#they're all going to die from heart attacks at 20

[kayberrie]

SW Headcannons

The first time Rex has real, good coffee, he starts crying (happy tears). All the coffee on the ship slowly starts disappearing, and the next day Ahsoka finds him in a storage closet, surrounded by a mountain of coffee rations. She promises not to tell, as long as he shares. They make a pinky-promise on it (because that is totally something the clones would do, no I am not taking questions).

The first close call, though, came when Cody was making a routine inspection on the ship. He passed right by, but with his mom-friend powers he 'sensed' something wrong with one of the storage spaces. Rex has to subtly comm Ahsoka, who's busy with Jedi stuff. He must use the last resort. Fives answers immediately, and doesn't question why his captain wants him to blow something up. It works, and Cody bolts out to find out where the fire came from.

Unfortunately, though, Fives gets curious, and the secret eventually spreads to the entire 501st. Most of them find it amusing, but don't particularly care. But there's a few, like Jesse and Hardcase, who take it to heart. Other battalions begin to notice their coffee rations are disappearing. Nobody ever catches the 501st, because although they're often a hot mess, those boys are terrifying when united for a cause.

Soon, the 501st has turned into an unstoppable menace due to the unhealthy amount of caffeine they're drinking.

The one brother who can never know, though, is Kix. The vod even have to avoid drinking too much before their check-ins, as he might get suspicious about the crazy amounts of caffeine in their bodies. Despite their terrible lying skills, he never finds out. He might even steal from the stash on particularly late shifts (they'll never ask, because Kix is scary. Don't mess with the medic).

They're so overcaffinated that nobody questions it when Fives and Ahsoka disappear for a few days, and Palpatine mysteriously dies. Everybody lives happily ever after, and Senator Amidala makes sure that the clones all get extra coffee rations (Ahsoka too, because she couldn't escape her crazy brother's antics).

[covid-safer-hotties]

Alberta's COVID-19 death toll more than 4 times higher than flu over past year - Published Sept 9, 2024

By: Jennifer Lee

A year's worth of respiratory virus data for Alberta reveals, once again, COVID-19 is far deadlier than the flu.

The death toll due to the two illnesses, combined, topped 900 over the past year.

More than four times as many Albertans died due to COVID compared to influenza.

Alberta's respiratory dashboard shows flu was responsible for 177 deaths while 732 people died of COVID-19 (between Aug. 27, 2023, and Aug. 24, 2024).

"This is continual evidence that COVID is not just another flu," said Craig Jenne, professor in the department of microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Calgary, noting influenza is not a benign virus.

"This is the most we've ever lost to flu, and COVID has still put up many more deaths than flu. So these remain significant viral diseases in Alberta. They remain a significant risk to some Albertans. And unfortunately, and tragically, they continue to take lives at a really unacceptable rate."

While they're high compared to influenza, Alberta's COVID deaths are trending down from a peak of 2,409 during 2021-22.

As a critical care specialist in Edmonton, Dr. Shelley Duggan sees the toll the disease continues to take on Albertans.

"We're seeing people who have COVID and all of the sudden are coming into hospital with blood clots, heart attacks, strokes. So we still are very much living in a COVID world," said Duggan.

There were 3,348 flu hospitalizations, and 6,070 people were admitted with COVID in the past year.

The province counts hospitalizations where the illnesses are either a primary or contributing factor.

Duggan points out COVID-19 is not seasonal but it ebbs and flows through the year.

Unlike early during the pandemic, she doesn't admit many patients to the ICU for severe COVID-related pneumonia. Instead, she treats people for whom the disease has exacerbated other health problems.

"We also have that at-risk population [including] people on chemotherapy, people post-transplant — people really who are immuno-suppressed and are at risk — or the frail elderly who we see," said Duggan, the president-elect of the Alberta Medical Association.

Alberta Health data shows 632 of the people who died of COVID were ages 70 and up, 81 were between 50 and 69 and 15 were in the 20 to 49 age range.

Four children under the age of 10 died of COVID in the past year.

The provincial government's dashboard states influenza and COVID deaths are counted when the illnesses are the cause of death or a contributing factor.

"We still have a significant proportion of people who will die either directly from COVID or having COVID that is going to set in motion other things. So we still have to be cognizant of it."

Both Jenne and Duggan say reversing the slumping vaccination rates will be essential for the next respiratory virus season.

Just under a quarter of Albertans received their flu shot during the 2023-24 season, while 16.9 per cent were immunized against COVID.

"It's going to be very vital that people get vaccinated this year to protect themselves, of course, but to also protect the vulnerable and to protect the hospital system, because we are already overflowing," said Duggan.

Alberta stopped offering XBB COVID-19 vaccines as of Aug. 31, following a Health Canada directive, an Alberta Health spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

Vaccines targeting more recent strains have yet to be approved by Health Canada.

A federal government notice to health professionals states that updated COVID-19 vaccines (designed to target the JN.1 or KP.2 strains) are expected to be authorized in time for fall immunization campaigns.

The province said more information on its upcoming immunization program will be made available in the coming weeks.

[panthera-tigris-venenata]

18) Who talks to the other while they are sleeping?

19) Who drives and who has the window seat?

20) Who falls asleep in the others lap and who carries them to bed?

21) Who cuts the others hair?

28) Who writes poems/stories and love songs about the other? Do they sing the songs the write for them?

8) Who likes to wear the others sweatshirts?

for either mutually destructive threesome or Ivy/Claudine!

I think I'm gonna do both. I'm bored ✨

First, mutually destructive threesome:

Who talks to the other when they sleep?

...All of them. They're Isle kids, it's easier to do feelings when the other can't hear it, yeah?

Not that. Not that they do feelings. At all.

Also, they're drama queens.

Who drives and who has the window seat?

Harriet drives most often. She should NOT be driving.

For one, her drivers license consists of a post it note with „I can do what I want to“ with Ben's signature and „Please, let her."

She should not be driving anyway but she likes the control. Being in a car someone else drives is Not Good.

Anthony drives sometimes. He's safer driver than Harriet. He likes to do the hand on gear shift - hand on knee thing.

Ginny is passenger princess.

Unless she wants to drive somewhere with Maddy - well. Harriet saw that once and proceeded to give them a lift from there on.

Who falls asleep in others lap and who carries them to bed?

They take turns collapsing ✨

Isle kids who refuse to take care of themselves and also are mostly just feral cats.

Who cuts others hair?

Anthony.

No question about this one. I mean, look at him.

Sometimes, the girls give themselves or eachother a "haircut" with a knife, which just means Anthony has to fix it.

Who writes poems//songs?

They do NO such thing, thank you for asking.

Harriet. She's a pretentious bitch like that. But you'd die very painfully long before getting to the diary in her drawer.

Who likes to wear the others sweatshirts?

None of them wear sweatshirts!

Ew-

(Ginny.)

Okay, moving on: Ivy and Claudine:

Who talks to the other when they're sleeping?

I'd say Claudine. Again, it's easier to deal with feelings when the other can't hear.

I don't think Ivy wants to extend effort for something that Claudine won't remember anyway though.

Who drives and who has the window seat?

Ivy drives. She also does the hand thing like Anthony.

And she also shouldn't be driving. You see, she just doesn't believe in driving laws. They're boring and slowing her down. Plus any car the de Vil cousins drive is tuned to hell and back. Plus there's enough funky shit going on with her brain that she shouldn't be granted a license. Don't worry tho Auradon didn't do mental assesments for that until WAY after Isle kids started driving.

Needless to say, it takes near act of god do get Claudine to a car every time.

Who falls asleep on others lap?

Ivy and Claudine just has to deal with it.

Who cuts others hair?

Given that Claudine still refuses to enter the Tremaine salon, Ivy.

She also gives a haircut to herself whe she is at it and yes it is for the sole purpose of giving the Tremaines a heart attack the next time she shows up.

Who writes poems/song?

Well maybe Claudine, repressed feelings and all, but it ends up in a fire real fast.

Probably good thing, too, Ivy would be insufferable if she found it.

Who likes to wear the others sweatshirts?

Again, they do NOT wear sweatshirts, what is WRONG with you?!

(Ivy refuses to touch these with a ten feet pole and while she has a bunch of coats liberated or given from Auntie's closet, she might be a tiny bit too jealous of these. Also, Claudine mostly refuses to wear them anyway.)

Frankly I don't think Claudine knows what a sweatshirt is.

[wanderingmind867]

Paul Kupperberg did, what, 17 issues of the Doom Patrol before killing off most of his own characters? I raise him one better. I can at least plot out 20 issues, and I can have none of the Doom Patrol members die. So while i'm at school waiting for class to start, i'm gonna start planning this out:

Issues #1-2: I'd have this be a two parter, and I'd have it keep the same general concept as Paul Kupperberg's Doom Patrol storyline. In issue one, we watch as Arani goes to the remains of the caribbean island where the original Doom Patrol died, and she discovers proof that the original members of the Doom Patrol might still be alive. Larry's bandages, Rita's headband and Niles' Wheelchair were all floating in the waters. This makes her deeply suspicious, so she decides to investigate the bottom of the island for a closer look. Then she falls into a trap, and part one ends with her having to call the other members of the Doom Patrol for help.

Cliff, Josh and Valentina receive her signal, and they rush to the caribbean to rescue Arani. It turns out she fell into a trap laid by Niles. Back when Niles first set up his secondary headquarters on this island, he built a series of deathtraps to protect himself and his allies from enemies. Turns out the traps still work, and they're now being used against the Doom Patrol (the group they were initially designed to protect). So the Doom Patrol have to break free of The Chief's old traps.

But once they have, they see the floating debris Arani found floating in the water earlier. And that's when they all realize: the original members of the Doom Patrol might still be alive, somewhere. But where? And how to find them? Those are the questions at hand…

Issues #3-4: Following up on the only lead they still have, the Doom Patrol realizes that they have to find Madame Rouge and General Zahl; to interrogate them on the events of many years past. But in order to find them, they're gonna need some help. Which means the re-entrance of Mento (Steve Dayton), who's absolutely ecstatic that his wife might still be alive somewhere. After she died, he lost all the humility she helped him to gain. Now he's a washed up, deeply bitter man. And only the news of her possible survival is enough to pull him out of his slump.

Anyways, he uses his wealth and connections to help the New Doom Patrol locate Madame Rouge and General Zahl. From there, it's all a simple matter of infiltrating their new hideout and getting them to tell them everything they know. But of course, nothing ever goes according to plan. They manage to find and fight their way to Madame Rouge and the General, and they do manage to learn that they barely recall the events of that night. It's all a blur to them, almost as though someone was dictating their actions…

But before either of them can say any more on the subject, General Zahl drops dead from a heart attack, and Madame Rouge turns into mist and fades away in front of their very eyes. Nobody knows what's going on, but they realize they have to flee before anyone gets suspicious of them and thinks they killed these people. So they flee in a helicopter and begin heading back to the US.

