#since theyre not actual pictures of spiders

[ninjasmudge]

spider chests are my least favourite chests in the game so heres a whole post about them

one little bonus below the cut

[thesimulacrasimp]

Okay, I literally just watched a spooky month short and i wanna kinda break it down a lil bit, cuz we learned ALOT through it. Again, sorry for my terrible english 😭🙏

Okay so in this shot we see Kevins parents (rlly cute) and we see "Rad's bday" on calendar (which is apparently in september, knowing that Kevin started working in candy club in the same month), that means that he knew Radford for a long time, even before he started working in candy club.

Okay, thats really funny, but when Skid and Pump appeared in this short with different masks i was like: "YOOO they finally revealed their hair styles. Wow these fan predictions were really close!" until i remembered that their hair styles were already revealed a long time ago in the house pictures.....

Okay so through Pump we now know that Skids father is dead. Not missing, not left - dead. <= another question that have been answered.

Lila looks so tired, poor soul (SHE EVEN WALKING IN THE STREETS IN SLIPPERS 😭)

Ok, now its my fav part. We saw all the moments w Skid and Pump in candy club. First part of it were just the moments that we have already seen or that have been mentioned (like when Skid n Pump got alot of fake blood in the place), there were also some others moments weve never seen, but i dont think theyre really important since they all happened before even eps 4 and 5, so i dont think i need to break them down (especially because of this stupid fuCKING PICTURE LIMIT—) BUT! The things i WANT TO talk about are all the things that happened after ep 6 - the things we still havent got to. And if its actually the foreshadowing (is that the right word for that?...) for what will happen in the future eps then its kinda a dissapointing cuz we got spoiled, and FUCKING AMAZING at the same time, like I have VERY mixed feelings about this, but i more like it than hate it tbh. SO im gonna break these things down like they are actual spoilers for future episodes, but that can be not true, who knows.

Okay, the first thing we see after ep 6 is another winter situation (the hole from Moloch is still there 😭) w hatzgang, Skid n Pump, and Susie, while the whole place was acreeting w some weird roots w eyes?? Then i suppose Roy was tormenting the poor kids as always, and Susie got mad at him and left, and then Rob and Ross did the same thing while Roy looked offended n pissed (which i cant show you becuz of a FUCKING LIMIT—)

Then, Lila, Jaune, John and Jack came to the candy club. I cant really tell what couldve happened, but Lila n Jaune looked really mad, and then STARTED ARGUE FOR SOME REASON, like I literally have no idea what couldve happened, it could be anything.

Then there was a literal fnf scene, like an actual rap battle between the spooky bois and bf (which i also cant show you, CAN U GUESS WHY?? :) ). I honestly think that this is a simple joke and nothing more, but who knows, maybe it will actually happen in spooky month, that would be pretty cool.

Okay, then the Spider. Like, we already all knew that its gonna be an episode vilian at some point, so its not really surprising honestly. Really curious how its gonna be portrated tho, like what is it gonna do, what its motives and goals are gonna be, what characterization are a LITERAL SPIDER gonna get - its all really interesting.

Then a cult. Also not really surprising tbh, like I think it was obvious that they were gonna get to Kev at some point, interesting why tho. Like how could he be useful or harmful for them? (interesting detail is that after a scene w the cultists Kevin still stayed in the club, so the cult tried to get him but failed? I wonder why and how.)

Okay... MOTHER. FUCKING. SKID'S DAD. HOLY SHIT IM SO EXCITED FOR HIM. If we look at the shot it seems like Skid came here to introduce Kevin to his dad (cute)

And then i suppose Dad got a candy bar for Skid and they both left. Really curious how is Skids dad gonna introduce himself to his son, how Skid is gonna react (well even by these 2 shots we can see that he is really happy, but im more curious about the first reactions, im in for some wholesome fluff please!!!). And Lilas reaction is also reaaaaaally interesting (if she will even know)

And the last shot is this. I also dont think it really means anything (maybe foreshadowing that Kev is gonna die??), the only thing that intrigues me is this sky, like I dont even know what it looks like, some sort of black hole? A fissure? Some ultimate evil that comes from another world? A 4th wall break?? Who fucking knows. But it does look interesting.

And soooo ummmmm idk what else to write, I think i already said everything i wanted to say so.. Bye? Tnx 4 reading?? Ig???

[oflgtfol]

anyway here's some more pics of my town :D starting with the little town square-ish area i had shown last time

now ALSO including a little garden area for where i'm gonna put each of the crown statues! gonna try to arrange them in the same way the doors are arranged. i have one more mini boss to go before i face kallamar so he will be my next addition hopefully by tomorrow :)

the fountain had originally been in my cemetery (pictured below) but then i unlocked the pond and wanted to put the pond in this garden, but its too big to fit in this space, but the fountain fit, so i stuck the fountain in instead. and i actually like it better bc yknow its gonna have all 4 bishop crowns won after i kill them all and at the very center is the weeping red crown? hell yeah. woo

here's the shrine behind the town square. nothing special since you cant really decorate inside this area but i did put those wreaths up behind it and also i just think it looks cool when its all lit up like that. also i had killed one of the night spiders on my very first day and it left behind this skull thing so i keep it there in front of the shrine as decor :)

entry walkway down to the shrine area. to the left of this will be the residential area, not finished yet, and to the right is the farm area, sort of finished but not fully functional yet. i love how the lanterns look at night theyre so cute :D

cemetery area. the arrangement of the crypts isnt set yet and will of course need to adapt as i need more over time but this is the main idea of it. behind the crypt on the left is actually a singular grave for my very first follower, kept separate so that she will be remembered properly. rip U_U

[hauntedjohnny]

your connie/julie fic is EVERYTHINGGGG pls I would give anything for a connie/maria fic from you 😭♥️

thank you <33 i dont really have as much of a concept for maria as the other victims for a full fic so i can offer some dynamic hcs !

i think they met at the uni community gardens. connie likes to garden as stress relief because it reminds her of her grandpa as a child. maria got roped into it accidentally when she was taking pictures of the garden and someone gave her a trovel and some gloves and she was too embarassed to speak up.

they didnt speak much at first but one day maria was taking pictures when her camera stopped working and connie offered to take a look at it and was miraculously able to fix it with some jabbing with her hair pin.

maria made her cookies as a thank you and they've been hanging out ever since

speaking of food, maria is that friend who always brings her friends homemade and store-bought food and makes sure theyve eaten throughout the day (its the older sister turned mother stand-in effect) which is lucky for connie because she is always forgetting to eat.

they try to hang out at least once a week when the garden is finished/needed fewer volunteers

i hc that maria and julie were roommates and they would go on trail hikes together except julie would jog ahead leaving maria to stroll and get distracted by the flora. this is when julie suggested bringing connie (that garden girl) on one of the walks so she wouldn't be alone.

connie tries to be put together but maria is always finding leaves in her hair and dirt on her cheeks. no one knows how they got there. maria always looks put together.

connie is the spider fighter whilst maria hates them and wants them OUT of her bathroom. spiders outside is fair game but inside it makes her want to cry.

i think they're both socially awkward in different ways. connie is stubborn and abrasive and will easily knock shoulders with people even when she doesn't mean to. maria is quieter and struggles to make strong connections with people.

connie and ana would get along in a way maria just doesnt understand. they will start debating with eachother over trival things because they're both opinionated and maria thinks theyre actually arguing so whenever shes like guys they both look at her and laugh like oh this is just friendly debacle dont worry we like eachother.

maria made connie the friendship bracelet that she wears in the game !!

[ghoodles]

Sparrow's universe signature is sort of like a sketchbook! They have solid lines, but the coloring is as if it was sort of scribbled in with hatched shading :D For everyone else, it's in all sorts of color, but ever since Sparrow got bit and became the Pumpkin-spider, she usually only sees in warmer tones, with some exceptions

Yes! I've only written about MJ, Peter, and Gwen, but the three of them are citizens who went to Sparrow's school before the canon event (housefire). MJ and Gwen are both in a band, and Peter's their photographer! theyre all in a relationship together :3

Pumpkin-Spider! well, kinda.. Some aspects are, others are just "haha halloween"

A city inspired off of nearby where i am and NY in 2023! I call it Archer city :D

Yes! Well, sorta. They got sent home after the events of ATSV. The whole concept of the canon actually fucked with him hard, i might talk more about that soon.

They have organic webbing that comes out of their legs! (inspired off an actual childhood story i had) However, when they were still getting the hang of it, someone in the society let him borrow webshooters.. until they found out that for him specifically not using their spinnerets causes a bit of a problem (it kinda just explodes everywhere) He gets the hang of it eventually though! and i havent exactly thought about what they'd look like, Either normal, white webs, or a light orange

They used to have 2 cats, before the canon event. He would have brought them on missions but their family would have noticed. Their cats are okay, but since Sparrow's event was basically them accidentally faking their death... well, yeah-

I actually dont have a straight answer for this.. I came up with the concept that how Sparrow learned about their leg webs was from a spider-man comic, but it was only a fictional concept up until she got bit, but i dont know if that makes sense.. Idk. I usually picture her alone, though.

