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kuroken-lovechild · 3 years

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How haikyuu characters would play genshin impact:

//featuring me nerding out about mbti types 😔

Karasuno

Hinata

As an ESFP he would probably choose his main based on who feels good to use

Quick movements, lots of jumping, strong = XIAO MAIN (probably finds the flashiness and edginess cool and enjoys the button mashing too)

would aggressively compete with kageyama on who can beat spiral abyss the fastest and with the shortest time

unfortunately they’re both not very good (initially because kenma helps him out after)

Would try to follows the plot but dialogue goes over his head

Does not understand stats other than attack at first

Wish impulse is real and never has any primos

would attempt to talk to every npc

Kageyama

META SLAVE

Has no idea what wishing/gacha is at first and builds his starters really well

Then he found out and currently mains Ganyu, Zhongli, Hutao for the big numbers

gloats about his first 5 star to hinata

Does not talk to NPCs at all and barely digs into the story

only there for spiral abyss and to make his characters stronger

Tsukishima

Didn’t wanna play until yamaguchi dragged him in to have someone to co op with

Appreciates the story and lore more than the gameplay aspect

Eula, razor (cv uchiyama kouki) main—easy to build, easy to use

Doesn’t care about wishing either

Got Eula by accident and now holds it over kageyama’s head

Has really good artifact RNG that it infuriates kagehina (gloats about it to fan the flame 😚)

Yamaguchi

he’s infp he chooses based on characters he likes 🥺

Diluc, albedo, ayaka main

(i can’t explain why I think he’d like those three, it just Makes Sense)

Co ops with tsukki and yachi, plays both dps and support

Spiral abyss makes him anxious but he pushes through anyway!!

Daichi

Starter team king 😩

Feels bad about switching his regular team out FJDFJDJJDDJ DAICHI

Probably a casual player though

Plays to coop with suga and tanaka but they carry him through domains

he’s trying his best

Suga

Mains based on whoever’s fun to play too!!

but enjoys more of a challenge

Childe main

Waiting for Scaramouche to drop hAha 🥲 and harbingers in general

Appreciates the plot and is very interested in lore!!

Diligently does spiral abyss

Doesn’t quite wish on impulse, but if theres a character he likes he’ll spend everything on their banner

Asahi

Does not play, got too scared (see: haikyuu ova)

Nishinoya

Rolls VERY much on impulse

Similar to hinata in that he also likes playing playstyles that feel good

Xiao and/or yoimiya main

(xiao because he’s short jk)

Probably raised Rosaria and planned to use her

Plot who???? we only care about world exploration and fighting in this house

Tanaka

wished for all the women, raised all the women, uses all the women

valid

Primarily mains Rosaria, ningguang and Lisa though

sorry beidou you remind him of his sister too much

waiting for signora like many of us are

Coops with noya and has INSANELY bad rng luck

Yachi

Also chooses based on characters’ personalities

gay, mains sucrose and jean

isfj child and probably feels bad about the underrated characters :(

uses amber, xinyan and qiqi too!

Raises all characters but hasn’t raised anyone to 90

Coops with yamaguchi and uses jean (as healer, support, damage dealer)

Talks to NPCs and sympathizes with their sad backstories

Gets too anxious to do spiral floors 9-12 too (mood)

Seijoh

Oikawa

Oh boy

this ENFJ 3w2 guy? you KNOW he’s gonna be the best

As long as it doesn’t clash with volleyball of course

Very VERY competitive in abyss

Has one character hed get attached to but doesn’t limit himself to using them only

Incredibly focused on team synergy, carefully crafts teams to bring out the best in each character

Tests best damage output too

But also he’d probably use meta characters and secretly raise the ones he actually likes?

Current fave: Yoimiya

Uses strong characters for coop but uses his faves for single player domains (or coop with iwaizumi)

Likes characters but surprisingly wouldnt be too invested in the plot

does not whale out of pride

Iwaizumi

Geo user

Uses characters he finds respectable in the storyline + hard hitters

Razor, klee, jean main but unaware of the family relationship

Sometimes uses beidou although her burst takes too long sometimes

Pretty casual player, only started because of Oikawa

Hanamaki

obviously he and matsukawa would make zhongli pillar dick jokes

Kaeya and beidou main (he thinks they’re cool)

Not that impatient to wait for bursts to charge or has a lot of energy recharge

whale

Matsukawa

……. Hutao main

funeral home

Would use qiqi and hutao together for the meme then grows to genuinely like qiqi

Saves up for a really long time then spends it all at once

Kindaichi

Doesn’t play much tbh

Offline for a week, comes back to do commissions for one day, leaves

Kunimi

Hed be pretty good

but lazy and forget to do dailies

then buy welkin moon instead

Focuses more on the story too rather than gameplay and points out loopholes

Mains whoever he has in his team with good synergy (like chongyun xingqiu xiangling)

Kyoutani

Rage quits 5 minutes in after hearing paimon’s voice 😔

Throws his phone at the wall

Yahaba

Simps for jean

Mains jean

Dedicated to dailies and spiral abyss

But doesn’t wish that much

Was the one who tried getting kyoutani into it and suffered the consequences

Nekoma

Kuroo

ENTP king raises a whole arsenal of characters for spiral abyss

I cant see him really getting attached to one in particular ?

makes zhongli pillar dick jokes every chance he can get

but also uses him for utility

Wants to try using a whole bunch of characters and wishes on every banner

But uses the meta ones with good team comps

sparks twitter debates with ….. interesting takes

“_____ is completely shit”

Kenma

OH BOY HES A GAMER GAMER

Whale whale whale whale

He’s tony to

Best synergy teams, understands the value of elemental mastery, REALLY values good supports, calculates possible damage numbers

Kazuha, zhongli, bennett, venti are a staple in his teams

Helps hinata and kuroo until kuroo teases too much by deliberately playing horribly

mildom and youtube streamer like murase ayumu

Appreciates story and lore very much too

Yaku

he’d LOVE the children

Probably would use characters that remind him of family members and friends

Klee, diona, qiqi, chongyun, xingqiu, razor, bennett

does spiral abyss but not obsessively

Lev

KENMA-SAN!!! LETS PLAY TOGETHER!!!

I’m sorry he would not know how the game works

Doesn’t do the ascension quests and gets stuck at AR 26 with 500k extra points

Thinks he’s amazing but it’s because he’s stuck at world level 1

I’m sorry lev ily but ……. its the truth

Tries pulling for everyone too and mains the first 5 star he got

(childe because he’s russian AKSHDKDHSKSHS /j)

Wants diluc and xiao because they look cool but gets Mona instead (doesnt understand how to use her)

Yamamoto

Also raises the women like tanaka but + kaeya

Lev complained to him about getting Mona while he’s wanted Mona for months

Not really a dedicated intense gamer EXCEPT for during those battle events

Fukurodani

Bokuto

WANTS THE STRONG AND COOL LOOKING 5 STARS

Eula, zhongli, diluc, xiao

but doesn’t know how to build either

doesn’t understand stats

would feel really bad for qiqi

Wouldn’t like signora for hurting venti :(

Wouldn’t like childe too :( until he plays the story quest and sees the ruin guard cutscene

then starts sobbing because of what a good brother he is

“AKAAAASSHI I wanna do that too!!!” then he dies

Tries to use childe but doesn’t understand the cool down management

Mispronounces and misspells tartaglia (タルタリア)

for more info on how bokuto plays genshin see Kimura ryohei’s YouTube channel ✨

Akaashi

the true childe main (just like me)

Uses characters based on utility

but mains whoever reminds him of bokuto FJDHFJFJDKSJ

Very good supports but unlike Kenma, he chooses and builds supports around his main

also uses very good supports so people won’t realize he’s using childe for the cv kimura ryohei (everyone knows anyway)

Literature nerd appreciates the plot, writing and deep lore too

Konoha

Tries pulling for everyone but has REALLY bad luck

Has really good characters but never the one he wants

loses all 50/50s and has a c4 qiqi

Ends up maining qiqi as dps

sorry konoha i didn’t mean to slander you

Shiratorizawa

Ushijima

does not know how to play or build

Uses whoever he has (aka starters)

Only plays because tendou downloaded and made an account for him

Doesn’t know how to ascend characters or farm

Forgets about talents (me)

Weirdly good RNG and doesn’t realize it 😩

“Let me look at your account wakatoshi-kun”

“Sure”

“You didn’t tell me you had 6 of jean’s Stella fortuna???”

“What’s that?”

Tendou

this man pulls for the seiyuus

Mains childe, hutao, mona for 5 stars

childe and hutao’s instinct based quickswap playstyle works so well for him!

jokes about cosplaying mona then actually does

Knows how to build, grinds, and manages ushijima’s account for him

Probably whales too

Shirabu

Meta meta meta meta

But f2p meta

Loves setting up reactions

More into the lore too and researches theories

Remembers actual names of boss drops

Semi: so how many of those buttplugs do you have again

Shirabu: 💢stop calling them buttplugs, they have actual names 💢

VERY diligent with battle pass, dailies, achievements and spiral abyss full stars

Until he //SPOILERS gets into med school and has no time for shit

Inarizaki

Atsumu

Would have a crush on a character I just know it

Invests heavily on his faves and is great at utilizing each of them

fussy . complains about a certain unit and how they can improve

or complains about how the game can improve to osamu

Osamu: yer just saying that cuz you couldn’t get a high score

Archons main (already saving for the tsaritsa)

Wouldn’t have a main dps but several hard hitting supports

Whale and falls victim to the weapon banner

Osamu

More casual player than Atsumu but still tries to get higher than him in events and spiral abyss

If atsumu’s a whale, osamu’s a dolphin

Great at dodging

Catalyst user!!

Mains ningguang, klee, yanfei + other catalyst supports

Also uses keqing

Kita

the man appreciates routine aka VERY diligent with dailies, battle pass, farming

“if you do things properly results will follow” or whatever quote he said ✨

Starter team but raises other characters for abyss

Reads dialogue and appreciates the plot

Barely gachas

Aran

will defend TO THE DEATH the underappreciated characters

Has empathy for noelle 🥺🥺

Noelle, Barbara, xinyan, bennett, children user 🥺

Talks to every NPC and loves the backstories and lore

also would feel really bad for qiqi

Suna

Uses the tall men and women and builds them all as dps (childe zhongli diluc kaeya beidou ningguang jean lisa rosaria eula)

He’d probably make a support character a dps tbh

Disregards team synergy for the shits but somehow manages to do domains and abyss

Itachiyama

Sakusa

c6 everyone

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sapnapsimparc · 3 years

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so today i once again fell down a tiktok comp rabbit hole on youtube, as you do, and i got on the cute relationship tiktok trends side, and i also have the dnf brainrot as usual, so here's what my brain keeps telling me rn:

''pretend youre mad at your bf and then say i love you'' trend: 1. george yells for dream but uses clay because He Mad and dream comes in, all kicked puppy, and when george says ''i love you'' he lights up because aw but then just fucking slams the door behind himself because ''youre such an idiot'' but then comes back in and cuddles the shit out of george. 2. dream yells for george trying to sound mad and george just comes in with an eye roll and a ''what'' because he knows he can do no wrong and dream just smiles as he says his ''i love you'' and george rolls his eyes but gives a kissie to dream but then just fucking leaves

''why didn't you tell me?'' ''what?'' ''that youre beautiful'' trend (is it? i only saw one but it stuck) - 1. oh you KNOW dream would keep the ''why didn't you tell me? i thought we tell each other everything. you trust me me, right? then why didnt you tell me?'' going until the sun goes down but he also just wants to compliment george because thats how he is so after george starts getting Seriously Fed Up he just goes ''why didn't you tell me you are straight up gorgeous?'' and george just stands there trying to decide if he should slap dream across the face and leave or just smile and kiss him stupid because actually that was kinda cute. 2. dream is editing and george just barges in with a WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME? and he has a whole ass speech ready and dream is almost crying because he thinks he actually hid something from george on accident and then george just goes ''that you're really pretty'' (because he would refuse to call dream hot and also because dream would appreciate being called pretty over hot any day) and dream actually starts crying a bit both from stress and relief and because this is so dumb but kinda sweet and george just hugs him real tight and doesnt leave until dream finishes his editing. 3. same setting as the second but dream actually hid some big surprise from george and he gets all defensive and the surprise is kinda ruined now but its still okay because its cute i guess

i think my favorite one is when one just lays on top of their s/o randomly while they play video games or are on their phones or whatever but this is not really something you can write, but i really love the idea of both of them just being clingy and randomly flopping on each other idk

#dnf #dreamnotfound #dnf brain go brrr

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literaticat · 3 years

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A pretty major literary agency did a recent YouTube video in comps. One of the agents was saying that you can’t comp something as GONE GIRL meets cozy mystery. They went in to state that both of the comps have to come from the same shelf. As a querying author who has done much research on writing unique comps I thought I could comp a mashup with books from different shelves such as BEACH READ meets SLEEPING BEAUTY (romcom meets fairy tale). Is this not accurate? Thanks for your help!

