#experincer: Max

[experincingtheworld]

“shh, you’re okay.” (Take your pick of muses friend)

Max shot up and scooted back towards the headboard of his bed bringing his knees to his chest. He had dreamt about his father and it wasn't a good dream not like any of his memories with him were good, " ... He . He's gonna find me... He's gunna hurt you guys," he murmured just barley being able to hear him.

@intheshadowsofthenight

[popculturebuffet]

Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse Retrospective: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls: See Sam's Crotch Bulge in HD! (Patreon Review for WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy people and welcome to the penultimate chapter of Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse. It's been a long road filled with delays and demonic toys, as this one got pushed back.. and as a result you lucky people are getting BOTH final chapters this week with some muppets in the middle to make one heck of a sandwich. While I waxed a bit about how close the end felt last time, it's hitting me harder and harder as we approach the finale. For those who just joined for this part of the retrospective, i've spent two years of my life covering these games: all of last year covering them each month, most of this year hovering around Skunkape's Twitter to see when the remaster was coming eager to start but patient to let them cook, and this year finally reviewing it. This has been a massive project and so before we hang a closed sign on the abandoned freelance police office, i'd like to thank all of you past , present and probably future for reading this. Thank you. This has been a quiet hit for me and I appricate it. I'd like to thank Kevin for sponsoring this: buying me all three games in the trilogy, getting me to do this and letting me experince one of the most wonderful game trilogys ever. This pudgy question loving dog and rabid lagomorph are part of me now. I should probably get that checked but I won't. I've had a wonderful time.

But I can save some more mushyness for next time. For now let's talk about Beyond the Alley of the Dolls. Beyond the Alley of the Dolls is my faviorite sam and max chapter thus far. It's funny, has great atmosphere, killer reveals to the building plot and is genuinely unesettling in places. This chapter is a pure horror comedy and while being sam and max it's mostly comedy, there's some damn good horror in here, a heartbreaking ending, and a truly unsettling and entertaning hidden villian behind it all. The Puzzles are pretty great with only a few spots of frustration, and usually you can figure it out through inuition and your massive toy chest. This game gives you access to a full wheel of toys of power and it feels every bit as fun and glorious as that sounds. The game's done a good job slowly building up your toys of power, letting you get used to having each one so by this point it's easy to use. And when it wasn't, eh that was what guides were for. I'd like to point out this paticular guide from the gamer for anyone looking to the play the games

It's a nice step by step guide and it's been great for this game, much more neatly organized than the older ones I used for the previous two games.

Beyond is back to basics which makes sense: we just had two format benders in a row and given the harrowing ending, I won't be suprised if The City That Dares Not Sleep also breaks formula a bit. It's easily the biggest expression of the standard sam and max formula, and the only real changeup is you don't go back to your street, instead teleporting between locations and using tunnels. It's a nice return to form that still feels fresh with all the toys you can play with and the settings shaken up by the army of golden spedoed samulcra roaming the streets. It has a real sense of urgency, each chapter having escalated and given what's in store for the finale I keep ominously hinting at, that dosen't seem to ease up. This game has great momentum, each chapter flowing into the next and the story hooking you along. Were I not contracually obligated to play this month by month (And if I didn't have the memory of a well.. max), i'd of sped through this thing as it's good fun and the story, despite knowing a twist or two ahead of time thanks to reading spoilers over a decade ago, is really engaging and funny, a perfect sam and max spin on a cosmic horror story. So let's stop jaw jacking and get to what could be Sam and Max's finest hour and go BEYOND THE ALLEY OF THE DOLLS!

For a change of pace we DON'T start right where we left off, with a ton of sam clones in tight leather speedo's swarming our heroes. Some men dream of being swarmed by furries but not like this. NOT LIKE THIS.

Anyways we open instead on the stinkie's whose fued has gotten to the ineveitble plate throwing phase as Girl Stinky is piiiiisssseeed Grandpa Stinky fired sal. Before they can get into the fight to the death whoever looses we win, Sam, Max and Skunkape run up.

Our heroes run inside and the Stinky's can only impotently tell them "We're closed" before seeing WHY. The Army of Samulcra or as Max calls them dogglegangers. Which is hilarious but Samulcra seems to have stuck so we're going with that.

So our first puzzle is escaping Stinky's as it's now surrounded by spedoed sams, complete with noticable crotch bulges something that was in the original release but like everything has been enhanced so fans all over can really see sam's dong.

I appricate the detail and the upgrade given to the speedos. Originaly they looked like this

Still sparkly but a bit flatter in the texture, more like togas than proper speedos. It's something I have noticed on a model or two for this game: When they CAN jazz up the art to look better they do and boy do they here

Not only is there the little outline, just a scoch to show you yes sam has dick, but the belly button is even redrawn to fit purcell's style better. They didn't have to do that but bless em for it. I also like how the speedos here, as i've joked about , are similar to Rocky Horrors

Sam's has a tad more glitter but it fits him better. He's also packing less but hey these clones were built to find eldritch toys not performance.

In Stinky's Grandpa and Max are eagerly killing tons of Sam. For Max it saves them a ton in couple's therapy, for Grandpa ... eh he's kinda earned it. I feel no guilt for the horrors' we've inflicted on him, but we have done more than enough for him to enjoy the mass sam slaughter. Still there's too many of em so we need to escape. Girl Stinky as usual is no help, and her old tunnel is backed up.

Of all people it's Skunkape whose helpful.. eventually. At first he's near catatonic as it turns out loosing to sam broke him and being surrounded by sams dosen't help. And given he has well established psychic powers himeslf, it makes sense why he didn't forget the other timeline like everyone else. Which.. good as Grandpa might turn his gun on our heroes if he did. Lot easier to ruin lives when reality reset all consequences of our actions you know.

Thankfully a radio message wakes Skunkape up.. and he shows his hand: his last toy of power, the mind reading playing cards. He's quickly taken by the Dogglegangers. So that's one problem down and about two thousand in speedos to go.

Thankfully we can now read minds and it's easy enough to play stinky. Read it once, confront her on the tunnel, then read it twice to find out how to open it.. in this case under the jukebox using the toaster. To get to the toaster we have to distract a sam hand popping out. Thankfully they share all his weaknesses... and while we don't have a spare rabbit we do have a case of fudgie pops, something i'm glad we can finally use after being hinted at last time.

I do love the problem here too: Sam cannot stop eating them, can relate. So instead we have to use stinky's peanutbutter balls to jam sam's mouth closed so he won't stick fudge in there

We give the fudge stick to the doggleganger and he loves it and we can get the hell out of there while the Stinky's bicker.

