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[shroudandsands]

Prompt #16: Third-rate

“Look, I know what you mean-” “Then you know we can’t just keep getting our arses handed to us!” “What’re we supposed to do? We can’t just keep throwing ourselves into scraps until we magically get better at this…” “I dunno!” The roegadyn threw his one hand up then let it fall back against the table with a thump that rattled their glasses. “I just want to stop being dead weight.” “I know, I know…” The two of them stared into their mugs for a long, quiet moment. Mulling on their thoughts, their injured pride, their misery. Until a chair was scooted to their table. And Amesha politely sat down with them.

Both of them, of course, stared at each other in a way Amesha thankfully couldn’t see. A look cultivated by two partners who had been living, working, and fighting together for some time now. A genuine and complete look of “What the fuck do we say?” Thankfully Amesha was a very wordy woman with very little regard for social norms and could feel the awkward tension like a weight on her head. “For those rested beneath bough, for those wearied still by the weight of their worries…” She cocked her head as she felt the sense of relief wash off the two of them like a wave. “The two are not well, it seems. Not buoyed by survival, not strengthened by bonds, but instead left in wake of waves and wandering, listless thought. Not that the oasis does not understand, one struck by selfsame thought as she laid amongst roots…” One of her crystal wings lifted to pointedly gesture towards the highlander. He coughed. “Right. Ms. Reeves, uh, told us that you were… recovering from that.” Aggressive whispers bounced between the two of them (“You understood that?” “Yes, shut up don’t be rude-”) before he was able to continue. “Sorry again. Already told her I should’ve been better. Should’ve known that it wasn’t gonna be stable there. You’re uh… You’re not mad about that, right?” “…Anger does not befit as response to honest mistake,” Amesha sighed, her wings tilting slightly in their slow orbit. “Roots to attempt to keep ground from erupting under the Hawk’s assault was the intention- But she did not give one wings to not… use them. So as it was. So you both are safe.” “Don’t make me feel much better given the circumstances. I’m thankful-” He holds up a hand to assuage his partner’s immediate bristling. “But it ain’t a good feeling knowing that we owe both you and Ms. Reeves a debt twice over. And, if we’re gonna be completely honest, we have no idea how to pay it back. Hells you’re both part of the reason we’re on this path anyhow. What’re we supposed to do to help the two gals who’re so much better at this than us that they’re saving arses left right and center when it still ain’t even the lunch bell! We’re just some half-rate muscle that ain’t even got much of that going for us.” He thumped his forearm onto the table, once again rattling the glasses. His partner reached across the table and rested his hand on his arm. Amesha didn’t need sighted eyes to know what kind of face he was making.

Hoo boy. Sometimes she wished she was more qualified for things like this. “The both of you,” she began by reaching out and placing her hands on each of their arms, a small smile on her lips. “Are far more than credit given. Let alone thoughts of bark and bough- The Hawk does not let her eye rest on those without selfsame soul or wings. There is potential. More than. Better than. There is drive. No want to languish, no love for weariness. You will stand, again and again, and you will aid all those you can- yes?” “Of course-” Came the quick response from the both of them. Another thud on the tabletop from a determined fist. “Then there is nothing worth your fear. Even the Hawk fails. She rests her head beneath bough, weary and worn, until she is yet able to stretch her wide wings once more. For the fledgeling there is no shame. Or, perhaps, not fledgeling-” Amesha laughed as the two of them obviously glanced at each other with her words, all but telling each other they weren’t too fond of the nickname. “-but new to their wings. Flight feathers earned, talons sharpened with use. There is nothing but to ask, to question, to consult the ones who so worry you. You are not burdens. There will be a sun that rises upon your wings spread wide to save both feather and bark. It will come. So until that sun, until the day branches hang low, rely upon them.”

“…Okay but that’s the problem-” “Hey, Fledgeling.” “Don’t call me that.” “Shut up.”

The laugh bubbled out of her like a geyser rising through the layer of melancholy that had taken the two under its heavy wings- They couldn’t help but fall into the light of her laugh. Couldn’t help but rest beneath the bough.

[serpentface]

Tigran: Do you want to play pogs?

[AFTER THE CONCEPT OF POGS IS PRESUMABLY EXPLAINED]

This is a game where you come from? Wow.

I don't have a 'milk caps' for this 'pogs', though. How about Gull instead? Same general idea, it-it's really simple. I mean it's mostly luck, so even a complete amateur stands a chance. Probably not against me, but hey, there's a chance!

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This is killing me because I actually have a game in-universe that Tigran is canonically a fan of that's pretty close to pogs.

It's played with small, dense game tablets (clay, metal, wood) with blank tail sides and decorated head sides. Full sets come in 'decks' with each piece having a unique decoration. The decks are shuffled in a small bag on each turn. Players take turns dropping the all pieces in play from a standing position, and collect each piece that lands face-up on their turn. The facedown pieces are placed back into the bag and reshuffled for the next person's turn. This is repeated until no pieces remain in play. The person who has accumulated the most pieces in the end wins. This is often played with real currency instead of game pieces (in which both players contribute to a pool of coin money, the winner takes all).

The game's common name of 'Gull' refers to one piece in the traditional deck having a gull design on the face. In some variants of the game, the player who wins the gull piece (or a marked coin that functions as one) gets an additional turn that round.

The game is based almost entirely in chance (and is next to impossible to cheat at in any substantial fashion, due to both players using the same set of pieces) though many people will insist they have strategies and secret tricks to influence their toss or general luckiness. Tigran is among these people.

[wowowwild]

My totk polycube (more details and revisions below, i'm not remaking the picture, I already id'd it rip)

I also like the idea that Link, Zelda, Mipha, and Urbosa used to have a cube, likely of a different make-up. Big fan of cubes. Also while I don't see Zelda and Sidon being a thing, I could def see Yona and Link being a thing. What kind of thing? *shrugs and gestures vaguely*

Do we want my hcs on their relationships? I already put a read more so it's not like it's hurting anybody... Alright! You've convinced me.

Zelink: By qpr in this case specifically it's like, besties who hold hands, sleep in the same bed, go on dates (usually revolving around one of their special interests, but sometimes just a picnic or trip), and probably kiss sometimes. Hyrule is super excited about their hero and princess being in a relationship, Hyrule doesn't need to know the details. They do have separation anxiety though, especially on Link's end bc Zelda seems to disappear every time they get separated but they're all very understanding about this. Probably could have marked their line as state recognized qpr bc they probably get married for political reasons.

