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Professor Layton and the Illusory Forest
ＰＡＲＴ ０１
〚ＦＩＲＳＴ〛〚ＰＲＥＶ〛〚ＮＥＸＴ〛
Disclaimer: This is a fan-translation for the Japan-exclusive novel Professor Layton and the Illusory Forest. The original novel was written by Kei Yanagihara under the supervision of Akihiro Hino, and belongs to Level-5.
This translation only aims to be a pleasant read for non-Japanese fans, nothing more: I made a few deliberate changes while translating in order to get the writing style closer to what is usually found in English fanfictions, as the Japanese storytelling can sometimes be different than what we are used to.
Somewhere in this world lies the Book of Fate.
This book knows the destiny of all humans.
Whoever has it in hand will rule the world… Past, and future.
Surpassing time and space, one could control everything.
And yet, if someone acquires it… The world will slowly fall to ruin.
The heavens will judge those who would attempt to lay their hands on it despite these warnings.
Chapter 1: A Wedding Under Attack
“The ‘Book of Fate’… Hmm.”
The glowing light of a fireplace illuminates the profile of a man engulfed in darkness.
This man is wearing a mask. The cloak on his shoulders is rather gaudy, and whenever the flames flicker, they make him look like some sort of clown. Despite this, his attire looks strangely fitting, when placed within the setting of an old English study.
His old butler humbly clears his throat, urging him to continue with an encouraging look.
The masked man speaks quietly. “At the west end of England lies Neverlace, a land inhabited by curious forest people.”
“Neverlace, you say?” the butler repeats in a whisper.
The man nods. “Legend has it that there is a forest haunted by strange phenomena within Neverlace, and that those who step foot in it will never come back. As if they were possessed by it.”
The butler bows his head lightly. “The people of England have all been familiar with forests from an early age, and have known to both admire and fear them. This is the kind of story that everyone loves to hear.”
From behind his mask, the man gives a mischievous wink.
“Oh, but there is more to it. Hidden in that forest is the Book of Fate… A book which knows the fate of all of humanity.”
The butler shakes his head sadly.
“I do believe that this haunted forest really exists. But a book that knows the future, now…? You should not be surprised that I find this tale quite dubious.”
The masked man says: “It may be hard to believe, indeed. But if it were true, what would you do? If such a book really existed, anyone could control the fate of humanity as a whole.”
The butler straightens his back and retorts with dignity:
“With all due respect, I believe that such a thing should only be used in the name of the divine, master.”
The masked man, named Descole, replies with a chuckle:
“This is precisely why I must have this book. No matter what it takes.”
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flora doodle backlog!!
#cool swag art#professor layton#flora reinhold#flora friday#angela ledore#They can bond over yheir mutual sucky treatment in their respective stories :-) Yaaay#angela is her Fun Aunt who takes her out for tea & a murder mystery. they have a book club
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Contestants:
Chibiusa Tsukino from Sailor Moon
James Bonde from Moriarty the Patriot
Ranma Saotome from Ranma ½
Agent 47 from Hitman Series
Kuzco from Emperor's New Groove
Peeta Mellark from Hunger Games
Midorikawa Nao from Pretty Cure Series
Mr. Shark from The Bad Guys
Lance Sterling from Spies in Disguise
Brain from Inspector Gadget
Bloom from Winx Club
Double Trouble from STPOP
Yayoi Kise from Pretty Cure series
Penny from The Amazing World of Gumball
Moka from Rosario + Vampire
Princess Peach from Super Mario Bros
Robbie Rotten from Lazytown
Magica De Spell from Ducktales
Vin from Mistborn books
Honey Kisaragi from Cutie Honey
Seiya Kou from Sailor Moon
Don Paolo from Professor Layton games
Loki from Norse mythology
Twilight Sparkle from MLP:FiM
Spy from Asterix and Cleopatra
Maya Fey from Ace Attorney
Transfer from Around the World with Willy Fog
Rapunzel from Tangled
Team Rocket from Pokemon
Dr. Jekyll from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Loid Forger from Spy x Family
Rose Quartz from Steven Universe
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18+ 616 Steve/Tony Discord Book Club: Iron Man: Armored Vengeance
I am trying to make more of an effort to advertise our Book Clubs here! So this week on the 616 Steve/Tony Discord server it's Iron Man week -- we alternate between Cap, IM, and Avengers -- and lately we've been reading a whole lot of obscure miniseries. So this week it's Iron Man: Armored Vengeance (IM 258.1-258.4)!
