#(which is half because they mean something and half because they're cool/I hyperfixated on them a bit for an essay)

[fennthetalkingdog]

It's Gendering Time Baby (aka Fenn's weird thoughts about his gender in essay form)

Okay, so it's really late at night while I'm writing this (not the same time that I'll post probably) but my brain's going on a spiral tangent thing so I wanna go down it while I can. So I'm prolly gonna ramble, I apologize in advance.

So anyway, I feel like my relationship with my gender is... unique? I don't know, I see a lot of people talk about how they feel like a man or woman or nonbinary person, or how they feel like nothing or something neutral or "just themselves" but from what I've heard the latter usually call themselves agender or neutrois or something like that. If I had to pick one, I legitimately don't know what I'd say. I know your experience as a kid isn't the end-all-be-all for your identity, but I tend to look back at mine a lot to make sure I'm not adopting a label that doesn't represent me at all—but when I was a kid, I had no conceptualization of gender. It just wasn't something I noticed. Hell, I noticed differences in height more than I noticed differences in gender at the time. If you asked kid me, they'd probably just say, "Huh? What do you mean? How can you feel like a gender??" So that's not particularly helpful.

I didn't really start noticing gender until I learned that trans people existed (high school; had Christian parents and was overall pretty sheltered). And I only really learned about it in the context of "some people feel so strongly about gender that they wish to transition." So of course little me, who barely noticed gender at all, thought that they must be a demigirl because they were born a girl but didn't really feel anything. (I know now that's not what "demigirl" necessarily stands for lol but give lil me a break.) But their parents rejected them and of course, since they now had no other way to express this potential side of them, little me went exploring more. They found labels like "agender" and "neutrois" that seemed to fit their experience so much better, and so the demigirl label was dropped. But it still didn't feel like them, and they still don't feel like me.

You see, my gender is a pretty complicated thing that I like to ignore most of the time. But there was one time I tried to give a friend a metaphor to describe it, and that's the best thing I've got even now so here it is. I have a slightly interesting physical problem when whenever I strain my shoulders too much, the skin on my back becomes really sensitive and if I move in the slightest, it feels like my shoulder blades will break through my skin (consequence of carrying too heavy bookbags in grade school). But sometimes I can feel it starting to get bad because it feels like a hole is forming between my shoulder blades, like a cavern, where muscles that should be chill and calm feel almost like they're being sliced. (I promise this isn't a medical problem.) And my gender almost feels like that cave: a wide, open space lined with smooth, water-worn stone and closed to the open air, with a massive lake at the bottom and a single stalactite hanging from the ceiling. Water occasionally drips down from the stalactite and into the lake, and that's my gender, except the lake feels like nothing and my gender is diluted once it hits the surface of Me. I have a gender, maybe, but it's in parts per million instead of wholes.

So I'm basically agender, right? Or I'm some sublabel like libramasculine if my gender feels important to me still, but problem solved, right? Well, those labels technically fit from a technical perspective, but they still feel wrong. I may not have a gender, or at least a strong one, in the sense of having strong preferences about how I'm treated or seen, but at the same time I do? But it comes more in the form of likes and dislikes. I like being seen as a masculine (gender-wise) person over a feminine (gender-wise) person. I like being seen as a feminine as fuck (presentation-wise) dude instead of as a girl who doesn't care for themself. These feel like they come more from my personality than from a gender, so my gender is still technically nothing, but it still feels wrong to label myself as agender or something similar when I have such notable feelings about the matter.

So what do I do instead? Well, I play gender, like how a toddler "plays" as an animal or how a kid "plays" as a character from their favorite TV show. Everything I perform is still me—it's my desires, dislikes, and personality—but I get to be a boy thing instead of what people wanted me to be. If my birth gender is old and crusty and doesn't fit, then I get to choose something cooler, a new role I can play. The difference doesn't really matter on a day-to-day basis, does it? No one can tell if I knew since birth or if I'm faking it or if I'm somewhere in between, so what does it matter? What I know for sure is what I want to do with my body: I want to lop off my boobs and I maybe want to take testosterone. And I like being a boy in a dress. So, technically I don't really feel a gender? But I still don't identify with agender or any of the adjacent "lack at least some gender" labels because it feels weird trying to put a label on something that isn't there. I just call myself a transmasc nonbinary boy/man and move on with my life, because if I stop and think about it I'll confuse myself all over again.

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

How would your skellies react to an S/O who has a green thumb? It seem like every plant S/O takes care of comes back healthier and better.

Undertale Sans - Well that's a good thing because he's a mass plant murderer. You're balancing each other lol. Every plant someone trusted Sans with ended up dying a horrible death somehow, so you're kinda saving the day by somehow reviving them. He doesn't understand how you're doing this. He swears he tried a ton of things and nothing worked. Ok, maybe most of the time he remembers he had to take care of the plant after two weeks to two months, but still.

Undertale Papyrus - He's good with flowers but he's a bit bored with the classic species. He wants cool-looking flowers and you're here to help. After two months, plants turned into a hyperfixation for Papyrus and you're living in a jungle, congratulations.

Underswap Sans - He thinks plants are boring honestly. It does nothing, it doesn't last long either, and it takes so much energy to take care of for only a few days of nice-looking moments. That's your thing, and it will say your thing. He's not patient enough for this.

Underswap Papyrus - Mr "I'm-allergic-to-everything" is not making the task easy for you lol. You're struggling to find plants and flowers that don't make him sneeze all day long. But it's a little victory every time you find something that he tolerates. Honey loves to help. Well, he loves to be included in everything his S/O is doing, but taking care of plants actually makes his anxiety shut up so he's always happy to help a bit.

Underfell Sans - He's doing his best to help but somehow he makes things worse every time he's helping. Like that time he watered your plants with gasoil and only noticed avec the twentieth flower :') He's not doing it on purpose, he's just terrible with plants.

