#session 87 begin

[ask-kimerako-therapycarpool]

Session 87

Imma go to another week of therapy today. It better feel like it... bye, guys.

[luvrlou]

"I Didn't Know You Could Read."

Pairing: Vance Hopper x fem!reader

Summary: It seems Vance Hopper is smarter than he looks.

Warning: swearing

A/N: she's backkkkk (and bearing a tiny fic)

Word Count: 0.8k

The bell had just rung to signify the end of your maths class, however, you had been asked at the beginning of the class to stay behind and talk to your teacher.

You stood up from your seat and walked towards your teacher, Mr Kelly. You cleared your throat and stood in front of his desk.

"So, Y/N I expect you know what this is about." he spoke dryly, looking up at you while pushing his glasses up his nose.

You groan softly and nod. You knew this was about your grades as it was safe to say maths was not your strong point.

The older man continued, "as we both know... you have failed every test we have took this semester, which only means you will have to be tutored."

"Yes, I understand." You answer meekly, embarrassed by being called out on your mathematical ability.

He picked up on your tone and tutted, "there is no need to feel down about this as there are many tutors out there. Now of course if you don't feel like spending any money on a tutor I can contact our top student in the maths department to help you."

You nodded, "I'd prefer that," you chuckled, "I'd rather not have my dad find out I'm failing."

He pursed his lips, "okay, sounds good, I'll have you meet them in the library after school."

You smile awkwardly at him and then walk out of the class, at least you wouldn't have to study with anyone you knew very well, it would probably be one of those self-centred nerds.

Oh how wrong you were.

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You walked into the library with all of your maths equipment and sat down at an empty table waiting for your tutor to arrive.

Your pen battered against the desk as you sat there impatiently. "God, can you stop that?" You looked up and gasped lightly. It was Vance Hopper.

"Don't tell me you're my tutor." You groaned, dramatically throwing your head onto the table.

He huffed and sat down across from you, "quit complaining, I'm giving up my good time to help you."

You looked up at him, "I thought Mr Kelly was getting the top student in the maths department to help me."

"You're looking at him."

You couldn't help but laugh, "you? seriously?"

"Yeah me! How is that such a surprise?" He spoke sternly, crossing his arms over himself.

"I didn't know you could read! Nevermind be some maths genius!" You laughed harder.

He looked at you straight-faced, "do you want help, or do you want to continue to be a failure."

You rolled your eyes, "well that was rude."

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It's been about 2 months now since your first tutor session with Vance, and surprisingly that boy was a genius. After all the sessions you and him had started to grow a friendship.

"So Vance, my test is tomorrow!" You smiled, leaning your head onto your hands.

"Which means if you pass I can get my Thursday nights back," he tilted his head as he spoke.

"Am I really that bad to tutor?" You chuckled lightly.

He smiled at you, "to tutor yes... but you're quite nice to talk to."

His words made you flush lightly, "aw that's sweet!"

"Yeah, yeah don't get used to it." He laughed and leaned back in his seat.

You and Vance sat and studied for about an hour and a half, sharing a few laughs here and there as you worked. It was nice. If you told yourself 2 months ago that you would be enjoying Vance Hopper's presence you would tell yourself to fuck off.

As you were packing up your things Vance turned to you, "come and find me tomorrow and tell me what your results are," he smiled sweetly.

"Will do Vance."

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You had gotten 87%. That is the first time you have passed a test in maths ever since you were 12 years old. You had to find Vance.

You left the class immediately after the bell rang, as soon as you left you scoured the hallways for your curly-headed friend. You speed-walked up and down the corridors, then you spotted him.

He was standing with his group of friends when you found him, you approached him cautiously, you weren't exactly acquainted with his friends.

"Vance..." you meekly spoke, causing him to immediately turn around and smile while his friends looked at you confused.

"How did you do?" He asked, looking down at you.

You grinned up at him, "I got a 87!"

His smile grew wider, "actually?" You nodded excitedly, "I'm so proud of you Y/N!"

"and you now have free Thursday nights again!" You laughed.

His smile faltered as he gazed at you, "well about that, I thought we could maybe do something tonight."

"Are you asking me on a date Vance?" You chuckled.

He made a face before speaking, "...maybe?"

"Pick me up at 6," you grinned and placed a kiss on his cheek before walking away up the hallway.

[kylieswift31]

Are you not entertained?!

Looking back it's clear that Taylor Swift knew she would be involved with Travis Kelce, the Chiefs and their football games long before their relationship started. This allowed her time to plan and leave a trail of breadcrumbs along the way so that looking back it felt like an invisible string tying them both together.

Just like a broken clock is right twice a day, leaving a plethora of Easter eggs increases the feeling that they were meant to be together all along for anyone that choose not to see past the facade of Taylor™. Many of the connections are simple and obvious, such as the number 87, the combination of red and yellow and football themed references. Others are more of a shot in the dark but have a bigger payoff if they end up foreshadowing something really specific years in advance.

To understand how Taylor has been able to plan so far in advance we shouldn't be looking backwards at what has happened in the past, instead we should put ourselves in Taylor's shoes to consider the steps she would take knowing what was to come in the future. This would begin with researching the topic and learning about the history of football and sport in general. "I want to tell a sports story because I had just watched the last dance." In the folklore long pond studio sessions Taylor and Aaron Dessner discuss the reasons behind why they created the song 'epiphany'. Watching movies and reading books that feature sports stars is a great place to start looking for inspiration to gauge what the public is familiar with.

The next step would be to pick out specific references to hint at in interviews, outfits and social media posts. These take a little more effort to pull off but mostly relate to future projects Taylor has already planned out. The Easter egging begins to reach mastermind status when the foreshadowing links to events outside of Taylor's immediate control. The most recent example of this is the new Pepsi commercial inspired by Gladiator that ends with Travis saying "Are you not entertained?!" This is the same Gladiator quote that Taylor referenced in the Time person of the year interview that she did late last year. It's possible she knew about this commercial ahead of time before her interview.

This is a recreation of the Pepsi commercial that was made in 2000 featuring Britney Spears, Beyonce and P!nk. They were dressed as scantily clad warriors singing a cover of Queen's 'we will rock you' while being attacked by lions. The remake features Megan Thee Stallion singing the same song as Travis and his teammates are being attacked by tigers. This is an interesting choice of predator considering they end up locking one of the tigers in a cage. We've seen many tiger references in Taylor's work including the fearless tiger stripe outfit and the "way to go tiger" lyrics in 'Peter". If we consider what Taylor would have been inspired by as she was planning ahead, the original version of this commercial would have been a perfect example of female sportsmanship displayed in a male dominated industry.

Just like the eye of the storm can trick you into thinking the storm is over, the end of the international leg of the eras tour wasn't the end of Taylor's story. This new commercial is just like the second half of the Truman show when the camera zooms out to reveal the dome Truman has been living in. Everything we're seeing during this break feels jarring after being so focused on the details of the eras tour each night. This is intentional, allowing us room to zoom out to see the bigger picture and the role the director has been playing all along to script the narrative. And even though Taylor isn’t visibly associated with this commercial, it feels like a connection to her story when she’s selling out the same stadiums all by herself over and over again.

All of these connections between Taylor and Travis feel synchronistic in hindsight, yet are logical connections if you're planning ahead of time regardless of the motivation behind it. If you believe they're in love it will seem like fate or a coincidence that they both used the same quote. If you believe Pepsi and the NFL are using Taylor to increase their sales then you will see how they reused her quote to gain attention. If you believe Taylor contributed her ideas to benefit her PR relationship then you will see that she used the quote to foreshadow the new commercial. And if you believe this is all a part of the performance art you will see that it's another piece of the bigger story being told. Either way it creates yet another connection between Taylor and three of the most powerful and successful pop stars of our generation.

After all, are you not entertained?

A tortured poet,

Kylie x

[14muffinz]

One of those mass tmnt-verse chatfics but instead of a chatfic its a mandatory once a week facetime call with Dr. Feelings who will forsively give them therapy.

They are so threatened by this that when the 12 gang misses a week due to a fight and proceeds to apologies immensily, only for Dr. Feelings to patiently ask them what the fuck they did wrong, and when this was explained to him he asked them why that wasn't a valid excuse followed swiftly by a 'you're putting too much of a burden on yourself' talk while the rest of the group sits and watches, and valiantly pretends it does not slightly apply to them as well.

One day, someone would grumble about how you're a mikey too and you need therapy just as much as the rest of us and then rise leon full on tackles dr. feelings and takes the coat and glasses and is like "it's my time~!" and begins his therapy session that lasts a good minute before everyone realises that the reason this mikey gets no therapy is because he is the only qualified therapist he knows

dr. delicate touch is very much on the surface whenever a splinter is brought up because this is therapy and thus he's only hearing bad things about him, and so dr. feelings makes a calculated decision for them to talk about casual family bonding memories. this ofc ends with 2012 looking rly frickin jealous

Bayverse sits there in horror as everyone else tells these frankly outlandish yet horrifying stories and meanwhile they beat both of their 2 only villains over the span of like,,, a week if i'm not mistaken

It takes at least 6 sessions to get the 87 turts to open up at all. They're verse is by far one of the most comedy-based ones and thus they probs find it harder to get to the level of calm that therapy requires

[grigori77]

Critical Role, Campaign 3 Episode 87

A day late thanks to more unavoidable commitments, but we're here now at least ...

Matt wears a shirt to the table. Laura roasts him for it. DM derails the session HIMSELF before it even STARTS ...

A NordVPN Oscars skit? Both topical AND ridiculous. Way to ham it up, Marisha! XD "Oversized sweater enthusiast" Ashley Johnson? Cute ...

Ah yes, Daggerheart ... we shall see ...

Sam: "Doesn't he have to throw it to you?" Marisha (indignant): "Do I have to wait for permission from a man?"

Trouble there, Marisha? Game's starting ...

Oh yeah, the city! Oof ... here we go ...

Wow ... that roll was BALLS ... great start to the session ... and now they're in the middle of a storm ... of course they are ...

Group Stealth roll! Pass Without A Trace ... thanks, Ashton. Much better rolls this time, at least.

What the hell is THIS? Oh shit, it's the Mongolian blood worms! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Crap ... Ashton's exhausted! I forgot about that ... RUN, DIREWOLF FEARNE!!! RUN!!!

So ... are they, like, trapped now, then?