In case anyone was wondering what did happen to Zahl and Rouge, by the way: it's Mister Nobody. He used these two as pawns to strike back at the Doom Patrol years ago, and he can't have them leaking his secrets. So he used his powers to kill Zahl and abduct Rouge. And now he realizes the Doom Patrol is slowly figuring out the truth, too. They're so close to finding his trail. So now he has to deal with them…

Issue #5: Mister Nobody needs to get rid of the Doom Patrol fast, and he's found a very weak willed pawn, capable of doing exactly what he needs. Specifically, he manages to use his sanity draining powers to short circuit Mento's helmet, and make him think the New Doom Patrol are the ones who actually killed Rita, Larry and The Chief. Now that the insane but powerful delusion has been placed into his brain, Mento turns on them and starts using his strength and his telekinetic helmet to try and force the others out of the helicopter.

A struggle ensues, a violent struggle on the very thin battleground that is the helicopter. And as can be expected from a battle in the skies over the atlantic ocean, it goes very poorly for our heroes. Mento successfully manages to push them off the helicopter, and then he flies back to his estate on the mainland, all alone. In the meantime, Cliff, Valentina, Josh and Arani all fall into the ocean; hitting the water hard enough to knock all of them unconscious (besides cliff, who was powered down by mento's helmet). And then they drift out to sea, all in different directions…

[b3anieperson]

THE LETTER - An Epilouge To Fourth Wing - Part 1 - Part 2 -

Xaden's letter is marked with the same seal I've seen the last three years, a blue wax seal with a rising dragon. I snap open the seal, the wax breaking quietly.

Dear Sloane,

I'm so, so sorry.

My gaze shifts at the letter, sorry for what? As I pay attention to the paper, trying not to read ahead, the corner of one letter is torn, and slight dark spots appear on the paper, like tear stains.

Liam stands with Malek now.

My heart shatters, as I read.

We were attacked by Gryphons, while we were going to save a nearby village. Deigh died, and we didn't have long to say goodbye to Liam before we had to fight.

I am so sorry, I tried, he died in mine and Violet's arms- and so did Soleil.

I'm used to reading through the lines at this point, its how most words to me look. 'Gryphons" always the same, and yet, never Gryphons, Venin.

I barely remember Soleil, her mother was a lieutenant under my mother, and I maybe met her once- but Liam? He was my brother. I'm alone now, no family, no mom, no dad, no Liam. I continue reading, letting the tears spill onto the page as I try not to cry out in pain.

I wish I could be there, I'm leaving in a few days, as soon as we get back to Basgiath, we're currently waiting for Violet to wake up, we're in-

The next word is scribbled out, but I know what he means, they're in Aretia. Letting the one who lived- Violet Sorrengail- heal, while Liam is in a burn pit with his dragon and Soleil.

I don't bother reading the rest, I throw the letter across my bed and reach for Garrick's. This one is sealed with brown wax- I rip it open, and worry my lip as more tears fall.

Sloane,

I wish I could bring you good news.

Please don't be stupid- do something stupid more importantly.

I'll give you what the report says, but I'm sure you've already read Xaden's letter, or Eya's.

Included in his letter is his own personal report, since there were no scribes to write it down.

Name: Garrick Tavis

Rank: Third Year Flame Section Leader, Fourth Wing

Location: Athbyne

Beyond Wards Y/N: Yes.

Commanding Officer: Xaden Riorson

Riders Available: Masen Sandborne, Eya Wrenwrought, Garrick Tavis, Liam Mairi, Soleil Telery, Violet Sorrengail, Ciaran Jun, Bodhi Durran, Imogen Cardulo

Incident Report: June 24, 633 AU

War Games 633 of Basgiath War College, Gaurd and Riot of Wing Leader Xaden Riorson was set down at a lake 20 minutes out from Athbyne.

10 minutes in on break a scream was heard from the west side of the lake, in the woods.

A drift of Six Gryphons attacked and killed Deighabron-- a Red Daggertail belonging to Liam Mairi, saving Violet Sorrengail from impailment.

Soleil and Fuilinstrogh were killed in action by suprise attack.

In action Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson took out two Gryphons as well as rider. Violet was then impailed by poisoned dagger (awaiting condition updates), and incapacitated.

Eya Wrenwrought, Imogen Cardulo and Bodhi Durran fought the remaining Gryphons.

-INCIDENT END-

Injuries sustained:

Bodhi Durran: Broken Arm

Garrick Tavis: Six Inch Cut from Temple to Jaw

Eya Wrenwrought: Twisted Ankle

Violet Sorrengail: Stab Wound (poison)

Imogen Cardulo: Several Fleshed and Treated Knife wounds, (unpoisoned)

Liam Mairi: Deceased

Soleil Telery: Deceased

I don't bother to read the rest of the report. I throw it aside and ravage through Imogen and Eya's letters. All I can focus on is that he died for Violet, saved her, and she still got stabbed and might even die. He died for fucking nothing.

My heart pounds in my chest as I rip at a rouge peice of paper. Tears fall down my cheeks, and make my face sticky with grief.

When Helena walks in, towel wrapped around her head, I'm hugging myself, looking at my sheets instead of the letters. Her face drops as she sits next to me, an arm wrapped lightly around my shoulder as she consoles quietly.

When I think I've cried out every tear that ever existed in my body. Helena asks me quietly what's wrong.

"H-he's gone." I whimper out, my voice breaking.

"Fuck," I hear from another voice, I glance up. Fynn stands there, against my bedpost, and his hair is slicked back with sweat.

"Liam?" Helena asks quietly and Fynn and I nod simultaneously. A gasp escapes her mouth, and she tries not to shudder.

When Emek sticks his head in through door, Fynn shakes his head and waves him out.

"I'm sorry Sloane." Fynn whispers, but I begin to shut everything out. I haven't done this since- since I watched my mother be incinerated- six years ago.

My heart sits in the bottom of my stomach, and I find myself shrugging away from Helena's touch.

When others walk in, they sit adjacent to the bed, or like Fynn; against the bedpost. They ask hushed questions, "What happened?", "Why is Sloane-", "Is she going-". I shut my eyes closed, and just scream.

The room quiets. Nobody speaks. No one moves, then quietly, a hand clasps my shoulder. "Out." He whispers.

I don't bother looking up at Emek, I know it's him. Everyone leaves, and I slowly collapse in on myself, crying again. He shushes quietly, sitting down on the bed, running his fingers through my hair.

His hand passes in front of my vision, and he picks up a letter. He let's out a breath, and sets it down, no doubt reading what Eya had wrote.

Dear Sloane,

We lost Liam two days ago.

We were in a battle at Resson.

I'm not going to sugarcoat this, you know that's not my thing, and I guarantee you've read Xaden's letter.

You know what took him out. We tried, I couldn't get there in time. I will see you at Parapet. I'll be on the other side, you know I will be.

Just remember: You are strong, and you will get through this, you have gotten through worse, and you are amazing.

I love you kid.

-Eya Wrenwrought, Second Wing, Claw Section, Second Squad.

Emek takes my hand, "I know." I shake my head, a few tears falling.

"Y-you don't." I whisper, even though I know his older sister fell at Gauntlet two years ago. "Emma fell at Gauntlet. Liam was eviscerated with his fucking dragon. Emma died before her threshing. Liam did not."

Emek sighs. "Mom died by Venin, if you remember." He says, not trying to guilt-trip me, but informing. Pain flares in the back of my mind, a headache swirling. I fall back on Emek, and he catches me.

"I- I'm sorry." I let out.

"Don't be, we all know the sacrifices that are made."

And I know, from all experiences, it never gets better.

"I'm sorry Sloane."

[shadoedseptmbr]

20 Questions for fic writers

tagged by @wrathoscribbles Thank you!!! <3

hmm, i am where these things go to die but feel free to tag me if you get the urge to run with it!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

115 uh, doesn't seem like that much, really

2. What’s your total A03 word count?

832,340

3. What fandoms do you write for?

well, let's see- Mass Effect, Dragon Age, MCU (caveat, all my Marvel knowledge goes into anything I write. My Hawkeye is an amalgam of the Clint i grew up with, the Clint from Fraction's run of Hawkeye, and what we were given in the MCU with all the...uh, blatantly weird dad vibes thrown out the window. I really like Laura and the kids but i have no idea what to do with Dad!Clint. He is the least Dad-shaped Avenger and i'm including like, Speedball). I haven't written Buffy or the fandom that shall not be named in literally over a decade but i do have a couple stories for each on my AO3.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

In Cupid's Little Bag of Trix

Fandoms: Thor, The Avengers (2012), MCU by way of every Marvel 'verse M Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis background Natasha/Steve Summary Darcy might have a little crush. And possibly a kink. Look, it's been a long couple of years.

Shelter

Fandoms: Dragon Age 2 E OCf!Hawke/Sebastian Summary In whom do we seek shelter? Sebastian and Hawke, figuring things out over the course of a story. mind the tags, this one goes dark and sideways but ends happy. Written before extreme tagging was a thing.

apodyopis (SO *thirsty* lol)

Fandoms: Thor The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types M Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis voyeurism but not like...no one is actually having sex Clint's just like that

Summary

Clint likes to watch his girl work. Kind of a sequel to Cupid's Little Bag of Trix but can be read alone

Steal Away Home

Fandoms: Dragon Age 2 Explicit Graphic Depictions Of Violence F/M, Multi Work in Progress Sebastian Vael/Hawke (F) Aeryn is a menace Aeryn is also an assassin Child endangerment Panic attacks fantasy PTSD childhood neglect everyone here has issues

Summary Post-game adventure including the reclaiming of Starkhaven. Sequel to Shelter. This one needs tags updated, too. Several panic attacks, several people with control issues, lots of childhood neglect and out right abuse and endangerment. We used to just assume everyone knew that was par for the course with DA but honestly.

anchor the night

Fandoms: Mass Effect Teen And Up Audiences Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings F/M Summary After the date at Apollo’s. After the bit that would fade to black, too. Mind the tags.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

oh absolutely, fandom is built on the life blood of comments and i've made some of my dearest friends fangirling over each other's fic. Plus, i've never been particularly overwhelmed by comments so it's never been a particular hardship.

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

dolore broke my own heart with that one

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

In Cupid's Little Bag of Trix, probably. Clint and Darcy are a barrel of monkeys and they're both so fucking full of zest.

8. Do you get hate on your fic?

Not that I've ever noticed. I'm fortunate enough to just get readers who want to be chill. i had someone once scold me for being mean to Alec Ryder, lol.

9. Do you write smut?

so much smut- less in Mass Effect, which is mildly hilarious given Aedan's penchants, lol.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not unless you count the various branchings of Marvel. I don't really get the appeal.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I know.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

again, not as far as I know

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

I have! I had the high honor of writing Shep/Shep with my buddy @nightmarestudio606 with The End is Where We Begin

14. What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

I sail an armada, lol. I multiship and my favorite varies with what day it is. Right now, Codywan is winning, heh. My favorite to *write* though... Shenko is right up there but Clint/Darcy was so much fun.

