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[askblueandviolet]

Hello! Welcome to the Blue and Violet Ask Blog!

As you might have guessed, this is an ask blog where you can ask the Mayor (Blue) and Macaque (Violet) from LMK questions! However, before anything else, there are a few things that you need to know.

General House Keeping:

First things first, if you are not aware already, this blog is directly based and linked to the Blue and Violet Fanfiction series on AO3. Written by yours truly, me (admin/DF), haha! Link to the fic series is in the bio/under the header. If you want to ask questions, please make sure you are up to date with all the chapters in ALL the fics in the series.

What this means is that the only things Macaque and Mayor have experienced is within the context of this fanfiction series (which contains lots of establishment of how they know each other and their perspectives during seasons 1-4). Therefore, you definitely cannot ask these two about season five related things, because it hasn't happened to them yet!

Due to this, this blog will follow the timeline and events of what happens in the newest instalment of the series, 'Winter Mornings, Summer Nights' (previously, it was 'Colours'). After every chapter is posted, you will be able to ask Macaque and Mayor questions relating to that chapter or any events prior.

I must also state that this is a shadowpuppet ask blog. While I am open to any asks that involve mentions of other ships (which may involve either Macaque or Mayor) please keep in mind that shadowpuppet will be the main focus :))). If you don't like this and have a desire to assert your opinion regarding that? Then please, I kindly ask that you do not interact with this blog for your sake, my sake, and for the sake of everyone else who might want to enjoy this. Thank you :))).

IMPORTANT: Whatever happens in this ask blog is NOT canon to the fic series. However, what happens in the fic series directly affects this blog. This means that nothing you ask or say on this blog will affect the Blue and Violet storyline.

Regarding Asks:

I think I will be able to answer every question that you all submit. However, if I find a question too offensive, too uncomfortable, too strange (meaning I just don't understand it :'D) or something that will potentially spoil the future events of the fic series, then I will have to unfortunately ignore the ask. Either that, or I simply answer the ask with a silly picture of some sorts. On that note, please don't ask any character or me what will happen next! They probably don't know either! You'll all just have to wait and see ;D.

You can ask both Macaque and Mayor any questions you desire (within reason of course)! Any side character featured in Blue and Violet is also open to any questions :DDD!

Not only can you ask the characters questions, but you can also just ask me questions about the series in general? Or just... Say something I guess? I've had people do that on my main blog, and it always makes me happy to see that people like what I am writing!

I would also like to make a minor PSA regarding certain types of asks: Yes, you can give gifts to the characters! However it is very unlikely they will become a recurring object. Also, I have noticed that there have been cases where people have submitted asks either roleplaying characters (both canon and OC) and/or requesting interactions with canon/OC characters. Please know that while I haven't had a problem with doing these yet, don't expect me to come up with the perfect response for it XDDD, nor expect any sort of continuation of role play. After all, this ask blog, while being a separate entity in its own right, still follows the narrative of the fanfiction series.

IMPORTANT: After experimenting with the ask box, I have decided that the box will be open for 24 hours whenever it opens! This allows people from different time zones to have an equal chance to get something in if they want, haha. No cap limit on the box for now, just go wild (before I regret this)!

Master List :D (WIP)

Key:

💙- Mayor

💜 - Macaque

🩷 - Baihe/LBD's Hostess (because of how many times she appears, she deserves her own key, haha :DDD)

Other keys will also appear due to me being silly and not knowing what I am doing. Such as 🐶 for Hershey, and ♥️ for Aigou.

Colours

Chapter One Asks 💜🩷

Chapter Two Asks 💙

Chapter Three Asks 💜🩷

Chapter Four Asks 💙

Chapter Five Asks 💜(🩷)

Chapter Six Asks 💙💜🩷

Chapter Seven Asks 💙💜🩷

Chapter Eight Asks 💙

Chapter Nine Asks 💜🩷

Chapter Ten Asks 💙

Chapter Eleven Asks 💙

Chapter Twelve Asks 💜

Chapter Thirteen Asks 💙

Chapter Fourteen Asks 💙💜

Winter Mornings, Summer Nights (Announcement Post)

Chapter One Asks 💜

Chapter Two Asks 💙💜

Chapter Three Asks 💙

Chapter Four Asks 💙💜

Chapter Five Asks 💜(💙)

Chapter Six Asks 💙💜

Chapter 'Seven' (now Eight on AO3) Asks 💙💜

Chapter 'Eight' (now Seven on AO3)💙💜🩷

Chapter Nine 💜💙

Chapter Ten 💙💜

Chapter Eleven 💜🩷

Chapter Twelve 💙💜

Chapter Thirteen 💙💜

Chapter Fourteen 💙💜

Chapter Fifteen 💙💜

Chapter Sixteen 💙💜

Chapter Seventeen 💙💜

Chapter Eighteen - 💙💜🩷

Chapter Nineteen - ASK BOX CLOSED

Chapter Twenty 💙

Chapter Twenty One 💜

AND THAT'S IT! I... think? This post will update as time goes on the more and more I learn how to help this blog function to the best of its ability. So please check this pinned post every time before you ask a question :DDD. This blog has grown a lot since first starting, and I'm glad we can all still have fun with this together!

