#this is amazing and now I have to find out more about this “Armand” guy

[atsa-star-wars-daydream-verse]

JITTERS <3 <3 <3

This is fanart from a show I don't watch, but the image on the left-hand side looks like how I imagined Jitters from @nawilla's All The Little Lights. That's how I imagined him because it's a long damn series and I remembered Jitendra Norwal instead of Jitten Norwal, and I totally missed the word "pale," so my mental image was more or less this: a bit Charlie Eppes, a bit Bodhi Rook, but not quite either.

that half-blank, half-apocalyptic look

"i can b ur angle or yuor devil" etc etc "get a man who can do both" etc etc

obsessed with this vamp i think he should get to do whatever he wants forever

[desertfangs]

Anne's mind is so fascinating to me. She really had a whole plan for Daniel and Armand (which as wacky as it was, was a plan of sorts), and instead of even alluding to it in the books, she was like: "yeahh Daniel... that guy. He lost his mind for a while, lived in Marius' house, built some train models, then got back together with Armand and then moved to his house... any q's? No? Thought so. So, about that mural...", I unironically love her so much lmaooo

Oh my gosh, me too! I unironically want one of those t-shirts with the scan of her brain on it. Her mind was fascinating.

I’ve been in and out of this fandom since the 90s and I think one that keeps me coming back is that there’s just so much in this world that’s left unexplored. So many throw away lines you could write half a book about (DM is full of these but it’s true of the entire series!), so many scenes that are glossed over or suggested or implied and never fleshed out.

There many conversations and encounters that must have happened that just do not appear on the page—they were in the Sonoma Compound together for a while, and on Night Island together for a while, then at Court! All of them have talked and interacted and what we get in the books is just a tiny fraction of it. Which makes sense mostly-- I mean, somethings arguably should have been included, like Louis' reaction to Daniel as a vampire for example!!--but obviously a lot is happening in every book and there just isn't space. Louis had to condense the entire story of his life into one night, he couldn't go night by night for hundreds of years. No one is going to spill every detail or every moment. It all comes down to the pieces that build the main picture, and then we can then take it and infer the rest from that.

Anne was masterful at leaving little breadcrumbs you can follow if you want to. And of course, she was such a talented, skilled writer, who created these characters that just feel real and alive. She had her quirks and she was human. She wasn’t always right about things and sometimes she was more willing to admit that than others. She was just a person who told amazing stories and those stories have stuck with me since I was far too young to be reading those books, and now here I am, almost 30 years later, still writing fic, still rereading the books and finding new little nuggets I’d never noticed, still so excited to hear other people’s interpretations of scenes or characters, and to read other people’s fic that explore all these little crumbs and flesh them out.

When I say I love this fandom, I mean it from the very bottom of my heart, and we owe Anne so much for building a world that we have so much room to play in. It really is incredible. It blows my mind sometimes how real and visceral and powerful the world of the VC feels. But I digress!! I completely agree, anon. Even if we don't get a lot of Armand and Daniel in the later books together, we do get a satisfying story for them as a couple, and we get the joy of filling in those missing pieces ourselves. 💖

[the-firebird69]

Elton John - Tiny Dancer

This lady in the cover is not a Mac he says Lily is in the Bible because of this particular video and she's rubbing the symbol of Mary for luck and for help and for blessings and for her to do a job and that's not the whole problem that's not really the biggest and she's not really riding but that's where he got it from he says it's amazing he's thinking about it why is she going to help and she's arguing with him and he figured that out and he asked around any question people got answers back and for Christ's sake it came back in Intel they're fighting each other it's holding in check the computers took over and there's a lot of history he went through really weird things band members that died and they were looked at and in a TV show and a time capsule where he was people who got arrested people got in fights who people were in in the men's home and it was it's crazy it's all sorts of things that led to it and they're they're fighting and they're tied up and this clone war came out audibly and he says why and he's been doing it I think his name is levon and he's in the Bible and he says Ken is doing something like that and now I'm starting to see something he kind of knows what's going on this clan is fighting for their lives and the max are after them it is calling his son Jesus but is not. But he says is true they kind of could have put a key box on the materializations and they put a kibosh on the kju but really it's triggering a reaction and other people are reacting and they're using other stuff and more and you're not going to know if they're materializing it's just a nightmare you Max the wrong and I believe it's the ones from still in Concord who messed it up and they're still messing it up and they got to find out who it is it's going to give us time we need this stuff the big fellows and the third guy there and Ken are saying and Mom that the technology is there for the thorium it's not much different because it's so huge and they just vary the size and they've got it and they can test smaller ones I know what they're saying they'll try proportional and they can modify this is what it is it would not take long for massive computers to do it or the max down there if they found thorium now we have to be aware they're all fighting but everybody is going to fight these Max now it's about time they ruined my life they had me do something evil and I regret it it's way too way to it's past it and they keep saying they haven't they're having it done

Mac Daddy

You're treating me really badly and you're trying to cut my money off as a threat for what I'm trying to figure out what you're threatening for

Zues Hera

Straw plans to go ahead and we're starting to see something they might not go ahead because we keep blaming but we have a plan for this part of it it's to activate our army I see what you're saying people are at us that's what we planned ons

Macs

Olympus

Please print it now Thor Freya Hera Nevada Ariana and goddess wife Uriel Poseidon and goddess wife Armand and goddess wife Rafael and got his wife Salazar and got his wife Apollo and got his wife lobo and proxima midnight god and goddess South America heritage side and many many more we will attach in a moment to ours

[anaid-queen]

Eric Bogosian: From the beginning of the second season? First of all, he tricked me, so I don't like him. But on a professional level, the story has just broken open to a much bigger story, and I am like a hunting dog that has instincts. I can't help myself; I have to get the story; I have to find it. Whatever I was brought to Dubai to do in the first place, clearly it's a new deal, new thing; let's go find it. [...]

Then there's the headaches and flashbacks and so forth. Even if I don't know it consciously, I'm becoming aware that there are even deeper things that have to be explored here, so it just continues to be more and more complex. And through all of this is tremendous animosity toward Armand, not necessarily always knowing why. I mean, I can have my reasons. The guy tricked me; I make fun of him. I talk about the real Rashid and the fake Rashid and all that stuff. But there's also [the fact that] he was traumatized by these guys. There's no other way to explain it - that's trauma, and he forgot about it. It was wiped from his memory.

Not to make this all confessional and everything, but I had trauma in my life that I completely forgot about for about 12 years, and it was still affecting the way I was interacting with people. And you don't know, it's like a hidden part of you. It's like having a computer virus that's doing something extra all the time. So, now he's starting to sense this, and it's there operating. There are a couple of real peeks in the storytelling all the way to the very end. One of them is that, "I lived a whole life, wrecked a couple of marriages and all kinds of things happened. And it all goes back to this." And that's intense. I do think that, rather than suddenly becoming a new person, he just embraces it. "I've got to get to the bottom of this, no matter what. If it kills me, I have to get to the bottom of this."

and:

Eric Bogosian: Well, without question, for me it had to be 5. Episode 5 was unlike anything I've filmed before in anything. And it is such an odd thing because there's all the great stuff that I get to do with Jacob, but then I get to watch Luke [Brandon Field] doing the other part, and he's doing all this hard work on my character that I get the benefit of after he's almost gotten killed just for me.

But there's also writing in episode 5, myself aside, and it's the scene that they have together. I think that writing is amazing in those scenes. Your big speech? That's such an amazing speech. It makes me cry watching it.

Assad Zaman: Yeah, I think I would say 5 as well. It is just so different, and it's hard to forget. I mean, the rest of the season is so well-crafted that you can watch it all the way through; there's no formula. Seasons of shows can become episodic, so there's always a formula of start, middle, and end. You kind of start seeing it, even if they are very well-crafted and different each time.

But here, each episode has a start, middle, and end that also springboards and different things happen. You can watch it all as a whole, except episode 5 you can take out and see it as its own thing. It really is such a shift in tone, but also still does honor the tone that the whole series has been riding on.

[zahra-kha]

Dear Diary 31

You’re starting to fill up, huh? If this keeps up I may have to buy another diary eventually. At least I’m keeping up with this!

I met up with Trystan for that lunch I promised him, it was nice to catch up and talk. I tried to push off the unpleasant chatter as long as I could and just talk about happy things, but eventually we had to get down to business. It’s a lot more fun to talk about the past, our adventures, and things we can look forward to in the future. It’s not like I don’t want to talk about my troupe or the things wrong - but it brings the mood down and that feels so vexing. I don’t want my business to be the reason such a great atmosphere gets destroyed. It makes me feel awful.

I also just don’t like being the center of attention if I’m not performing. It was one thing when I was just talking about Sahrin with Tachi and sorting out my thoughts. I feel frustrated since I was unconscious for a lot of what happened, so there’s information I’m missing too. After the slumber party at Gail’s I’ve been hovering around the encampment but everyone’s been huddled in their spaces and I haven’t been able to do any digging.

But I’ll backtrack. Cecilia showed up at Plume which I was happy about, because I wanted to bring her to the party. I got to fight Trystan at Plume and I forgot how devastating he could be in a fight since I usually just watch him. Oh, we’ve fought side by side before, in adventures and in Murea, but it’s not quite the same as getting an actual boot to the chest.

That hurt like all the hells. I blacked out for a while, too. Would definitely fight him again though.

Venomtongue was being herself and placed bets on me, but I saw her hovering at the medical cot when I was coming to. She didn’t say anything, but I like to think maybe she was a little worried about me. ♥ I should probably tell the others it doesn’t bother me when she calls me Barbarian. It’s like we have our fun little snarky nicknames for each other. I wanna fight her again, it’s been a while!

It was a pretty easy night for Plume. There was this huge guy named...Hikaru? He didn’t seem to speak common so it was a little awkward trying to see if he wanted anything, but I liked his look and he fought well! He fought against Tamala’s sister and won.

The matches went on to time for almost each one that night, it was insane! Really great bouts, everyone was great at holding their own. And then at the end Jasper pulled up Zhao and Quin (who was surprised, I don’t think he signed up initially) to help him train. I think he’s trying to sign up for some sort of tournament but he’s not satisfied with his current skillset. I didn’t quite catch all of it, but considering how well he fended off two people at once, I think he should be proud of the skillset he has. It’s not easy fending off two people at once, especially someone with a gunblade.

Also poor Quin, we might have messed with him too much. He is still learning and for someone just getting into it, he’s doing a good job. I just like to give my friends a hard time. He’s amazing when he’s doing his usual thing though!

After Plume we went to Gail’s shop (with all the poisonous plants in the front, yikes! It’s really pretty inside, though) and chattered. I think there was some overal general confusion regarding how we were going to use the baths but that got sorted out well enough.

I don’t mind using communal baths, and I love hot springs, but I wasn’t exactly sure if Conor wanted to bathe with everyone or not, so I opted to just take a quick bath first because I was sweaty and stinky and I wanted to be clean more than I wanted to soak. But then he walked in as I was about to get undressed and started taking off his coat and I was...confused? Did he or did he not want- I didn’t get it.

So he left me to bathe, with me still a bit confused as to what was happening, and when I finally finished and go out, a few more others had arrived. Cecilia was quiet during most of the exchange, which I guess is to be expected since she’s been through an ordeal and she doesn’t really know anyone there. It is a little sad to see how much she’s changed, though. She used to be sassy and full of life. I don’t know what all happened to her, but I’m so angry it occurred because someone manipulated her for...I don’t even know why.

In more pleasant news, Conor has a girlfriend! She’s got a rather unusual name but I feel with his personality, they fit pretty well together! I hope it works out for him, I was a bit sad when the last lady friend he had didn’t work out. It happens of course, but I like to see people happy. Maybe it’s silly of me, but I don’t think it’s wrong to want people to find true happiness with their special someone if they’ve found someone they want to be with.

He was happy to gush about her, which I thought was cute. It reminded me of my father when he gets into talking about mother sometimes. If she’s around, it’s one of the few instances where she’ll lose her cool and get flustered. When Cahil and I were young we thought they were so gross and mushy. Now that I’m older and a romantic at heart, I think back on those moments fondly.

I may also be a bit homesick. 

After Conor left, I talked to Gail about if there was anyway her people at GHOST could hide Cecilia or protect her. I didn’t even think about if I could give them anything to offer in return, I guess I’ll have to take that into consideration. I was so focused on just finding a way to secure a line of safety for Cecilia but maybe if I offer my services or something they’ll consider that a form of payment. I don’t plan to ask them to tackle on my troupe’s problems and offer nothing in return.

I was hoping Cecilia would be able to offer us more information about what happened to her and whoever the hells this Sabe woman is, but we did find out it was Armand that passed the message to her that Sahrin was kicking her out. Cecilia is new to the troupe so I can’t really blame her for not challenging Armand and trusting his word. I mean, when you think you’ve joined a family, why would you distrust anyone within it?

Hopefully Gail can coax a bit more information from her regarding whoever Sabe is and what happened while she was gone.We all know Armand isn’t behind whatever is going on, and Gail thinks whoever is must be trying to get rid of anyone who isn’t a founding member. But why now? Armand’s been in the troupe for years and so have I. Armand joined when I was twelve, then I joined officially when I was fourteen. I’m twenty now, I’ve been with them for six years.

Why would someone decide to get rid of us now? Why not do it while we were still back in Radz-at-Han? It’s appallingly easy to make the right people disappear if you have the right connections back home. Why wait to come to a foreign country with no connections and foreign laws?

I want more answers. I’m upset, hurt, and sad that there are those in the troupe willing to go to such lengths to hurt our own and I don’t even know why. I feel so exhausted being in the dark, not knowing who to trust.

I’ve cherished these people since I was a child. Have we all been just sitting on a bed of lies? Have I been smiling, laughing, and performing with people who have wanted to see me dead all this time?

