#prelude to a wicked game | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sp0o0kylights · 2 years ago

Text

S4 Starts with the Demobats Attacking the School / Rejected Stobin Time Travel AU Bit

Eddie's hunched over the table, fingers held up in wicked claws. His hair hangs down as he tilts his head, voice pitched to the maniacal tone of the villain he's finally unleashed on his players.

This is it. The big reveal, the prelude to the boss fight. His players have worked hard to get here, and they stare raptly, caught up in the rising horror of betrayal and terror that Eddie's been weaving around them.

This whole campaign took months to reach this point. His glee cannot be contained and so he channels it into his villain instead; cackling madly before throwing himself upwards, one hand covering his face but with his fingers splayed to showcase one wide eye.

"Now you see your fatal flaw!" Eddie crows. "Pick up your weapons and--"

He slams one hand down on the table.

"--fight --"

He slams his other hand down.

"--for--"

A third bang, far louder than Eddie's own echoes through the room.

Hellfire as a whole jumps --Dustin screaming and Jeff shouting--as Steve fucking Harrington bursts through the drama room's door.

"Why the hell don't you have your walkies!?" He thunders as he flies in, face furious.

Fury bolts through Eddie like lightning, so fast it leaves him temporarily light headed.

"Steve!" Dustin yelps at the same time Mike pissily shouts his name. Both leap to their feet, as Harrington, chest heaving, slams the door behind himself.

"We have a code red!" Harrington spits, eyes focused on the younger Hellfire members. He fumbles with the door for a moment, long enough for Eddie to realize he’s trying to lock it, before the ex-jock strides into the room.

It's not until Steve gets closer that Eddie registers the bat with nails in it. There's a dark, tacky liquid leaking down the sides, little bits of something rancid clinging to some of the nails.

A metallic scent that screams 'wrong wrong wrong!' and oh God.

It's blood.

Real blood, not the fake stuff Eddie once bought for his Dracula costume.

"The Party--" Dustin hisses, head flying comically between Steve and the rest of the table (but most noticeably, down at Eddie’s end, where the older Hellfire members reside.)

"I suggest you read them in or whatever Nance calls it, Henderson, because they're involved now." Harrington says, deadly serious.

Sinclair’s face scrunches up in confusion. "What do you--"

Something screeches outside. The noise raises every hair on Eddie's neck, and temporarily stuns the room into silence.

An echoing scream answers, just as inhuman as the first.

Harrington winces. "Give em the cliffnotes version man, there's a bunch of bats outside."

"Bat bats or--demobats?"

"What do you think, Mike?"

"Fuck." Sinclair hisses under his breath.

"Anyone besides me have any weapons?" Harrington asks and he sounds like he's not hopeful for a yes but is asking anyway.

"Yes Steve, we all brought guns to school. Mines in my locker!" Mike snips, and Harrington levels him with that annoyed look mothers everywhere somehow seem to know.

"I've got my slingshot." Lucas chimes in, patting his backpack. "I uh, I don't go anywhere without it anymore."

Harrington nods, once. His faze ticks up, sweeping across the room to the older members.

"Alright. Anyone else?"

"A knife." Jeff admits after a long pause, his own eyes trained on Harrington's nail bat.

Grant shakes his head, and Gareth, usually the loudest of them, is silent.

A static crackle makes everyone jump, before a tinny voice comes through. "Steve, are you there? This is Nancy."

"Hey Nance. We have an Upside Down situation at the school."

A pause then; "it's not just the school."

"Shit." Dustin hisses. Then adds; "Scale of one to ten, how many bats would you say are outside?”

“Too many.” Harrington answers, running his free hand through his hair. It’s a soothing motion, Eddie has watched Steve enough to know that, but this time something’s different.

Less “shit I flunked my chemistry final” and more frantic, “we’re losing the baseball game and also Hargrove’s being weirdly aggressive again.”

Not that Eddie witnessed such events, just that he had….heard about them.

Sure.

He’ll go with that.

xXx

Wheeler Jr yelps, sliding as a demobat swoops down and beats at him with its wings. Teeth snap close to his head, missing his ear by inches.

He twirls, arms waving madly, until Harrington grabs him, keeping Mike's head down with one hand and jamming his nailbat toward the creature with the other.

The two of them manage to make it into Eddie's van, half falling half jumping, Gareth and Grant slamming the door behind them as demobats dive at them.

"Gun it!" Gareth calls and Eddie does so, the lurch sending Henderson and Jeff tumbling to the floor.