Armored Vengeance is a 2013 miniseries by Layton & Michelinie that takes a trip back to the past to imagine what their version of the 1990 arc Armor Wars II could have been. If you're thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought they did Armor Wars?" -- well, they did. They did the first Armor Wars. This is a version of Armor Wars II, the arc by John Byrne and JRJR. We read that one maybe a month ago.
So this has a similar plot to that but in an even more classic style. Tony's still got problems due to the recent back surgery he had that allows him to walk again, but now the problems are a computer virus that would like to be a better version of him, the fact that he can't leave the armor, and the fact that Justin Hammer has hired Tony's girlfriend to spy on him. (If you're wondering if that guy ever quits, we already read Iron Man: Bad Blood, which is the even more obscure miniseries where he dies.)
If you're interested in reading comics with us, or just talking about comics Steve/Tony, come join us on You Gave Me A Home, an 18+ comics Steve/Tony Discord server!
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I know my content still isn't the same kind of Layton Heritage Posts as what is usually being provided by the all-powerful Heritage Blog, and the real first post worth sharing will only come out in about twenty-five hours and forty-five minutes.
Nonetheless, I was foolishly wondering if the Layton Book Club project, whose goal is to provide more official(-ish) content than just the games and raise awareness regarding the existence of the official Layton novels (and their henceforth fan-translation by yours truly), could happen to be a fandom cause selfless and heritage-worthy enough to warrant a little boost provided by your kind and holy power abuse? 👀💦
(anyway it would be really cool if a Layton version of Dracula Daily could really happen, that'd be a cool way to bring even more attention and content to the fandom and possibly rally some attention to it by providing even more juicy propaganda towards the best fandom of all time)
If it can help in any way, I would like to make a humble offering in the meantime in the form of a full scan, transcript, and translation of the letter that Emmy wrote to Layton after the end of Azran Legacy and which I'm pretty sure a big part of the fandom still doesn't even know exists: https://lutiaslayton.tumblr.com/post/724727118367490048/
Oh absolutely, I’m more than happy to help spread fan projects from the Layton fandom! Thank you for your translation work, we owe you for that!
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hello hello -- a few weeks ago over on my layton server, I started a book club for pl fics! interested in reading more fanfiction, discussing it with the authors, and/or potentially having your work featured? come join us!
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hello! returning to tumblr after nearly a decade away and hoping to restart a blog again 🌸 this'll be my general/catch-all blog though i'm hoping to start some fandom-specific ones once i've gotten back into the groove of things. quick 'about me' for ya:
karla, she/her, asexual, philippines
26 y/o with a mind-numbing day job
just wants to make things for the sake of art
i've got a ton of hobbies but the ones i'm into at the moment are:
playing video games
reading books occasionally
listening to kpop girl groups
attending fan conventions
collecting dolls
finally, here's a long list of old and new fandoms my heart still holds dear (roughly in the order i got into them - below the cut) 💕 hope y'all enjoy your stay!
y2k animated series (totally spies, kim possible, martin mystery, winx club)
barbie
og charmed
castle
ya book series (thg, grishaverse/six of crows, adsom, the remnant chronicles, and many more)
bbc sherlock
doctor who (9th to 11th mainly)
marvel cinematic universe
agents of shield
choices: stories you play
zero escape, ai the somnium files
professor layton
the legend of zelda: breath of the wild
animal crossing
love live!
