#unexpected followup

[lucidseduction]

I did not expect a follow-up to this but....

Coming back home from my evening walk, and there he is, solicitor dude looking at me from the sidewalk a couple doors down.

Dude stops me and says hey did I talk to you earlier today?

Me: That depends, were you the solicitor who didn't read the no soliciting sign?

Solicitor laughing, slightly stoned: oh yeah that was most definitely me (laughing)

We laughed about the earlier encounter then here's the best part friends -

This dudes other job?

I kid you not-

Literally selling no soliciting signs.

Fist bumped, then on our separate ways again.

Solicitor: Rings bell disturbing my lunch

Me: Looks for Amazon package

Me: Notices he's still blabbing about killing rodents

Me: Taps no soliciting sign like a school teacher

Solicitor: "Yeah, I know." *Continues talking about managing 30 houses next door* (not even feasible, clearly lying)

Me: Jaw dropped, closes door.

If you are a contractor who can't read, why would I draw up a contract with you????

[despite-everything]

sometimes tiktok is good

[unganseylike]

never messaging a supervisor again except out of necessity 😶 my PI (lab supervisor) is out of town but usually likes to be updated about important experiments so i texted him the result of something and he replied “Ohhhh so fun!!!” . im mystified by this and simultaneously mortified by the fact of how much he did not care about my message 😭😭

[ginnymoonbeam]

Things that were unexpected and yet not surprising about 4 Minutes ep 4:

Great being like "so you need me to betray my family? Say less, I have no followup questions, let's fuckin go"

Tonkla and Korn starting out so sweet and in a real relationship! So many of us read that as a sugar baby situation from ep 1, and the really tragic part is we weren't exactly wrong.

Great and Tyme starting out so sweet! I expected something a lot more rough and nasty for their first time. And you see what I did there with the repeated phrasing, because we're at ep 4 of 8 baybee and if it's sweet now you know there's bitter coming.

Dome and the timeline fuckery. I never expect to be right but I love when it happens.

[shegoesbyjoy]

one year later. it feels rather strange to be in this position, reading the above post and knowing what i know now. the me that wrote it was still blissfully unaware of what was in store for my 2023.

it was an extraordinarily difficult year for me. i'm distinctly aware of how fortunate i still am to have a home, to have enough means to support myself, to have my health and my loved ones. all the same, the personal events of the past year have left permanent scars. i've fought to pull myself up while bruised & battered just to be kicked back down again, i've experienced exhaustion so deep in my bones i hardly registered myself as alive, and i've felt so utterly unmoored i didn't know if i'd ever find my way back to land again. and yet—AND YET—what i wrote in this silly little post did still come true. despite all the stress and pain and anguish, something beautiful did happen. multiple beautiful things even, more than i could count.

dewdrops on pine needles from last night's rain. music so gorgeous it sends shivers down your spine. a home cooked meal that satisfies a craving you didn't know you had. the electric spark of connection with a new friend. dogs wearing little winter outfits to keep their bodies warm. the shimmer of a lake on a perfectly clear day. a child excitedly discovering city trains for the first time. the way someone lights up when sharing something they're passionate about. the catharsis of creating art. a warm cat purring on your lap. stumbling on an old memory you're fond of. sun filtering in through the windows and casting your surroundings in the magical light of golden hour...

i won't wish for the same as what i wrote last year because as it turns out, something beautiful will always happen. no matter what. i know it will, for me and for you. so instead i'll say this—may you see beauty no matter where you find yourself in 2024. happy new year <3

"in the dark times, should the stars also go out?"

i think about this quote a lot so fuck it, we're manifesting. happy 2023, may you all experience something beautiful this year

[destiny-in-the-universe]

The Sequel

Hah, okay-

I'm sure most of you forgot about this little fic, the one dubbed "Punk Rock", though I come back with exciting news; just a moment ago, I managed to upload chapter one of the second part. I was hit with unexpected inspiration bunnies, and I simply had to get it out, no matter what it took. This entire segment makes my tail wag, considerably fast dare I say.

I do hope you come to enjoy it, so without much further ado, I present to ashes to ashes (dust to dust) of Punk Rock. It's a direct followup of the first part after Randy was injured by one of McFist's bots and he's unexpectedly awoken in a strange place...

Who knows what might happen next?

