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s4 episode 17 thoughts

hey guys. i need answers…. i need them.

but i have a strict “one episode a day” and “post the thoughts from last episode before starting the new one” rule and!!! i must follow the rules.

i wish this episode relied less on the assumption that the audience knows how planes work. but. i digress.

back to who i was before this episode....

a lot of you may know that it is scully and mulder time. 

ohhhh i’m reading the episode description and i see what is going on here… a two parter!!! well, i am prepared to handle this, yes i am. we have been due for a two parter, so i look forward to learning about this UFO.

let us open with a pretty shot of the sky… we are somewhere over upstate new york… a good place to be

in a plane. this guy seems drunk. i do not care for how he looked at this woman.

“you could fly every day for the next 26,000 years before you’d have an accident”, says drunk guy that will most certainly manifest a plane crash

shaggy redhead sitting next to drunk man seems very afraid of the dude on the back of the plane in a suit. uh oh! let me guess…. alien bounty hunter?

(author's note: nah. it was a good guess, though!)

suit man just locked himself in the bathroom and pulled out the spring in a pen to a dramatic flourish. is the pen spring supposed to indicate something to me? because i do not associate them with danger.

oh! he made a little gun out of pieces. huh. kinda neat. even if it is terrifying. just from a DIY perspective.

sometimes i forget that before 9/11 you could just do stuff on planes and no one really gave a damn

but now the plane is shaking. man with gun is watching all the screaming and jostling go down. redhead seems very scared while bright lights shine into the plane. oh! and then a window/door thing gets sucked outside??

deeply unfortunate.

(cue spooky intro)

WAIT! we are at a restaurant with mulder and scully and someone is bringing out a cake??? and they are singing happy birthday to her!!! oh my gosh, is it her birthday or is this a ploy by mulder to get free cake?

“I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY, SCULLY” <- JDHDJJDJD IS HE REALLY ABOUT GETTING THAT FREE CAKE LIFE????

no, no, it IS in fact dana scully's birthday, a remarkable occasion indeed. however. there is no funnier thing than faking a birthday to get cake at a restaurant. and maybe i need to write that fic someday.

oh my gosh, she says he has never once remembered her birthday, so he says something about it being the way he likes to celebrate them, every 4 years...... THIS IDIOT 😭😭

i cannot believe this man... he can remember any myth he read when he was 11, but he cannot keep his best friend's birthday in his head. and while that is a tragic flaw and indication of his ahab-ness, the fact that he knew scully was sick so he stepped it up still says a lot.

oh he brought a GIFT shut up!!!!!! and he pulls out a tiny little box... she says “oh you have GOT to be kidding me” and he jokes about turning the alien implants into earrings but it’s an apollo 11 keychain 😭😭😭 STOP this is so sweet!!!!! oh my gosh he wanted to make sure she knew she was loved 

(her birthday is in february so i’m not sure i see the connection to her and apollo 11 beyond her being a general nerd, and i think her birth and the moon landing happened in the same year, but i digress)

someone is talking to them! “oh promise me this isn’t leading to something embarrassing” she says <- HDHSJDHJE 

but no! this woman- sharon- confesses to have followed them there??? well that is very creepy. and that she was told to talk to them if something happened.

GIRL!!!! LET HER HAVE A NICE DINNER 😭

sharon says that her brother, max fenig, was bringing them something that night, but the plane he was on went down.

and how did he know where they were going to be? i am going to assume that he is simply a stalker and not that mulder arranged for a UFO information exchange on scully's birthday. no ma'am. i refuse.

(also, i was distracted by mulder chewing on something this whole scene. at first i thought it was a cigarette, but then clearly it wasn’t, so maybe a lollipop? looked too big to be a toothpick. oh god, don’t tell me he’s a toothpick guy)

anyway. plane crash time. let's go to the conference where the plane people discuss such news.

initial reports say no survivors. people are smoking in here which is crazy. i understand that this show takes place in the 90's, but sometimes i lowkey forget until i see stuff like that and go ohhhhh right right.

this has been a sad turn to date night!!!

they’re listening to the last audio recording from the plane, and the pilot is yelling “my god!” and “mayday!” which is not inspiring any warm and fuzzy feelings

so mulder asks if there was any evidence that the plane was intercepted, because we heard the voice say it was, but plane guy who is in charge of this meeting says hmm, nope, not that i know of.

(is the pilot saying that there was an interception.... not evidence... of an interception??)

mulder says well, there was a famous alien abductee on the plane. which gets the crowd giggling.

scully is watching like ohhh my god and when plane guy asks if this is an official FBI position he turns and looks to her and then says no. plane guy says he is trivializing this tragedy. WHICH I DISAGREE WITH!

IF there was a man claiming to be abducted by UFOs, and the plane he was on mysteriously went down, and the pilot said it was intercepted, but for some reason the fact that the pilot SAID THAT is being disregarded- i'm sorry, my red flags would be going off. for multiple different reasons. if i were plane guy i'd be thinking, gee, maybe this max character was a government target- i mean, if he got famous off of UFOs, who is to say he wasn't up to more shady activities? maybe he was planning a coup in the dominican republic, or smuggling government secrets of a nature that is still important but less outlandish than UFOs, or embezzling, etc. all i am saying, from my reasonable skeptic point of view, is i would think hmm, that's odd. we'll have to note that for our investigation, mr. mulder. maybe max was targeted for a specific reason, aliens or no aliens.

of course, this plane guy claims there WAS no max fenig on the plane, but it seemed pretty easy to lie pre-TSA

“sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday” HDHJSJDKSJDJDJDJDJ 

nooo... i feel bad for birthday scully :( why is he always up to some sort of alien shenanigans instead of cherishing her? :( i GET it, i get his life's mission, etc etc but cherishing your friends should be mandatory, especially when it is a friend as lovely as scully

at the crash site, things are looking very very very sad. many bodies are in bags. 

but where is the plane??

poor scully has to shout due to all the helicopter noises, which had to be a pain to film.

what would finding max fenig prove? mulder doesn’t know. but perhaps that 1 life was worth sacrificing 133 others. 

damn. that’s a downer. and we started on such a high note!!!!

the guy who had the DIY gun on the plane has been entirely cut in half. but one of the people from the IIC (and what the hell even IS the IIC?) took his gun!! it was the guy with the big mustache! and they’re spraying him with some stuff? that can’t be normal practice, can it?

scully sees a watch on a corpse’s arm :( mulder sees some glasses :(

they each find a watch!! and the watches from the victims say 8:01, but the time of the crash was listened as 7:52!!!! so… what is the truth??

