt and old timey jeans. A cowboy skeleton might be good footage.

He crouched and got a low angle of it, slowly panning over the empty sockets of its eyes peeking out from under its wide brimmed hat.

As he stood to finish off the video, he heard a small thump. Thinking he dropped something, River pointed his light to check. Nothing.

When he turned his camera back to the cowboy, a blur of movement caught his eye. He froze, moving his camera in the same way. It was just a shadow. Phew.

Another small thump by his feet. But this time when he looked, he found a tiny off white bit of something. Kneeling down, he realized it was an old tooth.

River picked it up and held it up to the skeleton.

"Is this yours, buddy?" He asked jokingly.

The skeleton's jaw dropped open, scattering several teeth down the front of his shirt.

Every hair on River's body stood on end. He couldn't move. He was frozen with the tooth pinched between two fingers, staring at the skeleton through the dusty glass.

Floorboards! It had to be from when he stepped on the old floorboards in front of the display. It shook the skeleton and the wire in its jaw came loose.

Yeah. That was it, River told himself.

A soft creaking caught his attention as the cowboy came tumbling off his bar stool, slamming up against the glass right in front of River's face.

Taking a breath, River turned away slowly and went back down the hall.

He wasn't going to panic. He wasn't going to freak out.

He walked quickly to the door at the end of the hallway. Shoving through it, he searched for his brother and Wyatt.

"Guys?" He asked, startled as he passed several skeletons in old timey dresses with parasols in hand.

One of them tipped her head to the side to watch him.

"Ryan?" River called, hurrying around a skeletal horse pulling a covered wagon. He stopped and took a deep breath.

Ryan and Wyatt were probably playing a trick on him.

Maybe the skeletons were automated and they had gone ahead to the control room.

That gave him an idea.

Gathering his courage, he doubled back to the women.

"M'ladies," he quipped, pretending to tip a hat. River pulled out the EMF reader from his pack and clicked it on, stretching his arm out as far as he could to run it over the skeletons.

If they were automated and had power, it should go off at least a little.

It spiked to red.

River shook his head. Of course his brother would try and mess with him. They were at a museum of skeletons!

Tucking the EMF away, River glanced around for cameras. The timing for the skeletons was too good. Ryan and Wyatt had to be able to see him.

A door creaked behind him.

��You guys got me good,” River said, pointing his camera as he turned.

It wasn't Ryan or Wyatt standing there, though. Looming in the doorway to the museum's front door stood a mass of bone and leather. It looked like several skeletons had been smashed together, with dozens of limbs and legs. Five grinning skulls twisted to look at him.

River blinked.

No. No, he was really seeing that.

“Ha ha,” he said dryly. “I know that's you guys.”

The skeleton crawled toward him, knocking the horse and wagon aside. Pieces flung past River's boots.

It this was a prank, it was an expensive one. They'd be lucky if they weren't thrown out for causing this much damage to the displays.

Unless it wasn't a prank…

Every fiber of River's being told him to run, still he held strong.

The thing stopped right in front of him, its many arms held high like a spider ready to attack.

River stared up at it. Despite his determination, he had broken into a cold sweat.

It stared back through empty sockets, hunching down to be eye to eye with him. Standing eye to eye with it, River couldn't see any wires or motors. Only bones and crumpled clothing.

Then it dove at him, and River heard himself scream. Leather tangled around him and squeezed, capturing his whole body like a web.

Dull teeth dug into his leg. Sharp bone fingers closed in around his face.

Then he was awake. Panting and sweating in the driver's seat of the car.

“Dude,” Ryan griped, rolling in the passenger's seat to face the window more.

River looked around through wide eyes as it all came back to him. They had arrived too early and decided to nap in the car until it got late enough to start their investigation.

River stared out the front window. They were parked outside of the museum. The skeleton museum.

“I don't want to do this one,” he said.

“Why?” Ryan mumbled, tugging his hoodie down over his face more.

River wasn't sure how to explain. Ryan would probably think it sounded stupid.

“I had a nightmare about this place.”

“What kind of nightmare?”

Ryan sat up and shifted to look at him.

River froze.

Ryan's face had been replaced by a skull.

For the second time, River sat up like a shot. This time he was in his bed, safely back home in his own room. Not a skeleton in sight.

“How're you feeling?” Wyatt asked, stepping into the room with a big cup in hand. “That Taco Bell really messed you up.”

“What?” River asked.

Wyatt handed him the cup. It smelled like peppermint.

“You know. Food poisoning?” Wyatt asked.

River ran a hand over his face and nodded. Wyatt stepped away and he sank down in the blankets.

“Hopefully you're feeling better by tomorrow. Ryan found some museum he wants to check out.”

River stared after him.

“...WHAT?”

#twin paranormal #twintober2024 #ryan rees #river rees #wyatt hausman #fanfic #silly

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edogawa-division · 10 months ago

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ARB Birthday Special 2024: Kanra Akemi

~~ March 14th ~~

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“Oh hey! Sorry! I don’t have time to chat! I'm kinda running from the cops right now!”

“What's this for? A gift for me? Oh, it’s my birthday today! Thanks! I almost forgot! *loud sirens* Ah! That's my cue! Bye!”

Voice Lines:

“Phew! Managed to escape the cops. It would be terrible if I had to spend my birthday locked up in jail. Asserting dominance over the other prisoners gets boring after a while.”

“It may not look like it, but I’m turning 18 today! …Well that's what everyone says, but I think saying I'm 4 now is much better…not like anyone will understand it….no one ever does.”

“I always thought becoming an adult would mean I don’t know feeling different, but here I am still feeling the same.”

“P̸̱̫̈͋̎L̵̬̀̆E̵̗̟̜͑̿Ḁ̸͛̔͘͜S̴͎̟̞̍͝Ẹ̶͈̈́ ̷͎̙̭̆̂S̶̻̟̃̒̌T̴̤͓̯̈́͛Ó̴̢̳̙̏̿P̸͖̝̝̈́̋!̵̭̖̓̕ ̵̰̕̕I̴̖̒̇T̵̡͑ ̷̙͚̬̿Ḧ̷̻̖̗́̌Ṳ̶̫͉̎̍Ŗ̵̛́͝T̴̫̓Ŝ̴̨̫̫̈́!̸̩̝̝̽͐̚ ̷̢̿̕G̵̡̻̫̓̓Ḙ̸̖̀T̵̢̝̗̐ ̸͓̐̎Ą̸̲̖̐́̉Ẉ��̂̓A̵̻͆Y̸̧̘̼̽̃̃ ̷͔̤́̀̌F̶̨̨̿R̷̝̝̜͂Ő̴̡̪̯̒̕M̷̳̹̻͋̿ ̷͇͐̄͜͝ͅM̷̖͔̣͑E̵͓̲̞͂͘!̸̦̖̚͘ ̸̨̗͆̏I̶̜̠͗̄̿ ̶̲̥̺̎D̸̗̍̆Ô̸̧N̸͚͙̽͋̇’̶͚̍͂̕ͅT̷͔͒ ̴̺͚̐̿W̵͚̾̇ͅA̷̧̋̃N̸̢̥̺̒T̷̢̝͕̍ ̴̤͚͗̓̓T̴̲̹̃͛̾Ó̵͈͝ ̴͚̜̓ͅD̸̩̤̆̀̚Ọ̶̧͖͊̎ ̸̰̈́̇Ť̵̛̤̙̠H̷̪̮̽͜Í̸͔̓S̸̘̩̖̐!̷̛̼̪̿ͅ”

“I had another nightmare last night. It was the same one I have every time. I’m strapped to a table, and a violet-eyed woman is hovering above me with a scalpel in her hand. …I want to k̷̔͜î̷͈l̴͉͘l̴̼͒ her.”

“Thanks Yuriko-san! I'm finally an adult! Yuriko-saaaan, I’m not a baby anymore. You're being very sentimental today, but I know I'll always be your baby. Ooooh! What did you get me?”

“Yes! I've been wanting a pair of Demonias for a while now and in my favorite color! Noooo, not you too! Why does everyone keep talking about my height? Level the playing…? They’d still be taller, tho! They’re giants!”

“Hey! It's not my fault I'm tiny! Again, it's not my fault I can barely look older than an elementary school student! Are you just here to tease me about my height, Kaoru? Because Yuriko-san already did that. I swear if this is another joke that I don’t look my age, Kaoru I’m gonna hit you.”

“Kaoru, you know that Yuriko-san is gonna kill you for giving me this. Like hell, I'm telling her. I've always wanted to try alcohol and this is my chance. So I’m not wasting it. Then what was the point of giving me it? The fun part about drinking is getting drunk!”

Yuriko Lines:

“Happy Birthday, Kanra. Why look at you finally a grown adult. Where does the time fly? No, I suppose not, but you'll always be my baby no matter how old you grow. Now then I got you a little something for your birthday. I hope you enjoy it.”

“Considering how much you like to look at their catalog, I assumed you'd like a pair. *smirks* Now, with these, at least you'll reach over 5 feet. *laughs* Now Kanra, you have to admit a good chunk of the D.R.B contestants are much taller compared to you. This will just level the playing field.”

