#EVERYTHING IN FRONTIERS GIVES ME SO MUCH HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE GAMES AND. FUCK.
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listening to sonic frontiers music and thinking about how the games from now on are going back to lore-heavy stories and allowing there to be deep emotions and heavy stuff without brushing everything off with silly jokes and optimism and paying attention to all the little details of the characters and their development and bringing back the feeling of the old 3d sonic games and
#I CANT REALLY PUT INTO WORDS PROPERLY HOW HAPPY THIS GAME MAKES ME#LIKE. ITS BEEN SO LONG. IVE BEEN MISSING THIS FEELING IN THE NEW SONIC GAMES SO BAD.#ITS ALMOST HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THEYRE GOING TO BE LORE FOCUSED AGAIN AND DOING THE CHARACTERS SO WELL#AND FUCKING. HAVING EMOTIONS. IT FINALLY FEELS LIKE THE HEART AND SOUL OF SONIC IS BACK IN THE GAMES#IVE BEEN INTO THIS SERIES LITERALLY AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. ITS SO SO DEAR TO MY HEART.#EVERYTHING IN FRONTIERS GIVES ME SO MUCH HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE GAMES AND. FUCK.#I JUST CANT BELIEVE THEYRE FINALLY BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK IM SO HAPPYYYYYYYYYYY#WHO ELSE HAS SOBBED WHILE PLAYING OR THINKING ABOUT SONIC FRONTIERS AND BEING OVERWHELMED WITH LOVE FOR THE SERIES#sonic frontiers#sth
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some wild cards for the ask game- elle and/or suzu since it was her birthday recently!! love you guys 🩷
OH MY GOSH MOLLY THIS IS LIKE WHAT 2 MONTHS LATE IM SORRYYYYY. [ask] THANK YOU FOR SENDING THIS IN. GENUINELY ❤️🙏 I'll just do a general opinion for Elle because she is just a little guy but Suzu will be under the read more! we love you too!
ELLE NISHINO
General Opinion over said character: so much unending love in my heart!!! I did not know what to expect going into the game. she was so mysterious and had so very little to her name at the start but the more we learned the more I got attached and both of us have this funny little thing with kuromaya that they're her self inserted stage parents because of how much she loves maya. it's so cute. she's so cute!! her entire story with frontier tugged on my heart like crazy and was just so special to me. she's a fantastic character too i love the dreamscape and the trope of her stories coming to life, it's such a shame that's all they did with her, left her to the main story and there she stays. i hope in the future they at least give us another card or two with her in it, maybe like a memoir or something. i felt like what she set up for everyone was really important given everything, so it's a little sad to see that arc over already!! i'm rambling but all in all i think she's a wonderful addition to the stage girl roster and I thought what they did with her story was incredibly fun and new, albeit a bit strange at first going into everything especially with all the changes after the anime but I really think she deserving of more love from the dev team and people in general ! Elle is like the brooke page of revue starlight
SUZU MINASE
Sexuality Headcanon: this may very well be me projecting my bestie friends onto their kins teehee but Suzu is pansexual in my heart of hearts. they are a total lover
Gender Headcanon: transgender!! transmasc or transfem, it could literally go either way to me, it changes daily because both make sense. any pronouns or simply a he/her or a she/him!
A ship I have with said character: loving attachments to suzu / mahiru and "traffic light trio" (suzu/hisame/koharu) you honestly cannot make me choose ♡
A BROTP I have with said character: Suzu and Sakura!! Suzu and Mahiru!! Suzu and Hisame/Koharu!! Suzu and Karen/Hikari!! Suzu and Claudine, Suzu and Futaba, Suzu and the siegfeld juniors !!! the list goes on and on for sure she's so lovable and tries to befriend everyone, she has an infectious laugh and a charismatic personality. those by name stand out to me the most given their bond stories or interactions in the stage plays :3
A NOTP I have with said character: Suzu and Sakura is a personal one, and obviously pairings that are gross to ship (juniors or teachers). otherwise I don't think any of them would be inherently weird or "bad" to ship! haven't given it much thought!
A random headcanon: I think that while suzu loooves giving nicknames she's absolutely abysmal at terms of endearment and pet names. she's not necessarily bad at romance and compliments, she's very charismatic, kind, and even a bit touchy by nature, but she can be veeerrrryyy unserious and it definitely comes out when she's flustered, backed into a corner, or nervous (ie; flirting with someone she has feelings for or having embarrassed herself in front of them). she has a lot of humility though and bounces back very quickly, able to try again whether or not it was successful! and anyone she's pining after definitely has a soft spot for it, and wouldn't change it for the world.
General Opinion over said character: oh. my. gosh! i love all 3 of the seiran girls so so so much Blue Glitter literally changed me as a person fundamentally i think. Live #2 did as well obviously and of course, but Blue Glitter and Delight........ ough. all 3 of them get the short end of the stick in the game and that's okay. they get a whole manga adapt and multiple stage performances, so I can let it slide. though I'm glad suzu was able to get some well deserved attention in Rebellion! both on the stage *and* in the game! another fantastic story btw, read it when you have the chance if you haven't! but yes yes, suzu. she's so silly, earnest and innocent, she's such a people person and someone i truly think everyone needs in their life! i've been thinking about her (and hisame) more recently, more than usual, and idk! idk i get sentimental, don't tell anyone. but I love them both a lot, suzu is no exception, and I genuinely think the kind of character she is and her dynamics with the others is so good. she's such a good character!!!!!!!!!!!!! everything with mahiru is just!!!! augh!!!! um waiter, more seiran please .
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Okay, FINALLY getting around to the games played 2022 top ten ranking!!
10. Hollow Knight
VERY fun although I unfortunately didn’t spend much time on it. It definitely presents a pretty significant learning curve because it’s not very much like many other games I’ve played. I hope to revisit it soon!
9. Astro’s Playroom
This cute little platformer comes with the PS5 and demonstrates many of the consoles new functionality! It’s a great way to see what the console is capable of and is also just VERY cute and enjoyable!! Definitely don’t skip this game if you get the chance to play it!
8. Pokémon White
The second oldest game I played this year and also the first non-Pokémon GO Pokémon game I’ve played. Was a lot more simple than I thought it’d be and it’s super fun. I may not know much about Pokémon, but it was really easy to grasp. Really enjoyed it and loved it as an introduction to the franchise. I hope to play more Pokémon games in the future!
7. Bloodborne
My first Fromsoft game hopefully of many! I love the gameplay and design. It’s a really fun game for when I want a challenge! I absolutely adore the boss design in it and would love to you know.. actually beat it someday.
6. Ratchet & Clank (2016)
Despite my many criticisms for this game, it was VERY enjoyable. I still argue it doesn’t quite live up to the original, but the level design being overall the same certainly made it enjoyable! It’s definitely lower on my list than other R&C games, but again! I had a great time with it.
5. Oxenfree
I’m not usually a fan of these kind of point and click games, but the narrative of this game was so so fascinating that it’s actually one of my favorite games I played this year. Only outranked by some of my favorite games in general. I highly recommend giving this game a shot and I’m VERY much looking forward to the sequel.
4. Final Fantasy VII Remake: EPISODE INTERmission
A lot of debating back and forth if this DLC really counted as a “game played” this year, but I decided it did because of how much I enjoyed it. I definitely had my issues with it, mainly all stemming from DOC being my least favorite part of the FFVII Compilation. However with Yuffie being one of my very favorite characters, I think her getting her own dedicated DLC was well deserved! It makes me incredibly excited to use her move set more come Rebirth. While I wasn’t a fan of the narrative of this DLC, the gameplay more than made up for it!!
3. Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
I was EXTREMELY excited about this expansion and I tell you it did NOT disappoint! The story of this expansion was one of my favorites since The Taken King and is in my top five Destiny storylines. The Lucent Hive are among my favorite enemies right after my all time faves, the SIVA corrupted Iron Lords. Something I have wanted since TTK was a storyline about fighting against enemy guardians (not in the Crucible) and this is probably one of the BEST ways they could’ve done that. Oryx, Xivu Arath, and Savathûn are in my opinion the most interesting characters in Destiny, and getting to see Savathûn in action was EVERYTHING I hoped it would be. She unfortunately didn’t live up to the hype of her brother Oryx, but there’s only so much you can do to live up with that without turning into a goddamn kaiju. Still, EXCELLENT expansion and a GREAT place to start if you’re looking to get into Destiny right now!!
2. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
ONE OF THE GAMES OF ALL TIME!!!! Rift Apart ABSOLUTELY lived up to the hype and is in my opinion the best game for next-gen consoles to be released so far. The story is INCREDIBLY enjoyable, the new characters are WONDERFUL additions to the franchise, and the gameplay is hours and hours of pure enjoyment. It was a wonderful use of the new features of the PS5 and absolutely didn’t hold back on using the console to its full potential. If you happen to own a PS5, this game is an absolute MUST!!
1. Sonic Frontiers
SONIC FRANCHISE SAVED!!!! I had a lot of hopes riding on this game and this game blew my expectations out of the water. Ian Flynn’s writing was exceptional and truly captured everything that I love about Sonic games. The open world design was SOOOO much fun and I REALLY hope to see more of it in the future! The boss fights are probably my favorite in any Sonic game I’ve ever played. The MOVESET was SICK AS HELL, I loved the use of combo attacks in this game, not a single battle ever felt boring. The enemy design was EXTREMELY fun, every miniboss was extremely fun and creative. And SAGE?? Everything to me, I hope she appears in every single new game from here on out. The game isn’t without it’s issues, the Cyber Space levels have many of the same issues I had with the level design in Sonic Forces, but that’s pretty much my main complaint. This game makes me EXTREMELY excited about the future of Sonic games. If you haven’t played it yet… do it immediately. There is no game I’ve played in the last five years I would recommend higher than Frontiers.
#Okay annual ranking completed. Swag.#As you may be able to tell. I am. Passionate about Sonic the Hedgehog.#And also Destiny..#ophidian lore#game rankings
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I don't know if I really agree with your assessment on Eggman in Frontiers, but I respect your viewpoint and get why you don't like the decisions and won't try to argue with you over them. Though I do worry you're probably going to find it stressful being in the fandom for a while, since I feel like most of the fandom that's not all that into Eggman already is probably going to be really positive towards the developments with him and Sage in the game and that's probably going to have a big influence in how people view/write the character in the fandom for a while now. I hope you don't feel too alienated by it whatever happens and you're still able to enjoy future material with Eggman
I know nobody agrees, I was always the odd one out and I've always been alienated by those that love Eggman being soft and nice and caring and it's going to get so much worse but that's why I'm stepping away. Nothing has been causing me stress so far quite like the people coming to me and trying to give me reminders and trying to debate me so I have to repeat myself when I'm not interested. I can't be convinced otherwise and the people laughing, trolling, and acting like I'm wrong and don't know what I'm talking about need to leave me alone and I'll be fine.
I've decided I'm going to have to filter a lot of words and keep my distance from most types of fan content in general online for a while because all the stuff I know will come from this will be uncomfortable for me. I'm just going to focus on appreciating all game Eggman characterization in the games pre Frontiers and work on my own headcanons, fics, analysis and appreciation as usual because my love for him and passion for what I do will never die. Even if my way is the unpopular way and it makes everyone leave, I'm just doing what I enjoy.
I just hope people will stop pestering me and let me do my own thing because I'm trying to avoid it and focus on my own posts and that's it. I don't want people to keep bringing it to me and trying to kill my mood whenever I try not to focus on what happened and feel better. I'm going to finish the debate asks I've got currently and then I'm going to kindly ask that people don't keep trying to debate and argue or remind me because I'm not interested and I'm getting tired of it. I'm doing all this and people are still being rude and acting like I'm the one coming to them to complain.
Thank you, I really hope there's still stuff for me in future canon material but definitely not fanon anymore, knowing what fandom tends to focus on and how this is everything people that love fluff and family dynamics and want all villains to be like, so I know they'll eat it up and focus on it tons. And I can't stop that just like I couldn't before they forced this into canon and I'll accept that and keep making what I want to see alone, if people would just stop coming onto my posts and acting like I'm stupid and telling me how to think and feel about it.
I'm already upset but nothing is making me more stressed than people coming onto my posts and inbox and being rude when I'm just trying to say what I want on my blog. It's my point about toxic positivity in full effect, nobody will let me express my disappointment or criticisms without giving me shit for it. I'm not even looking at other fan content that could bother me because I filtered everything, so them coming to me the only source of it left to do so now. I just hope it'll die down eventually and people will realize that arguing does nothing.
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shinrin-yoku (Ethan x MC)
Book: Open Heart
Pairing: Dr Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Dr Noelle Valentine)
Word Count/Rating: ~1.7k, PG
Summary: When life's difficulties hit, Noelle navigates her way through them by turning to the nature.
Category: Hurt & Comfort
Warnings: mentions of trauma
A/N: May is a Mental Health Awareness month and here in the UK the theme is nature. My MC, just like me, runs to the woods when things get tough. It helps her clear her head and reconnect with inner strength.
I struggle with mental health myself and it’s important for me to speak up and address the subject. There is nothing worse than shaming or discrediting someone’s difficult feelings. It’s fine not to be fine.
If you struggle alone, please don’t. My inbox will welcome you with open arms. Two heads are better than one, even if we just complain, at least we can complain together 💜
For @choicesmaychallenge2021 Day 13 - Mental Health
SHINRIN-YOKU - A Japanese term for ‘forest bathing’ or the sense of well-being you experience while in nature.
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It all starts with a seed.
This tiny element which, without aid, is sentenced to certain death.
But give it the right soil.
Give it water, sun.
And it can grow.
Into something big.
Powerful.
Scary.
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She is five years old.
They live in a townhouse, a classy Victorian era building. Undistinguished, one of many merging into the background of a typical London street. The colors are also very standard, dirty white married to ivory beige, bar for the deep green door - their rebel child.
For the random passerby, it’s nothing special.
But for her, the walls of a storey house encapsulate the whole world.
The garden behind the house is neat and clean, visibly well taken care of.
She doesn’t remember exact details anymore, but she remembers begging her parents to go camping in the garden with her brother.
The ticklish feeling of long and slim blades of grass on her tiny feet.
Looking at the stars with pure awe and delight, that only the unspoiled mind of a child is capable of.
The plot of land that the house has been built on borders a beautiful forest. A wooden fence separates the two.
To her, it’s a passage to a magical world.
A world without any particular order, living its own life, unconstricted by rules.