A tadpole? That's no tadpole ... yeah, don't fall for THIS SHIT, people! Travis: "It's an angler fish!" Yeah, definitely ...

FCG has TOTALLY given them away now ...

Travis' strange polar bear analogy ...

They're gonna chuck a piece of Berserker at it ... oh yeah, here we go. It's like piranhas! O.O Shit ...

Imogen tries to LEVITATE THE ROCK with them on it! Bloody hell ... argh ... weight based head maths ... great ...

Yeah ... no, the mayhem WILL begin shortly ...

They are now FLOATING THROUGH THE STORM on the rock ... no, seriously, DO NOT leave a trail of CHUM behind you! That is SO dumb ...

Playing baseball with body parts and Ashton's hammer ... yeah, that's definitely smart ...

NINE? Oh bollocks ... Laura, you may have just killed your friends ... but not quite ... phew ...

Touchdown ... and it collapses into pieces, like the Blues Brothers' car ... oof ...

Arguing the differences between Pass Without A Trace and Merge With Stone ... and it WORKS? Blimey ...

All right, where to go? Fearne guesses and leads the way ... Sam rolls 18 ... the storm subsides! Thank the gods ...

Crap! A Flare! Laudna grabs Imogen on instinct and anchors her ... Nice! And Chetney DOES NOT wolf out ...

Reaching out to Ira? Really? Oof ... FCG send a Message to the Nightmare King ... Contact! Yay! But he's still bloody creepy ...

He's such a tease! Damn it ... yeah, messaging doesn't WORK like that ...

Next move, then ... into the city or scout around? How to get in contact with the Volition?

Imogen sends a message to Zhesh ... Nice use of word limit! Persuasion check? Oooh ... 20! Sweet! It worked!

The Jagged Edge, in the Clutch? Looking for Jidoh, in search of "a contract"? Hmmmm ...

Mental ventriloquism? Sweet idea, Orym! That sounds pretty clever ...

Here we go, Fearne is going to turn herself into a Reiloran? Trippy ...

Masks? Hmmm ... Chetney doesn't have enough wood, though ...

Oh WHAT THE HELL, Sam? Surreal flask shenanigans this week ...

Ashley's dice chaos and the others make light ... also inadvertently make her lose track of WHAT SHE'S ACTUALLY DOING ... XD

Crap, busted! Look like a Reiloran QUICK Fearne ... FCG casts Engance Ability on her ... is it successful?

Okay, so what is THIS about? New race?

Trying out the clever ruse? Oh boy ... Travis is not confident ... Deception check? Roll good, Ashley ... 21! Nice ...

Fearne is pretending yo be THE FUCKING WILLMASTER? Fuck ... that is STUPID level ballsy ... this could backfire SO BADLY ...

Okay, I guess these guys aren't all that bright, they might have lucked out here.

That's a lot of Reilorans ... O.O

Tyren A? Okay ...

Guns? Really? Laura: "Fucking Percy!" Marisha: "GUNS have made it to the Moon!"

A game of questions? Interesting ... the tast of strawberries? Hmmm ... oh yeah, this guy ain't too bright either ...

Goodness, tis the Horn of Helm Hammeŕhand!

Speaky's Drip? Oh, it's between the Clutch and the Crumble? Useful ...

A neighbouring outpost is gutted and gone? Whoa ... so the Volition are SERIOUS ... Orym did well there.

Nat20 and Fearne's deception goes AMAZINGLY ... Nice going, girls! O.O

Turns out FCG could have been Ritually casting that all this time? That's embarrassing ...

Heading down to the city ... Martian Helm's Deep indeed ...

Time for a break!

Kids! Careful, Laudna ... oh, FCG's going instead. Ryndons? Oh, they're like mole-pigs? Cute ...

Wow, Letters really is a big hit with these kids. :3

Vateara and Caeluma Veteris? Hmmmm ...

Imogen gives them a goodberry each. Awwwwwwww ...

Ashley gets a Whispers! Ooooh ... cue more plugs from Samuel ...

"You're so small but so OLD." O.O Yes. Chetney is definitely very old indeed ...

THEY DON'T HAVE TOYS? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!!

Yeah, Chetney has just BLOWN THEIR MINDS ... and also imparted important life lessons too. I'm loving this moment so much ... :3

Fuck ... has Chetney just birthed the legend of Santa Claus on Ruidus? Seriously?

The coming MOVE?

Aha! Now we know where the Jagged Edge is. Nice.

Bearne. LOL

Wow, we all just rolled BALKS on that stealth check, didn't we?

Oh, well THIS can't be good. Shit ... they've been spotted, haven't they?

Fearne says she's here for The Beating Heart ... persuasion check? Hmmmm ... oh, looks like she might be tanking this ...

Imogen tries to bring part of a nearby building down for a distraction ... meanwhile Fearne is clearly being ARRESTED ... crap ... do I smell a fight coming?

Fearne turns into a fly, only to be instantly BITTEN BY THE AVADON!!! Fuck ... a 22 to hit? Bloody hell ... back to Fearne again ... and now she's IN ITS MOUTH?!!! Fuck ...

Roll for Initiative? No shit!

Battlemap time! Lovely ...

Marisha has NO PLAN ... hmmm ... no, not a fireball! Bane instead ... Liam IMMEDIATELY does his regular impression ... 2 fails but one manages to resist it. Not bad ... now she hits the avadon with THREE ELDRITCH BLASTS? I thought she DIDN'T want to be loud ... 30 points of damage overall! Holy shit ...

Orym leaps in snd Hexes term as he jumps into the fight, then goes with a Goading attack on the Juggernaut ... hits every time! Nice ...

Said big bad attacks him and HITS!!! Laudna tries Silvery Barbs but she's OUT OF RANGE ... CRAP!!! He hits Orym THREE TIMES in a row ... oh my gods! Not the wee man! Oof ... 18, then 16 ... then a Crit for 32 points of damage altogether? Ouch! AND psychic damage in top of it? AAAAAAHHH! Orym BARELY catches himself short of getting knocked down ... O.O

FCG casts Banishment on the Juggernaut. Which it FAILS to resist, so it's just GONE!!! Phew ...

Again Imogen just fails to bring the chunk of building down ... instead pucks up 2 loose stones and tosses them at the Reilorans with her mind! Both hits! Nice ... 14 bludgeoning damage each!

Fearne is still bring CHEWED ... oof ... she shoits Scorching Rays at 3rd Level at POINT BLANK RANGE into its mouth! TWO NAT20S?!!! Wow ... 4D6 of damage DOUBLED!!! She gets the HDYWTDT!!! Yeah! She essentially just BLASTS HERSELF OUT OF IT!!! Nice!

The remaining avadon attacks FCG ... another Nat20? Ouch ... AND ANOTHER ONE!!! Argh! 21 plus 31 plus 16 points of damage! Fuck! And now he's grappled in its mouth!

The rider tries to impale Fearne with a spear ... Shield! Yes! Nice one! The other one tries too butt the Shield's still up! Oof ... so only partial damage, but she's still getting shoved about ...

Chetney wolfs out and charges ... Blood Maladict! Yeah! Shred shred shred ... 17 plus 21 in damage! Shred indeed! Oh, but the Juggernaut's back ... O.O

Ashton charges in and Rages ... what random shit this time? He goes Monochrome ... he hits the nearest fucker and goes Reckless with it ... HIT!!! This is gonna be BIG damage then ... BRUTAL Critical? Wow ... 26 for the first hit, 21 for the second ... HDYWTDT again! He flattens the guy's head INTO his body! O.O

Laudna casts Blight INTO Ashton's hammer? Oh that's like INSANELY cool ... splut Blight at the two remaining Reolorans ... and they both HIT!!! Oof ... 39 points of damage each? Fuck, she kills them ... HDYWTDT yet again! Bloody hell ... she just TORCHES him ...

Orym starts carving away at the Juggernaut ... a hit! And the second ... AND the third ... Action Surge ... he just KEEPS HITTING HIM OVER AND OVER!!! Orym is a killing MACHINE right now! It's still up, but hurting ... in the meantime whil it's down he pills a Bait snd Switch on Chetney.

The Juggernaut gets back up, looking AWFUL ... tries to flaten Orym on the spot ... MISSES!!! Orym gets a reaction ... and KILLS HIM!!! He guts the fucker ON THE SPOT ...

FCG casts SCRAMBLE the Dead on the avadon chewing him ... 18 points ... ALSO the HDYWTDT!!! Wow ... he uses harmonic resonance to essentially SHAKE IT APART ...

As they scramble to run, Chetney cuts all the heads off so NOBODY can question the corpses after. Lovely ...

Oh yeah ... what IS in the cart? A box? It's heavy ... they put it in the Hole. Then Imogen lifts the cart and PUTS IT ON TOP of one of the buildings ...

They're being watched? Laudna sends Pate to check it out ... looks like someone just living there, a civilian. Hmmmm ...

Oh, so this one's OLD? Okay ... so Pate just SCARES THE BEJEEZUS out of them. Effectively shutting them up, then ... very intimidating ...

To the Jagged Edge! Quickly now ... group deception check to pass unnoticed ...

There's a FAINT glow in the Scry ball ... so Otohan's not SUPER CLOSE, but in the city now. Great ...

FCG's homing in on Zhesh with Locate Creature ... a merchant district? Okay ...

Like writing in dreams? That's beautiful if haunting ...

This must be the place ...

These glass weapons sound absolutely BEAUTIFUL ...

Another one of the fuzzy guys, but really OLD ... he seems interesting ... so this is Jidoh ...

Yeah, DEFINITELY Insight Check ... and they BOTH get Whispers? Cool ...

A Reiloran Shrike? Hmmmm ... oh, but she has a scar on her face, yeah, I remember that ... this MUST BE Zhesh ...

So what DO they want?

Interesting ... she's making A POINT of speaking to them VOCALLY ...

Time for truth, clearly ... yes, clearly they DO have an ally here ...

The Overspoke? Hmmm ... looking for Earot ...

They do need somewhere to hide. Where to go?

300 gold for a glass scythe? Good deal.

They can stay in the cellar for no more than an hour ... ah, so a short rest, then ...

Laudna likes the little Dancer statue ... a persuasion check? 21 ... it's not for sale ... but she gives it as a GIFT?!!! Awwwww ... that's sweet ...

SHORT REST!!! Yes indeed ...

Looking in the box ... it's a Paragon's Call item! Hmmmm ... a magical lock ... oof ... yeah, best come back to that ...

