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Call me Breaker. 22, he/him only.

not necessarily a fandom blog, but im here for fandoms and memes more than anything else. main fandoms at the moment are Wizard101, Dungeon Meshi, Epic the Musical, Undertale/Deltarune, Animation vs Minecraft/Animator (tagged as #sticksverse) (spoilers for the newest episode will be tagged #ava 11 spoilers) Pixar Cars & Planes (tagged separately), will rb stuff from other franchises tho.

i am also obsessed with my own independent writing, Corrupted Spiral (a Wizard101 AU). A lot of posts I rb will be tagged #Corrupted Spiral and/or #CCSAU. Feel free to ask me about it. I love talking abt my work, even if i dont like publish it officially.

I have OCs! a few of them have actual bio posts but they may be outdated lol. Their names and little blurbs r below the cut. Prone to updates as I remember more of my silly little guys.

Undertale...ish, the Quotev era characters. (Most of these characters are retired from my writing and don't have active stories but are still dear to me.)

Chancery Hope Gaster - my first ever official OC, Soriel ship child. She's my first and the foundation so I love her. basically 50s.

Renee - an alternate timeline variant of Chancery who became a villain for the majority of her conscious life, "The Glitch". Now a has-been trying to find something to live for. 30.

Shadow Rouge - Chancery's childhood friend turned boyfriend turned husband. Dragon. basically 40s-50s

Flare Rouge - Chancery and Shadow's eldest son, a major protagonist in CCSAU. Balance wizard. 24

Flint Rouge - Flare's twin brother, younger by 3 minutes :P

Spark Rouge - Chancery & Shadow's eldest daughter. 18??

Steele Rouge - Spark's twin sister.

Poacher - A mercenary, big game hunter, and all around tough but cool guy. Also a dragon. 50s but I think this dude transcends time he just doesn't die lol. A very old oc, I don't remember much about him.

Coal - All of Poacher's LV distilled into a separate entity. Not that bad. In fact, he comes off as less threatening than ol' Poach. Anime boy twunk guy. I cannot picture him as anything older than 26 but surely he's older than that. Much to figure out and rebuild.

Wizard101

Nora Gem - my main Wizard, the Scion in Corrupted Spiral who went astray. Now some unholy mix of human, divine, bogeyman, and Lost. Storm wizard. 28. Probably dating Renee.

Sarah Dragontail - Nora's mom, a Wizard who's taken up freelance wandering traveler heroics. Formerly Life wizard, now a Music wizard. 56.

Iridian Fairytail - Nora's adoptive baby sister. Myth wizard, untrained. 10

Emma Titansong - Nora's cousin, Nordic Champion, mostly-retired Life wizard. 20.

Emmaline Stargem, better known as just Star - Emma's twin sister. Death wizard.

Savannah Prismage - Emma and Star's younger sister. Fire & Ice wizard, young pioneer in the study of "Thermancy" (thermo + mancy). 16.

Kiyom - the Nothing, gone on a path unlike Dasein did in canon and so became Something Else.

Para - the Divine Paradox separate from Nora, and the Dreamer given consciousness.

Mauria Kutscherzo - Maulwurf von Trap's mom. 60s.

Malkah Hadas - Queen of Mandoria (the one who had been on the throne before Mandar showed up) and Mandar's wife. Late 60s.

Dr. Clark Savage, Sr. - Duck Savage's father and creator. Dead at 65.

Agnes Chastity-Crane - a crane in Night Forest who begins investigating the odd mana left in the wake of people questing through Lemuria's story. Also accidentally invented guns :D. 20s.

Mark Moonfisher - my interpretation of that one Schismist soldier in Karamelle, Novus, and the Test Realm raid. Because Arc 4 doesn't happen normally in my AU, his story ends up different. Sharkperson (specifically spiny dogfish) who was born to gamer but forced to minor/nonexistent npc.

Pirate101

Ruthless Dirk - my main Pirate, swashbuckler, Karamellian fae disguising emself as a human, grew up in Skull Island. 22.

'Fair' Sarah Paisley - my original Pirate, witchdoctor (with a LOT of creative liberty because KI didn't have sensitivity), grew up in Krokotopia but lived in Skull Island. 28.

Ieronim Masterson - I took an incredibly minor character (Jim Masterson) & gave him more attention than canon ever would. Living with his brother Bartolomeu & the rest of the Magnificent Seven, slowly healing from his time in the army.

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1000+ Best PUBG Clan Names Ideas (2023)

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Stylish PUBG Clan Names 

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Funny PUBG clan names

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A good squad always makes a good image in front of the opposition and what makes that good squad unique, off course their squad names. So do you want to represent your squad unique in front of opposition then these squad names help you out. Check out below: -       - Hungry BEAST  - PUBG Striker  - Bitch Mafia  - Hungry Admirals  - Dizzy Irresistible  - Branded Kameena  - Brown Wolf  - Noob Nitesh  - Krusty Demon  - StudMan  - Foamy Swagger  - Walking Drgon  - Shooter Aparichit  - Rahul King  - TheSniperMan  - Demon Hunter  - ImInsane  - Dead Killer  - I am Ghost  - Pabloz  - Fanatic Tranny  - Call Me Daddy  - Organic Punks  - Militaristic Fighting Machine  - Organic Punks  - Plain Privilege  - Fuzzy Pack  - Optimal Aces  - ATS Assassins  - Naughty Ladka  - Outrageous Domination  - Nutty Domination  - DarkShadow  - Raw Sahil  - Рэяғэст Ѕмөкэя  - Complex Slayer  - Nalayak Ladka  - Innocent Ladka  - Dark Prince  - Perfect Smoker  - Fire Bloom  - Chickenlover  - Outrageous Dominance  - Headhunter  - PUBG_Lover  - NashediGang  - Outrageous Dominance  - IAmGosuNight  - Brash Thugs  - Gujjar  - Plain Privilege  - Headshooter  - Captain Jack Sparrow  - Bloss flop  - Demonic Criminals  - Thunderbeast  - Xx-DΞΛDSH0T-xX  - 77SupremeEnigma  - Keen Team Six  - AWMLover  - DEATH MACHINE  - Strangelove  - FrÕstyOdyssey  - Annoyed Power  - Fanatical Tyranny  - Hungry Admirals  - Cloudy Perpetrator  - Quarrelsome Strategy 

4 letter PUBG clan names 

- Devi  - Soft  - Rets  - Aura  - Otus   - Boyd  - Agon  - Dogs  - RROD  - Wolf  - Euos  - Soft  - Nock  - Enyo  - Imðr  - Myst  - Glen  - Adam  - Yanz  - Blur  - Syme  - Weir  - Bone  - Ioke  - Kale  - Fear  - Axis  - Eiar  - Aces  - Abas  - Raze  - Usar  - Sága  - Wizz  - Ćłδň  - Deer  - Popi  - Gunn  - M3RK 

Final Words 

So, there you have it – a list of the best PUBG Clan names for your squad. If you’re looking for something clever, funny and unique just plain cool to call yourself and your friends while playing the game, any of these will work perfectly.   One point always keeps in your mind while you are choosing the clan’s name in PUBG, the chosen name should not be to complex and have something crispy in it so that it remains in the memory.  Please tell me about your quires in below comment box.  if you want to know about 500+ BEST FORTNITE CLAN NAMES IDEAS click here - FORTNITE CLAN NAMES IDEAS Read the full article

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In essence, this is a blog to collect and organize one freak-wizard’s thoughts on one of the largest media franchises of all time, and how it’s innumerable contributors have changed and mutated it, for better and for worse, with new ideas and connective tissue; this blog will attempt to use these contributions, as well as the contributions of other fans, to craft a Star Wars.

“A Different Star Wars”, it could be called - one that disavows the rights holder’s hyper-commercializations of the Galactic Empire’s fascism (I’m hoping we’re all caught up to what that word means - lost fictional glory, death cult of heroism, outsider enemies who are at once a devious and impossible threat and a pathetic subhuman horde) and the right wing’s obsession with it as a virtue-signalling tower, and calls for more empathy, more gay shit, more aliens, and way, way more camp to inundate the franchise.

Below is an introductory “essay”/”discussion”. Sorry for the length. Further below is the actual blog. I hope any prospective readers can enjoy!

Star Wars.

A multi-media franchise held in high esteem by many, a framework for legends and stories, a multi-billion dollar franchise, and a lore-rich fandom-sink of oft-contested quality.

Originally a fun science-fantasy romp with a little too much creative inspiration from nazi-lovers (such as Joseph Campbell and Leni Riefenstahl) to be comfortable, Star Wars was simple: a small adventure of two hard-luck retainers, a farmboy wizard, an old knight, two rogues, a princess, and the black knight of an evil Empire in a strange galaxy. The mission was to rescue the princess, and destroy the doomsday device with the help of the heroic Rebellion. The principle characters are all human, or human-aligned robots, and one would not be blamed for assuming the battle between the Empire and Rebellion was strictly human business, despite a vast array of creative aliens on display at the first planet we saw. At the end of that story, the heroes have won and the evil Empire has been defeated for good in one great swoop of a Pyrrhic battle.

A short and sweet creation of just one great, visionary man! Well, one man and a legendary composer. And the band. And some writer friends giving him a lot of input. And a host of expert craftsmen and artisans. And y’know, that one great man’s wife did most of the script editing and made it workable as a film, too. And many, many film crew. Not too mention the actors. Actually maybe Lucas didn’t too to much more than give characters funny names. Or his own name. And tried to model the whole affair after standardized colonial propaganda based on some depraved creep’s writing. At least he had a lot of experience under his belt with. just two movies beforehand? It’s kind of a miracle this thing got off the ground in the first place, with a delusional loser like that at the helm, eh?

But then, that dorky little film was such a hit that it changed pop culture forever, made a more money in a few short years than some governments have made in their entire existences, and became a buzzword for an ignorant and malicious business man-turned president’s plan to shoot lasers at Russia with satellites! And so, obviously, there needed to be sequels! That weren’t slightly-incestuous follow-up novels!

The evil empire turned out NOT to be defeated at all! And it’s been 5 long years of war for the heroes and the Rebellion. The empire is bigger and badder and now the black knight has an evil wizard to serve! What is the Empire’s true capabilities and limitations? It’s not mentioned, because the absence of such makes it much easier to write conflict. All we know is that they are unequivocally evil, and powerful. They are everywhere and hold all the cards, and that makes it exciting for the heroes to outwit them and save the day. By the end, they are down one hand and a rogue, and are up a roguish duke, a shocking familial reveal, and the bittersweet ending - the bad guys have taken a victory, but the heroes are not out of the fight yet, as they pass by the galaxy a star with a fleet of kitbashed plastic beauties and John William’s hopeful music swelling.

The next film starts out hornier than it’s ever been again, with a daring dive into the criminal underworld of the galaxy to rescue the stolen rogue! And with prolonged shots that make it clear Lucas was serious about “underwear not existing in his universe”. Anyway, they strangle a big worm and vamoose right back into the main plot. The Empire is striking back (again), this time with... a SECOND doomsday weapon?? How can they afford a second, bigger one? How powerful Is the Empire? Not powerful enough to avoid being completely shattered after their doomsday weapon is destroyed again, it seems! With a bonus late redemption of the black knight! This time with the help of alien allies, and the Vietcong care bears from the forest moon. Surely, this is a new beginning, for new adventures, new villains, and a bright world of exciting concepts!

And, hey, it is! Fantastical pulp adventures written by a myriad of authors, exploring dangerous new worlds, fascinating new people, complex new main characters, strange and ancient forces, magical threats and friends! This story has the rouge and princess’ children kidnapped by a wizard who wants to feed them to a televangelist dimension-blob! This story is about a family of 70′s-looking beatniks or something crashing on the planet with the vietcong bears and helping them storm a castle to save the village and rescue their parents! This story is about the Rebellion’s New Republic fighting a death-fleet of death-worshipping skeleton-goblins trying to kill everyone! This story is about the New Republic fighting a alliance of randomly-murderous alien bugs who are sentient but now decide to kill everyone! This story is about the New Republic fighting a death-fleet of oppressed alien satans who also fought against the Empire but randomly went too far and started invading other planets for some reason, proving once and for all that the REAL fascists are the antifascists :)))) ! (/j) This story is about the New Republic fighting another death-fleet of skeleton-goblins, but this time they are from beyond the stars and are religious and the good guys get help from bureaucratic smurfs! This story is about the New Republic fighti

But they can’t sustain these heroes on unique pulp adventures forever, apparently. So they reintroduce the Empire! You thought they were defeated? Nope! Those giant warships gathered around their inaugural superweapon and evil wizard emperor were only a tiny fraction of the Empire’s power! The Empire is without limit and it turns out they had control over the ENTIRE GALAXY. Millions of worlds with trillions of subjects, and more than likely billions of soldiers! Against a cumulative, active allied resistance of. A few hundred thousand. Hum. How did the heroes win, again? Anyways, the Empire is fractured into warring states, which makes things easier for the New Republic. Until they reunite. And then fall apart and reunite again under a blue guy who wasn’t there before and his gilf boyfriend, and again with a clone of the evil wizard emperor, and again with a random Sith, and again with the princess and rogue’s child and so on for. More than a hundred years in-story? and further beyond that? That’s pretty cool! At least, if they didn’t keep trying to tell the same tired overarching story again, constantly upping the ante on the doomsday weapons. This van-sized ice cream cone can melt a sun? Cool and balanced.

It feels like this all has gotten away from us slightly.

At least the prequels they followed it all up with tried to do something new, dialogue be damned. A lot of irl-relevant discussions about war-profiteering and the descent of capitalist-run democracy into fascism. The reveal that the mystical, heroic Jedi knights of legend were just a repressive order of space-cop monks who hated it when men cried. The main character being the black knight from the first film. Some trans-coded robots fighting for a group called “the CIS” and being horrifically slaughtered by the good guys despite their very visible sentience and repeated attempts to surrender. An army of child soldiers who are also a guy and popular toy from the last two OT movies. Witty banter between a bunch of bisexual disasters. Overall silly, but pretty good in places.

And, that was Star Wars.

Until DISNEY, the House of Mouse, those Fuckers from Florida, came in and bought the entire franchise from itself, and tried to hammer everything out and back into shape. Everything aside from the movies? Non-canon! Excised! It’s a brand new universe to be explored! Except that goofy little CGI cartoon. That can stay. Let this wolf-fetishist cook. Give him some more shows. Wait why does that one look like Hot Wheels-

And they’re taking the franchise in a bold new direction of: more films! This one’s about the guys that died stealing the plans for the first doomsday weapon. This one’s the confusing, disjointed origin story of the rogues (well, one of them) from the first movies and highlights each and every thing they ever mentioned in passing to flesh out the world. It all happened in like, a few weeks and there were supposed to be sequels but the movie wasn’t as big as they hoped so whoops and then they didn’t make anymore movies at all because tv shows are much easier to make.

