#secret getaway

[de-natuur-en-daarbuiten]

- it’s like a secret getaway 💕

[charlie-artlie]

[ratatatastic]

[lazybakerart]

i want a reveal in the backend of s8 to be that buck and tommy secretly eloped in las vegas

[magpie-trove]

I think I should go back to writing Aspen’s Quiver. It needs a plot though

[phoenixcatch7]

Security breach's story (including ruin) was super weird, right? Left a lot unexplained, introduced a lot of confusing elements, cleared nothing up, and made it worse with the ending of ruin. Very frustrating.

But.

I have a bold claim - in this essay I'm going to tell you that I think I've found the unifying theory of security breach, INCLUDING ruin. And no, it's nothing that's mentioned in the actual game.

It's 'Remnant'.

Now presumably matpat or some other theorist has made more detailed connections and I just haven't been able to find it, and I'm a casual fan at best lol. But I'm quite chuffed, so. I'm sharing.

Remnant is basically glowing soul juice produced by high emotions - children, trauma, excitement, suffering, death. Ectoplasm, essentially. It gets into physical objects and stores that emotion, like how a stuffed teddy is full of love or a torture device is full of pain. Yay!

Afton, during his killing spree, harvested this remnant from kids to fuel his plan for immortality (or something). He discovered along the way that if it was infused into a material like metal, then it could be shaped and, when combined with any form of intelligence ('even ai', he says!) it acts as a source of independent power 'that translates into movement, which is why things may appear haunted'. Ergo, animatronics. His perfect army of golems and test subjects.

The first round was, of course, fnaf 1, with the children literally stuffed into the suits to power them, which, yikes, horrible, and in a food establishment? Later he figured out how to skip the rotting corpse step and directly infuse metal, which made it temperature volatile and apparently hard to store. Anything is better than the first round. This resulted in sister location with the scooper, which could (as best I figure?) take the remnant out directly and store it for later use. It could also recycle animatronics, to scrap them without wasting all that precious soul juice that could theoretically power something forever.

Anyway, decades later, the same company is still running, and their precious 'animatronics' are now full on artificially intelligent robots with an army of drone cleaners and a dozen well covered up missing children.

You see where I'm going with this?

I think the glam rock animatronics are crafted out of the newest, highest grade remnant metal to bring them to life (maybe a little too much)... and to aid in the gathering of remnant to power Trap/afton, in his little recharge pod under the earth, at vannys direction. (And presumably all that after hour neon lighting, let's be real.)

The animatronics are all secretly equipped with track and destroy technology - roxy with her sensitive ears and x-ray eyes, chica with her stunlock voice box, monty with his metal rending claws and pouncing ability... Freddy with his chest cavity big enough to fit a small child. Like old times!

I swear the daycare attendant has infrared vision and very possibly direct access to the cctv, but anyway. (I also swear freddy collapsing on stage and triggering the safety protocol after hours was the only thing keeping him from joining, even leading the pack of machines to comb the place and take Gregory down to the scooper by trick or by stick, and Gregory almost made a fatal decision when he hid in the chest cavity. No freddy has ever been nice after hours, and there's no reason given why this one is.)

Back to the DA, it gives the implications of their old power core (freddys original upgrade and heavily theorised to have previously belonged to the only 'tronic out during the hourly recharge) a whole new meaning. Perhaps the setting of the daycare and all that happy sugar high children energy making happy memories was a perfect environment for a low level (experimental? Inefficient?) sort of... Emotional photosynthesis? It would explain why one half is the daycare and the other is the security patrol. Food for thought. Obviously freddy isn't able to receive all those benefits for a number of reasons.

(And it might explain the poor treatment of the DA, too, if the core was removed for some reason, and why sun is struggling so hard to keep his hopes up if it can no longer absorb and process literal happiness vibes for the best haunting ever. Poor guy always gets the short end of the stick. Maybe it also explains why the DA is the only animatronic to glow... because of the remnant metal? The extra juice they were supposed to have?)

Yeah, but what about ruin? How does it fit into this?

Well, for one, the new scooper. It's the literal gathering tool and storage place for all this remnant, so it's presumably pretty vital. Afton is parked directly above it in a recharge pod, sucking up all that sweet sweet juice. He's literally drinking children's tears, the monster.

And the mimic. Because there's a second part to remnant that only becomes relevant now. It's the worst and strongest emotion that can only be created through immense pain and suffering. 'Agony'. A black sludge of distilled horrors. And the thing is, it's highly infectious. But agony is useless. Unless it's combined with remnant in a specific way, and the resulting reaction is extremely powerful and dangerous.

The mimic is infected with agony. And it's found itself probably the biggest source of remnant in the world. The battery of (potentially) the whole pizza plex, and every animatronic inside it. (Moon may well have been the first infected... If the patrol animatronic encountered the mimic on its arrival. Ooh, now there's a thought. It's more likely it saw and tried to stop vanny from some unethical activity (it's a purely robot job!) And she... Prevented it from becoming a recurring issue with the glitch code. Ah, but there's no proof.)

Either all that remnant is now corrupted, or converted. My money is not on converted because the mimic is not spreading a plague of suffering across the land, and is instead trying to lure kids in again to replenish the remnant. And the poor animatronics are still clinging to blackened, crippled life.

It certainly would explain why the company just dropped the entire location without either bulldozing it to the ground or trying to scavenge and repair. With the animatronics infected with agony, it's far too dangerous to do either, and of course officials absolutely cannot find out.

TLDR: I think the missing puzzle piece is 'Remnant' to explain aftons presence, the strangely alive animatronics, the point of all those child disappearances Gregory was supposed to be investigating, the scooper, the mimic, vannys actual job as head enabler for afton, the animatronic's violent upgrades, the true goal of the pizza plex and why it was built over the sinkhole, but most importantly... how they're footing that electricity bill.