[nientedal]

New fic, And the Kitchen Sink, is up! This one is not safe for Tumblr, or work, or...probably your grandma's house? My granny likely wouldn't care, but yours might, idk.

Chapter 1 of 2, 7500 words. Followup to Industry Standard, but you don't need to read that one in order to enjoy this one. Roxanne and Megamind are somewhat newly together after an unexpected "discussion" in Evil Lair. Roxanne requests a particular kind of destruction, Megamind is excited at the opportunity to expand that particular set of skills.

Or, in which your author was looking for an excuse for Megamind to tie Roxanne down and go to town, and this seemed like as good a premise as any! Chapter 2 will be up sometime in the near future, hopefully within 48 hours.

[roseaesynstylae]

This is a followup to this post I made. The Opress brothers time-traveling will always have a special spot in my heart. The question is when do they travel. Here are the options and my thoughts.

The High Republic Era: I'm going to say this going in, I do not know a huge amount about the High Republic. I do, however, know the basics. What would probably happen (based on Maul and Savage's actions during the Clone Wars) is that they'd stroll into the Nihil's house and go, "Hey bitches, we're hijacking you. Deal with it." Would it work? I dunno. But they'd certainly try. And I know that Maul would get a kick out of revealing the Sith to the Jedi again, only this time he wouldn't get chopped in half. (Their horrified faces are hilarious.)

The Original Trilogy: They end up working with the Rebellion. Feral is into it, Savage is going along with it, and Maul is the deranged chihuahua screaming in the background.

The TV Series: They run into Andor and make everything worse. They run into The Mandalorian and Maul immediately tries to make Grogu his apprentice. They run into Ahsoka and she immediately has a raging migraine. They run into Obi-Wan Kenobi and he immediately grabs Leia and runs.

The Sequel Trilogy: Maul will either try to take Rey as his apprentice (and might actually succeed) or storm into the First Order and rant to Kylo Ren about how fucking pathetic his emo ass is being so get the fuck off your ass, you whiny bitch, and kill people in actual lightsaber duels! Back in his day, they were successful without a giant fleet! This goes on for a while, with Savage, Feral, and Hux avoiding eye contact.

KOTOR: They can run around raising a criminal empire while everyone dukes it out. Well, until Maul starts doing his usual thing and they end up in more trouble than usual.

The Legends Future: Whether it's the period of time when Thrawn is attacking the Republic, Luke is recruiting and training his Jedi students, the Yuuzhan Vong are attacking, or the Legacy comics, they'll be an unexpected (and not happy) surprise.

[poodle-anon]

Poodle Anon’s Fic Directory

Hey there! I’ve written a bunch of stuff that’s had to be on anon, and since to my knowledge you cannot add them to a series within Ao3, I thought it best to collect them all together here in one post with a semi-arbitrary order. Currently doing this all on mobile so things may be a bit off in formatting but they SHOULD all be under link/link on ao3.

Most of my things draw from the Townhouse AU created by the lovely @st0rmyskies, but I do NOT consider my own works to be related to Linked Universe, personally. We serve linkshipping here, sir.

Have fun!

Ceremony

Champion's upbringing was not as easy as some. Extension of lore from Home Sweet Home: The Brave, and the companion piece to HSH:Run, and I suggest you read that one first. Gen fic, Champion-only. HSH/DF compliant. Heavily features hallucinogens/bad trips, cults, and hazing. Oneshot, 3,008 words. Mature

Digital Footprint

Champion returns to his body and all of Wild’s leftover possessions and data. Like nudes. So many of his own nudes that he does not remember taking. Self loving (in many forms) ensues. Champion/Wild. Attempting to be HSH Compliant. Cis!Champion (started before trans!Wild was canonized). My smut magnum opus for some reason. Work in Progress. 5/? chapters, 16,484 words (so far). 18+ (with some sfw chapters)

Breathe Out, So I Can Breathe You In

This one's The Weed Fic (™) where Legend and Champion smoke some, have a heart to heart, and get handsy. Legend/Champion, background Legend/Hyrule. Digital Footprint compliant but not really canon. Semi-HSH compliant. Trans!Champion Oneshot, 4,632 words. PG-13

Once, and In a Fantasy

Champion finds an old video of a fling he had with his longest running crush (Sky) once. Jealousy and jacking off ensue. Wild gets to have all the fun, doesn't he? Sky/Wild, Sky/Champion (unrequited). Digital Footprint compliant but not really canon. Semi-HSH compliant. Cis!Champion. Oneshot, 1,750 words. 18+

