#the history class cryptids series

[darthstitch]

I have a Princess Bride bunny that wants to feature the History Class Cryptids cast.

Dream as Prince Buttercup

Hob as the Dread Pirate Roberts

Steve and Eddie as Miracle Max and Valerie

Rose as Inigo Montoya

Gilbert as Fezzik

... and I haven't figured out the rest of the cast but may Calliope have mercy on my soul.

[onebraincell-itmiebcraft]

Liveblogging real life part 2: Joel (it's been 12 13 days) (already watched)

Okay so maybe we'll do the liveblog-every-five-minutes-unless-something-crazy thing also idk if I should link this up to my intro post (idk how) or reblogged my og one with this oh well we'll figure it out why am I eating AGAIN doing this

I got inspired after rewatching secret life my beloved for the umpteenth time :P

Okay ep. 1/finale is hilarious and new "series" 😭

Joel why did you point out the cursor I can't take my eyes away

First batch

Joel jumping then immediately keeling over in nausea:

Idk how to respond to that but it struck a chord within me, how true

BigB wholesome waving but it also looks like his arm is BENT I can't get over VR arms man 😭

Punching BigB because he's so tall is so real tbh + love the smash cut to Gem being salty

Headpatting + baby-ish voice "little gem/Ren/skizz" what a gentleman makes me think of the try not to cry challenge or Jimmy's crazy christmas series where he says Joel is a crybaby and Gem says he's a romance guy in a mental gymnastics train of thought

Grian throwing his head back from the outside?! Cryptid behaviour

The real life vids don't make me motion sick but Joel making retching and vomiting sounds does NOT help it makes me sick by proxy or something I hate being disoriented and nauseous too buddy

There's probably a video out there of someone comparing regular mc to vr because vr just hits different like proportions wise

Joel noises

Love this Joel-Gem duo already idk how to describe it just fun

Also Joel having to process out loud he won't throw up on Gem I remember playing Richie's plank experience or whatever years and years ago shit was REAL

Joel's inventory becoming disorganized with things that can be stacked together :(

Hey what gem said kinda reminds me of what grian said :D at the end of his episode awful :DD

Poor Joel he's battling his height complex alongside his motion sickness (rip bozo poor little meow meow)

I think almost everybody had the problem of facing the wall dude, it's okay it's very silly

Water foreshadowing (he will swim with his future gang and become incredibly sick)

Geminislay that pig

Wait till Joel learns about lying down‼️‼️

JOEL STOP MAKING NAUSEOUS SOUNDS I'M GONNA FROW UP 👹

"...Falling in powdered snow" kinda reminds me of this short story I read in grade 9 English class "The Bamboo Trap" protag fell in The Bamboo Trap™ and got bitten by big ass spiders or something the idiot, also I think got published in the same anthology as the most dangerous game 👊

Joel admits to weakness

Weird ass snow, someone built this or something?

Joel with his arms out looks so silly, so does gem

Oh gem how graceful with the figure skating history 👊👊👊✌️👉✌️✌️🤜🤛🤛🤜🙏

Lol they learn about the wrist chat

Second batch

Jimmy, oh iconic Timmy

Shield (why did I write this again?)

Bi shoes, love seeing gem's skin wearing the bi shoes I forget about it every once in a while and when I see it again it's a pleasant surprise

Vr players learn to pvp

When you use the shield to block in first person it looks kinda stupid dude

Campsite vibes tbh, I really like it.

Bee spotted 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 what is it doing

Shaky controller cursor over top chest plate I feel you

Falling irl indeed (recursive mention about plank)

LOUD holy moly Joel is loud (not negative)

Healf being something people can't look at at all times is actually a kinda funny mechanic

Smajor friendship aww when will they team up (did I forget about a series)

The poor beg for bread, we live in a society ✊😔

Grian killing??? Since when??? (Sarcastic)

Batch three

Peace and love is why they haven't died yet 😘

Arms again! Weird looking things

Hand gesture reminds me of that one diamond scar short with etho's greedy "I want the diamond" voice

Flint and steel? Weird looking thing

Omg red club looks like bugs, the way the trio gossips about them ♥️

Right no out messages...

Can't believe the most motion sick man gets in the water not once but TWICE this ep

Does he know

Where did the horse thing come from

Can't remember if I mentioned this but when the sword swings without critting in VR it looks so silly it pokes

A bugs life: the sequel

Club: deadly euphemism

Sword 😐

Something about jimmy doesn't get burnt...

Why is Jimmy jiggles the only one with a wooden sword???

Strong words from a man on the verge of mania 👀

Lol knowing impulse breaks the ground under Joel big brain man going for the kill

Something about the disappointed way Joel says "scar!" And scar stabbing him in the first caused this

Tim is so British he says "get in" so much

Joel, again exasperated, cries out "where's all my stuff?!"

Funny Minecraft men, my favourite funny Minecraft men

My god seeing from Joel's perspective his second death is from zombie

I think Joel was about to saying bluming + the cover behind house + the constant begging for his stuff back + violence as an answer (he hits men)

4

Oh scar up to no good again

JOEL GETS IN THE WATER AGAIN!!! MOTION SICKNESS WIN!

Joel and scar just did mitosis stop being scared of biology 🙄

What was Mr solidaritygaming doing in that hill and said yes to did he finally get iron?

Aw the silly arm motion I love greeting people with spirit fingers reminds me of that

GOON SQUAD?! (neuron activated)

Famous moment

Oh more famous moment here comes the smallidarity kiss

Love Tim's body language once again the sharp smooth head turn to grian he's like a cartoon character

(what grian mean they are suited and booted he cut this part out I don't remember the other povs 😢)

Leave it to solidaritygaming himself to be the most homoerotic straight man there is of course + Joel is still patting him on the head? + Timsel being cringefail needing to jump multiple times on ONE BLOCK + Joel did NOT need to lean that much he looks like he's powered by springs + Jim's arms always being so tight together. Makes him. Look like. An old granny??? + Joel IMMEDIATELY checking his wrist afterwards like it's a Tuesday and he's on break + homophobic GRIAN + impulse's dad delivery one liner

The more I watch smallidarity kiss the more bizarre and asinine it becomes to me 😀

When did Joel learn to button jump (he WAS mental for jumping irl irl)

Okay Joel cut out that canary comment why don't you 🙄🙄🙄

WHACK 💀 SHAKE YOUR HANDS REAL FAST 💀💀 JOEL SCREAM #3997 💀💀💀

Fond of Joel's cadence of saying "hello guys!" And "I'm coming in boys!" And "HAHA!" oddly musical

Okay aaaaaaand he dies worst ranking ever good for him the end

Idk if I should liveblog scar next or watch Ren because I've already watched up to skizz + me 'ead 'urts oh well

[live-from-the-apocalypse]

WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE

Welp, here we are gang. Seems worth doing a real introduction even though this account has existed for a couple of weeks now. Glad some of our friends from the cursed bird app are already finding us, but for the uninitiated...

