#went a little uhhhh symbolic with this one

[eidingate]

Roevember Day 6: Storm

Excerpt from a letter to a little sister: What does it say about me, that every person I have ever truly fallen for has carried a shield? Do I look at them and see a shelter in the storm? I cannot shake the feeling that I've never seen a shield that could not be broken.

[hollythius]

IT’S A SYMBOL OF OUR FRIENDSHIP! | secret relationship headcannons

featuring | alhaitam, kaveh, tighnari, childe

prompt | as secret lovers, your favorite pastime is buying incognito matching items for you and your partner. but after so many grandiose, lovingly picked items start to alert your friends— well, what do you say?

tldr | i love secret relationship tropes 🫶 especially when it’s by choice and not necessity. reader is gn, i tried to be funny (it didn’t work), help i cant write any of these characters, uhh enjoy!! reblogs help btw! this got way off topic, uhhhh i’m having fun with these hehe

ALHAITAM — matching rings

the great sage was rarely fond of people, and even rarer was when he purposefully went out of his way to do something for another person. thus, after you had gotten over the initial shock of his confession— wham! he had pulled you aside to hand you a box that held matching rings. you almost fainted, the insanity of your precious haitham not understanding the implications of such jewelry threw you for a loop. however, you accepted it as a sort of promise ring, the silver band wrapped with green, vine-like markings. kaveh was the first to notice. “what’s that you’ve got there?” he smirked. his pointer finger directed at alhaitam’s middle finger where the ring rested. “oh, and what’s this? y/n has one too? oh my!” and alhaitam, sweet, red faced alhaitam, simply said, “it’s a gesture of our friendship!” you shook your head, smiling. kaveh laughed. you knew he was starting to suspect you anyway.

KAVEH — matching earrings

having your boyfriend’s roommate intrude on the two of you was rare, but that didn’t mean it didn’t happen. you were beginning to think it was on purpose— alhaitam was smart, and it wouldn’t take a genius to realize your relationship. (especially with how affectionate kaveh was sometimes) “y/n, help me put them in,” kaveh whines. “hold on, kaveh. here,” you finished putting your own earrings in, before coming over to kaveh. you press a kiss to his temple, which leads to him kissing your wrist— soon the earrings are left forgotten on the vanity and your collective priority is to kiss each other to death. these ministrations hold your attention so tightly that you don’t hear the knock at the door. or the ‘i’m coming in’ from alhaitham. well, he was bound to find out one way or another.

TIGHNARI — matching bracelets

tighnari’s tongue stuck out a little when he was focused— a cute habit of his that you had yet to comment on. now, he was focused on latching a clasp on a bracelet he had bought you. on his wrist was a matching one: gold and green with incredible luster. he was struggling. “need help, nari?” you ask, giggling. “no. m’fine.” he was certainly not fine, with how long it was taking him. “you’re so cute,” you say softly, tighnari looking up at you annoyed. “and?” you laugh again, the clasp on your bracelet still not closed. you kiss the top of his head, chuckling. “i think you need some help, hon.”

CHILDE — matching scarves

the chilly weather of snezhnaya warranted thick coats, long bottoms, and heavy boots. hats or earmuffs were common, but scarves were practically a staple fashion item. they could be worn multiple ways, styled impeccably, and still keep you warm. so when childe gifted you a red scarf that perfectly matched his own, you melted. “is this for me?” you whispered, childe chuckling at the awe in your tone. “uh-huh. look, it matches mine! and red’s a common color here, so it doesn’t look suspicious,” he said. but the real test would be when he was out in public. the red on his face could easily be explained away as from the cold, but you knew that the rosy tint was him blushing. you buried your face in your own scarf, embarrassed. childe just thought it made you look cuter.

[asherlockstudy]

A funny coincidence was that yesterday I rewatched the gmmore episode where Rhett explains what his tattoo means, because I didn’t remember it at all, and now today they were talking about doing more!

Aside from Link “Freud” Neal emerging when Rhett said he would get a little door as a tattoo, let’s say a few things about their tattoos.

Apparently Link is in the process of getting all his favourite beings tattooed on him. Lily, Lincoln, Jade and now he’s made an appointment for the next one, however he hasn’t decided what it is going to be yet! I suppose it’s probably not Lando yet, he already has Christy on his butt cheek, so could it be Jasper? Or even Rhett? Would he? I believe he would but I am confused by him having made an appointment without knowing what to get. Unless he wasn’t entirely sincere or it’s going to be something about him only.

But the main point of the post is Rhett’s tattoo. Rhett has gotten the Voyager 1 prob. This is a symbolism of his own life and identity. The Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, the year of Rhett’s birth. Voyager entered outer space in 2012, which Rhett clarified was the year he started leaving the religion.

That’s interesting because apparently the origins of Rhett’s deviation from religion are quite definite, meaning he has a clear picture of when exactly it started, and probably why. Incidentally, or not so incidentally, Good Mythical Morning started in January 2012. How coincidental is this really? Rhett and Link moved to California in 2011 and even though they made multiple projects in NC prior to that, apparently it was GMM and California as a migration that was freeing for their minds and feelings, because they were now far from the society and the family members who would object the most to their spiritual concerns. And then of course GMM required daily a lot of interaction between the two, unlike former projects for which they would meet like once a week. These two circumstances together intensified and accelerated their questioning of religion and everything that came with it for them…

The Voyager’s satellite is turned into a vinyl disc on Rhett’s tattoo, obviously signifying both the golden disc on which astronomers recorded information about the human species but also Rhett’s love for music. It was funny though that Rhett asked Link to describe the parts of a vinyl player as designed on the tattoo as “Link is the record guy” 👀

The satellite and vinyl record is also an atom with participles orbiting around it. Outside the disc more orbits and dots symbolise planets this time. I suppose those signify Rhett’s loved ones, some near him (atomic scale) and some far away (space scale). Then there is also a pulsar design down there which I don’t know if it has any symbolism or it’s just for the aesthetics.

Link was a little moody that day but in any case the two points in Rhett’s explanation that interested him the most was the time Voyager entered outer space and Rhett lost his faith (2012) and the vinyl record.

Back to the present, Rhett is thinking about a new tattoo, the skeleton of a blue whale. Link went full Freudian, wanting Rhett to get a little door tattoo on his… back. Rhett was jokingly down for it and thought of having the blue whale entering the little door, although then that would make the door gigantic… and you know technically nobody wants their back door to be gigantic. Link agreed to this, because apparently he would also prefer Rhett’s back door to be little rather than gigantic but he was only willing to compromise his idea by making the blue whale too large for the little door and thus being frustrated for not being able to enter… *freudian facepalm*

But this only makes me think of this potential conversation between them:

Rhett: Hey man, I am thinking of getting a new tattoo…

Link: Oh good, what’s it gonna be?

Rhett: I thought of it being about you….

Link: …Oh 😌😉😉🥹😍👌🏻🔥🔥💗💓💓💗💘💘💘

Rhett: A blue whale skeleton!

Link: …. Uhhhh…. ehm… eh thanks

Rhett: You know, it’s because you have blue eyes and a big boner

Link: …Yes. Yes, Rhett, much appreciated.

[trickstarbrave]

hi uhhhhh i wrote this before passing out???? is this anything????? tbh im not sure if i should even continue it.

this for the vivi au (vivienne is from @mulberrycafe) and uhhhh features the hortator and his husband talking about one of their. dynamics.

warnings i guess for pet play and possessiveness, consensual of course. please note whenever i say vivi looks thrilled i need you to know i picture him going “:D”

“I do have to ask,” Kaidan began, looking at the two chimer also undressing, “Why the… Mark?” He motioned to the red tattoo on the hortator’s stomach. At the mention Nerevar’s cheeks went burning red, while Voryn chuckled. Vivienne also looked curiously, already nude and on the bed waiting for Taliesan and Kaidan to join him.

“Oh, this?” Voryn asked as he approached Nerevar from behind, looping his arm around so he could stroke the skin. On instinct Nerevar shuddered from his touch, keening softly. “It’s the symbol of House Dagoth, my house.” Nerevar began squirming under his touch, all the while Vivienne’s eyes lit up.

Taliesan coughed at that, his cheeks also going red. “Seems a bit… Much.”

“Neht is the one who asked for it.” The hortator’s eyes were shut tight in embarrassment now, the back of his hand covering his mouth. “You should hear how loudly he begged for it. Not to mention now he couldn’t stop squirming and whining as I marked him…”

“Ryn—“ Nerevar hissed, earning a laugh from his husband.

“Don’t be embarrassed, my love.” 

“I’m afraid I don’t understand that sort of relationship dynamic…” Taliesan explained as he finished undressing. “Especially not with two people such as yourselves.”

“It honestly makes perfect sense.” Voryn explained. “Nerevar wasn’t born as heir to the throne. He used to be a humble caravan guard, only swinging his blade and trying to survive. Then he was a soldier, then a captain, and then a warlord…” Voryn gave a soft, almost teasing kiss to the tip of Nerevar’s ear, listening to the gasp that followed and watching it twitch. “It’s easy for him to get stressed out, plagued with worries that he’s unworthy of all the power he has.” Voryn finished undoing Nerevar’s trousers as he talked, letting them drop to the floor, revealing Nerevar’s cock straining in his undergarments underneath. “It’s a bit relaxing and comforting for someone in his position to…” Voryn’s eyes went dark, a smirk crossing his face. “Turn his mind off for a bit, be claimed and marked…” Nerevar’s eyes started to glaze over from the touching and possessive tone in his voice. “Treated like nothing more than a good,” Voryn’s other hand began playing with Nerevar’s chest, pulling desperate gasps and soft moans from his husband’s lips, “Little,” Voryn pinched a nipple sharply, listening to the loud whine that followed. “Pet.” Hearing that Nerevar moaned sweetly, pressing his hips back against Voryn.

Vivienne’s eyes went wide, a delighted grin on his face. It was certainly fun to watch the powerful hortator come undone, and he was always a little impressed at how easily Voryn could do it.

“Do you want to show them, Neht?” Voryn asked low in Nerevar’s ear. “Want to show them what a good little pet you can be for me…?” 

“Ah~” Nerevar gasped, before moaning again as Voryn continued the assault on his chest. 

“I won’t make you, Nerevar.” Voryn whispered now. “Just tell me what you’d like, my love.”

“Mm~” Nerevar whined again. “I wanna…” He answered. “I wanna be a good little pet tonight~”

“Oh?” Voryn asked, his voice now teasing. “The strong, powerful hortator and king wants to be nothing more than my little plaything?” Voryn slipped the last piece of cloth off Nerevar’s body, exposing his aching cock. 

“Yes~” Nerevar hissed.

[the-fiction-witch]

Love Bug

Media Orbit Ever After 

Character Nigel 

Couple Nigel X Reader

Rating Cute + flirty Af

Concept Love bug 

I stood doing my usual work, scooping in trash from the endless void of space, I'd done it forever and honestly it was boring as hell. It didn't help now I had moved away into my own little hovel away from my family I was all alone which didn't help my boredom. But I did my work anyway grabbing anything I could use for food, fuel, to repair things really anything of use of or interest for me to tinker with. I spotted something just across the way so I waited and set my net up to catch it and slowly dragged it in, I didn't recognize the symbols but it looked pretty beat up so I threw it down into the hovel and didn't think much more of it. Once finished for the week I headed down into my little hovel it fairly tidy and new given I brought a new one when I moved out as I wanted a sleeker and more modern one then my family had. And I stopped off my space suit and began sorting through the various things I had gathered putting them in the various piles until I got to that weird thing.

It was… something technological. I think. I'd never seen the symbols on it before. But given how beat up it was I doubt it still worked. 

I gave it a bit of a tinker and nothing much happened for a good while until I cleaned off some dust and some stuck dirt finding a small old style scanner pad the moment I touched it the whole thing lit up, I was nervous not really wanting to touch it but my curiosity only grew so I touched the scanner pressing my hand against it, just for a second before it became to hot for me to touch almost burning my skin 

"Oww!" I complained moving my hand away and I noticed the scanner then covered itself with an imprint of my hand and I saw it had taken a small skin sample from my wrist no bigger than an inch. It then turned off seaming as dead as before I have it a kick and a poke but nothing so I just threw it on my scrap pile maybe it just had enough power and then finally died.

But I didn't think too hard about it having my dinner and a shower before heading to bed for the night.