Not in the slightest does it resemble the garden on her side of the fence, where things grow according to the rules laid out by the adults.
There is a feeling inside her that she’s too young to name, to throw it in lingual context.
It’s not until years later that she realized what it had been.
Freedom.
To grow however you please.
To be what you want to be.
Robust, effuse trees tower over her, making her feel so small.
As if she hasn’t already been feeling small enough, living in a world full of giants.
But they mean something else too.
They bring a secret and a promise.
Promise of a bigger world out there, far from the confines of the place she calls home.
The forest draws her, singing a melody that only her heart can understand.
One day, she will be a part of it.
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She lives the teenage dream life.
That’s what everyone says.
She doesn’t have any real problems.
She’s lucky not having to worry about money.
She’s got friends.
Her family is great.
She just needs to stop whining.
Her life is perfect.
Their words, not hers.
None of them know what happens behind closed doors.
The childhood forest is a cloudy memory.
Her home is now thousands of miles away, in a city with a giant red bridge, which for some bizarre reason has ‘golden’ in its name.
But the call from nature doesn’t care about distance.
It can find you about anywhere.
It’s different and yet the same.
Because nature beats in one rhythm and speaks in the same language, everywhere.
The morning is chilly and humid.
She’s wearing a wooly coat, carelessly threw on a pair of PJs hiding underneath.
Her steps are brisk, breathing short and heartbeat elevated.
Something’s bothering her blanched face.
The voice, again.
When it first appeared, she thought it had her best interest at heart. Used to give her advice and like a good friend, ream her out when she did something bad.
Over time, things took a turn for the worse.
Snarky comments. Casually mentioned wrongdoings. Feedback on what she could have done better, differently.
Noelle hoped the voice would go away on its own.
It hasn’t.
Not only did the voice not go away, but it was actually growing stronger with each passing day. Became more vocal. Judgmental. Openly hostile.
It fed on her fears.
It’s your fault - it told her - that your parents are getting divorced.
You are not good enough.
Even a lie, repeated enough times, will finally become the truth. And so it did for her, to the point where she couldn’t distinguish her own voice from the voice of the tormentor. Sounds faded into one.
Whoever said words can cut like a knife was right.
But those who knew thoughts could leave scars that are much deeper, were truly wise.
The young, beautiful girl who never hurt a soul, became a hostage.
A prisoner locked in the jail of her own head.
A giant tear rolled down her face.
Made of all the words her heart couldn’t say.
She hugged the tree tightly and inhaled the woodsy aroma, the scent filling her lungs fully.
It’s sensuous.
Just like that, she is small again.
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She’s got all that she ever wanted.
Degree from one of the best medical schools.
Graduating with honors and glowing recommendations from even the strictest professors, who kept assuring her that her future in medicine is so bright it’s actually blinding.
Then, a dreamy residency in one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country.
Pretty impressive, right?
Even a fool could see that.
But the only fool whose opinion she cared about, couldn’t.
All these things were clearly not good enough for Ethan Ramsey to stay.
She wasn’t good enough for him to stay.
Not longer than a year ago he was just a concept, an ideal without a face, body and voice. To her, he was a celebrity, a hero, someone whom mortals don’t have access to.
It was preposterous to consider for even a second Dr Ramsey could actually see something in an intern.
Standing among the moss-covered trees, every fiber of her being was filled with the thought of him.
Did the Amazonian forest remind him of her, just like every forest around reminded her of him?
Just when she won the battle for her career, she lost another.
Because life had to be a zero-sum game.
As painful as that would have been, she wished she had something to hold onto.
A scene she could replay in her mind.
An image of him walking away.
Or saying goodbye.
But he left without a word.
That was the pattern. That was history repeating itself.
She took her shoes off and stepped on the soil frosted with morning dew. It’s cold and wet.
It’s refreshing.
She is grounding.
Reconnecting with Earth.
Tunes in with the rivers of grass, towers of trees, fences of bushes.
If the trees could speak, they’d tell stories not many people would believe in.
Tales of heartbreaks.
Parables of spirits.
They are all nature’s poems.
Hauntingly beautiful.
Riveting.
Written without a single word.
Because nature speaks its very own language that only the soul, not the mind, can understand.
Pain is ripping her apart.
But it reminds her that she’s alive.
And this, in itself, is a miracle.
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She doesn’t know who she is anymore.
Some people call her a survivor.
But it doesn’t feel like the right word.
So many things in her died.
So much was lost.
The attack took a lot from her.
Danny. Bobby.
Sense of security.
Identity.
Direction.
Right and wrong, good and bad, righteous and vicious.
These are all just words.
Someone needs to come and teach her the meaning of them anew.
Draw lines, mark out frontiers.
Save her from herself.
The ground is soaked. Torrential rain turned the soil into soft mud, warm and easily slipping through her fingers. She falls on her knees, praying for the ground to consume her.
Fill every part of her.
Silence the internal cacophony.
To sink into oblivion.
Not many people knew about the panic attacks and recurring nightmares. They’re always the same.
She’s standing in the middle of a swamp.
Danny and Bobby are drowning, their arms reaching out for her.
She knows she can only save one of them.
She runs out of time trying to figure out how to save both.
As a result, they both die.
Time stands still and yet everything is spinning, moving, racing.
The reality is a riot of overbright colours.
Suddenly, a ring breaks the silence. A polyphonic intruder. She looks at the screen through hooded eyes and notices the caller’s name. It’s him. He’s petrified. Worried to death. Asks her to stay where she is.
Some time later, maybe 10 minutes, maybe an hour - who knows? - he emerges from the gathering of stocky oaks.
The moment he catches the sight of her, he starts running. She notices a lab coat underneath the jacket.
He’s soaking wet.
Even though he is so close, he doesn’t slow down.
Crashing into her, he scoops her in his arms.
Catches her in the tightest of embraces.
Asks her if she’s fine.
No. Not that question again.
She’s tired of people fussing over her and gets angry.
Had it not been for the attack, would he even be here? The voice asks mockingly.
It doesn’t matter to her.
He’s there now.
Deep baritone is gentle and full of concern.
It’s not like that. It’s not his intention to fuss.
He’s simply worried.
Because she is the most important thing to him in the whole world.
Yes, he wasted so much time.
That’s why he refuses to lose even one more second.
A dam breaks within her.
Eliciting a quiet sob.
She clutches his shirt, holds onto him for dear life.
Moments later, she’s screaming at the top of her lungs.
Singing her poignant birdsong.
How is she supposed to cope?
Will things ever go back to normal?
What is normal anyway?
In the confines of the infamous patient room she never felt more scared in her life.
But here, out in the open, she feels so safe.
As if she’s had a silent agreement with nature, which vouched to protect her at all costs.
And this time, nature had an ally.
Because Ethan will protect her, even if it’s the last thing he does.
Holding onto each other, they stand in the nothingness.
It keeps them grounded.
Connected to their roots.
Turning over new leaves.
Bending before they break.
Growing.
They get lost.
Mother Nature has a reward for those who do.
They have a chance to find themselves.
Over and over again.
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If you made it this far - thank you & you're awesome 🥰
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Part homage, all farce, the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is an irreverent, affectionate parody of pop-culture tropes and a love-letter to 80s roleplaying games in a new, modern comic-book sized format! It’s a wacky roleplaying game of action comedy!
Hardcover collector's omnibus, softcover rules and adventures, blank ID cards, monster cards, hero role cards, VTT tokens
Are you a fan of the Ghostbusters RPG from the 1980s? Danger Mouse or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Bill & Ted or Rick & Morty? Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Dracula, or sci-fi adventures on the final frontier? Do you enjoy chortling at TV tropes or chuckling at pop-culture parodies? Then the Awfully Cheerful Engine! is here for you!
ACE! is brought to you by Russ 'Morrus' Morrissey (EN World, WOIN, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD), Dave Chapman (Doctor Who, Star Trek Adventures), and Marc Langworthy (Hellboy, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD). With a foreword by Sandy Petersen, co-author of the Ghostbusters RPG!
ACE! is designed for everybody! From talking animals to pulp heroes to eldritch horrors, kids and adults alike will find adventures to love with the Awfully Cheerful Engine!
This tabletop roleplaying game, which we’re calling ACE! with an exclamation point, is one of fast, cinematic, action comedy. To play you need a handful of six-sided dice, a pen, and some paper. Each player plays one Hero, except for one player who takes the role of the Director.
Think of ACE! as an irreverent, fun-packed movie. You might play as ghost hunters in New York City, a band of plucky galactic guardians, vampire slayers, or soldiers of fortune in the Los Angeles underground. Heck, you might even be cartoon animals. Good grief!
This is a multi-dimensional, time-hopping, genre-mashing, pan-galactic portal into any type of adventure you can imagine! Want to play in a fantasy world full of elves and orcs? Crew a starship as it explores the galaxy? Hunt vampires in Victorian London? Play as animal detectives, robot cowboys, wizards, ninjas, or time traveling bounty hunters?
The only limit is your imagination, and the requirement that you have fun.
This Kickstarter is for the full five-book set.
What? Five books, you say? Fear not -- they're pretty small books! They include the core rules, and four hilarious genre-hopping adventures. Each book is about 30 pages long. Except for one which is longer, but we wrote 'BUMPER SIZE ISSUE' on the front of that, so it's OK. If you’ve ever held a comic-book in your hand, the Awfully Cheerful Engine! will feel very familiar!
The core rulebook is just 30 pages in a bright, colorful comic-book sized format. We even gave it an issue number, like a comic-book! After that, each 'issue' is a standalone adventure, designed for one-shots or short campaigns with new characters each time. One week you might be fighting ghosts on the streets of Manhattan, and the next you might be exploring the frontiers of space in your trusty starship!
You don't have to play them all, or in order. The standalone format means you can fit them in whenever and however you feel like it. GM can't make your regular game? Go bust some ghosts instead! Pickup game at a convention? Investigate the strange goings-on in a small American town in the 1980s. Running a livestream? Board a starship and fight the Kulkan Empire! Play one of them, some of them, or all of them! It's up to you!
Are they comics? Or are they RPGs? (They're RPGs)
ACE #1: Introducing the Awfully Cheerful Engine! With a foreword by Ghostbusters RPG author Sandy Petersen, this book tells you the rules, how to create your Heroes, and gives you a bunch of Extras (NPCs & monsters) to use. By Russ Morrissey.
ACE #2: Spirits of Manhattan. Strap on your Anti-Plasm Particle Thrower, grab your Electromagnetic Field Detector, and jump into your Ghostmobile. New York City needs your help! By Dave Chapman and Russ Morrissey.
ACE #3: Montana Drones & The Raiders of the Cutty Sark. At the request of Army Intelligence, Montana Drones and her team travel the globe in search of lost or hidden artefacts, often exploring dangerous sites and racing against hostile enemy agents to keep the objects of their quests from falling into the wrong hands. Striking locations, exciting chases, dangerous enemies and monotonous classroom lectures await! By Marc Langworthy.
ACE #4: Strange Science. Welcome to Wilden Falls, your average American town in the heart of the country. Surrounded by trees, nature, and there’s a wonderful waterfall that brings the tourists. It’s a quaint little town. Until weird things start happening at the local research facility, people go missing, and there’s a sudden influx of fitness nuts in the town. That’s before we get to the time travel, bodysnatching, and portals to other dimensions. Maybe ‘strange’ isn’t strong enough a word for it! By Dave Chapman.
ACE #5: Beam Me Up! These are the voyages of the starship FSS Brazen. Its continuing mission: to recklessly go where plenty of people have probably been before… and hope a major interstellar incident isn’t sparked in the process. In this highly illogical adventure for the ACE! roleplaying game, you’ll explore frontiers you never thought you had. By Marc Langworthy.
We give you four adventures to start with, and we have plans for more, but there's also a free compatibility license so anybody can write and publish material powered by the Awfully Cheerful Engine!
Hardy Hobbit. Teenage Samurai. Cheerful Stuntman. Clumsy Vampire. Squeamish Ghost. Who knew you could say so much in just two words? The possibilities are endless.
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You won’t get bogged down in endless rules and character sheets that look like tax forms. Your ACE! ID Card contains everything you need to know, and it’s only about the size of a credit card! But don’t try to spend it. It’s not a real credit card. Honestly, we tried, and it didn't end well.
You can download blank ID cards from our website. Don’t worry, there’s a printer-friendly black-and-white version too!
Making your Hero takes about five minutes. And that includes a coffee break.
You can choose from an array of talking animals, alien and fantasy species, and occupations from a bunch of genres. Play a cat, a crow, or a turtle. An alien, an elf, a robot, or a vampire. A knight, a pirate, or a wizard. An astronaut, a burglar, a reporter, or a spy. The core book has dozens of Roles to get you started with, and each adventure book introduces more!
Even better, you can already use our online character builder and make a character in about 30 seconds! It's so quick! Give it a try! And if you felt like sharing your Hero on Twitter with the hashtag #awfullycheerful and a link to this page, well, we'd be most awfully grateful!
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Alternatively, each adventure comes with its own selection of pre-generated characters. If you don't want to make your own characters, you can simply use those - perfect for one-shots or new players!
Download the pre-gens for all four adventures from the official website!
In A.C.E! each Hero (that's you!) has a Role. Your Role gives you a special ability only you can use. Here's a quick look at some of the Roles you can play!
Talking animals like Ape, Cat, Crow, Dog, Kangaroo, and Turtle.
Species like Alien, Dwarf, Elf, Ghost, Goblin, Golem, Hobbit, Monster, Ogre, Robot, Vampire, and Werewolf.
Fantasy roles like Alchemist, Assassin, Barbarian, Cleric, Druid, Knight, Ninja, Outlaw, Pirate, Ranger, Samurai, Slayer, and Wizard.
Occupations like Actor, Archeologist, Astronaut, Athlete, Bounty Hunter, Boxer, Burglar, Chef, Con Artist, Cowboy, Detective, Doctor, Engineer, Gambler, Gangster, Hacker, Hermit, Inventor, Musician, Pilot, Priest, Professor, Reporter, Scientist, Smuggler, Soldier, Spy, Student, and Stuntman.
Even a couple of superheroes like Speedster and Vigilante!
Yep, you can play a Ghost. You don’t take damage unless its from a holy source or some special sci-fi ecto-gadget. But you also can’t pick things up. So there’s that.
Each of the adventures adds some more Roles (or recommends some old ones)!
Spirits of Manhattan adds Ghost, Demonologist, Doctor, Engineer, Exorcist, Inventor, Priest, Professor, Scientist, and Student.
