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duskoon · 2 years

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Yandere!Raine Whispers(General) headcanons:

Tw: GN!reader, Yandere themes, Obsessive behaviours, Stalking, Unhealthy idolisation, Unhealthy relationship, Drugging via magic, Implied reckless behaviours, Slight manipulation, Mentions of isolation, Delusional mindset, Implied past grooming.

• It was at IFWOT, that they have first laid their dark peppermint irises on you. You were extremely shy, more so than them. No matter how many times Eda tried to drag you to meet them, you kept on running back to hide into one of the boxes like a scared kit into its own burrow. Which was endearing to them, to say the least. It took a lot of convincing and bribing with apple blood, on the troublemaker’s part to get you to cave in and introduce yourself.

• Before the trials took place, they were surprised to know that you didn’t attend any school for that matter. You -instead- were tutored by a senior member of the Emperor’s coven. In hopes of taking their place and to grace your family’s name by joining the well-respected coven. Honestly, they began to sympathise with you. All alone, with high burdens on your shoulders, and sheltered from the isle only to fulfil this sole purpose. They knew what it felt like, otherwise they wouldn’t bother to attend this event in the first place.

• “I will be fine, I promise. Eda, I’ve seen your eyes on that student. Go partner with them, if you’re interested in them. I’ll work with Malik.” With that being said, you and the boy from the plant coven joined forces. From afar, Raine couldn’t help but fret about you. It was unwise of them to jump to conclusions, yet you do not seem like the offensive type to them.

• “Nah, do not worry about them. They may seem frail, but I am very well aware not to underestimate them. They have magic like no other. I have seen it before, trust me.” Before they could inquire further about it, the challenges had began. “Fine then. Let’s win the blue ribbon, shall we.” The celeste haired witch smirked blithely. “You bet, we will.”

• They were impressed and shocked at the extent of your magic. Your manipulation of the shadows -akin to holding the strings of a marionette- were working together with the movements of the flora in complete sync. Thus, recreating the daunting structure of a slitherbeast.

• Raine firmly believes that shadow magic is complimentary to your person. Elusive, sneaky, and hidden from plain sight. Neither they or Eda were upset that they have lost the round, if anything the ginger playfully jabbed them in the chest with a crooked grin. “I told you so.”

• Despite the hectic competition that day, Raine throughly enjoyed their time with you and Eda. Although they haven’t won the blue ribbon, it was sufficient for them to see a smile gracing your soft features. At the mere thought, their warm brown visage has flushed red in embarrassment. Titan, Eda will tease them endlessly. If she heard a gist about their blooming crush on the timid witch. ‘It has been only a day, for Titan’s sake! Get a hold of yourself, Raine!’

• Years has passed since then and their bonds with the owl lady and the shadow witch has strengthened. The three were best friends doing all sorts of things, from watching their favourite movies together to running away from fire bees in a fit of impish laughter. It was all fun, until you had disappeared for an inexplicable reason.

• That made both of their hearts drop in worry, especially the bard witch. Which fuelled their drive to find you and protect you from whatever indoctrination the Emperor has addled your brain with. They absolutely know with all their heart, that if they didn’t act -as soon as possible- then you will be truly gone forever. By the Titan, they couldn’t let that happen. For their mind can’t even come close to comprehending a life without you in it.

• Raine definitely falls into the delusional, obsessive, and overprotective category. They are utterly enamoured with the idea of you and with your general presence. A hopeless romantic, you might say. Anything you have in mind, they would commit to it in a bat pun very much intended of an eye so long you aren’t harmed in the end.

• At first, Raine is hesitant to approach you. They do not wish to overwhelm you with their overbearing affection. Instead you might feel lingering eyes on your figure, but you needn’t be afraid. They are making sure you are staying safe, they thought. Whilst taking care of your assailants in a quick manner.

• They very much disparage the idea of murder, so they would resort to placate the perpetrators into sleep most of the time. In severe cases, to a state of full induced coma. If they personally felt the assaulters imposed a great danger on their darling’s well-being. Raine forgives all, but the harm of their beloved. That is a line if crossed, won’t end well for anyone involved.

• Surprisingly, Raine is excellent at masking their maelstrom of intense feelings. For the most part, their darling would not find any of their quirks strange. If anything it is understandable, as the Boiling Isle is a treacherous place to be in. It is only when you accidentally endanger yourself, or find yourself in the clutches of peril that you’ll pick on their desperation and obsessive tendencies.

• Their lanky arms bringing you closer to their warm chest in a suffocating embrace, whilst they coo ardently about how they will do better at ensuring your safety. This is a promise they will continue to uphold. Even if they have to lose a limb or two in the process, so long they are blessed by your existence.