Underfell Papyrus - You two are fighting on which plants to keep inside the house. Edge actually loves plants too, but he loves plants you hate... And you love plants he hates. He waits for you to leave the house to replace the plants, and you're doing the same. It's an eternal war. Maybe someday you'll find one you can agree on.

Horrortale Sans - He actually learns with you. At first, he doesn't show that much interest, but the more you do, the more you notice him staring behind your back. He's a bit clumsy and forgets half of the things he has to do, but it actually keeps him occupied. It actually helps his memory too since he has to water the plant every day, which is training his memory. He thinks it's a really relaxing activity and he would love to do it more often with you.

Horrortale Papyrus - He doesn't have that much of an interest in plants, but he's curious about what his S/O is doing and he's always happy to help if he can. He gladly appreciates your advice on his vegetables though. He had some difficulties growing them in the beginning but you showed him how to improve his fields and he's delighted with the result!

Swapfell Sans - He doesn't have any interest in the activity, but he likes having plants around. It makes his house look even more expensive and he's a material girl so he's really happy. You pretend like you don't see his black-and-white edge lord photos on social media next to your plants lol.

Swapfell Papyrus - I mean, you can do what you want but... Do you really want to have plants in a secluded area where Rus lives? Your plants are living in fear, never knowing if they're going to see the next day. That guy has no limits and can accidentally set the house on fire at least once a week. He's dangerous to all living things, please reconsider.

Fellswap Gold Sans - Wine surprisingly likes to take care of plants too. It was a true shock the first time you discovered that because that skeleton usually hates more things than he likes some. Of course, he will never say it out loud, or show he likes it. But you can sometimes catch him watering the flowers or cutting some disgracious leaves from your plants. He gives you the "what are you even looking at?" kind of look every time you see him though lol.

Fellswap Gold Papyrus - He saw you cut leaves and he wanted to help! So he cut leaves on all your plants. And by that I mean he cut 75% of each of your plants. When he sees your face, he goes from very proud to kicked puppy in three seconds. Maybe it's best if Coffee stays away from your plants from now on.

[tanukitsuneko-suki]

w episode 19 thoughts:

- A, C, I, M, N, Q, F, S, W, V

- ah... the I stands for Intruder?

- i think it's important to note rn that as i was reading the bio of this w fan they mentioned something called an 'utopia dopant' which i did not get any additional context about (it was mtl too) but they quite liked it and this piece of info sent me spiraling a little

- welp and i just saw a screencap of a suit that is 100% joker and not halved. i don't like that

- finally continued watching and /immediately/ this man is posturing over billiards, he's such a fucking idiot /pos

- speedrunning guesses in my head as to whether he can actually play billiards or not. i think not

- he can't even twirl the cue stick right i'm fucking sobbing

- btw this is how i play billiards too. i'm as bad as him so i can't laugh but at least i don't pretend to be a genius in it LMFAOOOOO

- tears in my fucking eyes the new guy just one-shotted every ball

- DON'T JOIN IN THE TEAM ACCEL THEYRE GONNA LOSE MORE RESPECT FOR SHOTARO THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE

- btw i'm immediately sounding out this fuckass name to figure out the pun. terui ryu... i feel like ten-wheeler is a bit of a stretch. also like the name is a bit odd so maybe it's a borrowed word... can't he just be named akuse jo, damn

- this fit goes way too hard for a cop, man...

- yeah i kinda like it when they drag shotaro around for funsies

- why is terui is on his case damn 🤨

- ... he IS hard-boiled

- he's like a berserker claymore character...xinyan attack set...even has the style down too... omfg wait... pyro physical accel....

- !!!!!!!!HE'S COOL AND NOT AN ENEMY!? I CHANGED MY MIND

- his waist is very eyecatching i'm sorry. the sliver peeking out while he lugs around that "heavy" sword. amazing successor you have there, nazca

- he just sliced a CAR

- omfg futahito banter this episode is so fun

- SO HE CAN'T TRANSFORM BY HIMSELF. SO WHY DID I SEE A SOLO JOKER SUIT. STOP PLAYING WITH MEEEE I'M GETTING PARANOID

- did they always have those marks on their faces when they henshin or is that a recent thing

- i like this guy he's really quick on the uptake

- "we're gonna need your right half to start looking into this" i spat out my drink. he's the right half alright

- "what the hell are you doing" *philip has a dog kigurumi on* THEY HAVE ONE FUCKING BRAINCELL IN THIS AGENCY

- WHY DID HE FUCKING BARK YALL 😭😭

- i cant continue watching this

- his current hyperfixation are dogs... st bernard dogs specifically

- nvm wait. what the heck is this new guy saying!! i mean you can still be kamen rider. everyone is a kamen rider they just add a lil nickname at the end

- THEY'RE ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES OF THE PLATFORM. LMFAOOOOOO

- "you are strangely unpleasant" is the closest philip would get to saying fuck you irl. congrats ryu

- it's kinda unfair how nice philip's hair looks in this scene because now i'm saving it in the reference folder and he still has his dumb kigurumi on

- making note of what pisses them off more... shotaro doesn't like that the name of w is smeared when w was born out of the desire to protect the town they loved so much, while what irks philip more (it's both of them but it was notably philip who got to ryu first) was the implication that w doesn't reach the standard ("doesn't have what it takes"), hence i think he values their partnership more than the mission itself (even if he does believe in the justice that w imparts). that's not to say that philip is a cruel and capricious entity with fickle whims and an absent morality, he's a good guy on the hero's side for a reason. and he doesn't /not/ understand the reasons behind fighting dopants to keep the town safe. but i do like to think that what moves him to fight alongside shotaro as he does is his belief in w, and if w believes in protecting the town, then he believes in that too

- hey accel, shotaro was actually about to say something important about that flower AND it must have been related to the town bc he's a massive otaku about it... i think you should have listened....