“nine minutes, scully. do you remember the last time you were missing nine minutes?” <- is that a rhetorical question or a throwback to the pilot

mulder seems to think now that perhaps max was on the plane, but did not finish the journey with the rest of the passengers… hmm… like they shot him??? what do you mean, cryptic man???

oh! one of the people from the crash is alive!!! get a medic NOW!!!! scully is here!!!!! she is telling you what he is going to need and you had better get it quick!!!

now scully is waiting for a plane in the cold. what!!! she is cold!!!! get her inside!!!

she was waiting for sharon from before, who brought all of her letters from her brother max. scully says that they think she isn’t telling them everything, and that she had better do so. NOW. she is not messing around.

oh!!!! the man who was alive has burns that are associated with a high level of radiation!! see, i assumed he just was hit by a piece of flaming sky junk. that foreshadowing went right over my head. 

it was drunk man from before who was burnt!!! so is it whatever max had on him that was radioactive??? they confirm that it was max, he was just using a pen name, which he had a lot of. 

max worked at job with plutonium and uranium. well. maybe that could do it. not sure what he’d to do with all that or how it got on a plane. maybe it could have caused the crash.

mulder is launching into his “max HAD to have been abducted” theory and about how no one will ever believe him and it will go unsolved forever. scully keeps trying to cut him off…

max is back!!!! where from???

oh. he is dead. that is how they found him.

mulder still doesn’t think the crash is explained.

sigh. you just want to have a nice birthday dinner with the guy you've thought was cute for the last 4 years, and he never once remembered your birthday until now, but then he gets an alien call and slips into ahab mode. scully has truly suffered so much.

sharon is reading many many many letters when a flashing and shaking occurs!!! more aliens???? oh man. this is intense. 

CUT TO BLACK??? rude as hell. where did sharon go!!!

(i think i know where sharon went)

okay, now mulder is walking among the many bodies recovered from the crash scene. he finds max and unzips him. and in his pocket he had mulder’s business card!!! despite it being covered in blood, he puts it in his pocket, and seems very sad. it cannot be an easy thing to see. but still. blood-borne illnesses, man.

he is now unzipping more and more bodies. what do you think, you beautiful tortured man?

he is furious that the IIC is going to claim that they don’t know what went on. and i still don't know what the IIC is. maybe they don't even know about the alien stuff. not everyone has CSM levels of alien knowledge.

(side note... why do you think deep throat was snitching to mulder?? was it part of CSM's plan, or did the fight? was it toxic old man yaoi?)

back to the matter at hand. “mulder, why can’t you just accept the facts?” (with his hand on her back, walking her away) “because there are no facts, scully. what they’re telling you, what they’re going to report, they’re the opposite of facts- a claim to ignorance of the facts” oh man, he’s yapping! but he has a point.

“claimed steadfastly, ignorance becomes as acceptable as the truth” <- he’s lowkey right though… he ate with that one thing

still pissed he cannot remember birthdays.

he points out that all of the watches have been stolen that show the difference in 9 minutes between the reported and the actual crash time!!! and that somehow they need to figure out what happened in those 9 minutes. hmm. is this a possible task?

well, with a rental car, you can go anywhere, including to this military base.

oh no!!! someone already came and asked this military man (later revealed to be named louis frish) about the crash, the night it happened! oh no… someone else has a lead

hmm….. hmm…. some discrepancies in stories are occurring here. it must be CSM.

uh oh... the minute they leave, louis frish says to his buddy that he told them “what he was supposed to say”… there is STRANGENESS afoot!!! this other guy says if they come back, he’s gonna tell them the truth.

back to the motel…. well, sharon is no longer there!!! surely you recall the lights and the shaking, etc etc! the landlord seems to think that she trashed the room and dipped, and is telling our agents they MUST pay for it. she was making her 5 seconds of screen time COUNT.

“okay scully, hit me with your best shot, what do you think happened here?” (deep sigh) “i haven’t a clue” <- i love when they admit they don’t know wtf is going on. i think it’s very endearing.

plane guy shows up!!! mulder is being snippy with him about the lack of evidence, but he comes with evidence in hand!!! he won’t make an announcement though, because he’s afraid he’ll sound as crazy as mulder. woah… plane guy redemption arc??

the plane had wear and tear marks, but the gag is it was a brand new plane!!! and all of the cracks radiate from the door they think was blown off!!!

big shoutout to mulder for trusting his door launching instincts. 

back at the air force base….. the one guy who said he was gonna snitch has a bullet hole in his head!!! and three cars are rapidly approaching!!! including one with shady mustache man who was spraying drunk guy’s body!!!

louis frish is hiding on the roof. hmm. hope they don't climb up there to check.

mulder is rocking back and forth, listening to the audio from the flight. then he busts out a rotary phone and spins it with great determination. another forcible reminder of the 90's. also, him rocking back and forth was funny. it was giving old man on a porch energy.

he’s calling scully!! she sounds very sleepy and points out that they have been up for over 36 hours, but he asks if she can please come over, as he thinks he has heard this voice before

yayyy, they can say they know who the voice belongs to, and then fall asleep all cuddled up <3 and everyone lived happily ever after- the end!

NO!!! when she gets out of her room, someone GRABS HER!!! this guy is closing her mouth and saying not to scream, which really makes a person want to scream more, i can imagine.

it’s louis frish??? saying he caused the plane crash???

girl. i was ready for some snuggling.... gtfo with this nonsense.

ooooookay, so it was frish whose voice they heard on the recording! frish says he was ordered to lie about what happened to the flight…. and now he’s fessing up that he saw a second aircraft shadowing it, then an explosion, then the disappearance. 

plane guy is saying that this guy must be a liar. but mulder says there has to be a THIRD aircraft, shot down by the intercept aircraft, which caused this crash. so there has to be a second crash site.

man, i was still thinking about them cuddling, but sure. sure, we have 3 aircraft now. i'm getting lost but i'll just roll with it.

plane guy says that if there is a second crash site they need to find it. i cannot get a read on him. also, frish the whistleblower needs to be kept somewhere safe because the military is clearly gonna kill him.

time to head out…. but cars are approaching!!! can a man who hasn’t slept in 36 hours do a high speed chase? well, he sure can, but the question is more about the ethics than the actual possibility. 

mulder’s crazy idea is to drive straight into a landing plane which just BARELY works and scully straight up was looking death in the face. 

plane guy goes to the OG crash site and sees a UFO!!! it has a beam it is scanning down on the wreckage!!!! he seems entirely gagged and runs towards it, which is not what i would do in that situation. i would be hiding. and then it wooshes away!!!

NO!!!!! it is above him now!!!!!! the beam is shining upon him…. but it wooshes away again. phew. that was very close.

however, a woman is wailing in the trees. SHARON??? is that you??? plane guy is running toward the voice!!!! and it is sharon!!!

plane guy holds sharon as she sobs and begs him not to let them take her again…….. which is a lot of responsibility to place on a random guy, but clearly she has been through a lot.

mulder and scully and frish are trying to get on a plane now. but mulder says what if there IS no second crash site because the second aircraft never fell??

well, i was just getting used to the idea of there being a second crash site, and now it has been taken away from me!!! but i assume he is saying that the UFO must have gotten away fine???

