#you know who’s actually weird??? IT’S Y’A��

[kelin-is-writing]

Not some peoples on here and TikTok going:

“You don’t like the ending because your favorite character died”

Hell yeah? Literally why wouldn’t I be pissed that my favorite character who could be saved died? Dabi has one of the most realistic backstories and best characterizations in Mha, actually not only in Mha but Anime/Manga in general and do you know how taboo of topics domestic violence, child abuse and raping are in Japan? Mind you, Japan is a country that has domestic violence normalized in their country as part of marriage and somehow education too. Y’all might think I’m joking but victims of domestic abuse in Japan are struggling very much to this day, but Japanese peoples rarely talks about it because Japan is a “Family Image” oriented society (Endeavor and the Himuras showed it enough me thinks) so they categorically refuse to let people know abuse happens, especially the abusers.

“Oh BuT aLL aBuSeRs DoN’t WaNt It To Be KnOwN”, I know but in Japan it’s normalized to just live through it and that (together with bullying) it’s one of the reasons the suicide rate in Japan is one of the highest globally, hope it helps to get a better grasp on everything I’m trying to say.

Horikoshi has depicted it perfectly, because you know… He lives there and even the final outcome (Rei becoming Enji’s caretaker after years of abuse) it’s very much Japanese style. Which is why the Todoroki family ending it’s wrong and disturbing. Wrong, and disturbing.

And as if one of Enji’s victims becoming his caretaker isn’t enough, one of his other victims had to die because of his actions.

“No BuT tOuYa WeNt OfF wItH hIs QuIrK oN hIs OwN”, and who was the main reason and cause he went off like that with his Quirk? Endeavor.

Yep. Thought so too.

I don’t get why some of you are bending backwards, doing backflips and cartwheels to defend Endeavor just because he’s an Hero like— I’m sorry but he is the depiction of a realistically fact that even if your job (YOUR JOB!) is to save other people, behind closed doors that same person who saves other people can still be a shitty person who’s a curse to his own family, because Endeavor is just Enji Todoroki’s façade.

And he’s a well-written character because the depiction of abuser Horikoshi did of him it’s accurate to reality. Enji is egotistical, narcissistic, greedy, self-centered and selfish, which are all the characteristics that made him physically unable to actually address any of what he did until Dabi’s reveal, despite knowing that he was dead wrong and that together with the fact that he waited almost a decade to apologize to his family, is the reason why I genuinely don’t give a flying fuck about his “redemption”. If sorrow was eating you alive why didn’t you apologize sooner, trash?

Touya never got the closure he deserved, actually none of the Leagues got it and you know why? Because the whole War arc was rushed, you can tell by the way Shigaraki was offed. From a writing standpoint it was laughable, seriously.

What’s even worse is that… Nothing has actually changed in the Hero society despite the fact that nine years have passed, because people like Touya, Shigaraki and Toga will never be actually saved because Heroes have failed miserably to save the prime examples of what’s to be saved.

And no, they weren’t saved because death isn’t salvation for people who want to live, be accepted and loved. You guys that think this way genuinely scare me and I want y’all far away from me.

Like— To sum what I’m trying to say: We can’t cry and hate Mha’s ending because of all this, but some of y’all can cry, kick sheets, throw up, crashout and hate the ending over fucking ships?

Wow…

[ukiyokki]

mars reads too much dreamnotfound fanfiction for their own good

a dreamnotfound fanfic recommendation list by your resident dumbass (me)

this took way to fucking long... i’m tired

below is a (very extensive) list dedicated to all my favorite dnf fics, ranging from quick one shots to 100k+ word monstrosities that devour the storage on my computer, forever incomplete masterpieces to ongoing works of art, you get the idea. i provided links for each fic/series for your reading pleasure. there will be no smutty/nsfw fics on this list, that’s just not my vibe lmao. this list goes in no particular order, and i’ll update it from time to time when i feel like it. now, without further ado, let us begin.

Heat Waves (complete) by tbhyourelame

(wtf else did you expect, looking at a dnf rec list?) amazingly well written, and while it’s not my favorite dnf fic it’s damn near close. in the midst of a brutal heatwave, a suffering dream comes to terms with the fact that he is desperately in love with his best friend. everything i could say about this fic has already been said by nearly everyone who’s read it, so if you haven’t yet caved into the hype, just go for it. you won’t be disappointed.

Gonna be around (completed) by georgescatcafe

(mc irl) my favorite dnf oneshot to date. just read it, i don’t wanna spoil for you :)

Inferno in the Sky (ongoing)by zairielon

(star wars au) an ongoing star wars au currently clocking in at almost 200k words. need I say more? everything about it absolutely slaps, each chapter is amazingly written, and it’s just good. also, can we just appreciate dream and tubbos dynamic in here? 10/10, amazing, must protecc. oh right, a summary: george, an exiled padawan turned engineer, must return to the jedi temple after attacks on it from an unknown assailant threaten the safety of himself and the other jedi.

Like Magic (ongoing) by KangarooKen, NotGra55 (Gra55)

(harry potter au) the unofficial official dnf harry potter au. we watch the young unlikely wizard pair grow up together throughout their years at hogwarts as they battle good old fashioned wizard racism. beautifully written, incredibly fun and suspenseful, and just an overall blast and a half.

GeorgeNotFound, Son of Poseidon, and the League of Minor Gods (ongoing) by Clichewho_69, Cygnvs, Trash_Kinggg

(percy jackson au) percy jackson au? check. “road trip” (technically quest but u get what i mean)? check. enemies to friends to lovers? check. this fic follows the plot of the lightning theif (albeit loosely), but everything is explained enough where you don’t have to read percy jackson to understand what’s going on. basically after moving to the usa, george gets taken to camp halfblood where he learns that a) gods exist. b) he’s the son of poseidon and c) he needs to prove that he didn’t steal zeus’s master bolt.

Protected (completed) by aenqua

(royalty/camelot au) my favorite piece of dnf media of all time. dubbed the official dnf camelot au, where dream is the heir to the throne and george is a servants son with a secret that couldp get him killed. these childhood friends grow up together and learn trust, love, and acceptance. (that summary did not justice to the masterpiece that is this fic) here’s the directors cut

The Hunter (completed) by HederEgo

(mc irl) a choose your own adventure fic with 13 different endings, where dream the hunter must kill george and stop him from beater the ender dragon. enough said.

The official dream team cowboy AU (series)(ongoing) by antsu_in_my_pantsu

(cowboy au) cowboys and outlaws horses and shit. and the big gay. it’s a cowboy au, what else did you expect? fucking yee haw (all seriousness this is a great read, i loved it so so so so much and i can’t wait for the final chapter to release).

This is a Drista moment, let's just accept it (completed) by Qekyo

dnf fic from drista pov. considering its unique perspective, it’s perfectly done. beautifully showcases a sibling relationship through drista and her memories/moments with dream, and it just works, y’a know? also drista supremacy.

Dear Dream (completed) by Qekyo

(wwii au) i don’t cry when watching/reading anything sad. translation: i’m a heartless bitch. however, this fic is the only exception. it caused me to cry so hard my mom walked in my room and asked if i was ok. ‘nuff said.

TECHNOlogical Wingman (completed) by Closeted_Bookworm

techno is the autocorrect ai on dreams phone, and he gains sentience. interesting concept, and the author fucking nailed it. great fic.

It Was Only a Fic (ongoing) by imagineitdear

dream starts reading a dnf fanfic (we’ve all been there buddy).

Teacher’s Pet (ongoing) by niyuha

(teacher au) in which dream is a high school english teacher and george is the new comp sci teacher in room 297.

Saltwater Secrets (ongoing) by earlgay_milktea

(mermaid/high school au) a great example of the shear amount of variety in fics this fandom has to offer. when i started reading dnf fics i would have never thought i’d find one about a mermaid george hopelessly crushing on his human friend, who happens to be his schools star swimmer. yet here i am, and i am far from disappointed.

Smash My Heart (incomplete) by dontrollthedice

george and sapnap are commentators for duper smash brothers tournaments, and george develops a crush on an up and coming smash streamer named dream.

roleplaying in the dark is harder than it seems (completed) by Alienu

laser tag. 10/10

solar system (completed) by quartzfia

(mc irl) george vists dream in pandora’s vault.

Ramblings of a Lunatic (completed) by jungkooksfic

ahh communicating through a notebook left on a shelf in a bookstore- what a perfect way to start a relationship.

Paint me like your French Girls (It's Charcoal, Actually) (completed) by Turtle_ier

(artist au) george is an art student, and dream is a model.

00:00:00 (completed) by isleofdreams

(soulmate au) 00:00:00 is the moment you meet your soulmate, as indicated but the clock ticking down on your wrist until the moment you meet. i’m not a fan of soulmate aus; this fic is the exception.

Blue Skies Smilin' At Me (completed) by kivy

(artist au) i don’t usually cry while reading stuff, but this brought me damn near close. george is a painting conservator and chats it is with the ghost of the artist if the painting he is working on. they fall in a love.

Current Location (incomplete) by hendollana

(influencer au) george simps for a hot american instagram model. who knew he’d actually follow back?

The Withering (series) (series ongoing, 1 work completed) by App1e_Juice

(mc irl) lore and world building and fight scenes and everything i crave. what’s not to love? something starts making the plants and crops around dreams village wither, and must team up with new friends to find the cause of the mysterious disease plaguing the land.

Minecraft, But You Can't Leave (complete) by facadecake

(mc irl) dream and george are sucked into their own private minecraft world together and must beat the game to escape.

Free The Game, Beat the End (incomplete) by goatgoatwasfound

(mc irl) a glitch in minecraft causes thousands of players from around the world to be trapped inside minecraft, with only one way of escape- beating the ender dragon. first dnf fic i ever read, and it’s still 10/10 for me.

Why don't you come a little closer? (completed) by lifeofandoms

george gets stood up by a date, and Dream pretends he’s the date to save george from the embarrassment. simply adorable.

lightning bug (completed) by saintachesP

(band au) while on tour, dream realizes his feeling for george.

Hold me closer (completed) by Treesofmyheart

(mc irl/dsmp) i just,, really like this trope.

Dizzy on caffeine (completed) by GleamingGreenGoggles

(coffee shop au) best dnf coffeeshop au i’ve read. periodt.

living a life of crime isn’t always easy (series) (completed) by itisjosh

(mafia/assassin au) stockholm syndrome except it’s not weird.

Inhibitions Make Interesting Situations (completed) by Ship_On_The_Sea

i pissed myself laughing. it’s just a dream and george being hilariously dense, flustered idiots. serotonin central.

thy eternal summer shall not fade (completed) by gracequills

(high school au) that moment when you recite shakespeare to your crush in your ap lit class instead of confessing (hate it when that happens).

All is Fair in love and Football (ongoing) by graciegirl2001

(college au) #1 favorite college au. in which george is a cheerleader, and dream is the football teams rising star player. this one gets extra points because of the amazing karlnap moments sprinkled throughout. *chefs kisses air*

online love (completed) by andbutso

(high school au) online classes go zoooooooom

Can’t help falling (completed) by isleofdreams

dream re-learns the guitar to sing to george on his birthday. beautiful. fluffy. amazing

dance in the rain and my arms (completed) by lazy_kitkat

george is a rain god, and dream is a wind god

Weather Boy (completed) by DaintyDiizzle

wouldn't you like to know, weather boy? (where dream can control the rain)

The color orange (completed) by anon

(mc irl) dream describes the colors of a sunset

Family Mode (completed)by Strawberry_flavoured_tears

they’re dads :,)

Breathing Room (incomplete) by papercranes

(band an) an amazing band au. the mad lad author wrote original songs for each chapter. above and beyond, mad props :). unfortunately, it’s incomplete

Piece of Clay (completed) by carbonbrine

(artist au) george is a sculptor and his sculpture comes to life- but oh no he’s hot.