Raiders of the Cutty Sark adds Botanist, Double-Agent, Socialite, and Witch.
Strange Science adds Brain, Cheerleader, Outsider, Protector, Radio Presenter, and Tycoon.
Beam Me Up adds Captain, Chief Engineer, Comms, Hologram, Gunner, Counsellor, and Pilot.
ACE! is a pretty fast, light game. If you played 1986's Ghostbusters RPG, you'll see the influence immediately.
Stats! The AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is a d6 dice pool system*. You have four Stats -- Smarts, Moves, Style, and Brawn. If you have a Moves score of 3, you roll three six-sided dice when you try to jump a motorcycle over a ravine. If you roll high enough, you succeed. It's pretty simple!
Focuses! For each Stat you also have a Focus. For Smarts it might be a science, or chess, or history. For Style it might be bluffing, singing, or fashion, and for Brawn it might be brawling or swimming. You can choose from plenty of focuses. Foci. Focuses. Whatever. Anyway, if the thing you're trying to do relates to a Focus, you get to roll an extra two dice.
Trait! You choose a trait, like Angry or Cheerful or Rebellious or Despondent. This, combined with your Role, makes you a Gullible Vampire, a Brave Turtle, or a Squeamish Scientist.
Karma! Finally, you have a bunch of Karma points. These can be spent for extra dice or to absorb damage from attacks, and they're recovered by using your trait.
*Fun fact -- did you know that 1986's Ghostbusters RPG, by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford, was the first ever dice pool RPG? Also Sandy Petersen has written an awesome foreword for the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE!
What, I hear you ask, is a CALAMITY DIE?
The Calamity Die is how you find out that your friends really aren't your friends. You see, when you make a roll, one of those dice is a different color, and is called the Calamity Die. And if your roll fails, and also the Calamity Die rolls a 1, your so-called 'friends' decide what happens to you. It won't kill you or anything, but...
Well, we'll leave that thought with you.
Nooooo! And it was all going so well!
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I Spy
Pairing: Frankie “Catfish” Morales/Fem!Reader (AFAB, no y/n)
Word Count: 1.7K
Warnings: Brief mention of bad(abusive/manipulative) parents, general adult topics, swearing.
Summary: You meet a cute guy at a bar, you date, you fall in love, and oops, it turns out you’ve both been lying about your careers. Classified only stays classified until you get assigned a mission together. (SpecOps&Spies, with Young!Frankie)
A/N: Hey guys, I was bad and started another fic. Whoops. This one is for Triple Frontier because I love that soft boi Francisco. The flavour of this fic, the vibe if you will, is basically the spiderman pointing meme. I’ve vaguely set the timeline to like mid-2000s? so I’ll be trying my best to stay true to technology and aesthetic of the era. There was so much denim. Anyways, that means I’m trying to write for about a 27-33 year old Frankie and a similarly aged reader. I don’t see this series being more than a couple chapters at best, so it’ll be short and sweet. Also, like, very little angst if I can help it; I just want this one to be a good, cute, fun read. Hope y’all enjoy! Xoxo
[AO3][Masterlist]
“So, you’re coming out tonight, right? You’re not busy or anything?”
“Please don’t say it like that, you know how busy work actually is. And I’m a grown woman; if I didn’t want to go to a shady dive bar with you and your very loud friends from the office, I’d say so,” You loved your best friend, and you missed spending time together, but you really couldn’t say the same for her co-workers.
You had nothing against the women she worked with, and you found that they were all perfectly lovely and usually quite fun to be around… it was just that when the alcohol came out, the volume control and verbal filters disappeared.
You wouldn’t say that barhopping was what you’d prefer to be doing tonight, along with more or less babysitting your friend and her friends, but you didn’t know when you’d next be able to squeeze in a night off to just hang out and have fun, so this was happening. You would laugh and smile and keep the drunk secretaries from going home with questionable people, and then you would look back on your ladies’ night with fond memories until you could eventually attend another.
You had known when you picked your career that it would be an around-the-clock, all-day, every-day sort of thing. You never deluded yourself into thinking you would have much of a social life or long-term relationships. Most partners, hell even most friends, would have a problem with you jetting off for weekends, or disappearing for days at a time under mountains of paperwork and appointments.
It just made your best friend that much more important to you. You’d met as kids, went through years of school beside each other, hung out, did stupid teenager things and then stupid young adult things together. You’d cried and laughed and fought and made up a million times, you’d gone to different colleges and still kept in touch, moved away, moved back, and you were still going strong. She was your ride-or-die, your anchor and your parachute and everything in between, so if you could use some of your precious, hoarded, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it time off to see her, that’s just what you’d do.
“You should take some of that fire, and direct it at your boss. Tell him no for a change. I’d love to see his face at that!” She meant well, always trying to look out for you and your health when it came to your beyond demanding job. You weren’t even allowed to tell her a fraction of what you were doing in your professional life, and she knew it, but that didn’t stop her from being ready to throw fists at your employer at a moment’s notice.
“One does not simply tell the über-rich that they don’t need to fly to Paris, again. Being a PA is a full-time nannying gig, except your charge is an adult who can argue when you say no, and you cannot put them on timeout when they’re being a brat. Where he goes, I go, and unless something drastic happens, it will probably continue on like that for a while.” She laughed at your jokes, and your heart hurt a little less at her glee. You knew she would never give up on you or blame you for your work being unpredictable, but that didn’t make the sting of last-minute cancels and missed outings hurt any less, for either of you.
“But it must be nice, just getting on a plane and going somewhere amazing at the drop of a hat. Travelling the world like a superstar, meeting people, having amazing adventures with mysterious strangers…”
“Easy there, Mamma Mia, your wanderlust is showing. And I’d take you with me in a heartbeat if I could. You were born to be a jetsetter, not to be stuck in this town with nothing but the office cubicle beside you to stare at. And I still think you should apply for one of those immersive culture grants you keep mooning over. They’d be fools not to fund your writing expedition!” She was an incredible person, three full degrees to her name in the time it took a normal student to get one, and a brain that could run miles around the rest of the professionals in her field. But she was tethered to this quiet backwater town, and she wasn’t free to fly like she deserved.
“You know I can’t just… go, like you can. My mom, it’d just break her heart… I don’t want to leave her alone, not after Dad,” You honestly doubted that you’d ever meet a woman more horrible and undeserving of her own daughter’s kindness. Helen was a parasite full of lies and manipulations and greed, and she had attached herself like a bad rash to your friend after she’d chased away the rest of her family members.
Your friend searched for the good in everyone, but you wished she’d stop looking for it at that home.
“You deserve your own happiness and freedom, and she should be encouraging you to spread your wings if and when you’re ready.” Politicking your friend was never something you enjoyed. She was the last person you wanted to use your negotiating credentials and sly subterfuge tactics against, but you wanted, needed, her safety and health more. You considered it almost bribery; dangling her dream future in front of her in exchange of being rid of the garbage in her life.
“Hey now, we’re getting way too deep into sad-drunk night conversations, and this is strictly a happy-fun-drunk night. Please leave all baggage and woes at the door, thank you!” You admitted your defeat and surrendered your verbal power point on Why Helen Needs to Disappear. You would get her next time for sure, give her the accelerant to burn down that bridge. “Anyways, the reason I called was to remind you of our haunt for the night. One of the girls, Kelly, you remember Kelly, found this adorable little hole in the wall. A total boys’ club apparently: darts, pool, sports games on the TV, but Kelly’s sister’s friend’s brother Tyler said the place was a favourite of the local army guys. So, if nothing else, we’ll at least have some hunks to look at for a while. It’ll be great!”
You jotted down the directions to the bar as she listed them, and the time you were expected to arrive there.
“Oh! And wear that cute little blue number you bought last spring; I know you still have it so don’t you dare lie. It makes your ass and legs look divine, and I think you could stand to make a new acquaintance tonight.” That Little Blue Number was buried in the back of your closet where you had hoped it would remain forever, but luck was not on your side tonight it seemed. But it did make you look, and feel, fantastic. It was just so… breezy. “And heels! Real ones, not your cute little personal assistant kitten heels. Those black strappy ones would work like a dream!” You just sighed dramatically into the receiver and agreed to her demands.
“I’ll let you go now, and yes, I suppose I can be presentable tonight, dress and all. See-ya later!”
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Hole in the wall was right. This place was basically underground it was so on the D.L. It was warm inside though, and in the middle of autumn with so much skin on display, you could not be more pleased to get away from the chilled outside air.
You would describe the interior as comfortable with a hint of rustic; lots of warm dark wood and low lights, mixed with the soft Latin music crooning in the background and the few patrons’ conversations adding to the ambience.
All in all, it was probably the nicest dive bar you’d been to in your hometown.
Your party was easy to spot where they had claimed a group of pushed together tables towards the far side of the establishment, and you carefully made your way over to them in your tricky high heels.
You said your hellos to returning faces and introduced yourself to the new additions, and accepted the chair you were pointed to and the drink pressed into your hand.
And so, the hours rolled.
You had enjoyed two fruity cocktails and a flaming shot before you called it quits on the alcohol for the night. You still had a few hours to sober up enough to drive home safely, and you would be able to help the girls get to their rides and ways home too. You appreciated having a social drink or two, but you didn’t care for hangovers and would happily take slightly tipsy over party-hard drunk anytime. Plus, your contract stated you were on-call, always, and you could be required to navigate high-stress negotiations at the drop of a hat. It was just better to cut yourself off, then reap the consequences of your actions later.
You tapped your friend’s shoulder as you walked past and leaned over to talk into her ear. “I’m getting some water for the table; do you want anything else?”
“Mmmm, no I think we’re good for now, thanks!” She was plastered already, but she had a huge grin on her face and was laughing at her co-workers’ stories, so you considered it a win of a night. You gave her a pat goodbye and swayed your way to the bar.
But you just were not accounting for the uneven floorboards, or how much your heels affected your currently less than steady equilibrium, and before you could blink you were teetering over into a nasty fall.
“Whoa there, easy does it, muñequita” Arms wrapped around you and pulled you back into a warm chest. “Careful now, don’t go twisting an ankle in those fancy shoes.”
You certainly did not account for the man you turned around to face. Wow.
His hands glided respectfully from where he had caught you around the waist to your still bent and held out elbows, steadying you as you swayed dangerously again.
Warm brown eyes, soft brown curls, and the sweetest smile you’d ever seen. It felt like your heart was going to beat out of your chest, and you knew that it wasn’t left over adrenaline from your near wipeout. He was gorgeous and handling you so gently, and you wanted to spend forever in that moment.
“Hey there, palomita, I’m Frankie, can I buy you a drink?”
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#triple frontier#frankie morales x reader#frankie morales#frankie morales x you#Pedro Pascal#triple frontier fanfiction#pedro pascal x reader
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Quarantine Netflix Recs
Since were all at home watching Netflix I thought I would give my fav show/movie for every letter so everyone has something new to watch. Please send me your own recommendations or make your own alphabet list and tag me!
Here goes:
A: Anne with an E- This modern take on Ann of Green Gables is quirky, fun, and dramatic. It has good music, writing and is all around a good watch. It deviates from the books a bit, but keeps the spirit.
B: Broadchurch- If you like crime dramas, this is for you. With one crime spanning the complete first season it delves deep into motive and emotions. David Tennet stars in this tense British mystery.
C: Cargo- A dystopian zombie apocalypse film set in Australia with a focus on human connection, and sacrifice. This is honestly so different than any other zombie movie I have seen in the best way.
D: Daybreak- Sticking with the apocalypse theme, daybreak is a humorous view on what happens when a nuke kills all the adults and leaves all the teenagers. Its like if high school was the whole world, but the world had also ended. Strong characters and ‘Ferris Bueller’ esc fourth wall breaks give this show something special.
E: The Worlds Most Extrodiary Homes- For a change of pace this mindlessly beautiful home reality show shows off architecture that could be classified as art and makes me wonder how anyone can actually live here. If you just want something with no stakes what so ever, this is the eye candy for you.
F: Frontier- A gritty, and dark period piece starring Jason Momoa as the badass outlaw working against the British in the Canadian wilderness. Half political, half survival drama this show focus on the fur trade during the 1700s as well as themes like revenge, family history and love.
I have to do two for F: Feel Good- This emotional comedy is about Mae, a gay, ex-addict comic and her previously straight girlfriend. It is real and emotional and hilarious. It’s filled with amazing characters and amazing writing and explores hard to talk about subjects, including addiction, love, coming out, and family and romanitc relationships.
G: Godless- A refreshing addition to the western genre. An injuryed outlaw, a headstrong widow, the whole of the wild west. Gritty and dramatic, this mini series is a must watch
H: How it Ends- Another apocalypse film, can you guys see a pattern? This one is less about the event however and more about family. A young man and his future father-in-law travel across the desolate wasteland of the USA to save his fiance.
I: I am Not Okay with This- A sci-fi coming of age story, based on a comic book, about a young girl who develops mysterious superpowers and is not okay with it. Also shes gay and in love with her best friend, its great.
J: John Mulaney- I assume everyone has already seen all of his specials, but if you haven’t go check them out! They are hilarious and relatable on a deep level.
K: Klaus- This is my new favorite Christmas movie. Its got wit, charm, great character development and beautiful animation. It’s the first original Christmas movie that I've liked. It gives a new spin to all your favorite Christmas traditions while holding on to the essence of the Christmas spirit.
L: Let it Snow- Based of the book co-written by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle this film is a feel good romance with quicky characters that have thier lives changed forever by a snowstorm in their small hometown. Friendships and romances are formed and tested as these teens figure out how to deal with what life throws at them.
M: Maniac: In an unlikely pair Emma Stone and Jonah Hill work amazingly well together in a drug trial that is supposed to cure all mental illness, of course not everything goes as planned. Our heroes go through multiple stages of the trial and discover their brains are miraculously linked. This series merges multiple genres into something surprisingly cohesive.
N: National Treasure- “I’m gonna steal the declaration of Independence”
O: The OA- A psychological sci-fi thiller about a blind girl who gets kidnapped and held prisoner by a mad scientist looking for other dimensions. The friends she makes along the way mean everything, but when she gets found not only are they missing, but she can see again.
P: Princess and the Frog- A cute Disney twist of the classic fairy tale. A young woman working hard to buy her own restaurant meets a prince that has been turned into a frog by a shady magic man. But when she kisses him he doesn’t turn human, she turns frog. Together they have to figure out how to get back to being human and along the way they learn what they really need.