But THIS one, this is the start of a new trilogy! A new story, fresh and exciting for newcomers (despite the general consensus of needing to watch ALL the films to enjoy anything new. keep that in mind for later), with likeable characters acting out the major story beats of the... first film. Again, but bigger this time. Also the old characters are still here because they are marketable and nostalgic. The bad guys are once again a fascist Empire of indeterminate strength, except this time they want the audience to root for the bad guys a little?

Could that have something to do with the increasing popularity of internet commentators using the Empire as a “totally ironic” mask for their beliefs, indicating their willingness to buy an absurd amount of merch featuring the Empire (and indeed doing so)? Gee I sure hope generation tech isn’t serious about their “humanity first” racism and casual praise of a fictional fascist regime because then that would bring into question who they consider people irl haha.

Anyways, one of the rogues dies to his own son to tell the audience this is serious and also his actor fucking despises the franchise (but he’s a terrible person, so we can despise him right back~) so he’s out (until they give him more money) and the good guys win again, this time destroying the bad guy’s entire PLANET! Surely that means they are out of resources, considering how much it takes to terraform a planet (Ilum didn’t have trees before, they added those themselves), excavate the entire thing to the core and convert it into a giant solar-powered (it eats stars) shotgun. Surely they don’t have infinite resources again. That’d be silly. Despite the rocky start, we still have the new cast of characters! Let’s see what they can do.

And DO they do, taking the franchise in bold new directions, upending the cliches and assumptions that made up the last few movies. The quality of these decisions is questionable, but no one can deny that it’s trying something new, and good-silly, which is far more than can be said much of the franchise. Rejection of chosen one destinies, rejection of redemption, both the good guys and bad guys have been decimated, a grey coat of paint cast over the universe as it’s revealed the weapons of both sides being provided by the same corporations (which doesn’t make much sense, but more on that later), ending with the death of the wizard boy hero of the first 3 movies, and like a phoenix, the rise of another among a changed status quo! I wonder how this all will be handled in the next movie, what adventures will this small crew embark upon?

Not many, as it turns out! Despite everyone on every side dying majorly, supplementary material revealed that the bad guys had just as much wargear and fanatical troops as the Empire did, despite being constrained to the Unknown Regions which we know nothing about so I guess it’s justified? And the good guys are now back up to the strength the Rebellion was at in the first movie. Look, the Tantive IV is still there too! The ship from the opening of the first film? The Empire didn’t scrap it or destroy it to cover up the attack as a shipwreck like they said they would. So everything is back to normal, except the princess’ actress died and now they have to somehow work that into the film with horrible uncanny CGI. Little else has changed from 30 years ago somehow. Oh and the evil wizard is back after being thrown down a hole into an exploding reactor, which is silly and bad, but at least makes sense. It is science-FANTASY after all, wizards can just come back from that.

Anyways our one latinx hero is a drug dealer now. Sorry. Despite his character background being a military brat born and raised in the New Republic Navy, the cockpit as his cradle, his skin colour denotes that he ran drugs for a living. When? Dunno, but that’s what ol’ JJ Abrams thinks people with brown skin are like, so.

Oh and the asian heroine they introduced in the last film? They banish her to the background layer because people on the internet were extremely racist about her existence. Oh, and the black hero of this set of films? He just frets and worries over the safety of his white lady friend constantly and is bounced back and forth between like 8 different love interests and still ends up alone. But at least he’s a kind of a wizard now? Oh, and the principle hero of this set of films is just, thrown against the wall like a sticky hand. Her struggles of identity and rejection of destiny are thrown at the wall with her, because now she is the evil wizard’s grandaughter and also half of a “force-diad” (???) with the evil son, the culmination of which will either give the evil wizard ultimate power or explode him. Maybe she’ll turn evil? Nah.

And the evil wizard somehow hid a fleet of hundreds of extremely-expensive warships in an ice-field (the novel A New Dawn had the empire willing to destroy an entire planet just to get the shock-absorber fluid for the main guns of these ships’ standard loadout), in perfect condition, crewed by millions of secret cultists that he kind of just pulled out of his ass and he’s going to nuke the galaxy unless someone gives him his magic apple sauce.

The evil son turns good, his mother lays down to die like an old warhorse while everyone looks on sadly, and that was apparently her entire life’s destiny. Die so her kid could heal from dying, and then die again to save the hero who despises him and his antarctic-sized chest. The evil wizard explodes again, and a surprise fleet of copy-pasted ships arrives to help the good guys and blows up the secret fleet and secret cult and secret planet. The hero, who set out on her journey to escape a desert shithole, winds up right back on a different, uniquely painful desert shithole and takes the last name of the family she had a few brief and painful encounters with because her actual last name will get her lynched.

Interesting way to resolve all that.

There’s the tv shows! The endless. infinite,. Unceasing. painful parade of stories that cannibalize themselves with cameos and callbacks and nostalgia-baiting in an endless Ouroboros of literally 0.0000005% of an entire spiral-arm galaxy and constantly fumble with the new things they do create, with anything even slightly new or good being heralded as exclusively Genius Filoni��s Artwork of Legend. Hm. At least Rebels was fun, despite being guilty of the same sins. Andor might’ve been good absed on reactions, but I dropped Star Wars beforehand and I don’t trust a corporation to tell a story about resisting fascism.

Is the new Disney park good at least? Ah, you can go to Disneyland with your kids and watch guys in space-nazi spec-ops cosplay preach about the virtues of fascism. Interesting idea of “immersion”. then you can buy socks with their skull-like visages on them. This takes place slightly before the fascist bad guy regime is exploded along with it’s wizard, I think, so it’s trapped in a weird limbo of continuity. They took out all the benches and took out all the overhangs so now you can cook to death in the cruel Floridian heat, accessibility and health be damned. I guess that’s fun?

So. Star Wars is in a bit of a rough place, as it always has been, but ultimately I don’t think that roughness comes exclusively from creative decisions and ricocheting between production crews and directors. A large part of it comes from the fanbase, and the fact that every fucker has an opinion on a huge multimedia franchise and want to treat groups with all the moral ambiguity of a fairy tale as opposing sports teams that one can just choose to root for regardless of what they actually represent.

I’d like to recall to the scene in the New Canon comics where Darth Vader, a prodigy in the Force but having just crawled his ass out of a 1200km/h starship crash, uses the Force to pull the pins on hundreds of individual grenades of well over a hundred rebel troopers about to shoot him. The fascist-leaning fanboys of the once-villain-now-sports-team Empire loved this scene because it made their great man look cool, despite not being how the Force works, and despite the moment being a bizarre and gross attempt at making the fairy-tale Evil Overlord an underdog by pitting him against the actual underdogs of the story, in numbers that wouldn’t exist until years later in the timeline.

I’d also like to recall every single time the New Trilogy does something interesting with the Force, such as Luke, a prodigy in the Force, using the Force to project an image of himself lightyears away, or Rey, a prodigy in the Force, using the Force to heal wounds, and how, according to those very same fascist-leaning fanboys, those are unrealistic, canon-breaking travesties, blatant signs of a Mary Sue and the directors’ disrespect for the sanctity of the franchise.

It’s some pretty rancid vibes.

I want to fix that. I want to ignore all the weird right wing idolization and fix the things that gave them such ideas in the first place. I want the franchise to be more empathetic, more queer, and more camp. A clear fight between good and evil and the in-between that says something about the world that created it. I want to make things both a little crisper and a little fuzzier. I hope my ideas will be good.

[spinnitegaming]

Fantasy Life (Part 3) - Bring Me More Lives!

Happy New Year and welcome again to "These Are My Lives"! I'm your host, Spinner and I'm here to show how I survive minutes of even more repeating Life tutorials to make content for my playthrough blog!

Okay, getting that game show intro out of the way, I should cut to the chase and get to the last of Lives before I go crazy.

Last post, I tried 6 of the 12 Lives available in the game, which were Paladin, Miner, Blacksmith, Cook, Angler, and Hunter. I'll just shoot through the last six so I won't bore you guys without any main story content I will go through in Fantasy Life, so...

(Click “Keep Reading” for the full playthrough post!)

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The first Life I wanted to continue was one of the remaining two Combat Lives. So I relied on a coin flip to choose Heads for Mercenary or Tails for Magician.

It landed Heads.

And off I go to the crown to meet with Master Cervantes where I almost got bored to death with his long drawls of his heroic past. The barkeeper of the Crown helped me out of the drawls and told me that a farm in South Castele was attacked by monsters. Which was good news, but I had to drag his son, Jude to help me with the training because he's a bit of a scaredy-cat even as a Mercenary. When he was no help at all, a Plushling Mercenary named Miguel came in and offered to help me with the training instead.

Honestly, I kind of like my Mercenary starting gear. I wonder why I didn't choose this as my main in the story?

(Oh.)

So yeah, unlike Paladins, Mercenaries are more offense-focused Combat Life who wields large 2-handed swords and because of their weight compared to their one-handed counterparts, they are slow, yet powerful weapons, perfect for any boss encounters like you're living the dream of fighting like a Monster Hunter, but in Reveria. However, some challenges require you to perform some combo attacks to finish off a monster, and in my previous playthrough, I was barely unable to make some combos just to save my sanity over finishing one of them! Not to mention going all Leeroy Jenkins with this Life just gives me more pain than the Paladin even with tougher armor as my experiences with FLO have proven.

It's not recommended to use Mercs for single-player, but then again...

Once I broke a rock with my large sword and beat up some living carrots away from the farm, I went to another farm in West Castele to deal with aggressive roosters rampaging around and kidnapping chickens, I think. However, Jude managed to recall why he became a Mercenary in the first place through his storybooks and we beat our way to the Fledgling rank.

So wielding big swords wasn't my forte, so I wonder if magic is better for my back.

I met up with my Wizard Master, Professor Jinx, who seemed to be a talking two-tailed cat with a sharp tongue. I liked her at first, then she called me a "magiCAN'T". Because I couldn't use magic. And Hazel's students called me the same when I introduced myself. Why do I have a feeling I'm the bullied new student for this class?

As with other magic-based classes in other RPGs, Wizards are your standard magic-slinging Life allowing you to wield several elemental ranged magic to hit your enemies' weaknesses hard. Of course, being squishy magicians means you can't wear heavy armor, so they don't have high defense than other Combat Lives. And even worse, your basic attack will consume SP if you wield a wand, so be careful.

Unlike in most magic systems I know, wielding one in the world of Reveria was actually simple. You befriend several elemental spirits and borrow their powers to cast spells in any situation. For my first exercise, I found both the Earth and Water spirits, allowing me to wield their respective magic. Just like Hunter, I can switch what kind of magic I use with the D-Pad. Earth Magic lets me heal me or my party with a charged attack and Water Attack lets me fire ice magic, I think.

While learning the basics, I met Nox, Hazel's brother who turned out to be a bit more prick than Huntin' Pete. Being a little piece of an arrogant brat he was, he abused the heck off his magic just to show off his Fire Spirits.

(This does not bode well for the spoiled kid.)

After he goofed up, Hazel and I stopped the spirits from burning the forest and grabbed one of them so I can learn Fire magic, which just let me sling fireballs. After that chaos, Reverend S- I mean, Collinsworth visited Jinx and asked us to get rid of a Spooky who was disturbing his sleep. While we waited for the Spooky to appear at night, the reverend mentioned an old traveling Wizard appeared in West Castele and I wanted to see her for some advice to stop the little ghosty. The old woman, Esmerelda helped me find the last spirit I need, the Spirit of Wind to give me an advantage against my ghostly opponent, giving me the ability to fire tornadoes.

Just like Pokemon, it has its own elemental rock-paper-scissors system and while it's a bit different from Pokemon, it's not that hard to remember as long as you memorize them and don't screw yourself with your forgetfulness. Fire beats Earth, Earth beats Wind, Wind beats Water, and Water beats Fire.

At least, that's my logic from playing Fantasy Life Online!

To be honest, I have no idea how the Fantasy Life elemental system works because again, your Earth magic can only heal you while in FLO, it instead just deals damage while your charge attack heals instead! I tried to look around Reddit and other sites about the system, but no matter where I go, I can't seem to pinpoint what is wrong and what is right about it!

Eventually, the people at Discord clarified the resistances and weaknesses don't matter and I'll just rely on Water and Wind magic for some big damage. I should keep that in mind for my second character for something big. (Foreshadowing...)

Once we found the Spooky at night, Hazel and I charged in to fight it. Nox tried to join in just to show off, but Professor Jinx sealed his magic beforehand due to his actions from earlier and we had to step in to save him. We defeated the Spooky and I got myself another Fledgling rank.

Okay, now with all of the Combat Lives taken care of, I think it's time to deal with wooden weapons next. You can guess what Lives I'm going to take from those hints.

I met up with my Woodcrafter Master, Heyho next. But he wasn't much of a good Master because some bad past he was in made him convinced he was the worse Woodcutter of all Reveria. He gave me an ax and just kicked me towards Forrest for the usual, which he mostly prefers singing than doing Master stuff.

Woodcutter's gameplay is the same as Miner's. But instead of mining ores, you chop... I mean, fell trees to get logs. And you can guess what I'm going to use it for later.

Once I sold my Oak Logs, Monika, Heyho's daughter and I saw Forrest visiting the crafting hall where the minister asked him to find an Elder Log. I decided to help him and try to drag Heyho out of the Crown before he drunk himself with...Barley Juice. Yeah, I know what he was trying to drink, but I guess they just named it like because of the game's E rating. After some...*coughs*...persuasion, he decided to do a secret ritual of sorts to summon a Forest Spirit, which I tried to take a peek at, but I couldn't. He gave up thinking he failed the spirits, but I know better. This guy got spark and I couldn't give up so easily.

The good news: I found the spirit. But on a wishing fountain while she was dancing on the fountain for some reason.

(I'm not crazy... I swear...)

After helping her out from the fountain, the spirit, Elmie explained that me and Heyho were the only ones who can see spirits (as proven with my Wizard training back then). With her help, I found a tree for an Elder Log, fell it, and delivered it to the minister before he got any ideas. Before I got the Fledgling rank, however, I learned that Heyho how he became a Forest Protector and was recognized by royalty because of his ability to find Elder Logs, but he abused his power and felt regret ever since he was stripped of it because he almost stripped the forest out of trees. Now that I heard everything from him, I kind of felt bad. No wonder why #TeamTrees was created last year...

Okay, this post is going to get long very soon, so I better speed this up.

I rush over to the Carpenter Master, Woody, who was timider than Jude as he just gave me a saw and took off without even giving me the challenge after I did my usual training. I met Woody's little sister, Poppy at the furniture store where I learned I had to make a Custom Wooden Chair, one of her grandfather Marimo's creations. I had Marimo's ex-helpers, Beavy and Beavo (which for some reason, Poppy mistook them as puppies) made me Beaver Beams for the chair and with the help of a not!ghost Marimo, you get the drill.

