#theater at the ace hotel

[freshmarmalade]

King Princess Live at the Theater at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles • October 26, 2022

[tomboy014]

Headcanon about Alastor that before he and Vox fell out, he was actually a bit of a cinephile.

It wasn't that he preferred movies to radio or books

But one of the bigger inventions of the 1920s was commercial air conditioning, which was mainly and most well known for being found... in movie theaters

You can't tell me that Alastor never bought a movie ticket just to get out of the summer Louisiana heat for a few hours

And from there, well, you just keep finding excuses to go, and before you know it, our equal opportunity serial killer has seen a lot of movies

[fanby-fckry]

Inspired by @blitzwhore’s Helluva Boss bingo cards.

For a shuffled version, click here.

I’m planning on making more of these, so here’s the tag, in advance.

Posting a copy of the alt text under the cut for easy copy-pasting on mobile; please consider adding an ID to your card if you post it.

A blank 5x5 bingo card for Alastor from Hazbin Hotel; the columns are labeled with the letters B-I-N-G-O; column by column from left to right, top to bottom, they read: Column 1/B: Cannibalism as a metaphor for [blank]; Speaks in a learned accent; Aro; Food-snob with questionable tastes; Babygirl-coded Column 2/I: Theater kid at heart; Momma’s boy; Causes problems on purpose [analog smile emoticon]; Touch-averse; Edgy Deviantart OC-energy Column 3/N: God complex; Control freak whose life is out of control; [free space/picture of Alastor]; *disappears under mysterious circumstances*; Masks by smiling Column 4/G: Prey animal rage; *bites you bites you bites you bites-*; Predator fear; Thinks showing emotion equals weakness; Ace Column 5/O: Knows how to dance; “I would kill for you. Please let me kill for you.”; Violence is the answer; Lies for fun; Attention whore

[organizechaoss]

"We're Professionals" - a HuskderDust fic

Prewritten. Updates on Tuesday’s

Blurb

"Well you just gonna stand there? Open it." Cherri glared at him across the kitchen counter.

Gingerly, Anthony unfolded it reading over the first few paragraphs. He dropped the rest of the papers to the floor.

"I got the part."

A Hazbin Hotel Actor AU that gets into the dark nitty gritty world of publicity, fame, and love centered on HuskerDust. Husk is known to be Helliwood’s Sweetheart who’s tied up in a lot of contracts and people he has to please. Anthony is an up and coming actor from the theater world, who just got his first big break.

It’s a love story.

See more below ;) or just start reading here <3

CONTENT WARNINGS FOR WHOLE FIC, PLEASE READ: This fic contains elements of coercion, non-con drugging, sexual assault, and false assault allegations (not my proudest moment — pls believe all allegations in real life). If you have concerns, feel free to message me or comment any questions you may have.

Now onto a more polite introduction:

Hello and welcome! This is a self indulgent fic I started months ago that sort of possessed me and I haven’t been able to get rid of it since. It’s a HuskerDust Actor AU set in the Hellverse but not as dystopian (i.e. no extermination). Essentially, the actors Anthony and Husk are playing the characters Angel Dust and Harley in the show Hazbin (which is shockingly similar to Hazbin Hotel in our world, lol). Husk is already famous and known to be Helliwood’s Sweetheart. Anthony is from the theater world and at the start of his career. 

It’s a love story.

Some minor warnings before we get into stuff:

I started this when I was newer to the fandom and used a bunch of throwaway names from both Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel to try and limit OC’s as much as possible

I don’t know much about the acting industry or anything. Pls chalk up inaccuracies to this being a Hell thing.

I’m not really a smut writer (yet), so there’s no fun spice here. I’m an ace writer who’s used to writing ace love stories — which this ended up being one, sort of…

On the other hand, I am an angst writer so while this is going to start out like a classic actor au, this fic can get a bit dark starting around Chapter 10 — but has a happy ending <3

Here’s some world building stuff and how posting this fic will go:

I’ll be posting weekly on Tuesday’s

This fic is approximately 250,000+ words in total and is fully written

There are 3 main arcs and I added one more bonus arc pretty much full of healing to atone for the hurt I inflicted <3

Arc 1 (Filming): Chapters 1 - 17 (~100,000 words)

Arc 2 (Post Production): Chapters 18 - 24 (~50,000 words)

Arc 3 (Premiere and After): Chapters 25 - 37 (~60,000 words)

Bonus Arc (Healing): Chapters 38 - 46 (~30,000 words)

This is set in Hell where there’s no extermination. Heaven and angel’s aren’t mentioned and angelic weapons are not real

All characters are demons, not human sinners, they were born and raised in Hell and don’t have a past human life. Everything they deal with is here and now and in the context of show business

Demons can be killed like humans can

All characters maintain their name in ‘real life’ and I gave them new ones for the ‘show’ — this is with the exception of Angel Dust who is Anthony in ‘real life’ and Angel Dust on the ‘show’

Characters do not have the ‘powers’ you see in the show. They are just normal people that can heal a bit quicker than humans? Maybe?

