#they can be your poor little meow meows at the same time 100% just. they could also hit you with a rock

[ozzieinspacetime]

shaking the Academy Era fandom by the shoulders:

STOP REDUCING THE CHARACTERS TO TEENAGE MOVIE STEREOTYPES. STOP IT. THEY ARE FUCKED UP AND BAD FOR EACHOTHER!! THEY WENT TO SPACE TORY BOARDING SCHOOL!! THEY SUCK!!!!! TREAT THEM LIKE SHITTY BORING TIMELORDS PLEASE

[maedelin]

Negative Romys (bc I know there must be chill ones out there) @ Roguneto in Xmen 97: “NOOOOOO HOW COULD THE WRITERS DO THIS AND DESTROY ROGUE X REMY?! POOR GAMBIT!!!”

Me: *side-eying all of the Marvel material that clearly shows that Romy content severely outnumbering Roguneto content by a landslide and the same Roguneto content winding up being ruined anyway by later writers just because they can* “Ah, yes…poor Gambit…”

All jokes aside, I wonder if the Romys’ concern is that if Roguneto is positively received = somehow becoming canon in the comics later? Because I know Marvel (and DC) has a history of taking a few things that the movies/shows/ side comics have done that were well received by fans or were anticipated to be well received ahead of time by fans and sometimes the companies themselves and incorporating them into the comics later

(ex. X-23 from X-Men Evolution to actual comics, Tony Stark’s personality eventually just becoming Robert Downey Jr as a comic book character, Samuel Jackson!Nick Fury from Ultimate Marvel to MCU to secret son of original Nick Fury and goes by the same name, Magneto’s Helmet protecting him from telepathy in Xmen First Class Movie to comics, Comic!Rogue’s real first name being a combination of her movie self’s name and that actress’s first name, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver not being related to Magneto after all bc their movie selves weren’t, Gwen Stacy’s fun alternative existence as Spider-Gwen/Woman , Miles Morales’s (yay!) existence, Tom Hiddleston’s portrayal of Loki influencing the comic version of him to become a sad little meow meow, Age of Apocalypse’s version of Changling/Morph being brought into X-Men 97, etc)

, but if one truly counts all of the slight/significant changes Marvel Comics have made to the main timeline because of other material, it’s REALLY not a lot.

There’s no need for anyone who ships Romy (which I also ship in addition to Roguneto bc yay multishipping!) to feel threatened by potential romantic alternatives.

And just in case the romantic ships might be altered after all (not likely): if the Multiverse is a thing, maybe we consider it’s not the end of the world if the relationships in the X-Men animated universe is not 100% going to follow how they played out in the comics.

ALSO also, when all else fails, they can just develop their writing/art skills and make fix-it aus 😆

The chaotic neutral part of me actually kinda still hopes that enough people with get on board with Roguneto though so that the comics will see the enthusiasm for them and bring them back in the main universe and shake things up again or in one of the official alternate universes and give them the love and respect the pairing deserves 🤪

I really appreciate your comments. I suppose there could be concerns from the Romy contingent regarding this. Sadly, I think at this point corporate IP is too dedicated to keeping the status quo maintained as it is for the longest time.

I agree with you, I see her relationship with Magneto as brief trysts in the mainstream universe, and an occasional AU marriage reveal. I think that Rogue and Gambit will remain a couple in the mainstream universe despite this current twist in the '97 series. There's too much time and money spent into the material, merchandise, and story that's been built for Romy in reality across various media, and in the perception of people's memories which sometimes have a rosy nostalgic glow. It takes a lot to re-educate an audience and I don't see corporations having that time and patience.

Jean and Scott will always remain together. Meggan and Brian are a duo for all time. Sue and Reed Richards are going to stay married.

No matter what, the story will always return to that. In this reboot, I think it's to give Magneto an extra angle and further reason to stay at the mansion if you leave in doubt his and Rogue's activities on and off camera.

I think my biggest complaint is how there's a circling of the wagons around Rogue when anyone (but particularly Magneto) is interested in her. It frustrates me because I believe characters should experience a lot of different relationships. It builds for a more well rounded person in reality, and a better character in the story. But with Rogue, why isn't she allowed to have other romantic encounters? Why must there be a strange arguments about age, about experience? These are traumatized beautiful people with fancy abilities in a soap opera. With capes. (And occasional opera gloves)

In short, I believe that instead of one ship, a character deserves an armada. I agree, alternate universe pairings would be fun too!

I too enjoy drama and can't wait to see how the show plays out this romance.

[freisende]

Ensemble Stars! - Memories Selection: Checkmate Episode 4 - 錆びゆく心 (Rusting Heart) English Translation

Ensemble Stars Memories Selection: Checkmate 『チェックメイト』

Provided by Happy Elements, あんスタチャンネル on Youtube

Adapted from Ensemble Stars! Story: Checkmate - Written by: 日日日 (Akira)

English Translation: Freiya *All copyrights of the stories, scene pictures and writings, all belong to Happy Elements. I only translated the scenes into English to help overseas fans understand the dialogues. I do not own any copyrights other than the English Translation*

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Izumi: Do it right! We need to accumulate new songs even if it’s only one more! The student council has moved and taken action on a new system- and that’s why we need to win this so-called Drefes!

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Leo: Drefes, huh? …Hmm, I like doing lives; but, well…*Leo holds up Little John* The ones we had recently were different from what I thought, you know…?

Izumi: …Haa?

Leo: Those live fights, win or lose to decide their grades.. Why do we need to fight with our fellow members of Chess?

Izumi: It can’t be helped, can it? Following the Drefes' system, the student council has announced and made rules to limit the number of members of each unit.

Leo: Hmm…*Leo tilts his head*

Izumi: With chess’ current state, there are too many members and not all can participate in Drefes… And that’s why everyone begins to divide into three members here, four members there, according to the rule number of members for each unit… It’s the flow change of an era.

Leo: Yes, it’s just as you said, Sena. I can comprehend your logic. But you know, are idol activities like such? It is supposed to be more like… “Ahaha!”, laughing with everyone! *Leo plays with Little John* Can we make 100 friends~? Haha, wooh~! *Little John keeps meowing*

Izumi: Hey! Don’t play at your own pace and blurt things out at the same time! Poor her [1], if you hugged her with such force! (Izumi gets up from his seat, stretches out his arm to Leo to hold Little John) Here. 

Leo: Oh? Does Sena want to carry Little John too? *Little John tries to push Leo away*

Izumi: Not really. You treated her roughly, and that’s why I want to evacuate her here. *Leo gives Little John to Izumi* She’s a stray cat right? She’s dirty, too. And it looks like dirt will stick on you, soo~ annoying!

Leo: *Leo laughs* Ahaha, surprisingly you like animals, don’t you, Sena?

Izumi: Hmph. *Izumi smiles faintly*

Leo: Waahh! *Leo smiles cheerfully* It’s here, it’s flowing here, Inspiration! *Leo takes up his notebook and pen, thus begins writing* It’s been a while, this feeling! Recently, my head feels heavy, you see, I’ve been in a slump, and that’s why I’m happy!!

Izumi: Haa? Slump? Give me a break! At our side at these times, we can’t stop working, you know? As a result of Chess’ divided accumulating mountain of members, we are back to only our duo member unit. 

Even with you and me only, we can take care of those small fries without any difficulties normally, but for them, their amounts are too many!

If it’s not for those songs called weapons of yours, we don’t even stand a chance to counter them.

Leo: Weapons?

Izumi: What? You have a problem with my wording?

Leo: No! *Leo shakes his head* More like, it’s strange! *Leo smiles* As always, Sena’s word way of describing is amazing! I understand. If that’s the case, then I can’t complain in the near future, can I? *Leo closes his music notebook* Sena is smarter than me. So I’m counting on you!

Izumi: Hm. *Izumi smiles, then nods his head lightly. Little John runs away from their seat*

Now thinking about it, by the way, following Drefes’ rule, to participate in Drefes lives, we need to come up with a unit name.

Leo: Eh? If it’s a unit name, then it’s Chess, isn’t it?

Izumi: No, that can’t be used. It’s already been taken by those divided members. So that’s why we need to think of a different name.

Leo: EEHH!? I don’t want that!

Izumi: It’s too late, geez. Don’t be selfish.