I hate this. Every time I think on it it makes me feel alone and scared. Bonds outside of family are so fragile.

[simcatcher]

Call me cheesy, but I wanna sit down and say nice things out loud tonight! so you got this. The order if anything reveals my last wanderings into the Simblrverse! but doesn't quantify the fondness I have for you guys. One once very good friend told me, love is the only thing that doubles when you share it.

----pretend---theres---a---readmore----

@wannabecatwriter I just love how no matter how many characters you introduce, theyre all so unique, and how it adds to your plots. Also, I kind of envy your plotting skills. Writing seems so easy reading you, and God knows it ain't! so thank you for sharing your stories. The word that comes to mind when I think of your blog is, practical. Everything is in the right place, you know where you're taking us and we just gotta sit down and enjoy the show!

@dynastiasimss two words lol. Felix and Felicia. or like, Winter and Felicia. They fill me with joy and everytime I see a new post of their adventures it makes me happy. as simple as that. Loving your aesthetics also! Colorful is the word.

@andantezen what can I say? your writing taught me many lessons. When I think of you, the first word that comes to my mind is, poetry. There's a sort of beautiful melancholy, a rare sensibility to your writing that I find absolutely heartbreaking. This is what I want to read and therefore, what I want to write. Since I found you you always have been an inspiration to me and I think you know for how long. Not to mention your great kindness... There's forever a special spot in my heart, and it's invested by Armand DeMontbelle. I can't wait to see where The Prince will take us next!

@shhhushhh fren, this one is for you! I think you know just how much your peps and vitality make this place so special to be in. when I think of your blog, I think, colorful. Lively. Profoundly endearing. And Drago lmao. I love how I'd probably do all your sims if I could, your sense of humor and your decorating skills! It feels like you're fearless in storytelling and you always give the best of yourself in setting up your scenes and it shows. And your freeplays are golden 😭 your sharp insight is so precious to me... And to so many others simmers I believe. You're my Tumblero. stands for tumblr hero ❤

@rollo-rolls girl your sims are so beautiful, and so are you. You make me think of a Rose, cause its red and beautiful and seemingly fragile but whoever ever picked a Rose know of thorns ;b thank you for gifting us with quality content every once in a while. Thank you for providing us with sims with features so special. Thank you for being lovely and kind to everyone.

@dreamsascend Lovely Reena. I miss you. You're so classy lady and so are your aesthetics. When I think of your blog I think, subtle and graceful. I love everything about your blog and simmies, Emelie in particular. I love that you make your tumblr a safe place for everyone. Thank you for your kindness. its beautiful. Take good care of yourself dearest ❤

@treason-and-plot hehehe, of course. Your word is, realism. I've been your devoted reader for a few years now and I'm always amazed how no matter how long youve been writing them, your characters never finish to surprise us, in good and bad ways. Youre the ultimate Show, don't tell. Queen to me. Your writing had me going from laughters to being shed to pieces, more than once. Thank you so much for that.

@subaruthesimmer heheh, I've known you for a short amount of time but I love your blog. your Word is Scott, because of course it is xD no wonder. You love your sims and it shows (😂yes it does), and thats really sweet I think.

@descendantdragfi excuse me, is it really the sims you're playing? because omg it looks so amazingly beautiful! ahah okay awkward let me just say your aesthetics are like, goals. The amount of detail in just ONE picture is incredible. Your colour schemes are always so on point. You really got an eye. So eye is the word I pick for you. I hesitated with 'home' lmao, because I'm french and your pics kinda remind me of Amélie Poulain. anyway, loving it so much!

@silverspringsimmer your Word is positivity. Care. your heart is so big the whole world must fit in it. I love you and your stories. I'll never get enough of your premades. of your ts2 canons. Of you, in general. Old simblr pal ahah, follow forever. love you girl.

of course there are names I have left out. I'm so very sorry. Its too late or too early in the morning for me to think ahaha.

I'm so thankful that you are here, making Tumblr a better place with your love and creativity. Thanks for your art. You rock big time! Ana loves you❤

[azraeldean]

the devinee episode 1

 (Nash’s house - Edge’s room.)

(Edge (a blond human of about 12) is sitting with his communication device with his best friend Malik ( a brunette human of about 12))

Edge: Can you believe it Malik?

Malik: That you hacked your communication device?

Edge: No, that I am talking to a female.

Malik: Ok, it is hard to believe your talking to Faelerah female. Considering we live in a society devoid of women.

Edge: I know I am so lucky! ( They both giggle.) Let’s look at her picture again. ( He pushes a button on his communication device and we see a cute blue skinned female in several pictures.) I am more intrigued every time I see her figure.

Malik: I bet you are.

Edge: Hey Malik, Do you have the Chance collectible doll. I want him to sign it. ( We see a box with a blond doll in it, who must be Chance)

(The Nash’s house downstairs)

We see a picture, of what must be Edge and his Human father when Edge was little. The camera moves up and we see his human father put it back on a shelf)

Static: ( Human father Nash’s first name) Edge! Ready to go?

Edge: Hold on a second.

Static: I can’t hold on a second. Jace is waiting for us.

(Edge pushes a button to make the pictures disappear from his communication device and tries to put thedevice back to a neutral screen. Both humans get nervous. Edge’s father enters the room.)

(Edges room)

Static: Baby, what are you two doing? I thought you guys were excited for today.

Edge: we are.

Static: and what are you doing on your communication device?

Edge: Me and Malik were just looking up information on our new school.

( Edge brings up the school website. Static starts scrolling threw the popped up virtual website. Scrolling threw a virtual tour of the school.) 

Static: ( looks over and picks up the doll) I always knew he would become something big. Me back when I was in school I had a blonde Mohawk. Obviously I was the coolest person there. I mean how could anyone beat a hair do like that.

Edge: Probably easily.

Static: Well, meeting up with everyone again is going to be great. You are going to love all the memories your going to make. Now let’s go meet up with our friends. ( as he leaves he takes the hat off Malik’s head.)

Malik: (to Static) Hey! I liked wearing that.

Static: Well I have to return it. Come on Edge! (Edge gets up to leave and looking on his communication device sees he has a new message.) Edge! (Edge leaves)

The Devinee 

(Devinee park)

Static: Go and play with the others.

Malik: Thanks for bringing us Mr. Nash I am excited to see some of the new people we will be at the school with.

Jace :(a Devinee) Don’t you think we will be seeing enough of them over the year to come?

Static: Stay where I can see you guys.

Jace : You don’t have to worry about us.

Edge: Yeah, we are practically adults.

Static: Yes, twelve is so old. And baby...

Edge: Yes, I know you’ll be right over there. He rushed me out of the house so fast I didn’t get to read my new message from Jasmine the Faelerah. In her last message she told me that ...( walks away talking to Malik)

Jace: Guys! Over here!

(Over by the playground) 

Malik: That sucks about the message.

Edge: I know but Jasmine messaged me last night too.

Malik: Oh? What did she say.

Edge (closes his eyes) “ I keep looking at your picture the Faelerah don’t have much interaction with humans and your so interesting to look at and talk too.”Babe every time we talk it just makes me want to get to know you even better. Your amazing.”

Malik: Wow

Edge: it seems like she’s just as fascinated by me as I am by her.

Malik: Too bad she doesn’t live on planet.

Jace: Hey! (Edge and Malik run to catch up with him)

They all gather together and survey the park together looking at a group of older Devinee holding instruments.)

Edge: oh no, I bet they are going to play music from the 8,000s.

(Jaiden’s cafe)

Jai (Devinee): I made a new coffee blend I highly recommend it. It has tapioca and coco in it. It’s very sweet and has a kick of texture with it. It also goes great with the muffins I make that you love so much Lucien.

Lucien: Jai, ideally I’d like something that wasn’t a days worth of calories. You know I am watching my weight.

Jai: The drink is healthier than it sounds. Why don’t you try some. Then we can take a walk together, so you can burn some of the calories. We can go to the park we’re some of our friends and their kids are gathered and you can brag about the new drink.

Lucien: Alright, alright. Oh my gosh is that Armand? (A small human of about 5 walks up to them)

Jai: Yeah.

Lucien: Hey sweetie, look at how grown up you are.

Jai: Can you say, “Hi Lucien”?

Armand: Hi. (He waves)

Lucien: Hi. (He waves back)

Jai: He starts kindergarten next week, can you believe it? It’s going to be great for him. I am excited for him to meet Devinee and other humans his age.

KLucien: speaking of being around people your own age. I checked and you haven’t confirme your going to the “reunion gathering” thats happening tomorrow night. 

Jai: I know. I know.

Lucien : Jai, we’re all really sorry your mate died, but it’s been a year. I think Julian would want you to get out and spend time with your friends. He wouldn’t want you to cut yourself off.

Jai: Can we.... uh... why don’t I go grab the keys so I can lock up and we will go for that walk, ok. We are going to go to the park. Sound good baby? ( Goes in back with Armand)

(The park)

Edge: Oh, hi. Your Mr. Sternshine right?

Axle (Devinee) : I am. And you must be Edge. Wow. Wow. Wow. Static’s son, I can’t believe your going to be one of my students. Time just flies by.

Malik: Static?

Edge: My papas first name. Weird, right? (They both smile and glance over to Static in the distance.)

Axle: (Takes the hat from Jace)  Thanks for bringing that I will take it to its proper owner. (Puts the hat on his head) Great, it was great meeting you guys. Uh, listen, go and enjoy your time at the park go meet some other people.

Jace: Static? (Edge hits him) Ow! (They start to run)

Axle: Hey guys, be careful! Be careful! Be careful! Okay just keep going. Don’t listen to me. Alright.

(Further in the park)

(As they run, they laugh loudly together. They stop running as they get to the pond.)

Edge: Look...

Malik: Yeah, that’s a really big tree.

( Malik and Jace start to walk away, but Edge stays.)

Jace: Edge? Let’s go. Oh, I see. Gonna hide behind that tree and message Jasmine?

Edge: Shut up!

Jace: ( mimicking Edge) Oh. She’s just so different, yet she understands me so completely. (Edge punches him) Ow.

Mr. Rasnic (Devinee): And here is the pond you will see a lot of children both Devinee and Human gather around here. Most of the kids here feel too grown up for the playground even the humans.

Jensen ( Devinee): Oh, you see Tobias? This won’t be like our old town.

Jace: Tobias?

Tobias (Devinee): Jace?

( Jace goes up to Tobias.)

Jace and Tobias: Omg! It’s so good to see you! Me? You! Lol Jinx you owe me a coke.

Jace: Dude what are you doing here?

Malik: I guess they’re friends. 

Tobias: My Apha father moved in with his new mate. Who happens to live in this town. So Alpha brought me here so I could meet some of the kids I would be spending the year with.

Mr. R.: I think we’ll let you two get reaquantied and your alpha and I will finish talking about the benefits of this community and your future school together.

Jensen: Tobias come find me when your done, ok?

Tobias: Yes Alpha, I won’t go far ok?

Jensen: Good.

Jace: Oh, sorry. Malik, Edge, this is Tobias. We were on a Devinee softball team over the summer together.

Edge: We could tell you guys are friends.

Tobias: Nice to meet you

Edge: Yeah. Ok, the coast is finally clear. Malik your coming with me,

Malik: No, no.

Edge: You two stand guard.

(Edge and Malik go behind the large tree so Edge can check the message on his communication device.)

Tobias: So is your friend always like that?

Jace: Yes.

Tobias: Really?

(Malik runs up behind them and scares them by screaming boo!)

Tobias: Humans.

(Another part of the park) 

(Axle is looking at his communication device)

(In a black ufo a blond man (Chance Roberts) is talking on his communication device)

Chance: Kyson I am really truly okay but if you want to come to this gathering with me you can. (As he talks they show his collectible doll, and then him actually talking.) I just don’t want you to get bored it’s all very small town. Alright, it is sweet of you to want to meet my friends and I do want to show them my future mate. I love you too.

(He hangs up his device. As he does you see the flash of his engagement ring.)

(The park)

( Chance gets out of the ufo and enters the park)

Chance: Thanks. (To the driver who opened the ufos door for him)

Driver: Your welcome.

(In the park)

Chance: Slash!

Axle: Chance. Oh wow...(closes his communication device and gives him a hug) Well. Hey. Oh my, it’s great to see you.

Chance: You too. So your a teacher at our old school now. Ok, here (gives him a present)

Axle: Ok now, this is an upgrade for the schools technology system, right?

Chance: Yes, it’s just something to show my gratitude to the school that gave me my start.

Axle: Speaking of our old school days... How about this Jai’s old hat.

Chance: Ok ( puts the hat on)

Axle: Nice, it works on you.

Chance: Yeah, it goes well with this shirt really well doesn’t it.

Axle: Well, we all know you’ve always had better fashion sense than Jai.

(Outside the park)

Lucien: (Sees the ufo) Oh wow, look at that someone is certainly traveling in style aren’t they Jai.

(Jai scans the park and sees Chance and Chance sees him. He waves at Jai when he sees him.( You get the sense that maybe they were once together))

(Behind the big tree)

Edge: Malik, Can you please chill, if we are caught I’ll just say you didn’t know what I was going to do.

Malik: Oh, yeah great... So what does the message say?

Edge: Malik, Jasmine is going to be on planet and she wants to meet me tomorrow.

(Park entrance)

Chance: What’s your stuffy’s name?

Armand: Art

Chance: Art?

Jai: So you have a future mate? Congratulations.

Lucien: Yeah, when’s the ceremony?

Chance: Oh soon, but we haven’t pegged the exact date yet, but, well, your all invited.

Axle: Cool, So when do we all get to meet Kyson?

Chance: He’s going to fly down this afternoon. He’s so sweet he really wants to meet all my old friends.

Axle: He’s an Aztle isn’t he?

Chance: Yes he is.

Jai: I always knew you’d meet the perfect mate.