I work up so cosy, I was so warm, so happy and I was really comfy until it hit me why am I so cosy an cuddly? I opened my eyes and immediately had a heart attack as in my bed laid … a girl and she- she's beautiful. The most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. She was perfect. As if someone went into my mind and cherry picked all the things I adore and brought her into reality, she laid there her hair against the pillow her body against mine in only a small white shirt dress long enough to cover her even if her nipples piled thought the fabric and her ass almost hung out the back

"Ahhh! Who are you!" I yelped in shock 

"Humm?" She yawns sitting up rubbing her eyes "what's the matter Nigel?" 

"AHH! How do you know my name! Who are you! How did you get here!" I asked getting out of bed putting some space between us

"Hum?" She asks turning her head seeming confused

"What the hell is going on, tell me and tell me right now or I'll swear I'll throw you out the airlock" I told her 

She got up from the bed and walked into the main living area I was confused so I followed her and she went to that weird thing I picked up yesterday that had the scanner on it was now slightly open she dug around a moment before coming over and offering me something

"A fileflash?" I asked looking at the thin thing "my god i haven't seen one in years, uhhhh give me a sec I might have something that can read it" i told her taking the small file flash, I dug around my hovel for a good while trying to find anything that could read a file flash and eventually I found one believe it or not in my junk pile so I set it up on my desk it was a little hazardous and cobbled together but It would do. Putting it in and letting it load up whatever was on it all while she excitedly sat at my feet when it finally loaded I had no ability to input so I just looked through the various things trying to find some kind of explanation "Ahhh a sales video that'll explain things" 

"Hi, I'm Steve and I'm the CEO of love bug enterprises. First I'd like to thank you for your interest and subsequent purchase from our company." He explained "now you have purchased our premium love bug companion package, contents include a shipping pod, scanning plate, your personal file flash, and of course the love bug itself. Now what exactly is a love bug you may be asking? A love bug is our patented term for the creature 'jilloumiaus danataus pilishsjimus' these are native to  flozin 7 a moon orbiting around Colontis in the ramsavix region of the galaxy. These creatures were on the brink of extinction before our company discovered them and helped them achieve their true purpose." He explained I did my best to listen and make notes even if I often had to bat her off me as she kept trying to cuddle me and lay her head on me "now these creatures are very unique in that they remain in a docile state until given a host some describe them as parasite creatures but we like to say there just little love bugs that lie in wait for their perfect companion. What happens is when a love bug is born it remains in a docile fluid egg state until it reaches maturity from then they wait until they find a host where they take a sample of its genetic material and match it's form to that of its host. Then proceed to feed of the host. They feed on genetic material so believe us they are very happy to live this life. We here at love bug enterprises simply take your order for a companion take a newly mature love bug from its natural habitat and ship it across the galaxy to you where your initial scan provides the bug with your DNA allowing it to form a body the same Species and of course to your personal liking. This can take up to six days to fully form but once formed they will have a built in emotional attachment to you as their host. Remember this is what they would do in the wild so they are very happy. Any issues contact the love bug enterprises help line and have a lovely day" he explained

I quickly looked them up and the company went out of business about fifty years ago, meaning that pod is likely one of the last ones or got lost in shipping at some point… and I let it scan me. 

"Ummm time for cuddles Nigel?" She whines nuzzling with my leg 

"I uhh I'm your host aren't I?'

"Of course" She nods "and I love you very much" she giggled 

"Right… when it says genetic material? What exactly do you feed on?" I asked her 

She giggled nuzzling even closer to my leg and stroking her hand delicately across my crotch "oh… okay. Right. Yes. Really?"

"Ummm humm" she nods "I'm hungry master" she pleads 

"Uuughhh…okay" 

[constantvariations]

V9C8

I cannot believe I’m awake when the episode drops holy shit. I’m also drunk af bc it’s my weekend off so I might not be as sharp as I’m usually am (not) but guess we’ll see lol. Also the devil works hard but pirates work harder. Bless them yardee hars yo ho

Post Ep: uhh I genuintely dunno what to say here :/ MKEK fucked over literally the only aspect of v9 i liked so i guess imma rot or smth idk

Genuinely funny (by which I mean what the absolute fuck) that the warning does not, in fact, warn the viewer of fucking anything. Reminds me of the conversation in Criminal Minds where the unit receives a bomb threat and have to wait for it to explode because sending out a general bomb alert would halt the entirety of the country in a panic. Wasn’t there a tiktok about this exact thing? One that went liek “TRIGGER WARNIGN! TRIGGER WARNING!“ but never told you wh at the warning was? Feels like this shit

Back at it again with this pov shit? With the hentai panting? Why is it always with the hentai panting???

“Why did you shout at everyone like that?” Sometimes it’s hard to remember that Little is supposed to be like... a child? I guess? in the Wonderland spectrum of things, so them not knowing what a mental breakdown looks like is both in character and entirely unhelpful in the narrative, considering how easily Ruby brushes off the inquiry

This is probably the most tolerant Ruby’s voice acting has been in the last many seasons. It’s not high and nasally enough to scrape my skull!

Not gonna lie, having Ruby finally break down against the shittiest of tree textures is so fucking funny I can’t take this seriously. It looks like she’s wailing into a painted wall

“If you’re going to stay with me, you’re going to end up dead, too.” Ruby, the only dead people that you supposedly gave a shit about are Penny and Pyrrha. You don’t know about Clover or Ironwood, you definitely didn’t give a shit about that Forrest guy from V7, and it’s still up in the air if you know about Penny 2.0. You haven’t even mentioned Qrow, your father, or the rest of ORNJ, so what the fuck are you referencing here? Your mother, whom you only started being compromised about 2 seasons ago? Big fuckety whoop, no one cares

Ohhhh noooo not the shithead mouse character being saddddd and left behinddddd whateverr shall we doooooo

Aight what’s with the butterfly thing. If it’s supposed to symbolize Summer Rose in some way, it was never foreshadowed and only the barest of threads (butterflies being pollinators of flowers) would connect this shit. There’s a difference between subtlety and bullshit

Uhhhh did Ruby stumble into a casino house of Neo? Is this Neo backstory we’re getting into? Honestly, that’s way more intriguing than anything our heroes have going on

OH SO NOW RUBY CAN USE HER FUCKING SCYTHE WITHOUT GETTIN TRIGGERED

Why did they have to drag Roman into Maya? Didn’t they do him dirty enough by having him be eaten by a stupid grimm? Is this even the same voice actor? It’s not as... sultry

WHY YOU GOTTA DO PYRRHA DIRTY LIKE THIS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HER MOUTH THERE’S NO TEXTURE ON HER CLOTHES WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

Holy shit the animation of Roman jumpin on the table is sending me into the fuckign statosphere fucking hlep

Can’t even have a normal transformation animation between scythe to snipe it’s gotta be a spinny bullshit thing ugh. Take me back to episode 1 I miss that shit

Who is voicing Roman there’s no way this is the original VA Imma strnagle this bithc

“But we all remember how that ended.” Is this based on actual events or what Neo has interpreted? This entire scene has been nothing but bullshit so far, and not even the fun kind that Roman used to produce

“You still blame me for what happened to Torchwick?” Bitch what the absolute fuck makes you think that? What clues could you possibly have that Neo blames you specifically when there are so many random people at this table? It’s not like you’ve ever claimed to be responsible for any of these peoples’ deaths, so why is this the fucking conclusion you make? Other than having writer’s clairvoyance of course

Okay, despite not knowing at the moment what it means, I do like the detail of Roman not stepping on the teacup before but once shit gets real he demolishes it. Still don’t like how ugly he is though. Leave my dead gay son alone

I don’t know if I’ve said it before but I fucking HATE the eyeshadow on the character in Maya. Why is Neo’s fucking mint green? She’s NEO-FUCKING-POLITIAN WHY IS THERE FUCKING GREEN IN HER GODDAMN COLOR PALLETE WHEN IT’S FUCKIN WHITE BROWN AND PINK

“I’m going to enjoy watching you break.” Does Neo not have any sort of contact via her clones or whatever? Did she not see how helpless Ruby was last episode to her Jabber? Because it was very heavily implied she knew when that one turned into her before shattering. Neo didn’t have to do shit to make Ruby break, her so called friends were doing that better than Neo ever could Also, the smiles on everyone’s faces as they say this is 100% me when I write my characters going through some fucked up shit. Neo should’ve gone into theater and literally none of this would have happened lmao

It’s uhhhhhh kinda telling that Yang is the first to stop and bitch about Ruby’s behavior. “How could she jsut run off like that?” damn it’s like your sister knew you ddidn’t give hafl a flying fuck about her and dipped Yang OHMYGOD YANG BEING PISSED THAT RUBY DIDN’T TALK TO THEM I’M FUCKING WHEEZING Girl you were so busy being buried in the pussy you didn’t notice your own sister having a full ass breakdown. I do not feel sorry for you “She could’ve just talked to us” like you talked to her after you lost your arm? Oh, wait, YOU DIDN’T FUCKING DO THAT YANG. You literally told her to LEAVE YOU ALONE. Ain’t that a bitch, huh

“We say things like ‘we believe and you’ and ‘we can count on you’” holy shit this is smth I would expect from the yt exercise gurus I watch after work shifts not from my close personal friends this is so fuckign funny

“It’s not like we’re asking her to be perfect” well mf did you ever, idk, COMMUNICATE THAT. Because, lmee tell you as someone who WAS expected to be perfect at all times, that shit be damaging as fuck. I can’t even let typos happen in funny instances without a voice in my head screaming to fix them

Oh great we get the generic meandering vocals during a pvp platform fight. Do they write these lines knowing they’ll be translated into a game soon? There’s no way “I was the best and brightest Beacon had to offer” comes off naturally otherwise

Ruby literally clambered onto the only structure in the room for defense? Girl at this point you are asking to die lmao

AND HER AURA SHATTERS AT THAT MEASLY DROP I AM FUCKING SOBBING JUST KILL THE BITCH AND BE DONE WITH IT

“Just like you were too late to save me at the Vytal festival.” Bitch that literally didn’t matter shit since you came back in V7. You’re literally wearing your V7/8 outfit. Shut the absolute fuck up you fucking waste of potential and hair space goddamn

“Can you imagine what it’s like to be failed time and time again by someone who meant the world to you” oh like Oz? The guy you demonized for the last few seasons? The guy who was roasted alive by his wife after she butchered their FOUR FUCKIGN CHILDREN?

Also Ruby does not use her FUCKIGN SEMBLANCE BITHC ARE YOU WANTING TO FUDCKIGN DIE THEN DIE ALREADY GODDAMMIT

Okay I can’t put my finger on it, but the animation of Pyrrha going around her staff to kick Ruby is really fucking weird. Maybe because it seems like her spear is merely resting on the ground instead of impaling it? (My current MC had a similar move so this is important to me lmao)

While I do appreciate the line of “have you stopped to consider if you’re doing more harm than good” coming from Ironwood, it’s not really Ironwood saying it, is it? How the absolute FUCK would Neo know this? Was she witness to what was happening, did she figure it out with context clues, or is this another case of writer clairvoyance?

While I guess it is within canon rights to have Neo know that Oscar is Oz’s new host, I’m very much confused about this particular course of action [turning Ozpin into Oscar] from Neo. When it was her vs Cinder,  Neo just tried to annihilate her, but with Ruby she wants to be Jigsaw??? MKEK learn character consistency I am BEGGING

Listen... I know Ruby is in an emotionally compromised state, and that in any other scenario this would be intensely heart-breaking, but with how contrived this entire scene is, I cannot give half a flying fuck about Ruby’s mental state because it’s too damn funny how easily she falls into Neo’s lap. You walked into this giant ass casino, can’t you just walk out? We ain’t seen you try yet, so either you (and the writers) are too stupid to think of it, or it was shuffled off screen, neither of which are a good look babe. Especially when that damned mouse is in the wings for SOME goddamn reason. Probably the next fucking deus ex mouse

RUBY’S HICCUPS SOUND EXACTLY LIKE MY PRINTER IM FUCKIGN WHEEZING

Okay, so Neo offering the tea makes it seem like that’s a path to the Ascension that everyone’s so gung-ho about, which makes me question why the paper pleasers needed to have a whole ass suicide dam-break to ascend if all they needed was some leaf-tea. I also think I’m putting more thought into this than the fucking writers, which, honestly, is par for the course

WAIT WHOA HOLD UP that was some geometric shit hitting Neo into the fucking next generation. Everything in Wonderland is ~whimsy and frolic~ not Square (tm) so wtf is going on

Goddammit again with this pov shit? Whoever suggested it in the group orgy should be drug out to the street and shot

CURIOUS!!! THE ONLY BITCH THAT MATTERS TO ME even if he is ugly as sin

“(Ruby) I don’t want to be me anymore” well aint that just more gasoline to my theory that Ruby’s gonna try to sacrifice herself to the tree No joke, if RT (and for any dumbass who needs clarification, CRWBY is 100% RT property) tries to imply in any goddamn way that sacrifice is the only way to achieve happiness (especially when it comes to other people’s happiness) I will come to each of their houses and shred their shoes, their paintings, and dismantle their ovens

Altho, no joke, I would much rather prefer Curious as our MC instead simply because they are curious and would potentially be able to ask questions about the world that our actual mains would take for granted, like idk wtf is dust and where does it come from? (Mainly stemming from my hc that dust is the remains of human souls that grimm devour but can’t actually process. Like... how else are you gonna reconcile the dust that made Adam ((the original biblical man)) with the dust of Remnant?)