Still interested? Start reading here ;)

[ray-moss]

I wanted to give alastor an ex spouse from when he was alive

They have a very complicated relationship

Name : Marcy

A overlord that rarely attends meetings but will send someone else when they don't go

Sexuality: ace flux, bisexual, demi romantic

Pronouns: all pronouns

Gender: nonbinary (born intersex, has male and female parts)

Owns a popular performance and theater in the pride ring and does have a small art shop in cannibal town

Rosie and Marcy are friends (their friendship is similar to Asmodeus and stolas's friendship)

Marcy is a peacock demon

Marcy came from a rich family that had a lot of involvement in organized crime

They do have shadow manipulation and are able to make shadow clones of themselves

Marcy has done collaborations with velvet and vox, velvet and him have done clothing line collaborations both of them being designers, vox and her have done broadcast collaborations in the past (a very love hate relationship between the two, they somewhat became friends during alastor's disappearance)

Marcy on occasion does call alastor her husband (ex husband technically) but usually when she's drunk

She threw alastor into a wall after finding out he came back and didn't bother telling her

Their relationship was more stable when they were alive, a couple decades in hell messed them up a bit (they have kidnapped each other before on multiple occasions out of jealousy and loneliness)

It was an arranged marriage but slow burn they fell in love when alive (somewhat)

When the residents as Hazbin hotel asked husk about their relationship since alastor never told them he had a spouse, husk just went "you don't even wanna fucking know how fucking complicated it is 🙄"

Also Marcy hates mimzy with a passion (🙃 he may or may not have been the cause of her death )

[flyingfishtailoutpost1]

The school tech and I were talking to our TA today about what she wants to do after graduation. She said she wanted to go into education, maybe ESE, so I mentioned that my alumni had a special program for education of the deaf and blind—“and the dorms have AC now and everything, so that’s awesome!”

They were like “…wut??”

So I had to give them the story of my College Dorm Adventure, which I knew was kind of bonkers but by their reactions I’m starting to wonder if maybe I’m underestimating it by, like, an order of magnitude.

Some highlights:

Most of the school is housed in a Victorian-era hotel that looks like fucking Hogwarts. The dining hall had three story vaulted ceilings and Tiffany stained glass. The food was shitty though. Eating extremely shitty cafeteria mac n cheese under gilded frescoes was a funny experience.

The wiring was so old that some of it may have been there since the place was built…in 1888.

So yeah, no AC and also if you ran a blow dryer and a tv at the same time you could blow out the lights for an entire floor.

There was central heat, because the temps would get down into the teens in winter, but all the heat rose to the top floors because the insulation was ancient and because of all the secret passages (hold on a sec) so the upper floor rooms would be sweltering. So we opened the windows in the hall, let it get to like 40 degrees, and ran back and forth to thermoregulate like garden lizards

Oh yeah, the place was riddled with secret passages, because the dorm rooms were in the old hotel rooms, and there were the remains of old staircases that led to nowhere and chutes between rooms so the ye olde servants could move around unobtrusively. Some were boarded up. Some were not. Some were still used by maintenance so occasionally you’d hear their voices echoing in the walls.

That didn’t help with the whole “this place is hella haunted” thing

Because it was hella haunted.

Every day we had people dressed as pirates walking crowds past our windows giving lectures about how haunted it was. Housing Services occassionally had to issue memos telling all the freshmen that they couldn’t ask to move rooms anymore just because some upperclassmen told them their room had a ghost in it. (One of my rooms had a ghost in it but I didn’t figure that out until way later.)

The design of the dining hall meant that there were acoustic pockets where people 150 feet away could hear what you were saying because the sound traveled along the arched ceilings. This could cause gossip-type trouble, and also convincing-the-freshmen-that-the-ghosts-were-everywhere type trouble

Possibly more frightening: the school was tiny and most of the classrooms were in the same structure as the dorms so if you skipped class too many times and you lived on the ground floor, you could wake up to your professor peering in the window at you like “HEY, YOU GOOD???”

(The town was also tiny. One graphic design professor was known for going out drinking with groups of his seniors and getting hammered at the bars across the street, then the whole lot of them would end up sleeping it off on his office floor because why not?)

Supposedly you couldn’t go up to the 3rd floor ballroom because Aleister Crowley did seances up there and summoned demons so the floor was cursed and rotted. Crowley had indeed been a guest at the hotel. The floor was just structurally unsound because they hadn’t gotten enough grant money for the restoration job.

There were creepy carved cherubs EVERYWHERE, they were inescapable. One weekend the dollar theater down the street ran The Haunting and everyone freaked out and people were sleeping in the hallways for a while because they couldn’t deal with being stared at all night.

My sophomore year a raccoon or some sort of something got into one of the passages in the walls or ceiling adjacent to my room and died. The room was filled with death smell and flies for two weeks. Maintenance just shrugged at us about it and were like “Yeah that happens sometimes, we have no clue what’s in those walls, really.” My roommate at the time moved into a friends room that smelled better and I was left pretty much alone with a dead raccoon(?) and a raging bad case of unmedicated anxiety disorder. Luckily that was not also the room What Had The Ghost In It.

I lived there all 4 years because my friends and I insta-bonded and we all ended up living next door to each other and going everywhere in a pack. Also we liked the weird. And the ghosts.

[violoncelle121]

Tag game: 9 People You'd Like To Get to Know Better

Tagged by @auri-ace ~ thank you!

last song: "I Come With Knives" ~ IAMX

currently watching: Wednesday (2022 series), I just finished it!

three ships: Luz x Amity (The Owl House), Charlie x Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel), Spyro x Cynder (The Legend of Spyro)

favorite color (s): I like black and deep purple the most, and gold is kinda cool.

currently consuming: BOOKS, not food!

first ship: Spyro x Cynder (The Legend of Spyro)

relationship status: I am single, but I don't know whether I will be in some kind of relationship in the future, even though I feel like I am being pressured into one as of now (people are so stupid)... I'm Sapphic btw.

last film: Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom (I just watched it with my family in the theater)

currently working on: Getting more ideas for art and fanfics while preparing for my next college semester.