Live From The Apocalypse is not-for-profit TTRPG studio; a collective of over 15 talented players, GMs, and content creators who record, stream, edit, and produce hours of free actual play content, discussions, and interviews focusing on tabletop role-playing games and the community around them each week—all while raising money for progressive causes and good organizations. Everything we do benefits a nonprofit or aid organization exclusively, even merch sales and Patreon support exclusively keeps the lights on and covers operational costs. Since we started doing this we've raised well over $20,000 for organizations like Planned Parenthood, the International Rescue Committee, Communities United Against Police Brutality, Extra Life, and many more!

As for our games, we have six livestreamed actual play campaigns going at any given time over on our Twitch channel:

Veil Breakers [D&D 5E]: We've all heard stories of heroes preventing the end of the world, but what if they failed? What if they died? And what if they got a second chance? Veil Breakers is a 5E homebrew adventure across the veil of death, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms.

Academy H [Masks]: A Powered By the Apocalypse game following four new students at the Brandt Academy, the world's foremost school for superpowered individuals, in a collaboratively-created setting with over 70 years of history. Academy H streams are the live recording sessions for the podcast, which you can find fully edited on your podcast platform of choice!

Missing Numbers [Pokeymanz]: A sports anime-inspired Pokemon game about a failing gym and the trainers trying to restore it to its former glory, with just a dash of eldritch horror thrown in for good measure.

Class Reunion [D&D 5E]: 10 years ago 4 high school students from Avalon, Ohio were trapped in our homebrew D&D 5E setting, the magical world of Annwn. Now, reunited after a decade, the time has come to discover what brought them there in the first place.

And on Wednesdays you can find our short-form series of games known as Wild Card Wednesdays, which features a rotating cast of GMs and players. We also make podcasts which are available on your podcast platform of choice under the banner Live From The Apodcalypse! We currently have three shows there: the fully-edited and soundscaped version of our Masks campaign Academy H, our TTRPG talk show Table Talk-alypse, and we're currently releasing our freshman attempt at content creation recorded back during the height of the pandemic: a Monster of the Week game called Cryptid Community College.

So we do a lot of things. And all of them are pretty good. If any of this sounds like it might be up your alley, maybe give us a follow! We're currently putting together a big fundraising push for the holidays benefiting the International Rescue Committee, and we'll be bringing on some guest GMs and players for that. Watch this space for more info! In the meantime: Follow our Twitch channel! Check out our game archive on YouTube! Join our Discord community! Listen to our podcasts! Or learn more about us and what we do at livefromtheapocalypse.com! And with that I guess all that's left to say is, hello new friends! Glad you're here, glad we're here, looking forward to what comes next! Oh, and this is Haz! Everyone say hi Haz!

[7-wonders]

What are your favorite fics at the moment?

Oh man, I have so many fics I've been obsessed with lately.

First off, anything by @honeybeezgobzzzzz. An amazing, amazing author. Like, anything they write is positively fantastic and you should read their entire masterlist.

@hanasnx has some really good, really spicy 🌶🌶🌶 Anakin fics (I personally really enjoyed "Fantasizing" and "Talk Huttese to Me")

"History Class Cryptids" series by @darthstitch is such a great Dreamling series, like please go read it.

"Per Somnia" on Ao3 by Rhune

"This Waking Nightmare" on Ao3 by InorganicOne2230 (it's dark, yandere!Morpheus and you're going to love it, I promise)

One ship I did not think I would ever be into, but I very much am, is Hob/Calliope/Dream. "Drink the Poison Lightly (there are deeper and darker things than you)" on Ao3 by viiidispade is BEAUTIFUL. I've read it multiple times.

I can give more recs, but these are just the ones off the top of my head. Happy reading!

[endless-bees]

If you don't mind other fandom's characters dumped into the Sandman AU, the..History Class Cryptids? series is *excellent.* You don't even need to know details about the other fandom's characters, except for the Highlander universe's rules and only then to understand one small moment.

THERE IS A CAT NAMED MIETTE IN THIS SERIES

I appreciate the tone of the series a lot. It’s very distinct in its wry sense of humor!

You can read the first part here!

[darthstitch]

Listen.

There's a hush in the Dreaming when its lord returns. They are braced for the inevitable storm, the rains and the dark clouds, the howling winds.

It is frighteningly calm.

Dream gently waves aside Lucienne's concerns, scares several years off Matthew's life when, in response to Matthew's well-meant words of comfort, he simply draws his raven close for a brief cuddle, long fingers stroking down his feathers the way he'd once done for Jessamy.

(His hands shake and his touch is cold. His eyes are stars in mourning, grief scattered across the night sky.)

Dream is nothing if not conscientious. He knows of himself that he can be slow to learn, and he has not forgotten how cruel he can be to his past loves - Nada, Alianora, Calliope... he'd sworn to himself that he'd not do the same to Hob Gadling. He'd broken that promise, in the end.

(Oathbreaker)

In the end Hob forgives him - his anger passes like a storm, but he hasn't yet reached that point that all of Dream's lovers had - the hate and the later indifference. Dream welcomes him back to the Dreaming tenderly, giving him the finest dreams of his crafting, a wordless expression of the truth he'd tried to deny for so long - his own love, poor, paltry thing that it is, the love of a creature not worthy of being loved in return by someone like Hob Gadling, in fact, someone who is not worth loving at all.

Hob, of course, knows nothing of this. He only draws Dream close, tries to kiss the tears that won't stop falling now, telling him, "Hush, love, s'all right. That's how things are sometimes - we'll quarrel, because we're both fools at times, but we'll make it right again."

Hob forgives - it is his nature to do so, constant as the sun rising.

Dream does not forgive himself. He will trespass again, he will cause pain, he is unworthy, ever unworthy - he will destroy himself before he brings grief to Hob Gadling again.

This is the last part of his atonement - Dream will let his beloved go, set him free. Hob has weathered loss before - he is boundless hope and endless wonder. He will live, he will love again - find someone worthy of that great heart of his.

When his little sister Delirium asks him to find their prodigal brother, Dream knows it has begun. This quest will lead to a final goodbye with his son, family blood on his hands and his ruin. Let Morpheus die, prideful, capricious, cruel and unworthy creature.

Let a new Dream rise, someone, perhaps, who might be far worthier of his crown, of his duty and function. Let a new Dream rise who might, by what higher power's mercy, be worth loving.

-end-

"It’s not fair how much I love you" - Fair, The Amazing Devil

Dream had never seen Hob like this before, hackles raised, eyes dark, completely devoid of the sun that he had come to associate with the man. To think this was his doing curled his stomach.

“You doubted me,” said Hob, voice tight with barely controlled anger. Dream could feel it simmering around him, charging the air, making him reevaluate his previous thought. After all, the sun was not only warm and lifegiving. It could be scorching as well. “Why else would you bring your sibling into this?”

“I–”

“No. Stop talking. I cannot believe you!”  

Hob’s hands were curled into fists, gripping tighter with each word, as if he was still holding back, as if he still refused to unleash the full force of his fury onto him, to spare him the consequences of his actions.

“A test? You needed a fucking test? Dream, how many times must I prove myself to you? I waited centuries for you. I built a fucking pub for you! I took the wisps of affection you dangled in front of me and I hoped, and I was loyal.”