Eeeehhhhhhhh ok, I'm kind of of two minds here!

I don't think that they are wrong. "GONE GIRL meets a cozy" doesn't work, because the goals of a psychological thriller and the goals of a cozy are totally at odds. There are RULES for both these types of genre book, and readers who crave the one but don't like the other would be flummoxed by a mash-up. GONE GIRL readers who are looking for the next great psychological thriller don't WANT a cozy. They are specifically looking for dark, twisty, tense. People who love cozies don't WANT a psychological thriller, that's why they are reading a cozy!

It's like how you can't add Dr Pepper to Hollandaise Sauce. Neither of those are inherently bad things, obviously -- but the two mixed together would make both of them far worse, and definitely ruin brunch.

So the thing I take issue with is not that GG and Cozy are a bad mashup (they are a bad mashup, yes) -- it's the "has to be on the same shelf" part. Rather, I think if you are using two titles, they both have to APPEAL TO THE SAME READER. Which probably DOES mean they are on the same shelf -- but look, GG and Cozy are both on the same shelf, too! The mystery shelf! They just have different types of readers.

THAT SAID. You don't have to necessarily comp two BOOKS, and if you are using a pop-culture thing like a movie or something, you might have more leeway for getting weird. For example... YOUR example. "Sleeping Beauty" is not a book. It's a STORY, that has been told in myriad ways across centuries and cultures. (Sidebar - I also would not characterize BEACH READ as a rom-com, personally, it's a contemporary romance IMO, but whatever). If I were describing a contemporary romance meets fairy tale, I'd probably say something like, "It's like BEACH READ with a fairy-tale twist" or "like BEACH READ with a Sleeping Beauty twist" (if SB is really the best fairy tale to describe it).

Another example that I use all the time is when there is a purposeful, surprising juxtaposition -- (because somebody recommended a book like this to me and I have never forgotten it, and YES it was a good book!) -- it was set in Regency England but with killer robots. And they were like "think Pride and Prejudice meets Terminator." LOL! But hey, you got me, what IS that all about?!

If you ARE using two (or more) books, my suggestion would be to NOT use the X meets Y configuration. Rather, I would say either:

"This will appeal to fans of X and Y" -- like "This novel will appeal to fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang"

-- or, if the books are rather dissimilar and won't necessarily fit On The Same Shelf --

"This novel has the [trait] of X and the [trait] of Y." Like "this novel has the laugh-out-loud humor and swoony queer love story of RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE, but set in the eccentric 1970's San Francisco of TALES OF THE CITY.

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lookbluesoup · 3 years

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Hey Wyn! I Just read all of your Blue Soup series! I love it all!!! Every word of it is fantastic! I've been wanting to start writing Fanfiction for Fallout for a long time, but I've always been intimidated by the prospect of writing already-established characters and "ruining them" (especially characters like Piper, Preston and Nick, who I plan to make main characters in my story). Do you have any advice on dealing with this?

Hi Anon! Thanks so much for your kind words! ;w; I’m certainly no expert and know this fear personally, but I’ll ramble here about my process and how I try to think about things. Hopefully it can encourage you, too! :D I’ll add the disclaimer that this is what works for me, and what works for me might not work for others, that’s ok!

First off - writing is for fun. Wanting to do justice to the characters and capture their essence is a great goal, and also a learning process. You don’t have to do it perfectly, nor should you try. Perfection implies there’s nothing more to learn or grow over, which is one, unachievable, and two, the death of innovation. Just do the best you can with what you know, and let your passion for the characters guide the process. And be gentle with yourself.

Our own experiences and preferences will effect how we write these characters, what traits of theirs stand out to us, how we define their shape, at least in small ways, and that’s not inherently bad. Just like many different artists can draw a character in 100 different styles and that character is still recognizable and familiar (and enjoyable!), writers can emphasize 100 different facets of that character, too. If you’re putting your heart into it, you won’t ruin them. Saw a beautiful LotR post the other day about that, talking about how the movies are different from the books, but the love for the story and characters shows because the people who made those movies were passionate about it, and they’re worthy adaptations of the stories’ spirit. It’s the same for fanfiction.

It’s personally more fun for me to think about the writing process like I’m exploring a character rather than making a statement about a character, which are two very distinct mindsets for me. Exploring is fun, engaging, its ok to change your mind and edit or alter your story as you get new information. It’s like a puzzle, thinking through a character’s motivation, finding ways to incorporate that into a story. Making a statement is more 'fixed’, and implies pushing a narrative as the correct one, which adds a lot of pressure. Personally? I don’t like pressure hahaha

Still - it’s hard not to feel obligated to do something to a certain standard for one reason or another. My anxiety likes to tell me lots of little lies, and it can be very convincing. When it strikes, working through my nerves is often harder than actually writing LOL

When I first started writing Fallout fanfic, I didn’t post it anywhere. That took a LOT of the pressure off, knowing that none of this needed to, or was even intended to be, shared with others who might judge. These stories were just between me and the characters. It was safe. I could work at my own pace and enjoy the process in my little tide pool. Since deciding to share them, I’ve been really grateful for the support readers have given! It feels good, I’m glad I found the courage to post them.

As for working out that puzzle of what seems most likely for a character, how to capture the heart of them, I love voice lines! Codex entries! Compilations! The best way to get to know a character is to spend time with them. I take Piper everywhere with me, I want to know what she thinks about everything, her character really struck a chord with me and, well, cue hyperfixation hahaha I use the Windows 10 Game Bar to record audio clips and have a massive archive of her voice lines. Flipping through these is a useful tool for me to get back into her “pattern” of speaking. All the Companions have distinct voices and tendencies, which is another neat aspect to writing them. I feel more confident knowing I had access to the source material. Also I just. Like listening to her voice sometimes. Shhh

Other great resources for this are the wiki (which has text files of most, if not all, each character’s dialogue lines and conversation trees) and youtube companion reaction comps - this SOUNDS like a lot of work. But for me at least I love it, it doesn’t feel like work because I’ll be excited looking for specific lines a la “how does she talk when she’s angry”, “what does she have to say about mirelurks”, you don’t have to keep everything about each character in your head memorized - these audio and text files are great archives to find what’s relevant to a scene quickly.

When I got into Fallout, I also got interested in 1950s movies, music, and even radio shows like Johnny Dollar and Green Hornet. This gave me context around the characters, too. For example, Piper’s kickass reporter vibes throw back to a lot of old sleuthing reporter tropes, and interpreting her actions through some of those filters felt more authentic to me than applying her behavior to a modern day setting or my own inclinations. I guess along with that I’d also say, take notes! Have an observation? Write it down in a notes file, or a google doc, somewhere you can sync between your devices and add to whenever you think about it. What stuff sticks out to you as important or defining for these characters, what trends do you notice? If you have bullet points written down, these also make great quick references. Here’s a few screenshots from the terror that is my notes docs:

You can see they’re just short notes or scribbled down thoughts that I can quickly reference if I’m wondering how she might act in a certain scene at a certain time! For me getting into a character’s headspace is often more of a feeling than any kind of scientific research, having easy access to these pointers helps put me in the right state of mind to jump into the creative pool and swim around and get soaked in - character goo - okay bad metaphor. Anyway,

None of these are rules that you have to follow or things that you have to do to get the characters “right”, they’re just potential tools that can help you find information to build off of, and hopefully feel more confident. Maybe something else is more useful to you with organizing or keeping your head clear for writing, it’s cool to experiment and find out what works for you!

#fallout #fallout 4 #long post #writing #text #ask #anonymous #Wyn gabs

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figs-oyster · 4 years

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Hi, Intrepid Heros!

Creator of "Fantasy High but it's just Gorgug asking people if they are his dad" here! When I created that compilation, I was at my friends house where I couldn't sleep, it was 3 am, and I figured I might as well do something silly with my time and share it with the folks on Dropout's discord. The video was too large to put on discord itself, so I ended up posting it on youtube, and WHOO BOY was I unprepared for it to spread. I've seen so many comments about people who have discovered D20 through my video and I honestly couldn't be happier. NOW! Sappy stuff aside, I've been thinking about it for a while and I want to make another comp titled "dimension 20 but it's just the pcs ruining brennans' life". Do I think this will spread nearly as far as the last one? No. Do I care? Again, no. I just want to do it because it will entertain me and my not so little d20 family. However, both since this is more broad and because I'm hoping to cover all of the d20 series, I'm gonna have a lot more work on my hands. I was hoping, if you've gotten this far into this post, that you could help me. Anyone at all, I would love to hear what your favorite "the pcs are doing stupid shit again" moments are, plus the timestamp and video if you can! (I can mostly do the timestamp work if you give me a scene, it would just speed up the process) My main is “sugukui” if you would rather reach out to me there. Go forth, friends! I hope to hear from many of you soon.❤️

#fantasy high #dropout #dimension 20 #d20 #collegehumor #unsleeping city #the unsleeping city #the bad kids #escape from the bloodkeep #tiny heist #mcelroys #brennan lee mulligan #fantasy high live #d20 live

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beaboutitpress · 4 years

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Life is a Cool Blackout, When You’re Sigma Chi, by Charles “Chug Life” Donaldson - humor piece by Christoph Paul [be about it zine britney spears blackout]

Charles “Chug Life” Donaldson

Music Appreciation 1057

Dr. Naughton

10/30/2007

Life is a Cool Blackout, When You’re Sigma Chi

I’m a second-year brother of Sigma Chi and think most music is pretty lame. Like what can music really do besides make video games better. Most podcasts are better than most songs, but my girlfriend and all the other Tri-Delts love music when partying. They love Britney Spears and this album, Blackout. It makes sense because they are the only sorority that can drink as much as Sigma Chi. I blackout a lot and that is why my fraternity brothers named me Chug Life. My girlfriend’s name is Katie, which isn’t as cool, but she is so hot she doesn’t need a cool name.

Even when we have censual relations, she plays this album. She plays all of Britney’s albums but Blackout is the album she plays the most. I think this album is the one before she shaved her head. I don’t have a source for that but that is what Katie’s friend Veronica said, and Veronica is the Treasure of the Tri-Delts so it’s probably true.

I think I’ve heard the album like 45 times or something. At least 30 times with Katie and 20 times at Tri-Delts’ parties. I kind of like the album but that could be psychological. I am taking Psychology 1050, and learned that the stuff you like is because it brings up pleasureful memories. So when I think of Blackout I think of Katie naked and Tri-Delt parties, which are both pretty awesome.

The first song on the album is ‘Gimme More’ and it’s a good song to do shots too. I also think this album is really good for Beer Pong. Blackout Britney would have been total Tri-Delt material, before the head shaving thing. The next song is ‘Piece of Me’ which is lame, I don’t care about Britney’s life. Britney is best when she is singing songs about nothing. Britney is the Seinfeld of pop music. I have to attribute that line to my brother Ronnie Danger Wang, he’s the smartest guy in Sigma Chi. He’s majoring in statistics.

The third song, ‘Radar,’ is probably the best song. I like it because Katie does a cool dance to it while telling me I’m on her radar. Do you know that bats see through Radar? I think that is cool so I feel a little bit like Batman when she sings it. That is a good feeling. ‘Break The Ice’ isn’t too bad, but Brad The Chad, our Vice President, said the song sounds like something gay figure skaters would dance too, so that kind of ruined it for me.

‘Heaven on Earth’ is cool because the Tri-Delts do coke to it. I don’t know why, but that is their coke song. I don’t like coke because it just makes people talk more, especially the Tri-Delts. It’s already annoying to hear Katie and her friends talk about boring stuff like Gossip Girl and Heidi Montag, but on coke they’ll just go tangents and talk about if Heidi Montag believes in ghosts for like two hours.

‘Get Naked (I Got a Plan)’ kind of sucks but I like the message, but usually Katie is already naked so it just feels redundant. Tri-Delts are easy but they won’t flash at parties, they are protective of their Instagram presence. The background dude singer of the song sounds like a rapey Grapevine Singing Raisin. I don’t like him. I also don’t like the next song ‘Freakshow’. I don’t like weird people.

‘Toy Solider’ is the worst song on the album. I also don’t like the guys in ROTC they always give and the Sigma Chi guys dirty looks. Soldiers have attitudes but they might be nicer to me if they knew how good I was at Call of Duty. If I didn’t get the nickname Chug Life it would have been Sniper Balls.

