#watched cory play this while working

[empiireans]

sketched the sillies

[spideyhexx]

wanna sit between sejanus' legs while sej teaches coryo how to finger someone😵‍💫

anon I want you to know, I saw this last night before I went to bed and the scream I internally let out was insane 🫶 and I have not been able to stop thinking about it🫶and as you will see I did not hesitate with this!

Maybe you've experimented with small makeout sessions between you and Coryo while Sej watches and then the boys would switch, but that's as far as it's gone.

And Coryo let's it slip he has no idea how to pleasure a woman, so Sej decides the next night you're all together, he'll help him out.

Coryo sits near the end of the bed as you sit between Sej's legs, completely naked with your back to his chest. All of your faces are flushed and Sej knows he's gonna have to take the lead here.

"Now with my girl here, a few kisses would be a good start, but I think she's already worked up so we'll skip that," he says, his breath hitting your ear and you're blushing even more. You can't even look Coryo in the eyes, you feel so exposed and you love it.

Sej gently caresses your thigh, urging them to open more. "Be slow, not too fast, gotta build up the anticipation, right honey?" Sej presses a kiss behind your ear as his fingers trail like a ghost touch up and down your thigh. He'd continue this slow tease as Coryo watches in silence. Sej's fingers move closer to your heat, finding your clit.

You let out a gasp and you feel Sejanus smile against you. "She needs this spot rubbed, slow at first but then you can move a little faster, she'll be squirming in no time." You take the chance to look at Coryo and he looks entranced. He's looking directly at Sejanus' fingers, expertly toying with your clit as you feel your hips stir.

"Can hold her hips or thighs down if you want her still." Sej does what he says, using his free hand to hold you as still as possible and that's when you let out a moan.

Coriolanus locks eyes with you then, his mouth parting a little and his hand resting a little too closely to his crotch. "Then, after playing with her like this for a bit, you can..." Sej trails off, dipping his fingers down to rub them through your folds, gathering your wetness on them. You lean your back against Sej's shoulder but he tsks. "look at Coryo, sweetheart." You do as he says.

"She's obedient," is the first thing Coriolanus says and Sej chuckles.

"Sometimes."

You smile at that and Sej teases his finger at your entrance. "start with one finger, then give her two. She likes small thrusts and when you curl them just a tad and don't forget about her clit." Coryo nods, and Sejanus pushes his finger into you, pressing the palm of his hand against your clit.

He does this slow and purposeful for a bit before adding in a second finger. Your hips buck against his hand despite his hold and Coryo moves forward to hold you down, his warm touch surprising but very welcomed. He smirks at you before watching Sejanus pleasure you once more.

After a couple more moments, Sej removes his touch completely from you, making you whine. "Do you want to try now?" He directs to Coryo and the man nods.

They switch positions, Coryo letting out a ragged breath as you press back against him. You choose not to say anything about how hard he is, even though you all knew.

Then, you learn that Coryo is a rather quick learner. He repeats everything Sejanus told him and it's even easier since you're worked up from Sej's touch.

The moment Coryo's fingers curl against the right spot, you're moaning loudly, gripping onto his thigh and Sej holds you down so Coryo could use his free hand to rub at your clit, his speed quickening the more you moan.

Sej would let out little praises under his breath, for you or for Coryo?

You're not sure.

You hear Coryo swallow and let out a breath before he whispers, "c-can I make you cum?" It's an odd, but endearing question, because wasn't that the end point for this anyways? But regardless, you nod. "I'm close, you're doing so good Coryo."

You reach a hand up to tangle in his hair, tugging on the locks as he groans, his own hips pushing harder against your backside. He curls his fingers one more time before you're coming undone on them. Coryo lets you relax against him as you come down from the orgasm, his cock throbbing as he replays the whole thing in his head.

Sejanus looks proud and pats Coryo on the back. "We're gonna teach you so much."

let's chat about coryo, sejanus, or both, here :)

[bloodismymedium]

I love The Painter so fucking much because it was the first analog horror series that genuinely frightened me, not spooked or even scared, but actually chilled me to my bones and filled me with this profound feeling of dread that I’ve never felt before in regards to analog horror or creepypasta. Every episode escalates the kinds of feelings that Spook intended with this series in me such as terror, revulsion and shock but it also gave me this unique, almost existential dread that I don’t think many other people who’ve watched it felt and the reason why is that this was the first analog horror that felt just so real to me.

I adore The Painter for how grounded and fresh it feels. It was the first analog horror series (that I know of at least) that didn’t revolve around anything particularly supernatural or out there like demons or possessed animatronics, it’s about an incredibly violent and depraved serial killer who does terrible things to innocent people, which you know, is a thing that actually exists and happens all the time in real life and the series is definitely not afraid to make you confront these real horrors.

I love supernatural elements and monsters in horror but I love them because I think their freaking cool rather than scary but people, human beings, that’s what your really supposed to be afraid of, because they can actually hurt you and UrbanSpook’s The Painter reminded me of that. I distinctly remember becoming super paranoid after watching the first couple episodes for the first time, thinking there was someone walking around outside my house tapping at my window when it was just the wind, and I was NEVER that jumpy before.

Mona is a very real kind of evil and most people who use the series’ shocking content as a point of criticism come off as ignorant to me because they are clearly missing the entire point of the series, it’s basically a documentary about a pair of violent serial killers who do terrible things, things that again, while exaggerated since that’s par for the course in the horror genre, are very possible and aren’t too far off from what real life serial killers have done which is why it works SO WELL for me.

I understand why people would find stuff like Fucktoy Cory and Jigsaw Baby to be incredibly tasteless, because yes it is but that’s the entire point, this series clearly wears it extreme horror and exploitation horror inspirations on it’s sleeves and I don’t think it’s fair to measure it’s value as a horror series because it has content that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Spook’s art is obviously another huge component as to why this series is so, so, SO good and I contest that it’s not just pointless gore and shock. We are never even directly shown what the end result of any of Mona and Bill’s murders even look like, instead, we are given abstract depictions of the murders through their paintings that gives us an unnerving look into the minds of these two twisted fucks and how they view their actions and although we are given vivid descriptions of how these murders play out, we still don’t actually see them and our imaginations run wild as a result and the paintings amplify the dark implications of what happened to Mona and Bill’s victims, it also helps that these paintings are fucking HAUNTING.

I still can’t bare to look at Breeding Mount May and the picture of Mia Collins from Lighthouse for more than a few moments before getting goosebumps. The “photographs” in MEAT are equally horrific as so the implications as to why the victims were photographed rather than painted like usual, the suffering these people experienced at the hands of our two killers is so goddamn palatable despite them being clearly charcoal paintings rather than actual photos.

Despite what critics say about The Painter being “the same thing over and over again”, each addition to the series does in fact bring something new to the table in how it presents the cataloguing of Mona’s murders, there’s voice acting, music, hand drawn animation and even different mediums aside from painting are used to depict the killer’s actions such as photography and we’re even getting live action footage in the upcoming episode as well! This series has a lot of variety in its presentation which helps shake things up and prevents each addition from feeling too same and repetitive.

Also, maybe it’s just me but I love the “these are the most recently discovered murders” format in general since I’m always morbidly curious as to what wacky shenanigans our two favorite psychopaths are up to next and I’m rarely disappointed.