Despite himself, Dream flinched, as the weight of what he let his sibling talk him into doing – no, what he had done– sinked in. How cruel had he been. How needlessly insecure. He yearned to reach out, to offer comfort and contrition, but the man turned his back, hugging himself. How easy it would be for Dream to bridge the gap and pull him into his arms, press kisses over his eyes and apologize over and over again. Though he was a king in his own realm, he would grovel at this human’s feet for forgiveness. Yet, he felt frozen, compelled to live out this moment as his punishment.

“I thought you loved me. I thought you trusted me.” Hob sounded defeated, something not even 80 years of hunger had achieved. “I’ve seen more than any human has, experienced loss after loss, endured pain and joy and anger and hope beyond compare. Did you not think I would know what I want? That I would be certain?” 

Hob faced him then, tears tracking down his cheeks. Whether in sorrow or frustration, Dream knew not.

“I wanted you, Dream. Not some shade of you that your sibling cooked up. And even after all this shit you put me through, idiot that I am, I still do. It’s not fair.”

Hob let out a weary sigh. Dream stepped closer, and when he wasn’t pushed away, he dared to press a hand to his lover’s cheek, feeling the tremor in his flesh and the warmth of his tears.

“I’m sorry, Hob.”

“No.” Hob smacked his hand away, and Dream felt the scorch of sun like a brand. “You don’t get to do that. You can’t just kiss it better without actually atoning for anything.”

“What must I do?”

“I don’t know. I can't look at your right now. Just fuck off back to the Dreaming, Morpheus. You figure it out.”

For once, Dream did as he was told and disappeared back to his realm, leaving Matthew to stand watch over his friend. His latest report was that Hob had purchased two 24-packs of Red Bull and several bottles of cold brew.

Fuck.

[butterfly--empress]

So About BnHA…

Man! I don’t participate much on here but it sure has been an interesting popcorn eating time, lurking through the good, the bad, and the annoying posts in the spoiler chapter tags. For this week’s chapter, especially!

Not gonna rant (I save those for close friends on discord) 

I do notice that lines within this crazy ass fandom have been drawn, tears have been shed and righteous fury has been felt. And no matter wtf Mister Horikoshi has in stored for chapter 320, it’s going to be a make or break chapter for a lot of folks. I did try my best to keep this post Bakugou neutral grounds. I don’t think I’ve bashed nor favored the character just fyi.

But the most inconspicuous opinions can be taken too serious these days…

The Silly:

For chapter 320 onwards, I am and have ALWAYS BEEN 100% Team: The Legend, The Myth, The Champ, Izuku ‘Feral!Rabbit-Cryptid!’ Midoriya! Win or Lose, I ride or die with Midoriya, hands down! ON GOD!

While everybody yelling into the tumblr void over whose gonna win or lose.

I’m sitting here thinking about two things: A) Has no one thought that maybe some of Class 1-A might side with Deku? *coughsUraraka/Iida/Todorokicoughs* *coughsmaybeevenMineta/Asui/Yaoyorozu???coughs* *coughs maybe even a surprise Shinsou/class1-b reveal even though class 1-b don’t know deku that well* B) Did everyone forget in all the excitement that uhh my boi has yet to unlock the 2nd OFA user’s quirk???

I mean, I’m not saying if it does come down to a bawl of drama and angst, that Izuku’s gonna win.

But I am saying, if it does come down to a bawl of drama and angst, that Izuku’s gonna win…I regret nothing with this bet! If my boi loses we just gonna take that L but…ya know…*shrugs*…Baby, beat their Bakugou’s collective asses.

The Serious:

Personally, I honest to god really love this shounen series with all my heart. It is the anime that reignited my love for shounen after my fatigued of constant disappointment with two old shounen favorites. 

Now, having said all that: I truly have not had a serious issue with the writing choices made by Horikoshi. Yes, I have my…gripes…(it’s complicated) but considering what I got compared to the stuff I’ve watched/read in the past, it’s definitely better to me. Having read/watched a lot of anime/manga and shounen, (I haven’t watched them ALL, srsly after my great disappointment and real life I sort of had an anime dry spell if you must know. Watched some stuff here and there when I could/in the mood but not as frequent as I’ve done like yrs ago), I’ve come to learn to just…begrudgingly accept/expect certain; I suppose you can say, writing choices or ‘tropes’ that I can just easily ignore them, roll my eyes when I see them, and still enjoy whatever I’m invested in at the time. 

The only real frustrations I have is with a certain character. Yes, I mean Bakugou. I have come to tolerate him, I have come to begrudgingly like him, especially after a second rewatch of the series, I could see and accept that in a very typical shounen way, Bakugou did change, though very little, and it’s subtle and undeniably frustrating how it’s happening but it’s there. However, I do question Horikoshi’s writing choices when it comes to him at times. I see the character development, I know it’s there but….*sighs*

Now I’m one of these people who do believe that the creator of this universe, actually knows wtf he’s doing with his own story (even if rabid/hormonal younger fans loudly disagree but YMMV). One thing I’ve noticed, for the most part, he doesn’t just write/draw things for the hell of it, even if a certain plot or a certain character’s development takes a snail’s pace to get to the point. The conclusion of building up to arcs do have a pay off. (And I 100% understand that for some people, moving at a snail’s pace just don’t cut it. Everything cannot please everybody all of the time and that is FINE!)

Katsuki Bakugou…I know the crumbs and very subtle ways he’s changed have to lead somewhere and to something huge. When Bakugou admits to All Might he bullied Midoriya when they were kids, I had an ‘ah ha!’ Moment. The fact that a very prideful guy like Bakugou was finally starting to admit just that much, (even though, we the audience knows it runs way deeper than he’s admitting here) even in his frustrating roundabout way I like to think this is progress, is very in-character and cannot just be for the hell of it. It has to be leading up to something else other than Bakugou jumping in to take that hit for Deku during the war arc. There is unresolved tension still between Bakugou and Midoriya that is not going to just go away because they will it to.

Which brings us to Chapters 318 and especially 319. It’s the perfect set up for all the dirty skeletons to come out of the closet that both Bakugou and Midoriya have been avoiding/trying to pretend doesn’t exists between them, because it’s been a long time coming. The honest to god truth? This is actually how I always thought this confrontation will go, with a showdown that forces Midoriya into a corner where all those repressed negative feelings he’s bottled up inside is bound to come out; Because I Honestly think Izuku would take what Bakugou’s done to him to his grave if he had it, his way. (Boy can be very frustratingly stubborn when he wants to be).

It’s just, after saying all this, I don’t hold my breath that Horikoshi will take it there…The opportunity is there, I want it to go there, it NEEDS to go there! In order for both characters to come out for the better. But will Mister Horikoshi ‘DO THE THING?’

Remains to be seen. A little bit of me is hopeful, another part of me is resigning myself to feeling dissatisfied with what little we got for Bakugou’s character development and by proxy, Izuku’s getting stuck in limbo. I’m not kidding, Bakugou being a very contentious character within this fandom doesn’t just come from nowhere. But this post isn’t about me ranting into the void about Bakugou. (I don’t even think I can muster up the rage I felt the first time watching MHA blindly to rant to high hell about the bullshit Bakugou’s done now.)