The entirety of the avengers do not exist. It's literally just Sparrow. Someone give this child a break-

Sparrow would never kill a criminal, but if they did something really bad and another spider who would was dealing with them... lets just say she'd look the other way :3 And, well, She focuses on restraining criminals. Not many punches are thrown.. well, even if they did fight not many punches would be thrown cause he uses legs more than fists to fight but y'know- And, really, Sparrow just kinda stops crime cause he has to. Everyone has/had (depending on if its A1 or A2) called him a hero and held him to this standard of helping-- I mean, its not like he minds stopping it, at least not anymore cause its the only thing he can do, but sometimes its just "Okay lets just get this over with so i can go and chill"

Y’know, I’m appreciating the abundance of Spider-Sona tag games recently- so I’m gonna be making my own here! Only 10 questions because I don’t want to go too wild with this one- or else we’d be here all day!

Spider-Sona 10 Questions!

What artstyle is your Spider-Sona’s world? ( For example, Gwen’s world is watercolor, Hobie’s world is inspired by punk art and punk album covers, etc. be creative! )

Do any characters that appear in the 616 or 1610 universes appear in your Spider-Sona’s world? If so, who and how are their roles different? ( For example, if Hobie Brown is in your universe, is he still the Prowler? Is Peter Parker in your universe? )

Is there a specific species of spider your Spider-Sona was bitten by, or was based off of? ( Can’t think of any specific canon examples here- but I’ve seen a lot of Spider-Sonas based off wolf spiders for example! )

What city and what time period does your Spider-Sona live in?

Is your Spider-Sona in the Spider Society? Were they ever asked to join but declined? Were they not scouted at all? Did they join and then quit? Tell me all about it!

Does your Spider-Sona have organic webbing, or do they use web-shooters? Mix of both? And is their webbing typical spider webbing, or does it have a style to it? ( For example, Miguel’s webbing being red and presumably digital. )

Very important question here- do they have any pets? And if so, do they ever take them out on their crime fighting missions?

Are they the only Spider-Person in their universe? ( For example, Miles and Peter co-existing in the Insomniac Games )

Are there things that exist in their universe but don’t in others? ( For example, Comic Con existing in Miles-42’s universe but not in 1610 Miles’s! Or certain Marvel superheroes existing in their universe but not others. )

And lastly ( For now will probably make a few more of these… honestly I could make one daily but I don’t wanna bother people lol ) what does your Spider-Sona think about killing criminals… and their general approach to crime.

Okay and that’s a wrap for this one! Let me know if you want more of these and how frequently you’d like them! If you aren’t tagged, you can still absolutely do this by the way, just gonna tag a few mutuals and people I follow who I know have Spider-Sona’s! Please let me know if you would not like to be tagged in the future- no hard feelings I’m just autistic and need things to be spelled out bluntly for me!

@spidey-bie @the-cat-and-the-birdie @brown-spider @autisticarach

( You know actually I don’t follow a ton of Spider-Sona blogs so if you come across this post and would LIKE to be tagged in future tag games please let me know in the reblogs or the replies! )

[planet4546b]

question time my beloved!! what sort of threats exist in s/n? in the sense of like. a) corrupt govts or cults or whatever but also b) u know how in fantasy stories there are bands of robbers alongside the road to waylay unsuspecting travelers. monsters in the woods. that sort of thing. ALSO is it possible for ppl to live outside the spire observation zones? ik it would be fucky because of quantum stuff but like do people do it anyway??

omg hi sorry it took me like 3 days to get to this. but ohohoho do i love making vaugely sort of fucked up factions and also weather that kills you!!!! im actually gonna answer these in sort of a weird order because they all relate to each other sorta weirdly but well get there hkjdasg

ok so im actually gonna start with natural/environmental threats (ie. why the world outside spire observation zones is dangerous) so that i can get to ppl that live outside those zones so that i can get to weird little robber bands. this post comes with a table of contents hjdlsakg.

most of the environmental dangers outside of observation zones have been sort of colloquially recontextualized as weather in the 200 years since the resonance as a way of normalizing them, but they're just manifestations of the quantum rules that places not being observed function by. these are things like reality storms (think what the end of spiderverse looks like - buildings appear and dissapear, places become physically uncertain, people just vanish as multiple dimensions overlap at the same time), quantum tides (what if collisions got turned off for everything in an area at the same time, which sounds silly but has literally swallowed whole towns), probability storms (a worse version of a reality storm, when the actual fate of an area becomes uncertain, like if you put the box for schrodingers cat around like, 50 square miles. these are TERRIFYING), and things like time and space just sort of getting unstuck, so time can pass much quicker than normal without you realizing it or you can walk for 5 minutes and travel 50 miles or space and time physically 'looping' in on themselves, etc etc. also, because of how the resonance worked, there are entire chunks of the world that are unfamiliar landscapes - just 20 miles of the kind of fantasy forest that has giant spiders in it in the middle of like, kansas - and animals from other worlds, but these are both inside and outside of observation zones and are mostly a known quantity. like yeah if you want to get to jims house you have to go through the poison mushroom zone. it happens. (however. long term exposure to quantum environments is dangerous, and there are odd, incomprehensible, 'mutated' creatures that arent more dangerous than normal wild animals, but would probably be classified as monsters, living outside observation zones. think the fucked up animals from annihilation. i picture these guys a lot as like. ominous silhouettes and shadows on the horizon. you know theyre out there, but thats about it)

SO living outside observation zones is dangerous because its unpredictable. theres a handful of ways around this: either you watch the weather (spires put out 'weather reports' that are accesible via radio that list places that have increased quantum activity, but its not the most reliable), you travel/stay in a group that essentially works in shifts so that some people are always observing the area around them, which kiiiiiind of stabilizes it (this works up to a point, but requires a large group, is taxing, and still could very well fail), or you set up brand-new, proprietary tech from the moraine transportation, infrastructure, and protectionary division - portable radio towers that will stabilize the area around you. maybe. this tech, which allegedly works by outputting radio waves of the opposite frequency to the mar (the connective tissue between universes), is able to make small scale safe zones outside of observation zones, and is what mtipd uses to stabilize the path between stitch and staple, which is the largest area outside the observation zones that's regularly traveled. all of these options.....kind of suck. regardless, people do try to live outside the observation zones, but they pretty quickly figured out 1. its much, much safer not to settle in one place for a significant period of time and 2. if you have a group of like, 15-20 and someone always listening to the radio, you can moooostly keep ahead of the weather. what im saying is that outside of the observation zones theres essentially an entire ecosystem of biker gangs and cowboy posses that are all SUPREME weirdos. they have their own complex web of political interactions that frankly i havent bothered working out, but for the most part, they only really affect each other (travel outside the observation zones is rare enough that you just dont particularly need to worry about it, and if you do need to travel there you just need to hire one of the groups for protection and youll be fine). theres ALSO im sure little highway robber gangs inside the observation zones, theyre just not as bonkers.

as far as sorta big scale threats, we've got all the fun ones - shreveport, while isolationist, has been building up a military for years (including refurbishing automatic weapons which is. Bad.) and no one truly knows why, stitch and staple have reinvented capitalism and are each run by a large corporation with all the corresponding dangers there (as a bonus, the two corporations hate each other and are constantly threatening to go to war with each other), backstay had a warmongering past and while their current ruler wants peace, this opinion isnt shared among many of the city's aristocracy, theres a rising political faction called the eigenvector that wants the cities of the verge to be united under one banner and to be a single 'nation' and they suck supremely, theres rogue scientists trying to build a stable portal to another dimension that is this close to collapsing and destroying the entire area around it, theres a cult that believes exposure to quantum environments is good for you but at least they stay out in the wilderness, missionaries from the major religion of the gloaming protectorate sort of wandering around, etc. the most plot relevant big threats are the corporations that run stitch and staple, (geodesia logistics and shipping and the previously mentioned moraine transportation, infrastructure, and protectionary division respectively) and a mysterious group rising to power known as the ekp (which stands for the eschatologic-kymoptosis presage because theyre pretentious assholes), or the ekpyrotics who believe the end of the world is coming and want to make it happen faster. because theyre pretentious assholes.

which is all very fun!!!!! i hope this makes any sense at all but as always thank you for the questions muah a kiss for you

[locke-barmecide]

Kirumi headcanons again because she’s underrated and only known as mom

She hangs out with Maki a lot (you can see this as romantic or platonic. Romantically I’ll see it as maki is dating kirumi and Kaito while kirumi is only dating maki sorta deal since I really like kaimaki but that’s just my take.)

Maki likes to skateboard and Kirumi roller blades so they vibe at the skatepark a lot. They tend to go really early in the mornings or later at night so they don’t have to worry about teenage boys being loud and in the way.

