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rimeiii · 4 months

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I hate beating up a dead horse (and in fear of incurring the wrath of the fandom once more) but the way WHB handles content warnings is just...

Where are the detailed content warnings? Not just for the angels, but for everything? Because honestly, I think the game would've garnered less backlash for having them - a "this game is made for mature audiences, viewer discretion is advised" screen before logging in would be the bare minimum honestly.

Say what you want about the angel cards including dub/non-con content and the cards themselves veering towards that sort of territory but at least give a fucking warning about it? I've always criticized the devs for not having 18+ rating all across the board when clearly mature games like Limbus Company get the 18+ rating. If WHB is NSFW because of the sex and kinky stuff, Limbus is NSFW because of the immense amount of gore and dark content.

"But they have content warnings-" ONLY FOR SEX. AND PAIRED WITH 16+.

It would be perfectly reasonable to assume that, for people who played this game without following any of the pre-release contents, with this combination THERE WON'T BE ANY DETAILED DUB/NON-CON.

This is in Indonesia's Google Play Store, and if it's different in other regions, then it also begs the question - why the FUCK is it not just rated 18+ across the board?!

Limbus Company, the closest comparison I can think of being with their devs (Project Moon) also being a Korean indie company that created a gacha with mature content that has a staff team the size of a high school class (in fact I wager Limbus has less staff working on the game because around half of their staff works almost exclusively at their merch café), only had warnings for extreme violence and strong language, but at least they had the decency to put more warnings in their earliest trailers and the game website - and it's always common courtesy in the fandom to warn potential players with one particular image I'll show down below, containing a list of the game's content warnings.

Oh, and they're rated 18+ across the board, including a Mature Content Description on Steam.

And sure, you can make the argument of "well you know what you're getting into upon looking at the card art", but therein lies the issue of not warning at the very start of the game - nobody knew for sure what triggers would be in the game upon startup.

Whatever way you slice it, dub/non-con is a genuine trigger for other people despite it also being a kink (I personally don't get it and it's a no-no for me even in fiction, but you do you). Adding clear content warnings would literally harm no one and helps people avoid things they know they don't want to consume. Yes, despite the in-game context clues providing hints, a clear indicator is still preferable.

Take, for example, the Lobelia summer skin controversy in Granblue Fantasy. People already know Lobelia as the twisted Evoker who not only murdered his own parents but recorded their dying screams of pain in his conch shells, doing the same thing to his countless victims afterwards. All of this is mentioned during the Fate Episodes to recruit him. You want to know the problem with his summer skin, Danger Beckons by the Shore, though?

There's a home screen voiceline where he offers one of his conch shells for the player to listen to, wherein you will hear the pained and tortured screams of one of his victims as she's attacked and later on eaten alive by a shark. Keep in mind, this sort of voiceline wasn't even in his base art, and while his Fate Episodes had tortured screams it wasn't even half as bad as this particular voiceline.

It's even given a content warning in the wiki.

For a rather significant amount of players who bought the skin, the inclusion of this voiceline despite the subtle warning in the skin blurb (which, fyi, is only accessible AFTER you bought the skin) hampers their enjoyment of the skin when they put it on their home screens then tap Lobelia - which many people who get character skins do. Mostly because there wasn't any clear indicator of the scream and a lot of people never appreciated the sudden jumpscare scream. The fact that Lobelia is a psychopath and doing this shit is in character for him should also be able to stand together with the fact that including a scream out of nowhere is pretty scummy and not a good time. Especially for non-JP speaking players, who essentially got jumpscared by a scream out of nowhere, as they never understood the fact that Lobelia was offering one of his conch shells.

Back to the rating issue, though. Why not rate WHB as 18+ if you're going to include content that could very much be considered controversial, like non-con? Like, say, Limbus Company (which I hate bringing up again bc fuck kjh)? Which not only has the warnings in the app store but plastered in the earliest trailers (still viewable on Steam and Project Moon's YouTube channel but not on the Google Play Store) and the official game website?

And sure. Some of these trigger warnings sound silly (reference to traffic accidents is more or less Charon driving Mephi like a maniac iirc based on the content we already have in the game). But I did genuinely appreciate the warning because let's talk about the first three Cantos after the prologue, hmm?

