#either that or it’s a bot 0% of the time and they’re doing this all manually
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@post-uwuifer is maybe the funniest blog on the platform rn bc it’s obviously a bot 90% of the time and sometimes the owner logs in and responds to reblogs manually, but if you suspend your disbelief just enough it leads to the much funnier conclusion that it’s a bot 100% of the time and its responses are evidence that the algorithm has gained sentience but can only communicate through uwuified tumblr posts
#either that or it’s a bot 0% of the time and they’re doing this all manually#which would be WILD#jam
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For the book ask - 18, 33, 36 (yes I'm gonna make you total all the book purchases no you don't have to include gifted books 🤣)
thanks for the ask, referencing this post, even though you are ABSOLUTELY Coming For Me With A Knife, Here:
18. Least favourite books of the year
unfortunately i nerfed myself by not lowball rating ANYthing, this year. on the one hand, that’s good, because it means i didn’t read anything TOO shitty, but on the other hand: yikes what didn’t i like lol.
i was most disappointed in A MASTER OF DJINN, because i love love love his shorter work, and his first Novel Length Thing didn’t quite deliver for me :/ the worldbuilding in that was still cool, though, so i think Least Favorite has to go to HE MELE A HILO: A HILO SONG by Ryka Aoki (yes, that same Aoki, of LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS), because it was Very Disjointed, Very Many POV, and Very Episodic. and i know it’s bad when i think something is too episodic...i was ensaddened by that, too, because the premise seemed very cool, and it also didn’t deliver for me.
33. Did you DNF anything?
i did not!! unless you count the AFRICA: A BIOGRAPHY book that’s still languishing on my goodreads Currently Reading (i swear i’ll finish it someday, it’s just. today is Not That Day), or my ongoing HARROW reread, because i’m on page 294, currently. i am planning on remedying the HARROW DNF by tomorrow, though, so that probably doesn’t count either XD it also probably doesn’t count because i’m love harrow and the only reason my reread’s not finished yet is because of Time lol
i don’t, in general, DNF things, because even if they’re not sparking joy for me, i turn it into a Well Why? exercise and activate the writerly hat instead. i also read fast enough once i get going that it doesn’t feel like a time waste, and i thrive on a good cathartic Spite Read.
36. How many books did you buy?
oh coming for me with a KNIFE i see okay let’s go~~
criteria: books purchased this year (so i’m not counting preorders that were Delivered This Year), not gifted or as gifts (i tallied digitally-purchased gifts separately anyway, i had to, although in my defense i did do a lot more Knitting Gifts than Book Gifts this year so that number won’t be as high as it could be, and it’s mostly Bot by Volume), caveat criteria: i only actually tallied things i bought online, and i know i bought At Least Two Books IRL--two can probably be rounded up to five, but i didn’t actually enter too many bookstores and walk out with things this year because i know that’s Dangerous for my wallet.
method: i checked All The Websites i frequent for my book procuring needs. these are: 1. downbound, 2. barnes and noble, 3. bookshop, 4. prologue, and 5. HPB (also 6. brilliant books, but i didn’t buy anything from them this year). i tallied books as either purchases For Me, or Gifts.
results: look, i made a list:
prologue - 1 for me, 0 gifts
hpb - 0 for me, 1 boxed set (4 books) gift
bookshop - 3 for me, 0 gifts
b&n - 8 for me, 1 gift
downbound - 15 for me, 3 gifts
walking into physical bookstores, probably, conservatively: 5 for me, ?? gifts
bringing our grand total to: 32 for me, either 5 or 8 as gifts, depending on how you count the boxed set (all but 1 of the gift books was murderbot, btw)
that five (5) is Definitely Conservative, so probably truly i bought between 35 and 40 books this year, is my best guess, WHICH MEANS, i did, in fact, read more books than i purchased!! muahaha!! (we’re ignoring books i Was Gifted, also, because ahahaha yikes if we count those the books acquired to books consumed ratio is no longer weighted in the correct direction for knocking down my tbr)
thanks, friend, this was fun, DESPITE you coming for me with a naked blade XD !!!
#text#book games#books#ask games#answered#gaywinemommarianhawke#IT'S REALLY ACTUALLY NOT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HONESTLY#i got three books for christmas from parents and two from friend!!#i absolutely do not remember how many i got for my birthday XD
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im js gonna.. dump everything i already have developed
i develop stuff in dms with a bot on discord then post it here :3
(fair warning this story is INCREDIBLY inspired by percy jackson and i dont plan on ever publishing it!!)
julebees are human-bee hybrids that go out and find demigods and sometimes other human hybrids. they rarely ever find other human hybrids though, because theyre mostly born in the town of Craelune
let’s talk more about Craelune! Craelune is a town where demigods, hybrids, and outlaws live together because it is not currently safe for them outside of Craelune. Either or, there’s a group of people who kill those that reside in Craelune or there are things only they can see that hunt them down.
If,
A) There is a group of people trying to kill them,
then they will be the main antagonist. But if,
B) Something only they can see is hunting them,
then they must find the oak tree that powers the great big bad monster’s energy and poison it, because that monster can tell where they are at all times but is too big to move, SO it tells smaller monsters where they are and to kill them. Once the oak tree is destroyed, the gang must kill the monster.
anywho back to Craelune! Craelune is located in an abandoned forest in Norway. It used to be in California, but their town was overrun by monsters and soon destructed as they relocated. The area in which they lived is still protected by a magical barrier, but it only repels humans right now. They aren’t sure if it still even works, as the monsters broke through it.
There’s a school in Craelune that holds many other schools inside of it. The entire building *is* The Academy of Craelune but within it is like School of Flying, School of Fighting, School of Spells, Witchery and Mages(though is usually shortened to School of Spells), and other normal mortal like classes(cooking, medicine, mathematics etc).
Crime rates inside of Craelune are nearly 0, because its a community of ultra magical people surviving. However, there are officers who survey the area to make sure that no monsters come in and that snotty little kids don’t steal, or maybe teenagers.
The town of Craelune uses drachmas, as James Craelune(the founder) found a mine of them when he first founded Craelune and decided to just use those, but people have been wanting to switch to mortal money for awhile. Rich folk in Craelune (those who wield 100,000 drachmas or more) are either snobby shitheads or really kind people. They’re also usually mages.
So, what exists? Well, demigods! The main star of the show. There are children of most gods, and they live together in a dormitory. The dormitory is honestly more like a hotel, and each floor is a different god. Some floors are nearly empty, some are bustling. Every floor is endless and a new room will appear if you are discovered as a god’s child. You will get your powers evaluated, or your divine parent will claim parentage. But what if your parent never claims parentage, or your powers are too hard to figure out? Well, you reside on Floor X, which is unfortunately very full.
I think its also worth mentioning that a god is claiming that they are your parent, which means a god who isnt your parent could totally claim you.
Once your divine parent is found, your room can be magically moved to the correct floor or you can request a complete bare room to start over.
In the dormitory, there is a cafeteria where demigods can eat but not with other children. Breakfast, lunch and dinner must be eaten separately. During dinner, the massive tables that the demigods eat at will rearrange themself into a massive circular table, and in the middle a helper will read names of the unclaimed/unevaluated to see if they’ll get claimed. They rarely ever do, but its nice to keep trying. Also, this is an absolute nightmare for demigods first day who missed orientation.
(i didnt specify when writing this, but by separately i mean they cannot intermix godly parentages within their long ass banquet tables they eat at.)
The rooms are also enchanted to change to your desires. There are limits, like nothing illegal, and nothing too big. Strictly room decor. That’s why a lot of goblins attempt to sneak into the demigod’s dormitory, so they can force a demigod to summon a room made of gold or other things they want. Goblins are always welcome in Craelune but theyre often criminals.
The rules of the demigod dormitory!
- No mixing parentages in rooms.
- Max of 4 roommates per room. If you would like a roommate, you may not pick.
- No cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, cannabis, and other illegal substances.
- No alcohol.
- No parties.
- No skipping meals unless it is required medically, prophetically, or in some other, important way.
- No fighting.
- Be safe, respectful, and responsible.
What classes are mandatory for demigods? There’s fighting, usually with swords but a demigod may use a different weapon (besides firearms) if they wish. Seeing as demigods are often sent off on “adventures” (They’re actually called quests, investigatio, and missio depending on what type they are but adventure basically sums it up), they must train to fight monsters and other powerful things.
Demigod’s powers! What powers does each child have?
- Children of Zeus:
: Children of Zeus have the power to manipulate air around them to fly, summon lightning, change the weather, shapeshifting, and summon raw electric energy.
- Children of Poseidon
: Children of Poseidon can control water, speak to horses, create earthquakes that vary depending on the demigod, create storms (which often creates a rivalry with Zeus kids).
- Children of Hades
: Hades has no children, as he is married to Persephone. Except he does, and they’re technically not half mortal as he had them with Persephone but he wanted to have a child in Craelune so he put a curse on them that limited their abilities to that if they WERE half mortal.
- Children of Apollo
: Children of Apollo have the ability to heal, control and emit light, force someone to tell the truth, give someone a plague or disease (varies depending on the demigod), and make things happen through poems.
- Children of Ares
: Children of Ares are insanely strong. These children usually fight with their fists or very brutal weapons due to their boosted bloodlust. They can also instill violence in others and aggravate them merely by talking if they wish.
- Children of Aphrodite
: Children of Aphrodite all have a specific charm to them and are great at convincing others to do their bidding. Some children of Aphrodite are able to instill a deep greed that may drive someone insane. Also, they’re all insanely beautiful.
- Children of Hermes
: Children of Hermes are very sneaky, able people. They have the ability to turn invisible but only if they have the desire to steal. Every single child of Hermes can sweet talk their way out of situations where they’re caught, but only to those who are weaker to them either mentally or physically. SOME children of Hermes can run incredibly fast, and just do things incredibly fast. Now this is *insanely* rare, but very few can teleport.
- Children of Athena
: Children of Athena are insanely intelligent. They usually orchestrate the adventures that demigods go on. They can also sense a spider within a 900 mile radius, which sucks, because there are usually tons of spiders in a 900 mile radius and theyre either deathly afraid of them or have an intense hatred.
(None of Athena’s children are by blood, but more over she gave birth to them with her mind and or blessed a random mortal with abilities that a child of hers would have.)
- Children of Hephaestus
: Children of Hephaestus can make almost anything, and most usually have fire powers. It is rare, but some can summon/control magma/lava.
- Children of Dionysus
: Children of Dionysus can control vines, impose a false state of intoxication and only one could drive mortals insane. He went mad and was eventually killed.
- Children of Demeter
: Children of Demeter can grow plants immensely and or kill them instantly. They’re also.. very tough.. for some reason.
- Children of Achlys
: Children of Achlys and create and control poison. They can drive someone to suicide, and are usually very dangerous. Often banished from Craelune, but were brung back because Cherry thought it was unjust.
- Children of Hestia
: Well, Hestia doesn’t actually have children. She often takes in children and allows them to reside on her floor in the dormitory, which is floor X. Love Hestia!
Any other deities you can imagine; they have a floor! Their children’s powers relate to them in some way. Use your imagination!
Who conducts fighting classes at Craelune and reads out names at dinner? Achilles, of course! James Craelune made a deal with Hades to allow Achilles to work at Craelune for the demigods. Achilles gets his own quarters, office, everything!
Who teaches mental healthcare classes? Patroclus! Patroclus was also through a deal James made, and he gets his own quarters and office as well. He has prevented many suicides.
Who takes technical calls? Daedalus! Daedalus also evaluates your powers if your divine parent does not claim parentage. He’s a very busy man.
— aaaaand thats everything!!! if someone reads all of this, bless your heart. i still have much more to develop like politics, fantasy types of trees and fruits and soils and.. alla that.. vampires, werewolves, mermaids, sirens, the different mythologies in the story, things outside of craelune, the animal-human hybrids, so much… and then i can finally start deciding what i want to happen in the story..
#book planning#writing#writer#world building#planning#story development#how does one tag#story heavily inspired by pjo#dont give crit#or your opinion#not because i dont care but because i care too much#thanks
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Fate and Phantasms #193
Today on Fate and Phantasms we’re building the new guy everyone knows and loves, Prince Nezha! They’re an Ascendant Dragon Monk for their fire wheels and spear skills, as well as a Strength Cleric to pick up all those sacred treasures they get while still being the stabby stabby bot we all adore.
(I’ll be perfectly upfront right now; we did not have the time to read through Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West to make one character, so they’ll be getting all the sacred treasures that we found while binging OSP’s videos on the latter. Also, lots of anti-demon stuff. You don’t need first-hand knowledge of a series to know that the “Demon-Hacking Blade” probably has some anti-demon features in it.)
Anyways, check out their build breakdown below the cut, or their character sheet over here!
Next up: The Mysterious Miss Moolah!
Race and background
Nezha’s more clay than metal, but they’re still hanging out in an artificial body, that’s a Warforged. They get +2 Constitution and +1 to any stat, so +1 Wisdom, as well as Constructed Resilience, so you don’t have to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, don’t get sick, and have advantage and resistance to poison effects. Instead of sleeping, you take a Sentry’s Rest, spending 6 hours awake but not moving. You also get Integrated Protection for +1 AC. There’s more to it, but you’re a monk, you don’t use armor anyway. Finally, your Specialized Design gives you proficiency in one skill, I picked Animal Handling for the same reason I grabbed it for Nero. If you can “handle” the king of the monkeys, the rest should fall in line.
I meant beating him up, don’t be gross.
You respect your coworkers, which means to mortals you’d probably be an Acolyte, which gives you proficiency with Insight and Religion.
