#skeletons vs birds

[maxyvert]

I don't like sharing my face, but I do love sharing pictures of my cat. Just look at her! Supporting me with her kindness every day 💙

old one

[bufffox]

This is spookiest creepypasta ever made!

I was walking around in a city because my dumb 🌮ss grandma told me to get exercise cuz im dummy THICC! the streets are fill with rats. Trash and hobos. There was one hobo walked up too me and told me if he liked seseme street! I told him yes cuz I was... well... a big man child! He told me that he was gonna give me the disk for $1. Well darn it! All I have is a $5 bill! Is I gave him my five dollar!

I went back to my house and got the disk and I was surprised that it was surprisingly clean when I got it from that hobo! I put the DVD in the DVD player, grabbed some snacks and soda and sit back and relax! I realized that it only has one episode! "Well that sucked" I said to myself, the intro has spooky Mexican music and the title says "COOKIE MONSTER GOES TO TACO BELL!" and it says that it's the 666th episode! (The devils number! dun dun DUUUNNN!!!)

The episode started with the cookie monster digging around a bunch of garbage while annoying Oscar the grouch! "WHAT THE FREAKING H🌮LL ARE YOU DOING?!?! shouted the grouch! I was shocked when Oscar said the word h🌮ll in a baby show! Anyways the cookie monster asked Oscar what he was eating and told him it's a taco from taco bell. "OOH! THAT TACO LOOKS TASTY AND CRUNCHY LIKE COOKIE!!!" shouted cookie monster! The cookie monster asked where the taco bell and Oscar pointed out the location and then cookie monster runs so fast! "HAHAHA! what a sh🌮t head!" Said Oscar. I can't believe that he said the word "SH🌮T"! yeeeaah... I don't think this was meant for kids.

The scene changes to big bird who was trying to do a magic trick to impress a bunch of children. Big bird called up one of the kids up stage and the kid seems to be a little jerk! He starts kicking Big birds leg! "OW that hurts! Stop that" Said Big bird, but the kid continues kicking! The actor or puppeteer was getting pissed off and started talking in a gruff voice while being out of character! "HEY! You better cut that out right now or your gonna regret it!!!" Said Big bird. But then the kid has a sinister smile on his face and gave two middle fingers at big bird! "THATS IT!!!!!!!!!!" screamed big bird as his eyes started glowing red and started to breathe fire at the freaking kid as he melted into nacho cheese and the other kids celebrated and started eating the melted cheese on the stage! I can't blame big bird cuz that kid was a freaking jerk, though. I thought the scene was awesome!

So the scene returned to the cookie monster carrying a big tray of tacos and burritos and he starts munching and crunching on the large amount of Mexican food with beef, cheese, lettuce, baked beans, sour cream, taco shells and burrito wrap flying everywhere! a title card shows said 20 minutes later and shows the cookie monster sitting while holding his stomach! but then, his stomach begin to gurgle really loud! "UH OH! ME TUMMY NOT DOING TOO GOOD" Said cookie monster as he let's out a BIG, WET, SLOPPY FART and the fart came alive! The fart has blood shot eyes, sharp teeth and a cool lookin Mexican mustach! The fart starts talking to cookie monster "hey amigo! You better get to the bathroom before I will stab you to death you peice of tonterías! Adios!". The fart poofs away and the cookie monster was trembling in fear and looks at the veiwer!

The next scene changes again and it shows ernie jumping on a trampoline! Ernie said "hey kids! Today I was going to jump so high up in the heavens to beat up Mr. hooper for making my sandwich extremely expensive!" To make ernie jump high, he told me to say alot of swear words out loud and he starts jumping extremely high! As he got to heaven, he finds mr. Hooper was dressed up like like an angel with wings and a halo. Ernie went up to Mr. Hooper and kicked him in the groin! ernie was falling down to earth as he broke through his roof and landed on Bert, breaking his spine! "Oh hey Bert! Thanks for breaking my fall!" Said ernie as he snickered. "AAAAHH! ERNIE! YOU BROKE MY BACK! CALL A DOCTOR!" Said Bert, and ernie said "doctor WHO?" As ernie started to laugh as a blue phone booth magicly appeared out of nowhere! I cringed so hard from that stupid doctor who reference!

The scene returned to cookie monster was walking slowly to the bathroom as he was farting while he was holding his stomach! Elmo went up behind cookie monster. "Oh hey cookie monster! DO YOU HAVE TO GO POO POO TOO?" Said elmo laughing like a gremlin who snorted freaking cr🌮ck! But then cookie monster just sh🌮rted on elmo! The liquid p🌮🌮p was steaming boiling hot, it started to burn off elmos red fur and his flesh started to melt away into a skull like acid! "OOPS! sorry elmo!" Said cookie monster as he watched elmos melted body on the floor twitching! I felt sick to my stomach when I saw that scene!

The cookie monster ran to the bathroom, sit on the toilet and let it rip! The sounds of cookie monster screaming in agony while the explosion of di🌮rrhea sounds like W0rld War ll in the freaking toilet! Cookie monster was looking at me and said "k-kiddies! Me not gonna make it because this evil toilet is taking me freaking soul to h🌮ll! AAAAH!!!!" as the cookie monster released a huge explosive d🌮mp! It is so loud it made my whole house shake! Then cookie monster was relieved that the pain was over! He got up from the extremely full toilet and tried to flush! When suddenly, the toilet can't flush! Cookie monster was scared and said "UH OH! ME THINK ME ANGERED THE TOILET GOD!!!".

When suddenly, the bathroom began to shake and then it stopped until a giant green pipe bursts out of the ground and someone came out of the pipe and it was non other than... captain luo Albano! (The voice of mario from the super Mario bros super show!) He was dressed up like Mario from the live action scenes from the show! "HEY PAISANOS!" Said captain luo as he happily waves to the veiwer while the ground theme from SMB2 starts playing a little! But then... captain... y-you know what, I'm just gonna call him Mario cuz it's much easier say. So Mario look shocked what cookie monster did in the toilet while the castle theme from SMB starts playing!

Mario walked up to cookie monster who was behind the dirty toilet! "HEY BLUE FURBALL! how dare you ruin a perfectly good looking toilet?!?!" Said mario shouted at cookie monster for what he has done! "Uuuuhhh... it was an accident?" Said the cookie monster as he shrugged like it was nothing! "Oh really, well looks like your going DOWN!" Said mario as he picked up cookie monster and did a pile drive move on him! DANG! I know captain luo was a wrestler, but this is getting really cool! Then there was en extremely awesome rock metal version of the ground theme from SMB starts playing while Mario starts doing other wrestler moves to beat up the cookie while jumping on his head, Throwing turnips, alot more other moves with a bunch of SMB and SMB2 sound effects! Then mario saw a few floating blocks in the air and he jumped and hit the blocks and grabbed a fire flower and changed his clothes from a red and blue color to a red and white color! He throws a fire ball at cookie monster as he burns into ashes! Mario said "never ever disrespect someone with pasta power!"

I celebrated for mario for defeating cookie monster because he was my most favorite show growing up! Mario walked in front of the camera and said this to me! "Remember kids! Never go to taco bell! And if you're not watching the Super mario bros super show, you're gonna turn into a goomba!" I was confused! "Wait WUT?" I said to myself. But then I magicly turned into a goomba! As looked at my whole body, I looked at the TV and mario said "see I told ya!" Said mario as the dvd player freaking EXPLODED!!!! Since I'm a goomba, I'm ne never ever EVER watching seseme street ever again! Oh... and I'm never going to taco bell, and that's why I switched to McDonald's instead!