‘Hot as Ice’ doesn’t make sense so of course all the Tri Delts love that song. It’s a dumb song, you can’t be hot as ice, unless it’s like how the Terminator 2 villain got killed. Terminator 2 is like one of the best movies of all time. ‘Ooh Ooh baby,’ is probably the best song for consensual relations but we are usually done by then. It’s ok. It’s no ‘Radar’ though. I mean like I rather listen to Rogan than ‘Radar,’ but it’s the best and probably only song I like for non-psychological reasons.

For my concluding paragraph (I learned about those in English Comp 1001) I would say that ‘Blackout’ is an album that has great utility. A word that Ronnie Danger Wang uses a lot, meaning like it does cool stuff for me and my Sigma Chi brothers. I don’t think the Tri Delts would hoe it up as much without the album. I have source for that: almich r on YouTube said, “Blackout is the bible of hoeness.” It is the album to drink to and have censual relations to—my favorite things in life. This “utility” helps me appreciate the album and therefore I probably am doing great in this Music Appreciation class with Dr. Naughton. I clearly am an A-level student in this class, and that should be on your radar.

Bio: Christoph Paul is an award-winning humor author. His ADD has write in multiple genres including books: The Passion of the Christoph, Great White House Volume 1 and Volume 2, A Confederacy of Hot Dogs, Slasher Camp for Nerd Dorks, Sportscenter Poems, Horror Film Poems, At Least I Get You < In My Art, and The Haunting of the Paranormal Romance Awards. He is the managing editor and owner of CLASH Books which he runs with his wife and author of Leza Cantoral. He edited the anthologies Walk Hand in Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective and This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With: A Wu-Tang Tribute Anthology.

Favorite Britney Song: Hit Me Baby One More Time—it’s my favorite because I’m a basic bitch and I would do a mash up cover song of it with 3oh3’s Don’t Touch a Hoe.

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prorevenge · 5 years

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Shitty Teacher's Plan Backfires

So this happened a few years ago when I was a freshman in high school. My old school consisted mostly of latinos and african american students, and is the perfect example of an inner city school. I decided to take an AV class because I found the subject interesting and wanted to know more about cinematography, but spoiler alert I never learned quack. Our teacher was this black lady in her fifties who didn't treat her job seriously and would get along with students as if she was one of them until her laziness would catch up to her and she would betray her "friends" and send them to detention blaming them for her inability to work.

I started the year with a positive outlook which got worn down quickly when I realized her class would be pure book work while her fat self ate loudly and watched funny video comp. 3 on youtube. I was one of the few students that did any work, but I did slack a little toward the end. I still had a solid 88% in the class and always took pictures of my work to share with my lazier friends because I'm no hoe. Keep this in mind as well as that this was a mixed class that had all grades and a variety of students which was my first of the day. One day I checked my grades and noticed I had a 65% and was really confused as to why because some of the assignments that showed up as absent I had done. Thanks to this I went on a type of academic probation which basically didn't let me do clubs and also took away a free period I had and replaced it with remedial work. At this point I was pissed since when I asked the teacher about it she gave me an excuse and blamed me for not doing my work even though she was the one skimping. She then bitched about me to my principal because she didn't want me to seem credible if I told them the truth about her not teaching and just bs her job. She also made me call my mother who was very pissed after all we are Mexican and "tiger" parenting is something we do.

My revenge began by chance when I realized I had pictures of all my work and something very good happened to me during class. I was doing my work when I noticed the biggest student in class arguing in class let's call him BN and the teach BAT for bish a teacher. BN had a similar thing happen to him and so he was pissed I saw this and quickly took advantage. I went over to his group which I frequented from time to time and planted a seed of hate which grew, at the time I was just venting. Two days pass and he can no longer play football due to this, so he confronts the teacher and after some light arguing the unexpected happened. BAT started hitting BN who was twice her size, and all he did was shield himself. What was I doing? Recording the whole thing, and laughing. The scuffle ends after a minute and BN just goes back to his desk and looks at me, I smile and he smiles back. Her spies snitch me out but not before I save the video to google photos, so BAT comes over to me, and tells me to hand over my phone. I refuse to but she rips it out of my hands and deletes the video only from my gallery. Some days pass and my tree is branching little by little.

I was in JROTC and even while not being able to attend field trips I still had to fundraise by selling snacks which is allowed and supported by the school. So I start selling my snacks before class started as per school guidelines, but then her favorite students (some of the school's worst) bump them off my desk and steal them while "helping me" and I clearly see them as they aren't the brightest. I tell the BAT and she calls me a liar and helps the idiots cover up. I message my principal whom I'm good friends with and he comes over before class ends. He asks BAT about the situation and she lies, so he asks me which students took them, so I point the out and he searches their backpacks which the teacher hid in the closet while she thought I was distracted. He finds the snacks and my envelope in which I put my money in. Remember this is the first class of the day so for them to have that many snacks wouldn't make sense by the way we stamp them.

At this point my tree was about to drop its ripe fruit. I tell my parents which work for the district, and they set up a meeting with my principal. We come in to the meeting and the BAT is sitting there with a smug smile, we sit and the principal there along with the VP sit down after shutting the doors. At first they seem dubious as the teacher reiterates her lies, but then came my turn to speak. She pulled out my bs report card with all my "missing" assignments before this. I then continue to show them my completed assignments some of which I took pictures of in the collection bin. The best part is when I show them the fight, as the video continues their eyes widen as do their jaws. As for BAT her face is pale as it can be for a black person, and she sits in silence after trying to lie. I then bring up the stolen snacks as well and a few other things that happened.

My tree dropped its apples on the BAT and they were sour. I never saw her after this, and soon learned that she lost her teaching certification as well as her job and was pushed out of the community and made the district have to prepare for lawsuit. She was in deep shit and we got a sub for the semester who was pretty decent. Apparently this wasn't the first time someone called her out, but it was the first time someone had proof. My grade for the class was and A for the semester and I went to do really well in High School doing MECA and getting a Math As. I still have the video and might share if asked for it. Thanks for reading this is my first ever post on Reddit.

Tl;DR Bad teacher compulsively lies getting students in trouble and never doing her job and blaming it on them. Gets me in trouble and ruins my first semester in high school. She covers up theft, fights a student, but little did she know I documented it all so she lost her job and certification.

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sailor-cresselia · 5 years

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Zi-O Ep 36: Let’s mix it up a little!

So, I did things a little differently this week. Me and @miyukomatsuda were watching Marcosatsu’s History of Kabuto vid, and she suggested we watch Zi-O 36 together., too, since watching this alone my first time through would have been AWFUL. So, my notes might be a little. Weird this time around. I’m going to try to transcribe my chat with her in here.

*Fair warning, it gets a little... swear-y in here this time. Also, sorry for the length. Chats do that, and this is condensed down.*

(M is Miyuko, S is me.)

M: wanna try suffering through zi o

S: sure, just give me a couple minutes to get something

M: (thumbsup emoji)

S: how do we want to do this?

M: this should work. and if in doubt we both have the ep downloaded

- (insert cut here) -

M: Ginga. What is you

S: SPACE MAN

M: -suddenly here

S: WAIT NO THATS GEN

S: ahahaha “his power is worlds beyond us”

M: 13 THIS IS ON YOU

S: DECADE THIS IS ON YOU

M: Woz: “fuck if I know guys”

M: 13 AND DECADE THIS ON YOU

[there’s a whole group chat thing about a Doctor Who / Kamen Rider crossover universe, so the whole ‘Ginga’s from some other far off region of space-time’ thing brought it back up]

S: Swartz: FUCKING SWEET - whoops no Swartz is pissed never mind

M: *sweet new toy*

M: Woz: >:(

S: “world is /mine/ to destroy”

M: hahahaha

M: Woz: >:|

M: (dancing emoji, because we hit the OP)

M: I still think the statues are gonna unstatue in show

S: over quartzer is a JAM (don’t mind me, singing along)

M: that’s a MATH BREAKS THE WALLS level weird

M: (same hat) Rider music is top tier.

[title card, “2019: First Love, Finaly!”]

S: first kokoros

M: okay yuko.

M: LAYING IT ON A WEEE BIT THICK THERE MY DUDE

[swartz was sucking up to Yuko for her assistance w/ Ginga]

S: hora’s so tired of this

M: if he is a servant to oma zi o-explains a lot

M: TIME FOR BOWING

M: ofc woz is second

S: ahaha he just yoinks hora and heure

S: everyone drags geiz

M: YANK HIM DOWN

M: FORCES HIS KIDS DOWN

M: AND THEY JUST SLAM GEIZ DOWN

S: hve to shove him and hora download

M: JUST FUCKING LEAVES

S: woz and swartz are first to drop to their knees

S: WOW SCREW THIS LADY

M: of course woz does this

M: AND NOW FOR: INOUE IS SEXIST

M: heure laughing at swartz tho

S: HEURE GET OUT OF THERE

M: RUN KID

S: YOU CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER

M: Woz: MajoOu

S: WOZ NO

M: me: :) (I KNEW IT!)

S: horny on main for evil

S: sougo’s kingdom to know why he betrayed the rebellion

M: SOUGO: GET YOUR HEART OUT OF YOUR PANTS YOU DUMB KITTY

S: SOUGO NO

S: YOU KNOW LIKE NYA

M: AND THEN SHE LIES TO HIM. LIAR

S: BLATANTLY NOT HER

M: Sougo you DUMB KITTY -SOUGO I AM FUCKING KINK SHAMING YOU

S: sougo ffs

M: INOUEEEEEE

M: Geiz is gonna kill him for real

S: uncle’s so confused

M: poor uncle

[miyuko had to go get food at this point]

M: IWAE I RETURN

S: IAWAE

M: Also Uncle: IT’S A MIRACLE

S: “screw this ginga guy, I don’t give a f. i’mma queen now”

S: the fact swartz actually thought this would work when she already hated him

M: that’s hilarious

M: Woz in the straightest he’s acted all season

S: sougo is a stupid stupid cat. surprised he’s never gotten his head stuck in a box

M: incredibly dumb kitty

M: SOUGO PUT DOWN THAT MILK. IT’S STUPID JUICE

S: ...i wonder if someone’s drawn that now actually after this arc

M: i’ve seen sougo with kitty ears-

M: UNCLE

S: NYA

M: GEIZ TRIES TO FLEE THIS BAD EP

M: Sougo you DUMB Kitty

S: sougo why do you know she had a bf in ‘08? you met her a long time before that.

[I was wrong, he met her in ‘08, she did the violence in ‘15]

M: Those poor extras on the stairs

S: GINGA RETURNS. KILLIN ERRYONE

M: TO TORMENT A STRIP MALL

S: ahahahah that’s hilarious

[I was talking about the fact that it’s just a freaking strip mall, not the fact that Ginga was destroying EVERYTHING]

M: also: something I noticed

S: that’s a fucking showa era attack name if I every heard one [Dynamite Sunshine]

M: thanks to a youtube comp of woz’s speech... Woz does the energy blast that our main three time jackers do

S: fourze and faiz pt 1

M: yeah!

S: one does not interupt his overlord’s transformation

M: I think woz is a time jacker.

S: also he kicked geiz’s ass in wizard pt 1

M: And of course bastard man is fine while his cohorts get blown back

S: b/c he’s too OP

M: SOUGO NO. SOUGO YOU DUMB KITTY

S: also evidence for woz being a time jacker: Hat!Woz called Swartz ‘Sir Swartz’

S: FFS SOUGO [when he took the hit for Yuko]

M: (yeah!)

M: also. JIRO

M: JIRO WHY

S: Woof. awoo

M: [don’t awoo, $350 penalty sign]

S: :sad wolf:

M: HE’S SOLAR POWERED [re: Ginga]

M: oh hey otoya violin

S: EVIL KIKAI

M: SOUGO GET YOUR HEART AND YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR PANTS

S: Sougo you stupid, stupid cat, she’s just got a ruler complex

M: YOU DUMB KITTY WHO I AM KINK SHAMING

[re: sougo calling her Miss Sailor, because that’s what he’s always called his crush]

S: it’s just your nickname for her anyway, she wouldn’t have known it even if it IS her

S: She’d be in charge sougo. you’d be the consort

M: HIS FACE

S: “WHOOPS”

M: Canon sougo: “OH SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT CHILDREN”

S: “FORGOT ABOUT THE HEIR PART”

[lost some more of the chat. Couldn’t quite screencap it because Rabbit disagreed with keeping the chat where I scrolled to]

S: GOODBYE

M: YEET. TIME FOR A FIGHT

S: AWOOOO

S: so like where did she GET these three? And why does this only this one seem to be aware

M: I think it’s SUPPOESD to be the real vers and they just serve Kiva

S: It’s *probably* him.

S: True, Kiva’s a title, isn’t it? Like hibiki.

S: also PRIME time to pause that wow [Jiro saying “Men become more refined through pain.”]