- usual case of haughty pretentious outsider that outshines the mc for a little bit until it's revealed that the mc's edge is being a cringefail loser so obsessed with his town he probably has a 4 feet tall poster of its map in his apartment. if he even has one

- it worked ?

- shotaro... fighting........

- listen dude i know they seem to work well together. hang in there. we will resolve this conflict by the end of the episode or the next one

- discrediting shotaro... accel you will stop breathing in three days

- new character comes with a new villain(??) damn shotaro they're finally kicking you out LMFAOOO

- yeah. okay who IS this guy 😭 shroud's not a villain but....isn't accel's backstory level a bit too high?? is this fine????

- don't call him a stray dog :-( only i can do that

- "even stray dogs have pride... if you make this city cry it will bite back" ....i should make this city cry lol. im just having a silly goofy time wdym

- he's gonna have to say "henshin" like that every time....lmfao....l..ol...i can't laugh...sorry........ goofy ass henshin...

- WOAH. PICKING UP THAT SWORD WAS BADASS AS HELL

- accel...engine.... CAR ACCIDENT

- if someone came in with an upgraded version of my heat metal suit i'd kms

- "woah..." "WOAH...." he had w gagged im fucking sobbing again

[marshmellopie]

[This post updates constantly!]

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[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

One of my favorite AUs to do for any of my hyperfixations is the Labyrinth AU, as in Jim Henson's Labyrinth which is an absolute masterpiece of a film I've been obsessed with since I was born

I've learned over my life that a Labyrinth AU works for almost every story ever and they're always a lot of fun, but I always thought that the Undertale Labyrinth AU was the most perfect one I'd ever come up with

Then I got into Amnesia

It fits SO WELL and holy crap do I have fun with it, but it might not make much sense if you don't know about the whole main AU with Daniel and Elise so proceed at your own risk

Alright so let's set the stage with characters

Daniel and Elise mix and match Sarah and Hoggle (you'll see what I mean by this later), Alexander is the man himself Jareth, Hazel is Toby, Agrippa's head is Sir Didymus and Weyer is Ambrosius, and Gabriel the Outrider is Ludo (he's my brother's favorite character and he really wanted him to be in the AU)

Now to dive in to what I've been sitting on for a year and a half now

The opening sequence where Underground plays is a montage of Daniel setting off on the expedition and finding the Orb

The next thing we know, Daniel has been amnesia'd and finds a note from himself telling him that he has to get to Alexander to save his sister Hazel before the clock strikes thirteen, so he makes his way through the castle with strange spooky happenings going on around him the whole way. He hears the voice of a little girl in danger, he doesn't know where she is but he wants to find her and save her before something terrible happens. The strange spooky happenings come to a peak in the castle's Basement Storage, and when he comes to the top of the staircase the girl suddenly appears in front of him. Daniel is relieved and says, "Oh thank goodness, I thought you might be dead!" Elise is confused and tells him that she is dead, she's a spirit appearing before him. Daniel is crestfallen and laments that he was too late, he wasn't able to get to her in time. Elise says dryly, "Oh yes, if only you'd caught up to me sooner, that would have helped me." Over the course of their conversation, Elise realizes that Daniel has no memory of anything, including her, and is trying to survive long enough to reach his sister at the center of the castle. Elise doesn't know what to do now; she's spent all this time trying to wreak vengeance on him, but he doesn't even know who she is or why she should be important to him. She needs some time to think over what to do, so she shows him the correct way forward and then leaves him on his own again.

In the meantime, Hazel is in the Orb Chamber with Alexander and several Gatherers, she's very nervous and uncomfortable so Alexander decides to do something to put her at ease and DANCE MAGIC DANCE! The Magic Dance sequence is intercut between Hazel loosening up and becoming friends with Alexander and all the monsters, and Daniel scrambling his way through the dungeons nearly dying to Grunts left and right. Alexander also shows Hazel some cool alchemy tricks and she's quite adept at them...

Daniel then falls into the Oubliette where he meets Elise again. She has decided that as long as he has no memory she will help him because his sister needs them. They travel through the Sewers of the castle until they encounter Alexander. Then one of my favorite jokes in the movie for Elise: Alexander: "Hello, Lisa." Daniel: "Elsie!" Elise: "Elise!!!" And then of course THE CLEANERS!! At some point during this chase Daniel turns to try and help Elise along and Elise has to remind him "I'm DEAD!!!" to keep him going so he won't die

They take the ladder up to the Nave and meet Agrippa, as well as Weyer who is not actually physically here, but he's astral projecting himself from the Other World like Tihana does to help out. At this point in time Agrippa and Weyer are the beggars who share a head lmao, they're arguing but genuinely need the help. Daniel and Elise set off again after agreeing to try and find a way to help Agrippa, and the secret passageway they find behind the wall leads them all the way back to the beginning of the castle, where they find Gabriel who has broken inside after Daniel and the Zimmermanns never came back to try and find out what's going on. Daniel gains some more information from Gabriel, which makes Elise wary. What will Daniel be like if he gets all his memories back? Daniel tells Gabriel the whole deal with Hazel, and Gabriel agrees to help them and they traverse back into the castle together.