Tagging: @lottabubbles @jikdot-1 @kettterer @rayeverydangday

[jacksulkes]

July 29 - Beach

Today we had a free day in Kaohsiung, so I slept in and then went to the beach with three of the guys. We first took the public transportation to the dock, but the worker there said the ferry wasn’t running at that station. We had to walk over to the next stop, and then we took the ferry to the small island. There were also people on mopeds driving straight on and off the ferry. The trip had a pretty ocean view. Once we arrived at Cijin, we were immediately welcomed by a market. There was of course way more seafood in this market than other night markets I had been to, and I loved it. They had lots of fish tanks, fried squid, and snails. I also saw a pretty temple there. We walked down the street market and got to the beach. The beaches in Taiwan are black sand beaches. I had never been to a black sand beach before, so I was so intrigued. There was some trash on the beach, and part of it was closed off probably because of the recent typhoon. There were other people there nevertheless. I went in the water, and it felt so good because it was so hot outside. After we left the beach, we went straight to a 7-Eleven to cool off in the AC and get some snacks and drinks. Then, we made our way back to the dock and took the ferry back. We got a late lunch at a small restaurant on the way back to the hotel from there. There was one woman working there, and she made us handmade dumplings. They were very tasty. Later on, we took the train two stops and then walked to the closest night market for dinner. We found a place with indoor seating, and they fried us an egg on top of steak and noodles. We also tried their corn soup and sweet tea. It was all very good. The steak and noodles were quite peppery. After dinner, I went with four others to a movie theater to see Deadpool & Wolverine. We took the train a few stops, walked all the way to a mall, and then took an elevator to the twelfth floor to get there. It was fun seeing the similarities and differences between a movie theater in Taiwan and the United States of America.

[nickcarr-scoutstories]

I'm scouting in and around Skid Row again today, a neighborhood that has been the epicenter for Los Angeles' homeless population since the 1930s.

What's particularly fascinating to me are the number of hotels (now SROs) that have been in continuous operation since before the dawn of Skid Row. Cities always loudly and proudly proclaim their laundry list of "oldest": oldest restaurant, oldest bar, oldest theater, and so on. It makes me wonder how many superlatives Skid Row could claim if anyone cared to compile a list.

A few hotels that have caught my eye, all still graced by wonderful signage:

The Panama Hotel. Since at least the late-1800s, a boarding house was located at 310 E 5th Street. Then, in 1912, an ad is placed in the Los Angeles Times offering a 9-room house for sale - but it has to be moved. The following year, the Panama Hotel is built on the lot and opens for business. Employment ads in the LA Times call for a porter and maids, suggesting a pre-Skid Row period of operation. Another ad, placed by a resident seeking farm work in the 1920s, speaks to the purpose of many of these hotels as short term residences for local laborers.

The Florence Hotel: established in 1913. A listing in the LA Times advertises "newly furnished, first-class, steam heat, single and double rooms, hot and cold water, private baths, rates reasonable...$3 up."

The La Jolla Hotel: Opened in 1924, the La Jolla was advertised as having rooms that were "strictly 1924 model" and a "fine lobby." Rates were $7 for the week, $1.50/night.

The Harold Hotel: the oldest, the Harold originally opened in 1905 as the Harland Apartments, and became the Harold at some unknown point after. Harland residents were promised wall beds and a buffet kitchen.

The Lyndon Hotel. Built in 1910, it was advertised in 1924 as having "nice airy rooms," a common perk in pre-AC LA.

Throughout the 1920s, you can find listings in the LA Times for all of these hotels beside the city's finer offerings. And then, in the 1930s, the ads simply stop, presumably as Skid Row comes into being.

In the 1980s and 90s, all were converted to government-subsidized SROs for a community in much need of shelter.

[17-noodlebird]

World Two = The Ace Of Clubs

♥️♦️♣️♠️🃏🎰🎲🎱💲

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Jewel: Lapis Lazuli

Power: Metal

Color: Cobalt

Theme: Las Vegas Casinos & Game Shows

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Objective:

Win all 10 games in the Comrade Casino and win the grand prize in the Trivia Torrent game show.

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Chapter II: Get Your Head In The Game!

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The second episode/chapter pays homage to Las Vegas and their many casinos, as well as the games shows we used to binge on TV, such as Family Feud, Wheel Of Fortune, The Price Is Right, and Jeopardy. It also pays homage to the Trivia Crack app.