I also find the criticism of this series supposedly having no plot to be funny because again, this series is clearly presented as the documentation of the actions of serial killers terrorizing their community, what more do you fucking need? Are you going to critique Jeffery Dahmer for not having believable enough motivations for all of his murders while you’re at it? XD

I’m honestly not even close to done talking about why I love this series and why I feel most of the hate and discourse it gets is completely undeserved/invalid but I think I’ve said what mostly needed to be said. I really needed to get this shit off my chest, it can be hard seeing so much negativity towards something that you love to the point where I feel I’m the only one who actually sees the value it has but hey, that’s the price one pays for falling in love with true art.

Make no mistake, The Painter is super cheesy and cornball like the exploitative shock and gore horror films that inspired it but it had a genuine impact on me that I didn’t think analog horror could have and I fucking adore it for it and I genuinely believe it has more substance to it than most people think.

Don’t let others stop you from enjoying what brings you joy in this life kids, that’s the lesson here!

[craynekiller]

more FNaF hcs because the tism™️ is telling me to info dump

sorry if some of these are the same as the last one I forget which ones I put before 🙁

-When Mike was chasing after the car he tripped scraped his knee broke his ankle and busted his kneecap and just gave up on life right then and there

-Mike smokes weed but he could take the tiniest tinniest hit of a bong and he’d cough up a lung so he just mainly sticks to blunts or bowls

-Abby has called 911 multiple times because she wanted to contact Vanessa but it obviously didn’t work. 

-Vanessa used to dye her hair fun colors but she can’t anymore cuz of her job but she wears colorful extensions 

-Abby’s therapist has tried so hard to hint at Mike that he should get an autism diagnosis because his sister has one and he still hasn’t picked up on it despite showing clear traits of autism 

-When golden Freddy and Abby left the cab he just handed Cory a piece of paper with ‘one million dollars’ scribbled on it in green crayon. Cory was to scared to say no he just was like “yeah ok sure” and then cried 

-Mike and Abby did not go to Aunt Janes funeral they instead went to Dave and Busters and played arcade games while their entire extended family blew up Mikes Nokia phone

-Aunt Jane was a “wine mom” and was in heavy denial of being an alcoholic 

-Abby really likes bugs and puts them in her pockets but Mike is terrified of bugs so he freaks out whenever he sees them crawling on her or in her laundry 

-Vanessa apologizes to people while arresting them

-The animatronics consider the cupcake to be their puppy and get confused when people think he’s a menace

-One time Doug ran into Mike and Abby at Walmart once and he just threw his thick ass lawyer wallet at then then ran away to have a panic attack. Mike and Abby bought a blow up pool that day

-Doug had to go to therapy due to Aunt Jane being an absolute fucking Karen

-Doug’s now a regular at Sparkys and is besties with Ness, he considers Ness “The son he never had”

-Bonnie kid (Jeremy) really liked Spider-Man

-Vanessa has a pitbull named Princess that she took home from an animal control call. (The dog is a fucking danger to society)

-Abby picked up on some 80s slang from the animatronics and now just says radical to everything 

-Max and her friends would be doing TikTok trends before TikTok was even a thing (stealing soap dispensers from public bathrooms, sticking pennies in electrical sockets ect)

-Vanessa is a Disney adult/hj

-There’s a rubix cube in the pizzeria that the animatronics have been trying to solve since they’ve been dead basically 

-Every night after Abby goes to bed Mike goes to the kitchen and eats shredded cheese by the handful. Abby caught him once and he cried.

-Mike is the type of person to ask those weird questions while watching movies, like: “If their underwater how are they drinking soda?”

-Mike would stuff all his emotions and feelings down till he bursts and it usually results in him locking himself in his room while having a panic attack

-Max was also a weed dealer so Mikes out of a babysitter and a plug. 

-Vanessa hates soda, loves tea tho

-Mike really likes the Care Bears and uses Abby as an excuse for liking it

-Ness uses those really cheesy pet names for Mike, some of them southern originated because I believe in southern Ness solidarity. Ex: Sweetie pie, Sugar, Doe

-Abby is really good at hide and seek but caused Mike a few panic attacks because of how well she hides

-After Freddy’s neither Mike or Abby could sleep without a nightlight so she lent Mike hers on the agreement she could sleep in his room with him. (He of course accepted)

-Mike: Where’s my Diet Coke?

Vanessa: Oh I threw it away, sodas not good for you.

Mike: Oh ok- WHAT.

-Abby still asks Mike to tie her shoes for her even though he already taught her how to tie them herself

-Mike has a very particular morning routine that he has to follow every morning and feels icky if it gets interrupted for any reason 

-Mike is more noise sensitive and Abby is more texture sensitive but Mike still hates certain textures (ex: olives)

-Mike has considered owning chickens and even went with Abby to look at little chicks but she soon started sneezing and feeling sick and that's when they found out she's allergic so that quickly got shut down

-Abby gives her stuffed animals lore and hierarchies and Ness is always asking her about it when her and Mike go into the diner

-Vanessa Has a very minimalist style not because she likes it but because she's scared of getting attached to anything she calls home which at times worries her when she's with Mike, Abby and Ness. This results in her sitting in bed, chewing on her lip thinking of constant escape plans and emergency exits in case her father ever returns, if something bad happens, etc.

-Mike likes seeing Abby draw him and pretends not to notice when she stares and tries to get the color of his shirt just right (he buys clothing in colors she has to make it easier)

-Abby is the type to point out cows and horses and will repeatedly kick Mike's seat even while he's driving until he acknowledges them

-Abby doesn’t understand why her and Mike can’t just print more money to make them rich and Mike has had to explain to to her 12837383838 times

-Ness is a theater kid (yeah if you didn’t see this coming I think you need glasses)

-Ness and Mike play lps with Abby, Abby explains all of her lps lore extensively and Ness listens to every bit of it while Mike is just like: “I love you both but wtf”

-Mike sometimes age regresses sometimes when put under pressure and Ness is literally the best caretaker ever (this one’s based on a Dreamtheory fic I read once and I fell in love with the idea)

-Ness and Mike call each other every night before going to sleep and once Mike forgot so he woke up the next morning to 300+ voicemails from Ness asking if he’s ok

okay that’s all i have for now I’ll post more later when i feel like it oki byeee 😘✌️

[bunabi]

Hi bunabi dragon age I was wondering if I could ask you something I'm genuinely confused about. I wrote up a really long winded way of asking this but then realized I was being silly ansjdjd so my question is: why in IHW does solas say that it is a future that cannot happen and must be reversed? while I know he (and the others) is alluding to more than the veil coming down and that a lot of bad things happened because of corphy face BUT it also seems like a lot of the bad things are stemming from the veil being shattered. Am I just missing the importance of corypheus' role in the IHW future? Because it just doesn't make much sense to me that thedas is overrun by demons because the veil was shattered and that's bad vs solas bringing down the veil with his ritual. Why is one okay and the other isn't? Is a "shattered" veil different from one that is removed via his ritual? I know he acknowledges there will be loss and death but WHY was that not okay in the IHW future. My thoughts keep going back to corypheus destabilizing orlais and killing Celine but I don't see how a veil brought down by solas ritual doesn't also result in chaos and mayhem so again I'm just stuck here scratching my head wondering what I'm missing.

I've only played dai but I've watched a lot of gameplay for the other games. I'm fully aware that it's probably a me problem and that I'm missing something but I just genuinely can't wrap my head around this one. I would love to hear your thoughts if you have any and feel like sharing but I also know you aren't a dragon age search engine/encyclopedia so feel free to ignore if you don't care to answer! Either way i hope you and Sabine are doing well!!