(Updated as of 1 December 2024)

[misc-obeyme]

-🐆 You know I think that's exactly why it's taking them so long to release the new season, because they have to much plot holes to cover. Is it the whole Lilith thing again? Eh, let's not get into that subject. What made sense to me, probably just my mind filling in the blanks, is that MC eventually, gradually regained some memories, a bit at a time, while the brothers remained sort of like a constant memory that is a core one (I hope I am making sense). It could be also that Solomon used some magic to help MC stabilize memory wise. Or just shown pictures on his DDD. A lot of plot things in this game (especially implied sex scenes, for obvious reasons) are left blank. Usually they aren't that important but in this case they are! So hopefully they do explain deeper in the new season. Also the term "time soup" sort of made sense to me, since I stand by the theory that time cannot be linear as we think it is. So if mc, from their present, went back to the past, mc brought all the memories and experiences with them. Meaning, the past is "changed" but not really. Just like it was changed in season 1 in og where mc was killed, but not really. So the time soup thing started wayyyyy back in the lore. Because if, they went back to the past, in a linear timeline, I think it would have left much less effect on the brothers and on the way everything unfolded. For example, the whole Cocytus journey. Mc presumably had an affect on the brothers even back in the celestial realm (I was just re-reading season 3 of og where mc ate Solomon's sandwich and was sent back in time) so Lucifer would have been locked up in Cocytus either way, but what did release him from the shackles? Did the brothers go after him even without mc? Did he still had his outburst against Diavolo? Was it that it is a time soup and mc was destined, in the this world logic, to hurtle back in time to this specific point and help the brothers, who know them but not really, who have a pact with them but not really? Also, in hard lessons, what the hell did Solomon made the brothers do to repay him for breaking them free from the curse that changed their personalities? Did he make them take a pact with him??? If that's true, I am mortified, really. See, I can ramble for more, but I don't feel bad about it lol, though you of course don't have to either! I don't only request your rambles, now I demand them, it matches my own!

I'll just go and watch dr who, my head is hazy, at least that show makes more sense with time travel If you watch it too, did you see the episode with Jinxx?? It was SO good.

I mean, they sure do have a lot of plot to resolve in the upcoming season! I don't know how far in advance they plan the story, but it feels very disjointed most of the time lol.

MC's memory issues never really registered for me, tbh. I always interpreted it as an MC who still has all those memories from OG? I was under the impression that they changed some of the story in the first lesson of NB, but I never went back and replayed it. So I told NB at the beginning that I knew the brothers and I guess that left out the part about MC having lost their memory? Or perhaps I just forgot about it???

I just always played it as MC remembered everything from the start, so I haven't really considered that part of the story too much. But I think the idea that MC's memories slowly come back makes sense. Or that Solomon filled them in, since there's plenty of time where they're living together for him to do that. It seems odd that they wouldn't at least mention either of these things, though, even if they didn't show it happening.

I don't have a problem with the "time soup" theory in a more general sense. I've read about theories where time is not linear in our actual reality. I just don't like it as a storytelling mechanic. Lesson 16 really confused me. I didn't realize what had happened until I read it again and until I had seen other people's thoughts on it. MC went back in time, but then one MC just disappears? It made no sense to me.

The issue I have with the time travel stuff is that it's a mess to figure out. I think it's good that people can kind of work it out in a way that makes sense to them, but nobody's idea of the time travel shenanigans in this game are the same. Everybody's interpretation has been different from what I've seen. They never established any rules for their time travel, so it's just confusing.

Hmm. Okay, so here's how I think about it. In this case, the time travel is part of magic. And when you have magic in a story, you have to make up the rules for it yourself. My experience has been that if you're going to use magic as a plot device, you have to set out specific rules for how it works. Otherwise, just about anything could happen. That's the part I don't like. The rules aren't clearly defined, they're just soup and that means nothing to me.

They could say time is not linear. They could say that in the original version of the past, MC wasn't there and that means anything could have happened. Maybe the events were similar to what they were when MC was there. But they could have been completely different. Maybe Lucifer didn't even end up in Cocytus at all. It's impossible to say what happened in the original version of that timeline.

Then MC goes to the past and changes things. No matter how careful MC is, their presence alters the past irrevocably. And Solomon is there, too, so potentially altering things even more.

Okay, I could accept all that. But having everybody in the past feel that there's something special about MC's guest room? Having glimpses and memories of a future they couldn't possibly have any knowledge of? This is the part that makes no sense. Does this mean that those characters all had those same memories in the original version of the past, the one where MC didn't show up? If time is a soup, does that mean that all these characters are experiencing all those timelines simultaneously and can have memories of all of them all the time whether MC is present or not?

If that's the case, how come the characters didn't have any memories of MC in OG? Season three hinted that MC may have impacted them in the Celestial Realm, but those memories never manifested before that incident. If time is a soup, shouldn't they have had those memories of MC from the very start?

My issue is that they just threw this in there because they're trying to explain away what they've already done. It doesn't feel like they went into this story with any of these intentions (and like to be fair they probably didn't).

I just feel like they could have explained the time travel in a way that meshed better with the story we already had.

And you know while I don't think Solomon made them make pacts with him, I can see him suggesting it! I suspect they'd have been like um no not on your life buddy lol. I love him so much.

OH BOY well, anyway, you demanded rambles, so here it is lol!!! This is just me getting WAY too into these details. I don't usually do this because in the end, it doesn't really matter! I'm willing to overlook this stuff because I love the characters so much. And I also very much believe that everyone should interpret the story in the way that makes the most sense for them! This is just my personal opinion, I think everybody's opinion and interpretation is valid!

I've definitely seen stories that handle time travel much better. I never did get into Dr Who, but I have heard good things!

[ritz-writes]

AAAAAHHHHHHH

all posts relating to the season 4 specials will be tagged as "lmk s4 special" and "lmk s4 special spoilers" on my page <3

SPOILERS BELOW

Okay. We got so much fucking stuff. No actually real full body Mk and Wukong hug, BUT THATS FINE I GUESS.