Oh wow so we’re actually going for the take that the cat was evil the whole time? Is that what we’re doing? No nuance about a creature merely curious about a world outside its own? We’re going full fucking body snatcher?

I absolutely HATE this take on the Curious Cat. MKEK. Give me your addresses so I can beat your asses in the nearest Dennys parking lot. I think you sorely need some lessons in humility. Suck my entire asshole

Is Little really fucking hurt by being slung .2 feet from a tail whip? Fucking really?

And now Neo and Curious are fighting over Ruby’s fate. Someone bring back the forced love triangle of Hunger Games (which was forced by the publishers NOT the writer btw) instead of this shit before I throw myself into a lava pit because honesty it this is far shittier than HG

Wtf are Ruby’s fingers bloodied from? Wielding Crescent Rose for .2 seconds? Girl you have been handling this weapon for fucking years, but spinning it around a couple of times makes her bleed? Bitch play Paganini’s 24 Caprices then say how your fingers feel (For clarification purposes, I only know this because I’m writing characters who know how to play the violin, not because I know violin myself despite how much I fucking want to. V from DMC5 has me in a fucking chokehold lemme tell you-*dies*)

“I have been trying to wear you down for so long” BITCH FUCKING WHERE. WHERE THE ABSOLUTE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN WEARING RUBY DOWN MORE THAN HER TEAMMATES OR GENERAL FUCKING LIFE HAS ALREADY BEEN. BITHC FUCKING WEHRE

“I need to know why my makers left me here.” This makes me think that the Wonderland was structured by the shitheel gods of light and dark. Perhaps the cat was one of their compromises, which is why they’re such a wildcard? But that would make so many questions about the purpose of Wonderland itself and we all know that MKEK can’t be bothered with things like worldbuilding or nuance or anything remotely resembling intelligence (also I read once that black scelera ((the white part of the eye)) is a sign of pure truth/desire so honestly this is incredibly intriguing even though I know it won’t end in anything satisfactory)

NEO STEPS ON LITTLE BEST CHARACTER EVER 10/10

The cup sliding into frame after Ruby’s frantic eyes is literally so fucking funny how do they expect to take me seriously when the framing has the subtlety of a drunk elephant?

Ohmygod the way JWBY ran into the room like PS2 characters I’m fucking wheeazing

Ohmygod this is literally the most flaccid way to force a person into your perspective. Like... Ruby got kicked around a little bit after venturing into an OBVIOUSLY NOT GOOD PLACE and then decides to drink the airport jungle juice right as she’s about to be rescued and not ONE FUCKING CHARACTER WITH RANGED ARSENAL SHOOTS THE MUG OUT OF HER HAND

Honestly there are times where it really hits me how RWBY is a show about plot that isn’t plot instead of characters, and it’s moments like these where I’m like “damn, these people are acting to the script instead of their character huh” Like... it would’ve been something profound if the tea drinking had happened moments prior to their arrival instead of “hey watch me drink this fuckin tea while I reflect in your stupid eyeball instead of you doing literally anything about it despite that the supposed fact that you fucking raised me YANG, so watch me drop into this fuckkin hole I guess”

At the very least I guess the writers realized that Neo’s sole purpose was offing Ruby because... Roman was in her vicinity when he died???

OHMYGOD THE FACT THAT THE PERSON WHO REACTS TEH MOST TO RUBY DRINKGING THE FUCKIGN JUICCE IS CURIOUS IS FINEING SENDING ME

SHES A FUCKING CORN COB BSBE IM FUCNG CRYIGN

Okay, Curious fixating on Neo is one BILLION percent more interesting than anything jrwby has going on. Once again, fuck this main storyline bullshit and give Curious their own damn show

Also, nlg, the facct that Curious is Geometric rather than Organic in terms of design (squares vs spirals for the at home group) is super fucking cool and I desperately need an entire goddamn story abt them pronto. I would absolutely love to see how they interact with Remnant and if they’d be able to have their weird ass powers in the dimension of mortals. That is so much more interesting than literally anything our main crew has proposed in literally years, especially since these dumb mfs aint ever talked about whether or not its okay to kill a whole ass human being for their cause (and faunus are human beings. Fuck off if you think that some shtity tail or ears makes you not a whole ass person)

These mfs cannot let the bee train go for a single second can they? These bitches gotta be hit inot the sam efukcin wall while Weiss gets left all alone. Yknow. Like her family let her be for th emost part. Glad to see that RT’s priority is rainbow capitialism instead of genuine storytelling

Well that is a hentai trope I did not expert to see today. Though the fact that it’s Neo does not surprises me at fuckign all. Mmmm love me some fcking body possession. Great job Rt on making on your female characters be absolutely consumed by a foreign entity that surely isn’t a fucking metaphor for antyhign yknow the fucking facehuggers were’nt a metaphor for shit didnt yha know????

May I say to MKEK, absolutely fuck you for makign the cat an undeniable villain. Can you guys not handle even an iota of moral greyness? Can you not conceive of the idea of a situation that is not merely good vs evil? I ask you to look at the world today, and tell me that evil arises merely because it can rather than as a symptom of a society that refuses to care for all its citizens. Can you not idealize a person who, when pressed to their absolute brink, will take upon violence to ensure that the seeds they sow will bring sustenance to those who come later? For fuck’s sake I’ll take a person who idealizes themselves for morally grey reasons other than what the fuck ever these dipshits are trying to sell to me

Wow aint it so spectaculaar that Curious invaded the one person who wasn’t important to the writers plot adn now our heroes can now kill her without any iota of guilt? Aint that fucking nifty? Aint that fuckign grand? And not even a fucking thought extended to teh idea tha Crurius wanted to see the outside world. THat was their main reason for helping the siblings right? Because Alyx promised them that she would bring him to Remnant? But taht whole plotline is gone because it’s jsut TOO SPICY FOLKS. Can’t have anything interesting in our show about FAIRTYTALES whene we’re in a FAIRTYTALE LAND

Honestly, fuck you MKEK, fuck you RT, fuck you any god that ever alloweed existence to happen. THis is fucking bullshit

It was only through looking up the info on the internet that I learned that Roman Torchwick’s og VA died of colon cancer prior to this volume (2022). Mr Kametz, I hope you rest well and know that your expertise was greatly appreciated. May you know peace in the beyond

[justasmallbloginabigklainefandom]

So. Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

As I said, I went to Pride yesterday. I left my flat around 10:30 and got home around 23:30 so it sure was a day. I went with a lil group and it was a lot of fun. It was a canal float, and some people were on a boat. I also knew some other people on other boats and as someone said, it is so much more fun to watch this float when you know people. Heck, I’ve never cared so much about a boat from a big company before, especially after the person I know talked about how much this company actually does for queer visibility. (His partner, on the other hand, has to handle Corporate Pinkwashing in his Big Company.)

It was a sunny day and after some walking around we found a great spot on the grass, shaded, between trees. Maybe not the best view, but we could move to the front if we wanted to and my rainbow picnic blanket was *chef’s kiss*. Apart from watching boats, we also just had a lot of fun. Sometimes we even discussed more serious topics regarding Pride, cause after all, Pride is a party and a protest and it’s fun that it can be both. So we discussed privilege regarding pinkwashing, kink and sex positivity, queer history and symbolism (and I introduced everyone to my favourite version of the rainbow flag: Gilbert Baker’s 2017 Lavender Flag).

But one thing I kept saying is that as fun as the float is (and it is), the best part is that everyone is so visibly queer. People are decked out. Queerness is so diverse. There are people of all ages, sizes, genders, etnicities etc. I was particulary touched by seeing queer elders, but ALSO by queer kids. And people were just so joyous. As someone said, for once, queerness is the norm. Again, some people were decked out. I saw someone in a unicorn onesie and a rainbow flag as a cape, and someone who straight up worse a rainbow shopper. So many variantions of rainbow clothing. But also people who only pinned a little flag to their shirt. Or had socks with a rainbow accent. Or painted a little flag. Even the littlest things make you feel seen. After the float, everyone goes into town and it’s just so calming to see visible queerness in “normal” settings, you know?

And oh so many flags. Rainbow, lesbian, bi, pan, non-binary, ace, genderfluid, genderqueer, kink, bear.... toothpaste.

Some higlights include:

Someone holding up a sign that says “Nijntje (Miffy) wants trans rights!”

The intersex boat had an artist up front in a purple bodysuit and she was dancing around with huge shiny yellow wings, basically performing the intersex flag and it was STUNNING.

Speaking of WINGS, someone wore huge inflatable rainbow dragon wings. Simon Snow core.

As an asexual who hates being used by puritans, you bet your ass I always cheer loudly when I see a boat full of kinksters. Hope y’all stay hydrated in all this weather!

Speaking of a gatekeep-y puritan’s worst nightmare, there was a boat that flew multiple flags INCLUDING the ace and kink one and one dude in a puppy play mask waved to a small child, who cheerfully waved back and it was very wholesome.

I was also very happy to see MBO/ROC here, cause in my city, these educational institutions are a touchy subject (in the rare occurance that my queer organisation works together with them, we are placed by security since the institutions expect uhhhh violence towards us 😬) so it is good to show that there are queer people in these places.

The LGBT Asylum boat passed a group of Ugandan people, who were showing support for queer people in Uganda, and it was great that they all felt seen.

After the last official boat, a smaller boat with the organisation sailed after the others. It was so cool, cause people started yelling, cheering and applauding. One person screamed “THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!” repeatedly. I don’t think the organisation expected it, cause they were seated but when people started cheering, they slowly got up to wave at everyone.

I also met up with someone I haven’t seen in 5 years or so and I am so happy I did.

Oh, I was interviewed about my outfit. Wack.

We ended the day with ordering pizza in a park and fuck yeah I love spinach on my pizza.

And then, there is always the end. The moment you leave your bubble. Flags are put in bags. Coats are used to cover lavish outfits. Glitter is being scraped off, but I didn’t take off my stuff, mostly out of laziness, and a random dude on the train was so supportive and it was nice, and he asked about the ace flag and the enby flag that others still had on their faces and you know what I hope that guy has a nice day.

There’s probably more, but this is what I think of at the top off my head. I love being queer, y’all. Happy Pride.

[aprincessnotaqueen]

Get to know me!

Thanks for the tag @the-type-a​ !!

🖌 - Do you have/want any tattoos?

I have 8 tattoos! My first one matching with @peoniequeen 💕 we got the date we met in roman numerals when we were on holiday in New Zealand, it’s on my left forearm just below the elbow. My second is the planets (including Pluto obvs!) which is just below the numerals on my left forearm. My third is on the inside of my right ankle, it’s an open book. Fourth is on the side of my right wrist so its in line with my pinky finger if that makes sense? It’s an infinity sign with 3 hearts, this one is for my mother who said if she ever got a tattoo that is the one she would get but she hates tattoos so I got it instead! Fifth and sixth I got at the same time, I have the word DREAM is Disney font and its on the side of my left wrist, then the Deathly Hallows symbol on inner left ankle. Number seven is on the back of my left forearm in a line going up from the elbow, it’s of the phases on the moon. And finally my latest tattoo I got on my birthday last year, it’s the Pisces constellation on the back of my left arm just above the elbow. 

I have 5 on my left arm and only 1 on my right and I definitely need to rectify this 😂

💚 - What’s your favourite colour?

Blue 💙

🍕 - What’s the last thing you ate?

Just had steak 🤤

🕰 - What time is it where you are rn?

8:09pm

🌟 - What is your zodiac sign?

Pisces sun! I know my moon and rising are Pisces and Libra but I can never remember which way round they are 😂

🌍 - What is your favourite accent?

