Vlad floated upwards as he shifted to Plasmius, until he was towering over Danny. He leaned down, his face close to Danny’s ear and spoke in a taunting whisper. “You heard what your mother said about me. Do you want her to say those things about you?” Danny’s fists were trembling and his eyes were wide and glowing.  No. No, she wouldn’t.

My partner was AsthmaticBookwyrm, and they wrote this fantastic part for their story for @invisobang You can read it here at the link below!

From the Jaws of Defeat

From the Jaws of Defeat

by @asthmatic-bookwyrm

Vlad’s plan to become king of the world was successful (with a minor hiccup), and now he has everything that he ever wanted. And it’s nothing like what he dreamed. Having absolute power is a burden, not an accomplishment, and his family isn’t anything like what he’d fantasized about. Their hatred for him only grows, and he’s left more alone than he’s ever felt. Then the ghosts become incredibly violent, claiming that a world ending monster is fast approaching – and it’s Vlad’s fault. Everything is falling apart despite his attempts to maintain power, so, with no other options left, beat and bruised, he falls before his arch nemesis and begs for his help. He’d saved the day every time before this; surely Phantom can save earth and the Ghost Zone again?

Read it here.

ok i know absolutely nothing about baseball (i’m the same anon that asked about baseball a few days ago) so why is the phillies being in the world series such a HUGE deal?

okay so we won the wildcard slot in the playoffs this year which in layman’s terms means our attendance in the post season was already on shaky ground and almost shocking because we were honestly shit this year in the philly way (constantly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, giving us all ulcers) and only won 87 games in the regular season (compare to the astros 108 wins) and all of the stats said that we would be eviscerated in the first round of the playoffs and we were like “that’s fine we’re just happy to be here :)” because we truly have had such a miserable year that it was nice to just be included for once but instead we beat the cardinals and then we beat the braves (the team with the best record) and then we beat the padres and none of the series were really that close. and now we’re not “just happy to be here.” now we’re fucking hungry. it’s been 14 long years since we last won a world series and we’re absolutely starving. and it’s so clear that the other teams and the national announcers and commentators cannot believe our scrappy mutt of a rabid rescue team dares to be here but here we are. in the world series. after 13 years since our last appearance and 11 years since we were just in contention for a league pennant. and we won the first game of the series tonight. in houston. in extra innings. after coming back from an ulcer-inducing 5 run deficit. go phils.

Genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more catastrophic fumble from a video game company.

I have never been a big sports guy, and never will be, but I always did enjoy going to a baseball or soccer game, watching world-class soccer on tv, and watching some of the olympics. To that we can now add hockey, which I am enjoying for the most part. 'For the most part' because I am contractually obligated to be a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and they sure do like to flub it when it counts. But I'm mentally prepared for that; I'm an LA Dodgers fan.

So as far as I can tell, Keir Starmer's Labour has finally found its spine/soul/nads/whatever, only to turn it into a massive clusterfuck that annoys everyone and turns serious calls for peace into a bad-tempered farce.

Am I piecing this together from the wreckage correctly?

- SNP put forward a motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

- Keir Starmer, terrified of another rebellion, desperate to look bold and proactive, puts forward an amendment... calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

- The Speaker...picks it? And a Tory one? Because if everyone's miserable then that's fair? And the SNP never get to do anything?

- SNP understandably ask what the actual fuck and walk out

- Tories less understandably ask what the actual fuck and walk out

- Amended motion calling for a ceasefire now passes pretty much by accident but it's okay because nobody takes it seriously and they're all fighting over who gets to teabag Lindsay Hoyle.

This was such a great stinger to the coda, Here come the fucking Romulans (and only with the delivery of that line did I piece this was Todd Stashwick)

rewatched THE LAST JEDI which is still very good and very fun and one of my favorite parts is when kylo ren fights a ghost and fucking loses

the definition of "get rekt, asshole"

I attempted to play shadow run the system still gives me hives but i played such a pathetic women it was fantastic

Oh to have a transcript of today’s final class roleplay session. So much happened. There was shouting. There were three assassination attempts. There was heartbreak. The class finally put their hearts into their roles.

Please lord you cannot give me a Russell win today. Today of all days, when we are so close to the Ferrari bin fire dream

He looked up at the thick cape that spread around him, windows to galaxies that hadn’t been discovered yet, his crown one of blue fire – wicked sharp, and yet . . . nothing about him was scary. Imposing? Yes. But scary?  No-

My other piece for the @invisobang and partner AsthmaticBookwyrm!! You can read the story here!

From the Jaws of Defeat

Kind of amazing that Matt lost with that jury. Probably one of the most overhyped players this season.

working on another playlist meme except it’s turned into me trying to sift through the differences between lostbelt p2 yako and ffxiv yako and realizing xiv yako hasn’t been forged in repeated defeats like fgo yako has and that is the most significant difference between the two of them

Ten Years Ago Today

A decade of prompts from Short Fiction Weekly Challenge.

Week of 12/20/2013

Snatched from the Jaws of Defeat - Our characters get into a lot of scrapes, a lot of desperate situations. Sometimes it may look like there’s no way to win…but a surprise might be in store. Write about a time your character had a success they weren’t expecting.

You're real neat, you know?

A really neat thing that happened in a draft yesterday was I was playing a UB control deck against a WU control deck, and we were deep in the late game, I had a flier and was whittling away at their life total, they had a creature that gets infinite +1/+1 counters and were whittling away at my board, and then one turn, I realize something: I have exact lethal. Thanks to my menace creature, I have exactly enough damage to kill them no matter how they block! So I swing with everything.

And they activate this

It had been on their board. Sitting there. For the past like 5 turns. I had completely forgotten about it.

I lost the game next turn.