Kaoru Lines:

“Happy Birthday, Kanra! Look at you! 18 years old and finally an adult! If only in age because you're sure not one in height. Face it, Kanra, you barely look older than 10 with that baby face of yours. Nah, I can do that any day of the year, but for now, I got you this.”

“As far as Yuriko is concerned, I didn’t give you this. So don’t snitch. Anyway, I got you something disgustingly sweet for your first time drinking. Besides, I don't think it’s going to affect you much. By my calculation, your metabolism will burn through the alcohol before it can even get you buzzed.”

#hypnosis microphone #hypnosis mic #hypmic #hypmic oc #hypnosis mic oc #edogawa division #wicked requiem #akemi kanra #kuromiya yuriko #shinozaki kaoru #alternative rap battle #arb #happy birthday kanra 2024

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sagiow · 1 year ago

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15 questions

tagged by @tough-n-dumb, thanks friend!

Were you named after anyone?

Not “after”, per se, but my dad “discovered” my name after making a new friend in the glorious Montreal Red Light Disco District... who turned out to be an Italian exotic male dancer (he never told my mom that’s where he got the inspiration from until 30-some years later)

My middle name is my mom’s because my frazzled, mid-20s, overwhelmed first-time parents hadn’t thought of one before he went to register my birth so he kinda blanked and went with hers and she was pissed off because she doesn’t like her name.

0/2, Papa.

When was the last time you cried?

Some time in the last month.

Do you have kids?

Two, elementary school age, although the eldest is solidly in his tweens and giving me a fantastic preview of the fun years ahead.

Do you use sarcasm?

Just did, didn’t I?

Actually, much less than I used to when I was younger. Mostly for joking around or ranting about our incompetent colleagues with my work wife.

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Not to sound like a hippie on Main, but I’d say their energy? Their vibe? Some people come off as very warm, and others colder (and some, downright antipathic). Some have this bubbling, crackling energy to them, others are super chill and calm. Some have this spark of intelligence or quick wit about them, and others make you wonder if there’s anybody home. So a bit of all of that.

A smile, greeting and eye contact (can all be super quick, just acknowledge you see the other person) go a long way in giving off good vibes, so we’ll definitely start on the wrong foot if the other person doesn’t do any of those. Be polite.

What’s your eye color?

Brown

Scary movies or happy endings?

I don’t like scary / horror movies with gore and torture. I do enjoy a good ghost story (the Gothicker, the better) and some psychological horror.

Love happy endings although unhappy ones definitely inspire a lot more fanfic.

Any special talents?

I never look at the picture when doing jigsaw puzzles and WILL complete it before you do.

Where were you born?

Province of Québec, Canada

What are your hobbies?

Phew... there’s a few, and they tend to be seasonal. Summer is reading, hiking, baseball, gardening, camping. Other seasons have baking, crochet, watching TV, playing old-school computer games, and getting ready for whatever holiday or birthday is upcoming. Puzzles and writing year-round (if inspiration striked and fellow fans are around!)

Have any pets?

2 cats (and often at least another because we are a foster family to our local rescue), 2 rabbits and 4 3 chicken (found one dead yesterday after that major storm / tornado passed. Her ancient 3 year old heart couldn’t handle it. RIP Matante.)

What sports do/have you played?

Phew... there’s a few there too. I’m always down to play pretty much anything with a ball (beach volleyball! street ball hockey!), but on the other hand, will probably get my Canadian citizenship revoked at some point because I do no winter sport except for snowshoeing and some shitty skating.

I played provincial-level softball and badminton in school. I did recreational synchronized swimming, various styles of dance, varsity basketball. Now, I play softball, tennis (although my dad is aggressively trying to draft me into pickleball), try to get in a game of golf or two per summer (every addition to this sentence makes me feel 10 years older). In non-summer, I practice aikido, and love hiking, especially in the fall.

How tall are you?

5′7″, or 170cm

Favorite subject at school?

History and Drama in High School, Anthropology and some of my Forensics classes in University (”no applied science”, you ask? meh, not really. Science was me playing Life on Safe Mode).

Dream Job?

I would’ve loved to study Anthropology further and become an archeologist (although I did take one Biological / Genetic Anthro class that was absolutely fascinating and made me reconsider Things) but I’d had enough Academia back then. I wanted to get a job, stop being beyond broke, and travel.

Nowadays I get this massive urge to dump everything corporate and move someplace with shorter, kinder winters, ideally not too far from the sea, and get a bunch of goats and chicken, fruit trees and grapevines, grow a shitload of tomatoes and eggplant, bake bread daily, and write in the evenings. Just need to win the lottery first but then I’m makin’ it happen.

tagging (apologies for the double tags if you got them, I lost track) @jomiddlemarch, @tortoisesshells, @fericita-s, @combat-librarian, @divinecomedienne, @luarenah

#ask games

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gren-arlio · 1 year ago

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Episode 8 is out. Can't even believe it myself.

We did it boys. We reached the fake ending, and the journey...least for a bit, will come to a end. Mostly.

You see, I found other videos from different old Youtubers (AKA 5-6 years ago) with extra content for the other episodes. So when I'm done with Schezo's story, I plan to do extras for his route. Things I missed, extra text, that sort of thing. After this, I might do Arle's storyline, but yeah. 4 months of work is somewhat coming to an end soon. Next episode will be long though.

The new portraits are for Mamono, Dark Prince (Or just Satan,) and Incubus:

And the video itself:

youtube

Timestamps:

Nothing for the intro, just the usual "Alright, let's go inside".

Incubus Midboss: (4:10, defeat is at 10:40)

Orb Gotten and Door Stuff: (11:45 to 12:25)

Mamono Midboss: (14:50, defeat is at 18:10)

Satan Boss: (19:20, defeat is at 28:10)

Credits: (30:35, will not be translating but it's just for people to see.)

But Wait! There's More!: (33:55)

Bulletin stuff: (35:00)

Still can't believe we're at this point in 4 months. Can't wait to do extras.

With that...Enjoy.

Incubus Midboss: (4:10)

Incubus:

Well, well, you're here early.

I was hoping we'd have enough time for a cup of tea.

Schezo:

Tea? You know about that skeleton guy?

Incubus:

No! Me?

You seem to be lacking a sense of humor.

Schezo:

You seem to lack a lot more than just a sense of humor.

...Well, my hunch says that there's treasure in this room...

Incubus:

Treasure?

Schezo:

Seems like there's no chest with that thing in it, by the looks of it...

Incubus:

Don't speak to me like I'm trying to hide something. (He says "Like I'm trying to hide my feet with shoes on but man...that doesn't make much sense.)

I already have the orb.

Schezo:

What!?

...You also have an orb!

I see...Then there's no point of talking! If I beat you, then that orb is mine!

Incubus:

Seems like you're up for it. Okay! I'll play with you.

Who will the goddess smile upon, me or you...

Schezo:

The smile of a goddess? I'll give you something like that! (Or "I'll make you see her!"

Incubus:

Alright! Come on!

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Incubus Defeat: (10:40)

Incubus:

Oh shit! I messed up! (Referencing his Puyo SUN line.)

Schezo:

Don't mess with me!

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Orb Gotten and Door Stuff: (11:45 and 12:25)

Schezo:

Oh, there's an orb in here, a white one!

Alright! That makes 6 orbs.

[After getting the orb, takes a bit to get to the door.]

There's something written on here...

Door: (Doesn't say it in game but just to avoid confusion.)

He who has 6 orbs, raise them.

Schezo:

Orbs...I believe I have 6 of them...

(Schezo raised the six orbs.)

Okay, now we can proceed.

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Mamono Midboss: (14:50)

Mamono;

Graaaaawk!

Schezo:

You're...a demon! (They are.)

Manono:

Gooopppe+

Schezo:

Don't tell me you're guarding the treasure?

Mamono:

Gopeee!

Schezo:

I can't speak to you! Get out of the way! Move, or I'll cut you down!

Mamono:

Grawwk!

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Mamono Defeat: (18:10)

Mamono:

Gobeeee...

Schezo:

Phew. Jerk... [He does swear from most translations I did, ranging from bastard to bitch, but I went with the more...family friendly option.]

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Satan Boss: (19:20)

Satan:

Fufufu...

Schezo:

Satan? So you're the boss here...

Satan:

Well done, Dark Mage.

Did you enjoy my "Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Land?"

Schezo:

"My"? Did you create this amusement park?

Satan:

Well, yeah, something like that.

Schezo:

That's strange...It can't be that...

Satan:

W-what do you mean?

Schezo:

I know a place like this one.

It was another dungeon that changed shape every time you entered.

Satan:

And what's wrong with that?

Schezo:

Here's that crystal...no...

There must be an item called an "Amazing Magic Item"!

Satan:

...Crystal? How do you know that?

Schezo:

Maybe...you have it!?

Satan:

What're you talking about?

Schezo:

Hiding it won't help you.

Satan:

Well, well, don't be so hasty. We've come so far.

Enjoy the Puyo Puyo Dungeon until the end. However, this isn't the end just yet.