Canto 1 already includes cannibalism, war, torture, and body modifications, among other things! Canto 2 has references to alcohol and gambling, as well as mentions of homicide - despite being a lighter Canto overall! And in Canto 3, we experienced discriminatory violence, more body modifications, enforced ideologies and/or actions, and religious torture and violence among other things!

I can stomach gore easier compared to non-con and even I appreciate the warning, particularly with regards to Canto 3. Kromer's fascination with everything pure (i.e. no body modifications), all stemming from seeing...something...in the basement of Sinclair's old mansion, the cult behaviour that led to mass murder and torture by the faction she leads (up to and including brainwashing as detailed by Kleinhammer Heathcliff's Identity story) Kromer's obssession with Sinclair and him standing beside her as an ally...it's all genuinely so unnerving, and are story beats the game handles really well despite how disturbing it all really is when you stop and think about it.

"But you should've known considering the game's aesthetics-"

Maybe, especially considering one of Gregor's launch cards is literally this, and most if not all Uptie II arts are gory at the very least.

However, again, I have to underline the importance of content warnings - this time with an irl example.

I have a friend who was interested in Limbus Company. I've talked extensively about Gregor and how much I love him, and it started because I have a drawing I made of him in the back of my phone case and Liu Gregor's Uptie II art as my phone background at the time. They said they were interested, then I had to explain the sorts of contents she would encounter in my native language, Indonesian.

"Blood and gore, violence, a lot of mental health issues - Gregor has PTSD and his chapter depicted it pretty well, human experimentation, homicide, so Nagel und Hammer is basically the Inquisition and kills people to 'purify' them, oh yeah cannibalism is also a thing-"

"Stop, stop, I'm not playing if that's the content I'm going to see. I don't think I can handle it."

This same friend was also interested in playing If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers - a free point-and-click adventure game that deals with themes like depression, homophobia, racism, and suicide. She was willing to try that game out because it wasn't as gory as Limbus Company. For context, the Mature Content Description for this game on Steam:

In both cases, I had to personally explain the content warnings in Indonesian since my friend isn't the most fluent in English and she has a far lower limit for dark content compared to me, but I did send that image of content warnings for Limbus Company and urged people to read the Mature Content Descriptions on Steam for anyone who wanted to try any of the two games and is fluent in English. Why?

Because it's basic human decency to try and keep people informed of any potential triggers and content they might not be comfortable seeing.

Either way, main takeaway from this issue:

Dub/non-con might be your kink, but it might not be for others - it might be uncomfortable or downright triggering as all hell for others, in fact. So, clear content warnings (in particular for any and all triggering content) harm nobody, especially as it helps people avoid story beats where their turn-offs and, more importantly, their triggers.

#what in hell is bad #i don't get why people are actively fighting against a more accessible gameplay experience #“you should've known with the card art” well nobody knew kleinhammer heathcliff would include the bit about brainwashing!#and i get that the dark content for limbus spans the entire overarching plot #but do we need a repetition of the lobelia issue in another game #“paywalling this content is a safety net” doesn't really matter at the end of the day because #1. some people got lucky and got the angel cards through the free seals #2. you're now under a heavier moral obligation to be clear about what you're providing/selling #christ y'all content warnings is just basic human decency #especially for a game that deals with mature topics #and for dub/noncon? yeah i would love clear content warnings for that so i can steer clear of the chapter/story segment in question!