Eddie watches in the mirror as Mike, the most antagonist of the freshman when it comes to Harrington, clings to the ex-jocks shirt for a moment.

Steve's hand has left the back of his shirt, though now Eddie can see his grip has changed to more of a tender hold on the kid. Something familiar and comforting.

"I got you." Steve says quietly and it's only because Eddie's got his attention split between him and the road that he catches it, and the way Mike presses his forehead against Steve's shoulder for a moment before finally sitting up.

Which just confirms what Eddie already knew--for all his bluster and guff, Mike was one of Harrington's too.

xxx

--This is where It turned into the “failed time stobin time travel AU- but I like this part and you need the above for it to make sense so TWO IN ONE--

xxx

Speed running the beginning is starting to become the easiest part, if only because Steve finally knows exactly what to say.

"They're not a part of the party." He mimics Dustin's voice before pointing a finger at him. "We have exactly sixteen minutes before the damn demobats attack you can fill them in in Eddie's van."

The very same Eddie who looks positively aghast. "You actually believe this?"

"Oh absolutely." Dustin says, scooping his nerd crap into his backpack. "Trust me, Steve's not creative enough to come up with something like this on his own."

"Hey." Steve says in warning.

"Also he only gets bitchy like this when something’s gone really wrong." Dustin ads with a look that might have been apologetic--if one squinted and looked at his face sideways.

Lucas, Steve's new favorite, slides slowly next to him. "You sure you're okay?" He asks quietly and Steve pats him on the shoulder for being the only one to care.

“Not at all.” He answers because fuck, he really, really, isn’t. “In the meantime, I need you all to listen very carefully.”

Mike already has his mouth open, patented bitchy look on his face and nope, no, Steve is not letting him derail this conversation.

He let that happen by accident once and Steve’s learned his lesson since.

Pointing at Mike, Steve starts firing instructions. “Do not, under any circumstance, try to fight the bats. They can and have lifted you right off your feet and I will not be jumping for you again.”

Steve’s finger ticked right, to Lucas. “Luc, I know you have your slingshot and a handful of shit to fling in it. You need to sprint to Eddie’s van, then get set up to start shooting so the rest of us have cover. Got it?”

Lucas, Steve was pleased to see, had already dropped into ‘shit’s fucked’ mode. He nods, his own nerdy gear long packed away. He digs through his backpack now, looking no doubt for the slingshot.

Steve was baking him a damn cake when all this was over.

“Gareth.” He continues, pointing at the next guy down the line, watching as he jumps out of his skin (and then looks mad about it, as if it was Steve’s fault he’d flinched.) “You’re weirdly good at counting the bats, so I’m gonna ask you to keep doing that man. As well as keep an eye out for anything ground level, we got surprised by a demodog last time.”

“Shit, really?” Mike groans, throwing his hands over his eyes in frustration.

He was ignored.

Steve skips over Eddie entirely, knowing all too well how much of a trap addressing him could be. “Grant, you’re best on the radio. Once we are securely in the van I need you to call for Nancy and give her an update on what’s happening.

Grant at least, comes onboard immediately, nodding his head and standing.

He got an absolute look of betrayal from Eddie and Gareth for it, but hey that was yet another thing to be addressed later.

Here, Steve slings his own backpack down and off his shoulders, taking the first thing he has in it, out. “Jeff,” He calls, before holding up the box he’d pulled out. “This is a medkit. You know how to use it, so you get it.”

Steve doesn’t toss the box to him this time, instead putting the kit on the table and sliding it over.

Hesitantly, Jeff takes it, eyes darting between Steve and Eddie.

“And Dustin--” Steve says with an air of finality, yanking the second item he’s been looking for out of his backpack, “take off that damn Weird Al abomination and put this jacket on. For some reason the bats keep locking onto it.”

“They want my shirt?” Dustin asks, but does as told, seeming far too delighted at having been given Steve’s old swim team jacket.

“Uh.” Eddie starts, rising to a hunch over the table, head partially tilted.

Steve was pretty sure he did that because he thought it was intimidating (or at least, perhaps was a bad habit because he did it way more often then he didn’t, but that was a thought for Not In The Beginning of The Mess Steve.)

“We have five minutes left before they attack.” Steve says, right over the second (and far more aggressive) “Uh.”

“The van isn’t locked, which is just so safe considering all the drugs in it, Munson.” He can’t help himself, throws the pissiest, most disapproving look he has in his arsenal at a now gaping Eddie.

“No matter who gets to it first, one but Eddie or myself drive it, understand?”