• At this point, you may as well be the titan in the bard’s perspective. You’ll be bombarded with hymns, gifts, and songs in your honour. All of it is laced with heartfelt spirit and honeyed words of worship. Raine would be over the moon and crying with sheer joy, if you reciprocated with your own. They’re even willing to perform duets with you, for it is their dream come true.

• Raine is considered a benevolent yandere to come across, as the farthest they’ll do to you is by putting you to sleep and even then it is not frequent. Only, when you’re being extremely hysterical and hurting yourself. They’d rather die a thousand times, before they lay their hands on you in a malicious manner. Despite that, it is the same paranoia that makes the sky blue hued witch threatening.

• Anyone that isn’t them, Eda, Luz, and the members of CATTs will be under the bard’s scrutinising watch. Which will sabotage your relationship with other witches, especially if they were from the Emperor’s coven. To prevent it from happening, they took a precautionary measure that they hope you’ll enjoy. Raine would entice you to like indoor activities, with the objective of keeping you away from the external world as much as possible. Doing so, would keep their incessant fear at bay and you blissfully content.

• They know what they’re doing is morally reprehensible, but due to their obsession their mental state begins deteriorating. So much they start normalising their behaviours, as the norm. They just want to spoil and shield you from the world that wants to harm you in the worst ways. Why can’t you see, he is devoted to everything you are and aren’t?

{Reblogs and feedback are much appreciated. On another note, what’s with me and blue-haired characters?}

#duskoon.speaks #yandere x reader #yandere owl house #yandere owl house x reader #yandere toh #yandere raine whispers #yandere raine whispers x reader #tw: yandere #tw: obsessive behaviours #tw: stalking #tw: unhealthy idolisation #tw: unhealthy relationships #tw: drugging #tw: implied reckless behaviours #tw: slight manipulation #tw: mentions of isolation #tw: delusional mindset #tw: implied past grooming #minors do not interact

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erinthesails · 4 months

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Inspired by @getmean, i did a little writeup of the books i read in 2023, and a little blurb about my thoughts! read 37 total, which isn't bad considering how busy it was, this past autumn especially.

organized roughly by genre because i thought the breakdown of what kinds of things i ended up reading was interesting, and marked my faves of the year with *s!

Novels

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

Did not start strong in this category, this book was truly awful. Like, I wanted to be able to just turn my brain off and at least enjoy a fun sci fi adventure but it was like. God. the worst parts of detective/noir novels and the worst parts of sci fi bound together by an interesting concept that the author had no idea how to handle. Im getting mad about this book again just thinking about it

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Really really liked this! I love Oyeyemi’s prose and the way her writing always feels surprising. Read this in a group, with people who didn’t really enjoy it, which was unfortunate, but it compelled me a lot! I think i liked White is For Witching better, but still a really lovely interesting story

*The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

This was probably my favorite new book of the year, and it came as a total surprise! Picked it up on a whim at a used bookstore and didn’t actually expect much of it, but was actually stunning. Super super highly recommend for anyone who likes sci-fi and thought experiments and the mundane realities and sacrifices of creating a livable future for everyone. It reminded me of The Dispossessed but like, a lot tighter and with characters who felt more distinct. Which is high praise because i fucking love The Dispossessed. Ursula Le Guin stans read immediately

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Soooo good, soso good. I was skeptical at first because like. A whole book where you never hear from the same character more than once is a very tough sell. Each chapter is from a different character’s POV, displaced in both time and space from one another, but Gyasi weaves the stories together so well, I felt newly invested in both the collective tale being told and the new people we were meeting every chapter. Another absolute banger

*The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

This was a reread, because I assigned it to my students and wanted to get it fresh in my mind before discussing in class. Tearing my hair out, collapsing to the floor in tears, etc etc etc. Book of all time forever

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

This one was a shocking disappointment! I absolutely love Celeste Ng’s other work but this one fell so flat. I’m not sure if it’s because she felt uncomfortable writing a child’s POV—but that wasn’t the problem, because the chapters from the Mom’s POV were just as flat—or if she was feeling self-conscious about the fact that it was speculative fiction (despite not being marketed that way at all) or if this was just a COVID project that got pushed into the world before it was ready… I’m really not sure what happened here, but again, conceptually interesting, but so unexciting in execution. Not enough to rattle my faith in her though, I’ll be back again next time Ms. Ng…Everything I Never Told You really was just that good

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Glad to have finally read this one! One of those books i’d always meant to read and expected i’d like but just never got around to until now. And I did! Love a story where the house is haunted by the people who live in it, love fucked up sibling relationships, love a child with murder on the mind. I kept expecting it to like. Do a little more with the conversation about class and historical power. But maybe that’s just because i’d read White is For Witching recently

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Thought I’d like this one more than I did, but it wasn’t bad. There were parts where the metaphor really started to get muddled in a way that uh. Felt like it undercut the more interesting parts of the story. Like yes cannibalism is imperialist capitalism, but also it’s maybe factory farming? Which is a less interesting way of framing things? Imo? Also the actual descriptions were so visceral I kept getting queasy and having to set the book down, which doesn’t usually happen for me with books. So sign of effective prose I guess! But ultimately it didn’t feel like it was for me

Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en

WOOOHOOOO SUN WUKONG, EVERYBODY GIVE IT UP FOR SUN WUKONG

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

This one reminded me of Our Missing Hearts in a lot of ways, primarily that a) it felt like it was trying harder to be Important than to be complex and interesting, and b) it features a child narrator who Does Not sound convincingly like a child. It was fine tho, read it with my mom because it’s her favorite author, so that was kinda nice!