Uhhhh I have no ideas?

⚡️ - Do you have any scars?

Nothing of note. I have some chicken pox scars on my face? I have a tiny little line on the side of my finger?

🌺 - What’s your MBTI type?

INFP

🥀 - Favourite animated movie?

How To Train Your Dragon 💕

📺 - Favourite show?

Shows I could watch on repeat are: Brooklyn 99, Agents of Shield, Umbrella Academy, One Day At A Time, Derry Girls, Sex Education.

😂 - Are you ticklish?

A little? I used to be ticklish when I was younger but I kinda grew out of it.

💍 - Do you ever want to get married?

I do not. 

😳 - Do you like your name?

I hated it when I was younger, it’s very common, but I’ve grown to like it more recently.

💙 - What colour is your bedroom?

It is blue and cream.

🤓 - How did you get your name?

The story I’ve been told, my mam was watching TV one day and a little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes came on and her name was Chloe.

🎓 - When did/do you graduate?

I never went to university so never?

Sometimes I’m sad I never went but my life is on a different path and I need to be oky with that.

🍄 - Do you have/want any piercings?

I have had my firsts and seconds both done twice, then on my right ear I have my mid helix pierced. I used to have my upper helix pierced as well but it didn’t heal properly, I was in agony all the time with it so I let it heal over but I’ve wrecked myself because the skin is tinted black where it was and I have a lump in the back of my ear I suspect when the cartilage was pushed around.

👀 - What colour are your eyes?

Blue!

👱🏻‍♀️ - What is your go to hairstyle?

I straighten it mostly these days, leaving it down.

🥂 - Have you ever drank underage?

A little bit. I was never a big drinker, I would drink a little bit around 15/16 because my friends were but it wasn’t serious, no hard alcohol. Then I had a bit of a mental break in 2018 and started drinking properly then, but I was 23 by that point 😂

🍾 - Have you ever gotten drunk?

Yuuuuup. I’ve never blacked out but my worst was the work xmas party of 2021, where I vommed all over the club toilets and then took a nap on the floor outside the taxi rank (who also wouldn’t let me in a taxi because I also got vom on my dress!). After that I couldn’t even walk down the alcohol aisle in Tesco for 2 months without feeling sick 😂

😱 - What’s your biggest fear?

Spiders have always terrified me but my fear has been getting much better in the last few years. My fear of heights is getting stronger though 👀

🥵 - Would you rather be too hot or too cold?

Too cold. Can always bundle up!

🌦 - What’s your favourite weather?

Warm enough I have the option of wearing a dress or shorts but not hot enough that I’m melting.

🍂 - What’s your favourite season?

Autumn!

🐷 - What’s your favourite animal?

Cats. 

🐶 - Do you have any pets?

A cat, Gizzy 💕

😴 - What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep?

About 48hrs. It was one of the years we did a coach trip to Disneyland Paris, was exhausting but so worth it.

🎨 - Any hobbies?

I’d love to say reading and writing but I’m too tired for hobbies 😭😂

🛩 - If travelling was free, where’s the first place you’d go?

Back to New Zealand, I cannot express my love enough 💕

🎇 - What’s your most searched thing on Google?

Usually dumb questions 😂

📱 - Favourite app on your phone?

Other than Tumblr, probably Spotify

🤠 - Are you more of a city person or a country person?

I wish I was a country girl but I am a city girl all the way!

Tagging: @lotsofloveish @xwhatababex @toobadchadlytime

[thehitchhikerguide]

Season 2, Episode 9: Hired Help

Our favorite rogue is back at it, and this time he's taking on illegal immigration! Who knew that Mexico shared a border with Canada?

The episode starts off by announcing the famous guest star this time is Karen Black. Wow, that's a pretty famous actress who've been in a ton of stuff, especially in the 1970's. I really only remember her from that Great Gatsby movie I had to see in high school. Anyways, this episode is not that great, but I think she is great in it. We start out at a sewing sweat shop, where there are a bunch of people making clothes.

Karen Black seems to be having some argument about operations with another man among many rolls of fabric.

As a sewist, I did drool a little at this place and all the fabric, despite it looking so dusty and dingy.

Suddenly, someone hurts their hand at one of the sewing machines.

Karen Black is not sympathetic to this at all because it will now affect her bottom line. One of her workers starts to leave to go with the injured person to the hospital. Turns out it was his niece that got hurt.

She is not happy and basically tells him if he leaves, to not come back at all. He says something about how the dark gods will punish her for this. A curse it seems...why am I getting Stephen King's Thinner vibes from this?

One thing interesting about this episode was this strange noise that kept occurring between scenes - and it wasn't the creepy Rubini score that is usually heard. It's hard to describe, but it sounds like the sound the TV show A Current Affair used to make when showing it's logo. I think it's supposed to symbolize some sort of magic going on.

Where is our Hitchhiker character? We are pretty far in.

Oh there he is.

...And Karen Black almost hits him as she's speeding out. We find out her name is actually Kay Mason and she "thinks she is a rich and powerful woman who uses people then throws them away. But the law of business isn't the only force at work out there and she's about to meet someone who's going to drive that point home."

Hmm that person looks a lot like Harry Shearer. Oh wait this is the guy she was arguing with before...I guess he is her husband.

Haha, I just thought this scene was funny. Karen doesn't get nude in this episode so they had to show breasts somehow.

There is some playful dialogue with Kay and her husband about how she needs to find another person to replace the guy she fired. He also needs someone do work in their backyard. He advises her to get someone at "the wall." Wait there was a wall before Trump was in office?

Then he uses the headache line on her and goes to sleep. Classic!

Down at the wall, she find someone that seems to fit her qualifications.

Wow, this guy belongs in a Lands End ad!

After he does some work at her fabric warehouse, she takes him to her house for some "other" chores. You can imagine where it goes from here.

But first we get a shot of him taming her devil dog when he tries to attack. We also find out the dog's name is "Boy." Wow there are all sorts of racist issues at play.

Mrs. Mason are you trying to seduce me?

We get a reveal of an interesting tattoo when Kay's housekeeper hands him a drink.

This causes the housekeeper to freak out and Kay to scream at her to get ahold of herself. This tattoo seems to mean he is a type of devil. This doesn't scare Kay at all.

In fact I think it turns her on. She brings him in the bedroom to look at her air conditioning.

Woah I guess it's not working since he needs to take off all his clothes.

As much as I tried, I don't think you can see anything here when he gets totally nude.

They do some interesting shadow shots for the love scene. This is probably because they don't want to show any nudity. This shot did look pretty cool when it went from sexy time to full on spanking and then hard core thrusting.

This looks like part of a modern dance number.

Things seems erotic until...

Uhhhh....what? Nothing unusual here.

After this night of passion, she is extremely upset her greenhouse is trashed.

Did she not see the black wings coming out of that guy and demon eyes? She starts calling out for her dog...Boy. Ugh.

Haha he has hex vision. He runs over to her...

And this puppet attacks her. She calls out to Maria, her housekeeper for help.

She has Bette Davis eyes. Then Kay notices something else scary in her house.

Black Adder! Black Adder!

Luckily her husband comes home just in time. And everything seems fine...

Uh oh! The only thing left to do is...

But how do you shoot the devil in the back...what if you miss?

Her husband goes down with a bad gunshot wound, but the red eyes are gone. Naturally this is pretty funny to Kay.

Is that the end? What the heck happened?

This ending scene with the Hitchhiker seems to have some secret message about Autodeter. Who is that and what does it mean?

We don't get an answer to that, just the message that Kay Mason took advantage of the helpless and laughed at their superstitious beliefs. But when she angered the gods of their vengeance, she unleashed a darkness that overcame her and should make believers of us all.

I don't know, I'm not convinced. Although it might explain this strange artwork.

Actually that doesn't explain anything. I'm not even sure she learned her lesson since I don't think she liked her husband that much to begin with. Hmmm this one is pretty weak. And not much resolution for those illegal immigrants. Boo!

[stardustallaround]

GOTTEM I GET TO RANT NOW! (thanks so much btw!!!)

apologies this is gonna be really long

format is [lyric]: description; explanation/comments

- [I've earned myself a reputation]: all of the commanders and Rex as cadets; I wanted to start from the beginning

- [That my bark | is much worse than | my bite]: zoom in on cadet wolffe, change to older wolffe; I mean. self explanatory bro chose his name to be a misspelled animal pfff

- [But I keep snapping at Goliath's hands]: the iconic scene when Plo Koon and two of the Wolfpack are stuck and Plo Koon says they’re not expendable; I liked the idea that Plo Koon rebelled in his own way, eg. appreciation of his sons

- [With all of my tiny might]: pan to the two troopers; clones have very little control, but they fight for each other as hard as they can

- [There are no stones at my disposal]: Rex’s helmet; Rex likely often feels powerless to stop Anakin’s antics

- [There's no God to award me a crown]: hands grab Rex’s helmet; Rex means “king,” this is sorta alluding to the idea that he gave himself his own crown (name/helmet/honor)

- [But I am always swinging at]: 501st on umbara

- [Somebody I can't knock down]: pong krell, blasters in peripheral; self explanatory, except they do shoot him down

- [All of the fire I've swallowed]: gree with luminara unduli; no concrete reasoning for this, but possible suspicions that luminara encourages the troopers to hide their feelings for others since she’s like that with barriss

- [All of the sparks that went dark in my gut]: gree watching ahsoka and barriss walk away (gree is slightly smiling); he worries for barriss, especially considering how young padawans are, and he feels like an older brother

- [I am always burning up]: gree watching hologram of the tank getting crushed; canon episode reference! he’s distressed abt potentially losing barriss and has no power to stop it :(

- [Dress me in red and throw your roses]: fox on patrol and a bottle gets thrown at him; red armor! bottle=roses!

- [And I'll wrangle the beast with words]: fox standing behind palpatine; palps is a yapper also fox lies to him to save his brothers (often at his own expense)

- [It's a graceless dance of epithets]: fox standing behind senator chuchi; uhhhh senators scheming but for good ‼️

- [We learn to make somewhat hurt]: fox standing alone without helmet, bleeding; note he has lighting scars (rude palps) and early gray hairs (due to his brothers, but I also like the head canon that he’s “defective” and has been getting these his whole life and that’s why he never takes off his helmet)

- [They will consume your sweet resistance]: bly looking at Ayla; bly is a sweetheart just try to argue with me

- [And they'll carry your heart in their teeth]: Aayla smilkng at bly; teeth literally with the smiling, also blyla <3

- [But I am always feeding them]: Felucia battlefield; very sad parallel with canon

- [The ugliest parts of me]: bly and aayla fighting droid; they for sure don’t want to fight, but they have to

- [All of the words I've swallowed]: ponds fighting with windu on ryloth; as cool as windu is, it must have been difficult to work with him

- [All of the sharp things I've kept in my mouth]: ponds and Zillo beast; teeth. sharp things in mouth are teeth

- [I am always bleeding out]: death by aurra sing; uhhh this was supposed to be aurra sing I drew the wrong person, but symbolically I think I had boba bc he was technically fighting against the other clones (ngl I drew this one a while ago and was very sleep deprived)

- [Take me to war]: cody, obi wan, and anakin at holotable; this was a common scene in the war, eternal planning

- [Honey, I dare you]: obi wan, from over Cody’s shoulder; obi wan had many antics that poor cody had to suffer through, and codywan <3

- [I'll be the sweetest thing]: ghost company with obiwan; they’re all besties ur honor

- [To ever scare you]: obi wan “dead” arc, ghost company watching hologram; BIG sad, wish we could have seen at least ghost company at the “funeral”

- [Give me a fight I can't resist]: numa; this was originally gonna have boil and waxer with her but I got lazy, anyway they want to protect her

- [Give me something to break with my fists]: cody punching droid; the commander class is just Built Different, cody even more so

- [Take me to war]: cody picking up lightsaber; I often think abt the fact cody canonically has a belt clip for a lightsaber

- [Honey, I dare you]: cody handing lightsaber to obi wan; really wanna know how often this happened for the aforementioned belt clip

- [I watched a weed usurp the garden]: a corrie in senate pod, palps at the center of the senate talking from over a guards left shoulder; crusty dusty palps swaying the senate, also over left shoulder indicates “bad people” and the opposite for right

- [And it poisoned the rest of the crops]: senate pods with corrupt sentars going forward

- [Would take days of fighting stubborn roots]: padme, bail, mothma over right shoulder of guard; let them cook ‼️

