#recoded spoilers

[marvel-and-dc-geek]

Apollo is genuinely nice

Im manifesting his victory, manifesting manifesting manifesting

[mad-rdr]

April Reads

9 books this month!

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (★ ★ ★ ★/5): I’ve finally read the og fantasy book and honestly it was so nice to go back to the basics before “romantasy” became a thing. An adventure for an adventure's sake !

The War of Two Queens by Jennifer Armentrout (★ ★ ★/5): this book should’ve been book 2 and we could’ve skipped those other ones. There’s a lot of unnecessary back and forth in this book and once again I stress the importance of editors. The anticipated threesome was okay, could’ve been better tbh. Honestly, I will not be finishing this series- especially after learning that book 5 is literally just a retelling of book 1 in Casteel’s POV. Respectfully I don’t care enough to continue

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (★ ★ ★/5): this book, much like the storyline consists of, reads like fanfiction. I was genuinely taken aback by the Ao3-formatted chapters within this book, like I did not think that was necessary but okay. Not awful, but be prepared for cringy adults (almost 40 yrs old btw) that have little to no communication skills

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco (★ ★ ★/5): I'm a little late to the hype of this book but it was enjoyable nonetheless. I loved Audrey Rose and Thomas' interactions and all props to them both for being interested in mortuary science... couldn't be me

Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco (★ ★ ★ ★/5): this was a good mysterious follow up to the first book, although I think it's funny that they went through all of that to not get admitted into the forensics school (also these poor children have soo much trauma now)

Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka (★ ★ ★/5): a good insight into how efforts to make the government smaller have actually made possible technological advancements nearly impossible (at least on government websites). The policy loopholes (more like tangles) are astounding and frustrating and the government is a mess

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5): I'm only a little familiar with the original Hindu myth of Ramayana but I feel like this take was so good! I really enjoyed Kaikeyi's story and learning abt her motivations for what she did, mythology (and history) is never kind to female voices, and I think their stories need to be told too

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (★ ★ ★ ★/5): what a fun little mystery novel! The humor of the narrator made this quite enjoyable and quick to read, although I'm a little disappointed this wasn't a story about a family of serial killers

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5): this was such a wholesome story about life after death and seeing the best in humanity. This also taught me that life is too short to not be lived. Go out into the world and live and love and learn and do all the things you want to do without waiting for the "right" moment !

[lamphous]

downloaded the full ep this morning and watched it piecemeal on break bc I couldn't wait but I'm glad to say finally before you all. I am so sorry I ever said anything bad about you s2 you were made in the lab for me too

[braveheartstoryteller]

"Do ya have to go?" "Well...l I did doze off...I just have some stuff to take care of." "Are you gonna to be okay?" "Yeah. I won't be long." "Be careful." "Very careful." "Right. See you soon." -closing lines of KH3D

In that moment, there seems to be a shift to me. Perhaps it is my perception, but not all is as it seems. What was, no longer is. Unlike Data-Sora which sort of gets a happy ending, KH3D is sort of bittersweet, with unanswered questions lingering. In the words of Sora's friends, they are worried about him. Sora instead sort of brushes them off, or assures them that he's fine. But I wonder...could anyone be truly fine after what he experienced? Or would Sora, just like he'd done before, just move on. Keep swimming, keep fighting, keep going. It feels like that is the choice he makes. Instead of trying to process what he just went through, he choses to ignore it, and continues his journey. Perhaps in hope of finding more answers. I suppose that is the thing. Yeah, something has shifted, something is now truly wrong, in a sense. But he has no idea how to deal with any of it. What he knows, is to fix it. Just like Kairi and Riku, he'll go on and try to rescue Roxas, and others from their sleep. It's not a wrong answer, for the is what needs to happen. But...what about him and his own heart? This, he ignores. In fact we have a scene that sort of brings everything together, as it is scene that deals with Data-Sora and Re:coded. It all revolves around a line, a line that is in both games: "A little hurt can't be all that bad."  However, as pointed out by others, the context of the words are different. For Data-Sora, he says it with the understanding that hurt can connect us to others. His words before the lines in question reflect this:

"If it [the hurt he felt in Data-Roxas' heart] brings me closer to people like that, then..."

However, Sora seems to go with the negative:

"Having no one to turn to was the worst kind of hurt. But that just shows how much you mean to me. Carrying around a little hurt can't be all that bad. Hurting is part of caring."