What we find.. genuinely suprised me. I've been upfront about how I knew some spoilers this time, read some on tv tropes over a decade ago back when playing this was a pipe dream. So while I knew the ultimate mastermind behind the clones, I had ZERO idea Stinky had a massive cloning lair underneath the restraunt, with thousands upon thousands of cells. We can't get near the machine as an eldtrich tentacle sprouts up.. which apparently also sprouted up if you approached Paperwhite's office from the outside last time, but I didn't done do that as I didn't know you even could.

There's two tunnels before you and I take the left one, leading us to Boscotech Labs. And we get to see superball again! And also Harry Moleman, whose pissed at us for trying to kill him, which was months ago for me but is the same night for everyone else. In my defense harry..... you suck.

Case in point our hero and guest are trying to do a seance, but Harry is doubtful and obnoxious. It's on us to do it which we will do later... for now let's look at that other tunnel, which leads to paperwhite's office. He isn't willing to let us in because Dr Norrington and him are having a private meeting about the shit going down, so we'll have to break in later using his key pad. For now we dig through the trash, least of our crimes and find Sal's resignation letter. He's gone and we can follow him.

And using the phone we do. Honestly this power to follow anyone by phone number would be terrifying now a days, especailly since it's in the wrong hands. Thank god more than one Cell Phone would break game flow. We see Sal but he's surrounded by sams who chase us what good if we do anything as they have pulled the power to track toys out of their tightly bound asses. So to beat them.. we're gonna need more toys.. and oh look just outside their field of vision is good old Charlie Ho-Tep.

Shockingly Max is the one with forsight.. not that one of the toys is out in the open and strangely none of the dogglegangers noticed, but that Charlie looks creepy and he dosen't want to touch him. Sam forces him to put his hand inside the puppet head and we can use him to easily distract the dogglegangers to talk to Sal. There's one other guest on the docks, but we'll talk to him later.

Turns out Sal left his cushy job due to too many ape beatings and the docks WERE safer... till you know the clone swarm.

Sal comes in handy soon as he has knowledge of cakes, and we're gonna need one. To explain why we head back to stinky's where it turns out Grandpa hired Flint to investigate Girl Stinky. Flint is about to get the axe though... thankfully not literally this time, as Old Stinky's at his wit's end after the whole "you didn't find either of her hidden passages" snafu.

So we need to go back into noir mode pressing Stinky on why the fuck she lying, why's she lying, oh my god stop fucking lying, but she dosen't stop fucking lying and instead spins a tale about the mysterous S she's talking to being sam and it being a suprise birthday party for stinky.

....

I miss the mariachis.

So to prove it we have to bake a cake, and the way looks Hazy. Thankfully Sal can help us, and our cards allow us to find out what kind Grandpa Likes. Unfortunately said kind takes a day and given the swarm outside, we don't have that time. We do still have the rhinoplasty putty and Sal can draw what pretty. And everything I learn about sal makes me love him more: his kind nature, his thorugh knowedge of food, and his impressive artistic skills.

What follows is ... it's.... Grandpa Stinky eats part of max, he just dives right in there and buys the cake and eats a bunch> He also grabs a knife from said cake to go murder some more dogglegangers. No one knows how to take it and somehow it's topped only moments later when Stinky to maintain the lie forcably kisses poor Sam. Everyone's been violated today!

And that includes you audience as now Stinky's free we can tail her.. and what we find will haunt you for years to come... so Stinky meets S.. and i'ts Sal! Sal noooooo, noooo, sal noooo. You can do so much bette rnow. And then they make out and I just.. i'll spare you the actual image but the mental image will haunt you all as it haunts me. Just thinking about it

I'll try to move on. So our heroes confront them, and it's clear they don't... actually know anything about the cloning. They were just using the lair to.. make out...

And plot Grandpa Stinky's death. A noble and worhty cause. They quickly go all blank eyed though as it's clear someone else is doing the actual heavy lifting and using them for cheap labor.

So to find out who we need to get Mama Bosco back, so it's seance time and thankfully we have all the tools we need to bs our way through one. The mind reading cards make Harry an open book, so we get a fun sequence as we grift him, making him think his uncle is back. Ther'es some real standout gags... Max needling harry in rhyme for being dateless, and when Harry is curious why his uncle sounds weird, Max says he has a cold and when questioned why there ar ecolds in heaven "What makes you think i'm in heaven?"

Max uses Charlie to get Harry to go to the statue of liberty to find hidden money... which given the climax hopefully means he dead.

This brings back mama bosco and with Superball leaving to report to his superiors who are just pleased as punch

We can't do much here for now, but we can go get some more info. So it's back to the office, where we pick Paperwhite's brain and get the code. We enter and while he tries to hide... we finally see his dark master... behold dr norrington!

Now norrington being Yog Sogoth I was spoiled on and even if I hadn't.. it's pretty obvious. There's a whole temple, no idea how exactly paperwhite escaped the box when Soggoth was apparently inside, and norrington is apparently powerful enough to contact max AND not be affected by the new reality.

To the game's credit I DIDN'T see the fact he's doing a total recall on Paperwhite coming. I just assumed he gave Paperwhite an immortality donut or something. But nope he's alive.. and deeply charming. Norrington, as he prefers to be called, is a totally nice guy. He's stuck in paperwhite and their shenanigans last episode wasn't conquering earth but getting Yog Sogoth home. He actually wants the toys destroyed and warns whoever is doing this could destroy reality: turns out not only are their 1600 toys of power but almost all of them being gathered was simply a prelude. The mysterious mastermind gathering them all could destroy all of reality.

He does have a plan though and also helpfully gives us the origin of the toys. Honestly this whole convo is a LOT of dialouge options leading to exposition but a nice smattering of jokes, Norrington's smooth personality and the sheer number of questions answered really helps this one. So long ago on a young earth the elder gods roamed free and did bad stuff. Eating people making them scream etc. Luckily a hybrid between them and humanity rose: the mole people who back then were way more powerful before genetics kicked them in the shin, and one banished them using the chtonic destroyer, a powerful device that banishes anything from the dark dimension back where it came.

As for who the toys owner was that would be Junior... and max spends the entire conversation reacting in disbelief that the archeticht of these whole games, the most dangerous being in existnace... is named Junior. It sounds better in their original tounge. The toys were made to keep Junior busy and not destroy earth, and were left behind when he was sent back... and if reality shifts.. Junior could come back destroying it all.

So to prevent that we need the greatest of the toys, the chthonic destroyer, a cool toy robot that was stranded in a horrifyign dimension. luckily we just so happen to have a friend who has a dimensional phase distorter.