FCG RITUALLY casts Telepathic Bond ...

So Orym can actually Druidcraft blueberries? That's adorable ... :3

If Chetney shows us his new toy, they all DIE. He insists ... hmmmm ...

These people NEED their help, it's true. But they need to be CAREFUL going about it ...

Capture as a TACTIC? I don't like it.

Oh shit ... have they been busted? Somebody's here! Crap ... they're COMING!!!

And that's IT?!!! Seriously? Oof ... bloody cliffhangers ...

[dustedmagazine]

Sylvie Courvoisier — Chimaera (Intakt)

Duration can be a double-edged sword. When it’s handled wrong, longer-form music can just feel long. And in an age when a preponderance of music is served up in three or four minute-long bites, a tune doesn’t need to be too long to feel like a bit of a chew. But duration can justify itself by allowing a listener to untether the listening experience from recognizing structural elements and marking their repetitions. That’s certainly the case with the music on Chimaera, the debut album by a combo led by Sylvie Courvoisier that bears the same name. 

Chimaera is an outgrowth of Courvoisier’s trio with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wolleson. To their number she added Nate Wooley, who brings a deep bag of extended trumpet techniques and an even deeper interrogative spirit, and Christian Fennesz, whose application of electronics can transform the sound of his guitar beyond recognition. And for this session, she added another trumpeter, Wadada Leo Smith.

One might expect a band named after a fire-breathing, two-headed beast to singe some ear hairs, but that’s not really the case. It’s more likely that the Swiss-born pianist and composer, who has been based in Brooklyn since the late 1990s, chose it for its mythological dimension. The album’s compositions were inspired by the paintings of Odilon Redon, a direct predecessor of surrealism. Their length permits the listener to be simply be present as the music manifests in diaphanous layers of color and forms that are perceptible, but not always recognizable. Gress begins “Le Pavot Rouge,” the album’s opening track, with a questioning, bluesy figure introduction. In short order, he parts a veil of shimmering piano and vibraphone (Wollesen plays vibraphone as drum kit much of the time, which substantially shifts the weight and character of sound away from piano trio conventions), and then takes up a spare, abstracted tango rhythm. Over the next 20 minutes, musicians enter and exit the action. One trumpet takes up the querying vibe, and the other resolves it. The guitar floats dubby echoes over the pulse. Courvoisier darts out of the vibes at double speed, or complicates some brass harmonies with spare dissonant notes.

In other settings, such as her duo with Mary Halvorson, Courvoisier favors abruptness and density. Chimaera’s music is no less eventful. But it drifts instead of bursting, inviting the listener to surrender to a sequence of dissolutions, reconstitutions, and surprising elaborations across six compositions and 87 minutes of dream-like music.

Bill Meyer

[that1nkyone]

1nky Recounts a Part In Endwalker In Greater Detail Than Usual Part I

so it hit me that I literally will not be able to post screenshots on Twitter from Endwalker anymore, however Vague, because basically every single detail I wanna comment on is a Spoiler.

So I decided to just have some commentary on This Part In Particular - or namely, that Part Between Levels 86-87, I Think

Anyway, enjoy.

YES.

You bastard. You maniac. You dipweed.

I missed you.

And Hythlodaeus has been given a face! Much more prettier than I'd originally imagined, after meeting him as a Shade.

Some things don't change over the millenia, huh?

Well, you do seem notably Happier right now.

doN'T be FUCKING MEAN

You know, when looking for Hermes, this wasn't what I was expecting.

Meteion's Cute, but reeks of Experiment Going Wrong. ) :

The Soul behind the Final Days, everyone.

I would like to thank my partner @rukewastestime for helping me bully Emet-Selch a little.

Granted, Hythlodaeus may be caught in the blast, but I think he'll just find it Funny.

Oh, okay. Ahem.

in retrospect this ended up being relevant

Maybe not intentionally, but the way you are right now, you seem kinda like a Powder Keg in these circumstances. ) :

) :

YOU

... I have been slightly Wary of Hydaelin since Shadowbringers, but with that said, I am Super Happy to meet her heart.

OH SHIT???

I kinda love that. Of course she was also an Adventurer of her time.

... but then of course she notices the Time Travel Shenanigans immediately and the jig's up.

alright how badly have we fucked up the timeline

heheheh

i'm sorry my dude but you look a lot like Xemnas Kingdomhearts

Also Many Thousands of Years of Depression and the death of half your people in a society where Suffering had little impact/occurrence means you will Cope Badly.

look I know it's a cultural difference, but there is something jarring about all these people going "Man, I can't wait for you to die! : D You deserve it so much!" Venat: ... thank

I really liked this part. :' ) Talking with the person who retroactively gave us this quest to begin with, asking how our adventures have gone - and us telling it all to her. I Noticed that Haurchefant Emote, too. :' ) alright this is where I stopped playing my last session, and the next part will be the Rest Of Elpis.

where uh

Hm.

[hriobzagelthewanderer]

Things Hriob is No Longer Allowed to Do, Revised Edition - Part Trois

#81 Yes, exercise nuts often invent new fads to sell shit to the unknowing masses trying to ‘get in shape’. No, I am not allowed to market a new “Diogenes Workout” involving rock climbing using only a cauldron and a sledgehammer. Not even if I demonstrate how ‘easy’ it is.

#82 Yes, Sparring is a fun way to get a full-body exercise so long as I have a designated partner and don’t get carried away. No, asking bar-goers random thugs and mercenaries Pirates with serious anger issues anyone ‘Hey, you want to Fight?’ is NOT sparring and I am not allowed to do this anymore.

#83 I am forever forbidden from ‘Saving Christmas’, even ESPECIALLY if I was the one who put it in Jeopardy in the first place.

#84 I am not to confuse ‘Spreading Christmas Cheer’ with ‘Getting the masses intoxicated with my Eggnog Special’. There’s more to the Spirit of the Holidays than Spirits, Hriob, you should know this already.

#85 Just to be safe, to build upon the prior two rulings (#83 and #84), I cannot ‘Save’ Hanukkah Kwanzaa Thanksgiving Halloween Easter Ramadan St. Patrick’s Day Valentine’s Day ANY remotely ‘major’ Holiday regardless of whether or not it has anything to do with any given religion.

#86 I can be ‘Santa’ for Christmas, or I can be ‘Krampus’. Both have ups and downs, but I will remember to pick ONE and stick with it per Christmas season, for my own sake as much as everyone else’s.

#87 Regardless of whether or not I have the powers of Bardic Magic on my side or not, I will refrain from abusing this power to turn deadly battles villainous monologues do-or-die moments training sessions ANY moment that isn’t already filled with unusual amounts of song into quaint musical numbers. Yes, even if the children love it when I do that.

#88 I am not a cherub, and even if I’m not too shabby with a bow when the time calls for it, I am not allowed to claim that I can make people fall in love by shooting them with arrows splashing them with potions showering them with chocolate serenading them getting them drunk enough holding them at knife-point locking them in a small room together ANY means - and I am forever forbidden from trying to prove that I can.

#89 The power to ‘bring snowmen to life’ is not a Right, it is a Privilege. The moment I abuse this power for ANY reason is the moment I am forever banned from making ‘Atronachs’ of ANY material, period.

#90 Even if I know any personifications of the Seasons personally, I am not allowed to bribe threaten trick coerce seduce gamble use ANY means to adjust when one season ends and another begins, be it for my own benefit or ‘shits and giggles’.

#91 Reddish hair or not, Inconceivable Alcohol Immunity or not, Strange Luck or not, I am NOT Irish, but Czech-German, and I am not allowed to let others confuse that issue.

#92 In accordance with the prior rule, this means I am not allowed to celebrate St. Patty’s Day unsupervised, nor am I allowed to encourage people to ‘Kiss me’ under the pretense that ‘I’m Irish’. It's bad enough I have too many people who’d do it anyways, they don’t need further incentive.

#93 As a self-employed Entrepreneur and Craft Brewer, I understand the importance of self-promotion and advertisement. Making careful deals with bar owners and handing out Business Cards is a step in the right direction - Going door-to-door with a red wagon and trying to use arguably cute animal familiars random woodland creatures glamours girl scouts boy scouts random children important children puppies kittens baby seals ANY variation of ‘little helpers’’ to make sales is right out.

#94 Many restaurants and food vendors enjoy using the concept of ‘Free Samples’ to sell their products. As an Alchemic Craft-Brewer, I am to remind myself that, no, this is NOT a valid method of advertising for my wares, with all but a few NO exceptions.

#95 As I grow more talented with Life magic, alchemy, and gain access to individuals with greater talents in those fields than myself, I am to be reminded that I will not create/pester others to help create a ‘Molotov Cockatiel’ to use as a familiar pet prank biological warfare agent FOR ANY REASON.

#96 The ‘tomato allegory’ is a good way to demonstrate examples of Wisdom versus Intelligence, as well as other ‘DnD stats’ in a real-world context. I am NOT to try and actually act out parts of the allegory, or try to make my own ‘better’ one using beer vodka hamsters zombies drunk zombie hamsters ANYTHING ELSE, “just because” - no matter HOW ‘educational’ it may or may not be.

#97 I am not allowed to stress-test Bowling Lanes or Equipment by “playing as hard good fun as I can”.

#98 I am not allowed to help Jacob in any variety of smithy, workshop, metalworking, or engineering project without additional adult supervision. Let the Coilgun-powered Hammer be the last Scientific Monstrosity I help bring into the world.

#99 When building massive projects involving Gingerbread buildings ‘To Scale’, I will remember to make sure that the Runic Protections prevent anything breaking, sagging, dirtying or making any part of it inedible, and also remember that the Load-bearing structures are kept far away from hungry guests whenever possible.

#100 Just because I have a Ring of Sands that gives me an extra casting focus for my magics, attuned to both Wind and Earth elements as well as the Concept of Sand itself, does Not make me ‘The Sand Guardian, Guardian of the Sands’, and neither does it give me any reason, excuse, legitimacy, or ability to tease, torment, or banish The Master beyond what I already can do in any way not already defined by the pertinent ‘unspoken agreement’ - even especially in light of the fact he’s already broken it.

#101 Yes, I am a Lord of the Fae, and can use my power to command certain kinds of ‘Lesser’ Fairies, including Pixies. Yes, Pixies are for all intents and purposes magical glowing balls of flying teeth and mischief with a taste for human flesh. No, I am NOT allowed to ‘summon’ them by quoting the Wicked Witch of the West and/or weaponizing massive swarms of pixies as a substitute for flying Piranha Unless I really want to Excepting truly Dire Circumstances by my reckoning as defined by a rational, responsible adult that is not myself.