Try (completed) by Not4typicalwriter

(royalty au) george must choose a suitor, but none of them are up to dream, his head knights, standards. or dream is hella jelly. also protective dream is perfect

When the Roses Bloom (completed) by HederEgo

(royalty au) close second for my favorite fic. go to royalty au for a quick serotonin bost. it’s all fluff and flowers and crushes, and i love it. criminally underrated.

Heavenstruck (ongoing) by dontrollthedice

george is dreams guardian angel, and dream want to find out more about him and his past life. bittersweet :,)

Bang and Burn (completed) by App1e_Juice

(spy au) george accidentally falls for target number 1 on sapnap’s secret agency’s hit list. this ones great, i love me a spy au :)

Can I get a uhh… (completed) by lemonskies

dream keeps pulling up to the drive through mcdonald’s that george works at drunk.

Pretty Stranger (completed) by anon

when looking for dream in the terminal, george sees a cute guy and decides to flirt.

Take my Hand (completed) by latinbias

(royalty au) another royalty au? poggers. surprise twists? double poggers. love this a lot.

seconds, minutes, hours, lifetimes (complete) by meridies

ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP *inhales to compose herself* roadtrip au. unrequited love, ignored feelings, longing, pining, you know the drill. absolutely love this one, its the best roadtrip au i have ever read, in any fandom. (maybe cause i identify with it a little too much, but thats not important. whats important is that you read this fic. right now. im waiting).

Message redacted (complete) by justyouraverageloser

(text fic) dream asks for a girls number and realises hes been given the wrong number. however, an unexpected relationship starts to form between him and the stranger on the other end of the line.

the waves (completed) by anon

(mc irl) this fic was written by the same anon who wrote the color orange, which is up there on my fav dnf oneshot list. dream and george know they have a higher purpose. they don’t know where they came from, or why they are seemingly the only humans in the world, or how they feel about eachother, or even where the skeletons come from, but they are sure of one thing: they have to beat a dragon.

The Dream Doll (completed) by PeppDream (Pep_Pizza)

(voodoo i guess) i’m a real big fan of fics with really out there or unique concepts, so naturally this one makes the cut! i really liked it, it’s really sweet and made me think a lot about what matters to me in the world. george finds a strange doll in an antique shop, and would really like to just stuff it in a drawer and forget about it. sadly (?), the doll has other plans.

last updated February 6th, 2021

[angelicimprisonment]

darlin’; cad bane blurb

It’s late again.

The buzz of the chrono on your bedside keeps you from sleep. But maybe it’s actually the waiting, the anxiety. 

He’s always late, you should be used to it by now. The longer you lay here and wonder when he’ll show, theoretically the less you have to wait. 

Well, that little spiral didn’t really pass any time did it, you think. 

You push the covers around, try to resettle. The blankets are pushing up against your arm weird and your thoughts are too loud and oops, now you’re wide awake. You sit up with a huff and stare out the window.

The bright lights of coruscant, more specifically the gaudy neon pink boutique sign, shine into your apartment. Normally, you would have closed the blinds. But he should have been here by now, and the blinds should have been the furthest thing from your mind.

But he’s late. 

You get off the mattress and wander into the small kitchenette, pouring yourself a glass of water. The air is a bit chilly without your blankets, you really should have put on some socks. You notice the stovetop was left dirty after you had made dinner, so you reach for a rag to wipe some of it off. All of a sudden, you hear the tell tale sound of a sliding window. 

“Sorry, darlin’. Got caught up with some nerf herders.”

Your head swivels to see Cad Bane climbing through your window, toothpick between his teeth. You would never tell him, but he looks incredibly goofy trying to fit his gangly body through the not so large opening. You’ve asked him why he doesn’t just go through the entrance and up the stairs and he told you it’s because there is a shift rotation of police droids that occurs on the exact street corner your apartment block is on. No time to get in or out without being noticed, and Cad hates being noticed. 

It’s not so bad, more entertainment for you.

“It’s ok, couldn’t fall asleep anyways,” you say, cradling the glass against your chest and leaning against the counter, “Those nerf herders causin’ you trouble again?”

Cad Bane takes you in as he dusts himself off from the kriffin’ window, he’s really gotta find a better way in here. But there you are, looking at him like he is the sun, the moon, and the stars. You don’t know how often he thinks of that look in your eyes, sleepy enough that it reveals too many feelings that he doesn’t want to give concrete meaning. But it causes that warm, fuzzy, suffocating feeling in his chest that freaks him out more than he thought anything could. He lets out a sigh, letting all the stress from his day off his shoulders as you start approaching him.

“Those damn fools, thought they could knock me out for the bounty drop off and take all those credits for themselves. Shoulda’ checked to make sure I was out cold first,” Cad says. You’re finally close enough to put your hands on his chest, sliding them up to his neck. He smells like blaster fire residue, and you can see some bruising forming under his jaw.

“Damn fools alright. Ya know, for someone who says they like working alone, you’re always working with someone,” you say, winking at him. He smirks at you, hands moving down to your waist, slow circles massaging the skin there. 

“Y’a think you’re smart now, huh,” he chuckles, pulling you close against him and leans down to your ear, moving the toothpick to the other side of his mouth, “you look divine, y’a know that?”

You can feel the heat rising to your cheeks, but he doesn’t need to know that. Your lips brush against his suspiciously warm cheek, “Do I?”

Acting like you’re going to give him a peck on the lips, you reach in and bite the toothpick right out from his teeth. Leaning out of the embrace, you give him a wink and a smirk. He stares blankly back at you, so much for quick reflexes. Maybe he really does trust you, you think.

“You’re ethereal, darlin’,” Cad lets you back away, going to pull at his neck and adjust his hat, “Now, c’mere, I’ve missed you.”

See, you were going to tease him for that, but it hits you before you can get the words out. That surprised you. It’s not often that he expresses any feelings verbally to you, let alone tell you his thoughts on anything ever. But those couple words melt you, turn your insides to butterflies, and erase any more banter you had prepared.

But hey, there’s always time for that later.

[stuckasmain]

The Crow : Salvation - Review

So this movie, like City of angels.. is both good and bad. What it does well, it does really well and what it does bad- well it exists. Overall I think salvation is a lot more? Consistant as a movie. They know what they want to be/do with the story and it shows. Where as city of angels had some periods where it seriously dragged or wandered about. Also this movie had more boobs then the one with the fucking pleasure cult in it (I’m not kidding city of angels had a sex cult).

Salvation gets a lot of credit from me. It’s good overweighs it’s bads. I actually like it a lot. It’s concept is amazing and so is it’s central story line. I just really really wish they done certain aspects and scenes better because the bad parts of the movie- almost hit worse seeing as they have such a good thing going then- flat because of one thing or another. So let’s start with the positives.

Alex and his face/makeup

So Alex is a super enjoyable charecter, he’s much much more consistant with Ashe. He knows what he’s going/doing and who he is (this is as much about the acting then the character himself). I also like how he stands out against the other Crow’s thus far as he wasn’t murdered. At least not in the ‘traditional’ sense. He was executed by the state via the chair on his 21st birthday(harsh) for the False charge of killing his girlfriend) not only does this already set him Apart from the others by his death but it also makes him the youngest of the ones I’ve watched so far. It shows! His age actually shows! This is a kid. This is a kid, given invincibility and a mystery to solve and it’s hhhhhhhgh. I’m serious he’s such a child he has the most dramatic/show off prison escape ever. It’s also different from Eric or Ashe because he’s after someone , something, instead of a gang (at first) “the man with the scar” causing him to basically bad cop interrogate those on the (paid off) witness list to get what he wants only to fall deeper and deeper into this huge conspiracy in his girlfriends death. However it does get a little over complicated.

Besides being young, a little power happy. I like that…. His brains sort of … well fried. Every one of them always has some sort of effect/left over from their death and it’s hhh. When he’s acting weird or creepy or absolutely crazy it makes sense! (It can be rooted to the chair as we actually get a good 5 minutes with him before his death and watch it literal first thing. He was a honest, scared, nice guy.) like one minute he’s comforting the next he’s showing a 15 year old her sisters death in a … well meant but misguided attempt to teach her to value life. He’s… trying but he’s completely out of it. He spot himself to prove a point

Ok but possibly my favorite thing is that his makeup isn’t makeup at all. It’s his face. It’s the  immense scarring left from the shock. It’s actually done In a really brilliant scene where he peels away at the burnt/melted skin on his face like the scene in poltergeist. And smashes the mirror because, y’a know. However it bothers me to no end that Erin keeps calling it makeup when it very clearly isn’t? But the face/makeup is always one of the best parts as it is always so deeply important to the soul. Eric’s being after The mask, Ashe’s is his sons paints, Alex’s Is scars. It’s 👌

Not sure where to put this but Alex actually talks to the crow and it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in my fucking life , this guys not even been around 5 minutes and is digging though case files or stabbing his hand like a idiot and it’s trying to guide him to the file “there’s nothing under Crow” sir shut up😭.

The best line however is “I want Lauren. I want my life back. I want to know why.” Is actually the best line, it’s so amazing and yet the last act of the movie is so batshit insane it hurts?

There’s a car chase set to a “sensual remix” of living dead girl. It’s important to me that you know that because the songs in this movie are shit. How - in a crow movie- have a bad soundtrack (2000 man). On top of the bad music, there is… sort of painfully bad shots of the crow flying and did I mention it’s 2000 because FOUR SHITTY 3D MOMENTS IN THIS MOVIE. I.. 4 isn’t enough times to even justify the bad effects my head hurts.

This movie steps away from the formula having a mystery turn into conspiracy, a - genuinely little crazy main charecter and a unique death and makeup concept. It has a good story going with a set up trial, corrupt cops and some genuinely great and sad moments- so naturally it’s time to talk about the bad.

It failed to make me care for Lauren-

Despite it being her mystery, “the man with the scar” the trial, the cops, her own father and sister I really didn’t care much about her. There was flashbacks…. But they were pretty bad. Not only were they 2000 deep fried but they were just bad. With Shelly and even Danny we don’t get a lot of time with them but in the short flashbacks we know SO much about them. Even in their deaths you know, you see and understand how much and why it should hurt to see it. Lauren doesn’t have that unless she’s progressing the mystery, seriously we get a flashback and it’s very close up and them naming really bad and cheesy white guy kung-fu in a junk yard? Or kissing and fighting? It doesn’t work. It fails to make me care about her or their relationship. Which… I should, especially considering there’s great momments where we see the effects on Alex. “I thought I’d be with you by now” and “I can’t be alive. Not without you” and “I’m not dead, I’m not alive and I’m remembering and it hurts.” There’s also s fucking great scene towards the end of the movie with a  delusional Alex who thinks it’s over and is stumbling, barley alive down the street just thinking of her and it’s - just ruined by horrible flashbacks. She deserves a lot better as they actually share a powerful line from the comics. It feels wasted?

Barely dead-

With each movie there’s less and less of a break between dying and coming back. Ashe was dead for a month max (I’m thinking a week) Alex was revived in maybe less then a hour, bolting straight up the second they shut the freezer. In the next movie I’m just imagining it being five seconds he sits straight up and throat punches whoever’s closest jfc. This shouldn’t bother me as much as it does, as he acts as equally confused as the others- like he hasn’t spent 3 years in that jail. I’m going to give all of that to literally having his brain fried. That’s what gets me about Eric? Or i suppose why I’ll always prefer him… with time comes age, feelings fester, the worsen , they grow. All the guilt , anger , sadness and pain begins to eat at you. With something instantaneous and you watched happen five seconds ago…it doesn’t feel? Deserved in a way? That he’d even be confused feels odd, but I can’t tell you as I’m not a dead guy but .