(author's note: no! no, i assumed wrong, for he surmised correctly that it crashed underwater? again, was i supposed to be following that? because i wasn't)

scully does not want to take frish back to DC by herself, and who can blame her? that’s a long drive with a strange man! and surely now mulder is going to run off and engage in some sort of antics!! probably to get himself kidnapped and all that!!!!

aww, but he waves goodbye as their airplane takes off. and then he sets out into the night. 

he drives out to the lake where he thinks maybe the UFO got away, where some guy is telling him there is a hovering light flying over every now and then

scully brings this frish guy back to her HOUSE??? she says she needs to get some stuff before she talks to her agent in charge and i’m thinking no!!! what if he’s lying!?! you brought him into your house!!! what if he gets you?!?

he’s having a crisis of faith on if he’ll get arrested for lying about the plane crash, and i’m sorry to hear he has to live with that guilt, but let’s do this in a place where she doesn't live. 

she says she will do her best to tell his story to someone who can help him. which is very kind of her. but again. let us not bring strangers to our residence.

and he asks to make a phone call to his girlfriend and say he’s safe but i’m thinking noOooOoo why does it have to be on HER phone???? i don’t trust this man at all!!!!!

mulder is sailing out into the lake with this random guy. oh he’s gonna scuba dive. you see, that isn’t something you should do without experience, but here he is. that's the kinda crazy fox mulder brings to the table.

scully takes frish to a restaurant, and who is here but PENDRELL!!! yelling about her birthday. he tries to buy her a drink, and she points out she is with somebody. he laughs and says well let me buy him one too. good for him! 

BUT MUSTACHE MAN IS HERE. he is trying to SHOOT frish. and pendrell is bringing his drinks over and HE GETS SHOT as SCULLY SHOOTS MUSTACHE GUY.

oh my god. is she gonna watch PENDRELL DIE RIGHT THEN AND THERE???

well i thought he was a bit weird, but i didn’t want to see him BLEED OUT!!!

mulder is diving. into god knows what. i’m scared he’ll get the bends or something. or run out of air. or any other horrific scuba related phenomenon. 

but there is something down there!!! something big and metal. i’m scared some sort of evil creature is going to jump out. 

BAH! ALIEN!!!!

okay, he didn’t jump out, but he was unexpected. 

and the light is back!!!! it must be the UFO!!! come to get the alien and maybe the mulder in the process!

end scene.

woaugh…. 

we started with birthday dinner and ended with dead alien and dying pendrell. what a piece of TV.

honestly, the episode was good, don’t get me wrong. but there was so much happening so quickly that i was a little lost. can you blame me? first we had two aircraft and then three and then two crash sites and then one and then two but the other one was underwater. and it was going really fast. 

i firmly believe that in media like this when the world is always about to blow up, you need to take time to make me care about the characters living or dying. you can't replace character development with a ticking time bomb or blow after blow after blow and expect that to be compelling writing. and while i think in the past seasons there has been an excellent balance of character development to character torture or fighting the end of the world, this season has been very heavy handed on the character torture. and i want to make it clear: i am an angst enthusiast. but also, after a certain point, it's like, are we here to just watch these guys suffer? is that what brings us before the TV screen? you don't need an even ratio of character happy time to character sad time- a small amount of character happy time can go a long, long way, so i'm glad we started with some today- perhaps the first all season?

what i'm trying to say is that the opening is going to to get me through a lot of hard times. but still... mulder doesn’t remember birthdays………. this man... i want to shake him like a rag doll and knock some sense into his head.

oh pendrell... how i wonder where your story will go next!

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 28

s5 ep8 the hungry earth

- get away from the fucking hole!!!

- obviously that was gonna happen

- this is all adding to my theory that the tardis is incapable of travelling to any part of earth that isn’t the uk

- 2020 oh that’s unfortunate

- omg amy just got eaten by the ground

- if he doesn’t get that kid’s dad back i swear

- uh oh

s5 ep9 cold blood

- oh shit they killed her

- nooo malokeh

- oh they cocked this one up

- why would he put his hand in there

- RORYY NOOOO

- oh the ring box 😭😭

- noooo has she forgotten nooooo

- other amy is alonenoooo

- omg a piece of the tardis?!

s5 ep10 vincent and the doctor

- i’ve heard good things about this one so i have high expections

- great amy fit

- yess the church painting that’s my favourite one, is this what the episode is all about?!

- CAT

- uh oh invisible monster

- i love how the remade the sets based on his paintings

- the doctor so has adhd

- ofc she’s gonna follow him

- oh poor creature

- ohhhh starry night

- companion van gogh?!

- awww they’re taking him to the gallery

- shittt that one got me

- FOR AMY 😭😭😭😭

- ohhh this episode, life is so sad yet so beautiful fuckkkkkkkk

s5 ep11 the lodger

- helppp the tardis just kicked him out

- oh don’t go up the spooky stairs

- JAMES CORDON?! i always forgot hes british

- not the doctor being james cordon’s flatmate, insane crossover

- a girlfriend or *looks at bowtie* a boyfriend…

- the doctor being a normal bloke is endlessly funny

- the blazer over the uniform 😭😭

- oh no creepy child

- genuinely thought james cordon and his gf were about to proposition the doctor

- oh the fucking crack

- omg she found the engagement ring

[drawing-way-outside-the-lines]

💯 🐷 💘🍔 😊  for Andy,  💭 🍃 ❤️ 🤔 for Caspian, 🎮💤🎄🐉 🍦 for Willow and 🎻.🎶🍎💛🍸 for Raven please? <3

Ohhhh *rubs hands* thank you so much weasel <3 Surprised to find Raven instead of Adrian *wiggles eyebrows*

💯 HUNDRED POINTS SYMBOL — share three random facts about your oc that others may not know. Hahaha what don't you guys know by now? I'm a slut for talking about my boi! Aaaalright now... let's see what I can shake out of the Andy bag... 1. He prefers white wine over red, though he likes both, I mean, they are alcohol, right? 2. He used to write a diary, but he got tired of his own whining. 3. He secretly enjoys old Danish movies from the 40's-70's, but is for some reason embarrassed to commit to it in front of others???? 🐷 (previously answered) 💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them? His partners and kids are the absolute most important to him, equally. After all those people, there's a lot... comes his parents, uncle and then his friends/other family members. If I have to handpick just 5 people that would be the absolute most important, from my perspective, as in 5 he "couldn't live without", it would be: 1. Evan. 2. Congo. 3. Adrian. 4. Willow. 5. Raven. 6. Sam. But that's my opinion.

🍔 HAMBURGER — is your oc good at cooking? are they good at baking? which one do they prefer? Andy is very good at cooking and pretty good at baking as well. He 100% prefers cooking though, but his baking skills improved massively after he got Oscar, since he only live of sugary sweet things, Andy had to get skilled when it comes to making food for the little one. 😊 SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES — what are your oc’s career/general life desires? what do they want to get the most out of life? Andy is still a musician, he's just not as active as he used to back in the band days where they toured the world for years. He has been wanting to get back on stage, alas he hasn't had the balls to actually do it yet. What he most want in life is love and simply having the best time he can possibly have. Just being happy being alive, having fun, exploring, seeing, feeling, tasting.

💭 THOUGHT BALLOON — what is your oc’s MBTI, enneagram, and/or other personality aspects (if known/interested in)?

