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gunsli-01 · 1 year ago

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for milgram oc ask game ages 11 and 16 and questions 4, 8, 10, 11

Oh, yay!

4. Do they view their murder(s) and justifiable?

Jester is a pretty simple and straightforward person. He tends to view anything as justifiable. He takes things from every angle and isn't the quickest to anger. In a Milgram AU he'd be a bit of a frightening case because he simply could justify anything and feel nothing about doing it. In his regular canon this is beneficial.

Yet it'd make him the worse sort of person in Milgram. His whole stance would be similar to Yuno's.

"The fact I'm here and this is happening is proof enough that what I did needed to occur. You seriously think I'd get myself into this much trouble for what- Fun? If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have and the fact that I needed to is justification enough. There's really no need to talk about it any further than that."

Would be his only mindset about it and he would view someone else judging his behavior as a waste of his time. He's a pretty chill kid for the most part but incredibly picky about who he talks to and the opinions he allows to hold weight to him.

So, he'd probably be a standoffish prisoner if he were amongst a bunch of strangers. Not because they're murderers. Simply put he just has no interest in forming connections he doesn't want to and being forced to be around a bunch of people is the best way to make him not want to.

8. What do the voices of the outside world tell them?

"You're a really selfish person." "How could someone like you have the audacity to call yourself anyone's friend let alone theirs'." "A terrible person." "I'd feel sorry for you, but I know what happened to the last person who did that." "It must be hard..." "You seem to miss them deeply." "It gets better." "You did what you had to." "The situation was just all wrong." "I hope you feel better."

10. What is their image color?

Amaranth Purple- Amaranth would also be the flower most prominent in his birthday art.

It can represent immortality and means

"Unfading Affection" or "Everlasting Love" when given as gifts. Here's some facts about it.

X X X

11. What reoccurring themes present themselves throughout their music videos?

A lot of allusions to travel, small almost suffocatingly so rooms in large houses, superficial acts of communication that lead to increased loneliness, and a disdain for the genuine.

(I'm so fucking sorry i misread sixteen as twenty-six and I have no real explaination as to how outside of it's late and I was tired. So, now you get three ocs. I'm just adding this here to avoid confusion.)

Ah this next one may be a bit of a copout of an answer given that they are the age you asked for in real time but in their canon they're only nineteen. Hope that isn't a bother. Especially since I don't get to talk about them often. Despite them being one of my personal favorite characters to write.

His actual story is under reconstruction, and I haven't gotten to touch his character in a while as a result. technically it's being merged with another story.

Though if he did wind up in Milgram, he definitely would not be his age in canon which is why I went with his age by the current year when it comes to a Milgram au. Jester on the other hand would fuck up that young.

4. Do they view their murder(s) and justifiable?

"I didn't mean it, I didn't- mean it. This isn't the solution I wanted."

No. He does not. However, the problem was successfully solved. No one was satisfied though.

8. What do the voices of the outside world tell them?

"Your life is fucked up." "That's scary." "You deserve to stay in there." "This is just sad." "That's not how family is supposed to behave." "I don't know how to feel about this." "I want to forgive you but I also think it's safer if you stay in Milgram as long as they're not killing people at the end of this." "I'd say get therapy but that was part of the problem in this case." "Yes king dissociate harder. Reality is flawed." "In a unique twist of fate everyone here was so wrong that we've gone straight to a neutral outcome." "Those people kind of deserved it." "After a point a solution becomes a problem somehow you reached that point at birth." "Everything that could have gone wrong here went wrong. Good job team. Pack it up we can stop having things occur for this man now."

10. What is their image color?

Because I brought up a flower for Jester, I feel bad not bringing up one for Leyton.

His flower would be Azaleas.

Azaleas tend to mean Temperence and are used to remind people to take it easy.

"While azaleas represent passion, they also symbolize temperance. In other words, the plant reminds us of our ability to practice moderation — even when it comes to those things and people we love the most. You can still live a life full of love, romance, beauty, passion, and abundance while remaining level-headed and avoiding overindulgence. Self-control is a must-have in order to achieve stability and groundedness in your life. All things in moderation." X

They've also been related to family.

Something that generally makes them fit Leyton nicely.

11. What reoccurring themes present themselves throughout their music videos?

Persistence, distortion, power imbalances, responsibility, existentialism (primarily focusing on the right one has to exist and repaying those who made it possible for them to exist without question when asked), familial duty, housing, fiscal stability. Depending on his current mindset sibling relationships.

I'd love to hear your opinion on them. I love all my ocs dearly. Even though they're all a bit fucked up.

Goes up to reread ask to see if I answered correctly-

Oh, fuck you said sixteen! Damn it how did I read twenty-six. I'm sorry it's late and I'm still sick. So, I guess you're getting three ocs because it would be a waste to erase all that.

So, say hello to one of the specialist of girls,

4. Do they view their murder(s) and justifiable?

"Ha-ha, what a funny question. Do things people do need a reason or to be justifiable? It's such a immature way of looking at things... Guard, are you sure you're up for this sort of job? Not everything needs or has a justification you know. Besides even if I did have one that wouldn't make my actions any less objectively bad. Sorry, I'll stop teasing. Since I got what I wanted I'd say it was justified."

Yes, but no, but yes. If the ends justify the means then yeah she guesses what she did was justifiable but she also really has zero inclination to justify it. She's just an outcome based person.

8. What do the voices of the outside world tell them?

"You're not sorry at all!" "Your hair is super cute!" "How can you still be having a good time after doing all that." "Do you even feel empathy?" "You had way too much free time." "Well being raised like that what should we expect." "It's not bad to focus on one's own needs but..." "How exactly did you get what you wanted here this is a terrible outcome? It's a surpise you still have friends. I couldn't imagine speaking to anyone who did this ever again." "You plan to just go back and what pretend you didn't do all that?!" "YOU STILL HAVE AN ACTING CAREER BITCH! HOW?! I LOSE JOBS FOR JUST BREATHING WRONG AND YOU'RE STILL EMPLOYED!" "This is gonna be bad to say but I'm ultimately just impressed at the level of thought put into this at this point. I mean instead of being normal you truly went fuck it I'll escalate this further. Really went we can be insane together." "How the fuck is he not here- oh wait... Yeah, he's the victim." "I know voting innocent isn't going to make her better but she had me at 'Dead and gone- Oh she's crazy my love's eternal but you'll fade quickly'. I'm not fixing this I want her to get worse actually." "She's soooo normal." "This is what he would've wanted." "Toxic heteronormativity sweep!" "What you and your victim had was special. You both made each other so much worse and I have no doubt there's a universe in which he's here instead of you."

(Side note there is. If being worse was a contact sport James and Luna would be the worlds best team even though they're actually shown to be quite reasonable in their respective canons. They're both really susceptible to living in extremes. The only thing that leveled these two out was putting them in a polyamorous relationship with the nearest individual with a moral compass. However in a Milgram au one of them must be dead for the other to be here and they never spoke to that third person.)

10. What is their image color?

Her flower is Orchid the white variety mainly.

11. What reoccurring themes present themselves throughout their music videos?

The sun (in it's many forms but mainly sunlight), lack of presence, authenticity, boredom, extreme thrill seeking behavior, the feeling that there's only one opinion that matters and it's not the audience's or hers, contentment, memories.

#thanks for asking it was really fun to answer!#even though I fucked up greatly several times.

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thatpinkbetch · 4 years ago

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Bkdk Fic Rec

I’ve been inspired to write a fic rec! This one goes out to you @lonely-rabbit

At like, the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 I stayed up until 4am every night reading fics, and because I’m such a loser, I made a word doc to keep track of all of them so I wouldn’t forget them.... I tried organizing it by length but it got messy cause I’m ridiculous and cluttered, so sorry! (I’ll save my own for the end alskdjflsdkfj gotta self promote you know). This is going to get...really long, so I’ll put it under a read more! Also, just a heads up, these are all on ao3, in case that’s important to anyone!

Disclaimer: Any fics with mature or explicit content I will add a bolded warning for, even if it’s only a little bit. Normally most fics will be tagged as such, but some fics that are rated as teen I’ve found to be more suggestive than some of those rated as mature, so I will try to point it out where it feels necessary, for anyone who wishes to avoid it.

Fics under 1k:

Illuminate by TheQueen (269 words)

Summary: Bakugou watches the first firework launch and fights to keep his face neutral

Very short, plot is about a case of amnesia, also very cute and well written for that length! Not angsty at all imo

sweaty hands holding secrets - shounentwink (563 words)

Summary: Someone said Midoriya holds secrets in his hair.

It’s not true: He holds it tightly in his hands. Bakugou’s seen it.

I really like this writer! You’ll see quite a bit of them in this post alkdsjfalskdjf

Fics 1k - 10k:

Many sunflowers later - Jeka (2395 words)

Summary: Scholar Midoriya Izuku comes back to the person he left behind after his journey through the kingdom, the mighty dragon clan leader Bakugou Katsuki.

Day 1 of Twin Stars Week 2020: Fantasy AU.

First of all, fantasy au!!! Second of all, jeka!!! (I need to read more of your stuff!!) Anyways, so cute, such lovely, pretty writing, wonderful story telling, and they’re so in love TT_TT

Boom Badoom Boom - warschach (3429 words)

Summary: Izuku's working the kissing booth at the school fair, it just so happens Katsuki has been crushing on him since the first grade.

“Did you��“ Izuku parted his mouth with no sound leaving it, “Did you pay?”

“Yea.”

“For a kiss?”

This one’s a little silly but I love it still. It’s got a “kids in the 80′s over summer vacation” vibe, I think. I love warschach! I should read more of their writing... They have SUCH good bakudeku content! *It’s rated teen but there’s some suggestive content, just a heads up!

Hopeless Ramen-tic - lalazee (7155 words)

Summary: Midoriya is a cute guy who works at a ramen stall and Bakugou is thirsty as hell, but has to hide it by being an asshat. Another love story.

Ah, so good TT_TT so much sass, such good plot development and story telling for a simple concept *It’s rated as teen but again, it can be suggestive at times!

I’ll share this with you, so leave it behind - yabakuboi (3508 words)

Suammry: For the sake of the story, All Might is never in need of a successor, and, when Izuku saves Katsuki from the sludge monster, encourages young Midoriya down a different path. Thus, Katsuki and Izuku part ways after junior high, as Katsuki enters U.A. and the Midoriyas move overseas. It’s later that Katsuki realizes that there’s something missing, that he drove that something away.

Years after, Katsuki finds him in the last place he looks, in the cereal aisle at the local grocery store of their childhood neighborhood.

So soft, so sweet, so good if you just want to curl up in a comfy blanket and drink hot cocoa and feel warm and cozy and a little in love

The Secret Deku Box - yabakuboi (2241 words)

Summary: “Y’know, Bakugou never, ever talks about girls,” Kaminari says, his voice thoughtful.

“And I wonder why that is.” Ashido rolls her eyes.

“I’m just curious!” Kaminari whines. Kirishima drags the box out, unlabeled and unassuming, the lid not even fully clasped over the edges. “The guy has to— Whoa, what’s that?”

Kirishima realizes a little belatedly that this is a serious breach of privacy, and Bakugou will actually murder all of them. “Nothing!” he cries, attempting to shove it back under the bed, but Ashido snatches it away.

“Please be his porn stash!” Kaminari whispers as she whips the lid off.

Cute, funny, in canon, in character, and a must read I would say!

daisy bunches and heather branches - halcyonwhispers (5862 words)

Summary: izuku falls in love with the foul-mouthed tattoo artist next door.

Not another flower/tattoo shop au.... aldskjflaskdjfd Okay but punk!Bakugou is ALWAYS a smart move imo

the best part of me (is the worst I can give) - halcyonwhispers (5668)

Summary: Whole sentences usually make up people’s Words, but Katsuki got stuck with a name instead.

Izuku’s name.

I am such a sucker for soulmate aus when it comes to these boys TT_TT *There is some mature content, just a heads up!

Hard to Say - halcyonwhispers (8390 words)

Summary: Izuku is a Halfling, born after his faerie father spirited away his mom and then left her behind. Never quite fitting in with the humans or any of the supernatural beings in his small town, Izuku hoped that going to a diverse college in the big city will help him finally make friends.

Katsuki’s family has been powerful witches for generations, and he’s no different. Talented and a proclaimed genius to boot, he knew he shouldn’t waste his time on this dumbass (disgustingly cute) half-blood.

Or,

two idiots fall in love and don’t get that the other’s awkward cues are just a result of romantic tension.

I am ALSO a sucker for fantasy/mythical creatures au and I LOVED this one - Bakugou absolutely unable to handle how cute Midoriya is? Perfection - but it’s unfinished, and I don’t think it ever will be continued, unfortunately TT_TT

lots to unpack (throw away the whole suitcase) - shounentwink (4315 words)

Summary: “How’d you know?” Midoriya asks.

There’s a hunch to his shoulders that wasn’t there three hours ago. Freckled shoulders are kissed sunburnt and red: he looks like someone ran him over and left him like roadkill in the sunlight. Bakugou’s working with insurance today, but he could see the sparks of green lightning even from his elevated position in their shared agency. Midoriya’s holding his thumb, cracking it over and over — it looks like he’s rubbed it raw.

“Dunno,” Bakugou says. “Maybe you’re just easy to read, nerd.”

I love this one so much, it was one of the first ones I read, it’s so good, and it’s another that really affected how I view their relationship! Idk this one just hit for me

hang the moon from us (it’s a no from me) - shounentwink (1200 words)

Summary: Midoriya’s gonna get sick of Bakugou one of these days, and then the whole ruse will be over, and the balance of power will tilt beyond salvation, but that day isn’t today and it looks like Bakugou knows it.

What an asshole.

Once again, I’m a sucker for the fantasy au... But even more, the diction, the details, the imagery...it’s absolutely all stunning here. I wish I could write this pretty

In Which Bakugou Finds His One Tru Luv - Erina (5862 words) This is the first one of a series called The Misadventures of Explodo-kill Agency!

Summary: Welcome to the Explodo-kill agency! We can destroy your buildings, crash your cars, and help you solve one of the seven mysteries in life: who is Bakugou Katsuki's mysterious boyfriend?!

I’ll admit I’ve only read the first three but by god they are the funniest fics I’ve ever read in my life. I see that Erina has added more since the last time I checked it out! Tbh I was only interested in reading the purely bakudeku ones... (My favorite was the second one!! SO funny and cute!)

i still do - raeryn (9646 words)

Summary: He’s losing him to pieces, but Izuku still tries to make them count. In which a battle leaves Bakugou Katsuki with amnesia, and Izuku finds himself picking up the pieces.

So, this one makes me cry. TT_TT

One Thing Straight - winningshot (9899 words)

Summary: They totally aren't.

Hints of their relationship is found in all of their friends’ social media accounts, but majority of their fans still think that Katsuki and Izuku are in relationships with anybody but each other.

It was amusing up until it became sad.

Lmao it’s a little salty but I guess I can be too. This is a social media fic! There’s multiple ships in this one, too

A Demolition Boy & his Cryptid BF - kewltie (8472 words)

Summary: Bakugou of the Demolition Squad is famous for running one of the most popular Youtube channels on the web that regularly blow shit up and jumped off a perfectly good building for shit and giggles. He's also famous for his Cryptid BF™, never appearing on camera except for a few bodyshots and all information on him is kept locked up tighter than Fort Knox, therefore drawing all sort of attention and curiosity toward his mysterious boyfriend.

Deku from Deku Explains is a hopeless chatterbox who is known for uploading 20-30 minutes video that talked about his favorite shows and comics and have one of the most devoted following on Youtube. He also can't seem to shut up about his boyfriend Kacchan, who regularly make his presence on the channel as a disembodied voice.

They should theoretically have nothing in common except a shared platform to host their content and an army of fans with an endless curiosity and devotion to their Youtubers. Vidcon is where we lay our scene and the internet is about to get a rude wake up call.

Okay kewltie is SO GOOD and very creative! The formatting is phenomenal, it’s like you’re actually experiencing a social media melt down in real time lol

be my good luck charm - writedeku (6785 words)

Summary: See, the thing is, Midoriya Izuku had been born with a curse. It’s not a curse that’s particularly visible. He doesn’t have horns, or a tortured face, and it’s not the kind of silly curse like a friend of his had way down south in Diagnor, wherein the girl had been born without the ability to say the word duck. Midoriya Izuku is just extremely unlucky.

(Or the AU in which Izuku's the world's unluckiest travelling merchant, and Katsuki is someone who may be able to help him. For a price, that is.)

Oh I adore this one! It’s so cute and such a good narrative! Nice and warm, and Bakugou trying his damnedest to be suave, and it somehow working because Midoriya is just as flustered. *Another one rated as teen but some suggestive content.

Smells Like Victory - majjale (2377 words)

Summary: Bakugou takes two steps into the room and stops, clapping a hand over his nose. “Ugh, what stinks like Deku in here?”

"Good afternoon, Bakugou. That would be the amortentia."

I must admit, not a fan of HP, but majjale...TT_TT majjale writes these two boys so well. This one is really, really good!

Cherish Me - Justaperson1718 (2376 words)

Summary: “What?”

Izuku looked back down at his menu and flipped the page, a small smile on his face. “Nothing.”

Katsuki glared at Izuku from across the table. “If it was nothing then you wouldn’t be staring at me.”

“It’s just a little funny watching you try to look your best for our date when you always look great anyway,” Izuku explained. He wouldn’t look up from his menu while he spoke, but his words remained ingrained with confidence nevertheless. He considered what he was saying to be fact, and nothing else. “Even when you’re not trying in front of the cameras, it’s still hard to take my eyes off of you.”

This is a sequel to a fic that’ll be in the next section, because it’s longer, called Manage Me. Please read that one first before this one! (Not part of a series, but they’re the same story line)

Fascinating - Justaperson1718 (1556 words)

Summary: “I’m not staring at you,” Izuku replied, his eyes focused intently on Katsuki. He’s still wearing his pajamas, sitting on his knees in their shared bed. He was awake moments before Katsuki, and waited eagerly for the other to awake.

Katsuki glanced over his shoulder after his shirt was on and glared. “You’re fucking staring at me right now.”

Izuku shook his head, humming his disapproval quietly. “I’m watching you.”

“That’s the same damn thing,” Katsuki said while searching for a pair of pants in the dresser. “Your eyes are fixated on me like I’m your life’s fucking goal or some shit.”

“I just like watching you get dressed.” Izuku tilted his head to the side and smiled softly at Katsuki’s confused stare. “I know, it’s weird. But I like it.”