“Oh so now you’re fine with Eddie’s driving!?” Dustin doesn’t stomp his feet but Steve has known him for a while now.

The foot stomping behavior wasn’t one he grew out of until just last year.

“Considering what we’re about to face yes, absolutely I am.” Steve counters rapidly. “Eddie drives like a demon and that’s exactly what we need right now.”

And oh. He’s going to have to say things like this more, because the shocked look that overtook Munson’s face is delightful.

“I’m taking the rear, because I have the bat.” He holds his weapon, watches as the older members of Hellfire finally seem to register what it is. “Everyone got the plan down?”

“Harrington.” Eddie finally starts, voice positively frigid in fury, and Steve is prepared to mouth what is no doubt the line Eddie’s about to say (much like Dustin, he too rarely deviates lines in the beginning) “What kind of game do you--”

Right on cue, something inhuman screams outside.

The bats are here.

“Bicker later, Munson.” Steve says, locking eyes with Eddie. “Goal for now is to survive.”

xXx

The run to Eddie’s van consistently remains to be one of the worst parts of the entire day (minus the other various parts where someone inevitably bites it, thus resetting the entire damn time loop.)

The initial plan had gone smoothly. Lucas reaches the van first, then uses it as a shield while he provides cover with his slingshot.

The little group of Jeff-Dustin-Grant and Eddie all manage to reach it at about the same time, with Steve able to pull the bats off them with a couple of well timed whacks of the nailbat.

This is where everything goes to shit.

Once again, Mike tries to take the spot of “first to die” by swinging his fist at a low flying bat. The tail of the thing immediately catches his wrist, using the momentum of the movement to swing its teeth towards the freshmen’s face.

Steve reverses direction, and knows immediately he won’t be there in time to prevent an injury.

Curses hard, and winds up to swing, right as Gareth snarls out; “Hell no!”

He’s closer to Mike, and despite already having one bat swooping madly at his head, manages to grab the one attacking Wheeler right as Mike trips over his own feet and falls backwards.

A stream of yells and ‘fuck you!’’s follow as Steve bends to yank Mike up, then carries on as wings beat frantically around Gareth’s head.

The other bat dives, latching onto his hip right as Steve manages to grab the one Gareth’s holding. Takes it from him as Gareth screams, trying desperately to rip the demobat that’s gotten its teeth into him, off.

Practice makes perfect, and perfect in this case, is slamming the fucking demobat onto the concrete hard enough to stun it before slamming it to bits with two hard strikes of the nailbat.

Steve isn’t sure how long it takes him to do it, but between Gareth’s screaming and the shrieks of more incoming bats, he knows he doesn’t have much time.

He’s not losing someone. Not here, right at the start.

Not when he already knows how to play out this part.

Gareth manages to rip the creature off himself, and Steve takes it from there, snatching it out of the younger man’s hands and repeating the fling-and-smash move he killed its brethren with.

Does it fast enough that he’s back at Gareth’s side before the guy starts to collapse downward, tears streaming down his face.

“I’ve got you, you’re okay.” Steve tells him, pulling him close and forcing Gareth to wrap an arm around his shoulders. “Put hard pressure on it man, hard, then we’re gonna run for it.”

“Can’t--fuck---” Gareth pants between hard breaths. Blood’s soaked soaking into his jeans, and a glance at it shows it’s a bad bite.

“You can.” Steve tells him, already pulling them both forward.

It doesn’t go well.

Gareth almost goes down twice, leg buckling, and Steve grits his teeth. Knows neither of them are going to make it at this rate.

“Gary!” Someone screams. He can’t quite tell if it’s Jeff or Eddie, but either way, Mike and Dustin have leapt out of the car, flinging rocks and whatever else they can find into the air.

“Careful!” Steve yells as one nearly belts him, but at least it causes enough of a distraction that he manages to toss the bat ahead of himself, wincing at the sound it makes as it hits the ground.

It’s close to Dustin though, who thankfully, takes his cue and snatches it up.

“Stay!”

It’s a command, and Steve says it like a command. The last thing he needs is for Henderson to go charging into a hoard of demobats, especially not after Steve’s witnessed Eddie dying to them on at least five separate time loops.

If not here, then later.

He can’t think about that now though, not when Gareth’s hissing in pain, fingers clutching onto his shirt like a lifeline.

(He is, he realizes, Gareth’s lifeline. The younger man won’t make it unless Steve gets them to the van.

The bats would take him as their sacrifice and if there is one thing Steve was sworn to stop, it’s people sacrificing themselves--or others.)