Chance: Well, so, I guess I should probably go now and check in to the hotel on planet. But Joey your really not going to the reunion gathering tomorrow?

Jai: No, I am not.

Chance: Well then why don’t you at least come hang out with us later it will be a smaller group.

Jai: Well, um...

Lucien: Of course he would. We will both come. We can’t wait to catch up.

Chance: Great. So I’ll see you guys later then.

( Mr. Sternshine takes the hat off her as she leaves)

Lucien: By Chance.

(Playground)

(Edge and Malik are Swinging)

Edge: I want to meet her, but I am worried I won’t meet up to her expectations of humans.

Malik: I am sure you will. Jasmine is coming here. You can sate some of your curiosity. It’s a golden opportunity.

Tobias: Who’s Jasmine?

Jace: A female Falererian Edge me on some inter-spacial chat room. I bet she’s actually one of those spikey alien things, that will poke him anytime he gets close.

Edge: And your a young immature Alien with wings but I am still friends with you.

Jace: Oh, very funny.

Tobias: Ok. If your meeting some strange alien you met in a chat room. It could be really dangerous.

Edge: We just met I have been talking to him for months and your telling me about strangers.

Malik: Guys don’t worry Jasmine is totally cool she’s coming here on some Falerian mission.

Jace: What kind of mission would a Falerian go on?

Edge: She’s a voluntary missionary. She travels with other aliens that help planets that are at war even ones like ours were the war our soldiers are fighting is on a different planet. She’s going to have some spare time. Stop worrying about me.

( They start chasing each other around the park)

(The Nash house - Edges room)

(Static and Chance are looking at Edges collectible figurines)

Chance: You have such a wonderful child and to have raised him all by yourself too. So cute too, even better than the cutie you were haha.

Static:(looking at chances engagement ring) I can’t wait to meet Kyson. He got you such a pretty ring he must think highly of you.

Chance: Thank you he wanted to get me a collar too which is traditional for his race. He says it’s to protect me from other aliens showing his claim but it seems so possessive to me.

Static: I am sure he just doesn’t want anyone to get any ideas.

(Edge enters the room drinking water)

Edge: Why are you in my room?

Static: It’s my house I am allowed to go where I want.

Edge: Your showing off my figurine collection again? I know you like to show me off but next time can you ask before you trespass?

Static: Next time can we be more polite to our guest. Baby...

Edge: Your Chance Royal, I am such a big fan. You make a great superhero on your show, I love it when they give big parts to humans.

Static: and your gushing.

Edge: I can’t believe your actually here and friends with my papa.

Chance: Shocking right? It’s great to see you my friends kid all grown up.

Static: He wishes. So sneaking off to send secret messages?

Edge: Did you... have you been spying on me? I deserve some privacy.

Static: Relax, I wouldn’t do that to you. But I can tell your getting that attitude us humans get in our teen years.

Edge: Papa I am not doing anything wrong.

Static: Do yourself a favor and don’t have kids.

Chance: No promises. (They leave) Bye.

(Edge closes the door)

(Edges’s room - later)

Edge: Ok. We’ve gone through all the messages. No spikes and no mention of any other weirdness.

Malik: Jace is just worried about you.

Edge: Jace is just an idiot.

Malik: That Tobias seems kinda cool.

Edge: He’s fine I guess but he’s just your typical overprotective Devinee. That’s why I like Jasmine she’s so unique and exciting. I have never met a potential mate like her.

Malik: Babe, you’ve never had a potential mate before.

Edge: I know.

Malik: Maybe...

Edge: What?

Malik: What Tobias said, about meeting strange aliens from a chat room. He’s right it could be dangerous.

Edge:  Not you too Malik, with all the overprotectiveness, I am twelve I can handle it. Don’t worry so much.

Malik: Maybe you should talk to your papa. He could take you to meet her then we would all know you were safe.

Edge: Are you kidding me he would freak out. Are you saying you don’t think I should meet Jasmine.

Malik: I don’t know.

(A lounge)

Kyson: Wow I’ve never met Devinee before but Chance has told me so much about you guys I am thinking of writing an Aztle guide to the Devinee. (His phone communication device beeps) Hold on guys I got to take this. Yo Francine, yes, yes I am with my human on Nevarah. Yes it is a beautiful planet.

Lucien: Chance, I watch your show every Saturday morning. Seeing you as a star it’s so great for kids to have a role model like you.

Chance: Me as a role model what about you.

Lucien: What about me?

Jai.: Come on don’t be so modest. The things you do for this community. You must have raised money for every local charity and spending time with the soldiers.

Static: Plus, your furthering your education.

Chance: All humans should look up to you and take after your amazing example.

Lucien: It’s not that amazing, I have just done everything I’ve been told to do been the perfect human Devinee expect.

Axle: Its better than being like Will he was given so much and just threw everything away.

Jai: (On a translucent screen) Hey, come on down to Jaidens cafe. I have all the goodies and sweets you could want! I even have things for the health nuts out there. There’s always new creations too so come on ever you won’t find better drinks or sweets on planet and that’s a promise. (Gives two thumbs up)

Lucien: Jai! That’s awful!

Jai: What I had to advertise some how didn’t I. 

Kyson: Your absolutely right that’s how you keep a business going. Francine, Francine, this just isn’t the time I need to be spending time with my future mate and his friends you know how important this kind of thing is to humans. I gotta go bye. (Hangs up) Hey next time you want to do something like that let me know I can totally hook you up. I can get you professionals give it a real polished vibe you know attract even off planet customers.

Jai: Yeah, your right Kyson.

Kyson: Glad I could help, plus if you want I’ll even write the script free of charge.

Axle: I don’t know I kind of liked it. It had a happy friendly family friendly vibe to it.

Everyone: Yeah, it was totally Jai.

Chance: Kyson, we were talking about human role models. Well Jai has to be one for the Devinee and hey you are writing that book. Jai would be the perfect person for you to interview.

Jai: No, I don’t think that’s a good idea I am not the same Devinee yo used to know.

Kyson: Um...

(Jai gets up and gets a drink at the juice bar.)

(Axle comes up to him)

Axle: (To bartender) Can I get a pineapple juice? Thanks. Jai talk to me what’s going on here?

Jai: I can’t do this I am having this drink and going home.

Axle: You can’t do what hang out with old friends.

Jai: You know what, everyone wanted me to get out, but I don’t feel like I belong anymore.

Axle: Oh Jai, that’s not true.

Jai: Slash, you don’t understand so don’t act like you do.

Axle: Cutting off people, isn’t going to help. It isn’t going to change anything. Being around people may even help with the pain of your loss.

Jai: Stop, you and everyone else thinks they know what’s best for me how I should grieve how I should get past this. I don’t need your opinions, I know what’s best for me not you or anyone else.

Axle: We are friends. We are just trying to help.

Jai: No, your meddling and feeling sorry for me all of you are and I am sick and tired of it so please leave me alone.

Axle: Oh, and none of this has to do with Chance?

Jai: No, of course not. I mean I don’t like him but I don’t think the rest of you do.

Axle: Maybe not but it’s his choice.

Jai: Yes, I know that, but he feels sorry for me too, just like the rest of you. I am tired of all this and I am leaving.

Axle: I think you’re the one feeling sorry for yourself, so stop blaming everyone else.

(Axle finishes his drink and goes back to join the others. Leaving Jai alone. Jai looks at them then looks away)

(The Nash house)

(Edge is asleep when the humans come in being loud and rambunctious.)

The humans: Wild thing you make my heart sing, you make everything groovy. Wild thing I think I love you. But I want to know for sure! (Singing)

Lucien: Can you believe a song from so long ago is still known today?

Static: Come on let’s have a real drink.

Lucien: Ooh, yes.

Chance: We should do each other’s hair just like old times. We can fix Statics hair like she had it back in the day. Bring back old fashion. I think the planets ready for it.( Edge wakes up and makes his way downstairs.)

Static: Oh, Edge I am sorry we woke you up.

Chance: Yeah babe, I am sorry too.

Static: We promise we will quite down. Humans ready for that drink.

Chance: Yes, but just one Aztles are almost as panicky about humans drinking as Devinee. Edge it’s good to see you again how are you?

Edge: Chance, can I ask you something.

Chance: Sure, Is this about a potential mate?

Edge: Yes, but it’s a girl and my friends are freaked out.

Chance: Well, how do you feel about it?

Edge: I think she’s great, I am not freaked out by her gender I am intrigued by it.

Chance: Well, then maybe you should go for it. Trust how you feel. Sometimes you just have to do things despite what your friends think.

Edge: Like you do on your tv show, always going for what you want, being the hero.

Chance: Yes, if my parents had their way. I wouldn’t have my tv show. I would just be your good typical human sitting at home with a good Devinee mate. How awful would that be? So come on tell me about her what race is she I want to know more.

(The kitchen)

Lucien: Hey Static, what do you think of Kyson?

Static: Chance could do a lot better.( Lucien teases his hair) ooh, nice.

(The stairs (static is listening to Chance and Edge talk))

Edge: Your so smart, how do you know all these things?

Chance: This ( meaning your brain) learns a lot of things when you get older. It’s cliche but true.

(Static comes up to them.)

Static: Am I interrupting something?

Chance: Oh no, we were just discussing some of the moments on my show.

Edge: Yeah, he has some really great stories.

Static: Honey do you want to join us for a little while.

Edge: No, I am going to go back to bed.

Chance: Good night.

Static: Night baby, So what exactly were you telling him.

Chance: wouldn’t you like to know? He’s so young.

Lucien: Oh yes because your ancient.

Chance: I basically am.

Lucien: I refuse to think like that. I am young in my mind. I don’t even feel my age.

Static: I mean I wouldn’t mind going on a date or something.

Chance: Yes, that’s what’s great about Kyson he take me on dates all the time. He’s so sweet.

Lucien: I am sure all kinds of aliens would fall all over themselves to be with you.

( Edge’s room he’s on his communication device typing a message to Jasmine saying he wants to meet.( it says “ I would love to meet you in person.”))

Edge: Sometimes you just...( sends the message) go for it.

END

[familyagrestefanblog]

Identity theory to the Black Cat knight in “Feast” - Part 3

There is one detail in “Feast” that has me almost upset because of my own short coming. Not because it’s badly written, out of nowhere or anything, quite the opposite, its brilliant! It’s the detail of the former cat miraculous holder, the knight

You know why this has me almost upset? I had this as serious theory since one evening I rewatched “Darkblade” and researched the historical background given there, since miraculous takes real life history and changes it to fit into their universe. The people and events are more or less accurate (as we know from episodes like “the pharaoh”). But I never completed the research nor did I made my theory into a post.

Well anyway. I guess it’s never to late to present my theory to who this former cat was.

Part 1: Who is the black knight? And the entire basis of the Theory

Part 2: The flag comparison is “Darkblade” and “Feast”

This is Part 3, here I will cover: Are the Cat Miraculous holder knight and Darkblade the same people?

 Alright guys buckel up, it’s history time because these are gonna get LONG

Part 3: Are the Cat Miraculous holder knight and Darkblade the same people?

Before ill start with the episode and context analysis let me just throw something in from the very start. In the french (original) version, Darkblades name is “le Chevalier Noir” which literally translates to “The black knight” so, y’know, french is already making a connection there with the Noir part of the name. But ill leave it with that.

Lets start the analysis

In the episode itself Monsieurs D'Argencourt gives us the exposition about how Darkblade was and what he did in a little monolog sequence.

The thing is though, Darkblades actions seem to be a little different from Edward from Woodstock.

Because Edward never conquered Paris. I actually cant find much or anything solid about him and Paris at all, so he definitely didn’t “ruled it with an iron fist”.

But I see a real connection here in that Edward indeed ruled a place in France. Aquitaine was in the 1400s until the end of the war in possession of England (but not through conquering, it was already in their possession). (Quoting englishhistoryauthors.com now) With 25, “he came as his father’s lieutenant, endowed with far reaching authority and near complete independence. His short-term mandate was to subdue and punish the disloyal lords and towns of Aquitaine (those who had in the last decades done homage to the French king). His longer-term objective was to restore English control over the region, make the local population afraid of committing treason against the English crown in the future, and asserting his father’s claim to the throne of France. It was not a peaceful mission.”

In 1362 (after Aquitaine officially belonged to England and wasn’t just in possession), Prince Edward was officially named Prince of Aquitaine and was send there to actually REALLY rule over it. It went well in the beginning but through (war and history) reasons the civilians, barons etc where already rebellious and more on the french side. So when then later, after a failed campaign in Spain, Edward had to raise the taxes, they raised against him and since he was already deathly ill he returned back to England.

So the real life story and the miraculous one have certain differences. For one, the setting. It wasn’t Paris but Aquitaine, the ruling style seems to be more or less fine portrayed tough. And then Edward wasn’t overthrown by ONE commoner who bought everybody and then he was “thrown out”, ALL angry civilians rose against him and since he was deathly ill, he left. But I understand this change though. The commoner part of the civilians is still there and ml wanted to bring the Bourgeois’ into this (Bourgeois means “Citizen” by the way and the commoner was totally an ancestor, so, yeah, it still fits). Plus the money aspect of the event is still present, but now instead of raised taxes its someone who used their wealth.

So if you ask me, I still think it was indeed Edwards story and rule that Darkblades story was supposed to represent even if they changed it a bit. Cause like I said in Part 1, I’m not sure if Miraculous would even be allowed to outright display Edward like this. So Darkblades story is “inspired” by him. Different but similar enough that a person who knows this part of history knows its Edward of Woodstock without having to call him out.

Another reason why given by the episode that Darkblade could AT LEAST be Knight Noir from “Feast”, is Monsieurs D'Argencourt.

Lets look at his design.