So the head cops Taxidermy deal isn’t explained (or the fact he was about to mount a grown ass man on the wall). Neither is his knowledge of Crows and that they bring people back etc besides the one he  dissects in the opening. But for his knowledge he clearly doesn’t know enough- thinking he’d be back in any sort of way. It doesn’t work that way

He also bounces around like a bird at some point and I’m not over it. He has the same Crow eyes™️ Sarah did in city of angels seriously this guys a bird

I actually like this movies “temporary loss of power” a lot better then the “hurt the bird” method. Again there’s this plot line that was going to be in the orignal movie that Eric actually lost them for interfering/ removing the morphine from Darla’s veins but it was changed for whatever reason. I like it being a personal or outside influence rather then bird down.

This movie goes insane in the last act and they explain almost none of it and it’s a beautiful trash fire

I swear to you he T-poses and flies down from a building. Im not kidding and I think it killed me a little.

Im like 80% sure there’s a scene where Alex was actually a crow for like 5 seconds or he can teleport because what the hell was that.

Erin taking forever to realize he didn’t kill her sister was drawn out for a annoying extent, though small, and really was just to cause drama

The lawyer and the chess piece is everything 

Brings back the balance of comedy to violence- though slightly more comedic leaning then the other ?? Or  unintentionally funny

[ribcage-rodents]

Ok so like I saw this prompt post on Pinterest and I didn’t really think anything of it until I was driving home listening to 70s music and thought, “huh I love 70s himbos and bimbos.”

Anyway so the prompt is about a bunch of little ghost kids that died in different ways helping the others figure it out. So what about teenager-young adult ghosts from different time periods all have some connection to this area a 2020 time period person is living in.

Together they work past the trauma of their lives and the strange new world. Maybe they have to figure out their deaths idk yet.

But I’m thinking around four ghosts and the one living person.

Maybe someone from the Victorian era. Like super uptight, naturally awful in terms of sexism and racism and shit. Is probably a victor Frankenstein Stan and refuses to believe a women wrote the book. He grows into a less awful person through out the story. Was super into romanticism, maybe a poet or an artist or he’s a film buff bc film was like just invented.

Or like a cowboy man, super chill. Likes his clothes a lot, he’s very attached to them. Maybe he like always helps the 2020 person w fashion but he’s always like “I darn do reckon a trusty ole hat always do pull an outfit together”. He’s probably believes like all stereotypes, doesn’t think gay people are real, “I mean when you are out in the west w no women you find companion-ship.” Maybe lived through polio. Had a co-dependent attachment style to his horse.

A man from the 30s to 40s. Probably died in the war. Had a family he adored, maybe was Italian and faced discrimination. Maybe was engaged to a girl he loved, some spitfire as he would probably call her. Would be a v romanticized version of old relationships, like she wasn’t an accessory she was an actual person to him y’a know. Actually spoke out against Japanese internment camps or alternatively he learns about them in 2020 and denies it until being rlly sad and losing faith in the us and questioning why he ever fought in a war, then coming around and fining pride and purpose.

Girl from the fifties. Is super misogynistic at first believes a women should be at home cooking, cleaning, and caring after children but becomes like a feminist warrior. Who still loves caring for children, cooking, and cleaning for her husband but now realizes women can be more and should be treated as such. Terrified of communists, maybe her family was falsely accused of being commies and they lost everything idk.

Either a himbo or a bimbo from the 70s. Like some true stoner idiot. Loves music. Protested against the Vietnam war and for civil rights. Had an intelligent best friend who kept them safe, was probably very homoerotic and literally cannot function w out them half the time despite being a ghost. Was maybe serial killered bc it was the 70s. Or maybe drafted idk.

I’m thinking either like a greasy Billy loomis vibes guy from the 90s. Or like a girl boss from y2k. Idk yet, they might be too current to be like rlly fun y’a know.

Also either ghosts no one else sees or they have been reanimated so they have to live in real life and when people are like your roommates are weird, the 2020 person is like “I’m aware.” Things like cowboy getting into fist fights in a bar for some stupid reason and Victorian having to begrudgingly save them. Dotty (from the 50s) and 70s having an impromptu rally for the rights of people with uteruses. All of them comforting the guy from the 30/40s when he struggles with ptsd, or them all having to deal w him stockpiling all their food for when the economy crashes again. Maybe not even a person form the 2020a maybe they all just have to deal but I kinda like the 2020s person so idk. The person from the 70s gay panicking over an attractive person then having a full meltdown bc they feel so guilty for betraying their best friend, maybe going on a quest to find their grave sight and be reunited almost risking all their friends and having to choose them instead. 70s listening to dad music on a turntable way too loud way too late at night and smoking both cigarettes and weed way too much. 30s, 50s, and 70s all sharing cigarettes and having big movies nights were Victorian era is like rants on about beautiful films and it’s like Paul blart or something.

[mingmingfufu]

Can we just talk about the ending of KawoShin open discuss. *sort of spoilerish*

I feel like I’m the only one who’s like reallly disappointed LMFAO--ya’ll there’s so much “canon” alternative universe and merchandise for Kawoshin in Evangelion that it kind of makes me upset to realise this couple just went down the drain. Yeah, I can see how people were like, “Kaworu’s toxic” or “Kaworu has a hero complex for Shinji” to which I say are valid points. But the toxic thing I feel like can also be applied to pretty much everyone around Shinji tbh, except for Rei. I did NOT, like Asuka at all but I really love her character though, and I felt for her a lot throughout the series.

I did not ship them either because honestly, Shinji and Asuka seemed better off playing the sibling dynamic instead of trying to play bf/gf which honestly is kind of forced by their living situation. Also since they’re in a similar disposition non existent father and dead mother, you’d imagine they would rely on each other for emotional comfort. Though Asuka—her personality I feel like she can’t differentiate between familial love and romantic love and the affection she wants is a bit of both. But, her character tries to be “mature”; she wants romantic love more and does this through sexual means and romantic gestures e.g. like kissing. One of my friends told me that you can’t stay friends as a boy and a girl cause eventually you catch feelings. Which I say is kinda dumb cause I have a lot of male friends, and I definitely don’t harbour those feelings, but I guess it’s a common phenomena.

I think this is what happens in this case, of Asuka and Shinji. Even after rejection of instrumentality they actually are depicted as childhood friends. But knowing how they both were before to each other, it was not good tbh. Also to mention the choking like thrice— bro if anything, this showcases a really abusive relationship and I think this outstretches the idea of their character tropes. Which I firmly stand by saying they’re superficial to each other. AsuShin were never really there for each other and are using each other in a forced situation. However, you can’t deny that they didn’t at some point catch feels, also Shinji is pretty consistent how he still cares about everyone around him. Which I really like how they add that to his character because it reminiscent of Yui, because you see a duality of both his parents personality in Shinji throughout the series—it’s a really nice touch. But bruh, if we gonna talk about that coma scene—I’m out LOL.

Thoughhhh, she is a true definition of best girl I really like her arc, fighting drive, and her skills as an Eva pilot 😭💗--but bruh she’s still a toxic and sometimes annoying tsundere trope, but still she’s 14 what can you do. So I feel like Kensuke and Asuka are actually a pretty good combo, cause he’s always been pretty mature even without parents. Also Asuka was into older guys, so I guess this is a win win?? Also Rei and Shinji, I honestly cannot get my head around it cause that’s pretty much his mom—so in a way that’s like either his half-sister or mom-ish clone?? Idk but Yui is definitely the donor LOL.

Kaworu and Shinji I felt like brought a bunch of things out of each other. I don’t know which timeline begins first, but I’d like to think the manga, the anime (plus its movies), and then to the rebuild series. Because I think that order is kind of pivotal to observing Kaworu’s character development from being a person who’s trying to understand human feelings to then the kinder person we see in the final series. You can tell how he’s changed and he knows Shinji a lot more as well as being considerate to him e.g. giving him personal space or letting him work at his own pace. Also that “we’ll meet again.” Is an obvious nod to how he’s done this before.

His literal story in every timeline is always romantic LOL, like bruh I can’t remember which game it was but basically a bad ending of Kawoshin route is that you reject Kaworu and he starts the third impact 🤡. Also I don’t know why but I started to see a weird dynamic between those two, in the manga their interactions reminded me of Asuka and Shinji—which Shinji is the tsundere Asuka here. I don’t know if this is relevant but the older character relative to the character they’re with seems to play off a mature vs a childish person trope. Asuka is younger than Shinji and Shinji is actually younger than Kaworu. Then again I could be overseeing this but istg manga Kaworu and Shinji mirror the whole Asushin dynamic. Like he’s seriously agressive against Kaworu, then after killing him he admits liking him. 🤡 I don’t know which is funnier no homo Shinji, homophobe shinji, or just closet Shinji who needs to realise sexuality is a spectrum so he could’ve idk—come out as bisexual, but whatever manga Shinji lol that timeline is over.

Anyways the development of these two is real and I think the rebuild timeline shows them at their best bringing their own personage out from each other like how they both enjoy music together--WHICH I’M SO SAD WE NEVER GET TO SEE THAT CELLO AGAIN. Then there’s those feelings of humanity, love, kindness, etc. Which yeah an angel could represent those things, but Kaworu is still his own person, self-aware of a cycle and if you think about how he initially was there to USE Shinji, but ultimately turned on that plan set by SEELE because he loved Shinji (and a bunch of other things like him showing Kaworu humanity). I also can see the argument, how “ideal” Kaworu is to Shinji, but he’s more self aware of the time he has before he KNOWS he’ll die and knows how to act for himself in that duration to make the most of it. All with Shinji. At some point, I think he fell in love with Shinji tho I don’t know where it began tbh—considering that all those alternate universes do exist. Kaworu does romantically love Shinji--so, in some universe they both reciprocate their feelings to each other. 

In the last movie during that convo with Shinji. Like bREH it’s so emotionally moving because Kaworu remembers ALLLLL the timelines and how he’s been with Shinji and later Shinji himself recalls the events too. Where they show the scene from the manga and anime. Kaworu cries after being set free from the EVA cycle. Which, I definitely understood what he meant by him saying “it’ll be lonely” and how Shinji changed or that he’s actually different this time.

Either way, Shinji did right by him because it’s always Kaworu who has the purpose of “trying to save Shinji” but it always ends up the same. I thought that was really moving because Shinji tells Kaworu he’s gonna let him live a life for himself for once and he wants the same for everyone as well. Which was honestly so meaningful cause I think Kaworu’s character and like Rei too when they start to realise how to “live” like a person and not another puppet it’s truly liberating. Another thing I forgot, bruh Kaworu calls Gendo his father and ngl I feel like this is kind of a weird lore situation because I for sure don’t think he’s the donor. I think he calls him that as an insult because he knows Gendo’s whole doing and relative to Shinji—I kind of see it as a joke LOL. Like it’s equivalent to saying, “daddy chill”, or “hey look it’s daddy and his plans to end the world” also I kind of like to think of it as a father in law thing cause you know, Kawoshin *winks amirite*

The ending, I’m honestly hoping is just an open ending because it gives everything an actual start of their adult lives not being dictated by extraterrestrial forces. Though, I’m kind of wondering if the world doesn’t have EVAs does that still mean everyone else still has the same backstory, and do they remember? Maybe Mari really is just a coworker lmfao, and there’s still a chance for Kaworu and Shinji cause ngl, they did have a convo (presumably from the spoilers) about still remaining close afterwards and that stare at the ending seems very hopeful.