15. What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

none of my WIPs are abandoned. I don't know if I'll ever finish Steal Away Home the way i want to, though.

16. What’s your writing strengths?

Dialogue and characterization, I think. Structurally, I have an excellent grasp of nuance when it comes to word choice in a way that lets me say a lot with not much.

17. What’s your writing weaknesses?

I'm not particularly focused and it can take a long time for me to finish work. And I tend to write without outline and that can lead to a wandering, meander of a fic.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Do it all the time, do my best to make it accurate. I use a smattering of Scots Gaelic for my version of Starkhaven and my source is mostly old books because i like the archaic texture of it. Several of my characters have american south accents and i elide words and use slang and drop g's. '"I am going to the store, mother," she said in her Texas twang' does not read like "Goin' t'the store, ma." and you can't make me believe you don't lose vast amounts of characterization by trying to force it to work. And overly correct dialogue is one of the first reasons i'll drop out of reading fic.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

First written? The Black Stallion (book not movie) First published online? Trixie Belden

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

hard to pick from my favorite children, lol

Cupid's Little Bag of Trix is a (now fairly heavily edited) mess of stream of consciousness that grew a plot from when i was writing quick switch omniscient pov and just expected my readers to figure it out. But i love it. And it remains the biggest boost to my writing ego as ten years after posting, i still get kudos Verge (post Omega DLC) is when i really figured out who Aedan and Kaidan are, together and it manages to wreck me all over again, every time i re-read it.

[razberrypuck]

JRWI EP 100 LIVEBLOG UNDER THE CUT FOR EXTRA SPOILER PROTECTION

"the journey begins, for the 100th time" "you bet your tiddies it does" JWJFJEJTJH

ohh they're having a good time something's gonna go horribly wrong

earl bbeg real

wetma gills

"words hard. me tired. me drunk." jay I love you jsjfjejf

enza gonna help jay make a new body for alphonze 👀

drey disconnected w/the group?

"the longer you're down there, the more it twists you" ohh that's not good. instantly worried about arlin.

"if arlin's still down there, it's because it couldn't." "that man had a big ol' heart, even that giant body couldn't fit it." DREYYYYYY

"Sometimes I think I should dive in there alone. But I know I'm not strong enough without them" CHIP. CHIP YOURE GONNA KILL ME.

chip and drey are gonna KILL me augh

"we're gonna go down there, and we're gonna bust him out. whatever happens happens. we'll survive. we always do." RRGHHDHHDG

AW GILLION JSHFJJEJGJFJF

"sometimes its good to be bad jay give me the word" LMAOOOOO

GILLION SOUNDS LIKE HES GONNA START CRYING BRO JSHFJDJ

QUEEN KSHFJDJDUW

WOOO DOWNTIME❗️❗️❗️

HES MAILING CASPIAN'S PRESENTS!!!!!!!!

"happy birdday! you can nae nae, but now you can... ;)" JSJFJDJG GILL

" 'Well, for you...' he gets lost in your eyes for a second" JWJFJSJGJEJJTJ

NAT 20 ON RIZZING RIZZ RIZZ

"EVERYONE now has cannons and healing potions except for ME!!!!!!!!" gill in his spoiled brat arc

NEW TITLE GILLION TIDESTRIDER RIZZ REVEREND

"We are so, so unbelievably wanted" "they WANT us"

TWO CANNONS AND ONE BALLISTA HELL YES????

ohh I love enza

forgot abt cliff hangar

IS HE RIZZING UP CLIFF???????

"To know the books, you need to have read the books, where the FUCK are the books, Jay???????"

GILL TRYING TO RIZZ UP CLIFF NOW

HES PLAYING ALONG??? JAY TRIED TO GIVE HIM THE GOLD AND HE STOPPED HER??????????

"A world that's turned it's back / it's seas be turned to black / the black sea is all that's left / history be put to rest / the survivors will rewrite it / fight on, fight on until united / hope our wrongs be righted / flee the black sea at last / free from it at last

why are gill and chip so down to flirt with people today jsjfjsjd

CAPTAIN FIVE O' CLOCK SHADOW JSIFJDJJF

CAPTAIN HENDRIX. TIEFLING. REGAL BUT RELAXED. IF THIS MFER ISNT NIKLAUS HES GOTTA BE RELATED TO HIM RIGHT

FINN TIDESTRIDER FINN TIDESTRIDER FINN TIDESTRIDER

the island of frozen roses ooh

ohhhh he just wrote about their journeys. ik its like obvious but that means so much to be actually.

OHHHHHHH OLLIES ROOM OH MY GODDDDDDD

OH FUCK OFF HES GIVING HIM ARLIN'S COIN OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

BIZLY YOURE GOING TO KILL ME IM GOING TO DIE BIZLY THIS IS SO NICE

"even when you are old and decrepit, you will always be our small boy, who we keep on the ship, and in our hearts" thank you gill

chip don't grill her about this now godddd.

CAPTAIN SHADOWBEARD IS OLLIES DAD

bellamy. oh bellamy. im so sorry.

captain shadowbeard was the last pirate lord that went missing ohhh my god. it was a year ago. and when ollie went missing months later. oh my god this poor woman.

"You guys are gonna get attacked tonight" grizz ik you're joking but I don't fucking trust you at all

ALPHOZE ALPHONZE ALPHONZE

DANGER INCOMING???

THEY JUST LEFT THE ISLAND

KIRA I LOVE YOU BUT NO

JAY YOURE GONNA BOARD THEIR SHIP????

THERE HE IS. FUCK OFF JAYSON GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWAY

Gillion what are you planning 👀

"jay who did you see" "oh just my father and kira you know" "oh"

THE SWORD IS IN HIS FUCKING CHEST STILL LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

DREY PANICKING LMAO

FUCK OFF JAYSON FUCK OFF JAYSON FUCK OFF JAYSON FUCK OFF JAYSON FUCK OFF JAYSON

YOOOOOOOOOO GILLION CLUTCH??????

GILLION CLUTCH GILLION CLUTCH

JAYSON YOU CHEATING BASTARD

HELLO PIXEL ART THIS IS SO COOL?????????

CHIP DONT LEAVE THEM????

DONT FUCKING LAUGH LIKE THAT GRIZZ

gillion less clutch than expected.........

alphonze is gonna die again bro they JUST got him back! AND the boat!

Gillion absorb elements pog

QUEEN JSHFJDJFJFH LOVE YOU

thank you alphonze we love you alphonze <3

USING THE WHALEBONE SWORD TO CAST SPELLS ON JAYSON????

jayson I hate you smile

TRAP HIM IN THE FUCKING MIRROR JAY GET HIS ASS

GET HIS ASS JAY GET HIS ASS

"You could be found innocent, by the way" "not for what I'm about to do :)"

MOTHER MOON JSJFJDJ

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT GILL ISNT SCARED OF JAYSON ANYMORE❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

GILLION CLUTCH ONCE AGAIN

MOTHEFUCKER HAS LEGENDARY ACTIONS I FORGOT

HE STOLE JAY'S BRAND BRO

"DAMN looks like you're as good a shot as you are a PARENT" "your quips only seal your fate" "damn, were you already burning?" gillion tidestrider I love you

"Your fighting is meaningless, for your gods have fallen" HELLO JAYSON WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???? IM NOT MOVING ON FROM THIS DID THE ARTIFICIAL LEVIATHAN PLAN WORK??????? ARE YOU JUST PSYCHING GILL OUT?????????????

YOOOOO GRYFFON MVP FOURTH CAPTAIN

"If they miss, I will roll to hit gillion"

CANNON #1 HITS JAYSON FUCK YES QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!

EARL FUCKING WHIFS IT

gets harpooned in the ass and stabbed further in the chest sjfjeh

gill is so fucking funny engaging w/jayson lmao

"she's a BIRD are you PROUD OF HER YET? she has WINGS and they're COOLER THAN YOURS and they generate more LIFT" gill hyping up jay to her dad my beloved

makes eye contact with a fucking wizard. drops disguise and said "aight you handle these monkeys I got shit to do"

isn't the whole crew on the ship? or does grizz just mean on top deck

gryffon I love you

RETURN OF 5 FT GILL

HOLY SHIT?????? 10 FT TALL THUNDER GOD GILLION

YOU MOTHEFUCKER???????

NAT 20 DEX SAVE FROM GILLION HOLY SHIT HE DESERVES THIS❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️ GILLION ON THAT KING SHIT TODAY

ANOTHER SHIP????

MARSHALL JOHN THE GRANDBERRY PIRATES MY FUCKING BELOVED

"IF YOU KILLED MY GODS HOW IS MARSHALL JOHN RIGHT HERE?!"

PROPHETIC SCREW UP STRIKES ONCE AGAIN

CASPIAAAAAAN

"YO IS THIS GUY FUCKING BOTHERING YOU?!" LOVE YOU LIZZIE

"I can deal with that later. But right now, you're attacking my friends. And I can tell you have no intention to spare them. So I'll give you the same treatment back. So you're gonna attack me, or...I'm gonna take you down." JAY JAY JAY JAY JAY JAYYYYYY

APPLY HUNTERS MARK BY PUNCHING HIM IN HIS UGLY ASS FUCKING FACE GET HIS ASS GET HIS ASS GET HIS ASS

"I thought you said next time you saw me, I wouldn't be your daughter anymore." "Now that I've seen how much you've changed, I mean it" go fuck yourself jayson <3

GRYFFON WAIT GRYFFON ARE YOU OKAY GRYFFON IF YOU DIE I WILL LOSE MY MIND

GILLION HEAL YOURSELF FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

GRIZZ IF YOU FUCKING KILL GILL AGAIN ISTG

GILLION HEAL YOURSELF

"if Jay's still fighting, I am too."

"Nice try, but Ollie's mom was way more pissed 😎"

lizzie??? did you??? did you actually kill ava or are you surprised???

GILL GOING CRAZY WITH THE NAT 20s

"It's okay I can dodge it!" the mentality of the episode

JSJFJSJF HE ABANDONS SHIP WITH THE WIZARD HES TAKING THE WIZARD HES A FRIEND

I fully believe lizzie didn't kill ava actually. don't believe jayson at all fuck this guy

If Gryffon is dead. If Gryffon is dead.

GILLION. GILLION ASKING JAY IF SHE CAN DO THIS. GILLION SUPPORTING JAY THIS WHOLE EP. RRRRIVHFGR IM GONNA DIE

gillion: just let me know where you need me. And I'll be there.

jay: right now you're right where you need to be. thank you.

gillion: aye aye, captain.

MARSHALL JOHN SOLOS

john and gill immediately going bro mode jsjfjsj

don't make me feel bad for jayson. I won't do it. piece of shit.

GILLION. IF YOU DIE.