kpop ggs (loona, dreamcatcher, twice, itzy, ive, gfriend, nmixx)
genshin impact
riverdale
fate: the winx saga
shadow & bone
the umbrella academy
young royals
sex education
heartstopper
heartbreak high
drag race philippines
monster high (g1 and g3)
rainbow high
lol surprise
dislyte
911 and 911: lone star
honkai: star rail
#introduction#about me#karla talks#fandoms#video games#gaming#books#kpop#girl groups#kpop gg#dolls#intro#mutuals#tv series#tv shows#movies
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Things I Have Seen
I know I get a lot of "Do you know [x]" questions, and although I love them, I'd like to make a quick list of stuff to explain a lot of stuff. Let's go. This is gonna be messy. Sorry if this shows up in any sort of search results. It's not my goal to have that happen.
ANIME/MANGA
Assassination Classroom
Black Butler
Death Note
Fullmetal Alchemist
.hack: Legend of the Twilight
Sgt. Frog
One-Punch Man
Way of the Househusband
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BOOKS
Too many. I can't list them all.
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GAMES
A lot of these ARE me watching Let's Plays. They'll be marked with an asterisk.
Ace Attorney* - Only the first one
Ao Oni*
Bendy and the Ink Machine*
Bugsnax*
Cuphead
Danganronpa*
Disco Elysium
Doki Doki Literature Club*
Fire Emblem: Awakening
FNAF*
Fran Bow
Ghost Trick*
Hatoful Boyfriend
Henry Stickmin
Ib*
It Takes Two*
Kingdom of Loathing/West of Loathing
Mad Father*
Misao*
My Time at Portia/My Time at Sandrock
MySims - Kingdom and Agents specifically.
OFF*
Pokemon - Most main-line, PMD, Ranger, GO, Snap, and Pokepark.
Professor Layton - Literally all of them. Including spinoffs.
Psychonauts
Sally Face*
Stanley Parable
Team Fortress 2*
Undertale
Until Dawn*
We Happy Few*
What Remains of Edith Finch
Zero Escape
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TV SERIES
Animaniacs
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Doctor Who
Early Edition
The Good Place
Gravity Falls
Green Eggs and Ham
Inside Job
Invader Zim
Over the Garden Wall
Total Drama
Wander Over Yonder
#queue#the owl posts#the owl's vault#listen. i've been into a lot of things. this is just a bunch of 'em.#I am so very much vibing anymore.
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About post!
Name: Malcolm
Pronouns: He/Him
Dere type: Kuudere/Dandere
Likes: Anime, writing, RPGs, coding, coffee, psychological horror, manga and puzzles
Anime I like: Mob Psycho 100, The Disastrous Life Of Saiki-K, Ouran High School Host Club, Serial Experiments Lain, Bungo Stray Dogs, Parasyte, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tokyo Ghoul, Death Note, Monster, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter, Assassination Classroom, Sailor Moon and Komi Can't Communicate
Other shows: Bob's Burgers, South Park, Malcolm In The Middle, Daria, Gravity Falls and Over The Garden Wall
Movies: All Ghibli films, Mrs Doubtfire, The Craft, Return Of The Jedi, The Matrix, Mean Girls, Addams Family Values, Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys, Fight Club and American Psycho
Video games: Stick of Truth, Final Fantasy 7 (1997), Ocarina of Time, Doki Doki Literature Club!, Earthbound, all Resident Evil games, Super Castlevania 4 and Professor Layton
Musical artists: Lemon Demon, The Cure, The Smiths, Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Joy Division, Bo Burnham, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, They Might Be Giants, Weird Al Yankovic, MSI and Will Wood
Books: Earthlings (Sayaka Murata), The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe), Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata) and Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
Before You Interact:
-I am obsessive with my interests and will go on long talks/rants about them, sorry if this is annoying.
-I am very blunt and will just say what I think, often without thinking. If I say something rude, please tell me, I most likely didn't know that I said anything wrong.
-I struggle with telling tone through text, so use tone tags.
-I don't use trigger warnings.
-I'm shy and terrible at starting conversation, so I won't talk to you first. If you're interested in being friends, please be the first to interact.