I call bs from Anno saying, “oh Shinji is based off him and Mari off of his wife”, like honestly any OCs made theres always some part of yourself made into that character. Which is probably why a lot of people relate to the characters in EVA because they’re based off real things (e.g. those war machines characters are named after and people around them). I think why Kaworu and Rei are together at the end, is bc they’re very much the same. They’re mass produced dolls—which oddly enough that’s the case for all the children except they don’t recall the loop. Kind of funny also how both Kaworu and Rei became farmers lmfao so ig it runs in the family (yes that’s right I like the idea that they’re siblings it was always noted that they’re like “the same”).

Another thing, i think why the rebuild really did well for Kawoshin and in my opinion canonised it—the convo with elder Ryoji Kaji (Misato’s baby daddy) that there was a time he felt incredibly lonely and depressed thinking Misato didn’t love him and so he started looking out for himself. So self love and found himself a hobby in farming which he suggests to Kaworu—basically saying he might feel like Shinji doesn’t love him but he’s gotta remember to take care of himself. if I go thru a breakup ill feel like it’s the end of the world but Kaji says y’a gotta self love broe and take care yo self gad dam fam 😭 💗.

Though, that look at the end from Shinji to Kaworu—I’d like to believe there is still hope that one day when they’re a bit stable in their adult lives, they’ll run into each other.

[vbee-miya]

[playing hide and seek]

✥︎ main aot/snk characters || m.list

genre: crack || type: imagine + headcanon

warnings: none

➺︎ One word seven letters

➺︎ C - H - A - O - T - I - C

➺︎ Catch Sasha’s hiding place be in the kitchen. The thing is I highly doubt she’ll be hiding though. She’d be in plain sight looking for hidden foods.

➺︎ Levi and Erwin just aren’t playing.

➺︎ Eren thinks he’s a cool kid and he hides in plain sight BUT the only reason people can’t find him is that he’s hiding out of the hide n’ seek boundaries.

➺︎ Hange said the forest is off the ground when playing hide n’ seek, but guess what Eren says otherwise. As far as Mikasa and Armin go they also tag along with Eren.

➺︎ Connie would probably be the first one to get caught. The reason for this is he’s actually hiding hiding then Sasha since she kind of wasn’t playing she passes Connie and starts talking to him thinking that he was out.

➺︎ Jean has the best hiding spot. That’s only because it’s a spot no one would dare go to. Either that he’s your classic guy in a bush.

➺︎ Yelena is too damn tall.

➺︎ Ymir, like Jean, has the best hiding spot and brings Historia along with her. They’re probably the last ones to get seeked.

➺︎ Porco hides in the bathtub. There’s no reason for me to say why. I just think he would. Either that he’d hide behind the door. So when someone opens a room he’s there behind the door.

➺︎ Reiner would probably hide like on the roof or something.

➺︎ If there’s a chimney Bertolodoltototo hides in there. And Reiner is on the roof leaning against the chimney thing making small talk y’a know?

➺︎ Gabi is small so I can see her hiding in like cabinets or super small tight spaces.

➺︎ Pieck hides in the darkest places like the corners of an attic and if there’s a random sofa up there she’ll hide underneath it.

➺︎ Onyankopon is pretending to be the seeker, but he’s one of those hiders that move places. And let’s say while he was moving places he almost scared half the living shit out of Marco.

➺︎ Annie, similar to Onyankopon she’s a mover. Zeke caught her once but he also didn’t because he didn’t actually know where she went off to. And he wasn’t going to go look for every damn possible corner and space just to find her.

➺︎ Falco hides in piles of fabric. Like he sees a pile of clothes and since he’s small enough he blends in.

➺︎ Niccolo is your classic hide in the closet guy. And he knows where the hidden closets are and he just jumps from point A to B.

➺︎ Floch is a bitch and he keeps track of where certain people are so he can go over to them and ask to hide with them. And if you say no he’d expose your hiding spot. By certain people, I mean the people who are good good at hiding.

➺︎ Hange is on cams. She’s actually playing but she’s also checking cameras to see where Zeke is.

➺︎ Oruo hides behind the craziest things. Like the toilet. The thing is it’s so weird that Zeke would have to look twice to realize that’s Oruo.

➺︎ Kenny is a magician and would substitute an object when he realizes Zeke is on to him. Traute also does this, but better.

➺︎ Hitch is your other classic hide n’ seek player. Hiding behind the curtains. Alongside Mina.

➺︎ Okay yeah, you know how I first said Eren would be out of bounds when hiding? Well, let’s say Mikasa and Armin brought him back to his senses.

➺︎ Armin would hide behind shelves mainly corner shelves.

➺︎ Mikasa would hide on top of tall shelves or furniture. Just somewhere off the ground and away from a normal person’s field of vision.

➺︎ Eren would be moving places. BUT he’s following Zeke so if Zeke is in the living room he tags along behind him hiding near the living.

➺︎ Petra hides in trees. There’s no need to explain myself.

➺︎ Rico purposely locks doors. And when Zeke unlocks the door the window is open. But she’s actually hiding behind or under furniture.

➺︎ Zeke is the Seeker and honestly, he either knows what’s he’s doing or he knows what he’s doing. Like this man would purposely walk towards your hiding spot then stop there and depending on how hard you’re trying to not move or make a sound he’ll a.) ignore you b.) ignore you and walk away and c.) call you out while he’s walking away.

[steveyockey]

I’m so sorry I am so very sorry if you want to move on from Stuck In the Middle With You and supernatural, but having to analyze a Tarantino movie once a month as a film major??? I never get to have an actual convo because of men named Tyler who roll up the edges of their beanies and get off to anything Eli Roth does. (You can totally delete this ask btw, totally understandable)

Rese Dogs... it very much accidentally brings up the idea of how queer men can exist in the context of hegemonic masculinity as long as they adhere to the whiteness and misogyny that comes from the dynamic Tarantino builds/is present in society (emphasis on accident, I don’t think he’s aware of any analysis regarding this in his films, I think Tarantino thinks this way as a person). And I do think it’s interesting to bring up the way this episode is done, like it it’s not with Tarantino’s form of storytelling that does embrace homoeroticism, it’s done with Supernaturals form of storytelling where it cannot be mentioned unless a character is about to become a villain or die and that’s why I think this episode fundamentally fails. This show drops the ball constantly, but they really just absolutely missed any significance to Dogs and it’s statements on masculinity and queerness and it was all right there. They had a clear cut Mr Pink, Mr Orange and Mr White,, but what we ended up watching was them fumbling a weird heterosexual interpretation that my father would adore. And it is hard not to acknowledge the racism in any Tarantino film, but especially in Dogs, and again they just missed it completely. I really want to watch this movie through the writers eyes because why would you make this episode without fully analyzing the movie first, y’a know??

(You can totally just delete this if you’re over discussing this movie,,, I totally understand,, have a lovely day tho!!!)

as the progenitor of stuck in the middle (with you) discourse I am fully obligated to field ALL stuck in the middle (with you) takes and generally do so with a sense of pride. and like exactly! it’s resevoir dogs as remembered by dads who love quentin tarantino, it’s not what the movie ACTUALLY is, much in the same way eric kripke was using the version of on the road that only exists in straight guys’ heads when he started writing supernatural. everything about supernatural is just based on like. a concept of a guy. no actual guys. because all the actual guys they want to talk about are gay! george maharis of route 66, the other american odyssey kripke was imitating, was an entire gay man! gay cowboys! it’s not that every heterosexual narrative is secretly lgbt or americana as a whole should be embraced as queer cutlure, but it’s funny how the show comes across as so self-conscious about not playing into that while also wanting to pay it tribute. it’s parody.

[mintartem]

@alextwdgf01 you request for a comic but I decided for it to be a fic instead... Um...Is it okay? The fic, I mean

Warning: The fic under the cut is rated M for Graphic depictions of violence.

The rattling of chains echoed and a screamed followed suit. It’s been like this for days. At least, Ford liked to think it’s only been days. He can’t tell at this point. It’s chaos outside. But said chaos is only stuck here in Gravity Falls because of Gravity Falls’ weirdness magnetism which prevents Bill from getting out.

Their plan had failed. So close… They were so close to defeating Bill. But the demon was able to get a closer look at Ford’s (who was posing as Stan) finger. Hiding it would be suspicious. Ford thought that the demon would be too arrogant or “caught in the moment” to notice the slight difference. Turns out he was wrong. Bill was observant. The almost successful attempt at conning him, Bill got angry and ended up killing both Dipper and Mabel. That hurt Ford way more than the 500 volts of electricity.

Like Bill’s original plan, Bill will torture the people Ford cares about to get the equation from him. Unfortunately, that only leaves Stan since the kids are… gone.

Another blood curdling scream came from his brother. Ford closed his eyes tightly and covered his ears. He should’ve been used to this. He heard a lot of pained screams in the portal before – some he even caused to survive. Why is this different?

Because it’s Stan

All he heard next were heavy breathing and rattling of chains. He opened his eyes slightly. The first thing he saw was Mabel and Dipper’s ashes. Bill must’ve done something to it because wind had blown many times and yet it still there in place as if it was mocking him. He heard the phantom scream of the kids as they were burnt alive. The way they called out his and Stan’s names...

Stop, Ford thought.

He looked up from his position to see the gruesome sight of his brother. His eyes were missing! The place where the eyes should’ve been are nothing but empty sockets! The eyes were telepathically floating next to Bill along with Stan’s left ear. Blood pour out of the empty sockets freely like waterfall. The same can be said to his mouth. While there was dried blood there, there were still new ones pouring.

Looking lower, Ford almost puked his guts out. Stan’s intestines were hanging. Drip drop. Blood trickled and fell to the floor creating a small puddle of blood. And yet looking at his chest, it’s still moving. Stan is still alive! How is he still alive?

Ford’s thoughts were cut short by Bill’s sadistic laughter.

“You still haven’t cracked yet, Sixer? My, my, I’m impressed. Your brother is screaming his eyeballs out!” one of Stan’s eyes was telepathically floated towards him, which made Ford visibly flinched. “I thought you cared about him. Or maybe you don’t and you actually ENJOY his pain? He did ruined your life after all,” Bill mocked. Ford clenched his teeth in anger and disbelief. It’s always that. Bill always uses that. EVERYONE always use that against him! “Whadda’ya say, Fordsy? Why don’t you just hand me the equation for old time’s sake? I’m doing you a favor here” Bill added.

Favor? How is this a favor?

Bill hummed in thought, thinking of what other torture methods he could do next. Psychologically and mentally torturing Stan is fun and all, but all Stan will do next is beg for his life to end with. While that tortures Ford a lot, it’s no fun if the other has grown immune to it that they accepted it now. What else do these twins like?

It looked like a light bulb lit up. Bill’s face looked happy and excited. Ford doesn’t like it at all. “Y’a know, Fordsy, I went into Stan’s mind one time,” Bill started. “I saw how he always seems to run away from everything.”

Is Bill about to do what Ford thinks he is about to do?

“I figured, let’s get rid of that ability!” Bill cheerfully grabbed a sledgehammer out of nowhere. Ford felt dread consume his body. Stan had always loved to run. He is pretty damn good at it too. Running always made Stan feel free… No, no, no, Ford felt tears start to form at the corners of his eyes.

The chains the held Stanley up disappeared and he dropped to the ground. Stanley gave a pained groaned as pain shot from his stomach at his – very – open wound. He should be dead! Bill must’ve done something that kept him alive. His left arm is twisted but both arms have deep unhealed cuts. His arms throb at being held up for too long. His legs felt like jelly. But most importantly, he is free. He can try to crawl towards Ford – wherever he is, to try and comfort his brother like old times. Like when he was punished by pops. To tell him he is okay.