THE END!!! :)

[deanmarywinchester]

okay. buzzfeed article voice I Read Homestuck So You, A Locked Tomb Fan, Don’t Have To. here’s what I have gathered:

the general structure of: step 1: here is one set of characters: some teens on a funney little sci fi adventure. step 2: zoom out from that point of view and see another set of characters including an emperor who is turning the galaxy into a necropolis. step 3: here is another set of characters including a little girl with NOOO life experience and something Wrong that lives inside of her <3 TLT’s “every time you get comfortable we throw another set of Guys at you” is very homestuck, and Nona in particular is EXTREMELY calliope (girl who shares a body with her Ontologically Evil brother, who takes over the body when she is asleep, so they keep their shared body chained to their bedroom so they can never experience the outside world)

the tone is fully 100% homestuck it’s not even necessary to get into it. space opera and also there’s memes, we get it, moving on

similarly: Gideon just straight up is butch Dave Strider (irony poisoned teen obsessed with cool swords and aviators)

the only thing on this list that is a 1:1 ripoff of Homestuck: the bubbles in the River where Harrow experiences her coffeeshop AU and her reverse!necro/cav AU. This is directly pulled from homestuck, where people who have died can experience AUs and distorted memories in “dream bubbles” in the afterlife. fans then set most of their AUs in dream bubbles so this is as much coming from fan practice as from canon.

so this post doesn’t get insanely long, you just have to google “homestuck troll romance” and realize that basically every lyctor is doing blackrom shit with other lyctors. and switching which type of troll romance you’re doing can cause BIG problems, such as: naberius/ianthe/corona are auspitices that become kismeses when naberius dies.

placement of dialogue tags is (according to my fiancée) drawing from a style invented by HS fic, where fanwriters put dialogue tags into the middle of sentences to mimic how HS dialogue is written in text/instant message format where you can hit “enter” between messages to add a pause. for example if you wanted to render a line in “text format” as:

GIDEON: why the fuck

GIDEON: did you put a skeleton in your suitcase

you might render the dialogue in your novel as: “Why the fuck,” said gideon, “did you put a skeleton in your suitcase.” apparently this drives people on TikTok bananas but I think it’s fun that Tamsyn tells us where the caesura goes.

this is not specific to HS but HS very purposely built a fandom by creating a lot of Sets Of Categories. categories that you could grab onto and think about, make different versions of characters that fit into different categories, pick your favorite categories the way you would with a hogwarts house or Hunger Games district. for example, there are many different versions of the same character (the way there are Gideon and Kirona, there are also Regular Dave Strider, Dead Alt Dave Stider, Dave Who Fused With A Spirit/Bird, etc). there are also different planets associated with different characters (like different Nine Houses) and you can pick which you identify with most, and fandom can play with inserting characters into roles you don’t get to see them in in the text (Lyctor!Gideon! BoE!Palamedes! Cavalier!Harrow! vs drawing HS characters in God Mode that didn’t reach God Tier in the text, etc)

also TLT is just very good at drawing out themes from the HS that aren’t fully explored in the text but im SURE fans were all over. fucked-up found family featuring alt versions of people you know intimately. kids raising themselves. space imperialism. becoming different versions of yourself. Etc

lastly there’s this tazmuir post from 2019 mentioning an asteroid juggalo bone religion, which literally does happen in HS but I don’t think you can call Harrow a juggalo in any way that matters so it might have been a joke. ?

[what-have-i-unleashed]

trickster vs. deep-fryer pt.2

heeeeey it's me again, with the next installment of the nightmare kitchen. i guess it's time for trickster to meet that hot, hot oil, huh :3

trickster belongs to @yourloveaton. thank you for letting me torment your boy.

The next day arrives, and the morning light casts a soft glow through the kitchen window. Birds are singing, snow is falling. On days like this, I can't help but crave something hearty and warm.

I approach the fridge, feeling the cold air as I open the door. There, nestled in the container, Trickster’s tiny form is curled up, his face pressed against the glass. He looks sleepy with his hood pulled over his tiny head, shaking a little. His eyes snap wide open as soon as he sees me.

“Oh no,” he whispers, voice tinged with panic. “It's... morning already? The deep-fryer... it’s not time, right?”

I smirk, shaking my head as I reach into the fridge. “Yeah, Trickster. Today’s the day. Time for you to shine~”

Trickster flails inside the container, his tiny limbs scrambling in every direction. “No, no! I’m not ready! I don’t want to shine like that! Please!” His voice trembles, desperate and pleading.

I pull the container out, feeling him banging on it. "Relax. You've been marinated well. A quick fry in the deep-fryer, and you'll be golden, like a star. Doesn't that sound nice?"

“But I don’t want to be a star! I want to be alive!” Trickster cries, his voice a loud and frantic as I move closer and closer to the deep-fryer.

I scoop Trickster up from the container. The moment my fingers close around him, his body seizes. His little face goes paler than it should be as he desperately clings to my hand, his tiny arms shaking in pure terror. Below him, the fryer bubbles menacingly, its hiss echoing in the air.

“No! No, please!” he squeaks, his voice cracking. “Please, I’ll do anything! Anything but the fryer! I can’t... I can’t be crispy!”

I glance down at him, my grin spreading wide. “Anything, huh? You’re sure about that? Because I may have something,” I say, my tone sickly sweet. “You said you're a performer, right? I could use a little performance from you, Trickster. You know, something cute.”

His eyes widen with panic. "Cute?! What do you mean?" I shake him lightly as he dangles from my hands, his little feet kicking in the air trying to evade the hot oil splatters. "Please, no, don’t drop me in there!" His voice is rising in pitch, a cacophony of frantic desperation, but I just let the silence hang in the air, savoring every second of his breakdown.

I lean in closer, watching him squirm. “You know what I want, Trickster. Say something cute, something adorable, and I’ll let you go. I’ll spare you the fryer. Simple, right?”

He stares at me like I’ve just asked him to perform some dark ritual. "W-What do you want me to do...?" His voice quivers, like he's about to sob right there and then.

“Hmm, let's see,” I hum, tightening my grip just enough to remind the bitty skeleton that the fryer’s still very much on the table. “Say this in the cutest voice you can muster: ‘I’ll be your silly little rabbit.’”

Trickster looks at me like I just asked him to give up his soul. His face is bright blue now, his eye sockets brimming with tears. He shakes in my hand. After a long, agonizing silence with only the sound of the sizzling fryer, he finally mutters, his voice barely a whisper, thick with humiliation. “I... I’ll be your silly... little rabbit...” The words come out in the smallest, most pitiful voice imaginable, petering off in the end.

I suppress a laugh. “That’s cute,” I say, my voice laced with false sweetness. “But I think you can do better, right? How about you say it again, but in uwu-speak this time? You know, the cutesy stuff. I think you know it, right?”

Trickster looks at me, eyes puffy and mouth quivering. He gives a helpless sob, his tiny voice cracking. “O-Okay... okay, I’ll- I’ll do it...” His head dips in shame. Then, he raises his head at me, giving his best attempt at a winning smile, still shaky, “U- UwU... I-I’ll be your silly wittle wabbit... Pwease don't fwy me...”

I can’t help but burst into laughter at the sight of him. “Aww~ What a good little rabbit,” I coo, shaking him in my hand again. But I’m not finished with him yet.