What I Am

Champion has a bad time with some of Time’s old habits, and both are terrible at communicating. This is their get-along lakehouse. Followup/hypothetical addition to What We Are. Involves heavy discussion of dysphoria, discomfort, and failsex/sudden safewording. Champion/Time. Based on LMTCOY Oneshot, 2,000 words and counting. Unpublished wip you can ask me about. 18+

Unexpected Obstacles

Champion has some old trauma that dies pretty damn hard, sometimes getting in the way of his sex life. Or: champion accidentally pulls a knife on Twilight during sex and is then sad about it, but everything turns out fine because Twi is a goober. Champion/Twilight. Sorta HSH compliant. Oneshot, 998 words. 18+

Poodle Anon’s Speakeasy Kinktober Collection (2022)

Super secret server I’m in did a kinktober! Had a lot of fun with these, it’s all over the place but just oneshots. Many different ships (primarily HSH), but includes OC Link, and canon-inspired situations 7 chapters, 6,861 words, 18+

Playing With Your Food

Collab with our dear St0rmy! Wild and Dark as vampires, per Blood Lust, give gorey head to their boyfriends. Under-discussed kink, CW for dick squick, and blood/minor gore. There are Flesh Descriptions. Wild/Time (my bit), Twilight/Dark (Stormy’s bit). Blood Lust compliant. MIND THOSE TAGS. Oneshot, 3,016 words, VERY 18+

Broken Mirror

Time is goaded into fucking Dark over his desk, harkening back to the days of their misspent youth under control of various entities where they also fucked against a wall when they were supposed to be killing each other. Not really a hatefuck, more like an annoyed-fuck? Smangst. Dark/Time. LMTCOY/HSH compliant-ish. Kinda rough but Dark is into it. Mind the tags. Oneshot, 2,348 words. 18+

Practical Exam

Direct followup to Chapter 18 of Let Me Take Care of You Sky gets a final “test” before “graduating” his Dom training. The test? Time has wanted this flyboy's dick since the first day of their training, Sky sweetly obliges and Time gets turned into a puddle of mush (rare subspace). It’s very cute. Time/Sky. LMTCOY compliant. Mostly aftermath of their scene and some aftercare. It’s cute. Mind those tags!!! Oneshot, 3,538 words. 18+

Bunny Love

Legend and Hyrule mess around and get all cute and gross like the happy couple they are. They’re going to give me fucking cavities. Legend/Hyrule, established relationship. LMTCOY compliant. Short and sweet. Oneshot, 899 words. 18+

Bonus: Followup to @miniscrew-anon's febuwhump fill! Champion wakes up from his second bonkening that returned him to the world, and starts getting caught up on what he’s missed. Guard boys being friends. No ship (gasp). HSH: The Brave compliant. Oneshot, just under 500 words. PG-13

[serendertothesquad]

Seren's Studies: Odd Squad UK -- "The New Ozzie" Episode Followup, Part 1

Not to be confused with "The Other Ozzie", which is a completely different joint and hasn't been released yet.

(Seriously, why two episode titles are the same but with different adjectives I will never know. 0/10. Try harder.)

Let's move on to "The Ot-" oy. "The New Ozzie", which is an Opie-focused episode that features her being promoted to the Department of Help. Because, I mean...instead of dissolving the department entirely, plop a new person into it to keep it going. It's fine. It's like putting someone's desk in the parking lot, firing them, and putting a new person behind it. It's fine.

Let's go below the break!

And your writer for this episode. She's got a hefty combo of acting and writing works, having been in one Doctor Who episode and even writing a few episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball as well as one episode of Bravest Warriors. Pretty solid resume, so let's see how she does!

"If you're not receiving letters, that sounds like a job for the post office, not Odd Squad."

Same vibe as Otto's "no offense, but that sounds more like a job for the police", only less world-shattering.

No, no, that's a swirling vortex of blue. Which would, in turn, not make it a swirling vortex of nothingness.

On the plus side, we now know where that promo image of Orli and Ozzie standing next to a US Mail mailbox comes from. Doesn't answer the question of why it's a US Mail mail box, but...y'know, it gets the first question answered.

I could name several ways in which this is an accurate depiction of the American workforce.