- [To tear the whole damn thing out]: senate building; the whole place is pretty much corrupt

- [So I will leave it where it's standing]: back to guard looking at senate floor, leaves out of frame

- [And instead I will find me a match]: fox w/blaster facing fives; fives could have been the key to avoiding the Horrors

- [I'll turn it all to kindling]: fox lowers blaster; what I wish could have happened, don’t ask me how this would have been feasible (I hc that palps was controlling fox here)

- [I'll burn it all down to ash]: hologram of The Chip; this could have been the key to fixing it all, so in my delusion fives gets to tell fox and spread the word

- [All of the ire I've swallowed]: fox w/gun; he’s mad when he finds out

- [All of the coals that still sit in my gut]: palps, menacing; he’s actually The Worst

- [I am always burning up]: fox raises gun, blaster pulled, silhouettes, palps shot; man I just wanted fox to shoot palps bc he deserves it the most

- [Take me to war]: plo’s bros on side of ship; this section is all “memories”/ happy times

- [Honey, I dare you]: Rex and ahsoka spying on padme and anakin; bestest siblings, legit one of my favorite ideas, in the original sketch I had anakin ranting abt sand

- [I'll be the sweetest thing]: Ayla leaning against bly, asleep; once again, bly is the sweetest

- [To ever scare you]: coruscant guards laughing around a table with cards and drinks; don’t tell me everyone else wasn’t afraid of the Corries, also I like to think they would have game nights every now and then

- [Give me a fight I can't resist]: ponds at 79’s with others

- [Give me something to break with my fists]: gree is gifted a mug from barriss; this is an extremely obscure call back to another piece of art that I did where obiwan had a mug from ahsoka that says “best grandmaster” and I like to think the padawans have an arts class

- [Take me to war]: ghost company with obi wan at dex’s; the usual suspects including boil, waxer, cody, wooly, AND fanmedic helix (he’s canon in my heart)

- [Honey, I dare you]: fives rescuing ech from skeco minor; echo was def sad when he realized his twin wasn’t there so I fixed that :)

Some general notes on artistic choices:

• While I usually draw in grayscale (rendering scares me), I specifically made any "identifying" features (like armor paint, hair color, etc.) for clones be present, partially for identification and partially with the idea that these are the things that show their individuality. The only exception to this was when there was a lightsaber (I like the cool glowing sticks).

• Characters besides the clones are specifically in a single shade of gray to put more focus on the clones (as this is meant to be an animatic about THEIR tragedy). However, there are a few cases when I made the other characters be "rendered" but in grayscale if what they are doing/their character arc has an impact on the clones in the panel.

• Most of this portrays canon or canon-adjacent to a certain point, I made the second half in mind of "What if Fox was able to chose differently."

• During the final "Take Me to War" section, the panels are specifically grayscale because they are supposed to depict happy "memories" of the war. In my "headcanon what-if" clones no longer need their identifying colors after the war because they have found their autonomy with the end of the war, though many may still keep them. (this is totally not because I didn't want to fully color more panels shhhhhhh)

• I learned how to edit videos in Blender for this

animatic depicting the tragedy of the clone wars and answers the question: what if Commander Fox was able to put down the gun and raise it at at someone else?

Song: Take Me to War (Live) by the Crane Wives

if one (1) person asks I will post an in depth analysis of every panel

[everysongineverykey]

I'M DONE. HERE. TAKE THESE CHAPTER 2 THOUGHTS AND RUN, BABY.

so i'll try to go in order here. uhhhh... there's a LOT i have to say. first: toriel giggling sprite my beloved

on that note, ALL THE NEW SUSIE SPRITES MY BELOVEDS

NOELLE YOU'RE SO GAY. I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY JUST BECAUSE I TOLD HER TO IN CHAPTER ONE BUT SHE GAVE SUSIE THE LUNCHBOX FULL OF CHALK!! I LOVE ITTTT

ralsei's, uh... kinda sus. the whole "recruiting" thing REALLY sketches me out. and he looks kinda... smug, all the time, like he knows what's going on.

LANCER JOINED! ROUXLS JOINED EVEN THOUGH NO ONE WANTED THAT! STARWALKER JOINED, TO EVERYONE'S JOY!

LIBRARY PORTALLLL

so before i entered the city there was that pre-city area? that looked very much like the city? except it had different music? and i thought they'd cut welcome to the city and i was SEVERELY disappointed. but then they didn't! just something i wanted to mention

NOELLE!!

throughout this game i went from despising berdly to feeling bad for him to not really liking him again, but not hating him as much as before. he'd better stay the fuck away from susie though

the queen is the best villain. she's the kind you love to hate! she's literally so funny AND her boss battle is actually tough (rip to the king but he just. wasn't a formidable enemy at all lol)

THE GANG CHARLIE BROWN DANCING TO WIN A FIGHT! SUSIE GAINING THE POWER TO ACT THROUGH SHEER FORCE OF WILL! SUSIE FORCING RALSEI TO LEARN TO ACT EVEN THOUGH HE DIDN'T WANT TO! THAT ENTIRE BATTLE WAS AMAZING! THE "BATTLE WON" END DANCING SEQUENCE! GOING INSANE GOING INSANE

the puzzles in this chapter were genuinely really impressive! i especially loved the word search puzzles and the ice-ee undertale word search reference💙

that being said. the mouse puzzles were SO fucking infuriating. i caused poor noelle a LOT of grief with those and i feel bad.

SPEAKING OF NOELLE!! the scene where she and kris are walking through the puzzle, the one that spells "december", and she's talking about when they were kids, how she loved sneaking out? beautiful. the cinnamon tography <3 also i guessed dess's full name was december a while ago and while i guess it was obvious, it's nice to have that confirmed!

also, i love that susie and ralsei are real friends in this chapter! he taught her a healing spell!!

ugh. fucking berdly. so smug and pretentious. i love queen's desire to be as far away from him as possible though

i also like his backstory. it gives his behavior, even if it's still annoying, at least some context. i get the feeling of feeling like if you're not smart, people will forget about you, and that's scary.

ALSO ALSO. GAMER BERDLY. LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT IS PERFECT. "I THOUGHT YOU WERE A GAMER!" "i only play mobile games, berdly." "NOOOOOO!" like i ADORE that

anyways. time for me to talk about the only thing that matters in this world: suselle. i mean, did the gays win in this chapter or DID THE GAYS WIN IN THIS CHAPTER?? THEY RODE A HEART-COVERED FERRIS WHEEL AND HAD A HEARTFELT, TENSION-FILLED CONVERSATION!

"did you ever wonder why the real susie never picked on you? well, maybe it's because... when you were both new to class, you lent her one of your pencils, like... maybe a dumb one with candy canes on it or something, and... even though it didn't actually taste like candy, she... remembered your smile." okay god thanks toby it's not like i needed my heart or anything

SERIOUSLY. TOBY "i'm gonna give the gays everything they want" FOX IS BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER LADS

QUEEN'S BOSS BATTLE! ACTUALLY TOUGH, UNLIKE KING'S! AND GIGA QUEEN! I'M GOING INSANE THAT WAS SO SICK AND SO HARD

the way my heart BROKE when lancer turned to stone good god thank GOD our boy's okay

AND ROUXLS KAARD IN HIS PIRATE DUCK!! WITH HIS LITTLE HAT! DEMANDING THE QUEEN MAKE HIM BUTLER SUPREMETH! I LOVE HIM MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF

also!! kris and ralsei's little moment on the swan boat💙 i wasn't a kralsei shipper before but uh... that may be starting to change

it's hard because ralsei's still suspicious but at the same time i love him and want him to be happy. i don't know how to feel

also, if darkners outside of their dark worlds turn to stone after a while, why didn't ralsei? that's, uhhh... VERY sus. very weird. mr fox i need ANSWERS

WE FINALLY HAVE A WAY TO SAVE AFTER WE'VE FINISHED MOST OF THE EPILOGUE LADS. REJOICE!!

seriously the thing that peeved me about ch1 was that the last save point was on the battle stage and if i wanted to play the epilogue again, i had to. do that entire battle all over. BUT NOW THAT'S BEEN FIXED!!

UNDYNE AND ALPHYS HAVE MET UNDYNE AND ALPHYS HAVE MET THIS IS NOT A DRILL UNDYNE GAVE HER A BOX OF CANDIES EVERYBODY SHUT UP THEY'RE IN LOVE ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD

ALSO! NEAR THE BEGINNING! I FORGOT TO MENTION THE LITTLE WHITE DOG DOING DONUTS IN A TOY RACE CAR AND BACKING UP TRAFFIC! THANK YOU LITTLE WHITE DOG!

on that note: "looks like a car. this one has a man in it. he waves at you happily." AND THEN THE MAN'S GONE??? HEY TOBY???

ALSO. THE SEGMENT WHERE THE ANNOYING DOG HELPS US FIND THE KEY THROUGH THE POWER OF WANTON DESTRUCTION. THE BEST PLOT DEVICE!

TORIEL TEACHING SUSIE TO MAKE PIE STOP ITTTTT

and yes yes i KNOW kris slashed toriel's tires. that was extremely troubling. but THEY MADE PIE TOGETHER!!

"leave the chalk alone, kris" TORIEL!!

sans and toriel making egg puns and asgore running in and going "don't forget me, your eggs-husband!" is the FUNNIEST sitcom moment type thing ever. GOD.

on the other hand sans let me meet your brother god dammit i'll kill you

METTATONNNNNNN

RUDY... "who got you these flowers?" "is it weird for a married man to get flowers?" "so your wife did?" "oh, no! kris's dad did!" "...not even gonna try to understand this..." TOBY STOP ITTTT YOU'RE GIVING THE ASGORUDY SHIPPERS FALSE HOPE. YOU KNOW YOU'RE JUST GONNA KILL RUDY. YOU'RE JUST RUBBING SALT IN THE WOUND!

NUBERT! MY MAN!

seeing kris repeatedly they-themmed by multiple characters makes me so happy <3 poor kid... "college summer vacation when" "you opened the door with your eyes closed. you saw nothing" kris....

KRIS...

fucking. BLACK FOG STORM IN THE LIVING ROOM KRIS STOP IT. HOW'RE THEY GONNA REVEAL THIS WAS INNOCENT? THE KNIFE IN CHAPTER ONE WAS EASY BUT HOW WILL THEY EXPLAIN THIS

the staticy tv appearing in the dark and a toothy smile slowly fading into view in the center and lingering there ominously for far too long >>>>>>> every hollywood horror movie ever god. GOD

snowy and monster kid checking out the red door. implying there's something in there. something that kris knows about. knowing we won't get any more deltarune content for 5+ years does NOT fill me with determination

also. gaster's symbolic theme being mus_smile. and the final image in the game being a smile. god. gaster's COMING lads.

onionsan hears a song at night... a familiar song... memory, perhaps? or maybe a certain... four-note arpeggio that's hidden in a sound test room in undertale? who knows? guess we'll just have to wait for chapters 3/4/5.

this concludes my ramblings for now, but don't get it twisted- this is FAR from the last post i'll make about ch2. this whole chapter was absolutely amazing! brilliant! showstopping!! i'm genuinely soooo super impressed and excited for the chapter 3/4/5 bundle!!!

[inkdemonapologist]

[BatIM Call of Cthulhu Masterpost]

REMEMBER BACK WHEN WE GOT INVITED TO A MASQUERADE??? And we figured out the masquerade guests are definitely the sacrifice meant to summon their eldritch deity and that the party will probably be the location of the final ritual? ANYWAY WE’RE CRASHING THE PARTY, which means we need costumes.

The party is Alice in Wonderland themed; Sammy hasn’t read the book but got kin-assigned the March Hare by Joey, so naturally i’ve been doing nothing but drawing this loser in a dapper rabbit costume for an entire week

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Anyway have a little smattering of out-of-context quotes from session 11

[Sammy is played by me, Joey is played by Boo (inkyvendingmachine), Henry is played by Maf (inkcryptid), Jack is played by Mochi (whatyouwantedmetosee) and Thren (haunted-hijinxer) is our GM!]

[Sammy] Sammy just has no magical powers. [Jack] YET. [Sammy] Yet. Correct. ...He doesn't want any. [GM] Half of him doesn't want any. [Sammy] That's... accurate, yeah. Half of him ALSO wants the OTHER half of him to stop having magical powers. [Jack] No Magical Girl transformation? [GM] *laughing* Is that what that is? [Jack] I'd watch a magical anime where the main character drugs themself and then becomes a weird... religious... madman! [Sammy] That does sound compelling! Maybe you should see if you can find a franchise that contains that element, and then become a big fan of it and draw a bunch of fanart for some reason. [Jack] Yeah, I dunno, I mean... it's so tiring getting into new media, I need to get a friend who will drag me into it. [Henry] And then you guys can start a roleplaying game with it and drag me into it! [GM] There's an idea! [Jack] Yeah! Someone should get on that! [GM] And if there was such a theoretical game... people might have to figure... what they're doing when they wake up!