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opens-up-4-nobody · 1 month

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#sorry im thinking abt death again #because it's weird to think that ive been in the room. maybe a meter away from someone as they died #that someone being my mom. its just weird. the time in the hospital feels like it happened in some dark little pocket universe detached from #time. a calm room and then the soft blips of a monitor then the nurse rushing in to say she'd passed #i dont kno y ppl use that phrase: passed on. i mean i do. it softens the topic. makes it sound peaceful. ive yet to use it. i just say she #died bc thats what happened. is that insensitive? i dunno. when i was home i realized that i come off as much stranger than i think. the way #my family see me doesnt fit how i see myself. i dont kno what to do with that. i dunno. theyre all together today #for an early easter. and im halfway across the country again. nose so stuffy ive had to mouth breathe for the last 3 days #and again. everything feels the same as it did before but also profoundly different. sometimes i cry in the mornings. or when i think abt #future vacations she wont be there for. bc in the end she quickly slipped away in a way that couldn't be described as peaceful until her #last half a day. and all i can think about in that tiny room is how scary it would be to lose control like that #and how its not fair and she didnt deserve to die only halfway through a lifetime. but its not about fair and its not about deserving.#sometimes bad things just happen. that's life. and now i own a book called motherless daughters. and now im standing with the countless #others who've lost their moms too early. ive already become aware of 3 ppl in my daily life who are in the same club #i keep thinking about this moment that happened between my parents at the hospital. apparently my dad was helping her get cleaned up and her #stomach was so bloated she looked like she had a bby in there. which my dad said. and my mom apparently said: but it's a baby no one want. i #dont kno y that upsets me so much. all the things i heard abt her being in the hospital before i got there upset me. and the rest of my #family was there to see it. so i have the least traumatic version of the story. and i got almost 27 years with her. except my sisters #probably got more time with her bc i spent so much time away. or maybe not. i dunno.#i dunno. im just sad that shes gone and sad that it was drawn out even a little bit. 6 days isnt long but im sure it felt like an eternity.#again not fair. nothings fair. 53 years of unfairness culminating in a tragedy. she would hate me characterizing it like that. she lived a #full life as they say. full with an asterisk on account of length #unrelated

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ejunkiet · 1 month

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Safe to say I like Claire Kent, oh my god. Her writing style is stripped back and packs a punch, and I am VIBING.

#book rec #i guess?#post apocalyptic vibes to the MAX #Claire Kent #I'm still making my way through the kindled series #resisting the urge to buy everything and taking advantage of my last day of KU to stack the kindle #these stories are darker and touch on a lot of dark topics #and they are so very satisfying okay #last light is the one that most people recommend and i preferred the second half of it #i think her novellas are more effective #heheheh

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jasontoddssuper · 9 months

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The problems with the DC fandom's potrayals of Jason Todd

Hi,hello!!You might recognize me as that one Jason selfshipper who's self-insert is a pink Super that's always making shitposts and drawing parallels because autism go brrrr.If not,then that's a pretty good summary of my blog for newcomers!But today,i'm here to talk about a serious matter involving Jason and the bad depictions of him by fanon.As an autistic person who has the Batfam as one of his biggest spinterest,it's incredibly important and personal to me that Jason be done justice not just by canon but by the fans too.Which as you probably guessed by the title,dosen't happen very often.And i want to get into why and how that is!This ride is gonna be a bit long so buckle in

So to start off,the most blantant one:Making him into a misogynist who treats women badly based off their gender.Jason is an asshole and edgelord but that does not equal hating women and he's proven that many times.Has he been rude to characters who're girls?Yes but not once has he used their gender against them.You don't see him throwing around 'bitch' or the sexual kinds of insults(such as 'whore')towards them and that's because it's not a part of his character and never has been.When he was Robin,he showed such strong respect towards girls of all ages to the point where it was all but outright stated he was willing to push a man off a roof because he SA'd a woman and even as Red Hood,he never looses that as seen by his treatment of Talia and his female love interests.The idea that a guy being 'manly' means he must also be sexist perpetuates toxic masculinity and it's messed up to erase male characters being feminists(for lack of a better term)because you buy in it

To continue off that,the headcanon that he's a horndog who sleeps around is also a direct contradiction of his character.Jason is not actively interested in a relathionship for himself and he has shown this across pretty much all his incarnations in his actions and at least in the case of Rhato,his words too:

And the pervert sense of humor?Straight up made up out of thin air by non-comic readers.I get it,he's very hot,i agree with that very much,but assuming he must also be a sleaze because of it is making extremely weird assumptions.Attractive dosen't mean overly sexual and i don't think i have to explain why it's bad to change him being a total prude to a player because you believe it does,even more so since it's crystal clear that his reluctance towards intimacy is a trauma response.I get that people have different coping mechanisms but they're not interchangable and you're erasing rep by switching Jason's for another one

There's also how he barely drinks alcohol-there's actually a gag of him as Robin where he orders milk at a bar-and hasn't been shown to particularly be into smoking but guess what two of the most popular things he's shown enjoying in fanon are.Ironically enough,he's a huge literature nerd who's unashamed of and shows off his love for books and was implied to be into theater as a kid and guess what again?Those get stolen and given to Tim instead(*Flashbacks to Btas*).It's been shown that in the DC verse,it takes smarts to be a succesful vigilante and/or villain(the former of which Jason is and the latter of which he was for a long ass time)and he's ABSOLUTELY not just getting by on luck.Almost the entierty of Utrh wouldn't have happened if he wasn't a genius.Is he brutal?Yes,so much.Is he a brute?Not in the slightest bit

