#super secret mission

[this-acuteneurosis]

Anger

There's a plan. It's imperfect, but it's the best they've got.

Now they just have to hope no one ruins it for them.

[sweater-daddiesdumbdork]

Steve is on a super secret mission and needs coffee to function

[nenoname]

"And now I know why! He hates me!"

[missunsympathetic]

Omega: But I want to join your search for Fennec too!

Hunter: It's too dangerous. Besides, I have a much harder and more complicated mission for you

Hunter: Try to get Crosshair to take care of himself

[bunnwich]

Yeah, I missed the stinky cat man's b-day, but have a WIP.💋

[haunted-xander]

Do you think Saix' emotional co-dependence started as a Nobody or did it start as human Isa and just grew to an unhealthy degree?

[spooky-activity]

My favorite visual gag in cartoons is "closet full of the exact same outfit".

[theagentace]

they were THE friend group

[spotaus]

Late Night quick thing (New Age Sillies)

Bad news: That joke post about including Reset + Orchid is definitely not canon. (I legit got sad thinking about Reset being in a universe where Orchid isn't- because their stories are so so intertwined- but Nightmare 100% would NOT risk the whole twins exploding Error's soul thing.)

Good news: This means I COULD include Kane (Reset's older brother who usually dies in timelines where Reset is born) and use it to develope his character a bit more! Also! Perhaps a Blue × Dream kiddo is finally in the stars for me to design?

[brawler1993]

2023 in Review: Every Video Game I Completed This Year

You know those Twitter threads where people list off every video game they’ve completed throughout the year? It’s something I’ve always been a bit keen on doing, but I figured summing up each game in a single Tweet wouldn’t do them justice. So, throughout 2023, I decided to keep a record of every game I completed, composing what are essentially mini reviews to try and cover every facet I liked or…

[doctorbrown]

MCFLY JULY ‘24 ⸺ 「 27 / 31 * TWIN PINES MALL SANTA 」

December 15, 1977

“C’mon, Marty… We’re not staying out here all night, are we?” Jake shivers even under his jacket and pulls his hat further down over his ears, throwing a pleading look at the back of Marty’s head. Marty says nothing, but he grabs Jake by the arm and pulls him behind one of the poorly maintained hedges near the entrance to the Twin Pines Mall, feeling like they’re in some kind of spy movie. James Bond would be proud.

“If we get home and my mom finds out we snuck out she’s gonna kill us. Or ground me until I’m like thirty!”

Jake shudders at the thought of being stuck in his room until he’s an old man and considers it only marginally worse than possibly freezing to death out here.

“We’ll be back home before she knows we were gone,” Marty says, radiating confidence that does manage to ease Jake’s nerves somewhat, despite the fact their last ‘adventure’ when Marty sounded exactly this—if not more—confident almost ended up with their bicycles flattened by a car.

“All we have to do is see him come out, that’s all.” Marty sticks his head up from behind the bush, eyes narrowed and

“That’s what you said the last time and we ended up f—”

“Shhhh! I think he’s coming!” Jake promptly shuts his mouth and Marty pulls him closer, holding his breath while he waits for proof—pure, tangible, real proof that he can shove in Linda’s face later—that it isn’t just a myth that Mom and Dad made up all these years, that she’s only jaded and mean because she’s getting older and she was a real jerk last year and didn’t get that stupid thing she was asking for.

That what he’s been seeing for himself that he tries to ignore that suggests Linda is right can’t possibly be true.

Above all, Marty wants it to be real, because Hill Valley could use a little magic.

The doors to the mall glide open and Marty gasps when he sees a tall figure walk outside carrying several heavy looking boxes of something in his hands. He can’t see their face behind those boxes, but he can see their long white hair sticking out from the side of the boxes and nearly shakes Jake, absolutely giddy with his discovery.

“Marty,” Jake whispers, “that’s—”

Marty clamps a hand over his friend’s mouth. “Don’t scare him away!”

Jake mumbles something from behind Marty’s hand and when it’s clear Marty has no intention of removing it, Jake employs his secret weapon—he drags his tongue across Marty’s palm. Marty immediately pulls his hand away, face scrunched up in disgust. “Gross.”

Marty drags his hand across his pants. “That’s not him!”

“Yeah, it is—look!” Marty pops his head back up over the hedge, finding himself staring up at Doctor Brown. Instinctively, his eyes widen, and Marty tries to imagine what a spy might do in the moment when their cover was blown.

Doctor Brown looks just as surprised in the moment to see the two of them there and Marty considers that high praise given towards his sneaking skills. Maybe there’s something to this after all. “Boys,” he says, using that tone that adults often use when they’re not sure if they’re going to get them in trouble for something or not yet.

Jake’s eyes look ready to fall out of his head and Marty clears his throat, looking up at the old man. “Doctor Brown.”