[Sammy] We were put in a situation before where we were told that the only thing we could do was kill the host, but we found a way around it last time, [Peter] What way was that? [Sammy] Complicated.

[GM] Henry is the first to notice the apparent cultist, camping out, looking tired, trying to spot you guys. [Henry] Uh, Henry is just going to tap Sammy on the arm and point him out. [Jack] Bros! You've got to unionise! Look at these working conditions! [GM] Maybe one of these days you won't spot them, right? Hope springs eternal!

[GM] Okay, you can make an intimidate! [Sammy] Okay! *rolls* FIFTEEN IS -- this is the only thing Sammy's good at now -- fifteen is a hard success!

[Jack] I'm proud of him! [Sammy] Someone has to be.

[GM] Allison chats with everyone, and gets you into the costume room! Everyone seems relatively friendly! [Sammy] Except Sammy. Sammy doesn't seem friendly.

[Joey] My idea was, Joey would be Mad Hatter -- [Sammy] Because he needs a hat, [Joey] --Yeah, so he can have a hat -- I was thinking Sammy could be the March Hare, Jack could be White Rabbit, and then Henry could be the Dormouse, [Sammy] Yes! And then the Haiti boys are all the Mad Teaparty, which is great, because the Mad Teaparty is canonically trapped in a time loop. [Sammy] Because we tHOUGHT ABOUT THIS TOO MUCH,

[Jack] Kin-assign Pete! [GM] He's content to wear anything that looks like it fits him, as long as people aren't trying to push a co-ordinated effort. [Joey] (Pete can be Caterpillar,) [Jack] Catter-pete-lar [Sammy] Oh my goodness. Completely unnecessary. [Jack] This is a pun that Jack might make, out loud, to Pete [GM] Pete laughs, despite himself! [Sammy] I feel like, Jack would make this pun, and then Jack would be SO pleased with himself that Pete would laugh, because Jack was so happy about it. [Jack] Yeah that sounds canon. ....It IS canon!!

[Jack] You can like, actually pretend to be people who decided to come to this party to enjoy it, and not just steal and/or murder!

[Henry] I want someone on the help, because I feel like we would have more control if we had someone on the inside, [Henry] And Henry does have a very forgettable face, apparently!!

[Joey] What are the staff wearing? Target red shirt, khaki pants? [Sammy] Perfect! Everyone will fall for it! Based on my experience wearing red shirts into Target!

[GM] I guess this does mean Joey misses an opportunity to dress up Henry. [Joey] *excited gasp* Wait, wait, [GM] What? [Joey] Sorry, this has nothing to do with anything that's happening right now in the roleplay, but I just suddenly realised that (1) when Henry got married, was Joey his best man, and (2) did Joey get to pick out his tuxedo for him [Henry] UHHHH... I feel like, Henry usually defaults to Joey for outfits and stuff, but he would hesitate a bit to ask his best friend who has an obvious crush on him to help dress for his heteronormative wedding!

[Joey] There probably is at least one of the wedding photos where Joey is insistent on standing very next to Henry -- while Henry's next to Linda! -- but, [GM] ...but also, Joey is here, [Joey] But also Joey is here. [Sammy] ...absolute disaster of a man... [GM] But the tuxedos look good! [Joey] Yes. Henry was properly fitted.

[Sammy] I don't want a full-- I don't want a freakin' fursuit, because-- [Henry] (FNAF in the distance)

[Sammy] But I feel like, since both White Rabbit and March Hare are, like, dapper rabbits, they could do something like, yeah, splicer mask and also a hat. [Jack] I mean, Jack's not opposed; Jack likes hats. [Sammy] Jack absolutely should have a hat, I agree. [Jack] He's getting so many hats! So many hats, and so many boyfriends, [GM] He can't be stopped! [Jack] >:3c He shouldn't be stopped.

[GM] I'm still just stuck on the phrase "Dapper Rabbits."

[GM] If Joey and Allison are talking further away, I guess it's moot. Though Allison did see Prophet Sammy! He changed in her room. [Sammy] Well, nobody explained him to her. Sammy just showed up the next day and hoped that we wouldn't talk about it, and then we didn't! It was great. [Jack] Sammy's over here, hoping that Allison is distracted by Joey so that none of this conversation is being listened to, [Jack] MEANWHILE, smash cut to the other side of the room, where Joey is explaining SillySam,

[Joey] A lot of Joey's lack of giving information was to keep her out of it, and not paint a target on her back... but now? She has a target on her back, so... Sure! You can also sacrifice yourself, for the greater good!

[Sammy] I'm sure someone in this party will thank Allison. It won't be me. But I'm sure someone will.

[Henry] Henry's already smearing his blood on people, he's gonna agree to whatever at this point.

[Sammy] DEFINITELY not a cult, now hold still while we put this guy's weird glowing blood on you, it's fine. [Jack] Welcome to the flock!

[GM] What does this mean for Prophet Sammy's sacrificeability rating on Henry, though? Now he's potentially long-term useful... [Sammy] I mean... [Jack] The Prophet isn't here so he doesn't need to know about this! [Sammy] ...I feel like, if something has greater value, then it's an even more impressive sacrifice. That's why you sacrifice an unblemished sheep, traditionally. If it's not a blemish-- [Sammy] Like, that's most of what he was worried about, like, “does this make you not fit for sacrifice.” But if it's actually a really cool thing, ...!

[Sammy] Sammy's nervous. [Jack] Jack is also nervous. [Henry] Henry is also nervous! [Jack] Oh, that's always a good sign, [Joey] Joey's going to be confident! [Henry] ...Of course he is. [Joey] Someone has to be! [Jack]...is he "Confident" or "Confident (Fast Talk)"? [Joey] YES. That last one. [Sammy] *muttering* That's the best we got, unfortunately.

[Sammy] If Jack or Henry express nervousness, Sammy agrees with them. If Pete is nervous, then Sammy will very aggressively say that Joey knows what he's doing.

[Sammy] Allison, don't use a spell to bind people's souls together in order to avoid crunch,,, [GM] You never know when something might be handy! [Sammy] I mean, [GM] Waste not want not!

[Henry] Does Henry have to draw in blood on himself...? [GM] No, Henry has a lot of his own blood on his person.

[GM] Aw, man, Bendy should've commented on the rabbit outfits! I'm sure he'd find that hilarious. [Joey] ...why...? [GM] WHY? It's just objectively funny! No additional reason is needed!!

[Joey] Joey will go through his notes, and confer with Henry and Bendy on, okay, shall we try this, and see if we can help Bendy as well? [Henry] Henry is down to try! [GM] Bendy is worried about Henry overexerting himself. [Henry] ...Henry is down to try!

[Jack] Worst case, Jack looks at the symbol, and then he can be seeing-eye rabbit for the rest of the group!

[GM] Norman wonders what the plan is! [Henry] Bold of you to assume,

[Sammy] We're having such a good sleepover! We did a weird blood ritual, and we're braiding each other's hair~ [Joey] Having a fashion show, [Sammy] Yeah! We went out and got clothes, [Jack] Can't believe Joey called a boy, [Sammy] Gotta ask Joey about the boy he likes... wait, no, don't do that. [Jack] I'd say it's time to play seven minutes in heaven, but I think we, we did that early. [Sammy] WE DIDN'T DO A VERY GOOD JOB,

[GM] Norman wants to see how this plays out. [Joey] Okay, well, try not to get sacrificed, then, [GM] He laughs, and thanks you for the advice! [Sammy] *Hypnos Hadesgame voice* "Try not to get sacrificed, okay?"

[Henry] Allison is very helpful, and not weird at all!

[Joey] We already have the banjo case full of ritual circles, and Joey would rather have the emergency circles than Sammy carrying around bOTTLES OF INK. [Sammy] WHY, WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT THAT TO BE HAPPENING? WHAT WOULD BE THE PROBLEM WITH THAT,

[GM] Make a sanity check! [Jack] Wait, what's happening? [Sammy] Joey was trying to think too hard.

[GM] Sammy does manage to catch that there's a little-- next to the kitchen, when you go into the place where they're serving food, there's a sign that says "Sheep Shop" over it. And there's a person wearing a sheep mask, handing out food. [Sammy] OKAY, THAT'S FINE,,, I don't feel like Sammy has actually read Through The Looking Glass, so I don't know if he knows why this is happening. I think he's just concerned. [GM] Excellent. Ideal response.

[GM] And Joey has NEVER seen the symbol EVER because he's incredible at not looking at creepy symbols! Which you wouldn't expect. [Sammy] I'm sure Joey will put this in his autobiography.

[Jack] :/ No Hashtag Gay Rights at this party,

[GM] Seems to be another party-goer; in fact, you recognise the voice! [Joey] Ohhh. Kyle -- I don't know his actual name, but -- [Sammy] (Dennis!) [GM] (Yes, that's-) [Joey] -- Kyle.

[Henry] Henry is going to try to sneak up on Moonlight while he's distracted! [GM] OH! ...Okay! He's very distracted, Sammy just screamed! [excited noises from everyone beCAUSE NO ONE EXPECTED THIS] [GM] You successfully sneak up behind him! [Henry] I'm going to grab the staff! [GM] Make a Brawl check, with advantage! [Sammy] (He has SO many limbs that don't work my dude, you got this,) [Henry] That's a success! [GM] You snatch it! [Henry] I RUN!!!

[Joey] We're just both escorting Jack, now. [Sammy] Would you say Jack is late, for a very important date? [Jack] Well YEAH, his Face Removal was scheduled like 2 dreams ago!!

[GM] He'd have to roll for it, to see if it felt familiar to his trip to Carcosa. [Jack] Extreme success! [GM] Then he would pick up that familiar feeling! [Jack] Oh, nice and homey at this party! Really nice. Nostalgic! It's been a while. [Sammy] Hm, [Jack] Maybe he should go play the piano, for old time's sake! [Sammy] NO

[saltyxtides]

BAYDEN WARDEYN.  

“Now you’re going to tell me not to have a dirty mind and then refer to our live as day time television? I think we’ve both sat around in that community room enough that Sammy and all the characters that make up every piece of sand that fall through that hourglass do nothing but think about sex and who’s having it with who.” He laughed proving he watched Days of Our Lives too.

“Speaking of-” He clicked on his tv as the time neared not wanting to miss it. “-I have to find out what happens with Marlena and Black at the auction and all the jewels. That other she-bitch is determined to out-bid them for her son to impress her daughter he can prove he loves her still which leads to sex. All things leads to sex. All things are motivated by thus. Even the scenes that aren’t about that are really about that.” He laughed. “It’s what it’s all about Celestis. Might as well get used to it now.” He kept laughing.

As for his favorite fairy tale?

“Uhhhh… I don’t know. Do you really mean fairy tale or just Disney cartoons because you always see me watching those? Because I’d probably pick Fox and the Hound. I don’t think that’s a fairy tale. It doesn’t have much a happy ending. It’s a tragedy. Actually, it’s sad fuck. I don’t know why it’s my favorite. It just is. It’s the best one I watch over and over, but if I have to pick an actual fairy tale fuck, I don’t know. Um…. does it have to be Disney because I’d probably go for Shrek. If it has to be Disney Beauty and the Beast hands down. Best music live or cartoon. Somebody falls in love with you even though you’re big mean asshole that never leaves his castle? Yeah, that’s the best one.”

Fiona picked being a grossy Ogre herself to be with a grumpy ol Ogre love over her own beautiful form too. Bayden may have had a running theme on fairy tales and love. Fox and the Hound went deeper than that.