For Sora, hurt is a burden, one that he, himself, shoulders for another, not a shared burden. There is a subtle but crucial distinction. In my view, Sora seems to carry a weight on his shoulders, a pressure to fix what is broken, something that is made worse by what the others tell him. And seemingly he struggles under the weight, but he never once tries to share it, and truly rely on someone else. This is seemingly highlighted when the seven guardians are finally gathered, and they meet with Yen Sid. As the scene goes on, Sora becomes upset. "But...I do wish that Roxas, and Naminé, and Terra could be here with us too." This causes Riku to comment saying "since when do you mope, Sora?" Sora, despite all that has been accomplished, can only see what hadn't been. All he can feel is that burden, a burden he feels he alone has. The whole scene seems to be a nod to both Sora's feelings of isolation, as well as the assurance the others try to give him. It seems to perhaps have assured him at least somewhat by the end, but it still shows us just how much a struggle this had been for Sora. And perhaps, just a little too late. And that is what is sad about all of this. Sora doesn't have the tools to deal with all that had been given to him. It was too much, too fast. But, perhaps that makes him all the more relatable. I don't like heroes being truly tainted. However, broken heroes, I love. They are very relatable to me, and I've never quite seen a hero like Sora. A childlike spirit, one full of light, wanting to make the world better than he found it. And then, without warning, the darkness threatens still. He's not perfect. In a way the story of Re:coded, while important (and a fun game to play) is too perfect. Data-Sora had the gentle path, one that when all came to shove he's able to deal with what he's given, and with joy. It is the ideal path. But that doesn't make for much of a story. Nor does one learn as much, both in our own lives and in stories. It's why I love Sora's story better. It is broken, yes. It is also painful. But it resonates. I know what he means when he says "alone, I'm worthless." How many of us, in our hearts of hearts, feel the same. It highlights our need for connection, our need for others in our lives. Both human, and what might be much beyond that. I know without a doubt with out the Light in my own heart, I wouldn't be who I am today. It is why I love KH. The focus on connection, and even finding one's Light. Simple themes, but ones so utterly important to our ever increasingly broken world. And here, we finally find an ending. If you've followed through it all, I thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed, and perhaps learned something too. May the Light illuminate your path, and your heart be your guiding key.

[syrma-sensei]

→ Love Underwater.

gif credit.

pairing: namor of talokan x queen!reader.

rating: fluff.

warning: spoilers for black panther: wakanda forever.

The King lets out a light grunt when you slip his large necklace off after you took his cape off of his shoulders, revealing the gills on the two crooks of his neck. He tilts his head, cracking the bones of his neck, and you giggle when his lips graze the knuckles of your fingers. Then, you click each of his arm bracelets open, removing and putting them on the adorned tray for the servants to pick up later when you're done.

You massage the muscles of his arms and shoulders, and he groans approvingly. Hands trailing down to his abdomen, unclasping his large belt from around his refined waist. You never let the servants undress the King when he retires to his chambers; a job you've taken it upon yourself since the day you married the King of Talokan; a sweet and intimate gesture of a wife to her husband. When you're done, Ku'kul'kan whisks you playfully to his lap while he's sitting on the large bed. He kisses your neck fondly, while you kiss the crown of his head, then you rest your cheek on his shoulder.

“Namora came to me today, my love.” You say idly, “Again.”

“Oh,” He raises an eyebrow, “Did she?”

“Yes.” You answer, drawing your head back so you can look at his face, “She's expressed her worry about you, my King.”

The latter regards you with gentle eyes, “And you share the same sentiment as well?”

You cup his cheek, your palm pressing lightly on the three marks left by the three scars.

In the recent weeks, the King has spent most of his time drawing the murals at his memorabilia cave —his sacred shrine as you call it— where you're used to watch him flicking his brush nimbly against the wall, recoding history. The latest of his works is The Battle Between The Serpent God and the Black Panther, the first time your husband lost.

“Our King chose peace over slaughter.” You told Namora, when came to you sulking, in her rough way of speeech, about her king cousin, your husband. The seasoned warrioress still can't digest the defeat of Talokan — of her king... god. In all honesty, neither could you, but as the queen, it's your duty to calm your subjects' qualms down, even if you have some of your own.

You glance down at his wrapped ankle, the slightest frown on your face; you've never seen your husband wounded in such a grotesque way. Despite your displeasure, the King seems to wear it with pride. Your eyes flit back to his face again.

“I did.” You answer frankly, “But not anymore. My trust in your judgement never wavers, my King.”

Ku'kul'kan cradles your cheeks in his warm hands, pressing a smooth kiss on your forehead, “Sometimes, I wish they had a piece of your wisdom, my love.”

You hold his hands, pressing kisses to his palms. “You flatter me, my King.”

“I only speak the truth, my Queen.” He smiles, thumbs gently stroking your cheeks.

Even after hundred years of marriage, you can't prevent the blush from smearing your cheeks red, and your husband laughs, flicking your cheek with his fingers.