Leo: Hmmmph. *Leo sulks, then propped his hand on his cheek*

Izumi: By the way, *Izumi takes out his phone* It looks like it’s becoming a trend for the divided members of Chess to use the name of the chess’ pieces for their unit, and they have been using those recently. 

Leo: …Chess’ pieces? Like, King, or Queen?

Izumi: Yup. But those two have been used already too. The rest are… pawn, or bishop, or rook, or knight… Uh, sorry, those have been registered already too. Looks like not using the chess’ pieces name directly, if we modify the name a bit, it can be used with no problem, though.

Leo: Hmm…*Leo gives time to think* Then, let’s make it plural, and come up with Knights?

Izumi: Knights… *Izumi checks with his handphone* Oh, looks like we can register with this name. Then let’s just go with this name, is that alright?

Leo: *Leo nods cheerfully* Yup. Okay!

Izumi: Starting from today, we are “Knights”. Let’s fight through it… Through this changing era!

***

Izumi: (We, Knights, start getting through the wave of Drefes battles.)

Announcer: Then, let’s announce the final winners of the live. The winners are…

Knights!!

*The audience cheers loudly*

*Leo and Izumi smiles at each other*

Leo: Yosh!

*They wave at the audience*

Leo: Ahaha! Thank you!

*The other party looks dejected*

Leo: Um…*Leo halts them* Let’s not worry about wins or loses, we are friends after all-

Divided chess members: Let’s go already. We lost, huh. Now we can’t increase our grades.

Izumi: (Chess. The fight we’ve been through with our former members. But, I had fun!

It’s different from the times with Chess and Backgammon, these times are full of passion and freshness! Fighting, going wild, crushing directly those people I don’t like. Exciting, isn’t it!

Leo-kun, begins to be called “Ou-sama” by the fans at sometime. And that, also motivates me to do more and more. We, Knights, will get the top throne of the emperor[2]. This is that sole big chance. We will fight to the highest of heights to our best extent!) 

***

Eichi: Today’s Drefes’ checkmate, has been brought by Knights, the unit Tsukinaga-kun participated in, which has directly and respectively made the Chess’ divided units to be more and more shambled inside. 

Tsumugi: It’s becoming just as you thought, Eichi-kun. The announcement of the rule limiting the number of unit members, is made purposely to separate and divide the numerous members of Chess, right?

Eichi: Yes. To continue making actions more clearly in this academy, they are practically becoming hinders. They are like unknown accumulating members becoming a giant guild. Even though I can’t make a move on them. Idiots, aren’t they? They just make it more to be easily eaten by gathering together.

*Eichi and Tsumugi comes out from Eichi’s car*

Eichi: Then, I arranged for the divided members of Chess to fight with Tsukinaga-kun’s Knights. I thought that if he fought then lost in the middle of it, then that would be all, but as expected, Tsukinaga-kun is very much a genius. Up to now, he has never lost a fight, he even kept a perfect striking respective win. But… as expected, even for him, today’s checkmate is like hard mud for him. Tsukinaga-kun even told me and you to help his activities by acting as extra helping members.

Tsumugi: It surprised me, as it’s a sudden announcement. As for now, I will try my best to practise and absorb Knight’s choreography moves to my body.

Eichi: Yes. If there’s a problem, we can talk to Tsukinaga-kun about it in the rehearsal. *A notification comes up from Eichi’s phone, and he looks through it*

…Hm. It seems like Sena-kun has also registered some extra members in his own way. *Eichi sees the Knights’ members name, including Ritsu’s name* Oh? This name…

***

-Meanwhile, Madara is taking a walk, then sees Little John on the bench- 

Madara: Hmm? You… Well, it’s a rare encounter to see you here, isn’t it? *Madara picks up Little John, then hears Leo’s voice echoes from a distance away* 

Leo: I understand how you think of me. It’s not a bad deal, isn’t it? 

Madara: …Hm? Leo-san?

***

-Knights’ members are practising the choreography in auditorium-

*After dancing for a while*

Izumi: Ergh. Stop the song! *Izumi walks, takes a towel and wipes away his sweat*

Sighs. Will it be alright with these members? Soo~ worrisome.

Arashi: Hey, what’s with that attitude? You don’t need to worry, as we, the helping members, are practising our best to the song. Right, Ritsu-chan?

Ritsu: Don’t call my name casually. I just came here to make up for the care the other day or something… Just because of returning the favour, alright? *Ritsu yawns*

***

*Eichi and Tsumugi enters the auditorium*

Eichi: Hmm. As expected of brothers, your faces are similar. You… perhaps are you Sakuma-senpai’s little brother?

I’m surprised when I saw your name on the list.

Ritsu: …Who are you? …Anyway, we don’t look alike, me and that being. 

….We don’t have any connections, he’s just an outsider.

Arashi: *Arashi is surprised* Wait… Sakuma-senpai, is it that Sakuma-senpai? Ritsu-chan, are you siblings with him?

Izumi: …. *Izumi just looks quietly at him*

Eichi: *Eichi chuckles* Sakuma Ritsu-kun, is it? *Eichi and Tsumugi walks closer to them* It looks like you don’t like talking about your brother… but if it’s not talking about Sakuma Rei, what else is left in you?

*Ritsu seems a bit surprised*

Tsumugi: Sena-kun, where is Tsukinaga-kun?

Izumi: Aah~, well, about him… he still lost his phone, and I can’t get through to him. I wonder where and what he's doing right now?

*Leo barges in through the door with Madara*

Leo: Ahahaha~! Sorry to keep you waiting! *Leo waves his hand at everyone*

*Everyone in the auditorium looks surprised*

Izumi: Huh…? …Mikejima? Why’s he here together with Leo-kun…?

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Translator’s notes:

[1] Little John is a female, check the Ensemble Stars! Story: “Robin Hood”.

[2] Izumi literally says “We will take the top seat!” but I think it will make sense to use the throne of the emperor as it seems more relevant to the story.

Note: There might be slightly different translations for some parts, hence I’m also open to suggestions/corrections.

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!Warning! Please refrain from reposting the translation to other platforms; abide to link back to this post for reference. Thank you.

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Navigation:

Memories Selection: Checkmate Directory Chapters Episode 1 - The Broken Branch Tip Episode 4 - Rusting Heart (You are here now) Episode 5 - The Lonely Throne Episode 6 - The Shine of the Crown

End notes:

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[pinkacademic]

Studying Literature

I'm starting things off with what I actually know about!

Ok, Lit girlies, let’s get it started! How in the name of Jane Austen do you actually study literature? The answer isn’t just “lol read?” but actually find your passion for it, and find connections between you and the person one, two, five hundred years ago who is feeling and struggling and trying their best alongside this same text.

This is going to be a series of three parts- Finding the Connections, Themes and Context, and Actusl Studying- starting today with connecting to literature written 100+ years before you were born because personally, that’s where I think the passion for classics is found.

How it applies to Real Life in Modern Day

If you’re struggling to connect to characters from classic literature, you need to reframe how you think about them. Consider- Clueless is just Emma, right? Therefore Emma Woodhouse (handsome, clever, and rich) is just a pretty rich girl who likes playing matchmaker and is perhaps a little bit spoiled. Similarly, 10 Things I Hate About You is the Taming of the Shrew and even features plenty of references to Shakespeare in the naming of people and places.

Let’s look at a couple of other examples of how we can find connections.

Dracula: Of course, Dracula Daily has been bringing Dracula to the forefront again, and has been bringing about modernisations in the form of calling Jonathan Harker a poor little meow meow. But why? Because he’s just so meow, that’s why Because people are finding aspects of his character relatable and amusing. He’s essentially a recent graduate being given an insane opportunity for travel, and a great degree of responisbility- how exciting! And he’s learning about other cultures and trying new food! And experiencing the horrors! How novel!

Wuthering Heights: Catherine Earnshaw- a hopeless romantic in many senses of the word: she wants the romance of true love, and she wants the romance of the wilderness surrounding the Heights. She feels trapped in the world of what everyone else wants her to be after realising that what she thought she wanted wasn’t what she wanted. Heathcliff- a man wronged in his childhood who lets his emotions become all-consuming. Would you be the same in his circumstances? Can you be sure you wouldn’t be?

