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My WIP List

(Last updated: January 2, 2024)

Most of these are still very much in the notes phase.

DC Comics

Jonathan Samuel Kent & Damian Wayne - Don't Try This at Home, Kids!

Jon has recently gained his Kryptonian invulnerability. Damian, being Damian, decides to test the limits of Jon's new superpower. Jon's enthusiastic at first, but he eventually decides he's done testing. Damian disagrees, and so Looney Tunes-esque shenanigans ensue. Pure crack, maybe a pinch of angst. Takes place in the continuity established by "Battle of the Super Sons".

Jason Todd & Clark Kent - 101 Ways to Get Revenge on Superman

When Jason discovers that Superman stopped Bruce from killing the Joker after his death, the Red Hood decides he has a new target for his vendetta.

Damian Wayne, Mar’i Grayson, & Jake Grayson - A Little Ways Along the Family Tree

Whilst fighting a villain, Damian is catapulted into the future, where he teams up with Dick’s kids.

Tim Drake - A Lonely Place of Living

In this version of events, Tim made a mystical deal, that Batman would never lose another Robin.

Tim Drake & BatKids - A Very Common Sibling Game

Tim wages psychological warfare on his siblings. For fun, of course.

Tim Drake & Dick Grayson - The Cola Caper

The United States government has placed an embargo on the island of Santa Prisca, along with a recall of all recent Santa Priscan commercial imports. Tim and Dick are more concerned that the embargo means no more Zesti Cola for them. They decide they have no choice but to infiltrate Santa Prisca and the headquarters of the Zesti Cola Company to acquire the Zesti Cola secret recipe.

Tim Drake / Kon-El - Corporate With a Side of Catcalling

Conner Luthor has a chance encounter with the dashing Robin Hood-esque criminal known as Stray. Then it turns into a regular thing.

Miguel Montez, Harper Row, Tim Drake, & Cullen Row - Dial R

Harper invites Miguel to Gotham, where the H Dial is stolen. They enlist Robin’s aid to track it down.

Tim Drake / Kon-El - Fake it For the Win

TIm and Kon pretend to be newlyweds to compete on a game show during their cruise. When they win, they have to deal with the consequences.

Tim Drake / Cullen Row - He’s a Bombshell, I’m Your Wingwoman

TimCullen get-together set in the DC Bombshells continuity.

Khaji Da, Jaime Reyes, Paco, & Brenda - Khaji Da Goes to School

After Jaime pulls an all-nighter, Khaji Da agrees to pilot his body around for the day while his mind rests.

Tim Drake & Kon-El - Messing With the “S”

Fed up with Kon’s refusal to be a team player as part of Young Justice, Tim decides to mess with Superboy in his civilian persona.

Mia Dearden - Mia Dearden, Missing In Action

During a fight with a supervillain, Mia gets teleported to the middle of nowhere and has to make her way back to civilization.

Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, & Dick Grayson - Recipe for Guardianship

Still in the hospital, Alfred walks Battinson through how to feed the small child he’s somehow acquired.

Damian Wayne, Bat-Cow, & Others - So You’re Cow’s Been Turned Into a Vampire

Bat-Cow gets turned into a vampire.

Tim Drake, Cassie Sandsmark, Aiden Kent, Oscar Allen, & N.O.W.H.E.R.E. - Two for the Price of Them

Tim’s 100th cloning attempt succeeds, but his efforts are interrupted by a supervillain attack. Now he’s on the run with two baby metahumans.

Tim Drake / Kon-El - Waltzing In the Rain

Tim and Kon go on a date above the clouds.

Billy Batson & Others - A Word in the Rain

Billy keeps pranking people by making them think he’s been vaporized by lightning.

Original Male Character, Original Characters, Garfield Lynns, Victor Fries, Stephanie Brown, & Tim Drake - Fly High, Little Firefly

Fusing The Batman (2004) with the main continuity. Back during Dick’s days as Robin, Garfield Lynns, AKA Firefly, worked with Dr. Jane Blazedale, a partnership that ended with Lynns becoming Phosphorus and being remanded to Arkham Asylum. To the knowledge of neither Lynns nor the Bat, however, the partnership between Lynns and Dr. Blazedale also resulted in an unexpected pregnancy. Dr. Blazedale named the boy Benjamin, Benji for short. She raised Benji in the East End, near Park Row, up until she was arrested and sent to Blackgate a year ago. Now Benji is living with his friend Blake’s family. Eventually, Benji decides to sneak into one of Lynns’s old hideouts and steals the Firefly equipment. Benji initially wanted to use the Firefly suit to gather enough wealth to afford a trade school or college. When Benji realized that he couldn’t follow through on an attempted robbery, he decided instead to become a vigilante a la Violet, stopping crime while taking some of the haul for himself. It isn’t glamorous or honorable, but honor won’t get Benji a better life.

Cassandra Cain, Mamaragan, & Others - A Single Word Spoken

A girl in the shape of a weapon is brought to Fawcett City, where she fulfills her purpose for the first and last time.

The girl who can no longer be a weapon hides from her wielder in an old subway and finds herself transported to a place of great magic.

There, the girl who wishes to be more than she was made to be finds a Wizard, who sees the girl for her heart and not for the blood staining her skin. The Wizard teaches the girl a name.

The girl speaks her first word.

And so she speaks power.

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd - Pull My Heart Across the Ice

Tim and Bernard go on an ice skating date, for real this time. Tim enjoys acting like he doesn’t know how to ice skate. Fluff and humor.

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd & Batfamily Members- The Tale of the Bedazzled Turtle

Bernard gets Tim a turtle figurine while they’re on a date to the Gotham Aquarium. When it goes missing at Wayne Manor, the hunt is on.

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd - A High-Speed Romantic Tryst on an Open-Water Murder Shack

Tim and Bernard being cute on Tim's houseboat, they hear a commotion and find that a neighboring houseboat has been stolen and is speeding away. Cue chase, featuring bad puns.

Tim Drake, Young Just Us, Caitlin Snow, & Batfamily Members - Snowfall

Tim is investigating a case involving Mr. Freeze and a dangerous ice machine powered by a Self-Sustaining Thermodynamic Ultraconductor Engine. During the fight, however, Tim gets knocked into the STU engine, taking out the coolant system and causing the whole thing to explode. In the aftermath, Tim discovers that he has become a heat vampire, much like Caitlin Snow, AKA Frost.

Krypto the Superdog, Tim Drake/Kon-El Kent - Puppy Love

TimKon get-together from Krypto’s perspective.

Kon-El Kent & Others - Left Behind

When Kon died during the events of Infinite Crisis, he became a ghost. The worst part is, his future resurrection doesn’t change that.

Tim Drake & Dex-Starr - A Duck and a Cat Walk Into a Bar

What does one do after managing to befriend a cat with a red Power Ring?

Batfamily Members & Alfred Pennyworth - Alfred Calls Shotgun

Many claim that Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne’s valet/butler and the apparent true head of the household, is the most sane and responsible member of the family. They are very, very wrong. When Alfred Pennyworth sees a problem, Alfred Pennyworth will not hesitate to solve it with a shotgun, even when a shotgun is a terrible solution. Pure crack.

Duke Thomas & Tatsu Toro - Cracks Filled With Gold

Angst/comfort with Tatsu helping by teaching Duke to make kintsugi pottery.

Cullen Row, Harper Row, & Others - LGF: Little Green Friend

Cullen Row comes across a small, injured alien and takes it home. The alien isn’t quite sapient, but the two become fast friends. Hiding the alien from Harper is a challenge, though, especially when the alien starts growing.

Cullen Row - Rows and Rows of Worlds

Cullen Row comes across a strange object on the shore of Gotham Bay. Upon touching it, though, the thing sinks into Cullen’s hand. He passes out from the pain. When he wakes up, he finds himself on another Earth.

Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne - Green Tights

During his first encounter with Two-Face, Robin gets chosen by a green Power Ring. Silver-Age versions of the characters.

Damian Wayne & Batfamily Members - Surnames and Succession

A character study of Damian Wayne’s early years at the manor, his habit of referring to people with their surnames, and the paradigm shift therein.

Damian Wayne & Batfamily Members - Out of Sight, Out of Reach

While on a mission, Damian gets caught in an explosion from a villain’s machine, which renders him invisible, inaudible, and mostly intangible.

Damian Wayne, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Kathy Branden, & Maya Ducard - Young Titans: Beginnings

Damian Wayne, AKA Robin, was well aware that each of his older brothers has had a super hero team to call their own. Richard led the Teen Titans and later the Titans. Todd led the Outlaws. Even Drake led Young Justice, as laughably immature as that team was. Damian, though, has yet to lead a team of his own. He decides to change that. Enlisting the aid of his friend Jon Kent, AKA Superboy, Damian sets out to form his own team of superheroes: the Young Titans! [The current roster is set to include Robin, Superboy, Nobody, and Beacon at first, then Suren Darga, Ma’alefa’ak, Abuse, and others. Additions beyond the core four would be gradual.]

Damian Wayne, Jon Kent, Kathy Branden, Maya Ducard, Ma’alefa’ak, & Others - Young Titans: Old Wounds

Damian’s new team, the Young Titans, have established themselves in the hero community and the wider public eye. They’ve gained some admirers and even a few Rogues. Unfortunately, they’ve also caught the attention of Lex Luthor. Superman’s greatest foe has given up on trying to clone or brainwash Kryptonians. That would be great, except that he’s decided to shift his focus to Martians instead. Lex has successfully cloned a Green Martian, and he has the perfect target in mind for a field test. In this sequel to “Forming the Young Titans,” the Young Titans will face a Justice League-level villain from long ago, born anew: Malefic.

Additional note: @jesncin has given me permission to use their depiction of Ma’alefa’ak as a basis for the character in this fic.