“I think you need to add a little flair. You know, like-” I hold up two fingers in a peace sign, then make a little heart with them, “-like this. Make it cuter. You’re a performer, Trickster. You know how to entertain, right?”

His face goes completely blue, and he stares at me, utterly mortified. “That's too much!” he wails, but I’m not letting him off the hook.

“Do it, Trickster. That, or the fryer. Your choice.”

He trembles in my hand. Then, with a broken sob, he raises his hand, barely able to speak. “P-Please... I...” he whispers, and then, through gritted teeth, he utters out the words, barely keeping himself from sobbing. “D-double peace sign he-he.. hic... UwU... I’ll be your silly wittle wabbit... with my fwuffy pwoofy coat... look at me... hic... just a soft wittle bunny... finger heart...” His voice cracks on the last word, his eyes squeezed shut in pure mortification.

I watch the performance unfold, my grin widening with every tortured word out of Trickster's mouth. “There we go,” I coo, voice sweet as honey. “That wasn't so hard, was it?”

I place him down near the fryer, his tiny body trembling like a leaf. He looks up at me, wide-eyed, but relieved. He’s free, for now.

I pat his head, my fingers ruffling his hood as he flinches away from the touch. “Such a good little rabbit,” I beam. “You really know how to perform under pressure.”

Trickster, utterly defeated, looks up at me with his wide, puffy eyes. I turn and prepare something else in the kitchen, unable to miss his small, mortified sobs echo behind me, and I can’t help but grin.

[animalshowdown]

Phylum Round 3

Chordata: All animals with a backbone (Vertebrata), but also some invertebrates. Chordata includes fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, but also sea squirts and lancelets. All Chordates have a notochord (supportive rod-like structure), a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits (for filter feeding/breathing), a post-anal tail, and an endostyle (feeding organ) or thyroid (hormonal gland). Interestingly, many Chordates have overcome the need to raise their young in water by laying shelled eggs or carrying young within the womb. Fur, feathers, and scales are all unique adaptations found within Chordata. This phylum exhibits remarkable diversity overall.

Echinodermata: Sea urchins, sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, and feather stars. This widespread phylum can be found near every continent, including Antarctica, where they are particularly dominant. They are distinctive for their radially symmetrical body and skeleton located between the outer skin and inner body cavity. They move by hydraulic power using a "water vascular system" which pumps water throughout their body. Hundreds of tube feet extend and retract using this system, allowing them to crawl on the seafloor. These organisms play important roles in the food chain of their habitats, like sea urchins grazing in kelp forests.

[o-craven-canto]

What is your position on the debate between contingency and convergence in evolution? As a creator and enjoyer of speculative evolution, I imagine you might fall more towards contingency, but I'd still be curious on your overall thoughts on it, and on how different a separate run of evolution on an earthlike planet would really be.

Hmm.

Biologists usually distinguish two types of resemblance among organisms: analogy, which mostly regards general function and appearance and is driven by common conditions, and homology, which mostly regards deep structure and is driven by common ancestry.

All the limbs of land-dwelling vertebrates and their descendants are made of one long bone, followed by two parallel long bones, followed by a maximum of five (except in ichthyosaur flippers) series of digit bones. This you see from frogs to seagulls to horses to manatees to moles -- the descendants of proto-amphibians such as Ichthyostega -- but not in any other animal group. This is the canonical example of homology: there is no reason for such different limbs with functions so different to share the same 1-2-n pattern except inheritance from a common ancestor. On the other hand, the wings of birds and those of insects, or for that matter their eyes, are so different because they arose independently. The common features in the wings of a hummingbird and a dragonfly are due to the same physical constraints, and that is analogy.

Sometimes it depends from the level of analysis: bird wings and bat wings are analogous as wings -- their flight surface is achieved by different means, feathers in one and skin in the other -- but homologous as vertebrate forelimbs -- they have the same 1-2-n sequence of bones, and their development is regulated by the same genes.

There are, of course, physical reasons for structures to resemble each other: everything that moves quickly through water needs to be more or less spindle-shaped; everything that grows past a few hundred grams on dry land needs some sort of rigid support; photosynthesizers and filter-feeders need fractally branching structures; and so on. Compound eyes and exoskeletons really are more efficient at smaller sizes, camera-type eyes and internal skeletons at larger, so that's a reason other than ancestry for insects and birds to be so different; but the largest butterflies are bigger than the smallest hummingbirds, so it's not just a matter of scale; and the eyes of tunas are more like the eyes of eagles than like the eyes of squids, so it's not just a matter of environment.

Some classical examples of convergent evolutions overstate their case a bit: sharks, ichthyosaurs, and dolphin all started from the same aquatic vertebrate chassis, so their similarity is not pure environment-driven convergence. (But it is a bit: from the same chassis you can also make a turtle or a crane.) Similarly for marsupial mice and moles vs. their placentate equivalent, none of whom gets that far from the original mammal model to begin with. When you get a bit farther, you find that the Australian equivalent of a horse is not an almost identical "marsupial horse" but a kangaroo, for reasons that have to do with marsupial birth. It's the same for the now-famous case of carcinization, which only applies to decapod crustaceans -- it's not even universal for crustaceans in general! If you try over and over to make an open-water pursue predator out of the vertebrate plan, you'll get similar results: the shark, the tuna, the ichthyosaur, the dolphin. But try the same with the mollusk plan, and you get a squid.

Now, convergence is likely to occur on other planets, because anything recognizable as life will have similar requirements and meet similar challenges. But it will be much more subtle than making planets full of blue horses and humans with weird eyebrows (I can't overstate how complex and specific the history of our body shape is). Assuming an Earth-like planet, for example, I'd expect its surface ecosystems to be overwhelmingly based on photosynthesis, its "plants" to have branching shapes with flat light collectors, and its largest "animals" to be bilaterally symmetrical with eyes, intestines, and skeletons of some sort. But that still leaves an enormous amount of variety, based both on ancestry and on smaller-scale micro-environmental constraints: note that the description of "animal" I gave fits equally a tarantula, a giraffe, a snail, and an axolotl.

TL;DR: many important traits of living organisms are made necessary by physical and environmental constraints, but there's an immense variety of ways to develop them, and that is mostly going to be driven by contingencies in ancestry. In my opinion, that is.

As readings, I'd recommend The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution (Charles Cockell, 2018) and Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (George McGhee, 2019) as summaries of the physical constraints and useful strategies that are going to arise over and over in living systems, as well as this brief paper on the evolution of complexity in alien life. Note how much similarity they predict, but also note how much they don't!

Thanks for the question! <3

[starkdirewolflove]

So much happening in X-Men ‘97 this week.

Blue and Gold Team, original suits, Storm and Forge joining the team, Rogue and Roberto leaving to join Magneto, Muir Island, Asteroid M and Sinister controlling Cable.

Magneto had so many great points and lines in this ep, when he told Xavier he only had two words for him I thought he was gonna say “fuck off” instead of “shut up.” Also “your Shi’ar bird queen” is up there with “Milky Way ghetto” for species insults.

Fucking hell those battles at the end of the episode: Morph as the Hulk “Morph smash!” Jean vs Sinister, Beast slapping down sentinels, the blackbird going down with Forge in it, Storm being hit into the ocean and Sinister controlling Cable to attack Jean with his telekinesis. The battle on Asteroid M: Rogue vs Wolverine, Sunspot vs Jubilee and everyone else trying to get Magneto’s helmet. Cyclops showed his true loyalty by stopping Xavier to give Jean and the others more time to stop Bastion but it put them all in the difficult position of having to face Magneto’s wrath.