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

I always have a hard time with Coming Of Age In The Big City books, even and especially queer ones, but I did kinda like that this one felt So aimless and frustrated. I’m not sure if that was the author’s intention, as I think it was written as sort of autofiction, but I was compelled by how completely misguided the main character is, while still being sympathetic. Like you can watch her thought patterns taking her the wrong way realtime and still understand why they went there, and clearly see the core problem she’s avoiding, with it still being believable that she wouldn’t be able to see it. I like a character who has no clue what’s going on, what can I say! Unfortunately I’d also just read Zami which made this book feel lesser by comparison, but that’s not Nevada’s fault. I cannot hold it against Imogen Binnie for not being Audre Lorde lol

*The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

This was the year of finally reading books that have been on my shelf for years!! Really liked this one a lot. It has a lot of the best parts of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s storytelling, with a bit of a thicker layer of realism, which sometimes serves it, sometimes doesn’t. Delightful overall, definitely a fave of the year! Favorite part though was reading this book with a friend who, when we met to discuss it, opened with “okay i didn’t actually expect this guy to spend the WHOLE time in the trees”

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

I happened to be reading this at the same time as Baron in the Trees, and i felt like the two resonated across each other in really interesting ways! I love when that happens, and it happened a few times this year, which was exciting. Woolf is always doing the most, of course, but a lot of the emotional landscape of the story really stuck with me, as well as the meditations on “what is art and the pursuit of creative fulfillment for, anyway?” Me too, Orlando, me too

Novellas

The Employees by Olga Ravn

Really interesting little book! Never would have heard of it if it wasn’t for a friend from grad school, but i really liked the structure of it and the way it used lots of different voices without having to necessarily make characters out of any of them

The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago

Not sure if this can really be classified as a novella as I think it’s like less than 5,000 words long, but i bought it as a book, so a book it shall be! Lovely little parable and a strange moment in time captured on the page!

*Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug

Another total surprise picked up at random from a used bookstore! I thought the cover looked interesting and the book was too! This is like. The platonic ideal of a novella. Not too high concept, doesn’t work too hard to explain itself, but includes enough additional detail and character to allow the ideas to resonate further than it would have as a short story. Seriously, go read this is so good

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

We love a strange library! We also love an artbook! Honestly the design of the book was more compelling to me than the story itself, but it was a nice book to sit with for an afternoon and let yourself settle into the world of it

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

Ohhhh the tension and tone of this one is so well done…I know some people who felt like it was too slow and never got around to anywhere in particular, but I felt like the feeling it evoked while leading us by the hand was so clear and so unsettling it was worth it. It felt like the feeling was the goal, the suffocating, dead-end feeling of being locked out of the world by the expectations of motherhood and wifehood and the way suburban survival exists only to perpetuate itself…it’s good, it’s really good!!!

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Marquez is so good every time always. Another really excellent use of the novella form, telling a really dense story that feels like it’s meandering while actually packing in so many essential details. We’re running really hard in circles in a field and marquez is dragging us along and it feels like what the goddamn hell are we doing, what are we running towards is this anything or am i just being taken on a little adventure for no reason. Then you stop and look down and realize you’ve trampled the corn stalks down in a perfect fibonacci spiral that points neatly toward the solution. Or something.

Permutations Among the Nightingales and The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley

Combining these two because I don’t have too much to say about either and they both came from the same collection. I liked Permutations a lot better than Gioconda because cyclic story structures always scratch my brain, but neither were too compelling. I’m beginning to think i just dont like Aldous Huxley

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Hmmmm I feel like…there is a certain kind of smug, sweetiepie speculative fiction that no one acknowledges as a particular movement in the genre, but that is really notably There and that Doesn’t Work For Me. Okay that sounds really mean. I didn’t hate this book! It just felt very self conscious about its project of like. “Queering the gothic.” And ended up feeling very sanitized and boring as a result. I don’t know, I felt about this book similarly to how I felt about Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. Like, the Concept is good in theory, but it’s expected to do way too much heavy lifting in a story that, ultimately, feels more self-congratulatory than complicated or engaging. I don’t know how to explain it, but it feels like a story that was solved before the author sat down to write it. Not objectively bad by any means but just wasn’t for me