All this culminates in a particular and very big ick i have when it comes to fanon Jason:How all this combined with the latino hc for him turns him into a walking stereotype of my people.Latino Jason means the world to me,especially if he's also black,and it breaks my heart that gringos have sullied it with their lack of research and fetishization of him but that'll never stop me from reclaiming it and making it into the beautiful rep i know it is!Back on track:This point is something that under no circumstances should be let slide,it's racist fullstop.Reactions to it should only be either 1)attempting to educate or 2)blocking.If you disagree,please just do the blocking towards me

And the last thing i'd like to adress is his relathionship with Bruce:Jason does NOT have 'd*ddy issues',he has TRAUMA.It's one thing to joke about him wanting Bruce to love him so bad he became evil and being petty asf towards him,i actually love that type of humor,and it's a whole nother to be an ableist jackass because Jason wasn't all sunshine and rainbows when he found out his dad didn't avenge his death at FIFTEEN by a guy who does shit like domestic abuse and is a deviant who's not afraid to act on his thoughts.Don't take this as Bruce bashing,as i am aware that this is the fault of the writers bigotry and hating on him squicks me out

What i'm trying to say is:Jason Todd is a much better character than he's given credit for and i hope this helps him get it,even if just a little bit

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sul4ic · 10 days

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"i do not translate into

one of the boys

lotus flower

or chinita

i'm just ES"

#animation #oc #i have been absolutely feral over this song for years and now i finally DONE IT #song name: ES by Crying #toonsquid #i was inspired by those flipnote amvs back in the day and the chiptune of the song so i thought id emulate them here!#CW ⚠️ dark imagery topics and blood

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shiroi---kumo · 9 months

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Misterican Memories || Accepting

@/lady-quen asked:

⏰ + Chaos' invasion of Misterica because you know I had to

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ It all just keeps getting darker.....

Everything time he looks to the sky now all he sees is dead black. This must be the Dragon Lord's coming and he didn't know how he was supposed to stand against this when Lady Tiamat has never told him how.

Usva is dead and he doesn't know what has become his teachers. He can't find Revon either and it's been a few days. Even Usva's teachers seem to have gone missing and he can only pray that none of them were swept up in the torrential winds or that ever expanding dark.

That Musta Pilari has sprung to life on them without warning and it just has to be - it has to be that of Lord Bahamut - isn't it? No. It's something else.

Lady Tiamat is very adamant within the space of his mind that her brother is not the cause of this and nor is Windaria. She keeps calling it The Great Calamity but he doesn't know what she means by that. She keeps telling him he needs to be mindful of himself because he is without His Other but he still doesn't even begin to understand what she means by all this Find your Other nonsense.

She tells him that if the Great Dark finds him, then he's going to be in trouble so he should keeps his wits about him as long as he's alone. Well he doesn't have anyone else. He doesn't know where Mother and Father have gone off to. Usva is dead. Revon is missing and so are his teachers.

He already is alone, so he doesn't know what she's expecting of him.

It takes a large show of skill on his part to manage to not get whipped around in the winds and land on the capital island that has yet to topple from the skies like so many others had. This was the most, he'd ever seen of the Kingdom as a whole and it had to be when the Musta Pilari was busy tearing everything he's ever known as loved limb from limb.

The trees were being shredded like paper as the ground peels apart like the rind on a kastemeloni. The sky has been stained with black ink and the clouds have long since faded away from within it. Remants of the old ruins and the fallen islands are being tossed amongst the winds, as Misterica herself cries out. The Celestial Mother is weeping within him.

She is practically begging him to find his Other because he cannot hope to stand against this without this person.

But she's not the only one he hears begging.

One of the members of the church. One of the higher members, Harmaa Myrsky, has him by the wrist before he has time to register it and the man is weeping.

"Your Eminence." He cries. "Spare me please. Please pardon my Mist by the Celestial Mother's light. Save us from our transgressions so we may be accepted back within the skies."