“But the Panther Princess ought to be true to her words.” You say stubbornly. “Should she break them, and I'll be the one to bring her head on a spike,”

Ku'kul'kan smiles. “I'm counting on that.”

[what-the-ship]

Timmy, Danny, and Manny are all trying to catch some sleep in 'the nap room,' aka glorified barracks. Jimmy comes barreling in with a barking dog.

Jimmy: I did it! I upgrade...The Dog.

Timmy: What does that even mean?

Jimmy: You how I'm always doing side project? I took some inert carbon and made myself a fluffy friend from scratch. It's supposed to look like a dog.

Danny: Jimmy, please get it out of here.

Jimmy: Of course. Come here. Come here.

The Dog proceeds to dance around Jimmy barking the whole time.

Jimmy: He's 5% faster and 6% smarter. You know, I hand edited all 6 billion sequences? It was really fun.

Manny: When did you even have time?

Jimmy: Sometimes when I say I'm going to the bathroom, I really recoding his DNA. Who has stable protein bonds?

Timmy: I dont get it. You could have built any lifeforms at all, and you built this? Just looks like a normal dog.

Jimmy /excited: THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING FOR! I'm going to grab my notes so I can read you the juicy parts. You're going to love how I reorganized his mitochondria. No spoilers, but it's super funny.

Jimmy runs off, leaving The Dog behind.

Timmy: Just to be clear. This is a normal dog, and he is just messing with us.

The Dog then morphs into a nightmare animal with a dog's face and then proceeds to climb the walls like a Xenomorph.

Timmy: Oh God not a normal dog.

Danny /yawns before turning over: Wake me up if it turns into something I need to care about.

[ablankmask]

Another card! Does anything here count as spoilers? Maybe. But only I know to what extent and how :)

I was kinda iffy about introducing a new Keyword, but its for the best. Besides, almost every major part of the franchise has their own keyword in the TCG, so why not give Recode one? (DigiXros, Hybrid, and Mindlink are only a few examples)

(as usual, thank you digi-lov for the templates!)

[kidnapped-archivist]

Also interesting that episode 16 is what I would consider a "hybrid" one with Chester reading pieces but the main incident comes in the form of video. Spoilers and theory tie-in below!

Going back to my theory about unread incidents introducing new Externals, this one being a hybrid may feed into it.

Obviously, we've met Ink5oul two other times. The first time was an unread incident (side note: also a video which is interesting) and then in episode 11.

At first, I thought this episode was going to disprove my theory until I looked toward the end of the incident in the transcript. It says:

She struggles to breathe, an alarm starts beeping. There is the sound of tearing skin and a gurgled sound, as though something were tearing itself free of her flesh. The recoding ends.

I'm going to go out on a limb and argue that perhaps Ink5oul has created a new External through this incident somehow, thus why it's a hybrid. Which, if creating more Externals or something of the like is in fact something they can do, it makes them a HUGE threat and therefore possibly the "big bad" of this season.

[masteraqua]

ok so that post made me want to pull out recoded, and for nostalgia's sake i went into the avatar menu to read all the avatar sector levels i collected back in the day because i remembered them being really funny (spoiler alert they're still hilarious)

but then i started wondering if...those are even common knowledge? the game is more than a decade old now and it was never very popular to begin with so it wouldn't exactly surprise me if people weren't aware of this one obscure mechanic hidden in the optional game mode

so i guess if you're not aware, recoded had a (hugely fun vastly underrated) mode called the avatar menu, whose intended purpose was to let you collect parts for your avatar by connecting with other players via tag mode (essentially streetpass). when you made a connection, you'd receive an avatar sector floor (combat level) that would be added to a library of levels you could play for fun. every level would have the avatar of the person you tagged displayed alongside it, as well as their DS profile

but what if you live literally anywhere that's not japan and finding another human being who owns the game had similar odds to winning the lottery?? what then squeenix???

well not to worry, o friendless teenager, they've got you covered! the wonderful devs in charge of the avatar menu created a whole host of predesigned avatars that could be used collect levels, complete with their own profiles full of delightful flavor text. most of these preset avatars were based on kh and ff characters (even ones that didn't appear in the series like the ff13 cast!) and they're absolutely adorable

the catch is that, in order to collect these guys, you had to use tag mode in conjunction with another Nintendo system. in my case, i connected through one of the channels on the wii, but according to the wiki, you apparently could also use picto chat on a second DS, which i did not know!

the devs probably did not intend for players to abuse this feature and spend hours downloading dozens of avatar sector levels with which to expand their avatar's closet, but by golly that's what 15 year old me did. what can i say, i like dressup games 🤷‍♀️

anyway, that's a brief overview of the secret preset avatars. i'm not sure how many of them there are total but i have about 60 of them in my collection. but i only learned about them from reading forums circa 2011 so, as previously stated, it's probably not super well known info in this day and age lol

anyway here are some of my favorite avatar profiles in my library:

"forced laugher" still kills me

you might want to talk to someone about that my dude

the tina shoutout LOL

NOOOOOOO 😭😭😭 but also nice touch with the 14 trophies

and last but not least, we stan a gnc fashion disaster!!!!