I'm looking at that agent in the back and suddenly realizing exactly why Captain O brought up records in "Odd Ones In".

I was fine with badges being one of the few pieces of ironic low tech, thank you.

Okay, many many questions, but chief among them is why there is a desk-and-chair setup attached to the front of a bike. Would be fine if it were just a bike, but...it's not. It's a desk attached to a bike.

*long sigh* Mmmmmisgonnabeonefthosedays.

Man was so desperate to jump ship from Management that he made a lanyard and gifted it to himself first thing. He was that dedicated.

Honestly, it's admirable. Terrifying, possibly, if you think about his backstory...but admirable.

And this has the same vibe as Oprah not willing to give up her remote to Otto in "A Case of the Sing-Alongs".

I don't think Ozzie will growl when it's ripped from his hands, though.

Again, I find myself having to question if the shepherd on the right is a whole-ass adult or a half-ass child.

However, the concept of shepherds being employed with Odd Squad can lead to a select few things: either they actually do care for sheep, they're clergy members, or they're straight from the nice old Bibble.

...Okay, I know what the answer is, but lemme be delulu for a moment, huh?

THEY HAVE TIME CARDS WITH THE JACKALOPE CARRYING A BRITISH ACCENT. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP IF YOU FUCKING TRIED.

God, so far it's the most unexpected thing in the entire episode.

My God.

We've finally found the creme de la creme of all the threats in the Odd Squad franchise.

A creature with tentacles that eats planets whole.

Putting aside the fact that this entire conflict is a matter that Onom, Orli and Ozzie should go into space for, since it doesn't make much sense for the abomination to come through a portal...that's fucking horrifying. Think of the most horrifying thing you've ever seen and up it by 9 trillion. That's what this shit is.

Though if you've seen The Amazing World of Gumball, this shouldn't really surprise you. A planet-eater would be perfect for that show.

AHAHAHAHA NOT THEM USING THE STRUCTURE AS A GADGET TO ZAP THE PORTAL CLOSED?????

How the man built that seemingly on his own is downright beyond me, unless this is another "Rise of the Hydraclops" situa- and it's another "Rise of the Hydraclops" situation isn't it.

"Putting together the gizmo you use to activate it? That's a three-person job."

This man's more of a complicated character in 12 episodes than Nokotan was in...well, 12 episodes. Make him a British deity and my soul is yours.

And we hear Ozzie's catchphrase, which is a mere "Agent Ozzie speaking" and has none of the whimsy that Orli's, or anyone else, has.

When it comes to Internet challenges, stupidity kills.

In the Oddverse, the challenges just kill in more creative ways. Like fancy electrocution with a layer of assault and battery.

...Pull me up Opie's body count and we'll talk.

Clearly if the man's not a Nokotan clone, he's some descendant of Ocean. And even then, he freaked out once or twice.

This man is facing a thing that will eat Earth whole and wants to have one final meal before death. Fuck your "three-person job" bullshit, you could close the portal by yourself easy!

ANOTHER ONE???

A N O T H E R O N E ?!?!?!?!

THEY HAVE A N O T H E R AGENT WITH DOWN SYNDROME?!?!?!!?

HOLY FUCK WHAT WAS THE CASTING LIKE FOR THIS SHIT. WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH STAFF'S MINDS.

BYOOTIFUL. 10/10, PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS, HERE IS YOUR DIPLOMA AND DRIVER'S LICENSE.

No! Aw damn, Opie, stop giving people of my generation incentive!! Stop it! STOP IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-

Had to double-check to see if this was the same Half-inator used in the first movie.

It's not.

And now I'm pissed beyond belief that we don't get a callback, especially with the bait-and-switch from two episodes ago.

"But Seren, what if they changed the desig-" They did not. Gemma clearly is not up to date on her Odd Squad viewings. Both gadgets have different functions with the same name, but that excuses shit.

Gemma is also clearly chronline too much for her own good if she's really sticking with "dumb maybe-Internet challenges" as Opie's schtick for this episode.

Keep in mind, though, challenges of this nature have been a thing since the early days of Vine, and that was over a decade ago.

This "three-person job" bit isn't funny either.

Not that I'd expect a TAWOG writer to follow logic, but Onom built something three times his size in the span of...what, a morning? A week? And now he's alleging he can't build the activation device without two more people.