Q: apparently I have never watched a single thing on Netflix that starts with Q. So Queer Eye I guess. I’ve never watched it, but I've heard good things.
R: The Rain- After a deadly virus is discovered in the rain, sister and brother, Simone and Rasmus are separted from thier family and hide in a bunker for 6 years. Once they are forced to emerge they discover the world is much different than how they left it and their family wasnt all they thought it was.
S: Sense 8- This sci-fi drama focuses on 8 people from all over the world connected by some kind of psychic link. As they discover the extent of thier new abilities they also find out they aren’t the only ones and some others aren’t so friendly. This series was made with so much love and divotion and it shows throughout. The character development and backstories are rich, the writing is witty and thoughtful and the representation and focus on love above all else is so refreshing.
T: Tallulah- This drama is dark and witty, while simultaneously being bright and uplifting. When a young drifter kidnaps a baby from a neglectful mother and pretends the baby is hers, her boyfriends mother takes them in. The story is about family and doing the right thing, even when you can’t find the right choice in the grey area.
U: The Umbrella Academy- This series based on a comic book written by Gerard Way is about superheroes with out being about superheroes. They don’t save the day. They can barely save themselves, oh and also the world. Numbered 1-7 these siblings all have their own issues and getting them to work together was the dying wish of their asshole of a father.
V: None? Anyone have any ideas?
W: The Witcher- This series, based on a video game based on a book, is about a mysterious monster hunter and the bard he meets a long the way. Somehow full of action and also full of humor this series delves deep into the history and culture of this fantasy world.
X, Y, Z: I got nothing guys, but thanks for reading all the way down here. I hope you watch some of these shows and that you send some of your own recs to me!
Also None of these photos or shows or anything are mine and all belong to their rightful owners
#the witcher#The Umbrella Academy#klaus hargreeves#tua#tallulah#sense8#wolfgang#the rain#princess and the frog#disney#the oa#national treasure#let it snow#maniac#Klaus#i am not okay with this#john mulaney#cargo#how it ends#godless#frontier#feel good#mae martin#day break#broadchurch#anne with an e#tv#netflix#movies#recomend
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How MewGulf saved me
¤Sorry I don’t speak english, it’s poorly written¤
They call this ↓ ↓ ↓ fan service.
They know exactly how to act, how to show us the right “lover look“. They are well aware about every move they have to make so we all believe this ship is real. They care about the smallest details; the way their lips move, the gazes, every touch, every blink, every smile... Everything is calculated.
But you know what? It’s one thing to be a good actor, and it’s an other to fake All. The. Time. Seriously, they never get a break, they are always together, always working: photoshoots, interviews, live events... It goes on and on, endlessly since.... last year? So, if this is all fake, as an actor, I would be EXHAUSTED right now. And as an individual, human being, I would be MENTALLY EXHAUSTED too. Always pretending just to please all the fans? No way, my brain would have exploded long ago. I would be screaming for a break, for vacations, for freedom, for rest.
So, why those two didn’t become insane yet? Well, maybe because all of this is not 100% fake. Maybe they are not pretending all the time. Maybe part of them enjoy this shipping thing a little because... Well, I would not say they have fell in love with each other, but there is a genuine connection for sure and a true friendship between those two that could explane the obvious pleasure and easyness they have in playing their role as a couple.
Of course we wish that this relationship could be real. But why do we want this? Why do we wish them so bad to be a real couple?
Maybe because since the beginning they created a real bond, not a fake one just for the sake of their job? Maybe because whenever they are together, in front of a camera or not, they always act natural, always stay themselves and genuine?
And, well, look at them. Look at this chemistry.
How can we not ship them? Body language is natural behind the staged behavior. We want them to be together because they give us the illusion that what they share is real happiness. Illusion or not, I think fiction became somehow reality. They transcended their characters literally. Unlike a lot of BL actors, they never give the vibe that what they have to do for fanservice is a trick so it is very easy for fans to fall in deep fantasies. And with other BL couples, there is often an awkward moment, a second of hesitation, before they move and oblige the fans. But MewGulf? Never they hesitate, and they go for it, they even anticipate what fans are expecting from them, but never we feel that they force themselves; they respect each other. They are natural and authentic.
It is obvious that they get along very well in their everyday life. Moreover, we can feel the harmony and goodwill even when it comes to play silly games and promote products such as tooth paste (!) or talking pillows (!?).
It is often said that this couple had brought fan service to a next level. Indeed, they did. But to me it is not just about the way they are inconsciously so clingy and touchy to each other. Nah. Without realising it, they brought fan service to a much esssential level and they did it without calculating anything, without measuring anything, without preparing anything, unlike those staged stances during fan meetings. And I’m going to tell how they did it.
I discovered those two little sunshines in the middle of the world confinement. Unlike almost everyone else, I couldn’t stay safe at home. At that time, I was scared, I was working on what we called the first line, I was depressed, tired. And those two little sunshines kept entertaining their audience as the whole planet was on lockdown. They made me laugh, they made me smile, they made me forget about all my worries, all my fears, each time they appeared on the Net.
I found them in a pretty random way -I didn’t even know that thai drama existed at that time, much less BL! - but I like to say that destiny brought them at the right moment.
We live in a world full of horror and madness, a world uncertain and fragile, and to see them singing along with a weird microphone, for example, was a ray of light in the darkness of reality. As for me, I needed this. I needed to witness such a beautiful relationship.
The lover thing is fake or is not –who cares? what happens in their personal life is not of our business, cause YES they do deserve some privacy even if they are big stars- but there is definitely a real bond, a real friendship, a real brotherhood between them that makes each live session unique and endearing.
They give us ... hope? Yeah, hope it is. Hope that love (and I’m not talking about love as a couple concept. I’m talking about love in its purest form; a strong link between two spirits regardless gender, age, race) can overcome everything, can be powerful and genuine, pure and innocent, true and blissful. Both their characters and the men behind them have taught me a lesson; true love has no gender, true love has no frontier, true love can have many aspects, many descriptions, many meanings.
“Two brothers that love each other” That is the way they described their relationship. Well, I think what they share, what they show to us, is beyond the word love, beyond the word brother. It’s something stronger and purer than that. And I don’t think there is a word that had been invented yet to describe that kind of relationship, simply because we have never seen this before. It is unique and indescribable and that is why they reached our heart deeply as no other BL couple had ever done. “Soulmates” sounds too cliche to me, but it is the closest word that could describe what I see when I watch all those “fan services” stuff.
Now let’s hope one thing: I know, in a near future, those two will have to move on. One day, life will lead them to different paths. It’s a fatality. But I hope they will always be thankful for what they shared together. I hope this duo will survive their own aura of success, because this industry can be really cruel and so toxic. I saw too many partners fall apart and end up their relationship in bitterness. I wish they will learn how to deal with the pressure and how to protect their bond from the dark side of celebrity.
Over all, I hope that they will be aware that they made people like me happy. Even though all of this was just a game for them -a job, an act- what they brought to me was real and precious.
They saved my life in many ways. Last spring, during lockdown, all I was doing was work-work-work, in an environement considered not safe and at the end of each day, I was confined at home, feeling lonely, exhausted, and stressed out. Many people around me at work had medical prescriptions for anti-stress pills, or started drinking alcohol or started using drugs just to calm down their nerves. We had a lot on our plate, but we could not give up, people needed our help more than never in this great time of need, so we all found our own way to deal with the situation and stay operational.
As for me I found the perfect cure for anxiety: MewGulf. I didn’t know I needed this. Didn’t know that two guys living on the other side of the planet had somekind of healing power over me. But it happened anyway.
You can be a hero by doing simple things; sharing a live from home while baking cookies
and playing videos games, or singing along with a weird microphone,
or wearing an Hawaiian skirt dancing Baby Shark
or putting stickers and flashy make up on your face
and so much more goofy stuff like that ;) Just by being themselves, with their happy energy, together they became my heroes. I’m glad and I’m grateful to have found them when I was really in a bad state. Each night, after another stressful day at work, they recharged my batteries. God, I don't even speak Thai! I don't get a word of what they're saying, but just the sound of their voices, their sweet laughter and their beaming face had the effect of a lullaby that sang me to sleep.
I hope they know that they have made a real difference. Difference between salvation and depression, between hope and despair, between life and death. And that is the ultimate fan service level they could reach.
Thank you my little two sunshines.
Be happy. Stay safe.
Ely
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Superman #29 Review
tl;dr I actually liked this issue. Giving this book a fair and unbiased shake, I’d say, under normal circumstances, i.e. Jon being a kid, I would continue picking it up. However, because Jon isn’t a kid, I hope this book bombs.
PKJ has written Superman in Future State, but I didn’t read any of it, so this is my time reading his work, and I’d say it was a good first issue. A writer’s first issue on a book is like their thesis statement or mission statement, showing their readers what to expect and how it’ll play out.
PKJ put together a tight issue. Some people thought it was decompressed, but I really didn’t get that. The actual story/plot is a little sparse, I’ll admit, but the point of the issue wasn’t necessarily to tell a complete story, it was to set the tone and feel of the run going forward. The only way I could say it was decompressed is because there is a part two coming up in Action Comics that would essentially be the second half of his thesis statement.
The way the issue plays out it could be divided into sections, and I could very easily see those individual sections be decompressed into entire issues by a master of decompression. Luckily, not only is PKJ a competent writer, he’s also very respectful of the readers’ time and money and gives them their money’s worth.
The issue starts with no dialogue, just narration (of which I’ll address the potential meta-writing in a bit), but there is an actual conversation between Clark and Jon that I felt was well-intentioned but very misinformed before the book finishes with narration. There’s a lot of telling and not showing in comics of late, but I think PKJ was capable of showing and not telling.
Also featured in this book is Amanda Waller, who seems to be plotting something that’ll tie in with the Suicide Squad book which is also tying in with Teen Titans Academy. I appreciate the coordination between the books in Infinite Frontier, but for some reason DC is really underselling it and not really pushing the fact that there’s going to be a lot of interconnectivity between books going forward.
Now, onto the meta-writing of the narration. The narration is about a golden age where kids are naive about their parents not being invincible, which parallels a fight with space aliens that goes swimmingly for Clark and Jon, and how that golden age comes to an end when kids first learn about their parents’ mortality, which parallels a second fight with the aliens where Clark gets an injury and for some reason that upsets Jon.
I can see how some could read it to be about Jon being aged up, and I’m not entirely blind to this reading either, but the narration paralleled the action a little too closely for me to conclude there was some ulterior meaning to it. The part about the golden age coming to an end just doesn’t seem to be anything more than the theme PKJ wants to explore.
What really irks me is the conversation Clark has with Jon. I stated earlier that it was well-intentioned, showing how the hell Bendis dragged Jon through would have affected him, but it focuses on all the wrong things and, worse still, misinterprets them. This is PKJ’s attempt to try and justify and validate Bendis’ “contributions,” and he really tries his best, but it just doesn’t work and he should’ve never attempted doing it.
The long and short of it is that Jon is afraid that his father will die and he’s not ready for that to happen. Jon starts out by saying that he doesn’t like being called Superman and isn’t ready to be Superman, which I find odd because DC literally published three comics two months prior to the release of this issue where those two things were very much the case. Either way, the reason Jon feels that way is because he doesn’t want Clark to die and is struggling to accept that fact, something all children sooner or later have to deal with.
PKJ really tried something here, and I’ll give him credit for it, and I’d like to see it explored further, but this isn’t the story to tell when you haven’t addressed the real issues such as the Jon’s trauma of not only literally losing seven years of his life, but being tortured that entire time, and Lois and Clark having some of the most formative years of their child’s life stolen from them. Ultimately, it just felt too angsty, too forced, and very unnecessary.
I do want to point out a piece of foreshadowing that I think a lot of people missed and it has to do with the second to last page.
Clark is flying against space, representing the space-oriented stories he wants to do with him, and Jon is flying against the sun, representing the more earth-bound stories that’ll be told with him. PKJ isn’t going to be writing both Action Comics and Superman forever. After an unnamed Superman event, PKJ will continue writing one of those books and someone else will be writing the other, so this is a visual representation of what you’re going to be getting in the Superman books in the future.
*Side Note: In Infinite Frontier #0, PKJ claims Jon “came of age” when he was with the Legion, which is such a load of horseshit.
Below the cut I’ve included what I intiially wrote about Clark and Jon’s conversation that I felt wasn’t quite accurate after rereading it multiple times, but it isn’t necessarily lacking in credence, so I wanted to keep it for posterity.
First, PKJ makes Jon’s preoccupation be about his father’s alleged eventual, and for some reason inevitable, death, and not the seven years’ worth of torture Jon suffered on Earth-3, especially when those seven years would’ve under normal circumstances been his actual coming of age*. Further, Jon apparently learned this information from the Legion, something that was neither depicted nor mentioned in Bendis’ LoSH. I never read Bendis’ LoSH, so I can’t confirm this, but from what I understand nothing of the sort, or just about anything in fact, happened in that book.
Second, not only did PKJ get Jon’s preoccupation wrong, he makes Jon just brush off the fact he was tortured for seven years. Clark tries to get his son to play coneyball, a game Jon made up when he was a kid, but Jon says he doesn’t remember how to play it because it’s been so long. PKJ mistakes Jon’s time with the Legion with the reason why he is seven years older than his proper age.
Seriously, PKJ just glosses over the real issues, like all the time with their son that was stolen from Lois and Clark, in favor of the manufactured angst that Jon isn’t ready to lose his father because he dies and Jon isn’t ready for his dad to die and to become Superman in his place.
Did PKJ not read Super Sons of Tomorrow, a story where a future version of Tim Drake goes back in time to kill Jon because Jon kills a bunch of people in that Tim Drake’s future and the combined forces of the Teen Titans and the Titans of Tomorrow prevent that future from happening? Does PKJ not know that Jon already knows that the future is not set and there is no fate but what we make for ourselves? By traveling back in time, in both instances, the course of history has already changed so that the dark futures will never come to pass, and Jon has no reason to this anxious.
This seriously lends credence to my theory that DC actively tells new writers to ignore everything that happened in Superman Rebirth and Super Sons in favor of some mandate they’re not allowed to tell anyone.
#jon kent#jonathan kent#jonathan samuel kent#superboy#clark kent#superman#lois lane#phillip kennedy johnson#super sons#dc#dc comics#comic review#comics review#brian michael bendis
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Finally, beautiful stranger Chapter 6
A/N: I have a confession to make. I don't have netflix right now so I couldn't rewatch triple frontier before this chapter so if there's any mistakes I'm really sorry :( but I hope you guys like it anyway!