She loves going to concerts. She’ll usually bring Kiyo with them but he can’t handle loud noises so he’ll wear noise canceling headphones and just enjoy observing how everyone functions.

She dyes their hair a lot. She also cuts it a lot. Usually just small trims and adjustments but sometimes she’ll cut it into a sort of longer pixie cut.

She platonically cuddles with Kiyo a lot. They get along super well and are super close because Kiyo never really treated them like a parent so they end up cuddling on the couch and watching horror movies together a lot.

She’ll hang out with Rantaro and Kiyo lots when he’s home from his travels for a bit. Rantaro and Kirumi both have quite an attachment to Kiyo because theyre both slightly overprotective of them especially since he has no family (that are in the picture. Most are dead or neglectful, anyways enough about Kiyo,,)

Since she’s learning to live like a teenager she’ll have a lot of pop and candy in their house. She’s good about being healthy during the week but on weekends it’s chill time.

She takes the bus to school and work. She wears a mask if she’s taking public transit because Kiyo suggested it and she doesn’t want to get sick.

One of their many hobbies is scaring Kiyo. He stays over at their place a lot so she has many opportunities. She’ll usually use Jack ( @saiharasbitch for the name) or just jump at them. She obviously doesn’t go too far with the spiders and won’t actually let the spider close enough to them to make them panic. She’s not that mean.

I mentioned before that she rollerblades. (Or roller skates idfk anything so correct me if I’m wrong about this one) she likes to learn tricks and impress maki. She’ll sometimes just go around the neighborhood/city though.

(As I was creating this I realized how absolutely wonderful kirumaki is so they’re together now. Maki can still be with Kaito but damn kirumaki 🥰)

Kirumi has an awful sleep schedule. She’ll stay up late and wake up early. She also wakes up multiple times in the night.

She struggles with isolating themselves from everyone in their life. She’ll ignore Kiyo and stop hanging out with Maki and hide in their house all alone forcing themselves to clean and reorganize and not letting themselves relax. Kiyo can usually spot this and he’ll go to their place (sometimes he’ll drag maki) and drag them out of their depressing loop.

She’ll sometimes have maki over and they’ll just lay together. Maki usually falls asleep in their arms. Kirumi absolutely loves it. Maki does too but she’ll never say.

Sometimes Kiyo and Maki will come over and watch them play horror games. Maki usually cuddles into Kirumi pretty hard because she’s scared (but won’t admit it) and Kiyo only gets scared at certain parts. If he does he will also snuggle into kirumi.

Once some dumb kids ding dong ditched kirumi while Kiyo and maki were over so the two got dressed up in the scariest looks they could muster, ignoring kirumis protest, and scared the living shit out of those dumb kids. They ran home screaming. They never bothered kirumi again.

[bucksbisexual]

just to make sure someone actually asks you this one: do the ship thing for teh and oh-aew please

anon: Who said “I love you” first Oh-aew/Teh I only know this couple right now!!

someone did ask just after yours!! i’m gonna do both here so it’s not copy paste lmaoooo

- Who said “I love you” first. oh god this is probably an unpopular opinion but that’ll definitely be teh!!! he’d get soooo nervous before saying it and he’d worry so much when ohaew’s eyes start to water 🥺🥺

- Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background. idk why but i can see ohaew having them!! i can see three options: a screenshot from a dumb instagram story teh sent him once, one of those “couple goals” pics where it’s like,, the hands and only teh’s back is visible orrrrr a photo of a polaroid of them together :’))

- Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror. ohaew!! he draws a heart and a little cat as a sign and whenever teh does it he draws a little dog and a really weirdly shaped heart kjsfhkjsf 

- Who buys the other cheesy gifts. i honestly think it’d be teh!! he’s not that big of a romantic but he knows ohaew is and he loves them so of course he’d want to make his boyfriend happy :-)

- Who initiated the first kiss. deeeeeefinitely ohaew. like,,, that’s a no brainer. it’s him

- Who kisses the other awake in the morning. ohaew!! he loves kissing teh’s face and loves seeing his dimple appear as he wakes up and realises what’s happening :’)))

- Who starts tickle fights. oh god this is DEFINITELY teh skfjhfsj ohaew’s a ticklish bitch and teh Loves to tickle him breathless lmaoooo

- Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower. teh!! he’s a clingy bitch we all know that by now and he Loves the coconut smell from ohaew’s hair,, he ends up smelling like him after they’re finished and it makes teh smile

- Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch. i am once again saying teh sjkfhksjf pack it up SIMP. but yeah it’s just,,,, imagine teh surprising ohaew one day at work when he knows he’s feeling down and ohaew going from 😔 to 😊 when he sees him....... my hEART 😭😭😭

- Who was nervous and shy on the first date. oh god that’s definitely both of them!! they’re nervous and shy because they’re like,,, best friends and theyre on a date????? but theyre also boyfriends which should be normal for couples to do so but the feeling is just.. so different and it makes them act Weird around each other until ohaew is like “okay . enough” and he kisses teh and teh kisses him back and then everything is back to normal jsfkjfh

- Who kills/takes out the spiders. i feel like since ohaew lives in a resort in like.. another island he’s more used to dealing with insects and other things like that?? so i’d say ohaew but i don’t have that strong of an opinion on this lmaoooo 

- Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk. oh god i have a hard time imagining them drunk but hm.....maybe teh?? like he’s more.. quiet when it comes to his feelings for ohaew because ✨internalised homophobia he’s working on✨ but the moment he tastes alcohol he’s like “ohaewwwwww i love uuuuuuuuuuu sooooo much. reaaaaaaaaaaally much. please love me baaaaack” and ohaew’s like “teh we’ve been together for over 3 years” while blushing like crazy lmaooooo

aaaa this was so much fun!!! thank u for sending the bestest boys <3

send a ship through <3

[glorywaited]

☽ /   @thiefreign​ :  das ship meme                SEND ME A SHIP AND I’LL TELL YOU :  ( accepting !!  )

thank u for enabling me n my daily sole source of serotonin with these two !! ihu cause i love all our millions of verses so.... mmmaybe i’ll throw in some specifics...

Who said “I love you” first : it’s usually eugene tbh -- but iirc cass drunkenly confessed in our canon verse but neither remembered that so does it count idk... n cass tbh probably yells it at him out of frustration in my street raised verse because he is the worst but usually she waits for him n they pine after each other forever because they’re absolute idiots...the smartest idiots... but eugene generally breaks first because he’s him && as far as saying the actual phrase...that’s always eugene because ykno cass has to go through her ‘me too’ phase of just responding with ‘me too’ n actually fully meaning it entirely but terrified to say it dhajmd

Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background : eugene. always. especially with model cass because like...look at her. but honestly any modern cass usually has him on her home screen especially the pic from that one time she tried to take a pic of him peacefully n cutely sleeping n dropped her phone on his face...

Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror : both but cass probably started it when they were fwb n he was being annoying after shower sex n talking too much n going to do his usual skincare routine n everything n before he could wipe the fog away she drew on a moustache unibrow n devil horns n now they do that to each other n leave little notes or terrible drawings in the corners of the mirror. for pjo / hp / any teen verse tbh they probably just do that to each other a lot n it’s always way more ridiculous drawings or notes n she probably just writes ‘dork’ all the time so he sees it later 

Who buys the other cheesy gifts : eugene does cause he’s good at cheesy n cass is not but she’d probably buy him things as a joke tbh. generally she’ll give him practical / thoughtful gifts out of nowhere just because she saw it or saw he was running out of something n refilled it for him, things like that.

Who initiated the first kiss : tbh it’s usually eugene or it’s one of those mutual things where they both end up leaning in n before they can really think it through they’re already kissing followed by a soft pull away, look at each other n then going back in because oops they opened a faucet they cant shut off. but every time eugene initiates no matter the verse it always surprises the hell out of cass cause she just does not think he likes her, especially verses where they’re teens n the denial is high but she always kisses back immediately n usually always initiates the second kiss

Who kisses the other awake in the morning : eugene started it but cass really, really enjoys whenever he does. it startles her the first time in any verse, especially our canon verse since she’s so jumpy but she definitely starts doing it too whenever she wakes up first. she’ll brush his hair back gently n kiss him softly to wake him but every so often when she’s being a brat she’ll wake him up terribly by tickling his sides of blowing a raspberry on his neck....n other times she’ll wake him up by kissing his neck n generally attempting to initiate morning sex n she’s not sry about any of it :\\\

Who starts tickle fights : EUGENE. ALWAYS. in proooobably every verse...maaybe not hitman cause he’s edgy unless it’s like deeep into their relationship but :\\\ she hates it n she fights back every single time because she will NOT be the only one to suffer

Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower : cass does not ask -- well, she sometimes asks if he wants her to join him -- but she does like sneaking into the shower with him because she likes showering together but she also likes being nasty so...

Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch : i feel like both depending on the verse but i can see them both doing this for each other in most verses ?? in canon its cute to think about eugene surprising cass during her break from handmaiden duties with a small quick picnic tbh because the denial is hilarious n theyre like its just a FRIENDS LUNCH n everyons lke UH HUH THATS A DATE ?? n post series cass absolutely brings him food when hes working as captain. modern cass in like any of the verses she’s with actor eugene / flynn would bring him things to set even tho they have food but she just...wants an excuse to be around him lmao dhbajkmd especially any time model cass is visiting him when he’s filming but i can see him doing the same whenever she has shoots near him ??

Who was nervous and shy on the first date : oh cass is always nervous on the first date no matter the verse because she has intense abandonment issues n thinks shes gonna lose him n doesn’t deserve love so she’s Highkey nervous the whole time until he makes her laugh n calms her down cause he just...notices she’s rly tense tbh n that helps her a lot to just ease into it n have a good time with him. but it works both ways, she can tell if he’s ever nervous n he tends to get in his head a lot so she’ll calm him down too n just place a hand on him n get his focus on her

Who kills/takes out the spiders : cass takes all spiders gently in her hands n takes them outside. however...pjo cass is the only cass terrified of spiders because Child of Athena n eugene definitely takes the spiders away for her whenever she starts to panic n calms her down after n she feels silly for it bhdjasm

Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk : eugene does, he’s a louder drunk than her n it’s way easier for him to yell that he loves her to everyone... but she also has the tendency to accidentally blurt out her feelings for him when she’s very, very drunk. or in actor eugenes case, he confesses to her while SHE’S blackout drunk n won’t remember :\\\

[musubiki]

Mochi & Lime Lore/Overworld dump post

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- Mochi and lime live in an earth alternate, so like, humans, but not EARTH earth. still working on the name of the continent/region/world they're in, but its gonna be like a botw expansive map with a bunch of different climates and stuff all spread out

- it's probably also a modern-style monarchy. so their gonna have modern technology and stuff but its an excuse to maybe include a royal family (think hmc style ish??). but i don't think the story will delve into politics at all. let's just assume that the gov and economy is ok in this story LOL

- magic and fantasy creatures exist EVERYWHERE, but they hide from most humans and as a result mostly live in forests and such

- the power of magic came as a gift from the stars. the stars are like. i guess what people worship i guess?? so the stars are like the ‘gods’ here (i didnt wanna get into religion too much in this story either, but some plot-relevance will most likely involve some religion-like aspects like priests and whatever)

- technology was developed only because the power of magic essentially disapeared to humans. if witches were always integrated into society, tech probably wouldn’t be a thing

- witches are female only. at the origins of magic, it used to run in both sexes, but the only male with magic ability became insanely powerful and evil and the magic in males died with him. (big backstory, we dont have time to unpack that)

- there's an extensive history (same backstory) of witches not being accepted/feared in society despite being mostly human, so they live WITH humans, but don't expose themselves. 

- (the most valuable spell is the memory replacement spell, which works kind of like that app where you can erase whole people from photos. ie, it takes parts of the rest of your day or similar days to fill in the deleted memory with similar memories, so instead of seeing mochi battling it out with some masked dude, you think you just went to school and came home)

- witches in society caused a bunch of social problems. they had events similar to the salem witch trials and whole plagues started when a witch was discovered. (that crow-lookin plague mask WILL show up in this story i dont care. that shit looked cool and evil and i want it to show up)

- there are some witch ‘haven’ villages: small secluded villages that hide a witch or two within its walls, and don't get many visitors. these villages usually don't have much technology, as they rely on magic. (one of these places is the ocean village where Mochis grandmother lives, and another is where Mochis secret hideout is in the northern mountains)

- there are a bunch of urban legends of witches, bedtime stories, holiday tales, etc. but no one really believes they exist anymore. they just seem like cryptids or superstitions.

- the magical community power scale pretty much looks like this:

...with the cat at the top, followed by the crow/snake, then the spider/toad, and the rest of the witches are more of less equal in power, and then below that are the mages. the psuedo-magic is placed in its own box because it comes nowhere near true magic

- because of this power balance, all the ‘normal’ witches and mages are extremely jealous of the top five (sometimes theres even jealousy within the five)

- ‘mages’ are a broad term of magic users, which can range from humans, to fairies and mermaids. i think the familiars may fall into this catigory too, as they can use a small degree of protective magic.

- mages can be a lot of things, fire mages, water mages, ink mages, paper mages, etc. theres a LOT of them, mostly descending from ancestors who were given power by witches a long time ago, or maybe the offspring of a human and a spirit. long story short its a REALLY broad term.

- every witch, at some point during their magical maturity has to chose a successor. its usually their daughter, but not in every case. once their successor turns 15, together they conduct a ritual to begin the power transfer. (i havent decided if the ritual is when they get their familiar, or if theyre supposed to have them since birth?? probably the former)

- during the power transfer, the magical ability is slowly ‘drained’ from the old witch into the new witch over a period of time, usually about a year or so, and the old witch teaches and trains the new witch how to use magic and potions.

- however this is also the most dangerous time, because as the power slowly transfers, the old and new witches respective power levels are slowly decreasing and increasing respectively, and at the equilibrium (50/50 transfered) the strongest witches power roughly equates to the power of a normal witch 

- (which is especially a dangerous time, compared to say, at a 70/30 balance the old witch is still strong enough to defend the title)

- and due to the jealousy problem within the magic-user circle, this is the ideal time to steal the power of a witch. in Mochi’s case, the cat is highly sought after by other witches and mages, and because of this, cat witches are trained early on to be VERY good fighters, and usually have a few. like. ‘bodygaurds’ so to speak (ie. Lime)

- in rare cases, the power of psuedo-magic is enough to kill a witch at equilibrium as well

- if you kill a witch, all her magical affect on the world (potions, spells, cursed objects) disapears, and the power will either pass to the victor (if she dies by the hand of another witch/mage) or will return to the old witch (if she dies by accident)

- if a witch dies by accident, and she has no remaining female family, the familiar will wander the world in search of a new and worthy witch

- because of the female-only thing as well as the jealousy issue, witches try to only have one daughter, as to not deal with sibling jealousy. especially if they have a son first, and then a daughter, the boy usually sometimes ends up with resentment that they can’t have the same power

- a lot of witch-siblings end up joining the coattails

- for humor and story purposes, im making it so for some idiot reason no one else can figure out where Mochi lives and/or are too dumb to do the obvious plan of attacking her in her sleep or something. so they usually get attacked on the go.

- also maybe everyone understands that high school sucks enough as it is, so they also rarely attack during school hours

- every familiar is a different being, and they stay with their witch throughout their whole lives. they always retain the ability to talk, even after the witch no longer has the main power. after a witch dies, their familiar loses their voice, and either dies with them, or leaves to wander the earth forever

- after a witch loses her power to her successor, she can only do low-level magic and make potions (small levetation spells, foliage growth spells, etc. nothing big)

- there are also a lot of powerful spirits (they roughly fall into the mage catigory) that wander the earth and protect certain sacred places. a subcatogiry of spirits are the cosmic serpants, chinese dragon-looking things that rest in shrines and travel the skies during the night, bringing the elements with them (theres a cosmic wind serpant that protects the forest next to Oscars house, and its always pretty windy there)

- locals pray to the spirits for good weather, healthy crops, etc which the serpants are happy to give them with offerings

- theyre kind spirits, but also very firm and protective of their lands. if they sense any ill-willed trasspassers they WILL destroy them. they only reveal themselves when they want to, but most have mad respect for the witches. 

- mochi gives oscar a medalion with a witches seal so the spirits know not to fucking merk him on his ghost-hunting adventures

- another type of spirit are the forest gaurdians (like the little things in this picture) which care for the forests and animals there. they like oscar because he brings them little snackies like funyuns. 

- spirits are naturally attracted to magical energy, so when mochis around the spirit activity hikes up (que ominous wind gusts during spooky story telling at oscars house) 

- the 5 top witches are pretty well known throughout the magic/creature communities. even if Mochi hasn’t met them yet formally, her name travels fairly quickly that by the time she visits somewhere and introduces herself, they know shes the cat witch

- also, in the top 5, each witch kind of has their own little attributes that makes them, by nature, most suitable for their position. for Mochi, as the cat, she has the biggest heart (cares the most for people, has the most friends). the crow is has the most intellect, the spider is the most creative/detail oriented, etc.

- different regional areas grow rare ingredients, which most of them i will 100% make up since i dont know a lot about actual earth plants, so mochi and lime will travel to all different parts of the world for foraging. everyone kind of teases them about how ‘oooh youre just gonna live in this little city your whole life?? boring!! get out there!!’ and they just kinda look at each other 

[radchaai-latte]

This isn’t really a “theory”, in the sense that I think it’s a direction the show is actually going to take things, and I’m sure someone’s brought it up at some point before, but there’s a thought that keeps recurring to me, basically ever since 134.