But a sudden unexpected pain shot through his body, most especially his right leg. He heard the cracking of bones and a scream erupted from his already painful throat. If he kept screaming, he might destroy his vocal chords making his voice even uglier than it already is. Another extreme pain came from the back of his knee, another bone cracked, and another scream erupted from him.

Holy Moses! If there really is a God, please, please, please, fucking save him! He’ll take anything, anything at all just to replace this pain. He doesn’t mind if he’ll wake up back in his car, or if he wakes up and he was still stuck with Rico or Jimmy, or if he wakes up and Ford still hates him., just… God end this pain!

Another blood curdling scream came from him as another pain shot from his leg. But this time, he heard another voice. It’s not his. It’s Ford’s! Why was his brother screaming? Was Bill doing something to him to? No, no, no. Give the pain back to him, just not his brother! Not Ford!

On the third scream, Ford can’t handle it any more. Stan’s pain isn’t worth saving the entire world anymore! What… What has the world ever done for them? Fuck being a hero! Fuck Bill! Fuck everything!

“STOP,” Ford screamed. Bill stopped at the sledgehammer at hitting his other leg at the last second, clearly amuse. Tears fall from Ford’s eyes as he looked at his brother’s bloody face. Stan’s crying, but since his eyes are currently floating around, no tears came out. Ford knows because of Stan’s sniffling.

“I-I’ll… I’ll give the equation. Just please, please, stop hurting him,” Ford begged. He wants to run to his brother but the chains around his neck were holding him back. Bill lit up like a Christmas tree and Ford needed to resist the urge to punch him.

“You will? I knew you’d come around, Sixer!” Bill happily floated towards him and held out his hand, the weapon disappeared it seems. “I’ll give you the equation, but no harm will ever come to Stan or me ever again. And, you have to fix us both back up” Ford bargained. Bill appeared to be thinking for a moment before “DEAL” Bill’s hand lit up with a familiar blue fire as he waits for Ford. Ford grabbed the glowing hand and the knowledge of the equation was shared with Bill.

Bill looked like a child in which Christmas came early. “A deal’s a deal, Sixer!” Bill gleefully said. He snapped his fingers and Ford felt refreshed. He stopped feeling tired and felt like he drank gallons of water as his thirst was clenched. The chains around his neck were gone as if it was never there since it left no bruises.

He immediately ran towards Stan and slid on the floor to get near to him. “Stanley?” Ford whispered. He arranged Stan’s position so Stan’s head would be lying on his shoulder. Using his other hand, Ford checked under Stan’s eyelid. The eyeball is there and moving. Good. Stan’s intestines were back inside where they belong and not hanging open. His other ear is back in place too. He felt the broken leg to see if it’s okay. It’s there. There is a bone there like it was never touched.

“I won’t let Bill hurt you again,” Ford promised. “I won’t let anyone hurt you again… No one will hurt you again… no one will hurt you again… no one will hurt you again…” Ford repeated the phrase like a mantra. No one will touch Stan ever again. No one will harm Stan ever again. If he can’t save the entire world, the least he could do is save his world. He wiped the tears and snot from his face as he scanned his brother’s body just in case there were more injuries he had overlooked.

“Jeez, Sixer, So dramatic,” Bill said as he floated towards the twins. Ford hugged Stan tighter and gave Bill the scariest glare he can master. “Relax, kid. I did my end of the bargain. He’s alive, just resting. Maybe he’ll wake up with a sore throat though” he added. “What do you want this time? You got what you needed,” Ford asked. “The offer still stands, Sixer. I told you, you’re a FREAK! You’ll fit right in with us. Not sure about Stanley though” Ford’s glare hardened “But you two are a package so no separating,” Bill quickly added.

“The point is, I like you. You might as well join us in this party. If you accept this deal, I’ll give you power! You can conquer planets, galaxies, the multi-verse! Or you could stick with just being very powerful and not conquer any stuff - no fun in that though. You can exact revenge to those who wronged you. Prove everyone wrong,” Bill said. “So, do you want to be one of us?” Bill held out his hand waiting for Ford to shake it.

There’s nothing for him to lose now. The moment he broke and gave the equation, he knew it. He is a monster. Might as well join with Bill where he fits right in. Stan might hate him… Or he might not but he knows this betrayal will hurt Stan though. The power that will come with the deal, that, he needs in order to protect Stan. Ford doesn’t know how well Bill will keep his end, so Ford has to make sure no harm comes to them. If he has power, he’ll be able to protect both him and Stan. Yes… To protect Stan, he’ll take it. He’ll take this stupid deal.

“Deal”

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Done! If you made this fair, congratulations! I hope the fic is okay.

[maddiesbookshelves]

Lamb by Christopher Moore (October 2021)

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story.

Would I recommend it to anyone? It really isn't for everybody. If you're religious and can't handle people making jokes about it and can't accept the fact that someone would write a funny book about the life of Jesus Christ... well then this book is definitely not for you.

Level of (dis)satisfaction based on the summary and my expectations? I discovered this book on a tumblr post that said Jesus must have been the weird kid in his village (I didn't find the version with the art but here is the post) and I thought it sounded like a really funny concept. It was and that's all I wanted.

My thoughts on it? Everything was going great until we started talking about a 13 years old's sex life. Christopher Moore, I know that technically they were already considered as adults at the time but... no. It was fine when it was just crude jokes but the first time Biff sleeps with a girl, the way it happens is absolutely disgusting and leads to us reading about how Biff, a 13 y.o, hires a dozen protitutes. Really, getting to that part of the book killed my enthusiasm. After that, there are still parts of the book where it's mentionned but Biff grows up so it's slightly better. I always have a hard time with this type of jokes though: sometimes it's okay, but when it's a big part of the humor in the book it's kinda annoying. To me, the best jokes in the whole book were the ones that had nothing to do with sex so I liked the first part of the book, with Joshua (Jesus) and Biff's childhood.

It was still an enjoyable reading experience, most of the book was really funny. The end actually got me emotional. i have to admit that reading Christopher Moore's end notes made me appreciate some parts of the book a little more when I didn't really liked them when reading.

French version under the cut

Niveau de déception/satisfaction par rapport au résumé et tes attentes ? J’ai découvert ce livre sur un post tumblr qui disait que Jesus devait être le gamin trop chelou du village (il est là) et je me suis dit que ça avait l’air super drôle comme concept. C’était le cas et c’est tout ce que je voulais.

Avis sans spoiler ? Tout allait très bien jusqu’à ce qu’on parle de la vie sexuelle d’un gamin de 13 ans. Christopher Moore, je sais que techniquement ils étaient déjà considérés comme des adultes mais... non. Ca allait quand c’était des blagues un peu lourdes mais déjà la première fois que Biff couche avec une fille c’est absolument dégueulasse la manière dont ça arrive et ça entraîne tout un passage où Biff, âgé de 13 ans, engage une dizaine de prostituées. Vraiment, arriver à cette partie du bouquin ça a absolument douché mon enthousiasme. Après ça y’a encore pas mal de passages où c’est mentionné mais c’est beaucoup moins lourd et Biff grandit donc ça passe un peu plus. Mais j’ai toujours du mal avec ce genre d'humour : de temps en temps ok mais c’est lourd quand c’est sur tout le bouquin. Pour moi, les meilleures blagues du livre étaient celles qui avaient rien à voir avec le sexe donc j’ai préféré la première partie du livre, quand c’est vraiment l’enfance de Joshua (Jesus) et Biff.

C’est quand même resté une lecture agréable, la majeure partie du livre était vraiment drôle. A la fin j'étais même vraiment émue. Je dois avouer que lire les notes de Christopher Moore m’ont fait apprécier un peu plus certains passages avec lesquels j'avais eu du mal sur le coup.

[hatari-translations]

Daði Freyr ft. Don Tox - Heyri ekki (Can’t Hear) - transcript/translation

This song, requested by anon, is significantly rap in a mixture of French and English. I’m afraid I know maybe three entire sentences of French, so I could only transcribe the Icelandic portion; however, the fantastic okarynna has generously transcribed and translated those parts for me and even provided notes in the vein of what I do! Huge thanks for that.

Icelandic/French/English transcript

DAÐI: (Dans)

DON TOX: On est calés collés serrés, ça vaut le coût d’essayer Si j’aimais l’ambiance, histoire de semer le feu et c’est la folie I don’t care if the neighbour call the police They are coming, no worries they join us in the party On va casser la baraque et d’entrée Pense à rien, tout ce qu’on veut mon gars c’est danser De malade à la clinique et on consomme la teuf (fête) comme de la pill Et déjà tout mon stress se relativise

Shake-a-shake-a-shake your body On révèle tellement on regorge d’énergie T’es accro de (?) ce soir on craque denordi (ordinaire) Tu veux savoir c’est qui par là, c’est God c’est Daði C’est toi qui es zarbi (bizarre) Tu fais genre t’as peur du dancefloor Bouge sur l’électronique comme sur du dancehall T’es sous l’emprise of a super McSort ouais Faut que tu t’agites down on the bass drop

DAÐI: Heyri ekki hvað þú ert að segja Það er í lagi, þú veist hvað ég meina Við komum ekki til þess að spjalla Við komum til þess að stíga dans

Heyri ekki hvað þú ert að segja Það er í lagi, þú veist hvað ég meina Við komum ekki til þess að spjalla Við komum til þess að stíga dans

(Dans)

Við horfumst í augu En þau segja allt sem segja þarf Annað getur beðið betri stað og betri tíma, getum útkljáð þetta seinna Við horfumst í augu Ég þarf ekki að vita meir á þessu augnabliki

DON TOX: Þa-þa-þa-þa-það skiptir ekki máli On fait la vague que je parle Islandais C’est pas sorcier fait juste bouger ton corps C’est maintenant ou jamais pourquoi t’hésites encore Commence par un pas et je ferai le deuxième Ici le contrat c’est fully autorisé Yo vernissez les pierres et soulève le plafond On fait crouler le sky on s’entoure des glaçons Prends ça comme une dose the mushrooms, fait ce que tu veux Rien à foutre, t’occupe pas de ceux qui en souffrent Nous on est plus forts à la pêche Les maux en tant que tels on les garde dans la tête Dans la même crêche, on est déjà dans la sphère ouais Plus on transpire on se baigne dans la fête

Tel un monastère faut pas crier hallelujah On a du mal à voir on est dans le brouillard Faut soulever la tête comme le ferais ma booyah Ici y’a pas le temps des goujats

DAÐI: Heyri ekki hvað þú ert að segja Það er í lagi, þú veist hvað ég meina Við komum ekki til þess að spjalla Við komum til þess að stíga dans

Heyri ekki hvað þú ert að segja Það er í lagi, þú veist hvað ég meina Við komum ekki til þess að spjalla Við komum til þess að stíga dans

English translation

DAÐI: (Dance)

DON TOX: We’re all crammed in together, it’s worth a try Gotta set the mood, I light the place on fire and it goes crazy I don’t care if the neighbour call the police They are coming, no worries they join us in the party We’re gonna raise the roof that’s for sure Don’t think about it man, all we wanna do is dance We were sick now we’re at the clinic, we’re popping this party like it’s a pill I can already feel my stress going down

Shake-a-shake-a-shake your body We’re out here basking in loads of energy You’re addicted to (?) tonight we’re breaking free You wanna know who’s up there, it’s God it’s Daði You’re the one who’s being weird You act like you’re scared of the dancefloor Move on the electronic beat like it’s dancehall You’re under a super McSpell yeah You gotta move it down on the bass drop

DAÐI: Can't hear what you're saying That's fine, you know what I mean We didn't come here to chat We came here to dance

Can't hear what you're saying That's fine, you know what I mean We didn't come here to chat We came here to dance

(Dance)

We look in each other's eyes But they say everything that needs to be said Everything else can wait for a better place and better time, we can work it out later We look in each other's eyes I don't need to know any more in this moment

DON TOX: It-it-it-it-it doesn't matter Let’s do the wave ‘cause I’m speaking Icelandic There’s no secret to it, just move your body It’s now or never, why are you hesitating Start with a step and I’ll make the second one Here’s the contract it’s fully authorized Yo polish the floor and raise the roof We make the sky drop down and we’re surrounded by ice cubes Take it like a dose of mushrooms, do want you want to Don’t give a damn, don’t worry about those can’t take it We’re the best, we’re in great form Let’s keep the aches in our own heads In the same kindergarten, we’re in the right sphere yeah The more we sweat we can bathe in the party

Like at a monastery we must not yell hallelujah We can’t see ‘cause we’re standing in the fog We gotta lift our heads up like my booyah would We haven’t got time for boors

DAÐI: Can't hear what you're saying That's fine, you know what I mean We didn't come here to chat We came here to dance

Can't hear what you're saying That's fine, you know what I mean We didn't come here to chat We came here to dance

okarynna's French transcription/translation notes

(Again, huge thanks to okarynna for providing these!)