Holy shit, Wolverine for the win trying to kill Magneto while the others were all restrained but to quote Thanos “you should’ve gone for the head.”

Magneto was taking no shit from anyone anymore “this feud ends,” then he rips the adamantium from Wolverine’s skeleton.

How are they gonna top this with next week’s finale? I can only guess that once Bastion is dealt with that the cliffhanger will be that Apocalypse is back and (fingers crossed) he brings Gambit back as Death.

[bestdriltweet]

Dril Tournament S2 - Round 2

big bird was obviously just a man in a suit. but the other ones were too small to contain men. so what the fuck

VS.

if your grave doesnt say "rest in peace" on it you are automatically drafted into the skeleton war

[kisiel-z-kosmosu]

The two types of biology fans (I am both of them)

additonal design doodles^

This wasn't supposed to be botany vs zoology, but it turned out like it did. It isn't! I remember she has a lot of peas and other plant experiments in her room! Yeah, and they on the other hand cant stop spying on bird nests like a creep. HEY!! you the one digging skeletons!!.... Ok, I blocked you, that's mine narration here. Anyway their names are Danny and Konstancja/Kostka (Constance but has a pl bones joke inside).

Oh, they already friends again.

I found the meme that inspired this!!!

[lilywily143]

WHO WANT'S OBJECT HEAD OC'S?!

please genuinely if someone reblogs this, may you leave tags of kaysmashes? I want the seritonin and dopamine

ZapTrap 8000

C0NN13

[Under the Cut]

[Many Eyes Warning] [Concept Doodles] [Few suggestive poses]

ZapTrap 8000 vs C0NN13

Copy-C4T

Necessary. Pleasing. Diane. [I know Diane has a suggestive theme, but "pleasing" in the name doesn't mean that stuff literally]

Concept Doodles and Design Details:

Zaptrap 8000 -Computer -Bugs -Internet Router Wings -Mouse Tail -Virus's -Wifi shaped hands [his fingers get smaller and smaller like the wifi icon] -80's Fashion -Pc to his computer is in a separate nature designed bag [PC acts like an artificial heart] -Nature Basis

[Before he was made into a computer, but only the head was improved]

C0NN13 -Radio -Retro Future outfit -Space/Star Decorations -More humanoid shape -Pheasant bird wings and hair design based on the feathers -Wings act like see-through cloak -Kinda looks like a corpse with skeleton limbs and spine -Stereo Volume Dials on his face like make-up -Mouth designed like radios

Copy-C4T -Printer -Soon to be added cat features -Ribbon Dancer -Does theater

N. P. D -TV -"healthy" humanoid body [compared to Skellie C0NN13] -Feminine body -Dog features since it's the most popular animal [as said by Google] -Okay so you know how ad's on TV and YouTube kinda always have romance and or more nefarious stuff in them? Yeah they have a whole act copying that tactic for popularity

Reblogs > Likes

[starthaw]

Observations from the OP

Disorganized notes on some stuff that caught my eye, not much else.

starts with a plant trying to grow - it ends up suffocated by the white wax(?)

when the coin flips, the front side is the tower we've been seeing everywhere, and the back side seems like the pyramid

we see the cards (in video) for the first time! we've actually seen them in the cn website before, the figure in the card seems to resemble a hero in a cape - which brings to mind nice but it could be anyone we don't know yet

we don't get a close up look at most of the cards, but they do show up again later in the op

cards transform into white birds... where else have we seen white birds...? (nice's promo art)

bird merges with hero x, transforms the landscape and hero x. is there anything special about the bird?

not sure if you can really do chess theories here, the chess pieces have been remodeled with the symbols of the heroes on top

there are exactly 10 pieces that we can see in the water

it's hard to make out most of these but I labeled the ones I could identify with red

hero x appears in the water with the inversion of his piece. wondering if that matters at all since the tower is inverted too

hero x "behind" the curtain of a stage, there are golden butterflies and 2 other insects surrounding him

not sure abt the bugs but butterflies tend to be symbols of changes like resurrection

maybe a representation of nice? his arms and cape are wrapped around him like a cocoon, then he spreads them open

chains and branches around the heart? where did the branches come from

maybe from the plant at the beginning of the video LMAOOO

and wtf is this purple thing

loli highkey reminds me of the bilibili mascot lmfao. not a new observation but it's always funny to see

all of the heroes have shown up in order of their ranks (ascending or descending) except for this instance where ghostblade (4) shows up after loli (6) and before the johnnies (5)

bloodstains by his feet too my mans just killed a guy

hero x got angel imagery or sm idk they cut off his head in half

oh look it's the cards again! labeled (light blue) for your convenience; the 3 card faces we don't see (numbered in light green) are presumably for e-soul, ghostblade, and hero x

there's 11 cards there, the one circled in purple is dragon boy again. it's a parallel to what the other dragon boy card looks like, with the arm behind his head now featuring his right arm

winning number is 0... could there be an unranked hero involved!!

pan the camera up and we see new characters (4) and new cards (5)! although these are way more detailed

who is the guy staring at the queen card tho

no seriously who is that. he also has white hair. u her dad or sm bro

might be the guy involved with trying to trap queen in her character pv hm

new masked face with a cane - reminds me of a mix between queen and ghostblade's mask (ghostblade's mask doesn't cover his whole face, and queens' mask has horns but not the black thing at the bottom)

tf are those skeletons in the bg... what kinda fuckass head is that

10 new characters show up! perhaps meant to mirror each of the top 10 heroes. will now proceed to guess their parallels

i'm thinking. one of these is for e-soul, prob guy on the left

other one is for ahu, prob guy on the right

looks-wise are closest to small johnny. lol this is middle johnny...

guns(??? his hands are smoking) vs ghostblade's knives

fire vs queen's ice

he's like if nice had color in his hair

girl with an axe looks sick. dragon boy if he was a girl and wore shoes and did more than punch with his bare fists

some guy in a hoodie standing on pixels... the colors reflected on the tower actually change as he appears so he might be responsible for that. anyways. reminds me of loli with the tech-eqsue powers

and ofc this guy who shows up in the frame between hero x pre- and post-snap

idk where lucky cyan might be here. the 10th character is the masked face and i am not compelled to believe that is lucky cyan

damn looks like the tower does not survive. or maybe it self repairs itself somehow???

is hero x jesus or sum how is he walking on water

no seriously there are ripples under his feet

his shadow looks like the "normal" version of him (black hair, black suit)

chat am i illiterate does this mean anything. i cannot read this

[mimicsapprentice]

For the character ask thing:

Dream Sans: 12, 14, and 20?

[I'm honestly not sure which characters are your favorite, so if there's a character you like better then feel free to answer those questions based on them instead!]