Schezo:

I didn't come here to play. I came here to take you out and get the treasure!

Satan:

Hmmm...you're very motivated.

This'll be the last and greatest Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Land event.

The Prince of the Demon World, Satan, versus The Mage of Darkness, Schezo Wegey!

[...you can also say Prince of the Underworld.]

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Satan Defeat: (28:10)

Satan:

This is ridiculous...

Schezo:

You see, this is what I'm capable of.

Satan:

I never thought I would fall behind..

Schezo:

What? You're back on your feet already? Are you...a monster?

Satan:

You're calling the Prince of the Demon World a monster!

You're the one who's a pervert!

Schezo:

What the hell?

I won't be called by a pervert by you! I'll cut you down!

Satan:

No...wait...you win for now.

I'll admit, I don't want to fight anymore.

(I'm pretty tired...)

Schezo:

Alright, if that's the case...

Shall you give me this "Amazing Magic Item"?

Satan:

Whare you talking about? I know of no such things.

Schezo:

It's embarrassing to keep your mouth shut after of all of this...

Satan:

Huh...I really don't have it.

Schezo:

...Well, it looks like the case. I always thought it was strange.

I don't think even you can handle the power of that crystal.

Satan:

...How do you know the magic item was a crystal?

Even I didn't know what it was...Schezo, what do you know?

Schezo:

Huh. You don't have it. It has nothing to do with you then.

Satan:

...I don't know for sure if I have one, but...

It seems like there's one in this place!

Schezo:

Really?

You didn't even know what the item was. That's weird.

Satan: if you don't want to believe it, that's fine by me.

But sooner or later, Arle or Rulue will find the item. Are you okay with that?

Schezo:

...I won't fall for that trick.

If you don't have the item, I have no further use of being here.

What a wate of time! You're an idiot!

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But Wait! There's More!: (33:55)

Schezo:

Hm? What's that?

Mysterious Voice:

...You beat Satan.

Schezo:

Huh? Where are you!? Satan?

No...That's not how Satan talks.

Mysterious Voice:

Hmpf, you're looking as good as ever. You're in better shape than I thought.

Schezo:

...

Mysterious Voice:

Yes, a total of 3. 3 until you're ready.

You might want to spend time in that castle. It's not clear to you yet, but...

Schezo:

3 people? Qualifications? What the hell? What do you mean!?

Mysterious Voice:

You'll soon understand.

(Player kicked something like 5 seconds later)

Schezo:

What? You mean it's not over yet?

You don't think there's a magic item in the castle?

There's nowhere else to go. It's worth a shot.

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Bulletin Board

[Ah, good old menus. As usual:

Listen <-

Rank

Bulletin

Back]

Kikimora:

What do you want me to explain?

[Menu again:

Cleared Attractions

About Rare Items

About the Black Market

When in Need

Back <-

Player goes back to the other menu to go to Bulletins. It goes:

Peddler Fufufu

You Who Has a Grimoire,

Don't Throw it away! (STILL confused if they're 2 different things.)

Mysterious Castle Appears! <-]

Bulletin Board:

A mysterious floating castle appeared above the sky of Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Land!

It's full of danger and thrills! A battle full of tough enemies awaits you!

And that's it for today. Next episode might take a week or two, so heads up. Thanks for reading so far, it means a lot.

#Youtube #japanese translation #madou monogatari #schezo puyo puyo #waku waku puyo puyo dungeon #puyo puyo #sega #sega saturn #COMPILE #Satan Puyo Puyo #dark prince puyo puyo #incubus puyo puyo #jesus I've been doing this for 4 months but it's worth it #translations

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kindaoptimisticsquirrel · 1 year ago

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Why not: A CCS reread, Part 3

It's saturday and I cannot stop myself from reading more. Time to go on with Chapter 13!

Ch13:

I'm just now catching on the resemblance of Nadeshiko to Kotoki from X...

Batting Fujitaka with a stick because for heaven's sake you don't hit on your students, ESPECIALLY when they are still under 18. And not with these cheesy lines, too, sigh.

Oh Tomoyo, you're so dear to me <3 I met her first when I read Tsubasa Chronicles, because I read Cardcaptor Sakua later (I don't even know when the anime aired in Germany. Probably way before my time) It was nice seeing her here in the story where she originates and where her character can be more child and follow her hobbies (cause tsubasa is a bit darker in its theme)

Ch14:

Saving this for reference for when I might want to photoshop something stupid onto the newspaper

Loving the little "yikes" at the size of the bread :DD

Ch15:

I definitely forgot about this woman and that she and Touya had been..a thing? (Geez. I try not to think too much about the ages of the characters in CLAMP works)

You know what, I would have loved to get to know Shaoran's siblings!

Hihihihihi *giggling and kicking my feet*

Ch16:

Awww he's so cute when embarrassed

Sometimes it's a wonder how oblivious Yukito can be.

Ch18:

oooh I'm saving this for a drawing reference because I want to try to imitate this beautiful light effects! Gonna try with ink if I find time.

Ch19:

No, Fujitaka, when an adult man offers your 10 year old daughter some tea and biskuits and invites her to come over the other day, you don't just smile and tell her to go back. I'm shaking my head here very disappointedly. (I know it's a childrens' story so it isn't supposed to be taken that seriously, but if you try to look at it from an older perspective? Phew :D Some choices are really dubious.) (I'm only making fun of this, I'm still very much enjoying this manga. It's just interesting to see how different you can see things once you are NOT the target audience's age anymore) Oh yeah I forgot Fujitaka probably knows the man is Nadeshiko's grandfather, but my point still stands. Ch20:

I'm at the screen play now, and Yamazaki really is the perfect cast for that role hehe

Ch21:

You know I really like drawing style with the no hatching, and the light greytones. Normally we don't see shadows really so scenes like this with dark and light really stand out more. Also I think, this drawing style of the manga might look easy, because it's just outlines, and they are all the same line weight mostly...but I've seen other mangas trying to do it like this and I feel like they didn't pull it off this well. I'm wondering, if you don't really use grey tones to give your characters and objects depth, then at LEAST you gotta have a good feeling for shapes and panel arrangement and such to make it all work.

Good to see that the Light and Dark cards are just your average sweet lesbian couple. Good for them! *thumbs up*

Ch22:

I think I want a fic with Touya working at the most obscure places.

Touya: Bitch, don't be giving me love advice when you're the one who broke up. Sooo this is long enough for a post! Time to make a new one! :)

#ccs reread #ccs #cardcaptor sakura #clamp

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racheljsk · 2 years ago

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Week 4 Tumblr Case Study

Blogging My Feelings Away

It’s the year 2014. Every teenager is blasting Halsey’s ‘Badlands�� album while scrolling through Tumblr. The aesthetic pictures, the dark yet pretty poems that expressed how a heartbroken teenager felt, everyone loved to blog their feelings away during that era.

"But wait, what is blogging?"

A blog is like a digital diary, instead of writing it on paper, we would write it on blogging platforms such as Tumblr. Besides yourself, anyone can participate in making entries in your blog or even just read them, so I guess you can say that it is not really a diary (because most of the time, diaries are a secret you know). Now back to teens on Tumblr, technically they know more about Tumblr so naturally, it makes them good at digital strategy. For example, user Pizza hit 100, 000 followers on Tumblr after more than 2 years on the blogging platform. From posting party outfits pictures to funny one-liners, she had a whopping 90,000 followers, earning her fame in her circle. That all happened at the end of 2012, the same year she turned 15 years old.

Speaking of Tumblr, it was officially launched in February 2007 and gained over 75 000 users in 2 weeks. After 2 months after Tumblr launched its first major brand advertising campaign with Adidas, which launched an official soccer Tumblr blog and bought placements on the user dashboard, Tumblr announced that it would be moving towards paid advertising on its site.

Phew, that was a lot of history, now moving on to what you can do on this platform (think of this post as an intro to Tumblr). Of course, we can blog anonymously, that is. Unlike Facebook or Instagram, we don’t have to put our real names, therefore creating a safe space for many marginalised groups. (You can talk about how much you like Levi Ackerman and not get judged because no one knows who you really are, people only know you as that one Levi Tumblr account).

Tumblr is a relatively public place to blog your feelings away as users do not need to follow each other to see their contents and users cannot tell when someone is online as the date and time stamps are not prioritised. Lastly, did you know that Tumblr was one of the first social media sites to use hashtags as a community building tool? (I didn’t either until I read the module).

Speaking of building a community, there are 5 stages of building a community on a blog. The first stage is simply you. The way you write your blogs and express yourself in a way that is relatable and can make you gain readers. This leads to stage 2 which is readers engaging with you. This is when your readers share their feedback, by leaving comments and you as the blogger, need to take the initiative to respond to them hence engaging with your readers. Not only do your readers engage with you but they can also engage with one another, which brings us to stage 3. At this stage, this means that you have a much deeper level of community engagement than you did when you were the central point of contact for everyone. Moving on to stage 4, when you see your readers engaging with one another, they like the things that you wrote and decided to tell other people about it. The more followers you have, the bigger your blog will become and soon your loyal followers will become moderators for the discussion forums in your blog. Lastly, stage 5, is engagement. This is when you as the blogger are still there, but interactions and relationships go on.