Azure. jesus fucking christ. i used to dislike him but now i just feel BAD. he really did just want to make the world a better place. the power went to his head at the end, but he tried to fix it. he put his grudge aside and literally--LITERALLY--gave up his fucking ENTIRE BEING to save the literal fucking universe. I guess hes not ALL bad. still mad he sliced wukong and went "MK HOW COULD U" like a HOE but oh well

WE GOT MKS WAR FORM!!! WE GOT A WAR FORM!!!! ngl mks monkey form is.... concerning. he was a bit.... uhm..... trigger happy. i was going "OMG MK YES >:DDD" to "woah hes fucking STRONG :O" to "....uhm... mk?" to "D:" GOT VERY CONCERNED VERY QUICK

WE GOT BACKSTORY. WE GOT TO SEE THE MOUNTAIN. ngl i thought they were gonna cut that. i was putting the timeline together in my head and just assumed it was cut. i thougnt theyd see it as too "not kid friendly" but u know after the bone demon, idk why i thought that. this show is terrifying and i love it. WE GOT SOME HEALING. JUST A SMIDGE BUT IT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE U KNOW (hehe see what i did there)

WUKONGS HOUSE IS FUCKING GONE. HE NEEDS A NEW ONE

REDSON DESERVED MORE SCREENTIME

i rlly thought nezha was gonna be the new jade emperor, but i guess not

WE R GETTING A SEASON 5. WHO THE FUCK IS PULLING THE STRINGS???? my bet is erlang.

SO MANY THOUGHTS IM GONNA EXPLODE

SCREAM IN MY ASK BOX AND ILL SCREAM BACK

[neonwizardheehee]

Just finished the most recent EP of HOTD, how are you enjoying it?

(jsjsksk I know we don't chat as much but it's fun seeing HotD stuff on my timeline haha)

i missed u!!!!! didn't know you are watching hotd too so that's super exciting!!! :DDD

but yes WHAT AN EPISODE :DDD such good visuals WOW O.O

I'm so excited Rhaenyra is getting some power back on her side again (i love how the scales are tripping in favour of sb else so fast ngl they are all so unhinged) and I'm very curious what she'll do now (but finally a chance against vhagar, i was wondering so much how to bring this granny down but apparently it's just "more and quite as old dragons" XD)

another paddy considine cameo had me cheering in my seat and also.. daemon did not take the crown??? WHAT DOES IT MEAN AHHHH also finally he is getting somewhere (esp in favour for him bc he gets his army now!)

aemond OOF the speed he took to get to vhagar? v hot and v pressed and v deserved XD

larys oh BOI what is he playiiiing, I'm so intrigued by him and what he is planning ahhhh :O

ALSO i wanna mention the theme of "crown of jaeharys" played again which is my fav OST theme and that made me so SO happy XD

I had such a good time watching (during breakfast what a joy to have a day off today)

hbu tho? :)) tell me all u want (as long as there are no book spoilers, i want to watch the show first and then read the book <3) but i'm already in too deep as u prob could've guessed from my posts XD

SENDING GREETINGS OVER <3<3

[galaxythreads]

OP should know thats why the 1602 universe is an entirely alternate timeline. So the characters can be ooc

I guess? but if the many, many, many, many, AUs i've written over the years (not just for the Avenegers, i had a httyd account i posted 60+ fics to when i was younger) are anything to go by, AUs aren't an excuse to change the core of the character. People come to me all the time complaining about characters being ooc in fics. Actually pretty recently someone read a story I wrote about Loki and sigyn being married and having children and left a lengthy commentary on how I didn't even watch the Thor movies and didn't understand the characters at all, then proceeded to tell me what the characters should have acted like in the fic?

The thing about AUs is that you're not taking the character's name and changing them completely, you're taking the character and putting them in a new situation. If you look at the 1602 'verse, none of the other characters (except Happy) were that ooc?

Tony being some random guy who lives in a barn but still invents something that can use a magical stone out of wood and a few screws and is still grumpy and an a-hole? that's him at his core. Steve being a robin hood who steals from the rich to give to the poor? Yeah, that fits. Thor trying to get vengeance for his family's death at any cost? You should have gone for the head, comes to mind. Fury secretly working with Wanda who are secretly working with Captain Carter to save the city while they do their best to keep Thor alive? Yep!

Loki being a useless Shakespeare nerd who can't do anything? Not...not really? He did, y'know, recently use magic to give the entire universe free will. He's just so...meh in 1602? Every time Loki is brought up or in what if it makes me want to shake something because they do not understand his character and are (often) doing their best to make fun of him.

Idk. I guess to me, the appeal and question and POINT of What if was not what if these characters were completely different!!! LMAO :DDD it was what if the PLOT had gone differently? What if the story structure was different? What if Odin banished Hela instead of trapping her in Hel? What if there was a zombie apocalypse? what if the avengers all got murdered? If the question on the 1602 episode was "what if Loki liked Shakespeare?" then I'd be like okay! that was the point of the episode, i suppose. but it wasn't.

[amazingdeadfish]

I... I keep forgetting that your fanfics aren't canon, I can't read any other fanfics because I'm like "why do they ignore the whole macaque and mayor's story? It's so important, it shows the motivation of the characters and- oh yeah, that's not canon."

Well, if this isn't one of the greatest compliments of all then I don't know what is XDD. Besides from being able to make people allegedly cry (or, somewhat make them feel emotional), the fact that I must have accidently brainwashed you into thinking what I have written is canon, and not just a jumbled mess of my self indulgent headcanons is single handedly enough of a compliment to make me exactly 1% stronger than previously.