Someone bring back the "not everything has to be about them" line from "Dr. O No", stat!

Better way this sideplot could go: Ozzie gets hit by a laser or by a lightning bolt or whatever, collapses, whoop, can't help Opie nor help Orli and Onom.

Because we need to hammer the lesson into the kids: stupidity kills. No eating the Tide Pods, no playing with milk crates, and for God sakes, no hitting people with lasers!

She made origami cranes with...how much paper?

Yeah, y'know, I remember making a crack about OSMU stating that "we're paperless now", and it still makes less sense than Opie using what has to be an absurdly small amount of paper to make origami.

I feel like it's been far too long since we've had a main character who was deep into the depths of the bowels of stupid. And the key word there is "main", mind you.

Opie, however, makes Arctic Mr. O look like Einstein. (And yeah, he's not a main character, but even so...)

"And no more stupid challenges, whether on the Internet or otherwise!"

Sub-plot end, move on to the next plot, have a good day!

THIS MOTHERFUCKER BROUGHT A SINGLE SPOON AND A SINGLE FORK TO EAT AN ENTIRE DAMN PLANET.

Not a knife. No special powers. A fork and a spoon.

Gemma, I mean this in the most polite way possible...what the fuck are you doing???

Now how this man's traumatic Management backstory can top a being that will eat the planet and thus him...it can't. It really can't.

I feel like this is a good a time as any to remind people that this is the same franchise who, 5 years ago, had a story arc involving worldwide mass extinction. And there were people losing their shit about it then! Here we got barely anything!

Oh, fucking IDIOT, this girl is.

Though, now that I'm thinking about it...that bit about her not knowing the egg-shaped thing was an egg is almost like foreshadowing to just how dumb she is. And I'm dumb for not realizing that earlier.

OH FUCKING IDIOT THIS GUY IS TOO.

Though, now that I'm thinking about it...there's a persistent cliche in this franchise of girls and women being smarter than boys and men. And I'm dumb for not remembering that earlier.

(On to Part 2!)

[crash-bump-bring-the-whump]

A little followup to today's drabble because that one got way too long but this scene would not stop haunting me. This takes place a few days afterwards!

TWs: hospitals, mention of drugging

It felt like Mariano was trying to claw his way back to consciousness through quicksand. Awareness was soupy, and refused to stay within his grasp. He shivered under the blankets draped over him as the void in his chest roared, and pulled his lips into a thin, uncomfortable line.

A hand came to rest on his forehead. Long fingers that smelled like lighter fluid and pain brushed the hair away from Mariano's face. Something in the voice that shushed him settled his nerves, pulling the tension from his frown and his focus away from the emptiness.

Nothing unexpected happened when that voice spoke.

Mariano relaxed, listening to the voice when it told him to breathe deeper. It said he wasn't in trouble. Something uncoiled in his chest at those words. He started to hear them clearer.

"I don't know many mages who could've fought those pills as long as you did, Ortiz." It said. "You didn't want to fail, did you?"

Mariano hummed, a vague noise that tipped downwards. "Nn..."

"You did fail." The voice didn't sound angry. "I recognize an impossible battle when I see one, though." The hand on his forehead stayed where it was. It kept Mariano still against his pillow. "You went down fighting."

The hand left and blankets were pulled up higher, to Mariano's shoulders.

"I'll remember how hard you tried, even when you knew you couldn't win. I like that in my soldiers." A chair scraped against the floor.

The voice was farther away, harder to understand as the fog rolled back in and started to swallow Mariano. "Rest now, Marito. Relax. You're responding today, so you're almost through it. You'll be awake tomorrow."

As Mariano fell beneath the quicksand again, he couldn't shake the feeling that he shouldn't disappoint whoever had been there.

[cantsayidont]

January 1982. "Creepy" and "surreal" are not words normally associated with Bronze Age Superman stories, but they're apt descriptions of the 1982 miniseries THE PHANTOM ZONE by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan. Probably inspired by the 1980 movie SUPERMAN 2, the mini begins with a recap of the history of the Phantom Zone, discovered by Superman's father Jor-El as a means of imprisoning Kryptonian criminals, but this is no E. Nelson Bridwell continuity-charting affair: The Phantom Zone inmates stage a mass escape, wreaking bloody havoc on Earth as Superman and an amnesiac former prisoner named Quex-Ul, forced to take the escapees' place, begin a perilous journey to the heart of the Zone, which is far stranger than Jor-El had ever imagined.