Yay ty for the ask!! And I'm down to talk about Dream, no worries ~!! There is very very few UTMV characters I'm not at least a little bit into hehe ^^

12 - What's a headcanon you have for this character? Omg :O Um! Honestly it can be hard for me to answer questions like this sometimes because of how many uh interpretations of him i've read before (so separating canon vs fanon can be hard on my brain lol) buuuuut! That being said! A few things I think about him: Despite the fact that it's somewhat 'expected' or at least assumed about him (in universe), he isn't a big fan of sweet things / has minimal sweet tooth. I imagine that if he gets food gifts from those he's helping, they're often sweet goods; he always puts on a happy face about it & really does appreciate the though but he also knows he is not going to enjoy it. Would eat it (& other gifts honestly) to make them happy, no matter how much he may actively dislike what he was putting into his mouth. This one might just apply to the version of him currently being rotated in my daydreams but Dream being able to shapeshift is SO fun to think about! Even if he doesn't really tend to use it, I think he still can do it. I would imagine that if he were to use it, he would stick more towards uh like animal forms? turning into a bird or something I mean, as opposed to trying to look like someone else. He's probably thought about using it to try & hide his identity before (if he wanted to go out for a moment in peace), but that remains as a fantasy he's just never been able to actually convince himself to go through with... Smells like a spring breeze. Not much to say on this one. Just, has a pleasant light scent. One that evokes a fond sense of nostalgia. Not something you could ever quite place, as to what it was exactly. Just, light and makes you feel happier :) Can't* do that dark / blank eyesocket thing that you see with other skeletons in the fandom. Maybe it's because he's not really a skeleton (and so it isn't a possibility of his anatomy), maybe because he just doesn't have the required control over that aspect of his magic. * He has actually done it exactly once, not that he would know. It was the day of the apple incident, seeing / realising what'd happened to his brother........ 14 - Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character. I mean, I don't know how well it suits him but I think he would rock Fairy Kei fashion! Or uh lolita? Since I think the more victorian aesthetics could suit him really well. I just think he would rock the more drapery & layers & frills type of looks :D Give my man an exaggerated silhouette! And dramatic flair!! 20 - Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter? OOOOOOOoooo..... the questions ever! I half want to say Ink or Blue bc they're The Stars but also I'm not sure if that would be an entirely honest answer? I do love them together but are they the ideal? I'm not so sure. My silly answer is me (✌️) but a more serious answer would have to be anyone who can encourage him to like take more breaks & look after + value himself? I feel like he has a real problem with those things; all running himself ragged and giving all of himself until there's nothing left... Someone like Lust or maybe even a Toriel variant could fit so well. Someone who wouldn't be afraid to try and make him take care of himself for once, to try & encourage him to be 'selfish'! For his own good (genuienly)! [i guess this also counts as a bit of a HC about him huh? that he is terrible at self care. oop!]

But also..... If you're inviting me to talk about one of my more blobo guys? Then I'll alsooo answer those same questions for Fresh 👉👈

12 - What's a headcanon you have for this character? A lot of my current / active HCs are highly inspired by the way that @/contamination-zone depicts his version of Fresh I will be fully honest with you. It is just so good, I can not stop myself from rotating it in my mind and accepting it into my world view of Fresh. That being said, I am a HUGE sucker for more animalistic, weird, creature versions / depictions of Fresh. It also... make sense to me? Like Fresh is, in parts and ways / at times, a thing more so than a person. Very much not saying he isn't sapient; it's more so that he is a highly instinctively driven being. Making up a huge part of why he acts + reacts in the ways he does. So a lot of his behaviour can come across as very creature.... it's so neato :O Stuff like: preferring to be in small spaces / not like to feel to 'expose' out in the open; vocalisations such as chittering or growling; tilts his head when confused / trying to understand things [me fr]; the ways in which he attacks when the need be (pouncing, clawing, biting, ect). I promise i'm not a skeleton sniffer (/silly) but I think that any (skeletal) host he is in would smell chalky. A slightly off putting but not actually unpleasant scent. Some kind of a result of their bones going all weird due to the whole soul eating fiasco :3 Kind of tech illiterate since he's never needed it before so why is he going to start learning about it now? You give him a smartphone and he Will Not know what to do with it. Is alright with more 'era appropriate' tech since he's played with it as part of his disguise/persona before but still not confident. Perfectly fine to put batteries into a furby but can't for the life of him use a map app. Fresh, the parasite species as a whole, 1 billion% have their own language! Tying back into the animalism, there is no words; only vocalisations! You'll probably never hear one using it though, since they don't tend to gather together much** and have no reason to use it on anyone who isn't a Fresh. It is theoretically possible for other species to learn + speak the language but that's not really happening; since why would any fresh ever teach someone else their language. Pointless & potentially dangerous. They do have one though bc i just think it's a super neat + fun idea :D **Being a solitary species, just generally. They rarely interact with other members of their species, since they don't form bonds with each other like that nor is it 'smart'. Smart in terms of food management; they don't like sharing territories because that would mean sharing food sources. Which, not happening. 14 - Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character. Other than the obvious one? Hard to pick.... I think he would wear scene though. Maybe not his first choice but I could see it working! Getting to be colourful, still has the disarming aura he goes for with his (main) active/canon look. Anything that makes him seem harmless is on the table for him really. That or I'm spreading my vaporwave Fresh agenda ;3 Do I think he actually would? No comment. Is it a fav aesthetic so I want to combine it with a fav guy? Yes :D 20 - Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter? I am a big fan of Fresh & Ink as besties I really have to say! I have been convinced & converted... There are so many reasons but I think they just, relate on things? Not everything, mind you, but enough! That it makes sense to me for them to be friends. Or as close to friends as Fresh can get. I mean I have a whole OC about it (cough Creation cough) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ask game here

[velvetvessel-edits]

I decided to make a Mashup Tourney roster 8ased off stuff I like

It was hard 8ut I like all of them so I take this as a success

anyway lets look at their source lists

MEGALOVANIACS

-t0by f0x, media he's c0ntributed t0, and his musical collaborat0rs

(MEGALOVANIA, A CYBER'S WORLD?, Darling Kanaya)

(OMORI, YiiK, OFF)

(Itoki Hana, James Roach, bo en)

-m0ther, and games c0nsidered quirky earthb0und inspired rpgs

(Bein' Friends, Unfounded Revenge, Giygas Appears)

(Yume Nikki, LiSA, OFF)

-undead m0nsters and killing pe0ple

(Spooky Scary Skeletons, Ghost, Thriller)

(GENOCIDE, Pumped Up Kicks, I Can't Decide)

-science, time and stupid arguments

(Weird Science, Science Blaster, Dark Darker Yet Darker)

(100 years, The Time Warp, 3AM)

(Pokemon Theme Song, Gorillaz, Ocean Man)

Veluza

-Pokemon, and other Creature Collector franchises

(VS Volo, Alola!!, MELLOMELLOID)

(Yo-kai Watch, Shin Megami Tensei, Cassette Beasts)

-Aquatic Life, Mind stuff, and Sharp Objects

(Mystery Fish, (Just a) Simple Sponge, Under The Sea)

(Psychic, The Mind ELectric, Think About You)

(Knives Out, Razor, Pokemon Sword)

-Spanish Musicians

(Enrique Iglasias, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny)

-Songs that hurt to listen to and stuff thats easily forgettable

(Calobi Productions, Hyperpop, Ye)

(Eat It, K.O. COmputer, Idaho)

Z-Broly

-Dragon Ball and Anime Movies

(Rock The Dragon, Blizzard, Limit Break X Survivor)

(Look back, Spirited Away, Promare)

-Hard Rock and Heavy Metal

(Paranoid, Stairway to Heaven, Free Bird)

(The Call of Ktulu, Iron Man, Breaking The Law)

-Rage, Really Strong Guys, and stuff that goes hard

(I Hate Everything About You, Gohan's Anger, Angry)

(THE HERO !!, Super, Super Mario)