In conclusion, Tumblr is a place where people blog their feelings away.

References

Misman, N 2023, ‘MDA 20009 Digital Communities Week 4 Digital Community and Blogging: Tumblr Case Study’, MDA20009 Digital Communities, Learning materials via Canvas, Swinburne University of Technology, 13 April, viewed 2 May 2023.

Reeve, E 2016, ‘The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens’, The New Republic, 17 February, viewed 2 May, <https://newrepublic.com/article/129002/secret-lives-tumblr-teens>.

#mda20009 #tumblraesthetic #tumblr 2014 #week 4 #university #halsey badlands #levi ackerman #tumblrcasestudy

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droewyn · 1 year ago

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When I was ten years old, I knew who the neighborhood pederast was. Every kid on the block knew. And this was before that flavor of after-school special or "very special episode". I learned on Punky Brewster not to climb inside a refrigerator, but not what to do when the adult two doors down grabs your ass if you happen to be alone in the room with him. It didn't occur to us to tell a teacher. When we told our parents -- which SEVERAL of us tried -- we were blown off. Every. Single. One of us. Eight kids. Four sets of parents.

What we didn't know, because none of the adults had told us, was that the pedo had almost gotten caught... but he got his daughter to blame one of the other neighbor boys, her babysitter, when the little girl's doctor found physical evidence of her rape. We were told not to talk to those boys, which I mostly ignored because I thought it was my mother being a classist snob again. We were never asked if either of the boys had ever touched us; if we had, we would have told them -- again! -- who the actual pervert was. We had no clue why suddenly half of the parents on our block seemed to hate the other half.

At that point, the abused twins were being coached by their father, and they assured us that everything was fine, that nobody was hurting them. That their father had stopped. I can't speak for the rest of the kids, but I was second-oldest at 10, and it didn't even occur to me that they might lie about that. So I just went all "Phew, so glad I don't have to worry about that anymore" and went on with my life, which didn't really involve the twins because they were... 4? 5? I was going into middle school, and they were babies.

Their father finally got caught when I was in college, and he chose to suck exhaust fumes rather than face the consequences of his actions. Spoilers: He never stopped. He raped those two children from the time they were toddlers until they were in HIGH SCHOOL, and if ONE FUCKING ADULT had listened to a SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF US, it would have ended a solid decade before it did.

One of those kids is dead now. The other thinks her father is a fucking saint because her mother convinced her that he was a "good man who tried his best".

LISTEN. TO. KIDS. I am fucking begging you.

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

#tw: child abuse #tw: csa #tw: suicide mention #trauma dumping #tw: rape

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maguro13-2 · 8 months ago

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The Dark Picture ~ Origins of the Ink Demon : Operation Drawcia Pt. 19 ~

"50 years ago in Sonic's world..."

"Stage 4 : The Doom"

[The Doom by Yutaka Minobe]

Grim : I gotta stop the Military from killing Shadow! But there's too many humans and machines that are needed to be dealt with!

G.U.N Solider : There he is! It's darn reaper again!

Grim : Out of my way, sinners!

*DBZ SFX : Slashing+Cut*

(Gun soldiers deathly grunts)

Grim : How can this happen? Why did this happened?

(cuts to Shadow and Maria)

Maria : Oh, Shadow! Why did this ever happened!

Shadow : It's Daddy issues! The Government that I was created from BAD FATHERS! I'm getting us out of here!

G.U.N Soldier : Search the Hedgehog and the Girl, find them before they escape! Take them alive

Old G.U.N Commander : (via radio) Members of G.U.N, you must locate the hedgehog and take him alive! You know what happens if you fail!

G.U.N Soldier : 10-4! It's gonna take 10 minutes to--*SLASH!* (screams in pain) My Hand! Eh?

Grim : Pay for your transgressions! *Gunshot*

ARK Researcher : Hello? Is someone there for my rescue? Oh man! the Grim Reaper!

Grim : I'm Grim the Hedgehog, the Death God of Mobius! Where did Shadow and the girl he run off with?

ARK Researcher : He went that way, Reaper!

Grim : Got it! (Runs off)

ARK Researcher : But hey, at least he healed like only 8 of us and the last two should be healed by them now!

Grim : The last two! But doesn't that make Shadow and the girl named Maria that could be the last two? I better hurry up! Gotta make it to this point!

*DBZ SFX : Slashing*

Grim : Ha! There's no strength in numbers! Only I, Grim the Hedgehog and Death God of Mobius, can outnumber them! Mere beings who committed every sin on the planet, must be punished at all costs and all who are innocent shall be spared!

*DBZ SFX : CUT/SLICE*

Grim : Humph! Not even a challenge!

"Hours of venturing The Doom Stage later..."

Shadow : Phew! I think that's the last one. All 10 ARK researchers have been healed..

Maria : Except the part that we defeated like 35 Artificial Chaos in one setting at the Lost Impact Stage.

Shadow : Really? That's a no brainier.

(Jet Engine Roaring)

Shadow : Hey, do you hear something roaring?

Maria : OH GOD! WHAT IS THAT!?!

[Shadow Incoming - Jun Senoue]

Heavy Dog Pilot : Mantis Platoon Heavy Dog reporting in. Primary Target and the girl have been located.

Grim : You there! STOOOOOP!

*GUNSHOT*

Maria : Please, Shadow! Help me!

Grim : No!

[Foolish Humans - Jun Senoue]

Grim : That does it. I have had it up with Sinners on Mobius for a long time, I already had enough of this planet problems and same goes to Black Doom! Humanity had been arrogant species since Chaos flooded the entire world and I was there to observe the situation that causes the events and incidents in the later past. Alright, sinner! I'll put a stop to you, if it means to pay your sins!

[G.U.N Mobile (Heavy Dog Ver.) by Jun Senoue Plays]

Shadow : Time to give it up, human scum!

"MANTIS PLATOOON : THE HEAVY DOG"

Grim : I gotta stop that thing before it destroys the ARK! But I need to strip all of it's weaponry! This should work!

*DBZ SFX : SLASHING+CUT"

Grim : Nice and easy!

Heavy Dog Pilot : Critical Damage taken to fuselage! We're losing...AAAAAAARGH!

Shadow : That was easy.

Grim : Now then...where's the girl name Maria!

*GUNSHOT*

[Sea of Sorrow - Jun Senoue]

Shadow : Maria!

Grim : NOOOOOOO!!!

Maria : Please, Shadow. Forgive me. Everyone's fate depends on you.

Shadow : Maria! (flies down to Mobius)

Grim : Shadow! You're all gonna pay...YOU'RE ALL GONNA PAAAAAAY!!!

*DBZ SFX : SLASHING+CUT*

(G.U.N Soldiers screaming)

Grim : I WILL GET YOU BLACK DOOM, I WILL KILL EVERY SINNER WHO COMMITTED A SIN! AND I WILL DESPISE ANYONE WHO WILL DESTROY PLANET, NOT FOR THE END ITSELF! I WILL DESTROY YOUUUUUUUU!!!

(scene later transits to the present)

"Mirage Road Zone...(Present Day Egypt)"

Grim (Metal Sonic) : This was probably my fault that the inhabitants of Sonic's World were stubborn and arrogant because Aliens wanted to arrive Mobius, and Robotnik will never find out why. So after the child's death, Gerald was executed and I kill the humans on Prison Island. I, A Death God of Mobius, had never been this angry towards the humans and despite of Robotnik's recklessness, I pity them for the troubles that Black Doom caused everything for shadow's life, what a messed up family he had and now I understand why Shadow wanted me to kill Black Doom.

Seto : Hey, Master. What's the matter?

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Nothing! I'm fine, that's all.

Seto : So, you couldn't save someone who was killed by other humans and they say what made them arrogant species? I had to believe that. That's what led the incidents in the Dreamcast Era that happened about 7 years ago. So I was right, although Robotnik or the other Metal Sonic did made a mess back there and they couldn't agree with you more, Master Grim. Just to believe that were on a tight schedule.

Solva : Just a reminder. We'll be happy to know it. So this is the Mirage Road Zone.

[Ethno Circus (Digital Remakin' Mix) - Hideki Naganuma]

Solva : So, come on! Let's get to the treasure first.

Seto : You're on, Solva!

Grim (Metal Sonic) : I better find out what Anubis is up to his old tricks again.

Seto : Whatever is Anubis doing, It's no surprise to search for Anubis! Ikuzo!

[montage begins]

[Inaudible]

Seto : Still anything, finding Anubis?

Solva : Keep looking! He's gotta be here somewhere!

(we then show the three sliding in sand)

Seto : This isn't a water slide ya know! This is only sandy water slide!

Solva : This is a bit too much!

(we then show the three in a room full of Egg Bishops and Egg Hammers)

Egg Bishop : Oh, uhh, Lord Grim! I never expected to see you here.

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Bishop. What are you doing here?