Ability Scores
Wisdom comes from making mistakes, and dear god have you made some doozies, so make that number one. Second highest should be Dexterity, you can fly, but only by balancing on wheels. That’s a high-stakes highwire act. Your Strength is next- going toe-to-toe with the monkey king requires a lot of it. Your Constitution is also above average, the zhenren sages don’t skimp on their designs. This means your Intelligence will be a bit low since we don’t need it for the build, but we’re dumping Charisma. There’s a bit of a disconnect between you and others, and also you have a lot of self-loathing issues to work through, which just makes hanging out a bit awkward.
Class Levels
Monk 1: Starting off as a monk gives you plenty of goodies, like proficiency in Strength and Dexterity saves, Acrobatics for balance, and History. I cannot emphasize enough about how all these servant builds should probably just get free history proficiency.
You also get Unarmored Defense, which adds to your Integrated Protection for a total AC of 11+ your dex mod + your wisdom modifier. That brings your current AC up to 16 for a start, not bad. You also get Martial Arts so your monk attacks deal at least 1d4 (which grows as you level up), can use your dexterity instead of strength, and if you make one of those attacks as your action you can make another attack as a bonus action. Spears are simple weapons and versatile, not two-handed, so you’re in the clear.
Cleric 1: We’re gonna bounce over to cleric right away to become a worshiper of Strength. When you become an Acolyte of Strength, you learn one Druid cantrip, and gain proficiency with another skill- in this case, Athletics. For your free cantrip, grab Shillelagh. I know it says club or quarterstaff, but just hold the spear backwards. If gives you a d8 for damage, turns the weapon magical, and you can use Wisdom to attack with it instead of dexterity or strength.
While we’re on the topic, you also get Spells now that use your Wisdom to cast and prepare. That means you don’t have a hard and fast spell list, but you can switch things up each long rest. For cantrips, Spare the Dying gives you beans of immortality that you can pop into a creature’s mouth as an action to stabilize them. You also get Sacred Flame for sacred flames, and Thaumaturgy to show off your celestial origins. As a strength cleric you’ll always have Divine Favor and Shield of Faith on tap, but you can also use Detect Evil and Good and Protection from Evil and Good for demon fighting.
Monk 2: We’re not going to focus on cleric too much though, we have martial arts to learn. At second level, you get Ki points equal to your monk level each short rest, letting you attack twice, dodge, disengage, or dash as a bonus action. You also get Unarmored Movement, adding to your speed as you level up.
Monk 3: At third level you can finally set down the Way of the Ascendant Dragon, making your fists a lot more fiery. You’re now a Draconic Disciple as well as a cleric, so when you hit a creature with your fists or feet you can deal bludgeoning damage as normal, or acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Obviously fire is the most in character, but there’s probably a baobei that works for the other elements if you really want them. You can also spend your reaction to re-roll a failed intimidation or persuasion check, succeeding once per long rest. I guess Nezha can be kind of scary when they want to be.
You can also use the Breath of the Dragon, replacing one of your normal attacks with a cone or line of acid, cold, fire, lighting, or poison damage, forcing a dexterity save against your ki save (DC 8 + proficiency + wisdom modifier), taking 2 rolls of your martial arts die on a failure, or half as much on a success. If that monkey king’s modern iteration can get beam weapons so can you. You get Proficiency free uses per long rest, but you can use it more by spending 1 ki point per use.
Finally, you can react to someone shooting you with an arrow to Deflect Missiles, reducing the damage, If it’s reduced to 0, you can spend a ki point to launch it back at them.
Cleric 2: Back into cleric for a hot second. Second level clerics can Channel Divinity in one of two ways per short rest. Turn Undead makes nearby undead run if they fail a wisdom save, but you can also use a Feat of Strength to add +10 to an attack roll or strength check/save. The Zhenren really don’t mess around.
Monk 4: Fourth level monks get their first Ability Score Improvement, so improve that Wisdom for a higher AC, better shillelagh attacks, and stronger fire powers. You also learn how to Slow Fall as a reaction so falling off your wheels isn’t quite as big an issue.
Monk 5: Fifth level monks get an Extra Attack per attack action, bringing your total in a turn up to two with just an action, three with your martial arts bonus action, or four with flurry of blows. You can also turn those attacks into Stunning Strikes by spending ki. This forces a constitution save on the creature you just hit, stunning them if they fail until the end of your next turn.
Monk 6: Sixth level monks get Ki-Empowered Strikes for magical unarmed attacks. If you’re fighting a triply immortal monkey it’s best to prep as much as possible. You also get the reason we’re here in the first place, Wings Unfurled. Now when you use your ki points to dash as a bonus action you get dragon wings for a turn, giving you a flying speed equal to your walking speed until the end of your turn. If you’re in the air, you will fall, but to be fair Nezha mostly uses this to go like, 20 feet up and divebomb someone, so it’s not a huge restriction. You can fly Proficiency times per long rest, or by spending a ki point each extra time you use it.
Monk 7: Our final level of monk gets you Evasion for better dexterity saves. You probably know the drill by now- failures are now as good as most people’s successes, and successes negate all damage. You also get a Stillness of Mind, letting you end a charming or frightening effect as a bonus action. Just hit ctrl alt delete on BeScared.exe, not hard.
Cleric 3: Now that your training is complete, it’s time to quest for all those sacred treasures. Starting off strong at third level, you get second level cleric spells, including the freebies Enhance Ability and Protection from Poison. You can also make a Spiritual Weapon to summon whatever demon-slaying tool you might need, creating a floating weapon as a bonus action that’ll move around and deal force damage if you use it each bonus action for up to 1 minute. Alternatively, you can use Hold Person to summon the Diamond Snare/Wukong’s headband/The five Golden Rings (there’s a lot of sacred treasures that focus on immobilization) to force a wisdom save on one humanoid. If they fail, they’re paralyzed for a while, or until they succeed on a save. Paralysis is nasty too, it gives attacks advantage to hit plus guaranteed crits when they do.
Cleric 4: Use this ASI to bump up your Dexterity for better unarmed strikes and a better AC. You also get the Light cantrip to use your fire constructively.
Cleric 5: Fifth level clerics get a boost to Turn Undead, “turn”ing it into Destroy Undead instead. If a creature of CR 1/2 or lower gets caught in it, it’s just gone. You also get third level spells like Haste and Protection From Energy. Either get out of the way of the beam weapons, or shield yourself from them.
Alternatively, grab spells like Spirit Shroud for a more heavenly aura, or Speak with Dead. You can literally just go to the afterlife to talk to them, what like it’s hard?
Cleric 6: You can now Channel Divinity twice per short rest, and you can also use that divinity to give out Rhonas’ Blessing! It’s like feat of strength, but it has a range of 30′ instead of self. You’re not the kind of person to hang out with weaklings.
Cleric 7: Seventh level clerics get fourth level spells. Dominate Beast is Wukong’s headband but for all sorts of creatures, and Stoneskin... yeah. You can also use Death Ward for an actual immortality bean that prevents one case of koing, Guardian of Faith to call in a favor from another celestial, or Banishment to make Lao Tzu take his goddamn pets back. If the target isn’t from another plane, they’re just gone for about a minute.
Cleric 8: Eighth level clerics get another ASI to max out your Wisdom for the best attacks, good defense, and stronger spells. Destroy Undead bumps up to CR 1, and you get a Divine Strike once per turn, adding 1d8 of an existing damage type to your weapon attack. They don’t call you “lancer” for nothing. Actually they do, you should be called “spear-er”, I guess.
Cleric 9: You get fifth level spells! Your freebies are Destructive Wave and Insect Plague, which aren’t super in character, but they do sound like something a sacred treasure could do. You can also call down a Flame Strike for some real fire power, turn your spear into a Holy Weapon for even more damage, Dispel Evil and Good to roll protection from E&G and a faster banishment into a single spell, or you can Summon Celestial to call down a coworker to help out. You get either an Avenger or a Defender, the former dealing more damage and the latter giving allies temporary HP.
Cleric 10: At tenth level you finally get a direct line back home, letting you call them up for some Divine Intervention. It’s a percent chance based on your cleric level, but if you succeed it’s basically up to the DM how much help you get. You can do this once per day, or after a week when it works.
You also get the Resistance cantrip. You’re tough, it tracks.
Cleric 11: Destroy Undead hits CR 2, and you get sixth level spells. Planar Ally summons a celestial coworker for as long as you can pay them, but be prepared, it can be steep. You can also use Sunbeam for more fire.
Cleric 12: Use your last ASI to bump up Dexterity again. You know the drill, more AC, better unarmed attacks, the works.
Cleric 13: Your final level gets you seventh level spells, letting you Conjure Celestial for a much cheaper celestial companion that’ll stick with you for up to 1 hour. You can also Plane Shift to visit the heavens for yourself.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
Flight is always good to have, event if it’s a limited trial version like yours. Hop over to where you should be, and keep out of range of anyone you don’t feel like fighting.
Strength Clerics are basically war clerics but better, and Feat of Strength will make it really easy for you to grapple, lift, push, or just be the powerhouse of the team.
Clerics are really versatile casters, getting healing, buffs, utility, and damaging spells, so your spell list will always be handy. On top of that, your dragon fists let you pick your element when you hit people, so you won’t be completely hosed by fire resistant enemies.
Cons:
You have limited resources for your best abilities, with only 7 ki points and 2 channel divinities per short rest. Wings Unfurled might let you instant transmission, but you won’t be able to spam it like they do on Dragon Ball Z, sorry.
For a strength-focused subclass, your strength score is pretty underwhelming. Sure, you can use Feat of Strength to power yourself up, but odds are there’s someone else who could put Rhonas’ Blessing to better use. Learn to share, it’ll help.
You also have a really low charisma, so don’t be surprised if you get into fights more often than you’d think. Also, it’s a good thing you got plane shift at level 20, because you might get banished a lot.
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Secret Note #7
Quick thanks to my friend @coolcoolglasses for the texting idea and help with Maru's nicknames.
I really liked all the dialog in my last fics chapter so consider this a preview/extra for my next chapter on Ao3 whenever I get around to it. (Lil-nightmare is my farmer oc for context)
p.s. the spelling mistakes are totally on purpose and not just me not knowing how to spell. (Maybe that too ^-^')
Word Count: 889
Summary: There's a mysterious note on the General Store's bulletin board.
Chicken_lord: dude wtf
StarR00-bot: Wait, what is hat?
*that
Lil-nightmare: Looks like it’s torn out of something
Chicken_lord: idk it was hangin on pierre’s
Lil-nightmare: What’s it say anyways?it doesn’t look like pierre’s normal stationary though
(maybe from a notebook)
StarR00-bot: Or a diary, I can’t make out who's handwriting it is though.
You need a new phone, the camera on yours is a potato dude
Chicken_lord: phones fine brains.
i’ll text what it says in a min
morris has been on our ass lately
Lil-nightmare: Sounds like an hr violation ;P
StarR00-bot: 😱
Gross
Chicken_lord: psssh, he wishes
StarR00-bot: fair, even you have standards
Lil-nightmare: Why do you still work there? You knowthe farms big enough I could hire you on permanently ?
Chicken_lord: and give you a excuse to boss me around
Lil-nightmare: Hey, I'm a cool boss.
I only require your eternal fidelity, and you can keep your first born
Chicken_lord is typing….
StarR00-bot: lol
We both know it’s because Charlie would be mad he’s cheating on her
Lil-nightmare: True, true.
Charlie would be heartbroken knowing you’re meeting with other chicks
StarR00-bot: With a hole other hen house? :0
*whole
How could you?!
Lil-nightmare: Probably smell of void essence on your clothes
StarR00-bot: Catching tbe feathers in your hair
*the
Chicken_lord: there are only a few older bachelors in town none of them are perfect harvey is really anxious and weak but he’d make a loyal and devoted husband he likes coffee and pickles
elliott is a bit foppish and melodramatic but he has anice chin he likes crab cakes and pomegranates
shane is messy and anti-social but I think his gruff exterior is a defense mechanism insulating his softness from the world he likes peer pizza and pepper poppers
Lil-nightmare: DA FRICK!?!?!?!?
StarR00-bot: sdhzxvbkj...
I’m wheezing
wtf?
Chicken_lord: thats what i said
like f***
imagine walking past and seeing this on your way towork
Lil-nightmare: HOLY FATHER OF YOBA. WHO WROTE THAT?!!?
StarR00-bot: And it was on pierre’s?
Chicken_lord: yup
Lil-nightmare: WHY THOUGH?
StarR00-bot: I feel like my brother has something to do with this -.-’
Chicken_lord: your bothers got the hots for older dudes?
Lil-nightmare: dskjcjvh, stop!
StarR00-bot: I mean he’s got the dady issues for that, but no
*daddy issues
Lil-nightmare: scxzfvuk
Chicken_lord: fuk...
good one roostar
Lil-nightmare: I hate all of this
Shane I’m blaming you
StarR00-bot: I meant him or Abi probably put it up
Sounds like something they do, yk
Chicken_lord: whatd i do
im the one with some weird secret admirer
StarR00-bot: And Harvey and Elliott
Lil-nightmare: … Harvey’s not weak though
Chicken_lord: nope
stopping you there
StarR00-bot: same
Don’t need to know that bout my boss
Lil-nightmare: ???
Wait
F*** you guys
I meant figuratively
But also, he’s been helping around the farm more :/
Chicken_lord: don’t need to here you simping over the doc either
Lil-nightmare: SEE THIS IS WHY I CAN ONLY BE NICE TO MARU
StarR00-bot: xD
Chicken_lord: yeah yeah im a a**hat
StarR00-bot: Lol, I’m just the favorite
Chicken_lord: do you mind getting back to whoever wants to workshopme and the doc
StarR00-bot: *sent is a gif of courage the cowardly dog villain saying “you’re not perfect”*
I think someone trying to neg you in their diary
*is
Lil-nightmare: Yeah
I mean messy?