Young Titans, Tai Pham, & Others - Young Titans: Distant Heritage

A strange shockwave transports Tai Pham, first Green Lantern of his generation, to an unfamiliar city in the middle of a battle between a team of young heroes and a villain. Tai joins the team, these Young Titans, to figure out what brought him here and how to send him back home. At the same time, Ma’alefa’ak, now going mostly by Malek, is trying to reconnect with his brother and the history that seems determined to leave him behind.

Young Titans, Colin Wilkes, Original Characters, & Others - Young Titans: Ambrosia

Someone’s giving superpowers away and creating supervillains, and some of those powers are killing their users. The Young Titans need to find out who’s behind it and shut them down. That’s made more difficult by a new hero team, the Olympians, some of whose members are foes the Young Titans have faced before. This new team is sponsored by Lindworth Industries, which is premiering a revolutionary method of treating metagenes and working to rehabilitate Point City’s superpowered criminals.

Damian Wayne & Superheroes’ Pets - Damian Wayne, the Super Petsitter

Damian Wayne goes about his daily routine of caring for all of his animals. Dick takes and posts pictures of Damian doing so (he barely escapes with his life). Over the next few weeks, various members of the hero community (and a few outside of it) get in touch with Dick to ask if Damian would mind petsitting for them. Damian agrees to consider the requests, under the condition that he petsit their pets at Wayne Manor. Each chapter has Damian trying to petsit a different hero’s pet, from Wonder Woman’s kangaroo Jumpa, to Harley Quinn’s hyenas Bud and Lou, to Klarion’s familiar Teekl. Shenanigans will abound as Damian is having both the best and most annoying time of his life and his family slowly loses their sanity.

Damian Wayne - Animals Are Better Than People

Damian shapeshifter AU.

Damian Wayne & Egyptian Mythology - Heavy As A Feather

Damian Wayne takes in a stray cat one day. As the Bat luck would have it, the cat is actually Ammit the Devourer. Maybe Jason should stay away until it all gets sorted out. Just in case.

Damian Wayne & Original Honorspren Character - The Light In The Knight

Stormlight Archive fusion crossover. The Knights Radiant have been completely forgotten. Covers Damian's history in this world, where an honorspren finds him when he's in the League of Assassins.

Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, & Others - Small-Time Vehicular Mayhem

Damian goes on a class field trip to TinyTowne, where the class gets to simulate taking a driver’s license exam and drive around a miniature town. Damian finds the whole thing insulting, so he decides to cause chaos.

Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth, & Others - A Severe Lack of Ducks

AU where Tim never made the quadruple somersault connection and so he never joined the BatFamily.

Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne - The Words I Want to Say Get Stuck Behind My Lips

Jason Todd ends up transported to another universe. This Earth appears to be almost identical to his own, but the difference that sticks out the most is Bruce. In this universe, Bruce eventually started seeing a therapist within the hero community. He’s still Batman, but he’s not the emotionally incompetent lummox that Jason’s used to dealing with (read: pissing off). The two of them end up talking, and while Jason leaves more frustrated than ever with his universe’s Bruce, at least now he knows the words his Bruce could never get himself to say. [This is largely an excuse to write an actual emotionally productive conversation between Jason and Bruce where Bruce doesn’t just stare at Jason like a goldfish.]

Jason Todd & Original Characters - Jason Todd the Teaching Assistant

Jason takes a job as a TA at Gotham U for a case. He gets attached.

Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, & Others - The Hero’s Return to the Normal World

A “Jason Lives” AU. After the events in Ethiopia, Jason is left permanently impaired to where he can no longer be Robin. Where he’ll go from there is up to him.

Jason Todd, Boston Brand, & Others - Hallowed Walls

After Jason Todd dies, his soul finds its way to Nanda Parbat.

Justice League Members - When the Hell Did Our Lives Get so Weird?

The Justice League discusses the weirdest, grossest, and downright strangest villains each of them has fought, a conversation brought on by someone mentioning Starro. Humor, mostly dialogue.

Justice League Members - The SSN Justice

Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, John Stewart, Barry Allen, and others serve on the crew of a submarine on a mission to find the lost city of Atlantis.

Edward Nygma - A Recursive Riddle

The Riddler gets trapped in a time loop wherein the only way out is to solve a seemingly impossible riddle.

Edward Nigma, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, & Others - What Lies Six Underground But Cannot Be Found?

Based on the whole “Riddler checks Jason’s grave and finds it empty” post.

Kon-El Kent, Tim Drake, Bart Allen, & Cassie Sandsmark - Red, Blue, Look at You

A piece of red Kryptonite splits Kon into blue and red versions of himself during a Young Justice mission. The blue version has the personality of Conner from the cartoon, while the red version has Kon’s personality from the start of YJ98.

Kon-El Kent, Bart Allen, Max Mercury, & Others - That Alabama Clone Life

AU where Max Mercury adopts Kon.

Jason Todd & Damian Wayne - Gotham's New Dynamic Duo!

Talia al Ghul sends Jason Todd away from the League of Assassins with a Damian Wayne in tow. When they get to Gotham, however, Damian stays with Jason instead of meeting Bruce. Damian eventually starts fighting at Jason's side as a vigilante.

Talia al Ghul, Bruce Wayne, Damian al Ghul, Alfred Pennyworth, Ravi, Ra's al Ghul, and Ace the Bat-Hound - Flight of the Demon's Daughter

Jason Todd stays dead, and Tim Drake doesn't become Robin, so Talia al Ghul is forced to take matters into her own hands.

Jonathan Samuel Kent & Jonathan Samuel Kent & Others - A Tale of Two Jon Kents

It sucked that Bendis aged up Jon. I want Sunshine Jon back as much as anyone. But I can acknowledge that there are some things about the aged-up Jon that I’d like to keep around (namely his relationship with Jay). So I thought, ¿por qué no los dos? We had two versions of Clark Kent running around for years back in the day, and Jon’s entire origin is based in multiverse shenanigans, so who’s to say that Sunshine Jon couldn’t be written back into the comics without erasing the aged-up Jon? Certainly not me.

One day, Sman!Jon encounters Mxyzptlk. Mxy, being who he is, isn’t a fan of Jon’s recent growth spurt. He intends to simply rewrite Jon’s history so that he never left with Jor-El, but Jon appeals to Mxy’s love of drama by explaining how Jon’s current existence as Superman has caused a lot of controversy in the nation. Mxy thinks about it, then decides to just have it both ways. He creates a duplicate timeline, from the beginning of Jon’s existence on Prime Earth to the moments before he decides to leave with Jor-El. Mxy then manipulates the alternate Jon to decide not to leave with Jor-El. Mxy then merges the alternate timeline with the main timeline, resulting in both Sman!Jon and Sunshine Jon existing simultaneously. Mxy then leaves them with a cryptic warning, hinting that only one of them will be able to remain in the main timeline. This story will alternate between the two Jons, exploring their perception of each other and the bond they end up forming, but other characters, especially Damian and Lois, will receive POV chapters as well. Kon will also get involved.

Chris Kent, Kathy Branden, Maya Ducard, & SuperFamily Members - The World Didn’t Stand Still

Kathy Branden decides to use her shop’s teleporter to peer in on the Phantom Zone. She comes back with Chris Kent in tow.

Chris Kent, Jon Kent, Lex Luthor, Task Force X, & Others - Nightwing Rising

It’s been four years since Chris was pulled out of the Phantom Zone, since he renounced Zod and Ursa for good. Four years since he reunited with his family, albeit with some new additions. He’s settled in, found his place in families both Kent and Super. Chris has everything he could have ever hoped for. He’s safe, and loved, and content.

If only that could last.

The Flamebird, ancient Kryptonian goddess of destruction, is coming. Nobody knows why. President Luthor is happy to give them a target while he sets his sights elsewhere.

And something is stirring inside Chris himself. He dreams the same dream, over and over, of shattered glass and shackled ghosts. Shadows and secrets call out to him, begging him to answer. Something else, just out of sight, coils around him with whispers of something more.

He’s just a boy. He’s not ready.

It doesn’t matter.

The Phantom Zone is trembling.

Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, & Space Cabby - Space Scoop Switcharooo

Space Cabby and Jimmy Olsen mistaken identity fic from Perry White's perspective.

Luke Fox, Harper Row, Cullen Row, Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe, & Others - Bats on the Periphery

A series of mostly unconnected oneshots centering on the Batfamily members outside the inner circle.

Batfamily Members - A Snowball Fight of Batty Proportions

The Batfamily have a snowball fight at Wayne Manor. At least it’s not the most mayhem they’ve ever caused. Pure crack.

Selina Kyle, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, & Tim Drake - The Cattail Lounge

Prohibition-Era speakeasy AU. Selina Kyle runs the Cattail Lounge, one of the last surviving speakeasies in Gotham City alongside the Iceberg Lounge, owned by the vicious Oswald Cobblepot. The Cattail's on increasingly harder times as the Iceberg encroaches further and further. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake are in Ms. Kyle's employ.

Jason Todd & Jason Todd & Batfamily Members - Two Robins Means Twice the Magic!

Through multiversal and magic shenanigans, Jason Todd has his body and mind regressed to his early years as Robin, and a second Robin-aged Jason Todd gets dragged into their universe. The alternate-universe Jason is inexplicably much more violent, reckless, and irresponsible than their Robin-aged Jason. This fic explores everyone’s relationship with their Jason, especially Dick and Bruce, and their attempts to navigate and bond with the alternate-universe Jason.

Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Billy Batson, Anita Fite, & Others - The Echoes of Our Unjust Deaths

In which characters have dreams about alternate-universe versions of themselves. Unfortunately, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Billy Batson have recently been suffering constant nightmares about alternate-universe versions of themselves dying. Billy is able to figure out that something magical is going on that’s causing these nightmares for them, and so the three, along with Anita Fite, band together to get to the bottom of it. While doing so, they’ll try to navigate the complications their nightmares have created in their relationships with others. [Starring such stories as DC vs. Vampires, A World Without Young Justice, Injustice, Flashpoint, and more.]

Bernard Dowd / Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd & Bruce Wayne - Playing Darts With a Conspiracy Theorist

Tim introduces Bruce to Bernard. Bruce and Bernard get talking and eventually land on conspiracy theories about heroes, namely Gotham’s vigilantes. Bruce has spent many hours spreading false theories about the Bats online, so he’s read some weird ideas. But somehow Bernard’s theories are far more utterly off-the-wall than Bruce would have thought possible. Pure crack, heavy on dialogue.

“Big Hero Six AU” - The Titans of San Fransokyo

Bruce is not Batman. Dick is in the role of Tadashi and dies. Tim is in the role of Hiro and teams up with Dick’s university classmates, who are the Titans, though without powers. Baymax’s armor resembles Batman’s, but he still just goes by Baymax. Victor Fries instead of Callaghan.

Tim Drake & Batkids - Hell Hath No Fury Like a Robin Scorned

Tim’s siblings get on his nerves individually to the point that he gets revenge on each of them. Done in a 5+1 format.

Batfamily Members - The Gotham Grand Prix

The Batkids have a race through Gotham City.

Vicki Vale & Red Robin - Thinly Vale'd Animosity

Vicki Vale is dead certain that Wayne heir Tim Drake is secretly the vigilante Red Robin, but her every attempt to prove the connection blows up in her face.

Tim Drake / Bernard Dowd - They Keep Falling for Each Other All Over Again

An exploration of Tim and Bernard’s relationship through the years.

Damian Wayne - The Brown-Haired Demon

Damian dyes his hair brown for a mission, but he unintentionally uses dye that refuses to wash out, so he has to let it grow out naturally. Everyone around him is far more disturbed by Damian's new hair color than they have any right to be. Pure crack.

Young Justice Core Four - Mantle Semantics

The Young Justice Core Four discuss their codenames and what names they might consider using in the future.

Young Just Us - Merry Apokolips!

Young Justice gets trapped on Apokolips on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus comes to the rescue on his annual trip to give Darkseid a lump of coal. There may or may not be words had about that time Santa got hit by a meteorite.

Billy Batson & Dick Grayson - Batson and the Bat’s Son

Dick Grayson has tracked a human trafficking ring from Blüdhaven to Fawcett City. When Nightwing spots some thugs from the ring kidnapping a kid off the street at night, he follows them back to their base of operations. He busts the ring and rescues all of the kidnapped persons, including that night’s unconscious victim, Billy Batson. Nightwing makes sure Billy’s alright turns him over to Social Services. Dick spends the next few days in Fawcett looking into Billy. After learning about Billy’s history with foster homes, he impulsively decides to help the kid by fostering him. Billy knows Batman’s and Nightwing’s identities, though they don’t know his, so he agrees for the time being. Now Dick’s trying to take care of this kid who reminds Dick painfully of his younger self while balancing work and keeping his vigilante life secret.

Billy Batson & Sivana Family - Fostered by the Sivanas

AU where pre-powers Billy gets fostered by the Sivanas.

Dick Grayson & Billy Batson - To Hell And Back

Dick loses another brother. He refuses to accept that… Captain Marvel’s been to the Underworld before, right?

Billy Batson & Shazamily - Cats Can’t Say “SHAZAM!”

Doctor Sivana turns Billy into a ginger tabby cat, with the idea being that he won’t be able to say the magic word as an animal. With the Justice League unaware of the situation and Billy unable to reach out to them or any other allies, Billy tries to survive on the streets as a cat. Eventually, though, he's found by Darla Dudley and Mary Bromfield, who take him to live with the Vasquezes.

Billy Batson, Freddy Freeman, Tawky Tawny, Doctor Sivana, & Others - Lethe the Past Behind

"The boy woke in an alley." Preboot continuity, Billy Batson has mysteriously lost all of his memories. As such, Captain Marvel has also gone missing, and the Justice League are starting to get very concerned.

Selina Kyle, Billy Batson, & Tim Drake - Stray Tiger Cub

When Selina Kyle finds a kid passed out in an alley, skin and throat laced with Lichtenberg scars… well, she’s always had a fondness for strays. Told from Selina’s perspective. Something has gone wrong with the Rock, turning the magic lightning against Billy’s body. It leaves him powerless and without a voice.

Billy Batson, Kent Nelson, & Khalid Nassour - Crossroads

Billy Batson gets taken in by Kent Nelson as a kind-of apprentice, kind-of ward. Khalid is also there.

Tim Drake & Renee Montoya - Bat-Shaped Question Mark

Canon-divergent Red Robin AU where Renee didn't retire from the Question after Final Crisis. What if Renee took Tim under her wing during Red Robin?

Tim Drake & BatFamily Members - Late to the Party

Instead of becoming Robin following Jason Todd's death, Tim Drake joins the BatFamily after Damian Wayne is killed by the Heretic.

Billy Batson & Amon Tomaz - Through the Fields of Asphodel

Billy Batson (Captain Marvel) and Amon Tomaz (Osiris) journey into the Underworld, which has, for unknown reasons, been struggling between its Greek and Egyptian forms.

Billy Batson & Poseidon - Get In the Water

Captain Marvel picks a fight with Poseidon to save a passenger ship.

Tim Drake, Jack Drake, Dana Winters, & Others - A Key Change of Scenery

What if the Drake family didn't return to Gotham after moving to Keystone City following the events of Cataclysm?

Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, & Others - Home to Roost Regardless

An AU exploring a timeline where Jason never died, so Tim never got involved with the Waynes, so both of his parents were killed by the Obeah Man.

Tim Drake, Jack Drake, Janet Drake, Barbara Gordon, & Jason Todd - The Scale of a Legacy

The Drake family has a long history of powerful shifters, from wyrms to wyverns to hydras and everything in between, but most notably drakes. Members of the Drake family have influenced history for as long as there have been records to tell of them.

From the moment he was born, Timothy Jackson Drake was expected to continue his family’s proud legacy. There’s one small problem, though: Tim’s shift is the wrong kind of drake.

Tim Drake & Batfamily - Honey, I Shrunk the Tim

Tim gets hit by a shrinking spell.

Tim Drake & Others - Healing Factor

AU where Tim has a powerful healing factor. Anthology-style.

Tim Drake, Jaime Reyes, Kon-El, Bart Allen, & Cassie Sandsmark - Khepri of the Rising Sun

After a Teen Titans mission to help Doiby Dickles and the planet Myrg, the team's ship passes through an undetected electromagnetic storm that causes them to crash in the jungles of the planet Odym, home of the Blue Lantern Corps. As they are traveling to the Central Power Battery to get a new ride home, Tim comes across a near-defunct Reach scarab, likely left over from the Reach's attempted invasion of Odym. Tim takes the scarab to research it back in Gotham.

Tim Drake and Cassie Sandsmark - Archaeology Brats

Pre-canon canon-divergent AU where Tim and Cassie become friends as kids on their parents’ archaeological digs.

Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd, Darla Aquista, Teen Titans, and the Omnitrix - Tim Ten

Teen Titans-Era Tim Drake finds the Omnitrix during the time when he’s forced to stop being Robin.

Tim Drake/Bart Allen - Tim & Bart: Private Investigators

TimBart Sam&Max fusion.

Tim Drake/Kon-El Kent - World’s Finest Halloween

TimKon Halloween fic. Kon dresses up as Kryptonian Nightwing while Tim dresses up as Flamebird.

Tim Drake/Conner Kent & Others - Woo Be Upon Ye

Medieval TimKon AU. Conner is a prince, Tim is a commoner, Conner personally appoints Tim to the Royal Guard on a whim.

Tim Drake/Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Jaime Reyes, & Others - Conquest is Their Business

Continuation of medieval TimKon AU. Jaime is apprentice to the court mage of the Reach Empire. When he discovers that the Empire has developed a new type of magical weapon that enslaves its user, he steals one and flees the Empire. He ends up in the Kingdom of Metropolis and shares news of both the weapon and the Reach’s new alliance with the Kingdom of Krypton, and after much debate, a diplomatic envoy is sent to the Empire. Tim, Conner, Bart, and Jaime sneak aboard the envoy.

Tim Drake/Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Jaime Reyes, Lor-Zod, & Others - All’s Fair in Love and War

Further continuation of medieval TimKon AU. The Kingdom of Krypton declares war on the Kingdom of Metropolis.

Tim Drake & Batfamily Members - Birdsong

Wherein the bullet Tim took through the neck in Batman (2016) #125 takes out his vocal cords.

Harper Row, Cullen Row, Leslie Thompkins, & Duke Thomas - Caterwaul

Pre-Endgame, Harper gets transformed into a cat.

Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Inspector Gadget, Penny, & Brain - M.A.D. Skulls

Inspector Gadget crossover. Black Mask is working with Dr. Claw and M.A.D.

Marvel Comics

Sam Alexander & Samus Aran - Adventure on Tallon IV

Metroid crossover.

Camp Camp

Space Kid, Dolph, & Others - War for the Lamp

Space Kid and Dolph find a magic lamp with a genie inside who will grant three wishes. When the rest of the camp finds out, the war for the last wish begins.

Max & Others - Flat Max

Max gets Flat Stanley-ed.

"Hilda" AU - Nikki's Adventures in Trolberg!

Details can be found in this post.

Max, Neil, Nikki, & Others - Drawing On the Walls

Max discovers how to do runic magic. Chaos ensues.