Egg Bishop : Well...Ever since Metal Sonic's crimes, I've been looking around some research at the Mirage road just to keep some heavy contact with Anubis, but personally, all information from DWMA was cut short when the Real Anubis think of that Pyramid Anubis was not his place, it's actually a base for the Heartless and it was a major set up. So Anubis destroyed the Pyramid of Anubis scheme anyway with his powers. But now that Eggman Nega is on the run, that man has gone nuts with power that is literally driven with mad power from 200 years in the future of Sonic's World.

Grim (Metal Sonic) : So that's what the man was up to. He's gotta be freaking out by now.

Egg Hammer : My lord! Terrible News! That pile of Scrap is going to destroy Anubis' treasures!

Grim (Metal Sonic) : What machinery is it, Hammer.

Egg Hammer : It appears to be a machine that looks like the sacred bug thing called the Scarab and it really rolls a ball with it, that has spikes!

Seto : Eh? A Scarab rolling a ball with spikes? Heh. Don't worry, we'll find that hunk of junk in no time.

Solva : Let's get to it!

(montage continues)

(inaudible)

(montage ends)

Seto : Well, this is the place!

Anubis : Seto! It's been a long time! You have finally come across Egypt!

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Anubis! We meet at last.

"Anubis : Egyptian God of Death"

Anubis : Grim the Hedgehog. Legendary Death God of Sonic's World, this is a fine discovery that you have an army of 100 men. Strong military stronghold that resides in the glories of old Hang Castle. Remind you one thing, Pumpkin Hill was finally free from G.U.N's Control since you drove those robots away.

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Personally, I did, and at the Aquatic Mines, I had to figure that Pumpkin Hill has an easy access to the Aquatic Mines that was abandoned along time ago. If only Humanity of Sonic's World would confess their crimes against other speices.

Anubis : You got yourself a deal. Hope I don't mind that Eggman's Base would be looking alot like Pyramid Cave, it used an ancient tomb home to the pharaoh before Eggman changed it. Now, understand that I confess Black Doom would easily get the glory from him. If anyone is feeding us bull...(Seto gives Anubis a look) I mean..."Bogus" stuff about what's gonna happen to this world from the influence of Maka Albarn.

Solva : So where's the machine that is going to destroy your treasures?

Seto : Like behind us.

"MIRAGE ROAD ZONE BOSS : EGG SCARAB"

[The Crawler Tank (Stage 3 Boss) - Sota Fujimori]

Solva : YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! THAT'S NOTHING LIKE THE SCARAB ROBOTNIK IS CONTROLLING! SOMEONE IS INSIDE THAT THING!

Seto : More importantly! It's going to squash us with that spiky ball! Don't worry, I'll take it easy with my own eyes on this mechanical monster!

Solva : Whatever you do, don't get hurt! It'll be easy as pie! So, good luck out there and get a good clean--

Seto : HEY, GUYS! HOW DO YOU STOP THIS THING!?

Solva : [To Anubis] Certainly, I think it has something to do with the ball that is going to hurt Seto. Wait, if the Seto can hit the ball back to the scarab, that's the weakness she must defeat! [To Seto] Seto I finally figured it out how to stop that thing! The only way to defeat the scarab is that you must kick the ball back to hit in it's own face! It's how their attacks turn against them.

Seto : Alright, got it covered, Solva.

Solva : You did?

Seto : That's when I realized I had to defeat this thing so easily. (the Egg Scarab is shown being destroyed after she defeated)

Solva : ...Never mind.

Seto : Alright, time for me to find out who or what is controlling! (knocks on the window) Alright, scientist! Come on out with your hands up!

*hatch open*

Neoshadow : (falls on the floor) Bleh!

Seto : Huh? What the--A heartless? So the Egg Scarab was just a decoy, a Heartless controlling it?

Solva : You're right about that, Seto. There's more than one thing that's for sure. You see, someone's using these heartless as a distraction to destroy the other heartless, what on earth is going on here?

Anubis : I'm afraid it's like this. The one man who runs Death Weapon Meister Academy is a sneaky bastard that is lurking through the shadows or hiding secrets that knows about Shinra's legacy. Behold. (snaps fingers magically to summon a mural depicting Darkside Death holding Earth in his hands)

Solva : No way! This is the real Charlatan of Soul Eater?

Anubis : Indeed, when the devil recreated his burned out world sabotaged by the great Demon Vibe, he created a heartless that will eventually goes insane with power and wants to hold the planet in the palm of his hands. All part of his plans of conquering real world AU as his own. It turns out the world of Soul Eater didn't exist. It was not meant to be created to protect witchkind, it was meant to destroy other heartless and non-heartlesses. This one wielding a powerful scythe has been using Teenagers to defeat the evil forces of Soul Eater proclaiming that it was only a diversion set up by himself, to make a fool out of Maka Albarn and the witches their selves.

[The Barrier - Yutaka Minobe]

Solva : Maka Albarn and the witches their selves? So the witches that were originated from Inca Kasugatani were...

*images flashing*

Solva : Heartless as well? That's why Kingdom Hearts debuted in 2002, so I was right and Maka Albarn would've known that Darkside Death was cleverly a heartless to make the heroes and villains of Soul World a fool out of them. They were so arrogant, and like this girl named Kimial Diehl, she knew about the truth about her past and her family's origins, she knew that Inca Kasugatani wasn't the witch of light, she was called the Witch of Darkness. What a strange phenomenon.

Seto : All of the conflicts, all of the pain, the hatred, and everything made Shotaro the Dokeshi being an arrogant charlatan that knows nothing about being a Shinigami! Only I am Shinigami, and I have proof that I have power of a Grim Reaper!

Solva : Seto...You are truly one genius! I should doubt about that you are someone's favorite girl. I know how to put a stop this, it's you are the only one who is a better Shinigami. A Shinigami that has a heart and her name is Seto. That's what you really are.

Seto : Heh, I am! A Shinigami that has a heart. Only just to be perfected as always! Hey, I bet there is some kind of rocket ship that was used to go to the ARK from Sonic's world. But there's another Space Station that the scientist built, I think it's called the Dead Line, Isn't it?

Anubis : The Space Transporter to the Space Colony ARK is located inside the room. The Mad genius himself have left some machinery to deal with.

[Way to the Ark - Jun Senoue]

Solva : True! Exactly!

Seto : Disc-Chan! We're ready!

Disc-Chan : (via radio) : You got yourself a deal! Next stop...Returning to the Space Colony ARK! (the two runs off)

Grim (Metal Sonic) : Sonic must be on his way to the Dead Line! I better get going now! Hey, Anubis! Take care of things, will ya?

Anubis : Absolutely!

(Grim Runs off)

Anubis : However, somethings in the real world can be really quite the challenge.

~ Mission 18 : Fulfillment of Death ~

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F1 Re-Watch 2013: Race 12 - Italy

si ragazzi etc etc etc

Seb's third win in Italy! But That year was also McLaren's 50th anniversary race... spoiler alert it did not go well.

I don't really remember much from this one, though I think Alonso was on the podium as well? Anyway let's jump in!

Once again going to be that person and say how I still miss the old F1 intro :(

The new one is fun and all but can you say 'nnnnneow' at the end? no you can't

Anyway, Monza v v pretty

aaaaand starting grid: SEB POLE!!!,

HULKENBERG P3??????

What the fuck is a polar bear doing in Arlington, Texas?!

(I legit had to pause to process that, wtf)

ahem, moving on: Alonso P5, Dan P7, Jenson P9, Jev P10, Lewis P12 (ouch :()

Truly that was the most whiplash I've had during a starting grid overview. Yikes.

There is something hilarious about a Ferrari powered Sauber out qualifying both Ferraris at Monza though

[Formation Lap]: ooh Lewis starting on hards, makes sense considering his starting spot (also set to be the best race tyre according to Bono on team radio).

The mediums are the other dry tyres for this race

ayyy there's some of the McLaren guys in their vintage style team uniforms (dare I say this maybe be the origin of the dress up race curse, bc I'm pretty sure both Jenson and Perez finish outside the points despite starting in the top 10).

Oh! The thermal image camera! I remember that!

svsvhfdh a Maurizio Arrivabene sighting in the Ferrari garage, two whole years before he became TP.

[Start/Lap 1]: many, many things happening in the braking zone for turn 1...

Seb had a good start though!!!

Top 10 is Seb, Massa, Webber, Fernando, Hulkenberg, Rosberg, Dan, Perez, Jev and Raikkonen

cut to Di Resta missing a front wing and out the race already

[Lap 2]: Mild violence on that first lap ngl

and there's a yellow flag somewhere

aaaaand it's gone

something about Seb driving off into the distance while war crimes happen behind him

[Lap 3]: Lewis is up to P10!!!

Not Alonso and Webber going through a chicane side by side, fellas...