Sidlink: They freak it nasty style but are also big cuddlers and acts of service and quality time type of people. Muzu is the only one outside the cube to clock them for a while and he's a little mad about it, but Yona and Zelda step in to gaslight him so hard so he feels like he can't say anything.

Zelyona: a product of hanging out with sidlink (bc sidlink already knew each other) and realizing 'oh that person is super chill and very nice and also pretty??? Like really pretty??? By the goddess this can't be happening...' but in general an easy relationship, an easy love. They also probably freak it nasty style. I think they do less of the romance stuff (I hc Zelda as aromantic so...)

Sidona: Childhood friends married for political convenience but they were never against it. Like 'omg I get to marry my bestie for the good of the Domain? Pog.' Another easy relationship but whereas I think zelyona would fall, sidona just kind of naturally slipped into love and was content with that.

Yoink (ik that's not their name but I like it): They both just want their partners to be happy and bond well over that. I think they do casual affection in a platonic way but are not against threesomes or foursomes. I guess I could have put them as qpr bbs.

Sidon&Zelda (idk if they even have a name, pls lmk): They are the most platonic out of the group and it takes them a little longer to get comfortable with each other (not that they were UNcomfortable, just that they didn't know each other as well and mostly they were making time for each other to hang out with their partners so they didn't see each other as much until they started going on group dates). Sidon gives Zelda access to historical records and texts and Zelda teaches Sidon about technology that Purah makes. They enjoy making fun of Link together, and on occasion Yona, but let's be honest, Link is nearly feral so there's a lot more to make fun of.

Politics:

Sidon and Yona have to go to all of the political stuff together they way link and zelda do but it's really funny when both pairs are at the same political thing and every other political figure is like side eyeing their group trying to figure out if cheating is happening or what bc why is Sir Link in Prince Sidon's lap and why is Queen Zelda slow dancing with Lady Yona but the four of them just gaslight everyone. The people who know them know, but anyone who's not close just has to sit there guessing. It's kind of an open secret in their circles, and wouldn't be a problem in general if it weren't for the fact that one of them is a king and another a queen so neither of them or their official partners can technically be consorts of each other or in general really.

Sidon can still talk to Link the way he always has bc he's always been a little homoerotic about it (and they literally put up a statue of Link riding Sidon in town square so I think maybe Zora are just LIKE THAT TM) so they all just mimic how he speaks and blame it on the Zora-Hylian cultural exchange. Pretty much everyone in the Rito village knows, though. Tulin might have let it slip, but they super don't care so it's not a problem.

I may eventually write pieces of this idk.

[aihoshiino]

In the recent chapter something that caught my eye is Aqua saying "who took our mother away from us". I maybe thinking too much or just i am dumb but anyways, the thing is Aqua calling Ai as his mother is something whoch never really happened. Like yeah he said that ai is his mother but it was never as a sentiment but ratehr a statement. In fact he doesn't even hesitate to cal Ai by her name in fornt of others. Now my interpretation is that after gorou-aqua conforntation maybe Aqua came in terms to this this world and accepted he is Aqua Hoshino and Ai is his mother not just his idol. Which i guess can kinda make sense since Aqua did say Ruby is just his sister not sarina, not just weird ass human who happen to be reincarnated too, just his sister.

YEAH!!! i'm ngl i got really overexcited when I first read this chapter in Japanese because I thought it was the first time he'd used that particular phrasing when referring to Ai - basically, there's a couple ways to refer to moms in Japanese all depending on like, context, familiarity, if it's your mom or someone's mom in general etc and Aqua has referred to Ai as 母親 (hahaoya) in 154 and 153 and hahaoya specifically refers exclusively to your own parent. So I was pogging out hardcore and then it was pointed out to me that he does also use hahaoya when talking about her in 72. so oh well LMAO.

THAT SAID!! When Aqua has referred to Ai as his mom in the past, it hasn't been quite so… emotionally loaded, I guess? Like idk, there's a real difference in weight between Aqua explaining his motivations to Taiki and using 母親 in that context vs Aqua looking Kamiki in the face and definitively declaring that his revenge is on his mother's behalf.

SO YEAH, technically not the first time but it feels very [eyes emoji steadily increasing in size], especially off the back of 150 (as you said) having Aqua express firmly that Ruby is his sister, not just someone related to him by accident of reincarnation and biology. UGH IF THIS MANGA ENDS WITHOUT HIM DIRECTLY CALLING HER 'MOM' I'LL NEVER FORGIVE AKASAKA….

[hana-bobo-finch]

ANYWAY WOAH!!! OC TIME (again) (ik this is a pikmin blog and this isn’t pikmin related I just wanna yap a lil)

OK SO LIKE. I DONT HAVE VERY GOOD ESTABLISHED PERSONALITY OR LORE FOR HER (lie. I have plenty but it would take too long to get into so you get nothing) BUT

As you can see she has 2 names, Atami and Domitone, listed as a birth name an chosen name respectively. In my silly little world it’s common practice to choose your own name once you hit a certain age so your name can more accurately reflect yourself. Most of the chosen names are pretty wacky (that whole thing is just an excuse to give my characters goofy names lol). The last name (in this case Lalia) generally stays the same except for in marriage but it’s still pretty normal to change that too. The name atami comes from a city in Japan which’s name means “hot ocean” because she likes boiling water (and also making pasta in said boiling water!!!) As you can see!! She somehow has not gotten seriously burned yet!!! The last name lalia comes from the fact that the name lalia means to talk and she’s kinda brash and argumentative. The name Domitone is harder to explain lmao but it’s a combination of the name of the character who inspired her (I saw inspired very loosely they share pretty much nothing in common) and Otamatone. The silly little squeaking instruments. Her design is also based on otamatones, she has a round face, small round eyes and a kinda triangular shaped mouth (and her braid is meant to look like the…stem? What’s the word?? The top of an otamatone. but I don’t think I got that across very well in the design). She’s kinda stuck permanently pogging because of the shape of her mouth but I can live with that

And she’s a huge history buff, not really an official teacher but she’ll go around giving people unwanted history lessons. Whether they want them or not. In my silly little world a majority of history ended up being forgotten so she’s really the only one who knows a lot of stuff about history. She also loves that turtle. I won’t get into the turtle because I invented the turtle like. Today. His name is Turtlemeister lmao. But he’s a really old turtle who pretty much sees everything and only appears to give his sage wisdom to those who are worthy. She desperately wants to meet the turtle but he doesn’t appear to people who are actively seeking him so she might be going a lil bit crazy trying to track him down.

that is all thank you for coming to my ted talk

[sevensfantasia]

i'm done with nopixel after last night. you got any good suggestions? can be crim or not too

This is gonna be a long post with different suggestions. I also will say to use the hasroot pages for all the servers I am going to mention. More after jump!