Carpenters are the same as Blacksmiths, except you can make furniture along with wooden weapons and tools. While I kept some of the furniture for my house, I made the rest and sell them for Dosh or requests, which I will get into later.

Okay, woodcrafting is done. Now I just need to focus on my attire. As with other Crafting Lives, you can make clothes and furniture out of cloth such as shoes and carpets with the Tailor Life. Though most of the clothes can be used by every Life, Wizards seem to take advantage of them being the squishy mages they are.

And let me say a small tangent that in the sewing minigame, there are two rhythm game-like commands, namely the sewing machine and the hand-sewing in 3DS while in FLO, the sewing machine is replaced by a hold command. I don't know the reason behind the change, but it might be because they want to match with the other minigames in the Crafting Lives.

As usual, Madam Purl asked me to make a Fluffy-Ribbon Top that another Tailor, Taylor had trouble with. While we got the cloth needed for the top, all that was missing for a Fluffy Ribbon. We met a famous Tailor named Chic and after getting one with a little bit of singing, I rushed back to the hall and of course... Fledgling!

Okay, I'm a bit exhausted at this point. What better to end it is to make some potions to drink? Plus, this is actually one of my favorite Life stories out of them.

I met up with my Alchemist Master Flamel, at the royal library. He was obsessed with explosion-related experiments and last time I check, libraries and explosions don't go very well together.

Alchemists are what their names implied. They use Alchemy to make not only potions such as HP Potions, but you can also make bombs and accessories imbued with special effects that aid you in battle. This makes me worried about the library regarding the "bombs" part...

After I did the deed, Flamel kicked me towards a direction to the boy named Rupurt for my next test. When I did, I learned that he wanted me to make him a Lucky Charm just to negate his bad luck so he could deliver a love letter to his crush, the idol Harmony. One item gathering later, Fizz pointed me to a dangerous-looking fellow at the Castele Square to help me create a Dangerous Object. He was not only sleepy but has a fondness for explosions not unlike a certain Alchemist Master of mine.

Now that I think about it, why do I have a bad feeling about this charm?

One Lucky Charm crafting montage later, I gave it to Rupert so he could deliver the letter. The charm worked, but it suddenly blew up on his face literally as it literally absorbed all of his bad luck until it became a mini-bomb. How ironic...

(NOW you tell us! 😠)

On the bright side, he managed to deliver it. Though after I got my last Fledgling rank, I learned from Rupert later on that even if his crush read the letter, she rejected him. Ouch.

And there it is. All 12 Life story tutorials are done! You may think reading all of that makes you think you want to experience all of the Lives to learn the full story. But trust me, it gets boring really fast and I'm just doing this because I want content on this blog. You're actually free to skip most of them, but in case you're confused about what they do, you can choose to play the tutorial at your own pace. The only tutorials I recommend to not skip are when you pick up your first Crafting and Gathering Lives and the Angler tutorial as part of your build because the gameplay is much more different from Mining and Woodcutting.

You may think this is all just a waste for me to get all 12 Lives for my playthrough, but there's actually a good reason why. But you have to wait for the next post to find out.

Until then, hope you guys have a good 2022 and stay safe as usual. If you excuse me, I need a rest...

[whataplottwistyouwere]

My answer to @ottogatto

We have. Every right. To dislike a character. And like another. Especially if they are very different. No matter if it bothers you.

Okay first of all, of course I have no right to tell you what you should say or what you should think.

What I meant was you say Snape is a grey character and you said he bullied, yes. But you forgave him. And yet you can’t forgive James Potter. Who bullied Snape,yes. But who became an amazing person. He was whiter than Snape.

Theres one thing I still can’t understand. HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY SNAPES BULLYING AND NOT JAMES’S. Of course you can hate James, but you can’t hate him for his bullying; because yourself, is supporting a bully. Which means you have unreasonable hatred AGANIST James.

And of course you can have it. It’s your life and you can do whatever you want. But you have to UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS A BULLY TOO.

And as much as you have the right to hate James I have the right to hate Snape. And I know you are aware of it.

I understand people liking Snape, but there’s two things I can’t stand. People hating James and people shipping Snily🤮🤮🤮. Im fully aware that everyone can have their opinions. But when i posted a funny post about “Albus S**erus”’s name IN MY OWN BLOG people attacked me.

I didn’t ever blame James for protecting his friends -- I literally said that was “Good” or “Great”. I literally said that the fact he joined the Order was good. I didn’t forget it. I pointed out his flaws just like you exclusively did on Snape’s part.

Yes, but no one wants to read James’s good traits and when they do; they say “good” “great”. The thing you say “good” and “great” to is him risking his own life for the wizarding world. I think he deserves more than “good”

And everyone is so focused on what James did as a 15 year old, a teenager; no one wants to see him as an adult. I’m so sad for James. Can you imagine it? You Do your best for your family and for the wizarding world and get hated because you bUlLiEd a death eater. I’m sure you all went to Highschool. Is every snape’s Fans are saints? No. Did you do nothing bad?!

Snape did everything I talked about as an adult. But Snape Fans ARENT over what a 15 year old boy did! So I’ll discuss that for hours.

There is no evidence that Snape killed people, you made it up (unless you count how he led Lily and James to their deaths, despite his efforts to prevent this). In fact, his position as a spy clearly states that he wasn’t on the battlefield slaughtering people. On the contrary, Voldemort sent him to try and have him as a spy teacher, which means that Snape couldn’t be known to kill people in the meantime. We have further evidence: Bellatrix does blame Snape for “always slithering out of action” as a spy, which point out that as a double-agent (and later as Dumbledore’s spy), he tried not to kill people. On the other hand I could say that James could have killed people. Why not? If McGonagall says “we fight to kill” and if James hate those Death Eaters so much he could have killed the people of the other side.

You said Snape probably didn’t kill anyone because he was a spy. You are wrong. Snape became a spy after Lily died. So in the First Wizarding War, he wasn’t a spy. He was a death eater on the field. Also Bellatrix Blamed Snape on HBP, which is the Second Wizarding War. I never said snape killed people in the 2.WW. I said in the the First wizarding war.

James was an auror. Of course he killed people. He killed Death Eaters. ITS NOT A BAD THING LMAOOOOOO. Every auror killed Death Eaters. Dumbledore,McGonagall,Sirius,Remus, and literally everyone who fought for the right side

The level of Fred and George’s hexing -- even though I don’t like how they burned a hold through Ron’s tongue, imprisoned Montague in a limbo, and killed an animal for fun -- doesn’t reach at all the level of bullying James and the Marauders perpetrated. In fact, Harry thinks, in OotP, that even Fred and George wouldn’t do what they did.

Ohh, you don’t like Fred and George too. To be honest , I’m just repeating myself at this point. If you don’t like Fred and george, how can I expect you to like James.

WE CALL IT PRANKS. OF COURSE I DONT SUPPORT ALL OF FRED&GEORGES ACTIONS NOR MARAUDERS’s ACTIONS. But you hate them for their pranks (yeah, I’ll say pranks because what they did to Snape was mutual. “Snape Never missed a time to hex James” THIS IS CANON. Yes, he might not have tried to curse James after that exam. BUT IT DOESNT MEAN HE NEVER DID!!! BUT YES BLAME AN AMAZING MAN WHO FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT SIDE, FOR ONE FRICKIN MEMORY. This whole story is one sided because we only saw James bully not Snape)

He used Dark Magic as self-defense in SWM -- the Marauders chocked him, tormented him, sent him to his death, sexually assaulted him. Dark Magic could have been punished by the professors. Doesn’t excuse the Marauders for bullying. Whether. Or not. They use Dark Magic. What’s the point of repeating myself though if you don’t want to understand my points in my previous answer?

Okay don’t trying to be rude, but aren’t you a little bit dramatic here. “Chocked him, tormented him,.....” LMAOOO. Im sorry but you cant prove that they s*xualy assualted him because it was never said that they removed his underwear or not. Also dark magic SHOULDNT be considered. YES YOU HAVE TO STICK UP FOR YOURSELF BUT DARK MAGIC ISNT THE ANSWER. And if you think, using dark magic is acceptable; I don’t think I can change your mind

Also in the Werewolf Incident, it’s %100 Sirius’s fault. I will not defend him. But I’m sure he didn’t want him to die. But James risked his life for Snape. Also you said “why Snape would ask forgiveness for his bully [to Voldemort]” Because when you are a nice person, you don’t care whether you like this person or not. You don’t want anyone to die. Even if that’s your biggest enemy. Don’t I have people who I hate? yes. But I would never want their death. And so didn’t James, so he saved Snape’s life’s . But sure , ignore this too.

Snape said that what Mulciber/Avery/other Slytherins did to Mary (and we don’t know what that was) is a joke -- he uses the same excuse as the Marauders in front of Lily, who bites the bait. This allows him to point out to Lily that they are no different. I do wish not to repeat myself about how Hermione mutilated someone’s face and gets out with it, though it could have been Dark Magic as well, seeing how it can’t get off and how serious this is (doesn’t mean I hate her -- I actually like Hermione).

I don’t love Hermione, and I don’t know if it’s dark magic or not; so I don’t think I can argue about that. But however, I want to point something out. Snape said “it was a joke” to Dark Magic while Marauders used prank spells

See the difference ?

Okay so, you can’t stand James bullying and I can’t stand Snape bullying. But they were teenagers, weren’t they? Okay. I’ll hypothetically forgive Snape for what he did as a teenager and you’ll hypothetically forgive James for what he did as a teenager

All of the reasons you hate James is from his teenager hood (?). You are hating a 15 year old CHILD. Okay. Let’s skip to the adult part. Who was a death eater as an adult and who was a member of the OOTP as an adult. Every Snape fan loves Lily. And lily loves James. Do you think James gave Lily drugs and made her fall in love LMAOOOOO. In the end of the day LILY CHOOSE JAMES. Lily is no one’s property and she doesn’t belong with Snape. She’s her own person and she choose James. If James is that horrible person you keep talking about how do Lily love him? How do McGonagall and all of the teachers love him. I was trying to stay calm when I wrote 728281 essays. But I keep repeating the same thing because no one reads them and they just reply from their deliusuonal world. I was on my phone all day, and I did nothing else. Of course, no one is forcing me and I love debating. But my essays don’t change anything at all!! I feel like I wrote them for nothing and I keep repeating it.

It isn’t confirmed that if Lily’s son hadn’t been threatened then Snape wouldn’t have changed sides. You made it up. Because guess what? I can still say he would have changed sides because he was growing disgusted by Voldemort’s actions, or because he couldn’t bear knowing that Lily was undergoing too much danger. And what if he wouldn’t have changed sides? Doesn’t matter, because he did it in the end, which doesn’t make it less brave. There are a bunch of heroes who wouldn’t have lifted a finger for the right cause hadn’t their loved ones been threatened (Katniss, Eren, etc) and yet does it make them less heroic? No because you don’t only judge someone by their initial motive -- but by their actions. Snape was the reason many were saved -- including Harry, Hermione and Neville, mind you. Which would make me repeat again my earlier poin

Yes it is confirmed. This question was asked to JKR in 2007(I’m sorry I’m not sure about the year) JKR wasn’t a bad person back then, and the books/movies were JUST released. Someone asked “would snape change sides if Lily wasn’t in danger” and she answered “no. he probably wouldn’t, I don’t think so” which is another proof that, snape changed sides because of his own selfish reasons.

And you are wrong about the hero thing. If lily wasn’t in danger, snape would contiune being a death eater and kill innocent people. Of course Katniss wouldn’t volunteer if her loved ones weren’t in danger. But even if Katniss didn’t volunteer. She was a nice person. Even before she volunteered she was a hero who tried to help people. The problem I have is if lily wasn’t in danger snape would kill innocent people. If Prim wasn’t in danger would Katniss kill innocent people? no. She would’ve continued living. That’s the difference.

Also as I said before I have an amazing discussion why Snape isn’t brave. Please read that because I’m so tired of repeating myself. My problem isn’t with Snape. My problem is him being overrated and him being “the bravest man” but he actually isn’t

I’ve already proven to you that bullying is always one-sided (especially 4-on-1 bullying) and that Snape “didn’t bully James back” but was actually trying to mind his own business -- that what Sirius says is what bullies typically say to blame the victim and thus sees his words put into question.

As many Snape Fans you are making excuses and the excuse here is “Sirius’s POV is biased”.

But what if it’s not. You can’t hate someone because of the possibility of Sirius having a biased POV. It’s only a possibility.

And you know what else is a possibility. Snape’s POV might be biased too. What if he’s overreacting. It’s his own memory. We cant be sure it’s %100 true.

Yet I act and answer like it’s %100 true because we have no proof that says otherwise. Same with Sirius, you have to act like it’s canon.

Also if James didn’t change why would Lily marry him. You can’t say Lily’s mind was biased, can you? LMAOOO

Indeed he bullied Neville and Harry. Wow. Big news of the Earth. But do rest assured that Snape, if given the choice, wouldn’t have stayed a teacher. He was a spy, not a teacher. He was an adult, and what do the other adults in HP? Molly tells her children to respectfully call him “Professor Snape”, Lupin says that Snape was right in some points, McGonagall stays friends with him, the other professors seem to quite like him, Dumbledore let him be harsh/bullying. Well I mean, when McGonagall uses death threats as punishment and shames Neville, when Trelawney shoves a book in Neville’s belly in rage, when Flitwick shrieks at his students and throws Trevor at the other side of the classroom -- because if you hadn’t read it, Neville was said not to be coddled in other courses as well -- when at least half of the teachers in Hogwarts should go have a check with an organization that tells them how to behave, I’m not going to blame Snape only. Personally I would have left the school the moment I knew the professors and Dumbledore allowed extreme bullying to occur, left barely punished.

Oh poor Snape. Did he do a job he hated!!! HOW CAN YOU USE THIS AS AN EXCUSE. HE BULLIED CHILDREN. THE CHILDREN HE WAS RESPONSIBLE OF. AND HIM NOT WANTING JOB IS AN EXCUSE!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME. This is absolutely no excuse. None of us do what we want to , but you can’t take your anger or your hatred from innocent children

I explained to you the Boggart. It’s up to you to listen or no.

Of course I listened to you, but I don’t think it has explanation nor an excuse. What he did was unforgivable and unjustifiable

Snape changed and I have given you the evidence. That he didn’t act nice -- even that I would partially explain as being his play as a deep cover double agent. What would Voldemort do if he learned that he coddled Neville? And really, he mostly wanted Neville to try and once succeed at following recipes, not making the potion explode or melt the cauldron along with his feet. Did he go out of his way to track Harry and Neville down to assign them detention? Did he mock Neville for being the child of vegetative parents? Clearly you haven’t seen the worst.