Well... yeah XD *snorts into my wine* and yes I took the test for him, enjoy! XD

🍃 LEAVES FLUTTERING IN WIND — what is/was your oc’s favorite subject in school? He absolutely hated school, not a single subject he liked, and he barely passed the exams.

❤️ RED HEART — what are three of your oc’s positive traits? Hm.. he's a pretty quick thinker, he's creative and he's not a quitter.

🤔 THINKING FACE — what are some of your oc’s quirks/mannerisms? He bites the skin of his thumb when he gets stressed/anxious. Just the very corners around the nail. And he always cracks eggs into a glass before throwing them on a pan, cause he absolutely can't stand eggshells in his food. It drives him up the wall!

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc’s favorite hobbies? 1. Messing with her dad (Andy) 2. Shopping. 3. Drinking alcohol/getting drunk. 4. Talking shit. 💤 SLEEPING SIGN — is your oc a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? how are their sleeping habits? She's definitely a heavy sleeper, and she always sleep naked unless it's with family or friends, then she'll wear panties and a tshirt. She sleeps in a big king sized bed with huge pillows and comforter blankets, with some sort of bright black/neon colored sheets, 'to make her dreams pop'. 🎄 CHRISTMAS TREE — what is your oc’s favorite holiday? Surprisingly perhaps it's Christmas and not Halloween. However, the spooky bitch has Halloween as a close 2nd. She just finds Christmas absolutely enchanting and magical. 🐉 DRAGON — what is your oc’s favorite mythical creature? Hands down unicorns. They remind her of her dad. But she also really likes mermaids/sirens (the real creepy kind, not the Disney version) Oh, and El Chubacabra. 🍦 SOFT ICE CREAM — what is/are your oc’s favorite ice cream flavor(s)? Willow is very into the brand Ben & Jerry's. Her top 3 favorite of those are: 1. Cherry Garcia. 2. Phish Food. 3. Red White & Blueberry.

🎻 VIOLIN — does your oc play any instruments? what is their skill level (beginner/intermediate/advanced/virtuoso/etc)? Technically he can play both Violin and Piano excellently. As a matter of fact he could do it professionally and with expertise, but he likes to overlook that he plays instruments, cause it's connected to something dark from his past. He also plays guitar really well. And he's perhaps more casual about that and doesn't hide it as well.

🎶 MUSICAL NOTES — what type of music does your oc like? do they listen to music very often? Raven has a very wide music taste, and can listen to pretty much anything. He perhaps surprisingly enough, is most into 60-70's Rock. He listens to music fairly often, mostly when he's home alone, where he tends to listen to classical music. 🍎 RED APPLE — where was your oc born? do they still live in/around their place of birth or do they live somewhere else? how do they feel about their birthplace? Raven was born in Ireland, about 1898 years ago, give or take. Possibly closer to 2000+ years ago, but if you ask him, you're going to get just as vague an answer as I am giving you now. Thing is, the McKinney clan is so old, they have stopped counting birthdays. However, his Grandfather has been alive since the dawn of time. Long before humans ever walked the Earth. Raven currently live away from the castle where he was born/grew up. But he still has a room there, and quite often visit. He's very attached to the place and it's still very much home to him.

💛 YELLOW HEART — how many languages does your oc speak? what language(s) are they learning, if any? He fluently speaks Irish, Scottish, English, Welch, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and German. And he speaks Norwegian, Icelandic, Russian and Dutch pretty well. 🍸 COCKTAIL GLASS — what is your oc’s favorite alcoholic drink, if they can drink? Most people would probably guess red wine, or Whiskey and he does like both very much. However cold beer, straight from the bottle is his favorite.

[enbeemagical]

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise is amazing for reasons including but not limited to

oh, he's a little bit fucked up actually (Peter)

spooky, slightly creepy

Consequences happen

Wendy got sent to a mental asylum because she insisted that Neverland was real. So we get a bit of emphasis on how a lot of people in asylums like that were not actually 'insane' or 'delusional' or 'dangerous' just their families didn't want to deal with them or whatever

They haven't said any queer words, but Wendy is aro and her husband is gay (screenshots below the cut)

Wendy has a friend from the Kainai Nation, which is a real First Nations group in Canada. The first time Wendy meets her, she thinks she looks like Tiger Lily

Also, that friend is at the asylum because her mom died and her stepdad didn't want to take care of her, because he was a jerkface

When Wendy goes back to Neverland as an adult, she looks at the pirates and Indians and goes oh, that's Peter's idea of what Indians should be....oh this is kind of messed up actually

and she asks Tiger Lily about her people, her culture, what their stories are like without Peter

Peter is extreeeeemely fucked up actually, reminds me a bit of the Collector

Anyways this is a pretty good book, I'm glad my brain yeeted me back to the Neverland phase. Not done yet but ohhhh my gosh Peter is creepy goodness gracious

it's a story about love

[vonlipvig]

It appears the loading screen character is a ghost in the DLC art. I think it's just for spooky vibes but "main character dying, doing ghostly shennanigans and being forcefully revived" is on my bingo

yeah, right? he looks really creepy there, but yeah as you say, it's probably for the vibes, but OHHHH MY GOD i LOVE your theory, that's insane, possibly very violent, and of course, hilarious, so i would not put it past them to go for it!

[malewifegradyruewen]

onto part 3!

oooh creepy vibes LOVE it

haunted house real???? I was kidding earlier but… that’s some spooky shit

hmhm everything about the house and the people there is somehow just a bit *off*, and you do an amazing job of showing it!

maslow’s hierarchy of breeds but it’s just living in this eerie old manor. I’d probably be dead in two days but the vibes are immaculate.

ohhhh that library… fuckin gorgeous

WAIT WHAT

NATHALIE’S GONNA LOSE HER IMMORTALITY

super curious about this cavalier though I won’t lie. they sound interesting.

canon they/them cavalier de l'ombre btw. adds to the vibe.

tehe are they really your blorbo is you're not putting them through extreme agonies??

also re: your third point, that is the best compliment i've ever received, tysm!!

[amb00bs]

Ah shit! An EDM fan? I can honestly say that I don't really listen to EDM, so I have no idea who those artists are. However, Skrillex has absolutely killed in concert every time I've gotten to see him perform. Is that annoying? That I only really know Skrillex? Lmao. How about you throw some song titles out, and I'll give them a listen?

The Conjuring was genuinely the scariest movie I have ever watched. Which is saying something, because I'm not easily scared. I do love a good slasher film, though.

"Ladies and theybies" took me the fuck out! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Should I stay anon? Is there a rule book on these things? 😄 (I realize that this is Tumblr, and anarchy is the rule here, but I like playing the game). 😂

Ohhhh yes, edm is a huge part of my life, it's all I listen to! I'm a raver hahah. But nah, not annoying. Just sad you've missed out 🤣 but I don't mind sharing music! Check out the "Now You See Me" album by Rezz, it's dope.

And yeah, that series is so creepy! That's why I love it so much. I love that spooky shit, even tho is scares me sometimes as well lmaoooo

But hey, it's completely up to you if you want to stay anonymous or not. Whatever makes ya comfortable!