ONX - A lot of the good people from NP and Ignite who cared about RP over "content" based "pogs per minute" are over here. WG is very active over there recently helping with updates and is putting out daily patch notes. This is a different server from about 2-3 months ago. I'll admit that I don't watch a lot of crim in general, but some of the really great accounts include:

Myles_Away - His main character right now is Harold, the captain of the LSSD/Grapeseed SD. He also recently brought back his NP main, Connor Stubble. Harold/Stubble is mainly active during shift 1, but you can see him pull out different characters throughout the night as well. He is currently using his pirate character to fuck with Dr. Q

Vondill - He plays Newton Weems, a textbook "beta cuck" cop for the LSPD. He mainly plays in shift 3, but the majority of the city rn wants Weems dead for different reasons.

Mattrp - He plays JR Nixon. (The JR totally means Jack Ripley btw). He is the Lt of the Highway Patrol, essentially the troopers without the trooper name. You will likely remember him for his NP character, Trooper Jack Ripley. He is active during late shift 2 into shift 3.

S0upes - He plays a whole shitton of characters on Purple and ONX, but on ONX he mainly plays Apples, the lead of towing lot LOT Q. He gets into a lot of shit on Apples too. Last I watched, he was having beef with another tow lot. He also brought back his NP character, Silas Grimmer recently. S0upes also plays Adam Sosuke, the genius behind the Moonlight Cabaret, which is totally not a knockoff of the Yakuza games. He is very active in shift 1 into early 2

wtfmoses - He plays AG Salvatore Greco, his Ignite character he brought over to ONX. He is better known for his NP characters George W Nelson and Derek McNulty. He has recently took a step back from some of the AG duties, and he also streams Red Dead content and a crim, but I haven't watched enough of anything that isn't Greco. He is all over the place, but he mainly stays in late shift 1 and almost all of 2.

Momo - She is one of the newer players to rp in general, but she is great. Her main character is the Game Warden, and eventual Lt, Mickey Faraday. Mickey does a lot of other stuff in town on her off time including helping put together the concert for Pride Month. She also plays one of the police K9s, Luna. She's all over the place, but she mainly stays in shift 1 and 2.

Bananaduck - This name should be familiar to posters on here. He is best known for his NP characters including Holden Maddox and Chuck Danger. His main(s) on ONX include Holden's grandson, Edward Maddox. Edward is a balls to the wall cop who is also a massive slut and will fuck any woman that breathes at him. He is currently in conflict right now because his ex gf found out about his new gf. He also dabbles in Holden from time to time as well as Billy Sprinkle. Depending on the day, he is usually late shift 3 into almost all of 1 and part of 2.

Jonthebroski - Another name that is well known for his NP character. He played the beloved cop turned crim Johnny Divine. Over on ONX, he plays Wayne Carcano, a cop that is obsessed with baseball and is learning the ropes from Bill Raptor. Jon mentioned that he wants to take Baastards to ONX as well, so maybe we will see Divine in the future on ONX. Wayne is usually active late shift 2 into a large chunk of 3.

luka_aus - He is known for his NP characters including Luka Kozlov and Holden Maloo, both characters have yet to hit ONX, but I believe they're made as well as some of his other NP characters. He has been going hard on his cop character Marik Chapman, a good ol boy from England. He is seen a lot with Bill Raptor and recently made full deputy. Luka has mentioned that one Chapman made full deputy, you would see more of his crims, including Kozlov who is a crim now. (Imagine how it's gonna be the first time he sees Stubble again!!)

cocobrooklyn - She came over from Ignite, where she plays/ed Barbara Capo. A lot of watchers of old 3.0 NP say that her cop on ONX reminds them a lot of Martell. She plays Sloan Morgan Slaughter. A cop trying to redeem herself after an unfortunate accident led to her being fired for a short time. She isn't as active streaming as some of the others on this list, but she also plays a character on Purple who hangs around with Fingle Dan a lot. Sloan is usually around shift 2, but coco is a degen and is all over the place.

Fozwo - He came over from Ignite as well. His Ignite character is Mickey O'Shea. His ONX character that he mains is Ranger Danny O'Shea, a James Bond loving madman who jumped off Mt. Chilliad multiple times dressed up as Bond to bug test the new parachutes for the admins. Danny cares a lot about the wild in the forests of San Andreas, and he cares a lot about the Game Warden. I just recently started watching him myself, but I've really enjoyed his recent streams. Danny is around mainly in shift 1.

aleks - A name that should be very familiar to anyone who watched NP back in 2.0 and 3.0. Aleks is best known for his cop, which he has brought over to ONX and is now the Director of Public Safety, Bob Smith. Bob is currently bald and in a wheelchair because of an assassin trying to kill him. His streams on Bob are really cozy if you like meeting rp, which I personally really like. He also plays the owner of TurboMax, one of the mechanic shops in town, Maksim Volkoff. He has a handful of other characters, but these are the ones that make streams the majority of the time (RIP Dr. Soupes)

D4N1ELLE - She should be familiar to NP watchers as former HOA member Quimbley Hayabusa. She is going by the same name on ONX, but she is the Medical Director. She spends a lot of time either talking with Bob or hanging out off duty with people like Sean. If you watched her on NP, there are subtle nods back to her former husband, Jerry Sweets, who passed away in a waterslide accident. She always keeps a picture of her and Jerry in her office, and her ties with Stubble are strained now because of the accident.

New Day - New Day is a beast that is totally different from NP, Purple, or ONX. New Day focuses more on long term storytelling over pings and the fast paced story that most servers run with. This is one of my favorite servers, and for a while, I was considering trying to get a spot on the server. I have some friends that either do admin work or play on the server too. The only downfall is that majority of the player base doesn't stream or they stream on YT rather than Twitch.