Clearly I haven’t seen the worst!!! Excuse me!! He humiliated him in front of Slytherins which ended up him getting bullied. He ruined his self esteem and he wasn’t able to do anything. He already had a hard childhood and he made him feel like a piece of sh** PLEASE DONT TRY TO MAKE AN EXCUSE. SNAPE FU**ED UP NEVILLES CHILDHOOD AND HIS MENTAL HEALTH. DO YOU THINK ITS OKAY. “It IsNt ThE WoRsT” I THOUGHT THIS TOPIC WAS OFF DEBATABLE. BULLYING A CHILD YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE OF ISNT OKAY.

I mean, Snape did become a young adult and tried to cope with what he lived. Wanna know how? He came to think that emotions were weaknesses (indeed it could cost his life), that discipline was essential, that rule-breaking was intolerable, and that you must be rigorous in your work. That those who “hold their hearts on their sleeves” are foolish and weak. Ah yes, that happens when you lived the last 22 years in the very place in which you were bullied, without access to any psychological help.

To be honest I don’t know why I’m discussing this with you, if you have this moral!!! HARD DISCIPLINE WAS NECESSARY!!!! THIS ISNT HARD DISCIPLINE THIS IS BULLYING. ACCEPT IT.

Still - I understand if you don’t like Snape for his bullying attitude. What I don’t agree with, on the other hand, is how you claim that Snape’s Patronus was a sign of obsession. I wonder what that makes Tonks then, whose Patronus changed as well? Or Harry having his father’s Patronus (oof)? Besides assuming that Snape’s Patronus changed at all -- you say that true love isn’t obsession. Guess what? Patronuses represent true love. Snape wasn’t obsessed, but James showed obsessive misogynistic behavior against Lily -- I proved it twice. If you’re going to tell me that characters can’t have Patronuses of the other sex and that Patronuses of different sexes (male/female) are the true sign of love while Patronuses of the same gender equals obsession then I’m going to call you homo/queerphobic. Yeah, have you thought about what those later assumptions meant?

If you want to I can discuss why James and Lily are soulmates. Why Jily is superior and why Snily is even disgusting to think.

Snape didn’t ruin Harry’s childhood. Voldemort did. If not for Snape Harry would have had no childhood. Especially when you know that the only reason Lily was given a choice to sacrifice her life for Harry (thus giving blood protection) is because Voldemort was convinced by Snape to spare her. If Snape hadn’t asked this, Lily would have had no choice but to die, and Harry would have followed. Must I mention how Harry would have been killed at 11 if not for Snape.

Also let’s love snape; who supposedly protected Harry. “You know what Harry, your mom didn’t loved me 82929 years ago also your dad was cooler than me, so I will treat you and your friends like sh*t

He never changed nor matured. He didn’t move on from Lily but he abused Harry because of his father.

Also thank you Snape for not killing Harry at 11. If Dumbledore told his suspicions to any other teacher, they would’ve done the same. Thank you Snape for not letting Harry fall from his broom.

And indeed it’s the same thing over and over again: I have the right (and the reasons) to dislike James and love Snape, just as you have the right (and the reasons) to dislike Snape and love James.

I won’t force you to like anyone. But you can’t + shouldn’t hate James because he was a bully. Snape was a bully too. You cant love a bully but also hate a bully. You should find more reasons to hate him. But it’s really hard to find reasons to hate James Potter who sacrificed himself for the world. Of course we will only focus on what he did as a 15 year old child. But what snape did at 15 has 392929 excuses.

Thank you for discussing this with me in an humane way. I highly encourage you to read my previous posts because I mentioned everything. Literally everything. I’m repeating myself at this point

[valalaraptor]

10 questions

got tagged by @caustic-krana

Rules: Answer these questions, then create 10 new ones and tag 10 people.

Favorite breakfast food? Waffles, followed closely by  (American) biscuits and gravy. Cocoa wheats when I don’t want to put forth effort.

What pretended to be/made up game you played at recess when you were a little kid? Pokemon. So much Pokemon. My friend was Ash, I was Brock, and the role of Misty was foisted upon our third friend Omeed for the singular reason that he had an IRL fear of bugs, which he accepted with grace. Then Pokemon was given a blanket ban because there were too many arguments about Pokemon cards, so we had to switch to Sailor Moon.

Something you really like about yourself I’m pretty fond of my hair, it’s never behaved a day in it’s life and neither god nor the devil would be able to wrangle it.

If you had an infinite budget but only for a single indulgent thing what would you get? A fully furnished farm in the mountains of West Virginia.

Name something everybody is super into that you’re constantly exposed to but you don’t really care for It was sport ball and GoT, but both have ended as of late, so I need something new to fixate my ire on, hmu if you have any ideas.

Your favorite video on YouTube This.

Your favorite “fad” that occurred during your lifetime. Don’t have to have participated just something memorable that you witnessed. Silly Bandz. An event directly involving them was the inspiration for my current handle, but that’s a story for another time.

Whats the number one quality you respect in people? Compassion / Empathy / general love for your fellow humans. It’s so easy to be a misanthrope these days, that mustering any of those three up is a heroic task.

What’s something you care enough about/know enough about that you could give a lecture on? If not to a crowd then just in your head. Honestly, I know a lot of random facts across countless subjects, but not enough on any one subject to give a lecture. Nothing immediately comes to mind, at least.

Recommend a blog you think is worth following @bobokitty and not just because I’m biased. She’s in school for animation right now, so you get to watch in real time as someone evolves as an animator. Really good, inspiring stuff.

Forgive me, I’m not sure of 10 people to tag, so have 5! @bobokitty @indigoumbrella @tsuminkoo @kizzness @tuyetnhip Here are questions for you if you feel like it!

You’re about to be stranded in the year 1999! What single object do you bring with you?

What is your go-to comfort food?

Art Deco or Art Nouveau? 

In your opinion, what was the best invention of the 2010′s?

You can only use one expletive for the rest of your life, the rest get censored The Good Place style. Which dirty word do you pick?

If you were a clown, what would your stage name be?

By chance, you’ve become a wizard/witch/spellcaster! What is your familiar?

In your opinion, what’s the worst thing humanity has done to pizza?

You just got your necromancy certification! Which famous person do you bring back to life for a year?

If you could get rid of one household chore forever, by whatever means, which one would it be?

[siswritesyanderes]

So, I've been scrolling through your blog since I'm on bed rest. Your stories are always great and on point with their characterisation. Can I request a sequel for Draco and Harry with the same crush?- bubbles

(Original post, for those who haven’t read the first part.)

“Didn’t mummy ever tell you it was rude to eavesdrop, Potter?”

Harry threw the Cloak off of himself and strode up to Draco. “I was just waiting for your posse to clear out.”

“Quite Gryffindor of you to want to talk to me alone knowing full well you got my father sent to Azkaban.”

Draco’s tone and posture were explicitly threatening, but Harry ignored that. They were starting their sixth year, and some things needed to be made plain. “I know you’ve become a Death Eater.”

“What makes you say that?” Draco spat.

“I overheard you at Borgin and Burke’s, and I saw how you reacted when Madame Malkin got close to your arm.”

“So it’s more of a theory, then.”

“You know why we have to discuss it.”

Draco’s gray gaze, still full of resentment, softened a little.

“Will she be safe from your lot?” Harry asked.

“Her family isn’t on the list of Blood Traitors. I don’t know everything, but I’m sure the Dark Lord will be trying to recruit; unaligned Purebloods are a commodity.”

“Whatever you’re plotting with your new master, make sure she’s kept safe.”

A grim smile worked its way onto Draco’s face. “You might not like what I have to do to ensure that, Potter.”

“I know. But so long as she doesn’t align with Voldemort,” (Draco glared at the sound of the Dark Lord’s name.) “she’s safe from my side. I need to know you’re doing your part to see that she’s safe from yours. However this war turns out, one of us needs to be keeping her safe.”

(Harry was sure it must have signified a true corrosion of his morals, but he couldn’t be disgusted by the thought of Draco committing some atrocity to please Voldemort; not when the end was keeping her from Voldemort’s line of fire. Most everything was expendable, to that end.)

Draco nodded, privately thinking that Dumbledore was as good as dead. That was the only way he could win enough of the Dark Lord’s favor to protect her.

“We’d best get off the train,” Harry added, turning to leave.

“I can’t say whether the rest of her family will survive the year, but fortunately, she is safe at Hogwarts.”

She was not, it turned out, at Hogwarts.

Interrogating one of the Ravenclaws in her year earned Draco the insight that her family had been one of the ones to scare, after the Dark Lord’s return, and withhold their children from school in the hopes that staying together would make them safe.

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, S T U P I D. How could she have come from such a stupid family? Wasn’t intelligence supposed to be hereditary?

Not caring how it looked, Draco waylaid Harry in the hallway the first day of classes and interrupted his conversation with Granger. “Potter.”

Harry only glanced at Hermione before conceding to Draco’s implied command to speak privately; they walked off and eventually ducked into a tunnel behind a tapestry, one of their usual spots for discussing her.

“She’s not in school.”

“I know. I’ve been searching the Map for her, and I never see her anywhere.”

“Her parents didn’t let her come this year. Apparently, sending their child to the one safe place was too much for their minds to conceive of.”

“Funny, I thought you said Hogwarts was a ‘pathetic excuse for a school’.”

“Is now the time, Potter?” Draco snapped. “She’s with unaligned Purebloods right as the Dark Lord seeks to increase his numbers. If her family denies him, how do you think he’ll send the message he’s not to be trifled with?”

Harry flexed his hand agitatedly. “Slughorn said that he avoided the Death Eaters by moving from house to house.”

“He’s a powerful wizard; they’re all ordinary. They won’t stand a chance against our ways of tracking.”

“Then we have to bring her here. We have to find her and bring her here.”

“You’ll find sneaking things into Hogwarts fairly difficult, I’m afraid, Potter.” Draco’s words were coming out fast; the upsetting lack of HER was taking its toll on his mental state already. What was Hogwarts, if not the site for his interactions with her? Right now, it was just an anthill, full of meaningless bodies. He needed her back, needed her safe, needed her here. Potter was right; he needed her here.

“Hogsmeade, then. We can keep her in one of the inns, or in the Shrieking Shack, if she’s not…” Harry trailed off, almost guiltily, so Draco supplied:

“…cooperative?”

Harry let out a breath. “Those idiots shouldn’t have kept her away.”

“But she’ll be safe with us.” Draco was beginning to feel hopeful. Potter needed her here just as much as he did, and Potter was willing to break any rules in pursuit of his heroic goals. Have to make sure, though…“We have to keep her safe, understand? Whatever it takes. If you haven’t got the stomach to do some rather terrible things to accomplish that, then at least stay out of my way when I do them. Is that clear, Potter?”

“You don’t give orders, Malfoy. And I care about her just as much as you do. You’ve seen what I’m willing to do for her.”

Indeed he had.

The part of Draco that hungered for her presence found itself latching hard onto the idea of keeping her isolated in a place where only he (and Potter) could find her. And she would have to love him; he would be the one bringing her food, the only interesting company she received (as Merlin knew Potter was as boring as pewter). And maybe Potter would encounter some accident that rendered her exclusively Draco’s…No. Potter was necessary; he was her protection from Dumbledore’s side, if they started to see her as an enemy.

But once he killed Dumbledore, as ordered, and the Dark Lord killed Potter (both ideas that made him uncomfortable, but he ignored the discomfort), well, then she would be only his. In the meantime, she would learn to need his protection and crave his presence like he craved hers.

“Meet you by the Whomping Willow tonight; bring your broom.”

“Tomorrow night,” Draco suggested. “If we disappear over the weekend and return by Monday, there won’t be any questions. Meet you by the Willow tomorrow night; bring your broom and your Cloak. And I’ll bring a stash of Polyjuice Potion.”

“See you then.” And I’ll bring my Liquid Luck. Harry was sure it must have signified a true corrosion of his morals, but he couldn’t be disgusted by the thought of keeping her locked away in the Shrieking Shack against her will; not when the end was keeping her from Voldemort’s line of fire. Most everything was expendable, to that end.

Even her free will.

—–

(Cool, yeah, hope that didn’t suck. Also, hope you’re feeling better, Bubbles!)

[uglypastels]

Writing Challenge!!

Writing challenges are always so fun to do, so I decided to make one myself for a change. It’s also almost (not really) my birthday and I want to celebrate!!

It’s that time of the year again where it is cold outside, the leaves are falling off the trees, you just want to curl up under a blanket with a cup of hot chocolate and watch a movie... Or is that just me? 

Anyway, I love watching a good movie, or even a bad one sometimes.

This is why in this challenge, all prompts are quotes from movies! 

Rules are pretty basic, I’m not fussy about anything.  (prompts > “Keep Reading”)

You don’t have to be following me, but it would be nice of you, of course, if you did

Reblog this post to join and/or spread the word

Send me an ask wherein you choose a prompt 

Make sure you have a possible back-up if the said prompt is already taken

Preferably, I would like to have one story per prompt, but just in case anyone is really set on a prompt that has already been chosen, or if somehow by miracle every prompt is picked and more people want to join, each prompt will have two slots. (so one regular, one “emergency” slot)

All prompts are movie quotes, but your story doesn’t have to be based on the movie itself or have anything to do with the movie. Interpret the quote any way you want.

BE ORIGINAL! 

BE CREATIVE!

HAVE FUN! 

I would like to call myself a multifandom blog, but who am I kidding. I’m MARVEL’s bitch. 

Write about any MARVEL character/ actor (+ the Hollands/Harrison) you want but

if you want to do a different fandom, you are more than welcome!

Just don’t forget to tell me in your prompt request who you will be writing for.  

Fluff, angst, smut ... everything is allowed - just make sure to tag it.

NO UNDERAGE SMUT! Just don’t be gross, in general 

No, first person, but other perspectives are good to go

Any length of writing is good, but if it is longer than 500 words, make sure to use the “Keep Reading” option.

so the story can be a one-shot, two shot, a series < including a part of a series you already have going on.

When you post it, make sure to tag me and use the tag: 

#Z’s Movie Night Challenge

FOR AN EXTRA CHALLENGE (or if you just can’t pick): hmu with an ask telling me and I will pick for you! But do still mention who you will be writing for then.

Deadline is my birthday - December 18th! 