M: OF COURSE. INOUEEEEE

M: BYE JIRO YOU WERE POINTLESS

S: INOUE NO

S: FAREWELL PUPPER

M: oh hey the bf

M: “scary”

S: understatement of the era

M: OF COURSE

M: Geiz now has to see a murder

M: MANHOLE. Which note she can barely lift. JFC

S: YUKO NO

S: SHE TRAINED LATER

M: WAHT THE FUCK LADY

S: AND LEARNS TO KICK THEM UP. IN HEELS

M: Poor Tetsuya

S: SHE DID A MURDER

M: WHY WOULD YOU HANG OUT TOGETHER JFC

S: you idiots you made it easier for her

M: YEET. RIP ALL THREE OF THESE DUDES.

S: yooooo.

M: SORRY YOU WON’T GET PAID FOR WATCH REPAIR JUNICHIRO

M: SOUGO YOU ABSOLUTE DUMB KITTY

S: I like how the Another Kiva transformation includes the bats instead of just the usual Another Rider special effects

[on to the last fight against Ginga]

M: Ey! TOKI NO OUJA

S: YES [it’s actually the instrumental used as a fight music, but it’s still always nice to hear. I like noting the piano versions more, though. The ones that are used for atmosphere]

M: YEET! THIS MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE THAN NORMAL

S: WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW THE SWORD. THROWING YOUR SWORD ALWAYS WORKS.

M: SURE WHY NOT

[seriously, Sougo, Geiz, and Woz all threw their weapons at Ginga, then rider kicked said weapons into his chest as the finisher. wtf]

S: beams the hell out of there

[Woz nabs the Ginga watch with his scarf]

M: YOINK

M: “I CAN’T TRINITY ANYMORE”

S: Swartz: YOINK GOT YOUR- HOLD UP

S: Woz: “I CAN’T KEEP DOING THAT”

M: the real reason Woz did this is clearly: “FUCK YOU I AM NOT BODYSHARING AGAIN”

S: “Waga Maou I adore you but. No. I can’t do this again.

M: also lbr SWARTZ WOULD BE TERRIFYING WITH GINGA’S POWER

M: JFC LADY, HE **DUMPED** YOU

S: Swartz is terrifying with his OWN power

M: SOUGO PLS STOP WITH THE STUPID JUICE

S: SOUGO

M: SOUGO AND JON BOTH DRANK STUPID JUICE THIS WEEK

S: at least he’s *kind of* willing to fight her.

M: AT LEAST JON MANNED UP AND KILLED DANY

S: okay only kind of

M: Woz: “FUCK THIS, MY TURN”

S: he pulled out the watch at least

S: UCHUU KITAA

M: :D HE ABRIDGED

S: WOZ

M: I hope he makes the full speech next time :D

S: GOTTA CUT IT SHORT

M: (I love woz’s speeches)

S: waga maou is being a moron

M: OKAY

S: don’t have time for this

M: Woz: **FUCK THIS I ROLL TO USE GINGA**

M: everyone: **THANK YOU**

[for ref, Miyuko has an AU where the Heisei Rider seasons are D&D campaigns]

M: -SO MANY QUESTIONS

S: and they just turn back into their weapon forms

M: yeah

S: not even disappear, just the weapons again

M: they uh kind of got sealed in their-

M: STOP

M: INOUE

S: INOUE, Another Riders don’t DIE

M: **THANK FUCK** BUT ALSO INOUE

S: OH WAIT IT’S HORA

S: BANG

M: GOOD RIDDENCE

S: I MEAN SHE HAD IT COMING BUT

M: :(

M: INOUEEEEEE

M: first heartbreak, WOZ PLS

M: toki no ouja

S: HEY WE NEVER HAD THE RECAP EARLIER

M: INOUEEEE

M: SHE RUINED PIE FOR HIM

S: om nom pie

M: WOZ JUST INHALING PIE

S: YOINKING YOUR PIE (respect the pie)

M: GEIZ NEARLY CHOKING THIS TIME (Woz choked on pie TWICE last time)

M: SOUGO’S REAL FIRST LOVE AS PLAYED BY YURI FROM KIVA

M: -oh my fucking god he’s a cat jfc

S: sougo. no. sweetie.

M: Tsukuyomi are you the only women who didn’t know this would work

M: NEXT TIME

M: OKAY

S: Decade: STOP THAT

S: Decade: I am the multiverses janitor

M: well if tendou can’t come back might as well get his successor to arrogance

S: ahahahah

M: DO YOU SEE WY I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE CRINGE JFC

S: YEAH

M: INOUE WHAT THE FUCK

S: WOW. NOT GREAT

M: THAT IS NOT AN EP TO WATCH ALONE

S: MY NOTES WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN “uuuggghghh”

M: that was me watching

M: I GIFFED parts because of how bad it was and I need people to KNOW in chat

S: this was. Bad. So bad. neither villain did well

M: nope

S: just yeet ginga back off into space

M: rider wikia says we learn ginga lore next time too so HERE’S FUCKING HOPING

S: Thats something

M: and yuko just got TRASHED

S: RIGHT BECAUSE METEORITE AND SPACE

M: SHE DIDN’T NEED TO BE INSANE INOUE

S: AND HE’S FROM SPACE

M: Ginga also means Galaxy

S: ye, I know

M: ye. Themeing. -also

S: SPACE MAN

M: has sougo not used fourze armor before now because I thought he did

M: WHY IS SOUGO UCHU KITA-ING

S: he’s used it in it’s debut

M: **SOUGO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO GENTARO**

S: and then in the mass fight against the Another Riders in the Another ZiO arc. but that’s it

M: yeah! Ty

M: SOUGO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO GENTARO NOW WHY IS THAT IN THE PREVIEW-

M: oh my god

S: much like gatakiriba, it would probably murder the CG budget

M: he’s going to fucking space.

M: THEY’RE GOING TO FUCKING SPCAE ARNE’T THEY

S: the zi-o Fourze finisher is him just. Armoring up and BEING the rocket. It was ridiculous.

M: YEP. I love it!

S: goes all Snipe Level One on the monster, spinning like a bullet

M: YUP. Remember him fucking up build’s catch phrase AND math

S: even Ryuuga knew he was getting it wrong. that takes “skill”

M: WHEN EVEN THE BF KNOWS

S: we should have seen babby reality warper coming when he used Ex-Aid and took the speciall effects and threw them at the Another Rider

M: yep

S: ~casual reminder that zi o can be read as ‘character king’~

M: (eyes emoji)

S: ~as in written character~

So, over all… NOT A GOOD EPISODE. I basically went from assorted variants of “Eh” to “ugh why this” throughout. This was definitely a low point on the ‘tribute episodes’ scale, and that’s taking the character assassination from the Build arc into account.

#kamen rider zi o #sailorcressy says #sorry for the length

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relaxandlaughatyourself · 5 years

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Recap of Dem and Ika’s IG Live, May 10, 2019

They did two lives, totaling about an hour and twenty minutes. They were incredibly happy and touchy. Constant laughter and playfulness.

Dem is going to take a shower, but Ika wants him to stay and talk to us as well.

Ika says her hair is growing back and feels thick, she has Dem feel it. Ika: “How’s it feel?” Dem: “Thick. Luscious. This is all you, this isn’t a wig? Oh my…”

She thinks she looks older with the wig. When seeing herself on the jury segment, she hated her makeup and thought she looked so old. She thinks she looked crazy. Mentions how people think she looked pregnant, and is offended people think she looks pregnant. “I know I gained some weight, but y’all are wrong for that.” Dem named her wig Shelia. She wishes she wore her own hair and did her own makeup. She facetimed Dem right after the makeup was done and “I said, babe, I look crazy. And he said I looked beautiful so I went on tv looking like a drag queen.” Dem hasn’t seen the segment yet. She thinks makeup makes her look old, and for tv they pile on the makeup, “so they’re piling on the oldness”.

She’s ranting about people calling her pregnant and Dem is texting, “babe, I’m going through a lot, what are you doing?” “I just can’t stop eating at night. You look good, you workout, you look fine.”

Dem: “The next rumors are going to be that you’re crazy.” Ika: “But those aren’t rumors, those are true.”

Dem’s trying to take a nap, “we’ll get him, I promise. If you fall asleep, things will happen to you.” Dem: “Don’t act up for the people.”

Thoughts on Adam and Sam. She loves them, huge Sam stan. Dem: “He’s lovestruck.”

Thoughts on Anthony. She doesn’t hate Anthony, off camera he’s super funny and super nice, but on camera… she’s silent lol. He makes people feel insignificant, that’s how she felt the jury felt above him. He played a great game though.

So much happened at the roundtable that didn’t make the cut. She was filming for three hours. The jury was very pro Dane at that point. She was most shocked at Cory, she was very bitter, acting like Anthony and her were married and he was having an affair and she found out in jury. At one point she did say that she was angry at him and he was treating her like everyone else, she thought she was special. She was not a fan of Mark while on the show, but she appreciated him so much at the roundtable because he was one of the only people besides Cory who gave her so much, he was taking her jabs and laughing; it changed her opinion on him.

Este and Kiki. She’s silent, and Dem is giving her looks off camera. Este is sweet, and knows that she didn’t play a good game. She has respect for Este for that.

Dane. Thinks he is an amazing winner, the best winner bbcan has ever had. Dem gives a thumbs up. He’s well rounded. Dem thinks he was the best social player and the best comp player, and Ika agrees. Dem says Anthony played well but didn’t win a damn thing. Ka: “Are you coming for my edges? Winning comps isn’t everything, Demetres.”

Ika doesn’t agree with people who say that her and Anthony played similar games. “It’s hard to not touch the block, but it’s hard to sit on the block with your ride or die and escape together. Twice.” Ika notes that she and Dem were the biggest threats in the house, Anthony wasn’t seen as that. Anthony is great, but they played similar but different games. Anthony controlled people in a wicked way, Ika didn’t control people that way, she had to work. Anthony played an incredible game, just wasn’t likeable.

Kyra. They survived, and was never really the target. They had a mentally hard time because they were pawns and their allies kept leaving. She mentions that they are nice. Also notes how she messes up on the pronouns sometimes and Kyra understands it’s a learning process, and appreciates the effort. Ika reminds everyone to correct people, but in a way that doesn’t make them feel bad, because almost always the person doesn’t mean it negatively or out of disrespect, it’s learning, “so you don’t have to give Demetres angry faces.” Ika notes that she doesn’t know what it would have been like going through the house alone, “I don’t know what I would have done without you, and having someone to laugh with, laugh at people with, drag with, make fun of people with. We did a lot of making fun of people in that house, we were so petty. It’s an easy way of passing time. And we wonder why no one likes us.” Dem: “Turns out they recorded all that.”

Damien. He’s a great guy, was Elijah’s fav player. Elijah says that he doesn’t say anything and that makes him smart because he has nothing to back it up. Dem: “Wisdom coming from the kid, eh.” Elijah also says his expressions are funny. “When people say he’s too nice for BB, what’s that say about us? He’s a nice guy… [Dem]. I’m a nice girl. […] I think my boyfriend is a really nice person.” Dem: “You’re nice too. You’re a nice person. It’s hard for a lot of people to see that but she is.” Ika starts yelling at him in a funny way asking why people think that, “I think it’s stuff like this” he laughs. Dem: “You’re actually the nicest person I’ve ever met. I’m not just saying that.” Ika says she’s nicer than Dem and Dem agrees. Ika says Dem is nicer in that he gives people more chances, Ika is kinder, more giving, more compassionate. Dem says he’s more ruthless; Ika says because he’s business, he’s not afraid of having hard convos. Dem has compassionate moments.

Ika says she wants to tell one of their jokes. She says he’s making a really big investment – “yay!” – (and they high five), and it’s going to take up a lot of money, “so I told him to stick both hands up cause I didn’t want any fingers crossed, and I told him to stick his toes up, I asked are you doing this big investment that will eat up a lot of money because you can say that we can put off getting married because the money is going into the business, into the investment. Instead of putting that money into a ring or a wedding. He says that never crossed his mind, he’s thinking of putting the money in our future, in that, it’s going to grow and do this and make more money.” Dem: “These opportunities, when they come up, you have to pull the trigger.” Ika: “But him and his trickeries. But this is why we work, I have these thoughts and I don’t keep them inside. Either way, you’re buying a ring.”

Dem says there’s a diamond mine in Kansas, and for $10 a day, you can go fish for your own diamonds. He said it’ll take him like a month, so that plus accommodations won’t be that bad. Ika: “We were talking – we were probably drinking because Demetres hates talking marriage, he gets red. We were talking about what kind of ring. Since we both love the number five, it’s special to us, I was thinking a 5 carat ring is only logical.” Dem: “So I said .5, move the decimal.” Ika said then that she thinks it would be nice for him to dig for the diamond so there’s a story, he didn’t just go to a store. So Dem googled it and came up with this $10 a day thing. Dem says Ika wants him to go to Africa and dig up a big rock. Ika: “Don’t say Oh I love you, I’ll do anything, but you won’t go!” Dem: “I’ll go to Kansas!” Ika: “Don’t come for me.” Dem: “Just kidding, we’re going to Vegas, I’m just gonna buy her one.”