“Take a breath.” Steve instructs, before bodily swinging Gareth in front of him.

Ignores the yelped cry he makes, and stoops down to get a good hold around his knees.

Grunts as Gareth, having figured out what’s happening, circles his other hand around Steve’s neck as he lifts the smaller man up into a bridal carry.

Ignores the choked sobs that escape Gareth as he does it. The fucking bat bites hurt and what they’re doing right now is no doubt jostling the shit out of the wound.

He’d be crying too if it were him, not that anyone can pick him up like this.

(Deliberately forgets to recall the two times he’s died precisely because of that.

The knowledge that if he’s injured, the amount of people who can drag him to safety solo is numbering close to zero isn’t a helpful one right now.

Neither is any other thought beyond pure focus on getting Gareth into the van.)

From there it’s a matter of running and not falling on his fucking face--or on the guy currently bleeding on him.

They make it though, a fact Steve is very grateful for.

Hands reach out, all of them pulling Gareth in while Steve hustles the rest, not slowing down until he slams the van door shut and yells for Eddie to gun it.

“Jeff, medkit!” he says, but Jeff, bless him, is already on it.

Grant’s speaking into the walkie he’d been given, Nancy’s tinny voice a soothing balm on Steve’s nerves as he, Dustin and Jeff get Gareth laid out in the van best they can.

“Where am I going, Harrington?” Eddie calls from the front, having floored the van the second the doors had slammed shut.

“He’ll be okay.” Steve soothed quietly, one hand going to squeeze Mike’s shoulder, the other looping around Lucas.

If there’s one thing he swears he will be, through every loop, it’s supportive of the damn kids.

They deserve to know someone is in their corner, even if they don’t always believe him.

#this was originally part of the stobin time travel au #but I couldn't make it work #also I think I posted the bottom half before about mike #steve harrington #eddie munson #hellfire #mike as one of steves kids #s4 au #0o0 fanfics

376 notes · View notes

bestmusicalworldcup · 1 month ago

Text

Best Opening Number Tournament - Full List of Songs

Due to the formatting of my spreadsheets, most of the songs listed here do not have the name of the musical they are from next to them. However, it is my intention that there is no ambiguity as to which songs from which shows are included, and if there is, feel free to send an ask.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 30/90 A Comedy Tonight A Man Of No Importance A Rumor in St. Petersburg A Word to the Wise Alexander Hamilton And You Don’t Even Know It Another Day of Sun Anybody Have A Map? Backstage Babble Bah Humbug! Beautiful Blow Born to Lead Can't Wait Carrying the Banner Circle of Life Company Concerto in F Deep Beneath the City/Not There Yet Deliver Us Don't Stop Me Down in New Orleans Dream a Little Harder Every Story is A Love Story Everybody's Got the Right Ex-Wives Falsettoland/About Time Fancy Dress Fathoms Below Fathoms Below Finland Four Jews in a Room Bitching Frozen Heart Give Them What They Want Good Morning Baltimore Good Morning, Good Day Grease Half as Big as Life Hannibal Hannibal Happiness Heaven on their Minds Hello Here Right Now High School is Killing Me I Don't Know I Hope I Get It I Need a Life I Want to Be Impress Me In In the Heights Intermission Song Invocation and Instructions to the Audience It All Comes Back (Opening) It Sucks to Be Me It's Your Wedding Day Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats Just Another Day Just Leave Everything to Me Just Like it Was Before Leave Let There Be Light On My Feet Live in Living Color Live Like This (Opening) Madame Guillotine Madrid is My Mama Magic to Do Me and My Town Merrily We Roll Along More Than Survive Murder Ballad No One Mourns the Wicked O Virga ac Diadema Oh My God (You Guys) Oh the Things You Can Think Oh, What A Beautiful Morning One By One Opening (The Secret Garden) Opening Number (Tootsie) Overture/All That Jazz Overture/Food Glorious Food Peace on Earth Penser l’impossible Pieces of Lives Prelude Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord Prolog (Elisabeth) Prologue (Little Shop of Horrors) Prologue (Great Comet) Prologue / The Day I Got Expelled Prologue: "Into the Woods" Prologue: Once Upon a December Prologue: Ragtime Prologue/A Warning to the Audience Prologue/Invisible Prologue/The Launching Road to Hell Rock Island Santa Fe (Prologue) Science Fiction/Double Feature Seesaw Sit Down John Spies Are Forever Superhero Girl Tear Me Down The Bells of Notre Dame The Forest The Greatest Show The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals The Old Red Hills Of Home The Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home The Pajama Game/Racing With the Clock The Stars Look Down The Sweetest Sounds The Virginia Company There Will Be Sun There You Are There's a House This is Halloween Tina's Mother To Be Me Tower of Babble Tradition Tulsa 67 Untitled Opening Number Vérone Vuelie/Let the Sun Shine On Was für ein Kind We Are What We Are We Dance We Start Today We're in the Money Welcome To The Renaissance Welcome to the Rock What Are You Thirsty For? What Time is It? What’s Inside When You're an Addams Where is the Justice Wilkommen Willamania Work Song (Look Down) Worst Team Ever Your Day Your Day In Court