TW: angst
You and Will have been dating for over a year now. It’s unbelievable how well the two of you fitted together, not just sexually, but emotionally too. You never been happier and Will says the same. A month ago Will asked you to move in with him, it was really unexpected, but you agreed. You’re cuddled up on the couch, watching a stupid tv show while you wait for Will to come home. He’s at a match of Benny’s with some old military friends, and you haven’t seen him since the morning so you wanted to see him, so you wait for him. You finally hear the front door open, he doesn't know that you’re up so he moves really quietly. He goes into the kitchen and he still didn’t notice you. You sit up and greet him, he curses at you when he got scared by you. You laugh a little and stand up, walking towards him. When you reach him you stand on your tiptoes to kiss him and you immediately know what something is wrong.
“Did Benny lose the match?” you ask him when you look at him.
“Why do you think that?” he asks you confused.
You shrug and reply “You’re really tense.” and you see his face sink a bit and he clenches his jaw.
“Will, what is it? Is he okay?” you ask worried. You might not be at every match of Benny’s but you’re always rooting for him and hope he doesn’t get hurt really bad.
“Benny is fine, and he won the game.” he replies and you feel yourself calm a bit.
“Then what is it, Will?” you ask quietly, not sure what his answer will be and this worried you. He looks down at the floor and swallows hard.
“That old army friend of mine, Santiago, offered me a job this morning, and I took it.” you’re surprised at his words, confused why he’s not happy about it.
“But that’s good, right?” you ask and he shakes his head a bit.
“It’s not that simple. I don’t know how much I can tell you.” it’s your turn now to swallow hard, feeling a lump in your throat.
“Tell me everything.” you tell him firmly. He looks at you worried, but nods and starts speaking.
“It’s about helping him take down a drug lord in South America. It’s a one week job, and we’d get $17000 and another 25% of the money we’d find there.” You swallow hard again and feel your stomach tighten in a really unpleasant way.
“How dangerous is it?” you whisper.
“It’s always more dangerous than we think, so I can't really tell.” you can’t help but feel really angry at his words, and Will sees this immediately.
“So you could die, that's what you’re saying, and you made this decision without me?” You yell at him angrily.
“Iz…” he starts but you cut him off.
“No, Will!” you yell “This is some serious shit, and you decided without me! I thought we are together in this relationship, I thought I matter to you!!” you feel tears running down your face as you keep yelling. “How could you make a decision what could cost your life without thinking about me? Did I even cross your mind before you decided to go?” you ask him, and when you see him look down to the floor, you know his answer.
“Well, fuck.” you mutter “I’m glad to see how much I actually matter to you.” you say and leave the room to go upstairs. You go into the bedroom that you share with Will and grab your pillows and blanket. When you turn around you see Will standing at the door, calling your name.
“What are you doing?” he asks you, trying to stop you.
“I’m gonna sleep in the guest room. I don’t want to share a bed with someone who doesn’t discuss important shit with me.” you say and pass next to him towards the guest room, and he lets you. You slam the door behind you, make your bed and cry yourself to sleep.
You barely could sleep at night, you couldn’t stop thinking about losing Will. You don’t know how you would handle that, you never thought about this before, and the truth is you didn’t even wanted to. This is your first argument with Will, the two of you never had an argument about anything before, you knew that you’d eventually fight at one point, but you hoped it would be about something stupid, and not about something as serious as this. You get out of the bed and walk to the kitchen to get some coffee, you desperately need some right now after your shit night. Will is already sitting at the table in the kitchen, a mug in front of him and he stares into it. He raises his head when you walk into the room, but you ignore him. You pour yourself a cup and lay towards the kitchen island as you sip your coffee. You hear the chair move and Will gets up, and walks up to you.
“Isabelle, can we please talk?” he asks you quietly.
“Oh, so I suddenly matter?” you ask sarcastically and you see his jaw clench again. He nods “You know you alway do.”
“Then why did you made that decision without me?” you can’t help but feel angry again.
“I was an idiot alright!” he raises his voice “I just wanted us to have more money to build a future.”
“Don’t try to tell me that you’re doing this for me, Will.” you tell him firmly.
“I’m not! I’m doing this for us.” he sighs “I want to have a future with you. To have a family. But you can’t deny that we are not full of with money.”
“I know that, but money is not everything. Do you think I’ll be happy with a bunch of cash without you if you die during this mission?” he doesn't say anything to that. “Listen Will, I didn’t grow up with a lot of money, and it wasn’t that important. If you really want to have a family with me, the money we earn is more than enough. Sure, we can’t go to a tropical island every two months, but I don’t care about that shit. All I need is you, and your love.” You tell him and he nods slowly.
“I’m sorry I made that decision without you.” He says honestly and it’s your time now to nod.
“Are you still going?” You ask him, afraid of the answer. You see his jaw clench and you know the answer, you look down to the floor and feel your eyes getting teary.
“I’m really terrified, Will.” You say in a weak voice and he crosses the room and hugs you close. You cry into his chest, the built up frustration is coming out, Will let’s you cry, he doesn’t say anything, he knows that saying sweet nothings like ‘it will be okay’ won’t help you right now. He kisses your forehead gently and hugs you even close to himself. You don’t know how long you stand there like this, but you eventually look up at Will who has a worried expression on his face.
“It’s not only about the money.” He whispers quietly. You pull away a little bit to see his face more.
“What do you mean?” You ask confused.
“I miss being a soldier.” He says honestly. “I was so good at it. The best. And now I’m nothing.” He whispers his last words and you feel your heart break.
“You are not nothing.” You grab his face in your hands and talk to him forcefully. “I have no idea how you feel, I never was the best in anything, and I never loved a job as much as you love being a soldier. But you’re NOT nothing! Don’t you ever dare to talk about yourself like this! You’re my everything, Will. Do you hear me?” He nods “I love you more than anything. And you mean the whole world to me.” You feel tears running down on your face again. He leans his forehead against yours and closes his eyes, drinking in your words and closeness.
“I love you so much, Belle.” He whispers “You mean the world to me. I’ve never been happier than I am with you, and I’m so fucking sorry I made this decision without you. This was cruel and I promise I’ll never do anything like that again.” You nod and caress his cheek with your thumb.
“Please, William, never do anything like this again.” You beg him and he keeps repeating that he won’t.
“When do you leave?” You ask in a small voice again and you see Will swallow.
“Thursday.” He whispers and you nod, and hug him close. He kisses your forehead and hugs you back, holding you close.
“I promise I’ll come back to you.” He whispers into your hair.
“Don’t make promises that you can’t keep.” You whisper back to him.
“I can keep this. I’ll do everything to come back to you.” You squeeze your eyes shut harder and squeeze Will closer to you. You want to believe him, you really do, but you know that shit can happen and even if he wants to come back, something might happen why he can’t. Will tells you that you should get some breakfast, but you tell him you’re really not hungry and he lets it go for now. You spend the day quietly with him, none of you feel like talking about the situation, you just want to feel Will close to you as long as you can. The day passed and it’s already night, you’re laying in bed with Will, face to face, there’s a dim light from the lamp standing on his nightstand.
“I keep wondering if you’ll ever be able to forgive me for this.” He whispers. You want to tell him that you’re not angry anymore, it’s not the truth, but in case something will happen to him, you don’t want him to die thinking that you’re angry at him, but also you don’t want to lie to him.
“Just come back to me. That’s all what matters right now.” You finally say, Will probably knows that you’re still angry, in the past years he has seen how stubborn you can be, so he’s sure that you haven’t forgiven him yet. He moves a little bit closer to you and kisses you gently on the lips, hugging you close and you fall asleep in his arms.
You wake up in the morning and you feel relaxed until you remember what happened yesterday and remember that Will leaves tomorrow. You feel your stomach turn and sudden nausea hits you and you have to rush to the bathroom to throw up. Will is quickly behind you, taking your hair away from your face, caressing your back. You don’t have much in your stomach, you barely ate anything yesterday. Will stands up and goes to the sink, fills a cup with cold water and gives it to you, you take it gratefully and take small sips from it. You sit on the bathroom floor, allowing yourself to calm down, Will is next to you the whole time. You eventually get up and leave the bathroom, Will offers you to make breakfast, you nod, you don’t really feel hungry, your stomach is still upset, but you can’t help to think that what if this is the last time he can make you breakfast. You feel nauseous again and you take a sip from your ginger tea. Will made you a light breakfast and you eat some of it, you eat in silence with him. After breakfast you sit on the couch with Will, cuddling and watching a stupid movie, you fell asleep on the couch. When you wake up, Will is not next to you anymore so you get up and go look for him. You find him in the bedroom, packing his bag, he turns around when he feels someone standing behind him. He doesn’t say anything, neither you, you just sit down on the bed, letting him pack. He’s almost finished when you stand up and stand in front of him, look him in the eye. You reach behind your neck, unclasping the necklace you always wear, you got it from your dad before his death and you never took it off since then, it’s a simple gold necklace with a golden heart pendant. You take it and hold it up to Will.
“I want you to take this.” you tell him quietly. Will immediately shakes his head, not wanting to accept the necklace knowing how much it means to you.
“Isabelle, I can’t.”
“Yes, you can. And I want you to.” you tell him “I know it’s stupid, but I’d like to think that it will protect you somehow.” you feel tears filling your eyes again and Will takes the necklace from you, pulling you close and hugging you. He kisses your forehead gently and keeps hugging you.
You’re laying in the bed, unable to sleep, Will next to you is equally awake. You’re not sure when you have fallen asleep, but when you opened your eyes it was already light outside. You feel your heart sink and you feel the nausea hitting you again, you swallow hard, trying not to throw up. You hear Will’s alarm go off and he turns it off, not moving from next to you. Your head is still on his chest, you didn’t move from his side all night, enjoying feeling him close to you.
“I have to go.” Will whispers and you nod, moving away from him, but Will stops you, pulls you close and kisses you passionately, his tongue massaging yours. “I love you, Isabelle. More than anything.” you feel yourself starting to cry again as you whisper to Will how much you love him, and how much he means to you. Will eventually gets up and dresses up, grabbing his bag and he goes downstairs. There’s a small knock on the door and you know that Benny’s here to pick Will up to go to the airport. You let Benny in, you don’t tell him anything, you just pull him into a hug. It took him by surprise, but he lets you and after a little bit, he hugs you back.
“Please take care of him.” you whisper to Ben and he promises you that he will. You turn to Will now, it’s time to say goodbye to him. He pulls you close to him, he touches his forehead against yours, drinking in your closeness. You grab his face and pull him down for a kiss, it’s soft and lingering, yet incredibly passionate. You feel tears rolling down your face as you say goodbye to Will, not knowing if you’ll see him ever again.
#charlie hunnam#triple frontier#triple frontier fanfic#William Miller#William Miller fanfiction#William Miller x reader#Will Miller#Will Miller fanfiction#Will Miller x reader
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☕ Give me your thoughts on Genshin
The short version is this GIF:
Now, the slightly longer version, in text:
Personally, I believe Genshin Impact has set a new highest bar for gacha games to reach in terms of interactivity. Although, it is quite similar to what I’ve seen of Breath of the Wild...in fact that’s what many latched on to, and still do because the game is so new, and yet I also remember BotW being called Zelda-Skyrim back when it first came out, but I digress. Genshin Impact is fun to play and explore. You know I’ve ranted about the releasing of “half-baked”/incomplete games before, but because Genshin is a gacha game, the incompleteness completely works in its favor. And what we do have is in no way half-baked, either. Not only is the story pretty damn solid, there’s so much detail in both the worldbuilding and the characters and it makes my heart swell with adoration, though I suppose that has something to do with comparing it to Brave Frontier most of all, and all that we’ve said and done about it after more than a cursory glance, but again, I digress. Something I find interesting is the concept of Character and Weapon Levels vs. Adventure Rank and World Level i.e. the average enemy levels, and that it would be in best interest to balance the levels of your characters and their skills and weapons with how fast to level AR, which eventually will have you raise the levels of enemies to match. Because most EXP comes from EXP items, not so much fighting enemies.
Though, I am not without complaints. The smallest one, and because my sister can play other games just fine, I am lead to believe it is a Genshin problem, is that my character will move on their own when I am not touching the control stick. It only becomes a problem when I wanna take a cool screenshot or switch out my party members, because you can’t switch out while you are moving. Another is that voice lines will either be not in synch with the on-screen dialogue, not there at all, or have male and female Traveler mixed up. Dampens the experience a bit and I hope it gets fixed in the near future, because it’s annoying wen it does happen. And finally, the gacha rates. Well, what’s to be expected from a genre such as this, hm? I can speak for myself most of all, but I stopped getting any new characters after my second 5*. Most everything else has been either repeats (which do build onto themselves, at least, I should add), 3* weapons I’ve already maxed, or 4* weapons. Which would be nice to try out if I, you know, got more new characters they can work well with. And I’ve heard tale of players going Extra Uber Full Beans on this game, or “whaling”, to use the Brave Frontier term, sometimes with poorer returns than hoped, which absolutely frightens and astonishes me both ways. If anything, the safest way to roll is to keep grinding away at the game, where you can be awarded Primogems, the main rolling currency, for doing just about anything, but it costs 160 for just one roll, and going Full/Half Beans on a banner that has who you want. Standard Gacha Procedure.