Now this is one of the only major blank spots I have in this AU, Daniel and Elise end up bonding a lot during this time with Gabriel but somehow they all get separated from each other. If anybody did a "Hoggle is Hoggle's friend!!!" moment it would be Daniel, but I don't know what might cause it. But suffice it to say the three of them end up separated, Daniel ends up going through the torture chambers and getting all his memories and the Orb shards back all by himself, and then heads into the Chancel where he is greeted by the group of Grunts, aka the Fire Gang. After avoiding them for the length of the song, Elise finds Daniel and shows him a safe way out of the room. The two are running to make sure the Grunts can't follow them, and Elise is so busy looking over her shoulder she accidentally leads them into the kaernk's well in front of the Transept. Daniel is also so busy looking over his shoulder that he trips and falls headfirst down the well, so Elise quickly has to follow him to make sure he doesn't die.

There's a very narrow safe space to walk down here, and they end up reuniting with Gabriel, Agrippa's head and Weyer, who are now Didymus and Ambrosius. But while crossing over the kaernk-infested water to the other side, the boxes Daniel was using end up scattering off in all directions and he has to grab on to a chain hanging from the ceiling, his toes dangling far too close to the water for comfort. Elise, Agrippa and Weyer are all panicking having no idea what to do, when Gabriel takes out his shotgun and simply shoots the kaernks, seeing as they're the only enemies in the game who can be killed. They can all then safely traverse the water.

Here's where Daniel and Elise start to really mix and match Hoggle and Sarah. Daniel begins to hear Alexander's voice in his head taunting him about the things he's done, about how much easier it would be to forget again than to carry on with this knowledge and try to really put things right. There hasn't been time yet for Daniel to admit to Elise that he remembers everything now, and he's in fact trying to hide from her that he got those memories back, but she can tell that he's acting differently, looking at her differently. She starts to suspect, and eventually confronts him about it when the others can't hear. Daniel is distraught and admits to her that he did get those memories back and he wants to make it up to her and make it right, but he doesn't know what to do or say right now besides focusing on saving Hazel and Agrippa before trying to do anything else. Elise is somewhat mollified by this enough to drop the matter, but there's a strong tension between the two of them now that the others can't understand. Alexander's voice keeps whispering to Daniel, telling him where he could find another potion that would not only cause him to forget all of this but make him happy; he could leave all his troubles and cares behind forever. Daniel succumbs to this temptation and sneaks away from the others. Elise notices and follows him, she only catches up once he's already downed the bottle. When she sees him escaping his responsibilities and accountability yet again, she's not only irate but deeply hurt. She'd thought he'd turned a corner, she'd thought he could be different. But clearly not. Elise is so upset she leaves Daniel to his fate and runs away from the others too. Daniel briefly curses himself, "Damn you Alexander! No.. I chose it.. damn me," before he's swept away into the ballroom scene...

The ballroom scene is just too cool not to use. And the lyrics of As The World Falls Down fit SO WELL for this for them!! So yeah, same thing pretty much, but the whole time Daniel is experiencing flashes of certain memories, of good times with Alexander, the way Alexander helped him and was so caring toward him, the way Alexander swooped in as his savior, all things that are meant to keep Daniel so enraptured with Alexander that he'll remain in the illusion forever. But when he comes across the memory of Alexander comforting him after Elise's murder, it stirs something in the back of his mind. He keeps going back to that memory, trying to figure out what it was that had him in that state, and when he finally remembers everything comes flooding back all at once, Elise and taking the potion the first time, Hazel taken captive by Alexander, betraying Elise and letting her down yet again. Daniel quickly breaks away from Alexander and shatters the illusory world to get back to what he knows he needs to face up to. And Alexander is disappointed...

Instead of a junk woman, Daniel faces yet another illusion, this time of himself. He needs to beat his own demons on his own to be able to continue on. His illusory self is Daniel as he was when he wrote the final journal entry - convinced that he did nothing wrong and everything is all Alexander's fault, and he's an innocent victim and doesn't need to work hard to put any of this right since it's not his fault. Daniel almost falls prey to this much easier and more comfortable view of the situation, but he knows it's not right and is able to break free from the illusion once again. He knows he has to save Hazel and put things right with Elise.

In the meantime, Elise has come to the conclusion that even though Daniel is a selfish old boy, Hazel and Agrippa still need to be saved. If he won't be the one to do it, then she will. So she's gone to rejoin the others.

Now that he's completely back in his right mind again, the full impact of what he's done hits him for the first time and he sinks into despair. He comes to believe that he's already failed in his mission and there's nothing he can do to fix it for anyone. He sees the others all walking past him to the Chancel, and when he hears the things Elise is saying about him he's absolutely convinced. He knows he's the only one who can mend an Orb, so he does this with the pieces he still has. He plans to put the Orb in place and then let the others go forward to do the rest, leaving himself to die.

But when Daniel gets to the Chancel, he finds the others being attacked by a Brute! He knows there's nothing any of them can do against it, but when he sees Elise stand in front of the others as if to protect them, and that beast coming for her, a different part of himself takes over. He climbs onto the dome in the middle of the Chancel and throws himself on the Brute from behind, grabbing it around the neck and trying to wrench it over the edge. He eventually succeeds, but topples over the edge with it. Gabriel attempts to save Daniel and is pulled over the edge too. For the purposes of this AU, the bottom of the Chancel is filled with water, which saves Daniel and Gabriel's lives but dooms the Brute. And going off of the theory that the Brute is Wilhelm himself, this means he finally gets to rest and no longer has to continue on as such a creature. After watching him drown but seem at ease, Gabriel grabs Daniel and drags him up onto a ledge near the wall. The others frantically find a way to safely get down there, and as they do Daniel and Gabriel awkwardly try to have a conversation with each other, but they still hardly speak the same language. When the others finally reach them, Elise tells him what a stupid thing that was to do, but also thanks him for coming back. Agrippa also thanks him and tells him how brave he was to try and save them. Elise sighs and tells Daniel that Hazel needs him, and they won't be able to finish this without him. Daniel looks at her and very sincerely tells her how sorry he is. She doesn't respond, instead only says, "Let's get going, shall we?"