This puzzle is... eh. You have to turn knobs till youf ind the right one, to match how the mole person got it in the sacred scroll our cool new friend coming out of someone's stomach tells us. The good news is the game tells you when you find one and not to touch it, it's just an annoying bit of trial and error with not enoguh gags to really justify it. It feels tedious and i'm glad when it's over.

With the destroyer we can now access the cloning machine but don't have any dna to give it. I honestly didn't know what to do with the clone cooker till looking at the guide. We see that it's made by bosco tech and a mind read confirms mama bosco made it... and she regrets it. She gave the tech to a mystery person who agreed to give her millions of dollars to do whatever. She offers to help and CAN shut the thing off.. but she needs a body. She does have some of her dna ready to go but needs it to be at 100% instead of 99. We CAN paper over it with a realitve.. but with Bosco missing we seemingly have no way to get his dna.

Thankfully we have that guest I mentioned. ladies, gentlemen, nbs and everything else, BUSTER BLASTER IS FUCKING BACK

Yes after a tragic absence he's back. And Kev actually gave me some insight into WHY he was gone: the voice was a lot on his voice actor. That simple, but I understand it and i'm greatful he gave us one last performance as the character. I do hope he comes back, but woudlnt' mind if someone else did the voice or they found a way around destroying a man's vocal cords. Maybe a voice modulator or something.

Still he's back and hilarious as ever, shouting a fantastic "THAT WAS REAL?!" when asked about the dogglegangers. He's back because he and Bosco bottomed out: turns out counting cards dosen't work when one of you screams everything so Buster is just hanging out and shouting a lot. He gives you a letter for bosco telling his mama he's fine but needs money and totally isn't, as buster puts it "A MALE STRIPPER" and wishes you well, having no desire to rejoin the COPS. This is apparently the last we'll see of him unless he returns in future media. You did god's work buster, we'll miss you.

The letter gives us the last pint of dna we need and with that MAMA BOSCO is back.. and despite some tense lead up.. .she's fine. Her only change is she's

Which looks good on her. With that we can enter the first part of the finale. And that requires using the gun for once. It's why I had to look it up: you use Sam's gun so rarely i'm geninely shocked any time we actually need it. We shoot things to get Stinky and Sal to repair them, then teleport up with mama basco. The cloner is deactivated... but the clones are still a comin. Thankfully throwing your voice still works and we go to confront them

It's then we get a really well done twist that again, I was spoilered on.. but man it works. There's a lot of good foreshadowing for this one: how Charlie tended to be uneffected by other toy events but still counted, how he just happened to show up where needed, how the voice that's been controlling the clones and his minons has the same color as charlie.... Charlie Hotep was behind it all, creepily turning his head around. And while Max foolishly assumes an evil doll can't move on it' sown charlie disproves that

So we cut to the actual climax and this... is my faviorite ending to any chapter and will probably be my faviorite overall. I heard this one was good from tv tropes and I was not disapointed. This is a big , cinematic, suprisingly creepy climax that gives the actual finale to this game some big shoes to fill.

So max wakes up at the statue of liberty which Charlie has stolen, along with the rest of the toys. So Max is left with no toys, sam stuck as Charlie's meat puppet and Dr Norrington trapped in a cage. And paperwhite's there too I guess.

Thankfully we're not harmless as Max is still free.. and Sam is kinda, as he still has SOME free will. he can't talk but he can muble. Either the anti mind control hat is working or he just has strong will power. I"d say

Either way he gets Charlie talking and his motive is as engaging as it is deranged: he misses Junior and wants to be played with again so he's summoning him to this reality. So to recap we have a deranged evil puppet playing the piano to summon an elder god, another elder god jammed in someone's mid section locked in a cage, and max on the ground surrounded by an army of sams.

What also helps is that the atmosphere is geninely creepy: the sams all say whatever charlie wants which is unsettling enough but charlie nicely straddles the perfect killer doll line ala chucky or megan: entertaining as hell but still deeply creepy when he wants to be. He's a great antagonist and really steals the show

Thankfully he's thin skinned so Norrington just has to keep pissing him off with the one big button the doll has: that juinor didn't actually love him or even like him. This pisses him off to start waving the destroyer around and allows sam to change the music, slowly warping the statue of liberty.. and allowing max to scale it, usign the dogglegangers to launch himself up, and getting to the top. Tired of Noringtons shit, Charlie finishes him.

He gets in one last act though... he unlocks Max's full power.. turns out the toys were simply a conduit. The power was inside him all along. And thus Max becomes an outer god... which would normally be terrifying but we're in a bad spot.

So the finale of the chapter comes down to an all out brawl between two users of the toys of power and it's awesome to see. Samun Mak simply took them last time but this time Max has full access as does charlie. The toys dont' affect charlie but we can use the environment around him, creating a mental image of charlie, because we can do that now with the full power of the cards inside us, and then copying it

Charlie becomes the chythonic destroyer to counter.. and this is his last mistake as in a perfect fit of irony sam uses the throwing your voice ability on the devil's toybox... and casues charlie to destroy it in a rage. In one awesome move that shows how far he's come.. max wins. Reality is saved, Max fakes sam out with his death because he's a little scamp and the day is saved> it came at too high a cost.. but at least everything's fine.. why do I smell burning?

It's.. max. Max's head is on fire as foreshadowed back in episode 1... and it's not going out. Max speaks gibberish.. and he transforms... max.. is seemingly gone. And him being an outer god sure is scary NOW.

And in a cruel symbol of what's been lost a doggleganger who picked up a toy rabbit is crushed and our sam can only look on as his little buddy rampages off into the distance. A chilling end from such a goofy series.. and one that made me determined more than ever to get to the last chapter

So later this week join me as we finish what we started. and from what I do know.. this one's going to hurt. Thanks for reading, i'm pulling for ya, we're all in this together.

[itsblasttothepast]

I jus saw the other ask and I wanted to add my two cents to the rant.

Firstly I want to say that I think HM, CH and the others at RB didn't think Checo would last more that one or two years in the team or thought that at the end Max will broke him. But nothing of that has happened!! Because let's be real, if Max didn't want him in the team, Checo would be out in an instant. But no, they are a good team in general terms. And Checo has lernt from his last experinces; his contract must be so good!

Secondly I hate to say this but, for one part I kind of undestand (not really) the bother RB has, because they cannot promote his own talent, Checo was contracted to be an instrument to help Max (and he has done that! Le pese a quien le pese!) and then thank you next! and put a driver from their academy... but no, Checo is still there and has endure the attacks from inside and outside... We know RB will never give out Max, but they also cannot dismiss Checo easily.