Dem then asks how does the ring help their future life out. “What’s it good for? It goes down the sink.” Dem: “It’s about the sentimental value, it’s not about the price. It’s about the symbol of our love. What if I spend $3k, save the half a million, invest it in some real estate and we make some money instead.” Dem then googles how much a 5 carat ring is. Ika: “We’re not getting married, we’re just having conversations, this is what we do.” Dem says there is $50k one, but it’s probably crap quality, and Ika wants good quality. Dem says they can negotiate, maybe 1.5 carats.

Ika notes that they went to Wendy’s before they went home. Dem: “The marketing has worked on us.”

Ika says he’s a true Greek, all he cares about is money. They laugh. Dem: “I care about you too.” Ika: “He does. He does care about me.” Dem: “More than money?” Ika: “Hmph, I don’t know!” Dem: “I do. I’m not going into details… I care about you more than money.” Ika: “Really?” Dem: “Yeah.” Ika: “How do I know?” Dem smiles and nods a bit. Ika: “Because you moved here?” Dem: “No… uh, moving on!” Ika: “Why?! How do I know?” Dem: “Because, baby. Tell them how you ruined my nap earlier.” They laugh about him changing the subject.

They go back to the $10 ring, Dem: “These guys go to the mall. The mall! They went for a burger, left with a ring! I went to Kansas for a diamond. For you.” Ika says he only chose Kansas cause it was the first thing that came up. Dem: “So you want me to go to Siberia? There’s probably one on Mount Everest too, but I would die less often going to Kansas.”

Ika reads a comment if they’re done with youtube. Dem: “Yes! No.” He laughs while Ika scolds him for being mean. Dem says youtube is so time consuming, and Dem is putting more time into real estate. She says she’s blaming him, he’s fine with it, but it was actually Ika who wanted the break. Dem was a little mad at first because you have to be consistent but he agrees. They say it’s fun, but with their busy schedules, it wasn’t sustainable. They say they made some money, but Dem doesn’t think they’re youtube star material. Ika says she’s a star and shakes her boobs, Dem: “You are a star, especially if you do that.”

They say they will make videos again. Dem jokes it will be a month long vlog of him looking for diamonds and then finding the one in Kansas.

Ika says she thinks Sam and Adam will be the first bbcan couple to get married. Dem: “You have no faith in me, do you?” Ika says no, absolutely not, but because her and Dem took their relationship slower and had a lot of hurdles, including long distance and moving, and Adam and Sam are already near each other.

Ika says that they talked about how they would get married and not tell anyone for a year or so. Dem says they’re not the type of people to flash their wedding photos everywhere, Ika agrees but says to not say that in case they do. Dem: “Someone 10 years from now will send us that clip from this live.” Ika: “10 years?!” Dem: “5 years…” Ika: “5 years?!” Dem: “2 years…” She pushes him and they laugh hysterically, she tickles him. Dem: “These diamonds are hard to find, I’ll have to make a couple trips.” Ika says they wouldn’t tell anyone then have people over for a bbq and say they’re there to celebrate their one year anniversary.

Dem mentions that the wig is named Shelia, and she says it’s her fav wig, which Dem questions since she just throws it down. She goes to put the wig on Dem, “I am not a pretty long haired person.”

Someone asks how Jamaica was and they say they vlogged it for us a bit. They may post it at some point.

They said Jamaica was really nice, Ika’s family showed Dem all of her baby pictures, and he kind of wants to do a video like they did with his. They laugh about the pictures, she had weird hair and teeth, and Dem says really big knees. Dem says she smiled really weird too, like tilted her head down, glared with her eyes and smiled. He impersonates it.

Dem went to Ika’s church while they were there, and he loved it. He kept saying it was a celebration, it was lit, he understands why they like going to church – he’d go every week if it was like that. “I thought those churches were only in the movies!” He said the guy would be telling stories, throwing hands and singing and then randomly should “hallelujah”. It was amazing. Ika says that a couple weeks before Jamaica he took her to a Greek church, Dem: “It felt like a funeral.” Ika: “Glad you said it and not me.” Dem said he was also singled out at the Jamaican church, “meet our new friend Demetres.” And they asked him to stand. Ika says they welcomed her too, but Dem says she didn’t stand cause she wasn’t really new.

After church he met people who knew Ika when she was little, who knew her grandma.

She mentions that everyone in Jamaica has a nickname, Ika says he can tell us, but he says to keep it to themselves.

Her aunt has a big backyard and she likes crab, so they caught some to make for them. But the crabs escaped from the bucket and Ika freaked out, was screaming, “it was the rat video all over again.” Dem did get a video of it. Ika says her brother’s friend also brought music to the dinner. Dem loved the crab. He then says Miss Pinky’s crab was the best; Ika says she made crabs when she was little, and they all still knew her.

They talk about how there was a bible school they went to, but it was hot and they didn’t love it.

His aunt would talk to Dem and be like, “when’s the wedding? I can’t wait until my teeth fall out for the pictures.”

Dem and Ika made their own souvenir, they bought rum, brought it to the beach, drank it, had a heart to heart, and then took the sand that was between them and put it in the bottle. Dem: “Just fyi, they’ll give you hell at the airport because they’ll think there’s alcohol.” Dem says the bottle of sand is sacred, it’s heart to heart sand. Ika mentions that they had another heart to heart, but this one was better, “we had a lot of heart to hearts in Jamaica.” Dem: “We did.”

They went to a party in Jamaica too.

Ika says she needs to get new boobs again, they’re getting deflated. She asks if Dem thinks her boobs are okay.

They’re going out to the wrap party, but Dem still has to shower; they’re not getting there until later. EFS is where the alumni are going, but they’re going to the actual wrap party. They may go to EFS after but they’re not sure.

Ika: “Dem’s not mad, he’s a little honey bunches.”

Dem notes that his dad mentioned that his mom refused to take photos, so he thinks it’s hereditary why he doesn’t like people taking his pics for IG. Ika: “That was like the stone ages though, your dad is 70, so that was a long time ago.” Dem says she thought it would take her soul.

They like Adam and Sam but they don’t like Sadam.

Dem says that he’s only met Dane. Ika says that the periscope was short today because she interviewed him right before and that will be aired at some point.

They note that they don’t watch tv, they stream BB, survivor, the challenge and sports.

Someone comments Dem’s hair looks like, he gets happy. Ika: “My little Demetres!”

Ika says that lives are more fun with Dem, there’s more to talk about.

They say bye, Dem throws his shirt on the couch to finally shower.

#ig live #sorry it's so long #it was soo good tho

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(I Hope) This Is The Last Definitive TF2/OW Politics Rambling I Ever Keyboard Enthusiast About

TaiRong’s Twitter rant on why he left comp TF2 for comp OW cuts deep. His talk was very specific to AsiaFortress, but it’s a sentiment for many former TF2 pros and talent who prioritized OW. They wanted more than what TF2 was able to give them. In turn, what it gets interpreted as is a slight against TF2 and its community.

I too, have also called brothers and sisters “traitors” at one point because I hated how not only they were leaving me, but then seemed to forget their roots. They didn’t owe me or TF2 anything. It’s not that they forgot their roots, it’s that the people who left are just as angry as the people who stayed.

I will never forget Creep*, a prominent AsiaFortress player from Korea, telling me at i55 that he wanted to bring an Asian team to iSeries one day. In i58, that actually seemed like it would be the case, but the Asian players struggled to field a team for i58 because of a majority of their playerbase leaving for OW. When I reflect back on it, it would have been wasteful to collect who was left in Asia if the best players had left. Full Tilt and Crowns were the EU powerhouses, and even the weakest froyotech roster in LAN history would have probably beaten them. Australia still hurts from 4th Place LAN placements to this day.

Of course I would have liked to see Asia at a major international TF2 LAN, let alone South America or even Australia again. I hope they will get the funding they need if they decide to contest the powerhouses of Europe or North America, and I hope they will enjoy their experiences if they do so, as many TF2 players who fight for passion do. I wished the same for Australia when they came back for i58 and ESA Rewind, even though I knew the curse of 4th Place and the lack of monetary justification must have hurt a fair bit.

The fire/candle burning out metaphor is common in my scene. I’m saddened to hear about Pavane and TaiRong attempting to go through it all and fight hard after so many hours of dedication to TF2, but burning out or feeling helpless as so many others have done around me. I’m glad TaiRong asked Fl0w3r and Pine to follow him at the right time, and as such found more success in OW than they did TF2. It took me some time to accept it, but now I can say I think they made the right choice, as did so many others I saw succeed - Seagull, Muma, Mangachu. SDB, Knoxxx, Zebbosai. Some of the many old names and old faces that TF2 players remember fondly; that TF2 players miss.

I get rebuttals of how TF2 was marketed as a casual game a lot. I know this. It was one of the reasons why matchmaking was met with so much pushback when new devs finally were allowed to implement it. To some extent, I’m inclined to agree. My favourite shit to deal with has to be when I see comments that say that the competitive TF2 pros are ruining the game. That they should just leave and stop pushing competitive on a casual game.

Well...they did.

After years of watching Valve to push the community’s 6v6, having to grow up and stop being a salt factory about my brothers and sisters going to OW instead, being paid for and thanked sincerely for my involvement in OW from Blizzard, never touching Valve’s Matchmaking since the first launch week until they adjust it again, and now overseeing what might be the most important piece of TF2 narrative in the form of 1 and a half years of filming - I’m okay with them leaving.

They left, because TF2 itself, as well as the majority of TF2′s playerbase, was insistent on TF2 being a casual game. Therefore, people who wanted more than that finally decided “alright, it’s going to stay a casual game” - and found a competitive game instead. Gameplay opinions, criticized business tactics, and other semantics aside - they found a game that did not limit itself to insisting on being a casual game, but wanted to also be called a competitive game.

I am happy for TaiRong’s success and determination. I understand and sympathize with TaiRong’s anger and his frustration. I am happy he left TF2 if he was no longer happy with it. I can objectively say as a bigger TF2 fan that OW is treating him better so far. How long that will last, I don’t know, but I can 100% say it’s treated him better than AsiaFortress from his tweets and from what I know. Of course I’m sad that TF2 was not enough for him; I understand that his and many other’s anger is more at Valve than TF2 itself. I understand the other side of the story that disagree with that sentiment and will point out Valve’s decisions as wiser.

But that’s okay. I’m glad they left if they weren’t happy here. I’m glad they’re happier where they are.

I’m sure similar fandoms experience this: I see not just former pros, but content creators, artists, Youtubers, talking about how they fear returning to TF2 for anything. The reasons sometimes are similar: they’re afraid of angry TF2 fans who labelled them traitors. They’re afraid of falling back into the comfort TF2 will offer them rather than go out of their comfort zone to try new things for themselves. They’re afraid that they’ll fall back into a depressive state because they were either in a bad state when they ventured into TF2, or they simply will always want more than TF2 was or will be able to offer.

Let them leave then. They are not yours to keep. They were not meant to stay. Their relationship with TF2 was not as fond as you thought it was - who was wrong in that relationship is up to you. Their anger is not because they forgot their roots. Their anger iis not against the community. Some of their closest friends and teammates are all probably from the same roots.

We did not forget their roots. They did not forget their roots. Their anger was because they couldn’t find what they wanted - so they found it elsewhere. And that’s okay.

*Pavane turned out to be Creep.