"Assassination Classroom" AU - The Cheery Teaching Octopus of Campbell High

David takes the place of Korosensei. Gwen takes the place of Kurasama. Camp Campbell's campers are E-Class. Campbell was ousted from the position of principal by Pikeman's father. The campers-turned-students have until the end of the school year to kill David before he destroys the Earth.

"The Sea Beast" AU - Ghost Coral and Buried Stories

For hundreds of years, sea beasts have wreaked havoc against mankind. In response, sailors called "hunters" venture out and hunt these sea beasts across the sea, returning to the capital with the beasts' horns. The most famous of these hunters were the crew of the Inevitable, led by the legendary Captain Campbell, his first mate Gwen Eddy, and his adopted son David Luna. One day, the Inevitable goes after the Red Bluster, the sea beast that took Campbell's [REDACTED] decades ago. Unknown to the crew, however, a young orphan girl named Nikki Maxwell has stowed away on the Inevitable.

"Astro Boy" Dadvid AU - Rebuilding Our Family Through Metal and Love

David is the head scientist. Max takes the place of Tobio. Max is killed in a lab accident. Overwhelmed by grief, David builds an android identical to Max and downloads Max's memories and personality into it.

“FNAF Security Breach AU” - Cameron Campbell’s Mega Pizzaplex

The Mega Pizzaplex is one of the most popular places in the city. And the stars of the show are the band, led by David Fazbear. One evening, though, something goes wrong with David’s battery, and the concert is cancelled. During that night, David reboots earlier than expected and discovers a boy named Max hiding in his torso compartment. Max says the security guard, Jen, is after him, so David decides to help Max leave the Mega Pizzaplex through the front entrance. Complications soon arise.

Max, Neil, Nikki, David, & Others - Camp Camp Koppai Koppai

Pikmin fusion.

Max, Neil, Nikki, & Others - The Chaos Trio Goes On a Pokémon Adventure!

Pokémon fusion.

Max, Neil, Nikki, & Others - The Campbell Zoo

Zoo AU.

Max & Others - Save and Load

Max discovers how to use save points.

Max & Kirby - Camp Poyo

Kirby crossover into Camp Camp.

Riordanverse

The Seven & Dionysus - For Hades’ Sake, Why’d He Have to Get Hot?!?

The gods are shaped by the mortal world’s perception of them. Supergiant Games’s Hades has recently taken the world by storm with its popularity, and so the Greek gods have found themselves influenced by the game’s depictions of them, especially Mr. D.

Percy Jackson & Others - Thick-Skinned Camper

AU where Heroes of Olympus never happened and Percy kept the Curse of Achilles.

Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, & Others - The Lengths One Will Go to For Their Laptop

Annabeth has a dream that the Kerkopes have Daedalus’ laptop. She’s determined to get it back.

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😡 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 and then 🍕👻 for Leo in SheLL!!!!

Thank you for the ask!! :3

😡 What is your villain’s motivation?

For Saki it's a twisted mix of love for his father, need for power and revenge.

Backstory wise, he was raised alongside Yoshi by the leader of the Hamato clan. But instead of Saki being adopted and secretly being related to the footclan, Yoshi is. There's rivalry between them, sure, but Saki is much more ambitious than Yoshi, who just wants to live a quiet life.

Their father, scared of losing an imminent way against the footclan, starts a secret mutation project (everyone say hi to Venus and Jennika). Yoshi isn't really a big fan of that, but goes along with it anyways, as does Saki (though he's a lot more enthusiastic about it). Long story short, the war never happens because Yoshi (with Saki's help and encouragement) unites the Hamato and Foot clan.

The mutation project continues because if you've already got super powerful weapons, you might as well train and keep them, right? Their father passes away somewhere around here and, a little less than a decate after the mutation project started, Venus and Jen escape. Saki sees that as a failure, but since this was all started by his dead father, he can't just let it end like that.

At some point after that, Yoshi got together with Shen. She's useful to Saki in that she's keeping Yoshi even further from his duties, meaning Saki has pretty much control over everything. That results in him eventually mutating the four turtles, to turn that past failure into a success. Yoshi doesn't approve of that once he knows (that took him A While), which leads to his relationship with Saki crumbling as he tries to stop him. Unfortunately, that also leads to his relationship with Shen crumbing, leaving her to raise Miwa pretty much on her own within the clan.

That whole mess ends with Saki shoving Yoshi into the Shredder armor, which consumes and posesses him, making him nothing more than a tool at Saki's disposal. At this point his relationship with Shen fully crumbles.

Shen eventually discovers the turtles (with the help of Miwa) and at that point she really isn't useful to Saki anymore and he decides to get rid of her. He gets Shredder to do his bidding, who fails at capturing Shen or the turtle. However, he managed to gravely injure Miwa, to the point where Shen left her behind because she thought she'd died (and there really wasn't an opportunity to rescue her corpse, not when she had four other children counting on her).

He decides to raise Miwa as his own, using the fact that Shen abandoned her to fuel her hate against the turtles and her mother, to get back at Shen for stealing his (and his father's) legacy from him.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Is April considered a sibling?

Not really! She's "working" (as an unpaid intern, but really she's just there for some good old investigative journalism on Stockman) for the same company Shen is. After a whole lot of hijinks, Shen takes her up on her offer to watch over the turtles while she's at work. (April is around like 18 here, while the turtles are 5-6 years.)

She IS a pretty close friend though and Shen definitely regards her as part of her very unconventional family (which also includes Mona, Venus, Jen and Casey)

🍕 What are Leo’s favorite pizza toppings?

Veggies all the way! Even ones that aren't really traditionally used on pizza. Shen's just going along with it, if he wants pumpkin pizza, she's gonna make pumpkin pizza.

👻 Does Leo have any fears?

His biggest fear is definitely getting seperated from his siblings. They've been the only constant in his life so far, they've always been there, and that changing is pretty much the worst thing he can imagine.

For more mundane fears, he's scared of the dark :( I'm not sure how much that counts as a fear, but he's also got pretty bad social anxiety and really doesn't like crowds/a lot of people at once (though, that's a mix of actual fear and getting overwhelmed/overstimulated)

#answered asks #tmnt: shell #thank u again for the ask megan :3

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Happy Free Comic Book Day 2023, everyone. A somewhat more lighthearted subject for today: meet actor, writer, and director Melanie Henderson. A New York native, Henderson is herself second-generation showbiz: her father Luther Henderson was a Broadway composer and conductor, and her mother Steffi Henderson was also an actress. Melanie has appeared in various supporting roles in 1980's Times Square and 1994's Disclosure, and also appeared in the popular TV series Glee. More recently Henderson wrote and directed 2016's short but compelling series Postcards From Planet Earth, and has appeared in Dinner With Friends.

But here's where the comic book connection comes in: after a great deal of double-checking on IMDB and elsewhere, I am 99.9% sure that Henderson is in fact the very first Black woman to portray the President Of The United States on television. Between 1971 and 1975, Henderson was a child cast member of the PBS show The Electric Company. Aimed at a slightly older audience --children who had "graduated" from shows such as Sesame Street-- The Electric Company emphasized literacy and reading but kept it fast and entertaining, with lots of humour and pop-culture references to hold kids' attention.

One popular recurring feature was a series of short Spider-Man segments, produced in enthusiastic collaboration with Marvel Comics. One such segment featured a highly-nuanced and multilayered plot, coincidentally narrated by another Black actor who would one day portray a U.S. President, Morgan Freeman. SPOILERS AHEAD:

A costumed bunny villain inexplicably turns up at the White House to wreak havoc on the annual Easter Egg Roll, hosted by the President. Spider-Man appears, webs up the troublemaker, and saves the day. The President thanks Spidey for his service. Credits roll.

As far as I have been able to determine from the date on this particular 1974 skit, Henderson would appear to have beat Alfre Woodard to this milestone by a good 40 years or more! #withgreatpowercomesgreatresponsibility

Melanie Henderson's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376545/

#free comic book day

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anthonybialy · 10 months

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Power Switch

Everyone cheers for the underdog. Who doesn’t loves an unexpected victory from a BCS school over a powerhouse? Amateur viewers figure the team bookies give points must be downtrodden.

But football doesn’t always reflect the rest of life even aside from how most humans can determine what a catch is. Take how a war team some cheer on wouldn’t quite inspire with an unexpected win. Sometimes, the plucky long shot faces such a vast spread because it spends its hours practicing mass homicide instead of how to leave the Stone Age. Terror movements don’t enjoy the simplest amenities. The Miracle on Ice has been replaced by treating ice as a miracle.

Hamas is the latest adopted pet for leftists far removed from the butchering. There’s no chance their personal blood will stain sidewalks, which makes backing human annihilators easy. Making atrocious idiots siding with villains intellectually uncomfortable is the closest they’ve ever come to facing consequences.

Iran’s unit for making the respectable world as miserable as their primitive theocracy is nothing but an imitation of a ’70s-style people’s army. You’ll never guess who’s joined the booster club. Cheering against America comes naturally for citizens who love everything about it but all the stuff.

The horrid fad epitomized by fondness for the Viet Cong has reemerged in an alternate form rampaging through the area’s only nice neighborhood. Jane Fonda desperately wants to launch a Hamas rocket.

Worshiping Che embodies awfulness perceived as cute by commies who never had to suffer under it. A goon who lost every fair fight he ever waged was as clumsy a mass murderer as Hamas. And he hated gay people about as much. Trying to tear down the successful in a more literal way than taxing them to oblivion won’t stop rich leftists from finding their saint stirring.