Because it simply means that what I have written is enough to align with canon. So thank you :DDD. I guess this means I am using the source material faithfully after all. Deep down in my heart, I know that Macaque and Mayor must have some sort of beef with each other, and Macaque being handed the Skeleton Key could not have been as easy as LBD just 'handing it to him'. Because how does that even fit on the LMK timeline??? It makes no sense, she should be imprisoned when Macaque died, right?

[sundewhasaudhd]

Hehe going to your dms is scary so I'll just leave this here :]]

Happiest Birthday, Sundew!!!! :DDDD You're like a year closer to ummm starting a drug van, I think :DDD (Google says you need to be 18 to own a van apparently hahahah). Unless you're like, 18 or older. In that case, you're a year closer to err getting a job maybe djskskk idk if you'd look forward to that ahahahahha. Is there an age requirement for sky diving? If there is, you're a year closer to that I guess!! ToT ★★★

Anyways, we are by all means not close, like at all, so I hope this doesn't come off as weird to you, but I appreciate you!!! :DDDD I love seeing you in my dashboard or notifs everytime I'm in tumblr :DDDD!! Your AUs are so cool pleasseee I wasn't exactly a c!Wilbur/c!Quackity fan before (didn't dislike it, I think it's cool, just not my cup of tea), but like after I read your AUs some gears shifted hahhahaha. I love your overall vibe and I am so grateful for the amount of dsmp reblogs that end up in my radar mostly because of you and one other person ahahahha. I also appreciate how friendly you are, based on the interactions we had :]] Random but I started saying chat a lot lately because you kept saying it at one point and I just liked the sound ToT. Did all your tag games as well, even though I don't exactly post them much recently ahhahaha. It's fun, so thanks for always including me :DDDDD.

I'm grateful and happy you exist and are alive in a timeline where we're moots. I'm grateful for the memories I made that you played a part in and I hope I've left behind some good memories for you too. I love(/p) the you that you share with the world, and I hope that the people dearest to you love the rest. I hope your days are bright and filled with love and that you'll always find a way to look for that glimmer of hope and care when things get bad. I hope you're always surrounded with great things and amazing people. I hope your creativity and passion never burn out, and even if it does, I hope it sparks again anyways when you're ready. I hope the world is kind, despite it all. A kind life for a kind soul :]] It's a wonderful feeling to exist with you :]]. I hope everything else with you is as wonderful too ★★★

Thank you for everything!!! Happiest birthday again!!! :DDDDD Hoping you celebrate your existence today rahhh and enjoy your lmanburg cake 🍰🍰🍰

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AHHHHHHHHH :DDDDDDDDD

Oh my gosh, I’m gonna cry, thank you soooo much :]

Also, heeheehee my c!TNT duo propaganda has worked >:3

[kitakit-otome]

Just downloaded the new Obey Me app and I’m going to be giving it my review and opinion!

I never finished the first game, got around to season 2 some time after the MC came back from the human world and then my phone ran out of memory for the game lol. It kept lagging so much and sometimes it would just crash right away so I gave up an uninstalled it from my old phone 🥲

But I did get hundreds of followers in my old tumblr account because of Obey Me and honestly it was such a fun game at the time. I had fun interacting with other fans of the fandom and gush over our love for the demon brothers. I wasn’t too keen on the MC’s origin story so I’m just gonna… ignore it 😅

For those who don’t know, I am working on the design for my online persona for the past week now who is an angel, but now after playing OMN a bit it’s been giving me the itch to give her a sort of alter ego or alternative versions of herself. So I’m planning on the works of her human form (which I guess will represent me in the old Obey Me game) and her demon form which will represent me in Nightbringer. I’ll post it here when I’m done if anyone’s interested because for sure I’m gonna start drawing art for Obey Me again after this.

Anyway I digress—

I really like the new features of the DDD app in Nightbringer. We have a new rhythm game that I don’t really understand yet how to time my attacks.. and we have like a parody of the Marauder’s Map from Harry Potter?

They also have 3D models for the boys now! I love watching the interactions between the brothers with this, plus it’s great for the video call feature in the Wanderer’s Whereabouts because it seems a bit more realistic than just the audio calls we used to get. The 3D models are very expressive and the animation seems smooth. The backgrounds are being used well here from the old version of the game.

And I think it’s cute that we can see the brothers voice their thoughts when we gift them a sheep stuffed toy. We’re essentially spying on them or “babysitting” as the brothers sees it. Since we are their attendant now in this game, ordered by Diavolo, I guess it makes.. sense? Humans have like a CCTV in their homes to keep an eye on things when they’re not around so I think that’s what the WW is meant to be as an app. It’s not bad of a feature and I enjoy seeing more of the animations of the brothers being put to use.

Also can we please take a moment for this scene of Mammon wondering why he cares about this toy so much that resembles his MC (AKA us)?! 😭

Bro doesn’t know us because of the plot line of the game being the MC traveling back in time (I don’t really know why yet aside from the premise of a certain demon granting our wish of taking us to somewhere where we will be happy AKA to reunite with the 7 brothers in the Devildom)

You will probably need to play the first game to understand what’s going on. Or at least to understand our connection to the characters of the game from the future timeline.

Personally I think the new chibi art of the game is stellar! Super cute! The designs on the cards are great too.

The story seems interesting and I’m getting really hooked since we have a lot of new apps on the DDD to keep me from being bored. I felt like the affection raise in the first game seemed useless but it was explained to me that affection level allows you to get bonus stuff like Devilgram posts or extra calls, so yeah that’s cool to know now.

I think my only complaint is the rhythm game mechanics. I don’t really get how it works or I do and the timing is off? I don’t know if I’m the only one who has this problem or what, but I’m annoyed that I keep missing so much like wtf. My scores in the first game were way better than this 😭 Every time I tap when the item is on the line it just doesn’t work so I don’t know what I’m doing wrong lmao

I’ll continue playing the game but so far I want to give it a 7.5/10 ⭐️ I will be posting more of this game soon.