*There is a little bit of implied mature content, but overall, it’s just so sweet and intimate, and I just simply adore this one.

in a place once filled with gold - dorenamryn (9226 words)

Summary: It felt strange to remember such details, for they were things a friend should know, and as far as Katsuki was concerned, he and Deku hadn’t been friends in a very, very long time. He could admit, with reluctance, that they were on the path there, now, even though they would never make it. Katsuki would die before they could get the chance.

or: There is a garden growing in Katsuki’s lungs, and he is helpless to stop it.

“Hanahaki disease” okay, I can explain myself. Okay, I can’t. In any case, you got angst with a happy ending if that’s what you’re into!

Kaleidoscope - DPRenFTW (5141 words)

Summary: Izuku is a witch. He just needs to find his familiar. Enter a boy that is a wolf, and a wolf that is a boy - with wild red eyes and sharp smiles.

And Izuku thinks:

"Oh, it's him."

Just as beautiful and fascinating as the name implies! I seriously recommend for the beautiful writing, the gorgeous world, the mythical creatures au, and the lovely bakudeku romance!

Learning Curve - sensiblysilly (4222 words)

Summary: Deku and Katsuki’s first kiss goes rather differently than planned.

And Katsuki’s quickly learning that relationships can be unpredictable - especially when taking into account the variable that is Midoriya Izuku.

This really is just a careful handling of a teenage romance where perhaps one of them may have shit they’re still working through. It’s really sweet, and a careful study at boundaries and the building of a relationship. I actually stumbled across this while looking for another with the same name and ended up pleasantly surprised. Kacchan can has a little validation, as a treat.

4/20 is a national holiday - Ereri_Garbage (

Summary: Izuku is a drug dealer that doesn't really accept the fact he's a drug dealer, Katsuki is hot as hell as shouldn't be allowed a facebook.

Happy (Late) birthday Katsuki and happy (late) 4/20. I actually half assed an edit on this one so it took longer to post than I thought it would.

Uummmm lmao yes I have a sense of humor. ;ALDSKJFLSKDJF Okay, I say that, but this is not a crack fic, it’s a good story that I enjoy with good writing, and *it has mature, content, obviously for multiple reasons here. It’s rated as mature but there are borderline explicit moments imo. It’s a fun fic and funny, too! And, ngl, it really does remind me of college... But forget about me, the bakudeku is wonderful too of course :)

Drinking Watermelon - warschach (8906 words)

Summary: For whatever reason, maybe divine fate, Izuku turned and looked over his shoulder and waved to them.

Katsuki’s heart full on stopped right then, and his fingers forgot their duty on the rails, and his body neglected its job to keep Katsuki balanced.

Izuku’s summer sweet smile fell into concern as Katsuki went airborne and cracked his skull on the porch.

or Katsuki works as a camp counselor, and Izuku is a boy made of summer heat and sunlight.

Love it when people have Bakugou as absolutely enamored with Midoriya; it’s so good and true. Anyways this one makes me like summer camp story lines. It’s funny and also cute and great writing! *It’s got explicit content, just a heads up. Warschach stories just have this youthful 80′s vibe, I don’t know how else to explain it.

there are listed buildings - semiautomatichearts (3309)

Summary: Katsuki first sees colors bloom when he is only three years old. It is timid Izuku, hiding behind the cover of his mother's leg who looks upon him with wide eyes, and Katsuki's world explodes in shades of greens and pinks and blues, and he is so startled, he begins to cry.

His life is then on defined in color, in shades his peers can't see, by the forlorn, timid stare in Izuku's eyes that always lets off more than he is willing to tell. There is a schism driven between himself and his fated other, and Katsuki strives to be better than fate, better than what is defined for him. He is more than the written pages of a book, to be cracked open and read by the gods.

He wonders if it is possible for colors to bloom for someone who will never love you back.

Ah...soulmates :) So interesting how bakudeku fits into soulmate aus like this one when they’ve known each other as kids! And when they’ve had this complex push and pull thing going on all their lives! The writing is beautiful, and so is the story!

Promise Ring - bkdkwritingsdump (3579)

Summary: The midwest in the 1950′s is no place for boys who like kissing boys: something Izuku and Katsuki know all too well growing up there. However, the undeniable bond between the nervous science geek and the aloof delinquent will still find a way to blossom in such a desert.

Cute, sweet, makes my gay heart ache. Longing not just for the one you love, but just to feel right loving them. Very pretty story line, lovely story telling!

Fics 10k - 30k:

Fishy - warschach (19417 words)

Summary: Izuku’s convinced his hot co-worker/neighbor, Katsuki, is a mermaid-or merman- you gotta consider genders even with mythical creatures- and plans to prove it.

(or this is kinda like the show ‘Monster Quest’, except Izuku actually finds said monster, falls in love, and have sexy times.)

Another warschach! I love this one, I love how they write bakudeku, particularly as college students, their stories (at least, the ones that I’ve read) always feel so warm, like a summer’s day, but not a lazy one, one that’s playful? If that makes sense? *This one is explicit, another heads up!

Manage Me - Justaperson1718 (10756 words)

Summary: Izuku caught himself moving forward, his head tilted somewhat to the side, and his eyes shot wide open. His gaze met Katsuki’s half-lidded eyes now that he was no longer in a dreamlike state, and seeing the way Katsuki was looking at him—waiting for him—made him realize Katsuki would’ve let him do it. He might have even wanted him to do it.

“You’re both doing fabulous!” the photographer called out to them, packing his camera into his bag and getting ready to leave. “I just got word that what we have now should be good, so we’ll stop there. Thank you for your time! Lock the door on your way out after you change.”

The pair stayed frozen in place, with Izuku’s arms around Katsuki’s neck and Katsuki’s hands resting on Izuku’s waist, while the photographer and his supervisor left.

“Kacchan,” Izuku cooed once they were gone. “Did you want to…?”

Love the story, love the bakudeku! Very, very good bakudeku TT_TT very sweet *There is some mature content in here as well

point to a map (we’ve been there) - cosmicfuss (10589 words)

Summary: Serendipity / sĕr″ən-dĭp′ĭ-tē Serendipity is the occurrence of an unplanned fortunate discovery. Two men find themselves on a subway, hot coffee on one while the other is in the middle of a screaming match. After that they can't seem to stop finding each other, no matter how far they go.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this fic owns my entire soul. I love the story, the ease of their relationship, just how lovely they are together. It’s another kind of nice, fluffy fic you’d read on a bad day where you come home and curl up in a blanket and listen to a ten hour video of thunderstorm white noise. *Again, some more mature content in here

Partners - tsukithewolf (13619 words) Another series! Two parts to this one this time

Summary: It is said that in Musutafu there is a charm that one can buy at a temple that will lead you to your destined partner. They say that if the charm works, you would be able to follow the red string of fate to the person you were meant to be with. And if the person returns your feelings, they would be able to see the string as well, proving that both were meant to be.

Three-year-old Katsuki and Izuku misunderstand what the word "partner" means and discover the charm and the rumor behind it is not only true, but more than expected.

Gets a little heavy, depression, bullying, suicidal thoughts, etc. But it must get worse before it gets better, that kind of thing. I also just adore the second part (called Bond) - maybe because it’s much fluffier, what about it?

Learning Curve - iknewaman (10304 words)

Summary: “Izuku.” Uraraka repeats as she motions at the person stood next to her. Green curls, average height, and, well. Up close, not such a bad smile. Uraraka points a thumb at Bakugou and enunciates slowly, “This is Bakugou. He can speak sign language too.”

Wait. Sign language?

The stranger— well, Izuku— looks at him with a raised brow. Their free hand lifts up as they make a slight motion of the hand.‘

Really?’

Bored out of his mind at a house party one night Bakugou is introduced to Izuku, a deaf student who offers to help teach Bakugou sign language in exchange for a favour-- or well, is prompted into asking for a favour.

Ah, I really want to explain this one a little bit? I’d never been into fanfiction ever, only really getting into it with these boys. This was the second one I read, I remember, and it caught me off guard, and it intrigued me. It really surprised me as to what fanfiction could be. Ngl I had biased perceptions of fanfics - I used to be one of those people who thought fanfiction could never be good writing - and this one slapped me in the face with it’s subtle beauty and creative story and heart melting capabilities, and very, very real relationship and growth. Anyways it’s so cute how happy Deku is to teach Kacchan sign language TT_TT Make sure to read the tags!

The Keeper and the Sun God’s Heir - SurelyHeavenWaits (12746 words)

Summary: The Titans' have stolen something important from Izuku, heir of the Sun God, and he wants it back.

This one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one this one- Oh my god this one. Okay so what, I was a Percy Jackson kid, what about it? I love the mythical aus, particularly the god ones. But beyond that, the writing is so beautiful, just like the world, and the imagery. The bakudeku...absolutely stunning. The story itself? Incredible. Cannot recommend more. *There is explicit content in this, though I will say, it’s all in the last chapter, and all of the story is in the first two chapters. There’s also a second part as it’s a series and it’s short but it’s cute and sweet TT_TT

seven days - aaAAAaaahhhhHHHHH (10094 words)

Summary: There’s something about the green haired boy, an aura that just drew Katsuki in before he even knew his name.

[Sometimes your mind forgets, but your heart remembers]

Heed my warning: DON’T read this in front of other people. I bawl every time I read this one TT_TT I know I said I don’t like angst but AJLSKDFJALSKDFJ it has a hopeful ending! I mean yeah you’re gonna cry but...hope? :’) (that username really says it all tbh)

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Notice me, nerd - useless_donut (40000 words)

Summary: Bakugou is in love with Midoriya. He doesn’t hide it, in fact it’s so painfully obvious that the entire class of 3-A has him figured out in a matter of months (days, in some cases). Too bad Midoriya is the most oblivious motherfucker out there, and Bakugou is too damn stubborn to actually ask him out.

Will the class of 3-A survive the sexual tension? Who will snap first? Someone put Bakugou out of his misery, please, before everyone else dies of second-hand embarrassment.

(a love story as witnessed by the class of 3-A)

Love the idea of Bakugou being brazen and brash, cause yeah, he is. So fucking funny though how that translates to him flirting. Gotta say, thought I was gonna cringe, but his “I’m gay af” outfit really ended up being A Look. Love the mutual pining, it really is strong in this one. *Okay, mature content in this one lads.

While You Were Sleeping - Belkacaramelka (71197 words)

Summary: The one where quirkless fanboy Midoriya Izuku rescues Pro Hero Todoroki Shouto, gets mistaken as his fiancé while he is in a coma, and gets caught up in the most unlikely fake engagement... until his childhood enemy and Todoroki's classmate Bakugou Katsuki tries to catch him out, and they both end up discovering a lot more about each other than they'd expected.

Quirkless AU based on the film; endgame BakuDeku. -- Katsuki didn’t know when the change had happened: how he had gone from asking why Todoroki chose Deku of all people, to wondering why it was Todoroki that Deku chose. Troublesome Deku, who cooed like an idiot at cats, tripped at a random catcall and sang badly. Who, despite everything, proved that it wasn’t the quirk that defined a person. Deku, who was too much, not his, and undeniably off limits to begin with.

Update: Epilogue added

*This one has mature content. If you can, please, for the love of god, read this fic. It’s like, tied with my favorite bkdk fic perhaps ever. It’s based on the movie of the same title, a nineties romcom with Sandra Bullock, but Belkacaramelka has so effortlessly made it into it’s own story, fit it so perfectly inside of the bnha world. I definitely stayed up until 6:30am reading this one. It’s got such good badass Midoriya, who is also sweet, and really really good reconciliation between bakudeku.

All Gifted - fitzefitcher (39129 words)

Summary: The thing about gifts is that they're meant to be given, they're meant to be shared; so Izuku will take his gifts, so freely given to him, and share them with all he holds dear.

Izuku is born without any gifts, as his kind often are, to a witch mother and salamander father, on one sweltering night in July.

This one is unfinished...and I highly doubt it will ever be. But what has been written is incredible. Once again, I’m a sucker for the magic/mythical creatures aus. But the relationship is great! The characterization is great! The found family trope that was building up is great!

under a hollow sun - umbrage (40572 words)

Summary: Midoriya is cursed with emptiness.

Misfortune leads him to a man of ancient magic and endless rage.

To stop an unfathomable evil, their mismatched halves must become whole.

Uuuggghhhh this was so good! I don’t think it’s going to be finished either :( Once again, fantasy au, more amazing writing, on point characterization, incredible pacing, makes you hungry for more story.

all the savage soul requires - majjale (58032 words)

Summary: Bakugou seems to have exhausted his patience for words and no longer acknowledges that Midoriya exists, so Midoriya crosses his legs, stares down at his hands limned in firelight, and makes a list of things he knows.

One. His name is Midoriya Izuku.

Two. He is a Godmarked, future god of life, heir to the divine throne.

Three. The gods have been fighting Death for eons, and now he's coming for recompense with everything he’s got.

This is majjale, so of course, the writing is more than beautiful; it’s absolutely breathtaking. This may be my favorite fic ever - unfortunately I don’t think it will ever be finished either TT_TT There’s the gods/fantasy au, which you know by now I love. But the characterization of our two boys is absolutely perfect, and I mean that as literally as possible. And the story being crafted between the two, the memory loss, the obvious history muddled by it all, it was so dense, and the PINING, so incredibly written, flowing so naturally. It wasn’t even close to being done, but it was wonderful, still is wonderful.

My Writing: (You can skip this if you hate shameless self promotion)

You’re too damn flicking cute (1815 words)

Summary: Bakugou is certain his shitty boyfriend is instigating kisses. Maybe it doesn't help that he keeps giving them away like it's a damn going out of business sale, but the stupid nerd is too fucking cute. Either way, like everything else, this is a competition, and he's going to win it.

Please don’t read this unless you’re going to the dentist afterwards! I’ve been told it’s so sweet it’ll give you instant cavities >_>;;;;

Bakugou Katsuki, you smooth motherfucker (10118 words)

Summary: Everyone around him knows that Bakugou Katsuki has a very special way with words. To the untrained ear he is loud and crass; to those that speak Kacchan, he is caring and inspiring. Yet there are rare moments, moments so fleeting you blink and you miss them, where Bakugou’s words pierce straight through Midoriya’s chest, and surprise everyone around him.

Goddammit, if only he would say them to Midoriya’s face.

Or, the five times Bakugou said something nice about Midoriya, and the one time he said something kind to him (but that was too long of a title).

I think most would consider this my best published fic; it’s one of those snapshot fics, “the five times where x did this, and the one time where they didn’t.” The recurring comment I get on this one is both of them being super in character, so I think that’s it’s defining characteristic! Bakugou and Midoriya have never known a life without the other, and in a perfect world, they never will.

Here, let me fix that (11247 words)

Summary: Bakugou honestly never thought he’d see Deku ever again. And now that they were together in this tiny compartment, alone for the next two and a half minutes, he had no clue what to say. He’d just apologized, right? So perhaps he could leave it at that and carry on with the original plan to never see the green-haired man that reminded him of dense forests, late night adventures, and tear-stained faces, ever again.

Ha! Who is he kidding? These bitches are soulmates.

I’ve gotten some critiques on this one, so sorry in advance if it’s not to your liking! Basically, what if Midoriya never got his quirk? Obviously, life would find a way to put them together because, as previously stated, these bitches are soulmates.

Plenty of Time (16654 words)

Summary: Bakugou found what little sleep he got restless and filled with nightmares that he forgot the second he opened his eyes. Tonight was the first time in a long time where he just had a normal dream - and it happened to be about Deku.

How fucking typical.

In other words, two dorks realize they have feelings for each other but don't know what to do about said feelings.

Ah, my first fic. Very simple, boys being boys, kinda like a slow burn? Idk how to explain this one, just boys figuring out their feelings and trying to figure out what to do about them. Been told these two are a little stupid but I think that’s valid.

We’re all time bombs waiting to explode (39223 words)

Summary: We have now entered the slipstream of time, into an alternate dimension where it neither is, nor isn’t, the 80’s. Two teenagers, burdened with the weight of adolescence in the modern world, find themselves struggling side by side, in part because of each other.

Bakugou, the most popular boy in school, has everything he could possibly want; status, power, and an unbreakable will. Having been dragged along behind him all the way to the top, Midoriya can’t help but wonder how (and why) he ended up standing beside his childhood friend-turned bully-turned friend again, weighed down by their complicated past and present. As the tension between them grows every day, and the arrival of a new, pretty face causes it to peak, it won’t be long before something - or someone - snaps.

I am...very bad at titles, and summaries apparently. This was my Heathers au, but it very quickly diverges from the original (I don’t do sad endings....) *This one has mature content, including implied sexual activity, drug use, and underage drinking, along with other heavy topics; please read the tags! Though tbh Midoriya is 17 for a couple weeks before it hits his birthday halfway through, so keep that in mind I guess? I kind of went heavy with this one, but I think the pay off was immense. This is the one with the most amount of comments stating it’s their favorite bkdk fic ever (and I cry). It’s a rough start, with a rough journey, but so is bakudeku! There’s a lot of petty drama, and then all of a sudden it’s Not That Petty and very much Far Too Real. Many have cried reading the ending, I cried writing it. My sister says it’s her favorite of mine. Now, I did kind of push this out without polishing it so much because I was losing my willpower, so if it feels lacking, that’s one hundred percent my fault.

Okay that was a lot! It took me a couple days...I hope I wasn’t too annoying with all my opinions! Please have a nice day. and enjoy some good reads, even if they aren’t the ones in this post!

#bakudeku #katsudeku #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #bnha #bkdk #fics #my writing #god i really hope i didn't fuck up any of this #i spent a long time on it alksdjflaskjdflkasdjf #this is 39 fics without my own #and 44 including mine #i can tell i've forgotten some but #idk it's hard TT_TT #anyways it's 2:30am #if i go to bed at 4am one more time i'm gonna throw myself down a flight of stairs #i hope this is good enough as is!#most of this was written very late so I hope it doesn't sound...crazed

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makeste · 4 years ago

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top 20 favorite quirks

okay, but listen, though! it’s exactly what it says in the title. not best quirks, or most useful quirks, or most creative quirks. not even coolest quirks! I did try to take all of these things into consideration when choosing, but honestly? by far the most important factor was, “I JUST THINK THEY’RE NEAT.”

anyway but let me backtrack and post the actual ask.

you’ll note that at no point was I asked to pick twenty of them. I did that all on my own. so here is my list!

20. Solid Air (Tsuburaba)

Tsubaraba Kousei. all-time undefeated grand champion of The Floor Is Lava. or at least he was until Ochako came along. anyway, so this is an extremely nifty quirk with all sorts of utility ranging from defense to helping him get around. it’s super useful for catching bad guys, and apparently the only real limit is his lung capacity. this quirk has so much potential and I love it.