-You can vent to me about anything, but I'm bad at comforting people, if I sound unempathetic it isn't intentional, I just don't know what to say.
Do Not Interact:
-Racists, homophobes, transphobes, etc
-Incredibly religious people
-Anyone who ships real people
-Anyone who has a typing quirk (1t'$ @nn0y1ng)
-Brags about mental illnesses
-TCC
Thin-Ice:
-My Chemical Romance fans (bad experiences)
-Soukoku shippers
-Style shippers
-Harry Potter fans
-Hunger Games fans
Top Kins:
-Kusuo Saiki (The Disastrous Life Of Saiki-K)
-Lain Iwakura (Serial Experiments Lain)
-Edogawa Ranpo (BSD)
-Rei Ayanami (Evangelion)
-Edgar Allan Poe (BSD)
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Romantic Times Rewind: April 2006 Reviews
In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the book reviews for the April 2006 issue of Romantic Times, aka RT Book Club.
Every time we do one of these recaps, the masthead has a 65% chance of being different. It keeps us on our toes!
Special and massive thanks to Kay Layton Sisk for sending me this issue!
You can also find all the RTRW content at our category page for Romantic Times…
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See you this Saturday for the beginning of Professor Layton and the Illusory Forest!
There it is my friends! Democracy has spoken, and thus Layton's Book Club will from now on update on Saturdays at 19:00 (7pm) UTC!
The prologue of Illusory Forest will therefore be posted in two days. In the meantime, have a little appetiser!
And what's more, the first few pages of the novel actually contain official character designs for three brand new characters!
(The following images are digital scans kindly provided by Shinjinotikari17)
[Hershel Layton] An archaeology professor at Gressenheller College.
[Luke Triton] An 11-year-old young boy. He admires professor Layton.
(Level-5 how could you do him so dirty you can't have that be his intro he deserves so much better than that???)
[Emmy Altava] Professor Layton's official assistant. Photography is her hobby.
[Inspector Clamp Grosky] Member of Scotland Yard. A hot-blooded police detective endowed with miraculous physical prowess.
幻影の森の中にある
And now, in the heart of the forest of illusions...
[Aston Bloom] A wealthy youth living in the village of “Neverlace.”
(For the record, feel free to have all the headcanons you want, but he is not related to Leonard Bloom. Leonard Bloom's Japanese name is actually ロナード・ブルーマイル -- so his last name is not ブルーム like Aston, and his Japanese name actually reads as something along the lines of "Ronaldo Bluemile", with the L's and R's being interchangeable.)
[Sania Cornell] A beautiful woman who fell into a coma due to an accident which occurred one year ago.
[Village Mayor] The Village mayor of “Neverlace.”
He will entrust Layton with the puzzle of a cursed dial.
(Imagine not even giving that guy an actual name 😭)
[Jean Descole] An unidentified masked scientist.
[Index]
Chapter 1: A Wedding Under Attack
Chapter 2: The Forest of Neverlace
Chapter 3: A Residence Wrapped in Mystery
Chapter 4: The Cursed Village
Chapter 5: The Sleeping Bride
Chapter 6: The Forbidden Grove
Chapter 7: The Mystery of the “Ancient Tree”
Last Chapter: The Fate of the Forest Prince
Epilogue
Puzzle Production: Shin Onodera
Puzzle Illustrations: Ritsuro Takamura
Main Illustrations: Takuzō Nagano (Level 5 Inc.)
Binding: Hitoshi Shirayama & Bay Bridge Studio
And that's it for today! Are you guys hyped? In either case, I hope you will enjoy the ride. Be ready for more than 300 pages of a brand new official Layton story!
And now that said Saturday has passed, you can now start reading!
» Click here to start!
#professor layton#layton's book club#professor layton and the illusory forest#illusory forest#aston bloom#sania cornell
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cheese part 11, finale
Bibliography
Ensrud, Barbara (1981). The Pocket Guide to Cheese. Sydney: Lansdowne Press. ISBN 978-0-7018-1483-0.