Interestingly, he’s the one character in the show who looks stereotypical “french”. The hairdo and the moustache, combine this with the way he speaks (in the french version at least) and you’ve got a solid french stereotype. I never questioned him being a stereotype because this has happened in almost every kids cartoon I watched while growing up but connecting him to his possible ancestors past (Edward from Woodstock as the Cat Miraculous holder in “Feast”) then his design etc take on an interesting new perspective.

As I’ve mentioned in Part 2, to find the right flag to identify the one the former Cat holds in the portrait, Armand D'Argencourt’s name was the key hint that helped me find it. Because “The Battle of Agincourt” was one of the greatest English victories against France in the Hundred Years' War.

Armand D'Argencourt is like, the personification of the “battle of Agincourt”. French and english together, French basis (his appearance) but the english victory (his loyalty and spirit to his Ancestors claim for Paris). Even his Name D'Argencourt is a perfect combination of english and french (the french “D’ “ but his names spelling “Argencourt” is much closer to the english Agincourt than the french Azincourt. A perfect balance)

Look again at the picture of him above. Not only as Darkblade but also as himself he wears the english Dragon symbol of his ancestors flag with pride and when he was akumatized into Darkblade his goals was to regain the rule over Paris that his ancestor lost.

He is french no doubt. And MAN he sure does LOOK french too, but his spirit and loyalty lies to England and this “personification of the battle of Agincourt” is such an amazing character concept and execution!

 But I’m not done with him yet.

Cause he’s not only the link to combine Darkblade/the black knight with the Cat from “Feast” through his family background. The concept of Armand D'Argencourt’s being the decedent of Darkblade who is the former Cat is truly brought HOME by the fact that Monsieur D'Argencourt is Adriens TEACHER.

Let me repeat that

The decedent of the former Cat Miraculous holder is the teacher of the current Cat. And THAT is bloody amazing!

It also brings Adrien overcoming and learning Darkblades special fencing move in that episode to a whole different level.

Cause Adrien didn’t just learn the special fencing move from a former ruler of Paris and the ancestor of his teacher. He learned the damn special move from the former Chat Noir!

And I love that!

Alright guys, I don’t know about you. But I’m actually pretty sure I ain’t wrong with this and the only thing changing my mind is Canon telling me different. But until then

Back to Part 1: Who is the black knight? And the entire basis for the Theory 

and Part 2: The flag comparison is “Darkblade” and “Feast”

[bestnoncannonship]

Alright..I'mma get in on this VC fancasting debate.

As a director, I often have a LOT of opinions on people's casting decisions. A LOT. (Someday, I'll write a novella on Ken Brannaugh's casting.) So as I see a LOT of fancasts casts based on how people look and few based on whether or not the actor can likely handle the role, I'mma throw my hat in the ring. (Warning....the more I write the less technical and more shitposty this is gonna get!) So here you go! The Vampire Chronicles series if I got to cast and direct it!!

The Brat Prince:

Most importantly....we gotta get us a Lestat. And the choice is clear:

Evan Williams: this fabulous shitposting aesthetic trash is as close to the one and only Vampire Lestat as we are gonna get on this plane of existance. He is all charm and quite light in his loafers and a complete mess.......but most importantly, he has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is able to play a character that does inexplicable and morally reprehensible things while still being read as highly sympathetic, likable, and even a hero. That's what I worry about most with Lestat. He really is a very terrible person who doesn't learn or face too many consequences. And he has to be very very very sympathetic. Not just "Oh I Stan that villain" likeable.....but a true hero. And it takes a very. Special. Actor. To pull that shit off. And this is it. This is the guy. He was hired to play an Iago-esque gay villain type in Versailles, STOLE THE SHOW OUT FROM UNDER GEORGE BLAGDEN (no mean feat as Blaggy was giving a hell of a performance) and made his character a beloved icon. Yeah....I trust him to lead a show. I trust him to be Lestat.

Nicholas L'enfant:

Okay not gonna lie I struggled with this one. There was someone else I wanted to see in this role....but I decided he was better employed elsewhere. And this is who I ended up with:

Yep. George Blagden. See...in the grand scheme of things Nikki is a very low-screentime role that has a LOT of impact on the story. And who better to trust with low screentime that the god of grantaires, who took a few small shots and lines and GAVE US A FULLY CHARACTERIZED GRANTAIRE in the Les Mis film. He is very sweet faced, and easy to like, can make being an on screen depressive fascinating instead of dull and has proven time and time again that he is the master of the complete mental breakdown, complete with horrifying but tragic crazy eyes. Also.....he bears a strong enough physical resembles to.....

Louis!!!!:

Our beautiful depressed dark angel with a vampire eating disorder who has no self esteem and is still in love with his abuser needs nuance. He needs soul. And he needs a sweet and delicate beauty. And so:

Alexaner Vlahos!!! The soulful eyes!! The delicate bone structure!!! The slight tones of simmering resentment!!! The ability to play a character that could have become VERY one note VERY quickly with goregeous amounts of nuance and sympathy!!! Vlavla has quite the varied resume. Mordred. Phillipe. Romeo. Captain Hook. To put it lightly he has a LOT of range and the one through line is he is NEVER boring. He plays a lot of roles that could very quickly become boring and one note (Romeo? Captian snooze right there!). But every second he's on screen or stage he is so completely alive in whatever he is feeling. I TRUST him to keep the entirety of Louis's brooding nuanced and fascinating for an audience and to physically and facially convey Louis's very important internal monologue that we will not be able to hear because this version is going to be from Lestat's point of veiw. I toggled with the idea of making him Nikki for a while....but ended up with Louis for 2 reasons. 1) he doesn't need the scripted plot drama Nikki has written in to make a compelling character and 2) he and Williams share such beautiful chemistry. Whenever they're together, even off screen, their focus shifts so that they orbit each other like bianary stars and any director can see that that's something that should be explored and exploited to add demension to the Louis/Lestat relationship and justify why they keep coming back to each other.

(And so ends the Men of Versailles segment of my fancast. So sue me. There's some incredible actors there.)

Let's return with

Gabrielle De Lioncourt:

The incomparable Alex Kingston, lately of River Song fame, though I met her as Elizabeth Corday, and Doctor Corday is driving this casting choice. I wanted an actor who was an appropriate age to play Williams's mother cause we don't fuck with that women are "old" at 30 shit in this house. And she can carry off the kind of "I will not hesitate to kill a man" BDE that Gabrielle requires without trying, but she's also proven herself comfortable and competent with the level of CAMP that VC requires. I can see her easily showing up on set for a few scattered episodes, slipping easily into the verse, and nailing the kind of woman who can put Lestat in his place then run back off to the jungle. Also....that De Lioncourt hair!!!!!

Marius "Daddy" Romanus:

Yep. This fuck. I can hear it now.... "Why isn't he lessssaaaat??? He's so blonde and prettttyyyyy????" Well....mainly because....I ain't sure this lil fuck can run a show as a very despicable but likeable hero yet. He's admirable. A good actor. A great villain. But not a hero and not heroically likeable. Personally, I'm of the opinion that in 10 or 15 years he will have grown into the ability to play something as complex as Lestat with likability....but for now.....DAMN is he a creepy imperial thing. He's got that "My house, my rules" vibe down. He's preditory. He's distinguished. He is Marius. And he's go the best Roman coin profile I've ever seen.

Armand:

N/A

Ok. Controversial decision....but I want to see a complete unknown as Armand. Send casting out to cast a wide net, scour the world for the Botticelli death machine. But definitely don't pull him from the pool of already famous younguns. Because your Armand needs to be deep. Skilled. And primarily UNSPOILED by the school of child acting that is forced upon child actors. (I was a commercial kid and child stage actor. It was terrible.) Go out and get some twinky fresh faced raw talent so you get depth.

Claudia:

N/A

Big old ditto on what I said above about child actors. A nice doe eyed unknown, preferably without a stage mom.

AKASHA:

Yikes. So many amazing choices!!! How do you follow Aliyah??

With literal human perfection Gina Torres of course!!! Again....I wanted to go with an older woman. Someone who would be seen as an authority to all vampires. Someone god damnned goregeous. And someone who I find intimidating. Also, since I'm skewing a little tall with this cast (at least as TV actors go) I wanted someone who comfortably stands among and above most of them! She's a seasond tested actor, and certified badass. And we know she can steal a scene. Besides if she can look regal as a queen in that weirdass dress they gave her in the serenity movie she can pull off whatever monstrosity costumes comes up with to follow the Aliyah getup.

Khayman:

Don't @ me but....I have a LOT of feelings about Khayman. I love his particularly breed of immortal insanity. I love the way immortality drove him mad into a childlike enjoyment and curiosity. And I knew exactly who has to be casted to play that combination of intimidating ancient and innocent curiosity:

This is Howard Charles. He is capable of playing both an intimidating giant and a sweet soulful cinnamon roll at the same time. I cannot sing this man's praises enough. Am I scared of him? Do I want to hug him? Both? He's also one of the best scene SHARERS I've seen on screen in a long time and that's very important in a supporting role.

Maharet:

Just because Anne Rice doesn't know shit about Mesopotamia doesn't mean we have to follow her in that. I wanted to pull from Middle Eastern or Indian populations for her to best reflect the look of the region in a time that's roughly in line with the pre-dynastic Egyptian mish-mosh associated with Akasha.

So I'm gunning for Indira Varma. When I say this woman has timeless beauty.....I mean timeless. She's as prehistorically hot as she is today. And she's such a strong actress, I want to give her a role that isn't 50% sex scenes. She's got both the warmth and the commanding strength to play Maharet. I would ideally like to get a dancer to play Mekare....someone who can handle the physical interp of the role. Probably an Indian dancer to match Indira Varma.

David Talbot:

In the newly declared tradition of Doctors playing Talbot:

This is the only current Gif I could find of Sylvester McCoy. Known to many as the Seventh Doctor. And to many as Ratagast the Brown. He embodies that sort of huffy aging britishness that David projects, but has the over the top personality that can give us those hints of the vitality of David's youth. Basically I can see this man telling stories about hunting tigers in India. Then when he gets the hot young Raglan James Body:

Luke Pasqualino. Swarthy young troublemaker. But for all the youthful good looks, he proved that he was able to play grace and gravitas as D'artagnion in the final season of the BBC Musketeers. I'd love to give him a chance to explore that deeper part. I also trust his ability to match the energy of a cast, which he did repeatedly on musketeers, and portray both the impulsive self aggrandizing Lestat in the Raglan James body and to play the DarkAU Musketeer type that is Raglan James himself.

That's literally all the Gifs I can put in a post. I know I skipped Daniel......but that's because I have surprisingly few opinions on Daniel.......he's very much a vanilla audience connecting character. I'd almost like to see an unknown in that role....just to see what we a new face could make.

And thus ends my casting of the Vampire Chronicles!!

[decima-simming]

ULTIMATE Belladonna Cove Male Premade Ratings!

Some of the people I follow are playing Belladonna Cove and it made realize how underrated that neighborhood is. Granted, I don’t have BC set up in my game just yet (I want to play the base neighborhoods first) and I never explored further than one day the first time I did two (?) years ago, but I’m deeply passionate about the premades thanks to the only fully developed Belladonna Cove Let’s Play available on YouTube and other people in here, so without further ado, here’s my ratings on all the male BC premades (excluding teens and children) based on looks and if I want to date them.

We start with beloved and respectable scientist Benjamin Baldwin who wants his children to follow in his footsteps. While his wife worries about keeping up appearances, he seems very chill. Decent husband and person, he is probably one of the few Good Men™. 8.5/10.    

Ah, another one of those “I want my child to be more responsible” parents! According to Jason Cleveland's gender preferences, he prefers men, so the poor guy is stuck in the closet. His marriage to Marissa, a wealthy woman, speaks volume about his ambitions in life. Finally a male gold-digger in the Sims 2, Dina, WHO? However, he is a vice squad and has his son in the military career, so his political views are iffy at best. Gay and in the police force? Smells like toxic masculinity and internalized homophobia! He only gets points for his amazing jawline. 4/10.

Have you ever looked at someone and thought “I’m calling my lawyer to prepare a restraining order”? No? Just me? Anyway, I’m not sure what Carlos Contender’s deal is, but I don’t want it. He is a Popularity Sim who is friends with every adult in the neighborhood and that is nothing more than a facade to distract from his romantic exploits. His bio literally says that there’s nothing like a new romance to make him feel “young” again and if that doesn’t scream scum, I don’t know what does.  It’s not surprising that the two most prominent women in his life who aren’t his family (Chastity and Jessica) are half his age; at this rate he will flirt with newly young adults and that is fucking disgusting! Legend says that he lives for a very long time, so this perversion will continue until someone puts him out of his misery! Luckily, Jessica is working hard to have access to his fortune and if she succeeds, the evil will be defeated! Bye, Carlos! -100000/10.

Oh, Armand DeBateau. What can be said about this man that hasn’t been said already? He broke off with his ex-wife when she wouldn’t give him an heir (hey, don’t look at me like that! He calls Tara his “heir,” his words, not mine!) and, sure, Jessica was a cheating gold-digger, but it’s 2019 (2008 when this expansion was released???), reproductive rights are a thing, buddy! He clearly studied the Landgraab guidebook of old fashion sexism because that mentality of marrying women for the sake of continuing a wealthy legacy is fucked up. His only redeeming quality that blood is not that important to him because he treats his adopted daughter Tara like a princess and perhaps underneath that douchey rich exterior is a great parent. Good thing he doesn’t have canonical children in the game because how you seen the spawn he creates with Jessica and Kimberly? His genes are so dominant and it clashes with unique features! 3/10.

I can’t bring myself to criticize him, he is truly one of the few Good Men™! Cheesy hair and clothes aside, once you give Gabriel Green something better, he is quite the looker. His bio says that he loves to learn and you didn’t hear that every day now, do you (I’m kidding, of course you have). but every once in a while he relaxes to dance with his childhood best friend Chastity. Good for him, you can trust this guy to be a great friend! Gabriel said women’s rights! It is said that if him and Samantha Cordial are alone in the same room, they fall in love instantly. That indicates that he is a hopeless romantic and that could be his downfall overtime. Chastity may love love, but Gabriel is married to love. 9/10.