19. Copy (Monoma)

the fact that he can copy his opponents’ powers and use them against them is badass enough, but add in the fact that he can hold up to 3 (or 4??) of them at once -- for as long as ten minutes -- and this quirk starts getting seriously powerful. anyway so one thing you might note as you read on is that although Copy is on my favorite quirks list, AFO is not! and that’s because Monoma’s limits actually make the quirk much more interesting to me, because they force him (and Horikoshi) to get creative. this is a really fun quirk and I would love to see more of Monoma in action. about time we saw him fight some actual villains and not just class 1-A, honestly.

18. Brainwashing (Shinsou)

as with Monoma’s quirk, what really sets this apart from other mind-control superpowers (to me, anyway) is the fact that it has limitations. he can’t just control anyone at random; in order to take them over he has to get them to respond to him somehow. which leads to innovations like the voice-changer, and which as a result has made his battles so genuinely interesting and fun to watch. anyway so I really want Shinsou to hurry up and join 2-A, and for them to just give him his provisional license all “here you go, son” with no testing whatsoever, because we’re past the point of pretending the HPSC is actually responsible these days, and because I really want to see if he can help turn the tides the next time the heroes battle the League.

17. Zero Gravity (Ochako)

I feel like it’s worth noting that I don’t really have any kind of fear of heights or falling or anything like that. and so I can’t really explain why Toga using this quirk on Ms. Curious and her lackeys was hands down one of the most singularly disturbing scenes in the entire manga for me! but it was!! even now I’m wincing just thinking about it. she just lifted them all up and DROPPED THEM and they just FELL and DIED. just like that. holy fucking shit. anyway, so we should all be very grateful that Ochako is super kind and sweet and more inclined towards helping people rather than murdering them. because holy shit. anyways though this quirk is dope.

16. Erasure (Aizawa)

I once said that this quirk was “not very cinematic”, and I don’t think I’ve ever been so wrong about anything in my life. oh, past me. you truly underestimated the dramatic impact of someone with a terrifyingly powerful quirk going in for the kill, only to be all “NANI?!” as they suddenly realize that their powers are no longer working, and the camera pans over to a man with gorgeous floating hair and intense red anime eyes. I owe you an apology, Erasure. you are cinematic AF.

15. Black Hole (Thirteen)

I really wish we got to see Thirteen fight more often. they suffer from the same “too powerful” curse as so many of the other characters and it’s a shame. anyway so Black Hole is cool af and gives me a ton of Miroku/kazaana vibes, which I freaking love. this quirk is lowkey on a Tomura-level of destructive potential, honestly, and yet no one ever talks about it?? Thirteen could literally destroy anything they touched if they wanted to?? imagine if they ever Awakened, you guys. holy shit.

14. Tape (Sero)

this power is so fucking stupid and ridiculous and completely absurd and I LOVE IT. Horikoshi really drew a skinny guy with tape elbows and was all, “so this kid is basically Spider-Man but with tape. I have not put the least bit of logical thought or creative effort into this power beyond that, and I’m not going to, either.” and somehow we all just accepted it. anyway, dubious origins aside, it’s such a versatile ability and Sero has such amazing control over it. it’s offense; it’s defense; he can use it to set traps; he can use it for maneuverability. TAPE ELBOWS CAN DO IT ALL.

13. Outburst (Ms. Joke)

when will it finally be her time. Outburst is one of those powers that sounds super dumb at first, until you really stop and think what the ability to make someone laugh at will could actually DO to people. true uncontrollable belly laughter is a totally incapacitating thing. she’d have people collapsing to the ground and practically seizing up. and good luck using your own quirk to fight back when you’re doubled over struggling to breathe and can’t even see straight because of the tears in your eyes. that’s assuming any of her opponents are even capable of thinking straight long enough to try it. like, this is such a straight up brutal ability and the fact that we have still NEVER SEEN IT is honestly infuriating.

12. Glamour (Camie)

it’s an illusion quirk. of course I have to put it on my list. illusion powers make every battle approximately 100x more entertaining. and what makes this particular power even better is that in any other series, this quirk would have been given to some Tokoyami-esque super serious emo kid. but BnHA went and gave it to Karen from Mean Girls instead. what a fucking power move. goddamn.

11. Black (Kuroiro)

according to BnHA Ultra Analysis, Kuroiro’s Appearing Out of Nowhere skills are rated a 4 out of 6. I still haven’t figured out if this is meant to be a burn on him or not. this kid can ninja in and out of literally any dark object in existence. if it’s nighttime, that means he can basically move wherever he wants to at will. of course he’s skilled at Appearing Out of Nowhere. so tell me then, why is it ONLY a four out of six?? how could he possibly fuck this up?? who was grading him?? DOES HE JUST SUCK. I don’t know, but anyway it’s really funny to me and also I really love this quirk.

10. Transform (Toga)

Toga went and Awakened herself right into the top ten with the reveal that not only can she mimic other people’s appearances, but that while she is transformed, she can actually use their quirks. like excuse me, what?? holy shit??? it is honestly driving me crazy that we’ve only seen this in action once. Transform is basically Plot Twist: The Quirk. I really want to see Toga use it to its full potential and infiltrate U.A. and/or spy on the HPSC and/or murder someone with their loved one’s own quirk. I WANT HER TO GIVE SOMEONE THE MAES HUGHES TREATMENT. I want her to do something so shocking that people ragequit the fucking manga lol. I know I’m always saying the manga isn’t that dark, but this is honestly the one exception where I would freaking love for it to get dark as shit. anyway so yeah. if you want to fuck with people you really couldn’t ask for a better quirk.

9. Creation (Momo)

MACGUYVER: THE QUIRK. an unlimited inventory in the hands of someone brilliant enough to actually utilize it to its full extent. what’s not to love? honestly if it were me with this quirk it would be completely useless. not only would I get hopelessly bored two seconds into trying to memorize an object’s molecular structure or whatever, but even if I DID manage to figure out how to make stuff, I would never know what to do with the stuff, or when to use it. every time a new situation cropped up I would just create a bunch of random objects in a panic. but Momo is so elegant in her problem-solving that she often needs to create only one or two things to come up with the perfect solution for something. basically this is a good quirk that becomes a truly great quirk when placed in the hands of the best possible person in the world to wield it. the quirk is awesome because Momo is awesome, and I fucking adore quirks like that (see: next entry).

8. Permeation (Mirio)

ah, Mirio. the original victim of the “too powerful to be allowed” curse. remember that time he BEAT HALF OF CLASS 1-A IN UNDER SIX SECONDS, you guys. small wonder Horikoshi couldn’t even make it through one complete villain fight with him before he had to de-quirk the poor kid. anyway, so Mirio makes this quirk look so mind-blowingly awesome that it’s easy to forget what a terrifying and fucked-up power it is in reality. “yeah it makes me blind and deaf and if I’m not careful I’ll fall into the center of the earth or splice myself in two or some shit.” what the actual fuck Mirio. but because he’s worked so hard and because Nighteye trained him so well, he’s mastered the timing to such an insane degree that he could kick Overhaul in the face without harming a single hair on Eri’s body. and honestly, there’s no way I could not love a quirk that gave us a moment like that.

7. Warp Gate (Kurogiri)

unlike SOME OTHER PEOPLE whose names start with Kuro, I would bet you that Kurogiri’s Appearing Out of Nowhere skills are a full six out of six! alas, the top ten of this list is chock full of people whose quirks are so badass that they had to be written out of the story one way or another. with Kuro at large there was technically nothing stopping the villains from just dropping in on U.A. one night to kill All Might, or rekidnap Bakugou, or whatever else they might want to do. and that’s actually a really scary thought though lol so it’s no wonder that Horikoshi was all, “yeah I’ll just have them capture him now.” anyways do you guys remember that one time in chapter 18 when Kuro used Warp Gate to create an endless loop of All Might suplexing Noumu suplexing All Might?? fucking quirks, though. wild.

6. Fiber Master (Best Jeanist)

another badass quirk, another badass quirk-user incapacitated and taken out of the story before their time. Best Jeanist is honestly terrifying. if he wanted to he could immobilize and even strangle and kill pretty much anyone in the world, whenever he fucking felt like it. that alone would be crazy enough, but then add to that that this quirk for all intents and purposes is basically telekinesis. as long as someone is wearing clothing he can move them around however he wants, as we saw in Kamino. basically, everything Hawks can do with Fierce Wings, Jeanist can probably do with his own quirk. AND THAT INCLUDES FLYING, YOU GUYS. the more I think about it the more I think we truly were robbed. I need Jeanist to come back already and fly everyone at Jakku to safety and tie Tomura to a chair with his own cape before proceeding to style his hair.

5. Rewind (Eri)

IT’S MY LIST!! I CAN PUT WHATEVER I WANT, AND IF YOU SAY I CAN’T, I’M TELLING MOM. okay but listen. everyone always rags on this quirk and how stupidly powerful it is, and look, I get it. but isn’t it kind of interesting that everyone is also always speculating over who Eri is eventually going to heal with her quirk? like, fandom is always complaining about how broken it is but at the same time they’re out here hatching all of these wild theories that center around it. and to me that indicates that in truth, this is actually an awesome quirk -- just so long as it’s used right. obviously there have to be some major limitations or else this is just “Fix Everything: The Quirk.” thankfully, Horikoshi did limit it! it’s super dangerous, she has trouble controlling it, and most importantly, it’s ridiculously slow to recharge and so she can only use it once every few months. it’s basically Recovery Girl’s quirk with a bonus slow-replenishing stamina bar that, once charged, allows her to release one ultra-powerful SUPER HEAL special move. and that’s pretty awesome. basically I think this quirk gets too much hate and not enough credit for the additional menu options it adds to the story. it’s interesting and compelling and I can’t wait to see what Horikoshi does with it.

4. Dark Shadow (Tokoyami)

TOKOYAMI WHY IS YOUR QUIRK SENTIENT. Existential Crisis: The Quirk. do quirks have souls?? if you shot Tokoyami with a quirk-be-gone bullet would Dark Shadow fucking die??? if Tomura absorbed Tokoyami’s quirk would Dark Shadow grow out of his back and be all “hey um, who the fuck are you”?? and would Toko’s head turn back into a normal human boy head?? would Dark Shadow look like Tomura instead of a bird shadow?? what even IS Dark Shadow, actually?? obviously it is not just a shadow because shadows can’t punch people or shield people from attacks or pick people up and fly them around. but yet he’s afraid of fire and grows weaker in daylight?? is Tokoyami secretly the strongest character in the entire series?? is there any way I can possibly justify putting this quirk all the way down at #4 instead of #1 where it clearly belongs?? let me answer that question by not answering it and moving on.

3. Explosion (Bakugou)

is the fix in?? is “exploding hands” really a better quirk than a fucking sentient monster man who lives in your belly button and reads your mind and is made of ~darkness energy~ and is your best friend? apparently the answer is yes! to both of those questions. yes the fix is in. I love Kacchan and his quirk is fucking awesome okay. it just never ceases to amaze me how this one single quirk, which really only does one thing, is nonetheless so spectacularly powerful that it allows Bakugou to compete on the same level as the fucking protagonist with all of his godlike super-strength and Main Character Powers and wacky SIXQUIRKS!! shenanigans. in my opinion the coolest thing about Explosion isn’t even its firepower; it’s the way Bakugou’s adapted it to fly around and to boost his speed. I think he legit may be the fastest character in the series right now, or close to it. he’s faster than Iida and Gran Torino and Endeavor. he can keep up with Deku without breaking a sweat. and he knows how to use that speed, thanks to his insane reflexes. add in the fact that this is also without a doubt the most cinematic quirk in the entire series, and I think I’m justified in putting it this high up. and anyway I still put two others up above it so shh.

2. Search (Ragdoll/Tomura)

Hey, What’s That Guy’s Deal: The Quirk. I just really love this one you guys. it’s so fucking useful. Video Game HUD: The Quirk. one hundred people at a time?? locations and weak points?? works even when you’re not looking at the person anymore and have blinked your eyes, unlike CERTAIN OTHER PEOPLE’S weak-ass quirks?? check, check, and check. is it any wonder AFO wanted this? plus it just looks so damn cool. the visual representation of everyone as little stars on a map. Turn On Location: The Quirk. okay look I feel like I’m doing a bad job of explaining why I have this quirk all the way up at number two. it just has this subtle badassness to it, and its introduction after almost two hundred chapters of buildup was just so fucking cool. maybe it’s recency bias?? I don’t even know; all I know is that I love this quirk and want to see more of it in action.

1. Blackwhip (Lariat/Deku)

listen, I was obsessed with this quirk back when it was called “Venom” and was by far the absolute coolest part of the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon series. I’m not just going to suddenly not be obsessed with it just because fandom is mad that Horikoshi gave Deku an additional power beyond just Smashing Stuff. Blackwhip is hands down the coolest quirk, guys. I’m sorry, it just is. it has the coolest name. it had the coolest entrance. it does basically anything you could ever want a quirk to do in battle. it grabs stuff. it Bloops. what more do you want. you’re all just jealous because you wish that you could Bloop too. I know I am. I wish I had a Bloop. anyway so yeah, Blackwhip is the upgrade to Deku’s fighting style that we desperately needed after 200+ chapters of Delaware Smashes and Broken Bones. all his fights are cooler now. he can save more people! he can fight without instantly dying! plus you just gotta love powers that occasionally explode out of control if their user gets all emotional and pissed off about the fact that you insulted his boyfriend. so yeah. Blackwhip at number one! on this list of favorite quirks. not best quirks!! jesus christ. please don’t kill me I have a family.

so that’s my list! all 3000 words of it. how does this keep happening.

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waywardfacegarden · 4 years ago

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What is your ult fav anime and ult fav otp? You can only choose one *evil grin*

First of all, thank you so much for the ask!!!! I love getting asks, it always makes me so happy when people are interested in me, haha🤣💜 Second of all, the answer will be under the cut because... it somehow got too long... but I mean. You can’t ask me about ships or anime and don’t expect that with how much I babble here all the time about those things specifically, LOL.

So, anon, I hope you don’t mind me giving you an almost-essay as an answer to this!!🤣

HAHA, anon, you are evil!!!! bUT. I actually have an answer to this!! Haha. I didn’t need to think about it, either! As much as I absolutely love and die for a lot of animes, I always tell people my favorite favorite anime is Erased/Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi. I read the manga later and well, the manga is even better!! The resolution of the conflict, the background of the villain, the story is much more developed/better explained in the manga, but even when the anime is not a super amazing adaptation, I still think it did an amazing job!! The reason(s) of why this is my favorite anime is(are) simple: I love every single character (except. you know. the evil ones, haha). I’m usually not that attracted to protagonists, but Satoru has my heart in his hands. I’m so attached to him. He’s selfless, smart, tries his very best and loves so deeply. I absolutely love how the author managed the women/girls in the story, too. I started watching it without knowing a single thing more than “oh, he’s trying to solve a murder” and OH BOY, did I was surprised with the very first episode!!! Never ever have screamed so much and lose my shit that much with a first ep, and that’s saying a lot asjdkasjd. Maybe it was because I didn’t know a single thing, but either way, I was obsessed since the very first seconds. I love the villain, even when people say it was “obvious, lazy or predictable” since the start. I love Satoru’s mom. I love how it is dark and sad but just the right amount. I love how much it made me feel. I sobbed, and screamed, and laughed, and almost wanted to break my laptop while watching, too, lol. It seriously is an amazing anime. The characters, dynamics, the plot, everything was so well-done! I would die for the kids, for Satoru’s mom, for Airi. Their dynamics make me melt. The writing is fantastic!! I feel like time-traveling and solving murders are delicate things that, if you don’t know how to handle, are gonna fail you. If you don’t know how to connect things, the story is not gonna feel rewarding, it’s going to feel confusing. But with Erased, everything made sense and connected until the end, which is something I’m obsessed with. Add that to the freaking stellar animation, the aesthetic of it (I still love the subtle change in colors/that black framing in the “past” asdkajf), and the fact that I’m so, so, sooo weak for thrillers + science fiction-ish and kids as protagonists, lol. So, yeah, anon, that’s my fave anime, even when I love, love, love, LOVE a lot of more. I could talk about like, maybe 30 animes with so much love it would amaze you, lol. And that’s just talking about anime, ohhh how many mangas do I love, too... But yeah!!! Even if I don’t talk about this anime enough on here, I think is criminally underrated, and I talk about it to everyone irl I know, lol.