In addition, it is unclear which opening number(s) will be featured for the following shows:

Urinetown The Lord of the Rings Rent Ride the Cyclone

#best opening number tournament

25 notes · View notes

desidarling123 · 1 year ago

Text

these wicked games

There’s no preamble, no much-needed prelude to soften the blow when Kaz breaks the news to her. "It's been decided," he says simply. “You need to leave Ketterdam. Now.” The words slip out easily enough -- easier than he’d thought they would. And yet, when he finally meets her eyes again, Inej looks nothing short of aghast. “And what, leave you?” she says. “After everything that’s happened?” (So much -- too much -- and yet, once again, they’ve run out of time.) “Yes,” he says simply, because as much as he’d like to, he cannot humor her with the explanation she really deserves, not now. Not when it’s her life on the line, too. But oh -- he’d been foolish, oh-so foolish to think she’d obey his commands without questions. The Wraith was never one to go down without a fight. “No, Kaz,” she hisses out. “I won’t leave you. Not for this.”

OR: My never-before released version of the bathroom scene, adapted for the show. (First daydreamed up during Season 1).

Show!Kanej, you are so loved and will be so incredibly missed 🥺❤️

READ NOW ON AO3

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #six of crows #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #my writing

28 notes · View notes

loulislife · 1 year ago

Text

Chasing Shadows

chapter 1: a dangerous game (you can read it here) chapter 2:the nightmare unfolds | Viper x fem!reader

I found myself surrounded by an oppressive darkness that seemed to consume all light. It was a suffocating cold that seeped into my bones, leaving me shivering and disoriented. As I stood alone in this abyss, I could hear the haunting echo of footsteps drawing closer. The sound reverberated through the void, a sinister prelude to an unknown presence.

My heart pounded as I strained to see through the inky blackness, but there was nothing to discern, no escape from the frigid emptiness. Then, like a specter materializing from the shadows, a pair of captivating green eyes emerged from the darkness. They fixated on me, and a seductive smile began to play on the lips of the face that materialized in front of me.

The figure, with each step, revealed herself to be Viper. Her gaze held me captive, and she seemed to glide toward me effortlessly, her steps echoing through the void. Her voice, dripping with allure, broke the silence.

"Did you miss me?" Viper's voice purred, and the realization struck me like a bolt of lightning. "Of course you'd miss me!" She continued, her words laced with mockery as she circled me like a predatory specter. I tried to move, to escape, but my body was paralyzed, as if bound by some unseen force.

Viper's fingers danced along the contours of my form, leaving trails of electricity in their wake. I couldn't look away as she moved, each touch more seductive than the last. The nightmarish quality of this encounter was inescapable, a twisted dance in the shadows.

"Uh, the things I could do to you, my sweet little Radiant," Viper whispered in a sultry, enticing tone as she finally came to a stop right in front of me. Her green eyes bore into mine, a dangerous and enigmatic hunger in her gaze.

With a wicked grin, she leaned in closer, her breath a teasing caress on my skin. Her lips brushed against my ear, sending shivers down my spine. "You can't escape, my dear Radiant. This is a realm of my making, and I control every aspect of it." Suddenly green smoke formed around me and Viper. The smoke danced like clouds in the wind and circled us completely. The blackness around me had been replaced by the clouds of green smoke, but Viper still remained clear before my eyes.

Viper's eyes lingered on me, as she stepped forward. Her fingers trailed along my jawline, igniting a tingling sensation that left me wanting more. I tried to resist, to regain control, but her power over me was absolute.

Viper's laughter, like a haunting melody, filled the void. "You've always been so... predictable," she whispered, her voice a sultry purr. "But you and I, we're bound together, aren't we?"

She circled me once more, her touch setting my skin on fire. Her gaze remained fixed upon me, and her green eyes held a dangerous allure. "Tell me, my sweet Radiant, what do you desire? Is it power? Freedom? Or perhaps, something more... intimate?"