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

Another instance of finally reading stuff I’d always meant to read! I know this story is often cited as the kind of “original” weird fiction/cosmic horror, so it was interesting to see how that played out. Definitely not quite either of those genres as I know them today, but there was still a subtlety to it that felt really satisfying. It was good! I’m glad people have drawn from it and written even better stories in its style! I can definitely see the way stories like Annihilation have roots (lol) in this story

Fiction Collection

*So Long Been Dreaming edited by Nalo Hopkinson

I often tend to meander through and not finish fiction anthologies, which is weird because i love short stories, but I almost always gravitate toward single-author collections and lit mags when I want them. But I’m really glad I finished this, because almost every story in it was excellent! I really love Nalo Hopkinson’s writing, so it was fascinating seeing her editing sensibilities at work

Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan

Just okay! Had some winners and some losers, as all collections do, but pretty much puttered along at a solid “fine” throughout. Nothing really stood out as particularly bad or particularly good, which is a shame because it seemed like exactly the kind of thing I’d be into. The title story was probably my favorite, but other than that, I honestly don’t even remember most of them

Afterglow edited by Grist

Another anthology, this one that I picked up because it had a cool cover and compelling premise (sci-fi climate optimism). Unfortunately most of the stories had the same sort of smug self assuredness that i disliked in “What Moves The Dead.” I’ve ranted about this at length but i always have mixed feelings about cli-fi, especially the subgenre of climate optimism. A story that has its tone and outcome so neatly pre-determined by definition has to work pretty hard to do anything unexpected, and most of these did not, HOWEVER, there were two standout stories I loved so much they made the whole collection feel worth it. Everyone read “The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark” by Mike McClelland and “Broken from the Colony” by Ada M. Patterson!!!

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

A pretty solid collection that, again, didn’t have too many stories that really stuck out, though, again, the title story was the most memorable and it lingered with me much more closely than Fruiting Bodies

Memoir

Tranny by Laura Jane Grace

Yayyyy, Laura Jane Grace! I always see that quote from this book going around Tumblr and wanted to read it myself. I liked it a lot! It also got me to listen to more Against Me! because I’d really only listened to Transgender Dysphoria Blues before this. Which has been delightful!

*Zami by Audre Lorde

Major standout of the year, even though it took me a long time to read the whole thing. Each chapter is such a perfectly crafted, bite sized piece that I was just kind of meandering through one or two at a time, turning them over in my head as i went. I also read it right before reading Nevada, so unfortunately I already had the perfect Lesbian Coming Of Age In New York book on the mind that i couldn’t help comparing it to. We all know Audre Lorde is amazing, but this book is really truly gorgeous

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Not sure where to classify this lil book honestly, as it fits here, and under novella, and under nonfiction topic, but it felt like there was a core of memoir there that stood out as i read. Another book i bought years ago and only just got around to reading, but it was extremely vivid, i love Kincaid’s voice

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Whewwwww this book was a lot. It is as good as everyone says it is but definitely hard to read at times. Not much to say other than it’s definitely worth reading

Nonfiction topic

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Love the ideas in here, but imagine it would have been a lot more engaging to listen to them as lectures than to read them all together. Love Calvino but he does tend toward the abstract, and these were a bit dry. Got me thinking about a lot of literary goals and challenges though, which was interesting

*A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

I liked this a lot! I tend to avoid “writing advice” type books because they’re so often preachy and not useful, but i really liked the format of this as a breakdown of what’s working in each of these stories and why. I also haven’t read many of The Russian Greats, but really enjoyed most of these ones he selected! My main takeaway is that Checkov kinda rules and Tolstoy kinda sucks. And i stand by that

Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

Interesting collection of essays about climate change! It definitely had the journalist’s stink of “neutrality” at times, but gave some really fascinating accounts of people doing cool things in the climate change world. I really don’t read much nonfiction like this, so it was refreshing and informative and i learned a lot about carp

*Ezili's Mirrors by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Okay so i really love Theory, but I never read it outside of class. I guess i always worried i would feel too lost without being able to check in with all the PhD people who are more versed in academese, but i decided to give it a go and i’m really glad i did, because i absolutely love this book. Such a fascinating mix of theory (she does open the book by saying “don’t read this as a book of theory” but like. Yeah there’s theory in here) and lived experience and history and mythology and storytelling and the myriad ways that gender is a story we tell and a story that’s inscribed onto us and a reality written by histories of colonialism and survival pushed into shape by self-expression and community……i liked it a lot!!! And if you’re interested in learning about anti-colonialism and gender, you’ll like it too!

Graphic novel

New Masters by Shobo and Shof Coker

Got this after dropping in on a panel by Shobo and Shof Coker at Emerald City Comic Con! Loved the way they talked about creating this world and you could really feel how much detail and care went into every part of it. Enjoyed it a lot, I hope to read more from them!