(Black Lagoon, Devil May Cry, Those lizards that shoot blood at people)

(YTP's and Characters regularly shitposted about

(U.N. Owen Was Her?, Richer, Fesh Pince)

(Live and Learn, Rules of Nature, Machine Love)

Nightmare Bendy

-Indie Horror, and Stuff MORO put in Indie Cross (no undertale)

(Can't Be Erased, Doki Doki Forever, Everlasting Fun)

(Shovel Knight, Cuphead, Dead Cells)

-Friday Night Funkin', It's Mods, and Stuff with Major FNF Mods (no pokemon)

(Dad Battle, 2hot, Stay Funky)

(Last Reel, Overhead, Endless)

(Madness Combat, Eddsworld, VOCALOID)

-Visual Arts, Rubberhose Artstyle, and the first half od the 20th Century

(Paint the Town Red, Drawcia Soul, Scribble Core)

(Other Friends, Peacock's Theme, Timeless River)

(Swanee, Over The Rainbow, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town)

-Religious Concepts, Machinery, and Betrayal

(Take Me To Church, Hellfire, Judas Priest)

(Rage Against The Machines, Daft Punk, Metal Gear)

(Before He Cheats, traitor, Backstabber)

Manfred von Karma

-Capcom, and any game published on the GBA or DS

(Pursuit, Central Highway, Ken's Theme)

(Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, Metroid Zero Mission, Golden Sun)

(New Super Mario bros, The WOrld Ends With You, Call of Duty: Black Ops for the DS)

-Mysteries and The Legal System

(Who am I, Umineko, Do You Love Me?)

(Fuck Tha Police, I Fought The Law, Death Row)

-Final Boss Themes, Final Stage Themes, and One Off Antagonists

(Gigalomania, One Winged Angel, Throw Away Your Mask)

(Sigma's Fortress, Bowser's Road, Runnign Hell)

(Majora's Theme, In The Final, The Nymphojinn probably)

-Lies and Songs that Taze You

(Love the Way You Lie, Meet the Grahams, Five Nights at Freddy's)

(Guns n Roses, How U Feel, Shocker from Marvel)

Hunie-Pop Stars

-Kirby, and other games made by 2nd Party Nintendo Developers (no gamefreak)

(Green Greens, Roar of Dedede, C-R-O-W-N-E-D)

(HAL Laboratories, Intelligent Systems, Platinum Games)

-Hunie Games and other Dating Sims

(Sloppy Boppie, Cruise Ship, Outer Space)

(Helltaker, Monster Prom, Hush Hush)

-Dance Pop/Electropop/J-Pop

(360, levitating, California Gurls)

(TiK ToK, Telephone, Gimme More)

(LiSA, AKB48, Ado)

- Relationships, pink, and stuff that gooners have touched

(Why Can't We Be Friends, Affection Addiction, Hate You)

(Sink the Punk, Pink Floyd, Hot Pink)

(Animal Crossing, Mihoyo, Marvel Rivals)

OR3O

-OR3O, and her collaborators

(Still Dancing, Digital Hallucination, Turn It Down)

(Annapantsu, CG5, Caleb Hyles)

-Nerdcore Artists and V-Tubers

(JT Music, Freshy Kanal, The Stupendium)

(Doggy god's street, Golden Age, PSYCHO)

Desserts and things that are sweet

(Honey pie, Take Your Cake, Savory Truffle)

(Watermelon Sugar, World's End Valentine, You)

-Clovers, Reasons to Live, and Stuff OR3O has made songs for (no utdr or bendy)

(4 Leaf Clover, Crimson and Clover, Undertale Yellow)

(i love you, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Epic Rap Battles of History)

(Doki Doki Literature Club, MiSide, Chainsaw Man)

Dokapon Kingdom

-The Dokapon Franchise, and other games published or developed by Atlus

(Casino Cave, Overworld, Death Mountain)

(Catherine, Metaphor: Re Fantazio, Hello Kitty no Oshaberi Town)

-Dokapon Jobs and NPCs

(Houdini, Fullmetal Alchemist, No Heroes)

(Prince, I Am a Mole and I Live In a Hole, Doja Cat)

-Royalty, Luck, and Money

(Queen, Fallen Kingdom, Ruler of Everything)

(Lucky, Super Ego, Hard Luck)

(Gold Digger, Money Mystery Skulls, Billionare)

-High Fantasy Creatures and games that ruin friendships

(Imagine Dragons, My Fairy King, Elf Records)

(Mario Party, Jackbox, Among Us)

What do you want if you win?

-For Toby to actually acknowledge his first creation! Without me we wouldn't even be here!!!

-eh, i'll take a fancy hotdog

-f0r s0mething fun t0 happen after!

-Za!

-Power.

-THE DAMNATION OF MY CREATOR, AND AT MY OWN HANDS!

-Hm. There's nothing material you can provide someone as I that would make it worth my while. Just let it be known far and wide that the name von Karma is not to be trifled with

-I wanna be able to fuck my clients again. I get we need to have a professional relationship and all that but making a sex magnet you can't even use yourself is toooortuuuure.

-Poyo! (I think we all know what they want)

-Uh, that's kind of a loaded question. I didn't know this'd be here I'm gonna have to think on that.

-...

-I guess for Royale5 to hit it big, thats probably the right answer.

-TO GET PAID!!!! x4

[justslowdown]

I think the closest I've come to falling in love was with someone who ended up moving to Norway to study bats

We met interning at the zooarchaeology lab--our university's comparative collection of thousands of boxes of skeletons. She was cataloging every bone on every box in the bat section, and I was working through the birds

She raised rabbits and trained her dog to detect bat scat

The impulsive adventures she took me on woke me up. To go out caving or to go hiking out in actual the middle of nowhere, with just her GPS system she used when she did field work in the summers

I have such sharp clear memories of the little moments--we saw a barred owl in the rain once, so close because it couldn't hear us coming.

Once, she saw me out walking my dog (we lived nearby) and asked if I wanted to come along to a poetry reading of her published stuff that she'd been asked to do, at some slam poetry meet up an hour away

I remember one of them was an intimate one about her abortion, and I was so struck by the vulnerability and honesty in front of strangers. I felt so much in her I wanted to be more like. So uninhibited and joyful to get to experience existing, and so certain what she had to bring was good and worth it.

I'm glad she had a partner up until right before she moved. We had a quasi-romantic friendship but didn't need to have the awkward conversations around attraction. It's beyond frustrating... my romantic attraction vs sexual attraction rarely lines up and people deserve to feel wanted, if that's a need they have... but I do wish I'd been able to show her how special I felt she was

[yuucandoit]

YyyyyyY

@chaoticgremlinbrainspace

Writing this out to see where any gaps are / unbelievable / in need of alteration sequences. Easier to map it if it's written out vs just being blindly written / having a skeleton outline / thoughts in my head. Whimsy / self indulgence, but that is difficult for meee so. If I can make it make sense as much as possible...