[Lap 4]: Jenson down to P11 :(

oh he had an awful start that's why

[Lap 5]: Seb watch: he has a 2.6 second lead over Massa

[Lap 6]: Top 5 now Seb, Massa, Fernando, Webber and Hulkenberg

Rosberg I need you to be the superior Nico rn and get past him

...and Lewis has team radio problems (Bono can't hear him)

And Rosberg is already being asked to cool his car it is not a good day for Mercedes

[Lap 8]: A Seb fastest lap and Fernando overtaking Massa for P2 happening at the exact same time

oop Jev and Lewis are squabbling

Jenson takes advantage and takes P10!

cut to a mildly concerned Jock Clear on the pit wall

[Lap 9]: "We're monitoring right front at all times, we know it's not good" Rocky you can't just say things like that

I mean Seb is 4.5 seconds ahead of Fernando, but still

[Lap 10]: But Seb sets another fastest lap regardless, howling

[Lap 11]: Ah Lewis has caught up to the back of Jenson, maybe the hard tyres are starting to work

Cut to Seb, now 5.5 seconds ahead of Alonso

and PHEW the front right Rocky was speaking about was the tyre, not the brake

[Lap 12]: ...Lewis has a slow front right puncture

His not good quite bad Italian GP, I have no idea if his radio is still broken

oh Andrea Stella spoke to Fernando in Italian, that's fun

[Lap 13]: Lewis hasn't pitted. 🙃

Bono once again asking Lewis to pit, and the mechanics are in the pit lane.

Apparently someone from Merc was very aggressively waving Lewis' pit board so he could see it.

Why am I getting mildly anxious over a race I watched live a decade ago?! 😭

[Lap 14]: Lewis finally pits, and someone held up a sign for him while he was stationary. He's on the mediums and in 19th

His not good very bad Italian GP

[Lap 15]: At least Seb is having a good race 🥲

It's wild bc I was so unbothered about Lewis in 2013 and now I'm in distress

JEV NO

He's stopped on track 😭

Engine may have gone poof :(

[Lap 16]: I refer back to my earlier comment about Seb driving into the distance while atrocities occur to everyone else

Wild how a lot has gone on... while there hasn't been much actual racing

[Lap 17]: Seb now 6.5 seconds ahead of Fernando

Not a shot of Jev while his car smokes in the background 😭😭😭

oh Dan had already been announced as Seb's team mate for 2014 at this point, I could swear that was between this race and Singapore, oh well

[Lap 18]: Brundle: Speaking about how Fernando wants to get Adrian Newey on his team to be able to win WDCs sooner rather than later. Merc, about to dominate the next 7 seasons: 👀

[Lap 19]: Speaking of Merc, Rosberg how tf are you still in P6????Did you not listen when I told you to be the superior Nico???? smh

[Lap 21]: Meanwhile the frontrunners are all still to pit, which for them to do a one stop at Monza in 2013 is really quite impressive

Webber continues to chase down Massa

[Lap 22]: and Jenson pits for a set of hards, so that'll be him till the end on paper

oooh a lesser spotted for 2013 Lewis fastest lap!!

[Lap 24]: And Seb also pits for hards, he's the first of the frontrunners to do so

oh and in comes Webber too! Not quite a double stack considering their gap on track but still impressive

another Lewis fastest lap

[Lap 25]: Fernando and Andrea are continuing to chat over the radio in Italian, Crofty is twisting himself into knots trying to translate

and another Lewis fastest lap, it's like a 2014 season preview

He's in 10th though, and chasing Bottas down for 9th

[Lap 26]: So currently top 5 is: Alonso*, Rosberg*, Seb, Gutierrez* and Webber. (* = still to stop)

Lewis is up into P9!!

Hmm, Fernando has a 17.9 gap over Seb, which isn't quite big enough for a pit window

[Lap 27]: Meanwhile Rosberg pits, so Seb's now up to 2nd

This race really has been eventful and uneventful at the same time, it's wild

[Lap 28]: And Alonso finally pits while Rocky tells Seb off for going too fast

Seb re-takes the lead

Top 5 after the first/only stops: Seb, Fernando, Webber, Massa and Raikkonen

[Lap 29]: Oh damn Lewis has caught up to the back of Rosberg

aaaand Lewis got past him for P7

[Lap 31]: Raikkonen makes his second stop, he made a very early first stop due to getting damage at the start

Another Lewis fastest lap, and he's battling Hulkenberg for P6, though he may be stopping again too

[Lap 32]: His mediums are 18 laps old, so maybe the logic is to burn through them putting himself as par up the road as possible to minimise the damage from his second stop?

And while I typed that Lewis did a SEXY move through the inside of Curva Grande, he's now in 5th

[Lap 33]: Meanwhile on Seb watch, he's 11 seconds ahead of Fernando

and the McLarens are in 9th and 10th (Jenson, then Perez)

[Lap 34]: 🚨20 laps to go klaxon!🚨

[Lap 36]: Rosberg has caught up to Hulkenberg

...and went off at the first chicane

(I refuse to have Hulkenberg win the Nico war)

[Lap 37]: Merc mechanics out in the pit lane, possibly for Lewis

...or not they've gone back in

and cut to the Merc pit wall

Was it the classic Merc fake pit stop or is Lewis' radio still fucked? We may never know

[Lap 38]: Bono telling Lewis to pit

... and he once again doesn't come in

Meanwhile Grosjean takes Perez for 10th

[Lap 39]: And in comes Lewis for his second stop and another set of mediums, he comes out in 14th

ouch

[Lap 40]: Oh Webber has caught up to the back of Alonso 👀

If they go side by side through a chicane again I might die

They're 12 second behind Seb, who is continuing to do Seb things

[Lap 41]: And cue Webber bad luck, he's having to short shift in the lower gears

[Lap 42]: Another Lewis fastest lap for F1 bingo

cut to some midfield fisticuffs

[Lap 43]: Lewis chasing down Gutierrez for 13th, who fun fact is a test driver for Mercedes now

[Lap 44]: Seb's being told to short shift as well but in different gears (2-3 for Webber, 5-6 for Seb). RBR I know it's been ten years but I am going to slap you.

Meanwhile, Lewis passes Gutierrez for 13th

A DANI PEDROSA SIGHTING?!?!?!?!?!?

I once again had to pause but for the good whiplash 🥰

*blows a kiss to the sky for Dani*

[Lap 45]: LEWIS GOES ROUND THE OUTSIDE OF CURVA GRANDE!!!!

yes it was for 12th but still, SEXY

[Lap 46]: Webber now being told that he *has* to shortshift in order to finish the race 😳

see, that's not good

[Lap 47]: And yet Webber is still able to keep pace with Alonso, DAMN

Lewis v Raikkonen you say? 👀🍿

[Lap 48]: oof they almost go side by side into the first chicane

The battle for 7th graphic showing seven cars within 4.5 seconds of each other... MADNESS

(I love it though)

[Lap 49]: 🚨5 Laps remaining klaxon!!!🚨

Seb's lead down to 9.8 seconds over Alonso

Lewis once again goes round the outside of Curva Grande and takes 11th off Raikkonen

something something hammertime something

(I say that, feeling quite certain that wasn't a thing until 2014/2015)

[Lap 50]: And Lewis gets past Perez like slicing through butter down the start-finish straight to take P10

[Lap 51]: a Rosberg fastest lap????

And Lewis overtakes Jenson for 9th

[Lap 52]: A Seb sighting!!!! He's still leading by about 8 seconds

Raikkonen takes Perez for P11

[Lap 53]: "We've got enough issues, just bring it home" Local man is passive aggressive with little shit colleague

also LAST LAP

Lewis locks up going into the second chicane and has to let Grosjean back through

meanwhile SEB WINS IN MONZA!!!!!!!

(yes, that's how far ahead he was)

I am a teary eyed Adrian Newey and he is me

Rest of the top 10 - P2: Alonso, P3: Webber, P4: Massa, P5: Hulkenberg, P6: Rosberg, P7: Ricciardo, P8: Grosjean, P9: Lewis, P10: Jenson (one solitary point for McLaren's 50th anniversary race 🥲)

ngl, that race was quite odd. Stuff happened but there wasn't that much racing until the last few laps but the race wasn't completely boring either???? So yeah, odd.

Buuut, next race - my most most beloved Singapore!!!

#F1 Re Watch #F1 2013 re watch

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jacks-tracks · 2 years ago

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Last blog

Well probably, as I am leaving mexico tomorrow for Canada, and I did not keep the blog going last year.

Public transit in Mexico city is good if you know where to catch what Happily there is transit to the airport and the bus ran right beside my hotel, where I,d seen buses marked Buenavista /aeropuerto. Having gotten the right bus(6pesos) i rode to the transfer point(with much useful advice) and no crowding at 10 am. My Metro pass was empty, but the driver let me on anyway, and I had to refill it at the station. Again a helpful employee showed me how and i put another 30 pesos in, the fare to the aeropuerto. Delivered right to the Terminal 1, and still time for an ice cream, before struggling with the crowds surging into Volaris airlines(cheapo flights, full) Had a few bum steers, but having done this before I was able to find the security entrance(no signs, just follow the anxious looking people), and passed after emptying out all orifices. Being the cheapo Volaris gets the end gates so it,s a walk, but at least it was not the delivery busses that Aeromexico uses to get passengers to planes waiting on the tarmac. I was anxious about my boarding pass, printed out by the cooperative lady at Hotel Isabel, but when the time came the harrased attendent did not even scan the bar code, just a wave through. Full plane, easy flight and down into the hot air blast of Puerto at 3 pm. Phew, it got hotter over my 2 week absence! No signage for collectivos, did I want a taxi? More asking and presto here is a collectivo, only 80 pesos to Casa Dan. Taxi 200+. By 4 oclock I was back in room #3 and showered, unpacked and in the pool. Water , which was chilly in January is now soup, a tepid bath, but floating free was very relaxing.