GOES DOWN PROTECTING JAY GILLION YOURE GONNA KILL ME.

THE NAVY HAS GRYFFON

THANK YOU JAY THANK YOU JAY THANK YOU JAY

"You keep saying that people took me away from you. No one took me away from you, dad. You haven't had me for a long time. You lost me. You lost me in the lies, the training, your obsession with your work, it was all you cared about. Things change, dad. After ava died, you weren't there. You weren't there for me or for mom. And when I tell you we hurt, we struggled, I say we hurt and struggled so goddamn much. And I'm sure you did too, but you made it so goddamn clear where your priorities lied with the family. And in my grieving, you were the only one who wasn't there. Jayson Ferin, you are someone I've known my entire life. You've known me longer than I can remember, and maybe I've made decisions that you don't agree with, but they are my decisions, and I would've hoped that in the years you've known me, that you would give me even a modicum of trust, a modicum of what I saw in you my entire goddamn childhood. And now, you stand here in front of me again, you're making the same mistakes... You don't get to just take me back, you need to earn it. And the way it stands, you're on a fast track to lose both me, and your wife. You are the strongest man I've ever known but you are a fucking pathetic father. So come on. Go ahead, finish it, do your fucking job, if that's where your priorities still lay, as they always have."

persuasion with advantage and dm inspiration. so deserved holy shit jay. i am. speechless.

"For the first time in my life, since I became a pirate, I was able to feel free."

get the fuck OUT of here jayson go AWAY

jayson I'd ask why you don't fucking ask may yourself but I don't want you anywhere near her :)

thank fucking god hes gone.

"that's my boy right there, that's my BOY, I'm on your ass, I'm like glue on something that glues on" "this is the beginning of something, this is the beginning of a whirlwind of whoopass on kira I'm telling you now" bizly has the right idea get the panda man back

gill still didn't get the whalebone sword back ✌️😔

[midnightactual]

So, this scene in TYBW Episode 24, right?

In CFYOW Volume III, Chapter 22, we get Ichibē saying:

“It is said that the Shiba clan’s ancestor attempted to persuade him, but in that opening, the Tsunayashiro clan’s ancestor sealed the Reio into a crystal. I did not view what had happened then firsthand, but everything that followed is the history of the Soul Society itself.”

Everybody is now saying Ichibē is a liar because of this scene. They're wrong. Ichibē didn't lie. CFYOW is not just shy of a thousand pages of propaganda. Let's cover what else he said a little later:

At that point, the Osho cast his eyes down and returned to his telling. “However, the Tsunayashiro ancestor doubted even the Reio’s nonresistance. He was most frightened of the Reio using his powers to escape the seal and destroy them. And so, without letting the Reio live or die, they tossed him into a contradictory spiral of simultaneous, continuous life and death. They even tore away his right and left arms that ruled ‘stillness’ and ‘advancement.’” The new soldiers held their breath while the members of Squad Zero, not including the Osho, remained silent, each with a unique expression on their face. Then the Osho himself uttered a cruel fact in the same tone he might use to merely discuss the weather. “Well, that likely was not enough. With the Tsunayashiro leading them, several of the ancestors spent a great deal of time carving out the Reio’s heart, whittling away his legs, scraping out all of his internal organs and removing them from his body. They did this in order to carve away his power and to render him simply a convenient figurehead for their benefit.”

This part is very detailed, so presumably Ichibē was actually there for it. He never claimed not to be there for the dismemberment.

Okay, so what do we get in this scene?

This is the Soul King.

This is the seal.

This is the "contradictory spiral."

The Soul King is then being butchered, but still has at least one arm.

Then he loses all his limbs. Notice you only see one arm?

We get an indistinct figure which may be Ichibē.

And finally we get Ichibē for sure.

Now, notice that nothing Ichibē says is at all contradicted by these events. He isn't present when the Soul King is sealed. We don't see him attack the Soul King. He isn't there, just as he claimed. He only shows up perhaps during or after the butchering, which fits with his testimony.

You might thus ask, who is relating these visions then? Well it's Pernida. Which was the Soul King's arm at the time. These are Pernida's visions, not Ichibē's. That's why you only see the one arm during the shot of all the limbs.

In short, everyone telling you that Ichibē was lying in CFYOW because of what they see in the TYBW anime, has no idea what they just watched. I get that everyone thinks the dude is sus, but he was absolutely telling the truth.

And of course he was, because while Kubo is a huge troll, dude was not going to make CFYOW pure propaganda and lies only to have to overturn it all probably 20 years later whenever he actually finally finishes dealing with the Hell Arc. It's not Nineteen Eighty-Four, it's not that complicated. Also, making Ichibē into The Big Bad would both be frankly not that impressive since he already took an L to a base-state Yhwach, and also because having a big singular villain doesn't fit Bleach thematically, because the theme of Bleach is that the system is the real bad guy. The problem isn't some dude you can kill. It's everyone.

Also, while I'm here, note that Ichibē said "several" of the ancestors butchered the Soul King. When you have 5 people, several implies 3, as it does more generally. This means 2 ancestors did not participate. Obviously, Shiba would be one of them. Who was the other? Well, Byakuya had no problem removing Tsukishima's heart, and I doubt Another Clan who apparently live in Hell really have any scruples at all. It's a toss-up between the latter and the Shihōin, but the Shihōin are consistently "the good guys" in so far as there is any such thing, even more so than the Kuchiki—they have a history of subversion, rebellious behavior, and showing up for the good fight.

[scumcoin]

Pondering and Rambling About Isekai A Little Bittttt.....

Rewatching VS Knights of Lamune & 40 Fire. (mouthful of a title, henceforth 40 Fire)

For the unfamiliar, the Lamune series is SD mecha anime series, comparable to Mashin Eiyuu Wataru and Madou King Granzort. in both TV anime the hero is some bozo kid who gets sucked into a video game (in 40 Fire's case, a CD-ROM game that was inserted into a console that suspiciously resembles a playstation) only to be gilded with the title of the great hero Lamuness: in this case, our new protagonist Lamunedo is christened Lamuness the Third. It's pretty much text that Lamunedo is the son of the previous hero... I honestly don't wanna think about it too hard so I won't but his parents look like Milk, the last show's heroine and love interest, and the original protagonist.

It really be like that.

Given I've already watched this show (albeit over a decade ago and never in Japanese, and I suspect heavily censored as well), I probably won't be doing a lot of posts on it, but I recently rewatched a chunk of the original and I've been thinking about both shows approach to isekai and hell, the approach many other isekai shows take. Shows like this, Fushigi Yuugi, Those Who Hunt Elves, et cetera. There... wasn't much "I died and now I'm permanently in another world"... was there? But I'm not really thinking about those shows because I have seen neither, we're talking about Lamuness, a series aimed at kids. There's a lot to unpack about modern isekai's penchant for escapism in a Japan that's settled into its post-Bubble Era woes, but I'm not qualified to talk about something so culturally heavy nor is it super related. But I do wanna touch on the "method" of being spirited away into another world, and the story structure.

Like I said, it's anything but permanent. There's no truck, no sudden heart attack from overwork. Come, Lamuness, time to save the world. There's no time to waste. Get in the fucking TV. The method is an incredibly accessible one, arguably: getting sold a shady CD-ROM for like a dollar and getting whisked away when it boots.

The premise of this series is very goal-based, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that even if the person in these kinds of older isekai in general comes to love the world and decides to stay, there is always the goal of "get back home". Lamunedo has the hefty weight of defeating the demon god's henchmen before they revive him, and when it all ends he gets to go home (sorry for spoiling an anime that's like 25 years old at this point, but that's how most of these ended). In contrast to newer isekai shows where the story begins with the protagonist's life ending, cementing that this is their new life and that they have no real grand goal... unless the goal is to not die. You have to live your new life, effectively an escape from the old life lived previously. The protagonists often skew older in their original lives, office workers over the age of 20 or NEETs who have wasted their lives and what have you. The issue with a lot of newer isekai media is not that they're paint by the numbers, but that because there isn't much of an immediate goal in most, many cannot deliver on the breadth of the premise or many would consider a gimmick. They drown in trying to tick boxes of "you should know the genre the protagonist is stuck in if you've picked up this book/manga/anime, so I'm not gonna think too hard about it either". It's not a diss or anything, but if your protagonist is just going to live and adapt to a new world and you make it the entire premise then you better have thought of the world building at least a little, or give it an actual plot structure to follow that isn't just you going through a buffet table and piling on more cute girls/boys/etc onto the protagonist's plate. They overwhelm with technicalities like video game stats (STOP!!!!!!! STOP PUTTING STATS IN YOUR SHIT I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF AND YOUR NAME WILL BE IN MY NOTE) and are indulgent in a lot of the wrong ways that may alienate those who do not consume the inspiration of the isekai much.

The best isekai that don't get immediately lambasted by the audience are isekai that dive right into the story without treating the outsider protagonist like someone standing behind the fourth wall at all times, and the rest of the world actually matters. Drawing attention to the fact that other characters are NPCs is tiring and makes me think I'm not supposed to care about them. It creates a vacuum where the only real person in the story is the protagonist and it's difficult to feel for a protagonist when everyone else is treated like an object. Both a literal object to interact with in a video game sense and in many cases a sexual object. Most good isekai will have you forget that the setting is based on something previously assumed to be fictional. It's not enough for the protagonist to be invested in the world, by the way. That's why shit like Shield Hero sucks ass even when you ignore the slavery shit (why would you though?!). I find that I prefer when it seems like the protagonist is in the story just like everyone else, rather than someone who consistently pushes against it. Of course there are many different ways to do it. This is a topic that's way too deep for me, and contrary to what my tone may convey I think that the genre is painted with an unfair brush so a lot of good shows slip through the cracks.

Or to be honest... the fact of the matter is that people are biased and judge stuff harshly just because they're a genre that's in vogue right now. Go figure. <-guy who hasn't even watched that many newer isekai shows

I'll make myself clear here: both old and new isekai are escapist fantasy and I dislike it when people try to paint escapism as a pathetic thing that only the NEW bad isekai shows employ. What's more escapist than being sucked into a video game and being told you're the hero that will save the world? You, a normal kid. What I find refreshing about the Lamuness series that I think newer light novels could learn from. There isn't any "I'll use my experience from the old world". Because Lamunedo is a child, and hero can never be an adult.

So that's a modern isekai shorthand immediately eliminated. (Note that I haven't once called anything a cliche in this post, I don't have that kind of scorn for the genre. I think it'd be good for actual critics to remove this buzzword from their vocabulary unless they truly face off against something that is an actual ripoff, because people have now taken the word cliche and turned it into an entirely negative thing, same with the word trope. But I digress.)