My mind raced, torn between the fear of the unknown and a forbidden attraction I couldn't deny. Viper's game was intoxicating. I was at her mercy, and she relished every moment of it.I couldn't help but shudder under her enchanting spell, and a part of me questioned whether this was a mere dream or if it was a manifestation of something deeper, something I had yet to comprehend.

With a boldness I didn't know I possessed, I leaned in, closing the distance between us. The kiss that followed was not a soft, sweet embrace, but a battle of wills and power. The kiss held the tension of the chase, the secrets, and the allure of two powerful beings, each with their own agenda. It was a kiss that told a story of desire and danger, of a perilous game that neither of us was willing to lose. As we broke the electrifying kiss, Viper's eyes held a mixture of satisfaction and challenge.

"I know you want more", whispered Viper and closed the distance again. The game between us continued, and as much as I feared the consequences, I couldn't deny the thrill of the chase and the allure of Viper's presence. The line between adversaries and something more had blurred, and in this tangled web, we were both ensnared in a dance that held the promise of both pleasure and peril.

I awoke with a start, my heart racing and my body drenched in sweat. For a brief, disorienting moment, the remnants of the nightmare clung to me like a shroud. Viper's seductive presence and the alluring dance we had shared in the dream were still fresh in my mind.

But as the haze of the nightmare lifted, a heavy realization washed over me. It was just a dream, a vivid and haunting illusion. The darkness that had engulfed me, the chilling touch, and Viper's tempting words—they were all products of my own subconscious.

I ran a trembling hand through my sweat-soaked hair, my pulse gradually slowing down to a more manageable rhythm. The tingling sensation that had taken root in the pit of my stomach remained.

In the silence of my own room, I couldn't deny the lingering effect of the nightmare.

With a heavy sigh, I pushed the covers off and swung my legs over the side of the bed. I needed a shower.

The hunt for answers, the dangers of the Kingdom Company and the Valorant Team, and the mysteries of my own abilities were far from over. The tingling sensation in my stomach served as a reminder what I had to do:

I have to kill Viper before she finds me.

#valorant viper fanfiction #valorant viper #valorant viper x reader #venomous #dr. sabine callas #sabine callas x reader #sabine callas #valorant #valorant fanfiction #valorant x reader

39 notes · View notes

spiritsong · 9 months ago

Text

writing patterns

Thank you for tagging me, @anderstrevelyan and @bhaalsdeepbat <3 I'm tagging @dragon--sage and whoever else publishes fics, my brain is blanking right now lol

Rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern!

I absolutely do not have 10 fics published so I'll include one that's near-ready, plus others that are finished but will likely never see the light of day 😂 (If you follow the links, mind the tags on the Durge ones please!)

From most recently written to oldest:

1. Phantasms (BG3, Gale x Lethe, WIP)

The electrum whistle, typically cold to the touch, had grown warm in their hands from their absentminded fondling.

2. There's Something in This Life Left to Live (BG3, Astarion x Aune)

Once upon a time we pressed against an unyielding tree trunk, just like this.

3. In Wicked Wonder (BG3, durge!Aune)

So wet, so sweet.

4. Second Thoughts (BG3, Astarion x durge!Aune)

The druid.

5. Ill at Ease (BG3, Astarion x durge!Aune)

Could she even know what long days were like if this was only the second she could ever remember living?

6. Kindred (I Knew You) (BG3, Astarion x durge!Aune)

Aune watched the purple-robed wizard intently as he fussed through some beached wooden crates.

7. Mar and Naserah (working title, DA:O, unfinished/indefinite hiatus, about my Surana's parents)

He could hear every creak of the wooden boards seconds before he took the step that issued it.

8. Preludes (working title, DA:O, unpublished, Cullen x Surana) (don't judge me. it was very toxic and full of mind games)

He knew he was ruined the moment he first laid eyes on her.

9. Freedom in Dreaming (DA:O, unfinished/indefinite hiatus, Surana longfic)

She knew she was taken when she was young; far younger than most mages are torn from their families.

---

One shy of the full ten! Patterns I can readily see: Introspective, focused on internal thoughts (like most of my writing is, so I'm not surprised); Sensory; Also apparently I like starting with incomplete sentences sometimes. 😂 (Annnnd it looks like I got away from the habit of starting the first sentence with a pronoun, which is great, I guess?)

---

Vixstarria's additional rule: see if you can arrange the lines into a semi-coherent crackfic.