The Harrowing of Hell by Evan Dahm

Evan Dahm!!! My beloved Evan Dahm!!! He is always at comic cons and I was so obsessed with Rice Boy as a teen, I’m always a little starstruck by the fact that i can just walk up to his booth and talk to him lol. But I did and bought this book from him, and got it signed even! This book is so fucking cool and moody and manages to make it a story about Jesus in hell without it being. You know. The way it could be with that as the subject. Just a genuinely compelling treatment of Jesus as a character and person, with very cool art too. I also read it while i was listening to Unreal Unearth which i know is extremely. Uh. i don’t even know. Baby’s first Dante’s Inferno. But it absolutely contributed to the vibe and made it a great summer evening activity

#if yall read any of these lmk there are so many i have thoughts about

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skqw · 9 months

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goopvendor (previously splee) is one of my favorite mod creators. I generally have similar things to say for all their maps that I've played, so I'm going to lump it into one post.

goopvendor gameplay just feels SO good. These maps are usually not tech-heavy, focusing on routing and interesting setups instead. It's a level of routing that's appropriate for each map's difficulty, so that no player should have to resort to looking up a clear. Taking the rooms piece by piece is a rewarding experience that often lends to steady progress. Maps are focused on one or two primary mechanics or gimmicks, with supplemental things like falling blocks or springs being pretty universal among all the maps. The focus allows the maps to really, really explore the possibilities of its mechanics; no room feels re-used or same-y. I just cannot overstate how clever these maps are.

It would also be a shame not to mention that goopvendor's music choice for each map is phenomenal. It's almost always something I've never heard before but each song is absolutely iconic. Someday, I hope goopvendor releases a curated playlists of certified goop classics.

Below I'll list a little bit about each mod, in order of difficulty (more or less).

Bloom Vault focuses on green boosters (bubbles) and no-dash-refill springs. It would be a step above the b-sides in terms of difficulty, but it doesn't have any kooky tech to worry about besides wallbounces. There are three checkpoints. This is absolutely the mod to start with if you haven't played a goopvendor map before, but if this is at-difficulty for you then expect to take some time on it.

Bloom Vault also has its own b-side, which adds no tech but is still considerably harder, into advanced land. If you're starting out, maybe take a pass on the b-side, but if you know what you're doing definitely play it.

UFO Nest is quite possibly the greatest goopvendor map to date, and it deserves its spot as the most popular map in their library. The map uses a variation of green boosters that allow you to stay within them indefinitely, but with one twist: the boosters have jelly physics! The mechanic is surprisingly smooth and is oh-so-delicious to play. Besides dream jumps and dream grabs the map is techless advanced. There are four checkpoints. This is also an excellent map to jump into if you're ready for it, as long as you kind of know what to expect with mods.

Flux Fortress's gimmick is gravity falling blocks: falling blocks that switch between falling down and falling up. They are toggled by core style switches around the map. This map gets into more tech-y advanced gameplay, but is still a goopvendor map at its heart. There are four checkpoints, but the first checkpoint doesn't have the same gameplay as the rest of the map. Out of this list I think this is the weakest entry, but it is still great quality and great fun. This is where I would start recommending to more seasoned players instead of to new players.

Ricochet is the newest goopvendor map as of this post, being released yesterday! It is another dream block map, this time using hearts placed inside dream blocks to bounce you in all sorts of directions. I've never seen the mechanic used in gameplay like this before, and it is executed very well! The main map consists of a couple advanced-ish rooms, which merely serve as a tutorial. The REAL map lies to the left, as a secret teleport, and is some juicy expert gameplay. Be ready to dream hyper and heart ultra! One checkpoint, but two series of rooms. This is the silliest map in terms of mechanics but is actually quite simple gameplay to execute (y'know, relatively speaking), and I think most expert players shouldn't have much difficulty. The consistency is also extremely impressive considering the silliness. This is what good goop does to a mf.

Radiant Sanctum is my first experience with a goopvendor map, and it is what got me absolutely hooked. This map is quite spicy with its routing and execution. It makes you think, and once you get it, it makes you happy. Mechanics-wise, it's just zip movers with your classic springs and falling blocks, but in style this is pure, distilled goop. High expert by difficulty standard. Two checkpoints I think, but this is expert gameplay we're talking about so it's no walk in the pærk.

More Radiant Sanctum is, you guessed it, more Radiant Sanctum. It's essentially the equivalent of a level-pack, being slightly harder and slightly nuttier. I would package the two maps together as one, and together I think this is the pinnacle of the goopvendor experience. If you take on the challenge, hold on to your butt.

There are other goopvendor maps too, mainly for those who are "kinda nice with it", but this the main list of things I would recommend if you want to have a balls-to-the-walls gooptastic experience.