[asexual-levia-tan]

@acaribeau my guess is that the new and improved ddd will somehow link us to our boys in the future, even while we're in the past. otherwise, too many things in the ads dont make sense

according to s3 lore, luke either hasnt been born yet or is still very new at this point in time. and towards the end of s1 simeon mentions that he wasnt allowed to visit the devildom for a long time after the celestial war ended. so for those two to be in nightbringer at all, there has to be something weird going on with the timeline. in addition to that, diavolo and barbatos's 3d models are wearing the rad uniform despite rad supposedly not existing yet. ive seen people joke about "why is the ddd new and improved if we're going into the past" but i feel like its definitely a tool we're going to be given ahead of time to help us complete whatever mission we're sent into the past for to begin with (whether we remember what that mission is upon arriving there or not)

for simeon to be in his human world outfit instead of his angel one, it implies that hes still living in the human world because he is still post-ring-stealing. which means luke is probably back in the celestial realm and probably paired with raphael now. its really sad to think those two might be living separately from each other when luke mentioned (in s4?) that he views simeon as a big brother😔

[amplifyme]

I'm on the "keep the miracle pregnancy" side-- but C'MON CC. You had all of S7 to lead up to his finale, admitted the whole crew/actors knew it was leading up to Requiem's twist, had Amor Fati spaceship (and possibly En Ami chip), so much time and build up you could have done aaaaaand no. You literally threw up your hands, gave us a post-humous IVF timeline that can't fit in S7, gave no explanation for Scully's pregnancy and had everyone dancing around it. 1/2

The best moments of S8 were Doggett and Skinner friend bits and MSR (of course)-- and the MSR was only as good as it got because DD had his micro-expressions and most of Empedocles was add-libbed (even in the scripts it said something along the lines of "they'll know what to do here" or "they do something in this scene.") I HATE Essence/Existence. If I feel all soft and snuggly, I'll cue up Essence's monologue, some of Mulder/Doggett, the babyshower, and SKIP to the last 5 min of Existence. 2/2

The polite person in me wants to say "sorry for the rant" but the petty side of me says "direct all annoyance at CC, he started this." And that's another thing! CC has every right to torpedo his own series; and I'm pretty hands off and will just say "that's not canon", dust my hands off, and move on. But to then turn and point the finger at fans, who were invested (and continue to be in part) in his work and blame them? Wild. ANyWaY, thanks for letting me rant~.  ;DDD 3/2

Hey, I’m always up for a good rant myself! 🤣

I’ll support your support for a miracle pregnancy, even though just the thought of it makes me break out out in hives. I’m a believer in live and let live, and the idea that there is no right or wrong way to be a fan. Having said all that...

To put it bluntly, Chris Carter shit the bed when it came to pretty much anything post-Je Souhaite. There are certain moments in what came after that I enjoy, but I can only do that if I’m able to view them as AU, something completely separate from the series I came to know and love. And it’s not just that I object to the mangled storylines and characterizations, or the blatant retconning he had to do to untangle the mess he himself created. It’s that’s so much (IMHO) of what I loved about the series and these remarkable characters wasn’t there anymore. Everything was dumbed down and simplified and painfully pedestrian. I didn’t recognize anyone anymore. Frankly, I didn’t care to.

You’re correct that CC had every right to torpedo his own series. But here’s the thing: you’ll never convince me that he will ever consider the notion that he’s the one responsible for its steep decline. I think he still believes that everything he touches is golden and he makes no mistakes. Now most of us, if we’re self-aware enough, learn from our mistakes and alter our behavior going forward to integrate those lessons learned and at least try to do better the next time. Instead of doing that, CC gave us IWTB and the My Struggle episodes in the revival. Not just one or two, but four of them, each more badly written and nonsensical than the last. And he still thinks they’re masterpieces of film making and writing. But I guess if you’ve been fed a steady diet of ego-stroking and consume only positive press over a few decades, it becomes difficult to pull your head out of your ass and take a good look around.

As an aside, I took on the challenge, this new year, to finally watch S9, none of which I’ve seen - with the exception of The Truth. I made it as far as Mulder taking a shower in his black boxers and Scully’s, “He’s gone. He’s just gone,” explanation before I bowed out. I can’t do it. I just can’t. More power to everyone out there who enjoys what came after S7. I wish I could see what y’all do, but I can’t. Neither my eyes or my heart are up for the task. 

[aeoki]

Sandstorm - Desert Survival: Chapter 11

Location: Stage Characters: Hinata, Yuuta, Adonis, Kouga, Kaoru & Rei

TL Note:

For those who don’t know, “Wimpy Four-Eyes” refers to Makoto.

Rei: “♪~♪~♪”

Kouga: “U! N! D! E! A! D!”

Adonis: “We are~?”

Yuuta: “2wink”!

Hinata: Wait, wait, wait! Obviously, they should’ve said “UNDEAD” there! Yuuta-kun’s turned into a kid who can’t read the room~!

Kaoru: It looks like it’s been edited~... Wait, what’s this? Considering the upload date, it doesn’t look like they’ve used old clips and edited them together, though?

Hinata: I think they filmed it today~ At the very least, it’s today’s Yuuta-kun! I can tell!

I use Yuuta-kun as my mirror when I’m doing my make-up every day, after all!

Kaoru: Well, you two are identical in that aspect, but there’s no point looking at Yuuta-kun while doing your make-up, right? ‘Cause you’re doing makeup on your own face?

Hinata: We move the same way and do our make-up that way too, so it’s fine! It’s the same as using a mirror!