The entire point of the series is to be an escapist fantasy for little kids who love RPGs, but you'll never once see a stat block nor will you hear much of bosses in the video game sense. Sure, maybe the tyke will wonder about home every now and then but after this point you're set off into the story with the express goal of saving the world. There's nothing deep to think about. Traversing through different "space"s and RPG village-like places is a given, and it seems like they're made up as you go unless they're on a map explicitly (they are supposedly, but they still feel made up). You won't hear much about what Lamunedo thinks besides the fact that his (and Da Cider's) BIG COOL MECHA has his blood pumping.

This is what I mean by goal driven: it ironically feels much more like a video game without constantly bringing attention to the fact that it's supposed to be a video game. A big greater goal punctuated by smaller goals and pitstops is how a lot of JRPGs progress. Perhaps it's prescient to compare a lot of newer isekais to an open world game: you're doing... something, there are story important cutscenes, but you meander around until you hit them and often you are sidetracked. It works when you're the one doing it, but when an isekai story is overwhelmed by the lack of nothing it is accomplishing that's when the audience disengages and starts wondering why the protagonist is a fucking idiot, and why they won't do something that actually matters. Have you ever watched someone dick around in Skyrim? Unless you really like Skyrim in my opinion it's not very fun to watch.

I find that this is why villainess isekai is so popular. Many employ the otome genre, which are much more linear in comparison. Sure, you make choices that lead you off to other routes and affect what ending you get, but everyone who plays Norn9 for example is playing the same Norn9 that the next person plays. Even with linear RPGs, you could be underleveled, you could favor certain characters, your experience can still be somewhat varied. Therefore, in a villainess scenario where the base is an otome game, there is an enforcement of an in-game clock where events will happen regardless of how much you dawdle. In fact, slacking tends to be punished. I'm aware that there are similar premises that don't employ a villainess or are based on other genres that are associated with women like management sims and mobile games, but in general they tend to emphasize proactiveness (also I'm speaking very broadly). Even the characters are treated with care. Sure, the heroine may casually spoil their supposed fate and metagame with previous knowledge, but they feel like actual characters.

In any case, as I've stated several times I carry no ire towards the genre. You'll catch me dead before I watch crap like Mushoku Tensei and Shield Hero but there's plenty of isekai manga and anime that I've either enjoyed or am looking forward to enjoying, past or present. But rewatching the Lamuness series got me thinking a lot about it. I wasn't even intending on writing most of what I wrote and I'll be honest when I say I don't consider myself a writer: I'm not the most eloquent and I struggle to express how I feel but by god do I express.

[gali-la]

for the fanfic writer asks!! i got a whole bunch so answer whatever you feel like (or all of them!)

7, 16, 20, 41, 58, 62

thank you my dearest 💖

you know I love a challenge, darling, here we go!!

It ended up being long, so take a peek under the cut <3

7: tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote

The first fanfic I ever wrote... I had to dig this one up, tbh, it is from a while ago. it was deathbed confession, or, well, what they thought was their deathbed—I'm too fuckin' sappy to let people die XD God, it was in first person POV. Ugh, I cringed just reading it. Thank god no one will ever find it!

16: where is your favorite place to write?

I'm not sure I have one, to be completely honest. I do a lot of my writing sitting at the kitchen table, or—oh!! That's a lie; my favorite place is the couch, when my beloved dog decides that it is a good day for cuddles. Happens once in a blue moon, though, so I guess I'll stick with my kitchen table :(

20: what is your favorite trope to write?

My favorite trope... god, what a good question. There's so manyyyyy A while ago, I was very fond of coffeeshop AUs. The simplicity just made me so happy, the lack of extra-terrestrial worries and whatnot... Now, I think I'd have to go with soulmate aus. they're so versatile!! they have the potential to be shoved in anywhere, canon-compliant or not, alternate universe or not! I'm just a big sad romantic, I love the idea of people destined to be together. Or, destined not to be alone, sometimes. makes my heart flutter 🥰

41: what is the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

Awww, fudge, I dunno. There's probably weirder ones, but the one I can remember/is on my list is.... oh. It's not that weird, but the general idea was that Marco, for some reason or another, encounters the straw hats, and is persuaded into eating one of chopper's rumble balls. it was quite chaotic after that.

Another one I had was a Cora Lives AU, but he was for some reason on Zou with some disease that kept him comatose for 14 years. and then bam, happy reunion with Law. That one... wasn't great. Thank god I didn't spend a lot of time on it XD

58: what is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were writing it?

Okay, I have a feeling you know where this is going, so I'm going to go with the second to last thing I had to google, which was... the blueprints/x-ray of the Wholecake Chateau. That isn't really all that interesting, though, so let's pull up another one...

Ah, yes! The flavor of the filling of a common jelly donut. If ya know, ya know 😏

and, last but not least, 62: what’s the weirdest reason you’ve ever shipped something?

Well, damn. Really makin' me go through my history here, huh? I think I've got to settle on Armin/Eren from Attack on Titan. I wish I could say I saw some pretty flowers intertwined blasting their souls at me but no. I just wanted them to be so mercilessly violent and murdery and arson-y together. Was that too much to ask??

I just wanted to watch them burn down the world together T^T

That was a fun mental exercise!! thank you for the ask, my dear <3 I hope this has satisfied some of your curiosity

[sanloss]

Alright, but consider this:

Rex also got bit by the werewolf. And Ahsoka has no fucking clue. (It happened during her exile)

Rex: Find Fives

Ahsoka: What?

Rex: *Turns into Wolf*

Ahsoka: ohshitfuck- *starts running away*

And then we have two options: Reasonable, and Pure Crack.

Reasonable:

Things go the same as they did in canon, only Ahsoka doesn't need to trick Rex into the medical chamber to remove his chip- she only needs to kick his ass into it. They try the "She's not a jedi anymore" thing, it doesn't work, etc etc, Ahsoka gets to dig a mass grave and thousands of SW fans everywhere get to cry their hearts out.

Crack:

The troopers on the bridge start shooting Ahsoka, and Rex's big brother/papa wolf instincts go mental, and he bites one of them.

Cue Wolf!Jesse staring at Wolf!Rex like:

*In Wolf*

Jesse: What the kriff?

Rex: All of the 501st has chips in their heads.

Jesse: !?!

Rex: The chips make us follow orders. Our orders are to kill Ahsoka.

Jesse: !!!

Rex: But Wolves don't follow orders.

Jesse: ... I see...

(And the reason why they aren't getting shot at is because Werewolf Fur is very resistant to blaster bolts + the Chipped Clones not really knowing what to do about them? Cause like, they're wolves- and wolves can't really be expected to follow orders- so are they traitors?)

The two of them go on a biting spree, turning the entire ship into werewolves. Ahsoka and Maul are very confused.

Maul: Did you know they could do that!?!

Ahsoka: I'm as surprised as you are-

*a single wolf takes down 12 clones without a scratch*

Maul: Would you like a truce?

Ahsoka: Truce.

Once the entire ship has been sufficiently fluffy-fied, the two no-longer-affiliated force users approach. Through various charades, mimicry, and one shiny- now called Paws- discovering that werewolf paws are dexterous enough to write with on whiteboard, a plan to de-chip Ahsoka's portion of the 501st is formed:

One of the clones (in wolf form) gets in the tube, and two wolves lay down on him. After they transform back into humans, Maul holds one arm still enough to let Ahsoka (and eventually, a medic) inject them with a sedative while they get their chip removed.

Since Ahsoka didn't need to free Maul as a distraction, the Hyperdrive is fine.

They get to Coruscant just in time to hear Palps go "I'M THE EMPEROR NOW!"

Maul goes :< but they rush to the Temple anyways- he can't resist the puppy dog eyes (not all the clones got de-chipped yet, but they need to go save the younglings now.

(Also, because I'm not a heartless monster, Liberty dies during the assault on the temple, not after.)

The rest of the 501st gets turned by Ahsoka's party, while Maul and Ahsoka attack Anakin. Rex goes to get Padme- and turn most of the Corrie Guard- to get her to stop Ani from killing everyone.

Rex: Girl, come get your husband, he's committing war crimes.

Padme: WTF?

Rex: He's about to kill children

Padme: D:

So they go to the temple. Ani gets slapped upside the head (before or after killing younglings, depends on how evil you want to be) and gets dragged to the healers by 20 different werewolves with familiar markings (The Werewolf!Clones have markings like their helmets).

The Younglings all latch onto the Fluffy Saviors, and a whole bunch of them now think Maul is the coolest guy ever. The Crechemasters sigh and get the Fluffiest clones to guard Maul.

Maul has no idea what to do with the attention.

Bail and the Boys + Fluffy Cody show up, and get very confused.

Bail: Where did all these dogs come from?

Ahsoka: ...Therapy dogs?

Yoda: *looking at the newfound Light coming from Maul* Legit, this seems.

They go kill Palpatine- by "They", I also mean the hundreds of Werewolf!Clones. Maul gets the killing blow, along with Wolf!Fox. This is televised, and All The Younglings now think that Maul is the Coolest Thing Ever.

Palpatine's empire is dead before it can really even begin. The Purge is incomplete- While a lot of Jedi did die, the Younglings, Crechemasters, and a lot of the Corps survived.

Anakin gets kicked out of the order, but seeing as he had been manipulated by Palpatine since he was nine, he was given quite a lot of leniencies. That, and he never actually killed any younglings.

He gets to be Padme's House Husband and take care of his children.

Ahsoka, Maul, and Rex all get the Republic version of a Purple Heart. Maul gets to be the Coolest Guy Ever with the Younglings.

Cody gets bitten by a werewolf sometime during the war, and can transform at will with no full moon requirement, effectively becoming himself as a very large dog

he and Obi-Wan conspire to keep this fact hidden, as they're very aware of the danger of the Kaminoans finding out and disappearing him into their labs

when Order 66 goes out, Cody has a split second to fight it

and, well. wolves aren't exactly good soldiers, and you can only sort of expect them to follow orders.

transformed, Cody runs straight to the General, but when he gets there, he realizes that he can't actually warn him of the danger, because he can't transform back to explain without the Order taking hold

but he can whine sadly and pull on Obi-Wan's ridiculous sleeves with his teeth until Obi-Wan gets the hint and lets him lead him away to safety in a stolen ship

they make the rendezvous with Bail and Yoda

(Bail: what's with the dog Obi-Wan?