I will be making a masterlist of all the submissions

I think that’s it. Any more question? DM me or ask

(way too many) Prompts, but at least nobody can complain there is nothing to chose from: 

“I love you.” // “I know.” Star Wars, Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (@andwhatdostarsdobest w/ Tom Holland)

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Gone With the Wind  ( @procrastinatingparker w/ Tom Holland) 

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” Gone With the Wind

“Go ahead, make my day.” Sudden Impact

“Here’s looking at you, kid,” Casablanca

“I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.” Casablanca

“Of all the (gin joints) in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Casablanca ( @butwhyduh w/ Avengers cast)

“We’ll always have Paris.” Casablanca

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” the Godfather

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” the Godfather: Part II ( @sunsetspidey w/ Tom Holland)

“Just when I thought I was out, (they) pull me back in.” Godfather: Part III ( @sleepwalkingdragon w/ Harrison Osterfield on hold)

“You talkin’ to me?” Taxi Driver

“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” All About Eve

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Love Story ( @rainbow-marvel w/ Tom Holland)

“Forget everything you think you know.” Doctor Strange

“Pain is an old friend.” Doctor Strange ( @theamazingspiderlingg w/ Tom Holland)

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke ( @scholarlyspidey )

“What is it?” // “The stuff that dreams are made off.΅ the Maltese Falcon

“Alright, (Mr. DeMille), I’m ready for my close-up.” Sunset Boulevard

“There is no place like home.” Wizard of Oz ( @peterrrparkour w/ Tom Holland)

“I love the smell of (napalm) in the morning.” Apocalypse Now

“Show me the money!” Jerry Maguire

“You had me at ‘hello’.” Jerry Maguire ( @anxiety-in-a-getaway-car w/ Sebastian Stan)

“You complete me.” Jerry Maguire

“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” She Done Him Wrong

“Hey, I’m walking here!” Midnight Cowboy

“I want to be alone.” Grand Hotel ( @aw-hawkeye w/ Tom Holland)

“You can’t handle the truth!” A Few Good Men

“I’ll have what she’s having.” When Harry Met Sally ( @sleepwalkingdragon w/ Harrison Osterfield)

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." When Harry Met Sally (@somethingtoavenge  w/ Bucky Barnes)

“I’ll be back.” Terminator

“Hasta la vista, baby.” Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” The Pride of the Yankees

“We rob banks.” Bonnie and Clyde

“Well, nobody’s perfect.” Some Like it Hot

“Houston, we have a problem.” Apollo 13

“I could do this all day.” Captain America: The First Avenger/ Civil War

“We’re still friends, right?” Captain America: Civil War ( @starksparker w/ Tom Holland)

“Have you been playing Space Invaders? Because you’re invading my space!” Pixels ( @cas-backwards-tie w/ Peter Parker)

“Well, a boy’s best friend is his mother.” Psycho

“Well here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” Sons of the Desert

“Say hello to my little friend.” Scarface

“(Mrs. Robinson) You’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” the Graduate

“What a dump.” Beyond the Forest

“Is it safe?” Marathon Man

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" the Jazz Singer

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” A Streetcar Named Desire

“Hello, gorgeous.” Funny Girl

“Surely you can’t be serious?” // “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” Airplane!

“My precious.” Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it? You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"  On Golden Pond ( @musiclover1263 w/ Peter Parker)

"Carpe diem. Seize the day(, boys). Make your live(s) extraordinary." Dead Poet Society.

“I’m the king of the world!” Titanic

“I’ll never let go, (Jack).” Titanic ( @spider-puck w/ Spideychelle)

“You make me want to be a better man.” As Good as it Gets ( @thewackywriter w/ mob!Tom Holland)

“As if!” Clueless ( @fratboievans w/ Peter Parker)

“They’re here!” Poltergeist

“We know each other. He’s a friend from work.” Thor: Ragnarok

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! (This is the War Room.)” Dr. Strangelove

“I wish I knew how to quit you!” Brokeback Mountain ( @petersshirts w/ Tom Holland) 

“I’m not bad. I’m just (drawn) that way.” Who Framed Roger Rabbit (@lovelymalira w/ Bucky Barnes)

“Why so serious?” the Dark Knight

“Magic Mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all.” Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ( @thequeensardine w/ Harrison Osterfield)

“.... I dare you. I double dare you.” Pulp Fiction ( @hollandofthefree w/ Tom Holland)

“Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.” Arsenic and Old Lace

“It’s just a flesh wound.” Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( @sarahwritesfiction  w/ Steve Rogers)

“He might be okay….Well, no, probably not now.” Groundhog Day

“Life’s a bitch; now so am I.” Batman Returns ( @idontknowhowtowritesosorry w/ Shawn Mendes)

“That rug really tied to room together, did it not?” The Big Lebowski

“No, it’s a cardigan, but thanks for noticing.” Dumb and Dumber

“Is that all he said?” Lost in Translation

“Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler.” Office Space ( @totallytomholland w/ Peter Parker)

“You wanna come over?” // “No, thanks. I don’t want you fucking up my life, too.” Office Space (@mobtomsgirl w/ Tom Holland)

“Okay, sounds like a case of the Mondays.” Office Space

“And suddenly, I felt nothing.” Fight Club ( @brokennccrown w/ Steve Rogers)

“You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.” Begin Again

“(Veronica), you look like hell.” // “Yeah, I just got back.” Heathers ( @peter-is-the-best-avenger w/ Peter Parker or Tom Holland)

“Lick it up, baby. Lick it up.” Heathers

“But… I guess if I love you, I should let you move on.” 17 Again

“I want my life to be like an 80’s movie.” Easy A

“What makes life so hard?” // “People.” An Affair to Remember

“Have you ever been in love?” // “I think so.” Love, Simon (@fandomscombine w/ Peter Parker)

“I don’t wanna go.” Avengers: Infinity War (@fantasyizlife w/ Tom Holland)

“I don’t want another single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip. You understand?” Avengers: Infinity War

“I am going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.” Guardians of the Galaxy ( @fantasyizlife w/ Shawn Mendes)

“You actually were telling the truth?” // “I do that quite a lot, yet people are always surprised.” Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ( @fantasyizlife w/ Harrison Osterfield)

“I have what they call an unattractive face.” Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

“Oh, somebody, stop me!” The Mask

“I didn’t come here to tell you I can’t live without you. I can live without you. I just don’t want to.” Rumor Has It ( @marcymakemagic w/ Peter Parker)

“Are you always this cocky?” // “Only on Tuesdays… and whenever beautiful women are involved.” // “So, you think I’m beautiful?” // “Actually… it’s Tuesday.” the Three Musketeers  ( @tomhollanders2013 w/ Tom Holland)

“I’m going to be a lady if it kills me.” Dinner at Eight

“Prove it…” Shane

“I’m sorry, (Dave). I’m afraid I can’t do that.” 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Kiss my hot lips.” M*A*S*H*

“You have my sympathies.” Alien

“Get away from her, (you bitch)!” Aliens

“You can be my wingman anytime.” Top Gun

“Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?” Batman

“Love your suit.” The silence of the Lambs

“Quid pro quo.” (= A favor for a favor) The Silence of the Lambs

“Always.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II ( @peter-parker-life w/ Tom Holland)

Good luck, have fun! 

Tagging some peeps to spread the word because this is one thing I don’t want to die:

@tomhiddleston-is-myboo @tonyintexas @andwhatdostarsdobest @tomsfireheart @spinneret-holland @rainbow-marvel  @lovelyh0lland @de-lir-i-ous @peter-parker-life @tomhollanders2013 @tomhollandthirst @lifeisabitchandsoareyou @darlingtholland @sweet-pea-imagines @anxiety-in-a-getaway-car @manhoeparker @h-osterfield  @positiveparker @casuallytumblingdownthestairs @justmesadgirl @fandomscombine @tom-holland-and-textposts @my-current-obsessions-hehe (Sorry to bother anyone.)

[negativereader]

Everything Wrong With the Twilight Saga: Why was it so popular?

So, I’ve been hedging around this for a while. I’ve talked about it, I’ve mentioned it, but now I’m going to actually talk a little bit about it. Also, I felt that I honestly couldn’t end this Everything Wrong With series without talking about the reason why it was so popular.

Twilight’s popularity wasn’t something that anyone really expected. It wasn’t released to much fanfare, and it certainly didn’t get much in the way of publicity. Right when Twilight was coming out, YA was experiencing something of a slowdown. The Harry Potter books were still chugging along like no one’s business, but people were starting to realize that making knock-offs wasn’t going to sell well.

There were a lot of action books, and a lot of ‘real life issues’ books like before, but fantasy and sci-fi didn’t seem to know where it wanted to go. Did it want to go more in the epic direction, like Eragon and some of the repackaged ‘YA’ fantasy that had been moved over from the adult section were doing? Did they want to be humorous like The Wizard, the Witch and Two Girls from Jersey? Was it going to be wrapped up in real teen issues?

A lot of things were getting thrown at the wall, and one of them just happened to stick.

And ever now, no one is completely sure why.

Why Do People Love the Twilight Series?

I’ve made this blog on insulting this series. I’ve attacked the poor plotting, awful characters, confused planning, and questionable themes. Yet, for all of my, and others critique, this series was, in its heyday, ungodly popular.

And I’m going to take a look at the things that I think really appealed to fans to make a compelling enough read for them to keep wanting more.

The Setting

Settings are extremely important in fiction. A ghost story set in the Southeastern U.S. is going to be very different than one set in the Southwestern U.S. and both will be completely different than one set in Japan. Not only do they have different histories and lore which should contribute to how their written, but they have a different feel. The Southeast brings to mind hanging Spanish moss, abandoned plantations, long family histories, and small towns that have existed since the country was founded and have a good share of morbid stories, the Southwest brings to mind ghost town, forgotten mines, mountaineers who disappeared, and violent ends of gamblers. Settings set tones, expectations, and get people in the mood for a story.

Forks was an amazing choice of a setting. The Pacific Northwest is a tragically underused area in fiction, and it lends itself so well to creepy stories. There are still a lot of areas where people just don’t live, so it’s one of the last big wilderness areas in the country, it’s often overcast, giving an aura of gloom and mystery to the whole thing, and it just sort of seems like, if there were strange things left in the world (or at least in the U.S.), it would be here.

The setting might have been chosen by Meyer purely because she wanted her sparkling vampires to remain hidden, but she also managed to choose one of the best settings if she wanted to give a feel for the mysterious. You see the eerie looking trees in the background, or the fog, and it feels like there’s something strange going on before anything even happens.

The Supernatural

People like strange stuff. This shouldn’t be a surprise, but it always sort of is. Every time TV breaks from its reality TV/soap opera/sitcom and does something supernatural, everyone is all over it. Look at Supernatural, Stranger Things and even the first few seasons of Sleepy Hollow. People love the supernatural, and teenage girls are no different. It’s something that people don’t seem to understand, even now, but never seems to fail.

Teenage girls are no different. In fact, I can remember, as a teenager, actively looking for stories that involved a supernatural love interest, and even though the paranormal romance genre has died down, it still exists in some form or other.

The idea of the supernatural gives a feeling that what they’re reading is a fantasy, but also allows things that could have never happened to happen. It makes the story feel more epic, more important and more interesting. It adds to the atmosphere and gives a feeling like anything can happen, as well as adds new dimensions, such as theorizing.

The Powerful Powerless Plain Beautiful Protagonist

While I hate this trope, it’s a powerful one. Bella Swan is a perfect protagonist for a fantasy like this. She’s weak enough to that the reader can play out their rescue romance fantasies, but also grows to become the strongest vampire in the series. She plays out the reader’s insecurities on their looks and tells them that they really are beautiful.

More importantly though, while looking at Bella objectively, she’s a terrible person, she’s a character who was designed for the reader to insert themselves through. They can attribute motives and reasons to her actions that make sense to them. It is one of the reasons why, when you look at fanfic, you see so many different Bellas. You see ones who are snarky, ones who are kind, ones who are funny, clever, brave and so many things, that the reader wishes that they were.

Because that is what Bella is. She’s sort of like Barbie. She’s got an identity, but it’s not important. What’s important is that she plays a role for the reader to fantasize through.

What’s more, the idea of a normal person having to navigate the supernatural world with little more than a blocking ability is interesting, since she’s being forced to survive against much, much more dangerous creatures than herself. This is a perfect fantasy, and it’s not surprising that a lot of young women loved it.

The Man Who Saves and Is Saved

This is essentially the romance novel equivalent of having your cake and eating it too.  Edward Cullen essentially fulfills the dream of both being saved like a princess by prince charming, but also being able to save him from the darkness in himself. While, in reality, he’s actually a pretty poor character who flips from the ‘bad boy’ to the moral savior and honestly, like most of Meyer’s character really is more of a fantasy than a person, it doesn’t matter.

No one here is really looking for a story or a real character. They’re looking for a dream, and Edward, while I can’t stand him, is that dream for many people, or at least he was. He was dark, tortured, yet also more than capable of supporting Bella when she needed him.

What was more, he was just ‘in love’ with her. She didn’t have to earn his love. They never had to meet, slowly come together, and fall for one another. Bella, and thus the reader, never had to work. The fantasy was just there, waiting to be enjoyed.

The Gothic Revival

All of my critiques have been given before to another genre. One that, during the Regency and Victorians era’s in England was discouraged for ladies of quality to read because people thought that it essentially ate your brain. It was filled with swooning women, dark and brooding men, mysterious and dark castles, hints of the supernatural, empty wilderness, and…well…vaguely uncomfortable depictions of either foreigners or Catholics, often both.

The original Gothic romance.

In essence, Twilight and all of the paranormal romances that have followed it are a revival of the Gothic, following the same themes, ideas and patterns that people wrote back in the eighteenth century. It follows similar themes, settings and even patterns as the original.

Forks is the perfect Gothic setting. Cloudy, isolated, with a hint of something strange, but enough that is normal to be uncanny. It remains mysterious, but also intriguing. It’s strange, but yet familiar enough for it to be an ideal setting that hints that there might be something wrong, but acts as a bridge between the real world and the magical. To the point that Meyer originally wanted to name her book Forks.

Bella Swan is the essential Gothic heroine, foolish, flat, and dull, but at the same time, at least according to the author, kind, pure, resourceful and filled with qualities that should be admired and rewarded. She exists for the reader to experience the drama through her, but also is rewarded, not for what she does, but for who she is, living out the wildest dreams and fantasies of the reader, but doing so in a way that always remains grounded in the idea that she is a good girl.

Edward Cullen is the Gothic hero, both Byronic in his tortured element, but also heroic and ‘safe’ for the reader to fantasize about. This is no Anne Rice vampire, even if Rice should be considered responsible for Edward’s creation. He exhibits contradictory traits, but all of them are what the reader wants at different times. When the reader wishes to be protected, he is the protector, but when she wishes to be the protector himself, he is both emotionally, and later physically, dependent on Bella as she transcends humanity.

Paranormal romance is the Gothic, repackaged and remade for the modern world. The themes remain the same, as to the critiques of it. This is true of all genres. They do not really die. They just repurpose themselves. Because the fundamentals that created the Gothic, young women with contradictory desires, entering the world of adulthood and the strange and unstable that that represents, and coming into a physical maturity that implies many changes, who want to both be protected and loved, but also to be respected and rewarded on their own merits, have not changed.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, even if Twilight itself was a deeply flawed novel. Meyer made many mistakes but bubbling under the surface was the potential for a good book. Not only that, but the basic themes of the story, those of change, of trying to find a place in the world, of suddenly dealing with romance in a more long-lasting way, were all things that spoke to the readers, both the teenagers and the older women. Don’t get me wrong, I still think that the Twilight Saga is trash, and the obsessed fans of its heyday were both obnoxious and a little worrying, but, as I said, the aspects that appeal to people are still there, and they’re not going anywhere.