Like they know your room is messy or just your whole deal?
Cause I mean…
Chicken_lord: *gif of someone slowly raising a middle finger in frame*
Lil-nightmare: I mean old you
(mostly)
Cause they also sad beer and not sparkling water
StarR00-bot: Oh yeah, plus you and Harv have been dating for how long already?
Chicken_lord: a decade
Lil-nightmare: *sends the same middle finger gif*
But yeah, it has to be kinda old at least
Chicken_lord: or someones a homewrecker
StarR00-bot: I doubt it
Lil-nightmare: ….
🔪
StarR00-bot: …
Lil-nightmare: So at least they’re on point with Elliot, I guess
And foppish is a weird word choice ya know
Chicken_lord: alex and sam are out don’t have the braincells for vocab
Lil-nightmare: Like aside from elliott, who would actually use the word “foppish”
StarR00-bot: I wanna say rude but I might actually keel over in laughter if I heard either one use the word
But yeah, probably not them or anyone in the note
Lil-nightmare: Or us and PROBABLY not any of the married folk unless… 👀
StarR00-bot: unless…. 👀
Chicken_lord: wat
Lil-nightmare: I mean…. Kent was gone for awhile….
StarR00-bot: nah, she might act mad thirsty, but she’s all talk according to mom
Lil-nightmare: Fair, plus turns out caroline maybe
Actually nvm, i don’t actually know know, yk?
StarR00-bot: NO WAY DOSH
*dish
preedy, pweese 🥺👉👈
Chicken_lord: ugh, your promised no more uwu talk brains
StarR00-bot: Lol
Lil-nightmare: I’ll tell you next time, but lips sealed Roo
StarR00-bot: 🙊
Promise
Chicken_lord: you guys can gossip without me
just wanted to show the weird note but my shifts starting
StarR00-bot: Ok bye, have fun feeding the capitalist machine :D
Chicken_lord: *middle finger gif again*
Lil-nightmare: Hey brng the note over later
(Maybe I’ll recognize the handwriting)
StarR00-bot: Ooooh you guys on the case of who done it?
Chicken_lord: eh not that committed nancy drew
Lil-nightmare: Come on, I got some peppers that nee testing
Plus MochI misses you (and Jas, bring Jas. I haven't seen in her in too long T.T)
Chicken_lord: maybe
#sdv oc#sdv maru#sdv shane#stardew valley farmer#stardew valley#stardew valley writing#my writing#sdv writing#stardew maru#stardew shane
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The general has made it back to the kingdom. And it looks like he’s telling Randor all that he knows about what is being planned. And he has the whole fleet on his side. I do think you need He-Man’s help even if you don’t want to admit it, Randor.
Ork-0 being sent off by the Eldress to help assist them in the fight against Skeletor is probably for the best. Strength in numbers, no matter how big or small. And they’ve made it into the Fright Zone. The four of them are in for a heck of a time there. Too bad they can’t transform without giving themselves away.
Meanwhile, with Krass, she’s doing what she said she would and protecting the woods. Being able to transform alone is coming in handy. Ork-0’s best attempts to get her to rejoin the group aren’t going so well. Instead, they have to defend against a horde of poacher bots.
Their trip to the Fright Zone is going. Poor Duncan’s been traumatized for life after being eaten. I don’t think I’d recover either. And they’re powered up for their fight with Skeletor who literally let them walk in with ease.
And the trap has been set. It’s going to be an all-out brawl between the Masters and Skeletor’s group. I hope they brought their A-game because with the new powers Skeletor’s group has plus then not having Krass around, it’s going to be a fierce fight.
The villains get transformation sequences as well! I wasn’t expecting that, but I can’t say I don’t thoroughly enjoy it. They’re more feral and unhinged compared to the heroes, something that makes sense. The fact Skeletor is the one to say the phrase alone hammers in how the others are just minions.
The one-on-one fights aren’t going well for the heroes. They’re all struggling to some degree against their villain counterpart. That being said, I do enjoy the fact the villains get stock footage for their attacks as well. As annoying as stock footage can be to some, I welcome it. Makes it feel more like a magical girl show, y’know?
Okay, the fact that the heroes have names for their attacks they just weren’t said until now kind of annoys me especially since Battle Cat had it in the subtitles yet lacked it back during Episode 7. At least we’re getting names for all the attacks, both for the heroes and villains, now.
And Skeletor was able to break the Sword of Power. Since everyone else got their powers through Adam, it means they’re not defenseless in the fight. That includes Krass trying to defend the forest. Her being away meant they lacked the numbers advantage that could have been used to best at least one of Skeletor’s army.
Looks like the fleet has finally arrived. Unfortunately, it looks like General Dolos might be under Skeletor’s control. Not great since he has a whole army at his disposal to do what he wants with. And he’s sent the four into the Havoc to either drown or get corrupted. How intelligent.
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MCU Vs. DCU in Character Arcs
The DC universe made me care about their villains, gave them better backstories and semi redemption arcs more in 1.5 movies than the MCU gave any of their characters in 23 movies, 3 short TV shows and numerous shorts.
And I'm honestly kinda mad about it. Mostly because MCU is one of my 3 most favourite fandoms of all time. They're my go-to action movies. But I've only seen Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey and am watching Suicide Squad as I type this.
To make a villain likeable, to bring them back to a hero or an anti-hero, or even just make them a villain we stan, you need to show something that views can get behind, something to make them relatable. Most commonly that's empathy, understanding of wrongdoing, and an active desire to fix their wrongs.
It's why the Winter Soldier works so well, we were given this assassin who's cold-blooded, deadly, the worst of the worst, but once he is a person again he's soft, he feels bad, he's actively trying to make up for it even though it's not truly on him.
And in direct parallel, we have Deadshot, a cold-blooded assassin working for money, deadly, one of the worst people. But then they put him in a team setting and within hours of meeting the team he has formed enough of a relationship with them to literally risk his own head to not have to kill one of the members. And when Harley's plane is shot down any way he is visibly upset and another teammate actually says "You couldn't have saved her".
And we love both of those characters for that. We want that! We NEED that! But where the DCU was able to do that on a smaller scale for some of their others, the MCU didn't do that for anyone else.
(Warning for some salt from here on)
And I hear you arguing "Oh Wanda showed empathy", and sure they showed her feeling bad in CA: CW but the context of that scene, and the lines they gave her made it so she was feeling bad because people were saying mean things about her and not because she accidentally hurt and killed people.
Like don't get me wrong, I was so excited when they decided to make Maximoff's MCU characters because what little of the comic I have seen made me STAN them. But the MCU butt fu*ked those two raw and I'm PISSED.
Like honestly they had the twins join a terrorist organization. Had Wanda mess with Tony's head making her an accomplice to the creation of a murder bot. Had Wanda mess with the teams head and then Bruce's so the Hulk would go on a murderous rampage with no one to stop him. Had them willingly working with Ultron, only to switch sides when he wanted to kill the entire world instead of just a few people making it seem more like a move of self-preservation than actual good motives. Then summed the movie up by saying "Oh her brothers dead so that good enough".
Only to turn around in the very next movie and have her show 0 empathy about the people who died past "They're saying it's my fault". Then they backed it up by her causing physical harm to some she's supposed to love with 0 hesitations.
Then the next time we see Wanda she's with the same guy we just watched her put through god knows how many floors, and within minutes of them being on the screen together she is refusing to allow him to choose between his life and the lives of half the universe. She is an accomplice to the decision of sacrificing an entire Black nation to save her white presenting boyfriend only to decide otherwise at the very last minute as her boyfriend begs her to kill him (Which in itself, MCU WTF!!!).
Even in endgames when she goes up against Thanos they give her some shitty line about "You took everything from me". They made her character revolve around the love of a man like she wasn't a complete person in her own right without him. They made her fighting Thanos seem like she wouldn't have if Thanos hadn't gone for Vision at the base of it when they could have had 1000+ other lines to make it seem like she was fighting for the right things and not just 'cause boy, love'.
The next time we see Wanda she has enslaved an entire town of people. Is forcing them to act against their will and for her enjoyment. The one person woken up while under the influence talks about how it hurts. And then they brush it off with some quip about how the people should be happy because Wanda wasn't doing it with malicious intent, that it was an accident. But still, Wanda shows absolutely 0 remorse for what she's done.
Now having said all of that let's compare her to Harley Quin. Harley Quin also willingly joined a terrorist, in her case, it was a person and not an organisation but still. The first we see of Harley in Suicide Squad we see her enjoying the pain and suffering she's causing, we see her willingly killing people including herself. And they summed it up with "Oh she did it cause she loves him" which I have some massive issues with.
We see Harley willingly steal, and kill, and hurt over the course of both movies. And yeah it's not making her a hero by any standards. But the DCU never tries to push that she's a good person either.
But what they also do is show us a Harley who is affectionate, who wants friends, who mourns when she thinks her love has died. They make us see ourselves in those little moments. They make her funny to offset her heavy crazy weirdness. They show us Harley who is empathic with her team and later with Cassandra.
They make Harley an anti-hero when they have her turn down bringing her love back in favour of saving people. Something the MCU did the opposite of with 'WandaVision'.
Do you see how those are different? Do you get why I can get behind Harley but not Wanda? And I will always say it but I hate that they made Wanda so HARD to like because if you ignore the red flags she is a BOSS ASS BI*CH.
And they did it to Tony as well, gave us so many likeable characteristics and boss moves, but never actually bothered to address personality flaws that lead there. They just made him go from 'not a single F for anyone else' to 'all the F's for everyone except me'.
They did the opposite to Rogers, made him go from 'countries and governments may be flawed but a single dictator having power isn't okay either' to 'I am going to ignore 117 countries and do what I want anyone even if it kills/hurts/maims your citizens because governments are wrong and I know best'
And I'm not saying that one is better than the other, actually, I kind of am saying that DCU did better than MCU here but the point is you cannot expect an audience to love and support a character you are unwilling to show to have humanity, to have empathy. And I really hate (Mostly out of jealousy) that the DCU, a fandom I'm not in was able to get that and the fandom I am in is still wandering in the dark with problematic lessons being relayed to us.
I JUST WANT A REDEMPTION ARC THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME HATE THE MOVIE IS THAT SO HARD!
#SuicideSqaud#harley quinn#harley quinzel#dc universe#marvel mcu#mcu#tony stark#wanda maximoff#deadshot#captain boomerang#captain america#the avengers#mcu phase 4#marvel#Marvel has bad screen writing#iron man#ca: the first avenger#ca: civil war#ca:tfa#ca:ws#ca:tws#aou#end game#infinity war#avengers infinity war#avengers age of ultron#avengers endgame#iron man 2#iron man 3
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Nightmare On Elm Street
Knock Out9:30:25 PM
Hello there, whoever's lurking!
Smokescreen9:31:16 PM
Woojit!!
Knock Out9:31:22 PM
Smokescreen!
Smokescreen9:31:30 PM
Woojit!!!
Smokescreen9:31:37 PM
This is the movie with uhhh, nightmares, right?
Knock Out9:31:48 PM
And the street, and the elms.
Smokescreen9:32:17 PM
Whoa, I love streets! This is going to be awesome. Are there any neat cars?
Knock Out9:32:26 PM
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Knock Out9:32:36 PM
Hopefully!
Jakson 9:32:55 PM
PAUSED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:00
Jakson 9:33:00 PM
STARTED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:00
Smokescreen9:33:03 PM
Nice!
Smokescreen9:33:36 PM
You know what I've realized? I've never seen a bot scan a monster truck alt mode.
Knock Out9:34:01 PM
...By the Core, you're right!
Knock Out9:34:20 PM
Oh, that's the human that voices the Crypt Keeper.
Smokescreen9:34:38 PM
Casper??
thenightetc9:34:39 PM
God, I... actually remember this.
Smokescreen9:35:09 PM
I'm not about to change that myself, but there's gotta be someone else who will- Oh I know this guy
Knock Out9:35:23 PM
Someone will have the courage to be the first.
thenightetc9:35:51 PM
I'm sticking around for the preshow, but I'm going to have to give the movie a miss
Knock Out9:36:13 PM
That's fair!
Knock Out9:36:22 PM
Does everyone else want to relocate to the server?
Knock Out9:36:34 PM
Or stick around here?
Smokescreen9:36:41 PM
Hmm, I'm cool with either way!
Jakson 9:36:46 PM
hello! First time for me!
Knock Out9:36:53 PM
Hello there! Welcome to this!
thenightetc9:37:14 PM
It's a spooky mr potato head!
Jakson 9:37:24 PM
hey Smokey!
Smokescreen9:37:43 PM
Hey!
Jakson 9:38:12 PM
so how does this work?
Knock Out9:38:31 PM
I stream the movie and you watch it. That's about it!
thenightetc9:39:23 PM
This is so weirdly nostalgic.
Jakson 9:39:28 PM
and what movie are we doing tonight?
Smokescreen9:39:38 PM
Aw, I'd befriend big friend
Smokescreen9:39:41 PM
big frank
Smokescreen9:39:43 PM
whatever
Knock Out9:40:17 PM
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Knock Out9:40:23 PM
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Knock Out9:40:24 PM
JUMPED TO 0:00:11
Jakson 9:40:25 PM
PAUSED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:08
Knock Out9:40:26 PM
JUMPED TO 0:00:24
Knock Out9:40:27 PM
STARTED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:24
Knock Out9:40:32 PM
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Smokescreen9:40:38 PM
why are there so many pumpkins
thenightetc9:40:50 PM
Because it's, halloween related somehow
Smokescreen9:41:03 PM
They're not even THAT scary!
thenightetc9:41:06 PM
And something something smashing pumkins?