#comp ow #comp tf2 #overwatch esports #tf2 #ow #comp crap #thoughts crap #long post

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i miss warm summer nights walking for hours with friends as the sun went down in the distance. i miss the sound of cicadas and fireworks and the smell of sickly sweet treats at the fair. this is gonna be my last january living in this house. in six months my life will be completely different yet time feels stagnant and slow in my mind. senior year is going by so fast yet so slow. my senior project presentation feels like it was last year but it happened less than a month ago. my mom still has never seen me with my hair dyed or my new car. i dont see my sister everyday anymore. my current friends don’t even know what my mom looks like. ill have to leave my cat to go to college and that alone is almost worth not going. i might go to college and have to do the entire first year online. how am i supposed to make friends during a pandemic in a brand new city when i have social anxiety? what if im stuck in my home state for the rest of my life? im terrible at keeping in contact with people, especially virtually, so what’s gonna happen when my friends and i all have separate futures and lives and go to different cities? i am almost a legal adult and i still don’t know who i am. i can’t even go to the store by myself without having major anxiety and having to calm myself down afterwards. i feel stupid when i speak outloud sometimes and it makes me want to restart my life in college as a silent loner, just because people and facades can be so much to deal with. i wish i had become a youtuber like i had wanted to when i was 12 because that dream never went away and now it’s too late. i feel guilty for not talking to my mom because i don’t even need space anymore, i just don’t have the will to reach out. she drunk texted me tonight and i barely had the energy to feel sad or angry, i just feel like it’s all my fault. i haven’t been to the creek in so long. when’s the last time i went on a walk? im too anxious to even go outside half the time. i bet my friends are bored of hanging out with me because all we do is sit and watch netflix together. its 1am and im tired but im sad and my chest hurts with that childhood nostalgia and longing and the inexplicable urge to feel known. there’s a good chance ill never find love - ive never even held hands with someone. my phones at 1%. i plugged it in. it’s still dying. im dying. im dead. i can’t handle responsibility and now i have so much of it but it feels pathetic to be overwhelmed by it. im too old to sleep with stuffed animals and cry every other night but i still do it anyways because ive never known anything different. i feel too old to exist in the way that i do but i feel too young to change. maybe i should give up the idea of majoring in comp sci and just accept the fact that i hate math and science and im too stupid to do something so specialized and intelligence based. i wish i had joined the track team in middle school. i wish i had never given up band. i wish. i wish. i wish i didn’t dwell on the past so much but maybe it’s because that’s the only part of my life that makes sense right now. the present feels like a series of overlapping wires where im told to cut the red one but they’re all the same shade of gray. and the future doesn’t feel like a real concept, just an idealized time that’s covered in fog and gray matter. part of me never thought id live this long and part of me wishes i hadn’t. now im just being dramatic. who am i even talking to. i feel so alone and lost and unmotivated. waking up everyday is stress and going to bed brings only a few hours of relief that feel more like minutes. i can’t sleep for a long time after lying down because all i can think of is all the things i need to do tomorrow and all the things i didn’t get done today. i can’t breathe. typing this before bed was a terrible idea because now my heart is racing and my palms are sweaty and everything feels too hot and itchy. i want to scratch my skin until it bleeds and throw off my blanket no matter how soft it is and how cold my room is.

i want to cry but nothing is happening. im up too late and now i won’t be able to get up early and i won’t be able to sleep enough and the idea of existing makes me want to scream. im done. my back hurts. im tired. im done. i feel like im living in a fantasy world and nothing is real and it just makes it hit harder when i realize that my actions affect my future and my future is my life. it makes me want to kill myself and avoid the future im ruining for myself. im done.

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Willing Suspension

So, six months later... *cough*

Fans have had a lot of issues with alleged inconsistencies in Sherlock Series 4--especially The Final Problem. Some I agree with, many I don’t, and others I’m undecided on or just don’t care about.

But there is one issue that, to my mind, carries more weight than any of the others.

It starts with the “missing glass” scene.

But note that I said my issue starts with this scene. It’s not the scene itself.

Sure, I know lots of people didn’t like that Sherlock Holmes, the most observant man in the world, didn’t notice there was no glass. It was even the first thing someone who’s had zero contact with fandom and had never discussed the show with me before brought up as a complaint when the episode unexpectedly came up as a conversation topic soon after it aired.

And I get why people have issues with the scene, I do.

But for me personally... meh. 🤷 I don’t mind it. The question of how Eurus had the glass taken away before her brother arrived is easily covered by the fact that she controlled the entire prison staff. And Sherlock’s writers have long since set up the idea that Sherlock gets worse at thinking when he becomes emotional, a trait that can be reasonably supported with ACD canon:

He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

Meeting your long-forgotten sister in a secret island prison counts as a situation likely to generate strong emotion, I think.

So, sure. Why not. I’ll go with it and let them off the hook regarding whether Sherlock should’ve felt Eurus’ breath, noticed the violin sound wasn’t just coming through the speakers, etc. I honestly found the no glass reveal entertaining, and it’s not as if the whole thing was impossible.

Well...

Maybe not the whole thing.

Even if I stand ready and willing to cut them all the slack in the world in terms of Sherlock having an observational breakdown, there’s still one problem.

Eurus: Do you see how it was done? I know you like explanations. Sherlock: Signs, you suspended the signs.

There are six signs in Eurus’ cell. Each of the three big “panes of glass” has a a sign in the lower center that reads “MAINTAIN DISTANCE OF THREE FEET” and a sign in the upper right that reads “ELEPHANT GLASS / SHOCK PROOF.”

The sign layout may be slightly easier to see in this screenshot from Jim’s visit, though of course the real glass wall was still in place then:

Once the glass wall is gone, the Elephant Glass signs (and no, that’s not a real brand, and I’m still not sure why I saw people insisting it was after the episode aired) are easy to explain.

The Elephant Glass signs are suspended by attaching one end to the window frame. Easy peasy. (And probably why it’s the thing we see at the end of Sherlock’s sign deduction--that’s what sticks in your head.)

But the Maintain Distance sign?

Here’s more of what we see when Sherlock “figures it out”:

You may not have noticed because they showed it very quickly before cutting to the clearly-attached Elephant Glass sign, but this sucker isn’t “suspended” at all.

It’s just floating in mid-air.

Defying the laws of physics.

That, my friends, is impossible.

And that’s the part I have an issue with.

“Who cares? It’s just a TV show. It’s not real anyway.”

Here’s the thing.

I gladly will--and have--let all kinds of things go on this show because it is just a TV show. People who think Series 4 was the first time Sherlock has included elements that don’t make a ton of sense frankly haven’t been paying much attention.

BUT.

There’s “TV impossible,” and then there’s impossible-impossible.

To illustrate with another example from Series 4:

In The Six Thatchers, Mary jumped into the path of a bullet to save Sherlock.

That is not a thing. You cannot do that. It defies the laws of physics to have time to get in the way of a bullet you’ve seen fired at close range.

That said, while I have very strong opinions on what the Actual Deal With Mary’s Death was, her miracle leap has never been a thing that bothered me.

Because even though you can’t do that in real life, people do it all the damn time on TV.

So I don’t care why the writers deployed that trope. I’m willing to accept it as the trope it is and move on.

Compare that to the magical, anti-gravity sign.

There is no magical, anti-gravity sign trope that gets pulled out in detective stories (or stories about detectives, if you prefer) on a regular basis. And there’s a reason for that.

I’d like to call my next witness:

Collider: Are you surprised that people seem to always want to know about the possibility of a cross-over between Doctor Who and Sherlock?

STEVEN MOFFAT: That’s a question that I get asked so often, and I can’t keep answering it. It’s all right for Doctor Who. That’s fine. But it would change Sherlock’s life, if he met the Doctor and knew that time travel was possible. He’d have to factor that into every crime he solved.

Good answer, Steven. That is the Right Answer. Sherlock Holmes can’t meet the Doctor and go on an adventure in space and time because it would permanently alter Sherlock’s ability to do logic-based detective work.

Think about what happens to the show if we accept that Shit Can Randomly Float Now.

“But how did the robbers get twelve tons of gold out of the bank while it was surrounded by police?”

“Obvious. They levitated it through the hole they cut in the ceiling.”

“Oh, right, I keep forgetting that Shit Can Randomly Float Now.”

“You murdered your husband by cutting his parachute cords.”

“Look, I admit I cut the chute. But if he didn’t want to die he should’ve just deactivated the power of gravity before hitting the ground. I didn’t murder him--it was clearly suicide.”

“Fair enough. You’re free to go.”

“So how did someone manage to kill her in this room that was locked from the inside?”

“I dunno. Wizards, probably? Who cares. We don’t have rules anymore.”

Even if the audience is willing to handwave all kinds of cheesy tropes and plot holes because it’s TV, there is a point in a show like this where a line is crossed and logic fundamentally breaks down.

You cannae change the laws of physics. Or at least not that much.

“Okay, but is the sign really not suspended by anything?”

It’s really not.

First of all, remember that completely invisible support structures are simply a different type of impossible. So that’s out or we’d just be getting to the same problem in a different way.

...turned out to be a visible man with a visible knife. Because things can’t be invisible according to the rules of this particular fictional universe.

Second, when Eurus leapt from her cell to attack Sherlock, we can very briefly see she knocked the sign down (bottom right):

And there’s no hint of any kind of support system going down with it.

About 30 seconds into Series 4 bonus content Behind 221B: The Final Problem, you can see them filming this moment.

And if you watch them filming the moment Eurus made her jump, it looks like Sian was basically given a loose sign to toss aside.

“Wait, I saw a YouTube video--”

The one where they said the floating sign was only an Indiana Jones style optical illusion? I saw that, too. But they got it wrong.

The “leap of faith” illusion in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (video here) relied completely on making sure the observer--Indy--stood in only one spot with only one angle of view.

If Indy had been able to move right or left from his starting position before taking the leap, the optical illusion would’ve been ruined.

But Eurus didn’t make Sherlock stand in one place the whole time. In fact, she asked him to go all the way to the far left side of her cell to retrieve the violin. (Note the floating sign on the right edge of the image below.)

If it’d been a perspective illusion, that would’ve ruined it.

Also, all the behind the scenes & rehearsal images make it even clearer this wasn’t set up as an optical illusion / perspective trick:

The signs were all exactly where we thought they were.

Speaking of behind the scenes...

So how did they do it? If it’s impossible for signs to float in midair, how did Sherlock’s crew make it look like they were hovering?

As you can see from the images above as well as Production Designer Arwel Wyn Jones’ current Twitter header...

...the Maintain Distance signs were all on stands that were erased by an effects team in post-production.

(If you look closely at some of Arwel’s photos, there was also fishing line or wire being used to support the top corners of signs part of the time. Seems like that may’ve been more of a “please don’t knock our important set pieces out of place during rehearsals but we’ll take this down while we’re actually filming” measure, but if not they obviously erased it from the final footage as well.)

“Look, the writers are just lazy. They probably came up with an idea that sounded cool and didn’t realize it made no sense.”

Ehhhh... Even if I’m willing to entertain that notion to a certain degree, it only goes so far because of the multiple layers of people involved in planning and executing the special effect. Even simplifying quite a bit, we have to account for this making it through at least three layers.

Layer 1: The writers--both Moffat and Gatiss on this episode. Personally I think it’s unlikely they wrote this into the script with zero concept of how they wanted it to work, but sure. For the sake of argument we’ll say they just thought it would be good TV and didn’t care how it would work. But they still had to hand the script over to...

Layer 2: The production design team. Arwel and company needed to go through the script with a fine-toothed comb to work out what they needed to build and what it should look like. Did they see the part about suspended signs and decide, “Well, if the writers didn’t spell out how this works we’re going to have to assume it’s magic gravity powers”? No, of course they didn’t. For a number of reasons, not least of which being because you need to have extra budget discussions with the producers before you decide to call in...

Layer 3: The post-production effects team. They would’ve worked with the people making the set to decide how best to set things up so the support stands for the signs could be erased later. Do we really think there was no point in these discussions when one of them asked, “Okay, if we’re taking the support stands out digitally, are we adding in something to replace them? Because you know signs can’t really float, right?”

And like I said, that’s a very simplified version. In reality, there were actually way more layers of people involved. Not limited to but certainly including the dozen or so people who we know were standing by watching as these scenes were rehearsed and filmed.

You don’t need to be an expert in anything but real life to notice the problem. An intern who’s primarily in charge of coffee runs knows enough to work out the issue here and ask the question: “But how are they suspended?”

I know it’s popular to accuse Sherlock’s writers of being clueless. But even if that were true, how many other perfectly reasonable adults are you willing to say forgot that gravity exists?

The team as a whole didn’t get through making this scene without realizing what they were doing. No way.

“Maybe they just did it because they wanted the glass to be missing and there was no other way they could’ve had it happen.”

But there were other ways to handle this. Here, I’ll give you three relatively simple and low-budget alternatives right now.

Alternative 1--The Fix:

There’s something simple they could’ve done that would make the whole anti-gravity problem not exist, while still getting to do the “gasp! missing glass!” moment.

Arwel clearly thought through the design of this sign before they manufactured it. He styled it so all of the letters touch the border. If he hadn’t, we’d also need to wonder how Eurus got each individual letter to float.

And like I said earlier, the Elephant Glass sign is a-okay. It’s attached to the window frame, so there’s nothing impossible there.

All they needed to do was combine these two approaches and they would’ve been fine.

UK safety rules require markings (“manifestations”) to be placed on glass walls so that people know there’s glass there and don’t walk right into it and hurt themselves. This usually takes the form of frosted glass dots, squares, or stripes, though more elaborate designs are also an option.

If you’ve never noticed before, now that I’ve mentioned it you’ll probably start seeing these frosted glass markings all over Sherlock. Often because they’re shooting in real-world locations that have to follow the safety rules:

But the production designers add them to sets they style or build, too, presumably for a sense of realism. For example, here’s the prison governor's office from The Final Problem:

And they custom-designed the large frosted stripe we saw at St. Caedwalla’s in His Last Vow to include the hospital logo they’d invented:

So Arwel is completely aware of the option of designing a custom glass stripe that goes from edge to edge in a window frame...