Remember to leave a like on the GameBanana page if you enjoyed! It really, really helps.

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whateveradjunct · 1 year

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The Kaiju Preservation Society a Finalist for the 2023 Ohioana Book Award

And you ask, what is an Ohioana Book Award? Well, it’s the state book awards for Ohio, and there are several categories. The category I am a finalist for is “Fiction,” and here is the list of finalist authors and books in the category: Hyde, Allegra. Eleutheria, Vintage Ng, Celeste. Our Missing Hearts, Penguin Okorafor, Nnedi. Noor, DAW Scalzi, John. The Kaiju Preservation Society,…

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jscalzi · 1 year

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The Kaiju Preservation Society a Finalist for the 2023 Ohioana Book Award

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ao3feed-danganronpa · 1 year

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feline ideals

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3FTuIbh

by platonics

“I’ve been thinking of adopting a companion for Grand Bois Chéri,” Celeste said from behind the counter. “What do you think?”

Celeste tells Kyoko about the newest member of the family.

Words: 609, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 21 of femslash february 2023

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa Series, Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Kirigiri Kyouko, Celestia Ludenberg

Relationships: Kirigiri Kyoko/Celestia Ludenberg

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Non-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), Cat Cafés, Cats, Established Relationship, Fluff, adopting a pet, Light-Hearted, Femslash February

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3FTuIbh

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #dangan ronpa #danganronpa #dr

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dissociationswagcompetition · 1 year

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lilac, azure, and sandstone: what was your favorite nomination that DIDN'T make it in, if any?

Lilac and Azure answered!

Sandstone -> any question you’d like, doesn’t have to be related to the polls :] (what was your favorite nomination that DIDN'T make it in, if any?)

Ohhh I've got two categories for this: Ones that got submitted but didn't get in here, and ones that didn't get submitted but are appearing in other dissociative polls or were brought up later

Submitted but didn't get into this poll:

Demyx (Kingdom Hearts) - No real reason, we're just big Kingdom Hearts fans and we like Demyx a lot

Sans Undertale - Sans

Victor (The All Mads by ClaudiaWriter) - According to the submitter, this was a piece of original fiction on Wattpad that has since been deleted and the submitter cannot find the story nor the writer. Obviously I have no feelings towards the character, I've never heard of the story nor the writer before. That being said, this submission really touched me. The fact that even though the submitter can't find the story anymore, it still touched them so much and left such a lasting impact on them that they felt it was worth submitting and telling me about their comfort book? It was really cool, and now I have a soft spot in our heart for this character in a story we'll never get to read, just because we got the honor of the submitter sharing something so impactful with us :)

Featured in @plural-swag-competition but weren't in here and made us go "OH THAT'S GOOD":

Moon Knight& - Still never saw Moon Knight but I still find it endlessly amusing that they somehow never got submitted here with how much good stuff I was hearing

Majora's Mask Link& - The timing on this one was perfect. We were questioning our own plurality, and started up a new file of Majora's Mask because. You know. Favorite game of all time. As we were playing we thought "haha we know plurality is on the mind but the mask and form mechanic could be a fun plurality interpretation" and later that night the bracket comes out with that submission. Needless to say, good pick.

Red (Twitch Plays Pokemon) - Whoever submitted this one was SO galaxy-brained

Madeline and Mirrorline (Celeste) - ... I'm also biased and like Celeste a lot. Also one of us really relates to Mirrorline so more bias.

If we had to pick an overall favorite... hmmmmm mayhaps Majora's Mask Link& for the pure personal bias

#asks #ask game #nonnies #mod jetstorm

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love-bokumono-fics · 1 year

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Fresh Crops! February 20 - February 27, 2023

This week's newest fics and chapter updates for Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons on AO3.

The Heart of a Westown Cowboy - by Mya_Stone; WIP, 9/?, 13k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandom: Trio of Towns Relationship: Female Farmer/Wayne; Characters: Frank, Ford, Carrie, Brad, Megan, Hector, Colin, Daryl | Darius, Marlena, Lynn, Wayne Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Romance, Romantic Friendship, Guy Falls First, I Wrote This For Me But I'll Share It With You Summary: Wayne is Westown's perpetually single lady's man. He'd like to settle down but he just hasn't found The One and he's fairly certain he's met everyone in town. Then Melody moves in, taking a plot of her uncle's ranch to fulfill her dream of being a rancher. A college-educated business woman, Melody doesn't accept failure - especially not her own. As Wayne falls hard for her, she struggles to return his affections until she has what she came for - and when she continually comes up short at the cow competitions, she begins to wonder if Westown is really the place for her.