Homesikh - this is my go to streamer for New Day. I absolutely love both of his characters too. He plays Larry Tate, leader of the Black Lotus Motorcycle Club. Larry cares deeply about the club, but will fuck you up if you do anything stupid too. Larry is best described as "kind, yet cruel." He also plays Kyle Jacobs, his cop character, who runs K9 a lot too, but I mainly watch for Larry because ufff

WhatMuppet - He plays Barry Hill, an absolute shitter, but really when he's not fucking around with his friends, he is leading the Troopers. He's been kinda MIA for a while, like with the rest of the streamers I would usually suggest for ND people, but it is what it is

[obwjam]

Could we perhaps get 33 with Shawn and Lassy? Psych GT pog 🤙

“What are you hiding behind your back?” 

“…no one – uh – nothing…”

sorry this one took me FOREVER dawg shawn is so hard to write. he's so dumb. it's hard to channel that energy. i love him

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“Shawn, we CANNOT bring them with us.”

“Oh, c’mon Gus, don’t be the crust of a half-eaten sandwich thrown in the dumpster behind an Applebee's.”

You smiled. You never got tired of their never-ending banter.

See, you had been found by this pure enigma of a human named Shawn Spencer. You weren’t doing anything wrong, either – you had been moving from building to building, trying to find a relatively quiet space to settle into. The Santa Monica weather was like a borrower’s paradise, so you really just needed somewhere slow, but safe.

This building, you discovered, was rarely ever used, except for a handful of humans who would come through every so often. You kept your distance, never made a mess, never left your hiding spot if anyone was there. Just like you had done in the countless other places you had called home.

But this one found you. He set up a trap, too, so even though he was gone for hours, you were stuck under a metal bucket until he lifted it up and gaped at you in total shock. Eventually, he told you he was able to figure you out because he was psychic… whatever that meant. You were fortunate that he was, ultimately, a kind person, if not a little invasive. At least his friend Gus seemed more freaked out by you than you were of him when Shawn introduced you to him against your will. That was a weird day.

Now, you were sitting in Shawn’s hand as Gus piloted their little blue car. You didn’t really like to be carried, but Shawn was overly eager to show you all aspects of human life – and today, that meant the McDonald’s drive-thru. But Jules had just called, urging the pair to get down to this crime scene right away. Gus wanted to drop you back at the Psych office. Shawn did not.

“I will not be held responsible for smuggling a borrower into a crime scene!”

“Woah, Gus, watch your language. It’s offensive to say ‘borrower.’ I believe they prefer the term, ‘tiny person.’”

You shook your head when Gus gave you an exasperated look. “No, Shawn, that’s literally what I am.”

Gus tightened his grip on the wheel. “Shawn, please, if Lassie sees them–”

“Lassie will not see them,” Shawn asserted. “I’ll make sure of it.”

“Oh, now I’m real confident.”

“Shawn, really, I don’t have to come. I’ll be fine here.”

Shawn gave you a look like you had just cursed him out. “I can’t leave you in the car! That’s illegal!”

“It’s illegal for babies and dogs, Shawn, of which Jada is neither.”

You groaned. You had heard horror stories about Lassie – grumpy, mean, generally discontent with Shawn and Gus’s presence at most things. If you understood one thing about Shawn’s life, it’s that he didn’t know how to stay out of trouble, which felt like a disaster waiting to happen whenever you were with him. 

“It’ll be fine,” said Shawn, giving you a sympathetic enough look that you didn't immediately roll your eyes. “I’ll keep you in my hand and you can just peek through my fingers, like you're Jim Halpert.”

You shook your head. “No. No hand. It’s your front pocket or nothing.”

“What’s so wrong with my hand?” Shawn asked, sounding hurt. 

“You are sitting in it right now,” Gus pointed out. 

You sighed. “I dunno, I…” You realized you didn’t actually have to tell them the truth. “It… smells bad.”

Gus let out a laugh while Shawn tried his best to defend his odor, insisting that he showers every day and washes his hands even more often than that. But you wouldn’t relent, and he eventually agreed to stick you in his front pocket when you arrived.

“I still think it’s better if we just dropped you off back at Psych,” Gus said, eyeing you carefully. Shawn was pretending his hand was an elevator as he lifted you to his pocket. “A front pocket’s pretty exposed.”

You happened to agree with Gus on this one, which wasn’t very common, since Gus tended to worry about every single little thing you did. But there was no changing Shawn’s mind when it was made up. 

You hoisted yourself into his pocket. Shawn’s hand gave you a little boost as you pulled yourself up, resulting in you tumbling forward and flipping headfirst into the pocket. Embarrassed, you rubbed your head and tried to play it off.

“Whoops. You alright?” Shawn’s muffled voice came from above you. You just nodded, figuring if he was really a psychic, he would know you just did that. 

After what felt like forever, you finally felt the car come to a halt and the engine shut off. Gus turned to Shawn and made a face.

“How’s it look? Inconspicuous?” Shawn asked.

“It looks like you have a lump in your pocket.”

Shawn peered down, barely making out your sweaty face through the thin pocket opening. “How is it in there?”

You gave him a look of discontent. “Hot.”

Before anyone could reply, Jules was at the window, rapping her knuckles frantically on the glass. You could barely hear her yelling at the pair to get their asses out of the car. Shawn gave you a protective tap, as if he was checking to make sure you were still there, before climbing out.

You knew it would be suicide to peek your head out, but you would be lying if you said you weren’t morbidly curious as to what was going on. It was impossible to understand all the criminal jargon these cops were tossing around.

Gus kept nervously glancing at Shawn’s pocket every time you shifted your weight, and Lassie probably wouldn't have paid any attention to it if Shawn didn’t have his hand hovering just below it. The detective raised his eyebrows, and Gus noticed, making up a silly excuse to drag Shawn to an adjacent room.

“I think Lassie’s onto us, Shawn,” he whispered harshly. “He keeps looking at your pocket.”

“Because you keep staring at it!” Shawn shot back. Without thinking, he plunged his hand into the pocket, causing you to squeal and push yourself back. You tried your best to avoid his fingers, but it was a futile effort. Once he found you, he pinched your waist and slowly pulled you out – despite your uncomfortable wriggling – and plopped you into his palm.

“I hate it when you do that,” you grumbled, swiping your hair out of your face. 

“Gus, I want you to get them out of here,” Shawn instructed, holding his hand out. “Take them outside, anywhere, I don’t care, just–”

“What are you two doing?”

Shawn and Gus yelped, almost a little too comically. Lassie had snuck up behind them. Before you could even register what was going on, Shawn curled his fingers over you and whipped his hand behind his back. He cringed when he felt you slam into his fingers. Your miniscule movements as you pushed yourself up and readjusted made his whole arm twitch. 