“What are you boys doing out here so late?” Doctor Brown sets the heavy-looking boxes in his hands down and now that Marty can see his entire outfit, overcoat and all, he mentally kicks himself for wondering how he could have confused the two. Maybe he could have just been trying to hide. Famous people are always trying to hide, aren’t they?

Jake stammers something unintelligible at his side and Marty crosses his arms over his chest, weighing his options. He could say nothing, tell the old man they weren’t doing anything and leave, then high-tail it back to Jake’s place before his mom got home. But what if the old man decided to tell his parents that they were sneaking around this late at night? Similarly, he could tell him exactly what they were doing here, but there was also the possibility he’d be like every other adult and brush off everything he tried to explain to him.

“Marty was trying to see if the Santa in the mall was the real deal!”

To his credit, Doctor Brown doesn’t laugh. Instead, he looks between both boys and then back towards the doors to the mall, wearing a thoughtful expression that could mean at least a hundred different things—Marty wasn’t too sure what to make of it, but he didn’t feel like the man was about to laugh at him.

“Yeah—so? I wanted to prove that my sister was lying. That he is real.”

Doctor Brown hums. “Ah. Do you suspect he might not be or is it just because your sister told you that?”

“Well…” Marty fidgets slightly. “My older brother doesn’t believe. And my sister said only babies believe in that but she totally believed last year.”

“And you?” Doctor Brown looks genuinely interested in his answer.

He isn’t used to adults wanting to hear what he has to say. His parents certainly never give him their full attention, not anymore, and he has to sit for a minute with the fact that, of all people to take an interest, it’s Doctor Brown. “I guess—I just wanna know the truth.”

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Tokyo Kokoro Oboe english sub

I know this isn’t the TsuruKara Souki you were expecting, but on the plus side, neither was I expecting this! Since I’m watching this with a friend soon, I figured, why not? It is very high up in my faves list, after all 🥺

Following my predecessors, the start of the subtitles has a little intro blurb on each of the historical figures, and I’m also planning on making a little research file in which I’ll try to explain a few things about Masakado and horses, Masakado and Kikyou, Ota Dokan and the yamabuki (Japanese kerria) girl, and some details about Tenkai as person and his planning of Edo as city.

I’m also planning to include some translation notes (specifically on ほころび・る hokorobi/ru because that deserves to be mentioned) in the file, some interpretations on the girl with the Noh mask, and a few fun facts about how each of the historical figures relates to Inari or foxes. Because in the context of the roles Suishinshi and the Gous get given throughout TKO, as well as the themes present in it, it may be interesting to keep a certain little fox in the back of your mind while watching!

Keep in mind that this is only the subtitle file, timed and tled to the DMM archive distribution.

You can download the subs for the DMM archive distribution here,

and with lots of thanks to a friend, the subs for the BD/DVD version can be found here!

The research file will be able to be found here too, at a later date.

[ofwhimsicaldreams]

i ended up rewatching captain america: the winter soldier as it was my favorite mcu movie back in the day and

i was so disappointed by the time the credits started rolling. i didn't remember the movie being so long and so full of shooting, seriously, so many scenes of so many people shooting at each other!!! was it sponsored by guns manufacturers or something?! also, steve rogers was such a soldier in it, i know the character is one, but i didn't remember him being like that back in the day, but he was just so... self-righteous. overall it was such an american movie, and i know, 'captain america', that's in the name, but it never struck me as much back in the day. neither man of steel nor batman v superman gave me that american feeling, but that's stories with aliens and costumed vigilantes and mediterranean half-goddesses for you.

also, natasha's smirk was really annoying by the end, but i don't think i have it in me to rewatch iron man 2 to check whether it was the same in that movie. it was very funny to see callan mulvey there though, poor guy really made two cbm (almost) back-to-back playing a trigger-happy henchman for the bad guy.

big annoyance that the casting director picked a dude from quebec to play a french villain who used to be in the french secret services. like seriously. it's like picking an australian actor (with the accent) and having him play the role of an american who used to be in the fbi. it breaks immersion so bad.

anyway that was a disappointment.

[eusuntgratie]

Be gay, do crime update

Today is an office day and I’ve sent myself an email as a reminder to steal reclaim THEE Rolling Stone from the waiting room.

Score:

Aj: 1

Homophobes: stay losing

Thank you I am THRILLED to receive this update please keep me updated on this important mission (I may require photo evidence...)

[jacereaall]

They're scheming

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Lou Ellen and Ajax Pax from: @jflashandclash 's delightful fanfic, Tales From Mount Othrys.

What I imagined a pre-mission talk before "Ajax: Why little siblings need fidget spinners II" looked like.

Under the cut: close ups.

[undying-lilies]

mmm don't you love it when you're 25k words into writing a book and then you realize there's a plothole and now you have to go back and fix it before you can continue because it will probably also solve the writer's block you've stumbled into