I suppose I will just have to internally scream for 1,000 yrs over half baked character development if Horikoshi doesn’t do the FUCKING THING in giving a satisfying pay off to Katsuki and Midoriya’s history. I’ll just frustratingly chalk it up to old freaking shounen logic and just continue to enjoy the series because I’ve been here for Izuku Midoriya since ep 1 and I am not about to let Bakugou or Horikoshi’s unwillingness to do something with him derail that. And there’s always hoping that someone is writing some really good Bakugou gets actual Consequences fanfic out there because ooh boy…I like Bakugou but mofo can catch these hands…and I’m not even a fighter, but Bakugou…this lil shit does make you want to choke the hell out of him at times. 

I haven’t been this emotionally frustrated over an anime character since…maybe fucking Louise from Zero no Tsukaima and it takes a LOT to make me actually dislike characters, good or bad. 

All in All: Regardless of how the story goes from here on out, we are all about to lose our collective shits. No matter how you feel about which characters…

It’s about to go down!

[melody-studyblr]

~*•Australian Studyblrs Masterlist•*~

hello everyone! this is where you can find aussie studyblrs. if you are curious about the australian system, please continue to read below the cut! be sure to message me if you are interested in being added to this :)

VCE Studyblrs:

@jumwa-the-cryptid

inspires us all with their physics, spesh, and maths methods work- not to mention music! they are taking a gap year before pursuing engineering at Monash! Their posts are very conversational and definitely inspiring (looking at you differential equations!) @dysfunctional-nerd-tm

posts very regularly and is taking on maths methods head first. they play cello, write fanfics, and speak french- honestly what can't they do!

@ren-studys

ren is a yr 12 student and an aspiring neurosurgeon! check out their blog for aesthetic pictures of notes and med school related images. you're guaranteed to leave feeling inspired and ready to study! They are studying chem, bio, legal, and further. @rxdicalize

posts relatable and interesting content. She has beautiful notes and bullet journals, and will have vce content for the next few years as she is in yr 11! @melody-studyblr

yes, sorry, i'm putting myself in here! i'm a yr 12 student, and i love to try a little bit of everything :) i'm working alot on science and math subjects to work towards becoming an engineer, and also exploring passions such as reading (at what point do i start a boostagram? haha) and more!

@sleepy-blr

class of '23 just like me! they take a ton of interesting unit 1/2 subjects like history and art :) plus some lovely note photos!

@tacklingprelims

another year 11 student trying to get their atar!!

@chaoticstudying

a year 11 VCE student with great music test and super interesting subjects :) their super honest about their studies, with really lovely posts!

QCE Studyblrs:

@cosmological-vertigooooo

is a recent graduate (just completed QCE) with a passion for mathematics. they have some pretty epic math memes, and also some really interesting explanatory posts! very helpful in reviving a passion for math :)

Bonus instas: @vce2021 @it_jumwa (belongs to @jumwa-the-cryptid)

The Australian high school system is standardized to give each student a ranking from 0 to 99.95 at the end of their high school education. The way that this score is determined depends on the state, but typically involves 1-2 years of focused curriculum in 4-6 subjects. It culminates in a series of fairly difficult exams, and uses 'sac' (school assessed coursework) grades to determine a score, which is then applied to a bell curve. I'm happy to do a q and a on this if anyone is interested!

[jeeperso]

I posted 665 times in 2021

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Crossing Utena and Fate

Utena is a saber, obviously

but, the hypothetical that speaks to me are Anthy’s specs

I mean, the movie version is Rider, full stop.

but for the series, I can see valid arguments for Caster (straight up magic class), or Avenger (she’s literally Angra Mainyu in the Dios story)

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#4

The Nameless Hero

Real name: Unknown

Age: 150+, if the same person

Birthday: unknown

Height: 160-170 cm (estimate)

Favorite Things: unknown

Quirk: Unknown. Due to the apocryphal nature of The Nameless Hero, records of their abilities are varied, with some accounts only explicable via multiple Quirks. These include but are not limited to: extra-ranged sight, superhuman physicality, force barrier, multiple ranged projectiles, conjuring swords, and, if this is the same person each time, some sort of immortality Quirk

Power: A Speed: A Technique: A Knowledge: A Teamwork: E Regrets: S

A rumored, semi-mythical figure in Quirk history, The Nameless Hero is regarded as a human cryptid, similar to such ‘living’ myths as the ‘Dark Emperor’ or "Peerless Thief". Unlike those two arch-villains, The Nameless Hero, as suggested by their epithet, is a heroic figure, first appearing during the middle east conflicts of the 2010's that erupted following the original generation of the Quirked.

 According to recorded accounts, appearances of the Nameless followed a recurring pattern, where they would intervene in conflicts by protecting civilians and survivors where they could, and taking vengeance when not. The Nameless was without loyalty, battling any and all sides, insurgent and occupying alike, seeking to only prevent, mitigate or avenge war crimes. 

Over time, the Nameless Hero's sightings would eventually crisscross the globe, almost always appearing in places devoid of heroes even by that era's standards. However, despite an admirable crusade, the death and destruction left in the wake of the Nameless Hero has also resulted in destructive battles with law-abiding heroes. As such, the Nameless Hero is regarded as a dangerous vigilante at best, and an extremely good-intentioned villain at worst.

Curiously, Japan would have its own stories of the Nameless Hero, bringing justice to human traffickers, serial killers, and supposedly, even literal monsters, according to one unhinged rant sourced an obscure pro hero calling himself Lariat. Even All Might has hinted, or perhaps just joked, to fought alongside and against this quirked cryptid, the Symbol of Peace claiming their last encounter was during the Great Jedda Fire.

Hero-historians still debate the existence of the Nameless Hero, some believing that like the so-called Dark Emperor, better down to conspiracists as "All For One", that they somehow possessed multiple Quirks through unknown means. Dr. Darnic Yggamillennia V, of the Romanian-based Yggmillennia Foundation, a non-profit research organization dedicated to the rediscovery, preservation and transcription of Pre-Quirk history and culture, offers a different theory: that the Nameless was not one man, but several sharing the same identity, citing the Hashshashin from Arabic history, the order of assassins from which the very word originates.