The episode picks up where Chapter I left off, as they finally reach their first destination of the road trip: The Ace Of Clubs, a Las Vegas-esque city with colorful lights, extravagant scenery, a grand hotel, and casinos as far as the eye can see. Yeah; a lot of gambling here is encouraged. Team Circus had just booked a room for a pretty fancy hotel named Doki Doki Resorts (a reference to Doki Doki Precure), where they are promptly greeted by the hotelier, who gives them a tour of Doki Doki Resorts: there, they have their in-house casino (because of course they do lol), a fine dining area where they perform their dinner theater, a full liquor bar, a swimming pool, a ballroom for weddings and formal galas, and of course, the luxury 5-star rooms they are well-known for. It's all magical for Team Circus; Jax especially loves the slot machines and their endless cornucopia of gold coins they bring. Zooble is revealed to be an excellent poker player when they decide to try it out, Kinger enjoys the dinner and a show with Gangle, and Pomni and Ragatha are overall just having a blast, having befriended a rich but wholesome couple named Crystal and Geode de Monte, playing casino games and singing karaoke at the bar. Caine gets hit with a mix of deja vu and nostalgia, as while nothing compared to the Circus, it feels comforting knowing that this kind of familiarity puts him at ease. Though, that won't be the case for long, as he'll soon find out the next day…

So, after Team Circus settles in for the night in their own hotel rooms (15 hours of driving will exhaust just about anyone, mind you), they wake up the next morning for breakfast, set off to explore more of The Ace Of Clubs as separate pairs (winning gambling games while they're at it), and then all meet up at a Soviet Russian-themed casino called the Comrade Casino, where they meet another character from The Ace Of Clubs, the pretentious and cocky owner of the Comrade Casino named Jonathan Flusher (my apologies for saying “casino” a lot, dear readers).

At first glance, Jonathan would appear to be a good-natured fellow looking to entertain his folks with his prowess and charisma, even flattering Team Circus for their attributes, including Pomni, with whom he for some reason is attached to, something of which Caine does not take too kindly to (both out of jealousy and Knight Templar Parent tendencies). Naturally, Caine and Jonathan start having beef with each other, with the former talking about how they're only here to retrieve a jewel to open a secret door and that they shouldn't be messed with, thus resulting in the latter challenging him to a game of War to prove Caine's worth to Jonathan, as well as the next jewel they have been seeking during their stay. With this, all eight members of Team Circus receive a notification for their second objective on their communicator bracelets. Upon questioning from Pomni, Bethany has to explain to the others that Jonathan will want to play 10 different casino games with him, because not only does Jonathan like a good challenge, but he hates it when anyone other than him doesn't win. During the 10 games, Bethany and Pamela give out hints and tips to Caine while cheering him on in the process.

The first game is, as I mentioned, War. Jonathan is, of course, Caine's dealer, due to being the Comrade Casino’s owner. At first, the game starts off easy, with Team Circus and the diplomats cheering him on every time he has an advantage. But no one could shake off the feeling that it might just be rigged. Or perhaps it's just luck being by Jonathan's side.

The second game is Match the Cards, where the consequences are more noticeable with every disadvantage. This one is especially difficult because every mismatch results in Caine losing $5, but he nevertheless beats Jonathan yet again, though he is $175 short now.

The third game is Craps. A dice game. Should be easy, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case. While Caine isn't looking, Jonathan will alter the dice rolls into snake eyes, something Pomni takes notice of, but doesn't say anything until much later. Somehow, Caine still wins.

Big Six is also rigged, with him losing every turn whenever the wheel is spun. Eventually, Caine figures out the jist of it and prevails in victory.

Roulette is also another game Caine wins through strategic thinking.

Thanks to Zooble's advice, Poker is a bit easier on the ringleader.

Blackjack, not so much. This is where the frustration begins kicking in.

Pool is another game Jonathan deliberately cheats at in order to tick off Caine. Thanks to Bethany and Pamela though, he successfully thwarts Jonathan's efforts to try and defeat him.

After emerging victorious from the ninth game, Spanish 21, though long and frustrating it was thanks to the no-good casino owner, a sentient strand of RNA can be seen eavesdropping on Team Circus, alongside his girlfriend, a Jessica Rabbit-esque lady with a clover card symbol for a head. They're planning on surprising them with something, though no one knows quite yet.

And finally, we reach the tenth and final game, Baccarat. Through motivation from Bubble and helpful tips from the money-sauve Pamela, Caine defeats Jonathan for good, and simply collapses from exhaustion. Jonathan, though pissed, handles the loss with professionalism, stating that this battle of theirs isn't over yet, before walking away towards two shadowy figures, briefly caught by Ragatha.

At the full liquor bar in the Comrade Casino, Team Circus discusses the next event that'll be happening, which is the game show, something about trivia. Ragatha senses they're being watched somehow, but she doesn't voice this concern with anyone. Valerie just says to “let the adventure find you” and not come looking for trouble. After all, patience is a virtue.

Pomni and Ragatha then encounter their new friends, Crystal and Geode, and as the two groups make small talk, Pomni proudly introduces the rest of Team Circus to the rich couple, and each of the rest of the members try to feel at ease around them. After a while, however, Crystal asks if she and her husband can show them something. They gladly agree, but you could tell from Bethany’s face that her heart had just sunk.

As Team Circus follows the de Monte couple, they are led to a secret basement of some sorts, where they are then asked by Geode to stand on the rug in front of them. The rug turns out to be a trap door as all eight members fall into a glossy black void of some sorts, with Crystal and Geode professing that they unfortunately have connections with Jonathan Flusher and his frat buddies from down the lane, and that them befriending Pomni and Ragatha was only a ploy for Jonathan to steal all the money from his patrons.

The first of a string of betrayals to come from this road trip, sadly, each one more traumatic than the previous.