My best guess is that the Venatori continued binding spirits and growing Cory's army of demons. It makes sense that Solas would mourn their enslavement -- another massive loss of his people -- and work to reverse it. That's how I rationalize it! :o

Personally speaking: I feel like IHW future isn't that far off from what would have happened. Even if I take Solas' off-screen preventative measures at face value, spirits are in deep doo-doo if the Veil drops.

Thedas is full of fear and suffering and desperation. They're drawn to death and sensitive to emotion. And not even an elven god can be in a thousand places at the same time. What's he gonna do? Create a network of wards to shield them from mortals? Bro is inventing a second Veil and doesn't even know it. 😭

[beerecordings]

I like to put old streams of Jack's on while I play games or do busy work, and collabs are my favorite. sometimes the shortened youtube videos are simply not sufficient so I organized the collabs on his twitch channel :) they are divided into sections and then the sections are chronological. I haven't watched all of these through recently so there may be some inaccuracies here and there or I may miss one or two. and of course these are mostly very old now, but I still enjoy them, so I figure this could be convenient for someone.

they are categorized into games with Evelien, games with Mark, Bob, and Wade, games with the Irish Lads, the Among Us streams (names listed), and other collabs. Have fun!

Games with Evelien

Bloodborne

Fall Guys Tournament with Evelien and friends

Ghost of Tsushima

Minecraft #1

Minecraft #2

Minecraft #3

Minecraft #4

It Takes Two #1

It Takes Two #2

It Takes Two #3

It Takes Two #4

Fall Guys with Evelien

Fall Guys with Evelien, Sykkuno, and Rae

Games with Bob, Mark, and Wade (sometimes they do the Three Peens Podcast before they start gaming)

Chatting, PUBG, and (iconic) Heave Ho

GTFO #1

GTFO #2

GTFO #3 and Snakeybus

Resident Evil Resistance and GTFO #4

Folklore Hunter and Totally Reliable

(See the Among Us section for a couple of those collabs)

Phasmophobia #1

Sign of Silence

Fall Guys with Bob and Wade

Call of Duty with Ethan, Bob, and Wade and Part 2 (stream cut off)

Phasmophobia #2 with Mark, Bob, and Wade

Games with Irish Lads

Mario Kart

Don't Starve and Scribbl.io

Uno Part 1 and Part 2 (stream cut off briefly)

Minecraft

Clue and the Game of Life

Crusader Kings

Grounded

Raft #1

Raft #2

Raft #3

Raft #4

Back4Blood

Mario Party

Among Us compiled in the Year of Our Lord 2025 (I tried to list some of the people I see in each stream but it will not be 100% accurate and I don't know everybody. some of these people I do not watch, for the record, but now if you don't like someone you can avoid that and watch the ones you do like!)

Among Us with Wade, Bob, and more

With Ethan, Felix, Corpse, Dave, Chris Melberger, Julien, and Charlie

With Wade, Bob, Mark, Ethan, and more

With Rae, Toast, Sykkuno, Felix, Ryan, Pokki, Scarra, and Charlie

With Cory Kenshin, Charlie, and more

With Courage JD, LazarBeam, Rae, and more

With Felix, Daithi, Charlie, Corpse, Dave, Cinnamon Toast Ken, and more

With Toast, Lily, Charlie, Corpse, Ken, Felix, Sykkuno, and Rae

With Sykkuno, Charlie, Scarra, Poki, Leslie, Felix, Toast, Lily, and Corpse

With PJ, Felix, Jaiden, Daithi, Corpse, Dave, and more

With Toast, Rae, Charlie, Dream (look it was four years ago), Daithi, Sykkuno, Corpse, Toast, and more

The streams with Congresswoman AOC Part 1 l Part 2

With Rae, BookeAB, Charlie, TommyInnit, Karl, Tubbo, Lazar, Vikkstar, and Courage

(proximity chat introduced around this time)

With Jaiden, Corpse, Felix, Dave, Joel, and more

With Corpse, Toast, QuarterJade, Sykkuno, Tina, Rae, John Masayoshi, Leslie, and Brooke

With Rae, BaboAbe, Natsumii/Wendy, Tina, Ludwig, Leslie, Corpse, Toast, and Sykkuno

With Tina, Corpse, Rae, Sykkuno, Leslie, Toast, and more

With Toast, Rae, Sykkuno, Corpse, Ludwig, Brooke, and more

With Brooke, Karl, Wendy, Rae, Tina, Sykkuno, Toast, Ash, and Corpse

With Toast, Brooke, 5up, Jaiden, Sykkuno, Corpse, Lily, Bretman, and Karl

With Rae, Toast, Corpse, Lily, Wendy, Sykkuno, and Janet

With Toast, Sykkuno, Corpse, Dream, Wendy, Tina, Lily, Bretman, and Jaiden

With Leslie, Toast, Poki, Courage, Bretman, Corpse, Sykkuno, Jade, and Rae

With Wendy, Rae, Leslie, hJune, Abe, Toast, Katamina/Miyoung, Tina, and Sydeon

Other Collabs

Sea of Thieves with Alice/bitofalice/pixlpit

Call of Duty with Ethan and Chris Melberger

Fall Guys with Charlie/Moist

Fall Guys with Ethan, Julien Solomita, and Chris

Party Animals with PJ, Corpse, Felix, Dave, and Joel

Apex with JackFrags

Minecraft Championship with Ethan and a big group

Also there are both of the huge Rust servers by Abe... I'm not putting all those links together but if you ever need to burn some serious time they're on there. Jack practicing Korean... Corpse gambling for hours... that moment when Ludwig asked Jack if he thought he would be a good fit to run a hotel he was making and Jack literally had a degree in hotel management... classic

[dice-sociation]

Girls Who Don’t DnD

Quick Info

Audio Quality: High-Quality Audio, Effects, Music. (Occasional fan-submitted recordings)

Vibes: Throne of Glass, Doctor Who, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Princess and the Pauper

Extras: Patreon rewards, Discord Community with Book Club, and more!

System: 5e DnD

Campaign/ Show Length: Long Term Campaign

Average Episode time: 1.5 Hours (varies a bit)

Uploads 1 episode a month. 

Diversity: Majority Women

Platforms: Podcast, Audio Only. 

Number of Episodes This Review is based on: 30+ 

** If you want the TLDR, scroll to the bottom of the post **

Why Girls Who Don’t DnD?

How often have you said to yourself, “Man, I wish I could experience that for the first time again?” While we can’t reset your brain, you can live vicariously through the Girls Who Don’t D&D podcast. 

If you're looking for a podcast with relaxed gameplay, fantastic humor, great editing, and effects, you should read on to learn more. This wonderful adventure showcases the beautiful experience of watching three girls fall in love with Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). 

Starting the Pod

The podcast starts with Cory, the Dungeon Master (DM), explaining that he has invited three girls, Indy, Alana, and Stacey, who have never played D&D, into his world of Kalee with premade characters. If you, the listener, haven’t played before, you’ll learn a lot just from listening. Cory purposely doesn’t edit out explanations of how to play. I’m confident my experience was better because I was still learning to play the game myself as I started listening.

Right from the start you will hear how much work Cory puts into editing and pre-recording. He recruits people to voice-act for non-player characters (NPCs) or to play out memories or scenes. Some additions are just for the listeners, giving us a little extra information about the lore of the world. This includes the origin of magical artifacts, gods, and sometimes an NPC’s perspective that the players don’t get to hear.  It feels like listening to an audiobook and honestly, I think “booktok” would love Girls Who Don’t DnD. 