I can now definitely sympathize with how difficult it is to transcribe rap parts, Don Tox gave me a run for my money! I will preface this with the fact that I am French-Canadian, and Don Tox sounds like a Frenchman to me, so I’m not 100% familiar with all the expressions he uses. He mixes in random English phrases as well as “verlan” (a French habit of speaking words backwards, so “fête” becomes “teuf”), so my this is my best try at interpretation.

“Teuf” is verlan for “fête”: party “Zarbi” is verlan for “bizarre”: weird

“On révèle tellement on regorge d’énergie” doesn’t make a lot of sense, as “révéler” means to uncover. But it may be an anglicism using the word “to revel in something”, so I went with that.

“On craque denordi” I’ve completely made this up but it’s all I can hear, and it sounds like it “denordi” could be verlan for “ordinaire”: normal. It’s worth noting he used the word “craque” which could also be “crack” as in the drug. Could be a regional thing. He does refer multiple times to partying and dancing feeling like a drug to him.

Yes, that is “McSort” or “McSpell” as is “McDonalds”.

As far as I’m aware “polir les pierres” is not an actual idiom, but it does sound to me like it could mean “polish the floor” as in you dance so hard that the floor shines.

“Nous on est plus forts à la pêche” literally means “we’re the best at fishing” which makes no sense here. However, “avoir la pêche” or “une pêche d’enfer” means to be in good shape, to have lots of energy, and that seems to fit in better. In both these idioms, the word “pêche” is actually the fruit, a peach.

“Les maux on les garde dans la tête” is a clever word play, because “maux de tête” means “headaches” and he says they gotta keep them in their heads.

In France “la crèche” is the kindergarten, the daycare for young children. I’m not sure what he’s getting at, probably that himself and whoever he’s talking to come from the same place?

[gizkasparadise]

cdrama rec/review: le coup de foudre

KDRAMA AND CDRAMA MASTER LIST OF REVIEWS

Series: le coup de foudre / love at first sight / i don’t like this world, i only like you Episodes: 35 w/ a special Genres: then & now, slice of life, high school to adult life, romance, reunion/getting back together, working with the ex Spoilers in the Rec: for set-up/light ones for character backgrounds If You Like, You’ll Like: the reply series, sad-looking dogs that are loved very much, because this is my first life (VERY similar male lead), sibling love, my sunshine but if people were nicer and had significantly better hair, multiple couples that are all a lot of fun

Rank: 10/10

PREMISE

flashback to 6-8 years ago (because the OP here can’t remember lol): it’s desk selection day in qiao yi’s classroom! a very dramatic moment for all high schoolers, qia yi has to select who she sits next to. because she’s at the bottom of the class ranking, she gets last pick, which essentially narrows down her choices to that creepy kid who writes love poetry to every female student in the class and yan mo, the scary genius student who has placed 1st in their class since...forever.

taking a gamble, qiao yi goes with yan mo. yan mo eventually agrees to tutoring qiao yi outside of class and they become friends. then...friends? if you know what i mean. it’s very sweet and cute. only problem is that yan mo is both a genius and from a Family of Means, and so is already planning on attending cambridge (yeah, fucking cambridge) after graduation. not wanting to separate, yan mo asks qiao yi to come with him and she agrees to study hard so she can get accepted to a university in the UK, too.

but then, well, bad shit happened. 

qiao yi ended up staying in their home town, yan mo left for cambridge, and we got two v heartbroken teenagers on our hands.

4 years later, yan mo returns after studying in the uk, and by chance they end up bumping into each other. angry because qiao yi hurt him, yan mo puts up an ALOOF AND COLD AND I DONT CARE AT ALL front that she sadly buys. but after he leaves for the big city to pursue a business opportunity, qiao yi harnesses some amazing big dick energy to go after him, in a sort of inverse DONT LET HER GET ON THAT PLANE! move. very abba. 

the plot bounces between their (and their friends’) high school years, their lives as reunited adults, and their future lives as married folks. i love it very, very much.

MAIN CHARACTERS

zhao qiao yi

as a high schooler, qiao yi was a quiet girl with low self-esteem, who consistently ranked at the bottom of her class and was always attempting to retreat into her school tracksuit like a turtle. despite this, qiao yi has some solid friends and is always kind if somewhat shy or uncomfortable in certain situations. as a adult, qiao yi works as a television producer and is clearly more confident. 

she buys truly awful graphic t-shirts as thank you gifts that one feels obligated to wear. falls for scams easily. will help you fold 1000 paper stars for your boyfriend even if she hates your boyfriend because she’s ride or die like that. look at how cute she is no one is allowed to be mean to someone as cute as this.

yan mo / “frank”

if you liked se hee in because this is my first life, you’re in luck because here is a 10% angrier version. at first, yan mo seems cold, aloof, snobbish, pretentious, arrogant...

okay, but he’s ALSO got a lot of feelings and will help people out. well, at the start of the show, he’ll help two people out. but that expands to like 10. so, progress! in high school, he falls for qiao yi in the typical Cannot Spit It Out fashion, buying her sentimental cans of coke, PUTTING IN ONE EARBUD SO SHE CAN LISTEN TO THE BEATLES WITH HIM, feeling Weird about her tying his tie, and single-handedly ruining a for-profit afterschool tutoring business in about 30 seconds, because they weren’t teaching qiao yi anything, and he knew he could do it better. tbh he completely fucking destroys a lot of things and people in under a minute. #ruthless

he’s very protective of qiao yi and rather than explain it, here is a clip from the special episode where yan mo confronts another student who left a love confession meant for qiao yi in his desk by mistake (subtitles have to be selected under settings, but it’s subbed in english):

zhao guan chao

zhao qiao yi’s twin brother, who has always placed 2nd in their classes after yan mo. despite his high grades, he comes off as a laidback teen heartthrob and has a reputation for being a flake and a playboy. BUT he’s legit a chill dude and clearly popular for a reason--he gets along with (almost) everyone. he loves his sister and is extremely protective of her, especially since she’s so shy and has low self-esteem for Reasons That Will Be Explained in the Tragic Backstory. he’s such a good brother. the best brother. also looks out for qiao yi’s best friend, wu yi. understands the value of shoes.

hao wu yi

qiao yi’s best friend, and another classmate of The Crew. i say this with so, so much love, but she’s got a lot of chaotic dumbass energy. struggling along the bottom ranks with qiao yi during high school. she has the worst taste in men as a teenager, falling for the guy who literally bullied her in like. ep 2. thankfully she’s got qiao yi and guanchao.

the trio are close, and that doesn’t change as they grow up. wu yi ends up becoming a novelist who writes pop and steamy romance novels and has a significant teenage girl fanbase. it’s amazing. 

fei da chuan

my boy. another classmate, he, qiao yi, and wu yi make up the official Dumbass Trio of their high school class and have adorable adventures + solidarity in it. he’s also yan mo’s uncle. somehow. because rich people families are wild. while he’s got a place to live, he more often than not crashes at yan mo’s, who Does Not Like It. but da chuan does not notice or care. 

abrasive but 100% sincere about everything and toward everyone. people will think he’s an asshole or a gangster but then he’s secretly feeding abandoned kittens in the corner or something. as an adult, has the best business casual outfits. serves as a big brother figure to a lot of people, but qiao yi in particular. cannot, cannot fucking do math.

SUPPORTING

“alicia” / cheng youmei. an old family friend of yan mo’s who is very posh and rich and dignified. studied abroad with him at cambridge, and is cold toward qiao yi after arriving back in china. cosplays B)

teacher gao. everyone’s high school teacher who later owns a bar that seems to be there only for dispensing advice. seriously. there is no way this bar is economically sound as the only customers you ever see are gao’s students coming in one at a time for Wisdom and you never see them pay for anything. also the bar has no fucking roof and is directly above traintracks. i have hang-ups about this bar

lin shu. yan mo’s mother. very sweet and pretty and a ballernia turned program director. is almost never home but clearly loves her son. du chaun’s sister. somehow.

zhao suyin. qiao yi and guan chao’s mother. one of her kinks is roleplaying condor heroes characters? okay okay okay

tian weimin. qiao yi and guan chao’s stepfather who works as police officer. best dad award. he’s so sweet and corny and peak dad humor. he loves them kids & they love him back

grandpa. yan mo’s dog in high school. a very old basset hound with sad eyes:

dollar or d. i cant tell you anything about him, other than he used to be a stray and yan mo says he’s ugly, which, rude.

DRAWBACKS

plot...hm. there’s SOME plot, but this is about characters + romance + friendship + family. if you’re looking for scheming mothers-in-law or tragic car accidents or secret destinies this isn’t the one for you. similar in vibe to Reply 1988 (they even watch the show in the show :’D / make references to it)

OKAY SO every plot summary i’ve seen says that yan mo is in a relationship with someone else when he gets back to china. no he is not. i say this because it was a huge turn off for me/initially put me off watching the series. he is definitely a one-and-only type. there’s no cheating in this show. lmao, hell, neither of the mains are even interested in anyone else but each other

i liked du chuan and his love interest a lot, but they definitely didn’t get as much screen time as the others

while it’s clear qiao yi + yan mo are the mains, another couple gets a lot of screen time as well. this might be a skip if you don’t like multiple couples/secondary relationships in a show

i surprisingly enjoyed the high school storyline a lot more than the adult one? which is super weird for me, but idk i was sad when it was over because it was so cute.

some...weird technical decisions. every once in a while, the camera will have like a nostalgia filter and then it disappears and then the edges get a bit blurry and idk it feels very film school 101 to show that what’s on screen is a ~memory. the soundtrack/music is sometimes also too loud--to the point where it can drown out the actors (particularly janice wu in the high school arc, since qiao yi is soft-spoken)

REASONS TO WATCH

the lead actors (janice wu + zhang yujian) are legit two of my favorites and they have great/easy chemistry. all the actors are amazing. everyone’s loveable

SIBLING GOALS the zhao twins are amazing and they’re both each other’s biggest fans. gaunchao had some really heartwarming brother moments

i love love lmao. this spoke to a lot of my favorite dynamics: exes reunited/having to work together, childhood sweethearts reuniting as adults, “gangster” and princess, childhood friends turned lovers, bickering couples, cold man who actually has a lot of feelings, lots of people being overprotective, idk. everything was just great. 0 complaints on any of the ships.

i genuinely liked every character other than that one piece of shit poppa zhao. even alicia, who’s put into the stereotypical rich bitch role, was actually really fun and subverted a lot of expectations for this trope

it’s just. real cute y’all. probably my favorite cdrama and definitely in my top 10 (maybe 5?) dramas overall.