“You know what one I hate though? Pinocchio. That one drives me crazy. I hate it when that one comes on. It’s so eyeroll worthy. It’s not even about all that I wanna be a real boy bullshit. It’s how he’s judged. Like damn Honest John and Gideon trick the fuck out of him. He’d never been in the world a day in his life and father sent him out in it all alone with no guidance. Worst father in the fucking world. Geppetto sucks and Pinocchio got all the flack. The fact he’s a puppet is ridiculous symbolism in how everyone dragging him around and he has no idea how to get. He honestly can’t even when he tries. He’s winds up in that puppet show. He may not have no strings but that doesn’t mean he aint in no cage. Fuck his song. No. Then this cricket is all harping on him about his choices like he’s making bad ones and has very little brains? No fuck that cricket. Judging his choices like he had the same choices someone else had. He didn’t see it from Pinocchio’s shoes. He saw it from his own privileged cricket shoes that already had an education and yada yada yada. Pinocchio didn’t even know what school. I gotta go to school my ass. Who sends a magic wooden boy to school like that’s fucking normal? Dumbass dad. Everything that puppet went through is asshole idiot Geppetto’s fault. Pinocchio just stood there not understanding anything trying to be nice to everyone he ever met even the con men because he was naive as fuck because his dad didn’t teach him better until it was too late. Yeah yeah. The blue ass fairy turns him into a real boy at the end. Big fucking deal. She waits until his dying ass breath to go oh I guess we’ve finally let life break you I guess that counts as good enough then. Here ya go. No. That story sucks. That’s the worst story ever told.”

Then someone answered on the Cuban other end of the phone and Bayden started his order.

Woah Nelly. Bayden just went off on a passive aggressive rant paralleling his life in relation to the wooden boy without saying so of course. He didn’t realize how obvious that was. At least it would have been obvious to any one of his nurses and doctors had he said it to them.

When he got off the phone he said, “They’ll be here in about 30 minutes.”

Never any fun? Him?

“Oh!” He laughed about to get her again. “That must be why a stick in the mud like you hangs out with me. It makes so much sense now.”  

Then she called the state of their relationship right now an Ice Age phase.

That got to him more than he thought it should. She wasn’t wrong. It was some sort of miracle they were talking right now, that she was in his house again, that he was even in his house again at all.

Then she spilled what she had meant. She managed to get a hold of some of his stuff before they tossed it. His stuff only consisted of his art or his flash drives. He didn’t own anything and his mother confiscated his guitar and it was left back at her house for now. That meant the majority of what Celestis could have saved was his art. He didn’t know which, but he knew that’s what it meant. She had his sketchbooks.

That mechabitch of a neighbor of his was going to be so-so-so-so disturbed at that zero patience lack of impulse control neighbor of hers.

He flung his arms around her Ms No Touchy Worse than Kuzco Rogue. He was going to totally throw off her groove and test her risky powers without a thought about it in the world and squeezed. He acted like it wasn’t a big deal, like fuck it.

Fuck everything. But those sketches were his heart and soul. He put everything into those. He just reacted.

“Thank you.”

He just reacted without thinking like he always does.  

       !!!!!!!. WHAT i s WRONG w i t h HIM.  She covered her ears && turned on her heel walking away from Bayden.  Distancing herself from him yet she could still hear every word he was saying.  His mind was worse then just dirty, it was greasy too.  Ignoring the cleverness of the way he correlated Days of Our Lives.    Whipping around lowering her hands to look at him with full on annoyance  “ONLY o n c e.  && that was the correlation between you && that hissy cougar of a nurse.”  The way her eyes squinted just a bit, as if the sun was in her eyes as she talked to him as he knew exactly who she meant, but she looked up to him.  The dynamic of Bayden && Nurse Janet was much later explained from him. “She’s very territorial of you, that it made me wonder you’re relationship.”  However outside of that?  No.

       “I’d go mentally insane with SEXUAL f r u s t r a t i o n if that was the case.  Some of us can’t afford to think about sex && who’s having it with who all the damn time Bayden.”  With the restrictions of physical touch, she just couldn’t think like that.  Celestis- in Rowan’s body had to strive different approaches as she knew she appears a bit of a closet dyke, or perhaps closet lesbian?

       “You are so fucking weird Bayden.” Celestis was at a loss of words.  Putting her hands up for surrender on this topic.  It’ll drive her quite insane challenging his deranged philosophy.  Celestis didn’t even want to know if she dared questioned the thoughts in her mind that he was suggesting.  After all, what about themselves?  About what kind of relationship they held && what it was going to evolve too.  She felt it was very arguable, but the topic of itself was dangerous territory && a lot of uncomfortableness.  “I just can’t with you right now.”

       FINALLY a topic to take her mind off s e x.  Any more of it && she would start to feel a little uncomfortable.  “I’m guessing you never read Mannix’s work.”  Not that she found anything wrong with it.  Bayden was right.  It wasn’t quite a fairy tale, but a novel.  Depressing as the novel is the little Disney cartoon barely captures the depth of sadness the novel actually has, it’s a book she would never recommend to the weak hearted, yet animal loving types like Bayden, it could be a bit far more tragic.  “What makes you think all fairytales have happy endings?  There are quite a few fairytales that don’t.”  She seemed to mention gently, as they were like North && South.  They pointed in opposite directions in a way, as in he was more involved with movies as she was more involved with books.  So he liked red heads && brunettes'.  Shocking!   

       Going completely silent during Bayden’s hate ted talk on the topic of Pinocchio, that she could tell, was talking about his own self.  The things we disagree with in life speak a lot about ourselves.  As he could write a very good essay on the topic, if it ever arised, it would be interesting to read.  Yet there was something he said that stuck with her for a moment:

       He-saw-it-from-his-own-priviledged-cricket-shoes-that-already-had-an-education-&&-yada-yada-yada’.  A lightbulb had came on behind her eyes, as it spoke out in the kind of way that she feels she treats Bayden like that sometimes.  Maybe even a lot more than she wished.  Not that she had a very good education, as she didn’t finish Middle School properly, but she kept to educating herself within the hopeless hospital programs as much as she could.  In a way her experiences, && his own were very different.  The materials she could get her hands on.

       Another example that randomly came to mind, that she probably never properly explained to Bayden that started to sink in was realizing her mistake on the whole why she’s so anti-Witch Coven.  Claims of it being a CULT might stick a little strange to someone like Bayden who has a more innocent view due to his family d y n a m i c.

       The other?  BODY s w a p p i n g.   Raising her arm to her neck she’d rub her neck, digging her nails into her own skin, dragging her nails into flesh.  She knew about the dangers.  Spending some time in someone else’s body, && the senses of self && memories start to shift as being them occupying there body, there brain, as you’re trying to change to adapt to better fit the new form.  Physically && psychologically.  However, that night would have gone wrong regardless within the depression she was in, Bayden’s desire for answers, the wait that separated the both of them when they met up.  Interrogated && heavily/relentlessly questioned nearly side by side of each other was a little to much at the time, but, she can’t deny listening now, she felt negligent.

       “That’s fast.”  Celestis said the first thing to come to her mind, avoiding the thoughts clouding her mind, correlating the dots to his rant on the topic of Pinnochio as she is to blame sometimes.  

       She’d make that snarling noise.  “Excuse me?  Take that back!  I’m not old-fashioned.  I just progress like a TORTOISE.  Seriously s l o w.”  Yet she could relate to the oh so seriousness.  Her life was terribly serious.  Yet she doesn’t truly avoid enjoyable activities.  She just avoids anything with animals.  Horrifyingly crowded area’s most the time.  Money related places.  She enjoys doing activities, that meet with her agenda, && desires. 

       KARMA is a b i t c h.  LIFE is a b i t c h.  This world is full of mysteries, that MANKIND has not even s c r a t c h e d the surface to see what’s really going on.  So much emotions bubbled up the surface, she forgot to guard herself from the dangers of her zero patience lack of impulse control neighbor of hers.

       As much as she couldn’t deny the seconds of the tight embrace was something that Celestis could realize was nice.  Perhaps something she’d rarely felt in her lifetime.  Went terribly wrong.  Sensing something wasn’t right before she could pull Bayden off her, her soul rushed out of ROWAN’S b o d y && into BAYDEN’S own v o l i t i o n.  The first thing she felt was the cold.  The way violent tiny needles of pain stabbed at the flesh ripping itself from Rowan into Bayden’s.  The temperature became an unbearable feeling.  Feeling the way the muscles began to spasm from the awful, bone-numbing cold as she settled in a a different body. 

       A wave of dizziness && nausea swept through her in Bayden’s body as she stumbled, fighting to stay on her feet, but she found the body mass of himself entirely different then Rowans.  Just like that, she was registering she was in Bayden’s body, as she ended up unable to keep herself on his own two feet ending up collapsing down onto the floor.  Determined to just lay there, unmoving, as floodlights flared to life as it all started in small blurs to visually  focus.  Everything became utterly different in someone else body.  The way they breathed, see, level of focus/thought process/what drugs ran in his veins, control of the limbs, the mass of it’s body, she can’t say they flatline during transitioning but the body ends up hurting in places she didn’t know could hurt && it wasn’t from just falling moments before.  Perhaps more the nervous system having to be entirely rewired?  Restart?  As if it sensed an invasion of the body pushing out it’s owner’s soul.  She was. . . she was in BAYDEN SHANNON WARDEYN’S body.

       Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.        Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.        Fuuuuuuuuuuck.        Fuuuuuuuuuck.        Fuuuuuuuuck.

       LIFE can be s h i t sometimes.

[mugichaaaa]

Bad Batch Analysis prt2

Welcome back everyone to part 2 to my Bad Batch analysis trailers. The trailer just happened to be posted around midnight and my wifi went out in the morning so I couldn’t really do much until now. Since we got another AMAZING trailer for the Bad Batch series I believe it’s time to do another analysis. If you haven’t read my first analysis from the first trailer you can read it here 

Without further ado let's get started. 

The first scene we get from the trailer is a shot after that one shot we got from the first trailer. This could probably be around the time they landed on Kamino because if you look in the top right corner there is the Havoc Marauder. 

Training Sequence

Next we see one of the many training grounds on Kamino. It’s strange seeing only one training ground and not multiple. It seems like this specific training ground might be underwater, as there is this long pole in the center with surrounding lights around it. Now that might be a reach, but honestly where could you see that training ground on the round houses above the ocean. 

Along with that in the Legends there was a Kaminoan Jedi who lived under the sea to try to prevent the vision she had. (the vision was the clone army betraying the Jedi) So it could be possible when the Kamioan’s were building the floating city they builded the bottom levels to be used as training grounds or something. 

In this scene we can see that Echo is using a vibroblade. Now is this Echo’s own vibroblade or does this belong to Hunter and Echo just picked it up to destroy one of the droids?

I feel like this shot can tell us a lot about the bad batch and how they interact with each other. Hunter and Crosshair are looking at the camera to which I can probably assume where Tarkin speaks to them. Echo lightly turns towards the direction of Tech, Hunter, and Crosshair. Tarkin probably said something that would make Echo turn to look at the three of them. 

Also Tech although very subtle looks at the ground. Now this could be two things, if Tarkin said something then it might be tech looking at the ground like a Child does when their parents scolds them. Or it might be Tech is exhausted and is looking at the destroyed droids all around him. 

Hunter is seen talking to someone (probably Omega) telling them that their squad (aka the Bad Batch) is nothing but trouble. We can see Crosshair and Tech walk to a door which I can assume to be their barracks for the time being (before they escape). 

I really like this scene from Crosshair. This seemed to show how well the Bad Batch worked together. Hunter throws his knife in the air and Crosshair goes and shoots it in place. Which might make it even more sad if Crosshair betrays the Bad Batch. Imagine this, The bad batch is in this certain situation where a duo between Crosshair and Hunter would work. Hunter turns to where Crosshair would normally be. 

“Cross lets-” 

All he sees no one, and the feeling of betrayal and pain seeps through him. 

“Right…” 

Hunter Civilian Clothing

So we see Hunter in Civilian clothes which is like. UGH please let me hold your hand Hunter. The first time we see them is at 0:31 where Hunter steals a speeder, probably to catch up to Fennec as we can see in 1:39 who has a kid. 

We get a better look at Hunter’s Civilian clothes, it really reminds me of Cut lawquane’s outfit from The Clone Wars Season 2 “The Deserters”. Maybe we might see Cut lawquane in the Bad Batch, if so I think that would be really great to see. Cut’s children with Omega might be the cutest thing we might get from Bad Batch, that’s if it happens.  

Now in this scene we see Tech piloting the ship, but if you look at the corner there is Hunter on a control panel with bandages wrapped around him. So this might be either Hunter getting injured from a mission (maybe from Fennec Shand??)

This kid (not Omega) is dangling onto a cylindrical object. The Following scene with Hunter and the kid following a speeder that belongs to Fennec Shand. 

The Final Part of the Clone Wars 

At 0:37 we see the Batchers coming down from what seems to be like a hill destroying B1 battle droids. While the next shot is Tech and Echo shooting down said droids. 