#102 Upon further revision and consideration, the above rule (#101) is to be applied to any and all flying creatures, contraptions, and/or weapons, magical or otherwise, again excluding Emergency Use as defined by an independent observer. Projectiles of any kind, guided or not, are to be used carefully, not liberally.

#103 If against all odds and attempts to avoid combating a so-called God or Deity fail, and violence becomes necessary to defend myself or others, should I be given the chance to attack them with something resembling a symbol of their office, I am to remind myself of two things first:

A) If it is a symbol of their office, they most likely have high resistance to it, if not power over it, and I ought to consider other options B) I am not allowed to chant ‘Stop Hitting Yourself’ if I proceed to attack them with said symbol regardless of the above step.

#104 I may be immune to Nightwood poison powder, but that does not allow me to ‘create a new version of the cinnamon challenge’ using it instead of a generic spice, nor use it for any other purposes beyond careful poison applications. And even if that does include toxic smoke bombs, I will NOT refer to them as ‘vanishing powder bombs’.

#105 I am not allowed to apply to break into enchant curse be within a seven mile radius of interact with any ‘Bed Bath and Beyond’ with the intention of “revamping their ‘Beyond’ section to comply with the Better Business Bureau’s advertising standards.”

#106 I am not allowed to break into buy the entire stock of in any way acquire any amount of scented candles beyond ‘2’, even especially with the intention of creating a ‘Scented Wax Antronach’.

#107 Just because my blood probably should be a controlled substance in at least 39 states by this point, doesn’t mean I should brag about it. If anything, the less any given national government knows about me, the better.

#108 The above ruling (#107) is to be extended hereafter to all other bodily fluids, samples, and secretions of my physical form, including Lymph, Sweat, Bones, Mucus, Semen, Ligaments, Major Organs, Minor Organs, Imaginary Organs, anything and everything off my person.

#109 No longer allowed to avoid paperwork with the O.A.B. by just claiming “the Dog ate it”- Gurrel has enough on his plate without being made into a scapegoat. In addition, despite how much more likely it actually is, claiming ‘the Moose ate it’ is not acceptable either.

#110 Not allowed to look into body modifications - magical or otherwise - until I have been given a clean bill of health by a licensed therapist in regards to any potential body-image issues second opinion from a responsible adult that doesn’t veto my idea… and the moment I decide I want to ‘show them my junk and hope they can work their magic’ is the moment I am forbidden from getting any mods regardless.

#111 If given the option, I will Not use my powers of Lightning and/or Space-Time Magic to pull ‘random’ objects towards my person. It never ends well.

#112 I will remember why I practiced the Prestidigitation spells until they were second nature, and only use them for protection against theft and utility beyond the need for physical pockets - I will NOT abuse the powers to pick-pocket or ‘reverse’-pick-pocket others.

#113 If someone asks for a lift to a particular country or city (ex: Paris, France), and I am not certain if they mean one instance or another lesser-known one (ex: Paris, Texas), I will NOT assume I know which one they mean but instead ask for clarification.

#113 I will not misunderstand what is asked of me if I am asked for a ‘Lift’ from someone.

#115 I will not attempt to make a sandwich out of anything that is larger than a standard four-door sedan. Nor am I allowed to construct a sandwich that exceeds those dimensions.

#116 “What Happens in Atlantis, Stays in Atlantis”, is not, has never been, nor will ever become a valid legal defense. The same is true substituting for “Pompeii”.

#117 Just because I met Gilgamesh in a past life (As Humbaba) and was subsequently killed by him and his best friend does not mean I get to claim he owes me money reparations a solid anything.

#118 I don’t care how many people seem to think I am a ‘dead ringer’ for Thor, I will not accept the title or namesake: fighting one giant god-slaying snake-man was enough for me for any number of lifetimes.

#119 I know I hate spandex and think it is uncomfortable, impractical, and generally a stupid thing to wear. That is no excuse for chastising the fashion senses of ‘superheroes’ and ‘supervillains’ I come across even if they clearly need the help for any reason.

#120 Yes, I know Mixed Martial Arts championships exist that incorporate Medieval European Weapons and Armor in the ring. No, I am not allowed to compete given my dozens of unfair advantages - if tempted to do so anyways I am to chant to myself the words ‘we have weapons and armor sparring at home’ until the urges subside.

[dinocos-golden-boy]

Alright, since you send in all the Ranger family asks, I’ll do the same with you!

What’s the general story with your Ranger family OC’s? Like, a timeline of sorts? I want to compare notes. :P

Thanks, friendo!

AHH! My first ask! I'm so excited! Please feel free to send in more friendo! I do it after all myself! ^^

It's fair enough. I do love Blade after all haha xD.

Also just a note, mine is different. I'm not sure what you'll do with comparing notes, but I'm all up for it :D

I assume you're referring to when Kate begins her relationship with Blade, when Dakota is born, Kate's fiery accident when she's a firefighter etc. Feel free to correct me though if I'm wrong, but I'll base my answer from that question.

This is also a longgg answer. So I hope you like it :D

Ranger Family Timeline: In-Depth

• Early to Mid 70s: Kate works as both an international photo shoot model and actress, as well as doing her career at home in the States. She has dreamed of traveling and seeing the world all of her life. She travels from London to Paris, and from Berlin to Rome. She stars in many films as she continues to travel across the world. She begins to make music videos and even begins to become a singer.

• Late 70s: After returning home from traveling to take some time off from her career as an international photo shoot model, Kate receives a cast to guest star in CHoPs. This is where she and Blade first meet. While they are silent for a while, Kate is the one who makes the first move and begins to talk to Blade as much as she can. Secretly it's his handsome and charming icy blue eyes that makes her want him. Eventually with help from his on-screen-partner and best friend Nick, the two eventually begin to see each other more often. Soon, Kate's love for Blade continues to grow. This is obvious, as she continues to release love songs more consistently than ever before. As the Christmas season approaches, she releases a Christmas album where all of her songs are about love. Blade soon falls in love with her beautiful singing voice, and they officially start dating in '77/'78.

• Early 80s: Blade and Kate have now been dating for 3 years. Kate begins to focus more on her photo shoots as a model, while Blade continues to pursue acting full-time. However, Kate costars on CHoPs whenever she can, although she loves doing her own works. Following Kate's impressive photos and postures, the directors of the show decide to have her and Blade do a photo session together. The two AgustaWestland helicopters agree and soon enough, the photos are taken and completed. Not only are the directors impressed with Kate's photos, but they are also impressed with her music videos. Soon, the entire cast of the show begin to do music videos, with Kate's help. Blade was mostly intimidated by this, since some of the stunts were more complex than what he was use to doing, but Kate was always there to help him, and he felt much more comfortable in the end.

• Mid to Late 80s: This is the time period where Blade and Kate's relationship begins to strain a little. In '84, Nick has his deadly on-set crash. Blade is severely unstable and devastated following this tragic loss. He immediately vanishes without a trace, and ends up losing contact with Kate. It isn't until a few years later in '87, that he reconnects with her. Of course, she isn't happy about him taking off without telling her what had happened, but she realizes he needed time away and doesn't scold him for his actions. The two begin to slowly reconnect and begin to form a romantic relationship once again. Unfortunately this doesn't last long, and eventually a new breaking point occurs. This happens when Kate decides to take Blade out for dinner at a nice restaurant. A little while later, after Kate excuses herself to the restroom, her ex-boyfriend Henry shows up. Blade catches him and asks him what he's doing at the restaurant. Henry claims that he's there to congratulate Kate on her award for Best Actress of the Year, although he has ulterior motives. He calls Blade and Kate's newly rebuilt relationship a great "PR move." Nearly on cue, Kate arrives back at the table, horrified that her ex is there. Blade immediately moves away from the table and angrily heads outside. Kate chases after him, only for Blade to tell her that their worlds are completely different and that the media circus is no longer for him. Kate watches him leave as she begins to silently cry, feeling she's lost him again, as cameras begin to flash abruptly at her.

• Early to Mid 90s: Kate continues her career as a photo shoot model. However, she quits the entire Hollywood and Music industry after losing her brother, who was a firefighter stationed in Oregon. She soon understands just how tragic Blade's loss of Nick meant to him, and begins to pursue firefighting. She begins her work as a firefighter in Washington State, only to be recruited to Piston Peak after the station relocates. Coincidentally, Blade is also training as a firefighter at this time. At this point, Kate is now the Chief of the Piston Peak Air Attack Team. Blade shows up as he's been recruited to Piston Peak. When Kate sees him, she doesn't know what to think. As an authority figure, she knows she can't express any feelings toward him, as an act of profession. Blade feels bad for everything that happened between them, and wants to rekindle their relationship. Kate starts off with the two just being colleagues and getting Blade trained and certified as a firefighter. Slowly, she begins to show her feelings of love again, while hiding it from everyone else. She struggles with trust at times though, since she's lost Blade twice. But Blade remains true to his word, and the two eventually begin to date.

• Late 90s to Early 2000s: Blade and Kate finally tie the knot. In '97, they marry and begin to try and start the life they always dreamed of. Of course they're now firefighters, with Kate as the Chief. But she still shows love toward Blade outside of work. She knows the balance between work and personal life, even though her personal life with Blade strained for a while. In 2004, they welcome their baby girl, Dakota. Unfortunately, nearly a year after Dakota is born, Kate is severely killed following a fiery accident while out with the team fighting a wildfire. Mortified, Blade rushes over to her only to have his rotors catch fire and internal mechanics badly damaged. Kate is pronounced dead on the scene. Traumatized by this, Blade is no longer the loving father. He is later on given the role as fire chief, and becomes icy and harsh. He becomes overprotective of his daughter, up to the point where he does not allow her to leave base. A year after Kate's death, Annalisa is born.

• 2010s: Blade has now been Chief for 10 years. Dakota is now 10 (2014). Blade continues to remain harsh towards her and still doesn't allow her to leave the base. He keeps everything to himself and doesn't allow his daughter to ask questions about her mother. Dakota is currently in grade school and later on will seek enrollment in Piston Peak Academy, where she will be trained as a firefighter. Eventually, Blade realizes he's kept Dakota out of his distance. He knows she needs her father. Dakota and Blade slowly rekindle their relationship, with Blade starting to talk to her about what her mother was like and that he knows she'll make both him and her mother proud.