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around june of last year, i decided to revive my writing blog as one of the many potential stress-relief methods i could think of.... i didn’t think i’d be able to keep it active for long since work + family duties keep me preoccupied most of the time, but eyyy!!! so far i haven’t lost the motivation to keep going back to this blog, and i even managed to keep it afloat for half a year!!! amazing!!! (•̀o•́)ง
and now here we are halfway through 2020!!! it’s waaaay overdue but here’s a big T H A N K Y O U V E R Y M U C H ! ! ! to everyone and anyone who dropped by this blog last year + all them likes, comments, reblogs...... please know that i’m still i n c r e d i b l y grateful for the support & interest in the content i’ve posted up!!!! tbh my activity’s still hella sporadic so it’s really amazing for me that i even gained new followers.... i’m very honored to have all of you stick around my blog despite my irregularity!!!!!!!! (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)
it’s also overdue, but i slowly managed and finally cleaned up the blog like i’ve been meaning to do + changed the blog name to match my ao3 handle for consistency!!! i make no promises to be super active... but i’m sure that i still want to continue writing & keep this blog alive!!!!
again, thank you all for your time + reading my works!!!!!! ∩( ´∀` )∩ work commentary on the rest of my works last year follows under the cut!
oct 1 // hero’s journey
a drabble on blanc + oliver about the alices... now that i think of it, calling the first alice first alice is kinda funny considering that alice is really her name... or is it?
i do hope blanc’s route talks about her a bit, haha! i mean, i wish cybird remembers that they’ve been dropping the occasional background tidbits about her... like for example, her pocketwatch (that she gave to blanc eventually) having a magic crystal engraved into it.... her potentially leaving a fucking globe in the black army’s possession (like... wow... u fell with that thing????????)....
plus, i just find it interesting that she was remembered by cradle as a heck of a troublemaker lol! it also makes you wonder who among the main cast met her, blanc aside... though it’s not stated when exactly she fell into cradle, so maybe only blanc had the opportunity of meeting her...
so does blanc speak of her fondly bc she’s a woman, or is there something else??? has he been frequently visiting the land of reason pre-game??? has he found the first alice’s antique shop / met her again??? does he still try to figure out the reason why there’s a magic crystal engraved into the first alice’s pocketwatch????? hmmmmm......
on another note, it would be hilarious if cybird pulls a peter pan 2......... since we can’t pull off a mother-daughter relationship like wendy & jane’s, what if alice the second is somehow actually related to the first alice?? and while she’s completely different from her predecessor, blanc finds himself falling for alice the second........ just like he fell for the first alice? drama!
that’s just a random thought but kidding aside, i do hope blanc’s route is hella interesting bc i think he’s our mr. exposition for knowing more about cradle itself lol
oct 1 // fair (?) ladies & phony (?) enchanters
a result of going manic a few days after seeing harr’s trailer + route release.... ahaHAHA I’M STILL WILLING TO PLAY UR ROUTE IN JP HARR (if i actually had time to sit down and translate gET REKT)
i liked writing these drabbles and i think they’re cute but tbh they did nothing to ease my curiosity about harr’s route.... if anything else, it became even w o r s e haha........................
if i think of blanc to have a cradle-centric route, i do hope harr’s route is magic tower-centric! naturally it will be since he’s got history there, but i hope a lot of my questions about the magic tower will be answered.....
will harr’s perspective of the magic tower be in the eyes of a test subject or a disciple???? he was scouted by the magic tower, but it wasn’t stated what he was doing exactly..... going by hints + loki’s & zero’s routes, it’s more of him being a disciple, so there’s bound to be guilt.......
hopefully alice’s characterization in his route is good + we get a fun group dynamic with loki!!! their potential.... the most(?) notorious criminal of cradle, a sought after test subject, and that one girl who nullifies all magic; a renegade trio lurking around the forbidden forest.... what an odd bunch!
oct 4 // god is a five minute hymn
a religious themed fic with lancelot & alice - tbh i don’t even know why religion was the first thing that came into mind when liz and i were talking about cultural differences, lol.
on that note though! i personally like thinking that if ever cradle had a semblance of a religion, it would be polytheistic & nature-centric, and not strictly practiced - the stratocracy of both territories i’d like to think makes it harder for religion to have a voice, much less have one that is practiced by the general population. the only thing general about it is that the religion centers or has magic crystals as an important factor... or something. yeah.
that aside, i think i specifically chose lancelot in this piece for the sole reason that his canonically stated lack of common sense, in my opinion, gives him the curiosity of a child sometimes - there’s no sense of malice or doubt, just the pure innocence of wanting to know something....... religion does that to kids, especially when introduced to it at first.
rereading the fic makes me think of the instances where when faced with dire or unsettling situations, people turn to faith as a life line.... well, i’m not sure if i had that subconsciously in mind when writing alice, but that does give a spin to it....
oct 6 // flow like the river nile
a spontaneous red army-centric fic! it certainly turned out better than i expected... i liked the formatting i used for this one!
if cybird can give us more about the pre-game suitors it would be great, tbh! and while the stuff about them in school is interesting, i’d like to see more about when they assumed their positions + combat scenes! the neutrals are special cases, but knowing more about their living conditions + daily lives is also a treat...
i was thinking of adding one last snippet about lancelot in the eyes of the reds, but i scrapped it out and switched it to alice & lancelot’s conversation about duty - it could’ve worked better if i stuck to using the what is your duty? question, but i scrapped it eventually too. ah well. it does look good enough as it is.
oct 7 // seeking out phantoms
a mandatory(???) odd one out aka content that’s not ikerev, haha! i missed fe:a all of a sudden...
i never got around to writing properly for this fandom tho, what a shame - i’ve got some bits of pieces in my drafts that looked interesting and easy enough to pick up, and this was one of them.
robin investigating more of their plegian heritage could’ve been a good subplot tbh... i still wish there was something like a paralogue or dlc about it, bc honestly the valm arc goes a bit slow until you get to the future past revelations. ah well.
and gaius bc first husband for the win.... not like i actually had the guts to marry anyone else in my other save files lololol
nov 7 // push me off a bridge (to catch me as i fall)
my longest project of 2019, holy shit! i didn’t know i still had it in me to write something past 10k... i need more of that motivation + energy....
there’s nothing much to say about this since i blabbed about everything in the post-reading notes, but as much as i fought myself to get this done, i really enjoyed writing a long fic again! hopefully i can get myself to write another one this year...
nov 18 // beloved, beloved, let me be clear
18 sentences on zero & alice + macross frontier references! man, when i really got to the point about the earrings i was thinking of sheryl a lot....
kept it in sentences cause i didn’t have enough time to put up a decent ficlet! but i really wanted to get my screaming out of my system....... i used to do sentences + three word sentences challenges before, and doing one again was pretty fun!
but really.... zero’s route kept me happy for days???? their buildup + dynamic was something i was totally w e a k for, no joke..... thank gods the collection event was going on, bc i really made good use of my stocked chapter tickets lolol!
i was especially excited come the ball scene, and that cg..... a h a h a.... i need more of those pretty cgs where i can see alice’s face + costume change.......
nov 20 // coloring inside the lines
jonah + alice + makeup!!!! tbh this was really fun, i enjoyed writing this one - if i remember, this was a fic that i managed to continuously work on the day i thought it up!
jonah may not be my best boy but tbh i find writing him very easy - i guess it’s because i’m very fond of characters like him!!! those uptight nobles who are as prideful as hell but can definitely live up to their name + are more capable than their bragging suggests... idk if there’s a general trope name for these doods, but i especially like analyzing their motivations + convictions!!!
i liked how i ended it, but i apparently i made an actual ending that’s now a snippet in my drafts - jonah & alice head to the ball, and somewhere along some bystanders’ flow of conversation someone drops a comment about jonah’s lips looking... quite more luscious than usual, lolol. so t h i r s t y. upon hearing this, alice can’t seem to stop smiling for some reason.....
nov 27 // blue fields, verdant skies
a practice drabble set centric on a ray/alice development that i liked so much i made it into a series - plus, it’s black army content and honestly i need to write more of them! my red army bias is showing whoooooops
it’s a feudal + arranged marriage au, with the latter... being quite spontaneous. it’s those types of marriages where neither have even met - not even once - only to face each other come the wedding... so it’s a given that audiences from both parties are rather curious how this will turn out.
since i had the theme of fate in mind, ray was the automatic pick for the male lead. the rest of the black army is a given and for kicks, i added dean and dalim! i actually want to write about them + mousse, but since i’m still unsure on their characterizations i’ve been holding them off.... but i gave in anyway.....
alice is again named for word count convenience purposes since it’s in actual 100 words aka drabble form! i have planned scenes + an ending already in mind, but going there is pretty hard bc.... i still have to write the scenes in between + resist temptation to expand further on other scenes, haha....
initially i was planning to keep it updated here as well, but any more updates of this are on ao3 instead! the formatting looks better there instead of my blog tbh, and it also gives it a sort of muted tone to the story that works with me!
this is also the 31st fic in this blog, marking an end of the challenge liz bestowed to me lolol - since i brought this blog back to life around june, i was dared that by the end of the year, i should’ve posted more than 15 fics to add up to the initial 15 i had already posted before, thus the numbers on my fics back then.... now that i actually succeeded, i can stop counting lololol!!!! tho hopefully i can still be pretty active this year....
dec 22 // duck, duck, bullet
oliver & fenrir on guns... this probably wins as the most spontaneous idea i had on my head - tbh, i wasn’t even sure where i was going with it at first! but i’m sure i was suddenly thinking about that one detective conan movie.... then it became kid!oliver with a gun.....
i wonder if he tests the bullets at night, when he’s in adult form.... then again, kid!oliver with a gun still works.... say that because he’s a genius inventor, he made some models to serve as his shooting targets.... but another thought that amuses me more is.... blanc does the bullet testing for him!?
lololol i already thought about blanc being oliver’s live target, but i also find blanc with a gun very interesting.......... i mean, blanc certainly doesn’t look like he can fight, but who knows??? i mean, mousse is the former ace of hearts, but i still can’t imagine him fighting..... appearances can be deceiving....
the two aside, i wonder how fenrir even met oliver and got him working on his bullets........ was it through blanc or other connections???? how long have they been seller and buyer???? does anyone else commission anything from oliver?????? hmmmm.....
dec 23 // terms of surrender
i’ve been told by liz + luci + other friends that i needed to practice writing more.... cheesy fluff. i’m not sure if this sirius/alice piece counts, lol. in fact, i think it’s my definition of fluff i see here - and it translates to not exactly fluffy at all!
tho if you want me to be honest about it - when i write suitor/alice stuff, how alice was characterized in the suitor’s route is still my basis for how i’ll write her, and sirius’ alice................ haha......... i think she’s the alice that’s honestly easy to write but i choose to avoid..........
i don’t dislike the sirius/alice dynamic per se, tho. i do find it cute, especially if cybird stops emphasizing the issue of maturity in the relationship on alice’s side. i understand - i really do - that it’s a potential issue in the relationship, but...... that’s not the only problem you can possibly have as time passes, right?????
on another note, it’s funny that only sirius gets to be harped about the maturity due to age difference issue - setting aside blanc, who heavens know how old he is, lancelot’s 29 and since alice is presumed to be around ray + fenrir’s age, you could say that she’s 24 or even 23 to be safe.... so that makes a 5 / 6 years difference but it’s never brought up, lol. but i guess it’s because unlike lancelot, the black army’s been making sirius’ age a running gag....
anyway, this piece is pretty decent! i was thinking of something along the lines of mornings between a “married couple”.... there were two scenarios i had in mind, and i opted to write this one out first.... maybe i’ll have the second one posted up here another day.
dec 28 // a chain of black thrones
pre-game!sirius & ray and bc i was thinking a lot about the previous chosen, the former jack of spades!!! i wonder if the armies have a set age for retirement lolol... it would be awesome if there was still a chosen who’s already past his 50s or something, haha!
since sirius was constantly badgered to take on the role of king, i was also wondering about how long the black army was ‘king-less’... i mean, if the tension between both armies was really as great as they say, having no king puts the black army at a precarious position... i also thought that ‘nah, maybe there was a king or something but maybe the black army didn’t like him or something so they insisted that sirius take it instead’ but sirius’ 1st anniv. epilogue says otherwise - there really was a period that the black army had no king, wow. how the heck did they deal with that???? surely the red army saw this as a display of vulnerability....
can the black army’s chosen choose to leave their posts when they feel like it??? when they’re defeated by a challenger, what happens to them - a demotion, or do they serve under the ‘new’ chosen??? does the black army’s chosen change constantly because of their meritocracy + challenger system??? like, how do they deal with that, and do they announce their changes in chosen each council meeting??? each new question just snowballed my curiosity, whoops...
there were so many angles i thought of but i decided to settle for addressing the king-less state of the black army... through the eyes of a veteran who’s probably served many kings throughout his time of service as part of the black army’s chosen.
i gave this jack of spades character a name, actually - garret folner. maybe someday i’ll write him again, bc i actually enjoyed thinking about the present + past chosen interactions - maybe i’d think about that for the red army, but this time i find the black army’s side more interesting for this situation.
dec 29 // steadfast tin soldier
a zero/alice piece for zeroweek - i was about to post pt. 1 as a standalone, but then i just thought about how.... zero bought alice a gown.... but never got to dance with her at the day of the ball..... so i rushed to add pt. 2 haha!
with the addition of pt. 2 it looks cut short tho - i did think of putting a scene in between, but no good ideas came into mind bc i was too fascinated with the dancing scene... i swear at some point i will find myself writing a fic or a part of a fic that’s a dance scene for the rest of the ikerev suitors + alice....
this is the kind of fluff i live for, actually... i’m totally fine with the steamy content cybird throws during events + bonus stories, but if i were to be honest i say.... where’s my non-sexual intimacy????? the simple, wholesome stuff?????????????????
man, i feel hilarious for typing that out..... but well, i guess it’s a matter of different strokes for different folks, lol!
#rundown.txt#can i spam thank yous???? seriously idk what else to say ahhhh#this! blog! shall! live!!! if i do well enough updating will become a habit!!!#i need better habits than sleeping + working + spring cleaning lololol#aHA i was thinking of changing themes again bc aesTHETIC#there wasn't one that caught my eye tho... plus coding during work... get rekt#but i fooled around with pages instead and colors!!! blue's the color of the year
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Fanfic Accounts and Stories~
Fanfiction.net Account: https://www.fanfiction.net/~amarlenes or https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5329546/
Ao3 Account: https://archiveofourown.org/users/A_Marlene_S
WattPad Account: https://www.wattpad.com/user/A-Marlene-S
Diviantart Account: https://www.deviantart.com/a-marlene-s
My fanfics: (Fanfiction.net has it all in one place. The other places are.. well, not all of them are on there.)
Complete:
Title: Mending
Fandom(s): Soul Eater
Rating: T
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Type: One-Shot
Summary: This is the first angsty thing I have ever wrote. Maka dealing with the loss of a love one.
Title: My (so many greats) great-Shaman King
Fandom(s): Shaman King
Ships: Anna x Yoh
Rating: T
Genre: Humor
Type: One-Shot
Summary: What if Anna were to make sure a descendent of hers were to become Shaman King.
Title: Alchemy
Fandom(s): Harry Potter & Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: T
Genre: Hurmor/Drama
Status: One-Shot
Summary: The One-Shot that started the Alchemy Series. Edward Elric has had enough. There is no hope for teaching Alchemy in a place where magic overrules science in everyone’s mind and heart. No one has the heart to study Alchemy…or is there?