(Since I have yet to do a full relisten, and I listened to most of the episodes for the first time while at work, it’s very possible that something’s come up that makes all of this moot, even for a crack idea, and I just missed it...)

134 is when we learned that the End and the Web have never (to Peter’s knowledge) attempted a ritual.  According to Peter, both have a preference for the world the way it is in canon because it doesn’t matter to the End (so long as whatever world exists has entities capable of fearing their own death) and because the Web likes being able to manipulate things the way they are.

But that leads me to a question... if it’s possible for entities to choose not to have their followers attempt a ritual, why would the Beholding want its own ritual to go down?  Because a lot of the fears of the Beholding require at least some, if not all, of the other powers in order to function at optimal capacity.  

(More under the cut because this got a bit long...)

Maybe I’m missing something, but the fear of being watched/having your secrets exposed is not usually motivated out of, well, the fear of being seen, full stop.  Because some people are scared of their secrets being revealed because they believe it will make their loved ones shun them (Lonely) or because they believe they could be used to manipulate them (Web), maybe they’re afraid of being tracked down for some reason (Hunt), etc.  

Moreover, if the Beholding is the infinite drive to know more, regardless of the cost to oneself, what world could be better for that than the one that exists in canon right now?  There’s so much unknown to explore and catalogue, and so many dangers and things to be afraid of in the process.  Having things like the Dark, the Stranger, and the Vast is beneficial to the Beholding because they inherently cannot be fully known, and, thus, must be eternally quested after at great personal risk.

Not to mention the fact that the Eye apparently literally feeds off of the experiences the other powers enact on people.  That makes sense if it’s also the fear of something watching you suffer for its own amusement, but it doesn’t explain what the Beholding would get out of its ritual that it doesn’t currently have.

And, I absolutely do not trust that the Web has no interest in its ritual.  Unlike the End, which, as Peter points out, gets everybody eventually, the Web has to at least do some work for its prey.  It could definitely get something out of a world where people were more easily manipulated or had more to fear from manipulation (and spiders) or whatever would happen if its ritual were completed.  

And, in all honesty, Peter isn’t the most reliable narrator in regards to anything the Web.  He’s an avatar of the Lonely.  What does he really know?  He assumes that the Web hasn’t attempted a ritual because it likes the world as-is, but assuming anything about a power that is blatantly associated with manipulation seems like just about the worst plan anybody could possibly have.

So, alright.  Maybe the Web doesn’t have a ritual it intends to enact, or maybe it does and it’s just keeping it on the down low so no nosey Archivists step in and blow it up.  Makes sense.

This is where my brain gets over excited and goes a little off the rails, because I can’t stop thinking about the connections between the Archives and the Web.

There have been a lot of theories about the recorders being Web-aligned, rather than Beholding-aligned.  Jon’s first encounter with the fears was in relation to the Web.  Martin loves spiders to the point that Web!Martin is a popular fandom idea.  Jon carries a web lighter.  The table that housed the NotThem (and was therefore, by proxy, protecting the archival staff from it) was of the Web.  There are a number of theories about Jon having to collect a scar/experience from every power in order to bring about the Watcher’s Crown, and the Web seems to be playing both sides of that fight... although, by (seemingly) brining the Flesh to the Institute, it did lead to Jon losing a pair of ribs to Jared, so who knows what that really means.

(Not to mention, Gertrude mentioned being able to recommend a statement-giver the name of a good psychologist and now Melanie is seeing someone in that capacity who certainly wants to use a recorder, and Annabelle Cane was a psych student, I think, or at least was aware enough of psych experiments, as a student, to participate in a rather frightening and long-term one... it’s all very coincidental, if it’s not directly connected.)

Basically, for the Beholding’s seat of power, there’s a lot of Web stuff going on.  Like, down in the coffin, it was the Buried and only the Buried, as far as we saw.  But the Archives have lots of Web stuff and, unlike when other powers attack the place, nobody seems particularly interested in even trying to kick the spiders out.

And, you know who an archive would be really good for?  Someone who needs/wants a record of past information in order to use it for future gain.  Say, in order to manipulate someone.

Elias’ demonstrated powers include seeing things remotely (which he uses... to manipulate people) and implanting experiential memories into people’s heads (which he uses...... to manipulate people).  Jon’s demonstrated powers are having “weird” body parts (whatever that means), manifesting tapes (maybe), and pulling information out of people’s heads, sometimes so hard it kills them (which he generally doesn’t do on purpose but, one very notable time when he did, he immediately used the information he got out of it for blackmail).  All I’m saying is, their powers definitely make sense for the concept of being able to “watch” and “know” the world, and strike fear with those abilities, but... they also make sense in terms of being extremely useful as methods of working out exactly how to make someone do as you tell/blackmail/ask them to.

We currently believe that there are fifteen fears, because Smirke came up with a list of fourteen and we’ve added the Extinction to that.  But when Gerry talks about it, he talks in terms of colours.  Why isn’t pink a shade of red, when pale blue is just another shade of blue?  Which mirrors what Leitner said about all of them being part of something incomprehensibly large, like a human sticking multiple appendages into an ant hive.  So Smirke labeled the fears where he thought the labels ought to go, and everybody goes along with it because it’s handy, but just because Smirke saw distinctions doesn’t mean that those distinctions necessarily exist on a cosmic level.

Before we had that list, there were ideas about the things that became known as the Web being the “active” component of the Beholding.  The things that went out and used the Beholding’s knowledge.

The fear of having your secrets revealed and turned against you.

And, what better trick?  Convince the entire world that your entire fear is, in fact, two smaller ones.  One that draws all the attention by being the annoying nerd who can’t stop asking questions (the Beholding) and the other that hangs out in the shadows, carefully pulling all the threads so everything works out just right (the Web).  Why bother informing an Archivist who is more comfortable with the limits of the Beholding than they might be with the Web (Jon, possibly also Gertrude) that the distinction between those powers isn’t real at all? 

(Though if the Web and the Beholding were one and the same, that could lead to a really fun payoff for Jared having Jon’s rib, where Jared turns up again, and it’s Jon who uses the fact that a part of him is inside the Boneturner to puppet him in some way.)

Also, the other, dumber reason that I keep thinking about this is because the Watcher’s Crown just makes me think of some sort of crown of eyes, and there are real life spiders with eyes arranged like that (a couple pictures of the peacock spider are in the link below-- I didn’t want to just add images to the post on the off chance that someone somehow made it through my ramblings to this point and didn’t want to be surprised with a sudden closeup of a spider). https://geyserofawesome.com/post/125967598482/peacock-spiders-are-awesome-creatures-theyre

tldr: I have a crack theory that I can’t stop thinking about which basically amounts to “the Beholding is fake news made up by the Web”.

[cleaduvalls]

i watched all 20 episodes of spy kids: mission critical in about a week and here are my thoughts (3/5)

1.9

i havent watched this in like 2 days i dont even remember what happened last time

why is everything in the desert the desert sucks

alsjhiajgdf i love tom kenny

listen i know hes like a superandroid or whatever but i really hope he and therese fall in love

wait hold up. i thought they already had midterms???? like the did that before scorpion went to her fashion shoot. AND they were kupkakkes midterms. whats up with this school

no drinking in class???? rude. let them hydrate

that seems imbalanced

aHh

thats only like 10

also that book is dummy thicc

its ok ace my nose whistles too

shut up carmen youre just jealous because shes pretty

there are no seasons its a desert

ok dude stop breathing so hard

he JUST said that

anywhere between an hour and umm... 11 months

you put it on one page why are all the pages back

me but with physics

thats literally the best line in the whole series

juni how do you not know that you were at a safe H O U S E

theyve been gone for like 2 hours are they not allowed to study?????

what even is AWOL???

absent without leave. neat

talon gives off some big draco energy

tick tock???? how dare you

slkdhfa she called sir awesome honey shes such a mom

dont make it obvious

oh look they made it obvious

roll credits

i was in cleveland when i watched this episode - well actually i left that day - and i was s h o o k e t h

also hes right. no spy would be in cleveland. theres 3 buildings

oh me too

right bc shes the only “I.A.”

ew

eW

this isnt HARRY POTTER. or maybe it is. talon is a hardcore draco

oh right bc swearing is for Men™

update tumblr decided to break AGAIN (im boutta cry btw) so we lost about 5 minutes from the end of 1.9 and 7 from the beginning of 1.10

1.10

its a DOORBELL do they not have those in the outback steakhouse

lots of people. doofenshmirtz, other people who i cant think of right now, etc

???? no it wont????

did your troop leader not give you The Talk??? you NEVER go in the customers house

ace no. youre allowed to not buy treats

theres a triforce on her vest, too

shes just gonna go to another house yall. shell be f i n e

oh my God shes holding hands with mauly im gonna c r y

yeah its called saliva

nope only scorpion lives in a castle

stop bringing up spy sense and tell him you saw her glare at you

HES ALLOWED TO LIKE FOOD

how do you know that he doesnt have his phone if YOU dont know where it is and HE cant tell you

i love how she says "floor. ceiling. more thumb"

haha i found the birth of venus

oh and the creation of adam

hes like squidward, which would make sense bc goldies voiced by tom kenny who voices spongebob