We learn that the three player characters, Freya, Kaa'Riin, and Morrigan, have lost their memories and need to recover them. The story and the discovery of who the player characters are and what happened to them work in tandem with the players themselves learning the game in a beautiful way. 

Power gamers and hardcore strategy? We don’t need that here. (Tosses book over shoulder). This group is made of story-tellers who usually choose to progress the narrative over strategy. At first, it's like watching Without A Recipe or the British Bake Off challenge where they have no clue what they are supposed to be making. This makes it all the more special when the players get more comfortable with the gameplay and more grounded in their characters. 

About the Team

Cory, "(who owns all the books but hasn't read them)"* completely absorbs the chaos the girls bring to the table and somehow also keeps them immersed in the story. He holds onto the rules of D&D loosely, letting his players use their abilities in different and unique ways. You still get full epic fights with no pulled punches, yet they feel more cinematic than the usual D&D grind. Outside of combat, Cory introduces challenging puzzles and encounters that present more opportunities for his players to think outside the mechanics of the game.

I adore Alana, Indy, and Stacy. I have some difficulty with telling their voices apart, but I never felt like that took away from my enjoyment of the show. Over time they develop their characters and have different play styles. They all have so much personality and bring their own flavor to the table. 

Indy, playing Freya the Rogue, has to be the most classic of first-time players, starting a little hack-and-slash happy, but eventually, she gets really into the strategy of the game. Freya is a cheeky scamp of a character and Indy leans naturally into the rogue class.  

Alana, playing Morrigan the Sorcerer, is usually the most sensible of the group. She is a leader in a way. There is so much more I want to say but I can't think of anything that isn't a big spoiler. Playing a sorcerer for your first time playing D&D is never easy, but Cory was able to ease her into the role and she runs with it.

Stacey, playing Kaa'Riin the Bearbarian (Druid with some Barbarian), has some epic combat moments. She can change from one animal to another without reverting to humanoid form, which deviates from traditional Druid rules. This decision, as well as other tweaks of the rules, help the pacing of the overall production. 

And sure, you're probably thinking their whole schtick is that they don't know D&D, so wouldn't it lose its charm after they get better? Absolutely not. Not even a little bit. This table is casual, silly, charming, and gripping. They make me feel like I am with my best friends playing our chaos gremlins together. 

A special shout to Mia Stegner (https://www.miastegner.com/) who composed and performed the opening and closing songs. It’s the cherry on top of this podcast sunday.

*Referenced from the Podcast Description. https://www.girlswhodontdnd.com/ 

About the world

“There is a saying among the good people of Kalee, when you know what is right, do what is right, and then deliver it all into the endless sea” From Episode 1: Throw it Into the Sea, Aug 16, 2021.

Cory presents a world both complex and informed by the player's choices and features some of the more bizarre parts of typical High Fantasy settings. 

There is just something so satisfying about learning the characters' backstories and how their stories are expertly baked in the many-layered cake that makes the world. Flavors include; wild magic, strange and whimsical characters, Evil Queens, “timey-wimey” stuff, super cute plans, snails, Gods, magic crystals, trapped souls, and Alan (the real star of the later episodes).

Extras

There are so many Patreon perks! You get behind-the-scenes talks, recipes from Indy, DMing tips, Lana's book reviews, and more! You can also join their Discord server where Cory is pretty active and they encourage community gaming and have a book club.

TL;DR: 

This podcast is about girls learning to play D&D using premade characters with amnesia. The girls learning to play parallels the story’s progression as they regain memories. 

Reliving the experience of learning to play for the first time all over again. 

Loosely follows the rules of 5e to keep the pacing up.

DM Cory recruits people to voice act for NPCs or to play out memories or scenes. Some additions are just for the listeners, giving us a little extra information about the lore of the world.

It's a little hard to tell the girls apart, but I don’t think it takes away from my enjoyment at all. 

Wild magic, strange and whimsical characters, Evil Queens, “timey-wimey” stuff, super cute plans, snails, Gods, magic crystals, trapped souls, and Alan. 

DM Cory presents a world both complex and informed by the player's choices and features some of the more bizarre parts of typical High Fantasy settings.

Special thanks to Artax of Who's Taking Watch for helping with editing!

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[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2024-11-11

Getting into situations

Listening: New job which means I have need for a quick and easy source of music that I can throw down on any device with internet while I figure out exactly where I draw the line on mixing personal music files with corporate hardware. Hence, soma.fm, a really good family of internet radio stations that I enjoy a lot.

There's several stations here but to call out ones I like in no particular order:

Beat Blender: Slower house music and electronica

Metal Detector: What it says on the tin, mixed metals

Sonic Universe: Weird jazz

Secret Agent: Normal jazz

SF 10-33: The San Francisco emergency radio broadcast channel mixed with ambient music

Vaporwaves: Look we all have to get stupid sometime

Watching: Movie Night was also a sort of belated Diwali Night because a friend of mine has been getting extremely into indian food, so we watched "Sita Sings the Blues", an 82 minute, Creative Commons, mostly one-woman animation project that is a retelling of the Ramayana and also a breakup jukebox jazz musical.

There's about 30 minutes of a decent movie in here and another 15-20 minutes of the breakup part that would be hard to cut since it's the reason it exists. It's an animation from 2008 and you can see that it's exactly what it needs to be to run on one person who knows Flash reasonably well. The "blues" part is because there's numerous musical segments that use pre-existing 1920's jazz numbers to set the tone which reportedly cost the author tens of thousands of dollars to license, and she's now a free culture advocate so this is how you get Cory Doctorows I guess.

Is it good? I mean there's some really good parts. The legend is delivered in the form of three shadow puppets half-remembering the story to put it together which is very endearing in a Bill Wurtz History Of Japan kind of way. The amount of effort on display for 2008 is enormous. The concept is impressive, in that you found all these songs, but you could have probably cut the songs and got this down to a tight 40.

Reading: Work! Documentation! Learning so much about [REDACTED]. Very weird not working in an open source company again.

Also started The Book of All Skies on the metro the other day, and have gotten to the end of the first act. Compelling! Love an Egan, one of very few authors who can put a topology lesson into a book without it sucking ass.

Making: Made Gulab Jamun for movie night. From spreading my diwali cooking over more than three days I'm learning that actually this shit is easy if you don't try to cram it all into three days. I should make this stuff more often.

Playing: Poking and fiddling with things a little. Still not in the headspace to pick up a full game again. Once I have a schedule I can get back into video games but when I don't have a schedule that includes video games.

Tools and Equipment: Keyd is the new-ish hotness for client-side remapping of keyboard keys. It's not quite a custom build, but it's close.

Allows you to get 99% of the way to whatever zany custom mapping you want under Linux with fairly universal coverage and minimal faff in a very compact and manageable package.

[malicedragoness]

Cori x Havik Soft Asks

@crowsnhoes sent in an ask quite a while ago. I’ve only finished 1/3 of the soft asks, and might as well post what I’ve done so far.

MK story tag list: @bihanspookies

#7- Write about one member of your ship asking the other to dance with them.

Word count: 605

Warnings: mentions of death, Seido’s flooding.

~*~*~*~*~

Havik sat on the sidelines as he watched the revelry unfold.