I was gonna give it a try, but about twenty seconds in and my brain was like NOPE 💀

#my writing

7 notes · View notes

petrenocka · 2 years ago

Text

I love how appropriate the Secret levels have been so far to the layers they are found in.

S-1 greets you with a text saying "something wicked this way comes" and locks you in a tight maze with a slender horror that oneshots you. Horror that you can set back if you're lucky, but never stop. Then asks you to survive.

It is introduced in Prelude, the very first "layer" of the game, where V1 first enters Hell. And the rest of the layer is mostly corridors too.

It simply makes a ton of sense why this secret level in on this layer, if you imagine how it would feel, to be a lowly Filth, hearing an approaching sound of Drumm and Base, and how that might compare to being in a dark maze and hearing a eerie wisper. Something v1cked this way comes indeed.

S-2 is simply a vibe check, that fits extremely well with Limbo's initial serene and chill atmosphere.

S-3 is an exploration of existential horror. It is about fighting back against seemingly insurmountable hardship, because overcoming it is worth the struggle. About how even in deepest depth of despair there is a reason to live and strive to live well.

It is placed in the Lust layer. A layer of Hell transformed by its king's determination, from a place of torment and damnation into at least a livable space. Well, it was transformed, until Minos got Gabrieled.

Gluttony is a gauntlet, a test of what you have learned so far, that throws everything Act I has to offer at you. Gabriel too. And, well, entrance to P-1 is here. Need I say more?

Greed is filler /pos and S-4 is a tool of actual torture, but it does play like a fun go lucky platformer.

Wrath is all about revealing the genuine, compassionate, heroic side of Gabriel, and is the most quiet of the Layers. So I expect the upcoming fishing minigame to be rather meditative.

Finally, of course Heresy is fucking brutal, Gabriel is here again and it having a mental breakdown. By far the most violent layer in terms of presentation. P-2 is going to be stationed here. It is going to be something

#ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #analysis

31 notes · View notes

caughtupindrama · 1 year ago

Text

*The List* (1 of 2)

Current list of musicals I've listened to and/or seen!!

* = seen live (includes high school productions, amateur theatre, etc.) ^ = seen a recording/movie musical version & = listened to multiple recordings or demos !! = performed in (partially or fully)!! ! = was otherwise involved in a production favourites are in colour <3

Hamilton * Death Note Falsettos ^& (March of the Falsettos + Falsettoland) Be More Chill & SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical *&!! Little Shop of Horrors *& Book of Mormon *^ Mean Girls ^ In Trousers ^& Avenue Q ^& Everybody's Talking About Jamie Heathers *^&!! Nine ^ The Lightning Thief & Dear Evan Hansen ^ Matilda ^& Spring Awakening *^&!! Junie B. Jones Frozen *^ The Little Mermaid *! Six *& Hairspray ! Adrian Mole Legally Blonde ^& Chess Starlight Express & Emojiland Hadestown Bright Star * Wicked Sophia, Our Beloved 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee * Frankenstein Cats * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory La Cage Aux Folles & Addams Family Mary Poppins ^!! Beetlejuice &!! Aladdin ^ Bare: A Pop Opera The Theory of Relativity Little Miss Perfect Curtains !! Lizard Boy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Treasure Island Co-Op Jagged Little Pill A Year With Frog and Toad * The Prom ^& Newsies *^ Carousel & Camelot & Oklahoma 21 Chump Street ^ Ordinary Days Shrek the Musical !! Bat Boy *! The Sound of Music * A Strange Loop *& Crazy for You Chicago * Goosebumps The Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Fancy Nancy: The Musical Come From Away Amélie & The Mad Ones 3hree Island Song Snoopy!!! / The World According to Snoopy & Drag: The Musical Flat Stanley Dear Edwina Guys and Dolls * A New Brain Beauty and the Beast *^ Wuthering Heights Meet Me in St. Louis * The Fantasticks [title of show] Cabaret *& John & Jen Les Misérables * The Great British Bake Off Musical Into the Woods *& KPOP Shucked Kimberly Akimbo The Lion King Bend it Like Beckham Footballers' Wives Dog Man: The Musical Hats! The In-Between In Transit A Chorus Line The Golden Apple The Love Note She Loves Me Octet Preludes Candide The Music Man Linie 1 Mamma Mia! ^ In the Heights The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Oh Captain! 13 Waitress & Ushers Rats! Spamilton Weird Romance & Juliet You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown * A Very Potter Musical ^ Ride the Cyclone The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Wedding Singer Babes in Toyland Urinetown Dear Pen Pal Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Finding Nemo Blues in the Night Unfortunate Sole Mates Operation Mincemeat * The Three Little Pigs Anastasia The Phantom of the Opera *^& Arf! Back to the Future: The Musical * Pellets, Cherries, and Lies Rocky Horror Picture Show ^ A Little Night Music * Sunday in the Park with George Pretty Woman: The Musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street & Carrie Fun Home Hello Again Kinky Boots The Full Monty A Man of No Importance The Producers Jesus Christ Superstar 36 Questions ^ The Little Big Things * Jersey Boys * My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) The Dolls of New Albion Band Geeks The Band's Visit Wait Wait Don't Kill Me Diary of a Wimpy Kid Groundhog Day Anything Goes* Technically: A Musical * Footloose * The Trail to Oregon ^ tick... tick... BOOM! * Epic: The Troy Saga Leap Day Grease * Duolingo On Ice Nunsense Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Pinkalicious Parade * How to Dance in Ohio Tootsie Something Rotten! !! Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) * The Last 5 Years Next to Normal Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Wuthering Heights Supernatural: The Musical The Pajama Game Kiss Me Kate * Babies * Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical Mad Libs Live! Lyme Disease: The Musical Your Lie in April * Lempicka [continuation]