Alexander now sends everything he's got at the group as they make their way back to the top of the Chancel. Weyer uses the Orb to enchant Gabriel's gun so it will do damage to Gatherers, but then gets separated from Agrippa's head and runs around looking for it during all the ruckus. Daniel, Elise and Gabriel meet up with him at a certain point and Weyer tells Daniel their only hope for getting through this many creatures is to call the Shadow. Daniel is appalled by this notion, isn't this what he's been trying to avoid all this time?! But Elise confirms that it's a good idea, and Daniel relents and learns the spell from Weyer as quickly as he can. The Shadow starts taking down Gatherers left and right, Elise can see the panic flaring in Daniel's eyes and tells him to stay calm but also to run!!! They find Agrippa's head, make it up to where they can spend the Orb to get past Alexander's defenses, and to the door to the Inner Sanctum. Alexander's defenses were lowered enough to allow Daniel to enter, but Weyer and Elise can't being magical beings themselves, and Gabriel decides to stay behind to hold the door from any lingering Gatherers. Weyer reminds Daniel of the plan to get Agrippa through the portal, and Elise and Daniel have a farewell with many unspoken feelings. So Daniel takes Agrippa's head and enters the Inner Sanctum by himself.

Within You.... the lyrics of the song are quite perfect for Alexander to Daniel I think. So in this scene, Daniel is Sarah, Hazel is Toby, and Agrippa's head is the little crystal ball. Alexander takes the head from Daniel and throws him, so Daniel is not only trying to chase down Hazel but also Agrippa's head. Hazel screams when it initially rolls up to her, but Daniel tells her to stay calm and that he's a friend. He also tells Hazel to stay put so he can reach her, but she chases Agrippa's head too to try and help. "D-Daniel, your, um, friend rolled that way..! I can get him!!" They all three keep running around the staircase chamber, Daniel eventually finds and scoops up Agrippa's head and holds him close so as not to lose him again. He shows Hazel that he has him and tells her again to stay put, but now the Shadow is closing in. Daniel tells her to stay away from the red residue at all costs, but the closer it gets the more Hazel has to move again. Finally, Hazel is brought to the very center of the chamber, with a hole behind her and the Shadow closing in from all sides. Daniel sees her from a balcony far above her. "Stay where you are!!" he tells her again. "I'll come to you!" "How?!" Hazel cries. Daniel knows he only has one option. So he jumps.

The world starts falling apart around him, and when he lands he's in the Orb Chamber. Alexander appears in his true form. The standoff begins!! Daniel knows the plan is to send Agrippa through the portal, but when he notices the portal can be brought down entirely he is very tempted to take that course purely to spite Alexander. But he's able to resist that temptation for Agrippa's sake. Alexander thinks that Daniel wants to get through the portal himself; he has no idea Daniel is going to just throw Agrippa's head. Daniel tries to keep his face and mind blank so that he won't give this away to Alexander. When the portal opens, Daniel sees the joy on Alexander's face, he sees how easy it would be to knock the whole thing over, and he sees Agrippa's head in his hands. He steps forward and throws Agrippa's head as hard as he can. Alexander is utterly shocked, and Daniel tells him, "You have no power over me!" The Shadow consumes them both, Daniel is saved by Agrippa and Weyer, and ends up back home as if nothing had changed at all.

Immediately Daniel runs upstairs to make sure Hazel is okay, and finds her sleeping soundly in bed. After tucking her in and giving her a kiss on the head, he heads back downstairs to bring the Orb that appeared back home along with him to his room with a sigh. Once the Orb is sitting in front of his mirror with him, he sees Agrippa speaking to him inside the mirror. He turns around, but his room is empty. Yet when he looks in the mirror again, Agrippa and Weyer both assure him that everything turned out fine and that they made sure Gabriel made it out safely, too. Then their image fades away, and Elise is the one speaking in the mirror. Daniel's breath hitches and he clutches the edges of the mirror. "If you ever need us-" Elise is saying, but Daniel cuts her off. "I need you, Elise." She raises an eyebrow and says disbelievingly, "You do?" "Every single day, for no reason at all, for any reason at all, I need you." Elise looks at him silently, not betraying any emotions on her face. Then she says, "Well why didn't you say so, dummkompf?" When he turns around, this time they're really there! Hazel is awakened by the hubbub and then it goes straight back into my main regular AU LMAO

This isn't a perfect explanation and it's not fully detailed, but it's monstrously long as is so I will leave it here, I'm quite happy with this AU though, and it's the only Labyrinth AU I've made where the entire setting works without having to use the Labyrinth itself at all! All we had to do was add a couple of rooms to Brennenburg castle and boom

(Also in case anyone was wondering Alexander plans to bring Hazel through the portal with him and give her to Tihana as a peace offering, this is a running joke I have with my brother)

[alannybunnue]

what happens to the faith of the seven since demigod!reader's here and the existence of the Storm God and the Drowned God are pretty much confirmed? do they try to integrate them into the faith? (ex: Storm God = Warrior and Drowned God = Stranger) or do they just, idk switch to worshipping the Drowned God? or possibly neither. like "hey gods exist and they have children with Mortals so that means OUR GODS exist and they're just not going down to the mortal realm because they're too good for it!"

one thing's for sure though, since demigod!reader exists, there's gonna be a lot of pretenders trying to convince people they're also half god. a few women have tried masquerading as the Real Deal and it gets them on the Targaryen's Chopping Block. History marks them down as The Pretenders. (though since they're so abundant, most people don't believe in them post-r.rebellion era) My hyperfixation is so bad i thought of a history-hijink just for this scenario. 💀