15 notes • Posted 2021-03-14 16:14:54 GMT

#3

Calamity PL 10 (150) Abilities (48) STR 4/2 AGI 6 FIT 4 AWA 2 STA 4 DEX 2 INT 2 PRE 2 Powers (18) athletic: leaping +1, speed +1 (2) custom paired pistols & trick ammo (flaws: easily removable) (12) - AP round: damage +6 (extras: ranged +1, penetrating +1) [18] - eat lead: Damage +6 (extras: ranged +1, multiattack +1) [18] - lead tempest: damage +6 (extras: burst area +1, selective +1) [18] Cyberarm: enhanced STR +2 (flaw: limited-left arm only -1), movement +2 (swinging) (4) Advantages (18) agile feint, assessment, contacts, def roll 2, equipment 6, improved initiative, move-by action, quick draw, startle, takedown 2, uncanny dodge Skills (38/76) acrobatics +4 athletics +6 close combat: unarmed +4 deception +4 expertise: streetwise +4 insight +6 intimidation +8 investigation +6 perception +6 ranged combat: pistols +12 stealth +6 technology +4 vehicles +6 Defenses (28) TOU +8/6/4 DODGE +12 FORT +10 PARRY +12 WILL +10 equipment armored duster: protection +2 [2] Motorcycle [10] Utility belt [18] - hand grenades: damage +5 (extras: burst arewa +1, range +1) {15} - smoke bomb: concealment +2 (visual, extras: attack +0, cloud area +2, range +1) {10} - tear gas: affliction +4 (dazed & vision impaired/stunned & vision disabled/incapacitated, fort resists, extras: cloud area +1, range +1) {16} complications All Whitecapes are bastards: Calamity's father was abandoned by the Legion Pacifica, and she deeply resents almost all whitecapes as a result Cost an arm: Calamity lost her left arm against a villain, and blames herself for not listening to Dreadnought motivation - Justice, not law: Calamity wants to do good, but has to work outside the law to do it oh my darlin': Calamity is in love with Dreadnought, but their combined issues are making any move difficult wanted poster: the New Port Police barely tolerate Calamity's vigilantism, and she's made a few villainous enemies, such as the drug gangs whose money she loots to fund herself Who was that masked woman?: Only a handful of people know that Calamity is secretly Sarah Castillo Total abilities 48 + powers 18 + advantages 18 + skills 38/76 + defenses 28 = 150 the other major heroine of the Nemesis series, Calamity is a "graycape", an unsanctioned hero regarded as a violent vigilante, but also the first one to find Danny after she gets Dreadnought's powers, and helps her escape the scene. Afterwards, Calamity takes a shine to the new heroine, and realizing they attend the same high school, starts approaching her, only for Danny to realize her secret identity the next time she shows up in costume. As the novel progresses, Calamity's reasons for becoming a graycape are clear, after her father's teammates on the Legion Pacifica, the west coast's #1 hero team, abandoned him when he was accused of murder, and other instances where the law and other whitecapes protect the rich and powerful, but not people on the margins. this build represents Calamity at the start of the second book, having recently recovered from losing her arm the previous book, and increasingly concerned for Dreadnaught as Danny's numerous untreated mental traumas start to turn her self-destructive

27 notes • Posted 2021-04-05 23:36:44 GMT

#2

Let’s get something clear, with regards to the Final Fantasy VII Remake “Intergrade” update

Whatever polycule cuddle-pile forms around this collection of Disaster Bis, if it’s anybody’s harem

It’s Aerith’s

40 notes • Posted 2021-06-11 13:32:58 GMT

#1

Dreadnought

Dreadnought

PL 10 (150)

Abilities (36) STR 14 AGI 4 FIT 2 AWA 2 STA 14 DEX 0 INT 0 PRE 2

Powers (89) Faster Than a jet: Flight +10 (20) lattice manipulation: move object +12 (flaw: Side effect -1, tiring -1) (6) lattice perception: senses +1 (reality awareness) (1) Mending: regeneration +5 (5) More powerful than a battleship: Enhanced STR +10, Enhanced STA +10 (40) Turns out I really am bulletproof: immunity +10 (life support), impervious TOU +14 (flaw: limited-not vs electricity or magic -1) (17)

Advantages (3) all-out attack, attractive, ultimate will

Skills (12/24) close combat: unarmed +4 expertise: drawing +4 expertise: pop culture +4 insight +4 intimidation +4 perception +4

Defenses (10) TOU +14 DODGE +6 FORT +14 PARRY +6 WILL +6

Complications I'm not going anywhere: Dreadnought is openly lesbian and transgender I'm sorrier than you'll ever know: Dreadnought has inherited her predecessor's enemies, such as Red Steel Motivation - I want to help people: Although she has trouble believing it herself, Dreadnought is a good person, and uses her newfound power to help those in need Mount Screamer: A lifetime of her father's emotional abuse has left Dreadnought confidence issues she’s only beginning to overcome, not helped by how he keeps coming back into her life Pure, savage joy: Due to her anger issues, Dreadnought can get carried away with fighting Pretty hard to forget you: Dreadnought is currently oblivious to the feelings of her friend and fellow crime-fighter, Calamity Sure a ducking bunt: the mystic heroine Graywytch finds Dreadnought's mere existence offensive, and thus bullies her at every turn Unmasked: the general public knows that Danielle 'Danny' Tozer is the fourth Dreadnought The world needs Dreadnought: Dreadnought has inherited the mantle and legacy of Dreadnought, the world's greatest hero

Total abilities 36 + powers 90 + advantages 2 + skills 12/24 + defenses 10 = 150

Titular heroine of the YA superhero novel Dreadnought by April Daniels, Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny’s body into what she’s always thought it should be. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl. And as Danny has to deal with toxic parents, creeper friends and judgmental superheroes, there's still the matter that Dreadnought's killer is still out there...

This build for Mutants & Masterminds 3rd edition represents Dreadnought by the end of the first book, having saved the world and made her identity public. 

EDIT: For those Unfamiliar with M&M, this version of Dreadnought is designed for the game’s default level for PCs

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[darthstitch]

Professor Mysterious and Professor Wet Cat

This is my take on that Dreamling post making the rounds about Hob and Dream being uni professors and that Hob is surprisingly NOT the prof who overshares and Dream is the one who inadvertently does.

Buckle up, kids, let's have some fun with this. Also, gentle reminder: NOBODY TELL NEIL. SHHHH!

This time around, Hob's using his proper name, Robert Gadling, because it's been a while since he's trotted that one out and he kinda likes the seeming rightness that the once upon a time near-illiterate medieval peasant that he'd been was now teaching at a rather prestigious university. However, he's not prone to sharing much about his personal life to his students. He's still warm and friendly, but he's cautious about letting Certain Things slip.

Hilariously, the things that do slip end up making him everyone's favorite university cryptid. Sometimes Hob slips into Middle English when he's stressed or emotional. Sometimes he might use odd old-fashioned sounding oaths like "God's wounds," "Holy Jesu," and "Mother Mary's teats" (this last one sends everyone into spasms of laughter).

The literature department ADORES him because they can always drag Professor Gadling off to read Chaucer in its original form or even medieval French, his pronunciation perfect and dead on. Shakespeare is the only thing he'll flat out refuse to read because in any universe this Fuzzy Blue Alien's gonna write, his hatred of the Bard is the stuff of legend.

The students universally agree that Professor G is basically British Indiana Jones, because he's also known to have lethal expertise in medieval weapons. There's been more than a few fantasies inspired during the booked-solid outdoor demonstrations where he works in tandem with the other medieval history professors to show everyone how medieval weapons worked. Apparently, his favorite weapons are the longbow, the bastard sword and daggers.

Obviously, this all leads to Professor Gadling being the campus crush and his relationship status is a matter of hot speculation even if he's made it perfectly clear he was not about to violate his ethical standards or position as a teacher. It still doesn't stop the fevered fantasies of more than a few grad students, though. But that's all they're gonna get.

And then, there's the new literature teacher, Professor T. Murphy.

To everyone's disappointment, Professor Murphy is only going to be at the university for a limited series of lectures. Word of mouth spread fast, and his classes were now booked solid and he was going to be asked to return, once his apparently very busy schedule is cleared.

7. Of course, he's an instant campus crush, with the "Goth angel" looks, the Edward Cullen jokes are definitely flying and there's more than a few students melting after they heard him speak. "That Voice" is always referred to in capital letters and it's well deserved.