#musical theatre #musicals #musical #will update as i continue to listen <3

7 notes · View notes

bestmusicalworldcup · 1 year ago

Text

2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals

Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.

Division A

Alice By Heart Annie Assassins Avenue Q The Band's Visit The Book of Mormon Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Come From Away Company Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Ghost Quartet Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Hello, Dolly! The Hunchback of Notre Dame In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde The King and I Kinky Boots Legally Blonde Les Misérables The Lion King Little Shop of Horrors Matilda Moulin Rouge Mozart, l'opéra rock The Music Man My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Octet Once Once on this Island The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Producers Ragtime Rent Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Something Rotten The Sound of Music Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Waitress West Side Story Wicked The Wiz

Division B

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 42nd Street 1776 Adamandi American Idiot American Psycho Anastasia Applause Bare: A Pop Opera Beetlejuice Be More Chill Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bye Bye Birdie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) City of Angels Damn Yankees Dear Evan Hansen Death Note: The Musical Evita Fosse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Grease The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Hallelujah, Baby! Heathers Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jersey Boys Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kiss Me, Kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage aux Folles The Lightning Thief A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha Memphis Monty Python's Spamalot The Mystery of Edwin Drood A New Brain Nine The Pajama Game Passion The Prom The Scarlet Pimpernel Singin' in the Rain Six South Pacific Starship A Strange Loop Sunday in the Park with George Sunset Boulevard Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Thoroughly Modern Millie Tick Tick Boom Titanic The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown The Will Rogers Follies The Wizard of Oz (1987)

Division C

& Juliet 21 Chump Street 35MM: A Musical Exhibition 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille Aida Allegiance Amélie Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes The Art of Pleasing Princes Bandstand Beauty and the Beast Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Carousel Carrie The Color Purple Contact The Count of Monte Cristo Dogfight Dracula, the Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evil Dead: The Musical Finding Neverland Frankenstein: A New Musical The Frogs Funny Girl Godspell Groundhog Day Gypsy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jane Eyre The Last Five Years Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones The Magic Show Mary Poppins Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Oklahoma! Oliver On the Town Ordinary Days Parade The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Rebecca Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour The Secret Garden Seussical She Loves Me Shrek the Musical Starry Wonderland You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Division D

13: The Musical Ablaze The Act Ain't Misbehavin An American in Paris Anne & Gilbert Anyone Can Whistle Av. Larco Back to the Future the Musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big River Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Bring It On Calvin Berger Caroline, or Change Clown Bible Crazy for You De 3 Biggetjes The Dolls of New Albion Dorian Gray The Drowsy Chaperone The Fantasticks Fiorello! Fly by Night Follies Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee) Hans Christian Andersen Hoy no me puedo levantar In Transit Jagged Little Pill Jerome Robbins' Broadway Kimberly Akimbo King's Table Kismet Lady Bess La Légende du roi Arthur Le Passe-Muraille / Amour Le Roi Soleil Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Light in the Piazza Made in Dagenham Magic Tree House: The Musical Mentiras el musical Notre-Dame de Paris Once Upon A Mattress On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Raisin Redhead Sarafina! School of Rock The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Show Boat Sidd Siete veces adios Soldaat van Oranje The Spitfire Grill Starlight Express Starmania / Tycoon Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Timéo Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Woman in White Wonderful Town [title of show] Émilie Jolie

#league of musicals

24 notes · View notes