Present Day: Blade continues to be Chief and plans on retiring within the next few months of this year. Dakota is currently training to be a firefighter and will be receiving the title as Chief once Blade retires.

Sad fact: A while before Kate died, she and Blade found out they were expecting their second child. But that didn't happen. This is another dark secret Blade hides from Dakota.

**UPDATED ON 02/10/23**

[thatrickmcginnis]

THE BLUES - John Lee Hooker, Brownie McGhee, Frank Frost 1986-87

My first and only subject at the beginning of my career was music and musicians, probably because I was also a music journalist at the time. I was aware that blues music's moment was quickly passing into history so I grabbed opportunities to capture blues musicians whenever they passed through town - people like harmonica player and singer Frank Frost, who I photographed live at Albert's Hall in Toronto's now-long-gone Brunswick House. Frost, who was born in Arkansas in either 1936 or 1938, was a relative youngster, and he was recorded by Sam Phillips at Sun Records, who put out his Hey Boss Man! LP in 1962; Elvis' guitarist Scotty Moore would later produce his records for Jewel Records in Shreveport, LA. He was rediscovered in the '70s and toured with his band, the Jelly Roll Kings, which is how I photographed him live in 1986. I don't esteem my concert photography highly - with sufficient skill and equipment, almost any photographer can get the same photos - but this is a little record of an authentic blues musican plying his craft in the kind of venue where most blues players who could tour would appear - a room in a tavern or bar frequented by students, fans and aficionados. Frank Frost died in 1999, at just 63.

John Lee Hooker was an authentic blues legend, and when I learned that he would be playing the Diamond Club here in Toronto I did my best to try to get a portrait session - or what passed for one. Hooker was born in Mississippi anywhere between 1912 and 1923, and left home as a teenager, never to see his parents again. After performing on Beale Street in Memphis he moved north to a job at the Ford plant and gigs in Detroit's clubs. His driving guitar playing and clever, playful lyrics made him an immediate hit once he started recording in 1948, and he was always the kind of blues musician loved by rock bands and artists who wore their blues influences on their sleeves. The dressing room at the Diamond was full of fans, including young women sitting with their arms around Hooker, putting on his white hat. He didn't seem bothered, but he still projected a fierce dignity that let them know when they were going too far. My friend and colleague Chris Buck also talked his way into the dressing room with his camera, and we shot Hooker side by side while he interacted with his fans. Two years later he'd have a huge hit with his record The Healer, and begin a very successful final act to his career that would end with him owning five houses - three in California, including one in Los Altos where he would die in 2001.

Brownie McGhee was born in 1915 in Tennessee, the older brother of musician Stick McGhee, and was crippled by polio at a young age. He taught himself to play guitar and was promoted as "Blind Boy Fuller No. 2" by Columbia Records after the death of the original Fuller in 1941. He teamed up with harmonica player Sonny Terry and the duo became a big success, with a four-decade career that was boosted by the folk boom of the '50s and '60s and appearances in the Broadway productions of Finian's Rainbow and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in the 1979 film The Jerk. McGhee had just appeared with Mickey Rourke in Alan Parker's occult-themed thriller Angel Heart when I photographed him in 1987, playing the musician Toots Sweet and getting great reviews. Boosted by the publicity from the film, he went on a tour that brought him to Toronto, playing the Horseshoe Tavern on Queen Street West, where I photographed him either before or after sound check in the laneway behind the club. Something went wrong when I was shooting McGhee and I ended up overexposing the roll by at least a couple of stops, which made the photos difficult to print back then, but have given the shots a suitably retro feel today after being carefully edited in Photoshop. McGhee played his last gig at the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival and died in 1996.

[thedum1]

     I wanna talk about my dumb little OCs and whatnot.

This will get long and I will go overboard. So I’m trying out the read more thing. I’ll list them off from oldest to youngest, not when I made them but the year they would’ve been born...this list made me realize I’m not good at naming my OCs.

--For most of these the year the show/thing came out will be the year it takes place as well.--

Jazz and Coy the Goody Two Shoes Cat Siblings, not their actual last name, for Animaniacs They were made not long after the Warner Siblings were locked away. So I’d say around Christmas season of 1934. They were made to balance out the very high energy and extremely tooney Warner siblings. But their show flopped big time and the studio saw it as a waste of money. So similar to the Warner they got locked away but in a spare and mostly forgotten storage space. Why did it flop? Most popular cartoons had a very toon energy about them. Being full of slapstick comedy and cartoonish violence. The Cat Siblings were the exact opposite of that. Being calm and full of life lessons on being a well behave kid without the fun parts of cartoons. They were freed in 2020 during the C-19 Plague by Yakko accidentally. Now they chill with the Warner sibs and are slowly learning how to do slapstick toon things. (They are cartoon cats....they have no race...)

Some quick facts about the siblings:

Jazz, lowkey based off me in the sense of older sibling with a strong “must protect my younger siblings” vibe, imagine her around the same age as Yakko.

She’s a bisexual demigirl and goes by she/it.

Its got a crush on Roxanne from A Goofy Movie. It and and the others sometime pop by the D*sney Studio for a visit.

Coy, lowkey based of my younger siblings. A very big bookworm and enjoys school. He’s around Dot’s age.

Currently cisgendered and goes by he/him.

Michael Smith is my first and currently only trans OC. He’s from the YouTube series Good Game, though I’ve never watched it myself. He runs and own his own café/bakery, which is below his apartment. His food is what fuels Alex, Ryland and the others during practice sessions. It was actually Ryland who found his place and actually becomes a regular, he recommends his place as “gamer fuel” for practice. This leads to Michael and Ryland getting close and eventually developing a mutual crush, because yes. Michael was born in the year of 1987, his birthday is June 9th....because 6/9/87 as I am a child and 69 is fucking hilarious to me. (My special boy is just a regular white American boy.)

Facts about my son:

Michael’s parents LOVE the country Queen, Dolly Parton and originally named Michael after one of her songs, Jolene. They accept Michael’s transition and name change with open arms.

Alex and Michael’s relationship is a little rocky in the beginning because I’ve decided Alex has a slight thing for his gamer roomie and is jealous. He gets over it and actually ends up with one of Michael’s BFFs, a male Australian Cartoonist.

Michael and Ryland get married and even have a kid, which they announce at the Announcement of Michael’s second shop location becoming a thing.

I’ve come up with a stripper AU for Michael, I don’t have much info on it other than Michael works at an LGBT+ club and is a top tier stripper.

Phoebe “Frostine” Summers my ice power wielding villain for Teen Titans (2003 version which I’ve decided also takes place in 2003). She was brought into the world in 1987. She’s got her powers not long after turning 9. To be exact she started showing weird signs (always cold and could never warm up) the day after her 9th birthday. The first time her powers come out is around 7 months later. Of course her parents freak out and shipped her off somewhere. H.I.V.E. academy took her in when she turned 12. She learned to control her powers and became a really good villain. Though that wavers after meeting Robin. (My daughter is full white. Most ancestors come from predominantly white European contries.)

Facts about my icy daughter:

Yes, she got her villain name, Frostine, from the CandyLand character Queen Frostine. I am not sorry about that.

Around the time the show starts, ‘Go!’, Phoebe makes a civilian persona out of boredom. She goes to the same school as the bratty teen villain Kitten. She was very jealous of the fact that Kitten got Robin to be her date to the dance...yeah she was that into being a regular teen.

Did is say jealous? Yes I fucking did. I’m pushing my old childhood crush onto her. The reason she got into being a civilian was because she likes Robin how he’s nicer to her. She does reveal herself to him at some point.

While Phoebe is a villain for most of the series she actually doesn’t really like the other H.I.V.E. teens and likes to take their steals sometimes. Other times she’ll just annoy/distract them and get them caught. She eventually just stops being a villain at some point, which is great because she knows villain things to help the heroes.

Beau Young my bisexual “6teen” half Canadian Indigenous teen. Born in the year of 1988. Beau works at the Galleria Mall in the Albatross and Finch store. I haven’t touched his “story” in forever so I don’t remember too much for him. But he is half-sibs with another OC of that’s coming up. (His mother is where he gets his Indigenous blood from.)

Some facts I do remember about boy:

He’s friends with the main 6teen cast but is particularly close with Nikki and Wyatt...he thinks Wyatt is pretty and Nikki is super cool. But he’s not close with Jen or Jonesy. He finds Jen to be too uptight and Jonesy a very annoying, especially when it comes to girls.

He’s a grade above the main teens and is willing to help with school shit if asked. Yes that includes Jonesy...as long as someone else is there too.

Beau plays the violin and likes having coffee and jam sessions with Wyatt. The violin also gets him extra attention from girls, which Jonesy hates.

Him and Caitlin talk about relationships and judge each other on their taste in boys.

Beau Carriedo the half Spanish half French teen of Code Lyoko. Born in 1989 from a surrogate for two men...a French man, Francis Bonnefoy, and a Spanish man,  Antonio Fernández Carriedo. (I have ZERO shame in that one). He’s somewhat new to the OC pile. Another gay OC as I refuse to be stopped. Sometime ago I looked at Odd Della-Robbia and decided he needs a BF, so Beau was born. I also decided Odd may have not yet come to terms with non-heterosexuality so it takes time for anything to happen between them. Beau also has an on-off crush on William, which doesn’t become a thing anyways.

Facts about my NOT A-Hetalia-Love-Child child:

Beau is the same age and year as Yumi, which is why he knows William and is close with him. But he’s not a Lyoko warrior. 

He knows French, Spanish and English. Which makes him my first/oldest multilingual OC on this list.

It was Odd who made Beau realize he liked boys. For a while he thought none of the girls at Kadic were his type. Then BOOM!! Odd came into his life and he realized that there were girls who were his type...except for their gender.

Beau was someone who found Clone!William weird and off putting, not funny. I don’t know if I want him to find out that Clone!William is a clone and Real!William is trapped in Lyoko, which would then lead him to learning about Lyoko.