Obi-Wan, sweating: it's, um, a service dog

Yoda: ...fake, that sounds, but okay)

and then Cody and Obi-Wan make the trip to the Temple to disable the beacon, with Cody fighting off his brothers as nonlethally as he can while Obi-Wan does his best to follow his lead

after they find the evidence of Anakin's betrayal and receive Yoda's assignment, Obi-Wan sobs into Cody's fur the whole flight to Padme's apartment, and then silently the whole flight out to Mustafar hidden aboard her ship

while Obi-Wan is busy fighting with Vader, Cody manages to drag Padme's unconscious body back aboard her ship, then sneaks back closer to the fighting just in time to see the end of the duel

(if he waits to act until Obi-Wan is just far enough to not notice when Anakin's screams cut out, well, that's his own business)

he follows Obi-Wan back to the ship and drapes himself across the man's lap the whole way to Polis Massa

after Padme's death and her children's birth, Cody demands that they keep at least one of the babies

(look at his puppy dog eyes. how can you so cruelly deprive him of tubies like this.)

so Luke grows up with his Uncle Ben and their very strange, very large dog, Cody

when they end up on the Death Star nearly two decades later, Cody materializes from wherever he'd been lurking on the station just in time to drag Obi-Wan to safety during his duel with the Grand Inquisitor

as soon as their bedraggled group arrives on Yavin, Rex shows up to eagerly greet his former General; Cody, while thrilled to see his brother alive, starts viciously growling at him as he approaches: he might not understand in detail how the chips work, but he knows what he experienced that day, and he's seen what his brothers have done since then

Obi-Wan explains the situation to the man from the Cody-approved distance of half the hangar away, how Cody transformed one day and has refused to turn back since, and Rex immediately expresses his confusion, asking if they haven't removed Cody's chip

(Cody: I assure you, I did NOT let anyone microchip me!)

following Rex's explanation, Cody rushes them all to the medbay to undergo surgery, leaving Obi-Wan to explain to Luke how their 'dog' is actually his other Uncle

while Obi-Wan and Cody are distracted desperately making out with each other in the medbay, Luke sneaks off to destroy the Death Star, setting them up to all live happily ever after

[evolvingsidekick]

I'm on a 10h car ride

1. Yes, I'm also Ella irl

2. 3rd November 2003

3. 171-172cm / ~ 5ft 7.5 in

4. single

5. It's directly from my instagram, my main dance acc was evolving.transcendence, that comes from Evolve being one of my fave studios and Kensington's Transcendence being one of my favourite solos. Then at some point I made a spam account so I just took sidekick from 24Seven, I thought it was cute

6. I'm not a big animal person, but I like cats more, I think they're pretty cute and chill. I don't like dogs

7. I don't watch movies

8. A Finnish book called Punainen Viiva from 1909, it's a fictional book about the first parliamental election

9. I have basic earrings, that's enough for me. I think Helix is cute but I wouldn't get one

10. Honestly probably like go cross-country skiing and to a ski-cafe

11. We only have one Starbucks and I've never been there

12. Journalist, either news desk or economy. I also value regional news papers a lot so I'd like to work in one.

13. Here in uni we do 0–5, my highest is 5 and lowest is 3

14. pasta

15. Sheep

16. Skiing, ice skating, stretching, Excel sheets

17. Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Tunisia

18. Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Czechia, Poland, Hungary

19. maybe Russian, it would be a super relevant skill in journalism right now

20. Finnish, English, Swedish and German. I can also understand written Danish and Norwegian pretty well

21. Winter

22. I have like 8 of the same bunnies in different colours

23. Carbonara, my favourite pasta

24. I'm really good at walking backwards

25. Idk? Run and hide?

26. I like to be "a little extra/formal for school" like my favourite outfit is black straight/wide leg pants, black chiffon high-neck blouse with small white dots, bronze heart earrings and my hair in a braided bun

27. 28. 29. idk

30. 31

31. I haven't read or watched HP but I've taken the sorting hat and gotten all except Hufflepuff. I think I would be a Ravenclaw

32. Coffee but I've been on a tea era recently

33. ^ I have this chocolate tea that smells amazing

34. 35. 36. 37. I don't have an answer

38. From different artists rn: Storytime by Nightwish, Camera Obscura by Ignea, Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet by Fall Out Boy, Massive Addictive by Amaranthe, Heile Heile Segen by Mono Inc., Screi es in die Winde by Faun

39. Mint with chocolate cookie chunks

40. New Nightwish album to be released soon, to get a summer job at the newspaper I want to work in, Russian attack to end and other wars and conflicts to end as well

[aspenmissing]

𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚆𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 (𝙿𝚝 𝟸)

Back at the hospital, Sam, Dean, and Y/N come down a hallway, quickly ducking back when they see Dr. Hydecker.

"Good night, Dr. Hydecker," a nurse says.

"See you tomorrow, Betty."

"Try to get some sleep." Sam, Dean, and Y/N hide until Hydecker passes, then continue on to the old woman's room. They open the door and sneak in, Dean and Y/N taking the front, Sam hanging back with guns drawn. The woman is in her wheelchair facing toward the corner. She seems to be sleeping. Dean slowly leans in closer to her face.

"Dean? I don't think we should give her a heart attack," Y/N whispers. The old woman then turns her head.

"Who the hell are you?!" Dean freaks, leaping back against the wall cabinet, pulling Y/N back and raising his gun.

"I was wrong. I don't think she should give you a heart attack," Y/N says.

"Who's there? You trying to steal my stuff?" The old woman grumbles, "They're always stealing around here." Sam turns the light on, and they see she has cataracts.

"No! Ah, ma'am, we're maintenance. We're sorry. We thought you were sleeping."

"Ahhh, nonsense. I was sleeping with my peepers open," she laughs, then gestures at the wall, "And fix that crucifix, would ya? I've asked four damn times already!" Dean, still slightly freaked out, adjusts the crucifix.

===

The Impala pulls up to the motel parking lot, and Sam, Dean, and Y/N get out.

"I was sleeping with my peepers open? Hahahaha," Sam laughs.

"I almost smoked that old girl, I swear. It's not funny!"

"Oh man, you shoulda seen your face," Sam says, snickering.

"Yeah, laugh it off. Now we're back to square one," Dean sees the owner's son sitting behind the office looking forlorn, "Hang on." The three go over to him, "Hey, what's wrong?"

"My brother's sick," the boy says.

"The little guy?" The boy nods.

"Pneumonia. He's in the hospital. It's my fault."

"Ah c’mom, how?" Dean asks.

"I shoulda made sure the window was latched. He wouldn't've got pneumonia if the window was latched." Dean looks away for a moment. Sam and Y/N watch him, both frowning thoughtfully.

"Listen to me. I can promise you that this is not your fault. Okay?"

"It's my job to look after him," Sam looks back and forth from Dean to the kid. The boy’s mother hurries out of the motel towards her car.

"Michael, I want you to turn on the no vacancy sign while I'm gone. I've got Denise covering room service, so don't bother with any of the rooms."

"I'm going with you."

"Not now, Michael."

"But I gotta see Asher!" Michael says.

"Hey Michael. Hey. I know how you feel -- I'm a big brother too -- but you gotta go easy on your mom right now, ok?" The mom drops her handbag in her haste.

"Dammit!"

"I got it," Sam says, picking it up for her.

"Thank you."

"Listen, you're in no condition to drive -- why don't you let me give you a lift to the hospital?" Dean says.

"No, I couldn't possibly..."

"No, it's no trouble. I insist," Dean takes her keys.

"Thanks." The mom looks at Michael and kisses his head, "Be good." Dean helps her into her seat then turns to Sam and Y/N.

"We're gonna kill this thing. I want it dead; you hear me?" Dean asks.

===

Sam and Y/N sit at a microfiche machine. Sam picks up her phone, and Y/N leans in to listen.

"Hey," Dean whispers.

Hey. How's the kid?" Sam asks.

"He's not good. Where you two at?"

"We're at the library. We've been trying to find out as much as we can about this Shtriga," Y/N says.

"Yeah, what have you got?"

"Well, bad news. I started with Fort Douglas around the time you said Dad was there?"

"Yeah?"

"Same deal. Before that, there was, uh, Odenville, before that North Haverbrook, and Brockway. Every 15 to 20 years it hits a new town. Dean, this thing is just getting started in Fitzburgh. In all these other places it goes on for months. Dozens of kids before the shtriga finally moves on. The kids just ... languish in comas and then they die."

"How far back's this thing go?" Dean asks.

"Ah, I don't know. The earliest mention we could find is this place called 'Black River Falls' back in the 1890s. Talk about a horror show.... Whoa," Y/N says.

"Y/N?"

"Hold on.... I'm looking at a photograph right now of a bunch of doctors standing around a kid's bed. One of the Doctors is Hydecker."

"And?"

"And this picture was taken in 1893."

"You two sure?" Dean asks.

"Yeah. Yeah, absolutely," Dean hangs up and turns to watch Hydecker sitting on Asher's bed.

"Don't worry. Your son's in good hands. I'm going to take care of him," Hydecker says to Asher's mom. Hydecker moves towards Dean, who is standing in the doorway. Dean looks ready to slit his throat, "So what's the CDC come up with so far?"

"Well. we're still working on a few theories. You'll know something as soon as we do."

"Well, nothing's more important to me than these kids. Just let me know if I can help."

"I'll do that."

===

"We should have thought of this before. A doctor's a perfect disguise. You're trusted, you can control the whole thing."

"That son of a bitch," Dean says, throwing off his jacket, pacing agitatedly.

"I'm surprised you didn't draw on him right there," Y/N says.

"Yeah well, first of all, I'm not going to open fire in a freakin' paediatrics ward."

"Good call."

"Second, wouldn't have done any good, because the bastard's bulletproof unless he's chowing down on something. And third, I wasn't packing, which is probably a really good thing cause I probably would have just burned a clip in him on principle alone."

"You're getting wise in your old age Dean."

"Hey! I'm the same age as him," Sam gives her a sheepishly smile.

"You don't look a day over 20," He covers.

"Now I know how we're going to get it," Dean says.

"What do you mean?" Sam asks.

"Shtriga, works through siblings, right?"

"Right."

"Well last night...."

"It went after Asher."

"So, I'm thinking tonight it's probably gonna come after Michael," Dean says.

"Well, we gotta get him outta here," Sam says.

"No. No, that would blow the whole deal."

"What?"

"Yeah."

"You wanna use the kid as bait? Are you nuts? No! Forget it. That's out of the question."

"It's not out of the question Sam it's the only way. If this thing disappears it could be years before we get another chance."

"Michael's a kid. And I'm not going to dangle him in front of that thing like a worm on a hook."

"Dad did not send me here to walk away," Dean says.

"Send YOU here? He didn't send you here -- he sent us here."

"Guys," Y/N says, but she's ignored.

"This isn't about you, Sam. I'm the one who screwed up, alright. It's my fault. There's no telling how many kids have gotten hurt because of me."

"It's not your fault, Dean. I should have been stronger," Y/N says.

"What are you saying, Dean? Y/N? How is it your faults?" There is a long pause. Sam sighs. "Dean, Y/N. You've been hiding something from the get-go. Since when does Dad bail on a hunt? Since when does he let something get away? Now talk to me, Guys. Tell me what's going on." Y/N and Dean look at each other, and she nods at him.

"Fort Douglas, Wisconsin. It was our third night in this crap room, and I was climbing the walls. Man, I needed to get some air."

==Flashback==

Young Dean sits watching TV. He turns it off and goes to the front door, looking back at Sammy cuddled into Y/N, both asleep in the other room before he leaves, locking the door behind him. He plays arcade games in reception.