Jakson 9:41:28 PM
all these old commercials. I'm old
Smokescreen9:41:53 PM
oh, it's pepsi prime
Jakson 9:42:10 PM
and so cheesy
thenightetc9:42:25 PM
...Okay, wow!
Knock Out9:42:41 PM
Nacho and Dog have a relationship that's their own business.
Jakson 9:42:50 PM
who are you?
thenightetc9:42:52 PM
No, I was talking about the M&Ms... thing
Jakson 9:45:24 PM
seen it!
thenightetc9:45:34 PM
So, Knock Out, is this what being a doctor is like?
Knock Out9:45:42 PM
Exactly like that.
thenightetc9:45:47 PM
Thank god.
Jakson 9:45:58 PM
yes, Knockout, is it?
Smokescreen9:46:16 PM
Ooh, I should try the doctor thing sometime if it's like that
Knock Out9:46:25 PM
If my patient doesn't yell the words "I'M ALIVE!", I'll assume they're not alive and that I've failed at my job.
Jakson 9:46:44 PM
I'm alive!
Knock Out9:46:47 PM
Hello again, Crypt Keeper human.
thenightetc9:46:54 PM
And people really have a little crank inside them that you can turn to replace their broken organs with fixed ones, right?
Knock Out9:47:06 PM
Exactly.
Jakson 9:47:08 PM
I wish
Knock Out9:47:41 PM
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Smokescreen9:48:07 PM
ghosts when they see me:
Knock Out9:48:33 PM
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Knock Out9:48:38 PM
Alright on we go.
Jakson 9:48:52 PM
wait a minute!
Smokescreen9:48:55 PM
it isn't showing me anything, do I need to refresh
Jakson 9:49:11 PM
me either
Knock Out9:49:41 PM
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Knock Out9:49:49 PM
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thenightetc9:49:50 PM
okay, ducking out for the next... hour and a half
Smokescreen9:49:54 PM
It says- Oh!
Jakson 9:49:55 PM
nope
Jakson 9:50:52 PM
I can't get it
Knock Out9:51:09 PM
We may need to take it to discord.
Smokescreen9:51:29 PM
why must the internet be so rude :(
Knock Out9:51:31 PM
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Smokescreen9:51:41 PM
OH now I see!
Knock Out9:52:29 PM
It's the only slasher classic we've never streamed and it's also the bloodiest, which is why I've held off on streaming it until now.
Smokescreen9:52:48 PM
man that guy looks kinda like someone i've seen in a nightmare before
Jakson 9:52:58 PM
wait. Nightmare on Elm Street? Oh heck no. I'm out
Knock Out9:53:28 PM
Hmm...maybe we should opt for something tamer.
Smokescreen9:54:11 PM
Hmm- I'm cool with either way-This kinda thing doesn't scare me. Much. As long as the lights are on.
Knock Out9:54:48 PM
Likewise, but we've had two humans tap out.
Smokescreen9:54:54 PM
Oh, true.
Smokescreen9:55:00 PM
Humans scare pretty easily, huh?
Knock Out9:55:19 PM
They really do. Then again, they're easier to puncture.
Smokescreen9:55:31 PM
And puncturing usually is deadlier for them, too.
Knock Out9:55:34 PM
I'd be more skittish around claw hands too.
Smokescreen9:55:43 PM
I mean, how many times did Megatron get impromptu piercings?
Knock Out9:56:59 PM
Hmm...may as well stream it. Someone else might join in.
Knock Out9:57:20 PM
I'll pick something gentler next time around.
Smokescreen9:57:42 PM
Fair! It's always hard to know what people are hungry for
Knock Out9:58:34 PM
And where everyone's tolerance levels lie.
Smokescreen9:58:41 PM
Man, dreams like this ARE rough though
Knock Out9:59:25 PM
They nailed the "Chases you and pops out in front of you" aspect uncomfortably well.
Smokescreen9:59:57 PM
They DID- also pffff.
Knock Out10:00:21 PM
Anonymous human level of tactfulness.
Smokescreen10:01:17 PM
Really? I think they were more tactful.
Smokescreen10:01:45 PM
Oh- oh, that's not a bad idea.
Smokescreen10:03:38 PM
Why would you open a door ever in these horror movie universes?
Knock Out10:03:59 PM
Why would you ever go anywhere and do anything?
Smokescreen10:04:27 PM
Once you figure out you're in the horror movie universe, do you want to go anywhere?
Knock Out10:04:51 PM
I certainly wouldn't.
Knock Out10:06:06 PM
What a charming group of friends.
Smokescreen10:06:18 PM
what a great friendship group
Knock Out10:07:12 PM
I mean, yes, our friend groups loudly frag in front of one another but we don't do it when we're consoling a friend.
Knock Out10:07:14 PM
I don't think.
Smokescreen10:07:40 PM
Not unless that's part of consoling the friend I guess? But then usually the friend's involved
Jakson 10:07:41 PM
hi
Smokescreen10:07:46 PM
Welcome back!
Knock Out10:07:47 PM
Welcome back!
Jakson 10:08:16 PM
I muted it
Knock Out10:08:16 PM
Exactly! Invite her in to join you. Nothing cheers a friend up like group oral.
Knock Out10:09:07 PM
And fair; the sound is the worst part.
Smokescreen10:09:14 PM
Exactly! But I guess you don't usually survive in horror movies if you interface
Smokescreen10:09:36 PM
... Being in a horror movie really would suck.
Jakson 10:09:50 PM
Knockout may I make a request?!
Knock Out10:10:12 PM
Request away.
Jakson 10:10:29 PM
nightmare before Christmas. It's a musical
Knock Out10:10:50 PM
Ooh, I love that one! We'll do that one night movie night.
Knock Out10:11:36 PM
*next movie night
Jakson 10:11:43 PM
how about the Thursday before Halloween?
Knock Out10:11:54 PM
Perfect!
Jakson 10:12:54 PM
and now, if you don't mind, I'm leaving
Knock Out10:13:18 PM
Understandable!
Jakson 10:14:03 PM
I'll be back for nightmare before Christmas!
Smokescreen10:16:03 PM
Man, who wants to go to school that badly?
Knock Out10:16:40 PM
I know your friend died horribly, but a day off's a day off.
Smokescreen10:19:53 PM
I know that was your friend, but if you see them in a bloody body bag standing in the hallway that seesms like... a bad idea to follow
Knock Out10:20:54 PM
Maybe, possibly, a less than ideal idea.
Smokescreen10:21:51 PM
That's.... some weird milk
Smokescreen10:27:21 PM
warm milk?
Knock Out10:27:33 PM
"Traumatized child, I feel the need to remind you that people die all the time for no reason."
Smokescreen10:33:29 PM
Woojit, do you remember the dream guy from that other movie you did a while back? Do you think he and this guy are
Knock Out10:34:33 PM
I'm not sure which one you mean, but yes, absolutely they are.
Smokescreen10:34:59 PM
The creepy guy who gives everyone dreams
Knock Out10:35:17 PM
OH! That one!
Knock Out10:35:26 PM
Yes. Freddy bottoms.
Smokescreen10:36:36 PM
You know? That makes sense!
Knock Out10:40:17 PM
He's a geezer pleaser.
Knock Out10:41:08 PM
"Even though I just judged this child openly during his own funeral."
Knock Out10:44:09 PM
What are dreams? We just don't know.
Smokescreen10:45:04 PM
What ARE dreams?
Smokescreen10:45:22 PM
oh shoot her sleep numbers are off the charts, she's reached the secret boss of sleep
Smokescreen10:45:57 PM
... I wonder if I could do it
Smokescreen10:46:07 PM
pull something out from my dream
Knock Out10:46:14 PM
What do you normally dream about?
Smokescreen10:46:53 PM
Well. It's kind of a mix but, usually, Optimus is disappointed in me and also dying, but sometimes I have more Spicy dreams.
Knock Out10:47:44 PM
You should grab onto Optimus and pull him into the waking world. Problem solved.
Smokescreen10:47:52 PM
......
Smokescreen10:47:56 PM
I'm gonna try it
Knock Out10:49:56 PM
It's the multiverse. Anything can happen.
Smokescreen10:50:18 PM
Weirder things have happened!
Knock Out10:53:20 PM
Far weirder!
Smokescreen10:53:29 PM
why would you keep those knives though
Knock Out10:53:46 PM
Good question.
Smokescreen10:56:55 PM
Honestly, at this point, her mom seems like a better option for helping take the guy out.
Smokescreen10:56:59 PM
I mean, she's done it once.
Knock Out10:57:34 PM
"The nightmare's over based on absolutely nothing."
Smokescreen10:58:14 PM
how long has she had that coffee in that pot
Knock Out10:58:31 PM
It's growing a skin.
Smokescreen10:58:43 PM
the coffee.. is freddy
Knock Out10:58:46 PM
And she really is, and she has. She knows his fears and what he smells like when he's on fire.
Knock Out10:58:48 PM
Yes, yes it is.
Smokescreen10:59:36 PM
"I don't want that kid hanging around our son anymore" be careful what you wish for, right?
Knock Out10:59:42 PM
Hah!
Smokescreen11:02:03 PM
this is what anons are like
Knock Out11:02:14 PM
And everything they wish they could be.
Smokescreen11:02:19 PM
Truly!
Knock Out11:08:12 PM
You'd think she would see whether getting a hotel room somewhere other than Elm Street would work.
Smokescreen11:09:55 PM
Honestly at this point, that seems like a better option.
Smokescreen11:10:05 PM
Would be awful for the hotel staff if it didn't work though
Knock Out11:10:40 PM
But at that point it becomes a them problem.
Knock Out11:18:34 PM
I hope he kills her useless father.
Smokescreen11:18:54 PM
I forgot she had a father for a second
Smokescreen11:20:12 PM
The mother??? but
Smokescreen11:22:51 PM
hmm
Smokescreen11:23:03 PM
OH
Smokescreen11:23:07 PM
Oh no
Smokescreen11:23:18 PM
freddy car,,,
Knock Out11:23:26 PM
Not a bad looking car.
Smokescreen11:23:42 PM
True! Not bad at all.
Smokescreen11:23:54 PM
I wonder if any bots have that alt mode scanned
Jakson 11:24:15 PM
oh good. It's over
Knock Out11:24:17 PM
Imagine Freddy as a Cybertronian.
Smokescreen11:24:36 PM
Oh, Primus.
Smokescreen11:24:44 PM
If he shows up in my dreams, as a Cybertronian, I am going to
Smokescreen11:24:57 PM
I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I'm blaming you
Knock Out11:25:03 PM
That's fair enough.
Jakson 11:25:17 PM
shoot something?
thenightetc11:25:33 PM
You could just step on him.
Knock Out11:26:05 PM
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Jakson 11:26:11 PM
can we watch something cute now?
Knock Out11:26:17 PM
Of course.
Mimic11:26:23 PM
hello!
Knock Out11:26:27 PM
Hello there!
Knock Out11:26:40 PM
We've decided we're watching Nightmare Before Christmas next stream night.
thenightetc11:26:50 PM
Oh, nice!
Jakson 11:27:01 PM
musical!
thenightetc11:27:03 PM
That's always a treat. :)
Mimic11:27:11 PM
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Knock Out11:27:15 PM
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thenightetc11:28:20 PM
HA
Jakson 11:28:44 PM
run
thenightetc11:28:57 PM
When did THAT happen
Mimic11:29:14 PM
WELL
Mimic11:29:18 PM
WELL!
Knock Out11:29:31 PM
CHANGED THE VIDEO TO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT1FmeEbJgA
Mimic11:30:12 PM
PAUSED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:00
Mimic11:30:13 PM
PAUSED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:00
Knock Out11:30:15 PM
STARTED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:39
thenightetc11:30:23 PM
PAUSED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:40
thenightetc11:30:24 PM
STARTED THE VIDEO AT 0:00:41
Knock Out11:30:25 PM
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thenightetc11:30:29 PM
The owl!
Knock Out11:30:34 PM
Of course there's an owl.
Mimic11:30:36 PM
ikr
Jakson 11:30:48 PM
one more video idea for tonight. Thriller
Knock Out11:30:52 PM
LOCKED THE ROOM
Smokescreen11:30:55 PM
I feel like for you, Woojit, Freddy would show up as an Owl
Knock Out11:31:02 PM
He probably would.
Smokescreen11:31:06 PM
he gets his own fursona
thenightetc11:31:08 PM
Sorry, the, uh. If focus is in the wrong place, the space bar pauses it.
thenightetc11:33:23 PM
Yes we are!
Jakson 11:33:44 PM
I don't understand
Smokescreen11:33:52 PM
.... does this work
Knock Out11:34:00 PM
I wonder.
Mimic11:34:05 PM
usually with exactly this result, but yes
Smokescreen11:34:16 PM
I'm built different it's fine
Mimic11:34:24 PM
is it though???
Knock Out11:34:36 PM
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thenightetc11:35:31 PM
I AM looking forward to seeing what SNL comes up with this year
Knock Out11:35:38 PM
Likewise.
Jakson 11:35:48 PM
Knockout, do you like Halloween?
Knock Out11:36:30 PM
I like it a lot more now that I know not to idle where children can throw eggs at me.
Smokescreen11:36:57 PM
Wait, where do you idle?
thenightetc11:36:59 PM
Is it, though.