Lamer than the cracks on concrete. Mary’s bio says that she sacrificed her own desires to accommodate Nathan Gavigan’s dreams, so shame on you, Nathan. Frankly, Mary deserves better and so do I. 2/10 

Herbert Goodie is a nice man who is happily married to his wife and is financially stable. If you want an older man without feeling like shit, he is your guy! 8/10

Quite the good-looking fellow, not going to lie, but Ramir Patel is a politician, so I immediately do not trust his judgment. He is clearly a family man of the cursed variety with that “I want my children to follow my career” mentality, but I can see him being supportive of his future child no matter what. Ana is a sweetheart and he better take care of her when I play him someday! However, his political ambition might get in the way. Have you seen how politicians act this days? Not bueno! Only time will tell if he is one of the good ones, he is quite the wild card. 6.5/10

Eh, Timothy Riley is a John Burb copycat, not much substance to him. He seems nice and a good enough parent, so he is alright, but boring. Him and Vivian don’t make a bad couple. 5/10

I don’t have strong feelings for Geoff Rutherford, but he seems like a fun guy! He may seem as sleazy as Carlos Contender, but he strikes me as the guy who respects women compared to him and that is admirable. However, that irresponsible personality might get old after a while, so he might need to grow up eventually. He is good for a nice night, so kudos to him! 7/10

And finally, Connor Weir. He strikes me as the guy who looks down on others for not being as responsible as he is (watch out, Geoff!) and that little part of his bio about working harder because he doesn’t have as much as advantages as Geoff sounds like he could be slightly jealous of Geoff. Has some shades of Nice Guy™ Syndrome so a little reality check might be in order if he truly wants to find The One™. 5/10

if you made it this far, congratulations, thirst knows no boundaries! Goodnight, everybody!

[desertfangs]

You know how Armand and Daniel are described as being over court and just wanting to go home and then during his big BC speech Armand tells Lestat how he absolutely can’t stand seeing his sycophantic hanger-ons because he wishes he were then? Well now I can’t stop thinking about Armand and Daniel walking around the castle and Armand being like “LOOK AT THEM DANIEL 😤 horrid little creatures 😡 following him around like wretched baby ducks 🤮” while Daniel rolls his eyes and makes an off-handed groupie joke and Armand actually laughs and starts seeing the humor in an otherwise humiliating situation (for him) and then all of a sudden court isn’t so bad anymore and making fun of Lestat’s groupies becomes A Thing for them. Daniel’s impersonations are next level (Lestat eventually finds out about them and even he agrees but shh don’t tell his fans) and that’s how Armand Learns to Cope

Oh my gosh, anon, I have so much to say to this I don’t even know where to begin. So let me just start with the premise of this is amazing and it should be a fic! I love it and I want to read the heck out of it.

Armand pining for Lestat is one of my favorite things and Armand and Lestat’s relationship in the series is easily one of the mostly fascinating and the most relatable. Armand is immediately taken with Lestat even as he yells at him that vampires can’t live like humans (‘you baffoon’ is not said aloud but heavily implied). Lestat represents something Armand doesn’t have at that point: agency and freedom. He’s just being a guy who happens to be a vampire which goes against everything Armand has been indoctrinated to believe. He shakes his world apart, literally. 

Armand spends centuries wanting to be someone important to Lestat. To be seen by him and to matter to him. They have love between them but it’s fraught and confusing and Lestat pretty much rejects him at every turn. And still, he protects Lestat and watches over him. It’s not until TVA, when Lestat allows him to drink from him when he’s comatose on the church floor, that they finally have some closure and connection there. It’s a beautiful moment!  

But then they go their separate ways and so later, at Court, Armand still harbors a little bitterness and sadness that he’s never quite been in a closer place with Lestat. And that’s relatable AF, right? We all have those people in our lives at one time or another whom we wish we could be closer with but for whatever reason, we don’t make the cut or it just doesn’t happen. And sometimes when you find yourself in that position you look at those people who are in their inner circle (or sucking up to them trying to get close) and think “Wow, what fools!” (BTW can we delight in how often Armand calls Lestat a fool in that speech? LOL!) But it ends happily! Armand is there at the end clapping in support, standing at Louis’ side. They exchange a look, Armand nods at Lestat in approval, all seems right in the world.

So back to your thing! I do think one thing Daniel offers Armand is a refuge and a place to have those feelings openly and unjudged. Armand can be his worst self around Daniel and vent those feelings and Daniel doesn’t love him any less. He gets it! I mean, President of the Vampire Lestat Fan Club Molloy over here and he's not even mentioned in the last book or the mural at the end?! So surely he understands the allure of Lestat and he definitely gets Armand’s frustration. 

I love the idea of Daniel making a groupie joke that lands and finally Armand can see that his feelings of envy are sort of silly. He has a centuries of unresolved feelings for Lestat, but of course, he’s better than a groupie could ever be to him. He means so much more to Lestat and Lestat does listen to him (even if he tries not to let Armand know that…). 

And listen, this is just my personal headcanon, but I think Armand and Daniel can run a joke into the ground. I can totally see them whispering to each other when Lestat’s gaggle of groupies passes or making crude jokes about sexual favors after meetings. Daniel doing impersonations that crack Armand up until he feels ridiculous for ever wanting to be part of that crowd. “You make a better heckler, boss, and Lestat needs more of those,” Daniel might tell him. And it’s true! Armand offers a viewpoint no one else does. Lestat needs that and the vampire court needs that!

I also love the idea of Lestat catching them out one night as they walk through the village, Daniel mocking someone in an exaggerated voice and then Lestat is in front of them. “Is that supposed to be who I think?” Daniel is abashed by Armand confirms it is, and if Lestat wants to surrounded himself with yes men that’s none of their business. Lestat smiles faintly at Armand and asks Daniel to repeat the impression. Daniel feels strangely self-conscious and tries to explain that they’re just having fun. Lestat admits the impression is spot on and really, Daniel should do more impressions. So Daniel does another and then the three of them are laughing and walking back to the Chateau and you know, maybe they could hang out there for a few more months… after all, Armand doesn’t want to leave Lestat ‘unsupervised.’ (Lestat pretends to be annoyed but you know he’s thrilled!)

WOW I am just going off on tangents! Tangent city! But thank you for the ask, anon!! Daniel and Armand having private in-jokes to cope with things is one of my favorite things. I feel like they had a lot of those on Night Island, too, and Court would be no exception!

[chelleaslin]

Alyadrininette Week Day 1- Confessions

@mlshipfleet

Everyone in the poly relationship were pulled to one another through their different emotions.

For Marinette, it was her jealously. She hated being third-wheeled by Alya and Nino when Adrien had to cancel plans. She hated watching them hold hands and kiss, hated they way Nino would touch Alya’s hair randomly throughout the day. She hated the way that Alya would hug Nino’s arm and lean into his side. She knew her hair wasn’t much but why wouldn’t Nino touch her hair, she washed it every night and she thought it was incredible soft! Why couldn’t Alya hug her arms, since becoming Ladybug, her arms have toned nicely as she new she could easily handle the weight on Alya on her side! Then with Adrien finally being her’s, her life would be complete! The bluenette froze mid thought, her eyes widening. Did she just say she wanted to be with all of her best friends?

For Adrien, It was his loneliness. He hated being alone, ever since his Mothers death he has been alone. The harder he thought about it, he didn’t really anyone even when his Mother was alive. Chloe was his only friend for most his childhood and even then, she never really was much of a friend to him. All of that changed though once he went to school and meant Nino. He was amazing, he instently became friends with Adrien without a second thought that he was a Agreste. He was protective and kind and Adrien was so, so, so greatful for him. Nino starting dating Alya then suddenly her and a girl called Marinette, started to hang out with them. Adrien didn’t feel lonely anymore, he had the bestest friends in the world. Without meaning too he found himself becoming very dependent on his friends, he hated going anywhere with at least one of them by him side and even then he never felt completely whole without the 4 of them together. If he had to cancel plans with his friends and they still went out together he felt an overly depressingly sense of loneliness that usually ended up in tears, he needed them.

For Alya, it was her protectiveness. She was the new girl in school and desperate for friend call her own. Suddenly a cute blue haired girl started to get bullied out of her seat, Alya felt an over whelming sense of protectiveness and came to her aid, they have been inseparable since. Suddenly Nino and Marinette were on some weird date that was supposed to be a ploy for Marinette to get closer to Nino’s best friend. Everything went south when Marinette started to throw her under the bus and Ladybug literally threw her in a cage with Nino. The poor boy was terrified, Alya felt that fierce protectiveness bubble inside her cheats again, she needed to protect him. She spend the next few hours, talking non stop to distract him and ended up to really get to know the boy. He was completely incredible! It wasn’t long before the two fell in love and made it official. Her life felt set she had her boyfriend and her best friend in arms reach of her at all times, she could keep them safe. All of that changed the Day Nino got a phone call mid Date and had to leave claiming it was an emergency. Alya, trusted him, she really did but his lack of detail was very suspicious, so she followed him. She was shocked to say the least when she found him in the park holding a sobbing Adrien to his chest. Her heart broke as she watched him scream about how lonely he is, how no one loves him, as he shook violently. There was something dangerous and dark in his eyes, something that made her heart break. She felt that primal sense of protection start to bubble in her stomach, this was the real Adrien Agreste she could see it as clear as day, the boy that came to school every morning was a perfect, fake product of his Father and she would do everything in her power to protect him, protect all of them.

Lastly, for Nino, it was love. He loved them all pure and simple, he was the first one to further it out but he always kept it hidden, forced his over whelming love to be nothing but a platonic friendship. He had loved Marinette for as long as he could remember she was his original childhood crush, always such a sweet and caring girl that stood up for other but never had the confidence to stand up for herself. He finally had a chance to be with her, but an Akuma ruined his date. It may have torn him from Marinette but it opened a whole new door for him, to Alya. Alya was perfect, strong,p and confident in herself and Her beliefs. She knew who she was in the world and was a force to be reckon with. She was everything he wanted in live and more but he still couldn’t get Marinette out of his head. He knew it was wrong, disgusting even, the two girls were best friends, he shouldn’t do this to Alya but he really couldn’t help himself. His heart belonged to both girls and he knew because of it, he didn’t deserve neither of them. He loved each day with the guilt of feeling like a cheater and it made it harder and harder to spend time with Marinette or Alya. He decided he just needed someone to talk to, he needed bro time. He started hanging out with Adrien more, the two already had a good bond but it the last week they had gotten so much closer. Nino started to feel the familiar butterflies he got around the girls, around Adrien and it honestly scared him. Sure he always thought he was straight and this was a massive surprise but he was more scared of the fact that his heart had more room to love another. Love. Holy shit he was in love with Adrien Agreste!

It was Nino’s birthday and he was freaking out. He stopped hanging around the girls to clear his head but he only ended up falling for Adrien too! He needed a break from all of them he thought so for the last two weeks they have barely hung out. He couldn’t avoid them for long, it was his birthday today and he woke up two a group text made by Alya demanding they celebrate.

That lead him to now, setting up his bedroom for his friends to come over and have a movie night. He asked his parents about it earlier and they agreed that it would be a great idea since they haven’t seen any of his friends recently. He was secretly hoping they said no, so he had an excuse not to see anyone. Matters only worsened when his Mother suggested the kids sleep. The girls could have Nino’s room and the boy the living room. Nino thought it was the worst idea in the world but it was too late, his Mother was already ringing his friends parents and organising the night.

A firm knock on the door, broke his train of thought. He quickly reached over himself in the mirror, he wanted to look good regardless of who was on the other side. He opened the door to see his girlfriend, Alya. A massive smile stretched across her lips as she tackled him into a hug, her face pressed into the crook of his neck.

“Hmm, Happy Birthday Baby.” She muttered, her slightly damp lips fluttering across his neck causing him to blush furiously. He gently pried her off and he tried to calm he raging hormones.

“Thanks Alys.” He smiled softly at her before cupping her soft cheek with his hand and leaning down to give her a passinate kiss. She gasped at the contact before melting into his embrace, she missed this.

“Ahem.” A small voice snapped slightly. The pair broke apart to see Marinette standing at the door with a rather annoyed expression on her face. The girl seem very upset yet her freckled cheeks were slightly dusted with a pink hue.

“Sorry.” Nino apologised sheepishly as he took a step away from Alya who look equally as guilty. Marinette took a deep breath trying to control her unwarranted jealously befrpore smiling at Nino.

“Happy Birthday!” She cheered, feeling more like herself again, she marched towards him with open arms. Nino felt a strange sense of Déjà vu as she wrapped her arms around him in a warm embrace and nestled her face in the crook of his neck. His face started to burn as he blushed over the thought of Marinette and him making out like Alya and him just did.

“Don’t forger me!” Alya teased, making the hugging pair jump apart. Nino had forgotten his girlfriend was standing right next to them. By the blushed cheeks and shocked expression on the bluenette face, she had also.

Marinette feltan over whelming sense of guilt, she had just intimately held Alya’s boyfriend in front of her! She hesitantly raised her face up towards Alya’s, expecting to see her sending her death glares! She was shocked to find the girl smiling softly at her with so much adoration in her eyes that it made her heart skip.

“What are you waiting for?” Alya laughed as she opened her arms for the smaller girl. Marinettes heart started to flutter like crazy as she tackled Alya into a hug. She rested her head against Alya’s chest and just listened to her heartbeat, it was beating so hard and fast that Marinette question if Alya had butterflies too.

Nino stood of too the side and watch as the two girl’s melted into one another’s embrace. His fingers itched to reach out and hold both of them, some apart of that love and affection. Suddenly like she read his mind, Alyaopened her big honey brown eyes and smiled at him.