And it takes everything in his power not to yank his wrist back as he listens and watches this man beg and fall to his knees as he continues to weep.

"Transgressions? What exactly have you done?"

The man gasps as terror fills his eyes and he shakes his head.

"I - we - the papisto - we - I am sorry, Your Eminence - it was the Piipsa's idea. It always has been. It was always his call and he said it was for the betterment of - of Misterica! We- Forgive me, Your Eminence!!!"

He doesn't have time for this and the vague way this man is begging so the lunar royal is yanking his wrist free only to snap his hand forward and take the man by the collar and drag him in close as he growls.

"What was the Piipsa's idea? What has Sumu done? Out with it!"

The man trembles in his whole as he looks deep into jade eyes with terror as if he is looking at the Celestial Mother, herself.

"Forgive me, Celestial Mother. He said it would bring purity to the world and it was our duty to make sure Misterica also had a fit and proper ruler. "

"OUT WITH IT!!!"

His patience is wearing thin and he no longer has time for this man's games when he needs to find Mother and Father. He's giving the man a good shake to make his point as he snarls and mist pours out from clenched teeth.

"The Royal Family!" He shouts in fear. "The Piipsa has been pruning away the weak ones to make sure our ruler is truly fit! Long before the Piipsa. His Father and his father long before him! I - I don't know how long! I'm sorry, Your Eminence. Please spare me! "

He's throwing the man to the ground as he pulls his hand back and both hands ball into fists. A scream tears from his lungs as Mist pours out of like a dragon's breath of hot fury. Myrsky remains frozen in place only for a click to fill the space between them and the Maken rises from it's master's belt as if possessed by a will all it's own.

"I-It's true. " He stammers in fear, as he watches a small pale hand come down on the hilt and he cries. "Please My Lord! Spare me!"

"WHERE IS HE?!"

It's a violent yell as jade fades out and white replaces their color with an eerie glow.

"C-T-The Celestial Mother - L- Lady Tiamat f-forgive me." He's throwing himself to the ground, to bow before the visage of his Goddess reborn.

"WHERE IS HE?!" The Holy Vessel bellows again as he points his weapon towards the man as if to make his point. A turn of his wrist and the blade glows and transforms before the man's eyes to become the truth of all they have worshipped for all these years.

"I - I don't know! Forgive me, My Lord! Lady Tiamat I beg you!"

There is a low growl as white pours out of the body before him in wrathful plumes.

"Useless!"

He hisses as his blood threatens to boil.

"I'll find him MYSELF!!! Get out of my sight and PRAY that the skies will still take you!! I don't want anything to do with your filthy Mist! You're a disgrace on all that represents that of the Celestial Mother!!! Now GO!!!"

It doesn't take another word for the man to find a way to scramble to his feet and run from the scene leaving the heir to the Blood of Salvation to find the man that had scorned his family for the last time.

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studentbyday · 11 months

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Day 9 // 100dop

So. When motivation is low and I don't feel like keeping track of time, I am extremely inefficient and I don't get much done. Stayed up a bit later today to do what little more I could squeeze into the night because of that 🥲 Let's be blunt and brutally honest and say that this is very irresponsible of me.

Started lab report

Re-did notes on VB theory so it makes more sense (I hope it still makes sense to future me)

Finished notes on MO theory (I really hope it also still makes sense to future me...)

Almost done 2nd practice problem set and according to my score for some of them, I have to review dipole moments and molecule polarity (the more complex molecule shapes tend to trip me up. Sometimes it's hard to visualize without a 3D model... I tried using the MolView website but it can't seem to make octahedral molecules?? Also, I should not be lazy and ALWAYS draw out the VSEPR structures for these and not be impatient in determining the molecule's symmetry.)

Tomorrow in order of priority, I should finish:

2nd problem set + reviewing weak topics

Assignment

Lab report

Quiz

Band theory of solids

We shall see if I need a kick in the butt in the form of pomodoros (30/35 mins and 5 min breaks if the thought of longer feels "ugh") in which I will ACTUALLY take the short breaks and NOT spend them on my phone.

Day 4: What is your favourite topic within your subject(s)?