[antlerx-art]

GOOD OMENS 2 EPISODE 6 REACTION - CONTAINS SPOILERS‼️

THE EVERY IS IN THIS EPISODE. YES I’LL KEEP CALLING IT THAT UNTIL IT HAPPENS. IM GOING INSANE.

starting it 👍🏻

aziraphale you’re standing a little too dangerously in that circle remember last time

“you’re not welcome here” DEEP VOICE OOOOOH pity crowley isn’t here to hear it my guy would’ve fainted

HIS ANGEL OUTFIT 💀THE WAY HES RUNNING

yes maggie ROAST her 🙏

“i’ve spent my life being scared of things” 😭

“BRAVER THAN ANYONE I KNOW”YEEEAHHH MY LESBIANS

shax don’t hurt maggie don’t you even THINK of hurting maggie or nina

“my god you lot are pathetic” LOUDERRR GO MAGGIEEE GOOOOO

no wait why can they get in

MAGGIEEEEEEE WHAT HAVE YOU DONEEEE

hehe aziraphale is “perfectly prepared to take defensive action” 😼

“STAY BACK 😠” OHHHH WOW

“you can all leave now, and nobody will be hurt” SO BADASS YEAHHHHHH

rip eric

lol there’s no miracle apparently michael and uriel just can’t notice crowley

noooooo muriel is lonely :(

also crowley comparing angels to bees and aziraphale feeling lonely when he realized he’s an “angel that goes along with heaven as far as he can” in ep 2 is making heaven look like some sort of hivemind and it’s really cool, it also explains why aziraphale is a bit uncomfortable with not having someone to report to after becoming free

CROWLEY WAS AN IMPORTANT ANGELLLLLLL I KNEW IT OHHH MY GOD I THOUGHT IT WAS A STUPID THEORY BUT IT SEEMS TRUE?

aziraphale using the way he discorporated in s1 to discorporate other demons hehe silly

i was about to say that demons can’t possibly be that stupid but aziraphale is reading my mind i guess

AND HE DOESNT HAVE ANOTHER PLAN!

“amen” okay??

gabriel saying nah???? to heaven winning?????

crowley is so doctor who right now

“ARMAGEDDON THE SEQUEL THATS A NAH” 😭 IS THIS WHAT HE WAS PUNISHED FOR??

aziraphale MENTIONING THE FIRE???????

NOOO IT’S TRAUMATIC FOR HIM ☹️

they had a TRIAL?

saraqael knows it’s crowley AND KNEW HIM AS AN ANGEL WHAAAT

“severe measures” no aziraphale you have to say extreme sanctions

“CROWLEY’S EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANGEL”

shax stop making fun of my angel

THE METATRON AT THE TRIAL

UHH why doesn’t gabriel give a fuck about this

“GUYS ENOUGH”? OH MY

“one prince of heaven cast into the outer darkness” DO YOU MEAN. DO YOU MEAN CROWLEY? WAS HE A PRINCE OF HEAVEN????????

junior recoding angel😭 HES ONE CLASS UNDER M U R I E L

crowley’s little punch on their shoulder HES A NICE GUYYY OH HES SO CBBSBDBBD

gabriel is so casual about the trial?? like he just got fired but he didn’t like the job anyway

aziraphale what are you doing

IS HE GOING TO BECOME BIBLICALLY ACCURATE?

THE HALOOOOOO

HE STARTED THE WAR

“YOU WOT?”

just kidding no war apparently

and why is the box full now?????

THE FLYYYYYY that’s what he was writing

BEELZEBUB INVOLVED I K N E W IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT

HEHEEHEHEHHEHE INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY

yayyy memories are back

SEASON ONE???????