[tsuki-sennin]

Starshine Hoshino continues his epic saga!

And after that... from what I've heard, a somewhat uncomfortable clingy childhood friend story. My favoriiiiiite..

(Oh and also further information we learn about the Dark Sisters and what is in the big scary hole in the Ouroboros Realm I guess)

Spoilers, I guess...

-Spoooooooooky ghoooooooooooosts~! And our only help is Kajiki and fucking Jugglus Juggler.

-"Does anybody here hate the chief? :<" isn't a question you should ask over the chief's body, I feel.

Kajiki: "Among us..." Rinne: "Dude, he's not-" Kajiki: "AMOGUS-!"

-Huh

-"Burn the wizard! Burn him!"

-"No fightiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing~!"

-Kamen Rider Gotchard taught us that humans were the real monsters.

-...how many people have made that joke?

-Rinne...

-Renge-san...

-Spooky little ghoast~!

-Nana...

-I

-What is that pose, who decided that

-Oh, Nana knows something, don't she?

-Imagine telling your friends that you were stuck posing with Takaya Aoyagi for a bit.

-Hello, Atropos~!

-What do you think about, Rinne-chan?

-"You suck. :<"

-Oh Christ, the fox.

-Oh, Appareskebow! Haven't seen that one in a while.

-The shrine...

-Watch out for snakes wha-

-That was a long shot

-Hello, Nana

-A whole other level of Malgam, perhaps?

-Man, Hotaro's really mixing it up today.

-Exorcise them!!!

-YOOOOOO RENGEEEEE

-Cosmic Chemies united! Light the darkness and strike at evil~!

-Okay, sure Mr. Ninetails.

-Welcome home.

-T

-The kitsune...

-Onsen!!!!

-Huh...

-Guess our troubles are over?

-Kitsune-sama...

-Think I've had enough of god foxes for a while.

-Occult Detectives.....

-Mr. Hoshino...

-"He's gonna go crazy... :<"

-YEAAAAAAH

-Fuck real estate speculators~!

-Thanks, Nana :)

-Alright, next episode

-Romeo and Juliet for Xbox Live

-Byeeeeee Juggler, I'll miss youuuuu

-Senior year, bro! Good on ya, lad.

-Rinne-chan, Kajiki-kun, good orning~!

-There she is, the transfer student.

-Tsukumo Sana- Er, Tsukumo Seina.

-Ohhhh, wait! That's Kanon Matsuzawa! She played Shiro Ogami in Revue Starlight and the Water Rail Orphenoch in the new Faiz movie.

-"Oh no, you two know each other?"

-"F-Fate?????"

-Good for you, Kajiki :)

-Already muscling in, eh Seina?

-Even Geryon's creepy homunculi feel sorrow.

-Ohhhhhhhh

-That's one big bastard.

-"My da

-SO SOSOSOSOSOOSOSOSOSS

-SONOZA?????? KIJINO./???????

-Oh, it's Shinnosuke Takahashi and Hirofumi Suzuki playing themselves, I see

-HOW DID I NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK????

-Comedy...

-Ahhhhh, I see... putting the surprise cameo that wasn't in last episode's trailer contrasts super heavily with the dire state of the drama club.

-Romeo and Juliet. Forty thousand men and women everyday.

-To find that Gotcha...

-"I'm not a leading man, but... Okay!"

-We studied Romeo and Juliet extensively in one of our lit classes. I was Mercutio.

-Crosscasting, Hotaro! You've got a lot to learn, son.

-Hi Minato-sensei.

-Lachesis...

-Oh hi Clotho~!

-Little sisters got conflict.

-Going all out right away, huh lady?

-I see... Clotho's championing the form as all powerful, and yet even as a being made out of Geryon's alchemy strong enough to fight Gotchard even untransformed, she can't handle Dread at maximum power.

-"You're really hurting my feelings, Spanner... :\"

-Romeo and Juliet...

-Ten seconds and you cry.

-Hello, Seina-chan~!

-Y-You remember that too, huh?

-He's 1% of a man and she's 99% likely to have Chemy Trouble! Rinne-chan don't stand a chance~!

-Okaaaaay, I'm gonna have to ask you to tone it down a bit Missy.

-Kudo...

-THEY ATE HIM

-A bond of brotherhood reinforced by malice.

-"Uhhhhh..."

-"Still the same lonely little girl you always are."

-Rinne????

-Just like that, eh? How about that?

-She was frozen today!

-I know Rinne's a teenager, and I realize that her relationship with Hotaro is integral to the story, but like...

-Man, idk, there's gotta be some smoother way to go about this.

-"I done fucked up."

-"I'm going to kill your ass. For my Dad!"

-Okay, I see what they're going for now

-It's all these different elements coming together to cause a reaction.

-Since I'm here, I guess I'll keep going

-"She's dead, Rinne."

-Believe, Kudoh!

-MoonCerberus, yay~!

-One fast doggy

-Be thawed, girly!

-Welcome home, Blizzammoth~!

-Yippee~!

-Kyoka-san...

-Yeah, who is that guy?

-Meikoku no Ou...

-"Hi Dad :)"

-"Do it. End them. Kill them all, my dear daughter! Oooooh~!"

-Ah, yep, Romeo's murder of Tybalt. Guess they are being thorough.

-Tsukumo, c'mon girl

-Hero?

-Ah....

-I suppose it's quite serendipitous that the Alchemist Association didn't accidentally wipe those memories too.

-New Malgam dropped

-Hello again, Spanner~!

-He got Splatooned

-Awwww, Spanner...

-Kamen Riders, yes~!

-To hell, children~!

-These're some fun camera and editing tricks here

-Rinne...

-"You did it, moron~! You killed your friend~!"

-OH????

-A trick~!

-Exgotchalibur~!

-Oh yeah, solar eclipse. We had one of those.

-I didn't get to see it, I lived too far away.

-What's Your Fire, once more~!

-Hoooooo! Heat!

-This is how Romeo and Juliet ended, right?

-Ma

-Mackraken.....

-"Yeah sorry I can't watch this anymore."

-We saved~!

-Drama Club is saved forever~!

-"Go away."

-"Moooooom, c'mon! I made that! What an unfunny joke!"

-Keeping her creepy sadism on our side is good.

-OH HELLO?????

[ethereal-maia]

harvest, fireside, and spice for the ask game! (Also I love the name of your ask box, it’s so cute !!)

harvest - what fictional character do you most identify with? Why?

ohhhh this is a hard one bc there’s so many!! My go-to is typically Lilith Clawthorne from the owl house:

sighhh… she’s so me fr. I think I relate to her a lot bc she is:

The oldest child

we look a little similar (especially kid her, not pictured here)

she’s confirmed aroace (!!!), I’m definitely aspec 💥 (questioning ;—;)

cursed her younger sister because her younger sister was smarter than her (a move I would pull)

loves history

punched the villain in the nose when she traveled back in time and he still has the scar from it breaking 300 years later (a move I would also pull)

we have many similarities you see, and so she is me 💛

fireside - if you had your dream wardrobe, what would it look like?

oh ho ho time to pull out the Pinterest board I see

I really like 50’s-70’s fashion so I’d go for something along those lines.. All the skirts here are pretty short, so maybe a couple longer skirts w/tight vests, maybe with gauzy shirts with puffy/balloon/flare sleeves? I also LOVEEE platforms and flare jeans especially if they’re funky. I’m going to be very honest: my fashion game was changed the day after I read anne of greenville by Mariko Tamaki. It’s a FANTASTIC book and the main character is really into 70s stuff as well!! Changed my brain chemistry fundamentally.

spice - have you ever encountered a house that you believed to be haunted?