“What are you hiding behind your back?” 

“...no one – uh – nothing...”

Your eyes went wide. No, he did not just say that.

Gus smacked his forehead. “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me, Shawn.” 

“What are you… just show me your damn hand, Spencer. Now.”

“I told you, this was a bad idea!”

“Can it, Guster,” Lassie snapped. “What could you possibly be hiding that you don’t want to show me?”

In Shawn’s hand, your panic had morphed into desperation. Logically, there was no getting out of this, but that didn’t stop your instincts from taking over. You yanked at Shawn’s fingers like they were prison bars, trying to pry them apart so you could leap to safety. You kicked and punched and yelled in frustration. 

Shawn, of course, felt every little impact, but stayed surprisingly still through the whole ordeal as the thoughts raced in his mind. Aside from taking off and running away – which was his top possibility until he noticed that Lassie was covering their only exit – there was no way out of this one.

Soon, that familiar sinking feeling was back in your stomach. You tried to stand up to gain more strength to escape, but there was no way you would ever be able to overmatch a human. Tears began to stream from your eyes out of frustration. You weren’t even a match for a human’s fingers. How pathetic was that? How could you even think it would be any different?

“No, no, Shawn, please, please don’t do this, please, please…” you begged to yourself, knowing it was useless. You hugged yourself and shut your eyes, trying to squeeze the nauseating feeling away.

Shawn and Gus exchanged a knowing glance before both sets of eyes fixated on the outstretched hand. Even Lassie, who was usually quick to reprimand these idiots, stayed quiet. He could feel that something was off.

“Alright, Lassie, just… just try not to freak out, alright? They’re a little skittish.”

“What the hell are you talking about? What is going… on.” Lassie’s demeanor completely changed the moment he laid eyes on you. His face, once contorted in anger, had now softened to a degree that Shawn and Gus had never seen.

Not that you would know. All you saw was the scrunched-up, confused and downright pissed off looking face of a giant taller than both Gus and Shawn, something you didn’t think was possible. His eyes were blown wide and his mouth hung agape, which was a mirror image of your own expression. You scooted back, and Lassie jumped a bit at the movement. Shawn could feel your trembles, and he didn’t like it.

“What the hell am I looking at, Spencer?”

“This? Well, um, this – them – they, they’re uh –”

“–they’re tiny,” Lassie finished, eyes still fixated on your shaking form. His mind was racing a million miles per hour. What were you? How did something like you exist? More importantly, what on earth were you doing with Shawn and Gus?

Shawn laughed nervously. When was the last time he was nervous? “Woah! They are? I hadn’t noticed!”

Lassie ignored Shawn’s joke and took a tentative step forward and leaned down to get a closer look. He didn’t miss the way your eyes grew even wider as you receded back. “What is it?” 

“That ‘it’ is a person,” Gus said, stepping closer. He would get between you and Lassie if he needed to. “With a name, emotions, thoughts and feelings, just like the rest of us.”

“Huh.” He blinked a few times. “So it – they – can understand us?”

“Don’t be silly, Lassie,” Shawn chided. He was actually getting angry at him. “Think of them as a human being, just… pocket-sized.”

Your quivers only grew stronger the more Lassie maintained eye contact with you. You were gripping onto Shawn’s skin for dear life, so tense that stars started popping in and out of your vision. You felt pinned down underneath three human gazes, all staring at you in fascination and worry. You hadn’t felt this vulnerable since the day Shawn discovered you.

“Where did you find them? Here?”

Shawn shook his head. “I found them at Psych. You know, with my awesome psychic powers and all.”

“And how long ago was that?”

“I dunno,” Shawn shrugged. “A month, maybe two.”

There was a cool silence until Lassie remembered he was supposed to be mad. “What the hell are you doing bringing them to an active crime scene?!” 

You shivered back at the sheer volume of his voice, and the overwhelming sound was enough to get the tears flowing again. Shit. He was pissed. You were really in trouble now.

“Hey! Don’t yell,” Shawn cried. He knew how much you hated when voices were raised. “In our defense, they were in the car with us when Jules demanded we get down here. Ruined a perfectly good trip to Mickey D's.”

“For the record, I didn’t want them coming here,” Gus interjected.

“Why didn’t you just leave them in the car? You really thought bringing them inside was a good idea, with a bunch of cops crawling around?!” Lassie pinched his brow. “Damn it, Spencer.”

Shawn glanced down at you as soon as he felt a miniscule splash of water on his palm, a protective rage bubbling up inside. He hadn’t seen you this upset since he had found you, and it just about killed him to see you like that. “Just, calm down Lassie, alright? You’re freaking them out.”

“Don’t tell me to be calm! You – you brought some, some unauthorized being into a classified location and tried to hide it from me! You’re lucky nobody else saw them! I –”

Lassie locked eyes with you again, and he stopped. Shawn was right – you were freaked out. By him. Even from all the way up here, he could see your heavy breathing and pale face. He wanted to reprimand Shawn and Gus for this, but he felt a pang of guilt each time he looked at you. This wasn’t your fault, and him getting angry was clearly a very scary sight.

“You said they had a name?” Lassie said all of a sudden, voice back to a normal decibel level. Shawn and Gus nodded. “What is it?”

“Why don’t you ask them yourself?”

Slowly, the giant detective turned back to you. You couldn’t quite read his expression – he was mad, for sure, but he was also… curious. Intrigued. You leaned back as he once again bent down, this time farther to be at eye level with you.

“Um… hi there,” he said awkwardly, causing Shawn to snicker. Lassie shot him a look, but didn’t say anything. “What’s, uh, your name?”

You looked at him in utter shock, too scared to say anything. Lassie looked expectantly, but frowned when you didn’t respond. “I thought you said they could understand me.”

“They can!” Shawn protested.

“You obviously just scared the living crap out of them,” Gus added angrily.

Lassie hummed. He could tell you were frightened, but to the point where you couldn’t even speak? He felt awful.

“Look, I, uh, I’m sorry I scared you,” Lassie said sheepishly, surprising you. “I just didn’t expect to meet a tiny person today. Or, well, ever…” He trailed off, unsure of what he could say that would make you feel better. This was uncharted territory, even for him, but it was also fascinating. Shawn and Gus have had this tiny person with them for months. He had to know more.

“You two need to get them out of here. I don’t want to risk anyone else seeing this poor thing, alright?” The pair of friends were taken aback by the concern in Lassie’s voice. “We can talk more back at the station.”