Most of the Phantom Zone villains who appear in this story had been seen before, but Gerber makes them actually frightening, a collection of madmen and human monsters who were scary enough on Krypton, without the incredible powers bestowed by Earth's yellow sun. Gerber also emphasizes the horror of the Zone itself — being imprisoned, possibly forever, as a thought without form — and his revelation of what the Zone actually is is unexpected. None of this would have worked if the series had been drawn by Curt Swan, but the art by Gene Colan (inked by Tony DeZuñiga) lends a sweaty, claustrophobic nightmare vibe to Gerber's script.

DC reprinted the miniseries in the SUPERMAN: PHANTOM ZONE trade paperback in 2013, also including Gerber's followup in DC COMICS PRESENTS #97, drawn by Rick Veitch, which is unsettling in its own right, and much meaner than Alan Moore's contemporaneous "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" (That collection shouldn't be confused with the earlier TALES FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE TPB, which is a compilation of Silver Age Phantom Zone stories.)

[markcampbells]

TriMax Stryfewood developing friendship (+ Vash and Milly) feat. neurodivergent Meryl!

I wanted my final belated self-rec for @trigunfanfic to be a personal favorite among my own pieces, and one I'm really glad folks who've read it so far have enjoyed.

He takes a few steps so he's almost to the porch steps, and stretches. She hears a few joints pop and him mumbling a swear before he turns back. "When the doc in there was tendin' to 'im, you went into town, came back with food for Vash and the big girl. You were up and down 'tween the two of 'em and didn't eat a damn thing yourself. Me, I ain't bothered if I don't; I can survive a few missed meals easy. You can't. You're human, for one thing, and you're damn small. Know we're tight on cash, but I did the owner a favor. We'll eat free. Get the hell up and come with me." She wants to take umbrage. She really does. She's been sick of being talked down to by men a long damn time. But, lacking the distraction and frenetic energy of earlier in the day, she's really starting to feel the insistent pangs of hunger. She'd convinced herself she could muscle past it, she's done it before for much stupider reasons, but the thought of food makes her mouth water and she gets up and starts down the street. content warnings are in the fic notes

This fic was an unexpected followup to my previous fic where I developed a lot of headcanons about a neurodivergent Meryl and her relationship to food, and I was delighted to find recently so many other folks view Meryl as ND as well! (I don't label her specifically within the fic, but as someone who suspects she's AuDHD, I pulled a lot of how I portray Meryl from my own experiences. Meryl here specifically struggles with her interoception.)

Meryl and Wolfwood don't get nearly enough interaction in TriMax, and this fic was specifically born out of me wanting to expand on what else may have passed between them given that post-Dragon's Nest, Wolfwood tries to warn Meryl off following Vash for her own safety, even if he cloaks it in concern for only Milly. Meryl gets new insight into Wolfwood and Wolfwood learns sometimes it's easier to tell a relative stranger about your checkered past than your friends. (While the focus is Meryl and Wolfwood's developing friendship, there are also scenes with Vash and Milly and Meryl's relationships with them as well.) I had a blast writing this fic and since gen fics can be tough to get eyes on, I would love to hear from any more folks who give it a try what they liked about it. Meryl is such a special character to me and I love giving her an inner life that resonates for a lot of ND folks; I hope everyone who gives it a look enjoys!

[perditicn]

@xluciifer       sent ;;

        “   don't mind him, he's biting your wrist 😌 / Vox ”

From ;; Chewsday. // Accepting Today Only

        Initially he was surprised to be bit, ready to get mad about but then there was a moment of just staring at Lucifer as the fucking King of Hell of all people apparently bit his wrist. He couldn't exactly get mad about this the way he normally would since it was the literal King of Hell. It was an unexpected occurrence on his end for the weekly holiday to say the least but, hey, apparently it was the weird holiday to bite people the king had made up himself so go figure he was out biting people.

Actually, thinking about it. Maybe it was related to that other thing the king had done a while ago.

        “ So — ” His wrist was pretty quickly retracted from Lucifer, wary that he may be bitten again.

“ You made an entire holiday made, just to bite people? ” It was a rhetorical question, of course, because he already knew it was an entire weekly holiday made by Lucifer just to bite people for whatever reason. But for what reason? Well, considering other behavior Lucifer had possessed he had his ideas.