People are mad because Checo and his sponsors... but all of the grid are there not only for their amazing skills! (Yes! including Lance, because his father has the money to buy a Championship but has not done it). And we know Honda is out from RB and Ford enters in 2026... I think part of the anger is that Checo went ahead of them and made the contract to be the image of the brand and be the intermediary when RB probably wanted to have a straigh relationship with Ford.

And here comes my delulu theory: Max's dream has always be to able and have a say in the desing a car, so what if Checo made Max an offer to be part of that??? Let's be real, Honda will never would allowed this... they are a tight knit company and (with a million reasons) distrust West companies.

Checo show RB he was good, but insted of recognized that, they tried to disminish him, and he went with the boss's bosses to negociated with them... and they are MAD that he learnt to navigate those waters. And the press (most english speaking ones) are still reporting his seat is not secure, and is so funny they didn't even acknowledge the interviews he has made in spanish stating he knows he has his seat secure till 2026.

You're welcome to share your thoughts anytime! It might take me a while to answer, because work is hell though, but we love ranting!

I totally agree with you; I think Marko especially thought Checo would last 2021 season only, and Horner perhaps had more faith, but no more than two years. By then, they hoped to have one of their Academy Drivers ready for the seat, or in Horner's case, maybe he thought Ricciardo would come back? Not sure about that.

They didn't predict how much of a connection (for calling it in some way) Checo would have with Max, and Checo sneakiness to mantain his contract.

Also, while I agree that RBR must feel like they are wasting their Academy Driver's talent, also Marko hasn't done very much with them; I'm totally convinced that the summer tests were a bust, because if any of the drivers (Lawson, Ricciardo, maybe even Yuki) would have done better, Checo would be out, simple as that. But the car is shit, and only Checo has somewhat tamed it, and then the Ford deal, Checo's contract and the high bosses entered the game.

The thing is that RBR never imagined Checo would be clever, and to secure his future tying their hands, which is so funny to me after making Checo the bad guy this entire season.

Oh, I do think you are onto something here! Maybe this is why Max is also defending him all this time, like they formed an alliance and they are together against RBR to get freedom to design and adjust the car in the future (Chestappen vibes here).

Things will get crazier in the month left of F1, so let's see if we can catch up with our theories.

[yoyoseidon]

DELTARUNE CHAPTERS 3+4 SPOILERS!! PLEASE BLOCK THE TAGS #deltarune AND #deltarune spoilers IF YOU DON'T WANT THIS CONTENT ON YOUR PAGE. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE I HAVE TO TYPE BEFORE I CAN SAY SPOILERS SO JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SCROLL A BUNCH IF YOU CAN STILL SEE THIS.

we good? ok!

The knight may not be who you think; an essay.

we know from experince that lightners dont change much when going into the dark world; sure, kris becomes blue, but they dont get taller or change in their build. ok they do get one pixel taller but that's because of the shoes

the most that changes about lightners are their outfits, color schemes, and HP, along with any "items" they had. while dess could have just physically deteriorated to the point she became anywhere near the shape of the knight as a result of something, i highly doubt it(being trapped in the bunker for a while doesn't grant you an eyeball inside your ribcage).

there's also the fact the knight is Tall As Shit™ and thus unlikely to be a, at most, young adult. combine that with the WACKY shit the knight does (you can't just open your ribs if your a living, breathing deer[nor if you're a dead one as {evident by gerson}. who knows, toby could always make it dess' corpse. thatd be evil tho]) and that makes her being the knight a bit more unlikely. carol knight truthers are dumb and need to leave, at least dess could've been at the church before we were and then opened two fountains in that same timespan. so, aside from those two, who could we possibly have? it'd probably be someone we haven't met, because Toby loves his surprises. potentially an adult due to the height, but they'd look odd in general as they'd have an exposed ribcage and armor of some variety? they'd be built very particularly with a round torso, an impossibly skinny waist, an awkward set of hips that jut out, pencil thin legs, and a pair of very pronounced shoulders. overall a very skinny build, maybe like...

A SKELETON????

they do share the aforementioned physical traits, along with being roughly the knight's height if it were translated over to deltarune equally. one major issue with this, of course, is the helmet. how would a lightner get one? none of the lightners so far have had helmets, and the closest thing to headgear anyone gets is a scarf. at max, there's noelle and ralsei's hoods that they never use. i think the most likely way papyrus knight would get the helmet is if his light world scarf became it. in the light world, none of the lightners even have hoods, but still get headgear anyways, so maybe going into the dark world with something that could be considered headgear gets altered to wrap around like a helmet? the antlers are odd too, as while other members of the holiday family do have antlers(duh), there is a caveat; when noelle descends to the dark world, her antlers remain the exact same.

now while this doesn't necessarily prove anything..

the fact the knight has such large antlers is interesting. while both carol and the knight have three pronged antlers, if this were some kind of helmet, would it not make sense for the length of the antlers to match? carol's antlers are straight, while the knights' antlers bend back, and both end in three prongs, meaning she couldn't wear it if her antlers were normal which they would be in the dark world. i think the helmet couldn't be worn by dess either, as even rudi has shorter antlers than the knight, meaning genetics do not favor her having long antlers. i think the helmet has horns because they're cool as hell and papyrus would absolutely do something like that for the aura. the cape/wings/whatever that the knight uses to fly around with (when stealing undyne, depicted below) would also definitely be a part of his fit.

all the aura farming the knight does also definitely correlates. all this with the fact that papyrus has been manipulated by the main villain before means he totally could be again. papyknight is real 1000%

[scuderlia]

haircut!anon again: ok. wow. had to slam my phone down in my uni computer lab and wait until i could string together a coherent thought again. first off like au itself on back burner your MIND and the way you construct this narrative is INCREDIBLE and so raw adn true and pulling on the queer (as in deviant and as in gay) hair experince sooo deeply i feel soooooo deeply you are a magician. further. i was PICTURING max in braids and god fuck the tenderness of charles and max setting their mise en place and sitting together and braiding her hair before their prey comes in…. god. jesus. i can't stop re-reading the snippets. FUCK! sorry this isn't coherent thoughts after all. max and control and cutting charles' hair. fuck me uppp….

anon! i spent so long smiling like an idiot because of this ask, at this point you're basically my betrothed <3

but yeah, you get it. at the core of max and charles' relationship is truly their hounded devotion and acceptance of one another. the queer experience really is defined by those you hold close, and it's been interesting (for me) to try and thread that idea through this greater story about desire and hunger in a way that feels genuine. i've pulled on a lot of my personal experiences of being a young lesbian and being guarded about sexuality, but ultimately it all comes back to (like you mentioned) the idea of relinquishing some control and feeling comfortable enough with someone to let go of the safety of doing things alone.

i also love love love giving characters their own little rituals, and seeing as how max and charles both have a lot of emotional connections to their hair/haircuts/etc. the braids were an easy decision.