Many little romances. Polyamory etc etc. Currently working with: Riddle/Yuu, Jack/Yuu/Jade, (idk if Jack/Riddle will be a thing but a crush would be easy on Jack's end at least so maybe), Jamil/Ruggie, Kalim/Neige, various OC / OC (my favorite is the mermaid / pirate witch I'm very fond of them), onesided Floyd/Riddle and Jamil/Azul hinted at (most likely the Floyd/Riddle moreso. I don't want it to be prominent, I just feel like they're both crushes/veer on that in interaction that are so constant they are canon in my heart. Slight Floyd/Azul that might become more prominent at the moment it's mostly Floyd's reactions to slights against Azul and various thing, the mostly implied love triangle between Jade/Azul and Jade/Yuu that doesn't exist and Yuu probably doesn't actually think it exists, he just has other hangups he can't figure out the cause of for a long time . It's more like 'quit your job and come work at my superior ghost-themed restaurant where you would fit perfectly and i'll let you make whatever mushroom dishes you want'

Octario became way more important than initially planned because Azul's contract triggered Yuu's trauma..

Prologue

Sep 3rd

Entrance Ceremony

-Leona, Rook, Jack, Riddle, Crowley, Grim

A young man wakes up in a coffin.

After the coffin is opened by Grim, he pretends to be asleep until Crowley comes in at Grim's complaints and takes Grim out to throw him out of the school

Crowley comes back as Yuu is searching around the room / brandishing a candelabra

He attacks, the other students show up, he starts knocking candelabras over to set the curtains on fire and try to set up a distraction to escape

Everyone is wondering what is up with this guy attacking the headmage, setting the school on fire day 0

Rook, Leona, and Jack have to go get him before he runs off the side of a cliff.

Jack most important character here probably, sees catching Yuu after he flees the entrance ceremony as a chance to make an impression on Leona. Ends up making an impression on Yuu that influences how he sees the rest of the school (Rook assigning the calm first year to try and help the panicking first year). (Bad set up for Yuu that only gets worse with Jade's betrayal of his friendship shutting down what little progress he had made in trusting others)

Leona talks to Yuu a bit... Yuu threatens to blind him with a stick if he comes too close. Leona directs the others to try and capture him while they're running after him etc etc tries yelling at Yuu to slow down while he's frantically running.. wherever. Yuu is very fast, slips from their grasp a couple times

Rook saves Yuu as he's about to fall off into the gulch, Yuu continues running until he finally stops at a large tree, he starts crying upon the realization he doesn't know where he's running or who he's looking for.

Running away, being brought back, arguing (Riddle assuming he ran to avoid punishment for breaking Queen's Rule # 1232312 that Yuu has never heard about before even what) until Crowley sends the others on their way and talks to Yuu. Probably some magical influence Yuu calming down, but the bird thing helps

Ramshackle, Grim sneaks in or is let in. Hostile meeting, but come to some sort of understanding. Yuu is moved by his dream to become a powerful mage, despite everything. He feels like maybe, lacking anything else to go off, his purpose in being there is to support Grim. And hopefully can help burn anyone who may bother Yuu

Yuu doesn't react to / ignores the ghosts and goes upstairs, then has to come back down shortly after because Grim starts screaming / trying to burn the dorm down because the ghosts are bullying him

Crowley shows up, Yuu convinces him to agree to a week trial period for Grim to prove himself after lying about Grim saving him from the ghosts while not damaging anything (Yuu shoved any of the burnt items in a closet) / coming to NRC specifically to be taught at Crowley's school. Crowley tells him he can't allow a non-student to stay at NRC and Yuu wishes Grim luck before leaving the dorm to just.. wander off into the night.

Crowley convinces him to work for him while he tries to find a way back home - calls him out on not knowing where he is / offers to let Yuu stay if he works for him like he suggested to Grim.

Yuu argues Grim is getting the better reward in that case, being allowed admission to the school if he does well, as well as the opportunity of work / lodgings (Crowley doesn't really plan to allow a monster to go to NRC), while Yuu will only be given two things ... So he requests that Crowley agree to a yet undiscovered 3rd thing at some point in the future. He's annoying and plays up Crowley's generosity / kindness to try and convince him. Crowley says he is not genie, but ultimately agrees to a point

Transition to Dark Mirror later at night despite being told not to wander. Dark Mirror has more things to say on the quality of Yuu's soul, Yuu threatens to smash it. Post Dark Mirror breakdown and then to -

Ghosts ? Probably not yet, just the 3 at Ramshackle. He's not at the point of wandering at night / avoiding sleep.

Maybe the yew tree under the moonlight before returning to the dorm. Or the lake. but he's probably more drawn to the tree considering he took his name from it

----

Janitor for a few weeks

Ghosts, Jade, Riddle, Ace, Deuce, Jas, Bartholomew, Noro, Richie, Sam, probably Trein in the library at some point

ghosts - hitchhiking ghosts probably, Scarlet, Daisy, Pensri, etc 2nd week

Yuu and Grim get a small tour the next day, pause at Sam's Mystery Shop when Sam calls Crowley back to talk to him. Yuu probably sees some shadows at this point -combination between Peter Pan / PatF - but no real interaction

Wake up, run, eat, clean, research, maintain Grim, avoid students

- repetitive but that's good (for Yuu, not Grim) because it's mind-numbing and Yuu can throw himself into just cleaning / attempts to focus on continuous motions while not making contact with others / avoid everyone (no point socializing/pursuing relationships when he'll be leaving and he's taking Jack's advice about keeping his wits about him around the others to heart) / keep Grim distracted with questions about his grandiose ideals/get in the way if anyone does try to talk to them (Ace) Try to follow what must? be his purpose there to help Grim start on his journey to greatness until Crowley sends him home soon

Ramshackle probably asleep - either wakes up after Jas or waits until book 3 when remodeling / other ghosts start frequenting it

Maybe runs into Jack, if at least at a distance. Does run into Jade - tries to ignore him at first but he's annoying and they cross paths often enough he just allows him to talk at him by probably the 3rd meeting

After first week turns to 2nd week, starts to feel antsy and gets into a fight when students break into Ramshackle / break things even more since he's 'got to clean it' until he snaps, Jas panics at the sight of his own blood (Hook)

Probably called into Crowley's office, unsure if he would have already been frequenting it to ask questions or if he hides in the library by himself - magical books are difficult / magical items in general that are not haunted are difficult.

Subconsciously tries to get closer to Crowley, feels more at ease around him as an authority figure / adult bird, is convincing himself to trust him in order to try and soothe his anxieties about being trapped somewhere he doesn't understand. Wants to believe he will help him / he will soon go back home / thing will make sense if he doesn't lose faith

More significant prologue events here.

Just... do it. It will go one way or the other

Ace / Yuu get into a fight maybe 🤷‍♂️ then Grim fires the statue

Yuu furious at Ace for ruining Grim's difficultly maintained streak of good behavior - Grim crying now Crowley will never let him be a student. Laughter towards the possibility of Grim joining the school... so yea Yuu is probably pretty mad...

Whatever the Ace and Deuce thing in the manga is probably good - Grim already there, but introduces Deuce earlier

Chase after Ace for his part of the punishment and end up being spoken down to by Riddle - Cater and Trey in attendance but not talkative - Cater maybe. Riddle not impressed by what he has heard of Yuu's actions so far, but he's just a janitor so it's not that egregious/insulting to him, yet

Chandelier ~ ~ ~ shadows might show up here potentially. Scare Grim into flailing around / breaking the chandelier before Deuce has a chance to throw anyone..

~ monster fight. Yuu is mad at Ace and might just suggest they sacrifice him to the monster and steal the stone while it's distracted. 3/4 agree Ace sucks so why not ? But Ace won't be bait, hardly makes sense for a magical person to do it and besides, Yuu is speedy!