— so this one dude in Oldtown, let's call him Petyr, hears stories of these guys pretending go be demigods running around the place. specifically this one girl in the Riverlands who managed to be so convincing that she was feasting with lords and treated to expensive silks untiltheyfoundoutshewaspretendingandchoppedherheadoff. so Petyr sees that and is like "pffftt i could do so much better than that" and goes around trying to convince the people he's The Warrior's kid (he convinces his friends to help him out before that though). but he doesn't just tell the people that, he's not an idiot so he enters a tourney first as a mystery knight. A tourney which he wins, turns down the reward for (for extra coolness points) and as he turns down the reward, one of his friends who's an expert at lighting redirects the sunlight to shine right over him. that's not even remotely enough to convince the people he's The Warrior's son but there was like a Septon at that tourney for some reason? he got dragged there by some lord he was friends with. His spot at the tourney happens to be really echoey and the only thing Petyr's friend no. 2 has to do is like- hide, deepen his voice to sound all mysterios and say "That one, that's my kid". and the Septon just freaks the fuck out. He emerges from the crowd as sunlight is shining down on Petyr and he's like "THAT'S HIS SON! THAT'S THE WARRIOR'S SON!". The whole fiasco ends in the faith of the 7 being really popular for a short while until Petyr can't keep up with his lies anymore, he and his friends and exposed for being frauds and they're sentenced to do the walk of shame.

MY HYPERFIXATION IS TOO MUCH AND MY BRAIN JUICE IS OVERFLOWING 😭😭😭

VYN YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER CUZ I WAS DYING ON MY HYPERFIXATION FOR THIS STORY (Also the anon from the previous asks helped a lot too)

Well, in my perspective, the Faith would view the Drowned god as a lower being in the beginning, due to the fact that he has a daughter and "the 7 could never", but of course, Papa starts to destroy lands and consume everything when his daughter is taken by the Targaryens.

Now the Faith fears him 😀

So they leave the topic aside when she's not around, but when she returns, they try to convince the houses to let her go or her father is going to destroy them again 💀

Now for the Pretenders

Yes, there were many pretenders, saying that they were the children of other gods and stuff. Some were caught way later than others, but they were still caught. Some because they were bad liars, some because they couldn't handle the pression.

Your Petyr for example, when he proclaimed to be the Warrior's son, it was also a downer for the Faith, since that would comprove that their gods were just as low as the Drowned God. Many people started to question things about Petyr, like "how was he conceived, does he has any powers or Will the Warrior attack the land if something happens to him?" Because these same questions (except the last) were made for the Demigoddess, and she answered then without sweating.

Those questions were too much for him, that's why he admitted the truth.

Now, mind you, there even people who proclaimed being the Drowned God's children as a way to prevent from anything happening to them, since everyone knew what the Papa of the Seas was capable of.

One pretender even met with the Real deal once, her name was Meera. She was another mistress from Aegon IV (Yes this piece of 💩) who proclaimed to be the Drowned God's second child who was "never fooled by her father to return to the sea like her naive sister". When the Demigoddess returns to Land once again, Aegon being the bitch he is, was already preparing everything to take her away.

Then the bitch started to flatter himself for having two daughters of the sea, which made the princess very confused, once she saw Meera, she was still confused like "My father has no daughters other than me".

The Demigoddess didn't say anything until she was alone with Meera, where she questioned her words and made her tell the truth. Meera broke down and pleaded for the girl not to reveal the truth or else, she would be killed for humiliating the King.

Aegon was warned by the Princess that her "sister" was finally where she belonged, the seas, while Meera was being taken to Essos on Nami's back.

Later of course, people discovered who Meera was, but no one cared anymore at that point.

[goose-books]

i read your wips intro/masterpost, they all look super cool (!!!) but the status sections look like they haven’t been updated in awhile—any updates?

first of all, THANK YOU!!! means a lot whenever anyone checks out my posts! i have a tendency to forget this blog exists, which i can only blame partially on my being in school; i'm part of a thriving community of writing discord servers, and so i've gotten into the habit of sharing more writing there than here. also, from the bottom of my heart, i never have any idea what to post. so thank you x2 for asking for an update, because i can certainly do that!

in the order of the intro post, shall we? (which i have now updated, because it was bothering me.)

The Mortal Realm & Quark: "starting second draft summer 2021," he said (about the first). so that was a fucking lie. summer 2021 i spent working at a children's summer camp, which, while i love kids, sapped my sickly-victorian-boy strength like tuberculosis. and then i went off to college! so quark didn't happen in the fall, either.

both of these are on indefinite hiatus for now, but not shelved! as my oldest long-running projects and the ones that saw me through some specific parts of my life, they're very important to me, and i think about the characters and plots frequently. that said, i've grown a lot since i began each one, so some of my old plans no longer align with the sort of things i like to write now... both are probably due for a rehaul, and as i'm focused on other projects atm, i'm not sure when that will be! but they idle in the back of my brain like screensavers.

A Modern Tragedy: the scripts for AMT are entirely finished! (barring the intermission episode i never wrote, i suppose.) i wrote the last words and immediately encountered some issues, namely: i know how to write, but not how to record and produce a podcast. plus, a podcast-enjoying friend of mine who read the scripts pointed out that honestly, AMT has too many characters to work as an audio drama; i have written a TV show in audio form. and speaking of things i know how to do less than producing a podcast--producing a TV show. so at present i sort of just... have this. sitting on my computer. i've half a mind to just post the scripts on this blog; if you're interested in seeing them... you can certainly shoot me a dm.

darkling: this behemoth is fully drafted, goddamn it, and i did do a round of beta readers over summer 2021. that said, this thing scares me. i am far better at drafting than i am at editing, and approaching a 200,000 word book (yes. i know. i know) to rip the seams out and kick that word count into shape intimidates me. i think perhaps we should all be very mean to me until i acquiesce to sniffing the draft through the bathroom door (??? <- will being mean to me work? unclear)

Valentine van Velt is Dead: oh now this is ridiculous; have i really not updated the intro post in over a year? i suppose not. valentine van velt is out! i posted the book in full in google doc, pdf, and epub forms; you can read it right now today!

love, h: finally something on the intro post is true. this is still in brainstorming mode, less because i haven't figured it out and more because i need to enter another intense hamlet phase to be able to write it properly. it'll happen.

godsong: ah, and we approach the reason the rest of these projects haven't gotten done. my silly little lesbian aeneid is eating my brain. in the past year and a half, i have 1. plotted an entire trilogy 2. written a book and a half 3. spiraled into related AUs for literally over a hundred words. the problem with writing a project that combines multiple hyperfixations is that it will crawl into your brainstem and never ever ever ever leave you alone. ever.