“The station? I thought you said you didn’t want anyone seeing them,” Gus questioned.

Lassie raised his eyebrow. “Don’t think I’m letting you off the hook for this one, Guster. Besides, I have a million things I want to ask them, and this isn’t the place.” You gawked as Lassie stretched back up to his full height, which was still mind-numbingly tall. Lassie shivered when he looked back at you – you were so small in Shawn’s stupid hand.

“I know I must look scary, but don’t worry about me, alright? It’s these two idiots that should scare you.” You sniffed a surprising laugh at his bluntness. “You can always tell me if they’re causing you any trouble.”

Shawn and Gus were too stunned to speak as their boss left the room. Lassie was being gentle with you? Never in a million years would they have expected that reaction.

Shawn broke the silence. “Well, that was weird.”

Gus nodded in agreement. “I am deeply disturbed.”

“Jada? Are you alright?” Shawn asked, cupping you close to his chest. Truthfully, you didn’t quite know the answer. You were expecting the worst in this situation – being picked up, poked, prodded. But Lassie didn’t do any of that. He didn’t even try to touch you. He was… respectful, for the most part, and kind. He was speaking to you like a real person. He seemed to really care.

You turned back to the doorway, peering past Shawn to watch Lassie conferring with all the different people in the other room. Knowing these two, you understood why Lassie might be averse to them, but you couldn’t help but feel strangely calm after your short meeting. There was something about him that left you wanting to know more.

“Yeah, Shawn,” you said after a moment. Your voice was as calm as it’s ever been. “I think I’ll be alright.”

[hanna-oc-irl]

Intro Post

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I'm Hanna, the Mistress of Discord and a Ninja trainee. Yes the hair's natural. No, I'm not an elemental master. And uhm.. wtf is happening lmao.

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Background Info:

Cis-Female

18yrs (NO NSFW)

She/Her/Hers

Straight

Not Single :3c

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Lore:

hanna has been transported to this new world with people she recognizes but have no idea who she is. don't worry though! she's only freaking out on the inside :D

OOC:

Hanna is an OC for Ninjago which is why she knows the characters (rp accounts) on Tumblr but they don't know who she is. In her AU, she is shipped with Lloyd, they are in an active relationship. BUT, unless discussed beforehand, Hanna will not be interacting with the current Lloyds on the platform as if they were the person she is in a relationship with.

This rp blog is managed by @riagraie feel free to ask questions about Hanna, her lore, and the AU she's from!

Timeline:

Hanna is from, I've now decided, after Crystallized (s16) not Master of The Mountain(s13). So, still pre-merge, but after the canon events of the show BEFORE Dragons Rising

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Tags:

hanna blogs : used for original posts and reblogs of other posts

hanna answered thou : used for posts answering asks or rebloging ask conversations

hanna rp : general tag

echoes of the echoed : used for posts/asks indirectly or directly about the AU she's from

Garm n Hann : used for posts with @time-travelling-lord-garmadon bc he and Hanna are now besties.

in the chaos : used for posts about Hanna's shift to darkness and to being evil

cat Pog : used for posts about Hanna's little male black cat named Void!! Or about the other cats Hanna gave to the ninja/gremlin Lloyd/echo

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Ooc addition: So stuff about Hanna's lore that may be cool to know.

She's not human! Not completely anyway. I went insane and made an entire new species called Harmonizers. They are really complicated but basically, there's two branches, one People of Peace and the other People of Chaos. They controlled either the essence of peace or the essence of chaos.

To Hanna's powers, they are called Discord. It's a combo of the essences of peace and chaos. This is high level, so if you have questions, ask!!

[copperdaisy]

Oh, apparently today is International Seal Day!

To honor it I guess I'll ramble about my OC Willow Byrne, the selkie. I have talked about her a bit here before but not in much detail. I don't have the energy to be longwinded tonight either thanks to allergies but have a few random facts about her.

1: Willow was born in the late 80s and is thus a 90s kid. She saw the rise and fall of many a pop culture craze: inflatable furniture, clear electronics, beanie babies, Pogs, boy bands, girl bands, neon. You name it, she probably saw it. 2: Her mother raised her with equal exposure to and knowledge of the worlds above and below the waves. She wanted her daughter to be able to safely navigate both land and sea. As a result, Willow is comfortable no matter where she is... though she tends to do a bit better mingling with humans on land these days.

3: She has been to Atlantis before and knows roughly where it is, but couldn't lead anyone there on her own. Her opinion on the place is more or less the "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" emoji. She supposes that it is a nice enough place to visit if one is able to do so, but she never really fit in during her time there. Same for most other underwater cities tbh.

4: She loves sea shanties and uses them semi-frequently in her daily life, usually while doing menial tasks. They are a great way to keep on pace and are just fun to hum or sing as she does chores or goes for a run. 5: Sunken ships are some of her favorite things, both studying them from afar in text books and documentaries, and exploring them on her own. Honestly, history and relics of the past in general are of great interest to her. It is a fascinating area of study. 6: She has a horseshoe crab friend that she has named Felix. He is a somewhat frequent visitor to the beach in front of her house, and she has had to carry him back to the water on more than three occasions. Stop hanging out in the shallows during storms, silly little dude! 7: Sea gulls are her friends as well. Or at least she makes an effort to get in the good graces of any gull mafia wherever she goes. They are useful to have around when she is visiting unfamiliar beaches. Their calls have alerted her to danger countless times in the past.

[onesourceofbadinformation]

jankom pog

first impression

HIS NAME IS JANKOM POG?,

impression now

lol i still can't fucking believe they named him jankom pog. i think that he's funny and i think that he's occasionally sweet! i like that he genuinely seems to enjoy hanging out with the crew. i like when he's an asshole

favorite moment

probably him hanging around criticizing dal during kobayashi, thereby proving he would make a great first officer

idea for a story

jankom pog character study where he is stranded alone on a planet, unable to distract himself or others with dumb jokes, forced to deal with his own thoughts for once, suffering self-doubt, dealing with the ghosts of his past, all the classics. eventually engineers a distress beacon or some way to contact the protostar and returns a changed person. the crew of the protostar is expecting silly jankom pog but no.....a slightly more serious jankom pog has returned

unpopular opinion

im gonna be real with you i have no idea what the general public thinks of jankom pog so i have no idea what constitutes an unpopular opinion. i believe he has potential to be more than comic relief! i believe there is depth there! thats all ive got

favorite relationship

his interactions with dal are great but honestly i'd love him and gwyn to hang more often. i think he has a bluntness and simplistic view of life that she'd really appreciate

favorite headcanon

hes gay. i know i havent seen the scene of him surrounded by tellarite bikers but i know this in my heart to be true

[sh1-n0bu]

(event ask) Name your top favourite characters from all the fandoms in your list!

oooh pog question general!