About my favorite ship!!!! HAHA, the thing is. I have like 500 ships and I probably would die for like. 100 of them. Easily. I even have my top of faves, tbh, haha. But my ultimate favorite ship is sasunaru/narusasu. Maybe it’s a very “basic” answer, I don’t know, lol, but I seriously think they always will be. I won’t talk so much about them because then I’d never shut up and this answer is already so long ajsdkadj (I feel like that twitter thread that is like “okay, i’ll try to be brief (1/475)” LOL). But the reason why they are my fave is because I’ve never became this obsessed with a ship before. They were the first ship I felt so deeply for. They had me since the very first eps and continued to rip my heart out, to made me FEEL so much for both of them; for their longing, for their yearning, for their love for each other. The fact that they’re two broken boys who found the connection they so desperately craved for in each other? The fact that Sasuke taught Naruto, a boy who was hated all his goddamn childhood for something he didn’t even know about, what love was, what sacrificing yourself for someone was, what caring was? The fact that Shippuden is about Naruto so desperately trying to understand, trying to make Sasuke understand, and loving Sasuke so fiercely back (without giving a damn about what other people said, without giving up on him, saying that if being smart meant giving up on Sasuke than he rather being dumb all his life)? The fact that the first part of Naruto is about Sasuke doing all those little things and making Naruto feel validated, loved, cared for, seen? And then Shippuden is about Naruto screaming into a void, trying to tell Sasuke “I love you, too, I love you back, as deeply as you did, and I want you to know that even if I don’t understand, I want to understand, I want to be there for you, I care for you so much that just the very idea of you being dead or hurt gives me an attack; I want you to be okay, and I’m never giving up on you”?? The fact that I still sob like a baby every time I watch ONE minute of that last battle and the fact that Naruto answering Sasuke to “you’ve been saying that all the time, but what exactly... does that (being your friend) mean to you?” with “even if you ask me, I can’t exactly put it into words. I just... when I saw you hurting, it... kinda... hurt me, too. So much that I couldn’t stand it, that I couldn’t just leave you alone” STILL KILLS ME LIKE THE FIRST TIME EVERY SINGLE TIME I HEAR IT. LIKE GOD. MY HEART CANNOT. It’s just so emotionally rewarding seeing they make amends at the end and also discover how the other has been loving the other back just as deeply as they did. -- They’re also just a bunch of tropes I love piled up together, tbh, and the kind of characters I love having paired up. The tsundere-ish kid with a dark past, that’s so kind and so selfless and loves so deeply that it breaks him plus the kid with the tragic backstory that’s basically The Sun itself, a bit dumb but also so caring and so cool, and the one that makes the tsundere-ish boy’s heart go all doki doki. Idk, I just love my rivals trope, my “could have been childhood friends if they just had the courage to talk” trope, the “I care so deeply about you and love you with all my soul” trope, piled up with so many emotional layers and so deep emotional connection??? Oof. They’re just my very first ship and the one that practically owns my heart and soul. They have so many layers and they hurt me but also melt me and heal me and make me fall in love with their raw, pure love. They’re soulmates, your honor. Haha. They just... really make me feel so much, I can’t quite explain it. As much as I love, love, love, LOVE all my ships, they’re... different, I guess. They even made me write for them. My very first fics, my very first tryings/attempts to write was for them. And to be honest, I was obsessed with Naruto for such a long time... (maybe because it was my first anime LOL). Sasunaru/Narusasu and all their moments (that I kid you not, I remembered like every little thing in the 700+ eps, even with the NUMBER on which ep it happened, of them. The exact lines, too.) was like, everything I talked about for like. Half a year or more, LOL, and my mom wouldn’t let me lie, she knows. After school, I was in the car and was mentioning for the 50th time that moment Sasuke recognized it wasn’t Naruto in the Chuunin Exams bc Naruto used the kunai in his other leg. LOL. I was eating and I was talking about the battle of the Valley of the End. It was dinner and I was talking about that ending with the lyrics “please kiss me, please kiss me all night”. I just. They’re so important to me. They mean so much to me. And I know I said I was going to be brief so I better shut up now ajsdkajsd. But, yeah, they’re my favorite. :’)

#asks #about me #sns #boku dake ga inai machi #erased #thank you so much for this ask anon!!!!#it made me so happy!!!!#it also let me ramble a bit about my fave things so. thanks a lot #hope you're doing super amazing!!!#hope you have an amazing week too!!!!!!!!!!#love you!!!!#take care!!!!!!!!! stay safe!!!!!!#*sending positive and warm vibes your way*#(i think the answer of the ship was kinda expected LOL)

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round up // JANUARY 21

New year, not-so-new Crowd vs. Critic! It’s another batch of films, TV, music, and reads that were new to me this month and think you would enjoy, too. As we cozy up inside for the winter, nothing warms you up like a good piece of pop culture.

January Crowd-Pleasers

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Does this sequel reach the heights of 2017’s Wonder Woman? No, but I wish more superhero movies were like this one. I explain why at ZekeFilm. Crowd: 9.5/10 // Critic: 8/10

21 Bridges (2019)

A solid action crime thriller with a solid Chadwick Boseman at the center. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7.5/10

The Lethal Weapon Series (1987-98)

I watched the first Lethal Weapon in 2017 for ZekeFilm, but now I’ve a decade’s pleasure of progressively over-the-top action sequences and progressively more absurd ways to destroy Roger Murtaugh’s (Danny Glover) house. The Murtaugh/Riggs bromance holds this progressively sillier series together, and an supporting cast of charismatic actors (Jet Li, Darlene Love, Chris Rock, Rene Russo) are game for whatever comes their way. Joe Pesci is the true MVP. Series Crowd: 9/10 // Series Critic: 7/10

The High Note (2020)

Tracee Ellis Ross’s Grace Davis is a diva in every sense of the word. A high-strung and highly successful singer, she’s also highly demanding of her assistant Maggie (Dakota Johnson), who wants to step out of her shadow and become a music producer. This rom-com-adjacent flick is one of the most fun escapes I’ve had from a 2020 movie, and it’s perfect for a girls’ night in. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10

Double Feature—Rom-Coms With a Magical Twist: Just My Luck (2006) + When In Rome (2010)

Disclaimer: These movies are not good. In fact, they’re junk, but they’re my kind of junk. In Just My Luck (Crowd: 7.5/10 // Critic: 6/10), Lindsay Lohan loses her life-long lucky streak when she kisses schlimazel Chris Pine. And When in Rome (Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 6/10), Kristen Bell attracts unwanted admirers (Will Arnett, Danny DeVito, Josh Duhamel, Jon Heder, and real-life future husband Dax Shepard) after she steals their coins from a wishing fountain. To their credit, both of these movies know they’re silly, which means you have permission to just sit back and laugh along with (or, honestly, at) them.

WandaVision (2021)

I sometimes fear for the world of entertainment when I think of how much intellectual property Disney has gobbled up, but WandaVision is evidence the company is a benevolent dictator at least for now. This odd delight is a send up and a tribute to sitcoms like I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Brady Bunch, and Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen are so charming and weird I don’t need whatever mysterious sub-plot they’re building.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

If you want to make the most of watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights, first watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), an action flick I saw last February and didn’t include in my monthly Round Up. This Mel Brooks spoof is a direct response that self-serious Kevin Costner adventure, even down to copying its costumes. While I wish I could find a Mel Brooks comedy with any substantial female character (in every movie I’ve seen so far, the joke is either, “She’s got a great rack!” or “Wow, she’s an uggo!”), I still couldn’t stop laughing at this 104-minute version of the Robin Hood scene in Shrek. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 8/10

Aliens (1986)

Peak ‘80s action. Peak alien grossness. Peak girl boss Sigourney Weaver. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 8/.510

Big (1988)

After talking about Laverne & Shirley with Kyla on SO IT’S A SHOW?, I had to check out Penny Marshall’s classic. While a few moments haven’t aged so well, its heart is sweet and the script is hilarious. And that Tom Hanks? I think he’s going places. Crowd: 9.5/10 // Critic: 8/10

Unstoppable (2010)

I’ve laughed at SNL’s spoof of this movie for a decade, so it’s about time I got around to enjoying this action thriller very loosely based on the true story of a train that got away from its conductor. Denzel Washington (“You’re too old!”) and Chris Pine (“You’re too young!”) are our heroes in this over-the-top ridiculousness, and their chemistry is so extra it makes me hope they team up for another movie again. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 7/10

January Critic Picks

Double Feature—‘90s Space Adventures: Apollo 13 (1995) + Contact (1997)

I have no desire to join Tom Cruise as he films in space, but I know I’ll be pumped to watch whatever he makes because I love sci-fi and space adventures. Apollo 13 (Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 9/10) tells the story of an almost-disastrous NASA mission in the ‘60s, and it taps into our hope for the human spirit to overcome obstacles. Contact (Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 8.5/10) surmises what might happen if we received communication from extraterrestrial life, and it taps into our struggle to reconcile faith and science.

McCartney III by Paul McCartney (2020)

I spent January catching up on the albums on Best of 2020 lists, and the one I listened to for hours and hours was Paul McCartney’s latest solo album. Catchy, thoughtful, and musically surprising, it ranges from pop to rock to folk in 45 minutes and still feels like it’s over too soon. Like Tom Hanks, this Paul McCartney guy is going places!

The Thin Man Series (1934-47)

Like Lethal Weapon, I watched the first installment of The Thin Man awhile back, and Kyla and I even covered the series on our podcast. But thanks to a full series marathon on TCM earlier this month, I’ve now laughed through all five. When you talk about great chemistry, you’ve got to talk about William Powell and Myrna Loy, who make Nick and Nora’s marriage feel lived in and romantic as they solve crimes together. Witty, suspenseful, and jaunty, this series is still sexy cool over 80 years later. (Also, Asta? Still one of the cutest dogs in cinema.) Series Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

The King and I (1956)

Here’s your regularly scheduled reminder Hollywood works differently now, and many casting decisions of the ‘50s wouldn’t fly today. What has aged well in this film: The Rodgers and Hammerstein music and the sumptuous costumes and set design. I love extravagant musicals of yesteryear—perhaps it’s time for Hollywood to revisit and remake The King and I for modern audiences?

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Inauguration Day

In a year with no major televised events with celebrities in a room together, Inauguration Day felt like the most exciting cultural event in ages. We’ve been missing major fashion, but then we got Lady Gaga! We’ve been missing live performances, but then we got Amanda Gorman! And I got a lot of tears during that poem—not just me, right?

Good Reads

Writing that made me think and smile this month:

Steven Soderbergh’s list of everything he read, watched, and listened to this year, Extension765.com (2020) – An indirect inspiration for these monthly Round Ups!

“My Year of Making Lists,” NewYorker.com (2020) – I made a lot of lists in 2020, so I feel this author’s #mood

“Betty White Says She Will Spend Her 99th Birthday Feeding Two Ducks Who Visit Her ‘Every Day,’“ CBSNews.com (2021) - “Betty is a treasure,” I say as I watch The Proposal for the 99th time

“A Sculpture’s Unusual Journey to SLAM [St. Louis Art Museum],” SLAM.org (2020) – With a casual mention of an attraction I never knew about in St. Louis

“The Culture Is Ailing. It’s Time for a Dr. Fauci for the Arts.” WashingtonPost.com (2020) – An idea that occurred to me a few months ago: Why don’t we have an Arts Cabinet?

“The Arts Are in Crisis. Here’s How Biden Can Help.” NYTimes.com (2021) – Partly in response to that Washington Post piece, a historical look at how artists have made it through difficult times in the past and how we can revive artists’ livelihoods mid- and post-pandemic

“The Right’s Message to Silicon Valley: 'Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee,'” TIME.com (2021) – A more thoughtful and less reactionary take on a volatile moment in the history of modern technology

“'It Makes Me Sick With Grief': Trump's Presidency Divided Families. What Happens to Them Now?” TIME.com (2021) – A study on how politics has done damage to family dynamics in America

“Help, the Only Cinema I Can Handle Is Zac Efron Prancing Angrily in High School Musical 2,” Vulture.com (2021) - In a lot of ways, same

“50 Easy Things To Do When You are Anxious,” ShopTwentySeven.com (2021) – I especially endorse coloring, puzzling, and watching happy movies!

Double Feature—Miss Marple Mysteries: Murder at the Gallop (1963) + Murder Ahoy (1964)

Remember when I was all like, “Watch these Agatha Christie movies so you’re not sad Death on the Nile is delayed”? Remember when I said I was just a few movies away from becoming an Agatha Christie junkie? Well, I think I’m there because I can’t stop with the murder mysteries! Margaret Rutherford is a treasure whether she’s solving a murder at a horse ranch or on a boat, and a cast of colorful supporting characters (including Rutherford’s husband) makes these breezy instead of heavy. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8/10

8½ (1963)

File this with 2001: A Space Odyssey—I don’t know if I really understood this film, but I think I liked it? Federico Fellini’s surrealist, male gaze-y drama blurs the lines between reality and imagination, love and dysfunction, and the past and maybe some future that involves clowns? What resonated with me was the story of a director with creative block, wondering if he’s already peaked and if he’ll create anything worthwhile again. Crowd: 6/10 // Critic: 9/10

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries by Emma Thompson (1995)

Sense and Sensibility is not just one of my favorite Jane Austen adaptations—it’s one of my all-time favorite films. One of the co-hosts of one of my favorite podcasts has raved many-a-time about Emma Thompson’s journals from the making of film, so it was only a matter of time before I read them myself. Witty, informative, and all-around lovely, Thompson’s journals are an excellent insight into the filmmaking process and how novels are adapted.

Also in January…

I reviewed the new-ish documentary Flannery for ZekeFilm, which is all about the writer Flannery O’Connor and feels a little like going back to high school English class.

In addition to the Lethal Weapon and Thin Man series, I rewatched all of the X-Men series this month. You can see everything I am watching on Letterboxd, including favorites I love returning to (i.e. X-Men: Days of Future Past) and the movies I try that don’t make my monthly recommendations (i.e. The Wolverine).

Photo credits: Paul McCartney, Zac Efron, Sense & Sensibility. All others IMDb.com.

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Chapter 1

↳Main Characters of Chapter 1: Reader (F), YangYang, Kun, Taeil, Haechan & Mark ↳Warnings: Death, Cursing, Character death mention (Renjun), Drowning & Blood. It’s a horror story dealing with life, death and souls. If you’re easily scared, this might not be for you! ↳Word Count: 5,568

↠Summary: You and YangYang have been best friends forever. Where one goes, the other follows. On the night of Halloween, in your 19th year, you attend a party that changes the course of your lives, and your deaths.

“What are you supposed to be?”

You pulled the horned headband from behind your back and placed it on top of your head. You were being dramatic, but he expected nothing less from you. You gave YangYang a little spin, your red dress pillowing out, and the hair down your back swinging around to your shoulders. The costume was a last minute idea. You used your dress from prom and a headband found at the bottom of your baby brothers closet. Your original costume didn’t arrive in time, which put a dampener on your mood, but you were trying to make it work. You wanted to be a princess, with a pink ball gown and a glitter crown. Though there was nothing regal about you, you always liked to pretend.

“Of course,” YangYang said. “Halloween isn’t complete without the sexy devil.”

“It’s not sexy, It’s scary.”

YangYang looked you up and down. You looked like a prom queen. “Right. Got it.”

You placed your hand on your hips and side-eyed your best friend. As if he had been waiting for the moment all night, YangYang smiled. He loved when you gave him any attention, even if it was following by a few curse words.

“I bet you’ll never guess who I am.” he said. He mimicked your spin.

YangYang was wearing a green beanie, a shock of his orange hair poking out of the sides. Though it was a badly botched dye-job, he was sticking true to himself and rocking the look. To you, everything else looked normal. He was wearing his black denim jacket, a thrifted band t-shirt and black jeans.

“A loser?” you asked.

“I’m older than you by a month. Give me some respect.” he said.

Not taking your dig at him to heart, YangYang pulled out a stethoscope from his jacket pocket and placed the ear tips into his ears. He took the chest piece and placed it against your chest, pushing your hair out of the way. His fingertips were cold on your skin and made chills run up your arms.

“As expected,” he said, frowning. “You don’t have a heart.”

You picked up the chest piece and was getting ready to scream into it, but YangYang pulled it away just in time. The pair of you laughed together, your laughter floating up into the trees, and carrying itself miles away.

In another part of town, he could hear it all. Your voice came to him often, spiraling in through his window at the very top of the mansion. He never went outside and barely talked to anyone in the family, so your voice welcomed him, like a friend. Taeil smiled, but he was terrified of what the night would bring. His smile turned into a grimace the longer he heard you laugh. His glossy eyes scanned the horizon. The night was still. Even the trees were frozen in time as if they knew, like they were hiding in plain sight from the big bad monster. He took one last listen to the sound of your innocence and closed the curtains.

“Should we go?” you asked. “I told my mother I would be back by midnight.”

“Midnight?” YangYang whined. “We’re adults now. We can do what we want.“

“Did you tell yours that you were going to a party?”

“No, “ he said. “I lied and said I was sleeping over at your house. Halfway through the night, I’ll tell her I forgot my inhaler and ask her to pick me up. It’s a win-win for everyone.”

“YangYang, you don’t have an inhaler.”

He shrugged. “She doesn’t notice me half the time, anyway. I’m not sure she knows she has another son.”

Ever since YangYangs brother passed away, his mother had walked through life like a living zombie. YangYang would tell you stories about her leaving the milk carton out on the counter for days, how she cried in her sleep, and how she couldn’t even say YangYang’s name, or look at him.

“Magical son of a magical world, indeed.” he had said when you tried giving him your sympathy. You knew he didn’t need it, but what kind of a best friend would you be if you didn’t try. You worried about him a lot, even if he told you not to.

Renjun’s passing rocked the whole city, not just your town. A bright student, a shining example of a son, and suddenly his star burnt out of the sky, hurtling towards the ground at breakneck speed. He drowned, that is what the papers said. He went for a late night swim in the lake by himself, swam until his legs and arms gave up. They said he didn’t fight for his life, just let himself sink to the bottom with the mudfish. Never mind the fact that it was suspicious that a teenage boy would go into a lake so late at night by himself, but the rest of the case didn’t make any sense. Renjun was terrified of water. He would never have dipped a toe into that lake.

You used to dream of him in that lake. A boy in the middle, circles rippling around him as he calmly kept his body afloat, the quietness of the glass surface stretching out for a mile. In every dream, he silently screamed before he was tugged underneath the darkness. You never told YangYang you dreamed of his brother. You never told him of all the times you went back to that lake, thinking that you could solve his murder. Because that is what it felt like to you, a murder.

“You’re far away again.” YangYang said, waving a hand in front of your face.

You snapped out of it and tried to smile. You touched his pinky with yours as you walked down the street, heading towards a party like normal kids. Yangyang did not return your smile. These days, he worried about you almost as much as you worried about him. It was true you felt withdrawn from everything. You weren’t sure where to go in life, how you wanted to live, and who you wanted to be. Life felt like it was beginning and ending at the same time, and you, you were somewhere in the middle of the story, a little silk bookmark slicing you down the middle.

“Sorry,” you said. “Lets go to the party and try to have some fun.”

The party house stood on a hill away from everything else. A horse stable sat next to it, the horses in for the night. A bunch of kids were sitting on the wooden gate neighing. YangYang stopped at the beginning of the path and looked at all the steps you had to walk up to get to the front door. There were kids from the school everywhere, laying on the grass making out or talking, cups in their hands, and their faces a little too fake with the happy. You watched a group of guys scare a group of girls, watched how typical everything seemed for a moment in time.

“Are you ready for this?” he asked.

Neither of you were social people, which is why you fit so nicely together. Both of you would rather be at home, choking back boxes of candy and watching horror flicks. You weren’t quite sure why you had agreed to come to the party even before the invitations were sent out. You knew that you had to be there, just like you knew YangYang would follow you wherever you went.

“As ready as I will ever be.” you said.

You ascended the stairs. Your dress got caught on a bush on the side, so YangYang freed you. You exchanged a look of doom before walking up the rest of the steps. At the top, the house looked even larger up close. Every window was lit up. Through the glass, you could see all of the kids inside, completely oblivious to the two of you watching them. It was no surprise that most of them were drunk already. The front doors open and the music poured out until the door was shut again. Typical but atypical.

“Fuck,” YangYang said. “It’s like another world in there.”

“You agreed to come.”

“Did I, though?” he asked.

No. YangYang had fought you on your choice. He didn’t want to associate with the kids from high school, and he didn’t understand why you wanted to. You couldn’t explain to him that you were drawn to it, that it felt like something you had to do. Like going back to the water to feel any traces of Renjun, there was something at the house you needed to see, and you were sure of it.

“We’ll have fun.” you said, not believing yourself.