The Picture of Dorian Gray: I’ll admit that I didn’t enjoy this one. I loved the premise, but I just struggled. But still, I understand Dorian being swayed and tempted as if by the devil, I understand unrequited love, I understand obsession. And, weirdly enough, I have been part of two forbidden romances… like two nickels isn’t a lot, but it is weird that it happened twice.

Let’s have a look at some Shakespeare, then, while we’re at it

The Merchant of Venice: (Did I choose this because its my fave and I’m biased? Yes!) Forbidden love! Romance! A sympathetic villain! What’s not to love? The courtroom scene is right out of Legally Blonde- featuring girlboss lawyers in disguise to boot! And Shylock’s badass monologue calls morality into question. Here’s my fave line “If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”

Hamlet: Yes, by god, it is LONG! Listen, 15-minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard will help you for this one. And so will the Lion King. Make it easier for yourselves, loves! BUT Hamlet is one for the Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher’s Ghost Files and Mystery Files girlies! There’s a ghost right from the start! There’s a whole slew of murders, and there’s a man losing grip of reality. Hamlet himself is a student who has lost his father and is questioning the morality of revenge. He’s such an old character that he’s been interpreted and reinterpreted a hundred thousand times, and if you go through the Royal Shakespeare Company among others, you can surely find one you can relate to.

My point here is that, though some of the characters in classics might seem distant, you can find timeless themes in these stories, and if you just push the boundaries of how you think about the characters, there is going to be something you find relatable.

Go forth and have fun with classics, while I work on the installment on Themes… no, we are not shying away from problematic literature here! Also, feel free to pop me an ask, a comment, or a dm, if you have anything you want to see!

[janeblr]

Hockeytalia team!!!

Captain is Alfred, obviously, with Lu and Mattie as his alts. No team name yet- taking suggestions!

OH and for context: this is an experimental international team organized by the IIHF to compete in worlds and do diplomacy/global outreach stuff. most of the players are on teams in their home countries but they all take their position on the international team very seriously.

ETA: duh moment on the team name. World Stars.

Lines structured left winger - center - right winger

first line: ber - lu - eirí

second line: mads - al - timo

third line: toni - arthur - kiku

fourth line: raivis - vasch - peter

D-pairs structured left and right

d-pair 1: mattie and vanya

d-pair 2: gil and lars

d-pair 3: viktoras and feliks

starter goalie: fran

BUG: lutz

EBUG: Roderich(good at being a goalie but hates it lol)

power play unit: first line forwards, viktoras and feliks on defense

penalty kill: al and timo forwards, mattie and vanya on defense

Fran gives MAF energy lol. Delightfully whimsical, outrageously accomplished, and overall very talented goalie. Lutz is your classic autist goalie. Freaky net rituals, barely speaks to media and says the most oddball shit when he does, there’s rumors he’s actually a robot that has been programmed with exactly one task: stop puck.

First line: Lu and Eirí are insanely gifted hockey brothers but Lu HATES playing on the same team as his baby brother lol. The two of them are an INCREDIBLE first line with Ber because they’ve got some weird nordic soul bond going on. Locked in 100% of the time. Take their job very seriously. They go HARD on the power play.

Second line: The “FUCK YEAH, HOCKEY!!!” line. They’re all SO excited to play and are very physical forwards. Do whatever it takes to get that puck in the net, aren’t afraid to make or take a few hits to score. That’s why they’re so good on the PK- they can play a defensive offense well.

Third line: Not much to say here, they just have surprisingly good line chemistry! I think their different personalities and styles of play all balance out and create a well rounded line.

Fourth line: poor little meow meows 😵‍💫 vasch is an accomplished veteran who is taking it easy until his impending retirement and has been tasked with babysitting the two kids on the team lol. A surprisingly effective line because raivis is terrified of failure and peter has Daddy Issues and is desperate to impress Vasch.

The D-pairs are just *chefs kiss* lol. Mattie and Vanya are a fucking MENACE on the ice, dirty players and just huge guys. Vanya is fucking his captain. Mattie is the captain’s brother and roasts the both of them mercilessly over this. Gil and Lars are an unlikely pair- they’re both physical, but focus more on play tactics than brute strength. Very organized and excellent communication between each other and their forwards. Vi and Feliks are husbands that cannot be separated. They’re not particularly impressive looking at first but they just do. not. stop. Absolutely relentless.

Lovi and Feli are WAGs(HABs?) to Toni and Lutz respectively. Lovi hates all the WAG bonding shit but Feli goes all out for it- themed parties, matching jackets, active groupchat, etc etc. Mattie’s wife(Katyusha!) is the “head WAG” and coordinates all their events and charities. Erzsi plays defense on the Hungarian women’s national team so she isn’t too involved with the Heta-WAGs as she’s busy having her own sports career. The first time Eirí brought Lili to a game, the WAGs immediately adopted her into the fold. Even if he leaves the team, i think she’ll always be a Heta-WAG lol.

This is likely completely incomprehensible if you don’t watch hockey but 🤷‍♀️ i am incapable of enjoying things a normal amount.

[jellybeanium124]

something I've talked about before is the tendency for authors to simplify jack's character and make him just a straight up evil heartless villain. this destroys his role as a foil for stede, and flattens ed's character from a guy who is defending an old bro, and they definitely like each other at least a little, to ed being a dumb dumb idiot for not realizing that jack's a piece of shit with nothing behind the eyes. and like, if he's a minor antagonist in your fic, fine, whatever, I'll survive. but it's much more fun to give him all the dimensions he had in the show!

I don't think I've talked before about how people tend to flatten out izzy too. and tbc this post is not about canyonites or for canyonites or whatever. this is about jar guys and other non-canyonites. people tend to flatten izzy out too. make him into a one dimensional villain who just argues with ed, and insults him, and is just a mean asshole who never stops. now, is izzy a mean asshole? yes. but he's not literally berating ed every single fucking second they're together. they can just have a conversation. I think writing izzy as someone who is just completely terrible to ed 100% of the time and never lets up gives ed the same issue that defending a 100% evil jack does. it makes ed look stupid! this guy is yelling at you 24/7, why have you let him stick around for so long?

I'm writing a fic rn where it briefly comes up that ed had a no-teenagers policy on his ship. for ed, this is because he can't have teenage blood on his conscience. I think this is a rule that izzy wouldn't argue with ed about. I think that ed would tell him "don't hire teenagers" and izzy would just follow that order. now, is it because izzy doesn't wanna have those deaths on his conscience? no. for izzy, it's because teens are a liability. they don't follow orders and they're inexperienced. they could poke holes in the brand. everyone on blackbeard's crew has to come across as the best of the best, and newbie teenagers probably don't fit that bill.

I think thinking about things they wouldn't fight about is interesting. I think thinking about the calm times is interesting. I think that thinking about the times where the two of them don't fight is interesting. izzy has to keep stringing ed along, giving him just enough praise to keep ed on the hook, keep him thinking that one day they'll be able to connect, one day they'll be able to be real friends, one day izzy will stop being such a dick.

because izzy's brain is a complicated web. part of him thinks he's doing what's best for ed. a small voice knows what he's doing is wrong. he thinks he's loyal, he thinks he's doing the right thing, he thinks he and ed have this super special bond. he thinks he loves ed. he thinks he's endlessly devoted to ed. so when they're on the same page, when ed isn't doing something izzy thinks is wrong, why should izzy fight him? why should he be a dick if there's no need?

so many fics turn izzy from "a man with a bizarre and unique complex who thinks he's endlessly devoted to ed, but is actually endlessly devoted to his own pursuit of power and a tiny part of him knows it but most of him refuses to think about that" into "a man who is evil. an evil man. evil evil evil." and I think that's boring. I think that's mischaracterizing izzy just as much as people who write him as a hurt little puppy dog poor little meow meow. izzy isn't evil and that's what makes him interesting!!

[docholligay]

The House in Fata Morgana: Door Four -- 1099

I have never reviewed a visual novel before, but iscahwynn made me a very generous offer and a long line of patience, knowing that we are trying something very new. To that end: Please don’t spoil me for the game at all! If you are reading this, I have only gotten through the part written above, and I don’t want to be corrected, even if I’m wrong, even if I’ve missed something, i don’t want to have anything confirmed or denied, and I don’t need any trigger warnings or extraneous explanation. Iscah would like my pure, naive experience of the game. Thank you!