The Gothic, Paranormal Romance, whatever you want to call it, might be in a slump now, but all it’ll take is one decent writer to revitalize it, and the trend will start again. After all, what good is a supernatural story without death and rebirth?

[raulf-o]

JACK - ANTHOLOGY OF A YOUNG WIZARD 1: Observer or Ripper

You wench! You cheated on me! Taking my money and dignity! I hear a man scream. What’re you talking about? I’m just a washerwoman. The man pulls out a knife. Give me my money back! The man screams as he jumps on her. You women are but a blight on this world. The man says as he runs away. Should I have helped her? No, that’s not why I am here. What did he say? “Jack, go to London. Observe life. See the good, the bad and learn to distinguish between them. That’s how a young wizard becomes a great one, through experience.” If this is life in London, then I shall observe it and not mingle in it. The voice of another man calls out to me. You! Young man! Stop! As I turn around I see a watchman running towards me. What is it mr. Watchaman? As he gets in front of me, out of breath he pulls a rope he had tied around the stick he had on him and ties it around my hands. What are you doing? He looks at me confused as he tries to catch his breath. You… I’m arresting you… For the… You murdered that young lady. Why is this happening? But I didn’t. The man who did ran that way… He smiles. Whatever you say, young man, he says as he starts screaming like a lunatic…

The people start to gather around us as he keeps screaming. Until finally a man interrupts him. What’s the matter. Have you lost your mind? It is the middle of the night. The watchman with a smug look on his face looks at the man. I have caught a murderer, red handed. I sigh. But there is no blood on my hand. He scoffs. He killed that young woman there. Another woman comes crying. Her name was Juliana Prickfield. How could you? You monster! The man turns towards the watchman. What exactly happened? The watchman smug again. I was doing my duty, as one should. And then I hear some glass shattering, a man screaming. So, I did the only heroic thing I could do. Went and checked it out, only to find that woman there dead and him here at the scene. More people gathered. Eventually the coroner and one of the sheriffs arrive. As they explain the situation to them, I can feel the crowd’s eyes on my back, starring at me like I’m the devil. What is your name young boy? I turn towards the sheriff. Jack. I’m a wizard. The watchman quickly interrupts. See? He could’ve used magic to clean himself up… He did it. He killed miss Juliana. The sheriff turns towards her. Did you know the woman? She continues to cry. Yes. She was kind and let me live with her there…

The coroner comes back from the scene. Her throat was sliced and so was her chest, under the breast. It might’ve been a knife, a ripper, who knows, but t’was sharp. And whatever money and jewels she had, was now gone. The sheriff looks at me. Would you tell me what are you doing here, Jack the young wizard? I sigh. I was sent here to… The watchman interrupts me. I bet he stole the money, look here, in his pocket. He pulls out some money. See? The sheriff takes the money and looks at me. Continue. I take a deep breath. I was sent here to observe life and learn to be a better wizard. He looks up and down at me. You don’t look like a wizard to me. And what about the woman there? Did you kill her? I shake my head. No. The man that killed her screamed something about her being a wench that cheated him out of money and then ran that way after killing her. He sighs. And why didn’t you stop him? I look him in the eyes. Because I was sent here to observe, not interfere. The sheriff looks at me weirdly. Take him to a cell, the jurors will deal with him tomorrow. I hear a woman whisper behind me. He doesn’t look like he’s from here… Heard he used a ripper to kill the woman. Glad they caught him so fast. Another woman chimes in. Yeah, this Jack the Ripper fellow is a vile one. Hope they hang him… I sigh… So, this is life…

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[maepolzine]

So one of my favorite mobile games that has ever come out is Hogwarts Mystery which takes place in the Harry Potter universe shortly after the defeat of You-Know-Who and the death of the Potters. One of the things that comes up a bunch when talking to friends is they ask about your previous years. And sometimes remembering all of those details can be a bit much, so I’m going to be doing an overview of each year and what occurred during them. But I’m going to try not giving too much away.

Classes and things you’ll learn during your fourth year:

Potions: Calming Draught, Shrinking Solution, Weedosoros, Pepperup Potion, Beautification Potion, Ageing Potion, and Skele-gro.

Charms: Protego, Bombarda, Confringo, Ferula, Vermilious, Cistem Aperio, Scourgify, Diffindo, Arania Exumai, and Colloportus.

Flying: Formation Flying, Sloth Grip Roll, Broom Surfing, and Extreme Dive and Pull Up.

Transfigurations: Evanesco, Vera Verto, Beetle into Button, Colovaria, Sepensortia, and Orchideous.

Herbology: Wiggentree, Flitterbloom, Shrivelfig, and Wormwood.

Care of Magical Creatures: Fire Crab, Bowtruckle, Niffler, Murtlap, Streeler, and Kneazle.

Year 4 had to be the longest to release year in the mobile game Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery compared to any of the previous years. Often having weeks in between chapter releases. Even though this year took forever to fully release, I found this to be the most interesting year since you had the world famous curse-breaker Madam Patricia Rakepick arrive at the castle along with her niffler. Right away from her arrival your best friend, Ben is off. She also warns the students not to go looking for the Cursed Vaults and to stay out of her way. Students have also started to sleepwalk into the Forbidden Forest, the sign the third Cursed Vault had been tempered with along with it’s general location. Unlike the previous year where you took a while trying to figure out where it was. Madam Rakepick ends up telling the player to stop looking for the Cursed Vaults but teachs them the Shield Charm.

Rowan thinks Ben isn’t really their friend and is trying to hide something. Which you can agree with or not, considering Ben does deny this along with any connection to “R”. You then go around the castle to each of the professors after class to ask for their opinion on Rakepick. Snape states she was disliked by the staff, Flitwick trusts Dumbledore’s opinion on her, Hooch has strong opinions about her but won’t comment them, and Hagrid described her as talented, ambitious, brave, devious, reckless, heroic and dangerous. He also said you shouldn’t work against her. Rakepick does inform the player that she knows you were asking about her and wants to meet in the Artefact Room. Rakepick ends up encouraging the player to keep looking for the Cursed Vaults even if it means breaking school rules and disobeying Dumbledore… which you knew your player was going to do anyway at this point. Madam Rakepick tells the player that she thinks that a Cursed Vault might be in Hogsmeade, and not even in the Forbidden Forest. She asks the player if they would like to be her assistant. Then Rakepick tells the player to ask Professor Kettleburn how to get in the Forbidden Forest safely.

Madam Rakepick asks the player to meet her at the Training Grounds. The player joins Ben, Rowan, Bill Weasley, Merula Snyde and Ismelda Murk in a little competition to become Rakepick’s assistant.

After asking Kettleburn how to enter the Forbidden Forest, you are met in the Courtyard by a cloaked figure warning the player of death if they keep looking into the Cursed Vaults. Later Kettleburn tells the player that he has advised many students on entering the forest, including Madam Rakepick. Now that the professors are monitoring the forest it is harder to sneak in but Kettleburn still thinks flying will be the easiest way in. However, your player doesn’t have a broom since apparently your parents don’t want you flying after Jacob’s disappearance. So you have to get a broom another way and Madam Hooch will not lead one out to the player as it’s against school rules after a Black Lake incident. So you end up breaking into Filch’s office in search for a broom but only find destroyed ones and another black quill. The untrasfigured quill ends up being a threathening letter from R to Madam Rakepick. Rowan, shocked that her theory about R being Rakepick is wrong, asks the player who they think R is, and they have the option of choosing either Rita Skeeter, Madam Rosmerta or Filius Flitwick. Back to the brooms, the player comes to the conclusion that they have to borrow a broom from either Andre Egwu, Ismela Murk or Merula Snyde.

Once you have a broom, you’ll head into the forest with Bill, Rowan or Baranby Lee to meet up with Charlie. But with no idea where to search they head back to search Jacob’s room for clues. Next heading back into the forest with either Tulip, Penny or Merula you meet the Centaur Torvus. After beating Torvus in a duel he reveals he was exiled from his camp due to aiding Jacob in finding the Cursed Vault in the forest. Since Jacob took a family heirloom and Torvus was blamed for the theft. That heirloom being the broken arrow the player found in the Vault of Fear… however the arrow is missing a jewel. The group decides they will need the assistance from a Niffler to find the shiny ruby arrowhead.

As mentioned earlier, Madam Rakepick has a Niffler named Sickleworth. And after proving that you can take care of the little guy, Madam Rakepick allows you to borrow them until you find the arrowhead. Sickleworth is apparently one of the few things that she cares for. With the niffler you search the Artefact room on Ben’s recommendation, Flich’s office on Rakepick’s recommendation though this was to get a key she wanted, and a Red Cap’s hole. The arrowhead is there but you have to get rid of the Red Cap with the use of a Beautification potion with Penny Haywood’s assistance. However, before you disband the Red Cap you have to spy on Rakepick for Snape since he broke your broom and will only repair it once you have uncovered her motives. Returning to Snape, the player tells Snape what they’ve learned, and that Rakepick knew about their spying. Snape reveals he expected this, and Rakepick only said what she wanted him to hear, and that she’ll be waiting for his response. Snape then gives the player Garrotting Gas as a reward for helping (along with house points, if the option to go along willingly with his plans was chosen) as he believes Rakepick may try to kill the player. Snape says he will want the player’s help again, and if they remain cooperative he will teach the player a curse he invented. With the arrowhead in had you repair the arrow and return it to Torvus.

Torvus in turn will help bring you to the vault so long as Hagrid comes. Back at Three Broomsticks Ben mentions that he knows dangerous creatures are guarding the vault. Rowan is still suspicious of Ben. The team studies into Acromanuals and knows there is a spell that works against them but Kettleburn will not teach them it. Rakepick then has the player meet them in the Transfiguration classroom, and teaches the player a spider-repelling spell. Rakepick also reveals that she is aware that the player was attacked by an unknown wizard, and warns them to be careful of those closest to them. Rakepick leaves, taking back Sickleworth for her own investigations.

With the knowledge of the spell, you go to Hagrid to get him to come along to the vault after getting rid of the Bundimun that have overtaken his hut. Later, the player meets up with Rowan and Charlie in the Clocktower Courtyard, where the cloaked figure attacks the three. They are then saved by Rakepick. The figure is revealed to be Ben Copper, who appears to have no memory of attacking the three. Rowan does not trust Ben. The player gets to decide whether Rakepick takes Ben to the Hospital Wing, Filch’s office or Dumbledore’s office.

Afterwards you’ll head to the vault with Charlie and either Rowan, Penny or Bill. You meet up with Hagrid and Torvus in the Forest Grove then head to the spider liar to enter the Cursed Vault. You have to duel an Acromanual before entering the vault. Like the previous vault you have to use the arrow to open the middle column which contains a sweater and another map. You also hear from Jacob again stating he is trapped in the final vault. When you leave the vault you meet Dumbledore and Flich who give you detention for your fifth year of having to work in the kitchen with the elves. If you also completed the Perfect quest line, you will also be a Perfect when the year begins. To end the year, you also learn that Madam Rakepick will be next year’s Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and she’ll help you with the last vault ensuring she will make sure the rules won’t prevent you from doing so.

Love ya,

Mae Polzine

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Hogwarts Mystery: Year 4 Overview So one of my favorite mobile games that has ever come out is Hogwarts Mystery which takes place in the Harry Potter universe shortly after the defeat of You-Know-Who and the death of the Potters.

[crimsonrevolt]

Congratulations Haley you’ve been accepted to Crimson Revolt as Cassius Mulciber.

↳ please refer to our character checklist

Welcome back Haley! It’s always so nice to be able to welcome back previous members and we’re absolutely thrilled to have you back in our little family! It’s so clear that you have such a strong connection to the character and interpret him so well. We can’t wait to see what you do with him now that you’re back with us!  *your fc change to Chris Wood has been accepted. Please note that it is not our usual policy to switch poc faceclaims to a white faceclaim but an exception was made as it was an old member returning to us.

application beneath the cut

OUT OF CHARACTER

INTRODUCTION

Haley, 21, She/her, EST, America

ACTIVITY

Like most people in the group, I work and go to school but I have lots of free time around those things. 7/10

HOW DID YOU FIND US?

Alexis told me about the roleplay forever ago and then I was in it for a while and had to leave, now I’m back again.

WHAT HARRY POTTER CHARACTER DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH MOST?

Remus and Sirius, I truly identify with them both equally. I’ve always been the weird, quiet kid who seemed too secretive and was bullied. But I also am a rebel who eventually learned how to stand up for myself and others. I’m like the stereotypical parts of both their characters combined.

ANYTHING ELSE?

I can’t think of anything else. :)

IN CHARACTER

DESIRED CHARACTER

Cassius Mulciber

Cassius: derived from Latin cassus “empty, vain”.

Asmodeus: From Hebrew Ashmedai, which itself is derived from Avestan aēšma-daēva meaning “demon of wrath” (this is my headcanon for his middle name)

Mulciber: the architect of pandemonium, taken from Paradise Lost

FACE CLAIM

Okay, so I know you all have Cassius’s FC listed as Christian Navarro. I’m aware he’s a POC FC, but I wanted to ask if there was anyway I could go back to Chris Wood since he was my original Cassius and to me, he fits the character the best. I feel it would vastly help my muse to have Chris Wood as the FC because I’ve always written him better with that face. I understand if you don’t want me to make that change and if I need to keep Christian Navarro, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask.

REASON FOR CHOSEN CHARACTER

Cassius and I have a history. He became my muse in September of 2016. I picked him up as a character originally to challenge myself because I didn’t usually write dark characters. I used to love writing the anti-hero or heroic characters who did horrible things for good reasons. I found a new love in writing darker characters. There’s a certain power in a character who has no morals. He would slit a man’s throat and then fuck someone next to his corpse without a second thought. He has no boundaries. There are no lines he won’t cross. The things he does, he does for himself. He’s a Death Eater but I believe he made the decision to join the group because of what they do, not who they follow. I will play him more in that light than as if he was another completely blind follower of Voldemort.

Cassius is a complex and deeply conflicted character. I made the comment before that I believe he has bipolar disorder, though of course it is undiagnosed due to the nature of the era and the wizarding world’s lack of science. (I have bipolar disorder and it has leaked it’s way into my writing.) His lack of a conscience and ability to charm his way out of all situations, started when he was young. His father raised him to be that way, frequently using pain as a teaching mechanism. As stated in his bio, he fits into the war like he was born for it. In another life, maybe he wouldn’t have been so perfectly formed for war but with the way his childhood went he was destined to fight this battle.