But hey ;D! That's just a theory!

[tianalaurence1]

Last year, Anne and Tim had a secret visit to Australia.- Looking back

🌳 They toured the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

📸: Denise Ora

[monobmp]

8-Ball having a tattoo of Bill on their shoulder blade is kind of crazy

[suffarustuffaru]

rating some rezero ships by um. how good they could cover up murder together

(feel free to read my tags for some explanations T^T)

[miss-nymphetamine]

Info that matters to no one: my Choices' favourite books.

-Across the Void: I loved it, the concept was original and OMG Meridian!

-Blades of Light and Shadow: I mean... of course I love BOLAS. Tyril is my man.

-The Bloodbound series: While I'd like to see a story perhaps more related to the Underworld concept, I like the series and don't get me started on Jax.

-Crimes of Passion: With the releasing of the second book I just realized how much I loved the first one. I'm not that sure about this second one.

-Getaway Girls: I enjoyed it a lot, it felt very different to other books in some ways (probably because there were actual black people involved in its creation and development). It was very refreshing and I have to say, I'm a Dee stan.

-Hot Couture: I still can't understand the hate for this book, because I truly loved it.

-Laws of Attraction: It was modern, it was different and I really felt my MC was really intelligent and had real power to change things, to make a difference.

-Mother of the Year: first time a kid isn't annoying in these stories. Also, it touches very contemporary issues, and Thomas is to die for.

-Shipwrecked: that, kids, was actually sensual, sexy and steamy, and not the shit we had to endure in crap like Wolf Bride or Surrender.

-Slow Burn: I love cooking, so a book about food is something I will automatically like.

-Veil of Secrets: It didn't feel sugarcoated at all and I liked both the MC and her attitude towards the whole problem.

Honorable mention to Kindred's asian Kaine. It stirrs something inside me.

[poohbearspace]

[flirting-with-psychology]

Choices MC Survey 2023

Here is this year's survey about which looks and love interests you chose for your MCs!

Choices MC Survey 2023

You can see the results at the end of the quiz, and I will also be posting results after enough people have responded.

If you want, you can also take the quizzes for past years to see how your choices compare!

2022 Survey and Results

2020-21 Survey and Results

2018-20 Survey

2016-2018 Survey

2016-2020 Original Results. The original quiz got deleted so I remade it so you can still participate for fun, but I will not be reposting results.

Hope you enjoy!

[the-blind-assassin-12]

Secret Springs postcard delivery!

Did you know Secret Springs has private yurts? Set way back from the crowds, it's the perfect place for isolated relaxation. Who takes you to the yurt and what adventures do you have?

Hello, fellow Secret Springs vacationer! I hope you're having the best time on your trip! Thanks so much for sending this my way!

So I actually won my trip to Secret Springs through a promotional giveaway on Instagram way back before the resort opened - which was wild, because I typically don't win things like that. Anywho, it was almost a full year ago when I found out I won an all expenses paid trip for two, and I decided to bring my sister with me because its been a while since we went on a trip together. We were both really stoked about it, especially when we found out we'd be there for Secret Springs' first annual Food & Drink Festival, and that we were going to get private personal tastings from some of the participating local vendors. Everything sounded amazing, but the one we were both looking forward to the most was a local winery called Green Wing Vineyards - run by a guy named Nico Calderon.

But then life happened - as it tends to - and my sister found out she was having a kid. So the trip was still on, but I was flying solo for the food & wine tasting portion. While I went and did that, she took a nap. (But she made me promise to describe everything to her in great detail using many adjectives when I got back to the room.)

So I went down to the lobby to find out where I was supposed to go for these private tastings, and the concierge directed me to go out onto a plank walkway that led to a few yurts that were completely set back from the pool and beachfront area. Typically they were available to rent for the day, but they were currently being used for the festival vendors. I got to try this amazing ceviche from a local seafood place, some fresh honey the and pressed olive oil from a specialty shop in town, and some basil and lemon sugar cookies from a baker who very heavily implied that he also baked with other types of herbs but that he wasn't allowed to give those out as samples. (I made a mental note to pop into his bakery on the day that we were planning to stroll around town.)

But my favorite by far ended up being the one that I was the most excited about from the start - Green Wing Vineyards. While the other yurts were set up with tables and chairs for the food tastings, this one was left more relaxed with pillows and cushions for seating. The wines that I got to sample were amazing (three whites and a chilled red - all perfect for the summer heat) the label was beautiful (gold lettering and a watercolor image of a macaw) but the owner? Nico? Getting to meet and talk to him was the true treat. Instead of standing back and conducting a formal tasting, he joined me on the cushions and even poured himself a glass to sip along with me, since I was his last private tasting of the day. He was charismatic and charming and dreamy in a way that I thought only fictional characters could be, and it was clear by listening to him talk that he was passionate about his vineyards and about winemaking, and that he truly loved getting to share that passion with others. I ended up staying there double the length of a regular tasting, and Nico ended up asking me to come see his vineyard in person - and I absolutely accepted that offer.

To see what happened at the vineyard, stay tuned for See, Stay & Do week in Secret Springs!! ;)

[ratatatastic]

congrats to mikksy and ekky being out together (i hope they kiss about it)

[luminouslumity]

[farizrz]

Welcome to the Choices Ciao CHAOS Recap 2023 part 2. From Getaway Girls until Guarded, I gonna show the recaps. Order the story recap is random. And also I summarizing some stories into one slide. Maybe these recaps is more just recaps. Cus I also put mini story Trystan's missing in this part. And lastly i sorry if my English bad. Shall we begin?