YangYang sighed and gestured his hand for you to go first. “By all means, you first.”

You walked forward. Your legs felt like they were asleep, a static-like feeling running up and down them. The more you walked, the easier it wore off, but as you set your hand on the knob to the front door, the feeling transferred to your arms.

“I feel queasy.” YangYang said.

You opened the front door and were met with a different vibe. The music was so loud it rattled your teeth. The house was full of so many people that you could barely move around once you were inside. No one looked in your direction. For that, you were thankful. None of those people felt like they were ever your friends, anyway. You looked at them but couldn’t recognize a single face. You felt YangYang holding onto your wrist as you navigated your way through the house. You felt like a sardine in a can, slimy bodies rolling over you as they danced and moved to the sound.

“I hate this!” you heard YangYang yell.

You inched towards the kitchen where all the misfits usually hung out. When you made it through the wall of flesh, your eyes located the snacks and drinks. YangYang let go of you and pounced, his hand already in a bowl of pretzels. You turned around to look at where you had come from and noticed that the gap you left had been swallowed up by people. You joined YangYang and started mindlessly munching on snacks. People watching was always your favorite thing to do, but you couldn’t escape the feeling that you were being watched back.

“Maybe we shouldn’t stay long, Yang.” you said.

“That’s the smartest thing you’ve said all night,” he said. “Actually, all your life.”

You wiped chewed pretzel from the corner of his mouth. He didn’t love you treating him like a little brother, so he swatted your hand away. YangYang glanced quickly to see if his crush was around. If she had noticed you doing that, he would never forgive you.

“Relax,” you said. “I haven’t seen her.”

You didn’t like YangYang’s crush. In your opinion, he was better than her in every way, and he could do better. You didn’t have to tell him that for him to figure out you didn’t approve. Still, you always bit your tongue whenever he talked about her. YangYang was your family and, in your eyes, you supported your family no matter what. So, you would do what you needed to do in order to please the doctor, and the wicked witch of the west.

“Do you think she’ll like my costume?” he asked.

“Of course, “ you answered. “Girls love a man in uniform.”

“Do you think she’ll let me take her temperature?” he winked.

“Please, stop.”

Being around YangYang always made you feel better, so, if she had any ounce of goodness in her, she would feel the same. You reached out to fix his orange hair and decided against it.

“I’m going to find the bathroom,” you said. “Stay here.”

YangYang looked out across the floor and told you that you would never make it out alive. You agreed, so you found another way. You decided to go out the back door and go around to the front. You slid open the glass that separated you from the freedom on the other side. A bunch of people were around the in-ground pool talking. When you stepped out, they all looked at you.

“This is awkward.” YangYang said from behind you.

You gave him one last glance before walking through the people, your heels making a nice sound on the cement. You could feel their eyes on you, but you didn’t make eye contact. If you had, you might have seen the way the pool reflected across their faces. If you had, you might have seen their lifeless eyes.

YangYang didn’t follow you. You walked around the dark side of the house, your heels sinking into the grass and mud. You looked across the stable and thought about the horses. You came here to ride once when you were a kid, but it seemed like so long ago. Your family was together then, and so were you.

“Hello there.”

You stopped walking. In front of you was a boy wearing a cape. He smiled, the fangs glued to his teeth shining brightly. You had never seen him before, but there was something familiar about him that you couldn’t put your finger on.

“Hi.” you said.

You tried going on your way and walking around him, but he moved in front of you. In the dark, the smile on his face warped. It appeared to you that his teeth reached up to his ears. You imagined them sinking down into your neck, the blood spurting up so high, like a raised flag. Your mind was full of how your drained body might look, translucent and broken.

“It’s a nice night.” he said.

“I guess.”

The boy stepped closer. You felt the alarms going off inside of your body, felt the way the static returned. Everything in you told you to run, but you stayed still. The boy took your hand and kissed the top of it, his lips lingering longer than they should. You felt entranced by him and, when he removed his lips, you found yourself missing his touch. Without saying anything else, he walked away, his cape not moving with the wind.

“What the fuck was that?” you said to yourself.

You continued to the front of the house. This time, nothing felt too weird. The house had grown on you like a mold, spreading across your body. You opened the front door and saw more of the same: people dancing, no one paying attention. You traveled upstairs, pushing past people to get to the bathroom. Since there was no line, you walked right in and shut the door behind you. There was no sound coming from inside the bathroom, only the soft whir of the vent in the ceiling. You approached the vanity and looked at yourself in the mirror. You looked just like yourself. You didn’t know what you were expecting, actual demon horns growing out of your head, or a pair of haunting eyes staring back at you. You felt silly for letting the strangeness grab hold of you. You shook your head and looked at the sink dripping water down the drain, at the rust around the rim, and how the sound of the dripping grew louder every second. You found yourself unable to look away. You imagined rushes of water swirling around the sink, every bead of water desperate to choke the pipes.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” a voice said.

At the sound of the voice, you jumped. Your eyes connected with your own reflection. The person staring back at you looked like you, but she did not move like you. The voice was yours. You moved back and hit the wall hard, your head nearly toppling a little shelf on the wall. Your reflection just smiled and watched. Not knowing whether to scream or cry, you ran out of the bathroom and down the stairs.

“Excuse me.” you said, pushing arms out of your path.

Finally, someone noticed you and moved out of your way. You saw every pair of eyes snap their attention to you. They spread their bodies so that you could pass through the living room untouched. You hugged yourself and walked by without making eye contact with anyone else. When you made it to the kitchen, the vampire boy from earlier was leaning against the counter. Where he was jovial before, he looked sorrowful now. His brown eyes followed you as you swung the back door open and stepped out.

“YangYang!” you called.

You pushed past people who were hanging around in a circle. You made your way to the front and saw YangYang in the middle. He was holding his crush as she laid on the ground, his stethoscope up to her heart. When he noticed you, he gave you a dopey smile.

“I just saved her life, “ YangYang said. “You should have seen it. It was crazy. I was waiting here for you and she stepped out, tripped and I caught her.”

Someone from the crowd held up a Halloween decoration with a stake attached to the end. It was dirty like it had been in the ground, and roots were stuck around it like it had been there for years, just growing with the plants. YangYang looked at the decoration and licked his lips. He was nervous, scared.

“She would have been impaled,”YangYang said. “But she wasn’t. I saved her. I-”

You looked at his crush looking lovingly up at YangYang. He didn’t notice her looking at him. You could have waved your hands in front of his face and YangYang wouldn’t have noticed anything but his own shock.

“YangYang, “ you said. “I think we should leave.”

“I saved her life,” he said. “Did you hear me? I saved her.”

“I hear you.”

“She was going to die.”

YangYang stood and helped his crush up from the ground. People around you clapped and pulled YangYang into their clutches like he was the town hero. His crush kissed him on the cheek and linked her arm through his. Everyone was pulling him back through the house, their hands all over his body and doing everything short of lifting him in the air and praising him. You watched him drift away from you, feeling like a part of you was being ripped from your hands.

“We need to leave.” you whispered.

“You can’t leave.”

You closed your eyes when you recognized his voice. Vampire boy stood off to the side. He had removed his cape but his fangs were still stuck to his teeth. He was in a fitted suit and his hair was darker than it was earlier. You wouldn’t have recognized him if you hadn’t heard his voice. You could see how young he was in the light and how beautiful. He set his gaze on the pool and you followed it, your eyes taking a deep swim.

“It’s pretty,” he said. “Like a dream.”

You felt like you couldn’t stop looking at the water. The longer you looked, the more it began to seem like it was endless. You wanted to reach out and disturb the stillness, to dip your hands underneath the iciness and feel it freeze your soul.

“Why don’t you take a swim?” he asked.

‘“I don’t want to.”

It was a lie. You wanted to dive in and sink down to the bottom and stay there forever. You wanted the cold to slice through your shoulder blades, to fill up your lungs, to take you away from this place. At the back of your mind, YangYang appeared. You could see him stuck in the crowd of people, his voice trying desperately to be heard. You wanted to reach out, to join him, but you couldn’t move. You were stuck in a trance, your body captive by the water.

“I’m sorry.” he said.

You felt the lightest touch on your back. With a breathless sigh, your body tipped over into the water. The surface broke, and as soon as the last of you went underneath, it closed like a trap. The water wasn’t cold like you thought it would be, but warm, like blood. You sunk all the way to the bottom like a weight was strapped to your chest. Everything felt like it was moving in slow motion, your arms stretching out to reach the surface, your eyes opening. You could see the sky through the water, the stars still burnt out from when Renjun died.

You screamed.

As if the chains broke, you were able to twist your body away and try swimming for the top. It seemed like it was so far away. You kept swimming and swimming until you felt your body being tugged down. You looked and saw hands and faces coming up from the bottom of the pool. The faces were blank and grey, the hands dead and scaly. Ribbons of blood were all around you, trying to beat you to the top. The bubbles came out of your mouth as you tried screaming again. You kicked your legs to shake free of the hands and felt your body propel to the surface. A hand reached for yours and it pulled you through. The first thing you caught was your breath, and then your thoughts returned one-by-one. You screamed YangYang’s name, your throat burning. You could hear him screaming for you back.

“Everyone stand back!” YangYang shouted.

Hands pulled your body from the pool and set you on the side, your head being cradled in someones hand. There was water dribbling from your mouth and water clouding your eyes. It felt like you were still swimming, still trying to survive.

“Can you hear me?” he asked.

YangYang touched your cheek and rubbed his thumb against your skin. You rolled over and threw up water. You sat up like you had been electrocuted. Everyone from the party had spilled out into the backyard, and they were watching you. You had nearly drowned but no one moved, no one called an ambulance, and no one spoke.

“You’re okay,” YangYang said. “You’re alive. What the fuck happened? Were you swimming?”

“No.”

“What happened then?” he asked. “ I heard you scream but you were still underwater when I came running. You kept pulling yourself down deeper. It was like you wanted to drown.”

“I don’t remember.”

You looked out across the water. It looked like a normal swimming pool to you now. You felt a warm towel around your body. You removed your heels and tried to stand, but YangYang begged you to stay put.

“We have to leave.” you said.

“We can’t just ignore what happened,” he said. “They wouldn’t let me out of the door. They didn’t want me to save you.”

“YangYang, please.”

He let you stand up. Somehow, your devil horns were still on your head. You ripped them off and threw them into the pool, watching as they floated across the top. Water was dripping everywhere, but you didn’t want to stop moving. You grabbed YangYang and pulled him through the people, the other hand holding your heels. You didn’t make eye contact with anyone as you exited the party, and you didn’t speak again until you were a block away.

“Why are you walking so fast?” YangYang asked.

“I don’t know.” you said.

“How do you not know?”

When you spun to face him, there were tears in your eyes. “I told you that I don’t remember anything. I was at the edge of the pool talking, but then...the pool I-.”

“Someone said you jumped.”

“I didn’t jump.”

To the kids still trick-or-treating, the both of you must have looked out of place. There was a boy with orange hair, his hat long gone, and you, with no shoes, completely soaking wet in the freezing October air.

“I think we should never go to another party again,” YangYang said. “Next year, we’ll eat candy until we pass out and that is it.”

You didn’t feel like making jokes. You were walking on, not feeling the pain of your feet walking over the sticks and stones. The towel fell off as you both escaped the house, so you were just left in a wet dress. You couldn’t explain why you weren’t cold, or why you felt like you were still being watched. Paranoid, you turned around to see if there was anyone behind you.

“I’ll call my mom to come pick us up.” you said.

“No!” YangYang snapped.

“Why not?”

“We have to go to the cemetery.”

You looked at him like he had lost his mind. No one ever went to the old cemetery on the outskirts of town, not even the dead. Once upon a time, since people were too lazy to drive into the city, it served as the towns only burial ground. Ancestors were brought there to be laid to rest, and it was seen as a right of passage to get your own plot. Over the years, it had completely fallen apart like it was dying itself. The fences were rusted, vines wrapped around what was once shiny and new. The headstones sat like broken teeth, and the ground was dry and brown. Not even the bad kids of the town went there to hang out and smoke. No one talked about it. No one looked at it whenever they passed by. The old cemetery sat forgotten and invisible. Truthfully, everyone was scared of it.

“Have you lost your fucking mind?” you asked.

“Trust me.”

“I almost died,” you said. “I am going home.”

“We have to go.”

“Yeah, we have to go home.”

YangYang kept walking. There were times it felt like no matter what direction you walked in, you always wound right back up at the cemetery. He walked and walked, you shuffling behind him. You felt moody, and rightfully so. Once YangYang got an idea into his head, he couldn’t get rid of it. You didn’t know why he needed to go there so badly, just that you would follow him and see, out of blind curiosity. When you arrived, you both stared up at the front gates that towered ten feet above you.

“I don’t like this.” you said.

“I’m sorry.”

Hearing the words “I’m Sorry” made you feel weird inside. Your mind was flipping through pictures like a Rolodex. You looked at YangYang and narrowed your eyes at him. You were trying to recall a memory buried inside of you. Feeling self-conscious, he smoothed out his hair and his clothes. His eyes were on your face until they weren’t. He looked down at your clothes and frowned.

“You’re dry,” he said. “Your dress is dry..”

You looked down at your dress and saw that the material was dry. Instinctively, you touched your hair. It was still wet, almost like it was still underwater. You took the strands and rung them out onto the ground.

“This town has always felt weird, “ YangYang said. “But tonight, it has felt especially weird. What is going on?”

“I don’t know.”

You looked back up at the gate. There was no way to go through, since it was locked. You looked down the length of the gate and knew there would be no gaps for you to slip into. You would have to find another way. You tugged on YangYangs sleeve and got him to follow you. Like everything, you had to go around to the back.

“No, “YangYang said. “Hell no.”

“You wanted to come here, remember?”

“I’ve got amnesia,” he said. “I can’t do this. Let’s go home.”

The back gate was wide open. The vines that normally covered it like a blanket were chopped in half. Getting ready to cross the threshold felt very much like you were getting ready to cross a portal into another world. The line that ran across the pavement looked like it was swept of debris, which YangYang noticed too.

“Is this where I die?” he asked.

“Don’t say that,” you said. “Come on, let’s see what is inside.”

“Oh, fuck.”

You crossed the threshold into the cemetery. The gates didn’t close behind you, squeaking on its hinges like a bad horror movie, but they didn’t need to in order to make both of you scared. YangYang held your hand and walked forward a step ahead of you, like he had suddenly found his bravery. You let him lead you through the dead grass, and over the headstones, your heart beating fast in your chest. The feeling of grass between your toes made you feel comforted, though you didn’t tell him that. You didn’t know where YangYang was leading you, but he stopped somewhere in the middle and looked around. Without thinking about it, he took a seat on top of a grave and you followed him.

“This is creepy.” he said.

“It’s a cemetery, “ you said. “We’re sitting on top of dead people, Yang.”

Instead of giving you a smart quip back, YangYang looked all around him. His eyes settled back on yours, widening slightly. He put his hands on his knees and breathed in deeply. Not knowing why, you took both of his hands and held them.

“What do we do now?” he asked. “It feels like we’re waiting for something.”

“I don’t know.”

“You’re the one that walked us through the gate.”

“You brought us here, “ you said. “And you led the way.”

Registering that he did, in fact, lead the way, YangYang winced. He said that maybe you both should go home and, although you agreed, neither of you moved. You both held hands facing each other. The graves around you were so broken and dilapidated that it felt less like you were in a burial ground and more like you were in a junkyard. Your eyes scanned the darkness, and that is when you saw a man. He saw you, too, his jaw tightening.

“YangYang,” you whispered.” Don’t look, but there is someone watching us.”

YangYang turned around to look, but you pulled his arms so hard that he was launched forward, his ass rising into the air.

“I told you not to look.” you hissed.

“I think I just shit my pants.” he said.

Your eyes never left the man. He walked through the headstones, about twenty feet away. He was wearing a grey suit with a white turtleneck, with his blonde hair perfectly coiffed. He didn’t belong in this kind of setting, and with the way his eyes watched you, you could feel he wanted to say the same about you.

“Is he still there?” YangYang asked. “What does he want? Is he looking at me?”

The man didn’t make a straight line for you like you thought he would. You watched him cross the brown grass silently, meeting up with another man leaning against a tree. The second man made eye contact with you, his eyes haunting and kind. Then, as if magic, more people appeared, men and women slowly appearing from the darkness. You wanted to cry, wanted to scream, wanted to run.

‘Don’t turn around,” you said. “Whatever you do, don’t look.”

YangYang could feel them behind him. The air had changed around you. The trees surrounding the cemetery began to sway, as if life resumed inside the gates. You felt shivers run down your spine, even though you were perfectly dry. You felt the tips of your hair that had turned stiff from the cold. You looked at all of the people in front of you, their eyes only on you, not YangYang.

“I didn’t know people lived here.” you said.

‘“No one lives here,” YangYang said. “The cops came out once when someone reported seeing people inside the gates, but they’ve never found anyone living here, not even the homeless.”

You weren’t paying attention to what YangYang was saying. Your eyes were still on the man in the grey suit. There was sympathy on his handsome face, the same kind of sympathy you offered YangYang when his brother died.

I wish I could change things for you, but what is done is done.

“We should leave.” you said.

“Right, “YangYang said. “If we both get up and make a run for it, they can’t catch both of us. You go first. I will cover for you.”

You felt uncomfortable, like the man was peering into your very soul. You let go of YangYang’s hands, breaking any concentration he had up until that moment. You couldn’t tell him not to turn around, couldn’t shout his name for him to stop. You were made to be silent, made to be still. YangYang turned around and saw all of the people watching them, their faces warming at the sight of him.

“Welcome home, YangYang,” the man in the grey suit said. “You’re early.”

At the mansion, Taeil could feel your heartbeat in his body, like a butterfly looking for its way out of a cage. The fear you felt, he could feel it, too. He clutched his chest and opened the curtains back up, sliding them all the way to the end of the rod. He expected to see your face staring back at him, but all he saw were the trees moving.

It’s time.

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humboldtfog · 5 years ago

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Years of depression has prepared me very well for the current state of affairs which is weird but whatever here’s a list of my faves on netflix, if I’m missing something let me know cause now’s the time, right?

I'm kinda embarrassed by how long this list is but also kinda like fuck that, there have been very long periods of time where it was either sit and watch shows all day or lie down and stare at the wall in silence all day so I chose the former and it adds up and there's nothing wrong with that.

Glow (Badass ladies learn to wrestle, great 80s aesthetics and grrrrl power.)

Our Planet (Netflix version of Planet Earth, beautiful, cute, terrifying that we aren’t doing more to save us all.)