FINAL THOUGHTS

i love them ;;

[franglishetchocolat]

Champs-les-Sims in the 50s – La Batisse (fire house) 20x20

Community lot - Caserne des pompiers/ Fire station - The picture is from my game and I can’t share this cc-heavy version. The one I uploaded is barely more than just a SHELL of this building - Don’t think I’ve added any of the firemen’s goodies (coats, axe...)  except for the truck, alarm and pole. 

DOWNLOAD

EDIT: Sorry, was the wrong file here is the right link for the DOWNLOAD

+ this build really needs Gosik and Inge’s cottage half landing stairs to work

If you want to know where it’s located in my town, see map at the bottom of this post:

  https://franglishetchocolat.tumblr.com/post/616310814172954624/replies

+ Replies below the cut

@jolifleurbleu​​ said: Adorable! J'adore l'ambiance dans ton jeu! :)

Aw, merci, ça c’est grâce à tous les mods et CC. Y’a tellement d’options maintenant ('enlever’ les tel portables, travailler en tant qu’artisans...) que j’ai même un monde WIP tourné vers ‘nos ancêtres les gaulois’ ....

Mon sim-idéfix est tout prêt à sy installer! ;-D

@lilidebergerac said: Your world is so beautiful <3

@simsaralove said: Oh wow, beautiful pictures ♥️

@itsyuiri said: Absolutely beautiful ❤️ I love this world so so much!

Thank you!! The env./lighting mods do help a lot with making looking at the snow way more interesting ^^! 

@yourpicasso25 said: it sorta does show we’re all locked up, doesn’t it? And your game is fabulous and I’m jalous! (as usual… And while I’m at it, can you tell Sandy that Samkat, Picasso doggie and me are adopted Krampouezhians? We didn’t get wedding cake!)

Actually, I have so much more to do during lockdown (class prep is quite different and takes way more time) that I don’t know how I’ve managed to play :-D!  

Oh, I did tell Sandy that your simselves and lil’Picasso were living there but that was some 2-3 years ago when I first gave her the files for the world. She had been preparing that wedding for a while ^^!!  

If it’s any consolation, I finally caved in and gave Krampouezh’s sim-Manu her very own dodoche :-) No more biking up the cliff, simsamkat-who-is-not-a-cat’s paws are pretty happy about it !!

@samkat10423 reblogged this from franglishetchocolat and added:

So pretty! It’s what I love about this world. It looks awesome, no matter the season.

@simsmidgen said: I’ve not seen it in Winter yet! I only play with Summer, I should change that :)

 @simsmidgen said: Ok, I’m turning the snow on <3

Snow is pretty until you stumble on very yellow-ish crops ! Hay but mostly wheat do look a tad weird in the wintery scenery. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[maizumis]

Hi Mai! 🥺 I’m doing fine thanks for asking , I mean my finals doesn’t actually start until like next Friday so we have a study break this week...but...well....y’a know.... let’s just say I haven’t been studying at all HAHAHAHAHAHA all I did this week was scroll through tiktok , read fanfics till 4am yet again and well “stressing about next week but not studying at all” oof-

Anyways omg so many Aries in this match up event !!! We really are the superior zodiac sign huh? Queen energy only 💅 luv that

also that one Aries anon who got iwa , phew we Aries are all the same person huh ITS LIKE STARING IN A MIRROR AHHAHAHAHA PLEASEEEEE 💀✋All us Aries gang should be besties tho fr I think all us will get along with each other 🤪 or it could also take a whole other turn and we’ll have a war with each other HAHAHA cuz u know us fire signs... 😜

idk about finals cause 1 my country has a very different uni sistem and 2 and most important I'm in highschool 😭😭 my school has some weird exams others don't lol,,,,,, I can't tell you something cause I literally do the same at night, but I'm all day studying and reading notes lmao my mom raised a nerd 😭😭

AND WE ALL LOVE IWA!!!! God imagine seeing his dump truck every morning making coffee✨✨✨ ogey this is my and my baby fever but he could grab you and your child at the same time. no one can change my opinion

AND I FEEL THIS IS US, ARIES, IN THIS BLOG SJSLSNODDN

[ephemeral-afterlight]

Day 11: Stitches

(Don’t give up.)

Whumptober 2019 Day 11: Stitches

Word Count: 1686

Relationships: logince (pre-relationship)

Warnings: Splitting stitches, stab wound (no actual stabbing occurs in this fic! he only breaks the stitches in a still-healing previous injury), blood, mentioned transphobia/transphobic bigotry, cursing, slightly delirious behaviour

A/N: i know it’s a day late. i’m awful. sorry. hopefully dumbass gay roman being smitten with trans boy logan makes up for the wait a little bit

Okay, so maybe Roman should have listened to Patton when he said not to strain himself. And maybe it was a little rash of him to get up and punch the guy despite the strain it caused him. But he doesn’t regret it! Nope! He will gladly take the pain of ripped stitches any day if it means punching a transphobe in the face. 

And. Well. Maybe “pain” is a bit of an understatement, because holy shit why does it hurt so much is he dying? According to the cute boy he literally fought a bigot for despite never meeting him before in his life, no. He’ll be fine if he stops squirming, the guy says, but Roman can’t sit still when he’s literally falling in love with this cute stranger, so. Time for funeral arrangements. Maybe his new husband will come weep at his grave, bring him a single red rose to place on his tombstone. It’ll be so poetic, and it’ll be beautiful, and he’ll lay his ghostly hand on his new husband’s shoulder in comfort, and he’ll laugh at Virgil from the grave because he got a boyfriend first!

“Hey! Prince Charming! Don’t zone out on me like that,” his new husband commands, and who’s Roman to ignore such a pretty face? A pretty face, which is currently a lot closer than he anticipates, and Roman almost knocks their heads together when he jolts up in surprise. His new husband is pressing hard on his opened stitches, and although Roman’s sure he knows what he’s doing (he has glasses, and all the smart people have glasses, everyone knows that), it still hurts like a bitch. Pretty boy sticks his tongue out of the corner of his mouth as he examines Roman’s stomach, and although the small detail makes Roman’s heart go doki-doki in his chest, he can’t seem to look away from the stranger’s own sharp, focused gaze. Who gave him the right to have eyes like that? All shiny and silvery like metal, or maybe Roman’s third-favourite shade of nail polish. 

“I’ll try to wipe off some of the blood, but I can’t do much more than that, not here. It’s too unsanitary and I don’t have proper equipment. I won’t risk infection with impatience. The paramedics will take care of it,” his new husband says plainly, brushes his fingers against Roman’s side, and Roman is pretty sure he’s dying. There’s no way that this isn’t an angel. Although, Roman never expected that angels would be so… bossy. The handsome stranger instructs him to keep pressure on his side, details how exactly to hold his hands to his stained skin. Maybe he could be a little gentler about it? Especially when he puts his hands over Roman’s own, and presses harder, and draws a groan from Roman’s throat. “Oh, stop whining. It’s your fault you decided to be unnecessarily reckless for no reason.”

“Ha! For-- For no reason? I would punch that guy ‘gain for you if I h’d the chance!” Roman exclaims, slurred in pain yet loud in the buzzing energy of the outdoors cafe he's probably gonna die in. Honestly, maybe he's okay with dying right now. Yeah, he's sitting here sprawled in a cafe chair bleeding out, but he also has his new husband with him, so who's the real winner here? 

"Your new husband, huh? I wasn't aware that we were married already. Shouldn’t you at least ask your potential suitor on a date first?" the pretty stranger muses, face stoic, but there's a teasing glint in his eyes and a subtle smirk as he uses some napkins to wipe a spot of blood off of Roman's hip. The touch sends a shiver down his spine, lends itself to a sense of familiarity despite them never having met before now. Is he talking out loud? Those thoughts were supposed to stay in his head. Hopefully his new husband isn’t annoyed by long rambles at two a.m., because that’s like… Roman’s whole aesthetic. “Although, I suppose the legal and financial benefits of marriage are a positive, despite the tradition itself being an unnecessarily exorbitant game of ‘who can spend the most money and look as rich and successful as possible’ whilst perpetuating wildly amatonormative societal expectations of seeming stable to your friends and family purely through means of surface appearance. But sure, weddings are fun.”

“Haah… Y’sound like Virgil,” Roman mutters as he knocks his head back to rest on the table behind him. The handsome stranger immediately puts his cleaner hand underneath his head and lifts it up, cradling the dead weight with a small frown. “H-- Sorry, wanna… wanna sleep. Virgil a’ways says that weddings are stupid. You guys’d get along. Wait, no, that’s the worst idea I’ve ever had, and I’ve had a lot of shitty ideas.”

“Mm, I’m sure you have. Punching a transphobe for a stranger is definitely one to add to the list. Don’t fall asleep, Prince Charming. You’re not losing that much blood. Hey, you-- how far away are the paramedics?” And… wow. Even the way he speaks makes Roman want to snatch him up. He’s so authoritative, and obviously doesn’t take shit from anyone, and Roman could probably listen to him talk forever. He’ll be like his own personal audiobook. An ASMR YouTuber that lives in his house and shows off that amazing voice of his but also gives him cuddles because that’s what cute husbands do together. That’s the dream.

“An… ASMR YouTuber? You sure have strange priorities.”

“‘S important! Oh, hey… wha’s your name? I have to know how t’ introduce y’a to my friends. ‘Oh, hey Virgil, this is my husband… Bob McBookshelf. I got a cute boyfriend before you, give me fifty dollars.’ Y’know, like that,’ Roman asks, and if he’s being honest, he doesn’t even really know what he’s talking about anymore. He just knows that talking makes him more lucid, and his new husband told him to stay awake, so he’s going to try his best to do just that.

“Ah. Well, my name unfortunately is not Bob McBookshelf. It is Dr. Chae, professionally, but you may refer to me as Logan if you’d like,” Logan says, Dr. Chae, and Roman is taken aback. Not only is his new husband cute, and has the best voice he’s ever heard, but he’s also smart? And a doctor?!

“Woah. That’s so cool. I can’t believe I’m g’nna marry a doctor. Wait, does that mean I get your last name? Roman Chae. That sounds weird. Fits you better. Guess we don’t have to change our las’ names. And! You’re a doctor, ‘f course y’a can’t change it now. Wow… a doctor. You are the coolest person I’ve ever met. And I met Beyoncé once. She didn’t see me or talk to me, but it was still awesome. And you-- you’re a doctor. You must be suuuuuper smart. Already got a college degree ‘n’ stuff. But you… don’t look old.”

Logan’s eyes flick up to meet his, incredulity written across his face, and then it morphs into something almost fond as he lets out an amused huff of a laugh. He looks beautiful, even as he shoves his hands back on Roman’s open wound again, and Roman thinks maybe he’s a masochist or something. He should be angry at the rough treatment, but somehow, he doesn’t really care that much. Oddly enough, he trusts this stranger, his new husband, and Roman could probably get stabbed again except this time by this guy and even so he’d be the one apologizing. “I’m 24. My school experience went by very quickly.”