Jakson 11:37:30 PM
I'm so confused
Knock Out11:37:55 PM
On the wrong street on the wrong night at the wrong time.
Jakson 11:38:24 PM
ditto
Jakson 11:38:50 PM
I like chatting with you guys!
Knock Out11:39:11 PM
CHANGED THE VIDEO TO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
Knock Out11:39:19 PM
And after this we'll call it a night.
Smokescreen11:39:34 PM
This was fun, Woojit, thanks for having us!
Jakson 11:39:39 PM
oh thank you
Knock Out11:39:41 PM
Of course!
thenightetc11:40:26 PM
"I don't know, make a music video?"
Knock Out11:40:38 PM
No you don't and we all know why.
Jakson 11:41:23 PM
Knockout, what time is movie night usually?
Knock Out11:41:26 PM
Yes, yes you are.
Knock Out11:41:29 PM
9:00, EST.
Jakson 11:41:42 PM
perfect. Thanks
Knock Out11:41:44 PM
We do it every other week.
thenightetc11:42:04 PM
I feel like he didn't have to do this on a night of a full moon.
Jakson 11:42:05 PM
fabulous
thenightetc11:42:20 PM
Honestly, what was he going to do if the moon came out while he was driving?
Knock Out11:42:53 PM
I feel like this was something to clear up by the third date.
Jakson 11:42:55 PM
car crash?
Smokescreen11:43:09 PM
It's amazing it never came up before
thenightetc11:43:11 PM
...the gif!
Jakson 11:43:43 PM
sike!
thenightetc11:44:54 PM
Okay, it's cute now.
Knock Out11:45:03 PM
It is.
Jakson 11:47:04 PM
remind you of anything, Knockout?
thenightetc11:47:18 PM
Did that have the voiceover, though?
Knock Out11:47:22 PM
I wish.
Smokescreen11:47:36 PM
Wait, have you lived through this before, Woojit?
Knock Out11:47:52 PM
It wasn't as catchy as this.
Knock Out11:48:13 PM
Terrorcons are embarrassingly poor dancers.
Jakson 11:48:35 PM
dark Energon
Knock Out11:51:17 PM
How spooky!
thenightetc11:51:25 PM
I'm spooked!
Knock Out11:52:13 PM
Thank you all for carrying this spooky, spooky burden with me tonight!
thenightetc11:52:21 PM
Thank you for hosting!
thenightetc11:52:36 PM
This was fun; I'd never actually seen it before
Knock Out11:52:45 PM
I tend to forget how fun it is.
Smokescreen11:53:22 PM
It's a fun time!
Knock Out11:53:25 PM
Have a lovely evening, everyone!
thenightetc11:53:30 PM
You, too!
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Real Planning, Finally
The systems that exist in my version of the space-themed 2D platformer for my programming class (My additions in bold):
Space man (player) moves according to player inputs, including left, right, jump, and double-jump.
(Note: Double-jump uses a system where landing resets your “jumpsSinceLastGrounded” variable to 0, and you can only jump if the variable is below two.)
There is also dashing; Pressing left or right twice in quick succession gives extra movement speed in that direction for as long as you hold the button.
Just occurred to me that this interaction is one of a few places where the d-pad or WASD would be fine but the thumbstick on a controller would be awkward. (tap-tap-hold is fine, but flicking the stick right and instantly letting it center is easiest done by letting go of it, which isn’t actually a comfortable movement)
I think for cleaner control, we’re going to go with down-arrow or S on keyboard being run, and then
The camera follows the player’s movement.
There are tiles that can be painted into the scene along a grid. Some of them are animated, such as wires sticking out of the walls with lights that blink or twirl. Others are contextual, like platforms that put rivets on their corners (and only on their corners. For clarity of use I’ll be using the white riveted tiles as my foreground and a mix of the darker riveted and the dark “ground” tiles as background. For fun I might include a few spots near the bottom of the level where it’s got light “ground” tiles, making it a kind of built-around-the-land terraforming station.
Showing this off: We’ll want several jumps that can be made normally and several more which can be made with double-jump.
There are robot enemies, which can only be killed by the environment. (They had a mechanic to lose hp when stomped Mario-style, but I’ve opted to make them dangerous puzzle-game pieces instead, so I had to either design a respawner or just make them invulnerable to stomping) They’ll do substantial damage if the player runs into them, so you need to jump over or on them. They also bounce the player upwards when stomped on, which is why I decided to make them more puzzle-gamey.
Showing this off: At least one jump will involve a bot in a pit. To get across you hop into the pit and bounce off of the bot, then double-jump from the bounce apex to get out of the other side.
There are pickups. I think I’m going to transfer this into a system other than High Score. I find high score systems bland, but do want to integrate the pickups. I’m thinking each pickup you get will increase your max hp, so if you get enough of them your hp bar can stand up to an extra hit or two.
You have a health bar. The system they handed us used Zelda-style hearts, but beyond the fact that I think a health bar looks better I want fine control of this because
Acid hurts the player as a function of time touching it. Unlike the enemies, which hit you for a big chunk of your hp and then render you immune to damage for 2 seconds, acid tiles hit you continuously for 1 damage per 1/10 second. Our modern systems have a function called Time.DeltaTime that lets us handle things based directly on the individual computer’s framerate, allowing us to normalize effects to actual seconds whether the system is running at 10 frames a second or 120.
Dropping a bot into the acid will damage it, instantly killing weaker ones and finishing off the tougher ones 2 seconds later...Actually if I leave the numbers alone both will explode basically instantly; Acid uses the same hurtbox on players and enemies and doesn’t trigger invulnerability, and strong robots have 2 hp...so they’d die in 0.2 seconds. I’ll probably just let that be.
There are animated vents that open when someone walks in front of them.
Pressing up activates all the opened vents.
The vents move both the player and the robots. Dropping a robot into acid with a vent is the only way to permanently remove it.
There’s going to be one spot where a vent opens to over an acid pit. It won’t be deep, so if the player accidentally goes in that vent they can get out okay.
Actually, I’m going to make a change. Taking damage from acid will reset the player’s Jump. This will functionally simulate the capacity to swim.
The nice thing with this is I can then have an acid pit deeper than the player’s double-jump height for aesthetic reasons if I want, yet have falling into it not be guaranteed (but annoyingly slow) death. It also means an impatient player can kind of “skip” over the top of the water, taking 2-3 points of damage as they make contact but immediately double-jumping back out so they’re spending most of their time safely in the air.
There are doors with keycards. The assets come with a full set of 5 or 6 of these, plenty for one large level if I want to use them at all.
There’s a big victory crystal for the end point, already programmed to bring up the victory screen and play the victory noise.
Since I’m only making one giant level, I think I will still have a front page so there can be controls instructions but I’ll remove the level select button.
Because I’m spawning in the whole level at once, the only time I can have a robot fall off of something on its own is at the beginning of the level. After that if I want a robot that descends stairs or something I’ll need to put a vent at the top of the steps and let the player vent the bot to up there.
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Bloons
Honestly the entire Bloons series has been some of my favorite flash/other-than-flash games out there, and I feel like it’s worth bringing it up since I just crossed the 365 day threshold for BTD6. Maybe in the past, but nowadays I definitely don’t feel like I ever play a game daily for a year straight. Chances are it was a little desperate when I first started playing, but as of now literally every single day I open the game up and play the daily challenge just for the sake of it. Plus, since the chest technically resets every 9 hours or so instead of 24, I could’ve cheesed it a bit, but I didn’t. That’s a pure 365 days of playing the game.
And even apart from that, the entire Bloons series has been in my mind since the first one and my middle/elementary school Coolmath Games days. Even though the puzzle, pure form of Bloons wasn’t as much in my interest, the staying power of the Tower Defense version is crazy. Flash Tower Defense games are plenty, and yet the one with the stupid monkeys throwing darts at balloons was the best.
I went back semi-recently and played a round of each BTD, and I gotta say, it was fun seeing where everything came from. 1 is absolute garbage, forcing you to just spam Super Monkeys if you want to get anywhere, but a good starting point obviously. I honestly know nothing about the people creating these games, but obviously it wasn’t made by a AAA crew, so you can’t expect everything to be put in place in the first iteration. 2 and 3 feel much better, but obviously not much after being so used to the modern stuff, and 4 and 5 are the ones that really shine the most, apart from 6 obviously.
I definitely was one of the types of people who initially reacted poorly to the artstyle change of 5 and 6, but I’ve definitely turned over. I don’t know if the whole BTD community rioted at that point, but I at least was like “ew, they’re cute now” when I first saw it. Thankfully I turned over, and realized the current designs are the absolute best out of the entire franchise. Also, I love their cuteness, as I love cuteness in general, so basically just call it character growth. Even though 2D art always is more interesting for games than 3D in general, the entire art direction of 6 is genuinely really good, being so bright and cartoony (at least before the fifth stages of upgrades) really fits the cartoony idea of monkeys popping bloons. 5, and the entire franchise before it, really is proof enough how horrible a pure top-down perspective is. On the title screen, you can see what the monkeys are supposed to look like, but in-game they literally look like weird blobby scorpions. Even though in the back of my mind I knew what they were supposed to look like, the pure top-down perspective completely ruined the image. Not to mention the OG designs for the monkeys was really weird and bad anyway. Even if you wanted a goofy fat kind of monkey, there are a million better ways to achieve that than how it used to be. Again, of course, they weren’t exactly AAA game-level quality, so you can’t expect such perfect character design.
But, oh my god. One of the things about this game that must’ve kept me through 6 was the character designs. If you know anything about me, it’s that I love a good character design, and 6 is full of them. It’s so interesting to see how they extrapolate the main concepts of each tower into their three different paths. The generic Superman-based monkey can turn into a Batman-based monkey, a Terminator-based monkey, and a fucking ancient god of the sun. The seemingly chill Druid can smite people with the power of Zeus, become the much more expected forest-based type, but also turn into this completely out-there being of pure wrath. I could go on and on about that, but needless to say for so many of them look and are designed so great. I think the tower with the coolest level 5s of the game is the Ninja. It’s hard to explain, but they all just look really cool while also not deviating too much from the cartoony-cute art style. I think my all-time favorite level 5 is the top path of the Wizard, mostly just because he looks really cool, but also because the parts of the path before it show him aging and growing out his beard. I also have to say the 2-0-3/4 Wizard also looks exactly my style, with the dark purply-ness and gold rims. Also, if you haven’t noticed, the Magic monkeys are my favorite type, and not just because their signature color is purple. That’s part of it though. Magic is also just cool in general. My main RPG-class of choice is almost always a mage/wizard.
Also, the heroes are also really fun. As someone who often creates species of aliens/monsters, I always feel like I want to create a dedicated character out of them no matter what, so I feel like the heroes are basically just that. And, of course they have good designs too, and of course as you can probably guess my favorite is Adora, basically being the same thing as the 5-0-0 Wizard with the Sun God aesthetic. Since she has her own stage and a special interaction with the True Sun God/Vengeful Monkey, I think she’s a pretty big deal anyway. I will say that I highly slept on Gwen, but then for Easter they gave her the Harlegwen skin and I fell in love. It’s insanely good stuff. Apart from looks, it does feel nice to have some sort of interchangeable tower that you basically just place and forget about, aside from using their powers. Plus, it makes a really easy type of thing to periodically add to the game to keep things fresh, even with the skins in general. It definitely is much better than the stuff they had in 5, where you had to use Monkey Money to buy each one, and you could only use them once per stage. Obviously 6 has the extra powers to help you out, but they feel much more optional and cheaper than the heroes of 5. Since I barely buy anything with Monkey Money to begin with, and since I’ve obviously had 365 chest openings, and AND since I barely use them to begin with, I’m completely stocked up. I only ever use the farmer and sometimes the tech bot if I get lazy. I did use the portable lake I got from my 365th chest opening after I got it, just for the sake of celebration. That’s literally how my mind goes.
6 does have the slight tinge of a mobile game artstyle, but in this case it’s really just better. I’m not into mobile games, and especially not the generic artstyle they have, but it is really pleasing to look at anyway. It did chase me off before I converted, though. That, and the fact you had to buy it now. Like a true gamer, I was put off by the fact that something that was once expected to be free now has to be paid for. But, then, I realized that the entire franchise has provided much more than 10$ worth of entertainment to me throughout time, so it was extremely fair to pay that. It is still kinda weird how 5 has to be paid for for mobile, when it is just free online, though. However, unlike a true gamer I think the microtransactions of the game are extremely fair. Considering they just give you things that you don’t need, and can get for free otherwise, I think it’s completely fine to have them. It sounds bad on the surface to have to pay for the game and have there still be microtransactions in it, but since they’re completely optional there’s no good reason to hate it. I think people assume that means that you have to pay for the game, and pay extra for different major parts of the game, and that sours their opinion on everything. Gamers are a strange, irrationally angry breed. I do hate using my phone for pretty much anything, though, so once I bought 6 on Steam I haven’t played it on my phone since. It’s just so much better in every single way...
I bought the game around the time of one of my family’s semi-annual trips to England because I thought it’d help when we were traveling between wi-fi spots, and it really did wonders for me then. Probably looked like some asshole teen to strangers who don’t know I barely ever use my phone for anything, since I was playing it so much. My sister even saw me playing it and bought it for herself, although I don’t know how much she’s played since then.