Yuu... might end up separated from Ace, Deuce, and Grim and end up making contact with the monster but exact details are blurry. Probably like... rocks collapse and Ace, Deuce, and Grim have to dig Yuu out. 'Monster taken out', Yuu got the magestone yaaay

Wow, Crowley is so impressed, good job!

Admission to the school of kids Yuu has been trying to avoid is not what he requested for his 3rd thing! He would much rather self-study if he's meant to be a student, but Crowley says he has to attend classes

Somewhere around here Yuu agrees to join the Mountain Lovers Club. Maybe one of his first actions as a student - he did not really want to be a student, but it is the only way Grim is permitted. Jade will be happy, at least. Yuu was probably unofficially part of the club before since he was a janitor and could not attend as a student. They're breaking the 'Grim and Yuu have to attend the same club' rule but Grim will get what he wants in book 3, sooo his indecisiveness is fine. If Yuu is going to be out roaming the island, he may as well benefit from Jade's survival / plant / nature experience at the same time. Two birds

Spends most free time studying/researching/exploring in some capacity

Mushroom issue because it looked yummy. Yuu is immune to poison, though, out here eating oleander. Meets Floyd and Azul, but he probably won't register them much

Book 1

Like.. Sep 24th, which is fine. Book 2 can still start in October and gives less time for Yuu to endear himself to anyone but teachers who would have seen him studying in the library (minus the fighting, so he's probably still not that well regarded. At least Jade thinks he's amusing, Deuce thinks he's diligent but on a bad path / kind of like him etc)

3rd Week In. Yuu and Grim are suffering, they've missed nearly an entire month to start their student life. Yuu has been studying Twisted Wonderland in hopes some memories would surface, so maybe that's something. anyways

Similar opening, Ace and Yuu are not terribly close but he's not terribly close with anyone else in any other dorm either~ so it's still where he goes. Ace and Yuu should at least have a kind of ... brotherhood forged in battle kind of thing from the monster fight

~~~~ whatever bad mouthing that keeps the collar on Ace when Riddle had planned to take it off.

Riddle insulting Yuu and Grim, and Crowley's decision to allow them to enroll, so Yuu is subtly rude back/calls out Riddle for acting as though he would know better as a 2nd year magic student than the headmage who has been running the school for longer than Riddle has been alive.

Everything fairly light / implied ---

-Taking the altercation with Deuce and the Savanaclaw students from the novel instead, so Leona can show up and get uncomfortably close to Yuu in the interest of smelling for magic - who yanks his ears in retaliation and Ruggie has to intervene for both Deuce and Yuu

Yuu may also not know that the eggs weren't gonna hatch, so he and Deuce both seem a bit stupid to Trey (and Ace). Yuu is not particularly sad about the potentially dead chicks, but Deuce is upset and he doesn't seem like a bad person

Yuu gets a cool dagger / keeps it hidden on himself during the trip to Sam's shop. Layaway

Yuu gets very excited after they start making the tart! because he remembers things about cooking, the knowledge of blanching vs roasting chestnuts seemingly just flowing from him. He assumes this must mean his memories are at the point they will start returning, feels the lightest he has since waking up with no memories and joyously participates in making the Mont Blanc tart. Grim is very surprised considering Yuu is typically not very excited about anything, it is a nice change

---until the point that he's about to have the tart thrown away which upsets both Grim and Yuu

Yuu ends up collared for retrieving the tart before it can be tossed / insulting Riddle / refusing to unhand the tart / leaves before Riddle can demand him thrown out

Misses Chenya, too angry to stop / feeling really nauseous / having trouble breathing. He hates the collar and is having an incredibly difficult time maintaining his composure. He doesn't understand the turn of events, feels foolish for letting his guard down in such a way. The collar being such a miserable experience makes him feel he's being punished for his stupidity.

Yuu's small amount of returned memories help combat some of the anger/grief, but not entirely.

Do not learn Riddle's backstory, learn Riddle's favorite foods.

Nothing dangerous or depressing here. Riddle has a nice dinner in the interest of accepting an apology/Yuu requesting advice from an upperclassman, until Yuu and Ace start making buzzer noises at him or whatever for not following rules they made up (the list of rules is an acrostic poem insulting Riddle, makes less sense than the 810 Queen Rules, and one is in Latin), Yuu steals Ace from Heartslabyul - Ace wasn't planning on leaving Heartslabyul but the idea of a duel doesn't come up, (yet ?) and Yuu told Riddle Ace was part of Ramshackle and Ace was like ..yea sure I guess, so while he's still officially in Heartslabyul on paper, he will stay at Ramshackle. Riddle too mad to try and convince him otherwise in any way that isn't simply incoherent growling, but does have to take the collar off at this point

Yuu starts his student poaching

Deuce later

Grim assigns himself housewarden, Yuu can be a vice

Amusing to the other housewardens until Yuu is allowed to attend meetings (Grim is allowed, he doesn't wanna wake up early for them / thinks it's boring)

-sorry to trey and chenya

Yuu picks up a book about Queendom of Roses / the Queen's Rules because he needs to understand the rules to break them / wants to hate more effectively

Yuu starts cooking a lot, realizing his memories were triggered by food/culinary - which may be a clue to his life - and finding it a good form of expression / ties in with his research. Presumably any land in Twisted Wonderland he is from, the food will stand out that much more ?

Approaches the ghost chefs for advice / mentorship. Learns about ghost gastronomy and how it differs to the tastes of the living. Enjoys Potions class and so gets into that at some point. Tries making little potion infused candies etc etc since it's something he can actually do at the magic school. Grim grabs the little calm / concentration potion infused candies out of Yuu's hands (those were for Yuu's calm school days 🙃) without bothering to ask what Yuu made them with

Riddle overblot postponed but he's not a fan of Yuu ( -- on Sims social interaction or whatever)

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[pleistocene-pride]

Happy Pride Month and happy Jurassic June! Pterodactylus is an extinct genus of pterosaur which lived throughout Europe and Africa during the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic Period around 152 to 145 mya. The type specimen was described by the Italian scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini in 1784, based on a fossil skeleton that had been unearthed from the Solnhofen limestone of Eichstätt in Bavaria. This gives Pterodactylus the honor of being the first pterosaur known to science, although there was much debate as to what the creature actually was with many inferring that it was a type of prehistoric bat or bird, or that it was actually a marine creature whose wings were actually flippers. Further research and discoveries eventually confirmed Pterodactylus as a flying reptile, but continuing incomplete knowledge and understanding of the group during the nineteenth century resulted in many discoveries being attributed to Pterodactylus as different species of the genus this was further unhelped by the fact that pterodactylus individuals varied considerably with age and sex resulting in many specimens being classified as different species. Today Pterodactylus antiques is considered to be the only valid species. Reaching around 2ft (.61) in length, with a 3 ½ foot (1m) wingspan Pterodactylus was a fairly small pterosaur sporting wings formed by a skin and muscle membrane stretching from its elongated fourth finger to its hind limbs. The skulls of adult Pterodactylus were long, thin, and straight and sported a low crest which extended from the antorbital fenestra to the back of the skull. Additionally its jaws were lined with about 90 narrow conical teeth and it possessed a fairly large throat pouch. In life pterodactylus would have acted as a diurnal generalist predator feeding upon invertebrates, fish, amphibians, early mammals, small reptiles, early birds, and young/ small non avian dinosaurs as it traveled throughout the island chain that would later become Europe.

Art used can be found at the links below:

https://nixillustration.com/science-illustration/2022/retro-vs-modern-18-pterodactylus/