        After his initial rhetorical question he was quick to pick back up his normal demeanor. He'd probably need it for his followup question.

“ This whole biting kink holiday you have going on here couldn't possibly be related to when you went around asking everyone their dick size could it? ”

[rimedancer]

fabula:: Jenny Tseng

Name: Jennifer (Ka Yan) Tseng Occupation: Park Services Age: 27 Sexuality: pansexual Species: Witch Coven: Feng-Lindon Hometown: Seattle, Washington Relationship Status: Married

PERSONA

++ Optimistic, Calm, Assertive, Industrious, Motivated, Jennifer is a kind and caring person, but she isn’t a door mat and will stand up for herself and those she cares about. She is a fond proponent of inner-work and introspection, and much of her affinity for magic was home-grown and self taught early on, leading her magical nature and her spiritual beliefs to become fiercely intertwined and self-motivated. - - Self-Sacrificing, Vengeful, Indulgent, Arrogant While generally a good natured person, Jennifer does know that she is special among her family, which lends her a degree of arrogance. This also lends itself to a bit of spitefulness when she does feel wronged that she is probably all too ready to forgive herself.

Historia:

Daughter of a cousin to the Feng family, Jennifer is the first member of her bloodline to exhibit a tight control over the elemental house of water in three generations, which manifested when the girl saved herself and her mother from a boating accident that cost her father his life. This revelation led to her re-introduction into the Feng Coven, now the Feng-Lindon Coven after a marriage sought to bring the two Covens to shared point of power. Under proper guidance, Jen took to her magic with an unexpected aptitude, and largely coasted through life as an innocuous member of a larger coven, free to live life at large. It was in these teenage years that she discovered a love for nature and the world outside - most of her free time was spent out of doors, volunteering with animals, on cleanups at state and local parks. Often feeling like an outsider at family functions, Jennifer largely kept her head down, and out of the way, and it was through this she met and befriended her cousin, Jacqueline - a girl with no magic, or so she thought - and Iris, another member of the Feng coven, a woman who could sense and move the earth itself. Iris was an apprentice under Dani Feng, Jacqueline’s older sister, and the apparent scion of the Feng families Air Affinities. Life continued on. High School. Graduation. Witchcraft. College. Career; both outdoorsy types, Iris would become a veterinarian and Jen would go on to become a wildlife biologist, graduating and finding work in the National Park system as a ranger. Eventually, she and Iris, long time loves, married. Through her blossoming friendship with Jac and a blooming romance with Iris, Jen learned spicy backroom gossip; that Jac was actually the Feng’s heir to air, and was being muscled into teaching Dani, who they viewed as more publicly viable as the face of the coven - knowing what it was like to feel discarded like that, she eventually works up the stone to ask Jac about it, and, alongside her mother, offers Jac a safe haven to practice her developing abilities on their farm in the rural areas outside of Port Leiry proper. When Fellowship Hunters descended on the Siltshore Mausoleum, Iris, there as a guest to a Garnet Witch, was among those captured. Jen returned from the field to an empty apartment, and then herself was captured during a followup raid at a music festival where she’d followed one of the Hunters. Kept captive alongside Iris for several months while the Fellowship stole their blood, she was eventually rescued by Jac after sending her a desperate message, but Iris unfortunately succumbed to her injuries. After her rescue, Jen takes an extended leave from her work, convalescing at home while she tries to navigate trauma over her injuries and grieve the wife she’s lost. These events have somewhat begun to coalesce into a deep seated and vengeful hatred for Hunters, no matter their allegiances.

[sophieinwonderland]

Can you talk about the study on tulpas that Stanford is doing? We remember you mentioning it

Sure!

Here is the post in r/tulpas from 2019

The event was 3 days long: 2 for travel, and 1 day for scans and interview.

I flew in in the evening, and caught a university paid Uber to the hotel. It was in the afternoon at this point. The flight from SLC to SFO isn’t a particularly long one, so I wasn’t horribly tired and didn’t feel like crashing for much. I relaxed a bit, and decided to meet up with another mancer in the area, and get a bite to eat. After a lovely talk with them, I headed back to the hotel to try and get some decent rest for the far more busy day tomorrow.