(more about max and her relationship to hair below the cut)

there's this really interesting article by Amelia Abraham titled 'What butch queer identity has to do with hair' that got put out by Dazed in 2022. it primarily covers a photography exhibition called Close Shave—which centers itself around butch haircuts and identity—but also goes into the cultural relevance of 'masc' hairstyles and their role in queer (mainly lesbian) expression.

i remembered and re-read it when i was in the early stages of fleshing-out max's character. i recommend the article to everyone, but especially people who are maybe looking to better understand the history of butch optics, and kind of where i'm coming from with some of max's characterization.

(see one of my favorite quotes from the article below)

While having short hair and identifying as butch don’t necessarily come as a pair, for butch people, haircuts can be transformational – getting your hair cut off brings you closer to your gender identity.

like I mentioned in the the answer to your previous ask, max's haircut kind of serves as a physical manifestation of her relationship with her father, and more specifically, how that relationship influences her feelings of shame (and eventually acceptance) towards her own sexuality.

part of the reason that max is so struck by charles saying she'd let her cut her hair is in large part because, for max, hair is incredibly representative of an individual's ability to control how others perceive and relate to them. by breaking the ritual with her mother, charles is essentially showing max that she not only finds comfort with her, but also trusts her enough to have her identity placed in her hands.

i could honestly talk about this forever... since body politics and queerness are things i'm just genuinely very passionate about... but i will save the innocent bystanders of this blog from having to read through all of that in one sitting.

(anyways, i'm so happy that people are as invested in this as i am... keep sending me long asks like this... if you couldn't already tell i'll take any opportunity to talk more about this au)

[tornrose24]

So you know how Norman said that the Lords in the crystals were trapped in “dreams and regret?”. Does being trapped in the crystal feel the same as when Peter was sunken into the mold during the ritual?

Hard to say. Norman's method of crystalization is different than Strange's. In the case of the lords' crystalization, there's still enough DNA to bring them back, and some degree of conciousness, but it's like you'd be asleep and trapped in dreams. In some cases those dreams would be nightmares. They aren't even aware of what is happening outside their temporary forms.

But I'd imagine those regrets are things that they did regret up to that point that are somewhat stuck on a loop: Max failing to acomplish the one thing he was told to do by a person he very much looked up to, Flint being unable to do more to save his daughter (especially from a potential fate worse than death), Curt doing horrible things to his family as well as several people out of his misguided beliefs, Otto not noticing Norman's intentions sooner and failing to do more to protect his wife.

In Peter's case, he was experincing NORMAN'S regrets, otherwise he would have seen more of his own memories and be reliving his own regrets, like his 'brothers' in their crystalized forms.

[maxemilianverstappen]

Why is a/b/o so popular in f1 fandom and fanfic? I’m proper amazed that of all the tropes that could be popular in F1 RPF, it’s alpha/beta/omega.

I mean, it is a great trope. But why is it so popular in the millionaires driving super fast cars around circuits fandom?

I have a few theories about it, some of which are not that palatable (and actually quite dark) to the random reader who is just there to enjoy the sexy times:

Firstly, I must say I am just a random literature grad who also enjoys scrutinizing the darkest parts of the human mind that's explored in literature. I must I also live for angst, hurt/comfort, controversy, and conflict created thru ambiguous moral stances and choices. I like depravity.

- There is a clear cut almost cast like system based on power (im)balance set around sex and reproduction in the a/b/o universe.

Young people can yap about equality and sexual rights and all that stuff day in an out, but they also highly enjoy sexual fantasies literally based on inequality even tho this trope doesn't pay much attention to the gender. It literally uses and reflects all the problems of heteronormative systems upon the characters, to the point of writing the omega characters with all the bad stereotypes attached to the "female experince". They call this universe their "guilty pleasure" because of this. And the haters of the trope are mainly giving this as their reason to hate the trope.

True, there are abo works that do not dabble in the power play and power politics of the system at all, just choosing to focus on the kinky aspects of it like biting/marking, knotting, possessive and/or rough sex (sometimes dubious consent and even nonconsent) and breeding and nesting. But even then, when you read the fic, you can clearly see some character stereotypes (that ppl look down upon) of the trope are used, if not many of them. And I am talking about the stereotyping that helps the author write a more feminine male character or a more manly female character. In a way that's acceptable and actually sought for in a society that values/calls for it. (Come to think of it, even breeding and marking as kinks have all the iks that would tick a feminist's hate list)

It is weird in a way that while a Trans leaning or gay person might feel themselves very at home in this universe at the first glance (because gender is not as important as the fact that you either have a self lubricating asshole/fertile womb or a knotting monster penis), this universe is also heavily oppressive, divided by power gained thru the biological lottery and expects you to obey its structure based solely on the way if you are an Omega and Alpha or a Beta and heavily punishes you if you are an outlier or a rebel.

There are works that solely explore the sexual opportunities of the trope, and I am not reading them at all because, as I said, I live for conflict and angst and deprivation. And you can only find it in the fics that also try to deal with the power structure of this universe.

Putting these relatively rich, famous and very handsome and fit men into this universe might have its allure in the fact that:

-some lgbtqa+ fans identify themselves with a driver and want to express/explore their identity by putting their little guy thru situations in which gender is meaningless and yet

a) he can't control, or

b) he can control fully

and have a sense of completion and experience the wild emotions and the second hand sexual gratification in a safer and sane way without all the guilt/embarrassment and power play attached.

Let me talk bluntly. Writing about r*pe, writing about sex pollen or aliens made them do it kinda tropes lets you experience a highly controversial and/or traumatic situation in a sterile way and also with a person (driver) whom you have an emotional connection with (albeit one sided) and possible attraction to. Writing/reading about a Charles being in painful heat and an alpha Max stumbling upon him like that and them having a dubious consent/forceful but wild hot sex might not be everyone up of tea, but it certainly is fucking popular. Because people have fantasies of being stripped of their consciense/choice/agency/mind/guilt and just have monkey sex with no strings attached or without any severe consequences, with a highly attractive person who desires them to the point of delirium. Easy.

Or they can work out their trauma of being stripped of their free will/decision/power (not necessarily just sexually) by making their little meow meow go thru a sexual situation which is not acceptable in any way or form by our own society/morality, but almost natural/acceptable or easier to come to terms with/reconcile with situation in the abo universe, so that they can find some form of resolution and reconciliation with their own feelings.