Bojack Horseman (Hilarious and “deep” critique of LA and celebrity culture for people who don’t care about LA or celebrity culture. Also very funny visual jokes about how if animals were also kinda humans, and lots of great jokes about cliches and tropes, puns, and weirdly rhyming and alliteration? I don’t know how to explain it just watch it.)

Father Brown (BBC, based on mystery novels about a priest who always meddles in police business and solves murders in his small English countryside town.)

Pose (The Ball scene in NY in the 80s, poc queer and trans writers and actors bringing their people’s stories to life. So much joy, so much beauty, but also NYC in the 80s so you will cry.)

Paris is Burning (Documentary made during the Ball scene Pose is based on.)

Sex Education (Such empowering representations of all walks of gender and sexuality, and actually very educational, like I would straight up show this in schools because everyone would be very entertained and would learn a lot more than they teach in a lot of schools.)

What Happened Miss Simone (Documentary about Nina Simone’s life, music and the activism the establishment/ government worked to suppress and used to blacklist her.)

Night on Earth (Low light camera technology has gotten hella good and they’re starting to learn stuff about animals’ behaviors at night that they’ve never been able to study before.)

Call the Midwife (Follows stories from the midwives that worked in the East End of London after the war, based on memoirs. Interesting look at the kind of life of poverty people led before there were many large hospitals or birth control, right as the British were implementing their universal healthcare program.)

The Great British Baking Show (Everyone’s so nice and everything looks so good!)

Atypical (Dramady about a high schooler with autism and his family, very funny and great representations of autism and how to be a good dude.)

Parks and Recreation (Just very funny and everyone knows it. Amazing ensemble cast, and they still keeps in touch through a group chat awww doesn’t that say something!)

Kim’s Convenience (Canadian comedy about family of first and second gen Korean immigrants that’s just a really solid funny modern day sitcom.)

Queer Eye (I feel like if everyone in this world could get a life makeover from these guys we just wouldn’t be here right now.)

Obvious Child (Jenny Slate accidentally gets pregnant and gets an abortion. It’s funny and it’s realistic, we’re not all Juno.)

Maria Bamford: the Special Special Special (Rad lady comedian not afraid to talk about her mental health and lack thereof and very vocal about the stigma surrounding mental health problems and I very much relate to. My favorite standup probably ever. I could make a list just for standup so message me if you’d like more suggestions.)

Monty Python (Flying Circus, movies, doc, ect. “The Beatles of comedy” is the cliche but it's true.)

Easy (Very unconventional non-narrative structure and editing, following random people in Chicago in a very real life feeling way. Different story each episode, but sometimes characters show up briefly in each other’s lives or return for a second episode.)

Everything Sucks! (High school nerds and lesbians and theater geeks in the 90s! I’m so sad this only got one season I rewatched it recently and it’s just so solid.)

She’s Gotta Have It (Revival of Spike Lee’s first movie, black girl magic, art world, gentrified New York, lots of sex.)

The Office (Classic, holds up very well, totally solid throughout, worth a rewatch. Also if you're a fan Jenna Ficher and Angela Davis are doing a rewatch podcast jsyk.)

Billy on the Street (Mindless game show for laughs, amazing gay comedian runs around New York yelling questions at them. I watch this with my dad and he can’t help but snort even when it’s “inappropriate” or “juvenile” so you know it’s good.)

Good Girls (Some lower middle class family ladies that are all about to be broke decide to rob the grocery store one of them works at, but they accidentally cross a gang that stored their cash there, so they gotta pay it back, and of course can’t help but get deeper and deeper into it. Very suspenseful like your heart rate will go up and stay up. )

Arrested Development (It’s just funny, as you've probably heard, but I'm telling you it just really is.)

The Laundromat (Tells the stories of a few of the people involved in the panama papers in different ways, explains in an entertaining way how money laundering works in a way that made it mostly make sense even to me. The rich get richer, and Meryl Streep is here to tell them to fuck off and pay their taxes.)

Russian Doll (She keeps dying and coming back to the same moment over and over and can’t figure out how to stop the cycle or why so kinda sci fi, very suspenseful, big cliff hanger ending, or rather no ending, and just found out season two filming is delayed because virus which is very annoying!!)

Dear White People (Show picking up where the movie left off, after a frat hosts a black face party and the ivy league college is forced to deal with racism.)

Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Stories based on Dolly songs. Very Hallmark channel, you will cry.)

Episodes (Show about two British writers making a version of their BBC show for American tv. Kind of meta, very funny, Matt LaBlanc plays himself and it's great.)

Dumplin’ (Fat girl grows up with a beauty pageant winning mom and enters one herself with the help of her late aunt’s Dolly Parton drag queen friends.)

Lunatics (Chris Lilley is the best character actor ever, all his shows are just him playing different parts and you seriously forget it’s all one actor, even when he’s playing teenage girls.)

Jane the Virgin (Prime time soap opera about a girl who is engaged and waiting until marrige and is accidentally inseminated with the only sperm sample of a man who’s had cancer so decides to keep the baby, very heavy on the soap opera cliches in a meta way but also that’s what it is. So good at first but after the first three or so seasons it gets too much tbh though.)

Zumbo’s Just Desserts (Australian Bake show but with just sweet stuff and pressure to be avant garde.)

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Jerry Sienfeld goes out with funny people to coffee and lunch in fancy cars and they have funny conversations.)

One Day at a Time (Very very cheesy laugh track sitcom, like the kind of thing my grandma would watch, but it makes me so happy it’s doing a great job eplaining really woke concepts like queer pronouns and ptsd and addiction and white privilege to people like my grandma!)

Orange is the New Black (Good stories about very diverse characters, I’d say by starting it off about a upper middle class white girl it tricks privileged white people into watching and then encountering the more realistic stories of women who go to prison and how the system treats prisoners. Ending of season two is super solid and you can stop it there, season three is a really great critique of the privatization of prisons. I admit it goes on and on to the point that it’s stressful and after watching it spread out over years I can’t remember/ keep up with all the different story lines, though they’re all good stories to tell.)

Space Jam (Just saw while scrolling for more ideas this was added! One of the greatest sports movies of all time obviously.)

Bonus amazon prime shows, I try to avoid Amazon in general but these are just too good if you know a prime member who you can't convince not to give their money to amazon so they might as well give you their login (like yer dad).

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (A 1950s New York upper class Jewish house wife gets dumped and starts doing stand up, so funny, great actors, and they seriously transform NY back into another era.)

Good Omens (Mini series based off Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s satirical novel about the biblical apocalypse, very funny, very smart, very British, does the book pretty solid justice.)

There are other decent things that aren’t included, I’d say these are solid recs for a general list of genres all over the map without letting it get to a ridiculously unhelpful length. I feel like I’d be good at the “if you like this then you’ll also like…” so let me know if some of these are your favorites too and want personal recs for what to watch next based on a brain instead of an algorithm.

If you want to have a remote date and watch things together on video chat or one of those watch party sites or just tell me what to watch next here’s some stuff on my list I’ve been curious about or not sure about or don’t want to watch alone or have been putting off, and now’s the time right?: Strangers Things, I Am Not Okay With This, Black Panther, The Betty White doc, John Mulaney Snack Lunch Bunch, Dead to Me, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, A Wrinkle in Time, The Little Prince, Maniac, Wet Hot American Summer reboots, and a bunch of different standup specials from comedians I like.

#netflix #list #best #favorites #self #coronavirus #covid19 #2020

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fart-gate · 5 years ago

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SG1

Season 4 episode 6

"WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY"

Notes by me

- lovely set for the beginning. Vast wasteland

- jack using double sunglasses to look at the sun

- archeologist!Daniel is my favorite Daniel

- who is this guy

- no explanation as to who he is??? Hes just there???

- daniel had the opportunity to hear Latin spoken aloud a year ago??? I have a terrible memory when did this happen

- ok cool so Daniel is shot and we're having a good time but??? Still no explanation for this random guy

- when they all duck to avoid the vortex. Sg1 in sync

- LIGHTENING GATE

- "I have no idea, sir" some random side character got daniels line

- zapped back to breakfast!! This is what you get for eating cereal without milk!

- obsessed with how Daniel thinks Jack is the type of person to fake a blackout to get out of a conversation

- P4X 639 is the vast wasteland

- tealc remembers!!! Bc he also grabbed the dude as well as Jack right?? Im right

- "maybe he read your report?..."

Daniel:

- jack and tealc just listing things that are gonna happen

- watching this show in semi darkness always bites me in the ass fraiser shining a flashlight into the camera just made me fall off my bed

- malaki is the name of the random dude! Thank you for the info after 10 MINUTES INTO THE EPISODE

- nerd Daniel is cute❤ when he chases Jack to talk to him about the ancients

- apparently siler needs better glasses so he doesnt walk right into ppl. Daniel dropped all his notes!

- jack seems like he just does not care about anything at all in this ep . maybe RDA was having a bad day

- "it did send us back to 1969"

"Good year"

- sam: talks sciencey science

Jack and me: ??????

- LIGHTENING GATE

- "what do you think?" TIME LOOPS ARE ONE OF MY FAV TROPES YEESSS

- wait I need to pause the ep to put socks on my feet are cold

- when Jack predicts sg12 and hes off by like 8 seconds

- GODAMMIT fraiser and her stupid flashlight blinded me again

- daniel wrote down everything Jack said when he had ancient database brain damage

- *Daniel gets knocked over by siler a second time* "oops"

- *referring to tealc* "is this the face of a crazy man????"

- I dont trust this malaki at all

- "what kind of archeologist carries a weapon?"

"I do"

"......bad example"

- daniel ranting *time loops back* daniel ranting

- Jack getting more mad with every loop

- I was ready for the flashlight this time

- "I ask you....what could POSSIBLY be in my eye that could explain this??"

- jack going to find Daniel before Daniel finds him ❤

- if I hadnt seen gifs of this ep, I would think sams plan would work. But since ive seen gifs of parts that havnt happened yet I assume it doesnt work.

- what could be stopping them from dialing out 🤔 I'm gonna solve the mystery before they do

- "thats just how I feel about it" what is Daniel talking about I want to know

- jack: my recording didnt work :(

Tealc: TOLD YOU SO

- them getting out of the loop rests on Jack and tealcs ability to listen to Daniel

- tealc getting wacked in the face every loop I'm cackling

- okay why does everyone in the sgc have glasses huh??? Bunch of nerds

- *spinning in chair* *juggling* *both juggling* this is just adhd

- "if we dont find a way out of this soon I'm gonna lose it.

Lose it.

It means go crazy.

Nuts.

Insane.

Bonzo.

No longer in possession of ones faculties.

3 fries short of a happy meal!

WACKO!"

- daniel giving them the idea that they can do whatever they want without consequences and mischievous music starting

- hes gonna seduce Sam pls I want it

- why is the first thing Jack does POTTERY????

- anything on the board and you go for pottery

- tealc cruising along with whatever Jack is doing

- ok so far its been pottery, biking thru the sgc , hitting golf balls thru the gate

- I was right ! HE DIPPED HER💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🚨JACK AND SAM KISS JACK AND SAM KISS🚨

- she totally went along with it too. I have eyes i saw it

- "what are you smiling at?" He be knowin how them lips taste 💋

- ancients caused this. So far all they do is start shit

- ok they invented a "time machine" and it failed and looped time instead so they just shut it off and left it on a random planet for some poor sucker to activate??? Why didnt they destroy it??

- all they have to do is press some buttons omg all that time with Daniel was pointless

- tealc: walks into a force shield

Malaki: 😎

- Jack is ready to murder

- "so you can be king of groundhog day?"

- HIS WIFE

- tealc ready to go home to BED

- no glasses daniel🤓

- sorry ur wife died bro but other ppl are in this loop too. Dont be selfish

- "I can.....touch her face again. Talk to her. Hear her laugh."

Jack knows how you feel bro but still

- "I LOST MY SON!" :(

- it was 2 buttons??? All of that????? And it was 2 buttons???? Smdh

- they ve been stuck in this time loop for 3 months!!! Jack missed so many simpsons episodes!!!

- daniel: what crazy things did you do bc you knew no one would remember ??

Jack: *silently stares at sam and eats oatmeal*

Tealc whump: repeatedly hit in face with door (only shown twice), walks into force shield, passed out

Daniel: stunned, passed out, dragged

🎶listening to Keep Me Crazy by Sheppard🎶 for jack slowly going insane but still using the loop to kiss Sam

🤓no glasses!Daniel for less than 10 minutes at end of episode

#stargate season 4 #daniel whump season 4 #tealc whump season 4 #no glasses!daniel

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dent-de-leon · 7 years ago

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LMAOOO why does david cage games activate your fight or flight response? What happened in heavy rain? I'm not familiar with his stuff I only know detroit become human

I HOPE YOU’RE READY FOR THIS,,

Just, real quick: In Heavy Rain you play as a father with a son who died at the start of the game, and then your one remaining son gets kidnapped and you have to try and save him. He’s been abducted by someone known as the “Oragami Killer” who leaves oragami notes and clues behind for the fathers of the kids they kidnap so they can try and “solve” the mystery

Somehow the sympathetic selling point of the villain here is supposed to be that his dad was shitty, so now he “tests” other people’s dads to see if they’re good enough by making them play life or death mind games to try and save their children. Because that’s totally fair for the kids and totally not punishing them for their own dads’ shortcomings. But some other Highlights of Heavy Rain:

You are on a strict timeline to save your son. Literally you can’t waste any time because your child is slowly drowning. You can still opt to ignore this pressing time constraint in order to have sex with the girl you Just Met because you’re just father of the year

Similarly to David Cage’s other game, Beyond Two Souls, Heavy Rain will “punish” the female player character for taking the initiative to “investigate further” or take more risks. Said female player is usually punished by some form of attempted sexual assault. Like Detroit Human, Heavy Rain has multiple characters you play as. But surprise, only the female character is ever “punished” this way.

Heavy Rain and other David Cage games do this weird thing where just…magic is?? Suddenly invovled?? For no reason?? So you have this whole scene where the dad like walks out in the rain in a trance or something and finds an oragami folded crane and he’s like OH SHIT IT’S ME,, I AM THE KILLER,, and it’s like…played as this occult type thing, some form of divination or precognition or something. And I think I heard something like,, apparently there was supposed to be this more mystical element to the game, but then they scrapped that early on but?? Still kept that one really confusing part?? So it’s just?? There??

Every other piece of technology in Heavy Rain is Normal, but then there’s a cop with super science sunglasses that can manipulate time and space, projecting its own little pocket dimensions. There’s absolutely no explaination for it and you just have to deal with it, but damn, at least it’s cool. Favorite Heavy Rain character by far

[Insert obligatory girl in the shower scene we’re subjected to every game here]

Beyond Two Souls is it’s own can of worms, but in one “episode” the main girl wants to go on a date and the ghost of her dead twin brother that like died in the womb is basically jealous that she’s paying more attention to this dude than him so he messes up the whole date in a poltergeist tantrum. That’s really all you need to know

[Insert the “White Savior” part with the pc and the Native American tribe in Beyond Two Souls here]

Quick time events and control prompts for Notoriously Pointless Actions right down to making an omlet or literally flushing the toilet. Riveting stuff

David Cage,, did…did you really need to make (x2) games where some creepy guy can lure the female player character into their murder basement and then proceed to tie them down and try to take them apart,, like…Once is enough??

[Obligatory club scene where your female player character will be objectified and harassed] and just in general scenes that heighten their sexuality and always in a way that’s uncomfortable and disconcerting rather than like empowering or liberating

“JASON”

Press X to Saddness

The Worst camera angles and you can do nothing to fix it

David Cage claims repeatedly that Detroit Human is about Android Freedom and not Civil Rights or race while blatantly making a bad hamifsted analogy for it

Beyond Two Souls is a choice based game where all your choices are rendered meaningless by a single branching choice at the end, always a fan favorite

There’s an infamous quick time event chase scene in Heavy Rain that includes you running into a bunch of live chickens at a grocery store, as you do

I hope you like unintuitive controls and reaching back and forth for the same thing repeatedly because you can’t quite manage to grasp it

I remember literally nothing from Cage’s game Indigo Prophecy aside from the fact that the start of the game is a character model of David Cage teaching you the controls. It’s so comically arrogant and pretentious it’s surreal

My understanding recently is that David Cage is himself also really creepy. For instance, Beyond Two Soul’s main character is modeled after Ellen Page. And Cage had the character model appear nude in part of the game–a model he redenered without Ellen’s permission, and she was so disconcerted and unnerved by the creepiness of that fact that she literally took legal action. I’ve heard other creepy stuff about the guy too :/

EDIT BECAUSE HOW COULD I FORGET: it’s 100% possible to fail to save your other son in Heavy Rain, and if that happens, you can get a cutscene where you and the female player character are standing at your second son’s grave. And this poor, very forlorn dad is just like “I can’t believe my son is dead.” And then IMMEDIATELY,, WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT,, this woman just turns to him and goes, “I want you to give me a child” ASJSDKSDSDFJDGL

Anyway that’s a short run down of why David Cage games personally pain me,, I also just don’t like the guy as a person from what I’ve heard. I’ve also heard some mixed reviews on Detroit Human though, and generally it seems to be a better game than Heavy Rain and the others at least?? So…small steps…

Still, I’ve only watched playthroughs for most all of them (because I only have xboxone and some nintendo consoles). The only exception is a bit of Beyond Two Souls that I played and personally HaTED with a passion,, so if I could I would actually consider playing through one of them myself just for the sake of the Experience. Generally people do seem to like some aspects of these games though, so don’t take my word for it entirely. But from what I’ve heard David Cage himself is just creepy so that sucks

#sorry anON IVE BEEN HOLDING ALL THIS IN AND IM READY TO SCREAM IT TO THEWORLD

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thelovers-thedreamers-and-me · 7 years ago

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a very late fuck squad update: “i had a really good cliffhanger written but then you guys yelled a lot.”

sorry i’m late on this! i was finishing off some notes for tomorrow and realized i never actually posted a summary for last week. whoops

Started the recording just after Saida started saying ”that’s gonna be the name of my chick punk band.” Lost whatever gem that was to the ages.

Saida: “So I have a confession. [fills mouth with cake] Iunno how to play this game.”

“Stop being so fucking mirthful in my house.”

Saida: “I’m sorta resentful that I rolled so good.” ”Those stats represent, like, who you are as a fucking person.” Saida: “YOU’RE who you are as a fucking person!” “…. yes! Technically!”

Yoni: “I have an 18 in Wisdom!” Saida: “So what’s your excuse?”

We finally started playing a solid 9 minutes into the recording. Christ.

Saida: “Did the thing i said about all the pie I eat make it onto the recording?” “It’s on there now.”