OH GOD THIS SHIP IS REAL?

arma bloody geddon

ahh and they’re too tired to fight so they agreed to just refuse to do it i guess?

and gabe then went to aziraphale’s bookshop because he was the first one to go against armageddon

A PROPOSAL TO MAKE

yes that’s what i thought

i can’t believe gabriel has a deal with beelzebub this fandom keeps winning this season truly is a shipper’s dream

THE SCENEEEEE from the trailer

he actually goes there just to look at the statue for hours💀

THEY WERE AT THE PUB!!! i keep predicting

romantic ineffable bureaucracy date if they *every* before aziracrow i’ll be dead on the floor laughing

GABE PUT THEIR SONG ON

FINGERS TOUCHING

“it’s bigger on the inside” CAN BRITISH PEOPLE STOP. BEING. BRITISH. (jk i love y’all keep making these silly shows🫶🏻)

ROOOOMANCEEEEEE THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER

HES BACK!

if they kiss istg

“SILLY SILLY ANGEL”

HANDS HOLDING???? WHY IS EVERYONE CONFESSING BEFORE AZIRACROW WAKE UPPPPPP

WHY DID IT TAKE YOU GUYS 6000 YEARS AND INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY MADE IT IN?? SOME MONTHS?

“you will speak one at a time” yummmmy

ALPHA CENTAURY THEY ALWAYS WANTED TO GO THERE

still cant believe they’re canon

THATS THE METATRON

NINA AND MAGGIE TELLING CROWLEY TO CONFESS OOOOOH YESSSS

NINA CALLED MAGGIE ANGEL

ah i suppose the metatron offered aziraphale to be some sort of archangel but hes gonna decline because he wants to be with crowley

ITS ABOUT TO HAPPENNNNNN

no aziraphale HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?????

yeah as i said

AZIRAPHALE HOW CAN YOU STILL THINK THIS I THOUGHT YOU HAD SOME BIGGER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

CROWLEY’S CONFESSION IM NOT OKAY

“oh crowley nothing lasts forever” shut. up.

CROWLEY PUTTING THE GLASSES BACK ON AS A SHEILD

YOU GUYS WERE SUPPOSED TO DINE AT THE RITZ AZIRAPHALE YOURE RUINING EVERYTHING

“i need you!” THEN STAY YOU DUMBASS

NO NIGHTINGALE? STOP IM ABOUT TO THROW UP

WE COULD’VE BEEN US

THE EVERY

THE EVERY OH GOD

THE FUCKING EVERY HAPPENED OH MY GOD BUT ITS SO SAD WHYYYYYYYYY

THIS IS WHY I DIDNT WANT IT TO BE IN THE LAST EPISODE AND EVEN LESS IN THE LAST SCENE I NEED HELP

“I FORGIVE YOU” / “DONT BOTHER”

NEIL GAIMAN PAY MY THERAPY BILLS

aziraphale touching his lips.

GO AFTER HIMMMMMMMMMM YOU IDIOT

i hate this

i need a moment

SO.

i know that in cinema the middle part is usually the sad part so since this show is a three season thing i was already considering the possibility of a sad ending for s2

BUT IT DID NOT. HAVE TO BE THIS SAD.

i have to say it did feel quiet gentle and romantic compared to season one, BUT THIS ENDING. THS FUCKING ENDING???? THIS COULDVE BEEN SO PERFECT WHY DID THE METATRON SHOW UP WHY DID AZIRAPHALE ACCEPT

neil i’m in your walls IM UNDER YOUR BED

AND WHAT IF WE DONT GET A SEASON THREE?

good omens and ofmd both ending with them separated this is too much why can’t gay people be happy

and when i had seen the every i couldn’t wait to see the contentx BUT OHHH I ALREADY MISS THE TIME WHEN I WAS CLUELESS I DIDNT NEED THIS CONTEXT

crowley i’m with you btw aziraphale needs to do the apology dance a million times

alright i’m rambling bye everyone i’m gonna go stare at the wall for seven hours

tagging @neil-gaiman but this time it’s to send him my therapy bills not the reaction ❤️

[barbielvr]

find fic

Hello! I hope y'all are doing great I need your help to find me some fanfic I lost its 18+ yandere! Al-haitham x reader. I forgot the title and the plot is all about haitham and reader are married and haitham puts some camera//voice recoding to the readers keys because he thought the reader was cheating and when he checked his phone he saw reader and kaveh in some kind of cafe then, haitham went there to grab reader. (Not continuing to avoid some spoilers to those who might be interested reading it). It was very deliciously written especially the yummy part kudos to the author!! Sadly i lost it and please i need u angels to help me find the fanfic again. Thank you stay safe and stay dehydrated!

[gekidasa]

20 questions for fic writers

Thank you for tagging me, @jaimebluesq!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 50!

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 133,410

3. What fandoms do you write for? MDZS, fairly exclusively right now. Aside from that: Cardcaptor Sakura is the fandom I first wrote fanfic for. I’ve written some X/TB, Tenipuri, Kamen Rider, some others. But to be honest, in most fandoms I don’t write much, if at all.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

And I will stay with you / And you will keep me close, which I just call the Sangcheng Roommates AU. This has stalled for reasons, but I do want to finish it. It’s a fun concept.