The Boys - by juggalombre; WIP, 14/?, 19k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Categories: M/M, Multi Fandoms: Harvest Moon DS/Cute Characters: Original Male Character(s), Carter the Archeologist, Flora, Marlin | Mash, Vesta,Takakura, Galen | Guri, Nina - mentioned, Griffin | Garfan, Muffy, Witch Princess, Harvest Goddess Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Slice of Life, Slow Burn, Pining, Forget-Me-Not Valley, Alcohol Summary: Jazzebel (Jazz for short) is a city boy down on his luck and at the end of his rope… and what else is a depressed city slicker to do besides drop out of school, move out of the city, and settle down in a freshly-abandoned farmhouse in a quaint little country valley?

Living in Color - by rockyroadster95; WIP, 13/?, 25k

Rating: Mature; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Categories: F/M, Gen Fandoms: A Wonderful Life Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Canon Universe, Light Angst, Slow Build Summary: At her father's funeral, Aya was given an offer that would take her far from her stale and directionless life to a place she hoped would give her something to live for.

Remaster: Step Toward the Future - by darkryuu; WIP, 20/41, 343k

Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: Major Character Death; Category: F/M Fandom: Back To Nature Characters: Cliff, Popuri, Kai, Doctor | Trent, Gray Summary: Jill ("Claire") is struggling to find a goal in life after high school. After her parents boot her off to her late grandfather's farm, everything around her is never quite the same as she struggles to find herself and her future. Remastered from original 2004 release. Jill/Cliff, minor Jill/Kai, minor Jill/Gray, minor Jill/Doctor. OC/Popuri, OC/Elli.

Light Of Hope - by Forgiven_Starlight; WIP, 15/?, 24k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Category: F/M Fandoms: Light of Hope Relationship: Edmond/Farmer; Characters: Edmond, Farmer, Gus, Melanie, Doc, Gareth, Tabitha, Carol, Gabriel, Harvest Goddess, Harvest God, Cyril, Sally, Harvest Sprites, Jeanne, Sam, Soleil Additional Tags: Light of Hope, Harvest Moon - Freeform, Beacon town, Eventual Relationships, Friendship, Love, Magic, Implied Sexual Content Summary: With a storm that nearly wiped out an entire island, Celeste finds her new beginning.

Wind Chimes - by LunaLitten; Complete, 1/1, 3.6k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: Gen Fandom: Trio of Towns Relationships: Inari & Yuzuki, Hinata & Komari & Yuzuki, Hinata & Yuzuki; Characters: Yuzuki, Inari, Komari, Hinata, Ford Additional Tags: Illnesses, Childhood, Terminal Illnesses, Sad with a Happy Ending, They/Them Pronouns for Inari, Angst, I Made Myself Cry, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Whoops I accidentally spilled a bit of humor in my angst—, Inari namedrops a god of Death, Sad and Happy, Friendship, Family, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Not Beta Read Summary: It felt weird, watching the scenery fly by as they drove down the road from Westown to Tsuyukusa. The trees and shrubs had begun changing from a dusty, wintery brown to the vibrant colors of spring. The world seemed to be coming alive. He wouldn't live to see the summer. As 10-year-old Yuzuki's health begins to fail him, he meets a mystical being in a long-forgotten shrine. Could this chance encounter change his life?

Degausser - by SHADESofDEATHxx; WIP, 8/?, 44k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Category: F/M Fandoms: Friends of Mineral Town Characters: Pete | Jack, Claire the Farmer, Ann the Innkeeper | Ran, Gray, Cliff, Jennifer, Popuri, Rick, Karen, Kai, Mary the Librarian | Marie, Mineral Town Residents Additional Tags: Redemption, Fresh Start, Loneliness, Angst, Self-Loathing, Self-Acceptance, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Drug Use, Self-Harm, Multiple Pairings Summary: Those that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones – but that’s all Jack and Claire ever knew up until a series of half-lit cruel intentions landed them on the ferry to the desolate island of Mineral Town. After all, it was certainly easier to cast judgment unto others than it was to face the skeletons in your own closet. And surely no one would have an ill word to say about a brooding playboy and an immature party girl taking over the once-great farm that founded and funded their small town, right?

#fresh crop monday #harvest moon #story of seasons #friends of mineral town #trio of towns #light of hope #back to nature #hm ds cute #hm ds

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Hi! I’m hoping you can recommend some reading for me in a few different categories. I’m looking for your favorites in:

-poetry

-horror

-romance (I know you’ve said you aren’t big on romance but if you do have one you’ve enjoyed)

-true crime

-fantasy

-short stories

-a favorite series

-a book that made you cry

-thriller

-a classic

if you don’t mind sharing, thank you so much 💖💖 my reading goal this year is in genres rather than amounts read

Ooh sure! I couldn’t decide if it’d be easier to respond in pictures or typing them all out. I do better with visuals personally but also felt like 10 pictures in one response may be a bit much 😅

Poetry - Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Horror - What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz

Romance - I really haven’t read much romance at all and haven’t been a fan of most of the ones I have read, but I did enjoy Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes

True Crime - True Story by Michael Finkel

Fantasy - Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher

Short Stories - (if it counts) The Bachman Books by Stephen King/Richard Bachman

A Favorite Series - that ones tough. I really like The Kingkiller Series by Patrick Rothfuss, but the series isn’t finished. Dean Koontz Frankenstein series is great, so is Stephen Kings Bill Hodges/Holly Gibney series.