“What are you doing way over there? Come here.” She demanded as she let go of Marinette with one Armand stretched it out towards the tan boy. He laced his fingers with hers, herpulling him closer until he was flush against Marinette’s back. He melted into their warm bodies a sigh escaping his chapped lips. He didn’t understand entirely what was going on but he knew that he wanted this and was t going to let over thinking ruin it.

“This would be perfect if Adrien was here.” Marinette whispered from betweenher two tall friends. She felt the rumble of their chest as they hummed in agreement.

“Guy’s.” A cracked voice whispered. The trio pulled apart and looked towards the open door to see a very tired looking Adrien. He had bags under his eyes and his skin was rather pale. A gasp left Marinettes mouth as tears threaten to spill from her bluebell eyes.

“I..l” Adrien stuttered as tears welled up in his own eyes. “I’ve missed you all.” He cried as the dam broke and his salty tear fell freely from his sad green eyes. Alya felt that protectiveness again at the sight of his tears and pushed past the two to hold Adrien. He collapsed in her arms as he started to muttered and mumble incoherent sentences into her shoulder.

“Adrien, Honey, what’s wrong?” Alya softly whispered as she rubbed soothing circles in his back. He finally calm down enough to remove his face from her now soaking shoulder and face them.

“I love you, Alya!” He cried as guilt hit him hard. He glanced at Nino who stood frozen in place from his confession. “Nino.” He whispered as he removed himself from a shocked Alya to step towards his best friend. Nino flinched away and Adrien heart broke in two.

Nino didn’t know why he flinched away from Adrien’s touch, he craved it but he was in shock. His best friend just emmitted that he was in love with his girlfriend but he was only jealous because he wanted Adrien to love him. He wasn’t upset at all that Adrien loved Alya, in fact it made his heart swell, knowing that two people he loved could love each other. He looked up at Adrien who hard curled in on himself as he cried quietly, Alya was still frozen in place and Marinette had the darkest look in her face, he pitied her.

“Adrien.” Nino called out, his voice shaky. He needed to get this out before their friend group was destroyed forever. He look a deep breath and made eye contact with the blonde that froze at the mention on his name. He straightened his should before marching up the the boy and placing his hands softly on his face.

“Nino?” Adrien asked questionly as his cheek heated up.

Nino ignored him, closing his eyes and leaning in. Their lips meant in a short but loving kiss. Adrien’s lips were awfully soft in comparison to Nino’s chapped ones. After a few quick seconds the kiss ended all to soon. Nino stepped back and opened his eyes curious of everyone’s reactions. Adrien still had his eyes close, his face bright pink, Alya had a look of hope on her features and Marinette just looked worse then before. She noticed Mino looking at her so she quickly turned her head, he was about to reach out for her as well when Alya decided to speak.

“So what does this mean?” She asked in confusion as she stared at the two boys. Nino decided to take the initiative, this has been something he had been dreaming about for a long time.

“I love you both so much and I want us all to be together, if you’ll both have me.” He confessed, mumbling towards the end sheepishly. Alya and Adrien just stared at him making him feel uncomfortable, he opted to look at his bare feet instead, while he awaited an answer.

“Yes.” Is all Adrien choked out before tackling Nino in a hug and kissing him again. Nino smiled into the kiss and wrapped his arms around th shorter boy. They broke apart and turned to Alya and each held out a hand too her. She blushed as she shyly place one of her hands in each of theirs. They pulled her in between them and hugged her tight. The Aurban hair girl found herself blushing madly between the taller lads. Their sweet confessions were interrupted by the front door slamming shut. The trio jumped apart in surprise swinging their heads towards the now just door.

“Mari’s gone.” Alya whispered before the whole scene really hit her, with out her love goggles on. Adrien Agreste, Marinette’s crush, just confessed his love to her, Marinettes best friend. To make it worse he has room in his heart for Nino as well, Marinettes childhood friend. Then they all said they loved each other and established a sort of three way relationship, in front of Marinette! Alya felt her heart break into pieces, Marinette must be feeling so unloved right now and so betrayed by her friends. “He have to find her.” She turned towards her boys to see similar worried and guilted looks on their faces.

Outside Marinette had collapsed on the pavement as she balled her eyes out. Tikki flew out of her purse and quickly tried to comfort her chosen.

“Shh, it’s okay.” Tiki whispered as she mused Marinettes pink cheek. “I know it hurts but he’s not worth it.”

Marketers head snapped up from her hands, finally allowing Tikki to see the fire in her eyes. Marinette wasn’t sad, no she was mad, furiously.

“He is worth it Tikki, that’s the problem.” She snapped as she stood up and started to stalk down the street. “They’re all worth it, Alya, Nino and Adrien.” She sighed as she reached an alleyway three houses down, she sat against the wall at the mouth of the entry, just out of sight from the street view. Tikki sat on her shoulder, sighing sadly, she didn’t understand.

“I’m the one not worth it.” Marinette choked out as the tears started to fall from her blue eyes. Tikki gasped feeling her own tears threatening to spill, why would Marinette ever think that?

“No, no, no, Marinette! You are enough.” Tikki flew in front of the bluenette face. “You were chosen to be Ladybug that should be enough proof.”

“I don’t know Tikki.” She sighed once again, “I’m good enough to be a protector but for love?” She sighed as she squeezed her eyes shut trying to not let her emotions take the better off her, she didn’t need to get Akumatized.

“Love?” Tikki whispered under her breath in confusion. She was about to voice her complaints but Marinette decided to open up.

“I love them Tikki, all of them, not just Adrien.” She whispered with a small smile on her face. Sunddenly her face fell again as she shook her head violently as it was trying to rid it of her previous loving thoughts. “No, it’s wrong.” She hissed to her self. Tikki felt a sense of dread overcome her, Marinette can’t think negatively about love, especially this kind of rare love.

“It isn’t wrong, Marinette.” The small goddess sternly said. “All love if magical, even more so then your Miraculous.”

“I know Tikki, but my love isn’t real, you can’t love more then one person!” Marinette growled out as she tugged at her hair roots in frustration.

“Marinette!” A tiny red hand slapped her across her cheek. In any other circumstances she would have laughed but the murderous expression on Tikki’s face reminded Marinette that she was, in fact, dealing with a god. “All love is magical, even yours, especially yours, if you have a heart bigger enough to love three different humans then you truely have something magical.”

Marinette turned her face away from Tikki, it wasn’t that she didn’t believe her, she did, it was just what the other three had was special, what she had was just depressing.

“I’ll check up here!” She heard a familiar voice say. Tikki looked at Marinette with wide eyes, quickly ducking out of view just as Alya ran pass the alley way. Marinette held her breath as she counted the seconds in her head, waiting for Her friend to notice her. After a minute had passed she breathed a sigh of relief, but she may have replaced too soon.

“There you are!” Alya cheered happily as she headed back towards Ninos house and spotted Marinette. She carefully approached the girl who looked very off guard. “Marinette, Listen, I-“

“It’s okay, Alya.” Marinette cut her off, holding up her hand. “You can’t help who you fall in love with.” She tried to give her a smile of courage but ended up bursting into tears. Alya quickly pulled the girl into a hug, just wanting to take the pain away from her.

“I’m sorry that I fell in love with Adrien, I’m so so sorry.” Alya cried, as she patted Marinettes blue hair. “He wasn’t the only one Mari, I love you too so much.” She squeezed the girl as tightly as she could not wanting her to see her reaction to her confession. Marinette had other plans though as she squirmed and fought her way out of Alya’s grasp.

“Y-you love?” She gasped her eyes watering, not quite crying anymore.

“Yes.” Alya breathed as she started to close the distance between the two. “I have loved you for a while Marinette, the way you stand up for others, you’ve come along way since we first meet. You couldn’t even stand up for yourself then, remember?”

“You taught me how?” Marinette quietly replied as she recalled the events of that day. “You better me.”

Alya laughed at little in joy as she placed their foreheads together.

“Can I kiss you?”

Marinette didn’t reply she just pressed her lips against Alya’s in a much over due kiss. She tasted like salted Carmel chocolate which made no sense to Marinette but at the same time everything made sense because it was so Alya.

“Ahem.”

The two girls broke apart and looked up to see the two boys now standing above them as they sat on the alleyway floor.

“What did we miss?” Nino asked as his eyes keep drifting to Marinette with an unknown expression. Marinette put her head down in shame, her dream like bubble popping as she remembered that Alya wasn’t hers.

“I’m sorry boy, I love you both with all my heart but I also love Marinette.” Alya begain speaking, “I’ve loved her for as long as I’ve known her and I want to be with yous but I can’t do that to Marinette.” The boys looked at the two girls then each other, having some kind of unknown conversation, Marinettes heart broke in two.

“It’s okay.” She quickly said as she stood up and faced her three friends. “I love you all out I don’t want to be a problem in your relationship.” She quickly turned her head down as she went to make her leave, embarrassed at her confession.

“Marinette, Wait.” Nino blurted out, grabbing her wrist to stop her from running away. “I love you too, since our first date, before I even knew Alya.” He realised what he said and cringed,sending the brunette an apologetic smile. Surprisely Alya wasn’t made, she actually understood what Nino meant completely. “Adrien,” Nino suddenly spoke up, straight into his back and turning to the model. Adrien who was half zoned out quickly stood up straight in surprise.

“I love you, Alya loves you but we both love Marinette.” He explained, “I would love for nothing more then having all of you to call my own and view versa but it would be unfair for us to force you in a relationship with someone you don’t..” He trailed off as he once again realised he had said something wrong. His light brown eyes quickly skimmed over Marinettes defeated form, asking him wish he could take it all back.

“But, you wouldn’t be forcing me to do anything.” He quietly said, everyone herd him anyway. The trio snapped their heads towards Adrien, all three of them had hope in their eyes.

“What?” Marinettes voice broke unevenly as she stepped towards the boy she had longed for for so long. Alya protectiveness took a step behind her, in case what Adrien said wasn’t good news.

“Marinette, I love you too. You all have helped me through so much, thank you.” His eyes teared up as he tackled Marinette into a hug. Nino and Alya joined the pair as they all finally had each other in their arms, they were finally complete.

“I love you.” They all said at the same time making them giggle.

“As much as I hate labels, what are we?” Alya suddenly spoke up.

“Boyfriend’s and Girlfriend’s?” Adrien asked.

“Yes, Yes, please!” Nino smiled as he held them tighter.

[authorstalker]

My June & July Reads

84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff - A cool thing I get to do for my day job is interview people for the staff newsletter. Since it’s a library and I am me, I always ask for book recommendations. Back in June, a librarian told me that once a year, she re-reads her favorite book, 84, Charing Cross Road, a collection of letters between a freelance writer in New York City and workers at the London bookshop where she orders all the books she can’t find in America. The librarian told me that Helene “speaks to my soul, my secret self”...and I mean, who am I to resist a recommendation like that? So: I read it and you should read it too. Helene Hanff was completely bonkers and a wonderful writer. The letters are hilarious, interesting, and full of history lessons; the correspondence spans from the 1940s to the 1960s, so you get all these fascinating glimpses at wartime London (a lot of powdered eggs). Anyway, this book is wonderful and super short and I plan to join my colleague in her annual re-read.  The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny - My favorite of the series so far, Louise Penny amazes me. I need two months off work just to catch up on all the Armand Gamache books, and I *really* need to find a Gamache support group to help me deal with everything revealed at the end of The Brutal Telling. (I thought I was imagining the Jean-Guy Beauvoir stuff, but I was right. AHHHHHH!)

The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls, Jessica Spotswood - A YA that I can’t recommend enough for fans of Little Women & Gilmore Girls (& Dawson’s Creek!). There are many appealing plot points but here’s my favorite: you know how we all loved the season 2 Rory/Dean/Jess drama? This book has that except the Jess character is a sweetheart who already has his shit together.

The Gunners, Rebecca Kauffman - I love these characters, I love all their tiny revelations, I love the pets (Finn and Friday!), I. LOVE. MIKEYYYY. The descriptions, the music, the dad scenes, all of it. Get this book immediately!

Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller - The kind of beautifully written novel that makes me wish I was back in college—just for a week!—so I could argue about the characters and themes and imagery and the ending with a group of passionate book nerds. (And then I'd drag Kerry to Kofenya so we could gossip about said book nerds over a couple zebra lattes. Hi, Kerry!) This book has everything: an abandoned (possibly haunted) English estate, so many biscuits and bottles of wine, a dramatically unhappy couple, an introverted garden researcher, sex, misery, loneliness, religion, and on and on. Mystery, intrigue, and unreliability galore! Clearly I loved it a lot.

The Late Bloomers’ Club, Louise Miller - A perfect book. I loved it *even more* than her first book, which is also perfect. Sisters, a small town diner, a missing dog, baked goods, capable (and nice and handsome) men. I plan to daydream about all of the author's food descriptions for quite some time...now who can bake me a burnt sugar cake with maple icing?! Sidenote: Louise Penny and Louise Miller have become two of my favorite, must-read authors. Is there something about the name Louise? I dunno, but they’re both brilliant.

Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It, Kerry Winfrey - A funny, feel-good, total delight of a book, which yes, was written by one of my best friends. Isn’t it nice that I don’t have to lie about my friend’s book being great? Kerry’s writing is warm, wonderful, cozy, all the good adjectives--I can’t recommend it enough if you’re looking for a positive distraction. So much happens in this book, and I loved all of it: there's a high school musical featuring astronauts and pigs, a best friend group that holds emergency meetings at Applebee's, and a quest to complete a bucket list with goals like 'kiss the cutest boy at school.' Through all of that, there's a beautiful story about two sisters who learn to rely on each other when life sucks, a girl struggling with self-confidence and body image, and of course, a swoony romance (a VERY swoony romance). Did I mention it’s really funny? I laughed out loud a LOT while I waited for my faves to finally kiss. This is an ideal summer read.