Taro “Yama” “Sakura” Yamada my Japanese femboy for Death Note. Born in 1990, between Matt and Mello. Been at Whammy’s house since he was but a wee babe of 2. He is cis and gay, just finds feminine clothes more comfortable to wear. He has a deep crush on Mello and even left Whammy’s to go for him, with Matt. The young boy learned coming off as a cute and a “needs to be protected” girl got extra cash and sadly attention. When the boys meet again Taro, who goes by Sakura to be “undercover”, helps Mello to get the Death Note. I’ve yet to decide if I wanna go with the canon ending for Matt and Mello or give the boys a semi-happy ending. I’m slowly working on a fic for him. Dunno if it’ll come out or actually be finished, it’s just a thing I work on on and off. Either way Taro doesn’t die.

Facts about my sad boy:

He’s good at acting and manipulation which Mello uses to his advantage.

Because I stopped caring I’ve decided Matt has a crush on Taro while Taro has a crush on Mello who is undecided on romance. How does it end? It depends on how I want to finish Taro’s story.

He is somewhat friendly with Near and would sit in silence with the boy before he left Whammy’s.

Taro is a fairly recent OC actually. Not even 2 years old if I’m remembering correctly.

Jean Grey my only goth OC at the moment. She’s the half-sister to my other OC Beau Young. In 1991 she was born and her X-Men loving mother named her after her (mother’s) favorite character. Yes. Beau and Jean have different mothers. They come from polyamory parents and Jean carries that on into her own relationships. She’s very bi and has dated both boys and girls before Total Drama takes place. She eventually starts dating Cody, sometime before the end of season one, and Lindsay, between Action and World Tour. (Homegirl is just white...that’s it really.)

Fact ‘aboot’ bi-poly goth girl:

She’s got a couple of pet chinchillas and misses them terribly when she’s doing Total Drama.

She’s goth in terms of clothes mostly. She definitely doesn’t act like typical goths do and is fine with that. She’s been tempted to “borrow” Gwen’s clothes during the competition.

She’s got the strong urge to fist fight Heather, Courtney and Alejandro...Chris and Chef too obviously, as I’m sure most of the competitors do.

I’m working on a fic where Jean is a new to fame cover artist and is still dealing with Total Drama nonsense...I’m also not that far into it.

Jasmine “Jas” Luna was technically me at one point before just becoming her own person. She was born in 1994 to a workaholic mother and loving father. Sadly her father was a victim of a speeding accident when she was 8 and her mother never cared for children. She left home at 18 to wherever Mystic Messenger takes place. She meets and befriend a young man who also recently left home. They find a kitten and become cat parents for the little guy. Her canon story is intertwined with said friend and they go through Zen and Saeyoung’s stories at the same time. She’s related to an MC on this list as well.  (She’s half American Indigenous and half Caucasian.)

Facts about no-longer-me MC:

She discovered the lovecore aesthetic right before she moved away from home and it became her everything. The soft pinks and vibrant reds paired with hearts is just her vibe. Even the food she makes is cute and soft looking.

Her cat is my cat but smaller and nicer. She has him during the events of Mystic Messenger and will set up kitty playdates with Elizabeth the Third no matter the ending.

Her “true” ending is with Saeyoung. But if I had to chose a different member for her to end up with it’d be best coffee wife Jaehee. She finds her very pretty and is touchy with her, though it’s platonic when she’s dating one of the boys.

My shortest adult human MC/OC. Standing at a whopping 5 feet even and on the plump side to boot. If she was a male....4′10″ max. We love short kings and queens.

She knows English, Korean and Japanese. Which makes her my second multilingual OC. While I’m sure Mystic Messenger takes place in Korea I thought it’d be fun if it was in Japan and was amongst a group of Korean folks.

Jaci Summerhill the younger but much taller than his cousin, Jas, MC of Obey Me. 1997 the year of their birth...along with their twin brother Jack. Jaci, and Obey Me, got me to come to terms with my non-cis...ness?? When I first started the game I used my name but that felt wrong. So a google search later Jaci was born. While it took some time for Jaci to become what he is today I knew he was meant to be masc presenting, so a masculine nonbinary Jaci became permanent. His pronouns are he/they. At the moment, when not in the Devildom Jaci lives in France as a professional chef. (Jaci is mostly American Indigenous.)

Facts about my tallest OC/MC:

Tallest? YES!! This version of Jaci is my tallest character. They stand at a WHOPPING 7 feet even!! It’s why I’m such a big fan of tall reader/MC fics. Had Jaci been AFAB instead of AMAB they’d be slightly taller standing at 7′3″ because tall ladies are my favorite.

Jaci is very weak when it comes to Asmodeus, Simeon and of course Luke. The Little D’s are also a slight weak point for them. He’d do anything they asked because he just loves them that much.

My sweet tall child....is a bit of a himbo. They are very big, both height and build. Not the best when it comes to school. Yet he did learn 2 other languages. He speaks English, French and Japanese.

Jas and Jaci are very close and see each other as siblings more than cousins. Before Jaci became an exchange student he used to visit at least twice a year. They even learned Japanese because she did. 

Miguel Jimenez my only selective mute OC who lives in Gravity Falls. Born in 1999 just before summer season, so May-ish I’d say. He’s the young nephew to local TV personality Shandra Jimenez. He lives not to far from a bestie of his with Shandra and his older sister, Andrea. He likes to spend the summer with the Pines Twins post-Stan’s-first-party-at-the-Shack. Miguel and Andrea lost their parents to a terrible accident when the young boy was even younger. That lead him to being mute, only talking if he feels comfortable around the person. (If you didn’t pick up on it Miguel is Hispanic.)

Facts about my quiet child:

He was gonna be gay but I believe just queer is more fitting for him. It’s a nice umbrella term for him and he feels most comfortable using it. He does date Dipper by the end of the show though, so draw up whatever conclusions you want.

Miguel “co-parents” Waddles with Mable, as he’s grew quite attached to the sweet pig.

Miguel’s first friends are Candy and Grenda. But he considers Dipper to be his best friend and talks to him for the first time right before the twins leave. They do nightly phone calls till they can see each other again.

Wendy and her group of friends (which includes Andrea) will sometimes let Miguel hangout with them, especially when Candy and Grenda are busy and can’t hangout with him themselves.

Jasmine “Jazz” Luna (Alt version of Jas) Uh...I’m gonna be real with y’all. Jazz is for the new-ish Cheritz game ‘The Ssum’ and I don’t have any plans playing it after the 200 days are over. Since I have no real way to say this game as a set date, other than the early 2020s, I’ll say she was born in 1999. (She’s just like Jas...don’t know what to tell you.)

Do I have facts for her??

Um....she dated Zen (not MysMes timeline) for a hot minute I guess.

She’s cousins with TWST!Jaci.

So far she’s not me but not her own person??? Does that make sense?

This is probably it for her. I’m planning on uninstalling The Ssum when I’ve finished the story for Teo. Won’t even bother looking at Harry’s. Way too many microtransactions. 

Julien DeForest the fully French OC for Miraculous Ladybug. He’s got lesbian moms who run a popular flower shop. He has no contact with his dad beyond birthday gifts and congratulation phone calls, by mutual agreement as papa moved and has a budding career. 2001 is Julien’s year. He’s my gay little mural artist who’s got a FAT crush on Cat Noir. He does enjoy helping his moms in the shop though. He may or may not also end up crushing on Nathaniel, his BFF, and Adrien. Thomas Astruc can fight me in the back of a Denny’s for the adoption papers for his characters. I’d treat them better....also make more of them openly LGBT+. (Boy is just white.)

Fact about gay flower son:

If I wanted to give him a canon miraculous it would be the Bee. He’d place it on the back on his head right above his little ponytail, if I feel like drawing him with it. If he doesn’t get a miraculous he actually cuts his hair shorter.

Julien has been friends with Nathaniel for years, since they were 8ish. Julien used to do those stupid looking anime doodles on Nath’s notes when he was bored, which is how he got into The Arts~!!

My boy just loves jamming out to Clara Nightingale and Jagged Stone while working on his next mural....sometimes his music gets too loud and he gets paint on some poor soul who “sneaks” up on him.

One of Julien’s mom is a black woman named Odette. He loves her and how happy she’s made his birth mom. When he was little, about 6ish, he got to be the ring bearer in their wedding. It’s one of his favorite memories and stories.

Jaci Summerhill (Alt version of Obey Me!Jaci)  but now he’s cisgender and hangs out with twink-ified (for the most part) D*sney Villains. Just like The Ssum I have no idea when Twisted Wonderland takes place so I’ll say the early 2020s. With my...sub-par math skills I’ve come to the conclusion that TWsT!Jaci was born in 2005. I’m not too far into the game at the moment so TWST!Jaci doesn’t have much to him. I do like the idea of him being a theater kid and he likes musicals in particular. (Again, he’s just like Obey Me!Jaci.)

Some facts I do have about boy:

His favorite musical is Chicago and he loves Billy Flynn’s songs the most. He’s also fond of Sweeney Todd and knows all the lyrics to all the songs.

Jaci actually doesn’t really like Grim and blames him for them almost losing Ramshackle when they were dealing with Azul. He does feel a little bad the little gremlin doesn’t have family.

He’s slowly learning all 800+ rules that Heartslabyul has to follow...mainly to get on Riddle’s good side because he thinks the dormleader is very pretty. Also cause his favorite dorm to hang out in is the Red Queen’s dorm.

Despite Jaci learning all of the Queen’s rules he finds Vil’s to be too much for him. Perhaps it’s because of the power Vil has. Good with potions and a huge fan base? Yeah, that’s intimidating.

Kan-D is my rollerblading and graffitiing teen for Jet Set Radio Future. I read somewhere from Google JSRF takes place in 2024. Since I want Kan-D to be around 16 he was born in 2008. The canon characters don’t have too much going on for them so neither does Kan-D TBH. (He’s fully Indigenous.)

Facts ‘bout skater boi:

He lives in Tokyo with his dad’s parents because he was causing problems and his parents were sick of him.

I’ve dubbed this boy as pansexual. He likes to tease Yoyo because he likes to see him all flustered. He’s also got a crush on Boogie and maybe had a thing with one of the Rapid 99 girls....though that’s “just a rumor”. 

This skater teen loves grinding and is found in Sky Dinosaurian Square. The way he joins the GGs is actually a grinding challenge. Gotta do the same tricks he does, like Combo’s challenge.

Beat and Kan-D have a frenemies relationship. Kan-D just finds him annoying and a little egotistical.