Jenkins, Steven (1996). Cheese Primer. Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-89480-762-6.
Mellgren, James (2003). "2003 Specialty Cheese Manual, Part II: Knowing the Family of Cheese". Archived from the original on June 24, 2003. Retrieved October 12, 2005.
Further reading
Layton, T.A. (1967) The ... Guide to Cheese and Cheese Cookery. London: Wine and Food Society (reissued by the Cookery Book Club, 1971)
Buckingham, Cheyenne (May 1, 2019). "Is It Bad to Eat Cheese With Mold On It?". Eat This, Not That!.
External links
The Complete Book of Cheese at Project Gutenberg
Cheese.com – includes an extensive database of different types of cheese.
Classification of cheese – why is one cheese type different from another?
Cheese at Wikipedia sister projects:
Media from Commons
Quotations from Wikiquote
Recipes from Wikibooks
Travel guides from Wikivoyage
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Finally took my time to do something like this. Everyone, this is my shipping bingo! Shipping is usually not the first thing I notice, but as of lately I’ve been noticing specific pairings I deeply love, so here! These are pretty much all of my OTPs! ^_^
EDIT: adding a couple more I wasn’t able to fit in. ^^
#Super Paper Mario#The Princess and the Frog#Smile for Me#Psychonauts#Ouran High School Host Club#Coco#The Book of Life#Maya and the Three#My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic#Helluva Boss#Tarzan#Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea#Professor Layton#Big Hero 6 the Series#He-Man and the Masters of the Universe#Hamtaro#Oswald the Lucky Rabbit#Treasure Planet#The Nightmare Before Christmas#Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch#Holidaze#Cars 2#Aggressive Retsuko#Pokémon Mystery Dungeon#My OTP#Personal Rambles
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"More reputation rehabilitation for Melanie Cavill."
#Snowpiercer#Snowpiercer TNT#Javier de la Torre#Ruth Wardell#Zarah Ferami#Roberto Urbina#Alison Wright#Sheila Vand#Snowpiercer 2x05#my gifs#for the viewer's morale obviously#and here goes our usual round of rants#Wilford having a book club with supposedly severe remprimands o_O#Headwoods bickering over Max de Winter and the narrator o_O#even Pike despises LJ and reproaches Layton for cooperating with her#thank you for that Pike#I so hate the idea of school uniform on Snowpiercer#you have little resources why would you waste them on such a stupid thing#why did those children picture Mel in a red dress is also beyond my comprehension#strongly disapprove of 'no joy without pain' idea#I'm glad we won't endure Terence any longer#but that 'political' murder was so... ridiculous?#Layton doesn't even know whether Terence has shared his concerns with anyone#and you have the Drawers remember?#Terence disappearing would be a stronger message than Terence murdered#or does Layton expect everyone to pop out of the Drawers like he did#seeing Breachmen slaughtered in that particular manner was surprising#not yet sure whether it was a good or a bad decision for the story
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mod pluto here! we have another batch! one that took seven days to post XD
Dan
he's a real soft and considerate lad. he is very patient with everyone, like a patience of a king, and never rushes anyone in a hurry. dan can probably wait a long time to let you finish what you're doing so you won't be stressed XD
he's a a bit of a doormat (well, perhaps a total doormat) he just does what everyone says, which poses a problem :(
dan can speak sign language while he talks to people, so other people sort of learn simply from watching him. it helps them understand it a little better, which is a good thing!