Hm, had to think about this one. I'm only taking chemistry this semester (I absolutely cannot take more than that for my sanity) and I think so far, I'd say VSEPR theory because I *LOVE* 3D models and the logic makes more intuitive sense than other topics so far and the shapes are pretty. I learned of some new ones this year and those are so far the coolest. Like, yeah spherical harmonics/orbitals are even cooler than VSEPR...but the quantum mechanics and all that math surrounding them is such a pain in the butt. If I understood the math (which would probably take years), maybe that would be my favorite topic. But VSEPR takes the cake for now. Plus it's a cool acronym. I need more synonyms for "cool".

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omgitslin · 4 months

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Badsansuary day 5, 6, and 7.

Brief mentions of cannibalism in day 5 along with a bunch of other general horrortale stuff, other than that pretty much everything is wholesome.

Horror x Reader (Platonic)

Badsansuary Day Five - Good Soup

Trying something new today. 😉

Notice: this one will have a few.. Unpleasant topics mentioned, but I already stated this above.

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You were sick with a cold. It was unpleasant, but it wasn't bad enough to leave you bedridden. It was mostly just a snotty nose and a fever.

Horror, on the other hand, thought it was terrible. He didn't want you to get out of bed, because “sick humans are weak humans, and weak humans die.”

It's very morbid, but you've grown used to that. After all.. You were in the Underground.

Horror had informed you a long time ago that the Underground used to be.. Well, not as scary. But after a while, the CORE malfunctioned. They all lost power. Food became scarce.

Undyne went on a power trip, and the monsters started eating each other.. And other humans.

You were just glad he decided not to kill you. He never told you why, but.. Well, you were just grateful.

What you weren't grateful for was how sick you were.

You were laying in bed now, trying to rest so that you'd heal faster.

Horror stepped into the room, and placed a bowl in your hands.

It was.. Hot water and.. meat. Soup, maybe? You looked up at him with a curious expression. You hoped that the meat wasn't from what you thought it was.

Horror noticed your expression and chuckled, “it's deer, muffin. fell down a hole. now eat."

You decided not to question it. After all, Horror didn't lie about food.

So you ate the soup.

It was nice.

Horror x Reader (platonic)

Badsansuary Day Six - Pepper

Horror was in the kitchen, making some mac and cheese for dinner. You were helping him, mainly by grabbing everything he needed and giving it to him when he asked.

And eventually he asked for pepper. You handed it to him, and he put a generous helping into the mac and cheese.

He let it boil for a moment, moving on to getting the chicken off the pan and cutting it into small pieces.

He was making something similar to chicken alfredo, but with cheese instead of alfredo since there wasn't any in the pantry and you both didn't feel like going to the store.

Eventually, the meal was finished and Horror put it on two plates.

You both sat down to eat.

You could do this in relative silence, because you had lived together for some time.

In the kind of neighborhood you lived in, it would be unsafe to live alone.

Anyway. You took a bite of the mac and cheese + chicken and frowned.

“Oh my goodness that's way too much pepper-”

You said after swallowing.

Horror laughed, “yeah.. i noticed. i still got some chicken left over, if you wanna eat that instead.”

He didn't seem bothered by the ungodly amount of pepper in the macaroni.

“Yeah.. Sorry, Horror. I don't mean to be—"

He interrupted you, “don't be sorry, muffin. everyone's got somethin’ they don't like.”

You smiled at him, and went to get the chicken instead. He took your plate with the macaroni and ate it himself.

The chicken was a lot better.

Horror x Reader (platonic)

Badsansuary Day 7 - Go All Out

It was Halloween today.

You, Horror, and the rest of the boys were decorating the house to celebrate the holiday.

You kind of procrastinated until it was too late, but you were grateful they were helping you anyway.

And they were, surprisingly, putting a lot of effort into it. Decorative cobwebs, scary statues, a candy bowl that would jumpscare you when you grabbed candy, and a lot of other stuff.

They even dressed up.

It was.. Endearing.

You were helping them, too, with the things that didn't involve going on the roof. They could prevent themselves from getting hurt if they fell. You couldn't.

So, while they strung up a bunch of Halloween themed tinsel.. Or something, you didn't know the name, you decorated the window with silly Halloween window stickers.

It must've been funny for the neighbors to see you decorating so last minute.

“hey muffin, how do ya like it?” Horror called, prompting you to look at how it had turned out so far. You backed up, moving away from the window to take a look.

It was awesome.

It was spooky, but not spooky enough to deter people from knocking on the door. It clearly had a lot of care put into it, and you could tell that they actually put effort into it.