8. "Campus crush" turns to "Official Precious Blorbo" once the students all discover that behind the whole regal and imperious Goth Prince vibe that he gave off, was an adorkable darling wet cat who was just completely gone on "my beloved." If he's discussing a love sonnet or poem, there's definitely going to be a reference to "my beloved" or "my dearest" or "my love." It's never sickeningly cloying and the sweet tiny little smile that takes over his normally serious face is like sunshine. The kilig feels are real.

9. He's also forever worrying that he's not enough for "my dearest" as he's rather painfully aware "of my lack in human graces" - which everyone translates to "OMG HELP I HAVE THE SOCIAL SKILLS OF A SCRUNKLY WET CAT." He frets that he's somehow failing his beloved, who is infinitely sweet and thoughtful and caring and that Professor Murphy is the selfish one, really, who doesn't deserve the man.

10. The students, of course, immediately ADOPT him. Tesco ice cream runs are done, YouTube videos on cooking and invites to kitchens are extended so Professor Murphy could practice making something that is "not a catastrophic culinary disaster unfit for human consumption." There was a session on the language of flowers, which everyone had enjoyed. For a while, flowers with significant meanings were presented to sweethearts and lovers all over the uni. There's an unforgettable after-class meeting in which the craft-inclined students teach Professor Murphy how to knit and crochet and he was really rather proud of the scarf he had created.

11. Professor Murphy's raven had been rather entertained playing with the yarn scraps. The students learn that the raven's name is Matthew.

12. And then, dashing, mysterious Professor Gadling finally peeks into Professor Murphy's class.

"The things I do for you, myne owne hertis rote. Bloody Shaxberd."

"But you do read him so very well, my love." And there it was, that tiny, soft, sweet smile, now aimed in Professor Gadling's direction.

Professor Gadling sighs and puts a hand over his chest. There's a very familiar scarf draped over his neck. "God's wounds, dove, warn your poor, long-suffering husband before you do these things."

"What 'things,' dearest?"

Professor Gadling waves his arms helplessly. The scarf slips a little, offering a tantalizing view of a purplish mark on his throat. "That thing!" He looks appealingly at the students, who are now all stifling their delighted giggles. "Look at him! My heart can only take so much!"

And that was how everyone found out that Professors Gadling and Murphy were actually happily married.

Incidentally, the Shakespeare reading, in which both professors took part, was a true kilig apocalypse. Instant campus legend.

[bunivys]

“Your hair is really soft”

Unless it’s too late!

Not too late at all! Thanks for sending this in. This is sorta set in a future spot in Lessons in the Unseen, though it's very vague. Hope you enjoy! <3

“Nick,” Sabrina chided, “You really should take a break.”

She looked over at her boyfriend and the pile of textbooks he had taking up most of their coffee table. He was seated on a cushion and hunched over, pen in hand as he jotted something down, barely glancing up at her when she spoke. She had a book in her own hand, except hers was strictly for pleasure and she was comfortably splayed out on the couch.

“I’m busy,” Nick reminded her.

“Then un-busy yourself for a few minutes. I’m getting a backache just from looking at you.”

“Sabrina, I’m literally so close to finishing this,” he told her. “If I can cohesively organize all of my old and new research, your aunt said I can present it to the council again in hopes it’ll be enough this time. I might actually get to teach a class on this, and I’d have their blessing to continue working on it. I have to do this, okay? If you can’t look at me, go somewhere else.”

“Then why don’t you go into the study? You’re going to hurt your back bending over like that.”

“Because I want to be by you,” he said. “If I’m in the study, then I’m not spending time with you.”

“Even if I’m being annoying?” Sabrina asked with a sly smile. She reached behind her to grab the TV remote from the end table and, while looking away from her book briefly, she turned on the television and began flipping through until she settled on a docu-series about cryptids. From the corner of her eye, she caught Nick’s offended expression as he looked over at her. Documentaries were one of his favorite things to watch. It didn’t matter what mortal issues they covered—history, crime, mystery, or the paranormal—he would devour them.

“Sabrina,” Nick groaned. “That’s not fair.”

“Your weakness,” Sabrina pointed out. “You’ll have to take a break whether you want to or not.”

He sighed and considered it for a moment, his eyes flicking to the TV where the narrator began to introduce the topic of that particular episode—the Mothman of West Virginia. Then, he stood up and made his way over to the couch where she was, kissing her once before he squeezed in with her, his head making its way onto her chest. Sabrina’s fingers settled in his hair, stroking through his curls in that way she knew would relax him.

“Mortals are so cute,” Nick sighed as he let his gaze fall onto the television. “They make up such odd stories for the things they can’t explain.”

They settled in like that, her book discarded and his research forgotten for the moment, both of them relaxing. Sabrina became so enthused by the documentary that she nearly didn’t notice it when Nick fell asleep, her fingers stilling in his hair at some point. She let him rest while she continued with the documentary, too intrigued to shut it off even though she knew he would complain about her watching it without him later on.

Eventually, as it ended, Nick stirred awake, and then when he realized what had happened, he sat up, his balance slightly off and his eyes still bleary from sleep.

“Shit,” he grumbled. “I wasn’t supposed to fall asleep—it was only supposed to be a small break...”

“Shh,” Sabrina hushed, tugging him back down. He didn’t fight it, too tired as he settled back in, arms wrapping around her. “Leave it for the evening.”

“But I have so much to do,” he argued. “And you did that thing with my hair. You knew what you were doing.”

“I couldn’t help it,” she replied, smiling and smoothing back his hair again as though to make a point. “Your hair is really soft.”

“Mm,” he hummed, making no attempt to get up again as he reached for the throw blanket that was tossed over the back of the couch so that he could cover both of them. “Play another episode, Spellman.”

[nedlittle]

someone please recommend me informational/educational/talky podcasts (absolutely NO true crime) to download for my bike rides i cannot keep listening to the same five episodes of sawbones on repeat

i have listened to...

the cryptid keeper (my beloved)

spirits (liked early episodes now too corporate #girlboss-y for me)

you were wrong about (only the princess diana series)

behind the bastards (didn't really vibe)

bad gays (fine but not my fave)

you must remember this (hell yeah!!)

lore/myths & legends (they're both fine ig. haven't listened to a whole lot)

stuff you missed in history class (haven't listened in a long ass time)

my favorite malady (a love-hate relationship)

[mystaracrosstheuniverse]

Answer (The Truth Untold) Character Aesthetics

KIM NAMJOON - A Marine Biologist/Philosophy Major. Upperclassman and a TA in your Intro to Oceanography course. While extremely intelligent, he’s quite clumsy and you can tell when he trips over air coming into the classroom or lecture hall. Loves crabs especially and doesn’t eat seafood due to his major. Namjoon is always pleasant and polite, dresses more like a professor than student and always has coffee in hand.

KIM SEOKJIN - A culinary arts major with a very successful youtube channel called EAT JIN. Often has friends (like Namjoon or others) guest star on his channel for his cook with me/eat with me series and is very funny despite his dad jokes. His favorite color is pink (referenced by his matching kitchen sets) and while you’ve never met him, he’s entertaining to watch and you enjoy his commentary and humor.