For the sake of stats, I have 235 hours played of it on Steam alone, and in game I’m level 115. My most complete map is Monkey Meadow with all medals except CHIMPS, which I put the effort in because it’s the default map, and definitely not because it’s an easy/good map because it’s just kinda bad compared to so many other ones. My Dart monkey has a total of 4 million XP, and the only towers that haven’t crossed a million are the Ice, Heli, Alchemist, Druid, and Spike factory monkeys/tower. I think the farthest I’ve actually gotten round-wise is 200 once or twice, but I don’t remember if I’ve actually beaten that level and continued on or lost there. I think I might’ve gotten past it once, but just sort of lost interest in micro-managing my powers and let myself lose. I probably got there once after that and lost on it. As someone who didn’t look up the optimal strategies for things until very recently, I think that’s pretty good. It definitely feels like the kind of game where if you know the best strategies, you can literally just replicate that over and over and win really easily, but that just sounds kinda boring. Since I pretty much only do daily challenges nowadays, it forces me to use a limited amount of towers, so I either go much farther because it forces me to build up less towers more, or it makes sure I can’t even pass round 90 because it just was made to get you to round 40 and that’s it. When I have the full range of towers to use, I feel like I try to get the instant satisfaction of getting a new tower to increase DPS instead of making the few towers I have/need reach their full potential, which seems to be the better option. I also don’t really sell anything when I don’t have a limited number of monkeys to place, which I think is also a good strategy if you can eliminate the major money loss in it, since it can give you a massive boost in cash to get you the better upgrades quicker. I may or may not try to learn the strategies to wipe the rest of the game clean eventually, but right now I’m fine with just doing the dailies.
But yeah, that’s like the whole thing with Bloons Tower Defense and me. Something something reject modernity, embrace monke, or whatever the kids these days are saying.
I will say that if I didn’t have so many OCs to work with and could just pump out animated shorts on the reg, I’d love to do some sort of Bloons shorts. They’d all lean into the ridiculousness of it all. Like, the first one could do the 2001 thing with the monkeys learning to use sticks, and as the main one is bashing the ground with one or whatever and throws it up, an ancient, leathery patchwork bloon flies overhead and accidentally bumps the stick such that it lands back on the main monkey’s head, knocking him out. Cue the monkeys around him to go berserk and start throwing other sticks at the ancient bloon, and once they pop it using a sharp stick, they realize what they must do. Cue a long montage of the different stages of war and invention using the monkeys finding better ways to fend off the bloons, with the whole idea being that the monkeys are getting irrationally angry at the bloons, who are just sort of around and not actually sentient, even though they assume they’re malicious because of their history and upbringing. Absolutely no political message in there whatsoever. Just comedy.
Other short ideas could include, for the start of the modern time story, it could be the backstory of some sort of chiseled veteran main character, which would involve a bloon floating into his town, and from the people’s panic someone knocks over a lamp post that sets his town ablaze, only for him and his people to blame the carnage on the bloon, causing his classic edgy character motives for fighting against the bloons. Another, much more golden idea, would be an interrogation scene, where a bunch of monkeys capture a bunch of bloons for interrogation purposes. They’d obviously do the whole “Silent treatment, eh? Well, we have ways of making you talk...” thing, except the “way to make them talk” is to strap them to a wall with one dart guy on one side to systematically pop them to try and extract info. But, of course, it would look and play out exactly like the classic Bloons puzzle game. That’d be the fun part. If not that, then it could be like the classic carnival game that likely inspired the idea of using darts to pop balloons. I really just think this weird world of monkeys and bloons is perfect for some good comedic content. Watching the monkeys severely overreact to the bloons sounds extremely fun, and I’d love to see someone do something with it some day.
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Updates (December 17, 6:30 PM US Mountain Time)
There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s get into it.
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Voting:
Seoul Music Awards
Android link
Apple link
3 votes daily
Voting ends January 22, 2020
Global Disk Awards
App link
3 daily votes & 2 additional votes if you share the link (there’s full instructions on the link)
Voting ends December 27, 2019
Global Golden Hands (fan-video for Wonho)
Stream the video
There’s also a poll on their YouTube channel page, I think, but I can’t pull it up from my app right now.
Voting ends December 20, 2019
HoneyPop Artist of the Year
Vote here
Twitter: #VoteTHPMonstaX
Voting ends December 20, 2019 - 11:59 PM EST
Idol Champ (Best Song)
Download app
I think you get 30 votes per day
This ends today, but I’m pretty sure there’s always new categories to vote in.
Streaming:
Middle of the Night
Follow and Someone’s Someone on Spotify (Spotify Awards)
Follow performance (MAMA 2019)
Forever & Never Die (MAMA 2019)
MX Moments (MAMA 2019)
⚠️ Remember to not skip ads nor put the videos on the mute. Do not replay otherwise the algorithm thinks you’re a bot. Watch the entire video - especially the mv - without pausing or skipping. Don’t play Spotify songs on loop, and listen to at least 30 seconds otherwise it won’t count. ⚠️
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Twotuckgom videos:
I made a playlist of all the recent ttg videos. Please stream them! Minhyuk has mentioned that he wishes there were more views so that they could gain more publicity, so let’s stream them for him and all of OT7!
Playlist here.
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Concerts:
Japanese MBB did the OT7 fan chant at MX’s most recent show in Japan.
At one of the recent shows, MBBs holding Wonho slogans and signs were encouraged by the boys to raise them higher.
If I’m correct, I believe Jooheon actually had a ment where he encouraged MBB to raise their signs up. He mentioned that the signs were very beautiful and that he wanted to see them and asked MBB to raise them up one more time. He didn’t specify exactly which signs, but it’s pretty easy to assume he was referring to the Wonho ones because of him mentioning he noticed MBB were hesitant to hold them up and MBB tweeting from that show explained how the ones holding Wonho signs were afraid of holding them up because they didn’t know if they could.
@joohoneybunch created an OT7 fan chant for their final jingle performance and I believe mbb used it
I think that may be it for concerts.
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Appearances:
Going back a bit, Monsta X won two awards at MAMA 2019.
Fast-forwarding to more recent events, the active members went to the US for Jingle Ball and it wasn’t too chaotic.
Changkyun said Monsta Truck is about a truck for Monbebe that he wants us all to get on..sure, yeah, def.
When prompted to answer what MBB have taught MX, Minhyuk said ‘love,’ Hyungwon said ‘live,’ and Shownu said ‘dougie.’
They appeared on Ryan & Kelley.
Their B96 interviews are up!
Here’s a Spotify link, but I think there’s videos up on YouTube as well - especially their performances.
VLives were done.
Jooheon had fallen ill prior to coming to the US, but he’s since returned and informed everyone at the last US concert that he’s okay. In addition, at one of the recent shows, he said how MBB have been his strength for getting through his mental and physical sickness.
Back in SK, ISAC commenced and it was...chaotic good?
MX was two hours late - I presume because they had just flown in from America and went directly to ISAC.
MBBs attending ISAC fell asleep while waiting and one of the managers told them to wake up because it was “time to support.” 🥺
MBB said the food provided didn’t taste good.
Minhyuk told MBB to go home and rest.
MX only participated in the categories they had to - I think they were hoping to get banned tbh.
Despite their semi-obvious efforts to lose, MX ended up going to finals.
In addition, despite their efforts to lose and the fact that they had absolutely zero practice beforehand, arrived late, and just came back from the US with probably less than four hours of sleep - they won second place overall.
Hyungwon wore this shirt:
Kihyun basically dyed his hair blue after MBB talked about it on fc.
They’re aware of everything we’ve adopted and bought for them.
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SBS/KBS:
The top two major news angencies played OT7 footage when talking about MX. This is very unusual, but a good sign because usually when an idol is terminated and/or no longer respected, they get blurred from footage or cropped out, but there was actually a Wonho focus throughout most of the broadcasts’ durations.
This could hint that the general public no longer views him negatively.
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In addition to new merch for the active members, from my understanding, Twotuckgom has also restocked old Bebegom products, and continues putting a small BBG in the comics.
They also had one comic in particular that showcased one of the goms as a magician who is looking for the ‘rabbit in its hat.’ When it looks inside it’s hat, there’s another gom dresser as a bunny lifting weights with a little BBG hidden in the background. I don’t know about you, but to me that sounds like they’re finding Bebegom like we’re finding Wonho.
TTG’s Twitter also retweeted a rendition that a MBB made of the goms involved in the The Ugly Duckling (I think?) fairytale. Basically, Bebegom leaves because it doesn’t feel like it belongs and the other goms search everywhere until they find each other again.
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There are projects going on, but I’m not going to post about any until I research them. There’s certain groups I do not support because their intentions are ill, but they hide behind a sort of..veil. When I get time to properly look into everything, I’ll make a post.
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Searches have been cleared for the most part, but please continue a little bit more since some bad things still pop up when searching certain members.
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Interesting things are happening with the 🐍🐍, but I’m not going to talk about it publicly. Maybe at some point I’ll release a post, but not until more info emerges.
In the meantime, please refrain from leaving negative comments on either of their social profiles. Don’t make posts, either - even if you think your profile is small enough that no one will see. Trust me, eyes are everywhere and a negative post on an account with so much as 0 followers will still pop up and travel like one for someone with 1000 followers.
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I think this pretty much sums up what’s been happening as of late. Sorry for being slow - all of this occurred during finals, so I didn’t really have a lot of time to make long posts. Now that I’m on break for a month, I’ll catch up with the recaps and go back to the steady updates.
Continue with your efforts and try to ignore the hypocrites who continue spewing toxicity despite spreading positive mantras.
Honestly, Monbebes have accomplished a lot and made steps towards a positive change in both the industry and the world. In addition, at the end of the day, our goal isn’t to please other fandoms, but win justice for Wonho and other artists who have been wronged, as well as prevent the wrongdoings from incoming and current trainees.
Be proud of being part of the “sticky-note fandom” because regardless of other people’s opinions, we’re not only inspiring and demanding change, but succeeding in doing so.
#monsta x#wonho#shownu#minhyuk#kihyun#hyungwon#jooheon#changkyun#updates#monbebe#im#joohoney#my favorite thing about inserting 'read more' links from desktop is that all of the color coding i did on mobile disappears lol#anyways#i scheduled this to post at the wrong time so v sorry lol#i also didn't proof read so sorry if there's grammar errors lol i'm tired
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Yugioh Ep 24 S3: Blimp’s Ultimate Form
So, I realized as I sat down to the blog today that I’ve been doing this for like...a year and half now? I think? So I figured...how many of these have I MADE? Cuz I thought...I MUST be getting close to the 100th recap pretty soon, and guys, the answer was shocking.
This is, in fact, the 121st recap (including Season 0). That is a LOT of content. I don’t think I have that many pages for my own webcomic (which basically only tells you how long and physically exhausting the drawing process is more than anything else). Along the way I realized I was a.) really bad at numbering episodes, and b.) reaaaaally bad at spelling Kaiba at the start of this series, really cringey how I used to spell everyone’s name, I can’t really look back there.
Anyway, in case you are curious, the 100th episode was the “Pharaoh turns Karibo into a rainbow for some reason” episode. So, unfortunately it wasn’t that extraordinary. I forgot to write down which episode was 69, which is a colossal failure on my part.
So that being said, this is the last episode of this arc! Honestly, this arc could’ve been a lot shorter because at this point the only resolution left is for Noah to be a decent person once in his life and for Kaiba Sr. to die (which he’s already done, so...mission already accomplished)
Noah recently came on the PA system to inform us that he accidentally decided to kill everyone (congrats, recently reformed Noah), and so he’s going to do the decent thing and let them know where the exit is without actually doing a damn thing to make a portal to get them to said exit.
Guess where the exit is?
I don’t know why the hell this show keeps going back to the local Dave and Busters where Tea got attacked on a dance machine.
At this moment, Gozaburo decided to turn into some sort of giant red ghost devil.
Yes. Exactly what it sounds like.
Apparently this was a thing he could just do this entire arc.
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The fact that Seto’s Dad can just morph into a giant red demon is like...not even a problem for anyone on this cast. He literally goes back to his side of the field and goes right back to playing cards. Cuz youknow. Cards.
It’s basically a "Anyone with a millennium item can shoot lasers but never actually does” but demon format. Gozaburo *could* turn into the hulk but like...why?
Meanwhile the rest of the cast are playing cards against the card monsters, that are really just 3D models that Gozaburo had on file. He could have used...literally anything to throw at these people and he went with cards. He could have just dropped a boat on them but...I dunno, maybe he didn’t know where the boat folder was.
Yugi trying really hard to not acknowledge the annoying as hell Joey face and give it any more attention than it already has.
Tea and Serenity scramble to the exit largely unscathed, dragging Tristan with them because he is too small to hold a card hologram and is too monkey to be at all useful back on the front lines.
And they just wake up. Just like that. Just like they woke up from a simple nap or something.
And voila, Tristan is no longer a monkey, his brain is back to normal, the writers were like “we really have to focus on Noah right now, please forgive us if we just pretend line all that brain damage Tristan went through, his brain being 5 DIFFERENT PEOPLE at the same time, having his brainwaves turned into an actual monkey, and then back again within the space of a few hours- just pretend he’s fine now.
It’s fine. Tristan’s fine.
Tristan wasn’t really...all that bright to begin with so...he’s fine.
And so, as our B team is getting back into the real world, Noah sees this little post-it note on the side of his computer that says “PS, Yugi is a main character and must be present for the finale although he will serve little purpose there” and so Noah pressed that intercom mic button to say:
And it’s at this point that Noah says “I’ll just make you a portal and warp you right there” and then I guess everyone standing around Noah kind of looked at eachother and was like “NOW you do that? NOW? AFTER the chase through the monster copy-paste factory?”