Ishya Chee my first fully adult OC. MHA takes plays mid to late 2100s so I have no idea when she’d be born. I will say she’s 30. Ishya and her parents moved to Japan when she was just starting her last year of middle school. Her powers are plant based, she can grow plants from her limbs and her “hair” is thick vines. She’s in a relationship with FatGum and they want to get married, with the 1-A students as guests because those are her kids now...sans Mineta. (Ms. Chee is afro-indigenous, she’s got a black mom and American indigenous dad.)

Facts about plant mom:

I said the 1-A (-Mineta) kids are her children...I’m not really lying. She cares for them obviously but Bakugo is the one kids she definitely sees as hers. Seeing how his mom treats him (WHO SMACKS THEIR KID INFRONT OF HIS TEACHERS ONE WHO WAS THE NUMBER ONE HERO!!???) leads her to being protective of him when talking about the class.

Inshya is a class assistant?? Like in the MHA where she is a real character the first year classes get a little like...teacher assistant. They help pass out papers, grade assignments and act as a bit of a counselor for the students, especially the heroes-in-training. She got that job though Aizawa after a heroing accident.

Her reaction when Bakugo was kidnapped was heart wrenching. After all the students were taken care of she just clung onto Aizawa and sobbed. In the UA apology she’s in standing behind the others, with the other TA, and she’s clearly tired and not paying attention.

Ishya’s always wanted kids but the heroing accident left her unable to. That’s why Aizawa got her the UA job. She gets to help budding heroes grow up and act as a sort of parental figure for them if need be.

Jazz is my ACsona so no real age other than young adult. Currently he is a mostly masculine pronoun using genderfluid 20-something year old. The pronouns he uses are he/they/it. Their backstory differs depending on the AC game. I play New Leaf (I need a 3ds charger) and Pocket Camp but I desperately want New Horizons. (He’s American Indigenous and Hispanic.)

Small facts about the sona:

He likes wearing feminine clothes with a predominantly soft pastel color pallet. Things like skirts in a mid to light neutral color with a pastel colored top. Typically paired with cute accessories and mary janes.

He’s very close with Apollo, Julien and Cherry. I like to imagine Julien and Cherry take turns in playing dress up with him. Apollo gets the after pics for final say though.

Please gift this sweet child flowers. He loves them so much and cherishes them for so long and gets sad when they wilt. He’ll save and press a flower from each bouquet he’s received.

Bubblegum KK is his favorite. Do I need to say it? Probably not. Is it cliché and over done? Definitely. Do I care? Pft. Fuck no, man. Just let my little guy bop along amongst the flowers with the homies as they sing Bubblegum KK.

        ~~~~~~Feel free to ask about any of them or just judge me.~~~~~~

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#5

6 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#4

Getting a Monster of the Week campaign ready for my Friday group, and so far the party consists of:

*An Egyptian demigod chosen one who wants nothing to do with this prophecy bullshit

*An old city inspector from an order of monster hunters that lost money to a crypto scam

*A homeless Filipino mermaid with a crocodile spirit companion

*Basically Greed from FMA

*A gay Muslim angel who was kicked out of Heaven for being to lenient about who he let through the pearly gates

*A nonbinary spirit medium who needs to be more careful about which spirits they let into their head

I get the feeling this is going to be a fun campaign. :)

10 notes - Posted May 3, 2022

#3

I've been watching the Monster of the Week campaign Offbeat Melody for the past few years now and have basically been using the comment section to live react to a given session's moments as I'm watching, but this session was a rare treat because I was able to catch as it was streaming, which meant that I got to experience the players reacting to my jokes and comments in real time. XD

13 notes - Posted July 4, 2022

#2

Uploaded my first session of the Monster of the Week campaign I’m running for my friends! If you like urban fantasy that includes a lot of shit from different mythologies, you might get a kick out of this one.

Special thanks to @tyrantisterror and @cerothenull for the campaigns that got me interested in the MOTW system to begin with, as well as @scatha5 for hosting said campaigns on her YouTube channel.

15 notes - Posted June 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

It's weird how there's an official Transformers RPG coming out in a week from now and I'm pretty much the only person I've seen all that interested in it, especially considering how lot of the online circles I'm part of are in the overlap between Transformers fans and tabletop RPG gamers.

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A guide to Robin Finck in Guns n' Roses for people who can't stand Axl Rose

I've spent months reading, watching and listening to all things regarding Robin's time in Guns so you don't have to.

*extremely long post*

L to R: Chris Pitman, Bryan "Brain" Mantia, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Dizzy Reed, Richard Fortus and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. At Download Festival, June 11, 2006.

From Cirque to Guns

In the beginning of 1997 Cirque du Soleil was touring Los Angeles and Axl Rose went to see the show. Matt Sorum (GnR's drummer until then) pointed out to Axl that 'Robin from Nine Inch Nails' was playing the guitar.

"I told Axl to see him and he said, 'That's our guitar player,' I said, 'Bring in Robin to play alongside Slash', but Axl said, 'I want him to play lead.'" - Matt Sorum, 1999.

Robin got a call from Axl and then he started to jam with the band (already without Slash) every Monday, his day off (circus' dark day). In April, Chris Vrenna also joined for a few sessions before he split to focus on his Tweaker project, and Robin brought Billy Howerdel (former guitar technician for NIN) to help him program his sounds, but wound up staying for two and a half years with them.

In June, Robin quit the circus and joined the band.

2 years contract (August 1997 to August 1999)

Over the year of 1998, the band took shape, consisting of Robin and Paul Huge Tobias on the guitar, Tommy Stinson on bass guitar, Dizzy Reed on keys and percussion, Josh Freese on drums and Chris Pitman helping them with writing and engineering. Although Axl was contributing with ideas, he wasn't laying many vocal tracks at that time, as he was allegedly suffering with writer's block.

They wrote at least half of the Chinese Democracy album along with other still unreleased songs and many instrumentals in this period, including parts/ideas Robin had previously come up with during his circus days. Some sources had said they were working on 35 tracks.

Robin and Josh Freese in 1998 (from Josh's Instagram)

They also re-recorded Appetite for Destruction, which was never released but a segment of Sweet Child o'Mine was included in the closing credits of 1999's Big Daddy movie. Axl's intention was to use the entire song, but Slash and Duff didn't allow it, so they made a hybrid of the old version with their new one. You can listen to their segment starting at 2'58, with the second part of the main solo and the last one played by Robin:

It was rumored that Robin recorded an uncredited overdub of backing vocals for the track Mr. Brownstone in the Live Era '87-'93 compilation album. You can listen to it below, around 1'25 min.

Just in time for NIN's Fragility tour v1.0, his contract came to an end in August and soon he went to Bahamas with Nine Inch Nails to begin with their tour rehearsals.

Atlas Shrugged

"I have respect for Axl Rose, I wish him all the success that he deserves and if his album sounds a little industrial, I will take it like a compliment... On the other hand, when we played MTV awards, he made pass a press release announcing that it would cut of his disc all the parts of guitars played by Robin Finck and I find that a little ridiculous, it is a whim of star." - Trent Reznor, 1999.

"And they just said, 'Come over and do some stuff.' It's a long story to be honest and I won't bore you with all the details, but Axl was feeling that he was in a difficult place because the guitarist that he'd been working with on this new album had sort of replaced Slash, because they fell out, sadly. [...] The guitarist that had done most of the tracks had departed and Axl had a real emotional attachment to what he'd done, and yet he didn't want him on the album - and I hope I'm not saying too much here - he didn't really want him to stay on the album because he'd disappeared, you know - so he's feeling a kind of divided loyalty and he said: 'Brian, can you come and do stuff which I WILL LIKE, (laughing) and I won't feel too bad about ditching this other stuff?'" - Brian May, 2000.

While Axl was trying to cut Robin's work out of Chinese Democracy, hiring high-profile guitarists such as Dave Navarro and Brian May to lay guitar tracks, he started recording vocals for some of the songs, like HardSchool (now Hard Skool), Catcher in The Rye and The Blues (now Street of Dreams). Among them, the still unreleased Atlas Shrugged has lyrics which are allegedly about Robin.

An excerpt from Atlas Shrugged lyrics.

Whether it's about him or not, the lyrics go along with feelings of "following his heart" Robin expressed through interviews from that time.

"It was a difficult decision to make because I was so wrapped up in what I was doing at the time and I was proud of the work I'd done. But when it came down to it, I couldn't imagine NIN going out without me or with somebody else. I'm in a good place right now." - Robin Finck, 1999.

Prior to quitting the band to form A Perfect Circle with Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese helped Axl getting in touch with Buckethead. In early 2000 Buckethead was convinced to join in.

3 guitars lineup

"Originally it was gonna be a two-guitar player group. I split forever so I thought and went back to Nine Inch Nails. In my absence they were looking to replace me and Josh Freese, the drummer at the time, had brought Buckethead in to essentially fill the slot I had left. They really liked him but he's kind of a stunt guitar player. He does a very specific thing and he has a real genius sensibility about him. But he rarely plays the same thing twice ever and when you're trying to cruise through 'Nightrain' that just makes it a little (laughs) too different. So they needed someone to anchor the songs. They kept Buckethead to do what Buckethead does and they needed someone else to play alongside." - Robin Finck, 2014.

In late 2000 Robin returned to Guns for the upcoming gig as headliner act of Rock in Rio III Festival. As a sort of warm-up show, the band was booked for a New Year's Eve gig at The House of Blues in Las Vegas. It was the first time Robin performed live with Guns n' Roses.

Robin and Buckethead playing Paradise City at The House of Blues, January 1st, 2001.

With two lead guitarists, rumors that Robin and Buckethead weren't getting along very well began to emerge. And it seems that Axl encouraged competition between them.

"So it's taken a long time to pull these guys together and then have them develop a chemistry with themselves. When we first did our first show in Vegas, Robin and Buckethead didn't know each other at all, and you've got two lead guitar players trying to kill each other. You know, with their abilities. It's like when I tried to bring Zakk and Slash together. That didn’t go too well. (...) It was fun to watch." - Axl Rose, 2002.

Although neither Robin or Buckethead talked about it, years later Tommy Stinson showed his disdain for Buckethead on interviews and soon-to-be a member Richard Fortus has talked extensively about how difficult it was to make a lineup with three guitarists work. I'll return to this topic later.

Skullet

For these shows, Robin appeared with an extreme form of the mullet hairstyle, the skullet. Differing from his previous tours with Nine Inch Nails, this time he maintained the same haircut for the whole touring cycle: from the few performances in 2001 until their last gig in 2002. The only difference is that he straightened his hair in 2002.