Or there is this thing about stripping a male athlete of his power and agency (generally the one you don't like) who reeks of power and testosterone irl, and casting him into a nonsavioury female experince without having to turn him female (and having to deal with female anatomy -which also implies an underlying self hate/disgust?) and punish him or humble him with the monster dick of your favorite driver. In a way that's sexier and more readable than outright making his girlfriend peg him until he bleeds. Hmmmm....

Or, people just like reading/writing about the melodrama and conflict that this power imbalance and cast system creates with the bonus of sexy times with all the kinks that they can shove into it.

Nevertheless, I don't like boys with "cunts" (ewww the term) in my fics unless they are clearly defined as Trans and I can't suspend my disbelief while reading mpreg, so I am unable to fully enjoy the "having a child" experience of the couple in the fic, but truly.... A well written abo fic is an experience and an eye opener.

[arts-dm-den]

Adding my 2 cents into the mix if you like turn based combat and dungeon crawling. The 2003 Temple of Elemental Evil by Troika Games is one of my all time favorites. While light on story in-game it really captures the spirit of classic d&d modules. Getting a party together and delving into a dungeon to kill a demon lord. A lot of the fun comes from making your own story

With the Circle of Eight mod, it extends the game to level 20 as well as someome importing the entirity of The Keep on the Borderlands to the game. I would put it on the low end of the middle complexity in the above scale. Because of how experince works in the game I beat it with just two characters out of a max of 8, so it isn't too challenging once you know how to play.

You like rpgs. Do you recommend any games like baldurs gate 3?

Absolutely. I'll assume you mean CRPGs and not RPGs in general.

Computer Roleplaying Games (CRPGs) refers to a style and genre of game that BG3 follows. Some have started calling CRPGs "Classic RPGs" instead. CRPGs are typically identified by an isometric, top down view style, a heavy focus on story and exploration.

I'm going to split my list it three main categories based on accessibility factors. These factors include the amount of reading involved, the depth of mechanics and the level of abstraction/math required.

Easy Entry Level

Baldur's Gate 3 - 2023 - Larian Studios. The current gold star for easy entry CRPGs. Exceptional graphics, every character voice acted, very little reading and fairly straightforward mechanics and concepts.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 DE- 2017 - Larian Studios. This is basically a less polished, more complex version of BG3 and made by the same studio.

Disco Elysium, Final Cut - 2019 - ZA/UM. Disco Elysium is a detective/social focus game that dives into heavy narrative concepts. Failing rolls is just as viable for the story as succeeding them, making the game's mechanics take a backseat to story. However, there is a lot of reading and that may be a barrier to entry.

Tyranny - 2016 - Obsidian Entertainment. A game about being evil, it's mechanically pretty simple, but there's a fair bit of jank due to it's low budget, and the game ends on a cliffhanger, but it's story is very solid.

Mid Entry Level

Wasteland 3 - 2020 - inExile Entertainment. The long awaited third installment of the Wasteland franchise and significantly less complex than its predecessors. Post apocalyptic, frozen Colorado, grim reality and goofy ideas. This is the franchise that originally inspired Fallout.

Shadowrun: Dragonfall DC/ Shadowrun: Hong Kong EE - 2014/2015 - Harebrained Schemes. Set in the Fantasy/Cyberpunk hybrid setting of Shadowrun. Fair bit of reading, but the game's mechanics are relatively easy to grasp and don't require a lot of math. Always play Dragonfall before Hong Kong.

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire - 2018 - Obsidian Entertainment. A unique setting, exploring a fictional parallel to the age of piracy. Very wordy (but a lot is voice acted), with a lot of world building, but well worth engaging with. The first game, Pillars of Eternity, is less accessible, but still good.

Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous/Rogue Trader - 2020/2022/2023 - Owlcat Games. Owlcat adapts existing systems into CRPGs, like how BG3 is an adaption of DnD 5e. Do not be fooled, these games are where you start hitting a lot of complexity, a lot of math and a lot potential to damage your playthroughs by accident. This is where things start to get difficult.

Difficult Entry Level

Baldur's Gate 1/2 - Bioware - 1998/2000. The prequels to BG3, these games use an older, much more complex version of DnD's rules. Be prepared for a lot of reading and complex mechanics, but you'll be rewarded with some amazing storytelling.

Planescape Torment - Interplay - 1999. Another game using DnD's older mechanics, Planescape is a completely different beast from BG3. Many consider this series mechanically inferior to the Baldur's Gate franchise, but with better storytelling and world building to compensate.

Fallout 1/2 - 1997/1998 - Interplay/Black Isle. One of the most widely known game franchises started as an isometric CRPG. Universally considered more complex, rewarding and deeper than the Bethesda portion of the franchise, you'll need some experience to get into them, but you'll be happy you did.

Games I haven't played but I've heard good things of:

Wasteland 2, DC - 2015 - inExile

Torment: Tides Of Numenera - 2017 - inExile

Neverwinter Nights - 2022 - Bioware

Arcanum - 2001 - Troika Games

Ultima 7 Part 1/Part 2 - 1992/1993 - Origin Systems

Icewind Dale - 2000 - Black Isle Studio

[cp3killer]

Max bought a ferrari so he can have something to talk with Charles.

[experincingtheworld]

May slowly woke up and looked around in confusion. Where was she? She looked around her big room. This didn’t look like daddy’s home…she was scared.

Max woke with a start and wasn’t sure why, something just felt off for a moment before he woke, once he realised he was still in bed, he let out a sigh of relief, got up and checked on Bella who was still asleep then checked on May, a bit surprised to see her in bed not so much of her being awake. He looked at her concerned,” hey, mayflower, you okay?” He asked.  

@blxxdyandxbruxsed

[fastcarsgovroom]

Regarding the stream vids with Lando, Max F, and everything:

Am I the only one who heard the ‘it’ as referring to the situation/topic rather than a person? Am I missing something here?

Where are people getting the idea that certain nicknames are necessarily derived from sex positions?

Maybe I need some perspective. Not sure what to make of all this.

(Obligatory yes, I think their banter was disrespectful and some of the conversations shouldn’t have been had in a public space. I understand how the language they used and their conversation about women primarily viewed as ‘love interests’ can be harmful and hurtful. But at this point it feels like a lot of things have been twisted and blown out of proportion. Obligatory I am not defending anyone, either.)

[experincingtheworld]

Max almost couldn't contain himself as he replied," a centipede with a wooden leg!" He told him trying and failing to hold his laughter in.