Non-spoilery: There’s a lot to like about this story for me, even before we get into the more…for the sake of not being spoilery i’ll call it “creative elements”. I think I would like the story even if it were simply the face story, but the creative elements allow us to play even more with what is happening outside of the text itself, and it gives a very different element to what has already been an interesting game

SPOILERS BELOW

So the fun about this door is that it’s bullshit, but you have to try and figure out how much of it is bullshit and how much of it isn’t bullshit, and boy would you think that’s easier than it  actually is. It IS a temptingly neat story, full of love, some key beauty and the beast elements, learning to love each other, a promise that can obviously only end in tragedy, dying in your lover’s arms, a horrible bargain, blood in rivers. It’s got it all. I see what the painting was saying about not wanting to accept anything that makes it all just a little too pretty.

Because you would think, ‘Oh no it ends in death and such, it’s not pretty.” Wrong, the story is gorgeous and it provides such a beautiful justification for everything that has happened to the white haired girl, and also, in a way, made it her own fault. It’s also the stuff of fairy tales. Never in any other timeline do we see real magic, or curses, or anything like that. Remember, Yukimasa SAW himself as a beast, but he never was one, he always looked like a reasonably handsome young man. There hasn’t been magic in the story other than in THIS time, and I’m not 100% sure I believe that in 1099 curses were real and the shitty Dark Ages version of Pushing Daisies was coming about. 

I do believe in the witch though, only because I’ve been thinking about her from day one, and this mansion that exists out of time, IS her fata morgana. 

So now we’re left trying to untangle this story, and where is it real, and where is it a lie? The story does a really fun thing with the backlog here, where sometimes the witch communicates through that.

And there are glitches in the visuals, plenty of things for us to be told that parts of this story simply aren’t accurate. They aren’t the reality of what happened in that house. 

I love the spot in the backlog where the witch tells us she’s going to rewrite the woman we loved. What does that mean, to rewrite someone? Are we creating Giselle, which may or may not be the White Haired Girl’s name--he says her name is Giselle, but it’s often xxx’d in the backlog, and the screen still says “White Haired Girl”--out of thin air? Was there ever a Giselle, or, for that matter, a Michel? It’s been hinted at that I may be the White Haired Girl, and if I am the White Haired Girl, is this all being written for me so i can feel sorry for myself? So that I’m the poor little meow meow of my own tale? Because she’s a fucking angel and doormat, and I would love if it turns out that’s all horseshit and this is all being written as something to further fool me into believing myself an innocent. 

And we don’t…see the White haired girl, until we get up into the observation tower. That same tower that we saw in door one when the White haired Girl was telling Mell the story about the girl and the letters on a pigeon. That’s a very interesting choice to me, and it’s a very deliberate choice. See, for a moment there I thought we also might be Michel, because there’s this glorious screenshot:   

Where we deal with the whole idea that we are trying, reaching, begging for our memories here, but those memories are being replaced by the images that are being put in front of us. We don’t know what’s real and what’s not. 

I mean, to this moment, I have no idea if Michel ever existed, if there was ever a curse, if any of it was ever real. The game seems to be telling me the maid is Morgana, but that doesn’t make sense to me given that in door two, it felt like she and the house were two different entities, or is that yet more bullshit, and if it is bullshit, i think i should have been able to see some clue of that on the backlogs, which I couldn’t, or at least not in a way i noticed when I was talking about other chapters. I don’t know what I think about any of this at all! I feel terrible writing my impressions of this door when my impressions of this door were mostly “Fuck man?? I don’t know??” 

But in trying to winnow out what’s true and isn’t, there were a few things that struck me: 

1) I do not for a second believe that the story is just handwaving her survival, i believe the MAID/maybe Morgana is doing that, because we are being actively lied to. If the story were handwaving it, they wouldn’t be so obvious about it, because they would know it was a big problem narratively. Instead, the maid basically goes “Why was she actually alive when we were saying how dead she was, tenderly in his arms like a crushed rose petal. Beats the fuck out me!” They draw ATTENTION to that, that she is telling a story badly. That’s not a mistake, i don’t think. 

2) We of course have all the backlog stuff going on, which is the really obvious thing, but it was so interesting to me when things were xxx’d and when they weren’t, as well as the fact that in the observation tower we had that direct conversation Morgana, trying to remember who we are, trying to remember who SHE is, and, its only in that room. So that room HAS to mean something. 

Anyway, it’s so interesting because it feels so unfinished because it is despite being the whole door. The maid is staring at me right now telling me I’m the white haired girl and she’s morgana and I just can’t bring myself to believe any of it! It feels so fake! But like I need to keep going, not like, that’s the end, it’s a door, but it’s not the end of the tale the way the others were. 

I love how Michel goes on about how unusual her red eyes and white hair are like he doesn’t fucking have them himself. Amazing. 

I did roll my eyes hilariously at “i’m not going to hold your hand because then you’ll die hideous” okay i know we need to make allowances for the tragic ending, but how ridiculous was that? 

On that note, I know this isn’t real, but even if it’s well-trodden road i love the inevitable tragedy of a curse like that. The blood he shed saving her comes to take her away? Beautiful. Love it. I am a simple woman. 

At first i was thinking, ‘Oh so he’s a vampire” and I was wrong, but actually only kinda wrong!

[mysterycharacterbracket]

Round L3, Poll #62

Remember, this is the losers bracket. We are matching up the winners of round L2 vs the losers of round W1. The winner of this poll will move on to round 4, and the loser will be revealed.

Character 57: this character made me realize that all my blorbos are actually little meow meows. just the saddest musician in the most fucked up family. adopts children under questionable circumstances

Character 100: Poor guy is a prequel character who only exists to have his identity stolen. He's a stepping stone for someone else's revenge. He's an innocent guy who became a pawn without ever realising it. He trusted his friend and got backstabbed for it. Can you imagine being his parents, raising a child for 18 years, and as soon as he leaves to go to The Big City he never talks to you again? Can you imagine being his parents, hearing rumors about his exploits at the academy, and they sounds like the actions of an entirely different person? Can you imagine being his identity stealer, and being used in some sort of japan exclusive McDonald's hamburger commercial? Can you imagine having your identity stolen by someone so Thoroughly, it becomes their default name even after everyone learns of their original name? Can you imagine being so irrelevant that the story forgets your parents even exist until its time to tie up loose ends and kill them, in the same way you died? God did not smile upon him when he was born, and that's hilarious. Poor bastard never stood a chance, i mean he literally died in the same episode he was introduced in. Also he's from texas.

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Bestie. Fellow podcast fan. I saw in your recent post that podcast hiatus's are driving you insane, have you listened to wooden overcoats before? because if you haven't I just listened to it because tmagp break is driving me crazy and its very good 100% would recommend.

Omg yes I have!!

Antigone Funn my belovedddddd 😭😭😭

I was so excited to see Beth Eyre credited as [REDACTED] in episode 10 of tmagp, coming out of that locked door in the ruins of the institute

I (and the world) need more Beth Eyre creechurs lurking in the shadows and scaring poor unsuspecting bystanders

Thank you for the suggestion! There are a few shows I'm binging right now, you're also welcome to join me if you wish!

Liberty podcast, scifi from the makers of the white vault, I think it's one of their first creations and it's been on my list for a while. I'm on episode 6 and so far the world building is intriguing and I'm already getting attached to the team on the research expedition going out from their safe high tech city to the dangerous post apocalyptic parts of their world

The orphans, another scifi horror of survivors of a crashed ship who lost their memory and are being chased around on a strange planet by multiple threats. I'm on episode 3 and each and every person in this is the poorest little meow meow you've ever met, including the deteriorating AI who can only ever be rude to everyone around it. Actually establishes some good tension in the action scenes, something that is hard to do in podcasts and I rarely find any who succeed in doing it without compromising clear sound queues and well balanced sfx.

The liminal lands is the last podcast I'm binging. I randomly chanced upon the name and decided to pick it up. It's about a man who one day went hunting, tripped and fell and no-clipped into an alternate reality where no one else exists and time and electricity are on the fritz. I'm on episode 3, it's a beginner's passion project so the acting and sound is challenging to anyone used to high quality but the story is fascinating and keeps me hooked and the crisp southern accents definitely help. It's like a podcast version of the backrooms and it definitely manages to convey the same kind of eeriness.