First roll of the session is to determine how hungover Sergei and Saida are. This is how our game is going.

Saida’s first action having turned over a new moral leaf is to go through Enro Monsterblower’s pockets, shake him awake and kick him out of the hotel room.

Saida: “now that I know I’m good at everything I’m willing to try things.”

I made some truly fantastic snoring noises that convinced Rhonia and Sergei that there are werewolves in Chillwater.

“I’m gonna wake him up and make casual conversation about all the murder.”

Saida: “How did you get here?” “You… you invited me back here.” Saida: “That sounds like something I would do.” “It was, you did do that-” Saida: “I don’t need your backtalk.”

Saida: “I handcuff him.” “Do you have handcuffs?” “I 100 percent do, I’m Macgyver. Actual handcuffs, I stole them from Lord Acotar.” “Right… You’re not Macgyver at all, you’re a thief! That’s not what Macgyver did. Hey, I’ll make a grappling hook by stealing this grappling hook!”

Harde messages them to point out that maybe they shouldn’t be using official channels to plan drunk roller coaster adventures. Saida: “I write ‘Uh oh.’”

Harde and Narder have not made much progress on tracking down Cheeda, the maid who was fired. She didn’t show up at home and they haven’t found any records of her looking for a new job in town. Having discovered one fact about the case, we return to the Case Of Saida Invited Some Dude To Stay The Night And Then He Did That.

Rhonia: “I see if the snow is magical!” “Presumably you’re detecting magic and not just, like, tasting the snow to see if it gives you magic tingles.” Saida: “I wanna do that!”

Rhonia is wrapped up in a big hotel comforter and she goes to Saida’s room to get her out of having to deal with the dude she just slept with. Saida throws his pants at him and tells him to get out of her room. She also tells everyone about the magic snow.

“Oh, before breakfast I was gonna go help shovel the snow-” Saida: “IT’S MAGIC SNOW”

Saida: “I think I either have an apology letter to write or someone to avoid. One of the two.”

Maddela’s new sexual partner, Idina, who invented cigarettes, starts smoking, and when asked to stop, just puts it out on the back of her arm. “She’s my new favorite character, fuck all you guys.”

Saida: “I’m gonna try and look presentable just in case.” Rhonia: “I’m still in the blanket.”

“We need to know what your hairstyle is, Saida, it’s really important to the plot!”

Saida: “Any land deals? Developers? Do they exist?” “No, and no developers. We own most of this mountain.” “Smart business move.” “Owning a mountain? Yes.”

Yoni: “Alright I think i cracked it. It’s ecoterrorists.”

Rhonia eats the snow. A 9 perception reveals that it tastes like snow. And her mouth is cold now.

Saida: “It’s amazing how more together I look when I’m not drunk and you’re you.”

Saida: “Well as long as we can dig a pathway we’ll be alright.” “Oh, you’re going to help dig a pathway? “[scoff] of course not.”

Rhonia and Yoni get sent over to interrogate Tarand. He doesn’t know who cast the snow spells, and is kind of indignant at the assumption that he would.

Saida: “I’m judging him for the fact that he almost married me. Dumbass.”

“She’s making jokes about not knowing how to play Pathfinder.” Yoni: “I don’t need to joke. I’m living it.”

Rhonia: “There are… some things…. it would be handy to have a wizard for…. Do you know any necromancy?”He doesn’t know any real necromancy. Saida writes in the book that she’s been drunk for two days so now Harde and Narder know. Also a bunch of insults.

“Dates don’t exist, this is fantasy time!”

“The name doesn’t ring a bell.” Saida: “Is that because she said gnomeface instead of his actual name?”

We renamed the himbo Garfunkel because I kept forgetting his name.

Tarand met both Shareena and Garfunkel in the hotel bar, didn’t have much contact with them outside that. Yoni goes back to the table and Rhonia continues the interrogation. She finds out that Tarand could potentially try to stop the snow, and that teleporting objects is possible.

“He has two plates. One has pancakes, one has waffles. He’s rich. That’s what being rich means.”

Rhonia then gets a 30 to intimidate Tarand, takes his waffles, and walks away eating them.

A very long discussion where we all try to do math trying to figure out how to burn their way through the snow.

Saida: “Did you people not hire a fake fantasy civil engineer?”

Rhonia: “Are you gonna Legolas it?”

Sergei casts Featherstep which lets Pashmina walk on snow, and Garfunkel is out there putting blankets on the horses, having waded through the snow.

Saida draws a dick in the notebook and tries to frame Yoni for it.

Sergei and Pashmina bound out over the snow to the equipment shed to get the plow and snowshoes for everyone. Saida sews herself a coat out of a blanket for herself, Yoni, and Rhonia.

Saida: “It’s almost like someone came prepared for this winter resort.” Maddela: “No, I just steal shit.”

Saida: “That sounds arbitrary. Like, Canada 1969 abortion laws arbitrary.”

It was established that Tarand is powerful enough to do all the magic they’ve seen so far.

Saida: “I don’t understand why he was in a snit about the fact that I was drunk for two days!”

Due to forgetting horse terms, Sergei gets “debriefing his horse” and chats with Garfunkel.

Saida: “It’s not a heavy petting zoo!”

Sergei tries to push off blame for the Saida situation despite being an instigator, tells Garfunkel that Saida didn’t kill Shareena.

“I remember she was causing a scene as she went out- I heard she was yelling, and throwing things. I think Tarand has a type.”

Sergei: “She was a…. professional.” “Professional? Professional what? I don’t think she was a lawyer.”

Yoni rolls to snap her fingers, rolls pretty low, and gets covered in leftover syrup from Rhonia’s pancakes.

“I’m gonna let you guys take 10 on snapping your fingers.”

Sprit doesn’t know of any gnomes in the area, and she didn’t know that Cheeda didn’t show up at home. She lets them see her teleportation charm, and reveals that there are more in Llydor’s office.

A request has been made to meet Scrote the Ogre but that’s gonna require one hell of a GM bribe. There was a break for Rhonia’s player to tell us the story of a GM who named his world Anustear by accident. Whoops.

Sprit says she didn’t see Laurelia before she died, but gets caught out and admits that she was paid to deliver a letter. She had been asked not to tell.

Yoni: “I’m lying that she can trust me!”

“It’s weird that you’re trying to ingratiate yourself to a woman you’ve had sex with by acting like a child.”

Saida uses her gauntlet to read one of Sprit’s memories. She doesn’t do a hit. Sprit has been asked to deliver notes to Scrom in the past from a mysterious person that she doesn’t know.

Yoni: “We’ve got it, Bobbie, Bobbie’s the murderer!” “You’ve solved it, you’ve found me out, I murdered my own characters and you’re next!” “What if I don’t believe in god?” “I’m gonna double murder you because you’re a cleric.”

They get Llydor to show them the extra teleportation charms, and it’s revealed that two are missing. He also agrees to bring up the guestbooks from the past month, and tells them that he doesn’t have contracts for all the employees. Saida brings up that Llydor is treating his employees badly. Then they all go to dinner. Everyone discusses the questions that they meant to ask and then forgot to do.

“On tumblr I just reblog posts at random, which honestly would explain a lot about my blog.”

Maddela breaks into Llydor’s office, and digs around for clues. Among many other things, they find letters from Llydor’s kid, which prompts a resounding “EWWWW” from around the table. Sorry Llydor Philkirk canonically fucks.

“Roll for it to make sure you don’t completely fuck it up. Oh. Oh, that was a facial expression you just made.”

Maddela “Actually…. I’m gonna go… and not steal the carpet.”

Under the carpet is a large brass key, and Maddela uses her key blank to copy it. Like a proFRESHional. She’s seen coming out of his office by an approaching servant, but otherwise it’s a flawless crime. Meanwhile, Llydor hasn’t yet shown up to drop off the books. They summon Sprit, who tells them that he left some books at the front desk for her to drop off because he had some other business.They send Sprit to go find Llydor but also to get a bottle of champagne and some snacks first. Saida reads through to see if she recognizes the handwriting in any of the books from the note she saw in Sprit’s memories, but she doesn’t.

“You need to learn to count to three to play Pathfinder.” Saida: “Well you need to learn to read to GM Pathfinder.”

RUDE

“You try to track down Llydor.” Sergei: “Yeah!” “What are you doing to try to track down Llydor?” “……..”

“He does have a distinctive cologne. Scent, for dudes.”

Sergei rolls really well and finds that Llydor went outside, but loses track of the trail because he took the well-shovelled path. Saida has spent time looking up AA quotes and plans to drop them whenever she feels it’s appropriate.There’s also a subplot where Yoni is convinced that Pashmina was pregnant and had an abortion. The less said about that the better.

“You guys, I’m in AA, not NA. There’s a whole world of drugs out there.”

Yoni, Saida, Maddela, and Sergei visit a bar called the Jeweled Bitch, which is explicitly there for rich people to feel like they’re slumming it. At the bar, people knew Shareena- she had a gig where she posed as a hotel guest to get into the hotel bar to find clients. They often had to kick her out of the hotel bar, though. Maddela also hit on the bartender.

“You found a book. A self-help book. The Fantasy-cret.”

They meet at the hotel bar, where Krash is drinking and they have a pretty awkward conversation.

“Who are the bartenders? How many are there? What are their names? What are their backstories?” My players are trying to kill me.

Saida: “Do we know what Sharona looks like?” “Do you know Shareena’s name?”

The bartender, Veldahar, reveals that he doesn’t know much that they didn’t already know, and then says some shit about orcs so Rhonia intimidates him.

None of my friends can snap their fingers and it’s very funny.

Suddenly, Sprit goes to find them to let them know that Llydor Philkirk has been murdered and abandoned in a garbage chute, and it looks like he has frostbite on his fingers and toes.

“I’m not comfortable being down here with the body. It’s creepy.” “This is a murder mystery!”

“You know, if you keep talking about the murders like they’re good things, people will keep suspecting you.”

They inform Harde and Narder that Llydor is dead and also immediately start planning to take over the resort and start a sex cult. “I think Bobbie is crying.”

#the fuck squad #fuck squad recaps #no sex cults

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lady-alayne · 7 years ago

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Game of Thrones: An Angry Recap

Season 7 Episode 5: Eastwatch

Winterfell:

Bran wargs a bunch of birds, sees that the army of the dead are approaching, and concludes that maybe it's time to tell people. Wait, what? The Night's Watch have been trying to tell people this since Season 1 Episode One 0:00:00 sec, but only now that a creepy kid is saying it, people are beginning to believe it? Ugh.

Meanwhile... Ohhhhh, Sansa is ruling the North like a pro! After the King in the North left the North to go shack up with some blonde emo chick with a bunch of dangerous pets, the Northern Lords are not too pleased about their ruler and go to his trueborn sister, WHO SHOULD BE THE QUEEN IN THE NORTH ANYWAY, to complain. They are joined by the Vale Lords, who for some reason 1) are still hanging out at Winterfell (who's holding the Vale at this point??? Shouldn't the hill tribes have taken over the Vale by now???) and 2) suddenly remember that they came in to help Sansa and not Jon, even though they had no problem proclaiming him King in the North last season instead of Sansa, WHO IS NED STARK'S OLDEST LIVING CHILD AND HEIR AND THE ONE THEY CAME IN TO RESCUE I'M STILL BITTER.

So anyway, the Northern and Vale Lords complain about their brand new king leaving them all. It's a brilliant opportunity for Sansa to do what she does best, which is being diplomatic and wonderful and handling explosive situations with charm, but also not taking anyone's shit. I would say Petyr has taught her well, but then I remember that Petyr never taught Sansa in the show because D&D decided to rape her instead, and I am angry again. Ugh. So apparently Sansa just picked these things up along the way, because the FIRST RULE OF STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS(TM) dictates that being abused and raped always makes you a stronger woman, and is generally a wonderful thing for your character development.

Speaking of empowered abused women! Arya is not really on board with Sansa being the flawless Queen she is. Even though Ed Sheeran and his friends were super nice to her like three episodes ago, she still believes killing people is always the best way to solve problems and wastes no time suggesting just that to Sansa. The two sisters naturally disagree over this, and this ends in a very petty fight that came out of nowhere and made absolutely no sense but I guess the plot commanded it so of course it's perfectly acceptable and yet another reason why D&D totally deserve all the Emmys. Wait here while I go scream into a pillow.

Also screaming into her pillow, I am quite certain, is Random Northern Girl, who is the newest piece in Littlefinger's game. I mean, did you see how she leaned in when she was talking to him? That beautiful face of his will stay in her thoughts for a while, I am sure. Not to mention that she was close enough to smell him. Random Northern Girl, you're living the dream.

It turns out Littlefinger is kind of back to his old self again, and trying to scheme his way onto the Iron Throne and/or into Sansa's skirts. He super discreetly and not suspiciously at all obtains a very mysterious letter and hides it in his room to use that letter... to bring forth the Long Night, probably, because Petyr is so evil, according to people on the internet. (So it must be true.) But oh no! He forgot about Arya! That psycho killer child knows how to lurk! And how to break into his chambers! And how to search his chambers! Whooooaaa!!!! We find out the mysterious and suspicious letter was sent by Sansa wayyyy back in Season 1, asking Robb to come to King's Landing and bend the knee to Joffrey. BUT IT WAS A DOUBLE LURK YOU GUYS!!! Because just as Arya is leaving Petyr's chambers we find out that while he was suspiciously being suspicious and Arya was suspiciously lurking and watching him, he was suspiciously lurking and watching her suspiciously lurking and watching him suspiciously being suspicious! I'm so glad Petyr is back to his old, scheming self before he will inevitably meet his doom in two episodes.

The Reach:

Jaime has survived his fall into the lake, because apparently Bronn dived in right behind him and dragged him out. Seriously? So Jaime's armor does not weigh anything??? After we explicitly read in the books that knights who fall into bodies of water always drown because their armor is dragging them down? Oh, but I forgot, the show and the books are not the same.

A few miles down the road, and...

Oh boy. Daenerys is not done with her humanitarian mission, and rallies the surviving Lannister soldiers to “give them a choice:” Bend the knee, or burn alive. “I'm not here to murder,” she tells them after having murdered a bunch of people. “Now bend the knee before I murder you.”

Most of the soldiers bend the knee because, OF COURSE THEY WOULD, THEY DID NOT HAVE A CHOICE. Not so Randyll Tarly, who politely explains that he has moral concerns bending the knee to a foreign woman who just flew in on a mystical killer dragon and torched a bunch of people. Tyrion, who is... also there for some reason, urges Dany to chill the fuck out and maybe let him go to the wall, but Dany refuses to do so. Classic, and how very kind of her. I can totally see why people would want to follow her!

I wonder what happened to those other people who bent the knee. Did they have to follow Dany to Dragonstone? Or were they free to go home? Is anyone keeping track of the people who have bent the knee? Would it be possible to just bend the knee to avoid getting murdered, and then go back to King's Landing and rejoin the Lannister army?

Not to mention that we kept hearing about Randyll Tarly being a dick for, like, 6 seasons, and now he's the only man who still uses his brain and genuinely cares about his son beyond the “You shall be my heir” minimum. Speaking of his son... DICKON DID NOT DESERVE THIS. Rest in peace, House Tarly. Also, HOW DID DROGON KNOW WHO TO INCINERATE AND WHO TO SPARE???

Dragonstone:

Dany returns from her humanitarian mission of burning people, and it's heaving petting with Jon! Well, he pets Drogon, but close enough; Dany is turned on enough as it is. Jon chides her for murdering all those people, and Dany respons that she only killed them so she could help them. So she murdered out of love! That makes it totally acceptable.

Dany is just about to ask Jon about his res-erection, when Jorah returns AND IT HURTS WHAT WAS THE POINT OF HIM HAVING GREYSCALE ANYWAY AND HE IMMEDIATELY RUNS BACK TO HER AND IT HURTS TO WATCH HIM FRIENDZONE HIMSELF OVER AND OVER. He explains he found a cure for greyscale, one of the most deadly diseases known, and everyone is like, “Read: 2:53 pm.”

Jon Snow's only words to Jorah are that he served with his father, thus once again reminding everyone that he was A MEMBER OF THE NIGHT'S WATCH, and NO ONE thinks of asking him how he could possibly be King in the North, given that, you know, members of the Night's Watch vow to WEAR NO CROWNS AND WIN NO GLORY.

Meanwhile, Tyrion and Varys get drunk in the throne room and bond over their mutual predicament of serving a pretty mad tyrant queen who burns people alive when they displease her. A raven scroll reaches Jon, and he finds out Arya is still alive. ARYA, the girl he gave needle to. ARYA, his favorite sister. ARYA, the one he literally died for. But Jon seems to have forgotten all that, because all he wants to do is catch a wight! Oh dear, that sounds like a very stupid idea. Also, can we please talk about that camera angle? Was that the Dany going down on Jon POV shot? Yikes.

And so Jon and the gang make their way to Eastwatch...

King's Landing:

Jaime returns to Cersei, and the two hold an impromptu war council. “This isn't a war we can win,” concludes Jaime, which makes Cersei wonder about a possible armistice. Jaime also tells Cersei that it was Olenna who killed Joffrey because...... she wanted to be the true ruler of the Seven Kingdoms?!?!?!?! FOR FUCK'S SAKE. IS EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER ON GOT TRYING TO BECOME RULER OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS????? And thus Olenna sadly joins the other cardboard cutouts of “generic person who wants the Iron Throne because reasons.” Queen of Thornes, you were deeper than that.

A little while later Davos and Tyrion have teleported to King's Landing and Tyrion sneaks into the dungeons beneath the Red Keep for a little brotime with Jaime to convince him to let them have an audience with Cersei once they have caught a wight. For a reason unfathomable by me, Bronn knew all of this before and thus was able to lure Jaime into the dungeons for this. Logic!(TM)

The brothers agree on an armistice, and Jaime brings Cersei the good news that Dany is not planning on incineratingher in the near future. Cersei also shares her good news: She's pregnant, and she will reveal her twincest, and then the family will live happily ever after! Aww, romance is real.

Meanwhile, Davos is on a tour through Flea Bottom looking for someone, and then.... IT'S GENDRY, YOU GUYS!!! He did not row all the way across the sunset sea, he rowed straight back to King's Landing and into his old job! While casual show watchers try to remember who the fuck Gendry was, snobby book readers rejoice when they see his badass war hammer; just like the one his dad good ole King Robert used to fight with (except Robert's war hammer was probably not so obviously made out of plastic).

Gendry joins the band because HE WANTS REVENGEEEE ON THE LANNISTERS, once again underlining the message of Game of Thrones: Violence begets violence, and it's awesome! GRRM would be turning in his grave. What's that, you say? He isn't dead? Then where is The Winds of Winter??????