[grimelords]

​My October playlist is finished, please enjoy it. From 14 minute 70s acoustic guitar instrumentals, Armand Van Helden bangers and Christian music I’ve had a lot of feelings about this playlist has it all in four hours.

Love Love Love - The Mountain Goats: Posting on the web about Mountain Goats songs you've had a moment with is about as universal as it gets, so here's mine for this month. I woke up one morning with the line about Sonny Liston in my head one day after not listening to this song in years. John Darnielle is perhaps the only person on earth I'd trust to write a song about Kurt Cobain's suicide and he does a very simple and beautiful job of it here. Ben's My Friend - Sun Kil Moon: I discovered Sun Kil Moon way after I probably should have via that guy who was doing parody songs of him last year. This song is fantastic because it takes so long to make its point, and like so much good art is just some middle aged guy recounting his every thought and movement for four minutes. You Were Meant For Me - Jewel: I was trying to remember how Dreams by Fleetwood Mac went and all I could think of was this song, and settled on singing it to myself instead. Sober - Lorde: Sorry to be a normie but listening to Lorde break down this song on an episode of Song Exploder was incredibly good and it definitely made me appreciate the way the brass sounds a lot more. Melodrama really does get better and better as a cohesive whole the more I listen to it. Night Moves - Bob Seger: We as a society need to bring back Power Voice I think. I've been obsessed with this song for months now and as far as I can tell Bob Seger has precisely zero other good songs, which is unfortunate because this one is so good. This also is another song about getting the Lamenting Night Hornies because you heard a thunderstorm that reminded you of the times in your youth that you Fucked and it's, in my opinion, very beautiful. Cairo - San Fermin: This is on the list not only because it's a good song but also unfortunately because of Podasts. San Fermin guested on an episode of Improv4humans and got absolutely roasted about this song so I highly recommend the ep. UFO - Sneaky Sound System: It's unfortunate that Sneaky Sound System's highest played song according to Spotify is the Nicolas Jaar remix of Big (an all time top ten piece of music) because it's really overshadowed the rest of their incredibly good singles. Do you remember 2006? What a time to be alive. UFO (Van She Tech Remix) - Sneaky Sound System: This is my absolute pick of the month and I have been raving to everyone who'll listen but nobody cares, I cannot get enough of it. Do you remember when Justice came from France to bless us all with the secret of bass and we betrayed them by inventing Skrillex not three years later? Van She remember. Charlie Chazz & Rappin Ralph - Duck Sauce: I believe there is a real argument to be made that any song that doesn't refer to the listeners collectively as Party People is absolutely worthless. Duck Sauce's album is a completely underrated classic in my opinion, it's a go-to mood elevator from beginning to end and for some reason has a subplot thoughout about aliens transmitting coded messages to influence human evolution, which is a big thumbs up from me. I Took Your Picture - Cults: Guess what Cults are still really really good. I haven't given this album enough time yet but this bassline has invaded my dreams so that's a good sign. Pavement - City Calm Down: The way this layers and builds into and through the chorus is so satisfying. I love this sort of thick synth production and the contrast between the different registers of his voice is so satisfying as the chorus comes back again. Pogo - Digitalism: Australian electronic music had a real moment around 2007 between Digitalism, Van She, The Presets, Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy and all them and I'm realising retrospectively that it was very, very good. Semicircle Song - The Go! Team: The world's best band are back and their new album isn't out until fucking January! This song features big horns and a bridge that's just a montage of children telling you their star sign so that's how you know it's good. The Garden's All Nighters - The Number Twelve Looks Like You: It's a real shame that #12 broke up after this album because it feels like they were really on the edge of something. Over 4 albums they morphed from a straight ahead grind band into some sort of math-prog thing approaching it from a whole different direction to everyone else. I love the idea of writing such an expansive, complex song seemingly just about living in New Jersey. The way it transitions into the groovy latin part is so nice and the solo is just beautiful; and unlike other bands in the same sort of sector they never make a joke of genre switches either, they just keep moving forward with a smile. Paris/Orly - Deux: I forget how I first came across this album but it’s easily the wankiest thing I absolutely love. An 80s French synthpop duo that only ever released a cassette and some singles that got reissued by a label called Minimal Wave a few years ago. It is absolutely the best. New wave mixed with Kraftwerk and synthpop except incredibly french and cool as well. I constantly have their song Game And Performance in my head but this one was my obsession this month. Walking Into Sunshine (Larry Levan 12" Mix) - Central Line: There’s something very authentic about disco songs that are lyrically all about working all week all day every day, and desperately needing a break to perhaps, dance your worries away in a new york discotheque. Cradle In The Crater - The Number Twelve Looks Like You: This is maybe my favourite #12 song because it appears to be about some kind of super child who came from space and perhaps wrought havoc on the citizens of earth, but told in a very real and emotional way like it’s a story about someone they really knew. It reminds me of Mother 3 and the good times I had as a teen playing that game with my best friend, so that’s an added bonus. Under The Ice (Extended Version) - Topo & Roby: Italo disco forever. This song is a duet between a woman and a robot where they relay the story of him coming from a distant planet in a spaceship and crashing on the north pole then getting trapped under the titular ice where he waits to I think murder me. Now that I think of it it’s world similar to Cradle In The Crater. It sounds so good, far better than a novelty song like this has any right to. There’s also a video with someone’s 80s mum dancing with an incredibly shit robot on youtube if you’re interested. Outta The Woodwork - Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett: I really love the covers they chose for this album because they both really make it their own. Outta The Woodwork really sounds like a Kurt song now and I love the strong piano giving the song the harder edge the lyrics deserve and Kurt just lazily soloing to hell any chance he gets Peepin' Tom - Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett: I think I almost like this version more than the original, making it just an acoustic thing but still keeping all the dynamics of the original is so nice. I love specifically the deep bass voice of ‘peepin’ to the high ‘tom’. It satisfies something weird in my brain. Mercury (12" Version) - Bloc Party: I can’t believe i’ve lived this long without ever knowing that there was a 12” version of Mercury out there. The song I always felt was way too short to contain the amount of energy it has has a 7 minute version that well and truly lays it out into a slow intense burn instead. Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT: Just to get my 2007 opinions straight Electric Feel is not a good song. Kids is a good song but Electric Feel isn’t. That said: this remix comes damn close to making it good. Justice figured out the secret sound and we’re all the better for it. Comin' Apart - Gary Wright: There’s no greater joy than tracking down a sample and finding out that the original song is also a banger. This pairs extremely well with My My My as a sort of extended intro. My My My - Armand Van Helden: I posted that playlist a couple weeks ago of songs mid-2000s bangers with extremely horny videos and this is a highlight from that. I'm always amazed with how much mileage great producers can get out of a relatively straightforward sample because this hums along for almost 7 minutes and only gets better. Laser Life - The Blood Brothers: The Blood Brothers are one of the few bands that scratch the brain itch I have for totally bonkers Mars Volta markov chain lyrics phrases like 'Oh dream machine I'm a pound of flesh inside a drum machine dream'. They're also the only band I think that can get away with having this sort of cabaret swing feel in a song with a lot of screaming and not have it be absolutely unbearable. Camouflage, Camouflage - The Blood Brothers: Where a lot of The Blood Brothers early songs were just chaotic bursts, they have a few songs that spread out into a long multi movement ideas culminating in very good final lines like 'I couldn't see the love and affection it was camouflaged as a jungle of erections, and I couldn't see the skeletal lightning it was camouflaged as a young machete' 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford: The mistake people make in covering this song is trying to match the extremely grim lyrics to the music, but this version succeeds exactly because it's on some upbeat Frank Sinatra shit with the clarinet refrain sounding like a children's song while still being very much about dying face down in the dirt from arsenic poisoning. Take This Hammer - Leadbelly: On the other hand you have a song like Take This Hammer from a guy who really worked on a chain gang complete with involuntary WAH sounds to time your hammer strikes to, and it's still so much more upbeat and positive musically than it has any right to be looking at the lyrics. San Francisco - Foxygen: There's something about the chorus of this song, and they way the phrases of the two voices line up where if it gets stuck in your head it just goes around and around and around forever and it is absolutely maddening so I thought I'd share that with you all. El Manana (Metronomy Remix) - Gorillaz: This remix reminds me of Studio to a degree with the way it just moves forward with no regard for regular structure. It's gutsy to remix a song and somehow restructure it so the chorus doesn't even sound like it's the chorus anymore but just another small part in a slowly winding up machine. Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies: The way he's screaming that GOD IS SEVEN in this song I feel like if Black Francis hadn't made it in music he'd be running a very successful incomprehensible conspiracy website. This is a song I can get very lyrically involved in when I'm in certain moods, nodding my head like the creature in the sky DID get sucked in a hole and now there's a hole in the sky, and we're all in trouble because of it. Cannonball - The Breeders: I like this song because it feels like everyone in the band is working on their own unique structure. The clean guitar especially just comes and goes at will through the whole song, the lyrics start whenever, the rhythm guitar just keeps strumming along. It all comes together for the chorus and then they just go their own separate ways until it's chorus time again. S.A.D. - Kirin J Callinan: The production on this song just amazes me, especially as it moves into the later choruses the sheer weight of the chords is just crazy. The barest suggestion of guitars chugging in the background but blending into the huge synths chords. Combined with the vocals it's the most threatening pop song I've ever heard. Wrapped up in plastic thrown down the stairs feeling fantastic. Water Coast Blues - Honeyboy Edwards: I feel like Honeyboy Edwards has gotten a raw deal from history. When he died most of his obitaries made a big point of how he was one of the last living people to know Robert Johnson personally. Which is an important detail but it overshadows Edwards contributions in his own right as a guitarist and songwriter who had a 70 year career. The album this recording's from is a really good compilation that gives an overview of his whole career, mixed with interviews with Edwards and Alan Lomax that are just amazing. Anyway just listen to the playing on this song because it is incredible. The bass figure he switches into when he says 'when I had money'? Phenomenal. Another Leather Lung - The Sound Of Animals Fighting: The Sound Of Animals Fighting was a supergroup of a bunch of guys from RX Bandits/Chiodos/Circa Survive and bands like that coming together in animal masks to make the most pretentious band possible at the time. There's a lyrics on one of their other songs where he sings 'the artist! the true manifestation of struggle!' which is quite good. But outside of that they did make some very good music and the second half of this song where it takesoff is really something. Bone Machine - The Pixies: It's amazing Black Francis hasn't been linked to a string of murders in the mid 80s honestly. This whole song feels like evidence. Also the way he says 'I was talking to peachy peach about kissy kiss.. [incredibly long, awkward silence] ... he bought me a soda. he bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot hep hep hep hep' is perhaps the most amazing verse ever. Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border - John Fahey: This is John Fahey's best song and I've listened to it probably 4 times a week for the last 4 years. It is quite honestly an eternal mood. Ares - Bloc Party: War! War! War! War! I love the guitar in this, because it's just textural noisemaking more than anything else and mixed with the vocal manipulations in the chorus it's just absolute chaos. It's such a shame that everyone in Bloc Party either left the band or had their brain removed after this album because between this, Mercury and Talons it was truly an incredible moment. Special Rider Blues - John Fahey: I can't believe I only found out this month about John Fahey covering Skip James, and even that it took me this long for me to listen to the full version of his America album. Mark 1:15 - John Fahey: I also learned that on account of cds only holding 80 minutes of music, this 14 minute reissue version of Mark 1:15 is 2 minutes shorter than the original vinyl version and I'm completely riled up about it and demanding a second, definitive reissue to restore them. Regardless, this song is an absolute masterpiece and when it switches into the portion of When The Springtime Comes again about three quarters of the way through it's just amazing. Swim - Nicolas Jaar: Here's another quite long and involved piece of music from the other side of the spectrum. It has a very similar feeling to Mark 1:15 really, so if you liked that persevere through this. It's taken me such a long time to get around to listening to Nymphs for some reason but I'm glad I finally gave it a shot because this song especially is a real masterwork. Crimes - The Blood Brothers: A third Blood Brothers song for you, If you didn't like the other two there's a chance you'll like this one because it's much more sedate. This song is also a good first Blood Brothers song because the way the second vocalist sounds when he finally turns up is really funny if you're not expecting it. This is another on the long list of songs I seem to just always have in my head and sing to myself when I'm walking around. NRG - Duck Sauce: Are you ready for the most powerful 12 minutes of your life? It's the entirety of the NRG single by Duck Sauce. I like to think of it as a purposeful multi-movement work rather than a song and two remixes because that's what it feels like. Starting out we have the original, incredible instant power of NRG. NRG (Skrillex, Kill The Noise, Milo & Otis Remix) - Duck Sauce: and next we have the absolute peak of the work, the fever pitch. See if you can guess which part Skrillex was responsible for. I love the addition of miscellaneous woos and yeahs among the already busy main riff, I absolutely love the bass which sounds like some kind of steel drum pulled down four octaves. I love the distortion on the vocals in the second half as it slowly gives you time to catch your breath. NRG (Hudson Mohawk Remix) - Duck Sauce: The we move into the comedown, the HudMo contribution where the drums somehow sound like they're coming from next door like the party has passed you by and moved on to enliven your neighbours. I love the snare building and then splitting into triplets like it's going to drop before the peace of the synth gives way to the rolling thunder drums hafway in. On The Other Hand Baby - Etta Baker: I don't know what to say about Etta Baker. She's incredible and it's an absolute shame that she didn't really get recorded until she was about 70. This album was recorded when she was about 92 and her playing is still amazing. Crucible - Sleigh Bells: You have to give Sleigh Bells credit for still going strong four albums in if nothing else. Somewhere along the line they adopted this sort of corny rock chick thing that wasn't really there in their first album and I think it works against them but I really can't get enough of the instrumental of this song. The distorted brass and string amongst everything else especially. I feel like there's a much better song buried in here somewhere but I'll take what I can get. Pirate Blues - As Cities Burn: As Cites Burn are another good example of a metalcore band absolutely mellowing out into a indie rock band over the course of three albums, and the result Hell Or High Water has turned out to be one if my favourites of all time. This song especially is an obsession, and I love a band having the sense to no longer make metalcore, but learning enough from it to take a song to a a huge crescendo when they need to like this one does. Timothy - As Cities Burn: Between As Cities Burn, mewithoutYou and a couple of other christian bands I was very nearly converted in highschool and it still informs a lot of my uh theistic thought in a strangely unembarrassing way. This song, from their second album where they were sort of caught between their metalcore origins and the full fleshed indie rock of Hell Or High Water is one of their best. Yelling at god about your dead friend is a massive thing to write a song about but it's done so well and it builds and builds before dissolving into a sparse, thoughtful solo for a good six minutes into a beautiful ending.