So in my previous analysis I mentioned how for one the explosions I was wondering if it was the Batchers or the Empire. Now with this new Trailer it seems to be leaning more towards the Batchers doing this. 

We see Hunter putting away his knife with Wrecker carrying what seems like to be a destroyed droid. 

Now I mentioned in my previous analysis that the snowy planet might be a Crosshair arc. But now with these new scenes with the snowy planet it might be a set up to Crosshair being something that most Bad Batch Stans don’t want. 

Crosshair as the traitor

So I know I talked about this in my last trailer analysis and I said this was very unlikely. But uhhhh now with this trailer I'm 70% sure Crosshair will betray the Bad Batch. Now the reason why I said Crosshair wouldn’t betray the Bad Batch was because the Purge trooper and Crosshair just didn’t have things that lined up. But now with this new trailer I am pretty worried for our boy Crosshair. 

This is the ONLY scene we get of Omega and Crosshair together. Any other scenes with Omega and the Bad Batch Crosshair is nowhere in sight. 

I literally called this when I wrote about my predictions about the Bad Batch series. Where I wrote two paths. One where Crosshair was not the traitor and stays with the bad batch and one if Crosshair was the traitor (I censor the right since it had my actual name since I did the bad batch analysis during school)

And 1:19 seems to likely prove my Crosshair is the traitor snippet I did. All the batchers + omega are running through what seems to be like the late night halls of Kamino. Who knew Echo would be following his brother’s footsteps. 

Again Crosshair isn’t here 

… or maybe he might be hiding him behind Hunter to give us anxiety about what happened to Crosshair. But if Crosshair is gone then they need a new sniper to fill in his role...

Omega

We are first introduced to a new character who is called “omega”.  Now who is Omega? Well we don’t know this is the first we EVER got to see them anywhere. Now when I first saw Omega I immediately thought of Satine’s Mandalore. We are not talking about the houses and clans (like house Wren). We’re talking about Satine’s Mandalorians (the pacifist) in which when we see her people in the clone wars they are normally pale with light colored eyes. Omega almost fits that but without the bright blue eyes. Another thing is that Omega kinda sounds like they have a Satine Mandalorian accent. As I was listening to Omega speak I was comparing it to Korkie and his friends and Omega lowkey sounds like Korkie’s friends but that’s probably a really big reach.

This is where I think if Crosshair betrays the Bad Batch this is where Omega would come in and take Crosshair’s role as sniper. We don’t know how good Omega is but with Hunter’s heightened sense his sight might be just as good to teach Omega to work with a bow and arrow

The Explosion

Now we have an explanation for the explosion we saw in the last trailer. It was definitely the bad batch and now we know it was part of the thrusters from a broken Venator Star Destroyer. Since now we got more context to that explosion, I believe that this will be on Bracca where maybe MAYBE we might see a young ginger Cal Kestis. 

Rex

*breaths in* 

REX I MISSED YOU SO MUCH 

I’m so happy Rex and Echo are going to a reunion. I really hope Rex and Echo have a moment where Rex completely vents to Echo about everything that happened. Like Umbara, how much Five’s death took a toll on him, and when he left Jesse and his brothers during order 66. It would be really interesting to see if Rex has some sort of survivor's guilt. I know we see a little bit in Season 7 when he’s talking to Cody about the Domino squad but after order 66 I think it would be nice to dwell onto a little more. 

Another thing I really hope we get to see how Rex meets up with Wolffe and Gregor. 

AT-ET Walker

We get a couple of scenes here of the AT-ET but here look at this. The republic symbol and the red paint is completely removed, it’s completely bare (which is so boring). Another thing is that the AT-ET are completely cutting across a group of people, these could be protestors of something that we yet not know of. 

It seems like Hunter and Tech snuck into and AT-ET, now the next scene we get is an AT-ET blowing up another AT-ET. There are two possibilities on who shot at the AT-ET, one could be the Bad Batch themselves shooting at the other AT-ET or two it could be the Empire shooting at the Bad Batch stolen AT-ET 

Saw Gerra

It’s really nice to see Saw Gerra, we have seen him in 5 star wars projects (Clone wars, Rogue one, Rebels, Jedi Fallen Order, and now Bad Batch). Since this is the beginning of the Empire we get that small time between Clone wars and Jedi: Fallen Order to see what Saw was up to. 

Fennec Shand

My wifey, I love her so much. But I did get something wrong and right with Fennec Shand in my last analysis. 

First of all the explosion we see with Fennec Shand is NOT connected to the factory arc but instead connected to Hunter saving the kid. 

But the thing I did get right was that one scene where Fennec was holding a gun out. That fog is from a fight and Fennec and her opponent are at a standstill. 

One thing new about Fennec is that she had a Kid dangling off her speeder. First of all that’s not safe at all and 2 why does Fennec have a Kid with her and then why does Hunter have the child in the next scene?

Small theory but this kid might be just like Omega that escaped. Fennec is sent out to retrieve the kid but Hunter is like “not on my watch” and takes the kid. Fennec looks shocked that Hunter interferes with her job and looks ANGY. 

Or this kid might be just some random kid that Fennec took. 

Now a recurring segment called Cool things I saw on the Trailer 

Just any scenes from the training scene with Wrecker is just cool and I’m like yes sir go off. 

I swear every scene with Wrecker is a joy to see. He just brightens my day all the time

Bad Batch are taking notes from Waxer and Boil about adopting kids during war times. 

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This segment was short due to most of the trailer being analyzed and not much random spread out scenes. 

And that’s that! Thank you all who read this far, I hope I was able to make this clear enough for you all to understand. If there’s anything else you saw in the Trailer that I miss I would love for you to comment about it! I think i’m going to do a countdown for Bad Batch, idk let’s see how I keep this up. 

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Hey Jasper :D

I've been really looking into witchcraft for a while, and pop culture witchcraft has really caught my eye and I'm very fond of the idea! Your posts have helped me gain some basic knowledge, and I have to thank you for that!

I saw that you incorporate elements of D&D into your witchcraft (magical practices?), and I was wondering if you could share how your process goes for that! I am neurodivergent, and D&D is already one of my special interests, so it would be fun to incorporate that in another area of my life, and ultimately into my magical life!

Thank you for any and all help, I appreciate it tons!

From Solaris ☀ (Ey/Em pronouns please!)

Hello there Solaris!

Firstly, I regret (joking) to inform you that I immediately went "AY/EM" in a thick Southern drawl when I got down to your pronouns. It was not something I could control, it's just the Missouri Culture babeyyy-

And I got the other half of your ask, but I was already most of the way through typing this by the time the second came in, so I'll respond to that one separately!

Ahem. Anyway. I outlined it in my veryyyyy basic post on broad-scope pop culture magic, but I use Dungeons and Dragons for divination, the "elemental" system (rather the magic school category system), spells, and symbols. I actually use D&D the least of my four primaries, but uhhhh let's ignore that for a minute!

Divination is a whole school of magic in D&D and the official tarot deck is coming out in May, which I am looking forward to and asking for my July birthday in case any of my friends see this and want to flood me with them (again, joking, please don't mail me 20 of the same tarot deck, I WILL go mad). I use a lot of the 3.5e and 5e divination spells as the basis for divination-based workings when I feel like it.

The magic schools! These help me a lot when I try to figure out just what I'm trying to do with a spell. If I'm building one from the ground up for a specific purpose, figuring out what the proper magic school would be and narrowing it down from there works well for me! This ties right back into the "spells" section too.

Finally, there are the symbols. There are so many symbols and different scripts for the various D&D languages, which you can use as the basis for sigils. Lots of fun!

So finally, have some quick little resources:

My D&D tag on this blog: https://jasper-pagan-witch.tumblr.com/tagged/dungeons%20and%20dragons

My D&D tag on my grimoire blog: https://jasper-grimoire.tumblr.com/tagged/section:%20dungeons%20and%20dragons

Me, on Discord, if you wanna friend me there and we can talk more in a private setting that isn't Tumblr (derogatory): JasperEspurrWitch#6396

The Forgotten Realms fandom wiki, which has a lot of fascinating lore if you don't have access to all the new or old books: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

I hope this gives you a place to start!

~Jasper

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 5/4/21

yeah yeah yeah may the fourth be with you whatever this is mostly me rambling disjointedly about the bits and pieces of star wars i crammed into my weekend

i think the star war that is the best-made and most watchable on a technical level (including script) is ESB. however, AOTC is my fuckin favorite bc there’s so much fucking nonsense happening all the the goddamn time. incoherent movie with too many sidequests but it all looks sick as shit

my personal history with star wars is: watched it (like many other movies) juuuuust a little too young with my dad as a Bonding Activity (to the silent fury of my mom) but unfortunately got Really Into It. reading expanded universe novels (nearly all of them, i have almost two hundred of them in boxes in a storage unit) was the thing that kept me alive through high school. never really got into the comics, didn’t pick up any of the post-disney-nuking-the-expanded-universe novels. was horribly disappointed by the sequel trilogy and solo. rogue one is all right. however, the mandalorian (weird and cheesy as it is, also i am not immune to pedro pascal) really got me back into this stupid fucking franchise. so i have been taking a rambling walk through things that i remembered liking. all my fun star wars facts are old and outdated but they sure all do live in my brain

listening ‘General Grievous’ off the ROTS soundtrack. this is i think the beginning of my love for heavy low rumbling undercurrents? would not say this has a ‘groove’ per se but there is definitely a forward momentum. love some ominous brass. love the williams panic-spike strings. LOVE A DANGER WARNING LEITMOTIF

god u listen to the original + prequel soundtracks and then listen to the sequel soundtracks (as i have been doing during working hours for the past week) and i get really sad. should have let him retire in peace. he doesn’t have a ton of gas left.

anyway this is the bit of the movie where obi-wan shows up on utapu (the cool sinkhole planet) with the big lizard bird to fight grievious btw. good fight. why does he flirt with the big robot man when he’s already in a enemies-to-lovers flirtationship with asaaj ventress RIGHT AFTER the duchess of mandalore died in his arms??? who can say. grief makes people do weird things.

reading rebel heist (2014, kindt & castiello). these are some of the few loose single-issue comics i own bc i love the covers so much. i hate dealing with bagged and boarded comics bc they’re a pain to store and they’re honestly a pain to read. gimme a trade paperback any day please. rereading these, i liked them less than i remembered- it’s a cool conceit of following an ordinary person in the rebellion as they get caught up in luke & leia & han & chewie’s schemes, and things of course do eventually turn out fine but not before all these regular people go UHHHH WHAT THE FUCK? WTF WTF WTF NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR at some classic skywalker nonsense. can i just say how much i love these covers again tho

watching star wars: the clone wars ran from 2008 to 2020. i watched the first six seasons with my siblings on starwars.com for most of its run, bc there was a brief period of time (i forget whether it was two days after or ten days after) when you could watch each episode for free and we didn’t have cable until well after i went to college.

the second season is where it really starts to hit its stride- i haven’t gone back to watch anything as an adult but i remember liking a lot of the episodes from this season. as an adult, it’s pretty horrifying to realize how fucking stupid the clone wars were from a loss of life and material gain standpoint.

there’s a two-episode arc about the zillo beast, a big kaiju critter, and i only had enough time to watch the first one. the have to protect the oil planet (sorry, i’m getting a note in) so sorry the FUEL RESERVES on the oil planet, so they drop a giant EMP two miles from the city center, but this isn’t a planet with people that look like humans so it’s fine! the important thing is that the fuel is okay.

anyway, this episode is lovely and moody- this is such a stiff-looking show and wreathing everything in cool purple mist and making sure the silhouettes look good is really doing a lot of the work here

look i just really like this framing. the jedi on a stage above everyone else, waist-deep in blood already from the months-old war, the hint of an imperial symbol in the cannon dish, anakin & mace separated by an interior wall and separate hatches. i’m reading too much into season fucking two of the clone wars but i just think it’s neat.

yes!!! starship fuel SHOULD be bright radioactive green!!! star wars is mostly about things looking sick as shit and it’s part of why i am the way i am now

ok i fucked up on this last screenshot but look. LOOK. this is some peak nonsense right here love it. mwah. star wars is at its heart a melodramatic pulpy swashbuckling science fiction adventure and it gets weird when it forgets that

playing i own fallen order bc it came for free with my pc but i have not cracked it open bc it seems like an assassains creed, a style of game that fucking infuriates me. also i own no other star wars games so this section left intentionally blank

making i make one of these things a year now i guess. this one is finally for me.