MIN YOONGI - The ever elusive “best friend” of Hoseok and more addicted to coffee than Namjoon is. A quiet architect major, he always tends to keep to himself, never uttering more than a sparse few words to you in passing because of your friendship with Hoseok. While he’s talked about alot, you see him more as a campus cryptid who often enters the music production studios late at night when you’re leaving. 

JUNG HOSEOK - The fun, energetic ball of sunshine who is everyone’s friend - including yours. His father is the literature professor on campus and Hoseok makes a point to take any easy course he can as a weird support thing for his dad. He’s a dance major and known to be a bit of a class clown. Pretty much known all throughout campus and you’re happy to have him as a friend.

PARK JIMIN - The sweet, flirtatious best friend of Taehyung. As a dance and education major, he’s very energetic and always on the move, which makes him hard to track down unless at a party. He teaches little ones at the dance studio down the street from the university. Jimin loves the strange and supernatural and seems to be a pulling force for the group that is what is it today. 

KIM TAEHYUNG - An eccentric, zealous art and fashion design major. He, in your opinion, is an enigma -- you can never quite figure out which Taehyung you’ll get and why. He’s almost always covered in paint and has ever changing hair colors. Hoseok introduced you two because you were the same age and that’s how you bonded. You’re never sure of how Taehyung truly thinks/feels about you, though.

JEON JUNGKOOK - An extremely energetic, peppy baby who’s younger than you and still possesses the strange, childlike wonder quality. He loves video games and is training to be a tattoo artist. You’ve bonded because of his love for body art and your ever growing collection of it. He’s a bit immature but eager to learn and hang out with his elder friends when he can.

Y/N L/N - An international masters student who works with preschool children. While you’re the same age as Taehyung and Jimin, you’ve been able to focus on your studies after moving in with your grandparents earlier in your 20s an strive to teach children about the world and its history. You met Hoseok because your mothers had met through an exchange program when they were in college, and connected when you decided to move to South Korea for your masters.

[mysterywheeze]

top 5 bfu episodes: can be both true crime and supernatural

this is gonna be a toughie (and i’m mostly basing this on pure personal preference and history with the ep) but here goes...

SPN

5. the toxic woman (after watching this episode i brought it up to my chem teacher. as it turned out, he’d heard about the toxic woman case! and i asked him if we could talk about it in class later in the year. we never got anywhere near that level of advanced chemistry in class but i like to think that we shared a bonding moment that day.) 4. annaliese michel (in a series full of quotations and stock photos, it is nice to hear authentic audio from a the scene of an old case) 3. bigfoot: the convincing evidence (it’s a cryptid episode! those are always great) 2. lizzie borden (i was a massive bordenhead growing up. of course it appeals to me. also, it’s a double-whammy of an unsolved murder and ghost-hunting) 1. 3 horrifying cases of ghosts and demons (i mean... could it be anything else?)

TC

5. jack the ripper (i do love how they had a fuck-ton of suspects and most of them were plausible. you can’t say that for a lot of true crime eps. also... it’s jack the ripper. it’s the unsolved murder case.  4. poisoned pill murders (a very interesting case. also, this was the first episode that i saw right when it came out, so it’s kinda my milestone from “watches this show casually” to “actively follows it”) 3. JFK (sometimes you wanna hear about some small-town crime or an obscure little case. but sometimes you wanna go big or go home) 2. d.b. cooper (a fun ep for an enigmatic guy. also, the line “i’m a mystery man, give me a bourbon” was where i got half my url from!) 1. the axeman (i think this was the first BFU episode i ever watched all the way through. it’s got a special place in my heart. also it has razor boy)

[lefaystrent]

Kid Logan au pt.3

Fandom: Thomas Sanders, Sanders Sides

Pairings: none

Summary: After Logan wakes up to find himself to be eleven-years-old again, he tries to make the best of his life and attends high school. But he doesn’t do much to hide the fact that he’s an adult stuck in a kid’s body and his new friends are becoming suspicious.

Notes: You can find the first two parts here. 

In the days that follow since they became friends with Logan, he does not get any less weird.

“You know what I just realized is a positive to being a child?” Logan says one morning out of nowhere. They’re all loitering around outside the school, waiting for the bell to ring for the first class of the day.

“What’s that?” Virgil asks.

“I have no obligation to do taxes.” He smiles, entirely too satisfied with the epiphany. “I’m a dependent.”

They all watch him with bemused expressions. He’s sitting on a bench swinging his legs slightly back and forth, sipping contently from a thermos that Virgil is convinced is filled with black coffee.

Virgil doesn’t know anything about taxes or why the fuck this eleven-year-old boy is so happy to not have to do them, but that’s just one of the many weird things that makes up who Logan is.

And who Logan is has quickly become the campus cryptid.

“Don’t you think you’re overreacting?” Patton remarks. It’s the end of the day, students are pouring out the doors, and the three of them have met up at Roman’s car. Once again, they’re talking about their newest little friend.

“Think about it,” Virgil implores as he tosses his bag into the backseat. “There’s so many little things adding up that he’s—” He waves his hands around vaguely as if it’s supposed to mean something. To him it does, at least.

“Just a kid mature beyond his years and finds it hard to connect with people because of it?” Patton asks, brow raised.

“Sounds fake but okay.”

“I’m kinda with Virgil on this one, Padré,” Roman surprises Virgil by saying. Or maybe not so surprising, because every time Logan makes one of those kinds of comments, Roman’s the first to look at Virgil to confirm if he’s hearing this absurd kid right. Roman leans back against his car, arms crossed. “Go on with your theories, Lame Dawson. I know you’ve come up with something in that conspiracy theorist brain of yours.”

Virgil pushes up the sleeves of his hoodie to ready himself. “Okay. So far? There’s only two possible scenarios.”

“The first one being?”

“Aliens.”

“You always think it’s aliens.”

“I haven’t been proven wrong yet.”

“But you’ve never been proven right either—”

“And then my second theory!” Virgil talks over Roman. “He’s a vampire and his thermos wasn’t actually filled with coffee but with blood.”

“Now Virge, you don’t have to B negative about this,” Patton giggles, making the others snort.

“Who said I was negative about it?” Virgil smirks. “This is freaking cool.”

“I thought we agreed that this was creepy?” Roman says.

“Yeah, but creepy’s kinda my thing, dude.”

“Logan isn’t creepy,” Patton disputes. “He’s just trying his best.”

“So you think he’s just a totally normal kid?”

“Oh no, he’s definitely weird.” Patton nods. “But even if he’s not human, I still think he’s trying his best. And like Virge said, how cool would it be to have a vampire/alien friend?”

“I’m placing my bets elsewhere,” Roman disagrees. “Maybe he’s a changeling.”

“A what?”

“You know, a fairy left in the place of a human child.”

“Yeeeeah,” Virgil says convincingly, completely unconvinced. “I’m sure that’s it, Princey. Fairies.”

“If I didn’t scoff at your alien/vampire theories, then you’re not allowed to scoff at mine!”

“But you did!”

“Ugh, whatever,” Roman huffs at him and turns to Patton. “What do you think, Pat? Who do you think is closer to the truth?”

Patton shrugs. “I don’t know. Maybe Logan’s just a time traveling old man trapped in a kid’s body.”