"sebastian oliver" "shadow operative" S.O. nice

why do you have a trailblazers badge. youre 4. i didnt get one til i was a cadette

also sebastian???? isnt that the toymakers first name????? you cant have 2 sebastians

also why do you have braces. youre still 4

"SIR MEANIE FACE" IF SOMEONE SAID THAT TO ME ID BE D E V A S T A T E D

SCORPION LET HER CRY SHES F O U R

so really, spy sense DID help

oooooh, sentry duty, thats gotta hurt

WHAT THE H E C K YOURE F O U R

she looks like frickin plushtrap

aCE NO YOURW GONNA D I E

oh trust me they hurt me more than you know

dude theyre so thin youre f i n e

eh, still worked

clicking her teeth together so hard must H U R T

i think she can get out of there. also shes concussed now

why was that so quiet. why did it get louder

thats not a y shape

no, they spy kids

oh shiitake mushrooms thats what THEY said

whenever they say pinnoquinoxx i always think of pinnochio

ahdhhsjak i miss pizza parties 😔

well now we ALL expect it

also, no one????? pick a cooler code name. your regular name was cool and now youve ruined it

2.1

oh theres finally a skip intro option. im not taking it

stop saying that its weird

EWWWWWW CRUSTY THATS SO G R O S S

haha shes shopping w the goon. love that

oh yeah i didnt get to tell yall yet but i absolutely h a t e gablet

a lot of people, juni

listen i know a jt (but he doesnt go by jt) and uhhhhhhh were not gonna go there

why are you happy. what about second semester makes you so happy

boi thats a tardis

the design on his hoverboard looks like the aperture science logo

i paused to read the Floops label and it says "fried corn and sugar loop shaped breakfast substitute, net wt. 13 oz" ITS NOT EVEN A CEREAL ITS A BREAKFAST SUBSTITUTE IM C R Y I N G

listen i know hes technically scorpions dad but i dont think he can legally be in the dorm rooms

aww, thats sweet

i dont think gablet has an attached printer

gablet always sounds like shes mocking people

oh dear God its dolores umbridge

haha nerd

awesome no im gonna die

whenever carmen yells she sounds like link

ok so i didnt find a reason why she sounds like link but i DID find that theyre making a wherea waldo tv series so uhhhh thats fun

why does the cat have a bandaid

GABLET S T O P

OH!!!!!! ON THE WALL!!!!!!! ITS THE TUMBLR POST WITH THE FORK AND KNIFE ETIQUETTE PICTURE!!!!! YOU KNOW THE ONE!!!!!

oh no fart jokes

its even the basic fart sound effect

BAHAHAH MY PHONE VIBRATED AT THE SAME TIME HE FARTED THAT WAS WEIRD

oh no i hate him

stop SLURPING

uh yeah???? you heard them yelling about it

how??? does that work??? you cant just like catch electricity in a cup.... can you???? i havent studied it since 4th grade

oh worm??

goldies such a boomer

worm??

psi shouldnt be at the drawing board right now. he also shouldnt be confused

what happened to the lasers

wait nvm we havent gotten to that episode yet

ace is valid, dark is Scary

im gonna punch gablet in the face

that doesnt sound realistic

do you not have stairs??????

dont you mean inside AND out??

that flashlight did NOTHING

how did it die so fast?????

who else would you be talking to??

isnt that bowser from the mario movie we dont speak of??

i havent gotten a chance to tell yall but i absolutely love clemp. hes such a mood

hes the greatest spy

does it use a mini transmooker???? ig it doesnt bc gablet works but thatd be lit

SEE SHES IMMORTAL

me when i see something interesting

ME WHEN IM NOT ON MY PHONE

i dont think you can legally say that

you killed her

me

wow nice promo

also just???? bring a charger????? like youre the tech girl why do you not have one at all times

how?????? did you go so fast

machete electric bubbles??? nice

just task manager him

mother of all boards sounds like it could be a cuss...mother of all fuckers

also throwback to 1.7 when she says "his ai firewalled his motherboard" i keep expecting her to say "his ai firewalled this motherfucker"

yes i said keep ive watched that episode too many times to count

worm??

why did you giggle and make a flirty pose. are yall supposed to get together???

did you????? kill him????????? holy shit

2.2

thats what my dad does. he loves hospital corners

idc what it is you have a bazooka

ok if it was a spider id get it, australia has some deadly ones, but does it have deadly ants too???? like is that a Thing????

also ants in your room are gross

was that just a cameo??? i dont remember what happens in this one

haha because he said grapevines and wine has dregs and wine is made of grapes

for the boys??? thats so cute

listen idc how evil you are EVERYONE should cry over otters

so one of the parents has a sister or sister in law named roxanna..... hmmm.......

if you dont use your turn signal h*ck u

hes gonna D I E

i just looked at my shoe and i think theres blood on it???? what the h*ck

suspicious??? about.... what???? having fears???? not being perfect?????

juni that was awful wording

JUNI WHAT DID YOU D O TO HIM

like i know what he DID but the way it plays out makes it seem like something significant

i thought his name was heavy meddle not.... deth metal???? thats how the subtitles spell it

hahah me

he sounds like bling bling boy

yeah ik im a fool thanks for reminding me

what are you gonna do??? kill juni????

POOR WORD CHOICE JUNI

oh he gives exactly 0 h*cks

a shoe doesnt make that sound

crack bugs?????

see thats why you dont mess with things

im a god among boys??????? what????

did you... kill them????????????

thats any australian person

theyre so stupid i love them

good i hate her

i thought the gunk just like... disappeared from the guitar but actually it shot off

he died... 😔

uhh.... yeah????? was it not obvious?????

me when i have 5 dollars

[fragmentedink-archived]

oops nik odds 🤷‍♀️

UR VALID ANON

1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything?

Nik’s full name is Nikolas Isaac Arwaine

Nikolas means ‘victory of the people’ Isaac means ‘laughter’ and Arwaine, I took the Celtic god of the dead Arwan and added a few letters :)

It was chosen bec when i orginally was writing him, he was inspired by Nikolai Lant/sov in Grisha.

3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory? 

Nik had,,, an interesting childhood. HIs father wasn’t,,, outwardly abusive, perse. But he did lock his kids in places to get out (he broke nates hand bec nate wouldnt stop drawing). His mom taught him how to lie and his parents gave him whatever he wanted besides the one thing he Really wanted

He has fond memories of Adrien and his ohter brothers taking him to the ocean. He had fond memories of hanging out with Nate in Nates studio. One of his fave memories is Nate putting face paint on his face when he was a lil birb

A bad memory he has is getting so afraid of not being able to get out of a room, he threw himself into a panic attack and he was shaking and crying so hard that his dad was so damn disappointed in him that he didnt talk to Nik for a Long Time

5. Do they have any siblings? What’s their names? What is their relationship with them? Has their relationship changed since they were kids to adults?

he had Three (3) sibs. Blake, Adrien and Nate. 

He has a fairly easy going relationship with Blake and Nate. Tho he butts heads with Adrien a Lot. Blake and Nate’s relationship with Nik is kinda the same growing up, tho his and Adrien’s change. Nik used to idolize Adrien, now they just fight all the time

7. Did they have lots of friends as a child? Did they keep any of their childhood friends into adulthood? 

Nik,,, had more superficial friends than Friend Friends. People liked his money and his influence more than they liked him. Tho he is a very infectious person, so he probably does have friends, theyre just awful people who are flighty when things go Wrong

9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals? 

y’know I think Nik does like animals!! he likes all kinds of animals and would like a pet snake or spider but IM NOT GIVING HIM EITHER. He tries to pet Bay’s pet kitten but she claws the hell out of him :(

11. Do they have any special diet requirements? Are they a vegetarian? Vegan? Have any allergies?the main requirement that Nik has is that he doesn’t like his food touching. He doesnt mind mixing his foods, like hot dogs and mac and cheese, but he doesn’t like them touching. He is also allergic to strawberries ;-;

13. What is their least favourite food?

peanut butter

15. Are they good at cooking? Do they enjoy it? What do others think of their cooking?

Nik is actually very good at cooking!! Most of the time he hates it unless hes making something Big or baking something with Cameron, who stress bakes. Cameron secretly likes his cooking but he wont admit it

17. Do they like to take photos? What do they like to take photos of? Selfies? What do they do with their photos?

oh hell yeah!! Nik loves taking nudes pictures and sending them to cameron. His cell phone (if he had one) would be full of random pics of people and of places. MUCH PICTURES OF THE OCEAN. He has a bunch saved on his phone and he has some in photo albums and such

19. What’s their least favourite genres?

mmmm i think nonfiction would bore him, especially for industrial revolution area. I think he would actually really like scyfi and action. Absolutely would love anything that was just fast and action packed. he would fucking LOVE deadpool

Nik: if he backtalks he gets his head cut off but he comes back from the dead. if i backtalk im just DEAD. not fair :(

21. Do they have a temper? Are they patient? What are they like when they do lose their temper?

Nik absolUTELY has a temper. Its quick, its hot and he often makes an ass of himself. He’s not patient. He has,,, some patience, I guess. Where it counts. But it’s nowhere near as long as Nate’s.