Made a trip the next AM to the old mercado for nuts, coffee, and fresh fruit, a huge bag. Prices a re climbing, and though I shop at the wholesalers I see things generally costing 20% more than in October. Cabs have doubled in a year, and collectivo trucks up 30%. Room rates at Dans are up 20% too, so my room is now $1200 canadian a

month, still a good deal, and my favorito.

Only 5 days in town, so I went to Playa Manzanillo for a swim, but the sea was covered in brown scummy foam. probably harmless die off of algae in cold water, but definitely not appealing, so I just loafed on the beach in palm a shade. By 11 the beach was filling up, time to go to Tere comedor for Huevos Mexicana with those fresh tortillas. Place is always busy, as the food is cheap and traditional, and the service is surprisingly good. All I could eat, a nice break, and back to the pool. And that,s where I,ve been, reading in my hammock, watching the sun go down from the top terrace, and eating well. Got a few things at Super Che like granola and yogurt, big juice boxes, etc. so am stocked up till departure.

Mornings walking my daily mile along the beach and back on Calla Morro. There.s a new boutique hotel there that looks good, AC rooms, cafe, shared kitchen, reasonable privacy, gringa owned with a pool in the works. No I,m not leaving Dans, but it,s good to have on site knowledge of alternatives, so 1400 Can a month , new clean, a bit away from the strip so quieter, but not yet a place I,d be comfortable walking to after dark. Of course I,m always home by dark, and Taxis are an alternative if I,d gone to the Split. Speaking of the Split, 1st I,d heard that Aldy had bought it, and 2nd Barry fell down drunk. Situation normal. Aldy from Quadra island in BC is a character, one of those people who can drink beyond believable amounts, and who has WCB pension for life that allows him to indulge in a series of follies.

Peaches and Barry have left, and i,m the only old guy/long stay left. Effusive welcome from the staff, and they have been enjoying more fruit smoothies. I arranged to leave a tip for all 10 of them , only 100 pesos each, but equitable. The maids get tips en season. The 100 is sort of a thank you for all their kindnesses.

Confirmed my flight and bus times. looks like I can take the Sur bus at 11 am and be at the airport by 1pm, 4 hours before my flight, in case of immigration difficulties. Packed sandwiches for travel (Westjet does not feed the cattle car section) and spent many hours cramming my load into the overloaded suitcase. Booze for friends, coffee, cinnamon, nuts, vanilla, the things that are here. I did get all the leavers into the bucket for the bodega storage, then decided to add a cardboard box of bits to the pile. Suitcase came in overweight but I don't believe the bathroom scale as It,s older than me. Oddly, the real hassle is clothes. I live in flip flops and shorts, now I must put on underwear, long pants, t shirt ,long sleeved shirt, vest , coat and raincoat, socks are wool, all is heavy. I'll try to take most in a bag and put it on as I progress . Vancouver is 12 degrees daytime, 4 degrees at night. Brrr!

And just to encourage my leaving we had a 5,1 earthquake at 8 pm, a bed shaker, but no damage or aftershocks. I,ve ridden out a 6.1 and a 6.5 here, so a teremoto tremblor is nothing. Maru wrote that she was at her ancient aunties 17th floor apartment when the sirens went off, but there was nothing she could do but hope. Mexico city shook , but no damage. Seems the subways are built to float, bridges are engineered for quakes, and people just carry on. New in CDMX is an aerial tramway 4 miles long linking the favellas on the steep slopes to transit. People can take the tram(9 pesos) to the subway in 10 minutes instead of 1 hour in a mini van. Looked very odd sweeping over the city. like where,s the snow? With 35 million people to move its an alternative.

A few emails home, much packing, I,m ready! Watching the sunset last night a thrush warbled in the fig tree and the sound was so like robins in the spring that i got choked up. Memories , lost love, springs we'll never share. I shall throw myself back into Lasqueti society and move on.

So blog fans, keep well. dream big. live life fully, and there will be more...... Jack

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jembeloved · 1 year ago

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phew i loved this! it explains perfectly on why i get annoyed whenever some mu qing stans just try to sold him as something he's not.

in the entire novel it hasn't been shown or mentioned that mu qing has done anything to defy classism or rebel against the feudalistic society. in fact, he seems quite happy to be on top of the pyramide now that he's a god. of course, it gets reveleaed that no other gods do something for the common people except for maybe xie lian and yushi huang. mu qing doesn't break the abusive corrupt cycle, he puts himself in it like a well oiled cog--just like every other heavenly official. hua cheng is not a glorified angel either, the narrative points out many times that a lot of his actions are completely done by his own motives and desires with disregard to others except for xie lian.

AND YET. mxtx still decided to actively write that just as he can be cruel, he can also "do odd acts of kindness", he built a city that very much is implied a shelter for the rejects and the outcasts in society. i remember even a quote (correct me if i'm wrong) that xie lian has always thought there should be a city for the ghosts. we are explicitly said by the heaven's eye and his group that hua cheng sheltered a prostitute who killed a serial rapist. and as op beautifully pointed out, even the act of hua cheng refusing ascension and jumping down from heaven is an act of defying heaven and its corrupt classist society that reflects the mortal world.

mu qing is not an advocate for the lower class as much as his stans want that for him. yes, classism plays a huge part on explaining why he acts the way he does and is the solid ground laid out for his character. but that's all there is, it just explains. yes he was a servant (800+ years ago), yes we know he was bullied and made fun of (even though xie lian defended him many times lmao), and yes we know the ultimate reason he left was because he had to go take care of his mom (which btw, we have no mention of after the fallout in book 4. for all we know, she probably died of old age after mu qing managed to become an official. unlike a certain someone whose parents hung themselves, but what do i know.) nevertheless, yes, mu qing had his reasons and i'm not saying he wasn't a victim or wasn't somehow justified in leaving xie lian, feng xin and the king and queen in book 4. his experience as a lower class citizen very much did shape his character, attitude and view on many things.

he is complex and there is a lot to be explored with his character when you look through the lens of classism and poverty, but it needs to be acknowledged, especially by his stans, that mu qing becomes the thing he probably detested as a mortal. he has flaws, made mistakes, but there was character development in the end precisely because he looked beyond his ego and pride, and recognized that.

I don't even go here, and very rarely interact in this fandom, but now that it seems to have gotten an uptick of notice with the last book for Tian Guan Ci Fu, I am honestly in shock to see how many try to say that Hua Cheng (Hong Hong-er) had not been a victim of classism by Mu Qing.

I'm annoyed enough to have to rant about this as it also dismisses that Hong Hong-er had been abandoned without guardianship due to superstition inherent to lower class positions that relied on the will of heavenly principles that also were classist from inception.

This did include Mu Qing who had consistently told Xie Lian not to help the child throughout the plot and continued the rule of class segregation despite him having been of the same social caste as Hong Hong-er. Yet due to circumstance Mu Qing was able to rise within the ranks of position due to not having the physical and superstitious reputation that plagued Hong Hong-er from birth. This jealousy from Mu Qing that had been exhibited when he refused to continue to let Hong Hong-er rise within the ranks of the Xianle army was not out of subconscious good will to protect a child. He did not see Hong Hong-er as worthy of any sort of position as he had been with rising through ranks. It is a consistent theme between Mu Qing and Hua Cheng that Hua Cheng's dislike of him is due to Mu Qing's callousness of dismissing regard towards the same class of people he came from and the benefits of social rise.

This seems to be dismissed that Hua Cheng, as a ghost, had denied heavenly principles to become a god in the overwrought and classist heavens to stay a ghost and stay a calamity considered disgusting as an existence to those of heaven. It's considered an arrogance by those of safe position and standing for Hua Cheng to deny the offered will of those in power within the system that maintains the caste hierarchy.

Because Hua Cheng was able to create another entity of social life, it exempts him now of the classism that Mu Qing perpetuated when he had been Hong Hong-er. Yet the society that Hua Cheng had made is seen as lesser and base to those in Heaven. Yet at the same time his position as the Lord of Ghost City means he is not the target of the classism he had been attacked by within his previous life. Because somehow he is now Mu Qing's equal in social standing despite this still being untrue. For his power Hua Cheng is still labeled suspicious and of evil intent, very much so from Mu Qing through the present day plot.

What is viable for one is not for any other, or dismissed by the own fandom as not honorable in comparison. The overt theme of classism that is present in the book itself also carries over with how much of the fandom perceives this theme regarding Hua Cheng and his overt opposition of navigating it next to Mu Qing. One did deny the system of classism while the other did continue to follow it without change.