Genshin Impact

The twins, Xiao, Albedo, Rubedo(fake albedo), Heizou, Kazuha, Scaramouche, The ginger menace, Beidou, Dehya, Nahida, Thoma, Gorou, Collei, Tighnari, Cyno

Hetalia

Greece, Germany, Prussia, Hungary (my queen)

Berserk

Guts, Casca, Skull knight (real bro fr fr), Rickert, Roderick (an amazingly written side character)

Magi

Judar (i saw some spoilers from the manga and it seems like he gets a redemption arc), Morgiana (she’s such a beautifully written character), Ja’far (his redemption arc and character development might be the best one in the manga/anime), Gyokuen Ren (you never really see that many female villians who actually feel like one), Yunan, Sphintus

Obey me

Mammon (the only demon i would date), Satan (a kinnie moment), Diavolo (when the puppy prince turned serious i was scared bro), Barbatos, Luke (my son), Thirteen (isn’t it a beautiful day to be bi)

Creepypasta

Liu, Laughing Jack (big, crazy clown man go brrrr), Masky and Hoodie (technically they’re from Marble Hornets but i suppose the fandom counts them as a CP. also they’re probably the only sane ones)

Demon slayer

Shinobu Kocho (kinnie moment), Tanjiro (who doesn’t love him?), Sanemi and Genya (their reconciliation part bro), Gyomei (gentle giant man who can easily crush me with a single hand), Kagaya Ubuyashiki (in most animes and mangas the headmaster or the character in control are always 2 faced or just a mean, rude bitch. so glad Kagaya sees the entire demon slayer corp as his own children), Tamayo (queen), Haganezuka (anime only ain’t ready for his face reveal), Senjuro (my son)

The arcana

Muriel (ig my taste in men is traumatized or gentle giants), Portia, Julian (masochist), Nadia’s family (ugh my heart be doing cartwheels whenever they appear on the screen. ig beauty just runs in the family, Pepi (cats!!), Morga (love her ost but i can’t seem to find it on yt)

Nanbaka

Musashi (i can’t fix him but i can fuck him-), Liang, Kiji (he seems to be “Drag queen” character, love his colorful personality), Samon, Yamato (himbo fr), Seitarou (he’s cute okay?), Momoko (another queen), Kuu (once again cats!!)

[quaelgeist333]

It's really interesting to me how many warriors rewrites get rid of humans because NIAF actually takes pretty much the opposite direction with it, the main groups' cultures and growth etc. The development of their ranks and tools (also names, shard wormheart's name is very much from worm on a string and not actually worms). Like in the books, there's daylight warriors, but unlike the book they never got rid of the rank, they're just adjusted for with like never being able to join the frost journey (annual thing where in winter cats go on a journey to meet and stay with the two other groups). Humans also aren't really a threat, as a few of the people living near the communes are actually felinologists and general biologists who are really invested in these cats and their behaviors. Because of this cat catchers and humans destroying territory aren't really a thing because it would interfere with their studies, some cats just sometimes get taken, given vaxxines and if they need it cures for diseases and let them go on their way.

So yeah, when i finally make the comic in the huge dramatic scenes you can assume offscreen a bunch of dudes are like freaking out, pogging etc

[wichitalk]

for the character thing. eridan :3 also my personal headcanons cause fuck u i actually dont care abt ur opinions

Sexuality Headcanon: bisexual

Gender Headcanon: gender fluid

A ship I have with said character: erisol

A BROTP I have with said character: erisol. again.

A NOTP I have with said character: dont really have one. but i guess erifef (or whatever their ship name is lol)

A random headcanon: uses he/she/ they prns :33

General Opinion over said character: v pog 👍 he should kill more people

RETWEET. i feel that way

[ububunes]

Will literally not stop calling that stupid fucking site Twitter or a tweet a tweet. idc what stupid name they come up with. i want that bird back and i want that annoying 50 year old lameass out of his spot as ceo.

I don't like to ageshame or whatever but Elon being like 50 and asking people to call him technoking or whatever stupid name the next neocities prompt site tells him to pick. Man have some shame. Maybe I'm just weak but I'd die of shame on the spot before publicly asking to be called technoking. I can't imagine an ex seeing that or my child seeing it. I'd like. Expel every single awful thing in my body that would make me even ask or say that. Do you want your dick sucked that badly. Are you that lonely. That desperate for. I don't even know?? Attention? Acceptance? Approval?? Other a words????? Yeah okay 'ububnes' is kinda dumb but I've got shame y'know. I can acknowledge that. And not to sound. Absolutely sick in the head but I am an empath (<- aka knows the skill of empathy and is able to actually try and understand what others are going through instead of firing someone because they 'arent working enough' (I still cannot believe he did that without even realizing who he fired. The only time he is funny is when he is not trying to be.)) I can usually tell when people are uncomfortable with what I'm doing and I just don't think Elon can, or he just has too many people who just agree with everything he says and blah blah blah so that he can't even recognize when he's saying something dumb as shit and dragging his barely alive reputation. I would never be able to agree with Elon politically specifically because he does not seem to actually care that much and just does whatever he thinks is 1. Funny and 2. Will get him profits (for the companies he cares about owning anyways.) that any time I hear Elon say anything ever I'm like "ok but does he really mean that." Yeah free speech wooo cool pog but like.... You can't just allow ALL speech Elon... You're allowed to limit specific types of speech dude... Remember when like. Right after he bought Twitter there was like an absolutely unprecedented amount of hate speech suddenly on the site. As in more than usual for Twitter. That's literally why Elon. Some people will post stuff that is LITERALLY illegal in the worst possible way dude. You have to have some limits and moderation!!! It might sound contradictory but you CAN be pro free speech but still limit hate speech. They can still think and say all of that, just not on your platform. I remember how when it happened my mom genuinely thought "it was the liberals" doing the hate speech. Girl what!!! I'm not going to say no liberal ever has done hate speech but the influx of hate speech when the pro free speech guy bought Twitter... It's gonna be people who are 1. Just kinda awful people 2. Want to test how far they can go 3. Sorry mom, more likely conservatives. Anyways they absolutely missed out on the chance to rename to "twt" I don't know where x comes from and I don't care it sounds dumb and like... Idk. Not Twitter. I also said this on my twt but y'know how Facebook rebranded to meta while they were in huge privacy scandals and scandals in general to instead hopefully change public perception of the company and grant them a "blank slate" to hopefully build a new better image. I'm sure that isn't similar at all.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