Though initially upset by the revelation, they cannot process it right away as the void then brightens up to reveal a set for a game show called Trivia Torrent, and yes, it's a trivia-based game show, in case the name didn't give that away. Each member of Team Circus is revealed to have their own podium, with their own names on it and a shiny red button they can press. A sentient strand of RNA emerges from the door onstage, where he introduces himself as Aaron A., welcoming the viewers to an episode of Trivia Torrent. Already, Zooble is getting some unpleasant flashbacks looking at this place, triumphantly confirming Kinger's suspicions as to whether or not Zooble saw a game show inside the Gloink Queen’s stomach back in the canon show's pilot.

He introduces his contestants to the audience, who we all know as Team Circus. Aaron A. goes on to explain that here in Trivia Torrent, you have to compete in a series of trivia questions and various challenges and obstacles, and that whoever has the most points wins the fabulous grand prize behind the titanium vault behind him.

In the middle of the stage is a giant spinning wheel with thirteen different categories, each with their own designated color: History (red), Math (orange), Literature (yellow), Science (green), Challenge (cyan), Geography (blue), Art (indigo), Fashion (violet), Film (pink), Food (brown), Sports (white), Gaming (gray), and finally, Miscellaneous (black). A beautiful woman with a clover symbol on her head named Gala Decker would be the one spinning the wheel. Team Circus is most off-put by the inclusion of the Challenge category and the Miscellaneous categories, but before anyone could ask, Aaron A. explains that the Challenge category is is nothing too rigorous, as it's basic puzzle solving and board games that are based on luck and chance, while the Miscellaneous category is basic questions that don't fit into either category; nothing randomized.

Slightly reassured, Team Circus allows Aaron A. to continue on, as he announces, “Now with all of that out of the way, let's get ourselves ready for…” with the audience shouting back “TRIVIA TORRENT!!!!” followed by an applause. Afterwards Aaron A. then says that whoever presses the shiny red button on their respective podiums first (or the fastest if there are multiple people who press the button) gets to choose which category on the wheel to spin. They then get to participate in a trivia question that is either multiple choice, true or false, or just a regular question (unless the wheel lands on a Challenge category, in which they, as aforementioned, must complete a challenge) before rinsing and repeating. Whoever answers correctly (or wins the challenge in the Challenge category) will gain some points, with the amount of points depending on how fast they answer or complete the challenge. The first person to reach 1 million points wins the grand prize.

And as always, the diplomats from the other side cheer Team Circus on as they shuffle their way through every knowledge previously unknown. And when they do land on the Challenge category for the first time, it's revealed to be a word puzzle, like that of Wheel of Fortune. While Gangle is apt in Science and Math, and the Art, Film, and Writing going to Pomni, the others are having a bit of trouble with the other categories that aren't challenges, which are all resemblant of Family Feud, Jeopardy, Wheel Of Fortune, and hints of Nickelodeon’s Legends of the Temple and Figure It Out. Bubble and Caine have the least amount of points at 15 points and 0 points respectively. Later on, a commercial break occurs so the others can cool down from the adrenaline.

Though Team Circus is competing with each other, it really doesn't matter who wins; one of them will still get the grand prize in the end (and if large enough, can be shared equally amongst themselves), but here, we get to see more of Caine's insecurities. It's the innate ability of many sentient (or the closest thing to sentient) AI to be the best they can be; it was easy at the casino because he could figure out even the most complicated mechanics, but not here. One of his greatest desires is to know more about humanity, even to walk amongst them; apparently, there was so much he didn't know, and the things he thought he knew weren't actually correct (at least not by 2024 standards). The latter part is what hits him hard the most. Although Pomni reassures him, it barely does anything other than a small smile from the ringleader, as he looks on at the others, who are clearly basking in the potential victory.

Once the commercial break ends, Aaron A. recaps the amount of points each of the contestants have: Zooble at 135,067 points, Kinger with 45,910 points, Gangle at 8,522 points, Ragatha at 1,025 points, Jax at 870 points, Pomni at 212 points, Bubble at merely 15 points, and finally, Caine, with… zilch. Caine is irritated, but has already resigned to his fate, leaving it up to his fellow performers to save the day now. From here on out, the questions become even more difficult, teetering on over existential territory, with some delving into some… uncanny meta material that hits way too close to home for Team Circus.

Then finally, they reach the final question, where the category is in fact gaming. It has to do with C&A, and already, Team Circus is off-put by how in the world he would know such stuff. Though none of the members could properly answer the question (mostly due to being petrified by the existentialism it brought), Pomni opts to challenge Aaron A. instead, which is something that hasn't happened in Trivia Torrent in 5 years, though no one has actually won up until this point.. Regardless, Aaron A. accepts the challenge, where it's revealed to be a maze, in which Pomni must find an exit within 1 hour or lose the grand prize.

Pomni is briefly awash with fear, though she sucks it up for the sake of her friends (having already made the same mistake once; see canon pilot), and tries to run through it as much as she can. After about 25 minutes of running into dead end after dead end, giving her flashbacks of when she tried to find the exit the first time she came to the circus, she's briefly struck with a bout of hysteria and madness, before regaining composure to try and get help from the dimensional diplomats from the other side using her communicator bracelets, she can only get vague tips from them, as she must complete the maze by herself. At first, she considers giving up, softly crying on the floor in a fetal position for a moment, before remembering how she abandoned Ragatha in a moment of weakness when Kaufmo abstracted. She knew she had to keep going. So that's what she did.