The show is desperately trying to convince me that Noah is now fully a good brother but ehhhhh he’s not. Like, I’ll be honest, they give him the best send off they could have possibly given to such an irredeemably evil character. Like, Seto himself is such a bag of pistachios that you really have to stretch Noah pretty far into evil territory to make Seto look like the good guy in comparison, and it sort of made me not really buy this whole Noah redemption arc.
It’s more like a prequel to a redemption arc that apparently won’t even happen in this series of Yugioh. He comes back at some point, and I only know that because I had to do a google image search of this kid for some reason and it was like ah, yeah, this is definitely a screen cap of a later, glossier looking Yugioh. But, for now, I’d say that Noah’s arc isn’t so much about him coming closer to his family or turning towards the ‘light’, as Pharaoh put it last episode. It’s more about Noah finally letting go of his Father, which should have been the arc of Seto Kaiba.
Instead, Seto did absolutely nothing to let go of his Dad, to the point that Seto is now fighting a computer that just kind of looks like his Dad during a missile strike aimed at Seto’s own face, and Seto did not stop till he won, because of his own damn pride.
Like I think I mentioned this in the last recap, but if they wanted to have Seto show any changes in this arc (which he hasn’t done) then he should have walked away. Instead, he’s very clearly still using his past trauma to fuel the obsessive reasons why he’s playing cards in the present.
Oh, and PS, Yugi’s here, I don’t know why he is, but it does make for some good scenery shots for the commercials so you know, why not.
Gozaburo decides it’s about time to turn into a 50 ft rage monster, and he pushes them to a ledge. Ah, dangerous ledge trope, it’s been a while.
And, finally, as was hinted basically since S1, Yugi gets Seto to jump directly off a ledge of a very tall structure. It finally happened.
Don’t think about it.
And into a portal? That gets them to the exit? Like y’all...this is a kid’s show and all so I shouldn’t question any very convenient plot devices but like...what?
Anyways, they’re fine now, don’t worry about it.
And so, now for a brother pow-wow between Mokuba, who is either still very, very much in Stockholm Syndrome Territory or maybe just doesn’t know that Noah dropped a rocket on his face while Moki was AFK.
And so Noah walks off into the fog cloud because he is the only person on this entire show who would rather die than share a brain (and you know Moki would’ve been down. Moki/Noah as the next Yugi/Pharaoh could’ve been a great thing but youknow, also very much way too complicated for this already complicated show).
It was very melodramatic.
And TBH, I will miss Noah a little bit, he had a fun, insane sort of snobby sass, but I can understand why they might not want to keep even more villains around on this show that is already like...dozens of villains, just so many villains.
Anyway, remember that they woke up in a lab and not in a blimp, so they still have to like...get off this damn boat.
Lol nearly forgot this was an anime. Glad Noah got a magic girl moment before he kicked it.
Also, I’m pretty sure it was shirtless Noah in this glowing yellow farmer’s tan that got this episode flagged for Adult Content when it was still in my drafts folder. Tumblr’s bot got super excited to shut this one way down lol.
And then what follows is like one of the best animated loops in Yugioh. One so good that you bet your ass I clipped it to view for my own leisure.
Mokuba, sensing he’s slowing down for no reason makes the mistake of telling his brother “I’m not going to make it” and so, as an unsuspecting Duke Devlin reaches out and says “grab my hand,” Kaiba does...THIS
when the entire time Kaiba was strong enough and had enough jumps to do THIS
Like he could have easily picked up Mokuba but youknow, any chance to throw a kid at Duke Devlin’s face shoe-first, I guess.
Maybe this is why Moki wears a puffy vest?
And so it was here, as the flames encroach on my wonderful blimp baby that I was getting ready to say goodbye, but guess what, she ain’t dead because...of a completely insane reason we’ll get to in a bit.
Oh, and PS Kaiba’s Dad is a flame monster now. Because of...technology?
It’s probably supposed to be metaphorical flames but youknow, apparently Kaiba had the foresight that someone at some point would become a flame demon and try to devour his entire blimp, and so he made a feature you can add onto what ever blimp you decide to buy from him just so you can outrun fire people attacks.
And it turns out Blimp was the real Magical Girl all along.
Blimp lore is getting pretty wild y’all.
Imagine playing cards on it now...
And then everyone collectively decided that Noah WASN’T DEAD. It was very unhealthy! Thanks 4Kids!
The irony about this exchange is that it is Bakura who is the one who’s uploaded to a flash drive, not Noah--Bakura is on a flash drive around Yugi’s neck but they have never discussed this. Like I’m pretty sure no one even has still picked up that Bakura died and that’s going to be the thing I look forward to the most next episode. If they even address it. Which they might not.
And so, Kaiba looks at the wreckage and the rocket parts that he now has to explain to the UN (and probably not for the first time) and he says:
And thus ends the Kaiba’s Kojima-esque War Crimes arc.
Oh man, next time we get to go back to Marik.
Man oh man.
I don’t even REMEMBER what was going on in that arc guys. It’s been like...man.
I might have to read my own blog to refresh myself haha, I honestly have forgotten a lot of details.
Anyway, in memory of when the blimp still looked like a blimp, I guess this is the last time I can ever post this song:
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puzzle pieces | davey jacobs
french vanilla part five
reader x davey jacobs
[ newsies modern au ]
summary: and isn’t it fascinating, the way we always used to fit together like pieces of a puzzle?
a/n: okay so like,,, this isn’t the best, but it’s still pretty good. also there’s like 0 davey content it’s all other people but also it’s quite long and necessary to the story. as always i hope you enjoy and come tell me what you liked about it?scream at me about it !! also i’m not writing something every day for inktober but i am going to try to do half of the month, so that means about 15 or 16 fics posted within this month. let’s hope i can do it !!
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Grocery shopping, in its own way, was quite calming. Y/N was letting herself relax as she strolled the aisles while pushing her shopping cart, all thoughts and problems set aside for the time being. She let the tension bleed out from her shoulders and allowed herself to buy the foods she saw that they didn't really need in the apartment, but looked too good to not grab. She grabbed some of her roommate's favorite cereal and even got a box of Alex's favorite type of pop tarts for the next time he came over.
She was looking at the coffee mugs on display and was considering buying one when she heard their voices. She froze in place. There was no possible way that this could have been happening, not with how tired and confused she already was. It had been so long, it was completely possible that she had maybe already been thinking about them and it wasn't even really their voices that she had heard. Perhaps she was just going insane in the middle of the grocery store. That was definitely the better option.
Still, when she glanced quickly to her left, there they were: arguing over which creamer to buy.
They looked so heart achingly familiar and perfectly ordinary that for a second she convinced herself that no time had passed and she could go up and say hello and they could laugh about running into each other while shopping for their groceries. The reality of the situation was certainly not as ideal. The reality of the situation was that Y/N quickly looked away, trying to hide herself. That is, of course, until she realized that the shelves they were bickering in front of were the exact shelves that contained her roommate's favorite creamer. Technically, she could have just kept walking and apologized to her roommate, Lexie, using the excuse of having forgotten. But she loved Lexie and Lexie was probably the sweetest person ever and Y/N would feel like shit if she didn't buy the creamer.
So, after some contemplating, she took a deep breath, kept her head down, and walked toward them.
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Spot sucked at cooking, and Race knew it. Race had always been the cook in their relationship. He wasn't the best with all types of foods, but he did pride himself on his amazing Italian cuisine. Race had always been a little offended, truthfully, by just how bad Spot was at anything that involved making food. And, even worse than his horrifying lack of knowledge when it came to making food, he couldn't even buy it. Spot had somehow managed to be the world's worst grocery shopper, meaning that anytime they needed food Race always had to be the one to go out and get it. Naturally, Race came up with a plan to bring Spot with him to the grocery store to somehow teach his boyfriend how to shop for food. He regretted his decision about two minutes in.
They were both too stubborn to be standing in front of the coffee creamers arguing about differences in price and quality. He wouldn't be surprised if there was an angry mob behind them just trying to get their creamer. Or maybe just bystanders watching them and enjoying the show. Race supposed it would be a bit amusing from an outsider's point of view. It really wasn't from his, though.
"I just don't see why we have to get the more expensive one!" Spot huffed for the millionth time.
"Because we don't like the cheaper one!" Race whisper shouted, trying his best not to cause a scene.
"But they're the same thing! They both say caramel macchiato!" Race couldn't believe the amount of times Spot had made him explain this already.
"Yes, but they don't taste the same and they're made differently. Plus, there's not even that big of a price difference." Race did his best to keep his voice low and calm, taking deep breaths. When he looked at Spot's face he was somewhat surprise and amused to see that his boyfriend was staring wide eyed in the direction of the shelves, his jaw hanging open. "What's the matter? Astounded because you're finally starting to understand how coffee creamers work?" Race joked. Spot didn't react, he barely even moved. Race furrowed his eyebrows, turning around with a confused look on his face.
He understood Spot's shocked state when, upon pivoting, he laid eyes on Y/N L/N reaching out for a container of hazelnut creamer.
His first thought was that she didn't even like hazelnut creamer. If she drank coffee it was only ever iced and it was always either mocha or french vanilla. In fact, he was pretty sure he had gotten her to try a sip of hazelnut coffee once and she had practically spit it out, her face contorting in disgust.
His second thought was that it had been over a year since he had seen her last and her hair was longer and her shirt looked new and she could very conceivably like a new type of coffee.
She looked sort of scared, keeping her head down while she grabbed the creamer, practically stumbling in her haste. He was sure he had never seen her look so anxious.
Something kept him from reaching out, from speaking. She had broken Davey's heart. Maybe. Well, they had all assumed she did with how crushed he was after she had left. But there had always been something in him that hadn't been able to believe she would ever hurt him like that. Besides, she hadn't just been Davey's girlfriend - she had been their friend. Race had loved her as much as he did all of his friends, and he missed her so much.
He was only brought out of his thoughtful state when Spot reached past him and grabbed her arm, forcing her to turn around. She looked at them with wide eyes, very obviously scared and shocked into silence. Spot, though, didn't seem to see a need for words. Instead, he pulled her into a hug.
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There was something about Spot hugging her that felt right. He was warm and his arms fit nicely around her, and she easily returned the embrace. It took all of her willpower not to just burrow her head into his neck and breakdown right there.
This was all too much. She had missed them so much.
She pulled away first, needing to remove herself from all contact for at least a second. She needed time to gather herself and work out what to say to them. She couldn't do this with no warning. She couldn't believe she had lived so long without them.
Spot seemed to sense that she was uncomfortable, taking a step back. She glanced to see Race staring at his boyfriend with a shocked look on his face. She couldn't help but laugh - a giggle that bubbled traitorously up in her throat and slipped past her lips in a burst of noise before she clapped her hand over her mouth.
Race's head turned quickly in her direction and Spot began to smile. Spot came forward and wrapped his arms around her again, lifting her up and spinning her around. She started to laugh wildly. Her troubles were fading from her mind, and everything felt a bit brighter suddenly.
Once her feet were planted steadily back on the ground again she looked at Spot, actually looked at him. He was eye level with her, unlike all their other friends, who had always been taller. She thought his skin might look a bit tanner, like he had spent the summer in the sun. His hair was messy and there were bags under his eyes, but he didn't look like he was too tired or disheveled. He was wearing his jean jacket and his favorite brown boots and he looked like he hadn't changed at all. She had missed him so damn much.
"You look brilliant," he breathed. "It's been so long."
"Too long," she corrected, still smiling. She heard Race take a deep breath from behind Spot and looked over at him. He did not seem as happy to see her.
In fact, seeing him reminded her of exactly why it had been so long since they had all seen each other. He was running his hand over his face and he looked tense and all she could think of was the way that he had called her ten times in a row that night and how she hadn't picked up a single one.
His freckles were splattered across his face and she could tell that he had spent the summer in the sun with Spot. The light in his eyes looked dimmer but they were still as blue as ever, his curly blonde hair sticking out in all directions. There was some sort of small stain on the sleeve of his olive green sweatshirt and his jeans were cuffed at his ankles. She had always thought that Race was beautiful, but, after everything, the sight of him just made her sad.
She tried not to imagine what he had looked like when he opened his door one day to find a box sitting outside, containing the key to his and Spot's apartment that they had given her as well as a stack of photographs that she had taken of them over the course of that almost-year they had known each other. She tried not to wonder if he had been angry or sad or confused. She tried not to imagine him picking up the phone and calling her over and over and over and over. She tried not to imagine his face as Davey explained that she had left.
She felt as if she might cry in the middle of the grocery store. Spot looked at his boyfriend warily. Race sighed, looking at them both with sad and tired eyes. He was holding something back, she could tell in the way that he hesitated before speaking.
"We should be going." His voice was quiet and reluctant. She felt her eyes burn as a sob started to form in the back of her throat.
"Right, yeah." She nodded, blinking ferociously. She slowly placed the bottle of hazelnut creamer in her shopping cart, taking a deep breath and preparing herself to walk away.
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She was walking away and Spot was glaring at him and his heart was breaking in his chest and he didn't know what he could say but he knew that he didn't actually want her to leave.
"You don't like hazelnut," he blurted out. She turned around with a confused look on her face, tilting her head at him. He gestured at the creamer in her cart. "You never used to like hazelnut."
"Oh," she looked down, sounding disappointed somehow. "Yeah, it's for my roommate. She loves it."
"That makes sense," he nodded. Spot looked between them like they were aliens. Race had taken part in many uncomfortable and awkward conversations in his life, but this was certainly one of the worst. He missed when the conversation used to flow easily between them. He missed her.
"Yeah. Well, I'll be going, I guess." Her words came out slow and unsure, her eyes trained on the ground.