It’s been weeks since the capital of Seido was plunged into the watery abyss. The hierarchy and upper castes were gone. Drowned in the cold depths, their corpses now food for the creatures that lurked beneath the surface. And with them went their riches. Riches that are now useless in this new world of his. A world he helped shape in blessed anarchy.

The lower castes, slaves to all of those deemed above them, now run rampant.

Free.

Free to live the life that was denied to them for so long. Everything finally came to fruition.

The rebel watched as the mansion of his former master burned. The fiery blaze lighting up the velvet sky, the heat of the flames chasing away the chills crawling up his spine.

The free people of Seido danced around the flames. Some by themselves, others with their partner. Hoots and hollers mixed with the sound of the flutes and drums being played.

A soft, dainty hand curled around his armored one. The smell of pomegranate and jasmines tickled his nose. His little thief rested her head against his shoulder. After weeks apart, he finally got her back. And he’ll be damned if he let her go again.

“They all look so happy.” Cori watched as they danced to the music.

Havik loved her accent. He missed waking up to that beautiful Vecillian lilt and smiling face.

His hand tightened around hers. “They’re finally free.”

“They’re free because you did that for them.” Cori turned her emerald gaze to him, eyes shining with adoration.

Havik couldn’t count how many times he’s been lost in those shiny green depths. Drawing him in with promises of affection and mischief.

Havik let go of her hand and began to work on the worn leather straps of his armor.

“Havik?” Cori quirked an eyebrow at him. “What are you doing?”

The pauldrons slumped to the ground with a heavy thunk. The sinewy muscles of his cheeks lifted up in what he could manage of a smile, as he watched her drink in the sight of his bare chest.

His gauntlet came off next, then the leather rerebrace, the faulds, and finally the purple silk. Until he stood before her in nothing but his pants. Each piece he removed, felt like another chain breaking, freeing him from the ghosts of his past.

Havik stretched out a scarred hand to her, mirth shining in his eyes. “Dance with me.”

Cori’s eyes widened in disbelief.

“What?” A smirk tugging at the corners of her lips. “You never want to dance with me.”

His jaw clacked as he let out a dry chuckle.

Anytime she wanted to dance, Havik would simply stand there with a disgruntled face, and let her puppeteer his arms while she danced around him. Not putting forth any effort to dance with her, but also not denying her wishes.

“I never had a reason to. Nor the desire.” He pulls her close. “Stand on my feet.”

Cori’s smile widens. She kicks off her boots and carefully tiptoes on his feet, his strong arms wrapping around her. A satisfied groan escapes his throat as her soft curves press against him, and she laid her head on his broad chest.

Gently, he swayed their bodies to the music, his chin resting atop her soft locks. Lost in their own world.

“People dance when they’re happy. Before this, I didn’t have anything to make me happy. To make me dance.” Havik murmured amidst the chaos around them. His arms tightened around her. “Now, I do.”

[oiladgivememoney99]

Newscapepro SCP Rewrite Season 2: Watched by a Hawk

“Hoop, I really don’t see why I gotta do this,” Cory, as was his usual mood while being made to do something when he would rather be sitting around eating double his body weight complained. “I can hit most of my shots, y’know? And it’s usually Scott with his cool HID thingy that does most of the work,”

“That ain’t no excuse to skimp out on firearm trainin’,” Hooper shook his head in abject disappointment as he basically dragged the private through the halls of the facility. “I saw ya miss about 18 shots on those tentacles back there in a row. You need to get your aim down pat,”

“Jeez, no need to remind me,” Cory grumbled and pouted under his breath. “But do we really have to do it now? I was gonna have the best nap ever, and then play with The Tickle Monster!”

“You can do that later,” Hooper said as the two men entered the firing range. It was a large, wooden room with two halves separated by a wall with a bunch of large openings for someone to shoot through, on the other side was a line of targets, all of which were painted to look like various creatures and Skips, mainly instances of 008.

There were a few other MTF in there, all standing around, aiming and shooting their guns into the targets. Hooper handed Cory an assault rifle and motioned towards the wall.

“Now, aim for the zombie and take your best shot at it,”

Cory let in a deep breath and let out a shallow one. “Alright, I can do this. I’ve been shooting things since I first got here, I can do this,” Cory hyped himself up as he walked towards one of the openings in the wall. He readied himself, held the gun with both hands, aimed at the target and then-

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG…

…

“Uhhh, three out of twenty’s fine, right?” Cory looked around the entire firing range, he saw a couple guards let out a snicker. Hooper glared at them, and they quickly went back to what they were doing. Hooper then put his hand on Cory’s shoulder. “It ain’t, Cory,”

“Awww…” Cory pouted.

“Now, lemme help ya,” Hooper said as he put his hands on the Private, causing the camera faced man to blush as the Corporal moved his arms around-

“Now, move your hand hear, grip the barrel like this,” Hooper said as he bent down to guide Cory’s legs. “Stand like this, so the recoil don’t completely fuck up your grip,”

“Y-Yeah, yeah mhm…” Cory mumbled and nodded energetically as Hooper continued to help him stance himself properly… and though he couldn’t tell, Hooper was also blushing.

“There,” The Corporal stepped back. “Now keep your aim steady, and hit the target,”

Cory nodded, and tried once again…

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

“…Well, ya did better than last time,” Hooper shrugged.

“Hell yeah!” Cory cheered. “Eleven outta twenty, that’s above half, an almost passing grade!”

“I got a feelin’ you’re used to those,” Hooper chuckled, Cory gasped in shock and pouted.

“Ugh, you’re such a meanie, I’m gonna go play with 999,” Cory crossed his arms as he stomped out of the firing range. “Bye Hoop!”

Hooper sighed, then let out a small chuckle. “See ya, Cor,”

And Cory proceeded to do just that, or, he would’ve if the hallways of this stupid facility weren’t so dumb and confusing. So dumb and confusing that Cory ended up going in the complete wrong direction and bumping straight into-

“Oh jeez, sorry for bumping into you, Dr. P,” Cory groaned in pain as he crashed into the frail old man… okay well maybe not frail, but he was still pretty old.

“You should be, you’ve been working here for at least six months!” Dr. Patience yelped. “What were you doing here anyway? I thought you’d be eating lunch by now,”

“Well… I was gonna, but I decided that playing with the Tickle Monster was more important!” Cory put his hands on his hips and nodded proudly. “So I was gonna go to his room,”

“Oh, he’s not in his containment chamber right now,” Dr. Patience explained, Cory’s face dropped for a moment. “I was doing an experiment on him, I wanted to see how he’d react to the consumption of a carbonated drink, like this Pepsi,” The scientist said as he pulled out the glass bottle of the carbonated drink from his pocket.

“Would that much sugar be good for him?”

“His diet consists entirely of candy!” Dr. Patience exclaimed. “I’m more curious to see how he reacts to the carbonation,”

“So is he in your lab?” Cory asked, not acknowledging a word of what Patience just said.

The doctor sighed. “Yes, Cory, he’s in my lab. You can play with him once my experiment is done,”

“Yay!” Cory cheered, throwing up his arms. Cory then proceeded to bolt down the halls and towards Dr. Patience’s lab. The doctor sighed and elected to walk towards his lab like a normal person…

---

“What’s going on here!?”

That’s the first thing Dr. Patience heard as he entered his own lab, Cory yelling at the two guards very roughly picking up SCP 999. He then saw an aged, sickly Flooper, barely standing on his own two legs being supported by Otis, looking at the blob of orange slime hatefully.