When a secret isn’t really secret, a Touya/Yuki fic! It’s actually just Yukito and Fujitaka talking about Yukito and Touya’s relationship, Touya is barely in it 😂

Heart-opening flow, my sangcheng yoga au, the first sangcheng fic I ever wrote.

The Half-Eaten Peach Longs to be Filled with Cream. Okay, I love this one. It’s sangcheng, and it’s porn.

Stay, also sangcheng. Modern au, first time they have sex. Technically it has the same rating as number 4, but it’s nowhere near as filthy.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes, I try to, because while I write fic for me, the reason I share it is in the hope of getting to have conversations with others that like the characters and ship as much as I do.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I mean, I don’t really do angst, but I suppose Yaguruma’s Hell because it’s Yaguruma thinking about how he’ll take Kageyama away and they’ll be together, and that’s just before, well. Spoilers for Yaguruma and Kageyama’s story in Kamen Rider Kabuto. It doesn’t actually go into the ending, it relies on you knowing what happens.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I really don’t know. I mostly write fluff, and most of them have happy endings.

8. Do you get hate on fics? I never have. I feel like mostly you don’t get hate if you don’t write for particularly popular ships in popular fandoms. Although, if I’d gotten into MDZS just 6 months or so earlier, I might have gotten hate by the infamous troll that went around harassing sangcheng fans.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Sure do! And well… I suppose you could say I often write FLUFFY smut, because it’s about characters that have strong feelings about each other, but I’d also like to think I write fairly dirty smutty (but not particularly kinky). Probably the best example of what I mean is Hold the doors, which is a nielan fic about Lan Xichen giving his neighbor that he just met, Nie Mingjue, a blowjob. It has been described as both filthy and soft.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? Nope, not my thing, as a writer or reader.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Also nope.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? Probably Touya/Yukito, because it’s about than the ship itself for me at this point. They’re what got me into CLAMP, and also what got me into shipping, and I made a fansite for them that was the first site I made of any kind and that is still online. They’re the reason I learned to code.

Or sangcheng. It maybe recency bias, but they've certainly gotten me to produce more fic than any other ship.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? Isolated Incidents, a fic about Touya and Yukito kissing. It would have been fine if I had just made it a one shot about their first kiss, but instead I decided that it would have MORE, and that I'd explore the evolution of their relationship through different kisses. It was a good idea at the time, I'd just gotten actively back into CLAMP fandom, had recoded the Touya/Yukito shrine in modern HTML and CSS, and was rewatching Cardcaptor Sakura and writting short little fics for them again. But then December 2020 came, and I decided to read MDZS... and that pretty much took over my fandom life. There's MDZS fics I haven't worked on in quite a while, but since I'm still actively in this fandom, they aren't in "probably won't finish" territory.

16. What are your writing strengths? I think I write amusing stories, and I’m not embarrassed to write smut. Also, I think I tend to have fairly defined voices for characters.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Consistency in the sense of sticking with writing a thing. Actual plot. Those go hand in hand. It’s very hard for me to write long fics for those reasons. I often have IDEAS for fics I really like, and I might sort of… loosely plot them out, but in no way enough to actually write most of them.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? Unless you actually KNOW something of the language, just avoid it. You’ll probably make a fool of yourself otherwise.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Cardcaptor Sakura, Touya/Yukito.

20. Favorite fic you've written? I don’t have a favorite. Unsatisfying, I know.

Not tagging anyone,

Changed my mind! Tagging @mulberrylotus @telperintal @angie-s-g @revesdelimonade

Anyone else do it if you want to!

[aquadestinyswriting]

Happy WBW/STS! :D Aqua, you can't just ask a question like that with a preface like that and not expect a fire back. 8) 8) 8) What is Fangthane hidiiiiiing? (Worry not about spoilers. I get the feeling I'm bouncing around the timeline anyway, so eff me up. 8) )

Haha, fair enough my friend. I will say to anyone already not in the know who cares about spoilers for Fangthane's Folly and the Anvil's Fall that there will be major spoilers beneath the readmore cut. You have been warned.

Right then, now that's been established;

The first thing that needs to be pointed out is the fact that, while the War of the Red Hammer and the knowledge of the following Purges has not been erased from history and is, in fact, acknowledged by Fangthane, what was covered up was the fact that a second set of Purges happened.

To clarify; The War of the Red Hammer happened around 3,500 years ago when the union between the royal families of Fangthane and the hold now known as Wyrmholme was broken due to most of the dwarves of Wyrmholme turning to worship of Ladeurger (an evil dwarven deity of slavery and torture) over Moradin, when both deities first found Titan. The main clan that was involved in the war was the Redhammer clan, the royal house of Fangthane's sister hold. Any members of the Redhammer clan that were living in Fangthane that turned their worship to Ladeurger were summarily executed, while those that remained "loyal" to Fangthane were adopted out into various other clans.