"Hey Jason! What goes 99 clump, 99 clump, 99 clump?" (From Max. Crack?)

Jason looked up at Max from his desk, confused. He sat back in his chair with a chuckle and a raised eyebrow. “What? I have no idea, what goes 99 clump, Max?” He asked in some amusement. He really didn’t know what Max was getting at but he could use a break.

[eastendies]

Why should a deaf actor play a deaf character. Max isn’t gay either but he’s pretty convincing in that role. It’s called ACTING for a reason. Soap serial killers haven’t actually murdered people lmao.

It took me a while to actually think this anon was serious, because dear lord is that a dense question.

Deaf actors playing Deaf roles is different than playing a gay role since Deafness isn't just a sexual/romantic attraction--it's a culture and a lifestyle. Although a Hearing person might attempt to replicate the Deaf experience, in the end they really can't. Only a Deaf actor can truly portray Deafness. It's also a matter of representation and community: I don't want someone PRETENDING to be like me, I want someone LIKE ME. There should be a Deaf presence in the media. Deaf actors already have a tough time getting roles, maybe we shouldn't make it harder by handing those roles out to abled people because "it's just acting lol." This isn't a bunch of murderers, anon. These are real people with real lives with real different experiences and that fact cannot be erased to make abled people feel comfortable about taking roles of disabled people in acting.

I have a better question for you: Why shouldn't Deaf people play Deaf characters? Why shouldn't the minority being represented play the minority the show created? Why should an abled actor be hired to fill a disabled role?

[lemonlimeimprobabilitydrive]

Me earlier, naively: this fairly heavily caffeinated migraine medicine won’t keep me awake.

Me now, 2:42 AM:

[popculturebuffet]

Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Retrospective: Issue 5 "How Ratchet Togt His Hands Back" (Comissioned by Brotoman.Exe)

Hello all you happy autobots! We're kicking off 2022 with some energon for ya'll. See last month Brotoman unexpectly comissoined some EXTRA transformers. As a result your not only getting the conclusion of the Delphi arc early, but remember how I said I wasn't sure when i'd cover last stand of the wreckers?

Yeah turns out that day is this week as after my best animated episodes of 2022 (which sadly won't include earth spark as I didn't get to it in time), you can tuck in for a review of the whole damn mini series. It's not necessary entirley to follow these reviews but it does give Fort Max and Overlord's full backstories, so it does make the experince better. It's the same reason i'll be covering Chaos Theory eventually.

At any rate we still have a story in progress to finish so settle in for a cold winter's story arc as we find out just whose behind the plauge of delphi and what our heroes will do about it?

We open with Fort Max delivering on his boast from last issue.. but instead of a triumphant heroic save.. it's a brutal slaughter as he TEARS one of them in half and as the other is fleeing for his life as you would after seeing that, grabs him and somehow smashes the con into Max himself.

FIrst time I think i've used that for mental wellness… and Ratchet agrees. I like this a lot as it not only shows the two have a history.. but that Ratchet, as hard to phase as he is, has a limit. Max needs help, not to be back in the universe with a gun to his head. And as we'll see sometimes even seeking help.. won't work if the preson dosen't take to it.

But enough ominous foreshadowing it's time for a rousing round of everyone pointing guns at each other. When Ambulon tries to you know, take the pieces of dead decepticon off fort max, Pharma pulls a gun and plans to shoot him, citing him as a traitor and a former decepticon. Ambulon admits the latter, but poitns out that was 10 years later.

This lasts all of three panels, which had to be about a minute of accusations.. before First Aid untangles his entire scheme. It works well for me as it's clear Pharma likelyt hought little of our hero, and thus starts to loose.. because he's just that good a doctor: he finds the t-cogs Pharma claimed were absent in the decepticons, then points out his story of being attacked dosen't add up as their all laser scapel wounds… from PHARMA'S own scapel. While ratchet finishes the summation, First Aid still gets points for starting to unravel things.

He simply asks that Pharma show his alt mode.. and when he dosen't explains he figured out the virus: the doctors haven't entered the fatal stage not because of high resitsance.. but because they havne't transformed. Ambulon has the embarassing one of a leg as a former combiner, and First Aid, as Ratchet's own key surgeon's eye notes, can't. What I like is while some of the reasons WHY are things the reader only works out, there were still plenty of clues the reader could suss out like none of the doctors transforming while pipes and drift did, as well as the suspcious timing of Pharma being in a box and away from everything, as well as happening to be injured. IT's still a lot , but it dosne't treat the reader as stupid by leaving no clues to the mystery, just enough to solve and go "aha" if you didn't from the trail of breadcrumbs, but not enough that it's painfully obvious.

Pharma applauds them for their work.. but then shoots the life support. First Aid continues to make his badassery known, and make himsel fa faviorite of mine on this re-read, by quickly scrambling everyone into position, with Ratchet sacrificing himself by transforming so he can use the spark jump more effectively in car form.

We get some cutaway bits to Tailgate studying to be an autobot under Ultra Magnus, which is as hilaroius as it sounds. Almost fun , though danged if Magnus can say it. Yes he's literally so tight assed he can't say the word fun and I love everything about that. It's great stuff and helps break up the tension for a moment, there's just not a lot to comment on either so on we go.

We also get a bit between that's more plot relevant: Red Alert, the paranoid head of security, is having a session with Rung. Red Alert is hearing a voice only he can here.. which isn't automatically exactly what it sounds like as he points out his audio receptors are the best on the ship: he can hear what everyone's up to right now: Rewind begging Chromedome to help him find some data discs, Whirl aruging with himself. Usual lost light stuff, the former being yet another piece of foreshadowing for later I hadn't picked up on before.

ApparentlY Red Alert was worried about it being an auditory hallucination, somenthing Rung's warned him about in the past and Red Alert recorded it… though the problem is the crack , where the spark eater was quatum jumped into the engine, supposedly leads to nothing. Naturally though this isn't a delusion or hallucination… Rung recongizes the sound as a scream and when slowed down… it says "KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME"

We'll get back to that hook at a later date, as we're back with Ratchet who's.. not doing so hot

Pharma naturally needs to monologue about his evil plan though; As it turns out Delphi only made it this long because Pharma cut a deal with the Decepticon Justice Devision: Since hteir leader is hooked on transforming and thus wears out his cogs rapidly, and has no intention of kicking the habit, he offered Pharma saftey in exchange for a steady suply. Pharma at first just used paitents they lost.. a grim horrible thing to do.. but also understandable given we've seen what the DJD do to their own former comrades and haven't even begun to plum the depths of how terrifying they are. With likely no easy way to call backup without buying himself some time and no other option, I can see how giving what's esentially an organ donation to keep everyone alive, and only on patients you hadn't actively tried to loose but generally coudlnt' help, was the only option.