“Yeah, I’m about to do an experiment on that Skip, why are you taking it?” Patience yelped.

“Because this Foundation has been falling apart for too long!” Otis shouted. “And Flooper over here is not in any state to lead it,” He grimaced at the old man, barely holding it together.

“Falling apart? This place is pretty stable last I checked-”

Otis interrupted Cory with a shout. “Nein! Anomalies like this… creature have been allowed to wander freely amongst us humans for years. It’s a danger to the very core of this organisation!”

“He’s harmless,” Cory shrugged, looking concernedly at the blob of orange slime, who let out a saddened cooing sound.

“One day it won’t be,” Otis grimaced. “We should be containing these things,”

“We are, but we’re also meant to be protecting them!” Dr. Patience let out another yelp. “Cory’s right, 999 hasn’t hurt a fly since he got here,”

“You’ve been letting these anomalies run rampant too, your ‘assistant’ will be decommissioned once I assume my role as Site Director here,” Otis grimaced as he stared down at the person made of Lego™ bricks, standing near a drawer looking like he had just been caught trying to hide. “You’re lucky we don’t demote you to a D-Class for letting this thing run loose!”

“What!? Bricky’s been nothing but helpful-”

“And another thing, we’ve been letting an anomaly run in the outside world for far too long,” Otis grimaced.

Cory shook his head. “You’re going crazy, Otis, who are you even talking about-”

“You! You are an anomaly. Your camera face is a threat to the entire fabric of the world!” Otis yelled. “Guards, keep him here while I find a containment cell for it. Dr. Patience, leave and get back to work!”

The security guards pointed their guns at Cory, who held his hands up in surrender.

“Wh-What…?”

[spritehouse]

one of 187 sys' teens & luke interactions because he would be so good to them

struggling a little rn ourselves so we might be a little quieter than usual

Luke finds his partner lying on the floor of their living room when he gets up, sprawled across the carpet as he stares at the ceiling, bathed in the golden light of the rising sun, still, like a picture, save for the steady rise and fall of his chest.

“Okay,” The older brunette sighs softly, sitting on the floor beside him, letting Spencer’s head rest in his lap, gently playing with his hair. “Spencer?”

They shake their head, tilting their chin to look up at Luke, lips moving silently, searching for their words.

“Can I keep guessing?” They nod, leaning into their boyfriend’s soft touch with a hum. “You like touch, so you’re not Alex or Vic… Are you young?” They hesitate, chewing their bottom lip, something universal to most of the system, body otherwise still and unreadable. “Not a kid; maybe a teen?”

They nod.

“Okay… Cori?”

No.

“Maya?”

No.

Luke pauses, mentally revisiting the list his partner gave him.

“Ollie?”

They hesitate again, eyes darting left to right, almost like they’re reading, before nodding tentatively.

“Hi, Ollie. How’re you doing?” He shrugs, reaching up to take Luke’s hand, fidgeting with his fingers. “Did something trigger you?”

He shrugs again, then pauses, shaking his head.

“You woke up fronting?” He nods. “That must’ve been disorienting; sorry, I wasn’t awake to help.”

“‘S fine,” Ollie’s voice is soft, shyer than Spencer’s, with an edge of innocence that their older alters don’t have but still unmistakably young. “Didn’t wanna wake you.”

“You could’ve,” Luke reminds him. “I’m here for all of you. Whatever you need, remember?”

He nods, lips quirking into a slight smile, before sitting up.

“Can we watch a show?”

“Of course,” The older brunette grins, ruffling Ollie’s hair as he stands up. “Why don’t you pick something out while I call Emily and tell her we won’t be in today?”

“But I could still work! I can be an adult–!” Panic flashes across his face, eyes widening at the prospect of missing work.

“I know you can, kid, but you don’t need to; we all deserve a break,” Luke assures him. “I’ll have her call us if there’s a case, but otherwise, we won’t have anything to do, and you’d get bored. Besides, doesn’t spending the day doing nothing but eating takeout and watching Dr. Who with me sound so much better?”

idk how to end this

[forthedancingandthethriving]

Tis ANOTHER collection of incorrect quotes

Tulip: I’m gonna mix a can of Red Bull with seventeen shots of espresso in a fishbowl and then chug it while Kids by MGMT plays in the background so I can perceive twenty-three spatial dimensions and fight my own soul.

Juliano, already removing every potential hazard in the vicinity: How about you don't?

----

Lily: But when all hope seemed lost, I had an epiphany!

Lily, earlier: I'm going to throw myself into the sea.

----

SMG3: What’s that off in the distance? Could it be? It is! My last damn, disappearing over the horizon. Be free, my old friend… be free…

SMG4: 3, hun, I literally JUST asked you to be nicer to Boopkins.

----

Lil Coding: And that's when it hit me. The best idea I ever had!

*After everything goes to shit*

Lily, glaring at Lil Coding: That was the worst idea you've ever had!

----

Morris: You played me like a damn fiddle!

Root: You're wrong. A fiddle is beautiful and difficult to play. I played you like the cheap kazoo you are.

----

Cody: LC, I am questioning your sanity... 

Sage: I never questioned it, I knew his sanity was missing from the start.

----

Cody: I always wondered how a living person could kill another living person.

Cody: And then my siblings got threatened and I was like "oh okay!"

----

Root: I'm friends with this family for the same reason people visit the zoo.

Root: Oh! Shh, look at that!

Root: *turns to watch a screaming Mario chase a screaming Luigi*

Root: Nature is amazing.

----

Cory: I'm six, so I get six cookies!

Cody: Cory, bub, that's now how it works-

Lil Coding: *pocketing 12 cookies*

----

Cody: What did you guys get in your yearbook?

Lily: 'Prettiest smile'.

Root: 'Nicest personality'.

Lil Coding: 'Most likely to start a bar fight'.

Bowser Jr: 'Least likely to start a bar fight, but most likely to win one'.

----

*The Crew right before Domain&Forum's wedding (potentially idk lol)*

SMG4: Well, we have to go, we have a wedding to attend.

Abyssal: Wait... Oh! I have a wedding to attend too!

Mario: Oh, I have a wedding to attend as well.

Umbra: I THINK WE ALL HAVE A WEDDING TO ATTEND!

Vitality: I THINK I HAVE A WEDDING TO OFFICIATE!!

----

Meggy: Where's the other kids?

Welony: They're playing hide and seek.

Meggy: Where?

Welony: I don't think you get how this game works.

----

Luigi: How late were you up last night?

SMG34 & SMG3, in tandem: Me?

Luigi: No, not you two. You stay up late all the time.

Luigi, to Mario: You.

----

Buffer: CPU was sitting next to me during the meeting today and offered me a sip of hisbdrink because I mentioned that I was thirsty...

Buffer: I was not fucking expecting to take a sip of vodka cranberry at 9am.

----

Forum: God, you’re so clingy.

Domain: YOU came to MY USB?!

----

Buffer: CPU, I need a gun, but you can't ask why I need it.

CPU: As long as you don't ask how I've gained all these.

Buffer: Deal.

CPU: *sets 20 different guns on the table*

Buffer: ..

CPU: ..

Buffer: *points at one* That one will do.

CPU: Good choice.

----

Tari: Why are you still drinking? It’s 10 in the morning.

Bob: I know how bad this is gonna feel when I sober up, so I'm just gonna keep drinking a little bit.

----

Lil Coding: Boil up some Mountain Dew. It's gonna be a long night.

Sage: You could have said anything else.