When he loses his temper people get wounded or just DEAD. or he just makes an ass out of himself and has to apologize

23. Do they have a good memory? Short term or long term? Are they good with names? Or faces?

Nik has a somewhat good memory. HIs long term memory is much better tho. He’s much more visual and is better with faces.

25. What do they find funny? Do they have a good sense of humour? Are they funny themselves?

NIk has the most juvinle sense of humor lol. But he also has a really fucking dark sense of humor when it calls for it. If someone is bleeding out, and they deserved it, hed laugh

well. he certainly thinks hes funny

27. What makes them sad? Do they cry regularly? Do they cry openly or hide it? What are they like they are sad?

Nik,,, doesn’t really get sad. He gets pissed. He tries hiding his tears, and he tries to not cry. He shoves negative emotions down so much (which is actually why hes such an angry dude :/)

WHen he does break down and cry Cam,,, tries to be comforting with him. They can get surprisingly soft

29. What do they do when they find out someone else’s fear? Do they tease them? Or get very over protective? 

mmmm it would depend on the fear. Like if it was as Genuine fear (like his is) he wouldn’t tease them. But like,,, if it was something stupid hed absoluTELY tease them for it. He would get kinda protective about it, and would tell whoever it was bothering them to fuck off and leave them alone

31. Do they drink? What are they like drunk? What are they like hungover? How do they act when other people are drunk or hungover? Kind or teasing?

DOES NIK DRINK LMAOOO YES YES HE DOES

Nik is mostly a cheerful drunk and hes a fucking idiot while hes drunk. Also is very slutty when hes drunk (tho when isnt he???)

Nik: hungover? I don’t know her. i just start drinking againMe: Nik pls

When ohter people are drunk hes,,, pretty relaxed about it and help them from making an ass out of themselves (tho tbh he would absolutely record them being an idiot). He would try to pry someone off him if they tried to undress him

Nik: yes yes i know i am hot. But unfortunately my conscious would not sit well if i took advantage of the situation :(

33. What underwear do they wear? Boxers or briefs? Lacey? Comfy granny panties?

Nik doesn’t wear underwear. 

Tho he has been known to try on lacy panties ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Nik: don’t judge they’re surprisingly comfy and make my ass look GREAT

35. What’s their guilty pleasure? What is their totally unguilty pleasure? 

ok Nik doesn’t have guilty pleasures. hes not going to feel guilty for likeing the things he does. His total unguilty pleausres is trashy television shows. He lovesss binge watching say yes to the dress for fucking hours while sprawled out on the couch eating oreos and stoned

37. Do they like to read? Are they a fast or slow reader? Do they like poetry? Fictional or non fiction?

Nik,,,, is not fond of reading. He is Dyslexic and he doesn’t like sitting still or being forced to focus. Tho,,, i think he might read, depending on what he was reading. 

fiction, absolutely fiction

39. Do they like letters? Or prefer emails/messaging? 

mmmmmmmmmm messaging and emails. Much better bec he can read them better. Tho, he does like letters every now and then. Especially if theyre like,,, looove letters 

41. What’s their sexuality? What do they find attractive? Physically and mentally? What do they like/need in a relationship?

He is a slutty, slutty bisexual, my dude. Nik has a hand kink. he finds slender hands attractive. he likes,,,, cool eyes?? if that makes sense?? He finds people who are kinda,,, not,,, cold cold but cool and calmness attractive. That cool confidence, like a sheet of almost frozen water.

He finds delicate features attractive. Like fine bones, not brashness. Sharp as glass cheekbones, slender hands. Tall, not,,, too much muscle. (am i describing Cameron? MAYBE SO) NIk, upon meeting Cameron: oh no hes not

mentally, he finds confidence attractive. he finds assertiveness and dominance attractive. He likes someone who can command a fucking presence. He finds passion attractive. Someone that is so passionate and so devoted to something/one attractive

What does he like? he likes someone that will meet him halfway, who will want him, and that he will be enough for them. He has a bit of an inferiority complex  and he thinks that people will just get tired of him and he wants- he NEEDS- someone that he will be enough for, that they arent going to just bolt when things get rough. Which,,, is interesting bec Cameron,,, is Cameron and hes going to want to control the situation who is afraid fo feeling anything for anyone

43. Are they religious? What do they think of religion? What do they think of religious people? What do they think of non religious people?

Nik,,,, acknowledges that there are gods. But i would not call him religious. If he were in modern day, he might MIGHT be spiritual but he will joke and be like dude, im going to hell.

He thinks of religious people, and nonreligious people the same way. Believe what you want to believe, but don’t shove it down my throat

45. How do other people see them? Is it similar to how they see themselves? 

A lot of people see him as a lost cause, as some druggie who is going nowhere other than down. Some think that he’s just,,, lost. HIs dad sees him as his Son who just needs tough love and the right pressure to Honor His Family

Nik,,, sees himself as a hot guy, whos shallow and with money. People dont like him, they like his money and what he can do for them. 

47. How do they act in a formal occasion? What do they think of black tie wear? Do they enjoy fancy parties and love to chit chat or loathe the whole event?

mmmmmm Nik doesn’t like many formal occassions. He thinks theyre boring and people are fake as fuck. He Hates black tie wear and he only agrees to wear a tie if Cam uses it on him later ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

he hates chit chat but he does fucking love gossip. He’ll find a couple of people to hang out with and get the Dish

49. What is their most valued object? Are they sentimental? Is there something they have to take everywhere with them?

his lighter. Its a flip lighter with engravings on it, that Nate got him. He uses it when he gets anxious. That,,, is actually the reason Nate got it for him, tho Nate did not say that.

If nate said anything about Nik having any kind of disorder, Nik would shut him down instantly.

Tho, Nik does take it everywhere with him

[queencryo]

i had a lot of fun at the con! i dressed fem-y all time, cuz i felt comfy-ish and safe doin so. it was fun! talked to interesting people. met an older trans woman and hung out w her for a few hours; she seems kind of. real open about her sex life and stuff, and possibly not my first choice for a friend? but then, i think she wad like thirty. invited her to the trans club anyway, since its good for people to have a community of people who support them, and the local gay community seems to... not be doing that for her. this also marks the second time in recent memory ive been walking with @oboeist3 , saw a person with a trait i share, and latched onto them for a while; hi @the-fluffybee !!!! it was super cool seeing you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry i didnt recognize u at first lol).

i did not get harassed or transphobia'd, which seems like i was maybe an outlier in that respect :c. i hate men a lot. but im glad i wasnt harassed, thats nice. id prefer such happen to me rather than other ppl tho; i can handle it and me being hurt is much better than others being so.

oh also i hate cis men so fucking much, the curremt genre i hate most is greasy nerd boys who have newly found people who dont hatw them and thusly become overconfident and think theyre very cool and are so annoying. god i jate cis men (got overstimulated at this event, mostly bc of loud cis berd boys). also they have shitty waifus and they have shitty tastes. they shouldnt be abllowed to have fetishes.

but i bought a bunch of neat knickknacks and presented female in public in my texna hometown??? so like. yay. thats a mileatone, im currently reakizing! never fone that before lmao.

ummm i also like public sleaking when i know what im doing or bullshitting. i love being a partially-funny little bitch ; presented an anime pitch for an isekai abiut a very hot busineszman who is instnalty killed by a giant spider. the anime is then a slice of life about that spider.

im now TIRED.

also i bought a bunch of knickknacks.

also i got real drunk for the first time last night, that was kidna fun? i should prolly try it again sometime when i am not like. hyper-tired lmao. oh also i love my friends, they are sweet and only made fun if me a lil bit for beibg a drunk nerd. i. actuakly dont remember much of that, beyond being dizzy and really wanting / trying to move to music but not beibg able to cuz dizzy. aalso i potentially made a mistake and Kissed the Girl, which i. told myself i wouldnt do for the time beibg but hey. (lit 2/3 people invomved follow me here. hi!). also i like. probably dont remember much bc i passed out on the floor p early iirc. in a tired way not an overdrunk way. hangovers arent pleasant lol.

oh also i saw oboeist like 3 times, complimented their cosplay to a friend and considered sending a picture to oboeist, and even tried to compliment their hat (i dont think they heard me lol), but i still didnt notice it was them until they realized i was me, lmao.

i kinda wanna cosplay the next one i go to, but... woild meed to figure out smth to cosplay as (mei would kill me lmao. maybe smth simple...). hm... maybe ill think avout that later. was talk of going to a con later this year, maybe that will actually ckme to pass.