Columbia University serving as a hive of Jew hatred even by disgraceful Ivy League standards is a particularly appalling throwback from the more august parts of Manhattan. Tom Wolfe’s spirit strolls through the borough’s fancier enclaves as radical chic flourishes despite his dismantling of it. The dedication to wretched causes by those in the cushiest positions is reminiscent of the most stylish grossly embracing Black Panther cop-murderers. Supporters of the wrong directional Germany never grasp that history is nothing more than noticing patterns. It’s also why they get biology wrong.

A fondness for any of the ‘70s terror gangs is making the worst sort of retro throwback comeback. Hamas is badder than Baader-Meinhof not just in bloodlust but because of precedent. Anyone who’s paid attention knows just how diabolical the destructors are, which counts out their cult. Pursuing ghastly leftist nonsense in the most horribly homicidal manner possible is how wealthy hypocrites apologize for unearned wealth.

Consistency is not to be praised for the dreadful. Make no mistake that Hamas enthusiasts were 100 percent the same ones claiming America deserved it as rubble smoldered on September 11. The only thing more disgusting than siding with those opposed to life itself is who their terror pals attacked. Massacred Israelis are as disrespected by apologists for monstrosities as World Trade Center office workers. Standing against everything decent is unfortunately timeless.

Embracing criminals only happens figuratively, as connoisseurs of leftist insurgent violence would never appear anywhere rendered unsafe by their beliefs. You’d think they might want selfies with their beloved team’s favorite players.

It’s so romantic to think revolutionary struggles are adorable in nobility aside from the corpse piles. Rallying for the allegedly disenfranchised should begin by determining whether they’re oblivious to how many innocents minding their own business have been slaughtered by their potential heroes.

Aside from not being able identify who actually struggles, their moral compass points accurately. It takes a few moments of observation to determine who’s really oppressed, namely Israel. Sick cheerleaders for subversion think the actual religion of peace with a sliver of global population on a sliver of land surrounded by medieval barbarian fanatics who want to obliterate it for the crime of existing are the ones with power.

Cheering for terrorism from afar surely pairs a lack of empathy with selfish delusion. It’s not like someone’s going to fly into any concert they attend and remove their heads from the rest of their bodies. That’s unless terrorists could walk right over an open American border or there’s some way of attacking via flying.

Rich liberals are insulated from the worst of their pet domestic policies, as well, which makes the way they inflict the opposite of helping even more aggravating. Proles they profess to help end up suffering from inflation and inflated minimum wage. And wealthy virtue signalers can afford tuition despite government making it unobtainable for many as part of its drive to make it obtainable.

Admiring the Third World while enjoying the benefits of the First is one way to cope with guilt. Trappings are wholly unearned, of course. Mooching is their way of life. It’s no wonder they sympathize with people’s republics no matter the style. The society is so prosperous that even the uselessly ungrateful can enjoy opulent living. Even Joe Biden can’t tear down affluence despite destruction being his sole skill.

Chaos enablers will be glad to learn their debate foe. Seeing life as nothing more than a matter of who has power is also how Donald Trump approaches life. The self-professed strongman reflexively cheers for whichever side he thinks has the most, which is on the same terms as vacuum-dwellers who cheer for whichever side they think has the least. Plant a thought they deserve.

There’s a rather simple test for who is good. Check to see if your side behead babies for the crime of being Jewish. If so, you may want to shred your membership card. Progressives cheered because they thought Planned Parenthood’s Gaza branch pioneered concierge service.

Maintaining ignorance offers common ground between terrorists and their aloof proponents. Israel’s attackers seem afflicted only because they choose to attempt demolishing those who spent their time building buildings. The group fashioning rockets out of pipes literally tears apart civilization to attack one. Lack of clout stems from their adherence to heinous crudeness.

The best way to make fewer humans appear persecuted is to stop implementing Democratic policy goals. Class warfare is nothing more than aggressive jealousy. Israel’s fiendish foes are powerless because they refuse to live in a republic with members of a religion blamed by losers for every ill for as long as it’s existed. Depressed Blue States are the equivalent of a two-state solution. Choosing to live in multiple types of poverty leads to support from those who condemn being rich while giving up no riches. Life gets worse for the worst allies.

#Israel #Israel-Hamas War #Middle East #republic #power

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The Entire Plot of Final Fantasy 14, with all the expansions, and some serious analysis of how good it actually is. (Part 6 - Post-Stormblood)

Last time, we got through Stormblood, the second expansion, where we gave the boot to the Empire out of two big ol’ regions they’d occupied for two decades, and got a couple real good villain death scenes. So clearly what we’re in for now is all these villains staying dead, a big victory party, and keeping this momentum going to take down this whole evil empire, right? Right?

Post-Stormblood

Well I mean the actual literal first thing we do is open up a fun little dungeon somewhere in the cool giant salt lake, and do some kind of general bookkeeping and reorganizing of all our NPC friends, with a lot of scenes that hurt the likeability of a whole bunch of people.

The worst of these is the Sultana being kind of at a loss on how to get all these Ala Mhigan refugees her country has been kinda mistreating and exploiting the hell out of back to their homeland in one piece and give them some real material aid to get them back on their feet without upsetting the corrupt merchant council she’s just accepted get to keep really running the show while she’s a figurehead, and for some reason she decides to get advice from, of all people, Godbert Manderville- wrestling enthusiast, clothing unenthusiast and Hildy’s dad. Hey, Nanamo, you realize we haven’t gotten into the wacky comedy questline right? We aren’t supposed to see Godbert in main story progression stuff. He’s not allowed to just ask you to rub him down with oil and then suplex the whole merchant council into space. That terrible restriction aside he gives the reasonably pragmatic advice to keep the council chill by letting them wet their beak a little. We’re not escorting refugees home and giving them a ton of humanitarian aid, we’re taking over an abandoned salt mine and making sure to get workers and supplies out to it. Yikes. Stick to wacky comedy quests Godbert.

There’s also this whole really drawn out bit about Rauban being all conflicted since here he is in his homeland which could really benefit from a pretty cool general but also he’s really down bad for the Sultana. This resolves with her relieving him of his duties and pushing him that way, and promoting his son to take over his old duties. Well the more formal ones. We don’t suddenly have Pippin carrying her around in his arms like she’s a toddler, thankfully. Yeah I’ve never really liked the Rauban/Nanamo dynamic. It feels a bit creepy and like, hey you two, you’re in public.

Mostly though, we’re here to follow up a tale of a war on two fronts with a tale of redemption arcs on two fronts. We’ll start in Ala Mhigo with Fordola, the Ala Mhigan leader of the Imperial military unit whose whole mission was just brutally oppressing her people, before she also got that whole unit killed, and was put through psychic power unlocking experiments. She was actually captured and thrown in a cell rather than killed, and people are kind of really upset over that because most people think she deserves to die. Fordola herself is pretty darn on board with that, because the catch about getting a supercharged version of the whole supercharged Echo thing is she now involuntarily gets flashbacks from the POV of basically everyone she even walks past, usually to her and her unit killing their loved ones and suffering as a direct result of her actions. This on top of the regular guilt of having done all these awful things, and the realization that her blind faith that the Empire was absolutely unstoppable and frankly she’s just been a huge idiot. So... yeah her life is just this constant living hell of being constantly, supernaturally, reminded just how much she sucks, while rotting in jail.

As you’re having a big meeting later though, inviting basically everyone to discuss how you’re going to move forward with this loose alliance of half the world and keep the Empire from counterattacking, everyone figures there isn’t really any harm in letting the Sri Lakshmi worshiping snake women attend if they really want, and promise not to bring any weapons or summon their godess. And yeah they totally summon their goddess. Had some mind controlled sleeper agents hide enough aether crystals for it in these big reflecting pools in the palace. Whoops. She’s kind of just barely not in range to do that instantly mindwarp everyone in the room bit, and the room contains like 50 important NPCs. So, you have to kinda do a reverse bullet hell of catching all her little love bubbles before they hit anyone you care about thing while also dealing with attackers, and meanwhile Lyse sneaks out to let Fordola out of her cell because being immune to gods messing with your brain is a decidedly rare trait. So she helps save the day for everyone. And the reaction from the people is... hey thanks for saving our lives but that totally doesn’t make up for being a nazi lapdog who killed half our families. And yeah, it doesn’t, so she just voluntarily heads back to her cell. We revisit this a few times, not even just in this interim, going forward through future expansions too, with Fordola volunteering to do various things that would normally require your protagonist and not being embraced as the hero of the people because she seriously has a LOT to atone for.

I seem to be kind of a minority in this, but I really like Fordola’s unending suffering. Maybe it’s because I keep watching people repeatedly fall for the same real world nazis “turning over a new leaf to become leftist pundits,” keep up the act for maybe a month, and then recruit whatever suckers fell for it to mob the same marginalized targets as usual (and it’s not even different nazis, this one woman has run this grift like 20 consecutive times), but I really like the... factual take that actually making up for doing truly horrible things requires both genuine contrition, the acceptance that the people you’ve directly harmed absolutely do not owe you forgiveness, and from there you’re just doing as much good as you can for the rest of your life with no expectation of a reward. Now for contrast, we also have this TERRIBLE redemption arc!

So we got a quick preview before the credits but after taking a sword to the chest, bringing a building down on Gosetsu and shooting him with what felt like her dying breath, abject horrific murder monster Yotsuyu got swept down the river and somehow lived. Gosetsu also lived but that was never in doubt. However, Yotsuyu apparently got hit on the head with a coconut while being swept down the river, and now has TV amnesia and a childlike demeanor. So, rather than finish her off, Gosetsu figures, “she must have survived by the will of the kami” and he’s going to keep her alive. Something that isn’t really going to fly with basically anyone anywhere who remembers who she is and how she literally just walked around murdering people for fun and all. He ends up referring to her as Tsuyu, since she doesn’t remember her whole name, and figures that’s a working alias. Everyone else figures it’s an affectionate pet name... which it kind of is if we’re honest. Anyway Gosetsu eventually spends all his pocket money buying her dango, runs into other characters, and everyone begrudgingly has to stash the two somewhere while Gosetsu recovers from... being shot through the lung and having the weight of a collapsing ceiling he was holding push him clear through the floor and all, and everyone else tries to work out if this 30-something child-woman deal is just a big act or she really does have sitcom coconut amnesia, along with having a phiolosophical debate on whether that means she’s off the hook for her many horrific crimes.