However, what she didn't foresee was that the exit of the maze was maliciously blocked off, thus making the maze actually unsolvable… or was it? When Pomni panicked for a second time, she noticed one of the maze hedges was slightly bugging out. She was able to conclude that Aaron A. had trapped her in here on purpose, to keep them away from the grand prize. After jumping through the buggy hedge, she was able to actually find the actual end of the maze, albeit furious rather than relieved. Aaron A., shocked to see that Pomni actually managed to make it out alive, attempts to congratulate the unamused jester before the latter speaks out about how Aaron A. and his convoluted scheme to rig the game and horde the grand prize from everyone (though this was just Pomni assuming in a fit of anger). This would turn out to actually be true when Gala Decker not only confesses that Trivia Torrent has always been rigged, that Aaron A. had purposefully shattered Caine's confidence to make winning the grand prize even more difficult, that Aaron and Gala have been co-owners of the Conrade Casino alongside Jonathan Flusher, and that the game show only exists for the purpose of making the Comrade Casino richer through means of money laundering, but that Gala Decker was also cheating on Aaron A. because of his terrible performance onstage and in bed (that latter bit made Pomni snicker) and that she was sick and tired of playing alongside his dirty tricks just get wealthier.

Due to it being on live television, The Ace Of Clubs Police Department actively arrests the de Monte couple and Jonathan Flusher himself (who have been idly and comfortably watching the game show from the Comrade Casino bar), Gala (who gleefully accepted her fate, proving that redemption may be a certainty for her), and Aaron for money laundering and conspiracy, with Team Circus being compensated with the grand prize that was promised to them, according to some weird Ace Of Clubs law they had there.

The grand prize? A cobalt-colored Lapis Lazuli. This was one of the jewels that Team Circus had been looking for.

This notification then pops up on all of their communicator bracelets:

~ JEWEL OBTAINED! ~

1 out of 26

Only 25 remain

Everyone heads back to Doki Doki Resorts, where they briefly wonder how they're going to transport the Lapis Lazuli alongside the remaining 25 currently uncollected jewels, to which Beth transports an empty tote bag from her communicator bracelet to Pomni’s, where the former states that they can use the tote bag to carry the jewels with them during the rest of the road trip. Afterwards, Team Circus, tuckered out from today's events, goes to sleep for the night.

The next morning, after breakfast, Team Circus head back to the Magical Digital Van and depart the Ace Of Clubs to their next destination, all of them clamoring about how excited they are for the next part of their amazing digital road trip; in fact, this was the first time in… at all, if I'm being honest, that the six human players of Team Circus are actually happy, excited, and even content with their adventure, much to Caine's delight, and the dimensional diplomats’ relief, as this was one of their main goals of this road trip. The episode ends with The Magical Digital Van driving off into the morning glow.

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Current Status:

1 Jewel has been collected

25 remain

♥️♦️♣️♠️🃏🎰🎲🎱💲

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• OG Cast

Lizzie Freeman as Pomni

Amanda Hufford as Ragatha

Michael Kovach as Jax

Sean Chiplock as Kinger

Marissa Lenti as Gangle

Ashley Nichols as Zooble

Gooseworx as Bubble

Alex Rochon as Caine

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• Audience Surrogate Cast/Diplomats

Hynden Walch as Valerie

Susan Egan as Pamela

Amy Winfrey as Garcia

Mandy Moore as Lulu

Nevaeh Hamilton (me) as Bethany

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• Background Diplomats

Andrea Libman as Winona

Cristina Vee as Patricia

E.G. Daily as Rionna

Stephanie Sheh as Olivia

Debi Derryberry as Yolanda

Cree Summer as Gemma

Ashleigh Ball as Cécelia

Erica Luttrell as Belle

Ashly Burch as Imera

Kimberly Brooks as Bailey

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• Episode’s Antagonists

Jonathan Freeman as Jonathan Flusher

Sam O’Nella as Aaron A. the RNA Game Show Host

Ashley Johnson as Gala Decker

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• Secondary Characters Introduced

Debi Derryberry as Mana Jerr the Hotelier

Hynden Walch as Crystal de Monte

Khary Payton as Geode de Monte

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[not-salty-pckls]

I'm back + new intro

whats up guys I AM BACK!!!! I'm not dead im alive and well!! its been a minute since ive blogged due to issues and me just forgetting about this site in general so yeah. to all my loyal followers and @j---o---e, tysm for the support 💖 so ill stop yapping and get on t the new intro

my name is toby now (closer to my real name)

my nicknames are professional thief, tobias, cherry koolaid drinker (the best koolaid), matthew patel lover, etc

I enjoy art, music, acting and theater, and stealing (not other peoples art or posts though dont get scared 😭)

my fandoms are:

-scott pilgrim

-ace attorney (specifically phoenix wright since im in the middle of that game)

-fortnite

-papa louie

-avatar: the last airbender

-taiko no tatsujin

-jjk

-various anime and manga (ask)

-more

KINS!!!

-matthew patel

-gideon graves

-ryomen sukuna

-autolycus (jason and the argonauts)

ask me about (i am knowledgeable on):

-basic greek mythology

-scott pilgrim

-hacking your phone

-stealing things

MUSIC

-MSI (mindless self indulgence (ik theyre problematic)

-Muse

-Blur

-Gorillaz

-Suicidal tendencies

-DRI

-Korn

-Quarashi -Dot Dot Curve

-ICP

-Weezer

-Tokio Hotel

-Various metal bands (ask)

fav characters

-dick gumshoe

-matthew patel

-phoenix wright

-yoshino junpei

-mo

-dusty (fn)

-taylor (PL)

-Roy (PL)

-Timm (PL)

-montague (fn)

-autolycus (jtan)

-more

honestly i was just going off the top of my head if you have questions ask

ty!!