And hopefully by now you see where I’m going with this.

If they’d just treated the Maintain Distance sign more like a custom glass safety marking, they’d have no physics problem. Add some stripey extensions to the sides. Or do something more elaborate and work the prison logo into the design. It doesn’t matter, as long as all parts of the design are connected to each other and the ends of the sign connect to the sides of the window frame.

This change would have virtually no impact on the story. The only difference would be Eurus potentially knocking down a larger sign when she leapt out of the cell to attack Sherlock, but that’s only on screen for a fraction of a second as-is.

And to be totally clear before someone tries to argue the point, no, I’m not saying secret government prisons would be required to follow typical health and safety rules for their glass cell walls. I’m just saying that people are subconsciously used to those rules, and the production designers could’ve used that expectation to their advantage to design a trick that would be possible in the real world.

(Also, if anyone should appreciate the value of safety markings on glass walls, it should be Sherlock’s crew.)

Alternative 2--The Cheat:

At this point in the post, I’m sure someone is already screaming at me through the internet: “Invisible thread! Eurus used invisible thread like in a magic trick!”

If you’re not that screaming person, here’s a little background info. Invisible thread is a tool used by magicians to make small objects appear to levitate.

Invisible thread isn’t actually invisible, it’s just very thin and therefore hard to see when the lighting and background are right.

If you were trying to pull off Eurus’ trick for real, I think there would be a lot of problems with using invisible thread to suspend the signs. You’d have to not reveal the thread via the scene’s lighting changes, it would have to be equally invisible whether seen against the dark walls of the cell or Eurus’ pure white outfit, you’d probably have to construct a whole web of the stuff to support the weight of the signs, even if you got the signs to stay up it would still be hard to keep them perfectly still, etc.

So I don’t consider invisible thread an actual fix for the problem the same way as I do Alternative 1 above.

But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t accept it as a cheat.

And it would’ve been so simple for them to do. Just show some fishing line or whatever holding the Maintain Distance sign up when you do the zoom in for the “you suspended the signs” reveal. Or even easier, show some snapped clear thread hanging off of the sign after Eurus knocks it down. Either of those could’ve been done as practical effects for pennies.

Invisible thread still wouldn’t be a great solution to the “how,” but for me it would at least be better than anti-gravity and enough to get to a point where I could say, “screw it, they tried.”

Alternative 3--The "Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”:

Look, I’m not kidding when I say there’s a lot I can handwave and ignore.

This is the least-good alternative, but if they’d simply not gone out of their way to draw attention to this problem it would still be better than nothing.

They didn’t have to have Eurus ask if Sherlock knew how she’d done it and point out how nice explanations are. They didn’t have to include closeup shots of a very clearly un-suspended sign that blatantly contradicted Sherlock’s explanation.

Just... don’t.

Don’t do that.

Yes, it might mean not giving a firm answer to the question of “how,” but since that answer was a lie anyway who cares?

It would at least look less like they were trying to get caught. Because as it stands...

“But WHY?! Why would they do this to us?”

I feel ya.

I feel ya like whoa.

And obviously I can’t give you a definitive answer to this one, because I’m not in the showrunners’ heads.

But the thing that keeps coming back to me is a Sherlock Holmes quote. The one that may be his most famous piece of advice.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

If an anti-gravity sign is impossible and can’t happen, then what remains is... it didn’t.

If the writers, FOR WHATEVER REASON, decided they wanted to end Series 4 with a wild fantasy sequence but, FOR WHATEVER REASON, didn’t want to come right out and say this is all imaginary / a dream / whatever... They’d have a problem when it was time for Series 5.

If they came back for the next episode and said “that last ending was all a dream, but we totally planned it the whole time” who would believe them? Since they had to keep most of what happened in the ending at least in the range of TV-plausible to disguise the imaginariness, it would come off as them having written a weird ending that wasn’t very well-received and trying to retcon it after the fact.

But if they slipped in one thing that’s not just improbable, not just an over-the-top version of a common unrealistic trope, something that’s straight up impossible-impossible... They could at least say, “Look at this right here. It was an anti-gravity sign. That’s clearly impossible. And we even drew attention to it with the dialogue. We did plan for this to be an imaginary sequence the whole time, and we told you but you didn’t listen.”

I mean, they’d still get yelled at.

And tons of people still wouldn’t believe them.

But it would at least be a stronger starting position when it was time to begin unraveling the fantasy.

“It doesn’t make sense, Sherlock, because it’s not real.”

“So you think all of Series 4 is fake?”

Nope.

I don’t even think the whole episode is fake.

I’m aware “everything’s fake” has emerged as the single most popular Sherlock theory post-Series 4. And, as always, I feel everyone has a right to their own fan theories. But considering it took me six months to start writing this post and over a week of barely fitting in a few moments here and there to finish it, I hope you’ll accept that lack of time is just one of several reasons I’m not really interested in debating the “everything’s fake” theory with anyone. I’ll just be over here trying to squeeze in time to write about the things I believe or think are interesting, and you do you. Cool? Cool.

Here’s where I think the borders of fakeness lie.

The events of the “missing glass” scene affect everything that comes after it, until the end of the episode. So I think Sherlock and John running out of Rathbone Place is the end border of fake. (I count the girl on the plane sequence from the start of the episode as part of this chunk, too, since it chronologically “happened” after the missing glass scene. But we know that’s fake no matter what, so hopefully I don’t have to make an argument as to why.)

To figure out where the fakeness started, I look back for the most obvious break point. Directly before the missing glass scene, we had the boys hijacking a boat and sneaking into Sherrinford. If everything that followed at Sherrinford was fake, I think those parts are probably fake as well.

Step back once more and you get... Hey, the part where John and Sherlock make it through an explosion and a leap from an upstairs floor without so much as a twisted ankle. That seems like a good break point. We’ll label that the beginning border of fake. (Which means the patience grenade detonation is where the true wait for the rest of the story began.)

Yes, weird stuff happened at Mycroft’s house before that, but nothing impossible. If Sherlock’s effects team can make paintings bleed, so can Sherlock the character.

And yes, it probably means Mycroft was at least partially lying about Sherrinford and Eurus’ backstory in 221B, but they already gave us a hint about that one.

Meanwhile, if everything from this:

To this:

was fake, that conveniently does a lot of cleanup on some of the sketchiest parts of this episode.

No more questions about how John and Sherlock were fine after the explosion even though they totally overshot the awning Mark Gatiss later claimed they landed on. (And if they did get hurt before switching to fantasyland, that could explain the weird running hospital theme, too.) No more wondering about Eurus’ mind control, which was pushing the limits of even TV-plausible. It doesn’t matter that the method Sherlock used to solve Eurus’ song puzzle was totally borked, because it didn’t happen anyway. It’s no longer contradictory for Eurus to have sent a bomb that could’ve killed Sherlock when she was so desperate for him to survive to finish her plan later, because the second part didn’t happen. And so on.

Sure, saying this portion of Series 4 and this portion alone was fake doesn’t fix all the remaining weirdness from the previous two episodes. But in my opinion, it doesn’t need to. “Fake” isn’t the only way to fix things. I think the writers have left themselves room to clear the rest up with a combination of the audience having been presented with true-but-incomplete information along with characters lying, being tricked, or having other forms of mental lapses. (There’s a freaking memory drug in play, for goodness sake.)

[And I guess here it might be worth reminding everyone for the gazillionth time (never works) that I’m not a shipper (though I don’t care if / what others ship) so there are certain things I’m not trying to “fix” and will not be discussing in future posts. And if everyone could please hold off on asking me what I think of shippy “evidence” and/or yelling at me for making everything about my nonexistent ship, that’d be really super. Thanks.]

“But I don’t want there to have been a big fake sequence. I’d rather have the ending we got.”

Fair enough. Whether you don’t like this whole idea because it feels like a waste of time to give most of an episode over to unreality, or because you were happy with the ending (or even just some of the Sherrinford moments) we got and you don’t want that wiped away... I hear you. That’s fine with me.

And if they never make more episodes, it won’t even matter.

In the meantime, you can just think of my posts as being like someone writing an alternate universe fanfic you don’t care for and ignore it.

Bonus track!

There’s something else Moffat and Gatiss might--MIGHT--have snuck in to support their “of course this is fake, Shit Can’t Randomly Float Now” escape hatch.

Remember when Mycroft said this?

Eurus was “beyond Newton.”

Isaac Newton is known for doing and discovering many, many things. (Including sticking a bodkin in his eye to learn how it works, which could’ve inspired the story of young Eurus using a knife to see how her muscles worked.)

But if you had to name the thing Newton is most famous for, the thing the average person would be most likely to name if you asked what Isaac Newton discovered, it’s gotta be gravity.

The BBC iWonder page on him is even titled “Isaac Newton: The man who discovered gravity.”

He did way more than that, but it’s the shorthand most people know.

Newton = gravity.

We’re told Eurus is beyond Newton... and then when she designs her missing glass trick, she’s all

And as a possible bonus-bonus, the story about Newton discovering gravity is probably so famous because it’s been mythologized in the form of a story about Newton’s revelations being sparked when he saw an apple fall from a tree.

The fallen apple has become a go-to symbol for Newton’s gravity theories.

When the Royal Mail celebrated Newton on stamps, one of them was an apple.

Buy an Isaac Newton bobblehead, and he’s got an apple at his feet.

You get the idea.

At the start of the episode, one of the first things that catches plane!Eurus’ attention is...

...that the flight attendant has collapsed in the aisle, and dropped several apples.

Maybe UK airlines are super into healthy snacks and give out whole apples all the time, choking hazards and leaving passengers with sticky cores to shove into seatback pockets be damned.

But I’m just saying.

[Before anyone asks: I do have many more thoughts and notes about Series 4 I’d like to write up eventually. Some of those will probably (hopefully?) clarify some topics I didn’t get into very deeply in this post. But like I posted after Series 4 aired, my new rule for myself is that I’m going to take my sweet time doing it. So it’ll happen when it happens. It is what it is.]

#sherlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock theories #eurus #sherlock holmes #mycroft holmes #john watson #sherrinford #isaac newton #steven moffat #mark gatiss #arwel wyn jones #behind the scenes #the final problem ep #long post is long #welp #this is toothpaste i'm not going to be able to put back in the tube

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TRIBES SWAPPED AT THIS POINT.

charlotte make this fucking post already before i combust

YES THIS IS SO PERFECT!!! I WAS SO FUCKED ON THIS TRIBE! NOW I GET A SECOND CHANCE TO NOT BE A FLOP LETS GO LADIES! GOD BLESS

LMFAO LMFAO ME JORDAN AND LILY ARE SAME TRIBE ITS OVER ALREADY WE GOT THIS

I AM WITH LOGAN NUT NUT NUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I'm away from Madeline and Joradn and Toph and :( I'm worried! But I chose Kai so that's fun hopefully he'll stick with me fjndsfjsdak I'm gonna try to bond with Madison oh my this is a mess

A 3-3 split on this tribe, I need to find an idol just in case, I'm not willing to go to rocks for Toph and I'm sure he is not for me. Lets see how this goes, Madeline exposing me as her friend already. Lets just win my Hippos, I don't want to go to tribal.

Jaiden.... on my tribe again.... I like him but.... BUT... BUT he talks too much he's going to ruin my game GRRR. Hi Jaiden I love you but you WORRY ME

Ugh I'm like REALLY emo I was separated from Jordan and Madeline what the FUCK we got the best scores WE DIDN'T EARN THISjdjasfklas i miss them rip. and now like everyone on my tribe is.... asleep. They're like ALL europeans. GET UP U FUCKS I NEED TO TALK TO U Also I'm going to make an alliance with one representative from each country and call it the United Nations... I'm just working on it okay it's going to happen

WAIT FUCK IM AWAY FROM RHONE TOO WTF... I didn't think this through last night but honestly my second choice was Logan for the thing (first choice because I wanted him over Kai but I was scared of Madeline and Jordan) so like this wouldn't be very different but ugh. Toph, Rhone, Jordan, Madeline, and Ruthie (I forgot to talk about Ruthie I love her) are gone and I'm EMO AS HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICHOLAS IS PLAYING THIS GAME? I knew this but forgot, I remember he as INACTIVE and got a strike during the selfie round, eventually I hope I can get on his tribe I know he would tell me if he heard my name.