[demoniccrowz]

association time! uhh okay lets see i associate you with

notifications, because whether it be q [rip] or tumblr, you fill my notifications. and i adore it honestly youre one of the few people who reblog and like my posts, and you were like. the only person who consistently gave me notifications on q [rip] like i loveeee love love logging on and seeing a whole bunch of notifications and they're all from you

crows [obvious]

just birds and bird related things in general

murder and goodnight and see you later. because of your infamous posts you do when signing off after talking to people and stuff

chat and pog. although thats more Midas, it reminds me of both of you

theres a mexican cryptid that i really really cant remember the name of right now but i learned about it from Victor and Valentino and basically if a child pretended to be hurt, it would take that child and take it back to its nest and take care of them. i think it was like a bird lady or something. ill give you the name later and a better explanation on its legend because that doesn't do it justice at all 👍

EXPLODES??????

[hungry-skeleton]

Oh hey pog. I'm Muslim but my family kinda started celebrating Christmas in the USA. Basically to fit in. (Well that's what I was told when I finally asked about it but then I got told more recently that more specifically it was when my brothers and I came along 'cus my parents didn't think we'd like understand that we just don't celebrate this because of religion and that those other kids just have that Santa thing their parents do and we aren't being like Excluded or anything we just don't celebrate it. Something like that I think. Like they didn't want us feeling like we were being left out and also didn't want us being too confused so we just kinda started doing it. And hey I mean we have some people who just actually grew up celebrating Christmas in the family or close to it now [like one of my uncles {married in} who's Catholic, or my brother's fiancée] so. Yeah we have an excuse now I guess and hey we have fun with it even if it's time-consuming XD)

aight so uh I've been doing a lot of christmas carol digging for. Reasons. Kinda a minor hyperfixation at this point. Started back in like November tbh and I've mostly kept quiet about it on here but it's been on the brain when I haven't had Existential Dread or some shzt.

so uh basically Christmas Carol had the questionable choice of giving Scrooge a jewish first name which. Sucks given the whole story but like. When you know the character's backstory it's like "but his family celebrates Christmas so they're like probably Not Jewish so why does he have that name????????" And like.

I feel like I have to bring that up whenever I try to talk about anything because it genuinely is. Noticeable once you know it's a thing. But if you literally just ignore/change his first name the story is literally identical because him not celebrating Christmas is because he just had absolute shzt in life during Christmas time because his dad hated him and left him at boarding school during Christmas break and also his sister died and his fiancée left him so he just kinda started hating the whole thing. I think. Like.

ok I got that out of the way because Yeah That Sucks but like if you just change his name then the story still functions and also is actually really Based in like a lot of the rest of it because it actually Isn't just a man becoming a good person when he starts celebrating Christmas. I mean first of all the story was written during the time when Puritans were everywhere and just really fubkign hated Christmas so like even if it were it wouldn't be as obnoxious as if that kind of story got written today since Christmas was actually being like Threatened back then to my knowledge???? Or at least that's the perception and this book did like cement a lot of Christmas imagery that we know today. And I think that's cool. Also there's a scene in the book you like never see in adaptations in the Christmas Present part where it's basically just Scrooge complaining to the Ghost about that one movement I forgot the name of of people who want to absolutely shut everything down during Sundays even more than things already do and specifically targeting bakeries that keep their ovens on so that poor and homeless people can like. Have warmth. And the Ghost basically says "yeah God doesn't actually approve of that shzt even if they try to claim he does people will use God to excuse anything they do" and honestly Pog.

Yeah the story in general is kinda just like "treat the poor good" because originally Scrooge doesn't even really do anything like ACTIVE in terms of "wrongdoings" or at least everything he does is legal and he doesn't actually make anything worse actively the reason he's a bad person is literally because he has the power (money) to make things better for people and just. Doesn't. He's accumulating wealth and refuses to even give it back to the economy (he doesn't even spend it on himself??? His house sucks like damn bxtch you live like this?) and like. I mean just like billionaires right now right? And the reason he's bad is because he ISN'T giving that money to the poor when he has more than enough to. He's bad because he refuses to do good. Like he refuses to give this one family an extension on something I think and they end up rejoicing when he dies in the Yet To Come future 'cus it gives them enough time to get the money together they need to pay off their debt I think? Like, they were gonna get the money but they were gonna get it a bit after the due date and Scrooge being bad is because he refuses to do the right thing and give them the extra time because it's not in the contract. But he has the ability to give them that time. And you know I think it's based saying "even if you're not breaking the rules, if you're capable of doing a good thing you should be doing the good thing" like. Am I right-

oh yeah also because he believes in eugenicizing the poor and basically the literal Ghost of Christmas Present literally tells him off like Who are you to decide who gets to live and who should die? Like literally "rich people shouldn't get to let poor people die off" like I think our society needs that message now more than ever with all the frickin' anti-homeless architecture shzt I've seen pictures of and all the billionaires running around-

(oh and the context of it is Scrooge hearing that poor people would rather die than work in "hellish workhouses" [so probably like inhumane working conditions where they'd probably get killed anyway] and then saying that those people should die and "decrease the surplus population" and then Christmas Present throws this line back at his face when he sees the Cratchits-)

but also the story is like "yeah even if you're this bad you can still get better and who cares if some people won't accept that if you're still out there doing good things now and saying good things" and I think our society ESPECIALLY needs that now-

Ok sorry if this was hard to follow I just needed to ramble a bit like. But like God why did they have to name him that like it just adds a bad underlying taste but that taste doesn't even make sense because it contradicts other stuff and just. Like-

anyway uh I think we need to sic the ghosts onto like every billionaire right now ever who's with me-

I never made a lot of those connections because I'm so used to modern adaptations of the story (the muppets and that one really fucking scary CGI one) also I just don't watch it that often.. More of A Christmas Story fan

Anyways yeah I can't add much else you're very right.. I promise I read all of that I'm just mashed potato brain RN 💚💚 merry crisis