Title: Alchemy: Magic vs Science
Fandom(s): Harry Potter & Fullmetal Alchemist
Ship: Edward x Winry, Alphonse x Mei, Ling x Lan Fan
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/Friendship
Type: Multi-Chapter/Complete
Summary: Magic and Science, are they the same or are they completely different? It just takes one person to point out all up and downs. Along with breaking the stereotypes that come up with being a wizard, alchemist and most of all being human. Part One of the Alchemy Series.
Title: Alchemy: Tiny Steps
Fandom(s): Harry Potter & Fullmetal Alchemist
Ship: Edward x Winry, Alphonse x Mei, Ling x Lan Fan, Severus x Charity
Rating: T
Genre:Humor/Friendship
Type: Multi-Chapter/Complete
Summary: Part 2 of the Alchemy: Magic Vs Science. Politics. Either you love it, hate it or you live it. For Alchemy Teacher Edward Elric, he lives it, hates it and loves it when he gets the upper hand. Here is to another year of teaching Alchemy and dealing with conniving politicians and idiots in general.
Incomplete:
Title: A Long Search For Happiness
Fandom(s): Yugioh 5D’s
Ship: Yusei x Carly
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Summary: How could someone have everything yet feel as if they have nothing? Yusei has the dream job, a good home and yet friends nowhere to be seen. Carly lost her dream job, close to losing her home and surrounded by people who care for her. Could one and the other compensation for this?
Title: A Shadow’s Touch
Fandom(s): Naruto
Ships: Naruto x Hinata, Shikamaru x Temari
Rating: T
Genre: Family/Friendship
Summary: What would have happened if a certain Uzumaki made friends with a certain Nara. Someone that had stuck by him, even when times got troublesome. This Nara showed everyone that he is not your typical Nara. Let's see how one Shikamaru Nara helps out his friend without completely breaking his non-troublesome persona.
Title: Alchemy: Little Brother’s Turn
Fandom(s): Harry Potter & Fullmetal Alchemist
Ships: Edward x Winry, Alphonse x Mei, Severus x Charity
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/Adventure
Summary: Part 3 of the Alchemy Series. Now it is Alphonse's turn to taking over his brother's position at Hogwarts. He quickly began to realize how much...stuff... Edward left behind to figure out on his own. Like, The Boy Who Lived, Sirius Black... and a Philosopher's Stone you say?
Title: Casper High Magic
Fandom(s): Danny Phantom & Harry Potter
Ships: Danny x Sam
Rating: T
Genre: Humor
Summary: What if Casper High teaches magic in secret? What if they were invited to the Tri-Wizard Tournament? What if they help or makes things worse in the British Wizarding World? What if...
Title: Corpse Groom
Fandom(s): Cropse Bride
Ships: Yet to be seen...
Rating: T
Genre: Romance
Summary: Like how the title states, it a swap from what it would be with several twists and turn. Emily is about to be married off to Lord Barkis Bitter in order to pay off her father's debt to the man. Not wanting to be put up with an arranged marriage Emily runs off and to only end up marrying someone from her past. Someone who's outlook looks rather grim.
Title: Floating White Lotus
Fandom(s): Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/Adventure
Summary: Water Floating White Lotus, a former fire nation ship that was converted into a traveling tea shop. The shop is led by the rumored the Dragon of the West, (No knows if this is true or not… yet) and his nephew who wishes to forget the ever lasting war. Well, until a certain someone decided he'd be the perfect fire bending instructor. Au inspired by @captainkirkk
Title: He Just Ninja’ed us!
Fandom(s): Naruto & Young Justice
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/Friendship
Summary: Superboy wasn't the only one they saved form Cadmus that night...Robin, Kid Flash, and Kaldur found a rather Youthful...ninja tucked away in Cadmus. Far too youthful for their own taste.
Title: Kit or Fawn?
Fandom(s): Naruto
Rating: T
Genre: Family/Humor
Summary: Shikamaru isn't the type to allow whispers or glares bother him, but it does become rather troublesome when it becomes known the reasons for it all. Should he let it get to him? Maybe? But that would be too troublesome. "How is it I repeatedly get defeated by a mortal in this pathetic game!" "You're just mad you got beat by a three-year-old, Troublesome Fox." Jinchuriki!Shikamaru.
Title: Koi-Koi
Fandom(s): Naruto & My Hero Academia
Ships: Shikamaru x Temari
Rating: T
Genre: Friendship
Summary: A cover-up, to cover-up the actual cover-up. Might as well make this a game on who can figure out everyone's secrets. Konoha experienced a heavy blow for the superhero community. So much so, that everyone that attended Konoha Shinobi Academy had to be transferred out to different schools until further notice. Now let's see if U.A. can play a game.
Title: La Red
Fandom(s): Miraculous Ladybug
Ships: To be seen.
Rating: T
Genre: Drama/Salt
Summary: Marinette was not Lila's first, let alone last victim. Let's see how Marinette decides that she needs outside help to take down one Lila Rossi. Salt. WARNING: Lot's of salt coming from Lila, Alya, and Adrien.
Title: Legend of the Miraculous Seas
Fandom(s): Miraculous Ladybug
Ships: Nino x Marinette
Rating: T
Genre: Adventure/Drama
Summary: One moment you are laughing and giggling with your friends during a time of peace. What was once a peaceful country all thanks to the Book of Peace, now it appeared someone had taken the book and used it to their own devices, thus leaving a wave of chaos behind. When the book went missing and the person being blamed has a close connection to one legendary pirate.
Title: Past vs Future
Fandom(s): Fullmetal Alchemist
Ships: Edward x Winry, Alphonse x Mei
Rating: T
Genre: Supernatural
Summary: Winry Rockbell had inherited a home out in the country from her late grandmother. She moved into the home to get away from the city and all the problems that came along with it. Old problems only seemed to double as she moved into the old home.
Title: Phantom or Fairy
Fandom(s): Fairy Tail
Rating: T
Genre: Friendship
Summary: Lucy ended up finding a couple off Phantoms when she ran away from home… maybe this could be her new start in life.
Title: Shikadai One-Shots
Fandom(s): Naruto
Ships: Shikamaru x Temari
Rating: T
Genre: Family
Summary: The Uzumaki family were not the only ones dealing with the affect of having one of their primary family member being gone for long periods of time. Shikadai never verbalized how disappointed he would get when his father would be nowhere to be seen due to his obligations of being the right-hand man of the Hokage. The reason? He knows what is needed to be done for the village.
Title: Shikamaru’s Adventure: Sinnoh
Fandom(s): Naruto & Pokemon
Rating: T
Genre: Humor
Summary: After much debate, (and his mother nagging), Shikamaru Nara, the son of a famous frontier brain, starts his own journey. His main goal, challenge his father without it being such a huge drag.
Title: Shikamaru’s Fairy Tail
Fandom(s): Naruto & Fairy Tail
Rating: T
Genre: Friendship
Summary: Shikamaru just thought it was just any other day while babysitting three-year-old Mirai. Too bad for him, the past is coming back to bite him in the butt. An old form of unknown magic that may have helped him but it is far too much of a drag to figure out what got him and Mirai out of one problem into another one.
Title: Silent Moments of the Past
Fandom(s): Naruto
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/Drama
Summary: We are back! Back to this hell hole, we call a Tea Party that is run by Death's himself. Several people woke up after meeting their end, they work up to be invited to a tea party and a chance to change their past for the better or for worse. (Grammar. It's an old fic that was over 70 chapters long. Give me a break.)
Title: Then, There, and Where?
Fandom(s): Dragon Age
Rating: T
Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Friendship
Summary: He messed up. Solas severely messed up. He and the world are suffering for his mess up. Despite how horrid the world became, there is still some hope left. Hopefully, they can fix his past mistakes. Or better yet... prevent it from ever happening. Time Travel Fic. Original Characters.
Title: Uncle ‘Itch
Fandom(s): ROTBTD
Ships: Many.
Rating: T
Genre: Humor/Friendship
Summary: Pitch Black, The King of Nightmares, everyone's favorite enemy, friend, uncle, and confidante. Multi-Crossover. ROTBTD AU.
Title: I’m a Scholar, Not A Knight!
Fandom: My Hero Academia
Ships: Izuku x Ochaco, Katsuki x Eijiro, Shoto x Momo
Rate: T
Genre: Humor/Adventure/Fantasy
Summary: Izuku knew he wanted to become more than a simple peasant. He plans on becoming a scholar. A simple scholar that is repeatedly being told otherwise. Somehow, he found himself in the company of a retired knight, a squire, a witch-in-training, a runaway prince, a barbarian king, a human/dragon hybrid and a frog shifter… All of whom start to assume he’s the Lost Hero of Legend. Yeah… there goes his goal of becoming a scholar. Fantasy Au.
Title: Unknown Realty
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug & DC & PJO & Greek Myths
Ships: Jason x Marinette, Dick & Kori,
Rate: T
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Jason, or as many know him as… Hades.He lost his luster for the living and nonliving, just a constant repeat. That was until he met someone that tug on his heartstrings just the right way. He takes her. Without a second thought.
Title: Futuristic Miraculous
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug & Batman Beyond
Ships: Terry x Marinette
Rate: T
Genre: Drama
Summary: With her childhood friends close by, Marinette knew she could take on the world, even when dealing with a certain lair. It all first started with taking a job for being Jagged Stone’s personal designer and that resulted with her being in Neo-Gotham. All the while Terry is facing the fact he is the new Batman and dealing with all the past Robins wondering what Bruce was thinking in taking in a new kid into the cruel world that is of Superheroes.
I’ll post the AU’s I have written here on Tumblr on a seperate post.
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What are your top three stories from each list?
i could’ve answered this a lot quicker if i didn’t write summaries for the stories in 2 of these lists LOL the bolded two are the ones i 100% recommend
from the “engaging reads” list:
in “the earth is online”, strange black towers appear all over the world. for six months, they do nothing; as people research their origins and possible effects, they become strange parts of the landscape. conspiracy theories abound. what do the towers mean? how did they get here? what will they do?
then, on november 15, 2017, an announcement comes from the black towers. “the earth is online. in three days, all players are asked to eliminate any player. this is including, but not limited to, games.”
at the end of those three days, 400 million people are left on earth.
the black tower provides them three rules. one: the black tower will explain everything. two: the game time is between 6:00am and 6:00pm. and three: all players, please strive to attack the tower.
this is a survival/adventure/mystery, and it’s done so well. i cannot recommend it enough. the worldbuilding is incredible, and the characters actually fit into the world and are shaped by it. the characters--from the main characters to recurring characters to side characters--are all individual and distinct; i forgot names sometimes but i’d always remember who they were through their words and actions.
there is romance involved, but it doesn’t take precedence over the story being told, and the attraction and progression of their relationship from wary strangers to people that they understand and trust without question is believable.
(trigger warnings: depictions of violence and cruelty, as well as (the aftermath of) cannibalism and monsters eating humans. there’s a lot of death and murder.)
"don’t pick up boyfriends from the trash bin” follows the typical chinese transmigration system BL pattern of “at the time of death, the main character is offered a second chance by a mysterious system, on the condition that the main character completes a series of trials”.
the main character, chi xiaochi, transmigrates to a certain number of worlds of varying difficulties into the body of someone who has been wronged in some way, and the completion of his trial depends upon the “regret level” of that person’s partner. when the “regret level” reaches 100, he moves on to the next world.
in-story, it’s mentioned by his system that most players increase the partner’s “regret level” by becoming a tragic figure and allowing themselves to be abused and then die. chi xiaochi is unique in that he thinks mainly of the original owner of the body that he has transmigrated into: how can he seek justice for the ways in which they have been hurt? how can he put them into a better position? how can he give them a future?
from what i’ve read so far, there’s a level of care for the original owners of the body that just... isn’t present in a lot of other transmigration stories, and the direction that this takes the worldbuilding looks promising
(trigger warnings: implied/referenced rape and abuse of varying natures. the first arc involves emotional abuse and isolation tactics employed by the partner. the second arc involves implied/referenced rape and physical abuse.)
“i play the role of (villain/heroine) in a japanese-style otome game” takes a long look at the isekai genre and follows the typical pattern of “the heroine is a beautiful and naive young lady with a special gift rare in its occurrence and power; everyone is attracted to her as a result” until it doesn’t. what does it mean to have a special gift if that gift will inevitably cause someone to try to kill you? what does it mean to have a special gift if that gift is, by its nature, something coveted by an entire species, and your non-human classmates want to eat you?
what does it mean to have a special gift if you can’t save your best friend with it?
i haven’t read this in a while so my memory’s rusty, but i remember being really taken aback at the direction it went in. gathering a reverse harem isn’t for love; it’s to figure out a way to save the “villain”, chako. the “heroine”, yui, keeps going back in time and keeps doing things differently and keeps approaching different people in hopes of controlling the increasing variables involved in chako’s death
(trigger warnings: a lot of death and manipulation of characters’ feelings.)
from the “feel-good” list:
“ghostly masked prince xiao: pampering and spoiling the little adorable consort” involves a 20-year-old college student of the modern age transmigrating into the 9-year-old body of chu qingyan in ancient china. through circumstances that are meant to harm both her and the 19-year-old male lead, they become engaged. the male lead, xiao xu, is the first prince, but his mother--despite being empress--had not been beloved and therefore neither is he. he’s very much a tragic hero: although filial and of upright character, although his actions have always been for the betterment of the empire, he has never been loved by his family and has always been viewed as a tool.
all of his previous fiancees have been murdered before their wedding. chu qingyan is a child, and he doesn’t want her to die. he gives her opportunities to leave and orders his subordinates to aid her in her escape--but, unexpectedly, she stays, and thus begins one of the fluffiest stories that i have ever read. xiao xu doesn’t know how to take care of a child and asks his military generals how to treat children. as you can imagine, their response is “dote upon them!”
xiao chu is earnestly doing his best to treat chu qingyan right, and in her own way, chu qingyan is doing the same for him--especially as the story progresses and she discovers more and more about his past and the ways in which he has been treated by people that were supposed to love him.
i’m sensitive to age gaps in relationships and i don’t know how i’ll feel about, like, actual romance between the two of them, but right now it’s just. a teenager is given a child and is experiencing a “loving family” for the first time in his life. is experiencing what it is to look at a child who depends on you and know that you would do absolutely anything for them. and it’s so sweet and heartbreaking
in “reborn little girl won’t give up”, the titular character is reborn into a world that involves magic and monsters. she is born to a noble family that maintains the barriers that surround their kingdom in order to keep the monsters out. her mother dies during childbirth, and for the first while of her life, her father and her older brother cannot stand to see her as a consequence; but once they begin interacting with her, they can’t not love her.
things go well until they don’t.
the main character is kidnapped to the boundary of the barrier, and moments before she can be saved, her mount--a dragon who has come to see this child as one of its own--flees to the frontier outside of the barrier. if not for a group of hunters that come across her, she would have died.
now her goal is to find her way back to her family--while also making new family along the way.