So I already hate that, but then the whole thing gets extra creepy when she starts like stripping off Gosetsu’s clothes while you’re talking to give him a sponge bath and such, because OK Gosetsu, you’re sitting here with this child-brained version of a woman who before being an evil overlord had a real famous stint as a particularly doll-like disassociating prostitute at the local brothel and you’re calling her cutesy names and she’s giving you sponge baths and like... you realize this looks really bad, right? Anyway, everyone decides yeah her memories and personality are straight up gone so like executing her for mass murder would be like murdering a human-shaped puppy or something. And like right then, everyone turns their backs long enough for her to remember she used to pick persimmons at a nearby village as a little girl and Gosetsu likes them, so she slips out to get one and... sorry boss.

See I come from a corner of the internet where people have this weird running joke/reference about Percy the Persimmon from Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom, the little sidekick who from chapter to chapter clumsily drops your whole inventory to get a clean slate, and how he is basically the greatest force of evil in the world. So when she drops this persimmon on being spotted by a random villager who rightfully freaks out, I have a real good private laugh and am convinced this story is immediately bound for disaster.

And it is. First off, yeah, secret’s out, the newly established government is hiding the Imperial appointee who made everyone’s life a living hell for the past however many years, and want everyone to just accept her and be nice to her, screw that. And around the same time, her brother (who also just happily joined up with the evil empire and has just the most punchable face in the world) arrives for “peace talks,” in particular being willing to release some Doman hostages and relics in exchange for her, and peace treaty on the conditions that absolutely nobody does any more god summoning no exceptions. We don’t really even make a pretense of him being possibly above board with any of this, particularly when the “hostages” he releases as a show of good faith are their parents, who are of course also complete imperial boot-licking monsters and also, abusive. Seeing she’s in amnesiac mode, their first vocalized thought is hey, her brain’s mush but she’s still hot, maybe if we sell her to the brothel again we can get closer to living the life of luxury we had in the empire.

Her awful brother, Asahi, also gives her a real fancy mirror to help jog her memory, and hey, eventually it works. So OK, now she’s evil again, this whole “will of the kami” thing is just a big nope, we’ve completely ruined Gosetsu’s entire character for this shaggy dog story, and made all our major NPCs look like idiots for going along. She does shiv her parents to death though, that’s fun to see. Anyway this all comes to a head with Asahi going “ha! All these ‘treasures’ and hostages are just here for a summoning ritual and this mirror is an artifact to channel it so now my horrible sister is gonna pull a Shiva and kill you all AND you’re not preventing it so you broke the peace treaty! Again, just a real piece of garbage. Real cool boss music though.

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Anyway after the fight her brother shoots her and she stabs him, so these two are off the table now but yeah I liked her original death scene way better. So, that was all pointless and terrible and upsetting. Well OK, not entirely pointless. The second in command on this Imperial diplomacy mission actually did get into diplomacy for the peace and is a pretty stand up guy. While we’re in the area though, there’s a fun side quest in the middle of the sea there I’d rather talk about.

You know the whole deal in Chinese mythology with the Four Symbols/Guardians/Auspicious Beasts? We’ve got a whole quest chain with them. Short version is there’s a hidden cave full of animals that have lived long enough to become wise mystical immortals who can talk, and also they are adorable.

Four of them in particular are really getting up there in years and you remind them of this guy they had cool legendary adventures with way back when, so they need your help, along with one of those tokusatsu turtle guys (who is shocked to see a talking turtle of course) and Tataru who isn’t really doing much else at the moment, eventually to re-up the wards on some ancient terrible evil but first just to kinda smack all of them around a little because when you really get up their in years you get prone to being overcome with rage and just kinda need a bucket of cold water tossed on you every thousand years or so. There’s also some wacky shennanigans training your more humanoid turtle pal in ancient magics and he ends up joining up with the others by the end. This is also a showcase for how interesting some of the boss gimmicks are getting this deep in the game. The bird of the south here features both a quick break where everyone has to stop and play DDR, and a but where a lesser fire bird is circling the arena lighting panels like it’s Wheel of Fortune that turn matching floor segments deadly.

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Speaking of side stuff, remember back at the end of the post-Heavensward stuff where everyone just gave in to Nero wanting to sic a cool robot he found on the god of the day and we got that gratuitous cutscene? Well rather than shutting off at the end of that it uh... kinda burrowed into a big awful hole in the ground for nefarious purposes and birthed kind of a scout into the world in the form of basically the Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon protagonist, who we call Alpha, and who Cid and friends end up making an adorable little uniform for while checking things out.

There’s a lot of fun bits with various NPCs not being able to deal with how cute and marketable he is and how this really isn’t what non-mascot-y chocobos look like at all, but basically he leads you, Cid, and Nero into uh... let’s just call it Cyberspace. See Omega there wasn’t some ancient Allagan thing, but instead comes from way out in space, being kind of this ultimate doom weapon from the civilization that destroyed the original dragon homeworld, and now that Nero had to go and turn it on, it’s sitting here running simulations on how to become the ultimate doomsday device by... simulating other super hard boss fights from history, legend, and alternate dimensions and kind of doing a whole “who would win in a fight?” thing. And you’re invited to participate, which you do because there’s some chance of it manifesting the eventual winner into the real world and killing everybody, and also because it considers Alpha a complete failure who’s slated for destruction and you’re kinda participating as his agent. Mostly though the whole thing is an exercise in paying tribute to a bunch of really memorable boss fights from past Final Fantasy games the writers gave up on working out in world excuses for. We’ve got a few endgame bosses from FF5, including Exdeath himself, a slew of greatest hits from FF6, starting with the doom train and ending with Kefka (who Nero claims to be a big fan of on reading his provided bio), Chaos from FF1, and Midgardsormr in his prime, after your personal ghost dragon pal gets fed up with Omega trying to kill your friends to test whether desperation and revenge actually power you up, and has to enter a state of being somewhat more dead afterwards. And then finally you fight a humanoid avatar of Omega itself. Then partway through the fight you get some quote like “male form insufficient. Reconfiguring gender.”

Oh no! After a bunch of false leads, Omega finally worked out our secret! The inherent superiority in videogames possessed by all trans people! Side note this is the actually image constantly shown in the launcher and on the store page for FF14 advertising the potions you can buy with real money that let you return to the character creation screen and re-do your race/gender/various appearance options. They know who their audience is!

Of course you still win because you’re here with a party that’s most likely you plus 4 trans catgirls and 3 bunny boys in fishnets and bustiers. A superior force of blatant queerness. Anyway we get a big long sappy cutscene about the vast cold emptiness of space and its supernatural ability to just drain all joy and hope from those traveling the vast distances and Alpha gets to rescue everyone with the power of love and friendship, and before powering down Omega downloads into this little toy replica Cid and friends made of the outer robot turtle sort of hull to go on adventures with Alpha and continuing to try and work out if this whole power of love and friendship thing is actually real or you’re just dramatically describing adrenaline or something.

Our other raid series this time around involves a traveling theater troupe inviting you along to that section of the world map you may have noticed was pasted in from a higher detail source, because the playwright is working on a new production he’s going to call The Zodiac Brave Story, starring his children Ramza and Alma. If you don’t speak turbo-nerd that’s him saying “hey, want to help me research my new play, I’m gonna call it Final Fantasy Tactics!”

So, yeah. You just take an airship out to Ivalice, which we’re just plugging right into FF14 because hey it’s just one country in a big ol’ world that was never fully explored in any of the 5 or so previous games that share the setting, and while we’re mainly focused on the original FFT, we have references flying all over the place. A moogle comments on history books not getting the appearance of moogles right at all, we have some bangaa pirates.

We just have Fran from FF12 show up for a cameo and try not to think about when those games are supposed to be set relative to each other.

But mostly it’s just a big ol’ love letter to Final Fantasy Tactics, guest directed by the original creator, and kind of serving partially as an epilogue for some decades after the fact closure on your party heading off to fight the final boss and never being heard from again. I’d personally be pretty thrilled by the whole thing, but it’s vaguely upsetting seeing representations of all these characters having noses suddenly, and a little more seriously, while the dialog is filled with really memorable FFT quotes, they ruined the experience by re-localizing all of it and losing that terse, mildly incoherent tone. Gimme my “blame yourself or god!” Gimme my “life is short...Bury! Steady Sword!” Maybe it lands better if you play a more recent port first. The other thing that bugs me is the modern-day Ramza, as opposed to the ghost of the original from FFT, is just kind of a horrible racist. Like when he eventually stops just describing everyone around him in the most awful ways imaginable I genuinely thought it was meant to convey that he was being possessed, as people are all through this raid series. Apparently it’s just character growth. Baffling choice. Oh and apparently the fate of all your pals from FFT is they haunted these old ruins for a while and become big giant ghost monster idealized self-images to fight the FF14 protagonist and test your mettle before fighting the final boss from that game. Which means for instance that Mustadio gets to be a big robot sniper. Like I guess he always wanted?

And of course we have our regular check-in with Hildy and company... largely retreading ground we covered earlier. We have a big convoluted plot involving a stolen sword, a local detective helping hunt for it, and a really outlandish bodyguard called Yojimbo who looks super out of place, as does his weird looking dog.