Oops I went off lol, hope this is somehow helpful even if you didn't ask for it 😅

And yes I fully agree about wooden overcoats everyone should listen to it asap it's so good!!

[cordycepsbian]

hihihigihi uhh

can you name some of your ocs?-

haven't seen much of any i dont thingk. or maybe i just am blind

that's fair we don't have our toyhouse linked anywhere and that only has a fraction of our ocs listed on it

bugs fable ocs;

chrys - never talked about them before whoops. from our bug fables future headcanons. they're a cuckoo wasp and they're on an explorer team with tod and terrie mop - everyone knows mop. the star of the show

synth - evil roach lady. came from the giant's lair and tried to start snakemouth lab 2: electric boogaloo. she's like if soul master was a girl kind of bernie - most divorced poor little meow meow bee man ever. got kicked out of the hive because cosmic horrors happened to him. vi's dad but that's not really relevant they don't know each other ilon & lilly - butterfly and beetle on an explorer team. kind of side characters in future bug fables iris - cute and trustworthy mantis lady who runs a diner and definitely doesn't cook people checkers - zombee who is two different bees sewn together. former nurse in one life. unwillingly pulled into synth's schemes mint - zombeetle who escaped the lab to try and find his former explorer partner. not going well for him latte - baby zombiant. just a little guy sammy - zombie fly with a different kind of fungus than the cordyceps ones. got sent to bee kingdom zombie jail until the doctor who made it like that let it escape penny - the doctor who did that to sammy. it was an accident she swears marshmallow - peacock spider who started mimicking bugs and living in society just for a laugh

and our hollows knights

caprice - nosk who disguises herself as a traveling musician. reads minds to find familiar tunes and plays them for her victims. our personal favorite to draw ollie - ant that got splashed with the death pheromone and kicked out of his colony for it. traveled with caprice before getting infected and dying for real

celadon - mantis who left the tribe to pursue a more peaceful lifestyle. is just vibing in greenpath now flower pot - vessel that celadon adopted. likes being painted on capt. geo-eye - earwig pirate captain. quite literally has a piece of geo where his eye should be. currently plundering the abandoned kingdom of hallownest treasure chest - vessel that geo-eye adopted. a little ruffian that attacks ankles

and our rains worlds

uncrossed finish line - senior of their local group. thought sliver of straw was onto something. worked so hard to replicate her that they overheated and collapsed deep impression of a fang - junior of the same group. looked up to finish line and was devastated when they died. tried to purpose an organism strong enough to kill him after that happened flightless birds - second youngest of the group. bit of a silly goose. spends more time talking in group chats and having fun than doing work. in her lane. unbothered. flourishing monday morning sunrise - second oldest of the group. eepy. spends 100 cycles to do anything empire of ants - firm Middle Child. ascribes to the same thinking of a benefactor monk. never talks to anyone ever three glowing scales - no local group because they're in the middle of the ocean. makes a lot of purposed creatures to send messages across the sea ever-flowing rapids - purposed slugcat made by 3gs. true aquatic scug that can breathe underwater and move at speed. rivulet's ancestor the crusader - purposed slugcat made by dioaf. the thing that was intended to kill him. gets stronger the higher its karma is the trickster - purposed slugcat made by nsh. exists to send memes. can change colors to mimic predators the sleepwalker - normal slugcat that got hit on the head and can't sleep now. always gets shelter failures and special night creatures attack them the symbiosis - used to be our scugsona but now they're just vibing. full of fungus. kills bugs instantly but gets hurt by sunlight two splinters of wood under tropical leaves - benefactor that lived on mms. ran a shelter for purposed organisms that outlived their usefulness. number one enjoyer of weird little critters muddy water running through steel canals - benefactor that lived on looks to the moon. mechanic that dabbles in bioengineering. invented miros birds so you can all get mad at aer for that shrill ringing noise, a broken spear - benefactor that used to live on dioaf. got banished to the surface for assassinating a council member. living the creature life now

[elizabeth-mitchells]

Hello. I hope your having a good day. I have never watched Yellowjacket but I do think it looks interesting and I follow you and a few other people who love this show so my ask is can you tell me what it’s about. Also feel free to share some opinions about characters and storylines as I don’t mind spoilers and they actually help me watch new shows so I’m not as anxious about it. Also do you have a favorite head canon that isn’t talked about??

Hi!! omg this is so exciting. okay. here we go!!

First of all, I love the show very much, I recommend it 100%, if you're interested in some of the most fascinating female characters on tv right now and you can handle a little bit of horror, you should totally watch it!!!

This includes spoilers from the very beginning and all the way to halfway to episode 06 of season 2...

Basically, Yellowjackets is about a group of teenage girls, a high school soccer team, that crashes in the wilderness (some forest/mountains situation in Canada) and they spend a shocking 19 months surviving out there. At the same time, it tells the stories of the survivors, 25 years later, and the crazy, crazy amount of trauma that all of them are dealing with because we are told that did some horrible, terrible, awful bad things in the wilderness in order to survive. aka it is heavily implied that they resorted to cannibalism. but not just that! because that is pretty much established since the first episode! actually, things get even weirder, probably supernatural, and all signs point to a teenage girl cult!

The drama between all these characters is *chefs kiss*. Their lives are so messed up, their choices are so questionable, they are so much much. There is some horror, I'm not sure how to measure that... like, enough to make it a difficult watch if you're too squamish, but I'd say not unwatchable. (for example: an amputated leg, face torn by wolves, chopping a dead body, and lots of unsettling imagery! the cannibalism itself wasn't Very explicit but it Has happened)

Now about the characters! (i'll try to be brief because I could talk about them for days) We have...

Shauna Shipman! My poor little meow meow. As a teenager she lived under the shadow of her best friend Jackie (popular girl, team captain, with the "perfect boyfriend) but did she? because actually Shauna was sleeping with Jackie's boyfriend, had a lot to do in Jackie's extremely tragic death, and now she carries the heavy burden of her guilt and more trauma than anyone would know what to do with!

Taissa Turner, miss senator!! Distinguished lesbian and chaotic lesbian at the same time. She's a leader, she's pragmatic, she's stubborn, she occasionally sleepwalks when she's stressed!! which prompts her to eat dirt, scare the people around her, and possibly built creepy altars that will ruin her marriage <3

Natalie Scatorccio!! my girl was traumatized even before the plane crashed. she was very important in the wilderness for being the best one with a gun. and yet she suffered from "wristers pushed her into a terrible relationship with the one male character of the show". after they were rescued, Natalie struggled with addiction for years until we meet her at a very rough moment in her life, after said male character dies and she's more and more haunted by their past

Misty Quigley!! My absolute beloved!! She's never done anything wrong ever, except for the atrocities committed <3 She's basically insane, but she's an absolute delight to watch on screen. Your next problematic fav! She's the nerdy outcast that nobody liked until they needed her medical knowledge in the wilderness, and nobody liked after she drugged them all, and as an adult she's just Christina Ricci trying her best!

In season two we get to see much more of Van and Lottie!! Van was dating Tai when they were teens but now she's just a very iconic lesbian, more trouble than she's let us know so far, and she'll be your next unproblematic fav! Meanwhile Lottie is leaning more toward the insane, cult leader, and absolutely gorgeous. she starts off as the rich girl that under different circumstances would've died right away but here's the twist... prophetic visions ✨ my girl will raise as a cult leader in the past and the present and i just want the best for her.

there are more characters! including Travis, the guy i hate. and his younger brother Javi, who's sometimes there, and sometimes isn't! there's Coach Scott! he's just gay and struggling. there's Mari being mean, Akilah also trying her best, some random girls sometimes? and for my favorite headcanon that isn't talked about (enough)... Laura Lee!! i don't even know why I got so emotionally attached to the character of the angelic devout catholic girl that died a tragic dead on season one but i just love her so much!! and especially her relationship with Lottie! trust me on this, they were so gay together. they turned a baptism into a lesbian ceremony! Laura Lee's ghost saved Lottie's life!! the potential these two had!!!

✨ the end ✨

i hope this was somehow coherent and that i possibly convinced you to watch the show? there's a lot that i missed talking about here, i'm so sorry about that but i'm so ready to asnwer if you have any more questions!!