Um another thing. I'm so happy to be on a yellow tribe. I love yellow it's the color of positivity and sunshine and that's me

WOW THIS FUCKING TRIBE SWAP! WHAT THE HELLFUCK! THIS IS SO GOOD! Okay, so. Accordan to Jordan, Rhone wants to work alongside me JP and Nicholas, which I would be fine with. We're also excited for/planning to work with Jack as the trio of Jordan and his students, so... This is probably the most secure I've been all game. I was good on the Hippo tribe, but now I know for sure that I'm alright. But there's one other thing that excites me here, and that's our challenge potential. Sure, that's a general good thing, but it's super cool in my case for one specific reason. I've never been to a premerge Athena tribal. Watch my streak continue.

Time to work my charm on this tribe HOPEFULLY I can find someone trustworthy to work closely with! I've played a game with Ian before and I mean, I thought he didn't like me after but we've talked since then a little and I'm excited that we have another chance to play and maybe start over, he may be the number one to tell all my tea to that I'm looking for!

On 10/16/17, at 10:46 PM, Emily wrote: > hi!! On 10/16/17, at 10:48 PM, Madison 🐷🐷🐷 wrote: > hi! On 10/16/17, at 10:48 PM, Emily wrote: > how are u!! It's currently 11:38pm. Good talk, Madison ;)

Hello my mates! 18 Castaways are left. So, the Swap happened and I am okay with my tribe so far. I get along well with Emily, but I'm a bit concerned that she picked Kai to stay on her team. I'm cautious around him. I'm back with Amanda and I don't really trust her anymore lol, but for now it's best to stick together, especially after what she's been through in the vote. But for now, I still want to talk a bit with Madison and Logan. I feel like I'm not the first target at the moment with a clear group of 2 in play and the old target on Amanda's back. I don't have that much to talk about yet, but I'm keen to get a bit more social now - last week was very heavy on the irl side. But I'm happy to be on a tribe that's so european. :D Cya soon~

Ahh this tribe is pretty lit. I feel really safe within it. I have logan, Emily, Andreas and Amanda ahh this amazing Time to win a game

https://youtu.be/TKydLkGHuNc

I miss having people be awake and I’m awake and having an active tribe wtf happened I hate

I really need these Europeans to wake the fuck up why was I put on a tribe with ALL OF THE EUROPEANS WHAT IS THIS FDMJKLSAJLK I just want their input on the song ideas and they're absent because they're sleeping and I get that but also FUCK THAT WTF I just want to get started with this challenge I'm excited and energized and avoiding doing my homework

I just love Logan

So I'm definitely happy with this new tribe. Lily, Jordan and Nicholas are all people I wanted to work with on Hippolyta so for them to all be here means that we can lose a challenge and probably be okay! I'm completely indifferent towards Jack and Raymond honestly. I'm so bad at connecting w people sometimes especially men, idk why. I'm just slow to warm up to people I guess. I HATE music video challenges because I'm really busy IRL and don't have time for this shit quite frankly. Idek what I'm gonna contribute to this challenge yet so I guess I'll just have to see what I'm able to do tonight.

OKAY NEW TRIBE WOOOOO! Rankdown! Emily - THE SWEETEST SWEET BEAN. Obviously I want to work with her going forward. She'll be my new like f6. She'll beat me past that, comp queen. Kai - My literal son? I love him. He's a good one, and I wanna see if I can make this hoe my goat. I'm not going to be a goat this game, but I'll see if I can be a goat farmer :~) Madison - My inactive queen. I can EASILY make her my goat. I know she _can_ get far in games, and I'd like to take her there again. Hopefully I can make her loyal and keep her out of the crosshairs by feeding her limited information. If she thinks I'm gonna just tell her shit, I can hold onto that relationship for a long ass time. Andreas and Amanda - Both of them talk to me about the same, and these are my first targets to go. While they're both sweet, I don't think they'll end up being much help to the tribe, aside from Andreas winning reward for us. Amanda didn't even guess, not that I'm shocked. I told people this would happen. They didn't believe me. I'm never fucking wrong.

ok so im hella bored at school 1. i am super stoked about the new tribes still! this is GREAT! i have been put into that hippo alliance which makes me think that i am in a p good position bc they see me as a semi-inactive goat type but they also need my vote to keep majority for now so im gonna keep on doing me ~ 2. the reward disadvantage thingy is probably good. it lets us most likely go to tribal and vote someone out which usually isn't a good thing but now i can use my vote as currency to prove loyalty! 3. this challenge? is perfect for my game right now because it lets me participate for once and prove i am an asset to the tribe for now! people are usually reluctant to submit for lip syncs but idc what people think about me so u know my dramatic ass will submit! ok thats it for now yeehaw

I’m on mobile so I can’t quote rn but Logan: Can we just make a pact now Logan: we’re not letting Jordan pines get anywhere near the end of this fucking game Listen, I know he’s right, but... UGH I NEED TO LISTEN TO LOGAN WHO I KNOW WILL BE A BETTER ALLY TO ME jwnjwwnjwnwjwn maybe Jordan will go out pre merge so I don’t have to show anyone my cards regarding him lmao but who can never be sure????

Was awesome to not be given the disadvantage, I'm not sure what all went in their decision as to who to give it to but glad it wasn't us. This challenge is the most dreaded aspect of these games for me. I'd rather have winterbells two rounds in a row than a music video

I feel like this is a school group project that I do my portion for but then I don’t get the portions from any one else until an hour before class. I’m gonna cry tbh Europeans please it’s like 3-4 your time WHERE IS UR SHIT and like literally this song is only three minutes long the least you can do is record yourself lip syncing to the song and upload it to YouTube and send me the link I’m SCREAMING

Okay Amanda is at the emergency room that’s um a very valid excuse but WHERE THE FUCCCCC ARE KAI AND MADISON?? Andreas and Logan told me they were filming later today but @Madison @Kai HENLO U STINKY TRIBE MEMBERS WHERE R U

Omg SO I just got out of my American History class and we have been talking about WWII so my teacher is talking about double agents and this guy called Garbo and I’m literally sitting in class thinking ... this is a genius strategy to use in Survivor I’m crying!!! So like basically I’m going to be Garbo, posing as a German and feeding the Germans accurate information up until D-Day where I fuck everything up for the Germans and get right with the British. D-Day meaning ... the day we take out Germany's closest ally. Germany meaning literally any person I want to screw over and British being ... probably Logan and whomever Logan and I want to work with. See like this would work out better if things were actually happening in the game wkwjwjnsja ... I don’t think much is happening on my tribe (at least I hope not) like I haven’t been put into any alliances so that’s :-/ there’s probably an alliance I don’t know about and they’re plotting against me and I won’t even be able to use my cute Garbo strategy. Also like this is an old and flawed strategy I’m sure but IM JUST TRYING TO BE GARBO OKAY he’s an icon and tbh a very big reason why the Axis Powers lost WWII so we all need to appreciate Garbo. Also if this dude’s name isn’t Garbo then my history teacher told me wrong and I’m just looking really silly but my history teacher is a woke bitch so I trust him. Thank you Garbo for doing the good shit and also inspiring me for this game lol

Anyone want to learn more about Agent Garbo? Um here are articles: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/07/156189716/agent-garbo-the-spy-who-lied-about-d-day https://www.mi5.gov.uk/agent-garbo HISTORY IS IMPORTANT!!!

On 10/19/17, at 3:30 PM, Emily wrote: > hey!! are u able to record videos for the music video challenge? if u can’t it’s no big deal I was just wondering On 10/19/17, at 3:30 PM, Kai . wrote: > Unfortunately not... i did mention it in the tribe chat already xD > Sowwy hun On 10/19/17, at 3:31 PM, Emily wrote: > it’s all good!! OH BITCH I DID NOT NEED THAT FUCKIN ATTITUDE this is me hinting to Kai that he should ... send in a video lmao. I get that like he doesn't have much time but three minutes P L E A S E it's going to be so weird if our video has three people in it! I'm getting Madison to send in a lip sync too (possibly) so that makes me not frustrated with her but like ....... Kai with this attitude "I did mention it in the tribe chat already xD" SHUT THE FUCK UP use REAL FUCKING EMOJIS and then he calls me "HUN" BITCHD FJKDSJFKAS I love over reaction but anyways our video is going to be weird because like Logan, Andreas, and I are the only ones who have submitted stuff!!!!!! UGLY!!!!!

I actually had a lot of fun filming for the challenge! Wish I could've gotten that bass line down a little better...smh I'm really surprised about Jordan. He's like a Sour Patch Kid -- first they're sour, then they're sweet. I just hosted him in Island of Shade and it's funny how I went from literally having his bitch ass blocked after House of Shade 9 to now where we're allies and kind of...friends? He's really matured in the couple of years we've known each other and it's actually really sweet to see. I do feel like he's a great ally for me because he's stronger than me in competitions and I crush him in any endgame scenario presuming I don't totally bungle my social game at the merge (and there's a non-zero chance of that happening tbqh). He's a genuinely good person even if he is kind of irritating at times. I'm like six years older than him so of course I'm gonna find him irritating lmao. Can't really say much about anyone else on this new tribe. Just not getting a great vibe from Raymond, Jack hasn't really tried to talk to me, and I trust Lily and Nicholas but they're both pretty inactive. I feel like Jordan and I are kind of the heart of this tribe right now, which hopefully means if we do lose this challenge we'll be safe. I just really hope someone I wanted to work with in this game doesn't get swapfucked tomorrow! :(

Here is the first draft that I’m submitting a confession to prove that ... only half of our tribe has submitted and we have five hours unrbabsjwbwjwb https://youtu.be/idbuRp73rig I’m literally,,,, CRYING what the HECK where is EVERYONE PLEASE HELP ME why can’t kai submit like wtf. Logan also told me not to expect much out of Madison so WOOHOO!!! I LOVE LOSING IMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HONESTLY the main thing I've learned from all this is not to listen to what anyone has told me about other people.

Logan

YASSSS MY FIRST IMMUNITY WIN! I DON'T HAVE TO PLAN A TRIBAL COUNCIL! OR NOTHING! I'M SO HAPPY! Prayers for my boy Raymond but yAS!

This is amazing. I was worried that if we lost and i didnt actuallt participate thered be a higher chance of me being voted out but i still feel super safe and in a good position with everyone!

Yay I’m glad we won! I am excited to watch all these!

The Men Lips came out with that WIN HONEY! I’m so happy! How did we do that I’m really shook. I have such low confidence in myself I really did not expect out tribe to win wowie snabajbanan now I get a day off! How fun! I’m sick rn so like that’s good all I want to do is watch Buzzfeed Unsolved and wait for this announcement that Charlotte/LA/JD were talking about earlier.... hmm. If we’re tribe swapping AGAIN I’ll cry sksbsjsnsjs but honestly? Not so bad. I don’t really like my tribe too much but of course I love Logan lol. And Andreas is cool. Anyway YAY WE WON

“i liked the knives and the cat. i also liked the girl waving around the knives. that was the highlight for me.” I WAS THE HIGHLIGHT FOR HER SJJSNSNSNS IM HONORED

Also fun fact: my dad yelled at me for using his expensive professional binoculars because I didn’t put them in their case correctly when I like put them up lol. But it was worth it honey we won-y

Hello again! There's a rainbow outside my window right now. https://i.imgur.com/1KZpEFA.jpg BECAUSE WE JUST WON IMMUNITY! I really didn't expect that since I didn't give it my best, but oh well... I am not complaining. :) Emily did most of the work, props to her. Logan contributed as much as I did. Amanda, Kai and Madison are MIA - even in chat for the most part. But that won't matter too much right now. Also yay, it was fun winning the Reward Challenge by punishing that cheeky A1 placement. CHECKMATE ANTELOPES! There were no Antelopes in Ancient Greece. And soon there won't be any in Themyscira. I am already a bit scared about the next Challenge, but for now, I'll have a relaxed evening. Also, if Madison doesn't start doing much soon, we'll have an easy target SHOULD we go to Tribal Council in the near future. See ya again in Round 4 :)

okay so going into tribal tonight i feel good! i have my og hippo alliance of 4 and then i have good enough bonds with raymond and jack to where i dont think that they would come for me if given the chance. the logical thing to do is to vote out someone who didn't contribute on the challenge, but i know that isn't going to happen because if the og hippo alliance falls apart then that leaves a lot of room for uncertainty. however i do know if we go to tribal more than 1 more time after this i will be the next one to leave the game because i am the lowest on the totem pole for the og hippo alliance. it sucks and i don't want to do it but i think i have no choice but to vote with the hippos damnit

( AS MADELINE )

Wow Madeline is annoying huh?

Oh my god that last confessional was ME djxjsjdjf

(((((Host: bitch >.> ))))

Love Antiope turning into the new Copa... not a good run so far. I'm siding with the Hippolyta majority to vote out Raymond, and after that, me, Jordan, and Lily will become the majority if we have to vote someone out again. Or maybe I'm just gonna get voted out and then I'll just die. Who knows.

#whatidoisnotuptoyou #athena11 #episodes

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