“Let’s be realistic here.”

They carry on, about to pile into the car when they spot the kid himself walking down the sidewalk. Patton hollers out to him, waving his arms back and forth spastically until Logan would have to be deaf and blind not to notice him. He adjusts his course and approaches them.

“Hello, is there anything I can do for you?” Logan asks. “Preferably before your arms detach from your shoulders with your wild swinging, Patton.”

“Do you need a ride, kiddo?” Patton asks, chipper.

Logan glances at Roman who stands at the driver’s side door, keys in hand. It’s one of those times when he shows signs of being too sharp for an eleven-year-old, because Virgil can see him quickly concluding that Roman is the driver and that their interactions are still tense even after Roman accepted being friends. It’s not really Patton’s place to be offering a ride when it’s Roman’s car.

“That won’t be necessary.”

“You sure? Because we were gonna hang out for a while if you want to join us.”

Logan shifts his weight to the other foot and adjusts the straps of his bookbag. He’s glancing between Roman and Virgil and pointedly not at Patton. He clears his throat. “Perhaps another time. At the moment I’m busy with a project of mine that I plan to work on today.”

“Oooh, what kind of project?” Patton asks.

For the past week, he’s been asking Logan a lot of questions, wanting to learn more about him. During a chance moment alone with Virgil, Logan had asked, “Is he acting this way because he sees me as a child and is attempting to humor me?”

“Nah, that’s just Patton being Patton,” Virgil responded. Logan didn’t ask anything further on the matter, but he did become a bit more obviously self-conscious whenever Patton questioned him. His answers would become softer at being the center of attention and he’d tug at the end of his too-large tie.

Logan’s tugging on his tie right now. “It’s not for class and nothing you’d probably be interested in, I assure you. Just a personal project of mine. But if you must know, I’m researching theorems on time travel.”

Virgil and Roman turn to look at Patton fearfully. Patton just stands there with a pale face.

“Oh . . . that’s uh . . . that’s really cool, kiddo.”

“Indeed, I find the subject utterly fascinating.”

“Sowhat’sthefuturelike?” Patton mutters really fast.

“What?”

“Nothing!” he laughs to cover it up. He walks up to Logan and ruffles his hair. “Say, we should watch ‘Doctor Who’ sometime!”

Logan lets out a disgruntled grunt, batting Patton’s hand away. “Your affection is noted and unwelcome.” Then what Patton said seems to catch up with him. His hands freeze in his hair that he’d been trying to fix. “Wait, did you say ‘Doctor Who’?”

“Yeah, have you heard of it?”

“Heard of it?!” Logan practically screeches, and suddenly he’s far more animated than they’ve ever seen him. “It’s only one of the greatest shows in the history of television! If there was ever a series that didn’t deserve to be canceled, it was that one.”

“It was canceled?” Roman asks, looking at the others for an answer because he isn’t that into the show.

“No?” Virgil says in confusion. He looks at Logan, brow raised. “It’s still ongoing.”

Before Logan can explain himself, a car rolls by, stopping by them.

“There’s my high school son!” a woman yells out the window.

Logan spins around on his heel to scream in a high pitch, “Mother!”

There are other students in the area who start paying attention, but that doesn’t deter the woman. She has a big grin on her face as she waves out the window. “Hi honey! Is my high school son making high school friends?”

“Your repetitive reference to me as being in high school is unnecessary, thank you!”

“That’s really your mom?” Roman asks lowly to Logan. It is kinda hard to believe. She seems like a Patton-type, bright smiles and extroverted demeanor the opposite of Logan’s.

Logan huffs indignantly. “Yes. She has not gotten over the fact that I skipped three grades and uses every chance she can get to brag about me. It’s excessive.”

“But you like it, don’t you,” Patton teases lightly, making Logan’s face go red.

With no other prompting needed, Roman waves back at the woman. “Hello, Miss Sanders! We are most certainly your high school son’s high school friends.”

“What are you doing?” Logan hisses. “You’re just going to further enable her!”

“Hey there!” Patton calls to her next. “You have a wonderful son!”

“Not you too! Virgil, please, some assistance—”

“S’up, Logan’s mom,” Virgil greets her, throwing out a lazy peace sign.

She seems about ready to cry. She looks at her son, voice thick with emotion. “I’m so proud of you Logey-wogey.”

“Logey-wogey?” Patton gasps. Stars blossom in his eyes at the nickname, and Virgil is certain that he’ll adopt the nickname as his own. As it is, he’s reaching out to hug Logan who shrugs him off in embarrassment.

“I will pay you to forget you heard that,” Logan says.

Roman’s smile is full of sharp teeth. “Not a chance, Logey-wogey~.” Then he turns to his mother. “Miss Sanders, we were just in the middle of inviting your son to our weekly movie-marathon night. Would it be alright if he joins us?”

“What are you doing? This is kidnapping.”

“Is it really kidnapping if we have parental consent?” Virgil ponders. Logan sends him a glare, and to be honest Virgil feels a bit guilty. It’s a surprise to hear Roman pushing to have Logan join them, but Virgil can’t deny that he’s become infinitely more curious to figure out the kid than he was ten minutes ago.

“Oh my gosh, yes!” his mother agrees enthusiastically. “Logan honey, you go hang out with your high school friends, okay? I love you!”

And with that she drives away. Logan tries running after her car but his short legs aren’t quick enough. He stands in the dust left behind, mouth gaping.

“Wow, that was easy,” Roman muses. “Lucky we aren’t really kidnappers.”

“I don’t think he can really tell the difference at the moment,” Virgil observes.

“Logan?” Patton asks in concern, hovering over where Logan has fallen down to the ground on his back, defeated. Virgil doesn’t know where he got it, but Patton starts poking Logan’s cheek with a stick. “Logan? Lo? Logey-wogey?”

“Yeet me into the sun, I beg of you.”

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[ladysansa]

A friend of mine asked me to rec some podcasts that I enjoy and I thought that I’d share a few of my favorite podcasts with you guys:

• Stuff You Missed in History Class - focuses on stories, people or historical events that may not have been covered in your schools, or stories that are kinda obscure.

• The History Chicks - I love, love, love this podcast. The ladies that host this one are so funny and they give their own opinions on historical ladies.

• The NoSleep Podcast - focuses on scary stories read by voice actors, a lot of fun if you like listening to creepy stuff. (I can only listen to it in the daytime, otherwise I get too creeped out to sleep).

• Queens Podcast - I just started this one because I saw that they had an episode of Anne Boleyn. This podcast focuses on Queens, the title is kind of self explanatory.

• Myths and Legends - focuses on, obviously, myths and legends. The host tells stories from all different eras of the world, Celtic, Norse, the Middle Eastern, English mythology, etc. it’s really interesting!

• Fictional - podcast by the same man who hosts Myths and Legends. Focuses on stories like Frankenstein, Dracula, Dante’s Inferno, Macbeth, etc.

• Lore - focuses on creepy stories in history, like stories about vampires, extraterrestrial life, ghosts, demons, cryptids, people coming back from the dead, etc.

• Hardcore History - focuses on history, obviously. My favorite series from this podcast is Wrath of the Khans, but unfortunately it’s only available to buy.