[primumincaelo]

about the mun!

Name: i go by Dust! Age: 26, almost 27 Pronouns: he/they Sexuality: gay-ace Single Or Taken: single and a lil unsure about the mingle Hobbies: doodling, writing, cosplay... i also participate in a rocky horror shadowcast group and that's been really fun! Favourite Colour: probably purple tbh? Fandoms: ― Current: uhhhhhh hahaha mostly just hazbin hotel these days, my audhd ass is hyperfixated babey ― Past: oh boy there's a lot. good omens, south park, adventure time, stranger things, gravity falls, steam powered giraffe, welcome to night vale, camp here & there, homestuck, nbc hannibal, doctor who, sally face..... there's still more but i'll stop there easfrgth Other Blogs: my main is onhigh (canon div angel dust), i also have disventura (hazbin au wednesday addams), clawtender (sinner oc; blog is still kinda wip efsrdgth), incisura (fallen exterminator oc; low activity), and then i'm working on a super secret trio muse blog for my heavenly muses (which includes st peter - currently at pearlkeep until the mini mumu is done!). i also have a multimedia mumu, dustified, but since hazbin has consumed my brain i haven't really used it much. Favourite TV Show: hazbin prolly atm Do You Cosplay?: ABSOLUTELY I DO i've been doing it for like 12 years. i'm in the process of putting together luci and adam, plus i've cosplayed angel before! Favorite Media: i dont entire get this question? uh... i like watching youtube a lot? Favourite Book: i don't really read all that much? i've recently started house of leaves, it's been pretty good so far Favourite Band: i'm here to post Detour North propaganda (i'm actually, genuinely friends with the singer, we were in high school theater together). technically they're not together anymore but their music still goes fucking hard. also huge fan of will wood/wwatt, waterparks, calypso, front bottoms/flat stanleys, flatsound, hozier, ricky montgomery, tally hall/miracle musical, ghost, chonny jash.... again there's a lot here, i'll stop before i make this too long Favourite Movie: bright young things from 2003. i can't remember when i came across it but it's been a comfort movie since i first watched it Do You Have Pets?: we have a black cat named wednesday! she's still a junior, only about 2 years old i think, she's a stupid lil thing there's not a thought in that head Favourite Animal: opossums or raccoons i think :3 Do You Play Any Instruments?: i took piano lessons from grade 6 up until i graduated high school, i took a couple months of violin lessons, and i can kinda pluck at a ukulele, but i'm by no means extremely good at any of them lmao Favourite Hellaverse Character(s): hhhhh lucifer and adam. no hesitation. i thought when i came back i'd be right back to angel dust? nope. lucifer and adam come in and sweep up the title like it's candy from a baby

tagged by: @brokendreamscreation (ty!!) tagging: uhhhhhhhhhh you <3

[theblackshit]

Every now and then I am reminded that we spend the vast majority of our time indoors: at home, at school, at the office, in shops and retail spaces, in bars, clubs and restaurants, in the apartments of friends and relatives, in train stations and moving vehicles, in hotels, venues and theaters, in museums, churches and hospitals – big boxes and little boxes with varying ratios of functionality to ornament.

Every now and then I am also reminded that we live in an air-conditioned dream/nightmare. In standard hotel rooms, split AC units are now as common as bedside bibles used to be. In most cases, these units are fixed to the wall above the entrance door, so that upon entering the room, guests can briefly enjoy a view unencumbered by the sight of the bulky appliance – a sort of icon corner in reverse, since an icon corner is usually located to be visible when you first enter. Once you lay down on the bed and gaze up at the familiar yet bewildering piece of engineering, you might begin to wonder: what’s the optimal temperature? Will I get sick if I sleep with the AC on? Is this thing more ugly than it is convenient? Would natality rates suddenly drop if these machines didn’t exist? Is this a tool that “brings energy home” as Ursula K. Le Guin would have it, or one that “forces energy outward?” How does it work? What’s inside the box? Is it good, is it bad? Where is the remote control for this thing?! 

Although the overhead placement of these split units is clearly a matter of practicality, I can’t help but overthink and ask myself if we also tend to place them at such heights, along with other physical objects including speakers, curtains, wall reliefs and friezes, because they pertain to immaterial realms such as temperature, sound, light and narration. As a “unit,” this compact object is at once whole and dependent upon an unseen network, which suggests a hidden elsewhere beyond the confine of the room. While its boxiness could bring to mind minimalism’s so-called “specific objects” (objects that can be apprehended on a phenomenological level), the idea that it contains unseen parts and is linked to an unseen system constitutes a conceptual or even metaphoric opening. Philip Seibel’s quietly baroque Gehäuse sculptures consciously play with this dichotomy. 

In borrowing some of the formal qualities of these units, Seibel paradoxically empties them out, thereby turning what first appears to be an enclosure into a container or a vessel where other ideas can get on board like stowaways. Looking up at his Gehäuse makes us aware of the many other vessels and boxes that create and sustain the conditions for our lives, those that shield us and our belongings, or again, those which act as receptacles for our fears and aspirations. Like ships made of reeds, there is something sensible but absurd about Seibel’s encasements. Their sleek finish seems to conceal something that is beyond our reach; or at least, it blurs the line between the manufactured and the handcrafted, the real and the fake, the readymade and the not already made, the functional and the decorative, the office, the hotel and the gallery. 