Kaoru: It’ll just be easier to use a mirror, right?

Hinata: We need that sort of ritual right now!

I can feel my connection to Yuuta-kun grow weaker these days and it feels like he’s turning more and more into a “stranger”...

Anyway! I wonder what’s the meaning behind this video?

Kaoru: Who knows…? It feels like we’ve jumped into a timeline where Yuuta-kun is a part of “UNDEAD”, but the uploader is called “2wink”...

Hinata: Hmm, what does this mean? What happened?

Kaoru: I don’t really know but well, it looks like everyone’s doing well, at the very least, so that’s good to see.

Hinata: Hmm… Well, I’m glad we were able to see that they’re fine.

Kaoru: It would be nice if we can also let them know we’re okay too. Does this site allow comments?

Hinata: Hmm, doesn’t look like it… It looks like just a site for watching videos.

It doesn’t seem like you can access it from “Hallhands”, either.

Kaoru: That’s troubling~ We had our phones confiscated so we can’t connect to the internet nor can we let our families know that we’re fine.

Hinata: Yeah. You can’t search the net on this laptop either, so we can’t even look up what this “Oasis Videos” site is.

Kaoru: “Oasis”... This resting zone and accommodation that’s in this strange desert is also called “Oasis” but are they connected in some way?

Hinata: We can’t deny that they don’t, but I think we don’t have enough information to be making guesses right now~

Oh geez, nothing makes sense! Just what in the world did we get ourselves into?

Adonis: Hm? Look, our video has finally been uploaded.

Kouga: Finally. We even filmed and uploaded it when the sun was up. Does reviewin’ videos usually take this long?

Adonis: I don’t know. I don’t really know a lot about these digital devices.

Kouga: Yeah? If only Wimpy Four-Eyes[⁎] was around…

Oh, the video was just uploaded but it looks like the PV’s looking pretty good.

Adonis: PV?

Kouga: The page views. Couldn’t you take a guess based on the context?

Adonis: Hmm. Come to think of it, I’ve been hearing those sorts of words a lot recently.

They’re words that tend to be shortened based on the first letters of the words, so it makes it harder for me to tell what the meaning is.

Kouga: Like “SS”, right? Just what does it stand for?

Adonis: I looked it up before, but it seems there are various rumours. Maybe it’s more intriguing for it to be shrouded in mystery, but there hasn’t been an official statement regarding what the letters stand for.

Kouga: Ahh~ It’s the same for Yumenosaki’s “DDD”, huh. The more mysterious it sounds, the more ridiculous the truth is.

There’s nothing to it, so they’re just putting it on display right at the top. It’s so stupid.

Rei: ………… *Whispers to Yuuta*

Yuuta: “Doesn’t that hurt your ears, Kouga?” is what he says apparently~

Kouga: I ain’t gonna comment no more, timid bastard. You can’t say nothin’ without it bein’ through mummy Yuuta, right? Huuuh?

Rei: ………… *Whispers to Yuuta*

Yuuta: “Mummy~ An undisciplined dog is bullying me~” is what he’s saying apparently.

Kouga: You don’t have to translate that. And I ain’t no dog – I’m a wolf! Just do our usual thing normally, huuh!

Adonis: There, there… I’ll say this as many times as need be, but Sakuma-senpai most likely cannot speak with us because of his “order”.

Yuuta: Ahaha. Well, he can speak with me and I can translate for him, so he can communicate on a minimal level.

Kouga: Right. I bet it’s a pain but thanks, Yuuta.

Yuuta: …Well, I’m not guaranteed to completely translate what Sakuma-senpai says with 100% accuracy, though.

Kouga: Huuuh?

Yuuta: Nothing~ Anyway, it’s good that we’re getting a lot of views. Since it seems we’ll be paid “SSL$” accordingly depending on the number of views.

Let’s upload more videos and earn more to win “SS”.

Kouga: Yeah, there’s nothin’ else we can do, anyway. Accordin’ to what the management said, we can buy “Desert Coins” using the “SSL$” we earned…

And if we send those coins to Hakaze-senpai and Hinata, they’ll apparently have an easier time out in the desert.

There’s nothin’ bad to gain from earnin’ those “Desert Coins” or whatever they’re called.

Yuuta: It seems they’ve been thrown into a strange situation without knowing what’s left or right as well.

(Hmm~... By the looks of things right now, things are turning out well for us, but no, it just seems that way because the management is setting things up to look like it.)

(Just how much can we trust the management? Adults always lie and betray others…)

(I’d like to contact Hinata-kun and be on the same page as him at the very least, though.)

(But there’s no way to contact him… Oh man, if only we really had telepathic abilities.)

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DF: Hey so you guys know how once upon a time I had mentioned that I would be writing an LBD centric prequel to Blue and Violet in an author's note in one of the last chapters of Colours?

It's definitely still happening if some of you were waiting for it!!! It's just, I haven't been working on it lately (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ. Actually, I've barely worked on it at all. Technically, I am more than a third way through writing it because it's only a three chaptered fic (well, that's the plan as of 'right now') and I have the outline of the whole thing pretty set in stone (aka, I know exactly what's going to happen).

The first chapter of it is... Actually, it's already done! Pretty terrible draft but not something some quick editing can't fix! But me being me, I don't particularly like to publish chapters unless I have some more chapters in the backlog to be published the following week (to uphold a consistent schedule). Hence, why I'm able to keep up the weekly update schedule!