PREFERRED SHIPS // CHARACTER SEXUALITY // GENDER & PRONOUNS

I have no specific anti-ships and the only ship I have is Cassius and Augustus, but chemistry is the biggest thing for me. Because he’s a purist he wouldn’t be with anyone who wasn’t pure blooded. He also wouldn’t be quick to jump into a relationship. He’s generally more of a one night stand type person, however, he develops attachments to people and will continue having a friendly/sexual relation with them. Whenever things get too serious though, he backs off.

As far as sexuality, he is pansexual. He doesn’t care what genitals a person has or how they identify themselves, what he cares about is if the person is attractive and if they interest him. His pronouns are he/him, if you can’t tell by my extensive use of them already in this application haha. He is a cis male.

CREATE ONE (OR MORE!) OF THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR CHARACTER:

I have a lot of things on my blog (this will be the same one I use for the rp if accepted).

IN CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE

♔ If you were able to invent one spell, potion, or charm, what would it do, what would you use it for or how would you use it? Feel free to name it: 

“I want a spell that causes people to drop their guard. I’m sure there are a multitude of potions that do the same thing, but I’ve always been bad with potions. A spell would be so much more convenient. The spell itself would be “fiduciam” which is Latin for trust.”

♔ You have to venture deep into the Forbidden Forest one night. Pick one other character and one object (muggle or magical), besides your wand, that you’d want with you:

 “Augustus Rookwood, he’s the only person I would trust to be alone in the forest with me. As for the object, I know it may sound odd but I would take a gun. They’re surprisingly useful considering they’re muggle made.”

♔ What kinds of decisions are the most difficult for you to make? 

“Decisions that revolve around my emotions. Some choices are easy, they’re clear and precise and the logical answer seems almost the only answer. As soon as the heart is involved, however, it becomes difficult to decide because no matter what the logical answer is, it’s hard to hurt yourself to do what needs to be done.“

♔ What is one thing you would never want said about you?

 “That I was weak. I am many things but weak is not and will never be one of them.”

REACTION TO LAST EVENT DROP

Cassius is thriving. Firstly, it’s the first time in a while that his friends (or himself) aren’t being held captive or tortured. He has never hidden his disdain for non-purebloods, so the plan to cleanse them from the planet pleases him. What doesn’t please him however is the sinking feeling he has in his stomach. Things are going too well for them and he’s waiting on that to change because nothing ever stays positive for long. For the time being I feel that he’s just going to enjoy himself in the Death Eater ruled world and take some time to be happy that his friends are alive and healthy and NOT captured. Though he’s constantly gonna be looking for things to go wrong.

WRITING SAMPLE

July 3rd, 1974

Cassius stood in the frigid night air, waiting for his father to join him just outside the Mulciber Estate property line. He knew this was death eater business, but beyond that he didn’t know anything about what they were doing that night. His father had made promise after promise that they would soon take the required steps for Cassius to receive his dark mark, but so far they had done nothing. Eyes focused on the stars in the sky above him, he didn’t hear Gerard Mulciber walk up behind him and the hand placed on his shoulder caused him to jump slightly. Thankfully his father’s grip on his shoulder was tight as he apparated the both of them away from their estate.

The dark alleyway formed around them, coming into focus as they reached their destination. Gerard turned, walking through a doorway hidden by magic, he absorbed into the brick the way students did as they raced to board the Hogwarts Express. Cassius followed behind him, pulling his wand from his pocket just in case he had occasion to use it. As he emerged into the room he was taken aback by the sight before him. The girl magically bound and gagged in a chair at the center of the room caught his attention first, but it didn’t take long for him to notice the masked figures that stood against the walls. Their dark cloaks pulled heavily towards the ground, eerily quiet as they remained still and unmoving, no rustling to be heard. Cassius suddenly felt tiny, insignificant, he felt surrounded and closed in, despite the fact that there were only four death eaters in the room, including his father.

“What is this?” He said with an angry glance towards Gerard.

A stinging pain ran through his head as Gerard smacked him on the back of his skull. “The fact that you’re too idiotic to figure it out on your own should be the first sign that you’re unworthy of the mark. Unfortunately, they don’t agree,” Gerard spat angrily, gesturing towards the death eaters who stood around them. Cassius’ eyes traced around each figure trying to identify any of them, but he couldn’t. A hand gently rested against his back, the feeling was almost as shocking as the smack had been. “The girl,” his father said as he gestured towards the poor girl in the middle of the room, “she’s a muggleborn, so are her siblings.” As if on cue a large cloaked and masked death eater walked through the door, a young girl on his left and a boy on his right, neither could be older than eight. “You’re going to kill her in front of them.”

Cassius’ blood ran cold and he couldn’t stop the chills that ran across his skin. He’d done many terrible things while at Hogwarts but murder was not anywhere on that list. “I know this is supposed to be a challenge for me but shouldn’t I be allowed to decide what I do? Since the whole point is for me to prove myself?” His voice was shakier than he anticipated, but he just hoped his father wouldn’t take notice.

“Fine, do what you want, but the end result must be the same. The girl will die and you will be the cause.” Gerard shoved his son forward viciously, forcing him towards the girl.

Cassius tightened his grip on his wand, acting as if all of this was perfectly normal. He couldn’t show weakness, couldn’t show how terrified he was. There had to be a way for him to do this and flaunt his strength while trying to keep calm. He took a calming breath before allowing the incantation to slip from his lips. “Imperio,” the familiar spell came out easily, the motions flowing through his wrist naturally. It was a spell he had used often at Hogwarts during his free time. The unforgivable curse canceled out the weaker spells that bound her to the chair and Cassius watch with satisfaction as the girl rose from her seat and walked over to stand in front of him. He pulled a small folding knife from his pocket and gave it to her before forcing her to turn and move to her siblings’ side. She moved the knife to rest against the other girl’s throat.

For a moment, Cassius felt guilty. How could he do this? How could he force someone to kill their sister? But he knew he had no choice. Trying not to linger on bad thoughts he flicked his wand and the girl dragged the knife across her sister’s throat. She crumpled to the ground hands around her throat but he didn’t dwell on her despite the fact that she would live for the next several minutes. Moving his puppet over to stand in front of the boy, he had her drop the knife and pull out her wand. With the tip pressed against her brother’s chest, it didn’t take a genius to know what he would do next. As the killing curse slid from the girl’s mouth, a flash of green lit the room and the boy collapsed onto the ground. Cassius felt disgusted with himself. He was dizzy and ill and didn’t know if he was going to make it through this without being sick.

He pushed his illness aside, knowing he still had to kill the girl. He had to get creative, no simple killing curse was going to satisfy these men. They wouldn’t accept the same method of killing twice. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he forced her to turn her wand on herself a small incantation falling from her lips. “Incendio.” As the flames quickly engulfed her body, Cassius realized this had been a mistake. Her screams filled the small room drowning out all other sound and thought. Quietly, praying his father wouldn’t hear him, he hissed out the killing curse, the flash of green hidden within the flames. Her body dropped to the floor and he flicked his wrist, putting out the flames.

“It’s done.” It had lasted no longer than two minutes, but he felt like it had been a lifetime.

Without comment or even gesture, all the death eaters apparated from the room, apparating the bodies away with them. Cassius was left standing alone in the empty room with his father. Pride and excitement filled his chest. Was that it? Had he passed their tests? Did he get to be a death eater now? As he turned to face Gerard, his stomach dropped, dread and panic replacing his earlier emotions. Gerard glared down at him, anger and disappointment painting his features. “You didn’t kill anyone. She did and when you finally had the balls to kill her it was only to put her out of her misery. You are pathetic and weak. If it were up to me I would never make you a death eater.” Cassius kept his mouth shut allowing his father to finish. “You had better promise me that from now on you’ll kill without mercy and without fear. Otherwise, you will have something new to fear.”

Swallowing his pride, Cassius bowed his head slightly, “I promise, Father.” Little did he know that promise was going to haunt him for years to come.

[dresden-sandiego]

The FATE System

Last week, I gave you all a brief, high-level look at all of the books in The Dresden Files series. If you missed them, you can read those posts here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. But the world of The Dresden Files is just the setting for the game which will be detailed on this blog. The game is run using the FATE System, and this post is going to give you a high-level look at what that system entails. But first, some background, but fair warning: this is going to be a pretty long post.

Role-Playing Games

The FATE system is one of many different role-playing game systems for tabletop gameplay. A role-playing game, as the name implies, is one in which the players take on the role of a specific character as they experience the story. Arguably the most famous tabletop role-playing game (RPG) is Dungeons & Dragons. RPGs aren’t limited to tabletop games, and have appeared in almost every format you can imagine.

In most RPGs, players begin by creating a character within the rules of the system. Some systems are more based in numbers or “stats,” relying on a wide array of dice. Others, including the FATE system, minimize the importance of stats and dice and maximize the focus on the character.

There is a lot of diversity in types of RPGs, but even more in the types of players that participate. For some players, making characters to minimize their weaknesses and maximize their strengths (colloquially known as min-maxing) is their primary motivation. For others, myself include, the priority is creating an interesting characters and then putting yourself into their shoes.

To Crunch or Not to Crunch

If you spend much time around gamers, you may hear the term “crunchy” when describing a game. When a game, especially a role-playing game, is crunchy, it has a lot of rules, stats, calculations, and mechanical bits. Dungeons & Dragons is pretty crunchy because there are a lot of things a player needs to keep track of, and the stats drive a lot of what happens.

On the other hand, FATE is pretty far from crunchy. There are some numbers and stats, but they aren’t the priority. The dice only provide for a small amount of variability in those stats, and character traits and motivations drive the system far more than the numbers.

With that overview of role-playing games in general, let me share what I feel are the four (4) major parts of FATE that make it special: aspects, the skill ladder. the FATE dice, and Fate points.

Aspects: What Makes You You

In many role-playing games, you define characters by their “stats.” In Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), characters being with six numbers that represent their Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, etc. FATE takes a different tactic by representing a character’s core in terms of aspects. The book defines an aspect as “...a phrase that describes something unique or noteworthy about whatever it’s attached to.”

Different flavors of FATE have different numbers of aspects, but there are two (2) that are vitally important. The first is the high concept. A character’s high concept is the core of their character and describes what makes the character themselves. For example, Harry Dresden’s high concept is something like [WIZARD PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR]. You can think of it somewhat like a race/class combination in a more traditional RPG; in D&D, you might be an [ELF RANGER] or a [DWARVEN FIGHTER]. But ideally, your high concept will be less generic and more focused.

Your character’s high concept is the core of your character, but it isn’t the only thing that defines them. Just like you are more than your job, characters are more than their high concept. The second important aspect of any character is their trouble. A trouble is the aspect that makes your life complicated. It’s not a flaw per se, but it’s something that might lead your character off their chosen path. Using Harry Dresden as an example, his trouble as of Storm Front is probably [THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES].

The rest of a character’s aspects are usually derived from their experiences. They usually describe lessons the character has learned or situations that have shaped them. Sometimes, these aspects are tied to other characters in the game, giving them a history prior to the start of the story.

I love aspects, because as a role-player, they do more to help get you into a character’s head than anything else. If one of my character’s aspects is [FEAR OF FAILURE], it immediately puts me in the right mindset and helps me make decisions as the character would, instead of what I the player know to be best.

Aspects are tied to everything in the game, not just characters. Locations, enemies, and environments can and will all have aspects. Your classic noir book opens up on a scene that is [DARK] and [STORMY]. Aspects are versatile and quite a bit of fun.

The Skill Ladder

There aren’t many crunchy bits to FATE, but the skill system is one of the few. Skills represent the knowledge and abilities of a character, representing their athletic ability, their ability to use computers, or their skills behind the wheel of a car. Characters have numbers tied to their skills that indicate how good (or not good) they are at each skill; the higher the number, the more exceptionally skilled the character.

One of the keys of FATE system games is that the characters are exceptional. The game isn’t about normal people doing normal things; characters are heros. FATE characters are the movers and the shakers of the world, and thus should be successful more than not. This means that while technically anyone can do anything, the heroes are going to be better at those things more often than not. 

Here’s what the ladder looks like:

+8 Legendary +7 Epic +6 Fantastic +5 Superb +4 Great +3 Good +2 Fair +1 Average +0 Mediocre -1 Poor -2 Terrible

Each result on the ladder equates to a descriptive word indicating how good a character is at their skill. For example, if a character has a Driving of 2, it means they are a Fair driver. Likewise, having an Alertness of 5 means the character has a Superb awareness of their surroundings.

The idea behind the skill ladder is that everyone has a default skill level of Mediocre, so that anyone can use a computer or climb a wall with Mediocre skill. Training, education, and experience will raise skill levels following the ladder.

But, as in reality, sometimes a normal person has a moment of inspiration or a surge of adrenaline in a fight or flight situation. This randomness is represented with a roll of the FATE dice, which look like this:

There are always four FATE dice; each die has two faces with a minus “-” sign, two faces with a plus “+” sign, and two faces with no symbols. This gives a range from -4 to +4, but clumped around zero (0). This randomness represents distractions, pressure, and situations that might change a character’s skill level. When a character needs to make a skill check, they take their base skill and then add the results of the dice

For example, a physically strong character, Marie, might have a Superb (+5) Might skill. During the course of the game, she needs to hold open an automatic door. The game master (GM), who is running the game, determines how hard it is to hold the door open; in this case, it requires Great (+4) Might to do so. Marie’s player rolls their dice and gets +, +, -, and blank. The dice give a +1 to her base skill of Superb, meaning that she gets a Fantastic (+6) Might and can easily hold open the door.

Fate Points

The last piece of the system are Fate points, which also represent the character’s heroic role in the story. A fate point allows a character to change the situation during a scene or to affect the results of a check. The number of fate points a character has depends on a lot of other factors, but it boils down to the more power a character has, the fewer fate points they have to use. 

Fate points represent the character’s agency over their destiny. They can be used in three (3) main ways:

Alter the results of a die roll.

Make a declaration.

Compel a character or prevent a compel.

In each case, the fate point (FP) can only be spent if the character has an aspect that applies to the situation. They use the aspect, known as “tapping,” to justify why their character should be able to alter the scene. For example, if Marie had rolled mostly minus signs on her skill check in the previous example, she could spend a FP to either add a +2 to the result or reroll the dice as long as she had a relevant aspect. 

A declaration is a simple statement that alters the scene, either in a beneficial way for the players or a detrimental way for their opponents. For example, an FBI agent might be able to declare that they carry a backup weapon in an ankle holster.

Compels are complex, but essentially they are a way players can make the story better by trading fate points, or by earning more. The DM can tempt a character with a fate point by compelling them, based on their aspects, to make a decision that is bad for them, but still in character. An example: a character has the aspect [ATTRACTED TO DANGER] and was examining a very creepy sarcophagus. The smart thing to do would be the retreat and wait for backup. Instead, I offered the player a fate point because of their aspect to go ahead and investigate alone. Bad for the character, but better for the story; the player accepted, gained a fate point, and did something fun (but stupid).