[sohmiya]

Could you give us some more facts about isabel manzano pls? She's so pretty btw! I'm honestly simping for all ur ocs, they're all stunning, including kenji the babygirl as well ofc. 😌😌

i’m assuming you’re the same anon who brought up kenji before and PLSSHSK i always find it so funny (in a good way!) because i never talk about him 😭 but i’m so happy you already love our resident babygirl despite him not being developed yet. thank you <3

for isa my poor little meow meow. you can find facts about her here

just like majority of my musician ocs, isa copes with her feelings better through songwriting. whatever secret crush she has on statler/atlas is between her and her song notebook

another thing isa finds therapeutic is cutting her hair to give herself bangs and every single time, maude has to fix it

“the next time you do this, i’m charging you” -maude

this is probably coming from my own middle child experience but i always imagined maude being closer to deon than isa despite her having a good relationship with both her siblings. it was only when isa dropped out and came back home that she and maude really had a strong sisterly bond

this isn’t to say isa’s family was extremely neglectful but isa never felt comfortable talking about her problems with her family because they always have ✨opinions✨

because of their similar situation, maude is the only person in the family that isa can open up to. they 100% had the “why didn’t you tell anyone?” “because no one asked” conversation

when maude asks what she really wants to do in life, isa tells her about her dream and her big sister makes a joke about how she should automatically be isa’s hairstylist when she becomes famous because “who else is going to fix your bangs?”

but if the whole music thing never happens for isa, i think she’ll still want to do something music-related. i can imagine her playing at the bar she works at or giving guitar lessons when she’s not bartending

[dothemindything]

dont worry, most people are probably even less safe at home! a lot of people are less vigilant when they think theyre safe and some dont even keep their doors locked all the time!!!! the real mistake is in assuming you are ever 100% safe anywhere you go. my most recent home security methodology, aside from locking the doors and windows and adding a handful of traps, is twofold. ive convinced the town that this abandoned house is haunted, which keeps away all the superstitious types but sometimes i get too into the role which is how i end up getting singed (not that fire of all things bothers me that much), and that the house is full of asbestos, which keeps away the practical minded people and lets face it, it honestly might have asbestos anyways! once the location has been established as a no go around town, i can just dump the angel there and check on him for a few minutes maybe once a month, and i just go do whatever the rest of the time! thats still probably the best system in the longterm though, because like, have you ever met an actual angel? not the puny little runt kind that treekat found, but a real legit one? because i am entirely confident in your abilities, but i think just finding and trying to make contact with their mind might literally melt you

(p.s. i would like to add that i tune out most of whats on my dash save for when my incredibly uncommon name pops up!!!!!!!! i resent your accusation that *im* the depraved one for having a few questions about where your “repurposed, but dont ask what the original purpose was” chains came from, and i ****especially**** resent you going off on a tangent about the depraved carnal desires the rest of us have when you are one of the few people that knows what happens when i try to pretend to be normal and clean like your royal majesty. its fine if you arent interested in activities of a sexual nature, but you dont have to be a weirdo about it @-@)

UUUGHGHGHHH FUCK. OKAY. I'M SORRY, BALIT. BUT LIKE, FOR REAL. IT JUST WASN'T GREAT FOR MY FIRST INTERACTION OF THE MORNING TO CONSIST OF ME BEING ACCUSED OF SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO. BUT THE WAY I WENT ABOUT MY REBUTTAL CAST A VERY POOR IMAGE. MY AGGRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SEXUALITY AND EVERYTHING TO WITH BEING FRAMED AS A LIAR, EXCEPT THAT ISN'T REALLY AN EXCUSE WHEN I'M PUSHING DOWN SOMEBODY ELSE AT THE SAME TIME. NOT EXACTLY THE MODEL OF INTEGRITY, RIGHT THERE.

I WAS JUST MAD. THE CHAIN THING HAPPENED TO COME TO MIND BY ASSOCIATION, BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE DRAGGED YOUR NAME INTO THE SITUATION, AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE ARGUED BACK THE WAY I DID. I'M SORRY FOR INVOLVING YOU, AND I'M SORRY FOR THE IMPLICATIONS OF MY DEFENSES. I'M ALREADY OVER IT AND I REGRET THE WAY IT WAS HANDLED. MY YOUTUBER APOLOGY IS PENDING, BUT I HOPE YOU CAN OVERLOOK MY RECKLESSNESS IN THE MEANTIME. NONE OF THAT WAS MEANT TO TALK DOWN TO YOU. SO AGAIN, I'M SORRY. I UNDERSTAND IF YOU CAN'T BELIEVE MY SINCERITY, AFTER I USED THAT ENTIRE SITUATION TO PROP IT UP, BUT I DO WANT TO AT LEAST TRY TO EMPHASIZE THAT I MEAN IT.

..ON THE OTHER HAND, ALL I'M HEARING IS THAT KARKAT MIGHT HAVE ASBESTOS, WHICH FEELS LIKE AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT WAY TO DRIVE TREEKAT CRAZY? AS FUNNY AS IT IS TO THINK ABOUT HIM LYING AROUND IN A HUT SOMEWHERE, I JUST THOUGHT I'D OFFER SINCE I'D BE ABLE TO WATCH HIM FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES AT A TIME. I'M NOT VERY SCARED OF ANGELS, SINCE I'M PRETTY SURE DIRK'S TERROR SCENT SERVES AS SOME SORT OF WARD FOR HOLIER SPIRITS, AT LEAST BY SBURB LAW.. BUT I'M NONETHELESS CONSCIOUS ENOUGH NOT TO CLAIM EXPERTISE IN A VERSE I'VE NEVER TOUCHED.

JUST CONSIDER IT RESERVED BOOKING IF YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MIND. I'D RISK SOME MELTING FOR T'S POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW, OR WHATEVER.

HE WAS MY FIRST PATIENT, YOU KNOW. GUESS I STILL HAVE A SOFT SPOT.

[fairy-lights-and-blobs]

The first bite is entirely 100% deserved. Some rich idiot kept trying to flirt with the owner, trying to get the place closed in favor of building some spoiled brat ANOTHER Hero Agency.

And, EXCUSE YOU! That's Danny's emotional support mom-adjacent Person. Naturally he's going to Interrupt. Oopsie! Ma, there's some Absolutely Urgent Bullshit that needs your Undivided Attention!

And, you know...Danny tries not to ask for help. Poor kid came pre-traumatized, you see. Sorry, Mr. Scumbag, she'll have to reschedule this talk for later.

But, of course, spoiled rich brats never take no for an answer. Guy plants his hand fully on Danny's face and pushes him away. Leave him to his devious ways, Child (said with contempt).

So what is Danny to do if not Bite? He's got baby fangs For A Reason.

Guy has to be shipped to the E.R to stitch up his entire hand. The local feral raccoon dug his teeth into his hand VERY DEEP. Like, deep enough for nerve damage to be a concern, Deep.

They have it on camera. Rich Fuck being mean for no reason to a traumatized child. A Hero never does that. The gall of this man!

Danny gets headpats and clingy toddlers worrying if he's ok. His teeth are a little pink from the blood, but he's all shoujo sparkles. He's fine, Ms. Part-time Mom is fine, the Museum stays open. He's good!

Just...you know. Can he use your basement? He's gonna mad science himself a Supply of Fento Anti-Creep sticks. Can't accuse him of using a Quirk, if he uses a metal bat instead :)

Excuse you Mr. Lie Detector, sir, but his Quirk makes him able to go through walls and be invisible.

No, he doesn't have a Fanged Quirk, those were always there! You see, ever since his powers started developing, his teeth also started changing! (Technically not a lie, which Good Enough, says Tsukauchi's Quirk).

He was sent to live with his new Kinda-mom, while his actual Mom and Dad settle things back home, and he's just defending His People and his home from creeps wanting to take it away.

Why all the questions? He's just a poor little meow meow, just a bastard wet cat of a boy, he's Going To Cry ;^;

Later, the Museum Director asks him to never emotionally manipulate a Police Officer again. That was disturbingly convincing.

And yes, Danny has So Much Passion for the subject, that he continuously draws in little kids and their parents, who are lured in by this unhinged teenager, wildly gesticulating while bouncing all over the place, and still managing to give a more coherent tour than the last guide.

And did you know...don't tell anyone this, but Danny has tasted a nebula before. Leans in real close to a whole classroom of Very Interested Kids and starts whispering like he's telling a secret.