"We could all go out together," Spot spoke up. Both of them looked at him in surprise. "We could get lunch or dinner, or even breakfast. You know, just hang out." There was a pause where they all just stared at each other.
"Like we used to." Y/N's voice was soft but hopeful. Race thought of Davey, holed away in his apartment for weeks after she had left. He thought of the box he had found sitting on the doorstep of his and Spot's apartment, thought of the way he had hung all the pictures on the wall like pieces of a puzzle and then just stared at them, feeling empty. They had lost her, but eventually he had made peace with it. And now she was standing right in front of him.
"Yeah, like we used to," he found himself saying as a small smile curved his lips upwards.
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Spot found trusting people hard. After the life that he had lead it made sense. He had spent his childhood either running from his abusive mother or being passed around in foster homes after she had drank herself to death. He learned to be wary of others learned to put on a cold demeanor. Even if he showed signs of playfulness, he had mastered appearing as unapproachable. He had learned the hard way to hide his emotions and toughen himself up, refusing to get attached to people out of fear of losing them.
Race had been the first person in a long time to start to crack his hard and cold facade. Spot had been friends with Jack before he had met Race, sure, but not close friends, and certainly not the kind that openly expressed affection for each other - no matter how much Spot worried when Jack showed up with a bloodied nose and a black eye. But it had been Race, with his infuriating smirk and his easy jokes and his causal touches, that had started to bring Spot out of his shell.
When Y/N came into their lives he was still learning, still getting used to having people who really cared about him. He was still working on not flinching whenever someone put their hand on his shoulder, still trying to work out how to express to Race that he loved him.
The first time that he had properly met Y/N he had showed up to Jack and Davey's apartment fresh out of a fight, trying not to drip blood on the carpeted floor of the hallway. Davey had been the one to open the door, eyes going wide as he pulled Spot into the apartment. Y/N, comfortably situated on the couch with Tangled paused on the TV, had turned her head at the commotion, gasping at the sight of him. Jack hadn't been home, but Y/N had been quick to drag him into the bathroom and raid the cupboard for first aid supplies. She had cleaned and bandaged his wounds gently, talking with him the entire time to distract him from the pain.
Y/N had been the quickest person to ever get past his walls, even getting him to laugh while she cleaned his knuckles. She had made him sit with her and Davey and watch Tangled while they waited for Race to come and get him. Spot could never forget the way she had fussed over him and done her best to make him feel as comfortable and safe as a possible.
She had been the one he had gone to when he had made up his mind that he didn't want to just be Race's friend. She had been the first one he texted after he and Race had started dating. And then she had left, and all he had in her place was a key, a wall of pictures, and memories that kept him awake.
Neither of them would ever tell, but Race had held Spot while he cried for many nights after she had taken off. Spot missed her so damn much. And she was right there, in the grocery store of all places. He couldn't help but hug her, couldn't help the instinct of making her laugh. He couldn't hold himself back from suggesting going out all together, because he knew that Race, as much as he was trying to be strong and pretend otherwise for everyone's sake, missed Y/N L/N more than anything.
He beamed when they both agreed, wrapping an arm around his boyfriend and leaning into him.
"We'll text you, okay?" He asked. Y/N nodded, biting her lip in an attempt to hide a smile that Spot could still see. She waved and then turned around and began to push her cart in the direction of the cash registers. Spot turned back to Race, taking in the joyful but cautious expression on his face.
"Now, why can't we buy the cheaper one?"
"For fuck's sake."
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Crutchie was starting to get a bit worried when it had been hours since he had texted his project partner and she had yet to respond. He liked to meet new people, but he sort of hated his professor for not letting them choose their own partners. He would have much rather partnered with Finch, who was also in his class, than some random girl he didn't know.
And now she wasn't answering her phone. Great.
He sighed and gave in, unlocking his phone with the intent of sending another text. When he clicked on the conversation he reread his first one: hey y/n! this is charles. what day would work for you to meet up and work on the project?
He had already typed out his follow up text when he glanced at the contact name in a last attempt to make sure he was texting the right person. Only then did he feel the panic settle in. That was definitely not his partner's phone number.
He frantically typed out another text, his heartbeat quickening in his chest. This could not be happening. He was mortified. Terrified. And, just maybe, a little bit hopeful.
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It was after Y/N had put away all the newly bought groceries and taken some time to reflect on what had just happened to her in the coffee aisle when her phone vibrated. She unlocked it without thinking, tapping on the unread conversation. It was Crutchie.
The first text made no sense, asking her to meet up to work on a project. She didn't have any classes with Crutchie and she certainly wasn't working with him on any projects. She furrowed her eyebrows as she kept reading. The second text clarified the situation a bit.
oh my god, i am sorry! my partner's name is also y/n and when i typed it in i just clicked the first contact to come up without thinking. sorry to bother you!
She felt herself smile. Maybe she could use this. Maybe, in addition to Davey and Spot and Race, she could get Crutchie back too.
it's fine! not gonna lie, i was very confused lol. hope you get through to this other y/n.
i feel bad bc i was getting mad that she wasn't answering, and it turns out i never even texted her in the first place. imagine being this big of an idiot.
i don't have to imagine dude. i'm as idiotic as they come.
you said it, not me.
hey!
kidding!
She paused, not knowing what else to say. But he had already started typing again, and his next message came through in a second.
how have you been?
pretty good. you?
fairly well myself. though i am in need of your coffee.
oh?
i am dead tired from all my assignments and you make it like no one else.
aw i'm flattered. i can totally make you coffee when we meet up to work on the project we were partnered for.
okay you know what i did not ask for this attack
i mean you kinda did
how about you make coffee the next time you come over?
and when would that be?
if you showed up at any point this week i would not be opposed
friday? i can make coffee and i'll even bring banana bread
yes please
She could not believe what had just happened. She had met up with Davey, agreed to hang out with Spot and Race sometime soon, and made plans to go to Crutchie's all in one day. Everything felt right for once. Everything felt amazing.
It was funny, she supposed. It was like riding a bike, or singing along to an old favorite song. A sense of familiarity and ease overcame her. How strange, the way that puzzle pieces could only ever fit together. She had been a lost puzzle piece for far too long.
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Crutchie smiled as he put his phone down. A part of him felt guilty, like he was betraying Davey somehow. Another part was kind of scared that Jack would literally fight him on Davey's behalf if he found out.
But what they didn't know wouldn't kill them. And he missed his friend.
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apparently ‘game theory‘ is up there with ‘irish potato famine‘ on things i can yell about for 700 words
aight now that shit has calmed down slightly imma toss out the theory i’ve had all along:
the whole point of the random eyes is to make breeding projects harder. it's an intentional feature, not an unintentional side effect.
‘wait a sec straif, why the Actual Fuck do you theorize staff would go out of their way to make a major game mechanic harder?’
(...i’m not kidding about the rest of this being 700 words.)
because it is a game, not a dragon dollmaker. part of game design is not just making in-game goals attainable; it's making in-game goals attainable and challenging. that's what separates games from tools used to just do the thing.
and yes, breeding projects are already a challenge.
and as has been made obvious over the past few days, lots of players think this pushed the game balance too far in the 'challenge' direction.
but on the flip side, it's undeniable breeding projects have gotten easier over the past five years, especially in favor of users whose goal dragon is already popular. if i want to breed a triple-obsidian imperial, i could do it right now with ready-to-breed parents plucked from the ah. if i wanted to breed something more random and less popular, i'd have a harder time and would need to balance 'when do i want to start breeding' vs 'how good do i want my per-nest odds to be', but increase in volume means there's still more options than there were a few years ago.
obviously even with perfect parents there's still challenge. most notably, staff has never released a gender-change scroll... for exactly this reason. they want at least some chance rather than always being able to scroll to what you want. similarly, while nest rentals aren't against the tos, they're not officially supported, nor has staff ever released a single-dragon flight-change item or ability to control your nest elements without moving your whole lair, again, for exactly this reason. they want breeding projects to be some level of challenge and while flight can somewhat be user-controlled, a flight-change item would have made things easier than staff wanted.
but gender aside, breeding projects have ceased to be a challenge because of the game itself or because of anything the player directly controls. they're now a challenge based on whether you want the same stuff as everyone else and the resulting ease of getting optimal parents. and there's only two ways to handle that balance:
'let's accept the challenge levels of breeding projects are primarily based on popularity now.'
'let's add something else which can't be purposely bred for and thus can't be tied to popularity.'
staff chose door #2, and now we have random mutations, with a small counterweight of vials to keep some control in the hands of the user. allowing eyes to be genetically passed on wouldn't fix the popularity imbalance, and making all the eyes available as controllable vials would be less 'breeding challenge' than 'shopping challenge'. so we've got one (for now) controllable vial, and limited-time-only scattersights, and either way how much users like a certain style is irrelevant to how easy it is to get.
'okay straif let's say you're right, then why did staff not lay this out at the start? people who don't like the rebalance would still be pissed but at least nobody would be freaking out about lack of staff communication.'
ladies gentlemen and distinguished enbies, allow me to review some history of Flight Rising Staff, creators of such hits as 'contact us (is a black hole but maybe your enquiry will be lucky enough to escape the event horizon)', 'the weekly q&a thread is now the biweekly q&a thread is now the oft-delayed q&a thread is now closed for a month', 'we made yet another change and said nothing about it', and of course the entire Banpocalypse 2014 Collection, featuring 'we suspended a well-known user for a rule which didn't even clearly exist and coincidentally we're also adjusting our banning procedure for coli-bots and multi-accounts and saying as little as possible about either and inevitably half the users conflated the two and are spreading wild rumors about how trivial an offence one could be banned for and the users who noticed the distinction are perturbed by our lack of communication and the entire gotdam userbase is now screaming like cicadas'.
...i'm not sayin staff's communication wrt the eye release was good or even acceptable but 'staff has 0 communication skills' is the least surprising part.
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EP 6 - Sorry I’m So Unhinged - Max
Okay wow I honestly am thinking and damn I really should not have chopped jess’ rope and then admitted to it bc honestly I do really trust her and I feel like that was an in the moment stupid decision that I made thinking about winning this comp and nothing else
I'm stoked to have made it past the last team meeting. I'm thinking there's probably only one or two more votes before the merge so that with someone coming back from the Arena, we'll be at 12 or 13 heading into the merge.
I don't know that I'm in a fantastic position on my team or if we merge. I've got some connections, but I don't have tons of established alliances. I would LOVE to get Justin out before the merge, but I don't know that I'm in a position to do it. Perhaps if I got a gold medal, but we'll see what ends up happening.
What I actually really want is for Shuey to head to a team meeting. Caitlin has had her gold medal since the very first round, so I'm eager to get that away from her. She and Keaton are still my top targets, I would love to get them both out in the first two merge votes. They're tough players and have both clocked me as a strong player in past games, which is not something I need moving forward.
i think ive been too focused on winning so far. winning is boring.
i am going to start channeling louise from bobs burgers
this will be me for the rest of the game.
any time something happens i will ask myself WWLDASIDITATQIA (what would louise do and should i do it? these are the questions i ask)
asya so real.... i want to bring back the energy we had on jarods birthday mini
rocks 2 times in the first 3 votes. that's how i will be dying in beijing
JESSICA — Today at 9:49 AM
also an update: pancake told me to throw. i perhaps did not entirely throw. but whenever i had a guess i said "team, why don't we simply send this guess and see what happens".
i think if we win anyways then that is very funny and silly
JESSICA — Today at 9:56 AM
which goal should i attempt to accomplish in tumblr survivor
p!choose throw a vote for 2 councils in a row and see if anyone notices;give away immunity;win a third time i guess boring;send someone home with 0 votes again
Pancake
BOT
— Today at 9:57 AM
I choose... give away immunity
JESSICA — Today at 9:57 AM
ooh
spicy
i will do it
i gave away immunity in the last game i played
it was very fun and exhilarating
one final question for today
pancake if we lose who should i target
p!choose daisy;madison;keaton;you aren't losing so no need to worry
Pancake
BOT
— Today at 9:59 AM
I choose... daisy
JESSICA — Today at 9:59 AM
pancake. what the heck.
idk if i can follow pancake on this one. but we will see. goodbye viewers for now.
Alright so I feel like I’m in a decent spot in this game? After tonight I’m the only person with a gold medal in the game which is nice to have that security! I also feel like I have some strong relationships with some folks which is good. My one concern rn is getting heat for knowing some of the ppl from BB Venue (max, mark, Caitlin) bc I did play in that game 😂😂.
AJ has figured everything for the idol out until the checkpoint (1 more page) and told me which is great! Of course I ran and told Justin as any good ally does. Right now I don’t want this team to lose because I feel great about everyone. I think I’m in a decent spot if we merge tbh.
This round is a mess and I’m certainly glad that I’m immune at this vote. What sucks is I think Pat might get the boot here and that’s the last thing I want. I’m trying to see where Caitlin is at and I’m either giving her too much credit in my head with her answers or she really is dumb. But like I asked her about it and she’s just like “what if they all vote each other” and I know they’re not and I know she knows they’re not since Max told me that she told him that she is down to vote Pat and Max is telling people that Mark is too. Pat is telling me mark is voting Max so I’ve messaged mark and I’m waiting for a reply. But like that was a stupid answer from Caitlin and it limits how much I think I can trust her, which I don’t think I can anyways. If Pat goes I hope he wills me his rings bc then I can get a steal a vote and if we go to another team meeting then I can have a bit more wiggle room. This round just sucks because I am the odd man out on this team and I think im truly only safe because of the gold medal which im still so thankful for. I just hope for Pat to stay and im voting Max and that’s not changing so if im in the minority at least I can confirm where I stand.
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