However, I... Genuinely don't know how long it is going to take me to write the other two chapters. Because my brain is not good at multitasking. So, since my main focus is on Winter Mornings, Summer Nights (WMSN), this ask blog, and my life outside of the internet, it's hard to find time and energy to actually... Write the prequel I've been wanting to write for ages. A piece of work that I really wanted to share before WMSN came out because it's actually meant to be read after Colours (despite literally being a prequel. But it contains so many spoilers for the timeline beyond it because ITS LBD'S POV) but lmao it is what it is.

HOWEVER: If you are all willing to endure the very unreliable production of the prequel (it literally could take me months to dish out the second chapter), I could publish the first chapter for it! Just so you guys can like, I don't know, consume it.

Um, do bear in mind though, I might not end up following the results of this poll. Because I don't know, I'm a little silly I guess (or just incredibly unreliable lmao). But I will take the results from this into consideration! Ultimately, I will try to do what I feel like is best for you guys and the series (and my own sanity too I guess).

So, this is more of an update post than anything else. To tell you guys that I'm working on the thing, I swear XDDD!!! But if you guys really want to see some of it now, I am willing to share what I currently have :DDD.

[spacedhead]

homestuck reread #16 ACT 6 p7

we are inching closer and closer to the end of this grand tale, this epic adventure spanning timelines and universes .... were in the endgame now

starting off we have this funny interaction . i think jake is at the point where hes kinda just really self conscious and the next step he needs to take is to actually become the person that he used to pretend to be

this is funny bc tavros is allergic to himself but is also technically now one of the most powerful beings in existence

YESSS WHAT DOES IT MEAN SAY IT SAY IT

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

hell fucking yes. HELL YES

he loves to.... receive direction from others... i suppose there isnt anything wrong with that

jake is actually a great wingman hello

DAVE SPRITE!!!!! HEY DUDE HOLY SHIT THEY ALL THOUGHT YOU DIED IN THE GAME OVER TIMELINE. HOT DAMN I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU HAHAHAH YEAHHHHH

does anyone else read him saying "hey put er there" like puddy aka that guy from emperors new groove saying it. like hey beter ... hey put er there.... HAHAHAH thatshit makes me giggle

small ass mf

okay so i fucking love davepeta . theyre so fucking REAL dave but as a cat? like come on.... can it get better than that? AND I LOVE NEPETA TOO?? everything is turning up joff

what the fuck is jake doing over there

haha davekat is so canon its unbelievable

fuckin sburb sessions are so complicated bro i still dont even know whats happening here because somehow through all of this huge story they arent even done with all the game shenanigans

ohhh okay. i guess that is a thing then

john is so funny. also he is an heir of something else. LOLLLL

he is asking how to come out to them. heheheheheh i love him so much he is my son.

soooooooooo true

dawwww

uhh... no .... i dont like it... make them normal again.

inspirational speech.... YES..... MY SON..... YOU TRULY ARE THE LEADER....

oh man.... im about to remem8er...

im gonna freak out and kill myself

lowkey kinda love this image

these two have never met, but meenah doesnt know about the game over timeline. interesting! i love when stuff like this happens it makes me so excited for no reason

:DDD

DAWWWW HES SO SWEET

i love his WHAT

its time....

for the final battle....

JOIN ME NEXT TIME......AS I WATCH COLLIDE

[ajdrawshq]

ztd crossover with kh but it's just Carlos meeting Terra, Diana meeting Aqua and Sean meeting Ven. Cursed or blessed concept. Go

HM. WELL. i immediately leaned toward cursed bc like (gestures vaguely at ztd) but that feels mean so im gonna try putting some thought into this

Carlos and Terra :] very good pair for the most part i think. just 2 big older bros doing what they do to try to help people.. but it all goes to shit kupo. i can see them getting along pretty well, both due to their personal experiences and bc of who they are in general. also now that i think abt it its kinda funny that both of them happen to be plagued by visions but only Carlos' have an actual explanation?? Terra morphogenetic field moment?? even funnier is that both of them have the same "welp. anyway" reaction to it like yeah this just happens sometimes 👍 kind of unfortunate Terra couldnt use his to prevent bad things from happening too but oh well. its not like hopping timelines is that easy in his universe anyway. Terra still gets bonus points on an individual level bc while there was very little he couldve done differently there Are things Carlos couldve just uh. not done. yknow. things that i think Terra would kick his ass over tbh

Diana and Aqua.... oof. on god we're gonna get u girls some therapy. they were both so severely fucked over by like. literally everything from ingame events to the narrative itself. trapped in two different but absolute hellholes of sitautions for Very Long Amounts of Time and only called upon as a pawn in a game that both defines and ruins their lives and their entire world, and they barely even know it. and the only people they get to talk to at some point in their respective hells are Sigma and Micheal Mouse (and Terra sort of).. yea i think id lose it too tbh. its interesting that Diana was a 100% crucial part of why ztd happened while Aqua's role in Xehanorts plan wasnt really until ddd/kh3 unless u count him planning the whole end of bbs.. before that she was more of an outside force? not that taking her out wouldnt change anything ofc but her direct actions were more harmful to the overall plan than going according to it. i might need to play bbs again to confirm that more but uhh i forgot where i was going with this. i could see them getting along but i dont really remember enough about Diana as a person to know just how well they would? i guess itd at least be nice to have someone else who knows what their oddly specific and horrific situations are like, more or less

finally Sean n Ven.. Man. talk abt kids who cant catch a break for their entire lives no matter how outragously short OR long. they both just have a Lot going on and play some of the most major roles in their respective stories and god knows they didnt ask for any of it!! tho weirdly enough i dont feel much for Sean considering how he fits into the kinda characters i usually get attached to. but maybe thats just bc it was ztd. anyway !! out of the 3 duos here i think these two are most likely to become actual friends. from the memory fuckery to having a greater role in everything than they couldve imagined (both of them essentially being a key at some point..) to even just. having a very limited world in some way. and not having full control over their bodies. and several other major things im probably forgetting they both have. lots and lots and lots of things. they are friends to me

and just some general other thoughts - while im. not entirely sure how to feel abt what ztd does with the morphogenetic field i can at least appreciate the weird memory stuff that comes with body hopping and the possibilities that has when tied to all the other weird memory stuff that already happens in kh for similar or different reasons. like the way ztd (and vlr to some extent) went about it didnt quite hit the way i wanted it to but the concept is cool to me? itd be fun to play around with it in the context of kh i think. or vice versa. altho maybe introducing multiple timelines to the kh universe isnt the best idea.. hm. much to think about

but yeah!!!! overall verdict: mostly blessed with some underlying hints of cursed. like a weird aftertaste