Everyone’s on the lookout for this notorious “Wolf Burglar” and I just realized I got through that whole Stormblood summary without mentioning that a significant percentage of the population of Doma are members of the Lupin race did I? You meet a few, they’re cool. There’s some in an elite military unit towards the end, but they defect when you convince them you managed to liberate Doma.

Anyway the wolf burglar is one of them, but ultimately proves to have noble motivations, and the real villain is the lord making a big stink about a sword. Still you’re all trying to play by the book here, so when you catch up with him he does agree to come along quietly to jail, where he’d remain if not for the fact that the first person you met in this whole Hildy outing is one of his zombie diciples from out in the desert by Ul’dah. He’s out this way because he heard there was an island full of undead and hey, always nice to make friends with more undead, but those ones were jerks. So he’s hanging out in Kugane, and wearing a costume to make people less worried.

So... yes at some point in this business you pull the ol’ switcheroo between a cool wolf guy and a zombie in a fur suit. Generally things work out in the end, but of course that suspiciously weird looking samurai turns out to just be Gilgamesh in disguise, which was probably true back in FF10 too for that matter, and after a boss fight for old time’s sake squabbling over this fancy sword he... kinda gets pulled into another dimension along with Hildy, who’s wearing geisha makeup for absurd reasons. These things happen. Gotta set up that next encounter somehow.

Getting back on the main plot train, we have another villain who had a really great death scene people say is walking around again and coming up with evil plots involving the worst family in Doma. Zenos. Who is... very very clearly dead. He cut his head off right in front of you. He was buried. This can’t be him. Apparently though in addition to possessing whoever’s handy, like Thancred way back when, Ascians can also possess corpses, and since I’m pretty sure Lahabrea’s dead now but who knows or cares, there’s only two real noteworthy ones left around. Elidibus, possessing Zenos’ corpse, and your party pretty much pieces that together after checking that his body isn’t there. Well OK. Having Zenos’ reanimated corpse being used to sew chaos in confusion is fine I guess. Him actually be back from the dead would just be absurd.

Cut to a random soldier who is presently possessed by Zenos getting out a fancy katana and setting off to try and find you. This doesn’t really go anywhere for another expansion but like... this isn’t a restless spirit with unfinished business thing. This is a guy who spontaneously decided to kill himself because nothing in life was ever going to top fighting you. It’s weird for him to be possessing people. Not weird for him to want a rematch with you while he’s here though.

Meanwhile, hoping to actually get this diplomacy working, Alphinaud decides to take a trip up to the imperial capital with his new diplomat friend. They get shot down over this absolutely lifeless and aether-free desert by other imperials who no, did not actually want this peace talk thing happening. Fortunately they’re rescued by a guy who introduces himself as “the shadowhunter” who has a pretty cool look and a belt covered in masks he’s taken from Ascians he’s allegedly killed (like, I believe he killed them, I don’t believe he knows how to make them stay dead is all), as he has a big ol’ grudge against them from having been burned pretty bad by them in the past. He also claims to have had a lot of dealings with the Scions in the past. Alphinaud doesn’t piece this together, and I sure as hell didn’t because he looks completely different and at least in English is one of the more drastically changed characters due to basically everyone besides some of the Scions getting new voice actors while they were off camera for at least a full expansion, but eventually you meet him and... it’s freaking Gaius. The “creeping mendacity” guy. Main villain from the base game. They decided that guy, of all people, actually lived through the big boss fight and his whole stronghold collapsing after you killed the big robot he was piloting, AND that he, Mr. The Strong Must Rule The Weak, gets a big redemption arc. See this is what I’m saying about please just leave people dead. It’s actually fine here since he’s out for blood on the power behind the throne types and his right hand guy explains that he also doesn’t trust him at all and is just waiting for him to slip up and give him an excuse to kill him, but... I don’t like him being around and on team good guy. I also don’t like him no longer sounding like Batou from Ghost in the Shell. Anyway, the two of them go off on their own little adventure and find out that the empire is testing a biological weapon that just instantly kills the entire population of a city when deployed. Not so good.

Thancred’s got a news report on how these two rebellions you kicked off have other subjects of the empire inspired and leading their own revolutions, and apparently the reason you haven’t been hit back is they were busy wiping out Dalmasca, over in Ivalice, which is a bit shortsighted because it was a major refueling station, so if they want to attack Doma, they have to fly over that desert everyone lost contact with Alphinaud in. Also while looking for him, everyone found some similar structures to the forcefield generators making Azys Lla so had to get into. Some serious nerd talk later, turns out there’s basically a big reactor hidden away on the steppe that was draining all the aether from that desert to power stuff like launching Azys Lla and yeah, forcefield generators on the ground it lifted off from that it can be rerouted to. You’d think there’d be some concern with this causing the whole floating continent to come crashing down, but there’s potential side quests for you to not have gotten to there so nah it can keep itself aloft just fine. Also I misremembered, and the whole “little sun” scene happens when negotiating on whether it’s cool to poke around with the reactor that actually factors into local mythology pretty heavily.

There’s a big boardroom meeting once that front is secured, with just every major head of state or general you could name meeting with the Scions to discuss how you’re going to end this war, and it’s going pretty well until all the Scions, including your character, kinda black out and have ominous visions of doom with someone shouting about having to change history and abandon plans and throw open gates and a big wave of light killing everyone. This sort of thing keeps happening from here on out, which is pretty distracting, and also, Thancred doesn’t wake up from it. He’s in a mystery coma. The next wave takes out Urianger and Y’shtola which is pretty serious because they’re the sort of nerds you’d normally have looking into this. Alisaie freaks out about all this a bit since her brother’s missing and presumed dead, everyone else is being pulled into psychic comas, and when Krile suggests everyone go pester Matoya about it and she does a quick search, all the unconscious people have a 404 error on their souls. She also has you come check in on that kobold kid and no he’s still pretty catatonic.

Meanwhile over in the empire, Elidibus is meeting with the Empire to confirm to us in the audience that yes he totally knows this is an Ascian possessing his dead son, and is on board with all the screw peace stuff and the war crimes. Elidibus makes it weird and calls him “father” on the way out. And then his grandfather, the original founder of the whole Empire, steps out to make fun of him and remind him that his job as Emperor is to do gruntwork for the Ascians. The emperor gets annoyed at this, says Ascians talk to much, and shoots him. He comes back possessing one of quite a lot of clones he keeps handy for these moments because yeah this is Emet-Selch the last Ascian of note, AND the only one who’s at all interesting, and taunts this jerk some more.

We have a bit more war planning, a bit more horrible portent of doom headaches, a test of that screw your air fleet forcefield, and Gaius shows up to deliver some exposition and a comatose Alphinaud. We’re really starting to run low on party members with this whole thing. Anyway, biological weapons are bad. Secret cloning facilities full of the emperor’s grandfather are questionable.

Since things are going so well for team good guy, the Emperor actually agrees to an in-person peace talk with you, various heads of state, and Alisaie. Anyway he’s a jerk about it, and comes packing very real criticisms like, hey, Limsa Lominsa, you... absolutely colonized the hell out of the kobolds’ island. Hey Ishgard, you made peace with the dragons, you know, by killing their leader. hey all of you, if you actually want world peace and everyone working together, you could totally just all surrender and let me run the whole world. He also makes it clear that he totally wants to cooperate with the Ascians on their plan, which involves triggering something like 6 more apocalypses because those mash alternate dimensions into this one, and he at least is pretty sure that once they’re all mashed together, everyone will be united under the rule of the Master Race, i.e. his. He is, for what it’s worth, a bit confused on how all this actually works. Also he’s a nazi. Just like, straight up. And his... crown? is super dumb.

So yeah, war it is. It’s a pretty great setpiece dungeon honestly where you’re just barreling forward, fighting tons of nazis and robots while NPC friends alternately help you out in fights and run off into the background tackling whole fronts themselves while you just keep moving forward. This sort of thing becomes a recurring theme for climaxes from here out and I never get sick of them. Things are going real well, but then you get another headache and Alisaie doesn’t come back from this one. You need to pull back if only because you’re unconscious and need to be dragged to a bed. A bit of regrouping though and you’re back at it, pushing forward until it’s time for a big ol’ deal with Elidibus still piloting that zombie Zenos. Things go pretty well, but death doesn’t stick on him and also at the peak of things you once again get taken down by these psychic attacks. You aren’t killed, as is explained later, because Estinein is a bro and whisked you out of there.

This time you’re out long enough to have a proper conversation with the mysterious hooded weirdo whose body seems to be half weird blue crystal or something who’s doing this. He insists that if you keep this attack up on the empire, everyone in the world is going to die, you’re kinda just going to have to take his word on this, and he’d really like to talk it over with you face to face in the First, which you can get to with a trinket left outside the crystal tower.

Guess I can’t keep stalling on explaining that. We get some really good explanations of this in the next expansion, but people have tossed out a lot of this by this point. Once upon a time there was just one normal big fantasy world, but someone kinda took a metaphysical bat to it and smashed it into 14 pieces. You’d think since this is final Fantasy 14, the implication here would be that the other 13 world this yielded are the settings of the first 13 games, but we visit the First in the next expansion and the last time we came to the crystal tower we headed to the 13th, AKA the Void, hell, or the endgame of FF3. It’s just as well that we aren’t going that route though, because the Ascians whole deal is causing apocalypses as a way to mash these back into your world in the hopes of restoring it to its original state. They’ve successfully done so if I recall 7 times, and also had the one royal screwup where they just kinda destroyed the one and turned it into hell. Still 6 more apocalypses is a lot of dead people. Anyway they’re named based on relative position to yours on an arbitrary ring chart. The First is the nearest neighbor going one way, Thirteenth the other.