OMG so my friend when i was a little 4th and 5th grader liked to scare herself ok? She would tell spooky stories ALL THE TIME!! There was a bunch of stuff with closets I think? And stuff with creepy dolls.. toys that “moved on their own”.. We were scared of the basement for no reason and 3 am was a horror zone we wouldn’t dare to stay up past. Since then I don’t think I’ve been in a house I think is haunted for a while. Fun for 9-10 year old me though lol

[cpopnatural]

11x18 Notes

-at least no yellow filter on the Saudi Arabia set

-even in the Middle East the character that gets a name is a white guy. Expected

-Crowley running in the rain on an angry phone call with Dean is so funny

-why does Rowena have Amara I literally don’t remember. Is this just a plot hole or. Whatever bro

-I hate the thing this show keeps doing where it shows a scene from before but with new stuff added

-Crowley looks like an angry cat

-Crowley Sam Dean interactions are so funny. Dean and Crowley are both trying to be the ex that doesn’t give a fuck anymore while Sam acts like just talking to Crowley is sullying him. Which is big “talking to your bestie’s ex” energy

-CASIFER IN HEAVEN

-all the angels dress like Tik Tok influencers with beige babies

-Gay ass Castiel screaming crying as Lucifer straddles a man with his body

-“Hey if it makes you comfy you can call me God” needs to die immediately specifically because mishafuckers love it

-It’s not an it, Sam. It’s Cas

-I didn’t know Crowley was here lmaoooo

-I think they just got Rowena and Amara in the same room so they would have a scene that finally passes the Bechdel Test

-He who hesitates, snap disintegrates KILLER line

-It’s taken so long for the God Like Entity famous for being able to bend reality to actually bend reality. Like a better show would have her actually destroying the universe like episode 3. You know. So that there are real stakes and the big bad actually has menace

-I hate the Casifer lip bite

-the way the music becomes softer as Cas comes back and Dean talks to him…

-CAAAS

-hey what the fuck???

-ohhhh Cas is in the bunker :) oh it’s his happy place

-Dean wants me to expel Lucifer? 🥺 and Misha said he was only playing Cas as gay in S15

-three people in Cas’ vessel

-Amara puts her hands on Cas’ face and Dean looks like he’s going to cry

-jackles jacting JOICES bro

-let’s find that idiot and bring him home…….

-okay I have to admit God actually showing up for Lucifer when Lucifer’s whole deal is. Daddy abandonment issues

-Jimmy Novak’s body could withstand a bomb tbh

I was really engaged this entire episode. It’s really good but the parts that are good highlight the main failing I have for this season, which is the inability to build a compelling villain in Amara. Although she’s supposed to have God-like powers that can bend reality, we haven’t really seen her use that at all. She doesn’t hurt Dean, so there isn’t really stakes there. She also hasn’t done anything spooky other than the disease episode 1 and the storm clouds, but they really missed an opportunity to actually make a creepy antagonist here. But good lines and solid plot stuff plus characters I like 7.5/10

[alphacommander]

Ready to get spooky 💀🦉

sketchy warm up between comms :)

[wof-reworked]

So like the tales of like don’t go out side alone or you will die also strangers bad and the monsters for those tales are supposed to be horrid and scary but the angsty teens went like oh yeh horrible monster more like my cults entire reason to exist (artic annon)

ohhhh yeah !!! I mean I have a few actually, though less in the spooky monster vein. They're as follows:

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-Icewings who end up stranded or drowned on the ice floes/sea ice are reincarnated as polar bears (polar bears are also seen as omens of death/lost spirits by lower class Icewings, while royal Icewings may hunt them to show off, hunting a polar bear is often seen as bad luck/marking yourself for misfortune)

-The inverse is snowy owls- they're considered friends and good luck. When in doubt, follow a snowy owl.

-Icewings hatched at night under the Aurora Borealis are often stereotyped as unearthly and strange beauties, some myths claiming you can spot them because of the pearlescent color of their scales.

-during the fall, Icewings will gather the last remaining wildflowers and summer grasses to make bundles to hang in their homes in the hope of warding off especially cold/brutal winters.

-Lighting campfires outside during the long night in the winter is considered bad luck- putting out a light like that can act as a beacon, and you don’t want to attract unwelcome attention. Since most Icewings are cold resistant and don't routinely use fire (with the exception of oil lamps), this is a non-issue 90% of the time.

-If you know how, you can read your future in the first icemelt on a river- the shapes and the way the current runs will tell you about the course of your life.

-I think a lot of Icewing superstition is less focused on tangible monsters and more on the Idea of bad things happening?? In a lot of ways it's very cause/effect- if you do x, y will happen. It might not be a monster coming out in the woods, but stuff like trees suddenly falling on you, ice breaking, family members turning cold, the kind of slow burn misfortune that can sometimes be scarier than being hunted down by a giant monster.

That said, I know you also came here for creepy monsters, soooo here’s some Icewing urban legends:

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-There’s a story of two Icewing dragonets who left their village to find food during the winter. Too young to fly, they walked through the dense taiga forests, searching for anything edible, until they were hopelessly lost. They starved in the woods, but they weren’t allowed to rest, now endlessly walking and enlisting the help of any Icewing who’ll help- only to lead them deeper into the woods, until their victim becomes lost and starves too.

-An Icewing princess, one of the early animuses, wanted to create a beautiful menagerie for Icewings of all classes to enjoy- with tamed animals, the height of their species that could wander around outside of pens freely and interact with visitors. The first time she tried the spell though, the animals came out wrong. They were functional, but underwhelming: she wanted her gift to be truly special, not just a loose collection of common animals. Breaking the rule of one enchantment, she began to layer on more spells and tried creating more animals, each of them growing more and more distorted: bears with crooked, jagged teeth jutting from their mouth, walking on two unnaturally long legs, foxes with dragging, extra limbs and empty eyes, hares with twisted, upside down necks who could mimic dragon voices perfectly, the list grew on. The princess drove herself to madness trying to make them perfect, depleted of all her energy, all she could do was lay in her garden, eventually eaten by her own creations, who still wander the Ice Kingdom like ghosts, unable to die with the amount of spells on them. 

-There’s a group of Icewings who are dedicated to hunting killer whales- they believe it’s the ultimate sport, to be able to take down an animal as intelligent and powerful as you. They’ll stop at nothing, and the most graphic versions of the story involve them using Icewing dragonets as bait.

I really like writing Icewing stories, they’re always the most depressing imo. I hope these were to your liking !!