A Book That Made Your Cry - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, or All Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng.

Thriller - Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta. Don’t bother with the movie though

A Classic - that could be tough, idk what you’ve already read. So I’d recommend Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, The Book Thief, or Fahrenheit 451

Hope those help ❤️

#asks #book recs

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CELESTE HEART » Hyperrose SysRole

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#category: CELESTE HEART #hyperose #hyperrose #hypersexual #hyperromantic #system role #celeste heart emoji #heart emoji #animated emotes #pixel emotes #heart emotes #pride emotes

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// 🎮 — favorite video game(s)? & 📕 — favorite book/series?

It's Monday. Don't look at your calendar || Prompt 📕 — favorite book/series?

Comic books are books. I can say Calvin and Hobbes without crucifixion. Because it's Calvin and Hobbes. I read the collection books so goddamn much when I was still in school, they'd make me absolutely crack out in laughter at so many times.

And I don't use him a whole bunch, but Calvin is technically what I use as my mun faceclaim! It's just that I usually prefer to use the muse of the blog for OOC posts too, but he's on my mun page for the blog! He's a delight, his character and how he violently does and doesn't act his age is hilarity. The shit that comes out of his mouth... mwah. Hell, I had a blog for Calvin and Hobbes for a real short period of time!

Calvin and Hobbes is great, go read it. This is not a request.

🎮 — favorite video game(s)?

Short answer: Celeste. It's a pixel art 2D platformer that offers the most fair but tough series of tightly woven platforming challenges. Its story, though simple, really touched me in a personal place in my heart. It's godlike.

The long answer I wrote first is going under the cut because it's just me rambling about Celeste and I don't want to condemn the dash to my screaming.

i feel lawfully obligated to say splatoon 2 and smash 4 strictly due to how many hours i've sunk into those games, but i think the utter rage they've caused me in the past makes everything positive i've experienced with them level back out back into the 'obsession i ultimately wish i didn't have' category. it's akin to drug use, really. I've kicked Smash Ultimate, but Splatoon 3 continues to latch onto my skin like a leech.

In reality, I'd probably have to say Celeste is my favorite video game! It's a game with phenomenal gameplay that's tighter than tight. And it's got a story that spoke to me on a rather personal level, it honestly made me cry a bit at a specific point in the game! I love my difficult platformers with a passion, and that game just feels so good to get right, and this game's difficulty isn't just because 'ooo retro games are diffy', no the challenge actually speaks to the underlying story that the game is trying to tell. It's a game about a girl climbing a mountain. Both physically and mentally.

But in its difficulty, I have to say that never in my days have I ever seen a game that so genuinely wants to see its player succeed! From the gate, Celeste sets itself up as a difficult hike up a mountain that you might not see yourself ready for, but it knows you can do it. It puts obstacles in your way that deter you from breaking past its overwhelming challenge, but there are so many things that aid in the narrative of preservation in the face of a towering opposition.

For as long as I live, I'll never forget the fact that during Farewell, the game's DLC chapter that acts as the send-off for the game as a whole... in the very last and quite lengthy and certainly challenging room, if you die enough times, you'll get a small scene where Madeline, your player character, is sitting down dejected.

Some dialogue telling of her doubts that she can even complete this last room is shown, and it's a Part of Her (a little goth version of your character that was previously an enemy before you work it out with yourself and you two join sides) that tells her, and the player by extension, to keep going. To give it a few more tries. She knows you can do it. And it's just.... augh.

That and so many other instances of this game believing so goddamn hard in you makes me so happy, I adore that game so much. I've gotten all the strawberries on multiple playthroughs, I've gotten all the crystal hearts, done all the B- and C-sides, completed Farewell, NO I haven't gotten all the golden strawberries I'm not GOD INCARNATE, jfc (but i have gotten them for all chapters until chapter 5. those things are fucking agony i dont think i'll ever get all of those damn things).

AND. I even repurchased the game on Steam JUST so I could download the absolutely ENORMOUS mod called Strawberry Jam and play it! I'm still playing it to this damn day! Oh and the music is superb, Lena Raine is so mwah. And the guest musicians they got for the B-sides are fantastic. GOD I LOVE CELESTE. PLEASE GO PLAY IT. I'M SO SERIOUS.

#(OOC.) ''The kind of tired regular sleep can't fix.''#(ANSWERS.) ''And that's my scope of the scene!''#thetravelershub #((tl;dr read some of calvin and hobbes. and play celeste. Now.))

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