"Kid. We're closing," the owner tells him. Returning to the room he sees a strange light coming from Sammy and Y/N's room. He moves closer and sees the shtriga leaning over Sammy and Y/N unconscious on the floor, her gun laid beside her. Dean reaches for the rifle by the door, but the shtriga hears him cock it and rears up, hissing. Dean hesitates, terrified. As he does, John bursts through the front door, gun raised.

"Get out of the way!" John shouts. Dean ducks, and John shoots the shtriga multiple times with his handgun. The shtriga jumps through the bedroom window, glass shattering. John rushes to Sam's bed and pulls him close, cradling him.

"Sammy. Sammy. Sammy. You, okay?"

"Yeah Dad, what's going on?" Sammy says, confused and sleepy.

"You all right?" John then gets off the bed and goes over to Y/N and checks her pulse. She's breathing. "Princess? Princess, wake up." She shifts and groans, and he picks her up and holds Sammy and Y/N close while turning to glare at Dean.

"What happened?" John asks. Dean is hesitant.

"I-I-I just went out."

"What!?"

"Just for a second. I'm sorry."

"I told you not to leave this room. I told you not to let them out of your sight!" John feels a grip on his arm and sees Y/N looking up at him.

"It's not his fault, Dad. I should have been stronger and protected Sammy," she mumbles.

"It's not your fault, princess. Never blame yourself." Young Dean watches sadly as John cradles Sammy and Y/N.

==Flashback Ends==

"Dad just ... grabbed us and booked. Dropped us off at Pastor Jim's about three hours away, but by the time he got back to Fort Douglas, the shtriga had disappeared, it was just gone. It never surfaced until now. You know, Dad never spoke about it again, I didn't ask. But he...ah...he looked at me different, you know? Which was worse. Not that I blame him. He gave me an order and I didn't listen, I almost got you and Y/N killed.

"You were just a kid," Sam says softly.

"Don't. Don't. Dad knew this was unfinished business for me. He sent me here to finish it."

"But using Michael -- I don't know Dean. I mean, how 'bout one of us hides under the covers, you know, we'll be the bait."

"No, it won't work. It's gotta get close enough to feed -- it'll see us. Believe me, I don't like it, but it's gotta be the kid," Dean says. Sam looks at Y/N with a begging face, but she looks away.

==

The three are in the motel reception talking to Michael.

"You're crazy! Just go away or I'm calling the cops," he says, holding the phone up.

"Hang on a second. Just listen to me. You have to believe me, ok? This thing came through the window and it attacked your brother. I've seen it. I know what it looks like. Cause it attacked my brother once too."

"This thing...is it...like...it has this long... black robe?" He says, slowly hanging up the phone.

"You saw it last night, didn't you?" Dean asks.

"I thought I was having a nightmare."

"I'd give anything not to tell you this, but sometimes nightmares are real."

"So, why are you telling me?" Michael asks.

"Because we need your help."

"My help?"

"We can kill it. Me and him, that's what we do. But we can't do it without you," Dean says.

"What? No!"

"Michael, listen to me. This thing hurt Asher. And it's gonna keep hurting kids unless we stop it, understand me?" Michael stares at Dean, horrified.

==

Dean heads back to their motel room.

"Well, that went crappy. Now what?"

"What did you expect? You can't ask an adult to do something like that, much less a kid," There's a knock at the door, and Y/N opens it.

"If you kill it, will Asher get better?" He asks, looking at Dean.

"Honestly? We don't know."

"You said you were a big brother," Dean nods.

"Yeah."

"You'd take care of your little brother? You'd do anything for him?"

"Yeah, I would."

"Me too. I'll help."

==

Dean completes hooking up a security camera in the corner of the room, staring into the Lense. Michael is behind him in bed, Y/N sitting beside him. Arm over his shoulders, comforting him. Sam is watching the security feed in the other room.

"This camera has night vision on it so we'll be able to see clear as day," Dean says to Michael, then turns to Sam. "Are we good?"

"A hair to the right," Dean adjusts the camera. "There, there."

"What do I do?" Michael asks, looking up at Y/N.

"Just stay under the covers," she says.

"And if it shows up?" Dean moves to sit on the bed.

"We'll be right in the next room. We're gonna come in with guns. So, as soon as we do you roll off this bed and you crawl under it."

"What if you shoot me?"

"We won't shoot you. We're good shots. We're not going to fire until you're clear, okay?" Y/N says. Michael nods tentatively. "Have you heard a gunshot before?"

"Like in the movies?"

"It's gonna be a lot louder than in the movies. So, I want you to stay under the bed, cover your ears, do not come out until we say so. You understand?" Y/N says. Michael nods slowly, looking scared.

"Michael, you sure you wanna do this?" Dean asks. Michael doesn't answer for a long moment. "You don't have to, it's okay, I won't be mad."

"No, I'm okay. Just don't shoot me."

"We're not going to let anything happen to you. I promise," Y/N says. She rubs his arm. The three then go outside the room and sit watching the security camera feed.

"What time is it?" Y/N asks.

"Three. You sure these iron rounds are gonna work?"

"Consecrated iron rounds, and yeah it's what Dad uses last time."

"Hey Dean, Y/N, I'm sorry."

"For what?" The twins say in unison.

"You know, I've really given you two a lot of crap, for always following Dad's orders. But I know why you two do it."

"Oh, god, kill me now," Dean says and Y/N smiles while Sam laughs softly. They sit in silence for a moment.

"Wait, look." There is movement outside the window. It slides open. Sam, Y/N, and Dean pick up their guns. The shtriga is inside MICHAEL's room.

"Now?" Sam asks.

"Not yet." The shtriga moves closer and leans over the bed, Michael is terrified but frozen, unable to move. The shtriga leans closer and opens his mouth, starting to draw Michael's energy. Dean, Sam, and Y/N burst in.

"Hey!"

"Michael, down!" Y/N shouts. Michael rolls off and under the bed, and Sam, Dean, and Y/N open fire, shooting the shtriga multiple times each. It falls to the ground.

"Mike, you alright?" Dean asks.

"Yeah," He replies from under the bed.

"Just sit tight." Dean approaches the shtriga, gun at the ready. There is no movement. He relaxes slightly and glances at Sam and Y/N. The shtriga suddenly rises, grabs Dean by the throat and throws him against the wall.

"Dean!" Sam and Y/N shout in unison. The shtriga moves and throws Y/N onto the floor. It then goes to Sam and throws him into the wall; he hits the ground, and the shtriga comes on him and forces his mouth open. Sam struggles to reach his gun. The shtriga begins drawing his energy and Sam stills and starts going grey.

"Hey!" The shtriga looks up and Y/N shoots it between the eyes. It falls backward, and Sam lies gasping.

"You okay, little brother?" She asks. Sam nods and unsteadily holds up two thumbs-up. They both pull themselves to their feet, and Y/N then goes over to Dean, helping him up. They then look to the shtriga. The energy the shtriga stole begins to escape from its mouth. Y/N raises her gun, shooting it three more times at point-blank range. More energy escapes. The shtriga falls in on itself, disintegrating. Michael peeks from the side of the bed.

"It's okay, Michael, you can come on out." Michael comes to stand beside them, smiling tentatively. Dean places his hand on Michael's shoulder and smiles. Y/N places her hand on his head and ruffles it, also smiling.

==

Dean, Y/N, and Sam are packing the Impala ready to head out. Michael's Mom comes out of the back of reception.

"Hey, Joanna. How's Asher doing?"

"Have you seen Michael?" She asks. Michael runs up.

"Mom! Mom!"

"Hey!" She says, hugging him.

"How's Ash?" Michael asks.

"Got some good news. Your brother's gonna be fine."

"Really?" Michael asks, grinning.

"Yeah. Really. No one can explain it -- it's a miracle. They're going to keep him in overnight for observation and then he's coming home."

"That's great," Y/N says.

"How are all the other kids doing?" Sam asks.

"Good. Real good. A bunch of them should be checking out in a few days. Dr. Travis says the ward's going to be like a ghost town."

"Dr. Travis? What about Dr. Hydecker?"

"Oh, he wasn't in today. Must have been sick or something."

"Yeah. Yeah, must have."

"So, did anything happen while I was gone?" Joanna asks Michael. He glances up at Dean.

"Nah, same old stuff."

"Okay. You can go see Ash."

"Now?" He says, excited. Michael looks to Y/N who nods slightly.

"Only if you want to." Michael runs to the car. Joanna laughs. "I, ah, I'd better get going before he hotwires the car and drives himself." Smiling goodbye, she leaves, and Sam, Dean, and Y/N turn back to the Impala.

"It's too bad."

"Oh, they'll be fine."

"That's not what I meant. I meant Michael. He'll always know there are things out there in the dark -- he'll never be the same, you know?" There's a long pause "Sometimes I wish that...."

"What...?" Y/N asks.

"I wish I could have that kinda innocence." They watch Joanna and Michael drive away.

"If it means anything, sometimes I wish you could too." They exchange a look. Dean climbs in the car and starts the engine. Y/N follows then Sam, and they pull out of the motel car park and back onto the freeway.

[taiscerayne2426]

MEDICAL ISSUES AHEAD

I'm not asking for money, just need to get some things off my chest

So back in October of 2022, I started having extreme heart palpitations, randomly and seemingly without any provocation. I could be sitting, walking, laughing, eating, even sleeping and my heart would just pound upwards of 130 bpm for 10, 20 minutes at a time. I'd struggle to breathe, fight passing out, and try to stay upright.

As these episodes got more and more frequent and severe, my partner insisted I go into the ER. I didn't have a primary Dr at the time, so I didn't have anyone else to go to. The ER ran a bunch of tests, found nothing at all wrong, and sent me home with a heart monitor.

I met with a cardiologist, and I'll be honest he was by far one of the worst doctors I've ever seen. He dismissed everything I said, belittled my experience, diagnosed me with POTTS, then sent me home on what he said was a beta-blocker to slow down my heart. Fine. Not great, but fine. Until I get to the pharmacy and they say "This isn't a beta-blocker, this is an anti-depressant. I wonder why he told you that?" Never saw that cardiologist again.

Fast-forward to December 2022. My job has let me go because I'm barely able to hold myself upright and can pass out at any time so I'm not medically cleared to drive. My partner is burning both ends of the candle trying to keep me safe and manage his college classes. We're struggling to survive off one income in the city.

My episodes get rapidly worse, then slowly start tapering off until they're only happening once a day. Then it's once a week, but the worst it'd been thus far. Then, for no discernable reason, they stop in February 2023.

I was overjoyed. Finally, FINALLY I could get back to life. We moved to a new town, a smaller quieter place with cheaper rent and less violence. I got a new job nannying two amazing kids and babysitting a third once a week. My partner and I both continued college. Everything was going so, so well.

They came back. About 4 weeks ago, beginning of June 2023. It was slow at first but it's getting worse and worse.