Lily: Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble, baja blast to fuel my trouble.

----

Lil Coding: Lily suggested the idea of putting me on a child's leash, and I think everyone honestly considered it.

----

Umbra: You didn't happen to bring any coffee, did you?

Abyssal, handing him a thermos: Milk and sugar.

Umbra: Oh, awesome. You're a lifesaver.

Umbra: *drinks it*

Umbra: Wait, is this just milk and sugar?

Abyssal: That's what I said.

----

Root: How petty can you get?

SMG3: I once edited a Wikipedia article to win an argument I was wrong about.

[al-melon]

JUST GOT BACK FROM THE FNAF MOVIE

SPOILERS AND SCREAMING UNDER THE CUT

FIRST OF ALL i just wanna take a second to say the absolute JOY and UNFILTERED SEROTONIN i felt when the living tombstone's fnaf 1 song started playing during the credits is a high i will ride for the rest of my life. let ALONE the fact that almost everyone in the theater immediately started singing along. everyone in that theater i love you.

second of all i cannot fucking believe scott had the fucking AUDACITY to JUMPSCARE us with BALLOON BOY of ALL fucking wretched little bitches. not once, not twice, THREE FUCKING TIMES.

so angry. well played, scott.

i was so happy we got brief cameos from matpat AND coryxkenshin! i was so happy for cory especially. was really hoping for a dawko cameo too, but hopefully we'll get one next time!

i also wanna mention that i never would've guessed that we'd get a scene of the animatronics behaving like kids!!! it was SO cute to see them play with abby and be silly, i never knew i needed that so badly until now. i'm not joking, literally half of my theater went "awwwww..." when abby drew the heart and gave it to bonnie, and then bonnie turned to show it to the others 🥺 i wanna hug them all so badly now... they're so CUTE. they're my babies now if mike won't go back I WILL

i'm sure this makes me a terrible person, but one of the things i was hoping so desperately for was that we would get to WATCH WILLIAM DIE, and i am SO happy that they made it as brutal and painful as possible. the satisfaction i felt as the animatronics dragged a squirming, slowly dying william away to suffer and the kids getting their revenge was worth the 8 year wait. i also now understand why matthew lillard was like "can we even show this" LMAO that shit was brutal and i'm almost shocked they kept it in while keeping a pg-13 rating.

i love that they kept foxy singing to himself, and i KNEW the second that dude stepped into the closet bonnie would be there and i was ECSTATIC when he flipped on the light and i was right. predictable sure but who cares honestly, it was amazing!

i also can't believe sparky really WAS in parts and service. i'm so fucking done with you, scott. fucking sparky. at least i ASSUME that's who the dog character was, unless it was a reference to fetch, which would be way less cool.

will say i was fucking THROWN by vanessa being william's daughter. um scuse me? what about elizabeth? is she not canon to the movies? guess we'll find out lol. i was also really hoping we would've at least gotten a HINT of the puppet, but i guess the puppet being in the fnaf 1 location the whole time really wouldn't work in this scenario. seeing as she was supposed to be the only one truly aware, it definitely wouldn't have worked as well. hope we see her next time!

overall i give the movie a 9.5/10! my only complaint is i feel like there wasn't QUITE enough scary stuff. another ten or so minutes of horror would've done wonders, i think. this is a day one dvd buy for sure! can't wait to see what extra features the dvd will come with, and i hope it comes with commentary <3

[supercantaloupe]

don giovanni at wolf trap opera! this is long <3

right to the top of my list of don giovanni productions! while it does not take the place of my absolute favorite this was a REALLY solid production that i THOROUGHLY enjoyed; it might just be my new second place! desperately wish it was recorded for streaming or at the very least not a one-night-only performance but alas, at least i get to feel special about having been able to see it at all. director john de los santos you will always be famous to ME

the orchestra was definitely lacking some of the Oomph i really love in a good live performance but i think this is purely do to the acoustics of the theater being open air rather than the fault of like. the orchestra themselves. i thought they did a good job other than a couple of points when they were a little bit out of sync with the singers. great mandolin solo in deh vieni!

vocally speaking i thought ottavio (lunga eric hallam) and anna (renee richardson) were the standouts but everyone in the cast was very well suited to their roles. don giovanni (cory mcgee) was great but i am just personally not as into deh vieni being sung with That Much vibrato and grandeur behind it (i prefer it to sound more intimate) but that's me picking nits here

okay leporello is always gay in my heart but this is easily the most OVERTLY gay i've seen him yet. dramatic af. limp wristing everywhere. you can absolutely see why he follows the don around despite the Everything Else; he's obviously in love. it was pretty neat to see that played as obviously as it was for once!

definitely these are not MY versions of the characters exactly; leporello is a bit too "willing/enjoying the don's shenanigans", elvira a bit too bitchy, etc for my own personal interpretations of them. HOWEVER the production really COMMITTED to its characterization and i respect that. even if my own interpretations are a bit different, it was easy to follow along and still like the characters as they were presented. so kudos for that!

they made the don so. flamboyant is not exactly the right term for it because he wears mostly black with a bit of gold/dark purple accents throughout the show. but. there was a very strong Energy to him. the slightly silly mustache. the eyeshadow. the dangly earrings and sparkly necklace. the see-thru lacy black shirt. the way he moves like a dancer. being SHIRTLESS in the lass scene, possibly with glitter on his bare chest. Mother Fucker. absolutely captivating to watch. i hate him and i'm obsessed

this also has to be the FUNNIEST production i've yet to see; possibly this is due to it being the first production i've seen live in the theater surrounded by an audience, which i think always heightens the energy as compared to watching a video at home or even in a cinema, but regardless this was a really funny production of don giovanni. i'm a big fan; don giovanni IS a dramma giocoso, and i think a LOT of productions these days tend to forget that it's supposed to be at least kind of funny here and there. it should still be dramatic and emotional at times, yes, but you can (and should) strike a balance. and while this production was perhaps slightly less emotional than others, it was really funny in a way i haven't seen before in don giovanni, which thrilled me.

a lot of it came down to little acting choices (blocking, gestures, tone of voice, etc; elvira threw a lot of shit across the stage in anger in this. good for her), some of it on creative liberty with the translation (eg. elvira calling the don a straight up jackass and bastard at Multiple Points lol), and a couple of tiny additions that amused me. there were SO many little moments that amused me.

i'd say the biggest thing that disappointed me with this production was the number of cuts they made. it seems like they were working with a very strict deadline of "final curtain at 11pm sharp" (to their credit, the show ended At 11pm Sharp) and decided to trim some bits deemed the most inessential for that reason. with that in mind i think the choices they made make Sense, but it's still kind of disappointing when you're expecting a particular aria and it never shows up, or if you're a weirdo like me who basically has the score memorized at this point and you're like "wait a minute there's supposed to be more recit here". the show started at 8pm but it was originally scheduled for a downbeat at 7:30; i'm not sure what the reason for the change is, but i can't help but wonder if those cuts wouldn't have been made if they'd had those thirty extra minutes to work with.

at any rate, if this production ever got revived (either here or somewhere else, ideally without cuts), i would be THRILLED to see it again, and heartily recommend it to anyone else who's even remotely interested. cuts aside (and really that's my only big criticism of the entire production) it was a FANTASTIC experience and i LOVED going to see it so so much <3

also final note on the venue. glad i brought my little handheld fan because an open air theater in virginia in august is STIFLING lol. that heat and humidity really lingers after sundown! but the seats were SURPRISINGLY comfortable for the three hours, moreso than a lot of, like, proper theaters i've been to lmao.