What isn't nearly as well known about those Purges is that Fangthane's nobility also purged any families that didn't turn at least a token amount of worship to Moradin. This was covered up and the families were written off as Heretics, no better than the ones that turned their worship to Ladeurger despite the fact that they never did. One family, however, was spared this fate due to their close ties with the royal family, and the fact that they (at the time) had the pleasure of having a Shaper in their line, the original Stonespeaker clan. The Stonespeakers remained ardent Throffites and refused to acknowledge Moradin's place in the new dwarven pantheon. This was handily ignored for about 1,000 years, until the then newly crowned king Joldrunn Goldseeker decided to try convincing the remaining Redhammers and Stonespeakers to convert to Moradin over Throff, as he believed that Throff didn't hold enough power to have pride of place in dwarven society any longer. Most agreed and complied with the order, but one family in the Stonespeaker clan refused. They believed that, as before, they could convince the king to overlook the matter as they were still the only line that held Throff's Blessing. The Shaper of the time, Merewin, had only recently been betrothed to the kings' youngest son, Ragnar, so the Stonespeakers were confident that the matter would be easily resolved.

To cut an already very long story short, Joldrunn's decree created such a Schism within the church that it threatened to spill over into outright civil war. Merewin and her family continued to refuse to convert, which ended with Merewin's execution for Treason and Heresy after she was discovered down in the Contemplation Chamber without permission from the then Archlector. The majority of her family were executed not long after (along with several others who sided with them), while the others fled or adopted themselves into other clans and immediately converting. Several clans, who silently agreed with the Stonespeakers, but realised which way the wind was blowing, fled Fangthane and later founded the secretive hold of Kar Kherril. Ragnar didn't live very long after this and died of what was deemed to be a broken heart.

Now, why is all of this considered to be spoilers? Well, let's have a quick look at the offical, recorded family tree of the Ironforges for a moment

Garuld is recoded as having been executed about a week after his sister, but by that time, he'd already had three sons, the two eldest of whom were executed along with the rest of their family, while the youngest was adopted out to the Ironforge clan. This family tree is not publicly available, and is held in the secure vaults found in the depths of Fangthane's Library. It is considered to be the official lineage of the modern Ironforge clan. I've cut out the rest of Ovak's children and their marriages to make it easier to trace the line down to Meredith and her siblings. The reason this family tree is kept secure and not readily publicly available even to the modern Ironforge clan? To cover up the fact that the modern Ironforge clan has any connections whatsoever to the Fangthane Royal line and also to cover up the fact that this second set of Purges even occurred. Yup, one of the kings of Fangthane genocided a whole family line that was known to have been Blessed by the Creator Goddess, then had it covered up because it made him look bad.

Now, the problem here is, that Shaping is passed down the matrilineal line, not the patrilineal. So by all rights, the Blessing of Throff should have died out entirely when Merewin did as she was too young to have children of her own at the time of her death (she was 66 years old, the age of consent in Fangthane has been 65 since its founding). So how does the modern Ironforge line have a Shaper at the time of the Destiny's New Servants campaign?

A small biology lesson: Dwarves generally hit puberty at any time between 30 and 45 years old. This is long before Fangthane's age of consent. Dwarves, biologically speaking, aren't all that different from other humanoids on Titan, so puberty means hormones, and lots of them. It also means a whole tonne of stupid decisions. While dwarves are generally less fertile than other peoples, they're not infertile by any means. "Teen" pregnancies happen, and they happen all the time, they're just generally swept under the rug a bit more in the case of the dwarves and almost every family has sons and daughters that are converted to brothers and sisters for the sake of convenience.

To make things a bit clearer, here's what the Ironforge family tree looks like when extrapolated out from a record found buried in the God Vault that was discovered beneath Fangthane's Contemplation Chamber:

Now we know where Meredith inherited the ability from. Merewin and Ragnar were 45 and 50 at the time of Ovak's birth (as detailed in Merewin's diary, which Meredith picked up from the little side chamber she found under the Comtemplation Chamber), so the child was quickly adopted by Merewin's older brother to save both families the shame. As a note: this was discovered and uncovered during following Meredith's own trial for Treason and Heresy, and we can actually thank Snotgrut for getting the librarians off their arses to do some actual investigation once the trial was concluded.

As far as fiction that happens post campaign; there's a tonne of debate whether to update the records to reflect this extrapolated family tree and reinstate this line of the Ironforge clan to a noble status, or if they shouldn't bother because Meredith married into a noble lineage anyway, by way of her marriage to Yoruk (who is the current king's nephew on his father's side).