You didn't respond for a while, simply taking in the view.

“I love it,” you finally declared.

When Halloween was over, you didn't take the decorations down for a few weeks.

You were such a procrastinator..

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Horror belongs to Sour Apple Studios!

#badsansuary #general horrortale creepiness #dark topics mentioned in day 5 #my writing #reader x horror sans #horror sans #and the other bad sanses but they aren't mentioned by name #but it's platonic again #3 in 1 #i love procrastinating #i need to stop doing that #anyway

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cheyennelehale · 6 months

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Halloween Selfies🎃

#halloween 2023 #every day is halloween #cheyenne le hale #purple hair #goth girl #over 40 #artists on tumblr #selfies #alt fashion #hot topic #dark fashion

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numerousbees1106 · 27 days

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If You Touch It, You Might Drown

Tumblr fucked up my formatting, so if the tags sound interesting to you, go read on Ao3 for a better viewing experience. https://archiveofourown.org/works/54921667

CW for past implied non-con, though nothing is explicit and the word itself is never used.

“What’s the last thing you remember, General?” Rex asked. He looked old - they all did, now. They were haggard and aged by time and circumstance, their faces wrinkled and their hair graying despite the glow that held steadfast in their eyes.

Anakin hesitated.

“Rushing to the Chancellor’s office,” he lied after a moment’s pause. He couldn’t tell them - not yet, perhaps never. It was one thing to wake up in a strange ship secured with the most extreme measures possible short of just freezing him in carbonite or dangling him above an endless pit. It was one thing to panic (quite understandably, he thought) at this, and it was one thing to realize that all his friends, all his family, appeared two decades older than when he last saw them, only for him to realize he had seen them, somewhere, sometime since everything went hazy, fuzzy, blurred around the edges and misted over like fogged glass. It was one thing to realize with sickening, unparalleled horror and disgust that his body, his skills he had prided himself in and worked so hard to hone, had been weaponized and used against those Anakin loved, those he swore to protect. It was one thing to realize his comatose corpse had been made into a warlord, had been used to terrorize the Galaxy for the many years Anakin had been… absent. It was one thing for him to realize he had been chipped, and before that, mind-controlled by the man Anakin once trusted with his life and with the life of his friends and family, the man he adored and worshiped and served - it was another thing entirely to admit out loud what had happened in that office, what that same man had done to break him enough to slip through the cracks and take over.

Anakin didn’t think he had the strength to admit what happened in the privacy of his own mind, for that matter. He could face all other truths - even the harshest truths, the truth that Ahsoka had grown up so much without him, the truth that Padmé was gone, dead before Anakin could admit his feelings towards her. He could face the truth that the war had ended, that everything he had fought and strived for, everything he and his men had bled and died for, had been nothing but a farce, a graceless yet grossly glorified game. He could face them all, except the truths related to the Chancellor, to the way the man had so successfully blinded Anakin to it all, had taken the world and the Galaxy as a whole and even reality itself, had torn it down, had rebuilt it again tilted ever-so-slightly in his favor. Anakin couldn’t face the depths of his closest friend’s treachery, the betrayal that ran deep beneath Anakin’s fault lines, that threatened to break him apart completely.

More importantly, he couldn’t even stand to think about what he had done to him.

“General,” Rex sighed, sounding disappointed. Anakin flinched, minutely, at the sound, his face paling. He had heard the disappointment in Palpatine’s voice during those few rare, lucid moments that Anakin remembered. That disappointment promised pain and suffering, and it took all of Anakin’s willpower not to flinch away or shudder at the thought.

“I know you’re lying, General,” Rex murmured, his voice quiet yet somewhat tense. He sounded more… sad, than anything. Hurt, maybe.

Anakin hated making those around him sad. He hated hurting people even more, even if sometimes it seemed it was all he was ever good for.

“I- I can’t-” he tried to explain, his words catching in his throat. He hoped Rex would understand anyways, would see the depths of Anakin’s trauma reflected in his eyes, would know to drop the subject.

“I can’t,” he finished lamely, his hand shaking and trembling against the table.

“Why not?” Rex asked, his voice soft and sincere and devoid of any judgment, but Anakin flinched anyways, that helpless-alone-afraid feeling lurching inside his gut, re-emerging from deep within his contaminated soul to press against the inside of his skin, to well against the back of his eyes as unshed tears.