Speaking of violence, Gendry immediately puts that war hammer to use to mindlessly kill two gold cloaks who are admittedly a bit nose, but in no way nosy enough to deserve such a cruel death. RIP Member of the City Watch #1, and RIP Member of the City Watch #2.

Oldtown:

OH MY GOD. ARE YOU KIDDING ME. WHAT THE FUCK. D&D JUST DECIDE TO CASUALLY MENTION THAT RHAEGAR GOT AN ANNULMENT FROM ELIA LIKE IT'S NO BIG DEAL. OH MY GOD. I THOUGHT THE WHOLE “SAM FINDING A CURE FOR GREYSCALE IN EPISODE 2” THING WAS THE MOST RIDICULOUS PLOT COMING OUT OF OLDTOWN BUT THAT WAS BEFORE THE WHOLE “RHAEGAR GOT AN ANNULMENT FROM ELIA” THING.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????? AN ANNULLMENT. AN ANNULMENT?????? RHAEGAR WAS MARRIED TO ELIA OF DORNE AND THEY HAD CHILDREN AND IT WAS ALSO A POLITICAL ALLIANCE FORGED FOR VARIOUS POLITICAL REASONS. IT'S NOT LIKE RHEAGAR AND ELIA GOT DRUNK MARRIED IN LAS VEGAS TWO DAYS BEFORE. THEY HAD A LEGIT WEDDING CEREMONY AND THEY HAD CHILDREN. YOU CAN'T JUST ANNUL A MARRIAGE BECAUSE, OH, YOU MET SOMEONE HOTTER A WEEK AGO. OH MY GOD. NO. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Eastwatch:

Davos is really teleporting all over the map this episode, and he reaches Eastwatch after a short row in a tiny little rowboat. I guess that was because the sea is generally so smooth in winter, and not frozen at all. Jon and gang sit down to talk to Tormund about Operation Catch a Wight, and he is understandably not convinced, but eventually decides to give them a little help by hosting a quick speed dating round of men wanting to go beyond the wall, which—surprise!—includes the Hound and Beric Dondarrion! Reunion #2556123 in Season 7 alone!

Because they are all breathing, the men decide to set aside their differences, and embark on their next adventure. Let's hope Jon makes it back in time for the epic boat sex.

#game of thrones #got an angry recap #game of thrones recap #anti d&d #got negativity

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delikizzzplays · 8 years ago

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Amnesia: Memories Review (spoilers)

Platform: PS Vita or PC via Steam (I played it on PC) Official English Release

Number of Routes: 4 main routes followed by an unlocked route after getting the good endings in the previous four.

Plot/Setting: The Heroine (she does not have a name as she is amnesiac so you get to name her anything you want) wakes up one day without any memories and this spirit in her head named Orion telling her he is the reason her memories are gone and she needs to interact with people in her life and try to remember her past in order to free Orion and return to her life. He then tells her that there are like a bunch of parallel universes so she just needs to pick the one she feels like is the right one. At first, this seems like a dumb cheesy way for the game to make us pick a route BUT the whole parallel worlds thing is explained really well once Ukyo’s world gets unlocked and you get to see the full story which I loved.

Gameplay: The routes have so many great bad endings which is one of the things I loved about this game. It was impossible for me to get the good/true endings without a walkthrough. For each character, I got the normal endings with occasional bad endings along the way whenever I tried to play it myself. Then I used a walkthrough for the most efficient way to get all the good and bad endings in one try. The game also has two mini games: ice hockey and rock paper scissors which are fun but you gotta beat all the characters in both games to get certain trophies/achievements which I haven’t done. Also, the sprites move to make them look alive/talking. You can also click on the CGs to hear more cheesy lines said by those characters which are super cute.

VA: Amazing as usual. Sadly, the heroine is not voiced. But then again since Orion speaks for her 99% of the time it doesn’t matter.

Art: It’s so good! The artist for this game is the same one for Collar x Malice so I am hyped for that game as well. Also when you play it on PC full screen the art is very HD and nice to look at. Although the costumes the characters’ wear tend to be a bit out-of-this-world-crazy, the art is amazing. The heroine is so pretty. I have seen a lot of people call her dead fish eyes-chan as an insult but like???? What???? Her eyes are so pretty and filled with various emotions.

My Favorite Routes: Kent=Ukyo >Ikki>Shin>>>>>>>Toma

Order I played: the official order the worlds are listed in.

Btw this is the first proper otome game I played (if we ignore the mobile and indie western ones) and it set the standards pretty high for all the other PC and Vita otome games.

Characters:

Side characters: Mine and Sawa are heroine’s coworkers and friends. Mine can also be her love rival in some routes which was annoying but she is so cute I couldn’t hate her. Then we also have Ikki’s fanclub and the head of the fanclub Rika (are all the Rika’s evil????) who make her life difficult in every route except for Ukyo’s. Then we have the manager from her workplace, Waka, who changes his personality in each route. I like it the most in Ikki’s route tbh. “The Customer is the Enemy!” or something like that is his motto. And ofc we have Orion, the child-like Spirit who helps Heroine along the way and basically does all the decisions for her instead of her which can get annoying but he is also a precious cinnamon roll child so I can’t hate him too much.

Shin: Heart World (VA: Tetsuya Kakihara, Victor/Code Realize)

He is everyone’s favorite. He is the younger childhood friend of the Heroine. His route involved a lot of mysteries to solve. Shin being a tsundere was also fun but that is about it. He is nowhere near my favorite character. He has his good moments but nothing really stood out to me.

Ikki: Spade World (VA: Kisho Taniyama, Germany/Hetalia)

Ah the flirty Ikster! His eyes have this power to make anyone fall in love with him so he has a fanclub and he doesn’t date girls for more than three months as they all break up with him after three months and he moves on to the next girl on the list… until he meets the heroine of course! He would have been my favorite if it wasn’t for some of the choices you had to make to get his good ending- like the one during the summer festival. I was so frustrated with him. He does have this great bad ending where he goes on a murder rampage BUT then he also has an almost rapey bad ending which I am now surprised that the game didn’t actually go through with it now that I know that a lot of these otome games involve rape which makes me glad that they did not include one. His good ending is great though as he and MC start to live together.

Kent: Club World (VA: Akira Ishida, Tokite/Clock Zero)

MY FAVORITE. MY PRECIOUS AWKWARD SON. Kent is the resident older character who is emotionless. He is a grad student and tutors the Heroine and her friends. He is very smart and logical so love does not make sense to him but Heroine ofc teaches him the beauty of love and that not everything has to involve logic. His route is the most normal and realistic one. We get to meet his parents, go through all the awkward stages of dating, and solve some math questions (I used to guide for that immediately tho I hate math). He is also the only one who learns about Heroine’s amnesia and Orion! It’s great! His good ending is really good, too cuz they go live in London happily ever after.

Toma: Clover World (VA: Satoshi Hino, Kamui/Gintama)

He is also heroine’s childhood friend but he was the older one in the group (like only a year or two but whatever) and took care of Shin and the heroine when they were kids. He is the resident crazy guy that should probably be locked up in like Arkham Asylum. He is the yandere of all yanderes so far for me out of all the localized games. LIKE HOLY SHIT. I didn’t even try to play his route by myself first because I knew what was gonna happen and wanted to get through it asap so I used a guide. I probably would have killed the mc a million times if I didn’t do that. For storyline like sure, he might be interesting but NOPE. I hate him so much. He is also super creepy in Shin’s route too like BOI stawp.

Ukyo: Joker World (VA: Kouki Miyata, Aiichiro/Free!)

You can’t play his route until you get the good endings for all the other dudes. He is the true route and ties up the plot and explain all the plot holes in a great way. So his story is that he was dating the heroine in his world and she died horribly in a fire. He was depressed and sad and this deity Nihil heard his prayers and decided to help him settle his emotions. So he told Ukyo that they could go to parallel worlds where he could meet her again. Ofc in each other world she already has a boy in her life and death also awaits her. He basically has to die if he doesn’t get her to be with him or kill her himself to save his own life which causes him to have that split personality. But he cannot truly die because he somehow merged with Nihil so Nihil keeps on reviving him and moving on to the next world. So it is like this never ending cycle in which he either kills the heroine or himself and he remembers everything and all the pain so his crazy side comes out a lot. But Nihil is running out of power cuz he wasn’t supposed to help Ukyo in the first place. As a final resort, he brings Ukyo to his original world and turns back the time so he can try to save her from the fire. Because he is weak he cannot complete the turn back time thing properly which is why it is always cold in August in the routes. Anyways it’s kind of convoluted and confusing but it makes sense if you play the game. He is my second favorite after Kent. I cried during his normal end because it was so bittersweet. It is very easy to get his bad endings in his route though because of his split personality so it’s good to save before each choice.

#amnesia #amnesia memories #otome games #otome #my reviews #otome game review #kent #ukyo #toma #shin #ikki

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a-real-chara-cter · 8 years ago

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☯ Tell us all about your favorite muse you’ve ever written and why they meant so much to you.

Oh man, how do I even pick. I haven’t RPed that many characters, but the ones I have written are all just, really near and dear to my heart.

I suppose my favorite at least at the moment has to be my Archmage, Chalenna Aurelia. Made for an absurdly high-power fantasy setting with my ex-fiancee and a bunch of her friends, she was just, fascinating to write.

On the one hand, she was a haughty, calm and collected Ice Queen who grew up in nobility and academia, had a habit of throwing money and influence at problems, casually tinkered with forces beyond the understanding of most people, and, well, looked like this.

And then on the other hand, she was a complete fucking nerd who genuinely delighted in talking about magic as a science and explaining what she studied to people, sometimes had moments of Manic Pixie Woman moods where she needed her girlfriend to remind her not to leave highly volatile experiments unattended in her distraction, and practically danced and giggled in excitement when she found out one of her new superiors was a rare kind of mage she’d never had a good opportunity to study the techniques of before.

And then on the third hand she liked stealing her (much shorter, much broader) girlfriend’s clothes and modifying them to fit her and looks something like this, or breaks in to her girlfriend’s apartment at three AM to surprise her when she comes home from a night shift by being in the bath.

She was just, so genuine and 100% earnest about what she was enthusiastic and interested in. She loved to learn and loved to solve problems and she was never happier than when she could ditch the dance of politics and get buried up to her elbows in lab work and obscure thaumatological studies. And even when she turned evil in a couple AUs, she was just so matter of fact about it - in one she snapped from grief at losing her ruler and sort-of surrogate mother, the Ruler of Dragonkind, and made the perfectly reasonable decision to hunt, murder, and stitch together as many of the right kinds of dragons as she could find to bring her back and nevermind if this was a good idea or not.

Just. It was incredible fun and utterly fascinating to take someone who bordered on sociopathy, give her an absurd amount of power and a strong code of ethics from her position and parent to follow, and see how she approached problems and what she did with things.

She converted a swamp into a Fae-esque meadow with Victorian manor, but she blushed and stammered for a minute straight when a hot broad-shouldered Irishwoman hit on her. It was awesome.

#Out of Chara-cter #favorite muse #((This was fun to write!))#((Thanks for sending this in :3))#genocidalsoul #Ask

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pickle-inspector · 8 years ago

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I was clearing out my drafts (well, more like skipping through most of them for when I have more energy) and decided to turn an ask into just a straight post.

Original post: D&D Character Asks

For Belxari, my Tiefling bard. Who is basically just me, but I’m trying to not have her be me.

1. How many dead parents do they have? *shrugs loudly* Mostly out of my own laziness, Belxari doesn’t have a clue who her parents are/were. The troupe of charlatans thieves musicians that raised her found her when she was super young. They tell increasingly wild and conflicting tales about finding her. She’s given up on that part of her life, accepting the troupe as her collective parents.

2. How good are they at tongue twisters? It depends entirely on how tired she is and if she’s had a chance to practice it before. Muscle memory is her friend.

3. Biggest regret? In the moment of time in which she is currently, it’s casting Invisibility on Sah and then just frigging walking beside her toward a bunch of enemies. (Nobody was fully with it that night and a lot of stupid stuff happened.) Overall she doesn’t have any hardcore would-go-back-and-change-it regrets. She does wish there was something she could have done about the whole accidental-murder-mission.

4. Are they formally trained or have they gone through a more organic learning experience for their skillset? The Sing The Goblin To Death was primarily organic. She found the skill on accident while escaping a gig-gone-wrong. The thieves abilities were trained by a member of the troupe. (Who needs to retired, because apparently he’s past his prime.)

5. If they could hang out with one famous person in 18th century American History, who would they want to hang out with? Who the heck are most of these people? Is there someone who would be able to, like, hire her for some Robin Hood style sneaking? Which one of these people would go to the local tavern for drunk karaoke night?

6. What’s their theme song? I don’t know. (I picked this song as a joke, but now I’m concerned that it might be legit.)

7. What fictional character are they most like? Was this an intentional or accidental influence? Critical Role was tonight and it was like watching Belxari in the form of Taryon Darington. Which was awesome because Belxari came first.

8. Paper or plastic? Plastic. It’s far more practical unless you’re getting crafty with it.

9. What’s their dump stat? Strength - 5. Pretty sure this was three 1s and a 3. Two people nearly drowned because of this stat. Rolled two 5s getting them out of the water, which was exactly the DC.

10. What’s their best stat? Charisma - maxed at 20. The catch is that I am personally a very low charisma person and am soooo bad at RPing it. So bad. In my head I’ve explained it away as “people don’t immediately hate her until she gives them a very good reason to.”

11. What is their favorite anime? I suddenly forgot every anime I’ve ever watched. Fullmetal Alchemist. 1. It’s the only favorite anime worth mentioning. 2. She related to Ed more than she would care to admit, especially considering how the whole Nina thing went down. While she wasn’t responsible for Sah’s mess, she still feels a sort of responsibility to protect her “sister” and help her reclaim her life. 3. Izumi Curtis and Oliver Armstrong

12. What’s their favorite beverage? Coffee without ants.

13. If they can use magic, what’s their favorite spell? Most often used - Shatter and Thunderwave Most excited to use - Hellish Rebuke and Witch Bolt

14. Most heroic thing they have ever done? Okay, so I posted skipped this to come back and then never came up with an answer. She’s not exactly a heroic person? She’ll jump in and Thunderwave people who have been grappled and isn’t a a huge fan of people dying if it can be helped, but she’s never gone very far out of her way to do something especially great. She’s mostly just accidentally done future steps in quests, but down the branch of the quest she didn’t want to go down.

15. Most despicable thing they have ever done? In-campaign - conspired to kidnap a child and very accidentally came off as a pedo to said child’s mother. Pre-campaign - was involved in the mission that resulted in the death of an older couple and (possibly?) their granddaughter. She wasn’t directly responsible, but she had gone with the infiltration group the night it happened.

16. Are they a hero or a supporting protagonist? Hm. Supporting protagonist. She talks a lot, if only because the other members of the party don’t talk ever. She is primarily the one who comes up with the plans, and then supports the others as best she can. But she really doesn’t have much of a goal beyond literally supporting Sah accomplish her goal.

17. What’s their favorite food? Pork products. Also curry. (I don’t know why, but curry - which is vague - popped into my head first. And then I remembered the five minute long discussion we had in character about how amazing ‘pig’ is to eat.)

18. Would they rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck? One hundred duck-sized horses. She has AoE spells and a dragon that can carry her out of their reach who also has AoE.

19. They have to go live on a deserted island. They can take one thing and one person. What do they take? Assuming that leaving the island isn’t an option: She’d take Sah, making sure it was cool with her first As for items... Well, I mean... Are we talking just the clothes on her back and one object? If so, probably something to, like, hunt and work with, like a knife or some nonsense. If they get to, like, purchase one additional item before going, then... I really don’t know, a book teaching her alchemy? She’s got a Portable Room with so much random crap that they’d probably be fine. As soon as she would hit level 13, she’d take Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion and most item-related problems would be solved.

20. Are they religious? If so, what god or gods do they serve? She’s not religious and really doesn’t care too much about the pantheon of the world. She doesn’t care if others do or don’t.

21. How did they become an adventurer? The troupe had a nasty habit of robbing the people who hired their troupe. (Well, Belxari doesn’t care so much about that mostly.) The last “mission” she went on with the troupe resulted in multiple deaths of innocent parties, sparking pangs of conscience. That, combined with Sah’s demon problems, spurred her to leave the troupe to help Sah with her issues.

22. Most amazing monster they have ever killed or helped kill? They killed an Aboleth, but Belxari wasn’t actually part of that fight due to being on the other side of the room the entire time. So technically Sah and Yval and some NPCs killed that one. They literally torched one boss by tossing some lit torches into a room full of fungus monsters and shutting the door. One short rest later and the boss had also died. They are currently dealing with a less-sentient Laser of Sauron situation which will be finished (hopefully) this Sunday.

23. Thoughts on death? As of now: Regret that she couldn’t help Sah accomplish her task and frustration at whoever’s dumb idea it was that got her killed.

24. Do they have any interesting skills? She’s a bard with a focus in thieving. She is also pretty decent at some acrobatics. She’s out of practice, but she could do some fun handstand tricks when she was younger.

25. Favorite animal? She likes animals. Animals she hasn’t seen before will get her super excited, even if it’s most likely going to try to kill her. And then there are ants and ant-like creatures. Heck no.

26. Expansion of civilization or the preservation of nature? She doesn’t care too much. She would feel bad if, say, a really nice park is getting wrecked, but civilization marches on and she’s too small to fight it.

27. They’re at a tavern. They bump into a big burly angry drunk with a combative attitude. What happens? Apologize profusely and slip away, preferably with his wallet. If Sah is available, a combination of half-orc intimidation plus Thaumaturgy backing her up in an attempt to scare him off.

28. What do they do between quests? Shenanigans and obtaining money. She and Sah have a sort of sideshow act that they use to obtain money when necessary, Belxari playing music and minor magics and acrobatics, while Sah is primarily muscle. Recent shenanigans has been turning her dragon familiar invisible to pester their current traveling companion Yval.

29. Biggest positive and negative influences on their life and development? Positive: Sah. She’s the one who gave her the chance to escape the negative influences and has been a sister to her for most of her life. Negative: Sylmore, the troupe leader. He was something of a father figure, but is a bad guy in her eyes.

30. Would they smooch a ghost? That depends entirely on whether that ghost is trying to kill her or someone she cares about. And if that ghost needed a hug.

#Belxari #I need to get with Goob and figure out some of the gaps in our history #we left the troupe and then wandered for a few years pretty aimlessly #broke and mostly just trying to get enough money to survive #We had no leads to go on so we just wandered

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