“death progress bar” follows shi jin, who transmigrates at the time of his death into the body of a character with the same name, from a novel that he had read. the novel’s shi jin has five older brothers who had tormented him and eventually led to his death; the transmigrated shi jin enters this world soon after the death of the novel shi jin’s father, and discovers that he has a “death progress bar.” as his system explains, when the number reaches 999, he will be taken over ‘by the story’ and be led to his death.
the bad news: the progress bar is only a few points away from 999.
one of the ways in which to lower the progress bar is to get as far from his brothers as possible, so he gets away from them--only to stumble across a new person and a new progress bar: the system’s “darling,” lian jun, whose death factors seem completely different from his own. lian jun is also the head of an underground organization whose protection greatly decreases shi jin’s death progress bar.
new goal: find a way for both of them to survive.
the romance is slow and sweet, and--very uncommonly--the male lead is compelling in his own right, separate from his relationship with the main character. i find him likeable as a person, not just as a romantic prospect.
this is a feel-good without being necessarily fluffy or sweet. reading it just makes me happy.
(honorable mention to “there will always be protagonists with delusions of starting a harem”, which is written by the same person who wrote “death progress bar”. it’s another transmigration system story where the main character has to go to a certain number of worlds and complete a task; in this case, the task is to “prevent the protagonist’s harem,” because the harem will somehow result in the end of the world. the main character and the male lead fall in love during their first world together, and at the end of the task when the system asks if he would like to move on to the next world, the main character chooses to stay within the current world. it is only after the male lead’s death that he continues on to the next world… and, there, he discovers that his partner has reincarnated, as well. in every world, they find each other.
in order to aid with the prevention of the harem, there are progress bars for every harem member that are “the likelihood of falling in love with the protagonist.” they begin at 100, and the goal is to get them to 0, thus breaking their flag and ensuring they will not become part of the protagonist’s harem. the main character’s thoughts on these characters and the dropping of their progress bars are frequently funny.)
for the “guilty pleasure” list, i’m not going to write summaries because these are. very guilty pleasures.
“nurturing the hero to avoid death”
“if i happened to tame my brother well”
“our binding love: my gentle tyrant”
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Bad Things Happen Bingo! The event where you send me requests according to this marvelous card!
(Red cross is the completed prompt, character headshots are prompts I’ve already filled. I don’t have any request left, so feel free to send in suggestions for this card!).
I guess writing a Tachimukai-centric fic is an annual tendency of mine since 2014 and this is this year's edition of "how bad can I get on this cinnamon roll".
Not going to lie, I may have gone hardcore with the angst content on this one, especially considering the character I'm writing about. Despite the appearances, Tachimukai was one of my comfort characters in high school and early college years, when I felt isolated and unwanted, when my self-esteem was low and I didn't know where I was going. I should write actual fluff where he gets the attention he deserves, because Orion won't provide it. (but instead I got attached to Ichihoshi and Nishikage so I suppose I'm no better than I was in 10th grade).
I know these headcanons are freakin' wild and edgy as heck, but that's how I've rolled for the past 3 years, so I suppose it's to be expected. You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you this actually *isn't* the edgiest I've written about Tachimukai, because that is a thing you most likely will only be posted in years, if ever.
This is the cringy part of me I suppose, that part that never let go of his middle school years; but I also suppose I grew up with these characters and they grew up with me in my mind
It's weird for me to take the prompt "Definitely Just a Cold", a personal favorite of mine, and write about this loosely about it, as the focus is somewhere else. It's also weird to write for this character as "Yuuki", but it makes more sense storytelling-wise: you don't tend to call yourself by your surname when you talk to yourself, right?
I'm sorry if the actual sickfic part of the fic is underwhelming, my inspiration suddenly left me and I switched to an Ensemble Stars mood?? That was the oddest thing I swear
Also this is a slight AU where Raimon had time between the matches against Chaos and Genesis, aka "man this is purely for my convenience's sake"
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Burden with a Frostbitten Self-Consciousness
Summary: There is no way his aching chest is a good excuse to bother his upperclassmen. Better keep everything to himself so he doesn't become a burden to anyone but him again.
(This doesn't feel right, though).
Fandom: Inazuma Eleven (original continuity)
Wordcount: 2.2K words
Event hosted by @badthingshappenbingo
AO3 version available here.
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“Don’t make your senpais worry, Yuuki” is one of the first things he’s been told by his parents when he first started middle school. It was on a lukewarm spring day, wind blowing right into his face with hair pushed way backward on his scalp, slipping through his clothes and brushing against his skin. “They’ll have other things to do and think about, so don’t bother them unless it’s necessary, okay? You’re a good boy, I trust you not to concern them with you.” It’s the last thing his mother has told him, so he clutches her words against his chest to feel their warmth over and over again until the hot-water bottle goes cold.
It’s icy and it hurts, yet he feels the need to keep it against his skin, even if it gives him frostbite.
After all, as far as he knows, Yuuki’s always been a bother to everyone around him. He’s an unwanted child: his parents are always busy being somewhere better than their hometown (it’s only his, he knows that too), he’s just a weight they need to take care of. The concept of home feels foreign to him, the kind of things his classmates and teammates talk about but that he’s never been able to truly understand. They live with their parents, their siblings, their pet; but he has no parent to take care of him, no sibling to talk to and no pet to walk and clean after.
It’s normal, after all: he’s a burden for the people around him. It’s only fair that he bothers them as little as possible.
He actually likes talking to other persons and kids around him. He’s too talkative: no matter what he starts speaking about, he tends to ramble, to get lost in thoughts and only he can make out what he’s just said. He wants to have friends and spend time with them, discuss things and high-five them when they succeed at something, game or homework well done; but he doesn’t dare coming up to people and asking them for it. After all, he could be bothering them if he did that.
As such, he tries to stay silent most of the time. He does have comrades, though, now, and it’s a breath of fresh air. The one time he had the guts to talk to someone first, it was to join the soccer club of the school to make some friends: he’s a rookie at the sport. He’s watched it before that, grew an admiration for team captains, wants to be a leader with charisma and this capacity to motivate everyone around him. He shook the hand of the third-year captain and wondered how and why they had accepted him, yet didn’t question it: he was just happy to feel included, wanted.
It’s a rare feeling unlike anything else, after all.
Turns out he sucks at being a midfielder. He has low stamina, doesn’t have the best accuracy, can’t shoot strongly like the teammates he shares a part of the field with; but it’s fine. It’s fine because they talk to him, ask him how his day has been, if he needs help with anything at school (on that, he does just right: he’s a good student, he studies every evening when going back to the dorm, makes sure to learn his lessons and do his drills for the next class, because he can’t bother the teachers too). They’re all nice with him, even if he’s younger, and he’s afraid he’s bothering them because he’s all new to this and doesn’t know how to play as well as they do; but when he asks, they all say it’s fine, that they’re happy he’s there.
When he asks to become a reserve goalkeeper, inspired by Raimon’s Endou, his charisma, his capacity to motivate his teammates no matter the situation, they all strangely accept immediately. They tell him it’s fine, that he seems more of a keeper to them anyway, that they were worried about the way he breathes after he’s run on the field for practice matches. He apologies for worrying them over and over again, hoping the stain of his fault will eventually disappear from how much he’s scrubbing it. In the end, he became their main goalkeeper, even if he’s the only first-year on the team.
When he joins Raimon, it’s because he admires the rookie team who’s won in the Football Frontier and fights aliens trying to destroy their country’s schools one after the other. By the time they reach Fukuoka to retrieve a secret copybook, they won against Gemini Storm and are on their way to defeat Epsilon, pumping his club’s veins with adrenaline and hope in the future. He gets to show Endou his God Hand, feels awkward about it, enjoys playing against the people he admires so much, discovers how his idol is the real deal. “Never met your idols” doesn’t make sense in his mind, even as Raimon traverses the desert with their captain stuck on the roof.
By a miracle, he manages to ask Endou if he can join Raimon. It’s the team who has insisted: to them, he’s too talented for them, the country needs them and, as such, so does Raimon, the best team in Japan. He’s surprised everyone at Raimon accepts him, that even their coach doesn’t reject his request. He leaves his team with a part of his heart breaking, even if they’re smiling and waving at him when he leaves Yokato in the Inazuma Caravan; even though the pretty landscapes he’s never seen and the light-hearted banter of the caravan make him quickly forget about his guilt.
And it’s because they’ve all been so nice to him, welcoming, accepting, warm, arms wide open; that Yuuki can’t make anyone at Raimon concern for him. It’s just not right. It’s his business to take care of, on his own, he’s the only one who should be bothered about this in the first place.
That’s how it works for him, even if his lungs are starting to burn.
It starts with a stuffed nose and an itching throat. It’s a familiar feeling, very much so: it happens to him every winter, when the immune system is tired and the temperatures keep dropping until March comes around. Usually, his teammates would have told him to stay put and just watch practice so it doesn’t get worse; but this is no usual time. They’re trying to win against The Genesis and Aliea as a whole, they don’t have the time to do rest.
He doesn’t like outright lying, because he’s learnt that lying is bad and the best way to get people away from you, so when Tsunami asks him if he’s fine after a light coughing fit, he just says what’s on his mind: it’s a little summer cold, nothing wrong with that, he feels good otherwise. He wants to learn the technique from the secret notebook more than anything, after all, so he takes care not to worry everyone, take breaks when he can and puts on a mask hoping nobody ever asks him about it.
People do, unfortunately, but he always responds to them the same way he’s responded to his friend.
Yuuki is bad at lying to himself too, so when his itching throat starts making him cough and when his vision swims if he gets up too quickly, when the air starts becoming too hot around him and when his skin can’t decide if it’s feeling too cold or too warm, when he sweats without doing any effort, he knows he’s getting worse, but his response doesn’t change by much. It’s just a bad cold, now. It’s starting to learn more towards the fabricated side of half-truths, and he can hear his father scold him before leaving for three months, yet the context can’t help it and he needs to be there for the team.
Is he a part of them, on second thought? He was appointed titular goalkeeper because the team needed to become an offensive powerhouse and Endou became a libero as a result. He saw Aphrodi destroy himself against Chaos when he had himself been too busy being unable to stop at least eleven shoots. He’s the weakest link, this much he knows, and he can’t help but wonder if they don’t resent him for this. It’s fine if they do: if they don’t, then what prevents them from realizing he’s only dragging them down?
The black thoughts clog his mind’s drain, but he doesn’t say anything. Everyone here is his senpai: they’ve all been there for longer than he has, the sole exception being Tsunami, who even then is two or three years older than he is. If he even makes it obvious that he has doubts and his body starting to fail on him at the worst moments, he’ll start worrying his upperclassmen. That’s wrong, he’s aware of that, he’s learnt his lesson; as such, he stays quiet about it, half-lies to everyone asking him and hopes his coughing fits stop being so painful. It’s easier for everyone if that’s how he rolls.
Even with his resolutions taken, Tsunami’s worried stares make him weaver in his decisions. It seems like his plan hasn’t worked properly, because he’s asked more and more often if he really is fine. The only thing stopping them from removing him from the goalpost is the coach insisting everything is also fine, despite her frowned eyebrows and betraying glances at him. He’s the weakest link, so Endou can replace him anytime, but they need him there so they can win against The Genesis. That has to be the reason why everyone is getting worried around him.
They’re worried for the team’s future, the country’s, and their goals, it’s normal. The stakes are just way above his head for him to fully understand.
His chest is aching as soon as he wakes up and his breathing is shallow, it’s like he has a constant asthma attack. His nerves are exhausted of supporting the charade that it’s all just a very, very bad cold; yet he can’t help but outright lie to his teammates because he can’t break his principle never to worry someone older or more experienced than him. The worse he gets, the more distant he feels from everyone and everything else because of his senses downgraded constantly, inexorably. His eyes are filled with tears, his ears with cotton, his limbs are stiff and he’s having the hardest time even getting air in.
When Tsunami asks him if what’s wrong, he doesn’t have the energy left to pretend like he’s fine, so he turns away and says he doesn’t feel right, but that it’s not important. They’re a team, he’s just a part of it, and he needs to move along with everyone else in unison if he doesn’t want everything they’ve built up until now to fall apart in a violent fashion. He expects a burning stare, or something of the kind, but instead all he gets is the sympathizing gazes of everyone and he feels stupid because that’s when he realizes he has worried them all along.
Everyone stares at him, mostly in disbelief, but he’s too occupied by everything failing on him that he doesn’t know what to make of it, or react to it in fact, so he just coughs half a lung out and awkwardy smiles under his mask. He’s never been good with people’s attention, he doesn’t know what to make out of it any time this kind of situation happens. Instead, he fumbles with his hands as everyone, to his surprise, tells him it’s fine.
That they’re not this desperate for time, that he matters too and so does his health, that it’s fine if he doesn’t play immediately and if they have to postpone the assault against Aliea for a couple of days. He doesn’t reply, but they guess and cancel his questions before they can pop up to his mind in the shapes of actual words, and their words continue to deafen him from their kindness.
His vision swims too badly for him to see anything when Tsunami suddenly pulls him against his chest, but the coldness of anybody else’s skin is the most welcome feeling he could be requesting for right now. The voices swirl around him too, yet he knows they’re the right kind of warm as they embrace him, concern finally feeling good. It stills stings like a bandage getting ripped suddenly from a healing wound, but it’s a sting he’s accepting to feel if it’s to finally be a part of the team. Hearing it from others is a whole other deal to him than lying to himself about it.
But he finally gives into the exhaustion and sickness, whose nature he has no idea of anymore, letting himself fall into other arms as he can finally smile honestly under his mask, without feeling like a bother anymore. He’ll learn his lesson about worrying people or not later, when he’ll feel like he’s fine enough to do it. For now, he’s going to profit off of everyone telling him he’s needed, wanted and welcome. It gives meaning to his efforts, after all.
It’s nice to feel loved.
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