he really loves talking about music and the importance of understanding and accepting your friends - though, he's not a fan of huge gatherings. he's much happier in a small group ^^
when problems arise, he likes to gain as many angles of the situations as he can and take each one into consideration before thinking of a definite solution. and dan's quite good at mind puzzles on top of that! (really helps that he played a lot of professor layton growing up, which also implies he's a fan of tea and being a gentleman)
he's married to cl and works with her in the animal rescue shelter as an animal groomer; making sure that the animals are comfortable and cleaning them up. he loves to help out all animals in need :D
as for relationships, i'd like to think that he and todd would become instant friends the moment dan shows that he can use sign language. they constantly have conversations to what topic they are interested in whenever one of them is on break and todd is glad to meet dan cuz he's so nice :) besides that, dan's pretty much friendly with everyone. also! since he and cl work with animals, they are good friends with mark too
Christi
initially a bit of a socially awkward recluse due to not being close around the main part of the neighborhood, christi is absolutely delighted to make new friends from the main area when ringo's riddles lead the lads to her eclectic personal library and treehouse!
she's actually quite familiar with the bakery and patryck's coffee shop, and can often be seen there writing or sketching something in the latter - either in a laptop, notebook, and sketchbook. anything goes as long it's in her leather side-bag!
however, her true eccentricities as an author-illustrator (and amateur theologian) really come to light once you pay her a visit to her home. no, not the cottage; that's the personal library (to which anybody can go now) her home is a tree and the treehouse up top! :000
she'll probably become part of the book club that happens every month. christi might thrive there with her love of books!
christi herself is an optimist and a believer in the extraordinary in the ordinary - be it little miracles, acts of kindness, making childhood dreams come true and all those sorts! she will eventually give it a try. because after all, adventure it out there!! and as a fellow had once said before her; "those who do not believe in magic will never find it."
her little library is always open to visitors! and you can hang your coat in the large old wardrobe and relax. (just... be careful if you decide to play hide-and-seek and go in there. there's not really a back of it. word has been spreading around that you may find a forest beyond it and a lamppost in said woods, but who's to say?)
(also, she's bound to make a lot of references *wink wink* XD)
CL
cl has a very firm and voice when she speaks and will stand up for dan once he shows his doormat tendencies. she is not going to let this happen to her husband or anyone for that matter if it meant not protecting them.
she teaches people the importance of being kind while also being unyielding in your boundaries and standing up for yourself. it's important that you gotta make a line for yourself that anyone shouldn't cross and that's good! :)
she and dan are married and live in a nice, double-wide trailer
as mentioned, she rescues animals. it's her passion job! sometimes. she and the rest of the people who worked in animal-based careers meet up in a club at someone's house to whoever hosts (that usually goes to tord's) to share their experiences and ridiculous stories. what? even though she loves her job doesn't mean it's easy to take care of animals who keep being so troublesome.
when she and dan are not working, they tend to be those people who show off cool animals to everyone XD they rescued this snake a while back and kept it as a pet, and that's the one who they usually let others admire. they foster some reptiles they saved in their trailer until they can be properly released back to the wild.
occasionally, they'd be called to the zoo to handle exotic animals and allow kids to interact and explain awesome facts about them.
cl has a great friendship with edd and tord; having a sweet platonic bond with edd while she and tord feel more like they are brother and sister.
this is their work uniforms!
courtesy of my friend dan! :D
#mod pluto#eddsworld#ringo's riddles#art#my art#friend's fic#ew dan#ew cl#ew christi#aknskanka this took long XD#i forgot the rings sknskanknd#but surprise >:]#edit; so i may have forgotten some info so i'll add them later ONCE i remember
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Since today marks 10 days till the season 3 premiere, could you share your Top Ten Snowpiercer moments from seasons 1 & 2?
Ooh ok! In random order as they pop into my head:
1. Melanie’s ominously glowing fight night smile
2. When Layton is like: totalitarian regimes usually control their own drug trades” and Melanie is like 😮 “this is an ark!”
3. Wilford’s book club
4. Wilford’s vindictive puppet show
5. A horrible Chuck E Cheese Carnival car
6. Melanie fusing the two trains together when Wilford decides to kill everyone
7. Melanie sneaking out of Jinju’s “trying to get my bff to chill the heck out” yoga class
8. The whole thing where everyone magically forgot that LJ chopped off dicks and kept them in a box
9. The entire episode with Melanie in the research station
10. Melanie and Ruth talking to the Folgers in the morning for breakfast with spite
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