The issue, and what makes Pharma the monster he is.. is that he KEPT GOING. He had time to call for help, to do SOMETHING about this despite the ods.. but rather than risk himself he started killing patients instead, both ones who were apparently on the edge of far gone..a nd then one swho "held on". It's again one thing to do what you have to to sav elives.. but Pharma implicitly admits that he coudln't face high command without admitting what he'd done, thus cooked up this scheme, killing thousands more with the help of the two cons, Sonic and Boom

Using their ablities he had them engeneer an audio virus that upon transformatoin caused the various fluids in a transformer to mingle and cause the subject ot shut down.

On reread Pharma is a thourughly facsenating villian… he has all of Ratchet's skill and prowess.. but none of his morals. Ratchet may be tired and grumpy, but he holds himself to a high standard, fights to uphold it. He won't hestitate to fight dirty as we're about to see, but he also is eaisly one of the most moral members of the crew. Pharma.. gave up his the second it was easy and blames everything else instead of the common factor: himself. he could've tried to get help or owned up to his crimes to get an evac earlier.. but valued his career on delphi and not being jailed for his crimes more than other peoples lives.

That very long explination later… Ratchet thanks Pharma for babbling on as he can now fight back

God I love Ratchet. All Ratchet's everywhere.. but this one in paticular. Pharma looses it at this and a fight insues, though turns out Ratchet is far less immobile than he seems… though he still fails to shoot Pharma.. not because of some heroic code, his fingers just aren't working. God I love that gag.. and that it's a nice character bit. It shows Ratchet won't go easy.. just because he's the good guy. He's a dedicated physician, capable of mercy and will help and part of why he's so morose about his hands stopping is he can't help people. He's simply not showing it here because his opponent is an unrepentant mass murderer whose only slightly better than the people he sold out to and only slightly because as has been hinted at and as we'll see outright eventually the DJD are some of the most sadistic, horrifying monsters in existance and it's VERY hard to sink to their level.

Ratchet however.. continues to be badass: He summons his holo avatar to distract Pharma.

Okay so this is from every early in this continuity, and a neat touch Simon Furman added: the transformers could project a driver, allowing them to talk to any authorities, blend in that sorta thing. So I give Roberts credit for remembering it and using it cleverly. The two struggle.. and the cure falls with him. Ratchet however is calm, willing to die.. simply because with his hands not working he has nothing left to loose..a nd while he looses an arm, Pharma is left hanging… and in a warrnted sadistic choice: turn into a jet and trigger the virus or hold on. he tries to take ratchet with him.. but Drift bursts in striaght outta nowhere, chops off his hands, and leaves Pharma seemingly dead, while Ratchet is revealed after to have grabbed the cure.

We get a quick wrap up: The cure was used…

So Pharma will likely be back despite everyone treating him as dead, and Red Alert is shocked as Ratchet makes him chief medical officer: he was impressed by his work and him , having figured out something was wrong contacted him.. and his empathy over fistiron, having wanted to save him, cements it and Ratchet shows he's awesome one last time.. by feeling bad at the waste of Pharma. He was a great doctor.. and now he's gone. He could've done so much good but instead did so much evil. The only good thing besides first aid and co to come out of this… is a little reminder ratchet took with him

Soundtrack:

Get Me Away From Here I"m Dying by Belle and Sebastian: A decent song that also nicely contrasts with the violent tone of the first few pages. Nicely done. Carries On by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes: Okay this may be one of th ebest band names i've ever heard. I'll also admit I really didn't like this song for the first minute or so.. and then the band kicks in and it fucking slaps. I'm not sure it fits the issue, but man is this song great. City Sickness by Tindersticks: Now this is more like it. This one entirely fits the story and fucking slaps, and whoever the singer for tindersticks is he fucking kills it. It nicely fits the tone of the last panel. One of the best songs so far. Next Time: I did mention a last stand of some wreckers didn't I? Then after that later this month it's therapy time! Thanks for reading

[cantbeonlyonethinkingit]

Characters I kin and why:

(Characters I relate to and why:)

--Eleven: Honestly I kinda look like Millie, and her style in season 3 is exactly what I would wear.

--Will Byers: We both get pushed to the side of things (seasons 3 and 4) and want to help other with explaining their feelings, "you wanna know how we feel? Hahaha, no. Let's talk about you and forget about me."

--Robin Buckley: We have about the same personality. Like when she rants to Steve at Family Video in season 4, I would rant on as well. And when I realize I am ranting, I would completely apologize. I also would've done the same thing to the Russians as she did. And I'd be the exact same drugged as her. (I think, I've never been drugged before, and don't plan to be.)

--Max Mayfield: When we have something tramatic happen, we both close everyone out, dissapear from everything. But we know that it's not the best, yet we still continue to do it.

--Joyce Byers: We fight for what is right, we fight until we cannot anymore. Joyce never stopped fighting to find Will. She only stopped when she had Will back with her. People may have thought that she was crazy, but she didn't care. She just wanted her son back.

--Richie Toizer: I mean, his wardrobe, 100/10 Would wear. Who wouldn't? Plus, we both push our feelings and stuff back and cover them with jokes. (plus all my jokes are about me, they tear myself down, but their funny and make everyone laugh around me.) "Hey look! *points at trashcan* It's me because I'm garbage!"

--Stanley Uris: Sarcasm, we both use it a lot. I mean, who doesn't like birds? They are so cool! Mentally, we are probably the same person. Others most of the time: "I would die for *instert name here*" Me and Stanley part of the time: "I just wanna die."

--Bill Denbrough: We both will do anything for the people that we love. Even if that means putting ourselves in danger first. Plus we have younger siblings that we love very much.

--Miles Fairchild: We both lost people who we were very close to young. We both have had experinces that have completely changed our lives. (not the same event) Plus our mindset can completely change from happy go lucky to I will literally end your life and not be guilty.

--Nicholas Nelson: Person: "You like this thing (girl)?" Nick & Me: "Her/Their dog died." Loves dogs.

--Nellie Nelson: They are a dog. I like dogs.

--Victoria (Tori) Spring: We both have tumblr blogs. And would most of the time rather be alone.

--Wednesday Addams: We both have this fighting spirit like if no one will help, join the cause, or they tell us no, we still do it. We need to finish what we started, and we won't stop until we are done.

These were just a few people that I could think of atm, but there are definately more than this. If I think of anymore, I may do another post, but idk yet.