At The Joint, Las Vegas, December 31st, 2001. Photo by Robert John.

From their US leg of the tour, 2002. Photo by George Chin.

Better

Between his comeback and early 2001, Robin came up with a song working titled 3 Dollar Pyramid, which turned out to be Better, the only song released with credits attributed exclusively to him and Axl Rose.

"[Better] was brought in after Josh [Freese] and was written by the band. It was Robin Finck’s song. We jammed it for a couple weeks and then went into the studio and recorded it." - Bryan "Brain" Mantia (GnR's drummer from May 2000 until June 2006), 2009.

Better without vocals

Richard Fortus

In 1999 Richard auditioned for Robin's place. He wasn't the chosen one but became good friends with Tommy. When Paul Tobias stepped out of his role as rhythm guitarist, Tommy called Richard to replace him for the 2002 tour.

Soon Richard and Robin formed a strong bond, which could be seen on as much as offstage throughout Robin's tenure, with Richard stating several times how much he loved working with him afterwards.

Richard and Robin during Nightrain at Allstate Arena, Chicago, November 18th, 2002.

Refusing to leave

After the 2002 tour being cancelled halfway through and "Guns' inability to complete an album", Buckethead quit in late 2003. In spite of the uncertainty of their situation as a band, Robin preferred not to leave them this time to tour with Nine Inch Nails. According to Reznor, his choice was driven by greed.

"Robin Finck [was] getting paid loads of money to hang out with Axl Rose and his house was getting paid for. You know what, f*ck you." - Trent Reznor, 2005.

Robin has never touched on this subject, but there are two things that need to be stressed: The album was very close to be finished and Guns was planning to perform in late 2005 - which only became reality in 2006 - so his decision might have been because of it.

2 guitars lineup?

"As far as I know, he [Buckethead] hasn't been replaced, but we already have enough guitarists". - Tommy Stinson, 2004.

"At the moment, Robin Finck and I are the only guitarists in the band. We switch off between lead and rhythm." - Richard Fortus, 2005.

They kept rehearsing as a duo until a few weeks before their warm-up gigs for the European tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom in May 2006.

"It was just Robin and myself, and we were doing rehearsals and Brain, and it was phenomenal, I mean, absolutely amazing. And literally, I think it was two days before we were supposed to do our first show, the energy was palpable. [...] Axl came down, he was like, 'This is the band I've always wanted.' The next day Bumblefoot comes in, and I guess, they found this guy and he came in, and the whole dynamic just completely shifted." - Richard Fortus, 2020.

Bullying Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal

Tommy had stated that they weren't doing auditions for a new guitarist, but Axl's team contacted Ron in 2004. Although nothing happened from it, in April 2006, Axl called him to "jam" with the band while they were rehearsing for their tour. Ron became Buckethead's replacement and stayed with them until 2015. In the beginning, he wasn't treated well by "some" members.

"Well, when I first joined the band, they did not want me in the band. And it’s not me - they just didn’t want a third guitar player. 'Cause at the time they had worked it out for two guitar players. Then suddenly the old manager at the time hits them up one day, and the tour was, like, two weeks away. He said, 'your new guitar player is coming down'. And they’re like, 'what the hell - who the fuck is this?', and I showed up, and they wouldn’t even look at me. For that first tour, you know, I was treated like shit. Like absolute shit. They wouldn’t really talk to me. If I spoke, they’d roll their eyes and walk out of the room. I was made to feel as unwelcome as possible. Until, finally, I had to get a little violent. And then they started realizing that I’m not gonna leave. They’re gonna get hurt. Physically. Then they realized that they couldn’t bully me, and that I was gonna fight at a level they weren’t prepared for. [...] ‘Cause I didn’t know why they were so cold to me, and I realized that they would have treated anybody that way. It was a set of circumstances, a lack of communication from the management that was there at the time, that set it up so it was almost like a stranger thrown into a crowded cage." - Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, 2013.

Note: By "physically", he meant he "tried to stab three people on stage at a show in 2006", as he told WickedInfo in 2010.

Extreme makeover

Robin playing the main solo of Sweet Child o'Mine in Chicago, 2002 (left) and in Los Angeles, 2006 (right).

"A third guitarist stood apart from the others both visually and sonically, effortlessly tearing through every riff and solo like a man possessed; think Jimmy Page on ecstasy. Even after Rose introduced the bearded, sunglass-wearing phenomenon by name, dressed like a cross between Jim Morrison and Chris Robinson, I still couldn’t believe I was looking at Robin Finck. [...] Exuding a confidence no amount of posturing can imitate, he brought a searing intensity to each Guns song with impassioned intricacy and soul. [...] Finck was great before his apparent bohemian awakening, but this was something else entirely. He was essentially running through a gallery of world-renowned portraits and landscapes, the best of their time and sacred to many, casting his own colors and impressions onto each canvas. Somehow, blasphemy be damned, he made improvements." - Antiquiet review of Guns N' Roses' performance at Gibson Amphitheater, December 16th, 2006.

Robin's definitive departure

On April 4th 2008 NIN.com broke the news that Robin was back to the fold with a picture of him at the studio. Without knowing for sure Robin's position, Axl showed being open for a return.

"Last I was aware, he had some interest in touring, though I can't say what that means until then. In our opinion, he's made things a bit awkward publicly, but that's just his way." - Axl Rose, 2009.

Unfortunately, even with the Chinese Democracy's release in the end of that year, Robin didn't come back afterwards.

One night reappearance

The guitarist had a surprise appearance on March 12 2012 at House of Blues venue in Los Angeles to perform his song, Better, and that was the last time he got up on stage with Guns.

That's it, most of the info and rumors here I've gotten from GnR forums: MyGnRforum.com, a-4-d.com and GnRevolution.com, so a big thank you to everyone.

[phonemantra-blog]

The average score from users was 87/100 At the beginning of the month, unnoticed by many, the shooter RoboCop: Rogue City was released, which was liked by many players. In two weeks, the project was tested by 435,000 players, and the number of game sessions exceeded 2.7 million. Game studio Teyon and publisher Nacon stated that the game was very successful. [caption id="attachment_84037" align="aligncenter" width="780"] game[/caption] Alain Falk, CEO of Nacon, spoke about the success of the project: “RoboCop: Rogue City exceeded our expectations and was a real success from Nacon's point of view. We are very proud to have been able to work with Teyon on this game. We would also like to thank MGM for the trust they have placed in us throughout this collaboration, as well as all the players who contributed to making this release such a great success." RoboCop: Rogue City immerses the player in Old Detroit some time after the events of the second film. In this new first-person adventure, the player must restore law and order to a city thrown into chaos by the arrival of a new crime lord. The gameplay combines combat, field investigations and side quests. A real gift for fans and the best game in this universe, if the reviews are to be believed. The Teyon team left players with numerous references to the world of RoboCop, such as iconic locations, weapons and characters. Actor Peter Weller gave his voice to the cyborg policeman. https://youtu.be/s5V9pIAg2ZE It is also interesting that critics rated the project 72/100 (50 reviews), but almost 200 users on Metacritic gave the game a total of 87/100. In reviews and reviews, RoboCop: Rogue City is called the best game in this universe, the best shooter of recent years and the best superhero game of 2023.

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Top 10 Rehab Centres in Delhi: A Comprehensive Guide

1. HopeCare India - Dr. Deepak Raheja

Located in the heart of Delhi, HopeCare India, led by Dr. Deepak Raheja, has been a beacon of hope for countless individuals. With over 20 years of experience, they offer a holistic approach to rehabilitation.

Address: 137, South Extension II, Masjid Moth Village, New Delhi, Delhi 110049

Phone: 093111 12377

Patients Treated: Over 10,000

Experience: 20+ years

Website: https://hopecareindia.com/

Consultation Charges: ₹2000 per session

Success Rate: 90% plus

2. Sanctum Wellness and Healing Sanctum

Is renowned for its internationally trained experts, ensuring exceptional care 24/7.

Address: B4, Kh.No. 184,1073,183/2, Bhatti, New Delhi, Delhi

Website: Sanctum's website

Success Rate: 88%

3. Lotus Wellness and Rehabilitation Center

Coimbatore Lotus, a blend of luxury and wellness, offers both traditional and modern therapies.

Address: #141/1B 142/1B, Sairam Nagar, Zamin uthukuli, Pollachi, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Website: Lotus's website

Success Rate: 87%

4. Jagruti Rehab Gurgaon

Jagruti Rehab in Gurgaon is a haven for those seeking a fresh start in life.

Address: Gurgaon, Plot no 596, Sector 42, Gurgaon, Delhi

Website: Jagruti's website

Success Rate: 86%

5. Samarpan

Located amidst the serene landscapes of Maharashtra, Samarpan offers a tranquil environment for healing.

Address: 441 Song of Life County Road, Urawade, Mulshi, Maharashtra

Website: Samarpan's website

Success Rate: 85%

6. Abhasa Rehabilitation and Wellness Home

Abhasa stands out for its holistic approach to addiction treatment.

Address: SF No 898/2B, Kembanur Road, Thondamuthur, Tamil Nadu

Website: Abhasa's website

Success Rate: 84%

7. Sukoon Recovery Centre

Sukoon in Delhi offers a blend of modern therapies and traditional healing techniques.

Address: 32 B, DLF Chattarpur Farms, DLF Farms, New Delhi, Delhi

Website: Sukoon's website

Success Rate: 83%

8. Safe House Wellness Retreat

Safe House offers a serene environment with a team of dedicated professionals.

Address: I.T. Farm, Dera Mandi, Chhattarpur, Delhi, Delhi

Website: Safe House's website

Success Rate: 82%

9. Dr. Rajesh Birman RAYS Clinic for Addiction Behaviour

Dr. Rajesh Birman's RAYS Clinic focuses on addiction behaviour, offering treatments tailored to individual needs.

Address: Rays Clinic for Mental Health and Behaviour Disorders 201, Sector 11, PKT 4, Delhi, Delhi

Website: RAYS Clinic's website

Success Rate: 81%

10. Door Of Hope True to its name, Door Of Hope offers a new beginning to its patients.

Address: 1750 Mother Teresa Drive, Chhatarpur, Delhi, Delhi

Website: Door Of Hope's website

Success Rate: 80%

Conclusion: Delhi is home to some of the best rehab centres in India. Whether you're looking for holistic treatments or luxury facilities, there's something for everyone. Always consult with a healthcare professional before making a decision.