[bxrbwire-bxby]

Hi!! I know this is out of the blue, but your AU The Edge of Night looks really cool, so I wanted to send some questions 👀

How did you come up with the AU? Any main inspirations?

I'd love to know more about Celeste! What are some fun facts about her, and does she have a faceclaim?

If you had to give the AU a theme song, what would it be?

Oh my gosh out of the blue or not, I’m always ready to talk about my AU! And thank you very much!!! I really appreciate that!!!

As for how I came up with TEON, it lowkey just kinda happened, I’m not gonna lie. I saw Brother Nero from some clip online and my brain went “Hey, he looks kinda creepy, I love him.” And that was sort of how it started sldkjf on top of the fact I love anything paranormal was a big, big inspiration too. Also on the basis of the idea of Celeste getting transported to another world in her sleep: I had a dream a really long time ago but it always stuck with me! I was thrown into another world that was pretty dark and I didn’t have very many allies except for one person. So, that’s where a big part of the AU plot came from. 2. Poor Celeste, she really does not have a good time for a little while in this au. But as for fun facts: she loves swimming! She could have gotten a scholarship to university if she actually wanted to go, but Celeste really didn’t want to. Also, she collects rocks from whatever place she visits for the first time but it’s gotta be a nice rock. Not one of those little gravel pebbles, those won’t do for her collection. As for a faceclaim… no she doesn’t have one sdlfj I’m awful about finding faceclaims for my OC’s. 3. Ohhhh as for a song… as a general spooky vibe it would probably have to be The Fog Rolls In from John Carpenter’s The Fog. But overall, (partially because it’s one of my favorite songs) it would have to be Heard Somebody Cry by Oingo Boingo, but mostly for the fact that the chorus of the song fits in really well.

Again, thank you very much for asking, I really appreciate it!

[nancynancydrewdrewdrew]

ohhhh yeah now i remember that! No definitely not marie lol, just that the silvery texture plus the grate in front of it made kid me think it was like a spooky see-through ghost and not an actual suit of armor. Even to this day it looks way more like a knight ghost to me than a metal suit but i'm pretty sure that's not what they were going for 😂 either way i still find it creepy lol

if i could ask the old HeR team one question it would be whyyyy is there a disappearing eye in Mattie's calendar?? this has plagued me since childhood. And like why does it disappear when you click but then reappear when you exit the frame?? If I could ask the old HeR team two questions the second would be what the hell is that suit of armor thing in the dungeon in TRT bc child me for sure thought it was a ghost and adult me doesn't have a good explanation lol

[savethelastdan]

Yashahime Is Over Party: Contribution #2

“All right, all right!” 

The crowd of villagers quieted (some with a wince) as the high-pitched shout rang around the village entrance. Ten-year-old Moroha gave them one last warning glare for good measure. 

With, as her Great-Grandpa on the other side of the Well would say, “more gusto than should be necessary”, she then leapt upon the nearest height-offering surface - one of the tourists’ suitcases, emblazoned a dozen times on every side with “FRAGILE” - and began her welcome speech. 

“Shut your mouths and hold onto your butts, folks, because this is a real treat! The coolest village ever to exist in any timeline, on a sunny day! Since my big brother is at kitsune academy today, you all have the honor of yours truly acting as escort around this prime piece of feudal real estate!” 

Dramatic pause for emphasis. (Yes, she’d taken some liberties with the script that Shippo had left, and she didn’t quite know what ‘prime piece of real estate’ actually meant, but her cousin Towa agreed that it sounded fancy and fancy always worked with humans.) 

A soft-faced young woman glanced around the crowd self-consciously before raising a hand. “You mean, this is the village where priestess Kikyo - “

“Ahem!” Moroha held up the wooden sign hanging from her neck, tapping the carved-in letters spelling ‘Village Tour Guide #2” with one nail. “Are you wearin’ the sign?”

“Oh. Uh, sorry.” The woman blushed. 

After a moment, Moroha cleared her throat. “Okay, yeah, it is. But there’s a bunch of other super-cool people here, too! If you wanna meet them - follow me!” With that, she jumped from the suitcase to land solidly in the dirt. A few tourists reared back from the cloud of disturbed dust, putting them at the back of the moving crowd. 

“First up, the sister of the blah-dee-blah-famed-priestess-blah-dee-blah Kikyo - Lady Kaedeeeeee!” She swung both arms in a dramatic half-circle towards the healer woman’s hut; the crowd ooh-ed and ah-ed appropriately. “On days like these, she’s either healing a sick patient, birthin’ a new baby, or taking a long nap! Since she’s awfully old, the napping’s more frequent.” Hooking an arm around a teenage tourist’s shoulder, she hissed in a spooky tone, “Some say she’ll live forever, getting older and older until she’s like a living zombie-” 

“I heard that.” With a cross expression, Kaede leaned out of the window.“Don’t think I won’t curse you for those bad manners.”

Moroha waved the group on with a nervous chuckle. 

“And this is the home of the most famous demon slayer known to womankind - Sango!” Cupping both hands around her mouth like a bullhorn, Moroha drew out the last syllable of the woman’s name to emphasize her coolness. Several of the humans perked up with excitement; it wasn’t hard to imagine that they had themselves benefited from some of the woman’s work. 

“Her husband Miroku lives here too. He used to be a monk, but now he’s a family guy! My papa says -” She straightened, putting on a deep, gruff tone - “it’s a damn miracle -” Dropping the tone, she grinned cheerily at the group - “nobody will tell me why!” 

As if on cue, the door to the house opened to reveal a group of tall, bickering young adults. The loudest were two women with matching features, the only visible difference to a stranger being that one’s slayer outfit was trimmed in pink and the other’s in green. Behind them trotted a younger boy, also wearing a slayer outfit in red.  

“I’m taking the kusarigama, you’re taking the wakizashi!” The green-outfitted slayer said, ignoring her sister’s attempts to talk over her. “Otherwise you and Mom will have two long-range weapons, and that makes no sense!” 

“Plus that’s Uncle Kohaku’s specialty!” Their brother piped up; he dodged the twin elbows that swung back at him as easily as if they’d warned him. “She wants to impress him with it so he’ll take her on his trip to the mountains with Rin this summer!” 

Through the left-open door, came the sweet smell of treats baking - one of the many hobbies Miroku had taken up with his time, now that he wasn’t going to up and die (Moroha knew she wasn’t technically supposed to know about that. Or probably phrase it like that… But if her godfather Koga said it that way, why was it any different for her?)

The group of slayers stopped short upon seeing the crowd; with awkward bows, they quickly skirted their way around the gaping tourists. 

““That’s Sango’s kids; every one of ‘em demon slayer prodigies.” Slinging her arm around the same teen from earlier, Moroha shook her head with a dramatic sigh. “Makes me almost want another sibling. Except then I’d have to share my room, nooooo thank you!”

“Excuse me.” A mustached man in the middle of the group raised one arm curiously. “I heard one of those women mention Rin - is that the human who died twice and was resurrected by the sword Tenseiga?” 