It tastes like raspberries!

The kids don't care if he's lying or not because IT TASTES LIKE WHAT?! How?!?!?!

So of course, danny rambles on. Chemical composition and rotation periods, and the birth of stars. And did you know the moon always has the exact same side facing Earth? Because it's rotation and translation period happen at the same time: 27 days for both of them! It's like trying to walk around your friend, and every little step you take you turn just a little towards them!

One such tour ended with an entire class of kids falling asleep on the pillow of the projector room, a star chart lighting up the ceiling. Danny wakes up to two brave kids drawing on his face, playing connect-the-fot with his freckles and matching them to the stars above.

Naturally, worried parents wanna intervene, but the Museum Staff snort and tell them it's ok. Meanwhile, Danny has two squirming kids under his arms like they're sacks of flour. His face is still all covered in the drawn constellations.

They take a group photo like that. Danny, his two little captives, and the others all leaning into their New Favorit Role Model. The photo goes up on the wall, and Danny is happy as can be. He got to ramble about Space, made a Visible Difference for a bunch of kids, and got head ruffles and praise from the parents.

That is one Happy Danny.

There's a whole WALL covered in cork, specifically so Danny can use it to pin the photos of every tour. To every kid that he can inspire to Love Space just a little bit. So many little future scientists, so many minds that enter His Place fixated on Punching Other People, and leave with a little space in their hearts made in the shape of Danny the Tour Guide, who taught them about space, and nebulas, and so many things they didn't know about!!!!

What do you mean, Heroes are what it's about? Come here Child, and let Danny teach you about everything that's Out There.

Nezu wants him as a Teacher when he's a little older. He's making a great difference in their community. More than most Heroes. His Passion and Knowledge have no comparison. No price that will buy him or the Museum people he's adopted as his Aunts and Uncles.

Danny is irrevocably One of Them. And he'll do his damnedest to make sure these kids learn to love science, and appreciate the Universe.

Okay but? We of the DPxDC? Are COMPLETELY Sleeping on DPXBNHA?

And not even for the Main Plot Shenanigans!

Just?? It has ALL of DC's super powers? But MORE OF THEM. And like 80% of the population has um! Danny can?? Finally achieve his DREAM of being???

JUST SOME DUDE™!

Yeah, he's in Japan. That's a bit of a learning curve. And YEAH, there was a cataclysmic war like a few centuries back that sorta... fucked everybody up. No one wants to talk about it. There may be mass graves and Never Forget memorials. But?

On the SURFACE!

This place seems utopian!

No ghost hunters! Advanced technology! Robust social services*!

Wait... what was that asterisk? What do you mean "corrupt shadowy government organizations"? What do you MEAN "Immortal Supervillians"? NO SPACE PROGRAM!?!? AaaaaAAAAAAAAAAH?!?!? I'M IN HELL!!! This is ACTUALLY THE BAD PLACE, THIS IS HELL, OH GOD NOOOOOOO-!!!!!!

Cause see?

There are SO MANY REASONS he'd end up there?

Think about it! Wish that he lived somewhere his weird biology wouldn't exclude him from becoming an astronaut? In Quirks having Bnha Japan EVERYBODY has weird biology! Y'ain't special! You could TOTALLY be an astronaut!..... if we HAD those! We do not. Shut down that program during the Quirk Wars and never really started it again. (And somewhere, Desiree LAUGHS)

Or MAYBE? Things are getting a little hot on the ground? Bit TOO spicy. The Family Fenton and Friends have fallen back, behind the barely holding shields. Not even the Mansons considerable political maneuvering could stop the inevitably of human fear and blind unthinking hatred. Money can't buy everything, in the end. There is only ONE(1) way out.

Through the Zone.

Plan: Strangers In A Strange World is a go.

They're all Limnal enough to fake it. Sam with her plants. Tucker with his technology and persuasion. Jazz with her limited empathy. Their parents with their... well, weirdness. And with a touch of ghostly assisted meddling? Well, they've always BEEN there! Haven't they?

And that's not to MENTION the random 4 year olds with no control! JUST coming into their powers! With all those big emotions in tiny bodies? Startling events and tantrums? Villian attacks? What could THEY possibly hope to do to control or guide that fresh new power? It does what it does and the rest of us are just along for the ride!

If Danny happens to be minding his business and gets accidentally kidnapped by a VERY distraught 4 year old? Well, that's hardly the KIDS fault, now is it? They're FOUR! That is basically a toddler! Tiny child! They are upset, confused, and didn't mean to do ANYTHING. He's a hero. And Heros don't blame little kids from accidents, no matter HOW stressed it makes them.

No, the curse like a sailor INSIDE their head. Like an ADULT.

Just? Imagine~☆

The slow transition from *starry eyed shoujo sparkles* "This is SO COOL~!" to "huh, that's... kinda weird. And Sus. Weird Sus. Maybe nothing... oh! A distraction!" To "okay, this KEEPS happening, that was shady. You all saw that right? You realize that's not NORMAL, right? That that's fucked up? Not cool?" To "oh god, oh God, OH GOD! I'm in HELL! This is actually HELL! I'm trapped in HELL!!! WHAT THE FUC-"

Like? This kid LOVES space. LOVES the stars. And this is one of the few Superhero Cannon that SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS that IN CANNON? Thanks to Quirks? As in Superpowers? That VERY THING got fuckin SCRAPPED. Gutted. Consigned to be a relic of the past so they could all focus on punching each other Real Good.

He would weep BLOOD. Chew the WALLS. The LEVEL of unhinged this child would unleash? Not as Danny Phantom... but as DANNY J. FENTON? Beautiful. Vaguely psychotic. Definitely doing the Fenton Name proud. God, the NOISE HE WOULD MAKE would be inhuman and yet somehow? Come entirely from his human half.

They👏 Would👏 Hear👏 BOSS👏 MUSIC👏

I don't even know if he'd CARE about the main characters. They'd be tangential at best. The man would be in a one man war with I-Island over their lack of space program and hoarding of scientific progress. Probably living out of an abandoned building or forgotten subway station. Just? The MOST bedraggled, feral genius to ever haunt Japan.

As opposed to the REFINED feral genius. Who is Nedzu.

I bet Danny stands outside his school at one AM waving his scientific papers at a camera and YELLS. Like a deranged lunatic. Mismatched slippers and a "haven't slept in a week" crazed glint in his eyes.

He's Nedzu's new best friend. They GET each other.

And, yes, Nedzu COULD let him in... but it's faster to just let him yell and read the papers through the camera. Who CARES if they both seem insane! Let's shout about advanced physics and engineering at 1 am! Over the speakers!!! Oh? You need to physically SHOW me the notes? Well I COULD unlock the gates... OR just wait for you to finish scrambling up the walls like a feral Racoon, to then throw yourself OVER them.

Either, Or.

I'm just SAYING! We are SLEEPING on this! There is so, SO much fun to be had! Danny breaks rules and minds! His outrage over injustice and the complete lack of SPACE! His protection instincts going BUCK FUCKIN WILD. The INDESCRIBABLE hate boner he would have for Mr. "Lemme just rip parts of your soul out so I can collect your powers like pokemon cards" AfO.

There? Is SO MUCH, guys. SO MUCH!

@hdgnj @the-witchhunter @babbling-babull @hypewinter @nerdpoe @lolottes @dcxdpdabbles @mutable-manifestation

[whorefordazai]

OMG YOUR REQUESTS ARE OPENN AGIN, OMG, uhh hi! can I request some separate hcs for Dazai, Chuuya, kouyo with a s/o who can turn into a cat. Like their ability is the same as Natsume’s. OKAY THANK YOUUU ILY 😽

s/o with the ability to turn into a cat

ft. dazai | chuuya | kouyou x gn! reader

genre: fluff

warnings: none

note: sorry this took sooo long to do bae :( these were really fun to write and ahhh I died this was too cute and wholesome I think I went overboard but oh well hehe I love cats

Dazai

(disclaimer: I know his ability would technically nullify yours but for the sake of all things wholesome let’s pretend it doesn’t 🙏)

can I just say, he loves cats 😼

they’re his absolute favorite. he likes the aura and mood they give off. being low maintenance helps too. you don’t need to walk them, they don’t make a lot of noise, they eat minimal food, the list could go on and on. total cat person.

so when he finds out you have the ability to turn into a cat, 👀

ngl, he’s all over you. even more so than before. first off—cuddles !!

just imagine coming home after a long day, changing into a cat (I’m laughing hold on 😭), and resting on dazai’s chest. he’ll be a little surprised the first time you do it, because a cat has never done that before 🤔 but now it’s a daily thing !