...which is to say that i've written a godsong! i've completed a first draft of the first book and i'm currently drafting the second; i've learned that editing scares me and bogs me down, so i'm riding this hyperfocus as far as it'll take me before i do a beta-reading round. this may come as a shock, because i've posted very little about godsong compared to my other projects, and again, this is because i have no idea what to post. every now and then i get frightened about posting real excerpts, in case it somehow fucks me up copyright-wise. this is a largely irrational fear that i have anyhow. i'm dicking around trying to make character moodboards for intro posts, but i keep running into the moral quandary of whether i can knowingly use unsourced pinterest images, like, morally. unrelated, yeah i do have OCD, how did you know?

thank you for asking after my projects, anon! ^_^ this was a very nice ask to receive and it reminds me i really ought to post here more often... if i ever scrounge up enough pictures from fucking unsplash, we'll see about those intros. if anyone has questions, opinions, or suggestions for future maxblog activities, feel free to shoot me an ask!

[peachpitmp3]

<33 i'm honored bestie

oh really?? i think you either give me tall person energy or short person over-compensating for a lack of height with the power of Sarcasm energy /pos

ooh funky !! i mean ours was alright hsdklj. but typing games were a Thing in elementary school it wasn't just my school right ? oh that's such a valid reason to cook! mac and cheese with the bread stuff on the top,, absolutely incredible <3

rIGHT !!!! i want the shirt. so bad i spent like half an hour blind clicking on stuff to see if anything is selling it and eventually i found some very questionable looking website so,,, :/ rip to that i think shdlkfjx

SOCIETY IF WE COULD DRAW !!! the gay creations that could have been born if only society had not deprived us of that :pensive_nonartist:

oh that's fair :( looking back there were a Lot of things that i could have just,, not done?? and it would have helped my sleep habits so much but too late now!! cactus patch sbzdjxknclmgsnjzbhkxgy dUDE <33 but !!!! all of those sound really cool n swag bestie. oooh that's smart, plants are awesome but they do require upkeep and whatnot and i know that i'm Very Forgetful capital v and capital f

WOAH. WOAH. i did not know about that website that's actually SO COOL. FHSKLDJF you're absolutely right about tumblr dot com

oh? i did not know there was a google docs dark mode i'm going to be installing that soon so thank you for that!! i don't have honey or grammarly but yeah i can imagine why they'd be annoying ://

i LOVE that!!! that's a brilliant idea you should start a podcast for that i'd absolutely listen/tune in for that.

if i started a podcast,, hm. maybe it would be something Random and Gay, in which i invite some friends on to talk about their different hyperfixations and let them ramble, and then some episodes i go on a mini rabbit hole of learning something random and then making a fun little presentation or something, idk! i do not listen to audiobooks... i suck at them. i've listened to exactly 10 minutes of sword in the stars, and 7 minutes of radio silence before getting bored/distracted, even on 2x speed when i'm doing other things. they're great if you like em, but just not for me lmao

friends and good vibes and a ton of books and lots and lots of space and windows!! and a yard and a nice lil spot for stargazing/watching the sun rise and set, and lots of fairy lights and candles. and it would have happiness, because in a perfect world i'd live with my friends and close to my family, and they would all be alive and okay and happy. because everyone deserves to be happy and have the things they need. and i mean. not particularly, but i don't mind writing essays if they're for fun rather than school!!

what would your ideal house be like, in a perfect world? do you have a favorite shirt? opinion on live concerts? do you have a song right now, that maybe isn't your favorite favorite, but you really like? - 🌵

hey beloveddd sorry i took forever to answer this <33 forgot to take my meds and got sick lol

okay yeah that second part is me lmao. short person overcompensating yeah. i am a very short but very angry person. it's fine. it's FINE.

typing games were for sure a thing in elementary school!! we did a super boring one and it was BAD

aw thats too bad :( i hope u find a decent website with good shirts ™ so u can be vibey and gender

no LITERALLY. i think i might try to learn. (read: i will tell myself this, not do it, and then be disappointed in myself and feel guilty) :pensive_nonartist: so true tho

no SAME i physically cannot keep plants alive to save my life. or theirs. apparently.

yes yes google docs dark mode is a godsend. yeah they just have a LOT of popups and stuff. bleh

omg that podcast sounds absolutely wonderful please it would be the first and only podcast id ever be interested in. NO HELP. I CANT DO AUDIOBOOKS EITHER. my brain does not like it </3

yes yes yes that sounds absolutely immaculate. best vibes. BEST VIBES. and yeah that makes sense re essays

my ideal house would .uh h . uhh . . it would have lots of comfy floor space with rugs and beanbags and stuffed animals and pillows and stuff. and various types of chairs. and lots of string lights EVERYWHERE. and reading nooks and bookshelves everywhere full to the brim and. and and and. just. lots of comfy vibes like hey come over and u will never want to leave but not in a creepy ur trapped here forever way (unless??)

favorite shirt uhhh. i don't think so ?? i mean. hang on i will check my closet. oh there i am wow look at that. SORRY COULDNT RESIST ANYWAYS. umm theres this white cropped graphic tee that i stole from someone at camp. and i really like it :D

live concerts are cool but i could never . . it is just Too Much. yk ??

ooooh song song song song song. uhh. august is a fever ella jane i am once again losing my SHIT over it. also motion sickness by phoebe bridgers.

what's a song you really like right now? what's your favorite texture? what do you miss the most? what's something super random and mundane that you're scared of? how about something deep?