I had previously told the crew that I was more of an evening person, so we had the interview over lunch, and did the MRI scans later in the afternoon. Lunch was at Tanya Luhrmann’s home with Michael Lifshitz, on the Stanford campus. The interview was actually rather enjoyable, and gave us much time to talk about tulpas, the community, and Aly in particular. The interview was recorded by all 3 of us at the table, but the other two also will be transcribing it for better use later. It’s entirely possible to ask for a copy from them, and I might get a transcribed version later, but I have my own copy of the audio at least.

The interview was fairly free form. There were some formulaic questions, much like I received in the pre-study questionnaire. But there were also much more open ended questions, that didn’t have a set destination. More than once Tanya would get excited by a response, and ask more followup question that would end up following one tangent after another. The questions were fairly varied; from the more expected ones like how I found out about tulpas or why I made Aly, to more unexpected ones like trying to describe how specifically Aly helps me. The time flowed pretty quickly during the interview, as I attempted to explain my relationship with Aly and the experience of having her. I think I did okay, but there weren’t really any sort of wrong answers.

The MRI scan was fascinating. Due to scheduling restrictions, my session was broken into two portions. Each portion we focused on a separate task. I’m told that one of the two tasks was new, and I was the proverbial guinea pig, but I’m also told that it was a ton easier than the previous one. I wasn’t going to complain. I don’t want to go into too many details, to not poison the well so to speak, so that people can practice for the specifics of the experiments. The first one focused on mindvoice and possession/disassociation. It was probably the longer of the two, since it was a little more involved than the second. We found the test to be harder than expected, even though we knew a bunch of the specifics since we helped design the test. Trying to stay focused while the machine is loudly buzzing and clicking at you while you’re stuffed in a tiny tube, wasn’t exactly easy.

During this, I also had expressed interest in getting a nice scan to print off later. So after the experiment was done, they happily obliged and got a full resolution scan of my brain and emailed it to me. I plan on 3d printing it later, maybe at scale but I haven’t decided yet.

We then had to leave the lab for a while, since another group had scheduled it, so I was given like an hour tour of campus nearby and we grabbed some smoothies. At this point, I was pretty open to just chat with Michael, the neuroimaging researcher about the study and other plans, including doing an AMA after the data has finished being gathered and starting to be analyzed or published.

The second experiment was purely mindvoice related, and far less stressful because it was more open ended and less constrained in general. We rocked through this one really fast, taking a lot less time than expected. Which people were happy about since apparently this particular one had just been retooled. It was still loud and took getting used to, but it worked out pretty well. At the end of it, who would have thought being in a tube for 3 hours would be tiring. I went back to the hotel, ordered some food and just crashed on the bed.

The last day, it was mostly just check out from the hotel and get ready to fly. Tanya had a couple more questions to ask, and I had nothing better to do between checking out of the hotel and my flight. I spoke with her a little bit more, then spent a little over an hour wandering the Stanford campus before I caught another Uber to the airport.

The experience was actually really pleasant. I was incredibly anxious and worried about it, probably for the same reason a lot of other people are. Worries about what will happen, what the process would be, Imposter Syndrome worries, and whatnot. But in the end, it actually was a really positive experience, and fell like it was good for both Aly and myself, since there were a bunch of things that got us a little bit closer together.

That all said, the study still has a bunch of funds left, and we’re looking for more people who’d be willing to spend 3 days in Stanford to go through it all as well. Here is the link for the new interest form, to help us screen who would be the best fit for the study.

Thanks all for reading!

In 2021, it was mentioned that the study was on pause due to COVID.

Due to COVID-19, the study came to an unceremonious halt as lockdowns started. Only recently have the facilities in Stanford opened up enough to consider continuing, but there's still a bunch of general roadblocks due to the pandemic.

Last year, a user reported participating in the study and did an AMA, meaning it had restarted by that point.

One user asked what the goal of the study was, and they responded with this:

Trying to see if there's something that shows up on brain scans. Nothing more or less. Afterwards they can compare to see if it's similar to things like DID.

I haven't heard anything on this particular study since, but the ones running it published this in February:

It's unclear to me if the above study is connected to the MRI study. Since it was mentioned that the MRI study had an interview portion, perhaps they used some of the answers from the interviews with tulpamancers for the MRI study for the above?

Either way, it shouldn't be too much longer before the results are released.

And I'm so eager to see both the conclusions, and what the next phases of research are going to be. 😊