Conclusion

That was a lot of words, for which I apologize. I love the FATE system - it’s currently my favorite system to run - and I could gush for hours. I tried to keep this to the basics, but I suspect I’ve over explained. In any case, you should now have a high-level understanding of character aspects, skills and the skill ladder, the FATE dice, and fate points. These will all be important to the content of this blog, but I’ll do my best to keep it at a low level.

My next post will talk a little bit more in-depth about The Dresden Files RPG, which is based on the FATE system. After that, we’ll start to go over how we build the settings and characters you’ll soon be reading about.

Thank you for reading! Let me know if you have questions, comments, or any concerns.

[meginoi]

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I really got into this prompt! I’m still worried it sucks but i did really enjoy writing it. I also wrote it at one in the morning and now i’m really tired to so sorry for any spelling mistakes! 

Prompt: “You have… Superpowers?”

Pairing: Royality ( can be read as platonic or romantic)

Words: 892

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The sun had rose to it’s highest point by the time theyreached their destination. It had been dark when they had set out, the sun justbeginning to peak over the horizon and cast an orange glow over the stillsleeping land.

The news of the latest dragon attack was the reason for theiradventure, Roman needing to immediately visit the village in his kingdom in themindscape and do some damage control, bringing him a step closer to slaying thefoul beast. Patton had found out about the escapade, insisting that he wantedto come along and see Roman do what he did best.

And so, early the next morning they had met at the door toRoman’s kingdom, bags packed with needed supplies, and made their way towardsthe village, chatting happily about both everything and nothing as they walked.

Which led them to where they were now, standing on the crestof a hill where they could see the first plumes of smoke from the stillsmouldering town.

Roman cast Patton a questioning look, “Are you sure you’ll beable to handle it, Patton? Seeing a destroyed village for the first time is ahard sight to stomach.” Roman would never forget the first one he saw, theimage still imprinted on his eyelids when he closed his eyes.

Patton give him a confident nod, “I’ll be fine, Roman. It’sthe people down there you need to worry about. Now, go be a prince and savethem!”  

At that, they started to make their way down the hill andtowards the smoke.

Roman was right, the village wasn’t anything like what Pattonexpected. The carefree smile that he’d been wearing was wiped off his face,replaced by a look of shock at the devastation.

Roman remainedimpassive, hardened against it by the years of seeing exactly the same thing inso many villages he’d lost count. Yet, his compassion for the people neverfaded, valiantly helping to rebuild each and every one of their lives.

Some of the houses were still smouldering, the embers thatstill burned slowly dying out. A rescue search for survivors in the buildings thatcollapsed was well underway.

All heads turned to Roman and Patton as they strode into thetown, instantly being surrounded by the townspeople. Patton followed Roman’sinstructions to assist the healers as the prince jumped into leading the rescuesearch as if it was second nature, directing people and easily keeping chaosfrom breaking out.

As the sun edged closer and closer to sunset, a bone-chillingscream stunned them all into silence. It echoed through the town, bouncing andreverberating off the wood and stone structures that still stood. Everyone thatheard it stopped in their tracks, turning in horror to the wreckage it camefrom.

Roman surged forward, adrenaline flooding his veins as thescream came again, this time forming into a cry for help. The wreckage that wasonce a house luckily hadn’t been burned, only collapsed in the chaos. Romandidn’t feel the weight of the wooden pillars as he frantically moved them,despite the fact that they were twice the weight he could usually carry. Theadrenaline didn’t let him notice, only pushing him to go, go, go.

A cry escaped the building again, this time sounding a lotcloser. Roman zeroed in on the sound, blocking out the sounds of the franticonlookers behind him. He surged forward, easily throwing the heavy pieces ofwood aside.

He almost cried with relief when the young woman came intoview. She was bruised and badly shaken up but very much alive. He was met withcries of joy when he reappeared with the young woman in his arms, looking everyinch the rescuer he’d been trying to be all day.

As Roman handed the girl to the healers, he carried onhelping, not willing to lose one moment where he could assist someone.

As they started to lose daylight, they left the town,confident they had done all they could. “So…” Patton turned to him as theyreached the top of the hill, eyes sparkling with enthusiasm. “You have…superpowers?” He asked. That was the last thing Roman expectedhim to say.

“Why would you think that, Patton?”

“The way you saved that girl was heroic! And don’tall heroes have superpowers?” Patton asked.

“I’m afraid I don’t have superhuman strength, Pat,”Roman chuckled lightly, “that was just pure adrenaline.”

“I don’t mean moving the wood.”

There was a beat of confused silence as Romanwaited for the explanation he was sure would come.

“I mean the way you rescued her. The way you makethese people feel safe. It’s more important than any physical power you couldever have, Roman. You’re a superhero! Just not in the stereotypical sense.”

Roman looked down, completely shocked by thesincerity of Patton’s statement. Sure, people had always called him a hero buthad he really ever thought of himself as one? The answer was a resounding no. “Thankyou, Patton. I never thought of it like that.”

“You’re welcome, kiddo!”

And just with that one statement Patton had bought anew version of him into his sight. He’d made him see what everyone else saw.

And it meant more to Roman than he would ever beable to explain.

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it’s finally the opening!! if you have read her intro back in the plot blog, i’ve added a few more (just seven) details for this little flower. make sure to check it out!

hi all! i’m vee and over here with me is estrella! she’s a first upper year gryffindor. can i say that i’m stoked to be here and i can’t wait for the opening? i’ve been in several hp roleplays but they are all western ones so joining a hp krp is rare! anyway, below the cut will be a short summary of my girl. more info will be up here and here. do note that her personality isn’t up yet but i have a few hints there so you can at least get the gist. c: feel free to drop a message if you’re looking to plot with this sweetheart or just have a chat with yours truly!

born as estrella, her korean name’s yeonhwa

family is korean but stayed in london

her father’s a pureblood wizard that works in the ministry as the head of the department of law enforcement whereas her mother’s a veela and a quidditch player . oh yas, this girl’s a half-veela so you can see she’s the popular kid that every boy wants to get close to and though she love the attention, it just feels wrong like they want to befriend her because her veela charm is working on them and not by their own willingness.

actually dark haired but she changed to blonde using the color changing spell so she’ll look more ‘veela-ish’ as most veelas are blonde

think neville but after the battle of hogwarts! she once doubted herself as a gryffindor and wanted to be in hufflepuff. the thought of standing up for the good and being fearless pressurized her and she thought she was never that heroic

but some ancestor up high showed her the light and who she truly was after giving her the chance to actually stand up for a hufflepuff in the female bathroom (potential plot here!!)

now that she gained confidence, she started to take up on many challenges and believed in herself

the only thing she probably hasn’t conquered yet was her fear of flying

she was a huge quidditch fan just like her mother. she fell in love with the sport after witnessing her first match. never did she knew that her dream could crush her forever

it was afternoon and she had a mini quidditch competition with her cousins. the wind got stronger and  took over her broom, causing her to fall off. she was just a hundred fifty foot off ground

she broke her leg and sprained her wrist. it was a terrible experience, especially for someone that young, the pain was unbearable sometimes that she cried for consecutive days 

feels that she does not have a lot of close friends despite her huge friend circle, three quarter of them were potentially fake because of her veela beauty or they just make use of her popularity to gain advantages for themselves

has a pet goldfish at home named oggy. since she can’t bring him to school, she got another ginger kitten named pumpkin and he loves cuddles and every flavor beans (including those nasty ones. weird animal tastebuds)

literally walks around while chewing on droobles. has snacks stashed away in her enchanted pockets including every flavor beans, peppermint toads, licorice wands, pumpkin pasties, acid pops and choco balls

her bedside is filled with scented candles. they help with her sleep.

currently learning how to play the violin and it sounds like someone scratching a chalkboard. if you ever got woken up by a screechy sound, its not the house ghosts but estrella

fricking book smart af but she doesn’t study until one week before the exams. she feel that its easier to absorb although the stress increased

1/4 of the gryff rebel squad and the youngest. think of her as the remus lupin in the marauders

will support you unless its out of her morals. so yeah, you can say she actually rebels when she feels that certain things are just wrong and she’s not afraid to go against it

likes to give her uniform a little bit more ‘shimmer’ by clipping a little glitter star hair clip in her front pocket

pretty good in dueling and one of the better ones from the dueling club back in her hogwarts days

[terribleco]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Review

Skateboarding games are back. As mentioned previously on this blog, people are hungry for some virtual shred sledding and there are plenty of games coming to fill the void. The thing is, you can't have a revival of skateboarding games without the franchise that popularised it. With that in mind, it seemed only fitting that against all odds, a new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game would arrive in 2020. 

Now, as the name suggests - this isn't exactly a new game. THPS 1&2 is a complete remake of the first two games, combined into a brand new package with a ton of extra content slapped on top. Every level is here, lovingly rebuilt in the Unreal Engine, running at 60 Frames Per Second. All of the pro skaters from the first two games are back, but updated to reflect their modern selves. They even managed to bring back a significant portion of the iconic soundtracks from the first two games! 

All of this wouldn't matter if the game played like garbage. Activision have tried to do a remake of these two games before, as well as sequels in the Pro Skater series, and they fell flat just because the controls didn’t feel right at all. As I've said before, THPS gets a lot of flack for being a goofy (no pun intended) arcade game where you can grind power lines, but the controls in the original games were so tight, so perfectly designed, and so addictive that it was an instant classic. 

I'm glad to say that THPS 1&2 finally gets the controls right again. This is not an accident: developers Vicarious Visions have a long history with the franchise, and used the original game's source code to ensure the feel of the game was spot on. This is a labour of love and it has paid off fantastically well. 

The developers have smartly included all legacy THPS moves from every game that came after THPS2 as well (e.g. Reverts, Spine Transfers, Wallplants). If your memory of THPS was a later game in the franchise, you won’t feel like the moves you are accustomed to are missing. Also, these new moves are now available on levels where you originally couldn’t do them. Having the full bag of THPS franchise moves at your fingertips on all of the levels from the original THPS makes these environments feel brand new again, offering new lines and combos that were previously impossible.

The controls set a firm foundation for a game as addictive, replayable and joyous as the original THPS. In the time since the last THPS game, people have been craving more realistic games - the culmination of this are games like Session, or the recently released SkaterXL. In comparison to these games, THPS 1&2 is a polar opposite. 

Personally I think this is a good thing - it's a slick, polished, tightly paced palette cleanser. It couldn't be more different than its competitors, and whilst that was a negative against THPS back in 2007 when Skate released, it proves to be an overwhelming strength here. 

THPS unsurprisingly knows it's a video game, and doesn't try to be a simulator. This is the thing I think will turn off many hardcore skateboarders, but for anyone who has spent the last 10 years playing Skate3, this kind of game, when it is done right, is a breath of fresh air. The gameplay loop is quick: you start a run, you rack up points, you complete the objectives of the level, and if you mess up, you restart instantly. 

The pace is blisteringly fast, and after playing any other skateboarding game it might be off-putting at first. For anyone who spent considerable time with the old THPS games though, muscle memory will quickly kick in, and you'll be knocking out combos of 200K points and upwards in no time. 

For old and new players alike, there is a ton of stuff to do here. As before, you choose a pro skater (or create your own character), and you complete all objectives in every level. This might sound a little simplistic and repetitive compared to modern games, but there is something very rewarding about maxing out your skater's stats and getting 100% completion in all of the levels. 

Vicarious Visions have doubled down on delivering a huge amount of content here as well: the roster of pro skaters here is almost doubled compared to the original game's with the addition of some modern day legends to join the original THPS cast. This is a wide and diverse list of modern day shredders: from 2018 Thrasher Skater Of The Year Tyshawn Jones, to Japanese X-Games wizard Aori Nishimura, and the world's first non-binary Pro Skater Leo Baker. 

These new additions are notable for very different reasons than the original roster, and show how wide reaching skateboarding, and the original games, have been over the last 20 years. Legends like Elissa Steamer no longer feel like "token" additions designed to tick a box. Next to the likes of Leticia Bufoni and Lizzie Armanto - they feel like they very much deserve to have the spotlight, and their influence becomes obvious. 

Each pro in the game has a set of bespoke challenges which allows you to unlock all of their boards, new tricks and alternate outfits. This gameplay is tailored to each pro's strengths and nicely bridges the gap between the stereotypical THPS super heroic combos, and the realistic tone of the game's pro skaters and locations. Some of these challenges are quite realistic in scope rather than asking for 50 trick combos (e.g. Earn 10,000 points from a lip trick and a revert only), which is a great way to use the THPS gameplay to appeal to those craving something a bit more grounded. It's keen to remind you that this is still a game about skateboarding, no matter how unrealistic and wacky that skateboarding may be at times. 

On top of these challenges there's a huge library of extra goals introducing an extra level of replayability - completing the base content in both games doesn't take a huge amount of time, so the addition of over 700 challenges to tick off extends the game's lifespan considerably. Some of these challenges are easy and take minutes, some will have you skating for hours. Vicarious Visions are incredibly respectful of the original games and what made them work, and rather than interfere with that core structure, their new challenge system bolts on incredibly well to modernise these games. 

All of this gameplay is set to a soundtrack mostly comprising of returning tracks from the first two games. These songs are iconic and, although maybe a tad dated now, are extremely nostalgic for skaters of my age. Skating around listening to Guerrilla Radio by RATM brings back instant memories of when I first started skating, and is a bit of a fountain of youth moment for anyone of a certain age. For anyone who wasn't alive when the first games came out - there are a bunch of new songs that feel on-brand and fit the gameplay extremely well that will doubt become iconic in years to come. 

The game's creation features improve upon the original games immensely - as previously mentioned, create-a-skater returns, but create-a-park is also included here. This is a robust level creation tool that lets you build all sorts of mad ramp combos, with the added ability to share them with your friends online. The developers have expanded and improved this feature immensely, allowing you to create huge, sprawling skateparks filled with all manner of crazy Frankenstein obstacles. Considering how impressive creation tools in games have become, these improvements are smart and people are already using Create-a-park to build some incredible monstrosities from replicas of their local parks to roller coasters. 

The game also boasts an awesome amount of multiplayer modes for players looking to session with others. Split screen returns from the original PS1 releases, but there is also a great online suite of options allowing you to play all of the classic THPS multiplayer modes with up to 7 other players. This wasn't present or possible in the original games, and they could have just kept parity with THPS2's feature set, but going the extra mile with awesome online features is a great touch and is appreciated. 

I honestly can't say enough good words about the phenomenal work Vicarious Visions has done here - I haven't been this excited about a THPS game since the first time I played THPS2. That game had such a long lasting effect on me that it began a long 20 year love affair with skateboarding. This game makes me so stoked to be a skateboarder, and in many ways this sums up all the fun and creativity I know skateboarding brings. It's a triumphant return to form from a video game franchise that inspired millions to start skateboarding, and you owe it to yourself to play it.