“Huh? Oh, yeah. That’s Rin.” Moroha tapped her own head thoughtfully and muttered under her breath, “Was it really only twice…”

“Does she still live here?” The man’s mustache drooped in a frown. “Or did she go to live with that dog demon?”

“Dog demon? Ohhh, you mean Uncle Sesshomaru!” A smile stretched across her face. “I almost forgot about him! Nah, after she got married she decided to stay in town -” 

“Married?!” The group erupted in murmurs of horror. One kerchiefed mother clapped her hands over the ears of her daughter; the mustached man turned green.

Moroha’s face fell. “Well, yeah. She wanted to keep taking healer lessons from Kaede, and even though he travels a lot, she wanted to stay by Kohaku’s side when he comes home. Be a team, and all that.” 

“Ohhhh, so she’s Kohaku’s wife!” The human mother’s shoulders slumped with a sigh. “How lovely and age-appropriate.” 

Moroha wasn’t sure what that meant, but if it made the negative energy go away then she was all for it! “Rin’s super cool, anyway. She knows how to heal demons, not just humans, and she tells really good ghost stories, and she’s actually really good at arm-wrestling -” 

Suddenly she ducked her head to whisper, “She’s probably my favorite cousin, if I’m bein’ honest with ya.”

 “Do you have other cousins?” A man who appeared to look a thousand years old squinted in her direction. Perhaps in confusion, but it was hard to tell with all the wrinkles. “I doubt a full-blooded dog demon like that Sesshomaru fella would leave his legacy in the hands of a human girl.” 

“My mom would say that’s prejudiced,” Moroha said helpfully, causing the old man to blanche. “But Rin’s got two little sisters, who you can see riiiiiiight now!” 

With a dramatic twist, she whirled around to point in the opposite direction with both hands, adding a low growl that was meant to mimic the roar of an excited crowd. 

The moment was slightly underwhelmed by the confused looks of the tourists as they took a moment to figure out where exactly to look. That’s okay; she’d work on it. 

Down the road, her twin cousins leaned against the wall of a house (Moroha’s house, which she was saving for last because you always save the best for last). Towa was smiling and pointing out something up in the sky, while Setsuna wore a very predictable scowl. From this far away, the red streaks in their hair were little more than smudges. 

The extremely old man with an attitude problem made a weird hacking noise, most likely in surprise. 

“Did he adopt them like your other cousin?” asked a teenage girl. 

“Kinda!” Both hands landed on her hips; Moroha then modeled her expression on her Uncle - stoic, dismissive, oh-so-cool. “On a cool spring night, Uncle Sesshomaru walked into the darkest, deepest forest on the planet, waved his sword over a really old and creepy tree, and when he cut it open - there they were. Two lil’ hanyou babies.” 

Dramatic pause. 

“Just kiddin’.” Laughing loud enough to bring back the wincing from the group, Moroha slapped her knee. “They’re full demons. I can still take either of ‘em in a fight, though. Oh!” She pointed up in the air with a wide, excited smile. “There’s their mom right now!” 

Murmurs of confusion filled the air as the tourists moved their heads this way, that way; only when a chilling breeze morphed into flesh and bone, right before their eyes, did the group exclaim in collective understanding. 

Moroha waved. “Hi, Auntie Kagura!” 

“Yo.” Clearly taken aback by the crowd, the wind demon gave a tiny salute. The side of her neck bore a half-moon symbol tattooed on the skin; Moroha thought it was neat, even if her dad thought it was a dumb, archaic wedding ritual. “Do your parents know you’re doing this?” 

“Uh, duh!” She held up the sign with a cheeky grin. 

“Fair enough.” Upon spying her daughters across the way, Kagura’s expression softened a bit. “Well, I’ll see you later.” 

“No, wait! We’re actually heading the same way.” Gesturing to the not-moving crowd, Moroha repeated, “The same way. Meaning the best part of the tour - come on, folks, work with me here -” 

Kagura snorted, walking quickly as though to avoid the gawking humans and their nosy questions about how she had been resurrected or could still live now that Naraku was dead or got Sesshomaru to admit he had feelings much less have kids with her. A curt “none of your business” was all they’d get, no matter how much Moroha tugged on her sleeve and whined about “giving people their money’s worth.”

Luckily, once they reached Moroha’s house, it was easy to escape. After all, a much more awe-inspiring attraction awaited the group of lucky, lucky tourists. 

“And now! The Greatest Love Story Of Our Time!” With a winning grin, Moroha landed a kick on the door, sending it slamming open. 

“Oh.” Kagome blinked at the group from where she sat on a futon in the middle of the house, surrounded by magical artifacts. A scroll marked with ink rolled from her lap all the way to one side of the room. Behind her, halfway through helping her put her hair in a bun, Inuyasha froze “Uh, hello?”

“My parents! Dumdedumdummmmm!” The warmth of her pride felt like it was going to burst in her chest. It was the absolute best to come home to people who loved her! Whether it was tickle fights before bed, or her dad taking her and Shippo out on demon-tracking trips, or her mom humming a lullaby if she felt sick on the full moon night, Moroha was certain her family was the best of anybody’s anywhere. “One fell through time, and one fell -- fell, uh, for her -- sorry, I’ll work on it.” 

Inuyasha huffed in the way that meant he was going to complain later. Kagome just chuckled and waved. 

For once, the humans reacted exactly the way Moroha wanted them to - smiling, clapping, appreciating the wonder of her super-beautiful-and-also-hella-powerful mom and grumpy-but-still-amazingly-brave papa. She launched into the story she knew by heart, of how they had come to be together and saved the whole world while they were at it. Some parts were probably missing or misrepresented, from the laughter in her mom’s eyes, but she had enough of it right that half the tourist group was in near tears by the time she was done. 

“And now, they have one more accomplishment to add to the long list - parenting the greatest warrior this world has ever seen. Moro-uh, Beniyasha!” Swirling the ends of her fire-rat robe, she twirled. “The Crimson Slayer!”

“Slayer of my patience, maybe,” Inuyasha snapped, though he was unable to hide his smile as he marched over to grab her by the collar. “Come ‘ere, kid. You’ve got chores to do!” 

Tossing her over his shoulder, he waved dismissively at the group of humans. “Sorry folks, the show ends here. Yeesh...” 

Moroha cupped both hands around her mouth, screeching to be heard over her parent’s laughter before the door shut.

“Make sure to leave your comment cards in the box at the entrance!”

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"Doomed Voyage"?? That's what you fucking name it? That's a terrible fucking sign

Ooof seasickness rip.

Oh spooky powers spooky powers yeaaaaaa I am so here for the spooky Eye powers

Oh Salesa is dead? I don't remember if that was mentioned before

Ohhhh they were attacked by something of the Spiral.

Ohhh is this when the Spiral ritual was happening maybe?

A.... camera?

Oh wait no this sounds like maybe the Vast?

Huh. Fascinating.

Wowowow that's creepy as hell Jon. Epic

Jshshshs "Slurping it out of his brain"

Nothing like hanging out with a creepy eldritch coworker on a boat as you get seasick I guess