I heard somewhere that a cat’s purrs can cause vibrations that help you sleep. and that’s proven to be true when dazai sleeps a few more hours than usual :) his sleep schedule is irregular, and he only sleeps when it’s pitch black. and even then, it’s only for three hours at most.

so purring on his chest helps him calm down sleep 😖

since your ability is similar to natsume’s, it’s pretty useful when the agency has to spy on things. you’re a cat—no one is going to suspect you, even if you walk into an underground gang base 🙄

just pull up like “🐈 🤙” and everyone will go about their merry day of criminal affiliation.

little do they know, you’re getting intel and reporting it back to the agency 😏

okay more wholesome stuff ☺️

when you guys sleep together as a cat, you’ll nuggle up and hide yourself in the crook of his neck. he can’t stop caressing or playing with your fur cuz it’s sooo soft (HELP I’M MELTING 🤾)

he’ll just use his thumb and gently rub the space between your nose or tickle your stomach. and even head pats !! SKSJS MELTS

when you decide to be a cat during the day, he’ll definitely carry you around. and I don’t mean in his arms—hehe I mean your body will be hanging from behind his neck and you’ll just be chilling on his shoulders 😎

It’s happened so many times, the agency members don’t question it anymore. however, sometimes you’ll be doing it out in public and a civilian will ask a question.

“Is that...a cat on your shoulder?”

“Hm? Why, yes! They’re my (s/o) 😄!!”

NOSOSJ PLEASE DAZAI DON’T SAY YOUR CAT IS YOUR S/O IN PUBLIC—

the stranger will slowly back away from this obvious bomb of ~beastality~ that your boyfriend has dropped 😄 <3 (shane dawson who 🤔⁉️)

Chuuya

not gonna sugar coat it, he’s 100% weirded out. especially if you work with him in the mafia?? like what are you gonna do? meow the enemies away 😭?? kitty fight⁉️

but then he put two and two together and realized you can actually be useful. especially when it comes to going undercover and using disguises to lure people or find out information.

you’re his...cat partner 🤔?

he likes dogs, but mostly because he’s had terrible experiences with cats. they scratch him, ruin his expensive furniture, and most of all they never seem to like him (his words, not mine)

I headcannon that once when he was a kid, chuuya tried making friends with this cat for days but the cat scratched and bit the fuck outta him, so went home and cried himself to sleep. poor guy, he really did try 😭 but now he’s:

traumatized.

he’s hesitant, he knows you won’t bite him or scratch his furniture. but you once said:

“If you ever break my heart, your curtains won’t be free from these claws ☺️”

he just nervously smiled, pet your head, and internal shrieked.

okay but imagine the duo you guys are. the partnership. working in mafia affairs with your man. it’s like you go in first, gathering the juicy secrets and then he goes in with his power to totally obliterate the enemies.

after a job well done, he’ll smirk and let you leap into his arms. he’ll rub under your chin and say “good job kitty” (insert howling noises 🐺)

he didn’t realize how much snuggling he craved until you jumped onto his lap, got comfortable, and fell asleep there. at first he’s like “what the fuck ᇂ_ᇂ?” but when he sees you looking so comfortable and cute, he can’t help but feel his heart soften.

he won’t dare move an inch. his legs are hurting? oh well. his back is breaking? oh well. he might use his ability to slightly move you tho, and if you wake up he’ll apologize so much. stuff like “oh god, I’m sorry I tried to move. It won’t happen again. Come back on my lap, okay?”

rai why are you getting excited over those words, you’re not even a cat 🤔

he’ll keep feeling bad until you nod your little cat head, lick his finger, and settle back onto his chest. the both of you snooze away 😴

he’s so careful about his hair—doesn’t let you near it, but he’ll allow you to sit on his shoulder while he lounges around or takes a walk.

sometimes you end up sitting on the top of his head and when you won’t get off (because his hair is so soft and comfortable ☺️) he’ll be forced to walk around pm headquarters with you on his head.

“Uh, executive...is that your cat—”

“Don’t fucking ask 🚶‍♂️”

Kouyou

total cat woman.

she doesn’t know it, you don’t know it, she won’t even admit it. but she’s a fucking cat woman.

I say woman, and not cat lady because that would mean she loves all cat. spoiler alert, she doesn’t. kinda like chuuya, she tried getting along with cats but they’re just too...similar to her?

same attitude, same power, same motives to scratch men in the eyeballs. cats don’t like her, she doesn’t like cats.

or that’s what she wants you to believe 😏

you’ll see it in her eyes, when you gently lay on her lap for the first time and snuggle up to her stomach. she’ll let out a tiny squeak, vigorously look in all directions for a way out, and eventually give up.

you’re. just. too. cute.

she can’t take the adorableness, it’s too much for her. she’s been holding it in for too long . that’s when her switch flips.

she looovess pampering you as a cat. even if you resist, she’ll take you to a groomer or vet to make sure your cat body is healthy. she’ll buy you cat onesies and make you try them on while you’re just like “🧍‍♂️” in the corner.

absolutely no one can touch (man handle) you except her and golden demon.

speaking of golden demon, she actually lets you sit on her lap uwu

kouyou has hundreds of pictures of you on her phone as a cat. It’s her guilty pleasure for when she’s missing you 😞 if she ever gets caught (most likely by chuuya) she’ll deny ever doing such a thing.

she’ll even buy you cat toys and a liter box (you told her that you don’t need one because you don’t use the bathroom as cat, but she didn’t listen of course 😎)

“kouyou, I’m not gonna take a shit on your carpet. I know how to use the bathroom—”

“Nonsense. One can never be too prepared.”

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[donttouchtheneednoggle]

Stargate?

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

hmmm sam ig? and teal'c, 1000/10 guy, killer eyeshadow, i would commit so many crimes for him also his comic timing is better than anyone on the show and he KNOWS it <33

aaaah and especially their friendship 🥰🥰

which reminds me i gotta finish my sam is aro post bc it is the most correct thing ive ever written xx

from atlantis i'd say teyla, vital part of my bi awakening 😳 and ronon, what a pair they are 🥰

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

JONAS. BABIEST BOI TO EVER BABY, AND ACTUAL PUPPY, STARGATE WRITERS I'M GOIGN TO KILL U, ETC ETC

also janet, even though she's such a mom friend and very scary and phenomenal she is still tiny 🥺🥺🥺

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

LIEUTENANT FORD i am so so sorry baby 😭😭😭😭

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

BRA'TAC AND JACOB. teal'c and sam rlly both have space dads who they'll run into on su*cide sissions and they'll flip the FUCK out like what are you kids doing out here you IDIOT CHILDREN like teal'c isn't an 80+ year old ex war criminal and sam isn't an air force major and super genius godbless xx

tbf bra'tac is a 100+ year old ex war criminal and jacob is an ex air force general but still. its hilarious and adorable 🤣

oH and todd. weird ass chaotic neutral uncle. JOHN SHEPPARD

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Zalenka. Angery lil pigeon man. Bless him :')

also walter and siler. stargate has a lot of background techs who are just here to suffer 🤣

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

imean. it's gotta be daniel right? Hes literally the REASON the word whump was invented, that man exists for torment :') also sheppard. Same reasons :'))

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

Cameron. Mitchell. I have a grudge that can burn for centuries. We could've had sam leading an sg1 made up of her big bro teal'c, lil bro jonas, and twin bro daniel, but nOoOo. God forbid we don't have a white man in charge!! He is all that is bad or mediocre about jack's character with none of what makes him awesome. He is POINTLESS and the fact that they made him so central in both movies is an unforgivable travesty. He's not even that bad and his friendshop with sam can be cute but alas. No.

also the ori, hathor, kinsey, all the classics 🔥🔥

I have an automatic hatred for almsot all things s9 and 10 but i don't think it actually extends to vala. How could it?

she has adhd. her actress has adhd. she is the actual spiritual successor to jack o'neill. i will never watch your seasons again but i mostly respect you ma'am :D

Thank youuuu mumble 💛