Emile Rubino

[areslikestodraw]

HI! my name is Ares

but you can call me

Rammi/Ram

Ace

or literally anything (I also use any pronouns!)

FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM @mars.bars.shitty.art

IM A MINOR SO DONT BE CREEPY

RANDOM INTERESTS:

The Great Gatsby (musical and book)

Good Omens

(Puppet History) LOOK I LOWKEY HATE WATCHER BUT THE SHOW IS ICONIC

theater (hatchetverse, Beetlejuice, FALSETTOS, 25th Annual)

Dungeons and Dragons

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss (not as much anymore but like occasional reblogs)

Cookie Run Kingdom (but I barely ever post about it)

Spiderverse

DIMENSION 20: FANTASY HIGH (and Burrows End)

Fools Gold

Will Wood!!!!

Art!

Community

Tangled the Series (Varian)

Sanders Sides

DNI:

normal DNI stuff (racists, homophobes, TERFs, that shit)

[neurodivergantizzetwitch]

intro post :3

hiii! im [insert name here]: a stereotypical AuDHD trans girl who still hasn't settled on a name yet-- my life isnt... going well rn, but tumblr makes it a bit more bearable and every little bit helps.

im a trans fem, more specifically i like the term demigirl- which feels like it fits me. im also ace(ish), by which i mean im ace but pretty sex favorable- just don't experience sexual attraction. im also very gay and have the best partner in the whole entire universe (they said they were gonna join tumblr soon- so ill at them here once she does.)

oh yeah and my brain is funky. im a peer reviewed (and officially dxed, but im an advocate of self diagnosis) AuDHDer- which informs basically everything i do. i also have a bunch of the mental illness stuff, and have struggled w it a lot. idrk or care what the exact diagnosis is, spend enough time around insane ppl and you learn a lot of the specific labels are pretty arbitrary and a lot of symptoms are shared- i just describe myself as fucked in the head or legitimately insane

also im never consistent w tags- sorry. maybe one day ill try to be but uh... yeah not today. i do tag for potentially triggering content tho- and try my best to be consistent w it, so if you're sensitive to the following and want to follow me for some weird reason id reccomend blocking them:

#cw sex mention, #cw: substance abuse, #cw: abuse #cw: child abuse, #cw: gore, #cw: sh, #cw: si, #cw: disordered eating, #cw: bigotry, #cw: disturbing content,

id also say in accordance w the previous thing i sometimes say things about my life that are "dark" in a way that can cross a line, i don't mean to do this- and i want to respect everyone's boundaries- but accidentally sharing super dark shit is smth i struggle w.

im a committed anarchist, and i will unabashedly post in accordance w those views. i haven't been able to help people as much as id like to bc of the whole being a minor in a fucked up situation with no money energy or time thing, but im trying to do more. If anyone reading this has suggestions- lmk.

i also like a lot of shit. like A LOT of shit- and i get REALLY obsessed w it too, so it is not out of character for me to start posting a bunch about smth i had not known existed until i got obsessed (as mentioned, AuDHDer). what ill post about is just kinda based on what im feeling that day and my interests, but heres some of my favorite things that im enamored w in no particular order:

games:

mtg

minecraft

hermitcraft (which yes is minecraft and no isnt a game but shut up)

hollow knight / skilkskong 🤡

celeste

metroid

nitw

botw

hades

books

cosmere

the locked tomb

percy jackson

the sandman

six of crows

the hunger games

lotr

spec fic, especially non-traditional spec-fic

shows/movies

spiderman across the spiderverse

made in abyss

hazbin hotel

hunter x hunter

the owl house

Pan's Labyrinth (& other Guillermo movies)

miyazaki movies

wes anderson movies

animated movies & shows

cinematic/classic movies (not neccessarily old just like the literary fiction genre of movies)

weird/offbeat movies and shows

music

coheed and cambria

mcr

jhariah

girl in red

will wood

pinkshift

jack off jill

paramore

mother mother

the cure

chloe moriando

bauhaus

cardiacs

dead kennedys

lena raine

siouxsie & the banshees

milk in the microwave

mitski

penelope scott

sungazer

45 grave

other interests/hobbies n shit

drawing

d&d

writing

painting

guitar

bass

drums

singing

music production

game design

coding

animation

character design

video production

poetry

theater (yes im a fucking theater kid did you even have to ask that)

musicals

even though im solidly gen z, i havent really grown up on the internet the same way. some weird combination of my parents' disapproval of it, social anxiety, autism, and not being allowed to use it for years means that ive had this fear of posting stuff on the internet. for so many people like me the internet has been a place to escape and be themself, to me it's more often than not just a reflection of a reality that seems just as scary and ostracizing.

the thing is... i dont have a lot of friends. i dont have a large community really. and i think though there are some ways in which my aversion to social interactions including those on the internet has been helpful, there are other ways it's really isolated me- both from my peers and a broader community of people.

so im trying to put myself out there a little more. this stupidly long intro post is i think just a way for me to commit to that for myself. ive been so scared of doing it all my life, right now i think i just need some sort of outlet to be myself. who knows? maybe i'll even meet some new friends.