#i dont even care ab mq yall lmaoo #im pretty neutral about him but his stans sometimes make my eye twitch ngl #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hua cheng #mu qing #xie lian #character analysis

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thelonelycrone · 2 years ago

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Well. They say the best place to start is at the beginning, so, let’s start there.

I must warn readers that my material can be dark, heavy, and full of crappy things. This blog is dedicated to my truth and anything written here is true to the best of my own memories and experiences. If you are triggered by certain things, this is not the blog for you - as whatever it is that triggers you is probably going to show up in this blog at some point.

Now, let’s begin.

My biological mother was 13 when I was born and my father 26. To this day, I have not been told a clear story of my conception, but I’ve been able to piece enough together on my own to figure it out. As that part is speculation, I’ll not comment further on that.

My mother got pregnant with me when she was still 12. The state we lived in would not approve of the marriage that my grandmother was trying to push. They did manage to go to another country and legalize the marriage there - so, I wasn’t born a bastard. Phew. My father left when I was still an infant. I’m told there was a bit of a custody battle with my fathers family, but eventually my mother and her parents won. With my grandparents raising me, my mother was able to still finish high school. I do vaguely remember her graduation. I was wearing a pink dress with star buttons.

Shortly after my mother graduated high school, I learned she had found a man to marry, and that we’d be moving away from my grandparents. This is the point in my life when I really start to remember things.

I remember the day I found out I’d be starting a new life - as much as a 4 year old could comprehend, anyways. My mother came back from a wedding and honeymoon I didn’t attend or really know about. I knew she was going on a trip, but that’s about it. She came back and told me she had a surprise for me. Silly me - I asked her if it was a dollhouse. What a silly thing to ask for as a child. No, she said, it was a new dad and a new home somewhere else. Well neat!

Our new home turned out to be a tiny apartment in the next town over. It was a duplex home split into two apartments. The smaller apartment on the left was ours, and had a small kitchen near the front door and a living area on the first floor. Up the stairs was an open bedroom with an attached smaller room and the only bathroom attached to the smaller bedroom. There was also a shared basement for laundry.

Most of my life in this apartment was me spending time by myself playing with plastic animals in my bedroom, or playing My Little Ponies on the train tracks out back. My mother never seemed to worry about me getting hit by the trains. I appreciate how much she thought of my intelligence to just let me play by myself on train tracks at such a young age. Sometimes I’d wander over to the other side of the tracks to a church in a shed. In my older age I wonder if the church was ever really held in a shed, or, if it was a weird thing my mini self imagined, but I definitely think it was a church in a shed.

Anyways, sometimes when I really craved some human attention, I would wander over to the church and just go in and sit and listen. Sometimes I’d join their Sunday school classes. And I don’t remember too much of what they talked about, but they were all so nice to me. My mom was always in her own little world, and I rarely even saw her new husband. No one ever questioned why I was there alone.

I was put into preschool, too. I liked it well enough. I played by myself a lot, because that’s what I was used to. The preschool didn’t last long before I was forced into kindergarten. I liked that a lot less. I had less freedom to do what I wanted and had to sit still and learn. I learned things faster than most kids in my class. I remember thinking that the faster I got done, the sooner the teacher would let me play - but we know that’s not how school works. Instead, I had to sit quietly until everyone else was done. That made me resent everyone for being slow, because I was bored and wanted to play.

First grade was better, because I learned how to read. Finally. It was the only thing I wanted out of school. I got the hang of it so fast, and started helping classmates. I had some books at home, but I wasn’t ready for those yet. Luckily, my mother went to the library regularly, so, I could find books more for beginners. Curious George and Ranger Rick magazines were popular. As well as Eyewitness books. I never really saw much of my mother despite living in such tight quarters, but somehow she always managed to remember to take me to the library with her and I guess I have that to be thankful for.

Sometime later in first grade, I was sent to vacation at my maternal grandparents house for a week or two while my mother and her husband took their own vacation to North Carolina. My mother promised she would have another surprise for me when she returned.

And I’ll leave that surprise for another day.

Until next time. X - The Crone

#memoir #personal #trauma #my story #mentally tired #diary #diaryposting

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dailyaudiobiblechronological · 2 years ago

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3/12/2023 DAB Chronological Transcription

Deuteronomy 3-4

Welcome to Daily Audio Bible Chronological. I'm Jill. It's so good to be back with you here on this twelfth day of March. It's a brand new week around here and I'm excited, really excited to be back with you. I miss you when I'm away and it's it's felt like I've been away a month this last week. It's been a full week, and maybe it's been a full week for you. So I'm glad that you're here. Just take a deep breath. Exhale all of the worries, the cares of the day, all of the things that are left undone from last week that we cannot, should not take with us into the freshness, the newness of where we're headed together. So take a deep breath inhale. Hold it and exhale. Phew. And just let it go. Roll your head, drop your shoulders, take a smile. Let's dig in. Today we're reading Deuteronomy, chapters 3 and 4. And this week starts a brand new translation. Brand new translation to me here at Chronological as well. We're reading from the new Revised Standard version updated edition. Deuteronomy, chapter three.

Prayer:

Father, we do thank you for your word today. We thank you for the newness of this week. We thank you for the newness that has represented in a week that is a reminder as we read today, a reminder of the newness of who you are, that you make all things new. So often when we want to return. To the old and live life from there. But the true nature of who you are is to redeem all things, all things new. And so we release the things that are out of our control, out of our grasp, out of our jurisdiction, to be worrying about holding on till we lay them at your feet, giving them to you, not taking them into th newness of what is new, what you have for us. And we consecrate this week holy to you, asking you to do what it is that you would want to do in us, giving you permission and giving you full access to our hearts, to our vines, to our souls, our spirits as we are reminded of ourselves, a living vessel. May it be holy, pleasing and acceptable to you. Do what you want in us, through us, among us, and may we be pleasing representatives of the body of Christ. I pray this now in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Announcements:

Looking forward to an incredible week together. I'm Jill. We'll turn the page together tomorrow and the stories of our lives, Lord willin and the creek don't rise. And in the story of the greatest book, the greatest love story ever told. Until then, love one another.

Community Prayer Line:

Hi, this is Desperate in PA. I'm requesting prayer. I've been in a marriage for 29 years. I've been...he's a narcissist. Very verbally, mentally abusive. He doesn't see a problem with the way he behaves. And at this point I'm not asking to save the marriage because I know he can't change. It's not possible. I've been waiting for 29 years for that to happen and it hasn't happened. So the only good thing I got out of the whole situation has been my children. And I kind of would just like to, I think, relieve the toxicity that they see. And it probably still wouldn't relieve all of the toxicity because I know that if he would split, he's going to completely trash talk me to everybody. Already is doing it with his side of the family to the point that one of his cousins asked me whether everything's okay because he heard we're getting divorced, which hasn't even been a serious discussion in our house, but anyway, not to my face. His mother's very much liked it to him. So I think it's kind of where he got it. And he will talk to other people. Everybody thinks he's wonderful. That isn't our circle of friends. And to raise the moment, my biggest problem is that I have so far been just like a self employed, small, home based business and that has been very slow. So I cannot support myself with that. I've been applying for jobs, just trying to figure out a way to get myself and my daughter out of the situation and maybe help him kind of get out on his own and realize I was really a jerk. But if he's truly a narcissist, I don't think you will realize that. So just please pray for our family, for peace and tranquility and relief from the toxic abuse. Thank you.

Hi guys. I can't say very much about this, but please pray for Stephanie. She was in a terrible accident and just please pray for her. Thanks.

Hello. This is Prodigal Princess from Massachusetts. I have previously called in to the DAB. This is my first time calling into the DAB Chronological. This is also my first year listening to the DAB Chronological. And I just wanted to call in to express my thanks to my gratitude for these ministries. Thank you so much to all of the hardened family for everything that you've poured in to this ministry into all of our lives. Feel blessed to be a member around this global campfire and I don't know where I'd be without DAB. Thank you. Have a great day.

Hello. DABC wanted to call in and pray for the woman who calls for her mother who doesn't approve of the man she is dating because of the color of his skin. And so Lord, I just want to pray for this, our Father in heaven. Lord, please soften this woman's heart. Let her remember that in Revelation you talk about heaven and you talk about every tribe, tongue, nation being represented in heaven and by one man. Lord, you made so many groups of people diverse in how they look, their cultures, their food, their languages, traditions, Lord, and help her to realize that the color of someone's skin doesn't really matter, and it shouldn't make you judge them in a harsh way. But, Lord, may she see you and that man and the beauty and the heart that he has, lord, please soften her heart and please help in a situation, Lord. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.

Hi. This is Laurie. I'm calling for Debbie from Wisconsin and wanted to let her know that I know that her request came in a little bit ago, but I've been sick. But I wanted to let you know that I've been praying for you about your hand and your shoulder pain. And I know I have a lot of hand pain myself, so every time my hand hurts, I'm thinking of you and praying for you and hoping that you heal up and things feel better for you. So I just want to let you know Debbie from Wisconsin.

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