Anyway, about the only one left to give advice on this is Tataru, and she says go for it, if nothing else this guy might know where everyone’s souls got off to. And that’s where we leave things off. Once again if you’re enjoying these or enjoying me continuing to be alive, I’d really appreciate any donations through my patreon. And next time we will in fact be taking that extradimensional offer and heading into Shadowbringers. The honest to goodness super good expansion.

#final fantasy 14 #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #must have been grim when this first came out and just everyone was in a soulless coma for like a month while you were grinding on omega

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A Winter In New York by Josie Silver - A 5/5 Star Review!

Iris is finding her footing in New York City, far away from the grief and trauma of her old life in London. While she is not at the culinary level she would like to be in her chef career, she finds comfort and friendship in the local noodle shop where she works. Still reeling in grief from the loss of her mother, she finds her identity through her mother's past. A chance run-in with an iconic gelateria present in her mother's scrapbook, what lies behind the front door will turn her new world upside down.

I really enjoyed this deep story of love in its many forms: intimate, parental, friendship. I loved the slow build of her found family in New York City and how often she is reminded that she is important to the group and the dependability of the member of the group when she feels very isolated. I personally enjoyed the family and friend bonding over food and wine. If you are a fan of romantic movies set in New York City, this book is for you. It mentions Moonstruck, When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, and many others that have slipped my mind. My favorite character is Gio, especially with a scene in a storage unit where he demands maturity and communication with respect and basic human dignity. I literally cheered out loud as I read that part! I also enjoyed how fiercely loyal he is to his family and his willingness to compromise in order to make those he cares about happy. I would recommend this book for adult readers who enjoy a story that travels between past and present. I would also recommend it for those who love to read about found family as this story slowly builds on this to band together for a victorious defeat over a despicable villain.

On the other hand, I would not as enthusiastically recommend and more give a warning to those who may be triggered by relationship abuse, parental loss (especially maternal), and homelessness as some scenes may be difficult to read through.

Please note: at the time this review has been posted, the current release date is set for 10/03/2023. Many thanks to Dell, Ballantine Books, Penguin Random House, Goodreads Giveaways, and Netgalley for the Advanced Reader Copy of this book.

#netgalley #5 star review #arc #romance #Josie Silver #A Winter In New York #New York City #Holiday Romance #New York #Found Family

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nonzero people podcasting about goosebumps the musical & it’s never enough. neither extensive enough nor enthusiastic enough & that’s coming from me which is the entire explanation for the assessment.

on the same topic but a completely different point, i was just appreciating how extra fun i always find understudy buddy to be. and obviously i would like to think that maybe tina & the unit that is brooke & zeke are like, more neutral to amicable after the show lol. tina is a lot of fun as is, like, automatic shoutout to any character just being like, getting in the way being offputting / a pain and all powered by one’s own intensity, that’s fun & funny & who among us? and like yeah she’s also definitely doing the mean girl thing like, in the song as mentioned lmao like please, rein it in. and maybe she will, but then when other suspects are being kind of crossed off the list just before thee play she manages to just be regular supportive towards brooke, so that’s promising lol. and also just shoutout to the Fun of a lively antagonistic role, great stuff, delightful number for her there, and sure helping ramp things up. and zeke and brooke not just showing up for this one horror musical (also i would love to shoutout zeke’s plight there lmfao like, the experience of original readers of poto where the twist is “nah it’s not a phantom it’s just some wet pathetic guy” like he’s so hyped to be The Ghost Lead and then he’s like oh god i’m a romantic lead in a hole & i’m five & it’s embarrassing & i even know my counterpart irl (the bestie) like i guess technically the role’s a ghost by the end & good for the mystery mask wearing element being exciting still) but that they were unnamed ensemble members in guys & dolls & saw that through, they’re bringing support & appreciation for the theatre, & on the flipside tina might just enjoy the theatricality & attention from it but she was having a great time informing everyone that on top of their haunted school it’s a specifically haunted (cursed) play, so maybe she can also relate to zeke and brooke’s horror genre appreciation. and she might warm up at all to zeke when he’s cleared about the fact he wasn’t trying to prank their efforts into oblivion, at least to the same degree she can manage to provide regular supportiveness to brooke when it comes to it. and on the one hand, despite brooke and zeke sure seeming like that hell of an established unit like probably just have their [socializing at school] foundation covered by hanging out w/each other, they could let brian in on that easily enough for something of a triumvirate, but now not only are they bffs since 5ever who love a genre together, they sure had an Adventure in emile messing up by [you never try to scooby doo villain your way through it] but also doing it all wrong where they think You’re the danger here & that you’re going to murder them, plus it’s scary for real exploring the darkness elevator underground tunnels anytime, but also now they have this off the shits experience with that new guy friend who was a ghost for real. kind of its own bonding element & maybe you wouldn’t exactly let anyone else in on it, much less like, tina lmao. she might be interested in The Legend but she was also super interested in telling everyone all about it, and idk, difficult and weird to explain, thing it’d all be quite the stuff to process for one lol like sure we love drama and ghosts and attention too but it’s A Lot. ghosts are real and i online dated one except across time rather than space and he was just some guy hanging out and i also hung out with him sometimes but then in the end it got weird b/c he was the suspicious understudy all along and this role is really not coming through....but also hey, could talk about it all eventually, and tina’s got plenty of context already. next year’s cast n crew party for the last show, be like hey guess what, b/c we’re solidly amicable now also

plus being extracurricular buddies like, ms. walker head in hands dealing with these three menaces lmao....although zeke wasn’t Really up to that much, tina’s sure committed to the show, etc. and it’s like, being a student or teacher or anyone else at a middle school is just always gonna be like that. could really be worse, she can handle it. and maybe she can know of the lore also, she’s out here engaging in irl drama and lore about like avenging her grandmother’s theatrical aspirations, or none of this would be going on lol. get used to these three and actually they’re reliable really, maybe tina will have learned to better accept not getting the dream role, which will be an easier time for everyone. but it’s just always gonna be a handful lol but all these kids were also all about putting on the play too, actually, yes maybe some problems arose from messing around with the platform but they could’ve been worse problems (queues of ghosts in line for their turn at finally achieving one last goal of performing their part in this one damn play lol) and does seem like it’s engineering issues inherently rather than Just messing around backstage unsupervised which isn’t often otherwise going to be fatally risky, and maybe just give people a rundown about the riskiness of things that Isn’t emile’s botched effort where he mostly just made children afraid of Him. like idk, i did shop class throughout middle school, we avoided injury w/successful cautionary rundowns. brian’s one other last goal could’ve been about safety measures, but whaddaya gonna do. anyways point is, hanging out after school for theatre purposes and having an understanding and bonus patience affordance with the teacher in charge of this and maybe everyone gets to know the Real Ghost Story or maybe it’s zeke & brooke’s personal inside secret, it was already a shared adventure for all involved even if they didn’t get the Full story the way those two did, all of them are up for Drama and for Horror, they’re good to go. and good for them

#goosebumps the musical #like let's do a play by play of the show And this kind of meandering musing about any and all elements lmfao #funny when the [just some guy] was clearly not at all intending to murder them but so far as they know he might've. which yeah terrifying #and their Real Ghost was a just some guy new friend. brian truly just hanging out like yep what's up everyone. yeah i'll paint a set #and i can't get over book brian being all the more just So Nervous in general lmao that's like his whole thing #like is this some extra anxiety you get when you die & then have been a ghost abt it? maybe. or maybe he's just already like that.#either way lol. i Love how they talk abt maybe encountering an actual ghost via the platform & brian's like omgg nooo stopp ;m; too scary #if you're a kid who would've been scared of ghosts then....just b/c you happen to be one yourself. still like omg no stopppp #but zeke & brooke aren't too overly terrified of this possibility of Real Ghosts though it Is clear they're both scared in the abyss there #like. yeah fair. you're like eleven and that is scary for anyone and does involve various elements of not insignificant danger #and it's more fun when they Aren't utterly unfazed by everything happening in the story ofc. which they are not #and who knows maybe zeke's a bit put off about actual ghosts lmfao like he Did get ghost attacked. whoops #hopefully as simply disorienting as alarming rather than like yeah i had a whole fight for my life back there while gradually smothered #things that have you looking up folklore abt ghosts' breath stealing ability. like fatally or just a lil sip...#well i don't know. where is the fog patch haint warding tradition recited humorously from perhaps my grandma as the lore source there lol #not online i suppose. go figure. anyways theatres & ghosts & superstitions? already going on. the ghost light for sure. just add some more #and be all the more earnest with it lol. hey why do you always say ''brian no more of that shit please i don't care if you wanna be man 7''#might still be more like ''i hope emile who's an alive guy out there doesn't try to kill me :/'' lmao fr....#maybe he makes himself scarce a while but returns also. kids probably wouldn't tell a soul so long as he doesn't try to scare them abt it #kind of difficult to ask these children straightforwardly to just not say anything to anyone once they know you're here but #they probably don't wanna go exploring back down there again. did that. just don't haunt the plays or seem like you'll kill them #and like who knows maybe a lot of ghosts w/goals hanging around & they're generally Just Ppl in gb situations thusly #your new friend even if they're really more Mortal than you for the temporariness of it all; ideally #given that they Do have some goal to fulfill & then they'll peace out a ways. really hardly the worst gb style of situation to be in #it's the drama & mystery & theatrics....& the fun of like layers of genre awareness lol. you like horror & you know you're kinda in A Story #the play; the play having a mystery history & possible curse; school's haunted; someone's sabotaging you; fake janitor; suspicious behavior #and a couple of protagonists who are liable to go looking for some degree of trouble for the fun of it....#anyways what a setup. lot going on lol. lot that Did go on. including the show; congratulations to everyone just about

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