[king-of-tragedy]

Things The Whole Theater Did While Watching The FNAF Movie *SPOILERS*

-(Bonus) grinned when I saw other people cosplaying. One of the movie theater workers was wearing a Freddy Fazbear once, and I got to have a nice conversation with her, where she admitted she had been late for work because she was watching the FNAF movie. There was a fellow with a purple shirt and paper golden badge that I did that little single upwards nod to as we crossed paths to the theater. A lot of people seemed to like my Puppet cosplay which made me feel nice

-Groaned collectively when an extra trailer played after we all thought we were done with them

-Proceeded to heckle the trailer because it was terrible and we wanted to watch the FNAF movie

-Went dead silent during the opening credits

-Among us references rippling through the theater as the guy went through the vents

-Laughed at the lawyer guy because he was great

-Expressed delight and amusement by Balloon Boy

-Surprise scream, then applauded at MatPat. Screamed/applauded even louder when he said the line

-Heckled Jeff

-Pointed out Sparky

-Sung Foxy's dumdedumdum song before he attacked, then cheered/laughed when he actually started singing it

-Collectively screamed (not in unison) "WAS THAT THE BITE OF '87!!?!?!?" when Max got bitten in half by Freddy

-"but Vanessa, I'm...a material gorl"

-died of cuteness when Abby placed the heart drawing in Bonnie's hand

-Screamed when we saw Golden Freddy

-Several mentions of Sans Undertale while seeing Golden Freddy, including me, who sang the opening bit of Megalovania

-Screamed/clapped extremely loudly when Cory showed up. Even louder when he came back

-Extrodinarily loud cheer/applause when William Afton was mentioned...the second loudest this theater got

-It got even louder when the Springlocks activated

-The loudest fucking screaming/cheering/clapping ever when Afton said "I always come back"

-Screaming our hearts out when The Living Tombstone played for the end credits...legitimately never felt more connected with a community than aggressively dancing and singing Five Nights at Freddy's with literal strangers

-Loudly groaned and seethed when there were no end credits featuring Markiplier...the most disappointing thing was that Mark wasn't in it (though we understood why)

-Shushed everyone and went dead silent so we could hear the speak-n-spell letters

[oceangirl24]

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Shawn's expectations for gifts for himself were not high. He really didn't expect much after all Jon and Audrey had done for him. Anything would make him happy.

When he opened his first gift from them, he was stunned. It was the pair of Rollerblades he'd been eyeing at the Franklin Mills Mall every time he and Cory went there to hang out. He wasn't even aware that Jon or Audrey knew he wanted these exact ones. And he felt his expression of gratitude was inadequate.

The rollerblades were just the start and every gift he unwrapped brought him closer to tears. He never mentioned any of the stuff he received and yet they'd somehow managed to get him exactly what he would have bought for himself if he had the money:

CDs from his favorite bands, Sony MDR-V6 headphones, and gift certificates to clothing stores at the mall.

Shawn smiled. He appreciated being able to pick out his own clothes although he had no doubt Audrey and Jon would have done a better job putting together a wardrobe for him than Mrs. Matthews.

He still had nightmares about that yellow hoodie.

The last gift was a stack of four hardback books and a set of writing pens. The books were all blank inside.

He looked up at Jon and Audrey quizzically.

"Jon noticed that you do a lot of writing," Audrey said.

"Yeah, I do," Shawn looked at Jon. His expression flickered between pleased and confused. "How did you know I was writin' and not drawin'?"

"Aside from the Welfare poem your stuff for my class is pretty good. Writin' seemed like somethin' you were into," Jon shrugged. "I dunno. You just looked like that's what you're doin'."

"Yeah, I kinda like it. Sounds weird comin' from me though, huh?"

Jon shook his head. "Not really. Everyone needs an outlet. Writin's not so unusual."

Shawn sat back on his heels with a look of contemplation on his face. "How did you know, though? I don't sit around on the couch doin' it."

"Yeah, I know. Sometimes I walk by your room and see you on the bed with a notebook. You sure aren't doin' homework 'cause you're obviously interested in what you're doin'."

Shawn smiled.

"And sometimes, I get really thoughtful responses from you in class, particularly when poetry comes up."

"You never asked to see what I was doin'."

"It seemed personal."

"It is. But I have some stuff I could show you." Shawn bit his lip to stop himself from getting too excited. He'd been wanting to share his work with Jon for a while but was unsure if his teacher would be into it. "I mean if you're interested."

"I am, Shawn," Jon smiled, relieved that the teen was open to letting him into his world. "I really am."

"Cool," Shawn ducked his head. He was secretively pleased that Jon wanted to see his stuff. He'd have to find a few of his best poems for his teacher. He looked up again and said, "Thanks, Jon. I really needed some new ones."

"I noticed that too." Jon could tell this offer of vulnerability was overwhelming his charge, so he said flippantly, "Now stop stealin' supplies from my desk at school."

Shawn laughed as he turned one of the journals over in his hands. "Yeah sure."

As the video played, Jon understood why Shawn had been insistent on hauling around the video camera from school wherever he could-he'd been documenting the entire month of December. He sat quietly watching the tape, leaning forward on the edge of the couch with his hand over his mouth.

At one point Audrey looked over at him and saw that tears were shining in his eyes. She reached over to him and took his hand. It was a lengthy film and they watched it all the way through. When it was over, Jon reached over to Shawn and guided him to sit between them.

"Best gift I've ever gotten, Shawn," he said quietly.

"Really?" Shawn had never seen his teacher this teary-eyed like this before.

"Uh-huh."

"That was amazing, Shawn," Audrey told him. "You've got such a talent with the camera. I love it so much."

Shawn couldn't hide his pride. He was relieved and pleased that they were so happy with it.

"Shawn," Jon asked. "When did you find time to do this?"

Shawn smiled. "You know those times I went to Cory's the last couple of weeks?"

Jon and Audrey nodded.

"Well, actually Mr. Matthews was dropping us off at school and Mr. Williams let us use the film editing department."

"We had no idea," Audrey laughed.

"Good!" Shawn exclaimed. "You weren't supposed to."

"I'm so glad you thought to film everythin'," Jon said. "It didn't even occur to me to take pictures."

"Oh, I did a lot of that, too," he told them. He jumped up and grabbed the ancient camera that Mr. Matthews had let him borrow.

Jon gave Audrey a sly look and she smirked back at him.

"You think we should give him his last present?" he asked her.

"Seems like the right time," she said, pointing to a box under the tree that Shawn had somehow missed seeing.

"You guys really didn't have to get me anythin' else. Like really. This," he motioned to the room. "is more than enough."

"Tough, kid," Jon joked. "Open the box."

Shawn smiled and sat down to open the last gift. He tore the paper off and stopped. He stared at the box beneath the paper.

No way it was what it said it was on the box.

It had to be a joke and there was something else inside. No way was there really a Canon Rebel S 35mm SLR camera in that box.

But there was.

Shawn was stunned. It was the most beautiful camera he'd ever seen. And it was his.

All his.

No more borrowing twenty-year-old cameras that took grainy pictures.

Audrey leaned against Jon, took his hand, and interlaced her fingers with his as they watched the wonderment on Shawn's face as he examined the gift. The teen finally turned to them with tears in his eyes. He was speechless and the only thing he could do was to hug them as tightly as possible.

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