[theshippingcorner]

Remember how before I went to sleep I mentioned how much I love Portal? Yeah so I'm combining my hyperfixations and making Resident Evil think with portals.

This is under a readmore because I'm going to ramble okay thanks.

I think I mentioned once in tags from a post but I used to roleplay on tumblr, don't much anymore beyond @we-are-in-the-fog yaknow? Yeah well I still do privately with my husband and like nobody else so he gets the full force of my wacky AU ideas there (Villain Leon for example, and now Umbrella being Aperture Science) so because of that I get to really think about these ideas and test them by another person!

I sort of thought of this AU idea on a whim but basically Umbrella is Aperture or at least it's the stand-in since they both do wacky shit that isn't necessarily humane yaknow? So then that brings us to a divide.

In general with Portal I don't think we actually 100% know the identity of Glados beyond theories (unless this is just the canon and I'm dumb) but like fanbase wise Glados tends to be theorized as the wife of Cave Jhonson that they put into a computer so she would never die and Chel people think is their daughter? Which I mean I agree but man is the lore and theories for 2007 & 2011 shaky at best.

Taking that idea and running with it there's two diverging paths I can't decide on:

A) Claire and Chris were sent on a mission to the facility to stop some experiments they were running only for Chris to die and Claire to be turned effectively into our Glados here, though more of a human body than the original of course. Claire despite her sweet and gentle nature would have been hurt, scared, and pretty fucked up from being experimented with to make her into a half-machine and so after obtaining something to ensure her own safety she flooded the lab with neurotoxins to prevent the scientists from hurting her or anyone else further. In this process though someone manages to flip an emergency switch that would force Claire to act as Glados does, sending subjects through tests even well after all of the scientists are gone as well as making anyone who should come to try and save her into a test subject.

B) Wesker taking the position as big boss, because I refuse to agree that he's canonically dead, finds out Ada was playing double agent and makes her become our half-machine Glados stand in this time, Ada being a strong, firey, and resourceful woman would try her hardest to rebel and escape before similar to Claire ensuring her safety and setting off the toxins, only for the same emergency switch to subdue her and make her a testing drone.

You see how it's hard to decide between ideas lol they're both cool as fuck to me, and then you might ask "who's the Chel stand in then?"

Leon.

Hear me out because obviously I'm not using the family dynamic thing just the human turned robot for science thing. Leon is a strong resourceful and sometimes smart guy, it's why he's an agent in the first place. Regarding both ideas up top he also has slight differences too!

A) He was sent to search for Chris and Claire early on, and upon arriving and looking for them he was knocked out and registered as a test subject. He was put into a sleep stasis like many other subjects and when the supply of humans finally ran out he was pulled from his slumber for testing launching us into a very sleepy and disoriented Leon with slight amnesia running through these tests until he could find and rescue Claire at the end.

B) in this scenario it's not like he would know Ada is there to save so he would be going to investigate the facility on government orders, searching the building until he reaches a point where he's again knocked out, same situation after as above but this time he's saving Ada in the end right?

And then this raises even MORE PROBLEMS because the ending of Portal 1 Chel is launched out of the lab after destroying Glados and the both of them are dragged back inside for more. This one is easy to fix, Leon and whatever girl he saved try to leave and get pulled back, whatever, that's fine. But then the biggest problem for addressing portal 2...

Wheatley.

I love him so much, him and SpaceCore are my favorite characters, but shit if I don't know what character to put in his shoes. Because the problem here is he's a personality core that was supposed to be part of Glados which makes me lean to Chris because in the Claire situation it works with same blood but then Wheatley is also a friendly idiot for most of the game and Chris is anything but. Besides that also doesn't work out for the Ada s8de of things because I can't think of anyone for her unless I just kinda...keep Wheatley? Like just keep him as a character but just like. Human Wheatley as if he was supposed to be an assistant for the girls but was kind of put away into a sleep because he was a failure? Honestly I don't know. That has me stumped. Everything else feels solid though.

[bluejaywazhere]

i did not expect this half-baked post to receive as much attention as it's getting so i guess i will elaborate a little.

hyperfixations are slightly different for each person; for me personally, it consists of an obsession lasting (usually) a few months in which i will attempt to learn and see everything there is TO learn and see about said thing as possible. this thing becomes about as important to me as like,,,, eating or drinking. the only things that can stop it are when i've seen it all or (more commonly) when something else catches my eye and replaces it, and once it does end, it's almost like it never happened at all. a lot of my life, i was under the impression that this is exactly what a crush was, considering that i'd felt this way for many people before. apparently not. many people describe crushes and infatuation as a feeling, or they start talking about the infamous 'butterflies' (for the record if i felt something like that from WITHIN me i'd probably be terrified). while i've always been able to relate to the whole "they're all i think about 😩❤️✨🥺😳" thing, i don't think it's in the same way allos mean it. allos wanna date people because they like them; i kind of,,, absorb their personality and appearance because i thought they were cool and i have no sense of self indentity. 🧍🏻

(((this is also probably the reason that i have no friends lol. i can only REALLY care about a couple things at a time. everything else on earth is just... stuff. irrelevant.)))

i can't believe i went through my entire childhood thinking that a crush was the equivalent of a hyperfixation except on a person only to find out that i am in fact a very neurodivergent loveless aro