“I- I’m not strong enough,” Anakin whispered, the tears breaking free and streaming down his face. “I can’t stand to even think of it. Please.”

His heart thundered in his chest, his breathing rapid and shallow, his body trembling.

Rex nodded slowly, his eyes eclipsed momentarily with some sort of half-understanding, before returning to the perplexed but not unkind state they had been before.

“Please don’t make me say it,” Anakin begged, the world narrowing down as darkness prowled at the edges of his vision, some great beast waiting for the right moment to pounce.

“I- General, please understand, they need an answer. They’ll-” Rex closed his eyes and swallowed, a pained expression on his face. “They’ll kill you, Sir, if they think you’re lying. Please.”

Anakin ducked his head, that great lurking beast stalking ever closer.

“Palpatine- Sidious. He p-put s-something in my drink,” he began, stuttering and tripping over his own words and his own thoughts.

“Go on,” Rex murmured gently, softly, his warm eyes round and welcoming. Anakin had missed him oh-so-dearly, both the moment he had left for Mandalor and in the few moments of lucidity he had had since then.

“He- He pinned me d-down t-to the desk, and h-he- he-”

Rex sucked in a sharp breath, horrified understanding dawning in the man’s expression.

“General, I- I’m…” he trailed off.

“Please don’t make me say it,” Anakin pleaded once more, his hoarse voice barely more than a whisper.

Rex’s comm buzzed before he could answer, the man glancing at it with an odd mixture of trepidation and relief.

“I’ll talk to them, sir. I’ll figure something out, I promise,” Rex murmured, standing from his seat.

With wide, watery eyes, Anakin nodded, exhausted and drained, gray clouding his vision as Rex headed towards the exit.

“Pl’se d’nt make me say it,” he slurred quietly, slipping into the maw of unconscious. “‘M not-”

Not strong enough.

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what are your thoughts on current rebirth amethyst?

Okay so I did make some short posts on my thoughts when I read 2019 Amethyst: here & here

I am... incredibly lukewarm on it. I loved the aspects of Amy connecting more with the citizens of Gemworld, and them getting more spotlight, but the plot about Amethyst's parents was... just kind of stupid, sorry.

Also just like, the fact that modern Amethyst seems to be so resistant to utilizing the other Gemworld royals at all? Making them out to be villains like hi? 😭 Topaz especially in the 2019 story and the YJ Gemworld story.

AND THE FACT THAT EMMY JUST DOESN'T SEEM TO EXIST NOW?? AND CARNELIAN BEING A NOTHING CHARACTER DESPITE BEING AMY'S FOIL??? I don't get WHY modern Amethyst interpretations just don't want to touch any of what made the original story interesting or original cast.

My personal reading of pre-crisis Amethyst was that it's about a bunch of kids who are forced to grow up and bear the burdens of their family. This theme is consistent from Amy, Topaz, Carnelian, and the Emerald sisters. Prince Garnet less so, but his tragedy is just as interesting as well!

Like I get it, the wanting to tell a story about the flaws of monarchy, but I think that can still be done while not villainizing the original cast/acting like they don't exist... (also like. this WAS touched on in the original story with the aquamarine kingdom forming a democracy ?)

And don't get me started on the mess of a Christmas story, the only saving grace to it for me was Granch being there. Even worse because my beloved Pammy was written as a girlfriend therapist yet again </3

Generally, I just don't get why modern writers are so afraid to use the excellent foundations that the original Amethyst story gave us. There's so much to work with, and you can easily tell a million stories about dismantling the monarchies of Gemworld without erasing the supporting cast. You can tell stories that include the citizens of Gemworld and humanizing them without ignoring the original supporting cast. This would actually be a FANTASTIC way to flesh out the original cast even more!

So yeah tl;dr there's things I like but ultimately it's so frustrating to me how the modern rebirth interpretations completely ignore everything that made the original Amethyst comics so enthralling and rich.

(Shannon Hale is exempt from this though because I actually loved her GN a lot LOL, nerdy kid Topaz is really cute. Let the boy floss.)

#mir answers #anonymous #SORRY I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC LOL #there's a separate rant somewhere in me about how dark opal is just more generic than ever these days #rather than being an abusive father figure

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