“Ohhhhh… you’re one of those. Those… smarty-pants people. Smarty people. Pants people. Logan, am I dying?” Roman feels delirious, and he probably is. Logan snickers quietly, smiles small and soft and-- and--  Roman has a feeling that if the blood loss doesn’t kill him, Logan’s adorable smile will. Thankfully, he can hear sirens outside, and that must mean an ambulance is here.

Wait.

“Wai-wai-wait, Log’n, why’d y’a call an ambulance? I’m fine,” Roman asks, reassures even as he moans dramatically when another stinging ache reverberates from the wound. “It hurts but I c’n take it! Had t’a… had t’a before! Got stabbed, did’ja know that? It sucked. My best friend… ex-best friend did it to me. Thought she was cool. She was… not cool. But! I don’t need a hospital. Jus’ a… just a little. Little papercut. Small. I c’n sleep it off. I’m strong.”

“You absolutely can not. You do understand that you didn’t just get stabbed, right? Your “ex-best friend” slashed at your stomach. The laceration is at least eight inches in length, who knows how deep, and you broke a majority of the stitches with the stunt you pulled. There is a very real possibility of you bleeding out without medical assistance. Sit still so I can make sure pressure stays on the wound, and then the paramedics will pick you up, and then your stitches will be re-sewn. There is no need for panic, but you can’t fall asleep, either.”

And, well. Maybe Logan has a point. She did yell something about splitting him in half when she did it, but Roman doesn’t really remember the encounter that well. But Logan’s a doctor! And he’s smart! So he obviously knows what he’s talking about. He can’t die before he gets married to his beautiful doctor husband. That would be the worst ending to the Disney movie that is his life. Well, if Disney had stayed true to the source content and featured a lot more gore and dramatic gay lamenting.

“Yes, yes, I’ll be your doctor husband, as you say, as long as you take me on a date first. Now hold. Still,” Logan demands, exasperated, and Roman isn’t even aware he was moving. Maybe he’s just wiggling because all of his love for his cool new husband is bursting out of him. And he says so, manages to get Logan to crack that pretty smile again, and Roman’s injury hurts just a little less.

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Yugioh S4 Ep8: Magic Mai

So fun fact, I was out of town around this Thanksgiving and I grabbed a laptop from my Dad’s stack of machinery he’s sort of collected over the years and lo and behold--he put Linux on it.

Like I dunno if you all can relate to this problem, but everything he touches turns into Linux and he’s trying to live this Windows free/Mac free lifestyle, and I get it, I’m friends with so many vegetarians, but like I hate this laptop. I'm using Gimp to make these screenshots...So I can re-do them later in Photoshop because...it just doesn’t feel right to put Papyrus on this computer. It already has Linux. This poor machine has suffered enough. Long story short, this’ll be a small update because right clicking on linux is ass.

Also, because I was on a laptop and realized how small my blog is for the first time--I don’t have control over the size of pictures in text posts, tumblr does, and in this particular theme it’s not allowing me to change the size, and so do me a favor. Click ctrl and + at the same time a couple times (I’m assuming most of you are on firefox). There. the pictures are the right size now. If you hated that, you can click ctrl and - but like lets be real, my font is occasionally...tiny.

Anyway, we start discussing this episode on the confusing legs of the last one, where Mai is evil now, and it’s really not entirely clear if she’s possessed or if she’s just always been this way, or if she just FEELS like it.

And that’s all this episode is about, start to finish--is this Mai’s choice or was this not Mai’s choice? The answer is the same as it would be for a normal person: it’s complicated. Maybe it’s everybody’s choice. Maybe it was because no one did anything that Mai went completely haywire? Maybe it was because Mai hid how she was feeling so no one had any idea she needed help? Or, overall, maybe Mai is kind of a toxic person and wanted to be this way? Especially while she’s on children’s cartoon card drugs?

(read more under the cut)

So to start off, a weird thing happened at the beginning of this episode. After about 4 seasons, someone finally mentioned this:

How many seasons has Yugi been talking to himself? Like, out loud. In front of everyone and Kaiba? This whole time, right? Like Valon just dashed my headcanon where I figured Yugi was smart enough to think his thoughts instead of speak his thoughts. He’s just not that smart, unfortunately.

Meanwhile, Mai has managed to attract this other (teenager?) guy and like...to go worse than Joey so quickly is kind of shocking. Mai just seems embarrassed by the amount of very young boys in love with her. And she’s not even a cougar about it, she doesn’t really seem to want this to happen but it keeps on happening.

And although he is essentially the card form of a drug pusher, Valon has this soft spot for a girl I guess to give him some sort of redeemable flaw. However, she only wears tube tops and minis and spends like hundreds of dollars on her hair, so it doesn’t really make him seem any less shallow, tbh.

PS I’m surprised, that unlike all the other characters on Yugioh, I can’t just type in Valon’s name into Google and get his age and weight. No idea what his age is, and if you know, feel free to tell me but he just seems...exactly the same age as Joey. He seems very 17. Maybe it’s the obsession with motorcycles and children’s playing cards? Maybe it’s his big ol childlike eyes? He just seems young and niave like how a teenager who just fell in love with a very angry older woman would.

Joey tries to remind everyone, multiple times, that this game is the worst idea ever since it requires one of them to super die, but Mai is on card drugs so I don't know why they bothered. Also, why is Joey still surprised by this after 4 seasons of this?

Yo it’s S4 and Mai witnesses magic non-stop but still has basically no idea how it works. She really did say “I have no soul” and it was like...I’m 90% certain she literally thinks she has no soul right now. Which I guess, statistically speaking, is rare to actually have a still intact soul after hanging out with the main villain, with the way this show typically goes.

Meanwhile, last episode it really sounded like Duke Devlin was driving to Pegasus’ company building. It really sounded like he would have gone directly there, since Weevil and Rex told him that Yugi was going to Pegasus.

Remember that Duke Devlin works for Pegasus and probably has his own parking spot.

So where did he go instead?

You know how there’s only one gas station in the entirety of America?

I can’t believe it blew up.

Y’all what is the red splotch in the middle of the pile ps? That is legitimately a pile of blood, right? I didn’t shop that in. There’s just a red puddle in this kid’s show.

Y’all what is that? Like was there a scene with a red handkerchief that I missed? Is that a red handkerchief?

But to move past the mysterious pool of blood that confirms those bikers are so hella dead, I have no idea why Duke was here, I have no idea how he got the tip off that Yugi visited this place, but then he turned around and went back to SF so like...I guess he’ll arrive 3 days from now because again, they are in Arizona. They keep telling me this is right outside SF but like--Mesas. There’s Mesas.

And then this happened.

That one guy on the writing staff who just stans Seto Kaiba so hard got into the drawing room, I see.

PS someone had to pose for this shot for them to draw this shot from this angle.

Meanwhile, lets see why Mai turned evil. Ah, because it is Yugioh, the biggest reason is that she has no friends (probably because she’s got the most acidic personality known to man) and isn’t card popular enough and got super bitter and jealous.

Speaking as an artist who is online, I can understand the frustration here. Sometimes (99% of the time) you work really hard and no one cares and you get like 2 notes. And honestly, why should they? Like, why do you do it in the first place?

Mai echoes a lot of the issues of Seto last season, where she wants so badly to be the absolute best to prove herself to the ghosts of her past who really don’t care any more.

But, since Mai was in a coma when Seto got through all of that, I guess she never got the memo and still seems stuck on just wanting to be the best with no other reason than “to be the best” which again, sounds so much like art school problems. This is everyone who has ever had an interest in animation. We all go through that phase.

Generally we don’t take peoples souls as a reaction to that type of discouragement, but then Mai made sure to mention in almost a foot note that she did spend like an entire season and a half trapped in Marik's shadow realm. And that kind of effed her up in a really big way.

Thanks, Marik.

Really feels like Marik should be dealing with this problem--really feels like maybe Marik is the only person that we can actually point to and say “Oh yeah, that guy is to blame for Mai right now” And he is the only person that Mai does not actively go out and try to kill.

And I’ll have you know I just deleted like a 15 K word rant about the difference between character assassination and your character just--evolving into a jackass, and how it’s OK to have your character change into a jackass, especially after trauma. I felt this need to really have to defend this ancient writing technique that people have been using since about as long as stories have been around.

Then I remembered “Oh yeah, I’m just making this point because a few number of very loud idiots on the internet want to have very lukewarm hot-takes about popular characters solely because they enjoy baiting people on twitter into getting into week-long arguments that don’t go anywhere.” and I just...let it go. I let it just...go into the ether. Ah. The peace that comes when you already know you’re right.

But anyway, back to Yugioh, which thankfully doesn’t take a stance on this nuanced subject, and only presents this very serious problem without actually offering a solution (because there isn’t a one fit’s all solution to falling off the deep end and getting into drugs and murder), Mai decides to just go and blame this decision she made on anyone else. Because, why take responsibility for your actions, when you can pin it on people who were on the other side of the freakin planet when it happened?

Like, I just want to remind y’all that she was in ATLANTIS.

I wonder how good the cell reception is in ATLANTIS.

I just...Mai is like in her mid twenties maybe thirty’s. She’s so arbitrarily old that she plays Yugi’s Mom in the video game spinoff where they’re reincarnations of medieval times. That’s how old she is.

Imagine if you made some epically BAD decisions because you were jealous of some teenager’s success and didn’t want to be weak anymore, and then you confronted those teens, and said “This is all your fault.”

Imagine looking someone as dysfunctional as Joey Wheeler and telling him “You made me like this” because lollllllll

And I present this as a joke but like basically this happens all freakin time. We’ve all had a friend like Mai. Past tense of course, because it’s really hard to keep a friend like Mai for very long. (One of my friend’s who went Mai destroyed my apartment one summer and then literally blamed it on me for going to California for 2 months and leaving her unattended.) But like...don’t let Mai’s do it to you. They can get better, but only if it’s their choice, really. You can’t force them to save themselves.

But, as Mai was finally ready to give up cards and probably improve her quality of life by a huge degree, unfortunately, she got sucked right back into the trap.

Bro note: being a serial murderer cultist is basically working at McDonald's in this universe so maybe this wasn’t even that weird?

But that aside, this is alllllmost like a dark version of “Mai got into an abusive relationship to fill the void in her heart” except she’s not even really dating this guy? Like she hates this guy? He’s just kinda there?

Y’all I really can’t tell if Valon is in an abusive relationship with Mai who is using him for power or if she’s in an abusive relationship with him because he only wants her pretty face and wants to kill Joey because Joey liked her once--and maybe it’s both? Maybe both of these people are just...really bad for each other?

Overall Joey is kind of tossed into this not-a-love-triangle and I’m like

“Hey show? show? Am I supposed to....were any these people ever dating? Is there supposed to be an implied history? Am I supposed to get attached to this?” because I mean...the only character who was able to get some actual physical romance on this show was Pegasus when he macked the ghost of his dead wife because, again, Pegasus is the freakin king of this entire show. Of course HE can do it.

But have this show clarify what the hell is happening between Valon and Mai? I’m gonna take a bet that we will never get to see it beyond Valon being like “Ain’t she a beaut!” Like Steve Irwin talking to an alligator, and Mai just pretending he doesn’t exist. Yugioh romances are so completely one way every single time. If something more than that happens, I’ll be

shook.

Anyway, as all the children on the show keep repeating over and over again, they haven’t had any contact with Mai since she left the freakin country and they went back to High School.

And so someone threatens to kill himself, as is Yugioh tradition, and someone else barks at him to NOT kill himself, as is also tradition, and they decide to play real cards next episode.

This whole entire episode, PS, Joey went out of his way to just...not play cards. that was this whole episode. Way to draw out a card game over three episodes, I guess.

Anyway if you want to read these from the start you can do so by clicking the link here