And it's fucking scary, dude. I find myself physically incapable of taking a breath for so long that I sob when it finally comes. It's like everything in my body just. freezes. goes stiff. I can't feel anything, I can't move anything. I can barely signal my partner so he notices. We can't find anything that helps.

I'm not able to drive anymore. I can barely support myself to move from the bed to my desk. I pass out if I stand in the kitchen too long pondering what to eat. I'm on a cane now, for the first time. It helps a bit, makes me feel a bit less useless.

I'm barely eating. Don't have an appetite. I've lost more weight in the last few weeks than I want to admit, and I was already dangerously underweight.

The scariest part, though, is that I can feel myself fighting to hold on every time I have an attack. I fight so fucking hard to stay, because I can FEEL that if I lose consciousness, I'm gone. And it's getting harder and harder to fight. Don't misunderstand, I have no desire to die. I'm fighting for a reason after all. I'm just getting weaker, and it's getting more and more difficult.

I let my PCP know that bit today. She won't see it til she's in the office next, but until this new heart monitor comes off on Monday they won't be able to give me any answers anyway. 2 more weeks. Just 2 more weeks til I hopefully get some results. Because if I don't, I'm... gods. I'm fucking scared.

[optipesi]

Hi I work on a cruise ship as a navigator in training;

People mysteriously disappear off cruise ships all the time. It's happened to me (I won't go into detail for privacy reasons but it was a crew member in my case.) We have a special procedure for when this happens. On the navigational side if the man overboard is declared immediately, we will press a button on our GPS which marks our exact Longitude and Latitude so we can relay that as a search area for rescuers and ourselves. We will then throw life rings off and most vessels will do what's called a Williamson turn, which basically means whacking the rudder hard over to do a tight turn to come back. On a cruise ship we generally don't do it instantly though, as at high speeds turning so hard will cause a list of over 30 degrees which is fine for the boat but will cause everything to slide and fall which will hurt people. Which leads onto my second point;

Most people who fall off do not survive. There have been a few cases where people have (that guy near florida i think who went 20 hours) but thats VERY unlikely. Most water is cold enough that you will drown in 10 minutes if you're wearing regular clothes. It's hard to do it by accident, most are drunk people doing drunk people things or deliberate. Because cruise ship's won't instantly do the turn maneuver, they can be like 3 miles away before they start coming back around. If you fell off and people instantly released life rings and such you have a decent chance, but unobserved you will drown. Some modern cruise ships have sensors installed for this but many don't.

Continuing on, people die on cruises. A lot. Especially on cruise lines where the main customers are elderly. Strokes and heart attacks and random death are common. We do indeed have a morgue. The medical care on cruise ships is pretty good (some even have kidney dialysis available so people with that need can come onboard). But alongside having all their needs like room cleaning, food, and entertainment covered sometimes cruise ships can be treated like a floating hospice. You end up with a lot of very ill and elderly people on cruise ships who are very fragile and shouldn't really be there. Believe me, I can't count how many times we have diverted or turned back to port or called the coast guard for a helivac.

Other creepy parts of cruise ships are the watertight doors. Passengers never usually see these because they're on low decks but they're these massive hydraulic powered things and will HAPPILY cut you arm or leg off if they get caught. They also make a very ominous loud alarm.

Also don't drink the water from the taps. It has either been run through the desalination plant and is gathered seawater or has been pumped in from a random port anywhere via a hose we prop up on wood to keep from touching the ground. It is all tested ofc, but it's so heavily chlorinated it's horrid just get the bottled stuff.

We regularly dump waste water, sewage, and food waste overboard. (If you want to know how this is regulated google MARPOL) And by sewage yes shit and piss. Food waste gets dumped in the middle of the night so passengers don't see or smell it.

Ships make a LOT of noises that sound very scary when there's stormy weather. Waves do not treat the hull nicely and and all vessels are designed to bend and stretch so the metal creaking sounds are loud and obvious. The anchor chain is also very loud (most cruise ships will do the 'let go' anchor release method which is just letting it run free because the other method is too long and annoying) when it's running out it is EXCEPTIONALLY loud and we can tell if the anchor is dragging based on the sound the anchor and brakes are making.

The mooring deck is very dangerous. The ropes have to hold tonnes of tension and go so tight you can walk on them like a tightrope. If they snap and hit you they will cut you in half. It sounds like a bomb going off and has the force of one too. Google rope snapback if you wanna know more. They will decapitate you.

No ship has a deck 13 even if they have 13 or more decks because sailors are superstitious as fuck. (I have been scolded for whistling on the bridge before lol)

The crew all go through a massive hallway spanning the length of the ship. This connects to the food storage area and the crew accommodation, and usually the engine room. It goes further than you can see. It's usually called the I-95 or M1 depending on what you call your highways Other non scary facts:

I saw you mentioned the low crew wages. This is true, but from talking to my colleagues they all come from places that amount is a very solid living wage compared to back home. It's still not fair, but that's why people do it.

If you wanna befriend the crew buy them cigarettes (And wooly hats. For some reason the old lady passengers kept donating knitted hats and all the guys loved them and wear them constantly. The sea is cold!)

The hardest working people are the kitchen and hotel staff thank them

At night the navigation bridge is totally dark so we have good night vision and it's kinda funny because we can be dead serious talking and not see each other at all.

Cruise ships have a safety officer who's in charge of well, safety. They are all bonkers and laugh at videos of people falling over they get sent to review.

Engineers just sit in a nice cool office looking at flashy buttons pretending to work and then complain because they 'don't have air con in the engine room!!!!'

Also the crew constantly have affairs and love triangles. No one is 'married' or has a 'family' on a ship. Penises will be stuck where the sun does not shine.

Thank you for letting me shout at you. I love boats

does anyone have fucked up cruise ship stories like im kinda obsessed with them. like people mysteriously disappearing and whatnot

[the-firebird69]

There's a giant number of people with ebikes now it's a humongous crowd globally almost everybody who doesn't have a ton of money and you go down the street at times and you can't get anywhere there's so many bikes in some cities when people are working and the commute in and take their ebike and I am telling you it is a huge business. Huge. And we're taking it over all of it will grabbing all the parts and all the bikes they were upgrading a lot of things especially the brakes it's a massive problem people can't stop in time I'm going over it now too that he's under duress constantly and we're trying to fix it we know what the problem is and we're in there now and these projects will help and he knows it and they are going to send us proceed today so we can get the investigative stuff out of the way and bug stuff furthermore the four projects are going ahead we started demolition yesterday on the remaining buildings we're severely chastised by people who used to work at the planning board and building department and they told us they're going to call the cops 20 times and we are checking checking to see if they're getting dressed up and we had a detail come down and it came up and said look we called the cops and we said yeah these are the ones and they were arrested and they said we called them on you and they didn't even call let me see you didn't even call and these cops are here to help us and this is we can't figure it out it used to be a system so getting hauled off and they said say hello to your kid cuz I'm going to go see him and we gave special orders not to let him out and we hear you went to prison and he's going to die soon and he should.

There's a huge thing going on here the new people bothering him about everything that's going on and everything is doing we can keep breathing by you and keep assigning people to go get you and yours for doing it and mostly warlock you're a huge huge pain in the ass they're wasti oftime too . We have several other things going on here today one of them is to figure out why you're such assholes and it is social security coming up and people don't understand it but we do we're getting huge gobs of you at social security buildings already all over the world there's a giant number of you trying to stop his from having any funds and all we do is start attacking you more. And look at your dander up and you go down and more of you die the number of marlock globally is decreasing, my son is requesting sanctions on New Zealand and Australia if his funds and income and well-being are considerably threatens continuously after this point and we're going to consider it because that's what you're doing we own the banks and all sorts of other things we might just go collect our share no we collect all the money and make the bank defunct you won't be in the global banking industry and the money industry among other things most airports are not accepting your jets now because they're not up to par and most sports are not going to accept your ships you have to go next door and if you can't get your people there they drowned and everyone's taking their heart aligned with you because you're such assholes. We're seriously looking at sanctions for other reasons too it's because you want to cut everybody's money off and you want to use nuclear weapons on the whole world and tons of you been caught with them and your nephew says to you bja you're pushing it I've got other stuff why don't you shut your face and vehemently when you come back later he's going to be worse against you PGA and we'd like it you're such a huge idiot. As of now we're putting a moratorium on sending Australian New Zealand stuff from our facilities we don't want our personal going there unless they're spies and or military and a warning is gone globally for nobody to go there virus and Max are putting it up too and we want to evacuate personnel in certain areas and we're going to start doing that while the planes still fly and soon we'll start to bombardment we can't stand you we want you out we tell you to do something you don't do anything at all that we tell you don't mess with the money and the guy who's the brother of the girl who's running social security is messing with him I mean there's an indicator there you such trash she can't stand him at all we're moving ahead with his ideas I'm going to cut you idiots off

Thor Freya

You're trying to use the money from there over here paying people that's why we're going to cut it off and he knows about it and he knows that we should be sanctioning and we're not but you're using it against him to try and stop him from getting basic necessities so we're going to kill you cuz you're so stupid and ridiculous there's nothing you can do except attack you and he is with a lot of force and you're f****** up everything bja and Trump we're going to go after you now it should be in that apartment a piece of s*** but it's all the code you have you say it's proof and that's what we needed and Tommy f

Mac

We're meeting at the Hague I'm going to start doing things that are much more aggressive to these idiots already our citizens and everyone getting armed and going after them and our military is joining in and police and we need to get control of it we need to control the reaction and make sure that we're just getting them we're going ahead and we're going to set some ground rules

Wie chanlin

We're going to be too we're going to get a stronger and will be happier at least we'll have lives without these morons around hopping around us asking dumb questions cuz they're so stupid right now the population is already dropped from 10 million octillion to almost 9 million octillion because so many people are slaughtering them and we're sending ships everywhere and then empire is in the foreigners are to pick all of them up and there's a warning issued by our son if there's no more clones topside we have to be there and we're going to meet on that too it's a couple major issues these morlock and their nukes and the clones without any protection for us because they'll be gone

Thor Freya

Olympus we do certify this message is true and ours you also say that bja is an idiot and keeps pushing our son and daughter who are crushing him and his and we need him out and we're going to get a lawsuit going on before we get to our lawyers

I'm a receipt of it and I'm pushing it through forwards we're going to sue John remillard and company 2 and it's going to be that class action it's going ahead now

Bitol and Goddess Wife

They're distributing information about their plan and they have proof and they have a lot of it and they have the mo and it fits almost every retard they know they're going after them and they're taking them down there's so many people being deputized to snug and funny ours are too who have police experience hours are who have police experience and they're going after them very hard with military experience you as part of the military and we're moving out and we're going around getting rid of them he shouldn't be gone it's at 9 million octillion and dropping they're evacuation is continuing but it's very slow and they're incompetent they're sending the ships back and it should be 2 million octillion more by that time it'll probably down to 8 million octillion and it's moving fast they're dwindling it will get faster

Hera Zues