I know that was a lot, but I did a lot of figuring this out for the campaign, just in case any of the group wanted to do some further digging. They didn't in the end, but this has been sitting in my back pocket for about 4-5 years now.

[chellsky]

not spoilers, since this was the case in seraph as well, but why the hell does mara in holo recodings have her old d1 outfit on??

first time i saw it i thought maybe she changed her fasion again, but then i saw that outside of that she still wears her new drip, so what gives?

[manonamora-if]

March check-in

This week has been... something. Busy, emotional, a lot... Also it's March!

DOL-OS won the Best Game category of the 16th edition of the Concours de Fiction Intéractive Francophone !

It's the first time I won an IF Competition! It's been a few days, but I'm still incredibly flattered people liked this game so much and thought it should win the main competition against 24 other amazing games! The game was also 2nd in Technical and Theme, as well as 3rd in the Narrative Design. How cool is that!

If you haven't checked out DOL-OS or the other submissions of the Concours, I highly suggest you do so!

But for people interested in how I made the whole game, I'll be posting a Post-Mortem in the next few weeks.

My SeedComp! entry The Rye in the Dark City is out!

Come play Detective Rye, a down-on-the-luck detective thrown into a strange case...

Note: though only the first act of the game is available, there should be about 15-30min worth of content to go through.

Also, check the other 17 entries of the SeedComp! And you can now vote for your favourite game and seed! If you don't want to pick, you can leave a lil' sticker to a game or seed instead. :) Deadline to vote: March 31st! Since I helped organise the @seedcomp-if, you can't vote for my stuff :P

As promised months ago, the Space-Tech UI is out! It is a bit different from the first draft I had been thinking of creating, following instead the Space UI I had made for the SeedComp! and P-Rix - Space Trucker.

The theme includes your basic settings, a title/end page, and mobile adaptability (portrait).

Unlike the other UI Templates, which included different colour themes, this Space-Tech one does not have a theme setting. Instead, it has two different designs (main page + codex) linked to the passage tags. The macros/diablog boxes are also customised to fit those designs.

Grab your Space-Tech Template now!

Welp... I couldn't manage to finish it before the end of February. I really didn't realise how much code there was behind the scene on that one (spoiler alert, a fuckton). BUT...

Scene 3 is complete. All scenes are now completely recoded, fixed some bugs, and corrected some text issue (typo and the like).

Next, I'll be looking at the macros/widget behind some of the code (the notifications especially, since I'm changing them for a more ARIA compliant one); fix the codex (I found a cool new way of displaying it, I need to test it); and some other secret things.

Still quite a bit to do....

Got to read more of Chapter 4 and help MelS tie in some variation/choice option. Not much more progress, MelS has been incredibly busy lately, and will be for the next weeks or so.

On the other hand, I've been looking around on how to include the map of Chapter 3's maze in the game. Web is easy peasy. Mobile is the problem.

Last month I set out some expectations, fulfilling only 2 out of 3. So here's the plan for this month instead:

Complete my SpringThing Entry (will talk more about it in the next few weeks), due at the start of April.

Add the missing content of The Rye in the Dark City (Act 2 - talking to other suspects, Act 3 - solve the case)

Finish the recode of CRWL

Some potentially interesting Jam for people interested

The lame jam 26: 3 days to make a lame game.

Games for Forests (GNOJ#9): A Game Jam centred around ecology and the importance of forests.

AAAAAaaaaand that's it for the week/February!

[whyarewecalledtheshipname]

WHEN YOU FIGHT CORRUPTED/DARK DATA RIKU IN RECODED BUT LIKE THE ACTUAL GAME, AND THE FIGHT THEME IS RIKUS WALTZ LIKE

WE ARE FULL ON—Like when in fanfics, the two rivals/enemies fight and it’s “like a dance”—???? IM JUST

WE GOT THAT

We got a fuckinGgg FUCKINGGGG ???? idek what to call it a fucken , waltz fight with sora and riku like

we’re fighting riku and it’s literally like, in some sense as if we’re dancing, and ITS INSANEE THAT WE GOT THAT, INSANEEEE

they really just had us fight to the sound of riku’s waltz ARE YOU KIDDING ME

MY gosh

my head is IN my HANDS

like it’s HILARIOUS that you can be like, “oh yeah the fight theme is just riku’s theme no homo 👀” EXCEPT RIKUS THEME IS A WALTZZZZ DUDDDDEEEE

CRYING. (not actually but close lol) CRYING YALL 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

WHY IS IT SO GOOD WHY IS SORIKU SO GOOD, FUCK