[oscar-isaacs-number-one-bitch]

“The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” Movie Review

Back on Oscar nomination day in 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 5 nominees for the Best Animated Feature of the year, and while that list included some crowd favorites like Big Hero 6 and more mature blockbusters like How to Train Your Dragon 2, the largest story that day wasn’t about any of the nominations, but one film that was left out of them. Most pundits and basically any critic who had seen the brilliantly creative, immensely funny, and more-emotionally-affecting-than-it-had-any-right-to-be Lego Movie had it pegged as not only a surefire nominee, but surefire winner of that award, and our jaws were left hanging on the floor at the lack of its mention during the announcement.

Despite that though, The Lego Movie went on to be an animated hit in the homes of people all across the world, two mildly-to-wildly successful spinoffs were launched to critical praise, and the studio immediately began plans for a sequel, with directors Phil Lord & Chris Miller not returning to the project as they were already booked to direct the Solo movie for Lucasfilm (which they were fired from, and then they moved on to Into the Spider-Verse and we all saw how that shook out). Thus, we have The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, which finds Emmet and the rest of the Lego people 5 years removed from the ending of that first film. Bricksburg has been ravaged and destroyed by the toys of DuPlon, and our heroes now live in Apocalypseburg. But when some of the residents are captured by a mysterious new character from the Sistar system, Emmet must embark on a daring new mission to rescue his friends and prove that he truly is The Special.

I’ve made it no small secret that I love The Lego Movie and thoroughly enjoyed Lego Batman. Lego Ninjago was…fine for me, but I mostly chalked that up to it being very much tied into the popular children’s Ninjago series, which I hadn’t watched. With the direct sequel to the film that birthed them all being not only released but also set 5 years after the original, I was curious to see if the team at Warner Bros. would be able to pull off the same magnificent feat they did in 2014, especially without the direction of Lord & Miller. And, for the most part, they almost do. Much like How to Train Your Dragon 3, I thought Lego Movie 2 was pretty good – just not as good as those initial outings. While there are certainly moments of levity and plenty of jokes from a script by Lord & Miller, something did feel missing in its direction and pacing.

For a start, there are too many musical numbers in this movie. That may seem like a strange thing to say about a Lego movie, especially as a critique to start with over something more significant, but that’s exactly my point. It doesn’t make much sense until one realizes that the studio fell so in love with what worked in the original that they just decided to do that again – but a lot more. Sure, the original film this one is following had an iconic original theme song, and even Lego Batman dabbled a bit in the introduction, but Lego movies are not musicals. Even Tiffany Haddish (who can’t sing very well, as we find out) gets no less than two numbers essentially all to herself, and basically all of them take place in the second act. This not only overcrowds the movie as a whole, but the second act is simply too repetitive. On a story level, that means there’s less time devoted to moving it along rather than just using the same jokes for a little while longer than necessary. They’re not bad jokes, and some of them are actually quite funny, but that zippiness that was so profound in the original film is missing here, giving way to a slightly more elementary-style humor, which follows, considering the director they found to replace Lord & Miller is Mike Mitchell, director of Trolls.

Not only is the second act overly repetitive and reliant on the same jokes, the newer characters added to the franchise aren’t exactly super memorable. None of them leave the lasting impact that a character like a Lego Batman did on the first movie, and there are basically zero interesting cameos throughout (save for one that actually does turn into a pretty hilarious real-world reference joke during the third act). General Mayhem seems to be the stand-in for the Batman character this time around, but apart from capturing the main heroes and transporting them to the Sistar system, there’s really not much else to her until the final couple of minutes and she doesn’t help craft other characters’ development like Batman did for Lucy. In addition to this, the villain this time around (whose name I’m not even going to attempt to type since I’m writing this at almost 2:00 in the morning) might be a more intimidating presence than Lord Business, but she’s not exactly as or more compelling.

One of the things that made Lord Business compelling was his tie-in to the real world that informed the surprise reveal at the end of the original Lego Movie, but while the added-on real-world element to this entry in the series presents a beautiful intent with its message, the actual Lego sections don’t handle telling that message quite as clearly as the first one did its central themes, which makes understanding the villain character in The Second Part more difficult than it honestly should be. Most of the supporting cast that are introduced in this movie aren’t very memorable, which doesn’t bode well for a franchise plan. Even though the Rex Dangervest storyline does go to some pretty ambitious places, he remains sort of a watered-down version of what he’s probably meant to be, and a lot of that is wrapped up in his very convoluted storyline.

Even the animation seems to have taken a bit of a hit; in the original movie, it was made fairly obvious that everything was made of legos, and that was a super cool and innovative way to create an animated movie, but when this sequel gets busy in the Sistar system or with characters not from the Lego world, it becomes difficult to get very invested in the animation, as it no longer carries that particularly unique look. If we’re going to continue to get Lego movies in this vein for a while, spending more time outside of the Lego world than in it is a bad idea. Legos are fun! Spending time in the Lego world should take up the majority of a movie in this franchise, not a minority.

There is a fair amount to like about this movie though; pretty much all the original characters carry the same weight and charm they have since 5 years ago, and the story and themes this movie presents in conjunction with the last one are actually very sweet. Some of the music is actually quite catchy as well, and The Lonely Island come back again with a stellar closing credits sequence. While the direction could have used quite a bit of work, the script by Lord & Miller does what it can to keep the franchise fresh and new, and if nothing else, most of the jokes are funny on first arrival.

It may sound like I’m knocking on this movie too much, but much like How to Train Your Dragon 3 (the superior film between these two, if you’re wondering), I did enjoy it – I just find it to be a bit disappointing as a sequel. That’s the tough part about being a film critic; if you’re reviewing a sequel, talking about the stuff that worked again isn’t nearly interesting as what doesn’t work as well this time around or what works better because that sticks out more, which can make it sound like that’s all you think of the film. With Lego Movie 2, that means telling you that while what worked last time mostly works again this time, there are a few spots that don’t work as well, and that’s okay, if a little bit of a bummer.

“I’m giving The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” a 7.6/10

[clubgazette]

the GazettE Live Tour 18-19 THE NINTH / PHASE #04 -99.999- @ Sony Playstation Theater New York 2019.05.06.

Pictures of the live from the in-house photographer here.

I’ve never had this much space for a live before and it was AMAZING 😭 We took the bar in front of the seated area in the back and there was about 2.5-3m of space between us and the first row of seats aaaa I’ve also never worn myself out to this extent. Actually out of breath and unable to force myself to jump any more towards the end of the set lol

Aoi is FEELING IT today 🔥🔥🔥🔥

They’re wearing their 03 looks :> Ruki’s suit is so pretty ✨

Dani: THE BAND IS LOVING NEW YORK THEYRE SO HAPPY

Uruha was dancing so much aaaaa 😭

I don’t remember what song but I think inside beast or tnd - Reita went up to Kai’s drum stand and they played together for a bit and Kai looked SO happy 😭

Ruki MC: I was looking forward to this FUCKING SHOW!!!!

Ruki kept saying “you guys are AMAZING!!” 😭

Reita still does backup growls for Abhor God 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖💖 (And Ruki his little dances LOL)

Gracie: i'm so glad i got to see ruki's "dad at a bbq" dancing irl with my own two eyes   

Tnd: Reita was on the middle tachidai and Ruki came over and put his hand on his shoulder. They stayed close for a while.

Ellie: so Kai translated his kakatte koi mc and he did so great not word by word or in order, but he said something like "you guys are amazing", "I love you", then "are you ready? are you ready??? are you ready????? make fucking noise!!!"

Ellie: during Venomous Spider's Web, Reita was doing the "mischief of the venomous spider" parts in a really growly voice

Ellie: at the very end of the live, Reita put his bass down on the stage floor, got on his hands and knees and bowed

Also there were so many guys??? And lots of guys in their 30s?? Im so used to the crowd being mostly girls aaaaaa I’m so happy for them

It’s also hilarious that we ran into a couple of people we haven’t seen since Omega and we were only missing 2 people to be the full Omega crew and they pulled out venomous, vortex and suicide circus. Thank you for the VC/Omega reunion!

I had an amazing time queueing all day. I had very low expectations from what I remember from wt13, but everyone was so nice and friendly and the mood was so good despite organisation being a mess. Thank you so much!

Head of venue staff was unhelpful and rude, rest of venue staff had no info about anything and couldn’t help. FC check didn’t start until right before doors opened, and then it was only inside the doors after ticket check. Some FC people got shuffled into the VIP queue while others were told to wait in GA line, in the end GA FC holders were told to just pick up their wristband at the goods table inside (even though most of us had hoped for that FC early entry rather than the wristband).

In the end it didn’t really matter to my group since we were aiming for 3rd saku anyway and everyone else seemed to want to go to the front. I had so much fun, I definitely want to come back next time. Thank you so much for a great time!