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[zahra-kha]

Dear Diary 28

I’ve been busy preparing for the Lucky Sparrow show. I’m in a lot of group performances and I want to get the timing right. I’m also considering remodeling my apartment. I’ve written father but he hasn’t written me back in a while. I think he’s busy. He’s been trying to gain access to a mine near a village in the mountain ranges. They’ve been in talks for a while now about this deep, underground mine that’s kept the town afloat for generations. Father wants to take over and improve their revenue and making several quality of life investments overall. He’s been sweet talking the townsfolk but it’s been putting him at odds with the mayor there. That’s all I know since last we’ve spoken.

Still no word from Sahrin and Fitaan about Armand. I think I’m fine with that. I mean, I still don’t know what I’m going to do or say when I see Armand. What is there to say? “Hey, why did you try to kill me?” I already know why, or at least, I have a good idea. Honestly, a part of me hopes they don’t find him and that he just disappears. Sai and Esila have gone quiet and Cecilia’s been missing for moons now too.

I feel alone. It feels like the troupe, my family, is falling apart.

Plume was last night! It was great to go to my second home, relax and fight some! It was busy, we had nearly a full house, that was great! I love going around and chatting people up at tables and getting to know people, and the fights were great! Tamala and Kaito won their fights...although it was weird seeing Conor in a moogle suit.

I put in a lot of orders for fish and chips, it’s a popular dish I guess! Something happened with Vin since I last saw him, because he’s a girl now! I guess something with alchemy? I’m not sure, but she looks great! I didn’t recognize her, since it’s been a while but she seemed relaxed and not as stressed or tense. Maybe the things that had been weighing on her has eased or been lifted. I hope so. We were never really close but she seemed to carry a darkness in her that troubled her deeply. Especially when it came to her feelings for Trystan.

My match was with Jasper! I’ve been wanting to properly fight him for moons so I was excited. And no, it’s not because I like him - it’s mostly because I respect him and I think he’s a great fighter. I admire his skills and I really wanted to test my own against his to see how far I’ve grown.

But then he tried to pull my tail >:|

Yes, it’s a legitimate strategy, the tail is a sensitive part of the body but it’s like...it’s like...if I’d gone for a crotch shot or something! I don’t know! It’s not the same but I was still a little peeved about it! Not so much because he did it, but because I remember Khan taunting someone else about pulling my tail and how au ra squeal and just - ugh! 

So maybe I wasn’t the most mature in how I responded. I might have tried to be a brat and stabbed him using a move he likes to do with the dagger he gave me.

I might have done that on purpose. I have my moments. I have never once said I was a girl who takes the high road. In my defense he tried to stab me in the shoulder first I just succeeded where he failed.

Why am I justifying myself to my journal. I’m not in the wrong here!

And then he took my dagger! Okay, to be fair I did leave the dagger in his shoulder but! BUT! I was going to pull it out before he sliced my arm and moved away! I really was! What kind of friend would just leave their dagger embedded in their friend’s shoulder! Not this friend!

Well, technically I did but not on purpose! I’ll die on that hill.

Anyway I won that fight, although I’d still love to go against him again. He’s a deadly opponent and I can’t hold back against him and that makes me happy. Plus, it’s just fun to fight against friends.

We got into an argument though (I think it was the first time?) - in retrospect it was probably a silly argument to anyone who was watching, but he took my (yes MY) dagger and I wanted it back! Plus, it might have just been another dagger for him, but for me it was a something a friend gave me, so it’s precious to me. I treasure all of the things my friends give me, and I’ve been training diligently with that dagger. It was a silly argument, but I wasn’t going to back down.

Gods, and he just had to say ‘alls fair in love and war’, I can’t believe him. He didn’t even mean anything by it but I immediately reacted on reflex. Jasper you clueless Doman never change but at the same time please be less frustrating.

After the fight, some healing, and taking a few more orders, Jasper was nice enough to give me back my dagger and after chatting about how I didn’t have a pair, he gave me one that balanced right. I wasn’t able to convey how touched and happy I was because Erith and Eir’s fight morphed into such epic proportions that it blinded the entire room, but I was. 

I don’t...think? There was a winner to that fight? Erith said he won and Quin carried him away to recover but well. Ok.

After that Tyme and Quin fought. Quin used a gunblade for a bit but he doesn’t really strike me as a guy that favors weapons? At least not the few times I’ve fought him. Tyme is a martial artist from what I’ve been able to see and she’s damn good! Quin eventually won after discarding the gunblade and switching to wrestling moves. He made her tap out. Not a lot of blood, but it was an interesting fight to be sure!

The last fight was against Penelope and some guy named Xavier. He was a mountain of a man and I guess he could take a beating to boot. We were helping Erith between that, Eir had left, and people were starting to clear out. Jasper had gotten really quiet and was zoning out so we were growing concerned about him, but he kept insisting he was tired. There wasn’t a fever, but he didn’t look good, either. Erith was insisting he needed a cleansing.

Pen and Xavier’s fight was intense. I started feeling sick when her flame blade started searing into his flesh. The stench made my burn scars itch and I felt nauseated. I wanted to stick it out till the end though, but I was grateful when she switched elements.

I’m not quite sure how he was able to take those blows and keep on going but I know I couldn’t have. Not stoically, anyway. Fire hurts like all the hells. When Discordia hit me with that flamethrower I thought I was going to die, my entire body felt nothing but agony. Even getting cut hurts like a bitch. Pen is an amazing fighter, I like her sword skills and how she can switch elements like that.

She won against that huge guy eventually though, which was something. I couldn’t stay though, it was getting a bit hard to breathe, so I told Leih I was heading out and she gave me a bit of a sympathetic smile as if she understood. I admit, I appreciated it.

Ah~ anyway! There’s another mixer this weekend, along with the show, so much to do! I should write my parents again and hopefully see if they write me back.

[alexwolffe]

Top 10 favorite Wakfu episodes (with your thoughts and facts)

@thetristevaguard

My top ten favorite Wakfu episodes? Lol this is kinda hard,I kinda wanna say them all, but I’ll do my best (I’m gonna do it from season 1- season 3)

1) s1ep The Child from the Mist - just because of the waythey introduced the characters and world captured my much younger mind (lolI’ve been a fan since it first came out on Netflix) in a way that kept meinterested and invested in the characters and plot that have continued to thisday.  I love how grougaloragran wasintroduced and asked what was in the baby carriage (a baby, what else?) andRuel and Alibert’s dynamic, how adorable Yugo is, that there was a guybasically reading a pin up magazine in the restroom (sigh Anakama, this is akid’s show) and how Percedal is introduced.

2) s1e4 The Ugly Pageant - Okay this episode never fails tocrack me up. Ever. I’ve watched it so many times, because it’s so funny!  Plus it’s the second episode where the BotT(before the naming) is actually actively on the quest.  It starts to show the established dynamicsand roles within the group without giving away too much.  Percedal shows how he is a knight byattempting the “typical knight trope” with rescuing a princess from atower.  Which doesn’t go as planned.  At all. I also love how Eva looks reallypretty but feels uncomfortable in such nice clothes, Amalia doesn’t even try tobe “ugly” (until Yugo “helps” lol Siamese twin princesses), and Ruel’s A+costume. Seriously Ruel’s costume was FANTASTIC.

3) s1e21 – I enjoy this episode because we get to see Adamaitraining Yugo in how to use wakfu and use his unusual powers.  Not only this, but we get to see how Nox andIgol’s relationship. (It’s passive aggressive just saying). We also get to seeIgol’s one track mind and relentlessness when giving chase. Also that sun burnyikes!

4) s1e25 –I remember so clearly watching this when it wasout on Netflix and knowing this was the only season (at the time). I was heartbrokenwas Percedal died. Yeah Yugo was my favorite but stupid, loyal, and kindPercedal the Knight dying? With no continuation? That was just shocking. Plushe stayed dead. There wasn’t even abody to “revive.” And to see the strong Evangelene sobbing? And the sweet Yugoso enraged with grief? Nope, I was heartbroken; the gang had gotten togetherbut Percedal was dead. It had a huge impact on me.

5) s2e3 – DALLY WAS ALIVE. My pure joy and Percedal being like alive and attainable, heh heh fairlycertain my fam thought I was crazy (but hey my bro was excited too lol). AlsoRemington, lol he and his cat brother, I really like them honestly. I alsoreally love how he and Eva flirt with each other but it’s not even friendly,they literally insult each other with every snide flirtatious remark. I justfind his random appearance in this arc (and later other arcs) to be anenjoyable breath of fresh air.

6) s3e8 – This was actually the first time that I realizedthat Yugo was trying to hide something under his hat. That’s right, it took meup to the 8th episode of the second season to realize that Yugo washiding something under his hat. I just thought it was a part of his otherwisesomewhat plain costume. I never thought there was a secret, I never had anysuspicions or anything. I mean Sadida males have plant heads *shrugs* I neverquestioned it. Also the boys stripping and Yugo asking what “inhibit” means butneither Ruel nor Percedal knowing. Basically it’

Bonus: “Justice demands…….justice!” And the size of your armordecides how much of a “good guy” you are lol

Bonus bonus: Yugo’s tofu underwear

7) s2e26 – Yugo’s wings and the Percedal family starts. Thatshould pretty much sum it up, yep. Seriously, sex between Eva and Dallyhappened sometime off screen during the second season…..that’s just boldAnakama, dang. But in all seriousness that fight between Yugo and Qilby said somuch about the two characters, and really showing the sad reason for why Qilbywas sooooo warped and twisted. Honestly his entire existence would be sofrustrating exhausting….but he still needed to be locked in the void. He waspsychopath. *shrug*

8) The entirety of The Quest for the Six Dofus Eliatropes –cuz they could have just been a movie, just saying. No episode stood outbecause they were all AMAZING. Not even kidding. These three episodes? Well Iwatched them sooooooooo many times, trying to figure out what was going tohappen for the past few YEARS. Years, Anakama, years. Not cool bro. Anyway, theamount of detail and character development in these 3 episodes? Wow, there wasso much character development and I realized things I never had before. LikeYugo had a crush on Amalia? Yeah that’s when I discovered this ship….I reallyam oblivious. And Percedal and Eva had 2 kids? Time had clearly gone by at thispoint.  But my favorite parts? The fightagainst Count Hareburg (RIP s3), Yugo’s fight with Adamai (heartbreaking but Istill feel like Adamai was putting too much trust in what I called “the creepysnake lady”) (and he was getting on Yugo’s case about caring/trusting someoneelse over their brother?) (sorry still salty) (there better be repercussions ins4) and the epic battle that raged above the world of 12

Bonus: baby Ogrest calling Otomai “Daddy” *death by too muchcute*

9) s3e2 – The emotions that are present in this episode arebeautiful and heartbreaking. And Princess Amalia with her gravely sick father,a usually strong and occasionally goofy character, that, that was reallyrelatable. Even if that’s never happened to you, you at least have probablyknown someone or known someone who knows someone who that’s happened to. AndArmand was really getting on my nerves, but that might have been how he copes,I guess. Still rubbed me the wrong way though. I don’t he’s a bad characterthough, just not super likeable but I can’t figure out quite way yet. Then poorYugo was also crying, he was probably feeling so many emotions, I’m notsurprised he was crying. More than likely I’d say it was most likely a mixture ofguilt, anger, fear, remorse, and maybe some mourning. It was stated in s1 thatYugo can feel the Wakfu presence of other beings, and that was when he was juststarting to learn how to use his powers, so he’s much stronger, now? Could hehave felt the king’s wakfu presence slowly disappearing? I dunno. Also Dally isjust so sad and Rubi is such an old softie, he’s just lucky that Dally isoblivious….and dumb.  Okay Elely, isprecious and perhaps slightly OP, but not in a bad way……never pick a fight withher. EVER.

10)s3e7 – Battling to keep their underwear. *breathes in,breathes out* boi. Anakama I applaud thee, only you could make a serious battleabout fighting for underwear. But it was a fierce and well fought battle which youvaliantly won in the end. And then the kiss. Now that was a passionatekiss.  It was well done, but the emotionsthat followed after it…..were FANTASTIC. Typically the kiss fixes everythingbut this kiss both makes Yugo and Amalia closer and farther, leading todifficulties later.  But what somewhatannoys me is that dragon blood makes Yugo age slower but Adamai looks like hehad steroids with a growth spurt. Kay guys that doesn’t compute, just saying.  But back to Yugo and Amalia, I find theirrelationship so interesting honestly, and personally I can’t tell if it’d workout or not. Cuz clearly they both want each other but neither (mostly Yugo) canmake up their mind.  Like Yugo is precious,but he either needs to accept Amalia accepting his younger self or let her moveon…..as harsh as that sounds

But yep my top ten episodes plus reasons and facts, phew,you have no idea how tempted I was to copy and paste the Wakfu episode listWikipedia page…..this whole series is fantastic….

Now your turn ; )