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As someone said in the replies, according to Young Xehanort, the Power of Waking is for "traversing Hearts to reach Worlds", my only problem with that is. I don't entirely understand what that means?

Like, I get that Sora misuses it, by instead using it to "traverse worlds to reach hearts" and he does it Twice, once to save everyone after the 1st Graveyard visit, and once to save Kairi after beating Xehanort.

Except, like, while he does go to the different Disney worlds and finds the hearts of the Guardians and fights the Lich, and that makes a new timeline, apparently. I mean, Re:MIND is presented like a timeloop, like everything Sora's heart does, are things he. Already did. And always did. In both timelines somehow? And, also, the second time he connects to the different Hearts of the Guardians, each time? Not to different worlds, the way he did the first time?

And, again, the second time he didn't seemingly change the timeline at all. Apparently Xehanort "crystallized" Kairi instead of killing her, to use her as a back up for the light of the χ-Blade, even though he already had the χ-Blade because of the clashing of his vessels and the Guardians. He scattered her heart into the different petal fragments in Scala, which.

Okay, also, the endgame of KH3 involves using Xehanort's heart to make a portal to Scala Ad Caelum, which is "traversing hearts to reach worlds", okay, makes sense. Sora and everyone push Xehanort through his own portal. And then in the time between opening the portal and Sora, Donald and Goofy going through, Future!Sora is able to go through the portal, and do things independently in Scala, until his past self shows up, and I guess because there's no replica body for his heart, his future!Heart goes back to his past body. But that also preserves the timeline, because there was no replica body and embodied Future!Sora the first time.

Somehow, Xehanort had pieces of Kairi's heart and 12 replicas just. Stashed in Scala, either before they opened the portal. Or. After they pushed him through but before either of the Soras showed up. But either way, Sora ends up recompleting Kairi, after she's crystallized or killed or whatever, and it turns out they take a little tour together, reuniting Chirithy and Ven, and getting Naminé's heart out of Kairi's and into the replica body, then they both show up at the beach before Sora disappears.

Like, okay, is it that reunion tour where Sora misuses the power of waking? Traversing the worlds of Land of Departure and Radiant Garden to reach and reunite the hearts of Chirithy, Ventus and Naminé? And to reach all their friends on Destiny Islands. And to have Ice Cream in Twilight Town while everyone else also is. But like, Kairi is with him, and Chirithy is until they stop off to bring him to Ven. And neither of them fades away. And I dunno if Naminé would count when she was in Kairi, but I would note that Roxas and Xion were still in Sora's heart during the Demon Tide-Lich sequence.

I dunno, the power of waking still does seem sorta. Poorly defined. To me, or at least. What counts as misusing it is poorly defined, because looking through DDD, and 3 itself, the proper uses of it do seem to be mostly consistent, ish.

But the second time he quote unquote misuses it. I mean, he does time travel, but so does fucking Xehanort and the Master of Masters, and a whole bunch of other losers.

(And Pete, lol)

But once he arrives in the past he mostly seems to use the power of waking. Correctly? By traversing the different hearts of the Guardians. Like, okay, I guess he stays in the same world, each time? But that makes even less sense to be a misuse?

...God, actually, I think the reunion tour does actually make the most sense as the second time he misuses the power waking, thinking about it. Like, Kairi talks about how pretty the Final World is, and they talk about seeing worlds together. The first time he misuses it, he leaves the Final World, and goes to different worlds where the hearts of his friends are. And during their world tour, yeah, they leave the Final World, TVA are in the Land of Departure, the Sea Salt Seven are in Twilight Town, and. I mean, the replica body for Naminé is there, we see Riku show up in a few minutes for her, Ienzo and Ansem are there, though I don't know if either of them counts as a friend, they don't go to the beach party. But they do have hearts, I guess.

Except, Chirithy keeps telling Sora not to use the PoW to save Kairi, and Terra-Xehanort, Young Xehanort and Master Xehanort in Scala keep talking like he's already doomed. Then again, at one point Xehanort quotes from the Book of Prophecies, and he time travels a bunch, maybe he's read the script and knows Sora will fade he just. Misdiagnosed which incident caused it.

I think it was kind of strange that Riku was able to use the power of waking to open a portal to Quadratum. Not only does it feel out of the power of waking’s scope, it feels too easy? We find out that the master of masters has been divising a long term plan to make sure he finds his way there, yet we see riku go there with something as simple as creating a portal out of the nameless star.

From what we know, the power of waking allows its user to travel into the dream world of its target, essentially a manifestation of their subconscious as a visitable location. For that reason, Sora and Riku using it to reach the realm of darkness doesn’t seem too out of place, as I’ve always kind of interpreted the ROD as sort of like, the realm where the collective darkness of people gather. If that makes sense.

I feel like normally, it’d be more in line with what we knew if that portal was a portal to a dream version of Quadratum out of nameless star’s memories.